-----BEGIN PRIVACY-ENHANCED MESSAGE----- Proc-Type: 2001,MIC-CLEAR Originator-Name: webmaster@www.sec.gov Originator-Key-Asymmetric: MFgwCgYEVQgBAQICAf8DSgAwRwJAW2sNKK9AVtBzYZmr6aGjlWyK3XmZv3dTINen TWSM7vrzLADbmYQaionwg5sDW3P6oaM5D3tdezXMm7z1T+B+twIDAQAB MIC-Info: RSA-MD5,RSA, N7r9ZQawlMPi+7zc7BfQktj49uYnpj7DTLF56SuSaojT+68+HH1HjfV499SilVoc woX1aU3lshPVnwG15ue09A== 0000355429-07-000204.txt : 20070510 0000355429-07-000204.hdr.sgml : 20070510 20070510135715 ACCESSION NUMBER: 0000355429-07-000204 CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE: 10-Q PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT: 10 CONFORMED PERIOD OF REPORT: 20070510 FILED AS OF DATE: 20070510 DATE AS OF CHANGE: 20070510 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: PROTECTIVE LIFE CORP CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0000355429 STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION: LIFE INSURANCE [6311] IRS NUMBER: 952492236 STATE OF INCORPORATION: DE FISCAL YEAR END: 1231 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: 10-Q SEC ACT: 1934 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 001-11339 FILM NUMBER: 07836589 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 2801 HGWY 280 S CITY: BIRMINGHAM STATE: AL ZIP: 35223 BUSINESS PHONE: 2052683596 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: PO BOX 2606 CITY: BIRMINGHAM STATE: AL ZIP: 35202 10-Q 1 plc_10q.htm PLC FORM 10Q 03-31-2007 PLC FORM 10Q 03-31-2007

 
 
UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
WASHINGTON, D. C. 20549
 
 
FORM 10-Q
[X] Quarterly Report Pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934
 
For the quarterly period ended March 31, 2007
 
or
 
[ ] Transition Report Pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934
 
For the transition period from ________ to _______
 
 
 
Commission File Number 001-11339
 
Protective Life Corporation
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
 
Delaware
(State or other jurisdiction of incorporation or organization)
 
95-2492236
(IRS Employer Identification No.)
 
2801 Highway 280 South
Birmingham, Alabama 35223
(Address of principal executive offices and zip code)
 
(205) 268-1000
(Registrant's telephone number, including area code)
 
____________________
 
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant (1) has filed all reports required to be filed by Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to file such reports), and (2) has been subject to such filing requirements for the past 90 days.
Yes [ X ] No [    ]
 
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, or a non-accelerated filer. See definition of “accelerated filer and large accelerated filer” in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act. (Check one):
 
Large accelerated filer ý     Accelerated Filer o     Non-accelerated filer o
 
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a shell company (as defined in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act). Yes [    ] No [ X ]
 
Number of shares of Common Stock, $0.50 par value, outstanding as of  May 9, 2007: 70,072,942
 
 
 

PROTECTIVE LIFE CORPORATION
Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q
For Quarter Ended March 31, 2007
 
INDEX
 
 
 
Part I.
Financial Information:
 
Item 1.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
   
 
 
   
 
   
 
   
Part II.
Other Information:
 
 
   
 
   
 
   
   
Signature 
 
   
   
 

(Dollars in thousands except per share amounts)
(Unaudited)
 
     
Three Months Ended 
     
March 31 
     
2007 
   
2006 
 
Revenues
Premiums and policy fees
 
$
660,824
 
$
507,694
 
Reinsurance ceded
   
(370,997
)
 
(280,670
)
Net of reinsurance ceded
   
289,827
   
227,024
 
Net investment income
   
415,682
   
299,065
 
Realized investment gains (losses):
Derivative financial instruments
   
(2,291
)
 
13,337
 
All other investments
   
13,294
   
5,153
 
Other income
   
76,263
   
48,536
 
Total revenues
   
792,775
   
593,115
 
Benefits and expenses
Benefits and settlement expenses, net of reinsurance ceded:
(three months: 2007 - $292,899; 2006 - $256,558)
   
472,770
   
349,608
 
Amortization of deferred policy acquisition costs and value of businesses acquired
   
75,202
   
50,031
 
Other operating expenses, net of reinsurance ceded:
(three months: 2007 - $65,303; 2006 - $46,291)
   
111,475
   
82,819
 
Total benefits and expenses
   
659,447
   
482,458
 
Income before income tax
   
133,328
   
110,657
 
Income tax expense
   
42,745
   
38,520
 
Net income
 
$
90,583
 
$
72,137
 
Net income per share - basic
 
$
1.28
 
$
1.02
 
Net income per share - diluted
 
$
1.27
 
$
1.01
 
Cash dividends paid per share
 
$
0.215
 
$
0.195
 
Average shares outstanding - basic
   
70,017,662
   
70,752,202
 
Average shares outstanding - diluted
   
71,487,063
   
71,559,255
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
See Notes to Consolidated Condensed Financial Statements
PROTECTIVE LIFE CORPORATION
(Dollars in thousands)
(Unaudited)
     
March 31 
 
December 31 
     
2007 
 
2006 
Assets
Investments:
Fixed maturities, at fair market value (amortized cost: 2007 - $21,393,317; 2006 - $21,194,871)
 
$
21,570,487
 
$
21,367,263
 
Equity securities, at fair market value (cost: 2007 - $65,626; 2006 - $121,823)
   
69,211
   
128,695
 
Mortgage loans
   
4,025,025
   
3,880,028
 
Investment real estate, net of accumulated depreciation (2007 - $5,606; 2006 - $5,483)
   
38,828
   
38,918
 
Policy loans
   
822,930
   
839,502
 
Other long-term investments
   
167,571
   
310,225
 
Short-term investments
   
1,064,768
   
1,381,073
 
Total investments
   
27,758,820
   
27,945,704
 
Cash
   
120,190
   
69,516
 
Accrued investment income
   
265,772
   
284,529
 
Accounts and premiums receivable, net of allowance for uncollectible amounts
(2007 - $4,268; 2006 - $4,140)
   
121,051
   
194,447
 
Reinsurance receivables
   
4,780,956
   
4,618,122
 
Deferred policy acquisition costs and value of businesses acquired
   
3,212,048
   
3,198,735
 
Goodwill
   
100,318
   
100,479
 
Property and equipment, net of accumulated depreciation (2007 - $106,116; 2006 - $109,718)
   
42,245
   
43,796
 
Other assets
   
163,543
   
165,656
 
Income tax receivable
   
116,684
   
116,318
 
Assets related to separate accounts
Variable annuity
   
2,790,233
   
2,750,129
 
Variable universal life
   
319,972
   
307,863
 
Total assets
 
$
39,791,832
 
$
39,795,294
 
Liabilities
Policy liabilities and accruals
 
$
16,305,821
 
$
16,059,930
 
Stable value product account balances
   
5,055,382
   
5,513,464
 
Annuity account balances
   
8,966,309
   
8,958,089
 
Other policyholders' funds
   
323,898
   
328,664
 
Securities sold under repurchase agreements
   
2,844
   
16,949
 
Other liabilities
   
1,240,616
   
1,323,375
 
Deferred income taxes
   
429,481
   
374,486
 
Non-recourse funding obligations
   
525,000
   
425,000
 
Liabilities related to variable interest entities
   
421,684
   
420,395
 
Long-term debt
   
466,532
   
479,132
 
Subordinated debt securities
   
524,743
   
524,743
 
Liabilities related to separate accounts
Variable annuity
   
2,790,233
   
2,750,129
 
Variable universal life
   
319,972
   
307,863
 
Total liabilities
   
37,372,515
   
37,482,219
 
Commitments and contingent liabilities - Note 3
             
Share-owners' equity
Preferred Stock, $1 par value, shares authorized: 4,000,000; Issued: None
Common Stock, $.50 par value, shares authorized: 2007 and 2006 -160,000,000
shares issued: 2007 and 2006 - 73,251,960
   
36,626
   
36,626
 
Additional paid-in capital
   
440,813
   
438,485
 
Treasury stock, at cost (2007 - 3,195,069 shares; 2006 - 3,287,312 shares)
   
(11,468
)
 
(11,796
)
Unallocated stock in Employee Stock Ownership Plan
(2007 - 262,682 shares; 2006 - 366,243 shares)
   
(853
)
 
(1,231
)
Retained earnings
   
1,916,245
   
1,838,560
 
Accumulated other comprehensive income (loss):
Net unrealized gains (losses) on investments, net of income tax:
(2007 - $35,463; 2006 - $22,109)
   
64,674
   
41,405
 
Accumulated gain (loss) - hedging, net of income tax: (2007 - $(2,046); 2006 - $(3,179))
   
(3,700
)
 
(5,954
)
Postretirement benefits liability adjustment, net of income tax: (2007 - $(12,292); 2006 - $(12,292))
   
(23,020
)
 
(23,020
)
Total share-owners’ equity
   
2,419,317
   
2,313,075
 
   
$
39,791,832
 
$
39,795,294
 
See Notes to Consolidated Condensed Financial Statements
PROTECTIVE LIFE CORPORATION
(Dollars in thousands)
(Unaudited)
   
 Three Months Ended
     
March 
     
2007 
   
2006 
 
Cash flows from operating activities
Net income
 
$
90,583
 
$
72,137
 
Adjustments to reconcile net income to net cash provided by operating activities:
Realized investment (gains) losses
   
(11,003
)
 
(5,153
)
Amortization of deferred policy acquisition costs and value of businesses acquired
   
75,202
   
50,031
 
Capitalization of deferred policy acquisition costs
   
(120,762
)
 
(97,740
)
Depreciation expense
   
3,023
   
3,349
 
Deferred income tax
   
43,166
   
40,278
 
Accrued income tax
   
(179
)
 
(14,353
)
Interest credited to universal life and investment products
   
254,930
   
189,714
 
Policy fees assessed on universal life and investment products
   
(139,408
)
 
(119,662
)
Change in reinsurance receivables
   
(162,834
)
 
(125,759
)
Change in accrued investment income and other receivables
   
92,153
   
13,174
 
Change in policy liabilities and other policyholders' funds
of traditional life and health products
   
73,525
   
142,632
 
Trading securities:
             
Maturities and principal reductions of investments
   
104,301
   
0
 
Sale of investments
   
406,347
   
0
 
Cost of investments acquired
   
(647,243
)
 
0
 
Other net change in trading securities
   
85,820
   
7,294
 
Change in other liabilities
   
78,413
   
(53,336
)
Other, net
   
5,451
   
(11,616
)
Net cash provided by operating activities
   
231,485
   
90,990
 
Cash flows from investing activities
Investments available for sale:
             
Maturities and principal reductions of investments
             
Fixed maturities
   
393,595
   
265,542
 
Equity securities
   
2,000
   
0
 
Sale of investments
             
Fixed maturities
   
990,203
   
2,076,761
 
Equity securities
   
60,117
   
1,858
 
Cost of investments acquired
             
Fixed maturities
   
(1,379,879
)
 
(2,180,522
)
Equity securities
   
(537
)
 
(1,706
)
Mortgage loans:
             
New borrowings
   
(239,785
)
 
(262,617
)
Repayments
   
94,635
   
141,448
 
Change in investment real estate, net
   
3,298
   
15,736
 
Change in policy loans, net
   
16,572
   
2,678
 
Change in other long-term investments, net
   
(1,144
)
 
18,420
 
Change in short-term investments, net
   
164,799
   
(70,500
)
Purchase of property and equipment
   
(2,145
)
 
(1,093
)
Sales of property and equipment
   
640
   
0
 
Other investing activities, net
   
161
   
0
 
Net cash provided by investing activities
   
102,530
   
6,005
 
Cash flows from financing activities
             
Borrowings under line of credit arrangements and long-term debt
   
31,000
   
13,000
 
Principal payments on line of credit arrangement and long-term debt
   
(43,600
)
 
(22,500
)
Net proceeds from securities sold under repurchase agreements
   
(14,105
)
 
0
 
Payments on liabilities related to variable interest entities
   
1,289
   
(5,710
)
Issuance of non-recourse funding obligations
   
100,000
   
25,000
 
Dividends to share owners
   
(15,044
)
 
(13,620
)
Investment product deposits and change in universal life deposits
   
543,512
   
486,646
 
Investment product withdrawals
   
(837,199
)
 
(629,139
)
Excess tax benefits on stock based compensation
   
762
   
2,403
 
Other financing activities, net
   
(49,956
)
 
373
 
Net cash used in financing activities
   
(283,341
)
 
(143,547
)
Change in cash
   
50,674
   
(46,552
)
Cash at beginning of period
   
69,516
   
83,670
 
Cash at end of period
 
$
120,190
 
$
37,118
 
See Notes to Consolidated Condensed Financial Statements
 
 
 
 
PROTECTIVE LIFE CORPORATION
(Dollar amounts in tables are in thousands, except per share amounts)


1.
SUMMARY OF SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES
 
Basis of Presentation

The accompanying unaudited consolidated condensed financial statements of Protective Life Corporation and subsidiaries (the "Company") have been prepared in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America (“U.S. GAAP”) for interim financial information and with the instructions to Form 10-Q and Rule 10-01 of Regulation S-X. Accordingly, they do not include all of the disclosures required by U.S. GAAP for complete financial statements. In the opinion of management, the accompanying financial statements reflect all adjustments (consisting only of normal recurring items) necessary for a fair statement of the results for the interim periods presented. Operating results for the three-month periods ended March 31, 2007 are not necessarily indicative of the results that may be expected for the year ending December 31, 2007. The year-end consolidated condensed balance sheet data was derived from audited financial statements, but does not include all disclosures required by U.S. GAAP. For further information, refer to the consolidated financial statements and notes thereto included in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2006.

New Accounting Pronouncements
 
               Statement of Position 05-1. Effective January 1, 2007, the Company adopted Statement of Position (“SOP”) 05-1, “Accounting by Insurance Enterprises for Deferred Acquisition Costs in Connection with Modifications or Exchanges of Insurance Contracts” (“SOP 05-1”). SOP 05-1 provides guidance on accounting by insurance enterprises for deferred acquisition costs on internal replacements of insurance and investment contracts other than those specifically described in Statement of Financial Accounting Standards (“SFAS”) No. 97 (“SFAS 97”), “Accounting and Reporting by Insurance Enterprises for Certain Long- Duration Contracts and for Realized Gains and Losses from the Sale of Investments.” SOP 05-1 defines an internal replacement as a modification in product benefits, features, rights, or coverages that occurs by the exchange of a contract for a new contract, or by amendment, endorsement, or rider to a contract, or by the election of a feature or coverage within a contract. Contract modifications that result in a substantially unchanged contract will be accounted for as a continuation of the replaced contract. Contract modifications that result in a substantially changed contract should be accounted for as an extinguishment of the replaced contract, and any unamortized DAC, unearned revenue and deferred sales charges must be written off. The Company recorded no cumulative effect adjustment related to this adoption and does not expect it to have a material impact on its ongoing financial position or results of operations.

 
SFAS No. 155 - Accounting for Certain Hybrid Financial Instruments - an amendment of FASB Statements No. 133 and 140. Effective January 1, 2007, the Company adopted SFAS No. 155, “Accounting for Certain Hybrid Financial Instruments - an amendment of Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) Statements No. 133 and 140” (“SFAS 155”). SFAS 155 (1) permits fair value remeasurement for any hybrid financial instrument that contains an embedded derivative that otherwise would require bifurcation, (2) clarifies which interest-only (IO) strips and principal-only (PO) strips are not subject to the requirements of FAS 133, (3) establishes a requirement to evaluate interests in securitized financial assets to identify interests that are freestanding derivatives or that are hybrid financial instruments that contain an embedded derivative requiring bifurcation, (4) clarifies that concentrations of credit risk in the form of subordination are not embedded derivatives, and (5) amends Statement 140 to eliminate the prohibition on a qualifying special purpose entity from holding a derivative financial instrument that pertains to a beneficial interest other than another derivative financial instrument. The adoption of SFAS 155 resulted in a positive cumulative effect adjustment to opening retained earnings of approximately $2.0 million ($1.3 million net of taxes), related to the Company’s equity indexed annuity product line.

FASB Interpretation No. 48. Effective January 1, 2007, the Company adopted the provisions of FASB Interpretation No. 48, “Accounting for Uncertainty in Income Taxes - an Interpretation of FASB Statement 109” (“FIN 48”). FIN 48 prescribes a recognition threshold and measurement attribute for the financial statement recognition, measurement and disclosure of an income tax position taken or expected to be taken in an income tax return. Additionally, this interpretation requires, in order for the Company to recognize a benefit in its financial statements from a given tax return position, that there must be a greater than 50 percent chance of success with the relevant taxing authority with regard to that tax return position. In making this analysis, the Company must assume that the taxing authority is fully informed of all of the facts regarding this issue. Furthermore, new disclosures regarding the effect of the accounting for uncertain tax positions on the financial statements will be required.

As a result of the implementation of FIN 48, the Company recognized a $0.9 million decrease in the liability for unrecognized income tax benefits, which was accounted for as an increase to the January 1, 2007 retained earnings balance. The Company’s liability for all unrecognized income tax benefits as of January 1, 2007 was $23.9 million. If recognized, approximately $3.2 million would be recorded as a component of income tax expense.

Any accrued interest and penalties related to unrecognized tax benefits have been included in income tax expense. The Company had approximately $5.9 million of accrued interest associated with unrecognized tax benefits as of January 1, 2007.

There were no significant changes to any of these amounts during the quarter ending March 31, 2007. The Company’s 2003 through 2005 income tax returns remain open to examination by the Internal Revenue Service and major state income taxing jurisdictions.

Accounting Pronouncements Not Yet Adopted

SFAS No. 157 - Fair Value Measurements. In September 2006, FASB issued SFAS No. 157, “Fair Value Measurements” (“SFAS 157”). This statement defines fair value, establishes a framework for measuring fair value and expands disclosures about fair value measurements. SFAS 157 is effective prospectively with a limited form of retrospective application for fiscal years beginning after November 15, 2007 (January 1, 2008 for the Company). The Company is currently evaluating the impact that SFAS 157 will have on its consolidated results of operations and financial position.

SFAS No. 159 - The Fair Value Option for Financial Assets and Financial Liabilities. In February 2007, the FASB issued SFAS No. 159, “The Fair Value Option for Financial Assets and Financial Liabilities - Including an amendment of FASB Statement No. 115” (“SFAS 159”). This standard permits entities to choose to measure eligible financial assets and financial liabilities at fair value. SFAS 159 is effective for the Company beginning January 1, 2008. The Company has not yet made a decision as to whether or not it will elect the fair value option for any financial assets or financial liabilities. As a result, the Company does not know what impact, if any, that SFAS 159 will have on its consolidated results of operations and financial position.
 

Reclassifications

Certain reclassifications have been made in the previously reported financial statements and accompanying notes to make the prior period amounts comparable to those of the current period. Such reclassifications had no effect on previously reported net income or share-owners' equity. Included in these reclassifications is a change in the Consolidated Condensed Statement of Cash Flows to remove the effects of policy fees assessed on universal life and investment products from financing activities. While this had no effect on total cash flow, for the three months ended March 31, 2006, net cash provided by operating activities was decreased and net cash provided by financing activities was increased by $119.7 million.

2.  NON-RECOURSE FUNDING OBLIGATIONS

Non-Recourse Funding Obligations

The Company issued $100.0 million of non-recourse funding obligations during the first three months of 2007, bringing the total amount outstanding to $525.0 million at March 31, 2007. The weighted average interest rate as of March 31, 2007, was 6.8%.


3.
COMMITMENTS AND CONTINGENT LIABILITIES

The Company is contingently liable to obtain a $20 million letter of credit under indemnity agreements with its directors. Such agreements provide insurance protection in excess of the directors’ liability insurance in force at the time up to $20 million. Should certain events occur constituting a change in control of the Company, the Company must obtain the letter of credit upon which directors may draw for defense or settlement of any claim relating to performance of their duties as directors. The Company has similar agreements with certain of its officers providing up to $10 million in indemnification that are not secured by the obligation to obtain a letter of credit.

Under insurance guaranty fund laws, in most states insurance companies doing business therein can be assessed up to prescribed limits for policyholder losses incurred by insolvent companies. The Company does not believe such assessments will be materially different from amounts already provided for in the financial statements. Most of these laws provide, however, that an assessment may be excused or deferred if it would threaten an insurer's own financial strength.

A number of civil jury verdicts have been returned against insurers and other providers of financial services involving sales practices, alleged agent misconduct, failure to properly supervise representatives, relationships with agents or persons with whom the insurer does business, and other matters. Increasingly these lawsuits have resulted in the award of substantial judgments that are disproportionate to the actual damages, including material amounts of punitive and non-economic compensatory damages. In some states, juries, judges, and arbitrators have substantial discretion in awarding punitive and non-economic compensatory damages which creates the potential for unpredictable material adverse judgments or awards in any given lawsuit or arbitration. Arbitration awards are subject to very limited appellate review. In addition, in some class action and other lawsuits, companies have made material settlement payments. The Company, like other financial services companies, in the ordinary course of business, is involved in such litigation and in arbitration. Although the outcome of any such litigation or arbitration cannot be predicted, the Company believes that at the present time there are no pending or threatened lawsuits that are reasonably likely to have a material adverse effect on the financial position, results of operations, or liquidity of the Company.


4.
STOCK-BASED COMPENSATION

Performance shares awarded in 2007 and their estimated fair value at grant date are as follows:

Year
Awarded
Performance
Shares
Estimated
Fair Value
     
 
2007
 
64,700
 
$2,800


The criteria for payment of 2007 performance awards is based primarily upon a comparison of the Company’s average return on average equity over a four-year period (earlier upon the death, disability, or retirement of the executive, or in certain circumstances, upon a change in control of the Company) to that of a comparison group of publicly held life and multi-line insurance companies. If the Company’s results are below the median of the comparison group (40th percentile for 2007 awards), no portion of the award is earned. If the Company’s results are at or above the 90th percentile, the award maximum is earned. Awards are paid in shares of Company Common Stock.

During  the first quarter of 2007, stock appreciation rights (“SARs”) were granted to certain officers of the Company to provide long-term incentive compensation based solely on the performance of the Company’s Common Stock. The SARs are exercisable either in four equal annual installments beginning one year after the date of grant or after five years depending on the terms of the grant (earlier upon the death, disability, or retirement of the officer, or in certain circumstances, upon a change in control of the Company) and expire after ten years or upon termination of employment. The SARs activity as well as weighted average base price for the first three months of 2007 is as follows:

   
Weighted Average
Base Price
 
No. of SARs
 
 
Balance at December 31, 2006
 
$
29.33
   
1,155,946
 
SARs granted
   
43.46
 
 
218,900
 
SARs exercised
   
23.98
   
(2,500
)
Balance at March 31, 2007
 
$
31.59
   
1,372,346
 


The SARs issued in 2007 had estimated fair values at grant date of $2.4 million. The fair value of the 2007 SARs was estimated using a Black-Scholes option pricing model. The assumptions used in the pricing model varied depending on the vesting period of the awards. Assumptions used in the model for the 2007 SARs were as follows: expected volatility ranged from 16.2% to 31.0%, the risk-free interest rate ranged from 4.5% to 4.6%, a dividend rate of 1.9%, a zero forfeiture rate, and the expected exercise date ranged from 2012 to 2015. The Company will pay an amount in stock equal to the difference between the specified base price of the Company’s Common Stock and the market value at the exercise date for each SAR.

Additionally during 2007, the Company issued 30,250 restricted stock units at a fair value of $43.46 per unit. These awards, with a total fair value of $1.3 million, vest over a four year period.


5.
DEFINED BENEFIT PENSION PLAN AND UNFUNDED EXCESS BENEFITS PLAN

Components of the net periodic benefit cost of the Company’s defined benefit pension plan and unfunded excess benefits plan are as follows:

   
Three Months Ended
March 31
 
   
2007
 
2006
 
     
Service cost - Benefits earned during the period
 
$
2,625
 
$
2,576
 
Interest cost on projected benefit obligations
   
2,540
   
2,496
 
Expected return on plan assets
   
(2,893
)
 
(3,096
)
Amortization of prior service cost
   
53
   
64
 
Amortization of actuarial losses
   
849
   
1,272
 
Net periodic benefit cost
 
$
3,174
 
$
3,312
 


The Company previously disclosed in its financial statements for the year ended December 31, 2006, that it expected that no funding would be required in 2007. The Company has not yet determined the amount, if any, that it will contribute to its defined benefit pension plan during 2007. As of March 31, 2007, no contributions have been made to the defined benefit pension plan.

In addition to pension benefits, the Company provides limited healthcare benefits and life insurance benefits to eligible retirees. The cost of these plans for the three months ended March 31, 2007 and 2006 was immaterial.

6.
EARNINGS PER SHARE
 
               Basic earnings per share is computed by dividing net income by the weighted-average number of common shares outstanding during the period, including shares issuable under various deferred compensation plans. Diluted earnings per share  is computed by dividing net income by the weighted-average number of common shares and dilutive potential common shares outstanding during the period, including shares issuable under various stock-based compensation plans and stock purchase contracts.
 
               A reconciliation of the numerators and denominators of the basic and diluted earnings per share is presented below:

   
Three Months Ended
March 31
 
   
2007
 
2006
 
     
Calculation of basic earnings per share:
             
Net income
 
$
90,583
 
$
72,137
 
               
Average shares issued and outstanding
   
69,996,445
   
69,793,369
 
Issuable under various deferred compensation plans
   
1,021,217
   
958,833
 
Weighted shares outstanding - Basic
   
71,017,662
   
70,752,202
 
               
Basic earnings per share
 
$
1.28
 
$
1.02
 
               
Calculation of diluted earnings per share:
             
Net income
 
$
90,583
 
$
72,137
 
               
Weighted shares outstanding - Basic
   
71,017,662
   
70,752,202
 
Stock appreciation rights (“SARs”)(a)
   
264,585
   
316,254
 
Issuable under various other stock-back compensation plans
   
204,816
   
490,799
 
Weighted shares outstanding - Diluted
   
71,487,063
   
71,559,255
 
               
Diluted earnings per share
 
$
1.27
 
$
1.01
 
(a) Excludes 166,820 and 155,200 SARs as of March 31, 2007 and 2006, respectively, that are antidilutive. In the event the average market price exceeds the issue price of the SARs, such rights would be dilutive to the Company’s earnings per share and will be included in the Company’s calculation of the diluted average shares outstanding.


7.
COMPREHENSIVE INCOME

The following table sets forth the Company's comprehensive income (loss) for the periods presented below:

   
Three Months Ended
March 31
 
   
2007
 
2006
 
     
Net income
 
$
90,583
 
$
72,137
 
Change in net unrealized gains on investments, net of income tax:
(three months: 2007 - $16,330; 2006 - $(78,279))
   
29,782
   
(147,425
)
Change in accumulated gain-hedging, net of income tax:
(three months: 2007 - $1,247; 2006 - $2,285)
   
2,254
   
4,303
 
Reclassification adjustment for amounts included in
net income, net of income tax:
(three months: 2007 - $(3,571); 2006 - $1,419)
   
(6,513
)
 
2,660
 
 
Comprehensive income (loss)
 
$
116,106
 
$
(68,325
)
 
8.
OPERATING SEGMENTS

The Company operates several business segments each having a strategic focus. An operating segment is generally distinguished by products and/or channels of distribution. A brief description of each segment follows:

·  
The Life Marketing segment markets level premium term insurance (“traditional”), universal life (“UL”), variable universal life, and bank owned life insurance (“BOLI”) products on a national basis primarily through networks of independent insurance agents and brokers, stockbrokers, direct marketing channels, and independent marketing organizations.

·  
The Acquisitions segment focuses on acquiring, converting, and servicing policies acquired from other companies. The segment’s primary focus is on life insurance policies and annuity products that were sold to individuals.

·  
The Annuities segment manufactures, sells, and supports fixed and variable annuity products. These products are primarily sold through stockbrokers, but are also sold through financial institutions and independent agents and brokers.

·  
The Stable Value Products segment sells guaranteed funding agreements (“GFAs”) to special purpose entities that in turn issue notes or certificates in smaller, transferable denominations. The segment also markets fixed and floating rate funding agreements directly to the trustees of municipal bond proceeds, institutional investors, bank trust departments, and money market funds. Additionally, the segment markets guaranteed investment contracts (“GICs”) to 401(k) and other qualified retirement savings plans.

·  
The Asset Protection segment primarily markets extended service contracts and credit life and disability insurance to protect consumers’ investments in automobiles, watercraft, and recreational vehicles (“RV”). In addition, the segment markets an inventory protection product (“IPP”) and a guaranteed asset protection (“GAP”) product.

The Company has an additional segment referred to as Corporate and Other. The Corporate and Other segment primarily consists of net investment income and expenses not attributable to the segments above (including net investment income on unallocated capital and interest on debt). This segment also includes earnings from several non-strategic lines of business (mostly cancer insurance, residual value insurance, surety insurance, and group annuities), various investment-related transactions, and the operations of several small subsidiaries.

The Company uses the same accounting policies and procedures to measure segment operating income and assets as it uses to measure its consolidated net income and assets. Segment operating income is generally income before income tax excluding net realized investment gains and losses (net of the related amortization of DAC/VOBA and participating income from real estate ventures), and the cumulative effect of change in accounting principle. Periodic settlements of derivatives associated with corporate debt and certain investments and annuity products are included in realized gains and losses but are considered part of operating income because the derivatives are used to mitigate risk in items affecting consolidated and segment operating income. Segment operating income represents the basis on which the performance of the Company’s business is internally assessed by management. Premiums and policy fees, other income, benefits and settlement expenses, and amortization of DAC/VOBA are attributed directly to each operating segment. Net investment income is allocated based on directly related assets required for transacting the business of that segment. Realized investment gains (losses) and other operating expenses are allocated to the segments in a manner that most appropriately reflects the operations of that segment. Investments and other assets are allocated based on statutory policy liabilities, while DAC/VOBA and goodwill are shown in the segments to which they are attributable.

There are no significant intersegment transactions.

 
The following tables summarize financial information for the Company’s segments. Asset adjustments represent the inclusion of assets related to discontinued operations.

   
Three Months Ended
March 31
 
   
2007
 
2006
 
     
Revenues
             
Life Marketing
 
$
270,539
 
$
218,925
 
Acquisitions
   
237,982
   
101,451
 
Annuities
   
73,754
   
63,796
 
Stable Value Products
   
80,526
   
77,379
 
Asset Protection
   
80,023
   
65,149
 
Corporate and Other
   
49,951
   
66,415
 
Total revenues
 
$
792,775
 
$
593,115
 
               
Segment Operating Income
             
Life Marketing
 
$
65,280
 
$
40,781
 
Acquisitions
   
32,249
   
19,906
 
Annuities
   
5,606
   
4,741
 
Stable Value Products
   
12,186
   
12,344
 
Asset Protection
   
10,084
   
8,738
 
Corporate and Other
   
1,777
   
11,663
 
Total segment operating income
   
127,182
   
98,173
 
               
Realized investment gains (losses) - investments(1)
   
8,948
   
(173
)
Realized investment gains (losses) - derivatives(2)
   
(2,802
)
 
12,657
 
Income tax expense
   
(42,745
)
 
(38,520
)
Net income
 
$
90,583
 
$
72,137
 
               
(1)   Realized investment gains (losses) - investments
 
$
13,294
 
$
5,153
 
Less participating income from real estate ventures
   
3,150
   
5,326
 
Less related amortization of DAC
   
1,196
   
0
 
   
$
8,948
 
$
(173
)
               
(2)   Realized investment gains (losses) - derivatives
 
$
(2,291
)
$
13,337
 
Less settlements on certain interest rate swaps
   
257
   
1,331
 
Less derivative losses related to certain annuities
   
254
   
(651
)
   
$
(2,802
)
$
12,657
 
 
Life Marketing operating income for the first quarter of 2007 includes a $15.7 million gain on the sale of a subsidiary which is included in other income.


   
Operating Segment Assets
March 31, 2007
 
                   
   
Life
Marketing
 
Acquisitions
 
Annuities
 
Stable Value
Products
 
                           
Investments and other assets
 
$
8,409,881
 
$
12,016,365
 
$
8,245,004
 
$
5,047,472
 
Deferred policy acquisition costs and value of businesses acquired
   
1,883,037
   
912,622
   
252,481
   
16,529
 
Goodwill
   
10,193
   
32,007
   
0
   
0
 
Total assets
 
$
10,303,111
 
$
12,960,994
 
$
8,497,485
 
$
5,064,001
 
                           
                           
     
Asset
Protection 
   
Corporate
and Other 
   
Adjustments 
 
 
Total
Consolidated 
 
     
 
                   
Investments and other assets
 
$
1,297,227
 
$
1,437,645
 
$
25,872
 
$
36,479,466
 
Deferred policy acquisition costs and value of businesses acquired
   
119,682
   
27,697
   
0
   
3,212,048
 
Goodwill
   
58,035
   
83
   
0
   
100,318
 
Total assets
 
$
1,474,944
 
$
1,465,425
 
$
25,872
 
$
39,791,832
 
                           
                           
                           
 
Operating Segment Assets
December 31, 2006 
                           
     
Life  
Marketing  
   
Acquisitions 
   
Annuities 
   
Stable Value
Products 
 
                           
Investments and other assets
 
$
8,041,854
 
$
10,650,928
 
$
8,142,681
 
$
5,369,107
 
Deferred policy acquisition costs and value of businesses acquired
   
1,846,219
   
925,218
   
261,826
   
16,603
 
Goodwill
   
10,354
   
32,007
   
0
   
0
 
Total assets
 
$
9,898,427
 
$
11,608,153
 
$
8,404,507
 
$
5,385,710
 
                           
                           
     
Asset    
Protection  
   
Corporate
and Other 
   
Adjustments 
   
Total
Consolidated 
 
                           
Investments and other assets
 
$
992,932
 
$
3,261,874
 
$
36,704
 
$
36,496,080
 
Deferred policy acquisition costs and value of businesses acquired
   
125,745
   
23,124
   
0
   
3,198,735
 
Goodwill
   
58,035
   
83
   
0
   
100,479
 
Total assets
 
$
1,176,712
 
$
3,285,081
 
$
36,704
 
$
39,795,294
 



CONDITION AND RESULTS OF OPERATIONS
(Dollar amounts in tables are in thousands)


This Management’s Discussion and Analysis should be read in its entirety, since it contains detailed information that is important to understanding the Company’s results and financial condition. The Overview below is qualified in its entirety by the full Management’s Discussion and Analysis.

FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS - CAUTIONARY LANGUAGE

This report reviews the Company’s financial condition and results of operations including its liquidity and capital resources. Historical information is presented and discussed. Where appropriate, factors that may affect future financial performance are also identified and discussed. Certain statements made in this report include “forward-looking statements” within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements include any statement that may predict, forecast, indicate or imply future results, performance or achievements instead of historical facts and may contain words like “believe,” “expect,” “estimate,” “project,” “budget,” “forecast,” “anticipate,” “plan,” “will,” “shall,” “may,” and other words, phrases, or expressions with similar meaning. Forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties, which may cause actual results to differ materially from the results contained in the forward-looking statements, and the Company cannot give assurances that such statements will prove to be correct. Given these risks and uncertainties, investors should not place undue reliance on forward-looking statements as a prediction of actual results.

For a more complete understanding of the Company’s business and its current period results, please read the following Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations in conjunction with the Company’s latest Annual Report on Form 10-K and other filings with the SEC.

OVERVIEW

Protective Life Corporation (the “Company”) is a holding company whose subsidiaries provide financial services through the production, distribution, and administration of insurance and investment products. Founded in 1907, Protective Life Insurance Company is the Company's largest operating subsidiary. Unless the context otherwise requires, the "Company" refers to the consolidated group of Protective Life Corporation and its subsidiaries.

The Company operates several business segments each having a strategic focus. An operating segment is generally distinguished by products and/or channels of distribution. The Company's operating segments are Life Marketing, Acquisitions, Annuities, Stable Value Products, and Asset Protection. The Company has an additional segment referred to as Corporate and Other which consists of net investment income on unallocated capital, interest on debt, earnings from various investment-related transactions, and the operations of several non-strategic lines of business. The Company periodically evaluates its operating segments in light of the segment reporting requirements prescribed by SFAS 131, “Disclosures about Segments of an Enterprise and Related Information,” and makes adjustments to its segment reporting as needed.

KNOWN TRENDS AND UNCERTAINTIES

The factors which could affect the Company's future results include, but are not limited to, general economic conditions and the following known trends and uncertainties: we are exposed to the risks of natural disasters, pandemics, malicious and terrorist acts that could adversely affect our operations; we operate in a mature, highly competitive industry, which could limit our ability to gain or maintain our position in the industry and negatively affect profitability; a ratings downgrade could adversely affect our ability to compete; our policy claims fluctuate from period to period resulting in earnings volatility; our results may be negatively affected should actual experience differ from management's assumptions and estimates; the use of reinsurance introduces variability in our statements of income; we could be forced to sell investments at a loss to cover policyholder withdrawals; interest rate fluctuations could negatively affect our spread income or otherwise impact our business; equity market volatility could negatively impact our business; insurance companies are highly regulated and subject to numerous legal restrictions and regulations; changes to tax law or interpretations of existing tax law could adversely affect the Company and its ability to compete with non-insurance products or reduce the demand for certain insurance products; financial services companies are frequently the targets of litigation, including class action litigation, which could result in substantial judgments; publicly held companies in general and the financial services industry in particular are sometimes the target of law enforcement investigations and the focus of increased regulatory scrutiny; our ability to maintain competitive unit costs is dependent upon the level of new sales and persistency of existing business; our investments are subject to market and credit risks; we may not realize our anticipated financial results from our acquisitions strategy; we may not be able to achieve the expected results from our recent acquisition; we are dependent on the performance of others; our reinsurers could fail to meet assumed obligations, increase rates or be subject to adverse developments that could affect us; computer viruses or network security breaches could affect our data processing systems or those of our business partners and could damage our business and adversely affect our financial condition and results of operations; our ability to grow depends in large part upon the continued availability of capital; new accounting rules or changes to existing accounting rules could negatively impact us; and our risk management policies and procedures may leave us exposed to unidentified or unanticipated risk, which could negatively affect our business or result in losses. Please refer to Exhibit 99 about these factors that could affect future results.

The Company’s results may fluctuate from period to period due to fluctuations in mortality, persistency, claims, expenses, interest rates, and other factors. Therefore, it is management's opinion that quarterly operating results for an insurance company are not necessarily indicative of results to be achieved in future periods, and that a review of operating results over a longer period is necessary to assess an insurance company's performance.


RESULTS OF OPERATIONS

In the following discussion, segment operating income is defined as income before income tax, excluding net realized investment gains and losses (net of the related amortization of deferred policy acquisition costs (“DAC”) and value of business acquired (“VOBA”) and participating income from real estate ventures). Periodic settlements of derivatives associated with corporate debt and certain investments and annuity products are included in realized gains and losses but are considered part of segment operating income because the derivatives are used to mitigate risk in items affecting segment operating income. Management believes that segment operating income provides relevant and useful information to investors, as it represents the basis on which the performance of the Company’s business is internally assessed. Although the items excluded from segment operating income may be significant components in understanding and assessing the Company’s overall financial performance, management believes that segment operating income enhances an investor’s understanding of the Company’s results of operations by highlighting the income (loss) attributable to the normal, recurring operations of the Company’s business. However, segment operating income should not be viewed as a substitute for U.S. GAAP net income. In addition, the Company’s segment operating income measures may not be comparable to similarly titled measures reported by other companies.

 
The following table presents a summary of results and reconciles segment operating income to consolidated net income:

   
Three Months Ended
March 31
       
   
2007
 
2006
   
Change
 
   
(Dollars in thousands)
       
Segment Operating Income
               
Life Marketing
 
$
65,280
 
$
40,781
     
60.1
%
Acquisitions
   
32,249
   
19,906
     
62.0
 
Annuities
   
5,606
   
4,741
     
18.2
 
Stable Value Products
   
12,186
   
12,344
     
(1.3
)
Asset Protection
   
10,084
   
8,738
     
15.4
 
Corporate and Other
   
1,777
   
11,663
     
(84.8
)
Total segment operating income
   
127,182
   
98,173
     
29.5
 
                       
Realized investment gains (losses) - investments(1)
   
8,948
   
(173
)
       
Realized investment gains (losses) - derivatives(2)
   
(2,802
)
 
12,657
         
Income tax expense
   
(42,745
)
 
(38,520
)
       
Net income
 
$
90,583
 
$
72,137
     
25.6
 
                       
(1)   Realized investment gains (losses) - investments
 
$
13,294
 
$
5,153
         
Less participating income from real estate ventures
   
3,150
   
5,326
         
Less related amortization of DAC
   
1,196
   
0
         
   
$
8,948
 
$
(173
)
       
                       
(2)   Realized investment gains (losses) - derivatives
 
$
(2,291
)
$
13,337
         
Less settlements on certain interest rate swaps
   
257
   
1,331
         
Less derivative losses related to certain annuities
   
254
   
(651
)
       
   
$
(2,802
)
$
12,657
         

 
Net income for the first quarter of 2007 reflects a 29.5% increase in segment operating income compared to the same period of 2006. The two largest items contributing to this increase include a $15.7 million gain on the sale of the Life Marketing segment’s direct marketing subsidiary and a $12.3 million increase in operating earnings in the Acquisitions segment resulting from the prior year acquisition of the Chase Insurance Group. Net realized investment gains were $6.1 million for the first quarter of 2007 compared $12.5 million for the same period of 2006, a decrease of $6.3 million.

Life Marketing segment operating income was $65.3 million for the current quarter representing an increase of 60.1% over the same period of the prior year. This increase was primarily due to a $15.7 million gain before taxes on the sale of the segment’s direct marketing subsidiary combined with favorable mortality variances. The increase in the Acquisitions segment’s operating income for the current quarter is due to the acquisition of the Chase Insurance Group completed in the third quarter of 2006. This acquisition contributed $14.5 million to the Acquisition segment’s operating income for the first quarter of 2007.

Favorable DAC unlocking of $1.2 million during the first quarter of 2007 was partially offset by unfavorable mortality results, resulting in an 18.2% increase in operating income for the Annuities segment. A general improvement in the equity markets and increasing account balances contributed to the increase in operating earnings during the first quarter of 2007 for the segment. A decline in average account values offset by an increase in operating spread resulted in operating income that was relatively unchanged for the first quarter of 2007 in the Stable Value Products segment compared to the same period of 2006.

The Asset Protection segment’s 15.4% increase in operating income for the first quarter of 2007 is primarily the result of improvements in the segment’s service contract line, which were up $2.3 million for the quarter. Favorable results from the service contract line were partially offset by unfavorable results from other product lines and lines the segment is no longer marketing.

The decline in operating income for the Corporate and Other segment is primarily the result of an $11.1 million increase in interest expense resulting from increased borrowings, partially offset by higher net investment income on unallocated capital.

RESULTS BY BUSINESS SEGMENT

In the following segment discussions, various statistics and other key data the Company uses to evaluate its segments are presented. Sales statistics are used by the Company to measure the relative progress in its marketing efforts, but may or may not have an immediate impact on reported segment operating income. Sales data for traditional life insurance are based on annualized premiums, while universal life sales are based on annualized planned (target) premiums plus 6% of amounts received in excess of target premiums. Sales of annuities are measured based on the amount of deposits received. Stable value contract sales are measured at the time that the funding commitment is made based on the amount of deposit to be received. Sales within the Asset Protection segment are generally based on the amount of single premium and fees received.

Sales and life insurance in-force amounts are derived from the Company’s various sales tracking and administrative systems, and are not derived from the Company’s financial reporting systems or financial statements. Mortality variances are derived from actual claims compared to expected claims. These variances do not represent the net impact to earnings due to the interplay of reserves and DAC amortization.


Life Marketing
The Life Marketing segment markets level premium term insurance (“traditional life”), universal life (“UL”), variable universal life, and bank owned life insurance (“BOLI”) products on a national basis primarily through networks of independent insurance agents and brokers, stockbrokers, and independent marketing organizations. Segment results were as follows:

   
Three Months Ended
March 31
       
   
2007
 
2006
   
Change
 
   
(Dollars in thousands)
       
REVENUES
                     
Gross premiums and policy fees
 
$
345,685
 
$
325,364
     
6.2
%
Reinsurance ceded
   
(207,614
)
 
(208,631
)
   
(0.5
)
Net premiums and policy fees
   
138,071
   
116,733
     
18.3
 
Net investment income
   
81,103
   
72,853
     
11.3
 
Other income
   
51,365
   
29,339
     
75.1
 
Total operating revenues
   
270,539
   
218,925
     
23.6
 
                       
BENEFITS AND EXPENSES
                     
Benefits and settlement expenses
   
149,329
   
135,899
     
9.9
 
Amortization of deferred policy acquisition costs
   
28,698
   
19,466
     
47.4
 
Other operating expenses
   
27,232
   
22,779
     
19.5
 
Total benefits and expenses
   
205,259
   
178,144
     
15.2
 
                       
OPERATING INCOME
   
65,280
   
40,781
     
60.1
 
                       
INCOME BEFORE INCOME TAX
 
$
65,280
 
$
40,781
     
60.1
 
 

 
The following table summarizes key data for the Life Marketing segment:

   
Three Months Ended
March 31
       
 
2007
2006
 
Change
 
   
(Dollars in thousands) 
       
Sales By Product
                       
Traditional
   
$
33,492
 
$
37,476
     
(10.6
)%
Universal life
     
14,197
   
31,488
     
(54.9
)
Variable universal life
     
1,828
   
1,285
     
42.3
 
     
$
49,517
 
$
70,249
     
(29.5
)
                         
Sales By Distribution Channel
                       
Brokerage general agents
   
$
29,879
 
$
38,179
     
(21.7
)
Independent agents
     
8,328
   
13,800
     
(39.7
)
Stockbrokers/banks
     
8,493
   
13,567
     
(37.4
)
BOLI / other
     
2,817
   
4,703
     
(40.1
)
     
$
49,517
 
$
70,249
     
(29.5
)
                         
Average Life Insurance In-Force(1)
                       
Traditional
   
$
409,159,975
 
$
363,267,522
     
12.6
 
Universal life
     
51,478,248
   
49,263,933
     
4.5
 
     
$
460,638,223
 
$
412,531,455
     
11.7
 
                         
Average Account Values
                       
Universal life
   
$
4,860,730
 
$
4,619,947
     
5.2
 
Variable universal life
     
313,917
   
260,431
     
20.5
 
     
$
5,174,647
 
$
4,880,378
     
6.0
 
                         
Mortality Experience (2)
   
$
7,763
 
$
352
         
                         
(1) Amounts are not adjusted for reinsurance ceded.
(2) Represents a favorable (unfavorable) variance as compared to pricing assumptions. Excludes results related to Chase Acquisition Group which was acquired in the third quarter of 2006.


During 2005, the Company reduced its reliance on reinsurance (see additional comments below) and entered into a securitization structure to fund the additional statutory reserves required as a result of these changes in the Company’s reinsurance arrangements. The securitization structure results in a reduction of current taxes and a corresponding increase in deferred taxes as compared to the previous result obtained in using traditional reinsurance. The benefit of reduced current taxes is attributed to the applicable life products and is an important component of the profitability of these products. In addition to the fluctuations in premiums and benefits and settlement expenses discussed below, earnings emerge more slowly under a securitization structure relative to the previous reinsurance structure utilized by the Company.

Operating income increased 60.1% from the first quarter of 2006 primarily due to a gain recognized on the sale of the segment’s direct marketing subsidiary combined with favorable mortality results. Excluding the $15.7 million gain on the sale of a subsidiary which is included in other income, total revenues increased 16.4%. This increase in total revenues is the result of growth of life insurance in-force and average account values, and was partially offset by higher overall benefits and expenses (15.2% higher for the first quarter of 2007, as compared to the same period of 2006).

Net premiums and policy fees grew by 18.3% in the current quarter due in part to the growth in life insurance in-force achieved over the last several quarters combined with an increase in retention levels on certain traditional life products. Beginning in the second quarter of 2005, the Company reduced its reliance on reinsurance by changing from coinsurance to yearly renewable term reinsurance agreements and increased the maximum amount retained on any one life from $500,000 to $1,000,000 on certain of its newly written traditional life products (products written during the second quarter of 2005 and later.) In addition to increasing net premiums, this change results in higher benefits and settlement expenses, and causes greater variability in financial results due to fluctuations in mortality results. The Company’s maximum retention level for newly issued universal life products is $1,000,000.


Net investment income in the segment increased 11.3% for the quarter, reflecting the growth of the segment’s assets caused by the increase in life reserves. Other income increased 75.1% for the first quarter of 2007, primarily due to a $15.7 million gain recognized on the sale of the segment’s direct marketing subsidiary. The remainder of the increase in other income is the result of additional income from the segment’s broker-dealer subsidiary. The increase in income from the broker-dealer subsidiary is the result of increased fees related to variable annuity managed accounts and higher investment advisory fees. This increase in income was primarily offset by an increase in other operating expenses.

Benefits and settlement expenses were 9.9% higher than the first quarter of 2006, due to growth in life insurance in-force, increased retention levels on certain newly written traditional life products and higher credited interest on UL products resulting from increases in account values, partially offset for the current quarter by favorable fluctuations in mortality experience. The majority of the current quarter mortality variance (66%) is associated with traditional life products. The gross mortality variance (actual results compared to pricing) for the first quarter of 2007 was $7.4 million more favorable than the same period of 2006. The estimated mortality impact on earnings for the first quarter of 2007 was a favorable $7.5 million, which was approximately $8.0 million more favorable than estimated mortality impact on earnings for the same period of 2006. The increase in DAC amortization for the first quarter of 2007 compared to the same period of 2006 was primarily due to the increase in the Company’s block of term business not subject to reinsurance, combined with overall growth in average life insurance in-force.

Other operating expenses for the segment were as follows:

   
Three Months Ended
March 31
       
   
2007
 
2006
   
Change
 
   
(Dollars in thousands)
       
Insurance Companies:
                     
First year commissions
 
$
70,406
 
$
94,268
     
(25.3
)%
Renewal commissions
   
9,561
   
8,404
     
13.8
 
First year ceding allowances
   
(15,915
)
 
(32,832
)
   
(51.5
)
Renewal ceding allowances
   
(54,591
)
 
(46,332
)
   
17.8
 
General & administrative
   
44,194
   
43,263
     
2.2
 
Taxes, licenses and fees
   
8,860
   
8,073
     
9.7
 
Other operating expenses incurred
   
62,515
   
74,844
     
(16.5
)
                       
Less commissions, allowances & expenses capitalized
   
(70,131
)
 
(81,642
)
   
(14.1
)
                       
Other operating expenses
   
(7,616
)
 
(6,798
)
   
12.0
 
                       
Marketing Companies:
                     
Commissions
   
22,881
   
17,553
     
30.4
 
Other
   
11,967
   
12,024
     
(0.5
)
Other operating expenses
   
34,848
   
29,577
     
17.8
 
                       
Other operating expenses
 
$
27,232
 
$
22,779
     
19.5
%


The Company utilizes reinsurance for most of its products, with the terms of the reinsurance agreed upon before products are made available for sale. The Company determines its pricing, and analyzes its financial performance, on a net of reinsurance basis with the objective of achieving an attractive return on investment for its shareholders. Generally, the Company’s profits emerge as a level percentage of premium for Statement of Financial Accounting Standards No. 60 (“SFAS 60”) products and as a level percentage of estimated gross profits for Statement of Financial Accounting Standards No. 97 (“SFAS 97”) products. Under both SFAS 60 and 97, the amount of earnings and investment will vary with the utilization of reinsurance. In addition, the utilization of reinsurance can cause fluctuations in individual income and expense line items from year to year. Consideration of all components of the segment’s income statement, including amortization of deferred acquisition costs (“DAC”), is required to assess the impact of reinsurance on segment operating income.

Reinsurance allowances represent the amount the reinsurer is willing to pay for reimbursement of acquisition and other costs incurred by the direct writer of the business. The amount and timing of these allowances are negotiated by the Company and each reinsurer. The Company receives allowances according to the prescribed schedules in the reinsurance contracts, which may or may not bear a relationship to actual operating expenses incurred by the Company. First year commissions paid by the Company may be higher than first year allowances paid by the reinsurer, and reinsurance allowances may be higher in later years than renewal commissions paid by the Company. However the pattern of reinsurance allowances does not impact the pattern of earnings from year to year. While the recognition of reinsurance allowances is consistent with U.S. GAAP, non-deferred allowances often exceed the segment’s non-deferred direct costs, causing net other operating expenses to be negative. However, consistent with SFAS 60 and SFAS 97, fluctuations in non-deferred allowances tend to be offset by changes in DAC amortization with the resulting profits emerging as a level percentage of premiums for SFAS 60 products and as a level percentage of estimated gross profits for SFAS 97 products.

Reinsurance allowances tend to be highest in the first year of a policy and subsequently decline. Ultimate reinsurance allowances are defined as the level of allowances at the end of a policy’s term. The Company's practice is to defer as a component of DAC, reinsurance allowances in excess of the ultimate allowance. This practice is consistent with the Company's practice of deferring direct commissions.

The following table summarizes reinsurance allowances for each period presented, including the portion deferred as a part of DAC and the portion recognized immediately as a reduction of other operating expenses. As the non-deferred portion of reinsurance allowances reduce operating expenses in the period received, these amounts represent a net increase to operating income during that period. The amounts capitalized and earned are quantified below:

   
Three Months Ended
March 31
   
   
2007
 
2006
   
Change
 
   
(Dollars in thousands)
       
Allowances received
 
$
70,506
 
$
79,164
     
(10.9
)%
Less amount deferred
   
(38,580
)
 
(48,076
)
   
(19.8
)
Allowances recognized (reduction in other operating expenses)
 
$
31,926
 
$
31,088
     
2.7
 


Non-deferred reinsurance allowances of $31.9 million and $31.1 million were recognized in the first quarters of 2007 and 2006, respectively, resulting in reductions in operating expenses by these amounts in the same periods. Non-deferred reinsurance allowances increased 2.7% in the first quarter of 2007 compared to the same quarter of 2006, primarily as the result of the increase in the Company’s life insurance in-force.

Reinsurance allowances do not affect the methodology used to amortize DAC or the period over which such DAC is amortized. However, they do affect the amounts recognized as DAC amortization. DAC on SFAS 97 products is amortized based on the estimated gross profits of the policies in force. Reinsurance allowances are considered in the determination of estimated gross profits, and therefore impact SFAS 97 DAC amortization. Deferred reinsurance allowances on SFAS 60 policies are recorded as ceded DAC, which is amortized over estimated ceded premiums of the policies in force. Thus, deferred reinsurance allowances on SFAS 60 policies impact SFAS 60 DAC amortization.

The amounts of ceded premium paid by the Company and allowances reimbursed by the reinsurer are reflected in the table below:

   
Three Months Ended
March 31
     
   
2007
 
2006
 
Change
 
   
(Dollars in thousands)
 
Ceded premiums
 
$
207,614
 
$
208,631
       
(0.5
)%
Allowances received
   
70,506
   
79,164
       
(10.9
)
Net ceded premiums
 
$
137,108
 
$
129,467
       
5.9
%


The net ceded premium increased 5.9% in the first quarter of 2007 compared to the same period of the prior year, primarily due to the decrease in allowances received. The Company’s move during 2005 to reduce its reliance on reinsurance by entering into a securitization structure to fund certain statutory reserves will ultimately result in a reduction in both ceded premiums and reinsurance allowances received. As reinsurance allowances tend to be highest in the first year of a policy and subsequently decline, for a period of time, the decrease in allowances received will outpace the decrease in ceded premiums, resulting in an increase in net ceded premiums.

Claim liabilities and policy benefits are calculated consistently for all policies in accordance with U.S. GAAP, regardless of whether or not the policy is reinsured. Once the claim liabilities and policy benefits for the underlying policies are estimated, the amounts recoverable from the reinsurers are estimated based on a number of factors including the terms of the reinsurance contracts, historical payment patterns of reinsurance partners, and the financial strength and credit worthiness of its reinsurance partners. Liabilities for unpaid reinsurance claims are produced from claims and reinsurance system records, which contain the relevant terms of the individual reinsurance contracts. The Company monitors claims due from reinsurers to ensure that balances are settled on a timely basis. Incurred but not reported (“IBNR”) claims are reviewed by the Company’s actuarial staff to ensure that appropriate amounts are ceded. Ceded policy reserves are calculated by various administrative systems based on the nature of the specific reinsurance transactions and terms of the contracts.

The Company analyzes and monitors the credit worthiness of each of its reinsurance partners to ensure collectibility and minimize collection issues. For reinsurance companies that do not meet predetermined standards, the Company requires collateral such as assets held in trusts or letters of credit.

Other operating expenses for the insurance companies decreased in the first quarter of 2007 from the prior year as a result of a $2.1 million true-up during the first quarter of 2006 of field compensation expenses related to sales in prior periods that increased expense in the prior year period. Excluding the prior year true-up, other operating expenses increased 14.4% for the insurance companies in the first quarter of 2007 compared to the same period of the prior year, as a result of higher incurred non-deferrable expenses. Amounts capitalized as DAC generally include first year commissions, reinsurance allowances, and other deferrable acquisition expenses. The changes in these amounts generally reflect the trends in sales.

Other operating expenses for the segment’s marketing companies increased 17.8% for the first quarter of 2007 compared to the prior year primarily as a result of higher commissions and other expenses in the segment’s broker-dealer subsidiary associated with the higher revenue.

Sales for the segment declined 29.5% in the first quarter of 2007 versus 2006, primarily due to a 54.9% decline in UL sales. The decline in UL sales in the first quarter of 2007 is the expected result of pricing adjustments on certain UL products in response to the higher reserve levels required under Actuarial Guideline 38 (“AG38”). See additional discussion of AG38 and its impact on certain UL products in the “Recent Developments” section herein. Traditional life sales declined 10.6% in the first quarter of 2007 compared to the same period of the prior year. The decrease in traditional life sales is the result of intense competition in the market for these products. The Company continually reviews its product features and pricing in an effort to maintain or improve its competitive position. Sales of BOLI business declined in the first quarter of 2007 compared to the prior year. BOLI sales can vary widely between periods as the segment responds to opportunities for these products only when required returns can be achieved.

The Company has reduced its reliance on reinsurance for newly written traditional life products by moving towards a securitization structure under which profitability is not expected to emerge immediately after the business is written. In addition, older, more profitable traditional life policies continue to run off in the ordinary course. These two factors combined with financing costs in connection with the securitization structure and the Company’s pricing actions to remain competitive in the market are expected to put pressure on the profitability of this segment.

 
Acquisitions

The Acquisitions segment focuses on acquiring, converting, and servicing policies acquired from other companies. The segment's primary focus is on life insurance policies sold to individuals. Segment results were as follows:

   
Three Months Ended
March 31
       
   
2007
 
2006
   
Change
 
   
(Dollars in thousands)
       
REVENUES
                     
Gross premiums and policy fees
 
$
198,288
 
$
62,986
     
214.8
%
Reinsurance ceded
   
(118,241
)
 
(16,642
)
   
610.5
 
Net premiums and policy fees
   
80,047
   
46,344
     
72.7
 
Net investment income
   
148,986
   
54,490
     
173.4
 
Other income
   
4,719
   
617
     
664.8
 
Total operating revenues
   
233,752
   
101,451
     
130.4
 
Realized gains (losses) - investments
   
7,933
   
0
         
Realized gains (losses) - derivatives
   
(3,703
)
 
0
         
Total revenues
   
237,982
   
101,451
         
                       
BENEFITS AND EXPENSES
                     
Benefits and settlement expenses
   
166,889
   
67,454
     
147.4
 
Amortization of deferred policy acquisition costs and value of businesses acquired
   
18,770
   
6,335
     
196.3
 
Other operating expenses
   
15,844
   
7,756
     
104.3
 
Operating benefits and expenses
   
201,503
   
81,545
     
147.1
 
Amortization of DAC/VOBA related to realized gains (losses) - investments
   
606
   
0
         
Total benefits and expenses
   
202,109
   
81,545
         
                       
INCOME BEFORE INCOME TAX
   
35,873
   
19,906
     
80.2
 
                       
Less realized gains (losses)
   
4,230
   
0
         
Less related amortization of DAC
   
(606
)
 
0
         
OPERATING INCOME
 
$
32,249
 
$
19,906
     
62.0
 


The following table summarizes key data for the Acquisitions segment:

   
Three Months Ended
March 31
       
   
2007
 
2006
   
Change
 
   
(Dollars in thousands)
       
Average Life Insurance In-Force(1)
                     
Traditional
 
$
229,810,031
 
$
10,166,239
     
2160.5
%
Universal life
   
31,262,387
   
16,455,957
     
90.0
 
   
$
261,072,418
 
$
26,622,196
     
880.7
 
                       
Average Account Values
                     
Universal life
 
$
3,076,331
 
$
1,688,627
     
82.2
 
Fixed annuity(2)
   
5,650,139
   
209,049
     
2602.8
 
Variable annuity
   
195,840
   
65,543
     
198.8
 
   
$
8,922,310
 
$
1,963,219
     
354.5
 
                       
Interest Spread - UL & Fixed Annuities
                     
Net investment income yield
   
6.35
%
 
6.87
%
       
Interest credited to policyholders
   
4.13
   
5.10
         
Interest spread
   
2.22
%
 
1.77
%
       
                       
Mortality Experience(3)
 
$
774
 
$
267
         
(1) Amounts are not adjusted for reinsurance ceded.
(2) Includes general account balances held within variable annuity products.
(3) Represents a favorable variance as compared to pricing assumptions. Excludes results related to Chase Acquisition Group which was acquired in the third quarter of 2006.

In the ordinary course of business, the Acquisitions segment regularly considers acquisitions of blocks of policies or smaller insurance companies. The level of the segment’s acquisition activity is predicated upon many factors, including available capital, operating capacity, and market dynamics. Policies acquired through the Acquisition segment are typically “closed” blocks of business (no new policies are being marketed). Therefore, earnings and account values are expected to decline as the result of lapses, deaths, and other terminations of coverage unless new acquisitions are made. The Company completed its acquisition of the Chase Insurance Group during the third quarter of 2006. This acquisition drove the increases in revenues, expenses, and earnings of the segment for the first quarter of 2007, as compared to the prior year period. This acquisition also drove the large increases in the segment’s life insurance in-force and UL and annuity account values compared to the prior year period.

Net premiums and policy fees increased 72.7% from the first quarter of 2006 as a result of the Chase Insurance Group acquisition which contributed $34.7 million to net premiums and policy fees during the first quarter of 2007. The 173.4% increase in net investment income in the first quarter of 2007 compared to the same period of 2006 is due to the increase in liabilities resulting from the 2006 acquisition. The interest spread increased 45 basis points from the first quarter of 2006 as a result of the higher spreads associated with the Chase Insurance Group block of business. The segment continues to review credited rates on UL and annuity business for all blocks of business to minimize the impact of lower earned rates on interest spreads.

Benefits and settlement expenses for the first quarter of 2007 are 147.4% higher than the comparable period of 2006 due to the 2006 acquisition, which contributed $101.6 million to expenses in the first quarter of 2007. The Chase acquisition resulted in an additional $12.8 million of VOBA amortization for the first quarter of 2007, driving the quarterly increase of 196.3%. Other operating expenses increased 104.3% from the first quarter of 2006 primarily due to higher commissions resulting from higher net premiums.

Annuities

The Annuities segment manufactures, sells, and supports fixed and variable annuity products. These products are primarily sold through stockbrokers, but are also sold through financial institutions and independent agents and brokers. Segment results were as follows:

   
Three Months Ended
March 31
       
   
2007
 
2006
   
Change
 
   
(Dollars in thousands)
       
REVENUES
                     
Gross premiums and policy fees
 
$
8,262
 
$
8,144
     
1.4
%
Reinsurance ceded
   
0
   
0
     
0.0
 
Net premiums and policy fees
   
8,262
   
8,144
     
1.4
 
Net investment income
   
60,861
   
53,494
     
13.8
 
Realized gains (losses) - derivatives
   
254
   
(651
)
       
Other income
   
2,713
   
2,899
     
(6.4
)
Operating revenues
   
72,090
   
63,886
     
12.8
 
Realized gains (losses) - Investments
   
1,664
   
(90
)
       
Total revenues
   
73,754
   
63,796
         
 
BENEFITS AND EXPENSES
                     
Benefits and settlement expenses
   
55,949
   
47,313
     
18.3
 
Amortization of deferred policy acquisition costs
   
4,538
   
5,126
     
(11.5
)
Other operating expenses
   
5,997
   
6,706
     
(10.6
)
Operating benefits and expenses
   
66,484
   
59,145
     
12.4
 
Amortization of DAC related to realized gains
(losses) - investment
   
590
   
0
         
Total benefits and expenses
   
67,074
   
59,145
         
                       
INCOME BEFORE INCOME TAX
   
6,680
   
4,651
     
43.6
 
                       
Less realized gains (losses) - investments
   
1,664
   
(90
)
       
Less related amortization of DAC
   
(590
)
 
0
         
OPERATING INCOME
 
$
5,606
 
$
4,741
     
18.2
 


The following table summarizes key data for the Annuities segment:

   
Three Months Ended
March 31
       
   
2007
 
2006
   
Change
 
   
(Dollars in thousands)
       
Sales
                     
Fixed annuity
 
$
243,862
 
$
92,090
     
164.8
%
Variable annuity
   
79,671
   
73,731
     
8.1
 
   
$
323,533
 
$
165,821
     
95.1
 
                       
Average Account Values
                     
Fixed annuity(1)
 
$
4,045,331
 
$
3,422,366
     
18.2
 
Variable annuity
   
2,580,211
   
2,358,898
     
9.4
 
   
$
6,625,542
 
$
5,781,264
     
14.6
 
                       
Interest Spread - Fixed Annuities(2)
                     
Net investment income yield
   
5.92
%
 
6.14
%
       
Interest credited to policyholders
   
5.24
   
5.39
         
Interest spread
   
0.68
%
 
0.75
%
       
                       
 
As of                    
March 31
       
     
2007
   
2006
         
                       
GMDB - Net amount at risk(3)
 
$
90,614
 
$
120,269
     
(24.7
)
GMDB - Reserves
   
2,615
   
2,561
     
2.1
 
S&P 500® Index
   
1,421
   
1,295
     
9.7
 
(1) Includes general account balances held within variable annuity products.
(2) Interest spread on average general account values.
(3) Guaranteed death benefit in excess of contract holder account balance.


Segment operating income increased 18.2% during the first quarter of 2007 compared to the same period of 2006. This improvement is primarily due to favorable results in the market value adjusted annuity line following a favorable DAC unlocking adjustment, and is partially offset by a decrease in operating income in the single premium immediate annuity line, resulting from unfavorable mortality results. Operating income was also favorably impacted for the first quarter of 2007 compared to the same period of the prior year by improvement in the equity markets and increasing account values, offset by a tightening of spreads.

Segment operating revenues increased 12.8% in the first quarter of 2007 compared to the same period of 2006. Minor fluctuations in net premiums and policy fees and other income were offset by increases in net investment income. Average account balances grew 14.6% in the first quarter of 2007 resulting in higher investment income. The additional income resulting from the larger account balances was partially reduced in 2007 by a 7 basis point decline in interest spreads, resulting from a rebalancing of the investment portfolio during the fourth quarter of 2006. The segment continually monitors and adjusts credited rates as appropriate in an effort to maintain or improve its interest spread.

Operating benefits and expenses increased 12.4% for the first quarter of 2007 compared to the same period of the prior year. This increase is primarily the result of higher credited interest and unfavorable mortality fluctuations, partially offset by reductions in DAC amortization resulting from favorable unlocking. Benefits and settlement expenses increased 18.3% for the quarter compared to the same period of 2006 due primarily to higher credited interest and changes in mortality. The increase in credited interest is the result of the 14.6% increase in average account values. Mortality was unfavorable by $2.3 million for the first quarter of 2007, compared to unfavorable mortality of $1.6 million for the same period of 2006, an unfavorable change of $0.7 million. This unfavorable mortality variance primarily relates to the nonrecurring sales of $122 million of single premium immediate annuities on 28 lives sold in the fourth quarter of 2004 in a structured transaction. Because this block of annuities is large relative to the total amount of annuities in-force, volatility in mortality results are expected.

The decrease in DAC amortization in the first quarter of 2007 compared to 2006 is primarily the result of DAC unlocking. The Company periodically reviews and updates as appropriate its key assumptions including future mortality, expenses, lapses, premium persistency, investment yields and interest spreads. Changes to these assumptions result in adjustments which increase or decrease DAC amortization. The periodic review and updating of assumptions is referred to as “unlocking.” During the first quarter of 2007, DAC amortization for the Annuities segment was reduced $1.2 million due to favorable DAC unlocking in the market value adjusted annuity line. Favorable DAC unlocking of $0.1 million was recorded by the segment during the first quarter of 2006.

Total sales were 95.1% higher for the first quarter of 2007 than the same period of the prior year. The Chase Insurance Group acquisition, and the continuation of new annuity sales through the former Chase distribution system, contributed $75.8 million in fixed annuity sales in the first quarter of 2007. Excluding the impact of the acquisition, total sales increased 49.4% for the first quarter of 2007 compared to the same period of the prior year. Sales of fixed annuities (excluding the impact of the acquisition) increased 82.5% for the first quarter of 2007 compared to 2006. A general improvement in the equity markets reduced the net amount at risk with respect to guaranteed minimum death benefits by 24.7%.


Stable Value Products

The Stable Value Products segment sells guaranteed funding agreements (“GFAs”) to special purpose entities that in turn issue notes or certificates in smaller, transferable denominations. The segment also markets fixed and floating rate funding agreements directly to the trustees of municipal bond proceeds, institutional investors, bank trust departments, and money market funds. Additionally, the segment markets guaranteed investment contracts (“GICs”) to 401(k) and other qualified retirement savings plans. Segment results were as follows:

   
Three Months Ended
March 31
       
   
2007
 
2006
   
Change
 
   
(Dollars in thousands)
       
REVENUES
                     
Net investment income
 
$
79,101
 
$
82,233
     
(3.8
)%
Realized gains (losses)
   
1,425
   
(4,854
)
       
Total revenues
   
80,526
   
77,379
         
                       
BENEFITS AND EXPENSES
                     
Benefits and settlement expenses
   
64,719
   
67,463
     
(4.1
)
Amortization of deferred policy acquisition costs
   
1,168
   
1,229
     
(5.0
)
Other operating expenses
   
1,028
   
1,197
     
(14.1
)
Total benefits and expenses
   
66,915
   
69,889
     
(4.3
)
                       
INCOME BEFORE INCOME TAX
   
13,611
   
7,490
     
81.7
 
                       
Less realized gains (losses)
   
1,425
   
(4,854
)
       
OPERATING INCOME
 
$
12,186
 
$
12,344
     
(1.3
)


The following table summarizes key data for the Stable Value Products segment:

   
Three Months Ended
March 31
       
   
2007
 
2006
   
Change
 
   
(Dollars in thousands)
       
Sales
                     
GIC
 
$
2,500
 
$
46,200
     
(94.6
)%
GFA - Registered Notes - Retail
   
13,120
   
40,841
     
(67.9
)
   
$
15,620
 
$
87,041
     
(82.1
)
                       
Average Account Values
 
$
5,461,832
 
$
5,976,606
     
(8.6
)
                       
Operating Spread
                     
Net investment income yield
   
5.94
%
 
5.60
%
       
Interest credited
   
4.86
   
4.60
         
Operating expenses
   
0.16
   
0.16
         
Operating spread
   
0.92
%
 
0.84
%
       

Operating income was relatively unchanged for the first quarter of 2007 compared to the same period of 2006. A decline in average account values was offset by an 8 basis point increase in operating spreads. Increasing short term interest rates, resulting in higher interest credited rates, were mitigated by an increase in the net investment income yield of the segment’s investment portfolio. The segment continually reviews its investment portfolio for opportunities to increase the net investment income yield in an effort to maintain or increase interest spreads.

Total sales declined 82.1% for the first quarter of 2007 compared to the same period of 2006, as a result of the timing of GIC and retail sales. Fluctuations in sales in these product lines are expected from quarter to quarter as a result of changing market conditions. The Company chose not to participate in the institutional funding agreement-backed note market during 2006 and the first quarter of 2007. Operating Earnings are expected to decline until the Company reenters this market, as average account values are expected to continue to decline without additional institutional sales.


Asset Protection

The Asset Protection segment primarily markets extended service contracts and credit life and disability insurance to protect consumers’ investments in automobiles, watercraft, and recreational vehicles (“RV”). In addition, the segment markets an inventory protection product (“IPP”) and a guaranteed asset protection (“GAP”) product.

Segment results were as follows:

   
Three Months Ended
March 31
       
   
2007
 
2006
   
Change
 
   
(Dollars in thousands)
       
REVENUES
                     
Gross premiums and policy fees
 
$
99,420
 
$
100,690
     
(1.3
)%
Reinsurance ceded
   
(45,138
)
 
(55,393
)
   
(18.5
)
Net premiums and policy fees
   
54,282
   
45,297
     
19.8
 
Net investment income
   
9,212
   
7,808
     
18.0
 
Other income
   
16,529
   
12,044
     
37.2
 
Total operating revenues
   
80,023
   
65,149
     
22.8
 
                       
BENEFITS AND EXPENSES
                     
Benefits and settlement expenses
   
25,815
   
22,209
     
16.2
 
Amortization of deferred policy acquisition costs
   
20,703
   
16,920
     
22.4
 
Other operating expenses
   
23,421
   
17,282
     
35.5
 
Total benefits and expenses
   
69,939
   
56,411
     
24.0
 
                       
OPERATING INCOME
   
10,084
   
8,738
     
15.4
 
                       
INCOME BEFORE INCOME TAX
 
$
10,084
 
$
8,738
     
15.4
 


The following table summarizes key data for the Asset Protection segment:

   
Three Months Ended
March 31
       
   
2007
 
2006
   
Change
 
   
(Dollars in thousands)
       
Sales
                     
Credit insurance
 
$
28,082
 
$
31,847
     
(11.8
)%
Service contracts
   
72,937
   
53,717
     
35.8
 
Other products
   
38,030
   
16,921
     
124.8
 
   
$
139,049
 
$
102,485
     
35.7
 
                       
Loss Ratios (1)
                     
Credit insurance
   
34.5
%
 
34.1
%
       
Service contracts
   
62.4
   
66.1
         
Other products
   
30.0
   
31.6
         
(1) Incurred claims as a percentage of earned premiums.
 
Operating income increased 15.4% during the first quarter of 2007 compared to the same period of 2006. Earnings from core product lines are up $1.7 million for the first quarter of 2007 compared to the prior year, while earnings from lines the segment is no longer marketing declined $0.3 million for the same period. Within the segment’s core product lines, service contract earnings improved $2.3 million for the quarter. The Western General acquisition completed during the third quarter of 2006, contributed $0.9 million to the quarterly increase. Credit insurance earnings increased $0.3 million while earnings from other products declined $0.9 million for the quarter.

Net premiums and policy fees increased 19.8% for the first quarter of 2007, as compared to 2006, primarily due to increases of $5.9 million in the service contract line ($3.9 million of which was due to the Western General acquisition) and $4.1 million in other products (primarily the GAP product line.) These increases were partially offset by declines of $0.5 million and $0.6 million, respectively, in the credit insurance line and lines the segment is no longer marketing. The declines in both the credit insurance lines and the lines the segment is no longer marketing are expected to continue as the business-in-force continues to decline.

Other income increased 37.2% for the first quarter from the same period of the prior year primarily due to increases in administrative fees on service contracts and GAP products resulting from the increased volume of contracts sold in these product lines. The Western General acquisition contributed to the increase, adding $2.6 million to other income for the quarter.

Benefits and settlement expenses increased $3.6 million from the first quarter of 2006, as a result of higher expenses in the service contract line primarily due to the Western General acquisition. Western General accounted for $1.8 million of the total $2.9 million increase in the service contract line for the first quarter of 2007 compared to the same period of 2006. Benefits and settlement expense also increased $1.7 million in the other product lines, reflecting the growth in business in these lines over the past several quarters. The increases were partially offset by declines in credit insurance and lines the segment is no longer marketing of $0.9 million for the current quarter, reflecting the decrease in net premiums in these lines as discussed above. Benefits and settlement expenses have also been favorably impacted by the continuing improvement in loss ratios, most notably in the service contract product lines. Loss ratios in the service contract lines continue to benefit from the segment’s initiatives to increase pricing and tighten the underwriting and claims processes.

Amortization of DAC is $3.8 million higher for the current quarter compared to the same period of 2006, reflecting the increase in earned premiums in the GAP line. The 35.5% increase for the quarter in other operating expenses is primarily due to higher commissions on service contracts and GAP due to increased volume and higher retrospective commissions resulting from improvements in loss ratios, and the Western General acquisition, which contributed $4.1 million of operating expense to the current period.
 
               Total segment sales increased 35.7% for the first quarter of 2007 compared to the same period of 2006. Service contract sales continued to improve in the first quarter, exceeding the prior year by 35.8%. The decline in credit insurance sales is due to a significant decrease in sales through financial institutions. The bulk of these sales are derived from a third party administrator relationship which is in runoff. We therefore expect these sales to continue to decline during 2007 compared to 2006 amounts. Other product sales are up in the GAP line and were relatively unchanged in the IPP line.

Corporate and Other

The Company has an additional segment referred to as Corporate and Other. The Corporate and Other segment primarily consists of net investment income and expenses not attributable to the segments above (including net investment income on unallocated capital and interest on debt). This segment also includes earnings from several non-strategic lines of business (primarily cancer insurance, residual value insurance, surety insurance, and group annuities), various investment-related transactions, and the operations of several small subsidiaries.

The following table summarizes results for this segment:
   
Three Months Ended
March 31
       
   
2007
 
2006
   
Change
 
   
(Dollars in thousands)
       
REVENUES
                     
Gross premiums and policy fees
 
$
9,169
 
$
10,510
     
(12.8
)%
Reinsurance ceded
   
(4
)
 
(4
)
   
0.0
 
Net premiums and policy fees
   
9,165
   
10,506
     
(12.8
)
Net investment income
   
36,419
   
28,187
     
29.2
 
Realized gains (losses) - investments
   
3,150
   
5,326
         
Realized gains (losses) - derivatives
   
257
   
1,331
         
Other income
   
937
   
3,637
     
(74.2
)
Total operating revenues
   
49,928
   
48,987
     
1.9
 
Realized gains (losses) - investments
   
3,392
   
5,083
         
Realized gains (losses) - derivatives
   
(3,369
)
 
12,345
         
Total revenues
   
49,951
   
66,415
     
(24.8
)
 
BENEFITS AND EXPENSES
                     
Benefits and settlement expenses
   
10,069
   
9,270
     
8.6
 
Amortization of deferred policy acquisition costs
   
129
   
955
     
(86.5
)
Other operating expenses
   
37,953
   
27,099
     
40.1
 
Total benefits and expenses
   
48,151
   
37,324
     
29.0
 
                       
INCOME BEFORE INCOME TAX
   
1,800
   
29,091
     
(93.8
)
                       
Less realized gains (losses) - investments
   
3,392
   
5,083
         
Less realized gains (losses) - derivatives
   
(3,369
)
 
12,345
         
OPERATING INCOME
 
$
1,777
 
$
11,663
     
(84.8
)

Operating income decreased $9.9 million from the first quarter of 2006, primarily due to higher interest expenses and lower net premiums and policy fees and other income, partially offset by higher net investment income. Operating revenues for the Corporate and Other segment are primarily comprised of net investment income on unallocated capital and net premiums and policy fees related to several non-strategic lines of business. Net investment income for the Corporate and Other segment increased $8.2 million for the first quarter of 2007 compared to the prior year period, while net premiums and policy fees declined $1.3 million for the same period. The decline in net premiums and policy fees is the expected result of the runoff of business in the non-strategic lines of business which are no longer being marketed by the Company. The increase in net investment income is primarily the result of an increase in unallocated capital and investment income from proceeds of non-recourse funding obligations compared to the prior year.

Benefits and settlement expenses increased 8.6% during the first quarter of 2007 compared to the same period of 2006 due to a change in reserves in the cancer insurance line. These reserves increased $0.4 million during the first quarter of 2007, while they decreased $0.7 million during the same period of 2006, an unfavorable change of $1.1 million. The net operating loss from all the non-strategic lines of business included in this segment was $2.0 million for the first quarter of 2007, compared to a net operating loss from these lines of $1.4 million for the same period of the prior year, an unfavorable change of $0.6 million.

 
Other operating expenses increased 40.1% for the first quarter of 2007 compared to the same period of 2006. This increase is primarily due to an $11.1 million increase in interest expense resulting from increased borrowings, including $200.0 million of 7.25% Capital Securities issued during 2006 and additional issuances of non-recourse funding obligations.

Realized Gains and Losses

The following table sets forth realized investment gains and losses for the periods shown:

   
Three Months Ended
March 31
       
   
2007
 
2006
   
Change
 
   
(Dollars in thousands)
       
Fixed maturity gains - sales
 
$
2,202
 
$
16,281
   
$
(14,079
)
Fixed maturity losses - sales
   
(3,017
)
 
(20,609
)
   
17,592
 
Equity gains - sales
   
5,451
   
235
     
5,216
 
Equity losses - sales
   
0
   
0
     
0
 
Impairments on fixed maturity securities
   
0
   
0
     
0
 
Impairments on equity securities
   
(48
)
 
0
     
(48
)
Mark to market - Modco trading portfolios
   
5,496
   
0
     
5,496
 
Other
   
3,210
   
9,246
     
(6,036
)
Total realized gains (losses) - investments
 
$
13,294
 
$
5,153
   
$
8,141
 
                       
Foreign currency swaps
 
$
4,577
 
$
926
   
$
3,651
 
Foreign currency adjustments on stable value contracts
   
(443
)
 
(744
)
   
301
 
Derivatives related to corporate debt
   
1,321
   
(5,805
)
   
7,126
 
Derivatives related to mortgage loan commitments
   
0
   
19,698
     
(19,698
)
Embedded derivatives related to reinsurance
   
(2,837
)
 
67
     
(2,904
)
Other derivatives
   
(4,909
)
 
(805
)
   
(4,104
)
Total realized gains (losses) - derivatives
 
$
(2,291
)
$
13,337
   
$
(15,628
)


Realized gains and losses on investments reflect portfolio management activities designed to maintain proper matching of assets and liabilities and to enhance long-term investment portfolio performance. The change in net realized investment gains for the current quarter, excluding impairments, reflects the normal operation of the Company’s asset/liability program within the context of the changing interest rate environment. Impairments for the first quarter months of 2007 were less than $0.1 million, while there were no impairments for the same period of 2006. At March 31, 2007, mark to market adjustments of $5.5 million to the Company’s trading portfolios associated with the Chase Insurance acquisition are also included in realized gains and losses. Additional details on the Company’s investment performance and evaluation are provided in the “Consolidated Investments” section below.

Realized investment gains and losses related to derivatives represent changes in the fair value of derivative financial instruments and gains (losses) on derivative contracts closed during the period. The Company has entered into foreign currency swaps to mitigate the risk of changes in the value of principal and interest payments to be made on certain of its foreign currency denominated stable value contracts. The Company recorded net realized gains of $4.1 million from these securities in the first quarter of 2007. These gains were the result of swap and contract maturities and differences in the related foreign currency spot and forward rates used to value the stable value contracts and foreign currency swaps. The Company also uses interest rate swaps to mitigate interest rate risk related to certain Senior Notes, Medium-Term Notes, and subordinated debt securities. Decreasing interest rates during the current quarter caused the 2007 results from these swaps to compare favorably with the first quarter of 2006. The Company has taken short positions in U.S. Treasury futures to mitigate interest rate risk related to the Company’s mortgage loan commitments. There was no activity in futures in the first quarter of 2007.

The Company is also involved in various modified coinsurance and funds withheld arrangements that, in accordance with DIG B36 (“Embedded Derivatives: Modified Coinsurance Arrangements and Debt Instruments That Incorporate Credit Risk Exposures That Are Unrelated or Only Partially Related to the Creditworthiness of the Obligor under Those Instruments”), contain embedded derivatives. The losses on these embedded derivatives were due to decreasing interest rates during the quarter. The investment portfolios that support the related modified coinsurance reserves and funds withheld had mark-to-market gains that substantially offset the losses on these embedded derivatives.


The Company also uses various swaps, options, and swaptions to mitigate risk related to other interest rate exposures of the Company. For the first quarter of 2007, the Company incurred a $5.3 million loss on swaptions. This loss was due to decreasing interest rates in the current quarter. Equity call options generated a net $0.3 million gain for the first quarter of 2007.

CONSOLIDATED INVESTMENTS

Portfolio Description

The Company's investment portfolio consists primarily of fixed maturity securities (bonds and redeemable preferred stocks) and commercial mortgage loans. Within its fixed maturity securities, the Company maintains portfolios classified as “available for sale” and “trading”. The Company generally purchases its investments with the intent to hold to maturity by purchasing investments that match future cash flow needs. However, the Company may sell any of its investments to maintain proper matching of assets and liabilities. Accordingly, the Company has classified $17.5 billion or 81.1% of its fixed maturities as “available for sale”. These securities are carried at fair value on our Consolidated Balance Sheets. Changes in fair value, net of related DAC and VOBA, are charged or credited directly to share-owners’ equity. Changes in fair value that are other than temporary are recorded as realized losses in the Consolidated Statements of Income.

The Company’s trading portfolio, which accounts for $4.1 billion or 18.9% of the Company’s fixed maturities, consists of two major categories. First, the Company consolidates a special-purpose entity, in accordance with FASB Interpretation No. 46, “Consolidation of Variable Interest Entities,” (“FIN 46”), whose investments are managed by the Company. At March 31, 2007, fixed maturities with a market value of $405.0 million and short-term investments with a market value of $6.5 million were classified as “trading” securities related to this special-purpose entity. Additionally, at March 31, 2007 the Company holds fixed maturities with a market value of $3.7 billion and short-term investments with a market value of $214.9 million, which were added as part of the Chase Insurance Acquisition. Investment results for these portfolios, including gains and losses from sales, are passed to the reinsurers through the contractual terms of the reinsurance arrangements. Trading securities are carried at fair value and changes in fair value are recorded in net income as they occur. Offsetting these amounts are corresponding changes in the fair value of the embedded derivative liability associated with the underlying reinsurance arrangement.

The Company’s investments in debt and equity securities are reported at market value, and investments in mortgage loans are reported at amortized cost. At March 31, 2007, the Company’s fixed maturity investments (bonds and redeemable preferred stocks) had a market value of $21.64 billion, which is 0.8% above amortized cost of $21.46 billion. The Company had $4.0 billion in mortgage loans at March 31, 2007. While the Company’s mortgage loans do not have quoted market values, at March 31, 2007, the Company estimates the market value of its mortgage loans to be $4.1 billion (using discounted cash flows from the next call date), which is 2.7% above amortized cost. Most of the Company’s mortgage loans have significant prepayment fees. These assets are invested for terms approximately corresponding to anticipated future benefit payments. Thus, market fluctuations are not expected to adversely affect liquidity.

The following table shows the reported values of the Company's invested assets.

   
March 31, 2007
 
December 31, 2006
 
   
(Dollars in thousands)
 
                   
Publicly-issued bonds
 
$
19,214,618
   
69.2
%
$
19,226,461
   
68.8
%
Privately issued bonds
   
2,355,783
   
8.5
   
2,140,718
   
7.7
 
Redeemable preferred stock
   
86
   
0.0
   
84
   
0.0
 
Fixed maturities
   
21,570,487
   
77.7
   
21,367,263
   
76.5
 
Equity securities
   
69,211
   
0.3
   
128,695
   
0.5
 
Mortgage loans
   
4,025,025
   
14.5
   
3,880,028
   
13.9
 
Investment real estate
   
38,828
   
0.1
   
38,918
   
0.1
 
Policy loans
   
822,930
   
3.0
   
839,502
   
3.0
 
Other long-term investments
   
167,571
   
0.6
   
310,225
   
1.1
 
Short-term investments
   
1,064,768
   
3.8
   
1,381,073
   
4.9
 
Total investments
 
$
27,758,820
   
100.0
%
$
27,945,704
   
100.0
%
 
Included in the preceding table are $4.1 billion and $3.9 billion of fixed maturities and $221.4 million and $311.1 million of short-term investments classified by the Company as trading securities at March 31, 2007 and December 31, 2006, respectively.

Market values for private, non-traded securities are determined as follows: 1) the Company obtains estimates from independent pricing services or 2) the Company estimates market value based upon a comparison to quoted issues of the same issuer or issues of other issuers with similar terms and risk characteristics. The market value of private, non-traded securities was $2.4 billion at March 31, 2007, representing 8.5% of the Company’s total invested assets.

The Company participates in securities lending, primarily as an investment yield enhancement, whereby securities that are held as investments are loaned to third parties for short periods of time. The Company requires collateral of 102% of the market value of the loaned securities to be separately maintained. The loaned securities’ market value is monitored on a daily basis, with additional collateral obtained as necessary. At March 31, 2007, securities with a market value of $385.6 million were loaned under these agreements. As collateral for the loaned securities, the Company receives short-term investments, which are recorded in “short-term investments” with a corresponding liability recorded in “other liabilities” to account for the Company’s obligation to return the collateral.

Risk Management and Impairment Review

The Company monitors the overall credit quality of the Company’s portfolio within general guidelines. The following table shows the Company's available for sale fixed maturities by credit rating at March 31, 2007.

S&P or Equivalent Designation
 
Market Value
 
Percent of
Market Value
 
   
(Dollars in thousands)
     
AAA
 
$
7,600,236
   
43.5
%
AA
   
1,350,905
   
7.7
 
A
   
3,223,957
   
18.4
 
BBB
   
4,967,288
   
28.4
 
Investment grade
   
17,142,386
   
98.0
 
BB
   
244,337
   
1.4
 
B
   
85,952
   
0.5
 
CCC or lower
   
10,180
   
0.1
 
In or near default
   
98
   
0.0
 
Below investment grade
   
340,567
   
2.0
 
Redeemable preferred stock
   
86
   
0.0
 
 
Total
 
$
17,483,039
   
100.0
%


Not included in the table above are $4.1 billion of investment grade and $30.9 million of less than investment grade fixed maturities classified by the Company as trading securities.

Limiting bond exposure to any creditor group is another way the Company manages credit risk. The following table summarizes the Company's ten largest fixed maturity exposures to an individual creditor group as of March 31, 2007.

Creditor
 
Market Value
 
   
(Dollars in millions)
 
AT&T
 
$
182.7
 
Citigroup
   
129.1
 
Conoco Phillips
   
127.0
 
Goldman Sachs
   
125.4
 
American International Group
   
121.7
 
General Electric
   
119.7
 
Comcast
   
119.3
 
Bank of America
   
118.2
 
Wachovia
   
117.4
 
PNC Financial Services
   
113.5
 

The Company’s management considers a number of factors when determining the impairment status of individual securities. These include the economic condition of various industry segments and geographic locations and other areas of identified risks. Although it is possible for the impairment of one investment to affect other investments, the Company engages in ongoing risk management to safeguard against and limit any further risk to its investment portfolio. Special attention is given to correlated risks within specific industries, related parties and business markets.

The Company generally considers a number of factors in determining whether the impairment is other than temporary. These include, but are not limited to: 1) actions taken by rating agencies, 2) default by the issuer, 3) the significance of the decline, 4) the intent and ability of the Company to hold the investment until recovery, 5) the time period during which the decline has occurred, 6) an economic analysis of the issuer’s industry, and 7) the financial strength, liquidity, and recoverability of the issuer. Management performs a security-by-security review each quarter in evaluating the need for any other than temporary impairment. Although no set formula is used in this process, the investment performance, collateral position, and continued viability of the issuer are significant measures considered.

The Company generally considers a number of factors relating to the issuer in determining the financial strength, liquidity, and recoverability of an issuer. These include but are not limited to: available collateral, assets that might be available to repay debt, operating cash flows, financial ratios, access to capital markets, quality of management, market position, exposure to litigation or product warranties, and the effect of general economic conditions on the issuer. Once management has determined that a particular investment has suffered an other than temporary impairment, the asset is written down to its estimated fair value.

There are certain risks and uncertainties associated with determining whether declines in market values are other than temporary. These include significant changes in general economic conditions and business markets, trends in certain industry segments, interest rate fluctuations, rating agency actions, changes in significant accounting estimates and assumptions, commission of fraud, and legislative actions. The Company continuously monitors these factors as they relate to the investment portfolio in determining the status of each investment. Provided below are additional facts concerning the potential effect upon the Company’s earnings should circumstances lead management to conclude that some of the current declines in market value are other than temporary.

Unrealized Gains and Losses - Available for Sale Securities

The information presented below relates to investments at a certain point in time and is not necessarily indicative of the status of the portfolio at any time after March 31, 2007, the balance sheet date. Information about unrealized gains and losses is subject to rapidly changing conditions, including volatility of financial markets and changes in interest rates. As indicated above, the Company’s management considers a number of factors in determining if an unrealized loss is other than temporary, including its ability and intent to hold the security until recovery. Furthermore, since the timing of recognizing realized gains and losses is largely based on management’s decisions as to the timing and selection of investments to be sold, the tables and information provided below should be considered within the context of the overall unrealized gain (loss) position of the portfolio. At March 31, 2007, the Company had an overall pretax net unrealized gain of $180.9 million.


For traded and private fixed maturity and equity securities held by the Company that are in an unrealized loss position at March 31, 2007, the estimated market value, amortized cost, unrealized loss and total time period that the security has been in an unrealized loss position are presented in the table below.

   
Estimated
Market Value
 
% Market
Value
   
Amortized
Cost
 
% Amortized
Cost
   
Unrealized
Loss
 
% Unrealized
Loss
 
   
(Dollars in thousands)
 
<= 90 days
 
$
1,815,043
   
25.4
%
 
$
1,833,684
   
25.1
%
 
$
(18,641
)
 
12.2
%
>90 days but <= 180 days
   
200,225
   
2.8
     
204,401
   
2.8
     
(4,176
)
 
2.7
 
>180 days but <= 270 days
   
31,213
   
0.4
     
32,189
   
0.4
     
(976
)
 
0.6
 
>270 days but <= 1 year
   
26,291
   
0.4
     
27,061
   
0.4
     
(770
)
 
0.5
 
>1 year but <= 2 years
   
4,557,064
   
63.7
     
4,658,697
   
63.8
     
(101,633
)
 
66.0
 
>2 years but <= 3 years
   
354,679
   
5.0
     
369,783
   
5.1
     
(15,104
)
 
9.8
 
>3 years but <= 4 years
   
144,490
   
2.0
     
152,954
   
2.1
     
(8,464
)
 
5.5
 
>4 years but <= 5 years
   
109
   
0.0
     
132
   
0.0
     
(23
)
 
0.0
 
>5 years
   
20,441
   
0.3
     
24,635
   
0.3
     
(4,194
)
 
2.7
 
Total
 
$
7,149,555
   
100.0
%
 
$
7,303,536
   
100.0
%
 
$
(153,981
)
 
100.0
%


The unrealized losses as of March 31, 2007, primarily relate to the rising interest rate environment experienced over the past several quarters. At March 31, 2007, securities with a market value of $20.6 million and $3.8 million of unrealized losses were issued in Company-sponsored commercial mortgage loan securitizations, including $3.7 million of unrealized losses greater than five years. The Company does not consider these unrealized positions to be other than temporary because the underlying mortgage loans continue to perform consistently with the Company’s original expectations.

The Company has no material concentrations of issuers or guarantors of fixed maturity securities. The industry segment composition of all securities in an unrealized loss position held by the Company at March 31, 2007, is presented in the following table.

 
Estimated
Market Value
 
% Market
Value
   
Amortized
Cost
 
% Amortized
Cost
   
Unrealized
Loss
 
% Unrealized
Loss
 
 
(Dollars in thousands)
 
Agency Mortgages
$
1,291,654
   
18.0
%
 
$
1,315,558
   
18.0
%
 
$
(23,904
)
 
15.5
%
Banking
 
591,072
   
8.3
     
601,962
   
8.2
     
(10,890
)
 
7.1
 
Basic Industrial
 
225,179
   
3.1
     
233,983
   
3.2
     
(8,804
)
 
5.7
 
Brokerage
 
222,689
   
3.1
     
225,301
   
3.1
     
(2,612
)
 
1.7
 
Canadian Govt Agencies
 
10,923
   
0.2
     
11,044
   
0.2
     
(121
)
 
0.1
 
Capital Goods
 
68,078
   
1.0
     
69,196
   
1.0
     
(1,118
)
 
0.7
 
Communications
 
205,093
   
2.9
     
214,309
   
2.9
     
(9,216
)
 
6.0
 
Consumer Cyclical
 
174,344
   
2.4
     
185,100
   
2.5
     
(10,756
)
 
7.0
 
Consumer Noncyclical
 
171,571
   
2.4
     
176,306
   
2.4
     
(4,735
)
 
3.1
 
Electric
 
722,011
   
10.1
     
745,284
   
10.2
     
(23,273
)
 
15.1
 
Energy
 
129,388
   
1.8
     
134,142
   
1.8
     
(4,754
)
 
3.1
 
Finance Companies
 
168,463
   
2.3
     
169,745
   
2.4
     
(1,282
)
 
0.8
 
Insurance
 
307,112
   
4.3
     
311,630
   
4.3
     
(4,518
)
 
2.9
 
Municipal Agencies
 
3,015
   
0.0
     
3,027
   
0.0
     
(12
)
 
0.0
 
Natural Gas
 
345,239
   
4.8
     
360,457
   
4.9
     
(15,218
)
 
9.9
 
Non-Agency Mortgages
 
1,917,179
   
26.8
     
1,933,990
   
26.5
     
(16,811
)
 
10.9
 
Other Finance
 
204,636
   
2.9
     
211,370
   
2.9
     
(6,734
)
 
4.4
 
Other Industrial
 
46,873
   
0.7
     
48,774
   
0.7
     
(1,901
)
 
1.2
 
Other Utility
 
14,793
   
0.2
     
15,044
   
0.2
     
(251
)
 
0.2
 
Technology
 
82,960
   
1.2
     
84,398
   
1.2
     
(1,438
)
 
1.0
 
Transportation
 
193,112
   
2.7
     
197,932
   
2.7
     
(4,820
)
 
3.1
 
U.S. Government
 
46,258
   
0.6
     
47,006
   
0.6
     
(748
)
 
0.5
 
U.S. Govt Agencies
 
7,913
   
0.1
     
7,978
   
0.1
     
(65
)
 
0.0
 
Total
$
7,149,555
   
100.0
%
 
$
7,303,536
   
100.0
%
 
$
(153,981
)
 
100.0
%


The range of maturity dates for securities in an unrealized loss position at March 31, 2007 varies, with 10.6% maturing in less than 5 years, 23.8% maturing between 5 and 10 years, and 65.6% maturing after 10 years. The following table shows the credit rating of securities in an unrealized loss position at March 31, 2007.

S&P or Equivalent
Designation
Estimated
Market Value
 
% Market
Value
   
Amortized
Cost
% Amortized
Cost
   
Unrealized
Loss
 
% Unrealized
Loss
 
(Dollars in thousands)
 
 
AAA/AA/A
$
4,930,119
 
68.9
%
 
$
4,999,353
 
68.5
%
 
$
(69,234
)
 
45.0
%
BBB
 
2,043,615
 
28.6
     
2,112,620
 
28.9
     
(69,005
)
 
44.8
 
Investment grade
 
6,973,734
 
97.5
     
7,111,973
 
97.4
     
(138,239
)
 
89.8
 
BB
 
87,725
 
1.2
     
95,458
 
1.3
     
(7,733
)
 
5.0
 
B
 
77,919
 
1.2
     
83,517
 
1.1
     
(5,598
)
 
3.6
 
CCC or lower
 
10,177
 
0.1
     
12,588
 
0.2
     
(2,411
)
 
1.6
 
Below investment grade
 
175,821
 
2.5
     
191,563
 
2.6
     
(15,742
)
 
10.2
 
Total
$
7,149,555
 
100.0
%
 
$
7,303,536
 
100.0
%
 
$
(153,981
)
 
100.0
%


At March 31, 2007, securities in an unrealized loss position that were rated as below investment grade represented 2.4% of the total market value and 10.2% of the total unrealized loss. Unrealized losses related to below investment grade securities that had been in an unrealized loss position for more than twelve months were $14.6 million. Securities in an unrealized loss position rated less than investment grade were 0.6% of invested assets. The Company generally purchases its investments with the intent to hold to maturity. The Company does not expect these investments to adversely affect its liquidity or ability to maintain proper matching of assets and liabilities.

The following table shows the estimated market value, amortized cost, unrealized loss and total time period that the security has been in an unrealized loss position for all below investment grade securities.

 
Estimated
Market Value
 
% Market
Value
   
Amortized
Cost
 
% Amortized
Cost
   
Unrealized
Loss
 
% Unrealized
Loss
 
 
(Dollars in thousands)
 
<= 90 days
$
23,091
 
13.2
%
 
$
23,629
   
12.3
%
 
$
(538
)
 
3.4
%
>90 days but <= 180 days
 
9,696
 
5.5
     
9,985
   
5.2
     
(289
)
 
1.8
 
>180 days but <= 270 days
 
-
 
0.0
     
-
   
0.0
     
0
   
0.0
 
>270 days but <= 1 year
 
4,617
 
2.6
     
4,896
   
2.6
     
(279
)
 
1.8
 
>1 year but <= 2 years
 
63,978
 
36.4
     
69,707
   
36.4
     
(5,729
)
 
36.4
 
>2 years but <= 3 years
 
45,555
 
25.9
     
49,578
   
25.9
     
(4,023
)
 
25.6
 
>3 years but <= 4 years
 
10,434
 
5.9
     
11,664
   
6.1
     
(1,230
)
 
7.8
 
>4 years but <= 5 years
 
20
 
0.0
     
21
   
0.0
     
(1
)
 
0.0
 
>5 years
 
18,430
 
10.5
     
22,083
   
11.5
     
(3,653
)
 
23.2
 
 
Total
$
175,821
 
100.0
%
 
$
191,563
   
100.0
%
 
$
(15,742
)
 
100.0
%


At March 31, 2007, below investment grade securities with a market value of $18.7 million and $3.3 million of unrealized losses were issued in Company-sponsored commercial mortgage loan securitizations, including securities in an unrealized loss position greater than 5 years with a market value of $16.5 million and $3.2 million of unrealized losses. The Company does not consider these unrealized positions to be other than temporary because the underlying mortgage loans continue to perform consistently with the Company’s original expectations.

Realized Losses

Realized losses are comprised of both write-downs for other than temporary impairments and actual sales of investments. For the first three months of 2007, the Company recorded pretax other than temporary impairments in its investments of $0.1 million, while no such impairments for the same period of 2006.

As previously discussed, the Company’s management considers several factors when determining other than temporary impairments. Although the Company generally intends to hold securities until maturity, the Company may change its position as a result of a change in circumstances. Any such decision is consistent with the Company’s classification of all but a specific portion of its investment portfolio as available for sale. During the three months ended March 31, 2007, the Company sold securities in an unrealized loss position with a market value of $881.8 million resulting in a realized loss of $3.6 million. The securities were sold as a result of normal portfolio rebalancing activity and tax planning. For such securities, the proceeds, realized loss, and total time period that the security had been in an unrealized loss position are presented in the table below.

   
Proceeds
 
% Proceeds
   
Realized Loss
% Realized Loss
 
   
(Dollars in thousands)
 
<= 90 days
 
$
876,930
 
99.4
%
 
$
(3,497
)
98.2
%
>90 days but <= 180 days
   
0
 
0.0
     
0
 
0.0
 
>180 days but <= 270 days
   
0
 
0.0
     
0
 
0.0
 
>270 days but <= 1 year
   
0
 
0.0
     
0
 
0.0
 
> 1 year
   
4,865
 
0.6
     
(64
)
1.8
 
 
Total
 
$
881,795
 
100.0
%
 
$
(3,561
)
100.0
%


Mortgage Loans

The Company records mortgage loans net of an allowance for credit losses. This allowance is calculated through analysis of specific loans that are believed to be at a higher risk of becoming impaired in the near future. At March 31, 2007 and December 31, 2006, the Company's allowance for mortgage loan credit losses was $0.5 million and $0.5 million, respectively.
 
               For several years the Company has offered a type of commercial mortgage loan under which the Company will permit a slightly higher loan-to-value ratio in exchange for a participating interest in the cash flows from the underlying real estate. As of March 31, 2007, approximately $551.6 million of the Company’s mortgage loans have this participation feature.

At March 31, 2007, delinquent mortgage loans and foreclosed properties were less than 0.1% of invested assets. The Company does not expect these investments to adversely affect its liquidity or ability to maintain proper matching of assets and liabilities.

LIABILITIES

Many of the Company's products contain surrender charges and other features that reward persistency and penalize the early withdrawal of funds. Certain stable value and annuity contracts have market-value adjustments that protect the Company against investment losses if interest rates are higher at the time of surrender than at the time of issue.

At March 31, 2007, the Company had policy liabilities and accruals of $16.3 billion. The Company's interest-sensitive life insurance policies have a weighted average minimum credited interest rate of approximately 3.75%.

LIQUIDITY AND CAPITAL RESOURCES

Liquidity

The Company meets its liquidity requirements primarily through positive cash flows from its operating subsidiaries. Primary sources of cash from the operating subsidiaries are premiums, deposits for policyholder accounts, investment sales and maturities, and investment income. Primary uses of cash for the operating subsidiaries include benefit payments, withdrawals from policyholder accounts, investment purchases, policy acquisition costs, and other operating expenses.

While the Company generally anticipates that the cash flows of its subsidiaries will be sufficient to meet their investment commitments and operating cash needs, the Company recognizes that investment commitments scheduled to be funded may, from time to time, exceed the funds then available. Therefore, the Company has established repurchase agreement programs for certain of its insurance subsidiaries to provide liquidity when needed. The Company expects that the rate received on its investments will equal or exceed its borrowing rate. Additionally, the Company may, from time to time, sell short-duration stable value products to complement its cash management practices. The Company has also used securitization transactions involving its commercial mortgage loans to increase liquidity for the operating subsidiaries.

The Company’s positive cash flows from operations are used to fund an investment portfolio that provides for future benefit payments. The Company employs a formal asset/liability program to manage the cash flows of its investment portfolio relative to its long-term benefit obligations.

The life insurance subsidiaries were committed at March 31, 2007, to fund mortgage loans in the amount of $1.1 billion. The Company's subsidiaries held $1.2 billion in cash and short-term investments at March 31, 2007. Protective Life Corporation had an additional $2.7 million in cash and short-term investments available for general corporate purposes.

Protective Life Corporation’s primary sources of cash are dividends from its operating subsidiaries; revenues from investment, data processing, legal, and management services rendered to subsidiaries; investment income; and external financing. These sources of cash support the general corporate needs of the holding company including its common stock dividends and debt service. The states in which the Company’s insurance subsidiaries are domiciled impose certain restrictions on the insurance subsidiaries’ ability to pay dividends to Protective Life Corporation. These restrictions are generally based in part on the prior year’s statutory income and surplus. Generally, these restrictions pose no short-term liquidity concerns for Protective Life Corporation. The Company plans to retain substantial portions of the earnings of its insurance subsidiaries in those companies primarily to support their future growth.

Capital Resources

To give the Company flexibility in connection with future acquisitions and other funding needs, the Company has registered debt securities, preferred and common stock, and stock purchase contracts of Protective Life Corporation, and additional preferred securities of special purpose finance subsidiaries under the Securities Act of 1933 on a delayed (or shelf) basis.
 
              Golden Gate Captive Insurance Company (“Golden Gate”), a special purpose financial captive insurance company wholly owned by Protective Life Insurance Company (“Protective Life”), the Company's largest operating subsidiary, has $525 million of non-recourse funding obligations outstanding at March 31, 2007, which bear a floating rate of interest and mature in 2037. These non-recourse funding obligations were issued under a surplus notes facility established with certain purchasers through which Golden Gate may issue up to an aggregate of $600 million of non-recourse funding obligations through June 2007.

In May 2004, the Company’s Board of Directors authorized a $100 million share repurchase program, available through May 2, 2007. On May 7, 2007, the Board re-authorized this program through May 6, 2010. There has been no activity under this program, and future activity will be dependent upon many factors, including capital levels, rating agency expectations, and the relative attractiveness of alternative uses for capital.
 
                A life insurance company’s statutory capital is computed according to rules prescribed by the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (“NAIC”), as modified by state law. Generally speaking, other states in which a company does business defer to the interpretation of the domiciliary state with respect to NAIC rules, unless inconsistent with the other state's law. Statutory accounting rules are different from U.S. GAAP and are intended to reflect a more conservative view by, for example, requiring immediate expensing of policy acquisition costs. The NAIC’s risk-based capital requirements require insurance companies to calculate and report information under a risk-based capital formula. The achievement of long-term growth will require growth in the statutory capital of the Company’s insurance subsidiaries. The subsidiaries may secure additional statutory capital through various sources, such as retained statutory earnings or equity contributions by the Company.


Contractual Obligations

The table below sets forth future maturities of debt, non-recourse funding obligations, subordinated debt securities, stable value products, notes payable, operating lease obligations, other property lease obligations, mortgage loan commitments, liabilities related to variable interest entities, policyholder obligations, and defined benefit pension obligations.

As a result of the adoption of FIN 48, the Company recorded a $29.8 million liability for uncertain tax positions, including interest on unrecognized tax benefits. These amounts are not included in the long-term contractual obligations table because of the difficulty in making reasonably reliable estimates of the occurrence or timing of cash settlements with the respective taxing authorities (see Note 1 to the Consolidated Condensed Financial Statements for additional discussion).

       
Payments due by period
 
   
Total
 
Less than
1 year
 
1-3 years
 
3-5 years
 
More than
5 years
 
   
(Dollars in thousands)
 
Long-term debt(a)
 
$
606,847
 
$
73,950
 
$
41,953
 
$
52,022
 
$
438,922
 
Non-recourse funding obligations(b)
   
1,626,004
   
35,805
   
71,610
   
71,610
   
1,446,979
 
Subordinated debt securities(c)
   
1,979,184
   
37,147
   
74,294
   
74,294
   
1,793,449
 
Stable value products(d)
   
5,984,529
   
1,622,432
   
1,984,895
   
1,172,055
   
1,205,147
 
Operating leases(e)
   
38,293
   
6,972
   
12,563
   
9,433
   
9,325
 
Home office lease(f)
   
105,668
   
4,525
   
9,050
   
9,050
   
83,043
 
Mortgage loan commitments
   
1,007,274
   
1,007,274
                   
Liabilities related to variable interest entities(g)
   
509,830
   
22,985
   
46,186
   
413,929
   
26,730
 
Policyholder obligations(h)
   
18,939,263
   
1,285,163
   
2,253,842
   
2,402,230
   
12,998,028
 
Defined benefit pension obligations(i)
   
1,232
   
1,232
                   
 
(a) Long-term debt includes all principal amounts owed on note agreements, and includes expected interest payments due over the term of the notes.
(b) Non-recourse funding obligations include all principal amounts owed on note agreements, and include expected interest payments due over the term of the notes.
(c) Subordinated debt securities includes all principal amounts owed to non-consolidated special purpose finance subsidiaries of the Company, and includes interest payments due over the term of the obligations.
(d) Anticipated stable value products cash flows, including interest.
(e) Includes all lease payments required under operating lease agreements.
(f) The lease payments shown assume the Company exercises its option to purchase the building at the end of the lease term.
(g) Liabilities related to variable interest entities are not the legal obligations of the Company, but will be repaid with cash flows generated by the variable interest entities. The amounts represent scheduled principal and expected interest payments.
(h) Estimated contractual policyholder obligations are based on mortality, morbidity, and lapse assumptions comparable to the Company’s historical experience, modified for recent observed trends. These obligations are based on current balance sheet values and include expected interest crediting, but do not incorporate an expectation of future market growth, or future deposits. Due to the significance of the assumptions used, the amounts presented could materially differ from actual results. As separate account obligations are legally insulated from general account obligations, the separate account obligations will be fully funded by cash flows from separate account assets. The Company expects to fully fund the general account obligations from cash flows from general account investments.
(i) Estimated 2007 contributions to the Company’s defined benefit pension plan and unfunded excess benefit plan approximate the projected expense to be recognized in 2007. Due to the significance of the assumptions used, this amount could differ from actual results. No estimate has been made of amounts to be contributed to these plans in years subsequent to 2007.


MARKET RISK EXPOSURES AND OFF-BALANCE SHEET ARRANGEMENTS

The Company’s financial position and earnings are subject to various market risks including changes in interest rates, changes in the yield curve, changes in spreads between risk-adjusted and risk-free interest rates, changes in foreign currency rates, changes in used vehicle prices, and equity price risks. The Company analyzes and manages the risks arising from market exposures of financial instruments, as well as other risks, through an integrated asset/liability management process. The Company’s asset/liability management programs and procedures involve the monitoring of asset and liability durations for various product lines; cash flow testing under various interest rate scenarios; and the continuous rebalancing of assets and liabilities with respect to yield, risk, and cash flow characteristics. These programs also incorporate the use of derivative financial instruments primarily to reduce the Company’s exposure to interest rate risk, inflation risk, currency exchange risk, and equity market risk.

The primary focus of the Company’s asset/liability program is the management of interest rate risk within the insurance operations. This includes monitoring the duration of both investments and insurance liabilities to maintain an appropriate balance between risk and profitability for each product category and for the Company as a whole. It is the Company’s policy to generally maintain asset and liability durations within one-half year of one another, although, from time to time, a broader interval may be allowed.
 
               Derivative instruments that are currently used as part of the Company’s interest rate risk management strategy include interest rate swaps, interest rate futures, interest rate options and interest rate swaptions. The Company’s inflation risk management strategy involves the use of swaps that require the Company to pay a fixed rate and receive a floating rate that is based on changes in the Consumer Price Index (“CPI”). The Company uses foreign currency swaps to manage its exposure to changes in the value of foreign currency denominated stable value contracts. The Company also uses S&P 500® options to mitigate its exposure to the value of equity indexed annuity contracts.

Derivative instruments expose the Company to credit and market risk and could result in material changes from quarter-to-quarter. The Company minimizes its credit risk by entering into transactions with highly rated counterparties. The Company manages the market risk associated with interest rate and foreign exchange contracts by establishing and monitoring limits as to the types and degrees of risk that may be undertaken. The Company monitors its use of derivatives in connection with its overall asset/liability management programs and procedures.

In the ordinary course of its commercial mortgage lending operations, the Company will commit to provide a mortgage loan before the property to be mortgaged has been built or acquired. The mortgage loan commitment is a contractual obligation to fund a mortgage loan when called upon by the borrower. The commitment is not recognized in the Company's financial statements until the commitment is actually funded. The mortgage loan commitment contains terms, including the rate of interest, which may be different than prevailing interest rates. At March 31, 2007, the Company had outstanding mortgage loan commitments of $1.1 billion at an average rate of 6.28%.
 
               The Company believes its asset/liability management programs and procedures and certain product features provide protection for the Company against the effects of changes in interest rates under various scenarios. Additionally, the Company believes its asset/liability management programs and procedures provide sufficient liquidity to enable it to fulfill its obligation to pay benefits under its various insurance and deposit contracts. However, the Company’s asset/liability management programs and procedures incorporate assumptions about the relationship between short-term and long-term interest rates (i.e., the slope of the yield curve), relationships between risk-adjusted and risk-free interest rates, market liquidity and other factors, and the effectiveness of the Company’s asset/liability management programs and procedures may be negatively affected whenever actual results differ from those assumptions.

RECENTLY ISSUED ACCOUNTING STANDARDS
 
                See Note 1 to the Consolidated Condensed Financial Statements for information regarding recently issued accounting standards.

RECENT DEVELOPMENTS

A proposal to amend Actuarial Guideline 38 (promulgated by the NAIC and part of the codification of statutory accounting principles) was approved by the NAIC, with an effective date of July 1, 2005. Actuarial Guideline 38, also known as AXXX, sets forth the reserve requirements for universal life insurance with secondary guarantees (“ULSG”). The changes to Actuarial Guideline 38 increase the reserve levels required for many ULSG products, and potentially make those products more expensive and less competitive as compared to other products including term and whole life products. The changes to Actuarial Guideline 38 affect only policies with an issue date of July 1, 2005 and later, and reduce the competitiveness and/or profitability of newly written ULSG products compared to traditional whole life or other high cash value insurance products or other products supported by relatively inexpensive capital (such as reinsurance of redundant reserves). To the extent that the additional reserves are generally considered to be economically redundant, capital market or other solutions may emerge to reduce the impact of the amendment. The ability of the Company to implement such solutions is at least partially dependent on factors such as the ratings of the Company, the size of the blocks of business affected, the mortality experience of the Company and other factors. The Company cannot predict the continued availability of such solutions to the Company or the form that the market may dictate. The NAIC is continuing to study this issue and has issued additional changes to AG38 and Regulation XXX, which will have the effect of modestly decreasing the reserves required for term and universal life policies that are issued on January 1, 2007, and later. In addition, accounting and actuarial groups within the NAIC have studied whether to change the accounting standards that relate to certain reinsurance credits, and whether, if changes are made, they are to be applied retrospectively, prospectively only, or in a phased-in manner; a requirement to reduce the reserve credit on ceded business, if applied retroactively, would have a negative impact on the statutory capital of the Company. The NAIC is also currently working to reform state regulation in various areas, including comprehensive reforms relating to life insurance reserves.

During 2006, the NAIC made the determination that certain securities previously classified as “preferred securities” had both debt and equity characteristics and because of this, required unique reporting treatment. Under a short-term solution, NAIC guidance mandates that certain of these securities (meeting established criteria) may have to carry a lower rating for asset valuation reserve and risk based capital calculations. As a result, certain securities will receive a lower rating classification for asset valuation reserve and risk based capital calculations. The Company’s insurance subsidiaries currently invest in these securities. As of March 31, 2007, the Company (including both insurance and non-insurance subsidiaries) holds approximately $200 million (statutory carrying value) in securities that meet the aforementioned “notch-down” criteria, depending on evaluation of the underlying characteristics of the securities. This reporting change is expected to have an immaterial effect on the insurance subsidiaries’ capital and surplus position, but will increase the capital required to hold these assets. A working group of the NAIC made up of accounting, actuarial and investment parties continue to investigate so as to determine what the appropriate long-term capital treatment should be for these securities. The Company cannot predict what impact a change in this guidance may have.

During 2006, the NAIC’s Reinsurance Task Force adopted a proposal suggesting broad changes to the United States reinsurance market, with the stated intent to establish a regulatory system that distinguishes financially strong reinsurers from weak reinsurers, without relying exclusively on their state or country of domicile, with collateral to be determined as appropriate. The task force recommended that regulation of reinsurance procedures be amended to focus on broad based risk and credit criteria and not solely on U.S. licensure status. Evaluation of this proposal will be taken under consideration by the NAIC’s Financial Condition (E) Committee, the Reinsurance Task Force’s parent committee, as one of its charges during 2007. The Company cannot provide any assurance as to what impact such changes to the United States reinsurance industry will have on the availability, cost, or collateral restrictions associated with ongoing or future reinsurance transactions.

The NAIC is currently in the process of reviewing amendment(s) to the Unfair Trade Practices Act regarding the use of travel in insurance underwriting. The most recent amendment states that the denial of life insurance based upon an individual’s past lawful travel experiences or future lawful travel plans, is prohibited unless such action is the result of the application of sound underwriting and actuarial principles related to actual or reasonably anticipated loss experience. The Company cannot predict what form the final proposal may take and therefore cannot predict what impact, if any, such changes would have to the Company.

The financial services industry has become the focus of increased scrutiny by regulatory and law enforcement authorities relating to allegations of improper special payments, price-fixing, bid-rigging, and other alleged misconduct, including payments made by insurers and other financial service providers to brokers and the practices surrounding the placement of insurance business and sales of other financial products, as well as practices related to finite reinsurance. Some publicly held companies have been the subject of enforcement or other actions relating to corporate governance and the integrity of financial statements, most recently relating to the issuance of stock options. Such publicity may generate inquiries to or litigation against publicly held companies and/or financial service providers, even those who do not engage in the business lines or practices currently at issue. It is impossible to predict the outcome of these investigations or proceedings, whether they will expand into other areas not yet contemplated, whether they will result in changes in insurance regulation, whether activities currently thought to be lawful will be characterized as unlawful, or the impact, if any, of this increased regulatory and law enforcement scrutiny of the financial services industry on the Company. As some inquiries appear to encompass a large segment of the financial services industry, it would not be unusual for large numbers of companies in the financial services industry to receive subpoenas, requests for information from regulatory authorities, or other inquiries relating to these and similar matters. From time to time, the Company receives subpoenas, requests, or other inquiries and responds to them in the ordinary course of business.

The California Department of Insurance has promulgated proposed regulations that would characterize some life insurance agents as brokers and impose certain obligations on those agents that may conflict with the interests of insurance carriers or require the agent to, among other things, advise the client with respect to the best available insurer. The Company cannot predict the outcome of this regulatory proposal or whether any other state will propose or adopt similar actions.

In connection with the Company's discontinued Lender's Indemnity product, the Company has discovered facts and circumstances that support allegations by the Company against third parties (including policyholders), and the Company has instituted litigation to establish the rights and liabilities of the various parties; the Company has received at least one claim seeking to assert liability against the Company for policies for which premiums were not received by the Company, and the litigation encompasses such claims. In addition, the Company is defending a class action lawsuit relating to the calculation of certain benefits under the policies. Although the Company cannot predict the outcome of any litigation, the Company does not believe that the outcome of these matters will have a material impact on the financial condition or results of operations of the Company.



There has been no material change from the disclosures in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2006.



 
(a)
Disclosure controls and procedures

Under the direction of our Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer, we evaluated our disclosure controls and procedures (as such term is defined in Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e) under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (“the Exchange Act”) as of the end of the period covered by this report and concluded that our disclosure controls and procedures were effective as of such date. It should be noted that any system of controls, no matter how well designed and operated, can provide only reasonable, not absolute, assurance that the control system’s objectives will be met. Further, the design of any control system is based in part upon certain judgments, including the costs and benefits of controls and the likelihood of future events. Because of these and other inherent limitations of control systems, no evaluation of controls can provide absolute assurance that all control issues, if any, within the Company have been detected.

 
(b)
Changes in internal control over financial reporting

As a result of the 2006 acquisitions of the Chase Insurance Group and Western General, the Company is in the process of making a number of significant changes in its internal controls over financial reporting beginning in the third quarter of 2006. The changes involve combining and centralizing the financial reporting process and the attendant personnel, and system changes. The Company expects this process to continue as we continue to integrate the new businesses into our existing corporate structure. Except as described above, no changes in our internal control over financial reporting occurred during the quarter ended March 31, 2007 that has materially affected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect, such internal control over financial reporting. Our internal controls exist within a dynamic environment and the Company continually strives to improve its internal controls and procedures to enhance the quality of its financial reporting.


PART II



The operating results of companies in the insurance industry have historically been subject to significant fluctuations. The factors which could affect the Company’s future results include, but are not limited to, general economic conditions and the known trends and uncertainties. In addition to other information set forth in this report, you should carefully consider the factors discussed in Part I, Item 1A, “Risk Factors and Cautionary Factors that may Affect Future Results” in the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2006, which could materially affect the Company’s business, financial condition, or future results of operations.



During the quarter ended March 31, 2007, the Company issued no securities in transactions which were not registered under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Act”).



Amendment to the Company’s Long-Term Incentive Plan as amended and restated as of May 5, 2003.
     
Amended and Restated Lease Agreement dated as of January 11, 2007, between Wachovia Development Company (an assignee of Wachovia Capital Investments, Inc.) and Protective Life Insurance Company.
     
Amended and Restated Investment and Participation Agreement dated as of January 11, 2007, between Protective Life Insurance Company and Wachovia Development Corporation (an assignee of Wachovia Capital Investments, Inc.).
     
Amended and Restated Guaranty between the Company and Wachovia Development Corporation dated as of January 11, 2007.
     
- Certification Pursuant to §302 of the Sarbanes Oxley Act of 2002.
     
- Certification Pursuant to §302 of the Sarbanes Oxley Act of 2002.
     
- Certification Pursuant to 18 U.S.C. §1350, as Adopted Pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes Oxley Act of 2002.
     
- Certification Pursuant to 18 U.S.C. §1350, as Adopted Pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes Oxley Act of 2002.
     
- Safe Harbor for Forward Looking Statements.





SIGNATURE


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

PROTECTIVE LIFE CORPORATION

Date: May 10, 2007  /s/ Steven G. Walker
Steven G. Walker
Senior Vice President, Controller
and Chief Accounting Officer
(Duly authorized officer)
EX-10.A 2 ex_10a.htm EXHIBIT 10A AMENDMENT TO PLC LONG TERM INCENTIVE PLAN Exhibit 10a Amendment to PLC Long Term Incentive Plan
 

 
Amendment to the Protective Life Corporation Long-Term Incentive Plan


Protective Life Corporation (the “Company”) hereby amends Section 4(c) of the Protective Life Corporation Long-Term Incentive Plan to read in its entirety as follows, effective as of January 1, 2005:

(c)    Adjustment for Corporate Transactions. If there is a change in the Common Stock as a result of a stock dividend, extraordinary cash dividend, recapitalization, reorganization, merger, consolidation, split-up, spin-off, combination, exchange of shares, warrants or rights offering to purchase Common Stock at a price substantially below fair market value, or other similar event such that an adjustment is required to preserve, or to prevent enlargement of, the benefits or potential benefits made available under the Plan, then the Committee shall, in such manner as the Committee may deem equitable, adjust any or all of (i) the number and kind of shares which thereafter may be awarded or optioned and sold or made the subject of Awards under the Plan, (ii) the number and kinds of shares subject to outstanding Options and other Awards and (iii) the grant, exercise, base or conversion price with respect to any of the foregoing; provided that the number of shares subject to any Option or other Award shall always be a whole number. The Committee may also make provisions for a cash payment to a Participant or a person who has an outstanding Option or other Award.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Company has executed this document as of February 7, 2007.



PROTECTIVE LIFE CORPORATION

/s/ John D. Johns
John D. Johns   
Chairman of the Board,  President and
Chief Executive Officer

EX-10.B 3 ex10_b.htm EXHIBIT 10B AMENDED & RESTATED LEASE AGREEMENT Exhibit 10B Amended & Restated Lease Agreement
 
 

THIS DOCUMENT WAS PREPARED BY
AND IS TO BE RETURNED TO:
Timothy W. Bratcher, Esq.
Jones Day
1420 Peachtree Street, NE, Suite 800
Atlanta, Georgia 30309-3053
 
 
AMENDED AND RESTATED LEASE AGREEMENT
 
Dated as of January 11, 2007
 
Between
 
Wachovia Development Corporation
 
(as assignee of Wachovia Capital Investments, Inc.),
 
as the Lessor,
 
and
 
Protective Life Insurance Company,
 
as the Lessee
 
 
 
THIS AMENDED AND RESTATED LEASE AGREEMENT AMENDS AND RESTATES THAT CERTAIN LEASE AGREEMENT DATED AS OF FEBRUARY 1, 2000, RECORDED AS INSTRUMENT NO. 200002/0944, IN THE PROBATE OFFICE OF JEFFERSON COUNTY, ALABAMA, AS PREVIOUSLY AMENDED. THIS AMENDED AND RESTATED LEASE AGREEMENT IS ALSO A MORTGAGE AND SECURITY AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE LESSEE, PROTECTIVE LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY, AS MORTGAGOR AND DEBTOR, AND THE LESSOR, WACHOVIA DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION, AS MORTGAGEE AND SECURED PARTY, SECURING INDEBTEDNESS IN THE PRINCIPAL AMOUNT OF $75,000,000. THE COLLATERAL SUBJECT TO THE SECURITY INTEREST INCLUDES PERSONAL PROPERTY THAT IS, OR MAY BECOME, FIXTURES ATTACHED TO THE REAL PROPERTY DESCRIBED IN THIS AMENDED AND RESTATED LEASE AGREEMENT. THIS AMENDED AND RESTATED LEASE AGREEMENT SHOULD BE FILED AND RECORDED IN THE REAL ESTATE RECORDS AS A LEASE AND AS A MORTGAGE AND FIXTURE FILING. WACHOVIA DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION SHOULD BE INDEXED AS THE GRANTOR OF THE LEASE AND THE GRANTEE (MORTGAGEE) OF THE MORTGAGE AND SECURITY INTEREST. PROTECTIVE LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY SHOULD BE INDEXED AS THE GRANTEE OF THE LEASE AND THE GRANTOR (MORTGAGOR) OF THE MORTGAGE AND SECURITY INTEREST. THE MAILING ADDRESSES OF THE LESSEE (MORTGAGOR AND DEBTOR) AND THE LESSOR (MORTGAGEE AND SECURED PARTY) FROM WHICH INFORMATION CONCERNING THE SECURITY INTEREST MAY BE OBTAINED ARE SET FORTH ON THE SIGNATURE PAGES HEREOF AND A STATEMENT INDICATING THE TYPES, OR DESCRIBING THE ITEMS, OF COLLATERAL ARE AS DESCRIBED IN SECTION 26 HEREOF.
 
THIS INSTRUMENT IS FILED AND SHALL CONSTITUTE A FIXTURE FILING IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE PROVISIONS OF SECTION 7-9A-502(C) OF THE CODE OF ALABAMA.
 
THIS INSTRUMENT IS A “CONSTRUCTION MORTGAGE,” AS DEFINED IN SECTION 7-9A-334(H) OF THE CODE OF ALABAMA AND SECURES, AMONG OTHER OBLIGATIONS, AN OBLIGATION INCURRED FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF AN IMPROVEMENT ON LAND.
 

 

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TABLE OF CONTENTS
 
 
Section 2.Lease of Facility
 
Section 3.Payments
 
Section 4.Anti-Terrorism Laws
 
Section 5.Title to Facility
 
Section 6.Title to Remain in the Lessor
 
Section 7.Maintenance of the Facility; Operations
 
Section 8.Modifications
 
Section 9.Further Assurances
 
Section 10.Compliance with Governmental Requirements and Insurance Requirements: Related Contracts
 
Section 11.Condition and Use of Facility; Quiet Enjoyment
 
Section 12.Liens
 
Section 13.Permitted Contests
 
Section 14.Insurance, etc
 
Section 15.Termination; Cancellation; Purchase Option
 
Section 16.Transfer of Title on Removal of Facility; Expenses of Transfer
 
Section 17.Events of Default and Remedies
 
Section 18.Change in the Lessee’s Name or Structure
 
Section 19.Inspection; Right to Enter Premises of the Lessee
 
Section 20.Right to Perform the Lessee’s Covenants; The Administrative Agent
 
Section 21.Participation by Co-Lessees or Sublessees
 
Section 22.Notices
 
Section 23.Amendments and Waivers
 
Section 24.Severability
 
Section 25.Federal Income Tax Considerations
 
Section 26.Other Provisions
 
Section 27.Miscellaneous
 
EXHIBIT A  Description of Site
 
EXHIBIT B  Other Defined Terms
 
SCHEDULE 14 Insurance Requirements
 

 

 

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AMENDED AND RESTATED LEASE AGREEMENT
 
This Amended and Restated Lease Agreement dated as of January 11, 2007, (as the same may be amended, restated, modified or supplemented from time to time, this “Lease”) is between Wachovia Development Corporation, a North Carolina corporation (together with its successors and permitted assigns, the “Lessor”), and Protective Life Insurance Company, a Tennessee corporation (together with its successors and permitted assigns, the “Lessee”).
 
RECITALS
 
WHEREAS, pursuant to the Original Ground Lease (as this and other terms used in these recitals are defined in accordance with Section 1 below), WCI acquired a ground lease of certain real property located in Jefferson County, Alabama, described in greater detail in Exhibit A, attached hereto and made a part hereof (the “Site”), and, pursuant to the Original Lease Documents, constructed and installed on the Site an annex office building and a related parking deck and related enhancements and improvements, including furniture, fixtures and equipment, all of which comprise the Facility; and
 
WHEREAS, WCI has assigned 100% of its right, title, and interest in and to the Original Lease Documents to Lessor pursuant to the terms of the Lessor Assignment Agreement; and
 
WHEREAS, the Lessee has requested to refinance and extend the maturity of the Original Lease Agreement by, among other things, entering into that certain Amended and Restated Ground Lease dated as of the date hereof (as the same may be amended, restated, supplemented, or otherwise modified from time to time, the “Ground Lease”), that certain Amended and Restated Investment and Participation Agreement dated as of the date hereof (as the same may be amended, restated, supplemented, or otherwise modified from time to time, the “Investment Agreement”), and this Lease; and
 
WHEREAS, subject to the terms and conditions of this Lease, the Lessee desires to continue to lease from the Lessor the ground lease interest in the Site and such enhancements and Improvements beginning on the Lease Commencement Date for the purpose of continuing to occupy and use the Site and such enhancements and Improvements as an annex office building and parking deck in accordance with the amended and restated terms and conditions set forth in this Lease.
 
NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the premises and the mutual covenants and agreements herein contained, and for other good and valuable consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which are hereby acknowledged, the Lessor and the Lessee agree as follows:
 
Section 1.   Defined Terms.
 
(i) In this Lease, the terms “Lease,” “Lessee,” and “Lessor” shall have the meanings indicated above.
 
(ii) As used in this Lease, all capitalized terms used in this Lease and not otherwise defined herein or as set forth on Exhibit B shall have the meanings assigned such terms in Schedule 1.02 to the Investment Agreement, the terms and provisions of which schedule are incorporated herein by reference and made a part hereof.
 
Section 2.   Lease of Facility.
 
(a)  During the term of and subject to the terms and conditions of this Lease, the Lessor hereby leases to the Lessee, and the Lessee hereby leases from the Lessor, the Facility for the Lease Term to be occupied and used for and only for the Permitted Use with respect to the Basic Term. The entire Facility shall become subject to this Lease as of the effective date hereof.
 
(b)  Unless earlier terminated in accordance with the other provisions hereof, including without limitation, Sections 15 and 17, this Lease shall terminate on the Scheduled Lease Termination Date.
 
The Lessee shall give to the Lessor written notice as provided below under the circumstances described below specifying its election as to which of the options under Section 15(a)(ii) of this Lease the Lessee intends to exercise upon the applicable Lease Termination Date:
 
(x) in the case of a termination on the Scheduled Lease Termination Date, the Lessee shall give the Lessor notice of such election on any date that is not less than 12 months and no more than 18 months prior to the then current Scheduled Lease Termination Date; and
 
(y) if the Lessor (acting, in accordance with Section 9.02(f) of the Investment Agreement, of its own accord or at the direction of the Majority Funding Parties) elects to terminate this Lease due to a Limited Recourse Event of Default, the Lessee shall give the Lessor notice of such election within 5 Business Days of the date the Lessee receives such written notice of the Lessor’s election to terminate this Lease due to such Limited Recourse Event of Default.
 
In the event the Lessee fails to give timely written notice of such election to the Lessor on or before the dates herein provided, the Lessee shall be deemed to have elected to purchase the Facility on the Lease Termination Date for the Purchase Price.
 
Section 3.   Payments.
 
(a)  Basic Rent. The Lessee shall pay to the Lessor on the Rent Payment Date for each Rental Period the amount of Basic Rent due for such Rental Period during the Basic Term.
 
(b)  Final Rent Payment. On the earlier to occur of the Scheduled Lease Termination Date or the Option Date, Lessee shall pay to the Lessor the Final Rent Payment or, if the Company has elected to purchase the Facility, the Purchase Price.
 
(c)  Supplemental Rent. In addition to Basic Rent and the Final Rent Payment, the Lessee will also pay to the Lessor, from time to time, within 10 Business Days after demand by the Lessor, or otherwise as and when due pursuant to the Operative Documents, as additional rent (“Supplemental Rent”) the following (but without duplication of any amounts included in the calculation of Rent):
 
(i) all out-of-pocket costs and expenses reasonably incurred by the Lessor and the Administrative Agent in connection with the preparation, negotiation, execution, delivery, performance and administration of this Lease and the other Operative Documents, including, but not limited to, the following: (A) fees and expenses of the Lessor and the Administrative Agent, including, without limitation, reasonable attorneys' fees and expenses and the fees and expenses for the Approved Appraisal, the Related Contracts, and the Survey, the Environmental Assessment, the title policy referred to in Section 6.01(k) of the Investment Agreement; (B) all other amounts owing to the Lessor, the Administrative Agent, and the Lease Participants pursuant hereto or any other Operative Documents, including, without limitation, the Upfront Supplemental Rent, the Arranger’s Supplemental Rent and the Administrative Supplemental Rent payable pursuant to Section 2.04 of the Investment Agreement, and all fees, indemnities, expenses, compensation in respect of increased costs of any kind or description payable under the Investment Agreement or any other Operative Document; (C) all yield maintenance, capital adequacy and other costs contemplated under Article V of the Investment Agreement, and (D) all out-of-pocket costs and expenses incurred by the Lessor or the Administrative Agent (and, in the case of clause (3) below, any Lease Participant) after the date of this Lease (including, without limitation, reasonable attorneys' fees and expenses and other expenses and disbursements reasonably incurred) associated with (1) negotiating and entering into, or the giving or withholding of, any future amendments, supplements, waivers or consents with respect to this Lease; (2) any Loss Event, Casualty Occurrence or termination of this Lease; and (3) any Default or Event of Default and the enforcement and preservation of the rights or remedies of the Lessor under this Lease and the other Operative Documents and all reasonable costs and expenses incurred by the Lessor or the Administrative Agent or any of their affiliates in syndicating to Lease Participants on or about the Restatement Closing Date all or any part of its interests under the Operative Documents, including, without limitation, the related reasonable fees and out-of-pocket expenses of counsel for the Lessor, the Administrative Agent, or their affiliates, travel expenses, duplication and printing costs and courier and postage fees, and excluding any fees paid to the Lessor or any Lease Participant purchasing such an interest after the Restatement Closing Date; and
 
(ii) all other amounts that the Lessee agrees herein to pay other than Basic Rent, the Final Rent Payment and amounts described in clause (i) above.
 
(d)  Computations. All computations of Basic Rent shall be made by the Lessor on the basis of a year of 360 days (or, in the case of computations based on the Base Rate, 365/366 days), in each case for the actual number of days (including the first day but excluding the last day) occurring in the Rental Period for which such Basic Rent payments are payable. Whenever any payment hereunder shall be stated to be due on a day other than a Business Day, such payment shall be made on the next succeeding Business Day, and such extension of time shall in such case be included in the computation of payment of Rent; provided, however, that if such extension would cause payment of Basic Rent to be made in the next following calendar month, such payment shall be made on the next preceding Business Day.
 
(e)  No Offsets. This Lease is an absolute net lease, and Rent and all other sums payable by the Lessee hereunder shall be paid without notice except as otherwise expressly provided herein, and the Lessee shall not be entitled to any abatement, reduction, setoff, counterclaim, defense or deduction with respect to any Rent or other sums payable hereunder. The obligations of the Lessee to pay Rent and all other sums payable hereunder shall not be affected by reason of: (i) any damage to, or destruction of, the Facility or any part thereof by any cause whatsoever (including, without limitation, fire, casualty or act of God or enemy or any other force majeure event); (ii) any condemnation, including, without limitation, a temporary condemnation of the Facility or any part thereof; (iii) any prohibition, limitation, restriction or prevention of the Lessee's use, occupancy or enjoyment of the Facility or any part thereof by any Person (other than by the Lessor in violation of this Lease); (iv) any matter affecting title to the Facility or any part thereof; (v) any eviction of the Lessee from, or loss of possession by the Lessee of, the Facility or any part thereof, by reason of title paramount or otherwise (other than by the Lessor in violation of this Lease); (vi) any default by the Lessor hereunder or under any other Operative Document; (vii) the invalidity or unenforceability of any provision hereof or the impossibility or illegality of performance by the Lessor or the Lessee or both; (viii) any action of any Governmental Authority; or (ix) any other Loss Event, Casualty Occurrence or other cause or occurrence whatsoever, whether similar or dissimilar to the foregoing. The Lessee shall remain obliged under this Lease in accordance with its terms and shall not take any action to terminate, rescind or avoid this Lease, except as expressly provided in Section 15, notwithstanding any bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, liquidation, dissolution or other proceeding affecting the Lessor or any action with respect to this Lease which may be taken by any trustee, receiver or liquidator or by any court. The Lessee waives all rights to terminate or surrender this Lease, except as expressly provided in Section 15, or to any abatement or deferment of Rent or other sums payable hereunder. The Lessee hereby waives any and all rights now or hereafter conferred by law or otherwise to modify or to avoid strict compliance with its obligations under this Lease. All payments made to the Lessor hereunder as required hereby shall be final and irrevocable, and the Lessee shall not seek to recover any such payment or any part thereof for any reason whatsoever, absent manifest error.
 
(f)  Taxes. Subject to the Lessee's contest rights under Section 13, all payments of Rent and all other amounts to be paid by the Lessee hereunder to the Lessor shall be made without deduction for, and free from, any taxes, imposts, levies, duties, deductions or withholdings of any nature now or at any time hereafter imposed by any Governmental Authority or by any taxing authority thereof or therein imposed or levied upon, assessed against or measured by any Rent or other sums payable hereunder excluding taxes imposed on or measured by the net income or net worth of the Lessor or any Lease Participant and franchise taxes imposed on the Lessor or any Lease Participant, and any tax arising by reason of a connection between the Lessor or any Lease Participant or the jurisdiction of the Lessor or any Lease Participant or the Applicable Funding Office of the Lessor or any Lease Participant and the jurisdiction imposing such tax (all such non-excluded taxes, imposts, levies, duties, deductions or withholdings of any nature being “Taxes”). In the event that the Lessee is required by applicable law to make any such withholding or deduction of Taxes with respect to any Rent or other amount, the Lessee shall pay such deduction or withholding to the applicable taxing authority, shall promptly furnish to the Lessor or such Lease Participant in respect of which such deduction or withholding is made all receipts and other documents evidencing such payment and shall pay to the Lessor or such Lease Participant additional amounts as may be necessary in order that the amount received by the Lessor or such Lease Participant after the required deduction or withholding shall equal the amount the Lessor or such Lease Participant would have received had no such deduction or withholding been made. In addition, the Lessee agrees that it will promptly pay all other Impositions imposed upon or levied or assessed against the Facility or any part thereof, or against the Lessor or any Lease Participant in connection with the transactions contemplated by this Lease and the other Operative Documents, or any sums levied in connection with the execution, delivery or recording of the Operative Documents, and will furnish to the Lessor or any Lease Participant upon request copies of official receipts or other proof evidencing such payment; provided, however, that the Lessee shall not be obligated to pay (i) any Impositions that are excluded from the definition of Taxes; or (ii) any Impositions attributable to the gross negligence or willful misconduct of the Lessor or any Lease Participant. The Lessee further agrees that, subject to its contest rights under Section 13, it will, at its expense, do all things required to be done by the Lessor in connection with the levy, assessment, billing or payment of any Impositions that it is required to pay pursuant to the preceding sentence, and is hereby authorized by the Lessor or any Lease Participant to act for and on its behalf in any and all such respects and to prepare and file, on behalf of the Lessor or any Lease Participant, all tax returns and reports required to be filed by the Lessor or any Lease Participant (other than federal income tax returns and documents related thereto, subject to Section 25) concerning the Facility. The Lessee's payment obligations under this Section 3(f) shall survive the termination of this Lease. In the event that any withholding or deduction from any payment to be made by the Lessee hereunder is required in respect of any Imposition pursuant to any Governmental Requirement, then the Lessee will:
 
(1) pay directly to the relevant Governmental Authority the full amount required to be so withheld or deducted;
 
(2) promptly forward to the Lessor, if available, an official receipt or other documentation satisfactory to the Lessor evidencing such payment to such Governmental Authority; and
 
(3) pay to the Lessor or any Lease Participant, as applicable, such additional amount or amounts as is necessary to ensure that the net amount actually received by the Lessor or such Lease Participant will equal the full amount the Lessor or such Lease Participant would have received had no such withholding or deduction been required.
 
(g)  Payments to the Lessor; Payments to the Administrative Agent on Lessor’s Behalf. The Lessee acknowledges and agrees that, pursuant to Section 10.02 of the Investment Agreement, Lessor and the Lease Participants have appointed the Administrative Agent to, among other things, receive on their behalf and for their account all payments which are otherwise to be made directly to Lessor or the Lease Participants, as applicable, under the Operative Documents and to disburse on behalf of Lessor all payments which are otherwise to be made by Lessor under the Operative Documents, and Lessee agrees that it shall pay all amounts due under this Lease to the Lessor or the Lease Participants directly to the Administrative Agent on the Lessor’s or Lease Participants’ behalf, as applicable, and for the Lessor’s or Lease Participants’ account, as applicable. Receipt of any such payments by the Administrative Agent shall constitute constructive receipt thereof by the Lessor or the Lease Participants, as applicable. All such payments required to be made to the Lessor shall be made not later than 1:00 P.M., Charlotte, North Carolina, time, on the date due, in immediately available funds, to such account as the Lessor shall specify from time to time by notice to the Lessee. Whenever any payment to be made shall otherwise be due on a day which is not a Business Day, except as otherwise expressly provided herein or in the Investment Agreement, such payment shall be made on the next succeeding Business Day and such extension shall be included in computing Rent, interest, yield and fees, if any, in connection with such payment.
 
(h)  Default Rate. The Lessee shall pay on demand to the Lessor interest at the Default Rate on all amounts payable by the Lessee to the Lessor hereunder or under the Operative Documents in respect of overdue principal of, Yield on, and other amounts owing in respect of all Rent and all other amounts payable under this Lease, the Investment Agreement or any of the other Operative Documents, from the due date thereof until paid in full.
 
Section 4.   Anti-Terrorism Laws. Lessee shall, at its expense, comply with all Anti-Terrorism Laws and will comply in all respects with all terms and conditions set forth in the Investment Agreement relating to Anti-Terrorism Laws, all of which are incorporated herein by this reference.
 
Section 5.   Title to Facility.
 
Title to all components of the Facility are vested in and shall remain in the Lessor, and such components shall be subject to the terms and conditions of this Lease.
 
Section 6.   Title to Remain in the Lessor.
 
The Lessor shall own 100% of the ground lease of the Site and the legal and beneficial interest in the remainder of the Facility. All accessories, equipment, parts, fixtures and devices affixed or placed on the Facility from time to time by the Lessee, other than “Excluded Equipment,” and all modifications, alterations, renovations or improvements to the Facility made by the Lessee shall be and become part of the Facility for the purposes of this Lease and shall be Property of the Lessor subject to the terms of this Lease; provided that the Lessor's interest in any part of the Facility that is replaced by the Lessee pursuant to and as permitted by the terms of this Lease shall be deemed released from this Lease (and the Collateral) and thereupon become the Property of the Lessee automatically, without further action by the Lessor, and the Lessor shall perform all acts and execute all documents that the Lessee reasonably requests to give effect to the foregoing at the expense of the Lessee, including the execution and delivery of bills of sale and other documents of transfer. This Lease shall not give or grant to the Lessee any right, title or interest in or to the Facility, except the rights expressly conferred by this Lease. The term “Excluded Equipment” shall mean any computer equipment, telephone equipment, copier equipment, facsimile equipment or other office equipment which is (i) acquired by the Lessee with its own funds or leased under separate lease agreements from third party lessors and not acquired in whole or in part with the proceeds of Lessor Investments, and (ii) does not constitute a modification or replacement of or supplement or accession to any part of the Facility.
 
Section 7.   Maintenance of the Facility; Operations.
 
(a)  The Lessee shall, and it shall require and cause any and all employees, contractors, subcontractors, agents, representatives, affiliates, consultants and occupants at the Lessee's own cost and expense to: (i) cause the Facility to be maintained in all material respects in good operating order, repair and condition, in accordance with prudent industry practice and any applicable manufacturer's or supplier's manuals or warranties, subject to normal wear and tear, and take all action, and make all changes and repairs, structural and non-structural, foreseen and unforeseen, ordinary and extraordinary, which are required pursuant to any Governmental Requirement or Insurance Requirement at any time in effect to assure full compliance therewith in all material respects; and (ii) do all things necessary to prevent the incurrence of any Environmental Damages or Environmental Liabilities relating to the Facility or any business conducted in or relating to the Facility or the Site, and cause the Facility to continue to have at all times, in all material respects, and in compliance with all applicable Governmental Requirements and Insurance Requirements, the capacity and functional ability to perform, on a continuing basis (subject to normal interruption in the ordinary course of business for maintenance, inspection, service, repair and testing) and in commercial operation, the functions for which it was designed as specified in the Facility Plan and to be utilized commercially for the Permitted Use.
 
(b)  The Lessee shall, and it shall require and cause any and all employees, contractors, subcontractors, agents, representatives, affiliates, consultants and occupants at the Lessee's own cost and expense to, promptly replace, or cause to be replaced, any part of the Facility which may from time to time be incorporated or installed in or attached to the Facility, and which may from time to time become worn out, lost, stolen, destroyed, seized, confiscated, damaged beyond repair, obsolete or permanently rendered unfit for use for any reason whatsoever. All replacement parts shall be free and clear of all Liens other than Permitted Liens, and, except for temporary accessions and replacement parts utilized pending installation of permanent replacement parts, shall be of a type customarily used in the industry at such time for such purpose, shall be in as good operating condition as, and shall have a utility and useful life at least equal to, the parts replaced (assuming such replaced parts were in the condition and repair required to be maintained by the terms hereof) and shall have a value at least equal to the parts replaced (assuming such replaced parts were in the condition and repair required to be maintained by the terms hereof).
 
(c)  Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 8 and the foregoing provisions of this Section 7, the Lessee shall not (except as may be required by any Governmental Requirement) remove, replace or alter any part of the Facility or affix or place any accessory, equipment, part or device on any part of the Facility, if such removal, replacement, alteration or addition would impair the originally intended function or use of the Facility so as to materially reduce the value of the Facility taken as a whole, or materially decrease the estimated useful life of the Facility.
 
(d)  The Lessor shall not be required in any way to maintain, repair or rebuild the Facility or any part thereof and the Lessee waives any right it may now or hereafter have to make any repairs at the expense of the Lessor pursuant to any Governmental Requirement at any time in effect or otherwise.
 
(e)  The Lessee shall, and it shall require and cause any and all employees, contractors, subcontractors, agents, representatives, affiliates, consultants and occupants at the Lessee's own cost and expense to: (i) comply in all material respects with all applicable Environmental Requirements with regard to the Facility and all parts thereof; and (ii) use, employ, process, emit, generate, store, handle, transport, dispose of and/or arrange for the disposal of, any and all Hazardous Materials in, on or, directly or indirectly, related to or in connection with the Facility or any part thereof in a manner consistent with prudent industry practice and in compliance with any applicable Environmental Requirement. The Lessor and the Lessee hereby acknowledge and agree that the Lessee's obligations hereunder with respect to Environmental Requirements are intended to bind the Lessee with respect to matters and conditions involving the Facility or any part thereof.
 
Section 8.   Modifications.
 
(a)  The Lessee shall make no modifications, alterations, renovations or improvements to the Facility without the prior written consent of the Lessor, provided however, that subject to the terms of Section 8(b), the Lessee shall have the right to make modifications, alterations, renovations or improvements to the Facility so long as such modifications, alterations, renovations or improvements do not (except as may be required by any Governmental Requirement) (i) materially reduce the value of the Facility as a whole; (ii) materially and adversely affect the capacity and performance of the Facility on a continuing basis in commercial operation of the function for which the Facility was designed as specified in the Facility Plan; (iii) materially deviate from the Facility Plan; or (iv) materially and adversely affect the estimated useful life of the Facility. Within 20 Business Days of the end of each calendar quarter, an Authorized Officer of the Lessee shall deliver to the Lessor a schedule certifying to the Lessor's reasonable satisfaction: (x) the nature of the repairs, replacements, modifications, alterations, renovations or improvements to the Facility made during such quarter having a cost of at least $500,000 at the time made, and (y) that the Facility continues to have, in all material respects, the capacity and functional ability to perform on a continuing basis (subject to normal interruption in the ordinary course of business for maintenance, inspection, service, repair and testing) and in commercial operation, the functions for which it was designed as specified in the Facility Plan or, if not, specifying the reason for any such deficiency, including, without limitation, the occurrence and nature of any Loss Event or Casualty Occurrence with respect to the Facility.
 
(b)  If the Lessee determines that any part of the Facility is no longer necessary for the performance of the Facility on a continuing basis in commercial operation of the function for which the Facility was designed as specified in the Facility Plan, then the Lessee (except when such action or removal may be required by any applicable Governmental Requirement, in which event, the Lessee shall promptly give the Lessor notice of such action or removal) shall give the Lessor at least 30 days' notice prior to taking any action as the result of such determination and shall not remove any such part unless and until the Lessor has determined that (i) such part is no longer necessary for the performance of the Facility on a continuing basis in commercial operation of the function for which the Facility was designed in all material respects as specified in the Facility Plan, (ii) removal of such part does not materially reduce the value of the Facility as a whole, and (iii) removal of such part does not materially decrease the estimated useful life of the Facility. This Section 8(b) shall not apply to worn out or obsolete Property or damaged Property (to the extent such damage does not constitute a Casualty Occurrence or Loss Event) removed and replaced by the Lessee in accordance with Section 7(b).
 
Section 9.   Further Assurances.
 
The Lessee, at its expense, shall execute, acknowledge and deliver from time to time such further counterparts of this Lease or a memorandum of this Lease acceptable to the Lessor or such affidavits, certificates, certificates of title, bills of sale, financing and continuation statements, consents and other instruments as may be required by applicable law or reasonably requested by the Lessor in order to evidence the Lessor's ground lease of the Site and title to the remainder of the Facility and the Lessor's interests in this Lease, and shall, at the Lessee's expense, cause such documents to be recorded, filed or registered in such places as the Lessor reasonably may request and to be re-recorded, refiled or re-registered in such places as may be required by applicable law or at such times as may be required by applicable law in order to maintain and continue in effect the recordation, filing or registration thereof. The Lessor shall not grant or create any Lien on the Facility to any Person except Permitted Liens, Liens in favor of the Lessor (for itself and in trust for the Lease Participants) and Liens pursuant to this Lease, the Security Instruments and the other Operative Documents.
 
Section 10.   Compliance with Governmental Requirements and Insurance Requirements: Related Contracts.
 
The Lessee, at its expense, will comply with all Governmental Requirements applicable to the Facility or any part thereof or the ownership, construction, operation, mortgaging, occupancy, possession, use, non-use or condition of the Facility or any part thereof, all Insurance Requirements, and all instruments, contracts or agreements affecting title to ownership of the Facility or any part thereof. In addition, the Lessee (as Lessee under this Lease or as Lessor’s agent in accordance with Section 8.30 of the Investment Agreement), so long as Lessor (acting, in accordance with Section 9.02(a) of the Investment Agreement, of its own accord or at the direction of the Majority Funding Parties) has not commenced the exercise of remedies under the Operative Documents, is hereby authorized by the Lessor to, and shall, fully and promptly keep, observe, perform and satisfy on behalf of the Lessor any and all obligations, conditions, covenants and restrictions of or on the Lessor or the Lessee under any and all Related Contracts so that there will be no default thereunder and so that the other parties thereunder shall be, and remain at all times, obliged to perform their obligations thereunder, and the Lessee, to the extent within its control, shall not permit to exist any condition, event or fact that could allow or serve as a basis or justification for any such Person to avoid such performance.
 
Section 11.   Condition and Use of Facility; Quiet Enjoyment.
 
(a)  THE FACILITY IS LEASED AND THE LESSEE ACCEPTS AND TAKES POSSESSION OF THE FACILITY AS IS, WHERE IS, AND WITH ALL FAULTS AND IN THE CONDITION THEREOF AND SUBJECT TO THE RIGHTS OF ANY PARTIES IN POSSESSION THEREOF, THE STATE OF THE TITLE THERETO, THE RIGHTS OF OWNERSHIP THEREIN AND SUBJECT TO ALL GOVERNMENTAL REQUIREMENTS NOW IN EFFECT OR HEREAFTER ADOPTED, IN EACH CASE AS IN EXISTENCE WHEN THE SAME FIRST BECOMES SUBJECT TO THIS LEASE, WITHOUT REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND AS TO TITLE BY THE LESSOR (OTHER THAN, AS TO THE LESSOR, THE ABSENCE OF ANY “LESSOR LIENS,” AS DEFINED IN SECTION 16(a) HEREOF), ANY LEASE PARTICIPANT OR ANY PERSON ACTING ON BEHALF OF ANY OF THEM. THE LESSEE ACKNOWLEDGES AND AGREES THAT THE FACILITY HAS NOT BEEN SELECTED BY THE LESSOR, ANY LEASE PARTICIPANT, ARRANGER, OR ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT THAT NONE OF THE LESSOR, ANY LEASE PARTICIPANT, ARRANGER, OR ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT HAS SUPPLIED ANY SPECIFICATIONS WITH RESPECT TO THE FACILITY AND THAT NONE OF THE LESSOR, ANY LEASE PARTICIPANT, ARRANGER, OR ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT (I) IS A VENDOR OF, OR MERCHANT OR SUPPLIER WITH RESPECT TO, ANY OF THE PROPERTY COMPRISING THE FACILITY OR ANY PROPERTY OF SUCH KIND, (II) HAS MADE ANY RECOMMENDATION, GIVEN ANY ADVICE OR TAKEN ANY OTHER ACTION WITH RESPECT TO THE CHOICE OF ANY MANUFACTURER, SUPPLIER OR TRANSPORTER OF, OR ANY VENDOR OF OR OTHER CONTRACTOR, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, WITH RESPECT TO PROPERTY COMPRISING THE FACILITY, (III) HAS AT ANY TIME HAD PHYSICAL POSSESSION OF ANY SUCH PROPERTY, (IV) HAS MADE OR IS MAKING ANY WARRANTY, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, RELATING TO THE FACILITY, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION, WITH RESPECT TO TITLE, MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE OR OTHERWISE, THE DESIGN, CONDITION, QUALITY OF MATERIAL OR WORKMANSHIP, CONFORMITY TO SPECIFICATIONS, FREEDOM FROM PATENT OR TRADEMARK INFRINGEMENT, ABSENCE OF ANY LATENT OR OTHER DEFECTS, WHETHER OR NOT DISCOVERABLE, WHETHER ARISING PURSUANT TO THE UCC OR ANY OTHER PRESENT OR FUTURE LAW OR OTHERWISE, OR COMPLIANCE WITH APPLICABLE PERMITS OR OTHER GOVERNMENTAL REQUIREMENTS, OR (V) SHALL BE LIABLE FOR INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING LIABILITY IN TORT, STRICT OR OTHERWISE). IN THE EVENT OF ANY DEFECT OR DEFICIENCY OF ANY NATURE IN THE FACILITY OR ANY PROPERTY OR OTHER ITEM CONSTITUTING A PART THEREOF, WHETHER PATENT OR LATENT, NONE OF THE LESSOR, ANY LEASE PARTICIPANT, ARRANGER, OR ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT SHALL HAVE ANY RESPONSIBILITY OR LIABILITY WITH RESPECT THERETO. THE PROVISIONS OF THIS SECTION 11 HAVE BEEN NEGOTIATED AND ARE INTENDED TO BE A COMPLETE EXCLUSION AND NEGATION OF ANY AND ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, BY THE LESSOR, THE LEASE PARTICIPANTS, ARRANGER, AND ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT WITH RESPECT TO THE FACILITY OR ANY PROPERTY OR OTHER ITEM CONSTITUTING A PART THEREOF, WHETHER ARISING PURSUANT TO THE UCC OR ANY OTHER LAW NOW OR HEREAFTER IN EFFECT.
 
(b)  The Lessor hereby assigns to the Lessee, until the occurrence of a Cancellation Event or Termination Event hereunder, the benefits in respect of any Vendor's warranties or undertakings, express or implied, relating to the Facility (including any labor, equipment or parts supplied therewith), and, to the extent assignment of the same is prohibited or precludes enforcement of any such warranty or undertaking, the Lessor hereby subrogates the Lessee to its rights in respect thereof. The Lessor hereby authorizes the Lessee, at the Lessee's expense, to assert any and all claims and to prosecute any and all suits, actions and proceedings, in its own name or in the name of the Lessor, in respect of any such warranty or undertaking and, except during the continuance of an Event of Default, or after the occurrence of a Cancellation Event or Termination Event hereunder, to retain the proceeds received, and after the termination of this Lease or after the occurrence of a Cancellation Event or Termination Event, to pay the same in the form received (with any necessary endorsement) to the Lessor.
 
(c)  The Lessee may use the Facility for the Permitted Use provided that the value of the Facility is not diminished by any such use other than as a result of normal wear and tear in the ordinary course of business. During the term of this Lease, the Lessor covenants that unless a Cancellation Event or a Termination Event has occurred and is continuing and except as may arise under a Permitted Lien or as may otherwise be contemplated under the Operative Documents, the Lessor will not, and will not permit any party claiming by, through or under the Lessor to, interfere with the peaceful and quiet possession and enjoyment of the Facility by the Lessee; provided, however, that the Lessor and the Lease Participants and their respective successors, assigns, representatives and agents may, upon reasonable notice to the Lessee, enter upon and examine the Facility or any part thereof at reasonable times, subject to the provisions of Section 19; and provided further, however, that the Lessor is not hereby warranting the state or quality of the title to any part of the Facility. Any failure by the Lessor to comply with the foregoing provisions of this Section 11(c) shall not give the Lessee any right to cancel or terminate this Lease, or to abate, reduce or make reduction from or offset against any Rent or other sum payable under this Lease or any other Operative Document, or to fail to perform or observe any other covenant, agreement or obligation hereunder or thereunder. The Lessee will not do, or fail to do, or permit or suffer to exist any act or thing, which action or thing or failure might impair the value, use or usefulness of the Facility for the Permitted Use in accordance with the design of the Facility, ordinary wear and tear excepted.
 
Section 12.   Liens.
 
The Lessee will not directly or indirectly create, or permit to be created or to remain, and at the Lessee's expense will discharge within 30 days of notice of the filing or assertion thereof, by bond, deposit or otherwise, any Lien upon the Lease or the Facility except (i) any Lien being contested as permitted by and in accordance with Section 13, or (ii) Permitted Liens. The Lessor agrees that the Lessee shall have during the term of this Lease the exclusive right (so long as no Event of Default has occurred and is continuing) to grant, create or suffer to exist Permitted Liens in the ordinary course of business and in accordance with prudent industry practices, provided that the fair market value or use of the Facility or the applicable part thereof for the Permitted Use is not materially lessened thereby. The Lessor agrees to execute such documents and take all other actions as shall be reasonably necessary, and otherwise to cooperate with the Lessee in connection with the matters described above, provided that all reasonable out-of-pocket costs and expenses (including, without limitation, reasonable attorneys' fees and expenses) incurred by the Lessor in connection therewith shall be borne by the Lessee, and the Lessor shall not be required to execute any document that would, in the opinion of the Lessor, materially and adversely affect the value or use of the Facility or any part thereof for the Permitted Use or otherwise materially and adversely affect the transactions contemplated by the Operative Documents or the interests of the Lessor or the Lease Participants in the Facility or under the Operative Documents or otherwise.
 
(a)  The Lessor will not directly or indirectly create, or permit to be created or to remain, and will discharge, any Lien of any nature whatsoever on, in or with respect to, its interest in the Facility arising by or through it or its actions, except Permitted Liens.
 
(b)  The Lessee will not directly or indirectly sell, transfer, or otherwise dispose of its interest in the Facility.
 
Section 13.   Permitted Contests.
 
Notwithstanding any other provision of this Lease to the contrary, after prior written notice to the Lessor and provided there is no material risk of sale, forfeiture or loss of the Facility or any material part thereof, the Lessee may at its expense contest any Imposition which it is required to pay hereunder, by appropriate proceedings conducted in good faith and with due diligence, so long as such proceedings are effective to prevent the collection of such Imposition from the Lessor or the Lease Participants or against the Facility or any part thereof (or if such amounts have been paid by the Lessee under protest in connection therewith); provided, however, that the actions of the Lessee, as authorized by this Section 13, shall be subject to the express written consent of the Lessor if such actions would subject the Lessor or any such Lease Participant or the Facility or any part thereof to any liability or loss not indemnified in full by the Lessee hereunder or any sanction, criminal or otherwise, for failure to pay any such Imposition. The Lessee will pay, and save the Lessor and each such Lease Participant harmless against, all losses, Judgments and reasonable costs, including reasonable attorneys' fees and expenses, in connection with any such contest and will, promptly after the final determination of such contest, pay and discharge the amounts which shall be imposed or determined to be payable therein, together with all penalties, costs and expenses incurred in connection therewith. The Lessee shall prevent any foreclosure, judicial sale, taking, loss or forfeiture of the Facility or any part thereof, or any interference with or deductions from any Rent or any other sum required to be paid by the Lessee hereunder by reason of such nonpayment or nondischarge of an Imposition. The Lessor shall cooperate with the Lessee in any contest and shall allow the Lessee to conduct such contest (in the name of the Lessor, if necessary) at the Lessee's sole cost and expense; and the Lessee shall indemnify and hold the Lessor harmless from and against all liabilities, costs and expenses in connection with such contest. The Lessee shall notify the Lessor of each such proceeding within 10 days after the commencement thereof, which notice shall describe such proceeding in reasonable detail.
 
Section 14.   Insurance, etc.
 
(a)  The Lessee will, at its own expense, purchase and maintain, or cause to be purchased and maintained throughout the term of this Lease, insurance with respect to its business and the Facility in accordance with the requirements of Schedule 14.
 
(b)  The Lessee shall bear all risk of loss (including any Loss Event or Casualty Occurrence), whether by casualty, theft, taking, confiscation or otherwise, with respect to the Facility or any part thereof, at all times during the term of this Lease until possession of the Facility has been accepted by the Lessor pursuant to Section 17.
 
(c)  So long as no Termination Event or Cancellation Event shall have occurred, any payments, whether constituting insurance proceeds, amounts paid by any Governmental Authority or otherwise, received by the Lessee or the Lessor upon the occurrence of any loss with respect to the Facility or part thereof (other than a Casualty Occurrence), whether as a result of casualty, theft, taking or other confiscation, shall be applied in payment for necessary repairs and replacement to the Facility in accordance with Section 7 or, to the extent the costs of such repairs and replacement shall have been paid by the Lessee, to reimburse the Lessee. The Lessee shall be entitled to retain any excess funds remaining after necessary repairs and replacements have been completed and all costs therefor paid in full. Upon the occurrence of any Termination Event or Cancellation Event, the Lessor shall be entitled to receive and retain any such payments for application to the obligations of the Lessee hereunder.
 
(d)  Upon a Casualty Occurrence, the Lessee shall give prompt notice thereof to the Lessor and shall within 60 days of the date of such Casualty Occurrence either (i) offer to purchase the whole of the Facility for the Purchase Price as provided in Section 15(b)(ii), or (ii) provide the Lessor with a replacement plan acceptable to the Lessor setting forth how the Lessee shall replace, or cause to be replaced, at the Lessee's own cost and expense, in no event later than the Scheduled Lease Termination Date such part of the Facility that is the subject of a Casualty Occurrence in accordance with this Section 14(d) and Section 7. If the Lessee chooses the option set forth in clause (ii) of the preceding sentence, within the later to occur of (x) 60 days after the date of the Casualty Occurrence and (y) satisfaction of all applicable Governmental Requirements, and obtaining all authorizations of Governmental Authorities, required therefor (but in no event later than 180 days after the date of the Casualty Occurrence), the Lessee shall have commenced repairs or replacements as specified in the replacement plan and shall thereafter proceed diligently with such repairs and replacements to completion. After completion of the repairs and replacements, the Lessee shall demonstrate to the satisfaction of the Lessor that operations, capacity and production from the Facility have been restored to the standards required for “Completion” (as such term was defined and used in the Original Lease Documents).
 
(e)  All replacement Property of the Facility (other than temporary replacement parts and equipment installed pending installation of permanent replacement Property) installed pursuant to Section 14(d) shall be free and clear of all Liens except Permitted Liens, and shall be in as good operating condition as, and shall have a value and utility at least equal to, the Property replaced immediately prior to the Casualty Occurrence to which such Property was subject. For purposes of this Lease (including without limitation Section 14(d) and Section 7), the Funded Amount and book value of the replacement Property shall be deemed to equal the Funded Amount and book value of the part(s) replaced thereby. All Property of the Facility at any time removed from this Lease pursuant to Section 14(d) and Section 7 shall remain the property of the Lessor, no matter where located, until such time as insurance proceeds have been received by the Lessor at least equal to the book value of such part of the Facility or such part shall be replaced by suitable items that have been incorporated or installed on or attached to the Facility and that meet the requirements specified above. Immediately upon any permanent replacement Property becoming incorporated or installed on or attached to the Facility as provided above, without further act, such permanent replacements shall become subject to this Lease and be deemed part of the Facility for all purposes hereof to the same extent as any other parts of the Facility. All amounts of insurance proceeds for Property losses and all other proceeds (whether resulting from damage or destruction or from condemnation, confiscation or seizure) relating to the Facility shall be held and released, together with accrued interest thereon, as hereinafter provided. So long as a Cancellation Event or Termination Event shall not have occurred, and provided that the Lessor shall have received a written application of the Lessee accompanied by a certificate of an Authorized Officer of the Lessee showing in reasonable detail the nature of any necessary repair, rebuilding and restoration, the actual cash expenditures necessary for such repair, rebuilding and restoration, the expected total expenditures required to complete such work and evidence that sufficient funds are or will be available to complete such work on a timely basis (such certificate to be acceptable to the Lessor in all respects), then the amount of such proceeds, together with accrued interest thereon, shall be released by the Lessor immediately upon receipt of such certification or, if applicable, from time to time on the last Business Day of each month during the period of repair, rebuilding and restoration in payment therefor against presentation to the Lessor of a certificate executed by an Authorized Officer of the Lessee to the effect that expenditures have been made, or costs incurred, by or for the account of the Lessee or are reasonably anticipated to be made during the immediately following one month period in a specified amount for the purposes of making repairs, rebuilding and restoration in the amounts specified, that no Event of Default, Cancellation Event or Termination Event exists and all conditions precedent herein provided relating to such withdrawal and payment have been satisfied. Upon the occurrence of any Termination Event or Cancellation Event, the Lessor shall be entitled to retain all such proceeds for application to the obligations of the Lessee hereunder.
 
(f)  If any Loss Event or Casualty Occurrence shall occur, the Lessee shall promptly notify the Lessor of such event in writing.
 
Section 15.   Termination; Cancellation; Purchase Option.
 
(a) (i) The termination of this Lease (A) on the Scheduled Lease Termination Date or (B) by reason of the occurrence of a Limited Recourse Event of Default and the delivery by the Lessor (acting, in accordance with Section 9.02(f) of the Investment Agreement, of its own accord or at the direction of the Majority Funding Parties) to the Lessee of a notice stating that the Lessor elects to terminate this Lease by reason of the occurrence of such Limited Recourse Event of Default, in which case the Lease Termination Date will be the 5th Business Day after the date of delivery of said notice to the Lessee, shall be a “Termination Event,” the effect of which shall be to cause this Lease to terminate on the applicable Lease Termination Date.
 
(ii) If a Termination Event occurs, the Lessee, on the Lease Termination Date, shall, in accordance with the terms of Section 2(b), without further notice or demand to the Lessee, either
 
(A) purchase the Facility from the Lessor for the Purchase Price; or
 
(B) so long as no Cancellation Event has occurred:
 
(i) pay to the Lessor the Final Rent Payment and provide to the Lessor a satisfactory update of the Environmental Assessment; and
 
(ii) attempt to sell (until such time as the Lessor shall have terminated, in accordance with Section 8.30 of the Investment Agreement, the Lessee's obligation to so attempt to sell the Facility), subject to the Lessor's prior written approval, the Facility, as agent for the Lessor, without recourse or warranty by the Lessor, to a Person not affiliated with Lessee for a net cash purchase price not less than, and remit to the Lessor the net cash sales proceeds equal to (unless otherwise approved by all of the Funding Parties), the Termination Value less any amount paid pursuant to Section 15(a)(ii)(B)(i), with Lessee’s being entitled to retain for its own account the amount by which such proceeds exceed the Termination Value. The Lessor shall also have the right (but not the obligation) to sell the Facility and/or solicit bids, each in its sole and absolute discretion. 
 
(b) (i) Each of the following events shall be a “Cancellation Event”, the effect of which shall be to cause this Lease to be terminated in accordance with the following provisions on the “Cancellation Date” specified:
 
(A) the occurrence of (1) a Lease Event of Default (other than a Lease Event of Default under Section 17(a)(iv) hereof, a Lease Event of Default occurring by virtue of an Event of Default under Section 9.01(h) or (i) of the Investment Agreement, or a Limited Recourse Event of Default) and the delivery by the Lessor to the Lessee of a notice stating that the Lessor (acting, in accordance with Section 9.02(a) of the Investment Agreement, of its own accord or at the direction of the Majority Funding Parties) elects to terminate this Lease by reason of the existence of such Lease Event of Default, in which cases the Cancellation Date will be the 5th Business Day after the date of delivery of said notice to the Lessee, or (2) a Lease Event of Default under Section 17(a)(iv) hereof or a Lease Event of Default occurring by virtue of an Event of Default under Section 9.01(h) or (i) of the Investment Agreement in which cases the Cancellation Date shall occur immediately upon the occurrence of such Lease Event of Default; or
 
(B) the occurrence of a Loss Event, in which case the Cancellation Date shall be the 5th Business Day after such event occurs; or
 
(C) the occurrence of a Casualty Occurrence in respect of the Facility and the failure of the Lessee to purchase the Facility or to replace or repair the Facility or such part thereof in accordance with, and within the time required by, Section 14(d), and the delivery by the Lessor (acting at the direction of the Majority Funding Parties) to the Lessee of a notice after the expiration of such time stating that the Lessor elects to terminate this Lease by reason of the existence of such Casualty Occurrence, in which case the Cancellation Date shall be the 5th Business Day after the date of delivery of said notice.
 
(ii) If a Cancellation Event occurs, the Lessee, on the Cancellation Date, shall, without further notice or demand to the Lessee, either (A) purchase the Facility from the Lessor for the Purchase Price, or (B) pay to the Lessor the Termination Value.
 
(c) The Lessee may, from time to time and at any time following the 3rd anniversary of the Lease Commencement Date, deliver to the Lessor notice of its intent to terminate this Lease, in which case the Lessee shall purchase the Facility from the Lessor for the Purchase Price on any Rent Payment Date that is not less than 30 nor more than 60 days after such notice (the “Option Date”). Upon payment in full of the Purchase Price, this Lease shall terminate.
 
(d) This Lease shall cease and terminate on the Lease Termination Date, and payment of all amounts payable by the Lessee on such date, except with respect to (i) obligations and liabilities of the Lessee, actual or contingent, which arose under this Lease, or by reason of events or circumstances occurring or existing, on or prior to its termination, and which have not been satisfied (which obligations shall continue until satisfied and which include, but are not limited to, obligations for Rent and the Termination Value, the Purchase Price and amounts owing pursuant to Section 16), and (ii) obligations of the Lessee which by the terms of this Lease expressly survive termination. Promptly after either the Lessee or the Lessor shall learn of the happening of any Termination Event or Cancellation Event, such party shall give notice thereof to the other party hereto.
 
(e) In the event the Lessee elects to purchase the Facility upon the occurrence of a Termination Event (other than the expiration of this Lease on a Scheduled Lease Termination Date) or a Cancellation Event, Lessee in its sole discretion in order to ensure the orderly conveyance of the Facility may postpone the closing date for such conveyance (whether or not extended, the “Purchase Closing Date”) to a reasonable date within 60 days following the Lease Termination Date or Cancellation Date, as applicable. The Lessor shall notify the Lessee of any such postponement and the proposed extended Purchase Closing Date in writing on or before the Lease Termination Date or Cancellation Date, as applicable, and the Lessee shall be deemed to have been granted a temporary license by the Lessor entitling the Lessee to retain possession of the Facility through the Purchase Closing Date provided that the Lessee complies with all obligations of the Lessee under this Lease as though this Lease were still in full force and effect (including without limitation, compliance with permitted use, maintenance and insurance coverage requirements). In the event of an extension of the Purchase Closing Date as herein contemplated, the Purchase Price will be calculated as of such extended Purchase Closing Date. This Section 15(e) shall survive the termination of this Lease.
 
Section 16.   Transfer of Title on Removal of Facility; Expenses of Transfer.
 
(a)  Upon any sale or purchase of the Facility permitted by Section 15, the Lessor will transfer to the Lessee or the appropriate Third Party all of its title to and legal and beneficial ownership interest in the Facility (i) free and clear of any Lien created by, through or under the Lessor other than Permitted Liens or Liens created at the request of or as a result of the actions of the Lessee or anyone acting by, through or under the Lessee, or a result of the failure of the Lessee or the Guarantor to carry out any of their obligations under this Lease or the other Operative Documents (individually and collectively, as the context shall require, the “Lessor Liens”), and (ii) without recourse, representation or warranty of any nature whatsoever (except as to the absence of such Liens as aforesaid).
 
(b)  Whenever the Lessee has the right to purchase or transfer to itself the Facility pursuant to any provision of this Lease, the Lessee may cause such purchase to be effected by, or such transfer to be effected to, any other Person specified by the Lessee, but in no event shall the Lessee be relieved from any of its obligations hereunder as a result thereof.
 
(c)  Upon any sale or transfer of the Facility pursuant to any provision of this Lease, the Lessee shall pay the expenses of the Lessor, including, without limitation, reasonable attorneys' fees and expenses, in connection with such sale or transfer.
 
(d)  If, on the Lease Termination Date or on the Cancellation Date, as applicable, the Lessee or any of its Affiliates has not elected to acquire the Facility, the Lessee shall surrender the Facility to the Lessor free from all Liens except Permitted Liens (other than those described in clause (ii)(b) of the definition of Permitted Liens), in substantially the same operating condition (except for ordinary wear and tear) with the remaining original estimated useful life contemplated by the Facility Plan intact and having the same capacity and efficiency as the Facility had on the Lease Commencement Date, and in compliance in all material respects with all Governmental Requirements and Insurance Requirements, and free of all Environmental Damages and Environmental Liabilities. To evidence the foregoing and accomplish the surrender of the Facility, the Lessee shall provide the following items (x) in the event of a Termination Event under Section 15(a)(i)(A) within 9 months prior to the Lease Termination Date, with final confirmation of the same at least 30 days but not more than 60 days prior thereto and (y) in the event of a Termination Event under Section 15(a)(i)(B), as soon as practicable but in any event at least 3 Business Days prior to the Lease Termination Date or Cancellation Date, as applicable, all to be held until the Lease Termination Date or Cancellation Date:
 
(i) evidence satisfactory to the Lessor that all Applicable Permits, Related Contracts, and all other rights and services reasonably required to operate the Facility have been, or on or prior to the Lease Termination Date shall be, transferred to the Lessor (or the Lessor has been, or on or prior to the Lease Termination Date or Cancellation Date, as applicable, shall be, given the right to use each such item) and can be transferred to (or used by) any successor or assignee of the Lessor without further consent or approval by any Person (subject only to normal Governmental Requirements);
 
(ii) conveyancing, assignment, transfer, termination and other documents that, in the sole discretion of the Lessor and the Lease Participants, are sufficient to (A) vest in the Lessor (which it holds for itself and in trust for the Lease Participants) good and marketable title to the Facility, free and clear of all Liens except Permitted Liens (other than those described in clause (ii)(b) of the definition of Permitted Liens) and (B) terminate the rights of the Lessee and all other Persons in and to the Facility;
 
(iii)  evidence satisfactory to the Lessor that the Facility has been operated and maintained substantially in accordance with the requirements of the Operative Documents, all Governmental Requirements, all Applicable Permits and prudent industry practices;
 
(iv) evidence satisfactory to the Lessor that the Facility is being used solely for the Permitted Use and is operating substantially in accordance with the requirements set forth in the Facility Plan, meets or exceeds the original design specifications and is capable of operating and being used for the Permitted Use as set forth in the Facility Plan, and has the remaining original estimated useful life contemplated by the Facility Plan;
 
(v) evidence satisfactory to the Lessor, in its sole discretion, that (A) Lessee has complied with its obligations under Section 8.30, (B) all agreements and arrangements to provide the services and rights contemplated by the Section 8.30 are in place, executed by the parties thereto, and are valid, enforceable and in full force and effect on or before the Lease Termination Date or Cancellation Date, as applicable and (C) such agreements and arrangements adequately provide for the services and other rights contemplated by Section 8.30;
 
(vi) an updated Phase 1 Environmental Assessment; and
 
(viii) such other documents, instruments, assessments, investigations, legal opinions, surveys and other items as the Lessor may reasonably request to evidence to the satisfaction of each of the Lessor and the Lease Participants (in each case, in their sole discretion) that (A) the Lessor has all Property, services, Permits, assets and rights necessary to own, operate and maintain the Facility from and after the Lease Termination Date or Cancellation Date, as applicable, and (B) no Default, Loss Event or Casualty Occurrence then exists.
 
To the extent the Facility is not in the condition required by this Section 16(d), the Lessee will pay to the Lessor such additional amounts as are reasonably required to place it in compliance. The Lessee shall also pay all costs and expenses relating to the surrender and clean-up in connection with the surrender of the Facility as may be required by Governmental Requirements or Insurance Requirements or which are otherwise necessary to prevent or remedy any Environmental Damages or Environmental Liabilities or to consummate the delivery of possession of the Facility to the Lessor hereunder.
 
Section 17.   Events of Default and Remedies.
 
(a)  Each of the following acts or occurrences shall constitute a “Lease Event of Default” hereunder:
 
(i) default in the payment of the Purchase Price or the Termination Value on the Cancellation Date or the Purchase Closing Date, as applicable, or in the payment of the Purchase Price or the Final Rent Payment, as applicable, on the Lease Termination Date; or the default in the payment when due of any Basic Rent and the continuance of such default for 5 Business Days thereafter; or the default in the payment when due of any Supplemental Rent, the amount of any Indemnified Risk or any other amount due hereunder or under any other Operative Document and the continuance of such default for 30 days thereafter; or
 
(ii) any representation or warranty made or deemed made by the Lessee herein shall be false or misleading in any material respect on the date made or deemed made; or
 
(iii) an Event of Default under the Investment Agreement (other than a Limited Recourse Event of Default);
 
(iv) the Lessee shall fail to observe or perform any covenant or agreement contained in Sections 12 and 26 of this Lease; or
 
(v) the Lessee shall fail to observe or perform any covenant or agreement contained (other than those covered by subsections (i) or (iv) above), and such failure shall not have been cured within 10 days, with respect to any covenant contained in Section 14 of this Lease, and 30 days, with respect to any other provision hereof, after the earlier to occur of (A) written notice thereof has been given to the Lessee by the Lessor (acting, in accordance with Section 9.02(a) of the Investment Agreement, of its own accord or at the request of the Majority Funding Parties) or (B) the chief financial, chief operating, chief legal or chief accounting officer of the Lessee or the Guarantor otherwise becomes aware of any such failure; or
 
(vi) Lessee shall abandon the Facility; provided however that for purposes of this Section 17(a)(vi), the term “abandon” shall not include the mere failure of Lessee to occupy the Facility so long as Lessee continues to perform its obligations hereunder and other Operative Documents including without limitation maintenance of the Facility, maintenance of required insurance, compliance with Governmental Requirements and Insurance Requirements and payment of all Rent.
 
(b)  Subject to Section 9.02 of the Investment Agreement, upon the occurrence and during the continuance of any Lease Event of Default, as determined by the Lessor, the Lessor (acting, in accordance with Section 9.02(a) of the Investment Agreement, of its own accord or at the direction of the Majority Funding Parties) may do any one or more of the following (without prejudice to the obligations of the Lessee under Section 15(b)(ii)):
 
(i) proceed by appropriate judicial proceedings, either at law, in equity or in bankruptcy, to enforce performance or observance by the Lessee of the applicable provisions of this Lease, or to recover damages for the breach of any such provisions, or any other equitable or legal remedy, all as the Lessor shall deem necessary or advisable; and/or
 
(ii) by notice to the Lessee, either (x) terminate this Lease in accordance with Section 15, whereupon the Lessee's interest and all rights of the Lessee to the use of the Facility shall forthwith terminate subject to the Lessee's rights under such Section 15 to acquire the Facility on the Purchase Closing Date as provided herein, but the Lessee shall remain liable with respect to its obligations and liabilities hereunder; or (y) terminate the Lessee's right to possession of the Facility or any part thereof; and/or
 
(iii) exercise any and all other remedies available under applicable law or at equity.
 
(c)  After the occurrence and during the continuance of a Cancellation Event or Termination Event, in the event the Lessor elects not to terminate this Lease and the Lessee has not exercised its option under Section 15(c), this Lease shall continue in effect and the Lessor may enforce all of the Lessor's rights and remedies under this Lease, including, without limitation, the right to recover the Basic Rent and Supplemental Rent, and any other yield protection payments and other amounts with respect thereto, as it becomes due under this Lease or any other Operative Documents. For the purposes hereof, the following do not constitute a cancellation or termination of this Lease: (i) acts of maintenance or preservation of the Facility or any part thereof, (ii) efforts by the Lessor to relet the Facility or any part thereof, including, without limitation, termination of any sublease of the Facility and removal of any tenant from the Site, (iii) or the appointment of a receiver upon the initiative of the Lessor to protect the Lessor's interest under this Lease.
 
(d)  If (i) on the Lease Termination Date, the Facility is not acquired by the Lessee or its designee by payment of the Purchase Price, or (ii) on the Cancellation Date, the Lessee or its designee has defaulted in its obligation to acquire the Facility and pay the Purchase Price, or if applicable, the Termination Value, in accordance with Lessee's election under Section 15(b)(ii), then the Lessor shall have the immediate right of possession of the Facility and the right to enter onto the Site and to remove any and all of the Property comprising the Facility, and the Lessor may thenceforth hold, possess and enjoy the Facility free from any rights of the Lessee and any Person claiming by, through or under the Lessee. The Lessor shall be under no liability by reason of any such repossession or the Facility or entry onto the Site.
 
(e)  Should the Lessor elect to repossess the Facility or any part thereof upon cancellation or termination of this Lease or otherwise in the exercise of the Lessor's remedies, the Lessee shall peaceably quit and surrender the Facility or any such part thereof to the Lessor and either (i) deliver possession of the Facility to the Lessor or (ii) allow Lessor or its agents or assigns to enter onto the Facility and the Site to remove any and all of the Property comprising the Facility at the expense of the Lessee, and neither the Lessee nor any Person claiming through or under the Lessee shall thereafter be entitled to possession or to remain in possession of the Facility or any part thereof but shall forthwith peaceably quit and surrender the Facility to the Lessor.
 
(f)  At any time after the repossession of the Facility or any part thereof, whether or not this Lease shall have been cancelled or terminated, the Lessor may (but shall be under no obligation to) relet the Facility or the applicable part thereof without notice to the Lessee, for such term or terms and on such conditions and for such usage as the Lessor in its sole and absolute discretion may determine. The Lessor may collect and receive any rents payable by reason of such reletting, and the Lessor shall not be liable for any failure to relet the Facility or for any failure to collect any rent due upon any such reletting.
 
(g)  The remedies herein provided in case of a Lease Event of Default are in addition to, and without prejudice to, the Lessee's continuing obligations under Section 15(b)(ii), and shall not be deemed to be exclusive, but shall be cumulative and shall be in addition to all other remedies existing at law, in equity or in bankruptcy. The Lessor may exercise any remedy without waiving its right to exercise any other remedy hereunder or existing at law, in equity or in bankruptcy.
 
(h)  No waiver by the Lessor hereunder of any Default or Event of Default shall constitute a waiver of any other or subsequent Default or Event of Default. To the extent permitted by applicable law, the Lessee waives any right it may have at any time to require the Lessor to mitigate the Lessor's damages upon the occurrence of a Default or Event of Default by taking any action or exercising any remedy that may be available to the Lessor, the exercise of remedies hereunder being at the discretion of the Lessor.
 
Section 18.   Change in the Lessee’s Name or Structure.
 
The Lessee shall not change its name, identity or corporate structure (including, without limitation, by any merger, consolidation or sale of substantially all of its assets) except to the extent permitted by Section 26(a).
 
Section 19.   Inspection; Right to Enter Premises of the Lessee.
 
The Lessee shall permit, and cause each of its Subsidiaries to permit, the Lessor, the Administrative Agent, any Lease Participant or their respective authorized representatives but without any obligation to do so) to (i) enter upon the Facility at reasonable times upon reasonable advance notice in order to inspect the Facility (subject to compliance with applicable safety requirements of the Lessee and applicable Governmental Requirements) and (ii) examine, audit and make abstracts from any of their respective books and records and to discuss the condition, compliance with Governmental Requirements, performance of the Facility and the respective affairs, finances and accounts of the Lessee with their respective officers and independent accountants. The Lessee agrees to coordinate and assist in such visits and inspections, in each case at such reasonable times and as often as may reasonably be desired.
 
Section 20.   Right to Perform the Lessee’s Covenants; The Administrative Agent.
 
   (a) Subject to Section 13, if the Lessee shall fail to make any payment or perform any act required to be made or performed by it hereunder, the Lessor, upon notice to or demand upon the Lessee but without waiving or releasing any obligation or Default or Event of Default, may (but shall be under no obligation to) at any time thereafter make such payment or perform such act for the account and at the expense of the Lessee as, at the Lessor's sole discretion, may be necessary or appropriate therefor and, upon the occurrence and during the continuance of a Cancellation Event or Termination Event, may enter upon the Facility for such purpose and take all such action thereon as, at the Lessor's sole discretion, may be necessary or appropriate therefor. No such entry shall be deemed an eviction of the Lessee. All sums so paid by the Lessor and all costs and expenses (including, without limitation, reasonable attorneys' fees and expenses so incurred) shall be paid by the Lessee to the Lessor on demand as Supplemental Rent.
 
(b) In accordance with Section 10.02 of the Investment Agreement, Lessee acknowledges and agrees that the Administrative Agent has been appointed to undertake, on Lessor’s and, in certain cases, the Lease Participants’ behalf, certain actions with respect to the administration of this Lease, the other Operative Documents, and the transactions contemplated herein and therein. Lessee agrees to abide by the provisions of Section 10.02 of the Investment Agreement and other provisions in the Operative Documents in respect of the Administrative Agent’s role and function in connection with the administration of the transactions contemplated therein, including, without limitation, the payment of Rent and other amounts owing under the Operative Documents directly to the Administrative Agent for the account of the Lessor and the Lease Participants, as applicable, the receipt and delivery of notices, reports, financial statements, and the like to the Administrative Agent on the Lessor’s and the Lease Participants’ behalf, and permitting, where applicable, the Administrative Agent to exercise, on the Lessor’s and the Lease Participants’ behalf, the rights and remedies afforded Lessor under the Operative Documents.
 
Section 21.   Participation by Co-Lessees or Sublessees.
 
(a)  Except as otherwise permitted in this Section 21 or (with respect to the Lessor) Section 11.06(b)(i) of the Investment Agreement, neither the Lessor nor the Lessee may assign its rights or obligations under this Lease without the prior consent of all of the Lease Participants. The Lessor holds the Lien under this Lease for itself and in trust for the Lease Participants. The Lessor, acting on behalf of itself and the Lease Participants, shall be entitled to exercise all of the rights, remedies, powers and privileges herein conferred upon Lessor (including, without limitation, in any bankruptcy proceeding), to give or withhold all consents required to be obtained from the Lessor hereunder, to give all notices on behalf of the Lessor including notices regarding Rent, the Final Rent Payment, and Supplemental Rent due hereunder, to receive all payments to be made to the Lessor hereunder and to approve any sale of the Facility pursuant to Section 15 to a Person other than the Lessee or any designee of the Lessee or for a price less than the Termination Value; provided, however, that nothing herein shall be deemed to be a waiver or relinquishment of the right of the Lessor to receive Supplemental Rent for its out of pocket costs and expenses as described in Section 3(c)(i) or to be indemnified for any matter for which Lessor is entitled to indemnification hereunder. Lessee acknowledges and agrees that certain of Lessor’s and, in certain cases, the Lease Participants’ rights and duties under this and the other Operative Documents may be enforced or performed, as applicable, by the Administrative Agent on behalf of the Lessor or the Lease Participants, as further described herein and in Section 10.02 of the Investment Agreement.
 
(b)  The Lessor and the Lessee may from time to time, so long as no Cancellation Event or Termination Event shall have occurred and be continuing, enter into documentation amending this Lease and, as necessary, the other Operative Documents, to evidence the undertaking of a Person (a “Co-Lessee”) to be responsible for all or certain obligations of the Lessee and the attendant reduction in the obligations of the Lessee hereunder, subject in every case to (i) the prior written approval of the Lessor and each Lease Participant, each acting in its sole discretion in approving said Co-Lessee and the documentation amending this Lease and the Operative Documents, it being understood that any of the Lessor or the Lease Participants may for any reason whatsoever elect not to grant such approval, in which case this Lease shall not be amended; (ii) such documentation expressly stating that such assignment is subject and subordinate to the terms of this Lease and the Liens created by the Security Instruments; and (iii) the Lessee remaining primarily liable for all obligations of the tenant of the Facility under this Lease. Any assignment made otherwise than as expressly permitted by this Section 21(b) shall be null and void and of no force and effect.
 
(c)  The Lessee may, from time to time, so long as no Default, Event of Default, Cancellation Event or Termination Event shall have occurred and be continuing, enter into a sublease as to the Facility and such other documentation as may be necessary with one or more Persons (each a “Sublessee”). In any event, any documentation executed by the Lessee in connection with the subletting of the Facility (i) shall expressly state that such sublease is subject and subordinate to the terms of this Lease and the Liens created by the Security Instruments and (ii) shall not provide for a sublease term ending after the then current Scheduled Lease Termination Date. The Lessee will furnish promptly to the Lessor copies of all subleases and related documentation entered into by the Lessee from time to time. No sublease permitted by the terms hereof will reduce in any respect the obligations of the Lessee hereunder, it being the intent of the Lessee and the Lessor that the Lessee be and remain directly and primarily liable as a principal for its obligations hereunder. Any sublease made otherwise than as expressly permitted by this Section 21(c) shall be null and void and of no force or effect.
 
Section 22.   Notices.
 
Except as otherwise provided herein, all notices, requests and other communications provided for hereunder shall be in writing (including telecopier and other readable communication) and mailed by certified mail, return receipt requested, telecopied or otherwise transmitted or delivered, if to the Lessee, at 2801 Highway 280 South, Birmingham, Alabama 35223, Attention: Lance Black, Telecopier: 205-268-3642; if to the Lessor, at Wachovia Development Corporation, c/o Wachovia Bank, National Association, 301 South College Street, MC NC0174, Charlotte, NC 28288, Attention: Gabrielle Braverman, Telecopier: 704-715-0065, or, as to each party, at such other address as shall be designated by such party in a written notice to the other parties. All such notices and communications shall, if so mailed, telecopied or otherwise transmitted, be effective when received, if mailed, or when the appropriate answer back or other evidence of receipt is given, if telecopied or otherwise transmitted, respectively. Each such notice, request or other communication shall be effective (i) if given by telecopier, when such telecopy is transmitted to the telecopier number specified in this Section and the confirmation is received, (ii) if given by mail, 72 hours after such communication is deposited in the mails with first class postage prepaid, addressed as aforesaid or (iii) if given by any other means, when delivered at the address specified in this Section; provided, that notices to the Lessor under Section 3 shall not be effective until received. A notice received by the Lessor by telephone shall be effective if the Lessor believes in good faith that it was given by an authorized representative of the Lessee and acts pursuant thereto, notwithstanding the absence of written confirmation or any contradictory provision thereof. In accordance with Section 10.02 of the Investment Agreement, Lessor and Lessee agree that notice delivered by the Lessee to the Administrative Agent shall constitute constructive receipt thereof by Lessor and that notice delivered by the Administrative Agent shall constitute in all respects notice delivered by the Lessor.
 
Section 23.   Amendments and Waivers.
 
The provisions of this Lease may from time to time be amended, modified or waived only if such amendment, modification or waiver is in writing and consented to by the Lessee and the Lessor (with the consent of the requisite Funding Parties and the Administrative Agent, as required by the Investment Agreement).
 
Section 24.   Severability.
 
Any provision of this Lease which is prohibited or unenforceable in any jurisdiction shall, as to such jurisdiction, be ineffective to the extent of such prohibition or unenforceability without invalidating the remaining provisions hereof, and any such prohibition or unenforceability in any jurisdiction shall not invalidate or render unenforceable such provision in any other jurisdiction.
 
Section 25.   Federal Income Tax Considerations.
 
It is the understanding of the parties that for income tax purposes this transaction will be treated as a financing and the Lessee will be treated as the owner of the Facility; and the Lessee and the Lessor agree not to take any action inconsistent with such treatment, subject to the following sentence. Notwithstanding anything in this Section to the contrary, the Lessor retains the right to assert that it is the owner of the Facility subject to this Lease for income tax purposes in the event that there is a determination (within the meaning of Section 1313 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, or with respect to state or local income tax, a comparable determination under state or local law) that the Lessee is not to be treated as the owner of the Facility.
 
Section 26.   Other Provisions.
 
 In order to protect the rights and remedies of the Lessor and the Lessee both during the term of this Lease and following a Default, an Event of Default, a Termination Event or a Cancellation Event, and for the purposes of Federal, state and local income and taxes, ad valorem taxes, state and local sales taxes, documentary stamp and intangible taxes and other taxes relating to or assessable as a result of the execution, delivery or recording of any of the Operative Documents and for purposes of commercial law and Title 11 of the United States Code (or any other applicable Federal, state or local insolvency, reorganization, moratorium, fraudulent conveyance or similar law now or hereafter in effect for the relief of debtors), the parties hereto intend that (a) this Lease be treated as evidence of and the agreement of the Lessee for the repayment of the Secured Amount (as hereafter defined), (b) all payments of Rent, the Purchase Price and the Termination Value be treated as payments of principal, interest and other amounts owing with respect to the Loan (as hereafter defined), respectively, (c) the Lessee should be treated as entitled to all benefits of ownership of the Facility or any part thereof, (d) this Lease be treated as (i) a mortgage (this Lease, as so treated, is the “Mortgage”) from Lessee, as mortgagor, to the Lessor, as mortgagee, on that part of the Facility constituting real property and is made under those provisions of the existing laws of the State of Alabama relating to mortgages and that the Lessee, as mortgagor and grantor, hereby irrevocably grants, bargains, sells, conveys, assigns, transfers, mortgages and sets over unto the Lessor, as mortgagee and grantee, for the use and benefit of itself and in trust for the Lease Participants, Lessee's right, title and interest in and to any real property of any kind or character comprising the Facility (including the Lessee’s sub-leasehold interest in the Site and all estates, easements, and rights, and its interest in all fixtures and Improvements) and all proceeds therefrom, to have and to hold said real property and all parts, rights, members and appurtenance thereof to the use, benefit and behoof of the Lessor, for the use and benefit of itself and in trust for the Lease Participants, in fee simple forever (as to the fixtures and Improvements) and Lessee covenants that Lessee is lawfully seized and possessed of the aforesaid real property and has good right to convey its interest in the same, that the same is unencumbered except for the Permitted Liens and that Lessee does warrant and will forever defend title thereto against the claims of all persons whomsoever; and (ii) a security agreement from the Lessee, as debtor, to the Lessor, as secured party, encumbering the Lessee’s right, title and interest in the Facility, including the Lessee’s subleasehold and leasehold interest, and all personal property comprising the Facility, and that the Lessee, as debtor, hereby grants to the Lessor, for the use and benefit of the Lessor and in trust for the Lease Participants, as beneficiaries, as secured parties (collectively, the “Secured Party”) a first and prior Lien on and security interest in the equipment and any and all other personal property of any kind or character and fixtures comprising the Facility (including all Related Contracts, excluding “Excluded Equipment,” as defined in Section 6 hereof), and all proceeds therefrom, in each case being effective as of the date of this Lease. In such event, the Lessor shall have all of the rights, powers and remedies of a mortgagee and a secured party available under applicable law, including, without limitation, judicial or nonjudicial foreclosure or power of sale, as and to the extent available under applicable law. The amounts secured by this Mortgage shall be as follows (collectively, the “Secured Amount”):
 
1.  
The collective amount of the aggregate Unrecovered Lessor Investments and unpaid Yield, plus any other amounts owing to the Lessor or the Lease Participants under the Operative Documents (including, without limitation, Supplemental Rent, the Final Rent Payment, and all indemnification amounts);
 
2.  
The portion of the Facility Cost funded by the Lessor representing an aggregate indebtedness in the amount of $75,000,000.00 (the “Loan”);
 
3.  
All future advances of the Loan (if any) which may be made after the date hereof to the same extent as if such future advances were made on the date of the execution of this Mortgage, although there may be no advance made on the date of the execution of this Mortgage, and although there may be no indebtedness outstanding under the Loan or under any other indebtedness of Lessee to Lessor at the time this Mortgage is executed or at the time any advance is made under the Loan or under any other indebtedness of Lessee to Lessor. The parties hereby acknowledge and intend that all advances under the Loan, including future advances (if any) whenever hereafter made, shall be secured by this Mortgage and, to the extent allowed by law, have priority from the time this Mortgage is recorded; and
 
4.  
Any and all additional advances made by the Lessor or the Secured Party to protect or preserve the Collateral (as hereinafter defined) or the lien hereof on the Collateral, or for taxes, assessments or insurance premiums as hereinafter provided (whether or not the original Lessee remains the owner of the Collateral at the time of such advances).
 
The filing of this Lease shall be deemed to constitute the filing of a mortgage and the filing of any financing statement in connection with this Lease shall be deemed to constitute the filing of a financing statement to perfect the mortgage lien and security interests in the Facility as aforesaid and to secure the payment of the Secured Amount. If this transaction is treated as a financing, the obligation arising hereunder shall be with full recourse to the Lessee and shall not be treated as recourse only to the Facility. To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, the Lessor and the Lessee intend that the Facility (other than the real property constituting the Site) be and remain at all times personal property regardless of the manner or extent to which any of the Facility (other than the real property constituting the Site) may be attached or affixed to any real property. Except as required by applicable law, the Lessee shall not under any circumstances take any action or make any filing or recording which would cause the Facility (other than the real property constituting the Site) to be deemed to be real property or permit any Person to obtain any interest in the Facility (other than the real property constituting the Site) as a result of the Facility (other than the real property constituting the Site) being deemed to be in whole or in part real property.
 
In order to preserve the security interest provided for herein, each of the Lessor and the Lessee agrees to abide by the following provisions with regard to the Facility (for purposes of this Section, hereinafter referred to as “Collateral”):
 
(a)  Change in Location of Collateral or the Lessee. The Lessee (i) will notify the Secured Party on or before the date of any change in (A) the location of the Collateral (B) the location of Lessee's chief executive office or address, (C) the name of the Lessee and (D) the corporate structure of the Lessee, and (ii) will, on or before the date of any such change, prepare and file new or amended financing statements as necessary so that the Secured Party shall continue to have a first and prior perfected Lien (subject only to Permitted Liens) in the Collateral after any such change.
 
(b)  Intentionally Omitted.
 
(c)  Sale, Disposition or Encumbrance of Collateral. Except as set forth herein and for Permitted Liens, as permitted by any of the Operative Documents or with the Secured Party's prior written consent, the Lessee will not in any way encumber any of the Collateral (or permit or suffer any of the Collateral to be encumbered) or sell, assign, lend, rent, lease or otherwise dispose of or transfer any of the Collateral to or in favor of any Person other than the Secured Party.
 
(d)  Proceeds of Collateral. Except as permitted by any of the Operative Documents, the Lessee will deliver to the Secured Party promptly upon receipt all proceeds delivered to the Lessee from the sale or disposition of any Collateral. This Section shall not be construed to permit sales or dispositions of the Collateral except as may be elsewhere expressly permitted by this Lease or the other Operative Documents.
 
(e)  Further Assurances. Upon the request of the Secured Party, Lessee shall (at Lessee's expense) execute and deliver all such mortgages, deeds of trust, deeds to secure debts, assignments, certificates, financing statements or other documents and give further assurances and do all other acts and things as the Secured Party may reasonably request to perfect the Secured Party's interest in the Collateral or to protect, enforce or otherwise effect the Secured Party's rights and remedies hereunder, all in form and substance satisfactory to the Secured Party.
 
(f)  Collateral Attached to Other Property. In the event that any of the Collateral is removed from the Facility and is to be attached or affixed to any real property, the Lessee hereby agrees that a financing statement which is a fixture filing may be filed for record in any appropriate real estate records. If the Lessee is not the record owner of such real property, it will provide the Secured Party with any additional security documents or financing statements necessary for the perfection of the Secured Party's Lien in the Collateral, as requested by the Secured Party.
 
(g)  Secured Amount. Should the Secured Amount be paid according to the tenor and effect thereof when the same becomes due and payable hereunder, and should Lessee perform all covenants contained in the Operative Documents in a timely manner, then this Mortgage shall be cancelled and surrendered.
 
(h)  Lease. The Lease will not be amended, supplemented or modified without the written consent of the Secured Party. All payments under the Lease shall be made only to such account as specified by the Secured Party.
 
(i)  Receiver and Mortgage Remedies. If an Event of Default (other than a Limited Recourse Event of Default) shall have occurred and be continuing, the Lessor (acting, in accordance with Section 9.02(a) of the Investment Agreement, of its own accord or at the direction of the Majority Funding Parties (subject to the provisions of Section 9.02(d) of the Investment Agreement)), may exercise any one or more of the remedies set forth below (all or any of which may be undertaken by the Administrative Agent at the request or direction of the Lessor or the Lease Participants and in the name of or on behalf of the Lessor and the Lease Participants, as applicable):
 
(1) the Lessor may demand, and upon such demand, the Lessee shall forthwith surrender to the Lessor, the actual possession of the Collateral and if, and to the extent, permitted by applicable law and the Operative Documents, the Lessor itself, or by such officers or agents as it may appoint, may enter and take possession of all the Collateral without the appointment of a receiver, or an application therefor, and may exclude the Lessee and its agents and employees wholly therefrom, and may have joint access with the Lessee to the books, papers and accounts of the Lessee pertaining to the Collateral. If the Lessee shall for any reason fail to surrender or deliver the Collateral or any part thereof after such demand by the Lessor, the Lessor may obtain a judgment or decree conferring upon the Lessor the right to immediate possession or requiring the Lessee to deliver immediate possession of the Collateral to the Lessor, to the entry of which judgment or decree the Lessee hereby specifically consents. Upon every such entering upon or taking of possession, the Lessor may hold, store, use, operate, manage and control the Collateral and conduct the business thereof, and, from time to time (i) make all necessary and proper maintenance, repairs, renewals, replacements, additions, betterments and improvements thereto and thereon and purchase or otherwise acquire additional fixtures, personalty and other property; (ii) insure or keep the Collateral insured; (iii) manage and operate the Collateral and exercise all the rights and powers of the Lessee to the same extent as the Lessee could in its own name or otherwise with respect to the same; and (iv) enter into any and all agreements with respect to the exercise by others of any of the powers herein granted the Lessor, all as the Lessor from time to time may determine to be in its best interest. The Lessor may collect and receive all the rents, issues, profits and revenues from the Collateral, including those past due as well as those accruing thereafter, and, after deducting (aa) all expenses of taking, holding, managing and operating the Collateral (including compensation for the services of all persons employed for such purposes); (bb) the cost of all such maintenance, repairs, renewals, replacements, additions, betterments, improvements, purchases and acquisitions; (cc) the cost of such insurance; (dd) such taxes, assessments and other similar charges as the Lessor may at its option pay; (ee) other proper charges upon the Collateral or any part thereof; and (ff) the reasonable compensation, expenses and disbursements of the attorneys and agents of the Lessor, the Lessor shall apply the remainder of the monies and proceeds so received by the Lessor in accordance with the terms of this Lease. Anything in this Section 26 to the contrary notwithstanding, the Lessor shall not be obligated to discharge or perform the duties of a landlord to any tenant or incur any liability as a result of the exercise by the Lessor of its rights under this Mortgage, and the Lessor shall be liable to account only for the rents, income, issues, profits and revenues actually received by the Lessor. Whenever all that is due upon such interest, deposits and principal installments and under any of the terms, covenants, conditions and agreements of this Mortgage, shall have been paid and all Events of Default made good, the Lessor shall surrender possession of the Collateral to the Lessee, its successors or assigns. The same right of taking possession, however, shall exist if any subsequent Event of Default (other than a Limited Recourse Event of Default) shall occur and be continuing. In connection with any action taken by the Lessor pursuant to this Section 26, the Lessor shall not be liable for any loss sustained by the Lessee resulting from any act or omission of the Lessor in administering, managing, operating or controlling the Collateral, including a loss arising from the ordinary negligence of the Lessor, unless such loss is caused by its own gross negligence, willful misconduct or bad faith, or the gross negligence, willful misconduct or bad faith of its officers, directors, employees, agents or contractors, nor shall the Lessor be obligated to perform or discharge any obligation, duty or liability of the Lessee. The Lessee hereby assents to, ratifies and confirms any and all actions of the Lessor with respect to the Collateral taken under this Section 26.
 
(2) The Lessor, upon application to a court of competent jurisdiction, shall be entitled as a matter of strict right without notice and without regard to the occupancy or value of any security for the Secured Amount secured hereby or the solvency of any party bound for its payment, to the appointment of a receiver to take possession of and to operate the portion of the Facility constituting real property (the “Real Property”) and to collect and apply the rents, issues, profits and revenues thereof. The receiver shall have all of the rights and powers permitted under the laws of the State of Alabama. Lessee will pay to Lessor upon demand all expenses, including receiver's fees, attorney's fees, costs and agent's compensation, incurred pursuant to the provisions of this Section 26; and all such expenses shall be secured hereby. Lessee agrees to the full extent permitted by law, that in case of an Event of Default on the part of Lessee, neither Lessee nor anyone claiming through or under it shall or will set up, claim or seek to take advantage of any appraisement, valuation, stay, extension, homestead, exemption or redemption laws now or hereafter in force, in order to prevent or hinder the enforcement or foreclosure hereunder, or the absolute sale of the interests of Lessee in the Real Property, or the final and absolute putting into possession thereof, immediately after such sale, of the purchasers thereat, and Lessee, for itself and all who may at any time claim through or under it, hereby waives to the full extent that it may lawfully so do, the benefit of all such laws, and any and all right to have the assets comprised in the security intended to be created hereby marshalled upon any foreclosure of the lien hereof.
 
(3) Lessor shall have the option (in addition to and in furtherance of Lessor's rights under this Section 26), to proceed with foreclosure in any manner permitted by the laws of the State of Alabama, including judicial foreclosure through the courts or by foreclosure under the power of sale as provided in this Mortgage with or without declaring the whole Secured Amount secured hereby due.
 
(4) Lessor shall be authorized, at its option, whether or not possession of the Real Property is taken, after giving notice by publication once a week for three consecutive weeks of the time, place and terms of each such sale (including a description of the Real Property or part thereof to be sold), by publication in a newspaper published in any county wherein the Real Property or any part thereof is located, to sell the Real Property (or such part or parts thereof as Lessor may from time to time elect to sell) in front of such county's courthouse door, at public outcry, to the highest bidder for cash, such sale or sales to be held between the hours of 11:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. unless otherwise provided by law. Lessor, its successors and assigns, may bid at any sale or sales had under the terms hereof and may purchase the Real Property or any such part thereof, if the highest bidder therefor. The purchaser at any such sale or sales shall be under no obligation to see to the proper application of the purchase money. At any foreclosure sale, any part or all of the Real Property, real, personal or mixed, may be offered for sale in parcels or en masse for one total price, the proceeds of any such sale en masse to be accounted for in one account without distinction between the items included therein or without assigning to them any proportion of such proceeds, Lessee hereby waiving the application of any doctrine of marshalling or like proceeding. In case Lessor, in the exercise of the power of sale herein given, elects to sell the Real Property in parts or parcels, sales thereof may be held from time to time, and the power of sale granted herein shall not be fully exercised until all of the Real Property not previously sold shall have been sold or all the Secured Amount secured hereby shall have been paid in full.
 
(5) Lessee hereby authorizes and empowers Lessor or the auctioneer at any foreclosure sale had hereunder, for and in the name of Lessee, to execute and deliver to the purchaser or purchasers of any of the Real Property sold at foreclosure good and sufficient deeds of conveyance or bills of sale thereto.
 
(6) Lessor, in lieu of or in addition to exercising the power of sale hereinabove given, may proceed by suit to foreclose its lien on, security interest in, and assignment of, the Real Property, subject to the limitations, if any, set out herein, in the Investment Agreement, or in any other Operative Documents to sue Lessee for damages on account of or arising out of said Event of Default or breach, or for specific performance of any provision contained herein, or to enforce any other appropriate legal or equitable right or remedy.
 
(7) the Lessor may, in addition to and not in abrogation of the rights covered under this Section 26, (i) exercise all rights, powers and remedies of the Lessee under this Lease and the Related Contracts, and the Lessee and any other party to any of the Related Contracts hereby is authorized and directed to render performance to and act upon the instructions of the Lessor, (ii) with respect to any personal property constituting part of the Collateral, exercise all rights, powers and remedies of a secured party under the Uniform Commercial Code as adopted in Alabama, and (iii) either with or without entry or taking possession as herein provided or otherwise, proceed by a suit or suits in law or in equity or by any other appropriate proceeding or remedy (A) to enforce payment and performance of the Secured Amount or the performance of any term, covenant, condition or agreement of this Lease or any other right and (B) to pursue any other remedy available to it, all as the Lessor at its sole discretion shall elect.
 
(8) The proceeds of any sale or other exercise of rights or remedies pursuant to this Section 26 shall be paid over to the Administrative Agent, on Lessor’s and the Lease Participants’ behalf, and applied in accordance with Section 3.05(c) of the Investment Agreement.
 
(9) In the event of any such foreclosure sale, Lessee shall be deemed a tenant holding over and shall forthwith deliver possession to the purchaser or purchasers at such sale or be summarily dispossessed according to provisions of law applicable to tenants holding over.
 
(10) The Lessee agrees to the full extent permitted by law, that in case of the occurrence of an Event of Default, neither the Lessee nor anyone claiming through or under it shall or will set up, claim or seek to take advantage of any appraisement, valuation, stay, extension, homestead, exemption or redemption laws now or hereafter in force, in order to prevent or hinder the enforcement or foreclosure of this Mortgage, or the absolute sale of the Collateral or the final and absolute putting into possession thereof, immediately after such sale, of the purchasers thereat, and the Lessee, for itself and all who may at any time claim through or under it, hereby waives to the full extent that it may lawfully so do, the benefit of all such laws, and any and all right to have the assets comprised in the security intended to be created hereby marshalled upon any foreclosure of the lien hereof.
 
(11) The Lessee hereby waives and renounces to the full extent permitted by law all homestead and exemption rights provided for by the Constitution and the laws of the United States and of any state, in and to the Collateral as against the collection of the Secured Amount, or any part hereof.
 
(12) The Lessor, at its option, is authorized to foreclose this Mortgage in equity, subject to the rights of any tenants of the Collateral, and the failure to make any such tenants parties to any such foreclosure proceedings and to foreclose their rights will not be, nor be asserted to be by Lessee, a defense to any proceedings instituted by the Lessor to collect the Secured Amount.
 
(13) In case the Lessor shall have proceeded to enforce any right, power or remedy under this Mortgage by foreclosure, entry or otherwise or in the event the Lessor commences advertising of the intended exercise of the sale under power provided hereunder, and such proceeding or advertisement shall have been withdrawn, discontinued or abandoned for any reason, or shall have been determined adversely to the Lessor, then in every such case (i) the Lessee and the Lessor shall be restored to their former positions and rights, (ii) all rights, powers and remedies of the Lessor shall continue as if no such proceeding had been taken, including those with respect to each and every Event of Default declared or occurring prior or subsequent to such withdrawal, discontinuance or abandonment and (iii) neither this Mortgage, nor the Secured Amount, nor any other instrument concerned therewith, shall be or shall be deemed to have been reinstated or otherwise affected by such withdrawal, discontinuance or abandonment; and the Lessee hereby expressly waives the benefit of any statute or rule of law now provided, or which may hereafter be provided, which would produce a result contrary to or in conflict with the above.
 
(14) No right, power or remedy conferred upon or reserved to the Lessor by this Mortgage is intended to be exclusive of any other right, power or remedy, but each and every such right, power and remedy shall be cumulative and concurrent and shall be in addition to any other right, power and remedy given hereunder or now or hereafter existing at law or in equity or by statute.
 
(15) If the Lessor (i) grants forbearance or an extension of time for the payment of any sums secured hereby; (ii) takes other or additional security for the payment of any sums secured hereby; (iii) waives or does not exercise any right granted herein or in the Operative Documents; (iv) releases any part of the Collateral from the lien of this Mortgage or otherwise changes any of the terms, covenants, conditions or agreements of this Mortgage or any other Operative Document; (v) consents to the filing of any map, plat or replat affecting the Collateral; (vi) consents to the granting of any easement or other right affecting the Collateral; or (vii) makes or consents to any agreement subordinating the lien hereof, any such act or omission shall not release, discharge, modify, change or affect the original liability under this Mortgage or any other of the Operative Documents or any other obligation of the Lessee or any subsequent purchaser of the Collateral or any part thereof, or any maker, co-signer, endorser, surety or guarantor; nor shall any such act or omission preclude the Lessor from exercising any right, power or privilege herein granted or intended to be granted in the event of any default then made or of any subsequent default; nor, except as otherwise expressly provided in an instrument or instruments executed by the Lessor, shall the lien of this Mortgage be altered thereby. In the event of the sale or transfer by operation of law or otherwise of all or any part of the Collateral, the Lessor, without notice, is hereby authorized and empowered to deal with any such vendee or transferee with reference to the Collateral or the Secured Amount secured hereby, or with reference to any of the terms, covenants, conditions or agreements hereof, as fully and to the same extent as it might deal with the original parties hereto and without in any way releasing or discharging any liabilities, obligations or undertakings.
 
(16) The Lessor shall have power (a) to institute and maintain such suits and proceedings as it may deem expedient to prevent any impairment of the Collateral by any acts which may be unlawful or any violation of this Mortgage, (b) to preserve or protect its interest in the Collateral and in the rents, issues, profits and revenues arising therefrom, and (c) to restrain the enforcement of or compliance with any legislation or other governmental enactment, rule or order that may be unconstitutional or otherwise invalid, if the enforcement of or compliance with such enactment, rule or order would impair the security hereunder or be prejudicial to the interest of the Lessor.
 
(17) In the case of any receivership, insolvency, bankruptcy, reorganization, arrangement, adjustment, composition or other proceedings affecting the Lessee, its creditors or its property, the Lessor, to the extent permitted by law, shall be entitled to file such proofs of claim and other documents as may be necessary or advisable in order to have the claims of the Lessor allowed in such proceedings for the entire amount due and payable by the Lessee under this Mortgage at the date of the institution of such proceedings and for any additional amount which may become due and payable by the Lessee hereunder after such date.
 
Section 27.   Miscellaneous.
 
(a)  ENTIRE AGREEMENT. THIS LEASE AND THE OTHER OPERATIVE DOCUMENTS EMBODY THE ENTIRE AGREEMENT AND UNDERSTANDING BETWEEN THE LESSEE AND THE LESSOR AND SUPERSEDE ALL OTHER AGREEMENTS AND UNDERSTANDINGS BETWEEN SUCH PARTIES RELATING TO THE SUBJECT MATTER HEREOF. THIS WRITTEN LEASE AND THE OTHER OPERATIVE DOCUMENTS REPRESENT THE FINAL AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE PARTIES AND MAY NOT BE CONTRADICTED BY EVIDENCE OF PRIOR, CONTEMPORANEOUS, OR SUBSEQUENT ORAL AGREEMENTS OF THE PARTIES. THERE ARE NO UNWRITTEN ORAL AGREEMENTS BETWEEN THE PARTIES.
 
(b)  Interpretation. Captions and section headings appearing herein are included solely for convenience of reference and are not intended to affect the interpretation of any provision of this Agreement.
 
(c)  GOVERNING LAW; SUBMISSION TO JURISDICTION. THIS LEASE AND THE RIGHTS AND OBLIGATIONS OF THE PARTIES HERETO RELATING TO THE FACILITY SHALL BE GOVERNED BY AND INTERPRETED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, INCLUDING SECTION 5-1401 OF THE NEW YORK GENERAL OBLIGATIONS LAW (OR ANY SIMILAR SUCCESSOR PROVISION THERETO) BUT EXCLUDING ALL OTHER CONFLICT-OF-LAWS RULES; EXCEPT THAT, TO THE EXTENT REQUIRED BY THE LAWS OF THE STATE IN WHICH THE FACILITY IS LOCATED, THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF ALABAMA SHALL GOVERN (I) THE CREATION AND EXISTENCE OF THIS LEASE, (II) SECTION 26 OF THIS LEASE, AND (III) THE ENFORCEMENT OF THE RIGHTS OF LESSOR TO REPOSSESS THE FACILITY FROM LESSEE AFTER THE EARLIER OF THE TERMINATION OF THIS LEASE OR THE TERMINATION OF LESSEE'S RIGHT TO POSSESSION OF THE FACILITY.
 
(d)  No Third Party Beneficiaries. Nothing in this Lease, express or implied, shall give to any Person, other than the parties hereto and the Lease Participants and their respective successors and permitted assigns, any benefit or any legal or equitable right, remedy or claim under this Lease including, without limitation, under any provision of this Lease regarding the priority or application of any amounts payable hereunder.
 
(e)  Counterparts. This Lease may be executed in any number of counterparts, all of which taken together shall constitute one and the same instrument and any of the parties hereto may execute this Agreement by signing any such counterpart.
 
(f)  WAIVER OF JURY TRIAL. EACH OF THE PARTIES HERETO WAIVES, TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, ANY RIGHT TO A TRIAL BY JURY IN ANY ACTION OR PROCEEDING TO ENFORCE OR TO DEFEND ANY RIGHTS UNDER THIS LEASE OR UNDER ANY AMENDMENT, INSTRUMENT, DOCUMENT OR AGREEMENT DELIVERED OR WHICH MAY IN THE FUTURE BE DELIVERED IN CONNECTION HEREWITH OR THEREWITH OR ARISING FROM ANY RELATIONSHIP EXISTING IN CONNECTION WITH THIS LEASE, AND AGREES THAT ANY SUCH ACTION OR PROCEEDING SHALL BE TRIED BEFORE A COURT AND NOT BEFORE A JURY.
 
(g)  Invalidity. In the event that any one or more of the provisions contained in this Lease shall, for any reason, be held invalid, illegal or unenforceable in any respect, such invalidity, illegality or unenforceability shall not affect any other provision of the Lease.
 
(h)  Usury. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Lease or any of the Operative Documents, the amounts which the Lessee is obliged to pay pursuant to this Lease and the other Operative Documents, and the amounts which the Lessor and the Lease Participants are entitled to receive pursuant to this Lease and the other Operative Documents, are subject to the limitations set forth in Section 11.15 of the Investment Agreement.
 
(i)  Time is of the Essence. Time is of the essence in connection with the payment of Rent and all other amounts payable hereunder and the performance of the Lessee's other obligations hereunder.
 
(j)  Lessor Recourse. No recourse shall be had against the Lessor or the Administrative Agent or their successors and assigns and their directors, officers, shareholders, employees or agents for any claim based on any failure by the Lessor or the Administrative Agent in the performance or observance of any of the agreements, covenants or provisions contained in this Lease or any other Operative Documents; and in the event of any such failure, recourse shall be had solely against the rights and interests of the Lessor in the Facility; provided, that the foregoing shall not relieve (i) any such director, officer or employee of personal liability for his or her fraud or intentional misconduct or (ii) Lessee from its obligation not to create or permit the existence of “Lessor Liens,” as defined in Section 16(a)(i) hereof.
 
(k)  Amendment and Restatement. This Lease constitutes an amendment and restatement of the Original Lease Agreement and does not constitute any new estate or leasehold interest in the Facility in favor of Lessee, but rather an amendment and restatement of the terms and conditions of Lessee’s continuing leasehold interest under the Original Lease Agreement.
 



IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties have caused this Lease to be executed by their respective officers thereunto duly authorized as of the date first above written.
 

 
LESSEE:
 
PROTECTIVE LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY, a Tennessee corporation
 

 
By:      
Title:


Attest:      
Title:


[CORPORATE SEAL]

 
Mailing Address:
Protective Life Insurance Company
2801 Highway 280 South
Birmingham, Alabama 35223
Attention: Lance Black
Telecopier: 205-268-3642
 



LESSOR:

WACHOVIA DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION, a North Carolina corporation


By:      
Title:


Attest:      
Title:

[CORPORATE SEAL]
 
Mailing Address:
 
Wachovia Development Corporation
c/o Wachovia Bank, National Association
301 S. College Street
MC NC0174
Charlotte, NC 28288
Attention: Gabrielle Braverman
Telecopier No.: 704-715-0065
Telephone No.: 704-383-1967
 


STATE OF _____________  §
 
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COUNTY OF ___________  §
 

 
I, the undersigned, a Notary Public in and for said County in said State, hereby certify that ______________________, whose name as _________________________ of PROTECTIVE LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY, a Tennessee corporation, is signed to the foregoing instrument, and who is known to me, acknowledged before me on this day that, being informed of the contents of this instrument, ____ as such ______________ and with full authority, executed the same voluntarily for and as the act of said corporation.
 

 
Given under my hand and official seal, this _____ day of ________________, 2007.
 

 
____________________________________< /font>     Notary Public
 
My Commission Expires: _________________
 

 
[Notary Seal]
 


STATE OF _____________  §
  §
 
COUNTY OF ___________  §
 

 
I, the undersigned, a Notary Public in and for said County in said State, hereby certify that ______________________, whose name as _________________________ of WACHOVIA DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION, a North Carolina corporation, is signed to the foregoing instrument, and who is known to me, acknowledged before me on this day that, being informed of the contents of this instrument, ____ as such ______________ and with full authority, executed the same voluntarily for and as the act of said corporation.
 

 
Given under my hand and official seal, this _____ day of _________________, 2007.
 

 
____________________________________< /font>     Notary Public
 
My Commission Expires: _________________
 

 
[Notary Seal]
 


EXHIBIT A
 
ANNEX PARCEL
 
Acreage situated in the SW 1/4 of the SE 1/4 and the SE 1/4 of the SW 1/4 of Section 8, Township 18 South, Range 2 West and the NW 1/4 of the NE 1/4 of Section 17, Township 18 South, Range 2 West, Jefferson County, Alabama, being more particularly described as follows:
 
Commence at the Northwesterly corner of Lot 10-A, Parkway Subdivision, as recorded in Map Book 88, Page 38 in the office of the Judge of Probate of Jefferson County, Alabama, said point lying on the Southwesterly Right-of-Way line of Cahaba Road (Old U.S. Highway No. 280), said point also lying on the East line of the SW 1/4 of the SE 1/4 of Section 8, Township 18 South, Range 2 West; thence run in a Southerly direction along the Westerly line of said Lot 10-A and the East line of said 1/4-1/4 section a distance of 291.49 feet to a point; thence 55º35’25” to the right in a Southwesterly direction a distance of 328.53 feet to a point; thence 87º34’08” to the right in a Northwesterly direction a distance of 2.20 feet to a point; thence 52º23’58” to the left in a Westerly direction a distance of 482.90 feet to a point; thence 83º11’36” to the left in a Southwesterly direction a distance of 16.97 feet to a point; thence 83º16’34” to the right in a Westerly direction a distance of 65.00 feet to a point; thence 90º00’44” to the left in a Southerly direction a distance of 20.26 feet to a point; thence 31º54’03” to the right in a Southwesterly direction a distance of 67.66 feet to a point; thence 90º00’ to the right in a Northwesterly direction a distance of 122.74 feet to the POINT OF BEGINNING of the parcel herein described, said point lying on the face of the newly constructed Building Annex No. 3; thence 2º18’03” to the right in a Northwesterly direction along the face of said building a distance of 39.90 feet to a point; thence 90º00’ to the right in a Northeasterly direction along the face of said building a distance of 5.33 feet to a point; thence 90º00’ to the left in a Northwesterly direction along the face of said building a distance of 254.97 feet to a point; thence 90º00’ to the right in a Northeasterly direction along the face of said building a distance of 21.25 feet to a point on the face of an existing Parking Deck; thence 90º00’ to the left in a Northwesterly direction along the face of said parking deck a distance of 120.80 feet to a point on the face of existing Building 1; thence 90º00’ to the left in a Southwesterly direction along the face of said building a distance of 19.09 feet to a point; thence 90º00’ to the right in a Northwesterly direction along the face of said building a distance of 10.89 feet to a point; thence 90º00’ to the left in a Southwesterly direction along the face of said building and along the face of the newly constructed Building Annex No. 3 a distance of 57.38 feet to a point; thence 90º00’ to the left in a Southeasterly direction along the face of said Building Annex No. 3 a distance of 64.38 feet to a point; thence 90º00’ to the right in a Southwesterly direction along the face of said building a distance of 73.55 feet to a point; thence 90º00’ to the left in a Southeasterly direction along the face of said building a distance of 2.54 feet to a point; thence 90º00’ to the right in a Southwesterly direction a distance of 6.00 feet to a point; thence 90º00’ to the left in a Southeasterly direction a distance of 27.45 feet to a point; thence 90º00’ to the left in a Northeasterly direction a distance of 6.00 feet to a point on the face of the newly constructed Building Annex No. 3; thence 90º00’ to the right in a Southeasterly direction along the face of said building a distance of 281.48 feet to a point; thence 90º00’ to the right in a Southwesterly direction a distance of 4.30 feet to a point; thence 90º00’ to the left in a Southeasterly direction a distance of 9.17 feet to a point; thence 90º00’ to the left in a Northeasterly direction a distance of 4.30 feet to a point on the face of the newly constructed Building Annex No. 3; thence 90º00’ to the right in a Southeasterly direction along the face of said building a distance of 1.67 feet to a point; thence 90º00’ to the left in a Northeasterly direction along the face of said building a distance of 27.92 feet to a point; thence 90º00’ to the right in a Southeasterly direction along the face of said building a distance of 39.87 feet to a point; thence 90º00’ to the left in a Northeasterly direction along the face of said building a distance of 95.52 feet to the Point of Beginning.
 
Containing 51,664 square feet or 1.186 acres.
 
TOGETHER WITH, a non exclusive easement for pedestrian and vehicular ingress and egress to, upon, over and across the Protective Road, Protective Driveway and Orchid Driveway (as the same are described in the certain Reciprocal Easement Agreement by and between Orchid, L.L.C. and Protective Life Insurance Company dated as of January 19, 1996, and recorded as Instrument #9601/6971 in the Probate Office of Jefferson County, Alabama, as amended and restated by Amended and Restated Reciprocal Easement Agreement dated as of March 16, 2004, and recorded as Instrument #200405/9866, in said Probate Office), as the same may be modified or relocated.
 
TOGETHER WITH, (a) a non-exclusive easement for the purpose of pedestrian and vehicular ingress and egress to, on, over and across the Common Driveway; (b) an easement along the Common Access Driveway for the drainage of storm water; and, (c) an easement along the Common Access Driveway and over the Company Tract for installing, operating, and maintaining utility facilities (as the same are described in that certain Reciprocal Easement Agreement by and between Protective Life Insurance Company and Wachovia Capital Investments, Inc. dated as of the 1st day of February, 2000, and recorded as Instrument #200004/0950, in the Probate Office of Jefferson County, Alabama, as amended by First Amendment to Reciprocal Easement Agreement dated as of September 1, 2004 and recorded as Instrument #200413/6654, in said Probate Office).
 


PARKING DECK PARCEL
 
Acreage situated in the SW 1/4 of the SE 1/4 of Section 8, Township 18 South, Range 2 West, Jefferson County, Alabama, being more particularly described as follows:
 
Commence at the Northwesterly corner of Lot 10-A, Parkway Subdivision, as recorded in Map Book 88, Page 38 in the office of the Judge of Probate of Jefferson County, Alabama, said point lying on the Southwesterly Right-of-Way line of Cahaba Road (Old U.S. Highway No. 280), said point also lying on the East line of the SW 1/4 of the SE 1/4 of Section 8, Township 18 South, Range 2 West; thence run in a Southerly direction along the Westerly line of said Lot 10-A and the East line of said 1/4-1/4 section a distance of 291.49 feet to a point; thence 55º35’25” to the right in a Southwesterly direction a distance of 328.53 feet to a point; thence 87º34’08” to the right in a Northwesterly direction a distance of 2.20 feet to a point; thence 52º23’58” to the left in a Westerly direction a distance of 310.55 feet to a point; thence 90º00’ to the right in a Northerly direction a distance of 111.28 feet to a point on the face of the newly constructed parking deck, said point being the POINT OF BEGINNING of the parcel herein described; thence 34º26’54’ to the right in a Northeasterly direction along the face of said parking deck a distance of 200.87 feet to a point; thence 90º00’ to the left in a Northwesterly direction along the face of said parking deck a distance of 3.99 feet to a point; thence 90º00’ to the right in a Northeasterly direction along the face of said parking deck a distance of 13.22 feet to a point; thence 90º00’ to the left in a Northwesterly direction along the face of said parking deck a distance of 12.98 feet to a point; thence 90º00’ to the right in a Northeasterly direction along the face of said parking deck a distance of 4.00 feet to a point; thence 90º00’ to the left in a Northwesterly direction along the face of said parking deck a distance of 274.49 feet to a point; thence 90º00’ to the left in a Southwesterly direction along the face of said parking deck a distance of 4.06 feet to a point; thence 90º00’ to the right in a Northwesterly direction along the face of said parking deck a distance of 13.00 feet to a point; thence 90º00’ to the left in a Southwesterly direction along the face of said parking deck a distance of 13.02 feet to a point; thence 90º00’ to the right in a Northwesterly direction along the face of said parking deck a distance of 3.89 feet to a point; thence 90º00’ to the left in a Southwesterly direction along the face of said parking deck a distance of 200.93 feet to a point; thence 90º00’ to the left in a Southeasterly direction along the face of said parking deck a distance of 3.91 feet to a point; thence 90º00’ to the right in a Southwesterly direction along the face of said parking deck and its extension a distance of 16.06 feet to a point along the roof overhang line of the newly constructed pedestrian bridge; thence 90º00’ to the right in a Northwesterly direction along said roof overhang line a distance of 95.00 feet to a point on the face of the existing parking deck; thence 90º00’ to the left in a Southwesterly direction along the face of the existing parking deck a distance of 15.94 feet to a point along the roof overhang line of the newly constructed pedestrian bridge; thence 90º00’ to the left in a Southeasterly direction along said roof overhang line a distance of 107.90 feet to a point on the face of the newly constructed parking deck; thence 90º00’ to the right in a Southwesterly direction along the face of said parking deck a distance of 6.79 feet to a point; thence 90º00’ to the left in a Southeasterly direction along the face of said parking deck a distance of 28.64 feet to a point; thence 90º00’ to the left in a Northeasterly direction along the face of said parking deck a distance of 21.62 feet to a point; thence 90º00’ to the right in a Southeasterly direction along the face of said parking deck a distance of 245.90 feet to a point; thence 90º00’ to the left in a Northeasterly direction along the face of said parking deck a distance of 3.90 feet to a point; thence 90º00’ to the right in a Southeasterly direction along the face of said parking deck a distance of 13.02 feet to a point; thence 90º00’ to the left in a Northeasterly direction along the face of said parking deck a distance of 13.19 feet to a point; thence 90º00’ to the right in a Southeasterly direction along the face of said parking deck a distance of 3.98 feet to the Point of Beginning.
 
Containing 74,417 square feet or 1.708 acres.
 
TOGETHER WITH, a non exclusive easement for pedestrian and vehicular ingress and egress to, upon, over and across the Protective Road, Protective Driveway and Orchid Driveway (as the same are described in the certain Reciprocal Easement Agreement by and between Orchid, L.L.C. and Protective Life Insurance Company dated as of January 19, 1996, and recorded as Instrument #9601/6971 in the Probate Office of Jefferson County, Alabama, as amended and restated by Amended and Restated Reciprocal Easement Agreement dated as of March 16, 2004, and recorded as Instrument #200405/9866, in said Probate Office), as the same may be modified or relocated.
 
TOGETHER WITH, (a) a non-exclusive easement for the purpose of pedestrian and vehicular ingress and egress to, on, over and across the Common Driveway; (b) an easement along the Common Access Driveway for the drainage of storm water; and, (c) an easement along the Common Access Driveway and over the Company Tract for installing, operating, and maintaining utility facilities (as the same are described in that certain Reciprocal Easement Agreement by and between Protective Life Insurance Company and Wachovia Capital Investments, Inc. dated as of the 1st day of February, 2000, and recorded as Instrument #200004/0950, in the Probate Office of Jefferson County, Alabama, as amended by First Amendment to Reciprocal Easement Agreement dated as of September 1, 2004 and recorded as Instrument #200413/6654, in said Probate Office).
 


EXHIBIT B
 
Other Defined Terms
 
Facility”: the collective reference to (i) the Lessor's leasehold interest in the Site, (ii) the Improvements, and (iii) all plans, specifications, warranties and related rights and operating, maintenance and repair manuals related thereto and all replacements of any of the above.
 
Facility Plan”: means the “Facility Plan” as defined and used in the Original Lease Agreement.
 
Improvements”: collectively, the building and nearby parking deck to be constructed and related enhancements and improvements, including furniture, fixtures and equipment constructed or installed on the Site in accordance with the Facility Plan, together with all accessions thereto and replacements thereof, and together with all accessories, equipment, parts and devices necessary to achieve completion as contemplated under the Original Lease Documents, and all fixtures now or hereafter included in or attached to the Site, the building and such enhancements and improvements and modifications, but excluding the Site.
 
Site”: certain real property located in Birmingham, Alabama, described in greater detail on Exhibit A to the Investment Agreement and the Lease.
 
UCC”: the Uniform Commercial Code as in effect in the State of Alabama and any other jurisdiction whose laws may be mandatorily applicable.
 


SCHEDULE 14
 
Insurance Requirements
 
The Lessee will provide, or cause to be provided, insurance in accordance with the terms of this Schedule, which insurance shall be placed and maintained with Permitted Insurers. As to each of the building annex and parking deck portions of the Facility, until the issuance of a certificate of occupancy as to such portion, such insurance may be provided through the general contractor’s builder’s risk and liability coverage.
 
(a) Insurance Coverages and Limits
 
At all times subsequent to the Lease Commencement Date, the Lessee shall provide, or cause to be provided, the following property and liability coverages with respect to the Facility:
 
(i) all-risk property coverage, with limits of coverage at least equal to the replacement cost (which limits shall be not less than $60,000,000 for the Facility), which insurance coverage may, at the Lessee's option, be included under any “blanket” policy maintained by the Lessee so long as such “blanket” policy provides for all-risk property coverage with respect to the Facility and any other Property covered thereby, with limits of coverage at least equal to the aggregate replacement cost of the Facility (provided, however, that such insurance, in either case, shall provide for replacement cost coverage, provided that the insured property is replaced, and, provided further, that the insurance shall not have the effect of causing the Lessee or any of its Affiliates to be deemed a co-insurer), with respect to the Lessee and any Affiliate of the Lessee providing services with respect to the Facility, or if the Lessee elects to effect the coverage required by this Paragraph under a “blanket” policy, the Lessee and its Affiliates insured thereby, such insurance to include, coverage for (x) floods (if required by applicable law or regulation), windstorms, hurricanes, tornados, collapse and other perils (including debris removal and cleanup) and such insurance to cover equipment separated from the Facility, transit of equipment and consumables to and from the Site, labor claims, in each case with respect to the Facility, and such insurance to include coverage for all other risks and occurrences customarily included under all-risk policies available with respect to Property similar in installation, location and operation to the Facility (or the Facility and all other Property insured thereby if all are covered under a “blanket” policy), and (y) “boiler and machinery” property damage insurance on a comprehensive basis with respect to damage to the machinery, plants, equipment or similar apparatus (including production machinery) included in the Facility (or the Facility and all other Property insured thereby if all are covered under a “blanket” policy), from risks and in amounts normally insured against under machinery policies.
 
(ii)
 
(1) statutory workers' compensation and occupational disease insurance in accordance with applicable state and federal law, and employer's liability insurance with primary and excess coverage limits of not less than $1,000,000;
 
(2) commercial general liability insurance covering operations of the Lessee, contractual liability coverage, contingent liability coverage arising out of the operations of the Facility, cross-liabilities coverage, sudden and accidental seepage and pollution coverage, and other coverage for hazards customarily insured with respect to Property similar in construction, location, occupancy and operation to the Facility, with limits complying with the underlying requirements of the excess liability policy described in Paragraph (a)(ii)(3);
 
(3) excess commercial liability insurance in excess of the liability policies described in Paragraphs (a)(ii)(1) and (2) to bring to limits of not less than $1,000,000 for each occurrence and in the aggregate per year with respect to the Lessee and its Affiliates.
 
(iii) The policy or policies providing the coverage required by paragraphs (a)(i) and (a)(ii)(2) and (a)(ii)(3) may include deductible amounts for the account of the Lessee or its Affiliates, as the case may be, not to exceed $25,000 in the aggregate for all such coverages.
 
(b) Insurance Endorsements - Any insurance carried in accordance herewith shall, except as hereinafter permitted, provide or be endorsed to provide that:
 
(i) the Lessor, as its interests may appear, shall be included as an additional insured or named as loss payee but only with respects coverages required by Paragraphs (a)(i), with the understanding that any obligation imposed upon the insured (including, without limitation, the liability to pay premiums) under any policy required by this Schedule shall be the obligation of the Lessee and its Affiliates) and not that of the Lessor;
 
(ii) as to all policies of property insurance, a non-contributory clause or endorsement to the effect that any loss shall be payable in accordance with the terms of such policy notwithstanding any act or negligence of the Lessee or its Affiliates which might otherwise result in forfeiture of or denial of coverage with respect to such insurance;
 
(iii) the insurer thereunder waives all rights of subrogation against the Lessor;
 
(iv) such insurance shall be primary without right of contribution of any other insurance carried by or on behalf of the Lessor with respect to its interests in the Facility; and
 
(v) if such insurance is cancelled for any reason whatsoever (including, without limitation, nonpayment of premium) or any material change is made in the coverage that affects the interests of the Lessor, such cancellation or change shall not be effective as to the Lessor for 10 days for nonpayment of premiums and otherwise for 45 days, in both cases after receipt by the Lessor (at the address provided pursuant to Section 22 of the Lease) of written notice sent by certified mail from such insurer of such cancellation or change.
 
(c) Adjustment of Property Losses - After the occurrence and during the continuation of a Cancellation Event or Termination Event, the loss, if any, under any property insurance covering the Facility required to be carried by this Schedule shall be adjusted with the insurance companies or otherwise collected, including, without limitation, the filing of appropriate proceedings, by the Lessee in consultation with the Lessor.
 
(d) Upon request, the Lessee will furnish the Lessor evidence of such insurance relating to the Facility.
 
(e) Additional Insurance by the Lessor or the Lessee - Nothing in this Schedule shall prohibit the Lessor or the Lessee, as their respective interests may appear, from maintaining for their own account, at the expense of the Person purchasing such insurance, additional insurance on or with respect to the Facility, or any part thereof, with coverage exceeding that otherwise required under this Schedule, unless such insurance would conflict with or limit the insurance otherwise required under this Schedule.
 
EX-10.C 4 ex10_c.htm EXHIBIT 10C AMENDED & RESTATED PARTICIPATION Exhibit 10C Amended & Restated Participation
 
 

AMENDED AND RESTATED
 
INVESTMENT AND PARTICIPATION AGREEMENT
 
Dated as of January 11, 2007
 
Among
 
PROTECTIVE LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY,
 
As the Company,
 

 
WACHOVIA DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION
(as assignee of Wachovia Capital Investments, Inc.),
 
as Lessor,
 
WACHOVIA BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION,
 
as Administrative Agent,
 

 
and
 

 
THE LEASE PARTICIPANTS SIGNATORIES HERETO
 

 

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Section 1.01Terms Defined Above
 
Section 1.02Certain Defined Terms
 
Section 1.03Accounting Terms and Determinations
 
ARTICLE II.Commitments
 
Section 2.01Lessor Investments; Purchase of Ownership Interests
 
Section 2.02[Intentionally Omitted]
 
Section 2.03[Intentionally Omitted]
 
Section 2.04Certain Supplemental Rent
 
Section 2.05Ownership Interests; Administrative Agent as Administrative Agent; Record of Payments
 
Section 2.06Lessor Confirmation Letter
 
Section 2.07[Intentionally Omitted]
 
Section 2.08[Intentionally Omitted]
 
ARTICLE III.Recovery of Lessor Investments; Payment of Yield and Other Amounts
 
Section 3.01Recovery of Lessor Investments
 
Section 3.02Redemptions
 
Section 3.03Yield on Lessor Investments; Overdue Amounts
 
Section 3.04Payments by Lessor
 
Section 3.05Applications of Payments and Proceeds
 
ARTICLE IV.Payments; Computations; Etc
 
Section 4.01Payments
 
Section 4.02Pro Rata Treatment
 
Section 4.03Computations
 
Section 4.04Non-receipt of Funds by the Lessor
 
Section 4.05Sharing of Payments
 
Section 4.06Taxes
 
ARTICLE V.Yield Protection and Illegality
 
Section 5.01Basis for Determining Yield Rate Inadequate or Unfair
 
Section 5.02Illegality
 
Section 5.03Increased Cost and Reduced Return
 
Section 5.04Base Rate Substituted for Adjusted LIBO Rate
 
Section 5.05Compensation
 
Section 5.06Payments and Computations
 
ARTICLE VI.Conditions Precedent
 
Section 6.01Conditions Precedent to Effectiveness of this Agreement
 
Section 6.02[Intentionally Omitted]
 
Section 6.03Closing19
 
ARTICLE VII.Representations and Warranties
 
Section 7.01Company Representations and Warranties
 
ARTICLE VIII.Covenants
 
Section 8.01Information
 
Section 8.02Maintenance and Inspection of Property, Books and Records
 
Section 8.03Related Contracts
 
Section 8.04Consolidations, Mergers and Sales of Assets
 
Section 8.05Maintenance of Existence
 
Section 8.06Dissolution
 
Section 8.07[Intentionally Omitted]
 
Section 8.08Compliance with Laws; Payment of Taxes
 
Section 8.09Insurance
 
Section 8.10Maintenance of Property
 
Section 8.11Environmental Notices
 
Section 8.12Environmental Matters
 
Section 8.13Environmental Release
 
Section 8.14Transactions with Affiliates
 
Section 8.15Further Assurances
 
Section 8.16Compliance with Certain Documents, Permits, Etc
 
Section 8.17Maintenance; Etc
 
Section 8.18[Intentionally Omitted]
 
Section 8.19Liens, Etc
 
Section 8.20Facility Plan
 
Section 8.21Change in Fiscal Year
 
Section 8.22Intentionally Omitted
 
Section 8.23Restrictions on Ability of Subsidiaries to Pay Dividends
 
Section 8.24Adjusted Consolidated Net Worth
 
Section 8.25Ratio of Adjusted Consolidated Indebtedness to Consolidated Capitalization
 
Section 8.26Ratio of Unconsolidated Cash Inflow Available for Interest Expense to Adjusted Consolidated Interest Expense
 
Section 8.27Company’s Total Adjusted Capital
 
Section 8.28Restricted Payments
 
Section 8.29Anti-Terrorism Laws
 
Section 8.30Company as Agent of Lessor With Respect to the Facility
 
ARTICLE IX.Events of Default
 
Section 9.01Events of Default
 
Section 9.02Remedies
 
ARTICLE X.The LESSOR as Servicing Agent for the Lease Participants; THE Administrative Agent
 
Section 10.01Lessor as Servicing Agent
 
Section 10.02Appointment of the Administrative Agent
 
ARTICLE XI.Miscellaneous
 
Section 11.01Amendments, Etc
 
Section 11.02Notices
 
Section 11.03Payment of Expenses, Indemnities, Etc
 
Section 11.04No Waiver; Remedies
 
Section 11.05Right of Set-Off
 
Section 11.06Assignments and Participations
 
Section 11.07Invalidity
 
Section 11.08Entire Agreement
 
Section 11.09References
 
Section 11.10Successors; Survivals
 
Section 11.11Captions
 
Section 11.12Counterparts
 
Section 11.13Confidentiality
 
Section 11.14Governing Law; Submission to Jurisdiction
 
Section 11.15Yield
 
Section 11.16Characterization
 
Section 11.17Compliance
 
Section 11.18Facility
 
Section 11.19Funding Parties
 
Section 11.20Waiver of Jury Trial
 
Section 11.21Certain Acknowledgments of the Parties
 
Section 11.22Amendment and Restatement
 
EXHIBITS
 

 
Exhibit A - Legal Description of Site
 
Exhibit B - Ownership Certificate
 
Exhibit C - Form of Assignment and Acceptance
 
Exhibit D - Form of legal opinion of counsel to the Company and the Guarantor
 
Exhibit E - Form of Compliance Certificate
 
Exhibit F - Form of Amended and Restated Guaranty
 
Exhibit G - Form of Lessor Confirmation Letter
 
SCHEDULES
 
Schedule 1.02  - Defined Terms
 
Schedule 1.02(b) - Pricing Schedule
 
Schedule 1.02(c) - Limited Recourse Events of Default
 
Schedule 7.01(e) - Litigation
 
Schedule 7.01(h) - Subsidiaries
 
Schedule 7.01(n) - Environmental Matters

 

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AMENDED AND RESTATED INVESTMENT AND
PARTICIPATION AGREEMENT

AMENDED AND RESTATED INVESTMENT AND PARTICIPATION AGREEMENT (as the same may be amended, modified or supplemented from time to time, this “Agreement” or the “Investment Agreement”) dated as of January 11, 2007, by and among PROTECTIVE LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY, a Tennessee corporation (the “Company”), WACHOVIA DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION, as Lessor (the “Lessor”), WACHOVIA BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, a national banking association, as administrative agent for the Lessor and the Lease Participants (in such capacity, the “Administrative Agent”), and each of the Lease Participants that is a party hereto or becomes a party hereto as provided in Section 11.06 (individually, together with its successors and assigns, a “Lease Participant,” and collectively, together with their successors and assigns, the “Lease Participants”).
 
RECITALS
 
WHEREAS, pursuant to the Original Ground Lease (as this and other terms are used in these Recitals are defined below), WCI acquired a ground lease of certain real property located in Jefferson County, Alabama, described in greater detail on Exhibit A (the “Site”), and has, pursuant to the Original Lease Documents, constructed and installed on the Site an annex office building and a related parking deck and related enhancements and improvements, including furniture, fixtures and equipment; and
 
WHEREAS, the Company, acting as WCI’s agent pursuant to the terms of the Original Agency Agreement, completed the construction and installation of all such enhancements and improvements on the Site and currently provides certain operations, maintenance, and management support in respect of the Facility; and
 
WHEREAS, pursuant to the Original Lease Agreement, WCI leased the Facility to the Company; and
 
WHEREAS, to finance the acquisition of the Lessor's ground lease of the Site and the construction and installation of the building, related parking deck and such related enhancements and improvements on the Site for the use and benefit of the Company in accordance with the Original Lease Agreement, WCI, at the Company’s request, made Lessor Investments in the Facility in an aggregate principal amount of $75,000,000, and the Lease Participants purchased Ownership Interests from WCI; and
 
WHEREAS, to induce WCI and the Lease Participants to enter into the Original Investment and Participation Agreement and other Original Lease Documents, the Guarantor executed and delivered the Original Guaranty Agreement in favor of WCI (for the ratable benefit of the Lease Participants);
 
WHEREAS, the Company has requested to refinance and extend the maturity of the Original Lease Agreement by, among other things, entering into this Agreement, the Amended and Restated Ground Lease, and the Amended and Restated Lease Agreement, and, in anticipation of such refinancing and extension, WCI has assigned 100% of its interest in the Original Lease Documents to Lessor pursuant to the terms of the Lessor Assignment Agreement;
 
WHEREAS, Guarantor will enter into the Amended and Restated Guaranty Agreement to, among other things but subject to certain limitations, guarantee the obligations of the Company to the Lessor (for the ratable benefit of certain of the Lease Participants);
 
NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the premises and the mutual covenants and agreements herein contained, and for other good and valuable consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which are hereby acknowledged, the parties hereto hereby agree as follows:
 
ARTICLE I.  
 

 
DEFINED TERMS AND ACCOUNTING MATTERS
 
Section 1.01  Terms Defined Above. As used in this Agreement, the terms defined in the preamble and above shall have the meanings indicated above.
 
Section 1.02  Certain Defined Terms. As used herein, all capitalized terms used but not otherwise defined herein shall have the meaning specified for such term in Schedule 1.02.
 
Section 1.03  Accounting Terms and Determinations. Unless otherwise specified herein, all terms of an accounting character used herein shall be interpreted, all accounting determinations hereunder shall be made, and all financial statements required to be delivered hereunder shall be prepared, in accordance with GAAP (except that financial statements of the Insurance Subsidiaries shall be prepared in accordance with SAP), applied on a basis consistent (except for changes concurred with by the Guarantor’s independent public accountants or otherwise required by a change in GAAP) with the most recent audited consolidated financial statements of the Guarantor and the Consolidated Subsidiaries delivered to the Funding Parties unless with respect to any such change concurred with by the Guarantor’s independent public accountants or required by GAAP or SAP, in determining compliance with any of the provisions of this Agreement or any of the other Operative Documents: (a) the Guarantor shall have objected to determining such compliance on such basis at the time of delivery of such financial statements, or (b) the Majority Funding Parties shall so object in writing within 30 days after the delivery of such financial statements, in either of which events such calculations shall be made on a basis consistent with those used in the preparation of the latest financial statements as to which such objection shall not have been made (which, if objection is made in respect of the first financial statements delivered under Section 8.01, shall mean the financial statements referred to in Section 7.01(d)).
 
ARTICLE II.  
 

 
COMMITMENTS
 
Section 2.01  Lessor Investments; Purchase of Ownership Interests.
 
(a)  Lessor Investments. The Company and Lessor acknowledge and agree that all fundings of “Lessor Advances” and “Lease Participant Advances” (as each of such terms was defined in the Original Investment and Participation Agreement) were duly made pursuant to the Original Investment Agreement and that, before the date hereof, all “Lessor Commitments” and “Lease Participant Commitments” (as each of such terms was defined in the Original Investment and Participation Agreement) expired or were terminated in their entirety. All parties hereto as of the Restatement Closing Date acknowledge and agree that (i) pursuant to the Initial Master Assignment and Acceptance (which is deemed to be effective immediately before the effectiveness of this Agreement), Lessor accepted 100% of the Lessor Investments from all Lease Participants; (ii) pursuant to the terms of this Agreement and the Secondary Master Assignment and Acceptance (which is deemed effective contemporaneously herewith), all such Lessor Investments outstanding immediately before the effectiveness of this Agreement are hereby deemed to be recharacterized such that they constitute A Percentage Lessor Investments and B Percentage Lessor Investments (with a portion of the B Percentage Lessor Investments being in excess of the Non-Recourse Amount and the remainder being attributable to the Non-Recourse Amount); and (iii) pursuant to the Secondary Master Assignment and Acceptance, each of the Lease Participants under this Agreement have accepted from Lessor such A Percentage Lessor Investments and/or B Percentage Lessor Investments (and, consequently, related A Percentage Ownership Interests and B Percentage Ownership Interests) as are indicated in the Secondary Master Assignment and Acceptance and, as of the Restatement Closing Date, the signature pages hereof.
 
(b)  On the Restatement Closing Date, and after giving full effect to the Secondary Master Assignment and Acceptance, the Lessor shall furnish to each Lease Participant, with a copy to the Company, a certificate in the form of Exhibit B (an “Ownership Certificate”) setting forth, as of the date hereof, the information described in Section 2.05(a).
 
Section 2.02  [Intentionally Omitted].
 
Section 2.03  [Intentionally Omitted].
 
Section 2.04  Certain Supplemental Rent. In addition to other Supplemental Rent payable pursuant to the Operative Documents, the Company shall pay to the Lessor (for its own account and for the account of any other Person as specified below) the Supplemental Rent described in this Section 2.04 pursuant to the provisions hereof.
 
(a)  [Intentionally Omitted].
 
(b)  The Company shall pay or cause to be paid to the Lessor Supplemental Rent in the amount of 0.05% of the Unrecovered Lessor Investments as of the Restatement Closing Date (the “Upfront Supplemental Rent”). The Upfront Supplemental Rent shall be payable in full on the Restatement Closing Date. Promptly upon receipt by the Lessor of such payment of the Upfront Supplemental Rent, it shall distribute to each Lease Participant its Percentage Share thereof.
 
(c)  On the Restatement Closing Date, the Company shall pay or cause to be paid to the Administrative Agent, for the account of Arranger, Supplemental Rent in the amount set forth in the Engagement and Fee Letter (the “Arranger’s Supplemental Rent”), which Arranger’s Supplemental Rent shall be deemed fully earned on the Restatement Closing Date and, once paid, shall be non-refundable. The Company shall pay to Administrative Agent, for its own account, an administrative fee in the amount of $25,000.00 per year (the “Administrative Supplemental Rent”), which Administrative Supplemental Rent shall be paid initially on the Restatement Closing Date and on each anniversary thereof until the Lease Termination Date. The Administrative Supplemental Rent shall be deemed fully earned on the Restatement Closing Date and on each anniversary thereof and, once paid, shall be non-refundable.
 
Section 2.05  Ownership Interests; Administrative Agent as Administrative Agent; Record of Payments.
 
(a)  The Ownership Certificates furnished by the Lessor pursuant to Sections 2.01(b), 3.02 and 11.06 shall evidence, as of the date thereof, the aggregate amount of (i) all Lessor Investments, (ii) the A Percentage Ownership Interests owned by the Lessor and each A Percentage Lease Participant, (iii) the A Percentage Share of the Lessor and each A Percentage Lease Participant, (iv) the percentage which the A Percentage Lessor Investments bears to the total Lessor Investments, (v) the B Percentage Ownership Interests owned by the Lessor and each B Percentage Lease Participant, (vi) the B Percentage Share of the Lessor and each B Percentage Lease Participant, (vii) the percentage which the B Percentage Lessor Investments bears to the total Lessor Investments and (viii) with respect to each B Percentage Lease Participant, the identification of that portion of such B Percentage Lease Participant’s B Percentage Lessor Investments which is attributable to the Non-Recourse Amount and that portion which is in excess of the Non-Recourse Amount. Such Ownership Certificates shall be final and conclusive evidence of the amounts set forth therein, in the absence of manifest error. The sale by the Lessor to the Lease Participants of Ownership Interests shall be absolute sales, and the Lease Participants shall have no recourse to the Lessor in the event of failure of the Company to pay any Rent, fees or other amounts payable pursuant to the Lease, this Agreement and the other Operative Documents which are attributable to their Ownership Interests, or right to require the Lessor to repurchase their Ownership Interests in any event.
 
(b)  The Lessor shall serve as the servicing agent for the Lease Participants to collect and receive all payments of Rent and other amounts payable pursuant to the Lease, this Agreement and the other Operative Documents which are attributable to their Ownership Interests, and such amounts, when received by the Lessor and until distributed to the Lease Participants pursuant to the Lease, this Agreement or the other Operative Documents, shall be held by the Lessor in trust for the Lessor and the Lease Participants. In accordance with Section 10.02, the parties hereto acknowledge and agree that the Administrative Agent shall perform certain of the Lessor’s obligations and be entitled to certain rights hereunder.
 
(c)  The Administrative Agent, on behalf of the Lessor, shall maintain a record of payments of Rent and all other amounts paid to the Lessor pursuant to the Lease, this Agreement and the other Operative Documents, and the amounts paid by the Lessor to the Lease Participants pursuant to this Agreement, and such record shall be final and conclusive evidence of the amounts recorded therein, absent manifest error. A copy of such record shall be made available to the Company and any Lease Participant upon its request.
 
Section 2.06  Lessor Confirmation Letter. Upon Lessee’s request made in writing, but no more frequently than once per fiscal quarter, Lessor shall provide an update to the letter referred to in Section 6.01(h).
 
Section 2.07  [Intentionally Omitted].
 
Section 2.08  [Intentionally Omitted].
 
ARTICLE III.  
 

 
RECOVERY OF LESSOR INVESTMENTS;
 
PAYMENT OF YIELD AND OTHER AMOUNTS
 
Section 3.01  Recovery of Lessor Investments.
 
(a)  The Company will pay or cause to be paid to the Lessor all Rent and other amounts payable to the Lessor, for the account of the Lessor and the Lease Participants, as the case may be, including all Unrecovered Lessor Investments, all accrued and unpaid Yield, Supplemental Rent and other amounts owing under this Agreement and the other Operative Documents, in full on the Maturity Date, subject to Section 3.01(b).
 
(b)  If, on or before the Maturity Date, the Company or the Guarantor (or any of their respective Affiliates) shall exercise the option to purchase the Facility in its entirety, then the purchase price for the Facility shall be equal to the Purchase Price and the proceeds of such sale, when received by the Lessor, shall be applied by the Lessor in the order specified in Section 3.05(a). If, on the Maturity Date, no Cancellation Event shall have occurred and the Company or the Guarantor (or any of their respective Affiliates) shall elect to pay the Final Rent Payment and not to purchase the Facility, and shall pay the Final Rent Payment, all amounts received by the Lessor pursuant to or in connection with the Lease, this Agreement or any other Operative Document or as proceeds of the disposition of the Facility shall be applied by the Lessor to pay the Unrecovered Lessor Investments and all accrued Yield (which shall be distributed ratably to the Funding Parties in accordance with their respective Ownership Interests), and to the Persons entitled thereto pursuant to the Operative Documents all Supplemental Rent and other amounts owing under this Agreement in the order specified in Section 3.05(b).
 
Section 3.02  Redemptions.
 
(a)  On or after the third anniversary of the Restatement Closing Date, the Company may from time to time, upon at least 2 Business Days’ notice to the Lessor which specifies the proposed date (which shall be a Business Day) and aggregate principal amount of the redemption and the Lessor Investments to be redeemed, and if such notice is given the Company shall, as specified in such notice, redeem no later than 12:00 noon, Charlotte, North Carolina, time, on such date, and the amount of such redemption payment, when received by the Lessor, shall be applied to redeem, the outstanding principal amounts of the Lessor Investments constituting A Percentage Lessor Investments, in whole or ratably in part, together with accrued Yield to the date of such redemption on the amount redeemed (and the Lessor shall, on the same Business Day on which received, distribute to the A Percentage Lease Participants as provided below; provided, however, that (i) each partial redemption shall be in an aggregate principal amount not less than $1,000,000 or an integral multiple of $500,000 in excess thereof, and (ii) in the event of any such redemption of Lessor Investments on any day other than the last day of the Yield Period for such Lessor Investments, the Company, as agent for the Lessor, shall be obligated to reimburse the applicable Funding Parties in respect thereof pursuant to, and to the extent required by, Section 5.05. Any redemption pursuant to this Section 3.02 shall be allocated among the A Percentage Lessor Investments in accordance with their respective A Percentage Shares. Within 5 Business Days after its receipt of such redemption amount, the Lessor, at the expense of the Company, shall execute and deliver to each of the Lease Participants a new Ownership Certificate, giving effect to such redemption and dated the date thereof.
 
(b)  [Intentionally Omitted].
 
Section 3.03  Yield on Lessor Investments; Overdue Amounts.
 
(a)  Yield shall accrue on the Lessor Investments and be payable at a rate per annum equal to the Adjusted LIBO Rate for the applicable Yield Period plus the Applicable Margin, but in no event to exceed the Highest Lawful Rate (the “Yield”).
 
(b)  Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Company, by the payment of additional Rent under the Lease, or otherwise, shall pay or cause to be paid to the Lessor, at the applicable Default Rate on the amount of Lessor Investments, Yield, Supplemental Rent or other amounts owing by the Company under this Agreement or any other Operative Document which shall not be paid in full when due (whether at stated maturity, by acceleration or otherwise), for the period commencing on the due date thereof until the same is paid in full, in each case to the maximum extent permitted by applicable law (and the Lessor shall, on the day of receipt, if received prior to 2:00 p.m., Charlotte, North Carolina, time, or on the next succeeding Business Day, if received at or after 2:00 p.m., Charlotte, North Carolina, time, distribute to the Lease Participants their respective A Percentage Share or B Percentage Share, as applicable, thereof, or to such other Person as shall be entitled thereto pursuant to the Operative Documents).
 
(c)  Accrued Yield on the Lessor Investments shall be payable on the last day of each Yield Period therefor and on the Maturity Date. Yield payable at the Default Rate shall be payable from time to time on demand.
 
(d)  Promptly after the determination of the rate of any Yield provided for herein or any change therein, the Lessor shall notify the Lease Participants which have an Ownership Interest in such Yield and the Company of such determination or change.
 
Section 3.04  Payments by Lessor. All moneys received by the Lessor pursuant to the Lease including, but not limited to, payments of Basic Rent, Supplemental Rent, the Termination Value or the Final Rent Payment, except for amounts allocable to fees and expenses of the Lessor pursuant to the Operative Documents and amounts comprising Supplemental Rent payable to third Persons, if any, shall be paid to the Funding Parties in accordance with, and to pay amounts owing pursuant to, the terms of this Agreement, including without limitation Section 4.01 and, if applicable, Section 3.05.
 
Section 3.05  Applications of Payments and Proceeds.
 
(a)  Upon the occurrence of (x) a Cancellation Event or (y) a Termination Event (and the Company elects pursuant to Section 15(a) of the Lease to exercise its option to purchase the Facility for the Purchase Price), or if the Company otherwise elects to acquire the Facility for the Purchase Price, the Purchase Price or the Termination Value, as the case may be, and all other monies received by the Lessor (or the Administrative Agent on the Lessor’s behalf) pursuant to or in connection with the Lease, this Agreement or any other Operative Document, including, without limitation, the proceeds of any insurance or condemnation awards received as a result of any Casualty Occurrence or Loss Event, shall be applied in the following order:
 
(i)  first, to pay or reimburse all Supplemental Rent and other costs and expenses, including, without limitation, those in connection with Indemnified Risks, increased costs, or Taxes, then due and owing to the Funding Parties under the other Operative Documents (collectively, the “Other Transaction Expenses”), pro rata to each such Person;
 
(ii)  second, to pay all accrued, unpaid Yield on the A Percentage Lessor Investments and the B Percentage Lessor Investments, to the Lessor (who shall distribute pro rata to each of the A Percentage Lease Participants and B Percentage Lease Participants its A Percentage Share and/or B Percentage Share thereof, as applicable); and
 
(iii)  third, in an amount equal to the aggregate outstanding principal balance of the A Percentage Lessor Investments, to the Lessor (who shall distribute to each of the A Percentage Lease Participants its A Percentage Share thereof); and
 
(iv)  fourth, in an amount equal to the aggregate outstanding principal balance of that portion of the B Percentage Lessor Investments which is in excess of the Non-Recourse Amount, to the Lessor (who shall distribute to each of the B Percentage Lease Participants its B Percentage Share thereof); and
 
(v)  fifth, in an amount equal to the aggregate outstanding principal balance of that portion of the B Percentage Lessor Investments which is attributable to the Non-Recourse Amount, to Lessor (who shall distribute to each of the B Percentage Lease Participants its B Percentage Share thereof).
 
Any monies remaining after payment in full of the foregoing amounts and all other amounts owing by the Company from time to time under the Operative Documents shall be paid to the Lessor for distribution to the Company.
 
(b)  If (i) a Termination Event has occurred, (ii) a Cancellation Event does not exist and (iii) the Company has not elected to purchase the Facility for the Purchase Price, and has paid the Final Rent Payment pursuant to Section 15(a) of the Lease, then the Final Rent Payment shall be applied as follows:
 
(i)  first, to pay or reimburse all Other Transaction Expenses;
 
(ii)  second, to pay all accrued, unpaid Yield on the A Percentage Lessor Investments and the B Percentage Lessor Investments, to the Lessor (who shall distribute pro rata to each of the A Percentage Lease Participants and B Percentage Lease Participants its A Percentage Share and/or B Percentage Share thereof, as applicable);
 
(iii)  third, in an amount equal to the aggregate outstanding principal balance of the A Percentage Lessor Investments, to the Lessor (who shall distribute to each of the A Percentage Lease Participants its A Percentage Share thereof); and
 
(iv)  fourth, in an amount equal to the aggregate outstanding principal balance of that portion of the B Percentage Lessor Investments which is in excess of the Non-Recourse Amount, to the Lessor (who shall distribute to each of the B Percentage Lease Participants its B Percentage Share thereof); and
 
(v)  fifth, the balance, if any, to be applied as provided in the following provisions of this paragraph (b).
 
In such circumstances, all other monies received by the Lessor pursuant to or in connection with the Lease, this Agreement or any other Operative Document or as proceeds of disposition of the Facility shall be applied as follows:
 
(i)  first, to pay to the Lessor (who shall distribute to each of the B Percentage Lease Participants its B Percentage Share thereof), an amount equal to the aggregate outstanding principal balance of that portion of the B Percentage Lessor Investments which is attributable to the Non-Recourse Amount, excluding the portion thereof attributable to the Lessor Equity Interest;
 
(ii)  second, to pay to the Lessor, for its own account, an amount equal to the aggregate outstanding principal balance of that portion of the B Percentage Lessor Investments attributable to the Lessor Equity Interest; and
 
(iii)  third, to reimburse the Company for Support Expenses.
 
Any monies remaining after payment in full of the foregoing amounts and all other amounts owing by the Company from time to time under the Operative Documents shall be paid to the Lessor for distribution to the Company.
 
(c)  If the circumstances described in Section 3.05(b)(i) and (ii) exist, but the Company has either failed to elect to exercise its option to purchase the Facility, failed to make the Final Rent Payment and/or failed to furnish to the Lessor a satisfactory update of the environmental reports initially furnished with respect to the Facility, then the Lessor will be entitled to exercise foreclosure remedies set forth in Section 26 of the Lease and all moneys received by the Lessor from the disposition of the Facility or other foreclosure action, net of enforcement costs, will be applied (i) first, to payment of the Unrecovered Lessor Investments attributable to that portion of the principal balance of the B Percentage Lessor Investments which is attributable to the Non-Recourse Amount, but excluding the portion thereof attributable to the Lessor Equity Interest (which payment shall be distributed to each of the B Percentage Lease Participants according to its B Percentage Share thereof), (ii) second, to the remaining Unrecovered Lessor Investments attributable to the Lessor Equity Interest (which shall be retained by the Lessor), and (iii) third, any remaining net proceeds shall be applied in accordance with 3.05(a) in the same manner as if the Final Rent Payment had been made, and in such circumstances, the Company shall remain liable for any deficiency in such remaining net proceeds to pay such amounts described in Section 3.05(a). 
 
ARTICLE IV.  
 

 
PAYMENTS; COMPUTATIONS; ETC.
 
Section 4.01  Payments. The Company (or, in the case of the principal amount of the B Percentage Lessor Investments in the circumstances described in Section 3.05(b) and if the Company shall have paid the Final Rent Payment, the Lessor), shall make each payment under this Agreement, whether the amount so paid is owing to any or all of the Funding Parties, not later than 12:00 noon, Charlotte, North Carolina, time, without setoff, counterclaim, or any other deduction whatsoever, on the day when due in Dollars to the Lessor c/o the Administrative Agent, at its address: Wachovia Bank, National Association, 301 S. College Street, MC 0174, Charlotte, North Carolina 28288, Attention: Gabrielle Braverman, Reference: Protective Life Insurance Company Facility, or at such other location designated by notice to the Company from the Lessor, in same day funds,. The Lessor will promptly thereafter (on the same day received, if received by 2:00 p.m., Charlotte, North Carolina, time) cause to be distributed to the other Funding Parties like funds relating to the payment of principal or Yield ratably (other than amounts payable pursuant to Section 4.06 or 11.03 or Article V) according to the respective amounts of such principal or Yield then due and owing to the Funding Parties, to be applied in accordance with the terms of this Agreement. Upon its acceptance of an Assignment and Acceptance and recording of the information contained therein in the Register pursuant to Section 11.06(d), from and after the effective date specified in such Assignment and Acceptance, the Lessor shall make all payments under this Agreement in respect of the interest assigned thereby to the assignee thereunder, and the parties to such Assignment and Acceptance shall make all appropriate adjustments in such payments for periods prior to such effective date directly between themselves. Any payments and redemptions received hereunder, other than after the occurrence and during the continuation of a Cancellation Event or Termination Event, shall be applied in accordance with the purpose for which such payment or redemption is made. All payments by the Company under any Operative Document shall be made in the manner specified in this Article IV.
 
Section 4.02  Pro Rata Treatment. Except to the extent otherwise provided herein: (a) each payment of A Percentage Lessor Investments and B Percentage Lessor Investments received by the Lessor shall be distributed to the A Percentage Lease Participants and B Percentage Lease Participants, as applicable, pro rata in accordance with their respective A Percentage Ownership Interests and B Percentage Ownership Interests, as applicable; (b) each payment of A Percentage Yield and B Percentage Yield received by the Lessor shall be distributed to the A Percentage Lease Participants and B Percentage Lease Participants pro rata in accordance with their respective A Percentage Ownership Interests and B Percentage Ownership Interests, as applicable; and (e) each amount received by a setoff by any Funding Party pursuant to Section 11.05 shall be shared with all other Funding Parties so that each Funding Party receives its A Percentage Share and B Percentage Share, respectively, thereof.
 
Section 4.03  Computations. All computations of Yield shall be made by the Lessor, on the basis of a year of 360 days (or, in the case of computations based on the Prime Rate, 365/366 days), in each case for the actual number of days (including the first day but excluding the last day) occurring in the period for which such Yield is payable. Whenever any payment hereunder shall be stated to be due on a day other than a Business Day, such payment shall be made on the next succeeding Business Day, and such extension of time in such case shall be included in the computation of payment of Yield; provided, however, that if such extension would cause payment of Yield on or amount of any Lessor Investment to be made in the next following calendar month, such payment shall be made on the next preceding Business Day.
 
Section 4.04  Non-receipt of Funds by the Lessor. Unless the Lessor shall have received notice from the Company, as Lessee under the Lease, prior to the date on which any payment is due to the Funding Parties hereunder that the Company will not make such payment in full, the Lessor may assume that the Company, as Lessee under the Lease, has made such payment in full to the Lessor on such date and the Lessor may, in reliance upon such assumption, but shall not be obligated to, cause to be distributed to each Lease Participant on such due date an amount equal to the amount then due such Lease Participant. If and to the extent the Lessor or the Company shall not have so made such payment in full to the Lessor, each Lease Participant shall repay to the Lessor forthwith on demand such amount distributed to such Lease Participant together with interest thereon, for each day from the date such amount is distributed to such Lease Participant until the date such Lease Participant repays such amount to the Lessor, at a rate equal to (i) until the Business Day after the Business Day on which such demand is made, the Federal Funds Rate for such day and (ii) thereafter 50 basis points above the Federal Funds Rate for such day.
 
Section 4.05  Sharing of Payments. If any Funding Party shall obtain any payment (whether voluntary, involuntary, through the exercise of any right of set-off, or otherwise) on account of its Ownership Interests (other than pursuant to Section 4.06 or 11.03 or Article V) in excess of its ratable share of payments then due and owing to it in accordance with the payment orders specified in Section 3.05 or Section 4.02 on account of the Lessor Investments obtained by all the Funding Parties, such Funding Party shall forthwith purchase from the other Funding Parties participations in such Ownership Interests of the other Funding Parties, as shall be necessary to cause such purchasing Funding Party to share the excess payment ratably with each of them (or, if necessary, to cause such purchasing Funding Party to assume the payment priority specified in Section 3.05), provided, however, that if all or any portion of such excess payment is thereafter recovered from such purchasing Funding Party, such purchase from each Funding Party shall be rescinded and each Funding Party shall repay to the purchasing Funding Party the purchase price to the extent of such recovery together with an amount equal to such Funding Party’s A Percentage Share or B Percentage Share, as applicable. The Company agrees that any Funding Party so purchasing a participation from another Funding Party pursuant to this Section may, to the fullest extent permitted by law, exercise all its rights of payment (including any right of set-off) with respect to such participation as fully as if such Funding Party were the direct creditor of the Company in the amount of such participation.
 
Section 4.06  Taxes.
 
(a)  Any and all payments of principal, Yield and all other amounts to be paid to the Lessor, for itself or for distribution to any Lease Participant, by the Company, as Lessee under the Lease, or any other Operative Document to each Indemnified Party, shall be made, in accordance with Section 4.01, without deduction for, and free from, any tax, imposts, levies, duties, deductions, or withholdings of any nature now or at any time hereafter imposed by any Governmental Authority or by any taxing authority thereof or therein, excluding in the case of each Funding Party, taxes imposed on or measured by the net income or net worth of any Funding Party, and franchise taxes imposed on such Funding Party (all such non-excluded taxes, imposts, levies, duties, deductions or withholdings of any nature being “Taxes”). In the event that the Lessor or Company, as Lessee under the Lease, is required by applicable law to make any such withholding or deduction of Taxes with respect to any Ownership Interest or other amount, the Company, as Lessee under the Lease, shall pay such deduction or withholding to the applicable taxing authority, shall promptly furnish to any Funding Party or other Person in respect of which such deduction or withholding is made all receipts and other documents evidencing such payment and shall pay to such Funding Party or other Person additional amounts as may be necessary in order that the amount received by such Funding Party or other Person after the required deduction or withholding shall equal the amount such Funding Party would have received had no such deduction or withholding been made.
 
(b)  Each Lease Participant that is not chartered and organized under the laws of the United States of America or a state thereof (each a “Non-U.S. Domestic Participant”) agrees, as soon as practicable after receipt by it of a request by the Lessor or the Company, as Lessee under the Lease, to do so, to file all appropriate forms and take other appropriate action to obtain a certificate or other appropriate document from the appropriate governmental authority in the jurisdiction imposing the relevant taxes, establishing that it is entitled to receive payments of principal and Yield under or in respect of this Agreement and its Ownership Interests without deduction and free from withholding of any Taxes imposed by such jurisdiction; provided, that, if it is unable, by virtue of any applicable law, rule or regulation, to establish such exemption or to file such forms and, in any event, during such period of time as such request for exemption is pending, the Company, as Lessee under the Lease, shall nonetheless remain obligated under the terms of the immediately preceding paragraph. Without limiting the foregoing, each Non-U.S. Domestic Participant agrees to deliver to the Lessor and to the Company, as Lessee under the Lease, promptly upon any request therefor from time to time, such forms, documents and other information as may be required by applicable law from time to time to establish that payment to such Non-U.S. Domestic Participant hereunder or with respect to its Ownership Interests or under the Guaranty are exempt from Taxes. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, each Non-U.S. Domestic Participant agrees, on the date of its execution of this Agreement (or, in the case of an Eligible Assignee, on the date on which such Eligible Assignee becomes a party to this Agreement), to deliver in duplicate to the Lessor and to the Company, as Lessor under the Lease, accurate and duly completed and executed Internal Revenue Service Form 4224 or 1001 (as applicable), together with Internal Revenue Service Forms W-8 or W-9, as appropriate, establishing that such Non-U.S. Domestic Participant is entitled to a complete exemption from all Taxes imposed by the federal government of the United States by way of withholding, including without limitation, all backup withholding (“U.S. Withholding Taxes”). Thereafter, from time to time (i) upon any change by a Non-U.S. Domestic Participant of its Applicable Funding Office, (ii) before or promptly after any event occurs (including, without limitation, the passing of time) requiring a change in or update of the most recent Form 4224 or 1001 previously delivered by such Non-U.S. Domestic Participant, or (iii) upon the reasonable request of the Lessor or the Company, as Lessee under the Lease, such Non-U.S. Domestic Participant shall deliver in duplicate to the Lessor and to the Company, as Lessee under the Lease, accurate and duly completed and executed Form 4224 or 1001 (as applicable) (together with Forms W-8 or W-9, as aforesaid) in replacement of the forms previously delivered by such Non-U.S. Domestic Participant, establishing that such Non- U.S. Domestic Participant is entitled to an exemption in whole or in part from all U.S. Withholding Taxes except to the extent that a change in law has rendered all such forms inapplicable to such Non-U.S. Domestic Participant.
 
(c)  If the Internal Revenue Service or any other taxation authority in the United States or in any other jurisdiction successfully asserts a claim that such Non-U.S. Domestic Participant, the Lessor or the Company, as Lessee under the Lease, did not properly withhold tax from amounts paid to or for the account of any Non-U.S. Domestic Participant or its participant (because the appropriate form was not properly executed, or because such Non-U.S. Domestic Participant failed to notify the Lessor, Company, as Lessee under the Lease, of a change in circumstances which rendered the exemption from (or reduction in) U.S. Withholding Taxes ineffective), such Non-U.S. Domestic Participant shall indemnify the Company, as Lessee under the Lease, fully for all amounts paid, directly or indirectly, by the Lessor or the Company, as Lessee under the Lease, as applicable, as tax or otherwise, including, without limitation, penalties and interest.
 
(d)  In the event any Funding Party receives a refund from the Governmental Authority to which such Taxes were paid of any Taxes paid by the Company pursuant to this Section 4.06, it will pay to the Company the amount of such refund promptly upon receipt thereof; provided, however, if at any time thereafter it is required to return such refund, the Company shall promptly repay to it the amount of such refund.
 
(e)  Nothing in this Section shall require any Funding Party to disclose any information about its tax affairs or interfere with, limit or abridge the right of any Funding Party to arrange its tax affairs in any manner in which it desires.
 
(f)  Without prejudice to the survival of any other agreement of the Company hereunder, the agreements and obligations of the Company and the Funding Parties contained in this Section 4.06 shall be applicable with respect to any Funding Party, Eligible Assignee or other transferee, and any calculations required by such provisions (i) shall be made based upon the circumstances of such Funding Party, Eligible Assignee or other transferee (subject to Section 11.06(j)), and (ii) constitute a continuing agreement and shall survive for a period of 2 years after the termination of this Agreement and the payment in full of the Lessor Investments.
 
ARTICLE V.  
 

 
YIELD PROTECTION AND ILLEGALITY
 
Section 5.01  Basis for Determining Yield Rate Inadequate or Unfair. The Lessor shall give prompt notice to the Company and the Lease Participants of the applicable Yield determined by the Lessor for purposes of Sections 3.03(a) and (b). If on or prior to the first day of any Yield Period:
 
(a)  the Lessor determines that deposits in Dollars (in the applicable amounts), are not being offered in the relevant market for such Yield Period, or
 
(b)  the Majority Funding Parties determine and give notice to the Lessor that the rates or yield determined on the basis of the LIBO Rate for any Yield Period for Lessor Investments or Lease Participant Investments will not adequately and fairly reflect the cost to Majority Funding Parties of maintaining their respective Lessor Investments or Lease Participant Investments for such Yield Period, the Lessor shall forthwith so notify the Company and the Lease Participants, whereupon,
 
(i)  in the case of such notice from the Majority Funding Parties, the Lessor Investments and Lease Participant Investments will automatically, on the last day of the then existing Yield Period, accrue Yield at a rate based upon the Base Rate plus the Applicable Margin as set forth in the Pricing Schedule, and
 
(ii)  the obligation of the Majority Funding Parties to maintain Lessor Investments or Lease Participant Investments, as applicable, at the Adjusted LIBO Rate shall be suspended until the Lessor shall notify the Company and the Lease Participants that the circumstances causing such suspension no longer exist.
 
Upon the written request of the Company, the Lessor shall negotiate with the Company and the relevant Lease Participants for a reasonable period of time, as determined in the Lessor’s discretion, to develop a substitute interest rate basis hereunder; provided, however, (x) the Lessor, the Lease Participants and the Company make no representation, warranty or covenant that any such agreement will be made, and (y) any relevant Lessor Investments and Lease Participant Investments shall continue to have Yield accrue thereon at the Base Rate during the continuance of any such negotiations and thereafter should no alternate interest rate be agreed to by the necessary parties.
 
Section 5.02  Illegality. If, after the date hereof, the adoption of any applicable law, rule or regulation, or any change therein, or any change in the interpretation or administration thereof by any governmental authority, central bank or comparable agency charged with the interpretation or administration thereof (any such agency being referred to as a “Banking Authority” and any such event being referred to as a “Change of Law”), or compliance by any Funding Party (or its Applicable Funding Office) with any request or directive (whether or not having the force of law) of any Banking Authority shall make it unlawful or impossible for any Funding Party (or its Applicable Funding Office) to make or maintain its Lessor Investments or Lease Participant Investments, as applicable, based upon the Adjusted LIBO Rate and such Funding Party (if not the Lessor) shall so notify the Lessor, the Lessor shall forthwith give notice thereof to the other Funding Parties and to the Company and the Guarantor, whereupon until such Funding Party notifies the Lessor (if it is not such Funding Party), the other Funding Parties, the Company and the Guarantor that the circumstances giving rise to such suspension no longer exist, the obligation of such Funding Party to make or maintain Lessor Investments or Lease Participant Investments, as applicable, based upon the Adjusted LIBO Rate shall be suspended. Before giving any notice to the Lessor (or, in the case of the Lessor as a Funding Party, to the Company) pursuant to this Section, such Funding Party shall designate a different Applicable Funding Office if such designation will avoid the need for giving such notice and will not, in the judgment of such Funding Party, be otherwise disadvantageous to such Funding Party. If such Funding Party shall determine that it may not lawfully continue to maintain and fund any of its outstanding Lessor Investments or Lease Participant Investments, as applicable, to maturity and shall so specify in such notice, the Company shall immediately redeem the full amount of the Lessor Investments (if such Funding Party is the Lessor) together with Yield thereon, or the full amount of such Funding Party’s Lease Participant Investments (if such Funding Party is not the Lessor) together with Yield thereon. At any time within 90 days after the giving of a notice by any Lease Participant pursuant to this Section 5.02, so long as no Event of Default shall be in existence, and so long as the Lessor has granted its consent (which it may grant or withhold in its sole and absolute discretion), the Company may require by written notice to that Lease Participant that (a) it assign its Lease Participant Investments to another Lease Participant or to a bank or other financial institution selected by the Company which is willing to accept such assignment or (b) it surrender its Lease Participant Investments and terminate its rights and obligations as a Lease Participant hereunder, concurrently with a redemption by the Company of the Lease Participant Investments of such Lease Participant together with Yield thereon (which redemption and Yield shall be paid to such Lease Participant).
 
Section 5.03  Increased Cost and Reduced Return.
 
(a)  If after the date hereof, a Change of Law or compliance by any Funding Party (or its Applicable Funding Office) with any request or directive (whether or not having the force of law) of any Banking Authority:
 
(i)  shall subject any Funding Party (or its Applicable Funding Office) to any tax, duty or other charge on its Lessor Investments or Lease Participant Investments, or maintain its Lessor Investments or Lease Participant Investments or shall change the basis of taxation of payments to any Funding Party (or its Applicable Funding Office) of the principal amount of or interest on its Lessor Investments or Lease Participant Investments, or Yield thereon or any other amounts due under this Agreement or any other Operative Document in respect of its Lessor Investments or Lease Participant Investments (except for changes in the rate of any tax based on the net income, net worth or gross receipts of such Funding Party or its Applicable Funding Office); or
 
(ii)  shall impose, modify or deem applicable any reserve, special deposit or similar requirement (including, without limitation, any such requirement imposed by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, but excluding any such requirement included in an applicable Euro-Dollar Reserve Percentage) against assets of, deposits with or for the account of, or credit extended by, any Funding Party (or its Applicable Funding Office); or
 
(iii)  shall impose on any Funding Party (or its Applicable Funding Office) or on the United States market or the London interbank market any other condition affecting its Lessor Investments or Lease Participant Investments, or obligation to make or maintain Lessor Investments or Lease Participant Investments;
 
and the result of any of the foregoing is to increase the cost to such Funding Party (or its Applicable Funding Office) of making or maintaining any Lessor Investments or Lease Participant Investments, or to reduce the amount of any sum received or receivable by such Funding Party (or its Applicable Funding Office) under this Agreement or any other Operative Document with respect thereto, by an amount deemed by such Funding Party to be material, then, within fifteen (15) days after demand by such Funding Party (with a copy to the Lessor, if it is not such Funding Party), the Company shall pay to such Funding Party such additional amount or amounts as will compensate such Funding Party for such increased cost or reduction; provided, however, that no such amount may be claimed by any Funding Party which is attributable to periods prior to the date which is 180 days preceding the date on which the officer of the Funding Party having primary responsibility for asset-liability management shall have obtained actual knowledge of such Change of Law or request or directive. At any time within 90 days after payment by the Company of any material amount to any Lease Participant or Lease Participants pursuant to paragraph (a) or (b) of this Section, so long as no Event of Default shall be in existence, and so long as the Lessor has granted its consent (which it may grant or withhold in its sole and absolute discretion), the Company may require by written notice to each such Lease Participant that (i) it assign its Lease Participant Investments to another Lease Participant or to a bank or other financial institution selected by the Company which is willing to accept such assignment or (ii) it surrender its Lease Participant Investments and terminate its rights and obligations as a Lease Participant hereunder, concurrently with a redemption by the Company of the Lessor Investments by an amount equal to the Lease Participant Investments held by that Lease Participant together with Yield thereon (which redemption and Yield shall be paid to such Lease Participant).
 
(b)  If any Funding Party shall have determined that after the date hereof the adoption of any applicable law, rule or regulation regarding capital adequacy, or any change therein, or any change in the interpretation or official administration thereof, or compliance by any Funding Party (or its Applicable Funding Office) or any Person controlling such Funding Party with any request or directive regarding capital adequacy (whether or not having the force of law) of any Banking Authority, has or would have the effect of reducing the rate of return on such Funding Party’s or such controlling Person’s capital as a consequence of its obligations hereunder to a level below that which such Funding Party or such controlling Person could have achieved but for such adoption, change or compliance (taking into consideration such Funding Party’s or such controlling Person’s policies with respect to capital adequacy) by an amount deemed by such Funding Party or such controlling Person to be material, then from time to time, within 15 days after demand by such Funding Party or such controlling Person, the Company shall pay to such Funding Party such additional amount or amounts as will compensate such Funding Party or such controlling Person for such reduction, subject to the proviso at the end of Section 5.03(a).
 
(c)  Each Funding Party will promptly notify the Lessor (if such Funding Party is a Lease Participant) and the Company of any event of which its officer having primary responsibility for asset-liability management has knowledge, which occurs or is expected to occur after the date hereof, which will entitle such Funding Party to compensation pursuant to and subject to the limitations contained in this Section and will designate a different Applicable Funding Office if such designation will avoid the need for, or reduce the amount of, such compensation and will not, in the reasonable judgment of such Funding Party, be otherwise materially disadvantageous to such Funding Party. A certificate of any Funding Party claiming compensation under this Section and setting forth in reasonable detail the additional amount or amounts to be paid to it hereunder shall be presumed to be correct in the absence of manifest error. In determining such amount, such Funding Party may use any reasonable averaging and attribution methods. Nothing in this Section shall require any Funding Party to disclose any information about its tax affairs or interfere with, limit or abridge the right of any Funding Party to arrange its tax affairs in any manner it desires, subject to Section 11.16(b).
 
(d)  The provisions of this Section 5.03 shall (i) be applicable with respect to any Funding Party, assignee or other transferee, and any calculations required by such provisions shall be made based upon the circumstances of such Funding Party, assignee or other transferee and (ii) constitute a continuing agreement and shall survive for a period of one year after the termination of this Agreement and the redemption in full of the Lessor Investments and Lease Participant Investments.
 
Section 5.04  Base Rate Substituted for Adjusted LIBO Rate. If (i) the obligation of any Funding Party to make or maintain Lessor Investments or Lease Participant Investments has been suspended pursuant to Section 5.02 or (ii) any Funding Party has demanded compensation under Section 5.03, and the Company shall, by at least 5 Business Days’ prior notice to such Funding Party, with a copy to the Lessor (if it is not such Funding Party), have elected that the provisions of this Section shall apply to such Funding Party, then, unless and until such Funding Party notifies the Lessor (if it is not such Funding Party) and the Company that the circumstances giving rise to such suspension or demand for compensation no longer apply:
 
(a)  all Lessor Investments or Lease Participant Investments that would otherwise be made or maintained by such Funding Party (and Lessor Investments related thereto, if such Funding Party is a Lease Participant) based upon the Adjusted LIBO Rate shall be made or, from the beginning of the next Yield Period therefor, be maintained instead based upon the Base Rate, plus the Applicable Margin (in all cases Yield and principal or other amounts payable on such Lessor Investments and/or Lease Participant Investments shall be payable contemporaneously with the related or comparable amount payable in respect of the other Funding Parties), and
 
(b)  after each of the Lessor Investments and/or Lease Participant Investments made or maintained based upon the Adjusted LIBO Rate has been repaid, all payments of principal that would otherwise be applied to redeem such Lessor Investments and/or Lease Participant Investments shall be applied to redeem Lessor Investments and/or Lease Participant Investments made or maintained based upon the Base Rate instead.
 
Section 5.05  Compensation. Upon the request of any Funding Party, delivered to the Lessor (if it is not such Funding Party) and the Company, the Company shall pay to such Funding Party such amount or amounts as shall compensate such Funding Party for any loss, cost or expense incurred by such Funding Party as a result of any payment, prepayment or redemption (pursuant to Section 5.02 or otherwise) of a Lessor Investment or Lease Participant Investment on a date other than the last day of the Yield Period therefor.
 
Section 5.06  Payments and Computations. Each determination by the Lessor of Yield, or by any Funding Party of an increased cost or increased capital or of illegality hereunder, shall be presumed to be correct and binding for all purposes (absent manifest error) if made reasonably and in good faith, subject to Section 5.03(c).
 
ARTICLE VI.  
 

 
CONDITIONS PRECEDENT
 
Section 6.01  Conditions Precedent to Effectiveness of this Agreement. This Agreement shall become effective when (i) it shall have been executed by the Lessor and the Company and any A Percentage Lease Participants and B Percentage Lease Participants required by the Lessor as of the Restatement Closing Date and delivered to the office of the Lessor in Charlotte, North Carolina, (ii) the Lessor either shall have been notified at its office in Charlotte, North Carolina, by each A Percentage Lease Participant and B Percentage Lease Participant which it requires to be a Lease Participant as of the Restatement Closing Date that it has executed this Agreement or shall have received at its office in Charlotte, North Carolina, or by Lessor’s counsel, a counterpart of this Agreement executed by such A Percentage Lease Participant and/or B Percentage Lease Participants, and (iii) the Lessor (or the Funding Parties, as specified below) shall have received at its office in Charlotte, North Carolina, or by Lessor’s counsel, the following, each being in form and substance satisfactory to the Lessor and (as to this Agreement and the opinions described below) in sufficient counterparts for each Lease Participant:
 
(a)  Certificates of Company and Guarantor. Certificates of the Secretary or Assistant Secretary of each of the Company and the Guarantor setting forth (i) resolutions of its board of directors authorizing the execution, delivery and performance of the obligations contained in this Agreement, with respect to the Company, and the other Operative Documents to which it is a party, with respect to the Company and the Guarantor, (ii) the officers of the Company and the Guarantor specified in such Secretary’s Certificates that are authorized to sign this Agreement and the other Operative Documents to which the Company or the Guarantor is a party and, until replaced by another officer or officers duly authorized for that purpose, to act as its respective representative for the purposes of signing documents and giving notices and other communications in connection with this Agreement and the Operative Documents to which it is a party and (iii) true and correct copies of the articles or certificate of incorporation and the bylaws of each of the Company and the Guarantor. The parties to this Agreement may conclusively rely on such certificate until the Lessor (who shall promptly notify all other parties) receives notice in writing from the Company or the Guarantor, as the case may be, to the contrary.
 
(b)  Opinion of Company’s and Guarantor’s Counsel. Favorable opinions of Sutherland, Asbill & Brennan LLP, special counsel to the Company and the Guarantor, Balch and Bingham LLP, special Alabama counsel to the Company and the Guarantor, Bass, Berry & Sims, special Tennessee counsel to the Company and the Guarantor, and a senior in-house attorney working under the General Counsel of the Company and the Guarantor (together with a certificate from the Company’s and Guarantor’s general counsel in form and substance satisfactory to Lessor to the effect that such senior attorney is authorized and permitted to deliver such opinion under the respective bylaws, articles or certificate of incorporation, and internal policies and procedures of the Company and the Guarantor), in the aggregate covering the matters addressed in Exhibit D, and as to such other matters as any Funding Party, through the Lessor, may reasonably request.
 
(c)  Execution and Delivery of Operative Documents. Each of the other Operative Documents, including the Guaranty, duly completed and executed in sufficient number of counterparts for recording where appropriate.
 
(d)  Recordation of Security Instruments. The Security Instruments (to the extent filing thereof is required for perfection or otherwise under applicable law) and all related financing statements and other requisite filing documents shall have been duly filed in the appropriate offices and, to the fullest extent allowed by applicable law, all costs and taxes associated with such filing shall have been paid or provided for by the Company.
 
(e)  Insurance Certification. The Lessor shall have received a certificate by a firm of independent insurance brokers or consultants chosen by the Company setting forth the insurance obtained, and to be obtained pursuant to the Lease, with respect to the Facility and the Company’s operations with respect thereto.
 
(f)  Lessor Assignment Agreement. The Lessor and WCI shall have executed and delivered the Lessor Assignment Agreement.
 
(g)  Environmental Matters. The Funding Parties, the Arranger, and the Administrative Agent shall have received an Environmental Assessment on the Site, conducted not more than 90 days before the Restatement Closing Date, demonstrating to their satisfaction that there is no evidence of any hazardous or toxic material or substance which has been generated, treated, stored, released or disposed of on the Site, and that there is no evidence of any violation of any Environmental Requirement and no evidence of any Environmental Damages on or pertaining to the Facility, except as are specified on Schedule 7.01(n).
 
(h)  Lessor Confirmation Letter. The Lessor shall have executed and delivered to Lessee a Lessor confirmation letter in the form of Exhibit G, attached hereto and made a part hereof.
 
(i)  Survey. The Lessor shall have received Surveys respecting the Annex Building and the Parking Deck.
 
(j)  Appraisal. The Funding Parties shall have received an Approved Appraisal of the Property, which Approved Appraisal shall be in form and substance satisfactory to the Funding Parties, the Arranger, and the Administrative Agent, shall not have been conducted more than 90 days before the Restatement Closing Date, and shall indicate the estimated fair market value of the Facility as of the Restatement Closing Date.
 
(k)  Title Insurance. A title insurance company acceptable to the Lessor in its reasonable discretion shall have issued, or provided the Lessor with evidence satisfactory to the Lessor that such title insurance company is irrevocably obligated to issue immediately after closing of the assignment of the Original Ground Lease (and the corresponding leasehold interest in the Site) from WCI to Lessor pursuant to the Lessor Assignment Agreement and the amendment and restatement thereto as set forth in the Ground Lease, an owner’s title policy issued to the Lessor insuring the leasehold interest of the Lessor in the Site and, in the event that the Lease is ever deemed to be a mortgage, as mortgagee of the Facility under the Lease.
 
(l)  No Default. The fact that no Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing (under the Original Lease Documents).
 
(m)  Accuracy of Representations, etc. The representations and warranties of the Company contained in this Agreement, and the representations and warranties of the Company and the Guarantor contained in any other Operative Document, are true and correct in all material respects.
 
(n)  Related Contracts; Title. The Lessor shall have good and marketable title to the Facility; and the Lessor shall have received executed copies of all Related Contracts requested by it.
 
(o)  Receipt of Applicable Permits. All Applicable Permits shall have been obtained. All Applicable Permits shall be in proper form, in full force and effect and not subject to any appeal or other unsatisfied contest that may allow modification or revocation thereof.
 
(p)  Casualties. The Facility shall not have suffered (i) a Loss Event or (ii) a Casualty Occurrence other than a Casualty Occurrence for which a plan reasonably acceptable to the Lessor for replacing, or causing to be replaced, the portions of the Facility that are the subject of such Casualty Occurrence has been provided to the Lessor.
 
(q)  No Material Adverse Change or Effect. No material adverse change shall have occurred in the financial condition of the Guarantor and the Consolidated Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis since December 31, 2005, and no event, act, condition or occurrence shall exist or have occurred that has had, or would reasonably be expected to have, a Material Adverse Effect.
 
(r)  Taxes, Filings, Recordings. All filings or recordings reasonably considered necessary by the Lessor or any Lease Participant have been completed and all taxes and fees in connection therewith, and all Impositions with respect to the Facility that are due and payable, shall have been paid by the Company.
 
(s)  Wachovia Corporation Indemnity Letter. Wachovia Corporation shall have executed and delivered to Lessee an indemnity letter dated the Restatement Closing Date and in form and substance satisfactory to Wachovia Corporation and Lessor, pursuant to which, among other things, Wachovia Corporation will support the obligations of Lessor as Lessor under the Operative Documents.
 
(t)  Other. Such other documents as the Lessor or any Lease Participant or special counsel to the Lessor may reasonably request.
 
Section 6.02  [Intentionally Omitted].
 
Section 6.03  Closing. On the Restatement Closing Date (or in the case of clause (b), as soon thereafter as the applicable closing conditions shall have been satisfied), at such place as the parties hereto shall agree:
 
(a)  this Agreement and each of the Operative Documents shall be duly executed and delivered by the parties to such documents; and
 
(b)  subject to the satisfaction of the conditions precedent specified in Section 6.01 of this Agreement, the Original Ground Lease shall be deemed amended and restated as set forth in the Ground Lease, the Original Lease Agreement shall be deemed amended and restated as set forth in the Lease, the Original Guaranty Agreement shall be deemed amended and restated as set forth in the Guaranty, this Agreement shall become effective, and the Lessor Investments shall be deemed recharacterized as the A Percentage Lessor Investments and the B Percentage Lessor Investments, as applicable.
 
ARTICLE VII.  
 

 
REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES
 
Section 7.01  Company Representations and Warranties. The Company (and, by execution and delivery of the Guaranty, the Guarantor) represents and warrants to each Person who now is or hereafter becomes a party to this Agreement that:
 
(a)  Corporate Existence and Power. The Company and the Guarantor are corporations duly incorporated, validly existing and in good standing under the laws of the State of Tennessee and Delaware, respectively. The Company and the Guarantor are each duly qualified to transact business in every jurisdiction where failure to be qualified reasonably could be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect, and has all corporate powers and all government authorizations, licenses, consents and approvals required to engage in its business and operations as now conducted.
 
(b)  Corporate and Governmental Authorization; No Contravention. The execution, delivery and performance by the Company of this Agreement and by the Guarantor of the Guaranty and the other Operative Documents to which each of them is a party (i) are within its corporate powers, (ii) have been duly authorized by all necessary corporate action, (iii) require no action by or in respect of or filing with, any governmental body, agency or official, other than filings contemplated by the Operative Documents, (iv) do not contravene, or constitute a default under, any provision of applicable law or regulation or of the certificate of incorporation or by-laws of the Company and the Guarantor, or any judgment, injunction, order, or decree binding upon the Guarantor, the Company or any other Subsidiary, (v) do not contravene, or constitute a default under, any material agreement or other instrument binding upon the Guarantor, the Company or any other Subsidiary, and (vi) do not result in the creation or imposition of any Lien on any asset of the Guarantor, the Company or any other Subsidiary or on the Facility, other than as contemplated by the Operative Documents.
 
(c)  Binding Effect. This Agreement and each of the other Operative Documents to which the Company or the Guarantor is a party constitutes a valid and binding agreement of the Company and/or the Guarantor, as applicable, enforceable in accordance with their respective terms, provided that the enforceability hereof and thereof is subject in each case to general principles of equity and to bankruptcy, insolvency and similar laws affecting the enforcement of creditor’s rights generally.
 
(d)  Financial Information.
 
(i)  The consolidated balance sheet of the Guarantor and the Consolidated Subsidiaries as of December 31, 2005, and the related consolidated statements of income, stockholders’ equity and cash flows for the Fiscal Year then ended, reported on by PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, copies of which have been delivered to the Funding Parties, fairly present in all material respects, in conformity with GAAP, the consolidated financial position of the Guarantor and the Consolidated Subsidiaries as of such date and the consolidated results of operations and cash flows for such Fiscal Year.
 
(ii)  Since December 31, 2005, there has been no event, act, condition or occurrence having a Material Adverse Effect.
 
(e)  No Litigation. Except as disclosed on Schedule 7.01(e), there is no action, suit or proceeding pending, or to the actual knowledge of the Company and the Guarantor, threatened in writing, against or affecting the Guarantor, the Company or any other Subsidiary before any court or arbitrator or any governmental body, agency or official which (i) would reasonably be expected to have or cause a Material Adverse Effect or (ii) in any manner draws into question the validity of or could reasonably be expected to impair the ability of the Company or the Guarantor to perform its obligations under this Agreement or any of the Operative Documents executed by the Company or the Guarantor.
 
(f)  Compliance with ERISA.
 
(i)  Neither the Guarantor nor any member of the Controlled Group has incurred any withdrawal liability with respect to any Multiemployer Plan under Title IV of ERISA, and no such liability is expected to be incurred.
 
(ii)  Neither the Guarantor nor any member of the Controlled Group is or has during the preceding 6 years been obligated to contribute to any Multiemployer Plan.
 
(g)  Compliance with Laws; Payment of Taxes. The Guarantor, the Company and each other Subsidiary is in compliance with all applicable laws, regulations and similar requirements of governmental authorities, except where such compliance is being contested in good faith through appropriate proceedings or where non-compliance would not have and could not reasonably be expected to cause a Material Adverse Effect. There have been filed on behalf of the Guarantor, the Company and each other Subsidiary, all Federal, state and material local income, excise, property and other tax returns which are required to be filed by them, except where the failure to file has not had, and would not reasonably be expected to have, a Material Adverse Effect, and all taxes due pursuant to such returns or pursuant to any assessment received by or on behalf of the Guarantor, the Company or any other Material Subsidiary have been paid or are being contested in good faith or, if unpaid and uncontested, would not have and could not reasonably be expected to cause a Material Adverse Effect. The charges, accruals and reserves on the books of the Guarantor, the Company and each other Material Subsidiary, in respect of taxes or other governmental charges are, in the opinion of the Company, adequate. United States income tax returns of the Guarantor, the Company and each other Material Subsidiary which is a U.S. Person have been examined and closed through the Fiscal Year ended 2002.
 
(h)  Subsidiaries. Each of the Subsidiaries other than the Company is duly organized, validly existing and in good standing under the laws of its jurisdiction of formation, is duly qualified to transact business in every jurisdiction where, by the nature of its business, such qualification is necessary, and has all corporate powers and all governmental licenses, authorizations, consents and approvals required to carry on its business as now conducted, except where failure to be qualified or to have such powers, licenses, authorizations, consents or approvals would not have and could not reasonably be expected to cause a Material Adverse Effect. As of the date hereof, the Guarantor has no Subsidiaries except for the Company and those other Subsidiaries listed on Schedule 7.01(h), which accurately sets forth each such other Subsidiary’s complete name and jurisdiction of incorporation.
 
(i)  Investment Company Act. Neither the Guarantor nor the Company is an “investment company” within the meaning of the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended.
 
(j)  [Intentionally Omitted].
 
(k)  Ownership of Property; Liens. The Guarantor, the Company and each of the other Consolidated Subsidiaries has title to or leasehold or other interests in its material properties sufficient for the conduct of its business, and none of such property is subject to any Lien except Permitted Liens.
 
(l)  No Default. Neither the Guarantor, the Company nor any of the other Subsidiaries is in default under or with respect to any agreement, instrument or undertaking to which it is a party or by which it or any of its property is bound which has had or could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect. No Default or Event of Default has occurred and is continuing.
 
(m)  Full Disclosure. To the best of the Company’s knowledge, all written information heretofore furnished by the Guarantor or the Company to the Lessor or any Lease Participant for purposes of or in connection with this Agreement, any of the Operative Documents, or any transaction contemplated hereby or thereby is, and all such information hereafter furnished by the Guarantor or the Company to the Lessor or any Lease Participant will be, true, accurate and complete in every material respect or based on reasonable estimates on the date as of which such information is stated or certified. The Company has disclosed to the Funding Parties in writing any and all facts which reasonably could be expected to have or cause a Material Adverse Effect.
 
(n)  Environmental Matters.
 
(i)  Neither the Guarantor, the Company nor any other Subsidiary is subject to any Environmental Liability which has had or could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect and neither the Guarantor, the Company nor any other Subsidiary has been designated as a potentially responsible party under CERCLA or under any state statute similar to CERCLA. None of the Properties of the Company, the Guarantor or any other Material Subsidiary has been identified on any current or proposed (i) National Priorities List under 40 C.F.R. § 300, (ii) CERCLIS list or (iii) any list arising from a state statute similar to CERCLA.
 
(ii)  No Hazardous Materials have been or are being used, produced, manufactured, processed, treated, recycled, generated, stored, disposed of, managed or otherwise handled at, or shipped or transported to or from the Facility or from any of the Properties owned by the Company, the Guarantor or any other Material Subsidiary or are otherwise present at, on, in or under the Facility or any of the Properties owned by the Guarantor, the Company or any other Material Subsidiary, or, to the best of the actual knowledge of the Company and the Guarantor, at or from any adjacent site or facility, except for (A) Hazardous Materials such as cleaning solvents, pesticides and other materials used, produced, manufactured, processed, treated, recycled, generated, stored, disposed of, managed, or otherwise handled in minimal amounts in the ordinary course of business in compliance with all applicable Environmental Requirements and (B) Hazardous Materials in the form of diesel fuel for purposes of fueling generators used to power the Facility, which fuel is stored in above-ground storage tanks in compliance with all applicable Environmental Requirements.
 
(iii)  The Guarantor, the Company and each of the other Material Subsidiaries has procured all Environmental Authorizations necessary for the conduct of its business, and is in compliance with all Environmental Requirements in connection with the operation of their respective Properties and their respective businesses, except where the failure to procure such authorizations or be in compliance has not had and could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.
 
(iv)  Except to the extent specified on Schedule 7.01(n), (a) there are no Hazardous Materials on the Facility, other than minimal amounts of cleaning solvents, pesticides and other similar materials used, produced, manufactured, processed, treated, recycled, generated, stored, disposed, managed, or otherwise handled in the ordinary course of business or in management or maintenance of the Facility, (b) no Hazardous Material has migrated from the Facility to, upon, about or beneath other properties, (c) no Hazardous Material has migrated or threatened to migrate from other properties to, upon, about or beneath the Facility, and (d) all Hazardous Materials or solid wastes generated at the Facility have at all times been transported, treated and disposed of in compliance with Environmental Requirements.
 
(v)  Except to the extent specified on Schedule 7.01(n), (a) there is not, nor has there been, constructed, placed, deposited, stored, disposed of or located on the Facility any asbestos in any form, (b) no underground improvements, including treatment or storage tanks, pumps, or water wells, are or have been located on the Facility, (c) there are no polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) or transformers, capacitors, ballasts, machinery, fixtures or other equipment which contain PCBs constructed, placed, deposited, stored, disposed of or located on the Facility, (d) the uses and activities of, on or relating to the Facility have at all times complied in all material respects with all Environmental Requirements, and the use which the Guarantor and/or the Company, and their Affiliates, Subsidiaries and/or Sublessees make of the Facility will not result in the disposal or other Environmental Release of any Hazardous Material, (e) the Company or the Guarantor has obtained for the Facility all permits necessary under applicable Environmental Requirements, and (f) the Facility has not been, and is not now, listed on CERCLIS, the Environmental Protection Agency’s list of violating facilities established pursuant to the Clean Water Act or the National Priorities List established pursuant to CERCLA.
 
(vi)  Except to the extent specified on Schedule 7.01(n), (a) there exists no judgment, decree, order, writ or injunction outstanding, or litigation, action, suit, claim (including citation or directive) or proceeding pending or, to the knowledge of the Guarantor, the Company or any of the other Material Subsidiaries, threatened, relating to the ownership, use, maintenance or operation of the Facility by any person or entity, or arising from any alleged violation of Environmental Requirements with respect to the Facility, or any alleged liability for Environmental Damages with respect to the Facility, (b) there are no existing facts or conditions that could give rise to any such violation or liabilities, (c) there have been no written or, to the knowledge of the Guarantor, the Company or any of the other Material Subsidiaries, oral reports of environmental investigations, audits, studies, tests, reviews or other analyses conducted by or which have been presented to or are in the possession of the Guarantor, the Company, or any of the other Material Subsidiaries, relating to the Facility, which have not been delivered to the Lessor and (d) neither the Guarantor or the Company nor, to the knowledge of the Guarantor and Company, any of the other Material Subsidiaries, any other person or entity has received any notice or other communication concerning any alleged violation of Environmental Requirements, whether or not corrected to the satisfaction of the appropriate authority, or any notice or other communication concerning alleged liability for Environmental Damages in connection with the Facility.
 
(vii)  From the date hereof, there shall be no actual or threatened Environmental Release of a Hazardous Material on or from the Facility caused by the Guarantor, the Company or any other Subsidiary.
 
(viii)  Except to the extent specified on Schedule 7.01(n), the Company: (a) has obtained all permits, licenses, and other authorizations which are required under Environmental Requirements in association with the Facility; and (b) will be in full compliance with all terms and conditions of such required permits, licenses, and other authorizations associated with the Facility.
 
(ix)  No permits or licenses are required to be obtained or maintained in connection with the use, operation, or ownership of the Facility arising from any portion of the Facility which constitute (i) “wetlands” under any Environmental Requirement, or (ii) habitat for species which is deemed to be endangered under any Environmental Requirement, nor are there any ongoing or continuing obligations regarding any portion of the Facility which constitute wetlands. There are no species of plants or animals located on any portion of the Facility which are classified as threatened or endangered under any Environmental Requirement. There have been no written or, to the knowledge of the Guarantor and the Company or any of the other Subsidiaries, oral wetlands delineations conducted by or which have been presented to or are in the possession of the Guarantor, the Company or any of the other Subsidiaries relating to the Facility which have not been delivered to the Lessor.
 
(o)  Capital Stock. All Capital Stock, debentures, bonds, notes and all other securities of the Guarantor and the Company presently issued and outstanding are validly and properly issued in accordance with all applicable laws in all material respects, including but not limited to, the “Blue Sky” laws of all applicable states and the federal securities laws, except where non-compliance has not had and would not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect. The Guarantor owns directly or indirectly at least a majority of the issued shares of capital stock of each of the other Consolidated Subsidiaries (other than the Monet Trust, a New York trust, in which the Guarantor owns no direct or indirect equity interest but which is a Consolidated Subsidiary as a result of the application of Financial Interpretation Number 46 issued by the Financial Accounting Standards Board).
 
(p)  Use of Proceeds; Margin Stock. This Agreement constitutes an amendment and restatement of the Original Investment Agreement and, among other things, the terms relating to the “Lessor Advances” made thereunder. All of the proceeds of such “Lessor Advances” were used to finance the Facility Cost with respect to the Facility, including the enhancements and improvements made thereto and the design, renovation, construction and installation thereof and were used only in the manner permitted under the Original Lease Documents. The Company is not engaged principally, or as one of its important activities, in the business of purchasing or carrying any Margin Stock, and no part of the proceeds of any such “Lessor Advances” were used to purchase or carry any Margin Stock or to extend credit to others for the purpose of purchasing or carrying any Margin Stock, or be used for any purpose which violates, or which is inconsistent with, the provisions of Regulations T, U or X.
 
(q)  Insolvency. After giving effect to the execution and delivery of the Lease, neither the Company nor the Guarantor will be “insolvent” within the meaning of such term as used in § 101 of Title 11 of the United States Code, Section 2 of the Uniform Fraudulent Transfer Act, or any other applicable state law pertaining to fraudulent transfers, as amended from time to time, or be unable to pay its debts generally as such debts become due, or have an unreasonably small capital to engage in any business or transaction, whether current or contemplated.
 
(r)  Facility Plan. In all material respects, the Facility was constructed prior to the Restatement Closing Date in compliance with, and in accordance with, the Facility Plan. There are no agreements, instruments, licenses or other rights necessary to own, operate, lease or use the Facility, other than the Applicable Permits, the documents and instruments comprising the Facility Plan, and the Operative Documents; and renovation, construction, ownership, operation, leasing or use of the Facility by the Company (and after the expiration or termination of the Lease, the renovation, construction, ownership, operation, leasing or use of the Facility by the Lessor or its successors or assigns) does not and will not infringe on, or otherwise violate, any patents, patent applications, trademarks (whether registered or not), trademark applications, trade names, proprietary computer software, or copyrights of any Person.
 
(s)  Boundaries; Encroachment; Etc. The Facility is situated wholly within the boundary lines of the Site and does not encroach upon any contiguous or adjoining Property (other than those portions of the Facility for which the Lessor has the right to locate and operate such portions pursuant to use or operating agreements); and the Facility does not violate any other easements, rights-of-way, licenses or other agreements affecting the Site.
 
(t)  Anti-Terrorism Laws.
 
(i)  General. None of the Guarantor, the Company, or their Affiliates is in violation of any Anti-Terrorism Law or engages in or conspires to engage in any transaction that evades or avoids, or has the purpose of evading or avoiding, or attempts to violate, any Anti-Terrorism Law.
 
(ii)  Executive Order No. 13224. None of the Guarantor, the Company, or the their Affiliates is any of the following (each a “Blocked Person”):
 
 
(A)
a Person owned or controlled by, or acting for or on behalf of, any Person that is listed in the annex to, or is otherwise subject to the provisions of, Executive Order No. 13224;
 
 
(B)
a Person or entity with which any bank or other financial institution is prohibited from dealing or otherwise engaging in any transaction by any Anti-Terrorism Law;
 
 
(C)
a Person or entity that commits, threatens or conspires to commit or supports “terrorism” as defined in Executive Order No. 13224;
 
 
(D)
a Person or entity that is named as a “specially designated national” on the most current list published by the U.S. Treasury Department Office of Foreign Asset Control at its official website or any replacement website or other replacement official publication of such list; or
 
 
(E)
a Person or entity who is affiliated with a Person or entity listed above.
 
(iii)  None of the Guarantor, the Lessee, or their Affiliates (i) conducts any business or engages in making or receiving any contribution of funds, goods or services to or for the benefit of any Blocked Person or (ii) deals in, or otherwise engages in any transaction relating to, any property or interests in property blocked pursuant to Executive Order No. 13224.
 
ARTICLE VIII.  
 

 
COVENANTS
 
The Company (and, by execution and delivery of the Guaranty, the Guarantor) covenants and agrees with the Lessor and each Lease Participant to comply with the following covenants until either (i) the Facility has been purchased by the Company (or one of its Affiliates) for the Purchase Price or (ii) the Lease has been terminated, the Facility has been returned to the Lessor and the Termination Value or the Final Rent Payment, as the case may be, and all other amounts payable under the Lease and the other Operative Documents upon such occurrence have been paid in full:
 
Section 8.01  Information. The Guarantor will deliver to the Lessor and each of the Lease Participants:
 
(a)  as soon as available and in any event within 95 days after the end of each Fiscal Year, a copy of the unaudited Annual Statement of the Company, and a consolidated balance sheet of the Guarantor and the Consolidated Subsidiaries as of the end of such Fiscal Year and the related consolidated statements of income, shareholders’ equity and cash flows for such Fiscal Year, setting forth in each case in comparative form the figures for the previous fiscal year, all certified by PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP or other independent public accountants of nationally recognized standing, with such certification to be free of exceptions and qualifications not reasonably acceptable to the Majority Funding Parties;
 
(b)  as soon as available and in any event within 50 days after the end of each of the first 3 Fiscal Quarters of each Fiscal Year, a consolidated balance sheet of the Guarantor and the Consolidated Subsidiaries as of the end of such Fiscal Quarter and the related statement of income and statement of cash flows for such Fiscal Quarter and for the part of the Fiscal Year ended at the end of such Fiscal Quarter, setting forth in each case in comparative form the figures for the corresponding Fiscal Quarter and the corresponding portion of the previous Fiscal Year, all certified (subject to normal year-end adjustments) as to fairness of presentation, GAAP and consistency by the chief financial officer or the chief accounting officer of the Guarantor;
 
(c)  simultaneously with the delivery of each set of financial statements referred to in paragraphs (i) and (ii) above, a certificate, substantially in the form of Exhibit E (a “Compliance Certificate”), of the chief financial officer or the chief accounting officer of the Guarantor (x) setting forth in reasonable detail the calculations required to establish whether the Guarantor was in compliance with the requirements of Section 8.04, Section 8.19 and Sections 8.24 through 8.27, inclusive, on the date of such financial statements, (y) stating whether any Default exists on the date of such certificate and, if any Default then exists, setting forth the details thereof and the action which the Guarantor is taking or proposes to take with respect thereto and (z) certifying that the Debt Rating as of the most recent Performance Pricing Determination Date has not changed from the prior Performance Pricing Determination Date, or if it has changed, setting forth such changed Debt Rating, and the change in the Applicable Margin in effect as a result thereof;
 
(d)  simultaneously with the delivery of each set of annual financial statements referred to in paragraph (i) above, a statement of the firm of independent public accountants which reported on such statements to the effect that nothing has come to their attention to cause them to believe that any Default existed on the date of such financial statements;
 
(e)  promptly upon the mailing thereof to the shareholders of the Guarantor generally, copies of all financial statements, reports and proxy statements so mailed;
 
(f)  promptly upon the filing thereof, copies of all Forms 10Q, 10K and 8K (other than earnings press releases) which the Guarantor shall have filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission;
 
(g)  if and when any member of the Controlled Group (x) gives or is required to give notice to the PBGC of any “reportable event” (as defined in Section 4043 of ERISA) with respect to any Plan which might constitute grounds for a termination of such Plan under Title IV of ERISA, or knows that the plan administrator of any Plan has given or is required to give notice of any such reportable event, a copy of the notice of such reportable event given or required to be given to the PBGC; (y) receives notice of complete or partial withdrawal liability under Title IV of ERISA, a copy of such notice; or (z) receives notice from the PBGC under Title IV of ERISA of an intent to terminate or appoint a trustee to administer any Plan, a copy of such notice;
 
(h)  promptly, and, in any event, within 5 Business Days after the Company or the Guarantor becomes aware of any Default or Event of Default, a certificate of the chief financial officer or the chief accounting officer of the Company or the Guarantor setting forth the details thereof and the action which the Company or the Guarantor is taking or proposes to take with respect thereto;
 
(i)  promptly upon becoming aware of the occurrence of either a Loss Event or a Casualty Occurrence, or any other event or condition requiring notice under either Section 7 or Section 8 of the Lease, the Company shall give the Lessor written notice thereof, which notice shall specify the damage or loss to the Facility in reasonable detail;
 
(j)  promptly and in any event within 10 days after learning thereof, notification of any change after the Restatement Closing Date of any Debt Rating or any rating given by S&P or Moody’s with respect to Guarantor or any Subsidiary or A.M. Best & Co. with respect to any Insurance Subsidiary; and
 
(k)  from time to time such additional information regarding the financial position or business of the Company, the Guarantor and the Subsidiaries as the Lessor, at the request of any Funding Party, may reasonably request.
 
Section 8.02  Maintenance and Inspection of Property, Books and Records. The Guarantor will cause the Company, and the Company agrees, to keep proper books of record and account regarding the Lease in accordance with GAAP or SAP, as applicable, which books shall include copies of all Related Contracts and any amendments thereto and the book value of the Facility and of each material item of Property comprising or included in the Facility, and shall provide copies of the foregoing to the Funding Parties from time to time on request at the Company’s expense. The Guarantor will cause the Company, and the Company agrees, to (i) keep proper books of record and account in which full, true and correct entries in conformity with GAAP and SAP, shall be made of all dealings and transactions in relation to its business and activities; and (ii) permit representatives of any Funding Party (x) at such Funding Party’s expense and upon reasonable notice prior to the occurrence of a Default and (y) at the Guarantor’s and the Company’s expense after the occurrence of a Default, to visit and inspect the Facility and any of its properties, to examine and make abstracts from any of its books and records and to discuss its affairs, finances and accounts with its officers and independent public accountants. The Guarantor and the Company agree to cooperate and assist in such visits and inspections, in each case at such reasonable times and as often as may reasonably be desired.
 
Section 8.03  Related Contracts. The Company, either in its capacity as Lessee under the Lease or as agent for the Lessor, will comply with, maintain execution counterparts of, and promptly upon request by the Lessor from time to time deliver copies of, or after the occurrence of an Event of Default, originals of, all Related Contracts.
 
Section 8.04  Consolidations, Mergers and Sales of Assets. The Guarantor and the Company will not, nor will the Guarantor or the Company permit any other Subsidiary to, consolidate or merge with or into, or sell, lease or otherwise transfer all or any substantial part of its assets to, any other Person, provided that (a) the Guarantor, or the Company or a Subsidiary may merge with another Person if (i) such Person was organized under the laws of the United States of America or one of its states, (ii) the Company, the Guarantor or a Subsidiary is the corporation surviving such merger (provided that in any merger of the Guarantor or the Company and a Subsidiary, the Guarantor or the Company shall be the corporation surviving such merger) and (iii) immediately after giving effect to such merger, no Default shall have occurred and be continuing, (b) Subsidiaries (other than the Company) may merge with one another or into the Company or the Guarantor, (c) the foregoing limitation on the sale, lease or other transfer of assets shall not prohibit sales of investment assets in the ordinary course of business, and (d) the foregoing limitation on merger and consolidation and the sale, lease or other transfer of assets shall not prohibit, during any Fiscal Quarter, a merger, consolidation or transfer of assets (in a single transaction or in a series of related transactions) unless the aggregate assets that are the subject of such merger or consolidation or to be so transferred, when combined with all other assets transferred (including as the result of a merger or consolidation) during such Fiscal Quarter and the immediately preceding 3 Fiscal Quarters, constituted more than 15% of Consolidated Total Assets at the end of the most recent Fiscal Year.
 
Section 8.05  Maintenance of Existence. The Guarantor and the Company shall, and the Guarantor and the Company shall cause each other Material Subsidiary to, maintain its existence and carry on the major part of its business in substantially the same manner as such business is now carried on and maintained, except as permitted by Section 8.04.
 
Section 8.06  Dissolution. The Guarantor and the Company shall not, and the Guarantor and the Company shall cause each other Material Subsidiary to not, suffer or permit dissolution or liquidation either in whole or in part or redeem or retire any shares of its own stock, except through corporate reorganization to the extent permitted by Section 8.04.
 
Section 8.07  [Intentionally Omitted].
 
Section 8.08  Compliance with Laws; Payment of Taxes. The Guarantor and the Company shall, and the Company shall cause each other Subsidiary to, comply with applicable laws (including but not limited to ERISA), regulations and similar requirements of governmental authorities (including but not limited to PBGC), except where the necessity of such compliance is being contested in good faith through appropriate proceedings or where non-compliance would not have and could not reasonably be expected to cause a Material Adverse Effect. The Guarantor and the Company shall, and the Guarantor and the Company shall cause each other Material Subsidiary to, pay, prior to the date on which penalties attach thereto, all taxes, assessments, governmental charges, claims for labor, supplies, rent and other obligations which, if unpaid, might become a Lien against the Facility or against Property of the Guarantor, the Company or any other Material Subsidiary, except for liabilities being contested in good faith and against which, if requested by the Lessor, the Guarantor, the Company or such other Subsidiary will set up reserves in accordance with GAAP and except for Permitted Liens.
 
Section 8.09  Insurance. The Guarantor and the Company shall, and the Guarantor and the Company shall cause each other Material Subsidiary to, maintain (either in the name of the Lessor, the Guarantor or the Company, as applicable), with financially sound and reputable insurance companies, insurance on such of its property in at least such amounts, and with such deductibles, and against at least such risks as are usually insured against in the same general area by companies of established repute engaged in the same or similar businesses. Without limitation of the foregoing, the Company shall maintain or cause to be maintained, with Permitted Insurers, insurance with respect to the Facility and its business in connection therewith of the types and in the amounts specified in the Lease. The Company will deliver or cause to be delivered to the Lessor promptly upon request of the Lessor, and in any event on or prior to January 1st of each calendar year, commencing with January 1, 2007, a certificate by a firm of independent insurance brokers or consultants chosen by the Company and acceptable to the Lessor setting forth the insurance or self-insurance obtained pursuant to the Lease, including, without limitation, the amounts thereof, the names of the insurers and the property, hazards and risks covered thereby, and certifying that the same comply with the requirements of the Lease, that all premiums then due and payable thereon have been paid and that the same are in full force and effect, that the Lessor has been named as additional insured and loss payee, as its interests may appear, under each such policy, and is not liable for payment of premiums thereunder, that such policies may not be cancelled without at least 30 days prior notice to the Lessor with an opportunity to cure any default thereunder. The Lessor shall be entitled to rely on such reports without further investigation of the facts and circumstances set forth therein.
 
Section 8.10  Maintenance of Property. The Company shall maintain and preserve the Facility in accordance with the requirements of the Lease. The Guarantor and the Company shall maintain and preserve all of their other properties and assets, in good condition, repair and working order, ordinary wear and tear excepted, except to the extent of any failure which would not have and could not reasonably be expected to cause a Material Adverse Effect.
 
Section 8.11  Environmental Notices. The Company shall furnish to the Lessor prompt written notice of all Environmental Liabilities, pending or threatened Environmental Proceedings, Environmental Notices, Environmental Judgments and Orders, and Environmental Releases at, on, in, under or in any way affecting the Facility or any of the Properties of the Guarantor, the Company or any other Material Subsidiary, or any adjacent property, except, as to such Properties other than the Facility, as to matters which would not have and could not reasonably be expected to cause a Material Adverse Effect, and all facts, events, or conditions actually known to the Company that could reasonably be expected to lead to any of the foregoing.
 
Section 8.12  Environmental Matters. The Guarantor and the Company shall not, and the Guarantor and the Company shall cause each other Material Subsidiary to not, and shall not permit any Third Party to, use, produce, manufacture, process, treat, recycle, generate, store, dispose of, manage at, or otherwise handle, or ship or transport to or from the Facility or the Properties of the Guarantor, the Company or any Material Subsidiary any Hazardous Materials except for (a) Hazardous Materials such as cleaning solvents, pesticides and other similar materials used, produced, manufactured, processed, treated, recycled, generated, stored, disposed of, managed, or otherwise handled in minimal amounts in the ordinary course of business or of management or maintenance of the Facility or such Properties in material compliance with all applicable Environmental Requirements, except in each case, as to such Properties other than the Facility, as to matters which would not have and could not reasonably be expected to cause a Material Adverse Effect, and (b) Hazardous Materials in the form of diesel fuel for purposes of fueling generators to power the Facility, which fuel is stored in above-ground storage tanks in compliance with all applicable Environmental Requirements.
 
Section 8.13  Environmental Release. The Company agrees that upon the occurrence of an Environmental Release at or on the Facility or any of the Properties of the Guarantor, the Company or any Material Subsidiary it will act immediately to investigate the extent of, and to take appropriate remedial action to eliminate, such Environmental Release, whether or not ordered or otherwise directed to do so by any Environmental Authority, except, as to such Properties other than the Facility, as to matters which would not have and could not reasonably be expected to cause a Material Adverse Effect.
 
Section 8.14  Transactions with Affiliates. Neither the Guarantor, nor the Company, nor any of the other Material Subsidiaries shall enter into, or be a party to, any transaction with any Affiliate of the Guarantor, the Company or such other Material Subsidiary (which Affiliate is not the Guarantor or the Company or a Wholly Owned Subsidiary), except (a) as permitted by law and in the ordinary course of business and pursuant to reasonable terms which are no less favorable to Guarantor, the Company or such other Material Subsidiary than would be obtained in a comparable arm’s length transaction with a Person which is not an Affiliate and (b) any such transaction that could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.
 
Section 8.15  Further Assurances. The Guarantor and the Company will cure promptly any defects in the due execution and delivery by it of the Operative Documents, including this Agreement. The Guarantor and the Company at their expense will promptly execute and deliver to the Lessor upon request all such other and further documents, agreements and instruments in compliance with or accomplishment of the covenants and agreements of the Guarantor and the Company in the Operative Documents, including this Agreement, or to further evidence and more fully describe the collateral relating to the Facility intended as security for the Lessor Investments and the Lease Participant Investments, or to correct any item that the Company and the Lessor agree constitutes an omission or error in the Operative Documents, or more fully to state the existing security obligations set out herein or in any of the Operative Documents, or to perfect, protect or preserve any Liens created pursuant to any of the Operative Documents, or to make any recordings, to file any notices, or obtain any consents required by the terms of the Operative Documents, all as may be necessary or appropriate in connection therewith.
 
Section 8.16  Compliance with Certain Documents, Permits, Etc. The Company will perform and observe its obligations under the agreements and instruments comprising the Facility Plan and all Applicable Permits. The Company, at its expense and as Lessee under the Lease or as agent for the Lessor, will obtain, preserve, protect and maintain in effect all Applicable Permits.
 
Section 8.17  Maintenance; Etc. The Company shall, at its expense and as Lessee under the Lease or as agent for the Lessor, preserve, protect and maintain in accordance with prudent industry practices their rights in and to the Applicable Permits used in the ordinary course of business of the Facility that are necessary for and material to the operation of the Facility; and the Company shall defend and hold harmless the Lessor and each Lease Participant from and against any cost, liability or expense arising from any claim of infringement, misuse or misappropriation of any of the foregoing.
 
Section 8.18  [Intentionally Omitted].
 
Section 8.19  Liens, Etc. The Guarantor and the Company shall not, and the Guarantor and the Company shall cause each other Material Subsidiary to not, create, assume or suffer to exist, any Liens upon any Property now owned or hereafter acquired by it or upon the Facility, except Permitted Liens.
 
Section 8.20  Facility Plan. The Company shall not under any circumstance undertake to operate or use the Facility except in accordance in all material respects with the Facility Plan and except for the Permitted Use.
 
Section 8.21  Change in Fiscal Year. The Guarantor and the Company shall not, and the Guarantor and the Company shall cause each other Consolidated Subsidiary to not, change its Fiscal Year without the consent of the Lessor (acting at the direction of the Majority Funding Parties).
 
Section 8.22  Intentionally Omitted.
 
Section 8.23  Restrictions on Ability of Subsidiaries to Pay Dividends. Except in accordance with any applicable regulatory requirements, the Company shall not, and the Guarantor and the Company shall not permit any Material Subsidiary to, directly or indirectly, create or otherwise cause or suffer to exist or become effective any encumbrance or restriction not in existence on the Restatement Closing Date on the ability of the Company or any such other Subsidiary to (i) pay any dividends or make any other distributions on its Capital Stock or any other interest or (ii) make or repay any loans or advances to the Guarantor, the Company or the other direct parent of such Subsidiary.
 
Section 8.24  Adjusted Consolidated Net Worth. The Guarantor will maintain at all times Adjusted Consolidated Net Worth equal to not less than the sum of (i) $1,400,000,000 plus (ii) 25% of the Guarantor’s cumulative Consolidated Net Income, if positive, earned after December 31, 2003, through the last day of the most recent fiscal quarter or year, as applicable, for which statements were delivered or required to have been delivered to the Lessor pursuant to Section 8.01(a) or (b), taken as one accounting period, minus (iii) the Guarantor’s consolidated allowance for potential future losses on investments at the end of such fiscal quarter.
 
Section 8.25  Ratio of Adjusted Consolidated Indebtedness to Consolidated Capitalization. The Guarantor will maintain at all times a ratio of Adjusted Consolidated Indebtedness to Consolidated Capitalization of not more than 0.4 to 1.00.
 
Section 8.26  Ratio of Unconsolidated Cash Inflow Available for Interest Expense to Adjusted Consolidated Interest Expense. The Guarantor will maintain, for each fiscal quarter, a ratio of Unconsolidated Cash Inflow Available for Interest Expense to Adjusted Consolidated Interest Expense, in each case calculated for such fiscal quarter, of not less than 2.00 to 1.00.
 
Section 8.27  Company’s Total Adjusted Capital. The Company will maintain at all times Total Adjusted Capital in an amount not less than 4.0 times the Company’s Authorized Control Level Risk-Based Capital. As used herein the terms “Total Adjusted Capital” and “Authorized Control Level Risk-Based Capital” have the meanings attributed thereto in the Risk-Based Capital (RBC) for Life and/or Health Insurers Model Act adopted by the NAIC in December 2000, as the same may be modified, supplemented or amended from time to time.
 
Section 8.28  Restricted Payments. The Guarantor will not declare or make any Restricted Payment during any Fiscal Year unless it has first provided for payment of all current principal payments on long-term Indebtedness; provided, that after giving effect to the payment of any such Restricted Payments, no Default shall be in existence or be created thereby.
 
Section 8.29  Anti-Terrorism Laws. Neither the Guarantor nor the Company shall, nor shall they permit any of their respective Subsidiaries to, (i) conduct any business or engage in any transaction or dealing with any Blocked Person, including the making or receiving any contribution of funds, goods or services to or for the benefit of any Blocked Person; (ii) deal in, or otherwise engage in any transaction relating to, any property or interests in property blocked pursuant to Executive Order No. 13224; or (iii) engage in on conspire to engage in any transaction that evades or avoids, or has the purpose of evading or avoiding, or attempts to violate, any of the prohibitions set forth in Executive Order No. 13224, the USA Patriot Act, or any other Anti-Terrorism Law. Each of the Guarantor and the Company shall deliver to the Lessor, the Administrative Agent, and Lease Participants any certification or other evidence requested from time to time in the Agent’s sole discretion confirming such Person’s compliance with this Section.
 
Section 8.30  Company as Agent of Lessor With Respect to the Facility.
 
(a)  Termination of Original Agency Agreement; Continuing Services. The parties hereto acknowledge and agree that, pursuant to the Original Lease Agreement, the Company, as the Lessor’s agent thereunder, undertook certain responsibilities and obligations with respect to the design, acquisition, construction, fit up, maintenance, and operation of the Facility. Given that the initial construction of the Facility has been completed, all parties hereto, and the Company and the Lessor in particular, hereby agree that the Original Agency Agreement is terminated (other than with respect to the terms thereof which, by their terms, survive such termination); provided, however, that the Company agrees that it shall continue to provide certain services as provided below and elsewhere in the other Operative Documents on the terms set forth below.
 
(b)  Certain Services. From the date on which the Lease terminates as provided therein, including any Lease Termination Date or Cancellation Date, through the date provided in Section 8.30(n), the Company hereby agrees to provide and perform, or cause to be provided or performed, all services, labor, supervision, management, maintenance, repairs, common facilities and consumables necessary for the operation of the Facility for the Permitted Use, in accordance with all Governmental Requirements and Insurance Requirements and within the capability set forth in the Facility Plan, including, without limitation:
 
(i)  To cause all contracts and other agreements, including without limitation all Related Contracts, entered into by the Company on behalf of the Lessor to be assignable, including, without limitation, the right to be subject to the Security Instruments;
 
(ii)  To avoid purchasing Property from or entering into any agreement with its Affiliates in connection with the Facility unless upon fair and reasonable terms that are not less favorable to the Lessor than those which might be obtained in an arm's-length transaction between unaffiliated Persons in the same business at the time such terms are agreed upon;
 
(iii)  In the event the Company does not exercise its option to purchase the Facility pursuant to Section 15 of the Lease, to attempt to sell the Facility for cash upon the termination or cancellation of the Lease (subject to the Lessor's prior written approval of the terms of the sale), and to grant, bargain, sell, convey or contract for the sale or conveyance of the Facility in the name of the Lessor in connection with the duties in this paragraph;
 
(iv)  To contract with all Vendors and contractors for supplies, equipment, materials and services, including, without limitation, necessary maintenance work affecting the Facility;
 
(v)  To keep and maintain proper books and records relating to the accounts of the Facility and the book value of the Facility and the Property comprising the Facility;
 
(vi)  To pay for, exchange or otherwise settle accounts for the acquisition of supplies, equipment, materials or services affecting the Facility;
 
(vii)  To ask for, demand, collect, recover, and receive, each in the name of the Lessor, all moneys which may become due and owing by reason of conveyances, whether by deed, contract, bill of sale or other instruments or to pay for, exchange or otherwise settle accounts for the acquisition of supplies, equipment, materials or services affecting the Facility; provided however, the Company shall have the right in its reasonable discretion to settle or waive claims in amounts less than $50,000.00;
 
(viii)  To ask for, demand, collect, and recover, each in the name of Lessor, any and all sums that may be due on account of any damage to any of the Facility;
 
(ix)  To manage correspondence and conduct communications with all Governmental Authorities with regard to matters affecting the Facility, including, but not limited to, the acquisition of all Permits and satisfaction of all Governmental Requirements and Insurance Requirements and with regard to rights of way and easements, if any, affecting the Facility;
 
(x)  To provide the Lessor with copies of material Related Contracts executed by the Company as Lessor’s agent or on behalf of the Lessor promptly following such execution; and
 
(xi)  To provide such additional services as may be reasonably requested by the Lessor for the full and efficient operation of the Facility
 
(c)  Easements, Utilities, Services and Contracts. Within 120 days prior to the Scheduled Lease Termination Date (or immediately if the Lease terminates on any Cancellation Date or Lease Termination Date which is not a Scheduled Lease Termination Date), and provided that the Company shall not have elected to purchase, or purchased, the Facility pursuant to the terms of the Lease, at all times thereafter for the term of this Agreement, the Company, at no cost to the Lessor, shall provide, either directly or indirectly, to the Lessor, in compliance with all Governmental Requirements (including, without limitation, all Environmental Requirements, Environmental Authorizations and Environment Judgments and Orders and Insurance Requirements), as confirmed by the Lessor, (i) all rights of ingress and egress, rights-of-way, easements (which easements shall be reasonably direct and shall provide for access over any servient estate created thereby, including the rights to use existing transmission lines), access and real property licenses and rights in real property over or to the Site, (ii) access to storage, transportation and maintenance facilities, fixtures and appurtenances, (iii) an inventory of supplies necessary for the full and efficient operation of the Facility, and (iv) services (whether on- or off-Site, including any shared off-site facilities), including, without limitation, water, electricity, heating, ventilation, air conditioning, lighting, security, steam, waste water treatment and sanitation, receiving and shipping facilities as such rights, licenses, easements, services and utilities are or may be necessary for the full and efficient operation of the Facility.
 
(d)  Equipment and Other Rights. Within 120 days prior to the Scheduled Lease Termination Date (or immediately if the Lease terminates on any Cancellation Date or Lease Termination Date which is not a Scheduled Lease Termination Date), and provided that the Company shall not have elected to purchase, or purchased, the Facility pursuant to the Lease, at all times thereafter for the term of this Agreement, the Company shall provide to the Lessor, by rent-free lease or other similar arrangement, any and all equipment and maintenance tools, and, for a price equal to the Company's cost therefor if not included in the Facility Cost, all spare parts (including, without limitation, rebuilt parts and major components) and maintenance equipment not covered by the services provided, or caused to be provided, pursuant to the Operative Documents, as are or may be customarily maintained on the Site by the Company for the operation of the Facility in the manner described herein. Within the period set forth above (or immediately in the circumstance contemplated above) the Company, in compliance with all Governmental Requirements, shall also transfer, or cause to be transferred, to the Lessor any and all equipment inspection reports and maintenance records and all licenses and Applicable Permits required to operate the Facility and all such equipment located on the Site as confirmed by the Lessor. Within the period set forth above (or immediately in the circumstance contemplated above), the Company shall provide, or cause to be provided, to the Lessor, by non-exclusive, royalty free license or other similar arrangement, rights to all patents, patent applications, proprietary computer software, operating and other manuals, “know-how,” copyrights or other intellectual property (excluding trade names and trademarks) as are or may be necessary for the operation of the Facility in the manner described herein. The Company represents and warrants to the Lessor that as of the Restatement Closing Date, and at all times thereafter during the term of this Agreement, the construction, assembly, ownership, use, occupancy, maintenance and operation of the Facility and Property included therein does not and will not cause a violation of any Governmental Requirements or Insurance Requirements.
 
(e)  Cost of Services and Rights.
 
(i)  Any and all services described in Section 8.30(c) and all easements and other rights in real property existing or necessary for the full and efficient operation of the Facility during the term of this Agreement shall be provided (A) to the Lessor as specified in Section 8.30(b), and (B) in the case of such easements and other rights in real property as aforesaid, on the terms set forth in Section 8.30(e)(ii) to any Person acquiring title or use of the Facility other than the Lessor.
 
(ii)  Unless otherwise provided herein, any and all services and supplies provided by the Company pursuant to this Section 8.30 after the Lease Termination Date (or any earlier date on which the Lease terminates as provided therein) and for so long as this Agreement remains in effect (i) which are generally commercially available shall be priced at fair market value, and on arms-length terms and conditions subject to applicable provisions of agreements with producers, shippers and suppliers and Governmental Requirements, or (ii) which are not generally commercially available shall be priced at an amount equal to the Company's cost (excluding any profit margin).
 
(f)  Reversion of Rights and Contracts. Upon payment of the Purchase Price as provided in Section 15 of the Lease: (a) the various agreements, licenses, Applicable Permits and contracts, including without limitation Related Contracts, to be provided hereunder by Company to the Lessor shall revert to the Company (or be transferred to the Company), (b) service contracts with the Company, property rights and licenses granted by the Company to the Lessor shall terminate or be transferred to the Company, and (c) third-party service contracts shall be assigned by the Lessor to the Company, all the foregoing transfers and assignments to be made without recourse and without any representation or warranty whatsoever, other than the absence of “Lessor Liens”, as defined in Section 16(a)(i) of the Lease. Upon the termination of the Lease and the failure of the Company, the Guarantor or one of their Affiliates to purchase the Facility as provided in Section 15 of the Lease, all such agreements, Applicable Permits, contracts, property rights and licenses and Third Party service contracts, including without limitation Related Contracts, shall remain in place unless terminated by the Lessor.
 
(g)  Additional Support. In the event that none of the Company, the Guarantor or any of their Affiliates purchases the Facility from the Lessor pursuant to the Lease, the parties hereto agree to negotiate in good faith to provide to the Lessor such support in addition to that provided for in this Agreement as the Lessor reasonably may deem necessary to maintain, use, occupy and operate the Facility for the Permitted Use or any other purpose requested by the Lessor.
 
(h)  Personnel. The Company shall at all times employ, or cause to be employed, qualified and properly trained personnel to perform the Company's obligations under this Section 8.30, and shall pay all wages and benefits required by law or contract. The Company shall be responsible for all matters relating to labor relations, working conditions, training, employee benefits, safety programs and related matters pertaining to such employees. The Lessor shall have the right to request the removal from the Facility of any personnel reasonably deemed unqualified by the Lessor.
 
(i)  Warranties and Guarantees. The Company shall use its best reasonable efforts consistent with good industry practices to obtain warranties for the Lessor for parts, equipment, materials or services provided by third-party suppliers in fulfilling the Company's obligations under this Agreement. The Company shall comply with all applicable warranties and guarantees presented by Vendors or contractors, and shall take no action that in any way impairs any rights or claims of the Lessor under this Agreement or any Vendor's or other Person's warranty. Without limiting the foregoing, the Company shall use spare parts that will not adversely affect the Lessor's protection or rights under such warranties or guarantees.
 
(j)  Removal. The Lessor may at any time, upon 5 days written notice, terminate its engagement of the Company under this Section 8.30 to maintain and operate the Facility, without terminating this Agreement; provided, however, that the Lessor shall, upon 2 week's written notice to the Company, be entitled to request the Company to resume its duties under this Section 8.30 for the duration of the term of this Agreement to maintain and operate the Facility and the Company shall comply with such request.
 
(k)  Independent Contractor Status. The Lessor acknowledges that the Company, in performing its duties under this Section 8.30 to maintain and operate the Facility, is acting as an independent contractor and except as otherwise expressly provided by this Agreement, none of the Lessor, the Administrative Agent, nor the Lease Participants shall have the right to control the conduct of the Company or its personnel in the proper performance of the obligations of the Company under this Section 8.30. The Company acknowledges that the Lessor is the owner of the Facility and, as such, is entitled to control the Facility and its use, subject to the provisions of this Agreement, the Lease, and the other Operative Documents.
 
(l)  Support Expenses. All reasonable and necessary costs associated with the continued normal operation, preservation and maintenance of the Facility in the manner provided herein during the period commencing on the date on which the Lease terminates as provided therein, including any Lease Termination Date or Cancellation Date, through the date provided in Section 8.30(n) (“Support Expenses”) shall be timely advanced by the Company on behalf of Lessor subject to reimbursement as hereafter set forth. All such Support Expenses advanced by the Company shall be accounted for by the Company and reported to Lessor pursuant to monthly written operating reports certified by an authorized officer of the Company. The Lessor shall reimburse the Company for support expenses actually advanced by the Company together with simple interest thereon at the Base Rate per annum, on the earlier to occur of the date following (i) the termination of this Agreement in accordance with Section 8.30(n), or (ii) the date the Facility is sold by or on behalf of the Lessor (and if this Agreement is terminated by the Lessor prior to the sale of the Facility by the Company on behalf of the Lessor, the Lessor shall use reasonable commercial efforts to sell the Facility as soon as is reasonably practical, taking into account the then existing real estate market and the ability to realize sufficient proceeds to pay in full all of the Lessor Investment, Yield thereon and other amount due and payable under the Lease and the other Operative Documents). Reimbursement under subsection (i) of this Section 8.30(l) shall be reimbursed by the Lessor solely out of available excess proceeds from the sale of the Facility under Section 15 of the Lease and reimbursement under subsection (ii) of this Section 8.30(l) shall be reimbursed by the Lessor solely out of available excess proceeds from the sale of the Facility by the Lessor as contemplated therein. In no event shall the Lessor be obligated to reimburse the Company for Support Expenses except to the extent of available excess proceeds described above. The Company's right to reimbursement pursuant hereto above shall at all times and in all respects be subject and subordinate to the rights of the Lessor to receive full repayment of the Unrecovered Lessor Investments, including Yield thereon. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, the Company shall not be entitled to reimbursement for any costs expended or incurred from the Lease Termination Date or Cancellation Date, as applicable, through the Purchase Closing Date, if extended by the Lessor under Section 15(e) of the Lease, in the event that the Company elects to purchase the Facility and elects to remain in possession of the Facility pursuant to the license referenced in Section 15(e) of the Lease. All such costs shall be the responsibility of the Company and shall represent the license fee payable in consideration of the rights afforded under such license.
 
(m)  Standard of Care. The Company shall perform all of its duties and obligations under this Section 8.30 in accordance with the standards mandated under Section 7 of the Lease as if fully set forth herein (which standards are hereby incorporated, mutatis mutandis, herein by reference) and in a good, workmanlike and commercially reasonable manner. The Company shall exercise such care and in the same manner as a prudent Person engaged in the business of managing and operating Property similar to the Facility and used in a similar location for the Permitted Use would in the advancement and protection of such Person's own economic interests and the maximization of such Person's profits therefrom. Maintenance shall be scheduled so as to minimize interference with the use, occupation and operation of the Facility and cost consistent with good industry operating and safety standards and all Governmental Requirements and Insurance Requirements.
 
(n)  Termination of the Company’s Obligations Under Section 8.30. Except as otherwise expressly provided herein, the Company’s obligations under this Section 8.30 shall commence on the Restatement Closing Date and shall terminate upon the expiration or other termination of the Lease and consummation of the purchase by the Company or the Guarantor (or an Affiliate thereof) of the Facility for the Purchase Price in accordance with the Lease; provided, however, that upon the termination of the Lease, and provided that the Company or the Guarantor (or an Affiliate thereof) shall not have purchased and paid the Purchase Price for the Facility in accordance with the terms of the Lease, this Section 8.30 shall continue in full force and effect until the date the Facility is sold to a Person other than the Lessee or any of its Affiliates or any earlier written notice from the Lessor of its election to terminate this Agreement.
 
Section 8.31  Post-Closing Matters. Within twenty days following the Restatement Closing Date, the Company will:
 
(a)  Execute and deliver an amendment (in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to Lessor) to that certain Reciprocal Easement Agreement dated as of February 1, 2000, by and between the Company and WCI, recorded as instrument #200002/0941 in the Probate Court of Jefferson County, Alabama (as the same may have been amended, restated, supplemented, or otherwise modified from time to time through the date of such amendment), so as to extend the easements granted thereunder over that portion of the Site which was released prior to the Restatement Closing Date in accordance with the Original Lease Documents; and
 
(b)  Execute and deliver an agreement (in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to Lessor) pertaining to the existence of, and terms and conditions governing, the common wall between the Facility and another parcel of real property currently owned by Lessee.
 
ARTICLE IX.  
 

 
EVENTS OF DEFAULT
 
Section 9.01  Events of Default. The occurrence and continuation of any one or more of the following events shall constitute an “Event of Default.”
 
(a)  The Company, in its own capacity or in the capacity as Lessor’s agent or as Lessee under the Lease, shall default in the payment of the principal amount of any Lessor Investment when due; or default in the payment of any Yield on any Lessor Investment when due; or default in the payment of any other amounts payable by it hereunder or under the Operative Documents, to the Funding Parties when due and the continuance of such default for 5 Business Days thereafter; or default in the payment of any other amounts payable hereunder or under any other Operative Documents to agents, attorneys and consultants of the Lessor or any Lease Participant when due and the continuance of such nonpayment for 30 days thereafter; or
 
(b)  Any representation, warranty, certification or statement made by the Guarantor or the Company in Article VII of this Agreement or in any other Operative Document or in any certificate, financial statement or other document delivered pursuant to this Agreement or any other Operative Document shall prove to have been incorrect or misleading in any material respect when made or reaffirmed (or deemed made or reaffirmed); or
 
(c)  The Guarantor or the Company shall fail to observe or perform any covenant or agreement contained in clause (iii) of Section 8.01, in clause (ii) of Section 8.02, or in Sections 8.04 through 8.07 inclusive, or in 8.23 through 8.28, inclusive, of this Agreement; or
 
(d)  The Company shall fail to observe or perform any covenant or agreement contained or incorporated by reference in this Agreement (other than those covered by paragraphs (a) and (c) above), or the Guarantor shall fail to observe or perform any other covenant or agreement contained or incorporated by reference in the Guaranty, and in either case such failure shall not have been cured within 30 days after the earlier to occur of (i) written notice thereof has been given to the Guarantor and the Company by the Lessor at the request of the Majority Funding Parties or (ii) either the Vice President-Investments or the Controller (or if no person has such title, any other officer having similar functions, regardless of title) of the Guarantor or the Company otherwise becomes aware of any such failure; or
 
(e)  A “Lease Event of Default” shall occur, any other default or event of default shall occur under any other Operative Document, or any default or event of default shall occur under the Revolving Credit Agreement; or
 
(f)  The Guarantor, the Company or any other Consolidated Subsidiary shall fail to make any payment in respect of Indebtedness outstanding in an aggregate principal amount equal to or greater than $15,000,000 (excluding Indebtedness incurred pursuant hereto) after the expiry of any applicable grace period; or
 
(g)  Any other event or condition shall occur which (i) results in the acceleration of the maturity of Indebtedness (other than Indebtedness which would not constitute a “liability” in accordance with GAAP) outstanding of the Guarantor, the Company or any other Consolidated Subsidiary in an aggregate principal amount equal to or greater than $15,000,000 (including, without limitation, any required mandatory prepayment or “put” of such Indebtedness to the Guarantor (other than a “put” which is not predicated solely on the basis of a breach or other default by the Guarantor, the Company or any other Consolidated Subsidiary), the Company or any other Consolidated Subsidiary) or (ii) enables (or, with the giving of notice or lapse of time or both, would enable) the holders of such Indebtedness or any Person acting on such holders’ behalf to accelerate the maturity thereof (including, without limitation, any required mandatory prepayment or any such “put” of such Indebtedness to the Guarantor, the Company or any other Consolidated Subsidiary); or
 
(h)  The Guarantor, the Company or any other Consolidated Subsidiary shall commence a voluntary case or other proceeding seeking liquidation, reorganization or other relief with respect to itself or its debts under any bankruptcy, insolvency or other similar law now or hereafter in effect or seeking the appointment of a trustee, receiver, liquidator, custodian or other similar official of it or any substantial part of its property, or shall consent to any such relief or to the appointment of or taking possession by any such official in an involuntary case or other proceeding commenced against it, or shall make a general assignment for the benefit of creditors, or shall fail generally to pay its debts as they become due, or shall take any corporate action to authorize any of the foregoing; or
 
(i)  An involuntary case or other proceeding shall be commenced against the Guarantor, the Company or any other Consolidated Subsidiary seeking liquidation, reorganization or other relief with respect to it or its debts under any bankruptcy, insolvency or other similar law now or hereafter in effect or seeking the appointment of a trustee, receiver, liquidator, custodian or other similar official of it or any substantial part of its property, and such involuntary case or other proceeding shall remain undismissed and unstayed for a period of 30 days; or an order for relief shall be entered against the Guarantor, the Company or any other Consolidated Subsidiary under the federal bankruptcy laws as now or hereafter in effect; or
 
(j)  The Guarantor, the Company or any member of the Controlled Group shall fail to pay when due any material amount which it shall have become liable to pay to the PBGC or to a Plan under Title IV of ERISA; or notice of intent to terminate a Plan or Plans shall be filed under Section 4041(c) of ERISA by the Company, any member of the Controlled Group, any plan administrator or any combination of the foregoing; or the PBGC shall institute proceedings under Title IV of ERISA to terminate or to cause a trustee to be appointed to administer any such Plan or Plans or a proceeding shall be instituted by a fiduciary of any such Plan or Plans to enforce Section 515 or 4219(c)(5) of ERISA and such proceeding shall not have been dismissed within 30 days thereafter; or a condition shall exist by reason of which the PBGC would be entitled to obtain a decree adjudicating that any such Plan or Plans must be terminated, if the PBGC gives notice of its intention to seek or takes any action seeking to obtain such a decree; or
 
(k)  One or more judgments or orders for the payment of money in an aggregate amount in excess of $15,000,000 (exclusive of amounts fully covered by insurance) shall be rendered against the Guarantor, the Company or any other Consolidated Subsidiary and such judgment or order shall continue unsatisfied and unstayed for a period of 45 days; or
 
(l)  A federal tax lien shall be filed against the Guarantor, the Company or any other Consolidated Subsidiary under Section 6323 of the Code or a lien of the PBGC shall be filed against the Guarantor, the Company or any other Consolidated Subsidiary under Section 4068 of ERISA and if in either case the amount involved is in an aggregate amount in excess of $15,000,000 and such lien shall remain undischarged for a period of 60 days after the date of filing;
 
(m)  Any of the Operative Documents shall cease, for any reason, to be in full force and effect or the Guarantor or the Company shall so assert; or
 
(n)  A Change of Control shall occur.
 
Section 9.02  Remedies.
 
(a)  Upon the occurrence and continuation of any Event of Default (other than a Limited Recourse Event of Default):
 
(i)  in the case of an Event of Default (other than one referred to in Sections 9.01(h) or (i)), the Lessor may and, upon request of the Majority Funding Parties, shall, declare the principal amount of the Unrecovered Lessor Investments and the accrued Yield thereon and all other amounts payable by the Company hereunder and under the other Operative Documents, to be forthwith due and payable, whereupon such amounts shall be immediately due and payable without presentment, demand, protest, notice of intent to accelerate, notice of acceleration or other formalities of any kind, all of which are hereby expressly waived by the Company;
 
(ii)  in the case of the occurrence of an Event of Default referred to in Sections 9.01(h) or (i), the Unrecovered Lessor Investments and the accrued Yield thereon and all other amounts payable by the Company hereunder and under the other Operative Documents shall become automatically immediately due and payable without presentment, demand, protest, notice of intent to accelerate, notice of acceleration or other formalities of any kind, all of which are hereby expressly waived by the Company; and
 
(iii)  At the direction of the Majority Funding Parties, Lessor shall take such other action and exercise such remedies pursuant to the Operative Documents as are available to it under law or in equity.
 
(b)  Notwithstanding Sections 9.02(a)(i) and (ii), the Guarantor or the Company may cure any Default or Event of Default under Section 9.01 by paying the Termination Value or purchasing the Facility as provided in Section 15(c) of the Lease for the Purchase Price.
 
(c)  No Lease Participant may initiate or pursue remedies unless and until the Lessor initiated remedies against the Facility, the Guarantor or the Company. In the event the Lessor has initiated remedies, the Lease Participants may join in enforcement of remedies against the Facility, the Guarantor or the Company.
 
(d)  If the Majority Funding Parties shall have instructed the Lessor to sell or foreclose on the Facility and other collateral in accordance with the Security Instruments and the Lease, then (i) the net cash sales or foreclosure proceeds to be received must at least equal an amount equal to the Funded Amount, plus all other amounts then owing to the Funding Parties hereunder and under the other Operative Documents and (ii) the Majority Funding Parties may not, without the consent of the Lessor, instruct the Lessor to sell the Facility or any portion thereof for an amount less than sufficient to pay in full the Funded Amount pursuant to Section 3.05, or instruct the Lessor to foreclose on the Facility in accordance with the Security Instruments and the Lease for a cash bid which is not sufficient to pay in full the Funded Amount.
 
(e)  The Funding Parties agree not to exercise their remedies against the Facility under the Security Instruments unless an Event of Default (other than a Limited Recourse Event of Default) has occurred and is continuing hereunder and the Lease has terminated and the Guarantor or the Company (or any Affiliate thereof) shall not have purchased the Facility on or before the Cancellation Date.
 
(f)  Any other term or provision hereof, or in any other Operative Document, to the contrary notwithstanding, upon the occurrence of an Event of Default which constitutes a Limited Recourse Event of Default, the Lessor may, and upon request of the Majority Funding Parties, shall, notify the Company of its election to terminate the Lease in accordance with Sections 2 and 15 of the Lease, at which time a Termination Event shall be deemed to have occurred and the Lessor and the Lease Participants shall have the rights with respect thereto as set forth in the Lease and the other Operative Documents. For purposes of certainty, nothing herein shall prohibit the Lessor and the Lease Participants from exercising remedies under the Lease and under 9.02(a) in connection with the occurrence of an Event of Default which occurs after a Termination Event and the undertaking of actions in response thereto.
 
ARTICLE X.  
 

 
THE LESSOR AS SERVICING AGENT FOR THE LEASE PARTICIPANTS; THE ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT
 
Section 10.01  Lessor as Servicing Agent.
 
(a)  Appointment, Powers and Immunities. Each Lease Participant hereby appoints and authorizes the Lessor to take such action as servicing agent on its behalf and to exercise such powers under this Agreement as are delegated to the Lessor by the terms hereof, together with such powers as are reasonably incidental thereto. As to any matters not expressly provided for by this Agreement (including, without limitation, enforcement of this Agreement or collection of the Lessor Investments), the Lessor shall not be required to exercise any discretion or take any action, but shall be required to act or to refrain from acting (and shall be fully protected in so acting or refraining from acting) upon the instructions of the Majority Funding Parties, and such instructions shall be binding upon all Lease Participants; provided, however, that the Lessor shall not be required to take any action which exposes the Lessor to personal liability or which is contrary to this Agreement or applicable law. The Lessor agrees to give to each Lease Participant prompt notice of each notice given to it by the Guarantor or the Company pursuant to the terms of this Agreement or any of the Operative Documents.
 
(b)  Reliance by Lessor. Neither the Lessor nor any of its respective directors, officers, agents or employees shall be liable for any action taken or omitted to be taken by it or them under or in connection with this Agreement, except for its or their own gross negligence or willful misconduct, or its failure to pay to any Lease Participant its Percentage Share of any Rent or other amounts in which such Lease Participant has an Ownership Interest which the Lessor actually has received. Without limitation of the generality of the foregoing, the Lessor: (a) may treat any Lease Participant as the owner of its Ownership Interest until the Lessor receives and accepts an Assignment and Acceptance entered into by such Lease Participant, as assignor, and an Eligible Assignee, as assignee, as provided in Section 11.06; (b) may consult with legal counsel (including counsel for the Guarantor or the Company), independent public accountants and other experts selected by it and shall not be liable for any action taken or omitted to be taken in good faith by it in accordance with the advice of such counsel, accountants or experts; (c) makes no warranty or representation to any Lease Participant and shall not be responsible to any Lease Participant for any statements, warranties or representations (whether written or oral) made in or in connection with this Agreement or any of the other Operative Documents; (d) shall not have any duty to ascertain or to inquire as to the performance or observance of any of the terms, covenants or conditions of this Agreement or any of the other Operative Documents on the part of the Guarantor or the Company or to inspect the Facility or the property (including the books and records) of the Guarantor or the Company; (e) shall not be responsible to any Lease Participant for the due execution, legality, validity, enforceability, genuineness, sufficiency or value of this Agreement, any other Operative Documents or any other instrument or document furnished pursuant hereto; (f) shall incur no liability under or in respect of this Agreement or the Operative Documents by acting upon any notice, consent, certificate or other instrument or writing (which may be by telegram, telecopier, cable or telex) believed by it to be genuine and signed or sent by the proper party or parties; and (g) shall act or refrain from acting, and shall be fully protected in acting or refraining from acting, in selling or otherwise disposing of the Facility in accordance with the Security Instruments, upon receiving instructions signed by the Majority Funding Parties.
 
(c)  Defaults. The Lessor shall not be deemed to have knowledge of the occurrence of a Default (other than the non-payment of Rent) unless the Lessor has received notice from a Lease Participant or the Company specifying such Default and stating that such notice is a “Notice of Default.” In the event that the Lessor receives such a notice of the occurrence of a Default, the Lessor shall give prompt notice thereof to the Lease Participants (and shall give each Lease Participant prompt notice of each such non-payment). The Lessor shall (subject to Section 10.07) take such action with respect to such Default as shall be directed by the Majority Funding Parties, as provided in Section 10.02, provided that, unless and until the Lessor shall have received such directions, the Lessor may (but shall not be obligated to) take such action, or refrain from taking such action, with respect to such Default as it shall deem advisable in the best interest of the Funding Parties.
 
(d)  Rights as a Funding Party. With respect to its Lessor Commitment and its Ownership Interests, the Lessor shall have the same rights and powers under this Agreement as any other Funding Party (except to the extent the rights and obligations of the Lessor as such are different from the rights of the Lease Participants as such) and may exercise the same as though it were not acting as the agent of the Lease Participants as provided herein; and the term “Funding Party” or “Funding Parties” shall, unless otherwise expressly indicated, include the Lessor in its individual capacity. The Lessor and its affiliates may accept deposits from, lend money to, act as trustee under indentures of, and generally engage in any kind of business with, the Guarantor, the Company, any of the other Subsidiaries and any Person who may do business with or own securities of the Guarantor or any of the Subsidiaries, all as if the Lessor were not the agent of the Lease Participants pursuant hereto and without any duty to account therefor to the Lease Participants.
 
(e)  Indemnification by Lease Participants. The Lease Participants agree to indemnify the Lessor (to the extent not reimbursed by the Company), ratably according to their respective Ownership Interests, from and against any and all liabilities, obligations, losses, damages, penalties, actions, judgments, orders, suits, costs, expenses or disbursements of any kind or nature whatsoever which may be imposed on, incurred by, or asserted against the Lessor in any way relating to or arising out of this Agreement or any of the Operative Documents or any action taken or omitted by the Lessor under this Agreement or any of the Operative Documents, provided that no Lease Participant shall be liable for any portion of such liabilities, obligations, losses, damages, penalties, actions, judgments, orders, suits, costs, expenses or disbursements resulting from the Lessor’s gross negligence or willful misconduct, or its failure to pay to any Lease Participant its Percentage Share of any Rent or other amounts in which such Lease Participant has an Ownership Interest which the Lessor actually has received. Without limitation of the foregoing, each Lease Participant agrees to reimburse the Lessor promptly upon demand for its ratable share of any out-of-pocket expenses (including reasonable counsel fees) incurred by the Lessor in connection with the preparation, execution, delivery, administration, modification, amendment or enforcement (whether through negotiations, legal proceedings, in bankruptcy or insolvency proceedings, or otherwise) of, or legal advice in respect of rights or responsibilities under, this Agreement or the other Operative Documents, to the extent that the Lessor is not reimbursed for such expenses by the Guarantor or the Company.
 
(f)  Indemnification by Lessor. Solely to the limited extent, if any, monies are received by Lessor from Company with respect to the Indemnified Risks and without recourse to the Lessor except with respect to such monies received, the Lessor agrees to indemnify and save harmless each other Indemnified Party, from and against all liabilities, Liens, Taxes, losses, obligations, claims, damages (including, without limitation, penalties, fines, court costs and administrative service fees), penalties, demands, causes of action, suits, proceedings (including any investigations, litigation or inquiries), judgments, orders, sums paid in settlement of claims, and costs and expenses of any kind or nature whatsoever, including, without limitation, reasonable attorneys’ fees and expenses and all other expenses incurred, suffered or realized in connection with investigating, defending or preparing to defend any cause of action, suit or proceeding (including any investigations, litigation or inquiries) or claim which may be incurred by or asserted against or involve any of them (whether or not any of them is named as a party thereto) as a result of, arising directly or indirectly out of or in any way related to any of the Indemnified Risks.
 
(g)  Non-Reliance on Lessor and other Lease Participants. Each Lease Participant acknowledges that it has, independently and without reliance upon the Lessor or any other Lease Participant and based on the financial statements referred to in Section 7.01 and such other documents and information as it has deemed appropriate, made its own credit analysis and decision to enter into this Agreement. Each Lease Participant also acknowledges that it will, independently and without reliance upon the Lessor or any other Lease Participant and based on such documents and information as it shall deem appropriate at the time, continue to make its own credit decisions in taking or not taking action under this Agreement. Except for notices, reports and other documents and information expressly required to be furnished to the Lease Participants by the Lessor hereunder, the Lessor shall not have any duty or responsibility to provide any Lease Participant with any credit or other information concerning the affairs, financial condition or business of the Guarantor, the Company or any affiliates thereof, which may come into the possession of the Lessor or any of its affiliates.
 
(h)  Failure to Act. The Lessor shall in all cases be fully justified in failing or refusing to act hereunder or under the Operative Documents unless it shall be indemnified to its satisfaction by the Lease Participants against any and all liability and expenses which may be incurred by it by reason of taking or continuing to take any such action.
 
Section 10.02  Appointment of the Administrative Agent.
 
(a)  The parties hereto acknowledge and agree that Lessor may, and hereby does, appoint the Administrative Agent to undertake and perform on its behalf all of Lessor’s administrative and servicing obligations under the Operative Documents, including, without limitation, (i) sending and receiving notices by or on behalf of the Lessor (all of which notices, when delivered by the Administrative Agent, shall constitute constructive delivery thereof by the Lessor and, when received by the Administrative Agent, shall constitute constructive receipt thereof by the Lessor), (ii) the collection and disbursement of all payments which are to be made to or from Lessor to any other party (including, without limitation, the payment of Rent, Supplemental Rent, Yield, payments under the Guaranty, the proceeds of any collateral, the proceeds of any right of setoff, and insurance or condemnation proceeds), (iii) the receipt, on Lessor’s behalf, of any reports, financial statements, and other information required to be delivered to Lessor under the Operative Documents (including, without limitation, the financial statements required to be delivered pursuant hereto, and environmental reports), all of which, when received by the Administrative Agent shall constitute constructive receipt thereof by the Lessor, (iv) maintaining the Register in accordance with Section 11.06(d), (v) delivering notices with respect to Yield and the Applicable Margin, and (vi) exercising, to the extent requested by Lessor from time to time, all rights and remedies afforded Lessor, and on Lessor’s behalf, under the Operative Documents.
 
(b)  In performing its duties as the Administrative Agent hereunder, the Administrative Agent shall be entitled to all of the rights and benefits afforded Lessor as servicing agent under Section 10.01, all of which are incorporated by reference into this Section 10.02 in favor of the Administrative Agent, mutatis mutandis, including, without limitation, the rights with respect to indemnification from the Lease Participants, the benefits of any exculpation afforded Lessor under Section 10.01, rights with respect the failure or refusal to act, and the rights as a Funding Party (if the Administrative Agent is or becomes a Funding Party).
 
(c)  Each of the parties hereto (and the Guarantor by execution and delivery of the Guaranty) agrees to abide by the provisions of this Section 10.02 and other provisions in the Operative Documents in respect of the Administrative Agent’s role and function in connection with the administration of the transactions contemplated herein and therein by, among other things, making all payments of money (whether as Rent, proceeds, or otherwise) which would otherwise be payable to Lessor directly to the Administrative Agent and sending all notices which would otherwise be sent to Lessor directly to the Administrative Agent.
 
(d)  Each of the parties hereto (and the Guarantor by execution and delivery of the Guaranty) agrees that (i) notice under any of the Operative Documents delivered to the Administrative Agent shall constitute constructive receipt thereof by Lessor and that notice delivered by the Administrative Agent shall constitute in all respects notice delivered by the Lessor under the Operative Documents and (ii) receipt by the Administrative Agent of any payment under the Operative Documents which would otherwise be payable to or for Lessor’s account shall constitute receipt thereof by the Lessor.
 
(e)  The Guarantor acknowledges and agrees to the provisions of this Section 10.02 by its execution and delivery of the Guaranty.
 
ARTICLE XI.  
 

 
MISCELLANEOUS
 
Section 11.01  Amendments, Etc. The parties hereby agree that (1) no amendment, modification or waiver of any provision of this Agreement, and no consent to any departure by the Company herefrom, shall be effective against the Company, the Lessor, the Administrative Agent, or the Lease Participants unless it shall be in writing and signed by the Company and the Majority Funding Parties; (2) no amendment, modification or waiver of any provision of the Guaranty, and no consent to any departure by the Guarantor therefrom, shall be effective against the Guarantor, the Lessor or the Lease Participants, unless signed by the Guarantor and the Lessor, with the consent of all of the Lease Participants; and (3) no amendment, modification or waiver of any provision of any other Operative Documents, and no consent to any departure by the Company or the Guarantor, as applicable, therefrom, shall be effective against the Guarantor or the Company, as applicable, or the Lessor or the Lease Participants unless signed by the Persons executing such Operative Document, the Guarantor and/or the Company, as applicable, and the Lessor, with the consent of the Majority Funding Parties; provided, however, that:
 
(a)  no such amendment, waiver or consent shall, unless in writing and signed by the Company, all the Funding Parties, and the Administrative Agent, be effective to (i) amend this Section 11.01 or (ii) or change the definition of “Final Rent Payment,” “Termination Value,” or “Purchase Price”;
 
(b)  no such amendment, waiver or consent shall, unless in writing and signed by all the Funding Parties, be effective to (i) subject any Funding Parties to any additional obligation, (ii) reduce or forgive all or any portion of the principal of the Lessor Investments or Yield thereon or reduce the rates used to determine Yield (including, without limitation, the Pricing Schedule), (iii) postpone or otherwise change any date fixed for any payment of the principal of the Lessor Investments or Yield thereon, (iv) change the definition of “Majority Funding Parties,” “A Percentage Share,” or “B Percentage Share” or the percentage of the aggregate Ownership Interests which shall be required for the Lessor (or the Administrative Agent on Lessor’s behalf) to take any action under this Agreement, (v) except as otherwise permitted in this Agreement or the other Operative Documents, permit the creation of any Lien (other than Permitted Liens) on the Collateral equal to or prior to the interests of the Funding Parties or sell or otherwise dispose of any portion of the Collateral or release any Lien created under the Operative Documents, or (vi) waive the terms of any payment obligation (whether Yield or Lessor Investments) or amend or modify the order of application of payments and proceeds; (vii) release the Company or any surety or guarantor of any of the Company’s obligations or otherwise limit recourse to such surety or guarantor; or (v) waive any of the conditions specified in Article VI;
 
(c)  no such amendment, waiver or consent shall, unless in writing and signed by the Lessor and all other Funding Parties, be effective to restrict, limit, or terminate the rights of, or increase or modify the duties of, Lessor under any Operative Document; and
 
(d)  no such amendment, waiver or consent shall, unless in writing and signed by the Administrative Agent and all of the Funding Parties, be effective to restrict, limit, or terminate the rights of, or increase or modify the duties of, the Administrative Agent under any Operative Document.
 
In any of the foregoing events, any such waiver or consent shall be effective only in the specific instance and for the specific purpose for which given.
 
Section 11.02  Notices. Except as otherwise provided in Article II or Article V, all notices and other communications provided for hereunder shall be in writing (including by telecopier and other readable communication) and mailed by certified mail, return receipt requested, telecopied or otherwise transmitted or delivered, for the Guarantor, at 2801 Highway 280 South, Birmingham, Alabama 35223, Attention: Lance Black, Telecopier: 205-268-3642, for any party hereto, at its address set forth under its name on its signature page hereto or, as to a Lease Participant that is not a party hereto as of the date hereof, in an Assignment and Acceptance, or as to each party at such other address as shall be designated by such party in a written notice to the other parties. All such notices and communications shall, if so mailed, telecopied or otherwise transmitted, be effective when received, if mailed, or when the appropriate answer back or other evidence of receipt is given, if telecopied or otherwise transmitted, respectively. A notice received by the Lessor (or the Administrative Agent on Lessor’s behalf) by telephone pursuant to Article II or Article V shall be effective if the Lessor (or, if to the Administrative Agent, the Administrative Agent) believes in good faith that it was given by an authorized representative of the Company and acts pursuant thereto, notwithstanding the absence of written confirmation or any contradictory provision thereof. The parties hereto acknowledge the applicability of Section 10.02 to terms in this Section 11.02 relating to the delivery of notice to and from the Lessor.
 
Section 11.03  Payment of Expenses, Indemnities, Etc.
 
(a)  The Company agrees to pay on demand (i) all reasonable fees and out-of-pocket expenses of counsel for the Lessor and the Administrative Agent in connection with the preparation, execution and delivery of this Agreement, the other Operative Documents and the other documents to be delivered hereunder and the fulfillment or attempted fulfillment of conditions precedent hereunder, (ii) all reasonable costs and expenses incurred by Lessor and the Administrative Agent and their Affiliates (including, without limitation, WCI) in effecting the assignment of WCI’s interest in the Operative Documents and the Original Lease Documents to Lessor and in syndicating or re-issuing to the Lease Participants all or any portion of the Lessor Investments hereunder, including, without limitation, the related reasonable fees and out-of-pocket expenses of counsel for WCI, Lessor, and the Administrative Agent or any of their Affiliates, travel expenses, duplication and printing costs and courier and postage fees, and excluding any syndication fees paid to other parties joining the syndicate and (iii) all out-of-pocket costs and expenses, if any, incurred by the Lessor, the Administrative Agent, and the Lease Participants in connection with the enforcement (whether through negotiations, legal proceedings in bankruptcy or insolvency proceedings, or otherwise) of this Agreement, the other Operative Documents and the other documents to be delivered hereunder and thereunder, including the reasonable fees and out-of-pocket expenses of counsel. In furtherance of and not in limitation of the foregoing, the Company shall pay all fees, costs and expenses incurred in obtaining the Approved Appraisal, the Environmental Assessment, the title policy referred to in Section 6.01(k), the certification to the Survey required by Section 6.01(i)] and the Related Contracts. The Company shall indemnify the WCI, Lessor, the Administrative Agent, and each Lease Participant against any transfer taxes, documentary taxes, assessments or charges made by any Governmental Authority by reason of the execution and delivery of, and performance of obligations under, any of the Operative Documents or the Lessor Assignment Agreement.
 
(b)  The Company (in its capacity as Lessee) agrees, in addition to any other indemnity obligations set forth in any Operative Document, to indemnify and save harmless each Indemnified Party from and against all liabilities, Liens, Taxes, losses, obligations, claims, damages (including, without limitation, penalties, fines, court costs and administrative service fees), penalties, demands, causes of action, suits, proceedings (including any investigations, litigation or inquiries), judgments, orders, sums paid in settlement of claims, and costs and expenses of any kind or nature whatsoever, including, without limitation, reasonable attorneys’ fees and expenses and all other expenses incurred, suffered or realized in connection with investigating, defending or preparing to defend any cause of action, suit or proceeding (including any investigations, litigation or inquiries) or claim which may be incurred by or asserted against or involve any of them (whether or not any of them is named as a party thereto) as a result of, arising directly or indirectly out of or in any way related to (i) the failure of the Guarantor or the Company to perform or caused to be performed, or the inadequacy of, the environmental due diligence required under Article IV of the Original Agency Agreement or any of the applicable Operative Documents, (ii) the breach of any representation, warranty or agreement set forth under the Operative Documents regarding Environmental Requirements or relating to environmental matters, (iii) the failure of the Guarantor or the Company to perform any obligation required to be performed under the Operative Documents pursuant to Environmental Requirements or relating to environmental matters, (iv) the failure of the Guarantor or the Company to obtain any Environmental Authorizations required in the management, maintenance and operation of the Facility, or the operation of any business on or related to the Facility or the Site, (v) any Environmental Damages, Environmental Liabilities and Environmental Proceedings relating to the Facility; (vi) all acts or omissions by or on behalf of the Company, its contractors, employees, agents, licensees, representatives or any other Person for whose conduct the Company is responsible in connection with this Agreement, any Related Contract or under any Operative Document (individually and collectively, as the context shall require, the “Company Agents”); (vii) the breach or failure to perform by the Company (directly or by any of the Company Agents) of any provisions of this Agreement or under any Operative Document; (viii) the operations of the business of the Company; (ix) the failure of the Company (directly or by any of the Company Agents) to comply with any Governmental Requirement (including, without limitation, design, construction, manufacture, engineering, assembly, installation, use, operation or ownership of the Facility or any portion thereof); (x) the failure of the Company (directly or by any of the Company Agents) to pay any amount required to be paid hereunder or under the Lease or any other Operative Document, including, without limitation (and without duplication), the Lessor Investments and Yield thereon (whether or not the Lease has terminated) and Rent; (xi) the Lessor’s ownership and leasing of the Facility pursuant to the Lease (other than taxes excluded from the definition of Taxes); (xii) the sale of any portion of the Facility either to the Company or any other Person pursuant to the provisions of the Lease; (xiii) any Imposition, Lien, judgment, order, tax, or other payment owing in respect of the Facility or which the Company is obligated to discharge or pay to any Person; (xiv) the renovation, construction, leasing, subleasing, operation, occupancy, possession, use or non-use by the Company of the Facility or any portion thereof, or the condition of the Facility or any portion thereof; (xv) any Default or Event of Default under the Lease or this Agreement; (xvi) any act or omission of the Company (directly or by any of the Company Agents) relating to, or in connection with, the ownership, renovation, construction, leasing, subleasing, operation, management, maintenance, occupancy, possession, use, non-use or condition of the Facility or any portion thereof; (xvii) performance of any labor or services or furnishing of any materials or other Property in respect of the Facility or any portion thereof; (xviii) any permitted contest referred to in Section 15 of the Lease; and (xix) any claims for patent, trademark, trade name or copyright infringement;
 
provided, however, that no Indemnified Party shall be entitled to indemnity (or any other payment or reimbursement) for any Indemnified Risks pursuant to this Section 11.03(b) to the extent such Indemnified Risks result from or arise out of (i) the willful misconduct or gross negligence of such Indemnified Party or (ii) for any risks arising from any third-party damage claims arising from acts or omissions occurring during the Construction Term, other than third-party damage claims caused by or resulting from the Company’s (or any of the Company Agents’) own actions or failures to act while in possession or control of the Facility or for any risks beyond the control of the Company during the Construction Term (directly or through the Company Agents), including acts of God, casualty losses and condemnations.
 
(c)  The risks identified in Section 11.03(b) are referred to in this Agreement, individually and collectively, as the context shall require, as the “Indemnified Risks.” The Lessor, the Administrative Agent, and each Lease Participant, and their respective successors and assigns, and their officers, directors, incorporators, shareholders, employees, agents, partners, attorneys, affiliates, contractors, subcontractors and servants are referred to in this Agreement individually as an “Indemnified Party” and collectively as the “Indemnified Parties.
 
(d)  If any cause of action, suit, proceeding or claim arising from any of the foregoing is brought against any Indemnified Party, whether such action, suit, proceeding, or claim shall be actual or threatened, or in preparation therefor, the Company will have the right, at its expense, to assume the resistance and defense of such cause of action, suit, proceeding or claim or cause the same to be resisted and defended; provided that such Indemnified Party shall be entitled (but not obligated) to participate jointly in such defense, in which case such Indemnified Party will be responsible for its own legal fees or other expenses, if any, related to such defense incurred subsequent to the joint participation by such party in such defense. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Indemnified Party may assume the defense of such action, suit, proceeding, or claim (and the Company agrees to reimburse such Indemnified Party on demand for the reasonable fees and expenses of any counsel retained by the Indemnified Party), if (i) such Indemnified Party shall have been advised by counsel chosen by it that there may be one or more legal defenses available to such Indemnified Party that are different from or additional to those available to the Company or (ii) the Indemnified Party’s counsel shall have advised such Indemnified Party that such action, suit, proceeding, or claim involves a risk of the imposition of criminal liability or will involve a material risk of the sale, forfeiture, or loss of, or the creation of any Lien (other than a Permitted Lien of the type described in clause (i) of the definition thereof) on the Lease or the Facility or any part thereof. The Company may settle any action which it defends hereunder on such terms as it may deem advisable in its sole discretion, subject to its ability promptly to perform in full the terms of such settlement and only if such settlement does not include any admission of bad faith, gross negligence, willful misconduct, or criminal conduct to be entered against, or deemed made by, any Indemnified Party (unless the Indemnified Parties implicated thereby or involved therein agree thereto in writing in their sole discretion). No Indemnified Party may seek indemnification or other reimbursement or payment, including attorneys’ fees or expenses, from the Company for any cause of action, suit, proceeding or claim settled, compromised or in any way disposed of by the Indemnified Party without the Company’s prior written consent, which will not be unreasonably withheld.
 
(e)  The obligations of the Company under this Section 11.03 shall survive the expiration or any termination of this Agreement (whether by operation of law or otherwise) and the payment of amounts owed by the Company under this Agreement and the other Operative Documents, and shall also expressly survive any sale, transfer or conveyance of the Facility made by the Lessor pursuant to the Lease for a period of 2 years after the termination of this Agreement and any such sale, transfer or conveyance, except for indemnification obligations of the Company, which shall continue to survive thereafter.
 
(f)  Upon demand for payment by any Indemnified Party of any Indemnified Risks incurred by it for which indemnification is sought, the Company shall pay when due and payable the full amount of such Indemnified Risks to the appropriate party, unless and only so long as: (i) the Company shall have assumed the defense of such action and is diligently prosecuting the same; (ii) the Company is financially able to pay all its obligations outstanding and asserted against the Company at that time, including the full amount of the Indemnified Risks; and (iii) the Company has taken all action as may be reasonably necessary to prevent (1) the collection of such Indemnified Risks from, or the assertion of any Lien in respect thereof against, the Indemnified Party or its property or assets; (2) the sale, forfeiture or loss of the Facility or any portion thereof, or any property or assets of such Indemnified Party during such defense of such action; and (3) the imposition of any civil or criminal liability for failure to pay such Indemnified Risks when due and payable.
 
(g)  The Company acknowledges and agrees, subject to the limitations contained in paragraph (b), that its obligations under this Section 11.03 are intended to include and extend to any and all liabilities, Liens, Taxes, losses, obligations, claims, damages (including, without limitation, penalties, fines, court costs and administrative service fees), penalties, demands, causes of action, suits, proceedings (including any investigations, litigation or inquiries), judgments, orders, sums paid in settlement of claims, costs and expenses (including, without limitation, response and remediation costs, stabilization costs, encapsulation costs, and treatment, storage or disposal costs), imposed upon or incurred by or asserted at any time against any Indemnified Party (whether or not indemnified against by any other party) as a result of, arising directly or indirectly out of or in any way related to (A) the treatment, storage, disposal, generation, use, transport, movement, presence, release, threatened release, spill, installation, sale, emission, injection, leaching, dumping, escaping or seeping of any alleged Hazardous Materials at, under, onto, above, within or from the Facility or any part thereof or any business conducted on or related to the Facility or the Site; (B) the violation or alleged violation of any Environmental Requirements relating to or in connection with the Facility or any part thereof or any acts or omissions thereon or relating thereto; (C) all other federal, state and local laws designed to protect the environment or persons or property therein, whether now existing or hereinafter enacted, promulgated or issued by any governmental authority relating to or in connection with the Facility or any part thereof or any acts or omissions thereon or relating thereto; (D) the Company’s failure to comply with its obligations under Section 7 of the Lease; and (E) any abandonment of the Facility by the Company.
 
(h)  Without limiting the generality of the foregoing provisions of this Section 11.03, the Company agrees to pay or reimburse, promptly upon demand, and protect, indemnify and save harmless, the Lessor following the occurrence of a Termination Event, from any action by any Sublessee or other owner of an interest in the Facility (other than a Co-Lessee) which causes the Lessor any delay in exercising its remedies, or results in the reduction of the Lessor’s remedies, under the Lease.
 
(i)  In case any action shall be brought against any Indemnified Party in respect of which indemnity may be sought against the Company, such Indemnified Party shall promptly notify the Company in writing, but the failure to give such prompt notice shall not relieve the Company from liability hereunder, except to the extent such failure deprives the Company of any material defense otherwise available to the Company in connection therewith.
 
Section 11.04  No Waiver; Remedies. No failure on the part of any Funding Party to exercise, and no delay in exercising, any right hereunder or under any Operative Document shall operate as a waiver thereof; nor shall any single or partial exercise of any right hereunder or under any Operative Document preclude any other or further exercise thereof or the exercise of any other right. The remedies herein provided are cumulative and not exclusive of any remedies provided by law.
 
Section 11.05  Right of Set-Off. Upon the declaration of the principal amount Unrecovered Lessor Investments and the accrued Yield thereon and all other amounts payable by the Company hereunder and under the other Operative Documents, to be due and payable pursuant to the provisions of Section 9.02(a), each Funding Party and the Administrative Agent, and each of their respective Affiliates, is hereby authorized at any time and from time to time, to the fullest extent permitted by law, to set off and apply any and all deposits (general or special, time or demand, provisional or final) at any time held and other indebtedness at any time owing by such Funding Party, Administrative Agent, or Affiliate to or for the credit or the account of the Company against any and all of the obligations of the Company now or hereafter existing under this Agreement held as part of its Ownership Interests by such Funding Party, Administrative Agent, or Affiliate, irrespective of whether or not such Funding Party, Administrative Agent, or Affiliate shall have made any demand under this Agreement and although such obligations may be unmatured. Each Funding Party (for itself and on behalf of its Affiliates) and the Administrative Agent (for itself and on behalf of its Affiliates), as applicable, agrees promptly to notify the Company after any such set-off and application, provided that the failure to give such notice shall not affect the validity of such set-off and application. The rights of each Funding Party, the Administrative Agent, and such Affiliates under this Section 11.05 are in addition to other rights and remedies (including, without limitation, other rights of set-off) which the same may have. All amounts received by any Funding Party, the Administrative Agent, or any such Affiliate pursuant to this Section 11.05 shall be shared with the other Funding Parties pursuant to Section 4.02(d).
 
Section 11.06  Assignments and Participations.
 
(a)  The Company may not assign its rights or obligations hereunder or under any other Operative Document without the prior consent of all of the Funding Parties.
 
(b)  (i)The Lessor shall have the right at any time to sell A Percentage Ownership Interests and/or B Percentage Ownership Interest to A Percentage Lease Participants and/or B Percentage Lease Participants, as applicable, without the prior consent of the other Lease Participants, but (unless a Default or Event of Default is in existence) subject to the consent of the Company, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed. The Lessor shall not have the right to assign its rights and obligations as Lessor hereunder and under the Lease and the other Operative Documents except, with the prior written consent of the Lease Participants and (unless a Default or Event of Default is in existence) the Company, which consent in either case shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed, to an Eligible Lessor Assignee (and such Eligible Lessor Assignee shall expressly assume in writing the Lessor’s rights and obligations hereunder and under the Operative Documents). Upon such assignment, from and after the effective date thereof, (A) the assignee thereunder shall be the Lessor hereunder and have the rights and obligations of the Lessor hereunder (including, without limitation, the obligations with respect to the Lessor Investments and the Lessor Equity Interest) and (B) the assigning Lessor shall relinquish its rights under this Agreement, and such assigning Lessor shall cease to be a party hereto.
 
(ii)  With the prior written consent of the Lessor (which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed) and, unless a Default or Event of Default is in existence, the Company (which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed), each Lease Participant may at any time assign to one or more banks or other financial institutions all or a portion of its rights and obligations under this Agreement (including, without limitation, all or a portion of its A Percentage Ownership Interests and/or B Percentage Ownership Interests, as applicable), and the assignee thereof shall assume all such rights and obligations pursuant to an Assignment and Acceptance executed by such assignee, such assigning Lease Participant and the Lessor); provided, however, that (1) the amount of the A Percentage Ownership Interests or B Percentage Ownership Interests of the assigning Lease Participant being assigned pursuant to each such assignment (determined as of the date of the Assignment and Acceptance with respect to such assignment) shall in no event be less than $5,000,000, or integral multiples of $1,000,000 in excess thereof (or, if less, in either case, the entire A Percentage Ownership Interests or B Percentage Ownership Interests of the assigning Lease Participant (distinguished, however, by those B Percentage Ownership Interests attributable to the Non-Recourse Amount and those in excess of the Non-Recourse Amount), (4) each such assignment shall be to an Eligible Assignee, (5) a Lease Participant may not have more than 2 assignees that are not then Lease Participants at any one time and (6) the parties to each such assignment shall execute and deliver to the Administrative Agent (on behalf of the Lessor), for its acceptance and recording in the Register, an Assignment and Acceptance, together with a processing and recordation fee of $3,500 (for the account of the Lessor), and shall send to the Administrative Agent (on behalf of the Lessor) an executed counterpart of such Assignment and Acceptance, with a copy to the Company. Upon such execution, delivery, acceptance and recording, from and after the effective date specified in each Assignment and Acceptance, (A) the assignee thereunder shall be a party hereto and, to the extent that rights and obligations hereunder have been assigned to it pursuant to such Assignment and Acceptance, have the rights and obligations of a Lease Participant hereunder and (B) the assigning Lease Participant thereunder shall, to the extent that rights and obligations hereunder have been assigned by it pursuant to such Assignment and Acceptance, relinquish its rights and be released from its obligations under this Agreement (and, in the case of an Assignment and Acceptance covering all or the remaining portion of an assigning Lease Participant’s Ownership Interests, such Lease Participant shall cease to be a party hereto).
 
(c)  By executing and delivering an assignment by the Lessor or an Assignment and Acceptance by a Lease Participant, each assignor thereunder and the assignee thereunder confirm to and agree with each other and the other parties hereto as follows: (i) other than as provided in assignment by the Lessor or such Assignment and Acceptance by a Lease Participant, such assigning Lessor or Lease Participant makes no representation or warranty and assumes no responsibility with respect to any statements, warranties or representations made in or in connection with this Agreement or the execution, legality, validity, enforceability, genuineness, sufficiency or value of this Agreement or any other instrument or document furnished pursuant hereto; (ii) such assigning Lessor or Lease Participant makes no representation or warranty and assumes no responsibility with respect to the financial condition of the Guarantor or the Company or the performance or observance by the Company of any of its obligations under this Agreement or any other Operative Document or by the Guarantor under the Guaranty; (iii) such assignee confirms that it has received a copy of this Agreement, together with copies of the financial statements referred to in Section 7.01 and such other documents and information as it has deemed appropriate to make its own credit analysis and decision to enter into assignment or such Assignment and Acceptance; (iv) such assignee will, independently and without reliance upon the Lessor (if it is an assignee of a Lease Participant), such assigning Lessor or Lease Participant or any other Lease Participant and based on such documents and information as it shall deem appropriate at the time, continue to make its own credit decisions in taking or not taking action under this Agreement; (v) such assignee confirms that it is an Eligible Lessor Assignee or Eligible Assignee, as applicable; (vi) such assignee appoints and authorizes the Lessor (if it is not an assignee of a Lease Participant) and the Administrative Agent to take such action as agent or Administrative Agent, as applicable, for the Lease Participants on its behalf and to exercise such powers under this Agreement as are delegated to the Lessor and the Administrative Agent by the terms hereof, together with such powers as are reasonably incidental thereto; and (vii) such assignee agrees that it will perform in accordance with their terms all of the obligations which by the terms of this Agreement are required to be performed by it as either the Lessor or a Lease Participant, as the case may be.
 
(d)  The Administrative Agent shall maintain on behalf of the Lessor at its address referred to in Section 11.02 a copy of each Assignment and Acceptance delivered to and accepted by it and a register for the recordation of the names and addresses of the Lease Participants and the Ownership Interests and Lease Participant Investments owing to each Lease Participant from time to time (the “Register”). The entries in the Register shall be conclusive and binding for all purposes, absent manifest error, and the Administrative Agent, the Guarantor, the Company, the Lessor and the other Lease Participants may treat each Person whose name is recorded in the Register as a Lease Participant hereunder for all purposes of this Agreement. The Register shall be available for inspection by the Guarantor, the Company, the Lessor, and any Lease Participant at any reasonable time and from time to time upon reasonable prior notice. Upon the acceptance of any Assignment and Acceptance for recordation in the Register, Exhibit E hereto shall be deemed to be amended to reflect the revised Lease Participant Commitments of the parties to such Assignment and Acceptance as well as administrative information with respect to any new Lease Participant as such information is recorded in the Register.
 
(e)  Upon its receipt of an Assignment and Acceptance executed by an assigning Lease Participant and an assignee representing that it is an Eligible Assignee, the Administrative Agent (on behalf of the Lessor) shall, if such Assignment and Acceptance has been completed and is in substantially the form of Exhibit E hereto, (i) accept such Assignment and Acceptance, (ii) record the information contained therein in the Register and (iii) give prompt notice thereof to the Guarantor, the Company, the Lessor, the other Lease Participants. Within 5 Business Days after its receipt of such notice and its receipt of an executed counterpart of such Assignment and Acceptance, the Lessor, at the expense of the Company, shall execute and deliver to each of the Lease Participants a new Ownership Certificate, giving effect to such Assignment and Acceptance and dated the date thereof. Such Ownership Certificates shall be conclusive and binding absent manifest error.
 
(f)  Each Lease Participant may sell participations to one or more banks or other entities in or to all or a portion of its rights and obligations under this Agreement (including, without limitation, all or a portion of its Ownership Interests); provided, however, that (i) such Lease Participant’s obligations under this Agreement shall remain unchanged, (ii) such Lease Participant shall remain solely responsible to the Lessor for the performance of such obligations, (iii) such Lease Participant shall remain the owner of its Ownership Interests for all purposes of this Agreement, (iv) the Guarantor, the Company, the Administrative Agent, the Lessor and the other Lease Participants shall continue to deal solely and directly with such Lease Participant in connection with its rights and obligations under this Agreement and the other Operative Documents, (v) such Lease Participant shall continue to be able to agree to any modification or amendment of this Agreement or any waiver hereunder without the consent, approval or vote of any such participant or group of participants, other than modifications, amendments and waivers which (A) postpone any date fixed for any payment of, or reduce any payment of, principal of or Yield on the Lessor Investments, (B) reduce the Yield payable under this Agreement and such Lease Participant’s Ownership Interests, or (C) consent to the assignment or the transfer by the Company or the Lessor of any of its rights and obligations as the Company or the Lessor, respectively, under this Agreement (to the extent such consent is required pursuant to the Agreement) and (vi) except as contemplated by the immediately preceding clause (v), no participant shall be deemed to be or to have any of the rights or obligations of a “Lease Participant” hereunder.
 
(g)  The Lessor or any Lease Participant may, in connection with any assignment or participation or proposed assignment or participation pursuant to this Section 11.06, disclose to the assignee or participant or proposed assignee or participant any information relating to the Guarantor or the Company furnished to the Lessor or such Lease Participant by or on behalf of the Company or the Guarantor; provided that, prior to any such disclosure, the assignee or participant or proposed assignee or participant shall agree in writing for the benefit of the Guarantor and the Company to preserve the confidentiality of any confidential information relating to the Guarantor or the Company received by it from the Lessor or such Lease Participant in a manner consistent with Section 11.13.
 
(h)  Anything in this Agreement to the contrary notwithstanding, any Lease Participant may at any time create a security interest in all or any portion of its rights under this Agreement (including, without limitation, its Ownership Interests) in favor of any Federal Reserve Bank in accordance with Regulation A of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (or any successor regulation) and the applicable operating circular of such Federal Reserve Bank.
 
(i)  Notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement or any other Operative Document, neither the Guarantor or the Company nor any of their Affiliates (i) may acquire any of the Ownership Interests unless the Guarantor or the Company or such Affiliate acquires all of the Ownership Interests in a single transaction and thereby becomes bound by the provisions hereof; and unless the Guarantor or the Company or such Affiliate shall have acquired all of the Ownership Interests, it shall not be entitled to exercise any rights or remedies of a Funding Party under any of the Operative Documents.
 
(j)  Notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement to the contrary, no assignee or participant shall be entitled to receive any greater payment under Section 4.06 or 5.03 than the transferor Funding Party would have been entitled to receive with respect to the rights transferred, unless such transfer is made with the Company’s prior written consent or by reason of the provisions of Section 5.02 or 5.03 hereof requiring such Funding Party to designate a different Applicable Funding Office under certain circumstances or at a time when the circumstances giving rise to such a greater payment did not exist.
 
Section 11.07  Invalidity. In the event that any one or more of the provisions contained in this Agreement or in any other Operative Document shall, for any reason, be held invalid, illegal or unenforceable in any respect, such invalidity, illegality or unenforceability shall not affect any other provision of this Agreement or any other Operative Document.
 
Section 11.08  Entire Agreement. THIS AGREEMENT AND THE OTHER OPERATIVE DOCUMENTS EMBODY THE ENTIRE AGREEMENT AND UNDERSTANDING AMONG THE LESSOR, THE ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT, THE LEASE PARTICIPANTS, THE GUARANTOR AND THE COMPANY AND SUPERSEDE ALL OTHER AGREEMENTS AND UNDERSTANDINGS AMONG SUCH PARTIES RELATING TO THE SUBJECT MATTER HEREOF AND THEREOF. THIS WRITTEN AGREEMENT AND THE OTHER OPERATIVE DOCUMENTS REPRESENT THE FINAL AGREEMENT AMONG THE PARTIES AND MAY NOT BE CONTRADICTED BY EVIDENCE OF PRIOR, CONTEMPORANEOUS OR SUBSEQUENT ORAL AGREEMENTS OF THE PARTIES. THERE ARE NO UNWRITTEN ORAL AGREEMENTS AMONG THE PARTIES.
 
Section 11.09  References. The words “herein,” “hereof,” “hereunder” and other words of similar import when used in this Agreement refer to this Agreement as a whole, and not to any particular article, section or subsection. Any reference herein to an Article or Section shall be deemed to refer to the applicable Article or Section of this Agreement unless otherwise stated herein. Any reference herein to an exhibit or schedule shall be deemed to refer to the applicable exhibit or schedule attached hereto unless otherwise stated herein.
 
Section 11.10  Successors; Survivals. This Agreement shall be binding upon and inure to the benefit of the parties hereto and their respective successors and permitted assigns. The obligations of the Company under Section 4.06, Article V, and Section 11.03 shall survive the redemption of the Lessor Investments and the termination of this Agreement.
 
Section 11.11  Captions. Captions and section headings appearing herein are included solely for convenience of reference and are not intended to affect the interpretation of any provision of this Agreement.
 
Section 11.12  Counterparts. This Agreement may be executed in any number of counterparts, all of which taken together shall constitute one and the same instrument and any of the parties hereto may execute this Agreement by signing any such counterpart. Delivery to the Lessor of a counterpart executed by a Lease Participant shall constitute delivery of such counterpart to all of the Lease Participants and the Administrative Agent. This Agreement may be delivered by facsimile transmission of the relevant signature pages hereof.
 
Section 11.13  Confidentiality. Each Funding Party and the Administrative Agent agrees to exercise commercially reasonable efforts to keep any information delivered or made available by the Company or the Guarantor to it which is clearly indicated or stated to be confidential information (or when the circumstances under which such information is delivered or when the content thereof would cause a reasonable person to believe that such information is confidential) confidential from anyone other than Persons employed or retained by such Funding Party or the Administrative Agent who are or are expected to become engaged in evaluating, approving, structuring or administering the Lessor Investments, the Ownership Interests or the Operative Documents (such Persons to likewise be under similar obligations of confidentiality with respect to such information); provided, however, that nothing herein shall prevent any Funding Party or the Administrative Agent from disclosing such information (a) to any other Funding Party or the Administrative Agent, (b) upon the order of any court or administrative agency, (c) upon the request or demand of any regulatory agency or authority having jurisdiction over such Funding Party or the Administrative Agent, as applicable, (d) which has been publicly disclosed, (e) to the extent reasonably required in connection with any litigation to which any Funding Party, the Administrative Agent, or any of their respective Affiliates may be a party, (f) to the extent reasonably required in connection with the exercise of any remedy hereunder, (g) to such Funding Party’s or Administrative Agent’s legal counsel and independent auditors, (h) to any actual or proposed Eligible Lessor Assignee, Eligible Assignee or other participant in all or part of its rights hereunder which has agreed in writing to be bound by the provisions of this Section 11.13; provided that should disclosure of any such confidential information be required by virtue of clause (b), (c) or (e) of the immediately preceding sentence, any relevant Funding Party or the Administrative Agent shall, to the extent permitted by applicable law, rule or regulations, promptly notify the Company or the Guarantor of same so as to allow the Company and the Guarantor to seek a protective order or to take any other appropriate action; provided, further, that none of the Funding Parties nor the Administrative Agent shall be required to delay compliance with any directive to disclose beyond the last date such delay is legally permissible any such information so as to allow the Company and the Guarantor to effect any such action.
 
Section 11.14  Governing Law; Submission to Jurisdiction.
 
(a)  This Agreement (including, but not limited to, the validity and enforceability hereof and thereof) shall be governed by, and construed in accordance with, the laws of the State of New York, other than the conflict of laws rules thereof (other than Section 5.1401 of the New York General Obligations Law), except to the extent that the laws of the State of Alabama mandatorily apply.
 
(b)  The Company hereby irrevocably submits to the jurisdiction of any New York State or Federal court sitting in New York City and any appellate court from any thereof in any action or proceeding by the Lessor or any Lease Participant in respect of, but only in respect of, any claims or causes of action arising out of or relating to this Agreement or the other Operative Documents (such claims and causes of action, collectively, being “Permitted Claims”), and the Company hereby irrevocably agrees that all Permitted Claims may be heard and determined in such New York State court or in such Federal court. The Company hereby irrevocably waives, to the fullest extent it may effectively do so, the defense of an inconvenient forum to the maintenance of such action or proceeding in any aforementioned court in respect of Permitted Claims. The Company hereby irrevocably agrees that service of copies of the summons and complaint and any other process which may be served by the Lessor, the Administrative Agent, or the Lease Participants in any such action or proceeding in any aforementioned court in respect of Permitted Claims may be made by delivering a copy of such process to the Company by courier and by certified mail (return receipt requested), fees and postage prepaid, at the Company’s address specified pursuant to Section 11.02. The Company agrees that a final judgment in any such action or proceeding shall be conclusive and may be enforced in other jurisdictions by suit on the judgment or in any other manner provided by law.
 
(c)  Nothing in this Section 11.14: (i) shall affect the right of any Lease Participant or the Lessor to serve legal process in any other manner permitted by law or affect any right otherwise existing of any Lease Participant or the Lessor to bring any action or proceeding against the Company or its property in the courts of other jurisdictions or (ii) shall be deemed to be a general consent to jurisdiction in any particular court or a general waiver of any defense or a consent to jurisdiction of the courts expressly referred to in subsection (a) above in any action or proceeding in respect of any claim or cause of action other than Permitted Claims.
 
Section 11.15  Yield. It is the intention of the parties hereto that each Funding Party shall conform strictly to usury laws applicable to it. Accordingly, if the transactions contemplated hereby would be usurious as to any Funding Party under laws applicable to it (including the laws of the United States of America and the State of New York or any other jurisdiction whose laws may be mandatorily applicable to such Funding Party notwithstanding the other provisions of this Agreement), then, in that event, notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Agreement or in any other Operative Document or any other agreement entered into in connection with or as security for the Ownership Interests, it is agreed as follows: (i) the aggregate of all consideration which constitutes interest under law applicable to any Funding Party that is contracted for, taken, reserved, charged or received by such Funding Party under this Agreement or under any of the other aforesaid Operative Documents or other agreements or otherwise in connection with the Ownership Interests shall under no circumstances exceed the maximum amount allowed by such applicable law, and any excess shall be cancelled automatically and if theretofore paid shall be credited by such Funding Party on the principal amount of its Ownership Interests (or, to the extent that the principal amount of its Ownership Interests shall have been or would thereby be redeemed in full, refunded by such Lease Participant to the Lessor and by the Lessor to the Company); and (ii) in the event that the maturity of the Ownership Interests is accelerated by reason of an election of the holder thereof resulting from any Event of Default under this Agreement or otherwise, or in the event of any required or permitted redemption, then such consideration that constitutes interest under law applicable to any Funding Party may never include more than the maximum amount allowed by such applicable law, and excess Yield, if any, provided for in this Agreement or otherwise shall be cancelled automatically by such Funding Party as of the date of such acceleration or prepayment and, if theretofore paid, shall be credited by such Funding Party on the principal amount of its Ownership Interests (or, to the extent that the principal amount of the Ownership Interests shall have been or would thereby be redeemed in full, refunded by such Lease Participant to the Lessor and by the Lessor to the Company). All sums paid or agreed to be paid to any Funding Party for the use, forbearance or detention of sums due hereunder shall, to the extent permitted by law applicable to such Funding Party, be amortized, prorated, allocated and spread in equal parts throughout the full term of the Ownership Interests, until payment in full, so that the rate or amount of Yield on account of any Ownership Interests hereunder does not exceed the maximum amount allowed by such applicable law. If at any time and from time to time (i) the amount of Yield payable to any Funding Party on any date shall be computed at the Highest Lawful Rate applicable to such Funding Party pursuant to this Section 11.15 and (ii) in respect of any subsequent Yield computation period the amount of Yield otherwise payable to such Funding Party would be less than the amount of Yield payable to such Funding Party computed at the Highest Lawful Rate applicable to such Funding Party, then the amount of Yield payable to such Funding Party in respect of such subsequent Yield computation period shall continue to be computed at the Highest Lawful Rate applicable to such Funding Party until the total amount of Yield payable to such Funding Party shall equal the total amount of Yield which would have been payable to such Funding Party if the total amount of Yield had been computed without giving effect to this Section.
 
Section 11.16  Characterization.
 
(a)  In order to protect the rights and remedies of the Funding Parties following a Termination Event or a Cancellation Event, and for the purposes of commercial law and Federal, state and local income and ad valorem taxes and Title 11 of the United States Code (or any other applicable Federal, state or local insolvency, reorganization, moratorium, fraudulent conveyance or similar law now or hereafter in effect for the relief of debtors), the parties hereto intend that (i) the Lease be treated as the repayment and security provisions of a loan by the Lessor to the Company in the amount of the Facility Cost, (ii) all payments of Basic Rent, Supplemental Rent, the Final Rent Payment, the Termination Value and the Purchase Price be treated as payments of principal, interest and other amounts owing with respect to such loan and (iii) the Company be treated as entitled to all benefits of ownership of the Facility or any part thereof. In addition, the parties acknowledge that after payment in full of the Ownership Interests, the Yield accrued thereon and any other obligations of the Company under the Operative Documents, any remaining proceeds of the Facility shall be distributed to the Company.
 
(b)  The Company agrees that neither it nor any of its Affiliates (whether or not consolidated or combined returns are filed for any such Affiliate and the Company for federal, state or local income tax purposes) will at any time take any action, directly or indirectly, or file any return or other document inconsistent with the intended income tax treatment set forth in the preceding clause (a), and the Company agrees that the Company and any such Affiliates will file such returns, maintain such records, take such action and execute such documents (as reasonably requested by the Lessor or the Lease Participants from time to time) as may be appropriate to facilitate the realization of such intended income tax treatment. Each of the Lessor and the Lease Participants agrees that neither it nor any affiliate (whether or not consolidated or combined returns are filed for such affiliate and the Lessor or any Lease Participant, as the case may be, for federal, state or local income tax purposes) will at any time take any action, directly or indirectly, or file any return or other document claiming, or asserting that it is entitled to, the income tax benefits, deductions and/or credits which, pursuant to the intended income tax treatment set forth herein, would otherwise be claimed or claimable by the Company, and that it and any such affiliates will file such returns, maintain such records, take such actions, and execute such documents (as reasonably requested by the Company from time to time) as may be appropriate to facilitate the realization of, and as shall be consistent with, such intended income tax treatment, and if any such filing, maintenance, action or execution requested by the Company or the Guarantor would result in any additional income tax liability payable by it or any affiliate, or could reasonably be expected to result in liability payable by it or any affiliate, unrelated to the intended income tax treatment set forth herein, then the Company will provide an indemnity against such unrelated income tax liability satisfactory to the Lessor or any Lease Participant, as the case may be, in its sole opinion.
 
(c)  The Company acknowledges that no Lease Participant, the Administrative Agent, the Lessor or any Affiliate of any of the foregoing thereof is making any representation, nor is it required to make any disclosure, now or in the future, with respect to the parties’ tax or accounting treatment of the Facility or the financing thereof, nor is any Lease Participant, the Lessor, the Administrative Agent, or any Affiliate or any of the foregoing responsible, nor will it be responsible in the future, for tax and accounting advice with respect to the Facility or the financing thereof, and the Company has had or will have the benefit of the advice of its own independent tax and accounting advisors with respect to such matters.
 
Section 11.17  Compliance. None of the Lessor, the Administrative Agent, nor any Lease Participant has any responsibility for compliance by the Facility or the Company with any Governmental Requirement or other matters. The Company expressly assumes such responsibilities and shall indemnify and hold harmless the Lessor, the Administrative Agent, and the Lease Participants with respect thereto in the manner provided in the Lease.
 
Section 11.18  Facility. Upon payment by the Company of the Purchase Price Value in connection with its purchase of all of the Facility in accordance with the Lease, or the repayment in full of all amounts then due and owing by the Company under the Operative Documents, and promptly upon the request of the Company, the Lessor shall convey the Facility to the Company or its designee, free and clear of any Lien or other adverse interest of any kind created by the Lessor or any Person claiming by, through or under the Lessor, including, without limitation, the Lessor and the Lease Participants (except as consented to by the Company).
 
Section 11.19  Funding Parties. No recourse under any obligation, covenant or agreement of any Funding Party contained in this Agreement, any Operative Document or any agreement or document executed in connection herewith or therewith or the transactions contemplated hereby or thereby shall be had against any shareholder, employee, officer, director, affiliate or incorporator of the Funding Parties. The obligations, covenants and agreements of the Funding Parties under any of the foregoing agreements and documents are solely the corporate obligations of the Funding Parties, and the Lessor (with respect to the Lease Participants) and the Company and the Lease Participants (with respect to the Lessor) agree to look solely to the Lease Participants or the Lessor, as applicable, for payment of all obligations, including, without limitation, any fees or other amounts due hereunder or thereunder, and claims arising out of or relating to any of the foregoing agreements and documents. The provisions of this Section shall survive the termination of this Agreement.
 
Section 11.20  Waiver of Jury Trial. EACH OF THE PARTIES HERETO WAIVES, TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, ANY RIGHT TO A TRIAL BY JURY IN ANY ACTION OR PROCEEDING TO ENFORCE OR TO DEFEND ANY RIGHTS UNDER THIS AGREEMENT OR ANY OTHER OPERATIVE DOCUMENT OR UNDER AMENDMENT, INSTRUMENT, DOCUMENT OR AGREEMENT DELIVERED OR WHICH MAY IN THE FUTURE BE DELIVERED IN CONNECTION HEREWITH OR THEREWITH OR ARISING FROM ANY RELATIONSHIP EXISTING IN CONNECTION WITH THIS AGREEMENT OR ANY OTHER OPERATIVE DOCUMENT, AND AGREES THAT ANY SUCH ACTION OR PROCEEDING SHALL BE TRIED BEFORE A COURT AND NOT BEFORE A JURY.
 
Section 11.21  Certain Acknowledgments of the Parties. Each of the parties hereto hereby acknowledges and agrees that (i) this Agreement and the other Operative Documents have not been negotiated by the Lessor or any of the Lease Participants in the State of Alabama, (ii) the closing of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement and the other Operative Documents shall take place at the office of the Lessor in Charlotte, North Carolina, or at the office of its counsel in Atlanta, GA, and (iii) in addition to the satisfaction of other conditions set forth in Section 6.01 of this Agreement, this Agreement shall not be effective until the Lessor has received at its office in Charlotte, North Carolina the documents described in the first sentence of Section 6.01.
 
Section 11.22  Amendment and Restatement. This Agreement constitutes an amendment and restatement of the Original Investment Agreement, the terms of which survive, but only as amended and restated herein. 
 



IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Agreement to be duly executed as of the day and year first above written.
 
The Company:PROTECTIVE LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY


By:
Name:
Title:

Principal Place of Business and Chief Executive Office:

2801 Highway 280 South
Birmingham, Alabama 35223
Attention: Lance Black
Telecopier: 205-268-3642



Lessor:WACHOVIA DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION

A Percentage Lessor Investment:By:
$0.00 Name:
Title:
B Percentage Lessor Investment
attributable to the Non-Recourse Amount:
$3,750,000.00

B Percentage Lessor Investment
in excess of the Non-Recourse Amount:
$0.00Applicable Funding Office and Address for Notices:

Wachovia Development Corporation
c/o Wachovia Bank, National Association
301 S. College Street
MC 0179
Charlotte, North Carolina 28288
Attention: Gabrielle Braverman
Telecopier No.: 704-715-0065
Telephone No. 704-383-1967



Administrative Agent:WACHOVIA BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION

By:
Name:
Title:

Address for Notices:

Wachovia Bank, National Association
301 S. College Street
MC 0179
Charlotte, North Carolina 28288
Attention: Gabrielle Braverman
Telecopier No.: 704-715-0065
Telephone No. 704-383-1967



Lease Participant:WACHOVIA BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION

A Percentage Lessor Investment:By:
$0.00 Name:
Title:
B Percentage Lessor Investment
attributable to the Non-Recourse Amount:
$9,825,000.00

B Percentage Lessor Investment
in excess of the Non-Recourse Amount:
$11,425,000.00Applicable Funding Office and Address for Notices:

Wachovia Bank, National Association
301 S. College Street
MC 0179
Charlotte, North Carolina 28288
Attention: Gabrielle Braverman
Telecopier No.: 704-715-0065
Telephone No. 704-383-1967





Lease Participant:SUNTRUST BANK

A Percentage Lessor Investment:By:
$25,000,000.00 Name:
Title:
B Percentage Lessor Investment
attributable to the Non-Recourse Amount:
$0.00

B Percentage Lessor Investment
in excess of the Non-Recourse Amount:
$0.00Applicable Funding Office and Address for Notices:

SunTrust Bank
303 Peachtree Street, NE - 3rd Floor
Atlanta, Georgia 30308
Attention: E. Donald Besch, Jr.
Telecopier No.: 404-588-8833
Telephone No. 404-575-2649




Lease Participant:CITIBANK, N.A.

A Percentage Lessor Investment:By:
$25,000,000.00 Name:
Title:
B Percentage Lessor Investment
attributable to the Non-Recourse Amount:
$0.00

B Percentage Lessor Investment
in excess of the Non-Recourse Amount:
$0.00Applicable Funding Office and Address for Notices:

Citibank, N.A.
388 Greenwich Street
New York, NY 10013
Attention: Catherine Morrow
Telecopier No.: 646-291-1723
Telephone No. 212-816-3863
 





EXHIBIT A
 
DESCRIPTION OF SITE
 
ANNEX PARCEL
 
Acreage situated in the SW 1/4 of the SE 1/4 and the SE 1/4 of the SW 1/4 of Section 8, Township 18 South, Range 2 West and the NW 1/4 of the NE 1/4 of Section 17, Township 18 South, Range 2 West, Jefferson County, Alabama, being more particularly described as follows:
 
Commence at the Northwesterly corner of Lot 10-A, Parkway Subdivision, as recorded in Map Book 88, Page 38 in the office of the Judge of Probate of Jefferson County, Alabama, said point lying on the Southwesterly Right-of-Way line of Cahaba Road (Old U.S. Highway No. 280), said point also lying on the East line of the SW 1/4 of the SE 1/4 of Section 8, Township 18 South, Range 2 West; thence run in a Southerly direction along the Westerly line of said Lot 10-A and the East line of said 1/4-1/4 section a distance of 291.49 feet to a point; thence 55º35’25” to the right in a Southwesterly direction a distance of 328.53 feet to a point; thence 87º34’08” to the right in a Northwesterly direction a distance of 2.20 feet to a point; thence 52º23’58” to the left in a Westerly direction a distance of 482.90 feet to a point; thence 83º11’36” to the left in a Southwesterly direction a distance of 16.97 feet to a point; thence 83º16’34” to the right in a Westerly direction a distance of 65.00 feet to a point; thence 90º00’44” to the left in a Southerly direction a distance of 20.26 feet to a point; thence 31º54’03” to the right in a Southwesterly direction a distance of 67.66 feet to a point; thence 90º00’ to the right in a Northwesterly direction a distance of 122.74 feet to the POINT OF BEGINNING of the parcel herein described, said point lying on the face of the newly constructed Building Annex No. 3; thence 2º18’03” to the right in a Northwesterly direction along the face of said building a distance of 39.90 feet to a point; thence 90º00’ to the right in a Northeasterly direction along the face of said building a distance of 5.33 feet to a point; thence 90º00’ to the left in a Northwesterly direction along the face of said building a distance of 254.97 feet to a point; thence 90º00’ to the right in a Northeasterly direction along the face of said building a distance of 21.25 feet to a point on the face of an existing Parking Deck; thence 90º00’ to the left in a Northwesterly direction along the face of said parking deck a distance of 120.80 feet to a point on the face of existing Building 1; thence 90º00’ to the left in a Southwesterly direction along the face of said building a distance of 19.09 feet to a point; thence 90º00’ to the right in a Northwesterly direction along the face of said building a distance of 10.89 feet to a point; thence 90º00’ to the left in a Southwesterly direction along the face of said building and along the face of the newly constructed Building Annex No. 3 a distance of 57.38 feet to a point; thence 90º00’ to the left in a Southeasterly direction along the face of said Building Annex No. 3 a distance of 64.38 feet to a point; thence 90º00’ to the right in a Southwesterly direction along the face of said building a distance of 73.55 feet to a point; thence 90º00’ to the left in a Southeasterly direction along the face of said building a distance of 2.54 feet to a point; thence 90º00’ to the right in a Southwesterly direction a distance of 6.00 feet to a point; thence 90º00’ to the left in a Southeasterly direction a distance of 27.45 feet to a point; thence 90º00’ to the left in a Northeasterly direction a distance of 6.00 feet to a point on the face of the newly constructed Building Annex No. 3; thence 90º00’ to the right in a Southeasterly direction along the face of said building a distance of 281.48 feet to a point; thence 90º00’ to the right in a Southwesterly direction a distance of 4.30 feet to a point; thence 90º00’ to the left in a Southeasterly direction a distance of 9.17 feet to a point; thence 90º00’ to the left in a Northeasterly direction a distance of 4.30 feet to a point on the face of the newly constructed Building Annex No. 3; thence 90º00’ to the right in a Southeasterly direction along the face of said building a distance of 1.67 feet to a point; thence 90º00’ to the left in a Northeasterly direction along the face of said building a distance of 27.92 feet to a point; thence 90º00’ to the right in a Southeasterly direction along the face of said building a distance of 39.87 feet to a point; thence 90º00’ to the left in a Northeasterly direction along the face of said building a distance of 95.52 feet to the Point of Beginning.
 
Containing 51,664 square feet or 1.186 acres.
 
TOGETHER WITH, a non exclusive easement for pedestrian and vehicular ingress and egress to, upon, over and across the Protective Road, Protective Driveway and Orchid Driveway (as the same are described in the certain Reciprocal Easement Agreement by and between Orchid, L.L.C. and Protective Life Insurance Company dated as of January 19, 1996, and recorded as Instrument #9601/6971 in the Probate Office of Jefferson County, Alabama, as amended and restated by Amended and Restated Reciprocal Easement Agreement dated as of March 16, 2004, and recorded as Instrument #200405/9866, in said Probate Office), as the same may be modified or relocated.
 
TOGETHER WITH, (a) a non-exclusive easement for the purpose of pedestrian and vehicular ingress and egress to, on, over and across the Common Driveway; (b) an easement along the Common Access Driveway for the drainage of storm water; and, (c) an easement along the Common Access Driveway and over the Company Tract for installing, operating, and maintaining utility facilities (as the same are described in that certain Reciprocal Easement Agreement by and between Protective Life Insurance Company and Wachovia Capital Investments, Inc. dated as of the 1st day of February, 2000, and recorded as Instrument #200004/0950, in the Probate Office of Jefferson County, Alabama, as amended by First Amendment to Reciprocal Easement Agreement dated as of September 1, 2004 and recorded as Instrument #200413/6654, in said Probate Office).
 



PARKING DECK PARCEL
 
Acreage situated in the SW 1/4 of the SE 1/4 of Section 8, Township 18 South, Range 2 West, Jefferson County, Alabama, being more particularly described as follows:
 
Commence at the Northwesterly corner of Lot 10-A, Parkway Subdivision, as recorded in Map Book 88, Page 38 in the office of the Judge of Probate of Jefferson County, Alabama, said point lying on the Southwesterly Right-of-Way line of Cahaba Road (Old U.S. Highway No. 280), said point also lying on the East line of the SW 1/4 of the SE 1/4 of Section 8, Township 18 South, Range 2 West; thence run in a Southerly direction along the Westerly line of said Lot 10-A and the East line of said 1/4-1/4 section a distance of 291.49 feet to a point; thence 55º35’25” to the right in a Southwesterly direction a distance of 328.53 feet to a point; thence 87º34’08” to the right in a Northwesterly direction a distance of 2.20 feet to a point; thence 52º23’58” to the left in a Westerly direction a distance of 310.55 feet to a point; thence 90º00’ to the right in a Northerly direction a distance of 111.28 feet to a point on the face of the newly constructed parking deck, said point being the POINT OF BEGINNING of the parcel herein described; thence 34º26’54’ to the right in a Northeasterly direction along the face of said parking deck a distance of 200.87 feet to a point; thence 90º00’ to the left in a Northwesterly direction along the face of said parking deck a distance of 3.99 feet to a point; thence 90º00’ to the right in a Northeasterly direction along the face of said parking deck a distance of 13.22 feet to a point; thence 90º00’ to the left in a Northwesterly direction along the face of said parking deck a distance of 12.98 feet to a point; thence 90º00’ to the right in a Northeasterly direction along the face of said parking deck a distance of 4.00 feet to a point; thence 90º00’ to the left in a Northwesterly direction along the face of said parking deck a distance of 274.49 feet to a point; thence 90º00’ to the left in a Southwesterly direction along the face of said parking deck a distance of 4.06 feet to a point; thence 90º00’ to the right in a Northwesterly direction along the face of said parking deck a distance of 13.00 feet to a point; thence 90º00’ to the left in a Southwesterly direction along the face of said parking deck a distance of 13.02 feet to a point; thence 90º00’ to the right in a Northwesterly direction along the face of said parking deck a distance of 3.89 feet to a point; thence 90º00’ to the left in a Southwesterly direction along the face of said parking deck a distance of 200.93 feet to a point; thence 90º00’ to the left in a Southeasterly direction along the face of said parking deck a distance of 3.91 feet to a point; thence 90º00’ to the right in a Southwesterly direction along the face of said parking deck and its extension a distance of 16.06 feet to a point along the roof overhang line of the newly constructed pedestrian bridge; thence 90º00’ to the right in a Northwesterly direction along said roof overhang line a distance of 95.00 feet to a point on the face of the existing parking deck; thence 90º00’ to the left in a Southwesterly direction along the face of the existing parking deck a distance of 15.94 feet to a point along the roof overhang line of the newly constructed pedestrian bridge; thence 90º00’ to the left in a Southeasterly direction along said roof overhang line a distance of 107.90 feet to a point on the face of the newly constructed parking deck; thence 90º00’ to the right in a Southwesterly direction along the face of said parking deck a distance of 6.79 feet to a point; thence 90º00’ to the left in a Southeasterly direction along the face of said parking deck a distance of 28.64 feet to a point; thence 90º00’ to the left in a Northeasterly direction along the face of said parking deck a distance of 21.62 feet to a point; thence 90º00’ to the right in a Southeasterly direction along the face of said parking deck a distance of 245.90 feet to a point; thence 90º00’ to the left in a Northeasterly direction along the face of said parking deck a distance of 3.90 feet to a point; thence 90º00’ to the right in a Southeasterly direction along the face of said parking deck a distance of 13.02 feet to a point; thence 90º00’ to the left in a Northeasterly direction along the face of said parking deck a distance of 13.19 feet to a point; thence 90º00’ to the right in a Southeasterly direction along the face of said parking deck a distance of 3.98 feet to the Point of Beginning.
 
Containing 74,417 square feet or 1.708 acres.
 
TOGETHER WITH, a non exclusive easement for pedestrian and vehicular ingress and egress to, upon, over and across the Protective Road, Protective Driveway and Orchid Driveway (as the same are described in the certain Reciprocal Easement Agreement by and between Orchid, L.L.C. and Protective Life Insurance Company dated as of January 19, 1996, and recorded as Instrument #9601/6971 in the Probate Office of Jefferson County, Alabama, as amended and restated by Amended and Restated Reciprocal Easement Agreement dated as of March 16, 2004, and recorded as Instrument #200405/9866, in said Probate Office), as the same may be modified or relocated.
 
TOGETHER WITH, (a) a non-exclusive easement for the purpose of pedestrian and vehicular ingress and egress to, on, over and across the Common Driveway; (b) an easement along the Common Access Driveway for the drainage of storm water; and, (c) an easement along the Common Access Driveway and over the Company Tract for installing, operating, and maintaining utility facilities (as the same are described in that certain Reciprocal Easement Agreement by and between Protective Life Insurance Company and Wachovia Capital Investments, Inc. dated as of the 1st day of February, 2000, and recorded as Instrument #200004/0950, in the Probate Office of Jefferson County, Alabama, as amended by First Amendment to Reciprocal Easement Agreement dated as of September 1, 2004 and recorded as Instrument #200413/6654, in said Probate Office).
 



EXHIBIT B
 
OWNERSHIP CERTIFICATE
 
EFFECTIVE DATE OF OWNERSHIP CERTIFICATE:     ,  
 
THIS OWNERSHIP CERTIFICATE WAS ISSUED PURSUANT TO SECTION 2.01(b), SECTION 3.02 OR SECTION 11.06 OF THE AMENDED AND RESTATED INVESTMENT AND PARTICIPATION AGREEMENT DATED AS OF JANUARY 11, 2007 (AS AMENDED, RESTATED OR SUPPLEMENTED OR OTHERWISE MODIFIED FROM TIME TO TIME, THE “INVESTMENT AGREEMENT”), AMONG PROTECTIVE LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY, AS THE COMPANY, WACHOVIA DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION, AS THE LESSOR, WACHOVIA BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, AS ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT, AND THE LEASE PARTICIPANTS PARTIES THERETO FROM TIME TO TIME, AND WAS ISSUED BY THE LESSOR THEREUNDER. EACH OWNERSHIP CERTIFICATE WHICH IS ISSUED BY THE LESSOR SUPERSEDES AND REPLACES ALL PRIOR OWNERSHIP CERTIFICATES, AND REFERENCE SHOULD BE MADE TO THE BOOKS AND RECORDS OF THE LESSOR MAINTAINED WITH THE ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT AT 301 S. COLLEGE STREET, MC 0174, CHARLOTTE, NORTH CAROLINA 28288, ATTENTION: GABRIELLE BRAVERMAN, TELEPHONE: 704-383-1967, FACSIMILE: 704-715-0065, FOR A DETERMINATION AS TO THE OWNERSHIP CERTIFICATE CURRENTLY IN EFFECT AT ANY TIME. CAPITALIZED TERMS USED HEREIN WITHOUT DEFINITION HAVE THE MEANINGS SET FORTH IN SCHEDULE 1.02 TO THE INVESTMENT AGREEMENT.
 
I. TOTAL LESSOR INVESTMENTS: $75,000,000:

II. A PERCENTAGE OWNERSHIP INTERESTS AND PERCENTAGE SHARES:

Funding Party
A Percentage Ownership Interest
A Percentage Share
Percentage of A Percentage Ownership Interest to all Lessor Investments
Lessor
     
[Lease Participant]
     
[Lease Participant]
     
. . .
     
[Lease Participant]
     
TOTAL
$[____]
[____]%
[____]%

III. B PERCENTAGE OWNERSHIP INTERESTS AND PERCENTAGE SHARES:

Funding Party
B Percentage Ownership Interest
Attributable to the Non-Recourse Amount (and Related B Percentage Share)
B Percentage Ownership Interest
In Excess of the Non-Recourse Amount (and Related B Percentage Share)
Overall B Percentage Share
Percentage of B Percentage Ownership Interest to all Lessor Investments
Lessor
       
[Lease Participant]
       
[Lease Participant]
       
. . .
       
[Lease Participant]
       
TOTAL
$[____]
$[____]
[____]%
[____]%

 
WACHOVIA DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION, as Lessor, by WACHOVIA BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, as Administrative Agent
 

 

 
By:
Name:
Title:




 
EXHIBIT C
 
FORM OF ASSIGNMENT AND ACCEPTANCE
 
ASSIGNMENT AND ACCEPTANCE
 
Dated ___________, _____
 
Reference is made to the Amended and Restated Investment and Participation Agreement, dated as of January 11, 2007 (as the same may be amended, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time, the “Investment Agreement”) among Protective Life Insurance Company, a Tennessee corporation (the “Company”), the Lease Participants parties thereto (the “Lease Participant”), Wachovia Bank, National Association, as Administrative Agent (the “Administrative Agent”), and Wachovia Development Corporation, as Lessor (the “Lessor”). Terms defined in the Investment Agreement are used herein with the same meaning.
 
______________________________ (the “Assignor”) and _______________________ (the “Assignee”) agree as follows:
 
The Assignor hereby sells and assigns to the Assignee, and the Assignee hereby purchases and assumes from the Assignor, the A Percentage Ownership Interest and B Percentage Ownership Interest, as applicable, in and to all of the Assignor’s rights and obligations under the Investment Agreement as of the date hereof which represents the A Percentage Share and B Percentage Share, as applicable, specified on Schedule 1 of all outstanding rights and obligations under the Investment Agreement, including without limitation, such A Percentage Ownership Interest and B Percentage Ownership Interest, as applicable. After giving effect to such sale and assignment, Assignor’s A Percentage Ownership Interest and B Percentage Ownership Interest will be as set forth in Section 2 of Schedule 1.
 
The Assignor (i) represents and warrants that it is the legal and beneficial owner of the Ownership Interest being assigned by it hereunder and that such interest is free and clear of any adverse claim; (ii) makes no representation or warranty and assumes no responsibility with respect to any statements, warranties or representations made in or in connection with the Investment Agreement or any other Operative Document or the execution, legality, validity, enforceability, genuineness, sufficiency or value of the Investment Agreement or any other Operative Document or other instrument or document furnished pursuant thereto; and (iii) makes no representation or warranty and assumes no responsibility with respect to the financial condition of the Guarantor or the Company, or the performance or observance by the Guarantor or the Company of any of their obligations under the Investment Agreement or any other Operative Document or other instrument or document furnished pursuant thereto.
 
The Assignee (i) confirms that it has received a copy of the Investment Agreement and each other Operative Document, together with copies of the financial statements referred to in Section 8.01 of the Investment Agreement and such other documents and information as it has deemed appropriate to make its own credit analysis and decision to enter into this Assignment and Acceptance; (ii) agrees that it will, independently and without reliance upon the Lessor, the Assignor or any other Lease Participant and based on such documents and information as it shall deem appropriate at the time, continue to make its own credit decisions in taking or not taking action under the Investment Agreement or any other Operative Document; (iii) confirms that it is an Eligible Assignee; (iv) appoints and authorizes the Lessor as its agent to take such action as agent on its behalf and to exercise such powers under the Investment Agreement and the other Operative Documents as are delegated to the Lessor by the terms thereof, together with such powers as are reasonably incidental thereto; (v) assumes the Lease Participant Commitment of the Assignor to the extent of the Ownership Interest assigned to it pursuant hereto and agrees that it will perform in accordance with their terms all of the obligations which by the terms of the Investment Agreement are required to be performed by it as a Lease Participant; [and] (vi) specifies as its address for notices the address set forth beneath its name on the signatures pages hereof [and (vii) attaches the forms prescribed by the Internal Revenue Service of the United States certifying as to the Assignee’s status for purposes of determining exemption from United States withholding taxes with respect to all payments to be made to the Assignee under the Investment Agreement, or such other documents as are necessary to indicate that all such payments are subject to such rates at a rate reduced by an applicable tax treaty].1 
 
Following the execution of this Assignment and Acceptance by the Assignor and the Assignee, it will be delivered to the Administrative Agent (on Lessor’s behalf) for the consent by the Lessor and recording by the Administrative Agent. The effective date of this Assignment and Acceptance shall be the date of consent hereto by the Lessor, unless otherwise specified on Schedule 1 hereto (the “Effective Date”). If the Lessor refuses to consent to this Assignment and Acceptance (which it has the right to do, in its sole discretion), this Assignment and Acceptance shall be null and void.
 
Upon such consent hereto and recording by the Lessor, as of the Effective Date, (i) the Assignee shall be a party to the Investment Agreement as an A Percentage Lease Participant and/or B Percentage Lease Participant, as applicable, and, to the extent provided in this Assignment and Acceptance, have the rights and obligations of an A Percentage Lease Participant and/or B Percentage Lease Participant thereunder and under the other Operative Documents, and (ii) the Assignor shall, to the extent provided in this Assignment and Acceptance, relinquish its rights and obligations and be released from its Ownership Interests under the Investment Agreement and the other Operative Documents.
 
Upon such consent and recording by the Lessor, from and after the Effective Date, the Lessor (or the Administrative Agent on behalf of the Lessor) shall make all payments under the Investment Agreement in respect of the Ownership Interest assigned hereby (including, without limitation, all payments of Rent, principal and Yield with respect thereto) to the Assignee. The Assignor and Assignee shall make all appropriate adjustments in payments under the Investment Agreement for periods prior to the Effective Date directly between themselves.
 
THIS ASSIGNMENT AND ACCEPTANCE SHALL BE GOVERNED BY, AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH, THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK.
 
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Assignment and Acceptance to be executed by their respective officers thereunto duly authorized, as of the date first above written, such execution being made on Schedule 1 hereto.
 
Assignor:


By:
Name:
Title:


Assignee:

By:
Name:
Title:
Consented to:
 
Wachovia Development Corporation, as Lessor
 

 
By:       
 
Title:
 

Protective Life Insurance Company, as the Company
[If required by Investment Agreement]



By:       
Title:



Schedule 1
 
to
 
Assignment and Acceptance
 
Dated ___________, ____
 
Section 1.

A Percentage Share assigned to Assignee: [____]%

Overall B Percentage Share assigned
to Assignee:    [____]%

Aggregate Outstanding Principal Amount
of A Percentage Lessor Investments
assigned to Assignee:   $[_______________]

Aggregate Outstanding Principal Amount
of B Percentage Lessor Investments
assigned to Assignee:   $[_______________]

Section 2.

A Percentage Share retained by Assignor: [____]%
 
Overall B Percentage Share retained
by Assignor:    [____]% 

Aggregate Outstanding Principal Amount
of A Percentage Lessor Investments
retained by Assignor:   $[_______________]

Aggregate Outstanding Principal Amount
of B Percentage Lessor Investments
Attributable to the Non-Recourse Amount
retained by Assignor:   $[_______________]

Aggregate Outstanding Principal Amount
of B Percentage Lessor Investments
In Excess of the Non-Recourse Amount
retained by Assignor:   $[_______________]


Section 3* .

Effective Date:      [____________ ___], 200[__]





EXHIBIT D
 
FORM OF LEGAL OPINION OF COUNSEL
 
TO THE COMPANY AND THE GUARANTOR
 
[PREPARED SEPARATELY]
 



EXHIBIT E
 
FORM OF COMPLIANCE CERTIFICATE
 
Reference is made to the Amended and Restated Investment and Participation Agreement dated as of January 11, 2007 (as amended, restated, supplemented, or otherwise modified from time to time, the “Investment Agreement”) by and among Protective Life Insurance Company, as the Company, the Lease Participants from time to time parties thereto, Wachovia Bank, National Association, as Administrative Agent, and Wachovia Development Corporation, as Lessor. Capitalized terms used herein shall have the meanings ascribed thereto in the Investment Agreement; all amounts shown herein, unless expressly set forth to the contrary, shall be without duplication.
 
Pursuant to Section 8.01(iii) of the Investment Agreement, _____________, the duly authorized __________ of the Guarantor, hereby (i) certifies to the Lessor and the Lease Participants that the information contained in Schedule 1 attached hereto is true, accurate and complete as of _________, _____, and that, to the best of our knowledge, no Default is in existence on and as of the date hereof, (ii) restates and reaffirms that the representations and warranties contained in Article VII of the Investment Agreement are true on and as of the date hereof as though restated on and as of this date (except to the extent any such representation or warranty is expressly made as of a prior date) and (iii) certifies that the Debt Rating as of the date of this Compliance Certificate [has not changed from the prior Performance Pricing Determination Date] [has changed to ____ by Moody’s and ___ by S&P and the Applicable Margin in effect as a result thereof is ___%] .
 
PROTECTIVE LIFE CORPORATION,
 
a Delaware corporation
 

 

 

 
By:
 
Its:
 



SCHEDULE I TO COMPLIANCE CERTIFICATE
 
Schedule of Compliance as of ________________
 
with provisions of 8.04, 8.19, 8.24, 8.25, 8.26 and 8.27 of the Agreement
 
1. Section 8.04 - Sales of Assets
 
     
A. Aggregate amount of assets sold during fiscal quarter just ended
 
   
B. Aggregate amount of assets sold during 3 prior fiscal quarters
 
   
C. Sum of A and B
 
   
D. Consolidated Total Assets
 
   
E. 15% of D
 
   
Limitation: C may not exceed E
 
   
Complies ________  Does Not Comply ________
 
 
   
   
2. Section 8.19 - Liens on Properties other than the Facility
 
     
A. Amount secured by Liens not permitted by items (a) through (l) of clause (ii) of the definition of Permitted Liens
 
   
B. Adjusted Consolidated Net Worth (from line C of Paragraph 3 below)
 
   
C. 15% of B
 
   
Limitation: A may not exceed C
 
   
Complies ________  Does Not Comply ________
 
 
     
3. Section 8.24 - Adjusted Consolidated Net Worth
 
     
A. Consolidated Net Worth
 
   
B. Adjustments, if any, for unrealized net gains and losses on assets held for sale pursuant to SFAS No. 115 and other accumulated comprehensive income pursuant to SFAS No. 133
 
   
C. Adjusted Consolidated Net Worth (A excluding B)
 
   
D. $1,400,000,000
 
 
$1,400,000,000
 
E. Cumulative Consolidated Net Income earned after December 31, 2003 (if positive)
 
   
F. 25% of E
 
   
G. Consolidated allowance for uncollectible amounts on investments
 
   
H. D plus F minus G
 
   
I. C minus H
 
(Must be greater than or equal to 0)
 
   
Complies ________  Does Not Comply ________
 
   
4. Section 8.25 - Ratio of Adjusted Consolidated Indebtedness
to Consolidated Capitalization
 
   
A. Consolidated Indebtedness
 
 
1. 
 
Borrowed money, obligations secured by liens and obligations evidenced by notes acceptances, and other instruments
 
_____________
 
 
2. Deferred purchase of property or services
 
   
3. Capitalized Lease Obligations
 
   
4. Synthetic Lease Obligations
 
   
5. Letters of Credit
 
   
6. Guaranteed Obligations
 
   
B. Short-Term Indebtedness for advance fundings of guaranteed investment contracts, annuities and other similar insurance and investment products
 
   
C. Adjusted Consolidated Indebtedness
 
(A minus B)
 
   
D. Consolidated Capitalization
 
   
1. Adjusted Consolidated Net Worth
 
   
2. Adjusted Consolidated Indebtedness
 
   
3. Sum of D.1 and D.2
 
   
E. Ratio of C to D.3
 
 
___ : 1.0
 
F. Permitted Ratio
 
 
Less than
 
0.40 : 1.00
 
Complies ________  Does Not Comply ________
 
 
5. Section 8.26 - Ratio of Unconsolidated Cash Inflow Available for Interest Expense to Adjusted Consolidated Interest Expense
   
     
A. Unconsolidated Cash Inflow Available for Interest Expense (for most recent fiscal quarter)
 
   
1. Interest and principal received by Guarantor from Subsidiaries during quarter
 
   
i. Interest
 
   
ii. Principal
 
   
2. Gross management fees received by Guarantor from Subsidiaries during quarter
 
   
3. Guarantor’s operating and administrative expenses during quarter (excluding interest expense)
 
   
4. Net management fees received by Guarantor from Subsidiaries during quarter (2 minus 3)
 
   
5. Dividends available to be distributed by Subsidiaries to Guarantor during this year (see attached Exhibit A)
 
   
6. A.5 divided by 4
 
   
7. Other income (investment income - $_____ Miscellaneous - $____
 
   
8. Sum of A.1, A.4, A.6 and A.7
 
   
B. Consolidated Interest Expense
 
   
C. Interest on Short-Term Indebtedness for advance fundings of guaranteed investment contracts, annuities and other similar insurance and investment products
 
   
D. Adjusted Consolidated Interest Expense (B minus C)
 
   
E. Ratio of A.8 to D
 
 
__ : 1.0
 
F. Permitted Ratio
 
Greater than 2.00 : 1.00
 
Complies ________  Does Not Comply ________
 
   
6. Section 8.27 - Company’s Total Adjusted Capital
 
     
A. Company’s Total Adjusted Capital
 
(See attached Exhibit B)
 
   
B. Company’s Authorized Control Level Risk-Based Capital
 
   
C. 4.0 times B
 
   
D. A minus C (must be greater than or equal to 0)
 
   
Complies ________  Does Not Comply ________
 
 

 



EXHIBIT A
 
Dividends Available to be Distributed
 
[Quarter end date]
 
Protective Life Insurance Company
 
 
Prior Year Stat Net Gain from Operations
 
$___________
 
Prior Year End 10% of Policyholder Surplus
 
$___________
 
Greater of Above
 
$                      
 
Year-to-Date Dividends Actually Distributed
 
 
Protective Life Insurance Company
 
$___________
 
Protective Life and Annuity Insurance Company
 
$___________
 
Investment Distributors Advisory Services, Inc.
 
$___________
 
National Health Care Systems, Inc.
 
$___________
 
United Dental Care Inc.
 
$___________
 
   

 



EXHIBIT B
 
[VERIFY LIST OF COMPANIES]
 
Total Adjusted Capital
 
[Quarter end date]
 
Protective Life Insurance Company
 
 
Capital and Surplus
 
$____________
 
Asset Valuation Reserve
 
____________
 
American Foundation Life Insurance Company
 
 
Capital and Surplus
 
____________
 
Asset Valuation Reserve
 
____________
 
Empire General Life Assurance Corporation
 
 
Capital and Surplus
 
____________
 
Asset Valuation Reserve
 
____________
 
Wisconsin National Life Insurance Company
 
 
Capital and Surplus
 
____________
 
Asset Valuation Reserve
 
____________
 
Protective Life Insurance Company of Kentucky
 
 
Capital and Surplus
 
____________
 
Asset Valuation Reserve
 
____________
 
Capital Investors Life Insurance Company
 
 
Capital and Surplus
 
____________
 
Asset Valuation Reserve
 
____________
 
Western Diversified
 
 
Capital and Surplus
 
____________
 
Asset Valuation Reserve
 
____________
 
West Coast Life Insurance Company
 
 
Capital and Surplus
 
____________
 
Asset Valuation Reserve
 
____________
 
Protective Life Insurance Co of Ohio
 
 
Capital and Surplus
 
____________
 
Asset Valuation Reserve
 
____________
 
Eliminate life subsidiary capital included in Company capital
 
____________
 
 
$                        
 



EXHIBIT F
 
FORM OF AMENDED AND RESTATED GUARANTY
 
[DELIVERED SEPARATELY]
 



EXHIBIT G
 
FORM OF LESSOR CONFIRMATION LETTER
 
[DELIVERED SEPARATELY]
 



SCHEDULE 1.02
 
Defined Terms
 
The following terms shall have the following meanings when used in the “Investment Agreement”, the “Lease”, the “Guaranty,” and all other “Operative Documents” (all terms defined in the singular to have the same meanings when used in the plural and vice versa):
 
A Percentage Lease Participant”: any Person who is listed on the signature pages of the Investment Agreement as having an A Percentage Lessor Investment greater than $0.00, or who from time to time becomes an A Percentage Lease Participant pursuant to an Assignment and Acceptance by accepting assignment of an A Percentage Lessor Investment greater than $0.00; collectively, the “A Percentage Lease Participants.”
 
A Percentage Lessor Investments”: as of the Restatement Closing Date, that portion of the Lessor Investments in an amount equal to 66.66667% of the Facility Cost, as such amount may be reduced from time to time by payments of principal attributable to the A Percentage Lessor Investments.
 
A Percentage Ownership Interest”: an undivided ownership interest, in an amount equal to a given A Percentage Lease Participant’s A Percentage Share, in the Lessor's rights in the A Percentage Lessor Investments, and in all rights to payments of Rent, Yield, Supplemental Rent (except fees payable pursuant to Section 2.04(c) of the Investment Agreement) and other amounts payable with respect thereto under the Agreement, the Lease and the other Operative Documents, and with reference to the Lessor and each A Percentage Lease Participant, its Ownership Interest in the A Percentage Lessor Investments, and such rights to payment, after giving effect to the sale by the Lessor to, and the purchase by such A Percentage Lease Participant of, an A Percentage Ownership Interest pursuant to Section 2.01(b), or to the assignment by an A Percentage Lease Participant pursuant to an Assignment and Acceptance, in each case as set forth in the most recent Ownership Certificate. The title of the Lessor in and to the Facility shall be held in trust by the Lessor for the A Percentage Lease Participants, to the extent of their respective A Percentage Ownership Interests, subject to the Lease, and in the event the Facility is sold (either to the Lessee or a third party, pursuant to Section 15 of the Lease or upon the exercise by the Lessor of rights and remedies pursuant to Section 26 of the Lease), the net sale proceeds thereof also shall be held in trust by the Lessor for the A Percentage Lease Participants, to the extent of their respective A Percentage Ownership Interests.
 
A Percentage Share”: for Lessor and each A Percentage Lease Participant, the percentage which its A Percentage Ownership Interest bears to all of the A Percentage Ownership Interests.
 
A Percentage Yield”: all Yield accruing from time to time with respect to the A Percentage Lessor Investments.
 
Adjusted Consolidated Indebtedness”: (i) Consolidated Indebtedness, less (ii) Short-Term Indebtedness for advance fundings of guaranteed investment contracts, annuities and other similar insurance and investment products.
 
Adjusted Consolidated Interest Expense”: for any period of calculation, (i) Consolidated Interest Expense, less (ii) interest on Short-Term Indebtedness for advance fundings of guaranteed investment contracts, annuities and other similar insurance and investment products.
 
Adjusted Consolidated Net Worth”: at any date of determination, Consolidated Net Worth excluding all unrealized net losses and gains on assets held for sale pursuant to SFAS 115 and other accumulated comprehensive income pursuant to SFAS No. 133, to the extent such unrealized net losses and gains have been taken into account in determining Consolidated Net Worth.
 
Adjusted LIBO Rate”: with respect to any Yield Period, a rate per annum equal to the quotient obtained (rounded upwards, if necessary, to the next higher 1/100th of 1%) by dividing (i) the applicable LIBO Rate for such Yield Period by (ii) 1.00 minus the Eurodollar Reserve Percentage.
 
Administrative Agent”: Wachovia Bank, National Association, together with its successors and assigns.
 
Administrative Supplemental Rent”: as defined in Section 2.04(c) of the Investment Agreement.
 
Affiliate”: with respect to the Guarantor or the Company, as the case may be, (i) any Person that, directly or indirectly, through one or more intermediaries, controls the Guarantor or the Company, as the case may be (a “Controlling Person”), (ii) any Person (other than the Guarantor, the Company or another Subsidiary) which is controlled by or is under common control with a Controlling Person, or (iii) any Person (other than a Subsidiary) of which the Guarantor owns, directly or indirectly, 10% or more of the common stock or equivalent equity interests. As used herein, the term “control” means the possession, directly or indirectly, of the power to direct or cause the direction of the management or policies of a Person, whether through the ownership of voting securities, by contract or otherwise.
 
Annual Statement”: the annual statutory financial statement of any Insurance Subsidiary required to be filed with the insurance commissioner (or similar authority) of its jurisdiction of incorporation, which statement shall be in the form required by such Insurance Subsidiary’s jurisdiction of incorporation or, if no specific form is so required, in the form of financial statements recommended by the NAIC to be used for filing annual statutory financial statements and shall contain the type of information recommended by the NAIC to be disclosed therein, together with all exhibits or schedules filed therewith.
 
Anti-Terrorism Law”: the USA Patriot Act or any other statute, regulation, executive order, or other law pertaining to the prevention of future acts of terrorism, in each case as such law may be amended from time to time.
 
Applicable Funding Office”: for each Funding Party, the funding office of such Funding Party (or an affiliate of such Funding Party) designated for any Lessor Investments or Lease Participant Investments on the signature pages of the Investment Agreement (or in an Assignment and Acceptance executed by a Lease Participant pursuant to Section 11.06 of the Investment Agreement) or such other offices of such Funding Party (or of an affiliate of such Funding Party) as such Funding Party may from time to time specify to the Administrative Agent on behalf of Lessor (if Lessor is not such Funding Party) and the Company as the office by which its Lessor Investments or Lease Participant Investments, as applicable, are to be made and maintained.
 
Applicable Margin”: with respect to the Lessor Investments and Lease Participant Investments, as applicable, the applicable rate per annum determined in accordance with the Pricing Schedule.
 
Applicable Permit”: any Permit that is or may be necessary to own, renovate, construct, install, start-up, test, maintain, modify, expand, remove, operate, lease or use all or any part of the Facility (including, without limitation, the Site or any business conducted on or related to the Facility or the Site) in accordance with the Operative Documents, and the failure to obtain or maintain which would have a Material Adverse Effect.
 
Approved Appraisal”: any appraisal, ordered by the Lessor, but at the Company’s cost, from an appraiser or appraisers reasonably acceptable to the Lessor, Arranger (with respect to the Approved Appraisal required for the Restatement Closing Date), and the Agent, which: (i) complies with Title XI of the Financial Institutions Reform, Recovery and Enforcement Act of 1989, as amended, 12 U.S.C. 3331, et seq., and The Regulations and Statements of General Policy on Appraisals promulgated by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, 12 C.F.R. Part 32, as amended, (ii) is performed by a state-certified real estate appraiser certified under the laws of any State, (iii) reflects the Market Value of the Facility, and (iv) estimates the Market Value of the Facility as of the expiration of the Basic Term.
 
Arranger’s Supplemental Rent”: as defined in Section 2.04(c) of the Investment Agreement.
 
Assignment and Acceptance”: an Assignment and Acceptance, in the form of Exhibit C to the Investment Agreement entered into by a Lease Participant and an Eligible Assignee.
 
Authorized Officers”: with respect to the Guarantor or the Company, the officers whose signatures and incumbency shall have been certified to the Lessor in a certificate certified by the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary of the Guarantor or the Company, as applicable, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Lessor that are authorized to sign the Lease and the other Operative Documents to which the Company is a party and, until replaced by another Authorized Officer duly authorized for that purpose, to act as its respective representative for the purposes of signing documents and giving notices and other communications in connection with the Lease and the Operative Documents to which it is a party.
 
B Percentage Lease Participant”: any Person who is listed on the signature pages to the Investment Agreement as having a B Percentage Lessor Investment greater than $0.00, or who from time to time becomes a B Percentage Lease Participant pursuant to an Assignment and Acceptance by accepting a B Percentage Lessor Investment greater than $0.00; collectively, the “B Percentage Lease Participants.”
 
B Percentage Lessor Investments”: as of the Restatement Closing Date, that portion of the Lessor Investments in an amount equal to 33.33333% of the Facility Cost, as such amount may be reduced from time to time by payments of principal attributable to the B Percentage Lessor Investments. As of the Restatement Closing Date, the B Percentage Lessor Investments shall include all of the Non-Recourse Amount; provided, however, that a portion of the B Percentage Lessor Investments may be in excess of the Non-Recourse Amount.
 
B Percentage Ownership Interest”: an undivided ownership interest, in an amount equal to a given B Percentage Lease Participant’s B Percentage Share, in the Lessor's rights in the B Percentage Lessor Investments, and in all rights to payments of Rent, Yield, Supplement Rent (except fees payable pursuant to Section 2.04(c) of the Investment Agreement) and other amounts payable with respect thereto under the Agreement, the Lease and the other Operative Documents, and with reference to the Lessor and each B Percentage Lease Participant, its Ownership Interest in the B Percentage Lessor Investments, and such rights to payment, after giving effect to the sale by the Lessor to, and the purchase by such B Percentage Lease Participant of, a B Percentage Ownership Interest pursuant to Section 2.01(b), or to the assignment by a B Percentage Lease Participant pursuant to an Assignment and Acceptance, in each case as set forth in the most recent Ownership Certificate. The title of the Lessor in and to the Facility shall be held in trust by the Lessor for the B Percentage Lease Participants, to the extent of their respective B Percentage Ownership Interests, subject to the Lease, and in the event the Facility is sold (either to the Lessee or a third party, pursuant to Section 15 of the Lease or upon the exercise by the Lessor of rights and remedies pursuant to Section 26 of the Lease), the net sale proceeds thereof also shall be held in trust by the Lessor for the B Percentage Lease Participants, to the extent of their respective B Percentage Ownership Interests.
 
B Percentage Share”: as to Lessor or any given B Percentage Lease Participant and based on the context in which such term is used:
 
(i) the percentage by which such Person’s B Percentage Lessor Investments in excess of the Non-Recourse Amount bear to all other B Percentage Lessor Investments in excess of the Non-Recourse Amount (with this subclause (i) being applicable in all instances where the allocation of rights or interests among the various B Percentage Lease Participants corresponds to that portion of the B Percentage Lessor Investments in excess of the Non-Recourse Amount);
 
(ii) the percentage by which such Person’s B Percentage Lessor Investments attributable to the Non-Recourse Amount bear to all other B Percentage Lessor Investments attributable to the Non-Recourse Amount (with this subclause (ii) being applicable in all instances where the allocation of rights or interests among the various B Percentage Lease Participants corresponds to that portion of the B Percentage Lessor Investments attributable to the Non-Recourse Amount); and
 
(iii) the percentage by which such Person’s B Percentage Lessor Investments bear to all B Percentage Lessor Investments (with this subclause (iii) being applicable in all instances where the allocation of rights or interests among the various B Percentage Lease Participants does not correspond to any portion of the applicable B Percentage Lessor Investments being attributable to, or in excess of, the Non-Recourse Amount).
 
B Percentage Yield”: all Yield accruing from time to time with respect to the B Percentage Lessor Investments.
 
Banking Authority”: as defined in Section 5.02 of the Investment Agreement.
 
Base Rate”: for any day, the rate per annum equal to the higher as of such day of (i) the Prime Rate, and (ii) one-half of one percent above the Federal Funds Rate. For purposes of determining the Base Rate for any day, changes in the Prime Rate shall be effective on the date of each such change.
 
Basic Rent”: with respect to any Rental Period during the Basic Term, for each day during such Rental Period (whether or not a Business Day), the amount of all Yield (excluding Yield on Supplemental Rent payable pursuant to Section 2.04) accruing for such day pursuant to and in accordance with the Investment Agreement.
 
Basic Term”: with respect to the Lease, and subject to the terms and conditions set forth therein and in the other Operative Documents, the period commencing on the Lease Commencement Date and ending on the earlier to occur of (i) the Option Date, (ii) the Cancellation Date, or (iii) the Scheduled Lease Termination Date.
 
Blocked Person”: as defined in Section 7.01(t)(ii) of the Investment Agreement.
 
Business Day”: (i) for all purposes other than as set forth in clause (ii) below, any day except Saturday, Sunday or other day on which commercial banks in Charlotte, North Carolina, or Birmingham, Alabama, are authorized or required by law or other government action to close, and (ii) with respect to all notices and determinations in connection with, and payments of principal of and interest on, the Lessor Investments, and notices and determinations in connection with and payments of Basic Rent, any day that is a Business Day described in clause (i) above and that is also a day for trading by and between banks in the London interbank eurodollar market.
 
Cancellation Date”: as defined in Section 15(b) of the Lease.
 
Cancellation Event”: as defined in Section 15(b) of the Lease, and shall include a Loss Event.
 
Capitalized Lease Obligations”: of a Person means the amount of the obligations of such Person under leases that would be shown as a liability on a balance sheet such Person prepared in accordance with GAAP, including obligations under the Lease.
 
Capital Stock”: any nonredeemable capital stock, membership interests or partnership interests of the Guarantor or any Consolidated Subsidiary (to the extent issued to a Person other than the Guarantor), whether common or preferred.
 
Casualty Occurrence”: any of the following events in respect of the Facility, (i) any material loss of the Facility or material loss of use thereof which does not constitute a Loss Event, or (ii) the condemnation, confiscation or seizure of, or requisition of title to or use of, any material part of the Facility which action does not constitute a Loss Event.
 
CERCLA”: the Comprehensive Environmental Response Compensation and Liability Act, 42 U.S.C. § 9601 et. seq., and its implementing regulations and amendments.
 
CERCLIS”: the Comprehensive Environmental Response Compensation and Liability Inventory System established pursuant to CERCLA.
 
Change of Control”: the acquisition by any Person, or two or more Persons acting in concert, of beneficial ownership (within the meaning of Rule 13d-3 of the Securities and Exchange Commission under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934) of 35% or more of the outstanding shares of voting stock of the Guarantor.
 
Change of Law”: as defined in Section 5.02 of the Investment Agreement.
 
Code”: the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, and any successor Federal tax code.
 
Collateral”: as defined in Section 26 of the Lease.
 
Co-Lessee”: as defined in Section 21(b) of the Lease.
 
Company”: Protective Life Insurance Company, a Tennessee corporation, and its successors, and such term shall refer to it, as the context shall require, as (i) the Company hereunder, or (ii) as the Lessee under the Lease.
 
Company Agents”: as defined in Section 11.03(b) of the Investment Agreement.
 
Compliance Certificate: as defined in Section 8.01(iii) of the Investment Agreement.
 
Consolidated Capitalization”: at any date of determination, the sum of (i) Adjusted Consolidated Net Worth as at such date plus (ii) Adjusted Consolidated Indebtedness as at such time.
 
Consolidated Indebtedness”: the Indebtedness of the Guarantor and the Subsidiaries determined on a consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP.
 
Consolidated Interest Expense”: for any period of calculation, interest expense, whether paid or accrued, of the Guarantor and the Subsidiaries calculated on a consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP.
 
Consolidated Net Income”: for any period of calculation, the net income of the Guarantor and the Subsidiaries calculated on a consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP.
 
Consolidated Net Worth”: at any date of determination, the amount of consolidated common shareholders’ equity of the Guarantor and the Subsidiaries, determined as at such date in accordance with GAAP (or SAP, with respect to the Insurance Subsidiaries).
 
Consolidated Subsidiary”: a Subsidiary, the accounts of which are customarily consolidated with those of the Guarantor, for the purpose of reporting to stockholders of the Guarantor, or to the Lessor and each of the Lease Participants, or, in the case of a recently acquired Subsidiary, the accounts of which would, in accordance with the Guarantor’s regular practice, be so consolidated for that purpose.
 
Consolidated Total Assets”: at any time, the total assets of the Guarantor and the Consolidated Subsidiaries, determined on a consolidated basis, as set forth or reflected on the most recent consolidated balance sheet of the Guarantor and the Consolidated Subsidiaries, prepared in accordance with GAAP and delivered to the Lessor and the Lease Participants pursuant to Section 8.01(i) or (ii) of the Investment Agreement.
 
Controlled Group”: all members of a controlled group of corporations and all trades or businesses (whether or not incorporated) under common control which, together with the Guarantor, are treated as a single employer under Section 414 of the Code.
 
Construction Term”: the “Construction Term” as defined in the Original Investment Agreement.
 
Debt Rating”: at any time whichever is the higher of the rating of the Guarantor’s senior unsecured, unenhanced debt (or, if no such debt exists, its issuer credit rating for debt of such type) by Moody’s or S&P  (provided, that in the event of a double or greater split rating, the rating immediately above the lowest rating shall apply), or if only one of them rates the Guarantor’s senior unsecured, unenhanced debt, such rating.
 
Default”: any condition or event that constitutes an Event of Default or that with the giving of notice or the lapse of time or both would, unless cured or waived, become an Event of Default.
 
Default Rate”: with respect to any Lessor Investments, Rent or any other amount payable under any Operative Document, on any day, the sum of 2% plus the Adjusted LIBO Rate.
 
Dollars” and “$”: dollars in lawful currency of the United States of America.
 
Eligible Assignee”: with respect to any particular assignment under Section 11.06 of the Investment Agreement, any bank or other financial institution consented to by the Company and the Lessor if such bank or other financial institution is not already a Lease Participant or an affiliate of a Lease Participant; provided that (i) the Lessor’s consent may be granted or withheld in its sole and absolute discretion, and (ii) the Company’s consent shall not be unreasonably withheld and, provided, further, that such consent of the Company shall not be required if a Default or Event of Default is in existence.
 
Eligible Lessor” shall mean a Person (a) of which another Person (the “Lessor Parent”) has voting control of, which voting control is represented by a majority of the outstanding voting equity interests (the “Majority Equity Interest”), held by the Lessor Parent (b) that has a legal form that allows holders of the Majority Equity Interests to make decisions and manage such Person’s activities; (c) that believes that its level of net worth is sufficient to allow it to finance its activities; (d) that has the Majority Equity Interests which are the first interest subject to loss if such Person’s assets are not sufficient to meet its obligations; (e) that did not receive assets that are beneficial interests in a special purpose entity in exchange for the issuance of the Majority Equity Interests; (f) that did not receive funds in exchange for the Majority Equity Interests from any of the Lease Participants, other than the Lessor Parent or its Affiliates; and (g) that holds title to real estate or equipment assets with a fair market value equal to or in excess of $250,000,000.
 
Environmental Assessment”: collectively, a phase 1 report conducted by an independent engineering firm reasonably acceptable to the Lessor in scope and substance satisfactory to the Lessor, and in any event satisfying the minimum standards set forth in ASTME 1527-05 (and, if recommended in or indicated by the phase 1 report, a phase 2, environmental soil test or other environmental report or reports), reflecting compliance of the Facility in all material respects with all applicable Environmental Requirements.
 
Environmental Authority”: any foreign, federal, state, local or regional Governmental Authority that exercises any form of jurisdiction or authority under any Environmental Requirement.
 
Environmental Authorizations”: all licenses, permits, orders, approvals, notices, registrations or other legal prerequisites for conducting the business of the Guarantor, the Company or any other Subsidiary, or for the uses and activities of, on or relating to the Facility, required by any Environmental Requirement.
 
Environmental Damages”: any and all claims, losses, costs, damages, penalties and expenses which are incurred at any prior or subsequent time as a result of the existence or release of Hazardous Materials upon, about or beneath the Facility or migrating or threatening to migrate to or from the Facility, or the existence of a violation of Environmental Requirements pertaining to the Facility, regardless of whether the existence of such Hazardous Materials or the violation of Environmental Requirements arose prior to the present ownership or operation of the Facility.
 
Environmental Judgments and Orders”: all Judgments, arising from or in any way associated with any Environmental Requirements, whether or not entered upon consent or written agreements with an Environmental Authority or other entity arising from or in any way associated with any Environmental Requirement, whether or not incorporated in a Judgment.
 
Environmental Liabilities”: any liabilities or Liens, whether accrued, contingent or otherwise, arising from and in any way associated with any Environmental Requirements.
 
Environmental Notices”: written notice from any Environmental Authority or by any other Person, of possible or alleged noncompliance with or liability under any Environmental Requirement, including without limitation any complaints, citations, demands or requests from any Environmental Authority or from any other person or entity for correction of any violation of any Environmental Requirement or any investigations concerning any violation of any Environmental Requirement.
 
Environmental Proceedings”: any judicial or administrative proceedings arising from or in any way associated with any Environmental Requirement.
 
Environmental Release”: any actual or threatened release defined in CERCLA or under any state or local environmental law or regulation.
 
Environmental Requirements”: any statue, rule, regulation, ordinance, permit, license administration or judicial decision or order (whether by consent or otherwise) or the requirement of law with respect to: (i) the protection of human health and/or the environment; (ii) the existence, handling, use, generation, treatment, storage, packaging, labeling, removal or Environmental Release of Hazardous Materials on, under, about and/or from any real property, including the Facility; and (iii) the effects on the environment of any activity now, previously, or hereinafter conducted on any real property, including the Facility. The Environmental Requirements shall include, but not be limited to, the following: CERCLA; the Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act, Public Law 99-499, 100 Stat. 1613; the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, 42 U.S.C. §§ 6901, et seq.; the Toxic Substances Control Act, 15 U.S.C. §§ 2601, et seq.; the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, 33 U.S.C. §§ 1251, et seq.; the Clean Air Act, 42 U.S.C. §§ 7401, et seq.; the Occupational Safety and Health Act, 29 U.S.C. §§ 651, et seq.; the Emergency Planning and Community Right-To-Know Act of 1986, 42 U.S.C. §§ 11001, et seq.; the state and local analogies thereto, all as amended or superseded from time to time; and any common-law doctrine, including but not limited to, negligence, nuisance, strict liability, trespass, personal injury, or property damage related to or arising out of the presence, Environmental Release or exposure to a Hazardous Material; and all federal, state and local ordinances, regulations, orders, writs and decrees.
 
ERISA”: the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended from time to time, or any successor law and the regulations promulgated and rulings issued from time to time thereunder. Any reference to any provision of ERISA shall also be deemed to be a reference to any successor provision or provisions thereof.
 
Eurocurrency Liabilities”: as defined in Regulation D of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, as in effect from time to time.
 
Eurodollar Reserve Percentage”: for any day the percentage (expressed as a decimal) that is in effect on such day, as prescribed by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (or any successor) for determining the maximum reserve requirement for a member bank of the Federal Reserve System in respect of Eurocurrency Liabilities (or in respect of any other category of liabilities which includes deposits by reference to which the interest rate on loans made at the LIBO Rate is determined or any category of extensions of credit or other assets which includes loans by a non-United States office of any Funding Party to United States residents). The Adjusted LIBO Rate shall be adjusted automatically on and as of the effective date of any change in the Eurodollar Reserve Percentage.
 
Event of Default”: each of the each of the events or circumstances defined as an “Event of Default” in Section 9.01 of the Investment Agreement.
 
Facility”: the collective reference to (i) the Lessor’s leasehold interest in the Site, (ii) the Improvements, and (iii) all plans, specifications, warranties and related rights and operating, maintenance and repair manuals related thereto and all replacements of any of the above.
 
Facility Cost”: $75,000,000.
 
Facility Plan”: the architectural and engineering plans and specifications for the Facility and list of Facility Plan documents furnished to the Lessor pursuant to Section 6.01(f) of the Original Investment Agreement, as the same may have been duly amended, restated, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time prior to the Restatement Closing Date.
 
Federal Funds Rate”: for any day, the rate per annum (rounded upward, if necessary, to the next higher 1/100th of 1%) equal to the weighted average of the rates on overnight Federal funds transactions with members of the Federal Reserve System arranged by Federal funds brokers on such day, as published by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York on the Business Day next succeeding such day, provided that (i) if the day for which such rate is to be determined is not a Business Day, the Federal Funds Rate for such day shall be such rate on such transactions on the next preceding Business Day, and (ii) if such rate is not so published for any day, the Federal Funds Rate for such day shall be the average rate charged to the Lessor on such day on such transactions, as determined by the Lessor.
 
Final Rent Payment”: an amount equal to the sum of (i) the aggregate amount of the Unrecovered Lessor Investments attributable to the A Percentage Lessor Investments, plus (ii) the aggregate amount of the Unrecovered Lessor Investments attributable to that portion of the B Percentage Lessor Investments which are in excess of the Non-Recourse Amount, plus (iii) all accrued, unpaid Supplemental Rent through the end of the Lease Term, plus (iv) all accrued, unpaid A Percentage Yield through the end of the Lease Term, plus (v) all accrued and unpaid B Percentage Yield through the end of the Lease Term, plus (vi) other amounts owing by the Company under the Operative Documents (other than the Unrecovered Lessor Investments attributable to that portion of the B Percentage Lessor Investments which are attributable to the Non-Recourse Amount).
 
Fiscal Quarter”: any fiscal quarter of the Guarantor or the Company, as the case may be.
 
Fiscal Year”: any fiscal year of the Guarantor or the Company, as the case may be.
 
Funded Amount”: the aggregate amount of the A Percentage Lessor Investments, the B Percentage Lessor Investments, Yield thereon, Supplemental Rent pursuant to Section 2.04, expenses and indemnities owing or to be owing to the Lessor and the Lease Participants, and (without duplication) all other amounts owing by the Company to the Lessor or the Lease Participants pursuant to the Investment Agreement or any other Operative Document.
 
Funding Party”: Any one, or more, or all, as the context shall require, of the Lessor and the Lease Participants collectively, the “Funding Parties”.
 
GAAP”: generally accepted accounting principles in the United States of America applied on a basis consistent with those which, in accordance with Section 1.03 of the Investment Agreement, are to be used in making the calculations for purposes of determining compliance by the Guarantor with the provisions of the Operative Documents applicable thereto.
 
Governmental Authority”: to include the country, state, county, city and political subdivisions in which any Person or any such Person’s property is located or that exercises valid jurisdiction over any such Person or any such Person’s property, and any court, agency, department, commission, board, bureau or instrumentality of any of them including monetary authorities that exercise valid jurisdiction over any such Person or any such Person’s property. Unless otherwise specified, all references to Governmental Authority herein shall mean a Governmental Authority having jurisdiction over, where applicable, the Guarantor, the Company, the Site, the Facility, the Lessor, any Lease Participant, any Applicable Funding Office or any Operative Document.
 
Governmental Requirement”: any law, statute, code, ordinance, order, determination, rule, regulation, judgment, decree, writ, order, injunction, franchise, permit, certificate, license, authorization or other direction or requirement (whether or not having the force of law), including, without limitation, Environmental Requirements, and occupational, safety and health standards or controls, of any Governmental Authority.
 
Ground Lease”: that certain Amended and Restated Ground Lease dated as of the Restatement Closing Date by and between the Company, as lessor, and Lessor, as lessee, as the same may be amended, restated, supplemented, or otherwise modified from time to time.
 
Guaranteed Obligations”: of a Person, without limitation, such Person’s guaranties, endorsements, assumptions and other contingent obligations with respect to, or to purchase or to otherwise pay or acquire, Indebtedness of others.
 
Guarantor”: Protective Life Corporation, a Delaware corporation, and its successors.
 
Guaranty”: the Guaranty, in the form of Exhibit F, of even date with the Investment Agreement, from the Guarantor to the Lessor for the benefit of the Lessor and the Lease Participants, pursuant to which the Guarantor, as primary obligor, guarantees and is liable for all of the Company’s obligations under all Operative Documents, as amended, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time.
 
Hazardous Materials”: to include, without limitation, (i) solid or hazardous waste, as defined in the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act of 1980, 42 U.S.C. § 6901 et seq., and its implementing regulations and amendments, or in any applicable state or local law or regulation, (ii) “hazardous substance”, “pollutant”, or “contaminant” as defined in CERCLA, or in any applicable federal, state or local law or regulation, (iii) gasoline, or any other petroleum product or by-product, including crude oil or any fraction thereof, (iv) insecticides, fungicides, or rodenticides, as defined in the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act of 1975, or in any applicable federal, state or local law or regulation, as each such Act, statute or regulation may be amended from time to time, or (v) any toxic or hazardous materials, wastes, polychlorinated biphenyls (“PCBs”), lead-containing materials, asbestos or asbestos-containing materials, urea formaldehyde, radioactive materials, pesticides, the discharge of sewage or effluent, or any other materials or substances defined as or included in the definition of “hazardous materials,” “hazardous waste,” “contaminants” or similar terms under any Environmental Requirement.
 
Highest Lawful Rate”: with respect to each Funding Party, the maximum non-usurious Yield that at any time or from time to time may be contracted for, taken, reserved, charged or received on the Lessor Investments and the Lease Participant Investments or on other amounts owing hereunder under laws applicable to such Funding Party which are presently in effect or, to the extent allowed by law, under such applicable laws which may hereafter be in effect and which allow a higher maximum non-usurious Yield rate than applicable laws now allow.
 
Impositions”: without duplication, as to any Person, (i) all Taxes, assessments, levies, fees, water and sewer rents and charges, inspection fees and other authorization fees and all other governmental charges, general and special, ordinary and extraordinary, foreseen and unforeseen, of every character (including all penalties and interest thereon) that, at any time prior or subsequent to the Restatement Closing Date, are imposed or levied upon or assessed against or may be or constitute a Lien upon such Person or such Person’s Property, or that arise in respect of the ownership, operation, occupancy, possession, use, non-use, condition, leasing or subleasing of such Person’s Property; (ii) all charges, levies, fees, rents or assessments for or in respect of utilities, communications and other services rendered or used on or about such Person’s Property; (iii) payments required in lieu of any of the foregoing; but excluding any penalties or fines imposed on any Funding Party for violation by it of any banking laws or securities law; and (iv) any and all taxes, recording fees and other charges (including penalties and interest) relating to or arising out of the execution, delivery or recording of any of the Operative Documents for the amounts evidenced, secured or referred to be paid thereby, including without limitation, documentary stamp taxes, intangible taxes, recording fees and sales and rent taxes.
 
Improvements”: collectively, the building and parking deck and related enhancements and improvements, including furniture, fixtures and equipment constructed or installed on the Site in accordance with the Facility Plan, together with all accessions thereto and replacements thereof, and together with all accessories, equipment, parts and devices thereto, and all fixtures now or hereafter included in or attached to the Site, the building and such enhancements and improvements and modifications, but excluding the Site.
 
Indebtedness”: of a Person means, without duplication, such Person’s (i) obligations for borrowed money, (ii) obligations representing the deferred purchase price of Property or services (other than accounts payable arising in the ordinary course of such Person’s business payable on terms customary in the trade), (iii) obligations, whether or not assumed, payable out of the proceeds or production from Property now or hereafter owned or acquired by such Person, (iv) obligations evidenced by notes, acceptances or other similar debt instruments, (v) Capitalized Lease Obligations, (vi) obligations for reimbursement of drafts drawn or available to be drawn under letters of credit, (vii) Synthetic Lease Obligations and (viii) Guaranteed Obligations. It is understood and agreed, for the avoidance of doubt, that 9a) annuities, guaranteed investment contracts, funding agreements and similar instruments and agreements, (b) obligations (including without limitation trust obligations) under reinsurance, coinsurance, modified coinsurance agreements or similar agreements and related trust agreements, and (c) insurance products created or entered into in the normal course of business shall not constitute “Indebtedness.” Notwithstanding the foregoing, Indebtedness shall not include: (1) the following obligations issued in connection with the funding of statutory reserves with respect to which the Borrowers have no obligation to repay: (A) surplus notes or other obligations of Subsidiaries of the Borrowers (“Capital Market Notes”), (B) any securities backed by such Capital Market Notes, and (C) any guarantees by the issuers of the obligations described in (A) and (B) above, (2) any short-term indebtedness incurred for the pre-funding of anticipated policy obligations or anticipated investment cash flow, or (3) obligations that are not otherwise included in items (i) through (viii) of the definition of Indebtedness, but which would be classified as a liability on the Borrowers’ financial statements only by reason of FASB Interpretation No. 46.
 
Indemnified Party”: as defined in Section 11.03(c) of the Investment Agreement.
 
Indemnified Risks”: as defined in Section 11.03(c) of the Investment Agreement.
 
Initial Master Assignment and Acceptance”: that certain Initial Master Assignment and Acceptance dated as of the Restatement Closing Date by and among WCI, WDC, the Company, Guarantor, SunTrust Bank, and LaSalle Bank National Association, as the same may be amended, restated, supplemented, or otherwise modified from time to time.
 
Insurance Requirements”: all terms of any insurance policy (including, without limitation, casualty and general liability) covering or applicable to the Facility or any portion thereof maintained in accordance with Section 14 of the Lease and all requirements of the issuer of any such policy.
 
Insurance Subsidiary”: any Subsidiary that is engaged in the business of insuring risk, including, without limitation, the Company.
 
Investment”: any investment in any Person, whether by means of purchase or acquisition of obligations or securities of such Person, capital contribution to such Person, loan or advance to such Person, making of a time deposit with such Person, Guarantee or assumption of any obligation of such Person or otherwise.
 
Investment Agreement”: the Amended and Restated Investment and Participation Agreement, dated as of the Restatement Closing Date, among the Company, the Administrative Agent, the Lessor, and the Lease Participants, as amended, supplemented, renewed, extended or otherwise modified from time to time.
 
Judgment”: any judgment, decree, writ, order, determination, injunction, rule or other direction or requirement of any arbitrator or any court, tribunal or other Governmental Authority.
 
Lease”: the Amended and Restated Lease Agreement, dated as of the Restatement Closing Date, pursuant to which the Company, as Lessee, has agreed to lease the Facility on and after the Lease Commencement Date for the Permitted Use in accordance with the terms and conditions set forth in the Lease, as the same may be amended, restated, supplemented, or otherwise modified from time to time.
 
Lease Commencement Date”: the Restatement Closing Date.
 
Lease Event of Default”: as defined in the Lease Agreement.
 
Lease Participant”: any Person who is listed as a Lease Participant on the signature pages of the Investment Agreement, or who from time to time becomes a Lease Participant pursuant to an Assignment and Acceptance; collectively, the “Lease Participants”. The term Lease Participant shall include any or all of the A Percentage Lease Participants and the B Percentage Lease Participants, as applicable.
 
Lease Participant Investments”: as to (a) each A Percentage Lease Participant, its A Percentage Share of the A Percentage Lessor Investments and (b) each B Percentage Lease Participant, its B Percentage Share of the B Percentage Lessor Investments, in each case as evidenced by, embodied in, or corresponding to such Lease Participant’s A Percentage Ownership Interest or B Percentage Ownership Interest.
 
Lease Term”: the period of time commencing on the Lease Commencement Date and ending on the Lease Termination Date.
 
Lease Termination Date”: the earlier to occur of (i) the Option Date, (ii) the Cancellation Date, (iii) the date of termination as a result of a Termination Event and (iv) the Scheduled Lease Termination Date.
 
Lessee”: the Company in its capacity as Lessee under the Lease and any successor or permitted assign in such capacity.
 
Lessor”: the Lessor and any successor or Eligible Lessor Assignee permitted by the terms of the Investment Agreement and the Lease.
 
Lessor Assignment Agreement”: that certain Assignment and Assumption Agreement dated the Restatement Closing Date, pursuant to which, among other things, WCI assigned to Lessor all of WCI’s right, title, and interest in and to the Original Lease Documents, as the same may be amended, restated, supplemented, or otherwise modified from time to time.
 
Lessor Equity Interest”: that portion of the B Percentage Lessor Investments in an amount equal to 5.00000% of the Facility Cost and which is part of the Non-Recourse Amount, which amount shall be owned and retained by the Lessor.
 
Lessor Investments”: at any time of determination, the aggregate of all amounts of Facility Cost funded by the Lessor or capitalized as part of Facility Cost pursuant to the Investment Agreement, less any payments thereon or redemptions thereof. The term “Lessor Investments” includes, at any time and as the context may require, those Lessor Investments made by Lessor, the A Percentage Lessor Investments, and the B Percentage Lessor Investments.
 
LIBO Rate”: with respect to any Lessor Investments for the applicable Yield Period therefor, or any other amount, the rate per annum determined on the basis of the offered rate for deposits of three months in Dollars of amounts equal or comparable to the principal amount of such Lessor Investments, or any such other amount, as applicable, which rates appear on Dow Jones Markets, Inc. Page 3750 as of 11:00 A.M., London time, two Business Days prior to the first day of such Yield Period, provided that will be the arithmetic average (rounded upward, if necessary, to the next higher 1/16th of 1%) of such offered rates; (b) if no such offered rates appear on such page, the “LIBO Rate” for such Yield Period, as applicable, will be the arithmetic average (rounded upward, if necessary, to the next higher 1/16th of 1%) of rates quoted by not less than two major banks in New York City, selected by the Administrative Agent (on behalf of the Lessor), at approximately 10:00 A.M., New York City time, two Business Days prior to the first day of such Yield Period, as applicable, for deposits in Dollars offered to leading European banks for a period comparable to such Yield Period, in an amount comparable to the principal amount of such Lessor Investments, or any such other amount.
 
Lien”: with respect to any asset, any mortgage, deed to secure debt, deed of trust, lien, pledge, charge, security interest, security title, preferential arrangement which has the practical effect of constituting a security interest or encumbrance, or encumbrance or servitude of any kind in respect of such asset to secure or assure payment of any Indebtedness or a Guarantee, whether by consensual agreement or by operation of statute or other law, or by any agreement, contingent or otherwise, to provide any of the foregoing. For the purposes of this definition, each of the Company, the Guarantor, and any Subsidiary thereof shall be deemed to own subject to a Lien any asset which it has acquired or holds subject to the interest of a vendor or lessor under any conditional sale agreement, capital lease or other title retention agreement relating to such asset.
 
Limited Recourse Event of Default” means each Event of Default described on Schedule 1.02(c), attached hereto and made a part hereof.
 
Loss Event”: any of the following events in respect of the Facility: (i) the total loss of the Facility or the total loss of use thereof due to theft, disappearance, destruction, damage beyond repair or rendition of the Facility permanently unfit for normal use for any reason whatsoever; (ii) any damage to the Facility which results in an insurance settlement with respect to the Facility on the basis of a total loss; (iii) the permanent condemnation, confiscation or seizure of, or requisition of title to or use of, all or substantially all of the Facility including, but not limited to, a permanent taking by eminent domain of such scope that the untaken part of the Facility is insufficient to permit the restoration of the Facility for continued use in the Company’s business or that causes the remaining part of the Facility to be incapable of being restored to a condition that would permit the remaining portion of the Facility (without the portion of the Facility taken by eminent domain) to continue to have the capacity and functional ability to perform on a continuing basis (subject to normal interruptions in the ordinary course of business for maintenance, inspection, service, repair and testing) and in commercial operation, the function for which the Facility (as a whole) was designed as specified in the Facility Plan or a temporary taking of such nature for a period exceeding 180 consecutive days; or (iv) the occurrence of any event or the discovery of any condition in, on, beneath or involving the Facility or any portion thereof (including, but not limited to the presence of hazardous substances or the violation of any applicable Environmental Requirement) that would have a material adverse effect on the use, occupancy, possession, condition, value or operation of the Facility or any portion thereof, which event or condition requires remediation (A) the cost of which is anticipated, in the opinion of the Lessor, in consultation with an independent environmental engineering firm, to exceed 15% of the Termination Value, and (B) that could not reasonably be expected to be completed substantially in its entirety prior to the date that is 30 days prior to the then-applicable Scheduled Lease Termination Date or is not actually completed substantially in its entirety on or before the date that is 30 days prior to the then-applicable Scheduled Lease Termination Date.
 
Majority Funding Parties”: at any time Funding Parties owning at least 51% of the aggregate amount of the Ownership Interests (the A Percentage Ownership Interests and the B Percentage Ownership Interests being considered as a single class and not separately and without regard to any sale by a Lease Participant of a participation in its Ownership Interest under Section 11.06(f) of the Investment Agreement).
 
Margin Stock”: “margin stock” as defined in Regulations U or G of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, as in effect from time to time.
 
Market Value”: as defined in Section 323.2(f) of the Regulations and Statements of General Policy on Appraisals promulgated by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, 12 C.F.R. § 323.2(f), as amended from time to time.
 
Material Adverse Effect”: with respect to any event, act, condition or occurrence of whatever nature (including any adverse determination in any litigation, arbitration, or governmental investigation or proceeding), whether singly or in conjunction with any other event or events, act or acts, condition or conditions, occurrence or occurrences, whether or not related, a material adverse change in, or a material adverse effect upon, any of (i) the financial condition, operations, business, or properties of the Guarantor and the Consolidated Subsidiaries taken as a whole, (ii) the rights and remedies of the Funding Parties under the Operative Documents, or the ability of the Company or the Guarantor to perform its obligations under the Operative Documents to which it is a party, (iii) the legality, validity or enforceability of any Operative Document, or (iv) the use, occupancy, possession, condition, value or operation of the Facility.
 
Material Subsidiary”: any Subsidiary the assets of which constitute 15% or more of Consolidated Total Assets.
 
Maturity Date”: the earlier to occur of (a) the Option Date, (B) the Cancellation Date, and (C) the Lease Termination Date.
 
Moody’s”: Moody’s Investor Service, Inc.
 
Multiemployer Plan”: has the meaning set forth in Section 4001(a)(3) of ERISA.
 
NAIC”: the National Association of Insurance Commissioners or any successor thereto, or in lieu thereof, any other association, agency or other organization performing advisory, coordination or other like functions among insurance departments, insurance commissions and similar Governmental Authorities of the various states of the United States of America toward the promotion of uniformity in the practices of such Governmental Authorities.
 
Non-Recourse Amount”: an amount equal to 18.10000% of the Facility Cost, which amount includes that portion of the B Percentage Lessor Investments attributable to the Lessor Equity Interest and all of which shall be held by one or more B Percentage Lease Participants or the Lessor.
 
Non-U.S. Domestic Participant”: as defined in Section 4.06(b) of the Investment Agreement.
 
Operative Documents”: collectively, the Investment Agreement, the Lease, the Guaranty, the Lessor Assignment Agreement, the Initial Master Assignment and Acceptance, the Secondary Master Assignment and Acceptance, and the Security Instruments and any and all other agreements or instruments now or hereafter executed and delivered, or required to be executed and delivered, by the Company or the Guarantor in connection with the Investment Agreement or the other Operative Documents, as such agreements or instruments may be amended, supplemented, renewed, extended, increased or otherwise modified from time to time.
 
Option Date”: as defined in Section 15(c) of the Lease.
 
Original Agency Agreement”: that certain Acquisition, Agency, Indemnity and Support Agreement, dated as of February 1, 2000, between the WCI and the Company, as Acquisition/Construction Agent, as amended, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time prior to the Restatement Closing Date.
 
Original Ground Lease”: that certain Ground Lease dated as of February 1, 2000, between the Company and WCI, as the same may be amended, restated, supplemented, or otherwise modified from time to time up to but not including the Restatement Closing Date.
 
Original Guaranty Agreement”: that certain Guaranty dated as of February 1, 2000, executed and delivered by Guarantor in favor of WCI (for the ratable benefit of the Lease Participants), which Guaranty contains certain limitations, as the same may be amended, restated, supplemented, or otherwise modified from time to time up to but not including the Restatement Closing Date.
 
Original Investment Agreement”: that certain Investment and Participation Agreement dated as of February 1, 2000, by and among the Company, WCI and each of the “Lease Participants” party thereto, as the same may be amended, restated, supplemented, or otherwise modified from time to time up to but not including the Restatement Closing Date.
 
Original Lease Agreement”: that certain Lease Agreement dated as of February 1, 2000, by and between WCI and the Company, as the same may be amended, restated, supplemented, or otherwise modified from time to time up to but not including the Restatement Closing Date.
 
Original Lease Documents”: the Original Investment Agreement, the Original Ground Lease, the Original Lease Agreement, the Original Guaranty Agreement, and all other documents, instruments, and agreements entered into in connection with or pursuant to any of the foregoing before the Restatement Closing Date.
 
Other Taxes”: all taxes (other than Taxes), assessments, levies, fees, water and sewer rents and charges, inspection fees and other authorization fees and all other governmental charges, general and special, ordinary and extraordinary, foreseen and unforeseen, of every character (including all penalties and interest thereon) and all recording fees and other charges (including penalties and interest) relating to or arising out of (i) the execution, delivery, recording or enforcement of any of the Operative Documents, whether for the amounts evidenced, secured or referred to be paid thereby, or otherwise, or (ii) to the ownership, use, operation or transfer of the Facility or any other Property or (iii) any other event or circumstance, including without limitation, transfer taxes, documentary stamp taxes, intangible taxes, recording fees and sales, use and rent taxes.
 
Other Transaction Expenses”: as defined in Section 3.05(a)(i) of the Investment Agreement.
 
Ownership Certificate”: as defined in Section 2.01(b) of the Investment Agreement.
 
Ownership Interests”: A Percentage Ownership Interests or B Percentage Ownership Interests, as applicable.
 
PBGC”: the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation or any successor thereto.
 
Percentage Share”: as to any Lease Participant or the Lessor, its A Percentage Share or the B Percentage Share, as applicable.
 
Performance Pricing Determination Date”: each date on which the Debt Rating changes.
 
Permit”: any approval, consent, waiver, exemption, variance, franchise, order, permit, authorization, right or license of or from any Governmental Authority or other Person.
 
Permitted Insurers”: insurers with ratings of A or better and Class VIII or better according to Best’s Insurance Reports, or other insurers acceptable to the Lessor.
 
Permitted Liens”: (i) with respect to the Lease or the Facility (including without limitation, the Site) or any Property included in or comprising the Facility or any portion thereof, any of the following:
 
(a) rights reserved to or vested in any Governmental Authority by the terms of any right, power, franchise, grant, license, permit or provision of law affecting the Facility to (1) terminate, or take any other action which has the effect of modifying, such right, power, franchise, grant, license, permit or provision of law, provided that such termination or other action, when taken, shall not have resulted in a Loss Event and shall not have had a Material Adverse Effect, or (2) purchase, condemn, appropriate or recapture, or designate a purchaser of, the Facility;
 
(b) any Liens thereon for Impositions or taxes and any Liens of mechanics, materialmen and laborers for work or services performed or materials furnished which (i) are not overdue, or (ii) are being contested in good faith in the manner described in Section 13 of the Lease;
 
(c) Liens of mechanics, materialmen and laborers for work or services performed or materials furnished during the Construction Term;
 
(d) rights reserved to or vested in any Governmental Authority to control or regulate the use of such Property or to use the Facility in any manner;
 
(e) in the case of the Site, encumbrances, easements, and other similar rights existing on the Restatement Closing Date the existence or exercise of which do not have a Material Adverse Effect; and
 
(f) any Liens created under the Operative Documents and any financing statements filed in connection therewith;
 
and
 
(ii) with respect to any other Property, any of the following:
 
(a) Liens existing on the Restatement Closing Date securing Indebtedness outstanding on the Restatement Closing Date in an aggregate principal amount with respect to Indebtedness for borrowed money and capital leases not exceeding $3,000,000;
 
(b) any Lien existing on any asset of any (a) corporation or partnership at the time such corporation or such partnership becomes a Consolidated Subsidiary, or (b) Subsidiary at the time it becomes a Subsidiary, and in either case not created in contemplation of such event;
 
(c) any Lien on any asset securing Indebtedness incurred or assumed for the purpose of financing all or any part of the cost of acquiring or constructing such asset, provided that such Lien attaches to such asset concurrently with or within 18 months after the acquisition or completion of construction thereof;
 
(d) any Lien on any asset of any corporation existing at the time such corporation is merged or consolidated with or into the Company or the Guarantor or a Consolidated Subsidiary and not created in contemplation of such event;
 
(e) any Lien existing on any asset prior to the acquisition thereof by the Guarantor, the Company or another Consolidated Subsidiary and not created in contemplation of such acquisition;
 
(f) Liens securing Indebtedness owing by any Subsidiary to the Guarantor or the Company;
 
(g) any Lien arising out of the refinancing, extension, renewal or refunding of any Indebtedness secured by any Lien permitted by any of the foregoing clauses of this subsection (ii), provided that (a) such Indebtedness is not secured by any additional assets, and (ii) the amount of such Indebtedness secured by any such Lien is not increased;
 
(h) Liens incidental to the conduct of the business of the Guarantor, the Company or any of the Subsidiaries or the ownership of their respective assets which (a) do not secure Indebtedness and (b) do not in the aggregate materially detract from the value of their respective assets or materially impair the use thereof in the operation of their respective businesses;
 
(i) any Lien on Margin Stock;
 
(j) Liens for Impositions or Taxes either not yet delinquent or which are being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings;
 
(k) Liens not securing Indebtedness which are created by or relate to any legal proceedings which at the time are being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings;
 
(l) any other statutory or inchoate Lien securing amounts other than Indebtedness which are not delinquent; and
 
(m) Liens not otherwise permitted by the foregoing paragraphs of this subsection (ii) securing Indebtedness and other obligations in an aggregate principal amount at any time outstanding not to exceed 15% of Adjusted Consolidated Net Worth.
 
Permitted Use”: with respect to the Facility, the occupation and use of the Site and the Improvements as a corporate office building in compliance with all applicable Governmental Requirements and Insurance Requirements.
 
Person”: an individual, a corporation, a partnership, a limited liability company, an unincorporated association, a trust or any other entity or organization, including, but not limited to, a government or political subdivision or other Governmental Authority.
 
Plan”: at any time an employee pension benefit plan which is covered by Title IV of ERISA or subject to the minimum funding standards under Section 412 of the Code and is either (i) maintained by a member of the Controlled Group for employees of any member of the Controlled Group or (ii) maintained pursuant to a collective bargaining agreement or any other arrangement under which more than one employer makes contributions and to which a member of the Controlled Group is then making or accruing an obligation to make contributions or has within the preceding 5 plan years made contributions.
 
Pricing Schedule”: the Pricing Schedule attached as Schedule 1.02(b) to the Investment Agreement.
 
Prime Rate”: that rate of interest so denominated and set by the Administrative Agent from time to time as an interest rate basis for borrowings. The Prime Rate is but one of several interest rate bases used by Administrative Agent, and is set by the Administrative Agent as a general reference rate of interest, taking into account such factors as the Administrative Agent may deem appropriate, it being understood that many of the Administrative Agent’s commercial or other loans are priced in relation to such rate, that it is not necessarily the lowest or best rate actually charged to any customer and that the Administrative Agent may make various commercial or other loans at rates of interest having no relationship to such rate.
 
Property”: any kind of property or asset, whether real, personal or mixed, or tangible or intangible, and any interest therein.
 
Purchase Closing Date”: as defined in Section 15(e) of the Lease.
 
Purchase Price”: at any time of determination, an amount equal to the sum, as of the purchase date of (i) the aggregate amount of the Unrecovered Lessor Investments attributable to the A Percentage Lessor Investments, plus (ii) all accrued but unpaid A Percentage Yield through the end of the Lease Term, plus (iii) the aggregate amount of the Unrecovered Lessor Investments attributable to the B Percentage Lessor Investments, plus (iv) all accrued but unpaid B Percentage Yield through the end of the Lease Term, plus (v) all accrued, unpaid Supplemental Rent through the end of the Lease Term, plus (iv) all other amounts owing by the Company under the Operative Documents.
 
Real Property”: as defined in Section 26(i)(2) of the Lease.
 
Redeemable Preferred Stock”: of any Person means any preferred stock issued by such Person (i) required (by the terms of the governing instruments or at the option of the holder thereof) to be mandatorily redeemed for cash at any time prior to the Maturity Date (by sinking fund or similar payments or otherwise) or (ii) redeemable at the option of the holder thereof at any time prior to the Maturity Date.
 
Register”: as defined in Section 11.06(d) of the Investment Agreement.
 
Regulation A”: Regulation A of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, as in effect from time to time, together with all official rulings and interpretations issued thereunder.
 
Regulation D”: Regulation D of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, as in effect from time to time, together with all official rulings and interpretations issued thereunder.
 
Regulation T”: Regulation T of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, as in effect from time to time, together with all official rulings and interpretations issued thereunder.
 
Regulation U”: Regulation U of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, as in effect from time to time, together with all official rulings and interpretations issued thereunder.
 
Regulation X”: Regulation X of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, as in effect from time to time, together with all official rulings and interpretations issued thereunder.
 
Related Contract”: any agreement, contract, bill of sale, receipt or Vendor’s warranty relating to or for the purchase, acquisition, design, engineering, testing, manufacture, renovation, assembly, construction or installation of the Facility or any portion thereof or the provision of enhancements and improvements to the Facility, or otherwise in connection with the acquisition, ownership, use, operation or sale or other disposition of the Facility, made, entered into or received by the Company, as Lessee under the Lease or as Lessor’s agent, or by the Guarantor or the Company and assigned to the Lessor pursuant to the Original Agency Agreement or other Operative Document, with or from one or more Vendors or other Persons.
 
Rent”: Basic Rent, Supplemental Rent and the Final Rent Payment, collectively.
 
Rent Payment Date”: with respect to Basic Rent, each March 31st, June 30th, September 30th and December 31st of each year, commencing on the first such date occurring after the Lease Commencement Date.
 
Rental Period”: with respect to Basic Rent, the period beginning on the Lease Commencement Date and ending on the first Rent Payment Date occurring thereafter and, thereafter, each subsequent period commencing on the day following each Rent Payment Date and ending on the next Rent Payment Date or on the Lease Termination Date.
 
Reported Net Income”: for any period, the Net Income of the Guarantor and the Consolidated Subsidiaries determined on a consolidated basis.
 
Restatement Closing Date”: January 11, 2007.
 
Restricted Payment”: (i) any dividend or other distribution on any shares of the Guarantor’s Capital Stock (except dividends payable solely in shares of its Capital Stock or additional rights to acquire its Capital Stock) or (ii) any payment on account of the purchase, redemption, retirement or acquisition of (a) any shares of the Guarantor’s Capital Stock (except shares acquired upon the conversion thereof into other shares of its Capital Stock) or (b) any option, warrant or other right to acquire shares of the Guarantor’s Capital Stock.
 
Revolving Credit Agreement”: The Amended and Restated Credit Agreement dated as of July 30, 2004, among the Guarantor, as the Borrower, the Company, the lenders from time to time party thereto, and AmSouth Bank, as administrative agent for such lenders, as the same may be amended, restated, supplemented, or otherwise modified from time to time.
 
S&P”: Standard & Poor’s Ratings Group, a division of McGraw-Hill, Inc.
 
SAP”: with respect to any Insurance Subsidiary, the statutory accounting practices prescribed or permitted by the insurance commissioner (or other similar authority) as of the Restatement Closing Date in the jurisdiction of incorporation of such Insurance Subsidiary for the preparation of annual statements and other financial reports by insurance companies of the same type as such Insurance Subsidiary.
 
Scheduled Lease Termination Date”: the date that is 7 years after the Lease Commencement Date.
 
Secondary Master Assignment and Acceptance”: that certain Secondary Master Assignment and Acceptance dated as of the Restatement Closing Date by and among WDC, the Administrative Agent, the Company, Guarantor, SunTrust Bank, Wachovia Bank, National Association, and Citibank, N.A., as the same may be amended, restated, supplemented, or otherwise modified from time to time.
 
Secured Amount”: as defined in Section 26 of the Lease.
 
Secured Party”: as defined in Section 26 of the Lease.
 
Security Instruments”: collectively, the Lease and any and all agreements or instruments, including, without limitation, financing statements, now or hereafter executed and delivered by the Company as security for the payment or performance of the Secured Amount, as such agreements or instruments may be amended, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time.
 
Short-Term Indebtedness”: all Indebtedness that by its terms matures within one year from, and that is not renewable at the option of the obligor to a date later than one year after, the date such Indebtedness was incurred. Any Indebtedness which is extended or renewed (other than pursuant to the option of the obligor) shall be deemed to have been incurred at the date of such extension or renewal.
 
Site”: certain real property located in Jefferson County, Alabama, described in greater detail on Exhibit A to the Investment Agreement and the Lease.
 
Sublessee”: as defined in Section 21(c) of the Lease.
 
Subsidiary”: any corporation or other entity of which securities or other ownership interests having ordinary voting power to elect a majority of the board of directors or other persons performing similar functions are at the time directly or indirectly owned by the Guarantor. A separate account established pursuant to SAP or any applicable insurance regulatory requirement shall be deemed not to be a Subsidiary.
 
Supplemental Rent”: as defined in Section 3(c) of the Lease and Section 2.04 of the Investment Agreement.
 
Support Expenses”: as defined in Section 8.30.
 
Surplus Note”: a promissory note executed by an Insurance Subsidiary to the Guarantor of the type generally described in the insurance industry as a “surplus note”, the principal amount of which is properly recorded by the issuer as an addition to capital and surplus rather than as a liability in accordance with SAP.
 
Survey”: an ALTA-ACSM boundary survey of the Site and existing improvements in form and substance satisfactory to the Lessor, containing such certifications as the Lessor may request, and completed or certified as recently before the Restatement Closing Date as is satisfactory to the Lessor.
 
Synthetic Lease Obligations”: of a Person means the amount of the obligations of such Person under any lease that would not be shown as a liability, but would be treated as an operating lease, in accordance with GAAP, but which arise under a transaction in which the property subject to such lease is owned by the lessee for purposes of the Code. Obligations under the Lease are Synthetic Lease Obligations.
 
Taxes”: as defined in Section 4.06(a) of the Investment Agreement.
 
Termination Event”: as defined in Section 15(a) of the Lease.
 
Termination Value”: at any time will be an amount equal to the sum of (i) the Final Rent Payment, plus (ii) the Unrecovered Lessor Investments attributable to that portion of the B Percentage Lessor Investments attributable to the Non-Recourse Amount.
 
Third Party”: any Person other than (i) the Lessor, (ii) the Company, (iii) the Guarantor, or (iv) any Affiliate of any of the foregoing.
 
UCC”: the Uniform Commercial Code as in effect in the State of Alabama and any other jurisdiction whose laws may be mandatorily applicable.
 
Unconsolidated Cash Inflow Available for Interest Expense”: for any period of calculation, the sum (without duplication) of (a) all amounts received by the Guarantor from the Subsidiaries during such period as (i) interest and principal on Indebtedness (including but not limited to Surplus Notes) and (ii) management fees (net of expenses incurred in providing the services for which such management fees were paid), (b) all amounts that the Subsidiaries were permitted, under applicable laws and regulations, to distribute to the Guarantor during such period as dividends, whether or not so distributed, and (c) other income of the Guarantor.
 
Unrecovered Facility Cost”: at any time the sum of (i) the aggregate original Facility Cost, less (ii) the aggregate amount of any voluntary prepayments of Facility Cost and casualty and condemnation proceeds received by the Lessor.
 
Unrecovered Lessor Investments”: at any time an amount equal to the Unrecovered Facility Cost at such time.
 
Upfront Supplemental Rent”: as defined in Section 2.04(b) of the Investment Agreement.
 
Vendor”: any designer, supplier, manufacturer or installer of, or provider of Property or services with respect to, the Facility or any Property included therein or any part thereof.
 
WCI”: Wachovia Capital Investments, Inc.
 
Wholly Owned Subsidiary”: any Subsidiary all of the shares of capital stock or other ownership interests of which (except directors’ qualifying shares) are at the time directly or indirectly owned by the Guarantor.
 
Yield”: has the meaning given such term in Section 3.03(a). Any unqualified reference to “Yield” shall mean a reference to A Percentage Yield or B Percentage Yield, or both, as the context shall require.
 
Yield Period”: with respect to the Lessor Investments, each Rental Period; provided, however, that:
 
(i) the duration of any Yield Period that commences before the Scheduled Lease Termination Date and would otherwise end after the Scheduled Lease Termination Date shall end on the Scheduled Lease Termination Date; and
 
(iii) if the last day of such Yield Period would otherwise occur on a day that is not a Business Day, such last day shall be extended to the next succeeding Business Day, except if such extension would cause such last day to occur in a new calendar month, then such last day shall occur on the next preceding Business Day.
 



SCHEDULE 1.02(b)
 
Pricing Schedule
 
The terms “Applicable Margin” means, for any day, the rate per annum set forth below corresponding to the Pricing Level that applies on such day:
 
Pricing Level
 
Level I
 
Level II
 
Level III
 
Level IV
 
Level V
 
Level VI
 
Applicable Margin for Lessor Investments on:
 
           
1. Adjusted LIBO Rate basis
 
0.60%
 
0.65%
 
0.75%
 
0.90%
 
1.40%
 
1.75%
 
2. Base Rate basis
 
0.00%
 
0.00%
 
0.00%
 
0.00%
 
0.40%
 
0.75%
 

 
For purposes of this Pricing Schedule, the following terms have the following meanings:
 
Level I Pricing” applies if the Debt Rating at the most recent Performance Pricing Determination Date was equal to or better than A+ or A1.
 
Level II Pricing” applies if the Debt Rating at the most recent Performance Pricing Determination Date was equal to A or A2.
 
Level III Pricing” applies if the Debt Rating at the most recent Performance Pricing Determination Date was equal to A- or A3.
 
Level IV Pricing” applies if the Debt Rating at the most recent Performance Pricing Determination Date was equal to or less than BBB+ or Baa1, but greater than BBB- or Baa3.
 
Level V Pricing” applies if the Debt Rating at the most recent Performance Pricing Determination Date was equal to BBB- or Baa3.
 
Level VI Pricing” applies if the Debt Rating at the most recent Performance Pricing Determination Date was less than BBB- or Baa3 or if there is no Debt Rating.
 
All determinations hereunder shall be made by the Lessor unless the Majority Funding Parties shall object to any such determination. The Guarantor shall promptly notify the Lessor of any change in the Debt Rating as required in the Operative Documents.
 



SCHEDULE 1.02(c)
 
Limited Recourse Events of Default
 
1. Any Event of Default under Section 9.01(b) is a Limited Recourse Event of Default to the extent such Event of Default occurred on account of any breach of any of the following representations and warranties (with certain exceptions as noted below; all section references in this Schedule 1.02(c) are deemed to be references to the Investment Agreement, except to the extent otherwise expressly provided):
 
(a) The second sentence of Section 7.01(a);
 
(b) Section 7.01(b)(v);
 
(c) Section 7.01(d);
 
(d) Section 7.01(e)(i);
 
(e) Section 7.01(f);
 
(f) Section 7.01(g), but only to the extent any breach does not relate to the payment of taxes relating to the Facility;
 
(g) Section 7.01(h);
 
(h) Section 7.01(i);
 
(i) Section 7.01(k), but only to the extent such breach does not relate to (i) the Company’s title or interest in and to the Facility or (ii) Liens on the Site, the Facility, and any of the Collateral;
 
(j)  Section 7.01(l), but only to the extent such breach does not relate to any agreement, instrument or undertaking respecting the Facility or the operation or maintenance thereof;
 
(k) Section 7.01(m), but only to the extent such breach does not relate to any information provided with respect to the Facility, the operation thereof, or the Borrower’s use or maintenance of the Facility;
 
(l) Sections 7.01(n)(i), (ii), and (iii), but only to the extent such breach does not relate to the Facility; and
 
(m) Section 7.01(o); and
 
(n)  Any representation and warranty covered by Section 9.01(b) but which is not set forth in Section 7.01 of the Investment Agreement, but only to the extent such breach (i) does not relate to the Facility, the operation thereof, the Company’s use or maintenance thereof, or the enforceability of the Operative Documents and (ii) is not objectively determinable.
 
2. Any Event of Default under Section 9.01(c) or (d) is a Limited Recourse Event of Default to the extent such Event of Default occurred on account of any breach of any of the following covenants or agreements (with certain exceptions as noted below):
 
(a) The first sentence of Section 8.08, but only to the extent such breach does not relate to laws, regulations and similar requirements of governmental authorities applicable to the Facility, the operation thereof, or the Borrower’s use or maintenance of the Facility;
 
(b) The second sentence of section 8.10, but only to the extent such breach does not relate to the maintenance and preservation of the Facility;
 
(c) Section 8.11, but only to the extent such breach does not relate to Environmental Liabilities, pending or threatened Environmental Proceedings, Environmental Notices, Environmental Judgments and orders, and Environmental Releases concerning, in whole or in part, the Facility;
 
(c)  Section 8.12, but only to the extent such breach does not relate to the use, production, manufacture, processing, treatment, recycling, generation, storage, disposal of, or management at, or otherwise handling, or shipping or transporting to or from the Facility;
 
(d) Section 8.13, but only to the extent such breach relates to an Environmental Release at or on the Facility;
 
(e) Section 8.14; and
 
(f)  Any other covenant or agreement covered by Sections 9.01(c) or (d) but which is not set forth in Article VIII of the Investment Agreement, but only to the extent such breach (i) does not relate to the Facility, the operation thereof, the Company’s use or maintenance thereof, or the enforceability of the Operative Documents and (ii) is not objectively determinable.
 
3. Any Event of Default under Section 9.01(n) is a Limited Recourse Event of Default.
 
All other Events of Default described in Section 9.01 of the Investment Agreement are not Limited Recourse Events of Default, even if the facts and circumstances giving rise to such Event of Default also cause such Event of Default to constitute, in part, a Limited Recourse Event of Default.
 



SCHEDULE 7.01(e)
 
Litigation
 
None.
 



SCHEDULE 7.01(h)
 
Subsidiaries
 
[DELIVERED SEPARATELY]
 



SCHEDULE 7.01(n)
 
Environmental Matters
 
The Company installed an above-ground storage tank on February 19, 1999 that holds diesel fuel for generators used to power the Facility.
 


1 If the Assignee is organized under the laws of a jurisdiction outside the United States.
 
* This date should be no earlier than the date of consent by the Lessor.
 
EX-10.D 5 ex10_d.htm EXHIBIT 10D AMENDED & RESTATED GUARANTY Exhibit 10D Amended & Restated Guaranty
 
 

AMENDED AND RESTATED GUARANTY
 
THIS AMENDED AND RESTATED GUARANTY (this "Guaranty") is made as of January 11, 2007, by PROTECTIVE LIFE CORPORATION, a Delaware corporation (the "Guarantor"), in favor of Wachovia Development Corporation (the "Lessor"), for the ratable benefit of the Lessor and the Lease Participants (as defined below).
 
RECITALS
 
WHEREAS, pursuant to the Original Ground Lease (as this and other terms used in these recitals are defined in accordance with Section 1 below), WCI acquired a ground lease of certain real property located in Jefferson County, Alabama, and, pursuant to the Original Lease Documents, constructed and installed on the Site an annex office building and a related parking deck and related enhancements and improvements, including furniture, fixtures and equipment, all of which comprise the Facility; and
 
WHEREAS, pursuant to the Original Lease Documents, Protective Life Insurance Company (together with any successor or permitted assign under the terms of the Operative Documents, the “Company”), as agent for WCI under the Original Agency Agreement, completed the construction and installation of all such enhancements and improvements on the Site and agreed to provide operations, maintenance and management support for the Facility; and
 
WHEREAS, in order to finance the acquisition of WCI’s ground lease of the Site and the construction of the Facility on the Site for the ultimate use and benefit of the Company in accordance with the Original Lease Agreement, the Company, WCI (as lessor) and certain “Lease Participants” entered into the Original Investment Agreement, whereby WCI, as lessor, made certain advances in an aggregate amount of $75,000,000 and the Lease Participants, among other things, made certain advances in exchange for Ownership Interests in the Facility; and
 
WHEREAS, to induce WCI and the Lease Participants to enter into the Original Investment Agreement and other Original Lease Documents, the Guarantor executed and delivered the Original Guaranty Agreement in favor of WCI (for the ratable benefit of the Lease Participants); and
 
WHEREAS, WCI has assigned 100% of its right, title, and interest in and to the Original Lease Documents to Lessor pursuant to the terms of the Lessor Assignment Agreement; and
 
WHEREAS, the Company has requested to refinance and extend the maturity of the Original Lease Agreement by, among other things, entering into that certain Amended and Restated Ground Lease dated as of the date hereof (as the same may be amended, restated, supplemented, or otherwise modified from time to time, the “Ground Lease”), that certain Amended and Restated Investment and Participation Agreement dated as of the date hereof (as the same may be amended, restated, supplemented, or otherwise modified from time to time, the “Investment Agreement”), and that certain Amended and Restated Lease Agreement dated as of the date hereof (as the same may be amended, restated, supplemented, or otherwise modified from time to time, the “Lease”); and
 
WHEREAS, to induce the Lessor to enter into the Ground Lease, the Investment Agreement, and the Lease, among other things, the Guarantor has agreed to execute and deliver this Guaranty (as an amendment and restatement of the Original Guaranty Agreement), whereby the Guarantor amends and restates its agreement to guarantee the obligations of the Company to the Lessor (for itself and for the ratable benefit of the Lease Participants) under the Operative Documents (including, without limitation, the Investment Agreement and the Lease);
 
NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the premises and the covenants and agreements herein contained, and for other good and valuable consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which are hereby acknowledged, the Guarantor hereby agrees as follows:
 
SECTION 1. Definitions. Terms defined in the Investment Agreement or in Schedule 1.02 to the Investment Agreement and not otherwise defined herein have, as used herein, the respective meanings provided for therein.
 
SECTION 2. Incorporation of Representations, Warranties and Covenants. The representations, warranties and covenants of the Guarantor contained in Articles VII and VIII of the Investment Agreement are incorporated herein by reference, and the Guarantor shall be bound thereby as fully as if they were set forth herein.
 
SECTION 3. The Guaranty. The Guarantor, as primary obligor and not merely as surety, hereby irrevocably and unconditionally guarantees  the full and punctual payment (whether at stated maturity, upon acceleration or otherwise) when due of all obligations of, and all amounts owing by, the Company (but not of the Lessor) under the Lease, the Investment Agreement, and all other Operative Documents, including, without limitation:
 
(a) all obligations to pay Rent, Impositions, Taxes, Other Taxes, Support Expenses, the Termination Value where the Company has not elected to acquire the Facility by payment of the Purchase Price upon the occurrence of a Cancellation Event, the Purchase Price where the Company elects to acquire the Facility, increased costs and compensation for reduced returns under Section 5.03 of the Investment Agreement, compensation under Section 5.05 of the Investment Agreement, expenses and indemnities under Section 11.03 of the Investment Agreement and all other terms and provisions of the Operative Documents and otherwise, and Yield or interest at the Default Rate in respect of overdue Rent, Yield and all other amounts owing or payable of whatever nature, and
 
(b) the full and punctual performance when due of all obligations and agreements of the Company to or in favor of the Lessor or the Lease Participants under the Lease, the Investment Agreement, and all other Operative Documents, including, without limitation, the Company's obligation to return the Facility to the Lessor in accordance with Section 16 of the Lease if the Company has not elected to acquire the Facility (all of the foregoing obligations in clauses (a) and (b) above being referred to collectively as the "Guaranteed Obligations"; provided, that notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, if no Cancellation Event has occurred, and the Company has elected to pay the Final Rent Payment in accordance with Section 15(a)(ii)(B) of the Lease, the Company shall have no obligation to pay the Unrecovered Lessor Investments attributable to that portion of the B Percentage Lessor Investments which constitute the Non-Recourse Amount, which under such circumstances shall not constitute a part of the Guaranteed Obligations), and agrees to pay any and all expenses (including reasonable attorneys' fees and expenses) incurred by the Lessor, the Lease Participants and their respective successors, transferees and assigns in enforcing any rights under this Guaranty. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the Guarantor's liability shall extend to all amounts that constitute part of the Guaranteed Obligations and would be owed by the Company to the Lessor or the Lease Participants but for the fact that they are unenforceable or not allowable due to the existence of a bankruptcy, reorganization or similar case or proceeding involving the Company. For purposes of determining when an obligation is "due" for purposes of this Guaranty, such term shall be interpreted to mean due in accordance with the terms of this Guaranty and without regard to the amendment, modification or rejection of any Guaranteed Obligation in any bankruptcy or other reorganization case or proceeding.
 
Unless otherwise directed in writing by Lessor, Guarantor acknowledges and agrees that, in accordance with Section 10.02 of the Investment Agreement, all payments to be made by Guarantor hereunder shall be made directly to the Administrative Agent, on behalf of the Lessor and the Lease Participants, and the Administrative Agent, in turn, will apply all of such payments so made in accordance with the applicable terms of the Operative Documents. All such payments actually received by the Administrative Agent shall constitute constructive receipt thereof by the Lessor.
 
SECTION 4. Guaranty Unconditional. The Guarantor guarantees that the Guaranteed Obligations will be paid and performed strictly in accordance with their terms, regardless of any law, regulation or order now or hereafter in effect in any jurisdiction affecting any of such terms or the rights of the Company with respect thereto. The obligations of the Guarantor under this Guaranty are independent of the Guaranteed Obligations and a separate action or actions may be brought and prosecuted against the Guarantor to enforce this Guaranty, irrespective of whether any action is brought against the Company or any of its Affiliates or whether the Company or any of its Affiliates is joined in any such action or actions. The obligations of the Guarantor hereunder shall be irrevocable, unconditional and absolute and, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, shall not be released, discharged or otherwise affected by:
 
(a)  any extension, renewal, settlement, compromise, waiver or release in respect of any obligation of the Company under the Lease, the Investment Agreement, or any other Operative Document, by operation of law or otherwise or any obligation of any other guarantor of any of the Guaranteed Obligations;
 
(b)  any modification or amendment of or supplement to the Lease, the Investment Agreement, or any other Operative Document;
 
(c)  any release, nonperfection or invalidity of any direct or indirect security for any obligation of the Company under the Lease, the Investment Agreement, any other Operative Document or any obligations of any other guarantor of any of the Guaranteed Obligations;
 
(d)  any change in the corporate existence, structure or ownership of the Company, or any other guarantor of any of the Guaranteed Obligations, or any insolvency, bankruptcy, reorganization or other similar case or proceeding affecting the Company, or any other guarantor of the Guaranteed Obligations, or its assets or any resulting release or discharge of any obligation of the Company, or any other guarantor of any of the Guaranteed Obligations;
 
(e)  the existence of any claim, set-off or other rights which the Guarantor may have at any time against the Company, any other guarantor of any of the Guaranteed Obligations, the Administrative Agent, the Lessor, any Lease Participant or any other Person, whether in connection herewith or any unrelated transactions, provided that nothing herein shall prevent the assertion of any such claim by separate suit or compulsory counterclaim;
 
(f)  any invalidity or unenforceability relating to or against the Company, or any other guarantor of any of the Guaranteed Obligations, for any reason related to the Investment Agreement, any other Operative Document or any other guaranty of the Guaranteed Obligations, or any provision of applicable law or regulation purporting to prohibit the payment by the Company, or any other guarantor of the Guaranteed Obligations, of amounts due under the Lease or any other amount payable by the Company under the Investment Agreement, or any other Operative Document, or purporting to limit the claim of the Lessor against the Company under the Lease; or
 
(g)  any other act or omission to act or delay of any kind by the Company, any other guarantor of the Guaranteed Obligations, the Lessor or any other Person or any other circumstance whatsoever which might, but for the provisions of this paragraph, constitute a legal or equitable discharge of the Guarantor's obligations hereunder, including, without limitation, any failure, omission, delay or inability on the part of the Lessor or the Lease Participants to enforce, assert or exercise any right, power or remedy conferred on the Lessor or the Lease Participants under the Lease, the Investment Agreement, or any other Operative Document.
 
SECTION 5. Discharge Only Upon Payment In Full; Reinstatement In Certain Circumstances. The Guarantor's obligations hereunder shall remain in full force and effect until all Guaranteed Obligations shall have been paid in full. If at any time any payment of Rent or Yield or any other amount payable by the Company under the Investment Agreement, or any other Operative Document is rescinded or must be otherwise restored or returned upon the insolvency, bankruptcy or reorganization of the Company or otherwise, the Guarantor's obligations hereunder with respect to such payment shall be reinstated as though such payment had been due but not made at such time.
 
SECTION 6. Waiver of Notice by the Guarantor. The Guarantor irrevocably waives acceptance hereof, presentment, demand, protest and, to the fullest extent permitted by law, any notice not provided for herein, as well as any requirement that at any time any action be taken by any Person against the Company, any other guarantor of the Guaranteed Obligations or any other Person. The Lessor shall, to the extent reasonably practicable, provide prior written notice to the Guarantor of any intentional action (or, in the case of an unintentional action, such notice shall be provided upon discovery thereof by the Lessor) taken by the Lessor referred to in Section 3, provided, however, that the failure to provide such notice shall not affect the Guarantor's obligations under this Guaranty.
 
SECTION 7. Stay of Acceleration. If acceleration of the time for payment of any amount payable by the Company under the Lease, the Investment Agreement or any other Operative Document is stayed upon the insolvency, bankruptcy or reorganization of the Company, all such amounts otherwise subject to acceleration under the terms of the Lease, the Investment Agreement or any other Operative Document shall nonetheless be payable by the Guarantor hereunder forthwith on demand by the Lessor.
 
SECTION 8. Notices. All notices and other communications provided for hereunder shall be given in accordance with the provisions of Section 11.02 of the Investment Agreement. Guarantor acknowledges and agrees that, pursuant to Section 11.02 of the Investment Agreement, the Administrative Agent is entitled to receive and deliver notices under the Operative Documents on behalf of the Lessor. In accordance with Section 10.02 of the Investment Agreement, Lessor and Guarantor agree that notice delivered by Guarantor to the Administrative Agent shall constitute constructive receipt thereof by Lessor and that notice delivered by the Administrative Agent shall constitute in all respects notice delivered by the Lessor.
 
SECTION 9. No Waivers. No failure or delay by the Lessor in exercising any right, power or privilege hereunder shall operate as a waiver thereof nor shall any single or partial exercise thereof preclude any other or further exercise thereof or the exercise of any other right, power or privilege. The rights and remedies provided in this Guaranty, the Lease, the Investment Agreement and the other Operative Documents shall be cumulative and shall not be exclusive of any other rights or remedies provided by law.
 
SECTION 10. Successors and Assigns; The Administrative Agent. 
 
(a) This Guaranty is for the benefit of the Lessor and its successors and assigns, including the Lease Participants, to the extent of their Ownership Interests. This Guaranty may not be assigned by the Guarantor without the prior written consent of the Lessor and each Lease Participant and shall be binding upon the Guarantor and its successors and permitted assigns.
 
(b) In accordance with Section 10.02 of the Investment Agreement (which is hereby incorporated herein by this reference), Guarantor acknowledges and agrees that the Administrative Agent has been appointed to undertake, on Lessor’s and, in certain cases, the Lease Participants’ behalf, certain actions with respect to the administration of this Guaranty, the other Operative Documents, and the transactions contemplated herein and therein. Guarantor agrees to abide by the provisions of Section 10.02 of the Investment Agreement and other provisions in the Operative Documents in respect of the Administrative Agent’s role and function in connection with the administration of the transactions contemplated therein, including, without limitation, the payment of the Guaranteed Obligations and other amounts owing under the Operative Documents directly to the Administrative Agent for the account of the Lessor and the Lease Participants, as applicable, the receipt and delivery of notices, reports, financial statements, and the like to the Administrative Agent on the Lessor’s and the Lease Participants’ behalf, and permitting, where applicable, the Administrative Agent to exercise, on the Lessor’s and the Lease Participants’ behalf, the rights and remedies afforded Lessor under the Operative Documents.
 
SECTION 11. Changes in Writing. Neither this Guaranty nor any provision hereof may be changed, waived, discharged or terminated orally, but only in writing signed by the Guarantor and the Lessor (with the consent of all of the Funding Parties).
 
SECTION 12. Governing Law; Submission To Jurisdiction.
 
(a)  This Guaranty (including, but not limited to, the validity and enforceability hereof) shall be governed by, and construed in accordance with, the laws of the State of New York, other than the conflict of laws rules thereof (other than Section 5-1401 of the New York General Obligations Law). 
 
(B)  THE GUARANTOR HEREBY IRREVOCABLY SUBMITS TO THE JURISDICTION OF ANY NEW YORK STATE OR FEDERAL COURT SITTING IN NEW YORK CITY AND ANY APPELLATE COURT FROM ANY THEREOF IN ANY ACTION OR PROCEEDING BY THE LESSOR IN RESPECT OF, BUT ONLY IN RESPECT OF, ANY CLAIMS OR CAUSES OF ACTION ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THIS GUARANTY OR THE OTHER OPERATIVE DOCUMENTS (SUCH CLAIMS AND CAUSES OF ACTION, COLLECTIVELY, BEING "PERMITTED CLAIMS"), AND THE GUARANTOR HEREBY IRREVOCABLY AGREES THAT ALL PERMITTED CLAIMS MAY BE HEARD AND DETERMINED IN SUCH NEW YORK STATE COURT OR IN SUCH FEDERAL COURT. THE GUARANTOR HEREBY IRREVOCABLY WAIVES, TO THE FULLEST EXTENT IT MAY EFFECTIVELY DO SO, THE DEFENSE OF AN INCONVENIENT FORUM TO THE MAINTENANCE OF SUCH ACTION OR PROCEEDING IN ANY AFOREMENTIONED COURT IN RESPECT OF PERMITTED CLAIMS. THE GUARANTOR HEREBY IRREVOCABLY AGREES THAT SERVICE OF COPIES OF THE SUMMONS AND COMPLAINT AND ANY OTHER PROCESS WHICH MAY BE SERVED BY THE LESSOR IN ANY SUCH ACTION OR PROCEEDING IN ANY AFOREMENTIONED COURT IN RESPECT OF PERMITTED CLAIMS MAY BE MADE BY DELIVERING A COPY OF SUCH PROCESS TO THE GUARANTOR BY COURIER AND BY CERTIFIED MAIL (RETURN RECEIPT REQUESTED), FEES AND POSTAGE PREPAID, AT THE GUARANTOR'S ADDRESS DETERMINED PURSUANT TO SECTION 8. THE GUARANTOR AGREES THAT A FINAL JUDGMENT IN ANY SUCH ACTION OR PROCEEDING SHALL BE CONCLUSIVE AND MAY BE ENFORCED IN OTHER JURISDICTIONS BY SUIT ON THE JUDGMENT OR IN ANY OTHER MANNER PROVIDED BY LAW.
 
(c)  Nothing in this Section 12: (i) shall affect the right of the Lessor to serve legal process in any other manner permitted by law or affect any right otherwise existing of the Lessor to bring any action or proceeding against the Guarantor or its property in the courts of other jurisdictions or (ii) shall be deemed to be a general consent to jurisdiction in any particular court or a general waiver of any defense or a consent to jurisdiction of the courts expressly referred to in Subsection (a) above in any action or proceeding in respect of any claim or cause of action other than Permitted Claims.
 
SECTION 13. Taxes, Etc. All payments required to be made by the Guarantor hereunder shall be made without set-off or counterclaim and free and clear of, and without deduction or withholding for or on account of, any present or future taxes, levies, imposts, duties or other charges of whatsoever nature imposed by any government or any political or taxing authority as required pursuant to Section 4.06 of the Investment Agreement.
 
SECTION 14. Subrogation. The Guarantor hereby agrees that it will not exercise any rights which it may acquire by way of subrogation under this Guaranty, by any payment made hereunder or otherwise, unless and until all of the Guaranteed Obligations shall have been paid in full. If any amount shall be paid to the Guarantor on account of such subrogation rights at any time when all of the Guaranteed Obligations shall not have been paid in full, such amount shall be held in trust for the benefit of the Lessor and the Lease Participants and shall forthwith be paid to the Administrative Agent, for the Lessor’s and the Lease Participants’ account, to be credited and applied to the Guaranteed Obligations, whether matured or unmatured, in accordance with the terms of the Investment Agreement.
 
SECTION 15. Waiver of Jury Trial. EACH OF THE GUARANTOR AND THE LESSOR WAIVES, TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, ANY RIGHT TO A TRIAL BY JURY IN ANY ACTION OR PROCEEDING TO ENFORCE OR TO DEFEND ANY RIGHTS UNDER THIS GUARANTY OR ANY OTHER OPERATIVE DOCUMENT OR UNDER AMENDMENT, INSTRUMENT, DOCUMENT OR AGREEMENT DELIVERED OR WHICH MAY IN THE FUTURE BE DELIVERED IN CONNECTION HEREWITH OR THEREWITH OR ARISING FROM ANY RELATIONSHIP EXISTING IN CONNECTION WITH THIS GUARANTY OR ANY OTHER OPERATIVE DOCUMENT, AND AGREES THAT ANY SUCH ACTION OR PROCEEDING SHALL BE TRIED BEFORE A COURT AND NOT BEFORE A JURY.
 
SECTION 16. Amendment and Restatement. This Guaranty constitutes an amendment and restatement of the Original Guaranty Agreement, and no novation of the obligations of Guarantor under the Original Guaranty Agreement shall be deemed to have occurred. Guarantor ratifies and reaffirms its guarantee obligations in light of the amendments and restatements to the Operative Documents entered into contemporaneously herewith.
 
[Signature on following page.]
 



IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Guarantor has caused this Guaranty to be duly executed, under seal, by its authorized officer as of the date first above written.
 
[SEAL]
 
PROTECTIVE LIFE CORPORATION, 
a Delaware corporation 
 

 
By:
Name:
 

 

 
EX-31.A 6 ex31_a.htm PLC EX 31A - CERTIFICATION JOHNS PLC EX 31a - Certification Johns

Certification Pursuant to §302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002

I, John D. Johns, certify that:

1. I have reviewed this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q of Protective Life Corporation for the period ended March 31,2007;

2. Based on my knowledge, this Quarterly Report does not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary to make the statements made, in light of the circumstances under which such statements were made, not misleading with respect to the period covered by this report;

3. Based on my knowledge, the financial statements, and other financial information included in this quarterly report, fairly present in all material respects the financial condition, results of operations and cash flows of the registrant as of, and for, the periods presented in this report;

4. The registrant’s other certifying officer and I are responsible for establishing and maintaining disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in Exchange Act Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e)) and internal control over financial reporting (as defined in Exchange Act Rules 13a-15(f) and 15d-15(f)) for the registrant and have:

a) Designed such disclosure controls and procedures or caused such disclosure controls and procedures to be designed under our supervision, to ensure that material information relating to the registrant, including its consolidated subsidiaries, is made known to us by others within those entities, particularly during the period in which this report is being prepared;

 
b)
Designed such internal control over financial reporting, or caused such internal control over financial reporting to be designed under our supervision, to provide reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of financial reporting and the preparation of financial statements for external purposes in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles;

c) Evaluated the effectiveness of the registrant’s disclosure controls and procedures and presented in this report our conclusions about the effectiveness of the disclosure controls and procedures, as of the end of the period covered by this report based on such evaluation; and

d) Disclosed in this report any change in the registrant’s internal control over financial reporting that occurred during the registrant’s most recent fiscal quarter (the registrant’s fourth fiscal quarter in the case of an annual report) that has materially affected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect, the registrant’s internal control over financial reporting; and

5. The registrant’s other certifying officer and I have disclosed, based on our most recent evaluation of internal control over financial reporting, to the registrant’s auditors and the audit committee of registrant’s board of directors (or persons performing the equivalent functions):

a) All significant deficiencies and material weaknesses in the design or operation of internal control over financial reporting which are reasonably likely to adversely affect the registrant’s ability to record, process, summarize and report financial information; and

b) Any fraud, whether or not material, that involves management or other employees who have a significant role in the registrant’s internal control over financial reporting.

Date: May 10, 2007

/s/ John D. Johns
John D. Johns   
Chairman of the Board,  President and
Chief Executive Officer



EX-31.B 7 ex31_b.htm PLC EX 31B CERTIFICATION CORSI PLC EX 31b Certification Corsi

Certification Pursuant to §302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002

I, Gary Corsi, certify that:

1. I have reviewed this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q of Protective Life Corporation for the period ended March 31, 2007;

2. Based on my knowledge, this Quarterly Report does not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary to make the statements made, in light of the circumstances under which such statements were made, not misleading with respect to the period covered by this report;

3. Based on my knowledge, the financial statements, and other financial information included in this quarterly report, fairly present in all material respects the financial condition, results of operations and cash flows of the registrant as of, and for, the periods presented in this report;

4. The registrant’s other certifying officer and I are responsible for establishing and maintaining disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in Exchange Act Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e)) and internal control over financial reporting (as defined in Exchange Act Rules 13a-15(f) and 15d-15(f)) for the registrant and have:

a) Designed such disclosure controls and procedures or caused such disclosure controls and procedures to be designed under our supervision, to ensure that material information relating to the registrant, including its consolidated subsidiaries, is made known to us by others within those entities, particularly during the period in which this report is being prepared;

 
b)
Designed such internal control over financial reporting, or caused such internal control over financial reporting to be designed under our supervision, to provide reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of financial reporting and the preparation of financial statements for external purposes in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles;

c) Evaluated the effectiveness of the registrant’s disclosure controls and procedures and presented in this report our conclusions about the effectiveness of the disclosure controls and procedures, as of the end of the period covered by this report based on such evaluation; and

d) Disclosed in this report any change in the registrant’s internal control over financial reporting that occurred during the registrant’s most recent fiscal quarter (the registrant’s fourth fiscal quarter in the case of an annual report) that has materially affected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect, the registrant’s internal control over financial reporting; and

5. The registrant’s other certifying officer and I have disclosed, based on our most recent evaluation of internal control over financial reporting, to the registrant’s auditors and the audit committee of registrant’s board of directors (or persons performing the equivalent functions):

a) All significant deficiencies and material weaknesses in the design or operation of internal control over financial reporting which are reasonably likely to adversely affect the registrant’s ability to record, process, summarize and report financial information; and

b) Any fraud, whether or not material, that involves management or other employees who have a significant role in the registrant’s internal control over financial reporting.

Date:  May 10, 2007

/s/ Gary Corsi
Gary Corsi
Executive Vice President and
Chief Financial Officer
EX-32.A 8 ex32_a.htm PLC EX 32A CERTIFICATION JOHNS PLC EX 32a Certification Johns

CERTIFICATION PURSUANT TO
18 U.S.C. SECTION 1350,
AS ADOPTED PURSUANT TO
SECTION 906 OF THE SARBANES-OXLEY ACT OF 2002


In connection with the Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q of Protective Life Corporation (the “Company”) for the period ending March 31, 2007 as filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Report”), I, John D. Johns, Chairman of the Board, President and Chief Executive Officer of the Company, certify, pursuant to 18 U.S.C. §1350, as adopted pursuant to §906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, that to the best of my knowledge:

(1) The Report fully complies with the requirements of Section 13(a) or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934; and

(2) The information contained in the Report fairly presents, in all material respects, the financial condition and result of operations of the Company.


/s/ John D. Johns
John D. Johns
Chairman of the Board,
President and Chief Executive Officer

May 10, 2007


This certification accompanies the Report pursuant to §906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 and shall not, except to the extent required by the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, be deemed filed by the Company for purposes of §18 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.
EX-32.B 9 ex32_b.htm PLC EX 32B CERTIFICATION CORSI PLC EX 32b Certification Corsi
[PROTECTIVE LIFE CORPORATION LETTERHEAD]





CERTIFICATION PURSUANT TO
18 U.S.C. SECTION 1350,
AS ADOPTED PURSUANT TO
SECTION 906 OF THE SARBANES-OXLEY ACT OF 2002


In connection with the Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q of Protective Life Corporation (the “Company”) for the period ending March 31, 2007 as filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Report”), I, Gary Corsi, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of the Company, certify, pursuant to 18 U.S.C. §1350, as adopted pursuant to §906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, that to the best of my knowledge:

(1) The Report fully complies with the requirements of Section 13(a) or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934; and

(2) The information contained in the Report fairly presents, in all material respects, the financial condition and result of operations of the Company.


/s/ Gary Corsi
Gary Corsi
Executive Vice President and
Chief Financial Officer

May 10, 2007


This certification accompanies the Report pursuant to §906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 and shall not, except to the extent required by the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, be deemed filed by the Company for purposes of §18 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.

EX-99 10 ex99.htm PLC EX 99 FORWARD LOOKING STATEMENTS PLC EX 99 Forward Looking Statements
Exhibit 99
to
Form 10-Q
of
Protective Life Corporation
for the three months
ended March 31, 2007

Safe Harbor for Forward-Looking Statements


The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 (the “Act”) encourages companies to make “forward-looking statements” by creating a safe harbor to protect the companies from securities law liability in connection with forward-looking statements. All statements are based on future expectations rather than on historical facts and forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements can be identified by use of words such as “expect,” “estimate,” “project,” “budget,” “forecast,” “anticipate,” “plan,” and similar expressions. Protective Life Corporation (the “Company”) intends to qualify both its written and oral forward-looking statements for protection under the Act.

To qualify oral forward-looking statements for protection under the Act, a readily available written document must identify important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those in the forward-looking statements. The Company provides the following information to qualify forward-looking statements for the safe harbor protection of the Act.

The operating results of companies in the insurance industry have historically been subject to significant fluctuations. The factors which could affect the Company’s future results include, but are not limited to, general economic conditions and the known trends and uncertainties which are discussed more fully below.

The Company is exposed to the risks of natural disasters, pandemics, malicious and terrorist acts that could adversely affect the Company’s operations.

While the Company has obtained insurance, implemented risk management and contingency plans, and taken preventive measures and other precautions, no predictions of specific scenarios can be made nor can assurance be given that there are not scenarios that could have an adverse effect on the Company. A natural disaster, pandemic, or an outbreak of an easily communicable disease could adversely affect the mortality or morbidity experience of the Company or its reinsurers. A pandemic could also have an adverse effect on lapses and surrenders of existing policies, as well as sales of new policies. In addition, a pandemic could result in large areas being subject to quarantine, with the result that economic activity slows or ceases, adversely affecting the marketing or administration of the Company’s business within such area and/or the general economic climate, which in turn could have an adverse affect on the Company. The possible macroeconomic effects of a pandemic could also adversely affect the Company’s asset portfolio, as well as many other variables.

The Company operates in a mature, highly competitive industry, which could limit its ability to gain or maintain its position in the industry and negatively affect profitability.

Life and health insurance is a mature and highly competitive industry. In recent years, the industry has experienced little growth in life insurance sales, though the aging population has increased the demand for retirement savings products. The Company encounters significant competition in all lines of business from other insurance companies, many of which have greater financial resources than the Company and which may have a greater market share, offer a broader range of products, services or features, assume a greater level of risk, have lower operating or financing costs, or have lower profitability expectations than the Company. The Company also faces competition from other providers of financial services. Competition could result in, among other things, lower sales or higher lapses of existing products.

The Company’s move away from relying on reinsurance for newly written traditional life products results in a net reduction of current taxes (but an increase in deferred taxes.) The Company allocates the benefits of reduced current taxes to the life marketing segment and the profitability and competitive position of certain products is dependent on the continuation of existing tax rules and interpretations and the Company’s ability to generate taxable income.

The insurance industry is consolidating, with larger, potentially more efficient organizations emerging from consolidation. Participants in certain of the Company’s independent distribution channels are also consolidating into larger organizations. Some mutual insurance companies have converted to stock ownership, which gives them greater access to capital markets. The ability of banks to increase their securities-related business or to affiliate with insurance companies may materially and adversely affect sales of all of the Company’s products by substantially increasing the number and financial strength of potential competitors.

The Company’s ability to compete is dependent upon, among other things, its ability to attract and retain distribution channels to market its insurance and investment products, its ability to develop competitive and profitable products, its ability to maintain low unit costs, and its maintenance of strong ratings from rating agencies.

As technology evolves, comparison of a particular product of any company for a particular customer with competing products for that customer is more readily available, which could lead to increased competition as well as agent or customer behavior, including persistency, that differs from past behavior.

A ratings downgrade could adversely affect the Company’s ability to compete.

Rating organizations periodically review the financial performance and condition of insurers, including the Company’s subsidiaries. In recent years, downgrades of insurance companies have occurred with increasing frequency. A downgrade in the rating of the Company’s subsidiaries could adversely affect the Company’s ability to sell its products, retain existing business, and compete for attractive acquisition opportunities. Specifically, a ratings downgrade would materially harm the Company’s ability to sell certain products, including guaranteed investment products and funding agreements.

Rating organizations assign ratings based upon several factors. While most of the factors relate to the rated company, some of the factors relate to the views of the rating organization, general economic conditions and circumstances outside the rated company’s control. In addition, rating organizations use various models and formulas to assess the strength of a rated company, and from time to time rating organizations have, in their discretion, altered the models. Changes to the models could impact the rating organizations’ judgment of the rating to be assigned to the rated company. The Company cannot predict what actions the rating organizations may take, or what actions the Company may be required to take in response to the actions of the rating organizations, which could adversely affect the Company.

The Company’s policy claims fluctuate from period to period resulting in earnings volatility.

The Company’s results may fluctuate from period to period due to fluctuations in policy claims received by the Company. Certain of the Company’s businesses may experience higher claims if the economy is growing slowly or in recession, or equity markets decline. Additionally, beginning in the second quarter of 2005, the Company increased its retained amounts on newly written traditional life products. This change will cause greater variability in financial results due to fluctuations in mortality results.

The Company’s results may be negatively affected should actual experience differ from management’s assumptions and estimates.

In the conduct of business, the Company makes certain assumptions regarding the mortality, persistency, expenses and interest rates, tax liability, business mix, frequency of claims, or other factors appropriate to the type of business it expects to experience in future periods. These assumptions are also used to estimate the amounts of deferred policy acquisition costs, policy liabilities and accruals, future earnings, and various components of the Company’s balance sheet. These assumptions are used in the operations of the Company’s business in making decisions crucial to the success of the Company, including the pricing of products and expense structures relating to products. The Company’s actual experience, as well as changes in estimates, are used to prepare the Company’s statements of income. To the extent the Company’s actual experience and changes in estimates differ from original estimates, the Company’s financial condition is affected.

Mortality, morbidity, and casualty expectations incorporate assumptions about many factors, including for example, how a product is distributed, for what purpose the product is purchased, the mix of customers purchasing the products, persistency and lapses, future progress in the fields of health and medicine, and the projected level of used vehicle values. Actual mortality, morbidity, and/or casualty experience will differ from expectations if actual results differ from those assumptions. In addition, continued activity in the viatical, stranger-owned and/or life settlement industry, in which some companies attempt to arbitrage the difference in lapse assumptions used in pricing and actual lapse performance that they can control, could have an adverse impact on the Company’s level of persistency and lapses, and thus negatively impact the Company’s performance.

The calculations the Company uses to estimate various components of its balance sheet and statements of income are necessarily complex and involve analyzing and interpreting large quantities of data. The Company currently employs various techniques for such calculations and it from time to time will develop and implement more sophisticated administrative systems and procedures capable of facilitating the calculation of more precise estimates.

Assumptions and estimates involve judgment, and by their nature are imprecise and subject to changes and revision over time. Accordingly, the Company’s results may be affected, positively or negatively, from time to time, by actual results differing from assumptions, by changes in estimates, and by changes resulting from implementing more sophisticated administrative systems and procedures that facilitate the calculation of more precise estimates.

The use of reinsurance introduces variability in the Company’s statements of income.

The timing of premium payments to and receipt of expense allowances from reinsurers may differ from the Company’s receipt of customer premium payments and incurrence of expenses. These timing differences introduce variability in certain components of the Company’s statements of income, and may also introduce variability in the Company’s quarterly results.

The Company could be forced to sell investments at a loss to cover policyholder withdrawals.

Many of the products offered by the Company and its insurance subsidiaries allow policyholders and contract holders to withdraw their funds under defined circumstances. The Company and its insurance subsidiaries manage their liabilities and configure their investment portfolios so as to provide and maintain sufficient liquidity to support anticipated withdrawal demands and contract benefits and maturities. While the Company and its life insurance subsidiaries own a significant amount of liquid assets, a certain portion of their assets are relatively illiquid. If the Company or its subsidiaries experience unanticipated withdrawal or surrender activity, the Company or its subsidiaries could exhaust their liquid assets and be forced to liquidate other assets, perhaps on unfavorable terms. If the Company or its subsidiaries are forced to dispose of assets on unfavorable terms, it could have an adverse effect on the Company’s financial condition.

Interest rate fluctuations could negatively affect the Company’s spread income or otherwise impact its business.

Significant changes in interest rates expose insurance companies to the risk of not earning anticipated spreads between the interest rate earned on investments and the credited interest rates paid on outstanding policies and contracts. Both rising and declining interest rates can negatively affect the Company’s spread income. While the Company develops and maintains asset/liability management programs and procedures designed to mitigate the effect on spread income in rising or falling interest rate environments, no assurance can be given that changes in interest rates will not affect such spreads.

From time to time, the Company has participated in securities repurchase transactions that have contributed to the Company’s investment income. No assurance can be given that such transactions will continue to be entered into and contribute to the Company’s investment income in the future.

Changes in interest rates may also impact its business in other ways. Lower interest rates may result in lower sales of certain of the Company’s insurance and investment products. In addition, certain of the Company’s insurance and investment products guarantee a minimum credited interest rate, and the Company could become unable to earn its spread income should interest rates decrease significantly.

Higher interest rates may create a less favorable environment for the origination of mortgage loans and decrease the investment income the Company receives in the form of prepayment fees, make-whole payments, and mortgage participation income. Higher interest rates may also increase the cost of debt and other obligations having floating rate or rate reset provisions and may result in lower sales of variable products.

Additionally, the Company’s asset/liability management programs and procedures incorporate assumptions about the relationship between short-term and long-term interest rates (i.e., the slope of the yield curve) and relationships between risk-adjusted and risk-free interest rates, market liquidity, and other factors. The effectiveness of the Company’s asset/liability management programs and procedures may be negatively affected whenever actual results differ from these assumptions.

In general, the Company’s results are improved when the yield curve is positively sloped (i.e., when long-term interest rates are higher than short-term interest rates), and will be adversely affected by a flat or negatively sloped curve.

Equity market volatility could negatively impact the Company’s business.

The amount of policy fees received from variable products is affected by the performance of the equity markets, increasing or decreasing as markets rise or fall. Equity market volatility can also affect the profitability of variable products in other ways, in particular as a result of options embedded in these products.

The amortization of deferred policy acquisition costs relating to variable products and the estimated cost of providing guaranteed minimum death benefits incorporate various assumptions about the overall performance of equity markets over certain time periods. The rate of amortization of deferred policy acquisition costs and the estimated cost of providing guaranteed minimum death benefits could increase if equity market performance is worse than assumed.

Insurance companies are highly regulated and subject to numerous legal restrictions and regulations.

The Company and its subsidiaries are subject to government regulation in each of the states in which they conduct business. Such regulation is vested in state agencies having broad administrative and in some instances discretionary power dealing with many aspects of the Company’s business, which may include, among other things, premium rates and increases thereto, reserve requirements, marketing practices, advertising, privacy, policy forms, reinsurance reserve requirements, acquisitions, mergers, and capital adequacy, and is concerned primarily with the protection of policyholders and other customers rather than share owners. At any given time, a number of financial and/or market conduct examinations of the Company’s subsidiaries may be ongoing. The Company’s insurance subsidiaries are required to obtain state regulatory approval for rate increases for certain health insurance products, and the Company’s profits may be adversely affected if the requested rate increases are not approved in full by regulators in a timely fashion. From time to time, regulators raise issues during examinations or audits of the Company’s subsidiaries that could, if determined adversely, have a material impact on the Company.

The purchase of life insurance products is limited by state insurable interest laws, which generally require that the purchaser of life insurance have some interest in the sustained life of the insured. To some extent, the insurable interest laws present a barrier to the life settlement, or “stranger-owned” industry, in which a financial entity acquires an interest in life insurance proceeds, and efforts have been made in some states to liberalize the insurable interest laws. To the extent these laws are relaxed, the Company’s lapse assumptions may prove to be unduly optimistic.

The Company cannot predict whether or when regulatory actions may be taken that could adversely affect the Company or its operations. Interpretations of regulations by regulators may change and statutes, regulations and interpretations may be applied with retroactive impact, particularly in areas such as accounting or reserve requirements. Although the Company and its subsidiaries are subject to state regulation, in many instances the state regulatory models emanate from the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (“NAIC”). Some of the NAIC pronouncements, particularly as they affect accounting issues, take effect automatically in the various states without affirmative action by the states. Also, regulatory actions with prospective impact can potentially have a significant impact on currently sold products. As an example of both retroactive and prospective impacts, in late 2005, the NAIC approved an amendment to Actuarial Guideline 38, which interprets the reserve requirements for universal life insurance with secondary guarantees. This amendment retroactively increased the reserve requirements for universal life insurance with secondary guarantee products issued after July 1, 2005. This change to Actuarial Guideline 38 (“AG38”) also affected the profitability of universal life products sold after the adoption date. The NAIC is continuing to study reserving methodology and has issued additional changes to AG38 and Regulation XXX, which may have the effect of modestly decreasing the reserves required for term and universal life policies that are issued on January 1, 2007 and later. In addition, accounting and actuarial groups within the NAIC are studying whether to change the accounting standards that relate to certain reinsurance credits, and whether, if changes are made, they are to be applied retrospectively, prospectively only, or in a phased-in manner. A requirement to reduce the reserve credit on ceded business, if applied retroactively, would have a negative impact on the statutory capital of the Company. The NAIC is also currently working to reform state regulation in various areas, including comprehensive reforms relating to life insurance reserves. At the federal level, bills have been introduced in the U. S. Senate and the U. S. House of Representatives that would provide for an optional federal charter for life and property and casualty insurers, and another bill has been introduced in the U. S. House of Representatives that would pre-empt state law in certain respects with regard to the regulation of reinsurance. Still another bill has been introduced in the House and Senate that would remove the federal antitrust exemption from the insurance industry. The Company cannot predict whether or in what form reforms will be enacted and, if so, whether the enacted reforms will positively or negatively affect the Company or whether any effects will be material. Moreover, although with respect to some financial regulations and guidelines, states defer to the interpretation of the insurance department of the state of domicile, neither the action of the domiciliary state nor action of the NAIC is binding on a state. Accordingly, a state could choose to follow a different interpretation.

The Company’s subsidiaries may be subject to regulation by the United States Department of Labor when providing a variety of products and services to employee benefit plans governed by the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (“ERISA”). Severe penalties are imposed for breach of duties under ERISA.

Certain policies, contracts, and annuities offered by the Company’s subsidiaries are subject to regulation under the federal securities laws administered by the Securities and Exchange Commission. The federal securities laws contain regulatory restrictions and criminal, administrative, and private remedial provisions.

Other types of regulation that could affect the Company and its subsidiaries include insurance company investment laws and regulations, state statutory accounting practices, anti-trust laws, minimum solvency requirements, state securities laws, federal privacy laws, insurable interest laws, federal anti-money laundering and anti-terrorism laws, and because the Company owns and operates real property, state, federal, and local environmental laws. The Company cannot predict what form any future changes in these or other areas of regulation affecting the insurance industry might take or what effect, if any, such proposals might have on the Company if enacted into law.

Changes to tax law or interpretations of existing tax law could adversely affect the Company and its ability to compete with non-insurance products or reduce the demand for certain insurance products.

Under the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the “Code”), income tax payable by policyholders on investment earnings is deferred during the accumulation period of certain life insurance and annuity products. This favorable tax treatment may give certain of the Company’s products a competitive advantage over other non-insurance products. To the extent that the Code is revised to reduce the tax-deferred status of life insurance and annuity products, or to increase the tax-deferred status of competing products, all life insurance companies, including the Company and its subsidiaries, would be adversely affected with respect to their ability to sell such products, and, depending upon grandfathering provisions, would be affected by the surrenders of existing annuity contracts and life insurance policies. For example, changes in laws or regulations could restrict or eliminate the advantages of certain corporate or bank-owned life insurance products. Changes in tax law, which have reduced the federal income tax rates on corporate dividends in certain circumstances, could make the tax advantages of investing in certain life insurance or annuity products less attractive. Additionally, changes in tax law based on proposals to establish new tax advantaged retirement and life savings plans, if enacted, could reduce the tax advantage of investing in certain life insurance or annuity products. In addition, life insurance products are often used to fund estate tax obligations. Legislation has been enacted that would, over time, reduce and eventually eliminate the federal estate tax. Under the legislation that has been enacted, the estate tax will be reinstated, in its entirety, in 2011 and thereafter. President Bush and members of Congress have expressed a desire to modify the existing legislation, which modification could result in faster or more complete reduction or repeal of the estate tax. If the estate tax is significantly reduced or eliminated, the demand for certain life insurance products could be adversely affected. Additionally, the Company is subject to the federal corporation income tax. The Company cannot predict what changes to tax law or interpretations of existing tax law may ultimately be enacted or adopted or whether such changes could adversely affect the Company.

The Company’s move away from relying on reinsurance for newly written traditional life products results in a net reduction of current taxes (but an increase in deferred taxes.) The resulting benefit of reduced current taxes is attributed to the applicable life products and is an important component of the profitability of these products. The profitability and competitive position of these products is dependent on the continuation of current tax law and the ability to generate taxable income.

Financial services companies are frequently the targets of litigation, including class action litigation, which could result in substantial judgments.

A number of civil jury verdicts have been returned against insurers, broker-dealers, and other providers of financial services involving sales, refund or claims practices, alleged agent misconduct, failure to properly supervise representatives, relationships with agents or other persons with whom the insurer does business, and other matters. Often these lawsuits have resulted in the award of substantial judgments that are disproportionate to the actual damages, including material amounts of punitive non-economic compensatory damages. In some states, juries, judges, and arbitrators have substantial discretion in awarding punitive and non-economic compensatory damages, which creates the potential for unpredictable material adverse judgments or awards in any given lawsuit or arbitration. Arbitration awards are subject to very limited appellate review. In addition, in some class action and other lawsuits, companies have made material settlement payments.

Group health coverage issued through associations and credit insurance coverages have received some negative coverage in the media as well as increased regulatory consideration and review and litigation. The Company has a small closed block of group health insurance coverage that was issued to members of an association; a lawsuit is currently pending against the Company in connection with this business. The Company is also defending litigation challenging its practices relating to issuing refunds of unearned premiums upon termination of credit insurance.

The Company, like other financial services companies, in the ordinary course of business is involved in litigation and arbitration. Although the Company cannot predict the outcome of any litigation or arbitration, the Company does not believe that any such outcome will have a material impact on the financial condition or results of operations of the Company.

Publicly held companies in general and the financial services industry in particular are sometimes the target of law enforcement investigations and the focus of increased regulatory scrutiny.

Publicly held companies in general and the financial services industry in particular are sometimes the target of law enforcement investigations relating to the numerous laws that govern publicly held companies and the financial services and insurance business. The Company cannot predict the impact of any such investigations on the Company or the industry.

The financial services industry has become the focus of increased scrutiny by regulatory and law enforcement authorities relating to allegations of improper special payments, price-fixing, bid-rigging and other alleged misconduct, including payments made by insurers and other financial services providers to brokers and the practices surrounding the placement of insurance business and sales of other financial products as well as practices related to finite reinsurance. Some publicly held companies have been the subject of enforcement or other actions relating to corporate governance and the integrity of financial statements, most recently relating to the issuance of stock options. Such publicity may generate inquiries to or litigation against publicly held companies and/or financial service providers, even those who do not engage in the business lines or practices currently at issue. It is impossible to predict the outcome of these investigations or proceedings, whether they will expand into other areas not yet contemplated, whether they will result in changes in insurance regulation, whether activities currently thought to be lawful will be characterized as unlawful, or the impact, if any, of this increased regulatory and law enforcement scrutiny of the financial services industry on the Company. As some inquiries appear to encompass a large segment of the financial services industry, it would not be unusual for large numbers of companies in the financial services industry to receive subpoenas, requests for information from regulatory authorities or other inquiries relating to these and similar matters. From time to time, the Company receives subpoenas, requests or other inquires and responds to them in the ordinary course of business.

The Company’s ability to maintain competitive unit costs is dependent upon the level of new sales and persistency of existing business.

The Company’s ability to maintain competitive unit costs is dependent upon a number of factors, such as the level of new sales, persistency (continuation or renewal) of existing business, and expense management. A decrease in sales or persistency without a corresponding reduction in expenses may result in higher unit costs.

Additionally, a decrease in persistency may result in higher or more rapid amortization of deferred policy acquisition costs and thus higher unit costs, and lower reported earnings. Although many of the Company’s products contain surrender charges, the charges decrease over time and may not be sufficient to cover the unamortized deferred policy acquisition costs with respect to the insurance policy or annuity contract being surrendered. Some of the Company’s products do not contain surrender charge features and such products can be surrendered or exchanged without penalty. A decrease in persistency may also result in higher claims.

The Company’s investments are subject to market and credit risks.

The Company’s invested assets and derivative financial instruments are subject to customary risks of credit defaults and changes in market values. The value of the Company’s commercial mortgage loan portfolio depends in part on the financial condition of the tenants occupying the properties which the Company has financed. Factors that may affect the overall default rate on, and market value of, the Company’s invested assets, derivative financial instruments, and mortgage loans include interest rate levels, financial market performance, and general economic conditions as well as particular circumstances affecting the businesses of individual borrowers and tenants.

The Company may not realize its anticipated financial results from its acquisitions strategy.

The Company’s acquisitions have increased its earnings in part by allowing the Company to enter new markets and to position itself to realize certain operating efficiencies. There can be no assurance, however, that suitable acquisitions, presenting opportunities for continued growth and operating efficiencies, or capital to fund acquisitions will continue to be available to the Company, or that the Company will realize the anticipated financial results from its acquisitions.

The Company may be unable to complete an acquisition, or completion of an acquisition may be more costly or take longer than expected or may have a different financing structure than initially contemplated. The Company may be unable to obtain regulatory approvals that may be required to complete an acquisition. There may be unforeseen liabilities that arise in connection with businesses that the Company acquires.

Additionally, in connection with its acquisitions, the Company assumes or otherwise becomes responsible for the obligations of policies and other liabilities of other insurers. Any regulatory, legal, financial, or other adverse development affecting the other insurer could also have an adverse effect on the Company.

The Company may not be able to achieve the expected results from its recent acquisition.

On July 3, 2006, the Company completed its acquisition from JP Morgan Chase & Co. of the stock of five life insurance companies and the stock of four related non-insurance companies. Integration of the acquisition may be more expensive, more difficult, or take longer than expected. In addition, the Company may not achieve the returns projected from its analysis of the acquisition opportunity, and the effects of purchase U.S. GAAP accounting on the Company’s financial statements may be different than originally contemplated.

The Company is dependent on the performance of others.

The Company’s results may be affected by the performance of others because the Company has entered into various arrangements involving other parties. For example, most of the Company’s products are sold through independent distribution channels, and variable annuity deposits are invested in funds managed by third parties. Also, a substantial portion of the business of the recently acquired Chase Insurance Group will be administered by third party administrators. Additionally, the Company’s operations are dependent on various technologies, some of which are provided and/or maintained by other parties.

Certain of these other parties may act on behalf of the Company or represent the Company in various capacities. Consequently, the Company may be held responsible for obligations that arise from the acts or omissions of these other parties.

As with all financial services companies, its ability to conduct business is dependent upon consumer confidence in the industry and its products. Actions of competitors and financial difficulties of other companies in the industry could undermine consumer confidence and adversely affect retention of existing business and future sales of the Company’s insurance and investment products.

The Company’s reinsurers could fail to meet assumed obligations, increase rates or be subject to adverse developments that could affect the Company.

The Company and its insurance subsidiaries cede material amounts of insurance and transfer related assets to other insurance companies through reinsurance. The Company may enter into third-party reinsurance arrangements under which the Company will rely on the third party to collect premiums, pay claims, and/or perform customer service functions. However, notwithstanding the transfer of related assets or other issues, the Company remains liable with respect to ceded insurance should any reinsurer fail to meet the obligations assumed by it. Therefore, the failure of one or more of the Company’s reinsurers could negatively impact the Company’s earnings and financial position.

The Company’s ability to compete is dependent on the availability of reinsurance or other substitute capital market solutions. Premium rates charged by the Company are based, in part, on the assumption that reinsurance will be available at a certain cost. Under certain reinsurance agreements, the reinsurer may increase the rate it charges the Company for the reinsurance. Therefore, if the cost of reinsurance were to increase or if reinsurance were to become unavailable or if alternatives to reinsurance were not available to the Company, or if a reinsurer should fail to meet its obligations, the Company could be adversely affected.

Recently, access to reinsurance has become more costly for the Company as well as the insurance industry in general. This could have a negative effect on the Company’s ability to compete. In recent years, the number of life reinsurers has decreased as the reinsurance industry has consolidated. The decreased number of participants in the life reinsurance market results in increased concentration risk for insurers, including the Company. If the reinsurance market further contracts, the Company’s ability to continue to offer its products on terms favorable to the Company could be adversely impacted.

The Company recently has implemented and plans to continue to implement a reinsurance program through the use of a captive reinsurer. Under these arrangements, an insurer owned by the Company serves as the reinsurer, and the consolidated books and tax returns of the Company reflects a liability consisting of the full reserve amount attributable to the reinsured business. The success of the Company’s captive reinsurance program and related marketing efforts is dependent on a number of factors outside the control of the Company, including continued access to capital markets, a favorable regulatory environment, and the overall tax position of the Company. If the captive reinsurance program is not successful the Company’s ability to continue to offer its products on terms favorable to the Company would be adversely impacted.

Computer viruses or network security breaches could affect the data processing systems of the Company or its business partners and could damage our business and adversely affect our financial condition and results of operations.

A computer virus could affect the data processing systems of the Company or its business partners, destroying valuable data or making it difficult to conduct business. In addition, despite the Company’s implementation of network security measures, its servers could be subject to physical and electronic break-ins, and similar disruptions from unauthorized tampering with its computer systems.

The Company retains confidential information in its computer systems, and relies on sophisticated commercial technologies to maintain the security of those systems. Anyone who is able to circumvent the Company’s security measures and penetrate the Company’s computer systems could access, view, misappropriate, alter, or delete any information in the systems, including personally identifiable customer information and proprietary business information. In addition, an increasing number of states require that customers be notified of unauthorized access, use or disclosure of their information. Any compromise of the security of the Company’s computer systems that result in inappropriate access, use or disclosure of personally identifiable customer information could damage the Company’s reputation in the marketplace, deter people from purchasing the Company’s products, subject the Company to significant civil and criminal liability and require the Company to incur significant technical, legal and other expenses.

The Company’s ability to grow depends in large part upon the continued availability of capital.

The Company has recently deployed significant amounts of capital to support its sales and acquisitions efforts. A recent amendment to Actuarial Guideline 38 increased the reserve requirements for universal life insurance with secondary guarantees for products issued after July 1, 2005. This amendment, along with the continued reserve requirements of Regulation XXX for traditional life insurance products, has caused the sale of these products to consume additional capital. Future marketing plans are dependent on access to the capital markets through securitization. A disruption in the securitization marketplace, or the Company’s inability to access capital through these transactions, could have a negative impact on the Company’s ability to grow. Capital has also been consumed as the Company increased its reserves on the residual value and lenders indemnity product lines. Although positive performance in the equity markets has recently allowed the Company to decrease its guaranteed minimum death benefit related policy liabilities and accruals, deterioration in these markets could lead to further capital consumption. Although the Company believes it has sufficient capital to fund its immediate growth and capital needs, the amount of capital available can vary significantly from period to period due to a variety of circumstances, some of which are neither predictable nor foreseeable, nor within the Company’s control. A lack of sufficient capital could impair the Company’s ability to grow.

New accounting rules or changes to existing accounting rules could negatively impact the Company.

Like all publicly traded companies, the Company is required to comply with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America (“U.S. GAAP”). A number of organizations are instrumental in the development and interpretation of U.S. GAAP such as the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”), the Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”), and the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (“AICPA”). U.S. GAAP is subject to constant review by these organizations and others in an effort to address emerging accounting rules and issue interpretative accounting guidance on a continual basis. The Company can give no assurance that future changes to U.S. GAAP will not have a negative impact on the Company.

In addition, the Company’s insurance subsidiaries are required to comply with statutory accounting principles (“SAP”). SAP and various components of SAP (such as actuarial reserving methodology) are subject to constant review by the NAIC and its taskforces and committees as well as state insurance departments in an effort to address emerging issues and otherwise improve or alter financial reporting. Various proposals are currently pending before committees and taskforces of the NAIC, some of which, if enacted, would negatively affect the Company, including one that relates to certain reinsurance credits, and some of which could positively impact the Company. The NAIC is also currently working to reform state regulation in various areas, including comprehensive reforms relating to life insurance reserves and the accounting for such reserves. The Company cannot predict whether or in what form reforms will be enacted and, if so, whether the enacted reforms will positively or negatively affect the Company. Moreover, although in general with respect to regulations and guidelines, states defer to the interpretation of the insurance department of the state of domicile, neither the action of the domiciliary state nor action of the NAIC is binding on a state. Accordingly, a state could choose to follow a different interpretation. The Company can give no assurance that future changes to SAP or components of SAP will not have a negative impact on the Company.
 
The Company’s risk management policies and procedures may leave it exposed to unidentified or unanticipated risk, which could negatively affect our business or result in losses.

The Company has developed risk management policies and procedures and expects to continue to do so in the future. Nonetheless, the Company’s policies and procedures to identify, monitor and manage both internal and external risks may not predict future exposures, which could be different or significantly greater than expected.

These may not be the only risks facing the Company. Additional risks and uncertainties not currently known to us, or that we currently deem to be immaterial, may adversely affect our business, financial condition and/or operating results.

Forward-looking statements express expectations of future events and/or results. All forward-looking statements are inherently uncertain as they are based on various expectations and assumptions concerning future events and they are subject to numerous known and unknown risks and uncertainties which could cause actual events or results to differ materially from those projected. Due to these inherent uncertainties, investors are urged not to place undue reliance on forward-looking statements. In addition, the Company undertakes no obligation to update or revise forward-looking statements to reflect changed assumptions, the occurrence of unanticipated events, or changes to projections over time.
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