-----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, UWxw8UYTuvKYKI14wm6fQrUhnR9T7AIlrcILy51SYebPcP3h8MSd07Gf+YS5uKzS dK/CW3dhJP6Km0z4araGEw== 0000950123-09-010298.txt : 20090602 0000950123-09-010298.hdr.sgml : 20090602 20090602070125 ACCESSION NUMBER: 0000950123-09-010298 CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE: S-3ASR PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT: 8 FILED AS OF DATE: 20090602 DATE AS OF CHANGE: 20090602 EFFECTIVENESS DATE: 20090602 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: EXPRESS SCRIPTS INC CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0000885721 STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION: RETAIL-DRUG STORES AND PROPRIETARY STORES [5912] IRS NUMBER: 431420563 STATE OF INCORPORATION: DE FISCAL YEAR END: 1231 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: S-3ASR SEC ACT: 1933 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 333-159654 FILM NUMBER: 09866686 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: ONE EXPRESS WAY CITY: ST LOUIS STATE: MO ZIP: 63121 BUSINESS PHONE: 3149960900 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: ONE EXPRESS WAY CITY: ST LOUIS STATE: MO ZIP: 63121 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: Sinuspharmacy, Inc. CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001465041 IRS NUMBER: 562394216 STATE OF INCORPORATION: FL FISCAL YEAR END: 1231 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: S-3ASR SEC ACT: 1933 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 333-159654-11 FILM NUMBER: 09866696 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: C/O EXPRESS SCRIPTS, INC. STREET 2: ONE EXPRESS WAY CITY: ST. LOUIS STATE: MO ZIP: 63121 BUSINESS PHONE: 3149960900 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: C/O EXPRESS SCRIPTS, INC. STREET 2: ONE EXPRESS WAY CITY: ST. LOUIS STATE: MO ZIP: 63121 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: Specialty Infusion Pharmacy, Inc. CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001465042 IRS NUMBER: 743105470 STATE OF INCORPORATION: FL FISCAL YEAR END: 1231 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: S-3ASR SEC ACT: 1933 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 333-159654-10 FILM NUMBER: 09866695 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: C/O EXPRESS SCRIPTS, INC. STREET 2: ONE EXPRESS WAY CITY: ST. LOUIS STATE: MO ZIP: 63121 BUSINESS PHONE: 3149960900 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: C/O EXPRESS SCRIPTS, INC. STREET 2: ONE EXPRESS WAY CITY: ST. LOUIS STATE: MO ZIP: 63121 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: Spectracare Healthcare Ventures, Inc. CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001465044 IRS NUMBER: 611317695 STATE OF INCORPORATION: KY FISCAL YEAR END: 1231 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: S-3ASR SEC ACT: 1933 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 333-159654-08 FILM NUMBER: 09866693 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: C/O EXPRESS SCRIPTS, INC. STREET 2: ONE EXPRESS WAY CITY: ST. LOUIS STATE: MO ZIP: 63121 BUSINESS PHONE: 3149960900 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: C/O EXPRESS SCRIPTS, INC. STREET 2: ONE EXPRESS WAY CITY: ST. LOUIS STATE: MO ZIP: 63121 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: Spectracare Infusion Pharmacy, Inc. CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001465045 IRS NUMBER: 611147067 STATE OF INCORPORATION: KY FISCAL YEAR END: 1231 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: S-3ASR SEC ACT: 1933 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 333-159654-06 FILM NUMBER: 09866691 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: C/O EXPRESS SCRIPTS, INC. STREET 2: ONE EXPRESS WAY CITY: ST. LOUIS STATE: MO ZIP: 63121 BUSINESS PHONE: 3149960900 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: C/O EXPRESS SCRIPTS, INC. STREET 2: ONE EXPRESS WAY CITY: ST. LOUIS STATE: MO ZIP: 63121 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: Spectracare of Indiana CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001465046 IRS NUMBER: 351807559 STATE OF INCORPORATION: IN FISCAL YEAR END: 1231 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: S-3ASR SEC ACT: 1933 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 333-159654-07 FILM NUMBER: 09866692 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: C/O EXPRESS SCRIPTS, INC. STREET 2: ONE EXPRESS WAY CITY: ST. LOUIS STATE: MO ZIP: 63121 BUSINESS PHONE: 3149960900 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: C/O EXPRESS SCRIPTS, INC. STREET 2: ONE EXPRESS WAY CITY: ST. LOUIS STATE: MO ZIP: 63121 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: Spectracare, Inc. CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001465047 IRS NUMBER: 611147068 STATE OF INCORPORATION: KY FISCAL YEAR END: 1231 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: S-3ASR SEC ACT: 1933 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 333-159654-09 FILM NUMBER: 09866694 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: C/O EXPRESS SCRIPTS, INC. STREET 2: ONE EXPRESS WAY CITY: ST. LOUIS STATE: MO ZIP: 63121 BUSINESS PHONE: 3149960900 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: C/O EXPRESS SCRIPTS, INC. STREET 2: ONE EXPRESS WAY CITY: ST. LOUIS STATE: MO ZIP: 63121 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: Speedy Re-employment, LLC CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001465048 IRS NUMBER: 200551334 STATE OF INCORPORATION: FL FISCAL YEAR END: 1231 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: S-3ASR SEC ACT: 1933 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 333-159654-05 FILM NUMBER: 09866690 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: C/O EXPRESS SCRIPTS, INC. STREET 2: ONE EXPRESS WAY CITY: ST. LOUIS STATE: MO ZIP: 63121 BUSINESS PHONE: 3149960900 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: C/O EXPRESS SCRIPTS, INC. STREET 2: ONE EXPRESS WAY CITY: ST. LOUIS STATE: MO ZIP: 63121 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: CuraScript PBM Services, Inc. CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001465151 IRS NUMBER: 364374570 STATE OF INCORPORATION: DE FISCAL YEAR END: 1231 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: S-3ASR SEC ACT: 1933 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 333-159654-45 FILM NUMBER: 09866730 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: C/O EXPRESS SCRIPTS, INC. STREET 2: ONE EXPRESS WAY CITY: ST. LOUIS STATE: MO ZIP: 63121 BUSINESS PHONE: 3149960900 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: C/O EXPRESS SCRIPTS, INC. STREET 2: ONE EXPRESS WAY CITY: ST. LOUIS STATE: MO ZIP: 63121 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: CuraScript, Inc. CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001465152 IRS NUMBER: 364369972 STATE OF INCORPORATION: DE FISCAL YEAR END: 1231 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: S-3ASR SEC ACT: 1933 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 333-159654-46 FILM NUMBER: 09866731 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: C/O EXPRESS SCRIPTS, INC. STREET 2: ONE EXPRESS WAY CITY: ST. LOUIS STATE: MO ZIP: 63121 BUSINESS PHONE: 3149960900 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: C/O EXPRESS SCRIPTS, INC. STREET 2: ONE EXPRESS WAY CITY: ST. LOUIS STATE: MO ZIP: 63121 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: Healthbridge, Inc. CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001465153 IRS NUMBER: 262159005 STATE OF INCORPORATION: DE FISCAL YEAR END: 1231 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: S-3ASR SEC ACT: 1933 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 333-159654-29 FILM NUMBER: 09866714 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: C/O EXPRESS SCRIPTS, INC. STREET 2: ONE EXPRESS WAY CITY: ST. LOUIS STATE: MO ZIP: 63121 BUSINESS PHONE: 3149960900 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: C/O EXPRESS SCRIPTS, INC. STREET 2: ONE EXPRESS WAY CITY: ST. LOUIS STATE: MO ZIP: 63121 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: Healthbridge Reimbursement & Product Support, Inc. CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001465154 IRS NUMBER: 042992335 STATE OF INCORPORATION: MA FISCAL YEAR END: 1231 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: S-3ASR SEC ACT: 1933 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 333-159654-28 FILM NUMBER: 09866713 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: C/O EXPRESS SCRIPTS, INC. STREET 2: ONE EXPRESS WAY CITY: ST. LOUIS STATE: MO ZIP: 63121 BUSINESS PHONE: 3149960900 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: C/O EXPRESS SCRIPTS, INC. STREET 2: ONE EXPRESS WAY CITY: ST. LOUIS STATE: MO ZIP: 63121 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: Lynnfield Compounding Center, Inc. CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001465155 IRS NUMBER: 582593075 STATE OF INCORPORATION: FL FISCAL YEAR END: 1231 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: S-3ASR SEC ACT: 1933 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 333-159654-26 FILM NUMBER: 09866711 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: C/O EXPRESS SCRIPTS, INC. STREET 2: ONE EXPRESS WAY CITY: ST. LOUIS STATE: MO ZIP: 63121 BUSINESS PHONE: 3149960900 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: C/O EXPRESS SCRIPTS, INC. STREET 2: ONE EXPRESS WAY CITY: ST. LOUIS STATE: MO ZIP: 63121 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: Lynnfield Drug, Inc. CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001465156 IRS NUMBER: 043546044 STATE OF INCORPORATION: FL FISCAL YEAR END: 1231 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: S-3ASR SEC ACT: 1933 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 333-159654-25 FILM NUMBER: 09866710 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: C/O EXPRESS SCRIPTS, INC. STREET 2: ONE EXPRESS WAY CITY: ST. LOUIS STATE: MO ZIP: 63121 BUSINESS PHONE: 3149960900 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: C/O EXPRESS SCRIPTS, INC. STREET 2: ONE EXPRESS WAY CITY: ST. LOUIS STATE: MO ZIP: 63121 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: Matrix GPO, LLC CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001465157 IRS NUMBER: 510500147 STATE OF INCORPORATION: IN FISCAL YEAR END: 1231 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: S-3ASR SEC ACT: 1933 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 333-159654-24 FILM NUMBER: 09866709 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: C/O EXPRESS SCRIPTS, INC. STREET 2: ONE EXPRESS WAY CITY: ST. LOUIS STATE: MO ZIP: 63121 BUSINESS PHONE: 3149960900 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: C/O EXPRESS SCRIPTS, INC. STREET 2: ONE EXPRESS WAY CITY: ST. LOUIS STATE: MO ZIP: 63121 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: ESI Claims, Inc. CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001465161 IRS NUMBER: 000000000 STATE OF INCORPORATION: DE FISCAL YEAR END: 1231 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: S-3ASR SEC ACT: 1933 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 333-159654-54 FILM NUMBER: 09866739 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: C/O EXPRESS SCRIPTS, INC. STREET 2: ONE EXPRESS WAY CITY: ST. LOUIS STATE: MO ZIP: 63121 BUSINESS PHONE: 3149960900 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: C/O EXPRESS SCRIPTS, INC. STREET 2: ONE EXPRESS WAY CITY: ST. LOUIS STATE: MO ZIP: 63121 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: iBiologic, Inc. CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001465162 IRS NUMBER: 000000000 STATE OF INCORPORATION: DE FISCAL YEAR END: 1231 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: S-3ASR SEC ACT: 1933 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 333-159654-02 FILM NUMBER: 09866687 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: C/O EXPRESS SCRIPTS, INC. STREET 2: ONE EXPRESS WAY CITY: ST. LOUIS STATE: MO ZIP: 63121 BUSINESS PHONE: 3149960900 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: C/O EXPRESS SCRIPTS, INC. STREET 2: ONE EXPRESS WAY CITY: ST. LOUIS STATE: MO ZIP: 63121 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: IVTx, Inc. CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001465163 IRS NUMBER: 000000000 STATE OF INCORPORATION: DE FISCAL YEAR END: 1231 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: S-3ASR SEC ACT: 1933 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 333-159654-27 FILM NUMBER: 09866712 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: C/O EXPRESS SCRIPTS, INC. STREET 2: ONE EXPRESS WAY CITY: ST. LOUIS STATE: MO ZIP: 63121 BUSINESS PHONE: 3149960900 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: C/O EXPRESS SCRIPTS, INC. STREET 2: ONE EXPRESS WAY CITY: ST. LOUIS STATE: MO ZIP: 63121 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: YourPharmacy.com, Inc. CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001465164 IRS NUMBER: 000000000 STATE OF INCORPORATION: DE FISCAL YEAR END: 1231 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: S-3ASR SEC ACT: 1933 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 333-159654-03 FILM NUMBER: 09866688 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: C/O EXPRESS SCRIPTS, INC. STREET 2: ONE EXPRESS WAY CITY: ST. LOUIS STATE: MO ZIP: 63121 BUSINESS PHONE: 3149960900 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: C/O EXPRESS SCRIPTS, INC. STREET 2: ONE EXPRESS WAY CITY: ST. LOUIS STATE: MO ZIP: 63121 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: VALUE HEALTH INC / CT CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0000872653 STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION: HOSPITAL & MEDICAL SERVICE PLANS [6324] IRS NUMBER: 061194838 STATE OF INCORPORATION: DE FISCAL YEAR END: 1231 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: S-3ASR SEC ACT: 1933 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 333-159654-04 FILM NUMBER: 09866689 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 22 WATERVILLE RD CITY: AVON STATE: CT ZIP: 06001 BUSINESS PHONE: 8606783400 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 22 WATERVILLE ROAD CITY: AVON STATE: CT ZIP: 06001 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: PRIORITY HEALTHCARE CORP CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001037975 STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION: WHOLESALE-DRUGS PROPRIETARIES & DRUGGISTS' SUNDRIES [5122] IRS NUMBER: 351927379 STATE OF INCORPORATION: IN FISCAL YEAR END: 1231 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: S-3ASR SEC ACT: 1933 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 333-159654-15 FILM NUMBER: 09866700 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: ATTN: SEC REPORTING STREET 2: 250 TECHNOLOGY PARK CITY: LAKE MARY STATE: FL ZIP: 32746-6232 BUSINESS PHONE: 4078046700 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 250 TECHNOLOGY PARK CITY: LAKE MARY STATE: FL ZIP: 32746-6232 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: MSC-Medical Services CO CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001357234 STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION: SERVICES-HEALTH SERVICES [8000] IRS NUMBER: 592997634 STATE OF INCORPORATION: FL FISCAL YEAR END: 1231 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: S-3ASR SEC ACT: 1933 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 333-159654-22 FILM NUMBER: 09866707 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 11764-1 MARCO BEACH DRIVE CITY: JACKSONVILLE STATE: FL ZIP: 32224 BUSINESS PHONE: 904-646-0199 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 11764-1 MARCO BEACH DRIVE CITY: JACKSONVILLE STATE: FL ZIP: 32224 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: Airport Holdings, LLC CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001465008 IRS NUMBER: 753040465 STATE OF INCORPORATION: NJ FISCAL YEAR END: 1231 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: S-3ASR SEC ACT: 1933 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 333-159654-53 FILM NUMBER: 09866738 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: C/O EXPRESS SCRIPTS, INC. STREET 2: ONE EXPRESS WAY CITY: ST. LOUIS STATE: MO ZIP: 63121 BUSINESS PHONE: 3149960900 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: C/O EXPRESS SCRIPTS, INC. STREET 2: ONE EXPRESS WAY CITY: ST. LOUIS STATE: MO ZIP: 63121 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: Byfield Drug, Inc. CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001465009 IRS NUMBER: 010705518 STATE OF INCORPORATION: MA FISCAL YEAR END: 1231 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: S-3ASR SEC ACT: 1933 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 333-159654-52 FILM NUMBER: 09866737 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: C/O EXPRESS SCRIPTS, INC. STREET 2: ONE EXPRESS WAY CITY: ST. LOUIS STATE: MO ZIP: 63121 BUSINESS PHONE: 3149960900 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: C/O EXPRESS SCRIPTS, INC. STREET 2: ONE EXPRESS WAY CITY: ST. LOUIS STATE: MO ZIP: 63121 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: Care Continuum, Inc. CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001465010 IRS NUMBER: 611162797 STATE OF INCORPORATION: KY FISCAL YEAR END: 1231 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: S-3ASR SEC ACT: 1933 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 333-159654-51 FILM NUMBER: 09866736 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: C/O EXPRESS SCRIPTS, INC. STREET 2: ONE EXPRESS WAY CITY: ST. LOUIS STATE: MO ZIP: 63121 BUSINESS PHONE: 3149960900 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: C/O EXPRESS SCRIPTS, INC. STREET 2: ONE EXPRESS WAY CITY: ST. LOUIS STATE: MO ZIP: 63121 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: CFI New Jersey, Inc. CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001465011 IRS NUMBER: 223114423 STATE OF INCORPORATION: NJ FISCAL YEAR END: 1231 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: S-3ASR SEC ACT: 1933 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 333-159654-50 FILM NUMBER: 09866735 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: C/O EXPRESS SCRIPTS, INC. STREET 2: ONE EXPRESS WAY CITY: ST. LOUIS STATE: MO ZIP: 63121 BUSINESS PHONE: 3149960900 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: C/O EXPRESS SCRIPTS, INC. STREET 2: ONE EXPRESS WAY CITY: ST. LOUIS STATE: MO ZIP: 63121 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: Chesapeake Infusion, Inc. CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001465012 IRS NUMBER: 223835126 STATE OF INCORPORATION: FL FISCAL YEAR END: 1231 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: S-3ASR SEC ACT: 1933 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 333-159654-49 FILM NUMBER: 09866734 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: C/O EXPRESS SCRIPTS, INC. STREET 2: ONE EXPRESS WAY CITY: ST. LOUIS STATE: MO ZIP: 63121 BUSINESS PHONE: 3149960900 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: C/O EXPRESS SCRIPTS, INC. STREET 2: ONE EXPRESS WAY CITY: ST. LOUIS STATE: MO ZIP: 63121 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: ConnectYourCare Company, LLC CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001465013 IRS NUMBER: 202996995 STATE OF INCORPORATION: DE FISCAL YEAR END: 1231 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: S-3ASR SEC ACT: 1933 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 333-159654-48 FILM NUMBER: 09866733 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: C/O EXPRESS SCRIPTS, INC. STREET 2: ONE EXPRESS WAY CITY: ST. LOUIS STATE: MO ZIP: 63121 BUSINESS PHONE: 3149960900 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: C/O EXPRESS SCRIPTS, INC. STREET 2: ONE EXPRESS WAY CITY: ST. LOUIS STATE: MO ZIP: 63121 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: ConnectYourCare, LLC CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001465014 IRS NUMBER: 261274092 STATE OF INCORPORATION: MD FISCAL YEAR END: 1231 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: S-3ASR SEC ACT: 1933 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 333-159654-47 FILM NUMBER: 09866732 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: C/O EXPRESS SCRIPTS, INC. STREET 2: ONE EXPRESS WAY CITY: ST. LOUIS STATE: MO ZIP: 63121 BUSINESS PHONE: 3149960900 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: C/O EXPRESS SCRIPTS, INC. STREET 2: ONE EXPRESS WAY CITY: ST. LOUIS STATE: MO ZIP: 63121 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: Diversified Pharmaceutical Services, Inc. CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001465015 IRS NUMBER: 411627938 STATE OF INCORPORATION: MN FISCAL YEAR END: 1231 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: S-3ASR SEC ACT: 1933 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 333-159654-44 FILM NUMBER: 09866729 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: C/O EXPRESS SCRIPTS, INC. STREET 2: ONE EXPRESS WAY CITY: ST. LOUIS STATE: MO ZIP: 63121 BUSINESS PHONE: 3149960900 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: C/O EXPRESS SCRIPTS, INC. STREET 2: ONE EXPRESS WAY CITY: ST. LOUIS STATE: MO ZIP: 63121 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: ESI Enterprises, LLC CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001465016 IRS NUMBER: 562356810 STATE OF INCORPORATION: DE FISCAL YEAR END: 1231 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: S-3ASR SEC ACT: 1933 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 333-159654-01 FILM NUMBER: 09866685 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: C/O EXPRESS SCRIPTS, INC. STREET 2: ONE EXPRESS WAY CITY: ST. LOUIS STATE: MO ZIP: 63121 BUSINESS PHONE: 3149960900 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: C/O EXPRESS SCRIPTS, INC. STREET 2: ONE EXPRESS WAY CITY: ST. LOUIS STATE: MO ZIP: 63121 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: ESI Mail Pharmacy Service, Inc. CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001465017 IRS NUMBER: 431867735 STATE OF INCORPORATION: DE FISCAL YEAR END: 1231 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: S-3ASR SEC ACT: 1933 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 333-159654-42 FILM NUMBER: 09866727 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: C/O EXPRESS SCRIPTS, INC. STREET 2: ONE EXPRESS WAY CITY: ST. LOUIS STATE: MO ZIP: 63121 BUSINESS PHONE: 3149960900 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: C/O EXPRESS SCRIPTS, INC. STREET 2: ONE EXPRESS WAY CITY: ST. LOUIS STATE: MO ZIP: 63121 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: ESI Partnership CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001465018 IRS NUMBER: 431925562 STATE OF INCORPORATION: DE FISCAL YEAR END: 1231 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: S-3ASR SEC ACT: 1933 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 333-159654-41 FILM NUMBER: 09866726 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: C/O EXPRESS SCRIPTS, INC. STREET 2: ONE EXPRESS WAY CITY: ST. LOUIS STATE: MO ZIP: 63121 BUSINESS PHONE: 3149960900 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: C/O EXPRESS SCRIPTS, INC. STREET 2: ONE EXPRESS WAY CITY: ST. LOUIS STATE: MO ZIP: 63121 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: ESI Realty, LLC CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001465019 IRS NUMBER: 753040456 STATE OF INCORPORATION: NJ FISCAL YEAR END: 1231 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: S-3ASR SEC ACT: 1933 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 333-159654-40 FILM NUMBER: 09866725 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: C/O EXPRESS SCRIPTS, INC. STREET 2: ONE EXPRESS WAY CITY: ST. LOUIS STATE: MO ZIP: 63121 BUSINESS PHONE: 3149960900 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: C/O EXPRESS SCRIPTS, INC. STREET 2: ONE EXPRESS WAY CITY: ST. LOUIS STATE: MO ZIP: 63121 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: ESI Resources, Inc. CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001465020 IRS NUMBER: 412006555 STATE OF INCORPORATION: MN FISCAL YEAR END: 1231 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: S-3ASR SEC ACT: 1933 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 333-159654-39 FILM NUMBER: 09866724 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: C/O EXPRESS SCRIPTS, INC. STREET 2: ONE EXPRESS WAY CITY: ST. LOUIS STATE: MO ZIP: 63121 BUSINESS PHONE: 3149960900 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: C/O EXPRESS SCRIPTS, INC. STREET 2: ONE EXPRESS WAY CITY: ST. LOUIS STATE: MO ZIP: 63121 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: ESI-GP Holdings, Inc. CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001465021 IRS NUMBER: 431925556 STATE OF INCORPORATION: DE FISCAL YEAR END: 1231 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: S-3ASR SEC ACT: 1933 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 333-159654-43 FILM NUMBER: 09866728 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: C/O EXPRESS SCRIPTS, INC. STREET 2: ONE EXPRESS WAY CITY: ST. LOUIS STATE: MO ZIP: 63121 BUSINESS PHONE: 3149960900 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: C/O EXPRESS SCRIPTS, INC. STREET 2: ONE EXPRESS WAY CITY: ST. LOUIS STATE: MO ZIP: 63121 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: Express Scripts Canada Holding, Co. CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001465022 IRS NUMBER: 431942542 STATE OF INCORPORATION: DE FISCAL YEAR END: 1231 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: S-3ASR SEC ACT: 1933 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 333-159654-38 FILM NUMBER: 09866723 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: C/O EXPRESS SCRIPTS, INC. STREET 2: ONE EXPRESS WAY CITY: ST. LOUIS STATE: MO ZIP: 63121 BUSINESS PHONE: 3149960900 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: C/O EXPRESS SCRIPTS, INC. STREET 2: ONE EXPRESS WAY CITY: ST. LOUIS STATE: MO ZIP: 63121 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: Express Scripts Pharmaceutical Procurement, LLC CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001465023 IRS NUMBER: 205826948 STATE OF INCORPORATION: DE FISCAL YEAR END: 1231 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: S-3ASR SEC ACT: 1933 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 333-159654-37 FILM NUMBER: 09866722 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: C/O EXPRESS SCRIPTS, INC. STREET 2: ONE EXPRESS WAY CITY: ST. LOUIS STATE: MO ZIP: 63121 BUSINESS PHONE: 3149960900 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: C/O EXPRESS SCRIPTS, INC. STREET 2: ONE EXPRESS WAY CITY: ST. LOUIS STATE: MO ZIP: 63121 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: Express Scripts Sales Development Co. CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001465024 IRS NUMBER: 431832983 STATE OF INCORPORATION: DE FISCAL YEAR END: 1231 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: S-3ASR SEC ACT: 1933 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 333-159654-36 FILM NUMBER: 09866721 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: C/O EXPRESS SCRIPTS, INC. STREET 2: ONE EXPRESS WAY CITY: ST. LOUIS STATE: MO ZIP: 63121 BUSINESS PHONE: 3149960900 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: C/O EXPRESS SCRIPTS, INC. STREET 2: ONE EXPRESS WAY CITY: ST. LOUIS STATE: MO ZIP: 63121 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: Express Scripts Senior Care Holdings, Inc. CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001465025 IRS NUMBER: 203126104 STATE OF INCORPORATION: DE FISCAL YEAR END: 1231 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: S-3ASR SEC ACT: 1933 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 333-159654-34 FILM NUMBER: 09866719 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: C/O EXPRESS SCRIPTS, INC. STREET 2: ONE EXPRESS WAY CITY: ST. LOUIS STATE: MO ZIP: 63121 BUSINESS PHONE: 3149960900 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: C/O EXPRESS SCRIPTS, INC. STREET 2: ONE EXPRESS WAY CITY: ST. LOUIS STATE: MO ZIP: 63121 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: Express Scripts Senior Care, Inc. CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001465026 IRS NUMBER: 203126075 STATE OF INCORPORATION: DE FISCAL YEAR END: 1231 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: S-3ASR SEC ACT: 1933 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 333-159654-35 FILM NUMBER: 09866720 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: C/O EXPRESS SCRIPTS, INC. STREET 2: ONE EXPRESS WAY CITY: ST. LOUIS STATE: MO ZIP: 63121 BUSINESS PHONE: 3149960900 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: C/O EXPRESS SCRIPTS, INC. STREET 2: ONE EXPRESS WAY CITY: ST. LOUIS STATE: MO ZIP: 63121 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: Express Scripts Specialty Distribution Services, Inc. CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001465027 IRS NUMBER: 431869712 STATE OF INCORPORATION: DE FISCAL YEAR END: 1231 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: S-3ASR SEC ACT: 1933 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 333-159654-33 FILM NUMBER: 09866718 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: C/O EXPRESS SCRIPTS, INC. STREET 2: ONE EXPRESS WAY CITY: ST. LOUIS STATE: MO ZIP: 63121 BUSINESS PHONE: 3149960900 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: C/O EXPRESS SCRIPTS, INC. STREET 2: ONE EXPRESS WAY CITY: ST. LOUIS STATE: MO ZIP: 63121 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: Express Scripts Utilization Management Co. CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001465028 IRS NUMBER: 431869714 STATE OF INCORPORATION: DE FISCAL YEAR END: 1231 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: S-3ASR SEC ACT: 1933 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 333-159654-32 FILM NUMBER: 09866717 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: C/O EXPRESS SCRIPTS, INC. STREET 2: ONE EXPRESS WAY CITY: ST. LOUIS STATE: MO ZIP: 63121 BUSINESS PHONE: 3149960900 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: C/O EXPRESS SCRIPTS, INC. STREET 2: ONE EXPRESS WAY CITY: ST. LOUIS STATE: MO ZIP: 63121 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: Freco, Inc. CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001465029 IRS NUMBER: 020523249 STATE OF INCORPORATION: FL FISCAL YEAR END: 1231 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: S-3ASR SEC ACT: 1933 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 333-159654-31 FILM NUMBER: 09866716 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: C/O EXPRESS SCRIPTS, INC. STREET 2: ONE EXPRESS WAY CITY: ST. LOUIS STATE: MO ZIP: 63121 BUSINESS PHONE: 3149960900 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: C/O EXPRESS SCRIPTS, INC. STREET 2: ONE EXPRESS WAY CITY: ST. LOUIS STATE: MO ZIP: 63121 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: Freedom Service Company, LLC CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001465030 IRS NUMBER: 203229217 STATE OF INCORPORATION: FL FISCAL YEAR END: 1231 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: S-3ASR SEC ACT: 1933 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 333-159654-30 FILM NUMBER: 09866715 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: C/O EXPRESS SCRIPTS, INC. STREET 2: ONE EXPRESS WAY CITY: ST. LOUIS STATE: MO ZIP: 63121 BUSINESS PHONE: 3149960900 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: C/O EXPRESS SCRIPTS, INC. STREET 2: ONE EXPRESS WAY CITY: ST. LOUIS STATE: MO ZIP: 63121 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: Mooresville On-Site Pharmacy CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001465031 IRS NUMBER: 261102625 STATE OF INCORPORATION: DE FISCAL YEAR END: 1231 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: S-3ASR SEC ACT: 1933 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 333-159654-23 FILM NUMBER: 09866708 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: C/O EXPRESS SCRIPTS, INC. STREET 2: ONE EXPRESS WAY CITY: ST. LOUIS STATE: MO ZIP: 63121 BUSINESS PHONE: 3149960900 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: C/O EXPRESS SCRIPTS, INC. STREET 2: ONE EXPRESS WAY CITY: ST. LOUIS STATE: MO ZIP: 63121 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: National Prescription Administrators, Inc. CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001465032 IRS NUMBER: 222230703 STATE OF INCORPORATION: NJ FISCAL YEAR END: 1231 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: S-3ASR SEC ACT: 1933 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 333-159654-21 FILM NUMBER: 09866706 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: C/O EXPRESS SCRIPTS, INC. STREET 2: ONE EXPRESS WAY CITY: ST. LOUIS STATE: MO ZIP: 63121 BUSINESS PHONE: 3149960900 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: C/O EXPRESS SCRIPTS, INC. STREET 2: ONE EXPRESS WAY CITY: ST. LOUIS STATE: MO ZIP: 63121 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: NextRx Sub I, LLC CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001465033 IRS NUMBER: 000000000 STATE OF INCORPORATION: DE FISCAL YEAR END: 1231 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: S-3ASR SEC ACT: 1933 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 333-159654-20 FILM NUMBER: 09866705 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: C/O EXPRESS SCRIPTS, INC. STREET 2: ONE EXPRESS WAY CITY: ST. LOUIS STATE: MO ZIP: 63121 BUSINESS PHONE: 3149960900 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: C/O EXPRESS SCRIPTS, INC. STREET 2: ONE EXPRESS WAY CITY: ST. LOUIS STATE: MO ZIP: 63121 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: NextRx Sub II, LLC CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001465034 IRS NUMBER: 000000000 STATE OF INCORPORATION: DE FISCAL YEAR END: 1231 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: S-3ASR SEC ACT: 1933 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 333-159654-19 FILM NUMBER: 09866704 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: C/O EXPRESS SCRIPTS, INC. STREET 2: ONE EXPRESS WAY CITY: ST. LOUIS STATE: MO ZIP: 63121 BUSINESS PHONE: 3149960900 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: C/O EXPRESS SCRIPTS, INC. STREET 2: ONE EXPRESS WAY CITY: ST. LOUIS STATE: MO ZIP: 63121 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: NextRx Sub III, LLC CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001465035 IRS NUMBER: 000000000 STATE OF INCORPORATION: DE FISCAL YEAR END: 1231 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: S-3ASR SEC ACT: 1933 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 333-159654-18 FILM NUMBER: 09866703 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: C/O EXPRESS SCRIPTS, INC. STREET 2: ONE EXPRESS WAY CITY: ST. LOUIS STATE: MO ZIP: 63121 BUSINESS PHONE: 3149960900 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: C/O EXPRESS SCRIPTS, INC. STREET 2: ONE EXPRESS WAY CITY: ST. LOUIS STATE: MO ZIP: 63121 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: Phoenix Marketing Group, LLC CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001465036 IRS NUMBER: 260041070 STATE OF INCORPORATION: DE FISCAL YEAR END: 1231 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: S-3ASR SEC ACT: 1933 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 333-159654-17 FILM NUMBER: 09866702 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: C/O EXPRESS SCRIPTS, INC. STREET 2: ONE EXPRESS WAY CITY: ST. LOUIS STATE: MO ZIP: 63121 BUSINESS PHONE: 3149960900 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: C/O EXPRESS SCRIPTS, INC. STREET 2: ONE EXPRESS WAY CITY: ST. LOUIS STATE: MO ZIP: 63121 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: Priority Healthcare Corp West CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001465037 IRS NUMBER: 880445494 STATE OF INCORPORATION: NV FISCAL YEAR END: 1231 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: S-3ASR SEC ACT: 1933 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 333-159654-14 FILM NUMBER: 09866699 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: C/O EXPRESS SCRIPTS, INC. STREET 2: ONE EXPRESS WAY CITY: ST. LOUIS STATE: MO ZIP: 63121 BUSINESS PHONE: 3149960900 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: C/O EXPRESS SCRIPTS, INC. STREET 2: ONE EXPRESS WAY CITY: ST. LOUIS STATE: MO ZIP: 63121 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: Priority Healthcare Distribution, Inc. CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001465038 IRS NUMBER: 593761140 STATE OF INCORPORATION: FL FISCAL YEAR END: 1231 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: S-3ASR SEC ACT: 1933 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 333-159654-13 FILM NUMBER: 09866698 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: C/O EXPRESS SCRIPTS, INC. STREET 2: ONE EXPRESS WAY CITY: ST. LOUIS STATE: MO ZIP: 63121 BUSINESS PHONE: 3149960900 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: C/O EXPRESS SCRIPTS, INC. STREET 2: ONE EXPRESS WAY CITY: ST. LOUIS STATE: MO ZIP: 63121 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: Priority Healthcare Pharmacy, Inc. CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001465039 IRS NUMBER: 593099905 STATE OF INCORPORATION: FL FISCAL YEAR END: 1231 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: S-3ASR SEC ACT: 1933 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 333-159654-12 FILM NUMBER: 09866697 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: C/O EXPRESS SCRIPTS, INC. STREET 2: ONE EXPRESS WAY CITY: ST. LOUIS STATE: MO ZIP: 63121 BUSINESS PHONE: 3149960900 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: C/O EXPRESS SCRIPTS, INC. STREET 2: ONE EXPRESS WAY CITY: ST. LOUIS STATE: MO ZIP: 63121 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: Priorityhealthcare.com, Inc. CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001465040 IRS NUMBER: 593573515 STATE OF INCORPORATION: FL FISCAL YEAR END: 1231 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: S-3ASR SEC ACT: 1933 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 333-159654-16 FILM NUMBER: 09866701 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: C/O EXPRESS SCRIPTS, INC. STREET 2: ONE EXPRESS WAY CITY: ST. LOUIS STATE: MO ZIP: 63121 BUSINESS PHONE: 3149960900 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: C/O EXPRESS SCRIPTS, INC. STREET 2: ONE EXPRESS WAY CITY: ST. 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As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on June 2, 2009
 
Registration No. 333-      
 
UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
 
 
 
 
Form S-3
 
REGISTRATION STATEMENT
UNDER
THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933
 
 
 
 
EXPRESS SCRIPTS, INC.
*And the Subsidiary Guarantors listed below
(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in Its Charter)
 
     
Delaware
  43-1420563
(State or Other Jurisdiction of Incorporation or Organization)   (I.R.S. Employer Identification No.)
 
One Express Way
St. Louis, Missouri 63121
(314) 996-0900
(Address, Including Zip Code, and Telephone Number, Including Area Code, of Registrant’s Principal Executive Offices)
 
 
 
 
Keith J. Ebling, Esq.
Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary
Express Scripts, Inc.
One Express Way
 
St. Louis, Missouri 63121
(314) 996-0900
(Name, address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code, of agent for service)
 
 
 
 
With a copy to:
Stacy J. Kanter
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP
Four Times Square
 
New York, NY 10036
Telephone: (212) 735-3000
Facsimile: (212) 735-2000
 
 
Approximate date of commencement of proposed sale to the public:  From time to time after the effective date of this registration statement as determined by the Registrants
 
If the only securities being registered on this Form are being offered pursuant to dividend or interest reinvestment plans, please check the following box.  o
 
If any of the securities being registered on this form are to be offered on a delayed or continuous basis pursuant to Rule 415 under the Securities Act of 1933, other than securities offered only in connection with dividend or interest reinvestment plans, check the following box.  þ
 
If this Form is filed to register additional securities for an offering pursuant to Rule 462(b) under the Securities Act, please check the following box and list the Securities Act registration statement number of the earlier effective registration statement for the same offering.  o
 
If this Form is a post-effective amendment filed pursuant to Rule 462(c) under the Securities Act, check the following box and list the Securities Act registration statement number of the earlier effective registration statement for the same offering.  o
 
If this Form is a registration statement pursuant to General Instruction I.D. or a post-effective amendment thereto that shall become effective upon filing with the Commission pursuant to Rule 462(e) under the Securities Act, check the following box.  þ
 
If this Form is a post-effective amendment to a registration statement filed pursuant to General Instruction I.D. filed to register additional securities or additional classes of securities pursuant to Rule 413(b) under the Securities Act, check the following box.  o
 
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer, or a smaller reporting company. See the definitions of “large accelerated filer,” “accelerated filer” and “smaller reporting company” in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act. (Check one):
Large accelerated filer þ Accelerated filer o Non-accelerated filer o Smaller reporting company o
(Do not check if a smaller reporting company)
 
 
CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE
 
                         
            Proposed Maximum
    Proposed Maximum
    Amount of
Title of Each Class of
    Amount to be
    Offering
    Aggregate
    Registration
Securities to be Registered(1)     Registered(2)(3)     Price per Unit(2)(3)     Offering Price(2)(3)     Fee(4)
Common Stock (together with the attached preferred share purchase rights), Preferred Stock, Warrants, Subscription Rights, Debt Securities, Guarantees of Debt Securities(5), Purchase Contracts, Purchase Units
                                               
                         
 
(1) Securities registered hereunder may be sold separately, together or as units with other securities registered hereunder.
 
(2) Not applicable pursuant to Form S-3 General Instruction II.E.
 
(3) We are registering an indeterminate aggregate principal amount and number of securities of each identified class of securities, which may be offered from time to time in unspecified numbers and at indeterminate prices, and as may be issuable upon conversion, redemption, repurchase, exchange or exercise of any securities registered hereunder, including under any applicable anti-dilution provisions.
 
(4) In accordance with Rules 456(b) and 457(r) under the Securities Act, the registrant is deferring payment of the entire registration fee.
 
(5) No separate consideration will be received for the guarantees.
 


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*TABLE OF SUBSIDIARY GUARANTOR REGISTRANTS
 
         
    State or Other
  I.R.S. Employer
    Jurisdiction of
  Identification
Name, Address and Telephone Number(1)
  Incorporation   Number
 
Airport Holdings, LLC
  New Jersey   75-3040465
Byfield Drug, Inc. 
  Massachusetts   01-0705518
Care Continuum, Inc. 
  Kentucky   61-1162797
CFI of New Jersey, Inc. 
  New Jersey   22-3114423
Chesapeake Infusion, Inc. 
  Florida   22-3835126
ConnectYourCare Company, LLC
  Delaware   20-2996995
ConnectYourCare, LLC
  Maryland   26-1274092
CuraScript, Inc. 
  Delaware   36-4369972
CuraScript PBM Services, Inc. 
  Delaware   36-4374570
Diversified Pharmaceutical Services, Inc. 
  Minnesota   41-1627938
ESI Claims, Inc. 
  Delaware   43-1869691
ESI Enterprises, LLC
  Delaware   56-2356810
ESI-GP Holdings, Inc. 
  Delaware   43-1925556
ESI Mail Pharmacy Service, Inc. 
  Delaware   43-1867735
ESI Partnership
  Delaware   43-1925562
ESI Realty, LLC
  New Jersey   75-3040456
ESI Resources, Inc. 
  Minnesota   41-2006555
Express Scripts Canada Holding, Co. 
  Delaware   43-1942542
Express Scripts Pharmaceutical Procurement, LLC
  Delaware   20-5826948
Express Scripts Sales Development Co. 
  Delaware   43-1832983
Express Scripts Senior Care, Inc. 
  Delaware   20-3126075
Express Scripts Senior Care Holdings, Inc. 
  Delaware   20-3126104
Express Scripts Specialty Distribution Services, Inc. 
  Delaware   43-1869712
Express Scripts Utilization Management Co. 
  Delaware   43-1869714
Freco, Inc. 
  Florida   02-0523249
Freedom Service Company, LLC
  Florida   20-3229217
Healthbridge, Inc. 
  Delaware   26-2159005
Healthbridge Reimbursement and Product Support, Inc. 
  Massachusetts   04-2992335
iBiologic, Inc. 
  Delaware   20-0325621
IVTx, Inc. 
  Delaware   43-1794690
Lynnfield Compounding Center, Inc. 
  Florida   58-2593075
Lynnfield Drug, Inc. 
  Florida   04-354-6044
Matrix GPO LLC
  Indiana   51-0500147
Mooresville On-Site Pharmacy, LLC
  Delaware   26-1102625
MSC — Medical Services Company
  Florida   59-2997634
National Prescription Administrators, Inc. 
  New Jersey   22-2230703
NextRx Sub I, LLC
  Delaware   27-0255687
NextRx Sub II, LLC
  Delaware   27-0255828
NextRx Sub III, LLC
  Delaware   27-0255972
Phoenix Marketing Group, LLC
  Delaware   26-0041070
Priorityhealthcare.com, Inc. 
  Florida   59-3573515
Priority Healthcare Corporation
  Indiana   35-1927379
Priority Healthcare Corporation West
  Nevada   88-0445494


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    State or Other
  I.R.S. Employer
    Jurisdiction of
  Identification
Name, Address and Telephone Number(1)
  Incorporation   Number
 
Priority Healthcare Distribution, Inc. 
  Florida   59-3761140
Priority Healthcare Pharmacy, Inc. 
  Florida   59-3099905
Sinuspharmacy, Inc. 
  Florida   56-2394216
Specialty Infusion Pharmacy, Inc. 
  Florida   74-3105470
Spectracare, Inc. 
  Kentucky   61-1147068
Spectracare Health Care Ventures, Inc. 
  Kentucky   61-1317695
Spectracare of Indiana
  Indiana   35-1807559
Spectracare Infusion Pharmacy, Inc. 
  Kentucky   61-1147067
Speedy Re-employment, LLC
  Florida   20-0551334
Value Health, Inc. 
  Delaware   06-1194838
YourPharmacy.com, Inc. 
  Delaware   43-1842584
 
 
(1) The address of the principal executive office for each of these additional registrants is One Express Way, St. Louis, Missouri 63121. Their telephone number is (314) 996-0900.


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PROSPECTUS
 
(EXPRESS SCRIPTS LOGO)
 
EXPRESS SCRIPTS, INC.
 
COMMON STOCK
PREFERRED STOCK
DEBT SECURITIES
WARRANTS
SUBSCRIPTION RIGHTS
PURCHASE CONTRACTS
PURCHASE UNITS
 
We may offer and sell from time to time our securities in one or more classes or series and in amounts, at prices and on terms that we will determine at the times of the offerings. Our subsidiaries may guarantee any debt securities that we issue under this prospectus. We may from time to time offer to sell together or separately in one or more offerings:
 
  •  common stock;
 
  •  preferred stock;
 
  •  debt securities, which may be senior, subordinated or junior subordinated and convertible or non-convertible;
 
  •  warrants to purchase common stock, preferred stock or debt securities;
 
  •  subscription rights to purchase common stock, preferred stock, debt securities or other securities;
 
  •  purchase contracts; and
 
  •  purchase units.
 
This prospectus describes some of the general terms that may apply to these securities. We will provide the specific prices and terms of these securities in one or more supplements to this prospectus at the time of the offering. You should read this prospectus and the accompanying prospectus supplement carefully before you make your investment decision.
 
We may offer and sell these securities through underwriters, dealers or agents or directly to purchasers, on a continuous or delayed basis. These securities may also be resold by selling security holders. The prospectus supplement for each offering will describe in detail the plan of distribution for that offering and will set forth the names of any underwriters, dealers or agents involved in the offering and any applicable fees, commissions or discount arrangements.
 
This prospectus may not be used to sell securities unless accompanied by a prospectus supplement or a free writing prospectus.
 
Our common stock is listed on the NASDAQ Global Select Market under the trading symbol “ESRX.” Each prospectus supplement will indicate whether the securities offered thereby will be listed on any securities exchange.
 
Investing in our securities involves a high degree of risk. See “Risk Factors” in our most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K, our Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q and in any applicable prospectus supplement and/or other offering material for a discussion of certain factors which should be considered in an investment of the securities which may be offered hereby.
 
Neither the Securities and Exchange Commission nor any state securities commission has approved or disapproved of these securities or determined if this prospectus or the accompanying prospectus supplement is truthful or complete. Any representation to the contrary is a criminal offense.
 
The date of this prospectus is June 2, 2009.


 


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ABOUT THIS PROSPECTUS
 
This prospectus is part of a registration statement that we filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) using a “shelf” registration process. Under the shelf registration process, we may from time to time sell any combination of the securities described in this prospectus in one or more offerings.
 
This prospectus only provides you with a general description of the securities we may offer. Each time we sell securities we will provide a supplement to this prospectus and/or other offering material that will contain specific information about the terms of that offering, including the specific amounts, prices and terms of the securities offered. The prospectus supplement may also add, update or change information contained in this prospectus. You should carefully read both this prospectus and any accompanying prospectus supplement or other offering materials, together with the additional information described under the heading “Where You Can Find More Information” beginning on page 13 of this prospectus.
 
You should rely only on the information contained or incorporated by reference in this prospectus, any supplement to this prospectus or other offering material filed by us with the SEC. We have not authorized anyone to provide you with different information. If anyone provides you with different or inconsistent information, you should not rely on it. We are not making an offer to sell these securities in any jurisdiction where the offer or sale is not permitted.
 
This prospectus and any accompanying prospectus supplement or other offering materials do not contain all of the information included in the registration statement as permitted by the rules and regulations of the SEC. For further information, we refer you to the registration statement on Form S-3, including its exhibits. We are subject to the informational requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (“Exchange Act”), and, therefore, file reports and other information with the SEC. Statements contained in this prospectus and any accompanying prospectus supplement or other offering materials about the provisions or contents of any agreement or other document are only summaries. If SEC rules require that any agreement or document be filed as an exhibit to the registration statement, you should refer to that agreement or document for its complete contents.
 
You should not assume that the information in this prospectus, any prospectus supplement or any other offering materials is accurate as of any date other than the date on the front of each document. Our business, financial condition, results of operations and prospects may have changed since then.
 
In this prospectus, unless otherwise specified or the context requires otherwise, we use the terms “Express Scripts,” the “Company,” “we,” “us” and “our” to refer to Express Scripts, Inc. and its subsidiaries.
 
CAUTIONARY STATEMENT REGARDING FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS
 
Information we have included or incorporated by reference in this prospectus, any accompanying prospectus supplement and the documents incorporated by reference, contain or may contain forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements include, among others, statements of our plans, objectives, expectations (financial or otherwise) or intentions.
 
Our forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties. Our actual results may differ significantly from those projected or suggested in any forward-looking statements. We do not undertake any obligation to release publicly any revisions to such forward-looking statements to reflect events or circumstances occurring after the date hereof or to reflect the occurrence of unanticipated events. Factors that might cause such a difference to occur include, but are not limited to:
 
  •  uncertainties associated with our acquisitions, including our acquisition of the PBM business from WellPoint, Inc., which include uncertainties as to the satisfaction or waiver of conditions to closing, integration risks and costs, uncertainties associated with client retention and repricing of client contracts, and uncertainties associated with the operations of acquired businesses;
 
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  impact of such matters on the healthcare marketplace), more aggressive enforcement of existing legislation or regulations, or a change in the interpretation of existing legislation or regulations;
 
  •  our leverage and debt service obligations, including the effect of certain covenants in our borrowing agreements, access to capital and increases in interest rates;
 
  •  continued pressure on margins resulting from client demands for lower prices or different pricing approaches, enhanced service offerings and/or higher service levels;
 
  •  costs and uncertainties of adverse results in litigation, including a number of pending class action cases that challenge certain of our business practices;
 
  •  the possible loss, or adverse modification of the terms, of contracts with pharmacies in our retail pharmacy network;
 
  •  the possible termination of, or unfavorable modification to, contracts with key clients or providers, some of which could have a material impact on our financial results;
 
  •  our ability to maintain growth rates, or to control operating or capital costs, including the impact of declines in prescription drug utilization resulting from the current economic environment;
 
  •  competition in the pharmacy benefit management, or PBM, and specialty pharmacy industries, and our ability to consummate contract negotiations with prospective clients, as well as competition from new competitors offering services that may, in whole or in part, replace services that we now provide to our customers;
 
  •  changes in industry pricing benchmarks such as average wholesale price and average manufacturer price, which could have the effect of reducing prices and margins;
 
  •  increased compliance risk relating to our contracts with the Department of Defense TRICARE Management Activity and various state governments and agencies;
 
  •  uncertainties and risks regarding the Medicare Part D prescription drug benefit, including the financial impact to us to the extent we participate in the program on a risk-bearing basis, uncertainties of client or member losses to other providers under Medicare Part D, implementation of regulations that adversely affect our profitability or cash flow, and increased regulatory risk;
 
  •  the possible loss, or adverse modification of the terms, of relationships with pharmaceutical manufacturers, or changes in pricing, discount or other practices of pharmaceutical manufacturers or interruption of the supply of any pharmaceutical products;
 
  •  in connection with our specialty pharmacy business, the possible loss, or adverse modification of the terms of our contracts with a limited number of biopharmaceutical companies from whom we acquire specialty pharmaceuticals;
 
  •  the use and protection of the intellectual property, data, and tangible assets that we use in our business, or infringement or alleged infringement by us of intellectual property claimed by others;
 
  •  general developments in the healthcare industry, including the impact of increases in healthcare costs, government programs to control healthcare costs, changes in drug utilization and cost patterns and introductions of new drugs;
 
  •  increase in credit risk relative to our clients due to adverse economic trends or other factors; and
 
  •  other risks described from time to time in our filings with the SEC.
 
These and other relevant factors, including those risk factors identified in our Annual Report on Form 10-K, our Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q and our other filings under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, or the Exchange Act, parts of which are incorporated by reference in this prospectus, should be carefully considered when reviewing any forward-looking statement. See “Where You Can Find More Information.”


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EXPRESS SCRIPTS, INC.
 
We are one of the largest full-service pharmacy benefit management companies in North America and we provide healthcare management and administration services on behalf of our clients, which include health maintenance organizations, health insurers, third-party administrators, employers, union-sponsored benefit plans, workers’ compensation plans and government health programs. We assist plan sponsors in addressing access and affordability concerns resulting from rising drug costs while helping to improve health outcomes. We also work with clients, manufacturers, pharmacies and physicians to increase efficiency in the drug distribution chain, to manage costs in pharmacy benefit, and to improve members’ health outcomes and satisfaction. During the first quarter of 2009, we changed our reportable segments to Pharmacy Benefit Management (“PBM”) and Emerging Markets (“EM”). For the three months ended March 31, 2009, our PBM segment contributed approximately 99% of our operating income.
 
Our integrated PBM services include network claims processing, home delivery services, patient care and direct specialty home delivery to patients, benefit design consultation, drug utilization review, formulary management, drug data analysis services, distribution of injectable drugs to patients’ homes and physicians offices, bio-pharma services, and fulfillment of prescriptions to low-income patients through manufacturer-sponsored patient assistance programs and company-sponsored generic patient assistance programs. Our specialty pharmacy operations have been integrated with our PBM operations in order to maximize its growth and improve efficiency. Through our EM segment, we provide services including distribution of pharmaceuticals and medical supplies to providers and clinics, distribution of sample units to physicians and verification of practitioner licensure, fertility services to providers and patients, healthcare account administration and implementation of consumer-directed healthcare solutions.
 
Revenue generated by our segments can be classified as either tangible product revenue or service revenue. We earn tangible product revenue from the sale of prescription drugs by retail pharmacies in our retail pharmacy networks and from dispensing prescription drugs from our home delivery and specialty pharmacies. Service revenue includes administrative fees associated with the administration of retail pharmacy networks contracted by certain clients, market research programs, medication counseling services, certain specialty distribution services, and sample fulfillment and accountability services. Tangible product revenue generated by our PBM and EM segments represented approximately 99% of revenues for both the three months ended March 31, 2009 and the same period of 2008.
 
During 2008, we established the Center for Cost-Effective Consumerism which assists us in the advancement of our understanding of consumers and the way they use healthcare. The center combines our industry-leading research capabilities with insights from a multidisciplinary advisory board of national experts in the science of human behavior and decision making. Using work done by the center, we plan to better position our plan sponsors to achieve the lowest cost drug mix (e.g., generics), maximum therapy adherence (in key classes), greatest use of most cost-effective delivery channel, uncompromising safety standards and increasing member engagement and satisfaction.
 
During 2008, we processed approximately 506.3 million adjusted claims, generating approximately $22.0 billion of revenue, $779.6 million of net income from continuing operations and $1.4 billion of EBITDA. On average, we earned $2.72 of EBITDA per adjusted claim in 2008 versus $2.34 in 2007. During the three months ended March 31, 2009, we processed approximately 124.1 million adjusted claims, generating $5.4 billion of revenue, $214.7 million of net income from continuing operations and $380.1 million of EBITDA. We averaged $3.06 of EBITDA per adjusted claim during this latest three-month period versus $2.46 for the same three-month period in 2008. EBITDA is earnings before other income (expense), interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization, or operating income plus depreciation and amortization.
 
On April 9, 2009, we entered into a Stock and Interest Purchase Agreement (the “acquisition agreement”) with WellPoint, Inc., (“WellPoint”). The acquisition agreement provides that we will purchase the Pharmacy Benefit Management Business of WellPoint (the “PBM business”), including all of the shares and equity interests of three WellPoint subsidiaries, NextRx, Inc., NextRx Services, Inc., and NextRx, LLC (collectively, “NextRx”) in exchange for total consideration of $4.675 billion, composed of $3.275 billion in cash and $1.4 billion in shares of our common stock (valued based on the average closing price of our common stock over the 60 days preceding the closing of the acquisition) (the “acquisition”). We may, in our discretion, replace all or any portion of the common stock consideration with cash. At the closing of the acquisition, we will enter into a 10-year contract with WellPoint under which we will provide PBM services to WellPoint and its designated affiliates. The PBM business provides PBM services to approximately 25 million members and manages more than 265 million adjusted claims annually.


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We were incorporated in Missouri in September 1986 and were reincorporated in Delaware in March 1992. Our principal executive offices are located at One Express Way, St. Louis, Missouri 63121 and our telephone number at that address is (314) 996-0900. Our website address is www.express-scripts.com. The information on, or accessible through, our website is not part of this prospectus and should not be relied upon in connection with making any investment decision with respect to the securities offered by this prospectus.
 
RISK FACTORS
 
You should consider the specific risks described in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2008, our Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended March 31, 2009, the risk factors described under the caption “Risk Factors” in any applicable prospectus supplement and any risk factors set forth in our other filings with the SEC, pursuant to Sections 13(a), 13(c), 14 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act, before making an investment decision. Each of the risks described in these documents could materially and adversely affect our business, financial condition, results of operations and prospects, and could result in a partial or complete loss of your investment. See “Where You Can Find More Information” beginning on page 13 of this prospectus.
 
USE OF PROCEEDS
 
We intend to use the net proceeds from the sale of the securities as set forth in the applicable prospectus supplement and/or other offering material. Unless otherwise set forth in a prospectus supplement, we will not receive any proceeds in the event that securities are sold by a selling security holder.
 
RATIO OF EARNINGS TO FIXED CHARGES
 
The following table sets forth our ratio of earnings to fixed charges for the periods indicated:
 
                         
    Three Months
                   
    Ended March 31,
  Year Ended December 31,
    2009   2008   2007   2006   2005   2004
 
Ratio of Earnings to Fixed Charges(1)
  18.6x   14.8x   9.0x   8.1x   14.6x   10.3x
 
 
(1) For purposes of calculating the ratio of earnings to fixed charges, earnings represent income before income taxes and equity earnings from affiliates plus fixed charges. Fixed charges include interest expense and our estimate of the interest component of rent expense.
 
As of the date of this prospectus, we had no preferred stock outstanding.
 
DESCRIPTION OF SECURITIES
 
This prospectus contains summary descriptions of the common stock, preferred stock, debt securities, warrants, subscription rights, purchase contracts and purchase units that we may offer and sell from time to time. These summary descriptions are not meant to be complete descriptions of each security. The particular terms of any security will be described in the applicable prospectus supplement.
 
DESCRIPTION OF CAPITAL STOCK
 
General
 
Our authorized capital stock consists of 1,000,000,000 shares of common stock, par value $0.01 per share, and 5,000,000 shares of preferred stock, par value $0.01 per share, of which 100,000 have been designated Series A Junior Participating Preferred Stock. As of May 31, 2009, there were 248,169,814 shares of our common stock outstanding (including 71,095,754 shares held in treasury) and no shares of preferred stock were outstanding. On such date, 6,549,609 shares of common stock were subject to outstanding options and 2,507,355 shares of common stock were subject to stock settled appreciation rights (SSRs).


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The following description of the terms of our common stock and preferred stock is not complete and is qualified in its entirety by reference to our amended and restated certificate of incorporation, as amended, our third amended and restated bylaws and rights plan, each of which are filed as an exhibit to the registration statement of which this prospectus is a part, and the applicable provisions of the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware. To find out where copies of our certificate of incorporation and by-laws can be obtained, see “Where You Can Find More Information.” beginning on page 13 of this prospectus.
 
Common Stock
 
The outstanding shares of our common stock are fully paid and nonassessable. Each holder of our common stock is entitled to one vote per share upon all questions presented to stockholders. The holders of our common stock have no preemptive rights and no rights to convert their common stock into any other securities. There are also no redemption or sinking fund provisions applicable to our common stock.
 
Subject to the preferences applicable to any shares of our preferred stock outstanding at the time, holders of our common stock are entitled to receive dividends when and as declared by our board of directors from funds legally available therefore and are entitled, in the event of liquidation, to share ratably in all assets remaining paid after payment of liquidation.
 
Our common stock is listed on the NASDAQ Global Select Market under the symbol “ESRX.” The transfer agent and registrar for our common stock is American Stock Transfer & Trust Company.
 
Preferred Stock
 
Our board of directors has the authority, without further action by our stockholders, to issue up to 5,000,000 shares of preferred stock in one or more series and to fix the following terms of the preferred stock:
 
  •  the designation of each series;
 
  •  the number of shares of each series, the designation of such series, as well as the powers, preferences, and rights, as well as the qualifications, limitations, or restrictions thereof;
 
  •  the liquidation preferences;
 
  •  dividends rights and the dividend rate, if any;
 
  •  the rights and terms of conversion, if any;
 
  •  the voting rights, if any;
 
  •  the rights and terms of redemption (including sinking fund provisions), if any, and the redemption price; and
 
  •  the rights of the series in the event of any voluntary or involuntary liquidation, dissolution or winding-up of our affairs.
 
It is not possible to state the actual effect of the issuance of any shares of preferred stock upon the rights of holders of our common stock until the board of directors determines the specific rights of the holders of the preferred stock. However, any or all of these rights may be greater than the rights of our common stock and effects of the issuances of any preferred stock might include:
 
  •  restricting dividends on the common stock;
 
  •  diluting the voting power of the common stock;
 
  •  impairing the liquidation rights of the common stock; and
 
  •  delaying or preventing a change in control of our company.
 
Any or all of these rights may be greater than the rights of our common stock. Our board of directors has designated 100,000 shares of preferred stock “Series A Junior Participating Preferred Stock,” which shares are issuable upon certain events specified in our rights plan, as described below.


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Rights Plan
 
On July 25, 2001, our board of directors declared a dividend of one preferred stock purchase right for each share of common stock, par value $0.01 per share. The dividend was paid on August 10, 2001. As long as the rights are attached to our common stock, we will issue one right (subject to adjustment) with each new share of our common stock so that all shares of our stock will have attached rights.
 
When exercisable, each right will entitle the registered holder to purchase one one-thousandth of a share of Series A Junior Participating Preferred Stock from us at a price of $300.00 per one one-thousandth of a share of Series A Junior Participating Preferred Stock, subject to adjustment. Until a right is exercised, the holder of the right has no right to vote or receive dividends or any other rights as a stockholder as a result of holding the right. The rights trade automatically with shares of our common stock and may be exercised only in connection with certain attempts to take us over. The rights are designed to protect our interests and the interest of our stockholders against coercive takeover tactics and to encourage potential acquirors to negotiate with our board of directors before attempting a takeover. The preferred stock purchase rights theoretically could, but are not intended to, deter takeover proposals that might be in the best interests of our stockholders.
 
The description and terms of the preferred stock purchase rights set forth above is not complete and is qualified in its entirety by reference to the rights agreement, dated as of July 25, 2001 (as the same may be amended from time to time), between us and American Stock Transfer & Trust Company, as Rights Agent which is filed as an exhibit to the registration statement of which this prospectus is a part. The rights expire on July 25, 2011, unless this expiration date is extended or the rights are otherwise redeemed or exchanged at an earlier date.
 
Restated Certificate of Incorporation and Bylaw Provisions
 
Various provisions contained in our amended and restated certificate of incorporation and third amended and restated bylaws could delay or discourage some transactions involving an actual or potential change in control of us or our management and may limit the ability of our stockholders to remove current management or approve transactions that our stockholders may deem to be in their best interests. These provisions:
 
  •  authorize our board of directors to establish one or more series of undesignated preferred stock, the terms of which can be determined by the board of directors at the time of issuance;
 
  •  require that any action required or permitted to be taken by our stockholders must be effected at a duly called annual or special meeting of stockholders and may not be effected by any consent in writing;
 
  •  provide an advanced written notice procedure with respect to stockholder proposals and the nomination of candidates for election as directors, other than nominations made by or at the direction of our board of directors or a committee of our board of directors;
 
  •  state that special meetings of our stockholders may be called only by the chairman of the board of directors, the chief executive officer or a majority of the directors in office;
 
  •  provide that certain provisions of our third amended and restated bylaws can be amended only by supermajority vote (662/3%) of the outstanding shares; and
 
  •  allow our directors, and not our stockholders, to fill vacancies on our board of directors, including vacancies resulting from removal or enlargement of the board.
 
DESCRIPTION OF DEBT SECURITIES
 
This section describes the general terms and provisions of the debt securities that we may issue separately, upon exercise of a debt warrant, in connection with a stock purchase contract or as part of a stock purchase unit from time to time in the form of one or more series of debt securities. The applicable prospectus supplement and/or other offering material will describe the specific terms of the debt securities offered through that prospectus supplement as well as any general terms described in this section that will not apply to those debt securities. The debt securities will be issued under an indenture among us, certain of our domestic subsidiaries that may guarantee the securities and Union Bank, N.A., as trustee.


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We have summarized selected provisions of the indenture below. The summary is not complete. The form of the indenture has been filed with the SEC as an exhibit to the registration statement of which this prospectus is a part, and you should read the indenture for provisions that may be important to you. In the summary below, we have included references to article or section numbers of the indenture so that you can easily locate these provisions. Whenever we refer in this prospectus or in the prospectus supplement to particular article or sections or defined terms of the indentures, those article or sections or defined terms are incorporated by reference herein or therein, as applicable. Capitalized terms used in the summary have the meanings specified in the indenture.
 
General
 
The indenture provides that debt securities in separate series may be issued under the indenture from time to time without limitation as to the aggregate principal amount. We may specify a maximum aggregate principal amount for the debt securities of any series (Section 301). We will determine the terms and conditions of the debt securities, including the maturity, principal and interest, but those terms must be consistent with the indenture.
 
The applicable prospectus supplement will set forth or describe the following terms of each series of such debt securities:
 
  •  the title of the debt securities;
 
  •  any limit on the aggregate principal amount of the debt securities;
 
  •  the price or prices at which the debt securities will be offered;
 
  •  the person to whom any interest on the debt securities will be payable;
 
  •  the dates on which the principal of the debt securities will be payable;
 
  •  the interest rate or rates that the debt securities will bear and the interest payment dates for the debt securities;
 
  •  the places where payments on the debt securities will be payable;
 
  •  any periods within which, and terms upon which, the debt securities may be redeemed, in whole or in part, at our option;
 
  •  any sinking fund or other provisions that would obligate us to repurchase or otherwise redeem the debt securities;
 
  •  the portion of the principal amount, if less than all, of the debt securities that will be payable upon declaration of acceleration of the maturity of the debt securities;
 
  •  whether the debt securities are defeasible and any changes or additions to the indenture’s defeasance provisions;
 
  •  whether the debt securities are convertible into our common stock and, if so, the terms and conditions upon which conversion will be effected;
 
  •  any addition to or change in the events of default with respect to the debt securities;
 
  •  any addition to or change in the covenants in the indenture;
 
  •  whether any of our subsidiaries will provide guarantees of the debt securities; and
 
  •  any other terms of the debt securities not inconsistent with the provisions of the indenture (Section 301).
 
The indenture does not limit the amount of debt securities that may be issued. The indenture allows debt securities to be issued up to the principal amount that we may authorize and may be in any currency or currency unit we designate.
 
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special U.S. federal income tax or other considerations applicable to any debt securities that are denominated in a currency or currency unit other than U.S. dollars may be described in the applicable prospectus supplement.
 
Subsidiary Guarantees
 
If specified in the prospectus supplement, certain of our subsidiaries (our “subsidiary guarantors”) will guarantee the debt securities of a series.
 
Conversion Rights
 
The debt securities may be converted into other of our securities, if at all, according to the terms and conditions of an applicable prospectus supplement. Such terms will include the conversion price, the conversion period, provisions as to whether conversion will be at our option or the option of the holders of such series of debt securities, the events requiring an adjustment of the conversion price, and provisions affecting conversion in the event of the redemption of such series of debt securities.
 
Consolidation, Merger and Sale of Assets
 
Unless otherwise specified in the prospectus supplement, we may not consolidate with or merge into, or transfer, lease or otherwise dispose of all or substantially all of our assets to, any person, and may not permit any person to consolidate with or merge into us, unless:
 
  •  the successor person (if any) is a corporation, limited liability company, partnership, trust or other entity organized and validly existing under the laws of any domestic jurisdiction and assumes our obligations with respect to the debt securities under the indentures;
 
  •  immediately after giving pro forma effect to the transaction, no event of default, and no event which, after notice or lapse of time or both, would become an event of default, exists; and
 
  •  we deliver to the trustee an officers’ certificate and opinion of counsel stating that the transaction and the related supplemental indenture comply with the applicable provisions of the indenture and all applicable conditions precedent have been satisfied (Section 801).
 
Events of Default
 
Unless otherwise specified in the prospectus supplement, each of the following will constitute an event of default under the indenture with respect to debt securities of any series:
 
(1) failure to pay principal of or any premium on any debt security of that series when due;
 
(2) failure to pay any interest on any debt securities of that series when due, that is not cured within 30 days;
 
(3) failure to deposit any sinking fund payment, when due, in respect of any debt security of that series, that is not cured within 30 days;
 
(4) failure to perform any of our other covenants in such indenture (other than a covenant included in such indenture solely for the benefit of a series other than that series or that is not made applicable to that series), that is not cured within 90 days after written notice has been given by the trustee, or the holders of at least 25% in principal amount of the outstanding debt securities of that series, as provided in such indenture; or
 
(5) certain events of bankruptcy, insolvency or reorganization affecting us or any of our significant subsidiaries.
 
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specified in the terms of such security) to be due and payable immediately. If an event of default with respect to Express Scripts described in clause (5) above with respect to the debt securities of any series at the time outstanding occurs, the principal amount of all the debt securities of that series (or, in the case of any such Original Issue Discount Security, such specified amount) will automatically, and without any action by the trustee or any holder, become immediately due and payable. After any such a declaration of acceleration, but before a judgment or decree based on acceleration, the holders of a majority in principal amount of the outstanding debt securities of that series may, under certain circumstances, rescind and annul such declaration if all events of default, other than the non-payment of accelerated principal (or other specified amount), have been cured or waived as provided in the indenture (Section 502). For information as to waiver of defaults, see “— Modification and Waiver” below.
 
Subject to the provisions of the indenture relating to the duties of the trustee in case an event of default has occurred and is continuing, the trustee will be under no obligation to exercise any of its rights or powers under the indenture at the request or direction of any of the holders of debt securities, unless such holders have offered to the trustee indemnity satisfactory to it (Section 603). Subject to such provisions for the indemnification of the trustee, the holders of a majority in principal amount of the outstanding debt securities of any series will have the right to direct the time, method and place of conducting any proceeding for any remedy available to the trustee or exercising any trust or power conferred on the trustee with respect to the debt securities of that series (Section 512).
 
No holder of a debt security of any series will have any right to institute any proceeding under the indenture, or for the appointment of a receiver or a trustee, or for any other remedy under the indenture, unless:
 
  •  such holder has previously given the trustee written notice of a continuing event of default with respect to the debt securities of that series;
 
  •  the holders of at least 25% in principal amount of the outstanding debt securities of that series made a written request to pursue the remedy, and such holders have offered the trustee indemnity satisfactory to it and if requested, provide the trustee for losses incurred in connection with pursuit of the remedy; and
 
  •  the trustee fails to comply with the request, and does not receive from the holders of a majority in principal amount of the outstanding debt securities of that series a direction inconsistent with such request, within 60 days after such notice, request and offer (Section 507).
 
However, such limitations do not apply to a suit instituted by a holder of a debt security to enforce the payment of the principal of or any premium or interest on such debt security on or after the applicable due date specified in such debt security or, if applicable, to convert such debt security (Sections 507 and 508).
 
We will be required to furnish to the trustee annually a statement by certain of our officers as to whether or not we, to our knowledge, are in default in the performance or observance of any of the terms, provisions and conditions of the indenture and, if so, specifying all such known defaults (Section 1004).
 
Modification and Waiver
 
Unless otherwise specified in the prospectus supplement, modifications and amendments of the indenture may be made by us, our subsidiary guarantors, if applicable, and the trustee with the consent of the holders of a majority in principal amount of the outstanding debt securities of each series affected by such modification or amendment; provided, however, that no such modification or amendment may, without the consent of the holder of each outstanding debt security affected thereby:
 
  •  change the stated maturity of the principal of, or any installment of principal of or interest on, any debt security;
 
  •  reduce the principal amount of, or any premium or interest on, any debt security;
 
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  •  impair the right to institute suit for the enforcement of any payment due on or any conversion right with respect to any debt securities in a manner adverse to the holders of such debt securities;
 
  •  except as provided in the indenture, release the guarantee of a subsidiary guarantor;
 
  •  reduce the percentage in principal amount of outstanding debt securities of any series, the consent of whose holders is required for modification or amendment of the indenture;
 
  •  reduce the percentage in principal amount of outstanding debt securities of any series necessary for waiver of compliance with certain provisions of the indenture or for waiver of certain defaults;
 
  •  modify such provisions with respect to modification, amendment or waiver; or
 
  •  change the ranking of any series of debt securities (Section 902).
 
Unless otherwise specified in the prospectus supplement, the holders of a majority in principal amount of the outstanding debt securities of any series may waive compliance by us with certain restrictive provisions of the indenture (Section 902). The holders of a majority in principal amount of the outstanding debt securities of any series may also waive any past default under the indenture, except a default:
 
  •  in the payment of principal, premium or interest or the payment of any redemption, purchase or repurchase price;
 
  •  arising from our failure to convert any debt security in accordance with the indenture; or
 
  •  of certain covenants and provisions of the indenture which cannot be amended without the consent of the holder of each outstanding debt security of such series (Section 513).
 
Satisfaction and Discharge
 
The indenture will be discharged and will cease to be of further effect as to any series of debt securities (except as to any surviving rights of registration of transfer or exchange of debt securities expressly provided for in the indenture or any other surviving rights expressly provided for in a supplemental indenture) when:
 
  •  either:
 
  •  all debt securities that have been authenticated (except lost, stolen or destroyed debt securities that have been replaced or paid and debt securities for whose payment money has theretofore been deposited in trust and thereafter repaid to us) have been delivered to the trustee for cancellation; or
 
  •  all debt securities that have not been delivered to the trustee for cancellation have become due and payable or will become due and payable at their stated maturity within one year or are to be called for redemption within one year under arrangements satisfactory to the trustee and in any case we have deposited with the trustee as trust funds U.S. dollars or U.S. government obligations in an amount sufficient, to pay the entire indebtedness of such debt securities not delivered to the trustee for cancellation, for principal, premium, if any, and accrued interest to the stated maturity or redemption date;
 
  •  we have paid or caused to be paid all other sums payable by us under the indenture; and
 
  •  we have delivered an officers’ certificate and an opinion of counsel to the trustee stating that we have satisfied all conditions precedent to satisfaction and discharge of the indenture with respect to the debt securities (Section 401).
 
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such debt securities on the respective stated maturities in accordance with the terms of the indenture and such debt securities. Such defeasance or discharge may occur only if, among other things:
 
(1) we have delivered to the trustee an opinion of counsel to the effect that we have received from, or there has been published by, the U.S. Internal Revenue Service a ruling, or there has been a change in tax law, in either case to the effect that holders of such debt securities will not recognize gain or loss for federal income tax purposes as a result of such deposit and legal defeasance and will be subject to federal income tax on the same amount, in the same manner and at the same times as would have been the case if such deposit and legal defeasance were not to occur;
 
(2) no event of default or event that with the passing of time or the giving of notice, or both, shall constitute an event of default shall have occurred and be continuing at the time of such deposit or, with respect to any event of default described in clause (5) under “— Events of Default,” at any time until 90 days after such deposit;
 
(3) such deposit and defeasance will not result in a breach or violation of, or constitute a default under, the indenture or any other agreement or instrument to which we are a party or by which we are bound; and
 
(4) we have delivered to the trustee an opinion of counsel to the effect that such defeasance will not cause the trustee or the trust so created to be subject to the Investment Company Act of 1940 (Sections 1302 and 1304).
 
Covenant Defeasance.  The indentures provide that we may elect, at our option, that our failure to comply with certain restrictive covenants (but not to conversion, if applicable), including those that may be described in the applicable prospectus supplement, and the occurrence of certain events of default which are described above in clause (4) under “Events of Default” and any that may be described in the applicable prospectus supplement, will not be deemed to either be or result in an event of default with respect to such debt securities. In order to exercise such option, we must deposit, in trust for the benefit of the holders of such debt securities, money or U.S. government obligations, or both, which, through the payment of principal and interest in respect thereof in accordance with their terms, will provide money in an amount sufficient, in the opinion of a nationally recognized firm of independent certified public accountants, to pay the principal of and any premium and interest on such debt securities on the respective stated maturities in accordance with the terms of the indenture and such debt securities. Such covenant defeasance may occur only if we have delivered to the trustee an opinion of counsel that in effect says that holders of such debt securities will not recognize gain or loss for federal income tax purposes as a result of such deposit and covenant defeasance and will be subject to federal income tax on the same amount, in the same manner and at the same times as would have been the case if such deposit and covenant defeasance were not to occur, and the requirements set forth in clauses (2), (3), and (4) under the heading — “Legal Defeasance” above are satisfied. If we exercise this option with respect to any debt securities and such debt securities were declared due and payable because of the occurrence of any event of default, the amount of money and U.S. government obligations so deposited in trust would be sufficient to pay amounts due on such debt securities at the time of their respective stated maturities but may not be sufficient to pay amounts due on such debt securities upon any acceleration resulting from such event of default. In such case, we would remain liable for such payments (Sections 1303 and 1304).
 
DESCRIPTION OF WARRANTS
 
We may issue warrants for the purchase of common stock, preferred stock or debt securities. We may issue warrants independently or together with any offered securities. The warrants may be attached to or separate from those offered securities. We will issue the warrants under one or more warrant agreements to be entered into between us and a warrant agent to be named in the applicable prospectus supplement. The warrant agent will act solely as our agent in connection with the warrants and will not assume any obligation or relationship of agency or trust for or with any holders or beneficial owners of warrants.
 
The prospectus supplement relating to any warrants that we may offer will contain the specific terms of the warrants. These terms may include the following:
 
  •  the title of the warrants;
 
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  •  the designation, amount and terms of the securities for which the warrants are exercisable;
 
  •  the designation and terms of the other securities, if any, with which the warrants are to be issued and the number of warrants issued with each other security;
 
  •  the aggregate number of warrants;
 
  •  any provisions for adjustment of the number or amount of securities receivable upon exercise of the warrants or the exercise price of the warrants;
 
  •  the price or prices at which the securities purchasable upon exercise of the warrants may be purchased;
 
  •  if applicable, the date on and after which the warrants and the securities purchasable upon exercise of the warrants will be separately transferable;
 
  •  a discussion of any material U.S. federal income tax considerations applicable to the exercise of the warrants;
 
  •  the date on which the right to exercise the warrants will commence, and the date on which the right will expire;
 
  •  the maximum or minimum number of warrants that may be exercised at any time;
 
  •  information with respect to book-entry procedures, if any; and
 
  •  any other terms of the warrants, including terms, procedures and limitations relating to the exchange and exercise of the warrants.
 
Exercise of Warrants
 
Each warrant will entitle the holder of the warrant to purchase for cash the amount of common stock, preferred stock or debt securities at the exercise price stated or determinable in the applicable prospectus supplement for the warrants. Warrants may be exercised at any time up to the close of business on the expiration date shown in the applicable prospectus supplement, unless otherwise specified in such prospectus supplement. After the close of business on the expiration date, unexercised warrants will become void. Warrants may be exercised as described in the applicable prospectus supplement. When the warrant holder makes the payment and properly completes and signs the warrant certificate at the corporate trust office of the warrant agent or any other office indicated in the prospectus supplement, we will, as soon as possible, forward the common stock, preferred stock or debt securities that the warrant holder has purchased. If the warrant holder exercises the warrant for less than all of the warrants represented by the warrant certificate, we will issue a new warrant certificate for the remaining warrants.
 
The description in the applicable prospectus supplement of any warrants we offer will not necessarily be complete and will be qualified in its entirety by reference to the applicable warrant agreement and warrant certificate, which will be filed with the SEC if we offer warrants. For more information on how you can obtain copies of any warrant certificate or warrant agreement if we offer warrants, see “Where You Can Find More Information” beginning on page 13 of this prospectus. We urge you to read the applicable warrant certificate, the applicable warrant agreement and any applicable prospectus supplement in their entirety.
 
DESCRIPTION OF SUBSCRIPTION RIGHTS
 
We may issue subscription rights to purchase common stock, preferred stock, debt securities or other securities. We may issue subscription rights independently or together with any other offered security, which may or may not be transferable by the stockholder. In connection with any offering of subscription rights, we may enter into a standby arrangement with one or more underwriters or other purchasers pursuant to which the underwriters or other purchasers may be required to purchase any securities remaining unsubscribed for after such offering.


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The prospectus supplement relating to any subscription rights we may offer will contain the specific terms of the subscription rights. These terms may include the following:
 
  •  the price, if any, for the subscription rights;
 
  •  the exercise price payable for each share of common stock, preferred stock, debt securities or other securities upon the exercise of the subscription rights;
 
  •  the number of subscription rights issued to each security holder;
 
  •  the number and terms of each share of common stock, preferred stock, debt securities or other securities which may be purchased per each subscription right;
 
  •  the extent to which the subscription rights are transferable;
 
  •  any provisions for adjustment of the number or amount of securities receivable upon exercise of the subscription rights or the exercise price of the subscription rights;
 
  •  any other terms of the subscription rights, including the terms, procedures and limitations relating to the exchange and exercise of the subscription rights;
 
  •  the date on which the right to exercise the subscription rights shall commence, and the date on which the subscription rights shall expire;
 
  •  the extent to which the subscription rights may include an over-subscription privilege with respect to unsubscribed securities; and
 
  •  if applicable, the material terms of any standby underwriting or purchase arrangement entered into by us in connection with the offering of subscription rights.
 
The description in the applicable prospectus supplement of any subscription rights we offer will not necessarily be complete and will be qualified in its entirety by reference to the applicable subscription rights certificate or subscription rights agreement, which will be filed with the SEC if we offer subscription rights. For more information on how you can obtain copies of any subscription rights certificate or subscription rights agreement if we offer subscription rights, see “Where You Can Find More Information” beginning on page 13 of this prospectus. We urge you to read the applicable subscription rights certificate, the applicable subscription rights agreement and any applicable prospectus supplement in their entirety.
 
DESCRIPTION OF PURCHASE CONTRACTS AND PURCHASE UNITS
 
We may issue purchase contracts for the purchase or sale of common stock, preferred stock or debt securities issued by us or by third parties as specified in the applicable prospectus supplement. Each purchase contract will entitle the holder thereof to purchase or sell, and obligate us to sell or purchase on specified dates, such securities at a specified purchase price, which may be based on a formula, all as set forth in the applicable prospectus supplement. We may, however, satisfy our obligations, if any, with respect to any purchase contract by delivering the cash value of such purchase contract or the cash value of the securities otherwise deliverable, as set forth in the applicable prospectus supplement. The applicable prospectus supplement will also specify the methods by which the holders may purchase or sell such securities, and any acceleration, cancellation or termination provisions or other provisions relating to the settlement of a purchase contract. The price per security and the number of securities may be fixed at the time the purchase contracts are entered into or may be determined by reference to a specific formula set forth in the applicable purchase contracts.
 
The purchase contracts may be issued separately or as part of units consisting of a purchase contract and debt securities or debt obligations of third parties, including U.S. treasury securities, or any other securities described in the applicable prospectus supplement or any combination of the foregoing, securing the holders’ obligations to purchase the securities under the purchase contracts, which we refer to herein as “purchase units.” The purchase contracts may require holders to secure their obligations under the purchase contracts in a specified manner. The purchase contracts also may require us to make periodic payments to the holders of the purchase contracts or the purchase units, as the case may be, or vice versa, and those payments may be unsecured or pre-funded on some basis.


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The prospectus supplement relating to any purchase contracts or purchase units we may offer will contain the specific terms of the purchase contracts or purchase units. These terms may include the following:
 
  •  whether the purchase contracts obligate the holder to purchase or sell, or both, our common stock, preferred stock, or debt securities, and the nature and amount of each of those securities, or method of determining those amounts;
 
  •  whether the purchase contracts are to be prepaid or not;
 
  •  whether the purchase contracts are to be settled by delivery, or by reference or linkage to the value, performance or level of our common stock or preferred stock;
 
  •  any acceleration, cancellation, termination or other provisions relating to the settlement of the purchase contracts; and
 
  •  whether the purchase contracts will be issued in fully registered global form.
 
The description in the applicable prospectus supplement of any purchase contract or purchase unit we offer will not necessarily be complete and will be qualified in its entirety by reference to the applicable purchase contract or purchase unit, which will be filed with the SEC if we offer purchase contracts or purchase units. For more information on how you can obtain copies of any purchase contract or purchase unit we may offer, see “Where You Can Find More Information” beginning on page 13 of this prospectus. We urge you to read the applicable purchase contract or applicable purchase unit and any applicable prospectus supplement in their entirety.
 
SELLING SECURITY HOLDERS
 
Information about selling security holders, where applicable, will be set forth in a prospectus supplement, in a post-effective amendment, or in filings we make with the SEC under the Exchange Act which are incorporated by reference.
 
PLAN OF DISTRIBUTION
 
We or the selling security holders may sell the securities offered pursuant to this prospectus in any of the following ways:
 
  •  directly to one or more purchasers;
 
  •  through agents;
 
  •  to or through underwriters, brokers or dealers; or
 
  •  through a combination of any of these methods.
 
In addition, we may enter into derivative or hedging transactions with third parties, or sell securities not covered by this prospectus to third parties in privately negotiated transactions. In connection with such a transaction, the third parties may sell securities covered by and pursuant to this prospectus and an applicable prospectus supplement or free writing prospectus, as the case may be. If so, the third party may use securities borrowed from us or others to settle such sales and may use securities received from us to close out any related short positions. We may also loan or pledge securities covered by this prospectus and an applicable prospectus supplement to third parties, who may sell the loaned securities or, in an event of default in the case of a pledge, sell the pledged securities pursuant to this prospectus and the applicable prospectus supplement or free writing prospectus, as the case may be.
 
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In compliance with the guidelines of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Inc. (“FINRA”), the maximum discount or commission to be received by any FINRA member or independent broker-dealer may not exceed 8% of the aggregate offering price of the securities offered hereby.
 
LEGAL MATTERS
 
Unless otherwise indicated in the applicable prospectus supplement, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP, New York, New York will provide opinions regarding the authorization and validity of the securities. Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP may also provide opinions regarding certain other matters. Any underwriters will also be advised about legal matters by their own counsel, which will be named in the prospectus supplement.
 
EXPERTS
 
The financial statements and financial statement schedule incorporated in this prospectus by reference to Express Scripts Inc.’s Current Report on Form 8-K dated June 2, 2009 and management’s assessment of the effectiveness of internal control over financial reporting (which is included in Management’s Report on Internal Control Over Financial Reporting) incorporated in this prospectus by reference to the Annual Report on Form 10-K of Express Scripts Inc. for the year ended December 31, 2008 have been so incorporated in reliance on the report (which contains an explanatory paragraph on the effectiveness of internal control over financial reporting due to the exclusion of certain elements of the internal control over financial reporting of the Medical Services Company the registrant acquired as of December 31, 2008) of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, an independent registered public accounting firm, given on the authority of said firm as experts in auditing and accounting.
 
The combined financial statements of the Pharmacy Benefit Management Business of WellPoint, Inc. appearing in the Current Report on Form 8-K of Express Scripts, Inc. filed with the SEC on June 2, 2009 have been audited by Ernst & Young LLP, independent registered public accounting firm, as set forth in their report thereon, included therein, and incorporated herein by reference. Such combined financial statements are incorporated herein by reference in reliance upon such report given on the authority of such firm as experts in accounting and auditing.
 
WHERE YOU CAN FIND MORE INFORMATION
 
We file annual, quarterly and current reports, proxy statements and other information with the SEC under the Exchange Act. You may inspect without charge any documents filed by us at the SEC’s Public Reference Room at 100 F Street, N.E., Room 1580, Washington, D.C. 20549. You may obtain information on the operation of the Public Reference Room by calling the SEC at 1-800-SEC-0330. The SEC also maintains an Internet site, www.sec.gov, that contains reports, proxy and information statements, and other information regarding issuers that file electronically with the SEC, including Express Scripts, Inc.
 
The SEC allows us to “incorporate by reference” information into this prospectus and any accompanying prospectus supplement, which means that we can disclose important information to you by referring you to other documents filed separately with the SEC. The information incorporated by reference is considered part of this prospectus, and information filed with the SEC subsequent to this prospectus and prior to the termination of the particular offering referred to in such prospectus supplement will automatically be deemed to update and supersede this information. We incorporate by reference into this prospectus and any accompanying prospectus supplement the documents listed below (excluding any portions of such documents that have been “furnished” but not “filed” for purposes of the Exchange Act):
 
  •  Our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2008, filed on February 25, 2009 (other than the “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations” and financial statements therein, which have been superseded by the “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations” and financial statements in the Current Report on Form 8-K filed on June 2, 2009);


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  •  Our Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended March 31, 2009, filed on April 29, 2009 (other than the financial statements therein, which have been superseded by the financial statements in the Current Report on Form 8-K filed on June 2, 2009);
 
  •  The portions of our Definitive Proxy Statement on Schedule 14A filed on April 16, 2009, that are incorporated by reference into Part III of our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2008;
 
  •  Our Current Reports on Form 8-K filed on January 15, 2009, March 3, 2009, March 10, 2009, April 3, 2009, April 14, 2009 and June 2, 2009;
 
  •  The description of our common stock (previously known as the Class A Common Stock) as contained in Item 9 of Amendment No. 1 of our Registration Statement on Form S-1 filed May 12, 1992, as updated by our Prospectus dated November 1, 2000 (filed November 2, 2000) under the caption “Description of Capital Stock,” our Proxy Statement dated April 9, 2001 under the caption “IV. Proposed Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation,” our Proxy Statement dated April 16, 2004 under the caption “II. Proposal to Approve and Ratify an Amendment to the Company’s Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation to Increase the number of Authorized Shares of the Company’s Common Stock,” our Proxy Statement dated April 18, 2006 under the caption “II. Proposal to Approve and Ratify an Amendment to the Express Scripts, Inc. Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation to Increase the number of Authorized Shares of the Company’s Common Stock from 275,000,000 to 650,000,000,” and our Proxy Statement dated April 14, 2008 under the caption “II. Proposal to Approve and Ratify an Amendment to the Express Scripts, Inc. Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation to Increase the Number of Authorized Shares of the Company’s Common Stock from 650,000,000 Shares to 1,000,000,000 Shares,” including any further amendment or report filed for the purpose of updating such description; and
 
  •  The description of our rights plan as contained in Item 1 of our Registration Statement on Form 8-A, filed on July 31, 2001, including all amendments and reports filed for the purpose of updating such description.
 
We also incorporate by reference any future filings we make with the SEC pursuant to Sections 13(a), 13(c), 14 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act between the date of this prospectus and the date all of the securities offered hereby are sold or the offering is otherwise terminated, with the exception of any information furnished under Item 2.02 and Item 7.01 of Form 8-K, which is not deemed filed and which is not incorporated by reference herein. Any such filings shall be deemed to be incorporated by reference and to be a part of this prospectus from the respective dates of filing of those documents.
 
We will provide without charge upon written or oral request to each person, including any beneficial owner, to whom a prospectus is delivered, a copy of any and all of the documents which are incorporated by reference into this prospectus but not delivered with this prospectus (other than exhibits unless such exhibits are specifically incorporated by reference in such documents).
 
You may request a copy of these documents by writing or telephoning us at:
 
Investor Relations
Express Scripts, Inc.
One Express Way
St. Louis, Missouri 63121
(314) 810-3115
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PART II
 
INFORMATION NOT REQUIRED IN PROSPECTUS
 
Item 14.   Other Expenses of Issuance and Distribution.
 
The expenses relating to the registration of the securities will be borne by Express Scripts, Inc. (the “Company”). Such expenses are estimated to be as follows:
 
         
    Amount to
 
    be Paid*  
 
SEC Registration Fee
  $ **  
Accounting Fees and Expenses
       
Legal Fees and Expenses
       
Printing expenses
       
Transfer Agent, Registrar and Trustee Fees
       
Trustees’ Fees and Expenses
       
Stock Exchange Listing Fee
       
Rating Agency Fees
       
Miscellaneous expenses
             
         
Total
  $  
 
 
Since an indeterminate amount of securities is covered by this registration statement, the expenses in connection with the issuance and distribution of the securities are not currently determinable.
 
** Deferred in accordance with Rule 456(b) and Rule 457(r) of the Securities Act.
 
Item 15.   Indemnification of Directors and Officers.
 
The Company is a Delaware corporation. Reference is made to Section 102(b)(7) of the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware (the “DGCL”), which enables a corporation in its original certificate of incorporation or an amendment to eliminate or limit the personal liability of a director for violations of the director’s fiduciary duty, except:
 
  •  for any breach of the director’s duty of loyalty to the corporation or its stockholders;
 
  •  for acts or omissions not in good faith or which involve intentional misconduct or a knowing violation of law;
 
  •  pursuant to Section 174 of the DGCL (providing for liability of directors for unlawful payment of dividends or unlawful stock purchases or redemptions); or
 
  •  for any transaction from which a director derived an improper personal benefit.
 
Reference is also made to Section 145 of the DGCL, which provides that a corporation may indemnify any persons, including officers and directors, who are, or are threatened to be made, parties to any threatened, pending or completed legal action, suit or proceeding, whether civil, criminal, administrative or investigative (other than an action by or in the right of such corporation), by reason of the fact that such person is or was a director, officer, employee or agent of such corporation or is or was serving at the request of such corporation as a director, officer, employee or agent of another corporation or enterprise. The indemnity may include expenses (including attorneys’ fees), judgments, fines and amounts paid in settlement actually and reasonably incurred by such person in connection with such action, suit or proceeding, provided such director, officer, employee or agent acted in good faith and in a manner the person reasonably believed to be in or not opposed to the best interests of the corporation and, with respect to any criminal action or proceeding, had no reasonable cause to believe that the person’s conduct was unlawful. A Delaware corporation may indemnify officers and directors in an action by or in the right of the corporation under the same conditions, except that no indemnification is permitted without judicial approval if the officer or director is adjudged to be liable to the corporation. Where an officer or director is successful on the merits


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or otherwise in the defense of any action referred to above, the corporation must indemnify him against the expenses that such officer or director actually and reasonably incurred. The indemnification permitted under the DGCL is not exclusive, and a corporation is empowered to purchase and maintain insurance against liabilities whether or not indemnification would be permitted by statute.
 
The Company’s Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation (as amended) provides that to the fullest extent permitted by the laws of the State of Delaware, as the same may be amended, a director of the Company shall not be personally liable to the Company or its stockholders for monetary damages for breach of any fiduciary duty as a director.
 
The Company’s Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation (as amended) and Third Amended and Restated Bylaws provide for indemnification of its directors and officers to the fullest extent currently permitted by the DGCL. On December 12, 2006, the registrant’s board of directors approved the entry into indemnification agreements by and between the Company and its directors and certain of its officers. Such indemnification agreements were effective as of December 22, 2006 and contractually provide for indemnification for such persons to the fullest extent currently permitted under the DGCL. In addition, the Company maintains liability insurance for its directors and officers.
 
Item 16.   Exhibits.
 
The Exhibits to this registration statement are listed in the Index to Exhibits on page II-43 and are incorporated by reference herein.
 
Item 17.   Undertakings.
 
The undersigned registrants hereby undertake:
 
(A)(1) To file, during any period in which offers or sales are being made, a post-effective amendment to this registration statement:
 
(i) To include any prospectus required by section 10(a)(3) of the Securities Act of 1933;
 
(ii) To reflect in the prospectus any facts or events arising after the effective date of the registration statement (or the most recent post-effective amendment thereof) which, individually or in the aggregate, represent a fundamental change in the information set forth in the registration statement. Notwithstanding the foregoing, any increase or decrease in volume of securities offered (if the total dollar value of securities offered would not exceed that which was registered) and any deviation from the low or high end of the estimated maximum offering range may be reflected in the form of prospectus filed with the Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b) if, in the aggregate, the changes in volume and price represent no more than 20% change in the maximum aggregate offering price set forth in the “Calculation of Registration Fee” table in the effective registration statement.
 
(iii) To include any material information with respect to the plan of distribution not previously disclosed in the registration statement or any material change to such information in the registration statement;
 
Provided, however, that paragraphs (A)(1)(i), (A)(1)(ii) and (A)(1)(iii) above do not apply if the information required to be included in a post-effective amendment by those paragraphs is contained in reports filed with or furnished to the Commission by the registrants pursuant to Section 13 or Section 15(d) of the Exchange Act that are incorporated by reference in the registration statement, or is contained in a form of prospectus filed pursuant to Rule 424(b) that is part of the registration statement.
 
(2) That, for the purpose of determining any liability under the Securities Act, each such post-effective amendment shall be deemed to be a new registration statement relating to the securities offered therein, and the offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona fide offering thereof.
 
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(4) That, for the purpose of determining liability under the Securities Act to any purchaser:
 
A. Each prospectus filed by a registrant pursuant to Rule 424(b)(3)shall be deemed to be part of the registration statement as of the date the filed prospectus was deemed part of and included in the registration statement; and
 
B. Each prospectus required to be filed pursuant to Rule 424(b)(2), (b)(5), or (b)(7) as part of a registration statement in reliance on Rule 430B relating to an offering made pursuant to Rule 415(a)(1)(i), (vii), or (x) for the purpose of providing the information required by section 10(a) of the Securities Act of 1933 shall be deemed to be part of and included in the registration statement as of the earlier of the date such form of prospectus is first used after effectiveness or the date of the first contract of sale of securities in the offering described in the prospectus. As provided in Rule 430B, for liability purposes of the issuer and any person that is at that date an underwriter, such date shall be deemed to be a new effective date of the registration statement relating to the securities in the registration statement to which that prospectus relates, and the offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona fide offering thereof. Provided, however, that no statement made in a registration statement or prospectus that is part of the registration statement or made in a document incorporated or deemed incorporated by reference into the registration statement or prospectus that is part of the registration statement will, as to a purchaser with a time of contract of sale prior to such effective date, supersede or modify any statement that was made in the registration statement or prospectus that was part of the registration statement or made in any such document immediately prior to such effective date; or
 
(5) That, for the purpose of determining liability of a registrant under the Securities Act to any purchaser in the initial distribution of the securities, each undersigned registrant undertakes that in a primary offering of securities of an undersigned registrant pursuant to this registration statement, regardless of the underwriting method used to sell the securities to the purchaser, if the securities are offered or sold to such purchaser by means of any of the following communications, each undersigned registrant will be a seller to the purchaser and will be considered to offer or sell such securities to such purchaser:
 
(i) Any preliminary prospectus or prospectus of an undersigned registrant relating to the offering required to be filed pursuant to Rule 424;
 
(ii) Any free writing prospectus relating to the offering prepared by or on behalf of an undersigned registrant or used or referred to by an undersigned registrant;
 
(iii) The portion of any other free writing prospectus relating to the offering containing material information about an undersigned registrant or its securities provided by or on behalf of an undersigned registrant; and
 
(iv) Any other communication that is an offer in the offering made by an undersigned registrant to the purchaser.
 
(B) The undersigned registrants hereby undertake that, for purposes of determining any liability under the Securities Act, each filing of any registrant’s annual report pursuant to Section 13(a) or Section 15(d) of the Exchange Act (and, where applicable, each filing of an employee benefit plan’s annual report pursuant to Section 15(d) of the Exchange Act) that is incorporated by reference in the registration statement shall be deemed to be a new registration statement relating to the securities offered therein, and the offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona fide offering thereof.
 
(C) The undersigned registrants hereby undertake to supplement the prospectus, after the expiration of the subscription period, to set forth the results of the subscription offer, the transactions by the underwriters during the subscription period, the amount of unsubscribed securities to be purchased by the underwriters, and the terms of any subsequent reoffering thereof. If any public offering by the underwriters is to be made on terms differing from those set forth on the cover page of the prospectus, a post-effective amendment will be filed to set forth the terms of such offering.
 
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expressed in the Act and is, therefore, unenforceable. In the event that a claim for indemnification against such liabilities (other than the payment by the registrant of expenses incurred or paid by a director, officer or controlling person of that registrant in the successful defense of any action, suit or proceeding) is asserted by such director, officer or controlling person in connection with the securities being registered, the registrant will, unless in the opinion of its counsel the matter has been settled by controlling precedent, submit to a court of appropriate jurisdiction the question whether such indemnification by it is against public policy as expressed in the Act and will be governed by the final adjudication of such issue.
 
(E) The undersigned registrants hereby undertake to file an application for the purpose of determining the eligibility of the trustee to act under Subsection (a) of Section 310 of the Trust Indenture Act (“Act”) in accordance with the rules and regulations prescribed by the Commission under Section 305(b)(2) of the Act.


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SIGNATURES
 
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, the registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all the requirements for filing on Form S-3 and has duly caused this registration statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the County of St. Louis, State of Missouri, on the 2nd day of June, 2009.
 
EXPRESS SCRIPTS, INC.
 
  By: 
/s/  George Paz
Name:     George Paz
  Title:  Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and
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SIGNATURES AND POWER OF ATTORNEY
 
In accordance with the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, this Registration Statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities and on the dates stated. Each person whose signature appears below constitutes and appoints Keith J. Ebling and Martin P. Akins and each of them severally, as his or her true and lawful attorney-in-fact and agent, each acting along with full power of substitution and resubstitution, for him or her and in his or her name, place and stead, in any and all capacities, to sign any or all amendments (including post-effective amendments) and exhibits to the Registration Statement on Form S-3, and to any registration statement filed under SEC Rule 462, and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto, and all documents in connection therewith, with the SEC, granting unto said attorney-in-fact and agent, full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite and necessary to be done in and about the premises, as fully to all intents and purposes as he or she might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said attorney-in-fact and agent, or his or her substitute or substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.
 
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this registration statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities and on the dated indicated.
 
             
Name
 
Title
 
Date
 
         
/s/  George Paz

George Paz
  Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer (Principal Executive Officer)   June 2, 2009
         
/s/  Jeffrey Hall

Jeffrey Hall
  Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
(Principal Financial Officer)
  June 2, 2009
         
/s/  Kelley Elliott

Kelley Elliott
  Vice President, Chief Accounting Officer and Corporate Controller
(Principal Accounting Officer)
  June 2, 2009
         
/s/  Gary G. Benanav

Gary G. Benanav
  Director   June 2, 2009
         
/s/  Frank J. Borelli

Frank J. Borelli
  Director   June 2, 2009
         
/s/  Maura C. Breen

Maura C. Breen
  Director   June 2, 2009
         
/s/  Nicholas J. LaHowchic

Nicholas J. LaHowchic
  Director   June 2, 2009
         
/s/  Thomas P. Mac Mahon

Thomas P. Mac Mahon
  Director   June 2, 2009
         
/s/  Frank Mergenthaler

Frank Mergenthaler
  Director   June 2, 2009
         
/s/  Woodrow A. Myers, Jr.

Woodrow A. Myers, Jr.
  Director   June 2, 2009
         
/s/  John O. Parker

John O. Parker
  Director   June 2, 2009
         
/s/  Samuel Skinner

Samuel Skinner
  Director   June 2, 2009
         
/s/  Seymour Sternberg

Seymour Sternberg
  Director   June 2, 2009
         
/s/  Barrett A. Toan

Barrett A. Toan
  Director   June 2, 2009


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SIGNATURES
 
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all the requirements for filing on Form S-3 and has duly caused this registration statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the County of St. Louis, State of Missouri, on the 2nd day of June, 2009.
 
AIRPORT HOLDINGS, LLC
ESI REALTY, LLC
 
By: Express Scripts, Inc., as sole Member
 
  By: 
/s/  George Paz
Name:     George Paz
  Title:  Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and
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In accordance with the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, this Registration Statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities and on the dates stated. Each person whose signature appears below constitutes and appoints Keith J. Ebling and Martin P. Akins and each of them severally, as his or her true and lawful attorney-in-fact and agent, each acting along with full power of substitution and resubstitution, for him or her and in his or her name, place and stead, in any and all capacities, to sign any or all amendments (including post-effective amendments) and exhibits to the Registration Statement on Form S-3, and to any registration statement filed under SEC Rule 462, and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto, and all documents in connection therewith, with the SEC, granting unto said attorney-in-fact and agent, full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite and necessary to be done in and about the premises, as fully to all intents and purposes as he or she might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said attorney-in-fact and agent, or his or her substitute or substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.
 
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this registration statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities and on the dated indicated.
 
             
Name
 
Title
 
Date
 
         
/s/  George Paz

George Paz
  Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of Express Scripts, Inc.
(Principal Executive Officer)
  June 2, 2009
         
/s/  Jeffrey Hall

Jeffrey Hall
  Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Express Scripts, Inc. (Principal Financial Officer)   June 2, 2009
         
/s/  Kelley Elliott

Kelley Elliott
  Vice President, Chief Accounting Officer and Corporate Controller of Express Scripts, Inc. (Principal Accounting Officer)   June 2, 2009
         
/s/  Gary G. Benanav

Gary G. Benanav
  Director of Express Scripts, Inc.    June 2, 2009
         
/s/  Frank J. Borelli

Frank J. Borelli
  Director of Express Scripts, Inc.    June 2, 2009
         
/s/  Maura C. Breen

Maura C. Breen
  Director of Express Scripts, Inc.    June 2, 2009
         
/s/  Nicholas J. LaHowchic

Nicholas J. LaHowchic
  Director of Express Scripts, Inc.    June 2, 2009
         
/s/  Thomas P. Mac Mahon

Thomas P. Mac Mahon
  Director of Express Scripts, Inc.    June 2, 2009
         
/s/  Frank Mergenthaler

Frank Mergenthaler
  Director of Express Scripts, Inc.    June 2, 2009
         
/s/  Woodrow A. Myers, Jr.

Woodrow A. Myers, Jr.
  Director of Express Scripts, Inc.    June 2, 2009
         
/s/  John O. Parker

John O. Parker
  Director of Express Scripts, Inc.    June 2, 2009


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Name
 
Title
 
Date
 
         
/s/  Samuel Skinner

Samuel Skinner
  Director of Express Scripts, Inc.    June 2, 2009
         
/s/  Seymour Sternberg

Seymour Sternberg
  Director of Express Scripts, Inc.    June 2, 2009
         
/s/  Barrett A. Toan

Barrett A. Toan
  Director of Express Scripts, Inc.    June 2, 2009


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SIGNATURES
 
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all the requirements for filing on Form S-3 and has duly caused this registration statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the County of St. Louis, State of Missouri, on the 2nd day of June, 2009.
 
BYFIELD DRUG, INC.
CHESAPEAKE INFUSION, INC.
CURASCRIPT, INC.
CURASCRIPT PBM SERVICES, INC.
ESI MAIL PHARMACY SERVICE, INC.
EXPRESS SCRIPTS SPECIALTY DISTRIBUTION  SERVICES, INC.
FRECO, INC.
HEALTHBRIDGE REIMBURSEMENT AND
  PRODUCT SUPPORT, INC.
IBIOLOGIC, INC.
LYNNFIELD DRUG, INC.
PRIORITYHEALTHCARE.COM, INC.
PRIORITY HEALTHCARE CORPORATION
PRIORITY HEALTHCARE PHARMACY, INC.
SINUSPHARMACY, INC.
SPECIALTY INFUSION PHARMACY, INC.
SPECTRACARE, INC.
SPECTRACARE HEALTH CARE VENTURES,  INC.
SPECTRACARE INFUSION PHARMACY, INC.
 
  By: 
/s/  Patrick McNamee
Name:     Patrick McNamee
  Title:  President


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In accordance with the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, this Registration Statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities and on the dates stated. Each person whose signature appears below constitutes and appoints Keith J. Ebling and Martin P. Akins and each of them severally, as his or her true and lawful attorney-in-fact and agent, each acting along with full power of substitution and resubstitution, for him or her and in his or her name, place and stead, in any and all capacities, to sign any or all amendments (including post-effective amendments) and exhibits to the Registration Statement on Form S-3, and to any registration statement filed under SEC Rule 462, and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto, and all documents in connection therewith, with the SEC, granting unto said attorney-in-fact and agent, full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite and necessary to be done in and about the premises, as fully to all intents and purposes as he or she might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said attorney-in-fact and agent, or his or her substitute or substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.
 
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this registration statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities and on the dated indicated.
 
             
Name
 
Title
 
Date
 
         
/s/  Patrick McNamee

Patrick McNamee
  President (Principal Executive Officer)   June 2, 2009
         
/s/  Kelley Elliott

Kelley Elliott
  Treasurer (Principal Financial and Accounting Officer)   June 2, 2009
         
/s/  Patrick McNamee

Patrick McNamee
  Director   June 2, 2009


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SIGNATURES
 
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all the requirements for filing on Form S-3 and has duly caused this registration statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the County of St. Louis, State of Missouri, on the 2nd day of June, 2009.
 
FREEDOM SERVICE COMPANY, LLC
MATRIX GPO LLC
MOORESVILLE ON-SITE PHARMACY, LLC
NEXTRX SUB I, LLC
NEXTRX SUB II, LLC
NEXTRX SUB III, LLC
 
  By: 
/s/  Patrick McNamee
Name:     Patrick McNamee
  Title:  President


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SIGNATURES AND POWER OF ATTORNEY
 
In accordance with the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, this Registration Statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities and on the dates stated. Each person whose signature appears below constitutes and appoints Keith J. Ebling and Martin P. Akins and each of them severally, as his or her true and lawful attorney-in-fact and agent, each acting along with full power of substitution and resubstitution, for him or her and in his or her name, place and stead, in any and all capacities, to sign any or all amendments (including post-effective amendments) and exhibits to the Registration Statement on Form S-3, and to any registration statement filed under SEC Rule 462, and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto, and all documents in connection therewith, with the SEC, granting unto said attorney-in-fact and agent, full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite and necessary to be done in and about the premises, as fully to all intents and purposes as he or she might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said attorney-in-fact and agent, or his or her substitute or substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.
 
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this registration statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities and on the dated indicated.
 
             
Name
 
Title
 
Date
 
         
/s/  Patrick McNamee

Patrick McNamee
  President (Principal Executive Officer)   June 2, 2009
         
/s/  Kelley Elliott

Kelley Elliott
  Treasurer (Principal Financial and Accounting Officer)   June 2, 2009
         
/s/  Patrick McNamee

Patrick McNamee
  Manager   June 2, 2009


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SIGNATURES
 
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all the requirements for filing on Form S-3 and has duly caused this registration statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the County of St. Louis, State of Missouri, on the 2nd day of June, 2009.
 
CARE CONTINUUM, INC.
LYNNFIELD COMPOUNDING CENTER, INC.
PRIORITY HEALTHCARE DISTRIBUTION, INC.
 
  By: 
/s/  Michael Holmes
Name:     Michael Holmes
  Title:  President


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SIGNATURES AND POWER OF ATTORNEY
 
In accordance with the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, this Registration Statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities and on the dates stated. Each person whose signature appears below constitutes and appoints Keith J. Ebling and Martin P. Akins and each of them severally, as his or her true and lawful attorney-in-fact and agent, each acting along with full power of substitution and resubstitution, for him or her and in his or her name, place and stead, in any and all capacities, to sign any or all amendments (including post-effective amendments) and exhibits to the Registration Statement on Form S-3, and to any registration statement filed under SEC Rule 462, and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto, and all documents in connection therewith, with the SEC, granting unto said attorney-in-fact and agent, full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite and necessary to be done in and about the premises, as fully to all intents and purposes as he or she might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said attorney-in-fact and agent, or his or her substitute or substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.
 
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this registration statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities and on the dated indicated.
 
             
Name
 
Title
 
Date
 
         
/s/  Michael Holmes

Michael Holmes
  President (Principal Executive Officer)   June 2, 2009
         
/s/  Kelley Elliott

Kelley Elliott
  Treasurer (Principal Financial and Accounting Officer)   June 2, 2009
         
/s/  Michael Holmes

Michael Holmes
  Director   June 2, 2009


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SIGNATURES
 
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all the requirements for filing on Form S-3 and has duly caused this registration statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the County of St. Louis, State of Missouri, on the 2nd day of June, 2009.
 
PHOENIX MARKETING GROUP, LLC
 
  By: 
/s/  Michael Holmes
Name:     Michael Holmes
  Title:  President


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SIGNATURES AND POWER OF ATTORNEY
 
In accordance with the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, this Registration Statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities and on the dates stated. Each person whose signature appears below constitutes and appoints Keith J. Ebling and Martin P. Akins and each of them severally, as his or her true and lawful attorney-in-fact and agent, each acting along with full power of substitution and resubstitution, for him or her and in his or her name, place and stead, in any and all capacities, to sign any or all amendments (including post-effective amendments) and exhibits to the Registration Statement on Form S-3, and to any registration statement filed under SEC Rule 462, and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto, and all documents in connection therewith, with the SEC, granting unto said attorney-in-fact and agent, full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite and necessary to be done in and about the premises, as fully to all intents and purposes as he or she might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said attorney-in-fact and agent, or his or her substitute or substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.
 
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this registration statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities and on the dated indicated.
 
             
Name
 
Title
 
Date
 
         
/s/  Michael Holmes

Michael Holmes
  President (Principal Executive Officer)   June 2, 2009
         
/s/  Kelley Elliott

Kelley Elliott
  Treasurer (Principal Financial and Accounting Officer)   June 2, 2009
         
/s/  Michael Holmes

Michael Holmes
  Manager   June 2, 2009


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SIGNATURES
 
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all the requirements for filing on Form S-3 and has duly caused this registration statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the County of St. Louis, State of Missouri, on the 2nd day of June, 2009.
 
CFI OF NEW JERSEY, INC.
DIVERSIFIED PHARMACEUTICAL
  SERVICES, INC.
ESI CLAIMS, INC.
EXPRESS SCRIPTS SALES DEVELOPMENT CO.
EXPRESS SCRIPTS SENIOR CARE, INC.
EXPRESS SCRIPTS SENIOR CARE
  HOLDINGS, INC.
IVTX, INC.
NATIONAL PRESCRIPTION
  ADMINISTRATORS, INC.
VALUE HEALTH, INC.
YOURPHARMACY.COM, INC.
 
  By: 
/s/  George Paz
Name:     George Paz
  Title:  President


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SIGNATURES AND POWER OF ATTORNEY
 
In accordance with the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, this Registration Statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities and on the dates stated. Each person whose signature appears below constitutes and appoints Keith J. Ebling and Martin P. Akins and each of them severally, as his or her true and lawful attorney-in-fact and agent, each acting along with full power of substitution and resubstitution, for him or her and in his or her name, place and stead, in any and all capacities, to sign any or all amendments (including post-effective amendments) and exhibits to the Registration Statement on Form S-3, and to any registration statement filed under SEC Rule 462, and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto, and all documents in connection therewith, with the SEC, granting unto said attorney-in-fact and agent, full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite and necessary to be done in and about the premises, as fully to all intents and purposes as he or she might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said attorney-in-fact and agent, or his or her substitute or substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.
 
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this registration statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities and on the dated indicated.
 
             
Name
 
Title
 
Date
 
         
/s/  George Paz

George Paz
  President (Principal Executive Officer)   June 2, 2009
         
/s/  Kelley Elliott

Kelley Elliott
  Treasurer (Principal Financial and Accounting Officer)   June 2, 2009
         
/s/  George Paz

George Paz
  Director   June 2, 2009


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SIGNATURES
 
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all the requirements for filing on Form S-3 and has duly caused this registration statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the County of St. Louis, State of Missouri, on the 2nd day of June, 2009.
 
ESI ENTERPRISES, LLC
EXPRESS SCRIPTS PHARMACEUTICAL
  PROCUREMENT, LLC
 
  By: 
/s/  George Paz
Name:     George Paz
  Title:  President


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SIGNATURES AND POWER OF ATTORNEY
 
In accordance with the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, this Registration Statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities and on the dates stated. Each person whose signature appears below constitutes and appoints Keith J. Ebling and Martin P. Akins and each of them severally, as his or her true and lawful attorney-in-fact and agent, each acting along with full power of substitution and resubstitution, for him or her and in his or her name, place and stead, in any and all capacities, to sign any or all amendments (including post-effective amendments) and exhibits to the Registration Statement on Form S-3, and to any registration statement filed under SEC Rule 462, and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto, and all documents in connection therewith, with the SEC, granting unto said attorney-in-fact and agent, full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite and necessary to be done in and about the premises, as fully to all intents and purposes as he or she might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said attorney-in-fact and agent, or his or her substitute or substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.
 
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this registration statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities and on the dated indicated.
 
             
   
Name
 
Title
 
Date
 
/s/  George Paz

George Paz
  President (Principal Executive Officer)   June 2, 2009
         
/s/  Kelley Elliott

Kelley Elliott
  Treasurer (Principal Financial and
Accounting Officer)
  June 2, 2009
         
/s/  George Paz

George Paz
  Manager   June 2, 2009


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SIGNATURES
 
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all the requirements for filing on Form S-3 and has duly caused this registration statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the County of St. Louis, State of Missouri, on the 2nd day of June, 2009.
 
CONNECTYOURCARE, LLC
CONNECTYOURCARE COMPANY, LLC
 
  By: 
/s/  Marc Palmer
Name:     Marc Palmer
  Title:  President


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SIGNATURES AND POWER OF ATTORNEY
 
In accordance with the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, this Registration Statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities and on the dates stated. Each person whose signature appears below constitutes and appoints Keith J. Ebling and Martin P. Akins and each of them severally, as his or her true and lawful attorney-in-fact and agent, each acting along with full power of substitution and resubstitution, for him or her and in his or her name, place and stead, in any and all capacities, to sign any or all amendments (including post-effective amendments) and exhibits to the Registration Statement on Form S-3, and to any registration statement filed under SEC Rule 462, and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto, and all documents in connection therewith, with the SEC, granting unto said attorney-in-fact and agent, full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite and necessary to be done in and about the premises, as fully to all intents and purposes as he or she might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said attorney-in-fact and agent, or his or her substitute or substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.
 
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this registration statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities and on the dated indicated.
 
             
   
Name
 
Title
 
Date
 
/s/  Marc Palmer

Marc Palmer
  President and Chief Executive Officer (Principal Executive Officer, Principal Financial and Accounting Officer)   June 2, 2009
         
/s/  Michael Holmes

Michael Holmes
  Manager   June 2, 2009


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SIGNATURES
 
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all the requirements for filing on Form S-3 and has duly caused this registration statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the County of St. Louis, State of Missouri, on the 2nd day of June, 2009.
 
ESI PARTNERSHIP
 
By: Express Scripts, Inc., as Partner
 
  By: 
/s/  George Paz
Name:     George Paz
  Title:  Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and
President
 
ESI PARTNERSHIP
 
By: ESI-GP Holdings, Inc., as Partner
 
  By: 
/s/  Tom Rocheford
Name:     Tom Rocheford
  Title:  President


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SIGNATURES AND POWER OF ATTORNEY
 
In accordance with the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, this Registration Statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities and on the dates stated. Each person whose signature appears below constitutes and appoints Keith J. Ebling and Martin P. Akins and each of them severally, as his or her true and lawful attorney-in-fact and agent, each acting along with full power of substitution and resubstitution, for him or her and in his or her name, place and stead, in any and all capacities, to sign any or all amendments (including post-effective amendments) and exhibits to the Registration Statement on Form S-3, and to any registration statement filed under SEC Rule 462, and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto, and all documents in connection therewith, with the SEC, granting unto said attorney-in-fact and agent, full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite and necessary to be done in and about the premises, as fully to all intents and purposes as he or she might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said attorney-in-fact and agent, or his or her substitute or substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.
 
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this registration statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities and on the dated indicated.
 
             
   
Name
 
Title
 
Date
 
/s/  George Paz

George Paz
  Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of Express Scripts, Inc.
(Principal Executive Officer)
  June 2, 2009
         
/s/  Jeffrey Hall

Jeffrey Hall
  Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Express Scripts, Inc.
(Principal Financial Officer)
  June 2, 2009
         
/s/  Kelley Elliott

Kelley Elliott
  Vice President, Chief Accounting Officer and Corporate Controller of Express Scripts, Inc. (Principal Accounting Officer)   June 2, 2009
         
/s/  Gary G. Benanav

Gary G. Benanav
  Director of Express Scripts, Inc.    June 2, 2009
         
/s/  Frank J. Borelli

Frank J. Borelli
  Director of Express Scripts, Inc.    June 2, 2009
         
/s/  Maura C. Breen

Maura C. Breen
  Director of Express Scripts, Inc.    June 2, 2009
         
/s/  Nicholas J. LaHowchic

Nicholas J. LaHowchic
  Director of Express Scripts, Inc.    June 2, 2009
         
/s/  Thomas P. Mac Mahon

Thomas P. Mac Mahon
  Director of Express Scripts, Inc.    June 2, 2009
         
/s/  Frank Mergenthaler

Frank Mergenthaler
  Director of Express Scripts, Inc.    June 2, 2009
         
/s/  Woodrow A. Myers, Jr.

Woodrow A. Myers, Jr.
  Director of Express Scripts, Inc.    June 2, 2009
         
/s/  John O. Parker

John O. Parker
  Director of Express Scripts, Inc.    June 2, 2009


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Name
 
Title
 
Date
 
/s/  Samuel Skinner

Samuel Skinner
  Director of Express Scripts, Inc.    June 2, 2009
         
/s/  Seymour Sternberg

Seymour Sternberg
  Director of Express Scripts, Inc.    June 2, 2009
         
/s/  Barrett A. Toan

Barrett A. Toan
  Director of Express Scripts, Inc.    June 2, 2009
         
/s/  Tom Rocheford

Tom Rocheford
  President of ESI-GP Holdings, Inc.
(Principal Executive Officer)
  June 2, 2009
         
/s/  Matt Dietrich

Matt Dietrich
  Vice President and Treasurer of ESI-GP Holdings, Inc. (Principal Financial and Accounting Officer)   June 2, 2009
         
/s/  Matt Dietrich

Matt Dietrich
  Director of ESI-GP Holdings, Inc.    June 2, 2009
         
/s/  Tom Rocheford

Tom Rocheford
  Director of ESI-GP Holdings, Inc.    June 2, 2009
         
/s/  Marcus Magnuson

Marcus Magnuson
  Director of ESI-GP Holdings, Inc.    June 2, 2009

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SIGNATURES
 
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all the requirements for filing on Form S-3 and has duly caused this registration statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the County of St. Louis, State of Missouri, on the 2nd day of June, 2009.
 
ESI-GP HOLDINGS, INC.
ESI RESOURCES, INC.
 
  By: 
/s/  Tom Rocheford
Name:     Tom Rocheford
  Title:  President


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SIGNATURES AND POWER OF ATTORNEY
 
In accordance with the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, this Registration Statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities and on the dates stated. Each person whose signature appears below constitutes and appoints Keith J. Ebling and Martin P. Akins and each of them severally, as his or her true and lawful attorney-in-fact and agent, each acting along with full power of substitution and resubstitution, for him or her and in his or her name, place and stead, in any and all capacities, to sign any or all amendments (including post-effective amendments) and exhibits to the Registration Statement on Form S-3, and to any registration statement filed under SEC Rule 462, and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto, and all documents in connection therewith, with the SEC, granting unto said attorney-in-fact and agent, full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite and necessary to be done in and about the premises, as fully to all intents and purposes as he or she might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said attorney-in-fact and agent, or his or her substitute or substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.
 
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this registration statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities and on the dated indicated.
 
             
   
Name
 
Title
 
Date
 
/s/  Tom Rocheford

Tom Rocheford
  President (Principal Executive Officer)   June 2, 2009
         
/s/  Matt Dietrich

Matt Dietrich
  Vice President and Treasurer
(Principal Financial and Accounting Officer)
  June 2, 2009
         
/s/  Matt Dietrich

Matt Dietrich
  Director   June 2, 2009
         
/s/  Tom Rocheford

Tom Rocheford
  Director   June 2, 2009
         
/s/  Marcus Magnuson

Marcus Magnuson
  Director   June 2, 2009


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SIGNATURES
 
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all the requirements for filing on Form S-3 and has duly caused this registration statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the County of St. Louis, State of Missouri, on the 2nd day of June, 2009.
 
EXPRESS SCRIPTS CANADA HOLDING, CO.
 
  By: 
/s/  Michael Biskey
Name:     Michael Biskey
  Title:  President


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SIGNATURES AND POWER OF ATTORNEY
 
In accordance with the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, this Registration Statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities and on the dates stated. Each person whose signature appears below constitutes and appoints Keith J. Ebling and Martin P. Akins and each of them severally, as his or her true and lawful attorney-in-fact and agent, each acting along with full power of substitution and resubstitution, for him or her and in his or her name, place and stead, in any and all capacities, to sign any or all amendments (including post-effective amendments) and exhibits to the Registration Statement on Form S-3, and to any registration statement filed under SEC Rule 462, and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto, and all documents in connection therewith, with the SEC, granting unto said attorney-in-fact and agent, full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite and necessary to be done in and about the premises, as fully to all intents and purposes as he or she might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said attorney-in-fact and agent, or his or her substitute or substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.
 
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this registration statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities and on the dated indicated.
 
             
   
Name
 
Title
 
Date
 
/s/  Michael Biskey

Michael Biskey
  President (Principal Executive Officer)   June 2, 2009
         
/s/  Kelley Elliott

Kelley Elliott
  Treasurer (Principal Financial and Accounting Officer)   June 2, 2009
         
/s/  George Paz

George Paz
  Director   June 2, 2009


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SIGNATURES
 
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all the requirements for filing on Form S-3 and has duly caused this registration statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the County of St. Louis, State of Missouri, on the 2nd day of June, 2009.
 
EXPRESS SCRIPTS UTILIZATION
  MANAGEMENT CO.
 
  By: 
/s/  Patrick McNamee
Name:     Patrick McNamee
Title:       President


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SIGNATURES AND POWER OF ATTORNEY
 
In accordance with the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, this Registration Statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities and on the dates stated. Each person whose signature appears below constitutes and appoints Keith J. Ebling and Martin P. Akins and each of them severally, as his or her true and lawful attorney-in-fact and agent, each acting along with full power of substitution and resubstitution, for him or her and in his or her name, place and stead, in any and all capacities, to sign any or all amendments (including post-effective amendments) and exhibits to the Registration Statement on Form S-3, and to any registration statement filed under SEC Rule 462, and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto, and all documents in connection therewith, with the SEC, granting unto said attorney-in-fact and agent, full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite and necessary to be done in and about the premises, as fully to all intents and purposes as he or she might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said attorney-in-fact and agent, or his or her substitute or substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.
 
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this registration statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities and on the dated indicated.
 
             
Name
 
Title
 
Date
 
         
/s/  Patrick McNamee

Patrick McNamee
  President
(Principal Executive Officer)
  June 2, 2009
         
/s/  Kelley Elliott

Kelley Elliott
  Treasurer
(Principal Financial and
Accounting Officer)
  June 2, 2009
         
/s/  George Paz

George Paz
  Director   June 2, 2009


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SIGNATURES
 
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all the requirements for filing on Form S-3 and has duly caused this registration statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the County of St. Louis, State of Missouri, on the 2nd day of June, 2009.
 
HEALTHBRIDGE, INC.
 
  By: 
/s/  Michael Holmes
Name:     Michael Holmes
Title:       President


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SIGNATURES AND POWER OF ATTORNEY
 
In accordance with the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, this Registration Statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities and on the dates stated. Each person whose signature appears below constitutes and appoints Keith J. Ebling and Martin P. Akins and each of them severally, as his or her true and lawful attorney-in-fact and agent, each acting along with full power of substitution and resubstitution, for him or her and in his or her name, place and stead, in any and all capacities, to sign any or all amendments (including post-effective amendments) and exhibits to the Registration Statement on Form S-3, and to any registration statement filed under SEC Rule 462, and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto, and all documents in connection therewith, with the SEC, granting unto said attorney-in-fact and agent, full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite and necessary to be done in and about the premises, as fully to all intents and purposes as he or she might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said attorney-in-fact and agent, or his or her substitute or substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.
 
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this registration statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities and on the dated indicated.
 
             
Name
 
Title
 
Date
 
         
/s/  Michael Holmes

Michael Holmes
  President
(Principal Executive Officer)
  June 2, 2009
         
/s/  Kelley Elliott

Kelley Elliott
  Treasurer (Principal Financial and Accounting Officer)   June 2, 2009
         
/s/  Michael Holmes

Michael Holmes
  Director   June 2, 2009


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SIGNATURES
 
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all the requirements for filing on Form S-3 and has duly caused this registration statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the County of St. Louis, State of Missouri, on the 2nd day of June, 2009.
 
MSC — MEDICAL SERVICES COMPANY
 
  By: 
/s/  Edward Ignaczak
Name:     Edward Ignaczak
Title:       President


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SIGNATURES AND POWER OF ATTORNEY
 
In accordance with the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, this Registration Statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities and on the dates stated. Each person whose signature appears below constitutes and appoints Keith J. Ebling and Martin P. Akins and each of them severally, as his or her true and lawful attorney-in-fact and agent, each acting along with full power of substitution and resubstitution, for him or her and in his or her name, place and stead, in any and all capacities, to sign any or all amendments (including post-effective amendments) and exhibits to the Registration Statement on Form S-3, and to any registration statement filed under SEC Rule 462, and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto, and all documents in connection therewith, with the SEC, granting unto said attorney-in-fact and agent, full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite and necessary to be done in and about the premises, as fully to all intents and purposes as he or she might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said attorney-in-fact and agent, or his or her substitute or substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.
 
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this registration statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities and on the dated indicated.
 
             
Name
 
Title
 
Date
 
         
/s/  Edward Ignaczak

Edward Ignaczak
  President (Principal Executive Officer)   June 2, 2009
         
/s/  Kelley Elliott

Kelley Elliott
  Vice President and Treasurer
(Principal Financial and Accounting Officer)
  June 2, 2009
         
/s/  Edward Ignaczak

Edward Ignaczak
  Director   June 2, 2009


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SIGNATURES
 
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all the requirements for filing on Form S-3 and has duly caused this registration statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the County of St. Louis, State of Missouri, on the 2nd day of June, 2009.
 
PRIORITY HEALTHCARE CORPORATION WEST
 
  By: 
/s/  Patrick McNamee
Name:     Patrick McNamee
Title:       President


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SIGNATURES AND POWER OF ATTORNEY
 
In accordance with the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, this Registration Statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities and on the dates stated. Each person whose signature appears below constitutes and appoints Keith J. Ebling and Martin P. Akins and each of them severally, as his or her true and lawful attorney-in-fact and agent, each acting along with full power of substitution and resubstitution, for him or her and in his or her name, place and stead, in any and all capacities, to sign any or all amendments (including post-effective amendments) and exhibits to the Registration Statement on Form S-3, and to any registration statement filed under SEC Rule 462, and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto, and all documents in connection therewith, with the SEC, granting unto said attorney-in-fact and agent, full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite and necessary to be done in and about the premises, as fully to all intents and purposes as he or she might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said attorney-in-fact and agent, or his or her substitute or substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.
 
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this registration statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities and on the dated indicated.
 
             
Name
 
Title
 
Date
 
         
/s/  Patrick McNamee

Patrick McNamee
  President
(Principal Executive Officer)
  June 2, 2009
         
/s/  Kelley Elliott

Kelley Elliott
  Treasurer (Principal Financial and Accounting Officer)   June 2, 2009
         
/s/  George Paz

George Paz
  Director   June 2, 2009
         
/s/  Patrick McNamee

Patrick McNamee
  Director   June 2, 2009


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SIGNATURES
 
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all the requirements for filing on Form S-3 and has duly caused this registration statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the County of St. Louis, State of Missouri, on the 2nd day of June, 2009.
 
SPECTRACARE OF INDIANA
 
By: Spectracare, Inc., as Partner
 
  By: 
/s/  Patrick McNamee
Name:     Patrick McNamee
Title:       President
 
SPECTRACARE OF INDIANA
 
By: Care Continuum, Inc., as Partner
 
  By: 
/s/  Michael Holmes
Name:     Michael Holmes
Title:       President


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SIGNATURES AND POWER OF ATTORNEY
 
In accordance with the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, this Registration Statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities and on the dates stated. Each person whose signature appears below constitutes and appoints Keith J. Ebling and Martin P. Akins and each of them severally, as his or her true and lawful attorney-in-fact and agent, each acting along with full power of substitution and resubstitution, for him or her and in his or her name, place and stead, in any and all capacities, to sign any or all amendments (including post-effective amendments) and exhibits to the Registration Statement on Form S-3, and to any registration statement filed under SEC Rule 462, and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto, and all documents in connection therewith, with the SEC, granting unto said attorney-in-fact and agent, full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite and necessary to be done in and about the premises, as fully to all intents and purposes as he or she might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said attorney-in-fact and agent, or his or her substitute or substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.
 
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this registration statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities and on the dated indicated.
 
             
Name
 
Title
 
Date
 
         
/s/  Patrick McNamee

Patrick McNamee
  President of Spectracare, Inc.
(Principal Executive Officer)
  June 2, 2009
         
/s/  Kelley Elliott

Kelley Elliott
  Treasurer of Spectracare, Inc.
(Principal Financial and Accounting Officer)
  June 2, 2009
         
/s/  Patrick McNamee

Patrick McNamee
  Director of Spectracare, Inc.   June 2, 2009
         
/s/  Michael Holmes

Michael Holmes
  President of Care Continuum, Inc. (Principal Executive Officer)   June 2, 2009
         
/s/  Kelley Elliott

Kelley Elliott
  Treasurer of Care Continuum, Inc. (Principal Financial and Accounting Officer)   June 2, 2009
         
/s/  Michael Holmes

Michael Holmes
  Director of Care Continuum, Inc.   June 2, 2009


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SIGNATURES
 
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all the requirements for filing on Form S-3 and has duly caused this registration statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the County of St. Louis, State of Missouri, on the 2nd day of June, 2009.
 
SPEEDY RE-EMPLOYMENT, LLC
 
  By: 
/s/  Edward Ignaczak
Name:     Edward Ignaczak
Title:       President


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SIGNATURES AND POWER OF ATTORNEY
 
In accordance with the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, this Registration Statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities and on the dates stated. Each person whose signature appears below constitutes and appoints Keith J. Ebling and Martin P. Akins and each of them severally, as his or her true and lawful attorney-in-fact and agent, each acting along with full power of substitution and resubstitution, for him or her and in his or her name, place and stead, in any and all capacities, to sign any or all amendments (including post-effective amendments) and exhibits to the Registration Statement on Form S-3, and to any registration statement filed under SEC Rule 462, and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto, and all documents in connection therewith, with the SEC, granting unto said attorney-in-fact and agent, full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite and necessary to be done in and about the premises, as fully to all intents and purposes as he or she might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said attorney-in-fact and agent, or his or her substitute or substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.
 
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this registration statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities and on the dated indicated.
 
             
Name
 
Title
 
Date
 
         
/s/  Edward Ignaczak

Edward Ignaczak
  President
(Principal Executive Officer)
  June 2, 2009
         
/s/  Kelley Elliott

Kelley Elliott
  Vice President and Treasurer
(Principal Financial and Accounting Officer)
  June 2, 2009
         
/s/  Edward Ignaczak

Edward Ignaczak
  Manager   June 2, 2009


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EXHIBIT INDEX
 
         
Exhibit
   
Number
   
 
  1 .1   Form of Underwriting Agreement.*
  2 .1   Stock and Interest Purchase Agreement between Express Scripts, Inc. and WellPoint, Inc., dated April 9, 2009 (incorporated by reference to Exhibit No. 2.1 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed on April 14, 2009).*
  4 .1   Form of Certificate for Common Stock, incorporated by reference to Exhibit No. 4.1 to Amendment No. 1 to the Company’s Registration Statement on Form S-1 filed May 12, 1992 (Registration Number 33-46974).*
  4 .2   Stockholder and Registration Rights Agreement, dated as of October 6, 2000, between the Company and New York Life Insurance Company, incorporated by reference to Exhibit No. 4.2 to the Company’s Amendment No. 1 to Registration Statement on Form S-3 filed October 17, 2000 (Registration Number 333-47572).*
  4 .3   Amendment dated April 25, 2003 to the Stockholder and Registration Rights Agreement dated as of October 6, 2000 between the Company and New York Life Insurance Company, incorporated by reference to Exhibit No. 4.8 to the Company’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q filed on May 15, 2003.*
  4 .4   Asset Acquisition Agreement, dated October 17, 2000, between NYLIFE Healthcare Management, Inc., the Company, NYLIFE LLC and New York Life Insurance Company, incorporated by reference to Exhibit No. 4.3 to the Company’s Amendment No. 1 to the Registration Statement on Form S-3 filed October 18, 2000 (Registration Number 333-47572).*
  4 .5   Rights Agreement, dated as of July 25, 2001, between the Company and American Stock Transfer & Trust Company, as Rights Agent, which includes the Form of Certificate of Designations for the Series A Junior Participating Preferred Stock as Exhibit A, the Form of Right Certificate as Exhibit B and the Summary of Rights to Purchase Preferred Shares as Exhibit C, incorporated by reference to Exhibit No. 4.1 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed on July 31, 2001.*
  4 .6   Amendment No. 1 to the Rights Agreement between the Company and American Stock Transfer & Trust Company, as Rights Agent, dated May 25, 2005, incorporated by reference to Exhibit No. 10.1 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed on May 31, 2005.*
  4 .7   Specimen Preferred Stock Certificate and Form of Certificate of Designation, Preferences and Rights with respect to any series of Preferred Stock issued hereunder.*
  4 .8   Form of Indenture for Debt Securities by and among Express Scripts, Inc., the guarantors named therein and a trustee (including form of Debt Security).
  4 .9   Form of Warrant Agreement (including form of Warrant Certificate).*
  4 .10   Form of Subscription Rights Agreement (including form of Subscription Rights Certificate).*
  4 .11   Form of Stock Purchase Contract (including form of Stock Purchase Contract Certificate).*
  4 .12   Form of Stock Purchase Unit Agreement (including form of Stock Purchase Unit Certificate).*
  5 .1   Opinion of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP.
  12 .1   Statement re: Computation of Ratio of Earnings to Fixed Charges.
  23 .1   Consent of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, an independent registered public accounting firm.
  23 .2   Consent of Ernst & Young LLP, an independent registered public accounting firm.
  23 .3   Consent of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP (included in Exhibit 5.1).
  24 .1   Power of Attorney (included on signature page hereto).
  25 .1   Form T-1 Statement of Eligibility under the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, of Union Bank, N.A., as Trustee under the Indenture.
 
 
* To be filed by amendment to the Registration Statement or incorporated by reference from documents filed or to be filed with the SEC under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.


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EXHIBIT 4.8
 
 
EXPRESS SCRIPTS, INC.,
AS ISSUER,
ANY GUARANTORS PARTY HERETO,
AND
UNION BANK, N.A.,
AS TRUSTEE,
INDENTURE
DATED AS OF ____________, 2009
DEBT SECURITIES
 
 

 


 

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ARTICLE ONE DEFINITIONS AND OTHER PROVISIONS OF GENERAL APPLICATION     1  
 
  Section 101.   Definitions.     1  
 
  Section 102.   Compliance Certificates and Opinions.     6  
 
  Section 103.   Form of Documents Delivered to Trustee.     7  
 
  Section 104.   Acts of Holders; Record Dates.     7  
 
  Section 105.   Notices, Etc., to Trustee and Company.     9  
 
  Section 106.   Notice to Holders; Waiver.     9  
 
  Section 107.   Conflict with Trust Indenture Act.     9  
 
  Section 108.   Effect of Headings and Table of Contents.     9  
 
  Section 109.   Successors and Assigns.     9  
 
  Section 110.   Separability Clause.     10  
 
  Section 111.   Benefits of Indenture.     10  
 
  Section 112.   Governing Law.     10  
 
  Section 113.   Legal Holidays.     10  
 
  Section 114.   Indenture and Securities Solely Corporate Obligations.     10  
 
  Section 115.   Indenture May be Executed in Counterparts.     10  
 
  Section 116.   Acceptance of Trust.     10  
ARTICLE TWO SECURITY FORMS     10  
 
  Section 201.   Forms Generally.     10  
 
  Section 202.   Form of Face of Security.     11  
 
  Section 203.   Form of Reverse of Security.     13  
 
  Section 204.   Form of Legend for Global Securities.     16  
 
  Section 205.   Form of Trustee’s Certificate of Authentication.     17  
 
  Section 206.   Form of Conversion Notice.     18  
ARTICLE THREE THE SECURITIES     20  
 
  Section 301.   Amount Unlimited; Issuable in Series.     20  
 
  Section 302.   Denominations.     22  
 
  Section 303.   Execution, Authentication, Delivery and Dating.     22  
 
  Section 304.   Temporary Securities.     23  
 
  Section 305.   Registration; Registration of Transfer and Exchange.     24  
 
  Section 306.   Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost and Stolen Securities.     25  
 
  Section 307.   Payment of Interest; Interest Rights Preserved.     26  
 
  Section 308.   Persons Deemed Owners.     27  
 
  Section 309.   Cancellation.     27  
 
  Section 310.   Computation of Interest.     28  
 
  Section 311.   CUSIP Numbers.     28  
ARTICLE FOUR SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE     28  
 
  Section 401.   Satisfaction and Discharge of Indenture.     28  
 
  Section 402.   Application of Trust Money.     29  
 
  Section 403.   Repayment to the Company.     29  
ARTICLE FIVE REMEDIES     29  
 
  Section 501.   Events of Default.     29  
 
  Section 502.   Acceleration of Maturity; Rescission and Annulment.     30  
 
  Section 503.   Collection of Indebtedness and Suits for Enforcement by Trustee.     31  
 
  Section 504.   Trustee May File Proofs of Claim.     32  
 
  Section 505.   Trustee May Enforce Claims Without Possession of Securities.     32  

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  Section 506.   Application of Money Collected.     32  
 
  Section 507.   Limitation on Suits.     33  
 
  Section 508.   Unconditional Right of Holders to Receive Principal, Premium and Interest and to Convert.     33  
 
  Section 509.   Restoration of Rights and Remedies.     33  
 
  Section 510.   Rights and Remedies Cumulative.     33  
 
  Section 511.   Delay or Omission Not Waiver.     34  
 
  Section 512.   Control by Holders.     34  
 
  Section 513.   Waiver of Past Defaults.     34  
 
  Section 514.   Undertaking for Costs.     34  
 
  Section 515.   Waiver of Stay or Extension Laws.     35  
ARTICLE SIX THE TRUSTEE     35  
 
  Section 601.   Certain Duties and Responsibilities.     35  
 
  Section 602.   Notice of Defaults.     35  
 
  Section 603.   Certain Rights of Trustee.     35  
 
  Section 604.   Not Responsible for Recitals or Issuance of Securities.     36  
 
  Section 605.   May Hold Securities and Act as Trustee Under Other Indentures.     36  
 
  Section 606.   Money Held in Trust.     37  
 
  Section 607.   Compensation and Reimbursement.     37  
 
  Section 608.   Conflicting Interests.     37  
 
  Section 609.   Corporate Trustee Required; Eligibility.     37  
 
  Section 610.   Resignation and Removal; Appointment of Successor.     38  
 
  Section 611.   Acceptance of Appointment by Successor.     39  
 
  Section 612.   Merger, Conversion, Consolidation or Succession to Business.     39  
 
  Section 613.   Preferential Collection of Claims Against the Company.     40  
 
  Section 614.   Appointment of Authenticating Agent.     40  
ARTICLE SEVEN HOLDERS’ LISTS AND REPORTS BY TRUSTEE AND COMPANY     42  
 
  Section 701.   Company to Furnish Trustee Names and Addresses of Holders.     42  
 
  Section 702.   Preservation of Information; Communications to Holders.     42  
 
  Section 703.   Reports by Trustee.     42  
 
  Section 704.   Reports by Company.     43  
ARTICLE EIGHT CONSOLIDATION, MERGER, CONVEYANCE, TRANSFER OR LEASE     43  
 
  Section 801.   Company May Consolidate, Etc., Only on Certain Terms.     43  
 
  Section 802.   Successor Substituted.     44  
ARTICLE NINE SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES     44  
 
  Section 901.   Supplemental Indentures Without Consent of Holders.     44  
 
  Section 902.   Supplemental Indentures With Consent of Holders.     45  
 
  Section 903.   Execution of Supplemental Indentures.     46  
 
  Section 904.   Effect of Supplemental Indentures.     46  
 
  Section 905.   Conformity with Trust Indenture Act.     46  
 
  Section 906.   Reference in Securities to Supplemental Indentures.     47  
ARTICLE TEN COVENANTS     47  
 
  Section 1001.   Payment of Principal, Premium and Interest.     47  
 
  Section 1002.   Maintenance of Office or Agency.     47  
 
  Section 1003.   Money for Securities Payments to Be Held in Trust.     47  
 
  Section 1004.   Statement by Officers as to Default.     48  
 
  Section 1005.   Existence.     48  
 
  Section 1006.   Payment of Taxes and Other Claims.     48  
 
  Section 1007.   Calculation of Original Issue Discount.     48  
ARTICLE ELEVEN REDEMPTION OF SECURITIES     49  
 
  Section 1101.   Applicability of Article.     49  

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  Section 1102.   Election to Redeem; Notice to Trustee.     49  
 
  Section 1103.   Selection by Trustee of Securities to Be Redeemed.     49  
 
  Section 1104.   Notice of Redemption.     50  
 
  Section 1105.   Deposit of Redemption Price.     50  
 
  Section 1106.   Securities Payable on Redemption Date.     51  
 
  Section 1107.   Securities Redeemed in Part.     51  
ARTICLE TWELVE SINKING FUNDS     51  
 
  Section 1201.   Applicability of Article.     51  
 
  Section 1202.   Satisfaction of Sinking Fund Payments with Securities.     52  
 
  Section 1203.   Redemption of Securities for Sinking Fund.     52  
ARTICLE THIRTEEN DEFEASANCE AND COVENANT DEFEASANCE     52  
 
  Section 1301.   [Intentionally Omitted].     52  
 
  Section 1302.   Defeasance and Discharge.     52  
 
  Section 1303.   Covenant Defeasance.     52  
 
  Section 1304.   Conditions to Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance.     53  
 
  Section 1305.   Deposited Money and U.S. Government Obligations to be Held in Trust; Miscellaneous Provisions.     54  
 
  Section 1306.   Reinstatement.     55  
ARTICLE FOURTEEN CONVERSION AND EXCHANGE OF SECURITIES     55  
 
  Section 1401.   Applicability of Article.     55  
 
  Section 1402.   Exercise of Conversion and Exchange Privilege.     55  
 
  Section 1403.   No Fractional Shares.     56  
 
  Section 1404.   Adjustment of Conversion and Exchange Price.     56  
 
  Section 1405.   Notice of Certain Corporate Actions.     57  
 
  Section 1406.   Reservation of Shares of Common Stock.     57  
 
  Section 1407.   Payment of Certain Taxes Upon Conversion and Exchange.     57  
 
  Section 1408.   Nonassessability.     57  
 
  Section 1409.   Provision in Case of Consolidation, Merger or Sale of Assets.     58  
 
  Section 1410.   Duties of Trustee Regarding Conversion and Exchange.     58  
 
  Section 1411.   Repayment of Certain Funds Upon Conversion and Exchange.     59  
ARTICLE FIFTEEN GUARANTEE     59  
 
  Section 1501.   Unconditional Guarantee.     59  
 
  Section 1502.   Execution and Delivery of Guarantee.     60  
 
  Section 1503.   Limitation on Guarantors’ Liability.     61  
 
  Section 1504.   Release of Guarantors from Guarantee.     61  
 
  Section 1505.   Guarantor Contribution.     61  
Notation of Guarantee — Annex A

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Express Scripts, Inc.
Certain Sections of this Indenture relating to Sections 310
through 318, inclusive, of the Trust Indenture Act of 1939:
         
Trust Indenture Act Section     Indenture Section
§310 (a)(1)
      609
(a)(2)
      609
(a)(3)
  Not Applicable
(a)(4)
  Not Applicable
(b)
      608, 610
§311 (a)
      613
(b)
      613
§312 (a)
      701, 702
(b)
      702
(c)
      702
§313 (a)
      703
(b)
      703
(c)
      703
(d)
      703
§314 (a)
      704
(a)(4)
      101,1004
(b)
  Not Applicable
(c)(1)
      102
(c)(2)
      102
(c)(3)
  Not Applicable
(d)
  Not Applicable
(e)
      102
§315 (a)
      601
(b)
      602
(c)
      601
(d)
      601
(e)
      514
§316 (a)
      101
(a)(1)(A)
      502,512
(a)(1)(B)
      513
(a)(2)
  Not Applicable
(b)
      508
(c)
      104
§317 (a)(1)
      503
(a)(2)
      504
(b)
      1003
§318 (a)
      107
NOTE: This reconciliation and tie shall not, for any purpose, be deemed to be a part of the Indenture.

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     INDENTURE, dated as of ____________, 2009, among Express Scripts, Inc., a corporation duly organized and existing under the laws of the State of Delaware (herein called the “Company”), having its principal executive office at One Express Way, St. Louis, Missouri 63121, any Guarantors (as defined herein) party hereto, and Union Bank, N.A., a national banking association, as Trustee (herein called the “Trustee”).
RECITALS OF THE COMPANY AND GUARANTORS
     The Company has duly authorized the execution and delivery of this Indenture to provide for the issuance from time to time of its unsecured debentures, notes or other evidences of indebtedness (herein called the “Securities”), to be issued in one or more series, which Securities may be guaranteed by each of the Guarantors, as provided in this Indenture.
     All things necessary to make this Indenture a valid agreement of the Company and any Guarantors, in accordance with its terms, have been done.
NOW, THEREFORE, THIS INDENTURE WITNESSETH:
     For and in consideration of the premises and the purchase of the Securities by the Holders thereof, it is mutually covenanted and agreed, for the equal and proportionate benefit of all Holders of the Securities or of series thereof appertaining, as follows:
ARTICLE ONE
DEFINITIONS AND OTHER PROVISIONS OF GENERAL APPLICATION
     Section 101. Definitions.
For all purposes of this Indenture and the Securities authenticated and delivered under this Indenture, except as otherwise expressly provided or unless the context otherwise requires:
     (1) the terms defined in this Article have the meanings assigned to them in this Article and include the plural as well as the singular;
     (2) all other terms used herein which are defined in the Trust Indenture Act, either directly or by reference therein, have the meanings assigned to them therein;
     (3) all accounting terms not otherwise defined herein have the meanings assigned to them in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles in the United States, and, except as otherwise herein expressly provided, the term “generally accepted accounting principles” with respect to any computation required or permitted hereunder shall mean such accounting principles as are generally accepted in the United States at the date of this instrument;
     (4) unless the context otherwise requires, any reference to an “Article” or a “Section” refers to an Article or a Section, as the case may be, of this Indenture;
     (5) the words “herein,” “hereof,” “hereunder” and other words of similar import refer to this Indenture or the Securities, as applicable, as a whole and not to any particular Article, Section or other subdivision; and
     (6) the term “including” means including without limitation.
     “Act,” when used with respect to any Holder, has the meaning specified in Section 104.

 


 

     “Affiliate” of any specified Person means any other Person directly or indirectly controlling or controlled by or under direct or indirect common control with such specified Person. For the purposes of this definition, “control” when used with respect to any specified Person means the power to direct the management and policies of such Person, directly or indirectly, whether through the ownership of voting securities, by contract or otherwise; and the terms “controlling” and “controlled” have meanings correlative to the foregoing.
     “Authenticating Agent” means any Person authorized by the Trustee pursuant to Section 614 to act on behalf of the Trustee to authenticate Securities of one or more series.
     “Board of Directors” means either the board of directors of the Company or any duly authorized committee empowered by that board to act with respect to this Indenture.
     “Board Resolution” means a copy of a resolution certified by the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary of the Company to have been duly adopted by the Board of Directors and to be in full force and effect on the date of such certification, and delivered to the Trustee.
     “Business Day,” means, with respect to any Place of Payment, means each Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday which is not a day on which banking institutions in that Place of Payment are authorized or obligated by law or executive order to close, except as may otherwise be provided in the form of Securities of any particular series pursuant to the provisions of this Indenture.
     “Commission” means the Securities and Exchange Commission, as from time to time constituted, created under the Exchange Act, or, if at any time after the execution of this Indenture such Commission is not existing and performing the duties now assigned to it under the Trust Indenture Act, then the body performing such duties at such time.
     “Common Stock” includes any stock of any class of the Company which has no preference in respect of dividends or of amounts payable in the event of any voluntary or involuntary liquidation, dissolution or winding-up of the Company and which is not subject to redemption by the Company; provided, however, subject to the provisions of Section 1409, shares issuable upon conversion of Securities shall include only shares of the class designated as Common Stock of the Company at the date of this Indenture or shares of any class or classes resulting from any reclassification or reclassifications thereof and which have no preference in respect of dividends or of amounts payable in the event of any voluntary or involuntary liquidation, dissolution or winding-up of the Company and which are not subject to redemption by the Company; provided, further, that if at any time there shall be more than one such resulting class, the shares of each such class then so issuable shall be substantially in the proportion which the total number of shares of such class resulting from all such reclassifications bears to the total number of shares of all such classes resulting from all such reclassifications.
     “Company” means the corporation named as the “Company” in the first paragraph of this Indenture until a successor Person shall have become such pursuant to the applicable provisions of this Indenture, and thereafter “Company” shall means such successor corporation.
     “Company Request” or “Company Order” means a written request or order signed in the name of the Company by (a) its Chairman of the Board of Directors, its Chief Executive Officer, its President or a Vice President, its Chief Financial Officer, its Treasurer or an Assistant Treasurer, and (b) its Secretary or an Assistant Secretary, and delivered to the Trustee.
     “Constituent Person” has the meaning specified in Section 1409.
     “Corporate Trust Office” means the principal corporate trust office of the Trustee, which office, at the date of execution of this Indenture, is located at 551 Madison Avenue, 11th Floor, New York, NY 10022, Attention: Trustee and Escrow Services (Express Scripts Debt Securities), at which at any particular time its corporate trust business shall be administered.

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     “corporation” means a corporation, association, company, limited liability company, joint-stock company or business trust.
     “Covenant Defeasance” has the meaning specified in Section 1303.
     “Debt” of any Person at any date means all indebtedness for borrowed money.
     “Default” means any event which is, or after notice or passage of time or both, would be, an Event of Default.
     “Defaulted Interest” has the meaning specified in Section 307.
     “Defeasance” has the meaning specified in Section 1302.
     “Depositary” means, with respect to Securities of any series issuable in whole or in part in the form of one or more Global Securities, a clearing agency registered under the Exchange Act that is designated to act as Depositary for such Securities as contemplated by Section 301, until a successor Depositary shall have become such pursuant to the applicable provisions of this Indenture, and thereafter “Depositary” shall mean or include each person who is then a Depositary hereunder, and if at any time there is more than one such Person, “Depositary” as used with respect to the Securities of any such series shall mean the Depositary with respect to the Securities of that series.
     “Dollar” or “$” means a dollar or other equivalent unit in such coin or currency of the United States of America as at the time shall be legal tender for the payment of public and private debts.
     “Event of Default” unless otherwise specified in the supplemental indenture establishing series of Securities, has the meaning specified in Section 501.
     “Exchange Act” means the United States Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and the rules and regulations promulgated by the Commission thereunder and any statute successor thereto, in each case as amended from time to time.
     “Expiration Date” has the meaning specified in Section 104.
     “Funding Guarantor” has the meaning specified in Section 1505.
     “Global Security” means a Security that evidences all or part of the Securities of any series, which is executed by the Company and authenticated and delivered by the Trustee to the applicable Depositary for such series in accordance with Section 303, and bears the legend set forth in Section 204 (or such legend as may be specified as contemplated by Section 301 for such Securities).
     “Guarantee” has the meaning stated in Section 1501(2). The term “Guarantee” used as a verb has a corresponding meaning.
     “Guarantors” means any Subsidiary of the Company and any other Affiliate of the Company who may execute this Indenture, or a supplement hereto, for the purpose of providing a Guarantee of Securities pursuant to this Indenture until (a) a successor Person shall have become such pursuant to the applicable provisions of this Indenture, and thereafter “Guarantors” shall mean such successor Person or (b) such Person shall have been released from its Guarantee pursuant to the provisions of this Indenture.
     “Holder” means a Person in whose name a Security is registered in the Security Register.
     “Indenture” means this instrument as originally executed or as it may from time to time be supplemented or amended by one or more indentures supplemental hereto entered into pursuant to the applicable provisions hereof, including, for all purposes of this instrument and any such supplemental indenture, the provisions of the Trust

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Indenture Act that are deemed to be a part of and govern this instrument and any such supplemental indenture, respectively. The term “Indenture” shall also include the terms of particular series of Securities established as contemplated by Section 301; provided, however, that if at any time more than one Person is acting as Trustee under this Indenture due to the appointment of one or more separate Trustees for any one or more separate series of Securities, “Indenture” shall mean, with respect to such series of Securities for which any such Person is Trustee, this instrument as originally executed or as it may from time to time be supplemented or amended by one or more indentures supplemental hereto entered into pursuant to the applicable provisions hereof and shall include the terms of particular series of Securities for which such Person is Trustee established as contemplated by Section 301, exclusive, however, of any provisions or terms which relate solely to other series of Securities for which such Person is not Trustee, regardless of when such terms or provisions were adopted, and exclusive of any provisions or terms adopted by means of one or more indentures supplemental hereto executed and delivered after such person had become such Trustee, but to which such person, as such Trustee, was not a party; provided, further that in the event that this Indenture is supplemented or amended by one or more indentures supplemental hereto which are only applicable to certain series of Securities, the term “Indenture” for a particular series of Securities shall only include the supplemental indentures applicable thereto.
     “Interest Payment Date,” when used with respect to any Security, means the Stated Maturity of an installment of interest on such Security.
     “Investment Company Act” means the Investment Company Act of 1940 and any statute successor thereto, in each case as amended from time to time.
     “Maturity,” when used with respect to any Security, means the date on which the principal of such Security becomes due and payable as therein or herein provided, whether at the Stated Maturity or by declaration of acceleration, call for redemption, repurchase at the option of the Holder or otherwise.
     “Non-electing Share” has the meaning specified in Section 1409.
     “Notice of Default” means a written notice of the kind specified in Section 501(4).
     “Officer” means the Chairman of the Board of Directors, the Chief Executive Officer, the President, any Vice President, the Chief Financial Officer, the Treasurer, any Assistant Treasurer, any Secretary or any Assistant Secretary.
     “Officers’ Certificate” means a certificate signed by two Officers of the Company, and delivered to the Trustee. One of the officers signing an Officers’ Certificate given pursuant to Section 1004 shall be the principal executive, financial or accounting officer of the Company.
     “Opinion of Counsel” means a written opinion of counsel, who may be counsel for, or an employee of, the Company, and who shall be reasonably acceptable to the Trustee.
     “Original Issue Discount Security” means any Security which provides for an amount less than the principal amount thereof to be due and payable upon a declaration of acceleration of the Maturity thereof pursuant to Section 502.
     “Outstanding,” when used with respect to Securities or Securities of any series, means, as of the date of determination, all such Securities theretofore authenticated and delivered under this Indenture, except:
     (1) Securities theretofore canceled by the Trustee or delivered to the Trustee for cancellation;
     (2) Securities for whose payment or redemption money in the necessary amount has been theretofore deposited with the Trustee or any Paying Agent (other than the Company) in trust or set aside and segregated in trust by the Company (if the Company shall act as its own Paying Agent) for the Holders of such Securities; provided that, if such Securities are to be redeemed, notice of such redemption has been duly given pursuant to this Indenture or provision therefor satisfactory to the Trustee has been made;

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     (3) Securities as to which Defeasance has been effected pursuant to Section 1302; and
     (4) Securities which have been paid pursuant to Section 306 or in exchange for or in lieu of which other Securities have been authenticated and delivered pursuant to this Indenture, other than any such Securities in respect of which there shall have been presented to the Trustee proof satisfactory to it that such Securities are held by a bona fide purchaser in whose hands such Securities are valid obligations of the Company;
provided, however, that in determining whether the Holders of the requisite principal amount of the Outstanding Securities have given, made or taken any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other action hereunder as of any date, (A) the principal amount of an Original Issue Discount Security which shall be deemed to be Outstanding shall be the amount of the principal thereof which would be due and payable as of such date upon acceleration of the Maturity thereof to such date pursuant to Section 502, (B) if, as of such date, the principal amount payable at the Stated Maturity of a Security is not determinable, the principal amount of such Security which shall be deemed to be Outstanding shall be the amount as specified or determined as contemplated by Section 301, (C) the principal amount of a Security denominated in one or more foreign currencies or currency units which shall be deemed to be Outstanding shall be the U.S. dollar equivalent, determined as of such date in the manner provided as contemplated by Section 301, of the principal amount of such Security (or, in the case of a Security described in Clause (A) or (B) above, of the amount determined as provided in such Clause), and (D) Securities owned by the Company or any other obligor upon the Securities or any Affiliate of the Company or of such other obligor shall be disregarded and deemed not to be Outstanding, except that, in determining whether the Trustee shall be protected in relying upon any such request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other action, only Securities which a responsible officer of the Trustee actually knows to be so owned shall be so disregarded. Securities so owned which have been pledged in good faith may be regarded as Outstanding if the pledgee establishes to the satisfaction of the Trustee the pledgee’s right so to act with respect to such Securities and that the pledgee is not the Company or any other obligor upon the Securities or any Affiliate of the Company or of such other obligor.
     “Paying Agent” means any Person authorized by the Company to pay the principal or premium, if any, or interest, if any, on any Securities on behalf of the Company, and shall initially be the Trustee.
     “Person” means any individual, corporation, limited liability company, partnership, joint venture, trust, unincorporated organization or government or any agency or political subdivision thereof or any other entity of any kind.
     “Place of Payment,” when used with respect to the Securities of any series, means the place or places where the principal of and any premium and interest on the Securities of that series are payable as specified in or as contemplated by Section 301.
     “Predecessor Security” of any particular Security means every previous Security evidencing all or a portion of the same debt as that evidenced by such particular Security, and, for the purposes of this definition, any Security authenticated and delivered under Section 306 in exchange for or in lieu of a mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Security shall be deemed to evidence the same debt as the mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Security.
     “Record Date” means any Regular Record Date or Special Record Date.
     “Redemption Date,” when used with respect to any Security to be redeemed, means the date fixed for such redemption by or pursuant to this Indenture.
     “Redemption Price,” when used with respect to any Security to be redeemed, means the price at which it is to be redeemed pursuant to this Indenture.
     “Regular Record Date” for the interest payable on any Interest Payment Date on the Securities of any series means the date specified for that purpose as contemplated by Section 301.

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     “Securities” has the meaning stated in the first recital of this Indenture and more particularly means any securities authenticated and delivered under this Indenture.
     “Securities Act” means the Securities Act of 1933 and any statute successor thereto, in each case as amended from time to time.
     “Security Register” and “Security Registrar” have the respective meanings specified in Section 305.
     “Significant Subsidiary” with respect to any Person means any Subsidiary of such Person that constitutes a “significant subsidiary” within the meaning of Rule 1-02(w) of Regulation S-X promulgated under the Securities Act, as such regulation is in effect on the date of this Indenture.
     “Special Record Date” for the payment of any Defaulted Interest means a date fixed by the Trustee pursuant to Section 307.
     “Stated Maturity,” when used with respect to any Security or any installment of principal thereof or interest, if any, thereon, means the date specified in such Security as the fixed date on which the principal of such Security or such installment of principal or interest, if any, is due and payable.
     “Subsidiary” with respect to any Person means (i) any corporation, association or other business entity of which more than 50% of the total voting power of shares of capital stock or other equity interests entitled (without regard to the occurrence of any contingency) to vote in the election of directors, managers or trustees thereof is at the time owned or controlled, directly or indirectly, by such Person or one or more of the other Subsidiaries of such Person (or a combination thereof), (ii) any partnership, limited liability company or similar pass-through entity the sole general partner or the managing general partner or managing member of which is such Person or a Subsidiary of such Person and (iii) any partnership, limited liability company or similar pass-through entity the only general partners, managing members or Persons, however designated in corresponding roles, of which are such Person or one or more Subsidiaries of such Person (or any combination thereof).
     “Trust Indenture Act” means the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 as in force at the date as of which this Indenture was executed, except as provided in Section 905; provided, however, that in the event the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 is amended after such date, “Trust Indenture Act” means, to the extent required by any such amendment, the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 as so amended.
     “Trustee” means the Person named as the “Trustee” in the first paragraph of this Indenture until a successor Trustee shall have become such pursuant to the applicable provisions of this Indenture, and thereafter “Trustee” shall mean or include each Person who is then a Trustee hereunder, and if at any time there is more than one such Person, “Trustee” as used with respect to the Securities of any series shall mean the Trustee with respect to Securities of that series.
     “U.S. Government Obligation” has the meaning specified in Section 1304.
     “Vice President,” when used with respect to the Company or the Trustee, means any vice president, whether or not designated by a number or a word or words added before or after the title “vice president.”
     Section 102. Compliance Certificates and Opinions.
     Upon any application or request by the Company to the Trustee to take any action under any provision of this Indenture, the Company shall furnish to the Trustee (1) an Officers’ Certificate stating that all conditions precedent, if any, provided for in this Indenture relating to the proposed action have been complied with and (2) an Opinion of Counsel stating that in the opinion of such counsel all such conditions precedent, if any, have been complied with.
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     (1) a statement that each individual signing such certificate or opinion has read such covenant or condition and the definitions herein relating thereto;
     (2) a brief statement as to the nature and scope of the examination or investigation upon which the statements or opinions contained in such certificate or opinion are based;
     (3) a statement that, in the opinion of each such individual, he or she has made such examination or investigation as is necessary to enable him or her to express an informed opinion as to whether or not there has been compliance with such covenant or condition; and
     (4) a statement as to whether, in the opinion of each such individual, there has been compliance with such condition or covenant.
     Section 103. Form of Documents Delivered to Trustee.
     In any case where several matters are required to be certified by, or covered by an opinion of, any specified Person, it is not necessary that all such matters be certified by, or covered by the opinion of, only one such Person, or that they be so certified or covered by only one document, but one such Person may certify or give an opinion with respect to some matters and one or more other such Persons as to other matters, and any such Person may certify or give an opinion as to such matters in one or several documents.
     Any certificate or opinion of an officer of the Company or any Guarantor may be based, insofar as it relates to legal matters, upon a certificate or opinion of, or representations by, counsel, unless such officer knows, or in the exercise of reasonable care should know, that the certificate or opinion or representations with respect to the matters upon which his or her certificate or opinion is based are erroneous. Any such certificate or Opinion of Counsel may be based, insofar as it relates to factual matters, upon a certificate or opinion of, or representations by, an officer or officers of the Company or any Guarantor, as applicable, stating that the information with respect to such factual matters is in the possession of the Company or any Guarantor, as the case may be, unless such counsel knows, or in the exercise of reasonable care should know, that the certificate or opinion or representations with respect to such matters are erroneous. Any such certificate or opinion of counsel may be based, insofar as it relates to accounting matters, upon a certificate or opinion of, or representations by, an accountant (who may be an employee of the Company) or firm of accountants, unless such counsel knows, or in the exercise of reasonable care should know, that the certificate or opinion or representations with respect to such matters are erroneous. Where any Person is required to make, give or execute two or more applications, requests, consents, certificates, statements, opinions or other instruments under this Indenture, they may, but need not, be consolidated and form one instrument.
     Section 104. Acts of Holders; Record Dates.
     Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other action provided or permitted by this Indenture to be given, made or taken by Holders may be embodied in and evidenced by one or more instruments of substantially similar tenor signed by such Holders in person or by an agent duly appointed in writing; and, except as herein otherwise expressly provided, such action shall become effective when such instrument or instruments are delivered to the Trustee and, where it is hereby expressly required, to the Company. The Trustee shall promptly deliver to the Company copies of all such instrument or instruments and records delivered to the Trustee. Such instrument or instruments (and the action embodied therein and evidenced thereby) are herein sometimes referred to as the “Act” of the Holders signing such instrument or instruments. Proof of execution of any such instrument or of a writing appointing any such agent shall be sufficient for any purpose of this Indenture and (subject to Section 601) conclusive in favor of the Trustee and the Company, if made in the manner provided in this Section.
     The fact and date of the execution by any Person of any such instrument or writing may be proved by the affidavit of a witness of such execution or by a certificate of a notary public or other officer authorized by law to take acknowledgments of deeds, certifying that the individual signing such instrument or writing acknowledged to him or her the execution thereof. Where such execution is by a signer acting in a capacity other than his or her individual capacity, such certificate or affidavit shall also constitute sufficient proof of his or her authority. The fact

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and date of the execution of any such instrument or writing, or the authority of the Person executing the same, may also be proved in any other manner which the Trustee deems sufficient.
     The ownership of Securities shall be proved by the Security Register.
     Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other Act of the Holder of any Security shall bind every future Holder of the same Security and the Holder of every Security issued upon the registration of transfer thereof or in exchange therefor or in lieu thereof in respect of anything done, omitted or suffered to be done by the Trustee or the Company in reliance thereon, whether or not notation of such action is made upon such Security.
     The Company may, in the circumstances permitted by the Trust Indenture Act, set any day as a record date for the purpose of determining the Holders of Outstanding Securities of any series entitled to give, make or take any request, demand, authorization, direction, vote, notice, consent, waiver or other action provided or permitted by this Indenture to be given, made or taken by Holders of Securities of such series; provided that the Company may not set a record date for, and the provisions of this paragraph shall not apply with respect to, the giving or making of any notice, declaration, request or direction referred to in the next paragraph. If any record date is set pursuant to this paragraph, the Holders of Outstanding Securities of the relevant series on such record date, and no other Holders, shall be entitled to take the relevant action, whether or not such Holders remain Holders after such record date; provided further that no such action shall be effective hereunder unless taken on or prior to the applicable Expiration Date by Holders of the requisite principal amount of Outstanding Securities of such series on such record date. Nothing in this paragraph shall be construed to prevent the Company from setting a new record date for any action for which a record date has previously been set pursuant to this paragraph (whereupon the record date previously set shall automatically and with no action by any Person be canceled and of no effect), and nothing in this paragraph shall be construed to render ineffective any action taken by Holders of the requisite principal amount of Outstanding Securities of the relevant series on the date such action is taken. Promptly after any record date is set pursuant to this paragraph, the Company, at its own expense, shall cause notice of such record date, the proposed action by Holders and the applicable Expiration Date to be given to the Trustee in writing and to each Holder of Securities of the relevant series in the manner set forth in Section 106.
     The Trustee may set any day as a record date for the purpose of determining the Holders of Outstanding Securities of any series entitled to join in the giving or making of (i) any Notice of Default, (ii) any declaration of acceleration referred to in Section 502, (iii) any request to institute proceedings referred to in Section 507(2) or (iv) any direction referred to in Section 512, in each case with respect to Securities of such series. If any record date is set pursuant to this paragraph, the Holders of Outstanding Securities of such series on such record date, and no other Holders, shall be entitled to join in such notice, declaration, request or direction, whether or not such Holders remain Holders after such record date; provided that no such action shall be effective hereunder unless taken on or prior to the applicable Expiration Date by Holders of the requisite principal amount of Outstanding Securities of such series on such record date. Nothing in this paragraph shall be construed to prevent the Trustee from setting a new record date for any action for which a record date has previously been set pursuant to this paragraph (whereupon the record date previously set shall automatically and with no action by any Person be canceled and of no effect), and nothing in this paragraph shall be construed to render ineffective any action taken by Holders of the requisite principal amount of Outstanding Securities of the relevant series on the date such action is taken. Promptly after any record date is set pursuant to this paragraph, the Trustee, at the Company’s expense, shall cause notice of such record date, the proposed action by Holders and the applicable Expiration Date to be given to the Company in writing and to each Holder of Securities of the relevant series in the manner set forth in Section 106.
     With respect to any record date set pursuant to this Section, the party hereto which sets such record dates may designate any day as the “Expiration Date” and from time to time may change the Expiration Date to any earlier or later day; provided that no such change shall be effective unless notice of the proposed new Expiration Date is given to the other party hereto in writing, and to each Holder of Securities of the relevant series in the manner set forth in Section 106, on or prior to the existing Expiration Date. If an Expiration Date is not designated with respect to any record date set pursuant to this Section, the party hereto which set such record date shall be deemed to have initially designated the 180th day after such record date as the Expiration Date with respect thereto, subject to its right to change the Expiration Date as provided in this paragraph. Notwithstanding the foregoing, no Expiration Date shall be later than the 180th day after the applicable record date.

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     Without limiting the foregoing, a Holder entitled hereunder to take any action hereunder with regard to any particular Security may do so with regard to all or any part of the principal amount of such Security or by one or more duly appointed agents each of which may do so pursuant to such appointment with regard to all or any part of such principal amount.
     Section 105. Notices, Etc., to Trustee and Company.
     Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or Act of Holders or other document provided or permitted by this Indenture to be made upon, given or furnished to, or filed with,
     (1) the Trustee by any Holder or by the Company shall be sufficient for every purpose hereunder if made, given, furnished or filed in writing (or by facsimile transmission [((646)-452-2012)]; provided that oral confirmation of receipt shall have been received) to or with the Trustee at its Corporate Trust Office, or
     (2) the Company by the Trustee or by any Holder shall be sufficient for every purpose hereunder (unless otherwise herein expressly provided) if in writing and mailed, first-class postage prepaid, to the Company addressed to it at the address of the Company’s principal office specified in the first paragraph of this instrument or at any other address previously furnished in writing to the Trustee by the Company, Attention: Chief Financial Officer, with a copy to the Secretary; provided that such notice shall not be deemed to be given until received by the Company.
     Section 106. Notice to Holders; Waiver.
     Where this Indenture provides for notice to Holders of any event, such notice shall be sufficiently given (unless otherwise herein expressly provided) if in writing and mailed, first-class postage prepaid, to each Holder affected by such event, at its address as it appears in the Security Register, not later than the latest date (if any), and not earlier than the earliest date (if any), prescribed for the giving of such notice. In any case where notice to Holders is given by mail, neither the failure to mail such notice, nor any defect in any notice so mailed, to any particular Holder shall affect the sufficiency of such notice with respect to other Holders. Where this Indenture provides for notice in any manner, such notice may be waived in writing by the Person entitled to receive such notice, either before or after the event, and such waiver shall be the equivalent of such notice. Waivers of notice by Holders shall be filed with the Trustee, but such filing shall not be a condition precedent to the validity of any action taken in reliance upon such waiver.
     In case by reason of the suspension of regular mail service or by reason of any other cause it shall be impracticable to give such notice by mail, then such notification as shall be made with the approval of the Trustee shall constitute a sufficient notification for every purpose hereunder.
     Section 107. Conflict with Trust Indenture Act.
     If any provision hereof limits, qualifies or conflicts with a provision of the Trust Indenture Act which is required under the Trust Indenture Act to be a part of and govern this Indenture, the latter provision shall control. If any provision of this Indenture modifies or excludes any provision of the Trust Indenture Act which may be so modified or excluded, the latter provision shall be deemed to apply to this Indenture as so modified or to be excluded, as the case may be.
     Section 108. Effect of Headings and Table of Contents.
     The Article and Section headings herein and the Table of Contents are for convenience only and shall not affect the construction hereof.
     Section 109. Successors and Assigns.
     All covenants and agreements in this Indenture by each of the Company and the Guarantors shall bind its successors and assigns, whether so expressed or not.

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     Section 110. Separability Clause.
     In case any provision in this Indenture or in the Securities shall be invalid, illegal or unenforceable, the validity, legality and enforceability of the remaining provisions shall not in any way be affected or impaired thereby.
     Section 111. Benefits of Indenture.
     Nothing in this Indenture or in the Securities, express or implied, shall give to any Person, other than the parties hereto and their successors hereunder and the Holders, any benefit or any legal or equitable right, remedy or claim under this Indenture.
     Section 112. Governing Law.
     THIS INDENTURE AND THE SECURITIES SHALL BE GOVERNED BY AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, WITHOUT REGARD TO CONFLICTS OF LAWS PRINCIPLES THEREOF.
     Section 113. Legal Holidays.
     In any case where any Interest Payment Date, Redemption Date or Stated Maturity of any Security or the last date on which a Holder has the right to convert a Security at a particular conversion price shall not be a Business Day at any Place of Payment, then (notwithstanding any other provision of this Indenture or of the Securities (other than a provision of any Security which specifically states that such provision shall apply in lieu of this Section)) payment of interest or principal (and premium, if any) or, if applicable to a particular series of Securities, conversion need not be made at such Place of Payment on such date, but may be made on the next succeeding Business Day at such Place of Payment with the same force and effect as if made on the Interest Payment Date or Redemption Date, at the Stated Maturity or on such last day for conversion, as the case may be.
     Section 114. Indenture and Securities Solely Corporate Obligations.
     None of the Company’s or any Guarantor’s past, present or future directors, officers, employees or shareholders, as such, shall have any liability for any of the Company’s or any Guarantor’s obligations under this Indenture or the Securities or for any claim based on, or in respect or by reason of, such obligations or their creation. By accepting a Security, each holder waives and releases all such liability. This waiver and release is part of the consideration for the issuance of the Securities.
     Section 115. Indenture May be Executed in Counterparts.
     This Indenture may be executed in any number of counterparts, each of which so executed shall be deemed to be an original, but all such counterparts shall together constitute but one and the same instrument.
     Section 116. Acceptance of Trust.
     Union Bank, N.A., the Trustee named herein, hereby accepts the trusts in this Indenture declared and provided, upon the terms and conditions set forth herein.
ARTICLE TWO
SECURITY FORMS
     Section 201. Forms Generally.
     The Securities of each series shall be in substantially the form set forth in this Article, or in such other form as shall be established by or pursuant to a Board Resolution or in one or more indentures supplemental hereto, in each case with such appropriate insertions, omissions, substitutions and other variations as are required or permitted

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by this Indenture, and may have such letters, numbers or other marks of identification and such legends or endorsements placed thereon as may be required to comply with the rules of any securities exchange or Depositary therefor or as may, consistently herewith, be determined by the officers executing such Securities, as evidenced by their execution thereof. If the form of Securities of any series is established by action taken pursuant to a Board Resolution, a copy of an appropriate record of such action shall be certified by the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary of the Company and delivered to the Trustee at or prior to the delivery of the Company Order contemplated by Section 303 for the authentication and delivery of such Securities. Any such Board Resolution or record of such action shall have attached thereto a true and correct copy of the form of Security referred to therein approved by or pursuant to such Board Resolution.
     The definitive Securities shall be printed, lithographed or engraved on steel engraved borders or may be produced in any other manner, all as determined by the officers executing such Securities, as evidenced by their execution of such Securities.
     Section 202. Form of Face of Security.
[Insert any legend required by the Internal Revenue Code and the regulations thereunder.]
EXPRESS SCRIPTS, INC.
 
$___
  No. ___
CUSIP No. _________
     Express Scripts, Inc., a corporation duly organized and existing under the laws of Delaware (herein called the “Company,” which term includes any successor Person under the Indenture hereinafter referred to), for value received, hereby promises to pay to ___, or registered assigns, the principal sum of ___Dollars on ___[if the Security is to bear interest prior to Maturity, insert —, and to pay interest thereon from ___or from the most recent Interest Payment Date to which interest has been paid or duly provided for to, but excluding the next Interest Payment Date, [semi-annually on ___and ___] in each year, commencing ___, at the rate of ___% per annum, until the principal hereof is paid or made available for payment [if applicable, insert — ; provided that any principal and premium, and any such installment of interest, which is overdue shall bear interest at the rate of [___%] per annum (to the extent that the payment of such interest shall be legally enforceable), from the dates such amounts are due until they are paid or made available for payment, and such interest shall be payable on demand]. The interest so payable, and punctually paid or duly provided for, on any Interest Payment Date will, as provided in such Indenture, be paid to the Person in whose name this Security (or one or more Predecessor Securities) is registered at the close of business on the Regular Record Date for such interest, which shall be the ___or ___(whether or not a Business Day), as the case may be, next preceding such Interest Payment Date. Any such interest not so punctually paid or duly provided for will forthwith cease to be payable to the Holder on such Regular Record Date and may either be paid to the Person in whose name this Security (or one or more Predecessor Securities) is registered at the close of business on a Special Record Date for the payment of such Defaulted Interest to be fixed by the Trustee, notice whereof shall be given to Holders of Securities of this series not fewer than 10 days prior to such Special Record Date, or be paid at any time in any other lawful manner not inconsistent with the requirements of any securities exchange on which the Securities of this series may be listed, and upon such notice as may be required by such exchange, all as more fully provided in said Indenture. Interest on the Security shall be computed on the basis of a 360 day year of twelve 30 day months.]
     [If the Security is not to bear interest prior to Maturity, insert — The principal of this Security shall not bear interest except in the case of a default in payment of principal upon acceleration, upon redemption or at Stated Maturity and in such case the overdue principal and any overdue premium shall bear interest at the rate of ___% per annum (to the extent that the payment of such interest shall be legally enforceable), from the dates such amounts are due until they are paid or made available for payment. Interest on any overdue principal or premium shall be payable on demand. Any such interest on overdue principal or premium which is not paid on demand shall bear interest at the rate of ___% per annum (to the extent that the payment of such interest on interest shall be

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legally enforceable), from the date of such demand until the amount so demanded is paid or made available for payment. Interest on any overdue interest shall be payable on demand.]
     Payment of the principal of (and premium, if any) and [if applicable, insert — any such] interest on this Security will be made at the office or agency of the Company maintained for that purpose in ___, [if applicable, insert — which shall initially be the [principal corporate trust] office of the Trustee,] in such coin or currency of the United States of America as at the time of payment is legal tender for payment of public and private debts [if applicable, insert —; provided, however, that at the option of the Company payment of interest may be made by check mailed to the address of the Person entitled thereto as such address shall appear in the Security Register].
     Reference is hereby made to the further provisions of this Security set forth on the reverse hereof, which further provisions shall for all purposes have the same effect as if set forth at this place.
     Unless the certificate of authentication hereon has been executed by the Trustee referred to on the reverse hereof by manual signature, this Security shall not be entitled to any benefit under the Indenture or be valid or obligatory for any purpose.
     IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Company has caused this instrument to be duly executed.
         
  EXPRESS SCRIPTS, INC.
 
 
  By:      
    Title:   
 
    Attest:   
 
       

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     Section 203. Form of Reverse of Security.
     This Security is one of a duly authorized issue of securities of the Company (herein called the “Securities”), issued and to be issued in one or more series under an Indenture, dated as of ___, 2009 (herein called the “Indenture,” which term shall have the meaning assigned to it in such instrument), among the Company, any Guarantors party thereto and Union Bank, N.A., as Trustee (herein called the “Trustee,” which term includes any successor trustee under the Indenture), and reference is hereby made to the Indenture and all indentures supplemental thereto applicable to this Security for a statement of the respective rights, limitations of rights, duties and immunities thereunder of the Company, the Guarantors, the Trustee and the Holders of the Securities and of the terms upon which the Securities are, and are to be, authenticated and delivered. This Security is one of the series designated on the face hereof [if applicable, insert —, limited in aggregate principal amount to $___].
     [If applicable, insert — The Securities of this series are subject to redemption upon not fewer than 30 days’ nor more than 60 days’ notice by mail, [if applicable, insert — (1) on ___in any year commencing with the year ___and ending with the year ___ through operation of the sinking fund for this series at a Redemption Price equal to 100% of the principal amount, and (2)] at any time [if applicable, insert — on or after ___, 20___], in whole or in part, at the election of the Company, at the following Redemption Prices (expressed as percentages of the principal amount): If redeemed [if applicable, insert — on or before ___, ___%, and if redeemed] during the 12-month period beginning ___of the years indicated, and thereafter at a Redemption Price equal to ___% of the principal amount, together in the case of any such redemption [if applicable, insert — (whether through operation of the sinking fund or otherwise)] with accrued interest to the Redemption Date, but interest installments whose Stated Maturity is on or prior to such Redemption Date will be payable to the Holders of such Securities, or one or more Predecessor Securities, of record at the close of business on the relevant Record Dates referred to on the face hereof, all as provided in the Indenture.]
                         
Year   Redemption Price     Year     Redemption Price  
 
                       
     [If applicable, insert — The Securities of this series are subject to redemption upon not fewer than 30 days’ nor more than 60 days’ notice by mail, (1) on ___in any year commencing with the year ___and ending with the year ___through operation of the sinking fund for this series at the Redemption Prices for redemption through operation of the sinking fund (expressed as percentages of the principal amount) set forth in the table below, and (2) at any time [if applicable, insert — on or after ___], as a whole or in part, at the election of the Company, at the Redemption Prices for redemption otherwise than through operation of the sinking fund (expressed as percentages of the principal amount) set forth in the table below: If redeemed during the 12-month period beginning ___of the years indicated,
                 
    Redemption Price For Redemption     Redemption Price For Redemption  
    Through Operation of the     Otherwise Than Through  
Year   Sinking Fund     Operation of the Sinking Fund  
 
               
and thereafter at a Redemption Price equal to ___% of the principal amount, together in the case of any such redemption (whether through operation of the sinking fund or otherwise) with accrued interest to the Redemption Date, but interest installments whose Stated Maturity is on or prior to such Redemption Date will be payable to the Holders of such Securities, or one or more Predecessor Securities, of record at the close of business on the relevant Record Dates referred to on the face hereof, all as provided in the Indenture.]
     [If applicable, insert — Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Company may not, prior to ___, redeem any Securities of this series as contemplated by [if applicable, insert — Clause (2) of] the preceding paragraph as a

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part of, or in anticipation of, any refunding operation by the application, directly or indirectly, of moneys borrowed having an interest cost to the Company (calculated in accordance with generally accepted financial practice) of less than ___% per annum.]
     [If applicable, insert — The sinking fund for this series provides for the redemption on ___, in each year beginning with the year ___and ending with the year ___of [if applicable, insert — not less than $___(“mandatory sinking fund”) and not more than] $___aggregate principal amount of Securities of this series. Securities of this series acquired or redeemed by the Company otherwise than through [if applicable, insert — mandatory] sinking fund payments may be credited against subsequent [if applicable, insert mandatory] sinking fund payments otherwise required to be made [if applicable, insert —, in the inverse order in which they become due].]
     [If the Security is subject to redemption of any kind, insert — In the event of redemption of this Security in part only, a new Security or Securities of this series and of like tenor for the unredeemed portion hereof will be issued in the name of the Holder hereof upon the cancellation hereof.]
     [If applicable, insert — The Indenture contains provisions for defeasance at any time of [the entire indebtedness of this Security] [or] [certain restrictive covenants and Events of Default with respect to this Security] [, in each case] upon compliance with certain conditions set forth in the Indenture.]
     [If the Security is convertible into Common Stock of the Company, insert — Subject to the provisions of the Indenture, the Holder of this Security is entitled, at its option, at any time on or prior to Maturity (except that, in case this Security or any portion hereof shall be called for redemption, such right shall terminate with respect to this Security or portion hereof, as the case may be, so called for redemption at the close of business on the first Business Day next preceding the date fixed for redemption as provided in the Indenture unless the Company defaults in making the payment due upon redemption), to convert the principal amount of this Security (or any portion hereof which is $1,000 or an integral multiple thereof), into fully paid and non-assessable shares (calculated as to each conversion to the nearest 1/100th of a share) of the Common Stock of the Company, as said shares shall be constituted at the date of conversion, at the conversion price of $___principal amount of Securities for each share of Common Stock, or at the adjusted conversion price in effect at the date of conversion determined as provided in the Indenture, upon surrender of this Security, together with the conversion notice hereon duly executed, to the Company at the designated office or agency of the Company in ___, accompanied (if so required by the Company) by instruments of transfer, in form satisfactory to the Company and to the Trustee, duly executed by the Holder or by its duly authorized attorney in writing. Such surrender shall, if made during any period beginning at the close of business on a Regular Record Date and ending at the opening of business on the Interest Payment Date next following such Regular Record Date (unless this Security or the portion being converted shall have been called for redemption on a Redemption Date during the period beginning at the close of business on a Regular Record Date and ending at the opening of business on the first Business Day after the next succeeding Interest Payment Date, or if such Interest Payment Date is not a Business Day, the second such Business Day), also be accompanied by payment in funds acceptable to the Company of an amount equal to the interest payable on such Interest Payment Date on the principal amount of this Security then being converted. Subject to the aforesaid requirement for payment and, in the case of a conversion after the Regular Record Date next preceding any Interest Payment Date and on or before such Interest Payment Date, to the right of the Holder of this Security (or any Predecessor Security) of record at such Regular Record Date to receive an installment of interest (with certain exceptions provided in the Indenture), no adjustment is to be made on conversion for interest accrued hereon or for dividends on shares of Common Stock issued on conversion. The Company is not required to issue fractional shares upon any such conversion, but shall make adjustment therefor in cash on the basis of the current market value of such fractional interest as provided in the Indenture. The conversion price is subject to adjustment as provided in the Indenture. In addition, the Indenture provides that in case of certain consolidations or mergers to which the Company is a party or the sale of substantially all of the assets of the Company, the Indenture shall be amended, without the consent of any Holders of Securities, so that this Security, if then outstanding, will be convertible thereafter, during the period this Security shall be convertible as specified above, only into the kind and amount of securities, cash and other property receivable upon the consolidation, merger or sale by a holder of the number of shares of Common Stock into which this Security might have been converted immediately prior to such consolidation, merger or sale (assuming such holder of Common Stock failed to exercise any rights of election and received per share the kind and amount received per share by a plurality of non-electing shares). In the event of

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conversion of this Security in part only, a new Security or Securities for the unconverted portion hereof shall be issued in the name of the Holder hereof upon the cancellation hereof.]
     [If the Security is convertible into other securities of the Company, provides for adjustments to the conversion rate or provides for other means to settle conversion, specify the conversion features.]
     [If the Security is not an Original Issue Discount Security, insert — If an Event of Default with respect to Securities of this series shall occur and be continuing, the principal of the Securities of this series may be declared due and payable in the manner and with the effect provided in the Indenture.]
     [If the Security is an Original Issue Discount Security, insert — If an Event of Default with respect to Securities of this series shall occur and be continuing, an amount of principal of the Securities of this series may be declared due and payable in the manner and with the effect provided in the Indenture. Such amount shall be equal to — insert formula for determining the amount. Upon payment (i) of the amount of principal so declared due and payable and (ii) of interest on any overdue principal, premium and interest (in each case to the extent that the payment of such interest shall be legally enforceable), all of the Company’s obligations in respect of the payment of the principal of and premium and interest, if any, on the Securities of this series shall terminate.]
     The Indenture permits, with certain exceptions as therein provided, the amendment thereof and the modification of the rights and obligations of the Company and the rights of the Holders of the Securities of each series to be affected under the Indenture at any time by the Company and the Trustee with the consent of the Holders of at least a majority in principal amount of the Securities at the time Outstanding of each series to be affected. The Indenture also contains provisions permitting the Holders of specified percentages in principal amount of the Securities of each series at the time Outstanding, on behalf of the Holders of all Securities of such series, to waive compliance by the Company with certain provisions of the Indenture and certain past defaults under the Indenture and their consequences. Any such consent or waiver by the Holder of this Security shall be conclusive and binding upon such Holder and upon all future Holders of this Security and of any Security issued upon the registration of transfer hereof or in exchange herefor or in lieu hereof, whether or not notation of such consent or waiver is made upon this Security.
     As provided in and subject to the provisions of the Indenture, the Holder of this Security shall not have the right to institute any proceeding with respect to the Indenture or for the appointment of a receiver or trustee or for any other remedy thereunder, unless such Holder shall have previously given the Trustee written notice of a continuing Event of Default with respect to the Securities of this series, the Holders of not less than 25% in principal amount of the Securities of this series at the time Outstanding shall have made written request to the Trustee to institute proceedings in respect of such Event of Default as Trustee and offered the Trustee indemnity reasonably satisfactory to it, and the Trustee shall not have received from the Holders of a majority in principal amount of Securities of this series at the time Outstanding a direction inconsistent with such request, and shall have failed to institute any such proceeding, for 60 days after receipt of such notice, request and offer of indemnity. The foregoing shall not apply to any suit instituted by the Holder of this Security for the enforcement of any payment of principal hereof or any premium or interest hereon on or after the respective due dates expressed herein.
     No reference herein to the Indenture and no provision of this Security or of the Indenture shall alter or impair the obligation of the Company, which is absolute and unconditional, to pay the principal of and any premium and interest on this Security at the times, place and rate, and in the coin or currency, herein prescribed.
     As provided in the Indenture and subject to certain limitations therein set forth, the transfer of this Security is registrable in the Security Register, upon surrender of this Security for registration of transfer at the office or agency of the Company in any place where the principal of and any premium and interest on this Security are payable, duly endorsed by, or accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Company and the Security Registrar duly executed by, the Holder hereof or its attorney duly authorized in writing, and thereupon one or more new Securities of this series and of like tenor, of authorized denominations and for the same aggregate principal amount, will be issued to the designated transferee or transferees.
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forth, Securities of this series are exchangeable for a like aggregate principal amount of Securities of this series and of like tenor of a different authorized denomination, as requested by the Holder surrendering the same.
     No service charge shall be made for any such registration of transfer or exchange, but the Company may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental charge payable in connection therewith.
     Prior to due presentment of this Security for registration of transfer, the Company, the Trustee and any agent of the Company or the Trustee may treat the Person in whose name this Security is registered as the owner hereof for all purposes, whether or not this Security be overdue, and neither the Company, the Trustee nor any such agent shall be affected by notice to the contrary.
     This Security shall be deemed to be a contract made under the laws of the State of New York, and for all purposes shall be construed in accordance with and governed by the laws of said State, without regard to conflict of laws principles thereof.
     All terms used in this Security which are defined in the Indenture shall have the meanings assigned to them in the Indenture.
     Section 204. Form of Legend for Global Securities.
     Unless otherwise specified as contemplated by Section 301 for the Securities evidenced thereby, every Global Security authenticated and delivered hereunder shall bear a legend in substantially the following form:
     THIS SECURITY IS A GLOBAL SECURITY WITHIN THE MEANING OF THE INDENTURE HEREINAFTER REFERRED TO AND IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF A DEPOSITARY OR A NOMINEE THEREOF. THIS SECURITY MAY NOT BE EXCHANGED IN WHOLE OR IN PART FOR A SECURITY REGISTERED, AND NO TRANSFER OF THIS SECURITY IN WHOLE OR IN PART MAY BE REGISTERED, IN THE NAME OF ANY PERSON OTHER THAN SUCH DEPOSITARY OR A NOMINEE THEREOF, EXCEPT IN THE LIMITED CIRCUMSTANCES DESCRIBED IN THE INDENTURE.

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     Section 205. Form of Trustee’s Certificate of Authentication.
     The Trustee’s certificates of authentication shall be in substantially the following form:
This is one of the Securities of the series designated therein referred to in the within-mentioned Indenture.
Dated:
         
  UNION BANK, N.A.,

As Trustee
 
 
  By:      
    Authorized Signatory   
       
 

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     Section 206. Form of Conversion Notice.
     Conversion notices shall be in substantially the following form, with such changes as are appropriate for the applicable series of Securities:
     To Express Scripts, Inc.:
     The undersigned owner of this Security hereby irrevocably exercises the option to convert this Security, or portion hereof (which is $1,000 or an integral multiple thereof) below designated, in accordance with the terms of the Indenture referred to in this Security, and directs that any shares issuable and deliverable upon the conversion, together with any check in payment for fractional shares and any Securities representing any unconverted principal amount hereof, be issued and delivered to the registered holder hereof unless a different name has been indicated below. If this Notice is being delivered on a date after the close of business on a Regular Record Date and prior to the opening of business on the related Interest Payment Date (unless this Security or the portion thereof being converted has been called for redemption on a Redemption Date during the period beginning at the close of business on a Regular Record Date and ending at the opening of business on the first Business Day after the next succeeding Interest Payment Date, or if such Interest Payment Date is not a Business Day, the second such Business Day), this Notice is accompanied by payment, in funds acceptable to the Company, of an amount equal to the interest payable on such Interest Payment Date of the principal of this Security to be converted. If shares are to be issued in the name of a person other than the undersigned, the undersigned will pay all transfer taxes payable with respect to this option exercise, including such issuance. Any amount required to be paid by the undersigned on account of interest accompanies this Security.
Principal Amount to be Converted (in an integral multiple of $1,000, if less than all)
U.S. $_________
Dated: _______________
     
 
   
 
   
 
   
 
  Signature(s) must be guaranteed by an eligible guarantor institution (banks, stock brokers, savings and loan associations and credit unions with membership in an approved signature guarantee medallion program) pursuant to Securities and Exchange Commission Rule 17 Ad-15, if shares of Common Stock are to be delivered, or Securities to be issued, other than to and in the name of the registered owner.
 
   
 
   
 
  Signature Guaranty

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Fill in for registration of shares of Common Stock and Security if to be issued otherwise than to the registered Holder.
         
 
       
(Name)
  Social Security or Other Taxpayer    
 
  Identification Number    
 
       
(Address)
       
 
       
 
       
 
       
Please print Name and Address (including zip code number)
[The above conversion notice is to be modified, as appropriate, for conversion into other securities or property of the Company.]

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ARTICLE THREE
THE SECURITIES
     Section 301. Amount Unlimited; Issuable in Series.
     The aggregate principal amount of Securities which may be authenticated and delivered under this Indenture is unlimited.
     The Securities may be issued in one or more series. There shall be established in or pursuant to a Board Resolution and, subject to Section 303, set forth, or determined in the manner provided, in an Officers’ Certificate, or established in one or more indentures supplemental hereto, prior to the issuance of Securities of any series, any or all of the following:
     (1) the title of the Securities of the series (which shall distinguish the Securities of the series from Securities of any other series);
     (2) any limit upon the aggregate principal amount of the Securities of the series which may be authenticated and delivered under this Indenture (except for Securities authenticated and delivered upon registration of transfer of, or in exchange for, or in lieu of, other Securities of the series pursuant to Section 304, 305, 306, 906 or 1107 and except for any Securities which, pursuant to Section 303, are deemed never to have been authenticated and delivered hereunder);
     (3) the price or prices at which the Securities of such series will be offered by the Company (such price or prices to be expressed as a percentage of the principal amount of the Securities of such series);
     (4) the Person to whom any interest on a Security of the series shall be payable, if other than the Person in whose name that Security (or one or more Predecessor Securities) is registered at the close of business on the Regular Record Date for such interest;
     (5) the date or dates on which the principal of any Securities of the series is payable;
     (6) the rate or rates at which any Securities of the series shall bear interest, if any, or the method of determining the rate or rates, the date or dates from which any such interest shall accrue, the Interest Payment Dates on which any such interest shall be payable or the method of determining such dates and the Regular Record Date for any such interest payable on any Interest Payment Date;
     (7) the rate or rates of interest, if any, payable on overdue installments of principal of, or any premium or interest on the Securities of such series, and the basis upon which interest shall be calculated if other than that of a 360-day year comprised of twelve 30-day months;
     (8) the place or places where the principal of and any premium, if any, and interest on any Securities of the series shall be payable;
     (9) the period or periods within which, the price or prices at which and the terms and conditions upon which any Securities of the series may be redeemed, in whole or in part, at the option of the Company or otherwise and, if other than by a Board Resolution, the manner in which any election by the Company to redeem the Securities shall be evidenced;
     (10) the obligation, if any, of the Company to redeem or purchase any Securities of the series pursuant to any sinking fund or analogous provisions or otherwise at the option of the Holder thereof and the period or periods within which, the price or prices at which and the terms and conditions upon which any Securities of the series shall be redeemed or purchased, in whole or in part, pursuant to such obligation;

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     (11) if other than denominations of $2,000 and any integral multiples of $1,000 in excess thereof, the denominations in which any Securities of the series shall be issuable;
     (12) if the amount of principal of or any premium or interest on any Securities of the series may be determined with reference to an index or pursuant to a formula, the manner in which such amounts shall be determined;
     (13) if other than the currency of the United States of America, the currency, currencies or currency units in which the principal of or any premium or interest on any Securities of the series shall be payable and the manner of determining the equivalent thereof in the currency of the United States of America for any purpose, including for purposes of the definition of “Outstanding” in Section 101;
     (14) if the principal of or any premium or interest on any Securities of the series is to be payable, at the election of the Company or the Holder thereof, in one or more currencies or currency units other than that or those in which such Securities are stated to be payable, the currency, currencies or currency units in which the principal of or any premium or interest on such Securities as to which such election is made shall be payable, the periods within which and the terms and conditions upon which such election is to be made and the amount so payable (or the manner in which such amount shall be determined);
     (15) if other than the entire principal amount thereof, the portion of the principal amount of any Securities of the series which shall be payable upon declaration of acceleration of the Maturity thereof pursuant to Section 502;
     (16) if the principal amount payable at the Stated Maturity of any Securities of the series will not be determinable as of any one or more dates prior to the Stated Maturity, the amount which shall be deemed to be the principal amount of such Securities as of any such date for any purpose thereunder or hereunder, including the principal amount thereof which shall be due and payable upon any Maturity other than the Stated Maturity or which shall be deemed to be Outstanding as of any date prior to the Stated Maturity (or, in any such case, the manner in which such amount deemed to be the principal amount shall be determined);
     (17) if applicable, that the Securities of the series, in whole or any specified part, shall be defeasible pursuant to Section 1302 or Section 1303 or both such Sections and, if other than by a Board Resolution, the manner in which any election by the Company to defease such Securities shall be evidenced and any changes or additions to the provisions provided in Article Thirteen of this Indenture and related definitions and provisions dealing with defeasance, including the addition of additional covenants that may be subject to the Company’s Covenant Defeasance option;
     (18) if applicable, the terms of any right to convert Securities of the series into, or exchange securities for, shares of Common Stock of the Company or other securities or property or cash in lieu of such Common Stock or other securities or property, or any combination thereof, and any corresponding changes to the provisions of this Indenture as then in effect;
     (19) if applicable, that any Securities of the series shall be issuable in whole or in part in the form of one or more Global Securities and, in such case, the respective Depositaries for such Global Securities, the form of any legend or legends which shall be borne by any such Global Security in addition to or in lieu of that set forth in Section 204 and any circumstances in addition to or in lieu of those set forth in Clause (2) of the last paragraph of Section 305 in which any such Global Security may be exchanged in whole or in part for Securities registered, and any transfer of such Global Security in whole or in part may be registered, in the name or names of Persons other than the Depositary for such Global Security or a nominee thereof;
     (20) any addition to or change in the Events of Default which applies to any Securities of the series and any change in the right of the Trustee or the requisite Holders of such Securities to declare the principal amount thereof due and payable pursuant to Section 502;

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     (21) any Authenticating Agents, Paying Agents or Security Registrars;
     (22) whether Securities of the series are entitled to any benefits of any Guarantee of any Guarantors pursuant to this Indenture;
     (23) the terms, if any, of the transfer, mortgage, pledge or assignment as security for the Securities of the series of any properties, assets, moneys, proceeds, securities or other collateral, including whether certain provisions of the Trust Indenture Act are applicable and any corresponding changes to provisions of this Indenture as then in effect;
     (24) any addition to or change in the covenants set forth in Article Ten which applies to Securities of the series; and
     (25) any other terms of the series (which terms shall not be inconsistent with the provisions of this Indenture, except as permitted by Section 901(5)).
     All Securities of any one series shall be substantially identical except as to denomination and except as may otherwise be provided in or pursuant to the Board Resolution referred to above and (subject to Section 303) set forth, or determined in the manner provided, in the Officers’ Certificate referred to above or in any such indenture supplemental hereto. All Securities of any one series need not be issued at the same time and, unless otherwise provided, a series may be reopened for issuances of additional Securities of such series.
     If any of the terms of the series are established by action taken pursuant to a Board Resolution, a copy of an appropriate record of such action shall be certified by the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary of the Company and delivered to the Trustee at or prior to the delivery of the Officers’ Certificate setting forth the terms of the series.
     Section 302. Denominations.
     The Securities of each series shall be issuable only in registered form without coupons and only in such denominations as shall be specified as contemplated by Section 301. In the absence of any such specified denomination with respect to the Securities of any series, the Securities of such series shall be issuable in minimum denominations of $2,000 and any integral multiple of $1,000 in excess thereof.
     Section 303. Execution, Authentication, Delivery and Dating.
     The Securities shall be executed on behalf of the Company by its Chairman of the Board of Directors, its principal financial officer, its Chief Executive Officer, its President or one of its Vice Presidents, its Treasurer or its Assistant Treasurer, attested by its Secretary or one of its Assistant Secretaries. The signature of any of these officers on the Securities may be manual or facsimile.
     The Guarantee endorsed on any Securities shall be executed on behalf of the Guarantor by its Chairman of the Board of Directors, its principal financial officer, its Chief Executive Officer, its President or one of its Vice Presidents, its Treasurer or its Assistant Treasurer, attested by its Secretary or one of its Assistant Secretaries. The signature of any of these officers on the Guarantee may be manual or facsimile.
     Securities or the Guarantee bearing the manual or facsimile signatures of individuals who were at any time the proper officers of the Company or the Guarantors, as applicable, shall bind the Company or the Guarantors, as applicable, notwithstanding that such individuals or any of them have ceased to hold such offices prior to the authentication and delivery of such Securities or did not hold such offices at the date of such Securities.
     At any time and from time to time after the execution and delivery of this Indenture, the Company may deliver Securities of any series executed by the Company and, if applicable, having endorsed thereon the Guarantees executed as provided in Section 1502 to the Trustee for authentication, together with a Company Order for the authentication and delivery of such Securities, and the Trustee in accordance with the Company Order (which may provide that Securities that are the subject thereof will be authenticated and delivered by the Trustee from time to

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time upon the telephonic or written order of Persons designated in said Company Order and that such Persons are authorized to determine such terms and conditions of said Securities as are specified in the Company Order) shall authenticate and deliver such Securities. If the form or terms of the Securities of the series have been established by or pursuant to one or more Board Resolutions as permitted by Sections 201 and 301, in authenticating such Securities, and accepting the additional responsibilities under this Indenture in relation to such Securities, the Trustee shall be entitled to receive, and (subject to Section 601) shall be fully protected in relying upon, a copy of such Board Resolution, the Officers’ Certificate setting forth the terms of the series and an Opinion of Counsel, with such Opinion of Counsel stating,
     (1) if the form of such Securities has been established by or pursuant to Board Resolutions as permitted by Section 201, that such form has been established in conformity with the provisions of this Indenture;
     (2) if the terms of such Securities have been established by or pursuant to Board Resolutions as permitted by Section 301, that such terms have been established in conformity with the provisions of this Indenture; and
     (3) that this Indenture and such Securities, when authenticated and delivered by the Trustee and issued by the Company in the manner and subject to any conditions specified in such Opinion of Counsel, will constitute valid and legally binding obligations of the Company, and, if applicable, the Guarantees endorsed thereon will constitute valid and legally binding obligations of the Guarantors, in each case enforceable in accordance with their terms, subject to bankruptcy, insolvency, fraudulent transfer, reorganization, moratorium and similar laws of general applicability relating to or affecting creditors’ rights and to general equity principles.
     However, the Trustee shall not be required to authenticate such Securities if the issue of such Securities pursuant to this Indenture will affect the Trustee’s own rights, duties or immunities under the Securities and this Indenture or otherwise in a manner which is not reasonably acceptable to the Trustee.
     Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 301 and of the preceding paragraph, if all Securities of a series are not to be originally issued at one time, it shall not be necessary to deliver the Officers’ Certificate otherwise required pursuant to Section 301 or the Company Order and Opinion of Counsel otherwise required pursuant to such preceding paragraph at or prior to the authentication of each Security of such series if such documents are delivered at or prior to the authentication upon original issuance of the first Security of such series to be issued.
     Each Security shall be dated the date of its authentication.
     No Security or Guarantee endorsed thereon shall be entitled to any benefit under this Indenture or be valid or obligatory for any purpose unless there appears on such Security a certificate of authentication substantially in the form provided for herein executed by the Trustee by manual or facsimile signature, and such certificate upon any Security shall be conclusive evidence, and the only evidence, that such Security has been duly authenticated and delivered hereunder. Notwithstanding the foregoing, if any Security shall have been authenticated and delivered hereunder but never issued and sold by the Company, and the Company shall deliver such Security to the Trustee for cancellation as provided in Section 309, for all purposes of this Indenture such Security shall be deemed never to have been authenticated and delivered hereunder and shall never be entitled to the benefits of this Indenture.
     Section 304. Temporary Securities.
     Pending the preparation of definitive Securities of any series, the Company may execute, and upon Company Order the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, temporary Securities which are printed, lithographed, typewritten, mimeographed or otherwise produced, in any authorized denomination, substantially of the tenor of the definitive Securities in lieu of which they are issued and with such appropriate insertions, omissions, substitutions and other variations as the officers executing such Securities may determine, as evidenced by their execution of such Securities.

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     If temporary Securities of any series are issued, the Company will cause definitive Securities of that series to be prepared without unreasonable delay. After the preparation of definitive Securities of such series, the temporary Securities of such series shall be exchangeable for definitive Securities of such series upon surrender of the temporary Securities of such series at the office or agency of the Company in a Place of Payment for that series, without charge to the Holder. Upon surrender for cancellation of any one or more temporary Securities of any series, the Company shall execute and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver in exchange therefor one or more definitive Securities of the same series, of any authorized denominations and of like tenor and aggregate principal amount. Until so exchanged, the temporary Securities of any series shall in all respects be entitled to the same benefits under this Indenture as definitive Securities of such series and tenor.
     Section 305. Registration; Registration of Transfer and Exchange.
     The Company shall cause to be kept at the Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee a register (the register maintained in such office or in any other office or agency of the Company in a Place of Payment being herein sometimes collectively referred to as the “Security Register”) in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, the Company shall provide for the registration of Securities and of transfers of Securities. The Trustee initially is hereby appointed “Security Registrar” for the purpose of registering Securities and transfers of Securities as herein provided. The Company may change any Security Registrar without prior notice to any Holder. The Company or any of its Subsidiaries may act as Security Registrar.
     Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Security of a series at the office or agency of the Company in a Place of Payment for that series, the Company shall execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Securities of the same series, of any authorized denominations and of like tenor and aggregate principal amount, and having endorsed thereon a Guarantee executed by the Guarantors.
     At the option of the Holder, Securities of any series may be exchanged for other Securities of the same series, of any authorized denominations and of like tenor and aggregate principal amount, upon surrender of the Securities to be exchanged at such office or agency. Whenever any Securities are so surrendered for exchange, the Company shall execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, the Securities which the Holder making the exchange is entitled to receive, and having endorsed thereon a Guarantee executed by the Guarantor.
     All Securities and the Guarantee endorsed thereon issued upon any registration of transfer or exchange of Securities and the Guarantee endorsed thereon, shall be the valid obligations of the Company and the Guarantors, respectively evidencing the same debt, and entitled to the same benefits under this Indenture, as the Securities and the Guarantee endorsed thereon surrendered upon such registration of transfer or exchange.
     Every Security presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or for exchange shall (if so required by the Company or the Trustee) be duly endorsed, or be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Company and the Security Registrar duly executed, by the Holder thereof or its attorney duly authorized in writing.
     No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Securities, but the Company may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any registration of transfer or exchange of Securities, other than exchanges pursuant to Sections 304, 906 or 1107 not involving any transfer.
     If the Securities of any series (or of any series and specified tenor) are to be redeemed in part, the Company shall not be required (A) to issue, register the transfer of or exchange any Securities of that series (or of that series and specified tenor, as the case may be) during a period beginning at the opening of business 15 days before the day of the mailing of a notice of redemption of any such Securities selected for redemption under Section 1103 and ending at the close of business on the day of such mailing, or (B) to register the transfer of or exchange any Security so selected for redemption in whole or in part, except the unredeemed portion of any Security being redeemed in part.

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     The provisions of Clauses (1), (2), (3) and (4) below shall apply only to Global Securities:
     (1) Each Global Security authenticated under this Indenture shall be registered in the name of the Depositary designated for such Global Security or a nominee thereof and delivered to such Depositary or a nominee thereof or custodian therefor, and each such Global Security shall constitute a single Security for all purposes of this Indenture.
     (2) Notwithstanding any other provision in this Indenture, no Global Security may be exchanged in whole or in part for Securities registered, and no transfer of a Global Security in whole or in part may be registered, in the name of any Person other than the Depositary for such Global Security or a nominee thereof unless (A) such Depositary (i) has notified the Company that it is unwilling or unable to continue as Depositary for such Global Security or (ii) has ceased to be a clearing agency registered under the Exchange Act, (B) there shall have occurred and be continuing an Event of Default with respect to such Global Security or (C) there shall exist such circumstances, if any, in addition to or in lieu of the foregoing as have been specified for this purpose as contemplated by Section 301.
     (3) Subject to Clause (2) above, any exchange of a Global Security for other Securities may be made in whole or in part, and all Securities issued in exchange for a Global Security or any portion thereof shall be registered in such names as the Depositary for such Global Security shall direct.
     (4) Every Security authenticated and delivered upon registration of transfer of, or in exchange for or in lieu of, a Global Security or any portion thereof, whether pursuant to this Section, Section 304, 306, 906 or 1107 or otherwise, shall be authenticated and delivered in the form of, and shall be, a Global Security, unless such Security is registered in the name of a Person other than the Depositary for such Global Security or a nominee thereof.
     Section 306. Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost and Stolen Securities.
     If any mutilated Security is surrendered to the Trustee, the Company shall execute and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver in exchange therefor a new Security of the same series and of like tenor and principal amount and bearing a number not contemporaneously outstanding, and having endorsed thereon a Guarantee executed by the Guarantors, if applicable.
     If there shall be delivered to the Company and the Trustee (i) evidence to their satisfaction of the destruction, loss or theft of any Security and (ii) such security or indemnity as may be required by them to save each of them and any agent of either of them harmless, then, in the absence of notice to the Company or the Trustee that such Security has been acquired by a bona fide purchaser, the Company shall execute and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, in lieu of any such destroyed, lost or stolen Security, a new Security of the same series and of like tenor and principal amount and bearing a number not contemporaneously outstanding, and having endorsed thereon a Guarantee executed by the Guarantors, if applicable.
     In case any such mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Security has become or is about to become due and payable, the Company in its discretion may, instead of issuing a new Security, pay such Security.
     Upon the issuance of any new Security under this Section, the Company may require the payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental charge that may be imposed in relation thereto and any other expenses (including the fees and expenses of the Trustee) connected therewith.
     Every new Security of any series and the Guarantee endorsed thereon, issued pursuant to this Section in lieu of any destroyed, lost or stolen Security shall constitute an original additional contractual obligation of the Company and the Guarantors, as applicable, whether or not the destroyed, lost or stolen Security shall be at any time enforceable by anyone, and shall be entitled to all the benefits of this Indenture equally and proportionately with any and all other Securities of that series duly issued hereunder.

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     The provisions of this Section are exclusive and shall preclude (to the extent lawful) all other rights and remedies with respect to the replacement or payment of mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Securities.
     Section 307. Payment of Interest; Interest Rights Preserved.
     Except as otherwise provided in or as contemplated by Section 301 with respect to any series of Securities, interest on any Security which is payable, and is punctually paid or duly provided for, on any Interest Payment Date shall be paid to the Person in whose name that Security (or one or more Predecessor Securities) is registered at the close of business on the Regular Record Date for such interest; provided that on the maturity date for any series of Securities, the Company will pay accrued and unpaid interest to the Person to whom the Company pays the principal amount, instead of the Person in whose name that Security (or one or more Predecessor Securities) is registered at the close of business on the Regular Record Date.
     In the case of Securities represented by a Global Security registered in the name of or held by a Depository or its nominee, unless otherwise specified by Section 301, payment of principal, premium, if any, and interest, if any, will be made to the Depository or its nominee, as the case may be, as the registered owner or Holder of such Global Security. None of the Company, the Guarantors, the Trustee and the Paying Agent, any Authenticating Agent or the Security Registrant for such Securities will have any responsibility or liability for any aspect of the records relating to or payments made on account of a beneficial ownership interest in a Global Security or maintaining, supervising or reviewing any records relating to such beneficial ownership interests.
     Any interest on any Security of any series which is payable, but is not punctually paid or duly provided for, on any Interest Payment Date (herein called “Defaulted Interest”) shall forthwith cease to be payable to the Holder on the relevant Regular Record Date by virtue of having been such Holder, and such Defaulted Interest may be paid by the Company, at its election in each case, as provided in Clause (1) or (2) below:
     (1) The Company may elect to make payment of any Defaulted Interest to the Persons in whose names the Securities of such series (or their respective Predecessor Securities) are registered at the close of business on a Special Record Date for the payment of such Defaulted Interest, which shall be fixed in the following manner. The Company shall notify the Trustee in writing of the amount of Defaulted Interest proposed to be paid on each Security of such series and the date of the proposed payment, and at the same time the Company shall deposit with the Trustee an amount of money equal to the aggregate amount proposed to be paid in respect of such Defaulted Interest or shall make arrangements satisfactory to the Trustee for such deposit prior to the date of the proposed payment, such money when deposited to be held in trust for the benefit of the Persons entitled to such Defaulted Interest as in this Clause provided. Thereupon the Trustee shall fix a Special Record Date for the payment of such Defaulted Interest which shall be not more than 15 days and not fewer than 10 days prior to the date of the proposed payment and not fewer than 10 days after the receipt by the Trustee of the notice of the proposed payment. The Trustee shall promptly notify the Company of such Special Record Date and, in the name and at the expense of the Company, shall cause notice of the proposed payment of such Defaulted Interest and the Special Record Date therefor to be given to each Holder of Securities of such series in the manner set forth in Section 106, not fewer than 10 days prior to such Special Record Date. Notice of the proposed payment of such Defaulted Interest and the Special Record Date therefor having been so mailed, such Defaulted Interest shall be paid to the Persons in whose names the Securities of such series (or their respective Predecessor Securities) are registered at the close of business on such Special Record Date and shall no longer be payable pursuant to the following Clause (2).
     (2) The Company may make payment of any Defaulted Interest on the Securities of any series in any other lawful manner not inconsistent with the requirements of any securities exchange on which such Securities may be listed, and upon such notice as may be required by such exchange, if, after notice given by the Company to the Trustee of the proposed payment pursuant to this Clause, such manner of payment shall be deemed practicable by the Trustee.
     Subject to the foregoing provisions of this Section, each Security delivered under this Indenture upon registration of transfer of or in exchange for or in lieu of any other Security shall carry the rights to interest accrued and unpaid, and to accrue, which were carried by such other Security.

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     Subject to the provisions of Section 1402, in the case of any Security (or any part thereof) which is converted after any Regular Record Date and on or prior to the next succeeding Interest Payment Date (other than any Security the principal of (or premium, if any, on) which shall become due and payable, whether at Stated Maturity or by declaration of acceleration or otherwise prior to such Interest Payment Date), interest whose Stated Maturity is on such Interest Payment Date shall be payable on such Interest Payment Date notwithstanding such conversion and such interest (whether or not punctually paid or duly provided for) shall be paid to the Person in whose name that Security (or any one or more Predecessor Securities) is registered at the close of business on such Regular Record Date. Except as otherwise expressly provided in the immediately preceding sentence or in Section 1402, in the case of any Security (or any part thereof) which is converted, interest whose Stated Maturity is after the date of conversion of such Security (or such part thereof) shall not be payable.
     Section 308. Persons Deemed Owners.
     Prior to due presentment of a Security for registration of transfer, the Company, the Guarantors, the Trustee and any agent of the Company, the Guarantors or the Trustee may treat the Person in whose name such Security is registered as the owner of such Security for the purpose of receiving payment of principal of and any premium and (subject to Section 307) any interest on such Security and for all other purposes whatsoever, whether or not such Security be overdue, and none of the Company, the Guarantors, the Trustee or any agent of the Company, the Guarantors or the Trustee shall be affected by notice to the contrary.
     In the case of a Global Security, so long as the Depository for such Global Security, or its nominee, is the registered owner of such Global Security, such Depository or such nominee, as the case may be, will be considered the sole owner or Holder of the Securities represented by such Global Security for all purposes under this Indenture. Except as provided in Section 305, owners of beneficial interests in a Global Security will not be entitled to have Securities that are represented by such Global Security registered in their names, will not receive or be entitled to receive physical delivery of such Securities in definitive form and will not be considered the owners or Holders thereof under this Indenture.
     Notwithstanding the foregoing, with respect to any Global Security, nothing herein shall (a) prevent the Company, the Guarantors, the Trustee, or any agent of the Company, the Guarantors or the Trustee, from giving effect to any written certification, proxy or other authorization furnished by a Depository or (b) impair, as between a Depository and holders of beneficial interest in any Global Security, the operation of customary practices governing the exercise of the rights of the Depository as Holder of such Global Security.
     None of the Company, the Guarantors, the Trustee, any Paying Agent and Authenticating Agent or the Security Registrar will have any responsibility or liability for any aspect of the records relating to or payments made on account of beneficial ownership interest in a Global Security or for maintaining, supervising or reviewing any records relating to such beneficial ownership interest.
     Section 309. Cancellation.
     All Securities surrendered for payment, redemption, registration of transfer or exchange or for credit against any sinking fund payment shall, if surrendered to any Person other than the Trustee, be delivered to the Trustee and shall be promptly canceled by it. The Company may at any time deliver to the Trustee for cancellation any Securities previously authenticated and delivered hereunder which the Company may have acquired in any manner whatsoever, and may deliver to the Trustee (or to any other Person for delivery to the Trustee) for cancellation any Securities previously authenticated hereunder which the Company has not issued and sold, and all Securities so delivered shall be promptly canceled by the Trustee. No Securities shall be authenticated in lieu of or in exchange for any Securities canceled as provided in this Section, except as expressly permitted by this Indenture. All canceled Securities held by the Trustee shall be returned to the Company, or upon request by the Company, the Trustee shall deliver to the Company certificates of destruction with respect thereto.

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     Section 310. Computation of Interest.
     Except as otherwise specified in or as contemplated by Section 301 for Securities of any series, interest on the Securities of each series shall be computed on the basis of a 360-day year comprised of twelve 30-day months.
     Section 311. CUSIP Numbers.
     The Company in issuing the Securities may use “CUSIP” numbers (if then generally in use), and, if so, the Trustee shall use “CUSIP” numbers in notices of redemption as a convenience to Holders; provided that any such notice may state that no representation is made as to the correctness of such numbers either as printed on the Securities or as contained in any notice of a redemption and that reliance may be placed only on the other identification numbers printed on the Securities, and any such redemption shall not be affected by any defect in or omission of such numbers. The Company will promptly notify the Trustee of any change in the “CUSIP” numbers.
ARTICLE FOUR
SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE
     Section 401. Satisfaction and Discharge of Indenture.
     This Indenture shall upon Company Request cease to be of further effect with respect to any series of Securities (except as to any surviving rights of registration of transfer or exchange of Securities herein expressly provided for or any other surviving rights expressly provided for in a supplemental indenture for a series of Securities), and the Trustee, at the expense of the Company, shall execute proper instruments acknowledging satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture, when:
     (1) either:
     (A) all Securities theretofore authenticated and delivered (other than (i) Securities which have been destroyed, lost or stolen and which have been replaced or paid as provided in Section 306 and (ii) Securities for whose payment money has theretofore been deposited in trust or segregated and held in trust by the Company and thereafter repaid to the Company or discharged from such trust, as provided in Section 1003) have been delivered to the Trustee for cancellation; or
     (B) all such Securities not theretofore delivered to the Trustee for cancellation:
     (i) have become due and payable; or
     (ii) will become due and payable at their Stated Maturity within one year; or
     (iii) if redeemable at the option of the Company, are to be called for redemption within one year under arrangements satisfactory to the Trustee for the giving of notice of redemption by the Trustee in the name, and at the expense, of the Company;
and the Company, in the case of (i), (ii) or (iii) above, has deposited or caused to be deposited with the Trustee as trust funds in trust for the purpose lawful money of the United States or U.S. Government Obligations which through the payment of interest and principal in respect thereof in accordance with their terms will provide lawful money not later than the due dates of principal (and any premium) or interest, or any combination thereof in an amount sufficient to pay and discharge the entire indebtedness on such Securities not theretofore delivered to the Trustee for cancellation, for principal and any premium and interest to the date of such deposit (in the case of Securities which have become due and payable) or to the Stated Maturity or Redemption Date, as the case may be;
     (2) the Company has paid or caused to be paid all other sums payable hereunder by the Company; and

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     (3) the Company has delivered to the Trustee an Officers’ Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel, each stating that there has been compliance with all conditions precedent herein provided for relating to the satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture.
     Notwithstanding the satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture, the obligations of the Company to the Trustee under Section 607, the obligations of the Trustee to any Authenticating Agent under Section 614 and, if money or U.S. Government Obligations shall have been deposited with the Trustee pursuant to subclause (B) of Clause (1) of this Section, the obligations of the Trustee under Section 402 and the last paragraph of Section 1003 shall survive.
     Section 402. Application of Trust Money.
     Subject to the provisions of the last paragraph of Section 1003, all money and U.S. Government Obligations deposited with the Trustee pursuant to Section 401 or 1302 and all money received by the Trustee in respect of U.S. Government Obligations deposited with the Trustee, shall be held in trust and applied by the Trustee, in accordance with the provisions of the Securities and this Indenture, to the payment, either directly or through any Paying Agent (including the Company acting as its own Paying Agent) as the Trustee may determine, to the Persons entitled thereto, of the principal and any premium and interest for whose payment such money has been deposited with the Trustee.
     Section 403. Repayment to the Company.
     Upon termination of the trust pursuant to Section 401 hereof, the Trustee and Paying Agent shall promptly pay to the Company any excess money or U.S. Government Obligations.
ARTICLE FIVE
REMEDIES
     Section 501. Events of Default.
     “Event of Default,” wherever used herein with respect to Securities of any series, means any one of the following events (whatever the reason for such Event of Default and whether it be voluntary or involuntary or be effected by operation of law or pursuant to any judgment, decree or order of any court or any order, rule or regulation of any administrative or governmental body), except to the extent such event is specifically deleted or modified as contemplated by Section 301 for the Securities of that series:
     (1) default in the payment of any interest upon any Security of that series when it becomes due and payable, and continuance of such default for a period of 30 days; or
     (2) default in the payment of the principal of or any premium on any Security of that series at its Maturity; or
     (3) default in the deposit of any sinking fund payment, when and as due by the terms of a Security of that series and continuance of such default for a period of 30 days; or
     (4) with respect to a series of Securities, the Company fails to comply with any other term, covenant or agreement with respect thereto (other than a term, covenant or agreement a default in whose performance or whose breach is elsewhere in this Section specifically dealt with or which has expressly been included in this Indenture solely for the benefit of a series of Securities other than that series or which has been included in this Indenture but not made applicable to the Securities of such series), and continuance of such default or breach for a period of 90 days after there has been given, by registered or certified mail, to the Company by the Trustee or to the Company and the Trustee by the Holders of at least 25% in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of that series a written notice specifying such default or breach and requiring it to be remedied and stating that such notice is a “Notice of Default” hereunder; or

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     (5) the entry by a court having jurisdiction in the premises of (A) a decree or order for relief in respect of the Company or any of its Guarantors in an involuntary case or proceeding under any applicable Federal or State bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or other similar law or (B) a decree or order adjudging the Company or any of its Guarantors bankrupt or insolvent, or approving as properly filed a petition seeking reorganization, arrangement, adjustment or composition of or in respect of the Company or any of its Guarantors under any applicable Federal or State law, or appointing a custodian, receiver, liquidator, assignee, trustee, sequestrator or other similar official of the Company or any of its Guarantors or of any substantial part of its respective property, or ordering the winding up or liquidation of its respective affairs, and the continuance of any such decree or order for relief or any such other decree or order unstayed and in effect for a period of 90 consecutive days; or
     (6) the commencement by the Company or any of its Guarantors of a voluntary case or proceeding under any applicable Federal or State bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or other similar law or of any other case or proceeding to be adjudicated bankrupt or insolvent, or the consent by it to the entry of a decree or order for relief in respect of the Company or any of its Guarantors in an involuntary case or proceeding under any applicable Federal or State bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or other similar law or to the commencement of any bankruptcy or insolvency case or proceeding against it, or the filing by it of a petition or answer or consent seeking reorganization or relief under any applicable Federal or State law, or the consent by it to the filing of such petition or to the appointment of or taking possession by a custodian, receiver, liquidator, assignee, trustee, sequestrator or other similar official of the Company or any of its Guarantors or of any substantial part of its respective property, or the making by it of an assignment for the benefit of creditors, or the admission by it in writing of its inability to pay its debts generally as they become due, or the taking of corporate action by the Company or any of its Guarantors in furtherance of any such action; or
     (7) any other Event of Default provided with respect to Securities of that series.
     Section 502. Acceleration of Maturity; Rescission and Annulment.
     If an Event of Default, other than an Event of Default specified in Sections 501(5) or 501(6) solely with respect to the Company (but including an Event of Default referred to in those Sections solely with respect to any Significant Subsidiary of the Company), with respect to Securities of any series at the time Outstanding occurs and is continuing, then either the Trustee, by notice to the Company, or the Holders of not less than 25% in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of that series, by notice to the Trustee and the Company, may declare the principal amount of, and accrued and unpaid interest on, all the Securities of that series (or, if any Securities of that series are Original Issue Discount Securities, such portion of the principal amount of such Securities as may be specified by the terms thereof) to be due and payable immediately. In the case of an Event of Default specified in Section 501(5) or 501(6) solely with respect to the Company (and not solely with respect to any Significant Subsidiary of the Company) and with respect to Securities of any series at the time Outstanding occurs, the principal amount of (or, if any Securities of that series are Original Issue Discount Securities, such portion of the principal amount of such Securities as may be specified by the terms thereof), and accrued and unpaid interest on, all the Securities of that series shall automatically, and without any action by the Trustee or any Holder, become immediately due and payable.
     Notwithstanding the foregoing, for the first 180 days following any violation of any obligations the Company may be deemed to have pursuant to Section 314(a)(1) of the Trust Indenture Act or the Company’s other reporting and information delivery obligations with respect to filings with the Commission as provided in Section 704, at the Company’s option, the sole remedy of the Holders of the Securities shall be the accrual of additional interest on the Securities while such Default exists at a rate of 0.25% per annum, payable semi-annually. In no event shall such additional interest accrue at a rate per annum in excess of 0.25% per annum, regardless of the number of events or circumstances giving rise to the requirement to pay such additional interest.
     At any time after such a declaration of acceleration with respect to Securities of any series has been made and before a judgment or decree for payment of the money due has been obtained by the Trustee, as hereinafter in this Article provided, the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of that series, by written notice to the Company and the Trustee, may rescind and annul such declaration and its consequences if:

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     (1) the rescission would not conflict with any order or decree;
     (2) all Events of Default with respect to Securities of that series, other than the non-payment of accelerated principal of or interest on Securities of that series, which have become due solely by such declaration of acceleration, have been cured or waived as provided in Section 513; and
     (3) the Company has paid or deposited with the Trustee a sum sufficient to pay:
     (A) all overdue interest on all Securities of that series;
     (B) the principal of (and premium, if any, on) any Securities of that series which have become due otherwise than by such declaration of acceleration and any interest thereon at the rate or rates prescribed therefor in such Securities, to the extent that payment is lawful;
     (C) to the extent that payment of such interest is lawful, interest upon overdue interest at the rate or rates prescribed therefor in such Securities; and
     (D) all sums paid or advanced by the Trustee hereunder and the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the Trustee, its agents and counsel.
     No such rescission shall affect any subsequent default or impair any right consequent thereon.
     Section 503. Collection of Indebtedness and Suits for Enforcement by Trustee.
     The Company covenants that if:
     (1) default is made in the payment of any interest on any Security when such interest becomes due and payable and such default continues for a period of 30 days; or
     (2) default is made in the payment of the principal of (or premium, if any, on) any Security at the Maturity thereof;
the Company will, upon demand of the Trustee, pay to it, for the benefit of the Holders of such Securities, the whole amount then due and payable on such Securities for principal and any premium and interest and, to the extent that payment of such interest shall be legally enforceable, interest on any overdue principal and premium and on any overdue interest, at the rate or rates prescribed therefor in such Securities, and, in addition thereto, such further amount as shall be sufficient to cover the costs and expenses of collection, including the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the Trustee, its agents and counsel.
     If the Company fails to pay such amounts forthwith upon such demand, the Trustee, in its own name and as trustee of an express trust, may institute a judicial proceeding for the collection of the sums so due and unpaid, may prosecute such proceeding to judgment or final decree and may enforce the same against the Company or any Guarantor or any other obligor upon such Securities and collect the moneys adjudged or decreed to be payable in the manner provided by law out of the property of the Company, any Guarantor or any other obligor upon such Securities, wherever situated.
     If an Event of Default with respect to Securities of any series occurs and is continuing, the Trustee may in its discretion proceed to protect and enforce its rights and the rights of the Holders of Securities of such series by such appropriate judicial proceedings as the Trustee shall deem most effectual to protect and enforce any such rights, whether for the specific enforcement of any covenant or agreement in this Indenture or in aid of the exercise of any power granted herein, or to enforce any other proper remedy.

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     Section 504. Trustee May File Proofs of Claim.
     In any case of the pendency of any receivership, insolvency, liquidation, bankruptcy, reorganization, arrangement, adjustment, composition or other any judicial proceeding relative to the Company (or any Guarantor or other obligor upon the Securities), its property or its creditors, the Trustee shall be entitled and empowered, by intervention in such proceeding or otherwise, to take any and all actions authorized under the Trust Indenture Act in order to have claims of the Holders and the Trustee allowed in any such proceeding. In particular, the Trustee shall be authorized to collect and receive any moneys or other property payable or deliverable on any such claims and to distribute the same; and any custodian, receiver, assignee, trustee, liquidator, sequestrator or other similar official in any such judicial proceeding is hereby authorized by each Holder to make such payments to the Trustee and, in the event that the Trustee shall consent to the making of such payments directly to the Holders, to pay to the Trustee any amount due it for the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the Trustee, its agents and counsel, and any other amounts due the Trustee under Section 607.
     No provision of this Indenture shall be deemed to authorize the Trustee to authorize or consent to or accept or adopt on behalf of any Holder any plan of reorganization, arrangement, adjustment or composition affecting the Securities or the rights of any Holder thereof or to authorize the Trustee to vote in respect of the claim of any Holder in any such proceeding.
     Section 505. Trustee May Enforce Claims Without Possession of Securities.
     All rights of action and claims under this Indenture or the Securities may be prosecuted and enforced by the Trustee without the possession of any of the Securities or the production thereof in any proceeding relating thereto, and any such proceeding instituted by the Trustee shall be brought in its own name as trustee of an express trust, and any recovery of judgment shall, after provision for the payment of the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the Trustee, its agents and counsel, be for the ratable benefit of the Holders of the Securities in respect of which such judgment has been recovered.
     Section 506. Application of Money Collected.
     Any money collected by the Trustee pursuant to this Article shall be applied in the following order, at the date or dates fixed by the Trustee and, in case of the distribution of such money on account of principal or any premium or interest, upon presentation of the Securities and the notation thereon of the payment if only partially paid and upon surrender thereof if fully paid:
     FIRST: To the payment of all amounts due the Trustee under Section 607;
     SECOND: In case the principal of the Securities of such series in respect of which moneys have been collected shall not have become and be then due and payable, to the payment of interest, if any, on the Securities of such series in default in the order of the maturity of the installments of such interest, with interest (to the extent that such interest has been collected by such Trustee and to the extent permitted by law) upon the overdue installments of interest at the rate prescribed therefor in such Securities, such payments to be made ratably to the persons entitled thereto, without discrimination or preference;
     THIRD: In case the principal or any premium of the Securities of such series in respect of which moneys have been collected shall have become and shall be then due and payable, to the payment of the whole amount then owing and unpaid upon all the Securities of such series for principal, any premium and interest, if any, with interest upon the overdue principal, and (to the extent that such interest has been collected by such Trustee and to the extent permitted by law) upon overdue installments of interest at the rate prescribed therefor in the Securities of such series; and in case such moneys shall be insufficient to pay in full the whole amount so due and unpaid upon the Securities of such series, then to the payment of such principal, any premium and interest, without preference or priority of principal over interest, or of interest over principal, or of any installment of interest over any other installment of interest, or of any Security of such series over any other Security of such series, ratably to the aggregate of such principal and accrued and unpaid interest; and

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     FOURTH: The balance, if any, to the Company or any other Person or Persons lawfully entitled thereto.
     Section 507. Limitation on Suits.
     No Holder of any Security of any series shall have any right to institute any proceeding under this Indenture, or for the appointment of a receiver or trustee, or for any other remedy under this Indenture, unless each of the following shall have occurred:
     (1) such Holder has previously given the Trustee written notice of a continuing Event of Default with respect to the Securities of that series;
     (2) the Holders of not less than 25% in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of that series make a written request to the Trustee to pursue the remedy and offer, and if requested provide, to the Trustee indemnity reasonably satisfactory to the Trustee against any loss, liability or expense incurred in connection with such pursuit; and
     (3) the Trustee fails to comply with such request within 60 days after the Trustee receives the notice, request and offer of indemnity and does not receive, during those 60 days, from Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of Outstanding Securities of such series, a direction inconsistent with such request.
     However, the above limitations do not apply to a suit by a Holder to enforce (a) the payment of amounts due on that Holder’s Securities after the applicable due date or (b) the right to convert that Holder’s Securities in accordance with this Indenture.
     Section 508. Unconditional Right of Holders to Receive Principal, Premium and Interest and to Convert.
     Notwithstanding any other provision in this Indenture, the Holder of any Security shall have the right, which is absolute and unconditional, to receive payment of the principal of and any premium and (subject to Section 307) interest on such Security on the respective Stated Maturities expressed in such Security (or, in the case of redemption, on the Redemption Date), to convert such Securities in accordance with Article Fourteen and to institute suit for the enforcement of any such payment, and such rights shall not be impaired without the consent of such Holder.
     Section 509. Restoration of Rights and Remedies.
     If the Trustee or any Holder has instituted any proceeding to enforce any right or remedy under this Indenture and such proceeding has been discontinued or abandoned for any reason, or has been determined adversely to the Trustee or to such Holder, then and in every such case, subject to any determination in such proceeding, the Company, any Guarantor, the Trustee and the Holders shall be restored severally and respectively to their former positions hereunder and thereafter all rights and remedies of the Trustee and the Holders shall continue as though no such proceeding had been instituted.
     Section 510. Rights and Remedies Cumulative.
     Except as otherwise provided with respect to the replacement or payment of mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Securities in the last paragraph of Section 306, no right or remedy herein conferred upon or reserved to the Trustee or to the Holders is intended to be exclusive of any other right or remedy, and every right and remedy shall, to the extent permitted by law, be cumulative and in addition to every other right and remedy given hereunder or now or hereafter existing at law or in equity or otherwise. The assertion or employment of any right or remedy hereunder, or otherwise, shall not prevent the concurrent assertion or employment of any other appropriate right or remedy.

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     Section 511. Delay or Omission Not Waiver.
     No delay or omission of the Trustee or of any Holder of any Securities to exercise any right or remedy accruing upon any Event of Default shall impair any such right or remedy or constitute a waiver of any such Event of Default or an acquiescence therein. Every right and remedy given by this Article or by law to the Trustee or to the Holders may be exercised from time to time, and as often as may be deemed expedient, by the Trustee (subject to the limitations contained in this Indenture) or by the Holders, as the case may be.
     Section 512. Control by Holders.
     The Holders of a majority in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of any series shall have the right to direct the time, method and place of conducting any proceeding for any remedy available to the Trustee, or exercising any trust or power conferred on the Trustee, with respect to the Securities of such series; provided that:
     (1) such direction shall not be in conflict with any rule of law or with this Indenture and the Trustee shall not have determined that the action so directed would be unjustly prejudicial to Holders of Securities of that series, or any other series, not taking part in such direction; and
     (2) the Trustee may take any other action deemed proper by the Trustee which is not inconsistent with such direction or this Indenture.
     Section 513. Waiver of Past Defaults.
     The Holders of not less than a majority in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of any series may on behalf of the Holders of all of the Securities of such series waive any past default hereunder with respect to such series and its consequences, except a default:
     (1) in the payment of the principal of or any premium or interest on any Security of such series or the payment of any redemption price, purchase price or repurchase price with respect to any Security of such series;
     (2) arising from the Company’s failure to convert any Security in accordance with this Indenture; or
     (3) in respect of a covenant or provision hereof which under Article Nine cannot be modified or amended without the consent of the Holder of each Outstanding Security of such series affected.
     Upon any such waiver, such default shall cease to exist, and any Event of Default arising therefrom shall be deemed to have been cured, for every purpose of this Indenture; but no such waiver shall extend to any subsequent or other default or impair any right consequent thereon.
     Section 514. Undertaking for Costs.
     All parties to this Indenture agree, and each Holder of any Security by his or her acceptance thereof, shall be deemed to have agreed that any court may in its discretion require, in any suit for the enforcement of any right or remedy under this Indenture, or in any suit against the Trustee for any action taken, suffered or omitted by it as Trustee, the filing by any party litigant in such suit of an undertaking to pay the costs of such suit and that such court may in its discretion assess reasonable costs, including reasonable attorney’s fees, against any party litigant in such suit, in the manner and to the extent provided in the Trust Indenture Act; provided that neither this Section nor the Trust Indenture Act shall be deemed to authorize any court to require such an undertaking or to make such an assessment in any suit instituted by the Company or in any suit for the enforcement of the right to convert any Security in accordance with Article Fourteen or in any suit instituted by the Trustee, to any suit instituted by any Holder or group of Holders for the enforcement of the payment of the principal of, or any premium or interest on, any Security on or after the due date for such payment.

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     Section 515. Waiver of Stay or Extension Laws.
     The Company covenants (to the extent that it may lawfully do so) that it will not at any time insist upon, or plead, or in any manner whatsoever claim or take the benefit or advantage of, any stay or extension law wherever enacted, now or at any time hereafter in force, which may affect the covenants or the performance of this Indenture; and the Company (to the extent that it may lawfully do so) hereby expressly waives all benefit or advantage of any such law and covenants that it will not hinder, delay or impede the execution of any power herein granted to the Trustee, but will suffer and permit the execution of every such power as though no such law had been enacted.
ARTICLE SIX
THE TRUSTEE
     Section 601. Certain Duties and Responsibilities.
     The duties and responsibilities of the Trustee shall be as expressly set forth in this Indenture and as provided by the Trust Indenture Act. Notwithstanding the foregoing, no provision of this Indenture shall require the Trustee to expend or risk its own funds or otherwise incur any financial liability in the performance of any of its duties hereunder, or in the exercise of any of its rights or powers, if it shall have reasonable grounds for believing that repayment of such funds or adequate indemnity against such risk or liability is not reasonably assured to it. Whether or not therein expressly so provided, every provision of this Indenture relating to the conduct or affecting the liability of or affording protection to the Trustee shall be subject to the provisions of this Section. No provision of this Indenture shall be construed to relieve the Trustee from liability for its own negligent action, its own negligent failure to act or its own willful misconduct, subject to Section 603.
     Section 602. Notice of Defaults.
     If a Default or Event of Default has occurred and the Trustee has received notice of the Default or Event of Default in accordance with the Indenture, the Trustee must mail to each Holder a notice of the Default or Event of Default within 30 days after receipt of the notice. However, the Trustee need not mail the notice if the Default or Event of Default (a) has been cured or waived; or (b) is not in the payment of any amounts due with respect to any Security or the failure to convert any Security in accordance with the Indenture and the Trustee in good faith determines that withholding the notice is in the best interests of Holders. In addition, the Trustee shall give the Holders of Securities of such series notice of such Default or Event of Default actually known to it as and to the extent provided by the Trust Indenture Act.
     Section 603. Certain Rights of Trustee.
     Subject to the provisions of Section 601:
     (1) in the absence of bad faith on the part of the Trustee, the Trustee may rely and shall be protected in acting or refraining from acting upon any resolution, certificate, statement, instrument, opinion, report, notice, request, direction, consent, order, bond, debenture, note, other evidence of indebtedness or other paper or document believed by it to be genuine and to have been signed or presented by the proper party or parties;
     (2) any request or direction of the Company mentioned herein shall be sufficiently evidenced by a Company Request or Company Order, and any resolution of the Board of Directors may be sufficiently evidenced by a Board Resolution;
     (3) whenever in the administration of this Indenture the Trustee shall deem it desirable that a matter be proved or established prior to taking, suffering or omitting any action hereunder, the Trustee (unless other evidence be herein specifically prescribed) may, in the absence of bad faith on its part, rely upon an Officers’ Certificate;

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     (4) the Trustee may consult with counsel of its selection and the written advice of such counsel or any Opinion of Counsel shall be full and complete authorization and protection in respect of any action taken, suffered or omitted by it hereunder in good faith and in reliance thereon;
     (5) the Trustee shall be under no obligation to exercise any of the rights or powers vested in it by this Indenture at the request, direction or demand of any of the Holders pursuant to this Indenture, unless such Holders shall have offered to the Trustee reasonable security or indemnity that is reasonably satisfactory to the Trustee against the costs, expenses and liabilities which might be incurred by it in compliance with such request, direction or demand;
     (6) the Trustee shall not be bound to make any investigation into the facts or matters stated in any resolution, certificate, statement, instrument, opinion, report, notice, request, direction, consent, order, bond, debenture, note, other evidence of indebtedness or other paper or document, but the Trustee, in its discretion, may make further inquiry or investigation into such facts or matters as it may see fit;
     (7) the Trustee may execute any of the trusts or powers hereunder or perform any duties hereunder either directly or by or through agents or attorneys and the Trustee shall not be responsible for any misconduct or negligence on the part of any agent or attorney appointed with due care by it hereunder;
     (8) the Trustee shall not be liable for any action taken, suffered, or omitted to be taken by it in good faith and reasonably believed by it to be authorized or within the discretion or rights or powers conferred upon it by this Indenture;
     (9) the Trustee shall not be deemed to have notice of any Default or Event of Default unless a responsible officer of the Trustee has actual knowledge thereof or unless written notice of any event which is in fact such a Default is received by the Trustee at the Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee, and such notice references the Securities and this Indenture;
     (10) the permissive rights of the Trustee to do the things enumerated in this Indenture shall not be construed as a duty unless so specified herein. The Trustee shall not be liable in connection with the performance of its duties hereunder, except for its own negligence or willful misconduct; and
     (11) whenever in the administration of the trusts imposed upon it by this Indenture the Trustee shall deem it necessary or desirable that a matter be proved or established prior to taking or suffering any action hereunder, such matter may be deemed to be conclusively proved and established by an Officer’s Certificate, and such Officer’s Certificate shall be full warrant to the Trustee for any action taken or suffered in good faith under the provisions of the Indenture in reliance upon such Officer’s Certificate, but in its discretion the Trustee may, in lieu thereof, accept other evidence of such matter or may request such additional evidence as it may deem reasonable.
     Section 604. Not Responsible for Recitals or Issuance of Securities.
     The recitals contained herein and in the Securities, except the Trustee’s certificates of authentication, shall be taken as the statements of the Company, and neither the Trustee nor any Authenticating Agent assumes any responsibility for their correctness. The Trustee makes no representations as to the validity, sufficiency or priority of this Indenture or of the Securities, except that the Trustee represents that it is duly authorized to execute and deliver this Indenture, authenticate the Securities and perform its obligations hereunder, and that the statements made by it or to be made by it in a Statement of Eligibility and Qualification on Form T-1 supplied to the Company are true and accurate. Neither the Trustee nor any Authenticating Agent shall be accountable for the use or application by the Company of Securities or the proceeds thereof.
     Section 605. May Hold Securities and Act as Trustee Under Other Indentures.
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Sections 608 and 613, may otherwise deal with the Company with the same rights it would have if it were not Trustee, Authenticating Agent, Paying Agent, Security Registrar or such other agent.
     Subject to the limitations imposed by the Trust Indenture Act, nothing in this Indenture shall prohibit the Trustee from becoming and acting as trustee under other indentures under which other securities, or certificates of interest of participation in other securities, of the Company are outstanding in the same manner as if it were not Trustee hereunder.
     Section 606. Money Held in Trust.
     Subject to the provisions of the last paragraphs of Sections 1003 and 1305, all money received by the Trustee shall, until used or applied as herein provided, be held in trust for the purposes for which they were received, but need not be segregated from other funds except to the extent required by law. The Trustee shall be under no liability for interest on any money received by it hereunder except as otherwise agreed in writing with the Company.
     Section 607. Compensation and Reimbursement.
     The Company agrees:
     (1) to pay to the Trustee from time to time such compensation as shall be agreed in writing between the Company and the Trustee for all services rendered by it hereunder (which compensation shall not be limited by any provision of law in regard to the compensation of a trustee of an express trust);
     (2) except as otherwise expressly provided herein, to reimburse the Trustee upon its request for all reasonable expenses, disbursements and advances incurred or made by the Trustee in accordance with any provision of this Indenture (including the reasonable compensation and the expenses and disbursements of its agents and counsel), except any such expense, disbursement or advance as may be attributable to its negligence or bad faith; and
     (3) to indemnify the Trustee for, and to hold it harmless against, any loss, liability or expense incurred without negligence or bad faith on its part, arising out of or in connection with the acceptance or administration of the trust or trusts hereunder, including the costs and expenses of defending itself against any claim or liability in connection with the exercise or performance of any of its powers or duties hereunder.
     When the Trustee incurs expenses or renders services in connection with an Event of Default specified in Section 501(5) or Section 501(6), the expenses (including the reasonable charges and expenses of its counsel) and the compensation for the services are intended to constitute expenses of administration under any applicable Federal or State bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or other similar law.
     Section 608. Conflicting Interests.
     If the Trustee has or shall acquire a conflicting interest within the meaning of the Trust Indenture Act, the Trustee shall either eliminate such interest within 90 days or resign, to the extent and in the manner provided by, and subject to the provisions of, the Trust Indenture Act and this Indenture. To the extent permitted by such Act, the Trustee shall not be deemed to have a conflicting interest by virtue of being a trustee under this Indenture with respect to Securities of more than one series.
     Section 609. Corporate Trustee Required; Eligibility.
     There shall at all times be one (and only one) Trustee hereunder with respect to the Securities of each series, which may be the Trustee hereunder for Securities of one or more other series. Each Trustee shall be a Person that is eligible pursuant to the Trust Indenture Act to act as such and has (or if the Trustee is a member of a bank holding company system, its bank holding company has) a combined capital and surplus of at least [$50,000,000] and shall be subject to supervision or examination by a Federal or State authority. If any such Person publishes reports of

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condition at least annually, pursuant to law or to the requirements of said supervising or examining authority, then for the purposes of this Section and to the extent permitted by the Trust Indenture Act, the combined capital and surplus of such Person shall be deemed to be its combined capital and surplus as set forth in its most recent report of condition so published. If at any time the Trustee with respect to the Securities of any series shall cease to be eligible in accordance with the provisions of this Section, it shall resign immediately in the manner and with the effect hereinafter specified in this Article.
     Section 610. Resignation and Removal; Appointment of Successor.
     No resignation or removal of the Trustee and no appointment of a successor Trustee pursuant to this Article shall become effective until the acceptance of appointment by the successor Trustee in accordance with the applicable requirements of Section 611.
     The Trustee may resign at any time with respect to the Securities of one or more series by giving written notice thereof to the Company. If the instrument of acceptance by a successor Trustee required by Section 611 shall not have been delivered to the Trustee within 30 days after the giving of such notice of resignation, the resigning Trustee may petition, at the expense of the Company, any court of competent jurisdiction for the appointment of a successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of such series.
     The Trustee may be removed at any time with respect to the Securities of any series by Act of the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of such series, delivered to the Trustee and to the Company. If the instrument of acceptance by a successor Trustee required by Section 611 shall not have been delivered to the Trustee within 30 days after the giving of such notice of removal, the Trustee being removed may petition, at the expense of the Company, any court of competent jurisdiction for the appointment of a successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of such series.
     If at any time:
     (1) the Trustee shall fail to comply with Section 608 after written request therefor by the Company or by any Holder who has been a bona fide Holder of a Security for at least six months,
     (2) the Trustee shall cease to be eligible under Section 609 and shall fail to resign after written request therefor by the Company or by any such Holder, or
     (3) the Trustee shall become incapable of acting or shall be adjudged a bankrupt or insolvent or a receiver of the Trustee or of its property shall be appointed or any public officer shall take charge or control of the Trustee or of its property or affairs for the purpose of rehabilitation, conservation or liquidation,
     then, in any such case, (A) the Company by a Board Resolution may remove the Trustee with respect to all Securities, or (B) subject to Section 514, any Holder who has been a bona fide Holder of a Security for at least six months may, on behalf of himself and all others similarly situated, petition any court of competent jurisdiction for the removal of the Trustee with respect to all Securities and the appointment of a successor Trustee or Trustees.
     If the Trustee shall resign, be removed or become incapable of acting, or if a vacancy shall occur in the office of Trustee for any cause, with respect to the Securities of one or more series, the Company, by a Board Resolution, shall promptly appoint a successor Trustee or Trustees with respect to the Securities of that or those series (it being understood that any such successor Trustee may be appointed with respect to the Securities of one or more or all of such series and that at any time there shall be only one Trustee with respect to the Securities of any particular series) and shall comply with the applicable requirements of Section 611. If, within one year after such resignation, removal or incapability, or the occurrence of such vacancy, a successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of any series shall be appointed by Act of the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of such series delivered to the Company and the retiring Trustee, the successor Trustee so appointed shall, forthwith upon its acceptance of such appointment in accordance with the applicable requirements of Section 611, become the successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of such series and to that extent supersede the successor Trustee appointed by the Company. If no successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of

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any series shall have been so appointed by the Company or the Holders and accepted appointment in the manner required by Section 611, the retiring Trustee may petition, or any Holder who has been a bona fide Holder of a Security of such series for at least six months may, on behalf of himself and all others similarly situated, petition any court of competent jurisdiction for the appointment of a successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of such series.
     The Company shall give notice of each resignation and each removal of the Trustee with respect to the Securities of any series and each appointment of a successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of any series to all Holders of Securities of such series in the manner provided in Section 106. Each notice shall include the name of the successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of such series and the address of its Corporate Trust Office.
     Section 611. Acceptance of Appointment by Successor.
     In case of the appointment hereunder of a successor Trustee with respect to all Securities, every such successor Trustee so appointed shall execute, acknowledge and deliver to the Company and to the retiring Trustee an instrument accepting such appointment, and thereupon the resignation or removal of the retiring Trustee shall become effective and such successor Trustee, without any further act, deed or conveyance, shall become vested with all the rights, powers, trusts and duties of the retiring Trustee; but, on the request of the Company or the successor Trustee, such retiring Trustee shall, upon payment of its charges, execute and deliver an instrument transferring to such successor Trustee all the rights, powers and trusts of the retiring Trustee and shall duly assign, transfer and deliver to such successor Trustee all property and money held by such retiring Trustee hereunder.
     In case of the appointment hereunder of a successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of one or more (but not all) series, the Company, the retiring Trustee and each successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of one or more series shall execute and deliver an indenture supplemental hereto wherein each successor Trustee shall accept such appointment and which (1) shall contain such provisions as shall be necessary or desirable to transfer and confirm to, and to vest in, each successor Trustee all the rights, powers, trusts and duties of the retiring Trustee with respect to the Securities of that or those series to which the appointment of such successor Trustee relates, (2) if the retiring Trustee is not retiring with respect to all Securities, shall contain such provisions as shall be deemed necessary or desirable to confirm that all the rights, powers, trusts and duties of the retiring Trustee with respect to the Securities of that or those series as to which the retiring Trustee is not retiring shall continue to be vested in the retiring Trustee, and (3) shall add to or change any of the provisions of this Indenture as shall be necessary to provide for or facilitate the administration of the trusts hereunder by more than one Trustee, it being understood that nothing herein or in such supplemental indenture shall constitute such Trustees co-trustees of the same trust and that each such Trustee shall be trustee of a trust or trusts hereunder separate and apart from any trust or trusts hereunder administered by any other such Trustee; and upon the execution and delivery of such supplemental indenture the resignation or removal of the retiring Trustee shall become effective to the extent provided therein and each such successor Trustee, without any further act, deed or conveyance, shall become vested with all the rights, powers, trusts and duties of the retiring Trustee with respect to the Securities of that or those series to which the appointment of such successor Trustee relates; but, on request of the Company or any successor Trustee, such retiring Trustee shall duly assign, transfer and deliver to such successor Trustee all property and money held by such retiring Trustee hereunder with respect to the Securities of that or those series to which the appointment of such successor Trustee relates.
     Upon the reasonable written request of any such successor Trustee, the Company shall execute any and all instruments for more fully and certainly vesting in and confirming to such successor Trustee all such rights, powers and trusts referred to in the first or second preceding paragraph, as the case may be.
     No successor Trustee shall accept its appointment unless at the time of such acceptance such successor Trustee shall be qualified and eligible under this Article.
     Section 612. Merger, Conversion, Consolidation or Succession to Business.
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successor of the Trustee hereunder, provided such corporation shall be otherwise qualified and eligible under this Article, without the execution or filing of any paper or any further act on the part of any of the parties hereto. In case any Securities shall have been authenticated, but not delivered, by the Trustee then in office, any successor by merger, conversion or consolidation to such authenticating Trustee may adopt such authentication and deliver the Securities so authenticated with the same effect as if such successor Trustee had itself authenticated such Securities.
     Section 613. Preferential Collection of Claims Against the Company.
     If and when the Trustee shall be or become a creditor of the Company (or any other obligor upon the Securities), the Trustee shall be subject to the provisions of the Trust Indenture Act regarding the collection of claims against the Company (or any such other obligor).
     Section 614. Appointment of Authenticating Agent.
     The Trustee may appoint an Authenticating Agent or Agents with respect to one or more series of Securities which shall be authorized to act on behalf of the Trustee to authenticate Securities of such series issued upon original issue and upon exchange, registration of transfer or partial redemption thereof or pursuant to Section 305, and Securities so authenticated shall be entitled to the benefits of this Indenture and shall be valid and obligatory for all purposes as if authenticated by the Trustee hereunder. Wherever reference is made in this Indenture to the authentication and delivery of Securities by the Trustee or the Trustee’s certificate of authentication, such reference shall be deemed to include authentication and delivery on behalf of the Trustee by an Authenticating Agent and a certificate of authentication executed on behalf of the Trustee by an Authenticating Agent. Each Authenticating Agent shall be acceptable to the Company and shall at all times be a corporation organized and doing business under the laws of the United States of America, any State thereof or the District of Columbia, authorized under such laws to act as Authenticating Agent, having (or if the Authenticating Agent is a member of a bank holding company system, its bank holding company has) a combined capital and surplus of not less than [$50,000,000] and subject to supervision or examination by Federal or State authority. If such Authenticating Agent publishes reports of condition at least annually, pursuant to law or to the requirements of said supervising or examining authority, then for the purposes of this Section, the combined capital and surplus of such Authenticating Agent shall be deemed to be its combined capital and surplus as set forth in its most recent report of condition so published. If at any time an Authenticating Agent shall cease to be eligible in accordance with the provisions of this Section, such Authenticating Agent shall resign immediately in the manner and with the effect specified in this Section.
     Any corporation into which an Authenticating Agent may be merged or converted or with which it may be consolidated, or any corporation resulting from any merger, conversion or consolidation to which such Authenticating Agent shall be a party, or any corporation succeeding to all or substantially all the corporate agency or corporate trust business of an Authenticating Agent, shall continue to be an Authenticating Agent, provided such corporation shall be otherwise eligible under this Section, without the execution or filing of any paper or any further act on the part of the Trustee or the Authenticating Agent.
     An Authenticating Agent may resign at any time by giving written notice thereof to the Trustee and the Company. The Trustee may at any time terminate the agency of an Authenticating Agent by giving written notice thereof to such Authenticating Agent and to the Company. Upon receiving such a notice of resignation or upon such a termination, or in case at any time such Authenticating Agent shall cease to be eligible in accordance with the provisions of this Section, the Trustee may appoint a successor Authenticating Agent which shall be acceptable to the Company and shall give notice of such appointment in the manner provided in Section 106 to all Holders of Securities of the series with respect to which such Authenticating Agent will serve. Any successor Authenticating Agent upon acceptance of its appointment hereunder shall become vested with all the rights, powers and duties of its predecessor hereunder, with like effect as if originally named as an Authenticating Agent. No successor Authenticating Agent shall be appointed unless eligible under the provisions of this Section.
     The Company agrees to pay to each Authenticating Agent from time to time reasonable compensation for its services under this Section.

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     If an appointment with respect to one or more series is made pursuant to this Section 614, the Securities of such series may have endorsed thereon, in addition to the Trustee’s certificate of authentication, an alternative certificate of authentication in the following form:
     This is one of the Securities of the series designated therein referred to in the within-mentioned Indenture.

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  Dated:


UNION BANK, N.A., as Trustee
 
 
  By:      
    As Authenticating Agent   
       
 
         
     
  By:      
    Authorized Signatory   
       
 
ARTICLE SEVEN
HOLDERS’ LISTS AND REPORTS BY TRUSTEE AND COMPANY
     Section 701. Company to Furnish Trustee Names and Addresses of Holders.
     The Company will furnish or cause to be furnished to the Trustee:
     (1) semi-annually, not later than 15 days after each Regular Record Date, a list, in such form as the Trustee may reasonably require, of the names and addresses of the Holders of Securities of each series as of such Regular Record Date, as the case may be; and
     (2) at such other times as the Trustee may request in writing, within 30 days after the receipt by the Company of any such request, a list of similar form and content as of a date not more than 15 days prior to the time such list is furnished;
provided that no such list need be furnished by the Company to the Trustee so long as the Trustee is acting as Security Registrar.
     Section 702. Preservation of Information; Communications to Holders.
     The Trustee shall preserve, in as current a form as is reasonably practicable, the names and addresses of Holders contained in the most recent list furnished to the Trustee as provided in Section 701, if any, and the names and addresses of Holders received by the Trustee in its capacity as Security Registrar. The Trustee may destroy any list furnished to it as provided in Section 701 upon receipt of a new list so furnished.
     The rights of Holders to communicate with other Holders with respect to their rights under this Indenture or under the Securities, and the corresponding rights and privileges of the Trustee, shall be as provided by the Trust Indenture Act.
     Every Holder of Securities, by receiving and holding the same, agrees with the Company and the Trustee that neither the Company nor the Trustee nor any agent of either of them shall be held accountable by reason of any disclosure of information as to the names and addresses of Holders made pursuant to the Trust Indenture Act.
     Section 703. Reports by Trustee.
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Trust Indenture Act at the times and in the manner provided pursuant thereto. The Trustee shall comply with Section 3.13 of the Trust Indenture Act.
     A copy of each such report shall, at the time of such transmission to Holders, be filed by the Trustee with each stock exchange upon which any Securities are listed, with the Commission and with the Company. The Company will promptly notify the Trustee when any Securities are listed on any stock exchange or of any delisting therefrom.
     Section 704. Reports by Company.
     The Company shall file with the Trustee and the Commission, and transmit to Holders, such information, documents and other reports, and such summaries thereof, as may be required pursuant to the Trust Indenture Act at the times and in the manner provided pursuant to the Trust Indenture Act; provided that any such information, documents or reports required to be filed with the Commission pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act shall be filed with the Trustee within 15 days after the same is so required to be filed with the Commission; provided further that any such information, documents or reports filed with the Commission pursuant to its Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis and Retrieval (or EDGAR) system shall be deemed to be filed with the Trustee.
ARTICLE EIGHT
CONSOLIDATION, MERGER, CONVEYANCE, TRANSFER OR LEASE
     Section 801. Company May Consolidate, Etc., Only on Certain Terms.
     The Company shall not consolidate with or merge with or into another Person (in a transaction in which the Company is not the surviving Person), or sell, transfer, lease, convey or otherwise dispose of all or substantially all of the property or assets of the Company to, any other Person, whether in a single transaction or series of related transactions, unless:
     (1) in case the Company shall consolidate with or merge into another Person (in a transaction in which the Company is not the surviving Person) or sell, transfer, lease, convey or otherwise dispose of all or substantially all of its properties and assets to any Person, the Person formed by such consolidation or into which the Company is merged or the Person which acquires by sale, transfer, conveyance or other disposition, or which leases, all or substantially all of the properties and assets of the Company shall be a corporation, limited liability company, partnership or trust, shall be organized and validly existing under the laws of the United States of America, any State thereof or the District of Columbia and shall expressly assume, by an indenture supplemental hereto, executed and delivered to the Trustee, in form satisfactory to the Trustee, the due and punctual payment of the principal of and any premium and interest on all the Securities and the performance or observance of every covenant of this Indenture on the part of the Company to be performed or observed and the conversion rights shall be provided for in accordance with Article Fourteen (or if as a result of such transaction, the Securities become convertible into common stock or other securities issued by a third party, such third party fully and unconditionally guarantees all of our obligations or such successor under the Securities and this Indenture), if applicable, or as otherwise specified pursuant to Section 301, by supplemental indenture satisfactory in form to the Trustee, executed and delivered to the Trustee, by the Person (if other than the Company) formed by such consolidation or into which the Company shall have been merged or by the Person which shall have acquired the Company’s assets;
     (2) immediately after giving effect to such transaction, no Event of Default, and no event which, after notice or lapse of time or both, would become an Event of Default, shall exist; and
     (3) the Company has delivered to the Trustee an Officers’ Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel, each stating that such consolidation, merger, conveyance, transfer or lease and, if a supplemental indenture is required in connection with such transaction, such supplemental indenture comply with this Article and that all conditions precedent herein provided for relating to such transaction have been complied with.

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     Section 802. Successor Substituted.
     Upon any consolidation of the Company with, or merger of the Company into, any other Person or any sale, transfer, lease, conveyance or other disposition of all or substantially all of the properties and assets of the Company in accordance with Section 801, the successor Person formed by such consolidation or into which the Company is merged or to which such sale, transfer, lease, conveyance or other disposition is made shall succeed to, and be substituted for, and may exercise every right and power of, the Company under this Indenture with the same effect as if such successor Person had been named as the Company herein, and thereafter, except in the case of a lease, the predecessor Person shall be automatically relieved of all obligations and covenants under this Indenture and the Securities.
ARTICLE NINE
SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES
     Section 901. Supplemental Indentures Without Consent of Holders.
     Without the consent of any Holders, the Company and the Guarantors, when authorized by a Board Resolution, and the Trustee, at any time and from time to time, may enter into one or more indentures supplemental hereto, in form satisfactory to the Trustee, for any of the following purposes:
     (1) to evidence the succession of another Person to the Company, or successive successions, and the assumption by any such successor of the covenants of the Company herein and in the Securities upon the Company’s consolidation or merger, or the sale, transfer, lease, conveyance or other disposition of all or substantially all of the Company’s property or assets in accordance with the Indenture;
     (2) to add to the covenants of the Company or the Guarantors for the benefit of the Holders of all or any series of Securities (and if such covenants are to be for the benefit of fewer than all series of Securities, stating that such covenants are expressly being included solely for the benefit of such series) or to surrender any right or power herein conferred upon the Company;
     (3) to add any additional Events of Default for the benefit of the Holders of all or any series of Securities (and if such additional Events of Default are to be for the benefit of fewer than all series of Securities, stating that such additional Events of Default are expressly being included solely for the benefit of such series);
     (4) to add to or change any of the provisions of this Indenture to such extent as shall be necessary to permit or facilitate the issuance of Securities in bearer form, registrable or not registrable as to principal, and with or without interest coupons, or to permit or facilitate the issuance of Securities in uncertificated form;
     (5) to add to, change or eliminate any of the provisions of this Indenture in respect of one or more series of Securities, provided that any such addition, change or elimination (A) shall neither (i) apply to any Security of any series created prior to the execution of such supplemental indenture and entitled to the benefit of such provision nor (ii) modify the rights of the Holder of any such Security with respect to such provision or (B) shall become effective only when there is no such Security Outstanding;
     (6) to secure the Securities;
     (7) to establish the form or terms of Securities of any series as permitted by Sections 201 and 301;
     (8) to evidence and provide for the acceptance of appointment hereunder by a successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of one or more series and to add to or change any of the provisions of this Indenture as shall be necessary to provide for or facilitate the administration of the trusts hereunder by more than one Trustee, pursuant to the requirements of Section 611;

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     (9) to make provision with respect to the conversion rights of Holders pursuant to the requirements of Article Fourteen, including providing for the conversion of the Securities into any security (other than the Common Stock of the Company) or property of the Company, making adjustments in accordance with the Indenture to convert the Securities upon reclassifications, changes in the Company’s Common Stock and certain consolidations, mergers and binding share exchanges, and upon the sale, transfer, lease, conveyance or other disposition of all or substantially all of the Company’s property or assets, and giving effect to any election the Company makes related to the conversion rights of the Holders;
     (10) to comply with the rules and regulations of any securities exchange or automated quotation system on which the Securities may be listed or traded;
     (11) to add to, change or eliminate any of the provisions of this Indenture as shall be necessary or desirable in accordance with any amendments to the Trust Indenture Act; provided that such action does not adversely affect the rights or interests of any Holder of Securities;
     (12) to supplement any of the provisions of the Indenture to such extent as shall be necessary to permit or facilitate the defeasance and discharge of any series of Securities pursuant to Articles Four and Thirteen, provided that any such action shall not adversely affect the interests of the Holders of Securities of such series or any other series of Securities in any material respect;
     (13) to reflect the release of any Guarantor in accordance with Article Fifteen; or
     (14) to add Guarantors with respect to any of the Securities.
     In addition, the Company, the Guarantors and the Trustee may enter into a supplemental indenture without the consent of Holders of the Securities in order to cure any ambiguity, defect, omission or inconsistency in this Indenture or the Securities in a manner that does not, individually or in the aggregate with all other changes, adversely affect the rights of any Holder in any material respect; provided that any modification of this Indenture and the Securities to conform the provisions of the Indenture to any description of the applicable Securities in the prospectus therefor shall not be deemed to adversely affect the rights of any Holder in any material respect. The Company and the Trustee may also enter into a supplemental indenture without the consent of Holders of the Securities in order to conform the Indenture to any description of the Securities contained in the prospectus therefor.
     Section 902. Supplemental Indentures With Consent of Holders.
     With the consent of the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of each series affected by such supplemental indenture, by Act of said Holders delivered to the Company and the Trustee, the Company and the Guarantors, when authorized by a Board Resolution, and the Trustee may enter into an indenture or indentures supplemental hereto for the purpose of adding any provisions to or changing in any manner or eliminating any of the provisions of this Indenture or of modifying in any manner the rights of the Holders of Securities of such series under this Indenture; provided, however, that no such supplemental indenture shall, without the consent of the Holder of each Outstanding Security affected thereby,
     (1) change the Stated Maturity of the principal of, or any installment of principal of or interest on, any Security, or reduce the principal amount thereof or the rate of interest thereon or any premium payable upon any Security, or reduce the amount of the principal of, or any premium, or any interest on, an Original Issue Discount Security or any other Security which would be due and payable upon a declaration of acceleration of the Maturity thereof pursuant to Section 502, or change any Place of Payment where, manner or the coin or currency in which, any Security or any premium or interest thereon is payable, or impair the right to institute suit for the enforcement of any such payment on, or with respect to, or the conversion of any Security in a manner adverse to the Holders of Securities of such series, or release any Guarantee by a Guarantor other than as provided in this Indenture (it being understood that any release effected by Section 802 shall not constitute any of the foregoing);

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     (2) reduce the percentage in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of any series, the consent of whose Holders is required for any such supplemental indenture, or the consent of whose Holders is required for any waiver (of compliance with certain provisions of this Indenture or certain defaults hereunder and their consequences) provided for in this Indenture;
     (3) modify any of the provisions of this Section or Section 513, except to increase any such percentage or to provide that certain other provisions of this Indenture cannot be modified or waived without the consent of the Holder of each Outstanding Security affected thereby; provided, however, that this clause shall not be deemed to require the consent of any Holder with respect to changes in the references to “the Trustee” and concomitant changes in this Section, or the deletion of this proviso, in accordance with the requirements of Sections 611 and 901(8);
     (4) if applicable, make any change that adversely affects the right to convert any security as provided in Article Fourteen or pursuant to Section 301 (except as permitted by Section 901(9)) or decrease the conversion rate or increase the conversion price of any such security; or
     (5) change the ranking of any series of Securities.
     In addition, subject to Sections 508 and 513, the Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of any series may, by notice to the Trustee, waive compliance by the Company or the Guarantors with any provision of this Indenture or such Securities, in a particular instance or generally, without notice to any other Holder; provided that no such waiver shall extend to or affect such term, provision or condition except to the extent so expressly waived, and, until such waiver shall become effective, the obligations of the Company or the Guarantors and the duties of the Trustee in respect of any such term, provision or condition shall remain in full force and effect.
     A supplemental indenture which changes or eliminates any covenant or other provision of this Indenture which has expressly been included solely for the benefit of one or more particular series of Securities, or which modifies the rights of the Holders of Securities of such series with respect to such covenant or other provision, shall be deemed not to affect the rights under this Indenture of the Holders of Securities of any other series.
     It shall not be necessary for any Act of Holders under this Section to approve the particular form of any proposed supplemental indenture, but it shall be sufficient if such Act shall approve the substance thereof.
     Section 903. Execution of Supplemental Indentures.
     In executing, or accepting the additional trusts created by, any supplemental indenture permitted by this Article or the modifications thereby of the trusts created by this Indenture, the Trustee shall be entitled to receive, and (subject to Sections 601 and 603) shall be fully protected in relying upon, an Opinion of Counsel stating that the execution of such supplemental indenture is authorized or permitted by this Indenture. The Trustee may, but shall not be obligated to, enter into any such supplemental indenture which affects the Trustee’s own rights, duties or immunities under this Indenture or otherwise.
     Section 904. Effect of Supplemental Indentures.
     Upon the execution of any supplemental indenture under this Article, this Indenture shall be modified in accordance therewith, and such supplemental indenture shall form a part of this Indenture for all purposes; and every Holder of Securities theretofore or thereafter authenticated and delivered hereunder shall be bound thereby (unless such supplemental indenture does not apply to such Securities).
     Section 905. Conformity with Trust Indenture Act.
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     Section 906. Reference in Securities to Supplemental Indentures.
     Securities of any series authenticated and delivered after the execution of any supplemental indenture pursuant to this Article may, and shall if required by the Trustee, bear a notation in form approved by the Trustee as to any matter provided for in such supplemental indenture. If the Company shall so determine, new Securities of any series so modified as to conform, in the opinion of the Trustee and the Company, to any such supplemental indenture may be prepared and executed by the Company and authenticated and delivered by the Trustee in exchange for Outstanding Securities of such series.
ARTICLE TEN
COVENANTS
     Section 1001. Payment of Principal, Premium and Interest.
     The Company covenants and agrees for the benefit of each series of Securities that it will duly and punctually pay the principal of and any premium and interest on the Securities of that series in accordance with the terms of the Securities and this Indenture.
     Section 1002. Maintenance of Office or Agency.
     The Company will maintain in each Place of Payment for any series of Securities an office or agency where Securities of that series may be presented or surrendered for payment, where Securities of that series may be surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange, where Securities of that series may be surrendered for conversion and where notices and demands to or upon the Company in respect of the Securities of that series and this Indenture may be served. The Company will give prompt written notice to the Trustee of the location, and any change in the location, of such office or agency. If at any time the Company shall fail to maintain any such required office or agency or shall fail to furnish the Trustee with the address thereof, such presentations, surrenders, notices and demands may be made or served at the Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee, and the Company hereby appoints the Trustee as its agent to receive all such presentations, surrenders, notices and demands.
     The Company may also from time to time designate one or more other offices or agencies where the Securities of one or more series may be presented or surrendered for any or all such purposes and may from time to time rescind such designations; provided, however, that no such designation or rescission shall in any manner relieve the Company of its obligation to maintain an office or agency in each Place of Payment for Securities of any series for such purposes. The Company will give prompt written notice to the Trustee of any such designation or rescission and of any change in the location of any such other office or agency.
     Section 1003. Money for Securities Payments to Be Held in Trust.
     If the Company shall at any time act as its own Paying Agent with respect to any series of Securities, it will, on or before each due date of the principal of or any premium or interest on any of the Securities of that series, segregate and hold in trust for the benefit of the Persons entitled thereto a sum sufficient to pay the principal and any premium and interest so becoming due until such sums shall be paid to such Persons or otherwise disposed of as herein provided and will promptly notify the Trustee of its action or failure so to act.
     Whenever the Company shall have one or more Paying Agents for any series of Securities, it will, on or prior to each due date of the principal of or any premium or interest on any Securities of that series, deposit with a Paying Agent a sum sufficient to pay such principal or any premium or interest so becoming due, such sum to be held in trust for the benefit of the Persons entitled to such principal or any premium or interest, and (unless such Paying Agent is the Trustee) the Company will promptly notify the Trustee of its action or failure so to act.
     The Company will cause each Paying Agent for any series of Securities other than the Trustee to execute and deliver to the Trustee an instrument in which such Paying Agent shall agree with the Trustee, subject to the provisions of this Section, that such Paying Agent will (1) hold all sums held by it for the payment of the principal

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of (and premium, if any) or interest on Securities of that series in trust for the benefit of the Persons entitled thereto until such sums shall be paid to such Persons or otherwise disposed of as herein provided; (2) give the Trustee notice of any default by the Company (or any other obligor upon the Securities of that series) in the making of any payment of principal (and premium, if any) or interest on the Securities of that series; and (3) at any time during the continuance of any such default, upon the written request of the Trustee, forthwith pay to the Trustee all sums held in trust by such Paying Agent for payment in respect of the Securities of that series.
     The Company may at any time, for the purpose of obtaining the satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture or for any other purpose, pay, or by Company Order direct any Paying Agent to pay, to the Trustee all sums held in trust by the Company or such Paying Agent, such sums to be held by the Trustee upon the same trusts as those upon which such sums were held by the Company or such Paying Agent; and, upon such payment by any Paying Agent to the Trustee, such Paying Agent shall be released from all further liability with respect to such money.
     Any money deposited with the Trustee or any Paying Agent, or then held by the Company, in trust for the payment of the principal of (and premium, if any) or interest on any Security of any series and remaining unclaimed for a period ending on the earlier of the date that is ten Business Days prior to the date such money would escheat to the State or two years after such principal (and premium, if any) or interest has become due and payable shall be paid to the Company on Company Request, or (if then held by the Company) shall be discharged from such trust; and the Holder of such Security shall thereafter, as an unsecured general creditor, look only to the Company for payment thereof, and all liability of the Trustee or such Paying Agent with respect to such trust money, and all liability of the Company as trustee thereof, shall thereupon cease.
     Section 1004. Statement by Officers as to Default.
     The Company will promptly notify the Trustee upon its becoming aware of the occurrence of any Default or Event of Default. In addition, Company shall furnish to the Trustee, within 120 days after the end of each fiscal year of the Company ending after the date of the Indenture, an Officers’ Certificate stating whether the officers certifying therein have actual knowledge of any Default or Event of Default by the Company in performing any of its obligations under the Indenture or the Securities and describing any such Default or Event of Default.
     Section 1005. Existence.
     Subject to Article Eight, the Company will do or cause to be done all things reasonably necessary to preserve and keep in full force and effect its corporate existence.
     Section 1006. Payment of Taxes and Other Claims.
     The Company will pay or discharge or cause to be paid or discharged, before the same shall become delinquent, all taxes, assessments and governmental charges levied or imposed upon the Company or upon the income, profits or property of the Company or any Subsidiary, provided, however, that the Company shall not be required to pay or discharge or cause to be paid or discharged any such tax, assessment or charge (i) whose amount, applicability or validity is being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings or (ii) if the failure to pay or discharge would not have a material adverse effect on the assets, business, operations, properties or condition (financial or otherwise) of the Company and its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole.
     Section 1007. Calculation of Original Issue Discount.
     The Company shall file with the Trustee promptly at the end of each calendar year (i) a written notice specifying the amount of original issue discount (including daily rates and accrual periods), if any, accrued on Outstanding Securities as of the end of such year and (ii) such other specific information relating to such original issue discount as may then be relevant under the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended from time to time.

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ARTICLE ELEVEN
REDEMPTION OF SECURITIES
     Section 1101. Applicability of Article.
     Securities of any series which are redeemable before their Stated Maturity shall be redeemable in accordance with their terms and (except as otherwise specified as contemplated by Section 301 for such Securities) in accordance with this Article.
     Section 1102. Election to Redeem; Notice to Trustee.
     The election of the Company to redeem any Securities shall be evidenced by a Board Resolution. In case of any redemption at the election of the Company of the Securities of any series (including any such redemption affecting only a single Security), the Company shall, at least 40 days (or 45 days if fewer than all the Securities of any series are to be redeemed) prior to the Redemption Date fixed by the Company (unless a shorter notice shall be satisfactory to the Trustee), notify the Trustee of such Redemption Date, of the principal amount of Securities of such series to be redeemed and, if applicable, of the tenor of the Securities to be redeemed. In the case of any redemption of Securities prior to the expiration of any restriction on such redemption provided in the terms of such Securities or elsewhere in this Indenture, the Company shall furnish the Trustee with an Officers’ Certificate evidencing compliance with such restriction.
     Section 1103. Selection by Trustee of Securities to Be Redeemed.
     If fewer than all the Securities of any series are to be redeemed (unless all the Securities of such series and of a specified tenor are to be redeemed or unless such redemption affects only a single Security), the particular Securities to be redeemed shall be selected not more than 45 days prior to the Redemption Date by the Trustee, from the Outstanding Securities of such series not previously called for redemption, by lot, or in the Trustee’s discretion, on a pro-rata basis or by such other method as the Trustee may deem fair and appropriate, provided that the unredeemed portion of the principal amount of any Security shall be in an authorized denomination (which shall not be less than the minimum authorized denomination) for such Security. If fewer than all the Securities of such series and of a specified tenor are to be redeemed (unless such redemption affects only a single Security), the particular Securities to be redeemed shall be selected not more than 45 days prior to the Redemption Date by the Trustee, from the Outstanding Securities of such series and specified tenor not previously called for redemption in accordance with the preceding sentence.
     If any Security selected for partial redemption is converted in part before termination of the conversion right with respect to the portion of the Security so selected, the converted portion of such Security shall be deemed (so far as may be), at the option of the Company, to be the portion selected for redemption. Securities which have been converted during a selection of Securities to be redeemed shall be treated by the Trustee as Outstanding for the purpose of such selection. The Trustee shall promptly notify the Company in writing of the Securities selected for redemption as aforesaid and, in case of any Securities selected for partial redemption as aforesaid, the principal amount thereof to be redeemed.
     The provisions of the three preceding paragraphs shall not apply with respect to any redemption affecting only a single Security, whether such Security is to be redeemed in whole or in part. In the case of any such redemption in part, the unredeemed portion of the principal amount of the Security shall be in an authorized denomination (which shall not be less than the minimum authorized denomination) for such Security.
     For all purposes of this Indenture, unless the context otherwise requires, all provisions relating to the redemption of Securities shall relate, in the case of any Securities redeemed or to be redeemed only in part, to the portion of the principal amount of such Securities which has been or is to be redeemed.

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     Section 1104. Notice of Redemption.
     Notice of redemption shall be given by first-class mail, postage prepaid, mailed not fewer than 30 nor more than 60 days prior to the Redemption Date, unless a shorter period is specified in the Securities to be redeemed, to each Holder of Securities to be redeemed, at its address appearing in the Security Register.
     Failure to give notice by mailing in the manner herein provided to the Holder of any Registered Securities designated for redemption as a whole or in part, or any defect in the notice of any such Holder, shall not affect the validity of the proceedings for the redemption of any other Securities or portion thereof.
     Any notice that is mailed to the Holder of any Registered Securities in the manner herein provided shall be conclusively presumed to have been duly given, whether or not such Holder receives the notice.
     All notices of redemption shall identify the Securities to be redeemed (including CUSIP number(s)) and shall state:
     (1) the Redemption Date;
     (2) the Redemption Price (including accrued interest, if any);
     (3) if fewer than all the Outstanding Securities of any series consisting of more than a single Security are to be redeemed, the identification (and, in the case of partial redemption of any such Securities, the principal amounts) of the particular Securities to be redeemed and, if fewer than all the Outstanding Securities of any series consisting of a single Security are to be redeemed, the principal amount of the particular Security to be redeemed;
     (4) that on the Redemption Date the Redemption Price will become due and payable upon each such Security to be redeemed and, if applicable, that interest thereon will cease to accrue on and after said date;
     (5) the place or places where each such Security is to be surrendered for payment of the Redemption Price;
     (6) if applicable, the conversion price, that the date on which the right to convert the principal of the Securities or the portions thereof to be redeemed will terminate will be the Business Day prior to the Redemption Date and the place or places where such Securities may be surrendered for conversion;
     (7) in case any Securities are to be redeemed in part only, the notice which relates to such Security shall state that on and after the Redemption Date, upon surrender of such Security, the Holder of such Security will receive, without charge, a new Security or Securities of authorized denominations for the principal amount thereof remaining unredeemed; and
     (8) that the redemption is for a sinking fund, if such is the case.
     Notice of redemption of Securities to be redeemed at the election of the Company shall be given by the Company or, at the Company’s request, by the Trustee in the name and at the expense of the Company and shall be irrevocable.
     Section 1105. Deposit of Redemption Price.
     On or prior to 11:00 a.m., New York time, on any Redemption Date, the Company shall deposit with the Trustee or with a Paying Agent (or, if the Company is acting as its own Paying Agent, segregate and hold in trust as provided in Section 1003) an amount of money sufficient to pay the Redemption Price of, and (except if the Redemption Date shall be an Interest Payment Date) accrued interest on, all the Securities which are to be redeemed on that date.

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     If any Security called for redemption is converted, any money deposited with the Trustee or with a Paying Agent or so segregated and held in trust for the redemption of such Security shall (subject to the right of any Holder of such Security to receive interest as provided in the last paragraph of Section 307) be paid to the Company on Company Request, or if then held by the Company, shall be discharged from such trust.
     Section 1106. Securities Payable on Redemption Date.
     Notice of redemption having been given as aforesaid, the Securities so to be redeemed shall, on the Redemption Date, become due and payable at the Redemption Price therein specified, and from and after such date (unless the Company shall default in the payment of the Redemption Price and accrued and unpaid interest) such Securities shall cease to bear interest. Upon surrender of any such Security for redemption in accordance with said notice, such Security shall be paid by the Company at the Redemption Price, together with accrued and unpaid interest to the Redemption Date; provided, however, that, unless otherwise specified in or as contemplated by Section 301, installments of interest whose Stated Maturity is on or prior to the Redemption Date will be payable to the Holders of such Securities, or one or more Predecessor Securities, registered as such at the close of business on the relevant Record Dates according to their terms and the provisions of Section 307.
     If any Security called for redemption shall not be so paid upon surrender thereof for redemption, the principal and any premium shall, until paid, bear interest from the Redemption Date at the rate prescribed therefor in the Security.
     Section 1107. Securities Redeemed in Part.
     Any Security which is to be redeemed only in part shall be surrendered at a Place of Payment therefor (with, if the Company or the Trustee so requires, due endorsement by, or a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Company and the Trustee duly executed by, the Holder thereof or its attorney duly authorized in writing), and the Company shall execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver to the Holder of such Security without service charge, a new Security or Securities of the same series, having endorsed thereon the Guarantee executed by the Guarantors and of like tenor, of any authorized denomination as requested by such Holder, in aggregate principal amount equal to and in exchange for the unredeemed portion of the principal of the Security so surrendered. If a Security in global form is so surrendered, the Company shall execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver to the U.S. Depositary or other Depositary for such Security in global form as shall be specified in the Company Order with respect thereto to the Trustee, without service charge, a new Security in global form in denomination equal to and in exchange for the unredeemed portion of the principal of the Security in global form so surrendered.
ARTICLE TWELVE
SINKING FUNDS
     Section 1201. Applicability of Article.
     The provisions of this Article shall be applicable to any sinking fund for the retirement of Securities of any series except as otherwise specified as contemplated by Section 301 for such Securities.
     The minimum amount of any sinking fund payment provided for by the terms of any Securities is herein referred to as a “mandatory sinking fund payment,” and any payment in excess of such minimum amount provided for by the terms of such Securities is herein referred to as an “optional sinking fund payment.” If provided for by the terms of any Securities, the cash amount of any sinking fund payment may be subject to reduction as provided in Section 1202. Each sinking fund payment shall be applied to the redemption of Securities as provided for by the terms of such Securities.

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     Section 1202. Satisfaction of Sinking Fund Payments with Securities.
     The Company (1) may deliver Outstanding Securities of a series (other than any previously called for redemption) and (2) may apply as a credit Securities of a series which have been redeemed either at the election of the Company pursuant to the terms of such Securities or through the application of permitted optional sinking fund payments pursuant to the terms of such Securities, in each case in satisfaction of all or any part of any sinking fund payment with respect to any Securities of such series required to be made pursuant to the terms of such Securities as and to the extent provided for by the terms of such Securities; provided that the Securities to be so credited have not been previously so credited. The Securities to be so credited shall be received and credited for such purpose by the Trustee at the Redemption Price, as specified in the Securities so to be redeemed, for redemption through operation of the sinking fund and the amount of such sinking fund payment shall be reduced accordingly.
     Section 1203. Redemption of Securities for Sinking Fund.
     Not fewer than 60 days prior to each sinking fund payment date for any Securities, the Company will deliver to the Trustee an Officers’ Certificate specifying the amount of the next ensuing sinking fund payment for such Securities pursuant to the terms of such Securities, the portion thereof, if any, which is to be satisfied by payment of cash and the portion thereof, if any, which is to be satisfied by delivering and crediting Securities pursuant to Section 1202 and will also deliver to the Trustee any Securities to be so delivered. Not fewer than 30 days prior to each such sinking fund payment date, the Trustee shall select the Securities to be redeemed upon such sinking fund payment date in the manner specified in Section 1103 and cause notice of the redemption thereof to be given in the name of and at the expense of the Company in the manner provided in Section 1104. Such notice having been duly given, the redemption of such Securities shall be made upon the terms and in the manner stated in Sections 1106 and 1107.
ARTICLE THIRTEEN
DEFEASANCE AND COVENANT DEFEASANCE
     Section 1301. [Intentionally Omitted].
     [Intentionally omitted.]
     Section 1302. Defeasance and Discharge.
     The Company shall be deemed to have been discharged from its obligations with respect to any Securities or any series of Securities, and each Guarantor shall be deemed to have been discharged from its obligations with respect to its Guarantee of such Securities, as provided in this Section on and after the date the conditions set forth in Section 1304, in the case of defeasance, are satisfied (hereinafter called “Defeasance”). For this purpose, such Defeasance means that the Company shall be deemed to have paid and discharged the entire indebtedness represented by such Securities and to have satisfied all its other obligations under such Securities and this Indenture insofar as such Securities are concerned (and the Trustee, at the expense of the Company, shall execute proper instruments acknowledging the same), subject to the following which shall survive until all the Securities of such series have in fact been paid in full: (1) the rights of Holders of such Securities to receive, solely from the trust fund described in Section 1304 and as more fully set forth in such Section, payments in respect of the principal of and any premium and interest on such Securities when payments are due, (2) the Company’s obligations with respect to such Securities under Sections 304, 305, 306, 1002 and 1003, and, if applicable, Article Fourteen, (3) the rights, powers, trusts, duties and immunities of the Trustee hereunder and (4) this Article. Subject to compliance with this Article, the Company may exercise its option (if any) to have this Section applied to any Securities notwithstanding the prior exercise of its option (if any) to have Section 1303 applied to such Securities.
     Section 1303. Covenant Defeasance.
     On and after the date the conditions set forth in Section 1304 are satisfied, (1) the Company shall be released from its obligations under Article Eight, Sections 704 and 1006, inclusive, and (2) the occurrence of any

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event specified in Sections 501(4) (with respect to any of Article Eight, Section 704 or Section 1006, inclusive, shall be deemed not to be or result in an Event of Default, in each case with respect to Outstanding Securities of such series as provided in this Section (hereinafter called “Covenant Defeasance”). For this purpose, such Covenant Defeasance means that, with respect to such Securities, the Company may omit to comply with and shall have no liability in respect of any term, condition or limitation set forth in any such specified Article or Section (to the extent so specified in the case of Section 501(4)), whether directly or indirectly by reason of any reference elsewhere herein to any such Article or Section or by reason of any reference in any such Article or Section to any other provision herein or in any other document, but the remainder of this Indenture and the Securities of such shall be unaffected thereby.
     Section 1304. Conditions to Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance.
     The following shall be the conditions to the application of Section 1302 or Section 1303 to any Securities or the Outstanding Securities of any series:
     (1) The Company shall irrevocably have deposited or caused to be deposited with the Trustee (or another trustee which satisfies the requirements contemplated by Section 609 and agrees to comply with the provisions of this Article applicable to it) as trust funds in trust for the purpose of making the following payments, specifically pledged as security for, and dedicated solely to, the benefit of the Holders of Outstanding Securities of such series, (A) money in an amount, or (B) U.S. Government Obligations which through the scheduled payment of principal and interest in respect thereof in accordance with their terms will provide, not later than one day before the due date of any payment, money in an amount, or (C) a combination thereof, in each case sufficient, in the opinion of a nationally recognized firm of independent certified public accountants expressed in a written certification thereof delivered to the Trustee, to pay and discharge, and which shall be applied by the Trustee (or any such other qualifying trustee) to pay and discharge, the principal of and any premium and interest on Outstanding Securities of such series on the respective Stated Maturities, in accordance with the terms of this Indenture and such Securities. As used herein, “U.S. Government Obligation” means (x) any security which is (i) a direct obligation of the United States of America for the payment of which the full faith and credit of the United States of America is pledged or (ii) an obligation of a Person controlled or supervised by and acting as an agency or instrumentality of the United States of America, the timely payment of which is unconditionally guaranteed as a full faith and credit obligation by the United States of America, which, in either case under Clauses (i) or (ii), is not callable or redeemable at the option of the issuer thereof, and (y) shall also include a depositary receipt issued by a bank (as defined in Section 3(a)(2) of the Securities Act) as custodian with respect to any U.S. Government Obligation which is specified in Clause (x) above and held by such bank for the account of the holder of such depositary receipt, or with respect to any specific payment of principal of or interest on any U.S. Government Obligation which is so specified and held; provided that (except as required by law) such custodian is not authorized to make any deduction from the amount payable to the holder of such depositary receipt from any amount received by the custodian in respect of the U.S. Government Obligation or the specific payment of principal or interest evidenced by such depositary receipt.
     (2) In the event of an election to have Section 1302 apply to any Securities or any series of Securities, as the case may be, the Company shall have delivered to the Trustee an Opinion of Counsel stating that (A) the Company has received from, or there has been published by, the Internal Revenue Service a ruling or (B) since the date of this instrument, there has been a change in the applicable Federal income tax law, in either case (A) or (B) to the effect that, and based thereon such opinion shall confirm that, the Holders of the Outstanding Securities of such series will not recognize gain or loss for Federal income tax purposes as a result of the deposit, Defeasance and discharge to be effected with respect to such Securities and will be subject to Federal income tax on the same amount, in the same manner and at the same times as would be the case if such deposit, Defeasance and discharge were not to occur.
     (3) In the event of an election to have Section 1303 apply to any Securities or any series of Securities, as the case may be, the Company shall have delivered to the Trustee an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that the Holders of the Outstanding Securities of such series will not recognize income, gain or loss for Federal income tax purposes as a result of the deposit and Covenant Defeasance to be effected with respect to such Securities and will be subject to Federal income tax on the same amount, in the same

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manner and at the same times as would be the case if such deposit and Covenant Defeasance were not to occur.
     (4) The Company shall have delivered to the Trustee an Officers’ Certificate to the effect that neither such Securities nor any other Securities of the same series, if then listed on any securities exchange, will be delisted as a result of such deposit.
     (5) No event which is, or after notice or lapse of time or both would become, an Event of Default with respect to such Securities or any other Securities shall have occurred and be continuing at the time of such deposit or, with regard to any such event specified in Sections 501(5) and (6), at any time on or prior to the 90th day after the date of such deposit (it being understood that this condition shall not be deemed satisfied until after such 90th day).
     (6) Such Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance shall not cause the Trustee to have a conflicting interest within the meaning of the Trust Indenture Act (assuming all Securities are in default within the meaning of such Act).
     (7) Such Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance shall not result in a breach or violation of, or constitute a default under, the Indenture or any other agreement or instrument to which the Company is a party or by which it is bound.
     (8) Such Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance shall not result in the trust arising from such deposit constituting an investment company within the meaning of the Investment Company Act unless such trust shall be registered under such Act or exempt from registration thereunder.
     (9) The Company shall have delivered to the Trustee an Officers’ Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel, each stating that all conditions precedent with respect to such Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance have been complied with.
     Section 1305. Deposited Money and U.S. Government Obligations to be Held in Trust; Miscellaneous Provisions.
     Subject to the provisions of the last paragraph of Section 1003, all money and U.S. Government Obligations (including the proceeds thereof) deposited with the Trustee or other qualifying trustee (solely for purposes of this Section and Section 1306, the Trustee and any such other trustee are referred to collectively as the “Trustee”) pursuant to Section 1304 in respect of any Securities shall be held in trust and applied by the Trustee, in accordance with the provisions of such Securities and this Indenture, to the payment, either directly or through any such Paying Agent (including the Company acting as its own Paying Agent) as the Trustee may determine, to the Holders of such Securities, of all sums due and to become due thereon in respect of principal and any premium and interest, but money so held in trust need not be segregated from other funds except to the extent required by law.
     The Company shall pay and indemnify the Trustee against any tax, fee or other charge imposed on or assessed against the U.S. Government Obligations deposited pursuant to Section 1304 or the principal and interest received in respect thereof other than any such tax, fee or other charge which by law is for the account of the Holders of Outstanding Securities.
     Anything in this Article to the contrary notwithstanding, the Trustee shall deliver or pay to the Company and any Paying Agent upon Company Request any money or U.S. Government Obligations held by it as provided in Section 1304 with respect to any Securities which, in the opinion of a nationally recognized firm of independent public accountants expressed in a written certification thereof delivered to the Trustee, are in excess of the amount thereof which would then be required to be deposited to effect the Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance, as the case may be, with respect to such Securities.

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     Section 1306. Reinstatement.
     If the Trustee or the Paying Agent is unable to apply any money in accordance with this Article with respect to any Securities by reason of any order or judgment of any court or governmental authority enjoining, restraining or otherwise prohibiting such application, then the Company’s obligations under this Indenture and such Securities from which the Company has been discharged or released pursuant to Section 1302 or 1303 shall be revived and reinstated as though no deposit had occurred pursuant to this Article with respect to such Securities, until such time as the Trustee or Paying Agent is permitted to apply all money held in trust pursuant to Section 1305 with respect to such Securities in accordance with this Article; provided, however, that if the Company makes any payment of principal of or any premium or interest on any such Security following such reinstatement of its obligations, the Company shall be subrogated to the rights (if any) of the Holders of such Securities to receive such payment from the money so held in trust.
ARTICLE FOURTEEN
CONVERSION AND EXCHANGE OF SECURITIES
     Section 1401. Applicability of Article.
     The provisions of this Article shall be applicable to the Securities of any series which are convertible or exchangeable into shares of Common Stock of the Company, and the issuance of such shares of Common Stock upon the conversion or exchange of such Securities, except as otherwise specified as contemplated by Section 301 for the Securities of such series.
     Section 1402. Exercise of Conversion and Exchange Privilege.
     In order to exercise a conversion or exchange privilege, the Holder of a Security of a series with such a privilege shall surrender such Security to the Company at the office or agency maintained for that purpose pursuant to Section 1002, accompanied by a duly executed conversion or exchange notice to the Company substantially in the form set forth in Section 206 stating that the Holder elects to convert or exchange such Security or a specified portion thereof. Such notice shall also state, if different from the name and address of such Holder, the name or names (with address) in which the certificate or certificates for shares of Common Stock which shall be issuable on such conversion or exchange shall be issued. Securities surrendered for conversion or exchange shall (if so required by the Company or the Trustee) be duly endorsed by or accompanied by instruments of transfer in forms satisfactory to the Company and the Trustee duly executed by the registered Holder or its attorney duly authorized in writing; and Securities so surrendered for conversion or exchange (in whole or in part) during the period from the close of business on any Regular Record Date to the opening of business on the next succeeding Interest Payment Date (excluding Securities or portions thereof called for redemption during the period beginning at the close of business on a Regular Record Date and ending at the opening of business on the first Business Day after the next succeeding Interest Payment Date, or if such Interest Payment Date is not a Business Day, the second such Business Day) shall also be accompanied by payment in funds acceptable to the Company of an amount equal to the interest payable on such Interest Payment Date on the principal amount of such Security then being converted or exchanged, and such interest shall be payable to such registered Holder notwithstanding the conversion or exchange of such Security, subject to the provisions of Section 307 relating to the payment of Defaulted Interest by the Company. As promptly as practicable after the receipt of such notice and of any payment required pursuant to a Board Resolution and, subject to Section 303, set forth, or determined in the manner provided, in an Officers’ Certificate, or established in one or more indentures supplemental hereto setting forth the terms of such series of Security, and the surrender of such Security in accordance with such reasonable regulations as the Company may prescribe, the Company shall issue and shall deliver, at the office or agency at which such Security is surrendered, to such Holder or on its written order, a certificate or certificates for the number of full shares of Common Stock issuable upon the conversion or exchange of such Security (or specified portion thereof), in accordance with the provisions of such Board Resolution, Officers’ Certificate or supplemental indenture, and cash as provided therein in respect of any fractional share of such Common Stock otherwise issuable upon such conversion or exchange. Such conversion or exchange shall be deemed to have been effected immediately prior to the close of business on the date on which such notice and such payment, if required, shall have been received in proper order for conversion or exchange by the Company and such Security shall have been surrendered as aforesaid (unless such Holder shall have so surrendered such Security and

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shall have instructed the Company to effect the conversion or exchange on a particular date following such surrender and such Holder shall be entitled to convert or exchange such Security on such date, in which case such conversion or exchange shall be deemed to be effected immediately prior to the close of business on such date) and at such time the rights of the Holder of such Security as such Security Holder shall cease and the person or persons in whose name or names any certificate or certificates for shares of Common Stock of the Company shall be issuable upon such conversion or exchange shall be deemed to have become the Holder or Holders of record of the shares represented thereby. Except as set forth above and subject to the final paragraph of Section 307, no payment or adjustment shall be made upon any conversion or exchange on account of any interest accrued on the Securities (or any part thereof) surrendered for conversion or exchange or on account of any dividends on the Common Stock of the Company issued upon such conversion or exchange.
     In the case of any Security which is converted or exchanged in part only, upon such conversion or exchange the Company shall execute and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver to or on the order of the Holder thereof, at the expense of the Company, a new Security or Securities of the same series, of authorized denominations, in aggregate principal amount equal to the unconverted or unexchanged portion of such Security.
     Section 1403. No Fractional Shares.
     No fractional share of Common Stock of the Company shall be issued upon conversions or exchanges of Securities of any series. If more than one Security shall be surrendered for conversion or exchange at one time by the same Holder, the number of full shares which shall be issuable upon conversion or exchange shall be computed on the basis of the aggregate principal amount of the Securities (or specified portions thereof to the extent permitted hereby) so surrendered. If, except for the provisions of this Section 1403, any Holder of a Security or Securities would be entitled to a fractional share of Common Stock of the Company upon the conversion or exchange of such Security or Securities, or specified portions thereof, the Company shall pay to such Holder an amount in cash equal to the current market value of such fractional share computed (unless otherwise specified with respect to any series of Securities), (i) if such Common Stock is listed or admitted to unlisted trading privileges on a national securities exchange or market, on the basis of the last reported sale price regular way on such exchange or market on the last trading day prior to the date of conversion or exchange upon which such a sale shall have been effected, or (ii) if such Common Stock is not at the time so listed or admitted to unlisted trading privileges on a national securities exchange or market, on the basis of the average of the bid and asked prices of such Common Stock in the over-the counter market, on the last trading day prior to the date of conversion or exchange, as reported by the National Quotation Bureau, Incorporated or similar organization if the National Quotation Bureau, Incorporated is no longer reporting such information, or if not so available, the fair market price as determined by the Board of Directors. For purposes of this Section, “trading day” shall mean each Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday other than any day on which the Common Stock is not traded on the New York Stock Exchange, or if the Common Stock is not traded on the New York Stock Exchange, on the principal exchange or market on which the Common Stock is traded or quoted.
     Section 1404. Adjustment of Conversion and Exchange Price.
     The conversion or exchange price of Securities of any series that is convertible or exchangeable into Common Stock of the Company shall be adjusted for any stock dividends, stock splits, reclassifications, combinations or similar transactions in accordance with the terms of the supplemental indenture or Board Resolutions setting forth the terms of the Securities of such series.
     Whenever the conversion or exchange price is adjusted, the Company shall compute the adjusted conversion or exchange price in accordance with terms of the applicable Board Resolution or supplemental indenture and shall prepare an Officers’ Certificate setting forth the adjusted conversion or exchange price and showing in reasonable detail the facts upon which such adjustment is based, and such certificate shall forthwith be filed at each office or agency maintained for the purpose of conversion or exchange of Securities pursuant to Section 1002 and, if different, with the Trustee. The Company shall forthwith cause a notice setting forth the adjusted conversion or exchange price to be mailed, first class postage prepaid, to each Holder of Securities of such series at its address appearing on the Security Register and to any conversion or exchange agent other than the Trustee.

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     Section 1405. Notice of Certain Corporate Actions.
     In case:
     (1) the Company shall declare a dividend (or any other distribution) on its Common Stock payable otherwise than in cash out of its retained earnings (other than a dividend for which approval of any shareholders of the Company is required) that would require an adjustment pursuant to Section 1404; or
     (2) the Company shall authorize the granting to all or substantially all of the holders of its Common Stock of rights, options or warrants to subscribe for or purchase any shares of capital stock of any class or of any other rights (other than any such grant for which approval of any shareholders of the Company is required); or
     (3) of any reclassification of the Common Stock of the Company (other than a subdivision or combination of its outstanding shares of Common Stock, or of any consolidation, merger or share exchange to which the Company is a party and for which approval of any shareholders of the Company is required), or of the sale of all or substantially all of the assets of the Company; or
     (4) of the voluntary or involuntary dissolution, liquidation or winding up of the Company; then the Company shall cause to be filed with the Trustee, and shall cause to be mailed to all Holders at their last addresses as they shall appear in the Security Register, at least 20 days (or 10 days in any case specified in Clause (1) or (2) above) prior to the applicable record date hereinafter specified, a notice stating (i) the date on which a record is to be taken for the purpose of such dividend, distribution, rights, options or warrants, or, if a record is not to be taken, the date as of which the holders of Common Stock of record to be entitled to such dividend, distribution, rights, options or warrants are to be determined, or (ii) the date on which such reclassification, consolidation, merger, share exchange, sale, dissolution, liquidation or winding up is expected to become effective, and the date as of which it is expected that holders of Common Stock of record shall be entitled to exchange their shares of Common Stock for securities, cash or other property deliverable upon such reclassification, consolidation, merger, share exchange, sale, dissolution, liquidation or winding up. If at any time the Trustee shall not be the conversion or exchange agent, a copy of such notice shall also forthwith be filed by the Company with the Trustee.
     Section 1406. Reservation of Shares of Common Stock.
     The Company shall at all times reserve and keep available, free from preemptive rights, out of its authorized but unissued Common Stock, for the purpose of effecting the conversion or exchange of Securities, the full number of shares of Common Stock of the Company then issuable upon the conversion or exchange of all outstanding Securities of any series that has conversion or exchange rights.
     Section 1407. Payment of Certain Taxes Upon Conversion and Exchange.
     Except as provided in the next sentence, the Company will pay any and all taxes that may be payable in respect of the issue or delivery of shares of its Common Stock on conversion or exchange of Securities pursuant hereto. The Company shall not, however, be required to pay any tax which may be payable in respect of any transfer involved in the issue and delivery of shares of its Common Stock in a name other than that of the Holder of the Security or Securities to be converted or exchanged, and no such issue or delivery shall be made unless and until the person requesting such issue has paid to the Company the amount of any such tax, or has established, to the satisfaction of the Company, that such tax has been paid.
     Section 1408. Nonassessability.
     The Company covenants that all shares of its Common Stock which may be issued upon conversion or exchange of Securities will upon issue in accordance with the terms hereof be duly and validly issued and fully paid and nonassessable.

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     Section 1409. Provision in Case of Consolidation, Merger or Sale of Assets.
     In case of any consolidation or merger of the Company with or into any other Person in a transaction in which the Company is not the surviving Person, any merger of another Person with or into the Company (other than a merger which does not result in any reclassification, conversion, exchange or cancellation of outstanding shares of Common Stock of the Company) or any conveyance, sale, transfer or lease of all or substantially all of the property or assets of the Company in a single transaction or a series of related transactions, the Person formed by such consolidation or resulting from such merger or which acquires such assets, as the case may be, shall execute and deliver to the Trustee a supplemental indenture providing that the Holder of each Security of a series then Outstanding that is convertible or exchangeable into Common Stock of the Company shall have the right thereafter (which right shall be the exclusive conversion or exchange right thereafter available to said Holder), during the period such Security shall be convertible or exchangeable, to convert or exchange such Security only into the kind and amount of securities, cash and other property receivable upon such consolidation, merger, conveyance, sale, transfer or lease by a holder of the number of shares of Common Stock of the Company into which such Security might have been converted or exchanged immediately prior to such consolidation, merger, conveyance, sale, transfer or lease, assuming such holder of Common Stock of the Company (i) is not a Person with which the Company consolidated or merged with or into or which merged into or with the Company or to which such conveyance, sale, transfer or lease was made, as the case may be (a “Constituent Person”), or an Affiliate of a Constituent Person and (ii) failed to exercise his rights of election, if any, as to the kind or amount of securities, cash and other property receivable upon such consolidation, merger, conveyance, sale, transfer or lease (provided that if the kind or amount of securities, cash and other property receivable upon such consolidation, merger, conveyance, sale, transfer, or lease is not the same for each share of Common Stock of the Company held immediately prior to such consolidation, merger, conveyance, sale, transfer or lease by others than a Constituent Person or an Affiliate thereof and in respect of which such rights of election shall not have been exercised (“Non-electing Share”), then for the purpose of this Section 1409 the kind and amount of securities, cash and other property receivable upon such consolidation, merger, conveyance, sale, transfer or lease by the holders of each Non-electing Share shall be deemed to be the kind and amount so receivable per share by a plurality of the Non-electing Shares). Such supplemental indenture shall provide for adjustments which, for events subsequent to the effective date of such supplemental indenture, shall be as nearly equivalent as may be practicable to the adjustments provided for in this Article or in accordance with the terms of the supplemental indenture or Board Resolutions setting forth the terms of such adjustments. The above provisions of this Section 1409 shall similarly apply to successive consolidations, mergers, conveyances, sales, transfers or leases. Notice of the execution of such a supplemental indenture shall be given by the Company to the Holder of each Security of a series that is convertible or exchangeable into Common Stock of the Company as provided in Section 106 promptly upon such execution.
     Neither the Trustee nor any conversion or exchange agent, if any, shall be under any responsibility to determine the correctness of any provisions contained in any such supplemental indenture relating either to the kind or amount of shares of stock or other securities or property or cash receivable by Holders of Securities of a series convertible or exchangeable into Common Stock of the Company upon the conversion or exchange of their Securities after any such consolidation, merger, conveyance, transfer, sale or lease or to any such adjustment, but may accept as conclusive evidence of the correctness of any such provisions, and shall be protected in relying upon, an Opinion of Counsel with respect thereto, which the Company shall cause to be furnished to the Trustee upon request.
     Section 1410. Duties of Trustee Regarding Conversion and Exchange.
     Neither the Trustee nor any conversion or exchange agent shall at any time be under any duty or responsibility to any Holder of Securities of any series that is convertible or exchangeable into Common Stock of the Company to determine whether any facts exist which may require any adjustment of the conversion or exchange price, or with respect to the nature or extent of any such adjustment when made, or with respect to the method employed, whether herein or in any supplemental indenture (or whether any provisions of any supplemental indenture are correct), any resolutions of the Board of Directors or written instrument executed by one or more officers of the Company provided to be employed in making the same. Neither the Trustee nor any conversion or exchange agent shall be accountable with respect to the validity or value (or the kind or amount) of any shares of Common Stock of the Company, or of any securities or property, which may at any time be issued or delivered upon the conversion or exchange of any Securities and neither the Trustee nor any conversion or exchange agent makes

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any representation with respect thereto. Subject to the provisions of Section 601, neither the Trustee nor any conversion or exchange agent shall be responsible for any failure of the Company to issue, transfer or deliver any shares of its Common Stock or stock certificates or other securities or property upon the surrender of any Security for the purpose of conversion or exchange or to comply with any of the covenants of the Company contained in this Article Fourteen or in the applicable supplemental indenture, resolutions of the Board of Directors or written instrument executed by one or more duly authorized officers of the Company.
     Section 1411. Repayment of Certain Funds Upon Conversion and Exchange.
     Any funds which at any time shall have been deposited by the Company or on its behalf with the Trustee or any other paying agent for the purpose of paying the principal of, and premium, if any, and interest, if any, on any of the Securities (including, but not limited to, funds deposited for the sinking fund referred to in Article Twelve hereof and funds deposited pursuant to Article Thirteen hereof) and which shall not be required for such purposes because of the conversion or exchange of such Securities as provided in this Article Fourteen shall after such conversion or exchange be repaid to the Company by the Trustee upon the Company’s written request.
ARTICLE FIFTEEN
GUARANTEE
     Section 1501. Unconditional Guarantee.
     (1) Notwithstanding any provision of this Article Fifteen to the contrary, the provisions of this Article Fifteen shall be applicable only to, and inure solely to the benefit of, the Securities of any series designated, pursuant to Section 301, as entitled to the benefits of the Guarantee of each of the Guarantors.
     (2) For value received, each of the Guarantors hereby jointly and severally, fully, unconditionally and absolutely guarantees (the “Guarantee”) to the Holders and to the Trustee the due and punctual payment of the principal of, and premium, if any, and interest on the Securities and all other amounts due and payable under this Indenture and the Securities by the Company, when and as such principal, premium, if any, and interest shall become due and payable, whether at the Stated Maturity or by declaration of acceleration, call for redemption or otherwise, according to the terms of the Securities and this Indenture, subject to the limitations set forth in Section 1503.
     (3) Failing payment when due of any amount guaranteed pursuant to the Guarantee, for whatever reason, each of the Guarantors will be jointly and severally obligated to pay the same immediately. The Guarantee hereunder is intended to be a general, unsecured, senior obligation of each of the Guarantors and will rank pari passu in right of payment with all Debt of each Guarantor that is not, by its terms, expressly subordinated in right of payment to the Guarantee. Each of the Guarantors hereby agrees that its obligations hereunder shall be full, unconditional and absolute, irrespective of the validity, regularity or enforceability of the Securities, the Guarantee (including the Guarantee of any other Guarantor) or this Indenture, the absence of any action to enforce the same, any waiver or consent by any Holder of the Securities with respect to any provisions hereof or thereof, the recovery of any judgment against the Company or any other Guarantor, or any action to enforce the same or any other circumstances which might otherwise constitute a legal or equitable discharge or defense of any of the Guarantors. Each of the Guarantors hereby agrees that in the event of a default in payment of the principal of, or premium, if any, or interest on the Securities, whether at the Stated Maturity or by declaration of acceleration, call for redemption or otherwise, legal proceedings may be instituted by the Trustee on behalf of the Holders or, subject to Section 507, by the Holders, on the terms and conditions set forth in this Indenture, directly against such Guarantor to enforce the Guarantee without first proceeding against the Company or any other Guarantor.
     (4) The obligations of each of the Guarantors under this Article Fifteen shall be as aforesaid full, unconditional and absolute and shall not be impaired, modified, released or limited by any occurrence or condition whatsoever, including (i) any compromise, settlement, release, waiver, renewal, extension, indulgence or modification of, or any change in, any of the obligations and liabilities of the Company or any of the Guarantors contained in the Securities or this Indenture, (ii) any impairment, modification,

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release or limitation of the liability of the Company, any of the Guarantors or any of their estates in bankruptcy, or any remedy for the enforcement thereof, resulting from the operation of any present or future provision of any applicable Federal or State bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or similar law, or other statute or from the decision of any court, (iii) the assertion or exercise by the Company, any of the Guarantors or the Trustee of any rights or remedies under the Securities or this Indenture or their delay in or failure to assert or exercise any such rights or remedies, (iv) the assignment or the purported assignment of any property as security for the Securities, including all or any part of the rights of the Company or any of the Guarantors under this Indenture, (v) the extension of the time for payment by the Company or any of the Guarantors of any payments or other sums or any part thereof owing or payable under any of the terms and provisions of the Securities or this Indenture or of the time for performance by the Company or any of the Guarantors of any other obligations under or arising out of any such terms and provisions or the extension or the renewal of any thereof, (vi) the modification or amendment (whether material or otherwise) of any duty, agreement or obligation of the Company or any of the Guarantors set forth in this Indenture, (vii) the voluntary or involuntary liquidation, dissolution, sale or other disposition of all or substantially all of the assets, marshaling of assets and liabilities, receivership, insolvency, bankruptcy, assignment for the benefit of creditors, reorganization, arrangement, composition or readjustment of, or other similar proceeding affecting, the Company or any of the Guarantors or any of their respective assets, or the disaffirmance of the Securities, the Guarantee or this Indenture in any such proceeding, (viii) the release or discharge of the Company or any of the Guarantors from the performance or observance of any agreement, covenant, term or condition contained in any of such instruments by operation of law, (ix) the unenforceability of the Securities, the Guarantee or this Indenture or (x) any other circumstances (other than payment in full or discharge of all amounts guaranteed pursuant to the Guarantee) which might otherwise constitute a legal or equitable discharge of a surety or guarantor.
     (5) Each of the Guarantors hereby (i) waives diligence, presentment, demand of payment, filing of claims with a court in the event of the merger, bankruptcy, insolvency or reorganization of the Company or any of the Guarantors, and all demands whatsoever, (ii) acknowledges that any agreement, instrument or document evidencing the Guarantee may be transferred and that the benefit of its obligations hereunder shall extend to each holder of any agreement, instrument or document evidencing the Guarantee without notice to it and (iii) covenants that the Guarantee will not be discharged except by complete performance of the Guarantee. Each of the Guarantors further agrees that if at any time all or any part of any payment theretofore applied by any Person to the Guarantee is, or must be, rescinded or returned for any reason whatsoever, including the bankruptcy, insolvency or reorganization of the Company or any of the Guarantors, the Guarantee shall, to the extent that such payment is or must be rescinded or returned, be deemed to have continued in existence notwithstanding such application, and the Guarantee shall continue to be effective or be reinstated, as the case may be, as though such application had not been made.
     (6) Each of the Guarantors shall be subrogated to all rights of the Holders and the Trustee against the Company in respect of any amounts paid by such Guarantor pursuant to the provisions of this Indenture, provided, however, that such Guarantor, shall not be entitled to enforce or to receive any payments arising out of, or based upon, such right of subrogation until all of the Securities and the Guarantee shall have been paid in full or discharged.
     Section 1502. Execution and Delivery of Guarantee.
     To further evidence the Guarantee set forth in Section 1501, each of the Guarantors hereby agrees that a notation relating to such Guarantee, substantially in the form attached hereto as Annex A, shall be endorsed on each Security entitled to the benefits of the Guarantee authenticated and delivered by the Trustee and executed by either manual or facsimile signature of an officer of such Guarantor, or in the case of a Guarantor that is a limited partnership, an officer of the general partner of each Guarantor, or in the case of a Guarantor that is a limited liability company, an officer or manager of such Guarantor. Each of the Guarantors hereby agrees that the Guarantee set forth in Section 1501 shall remain in full force and effect notwithstanding any failure to endorse on each Security a notation relating to the Guarantee. If any officer of any Guarantor, or in the case of a Guarantor that is a limited partnership, any officer of the general partner of the Guarantor, or in the case of a Guarantor that is a limited liability company, an officer or manager of such Guarantor, whose signature is on this Indenture or a Security no longer holds that office at the time the Trustee authenticates such Security or at any time thereafter, the Guarantee of such

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Security shall be valid nevertheless. The delivery of any Security by the Trustee, after the authentication thereof hereunder, shall constitute due delivery of the Guarantee set forth in this Indenture on behalf of the Guarantors.
     The Trustee hereby accepts the trusts in this Indenture upon the terms and conditions herein set forth.
     Section 1503. Limitation on Guarantors’ Liability.
     (1) Each Guarantor and by its acceptance hereof each Holder of a Security entitled to the benefits of the Guarantee hereby confirm that it is the intention of all such parties that the guarantee by such Guarantor pursuant to the Guarantee not constitute a fraudulent transfer or conveyance for purposes of any Federal or State law. To effectuate the foregoing intention, the Holders of a Security entitled to the benefits of the Guarantee and the Guarantors hereby irrevocably agree that the obligations of each Guarantor under the Guarantee shall be limited to the maximum amount as will, after giving effect to all other contingent and fixed liabilities of such Guarantor and to any collections from or payments made by or on behalf of any other Guarantor in respect of the obligations of such other Guarantor under the Guarantee, not result in the obligations of such Guarantor under the Guarantee constituting a fraudulent conveyance or fraudulent transfer under Federal or State law.
     (2) The Guarantee is expressly limited so that in no event, including the acceleration of the maturity of the Securities, shall the amount paid or agreed to be paid in respect of interest on the Securities (or fees or other amounts deemed payment for the use of funds) exceed the maximum permissible amount under applicable law, as in effect on the date hereof and as subsequently amended or modified to allow a greater amount of interest (or fees or other amounts deemed payment for the use of funds) to be paid under the Guarantee. If for any reason the amount in respect of interest (or fees or other amounts deemed payment for the use of funds) required by the Guarantee exceeds such maximum permissible amount, the obligation to pay interest under the Guarantee (or fees or other amounts deemed payment for the use of funds) shall be automatically reduced to such maximum permissible amount and any amounts collected by any holder of any Security in excess of the permissible amount shall be automatically applied to reduce the outstanding principal on such Security.
     Section 1504. Release of Guarantors from Guarantee.
     (1) Notwithstanding any other provisions of this Indenture, the Guarantee of any Guarantor may be released upon the terms and subject to the conditions set forth in Section 1302 and in this Section 1504. Provided that no Default shall have occurred and shall be continuing under this Indenture, the Guarantee issued by a Guarantor pursuant to this Article Fifteen shall be unconditionally released and discharged: (i) automatically upon (A) any sale, exchange or transfer, whether by way of merger or otherwise, to any Person that is not an Affiliate of the Company, of all of the Company’s direct or indirect limited partnership or other equity interests in such Guarantor (provided such sale, exchange or transfer is not prohibited by this Indenture) or (B) the merger of such Guarantor into the Company or any other Guarantor or the liquidation and dissolution of such Guarantor (in each case to the extent not prohibited by this Indenture); or (ii) as set forth in an applicable indenture supplemental hereto.
     (2) The Trustee shall deliver an appropriate instrument evidencing any release of a Guarantor from the Guarantee upon receipt of a written request of the Company accompanied by an Officers’ Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that the Guarantor is entitled to such release in accordance with the provisions of this Indenture. Any Guarantor not so released shall remain liable for the full amount of principal of (and premium, if any) and interest on the Securities entitled to the benefits of the Guarantee as provided in this Indenture, subject to the limitations of Section 1503.
     Section 1505. Guarantor Contribution.
     In order to provide for just and equitable contribution among the Guarantors, the Guarantors hereby agree, inter se, that in the event any payment or distribution is made by any Guarantor (a “Funding Guarantor”) under the Guarantee, such Funding Guarantor shall be entitled to a contribution from each other Guarantor (if any) in a pro rata amount based on the net assets of each Guarantor (including the Funding Guarantor) for all payments, damages and expenses incurred by that Funding Guarantor in discharging the Company’s obligations with respect to the Securities or any other Guarantor’s obligations with respect to the Guarantee.
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     IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Indenture to be duly executed all as of the day and year first above written.
         
  EXPRESS SCRIPTS, INC.

 
 
  By:      
    Name:      
    Title:      
 
         
  AIRPORT HOLDINGS, LLC

 
 
  By:      
    Name:      
    Title:      
 
         
  BYFIELD DRUG, INC.

 
 
  By:      
    Name:      
    Title:      
 
         
  CARE CONTINUUM, INC.

 
 
  By:      
    Name:      
    Title:      
 
         
  CFI OF NEW JERSEY, INC.

 
 
  By:      
    Name:      
    Title:      
 

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  CHESAPEAKE INFUSION, INC.

 
 
  By:      
    Name:      
    Title:      
 
         
  CONNECTYOURCARE COMPANY, LLC

 
 
  By:      
    Name:      
    Title:      
 
         
  CONNECTYOURCARE, LLC

 
 
  By:      
    Name:      
    Title:      
 
         
  CURASCRIPT, INC.

 
 
  By:      
    Name:      
    Title:      
 
         
  CURASCRIPT PBM SERVICES, INC.

 
 
  By:      
    Name:      
    Title:      
 
         
  DIVERSIFIED PHARMACEUTICAL SERVICES,
INC.

 
 
  By:      
    Name:      
    Title:      
 
  ESI CLAIMS, INC.

 
 
  By:      
    Name:      
    Title:      

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  ESI ENTERPRISES, LLC

 
 
  By:      
    Name:      
    Title:      
 
         
  ESI-GP HOLDINGS, INC.

 
 
  By:      
    Name:      
    Title:      
 
         
  ESI MAIL PHARMACY SERVICE, INC.

 
 
  By:      
    Name:      
    Title:      
 
         
  ESI PARTNERSHIP

 
 
  By:      
    Name:      
    Title:      
 
         
  ESI REALTY, LLC

 
 
  By:      
    Name:      
    Title:      
 

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  ESI RESOURCES, INC.

 
 
  By:      
    Name:      
    Title:      
 
         
  EXPRESS SCRIPTS CANADA HOLDING, CO.

 
 
  By:      
    Name:      
    Title:      
 
         
  EXPRESS SCRIPTS PHARMACEUTICAL
PROCUREMENT, LLC

 
 
  By:      
    Name:      
    Title:      
 
         
  EXPRESS SCRIPTS SALES DEVELOPMENT CO.

 
 
  By:      
    Name:      
    Title:      
 
         
  EXPRESS SCRIPTS SENIOR CARE, INC.

 
 
  By:      
    Name:      
    Title:      
 
         
  EXPRESS SCRIPTS SENIOR CARE HOLDINGS,
INC.

 
 
  By:      
    Name:      
    Title:      
 

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  EXPRESS SCRIPTS SPECIALTY DISTRIBUTION
SERVICES, INC.

 
 
  By:      
    Name:      
    Title:      
 
         
  EXPRESS SCRIPTS UTILIZATION
MANAGEMENT CO.

 
 
  By:      
    Name:      
    Title:      
 
         
  FRECO, INC.

 
 
  By:      
    Name:      
    Title:      
 
         
  FREEDOM SERVICE COMPANY, LLC

 
 
  By:      
    Name:      
    Title:      
 
         
  HEALTHBRIDGE, INC.

 
 
  By:      
    Name:      
    Title:      
 
         
  HEALTHBRIDGE REIMBURSEMENT AND
PRODUCT SUPPORT, INC.

 
 
  By:      
    Name:      
    Title:      
 
  IBIOLOGIC, INC.

 
 
  By:      
    Name:      
    Title:      
 
  IVTX, INC.

 
 
  By:      
    Name:      
    Title:      

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  LYNNFIELD COMPOUNDING CENTER, INC.

 
 
  By:      
    Name:      
    Title:      
 
         
  LYNNFIELD DRUG, INC.

 
 
  By:      
    Name:      
    Title:      
 
         
  MATRIX GPO, LLC

 
 
  By:      
    Name:      
    Title:      
 
         
  MOORESVILLE ON-SITE PHARMACY

 
 
  By:      
    Name:      
    Title:      
 
         
  MSC — MEDICAL SERVICES COMPANY

 
 
  By:      
    Name:      
    Title:      
 
         
  NATIONAL PRESCRIPTION ADMINISTRATORS,
INC.

 
 
  By:      
    Name:      
    Title:      
 
  NEXTRX SUB I, LLC

 
 
  By:      
    Name:      
    Title:      
 
  NEXTRX SUB II, LLC

 
 
  By:      
    Name:      
    Title:      
 
  NEXTRX SUB III, LLC

 
 
  By:      
    Name:      
    Title:      

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  PHOENIX MARKETING GROUP, LLC

 
 
  By:      
    Name:      
    Title:      
 
         
  PRIORITYHEALTHCARE.COM, INC.

 
 
  By:      
    Name:      
    Title:      
 
         
  PRIORITY HEALTHCARE CORPORATION

 
 
  By:      
    Name:      
    Title:      
 
         
  PRIORITY HEALTHCARE CORPORATION
WEST

 
 
  By:      
    Name:      
    Title:      
 
         
  PRIORITY HEALTHCARE DISTRIBUTION, INC.

 
 
  By:      
    Name:      
    Title:      
 
         
  PRIORITY HEALTHCARE PHARMACY, INC.

 
 
  By:      
    Name:      
    Title:      
 

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  SINUSPHARMACY, INC.

 
 
  By:      
    Name:      
    Title:      
 
         
  SPECIALTY INFUSION PHARMACY, INC.

 
 
  By:      
    Name:      
    Title:      
 
         
  SPECTRACARE, INC.

 
 
  By:      
    Name:      
    Title:      
 
         
  SPECTRACARE HEALTHCARE VENTURES,
INC.

 
 
  By:      
    Name:      
    Title:      
 
         
  SPECTRACARE OF INDIANA

 
 
  By:      
    Name:      
    Title:      
 
         
  SPECTRACARE INFUSION PHARMACY, INC.

 
 
  By:      
    Name:      
    Title:      
 

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  SPEEDY RE-EMPLOYMENT, LLC

 
 
  By:      
    Name:      
    Title:      
 
         
  VALUE HEALTH, INC.

 
 
  By:      
    Name:      
    Title:      
 
  YOUR PHARMACY.COM, INC.

 
 
  By:      
    Name:      
    Title:      
         
  UNION BANK, N.A.,
As Trustee

 
 
  By:      
    Name:      
    Title:      
 

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Annex A
NOTATION OF GUARANTEE
     Each of the Guarantors (which term includes any successor Person under the Indenture), has fully, unconditionally and absolutely guaranteed, to the extent set forth in the Indenture and subject to the provisions in the Indenture, the due and punctual payment of the principal of, and premium, if any, and interest on the Securities and all other amounts due and payable under the Indenture and the Securities by the Company.
     The obligations of the Guarantors to the Holders of Securities and to the Trustee pursuant to the Guarantee and the Indenture are expressly set forth in Article Fifteen of the Indenture and reference is hereby made to the Indenture for the precise terms of the Guarantee.
             
    [GUARANTOR]    
 
           
 
  By:        
 
           
 
           
 
  Name:        
 
           
 
           
 
  Title:        
 
           

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EX-5.1 3 c50534exv5w1.htm EX-5.1 EX-5.1
Exhibit 5.1
[Letterhead of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP]
June 2, 2009
Express Scripts, Inc.
One Express Way
St. Louis, Missouri 63121
          Re:   Express Scripts, Inc. Automatic Shelf Registration Statement on Form S-3
Ladies and Gentlemen:
     We have acted as special counsel to Express Scripts, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), in connection with the automatic shelf registration statement on Form S-3, to be filed on the date hereof by the Company (the “Registration Statement”) with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”) under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Act”). The Registration Statement relates to, among other things, the issuance and sale from time to time by the Company, pursuant to Rule 415 of the General Rules and Regulations promulgated under the Act, of the following securities of the Company: (i) shares of common stock, $0.01 par value per share (“Common Stock”); (ii) shares of preferred stock, $0.01 par value per share (“Preferred Stock”), in one or more series; (iii) unsecured debt securities (“Debt Securities”) which may be issued in one or more series under the indenture relating to the Debt Securities (the “Indenture”), proposed to be entered into between the Company, the Subsidiary Guarantors (as defined below) and Union Bank, N.A., as trustee (the “Trustee”), a form of which is filed as an exhibit to the Registration Statement; (iv) guarantees of the Debt Securities (the “Subsidiary Guarantees”) by subsidiaries of the Company, including guarantees of the Debt Securities by the subsidiaries of the Company incorporated or formed pursuant to the laws of the State of Delaware or the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and listed on Schedule I hereto (collectively, the “DE/MA Guarantors” and each, a “DE/MA Guarantor”) and the subsidiaries of the Company listed on Schedule II hereto (the “Non-DE/MA Guarantors” and, together with the DE/MA Guarantors, the “Subsidiary Guarantors”); (v) warrants (the “Warrants”) to purchase Debt Securities, shares of Common Stock or Preferred Stock pursuant to one or more warrant agreements (each, a “Warrant Agreement”) proposed to be entered into between the Company and warrant agents to be named therein (each, a “Warrant Agent” and, collectively, “Warrant Agents”); (vi) subscription rights (the “Subscription Rights”) to purchase Debt Securities, shares of Common Stock or Preferred Stock or other securities, which may be issued under one or more subscription rights certificates (each, a

 


 

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“Subscription Rights Certificate”) and/or pursuant to one or more subscription rights agreements (each, a “Subscription Rights Agreement”) proposed to be entered into between the Company and a subscription agent or agents to be named therein (each, a “Subscription Agent” and, collectively, “Subscription Agents”); (vii) purchase contracts of the Company (“Purchase Contracts”), obligating the holders thereof to purchase from or sell to the Company, and the Company to sell to or purchase from such holders, Debt Securities, shares of Common Stock or Preferred Stock or other securities, at a future date or dates, which may be issued under one or more purchase contract agreements (each, a “Purchase Contract Agreement”) proposed to be entered into by the Company and a purchase contract agent or agents to be named therein (each, a “Purchase Contract Agent”); (viii) purchase units of the Company (“Purchase Units”), each consisting of a Purchase Contract and Debt Securities or debt obligations of third parties, including United States Treasury securities, or other securities, securing the holders’ obligations to purchase the securities under the applicable Purchase Contracts, which may be issued under one or more agreements (each, a “Purchase Unit Agreement”) proposed to be entered into by the Company and an agent or agents to be named therein (each, a “Purchase Unit Agent”); and (ix) such indeterminate number of shares of Common Stock or Preferred Stock and amount of Debt Securities, as may be issued upon conversion, exchange or exercise of any Preferred Stock, Debt Securities, Warrants, Subscription Rights or the settlement of any Purchase Contracts or Purchase Units, including such shares of Common Stock or Preferred Stock as may be issued pursuant to anti-dilution adjustments, in amounts, at prices and on terms to be determined at the time of offering (collectively, “Indeterminate Securities”). The Common Stock, Preferred Stock, Debt Securities, Subsidiary Guarantees, Warrants, Subscription Rights, Purchase Contracts, Purchase Units and Indeterminate Securities are collectively referred to herein as the “Offered Securities.”
     This opinion is being delivered in accordance with the requirements of Item 601(b)(5) of Regulation S-K under the Act.
     In connection with this opinion, we have examined originals or copies, certified or otherwise identified to our satisfaction, of:
  (i)   the Registration Statement;
 
  (ii)   the Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation of the Company, as amended, as certified by the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware (the “Certificate of Incorporation”);
 
  (iii)   the Third Amended and Restated Bylaws of the Company, as certified by the Secretary of the Company (the “Bylaws”);

 


 

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  (iv)   the organizational documents of each of the DE/MA Guarantors, as certified by the public officials in the States listed on Schedule I hereto as to each DE/MA Guarantor;
 
  (v)   the form of Indenture between the Company, the Subsidiary Guarantors and Trustee;
 
  (vi)   certain resolutions of the board of directors of the Company (the “Board of Directors”), adopted on May 27, 2009, relating to the registration of the Offered Securities and related matters;
 
  (vii)   certain resolutions adopted by the board of directors or managers or partners, as applicable, of each of the DE/MA Guarantors relating to the registration of the Subsidiary Guarantees; and
 
  (viii)   the Statement of Eligibility and Qualification on Form T-1 under the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, as amended (the “Trust Indenture Act”), of the Trustee, which is filed as an exhibit to the Registration Statement.
     We have also examined originals or copies, certified or otherwise identified to our satisfaction, of such records of the Company and the Subsidiary Guarantors, and such agreements, certificates and receipts of public officials, certificates of officers or other representatives of the Company, the Subsidiary Guarantors and others, and such other documents, certificates and records as we have deemed necessary or appropriate as a basis for the opinions set forth herein.
     In our examination, we have assumed the legal capacity of all natural persons, the genuineness of all signatures, including endorsements, the authenticity of all documents submitted to us as originals, the conformity to original documents of all documents submitted to us as facsimile, electronic, certified, conformed or photostatic copies, and the authenticity of the originals of such copies. In making our examination of documents executed or to be executed, we have assumed that the parties thereto, other than the Company and the DE/MA Guarantors, has been duly organized and is validly existing in good standing, had or will have the power, corporate or other, to enter into and perform all obligations thereunder and have also assumed the due authorization by all requisite action, corporate or other, and the execution and delivery by such parties of such documents, and the validity and binding effect thereof on such parties.
     We have also assumed that the laws of the State of New York will be chosen to govern any Warrant Agreements, Subscription Rights Agreements, Purchase

 


 

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Contract Agreements and Purchase Unit Agreements, and that such choice is a valid and legal provision. We have assumed that the Indenture, any supplemental indenture to the Indenture, the Warrant Agreements, Subscription Rights Agreements, Purchase Contract Agreements and Purchase Unit Agreements will be duly authorized, executed and delivered by the Trustee, Warrant Agents, Subscription Agents, Purchase Contract Agents and Purchase Unit Agents, as the case may be, and, in the case of the Indenture, in substantially the form reviewed by us, and that any Debt Securities, Warrants, Subscription Rights, Purchase Contracts or Purchase Units that may be issued will be manually authenticated, signed or countersigned, as the case may be, by duly authorized officers of the Trustee, any Warrant Agent, Subscription Agent, Purchase Contract Agent and Purchase Unit Agent, as the case may be. In addition, we have assumed that the terms of the Offered Securities will have been established so as not to, and that the execution and delivery by the Company and the DE/MA Guarantors of, and the performance of their obligations under, the Indenture and any supplemental indentures thereto, the Offered Securities, the Warrant Agreements, the Subscription Rights Agreements, the Purchase Contract Agreements and the Purchase Unit Agreements will not violate, conflict with or constitute a default under (i) any agreement or instrument to which the Company, the Subsidiary Guarantors or their properties are subject, (ii) any law, rule or regulation to which the Company, the Subsidiary Guarantors or their properties are subject, (iii) any judicial or regulatory order or decree of any governmental authority or (iv) any consent, approval, license, authorization or validation of, or filing, recording or registration with, any governmental authority. As to any facts material to the opinions expressed herein which were not independently established or verified, we have relied upon oral or written statements and representations of officers and other representatives of the Company, the DE/MA Guarantors and others.
     Our opinions set forth herein are limited to Delaware corporate law, the laws of the State of New York and the laws of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts that, in our experience, are normally applicable to transactions of the type contemplated by the Registration Statement and, to the extent that judicial or regulatory orders or decrees or consents, approvals, licenses, authorizations, validations, filings, recordings or registrations with governmental authorities are relevant, to those required under such laws (all of the foregoing being referred to as “Opined on Law”). We do not express any opinion with respect to the law of any jurisdiction other than Opined on Law or as to the effect of any such non-Opined on Law on the opinions herein stated. The Offered Securities may be issued from time to time on a delayed or continuous basis, and this opinion is limited to the laws, including the rules and regulations, as in effect on the date hereof, which laws are subject to change with possible retroactive effect.
     Based upon and subject to the foregoing and to the limitations, qualifications, exceptions and assumptions set forth herein, we are of the opinion that:
     1. With respect to any shares of any Common Stock offered by the Company, including any Indeterminate Securities (the “Offered Common Stock”), when

 


 

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(i) the Registration Statement, as finally amended (including all necessary post-effective amendments), has become effective under the Act; (ii) an appropriate prospectus supplement with respect to the Offered Common Stock has been prepared, delivered and filed in compliance with the Act and the applicable rules and regulations thereunder; (iii) if the Offered Common Stock is to be sold pursuant to a firm commitment underwritten offering, the underwriting agreement with respect to the Offered Common Stock has been duly authorized, executed and delivered by the Company and the other parties thereto; (iv) the Board of Directors, including any appropriate committee appointed thereby, and appropriate officers of the Company have taken all necessary corporate action to approve the issuance of the Offered Common Stock and related matters; (v) terms of the issuance and sale of the Offered Common Stock have been duly established and are then in conformity with the Certificate of Incorporation and Bylaws so as not to violate any applicable law, the Certificate of Incorporation or Bylaws or result in a default under or breach of any agreement or instrument binding upon the Company and so as to comply with any requirement or restriction imposed by any court or governmental body having jurisdiction over the Company; (vi) if certificated, certificates in the form required under Delaware corporate law representing the shares of Offered Common Stock are duly executed and countersigned; and (vii) the shares of Common Stock are registered in the Company’s share registry and delivered upon payment of the agreed-upon consideration therefor, the shares of Offered Common Stock (including any Common Stock duly issued upon conversion, exchange or exercise of any Preferred Stock, Debt Securities, Warrants or Subscription Rights or the settlement of any Purchase Contracts or Purchase Units), when issued and sold or otherwise distributed in accordance with the applicable underwriting agreement, if any, or any other duly authorized, executed and delivered valid and binding agreement, will be duly authorized, validly issued, fully paid and nonassessable, provided that the consideration therefor is not less than $0.01 per share of Common Stock.
     2. With respect to the shares of any series of Preferred Stock offered by the Company, including any Indeterminate Securities (the “Offered Preferred Stock”), when (i) the Registration Statement, as finally amended (including all necessary post-effective amendments), has become effective under the Act; (ii) an appropriate prospectus supplement with respect to the Offered Preferred Stock has been prepared, delivered and filed in compliance with the Act and the applicable rules and regulations thereunder; (iii) if the Offered Preferred Stock is to be sold pursuant to a firm commitment underwritten offering, the underwriting agreement with respect to the Offered Preferred Stock has been duly authorized, executed and delivered by the Company and the other parties thereto; (iv) the Board of Directors, including any appropriate committee appointed thereby, and appropriate officers of the Company have taken all necessary corporate action to approve the issuance, sale and terms of the Offered Preferred Stock and related matters, including the adoption of a Certificate of Designation for the Offered Preferred Stock in accordance with the applicable provisions of Delaware corporate law (the “Certificate of Designation”); (v) the filing of the Certificate of Designation with the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware has duly

 


 

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occurred; (vi) the terms of the Offered Preferred Stock and of their issuance and sale have been duly established and are then in conformity with the Certificate of Incorporation, including the Certificate of Designation relating to the Offered Preferred Stock, and the Bylaws so as not to violate any applicable law, the Certificate of Incorporation or Bylaws or result in a default under or breach of any agreement or instrument binding upon the Company and so as to comply with any requirement or restriction imposed by any court or governmental body having jurisdiction over the Company; (vii) if certificated, certificates in the form required under Delaware corporate law representing the shares of Offered Preferred Stock are duly executed and countersigned; and (viii) the shares of Offered Preferred Stock are registered in the Company’s share registry and delivered upon payment of the agreed-upon consideration therefor, the shares of the Offered Preferred Stock (including any Preferred Stock duly issued upon conversion, exchange or exercise of any Preferred Stock, Debt Securities, Warrants or Subscription Rights or the settlement of any Purchase Contracts or Purchase Units), when issued and sold or otherwise distributed in accordance with the applicable underwriting agreement, if any, or any other duly authorized, executed and delivered valid and binding agreement, will be duly authorized, validly issued, fully paid and nonassessable, provided that the consideration therefor is not less than $0.01 per share of Preferred Stock.
     3. With respect to any series of Debt Securities offered by the Company (the “Offered Debt Securities”), when (i) the Registration Statement, as finally amended (including all necessary post-effective amendments), has become effective under the Act and the Indenture has been qualified under the Trust Indenture Act; (ii) an appropriate prospectus supplement with respect to the Offered Debt Securities has been prepared, delivered and filed in compliance with the Act and the applicable rules and regulations thereunder; (iii) if the Offered Debt Securities are to be sold pursuant to a firm commitment underwritten offering, the underwriting agreement with respect to the Offered Debt Securities has been duly authorized, executed and delivered by the Company and the other parties thereto; (iv) the Indenture and any supplemental indenture relating to the Offered Debt Securities has been duly authorized, executed and delivered by the Company and the other parties thereto; (v) the Board of Directors, including any appropriate committee appointed thereby, and appropriate officers of the Company have taken all necessary corporate action to approve the issuance, sale and terms of the Offered Debt Securities and related matters; (vi) the terms of the Offered Debt Securities and of their issuance and sale have been duly established in conformity with the Indenture and any supplemental indenture relating to such Offered Debt Securities so as not to violate any applicable law, the Certificate of Incorporation or Bylaws, or result in a default under or breach of any agreement or instrument binding upon the Company, and so as to comply with any requirement or restriction imposed by any court or governmental body having jurisdiction over the Company; and (vii) the Offered Debt Securities, in the form to be filed on a Current Report on Form 8-K or other applicable periodic report in the manner contemplated in the Registration Statement or any prospectus supplement relating thereto, have been duly executed and authenticated in accordance with the provisions of the Indenture and any supplemental

 


 

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indenture relating to such Offered Debt Securities and delivered to the purchasers thereof upon payment of the agreed-upon consideration therefor, the Offered Debt Securities (including any Debt Securities duly issued upon conversion, exchange or exercise of any Preferred Stock, Debt Securities, Warrants or Subscription Rights or the settlement of any Purchase Units), when issued and sold or otherwise distributed in accordance with the Indenture and any supplemental indenture relating to such Offered Debt Securities, and the applicable underwriting agreement, if any, or any other duly authorized, executed and delivered valid and binding agreement, will be duly authorized and validly issued and will be valid and binding obligations of the Company, enforceable against the Company in accordance with their respective terms, except to the extent that enforcement thereof may be limited by (a) bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, fraudulent conveyance, moratorium or other similar laws now or hereafter in effect relating to creditors’ rights generally, (b) general principles of equity (regardless of whether enforceability is considered in a proceeding at law or in equity), (c) public policy considerations which may limit the rights of parties to obtain remedies, (d) the waivers of any usury defense contained in the Indenture, any supplemental indenture or the Offered Debt Securities which may be unenforceable, (e) requirements that a claim with respect to any Offered Debt Securities denominated in a currency, currency unit or composite currency other than United States dollars (or a judgment denominated other than in United States dollars in respect of such claim) be converted into United States dollars at a rate of exchange prevailing on a date determined pursuant to applicable law, and (f) governmental authority to limit, delay or prohibit the making of payments outside the United States or in foreign currencies, currency units or composite currencies.
     4. With respect to any Subsidiary Guarantee offered by any Subsidiary Guarantor of Offered Debt Securities (the “Offered Subsidiary Guarantee”), when (i) the Registration Statement, as finally amended (including all necessary post-effective amendments), has become effective under the Act and the Indenture has been qualified under the Trust Indenture Act; (ii) an appropriate prospectus supplement with respect to the Offered Debt Securities has been prepared, delivered and filed in compliance with the Act and the applicable rules and regulations thereunder; (iii) if the Offered Subsidiary Guarantee is to be issued pursuant to a firm commitment underwritten offering, the underwriting agreement with respect to the Offered Debt Securities has been duly authorized, executed and delivered by such Subsidiary Guarantor and the other parties thereto; (iv) all necessary entity action, including any required action by such Subsidiary Guarantor’s board of directors or managers or partners, or any authorized committee thereof, or by such Subsidiary Guarantor’s members, as applicable, or other action has been taken by such Subsidiary Guarantor to approve the issuance and terms of the Offered Subsidiary Guarantee and related matters; (v) the Indenture and any supplemental indenture in respect of such Offered Debt Securities has been duly authorized, executed and delivered by each party thereto; (vi) the terms of the Offered Subsidiary Guarantee and of its issuance and sale have been duly established in conformity with the Indenture and any supplemental indenture to be entered into in connection with the issuance of such Offered

 


 

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Subsidiary Guarantee so as not to violate any applicable law or the organizational or governing documents of such Subsidiary Guarantor or result in a default under or breach of any agreement or instrument binding upon such Subsidiary Guarantor and so as to comply with any requirement or restriction imposed by any court or governmental body having jurisdiction over such Subsidiary Guarantor; and (vii) the Offered Subsidiary Guarantee has been duly executed, delivered and countersigned in accordance with the provisions of the Indenture and any supplemental indenture to be entered into in connection with the issuance of such Offered Subsidiary Guarantee and duly issued in accordance with the Indenture, any supplemental indenture to be entered into in connection with the issuance of such Offered Subsidiary Guarantee and the applicable underwriting agreement, if any, or any other duly authorized, executed and delivered valid and binding purchase or agency agreement, the Offered Subsidiary Guarantee will be a valid and binding obligation of such Subsidiary Guarantor, enforceable against such Subsidiary Guarantor in accordance with its respective terms, except to the extent that enforcement thereof may be limited by (a) bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, fraudulent conveyance, moratorium or other similar laws now or hereafter in effect relating to creditors’ rights generally, (b) general principles of equity (regardless of whether enforceability is considered in a proceeding at law or in equity), (c) public policy considerations which may limit the rights of parties to obtain remedies, (d) the waivers of any usury defense contained in the Indenture, any supplemental indenture or the Offered Debt Securities which may be unenforceable, (e) requirements that a claim with respect to any Offered Debt Securities denominated in a currency, currency unit or composite currency other than United States dollars (or a judgment denominated other than in United States dollars in respect of such claim) be converted into United States dollars at a rate of exchange prevailing on a date determined pursuant to applicable law, and (f) governmental authority to limit, delay or prohibit the making of payments outside the United States or in foreign currencies, currency units or composite currencies.
     5. With respect to any Warrants offered by the Company (the “Offered Warrants”), when (i) the Registration Statement, as finally amended (including all necessary post-effective amendments), has become effective under the Act; (ii) an appropriate prospectus supplement with respect to the Offered Warrants has been prepared, delivered and filed in compliance with the Act and the applicable rules and regulations thereunder; (iii) if the Offered Warrants are to be sold pursuant to a firm commitment underwritten offering, the underwriting agreement with respect to the Offered Warrants has been duly authorized, executed and delivered by the Company and the other parties thereto; (iv) the Board of Directors, including any appropriate committee appointed thereby, and appropriate officers of the Company have taken all necessary corporate action to approve the issuance and terms of the Offered Warrants and the Offered Securities into which the Offered Warrants are exercisable, the consideration to be received therefor and related matters; (v) a Warrant Agreement relating to the Offered Warrants has been duly authorized, executed and delivered by the Company and the other parties thereto; (vi) the terms of the Offered Warrants and of their issuance and sale have been duly established in conformity with the applicable Warrant Agreement so as not to

 


 

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violate any applicable law, the Certificate of Incorporation or Bylaws or result in a default under or breach of any agreement or instrument binding upon the Company, and so as to comply with any requirement or restriction imposed by any court or governmental body having jurisdiction over the Company and the applicable Warrant Agent; and (vii) the Offered Warrants have been duly executed, delivered and countersigned in accordance with the provisions of the applicable Warrant Agreement and duly issued and sold, and delivered upon payment of the agreed-upon consideration therefor in the form to be filed on a Current Report on Form 8-K or other applicable periodic report in the manner contemplated in the Registration Statement or any prospectus supplement relating thereto, the Offered Warrants (including any Offered Warrants duly issued upon conversion, exchange or exercise of any Preferred Stock or Debt Securities), when issued and sold or otherwise distributed in accordance with the provisions of the applicable Warrant Agreement and the applicable underwriting agreement or any other duly authorized, executed and delivered valid and binding agreement, will be duly authorized and validly issued and will be valid and binding obligations of the Company, enforceable against the Company in accordance with their respective terms, except to the extent that enforcement thereof may be limited by (a) bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, fraudulent conveyance, moratorium or other similar laws now or hereafter in effect relating to creditors’ rights generally, (b) general principles of equity (regardless of whether enforceability is considered in a proceeding at law or in equity), and (c) public policy considerations which may limit the rights of parties to obtain remedies.
     6. With respect to any Subscription Rights offered by the Company (the “Offered Subscription Rights”), when (i) the Registration Statement, as finally amended (including all necessary post-effective amendments), has become effective under the Act; (ii) an appropriate prospectus supplement with respect to the Offered Subscription Rights has been prepared, delivered and filed in compliance with the Act and the applicable rules and regulations thereunder; (iii) if the Offered Subscription Rights are to be sold or otherwise distributed pursuant to a firm commitment underwritten offering, the underwriting agreement with respect to the Offered Subscription Rights has been duly authorized, executed and delivered by the Company and the other parties thereto; (iv) the Board of Directors, including any appropriate committee appointed thereby, and appropriate officers of the Company have taken all necessary corporate action to approve the issuance and terms of the Offered Subscription Rights, the Offered Securities into which the Offered Subscription Rights are exercisable, the Subscription Rights Agreement and related matters; (v) the terms of the Offered Subscription Rights and of their issuance and sale have been duly established in conformity with the Subscription Rights Agreement and the Subscription Rights Certificate so as not to violate any applicable law, the Certificate of Incorporation or the Bylaws, or result in a default under or breach of any agreement or instrument binding upon the Company and so as to comply with any requirement or restriction imposed by any court or governmental body having jurisdiction over the Company and the applicable Subscription Agent; (vi) the Debt Securities, the Common Stock or the Preferred Stock

 


 

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relating to such Offered Subscription Rights have been duly authorized for issuance upon payment of the agreed upon consideration to be set forth in such Offered Subscription Rights and in the manner contemplated in the Registration Statement and any prospectus supplement relating thereto; (vii) the Subscription Rights Certificates, in the form to be filed on a Current Report on Form 8-K or other applicable periodic report in the manner contemplated in the Registration Statement or any prospectus supplement relating thereto, have been duly executed, countersigned, delivered, issued and sold upon payment of the agreed-upon consideration therefor, the Offered Subscription Rights (including any Subscription Rights duly issued upon conversion, exchange or exercise of any Preferred Stock, Debt Securities or Warrants), when issued and sold or otherwise distributed in accordance with the applicable Subscription Rights Agreement, and the applicable underwriting agreement or any other duly authorized, executed and delivered valid and binding agreement, will be duly authorized and validly issued and will be valid and binding obligations of the Company, enforceable against the Company in accordance with their respective terms, except to the extent that enforcement thereof may be limited by (a) bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, fraudulent conveyance, moratorium or other similar laws now or hereafter in effect relating to creditors’ rights generally, (b) general principles of equity (regardless of whether enforceability is considered in a proceeding at law or in equity), and (c) public policy considerations which may limit the rights of parties to obtain remedies.
     7. With respect to any Purchase Contracts offered by the Company (the “Offered Purchase Contracts”), when (i) the Registration Statement, as finally amended (including all necessary post-effective amendments), has become effective under the Act; (ii) an appropriate prospectus supplement with respect to the Offered Purchase Contracts has been prepared, delivered and filed in compliance with the Act and the applicable rules and regulations thereunder; (iii) if the Offered Purchase Contracts are to be sold or otherwise distributed pursuant to a firm commitment underwritten offering, the underwriting agreement with respect to the Offered Purchase Contracts has been duly authorized, executed and delivered by the Company and the other parties thereto; (iv) the Board of Directors, including any appropriate committee appointed thereby, and appropriate officers of the Company have taken all necessary corporate action to approve the issuance and terms of the Offered Purchase Contracts and the Offered Securities for which the Offered Purchase Contracts may be settled, and related matters; (v) the terms of the Offered Purchase Contracts and of their issuance and sale have been duly established in conformity with the applicable Purchase Contract Agreement so as not to violate any applicable law, the Certificate of Incorporation or the Bylaws, or result in a default under or breach of any agreement or instrument binding upon the Company and so as to comply with any requirement or restriction imposed by any court or governmental body having jurisdiction over the Company and the applicable Purchase Contract Agent; and (vi) the applicable Offered Purchase Contracts, in the form to be filed as an exhibit to a Current Report on Form 8-K or other applicable periodic report in the manner contemplated in the Registration Statement or any prospectus supplement relating thereto, have been duly executed, countersigned and

 


 

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delivered upon payment of the due consideration therefor, the Offered Purchase Contracts (including any Purchase Contracts duly issued upon due conversion, exchange or exercise of any Warrants or Debt Securities), when issued and sold or otherwise distributed in accordance with the applicable Purchase Contract Agreement, and the applicable underwriting agreement or any other duly authorized, executed and delivered valid and binding agreement, will be duly authorized and validly issued and will be valid and binding obligations of the Company, enforceable against the Company in accordance with their respective terms, except to the extent that enforcement thereof may be limited by (a) bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, fraudulent conveyance, moratorium or other similar laws now or hereafter in effect relating to creditors’ rights generally, (b) general principles of equity (regardless of whether enforceability is considered in a proceeding at law or in equity), and (c) public policy considerations which may limit the rights of parties to obtain remedies.
     8. With respect to any Purchase Units offered by the Company (the “Offered Purchase Units”), when (i) the Registration Statement, as finally amended (including all necessary post-effective amendments), has become effective under the Act; (ii) an appropriate prospectus supplement with respect to the Offered Purchase Units has been prepared, delivered and filed in compliance with the Act and the applicable rules and regulations thereunder; (iii) if the Offered Purchase Units are to be sold or otherwise distributed pursuant to a firm commitment underwritten offering, the underwriting agreement with respect to the Offered Purchase Units has been duly authorized, executed and delivered by the Company and the other parties thereto; (iv) the Board of Directors, including any appropriate committee appointed thereby, and appropriate officers of the Company have taken all necessary corporate action to approve the issuance and terms of the Offered Purchase Units and the Offered Securities for which the Offered Purchase Units may be settled and related matters; (v) the terms of the Offered Purchase Units and the related Offered Purchase Contracts and of their issuance and sale have been duly established in conformity with the applicable Purchase Unit Agreement so as not to violate any applicable law, the Certificate of Incorporation or the Bylaws, or result in a default under or breach of any agreement or instrument binding upon the Company and so as to comply with any requirement or restriction imposed by any court or governmental body having jurisdiction over the Company and the applicable Purchase Contract Agent; (vi) any Purchase Contracts and Debt Securities or debt obligations of third parties, including U.S. Treasury securities, or other securities (or any combination of the foregoing) included in such Offered Purchase Units have been duly issued and paid for in the manner contemplated in the Registration Statement and any prospectus supplement relating thereto; and (vii) the Offered Purchase Units, in the form to be filed on a Current Report on Form 8-K or other applicable periodic report in the manner contemplated in the Registration Statement or any prospectus supplement relating thereto, have been duly executed, countersigned and delivered upon payment of the due consideration therefor, the Offered Purchase Units, when issued and sold or otherwise distributed in accordance with the applicable Purchase Unit Agreement, and the applicable underwriting agreement or any other duly authorized, executed and

 


 

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delivered valid and binding agreement, will be duly authorized and validly issued, and will be valid and binding obligations of the Company, enforceable against the Company in accordance with their respective terms, except to the extent that enforcement thereof may be limited by (a) bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, fraudulent conveyance, moratorium or other similar laws now or hereafter in effect relating to creditors’ rights generally, (b) general principles of equity (regardless of whether enforceability is considered in a proceeding at law or in equity), and (c) public policy considerations which may limit the rights of parties to obtain remedies.
     We hereby consent to the filing of this opinion with the Commission as an exhibit to the Registration Statement. We also hereby consent to the use of our name under the heading “Legal Matters” in the prospectus which forms a part of the Registration Statement. In giving this consent, we do not thereby admit that we are within the category of persons whose consent is required under Section 7 of the Act or the rules and regulations of the Commission promulgated thereunder. This opinion is expressed as of the date hereof unless otherwise expressly stated, and we disclaim any undertaking to advise you of any subsequent changes in the facts stated or assumed herein or of any subsequent changes in applicable laws.
         
  Very truly yours,
 
 
  /s/ Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP    
     
     

 


 

         
SCHEDULE I
DE/MA GUARANTORS
     
    State or Other
    Jurisdiction of
Subsidiary Guarantors   Incorporation
Byfield Drug, Inc.
  Massachusetts
ConnectYourCare Company, LLC
  Delaware
CuraScript, Inc.
  Delaware
CuraScript PBM Services, Inc.
  Delaware
ESI Claims, Inc.
  Delaware
ESI Enterprises, LLC
  Delaware
ESI-GP Holdings, Inc.
  Delaware
ESI Mail Pharmacy Service, Inc.
  Delaware
ESI Partnership
  Delaware
Express Scripts Canada Holding, Co.
  Delaware
Express Scripts Pharmaceutical Procurement, LLC
  Delaware
Express Scripts Sales Development Co.
  Delaware
Express Scripts Senior Care, Inc.
  Delaware
Express Scripts Senior Care Holdings, Inc.
  Delaware
Express Scripts Specialty Distribution Services, Inc.
  Delaware
Express Scripts Utilization Management Co.
  Delaware
Healthbridge, Inc.
  Delaware
Healthbridge Reimbursement and Product Support, Inc.
  Massachusetts
iBiologic, Inc.
  Delaware
IVTx, Inc.
  Delaware
Mooresville On-Site Pharmacy, LLC
  Delaware
NextRx Sub I, LLC
  Delaware
NextRx Sub II, LLC
  Delaware
NextRx Sub III, LLC
  Delaware
Phoenix Marketing Group, LLC
  Delaware
Value Health, Inc.
  Delaware
Your Pharmacy.com, Inc.
  Delaware

 


 

SCHEDULE II
NON-DE/MA GUARANTORS
     
    State or Other
    Jurisdiction of
Subsidiary Guarantors   Incorporation
Airport Holdings, LLC
  New Jersey
Care Continuum, Inc.
  Kentucky
CFI of New Jersey, Inc.
  New Jersey
Chesapeake Infusion, Inc.
  Florida
ConnectYourCare, LLC
  Maryland
Diversified Pharmaceutical Services, Inc.
  Minnesota
ESI Realty, LLC
  New Jersey
ESI Resources, Inc.
  Minnesota
Freco, Inc.
  Florida
Freedom Service Company, LLC
  Florida
Lynnfield Compounding Center, Inc.
  Florida
Lynnfield Drug, Inc.
  Florida
Matrix GPO LLC
  Indiana
MSC – Medical Services Company
  Florida
National Prescription Administrators, Inc.
  New Jersey
Priorityhealthcare.com, Inc.
  Florida
Priority Healthcare Corporation
  Indiana
Priority Healthcare Corporation West
  Nevada
Priority Healthcare Distribution, Inc.
  Florida
Priority Healthcare Pharmacy, Inc.
  Florida
Sinuspharmacy, Inc.
  Florida
Specialty Infusion Pharmacy, Inc.
  Florida
Spectracare, Inc.
  Kentucky
Spectracare Health Care Ventures, Inc.
  Kentucky
Spectracare of Indiana
  Indiana
Spectracare Infusion Pharmacy, Inc.
  Kentucky
Speedy Re-employment, LLC
  Florida

 

EX-12.1 4 c50534exv12w1.htm EX-12.1 EX-12.1
Exhibit 12.1
Express Scripts, Inc.
Calculation of Ratio of Earnings to Fixed Charges

(Dollar amounts in millions)
                                                 
    Three Months        
    ended March 31,     Year Ended December 31,  
    2009     2008     2007     2006     2005     2004  
Income from continuing operations before income taxes
  $ 339.3     $ 1,213.6     $ 944.7     $ 742.2     $ 613.9     $ 450.6  
Add:
                                               
Undistributed loss from joint venture
          0.3       1.3       1.6       2.4       4.5  
Interest expense
    17.1       77.6       108.4       95.7       37.2       41.7  
Estimated interest component of rental expense
    2.2       10.3       10.5       9.1       8.1       7.4  
 
                                   
Income as adjusted
  $ 358.6     $ 1,301.8     $ 1,064.9     $ 848.6     $ 661.6     $ 504.2  
Fixed charges:
                                               
Interest expense
    17.1       77.6       108.4       95.7       37.2       41.7  
Estimated interest component of rental expense
    2.2       10.3       10.5       9.1       8.1       7.4  
 
                                   
Total fixed charges
  $ 19.3     $ 87.9     $ 118.9     $ 104.8     $ 45.3     $ 49.1  
 
                                   
 
                                               
Ratio of Earnings to Fixed Charges
    18.6 x     14.8 x     9.0 x     8.1 x     14.6 x     10.3 x
 
                                   
Note: Interest component of rental expense estimated to be 1/3 of rental expense

EX-23.1 5 c50534exv23w1.htm EX-23.1 EX-23.1
Exhibit 23.1
CONSENT OF INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM
We hereby consent to the incorporation by reference in this Registration Statement on Form S-3 of our report dated February 24, 2009, except with respect to our opinion on the consolidated financial statements insofar as it relates to the change in reportable segments as discussed in Notes 1 and 14 and the condensed consolidating financial information as included in Note 16, as to which the date is June 1, 2009 relating to the financial statements, financial statement schedule and the effectiveness of internal control over financial reporting, which appears in the Current Report on Form 8-K dated June 2, 2009. We also consent to the reference to us under the heading “Experts” in such Registration Statement.
/s/ PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
St. Louis, Missouri
June 2, 2009

EX-23.2 6 c50534exv23w2.htm EX-23.2 EX-23.2
Exhibit 23.2
Consent of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm
We consent to the reference to our firm under the captions “Experts” in this Registration Statement (Form S-3) and to the incorporation by reference therein of our report dated May 5, 2009, with respect to the combined financial statements of the Pharmacy Benefit Management Business of WellPoint, Inc. included in Express Scripts, Inc. Form 8-K, filed on June 2, 2009 with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
/s/ Ernst & Young LLP
June 1, 2009
Indianapolis, IN

EX-25.1 7 c50534exv25w1.htm EX-25.1 EX-25.1
Exhibit 25.1
 
 
securities and exchange commission
Washington, D.C. 20549
 
FORM T-1
STATEMENT OF ELIGIBILITY UNDER
THE TRUST INDENTURE ACT OF 1939 OF A
CORPORATION DESIGNATED TO ACT AS TRUSTEE
o  Check if an Application to Determine Eligibility of
a Trustee Pursuant to Section 305(b)(2)
 
UNION BANK, N.A.
(Exact name of Trustee as specified in its charter)
94-0304228
I.R.S. Employer Identification No.
     
400 California Street    
San Francisco, California   94104
     
(Address of principal executive offices)   (Zip Code)
General Counsel
Union Bank, N.A.
400 California Street
Corporate Trust — 12th Floor
San Francisco, CA 94104
(415) 765-2945
(Name, address and telephone number of agent for service)
EXPRESS SCRIPTS, INC.
(Issuer with respect to the Securities)
     
Delaware   43-1420563
     
(State or other jurisdiction of incorporation or organization)   (I.R.S. Employer Identification No.)
         
Airport Holdings, LLC
  New Jersey   75-3040465
Byfield Drug, Inc.
  Massachusetts   01-0705518
Care Continuum, Inc.
  Kentucky   61-1162797
CFI of New Jersey, Inc.
  New Jersey   22-3114423
Chesapeake Infusion, Inc.
  Florida   22-3835126
ConnectYourCare Company, LLC
  Delaware   20-2996995
ConnectYourCare, LLC
  Maryland   26-1274092
CuraScript, Inc.
  Delaware   36-4369972
CuraScript PBM Services, Inc.
  Delaware   36-4374570
Diversified Pharmaceutical Services, Inc.
  Minnesota   41-1627938
ESI Claims, Inc.
  Delaware   43-1869691
ESI Enterprises, LLC
  Delaware   56-2356810
ESI-GP Holdings, Inc.
  Delaware   43-1925556

 


 

         
ESI Mail Pharmacy Service, Inc.
  Delaware   43-1867735
ESI Partnership
  Delaware   43-1925562
ESI Realty, LLC
  New Jersey   75-3040456
ESI Resources, Inc.
  Minnesota   41-2006555
Express Scripts Canada Holding, Co.
  Delaware   43-1942542
Express Scripts Pharmaceutical Procurement, LLC
  Delaware   20-5826948
Express Scripts Sales Development Co.
  Delaware   43-1832983
Express Scripts Senior Care, Inc.
  Delaware   20-3126075
Express Scripts Senior Care Holdings, Inc.
  Delaware   20-3126104
Express Scripts Specialty Distribution Services, Inc.
  Delaware   43-1869712
Express Scripts Utilization Management Co.
  Delaware   43-1869714
Freco, Inc.
  Florida   02-0523249
Freedom Service Company, LLC
  Florida   20-3229217
Healthbridge, Inc.
  Delaware   26-2159005
Healthbridge Reimbursement and Product Support, Inc.
  Massachusetts   04-2992335
iBiologic, Inc.
  Delaware   20-0325621
IVTx, Inc.
  Delaware   43-1794690
Lynnfield Compounding Center, Inc.
  Florida   58-2593075
Lynnfield Drug, Inc.
  Florida   04-354-6044
Matrix GPO LLC
  Indiana   51-0500147
Mooresville On-Site Pharmacy, LLC
  Delaware   26-1102625
MSC — Medical Services Company
  Florida   59-2997634
National Prescription Administrators, Inc.
  New Jersey   22-2230703
NextRx Sub I, LLC
  Delaware   27-0255687
NextRx Sub II, LLC
  Delaware   27-0255828
NextRx Sub III, LLC
  Delaware   27-0255972
Phoenix Marketing Group, LLC
  Delaware   26-0041070
Priorityhealthcare.com, Inc.
  Florida   59-3573515
Priority Healthcare Corporation
  Indiana   35-1927379
Priority Healthcare Corporation West
  Nevada   88-0445494
Priority Healthcare Distribution, Inc.
  Florida   59-3761140
Priority Healthcare Pharmacy, Inc.
  Florida   59-3099905
Sinuspharmacy, Inc.
  Florida   56-2394216
Specialty Infusion Pharmacy, Inc.
  Florida   74-3105470
Spectracare, Inc.
  Kentucky   61-1147068
Spectracare Health Care Ventures, Inc.
  Kentucky   61-1317695
Spectracare of Indiana
  Indiana   35-1807559
Spectracare Infusion Pharmacy, Inc.
  Kentucky   61-1147067
Speedy Re-employment, LLC
  Florida   20-0551334
Value Health, Inc.
  Delaware   06-1194838
YourPharmacy.com, Inc.
  Delaware   43-1842584
     
One Express Way
St. Louis, Missouri
 
63121
     
(Address of Principal Executive Offices)   (Zip Code)
Debt Securities
(Title of the indenture securities)
 
 

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FORM T-1
Item 1.   GENERAL INFORMATION. Furnish the following information as to the Trustee.
  a)   Name and address of each examining or supervising authority to which it is subject.
      Office of the Comptroller of the Currency
Washington, D.C. 20219
  b)   Whether it is authorized to exercise corporate trust powers.
      Trustee is authorized to exercise corporate trust powers.
Item 2.   AFFILIATIONS WITH OBLIGOR. If the obligor is an affiliate of the Trustee, describe each such affiliation.
      None
      In answering this item, the trustee has relied, in part, upon information furnished by the obligor, and the trustee disclaims responsibility for the accuracy or completeness of such information. The trustee has also examined its own books and records for the purpose of answering this item.
Items 3-15   Items 3-15 are not applicable because, to the best of the Trustee’s knowledge, the obligor is not in default under any Indenture for which the Trustee acts as Trustee.
Item 16.   LIST OF EXHIBITS: List below all exhibits filed as a part of this statement of eligibility and qualification.
  1.   A copy of the Articles of Association of the Trustee.*
 
  2.   A copy of the certificate of authority of the Trustee to commence business.*
 
  3.   A copy of the certificate of authority of the Trustee to exercise corporate trust powers.*
 
  4.   A copy of the existing bylaws of the Trustee.*
 
  5.   Not applicable.
 
  6.   The consent of the Trustee required by Section 321(b) of the Trust Indenture Act of 1939.
 
  7.   A copy of the latest report of condition of the trustee published pursuant to law or the requirements of its supervising or examining authority.
 
  8.   Not Applicable

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  9.   Not Applicable
* Incorporated by reference to exhibit of the same number to the trustee’s Form T-1 filed as exhibit 25.1 to the Form S-4 dated March 17, 2003 of Star Gas Partners, L.P. file number 333-103873.

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SIGNATURE
     Pursuant to the requirements of the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, as amended, the Trustee, Union Bank, N.A., a national banking association organized and existing under the laws of the United States of America, has duly caused this statement of eligibility and qualification to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, all in the City of New York, State of New York on the 29th day of May, 2009.
         
  Union Bank, N.A.
 
 
  By:   /S/ Patricia Phillips-Coward    
   
Patricia Phillips-Coward
Vice President 
 
       
 

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EXHIBIT 6
CONSENT OF THE TRUSTEE
REQUIRED BY SECTION 321(b) OF THE ACT
May 29, 2009
Securities and Exchange Commission
Washington, D.C. 20549
Ladies and Gentlemen:
In connection with the proposed issuance of debt securities of Express Scripts, Inc., the undersigned, in accordance with Section 321(b) of the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, as amended, hereby consents that reports of examinations of the undersigned by federal, state, territorial, or district authorities authorized to make such examinations may be furnished by such authorities to the Securities and Exchange Commission upon request therefor.
         
  Sincerely,

Union Bank, N.A.

 
 
  By:   /S/ Patricia Phillips-Coward    
    Patricia Phillips-Coward
Vice President 
 
       
 

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Exhibit 7
Page 1
Consolidated Report of Condition of
Union Bank, National Association
of San Francisco in the State of California, at the close of business December 31, 2008, published in response to call made by the Comptroller of the Currency, under Title 12, United States Code, Section 161. Charter 21541
BALANCE SHEET
         
    Dollar Amounts  
    In Thousands  
ASSETS
       
 
       
Cash and balances due from depository institutions:
       
Non-interest-bearing balances and currency and coin
  $ 1,568,573  
Interest-bearing balances
    2,872,698  
Securities:
       
Held-to-maturity securities
    0  
Available-for-sale securities
    8,183,431  
Federal funds sold and securities purchased under agreements to resell:
       
Federal funds sold in domestic offices`
    23,000  
Securities purchased under agreements to resell
    40,069  
Loans and lease financing receivables:
       
Loans and leases held for sale
    22,381  
Loans and leases, net of unearned income
    49,139,282  
LESS: Allowance for loan and lease losses
    724,654  
Loans and leases, net of unearned income and allowance
    48,414,628  
Trading assets
    1,268,629  
Premises and fixed assets
    680,004  
Other real estate owned
    20,214  
Investments in unconsolidated subsidiaries and associated companies
    0  
Intangible assets:
       
Goodwill
    2,369,326  
Other intangible assets
    713,893  
Other assets
    3,559,759  
 
     
Total assets
    69,736,605  
 
     

 


 

Exhibit 7
Page 2
         
    Dollar Amounts  
    In Thousands  
LIABILITIES
       
 
       
Deposits:
       
In domestic offices
    44,059,954  
Noninterest-bearing
    13,568,866  
Interest-bearing
    30,491,088  
In foreign offices, Edge and Agreement subsidiaries, and IBFs
    3,331,346  
Noninterest-bearing
    0  
Interest-bearing
    3,331,346  
Federal funds purchased and securities sold under agreements to repurchase:
       
Federal funds purchased in domestic offices
    112,684  
Securities sold under agreements to repurchase
    60,074  
Trading liabilities
    1,087,311  
Other borrowed money
    11,222,597  
Subordinated notes and debentures
    810,558  
Subordinated notes payable to unconsolidated trusts issuing trust preferred securities, and trust preferred securities issued by consolidated special purpose entities
       
Other liabilities
    1,664,375  
Total liabilities
    62,348,899  
 
     
Minority interest in consolidated subsidiaries
    0  
 
       
EQUITY CAPITAL
       
 
       
Perpetual preferred stock and related surplus
    0  
Common stock
    604,577  
Surplus
    4,795,417  
Retained earnings
    2,799,463  
Accumulated other comprehensive income
    -811,751  
Other equity capital components
    0  
 
     
Total equity capital
    7,387,706  
 
     
Total liabilities, minority interest, and equity capital
    69,736,605  
 
     

 

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