OSI PHARMACEUTICALS,
INC.
2% CONVERTIBLE SENIOR
SUBORDINATED NOTES DUE 2025
DATED AS OF DECEMBER 21,
2005
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DEFINITIONS AND INCORPORATION BY
REFERENCE
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1
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Section 1.2 Other Definitions
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8
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Section 1.3 Trust Indenture Act
Provisions
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Section 1.4 Rules of
Construction
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Section 2.1 Form And Dating
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Section 2.2 Execution and
Authentication
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Section 2.3 Registrar, Paying Agent and
Conversion Agent
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Section 2.4 Paying Agent to Hold Money in
Trust
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Section 2.5 Securityholder Lists
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Section 2.6 Transfer and
Exchange
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Section 2.7 Replacement
Securities
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Section 2.8 Outstanding
Securities
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Section 2.9 Treasury Securities
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Section 2.10 Temporary
Securities
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Section 2.11 Cancellation
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Section 2.12 Legend; Additional Transfer
and Exchange Requirements
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Section 2.13 CUSIP Numbers
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Section 3.1 Right to Redeem; Notice to
Trustee
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20
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Section 3.2 Selection of Securities to Be
Redeemed
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Section 3.3 Notice of Redemption
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Section 3.4 Effect of Notice of
Redemption
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Section 3.5 Deposit of Redemption
Price
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Section 3.6 Securities Redeemed in
Part
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Section 3.7 Other Arrangement on Call for
Redemption
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Section 3.8 Repurchase of Securities at The
Option Of Holders
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Section 3.9 Repurchase of Securities at
Option of the Holder upon Fundamental Change
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Section 4.1 Conversion Privilege
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Section 4.2 Conversion Procedure;
Conversion Rate; Fractional Shares; Settlement in Cash in Lieu of
Common Stock
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Section 4.3 Adjustment of Conversion Rate
for Common Stock
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Section 4.4 Consolidation or Merger of The
Company
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Section 4.5 Notice Of Adjustment
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Section 4.6 Notice In Certain
Events
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Section 4.7 Company to Reserve Stock:
Registration; Listing
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Section 4.8 Taxes on Conversion
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Section 4.9 Conversion After Record
Date
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Section 4.10 Company Determination
Final
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Section 4.11 Responsibility of Trustee for
Conversion Provisions
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Section 4.12 Unconditional Right of Holders
to Convert
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Section 4.13 Adjustment to the Conversion
Rate upon Certain Fundamental Changes
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Section 5.1 Agreement to
Subordinate
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Section 5.2 Liquidation; Dissolution;
Bankruptcy
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Section 5.3 Default on Designated Senior
Indebtedness
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Section 5.4 Acceleration of
Notes
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Section 5.5 When Distribution Must Be Paid
Over
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Section 5.6 Notice by the
Company
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Section 5.8 Relative Rights
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Section 5.9 Subordination May Not Be
Impaired by the Company
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Section 5.10 Distribution or Notice to
Representative
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Section 5.11 Rights of Trustee and Paying
Agent
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Section 5.12 Anti-layering
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Section 6.1 Payment of
Securities
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Section 6.3 Compliance
Certificates
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Section 6.4 Further Instruments and
Acts
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Section 6.5 Maintenance of Corporate
Existence
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Section 6.6 Rule 144a Information
Requirement
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Section 6.7 Stay, Extension and Usury
Laws
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Section 6.8 Payment of Additional
Interest
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CONSOLIDATION, MERGER, CONVEYANCE, TRANSFER OR
LEASE
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Section 7.1 Company May Consolidate, Etc,
Only on Certain Terms
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Section 7.2 Successor
Substituted
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Section 8.1 Events of Default
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Section 8.3 Other Remedies
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Section 8.4 Waiver of Defaults and Events
of Default
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Section 8.5 Control by Majority
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Section 8.6 Limitations on Suits
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Section 8.7 Rights of Holders to Receive
Payment and to Convert
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Section 8.8 Collection Suit by
Trustee
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Section 8.9 Trustee May File Proofs of
Claim
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Section 8.11 Undertaking for
Costs
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Section 9.1 Duties of Trustee
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Section 9.2 Rights of Trustee
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Section 9.3 Individual Rights of
Trustee
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Section 9.4 Trustee’s
Disclaimer
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Section 9.5 Notice of Default or Events of
Default
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Section 9.6 Reports by Trustee to
Holders
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Section 9.7 Compensation and
Indemnity
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Section 9.8 Replacement of
Trustee
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Section 9.9 Successor Trustee by Merger,
Etc.
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Section 9.10 Eligibility;
Disqualification
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Section 9.11 Preferential Collection of
Claims Against Company
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SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE OF
INDENTURE
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Section 10.1 Satisfaction and Discharge of
Indenture
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Section 10.2 Application of Trust
Money
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Section 10.3 Repayment to
Company
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Section 10.4 Reinstatement
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AMENDMENTS, SUPPLEMENTS AND WAIVERS
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Section 11.1 Without Consent of
Holders
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Section 11.2 With Consent of
Holders
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Section 11.3 Compliance with Trust
Indenture Act
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Section 11.4 Revocation and Effect of
Consents
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Section 11.5 Notation on or Exchange of
Securities
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Section 11.6 Trustee to Sign Amendments,
Etc.
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Section 11.7 Effect of Supplemental
Indentures
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Section 13.1 Trust Indenture Act
Controls
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Section 13.3 Communications By Holders With
Other Holders
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Section 13.4 Certificate And Opinion As To
Conditions Precedent
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Section 13.5 Record Date For Vote Or
Consent Of Securityholders
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Section 13.6 Rules By Trustee, Paying
Agent, Registrar And Conversion Agent
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Section 13.7 Legal Holidays
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Section 13.8 Governing Law
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Section 13.9 No Adverse Interpretation Of
Other Agreements
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Section 13.11 Multiple
Counterparts
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Section 13.12 Separability
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Section 13.13 Table Of Contents, Headings,
Etc.
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Section 13.14 No Recourse Against
Others
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Section 13.15 Calculations In Respect Of
Securities
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iv
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TIA
SECTION
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INDENTURE SECTION
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310(a)
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(1)
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9.10
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(a
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9.10
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N.A.
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N.A.
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9.10
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9.8;
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9.10
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N.A.
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311
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9.11
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9.11
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N.A.
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312
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2.5
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13.3
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13.3
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9.6
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N.A.
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9.6
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9.6
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6.2;
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13.2
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13.4
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13.4
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N.A.
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N.A.
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13.4
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N.A.
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9.1
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9.1
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8.11
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316(a) (last sentence)
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2.9
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8.5
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8.4
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8.7
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13.5
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317(a
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8.8
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8.9
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2.4
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This
Cross-Reference Table shall not, for any purpose, be deemed a part
of this Indenture.
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N.A. means Not
Applicable.
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THIS
INDENTURE dated as of December 21, 2005 is between OSI
Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a corporation duly organized under the laws
of the State of Delaware (the “ Company ”), and
The Bank of New York, a New York banking corporation duly
incorporated under the laws of the State of New York, as Trustee
(the “ Trustee ”).
In
consideration of the premises and the purchase of the Securities by
the Holders thereof, both parties agree as follows for the benefit
of the other and for the equal and ratable benefit of the
registered Holders of the Company’s 2% Convertible Senior
Subordinated Notes due 2025.
DEFINITIONS AND INCORPORATION BY
REFERENCE
Section 1.1
Definitions .
“
Additional Interest ” has the meaning specified in
Paragraph 2 of the Security.
“
Affiliate ” means, with respect to any specified
person, 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 person means
the power to direct the management and policies of such person,
directly or indirectly, whether through the ownership of voting
securities, by contract or otherwise; and the terms
“controlling” and “controlled” have
meanings correlative to the foregoing.
“
Agent ” means any Registrar, Paying Agent or
Conversion Agent.
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Applicable Cash-Settlement Stock Price ,” with respect
to a Trading Day, is equal to the VWAP per share of the Common
Stock on such Trading Day.
“
Applicable Procedures ” means, with respect to any
transfer or exchange of beneficial ownership interests in a Global
Security, the rules and procedures of the Depositary, in each case
to the extent applicable to such transfer or exchange.
“
Bid Solicitation Agent ” means, an agent selected by
the Company to serve as bid solicitation agent hereunder, and,
initially, the Trustee.
“
Board of Directors ” means either the board of
directors of the Company or any committee of the Board of Directors
authorized to act for it with respect to this Indenture.
“
Business Day ” means each day that is not a Legal
Holiday.
“
Capital Stock ” of any Person means any and all
shares, interests, rights to purchase, warrants, options,
participations or other equivalents of or interests in (however
designated) equity of such Person, but excluding any debt
securities convertible into such equity.
“
Cash ” means such coin or currency of the United
States as at any time of payment is legal tender for the payment of
public and private debts.
“
Certificated Security ” means a Security that is in
substantially the form attached hereto as Exhibit A and
that does not include the information or the schedule called for by
footnotes 1, 3 and 4 thereof.
“
Closing Sale Price ” of one share of Common Stock on
any date means the closing per share sale price of such Common
Stock (or, if no closing sale price is reported, the average of the
bid and ask prices or, if there is more than one bid or ask price,
the average of the average bid and the average ask prices) on such
date as reported in composite transactions on the principal U.S.
national securities exchange on which the Common Stock is traded or
if the Common Stock is not traded on a U.S. national securities
exchange, as reported by the Nasdaq National Market system, the
Nasdaq SmallCap Market system or by the National Quotation Bureau
Incorporated. In the absence of such a quotation, the Board of
Directors of the Company shall be entitled to make a good faith
determination of the sale price on the basis it considers
appropriate which shall be conclusive.
“
Common Stock ” means the common stock of the Company,
$0.01 par value, as it exists on the date of this Indenture and any
shares of any class or classes of capital stock of the Company
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 , however ,
that if at any time there shall be more than one such resulting
class, the shares of each such class then so issuable on conversion
of Securities 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 party named as such in the first
paragraph of this Indenture until a successor replaces it pursuant
to the applicable provisions of this Indenture, and thereafter
“Company” shall mean such successor Company.
“
Conversion Price ” means, at any time, $1,000 divided
by the Conversion Rate in effect at such time, rounded to two
decimal places (rounded up if the third decimal place thereof is 5
or more and otherwise rounded down).
“
Conversion Rate ” means initially 33.9847 shares per
$1,000 principal amount of Securities, subject to adjustment as set
forth herein.
“
Conversion Value ” means, at any time, the amount
equal to the product of the Closing Sale Price at such time
multiplied by the then current Conversion Rate.
“
Corporate Trust Office ” means the office of the
Trustee at which at any particular time the trust created by this
Indenture shall be administered which office at the date of the
execution of this Indenture is located at 101 Barclay Street, Fl.
8W, New York, New York, 10286, Attention: Corporate Trust
Administration, or at any other time at such other address as the
Trustee may designate from time to time by notice to the
Company.
“
Default ” or “ default ” means,
when used with respect to the Securities, any event which is or,
after notice or passage of time or both, would be an Event of
Default.
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“
Designated Senior Indebtedness ” means any Senior
Indebtedness which, at the time of determination, has an aggregate
principal amount outstanding of at least $20.0 million and
that has been specifically designated in the instrument evidencing
such Senior Indebtedness as “Designated Senior
Indebtedness” of the Company.
“
Exchange Act ” means the Securities Exchange Act of
1934, as amended, and the rules and regulations promulgated
thereunder, as in effect from time to time.
“
Final Maturity Date ” means December 15,
2025.
“
GAAP ” means generally accepted accounting principles
in the United States of America as in effect as of the date of this
Indenture, including those set forth in (1) the opinions and
pronouncements of the Accounting Principles Board of the American
Institute of Certified Public Accountants, (2) the statements
and pronouncements of the Financial Accounting Standards Board, (3)
such other statements by such other entity as approved by a
significant segment of the accounting profession and (4) the
rules and regulations of the SEC governing the inclusion of
financial statements (including pro forma financial statements) in
registration statements filed under the Securities Act and periodic
reports required to be filed pursuant to Section 13 of the
Exchange Act, including opinions and pronouncements in staff
accounting bulletins and similar written statements from the
accounting staff of the SEC.
“
Global Security ” means a permanent Global Security
that is in substantially the form attached hereto as
Exhibit A and that includes the information and
schedule called for by footnotes 1 and 6 thereof and which is
deposited with the Depositary or its custodian and registered in
the name of the Depositary or its nominee.
“
Holder ” or “ Securityholder ”
means the person in whose name a Security is registered on the
Primary Registrar’s books.
“
Indebtedness ” means, with respect to any person,
without duplication: (a) all liabilities of such person for
borrowed money (including overdrafts) or for the deferred purchase
price of property or services, excluding any trade payables and
other accrued current liabilities incurred in the ordinary course
of business, but including, without limitation, all obligations,
contingent or otherwise, of such person in connection with any
letters of credit and acceptances issued under letter of credit
facilities, acceptance facilities or other similar facilities; (b)
all obligations of such person evidenced by bonds, notes,
debentures or other similar instruments; (c) indebtedness of
such person created or arising under any conditional sale or other
title retention agreement with respect to property acquired by such
person (even if the rights and remedies of the seller or lender
under such agreement in the event of default are limited to
repossession or sale of such property), but excluding trade
payables arising in the ordinary course of business; (d) all
capitalized lease obligations of such person; (e) all
obligations of such person under or in respect of interest rate
agreements or currency agreements; (f) all indebtedness
referred to in (but not excluded from) the preceding clauses of
other persons and all dividends of other persons, the payment of
which is secured by (or for which the holder of such
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indebtedness has an existing right, contingent or otherwise, to be
secured by) any lien or with respect to property (including,
without limitation, accounts and contract rights) owned by such
person, even though such person has not assumed or become liable
for the payment of such indebtedness (the amount of such obligation
being deemed to be the lesser of the value of such property or
asset or the amount of the obligation so secured); (g) all
guarantees by such person of indebtedness referred to in this
definition of any other person; (h) all Redeemable Capital
Stock of such person valued at the greater of its voluntary or
involuntary maximum fixed repurchase price plus accrued and unpaid
dividends; and (i) the present value of the obligation of such
person as lessee for net rental payments (excluding all amounts
required to be paid on account of maintenance and repairs,
insurance, taxes, assessments, water, utilities and similar charges
to the extent included in such rental payments) during the
remaining term of the lease included in any sale and leaseback
transaction including any period for which such lease has been
extended or may, at the option of the lessor, be extended. Such
present value shall be calculated using a discount rate equal to
the rate of interest implicit in such transaction, determined in
accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the
United States of America.
“
Indenture ” means this Indenture as amended or
supplemented from time to time pursuant to the terms of this
Indenture.
“
Initial Purchaser ” means UBS Securities
LLC.
“
Interest Payment Date ” has the meaning specified in
Paragraph 1 of the Security.
“
Issuance Date ” means the date on which any of the
Securities are first authenticated and issued.
“
Market Price ” means with respect to Securities, as of
any date of determination, the average of the secondary market bid
quotations per $1,000 principal amount of Securities obtained by
the Bid Solicitation Agent for $5,000,000 principal amount of
Securities at approximately 4:00 p.m., New York City time, on such
date of determination from three nationally recognized securities
dealers (none of which shall be an Affiliate of the Company)
selected by the Company, which may include any Initial Purchaser,
provided , that if at least three such bids cannot be
reasonably obtained by the Bid Solicitation Agent, but two bids are
obtained, then the average of the two bids shall be used, and if
only one such bid can be reasonably obtained by the Bid
Solicitation Agent, this one bid will be used; provided ,
however , if (a) the Bid Solicitation Agent, through
the exercise of reasonable efforts, is unable to obtain at least
one such bid from a securities dealer, or (b) in the
Company’s Board of Directors’ reasonable, good faith
judgment, the bid quotations are not indicative of the secondary
market value of the Securities as of such date of determination,
then the Market Price of a Security for such date of determination
shall be equal to 97% of the product of (1) the Conversion
Rate in effect as of such date of determination multiplied by
(2) the Closing Sale Price of a share of Common Stock on such
date of determination.
“
Measurement Period ” means the last 30 consecutive
Trading Days in a fiscal quarter.
“
Officer ” means the Chairman or any Co-Chairman of the
Board, any Vice Chairman of the Board, the Chief Executive Officer,
the President, any Vice President, the Chief Financial Officer, the
Controller, the Secretary or any Assistant Controller or Assistant
Secretary of the Company.
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Officers’ Certificate ” means a certificate
signed by the principal executive officer, principal financial
officer or principal accounting officer of the Company and by one
other Officer.
“
Opinion of Counsel ” means a written opinion from
legal counsel experienced in such matters as are covered by the
opinion. The counsel may be an employee of, or counsel to, the
Company.
“
Permitted Junior Securities ” shall mean equity
securities or subordinated securities of the Company or any
successor obligor that, in the case of any such subordinated
securities, are subordinated in right of payment to all Senior
Indebtedness that may at the time be outstanding to at least the
same extent as the Securities are so subordinated.
“
Person ” or “ person ” means any
individual, corporation, partnership, limited liability company,
joint venture, association, joint-stock company, trust,
unincorporated organization, government or any agency or political
subdivision thereof or any other entity.
“
Principal ” or “ principal ” of a
debt security, including the Securities, means the principal of the
security.
“
Redeemable Capital Stock ” means any class of the
Company’s capital stock that, either by its terms, by the
terms of any securities into which it is convertible or
exchangeable or by contract or otherwise, is, or upon the happening
of an event or passage of time would be, required to be redeemed
(whether by sinking fund or otherwise) prior to the date that is
91 days after the Final Maturity Date or is redeemable at the
option of the holder thereof at any time prior to such date, or is
convertible into or exchangeable for debt securities at any time
prior to such date (unless it is convertible or exchangeable solely
at the Company’s option).
“
Redemption Date ” when used with respect to any
Security to be redeemed, means the date fixed for such redemption
pursuant to this Indenture.
“
Redemption Price ” when used with respect to any
Security to be redeemed, means the price fixed for such redemption
pursuant to this Indenture, as set forth in the form of Security
annexed as Exhibit A hereto.
“
Registration Rights Agreement ” means the Registration
Rights Agreement dated, as of December 21, 2005, between the
Company and the Initial Purchasers.
“
Regular Record Date ” has the meaning specified in
Paragraph 1 of the Security.
“
Relevant Average Price Per Share ” means the average
of the VWAP per share of the Common Stock during the Cash
Settlement Averaging Period.
“
Rule 144 ” means Rule 144 under the
Securities Act or any successor to such Rule.
“
Rule 144A ” means Rule 144A under the
Securities Act or any successor to such Rule.
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SEC ” means the Securities and Exchange
Commission.
“
Securities ” means the 2% Convertible Senior
Subordinated Notes due 2025 or any of them (each, a “
Security ”), as amended or supplemented from time to
time, that are issued under this Indenture.
“
Securities Act ” means the Securities Act of 1933, as
amended, and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder, as
in effect from time to time.
“
Securities Custodian ” means the Trustee, as custodian
with respect to the Securities in global form, or any successor
thereto.
“
Senior Indebtedness ” means:
(a) all
Indebtedness of the Company, now or hereafter existing, under or in
respect of the documents and instruments executed in connection
therewith, whether for principal, premium, if any, interest
(including interest accruing after the filing of, or which would
have accrued but for the filing of, a petition by or against the
Company under bankruptcy law, whether or not such interest is
allowed as a claim after such filing in any proceeding under such
law) and other amounts due in connection therewith (including,
without limitation, any fees, premiums, expenses, reimbursement
obligations with respect to letters of credit and indemnities),
whether outstanding on the date of this Indenture or thereafter
created, incurred or assumed; and
(b) the principal
of, premium, if any, and interest on all other Indebtedness of the
Company (other than the Securities), whether outstanding on the
date of this Indenture or thereafter created, incurred or assumed,
unless, in the case of any particular Indebtedness, the instrument
creating or evidencing the same or pursuant to which the same is
outstanding expressly provides that such Indebtedness shall not be
senior in right of payment to the Securities.
Notwithstanding
the foregoing, “Senior Indebtedness” shall not
include:
(a) Indebtedness
evidenced by the Securities;
(b) Indebtedness
of the Company that is expressly subordinated in right of payment
to Senior Indebtedness;
(c) Indebtedness
or other obligations of the Company that by its terms ranks equal
or junior in right of payment to the Securities;
(d) Indebtedness
of the Company that, by operation of law, is subordinate to any
general unsecured obligations of the Company;
(e) any liability
for federal, state or local taxes or other taxes, owed or owing by
the Company;
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(f) accounts
payable or other liabilities owed or owing by the Company to trade
creditors (including Guarantees thereof or instruments evidencing
such liabilities);
(g) amounts owed
by the Company for compensation to employees or for services
rendered to the Company;
(h) Indebtedness
of the Company to any Subsidiary or any other Affiliate of the
Company or any of such Affiliate’s subsidiaries;
(i) Capital Stock
of the Company;
(j) Indebtedness
evidenced by any Guarantee of any Indebtedness ranking equal or
junior in right of payment to the Securities; and
(k) Indebtedness
which, when incurred and without respect to any election under
Section 1111(b) of Title 11 of the United States Code, is without
recourse to the Company.
“
Significant Subsidiary ” means, in respect of any
Person, a Subsidiary of such Person that would constitute a
“significant subsidiary” as such term is defined under
Rule 1-02 of Regulation S-X under the Securities Act and
the Exchange Act.
“
Subsidiary ” means, in respect of any Person, any
corporation, association, partnership or other business entity of
which more than 50% of the total voting power of shares of Capital
Stock or other interests (including partnership interests) entitled
(without regard to the occurrence of any contingency) to vote in
the election of directors, managers, general partners or trustees
thereof is at the time owned or controlled, directly or indirectly,
by (i) such Person; (ii) such Person and one or more
Subsidiaries of such Person; or (iii) one or more Subsidiaries
of such Person.
“
TIA ” means the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, as
amended, and the rules and regulations thereunder as in effect on
the date of this Indenture, except as provided in
Section 11.3, and except to the extent any amendment to the
Trust Indenture Act expressly provides for application of the Trust
Indenture Act as in effect on another date.
“
Trading Day ” means, with respect to any security,
each Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, other than
any day on which securities are not generally traded on the
principal exchange or market in which such security is
traded.
“
Transfer Restricted Global Security ” means a Global
Security that is a Transfer Restricted Security.
“
Transfer Restricted Security ” means a Security
required to bear the restricted legend set forth in the form of
Security set forth in Exhibit A of this
Indenture.
“
Trustee ” means the party named as such in the first
paragraph of this Indenture until a successor replaces it in
accordance with the provisions of this Indenture, and thereafter
means the successor.
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“
Trust Officer ” means, with respect to the Trustee,
any officer assigned to the Corporate Trust Office, and also, with
respect to a particular matter, any other officer to whom such
matter is referred because of such officer’s knowledge of and
familiarity with the particular subject.
“
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.”
“
Voting Stock ” of a Person means all classes of
Capital Stock or other interests (including partnership interests)
of such Person then outstanding and normally entitled (without
regard to the occurrence of any contingency) to vote in the
election of directors, managers or trustees thereof.
“
VWAP ,” with respect to a Trading Day, means the
volume-weighted average price per share as displayed on Bloomberg
Page “AQR” (or any successor thereto) in respect of the
period from 9:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., New York City time, on such
Trading Day; or if such price is not available, the market value
per share of the Common Stock on such Trading Day as determined by
a nationally recognized independent investment banking firm
retained for this purpose by the Company.
Section 1.2
Other Definitions .
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Period”
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Period”
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Distribution”
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Notice”
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Price”
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Section 1.3
Trust Indenture Act Provisions .
Whenever
this Indenture refers to a provision of the TIA, that provision is
incorporated by reference in and made a part of this Indenture. The
Indenture shall also include those provisions of the TIA required
to be included herein by the provisions of the Trust Indenture
Reform Act of 1990. The following TIA terms used in this Indenture
have the following meanings:
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(a)
“indenture securities” means the Securities;
(b)
“indenture security holder” means a
Securityholder;
(c)
“indenture to be qualified” means this
Indenture;
(d)
“indenture trustee” or “institutional
trustee” means the Trustee; and
(e)
“obligor” on the indenture securities means the Company
or any other obligor on the Securities.
All
other terms used in this Indenture that are defined in the TIA,
defined by TIA reference to another statute or defined by any SEC
rule and not otherwise defined herein have the meanings assigned to
them therein.
Section 1.4
Rules of Construction .
Unless
the context otherwise requires:
(a) a term has the
meaning assigned to it;
(b) an accounting
term not otherwise defined has the meaning assigned to it in
accordance with GAAP;
(c) words in the
singular include the plural, and words in the plural include the
singular;
(d) provisions
apply to successive events and transactions;
(e) the term
“merger” includes a statutory share exchange and the
term “merged” has a correlative meaning;
(f) the masculine
gender includes the feminine and the neuter;
(g) references to
agreements and other instruments include subsequent amendments
thereto; and
(h)
“herein,” “hereof” and other words of
similar import refer to this Indenture as a whole and not to any
particular Article, Section or other subdivision.
Section 2.1
Form And Dating .
The
Securities and the Trustee’s certificate of authentication
shall be substantially in the respective forms set forth in
Exhibit A , which Exhibit is incorporated in and made
part of this Indenture. The Securities may have notations, legends
or endorsements required by law,
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stock exchange
rule or usage. The Company shall provide any such notations,
legends or endorsements to the Trustee in writing. Each Security
shall be dated the date of its authentication. The Securities are
being offered and sold by the Company pursuant to a Purchase
Agreement, dated December 15, 2005 (the “ Purchase
Agreement ”), between the Company and the Initial
Purchaser, in transactions exempt from, or not subject to, the
registration requirements of the Securities Act.
(a)
Restricted Global Securities . All of the Securities are
initially being offered and sold to qualified institutional buyers
as defined in Rule 144A (collectively, “ QIBs
” or individually, each a “ QIB ”) in
reliance on Rule 144A under the Securities Act and shall be
issued initially in the form of one or more Restricted Global
Securities, which shall be deposited on behalf of the purchasers of
the Securities represented thereby with the Trustee, at its
Corporate Trust Office, as custodian for the depositary, The
Depository Trust Company (“ DTC ”) (such
depositary, or any successor thereto, being hereinafter referred to
as the “ Depositary ”), and registered in the
name of its nominee, Cede & Co., duly executed by the Company
and authenticated by the Trustee as hereinafter provided. The
aggregate principal amount of the Restricted Global Securities may
from time to time be increased or decreased by adjustments made on
the records of the Securities Custodian as hereinafter provided,
subject in each case to compliance with the Applicable
Procedures.
(b)
Global Securities in General . Each Global Security shall
represent such of the outstanding Securities as shall be specified
therein and each shall provide that it shall represent the
aggregate amount of outstanding Securities from time to time
endorsed thereon and that the aggregate amount of outstanding
Securities represented thereby may from time to time be reduced or
increased, as appropriate, to reflect exchanges, redemptions,
purchases or conversions of such Securities. Any adjustment of the
aggregate principal amount of a Global Security to reflect the
amount of any increase or decrease in the amount of outstanding
Securities represented thereby shall be made by the Trustee in
accordance with instructions given by the Holder thereof as
required by Section 2.12 and shall be made on the records of
the Trustee and the Depositary.
Members
of, or participants in, the Depositary (“ Agent
Members ”) shall have no rights under this Indenture with
respect to any Global Security held on their behalf by the
Depositary or under the Global Security, and the Depositary
(including, for this purpose, its nominee) may be treated by the
Company, the Trustee and any agent of the Company or the Trustee as
the absolute owner and Holder of such Global Security for all
purposes whatsoever. Notwithstanding the foregoing, nothing herein
shall (A) prevent the Company, the Trustee or any agent of the
Company or the Trustee from giving effect to any written
certification, proxy or other authorization furnished by the
Depositary or (B) impair, as between the Depositary and its
Agent Members, the operation of customary practices governing the
exercise of the rights of a Holder of any Security.
(c)
Book Entry Provisions . The Company shall execute and the
Trustee shall, in accordance with this Section 2.1(c),
authenticate and deliver initially one or more Global Securities
that (i) shall be registered in the name of the Depositary,
(ii) shall be delivered by the Trustee to the Depositary or
pursuant to the Depositary’s instructions and
(iii) shall bear legends substantially to the following
effect:
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“UNLESS
THIS CERTIFICATE IS PRESENTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF
THE DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY TO THE COMPANY OR ITS AGENT FOR
REGISTRATION OF TRANSFER, EXCHANGE OR PAYMENT, AND ANY CERTIFICATE
ISSUED IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF CEDE & CO. OR IN SUCH OTHER
NAME AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF THE
DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY (AND ANY PAYMENT HEREON IS MADE TO CEDE
& CO. OR TO SUCH OTHER ENTITY AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED
REPRESENTATIVE OF THE DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY), ANY TRANSFER,
PLEDGE OR OTHER USE HEREOF FOR VALUE OR OTHERWISE BY OR TO ANY
PERSON IS WRONGFUL SINCE THE REGISTERED OWNER HEREOF, CEDE &
CO., HAS AN INTEREST HEREIN. 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 IS EXCHANGEABLE FOR SECURITIES REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF A
PERSON OTHER THAN THE DEPOSITARY OR ITS NOMINEE ONLY IN THE LIMITED
CIRCUMSTANCES DESCRIBED IN THE INDENTURE AND, UNLESS AND UNTIL IT
IS EXCHANGED IN WHOLE OR IN PART FOR SECURITIES IN DEFINITIVE FORM,
THIS SECURITY MAY NOT BE TRANSFERRED EXCEPT AS A WHOLE BY THE
DEPOSITARY TO A NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITARY OR BY A NOMINEE OF THE
DEPOSITARY TO THE DEPOSITARY OR ANOTHER NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITARY
OR BY THE DEPOSITARY OR ANY SUCH NOMINEE TO A SUCCESSOR DEPOSITARY
OR A NOMINEE OF SUCH SUCCESSOR DEPOSITARY.”
Section 2.2
Execution and Authentication .
An Officer shall
sign the Securities for the Company by manual or facsimile
signature. Typographic and other minor errors or defects in any
such facsimile signature shall not affect the validity or
enforceability of any Security which has been authenticated and
delivered by the Trustee.
If an Officer
whose signature is on a Security no longer holds that office at the
time the Trustee authenticates the Security, the Security shall be
valid nevertheless.
A Security shall
not be valid until an authorized signatory of the Trustee manually
signs the certificate of authentication on the Security. The
signature shall be conclusive evidence that the Security has been
authenticated under this Indenture.
The Trustee shall
authenticate and make available for delivery Securities for
original issue in the aggregate principal amount of up to
$115,000,000 upon receipt of a written order or orders of the
Company signed by an Officer of the Company (a “ Company
Order ”). The Company Order shall specify the amount of
Securities to be authenticated, shall provide that all such
Securities will be represented by a Restricted Global Security and
the date on which each original issue of Securities is to be
authenticated. The aggregate principal amount of
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Securities
outstanding at any time may not exceed $115,000,000 except as
provided in Section 2.7.
The Trustee shall
act as the initial authenticating agent. Thereafter, the Trustee
may appoint an authenticating agent acceptable to the Company to
authenticate Securities. An authenticating agent may authenticate
Securities whenever the Trustee may do so. Each reference in this
Indenture to authentication by the Trustee includes authentication
by such agent. An authenticating agent shall have the same rights
as an Agent to deal with the Company or an Affiliate of the
Company.
The Securities
shall be issuable only in registered form without coupons and only
in denominations of $1,000 principal amount and any integral
multiple thereof.
Section 2.3
Registrar, Paying Agent and Conversion Agent .
The Company shall
maintain one or more offices or agencies where Securities may be
presented for registration of transfer or for exchange (each, a
“ Registrar ”), one or more offices or agencies
where Securities may be presented for payment (each, a “
Paying Agent ”), one or more offices or agencies where
Securities may be presented for conversion (each, a “
Conversion Agent ”) and one or more offices or
agencies where notices and demands to or upon the Company in
respect of the Securities and this Indenture may be served. The
Company will at all times maintain a Paying Agent, Conversion
Agent, Registrar and an office or agency where notices and demands
to or upon the Company in respect of the Securities and this
Indenture may be served in the Borough of Manhattan, The City of
New York. One of the Registrars (the “ Primary
Registrar ”) shall keep a register of the Securities and
of their transfer and exchange.
The Company shall
enter into an appropriate agency agreement with any Agent not a
party to this Indenture. The agreement shall implement the
provisions of this Indenture that relate to such Agent. The Company
shall notify the Trustee of the name and address of any Agent not a
party to this Indenture. If the Company fails to maintain a
Registrar, Paying Agent, Conversion Agent or agent for service of
notices and demands in any place required by this Indenture, or
fails to give the foregoing notice, the Trustee shall act as such.
The Company or any Affiliate of the Company may act as Paying Agent
(except for the purposes of Section 6.1 and
Article 10).
The Company hereby
initially designates the Trustee as Paying Agent, Registrar,
Securities Custodian, Bid Solicitation Agent and Conversion Agent,
and each of the Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee and the
office or agency of the Trustee in the Borough of Manhattan, The
City of New York (located at •, Attention: Corporate Trust
Department), one such office or agency of the Company for each of
the aforesaid purposes.
Section 2.4
Paying Agent to Hold Money in Trust .
Prior to
11:00 a.m., New York City time, on each date on which the
principal of or interest, if any, on any Securities is due and
payable, the Company shall deposit with a Paying Agent a sum
sufficient to pay such principal or interest, if any, so becoming
due. A Paying Agent shall hold in trust for the benefit of
Securityholders or the Trustee all money held by the Paying Agent
for the payment of principal of or interest, if any, on the
Securities, and shall notify
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the Trustee of
any default by the Company (or any other obligor on the Securities)
in making any such payment. If the Company or an Affiliate of the
Company acts as Paying Agent, it shall, before 11:00 a.m., New
York City time, on each date on which a payment of the principal of
or interest on any Securities is due and payable, segregate the
money and hold it as a separate trust fund. The Company at any time
may require a Paying Agent to pay all money held by it to the
Trustee, and the Trustee may at any time during the continuance of
any default, upon written request to a Paying Agent, require such
Paying Agent to pay forthwith to the Trustee all sums so held in
trust by such Paying Agent. Upon doing so, the Paying Agent (other
than the Company) shall have no further liability for the
money.
Section 2.5
Securityholder Lists .
The Trustee shall
preserve in as current a form as is reasonably practicable the most
recent list available to it of the names and addresses of
Securityholders. If the Trustee is not the Primary Registrar, the
Company shall furnish to the Trustee on or before each semiannual
interest payment date, and at such other times as the Trustee may
request in writing, a list in such form and as of such date as the
Trustee may reasonably require of the names and addresses of
Securityholders.
Section 2.6
Transfer and Exchange .
Subject to
compliance with any applicable additional requirements contained in
Section 2.12, when a Security is presented to a Registrar with
a request to register a transfer thereof or to exchange such
Security for an equal principal amount of Securities of other
authorized denominations, the Registrar shall register the transfer
or make the exchange as requested if its requirements for such
transactions are met; provided , however , that every
Security presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or
exchange shall be duly endorsed or accompanied by an assignment
form and, if applicable, a transfer certificate each in the form
included in Exhibit A , and in form satisfactory to the
Registrar duly executed by the Holder thereof or its attorney duly
authorized in writing. To permit registration of transfers and
exchanges, upon surrender of any Security for registration of
transfer or exchange at an office or agency maintained pursuant to
Section 2.3, the Company shall execute and the Trustee shall
authenticate Securities of a like aggregate principal amount at the
Registrar’s request. Any exchange or transfer shall be
without charge, except that the Company or the Registrar may
require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other
governmental charge that may be imposed in relation thereto, and
provided , that this sentence shall not apply to any
exchange pursuant to Section 2.10, 2.12(a), 3.6, or 11.5 not
involving any transfer.
Neither the
Company, any Registrar nor the Trustee shall be required to
(i) register the transfer of or exchange any Security for a
period of 15 days before selecting Securities to be redeemed;
(ii) register the transfer of or exchange any Security during
the period beginning at the opening of business 15 days before
the mailing of a notice of redemption of Securities selected for
redemption and ending at 5:00 p.m. New York City time on the day of
the mailing; or (iii) register the transfer of or exchange any
Security that has been selected for redemption or for which the
Holder is delivered, and not validly withdrawn, a purchase notice
or fundamental change repurchase notice, except, in the case of a
partial redemption, purchase or repurchase, that portion of the
Securities not being redeemed, purchase or repurchased.
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All Securities
issued upon any transfer or exchange of Securities shall be valid
obligations of the Company, evidencing the same debt and entitled
to the same benefits under this Indenture, as the Securities
surrendered upon such transfer or exchange.
Any Registrar
appointed pursuant to Section 2.3 shall provide to the Trustee
such information as the Trustee may reasonably require in
connection with the delivery by such Registrar of Securities upon
transfer or exchange of Securities.
Each Holder of a
Security agrees to indemnify the Company and the Trustee against
any liability that may result from the transfer, exchange or
assignment of such Holder’s Security in violation of any
provision of this Indenture and/or applicable United States federal
or state securities law.
The Trustee shall
have no obligation or duty to monitor, determine or inquire as to
compliance with any restrictions on transfer imposed under this
Indenture or under applicable law with respect to any transfer of
any interest in any Security (including any transfers between or
among Agent Members or other beneficial owners of interests in any
Global Security) other than to require delivery of such
certificates and other documentation or evidence as are expressly
required by, and to do so if and when expressly required by the
terms of, this Indenture, and to examine the same to determine
substantial compliance as to form with the express requirements
hereof.
Section 2.7
Replacement Securities .
If any mutilated
Security is surrendered to the Company, a Registrar or the Trustee,
or the Company, a Registrar and the Trustee receive evidence to
their satisfaction of the destruction, loss or theft of any
Security, and there is delivered to the Company, the applicable
Registrar and the Trustee such security or indemnity as will be
required by them to save each of them harmless, then, in the
absence of notice to the Company, such Registrar or the Trustee
that such Security has been acquired by a protected purchaser, the
Company shall execute, and upon its written request the Trustee
shall authenticate and deliver, in exchange for any such mutilated
Security or in lieu of any such destroyed, lost or stolen Security,
a new Security of like tenor and principal amount, bearing a number
not contemporaneously outstanding.
In case any such
mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Security has become or is
about to become due and payable, or is about to be redeemed or
purchased by the Company pursuant to Article 3, the Company in its
discretion may, instead of issuing a new Security, pay, redeem or
purchase such Security, as the case may be.
Upon the issuance
of any new Securities under this Section 2.7, 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 reasonable expenses (including the reasonable fees and
expenses of the Trustee or the Registrar) in connection
therewith.
Every new Security
issued pursuant to this Section 2.7 in lieu of any mutilated,
destroyed, lost or stolen Security shall constitute an original
additional contractual obligation of the Company, whether or not
the mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Security shall be at any
time
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enforceable by
anyone, and shall be entitled to all benefits of this Indenture
equally and proportionately with any and all other Securities duly
issued hereunder.
The provisions of
this Section 2.7 are (to the extent lawful) 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 2.8
Outstanding Securities .
Securities
outstanding at any time are all Securities authenticated by the
Trustee, except for those canceled by it, those converted pursuant
to Article 4, those delivered to it for cancellation or
surrendered for transfer or exchange and those described in this
Section 2.8 as not outstanding.
If a Security is
replaced pursuant to Section 2.7, it ceases to be outstanding
unless the Company receives proof satisfactory to it that the
replaced Security is held by a protected purchaser.
If a Paying Agent
holds at 11:00 a.m., New York City time, on the Final Maturity
Date Cash sufficient to pay the principal of and accrued interest
on Securities payable on that date, then on and after the Final
Maturity Date, such Securities shall cease to be outstanding and
interest on them shall cease to accrue.
Subject to the
restrictions contained in Section 2.9, a Security does not
cease to be outstanding because the Company or an Affiliate of the
Company holds the Security.
Section 2.9
Treasury Securities .
In determining
whether the Holders of the required principal amount of Securities
have concurred in any notice, direction, waiver or consent,
Securities owned by the Company or any other obligor on the
Securities or by any Affiliate of the Company or of such other
obligor shall be disregarded, except that, for purposes of
determining whether the Trustee shall be protected in relying on
any such notice, direction, waiver or consent, only Securities
which a Trust Officer of the Trustee actually knows are so owned
shall be so disregarded. Securities so owned which have been
pledged in good faith shall not be disregarded if the pledgee
establishes to the satisfaction of the Trustee the pledgee’s
right so to act with respect to the Securities and that the pledgee
is not the Company or any other obligor on the Securities or any
Affiliate of the Company or of such other obligor.
Section 2.10
Temporary Securities .
Until definitive
Securities are ready for delivery, the Company may prepare and
execute, and, upon receipt of a Company Order, the Trustee shall
authenticate and deliver, temporary Securities. Temporary
Securities shall be substantially in the form of definitive
Securities but may have variations that the Company with the
consent of the Trustee considers appropriate for temporary
Securities. Without unreasonable delay, the Company shall prepare
and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver definitive
Securities in exchange for temporary Securities.
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Section 2.11
Cancellation .
The Company at any
time may deliver Securities to the Trustee for cancellation. The
Registrar, the Paying Agent and the Conversion Agent shall forward
to the Trustee or its agent any Securities surrendered to them for
transfer, exchange, redemption, payment or conversion. The Trustee
and no one else shall cancel, in accordance with its standard
procedures, all Securities surrendered for transfer, exchange,
redemption, payment, conversion or cancellation and shall deliver
the canceled Securities to the Company. Without limitation to the
foregoing, any Securities acquired by any investment bankers or
other purchasers pursuant to Section 3.7 shall be surrendered
for conversion and thereafter cancelled, and may not be reoffered,
sold or otherwise transferred.
Section 2.12
Legend; Additional Transfer and Exchange Requirements
.
(a) If
Securities are issued upon the transfer, exchange or replacement of
Securities subject to restrictions on transfer and bearing the
legends set forth on the forms of Securities attached hereto as
Exhibit A (collectively, the “ Legend
”), or if a request is made to remove the Legend on a
Security, the Securities so issued shall bear the Legend, or the
Legend shall not be removed, as the case may be, unless there is
delivered to the Company and the Registrar such satisfactory
evidence, which shall include an Opinion of Counsel if requested by
the Company or such Registrar, as may be reasonably required by the
Company and the Registrar, that neither the Legend nor the
restrictions on transfer set forth therein are required to ensure
that transfers thereof comply with the provisions of Rule 144A
or Rule 144 under the Securities Act or that such Securities
are not “restricted” within the meaning of
Rule 144 under the Securities Act; provided ,
that no such evidence need be supplied in connection with
the sale of such Security pursuant to a registration statement that
is effective at the time of such sale. Upon (i) provision of
such satisfactory evidence if requested, or (ii) written
notification by the Company to the Trustee and Registrar of the
sale of such Security pursuant to a registration statement that is
effective at the time of such sale, the Trustee, at the written
direction of the Company, shall authenticate and deliver a Security
that does not bear the Legend. If the Legend is removed from the
face of a Security and the Security is subsequently held by an
Affiliate of the Company, the Legend shall be
reinstated.
(b) A Global
Security may not be transferred, in whole or in part, to any Person
other than the Depositary or a nominee or any successor thereof,
and no such transfer to any such other Person may be registered;
provided , that the foregoing shall not prohibit any
transfer of a Security that is issued in exchange for a Global
Security but is not itself a Global Security. No transfer of a
Security to any Person shall be effective under this Indenture or
the Securities unless and until such Security has been registered
in the name of such Person. Notwithstanding any other provisions of
this Indenture or the Securities, transfers of a Global Security,
in whole or in part, shall be made only in accordance with this
Section 2.12.
(c) Subject
to the succeeding paragraph, every Security shall be subject to the
restrictions on transfer provided in the Legend other than a
Restricted Global Security. Whenever any Transfer Restricted
Security other than a Restricted Global Security is presented or
surrendered for registration of transfer or for exchange for a
Security registered in a name other than that of the Holder, such
Security must be accompanied by a certificate in
substantially
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the form set
forth in Exhibit B , dated the date of such surrender
and signed by the Holder of such Security, as to compliance with
such restrictions on transfer. The Registrar shall not be required
to accept for such registration of transfer or exchange any
Security not so accompanied by a properly completed
certificate.
(d) The
restrictions imposed by the Legend upon the transferability of any
Security shall cease and terminate when such Security has been sold
pursuant to an effective registration statement under the
Securities Act or transferred in compliance with Rule 144
under the Securities Act (or any successor provision thereto) or,
if earlier, upon the expiration of the holding period applicable to
sales thereof under Rule 144(k) under the Securities Act (or any
successor provision). Any Security as to which such restrictions on
transfer shall have expired in accordance with their terms or shall
have terminated may, upon a surrender of such Security for exchange
to the Registrar in accordance with the provisions of this
Section 2.12 (accompanied, in the event that such restrictions
on transfer have terminated by reason of a transfer in compliance
with Rule 144 or any successor provision, by, if requested, an
Opinion of Counsel reasonably acceptable to the Company, addressed
to the Company and in form acceptable to the Company, to the effect
that the transfer of such Security has been made in compliance with
Rule 144 or such successor provision), be exchanged for a new
Security, of like tenor and aggregate principal amount, which shall
not bear the restrictive Legend. The Company shall inform the
Trustee of the effective date of any registration statement
registering the Securities under the Securities Act. The Trustee
shall not be liable for any action taken or omitted to be taken by
it in good faith in accordance with the aforementioned Opinion of
Counsel or registration statement.
(e) As used
in the preceding two paragraphs of this Section 2.12, the term
“transfer” encompasses any sale, pledge, transfer,
hypothecation or other disposition of any Security.
(f) The
provisions of clauses (i), (ii), (iii) and (iv) below
shall apply only to Global Securities:
(i)
Notwithstanding any other provisions of this Indenture or the
Securities, a Global Security shall not be exchanged in whole or in
part for a Security registered in the name of any Person other than
the Depositary or one or more nominees thereof, provided ,
that a Global Security may be exchanged for Securities
registered in the names of any person designated by the Depositary
in the event that (A) the Depositary has notified the Company
that it is unwilling or unable to continue as Depositary for such
Global Security or such Depositary has ceased to be a
“clearing agency” registered under the Exchange Act,
and a successor Depositary is not appointed by the Company within
90 days, or (B) an Event of Default has occurred and is
continuing with respect to the Securities. Any Global Security
exchanged pursuant to clause (A) above shall be so exchanged
in whole and not in part, and any Global Security exchanged
pursuant to clause (B) above may be exchanged in whole or from
time to time in part as directed by the Depositary. Any Security
issued in exchange for a Global Security or any portion thereof
shall be a Global Security; provided , that any such
Security so issued that is registered in the name of a Person other
than the Depositary or a nominee thereof shall not be a Global
Security.
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(ii) Securities
issued in exchange for a Global Security or any portion thereof
shall be issued in definitive, fully-registered book-entry form,
without interest coupons, shall have an aggregate principal amount
equal to that of such Global Security or portion thereof to be so
exchanged, shall be registered in such names and be in such
authorized denominations as the Depositary shall designate and
shall bear the applicable legends provided for herein. Any Global
Security to be exchanged in whole shall be surrendered by the
Depositary to the Trustee, as Registrar. With regard to any Global
Security to be exchanged in part, either such Global Security shall
be so surrendered for exchange or, if the Trustee is acting as
custodian for the Depositary or its nominee with respect to such
Global Security, the principal amount thereof shall be reduced, by
an amount equal to the portion thereof to be so exchanged, by means
of an appropriate adjustment made on the records of the Trustee.
Upon any such surrender or adjustment, the Trustee shall
authenticate and deliver the Security issuable on such exchange to
or upon the order of the Depositary or an authorized representative
thereof.
(iii) Subject to
the provisions of clause (v) below, the registered Holder may
grant proxies and otherwise authorize any Person, including Agent
Members and persons that may hold interests through Agent Members,
to take any action which a Holder is entitled to take under this
Indenture or the Securities.
(iv) In the event
of the occurrence of any of the events specified in clause
(i) above, the Company will promptly make available to the
Trustee a reasonable supply of Certificated Securities in
definitive, fully registered form, without interest
coupons.
(v) Neither Agent
Members nor any other Persons on whose behalf Agent Members may act
shall have any rights under this Indenture with respect to any
Global Security registered in the name of the Depositary or any
nominee thereof, or under any such Global Security, and the
Depositary or such nominee, as the case may be, may be treated by
the Company, the Trustee and any agent of the Company or the
Trustee as the absolute owner and holder of such Global Security
for all purposes whatsoever. Notwithstanding the foregoing, nothing
herein shall prevent the Company, the Trustee or any agent of the
Company or the Trustee from giving effect to any written
certification, proxy or other authorization furnished by the
Depositary or such nominee, as the case may be, or impair, as
between the Depositary, its Agent Members and any other person on
whose behalf an Agent Member may act, the operation of customary
practices of such Persons governing the exercise of the rights of a
holder of any Security.
Section 2.13
CUSIP Numbers .
The
Company in issuing the Securities may use one or more
“CUSIP” numbers (if then generally in use), and, if so,
the Trustee shall use “CUSIP” numbers in notices of
redemption or purchase as a convenience to Holders; provided
, that any such notice may state that no representation is
made as to the correctness of such numbers either as printed on the
Securities or as contained in any notice of a redemption or
purchase and that reliance may be placed only on the other
identification numbers printed on the Securities, and any such
redemption or purchase 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.
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Section 3.1
Right to Redeem; Notice to Trustee .
The
Securities may be redeemed at the election of the Company, as a
whole or from time to time in part, at any time on or after
December 15, 2010, at the Redemption Price in cash specified
in Paragraph 6 of the form of Security attached hereto as
Exhibit A , together with accrued and unpaid interest
(including Additional Interest, if any) up to, but not including,
the Redemption Date.
If
the Company elects to redeem Securities pursuant to this
Section 3.1 and Paragraph 6 of the Securities, it shall
notify the Trustee at least 45 days prior to the Redemption
Date, as fixed by the Company, (unless a shorter notice shall be
satisfactory to the Trustee) of the Redemption Date and the
principal amount of Securities to be redeemed. If fewer than all of
the Securities are to be redeemed, the record date relating to such
redemption shall be selected by the Company and given to the
Trustee, which record date shall not be less than 10 days
after the date of notice to the Trustee.
Section 3.2
Selection of Securities to Be Redeemed .
If
less than all of the Securities are to be redeemed, unless the
procedures of the Depositary provide otherwise, the Trustee shall,
at least 30 days but not more than 60 days prior to the
Redemption Date, select the Securities to be redeemed. The Trustee
shall make the selection from the Securities outstanding and not
previously called for redemption, by lot, on a pro rata basis or in
accordance with any other method the Trustee considers fair and
appropriate. Securities in denominations of $1,000 may only be
redeemed in whole. The Trustee may select for redemption portions
(equal to $1,000 or any integral multiple thereof) of the principal
of Securities that have denominations larger than $1,000.
Provisions of this Indenture that apply to Securities called for
redemption also apply to portions of Securities called for
redemption.
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 to be taken from 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.
Section 3.3
Notice of Redemption .
At
least 30 days but not more than 60 days before a
Redemption Date, the Company shall mail or cause to be mailed a
notice of redemption to each Holder of Securities to be redeemed at
such Holder’s address as it appears on the Primary
Registrar’s books.
The
notice shall identify the Securities (including CUSIP numbers) to
be redeemed and shall state:
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(ii) the
Redemption Price;
(iii) the then
current Conversion Rate;
(iv) the name and
address of each Paying Agent and Conversion Agent;
(v) that
Securities called for redemption must be presented and surrendered
to a Paying Agent to collect the Redemption Price;
(vi) that Holders
who wish to convert Securities must surrender such Securities for
conversion no later than the close of business on the Business Day
immediately preceding the Redemption Date and must satisfy the
other requirements set forth in Paragraph 9 of the
Securities;
(vii) that, unless
the Company defaults in making the payment of the Redemption Price,
interest on Securities called for redemption shall cease accruing
on and after the Redemption Date and subject to the provisions of
Sections 3.1 and 3.4, the only remaining right of the Holder
shall be to receive payment of the Redemption Price plus accrued
interest, if any, upon presentation and surrender to a Paying Agent
of the Securities; and
(viii) if any
Security is being redeemed in part, the portion of the principal
amount of such Security to be redeemed and that, after the
Redemption Date, upon presentation and surrender of such Security,
a new Security or Securities in aggregate principal amount equal to
the unredeemed portion thereof will be issued.
If
any of the Securities to be redeemed is in the form of a Global
Security, then the Company shall modify such notice to the extent
necessary to accord with the procedures of the Depositary
applicable to redemptions. At the Company’s written request,
which request shall (i) be irrevocable once given and
(ii) set forth all relevant information required by clauses
(i) through (viii) of the preceding paragraph, the
Trustee shall give the notice of redemption in the Company’s
name and at the Company’s expense.
Section 3.4
Effect of Notice of Redemption .
Once
notice of redemption is mailed, Securities called for redemption
become due and payable on the Redemption Date and at the Redemption
Price stated in the notice, together with accrued and unpaid
interest (including Additional Interest, if any) except for
Securities that are converted in accordance with the provisions of
Article 4. Upon presentation and surrender to a Paying Agent,
Securities called for redemption shall be paid in cash at the
Redemption Price, plus accrued and unpaid interest (including
Additional Interest, if any) up to but not including the Redemption
Date. If the Redemption Date is after the Regular Record Date and
prior to the corresponding Interest Payment Date, interest
(including Additional Interest, if any) accrued and unpaid hereon
to, but not including, the applicable Redemption Date will be paid
to the same Holder to whom the Company pays the principal of such
Securities regardless of whether such Holder was the registered
Holder on the Regular Record Date immediately preceding the
applicable Redemption Date. However, if the Company redeems
Securities on a Redemption Date that is an Interest Payment Date,
the Company will pay the accrued and unpaid interest
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(including
Additional Interest, if any) due on that Interest Payment Date
instead to the registered Holder of the Securities at the close of
business on the Regular Record Date for that Interest Payment Date,
and the Redemption Price will not be accompanied by the amount of
such interest payment. The Company shall make at least 10
semi-annual interest payments on the Securities before it can
redeem the Securities under this Article 3.
Section 3.5
Deposit of Redemption Price .
Prior
to 11:00 a.m. New York City time, on the Redemption Date, the
Company shall deposit with a Paying Agent (or, if the Company acts
as Paying Agent, shall segregate and hold in trust) an amount of
money (in immediately available funds if deposited on such
Redemption Date) sufficient to pay the Redemption Price of and
accrued and unpaid interest (including Additional Interest, if any)
on all Securities to be redeemed on that date, other than
Securities or portions thereof called for redemption on that date
which have been delivered by the Company to the Trustee for
cancellation or have been converted. The Paying Agent shall as
promptly as practicable return to the Company any money not
required for that purpose or, if such money is then held by the
Company in trust and is not required for such purpose, it shall be
discharged from the trust.
If
a Paying Agent holds on a Redemption Date Cash sufficient to pay
the principal of and accrued interest on Securities (or portions
thereof) payable on that date, then on and after such Redemption
Date, such Securities (or portions thereof, as the case may be)
shall cease to be outstanding and interest on them shall cease to
accrue; 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.
Section 3.6
Securities Redeemed in Part .
Upon
presentation and surrender of a Security that is redeemed in part,
the Company shall execute and the Trustee shall authenticate and
deliver to the Holder, without charge, a new Security or Securities
of authorized denominations as requested by such Holder in
aggregate principal amount equal to the unredeemed portion of the
Security surrendered.
Section 3.7
Other Arrangement on Call for Redemption .
In
lieu of a redemption of the Securities, the Company may arrange for
the purchase of any Securities called for redemption by an
agreement with one or more investment bankers or other purchasers
to purchase such Securities by paying to a Paying Agent (other than
the Company or any of its Affiliates) in trust for the Holders, on
or before 11:00 a.m. New York City time on the Redemption
Date, an amount that, together with any amounts deposited with such
Paying Agent by the Company for the redemption of such Securities,
is not less than the aggregate Redemption Price of such Securities.
Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this
Article 3, the obligation of the Company to pay the Redemption
Price of such Securities shall be deemed to be satisfied and
discharged to the extent such amount is so paid by such purchasers;
provided , however , that nothing in this
Section 3.7 shall relieve the Company of its obligation to pay
the Redemption Price on Securities called for redemption. If such
an agreement with one or more investment banks or other purchasers
is entered into, any Securities
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called for
redemption and not surrendered for conversion by the Holders
thereof prior to the relevant Redemption Date may, at the option of
the Company upon written notice to the Trustee, be deemed, to the
fullest extent permitted by law, acquired by such purchasers from
such Holders as of 11:00 a.m. New York City time on the
Redemption Date, subject to payment of the above amount as
aforesaid. The Paying Agent shall hold and pay to the Holders whose
Securities are selected for redemption any such amount paid to it
for purchase in the same manner as it would money deposited with it
by the Company for the redemption of Securities. Without the Paying
Agent’s prior written consent, no arrangement between the
Company and such purchasers for the purchase of any Securities
shall increase or otherwise affect any of the powers, duties,
responsibilities or obligations of the Paying Agent as set forth in
this Indenture, and the Company agrees to indemnify the Paying
Agent from, and hold it harmless against, any loss, liability or
expense arising out of or in connection with any such arrangement
for the purchase of any Securities between the Company and such
purchasers, including the costs and expenses incurred by the Paying
Agent in the defense of any claim or liability arising out of or in
connection with the exercise or performance of any of its powers,
duties, responsibilities or obligations under this
Indenture.
Section 3.8
Repurchase of Securities at The Option Of Holders
.
(a)
Optional Put . (i) Securities shall be repurchased by
the Company, at the option of the Holder thereof, on
December 15, 2010, December 15, 2015 and
December 15, 2020 (each, a “ Repurchase Date
”), at a repurchase price in Cash equal to 100% of the
principal amount of the Securities to be repurchased plus accrued
and unpaid interest (including Additional Interest, if any) to, but
not including, such Repurchase Date (the “ Repurchase
Price ”), subject to satisfaction by or on behalf of the
Holder of the requirements set forth in
Section 3.8(a)(iii).
(ii) No
later than 20 Business Days prior to each Repurchase Date, the
Company shall mail a written notice of the repurchase right under
Section 3.8(a)(i) (a “ Purchase Offer ”) by
first class mail to the Trustee and to each Holder (and to
beneficial owners as required by applicable law). The notice shall
include a form of notice to be completed by the Holder and returned
to the Company in the event that the Holder elects such right to
such repurchase (the “ Repurchase Notice ”) and
shall briefly state, as applicable:
(1) the date by
which the Repurchase Notice must be delivered to the Paying Agent
in order for a Holder to exercise the repurchase right;
(3) the Repurchase
Price;
(4) the name and
address of the Paying Agent and the Conversion Agent;
(6) that the
Securities as to which a Repurchase Notice has been given may be
converted if they are otherwise convertible pursuant to
Article 4 only if the Repurchase Notice has been withdrawn in
accordance with the terms of this Indenture;
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(7) that the
Securities must be surrendered to the Paying Agent to collect
payment;
(8) that the
Repurchase Price for any Security as to which a Repurchase Notice
has been duly given and not withdrawn will be paid promptly
following the later of the Repurchase Date and the time of
surrender of such Security;
(9) the procedures
the Holder must follow to exercise its put right under this Section
3.8(a);
(10) the
conversion rights, if any, of the Securities;
(11) the
procedures for withdrawing a Repurchase Notice;
(12) that, unless
the Company defaults in making payment of such Repurchase Price,
interest (including Additional Interest, if any) on Securities
surrendered for repurchase by the Company will cease to accrue on
and after the Repurchase Date; and
(13) the CUSIP
number(s) of the Securities.
At
the Company’s request, the Trustee shall give the Purchase
Offer in the Company’s name and at the Company’s
expense; provided , however , that the Company makes
such request at least three Business Days (unless a shorter period
shall be satisfactory to the Trustee) prior to the date by which
such Purchase Offer must be given to the Holder in accordance with
this Section 3.8(a)(ii); provided , further , that
the text of the notice of repurchase right shall be prepared by the
Company.
(iii) A
Holder may exercise its right specified in Section 3.8(a)(i)
upon delivery of a properly completed Repurchase Notice to the
Paying Agent at any time during the period beginning at 9:00 a.m.,
New York City time, on the date that is 20 Business Days
immediately preceding the relevant Repurchase Date until 5:00 p.m.,
New York City time, on the Business Day immediately preceding such
Repurchase Date, stating:
(1) the
certificate number (if in certificated form) of the Security which
the Holder will deliver to be repurchased or the appropriate
Depositary procedures if Certificated Securities have not been
issued;
(2) the portion of
the principal amount of the Security which the Holder will deliver
to be repurchased, which portion must be in principal amounts of
$1,000 or an integral multiple of $1,000; and
(3) that such
Security shall be repurchased by the Company as of the Repurchase
Date pursuant to the terms and conditions specified in the
Securities and in this Indenture.
The
delivery of such Security to the Paying Agent with, or at any time
after delivery of, the Repurchase Notice (together with all
necessary endorsements) at the offices of the Paying Agent shall be
a condition to the receipt by the Holder of the Repurchase
Price
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therefor;
provided , however , that such Repurchase Price shall
be so paid pursuant to this Section 3.8(a) only if the
Security so delivered to the Paying Agent shall conform in all
respects to the description thereof in the related Repurchase
Notice.
The
Company shall repurchase from the Holder thereof, pursuant to this
Section 3.8(a), a portion of a Security, so long as the
principal amount of such portion is $1,000 or an integral multiple
of $1,000. Provisions of this Indenture that apply to the
repurchase of all of a Security also apply to the repurchase of
such portion of such Security.
Any
repurchase by the Company contemplated pursuant to the provisions
of this Section 3.8(a) shall be consummated by the delivery of
the consideration to be received by the Holder promptly but in no
event more than five (5) Business Days following the later of
the Repurchase Date ( provided the conditions in
Section 3.8(a)(iii) have been satisfied) and the time of
delivery of the Security with the necessary
endorsements.
Notwithstanding
anything contained herein to the contrary, any Holder delivering to
the Paying Agent the Repurchase Notice contemplated by this
Section 3.8(a)(iii) shall have the right to withdraw such
Repurchase Notice at any applicable time prior to 5:00 p.m., New
York City time, on the Business Day immediately preceding the
Repurchase Date by delivery of a written notice of withdrawal to
the Paying Agent in accordance with Section 3.8(b).
The
Paying Agent shall promptly notify the Company of the receipt by it
of any Repurchase Notice or written notice of withdrawal
thereof.
(b)
Effect of Repurchase Notice . Upon receipt by the Paying
Agent of the Repurchase Notice specified in
Section 3.8(a)(iii), the Holder of the Security in respect of
which such Repurchase Notice was given shall (unless such
Repurchase Notice is withdrawn as specified in the following
paragraph) thereafter be entitled to receive solely the Repurchase
Price with respect to such Security. Such Repurchase Price shall be
paid to such Holder, subject to receipt of Cash by the Paying
Agent, promptly but in no event more than five (5) Business
Days following the later of (a) the Repurchase Date with
respect to such Security ( provided the conditions in
Section 3.8(a)(iii) have been satisfied) and (b) the time
of delivery of such Security to the Paying Agent by the Holder
thereof in the manner required by Section 3.8(a)(iii).
Securities in respect of which a Repurchase Notice has been given
by the Holder thereof may not be converted pursuant to
Article IV on or after the date of the delivery of such
Repurchase Notice unless such Repurchase Notice has first been
validly withdrawn as specified in the following
paragraph.
A
Repurchase Notice may be withdrawn by means of a written notice of
withdrawal delivered to the office of the Paying Agent in
accordance with the Repurchase Notice at any time prior to 5:00
p.m., New York City time, on the Business Day immediately preceding
the Repurchase Date, specifying:
(i) the
Holder’s name and an election to withdraw such Repurchase
Notice;
(ii) the
certificate number (if in certificated form) or the appropriate
Depositary procedures, if applicable, of the Security in respect of
which such notice of withdrawal is being submitted;
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(iii) the
principal amount of the Security (which must be in an integral
multiple of $1,000) with respect to which such notice of withdrawal
is being submitted; and
(iv) the principal
amount, if any, of such Security which remains subject to the
original Repurchase Notice and which has been or will be delivered
for repurchase by the Company.
(c)
Deposit of Repurchase Price . Prior to 11:00 a.m., New
York City time, on the applicable Repurchase Date, the Company
shall deposit with the Paying Agent (or if the Company or a
Subsidiary or an Affiliate of any of them is acting as the Paying
Agent, shall segregate and hold in trust as provided in
Section 2.4) an amount of Cash (in immediately available funds
if deposited on such Business Day) sufficient to pay the aggregate
Repurchase Price of all the Securities or portions thereof which
are to be repurchased on such Repurchase Date.
If
the Paying Agent (other than the Company or an Affiliate of the
Company) holds, in accordance with the terms hereof, at
11:00 a.m., New York City time, on the applicable Repurchase
Date, Cash sufficient to pay the Repurchase Price of any Securities
for which a Repurchase Notice has been tendered and not withdrawn
pursuant to Section 3.8(b), then, on and after such Repurchase
Date, such Securities will cease to be outstanding and interest
(including Additional Interest, if any) on such Securities will
cease to accrue, whether or not such Securities are delivered to
the Paying Agent, and the rights of the Holders in respect thereof
shall terminate (other than the right to receive the Repurchase
Price upon delivery of such Securities, together with any necessary
endorsement) and the repurchased Securities shall be
cancelled.
(d)
Securities Repurchased in Part . Any Certificated Security
which is to be repurchased only in part shall be surrendered at the
office of the Paying Agent (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 such Holder’s attorney duly
authorized in writing) and the Company shall execute and the
Trustee shall authenticate and deliver to the Holder of such
Security, without charge, a new Security or Securities, of any
authorized denomination as requested by such Holder in aggregate
principal amount equal to, and in exchange for, the portion of the
principal amount of the Security so surrendered which is not
repurchased.
(e)
Covenant to Comply with Securities Laws upon Repurchase of
Securities . When complying with the provisions of
Section 3.8(a) hereof (provided , that such
offer or purchase constitutes an “issuer tender offer”
for purposes of Rule 13e-4 (which term, as used herein,
includes any successor provision thereto) under the Exchange Act at
the time of such offer or purchase), and subject to any exemptions
available under applicable law, the Company shall:
(i) comply with
Rule 13e-4 and Rule 14e-1 (or any successor provision)
under the Exchange Act, as applicable;
(ii) file the
related Schedule TO (or any successor schedule, form or
report) under the Exchange Act, as applicable; and
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(iii) otherwise
comply with all federal and state securities laws so as to permit
the rights and obligations under Section 3.8 to be exercised
in the time and in the manner specified therein.
To
the extent that the provisions of any securities laws or
regulations conflict with the provisions of this Section 3.8,
the Company’s compliance with such laws and regulations shall
not in and of itself cause a breach of its obligations under this
Section 3.8.
(f)
Repayment to the Company . The Paying Agent shall return to
the Company any Cash that remains unclaimed for two years, together
with interest, if any, thereon, held by it for the payment of the
Repurchase Price; provided , however , to the extent
that the aggregate amount of Cash deposited by the Company pursuant
to Section 3.8(c) exceeds the aggregate Repurchase Price of
the Securities or portions thereof which the Company is obligated
to repurchase on the Repurchase Date, then, promptly after the
Repurchase Date, the Paying Agent shall return any such excess to
the Company.
Section 3.9
Repurchase of Securities at Option of the Holder upon
Fundamental Change .
(a)
Fundamental Change Put . (i) General . In the event
any Fundamental Change (as defined below) shall occur, each Holder
of Securities shall have the right (the “ Fundamental
Change Repurchase Right ”), at such Holder’s
option, to require the Company to repurchase all of such
Holder’s Securities (or portions thereof that are integral
multiples of $1,000 in principal amount), on a date selected by the
Company (the “ Fundamental Change Repurchase Date
”), which Fundamental Change Repurchase Date shall be no
later than thirty (30) Trading Days, and no earlier than twenty
(20) Trading Days, after the date the Fundamental Change
Notice (as defined below) is mailed in accordance with
Section 3.9(a)(ii), and no earlier than the date such
Fundamental Change occurs, at a price, payable in Cash equal to
100% of the principal amount of the Securities (or portions
thereof) to be so repurchased (the “ Fundamental Change
Repurchase Price ”), plus accrued and unpaid interest
(including Additional Interest, if any) to, but excluding, the
Fundamental Change Repurchase Date.
A
“ Fundamental Change ” shall be deemed to have
occurred upon the occurrence of either a “Change in
Control” or a “Termination of
Trading.”
A
“ Change in Control ” shall be deemed to have
occurred if any of the following occurs after the date
hereof:
(1) any
“person” or “group” (as such terms are used
for purposes of Sections 13(d) and 14(d) of the Exchange Act) other
than the Company, a Subsidiary of the Company or one of the
Company’s employee benefits plans is or becomes the
“beneficial owner” (as such term is used in
Rule 13d-3 under the Exchange Act), directly or indirectly, of
fifty percent (50%) or more of the Company’s Voting
Stock;
(2) at any time
the following persons cease for any reason to constitute a majority
of the Company’s Board of Directors:
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(A) individuals
who on the Issuance Date constituted the Company’s Board of
Directors; and
(B) any new
directors whose appointment to the Company’s Board of
Directors or whose nomination for election by the Company’s
shareholders was approved by at least a majority of the directors
of the Company then still in office either who were directors of
the Company on the Issuance Date or whose appointment or nomination
for election was previously so approved;
(3) the Company
consolidates with, or merges with or into, another person or any
person consolidates with, or merges with or into, the Company, in
any such event other than pursuant to a transaction in which
either:
(A) the persons
that “beneficially owned” (as such term is used in
Rule 13d-3 under the Exchange Act), directly or indirectly,
the shares of the Company’s Voting Stock immediately prior to
such transaction, “beneficially own” (as such term is
used in Rule 13d-3 under the Exchange Act), directly or
indirectly, immediately after such transaction, shares of the
surviving or continuing corporation’s Voting Stock
representing at least a majority of the total voting power of all
outstanding classes of the Voting Stock of the surviving or
continuing corporation, and in substantially the same proportion to
each other as such ownership immediately prior to the transaction;
or
(B) at least
ninety percent (90%) of the consideration (other than Cash payments
for fractional shares or pursuant to statutory appraisal rights) in
such transaction consists of common stock and any associated rights
traded on a U.S. national securities exchange or quoted on the
Nasdaq National Market or another established over-the-counter
trading market in the United States (or which shall be so traded or
quoted when issued or exchanged in connection with such
transaction), and, as a result of such transaction, the Securities
become convertible solely into the same consideration which a
Holder would have received if the Holder had converted such
Securities immediately prior to the effective date of such
transaction, as provided in Section 4.4;
(4) the sale,
transfer, lease, conveyance or other disposition of all or
substantially all of the property or assets of the Company to any
“person” or “group” (as such terms are used
in Sections 13(d) and 14(d) of the Exchange Act), including any
group acting for the purpose of acquiring, holding, voting or
disposing of securities within the meaning of Rule 13d-5(b)(1)
under the Exchange Act; or
(5) the Company is
liquidated or dissolved or holders of the Company’s Capital
Stock approve any plan for the Company’s liquidation or
dissolution.
A
“ Termination of Trading ” shall be deemed to
have occurred if, after the date hereof, the Common Stock (or other
common stock into which the Securities are then convertible) is not
listed for trading on a U.S. national securities exchange, quoted
on the Nasdaq
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National
Market, the Nasdaq SmallCap Market or approved for trading on an
established automated over-the-counter trading market in the United
States.
(ii)
Notice of Fundamental Change . No later than 20 Business
Days after the occurrence of a Fundamental Change the Company shall
mail a written notice of such occurrence (the “
Fundamental Change Company Notice ”) by first class
mail to the Trustee and to each Holder (and to beneficial owners as
required by applicable law), shall publish such Fundamental Change
Company Notice on the Company’s website and shall publicly
announce the occurrence of such Fundamental Change through a
reputable newswire service. The notice shall include a form of
notice to be completed by the Holder in the event the Holder elects
such right to repurchase pursuant to this Section 3.9 (the
“ Fundamental Change Repurchase Notice ”) and
shall briefly state, as applicable:
(1) the events
causing a Fundamental Change and the date of such Fundamental
Change;
(2) that the
Holder has a right to require the Company to repurchase the
Holder’s Securities;
(3) the date by
which the Fundamental Change Repurchase Notice must be delivered to
the Paying Agent in order for a Holder to exercise the Fundamental
Change Repurchase Right;
(4) the
Fundamental Change Repurchase Date;
(5) the
Fundamental Change Repurchase Price;
(6) the name and
address of the Paying Agent and the Conversion Agent;
(7) the Conversion
Rate applicable on the date of the Fundamental Change Company
Notice and any adjustments to the Conversion Rate that will result
from the Fundamental Change, including whether the Company has
exercised its right under Section 4.13(c);
(8) that the
Securities as to which a Fundamental Change Repurchase Notice has
been given may be converted if they are otherwise convertible
pursuant to Article 4 only if the Fundamental Change
Repurchase Notice has been withdrawn in accordance with the terms
of this Indenture;
(9) that the
Securities must be surrendered to the Paying Agent to collect
payment;
(10) that the
Fundamental Change Repurchase Price for any Security as to which a
Fundamental Change Repurchase Notice has been duly given and not
withdrawn will be paid promptly but in no event more than five
(5) Business Days following the later of the Fundamental
Change Repurchase Date and the time of surrender of such Security
with the necessary endorsements;
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(11) the
procedures the Holder must follow to exercise its put right under
this Section 3.9(a);
(12) the
conversion rights, if any, of the Securities;
(13) the
procedures for withdrawing a Fundamental Change Repurchase
Notice;
(14) that, unless
the Company defaults in making payment of such Fundamental Change
Repurchase Price, interest (including Additional Interest, if any)
on Securities surrendered for repurchase by the Company will cease
to accrue on and after the Fundamental Change Repurchase Date;
and
(15) the CUSIP
number(s) of the Securities.
At
the Company’s request, the Trustee shall give the Fundamental
Change Company Notice in the Company’s name and at the
Company’s expense; provided , however , the
Company makes such request at least three Business Days (unless a
shorter period shall be satisfactory to the Trustee) prior to the
date by which such Fundamental Change Company Notice must be given
to the Holders in accordance with this Section 3.9(a)(ii);
provided , further , that the text of the Fundamental
Change Company Notice shall be prepared by the Company.
(iii)
Fundamental Change Repurchase Notice . A Holder may exercise
its right specified in Section 3.9(a)(i) upon delivery of a
properly completed Fundamental Change Repurchase Notice to the
Paying Agent at any time from the opening of business on the date
of the Fundamental Change Company Notice until 5:00 p.m., New York
City time, on the Business Day immediately preceding the
Fundamental Change Repurchase Date, stating:
(1) the
certificate number of the Security which the Holder will deliver to
be repurchased or the appropriate depositary procedures if
Certificated Securities have not been issued;
(2) the portion of
the principal amount of the Security which the Holder will deliver
to be repurchased, which portion must be $1,000 or an integral
multiple of $1,000; and
(3) that such
Security shall be repurchased on the Fundamental Change Repurchase
Date pursuant to the terms and conditions specified in the
Securities and in this Indenture.
The
delivery of such Security to the Paying Agent with, or at any time
after delivery of, the Fundamental Change Repurchase Notice
(together with all necessary endorsements) at the offices of the
Paying Agent shall be a condition to the receipt by the Holder of
the Fundamental Change Repurchase Price therefor; provided ,
however , that such Fundamental Change Repurchase Price
shall be so paid pursuant to this Section 3.9(a) only if the
Security so delivered to the Paying Agent shall conform in all
respects to the description thereof set forth in the related
Fundamental Change Repurchase Notice.
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The
Company shall repurchase from the Holder thereof, pursuant to this
Section 3.9(a), a portion of a Security, so long as the
principal amount of such portion is $1,000 or an integral multiple
of $1,000. Provisions of this Indenture that apply to the
repurchase of all of a Security also apply to the repurchase of
such portion of such Security.
Any
repurchase by the Company contemplated pursuant to the provisions
of this Section 3.9(a) shall be consummated by the delivery of
the consideration to be received by the Holder promptly but in no
event more than five (5) Business Days following the later of
the Fundamental Change Repurchase Date and the time of delivery of
the Security with the necessary endorsements.
Notwithstanding
anything contained herein to the contrary, any Holder delivering to
the Paying Agent the Fundamental Change Repurchase Notice
contemplated by this Section 3.9(a)(iii) shall have the right
to withdraw such Fundamental Change Repurchase Notice at any time
prior to 5:00 p.m., New York City time, on the Business Day
immediately preceding the Fundamental Change Repurchase Date by
delivery of a written notice of withdrawal to the Paying Agent in
accordance with Section 3.9(b).
The
Paying Agent shall promptly notify the Company of the receipt by it
of any Fundamental Change Repurchase Notice or written notice of
withdrawal thereof.
(b)
Effect of Fundamental Change Repurchase Notice . Upon
receipt by the Paying Agent of the Fundamental Change Repurchase
Notice specified in Section 3.9(a)(iii), the Holder of the
Security in respect of which such Fundamental Change Repurchase
Notice was given shall (unless such Fundamental Change Repurchase
Notice is withdrawn as specified in the following paragraph)
thereafter be entitled to receive solely the Fundamental Change
Repurchase Price with respect to such Security. Such Fundamental
Change Repurchase Price shall be paid to such Holder, subject to
receipt of Cash by the Paying Agent, promptly but in no event more
then five (5) Business Days following the later of
(a) the Fundamental Change Repurchase Date with respect to
such Security (provided the conditions in Section 3.9(a)(iii)
have been satisfied) and (b) the time of delivery of such
Security to the Paying Agent by the Holder thereof in the manner
required by Section 3.9(a)(iii). Securities in respect of which a
Fundamental Change Repurchase Notice has been given by the Holder
thereof may not be converted pursuant to Article 4 on or after
the date of the delivery of such Fundamental Change Repurchase
Notice unless such Fundamental Change Repurchase Notice has first
been validly withdrawn as specified in the following
paragraph.
A
Fundamental Change Repurchase Notice may be withdrawn by means of a
written notice of withdrawal delivered to the office of the Paying
Agent in accordance with the Fundamental Change Repurchase Notice
at any time prior to 5:00 p.m., New York City time, on the Business
Day immediately preceding the Fundamental Change Repurchase Date,
specifying:
(i) the
Holder’s name and election to withdraw such Fundamental
Change Repurchase Notice;
(ii) the principal
amount of the Security (which must be in an integral multiple of
$1,000) with respect to which such notice of withdrawal is being
submitted;
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(iii) the
certificate number (if in certificated form) or the appropriate
Depository procedures, if applicable, of the Security in respect of
which such notice of withdrawal is being submitted; and
(iv) the principal
amount, if any, of such Security which remains subject to the
original Fundamental Change Repurchase Notice and which has been or
will be delivered for repurchase by the Company.
(c)
Deposit of Fundamental Change Repurchase Price . Prior to
11:00 a.m., New York City time, on the applicable Fundamental
Change Repurchase Date, the Company shall deposit with the Paying
Agent (or if the Company or a Subsidiary or an Affiliate of any of
them is acting as the Paying Agent, shall segregate and hold in
trust as provided in Section 2.4) an amount of Cash (in
immediately available funds if deposited on such Business Day)
sufficient to pay the aggregate Fundamental Change Repurchase Price
of and accrued and unpaid interest (including Additional Interest,
if any) on all the Securities or portions thereof which are to be
repurchased on such Fundamental Change Repurchase Date.
If
the Paying Agent holds, in accordance with the terms hereof, at
11:00 a.m., New York City time, on the applicable Fundamental
Change Repurchase Date, Cash sufficient to pay the Fundamental
Change Repurchase Price of and accrued and unpaid interest
(including Additional Interest, if any) on any Securities for which
a Fundamental Change Repurchase Notice has been tendered and not
withdrawn pursuant to Section 3.9(b), then, on and after such
Fundamental Change Repurchase Date, such Securities will cease to
be outstanding and interest (including Additional Interest, if any)
on such Securities will cease to accrue, whether or not such
Securities are delivered to the Paying Agent, and the rights of the
Holders in respect thereof shall terminate (other than the right to
receive the Fundamental Change Repurchase Price upon delivery of
such Securities, together with necessary endorsements) and the
repurchased Securities will be cancelled.
(d)
Securities Repurchased in Part . Any Certificated Security
which is to be repurchased only in part shall be surrendered at the
office of the Paying Agent (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 such Holder’s attorney duly
authorized in writing) and the Company shall execute and the
Trustee shall authenticate and deliver to the Holder of such
Security, without charge, a new Security or Securities, of any
authorized denomination as requested by such Holder in aggregate
principal amount equal to, and in exchange for, the portion of the
principal amount of the Security so surrendered which is not
repurchased.
(e)
Covenant to Comply With Securities Laws upon Repurchase of
Securities . When complying with the provisions of
Section 3.9(a) hereof (provided , that such
offer or purchase constitutes an “issuer tender offer”
for purposes of Rule 13e-4 (which term, as used herein,
includes any successor provision thereto) under the Exchange Act at
the time of such offer or purchase), and subject to any exemptions
available under applicable law, the Company shall:
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(i) comply with
Rule 13e-4 and Rule 14e-1 (or any successor provision)
under the Exchange Act, as applicable;
(ii) file the
related Schedule TO (or any successor schedule, form or
report) under the Exchange Act, as applicable; and
(iii) otherwise
comply with all federal and state securities laws so as to permit
the rights and obligations under this Section 3.9 to be
exercised in the time and in the manner specified
therein.
To
the extent that the provisions of any securities laws or
regulations conflict with the provisions of this Section 3.9,
the Company’s compliance with such laws and regulations shall
not in and of itself cause a breach of its obligations under this
Section 3.9.
(f)
Repayment to the Company . The Paying Agent shall return to
the Company any Cash that remains unclaimed for two years, together
with interest, if any, thereon, held by it for the payment of the
Fundamental Change Repurchase Price; provided ,
however , to the extent that the aggregate amount of Cash
deposited by the Company pursuant to Section 3.9(c) exceeds
the aggregate Fundamental Change Repurchase Price of the Securities
or portions thereof which the Company is obligated to repurchase as
of the Fundamental Change Repurchase Date then, promptly after the
Fundamental Change Repurchase Date, the Paying Agent shall return
any such excess to the Company.
Section 4.1
Conversion Privilege .
(a) Subject
to and upon compliance with the provisions of this Article 4,
a Holder of a Security shall have the right, at such Holder’s
option, to convert all or any portion (if the portion to be
converted is $1,000 or an integral multiple of $1,000) of such
Security into shares of Common Stock (the “ Conversion
Obligation ”) or at the Company’s election as
described in this Article 4, into Cash or a combination of
shares of Common Stock and Cash, only as follows:
(i) prior to
December 15, 2020, during any fiscal quarter (beginning with
the quarter ending after March 31, 2006) if the Closing Sale
Price of the Common Stock for at least 20 Trading Days in the
Measurement Period of the immediately preceding fiscal quarter
exceeds 120% of the Conversion Price in effect on the last Trading
Day of such Measurement Period (and in the event that (1) the
Conversion Price on such last Trading Day of such Measurement
Period is not the same as the Conversion Price in effect for each
of the Trading Days in such Measurement Period, or (2) any
event occurs requiring an adjustment to the Conversion Rate where
the ‘ex’ date of the event occurs during such
Measurement Period, the Company’s Board of Directors shall
make such adjustments as it, in its good faith determination, deems
appropriate in determining whether the foregoing condition has been
met);
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(ii) prior to
December 15, 2020, during any five consecutive Business Day
period immediately following any five consecutive Trading Day
period (the “ Note Measurement Period ”) in
which the average Market Price per $1,000 principal amount of
Securities during such Note Measurement Period was equal to or less
than 97% of the average Conversion Value during such Note
Measurement Period;
(iii) at any time
prior to 5:00 p.m., New York City time, on the Business Day
immediately preceding the Redemption Date (or, if later, at any
time prior to 5:00 p.m., New York City time, on the Business Day
immediately preceding the date on which the Company satisfies its
obligation to deposit Cash in accordance with Section 3.5
hereof), if such Security has been called for redemption pursuant
to Article 3 hereof;
(iv) at any time
on or after December 15, 2020.
The
Conversion Agent shall, on behalf of the Company, determine at the
end of each applicable period whether the Securities shall be
convertible as a result of the occurrence of an event specified in
clause (i) or (ii) above and, if the Securities shall be
so convertible, the Conversion Agent shall promptly deliver to the
Company and the Trustee written notice thereof. Whenever the
Securities shall become convertible pursuant to Section 4.1,
the Company or, at the Company’s request, the Trustee in the
name and at the expense of the Company, shall notify the Holders in
writing of the event triggering such convertibility in the manner
provided in Section 4.2, and the Company shall also publicly
announce such information and publish it on the Company’s
website. Any notice so given shall be conclusively presumed to have
been duly given, whether or not the Holder receives such
notice.
(i) if
the Company takes any action or becomes aware of any event that
would require an adjustment to the Conversion Rate:
(A) pursuant to
Section 4.3(c); or
(B) pursuant to
Section 4.3(d); or
(C) pursuant to
Section 4.3(e); or
(D) pursuant to
Section 4.3(f);
then, in each
case, the Company must notify, in writing, Holders of Securities of
the occurrence of such an action or event (i) in respect of
clauses (A) and (B) above, at least 20 days prior to
the record date, effective date or expiration date, as the case may
be, for any such distribution, and (ii) in respect of clauses
(C) and (D) above, as soon as practicable. Once the
Company has mailed (or, if earlier, is required hereunder to mail)
such notice, Holders may surrender their Securities for conversion
at any time until the earlier of the close of business on the
Business Day immediately preceding the “ex” date of the
transaction or the date of announcement by the Company that the
transaction will not take place. No adjustment shall be made to the
ability of a Holder of Securities to convert if such Holder may
participate in the distribution without conversion.
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(i) the
Company is party to a consolidation, merger or binding share
exchange pursuant to which all of its Common Stock would be
converted into cash, or
(ii) a
Fundamental Change occurs,
then
a Holder may surrender the Securities for conversion at any time on
or before the date that is thirty (30) days after the Company
announces that such consolidation, merger, binding share exchange
or Fundamental Change has occurred.
Section 4.2
Conversion Procedure; Conversion Rate; Fractional Shares;
Settlement in Cash in Lieu of Common Stock .
(a) To
convert a Security, a Holder must satisfy the requirements of
Paragraph 9 of the Securities. Each Security shall be
convertible at the office of the Conversion Agent into fully paid
and nonassessable shares (calculated to the nearest 1/100th of a
share) of Common Stock. Subject to the Company’s rights
pursuant to Section 4.2(b), the Security will be converted
into shares of Common Stock at the Conversion Rate
therefor.
Notwithstanding
any other provision of this Indenture or the Securities, all
Holders’ rights with respect to the conversion of the
Securities and the Company’s Conversion Obligation are
subject, in their entirety, to the Company’s right, in its
sole discretion, to elect to satisfy its Conversion Obligation as
provided in Section 4.2(b).
The
Company shall not issue any fraction of a share of Common Stock in
connection with any conversion of Securities, but instead shall,
subject to Section 4.2(b), make a Cash payment equal to such
fraction multiplied by the Relevant Average Price per Share of the
Common Stock.
On
conversion by a Holder, the Company shall ensure that such Holder
will also receive the rights under the Company’s stockholder
rights plan, whether or not the rights are separated from the
Company’s Common Stock prior to conversion.
Before
any Holder of a Security shall be entitled to convert the same into
Common Stock, such Holder shall, in the case of Securities issued
in global form, comply with the procedures of the Depositary in
effect at that time, and in the case of Certificated Securities,
surrender such Securities, duly endorsed to the Company or in
blank, at the office of the Conversion Agent, and shall give
written notice to the Company at said office or place in the form
of the Conversion Notice attached to the Security (the “
Conversion Notice ”) that such Holder elects to
convert the same and shall state in writing therein the principal
amount of Security to be converted and the name or names (with
addresses) in which such Holder wishes the certificate or
certificates for Common Stock to be issued. Before any such
conversion, a Holder also shall pay all funds required, if any,
relating to interest on the Securities, as provided in
Section 4.9, and all taxes or duties, if any, as provided in
Section 4.8. A Security shall be deemed to have been converted
immediately before the close of business on the date on which all
of the foregoing requirements have been satisfied (such date, the
“ Conversion Date ”).
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(b) If
a Holder elects to convert all or any portion of a Security into
shares of Common Stock as set forth in Section 4.2(a) and the
Company receives such Holder’s Conversion Notice on or prior
to the day that is 10 days prior to the Final Maturity Date,
or with respect to Securities called for redemption pursuant to
Article 3 hereof, the applicable Redemption Date (the “
Final Notice Date ”), the Company may choose to
satisfy all or any portion of the Conversion Obligation in Cash.
Upon such election, the Company shall notify such Holder through
the Trustee of the dollar amount to be satisfied in Cash (which
must be expressed either as 100% of the Conversion Obligation or as
a fixed dollar amount) at any time on or before the date that is
two Business Days following the Conversion Agent’s receipt of
the Conversion Notice (such period, the “ Cash Settlement
Notice Period ”). If the Company elects to pay Cash for
any portion of the shares of Common Stock otherwise issuable to the
Holder (other than after an irrevocable election as described in
4.2(b)(v) hereof), the Holder may retract the Conversion Notice at
any time during the two Business Day period beginning on the day
after the final day of the Cash Settlement Notice Period (the
“ Conversion Retraction Period ”); no such
retraction can be made (and a Conversion Notice shall be
irrevocable) if the Company does not elect to deliver Cash in lieu
of shares of Common Stock (other than Cash in lieu of fractional
shares). If the Company elects to satisfy all or a portion of its
Conversion Obligation in Cash and the Notice of Conversion has not
been retracted, then settlement (in Cash or a combination of Cash
and shares of Common Stock) will occur on the third Business Day
following the Cash Settlement Averaging Period. If the Company
elects to satisfy the entire Conversion Obligation in shares of
Common Stock, then settlement will occur on the third Business Day
following the Conversion Date. With respect to any Conversion
Notice received by the Company prior to the Final Notice Date and
not retracted pursuant to this Section 4.2(b), the “
Conversion Settlement Distribution ” for any Security
subject to such Conversion Notice shall consist of Cash, Common
Stock or a combination thereof, as selected by the Company as set
forth below:
(i) if the Company
elects to satisfy the entire Conversion Obligation in shares of
Common Stock, the Conversion Settlement Distribution shall be a
number of shares of Common Stock for each $1,000 principal amount
of the Securities to be converted equal to the Conversation Rate,
plus Cash for any fractional shares pursuant to
Section 4.2(a);
(ii) if the
Company elects to satisfy the entire Conversion Obligation in Cash,
the Conversion Settlement Distribution shall be Cash for each
$1,000 principal amount of the Securities in an amount equal to the
product of:
(1) the applicable
Conversion Rate, and
(2) the average of
the Applicable Cash-Settlement Stock Price of the Common Stock for
the 10 Trading Days beginning on the Trading Day immediately
following the final day of the Conversion Retraction Period (the
“ Cash Settlement Averaging Period ”);
and
(iii) if the
Company elects to satisfy a fixed portion (other than 100%) of the
Conversion Obligation in Cash, the Conversion Settlement
Distribution shall consist of such Cash amount (“ Cash
Amount ”) and a number of shares, for each $1,000
principal amount of the Securities, equal to the applicable
Conversion Rate minus the number of shares of Common Stock equal to
the Cash Amount divided by the average of the
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Applicable
Cash-Settlement Stock Price of the Common Stock during the Cash
Settlement Averaging Period (plus Cash for any fractional shares
pursuant to Section 4.2(a)); provided , however
, the number of shares of Common Stock shall not be less than zero;
provided, further, that the Company shall pay Cash for any
fractional shares pursuant to Section 4.2(a).
(iv) At any time
on or before any Final Notice Date, the Company will notify the
Trustee in writing whether it intends to satisfy all or any portion
of the Conversion Obligation with respect to all conversions of
Securities for which the Company receives a Conversion Notice after
such Final Notice Date and the dollar amount to be satisfied in
Cash (which must be expressed either as 100% or as a fixed dollar
amount). In such case, the applicable Conversion Settlement
Distribution will be computed in the same manner as set forth above
in this Section 4.2(b) except that the Cash Settlement
Averaging Period shall be the 10 Trading Days beginning on the
Trading Day following the Company’s receipt of the Conversion
Notice, and settlement (in Cash or a combination of Cash and shares
of Common Stock) will occur on the third Business Day following the
final day of such Cash Settlement Averaging Period (which date
could be after the Final Maturity Date).
(v)
Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the Indenture, at any
time prior to the Final Maturity Date, the Company may irrevocably
elect, in its sole discretion without the consent of the Holders of
the Securities, by written notice to the Trustee and the Holders of
the Securities, to satisfy a portion of the Conversion Obligation
for all Securities for conversion after the date of such election
(the “ Election Date ”) by paying in Cash up to
100% of the principal amount of the Securities so converted. After
making such an election, the Company shall satisfy the remainder of
the Conversion Obligation in Common
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