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Exhibit 4.3
UNITEDHEALTH GROUP
INCORPORATED
$1,100,000,000 6.000%
Notes due February 15, 2018
Officers’
Certificate and Company Order
Pursuant to the Indenture,
dated as of February 4, 2008 (the “Indenture”),
between UnitedHealth Group Incorporated, a Minnesota corporation
(the “Company”) and U.S. Bank National Association, as
trustee (the “Trustee”) and resolutions adopted by the
Company’s Board of Directors on October 30, 2007, this
Officers’ Certificate and Company Order is being delivered to
the Trustee to establish the terms of a series of Securities in
accordance with Section 301 of the Indenture, to establish the
form of the Securities of such series in accordance with
Section 201 of the Indenture, to request the authentication
and delivery of the Securities of such series pursuant to
Section 303 of the Indenture and to comply with the provisions
of Section 102 of the Indenture. This Officers’
Certificate and Company Order shall be treated for all purposes
under the Indenture as a supplemental indenture thereto.
All conditions precedent
provided for in the Indenture relating to (i) the
establishment of a series of Securities, (ii) the
establishment of the form of Securities of such series and
(iii) the procedures for authentication and delivery of such
series of securities have been complied with.
Capitalized terms used herein
and not otherwise defined herein shall have the meanings assigned
to them in the Indenture.
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Establishment of a Series of Securities pursuant to
Section 301 of the Indenture . |
There is hereby established
pursuant to Section 301 of the Indenture a series of
Securities which shall have the following terms:
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The Securities shall bear the title “6.000% Notes due
February 15, 2018” (referred to herein as the
“Notes”). |
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(2) |
The aggregate principal amount of the Notes to be issued
pursuant to this Officers’ Certificate and Company Order
shall be limited to $1,100,000,000 except for (a) Notes
authenticated and delivered upon registration of, transfer of, or
in exchange for, or in lieu of, other Notes pursuant to
Section 304, 305, 306, or 1007 of the Indenture,
(b) Notes which, pursuant to Section 303 of the
Indenture, are deemed never to have been authenticated and
delivered thereunder and (c) any Securities of this series
which are issued in the manner contemplated by paragraph 18(a)
hereof. |
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(3) |
Interest will
be payable to the Person in whose name a Note (or any Predecessor
Security) is registered at the close of business on the Regular
Record Date (as defined below) immediately preceding each Interest
Payment Date (as defined below). In the event that a payment of
principal or interest is due on a date that is not a Business Day
(as defined below), the related payment of principal or interest
shall be made on the next succeeding Business Day with the same
force and effect
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as if made on the date
such payment was due, and no interest shall accrue on the amount so
payable for the period from and after such Interest Payment Date or
date of Maturity, as the case may be. “Business Day”
shall mean any day other than a Saturday, a Sunday or a day on
which banking institutions in New York, New York or Minneapolis,
Minnesota or at the place of payment (specified in paragraph
(6) hereof) are authorized or obligated by law, regulation or
executive order to remain closed.
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The Stated Maturity of the Notes shall be February 15,
2018. |
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The Notes shall bear interest at the rate of 6.000% per
annum (based upon a 360-day year of twelve 30-day months), from
February 7, 2008 or from the most recent Interest Payment Date
to which interest has been paid or duly provided for, as the case
may be, payable semi-annually on February 15 and
August 15 in each year, commencing August 15, 2008, until
the principal thereof is paid or made available for payment. Each
such February 15 and August 15 shall be an
“Interest Payment Date” for the Notes, and each
February 1 and August 1 (whether or not a Business Day),
as the case may be, immediately preceding an Interest Payment Date
for the Notes shall be the “Regular Record Date” for
the interest payable on such Interest Payment Date. |
The provision related to
interest on overdue principal in Section 501 of the Indenture
shall not be applicable to the Notes.
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(6) |
Principal of (and premium, if any) and interest on the Notes
will be payable, and, except as provided in Section 305 of the
Indenture with respect to a Global Security (as defined below), the
transfer of the Notes will be registrable and Notes will be
exchangeable for notes bearing identical terms and provisions at
the corporate trust office of U.S. Bank National Association, in
St. Paul, Minnesota. The method of such payment shall be by wire
transfer for Notes held in book-entry form or at the option of the
Company by check mailed to the Person entitled thereto as shown on
the Security Register. |
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The Notes will be redeemable as follows: |
The Notes will be subject to
redemption, in whole or in part at any time before their Stated
Maturity, at the option of the Company at a Redemption Price equal
to the greater of (i) 100% of the principal amount of the
Notes to be redeemed and (ii) the sum of the present values of
the remaining scheduled payments of principal and interest on the
Notes to be redeemed (excluding the portion of any such interest
accrued to the Redemption Date) discounted to the Redemption Date
on a semi-annual basis (assuming a 360-day year consisting of
twelve 30-day months) at the Treasury Yield (as defined below),
plus 35 basis points, plus, in each case, accrued and unpaid
interest to the Redemption Date. For this purpose, the following
terms have the following meanings:
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“Treasury Yield” means, with respect to any
Redemption Date, the rate per year equal to the semi-annual
equivalent yield to maturity or interpolated (on a day-count basis)
yield to maturity of the Comparable Treasury Issue, assuming a
price for the Comparable Treasury Issue (expressed as a percentage
of its principal amount) equal to the Comparable Treasury Price for
such Redemption Date.
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“Comparable Treasury Issue” means the United States
Treasury security selected by an Independent Investment Banker
appointed by the Trustee after consultation with the Company as
having an actual or interpolated maturity comparable to the
remaining term of the Notes being redeemed, or such other maturity
that would be utilized at the time of selection and in accordance
with customary financial practice, in pricing new issues of
corporate debt securities of comparable maturity to the remaining
term of the Notes being redeemed.
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“Comparable Treasury Price” means, with respect to
any Redemption Date, (i) the average of the Reference Treasury
Dealer Quotations for such Redemption Date, after excluding the
highest and lowest such Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations for
such Redemption Date, or (ii) if the Trustee obtains fewer
than four such Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations, the average of
all such Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations.
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“Independent Investment Banker” means any of Banc
of America Securities LLC, Citigroup Global Markets Inc. or J.P.
Morgan Securities Inc. or their respective successors or, if such
firms are unwilling or unable to select the Comparable Treasury
Issue, one of the remaining Reference Treasury Dealers appointed by
the Trustee after consultation with the Company.
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“Reference Treasury Dealer” means (i) any of
Banc of America Securities LLC, Citigroup Global Markets Inc. or
J.P. Morgan Securities Inc. or their affiliates and any other
primary U.S. Government securities dealer in the United States (a
“Primary Treasury Dealer”) designated by, and not
affiliated with, any of Banc of America Securities LLC, Citigroup
Global Markets Inc. or J.P. Morgan Securities Inc.; provided,
however , that if Banc of America Securities LLC, Citigroup
Global Markets Inc. or J.P. Morgan Securities Inc. or any of their
respective affiliates shall cease to be a Primary Treasury Dealer,
the Company will appoint another Primary Treasury Dealer as a
substitute for such entity and (ii) any other Primary Treasury
Dealer selected by the Trustee.
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“Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations” means, with
respect to each Reference Treasury Dealer and any Redemption Date,
the average, as determined by the Trustee, of the bid and asked
prices for the Comparable Treasury Issue (expressed, in each case,
as a percentage of its principal amount) quoted in writing to the
Trustee by such Reference Treasury Dealer at 5:00 p.m. on the third
business day preceding such Redemption Date.
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A notice of redemption may
provide that it is subject to certain conditions that will be
specified in the notice. If those conditions are not met, the
redemption notice will be of no effect and the Company will not be
obligated to redeem the Notes.
A partial redemption of the
Notes may be effected on a pro rata basis (and in such manner as
complies with applicable legal and stock exchange requirements, if
any) or in such method as the Trustee, in the exercise of its
reasonable discretion, deems fair and appropriate. The Trustee may
provide for the selection for redemption of portions in amounts of
$1,000 or whole multiples of $1,000; except that if all of the
Notes of a Holder are to be redeemed, the entire outstanding amount
of Notes held by such Holder, even if not a multiple of $1,000,
shall be redeemed.
Notice of any redemption will
be mailed at least 30 days but not more than 60 days before the
Redemption Date to each Holder of the Notes to be
redeemed.
Unless any Note called for
redemption shall not be paid upon surrender thereof for redemption,
on and after the Redemption Date interest will cease to accrue on
the Notes or portions thereof called for redemption.
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The Company shall not be obligated to redeem or purchase any
Notes pursuant to any sinking fund or analogous
provisions. |
If a Change of Control
Triggering Event (as defined herein) occurs, unless the Company has
exercised its option to redeem the Notes of this series, the
Company shall be required to make an offer (a “Change of
Control Offer”) to each Holder of the Notes of this series to
repurchase all or any part (equal to $2,000 or an integral multiple
of $1,000 in excess thereof) of that Holder’s Notes on the
terms set forth herein. In a Change of Control Offer, the Company
shall be required to offer payment in cash equal to 101% of the
aggregate principal amount of Notes of this series repurchased,
plus accrued and unpaid interest, if any, on the Notes of this
series repurchased to the date of repurchase (a “Change of
Control Payment”). Within 30 days following any Change of
Control Triggering Event or, at the Company’s option, prior
to any Change of Control, but after public announcement of the
transaction that constitutes or may constitute the Change of
Control, a notice shall be mailed to Holders of the Notes of this
series describing the transaction that constitutes or may
constitute the Change of Control Triggering Event and offering to
repurchase such Notes on the date specified in the notice, which
date shall be no earlier than 30 days and no later than 60 days
from the date such notice is mailed (a “Change of Control
Payment Date”). The notice shall, if mailed prior to the date
of consummation of the Change of Control, state that the offer to
purchase is conditioned on the Change of Control Triggering Event
occurring on or prior to the Change of Control Payment
Date.
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In order to accept the Change
of Control Offer, the Holder must deliver to the Paying Agent, at
least five Business Days prior to the Change of Control Payment
Date, the Note together with the form entitled “Election
Form” (which form is annexed to the Note) duly completed, or
a telegram, telex, facsimile transmission or a letter from a member
of a national securities exchange, or the Financial Industry
Regulatory Authority or a commercial bank or trust company in the
United States setting forth:
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the name of the Holder of the Note; |
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the principal amount of the Note; |
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the principal amount of the Note to be repurchased; |
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(iv) |
the certificate number or a description of the tenor and terms
of the Note; |
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a statement that the Holder is accepting the Change of Control
Offer; and |
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a guarantee that the Note, together with the form entitled
“Election Form” duly completed, will be received by the
Paying Agent at least five Business Days prior to the Change of
Control Payment Date. |
Any exercise by a Holder of
its election to accept the Change of Control Offer shall be
irrevocable. The Change of Control Offer may be accepted for less
than the entire principal amount of the Note, but in that event the
principal amount of the Note remaining outstanding after repurchase
must be equal to $2,000 or an integral multiple of $1,000 in excess
thereof.
On the Change of Control
Payment Date, the Company shall, to the extent lawful:
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accept for payment all Notes of this series or portions of such
Notes properly tendered pursuant to the Change of Control
Offer; |
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deposit with the Paying Agent an amount equal to the Change of
Control Payment in respect of all Notes of this series or portions
of such Notes properly tendered; and |
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deliver or cause to be delivered to the Trustee the Notes of
this series properly accepted together with an Officers’
Certificate stating the aggregate principal amount of Notes of this
series or portions of such Notes being repurchased. |
The Company shall not be
required to make a Change of Control Offer upon the occurrence of a
Change of Control Triggering Event if a third party makes such
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offer in the manner, at the
times and otherwise in compliance with the requirements for an
offer made by the Company and the third party purchases all Notes
of this series properly tendered and not withdrawn under its offer.
In addition, the Company shall not repurchase any Notes of this
series if there has occurred and is continuing on the Change of
Control Payment Date an Event of Default under the Indenture, other
than a default in the payment of the Change of Control Payment upon
a Change of Control Triggering Event.
The Company shall comply with
the requirements of Rule 14e-1 under the Securities Exchange Act of
1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), and any other
securities laws and regulations thereunder to the extent those laws
and regulations are applicable in connection with the repurchase of
the Notes of this series as a result of a Change of Control
Triggering Event. To the extent that the provisions of any such
securities laws or regulations conflict with the Change of Control
Offer provisions of the Notes of this series, the Company shall
comply with those securities laws and regulations and shall not be
deemed to have breached its obligations under the Change of Control
Offer provisions of the Notes of this series by virtue of any such
conflict.
For purposes of the Change of
Control Offer provisions of the Notes of this series, the following
terms are applicable:
“Change of
Control” means the occurrence of any of the following:
(1) the direct or indirect sale, lease, transfer, conveyance
or other disposition (other than by way of merger or
consolidation), in one or more series of related transactions, of
all or substantially all of the assets of the Company and its
Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, to any person, other than the
Company or a Subsidiary; (2) the consummation of any
transaction (including, without limitation, any merger or
consolidation) the result of which is that any person becomes the
beneficial owner (as defined in Rules 13d-3 and 13d-5 under the
Exchange Act), directly or indirectly, of more than 50% of the
Company’s outstanding Voting Stock or other Voting Stock into
which the Company’s Voting Stock is reclassified,
consolidated, exchanged or changed, measured by voting power rather
than number of shares; (3) the Company consolidates with, or
merges with or into, any person, or any person consolidates with,
or merges with or into, the Company, in any such event pursuant to
a transaction in which any of the Company’s outstanding
Voting Stock or the Voting Stock of such other person is converted
into or exchanged for cash, securities or other property, other
than any such transaction where the shares of the Company’s
Voting Stock outstanding immediately prior to such transaction
constitute, or are converted into or exchanged for, a majority of
the Voting Stock of the surviving person or any direct or indirect
parent company of the surviving person immediately after giving
effect to such transaction; (4) the first day on which a
majority of the members of the Company’s Board of Directors
are not Continuing Directors; or (5) the adoption of a plan
relating to the Company’s liquidation or dissolution.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, a transaction shall not be deemed to
involve a Change of Control under clause (2) above if
(i) the Company becomes a direct or
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indirect wholly-owned
subsidiary of a holding company and (ii)(A) the direct or indirect
holders of the Voting Stock of such holding company immediately
following that transaction are substantially the same as the
holders of the Company’s Voting Stock immediately prior to
that transaction or (B) immediately following that transaction
no person (other than a holding company satisfying the requirements
of this sentence) is the beneficial owner, directly or indirectly,
of more than 50% of the Voting Stock of such holding company. The
term “person,” as used in this definition, has the
meaning given thereto in Section 13(d)(3) of the Exchange
Act.
“Change of Control
Triggering Event” means the occurrence of both a Change of
Control and a Rating Event.
“Continuing
Directors” means, as of any date of determination, any member
of the Company’s Board of Directors who (1) was a member
of such Board of Directors on the date the Notes of this series
were issued or (2) was nominated for election, elected or
appointed to such Board of Directors with the approval of a
majority of the Continuing Directors who were members of such Board
of Directors at the time of such nomination, election or
appointment (either by a specific vote or by approval of the
Company’s proxy statement in which such member was named as a
nominee for election as a director, without objection to such
nomination).
“Fitch” means
Fitch Inc., and its successors.
“Investment Grade
Rating” means a rating equal to or higher than BBB- (or the
equivalent) by Fitch, Baa3 (or the equivalent) by Moody’s and
BBB- (or the equivalent) by S&P, and the equivalent investment
grade credit rating from any replacement rating agency or rating
agencies selected by the Company.
“Moody’s”
means Moody’s Investors Service, Inc., and its
successors.
“Rating Agencies”
means (1) each of Fitch, Moody’s and S&P; and
(2) if any of Fitch, Moody’s or S&P ceases to rate
the Notes of this series or fails to make a rating of such Notes
publicly available for reasons outside of the Company’s
control, a “nationally recognized statistical rating
organization” within the meaning of Rule 15c3-1(c)(2)(vi)(F)
under the Exchange Act selected by the Company (as certified by a
resolution of the Company’s Board of Directors) as a
replacement agency for Fitch, Moody’s or S&P, or all of
them, as the case may be.
“Rating Event”
means the rating on the Notes of this series is lowered by at least
two of the three Rating Agencies and the Notes of this series are
rated below an Investment Grade Rating by at least two of the three
Rating Agencies on any day during the period (which period shall be
extended so long as the rating of the Notes of this series is under
publicly announced consideration for a possible downgrade by any of
the Rating Agencies) commencing on the date of the first public
notice of the occurrence of a Change of Control or the
Company’s intention to effect a Change of Control and ending
60 days following consummation of such Change of
Control.
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“S&P” means
Standard & Poor’s Rating Services, a division of The
McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc., and its successors.
“Voting Stock”
means, with respect to any specified “person” (as that
term is used in Section 13(d)(3) of the Exchange Act) as of
any date, the capital stock of such person that is at the time
entitled to vote generally in the election of the board of
directors of such person.
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The Notes shall not be convertible into shares of Common Stock
of the Company or exchangeable for any other
securities. |
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The Trustee shall be the Security Registrar and the Paying
Agent. |
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The amount of payments of principal of and any premium or
interest on the Notes will not be determined with reference to an
index. |
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The Notes shall be subject to the covenants and definitions set
forth in the Indenture. There shall be the following addition to
the covenants of the Company set forth in Article V of the
Indenture with respect to the Notes: |
The Company will not, and
will not permit any Restricted Subsidiary to, create, assume, incur
or suffer to exist:
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any Lien upon any stock or Indebtedness of any Restricted
Subsidiary, whether owned on the date hereof or thereafter
acquired, to secure any Indebtedness of the Company or any other
person (other than the Securities), or |
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any Lien upon any Principal Property, whether owned or leased
on the date hereof, or thereafter acquired, to secure any
Indebtedness of the Company or any other person (other than the
Securities), without in any such case making effective provision to
secure all the outstanding Securities equally and ratably with such
Indebtedness, except Permitted Liens. |
Notwithstanding the
foregoing, the Company may, and may permit any Restricted
Subsidiary to, create, assume, incur or suffer to exist any Lien
upon any stock or Indebtedness of any Restricted Subsidiary or upon
any Principal Property without equally and ratably securing the
Securities if the aggregate amount of all Indebtedness then
outstanding secured by such Lien and all similar Liens does not
exceed 10% of the Consolidated Net Worth of the Company as of the
most recent quarterly consolidated balance sheet of the Company
prepared in accordance with GAAP; provided, that Indebtedness
secured by Permitted Liens shall not be included in the amount of
such secured Indebtedness.
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“Consolidated Net
Worth” means, with respect to any Person as of any date, the
sum of (i) the consolidated equity of the common stockholders
of such Person and its consolidated Subsidiaries as of such date,
plus (ii) the respective amounts reported on such
Person’s balance sheet as of such date with respect to any
series of preferred stock (other than Disqualified Stock) that by
its terms is not entitled to the payment of dividends unless such
dividends may be declared and paid only out of net earnings in
respect of the year of such declaration and payment, but only to
the extent of any cash received by such Person upon issuance of
such preferred stock, less (x) all write-ups (other than
write-ups resulting from foreign currency translations and
write-ups of tangible assets of a going concern business made
within 12 months after the acquisition of such business) subsequent
to the date of the initial issuance of the Notes in the book value
of any asset owned by such Person or a consolidated Subsidiary of
such Person, and (y) all unamortized debt discount and expense
and unamortized deferred charges as of such date, all of the
foregoing determined in accordance with GAAP.
“Disqualified
Stock” means any Capital Stock that, by its terms (or by the
terms of any security into which it is convertible or for which it
is exchangeable), or upon the happening of any event, matures or is
mandatorily redeemable, pursuant to a sinking fund obligation or
otherwise, or redeemable at the option of the Holder thereof, in
whole or in part, on or prior to the date that is 91 days after the
date on which the Securities mature.
“Permitted Liens”
means
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any Lien upon property, stock or indebtedness of an entity
existing at the time such entity becomes a Restricted
Subsidiary; |
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any Lien upon property, stock or indebtedness existing at the
time of the acquisition thereof by the Company or a Restricted
Subsidiary (whether directly or by merger, consolidation or
otherwise) or granted to secure payment of any part of the purchase
price thereof or granted to secure any Indebtedness incurred to
finance the purchase thereof (provided that such Indebtedness is
incurred before, concurrently with or within 270 days after the
completion of such purchase); |
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any Lien upon property to secure any part of the cost of
development, construction, alteration, repair or improvement of
such property or granted to secure Indebtedness incurred to finance
such cost (provided that such Indebtedness is incurred before,
concurrently with or within 270 days after the completion of such
development, construction, alteration, repair or
improvement); |
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any Lien securing Indebtedness of a Restricted Subsidiary owing
to the Company or to another Restricted Subsidiary; |
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Any Lien existing on the date of initial issuance of the
Notes; |
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any Lien on property of the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary
in favor of the United States of America or any State or political
subdivision thereof, or in favor of any country or any political
subdivision thereof, to secure payment pursuant to any contract or
statute, rule or regulation; and |
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any extension, renewal or replacement, in whole or in part, of
any Lien referred to in the foregoing six subparts; provided
, however , that the principal amount of Indebtedness
secured thereby shall not exceed the principal amount of
Indebtedness so secured at the time of such extension, renewal or
replacement; and provided, further, that such Lien shall be limited
to all or part of the property which was subject to the Lien so
extended, renewed or replaced. |
“Principal
Property” means the land, land improvements, buildings and
fixtures (to the extent they constitute real property interests)
(including any leasehold interest therein) constituting the
Company’s principal corporate office or any other discrete
facility of the Company and its Subsidiaries (whether owned at the
date of initial issuance of the Notes or thereafter acquired),
provided in each case that such facility
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is owned by the Company or any Subsidiary, |
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is located within any of the present 50 states of the United
States of America or the District of Columbia, |
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has not been determined in good faith by the Company’s
Board of Directors not to be of material importance to the business
conducted by the Company and its Subsidiaries taken as a whole,
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has a book value as on the date as of which the determination
is being made in excess of 5% of the Consolidated Net Worth of the
Company as of the most recent quarterly consolidated balance sheet
of the Company prepared in accordance with GAAP. |
“Restricted
Subsidiary” means each Subsidiary of the Company existing as
of the date of date of initial issuance of the Notes and each
Subsidiary of the Company thereafter created or acquired, unless
expressly excluded by resolution of the Board of Directors of the
Company before, or within 120 days following, such creation or
acquisition.
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The Notes will be issued only in fully registered form and the
minimum initi |
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