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Title: FIRST SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE
Governing Law: New York     Date: 4/16/2008
Industry: Communications Services     Sector: Services

FIRST SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE, Parties: globalstar  inc. , us bank  national association
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Exhibit 4.2

 

FIRST SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE

by and among

 

GLOBALSTAR, INC.

AS ISSUER,

 

AND

 

U.S. BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION
AS TRUSTEE

 

 


5.75% Convertible Senior Notes due 2028

 


 

Dated as of April 15, 2008


 

Supplemental To Indenture For Senior Debt Securities

 

Dated as of April 15, 2008

 



 

TABLE OF CONTENTS

 

 

PAGE

 

 

ARTICLE 1

DEFINITIONS AND INCORPORATION BY REFERENCE

 

Section 1.01.

Scope of First Supplemental Indenture

2

Section 1.02.

Definitions

2

Section 1.03 .

Other Definitions

9

Section 1.04 .

Rules of Construction

10

 

 

 

ARTICLE 2

THE SECURITIES

 

Section 2.01 .

Title; Amount and Issue of Securities; Principal and Interest

10

Section 2.02 .

Form of Securities

11

Section 2.03 .

Legends

12

Section 2.04 .

Registrar and Paying Agent

13

Section 2.05 .

General Provisions Relating to Transfer and Exchange

13

Section 2.06 .

Book-Entry Provisions for the Global Securities

14

 

 

 

ARTICLE 3

COVENANTS

 

 

 

Section 3.01 .

Payment of Securities

14

Section 3.02 .

Further Instruments and Acts

15

Section 3.03 .

Statement by Officer as to Default

15

Section 3.04 .

Special Interest

15

Section 3.05 .

Pledge and Escrow Agreement Deposit

15

Section 3.06 .

Reports by Company

15

 

 

 

ARTICLE 4

REDEMPTION OF SECURITIES

 

 

 

Section 4.01 .

Optional Redemption

16

Section 4.02 .

Selection by Trustee of Securities to Be Redeemed

16

Section 4.03 .

Notice of Redemption

17

 

 

 

ARTICLE 5

DEFAULTS AND REMEDIES

 

 

 

Section 5.01 .

Additional Events of Default

18

Section 5.02 .

Sole Remedy for Failure to Report

19

 

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ARTICLE 6

DISCHARGE OF INDENTURE

 

Section 6.01 .

Discharge of Liability on Securities

20

Section 6.02 .

Reinstatement

21

Section 6.03 .

Officer’s Certificate; Opinion of Counsel

21

 

 

 

ARTICLE 7

AMENDMENTS

Section 7.01 .

With Consent of Holders

21

Section 7.02 .

Without Consent of Holders

22

 

 

 

ARTICLE 8

PURCHASE AT THE OPTION OF HOLDERS UPON A FUNDAMENTAL

CHANGE; PURCHASE AT THE OPTION OF HOLDERS

 

Section 8.01 .

Purchase at the Option of the Holder Upon a Fundamental Change

22

Section 8.02 .

Purchase of Securities at the Option of the Holder

25

Section 8.03.     

Further Conditions and Procedures for Purchase at the Option of the Holder Upon a Fundamental Change and Purchase of Securities at the Option of the Holder

27

Section 8.04 .

Purchase of Securities in Open Market

30

 

 

 

ARTICLE 9

CONVERSION

 

Section 9.01 .

Conversion of Securities

31

Section 9.02 .

Conversion Procedures

31

Section 9.03 .

Settlement Upon Conversion

32

Section 9.04 .

Adjustments to Base Conversion Rate

34

Section 9.05 .

Adjustment to Common Stock Delivered Upon Make Whole Fundamental Change

42

Section 9.06 .

Interest Make Whole Upon Conversion

43

Section 9.07 .

Fractional Shares

44

Section 9.08 .

Notice of Adjustment

44

Section 9.09 .

Notice of Certain Transactions

44

Section 9.10 .

Effect of Recapitalizations, Reclassifications, and Changes of Common Stock

45

Section 9.11 .

Responsibility of Trustee

46

Section 9.12 .

Stockholder Rights Plan

47

Section 9.13 .

Taxes on Conversion

47

Section 9.14 .

Certain Covenants of the Company

47

 

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ARTICLE 10

MISCELLANEOUS

 

 

 

Section 10.01.

No Defeasance

48

Section 10.02 .

Notices, Etc., to Trustee and Company

48

Section 10.03 .

Communication by Holders with other Holders

49

Section 10.04 .

Rules by Trustee, Paying Agent and Registrar

49

Section 10.05 .

Legal Holidays

49

Section 10.06 .

Governing Law

50

Section 10.07 .

Incorporators, Shareholders, Officers and Directors of the Company Exempt from Individual Liability

50

Section 10.08 .

Successors and Assigns

50

Section 10.09 .

Multiple Originals

50

Section 10.10 .

Conflict with Trust Indenture Act

50

Section 10.11 .

Effect of Headings and Table of Contents

50

Section 10.12 .

Separability Clause

51

Section 10.13 .

Benefits of the First Supplemental Indenture

51

Section 10.14.

Calculations

51

Section 10.15.

Ratification and Incorporation of Original Indenture

51

 

 

 

EXHIBIT A

Form of the Security

 

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FIRST SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE dated as of April 15, 2008, between Globalstar, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “ Company ”) and U.S. Bank, National Association, as Trustee (the “ Trustee ”).

 

Each party agrees as follows for the benefit of the other parties and for the equal and ratable benefit of the Holders of the Company’s 5.75% Convertible Senior Notes due 2028 (the “ Securities ”) on the date hereof.

 

W I T N E S S E T H:

 

WHEREAS, this First Supplemental Indenture is supplemental to the Original Indenture; and

 

WHEREAS, for its lawful corporate purposes, the Company has duly authorized the issue of the Securities, initially in an aggregate principal amount not to exceed $135,000,000 (or $150,000,000 if the Underwriters exercise their overallotment option, as described in Section 2(b) of the Underwriting Agreement, in full), and in order to provide the terms and conditions upon which the Securities are to be authenticated, issued and delivered, the Company has duly authorized the execution and delivery of this First Supplemental Indenture; and

 

WHEREAS, pursuant to Section 3.1 of the Original Indenture, the Company may establish one or more series of Securities (as such term is defined in the Original Indenture) from time to time as authorized by a supplemental indenture, of which the Securities shall be one such series; and

 

WHEREAS, the Form of Security, the certificate of authentication to be borne by each Security, the Assignment Form, the Form of Conversion Notice, the Form of Fundamental Change Purchase Notice and the Form of Purchase Notice to be borne by the Securities are to be substantially in the forms hereinafter provided for; and

 

WHEREAS, all acts and things necessary to make the Securities, when executed by the Company and authenticated and delivered by the Trustee or a duly authorized authenticating agent, as in the Indenture provided, the valid, binding and legal obligations of the Company, and to constitute these presents a valid agreement according to its terms, have been done and performed, and the execution of this First Supplemental Indenture and the issue hereunder of the Securities have in all respects been duly authorized.

 

NOW, THEREFORE, THIS FIRST SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE WITNESSETH:

 

That in order to declare the terms and conditions upon which the Securities are, and are to be, authenticated, issued and delivered, and in consideration of the premises and of the purchase and acceptance of the Securities by the holders thereof, the Company covenants and agrees with the Trustee for the

 



 

equal and proportionate benefit of the respective holders from time to time of the Securities (except as otherwise provided below), as follows:

 

ARTICLE 1
DEFINITIONS AND INCORPORATION BY REFERENCE

 

Section 1.01.  Scope of First Supplemental Indenture.  The changes, modifications and supplements to the Original Indenture affected by this First Supplemental Indenture shall be applicable only with respect to, and shall only govern the terms of, the Securities, which shall initially be limited to $135,000,000 (or $150,000,000 if the Underwriters exercise their overallotment option, as described in Section 2(b) of the Underwriting Agreement, in full) aggregate principal amount Outstanding and which may be issued from time to time, and shall not apply to any other Securities that may be issued under the Original Indenture unless a supplemental indenture with respect to such other Securities specifically incorporates such changes, modifications and supplements.  The provisions of the First Supplemental Indenture shall supersede any corresponding or inconsistent provisions in the Original Indenture.

 

Section 1.02.  Definitions .  The terms defined in this Section 1.02 (except as herein otherwise expressly provided or unless the context otherwise requires) for all purposes of this First Supplemental Indenture and for purposes of the Original Indenture as it relates to the Securities shall have the respective meanings specified in this Section 1.02.  Except as otherwise provided in this First Supplemental Indenture, all words, terms and phrases defined in the Original Indenture (but not otherwise defined herein) shall have the same meaning herein as in the Original Indenture. All other terms used in this First Supplemental Indenture that are defined in the Trust Indenture Act or that are by reference therein defined in the Securities Act (except as herein otherwise expressly provided or unless the context otherwise requires) shall have the meanings assigned to such terms in said Trust Indenture Act and in said Securities Act as in force at the date of the execution of this First Supplemental Indenture.  The words “herein,” “hereof,” “hereunder,” and words of similar import refer to this First Supplemental Indenture as a whole and not to any particular Article, Section or other subdivision.

 

Allocable Collateral ” has the meaning specified in the Pledge and Escrow Agreement.

 

Base Conversion Price ” at any time means a dollar amount equal to $1,000 divided by the Base Conversion Rate at such time, rounded to the nearest cent.

 

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Base Conversion Rate ” shall initially be 166.1820 shares of Common Stock per $1,000 principal amount of Securities, subject to adjustment as provided in Article 9.

 

Beneficial Owner ” shall mean, with respect to any security, any Person who is considered a beneficial owner of such security in accordance with Rule 13d-3 promulgated by the SEC under the Exchange Act.

 

Business Day ” means any day other than a Saturday, a Sunday or a day on which banking institutions in The City of New York are authorized or required by law, regulation or executive order to close.

 

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.

 

Change of Control ” means the occurrence of any of the following events:

 

(1)           any “person” or “group” (as such terms are used in Sections 13(d) and 14(d) of the Exchange Act) is or becomes the “beneficial owner” (as defined in Rules 13d-3 and 13d-5 under the Exchange Act, except that a Person shall be deemed to have beneficial ownership of all shares that such Person has the right to acquire, whether such right is exercisable immediately or only after the passage of time), directly or indirectly, of Voting Stock representing 50% or more (or, if such person is Thermo Capital Partners LLC, 70% or more) of the total voting power of all outstanding Voting Stock of the Company; or

 

(2)           the Company consolidates with, or merges with or into, another Person or the Company sells, assigns, conveys, transfers, leases or otherwise disposes of all or substantially all of its assets to any Person; provided , however , that any such transaction will not be a Change of Control if immediately after such transaction the Person or Persons that “beneficially owned” (as defined in Rules 13d-3 and 13d-5 under the Exchange Act) immediately prior to the transaction, directly or indirectly, Voting Stock representing a majority of the total voting power of all outstanding Voting Stock of the Company, “beneficially own or owns” (as so determined), directly or indirectly, Voting Stock representing a majority of the total voting power of the outstanding Voting Stock of the surviving or transferee person; or

 

(3)           the first day on which the Continuing Directors cease for any reason to constitute a majority of the Board of Directors (defined without regard to the words “or any duly authorized committee of that board to which the powers of that board have been lawfully delegated” in such definition); or

 

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(4)           the adoption of a plan of liquidation or dissolution of the Company.

 

The number of shares of “outstanding Voting Stock of the Company” for purposes of clause (1) of the definition of Change of Control, shall include (without duplication) all shares of Common Stock that any Person has the right to acquire, whether such right is exercisable immediately or only after the passage of time.

 

Notwithstanding the foregoing, an event or transaction described in clause (2) above will not constitute a Change of Control if at least 90% of the consideration for the Common Stock (excluding cash payments for fractional shares and cash payments made in respect of dissenters’ appraisal rights) in the transaction or transactions constituting the Change of Control consists of common stock and any associated rights listed on a United States national securities exchange or approved for quotation and trading on a national automated dealer quotation system or established automated over-the-counter trading market in the United States, or that will be so traded or quoted when issued or exchanged in connection with the transaction, and as a result of such transaction the Securities become convertible solely into such common stock, subject to the settlement provisions of Section 9.03 (including, but not limited to, the Company’s right to deliver cash in respect of all or a portion of the Conversion Shares).

 

Close of Business ” means 5:00 p.m. New York City time.

 

Closing Sale Price ” of the Common Stock (or any other securities on any date) means the last reported sale price per share (or if no last reported sale price is reported, the average of the bid and ask prices or, if more than one in either case, the average of the average bid and the average ask prices) on that date as reported in composite transactions for the principal United States national or regional securities exchange on which the Common Stock or such securities, as applicable, are listed for trading. If the Common Stock or the other security, as applicable, is not listed for trading on a United States national or regional securities exchange on the relevant date, the Closing Sale Price will be the last quoted bid price for Common Stock or the other security, as applicable, in the over-the-counter market on the relevant date as reported by Pink Sheets LLC or similar organization. If Common Stock or the other security, as applicable, is not so quoted the Closing Sale Price will be the average of the mid-point of the last bid and ask prices for Common Stock or the other security, as applicable, on the relevant date from each of three nationally recognized independent investment banking firms selected by the Company for this purpose (which determination shall be conclusive and shall be evidenced by an Officer’s Certificate delivered to the Trustee).

 

Common Stock ” means the Company’s common stock, par value $0.0001 per share at the date of this First Supplemental Indenture or, subject to

 

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Section 9.10, shares of any class or classes resulting from any reclassification or reclassifications thereof and that 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 that are not subject to redemption by the Company; provided that if at any time there shall be more than one such resulting class, the shares of each such class then so issuable shall be substantially in the proportion which the total number of shares of such class resulting from all such reclassifications bears to the total number of shares of all such classes resulting from all such reclassifications.

 

Continuing Directors ” means, as of any date of determination, any member of the Board of Directors who was (a) a member of the Board of Directors on the date of this First Supplemental Indenture or (b) nominated for election or elected to the Board of Directors with the approval of a majority of the Continuing Directors who were members of the Board of Directors at the time of such nomination or election.  Solely for purposes of this definition, the term “Board of Directors” shall be defined without regard to the words “or any duly authorized committee of that board to which the powers of that board have been lawfully delegated” in such definition.

 

Conversion Agent ” means the office or agency appointed by the Company where Securities may be presented for conversion.  The Conversion Agent appointed by the Company shall initially be the Trustee.

 

Conversion Reference Period ” means:

 

(1)           for Securities that are converted during the period beginning on, and including, March 1, 2028, and ending on the Close of Business on the Business Day immediately preceding the Stated Maturity for the payment of principal of the Securities, the 40 consecutive Trading Days beginning on, and including, the third Trading Day immediately following the Stated Maturity for the payment of principal of the Securities;

 

(2)           for Securities that are converted after the Company has specified a Redemption Date, the 40 consecutive Trading Days beginning on, and including, the third Trading Day immediately following the Redemption Date; and

 

(3)           in all other instances, the 40 consecutive Trading Days beginning on, and including, the third Trading Day immediately following the Conversion Date.

 

Daily Conversion Rate ” for any Trading Day means (a) if the Volume Weighted Average Price of the Common Stock on such Trading Day is less than or equal to the Base Conversion Price, then the Daily Conversion Rate will mean the Base Conversion Rate, or (b) if the Volume Weighted Average Price of the Common Stock on such Trading Day is greater than the Base Conversion Price,

 

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then the Daily Conversion Rate will be determined in accordance with the following formula:

 

 

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