Exhibit 4.2
FIRST
SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE
dated as of May 29, 2008
between
RITE AID
CORPORATION
and
THE BANK
OF NEW YORK TRUST COMPANY, N.A.
as
Trustee
to
the
SENIOR
DEBT SECURITIES INDENTURE
dated as of May 29, 2008
between
RITE AID
CORPORATION
and
THE BANK
OF NEW YORK TRUST COMPANY, N.A.
as
Trustee
8.5%
CONVERTIBLE NOTES DUE 2015
THIS FIRST
SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE (the “First Supplemental
Indenture”), is dated as of May 29, 2008, between Rite
Aid Corporation, a Delaware corporation (the
“Company”), and The Bank of New York Trust Company,
N.A. (the “Trustee”), as trustee.
WHEREAS the
Company and the Trustee have, as of the date hereof, entered into a
senior debt securities indenture (the “Original
Indenture”) providing for the issuance by the Company from
time to time of its Securities (as defined in the Original
Indenture);
WHEREAS Sections
3.01 and 9.01 of the Original Indenture provide that the Company,
when authorized by a Board Resolution, and the Trustee may, without
the consent of the Holders of Securities, enter into one or more
supplemental indentures, in form satisfactory to the Trustee, to
establish the form or terms of Securities of any series permitted
by the Indenture;
WHEREAS the
Company desires to issue a series of Securities under the Original
Indenture, and has duly authorized the creation and issuance of
such Securities under the Original Indenture, and has duly
authorized the execution and delivery of this First Supplemental
Indenture to modify the Original Indenture and to provide certain
additional provisions as hereinafter described;
WHEREAS the
Company has requested the Trustee to enter into this First
Supplemental Indenture for the purposes of establishing the terms
of the Securities of such series; and
WHEREAS all
conditions and requirements of the Original Indenture necessary to
make this First Supplemental Indenture (the Original Indenture, as
supplemented by this First Supplemental Indenture, being
hereinafter called the “Indenture”) a valid, binding
and legal instrument in accordance with its terms have been
performed and fulfilled by the parties hereto, and the execution
and delivery thereof have been in all respects duly authorized by
the parties hereto.
NOW, THEREFORE,
THIS FIRST SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE WITNESSETH:
That, in order to
establish the designation, form, terms and conditions of, and to
authorize the authentication and delivery of, the Notes (as defined
herein), and in consideration of the acceptance of the Notes by the
Holders (as defined in the Original Indenture) thereof and of other
good and valuable consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of
which are hereby acknowledged, the parties hereto hereby agree as
follows:
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ARTICLE I
Definitions
SECTION 1.01. (a) Capitalized terms
used herein and not otherwise defined shall have the respective
meanings assigned to them in the Original Indenture.
(b) The rules of interpretation set
forth in the Original Indenture shall be applied hereto as if set
forth in full herein.
(c) For all purposes of this First
Supplemental Indenture, except as otherwise expressly provided or
unless the context otherwise requires, the following terms shall
have the following respective meanings (such meanings shall apply
equally to both the singular and plural forms of the respective
terms):
“Agent” means any Security
Registrar, Paying Agent or Conversion Agent.
“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.
“Close of Business” means
5:00 p.m., New York City time.
“Common Stock” means the common
stock of the Company, par value $1.00 per share, as it exists on
the date of this First Supplemental 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 the Notes
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.
“Current Market Price” of the
Common Stock on any day means the average Sales Prices of a share
of Common Stock over the 10 consecutive Trading Days ending on and
including the earlier of the day in question and the day before the
Ex Date with respect to an issuance, dividend or distribution
requiring such computation.
“Dollars” means the lawful currency
of the United States of America.
“EDGAR” means the
Commission’s Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis and
Retrieval system.
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“Ex Date” means the first date on
which shares of Common Stock trade on the applicable exchange or in
the applicable market, regular way, without the right to receive an
issuance, dividend or distribution.
“Fundamental Change” means the
occurrence of any of the following events:
(1) any
“person” or “group” (as such terms are used
in Sections 13(d) or 14(d) of the Exchange Act or any
successor provisions to either of the foregoing), 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, becomes a
“beneficial holder” (as defined in Rule 13d-3
under the Exchange Act), directly or indirectly, of shares of the
Company’s capital stock entitling the person to exercise 50%
or more of the total voting power of all shares of the
Company’s capital stock that are entitled to vote generally
in elections of the Company’s directors (for the purposes of
this clause (1), such person or group shall be deemed to
beneficially own any voting stock of a corporation held by any
other corporation (the “parent corporation”) so long as
such person or group beneficially owns, directly or indirectly, in
the aggregate a majority of the total voting power of the capital
stock entitled to vote in the election of directors of such other
corporation);
(2)
the sale, transfer, assignment, lease, conveyance or other
disposition, directly or indirectly, of all or substantially all
the assets of the Company and its Subsidiaries, considered as a
whole (other than a disposition of such assets as an entirety or
virtually as an entirety to a wholly owned Subsidiary) shall have
occurred, or the Company merges, consolidates or amalgamates with
or into any other Person or any other person merges, consolidates
or amalgamates with or into the Company, in any such event pursuant
to a transaction in which the outstanding voting stock is
reclassified into or exchanged for cash, securities or other
property, other than any such transaction where:
(a) the outstanding voting stock is
reclassified into or exchanged for other voting stock of the
Company or for voting stock of the surviving corporation;
and
(b) the holders of the voting stock
of the Company immediately prior to such transaction own, directly
or indirectly, not less than a majority of the voting stock of the
Company or the surviving corporation immediately after such
transaction and in substantially the same proportion as before the
transaction; or
(3)
during any period of two consecutive years commencing after the
Issue Date, individuals who at the beginning of such period
constituted
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the Board of Directors (together with any new directors whose
election or appointment by such Board of Directors or whose
nomination for election by the shareholders of the Company was
approved by a vote of not less than three-fourths of the directors
then still in office who were either directors at the beginning of
such period or whose election or nomination for election was
previously so approved) cease for any reason to constitute a
majority of the Board of Directors then in office; or
(4) the
shareholders of the Company shall have approved any plan of
liquidation or dissolution of the Company; or
(5)
if the Common Stock (or other common stock into which the Notes are
then convertible) is (i) not listed or approved for trading on
the New York Stock Exchange, the NASDAQ Global Select Market, the
NASDAQ Global Market or any of their respective successors or
(ii) other than as a result of New York Stock Exchange
Rule 123D(3), suspended from trading for 20 consecutive
business days;
provided , however , that a
Fundamental Change shall not be deemed to have occurred pursuant to
clause (2) above if at least 90% of the consideration
(excluding cash payments for fractional shares) in the transaction
or transactions constituting the Fundamental Change consists of
Publicly Traded Securities, and as a result of such transaction or
transactions the Notes become convertible into such Publicly Traded
Securities.
For
the avoidance of doubt, any transaction or event that would
constitute a Fundamental Change under both clauses (1) and
(2) in this definition of Fundamental Change shall be deemed
to be governed solely by clause (2) of this definition,
including the provisos thereto.
“Issue Date” means May 29,
2008.
“Prospectus Supplement” means the
prospectus supplement dated May 22, 2008 to the prospectus
dated February 9, 2007, relating to offering and sale of the
Notes.
“Publicly Traded Securities” means
any common stock traded on the New York Stock Exchange, the Nasdaq
Global Select Market, the Nasdaq Global Market or any of their
respective successors.
“record date” shall mean, for the
purposes of Section 16.05, with respect to any dividend,
distribution or other transaction or event in which the holders of
Common Stock have the right to receive any cash, securities or
other property or in which the Common Stock (or other applicable
security) is exchanged for or converted into any combination of
cash, securities or other property, the date fixed for
determination of holders of Common Stock entitled to receive such
cash,
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securities or
other property (whether such date is fixed by the Board of
Directors or by statute, contract or otherwise).
“Sale Price” of the Common Stock on
any date means the closing sale price (or if no closing sale price
is reported, the average of the bid and asked prices or, if more
than one such price in either case, the average of the average bid
and the average asked prices) on that date as reported by the New
York Stock Exchange or, if the Common Stock is not listed on the
New York Stock Exchange, on the other principal U.S. national or
regional securities exchange on which the Common Stock is then
traded. The Sale Price will be determined without reference to
after-hours or extended market trading. If the Common Stock
is not reported by the New York Stock Exchange or a principal U.S.
national or regional securities exchange, the “Sale
Price” will be the last quoted bid price for the Common Stock
in the over-the-counter market on the relevant date as reported by
the National Quotation Bureau or similar organization. If the
Common Stock is not so quoted, the “Sale Price” will be
the average of the mid-point of the last bid and asked prices for
the Common Stock on the relevant date from each of at least three
nationally recognized independent investment banking firms selected
by the Company for this purpose.
“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.
“Trading Day” means a day during
which the New York Stock Exchange or, if the Common Stock is
not listed on the New York Stock Exchange, on the principal U.S.
national or regional securities exchange on which the Common Stock
is then listed, opens for trading during its regular trading
session or, if the Common Stock is not so listed, admitted for
trading or quoted, any Business Day. A “Trading
Day” only includes those days that have a scheduled closing
time of 4:00 p.m. (New York City time) or the then standard
closing time for regular trading on the relevant exchange or
trading system.
(d) Other definitions:
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Term
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Defined in Section of the
Supplemental Indenture
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Defined in Section of
the Original Indenture
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Additional Shares
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7.01
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16.06
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Conversion Agent
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2.05
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n/a
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Conversion Date
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7.01
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16.02
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Conversion Notice
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7.01
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16.02
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Conversion Rate
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7.01
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16.01
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Distributed Property
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7.01
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16.05
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Effective Date
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7.01
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16.06
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Fundamental Change Repurchase Date
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8.01
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17.01
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Fundamental Change Repurchase Notice
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8.01
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17.01
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Fundamental Change Repurchase Price
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8.01
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17.01
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Make Whole Fundamental Change
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7.01
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16.06
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Offer Expiration Date
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7.01
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16.05
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Reference Property
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7.01
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16.08
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Repurchase Exercise Notice
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8.01
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17.01
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Spin-Off
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7.01
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16.05
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Spin-Off Securities
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7.01
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16.05
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Stock Price
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7.01
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16.06
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Trigger Event
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7.01
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16.05
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Triggering Distribution
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7.01
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16.05
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ARTICLE II
Designation, Form and Terms of the
Securities
SECTION 2.01. Designation of Series
. Pursuant to the terms hereof and Section 3.01 of the
Original Indenture, the Company hereby creates a series of its
Securities designated as the “8.5% Convertible Notes due
2015” (the “Notes”), which Notes shall be deemed
“Securities” for all purposes under the Original
Indenture.
SECTION 2.02. Limit on Amount of
Securities . Except as set forth in
Section 3.01(2) of the Original Indenture, the aggregate
principal amount of Notes that may be issued and authenticated is
limited to $158,000,000.
SECTION 2.03. Form of
Securities . (a) The Notes will be issued initially as
Global Securities substantially in the form set forth in
Exhibit A attached hereto, which is incorporated herein and
made part hereof.
(b) The Global Securities shall be
deposited on behalf of the purchasers of the Notes represented
thereby with the Trustee, as custodian for the Depositary and
registered in the name of a nominee of the Depositary.
(c) Section 3.05 of the Original
Indenture is hereby amended with respect to the Notes by deleting
the ninth paragraph of Section 3.05 of the Original Indenture
in its entirety and substituting the following:
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“If the
Depositary (i) is unwilling or unable to continue as
depository for the Global Security, (ii) is closed for
business for 14 continuous days, (iii) ceases to be a
“clearing agency” registered under the Exchange Act or
(iv) announces its intention to permanently cease business or
does in fact do so, or an Event of Default has occurred and is
continuing with respect to the Global Security, the Company will
issue certificates for the Notes in definitive, fully registered,
non-global form without interest coupons in exchange for the Global
Securities.”
SECTION 2.04. Interest and
Principal . (a) The Notes will mature on May 15,
2015, and will bear interest at the rate of 8.50% per annum.
The Company will pay interest on the Notes on each May 15 and
November 15, beginning on November 15, 2008, to Holders
of record on the immediately preceding May 1 or
November 1, respectively. Interest on the Notes shall
accrue from the most recent date to which interest has been paid
or, if no interest has been paid, from the date of issuance.
Interest on the Notes will be calculated on the basis of a 360-day
year comprised of twelve 30-day months.
(b) Payments of the principal of and
interest on the Notes shall be made in Dollars at the office of the
Paying Agent. However, the Company may make any payments in
respect of the Notes by check or wire payable in Dollars;
provided , however , that a Holder holding Notes with
an aggregate principal amount equal to or greater than $1,000,000
will be paid by wire transfer in immediately available funds at the
election of such Holder. The Company may mail an interest
check to the Holder’s last address appearing on the Security
Register. Notwithstanding the foregoing, so long as a Note is
registered in the name of a Depositary or its nominee, all payments
thereon shall be made by wire transfer of immediately available
funds to the account of the Depositary or its nominee.
SECTION 2.05. Paying Agent; Conversion
Agent . (a) The place of payment where the Notes may be
presented or surrendered for payment, where the principal of and
interest and any other payments due on the Notes are payable, where
the Notes may be surrendered for registration of transfer or
exchange and where notices and demands to and upon the Company in
respect of the Notes and the Indenture may be served shall be in
the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York, and the office or
agency maintained by the Company for such purpose shall initially
be the Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee, who shall act as
Paying Agent.
(b) The Company shall maintain an office
or agency where Securities may be presented for conversion (the
“Conversion Agent”), which shall initially be the
Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee, who shall act as Conversion
Agent.
SECTION 2.06. No Sinking Fund
. No sinking fund will be provided with respect to the Notes
(notwithstanding any provisions of the Indenture with respect to
sinking fund obligations).
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SECTION 2.07. No Redemption of
Securities . The Company may not redeem the Notes before
the Stated Maturity Date (notwithstanding any provisions of the
Indenture with respect to redemption of Securities).
SECTION 2.08. No Satisfaction and
Discharge or Defeasance . The provisions of Articles IV
and XIII of the Original Indenture shall not be applicable to the
Notes.
ARTICLE III
Security Forms
SECTION 3.01. Amendments to
Section 2.02 . Section 2.02 of the Original
Indenture is amended and restated in its entirety with the respect
to the Notes as follows:
“SECTION 2.02. FORM OF
LEGEND FOR GLOBAL SECURITIES.
Every Global
Security authenticated and delivered hereunder for which The
Depository Trust Company is to be the Depositary shall bear a
legend in substantially the following form:
UNLESS THIS CERTIFICATE IS PRESENTED BY AN
AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF THE DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY, A NEW
YORK CORPORATION (“DTC”), NEW YORK, NEW YORK, 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 SUCH OTHER NAME AS IS REQUESTED BY AN
AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC (AND ANY PAYMENT IS MADE TO
CEDE & CO., OR TO SUCH OTHER ENTITY AS IS REQUESTED BY AN
AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC), ANY TRANSFER, PLEDGE OR OTHER
USE HEREOF FOR VALUE OR OTHERWISE BY OR TO ANY PERSON IS WRONGFUL
INASMUCH AS THE REGISTERED OWNER HEREOF, CEDE & CO., HAS
AN INTEREST HEREIN.
UNLESS AND UNTIL IT IS EXCHANGED IN WHOLE OR IN
PART FOR REGISTERED SECURITIES IN DEFINITIVE REGISTERED
FORM IN THE LIMITED CIRCUMSTANCES REFERRED TO IN THE
INDENTURE, THIS GLOBAL SECURITY MAY NOT BE TRANSFERRED EXCEPT
AS A WHOLE BY THE DEPOSITORY TO A NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITORY OR
ANOTHER NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITORY OR BY THE DEPOSITORY OR ANY SUCH
NOMINEE TO A SUCCESSOR DEPOSITORY OR A NOMINEE OR SUCH SUCCESSOR
DEPOSITORY.”
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ARTICLE IV
Events of Default
SECTION 4.01. Amendments to
Article V . (a) Section 5.01 of the Original
Indenture is amended and restated in its entirety with the respect
to the Notes as follows:
“SECTION 5.01. EVENTS OF
DEFAULT.
“Event of
Default”, wherever used herein with respect to the Notes,
means any one of the following events (whatever the reason for such
Event of Default and whether it shall be voluntary or involuntary
or be effected by operation of law or pursuant to any judgment,
decree or order of any court or any order, rule or regulation
of any administrative or governmental body):
(1) default
in the payment of any interest upon any Note when it becomes due
and payable, and continuance of such default for a period of 30
days; or
(2) default
in the payment of the principal of or any premium on any Note at
its Maturity, upon repurchase, acceleration or otherwise;
or
(3) default
in the performance, or breach, of any covenant or warranty of the
Company in this Indenture (other than a covenant or warranty a
default in whose performance or whose breach is elsewhere in this
Section specifically dealt with), and continuance of such
default or breach for a period of 30 days after there has been
given, by registered or certified mail, to the Company by the
Trustee or to the Company and the Trustee by the Holders of at
least 25% in principal amount of the Outstanding Notes a written
notice specifying such default or breach and requiring it to be
remedied and stating that such notice is a “Notice of
Default” hereunder; or
(4) the
commencement by the Company or any Significant Subsidiary of a
voluntary case or proceeding under any applicable Federal or State
bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or other similar law or of
any other case or proceeding to be adjudicated a bankrupt or
insolvent, or the consent by the Company or any Significant
Subsidiary to the entry of a decree or order for relief in respect
of the Company or any Significant Subsidiary in an involuntary case
or proceeding under any applicable Federal or State bankruptcy,
insolvency, reorganization or other similar law or to the
commencement of any bankruptcy or insolvency case or proceeding
against the Company or any Significant Subsidiary, or the filing by
the Company or any Significant Subsidiary of a petition or answer
or consent seeking reorganization or relief under any applicable
Federal or State law, or the consent by the Company or any
Significant Subsidiary to the filing of such petition or to the
appointment of or taking possession by a custodian, receiver,
liquidator, assignee, trustee, sequestrator or other similar
official of the Company or any Significant Subsidiary or of any
substantial part of the Company’s or any Significant
Subsidiary’s property, or the making by the Company or any
Significant Subsidiary of an assignment for the benefit of
creditors, or the admission by the Company or any Significant
Subsidiary in writing of its inability to pay its debts
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generally as they
become due, or the taking of corporate action by the Company or any
Significant Subsidiary in furtherance of any such action;
or
(5) failure
of the Company to comply with Article VIII of this Indenture;
or
(6) failure
of the Company to deliver, when due upon conversion, shares of
Common Stock together with cash in lieu of fractional shares and
such failure continues for a period of five Business Days after
receipt of the Conversion Notice as specified in
Section 16.02; or
(7) a
default under any bond, debenture, note or other evidence of
indebtedness of the Company or any Subsidiary or under any
mortgage, indenture or instrument under which there may be issued
or by which there may be secured or evidenced any indebtedness of
the Company or any Subsidiary (including the Notes), whether such
indebtedness exists at the time of this Indenture or afterward,
that results in the acceleration of the final maturity of such
indebtedness, or failure to pay such indebtedness at its final
maturity (giving effect to applicable grace periods), in an
aggregate amount of $35,000,000; or
(8)
any judgment or judgments for the payment of money in an aggregate
amount in excess of $35,000,000 that shall be rendered against the
Company or any Subsidiary and that shall not be waived, satisfied
or discharged for any period of 30 consecutive days during which a
stay of enforcement shall not be in effect.”
The Company
shall deliver to the Trustee, within 30 days after it has knowledge
of the occurrence of any Event of Default or any event which, with
notice or the lapse of time or both, would constitute an Event of
Default, an Officers’ Certificate setting forth the details
of such Event of Default or event, its status and what action the
Company is taking or proposes to take with respect
thereto.
(b) Section 5.02 of the Original
Indenture is hereby amended and restated in its entirety with
respect to the Notes as follows:
“SECTION 5.02. ACCELERATION OF
MATURITY; RESCISSION AND ANNULMENT.
If an Event of
Default (other than an Event of Default specified in
Section 5.01(4)) with respect to the Notes at the time
Outstanding occurs and is continuing, then in every such case the
Trustee or the Holders of not less than 25% in principal amount of
the Outstanding Notes may declare the principal amount of all the
Notes to be due and payable immediately, by a notice in writing to
the Company (and to the Trustee if given by Holders), and upon any
such declaration such principal amount shall become immediately due
and payable. If an Event of Default specified in
Section 5.01(4) with respect to the Notes at the time
Outstanding occurs, the principal amount of all the Notes shall
automatically, and without any declaration or other action on the
part of the Trustee or any Holder, become immediately due and
payable.
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At any time after
such a declaration of acceleration with respect to the Notes has
been made and before a judgment or decree for payment of the money
due has been obtained by the Trustee as hereinafter in this
Article provided, an Event of Default will be deemed waived
if:
(1) the
Company has paid or deposited with the Trustee a sum sufficient to
pay
(A) all
overdue interest on all Notes,
(B) the
principal of (and premium, if any, on) any Notes which have become
due otherwise than by such declaration of acceleration and any
interest thereon at the rate or rates prescribed therefor in such
Notes,
(C) to the
extent that payment of such interest is lawful, interest upon
overdue interest at the rate or rates prescribed therefor in such
Notes and
(D) all sums
paid or advanced by the Trustee hereunder and the reasonable
compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the Trustee,
its agents and counsel; and
(2) all
Events of Default with respect to the Notes, other than the
non-payment of the principal of the Notes which have become due
solely by such declaration of acceleration, have been cured or
waived as provided in Section 5.13.
No such rescission
shall affect any subsequent default or impair any right consequent
thereon.”
ARTICLE IV
The Trustee
SECTION 4.02. Amendments to
Section 7.04 . Section 7.04 of the Original
Indenture is hereby amended and restated in its entirety as
follows:
“SECTION 7.04. REPORTS BY
COMPANY.
The Company shall
deliver to the Trustee (unless such reports have been filed within
the time period set forth below on EDGAR), within 15 days after the
Company would have been required to file with the Commission,
copies of its annual reports and of the information, documents and
other reports (or copies of such portions of any of the foregoing
as the Commission may by rules and regulations prescribe)
which the Company is required to file with the Commission pursuant
to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act. In the
event the Company is at any time no longer subject to the reporting
requirements of Section 13 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act,
the Company shall
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continue to
provide the Trustee with reports containing substantially the same
information as would have been required to be filed with the
Commission had the Company continued to have been subject to such
reporting requirements. In such event, such reports shall be
provided within 15 days after the dates, applicable to a registrant
that is not an accelerated filer or a large accelerated filer, on
which the Company would have been required to provide reports had
the Company continued to have been subject to such reporting
requirements. Notwithstanding anything herein to the
contrary, the Company will not be deemed to have failed to comply
with any of its obligations under this Indenture for purposes of
clause (3) of Section 5.01 until 120 days after any
report is due under this Indenture. The Company shall also
comply with the other provisions of Section 314(a) of the
Trust Indenture Act.
Delivery of such
reports, information and documents to the Trustee is for
informational purposes only and the Trustee’s receipt of such
shall not constitute constructive notice of any information
contained therein or determinable from information contained
therein, including the Company’s compliance with any of its
covenants hereunder (as to which the Trustee is entitled to rely
exclusively on Officers’ Certificates).”
ARTICLE V
Consolidation, Merger, Assignment, Conveyance,
Transfer or Lease
SECTION 5.01. Amendments to
Section 8.01 . Section 8.01 of the Original
Indenture is hereby amended and restated in its entirety with
respect to the Notes as follows:
“SECTION 8.01. COMPANY
MAY CONSOLIDATE, ETC., ONLY ON CERTAIN TERMS.
The Company shall
not consolidate with or merge into any other Person or assign,
convey, transfer or lease its properties and assets substantially
as an entirety to any Person (other than a direct or indirect
wholly-owned subsidiary of the Company), unless:
(1) the Company is the surviving
corporation or, in case the Company shall consolidate with or merge
into another person or convey, transfer or lease its properties and
assets substantially as an entirety to any person, the person
formed by such consolidation or into which the Company is merged or
the person which acquires by conveyance or transfer, or which
leases, the properties and assets of the Company substantially as
an entirety shall be a corporation, partnership or trust, organized
and validly existing under the laws of the United States of
America, any State thereof or the District of Columbia and shall
expressly assume, by a supplemental indenture, executed and
delivered to the trustee, in form reasonably satisfactory to the
Trustee, the due and punctual payment of the principal of and any
premium and interest on all
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the Notes and the
performance or observance of every covenant of the Indenture on the
part of the Company to be performed or observed;
(2)
immediately after giving effect to such transaction, no Event of
Default, and no event which, after notice or lapse of time or both,
would become an Event of Default, shall have happened and be
continuing; and
(3) the
Company has delivered to the Trustee an Officers’ Certificate
and an Opinion of Counsel, each stating that such consolidation,
merger, conveyance, transfer or lease and, if a supplemental
indenture is required in connection with such transaction, such
supplemental indenture comply with this Article and that all
conditions precedent herein provided for relating to such
transaction have been complied with.”
ARTICLE VI
Supplemental Indentures
SECTION 6.01. Amendments to
Section 9.01 . Section 9.01 of the Original
Indenture is hereby amended and restated in its entirety with
respect to the Notes as follows:
“SECTION 9.01. SUPPLEMENTAL
INDENTURES WITHOUT THE CONSENT OF HOLDERS.
Without the
consent of any Holders, the Company, when authorized by a Board
Resolution, and the Trustee, at any time and from time to time, may
enter into one or more indentures supplemental hereto, in form
satisfactory to the Trustee, for any of the following
purposes:
(1) to evidence the succession of another
Person to the Company and the assumption by any such successor of
the covenants, agreements and obligations of the Company herein and
in the Notes; or
(2) to add to the covenants of the Company
for the benefit of the Holders of all or any Notes or to surrender
any right or power herein conferred upon the Company in this
Indenture; or
(3) to add any additional Events of
Default for the benefit of the Holders; or
(4) to convey, transfer, assign, mortgage
or pledge any property to or with the Trustee; or
(5) to provide for uncertificated Notes in
addition to or in place of certificated Notes; or
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(6) to evidence and provide for the
acceptance of appointment hereunder by a successor Trustee with
respect to the Notes and to add to or change any of the provisions
of this Indenture as shall be necessary to provide for or
facilitate the administration of the trusts hereunder by more than
one Trustee, pursuant to the requirements of Section 6.11;
or
(7) to cure any ambiguity omission, defect
or inconsistency; or
(8) to comply with the rules or
regulations of any securities exchange or automated quotation
system on which any Notes are listed or traded; or
(9) to secure the Notes or add any
subsidiary guarantees; or
(10) to make provisions with respect to
the conversion rights of Holders; or
(11) to make any change that does not adversely
affect the rights of any Holder; or
(12) to make any change to comply with the
requirements of the Commission in connection with the qualification
of this Indenture under the Trust Indenture Act; or
(13) to conform the text of this Indenture or
the Notes to any provision of the “Description of
Notes” contained in the Prospectus
Supplement.”
SECTION 6.02. Amendment of
Section 9.02 . Section 9.02 of the Original
Indenture is hereby amended and restated in its entirety with
respect to the Notes as follows:
“With the
consent of the Holders of not less than 50% in aggregate principal
amount of the Outstanding Notes affected by such supplemental
indenture, by act of said Holders delivered to the Company and the
Trustee, the Company, when authorized by a Board Resolution, and
the Trustee may enter into an indenture or indentures supplemental
thereto for the purpose of adding any provisions to or changing in
any manner or eliminating any of the provisions of this Indenture
or of modifying in any manner the rights of the Holders of the
Notes under this Indenture; provided , however , that
no such supplemental indenture shall, without the consent of the
Holder of each Outstanding Note affected thereby,
(1)
change the Stated Maturity of the principal of, or any installment
of principal of or interest on, any Note, or reduce the principal
amount thereof or the rate of interest thereon or any premium
payable upon the repurchase thereof, or change the coin or currency
in which, any Note or any premium or interest thereon is payable,
or impair the right to institute suit for the enforcement of any
such payment on or after the Stated Maturity thereof (or, in the
case of repurchase, on or after the repurchase date),
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(2)
reduce the percentage in principal amount of the Outstanding Notes
the consent of whose Holders is required for any such supplemental
indenture or the consent of whose Holders is required for any
waiver,
(3)
make any change that adversely affects (i) the right to
convert or exchange any Note or decreases the conversion or
exchange rate or increases the conversion price of any Note or
(ii) the right to require repurchase of any Note,
(4)
make any changes to this Section, Section 5.13 or
Section 10.08, except as to increase the percentage of Notes
Outstanding needed to effect a modification or waiver under such
sections or to provide that certain other provisions of this
Indenture cannot be modified or waived without the consent of each
Holder of the Outstanding Notes affected, or
(5)
reduce the percentage in aggregate principal amount of Notes
Outstanding required for the adoption of a resolution or the quorum
required at any meeting of Holders of Notes at which a resolution
is adopted.”
ARTICLE VII
Conversion of Securities
SECTION 7.01. Addition of
Article XVI . The Original Indenture is hereby
amended with respect to the Notes by adding a new Article XVI
following Section 15.06 as follows:
“ARTICLE
XVI
CONVERSION
RIGHTS
SECTION 16.01
RIGHT TO CONVERT.
Subject to and
upon compliance with the provisions of this Indenture, at any time
prior to the Close of Business on the Business Day immediately
preceding the Final Maturity Date, a Holder of any Note shall have
the right, at such Holder’s option, to convert any portion of
the principal amount of a Note that is an integral multiple of
$1,000 into 386.3614 shares of Common Stock per $1,000 principal
amount of Notes (the “Conversion Rate”);
provided , however , that, if such Note is submitted
or presented for repurchase pursuant to Article XVII, such
conversion right shall terminate at the Close of Business on the
Business Day immediately preceding the Fundamental Change
Repurchase Date for such Note (unless the Company shall default in
making the Fundamental Change Repurchase Price payment when due, in
which case the conversion right shall terminate at the close of
business on the date such default is cured and such Note is
repurchased). Upon receipt by the Conversion Agent of a Conversion
Notice from a Holder of Notes pursuant to Section 16.02, the
Conversion Agent shall inform the Company of such request (and, if
the Conversion Agent is other than the Trustee, inform
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the
Trustee). The Conversion Rate shall be subject to adjustment
as set forth in this Article XVI.
A Note in respect
of which a Holder is electing to exercise its option to require
repurchase upon a Fundamental Change pursuant to Section 17.01
may be converted only if such Holder withdraws its election in
accordance with Section 17.01. A Holder of Notes is not
entitled to any rights of a holder of Common Stock until such
Holder has converted such Notes for Common Stock, and only to the
extent such Notes are deemed to have been converted for Common
Stock under this Article XVI.
SECTION 16.02.
CONVERSION PROCEDURES.
To convert a Note,
a Holder must (i) complete and manually sign a conversion
notice in substantially the form set forth in Exhibit I of the
Global Security (“Conversion Notice”) or a facsimile of
the Conversion Notice and deliver such notice to a Conversion
Agent, (ii) surrender the Note to a Conversion Agent,
(iii) furnish appropriate endorsements and transfer documents
if required by the Security Registrar or the Conversion Agent,
(iv) pay any transfer or similar tax, if required and
(v) pay funds equal to interest payable on the next Interest
Payment Date, if required pursuant to this
Section 16.02. The date on which the Holder satisfies
all of those requirements is the “Conversion
Date”. A Conversion Notice is irrevocable upon delivery
to the Conversion Agent. Anything herein to the contrary
notwithstanding, in the case of Global Securities, Conversion
Notices may be delivered and such Notes may be surrendered for
conversion in accordance with the Applicable Procedures as in
effect from time to time.
The Person in
whose name the Common Stock certificate is registered shall be
deemed to be a stockholder of record at the Close of Business on
the applicable Conversion Date; provided , however ,
that if the Conversion Date is a date when the stock transfer books
of the Company are closed, such Person shall be deemed a
stockholder of record on the next date on which the stock transfer
books of the Company are open; provided further that such
conversion shall be at the Conversion Rate as if the stock transfer
books of the Company had not been closed on the Conversion
Date.
Upon conversion of
a Note, a Holder will not receive any cash payment of interest
(unless such conversion occurs between a Regular Record Date and
the related Interest Payment Date), and the Company will not adjust
the Conversion Rate to account for accrued and unpaid interest on
the Note being converted. Delivery to the Holder of the full
number of shares of Common Stock into which the Note is
convertible, together with any cash payment for fractional shares
pursuant to Section 16.04, will be deemed to satisfy the
Company’s obligation with respect to such Note. Any accrued
but unpaid interest will be deemed to be paid in full upon
conversion rather than canceled, extinguished or
forfeited.
Holders of Notes
at the Close of Business on a Regular Record Date will receive
payment of interest payable on the related Interest Payment Date
notwithstanding the conversion of such Notes at any time after the
Close of Business on the Regular Record Date and prior to the
related Interest Payment Date. Notes or portions thereof
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surrendered for
conversion during the period from the Close of Business on a
Regular Record Date to 9:00 a.m. New York City time on the
related Interest Payment Date shall be accompanied by payment to
the Company or its order, in immediately available funds or other
funds acceptable to the Company, of an amount equal to the interest
payable on such Interest Payment Date with respect to the principal
amount of Notes or portions thereof being surrendered for
conversion; provided that no such payment need be made
(1) following the Close of Business on the Regular Record Date
immediately preceding the final Interest Payment Date, (2) if
the Company has specified a Fundamental Change Repurchase Date that
occurs during the period from the Close of Business on a Regular
Record Date to the Close of Business on the related Interest
Payment Date or (3) to the extent any overdue interest exists
on the Conversion Date with respect to the Notes converted, but
only to the extent of such overdue interest.
If a Holder
converts more than one Note at the same time, the number of shares
of Common Stock issuable upon the conversion shall be based on the
aggregate principal amount of Notes converted.
Upon surrender of
a Note that is converted in part, the Company shall execute, and
the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver to the holder, a new
Note equal in principal amount to the principal amount of the
unconverted portion of the Note surrendered.
SECTION 16.03.
PAYMENT UPON CONVERSION.
Upon the
conversion of a Note, subject to Section 16.02, the Company
shall deliver shares of Common Stock, together with cash in lieu of
any fractional shares, to the Holder through the Conversion Agent.
No payment or adjustment shall be made for dividends on, or other
distributions with respect to, any Common Stock except as provided
in this Article XVI.
The Conversion
Agent shall, on behalf of the Holders, convert the Notes into
shares of Common Stock, together with any cash in lieu of
fractional shares as provided in Section 16.04
below.
Settlement of the
Company’s obligation to deliver shares of Common Stock and
cash in lieu of fractional shares will occur no later than the
third Business Day immediately following the Conversion Date.
Delivery of shares of Common Stock shall be accomplished by
delivery to the Conversion Agent of certificates for the relevant
number of shares of Common Stock, other than in the case of Holders
of Notes in book-entry form with the Depositary, in which case,
shares of Common Stock shall be delivered in accordance with the
Applicable Procedures.
SECTION 16.04.
CASH PAYMENTS IN LIEU OF FRACTIONAL SHARES.
No fractional
shares of Common Stock or scrip certificates representing
fractional shares shall be issued upon conversion of Notes.
Instead, the Company will pay cash for all fractional shares of
Common Stock in an amount based on the Sale Price of the Common
Stock on the Trading Day immediately preceding the Conversion
Date.
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If more than one
Note shall be surrendered for conversion at one time by the same
Holder, the number of full shares of Common Stock that shall be
issuable upon conversion shall be computed on the basis of the
aggregate principal amount of the Notes (or specified portions
thereof to the extent permitted hereby) so surrendered.
SECTION 16.05.
ADJUSTMENT OF CONVERSION RATE.
The Conversion
Rate shall be adjusted from time to time by the Company as
follows:
(1) In case the Company shall issue shares
of Common Stock as a dividend or distribution to all Holders of its
Common Stock or subdivide or combine its outstanding Common Stock,
the Conversion Rate shall be adjusted based on the following
formula:
where,
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CR 0 =
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the Conversion
Rate in effect immediately prior to the Ex Date for such dividend
or distribution or the effective date of such subdivision or
combination, as the case may be;
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CR 1 =
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the Conversion
Rate in effect immediately on and after the Ex Date for such
dividend or distribution or the effective date of such subdivision
or combination, as the case may be;
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OS 0 =
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the number of
shares of Common Stock outstanding immediately prior to the Ex Date
for such dividend or distribution or the effective date of such
subdivision or combination, as the case may be; and
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OS 1 =
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the number of
shares of Common Stock outstanding immediately on and after the Ex
Date for such dividend or distribution or the effective date of
such subdivision or combination, as the case may be.
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Such adjustment shall become effective
immediately after 9:00 a.m., New York City time, on the
Business Day following the Ex Date for such dividend, distribution,
subdivision or combination. The Company will not pay any dividend
or make any distribution on shares of Common Stock held in treasury
by the Company. If any dividend or distribution of the type
described in this Section 16.05(1) is declared but not so
paid or made, or the outstanding shares of Common Stock are not
subdivided or combined, as the case may be, the Conversion Rate
shall again be adjusted to the Conversion Rate which would then be
in effect if such dividend, distribution, subdivision or
combination had not been declared.
(2) In case the Company shall issue
rights or warrants to all holders of Common Stock entitling them
(for a period expiring within 45 days from the date of issuance of
such rights or warrants) to subscribe for or purchase shares
of
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Common Stock at a price
per share that is less than the average Sale Prices of a share of
Common Stock over the ten consecutive Trading Day period ending on
and including the Trading Day immediately preceding the date of
announcement of such issuance, the Conversion Rate will be adjusted
based on the following formula:
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1
= CR 0 x
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0
+ X
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OS
0
+ Y
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where,
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CR 0 =
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the Conversion
Rate in effect immediately prior to the Ex Date for such
event;
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CR 1 =
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the Conversion
Rate in effect immediately on and after the Ex Date for such
event;
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OS 0 =
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the number of
shares of Common Stock outstanding immediately prior to the Ex Date
for such event;
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X =
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the total
number of shares of Common St
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