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Exhibit 4.2
Execution
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PRUDENTIAL FINANCIAL,
INC.
TO
THE BANK OF NEW
YORK
Trustee
First Supplemental
Indenture
Dated as of June 17,
2008
8.875% Fixed-to-Floating Rate
Junior Subordinated Notes due 2068
TABLE OF
CONTENTS
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ARTICLE ONE
DEFINITIONS
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| Section 1.01 |
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Definitions |
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| ARTICLE TWO |
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| GENERAL TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF THE
NOTES |
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| Section 2.01 |
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Designation and Principal Amount |
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| Section 2.02 |
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Repayment |
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| Section 2.03 |
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Form |
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| Section 2.04 |
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Rate of
Interest; Interest Payment Dates |
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| Section 2.05 |
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Interest
Deferral |
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| Section 2.06 |
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Alternative Payment Mechanism |
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| Section 2.07 |
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Events of
Default |
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| Section 2.08 |
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Securities Registrar; Paying Agent; Place of
Payment |
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| Section 2.09 |
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Limitation on Claims in the Event of Bankruptcy, Insolvency or
Receivership |
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| Section 2.10 |
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No
Sinking Fund |
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| Section 2.11 |
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Subordination |
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| Section 2.12 |
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Senior
Indebtedness |
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| Section 2.13 |
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Defeasance |
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| ARTICLE THREE |
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| COVENANTS |
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| Section 3.01 |
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Dividend
and Other Payment Stoppages |
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| Section 3.02 |
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Additional Limitation on Deferral Over One Year |
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| ARTICLE FOUR |
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| REDEMPTION OF THE NOTES |
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| Section 4.01 |
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Redemption Price |
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| Section 4.02 |
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Limitation on Partial Redemption |
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| ARTICLE FIVE |
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| REPAYMENT OF NOTES |
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Section 5.01
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Repayments |
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Section 5.02
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Selection
of the Notes to be Repaid |
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Section 5.03
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Notice of
Repayment |
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Section 5.04
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Deposit
of Repayment Amount |
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Section 5.05
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Repayment
of Notes |
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| ARTICLE SIX |
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| ORIGINAL ISSUE OF NOTES |
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Section 6.01
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Calculation of Original Issue Discount |
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| ARTICLE SEVEN |
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| SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES |
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Section 7.01
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Supplemental Indentures without Consent of Holders |
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Section 7.02
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Supplemental Indentures with Consent of Holders |
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| ARTICLE EIGHT |
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| MISCELLANEOUS |
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Section 8.01
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Effectiveness |
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Section 8.02
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Successors and Assigns |
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Section 8.03
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Effect of
Recitals |
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Section 8.04
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Ratification of Indenture |
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Section 8.05
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Tax
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Section 8.06
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Governing
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Section 8.07
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Severability |
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FIRST SUPPLEMENTAL
INDENTURE
First Supplemental Indenture,
dated as of June 17, 2008 (the “ Supplemental
Indenture ”), between Prudential Financial, Inc., a
New Jersey corporation (the “ Company ”),
having its principal office at 751 Broad Street, Newark, New Jersey
07102, and The Bank of New York, a national banking association, as
trustee (hereinafter called the “ Trustee
”).
RECITALS OF THE
COMPANY
The Company and the Trustee
executed and delivered an indenture, dated as of June 17, 2008
(the “ Indenture ”), to the Trustee to
provide for the future issuance of the Company’s subordinated
debt securities, to be issued from time to time in one or more
series as might be determined by the Company under the
Indenture.
Section 901 of the
Indenture provides that the Company and the Trustee, without the
consent of any Holder, may enter into a supplemental indenture to
establish the form or terms of Securities of any series as
permitted by Sections 201 and 301 thereof.
Pursuant to the terms of the
Indenture, the Company desires to provide for the establishment,
authentication and issuance of a new series of its Securities, the
form and terms thereof, as hereinafter set forth.
The Company has requested
that the Trustee execute and deliver this Supplemental Indenture.
The Company has delivered to the Trustee an Opinion of Counsel and
an Officers’ Certificate pursuant to Sections 102 and
903 of the Indenture to the effect, among other things, that all
conditions precedent provided for in the Indenture to the
Trustee’s execution and delivery of this Supplemental
Indenture have been complied with. All acts and things necessary
have been done and performed to make this Supplemental Indenture
enforceable in accordance with its terms, and the execution and
delivery of this Supplemental Indenture has been duly authorized in
all respects.
NOW, THEREFORE, THIS
SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE WITNESSETH: For and in consideration of the
premises and the purchase of the Notes (as herein defined) by the
Holders thereof, it is mutually covenanted and agreed, for the
equal and proportionate benefit of all Holders of the Notes, as
follows:
ARTICLE ONE
Definitions
Section 1.01
Definitions
For all purposes of this
Supplemental Indenture, except as otherwise expressly provided
herein or unless the context otherwise requires:
(a) the terms defined in the
Indenture have the same meanings when used in this Supplemental
Indenture unless otherwise defined herein;
(b) the terms defined in this
Article have the meanings assigned to them in this Article, and
include the plural as well as the singular;
(c) any reference to an
Article, Section, other subdivision or Exhibit refers to an
Article, Section or other subdivision of, or Exhibit to, this
Supplemental Indenture; and
(d) the words
“herein”, “hereof” and
“hereunder” and other words of similar import refer to
this Supplemental Indenture as a whole and not to any particular
Article, Section or other subdivision.
In addition, the following
terms used in this Supplemental Indenture have the following
respective meanings:
“ Applicable
Spread ” means (i) in the case of a redemption
of all outstanding Notes in connection with a Tax Event or Rating
Agency Event, 0.875%, and (ii) in all other cases,
0.750%.
“ Business
Day ” means any day other than (i) a Saturday or
Sunday, (ii) a day on which banking institutions in The City
of New York are authorized or required by law or executive order to
remain closed, (iii) a day on which the Corporate Trust Office
is closed for business or (iv) on or after June 15, 2018,
a day that is not a London Banking Day.
“ Business
Combination ” means a merger, consolidation,
amalgamation, binding share exchange or conveyance, transfer or
lease of assets substantially as an entirety to any other Person or
a similar transaction involving the Company.
“ Calculation
Agent ” means, with respect to the Notes, The Bank of
New York, or any other firm appointed by the Company, acting as
calculation agent in respect of the Notes.
“ Commercially
Reasonable Efforts ” to sell Qualifying Capital
Securities means commercially reasonable efforts to complete the
offer and sale of Qualifying Capital Securities to third parties
other than Subsidiaries in public offerings or private placements;
provided that the Company shall not be considered to have
made Commercially Reasonable Efforts to effect a sale of Qualifying
Capital Securities if it determines not to pursue or complete such
sale due to pricing, coupon or dividend rate
considerations.
“ Common Equity
Issuance Cap ” has the meaning specified in
Section 2.06(a)(i).
“ Common
Stock ” means (i) shares of the Company’s
common stock, including common stock issued pursuant to any
dividend reinvestment plan or the Company’s employee benefit
plans, (ii) a security of the Company ranking upon the
Company’s liquidation, dissolution or winding up junior to
Qualifying Preferred Stock and pari passu with the common
stock that tracks the performance of, or relates to the
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results of, a business, unit or division
of the Company or its Subsidiaries, and (iii) any securities
that have no preference in the payment of dividends or amounts
payable upon liquidation, dissolution and winding up and are issued
in exchange for the securities described in clause (i) or
(ii) above in connection with a merger, consolidation, binding
share exchange, business combination, recapitalization or other
similar event.
“ Company
” has the meaning specified in the Recitals.
“ Current Market
Price ” means, with respect to the Common Stock on
any date, (i) the closing sale price per share of Common Stock
(or if no closing 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
(a) as reported in composite transactions by the New York
Stock Exchange or (b) if the Common Stock is not then listed
on the New York Stock Exchange, as reported by the principal U.S.
securities exchange on which the Common Stock is traded or quoted
or (ii) if the Common Stock is not so traded or quoted, the
average of the mid-point of the last bid and ask prices for the
shares of Common Stock on such date from each of at least three
nationally recognized independent investment banking firms selected
by the Company for this purpose.
“ Cut-off
Date ” with respect to any Repayment Date means a
date, selected by the Company, no more than 15 and no less than 10
Business Days prior to such Repayment Date.
“ Deferral
Period ” means the period commencing on an Interest
Payment Date with respect to which the Company defers interest
pursuant to Section 2.05 and ending on the earlier of
(i) the tenth anniversary of that Interest Payment Date and
(ii) the next Interest Payment Date on which the Company has
paid all deferred and unpaid amounts (including compound interest
on such deferred interest) and all other accrued interest on the
Notes.
“ Eligible
Proceeds ” means, for each relevant Interest Payment
Date, the net proceeds (after deducting underwriters’ or
placement agents’ fees, commissions or discounts and other
expenses relating to the issuance or sale of the relevant
securities, where applicable) that the Company has received during
the 180 days prior to such Interest Payment Date from the
issuance or sale of Qualifying APM Securities, up to the Preferred
Stock Issuance Cap in the case of Qualifying APM Securities that
are Qualifying Preferred Stock or Mandatorily Convertible Preferred
Stock, to Persons that are not Subsidiaries.
“ Final Maturity
Date ” has the meaning specified in
Section 2.02(b).
“ Fixed
Commitments ” means, as of any date, the maximum
number of shares of Common Stock that can be issued on or after
such date under options, warrants, convertible securities,
equity-linked contracts and other agreements of any type that are
outstanding or existing on such date and require the Company to
issue a determinable number of shares of Common Stock.
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“ Fixed-Rate
Interest Payment Date ” has the meaning specified in
Section 2.04(b).
“ Fixed-Rate
Interest Period ” means the period beginning on and
including the date hereof and ending on but excluding the first
Fixed-Rate Interest Payment Date thereafter and each successive
period beginning on and including a Fixed-Rate Interest Payment
Date and ending on but excluding the next Fixed-Rate Interest
Payment Date.
“ Floating-Rate
Interest Payment Date ” shall have the meaning
specified in Section 2.04(b).
“ Floating-Rate
Interest Period ” means the period beginning on and
including June 15, 2018 and ending on but excluding the next
Floating-Rate Interest Payment Date and each successive period
beginning on and including a Floating-Rate Interest Payment Date
and ending on but excluding the next Floating-Rate Interest Payment
Date.
“
Indenture ” has the meaning specified in the
Recitals.
“ Intent-Based
Replacement Disclosure ” has the meaning specified in
the Replacement Capital Covenant.
“ Interest
Period ” means a Fixed-Rate Interest Period or a
Floating-Rate Interest Period, as the case may be.
“ LIBOR
Determination Date ” means the second London Banking
Day immediately preceding the first day of the relevant
Floating-Rate Interest Period.
“ London Banking
Day ” means any day on which commercial banks are
open for general business (including dealings in deposits in U.S.
dollars) in London, England.
“ Make-Whole
Redemption Price ” means, with respect to a
redemption of the Notes in whole or in part prior to June 15,
2018, the present value of a principal payment on June 15,
2018 and scheduled payments of interest that would have accrued
from the Redemption Date to June 15, 2018 on the Notes being
redeemed, discounted to the Redemption Date on a semi-annual basis
(assuming a 360-day year consisting of twelve 30-day months) at a
discount rate equal to the Treasury Rate (as determined and
provided to the Company by the Treasury Dealer) plus the Applicable
Spread, plus any accrued and unpaid interest to the Redemption
Date.
“ Mandatorily
Convertible Preferred Stock ” means Preferred Stock
with (i) no prepayment obligation of the liquidation
preference on the part of the Company, whether at the election of
the holders or otherwise, and (ii) a requirement that the
Preferred Stock mandatorily convert into Common Stock within three
years from the date of its issuance at a conversion ratio within a
range established at the time of issuance of such Preferred Stock,
subject to customary anti-dilution provisions.
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“ Market
Disruption Event ” means, with respect to the
issuance or sale of Qualifying Capital Securities pursuant to
Section 2.02 or Qualifying APM Securities pursuant to
Section 2.06, the occurrence or existence of any of the
following events or set of circumstances:
(i) the Company would be
required to obtain the consent or approval of its stockholders or a
regulatory body (including, without limitation, any securities
exchange) or governmental authority to issue or sell Qualifying APM
Securities pursuant to Section 2.06 or to issue Qualifying
Capital Securities pursuant to Section 2.02, as the case may
be, and such consent or approval has not yet been obtained
notwithstanding the Company’s commercially reasonable efforts
to obtain such consent or approval;
(ii) trading in securities
generally, or in shares of the Company’s Common Stock
specifically, on the New York Stock Exchange or any other national
securities exchange, or in the over-the-counter market on which the
Company’s Common Stock is then listed or traded, shall have
been suspended or the settlement of such trading generally shall
have been materially disrupted or minimum prices shall have been
established on any such exchange or market by the United States
Securities and Exchange Commission, the relevant exchange or by any
other regulatory body or governmental agency having jurisdiction
and the establishment of such minimum prices shall have materially
disrupted trading in, and the issuance and sale of, the
Company’s Common Stock;
(iii) a banking moratorium
shall have been declared by the federal or state authorities of the
United States such that the issuance of, or market trading in, the
Qualifying APM Securities or the Qualifying Capital Securities, as
applicable, has been materially disrupted or ceased;
(iv) a material disruption
shall have occurred in commercial banking or securities settlement
or clearance services in the United States such that the issuance
of, or market trading in, the Qualifying APM Securities or the
Qualifying Capital Securities, as applicable, has been materially
disrupted or ceased;
(v) the United States shall
have become engaged in hostilities, there shall have been an
escalation in hostilities involving the United States, there shall
have been a declaration of a national emergency or war by the
United States or there shall have occurred any other national or
international calamity or crisis such that the issuance of, or
market trading in, the Qualifying APM Securities or the Qualifying
Capital Securities, as applicable, has been materially disrupted or
ceased;
(vi) there shall have
occurred such a material adverse change in general domestic or
international economic, political or financial conditions
(including, without limitation, as a result of terrorist activities
or the effect of international conditions on the financial markets
in the United States) such that trading in the Qualifying APM
Securities or Qualifying Capital Securities, as the case may be,
shall have been materially disrupted or ceased;
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(vii) an event occurs and is
continuing as a result of which the offering document for such
offer and sale of Qualifying APM Securities or Qualifying Capital
Securities, as applicable, would, in the reasonable judgment of the
Company, contain an untrue statement of a material fact or omit to
state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to
make the statements therein not misleading and either (x) the
disclosure of that event at such time, in the reasonable judgment
of the Company, is not otherwise required by law and would have a
material adverse effect on the business of the Company or
(y) the disclosure relates to a previously undisclosed
proposed or pending material business transaction, and the Company
has a bona fide reason for keeping the same confidential or
its disclosure would impede the Company’s ability to
consummate the transaction, provided that no single
suspension period contemplated by this clause (vii) shall
exceed 90 consecutive days and multiple suspension periods
contemplated by this clause (vii) shall not exceed an
aggregate of 180 days in any 360-day period; or
(viii) the Company reasonably
believes that the offering document for such offer and sale of
Qualifying APM Securities or Qualifying Capital Securities, as the
case may be, would not be in compliance with a rule or regulation
of the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (for
reasons other than those referred to in clause (vii) above),
and the Company determines it is unable to comply with such rule or
regulation or such compliance is impracticable, provided
that no single suspension period contemplated by this clause
(viii) shall exceed 90 consecutive days and multiple
suspension periods contemplated by this
clause (viii) shall not exceed an aggregate of 180 days
in any 360-day period.
“ Notes
” has the meaning specified in
Section 2.01(a).
“ Pari Passu
Securities ” means debt securities of the Company
that rank in right of payment upon liquidation of the Company on a
parity with the Notes, and includes the Notes.
“ Permitted
Remedies ” has the meaning specified in the
Replacement Capital Covenant.
“ Preferred
Stock ” means the preferred stock of the
Company.
“ Preferred Stock
Issuance Cap ” has the meaning specified in
Section 2.06(a)(ii).
“ Qualifying APM
Securities ” means Common Stock, Qualifying Preferred
Stock, Qualifying Warrants and Mandatorily Convertible Preferred
Stock, provided that the Company may amend this definition
without the consent of any Holder of the Notes in accordance with
Section 2.06(e).
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“ Qualifying
Capital Securities ” has the meaning specified in the
Replacement Capital Covenant.
“ Qualifying
Preferred Stock ” means the Company’s
non-cumulative perpetual Preferred Stock that (i) ranks
pari passu with or junior to all other outstanding Preferred
Stock, other than Preferred Stock that is issued or issuable
pursuant to a stockholders’ rights plan or similar plan or
arrangement, (ii) contains no remedies other than Permitted
Remedies and (iii)(a) is redeemable, but is subject to Intent-Based
Replacement Disclosure, and has a provision that provides for
mandatory suspension of distributions upon its failure to satisfy
one or more financial tests set forth therein or (b) is
subject to a Qualifying Replacement Capital Covenant.
“ Qualifying
Replacement Capital Covenant ” has the meaning
specified in the Replacement Capital Covenant.
“ Qualifying
Warrants ” means any net share-settled warrants to
purchase Common Stock that have an exercise price at the time of
pricing greater than the Current Market Price and that the Company
is not entitled to redeem for cash and the holders of which are not
entitled to require the Company to purchase for cash in any
circumstances.
“ Rating Agency
Event ” means that any nationally recognized
statistical rating organization within the meaning of
Section 3(a)(62) of the Exchange Act that then publishes a
rating for the Company (a “ rating agency
”) amends, clarifies or changes the criteria it uses to
assign equity credit to securities such as the Notes, which
amendment, clarification or change results in:
(i) the shortening of the
length of time the Notes are assigned a particular level of equity
credit by that rating agency as compared to the length of time they
would have been assigned that level of equity credit by that rating
agency or its predecessor on the issue date of the Notes,
or
(ii) the lowering of the
equity credit (including up to a lesser amount) assigned to the
Notes by that rating agency as compared to the equity credit
assigned by that rating agency or its predecessor on the issue date
of the Notes.
“ Repayment
Date ” means the Scheduled Maturity Date, each
Floating-Rate Interest Payment Date thereafter until the Company
shall have repaid or redeemed all of the Notes and, to the extent
that any principal is repaid thereon, the Final Maturity
Date.
“ Replacement
Capital Covenant ” means the Replacement Capital
Covenant, dated as of June 17, 2008, of the Company, as the
same may be amended or supplemented from time to time in accordance
with the provisions thereof and
Section 2.02(a)(vii).
“ Reuters Page
LIBOR01 ” means the display so designated on the
Reuters 3000 Xtra (or such other page as may replace that page on
that service, or such other service as may be nominated by the
Company as the information vendor, for the purpose of displaying
rates or prices comparable to the London Interbank Offered Rate for
U.S. dollar deposits).
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“ Scheduled
Maturity Date ” has the meaning specified in
Section 2.02(a)(i).
“ Share Cap
Amount ” has the meaning specified in
Section 2.06(a)(iii).
“ Supplemental
Indenture ” means this instrument as originally
executed or as it from time to time may be supplemented or amended
by one or more agreements supplemental hereto.
“ Tax
Event ” means the receipt by the Company of an
opinion of counsel experienced in such matters to the effect that,
as a result of any:
(i) amendment to or change
(including any officially announced proposed change) in the laws or
regulations of the United States or any political subdivision or
taxing authority of or in the United States that is enacted or
effective on or after the date hereof;
(ii) official administrative
decision or judicial decision or administrative action or other
official pronouncement (including a private letter ruling,
technical advice memorandum or other similar pronouncement) by any
court, government agency or regulatory authority interpreting or
applying those laws or regulations that is announced on or after
the date hereof; or
(iii) threatened challenge
asserted in connection with an audit of the Company, or a
threatened challenge asserted in writing against any taxpayer that
has raised capital through the issuance of securities that are
substantially similar to the Notes, which challenge is asserted
against the Company or becomes publicly known on or after the date
hereof,
there is more than an insubstantial
increase in the risk that interest payable by the Company on the
Notes is not, or within 90 days of the date of such opinion will
not be, deductible by the Company, in whole or in part, for U.S.
federal income tax purposes.
“ Three-Month
LIBOR ” means, with respect to any Floating-Rate
Interest Period, the rate (expressed as a percentage per annum) for
deposits in U.S. dollars for a three-month period commencing on the
first day of that Floating-Rate Interest Period that appears on
Reuters Page LIBOR01 as of 11:00 a.m., London time, on the LIBOR
Determination Date for that Floating-Rate Interest Period. If such
rate does not appear on Reuters Page LIBOR01, Three-Month LIBOR
will be determined on the basis of the rates at which deposits in
U.S. dollars for a three-month period commencing on the first day
of that Floating-Rate Interest Period and in a principal amount of
not less than $1,000,000 are offered to prime banks in the London
interbank market by four major banks in the London interbank market
selected by the Calculation Agent (after consultation with the
Company), at approximately 11:00 a.m., London time, on the LIBOR
Determination Date for that Floating-Rate Interest Period. The
Calculation Agent will request the principal
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London office of each of these banks to
provide a quotation of its rate. If at least two such quotations
are provided, Three-Month LIBOR with respect to that Floating-Rate
Interest Period will be the arithmetic mean (rounded upward if
necessary to the nearest whole multiple of 0.00001%) of such
quotations. If fewer than two quotations are provided, Three-Month
LIBOR with respect to that Floating-Rate Interest Period will be
the arithmetic mean (rounded upward if necessary to the nearest
whole multiple of 0.00001%) of the rates quoted by three major
banks in New York City selected by the Calculation Agent (after
consultation with the Company), at approximately 11:00 a.m., New
York City time, on the first day of that Floating-Rate Interest
Period for loans in U.S. dollars to leading European banks for a
three-month period commencing on the first day of that
Floating-Rate Interest Period and in a principal amount of not less
than $1,000,000. However, if fewer than three banks selected by the
Calculation Agent to provide quotations are quoting as described
above, Three-Month LIBOR for that Floating-Rate Interest Period
will be the same as Three-Month LIBOR as determined for the
previous Floating-Rate Interest Period or, in the case of the first
Floating-Rate Interest Period, 2.776%. The establishment of
Three-Month LIBOR for each Floating-Rate Interest Period by the
Calculation Agent shall (in the absence of manifest error) be final
and binding.
“ Treasury
Dealer ” means J.P. Morgan Securities Inc. and Morgan
Stanley & Co. Incorporated (or their successors) or, if
J.P. Morgan Securities Inc. or Morgan Stanley & Co.
Incorporated (or their successors) refuse to act as Treasury Dealer
for the purpose of determining the Make-Whole Redemption Price or
cease to be primary U.S. government securities dealers, another
nationally recognized investment banking firm that is a primary
U.S. government securities dealer specified by the Company to act
as Treasury Dealer for the purpose of determining the Make-Whole
Redemption Price.
“ Treasury
Price ” means, with respect to a Redemption Date, the
bid-side price for the Treasury Security as of the third trading
day preceding the Redemption Date, as set forth in the Wall Street
Journal in the table entitled “Treasury Bonds, Notes and
Bills”, except that: (i) if that table (or any successor
table) is not published or does not contain that price information
on that trading day or (ii) if the Treasury Dealer determines
that the price information is not reasonably reflective of the
actual bid-side price of the Treasury Security prevailing at 3:30
p.m., New York City time, on that trading day, then Treasury Price
will instead mean the bid-side price for the Treasury Security at
or around 3:30 p.m., New York City time, on that trading day
(expressed on a next trading day settlement basis) as determined by
the Treasury Dealer through such alternative means as are
commercially reasonable under the circumstances.
“ Treasury
Rate ” means, with respect to a Redemption Date, the
semi-annual equivalent yield to maturity of the Treasury Security
that corresponds to the Treasury Price (calculated by the Treasury
Dealer in accordance with standard market practice and computed as
of the second trading day preceding the Redemption
Date).
“ Treasury
Security ” means the United States Treasury security
that the Treasury Dealer determines would be appropriate to use, at
the time of determination and in accordance with standard market
practice, in pricing the Notes being redeemed in a tender offer
based on a spread to United States Treasury yields.
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ARTICLE TWO
General Terms and
Conditions of the Notes
Section 2.01 Designation and
Principal Amount
(a)
Designation
Pursuant to Section 301
of the Indenture, there is hereby established a series of
Securities of the Company designated as the 8.875%
Fixed-to-Floating Rate Junior Subordinated Notes due 2068 (the
“ Notes ”), the principal amount of which
to be issued shall be in accordance with Section 2.01(b) and
as set forth in a Company Order for the authentication and delivery
of Notes pursuant to the Indenture, and the form and terms of which
shall be as set forth hereinafter.
(b) Principal Amount;
Additional Notes
Notes in an initial aggregate
principal amount of $600,000,000, upon execution of this
Supplemental Indenture, shall be executed by the Company and
delivered to the Trustee, and the Trustee shall thereupon
authenticate and deliver said Notes in accordance with a Company
Order. At any time and from time to time after the date hereof,
without the consent of any Holders of the Notes, the Company may
execute and deliver additional Notes to the Trustee for
authentication, together with a Company Order for the
authentication and delivery of such additional Notes, so long as
such additional Notes are fungible for U.S. tax purposes with the
Notes issued as of the date of this Supplemental Indenture. Any
additional Notes so issued shall be governed by this Supplemental
Indenture and shall rank equally and ratably in right of payment
with the Notes issued on the date of this Supplemental Indenture
and, together with the Notes issued as of the date of this
Supplemental Indenture, shall be treated as a single series of
Notes for all purposes.
Section 2.02
Repayment
(a) Scheduled Maturity
Date
(i) The principal amount of,
and all accrued and unpaid interest on, the Notes shall be payable
in full on June 15, 2038 or, if such day is not a Business
Day, the following Business Day (the “ Scheduled
Maturity Date ”), to the extent of the net proceeds
received by the Company during the 180-day period ending on the
Cut-off Date from the issuance of Qualifying Capital Securities as
contemplated by Section 2.02(a)(iv). In the event the Company
has delivered an Officers’ Certificate to the Trustee
pursuant to Section 2.02(a)(v) in connection with the
Scheduled Maturity Date, (x) the principal amount of Notes
payable on the Scheduled Maturity Date, if any, shall be the
principal amount set forth in the notice of repayment, if any,
accompanying such Officers’ Certificate, (y) such
principal amount of Notes shall be repaid on the Scheduled Maturity
Date
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pursuant to
Article Five, and (z) subject to
Section 2.02(a)(ii), the unpaid principal amount of the Notes
shall remain outstanding. The Company shall repay the unpaid
principal amount of the Notes on the immediately succeeding
Floating-Rate Interest Payment Date to the extent of the net
proceeds received by the Company during the 90-day period ending on
the Cut-Off Date from the issuance of Qualifying Capital Securities
as contemplated by Section 2.02(a)(iv), and to a like extent
on each Floating-Rate Interest Payment Date thereafter until the
Company has repaid the Notes in full, or such earlier date on which
they are redeemed pursuant to Article Four or become due and
payable pursuant to Sections 501 and 502 of the
Indenture.
(ii) In the event the Company
has delivered an Officers’ Certificate to the Trustee
pursuant to Section 2.02(a)(v) in connection with any
Repayment Date following the Scheduled Maturity Date, (x) the
principal amount of the Notes payable on such Repayment Date shall
be the principal amount set forth in the notice of repayment, if
any, accompanying such Officers’ Certificate, (y) such
principal amount shall be repaid on such Repayment Date pursuant to
Article Five to the extent of net proceeds received by the
Company during the 90-day period ending on the Cut-Off Date from
the issuance of Qualifying Capital Securities as contemplated by
Section 2.02(a)(iv), and (z) the unpaid principal amount
shall remain outstanding. The Company shall repay the unpaid
principal amount of the Notes on the immediately succeeding
Repayment Date to the extent of the net proceeds received by the
Company during the 90-day period ending on the Cut-Off Date from
the issuance of Qualifying Capital Securities as contemplated by
Section 2.02(a)(iv), and on each Repayment Date thereafter to
like extent until the Notes are paid in full, or such earlier date
on which they are redeemed pursuant to Article Four or become due
and payable pursuant to Sections 501 and 502 of the
Indenture.
(iii) The obligation of the
Company to repay the Notes pursuant to this Section 2.02(a) on
any date prior to the Final Maturity Date shall be subject to
(x) its obligations under Article Eleven of the Indenture to
the holders of Senior Indebtedness and (y) its obligations
under Section 2.05 with respect to the payment of deferred
interest on the Notes.
(iv) Until the Company has
repaid the Notes in full, or such earlier date on which the Notes
are redeemed pursuant to Article Four or become due and payable
pursuant to Sections 501 and 502 of the Indenture:
(A) the Company shall use
Commercially Reasonable Efforts, subject to a Market Disruption
Event, to raise sufficient net proceeds from the issuance of
Qualifying Capital Securities during the 180-day period ending on
the Cut-off Date to permit repayment of the Notes in full on the
Scheduled Maturity Date pursuant to Section 2.02(a)(i);
and
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(B) if the Company is unable
for any reason to raise sufficient net proceeds from the issuance
of Qualifying Capital Securities to permit repayment in full of the
Notes on any Repayment Date (other than the Final Maturity Date),
the Company shall continue to use its Commercially Reasonable
Efforts, subject to a Market Disruption Event, to raise sufficient
net proceeds from the sale of Qualifying Capital Securities during
the 90-day period ending on each subsequent Cut-off Date to permit
repayment of the Notes on such following Repayment Date pursuant to
Section 2.02(a)(i); and
(C) the Company shall repay
the Notes to the extent required by
Section 2.02(a)(vi).
For the avoidance of doubt,
the Company is not obligated to sell any securities other than
Qualifying Capital Securities to raise net proceeds for repayment
of the Notes pursuant to this Section 2.02(a), or to apply the
proceeds of any such sale of other securities for repayment of the
Notes pursuant to this Section 2.02(a), and no Holder of Notes
may require the Company to issue any such other securities in
satisfaction of its obligations under this
Section 2.02(a).
(v) The Company, if it has
not raised sufficient net proceeds from the issuance of Qualifying
Capital Securities pursuant to Section 2.02(a)(iv) to permit
repayment of the Notes in full on any Repayment Date (other than
the Final Maturity Date) pursuant to Section 2.01(a)(i) or
(ii), as applicable, shall deliver an Officers’ Certificate
to the Trustee (who shall forward such certificate to each Holder
of the Notes) on and dated the Cut-off Date stating the amount of
net proceeds, if any, raised pursuant to Section 2.02(a)(iv)
in connection with such Repayment Date. The Company shall not be
obligated to sell Qualifying Capital Securities pursuant to
Section 2.02(a)(iv) if such Officers’ Certificate
further certifies that: (A) a Market Disruption Event was
existing during the entire 180-day period ending on the Cut-off
Date or, in the case of any Repayment Date after the Scheduled
Maturity Date, the entire 90-day period preceding the Cut-off Date;
or (B) the Market Disruption Event continued for only part of
the 180-day period or 90-day period, as the case may be, but the
Company was unable after Commercially Reasonable Efforts to raise
sufficient net proceeds during the rest of that period to permit
repayment of the Notes in full. In the event that the Company was
unable, although no Market Disruption Event occurred, after
Commercially Reasonable Efforts to raise sufficient net proceeds
during the 180-day or 90-day period, as the case may be, to permit
repayment of the Notes in full on such Repayment Date, the Company
shall deliver an Officers’ Certificate that certifies the
same to the Trustee (who shall forward such certificate to each
Holder of the Notes) on the Cut-off Date. Each Officers’
Certificate delivered pursuant to this clause (v), unless no
principal amount of Notes is to be repaid on the applicable
Repayment Date, shall be accompanied by a notice of repayment
pursuant to Section 5.01 setting forth the principal amount of
the Notes to be repaid on such Repayment Date, which amount shall
be determined after giving effect to Section 2.02(a)(vi). In
the event the Company fails to deliver an
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Officer’s Certificate
to the Trustee in the manner described herein in connection with a
Repayment Date, the Company shall be deemed to have confirmed that
sufficient proceeds have been raised from an issuance of Qualifying
Capital Securities, and all outstanding principal of the Notes will
be due on such Repayment Date.
(vi) Payments in respect of
the Notes on any Repayment Date will be applied as follows: first,
to deferred interest on the Notes (including compounded interest
thereon) to the extent of Eligible Proceeds raised pursuant to
Section 2.06; second, to pay current interest on the Notes to
the extent not paid from other sources; and third, to the principal
amount of the Notes; provided that if the Company is
obligated to sell Qualifying Capital Securities and repay principal
on any outstanding Pari Passu Securities in addition to the
Notes in respect thereof, then on any date and for any period, such
payments shall be made on the Notes and those other Pari
Passu Securities having the same scheduled maturity date as the
Notes pro rata in accordance with their respective
outstanding principal amounts, and no such payments shall be made
to any other such Pari Passu Securities having a later
scheduled maturity date until the principal of and all accrued and
unpaid interest on the Notes have been paid in full, except to the
extent permitted by Sections 3.01 and 2.06(c). If at any time
the Company is obligated to sell Qualifying Capital Securities and
repay principal on any outstanding Pari Passu Securities
having an earlier scheduled maturity date in addition to the Notes,
then no payment shall be made on the Notes until the principal of
and all accrued and unpaid interest on such Pari Passu
Securities having an earlier scheduled maturity date is paid in
full. If the Company raises less than $5,000,000 of net proceeds
from the sale of Qualifying Capital Securities during the relevant
180-day or 90-day period, the Company will not be required to repay
any Notes on the Scheduled Maturity Date or the next Repayment
Date, as applicable. On the next Repayment Date as of which the
Company has raised at least $5,000,000 of net proceeds during the
180-day period (or, if shorter, the period beginning on the date on
which the Company last repaid any principal amount of Notes) ending
on the Cut-off Date, the Company shall be required to repay a
principal amount of the Notes equal to the entire net proceeds from
the sale of Qualifying Capital Securities during such 180-day or
shorter period on such Repayment Date.
(vii) The Company shall not
amend the Replacement Capital Covenant to impose additional
restrictions on the type or amount of Qualifying Capital Securities
that the Company may include for purposes of determining whether or
to what extent repayment, redemption or purchase of the Notes is
permitted under the Replacement Capital Covenant, except with the
consent of Holders of a majority in principal amount of the Notes.
Except as aforesaid, the Company may amend or supplement the
Replacement Capital Covenant in accordance with its terms and
without the consent of the Holders of the Notes.
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(b) Final Maturity
Date
The principal of, and all
accrued and unpaid interest on, all outstanding Notes shall be due
and payable on June 15, 2068 or, if such date is not a
Business Day, the following Business Day (the “ Final
Maturity Date ”), or upon acceleration following an
Event of Default of the Notes as provided in Section 2.07,
regardless of the amount of Qualifying Capital Securities the
Company may have issued and sold by that time.
Section 2.03 Form
The Notes shall be
substantially in the form of Exhibit A, shall include the
Trustee’s certificate of authentication in the form required
by Section 205 of the Base Indenture and shall be issued in
fully registered definitive form without interest
coupons.
The Notes initially are
issuable solely as Global Securities and shall bear the legend
required by Section 204 of the Indenture.
The Depositary for the Notes
initially shall be the Depository Trust Company (or any successor
thereto).
Section 2.04 Rate of Interest;
Interest Payment Dates
(a) Rate of Interest;
Accrual
The Notes shall bear interest
on their principal amount: (i) from and including
June 17, 2008, to but excluding, June 15, 2018, at the
rate of 8.875% per annum, computed on the basis of a 360-day
year consisting of twelve 30-day months, and (ii) from and
including June 15, 2018 to but excluding the Final Maturity
Date or such earlier date of repayment at an annual rate equal to
Three-Month LIBOR plus 5.0%, computed on the basis of a 360-day
year and the actual number of days elapsed. Defaulted Interest and
interest deferred pursuant to Section 2.05 will bear interest,
to the extent permitted by law, at the interest rate in effect from
time to time provided in this Section 2.04(a), from and
including the relevant Interest Payment Date, compounded on each
subsequent Interest Payment Date.
(b) Interest Payment
Dates
Subject to Section 2.05,
accrued interest on the Notes shall be payable
(i) semi-annually in arrears on June 15 and
December 15 of each year, beginning on December 15, 2008,
or if any such day is not a Business Day, the next Business Day
(but no interest will accrue as a result of that postponement) and
ending on June 15, 2018 (each such date, a “
Fixed-Rate Interest Payment Date ”), to the
Holders of the Notes on the immediately preceding June 1 or
December 1, as the case may be, and (ii) quarterly in
arrears on March 15, June 15, September 15 and
December 15 of each year (each such date, a “
Floating-Rate Interest Payment Date ”),
beginning on September 15, 2018, or if any such day is not a
Business Day, the next Business Day, or if such Business Day is in
the immediately succeeding calendar month, the immediately
preceding Business Day, to the Holders of the Notes on the
immediately preceding March 1, June 1, September 1
or December 1, as the case may be. We refer to each
Floating-Rate Interest Payment Date and each Fixed-Rate Interest
Payment Date as an “ Interest Payment Date
”.
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Section 2.05 Interest
Deferral
(a) Option to Defer
Interest Payments
(i) The Company shall have
the right, at any time and from time to time, to defer the payment
of interest on the Notes for one or more consecutive Interest
Periods that do not exceed ten years for any single Deferral
Period, provided that no Deferral Period shall extend beyond
the Final Maturity Date, any earlier accelerated maturity date
arising from an Event of Default or any other earlier repayment in
full or redemption of the Notes. If the Company has paid all
deferred interest (including compounded interest thereon) on the
Notes, the Company shall have the right to elect to begin a new
Deferral Period pursuant to this Section 2.05(a).
(ii) At the end of any
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