BERRY
PLASTICS CORPORATION,
as
Issuer,
and
certain Note Guarantors
First
Priority Senior Secured Floating Rate Notes due
2015
________________________
INDENTURE
Dated
as of April 21, 2008
________________________
WELLS
FARGO BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION,
as
Trustee
TABLE
OF CONTENTS
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ARTICLE
1
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DEFINITIONS
AND INCORPORATION BY REFERENCE
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SECTION
1.01.
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Definitions
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1
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SECTION
1.02.
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Other
Definitions
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29
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SECTION
1.03.
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Incorporation
by Reference of Trust Indenture Act
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31
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SECTION
1.04.
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Rules
of Construction
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31
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ARTICLE
2
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THE
SECURITIES
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SECTION
2.01.
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Amount
of Securities
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32
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SECTION
2.02.
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Form
and Dating
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33
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SECTION
2.03.
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Execution
and Authentication
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33
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SECTION
2.04.
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Registrar
and Paying Agent
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33
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SECTION
2.05.
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Paying
Agent to Hold Money in Trust
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34
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SECTION
2.06.
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Holder
Lists
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34
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SECTION
2.07.
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Transfer
and Exchange
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34
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SECTION
2.08.
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Replacement
Securities
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35
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SECTION
2.09.
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Outstanding
Securities
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SECTION
2.10.
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Temporary
Securities
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35
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SECTION
2.11.
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Cancellation
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36
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SECTION
2.12.
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Defaulted
Interest
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36
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SECTION
2.13.
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CUSIP
Numbers, ISINs, etc.
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36
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SECTION
2.14.
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Calculation
of Principal Amount of Securities
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36
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ARTICLE
3
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REDEMPTION
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SECTION
3.01.
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Redemption
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36
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SECTION
3.02.
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Applicability
of Article
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36
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SECTION
3.03.
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Notices
to Trustee
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36
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SECTION
3.04.
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Selection
of Securities to Be Redeemed
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37
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SECTION
3.05.
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Notice
of Optional Redemption
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37
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SECTION
3.06.
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Effect
of Notice of Redemption
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SECTION
3.07.
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Deposit
of Redemption Price
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38
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SECTION
3.08.
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Securities
Redeemed in Part
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38
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ARTICLE
4
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COVENANTS
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SECTION
4.01.
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Payment
of Securities
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SECTION
4.02.
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Reports
and Other Information
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38
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SECTION
4.03.
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Limitation
on Incurrence of Indebtedness and Issuance of Disqualified
Stock and Preferred Stock
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39
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SECTION
4.04.
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Limitation
on Restricted Payments
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43
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SECTION
4.05.
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Dividend
and Other Payment Restrictions Affecting
Subsidiaries
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47
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SECTION
4.06.
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Asset
Sales
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49
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SECTION
4.07.
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Transactions
with Affiliates
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51
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SECTION
4.08.
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Change
of Control
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53
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SECTION
4.09.
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Compliance
Certificate
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55
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SECTION
4.10.
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Further
Instruments and Acts
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55
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SECTION
4.11.
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Future
Note Guarantors
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55
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SECTION
4.12.
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Liens
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55
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SECTION
4.13.
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Maintenance
of Office or Agency
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55
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SECTION
4.14.
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Amendment
of Security Documents
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56
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SECTION
4.15.
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After-Acquired
Property
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56
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SECTION
4.16.
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Termination
and Suspension of Certain Covenants
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57
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ARTICLE
5
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SUCCESSOR
COMPANY
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SECTION
5.01.
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When
Issuer May Merge or Transfer Assets
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57
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ARTICLE
6
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DEFAULTS
AND REMEDIES
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SECTION
6.01.
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Events
of Default
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59
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SECTION
6.02.
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Acceleration
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61
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SECTION
6.03.
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Other
Remedies
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61
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SECTION
6.04.
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Waiver
of Past Defaults
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61
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SECTION
6.05.
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Control
by Majority
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62
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SECTION
6.06.
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Limitation
on Suits
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62
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SECTION
6.07.
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Rights
of the Holders to Receive Payment
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62
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SECTION
6.08.
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Collection
Suit by Trustee
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62
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SECTION
6.09.
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Trustee
May File Proofs of Claim
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62
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SECTION
6.10.
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Priorities
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63
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SECTION
6.11.
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Undertaking
for Costs
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63
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SECTION
6.12.
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Waiver
of Stay or Extension Laws
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63
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ARTICLE
7
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TRUSTEE
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SECTION
7.01.
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Duties
of Trustee
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63
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SECTION
7.02.
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Rights
of Trustee
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SECTION
7.03.
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Individual
Rights of Trustee
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65
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SECTION
7.04.
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Trustee’s
Disclaimer
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65
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SECTION
7.05.
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Notice
of Defaults
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65
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SECTION
7.06.
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Reports
by Trustee to the Holders
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66
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SECTION
7.07.
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Compensation
and Indemnity
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66
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SECTION
7.08.
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Replacement
of Trustee
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66
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SECTION
7.09.
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Successor
Trustee by Merger
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67
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SECTION
7.10.
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Eligibility;
Disqualification
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67
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SECTION
7.11.
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Preferential
Collection of Claims Against the Issuer
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67
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ARTICLE
8
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DISCHARGE
OF INDENTURE; DEFEASANCE
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SECTION
8.01.
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Discharge
of Liability on Securities; Defeasance
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68
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SECTION
8.02.
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Conditions
to Defeasance
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69
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SECTION
8.03.
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Application
of Trust Money
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70
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SECTION
8.04.
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Repayment
to Company
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70
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SECTION
8.05.
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Indemnity
for U.S. Government Obligations
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70
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SECTION
8.06.
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Reinstatement
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70
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ARTICLE
9
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AMENDMENTS
AND WAIVERS
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SECTION
9.01.
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Without
Consent of the Holders
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70
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SECTION
9.02.
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With
Consent of the Holders
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71
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SECTION
9.03.
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Compliance
with Trust Indenture Act
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72
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SECTION
9.04.
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Revocation
and Effect of Consents and Waivers
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72
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SECTION
9.05.
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Notation
on or Exchange of Securities
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72
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SECTION
9.06.
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Trustee
to Sign Amendments
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72
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SECTION
9.07.
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Payment
for Consent
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73
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SECTION
9.08.
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Additional
Voting Terms; Calculation of Principal Amount
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73
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ARTICLE
10
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RANKING
OF NOTE LIENS
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SECTION
10.01.
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Relative
Rights
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ARTICLE
11
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COLLATERAL
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SECTION
11.01.
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Security
Documents
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74
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SECTION
11.02.
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Notes
Collateral Agent
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74
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SECTION
11.03.
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Authorization
of Actions to Be Taken
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75
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SECTION
11.04.
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Release
of Liens
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76
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SECTION
11.05.
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Filing,
Recording and Opinions
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SECTION
11.06.
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[Intentionally
omitted]
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77
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SECTION
11.07.
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Powers
Exercisable by Receiver or Trustee
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77
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SECTION
11.08.
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Release
Upon Termination of the Issuer’s
Obligations
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77
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SECTION
11.09.
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Designations
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78
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SECTION
11.10.
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Taking
and Destruction
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78
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ARTICLE
12
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GUARANTEES
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SECTION
12.01.
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Guarantees
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78
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SECTION
12.02.
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Limitation
on Liability
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80
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SECTION
12.03.
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Successors
and Assigns
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80
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SECTION
12.04.
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No
Waiver
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SECTION
12.05.
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Modification
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SECTION
12.06.
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Execution
of Supplemental Indenture for Future Note
Guarantors
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81
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SECTION
12.07.
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Non-Impairment
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81
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ARTICLE
13
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MISCELLANEOUS
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SECTION
13.01.
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Trust
Indenture Act Controls
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81
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SECTION
13.02.
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Notices
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SECTION
13.03.
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Communication
by the Holders with Other Holders
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82
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SECTION
13.04.
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Certificate
and Opinion as to Conditions Precedent
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82
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SECTION
13.05.
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Statements
Required in Certificate or Opinion
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82
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SECTION
13.06.
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When
Securities Disregarded
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83
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SECTION
13.07.
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Rules
by Trustee, Paying Agent and Registrar
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83
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SECTION
13.08.
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Legal
Holidays
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83
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SECTION
13.09.
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GOVERNING
LAW
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83
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SECTION
13.10.
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No
Recourse Against Others
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83
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SECTION
13.11.
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Successors
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83
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SECTION
13.12.
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Multiple
Originals
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83
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SECTION
13.13.
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Table
of Contents; Headings
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83
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SECTION
13.14.
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Indenture
Controls
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SECTION
13.15.
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Severability
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83
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Appendix
A
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Provisions
Relating to Initial Securities, Additional Securities
and
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EXHIBIT
INDEX
Exhibit
A – Form of Initial Security
Exhibit
B – Form of Exchange Security
Exhibit
C – Form of Transferee Letter of
Representation
Exhibit
D – Form of Supplemental Indenture
CROSS-REFERENCE
TABLE
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TIA
Section
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Indenture
Section
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310
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(a)(1)
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7.10
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(a)(2)
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7.10
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(a)(3)
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N.A.
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(a)(4)
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N.A.
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(b)
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7.08;
7.10
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(c)
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N.A.
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311
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(a)
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7.11
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(b)
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7.11
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(c)
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N.A.
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312
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(a)
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2.06
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(b)
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13.03
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(c)
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13.03
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313
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(a)
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7.06
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(b)(1)
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N.A.
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(b)(2)
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7.06
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(c)
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7.06
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(d)
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4.02;
4.09
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314
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(a)
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4.02;
4.09
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(b)
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N.A.
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(c)(1)
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13.04
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(c)(2)
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13.04
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(c)(3)
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N.A.
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(d)
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N.A.
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(e)
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13.05
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(f)
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4.10
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315
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(a)
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7.01
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(b)
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7.05
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(c)
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7.01
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(d)
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7.01
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(e)
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6.11
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316
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(a)(last
sentence)
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13.06
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(a)(1)(A)
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6.05
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(a)(1)(B)
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6.04
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(a)(2)
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N.A.
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(b)
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6.07
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317
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(a)(1)
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6.08
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(a)(2)
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6.09
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(b)
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2.05
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318
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(a)
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13.01
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N.A.
Means Not Applicable.
Note: This
Cross-Reference Table shall not, for any purposes, be deemed
to be part of this Indenture.
INDENTURE
dated as of April 21, 2008 among BERRY PLASTICS CORPORATION, a
Delaware corporation (the “Issuer”), and WELLS
FARGO BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, a national banking
association, as trustee (the “Trustee”), and the
Note Guarantors (as defined herein).
Each
party agrees as follows for the benefit of the other parties
and for the equal and ratable benefit of the Holders of (a)
$680,600,000 aggregate principal amount of the Issuer’s
First Priority Senior Secured Floating Rate Notes due 2015
(the “Original Securities”) issued on the date
hereof, (b) any Additional Securities (as defined herein) that
may be issued after the date hereof in the form of
Exhibit A (all such securities in clauses (a) and (b)
being referred to collectively as the “Initial
Securities”) and (c) if and when issued as provided in
the Registration Agreement (as defined in Appendix A hereto
(the “Appendix”)) in the Registered Exchange Offer
(as defined in the Appendix) in exchange for any Initial
Securities or otherwise registered under the Securities Act
and issued in the form of Exhibit B, $680,600,000 aggregate
principal amount of the Issuer’s First Priority Senior
Secured Floating Rate Exchange Notes due 2015, (the
“Exchange Securities” and, together with the
Original Securities and any Additional Securities, the
“Securities”). The Original Securities,
any Additional Securities (as defined herein) and the Exchange
Securities shall constitute a single series
hereunder. Subject to the conditions and compliance
with the covenants set forth herein, the Issuer may issue an
unlimited aggregate principal amount of Additional
Securities.
ARTICLE 1
DEFINITIONS AND INCORPORATION BY REFERENCE
SECTION
1.01.
Definitions .
“Acquired
Indebtedness” means, with respect to any specified
Person:
(1) Indebtedness
of any other Person existing at the time such other Person is
merged, consolidated or amalgamated with or into or became a
Restricted Subsidiary of such specified Person,
and
(2) Indebtedness
secured by a Lien encumbering any asset acquired by such
specified Person.
“Acquisition
Documents” means the Captive Merger Agreement and any
other document entered into in connection therewith, in each
case as amended, supplemented or modified from time to time
prior to the Issue Date or thereafter (so long as any
amendment, supplement or modification after the Issue Date,
together with all other amendments, supplements and
modifications after the Issue Date, taken as a whole, is not
more disadvantageous to the Holders in any material respect
than the Acquisition Documents as in effect on the Issue
Date).
“Additional
Securities” means First Priority Senior Secured Floating
Rate Notes due 2015 issued under the terms of this Indenture
subsequent to the Issue Date, other than the Exchange
Securities.
“Affiliate”
of any specified Person means any other Person directly or
indirectly controlling or controlled by or under direct or
indirect common control with such specified
Person. For purposes of this definition,
“control” (including, with correlative meanings,
the terms “controlling,” “controlled
by” and “under common control with”), as
used with respect to any Person, means the possession,
directly or indirectly, of the power to direct or cause the
direction of the management or policies of such Person,
whether through the ownership of voting securities, by
agreement or otherwise.
“Applicable
Premium” means, with respect to any Security on any
applicable redemption date, the greater of:
(1) 1%
of the then outstanding principal amount of the Security;
and
(2) the
excess of:
(a) the
present value at such redemption date of (i) the redemption
price of the Security, at April 15, 2010 as set forth in
Paragraph 5 of the applicable Security plus (ii) all required
interest payments due on such Security through April 15, 2010
(excluding accrued but unpaid interest), computed (x) using
the interest rate in effect in respect of the Securities on
the date the Issuer delivers notice to the holders of its
intention to redeem the Securities, and (y) using a discount
rate equal to the Treasury Rate as of such redemption date
plus 50 basis points; over
(b) the
then outstanding principal amount of the
Security.
“Asset
Sale” means:
(1) the
sale, conveyance, transfer or other disposition (whether in a
single transaction or a series of related transactions) of
property or assets (including by way of a Sale/Leaseback
Transaction) outside the ordinary course of business of the
Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary of the Issuer (each
referred to in this definition as a “disposition”)
or
(2) the
issuance or sale of Equity Interests (other than
directors’ qualifying shares and shares issued to
foreign nationals or other third parties to the extent
required by applicable law) of any Restricted Subsidiary
(other than to the Issuer or another Restricted Subsidiary of
the Issuer) (whether in a single transaction or a series of
related transactions),
in
each case other than:
(a) a
disposition of Cash Equivalents or Investment Grade Securities
or obsolete or worn out property or equipment in the ordinary
course of business;
(b) the
disposition of all or substantially all of the assets of the
Issuer in a manner permitted pursuant to Section 5.01 or any
disposition that constitutes a Change of Control;
(c) any
Restricted Payment or Permitted Investment that is permitted
to be made, and is made, under Section 4.04;
(d) any
disposition of assets or issuance or sale of Equity Interests
of any Restricted Subsidiary, which assets or Equity Interests
so disposed or issued have an aggregate Fair Market Value of
less than $7.5 million;
(e) any
disposition of property or assets, or the issuance of
securities, by a Restricted Subsidiary of the Issuer to the
Issuer or by the Issuer or a Restricted Subsidiary of the
Issuer to a Restricted Subsidiary of the Issuer;
(f) any
exchange of assets (including a combination of assets and Cash
Equivalents) for assets related to a Similar Business of
comparable or greater market value or usefulness to the
business of the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries as a
whole, as determined in good faith by the Issuer;
(g) foreclosure
on assets of the Issuer or any of its Restricted
Subsidiaries;
(h) any
sale of Equity Interests in, or Indebtedness or other
securities of, an Unrestricted Subsidiary;
(i) the
lease, assignment or sublease of any real or personal property
in the ordinary course of business;
(j) any
sale of inventory or other assets in the ordinary course of
business;
(k) any
grant in the ordinary course of business of any license of
patents, trademarks, know-how or any other intellectual
property;
(l) a
transfer of accounts receivable and related assets of the type
specified in the definition of “Receivables
Financing” (or a fractional undivided interest therein)
by a Receivables Subsidiary in a Qualified Receivables
Financing; and
(m) the
sale of any property in a Sale/Leaseback Transaction within
six months of the acquisition of such property.
“Bank
Indebtedness” means any and all amounts payable under or
in respect of any Credit Agreement and any other Credit
Agreement Documents as amended, restated, supplemented,
waived, replaced, restructured, repaid, refunded, refinanced
or otherwise modified from time to time (including after
termination of any Credit Agreement), including principal,
premium (if any), interest (including interest accruing on or
after the filing of any petition in bankruptcy or for
reorganization relating to the Issuer whether or not a claim
for post-filing interest is allowed in such proceedings),
fees, charges, expenses, reimbursement obligations, guarantees
and all other amounts payable thereunder or in respect
thereof.
“Bankruptcy
Case” means a case under the Bankruptcy
Code.
“Bankruptcy
Code” means Title 11 of the United States
Code.
“Bankruptcy
Law” means the Bankruptcy Code and any similar federal,
state or foreign law for relief of debtors.
“Board
of Directors” means, as to any Person, the board of
directors or managers, as applicable, of such Person (or, if
such Person is a partnership, the board of directors or other
governing body of the general partner of such Person) or any
duly authorized committee thereof.
“Bridge
Loan Administrative Agent” means Bank of America, N.A.,
in its capacity as Bridge Loan Administrative Agent under the
Bridge Loan Credit Agreement, and its successors in
substantially the same capacity as may from time to time be
appointed thereunder.
“Bridge
Loan Collateral Agent” means Bank of America, N.A., in
its capacity as Bridge Loan Collateral Agent under the Bridge
Loan Guarantee and Collateral Agreement dated as of February
5, 2008 among the Issuer, subsidiaries of the Issuer party
thereto and the Bridge Loan Collateral Agent.
“Bridge
Loan Credit Agreement” means the Senior Secured Bridge
Loan Credit Agreement dated as of February 5, 2008, by and
among the Issuer, the agents and lenders party thereto, the
Bridge Loan Administrative Agent, as amended, restated,
supplemented, waived, replaced (whether or not upon
termination, and whether with the original lenders or
otherwise), restructured, repaid, refunded, refinanced or
otherwise modified from time to time, including any agreement
or indenture extending the maturity thereof, refinancing,
replacing or otherwise restructuring all or any portion of the
Indebtedness under such agreement or agreements or indenture
or indentures or any successor or replacement agreement or
agreements or indenture or indentures or increasing the amount
loaned or issued thereunder or altering the maturity
thereof.
“Business
Day” means a day other than a Saturday, Sunday or other
day on which banking institutions are authorized or required
by law to close in New York City.
“Calculation
Agent” means a financial institution appointed by the
Issuer to calculate the interest rate payable on the
Securities in respect of each Interest Period, which shall
initially be the Trustee.
“Capital
Stock” means:
(1) in
the case of a corporation, corporate stock or
shares;
(2) in
the case of an association or business entity, any and all
shares, interests, participations, rights or other equivalents
(however designated) of corporate stock;
(3) in
the case of a partnership or limited liability company,
partnership or membership interests (whether general or
limited); and
(4) any
other interest or participation that confers on a Person the
right to receive a share of the profits and losses of, or
distributions of assets of, the issuing Person.
“Capitalized
Lease Obligation” means, at the time any determination
thereof is to be made, the amount of the liability in respect
of a capital lease that would at such time be required to be
capitalized and reflected as a liability on a balance sheet
(excluding the footnotes thereto) in accordance with
GAAP.
“Captive
Acquisition” means the acquisition by the Issuer of
substantially all of the outstanding shares of Capital Stock
of Captive Holdings, Inc. pursuant to the Captive Merger
Agreement.
“Captive
Holdings” means Captive Holdings, LLC, a Delaware
limited liability company.
“Captive
Merger Agreement” means the stock purchase agreement,
dated as of December 21, 2007, by and among the Issuer,
Captive Holdings, Inc. and Captive Holdings, as amended,
supplemented or modified from time to time prior to the Issue
Date or thereafter (so long as any amendment, supplement or
modification after the Issue Date, together with all other
amendments, supplements and modifications after the Issue
Date, taken as a whole, is not more disadvantageous to the
Holders in any material respect than the Captive Merger
Agreement as in effect on the Issue Date).
“Cash
Contribution Amount” means the aggregate amount of cash
contributions made to the capital of the Issuer described in
the definition of “Contribution
Indebtedness.”
“Cash
Equivalents” means:
(1) U.S.
dollars, pounds sterling, euros, the national currency of any
member state in the European Union or, in the case of any
Foreign Subsidiary that is a Restricted Subsidiary, such local
currencies held by it from time to time in the ordinary course
of business;
(2) securities
issued or directly and fully guaranteed or insured by the U.S.
government or any country that is a member of the European
Union or any agency or instrumentality thereof in each case
maturing not more than two years from the date of
acquisition;
(3) certificates
of deposit, time deposits and eurodollar time deposits with
maturities of one year or less from the date of acquisition,
bankers’ acceptances, in each case with maturities not
exceeding one year and overnight bank deposits, in each case
with any commercial bank having capital and surplus in excess
of $250.0 million and whose long-term debt is rated
“A” or the equivalent thereof by Moody’s or
S&P (or reasonably equivalent ratings of another
internationally recognized ratings agency);
(4) repurchase
obligations for underlying securities of the types described
in clauses (2) and (3) above entered into with any financial
institution meeting the qualifications specified in clause (3)
above;
(5) commercial
paper issued by a corporation (other than an Affiliate of the
Issuer) rated at least “A-1” or the equivalent
thereof by Moody’s or S&P (or reasonably equivalent
ratings of another internationally recognized ratings agency)
and in each case maturing within one year after the date of
acquisition;
(6) readily
marketable direct obligations issued by any state of the
United States of America or any political subdivision thereof
having one of the two highest rating categories obtainable
from either
Moody’s
or S&P (or reasonably equivalent ratings of another
internationally recognized ratings agency) in each case with
maturities not exceeding two years from the date of
acquisition;
(7) Indebtedness
issued by Persons (other than the Sponsors or any of their
Affiliates) with a rating of “A” or higher from
S&P or “A-2” or higher from Moody’s in
each case with maturities not exceeding two years from the
date of acquisition; and
(8) investment
funds investing at least 95% of their assets in securities of
the types described in clauses (1) through (7)
above.
“Change
of Control” means the occurrence of any of the following
events:
(i)
the sale,
lease or transfer, in one or a series of related transactions,
of all or substantially all the assets of the Issuer and its
Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, to a Person other than any of
the Permitted Holders; or
(ii)
the Issuer
becomes aware (by way of a report or any other filing pursuant
to Section 13(d) of the Exchange Act, proxy, vote, written
notice or otherwise) of the acquisition by any Person or group
(within the meaning of Section 13(d)(3) or Section 14(d)(2) of
the Exchange Act, or any successor provision), including any
group acting for the purpose of acquiring, holding or
disposing of securities (within the meaning of Rule
13d-5(b)(1) under the Exchange Act), other than any of the
Permitted Holders, in a single transaction or in a related
series of transactions, by way of merger, consolidation or
other business combination or purchase of beneficial ownership
(within the meaning of Rule 13d-3 under the Exchange Act, or
any successor provision), of more than 50% of the total voting
power of the Voting Stock of the Issuer or any direct or
indirect parent of the Issuer.
“Code”
means the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as
amended.
“Collateral”
means all property subject or purported to be subject, from
time to time, to a Lien under any Security
Documents.
“Collateral
Agreement” means that certain Collateral Agreement,
dated as of the date hereof, by and between the Issuer, the
Notes Collateral Agent, and certain Subsidiaries of the Issuer
party thereto.
“Company”
means the Issuer until a successor replaces it and,
thereafter, means the successor and, for purposes of any
provision contained herein and required by the TIA, each other
Obligor on the Securities.
“consolidated”
means, with respect to any Person, such Person consolidated
with its Restricted Subsidiaries, and shall not include any
Unrestricted Subsidiary, but the interest of such Person in an
Unrestricted Subsidiary shall be accounted for as an
Investment.
“Consolidated
Interest Expense” means, with respect to any Person for
any period, the sum, without duplication, of:
(1) consolidated
interest expense of such Person and its Restricted
Subsidiaries for such period, to the extent such expense was
deducted in computing Consolidated Net Income (including
amortization of original issue discount, the interest
component of Capitalized Lease Obligations, and net payments
and receipts (if any) pursuant to interest rate Hedging
Obligations and excluding amortization of deferred financing
fees and expensing of any bridge or other financing fees);
plus
(2) consolidated
capitalized interest of such Person and its Restricted
Subsidiaries for such period, whether paid or accrued;
plus
(3) commissions,
discounts, yield and other fees and charges Incurred in
connection with any Receivables Financing which are payable to
Persons other than the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries;
minus
(4) interest
income for such period.
“Consolidated
Net Income” means, with respect to any Person for any
period, the aggregate of the Net Income of such Person and its
Restricted Subsidiaries for such period, on a consolidated
basis; provided ,
however ,
that:
(1) any
net after-tax extraordinary, nonrecurring or unusual gains or
losses or income, expenses or charges (less all fees and
expenses relating thereto), including, without limitation, any
severance expenses, any expenses related to any
reconstruction, recommissioning or reconfiguration of fixed
assets for alternate uses any fees, expenses or charges
relating to new product lines, plant shutdown costs,
acquisition integration costs and any expenses or charges
related to any Equity Offering, Permitted Investment,
acquisition or Indebtedness permitted to be Incurred by this
Indenture (in each case, whether or not successful), including
any such fees, expenses, charges or change in control payments
made under the Acquisition Documents or otherwise related to
the Transactions, in each case, shall be
excluded;
(2) any
increase in amortization or depreciation or any one-time
non-cash charges or increases or reductions in Net Income, in
each case resulting from purchase accounting in connection
with the Transactions or any acquisition that is consummated
after the Issue Date shall be excluded;
(3) the
Net Income for such period shall not include the cumulative
effect of a change in accounting principles during such
period;
(4) any
net after-tax income or loss from discontinued operations and
any net after-tax gains or losses on disposal of discontinued
operations shall be excluded;
(5) any
net after-tax gains or losses (less all fees and expenses or
charges relating thereto) attributable to business
dispositions or asset dispositions other than in the ordinary
course of business (as determined in good faith by the Board
of Directors of the Issuer) shall be excluded;
(6) any
net after-tax gains or losses (less all fees and expenses or
charges relating thereto) attributable to the early
extinguishment of indebtedness shall be excluded;
(7) the
Net Income for such period of any Person that is not a
Subsidiary of such Person, or is an Unrestricted Subsidiary,
or that is accounted for by the equity method of accounting,
shall be included only to the extent of the amount of
dividends or distributions or other payments paid in cash (or
to the extent converted into cash) to the referent Person or a
Restricted Subsidiary thereof in respect of such
period;
(8) solely
for the purpose of determining the amount available for
Restricted Payments under clause (1) of the definition of
Cumulative Credit, the Net Income for such period of any
Restricted Subsidiary (other than any Note Guarantor) shall be
excluded to the extent that the declaration or payment of
dividends or similar distributions by such Restricted
Subsidiary of its Net Income is not at the date of
determination permitted without any prior governmental
approval (which has not been obtained) or, directly or
indirectly, by the operation of the terms of its charter or
any agreement, instrument, judgment, decree, order, statute,
rule or governmental regulation applicable to that Restricted
Subsidiary or its stockholders, unless such restrictions with
respect to the payment of dividends or similar distributions
have been legally waived; provided that the
Consolidated Net Income of such Person shall be increased by
the amount of dividends or other distributions or other
payments actually paid in cash (or converted into cash) by any
such Restricted Subsidiary to such Person, to the extent not
already included therein;
(9) an
amount equal to the amount of Tax Distributions actually made
to any parent of such Person in respect of such period in
accordance with Section 4.04(b)(xii) shall be included as
though such amounts had been paid as income taxes directly by
such Person for such period;
(10) any
non-cash impairment charges resulting from the application of
Statement of Financial Accounting Standards
(“SFAS”) Nos. 142 and 144 and the amortization of
intangibles arising pursuant to SFAS No. 141 shall be
excluded;
(11) any
non-cash expense realized or resulting from stock option
plans, employee benefit plans or post-employment benefit
plans, grants of stock appreciation or similar rights, stock
options or other rights to officers, directors and employees
of such Person or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries shall be
excluded;
(12) any
(a) severance or relocation costs or expenses, (b) one-time
non-cash compensation charges, (c) the costs and expenses
after the Issue Date related to employment of terminated
employees, (d) costs or expenses realized in connection with,
resulting from or in anticipation of the Transactions or (e)
costs or expenses realized in connection with or resulting
from stock appreciation or similar rights, stock options or
other rights existing on the Issue Date of officers, directors
and employees, in each case of such Person or any of its
Restricted Subsidiaries, shall be excluded;
(13) accruals
and reserves that are established within 12 months after the
Issue Date and that are so required to be established in
accordance with GAAP shall be excluded;
(14) solely
for purposes of calculating EBITDA, (a) the Net Income of any
Person and its Restricted Subsidiaries shall be calculated
without deducting the income attributable to, or adding the
losses attributable to, the minority equity interests of third
parties in any non-wholly-owned Restricted Subsidiary except
to the extent of dividends declared or paid in respect of such
period or any prior period on the shares of Capital Stock of
such Restricted Subsidiary held by such third parties and (b)
any ordinary course dividend, distribution or other payment
paid in cash and received from any Person in excess of amounts
included in clause (7) above shall be included;
(15) (a)(i)
the non-cash portion of “straight-line” rent
expense shall be excluded and (ii) the cash portion of
“straight-line” rent expense which exceeds the
amount expensed in respect of such rent expense shall be
included and (b) non-cash gains, losses, income and expenses
resulting from fair value accounting required by SFAS No. 133
shall be excluded;
(16) unrealized
gains and losses relating to hedging transactions and
mark-to-market of Indebtedness denominated in foreign
currencies resulting from the applications of SFAS 52 shall be
excluded; and
(17) solely
for the purpose of calculating Restricted Payments, the
difference, if positive, of the Consolidated Taxes of the
Issuer calculated in accordance with GAAP and the actual
Consolidated Taxes paid in cash by the Issuer during any
Reference Period shall be included.
Notwithstanding
the foregoing, for the purpose of Section 4.04 only, there
shall be excluded from Consolidated Net Income any dividends,
repayments of loans or advances or other transfers of assets
from Unrestricted Subsidiaries of the Issuer or a Restricted
Subsidiary of the Issuer to the extent such dividends,
repayments or transfers increase the amount of Restricted
Payments permitted under clauses (E) and (F) of the definition
of “Cumulative Credit.”
“Consolidated
Non-cash Charges” means, with respect to any Person for
any period, the aggregate depreciation, amortization and other
non-cash expenses of such Person and its Restricted
Subsidiaries reducing Consolidated Net Income of such Person
for such period on a consolidated basis and otherwise
determined in accordance with GAAP, but excluding any such
charge which consists of or requires an accrual of, or cash
reserve for, anticipated cash charges for any future
period.
“Consolidated
Taxes” means provision for taxes based on income,
profits or capital, including, without limitation, state,
franchise and similar taxes and any Tax Distributions taken
into account in calculating Consolidated Net
Income.
“Contingent
Obligations” means, with respect to any Person, any
obligation of such Person guaranteeing any leases, dividends
or other obligations that do not constitute Indebtedness
(“primary obligations”) of any other Person (the
“primary obligor”) in any manner, whether directly
or indirectly, including, without limitation, any obligation
of such Person, whether or not contingent:
(1) to
purchase any such primary obligation or any property
constituting direct or indirect security
therefor,
(2) to
advance or supply funds:
(a) for
the purchase or payment of any such primary obligation;
or
(b) to
maintain working capital or equity capital of the primary
obligor or otherwise to maintain the net worth or solvency of
the primary obligor; or
(3) to
purchase property, securities or services primarily for the
purpose of assuring the owner of any such primary obligation
of the ability of the primary obligor to make payment of such
primary obligation against loss in respect
thereof.
“Contribution
Indebtedness” means Indebtedness of the Issuer or any
Note Guarantor in an aggregate principal amount not greater
than twice the aggregate amount of cash contributions (other
than Excluded Contributions) made to the capital of the Issuer
or such Note Guarantor after the Issue Date; provided
that:
(1) such
cash contributions have not been used to make a Restricted
Payment,
(2) if
the aggregate principal amount of such Contribution
Indebtedness is greater than the aggregate amount of such cash
contributions to the capital of the Issuer or such Note
Guarantor, as the case may be, the amount in excess shall be
Indebtedness (other than Secured Indebtedness) with a Stated
Maturity later than the Stated Maturity of the Securities,
and
(3) such
Contribution Indebtedness (a) is Incurred within 180 days
after the making of such cash contributions and (b) is so
designated as Contribution Indebtedness pursuant to an
Officers’ Certificate on the Incurrence date
thereof.
“Credit
Agreement Documents” means the collective reference to
the Credit Agreements, any notes issued pursuant thereto and
the guarantees thereof, and the collateral documents relating
thereto, as amended, supplemented, restated, renewed,
refunded, replaced, restructured, repaid, refinanced or
otherwise modified from time to time.
“Credit
Agreements” means (i)(A) the Term Loan Credit
Agreement and (B) the Revolving Credit Agreement,
and (ii) whether or not the credit agreements referred to
in clause (i) remain outstanding, if designated by the
Issuer to be included in the definition of “Credit
Agreement,” one or more (A) debt facilities or
commercial paper facilities, providing for revolving credit
loans, term loans, receivables financing (including through
the sale of receivables to lenders or to special purpose
entities formed to borrow from lenders against such
receivables) or letters of credit, (B) debt securities,
indentures or other forms of debt financing (including
convertible or exchangeable debt instruments or bank
guarantees or bankers’ acceptances), or
(C) instruments or agreements evidencing any other
Indebtedness, in each case, with the same or different
borrowers or issuers and, in each case, as amended,
supplemented, modified, extended, restructured, renewed,
refinanced, restated, replaced or refunded in whole or in part
from time to time.
“Cumulative
Credit” means the sum of (without
duplication):
(A) 50%
of the Consolidated Net Income of the Issuer for the period
(taken as one accounting period, the “Reference
Period”) from April 1, 2008 to the end of the
Issuer’s most recently ended fiscal quarter for which
internal financial statements are available at the time of
such Restricted Payment (or, in the case such Consolidated Net
Income for such period is a deficit, minus 100% of such
deficit), plus
(B) 100%
of the aggregate net proceeds, including cash and the Fair
Market Value (as determined in good faith by the Issuer) of
property other than cash, received by the Issuer after the
Issue Date from the issue or sale of Equity Interests of the
Issuer (excluding Refunding Capital Stock, Designated
Preferred Stock, Excluded Contributions, Disqualified Stock
and the Cash Contribution Amount), including Equity Interests
issued upon conversion of Indebtedness or Disqualified Stock
or upon exercise of warrants or options (other than an
issuance or sale to a Restricted Subsidiary of the Issuer or
an employee stock ownership plan or trust established by the
Issuer or any of its Subsidiaries), plus
(C) 100%
of the aggregate amount of contributions to the capital of the
Issuer received in cash and the Fair Market Value (as
determined in good faith by the Issuer) of property other than
cash after the Issue Date (other than Excluded Contributions,
Refunding Capital Stock, Designated Preferred Stock,
Disqualified Stock and the Cash Contribution Amount),
plus
(D) the
principal amount of any Indebtedness, or the liquidation
preference or maximum fixed repurchase price, as the case may
be, of any Disqualified Stock of the Issuer or any Restricted
Subsidiary thereof issued after the Issue Date (other than
Indebtedness or Disqualified Stock issued to a Restricted
Subsidiary) which has been converted into or exchanged for
Equity Interests in the Issuer (other than Disqualified Stock)
or any direct or indirect parent of the Issuer (provided in
the case of any parent, such Indebtedness or Disqualified
Stock is retired or extinguished), plus
(E) 100%
of the aggregate amount received by the Issuer or any
Restricted Subsidiary in cash and the Fair Market Value (as
determined in good faith by the Issuer) of property other than
cash received by the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary after
the Issue Date from:
(I)
the sale
or other disposition (other than to the Issuer or a Restricted
Subsidiary of the Issuer) of Restricted Investments made by
the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries and from
repurchases and redemptions of such Restricted Investments
from the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries by any Person
(other than the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries)
and from repayments of loans or advances which constituted
Restricted Investments (other than in each case to the extent
that the Restricted Investment was made pursuant to clause
(vii) or (x) of Section 4.04(b)),
(II)
the sale
(other than to the Issuer or a Restricted Subsidiary of the
Issuer) of the Capital Stock of an Unrestricted Subsidiary,
or
(III)
a
distribution or dividend from an Unrestricted Subsidiary,
plus
(F) in
the event any Unrestricted Subsidiary of the Issuer has been
redesignated as a Restricted Subsidiary or has been merged,
consolidated or amalgamated with or into, or transfers or
conveys its assets to, or is liquidated into, the Issuer or a
Restricted Subsidiary, in each case after the Issue Date, the
Fair Market Value (as determined in good faith by the Issuer
or, if such Fair Market Value may exceed $25.0 million, in
writing by an Independent Financial Advisor) of the Investment
of the Issuer in such Unrestricted Subsidiary at the time of
such redesignation, combination or transfer (or of the assets
transferred or conveyed, as applicable), after taking into
account any Indebtedness associated with the Unrestricted
Subsidiary so designated or combined or any Indebtedness
associated with the assets so transferred or conveyed (other
than in each case to the extent that the designation of such
Subsidiary as an Unrestricted Subsidiary was made pursuant to
clause (vii) or (x) of Section 4.04(b) or constituted a
Permitted Investment).
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“Default”
means any event which is, or after notice or passage of time
or both would be, an Event of Default.
“Designated
Non-cash Consideration” means the Fair Market Value of
non-cash consideration received by the Issuer or one of its
Restricted Subsidiaries in connection with an Asset Sale that
is so designated as Designated Non-cash Consideration pursuant
to an Officers’ Certificate, setting forth the basis of
such valuation, less the amount of Cash Equivalents received
in connection with a subsequent sale of such Designated
Non-cash Consideration.
“Designated
Preferred Stock” means Preferred Stock of the Issuer or
any direct or indirect parent of the Issuer (other than
Disqualified Stock), that is issued for cash (other than to
the Issuer or any of its Subsidiaries or an employee stock
ownership plan or trust established by the Issuer or any of
its Subsidiaries) and is so designated as Designated Preferred
Stock, pursuant to an Officers’ Certificate, on the
issuance date thereof.
“Destruction”
means any damage to, loss or destruction of all or any portion
of the Collateral.
“Determination
Date” with respect to an Interest Period will be the
second London Banking Day preceding the first day of such
Interest Period.
“Disqualified
Stock” means, with respect to any Person, any Capital
Stock of such Person which, by its terms (or by the terms of
any security into which it is convertible or for which it is
redeemable or exchangeable), or upon the happening of any
event:
(1) matures
or is mandatorily redeemable, pursuant to a sinking fund
obligation or otherwise (other than as a result of a change of
control or asset sale; provided that the
relevant asset sale or change of control provisions, taken as
a whole, are no more favorable in any material respect to
holders of such Capital Stock than the asset sale and change
of control provisions applicable to the Securities and any
purchase requirement triggered thereby may not become
operative until compliance with the asset sale and change of
control provisions applicable to the Securities (including the
purchase of any Securities tendered pursuant
thereto)),
(2) is
convertible or exchangeable for Indebtedness or Disqualified
Stock of such Person, or
(3) is
redeemable at the option of the holder thereof, in whole or in
part,
in
each case prior to 91 days after the maturity date of the
Securities; provided ,
however , that
only the portion of Capital Stock which so matures or is
mandatorily redeemable, is so convertible or exchangeable or
is so redeemable at the option of the holder thereof prior to
such date shall be deemed to be Disqualified Stock;
provided ,
further ,
however, that if such Capital Stock is issued to any employee
or to any plan for the benefit of employees of the Issuer or
its Subsidiaries or by any such plan to such employees, such
Capital Stock shall not constitute Disqualified Stock solely
because it may be required to be repurchased by the Issuer in
order to satisfy applicable statutory or regulatory
obligations or as a result of such employee’s
termination, death or disability; provided ,
further , that
any class of Capital Stock of such Person that by its terms
authorizes such Person to satisfy its obligations thereunder
by delivery of Capital Stock that is not Disqualified Stock
shall not be deemed to be Disqualified Stock.
“Domestic
Subsidiary” means a Restricted Subsidiary that is not a
Foreign Subsidiary, a Qualified CFC Holding Company, Berry
Plastics Acquisition Corporation II or Berry Plastics
Acquisition Corporation XIV, LLC.
“EBITDA”
means, with respect to any Person for any period, the
Consolidated Net Income of such Person for such period plus,
without duplication, to the extent the same was deducted in
calculating Consolidated Net Income:
(1) Consolidated
Taxes; plus
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(2) Consolidated
Interest Expense; plus
(3) Consolidated
Non-cash Charges; plus
(4) business
optimization expenses and other restructuring charges or
expenses (which, for the avoidance of doubt, shall include,
without limitation, the effect of inventory optimization
programs, plant closures, retention, systems establishment
costs and excess pension charges); provided that
with respect to each business optimization expense or other
restructuring charge, the Issuer shall have delivered to the
Trustee an Officers’ Certificate specifying and
quantifying such expense or charge and stating that such
expense or charge is a business optimization expense or other
restructuring charge, as the case may be; plus
(5) the
amount of management, monitoring, consulting and advisory fees
and related expenses paid to the Sponsors (or any accruals
relating to such fees and related expenses) during such period
pursuant to the terms of the agreements between the Sponsors
and the Issuer and its Subsidiaries as described with
particularity in the Offering Memorandum and as in effect on
the Issue Date;
less , without duplication,
(6) non-cash
items increasing Consolidated Net Income for such period
(excluding the recognition of deferred revenue or any items
which represent the reversal of any accrual of, or cash
reserve for, anticipated cash charges in any prior period and
any items for which cash was received in a prior
period).
“Equity
Interests” means Capital Stock and all warrants, options
or other rights to acquire Capital Stock (but excluding any
debt security that is convertible into, or exchangeable for,
Capital Stock).
“Equity
Offering” means any public or private sale after the
Issue Date of common stock or Preferred Stock of the Issuer or
any direct or indirect parent of the Issuer, as applicable
(other than Disqualified Stock), other than:
(1) public
offerings with respect to the Issuer’s or such direct or
indirect parent’s common stock registered on Form S-8;
and
(2) any
such public or private sale that constitutes an Excluded
Contribution.
“Exchange
Act” means the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as
amended, and the rules and regulations of the SEC promulgated
thereunder.
“Exchange
Offer Registration Statement” means the registration
statement filed with the SEC in connection with the Registered
Exchange Offer.
“Excluded
Contributions” means the Cash Equivalents or other
assets (valued at their Fair Market Value as determined in
good faith by senior management or the Board of Directors of
the Issuer) received by the Issuer after the Issue Date
from:
(1) contributions
to its common equity capital, and
(2) the
sale (other than to a Subsidiary of the Issuer or to any
Subsidiary management equity plan or stock option plan or any
other management or employee benefit plan or agreement) of
Capital Stock (other than Disqualified Stock and Designated
Preferred Stock) of the Issuer,
in
each case designated as Excluded Contributions pursuant to an
Officers’ Certificate on or promptly after the date such
capital contributions are made or the date such Capital Stock
is sold, as the case may be.
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“Fair
Market Value” means, with respect to any asset or
property, the price which could be negotiated in an
arm’s-length, free market transaction, for cash, between
a willing seller and a willing and able buyer, neither of whom
is under undue pressure or compulsion to complete the
transaction.
“First
Priority Lien Obligations” means (i) all Secured Bank
Indebtedness, (ii) all other Obligations (not constituting
Indebtedness) of the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries
under the agreements governing Secured Bank Indebtedness,
(iii) Note Obligations and (iv) all other Obligations of the
Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries in respect of
Hedging Obligations or Obligations in respect of cash
management services, in each case owing to a Person that is a
holder of Indebtedness described in clause (i) or Obligations
described in clause (ii) or an Affiliate of such holder at the
time of entry into such Hedging Obligations or Obligations in
respect of cash management services.
“Fixed
Charge Coverage Ratio” means, with respect to any Person
for any period, the ratio of EBITDA of such Person for such
period to the Fixed Charges of such Person for such
period. In the event that the Issuer or any of its
Restricted Subsidiaries Incurs, repays, repurchases or redeems
any Indebtedness (other than in the case of revolving credit
borrowings or revolving advances under any Qualified
Receivables Financing, in which case interest expense shall be
computed based upon the average daily balance of such
Indebtedness during the applicable period) or issues,
repurchases or redeems Disqualified Stock or Preferred Stock
subsequent to the commencement of the period for which the
Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio is being calculated but prior to
the event for which the calculation of the Fixed Charge
Coverage Ratio is made (the “Calculation Date”),
then the Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio shall be calculated
giving pro forma effect to such Incurrence, repayment,
repurchase or redemption of Indebtedness, or such issuance,
repurchase or redemption of Disqualified Stock or Preferred
Stock, as if the same had occurred at the beginning of the
applicable four-quarter period.
For
purposes of making the computation referred to above,
Investments, acquisitions, dispositions, mergers,
consolidations and discontinued operations (as determined in
accordance with GAAP), in each case with respect to an
operating unit of a business, and any operational changes that
the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries has
determined to make and/or made after the Issue Date and during
the four-quarter reference period or subsequent to such
reference period and on or prior to or simultaneously with the
Calculation Date (each, for purposes of this definition, a
“pro forma event”) shall be calculated on a pro
forma basis assuming that all such Investments, acquisitions,
dispositions, mergers, consolidations (including the
Transactions) discontinued operations and operational changes
(and the change of any associated fixed charge obligations and
the change in EBITDA resulting therefrom) had occurred on the
first day of the four-quarter reference period. If
since the beginning of such period any Person that
subsequently became a Restricted Subsidiary or was merged with
or into the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary since the
beginning of such period shall have made any Investment,
acquisition, disposition, merger, consolidation, discontinued
operation or operational change, in each case with respect to
an operating unit of a business, that would have required
adjustment pursuant to this definition, then the Fixed Charge
Coverage Ratio shall be calculated giving pro forma effect
thereto for such period as if such Investment, acquisition,
disposition, discontinued operation, merger, consolidation or
operational change had occurred at the beginning of the
applicable four-quarter period.
For purposes of this
definition, whenever pro forma effect is to be given to any
pro forma event, the pro forma calculations shall be made in
good faith by a responsible financial or accounting officer
of the Issuer. Any such pro forma calculation may
include adjustments appropriate, in the reasonable good faith
determination of the Issuer as set forth in an
Officers’ Certificate, to reflect (1) operating expense
reductions and other operating improvements or synergies
reasonably expected to result from the applicable pro forma
event (including, to the extent applicable, from the
Transactions), and (2) all pro forma adjustments of the
nature used in similar calculations in the Second Priority
Notes Indenture (as in effect on the Issue Date), including
without limitation, as applied to the
Transactions.
If
any Indebtedness bears a floating rate of interest and is
being given pro forma effect, the interest on such
Indebtedness shall be calculated as if the rate in effect on
the Calculation Date had been the applicable rate for the
entire period (taking into account any Hedging Obligations
applicable to such Indebtedness if such Hedging Obligation has
a remaining term in excess of 12 months). Interest
on a Capitalized Lease Obligation shall be
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to accrue at an interest rate reasonably determined by a
responsible financial or accounting officer of the Issuer to
be the rate of interest implicit in such Capitalized Lease
Obligation in accordance with GAAP. For purposes of
making the computation referred to above, interest on any
Indebtedness under a revolving credit facility computed on a
pro forma basis shall be computed based upon the average daily
balance of such Indebtedness during the applicable
period. Interest on Indebtedness that may
optionally be determined at an interest rate based upon a
factor of a prime or similar rate, a eurocurrency interbank
offered rate, or other rate, shall be deemed to have been
based upon the rate actually chosen, or, if none, then based
upon such optional rate chosen as the Issuer may
designate.
“Fixed
Charges” means, with respect to any Person for any
period, the sum, without duplication, of:
(1) Consolidated
Interest Expense of such Person for such period,
and
(2) all
cash dividend payments (excluding items eliminated in
consolidation) on any series of Preferred Stock or
Disqualified Stock of such Person and its Restricted
Subsidiaries.
“Foreign
Subsidiary” means a Restricted Subsidiary not organized
or existing under the laws of the United States of America or
any state or territory thereof or the District of Columbia and
any direct or indirect subsidiary of such Restricted
Subsidiary.
“GAAP”
means generally accepted accounting principles in the United
States set forth in the opinions and pronouncements of the
Accounting Principles Board of the American Institute of
Certified Public Accountants and statements and pronouncements
of the Financial Accounting Standards Board or in such other
statements by such other entity as have been approved by a
significant segment of the accounting profession, which are in
effect on the Issue Date.
“Guarantee”
means any guarantee of the obligations of the Issuer under
this Indenture and the Securities by any Person in accordance
with the provisions of this Indenture.
“guarantee”
means a guarantee (other than by endorsement of negotiable
instruments for collection in the ordinary course of
business), direct or indirect, in any manner (including,
without limitation, letters of credit and reimbursement
agreements in respect thereof), of all or any part of any
Indebtedness or other obligations.
“Hedging
Obligations” means, with respect to any Person, the
obligations of such Person under:
(1) currency
exchange, interest rate or commodity swap agreements, currency
exchange, interest rate or commodity cap agreements and
currency exchange, interest rate or commodity collar
agreements; and
(2) other
agreements or arrangements designed to protect such Person
against fluctuations in currency exchange, interest rates or
commodity prices.
“Holder”
means the Person in whose name a Security is registered on the
Registrar’s books.
“Incur”
means issue, assume, guarantee, incur or otherwise become
liable for; provided ,
however , that
any Indebtedness or Capital Stock of a Person existing at the
time such Person becomes a Subsidiary (whether by merger,
amalgamation, consolidation, acquisition or otherwise) shall
be deemed to be Incurred by such Person at the time it becomes
a Subsidiary. The term “Incurrence” shall have a
corresponding meaning.
“Indebtedness”
means, with respect to any Person:
(1) the
principal and premium (if any) of any indebtedness of such
Person, whether or not contingent, (a) in respect of borrowed
money, (b) evidenced by bonds, notes, debentures or similar
instruments or letters of credit or bankers’ acceptances
(or, without duplication, reimbursement agreements in
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thereof), (c) representing the deferred and unpaid purchase
price of any property, except any such balance that
constitutes a trade payable or similar obligation to a trade
creditor due within six months from the date on which it is
Incurred, in each case Incurred in the ordinary course of
business, which purchase price is due more than six months
after the date of placing the property in service or taking
delivery and title thereto, (d) in respect of Capitalized
Lease Obligations, or (e) representing any Hedging
Obligations, if and to the extent that any of the foregoing
indebtedness (other than letters of credit and Hedging
Obligations) would appear as a liability on a balance sheet
(excluding the footnotes thereto) of such Person prepared in
accordance with GAAP;
(2) to
the extent not otherwise included, any obligation of such
Person to be liable for, or to pay, as obligor, guarantor or
otherwise, on the Indebtedness of another Person (other than
by endorsement of negotiable instruments for collection in the
ordinary course of business);
(3) to
the extent not otherwise included, Indebtedness of another
Person secured by a Lien on any asset owned by such Person
(whether or not such Indebtedness is assumed by such Person);
provided ,
however , that
the amount of such Indebtedness will be the lesser of: (a) the
Fair Market Value of such asset at such date of determination,
and (b) the amount of such Indebtedness of such other Person;
and
(4) to
the extent not otherwise included, with respect to the Issuer
and its Restricted Subsidiaries, the amount then outstanding (
i.e.
, advanced, and received by, and available for use by, the
Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries) under any
Receivables Financing (as set forth in the books and records
of the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary and confirmed by
the agent, trustee or other representative of the institution
or group providing such Receivables Financing);
provided , however , that
notwithstanding the foregoing, Indebtedness shall be deemed not to
include (1) Contingent Obligations incurred in the ordinary course
of business and not in respect of borrowed money; (2) deferred or
prepaid revenues; (3) purchase price holdbacks in respect of a
portion of the purchase price of an asset to satisfy warranty or
other unperformed obligations of the respective seller; (4)
Obligations under or in respect of Qualified Receivables Financing
or (5) obligations under the Acquisition Documents.
Notwithstanding
anything in this Indenture to the contrary, Indebtedness shall
not include, and shall be calculated without giving effect to,
the effects of Statement of Financial Accounting Standards No.
133 and related interpretations to the extent such effects
would otherwise increase or decrease an amount of Indebtedness
for any purpose under this Indenture as a result of accounting
for any embedded derivatives created by the terms of such
Indebtedness; and any such amounts that would have constituted
Indebtedness under this Indenture but for the application of
this sentence shall not be deemed an Incurrence of
Indebtedness under this Indenture.
“Indenture”
means this Indenture as amended or supplemented from time to
time.
“Independent
Financial Advisor” means an accounting, appraisal or
investment banking firm or consultant, in each case of
nationally recognized standing, that is, in the good faith
determination of the Issuer, qualified to perform the task for
which it has been engaged.
“Intercreditor
Agreements” means the Senior Lender Intercreditor
Agreement, the Second Priority Intercreditor Agreement and,
with respect to any Senior Fixed Obligations, the Senior Fixed
Collateral Intercreditor Agreement.
“Interest
Period” means the period commencing on and including an
interest payment date and ending on and including the day
immediately preceding the next succeeding interest payment
date, with the exception that the first Interest Period shall
commence on and include the Issue Date and end on and include
July 14, 2008.
“Investment
Grade Rating” means a rating equal to or higher than
Baa3 (or the equivalent) by Moody’s and BBB- (or the
equivalent) by S&P, or an equivalent rating by any other
Rating Agency.
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“Investment
Grade Securities” means:
(1) securities
issued or directly and fully guaranteed or insured by the U.S.
government or any agency or instrumentality thereof (other
than Cash Equivalents),
(2) securities
that have a rating equal to or higher than Baa3 (or
equivalent) by Moody’s or BBB- (or equivalent) by
S&P, or an equivalent rating by any other Rating Agency,
but excluding any debt securities or loans or advances between
and among the Issuer and its Subsidiaries;
(3) investments
in any fund that invests exclusively in investments of the
type described in clauses (1) and (2) which fund may also hold
immaterial amounts of cash pending investment and/or
distribution, and
(4) corresponding
instruments in countries other than the United States
customarily utilized for high quality investments and in each
case with maturities not exceeding two years from the date of
acquisition.
“Investments”
means, with respect to any Person, all investments by such
Person in other Persons (including Affiliates) in the form of
loans (including guarantees), advances or capital
contributions (excluding accounts receivable, trade credit and
advances to customers and commission, travel and similar
advances to officers, employees and consultants made in the
ordinary course of business), purchases or other acquisitions
for consideration of Indebtedness, Equity Interests or other
securities issued by any other Person and investments that are
required by GAAP to be classified on the balance sheet of the
Issuer in the same manner as the other investments included in
this definition to the extent such transactions involve the
transfer of cash or other property. For purposes of
the definition of “Unrestricted Subsidiary” and
Section 4.04:
(1) “Investments”
shall include the portion (proportionate to the Issuer’s
equity interest in such Subsidiary) of the Fair Market Value
of the net assets of a Subsidiary of the Issuer at the time
that such Subsidiary is designated an Unrestricted Subsidiary;
provided ,
however , that
upon a redesignation of such Subsidiary as a Restricted
Subsidiary, the Issuer shall be deemed to continue to have a
permanent “Investment” in an Unrestricted
Subsidiary equal to an amount (if positive) equal
to:
(a) the
Issuer’s “Investment” in such Subsidiary at
the time of such redesignation less
(b) the
portion (proportionate to the Issuer’s equity interest
in such Subsidiary) of the Fair Market Value of the net assets
of such Subsidiary at the time of such redesignation;
and
(2) any
property transferred to or from an Unrestricted Subsidiary
shall be valued at its Fair Market Value at the time of such
transfer, in each case as determined in good faith by the
Board of Directors of the Issuer.
“Issue
Date” means April 21, 2008.
“Issuer”
means the party named as such in the Preamble to this
Indenture, until a successor replaces it and, thereafter,
means the successor, in accordance with Section
5.01.
“LIBOR”
with respect to an Interest Period, will be the rate
(expressed as a percentage per annum) for deposits in U.S.
dollars for a three-month period beginning on the second
London Banking Day after the Determination Date that appears
on Bloomberg page BBAM1 as of 11:00 a.m., London time, on
the Determination Date. If Bloomberg page BBAM1
does not include such a rate or is unavailable on a
Determination Date, the Calculation Agent will request the
principal London office of each of four major banks in the
London interbank market, as selected by the Calculation Agent,
to provide such bank’s offered quotation (expressed as a
percentage per annum), as of approximately 11:00 a.m.,
London time, on such Determination Date, to prime banks in the
London interbank market for deposits in a Representative
Amount in U.S. dollars for a three-month period beginning on
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London Banking Day after the Determination Date. If
at least two such offered quotations are so provided, the rate
for the Interest Period will be the arithmetic mean of such
quotations. If fewer than two such quotations are
so provided, the Calculation Agent will request each of three
major banks in New York City, as selected by the Calculation
Agent, to provide such bank’s rate (expressed as a
percentage per annum), as of approximately 11:00 a.m.,
New York City time, on such Determination Date, for loans in a
Representative Amount in U.S. dollars to leading European
banks for a three-month period beginning on the second London
Banking Day after the Determination Date. If at
least two such rates are so provided, the rate for the
Interest Period will be the arithmetic mean of such
rates. If fewer than two such rates are so
provided, then the rate for the Interest Period will be the
rate in effect with respect to the immediately preceding
Interest Period.
“Lien”
means, with respect to any asset, any mortgage, lien, pledge,
charge, security interest or encumbrance of any kind in
respect of such asset, whether or not filed, recorded or
otherwise perfected under applicable law (including any
conditional sale or other title retention agreement, any lease
in the nature thereof, any option or other agreement to sell
or give a security interest in and any filing of or agreement
to give any financing statement under the New York UCC (or
equivalent statute of any jurisdiction)); provided that in
no event shall an operating lease be deemed to constitute a
Lien.
“London
Banking Day” is any day on which dealings in U.S.
dollars are transacted or, with respect to any future date,
are expected to be transacted in the London interbank
market.
“Management
Group” means the group consisting of the directors,
executive officers and other management personnel of the
Issuer or any direct or indirect parent of the Issuer, as the
case may be, on the Issue Date together with (1) any new
directors whose election by such boards of directors or whose
nomination for election by the shareholders of the Issuer or
any direct or indirect parent of the Issuer, as applicable,
was approved by a vote of a majority of the directors of the
Issuer or any direct or indirect parent of the Issuer, as
applicable, then still in office who were either directors on
the Issue Date or whose election or nomination was previously
so approved and (2) executive officers and other management
personnel of the Issuer or any direct or indirect parent of
the Issuer, as applicable, hired at a time when the directors
on the Issue Date together with the directors so approved
constituted a majority of the directors of the Issuer or any
direct or indirect parent of the Issuer, as
applicable.
“Moody’s”
means Moody’s Investors Service, Inc. or any successor
to the rating agency business thereof.
“Mortgages”
means the mortgages, trust deeds, deeds of trust, deeds to
secure debt, assignments of leases and rents, and other
security documents delivered with respect to Real Property
subject to mortgages, as amended, supplemented or otherwise
modified from time to time.
“Net
Income” means, with respect to any Person, the net
income (loss) of such Person, determined in accordance with
GAAP and before any reduction in respect of Preferred Stock
dividends.
“Net
Insurance Proceeds” means the insurance proceeds
(excluding liability insurance proceeds payable to the Trustee
for any loss, liability or expense incurred by it and
excluding the proceeds of business interruption insurance) or
condemnation awards actually received by the Issuer or any
Restricted Subsidiary as a result of the Destruction or Taking
of all or any portion of the Collateral, net of:
(1) reasonable
out-of-pocket expenses and fees relating to such Taking or
Destruction (including, without limitation, expenses of
attorneys and insurance adjusters); and
(2) repayment
of Indebtedness that is secured by the property or assets that
are the subject of such Taking or Destruction.
“Net
Proceeds” means the aggregate cash proceeds received by
the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries in respect of
any Asset Sale (including, without limitation, any cash
received in respect of or upon the sale or other disposition
of any Designated Non-cash Consideration received in any Asset
Sale and any cash payments received by way of deferred payment
of principal pursuant to a note or installment receivable or
otherwise,
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but
only as and when received, but excluding the assumption by the
acquiring Person of Indebtedness relating to the disposed
assets or other consideration received in any other non-cash
form), net of the direct costs relating to such Asset Sale and
the sale or disposition of such Designated Non-cash
Consideration (including, without limitation, legal,
accounting and investment banking fees, and brokerage and
sales commissions), and any relocation expenses Incurred as a
result thereof, taxes paid or payable as a result thereof
(after taking into account any available tax credits or
deductions and any tax sharing arrangements related thereto),
amounts required to be applied to the repayment of principal,
premium (if any) and interest on Indebtedness required (other
than pursuant to Section 4.06(b)(i)) to be paid as a result of
such transaction, and any deduction of appropriate amounts to
be provided by the Issuer as a reserve in accordance with GAAP
against any liabilities associated with the asset disposed of
in such transaction and retained by the Issuer after such sale
or other disposition thereof, including, without limitation,
pension and other post-employment benefit liabilities and
liabilities related to environmental matters or against any
indemnification obligations associated with such
transaction.
“New
York UCC ” means the Uniform Commercial Code as from
time to time in effect in the State of New York.
“Note
Documents” means the Securities, this Indenture and the
Security Documents.
“Note
Guarantor” means any Person that Incurs a Guarantee;
provided that upon the release or discharge of such Person
from its Guarantee in accordance with this Indenture, such
Person ceases to be a Note Guarantor.
“Note
Obligations” means any Obligations in respect of the
Securities, this Indenture or the Security Documents,
including, for the avoidance of doubt, obligations in respect
of Exchange Securities and guarantees thereof.
“Notes
Collateral Agent” means the Trustee in its capacity as
“Collateral Agent” under this Indenture and under
the Security Documents and any successor thereto in such
capacity.
“Obligations”
means any principal, interest, penalties, fees,
indemnifications, reimbursements (including, without
limitation, reimbursement obligations with respect to letters
of credit and bankers’ acceptances), damages and other
liabilities payable under the documentation governing any
Indebtedness; provided that
Obligations with respect to the Securities shall not include
fees or indemnifications in favor of the Trustee, the Notes
Collateral Agent and other third parties other than the
Holders.
“Offering
Memorandum” means the offering memorandum relating to
the offering of Original Securities, dated April 16,
2008.
“Officer”
means the Chairman of the Board, Chief Executive Officer,
Chief Financial Officer, President, any Executive Vice
President, Senior Vice President or Vice President, the
Treasurer or the Secretary of the Issuer.
“Officers’
Certificate” means a certificate signed on behalf of the
Issuer by two Officers of the Issuer, one of whom must be the
principal executive officer, the principal financial officer,
the treasurer or the principal accounting officer of the
Issuer that meets the requirements set forth in this
Indenture.
“Opinion
of Counsel” means a written opinion from legal counsel
who is acceptable to the Trustee. The counsel may
be an employee of or counsel to the Issuer or the
Trustee.
“Other
First Priority Lien Obligations” has the meaning
assigned to such term in the Senior Lender Intercreditor
Agreement.
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“Pari
Passu Indebtedness” means:
(1) with
respect to the Issuer, the Securities and any Indebtedness
which ranks pari passu in right of payment to the Securities;
and
(2) with
respect to any Note Guarantor, its Guarantee and any
Indebtedness which ranks pari passu in right of payment to
such Note Guarantor’s Guarantee.
“Paying
Agent” means an office or agency maintained by the
Issuer pursuant to the terms of this Indenture, where notes
may be presented for payment.
“Permitted
Holders” means, at any time, each of (i) the Sponsors
and (ii) the Management Group. Any Person or group
whose acquisition of beneficial ownership constitutes a Change
of Control in respect of which a Change of Control Offer is
made in accordance with the requirements of this Indenture
will thereafter, together with its Affiliates, constitute an
additional Permitted Holder.
“Permitted
Investments” means:
(1) any
Investment in the Issuer or any Restricted
Subsidiary;
(2) any
Investment in Cash Equivalents or Investment Grade
Securities;
(3) any
Investment by the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary of the
Issuer in a Person if as a result of such Investment (a) such
Person becomes a Restricted Subsidiary of the Issuer, or (b)
such Person, in one transaction or a series of related
transactions, is merged, consolidated or amalgamated with or
into, or transfers or conveys all or substantially all of its
assets to, or is liquidated into, the Issuer or a Restricted
Subsidiary of the Issuer;
(4) any
Investment in securities or other assets not constituting Cash
Equivalents and received in connection with an Asset Sale made
pursuant to the provisions of Section 4.06 or any other
disposition of assets not constituting an Asset
Sale;
(5) any
Investment existing on, or made pursuant to binding
commitments existing on, the Issue Date;
(6) advances
to employees, taken together with all other advances made
pursuant to this clause (6), not to exceed $15.0 million at
any one time outstanding;
(7) any
Investment acquired by the Issuer or any of its Restricted
Subsidiaries (a) in exchange for any other Investment or
accounts receivable held by the Issuer or any such Restricted
Subsidiary in connection with or as a result of a bankruptcy,
workout, reorganization or recapitalization of the Issuer of
such other Investment or accounts receivable, or (b) as a
result of a foreclosure by the Issuer or any of its Restricted
Subsidiaries with respect to any secured Investment or other
transfer of title with respect to any secured Investment in
default;
(8) Hedging
Obligations permitted under Section 4.03(b)(x);
(9) any
Investment by the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries
in a Similar Business having an aggregate Fair Market Value,
taken together with all other Investments made pursuant to
this clause (9) that are at that time outstanding, not to
exceed the greater of (x) $100.0 million and (y) 4.5% of Total
Assets at the time of such Investment (with the Fair Market
Value of each Investment being measured at the time made and
without giving effect to subsequent changes in value);
provided ,
however , that if
any Investment pursuant to this clause (9) is made in any
Person that is not a Restricted Subsidiary of the Issuer at
the date of the making of such Investment and such Person
becomes a Restricted Subsidiary of the Issuer after such date,
such Investment shall thereafter be deemed to have been made
pursuant to clause (1) above
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shall cease to have been made pursuant to this clause (9) for
so long as such Person continues to be a Restricted
Subsidiary;
(10) additional
Investments by the Issuer or any of its Restricted
Subsidiaries having an aggregate Fair Market Value, taken
together with all other Investments made pursuant to this
clause (10) that are at that time outstanding, not to exceed
the greater of (x) $100.0 million and (y) 4.5% of Total Assets
at the time of such Investment (with the Fair Market Value of
each Investment being measured at the time made and without
giving effect to subsequent changes in value);
(11) loans
and advances to officers, directors and employees for
business-related travel expenses, moving expenses and other
similar expenses, in each case Incurred in the ordinary course
of business;
(12) Investments
the payment for which consists of Equity Interests of the
Issuer (other than Disqualified Stock) or any direct or
indirect parent of the Issuer, as applicable; provided ,
however , that
such Equity Interests will not increase the amount available
for Restricted Payments under clause (C) of the definition of
“Cumulative Credit”;
(13) any
transaction to the extent it constitutes an Investment that is
permitted by and made in accordance with the provisions of
Section 4.07(b) (except transactions described in clauses
(ii), (vi), (vii) and (xi)(B) of such Section);
(14) Investments
consisting of the licensing or contribution of intellectual
property pursuant to joint marketing arrangements with other
Persons;
(15) guarantees
issued in accordance with Sections 4.03 and 4.11;
(16) Investments
consisting of or to finance purchases and acquisitions of
inventory, supplies, materials, services or equipment or
purchases of contract rights or licenses or leases of
intellectual property, in each case in the ordinary course of
business;
(17) any
Investment in a Receivables Subsidiary or any Investment by a
Receivables Subsidiary in any other Person in connection with
a Qualified Receivables Financing, including Investments of
funds held in accounts permitted or required by the
arrangements governing such Qualified Receivables Financing or
any related Indebtedness; provided ,
however , that
any Investment in a Receivables Subsidiary is in the form of a
Purchase Money Note, contribution of additional receivables or
an Equity Interest;
(18) additional
Investments in joint ventures of the Issuer or any of its
Restricted Subsidiaries existing on the Issue Date not to
exceed at any one time in the aggregate outstanding, $15.0
million; and
(19) Investments
of a Restricted Subsidiary of the Issuer acquired after the
Issue Date or of an entity merged into, amalgamated with, or
consolidated with the Issuer or a Restricted Subsidiary of the
Issuer in a transaction that is not prohibited by Section 5.01
after the Issue Date to the extent that such Investments were
not made in contemplation of such acquisition, merger,
amalgamation or consolidation and were in existence on the
date of such acquisition, merger, amalgamation or
consolidation.
“Permitted
Liens” means, with respect to any Person:
(1) pledges
or deposits by such Person under workmen’s compensation
laws, unemployment insurance laws or similar legislation, or
good faith deposits in connection with bids, tenders,
contracts (other than for the payment of Indebtedness) or
leases to which such Person is a party, or deposits to secure
public or statutory obligations of such Person or deposits of
cash or U.S. government bonds to secure surety or appeal bonds
to which such Person is a party, or deposits as security for
contested taxes or import duties or for the payment of rent,
in each case Incurred in the ordinary course of
business;
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(2) Liens
imposed by law, such as carriers’, warehousemen’s
and mechanics’ Liens, in each case for sums not yet due
or being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings or
other Liens arising out of judgments or awards against such
Person with respect to which such Person shall then be
proceeding with an appeal or other proceedings for
review;
(3) Liens
for taxes, assessments or other governmental charges not yet
due or payable or subject to penalties for nonpayment or which
are being contested in good faith by appropriate
proceedings;
(4) Liens
in favor of issuers of performance and surety bonds or bid
bonds or with respect to other regulatory requirements or
letters of credit issued pursuant to the request of and for
the account of such Person in the ordinary course of its
business;
(5) minor
survey exceptions, minor encumbrances, easements or
reservations of, or rights of others for, licenses,
rights-of-way, sewers, electric lines, telegraph and telephone
lines and other similar purposes, or zoning or other
restrictions as to the use of real properties or Liens
incidental to the conduct of the business of such Person or to
the ownership of its properties which were not Incurred in
connection with Indebtedness and which do not in the aggregate
materially adversely affect the value of said properties or
materially impair their use in the operation of the business
of such Person;
(6) (A)
Liens on assets of a Restricted Subsidiary that is not a Note
Guarantor securing Indebtedness of such Restricted Subsidiary,
permitted to be Incurred pursuant to Section 4.03, (B) Liens
securing an aggregate principal amount of First Priority Lien
Obligations not to exceed the greater of (x) the aggregate
amount of Indebtedness permitted to be incurred pursuant to
clause (i) of Section 4.03(b) and (y) the maximum principal
amount of Indebtedness that, as of the date such Indebtedness
was Incurred, and after giving effect to the Incurrence of
such Indebtedness and the application of proceeds therefrom on
such date, would not cause the Secured Indebtedness Leverage
Ratio of the Issuer to exceed 4.00 to 1.00, and (C) Liens
securing Indebtedness permitted to be Incurred pursuant to
clause (iv), (xii) or (xx) of Section 4.03(b) ( provided that in
the case of clause (xx), such Lien does not extend to the
property or assets of any Subsidiary of the Issuer other than
a Foreign Subsidiary);
(7) Liens
existing on the Issue Date (including after giving effect to
the Transactions);
(8) Liens
on assets, property or shares of stock of a Person at the time
such Person becomes a Subsidiary; provided ,
however , that
such Liens are not created or Incurred in connection with, or
in contemplation of, such other Person becoming such a
Subsidiary; provided ,
further ,
however, that such Liens may not extend to any other property
owned by the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary of the
Issuer);
(9) Liens
on assets or property at the time the Issuer or a Restricted
Subsidiary of the Issuer acquired the assets or property,
including any acquisition by means of a merger, amalgamation
or consolidation with or into the Issuer or any Restricted
Subsidiary of the Issuer; provided ,
however , that
such Liens are not created or Incurred in connection with, or
in contemplation of, such acquisition; provided ,
further ,
however , that
the Liens may not extend to any other property owned by the
Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary of the
Issuer;
(10) Liens
securing Indebtedness or other obligations of a Restricted
Subsidiary owing to the Issuer or another Restricted
Subsidiary of the Issuer permitted to be Incurred in
accordance with Section 4.03;
(11) Liens
securing Hedging Obligations not incurred in violation of this
Indenture; provided that
with respect to Hedging Obligations relating to Indebtedness,
such Lien extends only to the property securing such
Indebtedness;
(12) Liens
on specific items of inventory or other goods and proceeds of
any Person securing such Person’s obligations in respect
of bankers’ acceptances issued or created for the
account of such Person to facilitate the purchase, shipment or
storage of such inventory or other goods;
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(13) leases
and subleases of real property which do not materially
interfere with the ordinary conduct of the business of the
Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries;
(14) Liens
arising from financing statement filings under the New York
UCC or equivalent statute of another jurisdiction regarding
operating leases entered into by the Issuer and its Restricted
Subsidiaries in the ordinary course of business;
(15) Liens
in favor of the Issuer or any Note Guarantor;
(16) Liens
on accounts receivable and related assets of the type
specified in the definition of “Receivables
Financing” Incurred in connection with a Qualified
Receivables Financing;
(17) deposits
made in the ordinary course of business to secure liability to
insurance carriers;
(18) Liens
on the Equity Interests of Unrestricted
Subsidiaries;
(19) grants
of software and other technology licenses in the ordinary
course of business;
(20) Liens
to secure any refinancing, refunding, extension, renewal or
replacement (or successive refinancings, refundings,
extensions, renewals or replacements) as a whole, or in part,
of any Indebtedness secured by any Lien referred to in the
foregoing clauses (6)(B), (7), (8), (9), (10), (11) and (15);
provided ,
however , that
(x) such new Lien shall be limited to all or part of the same
property that secured the original Lien (plus improvements on
such property), and (y) the Indebtedness secured by such Lien
at such time is not increased to any amount greater than the
sum of (A) the outstanding principal amount or, if greater,
committed amount of the Indebtedness described under clauses
(6)(B), (7), (8), (9), (10), (11) and (15) at the time the
original Lien became a Permitted Lien under this Indenture,
and (B) an amount necessary to pay any fees and expenses,
including premiums, related to such refinancing, refunding,
extension, renewal or replacement; provided
further ,
however , that in
the case of any Liens to secure any refinancing, refunding,
extension or renewal of Indebtedness secured by a Lien
referred to in clause (6)(B), the principal amount of any
Indebtedness Incurred for such refinancing, refunding,
extension or renewal shall be deemed secured by a Lien under
clause (6)(B) and not this clause (20) for purposes of
determining the principal amount of Indebtedness outstanding
under clause (6)(B), for purposes of clause (1) under Section
11.04(a) and for purposes of the definition of Secured Bank
Indebtedness;
(21) Liens
on equipment of the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary
granted in the ordinary course of business to the
Issuer’s or such Restricted Subsidiary’s client at
which such equipment is located;
(22) judgment
and attachment Liens not giving rise to an Event of Default
and notices of lis pendens and associated rights related to
litigation being contested in good faith by appropriate
proceedings and for which adequate reserves have been
made;
(23) Liens
arising out of conditional sale, title retention, consignment
or similar arrangements for the sale of goods entered into in
the ordinary course of business;
(24) Liens
incurred to secure cash management services in the ordinary
course of business;
(25) other
Liens securing obligations incurred in the ordinary course of
business which obligations do not exceed $20.0 million at any
one time outstanding;
(26) Liens
securing Indebtedness or other obligations permitted to be
Incurred in accordance with Section 4.03(b)(ii);
and
(27) Liens
on the Collateral in favor of any collateral agent relating to
such collateral agent’s administrative expenses with
respect to the Collateral.
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“Person”
means any individual, corporation, partnership, limited
liability company, joint venture, association, joint-stock
company, trust, unincorporated organization, government or any
agency or political subdivision thereof or any other
entity.
“Preferred
Stock” means any Equity Interest with preferential right
of payment of dividends or upon liquidation, dissolution, or
winding up.
“Purchase
Money Note” means a promissory note of a Receivables
Subsidiary evidencing a line of credit, which may be
irrevocable, from the Issuer or any Subsidiary of the Issuer
to a Receivables Subsidiary in connection with a Qualified
Receivables Financing, which note is intended to finance that
portion of the purchase price that is not paid by cash or a
contribution of equity.
“Qualified
CFC Holding Company” shall mean a Wholly Owned
Subsidiary of the Issuer or a Note Guarantor that is a limited
liability company, the primary asset of which consists of
Equity Interests in either (i) a Foreign Subsidiary or
(ii) a limited liability company the primary asset of
which consists of Equity Interests in a Foreign
Subsidiary.
“Qualified
Receivables Financing” means any Receivables Financing
of a Receivables Subsidiary that meets the following
conditions:
(1) the
Board of Directors of the Issuer shall have determined in good
faith that such Qualified Receivables Financing (including
financing terms, covenants, termination events and other
provisions) is in the aggregate economically fair and
reasonable to the Issuer and the Receivables
Subsidiary;
(2) all
sales of accounts receivable and related assets to the
Receivables Subsidiary are made at Fair Market Value (as
determined in good faith by the Issuer); and
(3) the
financing terms, covenants, termination events and other
provisions thereof shall be market terms (as determined in
good faith by the Issuer) and may include Standard
Securitization Undertakings.
The
grant of a security interest in any accounts receivable of the
Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries (other than a
Receivables Subsidiary) to secure Bank Indebtedness,
Indebtedness in respect of the Securities or any Refinancing
Indebtedness with respect to the Securities shall not be
deemed a Qualified Receivables Financing.
“Rating
Agency” means (1) each of Moody’s and S&P and
(2) if Moody’s or S&P ceases to rate the Securities
for reasons outside of the Issuer’s control, a
“nationally recognized statistical rating
organization” within the meaning of Rule
15c3-1(c)(2)(vi)(F) under the Exchange Act selected by the
Issuer or any direct or indirect parent of the Issuer as a
replacement agency for Moody’s or S&P, as the case
may be.
“Real
Property” means, collectively, all right, title and
interest (including any leasehold estate) in and to any and
all parcels of or interests in real property owned in fee or
leased by the Issuer or any Note Guarantor, together with, in
each case, all easements, hereditaments and appurtenances
relating thereto, all improvements and appurtenant fixtures
incidental to the ownership or lease thereof.
“Receivables
Fees” means distributions or payments made directly or
by means of discounts with respect to any participation
interests issued or sold in connection with, and all other
fees paid to a Person that is not a Restricted Subsidiary in
connection with, any Receivables Financing.
“Receivables
Financing” means any transaction or series of
transactions that may be entered into by the Issuer or any of
its Subsidiaries pursuant to which the Issuer or any of its
Subsidiaries may sell, convey or otherwise transfer to (a) a
Receivables Subsidiary (in the case of a transfer by the
Issuer or any of its Subsidiaries); and (b) any other Person
(in the case of a transfer by a Receivables Subsidiary), or
may grant a security interest in, any accounts receivable
(whether now existing or arising in the future) of the Issuer
or any of its Subsidiaries, and
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any
assets related thereto including, without limitation, all
collateral securing such accounts receivable, all contracts
and all guarantees or other obligations in respect of such
accounts receivable, proceeds of such accounts receivable and
other assets which are customarily transferred or in respect
of which security interests are customarily granted in
connection with asset securitization transactions involving
accounts receivable and any Hedging Obligations entered into
by the Issuer or any such Subsidiary in connection with such
accounts receivable.
“Receivables
Repurchase Obligation” means any obligation of a seller
of receivables in a Qualified Receivables Financing to
repurchase receivables arising as a result of a breach of a
representation, warranty or covenant or otherwise, including
as a result of a receivable or portion thereof becoming
subject to any asserted defense, dispute, off-set or
counterclaim of any kind as a result of any action taken by,
any failure to take action by or any other event relating to
the seller.
“Receivables
Subsidiary” means a Wholly Owned Restricted Subsidiary
of the Issuer (or another Person formed for the purposes of
engaging in Qualified Receivables Financing with the Issuer in
which the Issuer or any Subsidiary of the Issuer makes an
Investment and to which the Issuer or any Subsidiary of the
Issuer transfers accounts receivable and related assets) which
engages in no activities other than in connection with the
financing of accounts receivable of the Issuer and its
Subsidiaries, all proceeds thereof and all rights (contractual
or other), collateral and other assets relating thereto, and
any business or activities incidental or related to such
business, and which is designated by the Board of Directors of
the Issuer (as provided below) as a Receivables Subsidiary
and:
(a) no
portion of the Indebtedness or any other obligations
(contingent or otherwise) of which (i) is guaranteed by the
Issuer or any other Subsidiary of the Issuer (excluding
guarantees of obligations (other than the principal of and
interest on, Indebtedness) pursuant to Standard Securitization
Undertakings), (ii) is recourse to or obligates the Issuer or
any other Subsidiary of the Issuer in any way other than
pursuant to Standard Securitization Undertakings, or (iii)
subjects any property or asset of the Issuer or any other
Subsidiary of the Issuer, directly or indirectly, contingently
or otherwise, to the satisfaction thereof, other than pursuant
to Standard Securitization Undertakings;
(b) with
which neither the Issuer nor any other Subsidiary of the
Issuer has any material contract, agreement, arrangement or
understanding other than on terms which the Issuer reasonably
believes to be no less favorable to the Issuer or such
Subsidiary than those that might be obtained at the time from
Persons that are not Affiliates of the Issuer;
and
(c) to
which neither the Issuer nor any other Subsidiary of the
Issuer has any obligation to maintain or preserve such
entity’s financial condition or cause such entity to
achieve certain levels of operating results.
Any
such designation by the Board of Directors of the Issuer shall
be evidenced to the Trustee by filing with the Trustee a
certified copy of the resolution of the Board of Directors of
the Issuer giving effect to such designation and an
Officers’ Certificate certifying that such designation
complied with the foregoing conditions.
“Reference
Period” has the meaning given to such term in the
definition of “Cumulative Credit” in Section 1.01
of this Indenture.
“Representative
Amount” means a principal amount of not less than
$1,000,000 for a single transaction in the relevant market at
the relevant time.
“Restricted
Investment” means an Investment other than a Permitted
Investment.
“Restricted
Subsidiary” means, with respect to any Person, any
Subsidiary of such Person other than an Unrestricted
Subsidiary of such Person. Unless otherwise
indicated in this Indenture, all references to Restricted
Subsidiaries shall mean Restricted Subsidiaries of the
Issuer.
“Revolving
Credit Agreement” means the Amended and Restated
Revolving Credit Agreement, dated April 3, 2007, by and
among the Issuer, Berry Plastics Group, Inc., certain
Subsidiaries of the Issuer, Bank of
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America,
N.A., as administrative agent, and the other lenders party
thereto, as amended, restated, supplemented, waived, replaced
(whether or not upon termination, and whether with the
original lenders or otherwise), restructured, repaid,
refunded, refinanced or otherwise modified from time to time,
including any agreement or indenture extending the maturity
thereof, refinancing, replacing or otherwise restructuring all
or any portion of the Indebtedness under such agreement or
agreements or indenture or indentures or any successor or
replacement agreement or agreements or indenture or indentures
or increasing the amount loaned or issued thereunder or
altering the maturity thereof.
“Revolving
Facility Administrative Agent” means Bank of America,
N.A., as administrative agent for the lenders under the
Revolving Credit Agreement, together with its successors and
permitted assigns under the Revolving Credit Agreement
exercising substantially the same rights and powers, or such
other agent as may from time to time be appointed
thereunder.
“Revolving
Facility Collateral Agent” means Bank of America, N.A.,
as collateral agent for the lenders under the Revolving Credit
Agreement, together with its successors and permitted assigns
under the Revolving Credit Agreement exercising substantially
the same rights and powers, or such other agent as may from
time to time be appointed thereunder.
“Revolving
Facility Obligations” has the meaning assigned to such
term in the Senior Lender Intercreditor
Agreement.
“Revolving
Facility Senior Collateral” has the meaning assigned to
such term in the Senior Lender Intercreditor
Agreement.
“Sale/Leaseback
Transaction” means an arrangement relating to property
now owned or hereafter acquired by the Issuer or a Restricted
Subsidiary whereby the Issuer or a Restricted Subsidiary
transfers such property to a Person and the Issuer or such
Restricted Subsidiary leases it from such Person, other than
leases between the Issuer and a Restricted Subsidiary of the
Issuer or between Restricted Subsidiaries of the
Issuer.
“S&P”
means Standard & Poor’s Ratings Group or any
successor to the rating agency business thereof.
“SEC”
means the Securities and Exchange Commission.
“Second
Priority Intercreditor Agreement” means the Second
Amended and Restated Intercreditor Agreement, dated as of
February 5, 2008, by and among the Second Priority Notes
Trustee, the Term Facility Administrative Agent, the Term Loan
Collateral Agent, the Revolving Facility Administrative Agent,
the Revolving Facility Collateral Agent, the Bridge Loan
Administrative Agent, the Bridge Loan Collateral Agent, each
other collateral agent representing holders of any Other First
Priority Lien Obligations of the Issuer, the subsidiaries of
the Issuer party thereto and Berry Plastics Group, Inc., as
will be supplemented as of the Issue Date by the execution and
delivery of a joinder agreement by the Notes Collateral Agent,
the Trustee, the Term Facility Administrative Agent, the Term
Loan Collateral Agent, the Revolving Facility Administrative
Agent, the Revolving Facility Collateral Agent, the Second
Priority Notes Trustee, Berry Plastics Group, Inc., the Issuer
and the Note Guarantors, as may be amended, restated or
otherwise supplemented.
“Second
Priority Notes” means the 8⅞% Second Priority
Fixed Rate Senior Secured Notes due 2014 and the Second
Priority Senior Secured Floating Rate Notes due 2014 issued by
the Issuer on September 20, 2006.
“Second
Priority Notes Indenture” means the indenture dated as
of September 20, 2006 among the Issuer and certain of its
subsidiaries party thereto and the trustee named therein from
time to time, as amended, restated, supplemented or otherwise
modified from time to time in accordance with the requirements
thereof and of this Indenture.
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“Second
Priority Notes Trustee” means Wells Fargo Bank, National
Association, as collateral trustee for the holders of the
Second Priority Notes.
“Secured
Bank Indebtedness” means the Revolving Facility
Obligations, the Term Loan Obligations and any Bank
Indebtedness that is secured by a Permitted Lien incurred or
deemed incurred pursuant to clause (6)(B) of the definition of
Permitted Lien.
“Secured
Indebtedness” means any Indebtedness secured by a
Lien.
“Secured
Indebtedness Leverage Ratio” means, with respect to any
Person at any date, the ratio of (i) Secured Indebtedness of
such Person and its Restricted Subsidiaries as of such date of
calculation (determined on a consolidated basis in accordance
with GAAP) that constitutes First Priority Lien Obligations to
(ii) EBITDA of such Person for the four full fiscal quarters
for which internal financial statements are available
immediately preceding such date on which such additional
Indebtedness is Incurred. In the event that the Issuer or any
of its Restricted Subsidiaries Incurs, repays, repurchases or
redeems any Indebtedness subsequent to the commencement of the
period for which the Secured Indebtedness Leverage Ratio is
being calculated but prior to the event for which the
calculation of the Secured Indebtedness Leverage Ratio is made
(the “Secured Leverage Calculation Date”), then
the Secured Indebtedness Leverage Ratio shall be calculated
giving pro forma effect to such Incurrence, repayment,
repurchase or redemption of Indebtedness as if the same had
occurred at the beginning of the applicable four-quarter
period; provided that the
Issuer may elect, pursuant to an Officers’ Certificate
delivered to the Trustee to treat all or any portion of the
commitment under any Indebtedness as being Incurred at such
time, in which case any subsequent Incurrence of Indebtedness
under such commitment shall not be deemed, for purposes of
this calculation, to be an Incurrence at such subsequent
time.
For
purposes of making the computation referred to above,
Investments, acquisitions, dispositions, mergers,
consolidations and discontinued operations (as determined in
accordance with GAAP), in each case with respect to an
operating unit of a business, and any operational changes that
the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries has
determined to make and/or made after the Issue Date and during
the four-quarter reference period or subsequent to such
reference period and on or prior to or simultaneously with the
Secured Leverage Calculation Date (each, for purposes of this
definition, a “pro forma event”) shall be
calculated on a pro forma basis assuming that all such
Investments, acquisitions, dispositions, mergers,
consolidations (including the Transactions), discontinued
operations and other operational changes (and the change of
any associated Indebtedness and the change in EBITDA resulting
therefrom) had occurred on the first day of the four-quarter
reference period. If since the beginning of such period any
Person that subsequently became a Restricted Subsidiary or was
merged with or into the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary
since the beginning of such period shall have made any
Investment, acquisition, disposition, merger, consolidation,
discontinued operation or operational change, in each case
with respect to an operating unit of a business, that would
have required adjustment pursuant to this definition, then the
Secured Indebtedness Leverage Ratio shall be calculated giving
pro forma effect thereto for such period as if such
Investment, acquisition, disposition, discontinued operation,
merger, consolidation or operational change had occurred at
the beginning of the applicable four-quarter
period.
For
purposes of this definition, whenever pro forma effect is to
be given to any pro forma event, the pro forma calculations
shall be made in good faith by a responsible financial or
accounting officer of the Issuer. Any such pro forma
calculation may include adjustments appropriate, in the
reasonable good faith determination of the Issuer as set forth
in an Officers’ Certificate, to reflect (1) operating
expense reductions and other operating improvements or
synergies reasonably expected to result from the applicable
pro forma event (including, to the extent applicable, from the
Transactions), and (2) all pro forma adjustments of the nature
used in similar calculations in the Second Priority Notes
Indenture (as in effect on the Issue Date), including, without
limitation, as applied to the Transactions.
“Securities”
has the meaning given such term in the Preamble to this
Indenture. “Securities Act” means the Securities
Act of 1933, as amended, and the rules and regulations of the
SEC promulgated thereunder.
“Security
Agreement” means the Second Amended and Restated First
Lien Guarantee and Collateral Agreement dated as of April 3,
2007, among Berry Plastics Group, Inc., the Issuer, the
subsidiaries of the Issuer
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party
thereto, the Term Loan Collateral Agent and the Revolving
Facility Collateral Agent, as amended, supplemented, restated,
renewed, refunded, replaced, restructured, repaid, refinanced
or otherwise modified from time to time.
“Security
Documents” means the security agreements, pledge
agreements, collateral assignments, Mortgages and related
agreements, as amended, supplemented, restated, renewed,
refunded, replaced, restructured, repaid, refinanced or
otherwise modified from time to time, creating the security
interests in favor of the Notes Collateral Agent in the
Collateral as contemplated by this Indenture.
“Senior
Fixed Collateral Intercreditor Agreement” means the
Senior Fixed Collateral Priority and Intercreditor Agreement,
dated as of February 5, 2008, by and among the Bridge Loan
Administrative Agent, Bridge Loan Collateral Agent, each other
collateral agent representing holders of Other First Priority
Lien Obligations, the Term Facility Administrative Agent, the
Term Loan Collateral Agent, the Issuer, the Note Guarantors
and Berry Plastics Group, Inc., as will be supplemented as of
the Issue Date by the execution and delivery of a joinder
agreement by the Notes Collateral Agent, the Trustee, the Term
Facility Administrative Agent, the Term Loan Collateral Agent,
Berry Plastics Group, Inc., the Issuer and the Note
Guarantors, as amended, supplemented or otherwise modified
from time to time.
“Senior
Fixed Obligations” has the meaning assigned to such term
in the Senior Lender Intercreditor Agreement.
“Senior
Lender Intercreditor Agreement” means the Second Amended
and Restated Senior Lender Priority and Intercreditor
Agreement, dated as of February 5, 2008, by and among the Term
Facility Administrative Agent, the Term Loan Collateral Agent,
the Revolving Facility Administrative Agent, the Revolving
Facility Collateral Agent, the Bridge Loan Administrative
Agent, the Bridge Loan Collateral Agent, each other collateral
agent representing holders of any Other First Priority Lien
Obligations, the Issuer, the Note Guarantors and Berry
Plastics Group, Inc., as will be supplemented as of the Issue
Date by the execution and delivery of a joinder agreement by
the Notes Collateral Agent, the Trustee, the Term Facility
Administrative Agent, the Term Loan Collateral Agent, the
Revolving Facility Administrative Agent, the Revolving
Facility Collateral Agent, Berry Plastics Group, Inc., the
Issuer and the Note Guarantors, as amended, supplemented or
otherwise modified from time to time.
“Senior
Subordinated Notes” means the 11% Senior Subordinated
Notes due 2016 of the Issuer issued on September 20, 2006 and
the 10 1/4% Senior Subordinated Notes due 2016 of the Issuer
issued on February 16, 2006.
“Shared
Collateral” has the meaning assigned to such term in the
Senior Fixed Collateral Intercreditor Agreement.
“Significant
Subsidiary” means any Restricted Subsidiary that would
be a “Significant Subsidiary” of the Issuer within
the meaning of Rule 1-02 under Regulation S-X promulgated by
the SEC.
“Similar
Business” means a business, the majority of whose
revenues are derived from the activities of the Issuer and its
Subsidiaries as of the Issue Date or any business or activity
that is reasonably similar or complementary thereto or a
reasonable extension, development or expansion thereof or
ancillary thereto.
“Sponsors”
means (1) Apollo Management, L.P., Graham Partners, Inc. and
any of their respective Affiliates (collectively, the
“Apollo Sponsors”) and (2) any Person that forms a
group (within the meaning of Section 13(d)(3) or Section
14(d)(2) of the Exchange Act, or any successor provision) with
any Apollo Sponsors; provided that any
Apollo Sponsor (x) owns a majority of the voting power and (y)
controls a majority of the Board of Directors of the
Issuer.
“Standard
Securitization Undertakings” means representations,
warranties, covenants, indemnities and guarantees of
performance entered into by the Issuer or any Subsidiary of
the Issuer which the Issuer has determined in good faith to be
customary in a Receivables Financing including, without
limitation, those relating to the
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servicing
of the assets of a Receivables Subsidiary, it being understood
that any Receivables Repurchase Obligation shall be deemed to
be a Standard Securitization Undertaking.
“Stated
Maturity” means, with respect to any security, the date
specified in such security as the fixed date on which the
final payment of principal of such security is due and
payable, including pursuant to any mandatory redemption
provision (but excluding any provision providing for the
repurchase of such security at the option of the holder
thereof upon the happening of any contingency beyond the
control of the issuer unless such contingency has
occurred).
“Subordinated
Indebtedness” means (a) with respect to the Issuer, any
Indebtedness of the Issuer which is by its terms subordinated
in right of payment to the Securities, and (b) with respect to
any Note Guarantor, any Indebtedness of such Note Guarantor
which is by its terms subordinated in right of payment to its
Guarantee.
“Subsidiary”
means, with respect to any Person, (1) any corporation,
association or other business entity (other than a
partnership, joint venture or limited liability company) of
which more than 50% of the total voting power of shares of
Capital Stock entitled (without regard to the occurrence of
any contingency) to vote in the election of directors,
managers or trustees thereof is at the time of determination
owned or controlled, directly or indirectly, by such Person or
one or more of the other Subsidiaries of that Person or a
combination thereof, and (2) any partnership, joint venture or
limited liability company of which (x) more than 50% of the
capital accounts, distribution rights, total equity and voting
interests or general and limited partnership interests, as
applicable, are owned or controlled, directly or indirectly,
by such Person or one or more of the other Subsidiaries of
that Person or a combination thereof, whether in the form of
membership, general, special or limited partnership interests
or otherwise, and (y) such Person or any Subsidiary of such
Person is a controlling general partner or otherwise controls
such entity.
“Taking”
means any taking of all or any portion of the Collateral by
condemnation or other eminent domain proceedings, pursuant to
any law, general or special, or by reason of the temporary
requisition of the use or occupancy of all or any portion of
the Collateral by any governmental authority, civil or
military, or any sale pursuant to the exercise by any such
governmental authority of any right which it may then have to
purchase or designate a purchaser or to order a sale of all or
any portion of the Collateral.
“Tax
Distributions” means any distributions described in
Section 4.04(b)(xii).
“Term
Facility Administrative Agent” means Credit Suisse,
Cayman Islands Branch, as administrative agent for the lenders
under the Term Loan Credit Agreement, together with its
successors and permitted assigns under the Term Loan Credit
Agreement exercising substantially the same rights and powers,
or such other agent as may from time to time be appointed
thereunder.
“Term
Loan Collateral Agent” means Credit Suisse, Cayman
Islands Branch, as collateral agent for the lenders under the
Term Loan Credit Agreement, together with its respective
successors and permitted assigns under the Term Loan Credit
Agreement exercising substantially the same rights and powers,
or such other agent as may from time to time be appointed
thereunder.
“Term
Loan Credit Agreement” means that certain Second Amended
and Restated Term Loan Credit Agreement, dated April 3, 2007,
by and among the Issuer, Berry Plastics Group, Inc., Credit
Suisse, Cayman Islands Branch, as administrative agent, and
the other lenders party thereto, as amended, restated,
supplemented, waived, replaced (whether or not upon
termination, and whether with the original lenders or
otherwise), restructured, repaid, refunded, refinanced or
otherwise modified from time to time, including any agreement
or indenture extending the maturity thereof, refinancing,
replacing or otherwise restructuring all or any portion of the
Indebtedness under such agreement or agreements or indenture
or indentures or any successor or replacement agreement or
agreements or indenture or indentures or increasing the amount
loaned or issued thereunder or altering the maturity
thereof.
“Term
Loan Obligations” has the meaning assigned to such term
in the Senior Lender Intercreditor Agreement.
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“TIA”
means the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 (15 U.S.C. Sections
77aaa-77bbbb) as in effect on the date of this
Indenture.
“Total
Assets” means the total consolidated assets of the
Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries, as shown on the most
recent balance sheet of the Issuer.
“Transactions”
means the Captive Acquisition, the transactions related
thereto (including entry into the Bridge Loan Credit
Agreement) and the offering of the Securities on the Issue
Date.
“Treasury
Rate” means as of the applicable redemption date, the
yield to maturity as of such redemption date of United States
Treasury securities with a constant maturity (as compiled and
published in the most recent Federal Reserve Statistical
Release H.15 (519) that has become publicly available at least
two business days prior to such redemption date (or, if such
Statistical Release is no longer published, any publicly
available source of similar market data)) most nearly equal to
the period from such redemption date to April 15, 2010;
provided ,
however , that if
the period from such redemption date to April 15, 2010 is less
than one year, the weekly average yield on actually traded
United States Treasury securities adjusted to a constant
maturity of one year will be used.
“Trust
Officer” means:
(1) any
officer within the corporate trust department of the Trustee,
including any vice president, assistant vice president,
assistant secretary, assistant treasurer, trust officer or any
other officer of the Trustee who customarily performs
functions similar to those performed by the Persons who at the
time shall be such officers, respectively, or to whom any
corporate trust matter is referred because of such
person’s knowledge of and familiarity with the
particular subject, and
(2) who
shall have direct responsibility for the administration of
this Indenture.
“Trustee”
means the party named as such in the Preamble of this
Indenture until a successor replaces it and, thereafter, means
the successor.
“Unrestricted
Subsidiary” means:
(1) any
Subsidiary of the Issuer that at the time of determination
shall be designated an Unrestricted Subsidiary by the Board of
Directors of such Person in the manner provided below;
and
(2) any
Subsidiary of an Unrestricted Subsidiary.
The
Board of Directors of the Issuer may designate any Subsidiary
of the Issuer (including any newly acquired or newly formed
Subsidiary of the Issuer) to be an Unrestricted Subsidiary
unless such Subsidiary or any of its Subsidiaries owns any
Equity Interests or Indebtedness of, or owns or holds any Lien
on any property of, the Issuer or any other Subsidiary of the
Issuer that is not a Subsidiary of the Subsidiary to be so
designated; provided ,
however , that
the Subsidiary to be so designated and its Subsidiaries do not
at the time of designation have and do not thereafter Incur
any Indebtedness pursuant to which the lender has recourse to
any of the assets of the Issuer or any of its Restricted
Subsidiaries; provided ,
further ,
however , that
either:
(a) the
Subsidiary to be so designated has total consolidated assets
of $1,000 or less; or
(b) if
such Subsidiary has consolidated assets greater than $1,000,
then such designation would be permitted under Section
4.04.
The
Board of Directors of the Issuer may designate any
Unrestricted Subsidiary to be a Restricted Subsidiary;
provided ,
however , that
immediately after giving effect to such
designation:
(x) (1)
the Issuer could Incur $1.00 of additional Indebtedness
pursuant to the Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio test set forth in
Section 4.03(a) or (2) the Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio for the
Issuer and
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its
Restricted Subsidiaries would be greater than such ratio for
the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries immediately prior
to such designation, in each case on a pro forma basis taking
into account such designation, and
(y) no
Event of Default shall have occurred and be
continuing.
Any
such designation by the Board of Directors of the Issuer shall
be evidenced to the Trustee by promptly filing with the
Trustee a copy of the resolution of the Board of Directors of
the Issuer giving effect to such designation and an
Officers’ Certificate certifying that such designation
complied with the foregoing provisions.
“U.S.
Government Obligations” means securities that
are:
(1) direct
obligations of the United States of America for the timely
payment of which its full faith and credit is pledged,
or
(2) obligations
of a Person controlled or supervised by and acting as an
agency or instrumentality of the United States of America, the
timely payment of which is unconditionally guaranteed as a
full faith and credit obligation by the United States of
America,
which,
in each case, are not callable or redeemable at the option of
the issuer thereof, and shall also include a depository
receipt issued by a bank (as defined in Section 3(a)(2) of the
Securities Act) as custodian with respect to any such U.S.
Government Obligations or a specific payment of principal of
or interest on any such U.S. Government Obligations held by
such custodian for the account of the holder of such
depository receipt; provided that
(except as required by law) such custodian is not authorized
to make any deduction from the amount payable to the holder of
such depository receipt from any amount received by the
custodian in respect of the U.S. Government Obligations or the
specific payment of principal of or interest on the U.S.
Government Obligations evidenced by such depository
receipt.
“Voting
Stock” of any Person as of any date means the Capital
Stock of such Person that is at the time entitled to vote in
the election of the Board of Directors of such
Person.
“Weighted
Average Life to Maturity” means, when applied to any
Indebtedness or Disqualified Stock, as the case may be, at any
date, the quotient obtained by dividing (1) the sum of the
products of the number of years from the date of determination
to the date of each successive scheduled principal payment of
such Indebtedness or redemption or similar payment with
respect to such Disqualified Stock multiplied by the amount of
such payment, by (2) the sum of all such
payments.
“Wholly
Owned Restricted Subsidiary” is any Wholly Owned
Subsidiary that is a Restricted Subsidiary.
“Wholly
Owned Subsidiary” of any Person means a Subsidiary of
such Person 100% of the outstanding Capital Stock or other
ownership interests of which (other than directors’
qualifying shares or shares required to be held by Foreign
Subsidiaries) shall at the time be owned by such Person or by
one or more Wholly Owned Subsidiaries of such
Person.
SECTION
1.02.
Other Definitions
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Term
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Defined
in Section
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“Additional
Interest”
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Appendix
A
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“Additional
Mortgage”
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4.15(b)
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“Affiliate
Transaction”
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4.07
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“Agent
Members”
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Appendix
A
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“Appendix”
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Preamble
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“Asset
Sale
Offer”
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4.06(b)
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“Bankruptcy
Law”
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6.01
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“Change
of Control
Offer”
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4.08(b)
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“Clearstream”
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Appendix
A
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“covenant
defeasance
option”
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8.01(c)
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“Covenant
Suspension
Event”
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4.16(b)
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“Custodian”
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6.01
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“Definitive
Security”
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Appendix
A
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“Depository”
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Appendix
A
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“Euroclear”
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