Exhibit 4.7
DENDREON CORPORATION, as the Company
and
THE
BANK OF NEW YORK TRUST COMPANY, N.A., as Trustee
INDENTURE
Dated
as of June 9, 2008
DEBT
SECURITIES
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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ARTICLE 1
DEFINITIONS
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SECTION 1.01
Certain Terms Defined
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ARTICLE 2 SECURITY
FORMS
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SECTION 2.01 Forms
Generally
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SECTION 2.02 Form
of Trustee’s Certificate of Authentication
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ARTICLE 3 ISSUE,
EXECUTION, FORM AND REGISTRATION OF SECURITIES
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SECTION 3.01
Amount Unlimited; Issuable in Series
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SECTION 3.02
Authentication and Delivery of Securities
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SECTION 3.03
Execution of Securities
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SECTION 3.04
Certificate of Authentication
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SECTION 3.05
Denomination and Date of Securities; Payments of Interest
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SECTION 3.06
Global Security Legend
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SECTION 3.07
Registration, Transfer and Exchange
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SECTION 3.08
Book-Entry Provisions for Global Securities
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SECTION 3.09
Mutilated, Defaced, Destroyed, Lost and Stolen Securities
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SECTION 3.10
Cancellation of Securities
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SECTION 3.11
Temporary Securities
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SECTION 3.12
Computation of Interest
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SECTION 3.13 CUSIP
and ISIN Numbers
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ARTICLE 4 CERTAIN
COVENANTS
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SECTION 4.01
Payment of Principal, Premium and Interest on Securities
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SECTION 4.02
Maintenance of Office or Agency
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SECTION 4.03 Money
for Securities Payments to be Held in Trust
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SECTION 4.04
Existence
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SECTION 4.05
Statement by Officers as to Default
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SECTION 4.06
Waiver of Certain Covenants
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ARTICLE 5 REMEDIES
OF THE TRUSTEE AND HOLDERS ON EVENT OF DEFAULT
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SECTION 5.01
Events of Default
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SECTION 5.02
Acceleration
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SECTION 5.03 Other
Remedies
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SECTION 5.04
Waiver of Past Defaults
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SECTION 5.05
Control by Majority
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SECTION 5.06
Limitation on Suits
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SECTION 5.07
Rights of Holders to Receive Payment
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SECTION 5.08
Collection Suit by Trustee
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SECTION 5.09
Trustee May File Proofs of Claim
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SECTION 5.10
Priorities
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SECTION 5.11
Undertaking for Costs
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SECTION 5.12
Restoration of Rights and Remedies
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SECTION 5.13
Rights and Remedies Cumulative
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SECTION 5.14 Delay
or Omission Not Waiver
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ARTICLE 6
CONCERNING THE TRUSTEE
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SECTION 6.01
Duties and Responsibilities of the Trustee; During Default; Prior
to Default
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SECTION 6.02
Certain Rights of the Trustee
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SECTION 6.03
Trustee Not Responsible for Recitals, Disposition of Securities or
Application of Proceeds Thereof
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SECTION 6.04
Trustee and Agents May Hold Securities; Collections, etc.
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SECTION 6.05
Moneys Held by Trustee
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SECTION 6.06
Notice of Default
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SECTION 6.07
Compensation and Indemnification of Trustee and Its Prior
Claim
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SECTION 6.08 Right
of Trustee to Rely on Officers’ Certificate, etc.
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SECTION 6.09
Persons Eligible for Appointment as Trustee
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SECTION 6.10
Resignation and Removal; Appointment of Successor Trustee
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SECTION 6.11
Acceptance of Appointment by Successor
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SECTION 6.12
Merger, Conversion, Consolidation or Succession to Business of
Trustee
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SECTION 6.13
Preferential Collection of Claims
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SECTION 6.14
Conflicting Interests
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ARTICLE 7
CONCERNING THE HOLDERS
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SECTION 7.01
Evidence of Action Taken by Holders
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SECTION 7.02 Proof
of Execution of Instruments and of Holding of Securities; Record
Date
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SECTION 7.03 Who
May Be Deemed Owners of Securities
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SECTION 7.04
Securities Owned by Company Deemed Not Outstanding
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SECTION 7.05
Record Date for Action by Securityholders
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SECTION 7.06 Right
of Revocation of Action Taken
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ARTICLE 8
SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES
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SECTION 8.01
Supplemental Indentures Without Consent of Holders
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SECTION 8.02 With
Consent of Holders
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SECTION 8.03
Effect of Supplemental Indenture
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SECTION 8.04
Documents to Be Given to Trustee; Compliance with TIA
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SECTION 8.05
Notation on Securities in Respect of Supplemental Indentures
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ARTICLE 9
CONSOLIDATION, MERGER OR SALE OF ASSETS
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SECTION 9.01 When
the Company May Merge, Etc.
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SECTION 9.02
Successor Corporation Substituted
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SECTION 9.03
Opinion of Counsel to Trustee
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ARTICLE 10
REDEMPTION OF SECURITIES
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SECTION 10.01
Applicability of Article
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SECTION 10.02
Notice of Redemption; Partial Redemptions
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SECTION 10.03
Payment of Securities Called for Redemption
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ARTICLE 11
DEFEASANCE AND COVENANT DEFEASANCE
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SECTION 11.01
Applicability of the Article; Company’s Option to Effect
Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance
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SECTION 11.02
Legal Defeasance and Discharge
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SECTION 11.03
Covenant Defeasance
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SECTION 11.04
Conditions to Legal or Covenant Defeasance
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SECTION 11.05
Deposited Money and Government Securities to be Held in Trust;
Other Miscellaneous Provisions
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SECTION 11.06
Repayment to the Company
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SECTION 11.07
Reinstatement
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ARTICLE 12
SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE
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SECTION 12.01
Satisfaction and Discharge of Indenture
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SECTION 12.02
Application of Trust Money
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ARTICLE 13
HOLDERS’ LISTS AND REPORTS BY TRUSTEE AND COMPANY
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SECTION 13.01
Company to Furnish Trustee Names and Addresses of Holders
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SECTION 13.02
Preservation of Information; Communications to Holders
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SECTION 13.03
Reports by the Trustee
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SECTION 13.04
Reports by the Company
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ARTICLE 14 SINKING
FUNDS
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SECTION 14.01
Applicability of Article
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SECTION 14.02
Satisfaction of Sinking Fund Payments with Securities
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SECTION 14.03
Redemption of Securities for Sinking Fund
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ARTICLE 15
MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS
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SECTION 15.01
Incorporators, Stockholders, Officers and Directors of Company
Exempt from Individual Liability
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SECTION 15.02
Provisions of Indenture for the Sole Benefit of Parties and
Holders
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SECTION 15.03
Successors and Assigns of Company Bound by Indenture
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SECTION 15.04
Notices to Holders
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SECTION 15.05
Officers’ Certificates and Opinions of Counsel; Statements to
Be Contained Therein
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SECTION 15.06
Payments Due on Saturdays, Sundays and Holidays
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SECTION 15.07
Conflict of Any Provision of Indenture with Trust Indenture
Act
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SECTION 15.08 New
York Law to Govern
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SECTION 15.09
Third Party Beneficiaries
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SECTION 15.10
Counterparts
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SECTION 15.11
Effect of Headings
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SECTION 15.12
Severability
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SECTION 15.13
Waiver of Jury Trial
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SECTION 15.14
Force Majeure
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DENDREON CORPORATION
Reconciliation and tie between Trust Indenture Act of 1939 and this
Indenture
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Trust Indenture Act |
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Indenture |
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Section |
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Section |
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(a) (1) |
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6.09 |
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(a) (2) |
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6.09 |
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(a) (3) |
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Not Applicable |
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(a) (4) |
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Not Applicable |
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(a) (5) |
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6.09 |
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(b) |
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6.10 |
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6.13 |
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6.13 |
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(b) (2) |
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6.13 |
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13.01, 13.02 (a) |
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13.02 (b) |
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(c) |
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13.02 (c) |
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13.03 (a) |
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13.03 (a) |
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(d) |
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13.03 (b) |
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13.04 |
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Not Applicable |
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15.05 |
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15.05 |
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Not Applicable |
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(d) |
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Not Applicable |
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(e) |
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15.05 |
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6.01 |
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6.01 |
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6.01 |
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6.01 |
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(d) (2) |
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6.01 |
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6.01 |
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(e) |
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5.11 |
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5.05 |
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(a) (1) (B) |
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5.02 |
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Not Applicable |
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5.07 |
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(c) |
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7.02 |
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(a) (1) |
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5.08 |
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(a) (2) |
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5.09 |
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4.03 |
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15.07 |
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This cross-reference table shall not, for any purpose, be
deemed to be part of this Indenture. |
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THIS INDENTURE, dated as of
June 9, 2008, between Dendreon Corporation, a Delaware
corporation (the “Company”), and The Bank of New York
Trust Company, N.A., a national banking association (the
“Trustee”);
W I T
N E S S E T H:
WHEREAS, the Company has duly
authorized the execution and delivery of this Indenture to provide
for the issuance from time to time of its debentures, notes or
other evidences of indebtedness (herein called the
“Securities”), to be issued in one or more series as in
this Indenture provided; and
WHEREAS, all things necessary to make
the Indenture a valid, legally binding indenture and agreement of
the Company, according to its terms, have been done;
NOW, THEREFORE:
In consideration of the premises and
the purchase of the Securities by the Holders thereof, the Company
and the Trustee mutually covenant and agree for the equal and
proportionate benefit of the respective Holders from time to time
of the Securities as follows:
ARTICLE 1
DEFINITIONS
SECTION 1.01 Certain Terms
Defined . The following terms (except as otherwise expressly
provided or unless the context otherwise clearly requires) for all
purposes of this Indenture and of any indenture supplemental hereto
shall have the respective meanings specified in this Section. All
other terms used in this Indenture which are defined in the Trust
Indenture Act or the definitions of which in the Securities Act are
referred to in the Trust Indenture Act (except as herein otherwise
expressly provided or unless the context otherwise clearly
requires), shall have the meanings assigned to such terms in said
Trust Indenture Act and in said Securities Act as in force at the
date of this Indenture. All accounting terms used herein and not
expressly defined shall have the meanings given to them in
accordance with generally accepted accounting principles in the
United States (whether or not such is indicated herein). The words
“herein,” “hereof” and
“hereunder” and other words of similar import refer to
this Indenture as a whole and not to any particular Article,
Section or other subdivision. The terms defined in this Article
include the plural as well as the singular.
“Agent Members” has the
meaning provided in Section 3.08(a).
“Board of Directors”
means, with respect to any Person, the Board of Directors of such
Person, or any authorized committee of the Board of Directors of
such Person or any officer of such Person duly authorized by the
Board of Directors of such Person to take a specific action.
“Board Resolution” means
a copy of a resolution certified by the Secretary or an Assistant
Secretary of the Company to have been duly adopted by the Board of
Directors and to be in full force and effect on the date of such
certification, and delivered to the Trustee.
“Business Day” means any
day except a Saturday, Sunday or other day on which commercial
banks in the cities of New York are authorized or obligated by law
or executive order to close.
“Commission” means the
Securities and Exchange Commission, as from time to time
constituted, created under the Exchange Act, or, if at any time
after the execution of this instrument such Commission is not
existing and performing the duties now assigned to it under the
Trust Indenture Act, then the body performing such duties at such
time.
“Company” means the
Person named as the “Company” in the first paragraph of
this instrument until a successor corporation shall have become
such pursuant to the applicable provisions of this Indenture, and
thereafter “Company” shall mean such successor
corporation.
“Company Request” or
“Company Order” means a written request or order signed
in the name of the Company by its Chairman of the Board, a Vice
Chairman of the Board, its President, Chief Executive Officer or a
Senior Vice President, and by its Chief Financial Officer,
Treasurer, an Assistant Treasurer, its Controller, an Assistant
Controller, its Secretary or an Assistant Secretary, and delivered
to the Trustee.
“Corporate Trust Office”
means the corporate trust office of the Trustee at which the
corporate trust business of the Trustee shall, at any particular
time, be principally administered, which office is, at the date as
of which this Indenture is dated, located at The Bank of New York
Trust Company, N.A., 700 S. Flower Street, Suite 500, Los
Angeles, California 90017, Attention: Corporate Unit.
“Covenant Defeasance” has
the meaning provided in Section 11.03.
“Default” means any event
that is or with the passage of time or the giving of notice or both
would be an Event of Default.
“Depositary” means The
Depository Trust Company, its nominees, and their respective
successors.
“Event of Default” means
any event or condition specified as such in Section 5.01 which
shall have continued for the period of time, if any, therein
designated.
“Exchange Act” means the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.
“Global Securities” means
securities of or within a series issuable in whole or in part in
global form, which securities shall be deposited with the Trustee
as custodian for the Depositary and registered in the name of Cede
& Co., as nominee for the Depositary.
“Government Securities”
means direct obligations of, or obligations guaranteed by, the
United States of America, and the payment for which the United
States pledges its full faith and credit.
“Holder,” “Holder
of Securities,” “Securityholder” or other similar
terms mean the registered holder of any Security.
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“Indenture” means this
instrument as originally executed or as it may from time to time be
supplemented or amended by one or more indentures supplemental
hereto entered into pursuant to the applicable provisions hereof
and shall include the terms of particular series of Securities
established as contemplated hereunder.
“Interest Payment Date,”
when used with respect to any Security, means the Stated Maturity
of an installment of interest on such Security.
“Legal Defeasance” has
the meaning provided in Section 11.02.
“Material Adverse Effect”
means a material adverse effect on the business, assets, financial
condition or results of operations of the Company (taken together
with its Subsidiaries as a whole).
“Maturity,” when used
with respect to any Security, means the date on which the principal
of such Security or an installment of principal becomes due and
payable as therein or herein provided, whether at the Stated
Maturity or by declaration of acceleration, call for redemption or
otherwise.
“Notice of Default” has
the meaning provided in Section 6.06.
“Officers’
Certificate” means a certificate signed by the Chairman of
the Board, the President, Chief Executive Officer or any Senior
Vice President of the Company, and by the Chief Financial Officer,
Treasurer, an Assistant Treasurer, the Controller, an Assistant
Controller, the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary of the Company,
and delivered to the Trustee.
“Opinion of Counsel”
means an opinion in writing signed by legal counsel who may be an
employee of or outside counsel to the Company or who may be other
counsel.
“outstanding”, when used
with reference to Securities, subject to the provisions of
Article 7 means, as of any particular time, all Securities
authenticated and delivered by the Trustee under this Indenture,
except
(a) Securities theretofore
canceled by the Trustee or delivered to the Trustee for
cancellation;
(b) Securities, or portions
thereof, for the payment or redemption of which moneys in the
necessary amount shall have been deposited in trust with the
Trustee or with any Paying Agent (other than the Company) or shall
have been set aside, segregated and held in trust by the Company
(if the Company shall act as its own Paying Agent), provided that
if such Securities are to be redeemed prior to the maturity
thereof, notice of such redemption shall have been given as herein
provided, or provision satisfactory to a Responsible Officer of the
Trustee shall have been made for giving such notice;
(c) Securities in substitution
for which other Securities shall have been authenticated and
delivered, or which shall have been paid, pursuant to the terms of
Section 3.09 (unless proof satisfactory to the Trustee and the
Company is presented that any of such Securities is held by a
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person
in whose hands such Security is a legal, valid and binding
obligation of the Company); and
(d) Securities that have been
defeased pursuant to Section 12.01.
“Paying Agent” means any
Person authorized by the Company to pay the principal of, premium,
if any, or interest on any Securities on behalf of the Company. The
Company may act as Paying Agent with respect to any Securities
issued hereunder.
“Payment Office,” when
used with respect to the Securities of or within any series, means
the place or places where the principal of (and premium, if any)
and interest on such Securities are payable as contemplated by
Sections 3.01 and 4.01.
“Person” means any
individual, corporation, partnership, joint stock company, business
trust, trust, unincorporated association, joint venture or other
entity or organization, including a government or political
subdivision or an agency or instrumentality thereof.
“Physical Securities”
means Securities issued pursuant to Section 3.02 in exchange
for interest in the Global Security or pursuant to
Section 3.08(b) in registered form substantially in the form
hereinabove recited.
“Predecessor Security” of
any particular Security means every previous Security evidencing
all or a portion of the same debt as that evidenced by such
particular Security; and, for the purposes of this definition, any
Security authenticated and delivered under Section 3.09 in
exchange for or in lieu of a mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen
Security shall be deemed to evidence the same debt as the
mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Security.
“principal,” wherever
used with reference to the Securities or any Security or any
portion thereof, shall be deemed to include “and premium, if
any.”
“Principal Amount,” when
used with respect to any Security, means the amount of principal of
such Security that could then be declared due and payable pursuant
to Section 5.02.
“Redemption Price,” when
used with respect to any Security to be redeemed, means the price
(including premium, if any) at which it is to be redeemed pursuant
to this Indenture.
“Registrar” has the
meaning provided in Section 3.07.
“Regular Record Date” for
the interest payable on any Interest Payment Date on the Securities
of any series means the date specified for that purpose as
contemplated by Section 3.01.
“Responsible Officer,”
when used with respect to the Trustee, means any officer within the
corporate trust department of the Trustee including any vice
president, any trust officer, any assistant vice president, any
assistant secretary, any assistant treasurer, or any other officer
of the Trustee customarily performing 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
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because
of his or her knowledge of and familiarity with the particular
subject and who shall have direct responsibility for the
administration of this Indenture.
“Securities Act” means
the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.
“Security” or
“Securities” means any Security or Securities, as the
case may be, authenticated and delivered under this
Indenture.
“Security Register” has
the meaning provided in Section 3.07.
“Stated Maturity,” when
used with respect to any Security or any installment of principal
thereof or interest thereon, means the date specified in such
Security or a coupon representing such installment of interest as
the fixed date on which the principal of such Security or such
installment of principal or interest is due and payable.
“Trust Indenture Act”
means the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, as amended, as in force at
the date as of which this Indenture was originally executed, and
“TIA”, when used in respect of an indenture
supplemental hereto, means such Act as in force at the time such
indenture supplemental hereto becomes effective.
“Trustee” means the
Person named as the “Trustee” in the first paragraph of
this instrument until a successor Trustee shall have become such
pursuant to the applicable provisions of this Indenture, and
thereafter “Trustee” shall mean or include each Person
who is then a Trustee hereunder; provided, however, that if at any
time there is more than one such Person, “Trustee” as
used with respect to the Securities of any series shall mean only
the Trustee with respect to Securities of that series.
ARTICLE 2
SECURITY FORMS
SECTION 2.01 Forms Generally .
The Securities of each series shall be in substantially the forms
as shall be established by or pursuant to a Board Resolution or in
one or more indentures supplemental hereto, in each case with such
appropriate insertions, omissions, substitutions and other
variations as are required or permitted by this Indenture, and may
have such letters, numbers or other marks of identification and
such legends or endorsements placed thereon as may be required to
comply with the rules of any securities exchange or as may,
consistently herewith, be determined by the officers executing such
Securities, as evidenced by their execution of the Securities. If
the form of Securities of any series is established by action taken
pursuant to a Board Resolution, a copy of an appropriate record of
such action shall be certified by the Secretary or an Assistant
Secretary of the Company and delivered to the Trustee at or prior
to the delivery of the Company Order contemplated by
Section 3.02 for the authentication and delivery of such
Securities.
The Trustee’s certificate of
authentication on all Securities shall be in substantially the form
set forth in this Article.
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The definitive Securities shall be
printed, lithographed or engraved on steel-engraved borders or may
be produced in any other manner, all as determined by the officers
executing such Securities, as evidenced by their execution of such
Securities.
SECTION 2.02 Form of
Trustee’s Certificate of Authentication . The
Trustee’s certificate of authentication shall be
substantially in the following form:
This is one of the Securities of the
series designated therein referred to in the within-mentioned
Indenture.
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ARTICLE 3
ISSUE,
EXECUTION, FORM AND REGISTRATION OF SECURITIES
SECTION 3.01 Amount Unlimited;
Issuable in Series . The aggregate principal amount of
Securities which may be authenticated and delivered under this
Indenture is unlimited.
The Securities may be issued from
time to time in one or more series. Prior to the issuance of
Securities of any series, there shall be established in or pursuant
to (i) a Board Resolution, (ii) action taken pursuant to
a Board Resolution and (subject to Sections 3.03 and 3.04) set
forth, or determined in the manner provided, in an Officers’
Certificate, or (iii) one or more indentures supplemental
hereto:
(1) the title and designation of
the Securities of the series (which shall distinguish the
Securities of the series from all other Securities) including
whether the Securities of the series shall be issued as senior
Securities, senior subordinated Securities or subordinated
securities, any subordination provisions particular to such series
of Securities and whether such Securities are convertible and/or
exchangeable for other securities;
(2) the purchase price,
denomination and any limit upon the aggregate principal amount of
the Securities of the series which may be authenticated and
delivered under this Indenture (except for Securities authenticated
and delivered upon registration of transfer of, or in exchange for,
or in lieu of, other Securities of the series pursuant to
Sections 3.07, 3.09, 3.11, 11.02 or 12.01);
(3) the Person to whom any
interest on a Security of the series shall be payable, if other
than the Person in whose name that Security (or one or more
Predecessor Securities) is registered at the close of business on
the Regular Record Date for such interest;
(4) the date or dates (whether
fixed or extendable) on which the principal of and premium, if any,
on the Securities of the series is payable or the method of
determination thereof;
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(5) the rate or rates (whether
fixed or floating) at which the Securities of the series shall bear
interest, if any, or the method of calculating such rate or rates
of interest, the date or dates from which such interest shall
accrue or the method by which such date or dates shall be
determined, the Interest Payment Dates on which any such interest
shall be payable and the Regular Record Date, if any, for the
interest payable on any Interest Payment Date;
(6) the place or places where
the principal of, premium, if any, and interest, if any, on
Securities of the series shall be payable;
(7) the place or places where
the Securities may be exchanged or transferred;
(8) the period or periods within
which, the price or prices at which, the currency or currencies
(including currency unit or units) in which, and the other terms
and conditions upon which Securities of the series may be redeemed,
in whole or in part, at the option of the Company, if the Company
is to have that option, and, if other than as provided in
Section 10.02, the manner in which the particular Securities
of such series (if less than all Securities of such series are to
be redeemed) are to be selected for redemption;
(9) the obligation, if any, of
the Company to redeem or purchase Securities of the series in whole
or in part pursuant to any sinking fund or analogous provisions or
upon the happening of a specified event or at the option of a
Holder thereof and the period or periods within which, the price or
prices at which, and the other terms and conditions upon which
Securities of the series shall be redeemed or purchased, in whole
or in part, pursuant to such obligation;
(10) if other than denominations
of $1,000 and any integral multiple thereof, the denominations in
which Securities of the series shall be issuable;
(11) if other than U.S. dollars,
the currency or currencies (including currency unit or units) in
which payments of principal of, premium, if any, and interest on
the Securities of the series shall or may by payable, or in which
the Securities of the series shall be denominated, and the
particular provisions applicable thereto;
(12) if the payments of
principal of, premium, if any, or interest on the Securities of the
series are to be made, at the election of the Company or a
Securityholder, in a currency or currencies (including currency
unit or units) other than that in which such Securities are
denominated or designated to be payable, the currency or currencies
(including currency unit or units) in which such payments are to be
made, the terms and conditions of such payments and the manner in
which the exchange rate with respect to such payments shall be
determined, and the particular provisions applicable thereto;
(13) if the amount of payments
of principal of, premium, if any, and interest on the Securities of
the series shall be determined with reference to an index, formula
or other method (which index, formula or method may be based,
without limitation, on a currency or currencies (including currency
unit or units) other than that in which the Securities of the
series are denominated or designated to be payable), the index,
formula or other method by which such amounts shall be
determined;
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(14) if other than the entire
principal amount thereof, the portion of the principal amount of
Securities of the series which shall be payable upon declaration of
acceleration of the Maturity thereof pursuant to Section 5.02
or the method by which such portion shall be determined;
(15) any modifications of or
additions to the Events of Default or the covenants of the Company
set forth herein with respect to Securities of the series;
(16) if either or both of
Section 11.02 and Section 11.03 shall be inapplicable to
the Securities of the series (provided that if no such
inapplicability shall be specified, then both Section 11.02
and Section 11.03 shall be applicable to the Securities of the
series);
(17) if other than the Trustee,
the identity of the Registrar and any Paying Agent;
(18) if the Securities of the
series shall be issued in whole or in part in global form, (i) the
Depositary for such global Securities, (ii) the form of any
legend in addition to or in lieu of that in Section 3.06 which
shall be borne by such global Security, (iii) whether
beneficial owners of interests in any Securities of the series in
global form may exchange such interests for certificated Securities
of such series and of like tenor of any authorized form and
denomination, and (iv) if other than as provided in
Section 3.07, the circumstances under which any such exchange
may occur; and
(19) any other terms of the
series (which terms shall not be inconsistent with the provisions
of this Indenture, except as permitted by Section 8.01, but
which may modify or delete any provision of this Indenture insofar
as it applies to such series), including any terms which may be
required by or advisable under the laws of the United States of
America or regulations thereunder or advisable (as determined by
the Company) in connection with the marketing of Securities of the
series.
All Securities of any one series
shall be substantially identical except as to denomination and
except as may otherwise be provided (i) by a Board Resolution,
(ii) by action taken pursuant to a Board Resolution and
(subject to Sections 3.02 through 3.05) set forth, or
determined in the manner provided, in an Officers’
Certificate or (iii) in any such indenture supplemental
hereto. All Securities of any one series need not be issued at the
same time and, unless otherwise provided, a series may be reopened,
without the consent of the Holders, for issuances of additional
Securities of such series.
If any of the terms of the Securities
of any series are established by action taken pursuant to a Board
Resolution, a copy of an appropriate record of such action shall be
certified by the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary of the Company
and delivered to the Trustee at or prior to the delivery of the
Officers’ Certificate setting forth, or providing the manner
for determining, the terms of the Securities of such series, and an
appropriate record of any action taken pursuant thereto in
connection with the issuance of any Securities of such series shall
be delivered to the Trustee prior to the authentication and
delivery thereof.
SECTION 3.02 Authentication and
Delivery of Securities . Upon the execution and delivery of
this Indenture, or from time to time thereafter, Securities may be
executed by the Company and delivered to the Trustee for
authentication, and upon delivery to the Trustee of all
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documents and certificates as required by this Indenture, the
Trustee shall thereupon authenticate and make available for
delivery said Securities to or upon the written order of the
Company, signed by its Chairman of the Board of Directors, or its
President or any Vice President (whether or not designated by a
number or numbers or a word or words added before or after the
title “Vice President”) without any further action by
the Company.
SECTION 3.03 Execution of
Securities . The Securities shall be signed on behalf of the
Company by its Chairman of the Board of Directors or its President
or any Senior Vice President (whether or not designated by a number
or numbers or a word or words added before or after the title
“Senior Vice President”). Such signatures may be the
manual or facsimile signatures of the present or any future such
officers. In case any officer of the Company who shall have signed
any of the Securities shall cease to be such officer before the
Security so signed shall be authenticated and delivered by the
Trustee or disposed of by the Company, such Security nevertheless
may be authenticated and delivered or disposed of as though the
person who signed such Security had not ceased to be such officer
of the Company, as the case may be; and any Security may be signed
on behalf of the Company by such persons as, at the actual date of
the execution of such Security shall be the proper officers of the
Company, as the case may be, although at the date of the execution
and delivery of this Indenture any such person was not such
officer.
SECTION 3.04 Certificate of
Authentication . Only such Securities as shall bear thereon a
certificate of authentication substantially in the form hereinabove
recited, executed by the Trustee by manual signature of one of its
authorized signatories, shall be entitled to the benefits of this
Indenture or be valid or obligatory for any purpose. Such
certificate by the Trustee upon any Security executed by the
Company shall be conclusive evidence that the Security so
authenticated has been duly authenticated and delivered hereunder
and that the Holder is entitled to the benefits of this
Indenture.
SECTION 3.05 Denomination and Date
of Securities; Payments of Interest . (a) The Securities
shall be issuable in such denominations as shall be specified as
contemplated by Section 3.01. In the absence of any such provisions
with respect to the Securities, the Securities shall be issuable in
denominations of $1,000 and any integral multiple thereof. The
Securities shall be numbered, lettered, or otherwise distinguished
in such manner or in accordance with such plans as the officers of
the Company executing the same may determine with the approval of
the Trustee.
Any of the Securities may be issued
with appropriate insertions, omissions, substitutions and
variations, and may have imprinted or otherwise reproduced thereon
such legend or legends, not inconsistent with the provisions of
this Indenture, as may be required to comply with any law or with
any rules or regulations pursuant thereto, including those required
by Section 3.06, or with the rules of any securities market in
which the Securities are admitted to trading, or to conform to
general usage.
Each Security shall be dated the date
of its authentication, shall bear interest from the applicable date
and shall be payable on the dates specified on the face of the form
of Security above.
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(b)
Global Securities . If Securities of or within a series are
issuable in whole or in part in global form, then any such Security
of such series shall be deposited with the Trustee as custodian for
the Depositary and registered in the name of Cede & Co., as
nominee for the Depositary. The Global Security shall be deposited
on behalf of the purchasers of the Securities represented thereby
with the Trustee, as custodian for the Depositary (or with such
other custodian as the Depositary may direct), and registered in
the name of the Depositary or a nominee of the Depositary, duly
executed by the Company and authenticated by the Trustee as
hereinafter provided. The aggregate principal amount of the Global
Securities may from time to time be increased or decreased by
adjustments made on the records of the Trustee and the Depositary
or its nominee as hereinafter provided.
(c) The
person in whose name any Security is registered at the close of
business on any Regular Record Date with respect to any Interest
Payment Date shall be entitled to receive the interest, if any,
payable on such Interest Payment Date notwithstanding any transfer
or exchange of such Security subsequent to the Regular Record Date
and prior to such Interest Payment Date, except if and to the
extent the Company shall default in the payment of the interest due
on such Interest Payment Date, in which case such defaulted
interest, plus (to the extent lawful) any interest payable on the
defaulted interest, shall be paid to the persons in whose names
outstanding Securities are registered at the close of business on a
subsequent record date (which shall be not less than five Business
Days prior to the date of such payment) established by notice given
by mail by or on behalf of the Company to the holders of Securities
not less than 15 days preceding such subsequent record
date.
SECTION 3.06 Global Security
Legend . Any Security in global form authenticated and
delivered hereunder shall bear a legend in substantially the
following form, or in such other form as may be necessary or
appropriate to reflect the arrangements with or to comply with the
requirements of any Depositary:
THIS
SECURITY IS A GLOBAL SECURITY WITHIN THE MEANING OF THE INDENTURE
HEREINAFTER REFERRED TO AND IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF THE
DEPOSITARY OR A NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITARY, WHICH MAY BE TREATED BY
THE COMPANY, THE TRUSTEE AND ANY AGENT THEREOF AS OWNER AND HOLDER
OF THIS SECURITY FOR ALL PURPOSES.
UNLESS
THIS CERTIFICATE IS PRESENTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF
THE DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY, TO THE COMPANY OR ITS AGENT FOR
REGISTRATION OF TRANSFER, EXCHANGE OR PAYMENT, AND ANY CERTIFICATE
ISSUED IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF CEDE & CO. OR IN SUCH OTHER
NAME AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF THE
DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY (AND ANY PAYMENT HEREON IS MADE TO CEDE
& CO. OR TO SUCH OTHER ENTITY AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED
REPRESENTATIVE OF THE DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY), ANY TRANSFER,
PLEDGE OR OTHER USE HEREOF FOR VALUE OR OTHERWISE BY OR TO ANY
PERSON IS WRONGFUL SINCE THE REGISTERED OWNER HEREOF, CEDE &
CO., HAS AN INTEREST HEREIN.
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TRANSFERS OF THIS GLOBAL SECURITY SHALL BE LIMITED TO TRANSFERS IN
WHOLE, BUT NOT IN PART, TO NOMINEES OF THE DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY
OR TO A SUCCESSOR THEREOF OR SUCH SUCCESSOR’S NOMINEE.
SECTION 3.07 Registration,
Transfer and Exchange . The Securities are issuable only in
registered form. The Company will keep at each office or agency
(the “Registrar”) for each series of Securities a
register or registers (the “Security Register(s)”) in
which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe,
it will register, and will register the transfer of, Securities as
in this Article provided. Such Security Register or Security
Registers shall be in written form in the English language or in
any other form capable of being converted into such form within a
reasonable time. At all reasonable times such Security Register or
Security Registers shall be open for inspection by the
Trustee.
Upon due presentation for
registration of transfer of any Security of any series at each such
office or agency, the Company shall execute and the Trustee shall
authenticate and make available for delivery in the name of the
designated transferee or transferees a new Security or Securities
of the same series, in each case, of any authorized denominations
and of a like aggregate Principal Amount.
At the option of the Holder,
Securities of any series (except a Security in global form) may be
exchanged for other Securities of the same series, of any
authorized denominations and of a like aggregate principal amount
and Stated Maturity, upon surrender of the Securities to be
exchanged at such office or agency. Whenever any Securities are so
surrendered for exchange, the Company shall execute, and the
Trustee shall authenticate and make available for delivery, the
Securities which the Holder making the exchange is entitled to
receive.
A Holder may transfer a Security only
by written application to the Registrar stating the name of the
proposed transferee and otherwise complying with the terms of this
Indenture. No such transfer shall be effected until, and such
transferee shall succeed to the rights of a Holder only upon, final
acceptance and registration of the transfer by the Registrar in the
Security Register. Prior to the registration of any transfer by a
Holder as provided herein, the Company, the Trustee, and any agent
of the Company shall treat the person in whose name the Security is
registered as the owner thereof for all purposes whether or not the
Security shall be overdue, and neither the Company, the Trustee,
nor any such agent shall be affected by notice to the contrary.
Furthermore, any Holder of a Global Security shall, by acceptance
of such Global Security, agree that transfers of beneficial
interests in such Global Security may be effected only through a
book entry system maintained by the Holder of such Global Security
(or its agent) and that ownership of a beneficial interest in the
Security shall be required to be reflected in a book entry. When
Securities are presented to the Registrar or a co-Registrar with a
request to register the transfer or to exchange them for an equal
Principal Amount of Securities of other authorized denominations,
the Registrar shall register the transfer or make the exchange as
requested if the requirements for such transactions set forth
herein are met. To permit registrations of transfers and exchanges,
the Company shall execute and the Trustee shall authenticate
Securities at the Registrar’s request.
The Company may require payment of a
sum sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental charge that
may be imposed in connection with any exchange or registration of
transfer of Securities (other than any such transfer taxes or other
similar governmental charge
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payable
upon exchanges pursuant to Section 3.11, 8.05 or 10.03). No
service charge to any Holder shall be made for any such
transaction.
The Company shall not be required to
exchange or register a transfer of (a) any Securities of any
series for a period of 15 days next preceding the first
mailing of notice of redemption of Securities of that series to be
redeemed, or (b) any Securities of any series selected, called
or being called for redemption except, in the case of any Security
of any series where public notice has been given that such Security
is to be redeemed in part, the portion thereof not so to be
redeemed.
All Securities issued upon any
transfer or exchange of Securities shall be valid obligations of
the Company, evidencing the same debt, and entitled to the same
benefits under this Indenture, as the Securities surrendered upon
such transfer or exchange.
SECTION 3.08 Book-Entry Provisions
for Global Securities . (a) Each Global Security initially
shall (i) be registered in the name of the Depositary for such
Global Securities or the nominee of such Depositary, (ii) be
delivered to the Trustee as custodian for such Depositary and
(iii) bear legends as set forth in Section 3.06.
Members of, or participants in, the
Depositary (“Agent Members”) shall have no rights under
this Indenture with respect to any Global Security held on their
behalf by the Depositary, or the Trustee as its custodian, or under
the Global Security, and the Depositary may be treated by the
Company, the Trustee and any agent of the Company or the Trustee as
the absolute owner of such Global Security for all purposes
whatsoever. Notwithstanding the foregoing, nothing herein shall
prevent the Company, the Trustee or any agent of the Company or the
Trustee, from giving effect to any written certification, proxy or
other authorization furnished by the Depositary or impair, as
between the Depositary and its Agent Members, the operation of
customary practices governing the exercise of the rights of a
holder of any Security.
(b) Transfers
of a Global Security shall be limited to transfers of such Global
Security in whole, but not in part, to the Depositary for such
series, its successors or their respective nominees. If at any time
the Depositary for the Securities of such series notifies the
Company that it is unwilling or unable to continue as Depositary or
if at any time the Depositary shall no longer be qualified to serve
as the Depositary, the Company shall appoint a successor depositary
with respect to the Securities of such series. If a successor
depositary for the Securities of such series is not appointed by
the Company within 90 days after the Company receives such
notice or becomes aware of such ineligibility, the Trustee, upon
receipt of a Company Order for the authentication and delivery of
definitive Securities of such series of like tenor, will
authenticate and deliver Securities of such series of like tenor
and terms in definitive form in an aggregate Principal Amount equal
to the Principal Amount of the Global Securities or Securities of
such series in exchange for such Global Security or
Securities.
The Company may at any time and in
its sole discretion determine that the Securities of a series
issued in the form of one or more Global Securities shall no longer
be represented by such Global Securities. In such event, the
Company will execute, and the Trustee, upon receipt of a Company
Order for the authentication and delivery of definitive Securities
of such series of like tenor, will authenticate and deliver
Securities of such series of like tenor and terms in
definitive
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form in
an aggregate Principal Amount equal to the Principal Amount of the
Global Security or Securities of such series in exchange for such
Global Security or Securities. Interests of beneficial owners in a
Global Security may be transferred in accordance with the rules and
procedures of the Depositary. In addition, Physical Securities
shall be transferred to all beneficial owners in exchange for their
beneficial interests in a Global Security, if (i) the
Depositary (A) notifies the Company that it is unwilling or
unable to continue as Depositary for such Global Security, and a
successor depositary is not appointed by the Company within
90 days of such notice, (B) ceases to be qualified to
serve as Depositary and a successor depositary is not appointed by
the Company within 90 days of such notice, (ii) the
Company executes and delivers to the Trustee a Company Order that
such Global Security shall be so transferable, registrable and
exchangeable, and such transfers shall be registrable, or
(iii) an Event of Default of which the Trustee has actual
notice has occurred and is continuing and the Registrar has
received a request from the Depositary to issue such Physical
Securities.
(c) Any
beneficial interest in one of the Global Securities that is
transferred to a person who takes delivery in the form of an
interest in the other Global Security will, upon transfer, cease to
be an interest in such Global Security and become an interest in
the other Global Security and, accordingly, will thereafter be
subject to all transfer restrictions, if any, and other procedures
applicable to beneficial interests in such other Global Security
for as long as it remains such an interest.
(d) In
connection with any transfer of a portion of the beneficial
interests in a Global Security to beneficial owners pursuant to
paragraph (b) of this Section 3.08, the Registrar shall
reflect on its books and records the date and a decrease in the
Principal Amount of such Global Security in an amount equal to the
Principal Amount of the beneficial interest in such Global Security
to be transferred, and the Company shall execute, and the Trustee
shall authenticate and make available for delivery, one or more
Physical Securities of like tenor and amount.
(e) In
connection with the transfer of an entire Global Security to
beneficial owners pursuant to paragraph (b) of this Section,
such Global Security shall be deemed to be surrendered to the
Trustee for cancellation, and the Company shall execute, and the
Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, to each beneficial owner
identified by the Depositary in exchange for its beneficial
interest in such Global Security, an equal Principal Amount of
Physical Securities of authorized denominations.
(f) The
registered holder of a Global Security may grant proxies and
otherwise authorize any person, including Agent Members and persons
that may hold interests through Agent Members, to take any action
which a Holder is entitled to take under this Indenture or the
Securities of such series.
SECTION 3.09 Mutilated, Defaced,
Destroyed, Lost and Stolen Securities . In case any temporary
or definitive Security shall become mutilated, defaced or be
apparently destroyed, lost or stolen, the Company in its discretion
may execute and, upon the written request of any officer of the
Company and delivery to the Trustee of all documents and
certificates as required by this Indenture, the Trustee shall
authenticate and make available for delivery a new Security of the
same series bearing a number not contemporaneously outstanding, in
exchange and substitution
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for the
mutilated or defaced Security, or in lieu of and substitution for
the Security so apparently destroyed, lost or stolen. In every
case, the applicant for a substitute Security shall furnish to the
Company and the Trustee and any agent of the Company or the Trustee
such security or indemnity as may be required by each of them to
indemnify and defend and to save each of them harmless and, in
every case of destruction, loss or theft, evidence to their
satisfaction of the apparent destruction, loss or theft of such
Security and of the ownership thereof.
Upon the issuance of any substitute
Security, the Company may require the payment of a sum sufficient
to cover any tax or other governmental charge that may be imposed
in relation thereto and any other expenses (including the fees and
expenses of the Trustee) connected therewith. In case any Security
which has matured or is about to mature, or has been called for
redemption in full, shall become mutilated or defaced or be
apparently destroyed, lost or stolen, the Company may, instead of
issuing a substitute Security of the same series, pay or authorize
the payment of the same (without surrender thereof except in the
case of a mutilated or defaced Security), if the applicant for such
payment shall furnish to the Company and to the Trustee and any
agent of the Company or the Trustee such security or indemnity as
any of them may require to save each of them harmless from all
risks, however remote, and, in every case of apparent destruction,
loss or theft, the applicant shall also furnish to the Company and
the Trustee and any agent of the Company or the Trustee evidence to
their satisfaction of the apparent destruction, loss or theft of
such Security and of the ownership thereof.
Every substitute Security issued
pursuant to the provisions of this Section by virtue of the fact
that any Security is apparently destroyed, lost or stolen shall
constitute an additional contractual obligation of the Company
whether or not the apparently destroyed, lost or stolen Security
shall be at any time enforceable by anyone and shall be entitled to
all the benefits of (but shall be subject to all the limitations of
rights set forth in) this Indenture equally and proportionately
with any and all other Securities duly authenticated and delivered
hereunder. All Securities shall be held and owned upon the express
condition that, to the extent permitted by law, with respect to the
holder of a substitute Security, the foregoing provisions are
exclusive with respect to the replacement or payment of mutilated,
defaced, or apparently destroyed, lost or stolen Securities and
shall preclude any and all other rights or remedies notwithstanding
any law or statute existing or hereafter enacted to the contrary
with respect to the replacement or payment of negotiable
instruments or other securities without their surrender.
SECTION 3.10 Cancellation of
Securities . All Securities surrendered for payment,
redemption, registration of transfer or exchange, if surrendered to
the Company or any agent of the Company or the Trustee, shall be
delivered to the Trustee for cancellation or, if surrendered to the
Trustee, shall be cancelled by it; and no Securities shall be
issued in lieu thereof except as expressly permitted by any of the
provisions of this Indenture. The Trustee shall dispose of
cancelled Securities in accordance with its customary procedures.
If the Company shall acquire any of the Securities, such
acquisition shall not operate as a redemption or satisfaction of
the indebtedness represented by such Securities unless and until
the same are delivered to the Trustee for cancellation.
SECTION 3.11 Temporary
Securities . Pending the preparation of definitive Securities
of any series, the Company may execute and the Trustee shall
authenticate and make available for delivery temporary Securities
of such series (printed, lithographed, typewritten or
otherwise
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reproduced, in each case in form satisfactory to the Trustee).
Temporary Securities shall be issuable as registered Securities of
such series without coupons, of any authorized denomination, and
substantially in the form of the definitive Securities of such
series but with such omissions, insertions and variations as may be
appropriate for temporary Securities, all as may be determined by
the Company with the concurrence of the Trustee. Temporary
Securities may contain such reference to any provisions of this
Indenture as may be appropriate. Every temporary Security shall be
executed by the Company and be authenticated by the Trustee upon
the same conditions and in substantially the same manner, and with
like effect, as the definitive Securities of such series. Without
unreasonable delay the Company shall execute and shall furnish
definitive Securities of such series and thereupon temporary
Securities of such series may be surrendered in exchange therefor
without charge at each office or agency to be maintained by the
Company for the purpose pursuant to Section 4.02, and upon
delivery to the Trustee of all documents and certificates as
required by this Indenture, the Trustee shall authenticate and make
available for delivery in exchange for such temporary Securities a
like aggregate principal amount of definitive Securities of such
series of authorized denominations. Until so exchanged the
temporary Securities of such series shall be entitled to the same
benefits under this Indenture as definitive Securities of such
series.
SECTION 3.12 Computation of
Interest . Except as otherwise specified as contemplated by
Section 3.01 for Securities of any series (1) interest on
any Securities which bear interest at a fixed rate shall be
computed on the basis of a 360-day year comprised of twelve 30-day
months and (2) interest on any Securities which bear interest
at a variable rate shall be computed on the basis of the actual
number of days in an interest period divided by 360.
SECTION 3.13 CUSIP and ISIN
Numbers . The Company in issuing the Securities of any series
may use a “CUSIP” and “ISIN” number (if
then generally in use), and, if so, the Trustee shall use the CUSIP
numbers or ISIN numbers, as the case may be, in notices of
redemption or exchange as a convenience to Holders of such series;
provided that any such notice shall state that no representation is
made as to the correctness of such numbers either as printed on the
Securities or as contained in any notice of redemption or exchange
and that reliance may be placed only on the other identification
numbers printed on the Securities and any such redemption shall not
be affected by any defect in or omission of such numbers. The
Company shall promptly notify the Trustee of any change in the
CUSIP numbers or ISIN numbers.
ARTICLE 4
CERTAIN COVENANTS
SECTION 4.01 Payment of Principal,
Premium and Interest on Securities . The Company, for the
benefit of each series of the Securities, will duly and punctually
pay or cause to be paid the principal of and any premium and
interest on the Securities of that series in accordance with the
terms of such Securities and this Indenture.
SECTION 4.02 Maintenance of Office
or Agency . The Company will maintain a Payment Office where
Securities may be presented or surrendered for payment, where
Securities may be surrendered for registration of transfer or
exchange, and where notices and demands to or
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upon the
Company in respect of the Securities and this Indenture may be
served. The Company will give prompt written notice to the Trustee
of the location, and any change in the location, of such office or
agency. If at any time the Company shall fail to maintain any such
required office or agency or shall fail to furnish the Trustee with
the address thereof, such presentations, surrenders, notices, and
demands may be made or served at the Corporate Trust Office of the
Trustee, and the Company hereby initially appoints the Trustee at
its office or agency as its agent to receive all such
presentations, surrenders, notices and demands.
The Company may also from time to
time designate one or more other offices or agencies where the
Securities of one or more series may be presented or surrendered
for any or all such purposes and may from time to time rescind such
designations; provided, however, that no such designation or
rescission shall in any manner relieve the Company of its
obligation to maintain an office or agency in accordance with the
requirements set forth above for Securities of any series for such
purposes. The Company will give prompt written notice to the
Trustee of any such designation or rescission and of any change in
the location of any such other office or agency.
SECTION 4.03 Money for Securities
Payments to be Held in Trust . (a) If the Company shall at
any time act as its own Paying Agent with respect to any series of
Securities, it will, on or before each due date of the principal of
or any premium or interest on any of the Securities of that series,
segregate and hold in trust for the benefit of the Persons entitled
thereto a sum sufficient to pay the principal and any premium and
interest so becoming due until such sums shall be paid to such
Persons or otherwise disposed of as herein provided and will
promptly notify the Trustee of its action or failure so to
act.
(b) Whenever
the Company shall have one or more Paying Agents for any series of
Securities, it will, prior to each due date of the principal of or
any premium or interest on any Securities of that series, deposit
with a Paying Agent a sum sufficient to pay such amount, such sum
to be held as provided by the Trust Indenture Act, and (unless such
Paying Agent is the Trustee) the Company will promptly notify the
Trustee of its action or failure so to act.
(c) The
Company will cause each Paying Agent for any series of Securities
(other than the Trustee) to execute and deliver to the Trustee an
instrument in which such Paying Agent will agree with the Trustee,
subject to the provisions of this Section 4.03, that such
Paying Agent will (i) comply with the provisions of the Trust
Indenture Act applicable to it as a Paying Agent (ii) hold all
sums held by it for the payment of the principal of (and premium,
if any) or interest, if any, on the Securities of that series in
trust for the benefit of the Holders until such sums shall be paid
to such Holders or otherwise disposed of as herein provided;
(iii) give the Trustee notice of any default by the Company
(or any other obligor upon the Securities) in the making of any
payment of principal (and premium, if any) or interest, if any, on
the Securities of that series; and (iv) during the continuance of
any default by the Company (or any other obligor upon the
Securities of that series) in the making of any payment in respect
of the Securities of that series, and upon the written request of
that Trustee, forthwith pay to the Trustee all sums held in trust
by such Paying Agent for payment in respect of the Securities of
that series.
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(d) The
Company may at any time, for the purpose of obtaining the
satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture or for any other
purpose, pay, or by Company Order direct any Paying Agent to pay,
to the Trustee all sums held in trust by the Company or such Paying
Agent, such sums to be held by the Trustee upon the same trusts as
those upon which such sums were held by the Company or such Paying
Agent; and, upon such payment by any Paying Agent to the Trustee,
such Paying Agent will be released from all further liability with
respect to such money.
(e) Any
money deposited with the Trustee or any Paying Agent, or then held
by the Company, in trust for the payment of the principal of or any
premium or interest on any Security of any series and remaining
unclaimed for two years after such principal, premium, or interest
has become due and payable will be paid to the Company upon a
Company Request (or, if then held by the Company, will be
discharged from such trust); and the Holder of such Security will
thereafter, as an unsecured general creditor, look only to the
Company for payment thereof, and all liability of the Trustee or
such Paying Agent with respect to such trust money, and all
liability of the Company as trustee thereof, will thereupon cease;
provided, however, that the Trustee or such Paying Agent, before
being required to make any such repayment, may at the expense of
the Company cause to be published once, in a newspaper published in
the English language, customarily published on each Business Day
and of general circulation in the Borough of Manhattan, The City of
New York, notice that such money remains unclaimed and that, after
a date specified therein, which will not be less than 30 calendar
days from the date of such publication, any unclaimed balance of
such money then remaining will be repaid to the Company.
SECTION 4.04 Existence .
Subject to Article 9, the Company will do or cause to be done
all things necessary to preserve and keep in full force and effect
its existence, rights (charter and statutory), and franchises;
provided, however, that the Company will not be required to
preserve any such right or franchise if the Board of Directors
determines that the preservation thereof is no longer desirable in
the conduct of the business of the Company and that the loss
thereof will not result in a Material Adverse Effect.
SECTION 4.05 Statement by Officers
as to Default . The Company will deliver to the Trustee, within
120 calendar days after the end of each fiscal year of the Company
ending after the first date any series of Securities issued under
this Indenture is outstanding, an Officers’ Certificate
signed by the principal executive officer, principal financial
officer, principal accounting officer or treasurer of the Company
stating whether or not to the knowledge of such person after due
inquiry the Company is in default in the performance and observance
of any of the terms, provisions, and conditions of this Indenture
(without regard to any period of grace or requirement of notice
provided hereunder) and, if the Company is in default, specifying
all such defaults and the nature and status thereof of which such
person may have such knowledge. The Company shall deliver to the
Trustee, as soon as possible and in any event within five days
after the Company becomes aware of the occurrence of any Event of
Default or an event which, with notice or the lapse of time or
both, would constitute an Event of Default, an Officers’
Certificate setting forth the details of such Event of Default or
default and the action which the Company proposes to take with
respect thereto.
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SECTION 4.06 Waiver of Certain
Covenants . The Company may omit in any particular instance to
comply with any term, provision, or condition set forth in the
provisions of any supplemental indenture specified in such
supplemental indenture, with respect to the Securities of any
series, if the Holders of a majority in Principal Amount of all
outstanding Securities of such series shall, by act of such Holders
in accordance with Section 7.01, either waive such compliance
in such instance or generally waive compliance with such term,
provision, or condition, but no such waiver will extend to or
affect such term, provision or condition except to the extent so
expressly waived, and, until such waiver shall become effective,
the obligations of the Company and the duties of the Trustee in
respect of any such term, provision, or condition will remain in
full force and effect.
ARTICLE 5
REMEDIES OF THE TRUSTEE AND HOLDERS ON EVENT OF DEFAULT
SECTION 5.01 Events of Default
. Each of the following events constitutes an “Event of
Default” wherever used herein with respect to Securities of
any series:
(a) default
for 30 days in the payment when due of interest on the
Securities of that series;
(b) default
in payment when due of the principal of or premium, if any, on the
Securities of that series;
(c) default
for 90 days after written notice to the Company by the Trustee
or by the Holders of not less than 25% in Principal Amount of
Securities of that series then outstanding in the performance of
any covenant or agreement in the Indenture or the Securities;
(d) the
entry by a court having jurisdiction in the premises of (i) a
decree or order for relief in respect of the Company in an
involuntary case or proceeding under any applicable federal or
state bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, or other similar law
or (ii) a decree or order adjudging the Company bankrupt or
insolvent, or approving as properly filed a petition seeking
reorganization, arrangement, adjustment, or composition of or in
respect of the Company under any applicable federal or state law,
or appointing a custodian, receiver, liquidator, assignee, trustee,
sequestrator, or other similar official of the Company or of any
substantial part of its property, or ordering the winding up or
liquidation of its affairs, and the continuance of any such decree
or order for relief or any such other decree or order unstayed and
in effect for a period of 60 consecutive calendar days;
(e) the
commencement by the Company of a voluntary case or proceeding under
any applicable federal or state bankruptcy, insolvency,
reorganization, or other similar law or of any other case or
proceeding to be adjudicated bankrupt or insolvent, or the consent
by it to the entry of a decree or order for relief in respect of
the Company in an involuntary case or proceeding under any
applicable federal or state bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization,
or other similar law or to the commencement of any bankruptcy or
insolvency case or proceeding against it, or the filing by it of a
petition or answer or consent seeking reorganization or relief with
respect to the Company under any applicable federal or state
bankruptcy, insolvency,
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reorganization, or other similar law, or the consent by it to the
filing of such petition or to the appointment of or taking
possession by a custodian, receiver, liquidator, assignee, trustee,
sequestrator, or other similar official of the Company or of any
substantial part of its property pursuant to any such law, or the
making by it of an assignment for the benefit of creditors, or the
admission by it in writing of its inability to pay its debts
generally as they become due, or the taking of corporate action by
the Company in furtherance of any such action; or
(f) any
other Event of Default provided with respect to Securities of that
series.
Upon receipt by the Trustee of any
Notice of Default pursuant to this Section 5.01, a record date
shall automatically and without any other action by any Person be
set for the purpose of determining the Holders of outstanding
Securities of the applicable series entitled to join in such Notice
of Default, which record date shall be the close of business on the
day the Trustee receives such Notice of Default. The Holders of
outstanding Securities of the applicable series on such record date
(or their duly appointed agents), and only such Persons, shall be
entitled to join in such Notice of Default, whether or not such
Holders remain Holders after such record date.
SECTION 5.02 Acceleration .
(a) If any Event of Default (other than an Event of Default
specified in clause (d) or (e) of Section 5.01
hereof) occurs and is continuing, the Trustee by notice to the
Company or the Holders of at least 25% in aggregate Principal
Amount of the then outstanding Securities of that series by written
notice to the Company and the Trustee, may declare the unpaid
principal of, premium, if any, and any accrued and unpaid interest
on all the Securities of the affected series to be due and payable
immediately. Except as set forth above, upon such declaration the
principal of, premium, if any, and interest shall be due and
payable immediately. If an Event of Default specified in clause
(d) or (e) of Section 5.01 hereof occurs with
respect to the Company the unpaid principal of, premium, if any,
and any accrued and unpaid interest on all the Securities shall
ipso facto become and be immediately due and payable without
further action or notice on the part of the Trustee or any
Holder.
(b) At
any time after such a declaration of acceleration with respect to
the Securities of any series has been made and before a judgment or
decree for payment of the money due has been obtained by the
Trustee as hereinafter in this Article 5 provided, the Holders
of a majority in Principal Amount of the outstanding Securities of
such series, by written notice to the Company and the Trustee, may
rescind and annul such declaration and its consequences if
(i) the Company has paid or deposited with the Trustee a sum
sufficient to pay (A) all overdue interest on all of the
Securities of that series, (B) the principal of (and premium,
if any, on) Securities of that series which has become due
otherwise than by such declaration of acceleration and any interest
thereon at the rate or rates prescribed therefor in the Securities
of that series, (C) to the extent that payment of such
interest is lawful, interest upon overdue interest at the rate or
rates prescribed therefor in the Securities of that series, and
(D) all sums paid or advanced by
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