Exhibit 4.1
INSULET CORPORATION
AND
WELLS
FARGO BANK, N.A.,
as
Trustee
INDENTURE
Dated
as of June 16, 2008
5.375%
Convertible Senior Notes due 2013
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| ARTICLE 1 DEFINITIONS |
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Section 1.01. |
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Definitions |
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| ARTICLE 2 ISSUE, DESCRIPTION,
EXECUTION, REGISTRATION AND EXCHANGE OF NOTES |
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Section 2.01. |
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Designation and Amount |
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Section 2.02. |
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Form of Notes |
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Section 2.03. |
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Date and Denomination of Notes;
Payments of Interest |
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Section 2.04. |
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Payments of Additional
Interest |
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Section 2.05. |
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Execution, Authentication and
Delivery of Notes |
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Section 2.06. |
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Exchange and Registration of
Transfer of Notes; Restrictions on Transfer; Depositary |
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Section 2.07. |
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Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost or
Stolen Notes |
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Section 2.08. |
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Temporary Notes |
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Section 2.09. |
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Cancellation of Notes Paid,
Etc. |
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Section 2.10. |
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CUSIP Numbers |
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Section 2.11. |
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Additional Notes;
Repurchases |
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Section 2.12. |
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Automatic Exchange From Restricted
Global Note to Unrestricted Global Note |
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| ARTICLE 3 [INTENTIONALLY OMITTED] |
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| ARTICLE 4 SATISFACTION AND
DISCHARGE |
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Section 4.01. |
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Satisfaction and
Discharge |
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| ARTICLE 5 PARTICULAR COVENANTS OF THE
COMPANY |
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Section 5.01. |
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Payment of Principal, Interest and
Additional Interest |
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Section 5.02. |
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Maintenance of Office or
Agency |
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Section 5.03. |
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Appointments to Fill Vacancies in
Trustee’s Office |
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Section 5.04. |
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Provisions as to Paying
Agent |
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Section 5.05. |
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Existence |
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Section 5.06. |
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Rule 144A Information Requirement
and Annual Reports |
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Section 5.07. |
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Stay, Extension and Usury
Laws |
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Section 5.08. |
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Compliance Certificate; Statements
as to Defaults |
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Section 5.09. |
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Additional Interest and
Supplementary Interest |
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Section 5.10. |
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Further Instruments and
Acts |
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
(continued)
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| ARTICLE 6 LISTS OF NOTEHOLDERS AND
REPORTS BY THE COMPANY AND THE TRUSTEE |
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Section 6.01. |
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Lists of Noteholders |
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Section 6.02. |
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Preservation and Disclosure of
Lists |
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Section 6.03. |
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Reports by Trustee |
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| ARTICLE 7 DEFAULTS AND REMEDIES |
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Section 7.01. |
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Events of Default |
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Section 7.02. |
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Payments of Notes on Default; Suit
Therefor |
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Section 7.03. |
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Application of Monies Collected by
Trustee |
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Section 7.04. |
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Proceedings by
Noteholders |
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Section 7.05. |
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Proceedings by Trustee |
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Section 7.06. |
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Remedies Cumulative and
Continuing |
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Section 7.07. |
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Direction of Proceedings and
Waiver of Defaults by Majority of Noteholders |
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Section 7.08. |
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Notice of Defaults |
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Section 7.09. |
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Undertaking to Pay Costs |
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| ARTICLE 8 CONCERNING THE TRUSTEE |
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Section 8.01. |
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Duties and Responsibilities of
Trustee |
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Section 8.02. |
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Reliance on Documents, Opinions,
Etc. |
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Section 8.03. |
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No Responsibility for Recitals,
Etc. |
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Section 8.04. |
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Trustee, Paying Agents, Conversion
Agents or Registrar May Own Notes |
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Section 8.05. |
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Monies to Be Held in
Trust |
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Section 8.06. |
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Compensation and Expenses of
Trustee |
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Section 8.07. |
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Officers’ Certificate as
Evidence |
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Section 8.08. |
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Conflicting Interests of
Trustee |
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Section 8.09. |
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Eligibility of Trustee |
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Section 8.10. |
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Resignation or Removal of
Trustee |
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Section 8.11. |
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Acceptance by Successor
Trustee |
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Section 8.12. |
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Succession by Merger,
Etc. |
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Section 8.13. |
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Limitation on Rights of Trustee as
Creditor |
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| ARTICLE 9 CONCERNING THE
NOTEHOLDERS |
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Section 9.01. |
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Action by Noteholders |
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Section 9.02. |
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Proof of Execution by
Noteholders |
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Section 9.03. |
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Who Are Deemed Absolute
Owners |
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Section 9.04. |
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Company-Owned Notes
Disregarded |
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Section 9.05. |
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Revocation of Consents; Future
Holders Bound |
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| ARTICLE 10 NOTEHOLDERS’
MEETINGS |
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Section 10.01. |
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Purpose of Meetings |
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Section 10.02. |
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Call of Meetings by
Trustee |
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Section 10.03. |
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Call of Meetings by Company or
Noteholders |
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Section 10.04. |
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Qualifications for Voting |
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Section 10.05. |
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Regulations |
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Section 10.06. |
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Voting |
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Section 10.07. |
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No Delay of Rights by
Meeting |
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| ARTICLE 11 SUPPLEMENTAL
INDENTURES |
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Section 11.01. |
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Supplemental Indentures Without
Consent of Noteholders |
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Section 11.02. |
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Supplemental Indentures With
Consent of Noteholders |
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Section 11.03. |
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Effect of Supplemental
Indentures |
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Section 11.04. |
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Notation on Notes |
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Section 11.05. |
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Evidence of Compliance of
Supplemental Indenture to Be Furnished Trustee |
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| ARTICLE 12 CONSOLIDATION, MERGER,
SALE, CONVEYANCE AND LEASE |
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Section 12.01. |
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Company May Consolidate,
Etc. |
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Section 12.02. |
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Successor Corporation to Be
Substituted |
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Section 12.03. |
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Opinion of Counsel to Be Given
Trustee |
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| ARTICLE 13 IMMUNITY OF INCORPORATORS,
STOCKHOLDERS, OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS |
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Section 13.01. |
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Indenture and Notes Solely
Corporate Obligations |
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| ARTICLE 14 [INTENTIONALLY
OMITTED] |
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| ARTICLE 15 CONVERSION OF NOTES |
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Section 15.01. |
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Conversion Privilege |
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Section 15.02. |
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Conversion Procedure |
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Section 15.03. |
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Increased Conversion Rate
Applicable to Certain Notes Surrendered in Connection with
Make-Whole Fundamental Changes |
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Section 15.04. |
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Adjustment of Conversion
Rate |
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Section 15.05. |
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Shares to Be Fully Paid |
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Section 15.06. |
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Effect of Reclassification,
Consolidation, Merger or Sale |
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Section 15.07. |
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Certain Covenants |
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Section 15.08. |
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Responsibility of Trustee |
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Section 15.09. |
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Notice to Holders Prior to Certain
Actions |
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Section 15.10. |
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Stockholder Rights Plans |
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Section 15.11. |
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Exchange in Lieu of
Conversion |
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Section 15.12. |
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Limit on Issuance of Shares of
Common Stock upon Conversion |
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| ARTICLE 16 REPURCHASE OF NOTES AT
OPTION OF HOLDERS |
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Section 16.01. |
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Repurchase at Option of Holders
upon a Fundamental Change |
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Section 16.02. |
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Withdrawal of Fundamental Change
Repurchase Notice |
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Section 16.03. |
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Deposit of Fundamental Change
Repurchase Price |
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| ARTICLE 17 MISCELLANEOUS
PROVISIONS |
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Section 17.01. |
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Provisions Binding on
Company’s Successors |
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Section 17.02. |
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Official Acts by Successor
Corporation |
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Section 17.03. |
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Addresses for Notices, Etc
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Section 17.04. |
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Governing Law |
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Section 17.05. |
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Evidence of Compliance with
Conditions Precedent; Certificates and Opinions of Counsel to
Trustee |
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Section 17.06. |
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Legal Holidays |
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Section 17.07. |
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No Security Interest
Created |
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Section 17.08. |
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Trust Indenture Act |
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Section 17.09. |
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Benefits of Indenture |
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Section 17.10. |
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Table of Contents, Headings,
Etc. |
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Section 17.11. |
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Authenticating Agent |
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Section 17.12. |
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Execution in Counterparts |
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Section 17.13. |
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Severability |
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Section 17.14. |
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Waiver of Jury Trial |
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Section 17.15. |
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Force Majeure |
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| EXHIBITS |
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Exhibit A |
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Form of Note |
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A-1 |
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Exhibit B |
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Form of Notice of Conversion |
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B-1 |
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Exhibit C |
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Form of Fundamental Change Repurchase
Notice |
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C-1 |
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Exhibit D |
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Form of Assignment and Transfer |
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D-1 |
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CROSS-REFERENCE TABLE
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Indenture |
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8.09 |
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8.09 |
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N.A. |
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N.A. |
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8.09 |
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8.08 |
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N.A. |
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8.13 |
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8.13 |
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N.A. |
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6.01 |
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6.02(b) |
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(c) |
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6.03 |
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N.A. |
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6.03 |
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6.03; 17.03 |
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5.06; 5.08 |
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N.A. |
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17.05 |
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(c)(2) |
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17.05 |
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N.A. |
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N.A. |
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17.05 |
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N.A. |
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8.01; 8.02 |
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7.08; 17.03 |
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(c) |
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8.01 |
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8.01 |
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7.09 |
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(a)(last sentence) |
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9.04 |
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7.07 |
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(a)(1)(B) |
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7.07 |
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N.A. |
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(b) |
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7.04 |
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9.01 |
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7.02; 7.05 |
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7.02 |
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5.04 |
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17.08 |
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means not applicable |
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| Note: |
This Cross-Reference table shall not, for any
purpose, be deemed to be part of this Indenture. |
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INDENTURE
dated as of June 16, 2008 between Insulet Corporation, a
Delaware corporation, as issuer (the “ Company
”) and Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., a national banking
association, as trustee (the “ Trustee ”).
WITNESSETH:
WHEREAS,
for its lawful corporate purposes, the Company has duly authorized
the issue of its 5.375% Convertible Senior Notes due 2013
(hereinafter sometimes called the “ Notes ”),
initially in an aggregate principal amount not to exceed
$75,000,000 (or $85,000,000 if the Initial Purchasers exercise
their option to purchase additional Notes in full as set forth in
the Purchase Agreement), and in order to provide the terms and
conditions upon which the Notes are to be authenticated, issued and
delivered, the Company has duly authorized the execution and
delivery of this Indenture; and
WHEREAS,
the Form of Note, the certificate of authentication to be borne by
each Note, the Form of Notice of Conversion, the Form of
Fundamental Change Repurchase Notice and the Form of Assignment and
Transfer to be borne by the Notes are to be substantially in the
forms hereinafter provided for; and
WHEREAS,
all acts and things necessary to make the Notes, when executed by
the Company and authenticated and delivered by the Trustee or a
duly authorized authenticating agent, the valid, binding and legal
obligations of the Company, and to constitute a valid agreement
according to its terms, have been done and performed, and the
execution of this Indenture and the issue hereunder of the Notes
have in all respects been duly authorized.
NOW,
THEREFORE, THIS INDENTURE WITNESSETH:
That in
order to declare the terms and conditions upon which the Notes are,
and are to be, authenticated, issued and delivered, and in
consideration of the premises and of the purchase and acceptance of
the Notes by the holders thereof, the Company covenants and agrees
with the Trustee for the equal and proportionate benefit of the
respective holders from time to time of the Notes (except as
otherwise provided below), as follows:
ARTICLE 1
DEFINITIONS
Section 1.01.
Definitions . The terms defined in this Section 1.01
(except as herein otherwise expressly provided or unless the
context otherwise requires) for all purposes of this Indenture and
of any indenture supplemental hereto shall have the respective
meanings specified in this Section 1.01. All other terms used in
this Indenture that are defined in the Trust Indenture Act or that
are by reference therein defined in the Securities Act (except as
herein otherwise expressly provided or unless the context otherwise
requires) shall have the meanings assigned to such terms in said
Trust Indenture Act and in said Securities Act as in force at the
date of the execution of this Indenture. The words
“herein,” “hereof,”
“hereunder,” and 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.
“
Additional Interest ” has the meaning specified for
Additional Interest in
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Section 2(d) of the Registration Rights Agreement.
“
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
the purposes of this definition, “control,” when used
with respect to any specified Person means the power to direct or
cause the direction of the management and policies of such Person,
directly or indirectly, whether through the ownership of voting
securities, by contract or otherwise; and the terms
“controlling” and “controlled” have
meanings correlative to the foregoing.
“
Automatic Exchange ” shall have the meaning specified
in Section 2.12.
“
Automatic Exchange Notice ” shall have the meaning
specified in Section 2.12.
“
Board of Directors ” means the board of directors of
the Company or a committee of such board duly authorized to act for
it hereunder.
“
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 each Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday,
Thursday and Friday that is not (i) a day on which the banking
institutions in The City of New York are authorized or obligated by
law or executive order to close or be closed or (ii) a day on
which the Corporate Trust Office is authorized or obligated by law
or executive order to close or be closed.
“
Capital Stock ” means, for any entity, any and all
shares, interests, rights to purchase, warrants, options,
participations or other equivalents of or interests in (however
designated) stock issued by that entity.
“
Cash Settlement Averaging Period ” means, with respect
to any Note surrendered for conversion, the 25 consecutive Trading
Day period beginning on, and including, the third Trading Day
immediately following the Conversion Date for such Note;
provided that with respect to any Conversion Date occurring
during the period beginning on, and including, March 15, 2013,
and ending at close of business on the Business Day immediately
prior to the Maturity Date, the “ Cash Settlement
Averaging Period ” means the 25 consecutive Trading Days
beginning on and including the 27th Scheduled Trading Day prior to
the Maturity Date.
“
close of business ” means 5:00 p.m. (New York City
time).
“
Commission ” means the Securities and Exchange
Commission.
“
Common Equity ” of any Person means Capital Stock of
such Person that is generally entitled (a) to vote in the
election of directors of such Person or (b) if such Person is
not a corporation, to vote or otherwise participate in the
selection of the governing body, partners, managers or others that
will control the management or policies of such Person.
“
Common Stock ” means, subject to Section 15.06,
shares of common stock of
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the
Company, par value $0.001 per share, at the date of this Indenture
or shares of any class or classes resulting from any
reclassification or reclassifications thereof and that have no
preference in respect of dividends or of amounts payable in the
event of any voluntary or involuntary liquidation, dissolution or
winding up of the Company and that are not subject to redemption by
the Company; provided that if at any time there shall be
more than one such resulting class, the shares of each such class
then so issuable shall be substantially in the proportion that the
total number of shares of such class resulting from all such
reclassifications bears to the total number of shares of all such
classes resulting from all such reclassifications.
“
Company ” means Insulet Corporation, a Delaware
corporation, and subject to the provisions of Article 12,
shall include its successors and assigns.
“
Company Order ” means a written order of the Company,
signed by (a) an Officer of the Company and (b) another
Officer of the Company, other than the Officer designated in clause
(a) of this definition, or the Company’s Assistant
Treasurer or any Assistant Secretary, and delivered to the
Trustee.
“
Continuing Director ” means a director who either was
a member of the Board of Directors on June 10, 2008 or who
becomes a member of the Board of Directors subsequent to that date
and whose election, appointment or nomination for election by the
stockholders of the Company, is duly approved by a majority of the
continuing directors on the Board of Directors at the time of such
approval, either by a specific vote or by approval of the proxy
statement issued by the Company on behalf of the entire Board of
Directors in which such individual is named as nominee for
director.
“
Conversion Agent ” shall have the meaning specified in
Section 5.02.
“
Conversion Date ” shall have the meaning specified in
Section 15.02(c).
“
Conversion Obligation ” shall have the meaning
specified in Section 15.01(a).
“
Conversion Price ” means as of any date, $1,000,
divided by the Conversion Rate as of such date.
“
Conversion Rate ” shall have the meaning specified in
Section 15.01(a).
“
Conversion Trigger Price ” shall have the meaning
specified in Section 15.01(b)(iv).
“
Corporate Trust Office ” means the office of the
Trustee at which at any time its corporate trust business shall be
administered, which office at the dated hereof is located at Wells
Fargo Bank, N.A., Corporate Trust Services, MAC N9311-110, 625
Marquette Ave. South, Minneapolis, MN 55479, Attention: Insulet
Corporation Account Manager, or such other address as the Trustee
may designate from time to time by notice to the Noteholders and
the Company, or the principal corporate trust office of any
successor Trustee (or such other address as such successor Trustee
may designate from time to time by notice to the Noteholders and
the Company).
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“
Custodian ” means Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., as custodian
for The Depository Trust Company, with respect to the Global Notes,
or any successor entity thereto.
“
Daily Conversion Value ” means, for each of the 25
consecutive Trading Days during the Cash Settlement Averaging
Period, one-twenty-fifth (1/25th) of the product of (a) the
then-applicable Conversion Rate on such Trading Day and
(b) the Daily VWAP of the Common Stock on such Trading
Day.
“
Daily Settlement Amount ,” for each of the 25
consecutive Trading Days during the Cash Settlement Averaging
Period, shall consist of:
(a) cash equal to the lesser of (i)
$40 and (ii) the Daily Conversion Value for such Trading Day;
and
(b) to the extent the Daily
Conversion Value for such Trading Day exceeds $40, a number of
shares of Common Stock equal to the Daily Share Amount.
“
Daily Share Amount ” means, to the extent the Daily
Conversion Value exceeds $40, (i) the difference between the
Daily Conversion Value and $40, divided by (ii) the
Daily VWAP of the Common Stock for such Trading Day.
“
Daily VWAP ” for the Common Stock means the per share
volume-weighted average price on The NASDAQ Global Market as
displayed under the heading “Bloomberg VWAP” on
Bloomberg page “PODD.UQ <equity> AQR” (or its
equivalent successor if such page is not available) in respect of
the period from the scheduled open of trading until the scheduled
close of trading of the primary trading session on such Trading Day
(or if such volume-weighted average price is unavailable, the
market value of one share of the Common Stock on such Trading Day
as determined in a commercially reasonable manner by the Board of
Directors using a volume-weighted method) and will be determined
without regard to after hours trading or any other trading outside
of the regular trading session trading hours.
“
Default ” means any event that is, or after notice or
passage of time, or both, would be, an Event of Default.
“
Defaulted Interest ” means any interest on any Note
that is payable, but is not punctually paid or duly provided for,
on any June 15 or December 15.
“
Depositary ” means, with respect to the Global Notes
the Person specified in Section 2.06 as the Depositary with
respect to such Notes, until a successor shall have been appointed
and become such pursuant to the applicable provisions of this
Indenture, and thereafter, “ Depositary ” shall
mean or include such successor.
“
Designated Institution ” shall have the meaning
specified in Section 15.11(a).
“
Distributed Property ” shall have the meaning
specified in Section 15.04(c).
“
Effective Date ” shall have the meaning specified in
Section 15.03(a).
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“
Event of Default ” shall have the meaning specified in
Section 7.01.
“
Ex-Dividend Date ” means, with respect to any
issuance, dividend or distribution in which the holders of Common
Stock (or other security) have the right to receive any cash,
securities or other property, the first date on which the shares of
the Common Stock (or other security) trade on the applicable
exchange or in the applicable market, regular way, without the
right to receive the issuance, dividend or distribution in
question.
“
Exchange Act ” means the Securities Exchange Act of
1934, as amended, and the rules and regulations promulgated
thereunder.
“
Expiration Date ” shall have the meaning specified in
Section 15.04(e).
“
Expiration Time ” shall have the meaning specified in
Section 15.04(e).
“
FINRA ” means the Financial Industry Regulatory
Authority, Inc.
“
Fiscal Quarter ” means a fiscal quarter of any Fiscal
Year.
“
Fiscal Year ” means a fiscal year of the Company
ending on December 31 of each calendar year.
“
Fundamental Change ” means the occurrence after the
original issuance of the Notes of any of the following
events:
(a) any “person” or
“group” (within the meaning of Section 13(d) of the
Exchange Act) other than the Company, its Subsidiaries or the
employee benefit plans of the Company or any such Subsidiary, files
any schedule, form or report under the Exchange Act disclosing that
such person or group has become the direct or indirect ultimate
“beneficial owner,” as defined in Rule 13d-3 under
the Exchange Act, of the Company’s Common Equity representing
more than 50% of the voting power of the Company’s Common
Equity;
(b) consummation of any share
exchange, exchange offer, tender offer, consolidation or merger of
the Company pursuant to which all or substantially all of the
Common Stock is converted into cash, securities or other property
or any sale, lease or other transfer in one transaction or a series
of transactions of all or substantially all of the consolidated
assets of the Company and its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, to
any Person other than one of the Company’s Subsidiaries;
provided , however , that any such transaction where
the holders of more than 50% of shares of Common Stock immediately
prior to such transaction that is a share exchange, consolidation
or merger own, directly or indirectly, more than 50% of all classes
of common equity of the continuing or surviving corporation or
transferee or the parent thereof immediately after such event shall
not be a Fundamental Change;
(c) Continuing Directors cease to
constitute at least a majority of the Board of Directors;
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(d) the stockholders of the Company
approve any plan or proposal for the liquidation or dissolution of
the Company; or
(e) the Common Stock (or other common
stock into which the Notes are then convertible) ceases to be
quoted or listed for trading on a United States national securities
exchange,
provided, however , in the case of a transaction or event
described in clause (a) or (b) above, if at least 90% of
the consideration received or to be received by the holders of
Common Stock, excluding cash payments for fractional shares or
pursuant to statutory appraisal rights, in connection with the
transaction or transactions constituting the Fundamental Change
consists of shares of Publicly Traded Securities, and as a result
of such transaction or transactions, the Notes become convertible
into such Publicly Traded Securities, excluding cash payments for
fractional shares (subject to the provisions of
Section 15.02(a)), such event shall not be a Fundamental
Change.
For
purposes of this definition, whether a “ person
” is a “ beneficial owner ” shall be
determined in accordance with Rule 13d-3 under the Exchange
Act and “ person ” includes any syndicate or
group that would be deemed to be a “ person ”
under Section 13(d)(3) of the Exchange Act.
“
Fundamental Change Company Notice ” shall have the
meaning specified in Section 16.01(b).
“
Fundamental Change Expiration Time ” shall have the
meaning specified in Section 16.01(b)(ix).
“
Fundamental Change Repurchase Date ” shall have the
meaning specified in Section 16.01(a).
“
Fundamental Change Repurchase Notice ” shall have the
meaning specified in Section 16.01(a)(i).
“
Fundamental Change Repurchase Price ” shall have the
meaning specified in Section 16.01(a).
“
Global Note ” shall have the meaning specified in
Section 2.06(b).
“
Indenture ” means this instrument as originally
executed or, if amended or supplemented as herein provided, as so
amended or supplemented.
“
Initial Purchasers ” means J.P. Morgan Securities Inc.
and Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated.
“
Interest Payment Date ” means each June 15 and
December 15 of each year, beginning on December 15, 2008;
provided , however , that if any Interest Payment
Date falls on a date that is not a Business Day, such payment of
interest (or principal in the case of the Maturity Date) will be
postponed until the next succeeding Business Day, and no interest
or other amount will be paid as a result of such
postponement.
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“
Interest Record Date ,” with respect to any Interest
Payment Date, shall mean the June 1 or December 1 (whether or not
such day is a Business Day) immediately preceding the relevant
Interest Payment Date, respectively.
“
Last Reported Sale Price ” of the Common Stock on any
date means the closing sale price per share (or if no closing sale
price is reported, the average of the bid and ask prices or, if
more than one in either case, the average of the average bid and
the average ask prices) on that date as reported in composite
transactions for the principal U.S. national or regional securities
exchange on which the Common Stock is listed for trading. If the
Common Stock is not listed for trading on a U.S. national or
regional securities exchange on the relevant date, then the “
Last Reported Sale Price ” will be the last quoted bid
price for the Common Stock in the over-the-counter market on the
relevant date as reported by the Pink Sheets LLC or similar
organization. If the Common Stock is not so quoted, the “
Last Reported Sale Price ” will be the average of the
mid-point of the last bid and ask prices for the Common Stock on
the relevant date from each of at least three nationally recognized
independent investment banking firms selected by the Company for
this purpose.
“
Make-Whole Conversion Rate Adjustment ” shall have the
meaning specified in Section 15.03(a).
“
Make-Whole Fundamental Change ” means any transaction
or event that constitutes a Fundamental Change as described in
clause (a) or (b) of the definition thereof (in the case
of any Fundamental Change described in clause (b) of the
definition thereof, determined without regarding to the
proviso in such clause (b)), and subject to the
proviso to such definition.
“
Make-Whole Fundamental Change Period ” shall have the
meaning specified in Section 15.03(a).
“
Market Disruption Event ” means (a) a failure by
the primary exchange or quotation system on which the Common Stock
trades or is quoted, as the case may be, to open for trading during
its regular trading session or (b) the occurrence or existence
prior to 1:00 p.m. New York City time, on any Trading Day of any
suspension or limitation imposed on trading (by reason of movements
in price exceeding limits permitted by the stock exchange or
otherwise) in the Common Stock or in any options, contracts or
future contracts relating to the Common Stock for an aggregate
one-half hour period.
“
Maturity Date ” means June 15, 2013.
“
Measurement Period ” shall have the meaning specified
in Section 15.01(b)(i).
“
Merger Event ” shall have the meaning specified in
Section 15.06.
“
Note ” or “ Notes ” shall mean any
note or notes, as the case may be, authenticated and delivered
under this Indenture.
“
Noteholder ” or “ holder ,” as
applied to any Note, or other similar terms (but excluding the term
“beneficial holder”), shall mean any person in whose
name at the time a particular Note is registered on the Note
Register.
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“
Note Register ” shall have the meaning specified in
Section 2.06(a).
“
Note Registrar ” shall have the meaning specified in
Section 2.06(a).
“
Notice of Conversion ” shall have the meaning
specified in Section 15.02(b).
“
Offering Memorandum ” means the final offering
memorandum dated June 10, 2008 relating to the offering and
sale of the Notes.
“
Officer ” means, with respect to the Company, the
Chairman of the Board of Directors, President, the Chief Executive
Officer, the Treasurer, the Secretary, any Executive or Senior Vice
President, Managing Director or any Vice President (whether or not
designated by a number or numbers or word added before or after the
title “Vice President”).
“
Officers’ Certificate ,” when used with respect
to the Company, means a certificate signed by (a) one Officer
of the Company and (b) another Officer of the Company or any
Assistant Treasurer, any Assistant Secretary or Controller of the
Company that is delivered to the Trustee. Each such certificate
shall include the statements provided for in Section 17.05 if
and to the extent required by the provisions of such Section. One
of the officers giving an Officers’ Certificate pursuant to
Section 5.08 shall be the principal executive, financial or
accounting officer of the Company.
“
opening of business ” means 9:00 a.m. (New York City
time).
“
Opinion of Counsel ” means an opinion in writing
signed by legal counsel, who may be an employee of or counsel to
the Company, or other counsel acceptable to the Trustee, that is
delivered to the Trustee. Each such opinion shall include the
statements provided for in Section 17.05 if and to the extent
required by the provisions of such Section.
“
outstanding ,” when used with reference to Notes,
shall, subject to the provisions of Section 9.04, mean, as of any
particular time, all Notes authenticated and delivered by the
Trustee under this Indenture, except:
(a) Notes theretofore canceled by the
Trustee or delivered to the Trustee for cancellation;
(b) Notes, or portions thereof, for
the payment or repurchase of which monies 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
and segregated in trust by the Company (if the Company shall act as
its own Paying Agent); provided that, if any such Note is
repurchased, the holder thereof shall have delivered a Fundamental
Change Repurchase Notice in accordance with Section
16.01(a)(i);
(c) Notes that have been paid
pursuant to Section 2.07 or Notes in lieu of which, or in
substitution for which, other Notes shall have been authenticated
and delivered pursuant to the terms of Section 2.07 unless
proof satisfactory to the Trustee is presented that any such Notes
are held by protected purchasers in due
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course;
and
(d) Notes that have been discharged
in accordance with Section 4.01;
(e) Notes converted pursuant to
Article 15.
“
Paying Agent ” shall have the meaning specified in
Section 5.02.
“
Person ” means an individual, a corporation, a limited
liability company, an association, a partnership, a joint venture,
a joint stock company, a trust, an unincorporated organization or a
government or an agency or a political subdivision thereof.
“
Portal Market ” means The Portal Market operated by
FINRA or any successor thereto.
“
Predecessor Note ” of any particular Note means every
previous Note evidencing all or a portion of the same debt as that
evidenced by such particular Note; and, for the purposes of this
definition, any Note authenticated and delivered under
Section 2.07 in lieu of or in exchange for a mutilated, lost,
destroyed or stolen Note shall be deemed to evidence the same debt
as the mutilated, lost, destroyed or stolen Note that it
replaces.
“
Publicly Traded Securities ” means shares of common
stock that are quoted or listed for trading on a U.S. national
securities exchange or that will be so quoted or listed when issued
or exchanged in connection with a Fundamental Change described in
clause (a) or (b) of the definition thereof.
“
Purchase Agreement ” means that certain Purchase
Agreement, dated as of June 10, 2008, among the Company and
the Initial Purchasers.
“
Record Date ” shall have the meaning specified in
Section 15.04(f).
“
Reference Property ” shall have the meaning specified
in Section 15.06(b).
“
Registration Rights Agreement ” means that certain
Registration Rights Agreement, dated as of June 16, 2008,
among the Company and the Initial Purchasers, as amended from time
to time.
“
Resale Restriction Termination Date ” shall have the
meaning specified in Section 2.06(c).
“
Responsible Officer ” means, when used with respect to
the Trustee, 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 who shall have
direct responsibility for the administration of this
Indenture.
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“
Restricted Global Note ” shall have the meaning
specified in Section 2.12.
“
Restricted Securities ” shall have the meaning
specified in Section 2.06(c).
“
Rule 144A ” means Rule 144A as promulgated
under the Securities Act.
“
Scheduled Trading Day ” means any day that is
scheduled to be a Trading Day.
“
Securities Act ” means the Securities Act of 1933, as
amended, and the rules and regulations promulgated
thereunder.
“
Spin-Off ” shall have the meaning specified in
Section 15.04(c).
“
Stock Price ” means (a) in the case of a
Make-Whole Fundamental Change described in clause (b) of the
definition of Fundamental Change in which holders of Common Stock
receive solely cash consideration in connection with such
Make-Whole Fundamental Change, the amount of cash paid per share of
the Common Stock and (b) in the case of all other Make-Whole
Fundamental Changes, the average of the Last Reported Sale Prices
per share of Common Stock over the period of five consecutive
Trading Days ending on, and including, the Trading Day immediately
preceding the Effective Date of such Make-Whole Fundamental Change.
The Board of Directors will make appropriate adjustments, in its
good faith determination, to account for any adjustment to the
Conversion Rate that becomes effective, or any event requiring an
adjustment to the Conversion Rate where the Ex-Dividend Date of the
event occurs, during such five consecutive Trading Day
period.
“
Subsidiary ” means, with respect to any Person, any
corporation, association, partnership or other business entity of
which more than 50% of the total voting power of shares of Capital
Stock or other interests (including partnership interests) entitled
(without regard to the occurrence of any contingency) to vote in
the election of directors, managers, general partners or trustees
thereof is at the time owned or controlled, directly or indirectly,
by (i) such Person; (ii) such Person and one or more
Subsidiaries of such Person; or (iii) one or more Subsidiaries
of such Person.
“
Successor Company ” shall have the meaning specified
in Section 12.01(a).
“
Supplementary Interest ” shall have the meaning
specified in Section 7.01.
“
Trading Day ” means a day on which (i) trading in
securities generally occurs on The NASDAQ Global Market or, if the
Common Stock is not then listed on The NASDAQ Global Market, on the
principal other U.S. national or regional securities exchange on
which the Common Stock is then listed or, if the Common Stock is
not then listed on a U.S. national or regional securities exchange,
in the principal other market on which the Common Stock is then
traded and (ii) there is no Market Disruption Event. If the
Common Stock (or other security for which a last reported sale
price or Daily VWAP must be determined) is not so listed or traded,
“ Trading Day ” means a “ Business
Day .”
“
Trading Price ” per $1,000 principal amount of Notes
on any date of determination means the average of the secondary
market bid quotations obtained by the Trustee
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for
$1.0 million principal amount of Notes at approximately 3:30
p.m., New York City time, on such determination date from three
independent U.S. nationally recognized securities dealers selected
by the Company; provided that if three such bids cannot
reasonably be obtained by the Trustee, but two such bids are
obtained, then the average of the two bids shall be used, and if
only one such bid can reasonably be obtained by the Trustee, that
one bid shall be used. If the Trustee cannot reasonably obtain at
least one bid for $1.0 million principal amount of Notes from
any such nationally recognized securities dealer, then the Trading
Price per $1,000 principal amount of Notes will be deemed to be
less than 98% of the product of the Last Reported Sale Price of the
Common Stock and the applicable Conversion Rate on such Trading
Day.
“
transfer ” shall have the meaning specified in
Section 2.06(c).
“
Trigger Event ” shall have the meaning specified in
Section 15.04(c).
“
Trust Indenture Act ” means the Trust Indenture Act of
1939, as amended, as it was in force at the date of execution of
this Indenture, except as provided in Section 11.03 and
Section 15.06; provided , however , that in the
event the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 is amended after the date
hereof, the term “ Trust Indenture Act ” shall
mean, to the extent required by such amendment, the Trust Indenture
Act of 1939, as so amended.
“
Trustee ” means the Person named as the
“Trustee” in the first paragraph of this Indenture
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.
“
Unrestricted Global Note ” shall have the meaning
specified in Section 2.12.
“
Weighted Average Consideration ” shall have the
meaning specified in Section 15.06(c)(iv).
ARTICLE 2
ISSUE, DESCRIPTION, EXECUTION, REGISTRATION
AND EXCHANGE OF NOTES
Section 2.01.
Designation and Amount . The Notes shall be designated as
the “5.375% Convertible Senior Notes due 2013.” The
aggregate principal amount of Notes that may be authenticated and
delivered under this Indenture is initially limited to $75,000,000
(or $85,000,000 if the Initial Purchasers exercise their option to
purchase additional Notes in full as set forth in the Purchase
Agreement), subject to Section 2.11 and except for Notes
authenticated and delivered upon registration or transfer of, or in
exchange for, or in lieu of other Notes pursuant to
Section 2.06, Section 2.07, Section 2.12,
Section 11.04, Section 15.02, and Section 16.03
hereof.
Section 2.02.
Form of Notes . The Notes and the Trustee’s
certificate of authentication to be borne by such Notes shall be
substantially in the respective forms set forth in Exhibit A,
which are incorporated in and made a part of this Indenture.
Any
Global Note may be endorsed with or have incorporated in the text
thereof
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such
legends or recitals or changes not inconsistent with the provisions
of this Indenture as may be required by the Custodian, the
Depositary or by FINRA in order for the Notes to be tradable on The
Portal Market or as may be required for the Notes to be tradable on
any other market developed for trading of securities pursuant to
Rule 144A or required to comply with any applicable law or any
regulation thereunder or with the rules and regulations of any
securities exchange or automated quotation system upon which the
Notes may be listed or traded or designated for issuance or to
conform with any usage with respect thereto, or to indicate any
special limitations or restrictions to which any particular Notes
are subject.
Any of
the Notes may have such letters, numbers or other marks of
identification and such notations, legends or endorsements as the
Officer executing the same may approve (execution thereof to be
conclusive evidence of such approval) and as are not inconsistent
with the provisions of this Indenture, or as may be required to
comply with any law or with any rule or regulation made pursuant
thereto or with any rule or regulation of any securities exchange
or automated quotation system on which the Notes may be listed or
designated for issuance, or to conform to usage or to indicate any
special limitations or restrictions to which any particular Notes
are subject.
The
Global Note shall represent such principal amount of the
outstanding Notes as shall be specified therein and shall provide
that it shall represent the aggregate principal amount of
outstanding Notes from time to time endorsed thereon and that the
aggregate principal amount of outstanding Notes represented thereby
may from time to time be increased or reduced to reflect
repurchases, conversions, transfers or exchanges permitted hereby.
Any endorsement of the Global Note to reflect the amount of any
increase or decrease in the amount of outstanding Notes represented
thereby shall be made by the Trustee or the Custodian, at the
direction of the Trustee, in such manner and upon instructions
given by the holder of such Notes in accordance with this
Indenture. Payment of principal (including any Fundamental Change
Repurchase Price), accrued and unpaid interest, Additional
Interest, if any, and Supplementary Interest, if any, on the Global
Note shall be made to the holder of such Note on the date of
payment, unless a record date or other means of determining holders
eligible to receive payment is provided for herein.
The
terms and provisions contained in the form of Note attached as
Exhibit A hereto shall constitute, and are hereby expressly
made, a part of this Indenture and, to the extent applicable, the
Company and the Trustee, by their execution and delivery of this
Indenture, expressly agree to such terms and provisions and to be
bound thereby.
Section 2.03.
Date and Denomination of Notes; Payments of Interest . The
Notes shall be issuable in registered form without coupons in
minimum denominations of $1,000 principal amount and in integral
multiples of $1,000 in excess thereof. Each Note shall be dated the
date of its authentication and shall bear interest from the date
specified on the face of the form of Note attached as
Exhibit A hereto. Interest (including Additional Interest, if
any, and Supplementary Interest, if any) on the Notes shall be
computed on the basis of a 360-day year comprised of twelve 30-day
months.
The
Person in whose name any Note (or its Predecessor Note) is
registered on the Note Register at the close of business on any
Interest Record Date with respect to any Interest
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Payment
Date shall be entitled to receive the interest payable on such
Interest Payment Date. Interest (including Additional Interest, if
any, and Supplementary Interest, if any) shall be payable at the
office or agency of the Company maintained by the Company for such
purposes, which shall initially be the office of the Paying Agent
at Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee. The Company shall pay
interest (including Additional Interest, if any, and Supplementary
Interest, if any) (a) (1) to holders holding Notes in
certificated form and having an aggregate principal amount of
$2,000,000 or less, by check mailed to the holders of such Notes
and (2) to holders holding Notes in certificated form and
having an aggregate principal amount of more than $2,000,000,
either by check mailed to such holder or, upon application by a
holder to the Note Registrar not later than on the relevant
Interest Record Date, by wire transfer in immediately available
funds to that holder’s account within the United States,
which application shall remain in effect until the holder notifies,
in writing, the Note Registrar to the contrary or (b) on any
Global Note by wire transfer of immediately available funds to the
account of the Depositary or its nominee.
Any
Defaulted Interest shall forthwith cease to be payable to the
Noteholder on the relevant Interest Record Date by virtue of its
having been such Noteholder, and such Defaulted Interest shall be
paid by the Company, at its election in each case, as provided in
clause (1) or (2) below:
(1) The
Company may elect to make payment of any Defaulted Interest to the
Persons in whose names the Notes (or their respective Predecessor
Notes) are registered at the close of business on a special record
date for the payment of such Defaulted Interest, which shall be
fixed in the following manner. The Company shall notify the Trustee
in writing of the amount of Defaulted Interest to be paid on each
Note and the date of the proposed payment (which shall be not less
than twenty-five days after the receipt by the Trustee of such
notice, unless the Trustee shall consent to an earlier date), and
at the same time the Company shall deposit with the Trustee an
amount of money equal to the aggregate amount to be paid in respect
of such Defaulted Interest, such money when deposited to be held in
trust for the benefit of the Persons entitled to such Defaulted
Interest as in this clause provided. Thereupon the Company shall
fix a special record date for the payment of such Defaulted
Interest which shall be not more than fifteen days and not less
than ten days prior to the date of the proposed payment, and not
less than ten days after the receipt by the Trustee of the notice
of the proposed payment (unless the Trustee shall consent to an
earlier date). The Company shall promptly notify the Trustee of
such special record date and the Trustee, in the name and at the
expense of the Company, shall cause notice of the proposed payment
of such Defaulted Interest and the special record date therefor to
be sent to each holder at its address as it appears in the Note
Register, not less than ten days prior to such special record date.
Notice of the proposed payment of such Defaulted Interest and the
special record date therefor having been so sent, such Defaulted
Interest shall be paid to the Persons in whose names the Notes (or
their respective Predecessor Notes) are registered at the close of
business on such special record date and shall no longer be payable
pursuant to the following clause (2) of this
Section 2.03.
(2) The
Company may make payment of any Defaulted Interest in any other
lawful manner not inconsistent with the requirements of any
securities exchange or automated quotation system on which the
Notes may be listed or designated for issuance, and upon such
notice as may be required by such exchange or automated quotation
system.
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Section 2.04.
Payments of Additional Interest . If required by the
Registration Rights Agreement, the Company shall pay Additional
Interest in the manner and to the Persons set forth in the
Registration Rights Agreement. Whenever in this Indenture there is
mentioned, in any context, the payment of interest on, or in
respect of, any Note, such mention shall be deemed to include
mention of the payment of “ Additional Interest
” provided for in the Registration Rights Agreement to the
extent that, in such context, Additional Interest is, was or would
be payable in respect thereof pursuant to the provisions of the
Registration Rights Agreement and express mention of the payment of
Additional Interest (if applicable) in any provisions hereof shall
not be construed as excluding Additional Interest in those
provisions hereof where such express mention is not made.
Section 2.05.
Execution, Authentication and Delivery of Notes . The Notes
shall be signed in the name and on behalf of the Company by the
manual or facsimile signature of its Chief Executive Officer,
President, Treasurer, Secretary or any of its Executive or Senior
Vice Presidents.
At any
time and from time to time after the execution and delivery of this
Indenture, the Company may deliver Notes executed by the Company to
the Trustee for authentication, together with a Company Order for
the authentication and delivery of such Notes, and the Trustee in
accordance with such Company Order shall authenticate and deliver
such Notes, without any further action by the Company
hereunder.
Only
such Notes as shall bear thereon a certificate of authentication
substantially in the form set forth on the form of Note attached as
Exhibit A hereto, executed manually by an authorized officer
of the Trustee (or an authenticating agent appointed by the Trustee
as provided by Section 17.11), shall be entitled to the benefits of
this Indenture or be valid or obligatory for any purpose. Such
certificate by the Trustee (or such an authenticating agent) upon
any Note executed by the Company shall be conclusive evidence that
the Note so authenticated has been duly authenticated and delivered
hereunder and that the holder is entitled to the benefits of this
Indenture.
In case
any officer of the Company who shall have signed any of the Notes
shall cease to be such officer before the Notes so signed shall
have been authenticated and delivered by the Trustee, or disposed
of by the Company, such Notes nevertheless may be authenticated and
delivered or disposed of as though the person who signed such Notes
had not ceased to be such officer of the Company; and any Note may
be signed on behalf of the Company by such persons as, at the
actual date of the execution of such Note, shall be the proper
officers of the Company, although at the date of the execution of
this Indenture any such person was not such an officer.
Section 2.06.
Exchange and Registration of Transfer of Notes; Restrictions on
Transfer; Depositary . (a) The Company shall cause to be
kept at the office of the Note Registrar and the Note Registrar
agrees to keep a register (the register maintained in such office
or in any other office or agency of the Company designated pursuant
to Section 5.02 being herein sometimes collectively referred
to as the “ Note Register ”) in which, subject
to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, the Company
shall provide for the registration of Notes and of transfers of
Notes. Such register shall be in written form or in any form
capable of being
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converted into written form within a reasonable period of time. The
Trustee is hereby appointed “ Note Registrar ”
for the purpose of registering Notes and transfers of Notes as
herein provided. The Company may appoint one or more co-registrars
in accordance with Section 5.02.
Upon
surrender for registration of transfer of any Note to the Note
Registrar or any co-registrar, and satisfaction of the requirements
for such transfer set forth in this Section 2.06, the Company shall
execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, in the
name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new
Notes of any authorized denominations and of a like aggregate
principal amount and bearing such restrictive legends as may be
required by this Indenture.
Notes
may be exchanged for other Notes of any authorized denominations
and of a like aggregate principal amount, upon surrender of the
Notes to be exchanged at any such office or agency maintained by
the Company pursuant to Section 5.02. Whenever any Notes are
so surrendered for exchange, the Company shall execute, and the
Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, the Notes that the
Noteholder making the exchange is entitled to receive, bearing
registration numbers not contemporaneously outstanding.
All
Notes presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or for
exchange, repurchase or conversion shall (if so required by the
Company, the Trustee, the Note Registrar or any co-registrar) be
duly endorsed, or be accompanied by a written instrument of
transfer duly executed by the Noteholder thereof or its
attorney-in-fact duly authorized in writing.
No
service charge shall be charged to the Noteholder for any exchange
or registration of transfer of Notes, but the Company or the
Trustee may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any
transfer tax, assessments or other similar governmental charges
that may be imposed in connection therewith as a result of the name
of the Noteholder of the new Notes issued upon such exchange or
registration of transfer of Notes being different from the name of
the Noteholder of the old Notes presented or surrendered for such
exchange or registration of transfer.
None of
the Company, the Trustee, the Note Registrar or any co-registrar
shall be required to exchange or register a transfer of
(i) any Notes surrendered for conversion or, if a portion of
any Note is surrendered for conversion, such portion thereof
surrendered for conversion or (ii) any Notes, or a portion of
any Note, surrendered for repurchase (and not withdrawn) in
accordance with Article 16 hereof.
All
Notes issued upon any registration of transfer or exchange of Notes
in accordance with this Indenture shall be the valid obligations of
the Company, evidencing the same debt, and entitled to the same
benefits under this Indenture as the Notes surrendered upon such
registration of transfer or exchange.
(b) So
long as the Notes are eligible for book-entry settlement with the
Depositary, unless otherwise required by law, all Notes shall be
represented by one or more Notes in global form (each, a “
Global Note ”) registered in the name of the
Depositary or the nominee of the Depositary. The transfer and
exchange of beneficial interests in a Global Note that does not
involve the issuance of a definitive Note, shall be effected
through the Depositary
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(but not
the Trustee or the Custodian) in accordance with this Indenture
(including the restrictions on transfer set forth herein) and the
procedures of the Depositary therefor.
(c) Every
Note that bears or is required under this Section 2.06(c) to
bear the legend set forth in this Section 2.06(c) (together
with any Common Stock issued upon conversion of the Notes and
required to bear the legend set forth in Section 2.06(d),
collectively, the “ Restricted Securities ”)
shall be subject to the restrictions on transfer set forth in this
Section 2.06(c) (including the legend set forth below), unless
such restrictions on transfer shall be eliminated or otherwise
waived by written consent of the Company, and the holder of each
such Restricted Security, by such holder’s acceptance
thereof, agrees to be bound by all such restrictions on transfer.
As used in this Section 2.06(c) and in Section 2.06(d),
the term “ transfer ” encompasses any sale,
pledge, transfer or other disposition whatsoever of any Restricted
Security.
Until
the date (the “ Resale Restriction Termination Date
”) the later of (1) the date that is one year after the
last date of original issuance of the Notes (or such later date as
permitted by Rule 144 under the Securities Act or any
successor provision thereto), and (2) such later date, if any,
as may be required by applicable laws, any certificate evidencing
such Note (and all securities issued in exchange therefor or
substitution thereof, other than Common Stock, if any, issued upon
conversion thereof which shall bear the legend set forth in
Section 2.06(d), if applicable) shall bear a legend in
substantially the following form (unless such Notes have been
transferred pursuant to a registration statement that has become or
been declared effective under the Securities Act and that continues
to be effective at the time of such transfer, pursuant to the
exemption from registration provided by Rule 144 or any
similar provision then in force under the Securities Act, or unless
otherwise agreed by the Company in writing, with notice in writing
thereof to the Trustee):
THIS SECURITY
AND THE COMMON STOCK, IF ANY, ISSUABLE UPON CONVERSION OF THIS
SECURITY HAVE NOT BEEN REGISTERED UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933,
AS AMENDED (THE “SECURITIES ACT”), AND MAY NOT BE
OFFERED, SOLD, PLEDGED OR OTHERWISE TRANSFERRED EXCEPT IN
ACCORDANCE WITH THE FOLLOWING SENTENCE. BY ITS ACQUISITION HEREOF
OR OF A BENEFICIAL INTEREST HEREIN, THE ACQUIRER:
(1) REPRESENTS THAT IT AND ANY ACCOUNT FOR WHICH IT IS ACTING
IS A “QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER” (WITHIN THE
MEANING OF RULE 144A UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT) AND THAT IT
EXERCISES SOLE INVESTMENT DISCRETION WITH RESPECT TO EACH SUCH
ACCOUNT, AND
(2) AGREES
FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE COMPANY THAT IT WILL NOT OFFER, SELL, PLEDGE
OR OTHERWISE TRANSFER THIS SECURITY OR ANY BENEFICIAL INTEREST
HEREIN PRIOR TO THE DATE THAT IS THE LATER OF (X) ONE YEAR
AFTER THE LAST ORIGINAL ISSUE DATE HEREOF OR SUCH SHORTER PERIOD OF
TIME AS PERMITTED BY RULE 144 UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OR ANY
SUCCESSOR
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PROVISION
THEREUNDER, AND (Y) SUCH LATER DATE, IF ANY, AS MAY BE
REQUIRED BY APPLICABLE LAW, EXCEPT:
(A) TO
INSULET CORPORATION (THE “COMPANY”) OR ANY SUBSIDIARY
THEREOF, OR
(B) PURSUANT TO A REGISTRATION STATEMENT WHICH HAS BECOME
EFFECTIVE UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT, OR
(C) TO A
QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER IN COMPLIANCE WITH RULE 144A UNDER
THE SECURITIES ACT, OR
(D) PURSUANT TO AN EXEMPTION FROM REGISTRATION PROVIDED BY
RULE 144 UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OR ANY OTHER AVAILABLE EXEMPTION
FROM THE REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS OF THE SECURITIES ACT.
PRIOR TO THE
REGISTRATION OF ANY TRANSFER IN ACCORDANCE WITH (2)(D) ABOVE, THE
COMPANY AND THE TRUSTEE RESERVE THE RIGHT TO REQUIRE THE DELIVERY
OF SUCH LEGAL OPINIONS, CERTIFICATIONS OR OTHER EVIDENCE AS MAY
REASONABLY BE REQUIRED IN ORDER TO DETERMINE THAT THE PROPOSED
TRANSFER IS BEING MADE IN COMPLIANCE WITH THE SECURITIES ACT AND
APPLICABLE STATE SECURITIES LAWS. NO REPRESENTATION IS MADE AS TO
THE AVAILABILITY OF ANY EXEMPTION FROM THE REGISTRATION
REQUIREMENTS OF THE SECURITIES ACT.
No
transfer of any Note prior to the Resale Restriction Termination
Date will be registered by the Note Registrar unless the applicable
box on the completed Form of Assignment and Transfer
(Exhibit D hereto) has been checked.
Any
Note (or security issued in exchange or substitution therefor) as
to which such restrictions on transfer shall have expired in
accordance with their terms may, upon surrender of such Note for
exchange to the Note Registrar in accordance with the provisions of
this Section 2.06(c), be exchanged for a new Note or Notes, of like
tenor and aggregate principal amount, which shall not bear the
restrictive legend required by this Section 2.06(c). The
Company shall notify the Trustee in writing upon the occurrence of
the Resale Restriction Termination Date and promptly after a
Registration Statement with respect to the Notes or any Common
Stock issued upon conversion of the Notes has been declared
effective under the Securities Act.
Notwithstanding
any other provisions of this Indenture (other than the provisions
set forth in this Section 2.06(c)), a Global Note may not be
transferred as a whole or in part except (i) by the Depositary
to a nominee of the Depositary or by a nominee of the Depositary to
the Depositary or another nominee of the Depositary or by the
Depositary or any such nominee to a successor Depositary or a
nominee of such successor Depositary and (ii) for transfers of
portions of a Global Note in certificated form made upon request of
a member of, or a participant in, the Depositary (for itself or on
behalf of a beneficial owner) by written notice given to the
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Trustee
by or on behalf of the Depositary in accordance with customary
procedures of the Depositary and in compliance with this
Section.
The
Depositary shall be a clearing agency registered under the Exchange
Act. The Company initially appoints The Depository Trust Company to
act as Depositary with respect to the Global Note. Initially, the
Global Note shall be issued to the Depositary, registered in the
name of Cede & Co., as the nominee of the Depositary, and
initially deposited with the Trustee as custodian for Cede &
Co.
If
(i) the Depositary notifies the Company at any time that the
Depositary is unwilling or unable to continue as depositary for the
Global Notes and a successor depositary is not appointed within
90 days, (ii) the Depositary ceases to be registered as a
clearing agency under the Exchange Act and a successor depositary
is not appointed within 90 days or (iii) an Event of
Default in respect of the Notes has occurred and is continuing,
upon the request of the beneficial owner of the Notes, the Company
will execute, and the Trustee, upon receipt of an Officers’
Certificate and a Company Order for the authentication and delivery
of Notes, will authenticate and deliver Notes in definitive form to
each such beneficial owner of the related Notes (or a portion
thereof) in an aggregate principal amount equal to the principal
amount of such Global Note, in exchange for such Global Note, and
upon delivery of the Global Note to the Trustee such Global Note
shall be canceled.
Definitive
Notes issued in exchange for all or a part of the Global Note
pursuant to this Section 2.06(c) shall be registered in such
names and in such authorized denominations as the Depositary,
pursuant to instructions from its direct or indirect participants
or otherwise, shall instruct the Trustee. Upon execution and
authentication, the Trustee shall deliver such definitive Notes to
the Persons in whose names such definitive Notes are so
registered.
At such
time as all interests in a Global Note have been converted,
canceled, repurchased or transferred, such Global Note shall be,
upon receipt thereof, canceled by the Trustee in accordance with
its standing procedures. At any time prior to such cancellation, if
any interest in a Global Note is exchanged for definitive Notes,
converted, canceled, repurchased or transferred to a transferee who
receives definitive Notes therefor or any definitive Note is
exchanged or transferred for part of such Global Note, the
principal amount of such Global Note shall be appropriately reduced
or increased, as the case may be, and an endorsement shall be made
on such Global Note, by the Trustee or the Custodian, at the
direction of the Trustee, to reflect such reduction or
increase.
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None of
the Company, the Trustee nor any agent of the Company or the
Trustee will have any responsibility or liability for any aspect of
the records relating to or payments made on account of beneficial
ownership interests of a Global Note or maintaining, supervising or
reviewing any records relating to such beneficial ownership
interests.
The
Trustee shall have no obligation or duty to monitor, determine or
inquire as to compliance with any restrictions on transfer imposed
under this Indenture or under applicable law with respect to any
transfer of any interest in any Note (including any transfers
between or among Depositary participants or beneficial owners of
interests in any Global Note) other than to require delivery of
such certificates and other documentation or evidence as are
expressly required by, and to do so if and when expressly required
by the terms of this Indenture, and to examine the same to
determine substantial compliance as to the form with the express
requirements hereof.
(d) Until
the Resale Restriction Termination Date, any stock certificate
representing Common Stock issued upon conversion of such Note shall
bear a legend in substantially the following form (unless the Note
or such Common Stock has been transferred pursuant to a
registration statement that has become or been declared effective
under the Securities Act and that continues to be effective at the
time of such transfer or pursuant to the exemption from
registration provided by Rule 144 under the Securities Act or
any similar provision then in force under the Securities Act, or
such Common Stock has been issued upon conversion of Notes that
have been transferred pursuant to a registration statement that has
become or been declared effective under the Securities Act and that
continues to be effective at the time of such transfer or pursuant
to the exemption from registration provided by Rule 144 under
the Securities Act, or unless otherwise agreed by the Company with
written notice thereof to the Trustee and any transfer agent for
the Common Stock):
THIS SECURITY
HAS NOT BEEN REGISTERED UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS
AMENDED (THE “SECURITIES ACT”), AND MAY NOT BE OFFERED,
SOLD, PLEDGED OR OTHERWISE TRANSFERRED EXCEPT IN ACCORDANCE WITH
THE FOLLOWING SENTENCE. BY ITS ACQUISITION HEREOF OR OF A
BENEFICIAL INTEREST HEREIN, THE ACQUIRER:
(1) REPRESENTS THAT IT AND ANY ACCOUNT FOR WHICH IT IS ACTING
IS A “QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER” (WITHIN THE
MEANING OF RULE 144A UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT) AND THAT IT
EXERCISES SOLE INVESTMENT DISCRETION WITH RESPECT TO EACH SUCH
ACCOUNT, AND
(2) AGREES
FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE COMPANY THAT IT WILL NOT OFFER, SELL, PLEDGE
OR OTHERWISE TRANSFER THIS SECURITY OR ANY BENEFICIAL INTEREST
HEREIN PRIOR TO THE DATE THAT IS THE LATER OF (X) ONE YEAR
AFTER THE LAST ORIGINAL ISSUE DATE HEREOF OR SUCH SHORTER PERIOD OF
TIME AS PERMITTED BY RULE 144 UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OR ANY
SUCCESSOR PROVISION THEREUNDER, AND (Y) SUCH LATER DATE, IF
ANY, AS MAY BE REQUIRED BY APPLICABLE LAW, EXCEPT:
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(A) TO
INSULET CORPORATION (THE “COMPANY”) OR ANY SUBSIDIARY
THEREOF, OR
(B) PURSUANT TO A REGISTRATION STATEMENT WHICH HAS BECOME
EFFECTIVE UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT, OR
(C) PURSUANT TO AN EXEMPTION FROM REGISTRATION PROVIDED BY
RULE 144 UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OR ANY OTHER AVAILABLE EXEMPTION
FROM THE REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS OF THE SECURITIES ACT.
PRIOR TO THE
REGISTRATION OF ANY TRANSFER IN ACCORDANCE WITH (2)(C) ABOVE, THE
COMPANY AND THE TRUSTEE RESERVE THE RIGHT TO REQUIRE THE DELIVERY
OF SUCH LEGAL OPINIONS, CERTIFICATIONS OR OTHER EVIDENCE AS MAY
REASONABLY BE REQUIRED IN ORDER TO DETERMINE THAT THE PROPOSED
TRANSFER IS BEING MADE IN COMPLIANCE WITH THE SECURITIES ACT AND
APPLICABLE STATE SECURITIES LAWS. NO REPRESENTATION IS MADE AS TO
THE AVAILABILITY OF ANY EXEMPTION FROM THE REGISTRATION
REQUIREMENTS OF THE SECURITIES ACT.
Any
such Common Stock as to which such restrictions on transfer shall
have expired in accordance with their terms may, upon surrender of
the certificates representing such shares of Common Stock for
exchange in accordance with the procedures of the transfer agent
for the Common Stock, be exchanged for a new certificate or
certificates for a like aggregate number of shares of Common Stock,
which shall not bear the restrictive legend required by this
Section 2.06(d).
(e) Any
Note or Common Stock issued upon the conversion or exchange of a
Note that is purchased or owned by the Company or any Affiliate
thereof may not be resold by the Company or such Affiliate unless
registered under the Securities Act or resold pursuant to an
exemption from the registration requirements of the Securities Act
in a transaction that results in such Notes or Common Stock, as the
case may be, no longer being “restricted securities”
(as defined under Rule 144).
(f) Notwithstanding
any provision of Section 2.06 to the contrary, in the event
Rule 144 as promulgated under the Securities Act (or any
successor rule) is amended to change the one-year holding period
thereunder (or the corresponding period under any successor rule),
from and after receipt by the Trustee of the Officers’
Certificate and Opinion of Counsel provided for in this
Section 2.06(f), (i) each reference in
Section 2.06(c) to “one year” and in the
restrictive legend set forth in such paragraph to “ONE
YEAR” shall be deemed for all purposes hereof to be
references to such changed period, (ii) each reference in
Section 2.06(d) to “one year” and in the
restrictive legend set forth in such paragraph to “ONE
YEAR” shall be deemed for all purposes hereof to be
references to such changed period and (iii) all corresponding
references in the Notes (including the definition of Resale
Restriction Termination Date) and the restrictive legends thereon
shall be deemed for all purposes hereof to be references to such
changed period, provided that such changes shall not become
effective
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if they
are otherwise prohibited by, or would otherwise cause a violation
of, the then-applicable federal securities laws. The provisions of
this Section 2.06(f) will not be effective until such time as
the Opinion of Counsel and Officers’ Certificate have been
received by the Trustee hereunder. This Section 2.06(f) shall
apply to successive amendments to Rule 144 (or any successor
rule) changing the holding period thereunder.
Section 2.07.
Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost or Stolen Notes . In case any
Note shall become mutilated or be destroyed, lost or stolen, the
Company in its discretion may execute, and upon a receipt of a
Company Order the Trustee or an authenticating agent appointed by
the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, a new Note, bearing a
number not contemporaneously outstanding, in exchange and
substitution for the mutilated Note, or in lieu of and in
substitution for the Note so destroyed, lost or stolen. In every
case the applicant for a substituted Note shall furnish to the
Company, to the Trustee and, if applicable, to such authenticating
agent such security or indemnity as may be required by them to save
each of them harmless from any loss, liability, cost or expense
caused by or connected with such substitution, and, in every case
of destruction, loss or theft, the applicant shall also furnish to
the Company, to the Trustee and, if applicable, to such
authenticating agent evidence to their satisfaction of the
destruction, loss or theft of such Note and of the ownership
thereof.
The
Trustee or such authenticating agent may authenticate any such
substituted Note and deliver the same upon the receipt of such
security or indemnity as the Trustee, and, if applicable, such
authenticating agent may require. Upon the issuance of any
substitute Note, the Company or the Trustee may require the payment
by the holder of a sum sufficient to cover any tax, assessment or
other governmental charge that may be imposed in relation thereto
and any other expenses connected therewith. In case any Note that
has matured or is about to mature or has been tendered for
repurchase upon a Fundamental Change or is about to be converted
into cash, shares of Common Stock or a combination of cash and
shares of Common Stock, as applicable, shall become mutilated or be
destroyed, lost or stolen, the Company may, in its sole discretion,
instead of issuing a substitute Note, pay or authorize the payment
of or convert or authorize the conversion of the same (without
surrender thereof except in the case of a mutilated Note), as the
case may be, if the applicant for such payment or conversion shall
furnish to the Company, to the Trustee and, if applicable, to such
authenticating agent such security or indemnity as may be required
by them to save each of them harmless for any loss, liability, cost
or expense caused by or connected with such substitution, and, in
every case of destruction, loss or theft, evidence satisfactory to
the Trustee and, if applicable, any Paying Agent or Conversion
Agent evidence of their satisfaction of the destruction, loss or
theft of such Note and of the ownership thereof.
Every
substitute Note issued pursuant to the provisions of this
Section 2.07 by virtue of the fact that any Note is destroyed,
lost or stolen shall constitute an additional contractual
obligation of the Company, whether or not the destroyed, lost or
stolen Note shall be found at any time, and shall be entitled to
all the benefits of (but shall be subject to all the limitations
set forth in) this Indenture equally and proportionately with any
and all other Notes duly issued hereunder. To the extent permitted
by law, all Notes shall be held and owned upon the express
condition that the foregoing provisions are exclusive with respect
to the replacement or payment or conversion or repurchase of
mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Notes and shall preclude any
and all other rights or remedies notwithstanding any law or statute
existing or
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hereafter enacted to the contrary with respect to the replacement
or payment or conversion of negotiable instruments or other
securities without their surrender.
Section 2.08.
Temporary Notes . Pending the preparation of Notes in
certificated form, the Company may execute and the Trustee or an
authenticating agent appointed by the Trustee shall, upon receipt
of a Company Order, authenticate and deliver temporary Notes
(printed or lithographed). Temporary Notes shall be issuable in any
authorized denomination, and substantially in the form of the Notes
in certificated form but with such omissions, insertions and
variations as may be appropriate for temporary Notes, all as may be
determined by the Company. Every such temporary Note shall be
executed by the Company and authenticated by the Trustee or such
authenticating agent upon the same conditions and in substantially
the same manner, and with the same effect, as the Notes in
certificated form. Without unreasonable delay the Company will
execute and deliver to the Trustee or such authenticating agent
Notes in certificated form (other than any Global Note) and
thereupon any or all temporary Notes (other than any Global Note)
may be surrendered in exchange therefor, at each office or agency
maintained by the Company pursuant to Section 5.02 and the
Trustee or such authenticating agent shall authenticate and deliver
in exchange for such temporary Notes an equal aggregate principal
amount of Notes in certificated form. Such exchange shall be made
by the Company at its own expense and without any charge therefor.
Until so exchanged, the temporary Notes shall in all respects be
entitled to the same benefits and subject to the same limitations
under this Indenture as Notes in certificated form authenticated
and delivered hereunder.
Section 2.09.
Cancellation of Notes Paid, Etc . All Notes surrendered for
the purpose of payment, repurchase, conversion, exchange or
registration of transfer, shall, if surrendered to the Company or
any Paying Agent or any Note Registrar or any Conversion Agent, be
surrendered to the Trustee and promptly canceled by it, or, if
surrendered to the Trustee, shall be promptly canceled by it, and
no Notes shall be issued in lieu thereof except as expressly
permitted by any of the provisions of this Indenture. The Trustee
shall dispose of canceled Notes in accordance with its customary
procedures and, after such disposition, shall deliver a certificate
of such disposition to the Company, at the Company’s written
request. If the Company shall acquire any of the Notes, such
acquisition shall not operate as satisfaction of the indebtedness
represented by such Notes unless and until the same are delivered
to the Trustee for cancellation.
Section 2.10.
CUSIP Numbers . The Company in issuing the Notes may use
“CUSIP” numbers (if then generally in use), and, if so,
the Trustee shall use “CUSIP” numbers in all notices
issued to Noteholders as a convenience to holders of the Notes;
provided , that any such notice may state that no
representation is made as to the correctness of such numbers either
as printed on the Notes or on such notice and that reliance may be
placed only on the other identification numbers printed on the
Notes. The Company will promptly notify the Trustee in writing of
any change in the “CUSIP” numbers.
Section 2.11.
Additional Notes; Repurchases . The Company may, without the
consent of the Noteholders and notwithstanding Section 2.01,
reopen this Indenture and increase the principal amount of the
Notes by issuing additional Notes in the future pursuant to this
Indenture with the same terms and with the same CUSIP number as the
Notes initially issued
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hereunder in an unlimited aggregate principal amount, which will
form the same series with the Notes initially issued hereunder,
provided that no such additional Notes may be issued unless
they will be fungible with the original Notes for U.S. federal
income tax and securities law purposes. Prior to the issuance of
any such additional Notes, the Company shall deliver to the Trustee
a Company Order, an Officers’ Certificate and an Opinion of
Counsel, such Officers’ Certificate and Opinion of Counsel to
cover such matters, in addition to those required by
Section 17.05, as the Trustee shall reasonably request. The
Company may also from time to time repurchase the Notes in open
market purchases or negotiated transactions without prior notice to
Noteholders.
Section 2.12.
Automatic Exchange From Restricted Global Note to Unrestricted
Global Note . Beneficial interests in a Global Note that is
subject to restrictions set out in Section 2.06(c) (including
the legend set forth in Section 2.06(c)) (the “
Restricted Global Note ”) will be automatically
exchanged into beneficial interests in an unrestricted Global Note
that is no longer subject to the restrictions set out in
Section 2.06(c) (including removal of the legend set forth in
Section 2.06(c)) (the “ Unrestricted Global Note
”) without any action required by or on behalf of the
Noteholder (the “ Automatic Exchange ”). In
order to effect such exchange, the Company shall at least
15 days but not more than 30 days prior to the automatic
exchange date, deliver a notice of Automatic Exchange (an “
Automatic Exchange Notice ”) to each Noteholder at
such Noteholder’s address appearing in the Note Register,
with a copy to the Trustee. The Automatic Exchange Notice shall
identify the Notes subject to the Automatic Exchange and shall
state: (1) the date of the Automatic Exchange; (2) the
section of this Indenture pursuant to which the Automatic Exchange
shall occur; (3) the “CUSIP” number of the
Restricted Global Note from which such Noteholders’
beneficial interests will be transferred and (4) the
“CUSIP” number of the Unrestricted Global Note into
which such Holders’ beneficial interests will be transferred.
At the Company’s request on no less than 5 days’ prior
notice, the Trustee shall deliver, in the Company’s name and
at its expense, the Automatic Exchange Notice to each Noteholder at
such Noteholder’s address appearing in the Note Register;
provided , however , that the Company shall have
delivered to the Trustee an Officers’ Certificate requesting
that the Trustee give the Automatic Exchange Notice (in the name
and at the expense of the Company) and setting forth the
information to be stated in the Automatic Exchange Notice as
provided in the preceding sentence. As a condition to any such
exchange pursuant to this Section 2.12, the Trustee shall be
entitled to receive from the Company, and rely conclusively without
any liability, upon an Officer’s Certificate and an Opinion
of Counsel to the Company, in form and in substance reasonably
satisfactory to the Trustee, to the effect that such transfer of
beneficial interests to the Unrestricted Global Note shall be
effected in compliance with the Securities Act. Upon such exchange
of beneficial interests pursuant to this Section 2.12, the
Registrar shall endorse the Schedule of Increases and Decreases in
Global Note to the relevant Notes and reflect on its books and
records the date of such transfer and a decrease and increase,
respectively, in the principal amount of the applicable Restricted
Global Note(s) and the Unrestricted Global Note, respectively,
equal to the principal amount of beneficial interests transferred.
If an Unrestricted Global Note is not then outstanding at the time
of the Automatic Exchange, the Company shall execute and the
Trustee shall authenticate and deliver an Unrestricted Global Note
to the Depositary. Following any such transfer pursuant to this
Section 2.12, the relevant Restricted Global Note shall be
cancelled.
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ARTICLE 4
SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE
Section 4.01.
Satisfaction and Discharge . This Indenture shall upon
request of the Company contained in an Officers’ Certificate
cease to be of further effect, and the Trustee, at the expense of
the Company, shall execute proper instruments acknowledging
satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture, when (a) (i) all
Notes theretofore authenticated and delivered (other than (x) Notes
which have been destroyed, lost or stolen and which have been
replaced or paid as provided in Section 2.07 and
(y) Notes for whose payment money has theretofore been
deposited in trust or segregated and held in trust by the Company
and thereafter repaid to the Company or discharged from such trust,
as provided in Section 5.04(d)) have been delivered to the
Note Registrar for cancellation; and (ii) the Company has
deposited with the Trustee or delivered to Noteholders, as
applicable, after the Notes have become due and payable, whether at
the Maturity Date, any Fundamental Change Repurchase Date, upon
conversion or otherwise, cash or cash and shares of Common Stock,
if any (solely to satisfy the Company’s Conversion
Obligation, if applicable), sufficient to pay all of the
outstanding Notes and all other sums due payable under this
Indenture by the Company; and (b) the Company has delivered to
the Trustee an Officers’ Certificate and an Opinion of
Counsel, each stating that all conditions precedent herein provided
for relating to the satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture
have been complied with. Notwithstanding the satisfaction and
discharge of this Indenture, the obligations of the Company to the
Trustee under Section 8.06 shall survive.
ARTICLE 5
PARTICULAR COVENANTS OF THE COMPANY
Section 5.01.
Payment of Principal, Interest and Additional Interest . The
Company covenants and agrees that it will cause to be paid the
principal of (including the Fundamental Change Repurchase Price),
and accrued and unpaid interest, Additional Interest, if any, and
Supplementary Interest, if any, on each of the Notes at the places,
at the respective times and in the manner provided herein and in
the Notes. Each installment of accrued and unpaid interest,
Additional Interest, if any, and Supplementary Interest, if any, on
the Notes due on any Additional Interest Payment Date (as defined
in the Registration Rights Agreement), may be paid by mailing
checks for the amount payable to Noteholders entitled thereto as
they shall appear on the Note Register; provided that,
(1) with respect to any Noteholder holding Notes in
certificated form and having an aggregate principal amount of
$2,000,000 or less, by check mailed to the holders of such Notes
and (2) with respect to any Noteholder holding Notes in
certificated form and having an aggregate principal amount of more
than $2,000,000, either by check mailed to such holder or, upon
application by a holder to the Note Registrar not later than on the
relevant Interest Record Date, by wire transfer in immediately
available funds to that holder’s account within the United
States, which application shall remain in effect until the holder
notifies, in writing, the Note Registrar to the contrary;
provided further that payment of accrued and unpaid
interest, Additional Interest, if any, and Supplementary Interest,
if any, made to the Depositary shall be paid by wire transfer in
immediately available funds in accordance with such wire transfer
instructions and other procedures provided by the Depositary from
time
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to
time.
Section 5.02.
Maintenance of Office or Agency . The Company will maintain
in the United States an office or agency where the Notes may be
surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange or for
presentation for payment or repurchase (“ Paying Agent
”) or for conversion (“ Conversion Agent
”) and where notices and demands to or upon the Company in
respect of the Notes 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 or the office or
agency of the Trustee.
The
Company may also from time to time designate co-registrars one or
more other offices or agencies where the Notes may be presented or
surrendered for any or all such purposes and may from time to time
rescind such designations; provided that no such designation
or rescission shall in any manner relieve the Company of its
obligation to maintain an office or agency in the United States 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. The terms
“Paying Agent” and “Conversion Agent”
include any such additional or other offices or agencies, as
applicable.
The
Company hereby initially designates the Trustee as the Paying
Agent, Note Registrar and Conversion Agent and the Corporate Trust
Office shall be considered as one such office or agency of the
Company for each of the aforesaid purposes.
Section 5.03.
Appointments to Fill Vacancies in Trustee’s Office .
The Company, whenever necessary to avoid or fill a vacancy in the
office of Trustee, will appoint, in the manner provided in
Section 8.10, a Trustee, so that there shall at all times be a
Trustee hereunder.
Section 5.04.
Provisions as to Paying Agent . (a) If the Company
shall appoint a Paying Agent other than the Trustee, the Company
will cause such Paying Agent to execute and deliver to the Trustee
an instrument in which such agent shall agree with the Trustee,
subject to the provisions of this Section 5.04:
(i) that it will hold all sums held
by it as such agent for the payment of the principal of and accrued
and unpaid interest, Additional Interest, if any, and Supplementary
Interest, if any, on the Notes in trust for the benefit of the
holders of the Notes;
(ii) that it will give the Trustee
prompt notice of any failure by the Company to make any payment of
the principal of and accrued and unpaid interest, Additional
Interest, if any, and Supplementary Interest, if any, on the Notes
when the same shall be due and payable; and
(iii) that at any time during the
continuance of an Event of Default, upon request of the Trustee, it
will forthwith pay to the Trustee all sums so held in trust.
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The
Company shall, on or before each due date of the principal of
(including the Fundamental Change Repurchase Price) or accrued and
unpaid interest, Additional Interest, if any, or Supplementary
Interest, if any, on the Notes, deposit with the Paying Agent a sum
sufficient to pay such principal (including the Fundamental Change
Repurchase Price) or accrued and unpaid interest, Additional
Interest, if any, or Supplementary Interest, if any, and (unless
such Paying Agent is the Trustee) the Company will promptly notify
the Trustee of any failure to take such action, provided
that if such deposit is made on the due date, such deposit must be
received by the Paying Agent by 11:00 a.m., New York City
time, on such date.
(b) If
the Company shall act as its own Paying Agent, it will, on or
before each due date of the principal of (including the Fundamental
Change Repurchase Price) accrued and unpaid interest, Additional
Interest, if any, and Supplementary Interest, if any, on the Notes,
set aside, segregate and hold in trust for the benefit of the
holders of the Notes a sum sufficient to pay such principal
(including the Fundamental Change Repurchase Price) accrued and
unpaid interest, Additional Interest, if any, and Supplementary
Interest, if any, so becoming due and will promptly notify the
Trustee in writing of any failure to take such action and of any
failure by the Company to make any payment of the principal of
(including the Fundamental Change Repurchase Price) accrued and
unpaid interest, Additional Interest, if any, and Supplementary
Interest, if any, on the Notes when the same shall become due and
payable.
(c) Anything
in this Section 5.04 to the contrary notwithstanding, the
Company may, at any time, for the purpose of obtaining a
satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture, or for any other
reason, pay or cause to be paid to the Trustee all sums held in
trust by the Company or any Paying Agent hereunder as required by
this Section 5.04, such sums to be held by the Trustee upon
the trusts herein contained and upon such payment by the Company or
any Paying Agent to the Trustee, the Company or such Paying Agent
shall be released from all further liability with respect to such
sums.
(d) 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
(including the Fundamental Change Repurchase Price) accrued and
unpaid interest, Additional Interest, if any, and Supplementary
Interest, if any, on any Note and remaining unclaimed for two years
after such principal (including the Fundamental Change Repurchase
Price), interest, Additional Interest, if any, or Supplementary
Interest, if any, has become due and payable shall be paid to the
Company on request of the Company contained in an Officers’
Certificate, or (if then held by the Company) shall be discharged
from such trust; and the holder of such Note shall 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, shall thereupon cease.
Section 5.05.
Existence . Subject to Article 12, the Company will do
or cause to be done all things necessary to preserve and keep in
full force and effect its corporate existence.
Section 5.06.
Rule 144A Information Requirement and Annual Reports .
(a) At any time the Company is not subject to Sections 13
or 15(d) of the Exchange Act, the Company shall, so long as any of
the Notes or any shares of Common Stock issuable upon conversion
thereof shall, at such time, constitute “restricted
securities” within the meaning of Rule 144(a)(3)
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under
the Securities Act, promptly provide to the Trustee and shall, upon
written request, provide to the Trustee, any holder, or prospective
purchaser of such Notes or any shares of Common Stock issued upon
conversion of such Notes, the information required to be delivered
pursuant to Rule 144A(d)(4) under the Securities Act to
facilitate the resale of such Notes or shares of Common Stock
pursuant to Rule 144A under the Securities Act. The Company
shall take such further action as any holder of such Notes or such
Common Stock may reasonably request to the extent required from
time to time to enable such holder or beneficial holder to sell
such Notes or shares of Common Stock in accordance with
Rule 144A under the Securities Act, as such rule may be
amended from time to time.
(b) The
Company shall deliver to the Trustee within three Business Days
after the same is required to be filed with the Commission, copies
of the quarterly and annual reports and of the information,
documents and other reports, if any, that the Company is required
to file with the Commission pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of
the Exchange Act, and, to the extent required by
Section 17.08, the Company shall otherwise comply with the
requirements of Trust Indenture Act section 314(a). Any such
report, information or document that the Company files with the
Commission through the Commission’s EDGAR database shall be
deemed delivered to the Trustee for purposes of this
Section 5.06(b) at the time of such filing through the EDGAR
database.
(c) Delivery
of the reports, information and documents described in clause
(b) above to the Trustee is for informational purposes only,
and the Trustee’s receipt of such shall not constitute
constructive notice of any information contained therein or
determinable from information contained therein, including the
Company’s compliance with any of its covenants hereunder (as
to which the Trustee is entitled to conclusively rely exclusively
on an Officers’ Certificate).
Section 5.07.
Stay, Extension and Usury Laws . The Company covenants (to
the extent that it may lawfully do so) that it shall not at any
time insist upon, plead, or in any manner whatsoever claim or take
the benefit or advantage of, any stay, extension or usury law or
other law that would prohibit or forgive the Company from paying
all or any portion of the principal of or interest on the Notes as
contemplated herein, wherever enacted, now or at any time hereafter
in force, or that may affect the covenants or the performance of
this Indenture; and the Company (to the extent it may lawfully do
so) hereby expressly waives all benefit or advantage of any such
law, and covenants that it will not, by resort to any such law,
hinder, delay or impede the execution of any power herein granted
to the Trustee, but will suffer and permit the execution of every
such power as though no such law had been enacted.
Section 5.08.
Compliance Certificate; Statements as to Defaults . The
Company shall deliver to the Trustee within 120 days after the
end of each fiscal year of the Company (beginning with the fiscal
year ending on December 31, 2008) an Officers’
Certificate stating whether or not the signer thereof has knowledge
of any failure by the Company to comply with all conditions and
covenants then required to be performed under this Indenture and,
if so, specifying each such failure and the nature thereof.
In
addition, the Company shall deliver to the Trustee, as soon as
possible, and in any event within ten days after the Company
becomes aware of the occurrence of any Event of
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Default
or Default, an Officers’ Certificate setting forth the
details of such Event of Default or Default, its status and the
action that the Company proposes to take with respect
thereto.
Section 5.09.
Additional Interest and Supplementary Interest . (a) If
Additional Interest is payable by the Company pursuant to the
Registration Rights Agreement, the Company shall deliver to the
Trustee an Officers’ Certificate to that effect stating
(a) the amount of such Additional Interest that is payable and
(b) the date on which such interest is payable. Unless and
until a Responsible Officer of the Trustee receives at the
Corporate Trust Office such a certificate, the Trustee may assume
without inquiry that no such Additional Interest is payable. If the
Company has paid Additional Interest directly to the Persons
entitled to it, the Company shall deliver to the Trustee an
Officers’ Certificate setting forth the particulars of such
payment.
(b) If Supplementary Interest is
payable by the Company, the Company shall deliver to the Trustee an
Officers’ Certificate to that effect stating (a) the
amount of such Supplementary Interest that is payable and
(b) the date on which such interest is payable. Unless and
until a Responsible Officer of the Trustee receives at the
Corporate Trust Office such a certificate, the Trustee may assume
without inquiry that no such Supplementary Interest is payable. If
the Company has paid Supplementary Interest directly to the Persons
entitled to it, the Company shall deliver to the Trustee an
Officers’ Certificate setting forth the particulars of such
payment.
Section 5.10.
Further Instruments and Acts . Upon request of the Trustee,
the Company will execute and deliver such further instruments and
do such further acts as may be reasonably necessary or proper to
carry out more effectively the purposes of this Indenture.
ARTICLE 6
LISTS OF NOTEHOLDERS AND REPORTS BY
THE COMPANY AND THE TRUSTEE
Section 6.01.
Lists of Noteholders . The Company covenants and agrees that
it will furnish or cause to be furnished to the Trustee,
semi-annually, not more than five days after each June 1 and
December 1 in each year beginning with December 1, 2008, and
at such other times as the Trustee may request in writing, within
ten days after receipt by the Company of any such request (or such
lesser time as the Trustee may reasonably request in order to
enable it to timely provide any notice to be provided by it
hereunder), a list in such form as the Trustee may reasonably
require of the names and addresses of the Noteholders as of a date
not more than fifteen days (or such other date as the Trustee may
reasonably request in order to so provide any such notices) prior
to the time such information is furnished, except that no such list
need be furnished so long as the Trustee is acting as Note
Registrar.
Section 6.02.
Preservation and Disclosure of Lists . (a) The Trustee
shall preserve, in as current a form as is reasonably practicable,
all information as to the names and addresses of the Noteholders
contained in the most recent list furnished to it as provided in
Section 6.01 or maintained by the Trustee in its capacity as
Note Registrar, if so acting. The Trustee may destroy any list
furnished to it as provided in Section 6.01 upon receipt of a
new list so furnished.
(b) The
rights of Noteholders to communicate with other Noteholders
with
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respect
to their rights under this Indenture or under the Notes and the
corresponding rights and duties of the Trustee, shall be as
provided by the Trust Indenture Act.
(c) Every
Noteholder, by receiving and holding the same, agrees with the
Company and the Trustee that neither the Company nor the Trustee
nor any agent of either of them shall be held accountable by reason
of any disclosure of information as to names and addresses of
Noteholders made pursuant to the Trust Indenture Act.
Section 6.03.
Reports by Trustee . (a) The Trustee shall transmit to
holders such reports concerning the Trustee and its actions under
this Indenture as may be required pursuant to the Trust Indenture
Act at the times and in the manner provided pursuant thereto. If
required by Section 313(a) of the Trust Indenture Act, the Trustee
shall, within sixty days after each May 15, beginning with
May 15, 2009, deliver to holders a brief report, dated as of
such May 15, that complies with the provisions of such
Section 313(a).
(b) A
copy of each such report shall, at the time of such transmission to
Noteholders, be filed by the Trustee with each stock exchange and
automated quotation system upon which the Notes are listed and with
the Company. The Company will notify the Trustee in writing within
a reasonable time when the Notes are listed on any stock exchange
or automated quotation system and when any such listing is
discontinued.
ARTICLE 7
DEFAULTS AND REMEDIES
Section 7.01.
Events of Default . The following events shall be “
Events of Default ” with respect to the Notes:
(a) default
in any payment of interest, including any Additional Interest or
Supplementary Interest, on any Note when due and payable, and the
default continues for a period of thirty days;
(b) default
in the payment of principal of any Note when due and payable on the
Maturity Date, upon required repurchase, upon declaration of
acceleration or otherwise;
(c) failure
by the Company to comply with its obligation to convert the Notes
into cash or a combination of cash and shares of Common Stock, as
applicable, upon exercise of a holder’s conversion right and
such failure continues for a period of five days;
(d) failure
by the Company to comply with its obligations under
Article 12;
(e) failure
by the Company to issue a Fundamental Change Company Notice in
accordance with Section 16.01(b);
(f) failure
by the Company for sixty days after written notice from the Trustee
or the holders of at least 25% in principal amount of the Notes
then outstanding (a copy of which notice, if given by holders, also
to be given to the Trustee) has been received by the Company to
comply with any of its other agreements contained in the Notes or
this Indenture, which notice shall state that it is a “Notice
of Default” hereunder;
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(g) default
by the Company or any Subsidiary of the Company in the payment of
the principal or interest on any mortgage, agreement or other
instrument under which there may be outstanding, or by which there
may be secured or evidenced, any debt for money borrowed in excess
of $10 million in the aggregate of the Company and/or any such
Subsidiary, whether such debt now exists or shall hereafter be
created, resulting in such debt becoming or being declared due and
payable, and such acceleration shall not have been rescinded or
annulled within thirty days after written notice to the Company by
the Trustee or to the Company and the Trustee by the holders of at
least 25% in aggregate principal amount of the Notes then
outstanding;
(h) a
final judgment for the payment of $10 million or more
(excluding any amounts covered by insurance or indemnity) rendered
against the Company or any Subsidiary of the Company that is not
discharged or stayed within thirty days after (i) the date on
which the right to appeal thereof has expired if no such appeal has
commenced, or (ii) the date on which all rights to appeal have
been extinguished;
(i) the
Company or any Subsidiary of the Company that is a
“significant subsidiary” (as defined in
Regulation S-X under the Exchange Act) or any group of
Subsidiaries of the Company that in the aggregate would constitute
a “significant subsidiary” shall commence a voluntary
case or other proceeding seeking liquidation, reorganization or
other relief with respect to the Company or any such Subsidiary or
group of Subsidiaries or its debts under any bankruptcy, insolvency
or other similar law now or hereafter in effect or seeking the
appointment of a trustee, receiver, liquidator, custodian or other
similar official of the Company or any such Subsidiary or group of
Subsidiaries or any substantial part of its property, or shall
consent to any such relief or to the appointment of or taking
possession by any such official in an involuntary case or other
proceeding commenced against it, or shall make a general assignment
for the benefit of creditors; or
(j) an
involuntary case or other proceeding shall be commenced against the
Company or any Subsidiary of the Company that is a
“significant subsidiary” (as defined in
Regulation S-X under the Exchange Act) or any group of
Subsidiaries of the Company that in the aggregate would constitute
a “significant subsidiary” seeking liquidation,
reorganization or other relief with respect to the Company or such
Subsidiary or group of Subsidiaries or its debts under any
bankruptcy, insolvency or other similar law now or hereafter in
effect or seeking the appointment of a trustee, receiver,
liquidator, custodian or other similar official of the Company or
such Subsidiary or group of Subsidiaries or any substantial part of
its property, and such involuntary case or other proceeding shall
remain undismissed and unstayed for a period of thirty consecutive
days.
In case
one or more Events of Default shall have occurred and be continuing
(whatever the reason for such Event of Default and whether it shall
be voluntary or involuntary or be effected by operation of law or
pursuant to any judgment, decree or order of any court or any
order, rule or regulation of any administrative or governmental
body), then, and in each and every such case (other than an Event
of Default specified in Section 7.01(i) or
Section 7.01(j) with respect to the Company (and not solely
with respect to a “significant subsidiary” (as defined
in Regulation S-X under the Exchange Act) of the Company, or a
group of Subsidiaries of the Company that in aggregate would
constitute a “significant subsidiary” of the Company),
unless
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the
principal of all of the Notes shall have already become due and
payable, either the Trustee or the holders of at least 25% in
aggregate principal amount of the Notes then outstanding determined
in accordance with Section 9.04, by notice in writing to the
Company (and to the Trustee if given by Noteholders), may declare
100% of the principal of and accrued and unpaid interest and
accrued and unpaid Additional Interest and Supplementary Interest,
if any, on all the Notes to be due and payable immediately, and
upon any such declaration the same shall become and shall
automatically be immediately due and payable, anything in this
Indenture or in the Notes contained to the contrary notwithstanding
(other than the succeeding paragraph). If an Event of Default
specified in Section 7.01(i) or Section 7.01(j) with
respect to the Company (and not solely with respect to a
“significant subsidiary” (as defined in
Regulation S-X under the Exchange Act) of the Company, or a
group of Subsidiaries of the Company that in aggregate would
constitute a “significant subsidiary” of the Company)
occurs and is continuing, the principal of all the Notes and
accrued and unpaid interest and accrued and unpaid Additional
Interest and Supplementary Interest, if any, shall be immediately
due and payable. This provision, however, is subject to the
conditions that if, at any time after the principal of the Notes
shall have been so declared due and payable, and before any
judgment or decree for the payment of the monies due shall have
been obtained or entered as hereinafter provided, the Company shall
pay or shall deposit with the Trustee a sum sufficient to pay
installments of accrued and unpaid interest and accrued and unpaid
Additional Interest and Supplementary Interest, if any, upon all
Notes and the principal of on any and all Notes that shall have
become due otherwise than by acceleration (with interest on overdue
installments of accrued and unpaid interest and accrued and unpaid
Additional Interest and Supplementary Interest, if any, (to the
extent that payment of such interest is enforceable under
applicable law) and on such principal, at the rate borne by the
Notes at such time) and amounts due to the Trustee pursuant to
Section 8.06, and if (1) rescission would not conflict
with any judgment or decree of a court of competent jurisdiction
and (2) any and all Events of Defaults under this Indenture,
other than the nonpayment of principal of and accrued and unpaid
interest and accrued and unpaid Additional Interest and
Supplementary Interest, if any, on Notes that shall have become due
solely by such acceleration, shall have been cured or waived
pursuant to Section 7.07, then and in every such case the
holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Notes
then outstanding, by written notice to the Company and to the
Trustee, may waive all Defaults or Events of Default with respect
to the Notes (other than a Default or an Event of Default resulting
from a failure to repurchase any Notes when required upon a
Fundamental Change or a failure to deliver, upon conversion, cash
or a combination of cash and shares of Common Stock, as applicable,
due upon conversion) and rescind and annul such declaration and its
consequences (other than a declaration or consequences, as the case
may be, resulting from a failure to repurchase any Notes when
required upon a Fundamental Change or a failure to deliver, upon
conversion, cash or a combination of cash and shares of Common
Stock, as applicable, due upon conversion) and such Default (other
than a Default resulting from a failure to repurchase any Notes
when required upon a Fundamental Change or a failure to deliver,
upon conversion, cash or a combination of cash and shares of Common
Stock, as applicable, due upon conversion) shall cease to exist,
and any Event of Default arising therefrom (other than a Default
resulting from a failure to repurchase any Notes when required upon
a Fundamental Change or a failure to deliver, upon conversion, cash
or a combination of cash and shares of Common Stock, as applicable,
due upon conversion) shall be deemed to have been cured for every
purpose of this Indenture; but no such waiver or rescission and
annulment shall extend to or shall affect any subsequent Default or
Event of Default, or shall impair any right
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consequent thereon.
Notwithstanding
anything in this Indenture or in the Notes to the contrary, for the
first 180 days immediately following any violation of any
obligations the Company may be deemed to have pursuant to
(1) Section 314(a)(1) of the Trust Indenture Act, or
(2) Section 5.06(b), and the continuation thereof, the
sole remedy for any such violation shall be the accrual of
additional interest on the Notes at a rate per year equal to 0.50%
of the outstanding principal amount of the Notes (“
Supplementary Interest ”), payable semi-annually at
the same time and in the same manner as regular interest on the
Notes pursuant to Section 2.03 and Section 5.01. In no
event shall Supplementary Interest accrue at a rate per year in
excess of 0.50%, regardless of the number of events or
circumstances giving rise to the requirement to pay Supplementary
Interest. In addition to the accrual of Supplementary Interest, on
and after the 180th day, any violation of any obligations the
Company may be deemed to have pursuant to
(1) Section 314(a)(1) of the Trust Indenture Act or
(2) Section 5.06(b), either the Trustee or the
Noteholders of not less than 25% in aggregate principal amount of
the Notes then outstanding may declare the principal amount of the
Notes and any accrued and unpaid interest, including any Additional
Interest, through the date of such declaration, to be immediately
due and payable. Whenever in this Indenture there is mentioned, in
any context, the payment of interest on, or in respect of, any
Note, such mention shall be deemed to include mention of the
payment of “Supplementary Interest” provided for in
this paragraph to the extent that, in such context, Supplementary
Interest is, was or would be payable in respect thereof pursuant to
the provisions of this paragraph, and express mention of the
payment of Supplementary Interest (if applicable) in any provisions
hereof shall not be construed as excluding Supplementary Interest
in those provisions hereof where such express mention is not
made.
In case
the Trustee shall have proceeded to enforce any right under this
Indenture and such proceedings shall have been discontinued or
abandoned because of such waiver or rescission and annulment or for
any other reason or shall have been determined adversely to the
Trustee, then and in every such case the Company, the Noteholders,
and the Trustee shall, subject to any determination in such
proceeding, be restored respectively to their several positions and
rights hereunder, and all rights, remedies and powers of the
Company, the Noteholders, and the Trustee shall continue as though
no such proceeding had been instituted.
Section 7.02.
Payments of Notes on Default; Suit Therefor . If an Event of
Default described in clause (a) or (b) of
Section 7.01 shall have occurred, the Company shall, upon
demand of the Trustee, pay to it, for the benefit of the holders of
the Notes, the whole amount then due and payable on the Notes for
principal and interest, Additional Interest, if any, and
Supplementary Interest, if any, with interest on any overdue
principal, interest, Additional Interest, if any, and Supplementary
Interest, if any, at the rate borne by the Notes at such time, and,
in addition thereto, such further amount as shall be sufficient to
cover any amounts due to the Trustee under Section 8.06. If
the Company shall fail to pay such amounts forthwith upon such
demand, the Trustee, in its own name and as trustee of an express
trust, may institute a judicial proceeding for the collection of
the sums so due and unpaid, may prosecute such proceeding to
judgment or final decree and may enforce the same against the
Company or any other obligor upon the Notes and collect the moneys
adjudged or decreed to be payable in the manner provided by law out
of the property of the Company or any other obligor upon the Notes,
wherever situated.
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In the
event there shall be pending proceedings for the bankruptcy or for
the reorganization of the Company or any other obligor on the Notes
under title 11 of the United States Code, or any other applicable
law, or in case a receiver, assignee or trustee in bankruptcy or
reorganization, liquidator, sequestrator or similar official shall
have been appointed for or taken possession of the Company or such
other obligor, the property of the Company or such other obligor,
or in the event of any other judicial proceedings relative to the
Company or such other obligor upon the Notes, or to the creditors
or property of the Company or such other obligor, the Trustee,
irrespective of whether the principal of the Notes shall then be
due and payable as therein expressed or by declaration or otherwise
and irrespective of whether the Trustee shall have made any demand
pursuant to the provisions of this Section 7.02, shall be
entitled and empowered, by intervention in such proceedings or
otherwise, to file and prove a claim or claims for the whole amount
of principal and accrued and unpaid interest and accrued and unpaid
Additional Interest and Supplementary Interest, if any, in respect
of the Notes, and, in case of any judicial proceedings, to file
such proofs of claim and other papers or documents and to take such
other actions as it may deem necessary or advisable in order to
have the claims of the Trustee (including any claim for the
reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of
the Trustee, its agents and counsel) and of the Noteholders allowed
in such judicial proceedings relative to the Company or any other
obligor on the Notes, its or their creditors, or its or their
property, and to collect and receive any monies or other property
payable or deliverable on any such claims, and to distribute the
same after the deduction of any amounts due the Trustee under
Section 8.06; and any receiver, assignee or trustee in
bankruptcy or reorganization, liquidator, custodian or similar
official is hereby authorized by each of the Noteholders to make
such payments to the Trustee, as administrative expenses, and, in
the event that the Trustee shall consent to the making of such
payments directly to the Noteholders, to pay to the Trustee any
amount due it for reasonable compensation, expenses, advances and
disbursements, including agents and counsel fees, and including any
other amounts due to the Trustee under Section 8.06 hereof,
incurred by it up to the date of such distribution. To the extent
that such payment of reasonable compensation, expenses, advances
and disbursements out of the estate in any such proceedings shall
be denied for any reason, payment of the same shall be secured by a
lien on, and shall be paid out of, any and all distributions,
dividends, monies, securities and other property that the holders
of the Notes may be entitled to receive in such proceedings,
whether in liquidation or under any plan of reorganization or
arrangement or otherwise.
Nothing
herein contained shall be deemed to authorize the Trustee to
authorize or consent to or accept or adopt on behalf of any
Noteholder any plan of reorganization, arrangement, adjustment or
composition affecting the Noteholder or the rights of any
Noteholder thereof, or to authorize the Trustee to vote in respect
of the claim of any Noteholder in any such proceeding.
All
rights of action and of asserting claims under this Indenture, or
under any of the Notes, may be enforced by the Trustee without the
possession of any of the Notes, or the production thereof at any
trial or other proceeding relative thereto, and any such suit or
proceeding instituted by the Trustee shall be brought in its own
name as trustee of an express trust, and any recovery of judgment
shall, after provision for the payment of the reasonable
compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the Trustee,
its agents and counsel, be for the ratable benefit of the holders
of the Notes.
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In any
proceedings brought by the Trustee (and in any proceedings
involving the interpretation of any provision of this Indenture to
which the Trustee shall be a party) the Trustee shall be held to
represent all the holders of the Notes, and it shall not be
necessary to make any holders of the Notes parties to any such
proceedings.
Section 7.03.
Application of Monies Collected by Trustee . Any monies
collected by the Trustee pursuant to this Article 7 with
respect to the Notes shall be applied in the order following, at
the date or dates fixed by the Trustee for the distribution of such
monies, upon presentation of the several Notes, and stamping
thereon the payment, if only partially paid, and upon surrender
thereof, if fully paid:
First,
to the payment of all amounts due the Trustee under
Section 8.06;
Second,
in case the principal of the outstanding Notes shall not have
become due and be unpaid, to the payment of interest on the Notes,
including Additional Interest and Supplementary Interest, if any,
in default in the order of the date due of the installments of such
interest, with interest (to the extent that such interest has been
collected by the Trustee) upon the overdue installments of interest
at the rate borne by the Notes at such time, such payments to be
made ratably to the Persons entitled thereto;
Third,
in case the principal of the outstanding Notes shall have become
due, by declaration or otherwise, and be unpaid to the payment of
the whole amount including the payment of the Fundamental Change
Repurchase Price and the cash component of the Conversion
Obligation, if any, then owing and unpaid upon the Notes for
principal and interest, including Additional Interest and
Supple
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