INDENTURE
BETWEEN
THE LUBRIZOL CORPORATION
AS ISSUER
WELLS FARGO BANK, NATIONAL
ASSOCIATION
AS TRUSTEE
Dated as of January 27,
2009
Providing for the Issuance of Debt
Securities in Series
THE LUBRIZOL CORPORATION
Reconciliation and tie between Trust Indenture Act
of 1939 and Indenture, dated as of January 27, 2009
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Trust Indenture
Act Section
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Section of the Indenture
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607
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607
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608
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701
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703
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1004
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102
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102
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102
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601
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Sec. 316(a)(last sentence)
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101
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502, 512
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513
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508
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104
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(d)
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503
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504
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1003
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111
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Note:
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This reconciliation and tie shall
not, for any purpose, be deemed to be a part of the
Indenture.
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1
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1
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ARTICLE ONE
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DEFINITIONS AND OTHER PROVISIONS OF
GENERAL APPLICATION
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1
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SECTION 102. Compliance Certificates and
Opinions
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12
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SECTION 103. Form of Documents Delivered to
Trustee
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13
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SECTION 104. Acts of Holders
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13
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SECTION 105. Notices, etc. to Trustee or the
Company
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15
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SECTION 106. Notice to Holders;
Waiver
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15
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SECTION 107. Effect of Headings and Table of
Contents
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16
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SECTION 108. Successors and Assigns
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16
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SECTION 109. Separability Clause
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16
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SECTION 110. Benefits of Indenture
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16
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SECTION 111. Governing Law
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16
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SECTION 112. Legal Holidays
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17
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SECTION 114. Incorporation by Reference of Trust
Indenture Act
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17
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SECTION 115. Rules of Construction
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17
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ARTICLE TWO
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SECURITY FORMS
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SECTION 201. Forms Generally
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SECTION 202. Form of Trustee’s Certificate
of Authentication
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18
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SECTION 203. Securities Issuable in Global
Form
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19
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ARTICLE THREE
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THE SECURITIES
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SECTION 301. Amount Unlimited; Issuable in
Series
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20
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SECTION 302. Denominations
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24
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SECTION 303. Execution, Authentication, Delivery
and Dating
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24
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SECTION 304. Temporary Securities
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26
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SECTION 305. Registration, Registration of
Transfer and Exchange
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28
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SECTION 306. Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost and
Stolen Securities
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32
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SECTION 307. Payment of Interest; Interest
Rights Preserved; Optional Interest Reset
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33
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SECTION 308. Optional Extension of
Maturity
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35
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SECTION 309. Persons Deemed Owners
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36
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SECTION 310. Cancellation
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37
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SECTION 311. Computation of Interest
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38
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Note:
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This table of contents shall not,
for any purpose, be deemed to be a part of the
Indenture.
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SECTION 312. Currency and Manner of Payments in
Respect of Securities
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38
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SECTION 313. Appointment and Resignation of
Successor Exchange Rate Agent
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41
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ARTICLE FOUR
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SATISFACTION AND
DISCHARGE
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SECTION 401. Satisfaction and Discharge of
Indenture
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SECTION 402. Application of Trust
Money
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43
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ARTICLE FIVE
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REMEDIES
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SECTION 501. Events of Default
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SECTION 502. Acceleration of Maturity;
Rescission and Annulment
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45
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SECTION 503. Collection of Indebtedness and
Suits for Enforcement by Trustee
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46
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SECTION 504. Trustee May File Proofs of
Claim
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SECTION 505. Trustee May Enforce Claims Without
Possession of Securities
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47
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SECTION 506. Application of Money
Collected
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47
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SECTION 507. Limitation on Suits
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48
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SECTION 508. Unconditional Right of Holders to
Receive Principal, Premium and Interest
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48
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SECTION 509. Restoration of Rights and
Remedies
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SECTION 510. Rights and Remedies
Cumulative
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49
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SECTION 511. Delay or Omission Not
Waiver
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49
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SECTION 512. Control by Holders
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SECTION 513. Waiver of Past Defaults
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50
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SECTION 514. Undertaking for Costs
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50
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SECTION 515. Waiver of Stay or Extension
Laws
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50
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ARTICLE SIX
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THE TRUSTEE
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SECTION 601. Notice of Defaults
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51
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SECTION 602. Certain Duties, Responsibilities
and Rights of Trustee
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51
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SECTION 603. Trustee Not Responsible for
Recitals or Issuance of Securities
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SECTION 604. May Hold Securities
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SECTION 605. Money Held in Trust
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SECTION 606. Compensation and
Reimbursement
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SECTION 607. Corporate Trustee Required;
Eligibility; Conflicting Interests; Disqualification
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SECTION 608. Resignation and Removal;
Appointment of Successor
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SECTION 609. Acceptance of Appointment by
Successor
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SECTION 610. Merger, Conversion, Consolidation
or Succession to Business
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SECTION 611. Appointment of Authenticating
Agent
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ARTICLE SEVEN
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HOLDERS’ LISTS AND REPORTS BY
TRUSTEE AND COMPANY
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SECTION 701. Disclosure of Names and Addresses
of Holders
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SECTION 702. Reports by Trustee
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60
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SECTION 703. Reports by Company
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60
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CONSOLIDATION, MERGER, CONVEYANCE, TRANSFER OR
LEASE
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SECTION 801. Company May Consolidate, etc. Only
on Certain Terms
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61
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SECTION 802. Successor Person
Substituted
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ARTICLE NINE
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SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES
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SECTION 901. Supplemental Indentures Without
Consent of Holders
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SECTION 902. Supplemental Indentures with
Consent of Holders
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SECTION 903. Execution of Supplemental
Indentures
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SECTION 904. Effect of Supplemental
Indentures
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SECTION 905. Conformity with Trust Indenture
Act
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SECTION 906. Reference in Securities to
Supplemental Indentures
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SECTION 907. Notice of Supplemental
Indentures
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SECTION 908. Effect on Senior
Indebtedness
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ARTICLE TEN
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COVENANTS
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SECTION 1001. Payment of Principal, Premium, if
Any, and Interest
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65
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SECTION 1002. Maintenance of Office or
Agency
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65
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SECTION 1003. Money for Securities Payments to
Be Held in Trust
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66
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SECTION 1004. Statement by Officers as to
Default
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67
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68
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SECTION 1006. Limitation on Liens
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68
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SECTION 1007. Limitation on Sale and Leaseback
Transactions
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69
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SECTION 1008. Further Instruments and
Acts
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70
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SECTION 1009. Calculation of Original Issue
Discount
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SECTION 1010. Additional Amounts
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SECTION 1011. Waiver of Certain
Covenants
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71
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ARTICLE ELEVEN
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REDEMPTION OF SECURITIES
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SECTION 1101. Applicability of
Article
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SECTION 1102. Election to Redeem; Notice to
Trustee
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SECTION 1103. Selection by Trustee of Securities
to Be Redeemed
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SECTION 1104. Notice of Redemption
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SECTION 1105. Deposit of Redemption
Price
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SECTION 1106. Securities Payable on Redemption
Date
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SECTION 1107. Securities Redeemed in
Part
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75
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ARTICLE TWELVE
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SINKING FUNDS
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SECTION 1201. Applicability of
Article
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SECTION 1202. Satisfaction of Sinking Fund
Payments with Securities
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SECTION 1203. Redemption of Securities for
Sinking Fund
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76
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ARTICLE THIRTEEN
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REPAYMENT AT OPTION OF
HOLDERS
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SECTION 1301. Applicability of
Article
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77
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SECTION 1302. Repayment of Securities
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77
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SECTION 1303. Exercise of Option
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77
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SECTION 1304. When Securities Presented for
Repayment Become Due and Payable
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78
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SECTION 1305. Securities Repaid in
Part
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78
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ARTICLE FOURTEEN
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DEFEASANCE AND COVENANT
DEFEASANCE
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SECTION 1401. Company’s Option to Effect
Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance
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SECTION 1402. Defeasance and
Discharge
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SECTION 1403. Covenant Defeasance
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SECTION 1404. Conditions to Defeasance or
Covenant Defeasance
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SECTION 1405. Deposited Money and Government
Obligations to Be Held in Trust; Other Miscellaneous
Provisions
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SECTION 1406. Reinstatement
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ARTICLE FIFTEEN
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MEETINGS OF HOLDERS OF
SECURITIES
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SECTION 1501. Purposes for Which Meetings May Be
Called
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SECTION 1502. Call, Notice and Place of
Meetings
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SECTION 1503. Persons Entitled to Vote at
Meetings
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SECTION 1504. Quorum; Action
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SECTION 1505. Determination of Voting Rights;
Conduct and Adjournment of Meetings
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SECTION 1506. Counting Votes and Recording
Action of Meetings
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86
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EXHIBIT A Forms of Certification
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A-1
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v
INDENTURE,
dated as of January 27, 2009, among The Lubrizol Corporation,
an Ohio corporation (the “Company”), having its
principal office at 29400 Lakeland Boulevard, Wickliffe, Ohio
44092-2298, and Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, a national
banking association, as Trustee (herein called the
“Trustee”).
WHEREAS,
the Company has duly authorized the execution and delivery of this
Indenture to provide for the issuance from time to time of its
unsecured senior or subordinated debentures, notes or other
evidences of indebtedness (herein called the
“Securities”), which may be convertible into or
exchangeable for any securities of any person (including the
Company), to be issued in one or more series as in this Indenture
provided; and
WHEREAS,
this Indenture is subject to the provisions of the Trust Indenture
Act of 1939, as amended, that are required to be part of this
Indenture, and shall be governed by such provisions; provided that
if any provision of this Indenture modifies any TIA provision that
may be so modified, such TIA provision shall be deemed to apply to
this Indenture as so modified; provided further that if any
provision of this Indenture excludes any TIA provision that may be
so excluded, such TIA provision shall be excluded from this
Indenture; and
WHEREAS,
all things necessary to make this Indenture a valid agreement of
the Company, in accordance with its terms, have been
done.
NOW,
THEREFORE, THIS INDENTURE WITNESSETH:
For
and in consideration of the premises and the purchase of the
Securities by the Holders thereof, it is mutually covenanted and
agreed, for the equal and proportionate benefit of all Holders of
the Securities or of series thereof, as follows:
ARTICLE ONE
DEFINITIONS AND OTHER PROVISIONS OF GENERAL
APPLICATION
SECTION 101. Definitions . “Act”, when used with
respect to any Holder, has the meaning specified in
Section 104.
“Additional
Amounts” has the meaning specified in
Section 1010.
“Adjusted
Treasury Rate” means, with respect to any date of redemption,
the rate per annum equal to the semi-annual equivalent yield to
maturity of the Comparable Treasury Issue, assuming a price for the
Comparable Treasury Issue (expressed as a percentage of its
principal amount) equal to the Comparable Treasury Price for that
date of redemption.
“Affiliate”
of any specified Person means any other Person directly or
indirectly controlling or controlled by or under direct or indirect
common control with such specified Person. For purposes of this
definition, “control,” as used with respect to any
Person, shall mean the possession, directly or indirectly, of the
power to direct or cause the direction of the management or
policies of such Person, whether through the ownership of voting
securities, by agreement or otherwise. For purposes of this
definition, the terms “controlling,” “controlled
by”
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“under common control with” shall have correlative
meanings.
“Attributable
Debt” means, when used in respect of any Sale and Leaseback
Transaction, as of the time of determination, the total obligation
(discounted to present value at the rate per annum equal to the
discount rate which would be applicable to a capital lease
obligation with like term in accordance with GAAP) of the lessee
for rental payments (other than amounts required to be paid on
account of property taxes, maintenance, repairs, insurance, water
rates and other items which do not constitute payments for property
rights) during the remaining portion of the initial term of the
lease included in such Sale and Leaseback Transaction.
“Authenticating
Agent” means any Person appointed by the Trustee to act on
behalf of the Trustee pursuant to Section 611 to authenticate
Securities.
“Authorized
Newspaper” means a newspaper, in the English language or in
an official language of the country of publication, customarily
published on each Business Day, whether or not published on
Saturdays, Sundays or holidays, and of general circulation in each
place in connection with which the term is used or in the financial
community of each such place. Where successive publications are
required to be made in Authorized Newspapers, the successive
publications may be made in the same or in different newspapers in
the same city meeting the foregoing requirements and in each case
on any Business Day.
“Bankruptcy
Law” means Title 11, U.S. Code or any similar federal or
state law for the relief of debtors.
“Bearer
Security” means any Security except a Registered
Security.
“Board
of Directors” means (i) with respect to a corporation,
the board of directors of the corporation; (ii) with respect
to a partnership, the Board of Directors of the general partner of
the partnership; and (iii) with respect to any other Person,
the board or committee of such Person serving a similar
function.
“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, when used with respect to any Place of Payment or
any other particular location referred to in this Indenture or in
the Securities, unless otherwise specified with respect to any
Securities pursuant to Section 301, each Monday, Tuesday,
Wednesday, Thursday and Friday which is not a day on which banking
institutions in that Place of Payment or other location are
authorized or obligated by law or executive order to
close.
“Clearstream”
means Clearstream, societe anonyme, or its successor.
“Commission”
or “SEC” means the Securities and Exchange Commission,
as from time to time constituted, created under the Securities
Exchange Act of 1934, or, if at any time after the execution of
this Indenture such Commission is not existing and performing the
duties now assigned to it under the Trust Indenture Act, then the
body performing such duties at such time.
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“Common
Depositary” has the meaning specified in
Section 304.
“Company”
means the Person named as the “Company” in the first
paragraph of this Indenture until a successor Person shall have
become such pursuant to the applicable provisions of this
Indenture, and thereafter “Company” shall mean such
successor Person.
“Company
Request” or “Company Order” means a written
request or order signed in the name of the Company by one Officer
of the Company and delivered to the Trustee.
“Consolidated
Current Liabilities” means the aggregate of the current
liabilities of the Company appearing on the most recent available
consolidated balance sheet of the Company and its Subsidiaries, all
in accordance with GAAP. In no event shall Consolidated Current
Liabilities include any obligation of the Company or its
Subsidiaries issued under a revolving credit or similar agreement
if the obligation issued under such agreement matures by its terms
within 12 months from the date thereof but by the terms of such
agreement such obligation may be renewed or extended or the amount
thereof reborrowed or refunded at the option of the Company or any
Subsidiary for a term in excess of 12 months from the date of
determination.
“Consolidated
Net Tangible Assets” means Consolidated Tangible Assets after
deduction of Consolidated Current Liabilities.
“Consolidated
Tangible Assets” means the aggregate of all assets of the
Company (including the value of all existing Sale and Leaseback
Transactions and any assets resulting from the capitalization of
other long-term lease obligations in accordance with GAAP)
appearing on the most recent available consolidated balance sheet
of the Company and its Subsidiaries at their net book values, after
deducting related depreciation, applicable allowances and other
properly deductible items, and after deducting all goodwill,
trademarks, tradenames, patents, unamortized debt discount and
expenses and other like intangibles, all prepared in accordance
with GAAP.
“Conversion
Date” has the meaning specified in
Section 312(d).
“Conversion
Event” means the cessation of use of a Foreign Currency both
by the government of one or more countries or by any recognized
union, association or confederation of governments that issued such
currency and by a central bank or other public institution of or
within the international banking community for the settlement of
transactions.
“Corporate
Trust Office of the Trustee” means the principal corporate
trust office of the Trustee, at which at any particular time its
corporate trust business shall be administered, which office on the
date of execution of this Indenture is located at Wells Fargo Bank,
National Association, Corporate Trust Services, 230 West Monroe
Street, Suite 2900, Chicago, IL 60606, except that with
respect to presentation of Securities for payment or for
registration of transfer or exchange, such term shall mean the
office or agency of the Trustee at which, at any particular time,
its corporate agency business shall be conducted.
“corporation”
includes corporations, associations, companies and business or
statutory trusts.
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“coupon”
means any interest coupon appertaining to a Bearer
Security.
“Currency”
means any currency, composite currency or currency unit, including,
without limitation, the Euro, issued by the government of one or
more countries or by any recognized union, confederation or
association of such governments.
“Debt”
has the meaning set forth in Section 1006.
“Default”
means any event that is, or with the passage of time or the giving
of notice or both would be, an Event of Default.
“Defaulted
Interest” has the meaning specified in
Section 307.
“Depositary”
means, with respect to Registered Securities of any series, for
which the Company shall determine that such Registered Securities
will be issued in permanent global form, The Depository Trust
Company, New York, New York, another clearing agency, or any
successor registered as a clearing agency under the Securities and
Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, or other applicable statute or
regulations, which in each case, shall be designated by the Company
pursuant to Section 301.
“Dollar”
or “$” means a dollar or other equivalent unit in such
coin or currency of the United States of America as at the time
shall be legal tender for the payment of public and private
debts.
“Dollar
Equivalent of the Currency Unit” has the meaning specified in
Section 312(g).
“Dollar
Equivalent of the Foreign Currency” has the meaning specified
in Section 312(f).
“Election
Date” has the meaning specified in
Section 312(h).
“Euro”
means the basic unit of currency among participating European Union
countries, as revised or replaced from time to time.
“Euroclear”
means Euroclear Bank S.A./N.V. as operator of Euroclear System, and
any successor thereto.
“European
Union” means the European Economic Community, the European
Coal and Steel Community and the European Atomic Energy Community,
as may be modified from time to time.
“Event
of Default” has the meaning specified in
Section 501.
“Exchange
Date” has the meaning specified in
Section 304.
“Exchange
Rate Agent” means, with respect to Securities of or within
any series, unless otherwise specified with respect to any
Securities pursuant to Section 301, a New York
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Clearing House
bank, designated pursuant to Section 301 or
Section 313.
“Exchange
Rate Officer’s Certificate” means a certificate setting
forth (i) the applicable Market Exchange Rate and
(ii) the Dollar or Foreign Currency amounts of principal (and
premium, if any) and interest, if any (on an aggregate basis and on
the basis of a Security having the lowest denomination principal
amount determined in accordance with Section 302 in the
relevant Currency), payable with respect to a Security of any
series on the basis of such Market Exchange Rate, signed by the
Chief Financial Officer, Treasurer or any Senior Vice President of
the Company.
“Extension
Notice” has the meaning specified in
Section 308.
“Extension
Period” has the meaning specified in
Section 308.
“Federal
Bankruptcy Code” means the Bankruptcy Act of Title 11 of the
United States Code, as amended from time to time.
“Foreign
Currency” means any Currency other than Currency of the
United States.
“Funded
Debt” means all Debt having a maturity of more than
12 months from the date as of which the determination is made
or having a maturity of 12 months or less but by its terms
being renewable or extendable beyond 12 months from such date
at the option of the borrower, but excluding any such Debt owed to
the Company or a Subsidiary.
“GAAP”
means generally accepted accounting principles set forth in the
opinions and pronouncements of the Accounting Principles Board of
the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and
statements and pronouncements of the Financial Accounting Standards
Board or in such other statements by such other entity, including
International Financial Reporting Standards, as have been approved
by the Commission, which are in effect on the date of the
Indenture, date of any issuance of debt securities hereunder or
date relating to any covenant compliance.
“Government
Obligations” means, unless otherwise specified with respect
to any series of Securities pursuant to Section 301,
securities which are (i) direct obligations of the government
which issued the Currency in which the Securities of a particular
series are payable or (ii) obligations of a Person controlled or
supervised by and acting as an agency or instrumentality of the
government which issued the Currency in which the Securities of
such series are payable, the full and timely payment of which is
unconditionally guaranteed by such government, which, in either
case, are full faith and credit obligations of such government
payable in such Currency and are not callable or redeemable at the
option of the issuer thereof and shall also include a depository
receipt issued by a bank or trust company as custodian with respect
to any such Government Obligation or a specific payment of interest
on or principal of any such Government Obligation held by such
custodian for the account of the holder of a depository receipt;
provided that (except as required by law) such custodian is not
authorized to make any deduction from the amount payable to the
holder of such depository receipt from any amount received by the
custodian in respect of the Government Obligation or the specific
payment of interest or principal of the Government Obligation
evidenced by such depository receipt.
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“guarantee”
means a guarantee (other than by endorsement of negotiable
instruments for collection in the ordinary course of business),
direct or indirect, in any manner (including, without limitation,
letters of credit and reimbursement agreements in respect thereof),
of all or any part of any Indebtedness or other
obligations.
“Holder”
means, in the case of a Registered Security, the Person in whose
name a Security is registered in the Security Register and, in the
case of a Bearer Security, the bearer thereof and, when used with
respect to any coupon, shall mean the bearer thereof.
“Indebtedness”
means (1) any liability of any Person (a) for borrowed
money, or (b) evidenced by a bond, note, debenture or similar
instrument (including purchase money obligations but excluding
Trade Payables and other accrued liabilities arising in the
ordinary course of business that are not overdue by 90 days or
more or being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings
promptly instituted and diligently conducted), or (c) for the
payment of money relating to a lease that is required to be
classified as a capitalized lease obligation in accordance with
GAAP; (2) all obligations of such Person for the reimbursement
of any obligor on any letter of credit, banker’s acceptance
or similar credit transaction (other than obligations with respect
to letters of credit securing obligations (other than obligations
described in clause (1) above) entered into in the ordinary
course of business of such Person to the extent such letters of
credit are not drawn upon or, if and to the extent drawn upon, such
drawing is reimbursed no later than the third Business Day
following receipt by such Person of demand for reimbursement
following payment on the letter of credit); (3) any liability
of others described in the preceding clauses (1) and
(2) that the Person has guaranteed, that is recourse to such
Person or that is otherwise its legal liability; and (4) any
amendment, supplement, modification, deferral, renewal, extension
or refunding of any liability of the types referred to in clauses
(1), (2) and (3) above.
“Indenture”
means this instrument as originally executed and as it may from
time to time be supplemented or amended by one or more indentures
supplemental hereto entered into pursuant to the applicable
provisions hereof, and shall include the terms of particular series
of Securities established as contemplated by Section 301;
provided, however, that, if at any time more than one Person is
acting as Trustee under this instrument, “Indenture”
shall mean, with respect to any one or more series of Securities
for which such Person is Trustee, this instrument as originally
executed or as it may from time to time be supplemented or amended
by one or more indentures supplemental hereto entered into pursuant
to the applicable provisions hereof and shall include the terms of
particular series of Securities for which such Person is Trustee
established as contemplated by Section 301, exclusive,
however, of any provisions or terms which relate solely to other
series of Securities for which such Person is not Trustee,
regardless of when such terms or provisions were adopted, and
exclusive of any provisions or terms adopted by means of one or
more indentures supplemental hereto executed and delivered after
such Person had become such Trustee but to which such Person, as
such Trustee, was not a party.
“Indexed
Security” means a Security the terms of which provide that
the principal amount thereof payable at the Stated Maturity may be
more or less than the principal face amount thereof at original
issuance.
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“interest”
means, when used with respect to an Original Issue Discount
Security the rate prescribed in such Original Issue Discount
Security.
“Interest
Payment Date” means, when used with respect to any Security,
the Maturity of an installment of interest on such
Security.
“Lien”
means, with respect to any asset, any mortgage, lien, pledge,
charge, security interest or encumbrance of any kind in respect of
such asset, whether or not filed, recorded or otherwise perfected
under applicable law, including any conditional sale or other title
retention agreement, any lease in the nature thereof, any option or
other agreement to sell or give a security interest in and any
filing of or agreement to give any financing statement under the
Uniform Commercial Code (or equivalent statutes) of any
jurisdiction.
“Market
Exchange Rate” means, unless otherwise specified with respect
to any Securities pursuant to Section 301, (i) for any
conversion involving a currency unit on the one hand and Dollars or
any Foreign Currency on the other, the exchange rate between the
relevant currency unit and Dollars or such Foreign Currency
calculated by the method specified pursuant to Section 301 for
the Securities of the relevant series, (ii) for any conversion
of Dollars into any Foreign Currency, the noon (New York City time)
buying rate for such Foreign Currency for cable transfers quoted in
New York City as certified for customs purposes by the Federal
Reserve Bank of New York and (iii) for any conversion of one
Foreign Currency into Dollars or another Foreign Currency, the spot
rate at noon local time in the relevant market at which, in
accordance with normal banking procedures, the Dollars or Foreign
Currency into which conversion is being made could be purchased
with the Foreign Currency from which conversion is being made from
major banks located in either New York City, London or any other
principal market for Dollars or such purchased Foreign Currency, in
each case determined by the Exchange Rate Agent. Unless otherwise
specified with respect to any Securities pursuant to
Section 301, in the event of the unavailability of any of the
exchange rates provided for in the foregoing clauses (i),
(ii) and (iii), the Exchange Rate Agent shall use, in its sole
discretion and without liability on its part, such quotation of the
Federal Reserve Bank of New York as of the most recent available
date, or quotations from one or more major banks in New York City,
London or another principal market for the Currency in question, or
such other quotations as the Exchange Rate Agent shall deem
appropriate. Unless otherwise specified by the Exchange Rate Agent,
if there is more than one market for dealing in any Currency by
reason of foreign exchange regulations or otherwise, the market to
be used in respect of such Currency shall be that upon which a
non-resident issuer of securities designated in such Currency would
purchase such Currency in order to make payments in respect of such
securities.
“Maturity”
means, when used with respect to any Security, the date on which
the principal of such Security or any installment of principal
becomes due and payable as therein or herein provided, whether at
the Stated Maturity or by declaration of acceleration, notice of
redemption, notice of option to elect repayment, notice of exchange
or conversion, or otherwise.
“Mortgage”
means, with respect to any property or assets, any mortgage or deed
of trust, pledge, hypothecation, assignment, security interest,
lien, encumbrance, or any other security arrangement of any kind or
nature whatsoever on or with respect to such property or
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assets
(including any conditional sale or other title retention agreement
having substantially the same economic effect as any of the
foregoing).
“Officer”
means, with respect to any Person, the Chairman of the Board, the
Chief Executive Officer, the President, the Chief Operating
Officer, the Chief Financial Officer, the Treasurer, any Assistant
Treasurer, the Controller, the Secretary or any Vice President of
such Person.
“Officers’
Certificate” means a certificate signed on behalf of the
Company by two Officers of the Company, one of whom must be the
principal executive officer, the principal financial officer, the
treasurer or the principal accounting officer of the Company, that
meets the requirements of Section 102 hereof.
“Operating
Property” means any property, plant or equipment located in
the United States owned by, or leased to, the Company or any
Subsidiary that has a market value in excess of 1.0% of
Consolidated Net Tangible Assets.
“Opinion
of Counsel” means a written opinion of counsel, who may be
counsel for the Company, including an employee of the Company, and
who shall be acceptable to the Trustee.
“Original
Issue Discount Security” means any Security that provides for
an amount less than the principal amount thereof to be due and
payable upon a declaration of acceleration of the Maturity thereof
pursuant to Section 502.
“Outstanding”
means, when used with respect to Securities, as of the date of
determination, all Securities theretofore authenticated and
delivered under this Indenture, except:
(i) Securities
theretofore cancelled by the Trustee or delivered to the Trustee
for cancellation;
(ii) Securities,
or portions thereof, for whose payment or redemption or repayment
at the option of the Holder money in the necessary amount has been
theretofore deposited with the Trustee or any Paying Agent (other
than the Company) in trust or set aside and segregated in trust by
the Company (if the Company shall act as its own Paying Agent) for
the Holders of such Securities and any coupons appertaining
thereto; provided that, if such Securities are to be redeemed,
notice of such redemption has been duly given pursuant to this
Indenture or provision therefor satisfactory to the Trustee has
been made;
(iii) Securities,
except to the extent provided in Sections 1402 and 1403, with
respect to which the Company has effected defeasance and/or
covenant defeasance as provided in Article Fourteen;
and
(iv) Securities
which have been paid pursuant to Section 306 or in exchange
for or in lieu of which other Securities have been authenticated
and delivered pursuant to this Indenture, other than any such
Securities in respect of which there shall have been
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presented to
the Trustee proof satisfactory to it that such Securities are held
by a bona fide purchaser in whose hands such Securities are valid
obligations of the Company;
provided,
however, that in determining whether the Holders of the requisite
principal amount of the Outstanding Securities have given any
request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent or
waiver hereunder or are present at a meeting of Holders for quorum
purposes, and for the purpose of making the calculations required
by TIA Section 313, (i) the principal amount of an
Original Issue Discount Security that may be counted in making such
determination or calculation and that shall be deemed to be
Outstanding for such purpose shall be equal to the amount of
principal thereof that would be (or shall have been declared to be)
due and payable, at the time of such determination, upon a
declaration of acceleration of the Maturity thereof pursuant to
Section 502, (ii) the principal amount of any Security
denominated in a Foreign Currency that may be counted in making
such determination or calculation and that shall be deemed
Outstanding for such purpose shall be equal to the Dollar
equivalent, determined as of the date such Security is originally
issued by the Company as set forth in an Exchange Rate
Officer’s Certificate delivered to the Trustee, of the
principal amount (or, in the case of an Original Issue Discount
Security, the Dollar equivalent as of such date of original
issuance of the amount determined as provided in clause
(i) above) of such Security, (iii) the principal amount
of any Indexed Security that may be counted in making such
determination or calculation and that shall be deemed outstanding
for such purpose shall be equal to the principal face amount of
such Indexed Security at original issuance, unless otherwise
provided with respect to such Security pursuant to
Section 301, and (iv) Securities owned by the Company or
any other obligor upon the Securities or any Affiliate of the
Company or of such other obligor shall be disregarded and deemed
not to be Outstanding, except that, in determining whether the
Trustee shall be protected in making such calculation or in relying
upon any such request, demand, authorization, direction, notice,
consent or waiver or upon any such determination as to the presence
of a quorum, only Securities which a Responsible Officer of the
Trustee actually knows to be so owned shall be so disregarded.
Securities so owned that have been pledged in good faith may be
regarded as Outstanding if the pledge establishes to the
satisfaction of the Trustee the pledgee’s right so to act
with respect to such Securities and that the pledgee is not the
Company or any other obligor upon the Securities or any Affiliate
of the Company or such other obligor.
“Paying
Agent” means any Person (including the Company acting as
Paying Agent) authorized by the Company to pay the principal of (or
premium, if any) or interest, if any, on any Securities on behalf
of the Company.
“Person”
means any individual, corporation, partnership, joint venture,
trust, unincorporated organization or government or any agency or
political subdivision thereof.
“Place
of Payment” means, when used with respect to the Securities
of or within any series, the place or places (which, in the case of
Bearer Securities, shall be outside the United States) where the
principal of (and premium, if any) and interest, if any, on such
Securities are payable as specified as contemplated by
Sections 301 and 1002.
“Predecessor
Security” of any particular Security means every previous
Security evidencing all or a portion of the same debt as that
evidenced by such particular Security; and, for the purposes of
this definition, any Security authenticated and delivered under
Section 306 in
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exchange for or
in lieu of a mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Security or a
Security to which a mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen coupon
appertains shall be deemed to evidence the same debt as the
mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Security or the Security to
which the mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen coupon appertains,
as the case may be.
“Redemption
Date”, when used with respect to any Security to be redeemed,
in whole or in part, means the date fixed for such redemption by or
pursuant to this Indenture.
“Redemption
Price” means, when used with respect to any security to be
redeemed, the price at which it is to be redeemed pursuant to this
Indenture.
“Registered
Security” means any Security registered in the Security
Register.
“Regular
Record Date” for the interest payable on any Interest Payment
Date on the Registered Securities of or within any series means the
date specified for that purpose as contemplated by
Section 301.
“Repayment
Date” means, when used with respect to any Security to be
repaid at the option of the Holder, the date fixed for such
repayment pursuant to this Indenture.
“Repayment
Price” means, when used with respect to any Security to be
repaid at the option of the Holder, the price at which it is to be
repaid pursuant to this Indenture.
“Responsible
Officer” means, when used with respect to the Trustee, any
officer of the Trustee within the Corporate Trust Office of the
Trustee (or any successor group of the Trustee) who has direct
responsibility for administration of this Indenture and, for
purposes of Section 601 or subparagraph (3)(b) of the first
paragraph of Section 602 hereof, also includes any other
officer to whom such matter is referred because of such
officer’s knowledge of and familiarity with the particular
subject.
“Restricted
Subsidiary” means any Subsidiary that owns Operating
Property.
“Sale
and Leaseback Transaction” means any arrangement with any
Person providing for the leasing to the Company or any Subsidiary
of any Operating Property, which Operating Property has been or is
to be sold or transferred by the Company or such Subsidiary to such
Person.
“Securities”
has the meaning stated in the first recital of this Indenture and
more particularly means any Securities authenticated and delivered
under this Indenture; provided, however, that if at any time there
is more than one Person acting as Trustee under this Indenture,
“Securities” with respect to the Indenture as to which
such Person is Trustee shall have the meaning stated in the first
recital of this Indenture and shall more particularly mean
Securities authenticated and delivered under this Indenture,
exclusive, however, of Securities of any series as to which such
Person is not Trustee.
“Security
Register” and “Security Registrar” have the
respective meanings specified in Section 305.
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“Senior
Indebtedness” means the principal of (and premium, if any)
and unpaid interest on (x) indebtedness of the Company (including
indebtedness of others guaranteed by the Company), whether
outstanding on the date hereof or thereafter created, incurred,
assumed or guaranteed, for money borrowed other than (a) any
indebtedness of the Company which when incurred and without respect
to any election under Section 1111(b) of the Federal Bankruptcy
Code, was without recourse to the Company, (b) any
Indebtedness of the Company to any of its Subsidiaries,
(c) Indebtedness to any employee of the Company, (d) any
liability for taxes, (e) other accrued liabilities arising in
the ordinary course of business that are not overdue by
90 days or more or being contested in good faith by
appropriate proceedings promptly instituted and diligently
conducted, and (e) Trade Payables, unless in the instrument
creating or evidencing the same or pursuant to which the same is
outstanding it is provided that such indebtedness is not senior or
prior in right of payment to the Securities, and (y) renewals,
extensions, modifications and refundings of any such indebtedness.
This definition may be modified or superseded by a supplemental
indenture.
“Significant
Subsidiary” means any Subsidiary that would constitute a
“significant subsidiary” within the meaning of
Article 1 of Regulation S-X of the Securities Act of 1933
as in effect on the date of this Indenture.
“Special
Record Date” for the payment of any Defaulted Interest on the
Registered Securities of or within any series means a date fixed by
the Trustee pursuant to Section 307.
“Stated
Maturity” has the meaning specified in
Section 308.
“Subsidiary”
means any corporation of which at least a majority of the
outstanding stock having by the terms thereof ordinary voting power
for the election of directors of such corporation (irrespective of
whether or not at the time stock of any other class or classes of
such corporation shall have or might have voting power by reason of
the happening of any contingency) is at the time directly or
indirectly owned by the Company or by one or more other
Subsidiaries, or by the Company and one or more other
Subsidiaries.
“Trade
Payables” means accounts payable or any other Indebtedness or
monetary obligations to trade creditors created or assumed in the
ordinary course of business in connection with the obtaining of
materials or services.
“Trust
Indenture Act” or “TIA” means the Trust Indenture
Act of 1939 as in force at the date as of which this Indenture was
executed, except as provided in Section 905.
“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; provided,
however, that if at any time there is more than one such Person,
“Trustee” as used with respect to the Securities of any
series shall mean only the Trustee with respect to Securities of
that series.
“United
States” means, unless otherwise specified with respect to any
Securities pursuant to Section 301, the United States of
America (including the states and the District of
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Columbia), its
territories, its possessions and other areas subject to its
jurisdiction.
“United
States person” means, unless otherwise specified with respect
to any Securities pursuant to Section 301, an individual who
is a citizen or resident of the United States, a corporation,
partnership or other entity created or organized in or under the
laws of the United States or an estate or trust the income of which
is subject to United States federal income taxation regardless of
its source.
“Valuation
Date” has the meaning specified in
Section 312(c).
“Vice
President”, when used with respect to the Company or the
Trustee, means any vice president, whether or not designated by a
number or a word or words added before or after the title
“vice president”.
“Voting
Stock” means stock of the class or classes having general
voting power under ordinary circumstances to elect at least a
majority of the board of directors, managers or trustees of a
corporation (irrespective of whether or not at the time stock of
any other class or classes shall have or might have voting power by
reason of the happening of any contingency).
“Yield
to Maturity” means the yield to maturity, computed at the
time of issuance of a Security (or, if applicable, at the most
recent redetermination of interest on such Security) and as set
forth in such Security in accordance with generally accepted United
States bond yield computation principles.
SECTION 102. Compliance Certificates and Opinions . Upon any
application or request by the Company to the Trustee to take any
action under any provision of this Indenture, the Company shall
furnish to the Trustee an Officers’ Certificate stating that
all conditions precedent, if any, provided for in this Indenture
(including any covenant compliance with which constitutes a
condition precedent) relating to the proposed action have been
complied with and an Opinion of Counsel stating that in the opinion
of such counsel all such conditions precedent, if any, have been
complied with, except that in the case of any such application or
request as to which the furnishing of such documents is
specifically required by any provision of this Indenture relating
to such particular application or request, no additional
certificate or opinion need be furnished.
Every
certificate or opinion with respect to compliance with a covenant
or condition provided for in this Indenture (other than pursuant to
Section 1004) shall include:
(1) a statement
that each individual signing such certificate or opinion has read
such covenant or condition and the definitions herein relating
thereto;
(2) a brief
statement as to the nature and scope of the examination or
investigation upon which the statements or opinions contained in
such certificate or opinion are based;
(3) a statement
that, in the opinion of each such individual, he has made such
examination or investigation as is necessary to enable him to
express an informed opinion as to whether or not such covenant or
condition has been complied with; and
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(4) a statement as
to whether, in the opinion of each such individual, such covenant
or condition has been complied with.
SECTION 103. Form of Documents Delivered to Trustee . In any
case where several matters are required to be certified by, or
covered by an opinion of, any specified Person, it is not necessary
that all such matters be certified by, or covered by the opinion
of, only one such Person, or that they be so certified or covered
by only one document, but one such Person may certify or give an
opinion with respect to some matters and one or more other such
Persons as to other matters, and any such Person may certify or
give an opinion as to such matters in one or several
documents.
Any
certificate or opinion of an officer of the Company may be based,
insofar as it relates to legal matters, upon a certificate or
opinion of, or representations by, counsel, unless such officer
knows, or in the exercise of reasonable care should know, that the
certificate or opinion or representations with respect to the
matters upon which his certificate or opinion is based are
erroneous. Any such certificate or Opinion of Counsel may be based,
insofar as it relates to factual matters, upon a certificate or
opinion of, or representations by, an officer or officers of the
Company, stating that the information with respect to such factual
matters is in the possession of the Company, unless such counsel
knows, or in the exercise of reasonable care should know, that the
certificate or opinion or representations with respect to such
matters are erroneous.
Where
any Person is required to make, give or execute two or more
applications, requests, consents, certificates, statements,
opinions or other instruments under this Indenture, they may, but
need not, be consolidated and form one instrument.
SECTION 104. Acts of Holders . Any request, demand,
authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other action
provided by this Indenture to be given or taken by Holders of the
Outstanding Securities of all series or one or more series, as the
case may be, may be embodied in and evidenced by one or more
instruments of substantially similar tenor signed by such Holders
in person or by agents duly appointed in writing. If Securities of
a series are issuable as Bearer Securities, any request, demand,
authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other action
provided by this Indenture to be given or taken by Holders of
Securities of such series may, alternatively, be embodied in and
evidenced by the record of Holders of Securities of such series
voting in favor thereof, either in person or by proxies duly
appointed in writing, at any meeting of Holders of Securities of
such series duly called and held in accordance with the provisions
of Article Fifteen, or a combination of such instruments and
any such record. Except as herein otherwise expressly provided,
such action shall become effective when such instrument or
instruments or record or both are delivered to the Trustee and,
where it is hereby expressly required, to the Company or to both of
them. Such instrument or instruments and any such record (and the
action embodied therein and evidenced thereby) are herein sometimes
referred to as the “Act” of the Holders signing such
instrument or instruments or so voting at any such meeting. Proof
of execution of any such instrument or of a writing appointing any
such agent, or of the holding by any Person of a Security, shall be
sufficient for any purpose of this Indenture and conclusive in
favor of the Trustee and the Company, if made in the manner
provided in this Section. The record of any meeting of Holders of
Securities shall be proved in the manner provided in
Section 1506.
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(a) The
fact and date of the execution by any Person of any such instrument
or writing may be proved by the affidavit of a witness of such
execution or by a certificate of a notary public or other officer
authorized by law to take acknowledgments of deeds, certifying that
the individual signing such instrument or writing acknowledged to
him the execution thereof. Where such execution is by a signer
acting in a capacity other than his individual capacity, such
certificate or affidavit shall also constitute sufficient proof of
authority. The fact and date of the execution of any such
instrument or writing, or the authority of the Person executing the
same, may also be proved in any other manner that the Trustee deems
sufficient.
(b) The
principal amount and serial numbers of Registered Securities held
by any Person, and the date of holding the same, shall be proved by
the Security Register.
(c) The
principal amount and serial numbers of Bearer Securities held by
any Person, and the date of holding the same, may be proved by the
production of such Bearer Securities or by a certificate executed,
as depositary, by any trust company, bank, banker or other
depositary, wherever situated, if such certificate shall be deemed
by the Trustee to be satisfactory, showing that at the date therein
mentioned such Person had on deposit with such depositary, or
exhibited to it, the Bearer Securities therein described; or such
facts may be proved by the certificate or affidavit of the Person
holding such Bearer Securities, if such certificate or affidavit is
deemed by the Trustee to be satisfactory. The Trustee and the
Company may assume that such ownership of any Bearer Security
continues until (1) another certificate or affidavit bearing a
later date issued in respect of the same Bearer Security is
produced, or (2) such Bearer Security is produced to the
Trustee by some other Person, or (3) such Bearer Security is
surrendered in exchange for a Registered Security, or (4) such
Bearer Security is no longer Outstanding. The principal amount and
serial numbers of Bearer Securities held by any Person, and the
date of holding the same, may also be proved in any other manner
that the Trustee deems sufficient.
(d) If
the Company shall solicit from the Holders of Registered Securities
any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent,
waiver or other Act, the Company may, at its option, in or pursuant
to a Board Resolution, fix in advance a record date for the
determination of Holders entitled to give such request, demand,
authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other Act, but
the Company shall have no obligation to do so. Notwithstanding TIA
Section 316(c), such record date shall be the record date
specified in or pursuant to such Board Resolution, which shall be a
date not earlier than the date 30 days prior to the first
solicitation of Holders generally in connection therewith and not
later than the date such solicitation is completed. If such a
record date is fixed, such request, demand, authorization,
direction, notice, consent, waiver or other Act may be given before
or after such record date, but only the Holders of record at the
close of business on such record date shall be deemed to be Holders
for the purposes of determining whether Holders of the requisite
proportion of Outstanding Securities have authorized or agreed or
consented to such request, demand, authorization, direction,
notice, consent, waiver or other Act, and for that purpose the
Outstanding Securities shall be computed as of such record date;
provided that no such authorization, agreement or consent by the
Holders on such record date shall be deemed effective unless it
shall become effective pursuant to the provisions of this Indenture
not later than eleven months after the record date.
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(e) Any
request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver
or other Act of the Holder of any Security shall bind every future
Holder of the same Security and the Holder of every Security issued
upon the registration of transfer thereof or in exchange therefor
or in lieu thereof in respect of anything done, omitted or suffered
to be done by the Trustee, any Security Registrar, any Paying
Agent, any Authenticating Agent or the Company in reliance thereon,
whether or not notation of such action is made upon such
Security.
SECTION 105. Notices, etc. to Trustee or Company . Any
request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver
or Act of Holders or other documents provided or permitted by this
Indenture to be made upon, given or furnished to, or filed
with,
(1) the Trustee by
any Holder or by the Company shall be sufficient for every purpose
hereunder if made, given, furnished or filed in writing to or with
the Trustee at its Corporate Trust Office, Attention: Corporate
Trust Services, or
(2) the Company by
the Trustee or by any Holder shall be sufficient for every purpose
hereunder (unless otherwise herein expressly provided) if in
writing and mailed, first-class postage prepaid or by overnight
delivery service, to the Company addressed to it at the address of
the Company’s principal office specified in the first
paragraph of this Indenture, to the attention of its General
Counsel, or at any other address previously furnished in writing to
the Trustee by the Company.
SECTION 106. Notice to Holders; Waiver . Except as otherwise
expressly provided herein or otherwise specified with respect to
any series of Securities pursuant to Section 301, where this
Indenture provides for notice of any event to Holders of Registered
Securities by the Company or the Trustee, such notice shall be
sufficiently given if in writing and mailed, first-class postage
prepaid, to each such Holder affected by such event, at his address
as it appears in the Security Register, not later than the latest
date, and not earlier than the earliest date, prescribed for the
giving of such notice. In any case where notice to Holders of
Registered Securities is given by mail, neither the failure to mail
such notice, nor any defect in any notice so mailed, to any
particular Holder shall affect the sufficiency of such notice with
respect to other Holders of Registered Securities or the
sufficiency of any notice to Holders of Bearer Securities given as
provided. Any notice mailed to a Holder in the manner herein
prescribed shall be conclusively deemed to have been received by
such Holder, whether or not such Holder actually receives such
notice.
In
case, by reason of the suspension of or irregularities in regular
mail service or by reason of any other cause, it shall be
impractical to mail notice of any event to Holders of Registered
Securities when such notice is required to be given pursuant to any
provision of this Indenture, then any manner of giving such notice
as shall be satisfactory to the Trustee shall be deemed to be
sufficient giving of such notice for every purpose
hereunder.
Except
as otherwise expressly provided herein or otherwise specified with
respect to any Securities pursuant to Section 301, where this
Indenture provides for notice to Holders of Bearer Securities of
any event, such notice shall be sufficiently given to Holders of
Bearer Securities if published in an Authorized Newspaper in The
City of New York and in such other city or cities as may be
specified in such Securities on a Business Day at least twice, the
first
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such
publication to be not earlier than the earliest date, and not later
than the latest date, prescribed for the giving of such notice. Any
such notice shall be deemed to have been given on the date of such
publication or, if published more than once, on the date of the
first such publication.
If
by reason of the suspension of publication of any Authorized
Newspaper or Authorized Newspapers or by reason of any other cause,
it shall be impracticable to publish any notice to Holders of
Bearer Securities as provided above, then such notification to
Holders of Bearer Securities as shall be given with the approval of
the Trustee shall constitute sufficient notice to such Holders for
every purpose hereunder. Neither the failure to give notice by
publication to Holders of Bearer Securities as provided above, nor
any defect in any notice so published, shall affect the sufficiency
of such notice with respect to other Holders of Bearer Securities
or the sufficiency of any notice to Holders of Registered
Securities given as provided herein.
Any
request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent or
waiver required or permitted under this Indenture shall be in the
English language, except that any published notice may be in an
official language of the country of publication.
Where
this Indenture provides for notice in any manner, such notice may
be waived in writing by the Person entitled to receive such notice,
either before or after the event, and such waiver shall be the
equivalent of such notice. Waivers of notice by Holders shall be
filed with the Trustee, but such filing shall not be a condition
precedent to the validity of any action taken in reliance upon such
waiver.
SECTION 107. Effect of Headings and Table of Contents . The
Article and Section headings herein and the Table of Contents are
for convenience only and shall not affect the construction
hereof.
SECTION 108. Successors and Assigns . All covenants and
agreements in this Indenture by the Company shall bind its
successors and assigns, whether so expressed or not.
SECTION 109. Separability Clause . In case any provision in
this Indenture or in any Security or coupon shall be invalid,
illegal or unenforceable, the validity, legality and enforceability
of the remaining provisions shall not in any way be affected or
impaired thereby.
SECTION 110. Benefits of Indenture . Nothing in this
Indenture or in the Securities or coupons, express or implied,
shall give to any Person, other than the parties hereto, any
Authenticating Agent, any Paying Agent, any Securities Registrar
and their successors hereunder and the Holders of Securities or
coupons, any benefit or any legal or equitable right, remedy or
claim under this Indenture.
SECTION 111. Governing Law . THIS INDENTURE AND THE
SECURITIES AND COUPONS SHALL BE GOVERNED BY AND CONSTRUED IN
ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAW OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK. THIS INDENTURE IS
SUBJECT TO THE PROVISIONS OF THE TRUST INDENTURE ACT THAT ARE
REQUIRED TO BE PART OF THIS INDENTURE AND SHALL, TO THE EXTENT
APPLICABLE, BE GOVERNED BY SUCH PROVISIONS.
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SECTION 112. Legal Holidays . In any case where any Interest
Payment Date, Redemption Date, Repayment Date, sinking fund payment
date or Stated Maturity or Maturity of any Security shall not be a
Business Day at any Place of Payment, then (notwithstanding any
other provision of this Indenture or of any Security or coupon
other than a provision in the Securities of any series which
specifically states that such provision shall apply in lieu of this
Section), payment of principal (or premium, if any) or interest, if
any, need not be made at such Place of Payment on such date, but
may be made on the next succeeding Business Day at such Place of
Payment with the same force and effect as if made on the Interest
Payment Date, Redemption Date Repayment Date, sinking fund payment
date, or at the Stated Maturity or Maturity; provided that no
interest shall accrue on the amount so payable for the period from
and after such Interest Payment Date, Redemption Date, Repayment
Date, sinking fund payment date, Stated Maturity or Maturity, as
the case may be.
SECTION 113. No Recourse . No recourse for the payment of
the principal of or premium, if any, or interest on any Security or
any coupons appertaining thereto, or for any claim based thereon or
otherwise in respect thereof, and no recourse under or upon any
obligation, covenant or agreement of the Company in this Indenture
or in any supplemental indenture, or in any Security or any coupons
appertaining thereto, or because of the creation of any
indebtedness represented thereby, shall be had against any
director, officer, employee, or stockholder as such, past, present
or future, of the Company or any of its Affiliates or any successor
Person of the Company, either directly or through the Company or
any of its Affiliates or any successor Person of the Company,
whether by virtue of any constitution, statute or rule of law, or
by the enforcement of any assessment or penalty or otherwise; it
being expressly understood that all such liability is hereby
expressly waived and released as a condition of, and as a
consideration for, the execution of this Indenture and the issue of
the Securities.
SECTION 114. Incorporation by Reference of Trust Indenture
Act . Whenever this Indenture refers to a provision of the TIA,
the provision is incorporated by reference in and made a part of
this Indenture.
The
following TIA terms used in this Indenture have the following
meanings:
(i)
“indenture securities” means the Securities;
(ii)
“indenture security Holder” means a Holder of a
Security;
(iii)
“indenture to be qualified” means this
Indenture;
(iv)
“indenture trustee” or “institutional
trustee” means the Trustee; and
(v)
“obligor” on the Securities means the Company and any
successor obligor upon the Securities.
All
other terms used in this Indenture that are defined by the TIA,
defined by TIA reference to another statute or defined by SEC rule
under the TIA have the meanings so assigned to them.
SECTION 115. Rules of Construction . Unless the context
otherwise requires:
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(i) a term has the
meaning assigned to it;
(ii) an accounting
term not otherwise defined has the meaning assigned to it in
accordance with GAAP;
(iii)
“or” is not exclusive;
(iv) words in the
singular include the plural, and in the plural include the
singular; and
(v) provisions
apply to successive events and transactions.
ARTICLE TWO
SECURITY FORMS
SECTION 201. Forms Generally . The Registered Securities, if
any, of each series and the Bearer Securities, if any, of each
series and related coupons, the temporary global Securities of each
series, if any, and the permanent global Securities of each series,
if any, to be endorsed thereon shall be in substantially the forms
as shall be established by, or pursuant to a Board Resolution or,
subject to Section 303, set forth in, or determined in the
manner provided in, an Officers’ Certificate pursuant to a
Board Resolution of the Company or in one or more indentures
supplemental hereto, in each case with such appropriate insertions,
omissions, substitutions and other variations as are required or
permitted by this Indenture, and may have such letters, numbers or
other marks of identification and such legends or endorsements
placed thereon as may be required to comply with the rules of any
securities exchange or as may, consistently herewith, be determined
by the officers of the Company, executing such Securities or
coupons, as evidenced by their execution of the Securities or
coupons. If the forms of Securities or coupons of any series are
established by action taken pursuant to a Board Resolution, a copy
of an appropriate record of such action shall be certified by the
Secretary or Assistant Secretary of the Company, and delivered to
the Trustee at or prior to the delivery of the Company Order
contemplated by Section 303 for the authentication and delivery of
such Securities or coupons. Any portion of the text of any Security
may be set forth on the reverse thereof, with an appropriate
reference thereto on the face of the Security.
Unless
otherwise specified as contemplated by Section 301, Securities
in bearer form shall have interest coupons attached.
The
Trustee’s certificate of authentication on all Securities
shall be in substantially the form set forth in this
Article.
The
definitive Securities and coupons, if any, shall be printed,
lithographed or engraved on steel-engraved borders or may be
produced in any other manner, all as determined by the officers of
the Company executing such Securities or coupons, as evidenced by
their execution of such Securities or coupons.
SECTION 202. Form of Trustee’s Certificate of
Authentication . Subject to Section 611, the
Trustee’s certificate of authentication shall be in
substantially the following form:
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TRUSTEE’S CERTIFICATE OF
AUTHENTICATION
This
is one of the Securities of the series designated therein referred
to in the within-mentioned Indenture.
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SECTION 203. Securities Issuable in Global Form . If
Securities of or within a series are issuable in global form, as
specified as contemplated by Section 301, then,
notwithstanding clause (8) of Section 301, any such
Security shall represent such of the Outstanding Securities of such
series as shall be specified therein and may provide that it shall
represent the aggregate amount of Outstanding Securities of such
series from time to time endorsed thereon and that the aggregate
amount of Outstanding Securities of such series represented thereby
may from time to time be increased or decreased to reflect
exchanges. Any endorsement of a Security in global form to reflect
the amount, or any increase or decrease in the amount, of
Outstanding Securities represented thereby shall be made by the
Trustee in such manner and upon instructions given by such Person
or Persons as shall be specified therein or in the Company Order to
be delivered to the Trustee pursuant to Section 303 or
Section 304. Subject to the provisions of Section 303
and, if applicable, Section 304, the Trustee shall deliver and
redeliver any Security in permanent global form in the manner and
upon instructions given by the Person or Persons specified therein
or in the applicable Company Order. If a Company Order pursuant to
Section 303 or Section 304 has been, or simultaneously
is, delivered, any instructions by the Company with respect to
endorsement or delivery or redelivery of a Security in global form
shall be in writing but need not comply with Section 102 and
need not be accompanied by an Opinion of Counsel.
The
provisions of the last sentence of Section 303 shall apply to
any Security represented by a Security in global form if such
Security was never issued and sold by the Company and the Company
delivers to the Trustee the Security in global form together with
written instructions (which need not comply with Section 102
and need not be accompanied by an Opinion of Counsel) with regard
to the reduction in the principal amount of Securities represented
thereby, together with the written statement contemplated by the
last sentence of Section 303.
Notwithstanding
any provisions of Section 307 to the contrary, unless
otherwise specified as contemplated by Section 301, payment of
principal of (and premium, if any) and interest, if any, on any
Security in permanent global form shall be made to the Person or
Persons specified therein.
Notwithstanding
the provisions of Section 309 and except as provided in the
preceding paragraph, the Company, the Trustee and any agent of the
Company and the Trustee
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shall treat as
the Holder of such principal amount of Outstanding Securities
represented by a permanent global Security (i), in the case of a
permanent global Security in registered form, the Holder of such
permanent global Security in registered form, or (ii) in the
case of a permanent global Security in bearer form, Euroclear or
Clearstream.
ARTICLE THREE
THE SECURITIES
SECTION 301. Amount Unlimited; Issuable in Series . The
aggregate principal amount of Securities that may be authenticated
and delivered under this Indenture is unlimited. The Securities may
be issued in one or more series. There shall be established in one
or more Board Resolutions or pursuant to authority granted by one
or more Board Resolutions and, subject to Section 303, set
forth in, or determined in the manner provided in, an
Officers’ Certificate, or established in one or more
indentures supplemental hereto, prior to the issuance of Securities
of any series, any or all of the following, as applicable (each of
which (except for the matters set forth in clauses (1),
(2) and (17) below), if so provided, may be determined
from time to time by the Company with respect to unissued
Securities of the series and set forth in such Securities of the
series when issued from time to time):
(1) title of the
Securities of the series (which shall distinguish the Securities of
the series from all other series of Securities) and whether such
Securities are senior or subordinated;
(2) any limit upon
the aggregate principal amount of the Securities of the series that
may be authenticated and delivered under this Indenture (except for
Securities authenticated and delivered upon registration of
transfer of, or in exchange for, or in lieu of, other Securities of
the series pursuant to Section 304, 305, 306, 906, 1107 or
1305 and except for any Securities which, pursuant to
Section 303, are deemed never to have been authenticated and
delivered hereunder);
(3) the date or
dates, or the method by which such date or dates will be determined
or extended, on which the principal of the Securities of the series
is payable;
(4) the rate or
rates at which the Securities of the series shall bear interest, if
any, or the method by which such rate or rates shall be determined,
the date or dates from which any such interest shall accrue, or the
method by which such date or dates shall be determined, the
Interest Payment Dates on which such interest shall be payable, the
right, if any, of the Company to defer or extend an Interest
Payment Date, and the Regular Record Date, if any, for the interest
payable on any Registered Security on any Interest Payment Date, or
the method by which such date or dates shall be determined, and the
basis upon which interest shall be calculated if other than on the
basis of a 360-day year of twelve 30-day months;
(5) the place or
places, if any, other than or in addition to the Borough of
Manhattan, The City of New York, where the principal of (and
premium, if any) and interest, if any, on Securities of the series
shall be payable (which in the case of Bearer Securities shall be
outside the United States), where any Registered Securities of
the
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series may be
surrendered for registration of transfer, where Securities of the
series may be surrendered for exchange, where Securities of the
series that are convertible or exchangeable may be surrendered for
conversion or exchange, as applicable and, if different than the
location specified in Section 105, the place or places where
notices or demands to or upon the Company in respect of the
Securities of the series and this Indenture may be
served;
(6) the period or
periods within which, the price or prices at which, the Currency in
which, and other terms and conditions upon which Securities of the
series may be redeemed, in whole or in part, at the option of the
Company or a Holder thereof, if the Company or such Holder is to
have that option;
(7) the obligation
or right, if any, of the Company to redeem, repay or purchase
Securities of the series pursuant to any sinking fund or analogous
provision or at the option of a Holder thereof, and the period or
periods within which or the date or dates on which, the price or
prices at which, the Currency in which, and other terms and
conditions upon which Securities of the series shall be redeemed,
repaid or purchased, in whole or in part, pursuant to such
obligation;
(8) if other than
denominations of $1,000 and any integral multiple thereof, the
denomination or denominations in which any Registered Securities of
the series shall be issuable and, if other than denominations of
$5,000, the denomination or denominations in which any Bearer
Securities of the series shall be issuable;
(9) if other than
the Trustee, the identity of each Security Registrar and/or Paying
Agent;
(10) if other than
the principal amount thereof, the portion of the principal amount
of Securities of the series that shall be payable upon declaration
of acceleration of the Maturity thereof pursuant to
Section 502, upon redemption of the Securities of the series
which are redeemable before their Stated Maturity, upon surrender
for repayment at the option of the Holder, or which the Trustee
shall be entitled to claim pursuant to Section 504 or the method by
which such portion shall be determined;
(11) if other than
Dollar, the Currency or Currencies in which payment of the
principal of (or premium, if any) or interest, if any, on the
Securities of the series shall be made or in which the Securities
of the series shall be denominated and the particular provisions
applicable thereto in accordance with, in addition to or in lieu of
any of the provisions of Section 312;
(12) whether the
amount of payments of principal of (or premium, if any) or
interest, if any, on the Securities of the series may be determined
with reference to an index, formula or other method (which index,
formula or method may be based, without limitation, on one or more
Currencies, commodities, equity indices or other indices), and the
manner in which such amounts shall be determined;
(13) whether the
principal of (or premium, if any) or interest, if any, on the
Securities of the series are to be payable, at the election of the
Company or a Holder
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thereof, in a
Currency other than that in which such Securities are denominated
or stated to be payable, the period or periods within which
(including the Election Date), and the terms and conditions upon
which, such election may be made, and the time and manner of
determining the exchange rate between the Currency in which such
Securities are denominated or stated to be payable and the Currency
in which such Securities are to be so payable, in each case in
accordance with, in addition to or in lieu of any of the provisions
of Section 312;
(14) the
designation of the initial Exchange Rate Agent, if any, or any
depositaries;
(15) if
Sections 1402 and/or 1403 are not applicable to the Securities
of the series and any provisions in modification of, in addition to
or in lieu of any of the provisions of Article Fourteen that
shall be applicable to the Securities of the series;
(16) provisions,
if any, granting special rights to the Holders of Securities of the
series upon the occurrence of such events as may be
specified;
(17) any deletions
from, modifications of or additions to the Events of Default or
covenants of the Company with respect to Securities of the series,
whether or not such Events of Default or covenants are consistent
with the Events of Default or covenants set forth
herein;
(18) whether
Securities of the series are to be issuable as Registered
Securities, Bearer Securities (with or without coupons) or both,
any restrictions applicable to the offer, sale or delivery of
Bearer Securities, whether such Securities of any series are to be
issuable initially in temporary global form and whether any
Securities of the series are to be issuable in permanent global
form with or without coupons and, if so, whether beneficial owners
of interests in any such permanent global Security may exchange
such interests for Securities of such series and of like tenor of
any authorized form and denomination and the circumstances under
which any such exchanges may occur, if other than in the manner
provided in Section 305, whether Registered Securities of the
series may be exchanged for Bearer Securities of the series (if
permitted by applicable laws and regulations), and the
circumstances under which and the place or places where any such
exchanges may be made and if Securities of the series are to be
issuable in global form, the identity of any initial depository
therefor;
(19) the date as
of which any Bearer Securities of the series and any temporary
global Security representing Outstanding Securities shall be dated
if other than the date of original issuance of the first Security
of the series to be issued;
(20) the Person to
whom any interest on any Registered Security of the series shall be
payable, if other than the Person in whose name that Security (or
one or more Predecessor Securities) is registered at the close of
business on the Regular Record Date for such interest, the manner
in which, or the Person to whom, any interest on any Bearer
Security of the series shall be payable, if otherwise than upon
presentation and surrender of the coupons appertaining thereto as
they severally mature, and the extent to which, or
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the manner in
which, any interest payable on a temporary global Security on an
Interest Payment Date will be paid if other than in the manner
provided in Section 304; and the extent to which, or the
manner in which any interest payable on a permanent global Security
on an Interest Payment Date will be paid if other than in the
manner provided in Section 307;
(21) if Securities
of the series are to be issuable in definitive form (whether upon
original issue or upon exchange of a temporary Security of such
series) only upon receipt of certain certificates or other
documents or satisfaction of other conditions, then the form and/or
terms of such certificates, documents or conditions;
(22) if the
Securities of the series are to be issued upon the exercise of
warrants, the time, manner and place for such Securities to be
authenticated and delivered;
(23) whether,
under what circumstances and the Currency in which the Company will
pay Additional Amounts as contemplated by Section 1010 on the
Securities of the series to any Holder who is not a United States
person (including any modification to the definition of such term)
in respect of any tax, assessment or governmental charge and, if
so, whether the Company will have the option to redeem such
Securities rather than pay such Additional Amounts (and the terms
of any such option);
(24) if the
Securities of the series are to be convertible into or exchangeable
for any securities of any Person (including the Company), the terms
and conditions upon which such Securities will be so convertible or
exchangeable;
(25) whether the
Securities of the series are subject to subordination and, if so,
the terms of such subordination;
(26) if Securities
of the series are to be guaranteed; and
(27) any other
terms, conditions, rights and preferences (or limitations on such
rights and preferences) relating to the series (which terms shall
not be inconsistent with the requirements of the Trust Indenture
Act or the provisions of this Indenture).
All Securities of
any one series and the coupons appertaining to any Bearer
Securities of such series shall be substantially identical except,
in the case of Registered Securities, as to denomination and except
as may otherwise be provided in or pursuant to such Board
Resolution or pursuant to authority granted by one or more Board
Resolutions (subject to Section 303) and set forth in such
Officers’ Certificate or in any such indenture supplemental
hereto. Not all Securities of any one series need be issued at the
same time, and, unless otherwise provided, a series may be
reopened, without the consent of the Holders, for issuances of
additional Securities of such series.
If any of the
terms of the Securities of any series are established by action
taken pursuant to one or more Board Resolutions or pursuant to
authority granted by one or
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more Board
Resolutions, such Board Resolutions shall be delivered to the
Trustee at or prior to the issuance of the first Security of such
series.
SECTION 302. Denominations . The Securities of each series
shall be issuable in such denominations as shall be specified as
contemplated by Section 301. With respect to Securities of any
series denominated in Dollars, in the absence of any such
provisions with respect to the Securities of such series, the
Registered Securities of such series, other than Registered
Securities issued in global form (which may be of any
denomination), shall be issuable in denominations of $1,000 and any
integral multiple thereof and the Bearer Securities of such series,
other than the Bearer Securities issued in global form (which may
be of any denomination), shall be issuable in the denomination of
$5,000.
SECTION 303. Execution, Authentication, Delivery and Dating
. The Securities and any coupons appertaining thereto shall be
executed on behalf of the Company by its Chairman, its President, a
Vice President or Treasurer, under its corporate seal affixed
thereto or reproduced thereon attested by its Secretary or an
Assistant Secretary. The signature of any of these officers on the
Securities or coupons may be the manual or facsimile signatures of
the present or any future such authorized officer and may be
imprinted or otherwise reproduced on the Securities.
Securities
or coupons bearing the manual or facsimile signatures of
individuals who were at any time the proper officers of the Company
shall bind the Company, notwithstanding that such individuals or
any of them have ceased to hold such offices prior to the
authentication and delivery of such Securities or did not hold such
offices at the date of such Securities or coupons.
At
any time and from time to time after the execution and delivery of
this Indenture, the Company may deliver Securities of any series
together with any coupons appertaining thereto, executed by the
Company, to the Trustee for authentication, together with a Company
Order for the authentication and delivery of such Securities, and
the Trustee in accordance with such Company Order shall
authenticate and deliver such Securities; provided, however, that,
in connection with its original issuance, no Bearer Security shall
be mailed or otherwise delivered to any location in the United
States; and provided further that, unless otherwise specified with
respect to any series of Securities pursuant to Section 301, a
Bearer Security may be delivered in connection with its original
issuance only if the Person entitled to receive such Bearer
Security shall have furnished a certificate in the form set forth
in Exhibit A-1 to this Indenture, dated no earlier than
15 days prior to the earlier of the date on which such Bearer
Security is delivered and the date on which any temporary Security
first becomes exchangeable for such Bearer Security in accordance
with the terms of such temporary Security and this Indenture. If
any Security shall be represented by a permanent global Bearer
Security, then, for purposes of this Section and Section 304,
the notation of a beneficial owner’s interest therein upon
original issuance of such Security or upon exchange of a portion of
a temporary global Security shall be deemed to be delivery in
connection with its original issuance of such beneficial
owner’s interest in such permanent global Security. Except as
permitted by Section 306, the Trustee shall not authenticate
and deliver any Bearer Security unless all appurtenant coupons for
interest then matured have been detached and cancelled. If not all
the Securities of any series are to be issued at one time and if
the Board Resolution, Officers’ Certificate
pursuant
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to a Board
Resolution, or supplemental indenture establishing such series
shall so permit, such Company Order may set forth procedures
acceptable to the Trustee for the issuance of such Securities and
determining terms of particular Securities of such series such as
interest rate, maturity, date of issuance and date from which
interest shall accrue.
In
authenticating such Securities, and accepting the additional
responsibilities under this Indenture in relation to such
Securities, the Trustee shall be entitled to receive, and shall be
fully protected in relying upon, an Opinion of Counsel stating in
effect (subject to customary exceptions):
(a) that the form
or forms of such Securities and any coupons have been established
in conformity with the provisions of this Indenture;
(b) that the terms
of such Securities and any coupons have been established in
conformity with the provisions of this Indenture;
(c) that such
Securities, together with any coupons appertaining thereto, when
completed by appropriate insertions and executed and delivered by
the Company to the Trustee for authentication in accordance with
this Indenture, authenticated and delivered by the Trustee in
accordance with this Indenture and issued by the Company in the
manner and subject to any conditions specified in such Opinion of
Counsel, will be the legal, valid and binding obligations of the
Company, enforceable in accordance with their terms, subject to the
effect of any applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization,
moratorium and other similar laws affecting creditors’ rights
generally (including without limitation on all laws relating to
fraudulent transfers), to general principles of equity;
(d) that all laws
and requirements in respect of the execution and delivery by the
Company as applicable, of such Securities, any coupons and of the
supplemental indentures, if any, have been complied with and that
authentication and delivery of such Securities and any coupons and
the execution and delivery of the supplemental indenture, if any,
by the Trustee will not violate the terms of the
Indenture;
(e) that the
Company has the corporate power to issue such Securities and any
coupons, and has duly taken all necessary corporate action with
respect to such issuance; and
(f) that the
issuance of such Securities and any coupons will not contravene the
articles of incorporation or by-laws of the Company, or result in
any violation of any of the terms or provisions of any law or
regulation or of any indenture, mortgage or other agreement known
to such Counsel by which the Company is bound.
Notwithstanding
the provisions of Section 301 and of the preceding two
paragraphs, if not all the Securities of any series are to be
issued at one time, it shall not be necessary to deliver the
Officers’ Certificate otherwise required pursuant to
Section 301 or the Company Order and Opinion of Counsel
otherwise required pursuant to the preceding two paragraphs prior
to or at the time of issuance of each Security, but such documents
shall be delivered prior to or at the time of issuance of the first
Security of such series.
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The
Trustee shall not be required to authenticate and deliver any such
Securities if the issue of such Securities pursuant to this
Indenture will affect the Trustee’s own rights, duties or
immunities under the Securities and this Indenture or otherwise in
a manner which is not reasonably acceptable to the
Trustee.
Each
Registered Security shall be dated the date of its authentication
and each Bearer Security shall be dated as of the date specified as
contemplated by Section 301. No Security or coupon shall be
entitled to any benefit under this Indenture or be valid or
obligatory for any purpose unless there appears on such Security a
certificate of authentication substantially in the form provided
for herein duly executed by the Trustee by manual signature of an
authorized officer, and such certificate upon any Security shall be
conclusive evidence, and the only evidence, that such Security has
been duly authenticated and delivered hereunder and is entitled to
the benefits of this Indenture.
Notwithstanding
the foregoing, if any Security shall have been authenticated and
delivered hereunder but never issued and sold by the Company, and
the Company shall deliver such Security to the Trustee for
cancellation as provided in Section 310 together with a
written statement (which need not comply with Section 102 and
need not be accompanied by an Opinion of Counsel) stating that such
Security has never been issued and sold by the Company, for all
purposes of this Indenture such Security shall be deemed never to
have been authenticated and delivered hereunder and shall never be
entitled to the benefits of this Indenture.
SECTION 304. Temporary Securities . Pending the preparation
of definitive Securities of any series, the Company may execute,
and upon Company Order the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver,
temporary Securities which are printed, lithographed, typewritten,
mimeographed or otherwise produced, in any authorized denomination,
substantially of the tenor of the definitive Securities in lieu of
which they are issued, in registered form or, if authorized, in
bearer form with one or more coupons or without coupons, and with
such appropriate insertions, omissions, substitutions and other
variations as conclusively the officers executing such Securities
or coupons may determine, as conclusively evidenced by their
execution of such Securities or coupons, as the case may be. Such
temporary Securities may be in global form.
Except
in the case of temporary Securities in global form (which shall be
exchanged in accordance with the provisions of the following
paragraphs), if temporary Securities of any series are issued, the
Company will cause definitive Securities of that series to be
prepared without unreasonable delay. After the preparation of
definitive Securities of such series, the temporary Securities of
such series shall be exchangeable for definitive Securities of such
series upon surrender of the temporary Securities of such series at
the office or agency of the Company in a Place of Payment for that
series, without charge to the Holder. Upon surrender for
cancellation of any one or more temporary Securities of any series
(accompanied by any unmatured coupons appertaining thereto), the
Company shall execute and the Trustee shall authenticate and
deliver in exchange therefor a like principal amount of definitive
Securities of the same series and of like tenor of authorized
denominations; provided, however, that no definitive Bearer
Security shall be delivered in exchange for a temporary Registered
Security; and provided further that a definitive Bearer Security
shall be delivered in exchange for a temporary Bearer Security only
in compliance with the conditions set forth in Section 303.
Until
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so exchanged
the temporary Securities of any series shall in all respects be
entitled to the same benefits under this Indenture as definitive
Securities of such series.
If
temporary Securities of any series are issued in global form, any
such temporary global Security shall, unless otherwise provided
therein, be delivered to the London office of a depositary or
common depositary (the “Common Depositary”), for the
benefit of Euroclear and Clearstream, for credit to the respective
accounts of the beneficial owners of such Securities (or to such
other accounts as they may direct).
Without
unnecessary delay but in any event not later than the date
specified in, or determined pursuant to the terms of, any such
temporary global Security (the “Exchange Date”), the
Company shall deliver to the Trustee definitive Securities, in
aggregate principal amount equal to the principal amount of such
temporary global Security executed by the Company. On or after the
Exchange Date such temporary global Security shall be surrendered
by the Common Depositary to the Trustee, as the Company’s
agent for such purpose, to be exchanged, in whole or from time to
time in part, for definitive Securities without charge and the
Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, in exchange for each
portion of such temporary global Security, an equal aggregate
principal amount of definitive Securities of the same series of
authorized denominations and of like tenor as the portion of such
temporary global Security to be exchanged. The definitive
Securities to be delivered in exchange for any such temporary
global Security shall be in bearer form, registered form, permanent
global bearer form or permanent global registered form, or any
combination thereof, as specified as contemplated by
Section 301, and, if any combination thereof is so specified,
as requested by the beneficial owner thereof; provided, however,
that, unless otherwise specified in such temporary global Security,
upon such presentation by the Common Depositary, such temporary
global Security is accompanied by a certificate dated the Exchange
Date or a subsequent date and signed by Euroclear as to the portion
of such temporary global Security held for its account then to be
exchanged and a certificate dated the Exchange Date or a subsequent
date and signed by Clearstream as to the portion of such temporary
global Security held for its account then to be exchanged, each in
the form set forth in Exhibit A-2 to this Indenture (or in
such other form as may be established pursuant to
Section 301); and provided further that definitive Bearer
Securities shall be delivered in exchange for a portion of a
temporary global Security only in compliance with the requirements
of Section 303.
Unless
otherwise specified in such temporary global Security, the interest
of a beneficial owner of Securities of a series in a temporary
global Security shall be exchanged for definitive Securities of the
same series and of like tenor following the Exchange Date when the
account holder instructs Euroclear or Clearstream, as the case may
be, to request such exchange on his behalf and delivers to
Euroclear or Clearstream, as the case may be, a certificate in the
form set forth in Exhibit A-1 to this Indenture (or in such
other form as may be established pursuant to Section 301), dated no
earlier than 15 days prior to the Exchange Date, copies of
which certificate shall be available from the offices of Euroclear
and Clearstream, the Trustee, any Authenticating Agent appointed
for such series of Securities and each Paying Agent. Unless
otherwise specified in such temporary global Security, any such
exchange shall be made free of charge to the beneficial owners of
such temporary global Security, except that a Person receiving
definitive Securities must bear the cost of insurance, postage,
transportation and the like in the event that such Person does not
take delivery of such definitive Securities in person at the
offices
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of Euroclear or
Clearstream. Definitive Securities in bearer form to be delivered
in exchange for any portion of a temporary global Security shall be
delivered only outside the United States.
Until
exchanged in full as hereinabove provided, the temporary Securities
of any series shall in all respects be entitled to the same
benefits under this Indenture as definitive Securities of the same
series and of like tenor authenticated and delivered hereunder,
except that, unless otherwise specified as contemplated by
Section 301, interest payable on a temporary global Security
on an Interest Payment Date for Securities of such series occurring
prior to the applicable Exchange Date shall be payable to Euroclear
and Clearstream on such Interest Payment Date upon delivery by
Euroclear and Clearstream to the Trustee or the applicable Paying
Agent of a certificate or certificates in the form set forth in
Exhibit A-2 to this Indenture (or in such other form as may be
established pursuant to Section 301), for credit without
further interest thereon on or after such Interest Payment Date to
the respective accounts of the Persons who are the beneficial
owners of such temporary global Security on such Interest Payment
Date and who have each delivered to Euroclear or Clearstream, as
the case may be, a certificate dated no earlier than 15 days
prior to the Interest Payment Date occurring prior to such Exchange
Date in the form set forth in Exhibit A-1 to this Indenture
(or in such other form as may be established pursuant to
Section 301). Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein
contained, the certifications made pursuant to this paragraph shall
satisfy the certification requirements of the preceding two
paragraphs of this Section and of the third paragraph of
Section 303 of this Indenture and the interests of the Persons
who are the beneficial owners of the temporary global Security with
respect to which such certification was made will be exchanged for
definitive Securities of the same series and of like tenor on the
Exchange Date or the date of certification if such date occurs
after the Exchange Date, without further act or deed by such
beneficial owners. Except as otherwise provided in this paragraph,
no payments of principal (or premium, if any) or interest, if any,
owing with respect to a beneficial interest in a temporary global
Security will be made unless and until such interest in such
temporary global Security shall have been exchanged for an interest
in a definitive Security. Any interest so received by Euroclear and
Clearstream and not paid as herein provided shall be returned to
the Trustee or the applicable Paying Agent immediately prior to the
expiration of two years after such Interest Payment Date in order
to be repaid to the Company in accordance with (but otherwise
subject to) Section 1003.
SECTION 305. Registration, Registration of Transfer and
Exchange . The Company or the Trustee shall cause to be kept at
the Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee a register for each
series of Securities (the registers maintained in the Corporate
Trust Office of the Trustee and in any other office or agency of
the Company in a Place of Payment being herein sometimes
collectively referred to as the “Security Register”) in
which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe,
the Company shall provide for the registration of Registered
Securities and of transfers of Registered Securities; provided,
however, that there shall be only one Security Register per series
of Securities. The Security Register shall be in written form or
any other form capable of being converted into written form within
a reasonable time. At all reasonable times, the Security Register
shall be open to inspection by the Trustee. The Trustee is hereby
initially appointed as security registrar (the “Security
Registrar”) for the purpose of registering Registered
Securities and transfers of Registered Securities as herein
provided and for facilitating exchanges of temporary global
Securities for permanent global Securities or definitive
Securities, or both, or of permanent global Securities for
definitive Securities, as herein provided.
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Upon
surrender for registration of transfer of any Registered Security
of any series at the office or agency in a Place of Payment for
that series, the Company shall execute, and the Trustee shall
authenticate and deliver, in the name of the designated transferee,
one or more new Registered Securities of the same series, of any
authorized denominations and of a like aggregate principal amount
and tenor.
At
the option of the Holder, Registered Securities of any series may
be exchanged for other Registered Securities of the same series, of
any authorized denomination and of a like aggregate principal
amount, upon surrender of the Registered Securities to be exchanged
at such office or agency. Whenever any Registered Securities are so
surrendered for exchange, the Company shall execute, and the
Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, the Registered Securities
that the Holder making the exchange is entitled to receive. Unless
otherwise specified with respect to any series of Securities as
contemplated by Section 301, Bearer Securities may not be
issued in exchange for Registered Securities.
If
(but only if) expressly permitted in or pursuant to the applicable
Board Resolution and (subject to Section 303) set forth in the
applicable Officers’ Certificate, or in any indenture
supplemental hereto, delivered as contemplated by Section 301,
at the option of the Holder, Bearer Securities of any series may be
exchanged for Registered Securities of the same series of any
authorized denomination and of a like aggregate principal amount
and tenor, upon surrender of the Bearer Securities to be exchanged
at any such office or agency, with all unmatured coupons and all
matured coupons in default thereto appertaining. If the Holder of a
Bearer Security is unable to produce any such unmatured coupon or
coupons or matured coupon or coupons in default, any such permitted
exchange may be effected if the Bearer Securities are accompanied
by payment in funds acceptable to the Company in an amount equal to
the face amount of such missing coupon or coupons, or the surrender
of such missing coupon or coupons may be waived by the Company and
the Trustee if there is furnished to them such security or
indemnity as they may require to save each of them and any Paying
Agent harmless. If thereafter the Holder of such Security shall
surrender to any Paying Agent any such missing coupon in respect of
which such a payment shall have been made, such Holder shall be
entitled to receive the amount of such payment; provided, however,
that, except as otherwise provided in Section 1002, interest
represented by coupons shall be payable only upon presentation and
surrender of those coupons at an office or agency located outside
the United States. Notwithstanding the foregoing, in case a Bearer
Security of any series is surrendered at any such office or agency
in a permitted exchange for a Registered Security of the same
series and like tenor after the close of business at such office or
agency on (i) any Regular Record Date and before the opening
of business at such office or agency on the relevant Interest
Payment Date, or (ii) any Special Record Date and before the
opening of business at such office or agency on the related
proposed date for payment of Defaulted Interest, such Bearer
Security shall be surrendered without the coupon relating to such
Interest Payment Date or proposed date for payment, as the case may
be, and interest or Defaulted Interest, as the case may be, will
not be payable on such Interest Payment Date or proposed date for
payment, as the case may be, in respect of the Registered Security
issued in exchange for such Bearer Security, but will be payable
only to the Holder of such coupon when due in Accordance with the
provisions of this Indenture.
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Whenever
any Securities are so surrendered for exchange, the Company shall
execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, the
Securities that the Holder making the exchange is entitled to
receive.
Notwithstanding
the foregoing, except as otherwise specified as contemplated by
Section 301, any permanent global Security shall be
exchangeable only as provided in this paragraph. If any beneficial
owner of an interest in a permanent global Security is entitled to
exchange such interest for Securities of such series and of like
tenor and principal amount of another authorized form and
denomination, as specified as contemplated by Section 301 and
provided that any applicable notice provided in the permanent
global Security shall have been given, then without unnecessary
delay but in any event not later than the earliest date on which
such interest may be so exchanged, the Company shall deliver to the
Trustee definitive Securities of that series in aggregate principal
amount equal to the principal amount of such beneficial
owner’s interest in such permanent global Security, executed
by the Company. On or after the earliest date on which such
interests may be so exchanged, such permanent global Security shall
be surrendered by the Common Depositary or such other depositary as
shall be specified in the Company Order with respect thereto to the
Trustee, as the Company’s agent for such purpose, to be
exchanged, in whole or from time to time in part, for definitive
Securities without charge, and the Trustee shall authenticate and
deliver, in exchange for each portion of such permanent global
Security, an equal aggregate principal amount of definitive
Securities of the same series of authorized denominations and of
like tenor as the portion of such permanent global Security to be
exchanged which, unless the Securities of the series are not
issuable both as Bearer Securities and as Registered Securities, as
specified as contemplated by Section 301, shall be in the form
of Bearer Securities or Registered Securities, or any combination
thereof, as shall be specified by the beneficial owner thereof;
provided, however, that no such exchanges may occur during a period
beginning at the opening of business 15 days before any
selection of Securities to be redeemed and ending on the relevant
Redemption Date if the Security for which exchange is requested may
be among those selected for redemption; and provided, further, that
no Bearer Security delivered in exchange for a portion of a
permanent global Security shall be mailed or otherwise delivered to
any location in the United States. If a Registered Security is
issued in exchange for any portion of a permanent global Security
after the close of business at the office or agency where such
exchange occurs on (i) any Regular Record Date and before the
opening of business at such office or agency on the relevant
Interest Payment Date, or (ii) any Special Record Date and
before the opening of business at such office or agency on the
related proposed date for payment of Defaulted Interest, interest
or Defaulted Interest, as the case may be, will not be payable on
such Interest Payment Date or proposed date for payment, as the
case may be, in respect of such Registered Security, but will be
payable on such Interest Payment Date or proposed date for payment,
as the case may be, only to the Person to whom interest in respect
of such portion of such permanent global Security is payable in
accordance with the provisions of this Indenture.
All
Securities issued upon any registration of transfer or exchange of
Securities shall be the valid obligations of the Company,
evidencing the same debt, and entitled to the same benefits under
this Indenture, as the Securities surrendered upon such
registration of transfer or exchange.
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Every
Registered Security presented or surrendered for registration of
transfer or for exchange shall (if so required by the Company or
the Security Registrar) be duly endorsed, or be accompanied by a
written instrument of transfer, in form satisfactory to the Company
and the Security Registrar, duly executed by the Holder thereof or
his attorney duly authorized in writing.
No
service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or
exchange of Securities, but the Company may require payment of a
sum sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental charge that
may be imposed in connection with any registration of transfer or
exchange of Securities, other than exchanges pursuant to
Section 304, 906, 1107 or 1305 not involving any
transfer.
If
at any time the Depositary for any permanent global Registered
Securities of any series notifies the Company that it is unwilling
or unable to continue as Depositary for such permanent global
Registered Securities or if at any time the Depositary for such
permanent global Registered Securities shall no longer be eligible
under applicable law, the Company shall appoint a successor
Depositary eligible under applicable law with respect to such
permanent global Registered Securities. If a successor Depositary
eligible under applicable law for such Registered Global Securities
is not appointed by the Company within 90 days after the
Company receives such notice or becomes aware of such
ineligibility, the Company will execute, and the Trustee, upon
receipt of the Company’s order for the authentication and
delivery of definitive Registered Securities of such series and
tenor, will authenticate and deliver such definitive Registered
Securities of such series and tenor, in any authorized
denominations, in an aggregate principal amount equal to the
principal amount of such permanent global Registered Securities, in
exchange for such permanent global Registered
Securities.
The
Company may at any time and in its sole discretion determine that
any permanent global Registered Securities of any series shall no
longer be maintained in global form. In such event the Company will
execute, and the Trustee, upon receipt of the Company’s order
for the authentication and delivery of definitive Registered
Securities of such series and tenor, will authenticate and deliver,
definitive Registered Securities of such series and tenor in any
authorized denominations, in an aggregate principal amount equal to
the principal amount of such permanent global Registered
Securities, in exchange for such permanent global Registered
Securities.
The
Company shall not be required (i) to issue, register the
transfer of or exchange Securities of any series during a period
beginning at the opening of business 15 days before the day of
the selection for redemption of Securities of that series under
Section 1103 or 1203 and ending at the close of business on
(A) if Securities of the series are issuable only as
Registered Securities, the day of the mailing of the relevant
notice of redemption and (B) if Securities of the series are
issuable as Bearer Securities, the day of the first publication of
the relevant notice of redemption or, if Securities of the series
are also issuable as Registered Securities and there is no
publication, the mailing of the relevant notice of redemption, or
(ii) to register the transfer of or exchange any Registered
Security so selected for redemption in whole or in part, except the
unredeemed portion of any Security being redeemed in part, or
(iii) to exchange any Bearer Security so selected for
redemption except that such a Bearer Security may be exchanged for
a Registered Security of that series and like tenor; provided that
such
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Registered
Security shall be simultaneously surrendered for redemption, or
(iv) to issue, register the transfer of or exchange any
Security which has been surrendered for repayment at the option of
the Holder, except the portion, if any, of such Security not to be
so repaid.
The
Trustee shall have no obligation or duty to monitor, determine or
inquire as to compliance with any restrictions on transfer that may
be imposed under this Indenture with respect to the Securities of
any series pursuant to the terms thereof established as
contemplated by Section 301 or under applicable law with
respect to any transfer of any interest in any such Security
(including any transfers between or among any depositary (including
any Depositary or Common Depositary), or its nominee, as a Holder
of a Security issued in global form, any participants in such
depositary or owners or holders of beneficial interests in any such
global Security) 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 such Securities if and as may be so established in respect
of such Securities, and to examine the same to determine
substantial compliance as to form with the express requirements
thereof.
SECTION 306. Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost and Stolen
Securities . If any mutilated Security or a Security with a
mutilated coupon appertaining to it is surrendered to the Trustee,
the Company shall execute and the Trustee shall authenticate and
deliver in exchange therefor a new Security of the same series and
of like tenor and principal amount and bearing a number not
contemporaneously Outstanding, with coupons corresponding to the
coupons, if any, appertaining to the surrendered Security, or, in
case any such mutilated Security or coupon has become or is about
to become due and payable, the Company in its discretion may,
instead of issuing a new Security, with coupons corresponding to
the coupons, if any, appertaining to the surrendered Security, pay
such Security or coupon.
If
there shall be delivered to the Company and to the Trustee
(i) evidence to their satisfaction of the destruction, loss or
theft of any Security or coupon and (ii) such security or
indemnity as may be required by them to save each of them and any
agent of either of them harmless, then, in the absence of notice to
the Company or the Trustee that such Security or coupon has been
acquired by a bona fide purchaser, the Company shall execute and
upon Company Order the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, in
lieu of any such destroyed, lost or stolen Security or in exchange
for the Security to which a destroyed, lost or stolen coupon
appertains (with all appurtenant coupons not destroyed, lost or
stolen), a new Security of the same series and of like tenor and
principal amount and bearing a number not contemporaneously
Outstanding, with coupons corresponding to the coupons, if any,
appertaining to such destroyed, lost or stolen Security or to the
Security to which such destroyed, lost or stolen coupon
appertains.
Notwithstanding
the provisions of the previous two paragraphs, in case any such
mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Security or coupon has become
or is about to become due and payable, the Company in its
discretion may, instead of issuing a new Security, with coupons
corresponding to the coupons, if any, appertaining to such
mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Security or to the Security to
which such mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen coupon appertains,
pay such Security or coupon; provided, however, that payment of
principal of (and premium, if any) and interest, if any, on Bearer
Securities shall, except as otherwise provided in
Section 1002, be payable only at an office or agency located
outside the United States and, unless
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otherwise
specified as contemplated by Section 301, any interest on
Bearer Securities shall be payable only upon presentation and
surrender of the coupons appertaining thereto.
Upon
the issuance of any new Security under this Section, the Company
may require the payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or
other governmental charge that may be imposed in relation thereto
and any other expenses (including the fees and expenses of the
Trustee) connected therewith.
Every
new Security of any series with its coupons, if any, issued
pursuant to this Section in lieu of any mutilated, destroyed, lost
or stolen Security, or in exchange for a Security to which a
mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen coupon appertains, shall
constitute an original additional contractual obligation of the
Company, whether or not the mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen
Security and its coupons, if any, or the mutilated, destroyed, lost
or stolen coupon shall be at any time enforceable by anyone, and
shall be entitled to all the benefits of this Indenture equally and
proportionately with any and all other Securities of that series
and their coupons, if any, duly issued hereunder.
The
provisions of this Section are exclusive and shall preclude (to the
extent lawful) all other rights and remedies with respect to the
replacement or payment of mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen
Securities or coupons.
SECTION 307. Payment of Interest; Interest Rights Preserved;
Optional Interest Reset .
(a) Unless
otherwise provided as contemplated by Section 301 with respect
to any series of Securities, interest, if any, on any Registered
Security which is payable, and is punctually paid or duly provided
for, on any Interest Payment Date shall be paid to the Person in
whose name such Security (or one or more Predecessor Securities) is
registered at the close of business on the Regular Record Date for
such interest at the office or agency of the Company maintained for
such purpose pursuant to Section 1002; provided, however, that
each installment of interest, if any, on any Registered Security
may at the Company’s option be paid by (i) mailing a
check for such interest, payable to or upon the written order of
the Person entitled thereto pursuant to Section 309, to the
address of such Person as it appears on the Security Register or
(ii) transfer to an account located in the United States
maintained by the payee.
Unless otherwise
provided as contemplated by Section 301 with respect to the
Securities of any series, payment of interest, if any, may be made,
in the case of a Bearer Security, by transfer to an account located
outside the United States maintained by the payee.
Any interest on
any Registered Security of any series which is payable, but is not
punctually paid or duly provided for, on any Interest Payment Date
shall forthwith cease to be payable to the Holder on the relevant
Regular Record Date by virtue of having been such Holder, and such
defaulted interest and, if applicable, interest on such defaulted
interest (to the extent lawful) at the rate specified in the
Securities of such series (such defaulted interest and, if
applicable, interest thereon herein collectively called
“Defaulted
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Interest”) may 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 Registered Securities of such series (or their
respective Predecessor Securities) 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 proposed to be paid on each Registered Security of such
series and the date of the proposed payment, and at the same time
the Company shall deposit with the Trustee an amount of money in
the Currency in which the Securities of such series are payable
(except as otherwise specified pursuant to Section 301 for the
Securities of such series and except, if applicable, as provided in
Sections 312(b), 312(d) and 312(e)) equal to the aggregate
amount proposed to be paid in respect of such Defaulted Interest or
shall make arrangements satisfactory to the Trustee for such
deposit on or prior to the date of the proposed payment, 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 Trustee shall fix a Special Record Date for the
payment of such Defaulted Interest that shall be not more than
15 days and not less than 10 days prior to the date of
the proposed payment and not less than 10 days after the
receipt by the Trustee of the notice of the proposed payment. The
Trustee shall promptly notify the Company of such Special Record
Date and, 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 given in the manner provided
in Section 106, not less than 10 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 given, such Defaulted Interest shall be paid to the Persons in
whose name the Registered Securities of such series (or their
respective Predecessor Securities) are registered at the close of
business on such Special Record Date and shall no longer be payable
pursuant to the following clause (2).
(2) The Company
may make payment of any Defaulted Interest on the Registered
Securities of any series in any other lawful manner not
inconsistent with the requirements of any securities exchange on
which such Securities may be listed, and upon such notice as may be
required by such exchange, if, after notice given by the Company to
the Trustee of the proposed payment pursuant to this clause, such
manner of payment shall be deemed practicable by the
Trustee.
(b) The provisions
of this Section 307(b) may be made applicable to any series of
Securities pursuant to Section 301 (with such modifications,
additions or substitutions as may be specified pursuant to such
Section 301). The interest rate (or the spread or spread
multiplier used to calculate such interest rate, if
applicable
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