GLG PARTNERS, INC., as
Company
THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON, as
Trustee
5.00% Dollar-Denominated
Convertible Subordinated Notes due May 15, 2014
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Section 1.01. Definitions
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1
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Section 1.02. Incorporation by Reference of
Trust Indenture Act
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Section 1.03. Rules of
Construction
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Section 2.01. Designation Amount and Issue
of Notes
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Section 2.02. Form of Notes
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Section 2.03. Date and Denomination of
Notes; Payments of Interest
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Section 2.04. Execution and Authentication
of Notes
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Section 2.05. Exchange and Registration of
Transfer of Notes; Restrictions on Transfer
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Section 2.06. Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost or
Stolen Notes
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Section 2.07. Temporary Notes
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Section 2.08. Cancellation of
Notes
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Section 2.09. CUSIP Numbers
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ARTICLE 3 REPURCHASE OF NOTES
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Section 3.01. Sinking Fund
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Section 3.02. Repurchase at Option of
Holders Upon a Designated Event
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Section 3.03. Company Repurchase
Notice
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Section 3.04. Effect of Repurchase Notice;
Withdrawal
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Section 3.05. Deposit of Repurchase
Price
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Section 3.06. Notes Repurchased in
Part
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Section 3.07. Repayment to the
Company
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ARTICLE 4 PARTICULAR COVENANTS OF THE
COMPANY
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Section 4.01. Payment of Principal, Premium
and Interest; Additional Amounts
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Section 4.02. Maintenance of Office or
Agency
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Section 4.03. Appointments to Fill
Vacancies in Trustee’s Office
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Section 4.04. Provisions as to Paying
Agent
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Section 4.06. Rule 144A Information
Requirement
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Section 4.07. Stay, Extension and Usury
Laws
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Section 4.08. Compliance
Certificate
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Section 4.09. Additional Interest
Notice
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ARTICLE 5 NOTEHOLDERS’ LISTS AND REPORTS
BY THE COMPANY AND THE TRUSTEE
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Section 5.01. Noteholders’
Lists
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Section 5.02. Preservation and Disclosure
of Lists
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Section 5.03. Reports by Trustee
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Section 5.04. Reports by Company
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ARTICLE 6 REMEDIES OF THE TRUSTEE AND
NOTEHOLDERS ON AN EVENT OF DEFAULT
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Section 6.01. Events of Default
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Section 6.02. Payments of Notes on Default;
Suit Therefor
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Section 6.03. Application of Monies
Collected by Trustee
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Section 6.04. Proceedings by
Noteholders
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Section 6.05. Proceedings by
Trustee
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Section 6.06. Remedies Cumulative and
Continuing
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Section 6.07. Direction of Proceedings and
Waiver of Defaults by Majority of Noteholders
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Section 6.08. Notice of Defaults
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Section 6.09. Undertaking to Pay
Costs
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Section 7.01. Duties and Responsibilities
of Trustee
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Section 7.02. Reliance on Documents,
Opinions, etc.
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Section 7.03. No Responsibility for
Recitals, etc.
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Section 7.04. Trustee, Paying Agents,
Conversion Agents or Registrar May Own Notes
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Section 7.05. Monies to Be Held in
Trust
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Section 7.06. Compensation and Expenses of
Trustee
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Section 7.07. Officers’ Certificate
as Evidence
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Section 7.08. Conflicting Interests of
Trustee
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Section 7.09. Eligibility of
Trustee
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Section 7.10. Resignation or Removal of
Trustee
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Section 7.11. Acceptance by Successor
Trustee
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Section 7.12. Succession by
Merger
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Section 7.13. Preferential Collection of
Claims
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ARTICLE 8 THE NOTEHOLDERS
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Section 8.01. Action by
Noteholders
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Section 8.02. Proof of Execution by
Noteholders
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Section 8.03. Absolute Owners
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Section 8.04. Company-owned Notes
Disregarded
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Section 8.05. Revocation of Consents;
Future Holders Bound
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ARTICLE 9 SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES
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Section 9.01. Supplemental Indentures
Without Consent of Noteholders
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Section 9.02. Supplemental Indenture With
Consent of Noteholders
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Section 9.03. Effect of Supplemental
Indenture
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Section 9.04. Notation on Notes
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Section 9.05. Evidence of Compliance of
Supplemental Indenture to Be Furnished to Trustee
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ARTICLE 10 CONSOLIDATION, MERGER, SALE,
CONVEYANCE AND LEASE
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Section 10.01. Company May Consolidate on
Certain Terms
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Section 10.02. Company Successor to Be
Substituted
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ARTICLE 11 SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE OF
INDENTURE
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Section 11.01. Discharge of
Indenture
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Section 11.02. Deposited Monies to Be Held
in Trust by Trustee
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Section 11.03. Paying Agent to Repay Monies
Held
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Section 11.04. Return of Unclaimed
Monies
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Section 11.05. Reinstatement
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ARTICLE 12 IMMUNITY OF INCORPORATORS,
STOCKHOLDERS, OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS
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Section 12.01. Indenture and Notes Solely
Corporate Obligations
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ARTICLE 13 CONVERSION OF NOTES
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Section 13.01. Right to Convert
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Section 13.02. Exercise of Conversion
Right; No Adjustment for Interest or Dividends
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Section 13.03. Cash Payments in Lieu of
Fractional Shares
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Section 13.04. Conversion Rate
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Section 13.05. Adjustment of Conversion
Rate
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Section 13.06. Taxes on Shares
Issued
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Section 13.07. Reservation of Shares,
Shares to Be Fully Paid; Compliance with Governmental Requirements;
Listing of Common
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Section 13.08. Responsibility of
Trustee
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Section 13.09. Notice to Holders Prior to
Certain Actions
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Section 13.10. Conversion Rate Adjustment
After Change of Control
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Section 13.11. Ownership Limit
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Section 13.12. Calculation in Respect of
Notes
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Section 13.13. Withdrawal of Conversion
Rights
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ARTICLE 14 MEETINGS OF HOLDERS OF
NOTES
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Section 14.01. Purposes for Which Meetings
May Be Called
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Section 14.02. Call, Notice and Place of
Meetings
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Section 14.03. Persons Entitled to Vote at
Meetings
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Section 14.04. Quorum; Action
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Section 14.05. Determination of Voting
Rights; Conduct and Adjournment of Meetings
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Section 14.06. Counting Votes and Recording
Action of Meetings
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Section 15.01. Agreement to
Subordinate
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Section 15.02. Liquidation, Dissolution,
Bankruptcy
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Section 15.03. Default on Designated Senior
Indebtedness
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Section 15.04. Acceleration of
Notes
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Section 15.05. When Distribution Must Be
Paid Over
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Section 15.06. Notice by Company
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Section 15.07. Subrogation
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Section 15.08. Relative Rights
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Section 15.09. Subordination May Not Be
Impaired
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Section 15.10. Distribution or Notice to
Representative
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Section 15.11. Rights of Trustee and Paying
Agent
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Section 15.12. Authorization to Effect
Subordination
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Section 15.13. Article Applicable to
Paying Agents
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Section 15.14. Senior Indebtedness and
Designated Senior Indebtedness Entitled to Rely
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Section 15.15. Permitted
Payments
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Section 15.16. No Waiver of Subordination
Provisions
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Section 15.17. Certain Conversions Deemed
Payment
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ARTICLE 16 MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS
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Section 16.01. Provisions Binding on
Company’s Successors
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Section 16.02. Official Acts by Successor
Corporation
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Section 16.03. Addresses for Notices,
etc.
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Section 16.04. Governing Law
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Section 16.05. Evidence of Compliance with
Conditions Precedent, Certificates to Trustee
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Section 16.06. Legal Holidays
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Section 16.07. Trust Indenture
Act
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Section 16.08. No Security Interest
Created
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Section 16.09. Benefits of
Indenture
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Section 16.10. Table of Contents, Headings,
etc.
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Section 16.11. Authenticating
Agent
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Section 16.12. Execution in
Counterparts
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Section 16.13. Severability
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Section 16.14. Waiver of Jury
Trial
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Section 16.15. Submission to
Jurisdiction
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Form of
Note
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Form of
Certification for Transfer of Affiliate Note From an Affiliate Or a
Transferee of an Affiliate to a Transferee Who Takes Note With
Affiliate Legend
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Form of
Certification for Transfer pursuant to Rule 144
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Section
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Indenture Section
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7.09
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7.09
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N.A.
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N.A.
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7.09
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7.08
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N.A.
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7.13
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7.13
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5.01, 5.02(a)
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5.02(b)
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5.02(c)
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5.03(a)
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N.A.
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5.03(a)
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5.03(a)
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5.03(b)
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4.08, 5.04
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N.A.
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16.05
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16.05
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N.A.
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N.A.
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16.05
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N.A.
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7.01, 7.02
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6.08
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7.01
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8.04
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6.07
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6.07
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N.A.
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6.04
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6.02
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6.02
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16.07
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16.07
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N.A. means not
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* This Cross-Reference table shall
not, for any purpose, be deemed to be part of this
Indenture.
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INDENTURE dated as
of May 15, 2009 between GLG Partners, Inc., a Delaware
corporation (hereinafter called the “ Company
”), having its principal executive office at 399 Park Avenue,
38th Floor, New York, New York, 10022 and The Bank of New York
Mellon, as trustee hereunder (hereinafter called the “
Trustee ”).
Each party agrees
as follows for the benefit of the other parties and for the equal
and ratable benefit of the holders of the Company’s 5.00%
Dollar-Denominated Convertible Subordinated Notes due May 15,
2014 (hereinafter called the “ Notes
”).
Section 1.01.
Definitions . The terms defined in this Section 1.01
(except as herein otherwise expressly provided or unless the
context otherwise requires) for all purposes of this Indenture and
of any indenture supplemental hereto shall have the respective
meanings specified in this Section 1.01. All other terms used in
this Indenture that are defined in the Trust Indenture Act (as
defined below) or which are by reference therein defined in the
Securities Act (as defined below) (except as herein otherwise
expressly provided or unless the context otherwise requires) shall
have the respective meanings assigned to such terms in the Trust
Indenture Act and in the Securities Act as in force at the date of
the execution of this Indenture.
“
Additional Amounts ” has the meaning specified in
Section 4.01.
“
Additional Interest ” has the meaning specified in
Section 5 of the Registration Rights Agreement.
“
Additional Interest Notice ” has the meaning specified
in Section 4.09.
“
Additional Notes ” has the meaning specified in
Section 2.01.
“
Additional Regulatory Condition ” means any condition
which, if triggered by an increase in ownership or control of the
Company or its subsidiaries or controlled affiliates by virtue of a
conversion of Notes, would (as a result of the registration or
qualification of the Company or any of its subsidiaries or
controlled affiliates as a manager, investment advisor or
broker-dealer (i) in any jurisdiction other than the United
Kingdom, Ireland or the Cayman Islands, or (ii) as a result of
a change in the laws, regulations or published interpretations
thereof with respect to any such registration or qualification in
any jurisdiction, including the United Kingdom, Ireland or the
Cayman Islands) be inconsistent with the registration or
qualification of the Company or any of its subsidiaries or
controlled affiliates as a manager, investment advisor or
broker-dealer in any jurisdiction or require the Company or any
such subsidiary or controlled affiliate to obtain, in respect of
such registration or qualification, regulatory approval of such
increase in ownership or control.
“
Additional Change of Control Shares ” has the meaning
specified in Section 13.10(a).
1
“
Affiliate ” of any specified Person means any other
Person directly or indirectly controlling or controlled by or under
direct or indirect common control with such specified Person. For
the purposes of this definition, “control,” when used
with respect to any specified Person means the power to direct or
cause the direction of the management and policies of such Person,
directly or indirectly, whether through the ownership of voting
securities, by contract or otherwise, and the terms
“controlling” and “controlled” have
meanings correlative to the foregoing.
“
Affiliate Legend ” means the legend labeled as such
that is set forth in Exhibit A hereto, which is incorporated
in and expressly made a part of this Indenture.
“
Affiliate Notes ” has the meaning specified in
Section 2.02.
“ Agent
Members ” has the meaning specified in
Section 2.05(b)(v).
“
Applicable Conversion Rate ” as of any Trading Day,
means the Conversion Rate in effect on such date determined by the
Company, after giving effect to any adjustment provided for in
Section 13.05 or Section 13.10, and, if applicable, after
giving effect to the application of Section 5 of the
Registration Rights Agreement.
“
Bankruptcy Law ” means Title 11, U.S. Code or any
similar federal, state, or foreign law for the relief of
debtors.
“ Board
of Directors ” means the board of directors of the
Company or, except as used in the definition of Change of Control
and except where the context otherwise requires, any duly
authorized committee of such board of directors.
“
Business Day ” means each Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday,
Thursday and Friday, other than a day on which banking institutions
in The City of New York or London are authorized or obligated by
law, regulation or executive order to close.
“ capital
stock ” means: (i) in the case of a corporation,
corporate stock; (ii) in the case of an association or
business entity, any and all shares, interests, participations,
rights or other equivalents (however designated) of corporate
stock; (iii) in the case of a partnership or limited liability
company, partnership interests (whether general or limited) or
membership interests; or (iv) any other interest or
participation that confers on a person the right to receive a share
of the profits and losses of, or distributions of assets of, the
issuing person.
“ Change
of Control ” means the occurrence at any time after the
Issue Date of any of the following events:
(1) consummation
of any transaction or event (whether by means of a share exchange
or tender offer applicable to the Common Stock, a liquidation,
consolidation, recapitalization, reclassification, combination or
merger of the Company or a sale, lease or other transfer of all or
substantially all of the Company’s consolidated assets) or a
series of related transactions or events pursuant to which the
Company’s outstanding Common Stock is
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exchanged for,
converted into or constitutes solely the right to receive cash,
securities, or other property, other than:
(a) a
transaction or event or a series of related transactions or events
pursuant to which the holders of outstanding Common Stock and
securities or instruments convertible or exchangeable for the
Common Stock immediately prior to such transaction or event own,
immediately after such transaction, at least a majority of the
outstanding Common Stock or common stock of a successor of the
Company, as applicable, or
(b) a
transaction or event or a series of related transactions or events
pursuant to which at least 90% of the consideration (other than
cash payments for fractional shares or pursuant to
dissenters’ appraisal rights) in such transaction consists of
securities (including American Depository Receipts (“
ADRs ”) issued under an issuer-sponsored ADR program)
that are, or upon issuance will be, traded on, a United States
national securities exchange or approved for quotation on any
United States system of automated dissemination of quotations of
securities prices similar to the Nasdaq National Market prior to
its designation as a national securities exchange;
(2) any
“person” or “group” (as such terms are used
for purposes of Sections 13(d) and 14(d) of the Exchange Act,
whether or not applicable), is or becomes the “beneficial
owner,” directly or indirectly, of more than 50% of the total
voting power in the aggregate of all classes of the Company’s
capital stock then outstanding entitled to vote generally in
elections of directors, other than pursuant to a transaction of the
type contemplated by the preceding clause (1) that would be
exempt from the definition of “ Change of Control
” pursuant to clause (1) of this definition;
provided , that no Change of Control will be deemed to occur
under this clause (2) as a result of a person or group being
or becoming a beneficial owner of more than 50% of such total
voting power so long as (i) such person or group is a member
of the “group” of beneficial owners subject to the
Voting Agreement (the “ principals’ control
group ”) that includes any of the Principals and the
Principals’ Trustees (including any person who may become a
member of such group after the issuance of the Notes),
(ii) the principals’ control group does not beneficially
own more than 75% of such total voting power and (iii) any of
the Principals and Principals’ Trustees continue to hold
directly or indirectly the pecuniary interest in shares of the
Company’s capital stock representing at least 25% of such
total voting power; or
(3) during
any period of 12 consecutive months after the Issue Date, persons
who at the beginning of such 12 month period constituted the
Company’s Board of Directors, together with any new persons
whose election was approved by a vote of a majority of the persons
then still comprising the Board of Directors who were either
members of the Board of Directors at the beginning of such period
or whose election, designation or nomination for election was
previously so approved, cease for any reason (except by reason of
temporary vacancies created by the death of a director, prior to
the replacement of such director) to constitute a majority of the
Company’s Board of Directors.
For the purposes
of this definition, “person” includes any syndicate or
group that would be deemed to be a “person” under
Section 13(d)(3) of the Exchange Act and “beneficial
owner” has the definition assigned to it under
Section 13(d)(3) of the Exchange Act.
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“
CIMA ” has the meaning specified in
Section 13.11(a)(iii).
“ Closing
Sale Price ” of the Common Stock or other capital stock
or similar equity interests or other publicly traded securities on
any Trading Day means the Closing Sale Price per share (or, if no
Closing Sale Price is reported, the average of the closing bid and
ask prices or, if more than one in either case, the average of the
average closing bid and the average closing ask prices) on such
date as reported on the principal United States securities exchange
on which the Common Stock or such other capital stock or similar
equity interests or other securities are traded or, if the Common
Stock or such other capital stock or similar equity interests or
other securities are not listed on a United States national or
regional securities exchange, any United States system of automated
dissemination of quotations of securities prices or an established
over-the-counter trading market in the United States. The Closing
Sale Price will be determined without regard to after-hours trading
or extended market making. In the absence of the foregoing, the
Company will determine the Closing Sale Price on such basis as it
considers appropriate.
“ Common
Stock ” means, subject to Section 13.09, shares of
common stock of the Company, par value $0.0001 per share, at the
date of this Indenture or shares of any class or classes resulting
from any reclassification or reclassifications thereof and that
have no preference in respect of dividends or of amounts payable in
the event of any voluntary or involuntary liquidation, dissolution
or winding up of the Company and that are not subject to redemption
by the Company; provided that if at any time there shall be
more than one such resulting class, the shares of each such class
then so issuable on conversion shall be substantially in the
proportion that the total number of shares of such class resulting
from all such reclassifications bears to the total number of shares
of all such classes resulting from all such
reclassifications.
“ Common
Stock Legend ” has the meaning specified in
Section 2.05(c).
“
Company ” means the party named as such in the first
paragraph of this Indenture until a successor replaces it pursuant
to the applicable provisions of this Indenture, and thereafter
“Company” shall mean such successor Company.
“ Company
Repurchase Notice ” has the meaning specified in
Section 3.03(b).
“ Company
Repurchase Notice Date ” has the meaning specified in
Section 3.03(a).
“ Company
Warrants ” means (1) the 9,375,000 Founders’
Warrants issued as part of Founders’ Units pursuant to
several Founders’ Units Subscription Agreements, dated
July 20, 2006, between the Company and each of Berggruen
Holdings North America Ltd., Marlin Equities II, LLC, James N.
Hauslein, William P. Lauder and Herbert A. Morey; (2) the
4,500,000 Sponsors’ Warrants and the 6,250,000 Co-Investment
Warrants issued as part of Co-Investment Units, pursuant to several
Sponsors’ Warrants and Co-Investment Units Subscription
Agreements, dated July 20, 2006, between the Company and each
of Berggruen Holdings North America Ltd. and Marlin Equities II,
LLC and (3) the Public Stockholders’ Warrants.
“
Conversion Agent ” has the meaning specified in
Section 2.08.
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“
Conversion Date ” has the meaning specified in
Section 13.02.
“
Conversion Notice ” has the meaning specified in
Section 13.02.
“
Conversion Price ” means, at any time, an amount equal
to $1,000 divided by the Conversion Rate in effect at such time,
rounded to the nearest cent.
“
Conversion Rate ” has the meaning specified in
Section 13.04.
“
Corporate Trust Office ” or other similar term, means
the designated office of the Trustee at which, at any particular
time, its corporate trust business as it relates to this Indenture
shall be administered, which office is, at the date as of which
this Indenture is dated, located at The Bank of New York Mellon,
101 Barclay Street, New York, New York 10286, Attention: Global
Corporate Trust, or at any other time at such other address as the
Trustee may designate from time to time by notice to the Company.
Pursuant to Section 16.03, the Company will send a copy of any
written communication sent to the Corporate Trust Office to: The
Bank of New York Mellon, One Canada Square, London E14 5AL, United
Kingdom, Attention: Global Corporate Trust.
“ Credit
Agreement ” means the credit agreement, dated as of
October 30, 2007, among the Company, FA Sub 3, FA Sub 2
Limited and FA Sub 1 Limited, Citicorp USA, Inc., as administrative
agent, and the lenders party thereto, as amended, renewed, extended
or refinanced from time to time.
“ Credit
Agreement Debt ” means the “ Obligations
” under and as defined in the Credit Agreement.
“
CUSIP ” means the Committee on Uniform Securities
Identification Procedures.
“
Custodian ” means The Bank of New York Mellon, as
custodian with respect to the Notes in global form, or any
successor entity thereto.
“
default ” means any event that is or, after notice or
passage of time or both, would be an Event of Default.
“
Defaulted Interest ” has the meaning specified in
Section 2.03.
“
Definitive Note ” has the meaning specified in
Section 2.02.
“
Depositary ” means the clearing agency registered
under the Exchange Act that is designated to act as the Depositary
for the Global Notes. DTC shall be the initial Depositary, until a
successor shall have been appointed and become such pursuant to the
applicable provisions of this Indenture, and thereafter, “
Depositary ” shall mean or include such
successor.
“
Designated Event ” means the occurrence at any time of
either of the following events:
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(1) the
Common Stock (or other common stock or American Depository Receipts
representing the Common Stock issued under an issuer-sponsored ADR
program into which the Notes are then convertible) ceases to be
listed on a United States national securities exchange or is not
approved for quotation on any United States system of automated
dissemination of quotations of securities prices similar to the
Nasdaq National Market prior to its designation as a national
securities exchange; or
“
Designated Event Repurchase Date ” has the meaning
specified in Section 3.02(a).
“
Designated Event Repurchase Notice ” has the meaning
specified in Section 3.02(c).
“
Designated Senior Indebtedness ” means: (i) any
Senior Indebtedness the principal amount of which is at least
$50.0 million and with respect to which the instrument
creating or evidencing such Indebtedness, or any related agreements
or documents to which the Company is a party, expressly provides
that such Senior Indebtedness is “ Designated Senior
Indebtedness ” (provided that the instrument, agreement
or other document may place limitations and conditions on the right
of the Senior Indebtedness to exercise the rights of Designated
Senior Indebtedness) and (ii) any “Obligations”
(under and as defined in the Credit Agreement) of the Company with
respect to outstanding Credit Agreement Debt, including guarantees
of such Credit Agreement Debt.
“ DTC
” means The Depository Trust Company.
“
Effective Date ” has the meaning specified in
Section 13.10(b).
“ Event
of Default ” means any event specified in
Section 6.01 as an Event of Default.
“
Exchangeable Shares ” means the Class B Ordinary
Shares, par value U.S. $0.0001 per share, of FA Sub 2
Limited.
“
Exchange Act ” means the Securities Exchange Act of
1934, as amended, and the rules and regulations promulgated
thereunder, as in effect from time to time.
“
ex-dividend date ” means, with respect to any dividend
or other distribution on shares of Common Stock or other
securities, the first date upon which a transfer of the Common
Stock or such other securities does not automatically transfer the
right to receive the relevant distribution from the seller of the
Common Stock or such other securities to its buyer.
“
Expiration Time ” has the meaning specified in
Section 13.05(e).
“ FA Sub
1 Limited ” means FA Sub 1 Limited, a British Virgin
Islands company limited by shares, a wholly-owned, direct
Subsidiary of the Company.
“ FA Sub
2 Limited ” means FA Sub 2 Limited, a British Virgin
Islands company limited by shares, an indirect Subsidiary of the
Company.
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“ FA Sub
3 ” means FA Sub 3 Limited, a British Virgin Islands
company limited by shares, an indirect Subsidiary of the
Company.
“ Fair
Market Value ” shall mean the amount which a willing
buyer would pay a willing seller in an arm’s-length
transaction.
“ FSA
” has the meaning specified in
Section 13.11(a)(i).
“ Global
Note ” has the meaning specified in
Section 2.02.
“
Holder ” means a “ Noteholder
”.
“
Indebtedness ” means, with respect to any
Person:
(1)
(a) with respect to any party to the Credit Agreement, the
Credit Agreement Debt, and (b) in addition, with respect to any
Person, all of such Person’s indebtedness, obligations and
other liabilities, contingent or otherwise, (i) for borrowed
money, including overdrafts, foreign exchange contracts, currency
exchange agreements, interest rate protection agreements, and any
loans or advances from banks or other financial institutions,
whether or not evidenced by notes or similar instruments, or
(ii) evidenced by credit or loan agreements, bonds, debentures
or similar instruments, whether or not the recourse of the lender
is to the whole assets of such Person or to only a portion
thereof;
(2) all
of such Person’s reimbursement obligations and other
liabilities, contingent or otherwise, with respect to letters of
credit, bank guarantees, bankers’ acceptances, surety bonds
or performance bonds, whether or not matured;
(3) all
of such Person’s obligations, contingent or otherwise, with
respect to an interest rate or other swap, cap, floor or collar
agreement or hedge agreement, forward contract or other similar
instrument or agreement or foreign currency hedge, exchange,
purchase or similar instrument or agreement; and
(4) all
of such Person’s direct or indirect guarantees or similar
agreements in respect of, and all obligations or liabilities to
purchase or otherwise acquire or otherwise assure a creditor
against loss in respect of, indebtedness, obligations or
liabilities of another Person of the kinds described in clauses
(1) through (3).
“
Indenture ” means this instrument as originally
executed or, if amended or supplemented as herein provided, as so
amended or supplemented.
“ Initial
Notes ” has the meaning specified in
Section 2.01.
“ Initial
Purchasers ” means Citigroup Global Markets, Inc. and
Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC.
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“
interest ” means, when used with reference to the
Notes, any interest payable under the terms of the Notes, including
Additional Amounts, if any, and including Additional Interest, if
any, payable under the terms of the Registration Rights
Agreement.
“
Interest Payment Date ” has the meaning set forth in
the Notes.
“
Interest Record Date ” has the meaning set forth in
the Notes.
“ Issue
Date ” means May 15, 2009.
“ junior
securities ” has the meaning set forth in
Section 15.17.
“ Make
Whole Cap ” has the meaning specified in
Section 13.10(f)(ii).
“ Make
Whole Floor ” has the meaning specified in
Section 13.10(f)(iii).
“ Market
Disruption Event ” means the occurrence or existence for
more than one half-hour period in the aggregate on any scheduled
Trading Day for the Common Stock of any suspension or limitation
imposed on trading (by reason of movements in price exceeding
limits permitted by the NYSE or otherwise) in the Common Stock or
in any options, contracts or future contracts relating to the
Common Stock, and such suspension or limitation occurs or exists at
any time before 1:00 p.m. (New York City time) on such
day.
“
Maturity Date ” means May 15, 2014.
“ Maximum
Conversion Rate ” has the meaning specified in
Section 13.05(g).
“ Non
Payment Default ” has the meaning specified in
Section 15.03(b).
“
Note ” or “ Notes ” means any of
the Company’s 5.00% Dollar-Denominated Convertible
Subordinated Notes due May 15, 2014, authenticated and
delivered under this Indenture.
“ Note
Register ” has the meaning specified in
Section 2.05(a).
“ Note
Registrar ” has the meaning specified in
Section 2.05(a).
“
Noteholder ” as applied to any Note, or other similar
terms (but excluding the term “beneficial holder”),
means any Person in whose name at the time a particular Note is
registered on the Note Registrar’s books.
“
NYSE ” means the New York Stock Exchange.
“
Offering Circular ” means the Company’s offering
circular dated May 12, 2009 relating to the Notes.
“
Officer ” means any person holding any of the
following positions with the Company, the Chairman or any
Co-Chairman of the Board, any Vice Chairman of the Board, the
Chief
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Executive
Officer or any Co-Chief Executive Officer, the Chief Operating
Officer, the Chief Legal Officer, the Chief Financial Officer, the
Treasurer, the Secretary, or any Vice President of such
Person.
“
Officers’ Certificate ”, when used with respect
to the Company, means a certificate signed by any two Officers of
the Company or by one such Officer and any Assistant Treasurer or
Assistant Secretary of the Company.
“ Opinion
of Counsel ” means an opinion in writing signed by legal
counsel, who may be an employee of or counsel to the Company, which
opinion shall be reasonably acceptable to the Trustee.
“
Outstanding ” or “ outstanding ”,
when used with reference to Notes, and subject to the provisions of
Section 8.04, means, as of any particular time, all Notes
authenticated and delivered by the Trustee under this Indenture,
except:
(a) Notes
theretofore canceled by the Trustee or delivered to the Trustee for
cancellation;
(b) Notes,
or portions thereof, (i) for the repurchase of which monies in
the necessary amount shall have been deposited in trust with the
Trustee or with any Paying Agent (other than the Company) or
(ii) which shall have been otherwise discharged in accordance
with Article 11;
(c) Notes
in lieu of which, or in substitution for which, other Notes shall
have been authenticated and delivered pursuant to the terms of
Section 2.06; and
(d) Notes
converted pursuant to Article 13, and Notes paid or
repurchased pursuant to Article 3.
“ Paying
Agent ” has the meaning specified in
Section 2.08.
“ Payment
Blockage Notice ” has the meaning specified in
Section 15.03(b).
“ Payment
Blockage Period ” has the meaning specified in
Section 15.03(b).
“ Payment
Default ” has the meaning specified in
Section 15.03(a).
“
Person ” means a corporation, an association, a
partnership, a limited liability company, an individual, a joint
venture, a joint stock company, a trust, an unincorporated
organization or a government or an agency or a political
subdivision thereof.
“
Predecessor Note ” of any particular Note means every
previous Note evidencing all or a portion of the same debt as that
evidenced by such particular Note, and, for the purposes of this
definition, any Note authenticated and delivered under
Section 2.06 in lieu of a lost, destroyed or stolen Note shall
be deemed to evidence the same debt as the lost, destroyed or
stolen Note that it replaces.
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“
premium ” means any premium payable under the terms of
the Notes.
“
Principals ” means Noam Gottesman, Emmanuel Roman and
Pierre Lagrange.
“
Principals’ Trustees ” means each of G&S
Trustees Limited, in its capacity as trustee of the Lagrange GLG
Trust, Leslie J. Schreyer, in his capacity as trustee of the
Gottesman GLG Trust and Jeffrey A. Robins, in his capacity as
trustee of the Roman GLG Trust.
“ Public
Stockholders’ Warrants ” means the 52,800,000
warrants to purchase Common Stock, issued pursuant to the Amended
and Restated Warrant Agreement, dated as of December 21, 2006,
between Continental Stock Transfer & Trust Company and the
Company, as amended.
“
Purchase Agreement ” means the Purchase Agreement,
dated as of May 12, 2009, among the Company and the Initial
Purchasers.
“ Record
Date ” has the meaning specified in
Section 2.03.
“
Redomiciliation ” has the meaning specified in
Section 10.01.
“
Reference Property ” has the meaning specified in
Section 13.05(o).
“
Registration Rights Agreement ” means the Registration
Rights Agreement with respect to the Notes, dated as of
May 15, 2009, among the Company and the Initial Purchasers, as
amended from time to time in accordance with its terms.
“
Regulatory Condition ” has the meaning specified in
Section 13.11.
“
Relevant Date ” has the meaning specified in
Section 4.01.
“
Relevant Taxing Jurisdiction ” has the meaning
specified in Section 4.01(b).
“
Responsible Officer ” means, with respect to the
Trustee, any officer within the Global Corporate Trust department
(or any successor department) of the Trustee located at the
Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee, who shall have direct
responsibility for the administration of this Indenture, and also
means, with respect to any particular corporate trust matter, any
other officer of the Trustee to whom such corporate trust matter is
referred because of such officer’s knowledge of and
familiarity with the particular subject.
“
Restricted Notes Legend ” has the meaning specified in
Section 2.05(c).
“
Restricted Securities ” has the meaning specified in
Section 2.05(c).
“
Rule 144A ” means Rule 144A as promulgated
under the Securities Act as it may be amended from time to time
hereafter.
“ SEC
” means the United States Securities and Exchange Commission,
as from time to time constituted, created under the Exchange Act,
or, if at any time after the execution of this
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Indenture the
SEC is not existing and performing the duties now assigned to it
under the TIA, then the body performing such duties at such
time.
“
Securities Act ” means the Securities Act of 1933, as
amended, and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder, as
in effect from time to time.
“ Senior
Indebtedness ” means the principal of, premium, if any,
interest, including any interest accruing after the commencement of
any bankruptcy or similar proceeding, whether or not a claim for
post-petition interest is allowed as a claim in the proceeding, and
all fees, costs, expenses and other amounts accrued or due on or in
connection with, Indebtedness of the Company, whether secured or
unsecured, absolute or contingent, due or to become due,
outstanding on the date of the Indenture or thereafter created,
incurred, assumed, guaranteed or in effect guaranteed by the
Company, including all deferrals, renewals, extensions, or
refundings of, or amendments, modifications or supplements to, the
foregoing. “ Senior Indebtedness ” does not
include:
(a) Indebtedness
that expressly provides that such Indebtedness shall not be senior
in right of payment to the Notes or expressly provides that such
Indebtedness is on the same basis or junior to the
Notes;
(b) any
trade payables; or
(c) any
Indebtedness to any of the Company’s Subsidiaries, other than
guarantees of Credit Agreement Debt, collateral securing Credit
Agreement Debt or other Indebtedness to the Company’s
Subsidiaries arising by reason of guarantees by the Company of
Indebtedness of such Subsidiary to a Person that is not the
Company’s Subsidiary.
“
Significant Subsidiary ” means a “significant
subsidiary” (as defined in Rule 1-02(w) of
Regulation S-X) of the Company, other than a
“significant subsidiary” (i) (a) that is an
operating company, other than one operating principally in the
investment advisory business, that is acquired after the Issue Date
by a collective investment vehicle for which the Company or an
entity controlled by the Company is the investment advisor or
(b) that is a collective investment vehicle managed by the
Company or an entity controlled by the Company, regardless of
whether or not it is consolidated in the Company’s financial
statements, and (ii) as to whose Indebtedness and other
obligations neither the Company nor its Subsidiaries provide any
guarantee or other credit support.
“
Spin-Off ” has the meaning specified in
Section 13.05(c).
“ Stated
Maturity ,” with respect to any Note or any installment
of principal thereof or interest thereon, means the date
established by or pursuant to this Indenture or such Note as the
fixed date on which the principal of such Note or such installment
of principal or interest is due and payable.
“ Stock
Price ” has the meaning specified in
Section 13.10(b).
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“
Subsidiary ” means, with respect to any Person,
(i) any corporation, association or other business entity of
which more than 50% of the total voting power of shares of capital
stock or other equity interest entitled (without regard to the
occurrence of any contingency) to vote in the election of
directors, managers or trustees thereof is at the time owned or
controlled, directly or indirectly, by such Person or one or more
of the other Subsidiaries of that Person (or a combination thereof)
and (ii) any partnership (a) the sole general partner or
managing general partner of which is such Person or a Subsidiary of
such Person or (b) the only general partners of which are such
Person or of one or more Subsidiaries of such Person (or any
combination thereof).
“ TIA
” means the Trust Indenture Act.
“ Trading
Day ” means a day on which (i) there is no Market
Disruption Event and (ii) trading in securities generally
occurs on the NYSE or, if the Common Stock is not then listed on
the NYSE, on the principal other United States national or regional
securities exchange on which the Common Stock or other security is
then listed or, if the Common Stock is not then listed on a United
States national or regional securities exchange, on the principal
other market on which the Common Stock is then traded, or if there
is not then a trading market for the Common Stock or other
security, “ Trading Day ” means any Business
Day.
“
transfer ” has the meaning specified in
Section 2.05(c).
“ Trust
Indenture Act ” means the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, as
amended, as it was in force at the date of this Indenture;
provided that if the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 is amended
after the date hereof, the term “ Trust Indenture Act
” shall mean, to the extent required by such amendment, the
Trust Indenture Act of 1939 as so amended.
“
Trustee ” means The Bank of New York Mellon and its
successors and any corporation resulting from or surviving any
consolidation or merger to which it or its successors may be a
party and any successor trustee at the time serving as successor
trustee hereunder.
“ 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.”
“ Volume
Weighted Average Price ”, on any Trading Day means, in
the case of a share of Common Stock, the volume weighted average
price of one share of Common Stock as displayed under the heading
“Bloomberg VWAP” on Bloomberg Page GLG.N <EQUITY>
AQR in respect of the period from 9:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. (New York
City time) on that Trading Day, and in the case of the Public
Stockholders’ Warrants, the volume weighted average price of
one such Public Stockholders’ Warrant as displayed under the
heading “Bloomberg VWAP” on Bloomberg Page GLG/WS.N
<EQUITY> AQR in respect of the period from 9:30 a.m. to 4:00
p.m. (New York City time) on that Trading Day (or if such volume
weighted average price is not available, the market value of the
applicable security using a volume weighted method).
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“ Voting
Agreement ” means the voting agreement, dated as of
June 22, 2007, as amended, among the Company, the Principals,
the Trustees and the other parties thereto.
“
Withdrawal Date ” has the meaning specified in
Section 13.13(b).
“
Withdrawal Notice Date ” has the meaning specified in
Section 13.13(b).
Section 1.02.
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:
(a) “
Commission ” means the SEC;
(b) “
indenture securities ” means the Notes;
(c) “
indenture security holder ” means a Holder;
(d)
“indenture to be qualified” means this
Indenture;
(e)
“indenture trustee” or “institutional
trustee” means the Trustee; and
(f)
“obligor” on the Notes means the Company or any other
obligor on the Notes.
Section 1.03.
Rules of Construction . Unless the context otherwise
requires:
(a) a term has the
meaning assigned to it;
(b) an accounting
term not otherwise defined has the meaning assigned to it in
accordance with GAAP;
(c)
“or” is not exclusive;
(d) words in the
singular include the plural, and in the plural include the
singular;
(e) the male,
female and neuter genders include one another;
(f) references to
the payments of interest on the Notes shall include Additional
Interest payable pursuant to Section 5 of the Registration
Rights Agreement (if any);
(g) the word
“including” wherever used will be deemed to be followed
by the word “without limitation”;
(h) references to
agreements and other instruments include subsequent amendments
thereto; and
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(i) the words
“herein,” “hereof” and other words of
similar import refer to this Indenture as a whole and not to any
particular Article, Section or other subdivision.
The terms and
provisions contained in the Notes shall constitute, and are hereby
expressly made, a part of this Indenture and the Company and the
Trustee, by their execution and delivery of this Indenture,
expressly agree to such terms and provisions and to be bound
thereby. However, to the extent any provision of any Note conflicts
with the express provisions of this Indenture, the provisions of
this Indenture shall govern.
Section 2.01.
Designation Amount and Issue of Notes . The Notes shall be
designated as “5.00% Dollar-Denominated Convertible
Subordinated Notes due May 15, 2014.” Upon the execution
of this Indenture, and from time to time thereafter, Notes may be
executed by the Company and delivered to the Trustee for
authentication, and the Trustee shall thereupon authenticate and
deliver Notes upon a written order of the Company, such order
signed by two Officers or by an Officer and either an Assistant
Treasurer of the Company or any Assistant Secretary of the Company,
without any further action by the Company hereunder.
The aggregate
principal amount of Notes which may be authenticated and delivered
under this Indenture is unlimited; provided that upon
initial issuance (including any issuance upon exercise of the
Initial Purchasers’ option set forth in Section 3 of the
Purchase Agreement), the aggregate principal amount of Notes
outstanding shall not exceed $229,000,000, except as provided in
Section 2.06. The Company may, without the consent of the Holders
of Notes, issue additional Notes (the “ Additional
Notes ”) from time to time in the future with the same
terms and the same CUSIP number as the Notes originally issued
under this Indenture (including any issuance upon exercise of the
Initial Purchasers’ option set forth in Section 3 of the
Purchase Agreement) (the “ Initial Notes ”) in
an unlimited principal amount, provided that such Additional Notes
must be part of the same issue as and fungible with the Initial
Notes for United States federal income tax purposes. The Initial
Notes and any such Additional Notes will constitute a single series
of debt securities, and in circumstances in which this Indenture
provides for the Holders of Notes to vote or take any action, the
Holders of Initial Notes and the Holders of any such Additional
Notes will vote or take that action as a single class.
Section 2.02.
Form of Notes . The Notes and the Trustee’s
certificate of authentication to be borne by such Notes shall be
substantially in the form set forth in Exhibit A hereto. The
terms and provisions contained in the form of Note attached as
Exhibit A hereto shall constitute, and are hereby expressly
made, a part of this Indenture and, to the extent applicable, the
Company and the Trustee, by their execution and delivery of this
Indenture, expressly agree to such terms and provisions and to be
bound thereby.
Any of the Notes
may have such letters, numbers or other marks of identification and
such notations, legends, endorsements or changes as the officers
executing the same may approve (execution thereof to be conclusive
evidence of such approval) and as are not inconsistent with the
provisions of this Indenture, or as may be required by the
Custodian, the
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Depositary or
as may be required for the Notes to be tradable on any market
existing or developed for trading of securities pursuant to
Rule 144A or as may be required to comply with any applicable
law or with any rule or regulation made pursuant thereto or with
any rule or regulation of any securities exchange or automated
quotation system on which the Notes may be listed, or to conform to
usage, or to indicate any special limitations or restrictions to
which any particular Notes are subject.
So long as the
Notes are eligible for book-entry settlement with the Depositary,
or unless otherwise required by law, or otherwise contemplated by
Section 2.05(b), all of the Notes, other than Affiliate Notes,
will be represented by one or more Notes in global form registered
in the name of the Depositary or the nominee of the Depositary (a
“ Global Note ”). The transfer and exchange of
beneficial interests in any such Global Note shall be effected
through the Depositary in accordance with this Indenture and the
applicable procedures of the Depositary.
Except as provided
in Section 2.05(b), beneficial owners of a Global Note shall
not be entitled to have certificates registered in their names,
will not receive or be entitled to receive physical delivery of
certificates in definitive form and will not be considered Holders
of such Global Note.
Any Global Note
shall represent such of the outstanding Notes as shall be specified
therein and shall provide that it shall represent the aggregate
amount of outstanding Notes from time to time endorsed thereon and
that the aggregate amount of outstanding Notes represented thereby
may from time to time be increased or reduced to reflect
redemptions, repurchases, exchanges, or transfers permitted hereby.
Any endorsement of a Global Note to reflect the amount of any
increase or decrease in the amount of outstanding Notes represented
thereby shall be made by the Trustee or the Custodian, at the
direction of the Trustee, in such manner and upon instructions
given by the Holder of such Notes in accordance with this
Indenture. Payment of principal of, interest on and premium, if
any, on any Global Note shall be made to the Holder of such
Note.
Notes originally
offered and sold by the Initial Purchasers to Affiliates of the
Company (“ Affiliate Notes ”) will be issued in
the form of one or more certificated notes in definitive registered
form, without interest coupons (“ Definitive Notes
”). Each Affiliate Note shall be issued with the Affiliate
Legend, set forth in Exhibit A hereto, which is incorporated
in and expressly made a part of this Indenture. Upon such issuance,
the Note Registrar shall register such Affiliate Notes in the name
of the beneficial owner or owners of such Note (or the nominee of
such beneficial owner or owners) and deliver the certificates for
such Affiliate Notes to the respective beneficial owner or owners
(or the nominee of such beneficial owner or owners). A Note
initially issued as an Affiliate Note will bear the Affiliate
Legend set forth in Exhibit A and be certificated only as a
Definitive Note (and not as or with a Global Note) until it ceases
to be a “restricted security” within the meaning of
Rule 144 under the Securities Act, unless otherwise agreed by
the Company (with written notice thereof to the
Trustee).
Section 2.03.
Date and Denomination of Notes; Payments of Interest . The
Notes shall be issuable in fully registered form without coupons in
denominations of $100,000 principal amount and integral multiples
of $1,000 in excess thereof, subject to Section 2.05(b) and
Section
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2.05(c). Each
Note shall be dated the date of its authentication and shall bear
interest from the date specified on the face of the Note attached
as Exhibit A hereto (which date shall be the Issue Date in the
case of the Initial Notes and in no event shall be earlier than the
Issue Date). Interest on the Notes shall be computed on the basis
of a 360-day year consisting of twelve 30-day months.
The Person in
whose name any Note (or its Predecessor Note) is registered on the
Note Register at 5:00 p.m., New York City time, on any Record Date
with respect to any interest payment date shall be entitled to
receive the interest payable on such interest payment date.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, any Note or portion thereof
surrendered for conversion during the period from 5:00 p.m., New
York City time on the Record Date for any interest payment date to
5:00 p.m., New York City time, on the applicable interest payment
date must be accompanied by payment, in immediately available funds
or other funds acceptable to the Company, of an amount equal to the
interest otherwise payable on such interest payment date on the
principal amount being converted; provided , however
, that no such payment need be made (1) if a Holder converts
its Notes in connection with a Change of Control and the Company
has specified a Designated Event Repurchase Date that is after a
Record Date and on or prior to the related interest payment date,
(2) in respect of conversions that occur after the Record Date
immediately preceding the Maturity Date or (3) with respect to
any overdue interest, if any overdue interest exists at the time of
conversion with respect to such Note. Interest shall be payable at
the office of the Company maintained by the Company for such
purposes in the City of New York, which shall initially be an
office or agency of the Trustee. The Company shall pay interest
(i) on any Notes in certificated form by check mailed to the
address of the Person entitled thereto as it appears in the Note
Register; provided , however , that a Holder of any
Notes in certificated form in the aggregate principal amount of
more than $5.0 million may specify by written notice to the
Company that it pay interest by wire transfer of immediately
available funds to the account specified by the Noteholder in such
notice, or (ii) on any Global Note by wire transfer of
immediately available funds to the account of the Depositary or its
nominee. If a payment date is not a Business Day, payment shall be
made on the next succeeding Business Day, and no additional
interest shall accrue thereon. The term “ Record Date
” with respect to any interest payment date shall mean the
May 1 or November 1 preceding the applicable May 15 or
November 15 interest payment date, respectively.
Any interest on
any Note which is payable, but is not punctually paid or duly
provided for, on any May 15 or November 15 (herein called
“ Defaulted Interest ”) shall forthwith cease to
be payable to the Holder registered as such on the relevant Record
Date, and such Defaulted Interest shall be paid by the Company, at
its election in each case, as provided in clause (a) or
(b) below:
(a) The Company
may elect to make payment of any Defaulted Interest to the Persons
in whose names the Notes (or their respective Predecessor Notes)
are registered at 5:00 p.m., New York City time, 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 Note and the date of the proposed payment (which
shall be not less than twenty-five (25) calendar days after
the receipt by the Trustee of such notice, unless the Trustee
shall
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consent to an
earlier date), and at the same time the Company shall deposit with
the Trustee an amount of money equal to the aggregate amount to be
paid in respect of such Defaulted Interest 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 which shall be not more than
fifteen (15) calendar days and not less than ten
(10) calendar days prior to the date of the proposed payment,
and not less than ten (10) calendar days after the receipt by the
Trustee of the notice of the proposed payment (unless, the Trustee
shall consent to an earlier date). 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 sent by electronic transmission or mailed,
first-class postage prepaid, to each Holder at its address as it
appears in the Note Register, not less than ten (10) calendar days
prior to such special Record Date (unless, the Trustee shall
consent to an earlier date). Notice of the proposed payment of such
Defaulted Interest and the special Record Date therefor having been
so mailed, such Defaulted Interest shall be paid to the Persons in
whose names the Notes (or their respective Predecessor Notes) are
registered at 5:00 p.m., New York City time, on such special Record
Date and shall no longer be payable pursuant to the following
clause (b) of this Section 2.03.
(b) The Company
may make payment of any Defaulted Interest in any other lawful
manner not inconsistent with the requirements of any securities
exchange or automated quotation system on which the Notes may be
listed or designated for issuance, and upon such notice as may be
required by such exchange or automated quotation system, 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.
Section 2.04.
Execution and Authentication of Notes . The Notes shall be
signed in the name and on behalf of the Company by the manual or
facsimile signature of an Officer. Only such Notes as shall bear
thereon a certificate of authentication substantially in the form
set forth on the form of Note attached as Exhibit A hereto,
executed manually or by facsimile by the Trustee (or an
authenticating agent appointed by the Trustee as provided by
Section 16.11), shall be entitled to the benefits of this
Indenture or be valid or obligatory for any purpose. Such
certificate by the Trustee (or such an authenticating agent) upon
any Note executed by the Company shall be conclusive evidence that
the Note so authenticated has been duly authenticated and delivered
hereunder and that the Holder is entitled to the benefits of this
Indenture.
In case any
Officer who shall have signed any of the Notes shall cease to be
such Officer before the Notes so signed shall have been
authenticated and delivered by the Trustee, or disposed of by the
Company, such Notes nevertheless may be authenticated and delivered
or disposed of as though the person who signed such Notes had not
ceased to be such Officer, and any Note may be signed on behalf of
the Company by such persons as, at the actual date of
the
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execution of
such Note, shall be the proper Officers, although at the date of
the execution of this Indenture any such person was not such an
Officer.
The Company shall
deliver executed Notes to the Trustee with such Officers’
Certificate and Opinion of Counsel as the Trustee may require and a
written order directing the Trustee to authenticate the Notes for
issuance.
Payment of the
fees and expenses of Trustee’s counsel shall be a condition
precedent to authentication of the Notes.
Section 2.05.
Exchange and Registration of Transfer of Notes; Restrictions on
Transfer .
(a) The Company
shall cause to be kept at the Corporate Trust Office a register
(the register maintained in such office and in any other office or
agency of the Company designated pursuant to Section 4.02
being herein sometimes collectively referred to as the “
Note Register ”) in which, subject to such reasonable
regulations as it may prescribe, the Company shall provide for the
registration of Notes and of transfers of Notes. The Note Register
shall be in written form or in any form capable of being converted
into written form within a reasonably prompt period of time. The
Trustee is hereby appointed “ Note Registrar ”
for the purpose of registering Notes and transfers of Notes as
herein provided. The Company may appoint one or more co-registrars
in accordance with Section 4.02.
Upon surrender for
registration of transfer of any Note to the Note Registrar or any
co-registrar, and satisfaction of the requirements for such
transfer set forth in this Section 2.05, the Company shall execute,
and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, in the name of the
designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Notes of any
authorized denominations and of a like aggregate principal amount
and bearing such restrictive legends as may be required by this
Indenture.
Notes may be
exchanged for other Notes of any authorized denominations and of a
like aggregate principal amount, upon surrender of the Notes to be
exchanged at any such office or agency maintained by the Company
pursuant to Section 4.02. Whenever any Notes are so
surrendered for exchange, the Company shall execute, and the
Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, the Notes which the
Noteholder making the exchange is entitled to receive bearing
registration numbers not contemporaneously outstanding.
All Notes issued
upon any registration of transfer or exchange of Notes shall be the
valid obligations of the Company, evidencing the same debt, and
entitled to the same benefits under this Indenture, as the Notes
surrendered upon such registration of transfer or
exchange.
All Notes
presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or for
exchange or conversion or repurchase shall (if so required by the
Company or the Note Registrar) be duly endorsed, or be accompanied
by a written instrument or instruments of transfer in form
satisfactory to the Company, and the Notes shall be duly executed
by the Noteholder thereof or its attorney duly authorized in
writing.
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No service charge
shall be made to any Holder for any registration of, transfer or
exchange of Notes, but the Company may require payment by the
Holder of a sum sufficient to cover any tax, assessment or other
governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any
registration of transfer or exchange of Notes.
(b) The following
provisions shall apply only to Global Notes:
(i) Each Global
Note authenticated under this Indenture shall be registered in the
name of the Depositary or a nominee thereof and delivered to such
Depositary or a nominee thereof or Custodian therefor, and each
such Global Note shall constitute a single Note for all purposes of
this Indenture.
(ii)
Notwithstanding any other provision in this Indenture, no Global
Note may be exchanged in whole or in part for Notes registered, and
no transfer of a Global Note in whole or in part may be registered,
in the name of any Person other than the Depositary or a nominee
thereof unless (1) the Depositary (x) has notified the
Company that it is unwilling or unable to continue as Depositary
for such Global Note or (y) has ceased to be a clearing agency
registered under the Exchange Act, and in each case a successor
Depositary has not been appointed by the Company within ninety
(90) calendar days or (2) the Company, in its sole
discretion, notifies the Trustee in writing that it no longer
wishes to have all the Notes represented by Global Notes. Any
Global Note exchanged pursuant to clause (1) above shall be so
exchanged in whole and not in part and any Global Note exchanged
pursuant to clause (2) above may be exchanged in whole or from
time to time in part as directed by the Company. Any Note issued in
exchange for a Global Note or any portion thereof shall be a Global
Note; provided that any such Note so issued that is
registered in the name of a Person other than the Depositary or a
nominee thereof shall not be a Global Note.
(iii) Notes issued
in exchange for a Global Note or any portion thereof pursuant to
clause (ii) above shall be issued in Definitive Notes, shall
have an aggregate principal amount equal to that of such Global
Note or portion thereof to be so exchanged, shall be registered in
such names and be in such authorized denominations as the
Depository shall designate and shall bear any legends required
hereunder. Any Global Note to be exchanged in whole shall be
surrendered by the Depository to the Trustee, as Note Registrar.
With regard to any Global Note to be exchanged in part, either such
Global Note shall be so surrendered for exchange or, if the Trustee
is acting as Custodian for the Depository or its nominee with
respect to such Global Note, the principal amount thereof shall be
reduced, by an amount equal to the portion thereof to be so
exchanged, by means of an appropriate adjustment made on the
records of the Trustee. Upon any such surrender or adjustment, the
Trustee shall authenticate and make available for delivery the Note
issuable on such exchange to or upon the written order of the
Depository or an authorized representative thereof.
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(iv) In the event
of the occurrence of any of the events specified in clause
(ii) above, the Company will promptly make available to the
Trustee a reasonable supply of Definitive Notes.
(v) Neither any
members of, or participants in, the Depositary (“ Agent
Members ”) nor any other Persons on whose behalf Agent
Members may act shall have any rights under this Indenture with
respect to any Global Note registered in the name of the Depositary
or any nominee thereof, and the Depositary or such nominee, as the
case may be, may be treated by the Company, the Trustee and any
agent of the Company or the Trustee as the absolute owner and
Holder of such Global Note for all purposes whatsoever.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, nothing herein shall prevent the
Company, the Trustee or any agent of the Company or the Trustee
from giving effect to any written certification, proxy or other
authorization furnished by the Depositary or such nominee, as the
case may be, or impair, as between the Depositary, its Agent
Members and any other Person on whose behalf an Agent Member may
act, the operation of customary practices of such Persons governing
the exercise of the rights of a Holder of any Note.
(vi) At such time
as all interests in a Global Note have been redeemed, repurchased,
exchanged or canceled for Definitive Notes in certificated form,
such Global Note shall, upon receipt thereof, be canceled by the
Trustee in accordance with standing procedures and instructions
existing between the Depositary and the Custodian. At any time
prior to such cancellation, if any interest in a Global Note is
redeemed, repurchased, exchanged, or canceled for Definitive Notes,
the principal amount of such Global Note shall, in accordance with
the standing procedures and instructions existing between the
Depositary and the Custodian, be appropriately reduced, and an
endorsement shall be made on such Global Note, by the Trustee or
the Custodian, at the direction of the Trustee, to reflect such
reduction.
(c) Every Note
(and all securities issued in exchange therefor or in substitution
thereof) that bears or is required under this Section 2.05(c)
to bear any of the legends set forth in this Section 2.05(c)
(each, a “ Restricted Notes Legend ”), and any
Common Stock that bears or is required under this
Section 2.05(c) to bear any of the Common Stock legends set
forth in this Section 2.05(c) (each, a “ Common Stock
Legend ”) (collectively, the “ Restricted
Securities ”) shall be subject to the applicable
restrictions on transfer set forth in this Section 2.05(c)
(including those set forth in the legends below) unless such
restrictions on transfer shall be waived by written consent of the
Company, and the Holder of each such Restricted Security, by such
Note Holder’s acceptance thereof, agrees to be bound by all
such restrictions on transfer. As used in this
Section 2.05(c), the term “transfer” means any
sale, pledge, loan, transfer or other disposition whatsoever of any
Restricted Security or any interest therein.
Until the Maturity
Date for the Notes, any certificate evidencing a Restricted
Security shall bear a legend in substantially the following
applicable form, or unless otherwise agreed by the Company in
writing, with written notice thereof to the Trustee:
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Each Note sold by
the Initial Purchasers to qualified institutional buyers other than
Affiliates of the Company, not in reliance on Regulation S, (a
“ Rule 144A Note ”) (and all securities
issued in exchange therefor or in substitution thereof) and the
Common Stock, if any, issuable on conversion thereof, during the
one year period after the issuance of such notes, or such other
period of time as permitted by Rule 144 under the Securities
Act or any successor provision, shall bear a legend substantially
to the following effect, unless otherwise agreed by the Company and
the holder thereof:
[in the case of
Notes: THIS SECURITY AND THE COMMON STOCK ISSUABLE UPON CONVERSION
OF THIS SECURITY HAVE] [in the case of Common Stock: THE COMMON
STOCK HAS] NOT BEEN REGISTERED UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS
AMENDED (THE “SECURITIES ACT”) OR ANY STATE OR FOREIGN
SECURITIES LAWS, AND MAY NOT BE OFFERED, SOLD, PLEDGED OR OTHERWISE
TRANSFERRED EXCEPT IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE FOLLOWING SENTENCE. BY
ITS ACQUISITION HEREOF OR A BENEFICIAL INTEREST HEREIN, THE
ACQUIRER: (1) REPRESENTS THAT (A) IT AND ANY ACCOUNT FOR
WHICH IT IS ACTING IS A “QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER”
(WITHIN THE MEANING OF RULE 144A UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT) AND THAT
IT EXERCISES SOLE INVESTMENT DISCRETION WITH RESPECT TO EACH SUCH
ACCOUNT OR (B) IT IS AN “ACCREDITED INVESTOR”
(WITHIN THE MEANING OF RULE 501 UNDER REGULATION D OF THE
SECURITIES ACT), (2) AGREES FOR THE BENEFIT OF GLG PARTNERS,
INC. (THE “COMPANY”) THAT IT WILL NOT OFFER, SELL,
PLEDGE OR OTHERWISE TRANSFER THIS SECURITY OR ANY BENEFICIAL
INTEREST HEREIN PRIOR TO THE DATE THAT IS THE LATER OF (X) ONE
YEAR AFTER THE ISSUE DATE HEREOF OR SUCH SHORTER PERIOD OF TIME AS
PERMITTED BY RULE 144 UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OR ANY SUCCESSOR
PROVISION THEREUNDER AND (Y) SUCH LATER DATE, IF ANY, AS MAY
BE REQUIRED BY APPLICABLE LAW, EXCEPT: (A) TO THE COMPANY OR
ANY SUBSIDIARY THEREOF, OR (B) PURSUANT TO A REGISTRATION
STATEMENT WHICH HAS BECOME EFFECTIVE UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT (AND
WHICH CONTINUES TO BE EFFECTIVE AT THE TIME OF SUCH TRANSFER), OR
(C) TO A QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER IN COMPLIANCE WITH RULE
144A UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT, OR (D) TO AN ACCREDITED
INVESTOR THAT IS ACQUIRING THE SECURITIES FOR ITS OWN ACCOUNT, IN A
MINIMUM PRINCIPAL AMOUNT OF THE SECURITIES OF $250,000, FOR
INVESTMENT PURPOSES AND NOT WITH A VIEW TO OR FOR OFFER OR SALE IN
CONNECTION WITH ANY DISTRIBUTION IN VIOLATION OF THE SECURITIES
ACT, OR (E) PURSUANT TO AN EXEMPTION FROM REGISTRATION
PROVIDED BY RULE 144 UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OR (F) PURSUANT
TO ANY OTHER AVAILABLE EXEMPTION FROM THE REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS
OF THE SECURITIES ACT AND (3) AGREES THAT IT WILL GIVE TO EACH
PERSON TO WHOM THE SECURITIES ARE TRANSFERRED A NOTICE
SUBSTANTIALLY TO THE EFFECT OF THIS LEGEND. PRIOR TO THE
REGISTRATION OF ANY TRANSFER IN ACCORDANCE WITH (2)(C), (2)(D),
(2)(E) OR (2)(F), THE COMPANY AND THE TRUSTEE RESERVE THE RIGHT TO
REQUIRE THE DELIVERY OF SUCH LEGAL OPINIONS, CERTIFICATIONS OR
OTHER EVIDENCE AS MAY REASONABLY BE
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REQUIRED IN
ORDER TO DETERMINE THAT THE PROPOSED TRANSFER IS BEING MADE IN
COMPLIANCE WITH THE SECURITIES ACT AND APPLICABLE STATE AND FOREIGN
SECURITIES LAWS. NO REPRESENTATION IS MADE AS TO THE AVAILABILITY
OF ANY EXEMPTION FROM THE REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS OF THE
SECURITIES ACT.
Each Note sold by
the Initial Purchasers to Persons other than Affiliates of the
Company in offshore transactions in compliance with
Regulation S (a “ Regulation S Note ”)
(and all securities issued in exchange therefor or in substitution
thereof) and the Common Stock, if any, issuable on conversion
thereof, shall bear a legend substantially to the following effect,
unless otherwise agreed by the Company and the holder
thereof:
[in the case of
Notes: THIS SECURITY AND THE COMMON STOCK ISSUABLE UPON CONVERSION
OF THIS SECURITY HAVE] [in the case of Common Stock: THE COMMON
STOCK HAS] NOT BEEN REGISTERED UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS
AMENDED (THE “SECURITIES ACT”) OR ANY STATE OR FOREIGN
SECURITIES LAWS, AND MAY NOT BE OFFERED, SOLD, PLEDGED OR OTHERWISE
TRANSFERRED WITHIN THE UNITED STATES (AS DEFINED IN RULE 902(L)
UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT) OR TO, OR FOR THE ACCOUNT OR BENEFIT OF,
U.S. PERSONS (AS DEFINED IN RULE 902(K) UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT)
EXCEPT AS SET FORTH BELOW. BY ITS ACQUISITION HEREOF, THE HOLDER
(1) REPRESENTS THAT IT IS NOT A U.S. PERSON AND IS PHYSICALLY
OUTSIDE THE UNITED STATES AT THE TIME IT IS ACQUIRING THE
SECURITIES, (2) AGREES FOR THE BENEFIT OF GLG PARTNERS, INC.
(THE “COMPANY”) THAT IT WILL NOT WITHIN SIX MONTHS
AFTER THE ORIGINAL ISSUANCE OF THE SECURITIES RESELL OR OTHERWISE
TRANSFER THE SECURITIES EXCEPT (A) TO THE COMPANY OR ANY
SUBSIDIARY THEREOF, OR (B) PURSUANT TO A REGISTRATION STATEMENT
WHICH HAS BECOME EFFECTIVE UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT (AND WHICH
CONTINUES TO BE EFFECTIVE AT THE TIME OF SUCH TRANSFER), OR
(C) OUTSIDE THE UNITED STATES IN AN OFFSHORE TRANSACTION IN
COMPLIANCE WITH REGULATION S UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT, OR
(D) PURSUANT TO RULE 144 UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OR
(E) PURSUANT TO ANY OTHER AVAILABLE EXEMPTION FROM
REGISTRATION UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT, (3) AGREES THAT IT WILL
GIVE TO EACH PERSON TO WHOM THE SECURITIES ARE TRANSFERRED A NOTICE
SUBSTANTIALLY TO THE EFFECT OF THIS LEGEND AND (4) IF IT HAS
ACQUIRED THE SECURITIES IN A TRANSACTION PURSUANT TO REGULATION S
UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT, AGREES THAT IT WILL NOT WITHIN SIX MONTHS
ENGAGE IN HEDGING TRANSACTIONS INVOLVING THESE SECURITIES UNLESS IN
COMPLIANCE WITH THE SECURITIES ACT. PRIOR TO THE REGISTRATION OF
ANY TRANSFER IN ACCORDANCE WITH (2)(C), (2)(D) OR (2)(E), THE
COMPANY AND THE TRUSTEE RESERVE THE RIGHT TO REQUIRE THE DELIVERY
OF SUCH LEGAL OPINIONS, CERTIFICATIONS OR OTHER EVIDENCE AS MAY
REASONABLY BE REQUIRED IN ORDER TO DETERMINE THAT THE PROPOSED
TRANSFER IS BEING MADE IN COMPLIANCE WITH THE SECURITIES ACT AND
APPLICABLE STATE AND FOREIGN SECURITIES LAWS. NO
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REPRESENTATION
IS MADE AS TO THE AVAILABILITY OF ANY EXEMPTION FROM THE
REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS OF THE SECURITIES ACT.
Each Affiliate
Note (and all securities issued in exchange therefor or in
substitution thereof) and the Common Stock, if any, issuable on
conversion thereof, shall bear an Affiliate Legend substantially to
the following effect, or unless otherwise agreed by the Company in
writing, with written notice thereof to the Trustee:
[in the case of
Notes: THIS SECURITY AND THE COMMON STOCK ISSUABLE UPON CONVERSION
OF THIS SECURITY HAVE] [in the case of Common Stock: THE COMMON
STOCK HAS] NOT BEEN REGISTERED UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS
AMENDED (THE “SECURITIES ACT”) OR ANY STATE OR FOREIGN
SECURITIES LAWS, AND MAY NOT BE OFFERED, SOLD, PLEDGED OR OTHERWISE
TRANSFERRED EXCEPT IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE FOLLOWING SENTENCE. BY
ITS ACQUISITION HEREOF OR A BENEFICIAL INTEREST HEREIN, THE
ACQUIRER: (1) REPRESENTS THAT IT IS AN “ACCREDITED
INVESTOR” (WITHIN THE MEANING OF RULE 501 UNDER REGULATION D
OF THE SECURITIES ACT), (2) AGREES FOR THE BENEFIT OF GLG
PARTNERS, INC. (THE “COMPANY”) THAT IT WILL NOT OFFER,
SELL, PLEDGE OR OTHERWISE TRANSFER THIS SECURITY OR ANY BENEFICIAL
INTEREST HEREIN, EXCEPT: (A) TO THE COMPANY OR ANY SUBSIDIARY
THEREOF, OR (B) PURSUANT TO A REGISTRATION STATEMENT WHICH HAS
BECOME EFFECTIVE UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT (AND WHICH CONTINUES TO
BE EFFECTIVE AT THE TIME OF SUCH TRANSFER), OR (C) PURSUANT TO
AN EXEMPTION FROM REGISTRATION PROVIDED BY RULE 144 UNDER THE
SECURITIES ACT OR (D) PURSUANT TO ANY OTHER AVAILABLE
EXEMPTION FROM THE REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS OF THE SECURITIES ACT,
PROVIDED THAT ANY TRANSFEREE SHALL AGREE IN WRITING, SATISFACTORY
TO THE COMPANY, TO BE BOUND BY THE FOREGOING RESTRICTIONS AND
(3) AGREES THAT IT WILL GIVE TO EACH PERSON TO WHOM THE
SECURITIES ARE TRANSFERRED A NOTICE SUBSTANTIALLY TO THE EFFECT OF
THIS LEGEND. PRIOR TO THE REGISTRATION OF ANY TRANSFER IN
ACCORDANCE WITH (2)(C) OR (2)(D), THE COMPANY AND THE TRUSTEE
RESERVE THE RIGHT TO REQUIRE THE DELIVERY OF SUCH LEGAL OPINIONS,
CERTIFICATIONS OR OTHER EVIDENCE AS MAY REASONABLY BE REQUIRED IN
ORDER TO DETERMINE THAT THE PROPOSED TRANSFER IS BEING MADE IN
COMPLIANCE WITH THE SECURITIES ACT AND APPLICABLE STATE AND FOREIGN
SECURITIES LAWS. NO REPRESENTATION IS MADE AS TO THE AVAILABILITY
OF ANY EXEMPTION FROM THE REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS OF THE
SECURITIES ACT.
Any such Notes or
shares of Common Stock as to which such restrictions on transfer
shall have expired in accordance with their terms or as to which
the conditions for removal of the Restricted Notes Legend or the
Common Stock Legend set forth therein have been satisfied may, upon
surrender of the Notes or the certificates representing such shares
of Common Stock for exchange in accordance with the procedures of
the Notes Registrar or the transfer agent for the Common Stock, be
exchanged for a new certificate or certificates for a like number
of shares of
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Common Stock,
which shall not bear the Common Stock Legend required by this
Section 2.05(c).
(d) By its
acceptance of any Note bearing a Restricted Notes Legend, each
Holder of such Note acknowledges the applicable restrictions on
transfer of such Note set forth in this Indenture and in such
Restricted Notes Legend and agrees that it will transfer such Note
only as provided in this Indenture and as permitted by applicable
law.
(e) Any Restricted
Securities purchased or owned by the Company or any Affiliate
thereof may not be resold by the Company or such Affiliate unless
registered under the Securities Act or resold pursuant to an
exemption from the registration requirements of the Securities Act
in a transaction that results in such Notes or Common Stock, as the
case may be, no longer being “restricted securities”
(as defined under Rule 144) or otherwise in accordance with
the Affiliate Legend.
(f) The Company
and the Trustee shall have no responsibility or obligation to any
Agent Members or any other Person with respect to the accuracy of
the books or records, or the acts or omissions, of the Depositary
or its nominee or of any participant or member thereof, with
respect to any ownership interest in the Notes, with respect to the
performance by the Depositary or any Agent Members of their
respective obligations under the rules and procedures governing
their operations, or with respect to the delivery to any Agent
Member or other Person (other than the Depositary) of any notice
(including any notice of redemption) or the payment of any amount,
under or with respect to such Notes. All notices and communications
to be given to the Noteholders and all payments to be made to
Noteholders under the Notes shall be given or made only to or upon
the order of the registered Noteholders (which shall be the
Depositary or its nominee in the case of a Global Note). The rights
of beneficial owners in any Global Note shall be exercised only
through the Depositary subject to the customary procedures of the
Depositary. The Company and the Trustee may rely and shall be fully
protected in relying upon information furnished by the Depositary
with respect to its Agent Members.
(g) Except for
transfers or exchanges made in accordance with paragraphs
(i) through (iii) of this Section 2.05(g), transfers
of a Global Note shall be limited to transfers of such Global Note
in whole, but not in part, to nominees of the Depositary or to a
successor of the Depositary or such successor’s
nominee.
(i) Global Note
To Definitive Note . If an owner of a beneficial interest in a
Global Note deposited with the Depositary or with the Trustee as
custodian for the Depositary wishes at any time to transfer its
interest in such Global Note to a Person who is required to take
delivery thereof in the form of a Definitive Note, such owner may,
subject to the restrictions on transfer set forth herein and such
Global Note and the applicable procedures of the Depositary, cause
the exchange of such interest for one or more Definitive Notes of
any authorized denomination or denominations and of the same
aggregate principal amount. Upon receipt by the Note Registrar of
(1) instructions from the Depositary directing the Trustee to
authenticate and deliver one or more Definitive Notes of the same
aggregate
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principal
amount as the beneficial interest in the Global Note to be
exchanged (such instructions to contain the name or names of the
designated transferee or transferees, the authorized denomination
or denominations of the Definitive Notes to be so issued and
appropriate delivery instructions), and (2) in the case of a
Note that is a Restricted Security (a “ Restricted
Note ”), such certifications or other information and, in
the case of transfers pursuant to Rule 144 under the
Securities Act, a letter from the transferee in substantially the
form of Exhibit C and such legal opinions as the Company may
reasonably require to confirm that such transfer is being made
pursuant to an exemption from, or in a transaction not subject to,
the registration requirements of the Securities Act, then the Note
Registrar will instruct the Depositary to reduce or cause to be
reduced such Global Note by the aggregate principal amount of the
beneficial interest therein to be exchanged and to debit or cause
to be debited from the account of the Person making such transfer
the beneficial interest in the Global Note that is being
transferred, and concurrently with such reduction and debit the
Company shall execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and
deliver, one or more Definitive Notes of the same aggregate
principal amount in accordance with the instructions referred to
above. In the case of a transfer to which clause 2 applies, the
Note Registrar will not effect such transfer until the Company has
confirmed to the Note Registrar that it has received all such
certificates, other information and/or legal opinions as it has
reasonably requested.
(ii) Definitive
Note to Definitive Note . If a Holder of a Definitive Note
wishes at any time to transfer such Definitive Note (or portion
thereof) to a Person who is required to take delivery thereof in
the form of a Definitive Note, such Holder may, subject to the
restrictions on transfer set forth herein and in such Definitive
Note, cause the transfer of such Definitive Note (or any portion
thereof in a principal amount equal to an authorized denomination)
to such transferee. Upon receipt by the Note Registrar of
(1) such Definitive Note, duly endorsed as provided herein,
(2) instructions from such Holder directing the Trustee to
authenticate and deliver one or more Definitive Notes of the same
aggregate principal amount as the Definitive Note, or portion
thereof, to be transferred (such instructions to contain the name
or names of the designated transferee or transferees, the
authorized denomination or denominations of the Definitive Notes to
be so issued and appropriate delivery instructions), (3) the
assignment form on the back of the Definitive Note completed in
full and (4) in the case of a Restricted Note, such
certifications or other information (including, in the case of a
transfer of an Affiliate Note under circumstances where such
Affiliate Note will be a “restricted security” (within
the meaning of Rule 144 under the Securities Act) in the hands
of the transferee, a certification from such transferee
substantially in the form of Exhibit B that such transferee
will abide by the transfer restrictions contained in the Affiliate
Legend) and, in the case of transfers to persons pursuant to
Rule 144 under the Securities Act, a letter from the
transferee in substantially the form of Exhibit C and, in
either such case, legal opinions as the Company may reasonably
require to confirm that such transfer is
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being made
pursuant to an exemption from, or in a transaction not subject to,
the registration requirements of the Securities Act, then the Note
Registrar, shall cancel or cause to be canceled such Definitive
Note and concurrently therewith, the Company shall execute, and the
Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, one or more Definitive
Notes in the appropriate aggregate principal amount, in accordance
with the instructions referred to above and, if only a portion of a
Definitive Note is transferred as aforesaid, concurrently therewith
the Company shall execute and the Trustee shall authenticate and
deliver to the transferor a Definitive Note in a principal amount
equal to the principal amount which has not been transferred. A
Holder of a Definitive Note may at any time exchange such
Definitive Note for one or more Definitive Notes of other
authorized denominations and in the same aggregate principal amount
and registered in the same name by delivering such Definitive Note,
duly endorsed as provided herein, to the Trustee together with
instructions directing the Trustee to authenticate and deliver one
or more Definitive Notes in the same aggregate principal amount and
registered in the same name as the Definitive Note to be exchanged,
and the Note Registrar thereupon shall cancel or caused to be
canceled such Definitive Note and concurrently therewith the
Company shall execute and Trustee shall authenticate and deliver,
one or more Definitive Notes in the same aggregate principal amount
and registered in the same name as the Definitive Note being
exchanged. In the case of a transfer to which clause 4 applies, the
Note Registrar will not effect such transfer until the Company has
confirmed to the Note Registrar that it has received all such
certificates, other information and/or legal opinions as it has
reasonably requested.
(iii)
Definitive Note to Global Note . If a Holder of a Definitive
Note wishes at any time to transfer such Definitive Note (or
portion thereof) to a Person who is not required to take delivery
thereof in the form of a Definitive Note, such Holder shall,
subject to the restrictions on transfer set forth herein and in
such Definitive Note and the rules of the Depositary cause the
exchange of such Definitive Note for a beneficial interest in the
Global Note. Upon receipt by the Note Registrar of (1) such
Definitive Note, duly endorsed as provided herein, (2) instructions
from such Holder directing the Trustee to increase the aggregate
principal amount of the Global Note deposited with the Depositary
or with the Trustee as custodian for the Depositary by the same
aggregate principal amount as the Definitive Note to be exchanged,
such instructions to contain the name or names of a member of, or
participant in, the Depositary that is designated as the
transferee, the account of such member or participant and other
appropriate delivery instructions, (3) the assignment form on
the back of the Definitive Note completed in full, (4) in the
case of a Restricted Note, such certifications or other information
and legal opinions (which, along with a certification from the
transferee in substantially the form of Exhibit C, shall be
required in the case of transfers of any Note of the Company
pursuant to Rule 144 under the Securities Act), as the Company
may reasonably require to confirm that such transfer is being made
pursuant to an exemption from, or in a transaction not subject to,
the
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registration
requirements of the Securities Act and (5) in the case of any
transfer of an Affiliate Note, a letter from the transferee in
substantially the form of Exhibit B and such certifications,
information and legal opinions as the Company may reasonably
require to confirm that such Note, after giving effect to such
transfer, is not a “restricted security” within the
meaning of Rule 144 of the Securities Act, no longer required
to bear the Affiliate Legend, then the Trustee shall cancel or
cause to be canceled such Definitive Note and concurrently
therewith shall increase the aggregate principal amount of the
Global Note by the same aggregate principal amount as the
Definitive Note canceled; provided , that in the case of any
transfer of an Affiliate Note to a Person taking delivery thereof
as a beneficial interest in a Global Note, any such transfer shall
be made only pursuant either (i) in a transaction complying
with Rule 144 or (ii) pursuant to an effective shelf
registration statement, such effectiveness to be certified by the
Company to the Trustee or (iii) to Persons who agree to be
bound by the restrictions applicable to such Holders for so long as
such transferred securities constitutes “restricted
securities.” In the case of a transfer to which clause 4 or
clause 5 applies, the Note Registrar will not effect such transfer
until the Company has confirmed to the Note Registrar that it has
received all such certificates, other information and/or legal
opinions as it has reasonably requested.
The Trustee shall
have no obligation or duty to monitor, determine or inquire as to
compliance with any restrictions on transfer imposed under this
Indenture or under applicable law with respect to any transfer of
any interest in any Note (including any transfers between or among
Agent Members in any Global Indenture) other than to require
delivery of such certificates and other documentation or evidence
as are expressly required by a written direction from the
Company.
Section 2.06.
Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost or Stolen Notes . In case any
Note shall become mutilated or be destroyed, lost or stolen, the
Company in its discretion may execute, and upon its written request
the Trustee or an authenticating agent appointed by the Trustee
shall authenticate and make available for delivery, a new Note,
bearing a number not contemporaneously outstanding, in exchange and
substitution for the mutilated Note, or in lieu of and in
substitution for the Note so destroyed, lost or stolen. In every
case, the applicant for a substituted Note shall furnish to the
Company, to the Trustee and, if applicable, to such authenticating
agent such security or indemnity as may be required by them to save
each of them harmless for any loss, liability, cost or expense
caused by or connected with such substitution, and, in every case
of destruction, loss or theft, the applicant shall also furnish to
the Company, to the Trustee and, if applicable, to such
authenticating agent evidence to their satisfaction of the
destruction, loss or theft of such Note and of the ownership
thereof.
Following receipt
by the Trustee or such authenticating agent, as the case may be, of
satisfactory security or indemnity and evidence, as described in
the preceding paragraph, the Trustee or such authenticating agent
may authenticate any such substituted Note and make available for
delivery such Note. Upon the issuance of any substituted Note, the
Company may require the payment by the Holder of a sum sufficient
to cover any tax, assessment or other governmental charge that may
be imposed in relation thereto and any other expenses
connected
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therewith. In
case any Note that has matured or is about to mature or has been
called for redemption or has been properly tendered for repurchase
on a Designated Event Repurchase Date (and not withdrawn) or has
been tendered for repurchase on a Repurchase Date (and not
withdrawn), as the case may be, or is to be exchanged or converted
pursuant to this Indenture, shall become mutilated or be destroyed,
lost or stolen, the Company may, instead of issuing a substitute
Note, pay or authorize the payment of or exchange or convert or
authorize the exchange or conversion of the same (without surrender
thereof except in the case of a mutilated Note), as the case may
be, if the applicant for such payment or exchange or conversion
shall furnish to the Company, to the Trustee and, if applicable, to
such authenticating agent such security or indemnity as may be
required by them to save each of them harmless for any loss,
liability, cost or expense caused by or in connection with such
substitution, and, in every case of destruction, loss or theft, the
applicant shall also furnish to the Company, the Trustee and, if
applicable, any Paying Agent or Conversion Agent evidence to their
satisfaction of the destruction, loss or theft of such Note and of
the ownership thereof.
Every substitute
Note issued pursuant to the provisions of this Section 2.06 by
virtue of the fact that any Note is destroyed, lost or stolen shall
constitute an additional contractual obligation of the Company,
whether or not the destroyed, lost or stolen Note shall be found at
any time, and shall be entitled to all the benefits of (but shall
be subject to all the limitations set forth in) this Indenture
equally and proportionately with any and all other Notes duly
issued hereunder. To the extent permitted by law, all Notes shall
be held and owned upon the express condition that the foregoing
provisions are exclusive with respect to the replacement or payment
or exchange or conversion or redemption or repurchase of mutilated,
destroyed, lost or stolen Notes and shall preclude any and all
other rights or remedies notwithstanding any law or statute
existing or hereafter enacted to the contrary with respect to the
replacement or payment or exchange or conversion or redemption or
repurchase of negotiable instruments or other securities without
their surrender.
Section 2.07.
Temporary Notes . Pending the preparation of Notes in
certificated form, the Company may execute and the Trustee or an
authenticating agent appointed by the Trustee shall, upon the
written request of the Company, authenticate and deliver temporary
Notes (printed or lithographed). Temporary Notes shall be issuable
in any authorized denomination, and substantially in the form of
the Notes in certificated form, but with such omissions, insertions
and variations as may be appropriate for temporary Notes, all as
may be determined by the Company. Every such temporary Note shall
be executed by the Company and authenticated by the Trustee or such
authenticating agent upon the same conditions and in substantially
the same manner, and with the same effect, as the Notes in
certificated form. Without unreasonable delay, the Company will
execute and deliver to the Trustee or such authenticating agent
Notes in certificated form and thereupon any or all temporary Notes
may be surrendered in exchange therefor, at each office or agency
maintained by the Company pursuant to Section 4.02 and the
Trustee or such authenticating agent shall authenticate and make
available for delivery in exchange for such temporary Notes an
equal aggregate principal amount of Notes in certificated form.
Such exchange shall be made by the Company at its own expense and
without any charge therefor. Until so exchanged, the temporary
Notes shall in all respects be entitled to the same
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benefits and
subject to the same limitations under this Indenture as Notes in
certificated form authenticated and delivered hereunder.
Section 2.08.
Cancellation of Notes . All Notes surrendered for the
purpose of payment, redemption, repurchase, exchange, conversion or
registration of transfer shall, if surrendered to the Company or
any paying agent to whom Notes may be presented for payment (the
“ Paying Agent ”) or any conversion agent to
whom the Notes may be presented for conversion (the
“Conversion Agent”), which in each case shall initially
be The Bank of New York Mellon, or any Note Registrar, be
surrendered to the Trustee and promptly canceled by it or, if
surrendered to the Trustee, shall be promptly canceled by it and no
Notes shall be issued in lieu thereof except as expressly permitted
by any of the provisions of this Indenture. The Trustee shall
dispose of such canceled Notes in accordance with its customary
procedures. If the Company shall acquire any of the Notes, such
acquisition shall not operate as a redemption, repurchase or
satisfaction of the indebtedness represented by such Notes unless
and until the same are delivered to the Trustee for
cancellation.
Section 2.09.
CUSIP Numbers . The Company in issuing the Notes may use
“CUSIP” numbers (if then generally in use), and, if so,
the Trustee shall use “CUSIP” numbers in notices of
redemption as a convenience to Noteholders; provided that
any such notice may state that no representation is made as to the
correctness of such numbers either as printed on the Notes or as
contained in any notice of a redemption and that reliance may be
placed only on the other identification numbers printed on the
Notes, and any such redemption shall not be affected by any defect
in or omission of such numbers. The Company will promptly notify
the Trustee of any change in the “ CUSIP ”
numbers.
ARTICLE 3
REPURCHASE OF NOTES
Section 3.01.
Sinking Fund . There shall be no sinking fund provided for
the Notes.
Section 3.02.
Repurchase at Option of Holders Upon a Designated Event
.
(a) If there shall
occur a Designated Event at any time prior to maturity of the
Notes, then each Noteholder shall have the right, at such
Holder’s option, to require the Company to repurchase all of
such Holder’s Notes, or any portion thereof that is an
integral multiple of $1,000 principal amount, in cash, on a date
(the “ Designated Event Repurchase Date ”)
specified by the Company, which may be no earlier than fifteen
(15) days and no later than thirty (30) days after the
date of the Company Repurchase Notice related to such Designated
Event, at a repurchase price equal to 100% of the principal amount
of the Notes being repurchased, plus accrued and unpaid interest
to, but excluding, the Designated Event Repurchase Date;
provided , however , that if the Designated Event
Repurchase Date falls after a Record Date and on or prior to the
corresponding interest payment date, the Company will pay the full
amount of accrued and unpaid interest, if any, on such interest
payment date to the Holder of record at the close of business on
the corresponding Record Date, and the repurchase price will be
100% of the principal amount of the Notes to be
repurchased.
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(b) On or before
the tenth calendar day after the occurrence of a Designated Event,
the Company shall mail or cause to be mailed (or sent by electronic
transmission) to all Holders of record on the date of the
Designated Event (and to beneficial owners as required by
applicable law) a Company Repurchase Notice as set forth in
Section 3.03 with respect to such Designated Event. The
Company shall also deliver a copy of the Company Repurchase Notice
to the Trustee and the Paying Agent at such time as it is mailed to
Noteholders. In addition to the mailing of such Company Repurchase
Notice, the Company shall disseminate a press release through Dow
Jones & Company, Inc. or Bloomberg Business News announcing the
occurrence of such Designated Event or publish such information in
The Wall Street Journal or another newspaper of general circulation
in The City of New York or on the Company’s website, or
through such other public medium as the Company shall deem
appropriate at such time.
No failure of the
Company to give the foregoing notices and no defect therein shall
limit the Noteholders’ repurchase rights or affect the
validity of the proceedings for the repurchase of the Notes
pursuant to this Section 3.02.
(c) For a Note to
be repurchased at the option of the Holder pursuant to this Section
3.02, the Holder must deliver to the Paying Agent, prior to 5:00
p.m., New York City time, on the second Business Day immediately
prior to the Designated Event Repurchase Date, (i) a written
notice of repurchase (the “ Designated Event Repurchase
Notice ”) in the form set forth on the reverse of the
Note duly completed (if the Note is certificated) or stating the
following (if the Note is represented by a Global Note):
(A) the certificate number of the Note that the Holder will
deliver to be repurchased (if the Note is certificated) or that the
relevant Designated Event Repurchase Notice complies with the
appropriate Depositary procedures (if the Note is represented by a
Global Note), (B) the portion of the principal amount of the
Note which the Holder will deliver to be repurchased, which portion
must be in principal amounts of $1,000 or an integral multiple of
$1,000 (provided that the remaining principal amount of Notes held
by such Holder that are not subject to repurchase must be in an
authorized denomination) and (C) that such Note shall be
repurchased as of the Designated Event Repurchase Date pursuant to
the terms and conditions specified in the Note and in this
Indenture; together with (ii) such Notes duly endorsed for
transfer (if the Note is certificated) or book-entry transfer of
such Note (if such Note is represented by a Global Note). The
delivery of such Note to the Paying Agent with, or at any time
after delivery of, the Repurchase Notice (together with all
necessary endorsements) at the office of the Paying Agent shall be
a condition to the receipt by the Holder of the repurchase price
therefore; provided , however , that such repurchase
price shall be so paid pursuant to this Section 3.02 only if
the Notes so delivered to the Paying Agent shall conform in all
respects to the description thereof in the Repurchase Notice. All
questions as to the validity, eligibility (including time of
receipt) and acceptance of any Note for repurchase shall be
determined by the Company, whose determination shall be final and
binding absent any manifest error.
(d) The Company,
if so requested, shall repurchase from the Holder thereof, pursuant
to this Section 3.02, a portion of a Note, if the principal
amount of such portion
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is $1,000 or a
whole multiple of $1,000. Provisions of this Indenture that apply
to the repurchase of all of a Note also apply to the repurchase of
such portion of such Note.
(e)
Notwithstanding the foregoing, no Notes may be repurchased by the
Company pursuant to this Section 3.02 if the principal amount
of the Notes has been accelerated, and such acceleration has not
been rescinded or cured, on or prior to the relevant Designated
Event Repurchase Date (except in the case of an acceleration
resulting from a default by the Company in the payment of the
repurchase price pursuant to this Section 3.02 with respect to
the Notes to be repurchased).
(f) The Paying
Agent shall promptly notify the Company of the receipt by it of any
Designated Event Repurchase Notice or written notice of withdrawal
thereof.
Any repurchase by
the Company contemplated pursuant to the provisions of this
Section 3.02 shall be consummated by the delivery of the
consideration to be received by the Holder (i) on the
Designated Event Repurchase Date if the book-entry transfer or
delivery of the Notes to the Paying Agent is effected prior to 5:00
p.m., New York City time, on the second Business Day prior to the
Designated Event Repurchase Date, and (ii) if delivered later,
within two (2) Business Days following the time of the
book-entry transfer or delivery of the Note. Payment of the
repurchase price for a Note for which a Designated Event Repurchase
Notice has been delivered and not withdrawn is conditioned upon
book-entry transfer or delivery of the Notes, together with
necessary endorsements, to the Paying Agent.
Section 3.03.
Company Repurchase Notice .
(a) The Company
Repurchase Notice, as provided in Section 3.02(b), shall be
given to Holders in the event of a Designated Event, on or before
the tenth calendar day after the occurrence of such a Designated
Event as provided in Section 3.02(b) (the “ Company
Repurchase Notice Date ”).
(b) In connection
with any repurchase of Notes, the Company shall, on the applicable
Company Repurchase Notice Date, give written notice to Holders
(with a copy to the Trustee) setting forth information specified in
this Section 3.03 (the “ Company Repurchase
Notice ”).
Each Company
Repurchase Notice shall:
(i) state the
repurchase price, and the Designated Event Repurchase Date to which
the relevant Company Repurchase Notice relates;
(ii) state the
circumstances constituting the Designated Event;
(iii) state that
Holders must exercise their right to elect to repurchase prior to
5:00 p.m., New York City time, on the second Business Day
immediately prior to the Designated Event Repurchase
Date;
(iv) include a
form of Designated Event Repurchase Notice;
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(v) state the name
and address of the Trustee, the Paying Agent and, if applicable,
the Conversion Agent;
(vi) state that
Notes must be surrendered to the Paying Agent to collect the
repurchase price;
(vii) state that a
Holder may withdraw its Designated Event Repurchase Notice at any
time prior to 5:00 p.m., New York City time, on the second Business
Day immediately prior to the Designated Event Repurchase Date by
delivering a valid written notice of withdrawal in accordance with
Section 3.04;
(viii) if the
Notes are then convertible, state that Notes as to which a
Designated Event Repurchase Notice has been given may be converted
only if the Designated Event Repurchase Notice is withdrawn in
accordance with the terms of this Indenture;
(ix) state the
amount of interest accrued and unpaid per $1,000 principal amount
of Notes to, but excluding, the Designated Event Repurchase
Date;
(x) state that,
unless the Company defaults in making payment of the repurchase
price, interest on Notes covered by any Designated Event Repurchase
Notice shall cease to accrue on and after the Designated Event
Repurchase Date;
(xi) state the
CUSIP number of the Notes, if CUSIP numbers are then in use;
and
(xii) state the
procedures for withdrawing a Designated Event Repurchase Notice,
including a form of notice of withdrawal (as specified in
Section 3.04).
A Company
Repurchase Notice may be given by the Company or, at the
Company’s request, the Trustee shall give such Company
Repurchase Notice in the Company’s name and at the
Company’s expense; provided that the text of the
Company Repurchase Notice shall be prepared by the
Company.
If any of the
Notes is represented by a Global Note, then the Company will modify
such Company Repurchase Notice to the extent necessary to accord
with the applicable procedures of the Depositary that apply to the
repurchase of Global Notes.
(c) The Company
will, to the extent applicable, comply with the provisions of Rule
13e-4 and Rule 14e-1 (or any successor provision) under the
Exchange Act that may be applicable at the time of the repurchase
of the Notes, file the related Schedule TO (or any successor
schedule, form or report) under the Exchange Act and comply with
all other applicable federal and state securities laws in
connection with the repurchase of the Notes.
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Section 3.04.
Effect of Repurchase Notice; Withdrawal . Upon receipt by
the Paying Agent of the Designated Event Repurchase Notice, the
Holder of the Note in respect of which such Designated Event
Repurchase Notice was given shall (unless such Designated Event
Repurchase Notice is validly withdrawn in accordance with this
Section 3.04) thereafter be entitled to receive solely the
repurchase price with respect to such Note.
Notes in respect
of which a Designated Event Repurchase Notice has been given by the
Holder thereof may not be converted pursuant to Article 13
hereof on or after the date of the delivery of such Designated
Event Repurchase Notice unless such Designated Event Repurchase
Notice has first been validly withdrawn.
A Designated Event
Repurchase Notice may be withdrawn by means of a written notice of
withdrawal delivered to the office of the Paying Agent at any time
prior to 5:00 p.m., New York City time, on the second Business Day
immediately prior to the Designated Event Repurchase Date
specifying:
(a) the name of
the Holder;
(b) the
certificate number(s) of all withdrawn Notes in certificated form
or that the notice of withdrawal complies with appropriate
Depositary procedures with respect to all withdrawn Notes
represented by a Global Note;
(c) the principal
amount of Notes with respect to which such notice of withdrawal is
being submitted, which must be an integral multiple of $1,000;
and
(d) the principal
amount of Notes, if any, that remains subject to the original
Designated Event Repurchase Notice and that has been or will be
delivered for repurchase by the Company.
If a Designated
Event Repurchase Notice is properly withdrawn, the Company shall
not be obligated to repurchase the Notes listed in such Designated
Event Repurchase Notice.
Section 3.05.
Deposit of Repurchase Price .
(a) Prior to
11:00 a.m., New York City time, on the Designated Event
Repurchase Date the Company shall deposit with the Paying Agent or,
if the Company is acting as the Paying Agent, shall segregate and
hold in trust as provided in Section 4.04 an amount of cash
(in immediately available funds if deposited on the Designated
Event Repurchase Date), sufficient to pay the aggregate repurchase
price of all the Notes or portions thereof that are to be
repurchased as of the Designated Event Repurchase Date.
(b) If on the
Designated Event Repurchase Date the Paying Agent holds money
sufficient to pay the repurchase price of the Notes that Holders
have elected to require the Company to repurchase in accordance
with Section 3.02 then, on the Designated Event Repurchase
Date such Notes will cease to be outstanding, interest will cease
to accrue and all other rights of the Holders of such Notes will
terminate, other than
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the right to
receive the repurchase price upon delivery or book-entry transfer
of the Note. This will be the case whether or not book-entry
transfer of the Note has been made or the Note has been delivered
to the Paying Agent.
Section 3.06.
Notes Repurchased in Part . Upon presentation of any Note
repurchased only in part, the Company shall execute and the Trustee
shall authenticate and make available for delivery to the Holder
thereof, at the expense of the Company, a new Note or Notes in
aggregate principal amount equal to the unrepurchased portion of
the Notes presented (provided that the unrepurchased portion of the
Notes must be in a denomination of $100,000 or an integral multiple
of $1,000 in excess thereof).
Section 3.07.
Repayment to the Company . Subject to Section 11.04,
the Paying Agent shall return to the Company any cash that remains
unclaimed, together with interest, if any, thereon, held by it for
the payment of the repurchase price; provided that to the
extent that the aggregate amount of cash deposited by the Company
pursuant to Section 3.05 exceeds the aggregate repurchase
price of the Notes or portions thereof which the Company is
obligated to repurchase as of the Designated Event Repurchase Date
then, unless otherwise agreed in writing with the Company, promptly
after the second Business Day following the Designated Event
Repurchase Date the Paying Agent shall return any such excess to
the Company, together with interest, if any, thereon.
ARTICLE 4
PARTICULAR COVENANTS OF THE COMPANY
Section 4.01.
Payment of Principal, Premium and Interest; Additional
Amounts .
(a) The Company
covenants and agrees that it will duly and punctually pay or cause
to be paid when due the principal of (including the repurchase
price upon repurchase pursuant to Article 3), and premium, if
any, and interest on each of the Notes at the places, at the
respective times and in the manner provided herein and in the
Notes.
(b) All payments
in respect of the Notes will be made without withholding or
deduction for or on account of any present or future taxes or
duties of whatever nature imposed or levied by or on behalf of any
jurisdiction other than the United States (“ Relevant
Taxing Jurisdiction ”) or any political subdivision or
any authority thereof or therein having power to tax unless such
withholding or deduction is required by law. If, as a result of a
Redomiciliation (as defined below) by the Company, any amounts are
required to be so withheld or deducted, the Company will pay such
additional amounts as shall be necessary in order that the net
amounts received by the Holders of the Notes after such withholding
or deduction shall equal the respective amounts which would
otherwise have been receivable in respect of the Notes in the
absence of such withholding or deduction (“ Additional
Amounts ”); except that no such Additional Amounts shall
be payable with respect to any Note:
(i) presented for
payment by or on behalf of a Holder or a beneficial owner of a
Holder who is liable for such taxes or duties in respect of such
Note by
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reason of his
having some connection with the Relevant Taxing Jurisdiction or any
political subdivision or any authority thereof or therein other
than the mere holding of such Note; or
(ii) presented for
payment more than 30 days after the Relevant Date (as defined
below) except to the extent that the Holder thereof would have been
entitled to an Additional Amount on presenting the same for payment
on such 30th day; or
(iii) where such
withholding or deduction is imposed on a payment to an individual
and is required to be made pursuant to EC Council Directive
2003/48/EC or any law implementing or complying with, or introduced
in order to conform to, such Directive; or
(iv) presented for
payment by or on behalf of a Holder who would be able to avoid such
withholding or deduction by presenting the relevant Note to another
Paying Agent in a Member State of the European Union; or
(v) presented for
payment by or on behalf of a Holder who would not be liable or
subject to the withholding or deduction by making a declaration of
non-residence or other similar claim for exemption to the relevant
tax authority.
As used herein,
the “ Relevant Date ” means the date on which
such payment first becomes due, except that, if the full amount of
the moneys payable has not been duly received by the Paying Agent
on or prior to such due date, “ Relevant Date ”
means the date on which the full amount of such moneys have been so
received.
The Company will
(i) make any required withholding or deduction and
(ii) remit the full amount deducted or withheld to the
Relevant Taxing Jurisdiction in accordance with applicable law. The
Company will use all reasonable efforts to obtain certified copies
of tax receipts evidencing the payment of any taxes so deducted or
withheld from each Relevant Taxing Jurisdiction imposing such taxes
and will provide such certified copies to each Holder. The Company
will attach to each certified copy a certificate stating
(x) that the amount of withholding taxes evidenced by the
certified copy was paid in connection with payments in respect of
the principal amount of Notes then outstanding and (y) the
amount of such withholding taxes paid per $1,000 principal amount
of the Notes. Copies of such documentation will be available for
inspection during ordinary business hours at the office of the
Trustee by the Holders of the Notes upon request and will be made
available at the offices of the Paying Agent.
At least
30 days prior to the Relevant Date with respect to a payment,
if the Company will be obligated to pay Additional Amounts with
respect to such payment, the Company will deliver to the Trustee an
Officer’s Certificate stating the fact that such Additional
Amounts will be payable, the amounts so payable and will set forth
such other information necessary to enable the Trustee to pay such
Additional Amounts to Holders on the payment date. Each such
Officer’s Certificate shall be relied upon until receipt of a
further Officer’s Certificate addressing such
matters.
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Wherever in this
Indenture or the Notes there are mentioned, in any context, the
payment of principal, purchase prices in connection with a purchase
of Notes, interest, or any other amount payable on or with respect
to the Notes, such reference shall be deemed to include payment of
Additional Amounts as described under this Section 4.01 to the
extent that, in such context, Additional Amounts are, were or would
be payable in respect thereof.
Section 4.02.
Maintenance of Office or Agency . The Company will maintain
an office or agency in the United States, which shall initially be
The City of New York, New York, where the Notes may be surrendered
for registration of transfer or exchange or for presentation for
payment or for conversion, redemption or repurchase and where
notices and demands to or upon the Company in respect of the Notes
and this Indenture may be served. As of the date of this Indenture,
such office shall be the Corporate Trust Office and, at any other
time, at such other address as the Trustee may designate from time
to time by notice to the Company. The Company will give prompt
written notice to the Trustee of the location, and any change in
the location, of such office or agency not designated or appointed
by the Trustee. If at any time the Company shall fail to maintain
any such required office or agency or shall fail to furnish the
Trustee with the address thereof, such presentations, surrenders,
notices and demands may be made or served at the Corporate Trust
Office.
The Company may
also from time to time designate co-registrars and one or more
offices or agencies where the Notes may be presented or surrendered
for any or all such purposes and may from time to time rescind such
designations. The Company will give prompt written notice to the
Trustee of any such designation or rescission and of any change in
the location of any such other office or agency.
The Company hereby
initially designates the Trustee as Paying Agent, Note Registrar
and Conversion Agent with respect to the Notes, and as Custodian
with respect to the Global Notes only, and the Corporate Trust
Office shall be considered as one such office or agency of the
Company for each of the aforesaid purposes.
So long as the
Trustee is the Note Registrar, the Trustee agrees to send by
electronic transmission, mail, or cause to be mailed, the notices
set forth in Section 7.10 and the third paragraph of
Section 7.11. If co-registrars have been appointed in
accordance with this Section 4.02, the Trustee shall mail such
notices only to the Company and the Holders of Notes it can
identify from the Note Register.
Section 4.03.
Appointments to Fill Vacancies in Trustee’s Office .
The Company, whenever necessary to avoid or fill a vacancy in the
office of Trustee, will appoint, upon the terms and conditions and
otherwise as provided in Section 7.10, a Trustee, so that
there shall at all times be a Trustee hereunder.
Section 4.04.
Provisions as to Paying Agent .
(a) If the Company
shall appoint a Paying Agent other than the Trustee, or if the
Trustee shall appoint such a Paying Agent, the Company will cause
such Paying
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Agent to
execute and deliver to the Trustee an instrument in which such
agent shall agree with the Trustee, subject to the provisions of
this Section 4.04:
(i) that it will
hold all sums held by it as such agent for the payment of the
principal of and premium, if any, or interest on the Notes (whether
such sums have been paid to it by the Company or by any other
obligor on the Notes) in trust for the benefit of the Holders of
the Notes;
(ii) that it will
give the Trustee notice of any failure by the Company (or by any
other obligor on the Notes) to make any payment of the principal of
and premium, if any, or interest on the Notes when the same shall
be due and payable; and
(iii) that at any
time during the continuance of an Event of Default, upon request of
the Trustee, it will forthwith pay to the Trustee all sums so held
in trust.
The Company shall,
on or before 10:00 a.m., New York City time, at least one
Business Day prior to each due date of the principal of, premium,
if any, or interest on the Notes, deposit with the Paying Agent in
New York City a sum (in funds that are immediately available for
such payment) sufficient to pay such principal, premium, if any, or
interest, or any other amounts due, and (unless such Paying Agent
is the Trustee) the Company will promptly notify the Trustee of any
failure to take such action.
(b) If the Company
shall act as its own Paying Agent, it will, on or before each due
date of the principal of, premium, if any, or interest on the
Notes, set aside, segregate and hold in trust for the benefit of
the Holders of the Notes a sum sufficient to pay such principal,
premium, if any, and interest so becoming due and will promptly
notify the Trustee of any failure to take such action and of any
failure by the Company (or any other obligor under the Notes) to
make any payment of the principal of, premium, if any, or interest
on the Notes when the same shall become due and payable.
(c) Anything in
this Section 4.04 to the contrary notwithstanding, the Company
may, at any time, for the purpose of obtaining a satisfaction and
discharge of this Indenture, or for any other reason, pay or cause
to be paid to the Trustee all sums held in trust by the Company or
any Paying Agent hereunder as required by this Section 4.04,
such sums to be held by the Trustee upon the trusts herein
contained and upon such payment by the Company or any Paying Agent
to the Trustee, the Company or such Paying Agent shall be released
from all further liability with respect to such sums.
(d) Anything in
this Section 4.04 to the contrary notwithstanding, the
agreement to hold sums in trust as provided in this
Section 4.04 is subject to Section 11.02 and Section
11.03.
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The Trustee shall
not be responsible for the actions of any other Paying Agents
(including the Company if acting as its own Paying Agent) and shall
have no control of any funds held by such other Paying
Agents.
Section 4.05.
Existence . Subject to Article 10, the Company will do
or cause to be done all things necessary to preserve and keep in
full force and effect its existence and rights (charter and
statutory).
Section 4.06.
Rule 144A Information Requirement . If so required by
Rule 144A the Company will promptly furnish to the Holders,
beneficial owners and prospective purchasers of the Notes and of
any Common Stock delivered upon conversion of the Notes, upon their
request, the information required to be delivered pursuant to
Rule 144A(d)(4) to facilitate the resale of the Notes and the
Common Stock pursuant to Rule 144A.
Section 4.07.
Stay, Extension and Usury Laws . The Company covenants (to
the extent that it may lawfully do so) that it shall not at any
time insist upon, plead, or in any manner whatsoever claim or take
the benefit or advantage of, any stay, extension or usury law or
other law that would prohibit or forgive the Company from paying
all or any portion of the principal, premium, if any, or interest
on the Notes as contemplated herein, wherever enacted, now or at
any time hereafter in force, or that may affect the covenants or
the performance of this Indenture and the Company (to the extent it
may lawfully do so) hereby expressly waives all benefit or
advantage of any such law, and covenants that it will not, by
resort to any such law, hinder, delay or impede the execution of
any power herein granted to the Trustee, but will suffer and permit
the execution of every such power as though no such law had been
enacted.
Section 4.08.
Compliance Certificate . Within one hundred twenty
(120) calendar days after the end of each fiscal year of the
Company, the Company shall deliver to the Trustee an
Officers’ Certificate stating whether or not the signers have
knowledge of any default under this Indenture, and, if so,
specifying each default or Event of Default and the nature and the
status thereof.
The Company will
deliver to the Trustee, promptly upon becoming aware of
(i) any default in the performance or observance of any
covenant, agreement or condition contained in this Indenture, or
(ii) any Event of Default, an Officers’ Certificate
specifying with particularity such default or Event of Default and
further stating what action the Company has taken, is taking or
proposes to take with respect thereto.
Any notice
required to be given under this Section 4.08 shall be
delivered to a Responsible Officer of the Trustee at its Corporate
Trust Office.
Section 4.09.
Additional Interest Notice . In the event that the Company
is required to pay Additional Interest to Holders of Notes pursuant
to the Registration Rights Agreement, the Company will provide
written notice (“ Additional Interest Notice ”)
to the Trustee of its obligation to pay Additional Interest no
later than fifteen (15) calendar days prior to the proposed
interest payment date for Additional Interest, and the Additional
Interest Notice shall set forth the amount of Additional Interest
to be paid by the Company on such interest payment date.
The
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Trustee shall
not at any time be under any duty or responsibility to any Holder
of Notes to determine the Additional Interest, or with respect to
the nature, extent or calculation of the amount of Additional
Interest when made, or with respect to the method employed in such
calculation of the Additional Interest.
ARTICLE 5
NOTEHOLDERS’ LISTS AND REPORTS BY THE COMPANY AND THE
TRUSTEE
Section 5.01.
Noteholders’ Lists . The Company covenants and agrees
that it will furnish or cause to be furnished to the Trustee,
semiannually, not more than fifteen (15) calendar days after
each May 15 and November 15 of each year beginning with
November 15, 2009, and at such other times as the Trustee may
reasonably request in writing, within thirty (30) calendar
days after receipt by the Company of any such request (or such
lesser time as the Trustee may reasonably request in order to
enable it to timely provide any notice to be provided by it
hereunder), a list in such form as the Trustee may reasonably
require of the names and addresses of the Holders of Notes as of a
date not more than fifteen (15) calendar days (or such other
date as the Trustee may reasonably request in order to so provide
any such notices) prior to the time such information is furnished,
except that no such list need be furnished by the Company to the
Trustee so long as the Trustee is acting as the sole Note
Registrar.
Section 5.02.
Preservation and Disclosure of Lists .
(a) The Trustee
shall preserve, in as current a form as is reasonably practicable,
all information as to the names and addresses of the Holders of
Notes contained in the most recent list furnished to it as provided
in Section 5.01 or maintained by the Trustee in its capacity
as Note Registrar or co-registrar in respect of the Notes, if so
acting. The Trustee may destroy any list furnished to it as
provided in Section 5.01 upon receipt of a new list so
furnished.
(b) The rights of
Noteholders to communicate with other Holders of Notes with respect
to their rights under this Indenture or under the Notes, and the
corresponding rights and duties of the Trustee, shall be as
provided by the Trust Indenture Act.
(c) Every
Noteholder agrees with the Company and the Trustee that neither the
Company nor the Trustee nor any agent of either of them shall be
held accountable by reason of any disclosure of information as to
names and addresses of Holders of Notes made pursuant to the Trust
Indenture Act.
Section 5.03.
Reports by Trustee .
(a) Within sixty
(60) calendar days after May 15 of each year beginning
with May 15, 2010, the Trustee shall transmit to Holders of
Notes such reports dated as of May 15 of the year in which
such reports are made concerning the Trustee and its actions under
this Indenture as may be required pursuant to the Trust Indenture
Act at the times and in the manner provided pursuant thereto. In
the event that no events have occurred
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under the
applicable sections of the Trust Indenture Act the Trustee shall be
under no duty or obligation to provide such reports.
(b) A copy of such
report shall, at the time of such transmission to Holders of Notes,
be filed by the Trustee with each stock exchange and automated
quotation system, if any, upon which the Notes are listed and with
the Company and, at such time, if any, as the Indenture is
qualified under the Trust Indenture Act, with the SEC. The Company
will promptly notify the Trustee in writing if the Notes are listed
on any stock exchange or automated quotation system or delisted
therefrom.
Section 5.04.
Reports by Company . Whether or not the Company is subject
to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act and for so long as
any Notes are outstanding, within the time periods required by the
applicable rules and regulations of the Commission, the Company
will furnish to the Holders of the Notes, or cause the Trustee to
furnish to the Holders of the Notes, (1) all quarterly and
annual reports that would be required to be filed with the
Commission on Forms 10-Q and 10-K if the Company were required to
file such reports; and (2) all current reports that would be
required to be filed with the Commission on Form 8-K if the Company
were required to file such reports. Delivery of such reports,
information and documents to the Trustee is for informational
purposes only and the Trustee’s receipt of such shall not
constitute constructive notice of any information contained therein
or determinable from information contained therein, including the
Company’s compliance with any of its covenants hereunder (as
to which the Trustee is entitled to rely exclusively on an
Officers’ Certificate).
ARTICLE 6
REMEDIES OF THE TRUSTEE AND NOTEHOLDERS
ON AN EVENT OF DEFAULT
Section 6.01.
Events of Default . In case one or more of the following
(“ Events of Default ”) (whatever the reason for
such Event of Default and whether it shall be voluntary or
involuntary or be effected by operation of law or pursuant to any
judgment, decree or order of any court or any order, rule or
regulation of any administrative or governmental body) shall have
occurred and be continuing:
(a) default for
thirty (30) days in the payment of any installment of interest
under the Notes, whether or not such payment is prohibited by the
subordination provisions set forth in Article 15;
or
(b) default in the
payment of the principal amount or any repurchase price due with
respect to the Notes including upon a Change of Control, when the
same becomes due and payable, whether or not such payment is
prohibited by the subordination provisions of Article 15;
or
(c) the Company
fails to deliver all shares of Common Stock when such Common Stock
is required to be delivered upon conversion of any Notes, and such
default continues for fifteen (15) Business Days;
or
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(d) the Company
fails to comply with any of the Company’s other agreements
contained in the Notes or this Indenture upon receipt by the
Company of notice of such default by the Trustee or by Holders of
not less than 25% in aggregate principal amount of the Notes then
outstanding and the Company fails to cure (or obtain a waiver of)
such default within seventy-five (75) days after the Company
receives such notice; or
(e) failure to pay
any indebtedness for money borrowed by the Company or any
Subsidiaries in an outstanding principal amount of in excess of
$25,000,000 or more when such indebtedness becomes due and payable,
at scheduled maturity or upon a required prepayment (after giving
effect to any applicable grace period provided in such
indebtedness) or upon acceleration, which indebtedness is not
discharged, or such default in payment or acceleration is not cured
or rescinded, within thirty (30) days after written notice to
the Company from the Trustee (or to the Company and the Trustee
from Holders of at least 25% in principal amount of the outstanding
Notes); or
(f) the Company
fails to provide on ten (10) days’ notice in connection
with the occurrence of a Designated Event and the Company fails to
cure (or obtain a waiver of) such default within twenty
(20) Business Days after the occurrence of a Designated Event
as provided in Section 3.03(b); or
(g) the Company or
any of its Significant Subsidiaries pursuant to or under or within
the meaning of any Bankruptcy Law:
(i) commences a
voluntary case or proceeding seeking liquidation, reorganization or
other relief with respect to the Company or a Significant
Subsidiary or its debts under any Bankruptcy Law or seeking the
appointment of a trustee, receiver, liquidator, custodian or other
similar official of the Company or a Significant Subsidiary or any
substantial part of the property of the Company or a Significant
Subsidiary; or
(ii) consents to
any such relief or to the appointment of or taking possession by
any such official in an involuntary case or other proceeding
commenced against the Company or a Significant Subsidiary;
or
(iii) consents to
the appointment of a custodian of it or for all or substantially of
its property; or
(iv) makes a
general assignment for the benefit of creditors; or
(h) an involuntary
case or other proceeding shall be commenced against the Company or
any of its Significant Subsidiaries seeking liquidation,
reorganization or other relief with respect to the Company or a
Significant Subsidiary or its debts under any bankruptcy,
insolvency or other similar law now or hereafter in effect or
seeking the appointment of a trustee, receiver, liquidator,
custodian or other similar official of the Company or a Significant
Subsidiary or any substantial part of the property of
the
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Company or a
Significant Subsidiary, and such involuntary case or other
proceeding shall remain undismissed and unstayed for a period of
sixty (60) calendar days; or
(i) a court of
competent jurisdiction enters an order or decree under any
Bankruptcy Law that:
(i) is for relief
against the Company or any of its Significant Subsidiaries in an
involuntary case or proceeding; or
(ii) appoints a
trustee, receiver, liquidator, custodian or other similar official
of the Company or a Significant Subsidiary or any substantial part
of the property of the Company or a Significant Subsidiary;
or
(iii) orders the
liquidation of the Company or a Significant Subsidiary; and, in
each case in this clause (i), the order or decree remains unstayed
and in effect for sixty (60) calendar days;
then, and in
each and every such case (other than an Event of Default specified
in Sections 6.01(g)
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