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Title: INDENTURE
Governing Law: New Jersey     Date: 9/23/2009
Industry: Photography     Sector: Consumer Cyclical

INDENTURE, Parties: cede & co , eastman kodak company
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Exhibit 4.1

EXECUTION VERSION

 

EASTMAN KODAK COMPANY

AND

THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON,

as Trustee

INDENTURE

Dated as of September 23, 2009

7.00% Convertible Senior Notes due 2017

 


 

TABLE OF CONTENTS

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Page

ARTICLE 1

Definitions; Interpretations

 

 

 

 

 

Section 1.01 . Definitions

 

 

1

 

Section 1.02 . References to Interest

 

 

12

 

 

 

 

 

 

ARTICLE 2

Issue, Description, Execution, Registration and Exchange of Notes

 

 

 

 

 

Section 2.01 . Designation and Amount

 

 

12

 

Section 2.02 . Form of Notes

 

 

12

 

Section 2.03 . Date and Denomination of Notes; Payments of Interest

 

 

13

 

Section 2.04 . Execution, Authentication and Delivery of Notes

 

 

14

 

Section 2.05 . Exchange and Registration of Transfer of Notes; Restrictions on Transfer; Depositary; Automatic Exchange

 

 

16

 

Section 2.06 . Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost or Stolen Notes

 

 

21

 

Section 2.07 . Temporary Notes

 

 

22

 

Section 2.08 . Cancellation of Notes Paid, Etc.

 

 

23

 

Section 2.09 . CUSIP and ISIN Numbers

 

 

23

 

Section 2.10 . Additional Notes; Purchases

 

 

23

 

 

 

 

 

 

ARTICLE 3

Satisfaction and Discharge

 

 

 

 

 

Section 3.01 . Satisfaction and Discharge

 

 

24

 

 

 

 

 

 

ARTICLE 4

Particular Covenants of the Company

 

 

 

 

 

Section 4.01 . Payment of Principal and Interest

 

 

24

 

Section 4.02 . Maintenance of Office or Agency

 

 

24

 

Section 4.03 . Appointments to Fill Vacancies in Trustee’s Office

 

 

25

 

Section 4.04 . Provisions as to Paying Agent

 

 

25

 

Section 4.05 . Existence

 

 

26

 

Section 4.06 . Rule 144A Information Requirement and Annual Reports

 

 

26

 

Section 4.07 . Stay, Extension and Usury Laws

 

 

27

 

Section 4.08 . Compliance Certificate; Statements as to Defaults

 

 

27

 


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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ARTICLE 5

Lists of Noteholders and Reports by the Company and the Trustee

 

 

 

 

 

Section 5.01 . Lists of Noteholders

 

 

28

 

Section 5.02 . Preservation and Disclosure of Lists

 

 

28

 

 

 

 

 

 

ARTICLE 6

Defaults and Remedies

 

 

 

 

 

Section 6.01 . Events of Default

 

 

28

 

Section 6.02 . Acceleration

 

 

30

 

Section 6.03 . Payments of Notes on Default; Suit Therefor

 

 

31

 

Section 6.04 . Application of Monies Collected by Trustee

 

 

32

 

Section 6.05 . Proceedings by Noteholders

 

 

33

 

Section 6.06 . Proceedings by Trustee

 

 

34

 

Section 6.07 . Remedies Cumulative and Continuing

 

 

34

 

Section 6.08 . Direction of Proceedings and Waiver of Defaults by Majority of Noteholders

 

 

34

 

Section 6.09 . Notice of Defaults

 

 

35

 

Section 6.10 . Undertaking to Pay Costs

 

 

35

 

 

 

 

 

 

ARTICLE 7

Concerning the Trustee

 

 

 

 

 

Section 7.01 . Duties and Responsibilities of Trustee

 

 

36

 

Section 7.02 . Reliance on Documents, Opinions, Etc.

 

 

37

 

Section 7.03 . No Responsibility for Recitals, Etc.

 

 

39

 

Section 7.04 . Trustee, Paying Agents, Conversion Agents or Registrar May Own Notes

 

 

39

 

Section 7.05 . Monies to Be Held in Trust

 

 

39

 

Section 7.06 . Compensation and Expenses of Trustee

 

 

39

 

Section 7.07 . Officer’s Certificate as Evidence

 

 

40

 

Section 7.08 . Conflicting Interests of Trustee

 

 

40

 

Section 7.09 . Eligibility of Trustee

 

 

41

 

Section 7.10 . Resignation or Removal of Trustee

 

 

41

 

Section 7.11 . Acceptance by Successor Trustee

 

 

42

 

Section 7.12 . Succession by Merger, Etc.

 

 

43

 

Section 7.13 . Limitation on Rights of Trustee as Creditor

 

 

43

 

Section 7.14 . Trustee’s Application for Instructions from the Company

 

 

43

 

 

 

 

 

 

ARTICLE 8

Concerning the Noteholders

 

 

 

 

 

Section 8.01 . Action by Noteholders

 

 

44

 

Section 8.02 . Proof of Execution by Noteholders

 

 

44

 

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Section 8.03 . Who Are Deemed Absolute Owners

 

 

44

 

Section 8.04 . Company-Owned Notes Disregarded

 

 

44

 

Section 8.05 . Revocation of Consents; Future Holders Bound

 

 

45

 

 

 

 

 

 

ARTICLE 9

Supplemental Indentures

 

 

 

 

 

Section 9.01 . Supplemental Indentures Without Consent of Noteholders

 

 

45

 

Section 9.02 . Supplemental Indentures with Consent of Noteholders

 

 

46

 

Section 9.03 . Effect of Supplemental Indentures

 

 

47

 

Section 9.04 . Notation on Notes

 

 

48

 

Section 9.05 . Evidence of Compliance of Supplemental Indenture to Be Furnished Trustee

 

 

48

 

 

 

 

 

 

ARTICLE 10

Consolidation, Merger, Sale, Conveyance and Lease

 

 

 

 

 

Section 10.01 . Company May Consolidate, Etc. on Certain Terms

 

 

49

 

Section 10.02 . Successor Entity to Be Substituted

 

 

49

 

Section 10.03 . Opinion of Counsel to Be Given Trustee

 

 

50

 

 

 

 

 

 

ARTICLE 11

Immunity of Incorporators, Shareholders, Officers and Directors

 

 

 

 

 

Section 11.01 . Indenture and Notes Solely Corporate Obligations

 

 

50

 

 

 

 

 

 

ARTICLE 12

Special Interest

 

 

 

 

 

Section 12.01 . Special Interest

 

 

50

 

 

 

 

 

 

ARTICLE 13

Conversion of Notes

 

 

 

 

 

Section 13.01 . Conversion Privilege

 

 

51

 

Section 13.02 . Conversion Procedure

 

 

51

 

Section 13.03 . Increased Conversion Rate Applicable To Certain Notes Surrendered In Connection With Make-Whole Fundamental Changes

 

 

55

 

Section 13.04 . Adjustment of Conversion Rate

 

 

57

 

Section 13.05 . Shares to Be Fully Paid

 

 

67

 

Section 13.06 . Effect of Reclassification, Consolidation, Merger or Sale

 

 

67

 

Section 13.07 . Certain Covenants

 

 

70

 

Section 13.08 . Responsibility of Trustee

 

 

70

 

Section 13.09 . Notice to Noteholders Prior to Certain Actions

 

 

70

 

Section 13.10 . Stockholder Rights Plans

 

 

71

 

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ARTICLE 14

REDEMPTION OF NOTES

 

 

 

 

 

Section 14.01 . Company’s Right to Redeem; Notices to Trustee

 

 

72

 

Section 14.02 . Selection of Notes to Be Redeemed

 

 

72

 

Section 14.03 . Redemption Notice

 

 

72

 

Section 14.04 . Effect of Redemption Notice

 

 

73

 

Section 14.05 . Deposit of Redemption Price

 

 

74

 

Section 14.06 . Notes Redeemed in Part

 

 

74

 

Section 14.07 . No Redemption Upon Acceleration

 

 

74

 

 

 

 

 

 

ARTICLE 15

repurchase Of Notes At Option Of Noteholders

 

 

 

 

 

Section 15.01. Repurchase at Option of Noteholders upon a Fundamental Change

 

 

75

 

Section 15.02. Withdrawal of Fundamental Change Purchase Notice

 

 

77

 

Section 15.03. Deposit of Fundamental Change Purchase Price

 

 

78

 

 

 

 

 

 

ARTICLE 16

Miscellaneous Provisions

 

 

 

 

 

Section 16.01 . Provisions Binding on Company’s Successors

 

 

79

 

Section 16.02 . Official Acts by Successor

 

 

79

 

Section 16.03 . Addresses for Notices, Etc.

 

 

79

 

Section 16.04 . Governing Law

 

 

80

 

Section 16.05 . Evidence of Compliance with Conditions Precedent; Certificates and Opinions of Counsel to Trustee

 

 

80

 

Section 16.06 . Legal Holidays

 

 

80

 

Section 16.07 . No Security Interest Created

 

 

80

 

Section 16.08 . Benefits of Indenture

 

 

81

 

Section 16.09 . Table of Contents, Headings, Etc.

 

 

81

 

Section 16.10 . Authenticating Agent

 

 

81

 

Section 16.11 . Execution in Counterparts

 

 

82

 

Section 16.12 . Severability

 

 

82

 

Section 16.13 . Waiver of Jury Trial

 

 

82

 

Section 16.14. Consent to Jurisdiction

 

 

82

 

Section 16.15 . Force Majeure

 

 

83

 

Section 16.16 . Calculations

 

 

83

 

Section 16.17. U.S.A. Patriot Act

 

 

83

 

 

 

 

 

 

EXHIBIT:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Exhibit A   Form of Note

 

 

A-1

 

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     INDENTURE dated as of September 23, 2009 between Eastman Kodak Company, a New Jersey corporation, as issuer (hereinafter sometimes called the “ Company ,” as more fully set forth in Section 1.01) and The Bank of New York Mellon, a New York banking corporation, as trustee (hereinafter sometimes called the “ Trustee ,” as more fully set forth in Section 1.01).

W I T N E S S E T H:

     WHEREAS, for its lawful corporate purposes, the Company has duly authorized the issue of its 7.00% Convertible Senior Notes due 2017 (hereinafter sometimes called the “ Notes ”), initially in an aggregate principal amount of $400,000,000, and in order to provide the terms and conditions upon which the Notes are to be authenticated, issued and delivered, the Company has duly authorized the execution and delivery of this Indenture; and

     WHEREAS, the Form of Note, the certificate of authentication to be borne by each Note, the Form of Notice of Conversion, the Form of Fundamental Change Purchase Notice and the Form of Assignment and Transfer to be borne by the Notes are to be substantially in the forms hereinafter provided; and

     WHEREAS, all acts and things necessary to make the Notes, when executed by the Company and authenticated and delivered by the Trustee or a duly authorized authenticating agent, as in this Indenture provided, the valid, binding and legal obligations of the Company, and to constitute these presents a valid agreement according to its terms, have been done and performed, and the execution of this Indenture and the issue hereunder of the Notes have in all respects been duly authorized.

     NOW, THEREFORE, THIS INDENTURE WITNESSETH:

     That in order to declare the terms and conditions upon which the Notes are, and are to be, authenticated, issued and delivered, and in consideration of the premises and of the purchase and acceptance of the Notes by the holders thereof, the Company covenants and agrees with the Trustee for the equal and proportionate benefit of the respective holders from time to time of the Notes (except as otherwise provided below), as follows:

ARTICLE 1
Definitions; Interpretations

     Section 1.01 . Definitions. The terms defined in this Section 1.01 (except as herein otherwise expressly provided or unless the context otherwise requires) for all purposes of this Indenture and of any indenture supplemental hereto shall have the respective meanings specified in this Section 1.01. All other terms used in this Indenture that are defined in the Trust Indenture Act or that are by reference therein defined in the Securities Act (except as herein otherwise expressly provided or unless the context otherwise requires) shall have the meanings assigned to such terms in said Trust Indenture Act and in said Securities Act as in force at the date of the execution of this Indenture. The words “herein,” “hereof,”

 


 

“hereunder,” and words of similar import refer to this Indenture as a whole and not to any particular Article, Section or other subdivision. The terms defined in this Article include the plural as well as the singular. Unless otherwise noted, references to “U.S. Dollars” or “$” shall mean the currency of the United States.

     “ Additional Interest ” shall have the meaning specified in Section 6.02.

     “ Affiliate ” of any specified Person means any other Person directly or indirectly controlling or controlled by or under direct or indirect common control with such specified Person. For the purposes of this definition, “control,” when used with respect to any specified Person means the power to direct or cause the direction of the management and policies of such Person, directly or indirectly, whether through the ownership of voting securities, by contract or otherwise; and the terms “controlling” and “controlled” have meanings correlative to the foregoing.

     “ Automatic Exchange ” shall have the meaning specified in Section 2.05(f).

     “ Automatic Exchange Date ” shall have the meaning specified in Section 2.05(f).

     “ Bankruptcy Law ” shall have the meaning specified in Section 6.01(b).

     “ Board of Directors ” means the board of directors of the Company or a committee of such board duly authorized to act for it hereunder.

     “ Board Resolution ” means a copy of a resolution certified by the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary of the Company to have been duly adopted by the Board of Directors, and to be in full force and effect on the date of such certification, and delivered to the Trustee.

     “ Business Day ” means any day other than a Saturday, Sunday or other day on which the banking institutions in New York City are authorized or required by law or executive order to close or be closed.

     “ Capital Stock ” means, for any entity, any and all shares, interests, rights to purchase, warrants, options, participations or other equivalents of or interests in (however designated) stock issued by that entity.

     “ Cash Settlement ” shall have the meaning specified in Section 13.02(a).

     “ close of business ” means 5:00 p.m. (New York City time).

     “ Commission ” means the Securities and Exchange Commission.

     “ Common Stock ” means shares of common stock, par value $2.50 per share, of the Company, as they exist on the date of this Indenture, subject to Section 13.06.

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     “ Company ” means Eastman Kodak Company, a New Jersey corporation, and subject to the provisions of Article 10, shall include its successors and assigns.

     “ Company Order ” means a written order of the Company, signed by the Company’s Chief Executive Officer, Chief Financial Officer, President, Executive Vice President or any Vice President (whether or not designated by a number or numbers or word or words added before or after the title “Vice President”), Treasurer or Assistant Treasurer or Secretary or any Assistant Secretary, and delivered to the Trustee.

     “ Continuing Director ” means a director who either was a member of the board of directors on September 23, 2009 or who becomes a member of the board of directors subsequent to that date and whose election, appointment or nomination for election by the shareholders of the Company, is duly approved by a majority of the continuing directors on the board of directors at the time of such approval, either by a specific vote or by approval of the proxy statement issued by the Company on behalf of the entire board of directors in which such individual is named as nominee for director.

     “ Conversion Agent ” shall have the meaning specified in Section 4.02.

     “ Conversion Date ” shall have the meaning specified in Section 13.02(h).

     “ Conversion Notice ” shall have the meaning specified in Section 13.02(g).

     “ Conversion Obligation ” shall have the meaning specified in Section 13.01.

     “ Conversion Price ” means, in respect of each $1,000 principal amount of Notes, as of any date, $1,000, divided by the Conversion Rate as of such date.

     “ Conversion Rate ” shall have the meaning specified in Section 13.01.

     “ Corporate Trust Office ” means the principal office of the Trustee at which at any time its corporate trust business shall be administered, which office at the date hereof shall be The Bank of New York Mellon, 101 Barclay Street, 8W, New York, New York, 10007, fax: 732-667-9185, Attention: Corporate Trust Administration, or such other address or fax number as the Trustee may designate from time to time by notice to the Noteholders and the Company, or the principal corporate trust office of any successor Trustee (or such other address as such successor Trustee may designate from time to time by notice to the Noteholders and the Company).

     “ Custodian ” means The Bank of New York Mellon, as custodian for The Depository Trust Company, with respect to the Global Notes, or any successor entity thereto.

     “ Daily Conversion Value ” means, for each of the 20 consecutive Trading Days during the Settlement Averaging Period, one-twentieth (1/20th) of the product of (a) the Conversion Rate on such Trading Day and (b) the Daily VWAP of the Common Stock on such Trading Day.

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     “ Daily VWAP ” of the Common Stock, in respect of any Trading Day, means the per share volume-weighted average price on the Relevant Exchange as displayed under the heading “Bloomberg VWAP” on Bloomberg page EK.N<equity>AQR (or its equivalent successor if such page is not available) in respect of the period from the scheduled open of trading until the scheduled close of trading of the primary trading session on such Trading Day (or if such volume-weighted average price is unavailable, the market value of one share of the Common Stock on such Trading Day as determined using a volume-weighted average price method by the Company’s Board of Directors or a nationally recognized independent investment banking firm retained for this purpose by the Company. The Daily VWAP will be determined without regard to after-hours trading or any other trading outside of the regular trading session.

     “ Default ” means any event that is, or after the giving of notice or with the passage of time, or both, would become, an Event of Default.

     “ Defaulted Interest ” means any interest on any Note that is payable, but is not punctually paid or duly provided for, on any April 1 or October 1.

     “ Depositary ” means, with respect to the Global Notes, the Person specified in Section 2.05 as the Depositary with respect to such Notes, until a successor shall have been appointed and become such pursuant to the applicable provisions of this Indenture, and thereafter, “ Depositary ” shall mean or include such successor.

     “ DTC ” shall have the meaning specified in Section 2.05(c).

     “ Effective Date ” shall have the meaning specified in Section 13.03(a).

     “ Event of Default ” shall have the meaning specified in Section 6.01.

     “ Ex-Dividend Date ” means, with respect to any issuance, dividend or distribution in which the holders of shares of Common Stock have the right to receive any cash, securities or other property, the first date on which the shares of Common Stock trade on the Relevant Exchange, regular way, without the right to receive the issuance, dividend or distribution in question.

     “ Exchange Act ” means the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder.

     “ Expiration Date ” shall have the meaning specified in Section 13.04(e).

     “ Expiration Time ” shall have the meaning specified in Section 13.04(e).

     “ Form of Assignment and Transfer ” shall mean the “Form of Assignment and Transfer” attached as Attachment 3 to the Form of Note attached hereto as Exhibit A.

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     “ Form of Fundamental Change Purchase Notice ” shall mean the “Form of Fundamental Change Purchase Notice” attached as Attachment 2 to the Form of Note attached hereto as Exhibit A.

     “ Form of Note ” shall mean the “Form of Note” attached hereto as Exhibit A.

     “ Form of Notice of Conversion ” shall mean the “Form of Notice of Conversion” attached as Attachment 1 to the Form of Note attached hereto as Exhibit A.

     “ Fundamental Change ” means the occurrence after the original issuance of the Notes of any of the following events:

     (a) a “person” or “group” (within the meaning of Section 13(d) of the Exchange Act) other than the Company, its Subsidiaries and the employee benefit plans of the Company or any such Subsidiary, has become the direct or indirect ultimate “beneficial owner,” as defined in Rule 13d-3 under the Exchange Act, of the Company’s common equity representing more than 50% of the voting power of the Company’s common equity;

     (b) consummation of any recapitalization, reclassification, binding share exchange, exchange offer, tender offer, consolidation, merger of the Company or other change to the Common Stock pursuant to which all or substantially all of the Common Stock will be converted into cash, securities or other property or any sale, lease or other transfer in one transaction or a series of related transactions of all or substantially all of the consolidated assets of the Company and the Company’s Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, to any person other than one or more of the Company’s Subsidiaries (any such exchange, offer, consolidation, merger, transaction or series of transactions being referred to in this clause (b) as an “ Event ”); provided, however , that if Persons that beneficially own the Company’s voting securities immediately prior to such transaction own, directly or indirectly, a majority of the voting securities of the continuing or surviving person or transferee or the parent thereof immediately after such Event in substantially the same proportion as the ownership of the Company’s voting securities (taken as a whole) immediately prior to such transaction, such transaction shall not be a Fundamental Change (it being understood that any merger solely for the purpose of changing the Company’s jurisdiction of incorporation and resulting in a reclassification, conversion or exchange of outstanding shares of Common Stock solely into shares of common stock of the surviving entity where this proviso is true shall not be a Fundamental Change);

     (c) Continuing Directors cease to constitute at least a majority of the board of directors;

     (d) the shareholders of the Company approve any plan or proposal for the liquidation or dissolution of the Company; or

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     (e) the Common Stock (or other common stock into which the Notes are then convertible) ceases to be listed or quoted on any U.S. national securities exchange,

provided , however , in the case of a transaction or event described in clause (a) or (b) above, if at least 90% of the consideration (the “ Transaction Consideration ”), excluding cash payments for fractional shares and cash payments pursuant to dissenters’ appraisal rights (if applicable), in the transaction or event constituting the Fundamental Change consists of Publicly Traded Securities, and as a result of such transaction or event, the Notes become, pursuant to the terms of the Indenture, convertible into such Transaction Consideration, as set forth in Section 13.06, including such Publicly Traded Securities, but excluding cash payments for fractional shares and cash payments pursuant to dissenters’ appraisal rights (if applicable) (subject to the provisions of Section 13.02), such event shall not be a Fundamental Change.

     For purposes of this definition, whether a “person” is a “beneficial owner” shall be determined in accordance with Rule 13d-3 under the Exchange Act and “person” includes any syndicate or group that would be deemed to be a “person” under Section 13(d)(3) of the Exchange Act.

     “ Fundamental Change Company Notice ” shall have the meaning specified in Section 15.01(b).

     “ Fundamental Change Expiration Time ” shall have the meaning specified in Section 15.01(b)(iii).

     “ Fundamental Change Purchase Notice ” shall have the meaning specified in Section 15.01(a)(i).

     “ Fundamental Change Purchase Date ” shall have the meaning specified in Section 15.01(a).

     “ Fundamental Change Purchase Price ” shall have the meaning specified in Section 15.01(a).

     “ Global Note ” shall have the meaning specified in Section 2.05(b).

     “ Indenture ” means this instrument as originally executed or, if amended or supplemented as herein provided, as so amended or supplemented.

     “ Interest Payment Date ” means each April 1 and October 1 of each year, beginning on April 1, 2010; provided , however , that if any Interest Payment Date falls on a date that is not a Business Day, such payment of interest will be postponed until the next succeeding Business Day, and no interest or other amount will be paid as a result of such postponement.

     “ Initial Purchasers ” means Citigroup Global Markets Inc., Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated, Morgan Stanley & Co. Incorporated, BNY Mellon Capital

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Markets, LLC, Daiwa Securities America Inc., Mizuho Securities USA Inc. and PNC Capital Markets LLC.

     “ Interest Record Date ,” with respect to any Interest Payment Date, shall mean the March 15 or September 15 (whether or not such day is a Business Day) immediately preceding the applicable April 1 or October 1 Interest Payment Date, respectively.

     “ Last Reported Sale Price ” of the Common Stock on any date means the closing sale price per share (or if no closing sale price is reported, the average of the bid and ask prices or, if more than one in either case, the average of the average bid and the average ask prices) on that date as reported in composite transactions for the principal U.S. national or regional securities exchange on which the Common Stock is listed for trading. The “ Last Reported Sale Price ” will be determined without reference to after-hours or extended market trading. If the Common Stock is not listed for trading on a U.S. national or regional securities exchange on the relevant date, then the “ Last Reported Sale Price ” will be the last quoted bid price for the Common Stock in the over-the-counter market on the relevant date as reported by Pink OTC Markets Inc. or a similar organization. If the Common Stock is not so quoted, the “ Last Reported Sale Price ” will be determined by a U.S. nationally recognized independent investment banking firm selected by the Company for this purpose.

     “ Make-Whole Fundamental Change ” means any transaction or event that constitutes a Fundamental Change as described in the definition thereof (in the case of any Fundamental Change described in clause (b) of the definition thereof, determined without regard to the proviso in such clause (b), but subject to the paragraphs immediately following clause (e) of the definition thereof).

     “ Market Disruption Event ” means (a) a failure by the primary exchange or quotation system on which the Common Stock trades or is quoted to open for trading during its regular trading session or (b) the occurrence or existence prior to 1:00 p.m., New York City time, on any Scheduled Trading Day for the Common Stock for an aggregate one-half hour period of any suspension or limitation imposed on trading (by reason of movements in price exceeding limits permitted by the stock exchange or otherwise) in the Common Stock or in any options, contracts or future contracts relating to the Common Stock listed on an exchange or quotation system.

     “ Material Subsidiary ” means a Subsidiary that is a “significant subsidiary” as defined under Rule 1-02(w) of Regulation S-X under the Exchange Act; provided that, in the case of a Subsidiary that meets the criteria of clause (3) of the definition thereof but not clause (1) or (2) thereof, such Subsidiary shall not be deemed to be a Material Subsidiary unless the Subsidiary’s income from continuing operations before income taxes, extraordinary items and cumulative effect of a change in accounting principle exclusive of amounts attributable to any non-controlling interests for the last completed fiscal year prior to the date of such determination exceeds $25,000,000.

     “ Maturity Date ” means April 1, 2017.

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     “ Merger Event ” shall have the meaning specified in Section 13.06.

     “ Note ” or “ Notes ” shall mean any note or notes, as the case may be, authenticated and delivered under this Indenture.

     “ Note Register ” shall have the meaning specified in Section 2.05(a).

     “ Note Registrar ” shall have the meaning specified in Section 2.05(a).

     “ Noteholder ” or “ holder ,” as applied to any Note, or other similar terms (but excluding the term “beneficial holder”), shall mean any Person in whose name at the time a particular Note is registered on the Note Register.

     “ Offering Memorandum ” means the final offering memorandum dated September 17, 2009 relating to the offering and sale of the Notes pursuant to the Purchase Agreement.

     “ Officer ” means, with respect to the Company, the President, the Chief Executive Officer, the Treasurer, any Assistant Treasurer, the Secretary, any Assistant Secretary, any Executive or Senior Vice President or any Vice President (whether or not designated by a number or numbers or word or words added before or after the title “Vice President”).

     “ Officer’s Certificate ,” when used with respect to the Company, means a certificate signed by an Officer of the Company that is delivered to the Trustee. Each such certificate (other than delivered pursuant to Section 4.08 of this Indenture) shall include the statements provided for in Section 16.05 if and to the extent required by the provisions of such Section.

     “ open of business ” means 9:00 a.m. (New York City time).

     “ Opinion of Counsel ” means an opinion in writing signed by legal counsel acceptable to the Trustee, who may be an employee of or counsel to the Company, that is delivered to the Trustee. Each such opinion shall include the statements provided for in Section 16.05 if and to the extent required by the provisions of such Section.

     “ outstanding ,” when used with reference to Notes, shall, subject to the provisions of Section 8.04, mean, as of any particular time, all Notes authenticated and delivered by the Trustee under this Indenture, except:

     (a) Notes theretofore canceled by the Trustee or accepted by the Trustee for cancellation;

     (b) Notes, or portions thereof, for the payment, redemption or purchase of which monies in the necessary amount shall have been deposited in trust with the Trustee or with any Paying Agent (other than the Company) or shall have been set aside and segregated in trust by the Company (if the Company shall act as its own Paying Agent); provided that, if any such Note is purchased, the holder thereof shall

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have delivered a Fundamental Change Purchase Notice in accordance with Section 15.01(a);

     (c) Notes that have been paid pursuant to Section 2.06 or Notes in lieu of which, or in substitution for which, other Notes shall have been authenticated and delivered pursuant to the terms of Section 2.06 unless proof satisfactory to the Trustee is presented that any such Notes are held by protected purchasers in due course; and

     (d) Notes converted pursuant to Article 13.

     “ Paying Agent ” shall have the meaning specified in Section 4.02.

     “ Person ” means an individual, a corporation, a limited liability company, an association, a partnership, a joint venture, a joint stock company, a trust, an unincorporated organization or a government or an agency or a political subdivision thereof.

     “ Physical Settlement ” shall have the meaning specified in Section 13.02(a).

     “ 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 or in exchange for a mutilated, lost, destroyed or stolen Note shall be deemed to evidence the same debt as the mutilated, lost, destroyed or stolen Note that it replaces.

     “ Publicly Traded Securities ” means shares of common stock that are traded on any U.S. national securities exchange or that will be so traded when issued or exchanged in connection with a Fundamental Change described in clause (a) or (b) of the definition thereof.

     “ Purchase Agreement ” means that certain Purchase Agreement, dated as of September 17, 2009, among the Company and the Initial Purchasers.

     “ Redemption Date ” shall have the meaning specified in Section 14.01.

     “ Redemption Notice ” shall have the meaning specified in Section 14.01.

     “ Redemption Price ” shall have the meaning specified in Section 14.01

     “ Reference Property ” shall have the meaning specified in Section 13.06(b).

     “ Relevant Exchange ” means, at any time, the New York Stock Exchange or, if the Common Stock is not then listed on the New York Stock Exchange, the primary U.S. national securities exchange on which the Common Stock is then listed or admitted for trading.

     “ Resale Restriction Termination Date ” shall have the meaning specified in Section 2.05(c).

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     “ Responsible Officer ” means, when used with respect to the Trustee, any officer within the corporate trust department of the Trustee, including any vice president, assistant vice president, assistant secretary, assistant treasurer, trust officer or any other officer of the Trustee who customarily performs functions similar to those performed by the Persons who at the time shall be such officers, respectively, or to whom any corporate trust matter is referred because of such person’s knowledge of and familiarity with the particular subject and who shall have direct responsibility for the administration of this Indenture.

     “ Restricted Global Note ” shall mean a Global Note that is a Restricted Security.

     “ Restricted Securities ” shall have the meaning specified in Section 2.05(c).

     “ Restricted Transfer Default ” shall have the meaning specified in Section 12.01(a).

     “ Restricted Transfer Triggering Date ” shall have the meaning specified in Section 12.01(a).

     “ Rule 144 ” means Rule 144 as promulgated under the Securities Act.

     “ Rule 144A ” means Rule 144A as promulgated under the Securities Act.

     “ Scheduled Trading Day ” means any day that is scheduled to be a Trading Day on the primary U.S. national securities exchange or market on which the Common Stock is listed or admitted for trading, unless the Common Stock is not so traded or quoted, in which case “Scheduled Trading day” means a Business Day.

     “ Securities Act ” means the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder.

     “ Settlement Averaging Period ,” with respect to any Note surrendered for conversion to which a Cash Settlement applies, means:

     (a) if the relevant Conversion Date occurs prior to January 15, 2017, the 20 consecutive Trading Day period beginning on, and including, the third Trading Day immediately following the related Conversion Date, unless such Note has been called for redemption;

     (b) if the relevant Conversion Date occurs on or after January 15, 2017, the 20 consecutive Trading Day period beginning on, and including, the 22nd Scheduled Trading Day prior to the Maturity Date; and

     (c) if such Note has been called for redemption, the 20 consecutive Trading Day period beginning on, and including, the 22nd Scheduled Trading Day prior to the Redemption Date.

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     “ Settlement Method ” means, with respect to a conversion of Notes, a Physical Settlement or a Cash Settlement, as elected (or deemed elected) by the Company pursuant to the provisions of this Indenture.

     “ Settlement Notice ” has the meaning specified in Section 13.02(b).

     “ Stock Price ” means (a) in the case of a Make-Whole Fundamental Change described in clause (b) of the definition of Fundamental Change in which holders of Common Stock receive solely cash consideration in connection with such Make-Whole Fundamental Change, the amount of cash paid per Common Stock and (b) in the case of all other Make-Whole Fundamental Changes, the average of the Last Reported Sale Prices per Common Stock over the period of five consecutive Trading Days ending on, and including, the Trading Day immediately preceding the Effective Date of the Make-Whole Fundamental Change.

     “ Special Interest ” shall have the meaning specified in Section 12.01(a).

     “ Spin-Off ” shall have the meaning specified in Section 13.04(c).

     “ Subsidiary ” means, with respect to any Person, any corporation, association, partnership or other business entity of which more than 50% of the total voting power of shares of Capital Stock or other interests (including partnership interests) entitled (without regard to the occurrence of any contingency) to vote in the election of directors, managers, general partners or trustees thereof is at the time owned or controlled, directly or indirectly, by (i) such Person; (ii) such Person and one or more Subsidiaries of such Person; or (iii) one or more Subsidiaries of such Person.

     “ Successor Entity ” shall have the meaning specified in Section 10.01(a).

     “ Trading Day ” means a day during which trading in Common Stock generally occurs on the primary exchange or quotation system on which the Common Stock then trades or is quoted and there is no Market Disruption Event, unless the Common Stock is not so traded or quoted, in which case “Trading Day” means a Business Day.

     “ Transaction Consideration ” shall have the meaning set forth in the definition of Fundamental Change.

     “ transfer ” shall have the meaning specified in Section 2.05(c).

     “ Trigger Event ” shall have the meaning specified in Section 13.04(c).

     “ Trust Indenture Act ” means the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, as amended, as it was in force at the date of execution of this Indenture; provided , however , that in the event the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 is amended after the date hereof, the term “Trust Indenture Act” shall mean, to the extent required by such amendment, the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, as so amended.

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     “ Trustee ” means the Person named as the “Trustee” in the first paragraph of this Indenture until a successor Trustee shall have become such pursuant to the applicable provisions of this Indenture, and thereafter “Trustee” shall mean or include each Person who is then a Trustee hereunder.

     “ United States ” means the United States of America.

     “ Unrestricted Global Note ” shall mean a Global Note that is not a Restricted Security.

     “ Valuation Period ” shall have the meaning specified in Section 13.04(c).

     “ Weighted Average Consideration ” shall have the meaning specified in Section 13.06(c).

     Section 1.02 . References to Interest. Any reference to the payment of interest on, or in respect of, any Note in this Indenture shall be deemed to include mention of the payment of Additional Interest (if applicable) and Special Interest (if applicable) if, in such context, Additional Interest and Special Interest, as applicable, was, or would be, payable pursuant to Section 6.01 and Section 12.01, respectively. An express mention of the payment of Additional Interest (if applicable) or Special Interest (if applicable) in any provision hereof shall not be construed as excluding Special Interest or Additional Interest, as applicable, in those provisions hereof where such express mention is not made.

ARTICLE 2
Issue, Description, Execution, Registration and Exchange of Notes

     Section 2.01 . Designation and Amount. The Notes shall be designated as the “7.00% Convertible Senior Notes due 2017.” The aggregate principal amount of Notes that may be authenticated and delivered under this Indenture is initially limited to $400,000,000, subject to Section 2.10 and except for Notes authenticated and delivered upon registration or transfer of, or in exchange for, or in lieu of other Notes pursuant to Section 2.05 and Section 2.06.

     Section 2.02 . Form of Notes. The Notes and the Trustee’s certificate of authentication to be borne by such Notes shall be substantially in the respective forms set forth in Exhibit A, which are incorporated in and made a part of this Indenture.

     Any of the Notes may have such letters, numbers or other marks of identification and such notations, legends or endorsements as the officer executing the same may approve (execution thereof to be conclusive evidence of such approval) and as are not inconsistent with the provisions of this Indenture, or as may be required to comply with any law or with any rule or regulation made pursuant thereto or with any rule or regulation of any securities exchange or automated quotation system on which the Notes may be listed or designated for issuance, or to conform to usage or to indicate any special limitations or restrictions to which any particular Notes are subject.

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     The Global Note shall represent such principal amount of the outstanding Notes as shall be specified therein and shall provide that it shall represent the aggregate principal amount of outstanding Notes from time to time endorsed thereon and that the aggregate principal amount of outstanding Notes represented thereby may from time to time be increased or reduced to reflect purchases, conversions, transfers, exchanges or issuances of additional Notes permitted hereby. Any endorsement of the Global Note to reflect the amount of any increase or decrease in the amount of outstanding Notes represented thereby shall be made by the Trustee or the Custodian, at the direction of the Trustee, in such manner and upon instructions given by the holder of such Notes in accordance with this Indenture. Payment of principal (including any Fundamental Change Purchase Price or Redemption Price, as applicable) of, and accrued and unpaid interest, if any, on, the Global Note shall be made to the holder of such Note on the date of payment, unless a record date or other means of determining holders eligible to receive payment is provided for herein.

     The terms and provisions contained in the form of Note attached as Exhibit A hereto shall constitute, and are hereby expressly made, a part of this Indenture and, to the extent applicable, the Company and the Trustee, by their execution and delivery of this Indenture, expressly agree to such terms and provisions and to be bound thereby.

     Section 2.03 . Date and Denomination of Notes; Payments of Interest. The Notes shall be issuable in registered form without coupons in denominations of $1,000 principal amount and multiples thereof. Each Note shall be dated the date of its authentication and shall bear interest from the date specified on the face of the form of Note attached as Exhibit A hereto. Interest on the Notes shall be computed on the basis of a 360-day year comprised of twelve 30-day months.

     The Person in whose name any Note (or its Predecessor Note) is registered on the Note Register at the close of business on any Interest Record Date with respect to any Interest Payment Date shall be entitled to receive the interest payable on such Interest Payment Date. Interest shall be payable at the office of the Paying Agent, which shall initially be the Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee as the Company’s Paying Agent and Note Registrar. The Company shall pay interest on any Notes in certificated form (i) to the Person entitled thereto having an aggregate principal amount of $5,000,000 or less, by check mailed to such Person and (ii) to the Person entitled thereto having an aggregate principal amount of more than $5,000,000, either by check mailed to such Person or, upon application by such Person to the Note Registrar not later than the relevant Interest Record Date, by wire transfer in immediately available funds to such Person’s account within the United States, which application shall remain in effect until such Person notifies, in writing, the Note Registrar to the contrary.

     Any Defaulted Interest shall forthwith cease to be payable to the Noteholder on the relevant Interest Record Date by virtue of its having been such Noteholder, and such Defaulted Interest shall be paid by the Company, at its election in each case, as provided in clause (1) or (2) below:

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     (1) The Company may elect to make payment of any Defaulted Interest to the Persons in whose names the Notes (or their respective Predecessor Notes) are registered at the close of business on a special record date for the payment of such Defaulted Interest, which shall be fixed in the following manner. The Company shall notify the Trustee in writing of the amount of Defaulted Interest proposed to be paid on each Note and the date of the proposed payment (which shall be not less than 25 days after the receipt by the Trustee of such notice, unless the Trustee shall consent to an earlier date), and at the same time the Company shall deposit with the Trustee an amount of money equal to the aggregate amount to be paid in respect of such Defaulted Interest 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 Company shall fix a special record date for the payment of such Defaulted Interest which shall be not more than fifteen days and not less than ten days prior to the date of the proposed payment, and not less than ten days after the receipt by the Trustee of the notice of the proposed payment. The Company shall promptly notify the Trustee in writing of such special record date and the Trustee, in the name and at the expense of the Company, shall cause notice of the proposed payment of such Defaulted Interest and the special record date therefor to be mailed, first-class postage prepaid, to each holder at its address as it appears in the Note Register, not less than ten days prior to such special record date. Notice of the proposed payment of such Defaulted Interest and the special record date therefor having been so mailed, such Defaulted Interest shall be paid to the Persons in whose names the Notes (or their respective Predecessor Notes) are registered at the close of business on such special record date and shall no longer be payable pursuant to the following clause (2) of this Section 2.03.

     (2) The Company may make payment of any Defaulted Interest in any other lawful manner not inconsistent with the requirements of any securities exchange or automated quotation system on which the Notes may be listed or designated for issuance, and upon such notice as may be required by such exchange or automated quotation system, 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, Authentication and Delivery of Notes. The Notes shall be signed in the name and on behalf of the Company by the manual or facsimile signature of any Officer.

     At any time and from time to time after the date of the execution and delivery of this Indenture, the Company may deliver additional Notes executed by the Company to the Trustee for authentication, together with a Company Order for the authentication and delivery of such Notes, and the Trustee in accordance with such Company Order shall authenticate and deliver such Notes.

     In authenticating such Notes, and accepting the additional responsibilities under this Indenture in relation to such Notes, the Trustee shall receive, and shall rely upon:

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     (a) A copy of the resolution or resolutions of the Board of Directors in or pursuant to which the terms and form of the Notes were established, certified by the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary of the Company to have been duly adopted by the Board of Directors and to be in full force and effect as of the date of such certificate, and if the terms and form of such Notes are established by an Officer’s Certificate pursuant to general authorization of the Board of Directors, such Officer’s Certificate;

     (b) an executed supplemental indenture, if required;

     (c) an Officer’s Certificate delivered in accordance with Section 16.05; and

     (d) an Opinion of Counsel which shall state:

     (1) that the form of such Notes has been established by a supplemental indenture or by or pursuant to a resolution of the Board of Directors in accordance with Section 2.02 and Section 2.04 and in conformity with the provisions of this Indenture;

     (2) that the terms of such Notes have been established in accordance with Section 2.02 and in conformity with the other provisions of this Indenture; and

     (3) that such Notes, when authenticated and delivered by the Trustee and issued by the Company in the manner and subject to any conditions specified in such Opinion of Counsel, will constitute valid and binding obligations of the Company, enforceable in accordance with their terms, subject to bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization and other laws of general applicability relating to or affecting the enforcement of creditors’ rights and to general equity principles.

     Only such Notes as shall bear thereon a certificate of authentication substantially in the form set forth on the form of Note attached as Exhibit A hereto, executed manually by a Responsible Officer of the Trustee (or an authorized officer of an authenticating agent appointed by the Trustee as provided by Section 16.10), shall be entitled to the benefits of this Indenture or be valid or obligatory for any purpose. Such certificate of authentication executed 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.

     All Notes shall be dated that date of their authentication.

     In case any Officer of the Company who shall have signed any of the Notes shall cease to be such Officer before the Notes so signed shall have been authenticated and delivered by the Trustee, or disposed of by the Company, such Notes nevertheless may be authenticated and delivered or disposed of as though the Person who signed such Notes had not ceased to be such Officer of the Company; and any Note may be signed on behalf of the

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Company by such Person as, at the actual date of the execution of such Note, shall be an Officer of the Company, although at the date of the execution of this Indenture any such person was not such an Officer.

     Section 2.05 . Exchange and Registration of Transfer of Notes; Restrictions on Transfer; Depositary; Automatic Exchange. (a) The Company shall cause to be kept at the Corporate Trust Office a register (the register maintained in such office or 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. Such register shall be in written form or in any form capable of being converted into written form within a reasonable period of time. The Trustee is hereby appointed “ Note Registrar ” for the purpose of registering Notes and transfers of Notes as herein provided. The Company may appoint a new Note Registrar without prior notice to Noteholders. 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 that the Noteholder making the exchange is entitled to receive, bearing registration numbers not contemporaneously outstanding.

     All Notes presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or for exchange, purchase or conversion shall (if so required by the Company, the Trustee, the Note Registrar or any co-registrar) be duly endorsed, or be accompanied by a written instrument or instruments of transfer in form satisfactory to the Company and duly executed, by the Noteholder thereof or its attorney-in-fact duly authorized in writing.

     No service charge shall be charged by the Company, the Trustee or the Notes Registrar to the Noteholder for any exchange or registration of transfer of Notes, but the Noteholder may be required by the Company, the Trustee, the Notes Registrar or otherwise to pay a sum sufficient to cover any tax, assessments or other governmental charges that may be imposed in connection therewith as a result of the name of the Noteholder of the new Notes issued upon such exchange or registration of transfer of Notes being different from the name of the Noteholder of the old Notes presented or surrendered for such exchange or registration of transfer.

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     None of the Company, the Trustee, the Note Registrar or any co-registrar shall be required to exchange or register a transfer of any Notes surrendered for conversion, redemption or repurchase except for any portion of that Note that is not being repurchased, redeemed or converted, as the case may be.

     All Notes issued upon any registration of transfer or exchange of Notes in accordance with this Indenture shall be the valid obligations of the Company, evidencing the same debt, and entitled to the same benefits under this Indenture as the Notes surrendered upon such registration of transfer or exchange. For greater certainty, all Notes issued upon any registration of transfer or exchange of Notes will be issued as evidence of the same continuing indebtedness of the Company under this Indenture and in no circumstances is the Company obligated under the Indenture to repay the principal amount of the exchanged Notes by virtue of the registration of a transfer or exchange.

     (b) So long as the Notes are eligible for book-entry settlement with the Depositary, unless otherwise required by law, all Notes shall be represented by one or more Notes in global form (each, a “ Global Note ”) registered in the name of the Depositary or the nominee of the Depositary. The transfer and exchange of beneficial interests in a Global Note that does not involve the issuance of a definitive Note shall be effected through the Depositary (but not the Trustee or the Custodian) in accordance with this Indenture (including the restrictions on transfer set forth herein) and the procedures of the Depositary therefor.

     (c) Every Note that bears or is required under this Section 2.05(c) to bear the legend set forth in this Section 2.05(c) (together with any Common Stock issued upon conversion of the Notes and required to bear the legend set forth in Section 2.05(d), collectively, the “ Restricted Securities ”) shall be subject to the restrictions on transfer set forth in this Section 2.05(c) (including the legend set forth below), and the holder of each such Restricted Security, by such holder’s acceptance thereof, agrees to be bound by all such restrictions on transfer. As used in this Section 2.05(c) and Section 2.05(d), the term “ transfer ” encompasses any sale, pledge, transfer or other disposition whatsoever of any Restricted Security.

     Until the date (the “ Resale Restriction Termination Date ”) that is the later of (1) the date that is one year after the last date of original issuance of the Notes and (2) such later date, if any, as may be required by applicable laws, any certificate evidencing such Note (and all securities issued in exchange therefor or substitution thereof, other than shares of Common Stock, if any, issued upon conversion thereof which shall bear the legend set forth in Section 2.05(d), if applicable) shall bear a legend in substantially the following form (unless such Notes have been transferred pursuant to a registration statement that has become or been declared effective under the Securities Act and that continues to be effective at the time of such transfer, pursuant to the exemption from registration provided by Rule 144 or any similar provision then in force under the Securities Act, or unless otherwise agreed by the Company in writing, with written notice thereof to the Trustee):

     THE SECURITY EVIDENCED HEREBY HAS NOT BEEN REGISTERED UNDER THE UNITED STATES SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED (THE “SECURITIES

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ACT”), OR ANY STATE SECURITIES LAWS, AND, ACCORDINGLY, MAY NOT BE OFFERED OR SOLD EXCEPT AS SET FORTH IN THE FOLLOWING SENTENCE. BY ITS ACQUISITION HEREOF, THE HOLDER (1) REPRESENTS THAT IT IS A “QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER” (AS DEFINED IN RULE 144A UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT), (2) AGREES THAT IT WILL NOT, PRIOR TO EXPIRATION OF THE HOLDING PERIOD APPLICABLE TO SALES OF THE SECURITY EVIDENCED HEREBY UNDER RULE 144 OF THE SECURITIES ACT (OR ANY SUCCESSOR PROVISION), RESELL OR OTHERWISE TRANSFER THIS SECURITY OR THE COMMON STOCK ISSUABLE UPON CONVERSION OF THIS SECURITY EXCEPT (A) TO EASTMAN KODAK COMPANY OR ANY SUBSIDIARY THEREOF, (B) TO A QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER IN COMPLIANCE WITH RULE 144A UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT, (C) PURSUANT TO THE EXEMPTION FROM REGISTRATION PROVIDED BY RULE 144 UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT (IF AVAILABLE), OR (D) PURSUANT TO A REGISTRATION STATEMENT WHICH HAS BEEN DECLARED EFFECTIVE UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT (AND WHICH CONTINUES TO BE EFFECTIVE AT THE TIME OF SUCH TRANSFER), (3) PRIOR TO SUCH TRANSFER (OTHER THAN A TRANSFER PURSUANT TO CLAUSE 2(D) ABOVE), IT WILL FURNISH TO THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON, AS TRUSTEE (OR A SUCCESSOR TRUSTEE, AS APPLICABLE), SUCH CERTIFICATIONS, LEGAL OPINIONS OR OTHER INFORMATION AS THE TRUSTEE 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, AND (4) AGREES THAT IT WILL DELIVER TO EACH PERSON TO WHOM THIS SECURITY IS TRANSFERRED A NOTICE SUBSTANTIALLY TO THE EFFECT OF THIS LEGEND. THIS LEGEND WILL BE REMOVED UPON THE EARLIER OF THE TRANSFER OF THIS SECURITY PURSUANT TO CLAUSE 2(D) ABOVE OR UPON ANY TRANSFER OF THIS SECURITY UNDER RULE 144 UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT (OR ANY SUCCESSOR PROVISION). THE INDENTURE CONTAINS A PROVISION REQUIRING THE TRUSTEE TO REFUSE TO REGISTER ANY TRANSFER OF THIS SECURITY IN VIOLATION OF THE FOREGOING RESTRICTION.

     No transfer of any Note prior to the Resale Restriction Termination Date will be registered by the Note Registrar except in accordance with applicable securities laws unless the applicable box on the Form of Assignment and Transfer has been checked.

     Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Indenture or the Note, such Note (or security issued in exchange or substitution therefor) as to which such restrictions on transfer shall have expired in accordance with their terms may, upon surrender of such Note for exchange to the Note Registrar in accordance with the provisions of this Section 2.05, be exchanged for a new Note or Notes, of like tenor and aggregate principal amount, which shall not bear the restrictive legend required by this Section 2.05(c).

     Notwithstanding any other provisions of this Indenture (other than the provisions set forth in this Section 2.05(c)), a Global Note may not be transferred as a whole or in part

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except (i) by the Depositary to a nominee of the Depositary or by a nominee of the Depositary to the Depositary or another nominee of the Depositary or by the Depositary or any such nominee to a successor Depositary or a nominee of such successor Depositary and (ii) for transfers of portions of a Global Note in certificated form made upon request of a member of, or a participant in, the Depositary (for itself or on behalf of a beneficial owner) by written notice given to the Trustee by or on behalf of the Depositary in accordance with customary procedures of the Depositary and in compliance with this Section 2.05(d).

     The Depositary shall be a clearing agency registered under the Exchange Act. The Company initially appoints The Depository Trust Company (“ DTC ”) to act as Depositary with respect to the Global Note. Initially, the Global Notes shall be issued to the Depositary, registered in the name of Cede & Co., as the nominee of the Depositary, and deposited with the Trustee as custodian for DTC.

     If (i) the Depositary notifies the Company at any time that the Depositary is unwilling or unable to continue as depositary for the Global Notes and a successor depositary is not appointed within 90 days, (ii) the Depositary ceases to be registered as a clearing agency under the Exchange Act and a successor depositary is not appointed within 90 days or (iii) an Event of Default with respect to the Notes has occurred and is continuing, upon the request of the beneficial owner of the Notes, the Company will execute, and the Trustee, upon receipt of an Officer’s Certificate and a Company Order for the authentication and delivery of Notes, will authenticate and deliver Notes in definitive form to each such beneficial owner of the related Notes (or a portion thereof) in an aggregate principal amount equal to the principal amount of such Global Note, in exchange for such Global Note, and upon delivery of the Global Note to the Trustee such Global Note shall be canceled.

     Definitive Notes issued in exchange for all or a part of the Global Note pursuant to this Section 2.05(c) shall be registered in such names and in such authorized denominations as the Depositary, pursuant to instructions from its direct or indirect participants or otherwise, shall instruct the Trustee. Upon execution and authentication, the Trustee shall deliver such definitive Notes to the Persons in whose names such definitive Notes are so registered.

     At such time as all interests in a Global Note have been converted, canceled, redeemed, purchased or transferred, such Global Note shall be, upon receipt thereof, 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 exchanged for definitive Notes, converted, canceled, purchased or transferred to a transferee who receives definitive Notes therefor or any definitive Note is exchanged or transferred for part of such Global Note, the principal amount of such Global Note shall, in accordance with the standing procedures and instructions existing between the Depositary and the Custodian, be appropriately reduced or increased, as the case may be, and an endorsement shall be made on such Global Note, by the Trustee or the Custodian, at the direction of the Trustee, to reflect such reduction or increase.

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     None of the Company, the Trustee nor any agent of the Company or the Trustee will have any responsibility or liability for any aspect of the records relating to or payments made on account of beneficial ownership interests of a Global Note or maintaining, supervising or reviewing any records relating to such beneficial ownership interests.

     (d) Until the Resale Restriction Termination Date, any stock certificate representing shares of Common Stock issued upon conversion of such Note shall bear a legend in substantially the following form (unless the Note or such shares of Common Stock have been transferred pursuant to a registration statement that has become or been declared effective under the Securities Act and that continues to be effective at the time of such transfer or pursuant to the exemption from registration provided by Rule 144 under the Securities Act or any similar provision then in force under the Securities Act, or unless otherwise agreed by the Company with written notice thereof to the Trustee and any transfer agent for the Common Stock):

     THE COMMON STOCK EVIDENCED HEREBY HAS NOT BEEN REGISTERED UNDER THE UNITED STATES SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED (THE “SECURITIES ACT”), OR ANY STATE SECURITIES LAWS, AND, ACCORDINGLY, MAY NOT BE OFFERED OR SOLD EXCEPT AS SET FORTH IN THE FOLLOWING SENTENCE. THE HOLDER HEREOF AGREES THAT UNTIL THE EXPIRATION OF THE HOLDING PERIOD APPLICABLE TO SALES OF THE COMMON STOCK EVIDENCED HEREBY UNDER RULE 144 OF THE SECURITIES ACT (OR ANY SUCCESSOR PROVISION), (1) IT WILL NOT RESELL OR OTHERWISE TRANSFER THE COMMON STOCK EVIDENCED HEREBY EXCEPT (A) TO EASTMAN KODAK COMPANY OR TO ANY SUBSIDIARY THEREOF, (B) TO A “QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER” (AS DEFINED IN RULE 144A UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT) IN COMPLIANCE WITH RULE 144A, (C) PURSUANT TO THE EXEMPTION FROM REGISTRATION PROVIDED BY RULE 144 UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT (IF AVAILABLE), OR (D) PURSUANT TO A REGISTRATION STATEMENT WHICH HAS BEEN DECLARED EFFECTIVE UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT (AND WHICH CONTINUES TO BE EFFECTIVE AT THE TIME OF SUCH TRANSFER); (2) PRIOR TO SUCH TRANSFER (OTHER THAN A TRANSFER PURSUANT TO CLAUSE 1(D) ABOVE), IT WILL FURNISH TO COMPUTERSHARE INVESTOR SERVICES LLC, AS TRANSFER AGENT (OR A SUCCESSOR TRANSFER AGENT, AS SUCH TRANSFER AGENT 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; AND (3) IT WILL DELIVER TO EACH PERSON TO WHOM THE COMMON STOCK EVIDENCED HEREBY IS TRANSFERRED (OTHER THAN A TRANSFER PURSUANT TO CLAUSE 1(D) ABOVE) A NOTICE SUBSTANTIALLY TO THE EFFECT OF THIS LEGEND. THIS LEGEND WILL BE REMOVED UPON THE EARLIER OF THE TRANSFER OF THE COMMON STOCK EVIDENCED HEREBY PURSUANT TO CLAUSE 1(D) ABOVE OR UPON ANY TRANSFER OF THE COMMON STOCK EVIDENCED HEREBY AFTER THE EXPIRATION OF THE HOLDING PERIOD APPLICABLE TO SALES OF THE SECURITY EVIDENCED

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HEREBY UNDER RULE 144 UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT (OR ANY SUCCESSOR PROVISION).

     (e) During the period ending one year after the last date of original issuance of the Notes, the Company will not, and will use its reasonable efforts not to permit any of its “affiliates” (as defined in Rule 144) to, resell any of the Notes that constitute “restricted securities” under Rule 144 that have been reacquired by any of them.

     (f) Beneficial interests in a Restricted Global Note will be automatically exchanged into beneficial interests in an Unrestricted Global Note without any action required by or on behalf of the Holder (the “ Automatic Exchange ”) on the date specified by the Company that is on or after the Resale Restriction Termination Date (the “ Automatic Exchange Date ”). The Restricted Global Note from which beneficial interests are transferred pursuant to an Automatic Exchange shall be cancelled following the Automatic Exchange. The Trustee shall authenticate one or more Unrestricted Global Notes in an aggregate principal amount equal to the aggregate principal amount of beneficial interests transferred pursuant to the Automatic Exchange. In effecting the Automatic Exchange, the Company shall comply with the applicable procedures in effect at such time.

     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 deliver, a new Note, bearing a number not contemporaneously outstanding, in exchange and substitution for the mutilated Note, or in lieu of and in substitution for the Note so destroyed, lost or stolen. In every case the applicant for a substituted Note shall furnish to the Company, to the Trustee and, if applicable, to the authenticating agent, such security or indemnity as may be required by them to save each of them harmless from any loss, liability, cost or expense caused by or connected with such substitution, and, in every case of destruction, loss or theft, the applicant shall also furnish to the Company, to the Trustee and, if applicable, to the authenticating agent, evidence to their satisfaction of the destruction, loss or theft of such Note and of the ownership thereof.

     The Trustee or the authenticating agent, if applicable, may authenticate any such substituted Note and deliver the same upon the receipt of such security or indemnity as the Trustee, the Company and, if applicable, the authenticating agent may require. Upon the issuance of any substitute Note, the Company or the Trustee may require the payment by the holder of a sum sufficient to cover any tax, assessment or other governmental charge that may be imposed in relation thereto and any other expenses connected therewith. In case any Note that has matured or is about to mature or has been tendered for redemption or purchase upon a Fundamental Change or is about to be converted into cash or Common Stock (together with cash in lieu of fractional shares), as applicable, shall become mutilated or be destroyed, lost or stolen, the Company may, in its sole discretion, instead of issuing a substitute Note, pay or authorize the payment of or convert or authorize the conversion of the same (without surrender thereof except in the case of a mutilated Note), as the case may be, if the applicant for such payment or conversion shall furnish to the Company, to the Trustee and, if applicable,

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to the authenticating agent, such security or indemnity as may be required by them to save each of them harmless for any loss, liability, cost or expense caused by or connected with such substitution, and, in every case of destruction, loss or theft, evidence satisfactory to the Company, the Trustee and, if applicable, any Paying Agent or Conversion Agent evidence of their satisfaction of the destruction, loss or theft of such Note and of the ownership thereof.

     Every substitute Note issued pursuant to the provisions of this Section 2.06 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 conversion or purchase 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 conversion of negotiable instruments or other securities without their surrender.

     For greater certainty, every substitute Note issued pursuant to the provisions of this Section 2.06 by virtue of the fact that any Note is mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen will be issued as evidence of the same continuing indebtedness of the Company under this Indenture and in no circumstances is the Company obligated under the Indenture to repay the principal amount of the substituted Note by virtue of such mutilation, destruction or loss.

     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 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 (other than any Global Note) and thereupon any or all temporary Notes (other than any Global Note) may be surrendered in exchange therefor, at each office or agency maintained by the Company pursuant to Section 4.02 and the Trustee or such authenticating agent shall authenticate and deliver in exchange for such temporary Notes an equal aggregate principal amount of Notes in certificated form. Such exchange shall be made by the Company at its own expense and without any charge therefor. Until so exchanged, the temporary Notes shall in all respects be entitled to the same benefits and subject to the same limitations under this Indenture as Notes in certificated form authenticated and delivered hereunder.

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     For greater certainty, each Note issued pursuant to the provisions of this Section 2.07 in exchange for a temporary Note will be issued as evidence of the same continuing indebtedness of the Company under this Indenture and in no circumstances is the Company obligated under the Indenture to repay the principal amount of the temporary Note by virtue of the exchange.

     Section 2.08 . Cancellation of Notes Paid, Etc. All Notes surrendered for the purpose of payment, purchase, conversion, exchange or registration of transfer, shall, if surrendered to the Company or any Paying Agent or any Note Registrar or any Conversion Agent, be surrendered to the Trustee and promptly canceled by it, or, if surrendered to the Trustee, shall be promptly canceled by it, and no Notes shall be issued in lieu thereof except as expressly permitted by any of the provisions of this Indenture. The Trustee shall dispose of canceled Notes in accordance with its customary procedures and, after such disposition, shall deliver a written confirmation of such disposition to the Company, at the Company’s written request. If the Company shall acquire any of the Notes, such acquisition shall not operate as satisfaction of the indebtedness represented by such Notes unless and until the same are delivered to the Trustee for cancellation.

     Section 2.09 . CUSIP and ISIN Numbers. The Company in issuing the Notes may use “CUSIP” and “ISIN” numbers (if then generally in use), and, if so, the Trustee shall use “CUSIP” and “ISIN” numbers in all notices issued to Noteholders as a convenience to holders of the Notes; provided that any such notice may state that no representation is made as to the correctness of such numbers either as printed on the Notes or on such notice and that reliance may be placed only on the other identification numbers printed on the Notes. The Company will promptly notify the Trustee in writing of any change in the “CUSIP” or “ISIN” numbers.

     Section 2.10 . Additional Notes; Purchases. The Company may, without the consent of the Noteholders and notwithstanding Section 2.01, issue additional Notes hereunder with the same terms and with the same CUSIP and ISIN number as the Notes initially issued hereunder in an unlimited aggregate principal amount, which will form the same series with the Notes initially issued hereunder; provided that no such additional Notes may be issued unless: (i) they would constitute a “qualified reopening” (as defined in Treas. Reg. Sec. 1.1275-2(k)) or both the original Notes and the additional Notes are issued with no more than de minimis original issue discount for U.S. federal income tax purposes and (ii) the resale of such Notes by non-Affiliates of the Company would not require registration under U.S. securities laws. Prior to the issuance of any such additional Notes, the Company shall deliver to the Trustee a Company Order, an Officer’s Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel, such Officer’s Certificate and Opinion of Counsel to cover such matters as the Trustee shall reasonably request. The Company may also from time to time purchase the Notes in open market purchases or negotiated transactions without prior notice to Noteholders. Any Notes purchased by the Company shall be deemed to be no longer outstanding under this Indenture.

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ARTICLE 3
Satisfaction and Discharge

     Section 3.01 . Satisfaction and Discharge. This Indenture shall upon request of the Company contained in an Officer’s Certificate cease to be of further effect, and the Trustee, at the expense of the Company, shall execute proper instruments acknowledging satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture, when (a) (i) all Notes theretofore authenticated and delivered (other than (x) Notes which have been destroyed, lost or stolen and which have been replaced or paid as provided in Section 2.06 and (y) Notes for whose payment money has theretofore been deposited in trust or segregated and held in trust by the Company and thereafter repaid to the Company or discharged from such trust, as provided in Section 4.04(d)) have been delivered to the Trustee for cancellation; or (ii) the Company has deposited with the Trustee or delivered to Noteholders, as applicable, after the Notes have become due and payable, whether at the Maturity Date, any Redemption Date or Fundamental Change Purchase Date, upon conversion (following, for the avoidance of doubt, the Settlement Averaging Period if Cash Settlement) or otherwise, cash or shares of Common Stock (together with cash in lieu of fractional shares), as applicable (solely to satisfy the Company’s Conversion Obligation, if applicable), sufficient to pay all of the outstanding Notes and all other sums due payable under this Indenture by the Company; and (b) the Company has delivered to the Trustee an Officer’s Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel, each stating that all conditions precedent herein provided for relating to the satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture have been complied with. Notwithstanding the satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture, the obligations of the Company to the Trustee under Section 7.06 shall survive such satisfaction and discharge.

ARTICLE 4
Particular Covenants of the Company

     Section 4.01 . Payment of Principal and Interest. The Company covenants and agrees that it will cause to be paid the principal (including the Redemption Price and Fundamental Change Purchase Price, if applicable) of, and accrued and unpaid interest, if any, on, each of the Notes at the places, at the respective times and in the manner provided herein and in the Notes.

     Section 4.02 . Maintenance of Office or Agency. The Company will maintain an office or agency where the Notes may be surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange or for presentation for payment or purchase (“ Paying Agent ”) or for conversion (“ Conversion Agent ”) and where notices and demands to or upon the Company in respect of the Notes and this Indenture may be served. The Company will give prompt written notice to the Trustee of the location, and any change in the location, of such office or agency. If at any time the Company shall fail to maintain any such required office or agency or shall fail to furnish the Trustee with the address thereof, such presentations, surrenders, notices and demands may be made or served at the Corporate Trust Office.

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     The Company may also from time to time designate co-registrars in one or more other offices or agencies where the Notes may be presented or surrendered for any or all such purposes and may from time to time rescind such designations; provided that no such designation or rescission shall in any manner relieve the Company of its obligation to maintain an office or agency for such purposes. The Company will give prompt written notice to the Trustee of any such designation or rescission and of any change in the location of any such other office or agency. The terms “ Paying Agent ” and “ Conversion Agent ” include any such additional or other offices or agencies, as applicable.

     The Company hereby initially designates the Trustee as the Paying Agent, Note Registrar, Custodian and Conversion Agent and the Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee in New York as an office or agency of the Company for each of the aforesaid purposes.

     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, in the manner 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, the Company will cause such Paying Agent to execute and deliver to the Trustee an instrument in which such agent shall agree with the Trustee, subject to the provisions of this Section 4.04:

     (i) that it will hold all sums held by it as such agent for the payment of the principal (including the Redemption Price and Fundamental Change Purchase Price, if applicable) of, and accrued and unpaid interest on, the Notes in trust for the benefit of the holders of the Notes;

     (ii) that it will give the Trustee prompt written notice of any failure by the Company to make any payment of the principal (including the Redemption Price and Fundamental Change Purchase Price, if applicable) of, and accrued and unpaid 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 each due date of the principal (including the Redemption Price and Fundamental Change Purchase Price, if applicable) of, or accrued and unpaid interest on, the Notes, deposit with the Paying Agent a sum sufficient to pay such principal (including the Redemption Price and Fundamental Change Purchase Price, if applicable) or accrued and unpaid interest, and (unless such Paying Agent is the Trustee) the Company will promptly notify the Trustee in writing of any failure to take such action; provided that if such deposit is made on the due date, such deposit must be received by the Paying Agent by 11:00 a.m., New York City time, on such date.

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     (b) If the Company shall act as its own Paying Agent, it will, on or before each due date of the principal (including the Redemption Price and Fundamental Change Purchase Price, if applicable) of, and accrued and unpaid 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 (including the Redemption Price and Fundamental Change Purchase Price, if applicable) and accrued and unpaid interest so becoming due and will promptly notify the Trustee in writing of any failure to take such action and of any failure by the Company to make any payment of the principal (including the Redemption Price and Fundamental Change Purchase Price, if applicable) of, and accrued and unpaid interest on, the Notes when the same shall become due and payable. The Company may change the Paying Agent without prior notice to the Noteholders.

     (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) Any money deposited with the Trustee or any Paying Agent (pursuant to Section 7.05), or then held by the Company, in trust for the payment of the principal (including the Redemption Price and Fundamental Change Purchase Price, if applicable) of, and accrued and unpaid interest on, any Note and remaining unclaimed for the earlier of (i) two years after such principal (including the Redemption Price and Fundamental Change Purchase Price, if applicable) and interest has become due and payable and (ii) the date such funds would escheat to the state, shall be paid to the Company on request of the Company contained in an Officer’s Certificate, or (if then held by the Company) shall be discharged from such trust; and the holder of such Note shall thereafter, as an unsecured general creditor, look only to the Company for payment thereof, and all liability of the Trustee or such Paying Agent with respect to such trust money, and all liability of the Company as trustee thereof, shall thereupon cease; provided , however , that the Trustee or such Paying Agent, before being required to make any such repayment, may at the expense of the Company cause to be published once, in a newspaper published in the English language, customarily published on each Business Day in the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York, New York and of general circulation in The Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York, New York, notice that such money remains unclaimed and that, after a date specified therein, which shall not be less than 30 days from the date of such publication, any unclaimed balance of such money then remaining will be repaid to the Company.

     Section 4.05 . Existence. Subject to Article 12, the Company will do or cause to be done all things necessary to preserve and keep in full force and effect its corporate existence.

     Section 4.06 . Rule 144A Information Requirement and Annual Reports. (a) At any time the Company is not subject to Sections 13 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act, the Company

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shall, so long as any of the Notes or any shares of Common Stock issuable upon conversion thereof shall, at such time, constitute “restricted securities” within the meaning of Rule 144(a)(3), shall, upon written request, provide to any holder, beneficial owner or prospective purchaser of such Notes or any shares of Common Stock issued upon conversion of such Notes, the information required to be delivered pursuant to Rule 144A(d)(4) to facilitate the resale of such Notes or shares of Common Stock pursuant to Rule 144A.

     (b) The Company shall furnish to the Trustee within 15 calendar days after the same is required to be filed with the Commission (giving effect to all applicable grace periods provided under the Exchange Act including that provided by Rule 12b-25 under the Exchange Act), copies of documents or reports, if any, that the Company is required to file with the Commission pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act. If permitted under the Trust Indenture Act and the rules and regulations promulgated by the Commission thereunder, any such document or report that the Company files with the Commission through the Commission’s EDGAR system shall be deemed furnished to the Trustee for purposes of this Section 4.06(b) at the time such documents are filed or furnished via the Commission’s EDGAR system.

     (c) Delivery of the reports, information and documents described in clause (b) above to the Trustee is for informational purposes only, and the Trustee’s receipt of such shall not constitute constructive notice of any information contained therein or determinable from information contained therein, including the Company’s compliance with any of its covenants hereunder (as to which the Trustee is entitled to conclusively rely exclusively on an Officer’s Certificate).

     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 of or interest on the Notes as contemplated herein, wherever enacted, now or at any time hereafter in force, or that may affect the covenants or the performance of this Indenture; and the Company (to the extent it may lawfully do so) hereby expressly waives all benefit or advantage of any such law, and covenants that it will not, by resort to any such law, hinder, delay or impede the execution of any power herein granted to the Trustee, but will suffer and permit the execution of every such power as though no such law had been enacted.

     Section 4.08 . Compliance Certificate; Statements as to Defaults. The Company shall deliver to the Trustee within 120 days after the end of each fiscal years of the Company (beginning with the fiscal year ending on December 31, 2009) an Officer’s Certificate indicating whether the signers thereof know of any Default that occurred during the previous year.

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Certificate setting forth the details of such Event of Default or Default, its status and the action that the Company proposes to take with respect thereto.

ARTICLE 5
Lists of Noteholders and Reports by the Company and the Trustee

     Section 5.01 . Lists of Noteholders. The Company covenants and agrees that it will furnish or cause to be furnished to the Trustee, semi-annually, not more than 15 days after each April 1 and October 1 in each year beginning with April 1, 2010, and at such other times as the Trustee may request in writing, within 30 days after receipt by the Company of any such request (or such lesser time as the Trustee may reasonably request in order to enable it to timely provide any notice to be provided by it hereunder), a list in such form as the Trustee may reasonably require of the names and addresses of the Noteholders as of a date not more than 15 days (or such other date as the Trustee may reasonably request in order to so provide any such notices) prior to the time such information is furnished, except that no such list need be furnished so long as the Trustee is acting as Note Registrar.

     Section 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 Noteholders 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, 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 Noteholders 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, by receiving and holding the same, agrees with the Company and the Trustee that neither the Company nor the Trustee nor any agent of either of them shall be held accountable by reason of any disclosure of information as to names and addresses of Noteholders made pursuant to the Trust Indenture Act.

ARTICLE 6
Defaults and Remedies

     Section 6.01 . Events of Default.

     (a) The following events shall be “ Events of Default ” with respect to the Notes:

     (i) default in any payment of interest on any Note when due and payable, and the continuance of such default for a period of 30 days;

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     (ii) default in the payment of principal of any Note when due and payable on the Maturity Date, upon any required Redemption Date or Fundamental Change Purchase Date, upon declaration of acceleration or otherwise;

     (iii) failure by the Company to comply with its obligation to convert the Notes upon exercise of a holder’s conversion right;

     (iv) failure by the Company to provide notice of a Fundamental Change when such notice is due in accordance with Section 15.01;

     (v) failure by the Company to comply with its obligations under Article 10;

     (vi) default in the performance, or breach, of any other covenant or agreement by the Company contained in the Notes or this Indenture (other than default in the performance, or breach, of a covenant or agreement specifically dealt with in clauses (i) through (v) above) and continuance of such default or breach for a period of 60 days after written notice thereof has been given to the Company by the Trustee or to the Trustee and the Company by the holders of at least 25% in aggregate principal amount of the outstanding Notes;

     (vii) a default or defaults under any bonds, debentures, notes or other evidences of indebtedness for borrowed money (other than the Notes) by the Company or any of its Material Subsidiaries having, individually or in the aggregate, a principal amount outstanding of at least $50,000,000, whether such indebtedness now exists or shall hereafter be created, which default or defaults shall have resulted in the acceleration of the maturity of such indebtedness prior to its express maturity or shall constitute a failure to pay at least $50,000,000 of such indebtedness when due and payable after the expiration of any applicable grace period with respect thereto, if such indebtedness is neither discharged nor such acceleration is annulled by the end of a period of 30 days after written notice thereof has been given to the Company by the Trustee or to the Trustee and the Company by holders of at least 25% in aggregate principal amount of the outstanding Notes;

     (viii) the Company or any Material Subsidiary pursuant to or within the meaning of any Bankruptcy Law:

     (A) commences a voluntary case;

     (B) consents to the entry of an order for relief against it in an involuntary case;

     (C) consents to the appointment of a Custodian of it or for any substantial part of its property; or

     (D) makes a general assignment for the benefit of its creditors; or

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     (ix) a court of competent jurisdiction enters an order or decree under any Bankruptcy Law that:

     (A) is for relief against the Company or any Material Subsidiary in an involuntary case;

     (B) appoints a Custodian of the Company or any Material Subsidiary or for any substantial part of its property; or

     (C) orders the winding up or liquidation of the Company or any Material Subsidiary;

and in each such case the order or decree remains unstayed and in effect for 60 days.

     (b) The term “ Bankruptcy Law ” means Title 11, United States Code, or any similar U.S. federal, state or non-U.S. law for the relief of debtors. For the purposes of Section 6.01(a) only, the term “ Custodian ” means any receiver, trustee, assignee, liquidator, custodian or similar official under any Bankruptcy Law.

     Section 6.02 . Acceleration. In case one or more Events of Default shall have occurred and be continuing (whatever the reason for such Event of Default and whether it shall be voluntary or involuntary or be effected by operation of law or pursuant to any judgment, decree or order of any court or any order, rule or regulation of any administrative or governmental body), then, and in each and every such case (other than an Event of Default specified in Section 6.01(a)(viii) or Section 6.01(a)(ix) with respect to the Company (and not solely with respect to a Material Subsidiary)), unless the principal of all of the Notes shall have already become due and payable, either the Trustee or the holders of at least 25% in aggregate principal amount of the Notes then outstanding determined in accordance with Section 8.04, by notice in writing to the Company (and to the Trustee if given by Noteholders), may declare 100% of the principal of and accrued and unpaid interest, if any, on all the Notes to be due and payable immediately, and upon any such declaration the same shall become and shall automatically be immediately due and payable, anything in this Indenture or in the Notes contained to the contrary notwithstanding. If an Event of Default specified in Section 6.01(a)(viii) or Section 6.01(a)(ix) with respect to the Company (and not solely with respect to a Material Subsidiary) occurs and is continuing, the principal of all the Notes and accrued and unpaid interest shall be immediately due and payable.

     Notwithstanding anything in this Indenture or in the Notes to the contrary, if elected by the Company, the sole remedy for an Event of Default in respect of a violation of any obligations of the Company pursuant to Section 4.06(b) shall, after the occurrence of such an Event of Default (which shall be the 60 th day after written notice is provided to the Company as set forth in Section 6.01(a)(vi) above), consist exclusively of the right to receive additional interest on the Notes (the “ Additional Interest ”) at an annual rate per year equal to (i) 0.25% per annum of the principal amount of the Notes outstanding for each day during the 90-day

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period beginning on, and including, the occurrence of such an Event of Default during which such Event of Default is continuing to, but excluding, the date on which such Event of Default is cured, if applicable; and (ii) 0.50% per annum of the principal amount of the Notes outstanding for each day during the 90-day period beginning on, and including, the 91st day following, and including, the occurrence of such an Event of Default during which such Event of Default is continuing to, but excluding, the date on which such Event of Default is cured, if applicable. The Company may make any such election by written notice to the Trustee, the Noteholders and the Paying Agent on or before the close of business on the fifth Business Day after the date on which such Event of Default occurs. The Additional Interest shall be payable semi-annually at the same time and in the same manner as regular interest on the Notes pursuant to Section 2.03 and Section 4.01. On and after the 181st day following an Event of Default in respect of a violation of any obligations as set forth in Section 4.06(b), or if the Company does not timely elect to pay Additional Interest, either the Trustee or the Noteholders of not less than 25% in aggregate principal amount of the Notes then outstanding may declare the principal amount of the Notes and any accrued and unpaid interest through the date of such declaration, to be immediately due and payable.

     Section 6.03 . Payments of Notes on Default; Suit Therefor. If an Event of Default described in clause (i) or (ii) of Section 6.01(a) shall have occurred, the Company shall, upon demand of the Trustee, pay to it, for the benefit of the holders of the Notes, the whole amount then due and payable on the Notes for principal and interest with interest on any overdue principal and interest at the rate borne by the Notes at such time, and, in addition thereto, such further amount as shall be sufficient to cover any amounts due to the Trustee under Section 7.06. If the Company shall fail to pay such amounts forthwith upon such demand, the Trustee, in its own name and as trustee of an express trust, may institute a judicial proceeding for the collection of the sums so due and unpaid, may prosecute such proceeding to judgment or final decree and may enforce the same against the Company or any other obligor upon the Notes and collect the monies adjudged or decreed to be payable in the manner provided by law out of the property of the Company or any other obligor upon the Notes, wherever situated.

     In the event there shall be pending proceedings for the bankruptcy or for the reorganization of the Company or any other obligor on the Notes under title 11 of the United States Code, or any other applicable law, or in case a receiver, assignee or trustee in bankruptcy or reorganization, liquidator, sequestrator or similar official shall have been appointed for or taken possession of the Company or such other obligor, the property of the Company or such other obligor, or in the event of any other judicial proceedings relative to the Company or such other obligor upon the Notes, or to the creditors or property of the Company or such other obligor, the Trustee, irrespective of whether the principal of the Notes shall then be due and payable as therein expressed or by declaration or otherwise and irrespective of whether the Trustee shall have made any demand pursuant to the provisions of this Section 6.03, shall be entitled and empowered, by intervention in such proceedings or otherwise, to file and prove a claim or claims for the whole amount of principal and accrued and unpaid interest in respect of the Notes, and, in case of any judicial proceedings, to file such proofs of claim and other papers or documents and to take such other actions as it may deem necessary or advisable in order to have the claims of the Trustee (including any claim

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for the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the Trustee, its agents and counsel) and of the Noteholders allowed in such judicial proceedings relative to the Company or any other obligor on the Notes, its or their creditors, or its or their property, and to collect and receive any monies or other property payable or deliverable on any such claims, and to distribute the same after the deduction of any amounts due the Trustee under Section 7.06; and any receiver, assignee or trustee in bankruptcy or reorganization, liquidator, custodian or similar official is hereby authorized by each of the Noteholders to make such payments to the Trustee, as administrative expenses, and, in the event that the Trustee shall consent to the making of such payments directly to the Noteholders, to pay to the Trustee any amount due it for reasonable compensation, expenses, advances and disbursements, including agents and counsel fees, and including any other amounts due to the Trustee under Section 7.06 hereof, incurred by it up to the date of such distribution. To the extent that such payment of reasonable compensation, expenses, advances and disbursements out of the estate in any such proceedings shall be denied for any reason, payment of the same shall be secured by a lien on, and shall be paid out of, any and all distributions, dividends, monies, securities and other property that the holders of the Notes may be entitled to receive in such proceedings, whether in liquidation or under any plan of reorganization or arrangement or otherwise.

     Nothing herein contained shall be deemed to authorize the Trustee to authorize or consent to or accept or adopt on behalf of any Noteholder any plan of reorganization, arrangement, adjustment or composition affecting the Noteholder or the rights of any Noteholder, or to authorize the Trustee to vote in respect of the claim of any Noteholder in any such proceeding.

     All rights of action and of asserting claims under this Indenture, or under any of the Notes, may be enforced by the Trustee without the possession of any of the Notes, or the production thereof at any trial or other proceeding relative thereto, and any such suit or proceeding instituted by the Trustee shall be brought in its own name as trustee of an express trust, and any recovery of judgment shall, after provision for the payment of the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the Trustee, its agents and counsel, be for the ratable benefit of the holders of the Notes.

     In any proceedings brought by the Trustee (and in any proceedings involving the interpretation of any provision of this Indenture to which the Trustee shall be a party) the Trustee shall be held to represent all the holders of the Notes, and it shall not be necessary to make any holders of the Notes parties to any such proceedings.

     Section 6.04 . Application of Monies Collected by Trustee. Any monies collected by the Trustee pursuant to this Article 6 with respect to the Notes shall be applied in the following order, at the date or dates fixed by the Trustee for the distribution of such monies, upon presentation of the several Notes, and stamping thereon the payment, if only partially paid, and upon surrender thereof, if fully paid:

      First , to the payment of all amounts due the Trustee under Section 7.06;

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      Second , in case the principal of the outstanding Notes shall not have become due and be unpaid, to the payment of interest on the Notes in default in the order of the date due of the installments of such interest, with interest (to the extent that such interest has been collected by the Trustee) upon the overdue installments of interest at the rate borne by the Notes at such time, such payments to be made ratably to the Persons entitled thereto;

      Third , in case the principal of the outstanding Notes shall have become due, by declaration or otherwise, and be unpaid to the payment of the whole amount, including the payment of the Redemption Price, Fundamental Change Purchase Price and the cash component of the Conversion Obligation, if any, then owing and unpaid upon the Notes for principal and interest, with interest on the overdue principal and (to the extent that such interest has been collected by the Trustee) upon overdue installments of interest at the rate borne by the Notes at such time, and in case such monies shall be insufficient to pay in full the whole amounts so due and unpaid upon the Notes, then to the payment of such principal and interest without preference or priority of principal, over interest, or of interest over principal or of any installment of interest over any other installment of interest, or of any Note over any other Note, ratably to the aggregate of such principal and accrued and unpaid interest; and

      Fourth , to the payment of the remainder, if any, to the Company.

     Section 6.05 . Proceedings by Noteholders. No holder of any Note shall have any right by virtue of or by availing of any provision of this Indenture to institute any suit, action or proceeding in equity or at law upon or under or with respect to this Indenture, or for the appointment of a receiver, trustee, liquidator, custodian or other similar official, or for any other remedy hereunder, unless such holder previously shall have given to the Trustee written notice of an Event of Default and of the continuance thereof, as provided in Section 7.01, and unless also the holders of not less than 25% in aggregate principal amount of the Notes then outstanding shall have made a written request to the Trustee to institute such action, suit or proceeding in its own name as Trustee hereunder and shall have offered to the Trustee such security or indemnity reasonably satisfactory to it against any loss, liability or expense to be incurred therein or thereby, and the Trustee for 60 days after its receipt of such notice, request and offer of indemnity, shall have neglected or refused to institute any such action, suit or proceeding and no direction that, in the opinion of the Trustee, is inconsistent with such written request shall have been given to the Trustee by the holders of a majority in principal amount of the Notes outstanding within such 60-day period pursuant to Section 6.07; it being understood and intended, and being expressly covenanted by the taker and holder of every Note with every other taker and holder and the Trustee that no one or more Noteholders shall have any right in any manner whatever by virtue of or by availing of any provision of this Indenture to affect, disturb or prejudice the rights of any other Noteholder, or to obtain or seek to obtain priority over or preference to any other such holder, or to enforce any right under this Indenture, except in the manner herein provided and for the equal, ratable and common benefit of all Noteholders (except as otherwise provided herein). For the protection and enforcement of this Section 6.05, each and every Noteholder and the Trustee shall be entitled to such relief as can be given either at law or in equity.

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     Notwithstanding any other provision of this Indenture and any provision of any Note, the right of any Noteholder to receive payment of the principal (including the Redemption Price and the Fundamental Change Purchase Price) of, and accrued and unpaid interest on such Note, on or after the respective due dates expressed or provided for in such Note or in this Indenture, or to institute suit for the enforcement of any such payment on or after such respective dates against the Company shall not be impaired or affected without the consent of such Noteholder.

     Anything in this Indenture or the Notes to the contrary notwithstanding, the holder of any Note, without the consent of either the Trustee or the holder of any other Note, in its own behalf and for its own benefit, may enforce, and may institute and maintain any proceeding suitable to enforce, its rights of conversion as provided herein.

     Section 6.06 . Proceedings by Trustee. In case of an Event of Default, the Trustee may in its discretion proceed to protect and enforce the rights vested in it by this Indenture by such appropriate judicial proceedings as are necessary to protect and enforce any such rights, either by suit in equity or by action at law or by proceeding in bankruptcy or otherwise, whether for the specific enforcement of any covenant or agreement contained in this Indenture or in aid of the exercise of any power granted in this Indenture, or to enforce any other legal or equitable right vested in the Trustee by this Indenture or by law.

     Section 6.07 . Remedies Cumulative and Continuing. Except as provided in Section 2.06, all powers and remedies given by this Article 6 to the Trustee or to the Noteholders shall, to the extent permitted by law, be deemed cumulative and not exclusive of any thereof or of any other powers and remedies available to the Trustee or the holders of the Notes, by judicial proceedings or otherwise, to enforce the performance or observance of the covenants and agreements contained in this Indenture, and no delay or omission of the Trustee or of any holder of any of the Notes to exercise any right or power accruing upon any Default or Event of Default shall impair any such right or power, or shall be construed to be a waiver of any such Default or any acquiescence therein; and, subject to the provisions of Section 6.05, every power and remedy given by this Article 6 or by law to the Trustee or to the Noteholders may be exercised from time to time, and as often as shall be deemed expedient, by the Trustee or by the Noteholders.

     Section 6.08 . Direction of Proceedings and Waiver of Defaults by Majority of Noteholders. The holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Notes at the time outstanding determined in accordance with Section 8.04 shall have the right to direct the time, method and place of conducting any proceeding for any remedy available to the Trustee or exercising any trust or power conferred on the Trustee with respect to the Notes; provided , however , that (a) such direction shall not be in conflict with any rule of law or with this Indenture, and (b) the Trustee may take any other action deemed proper by the Trustee that is not inconsistent with such direction. The Trustee may refuse to follow any direction that it determines is unduly prejudicial to the rights of any other holder or that would involve the Trustee in personal liability. The holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Notes at the time outstanding determined in accordance with Section 8.04 may on behalf of

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the holders of all of the Notes waive any past Default or Event of Default hereunder and its consequences except (i) a Default in the payment of accrued and unpaid interest on, or the principal (including any Redemption Price or Fundamental Change Purchase Price) of, the Notes when due that has not been cured pursuant to the provisions of Section 6.01 and (ii) a failure by the Company to deliver cash or shares of Common Stock (together with cash in lieu of fractional shares), as applicable, upon conversion of the Notes. Upon any such waiver, the Company, the Trustee and the holders of the Notes shall be restored to their former positions and rights hereunder; but no such waiver shall extend to any subsequent or other Default or Event of Default or impair any right consequent thereon. Whenever any Default or Event of Default hereunder shall have been waived as permitted by this Section 6.07, said Default or Event of Default shall for all purposes of the Notes and this Indenture be deemed to have been cured and to be not continuing; but no such waiver shal


 
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