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EXHIBIT 4.1
ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES,
INC.
as Issuer
and
WELLS FARGO BANK, NATIONAL
ASSOCIATION
as Trustee
INDENTURE
Dated as of August 14,
2007
5.75% Convertible Senior
Notes due 2012
ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES,
INC.
Reconciliation and tie
between Trust Indenture Act of 1939 and
Indenture, dated as of
August 14, 2007
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| Trust Indenture Act Section |
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Indenture Section |
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| §310(a)(1) |
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6.09 |
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| (a)(2) |
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6.09 |
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| (a)(3) |
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Not Applicable |
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| (a)(4) |
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Not Applicable |
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| (a)(5) |
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6.09 |
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| (b) |
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6.08; 6.10; 6.11 |
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| (c) |
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Not Applicable |
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| §311(a) |
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6.13 |
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| (b) |
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6.13 |
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| §312(a) |
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4.01; 4.02(a) |
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| (b) |
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4.02(b) |
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| (c) |
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4.02(c) |
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| §313(a) |
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4.03(a) |
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| (b) |
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4.03(a) |
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| (c) |
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4.03(a) |
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| (d) |
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4.03(b) |
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| §314(a) |
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4.04 |
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| (b) |
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Not Applicable |
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| (c)(1) |
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15.05 |
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| (c)(2) |
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15.05 |
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| (c)(3) |
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Not Applicable |
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| (d) |
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Not Applicable |
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| (e) |
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15.05 |
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| §315(a) |
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6.01 |
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| (b) |
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5.08 |
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| (c) |
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6.01 |
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| (d) |
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6.01 |
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| (e) |
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5.09 |
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| §316(a) |
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7.01 |
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| (a)(1)(A) |
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7.01; 5.01 |
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| (a)(1)(B) |
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5.07 |
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| (a)(2) |
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Not Applicable |
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| (b) |
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5.04 |
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| (c) |
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7.01 |
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| §317(a)(1) |
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5.03; 5.02; 5.05 |
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| (a)(2) |
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5.02 |
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| (b) |
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6.05; 11.01 |
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| §318(a) |
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1.02 |
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| (c) |
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1.02 |
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Note: This reconciliation and tie shall
not, for any purpose, be deemed to be part of the
Indenture.
TABLE OF
CONTENTS
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P AGE |
| ARTICLE 1 |
| D EFINITIONS |
| Section 1.01. |
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Definitions. |
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2 |
| Section 1.02. |
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Incorporation by Reference of Trust Indenture
Act. |
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10 |
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| ARTICLE 2 |
| I SSUE , D
ESCRIPTION , E XECUTION , R
EGISTRATION AND E
XCHANGE OF N
OTES |
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| Section 2.01. |
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Designation and Amount |
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11 |
| Section 2.02. |
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Form
of Notes |
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11 |
| Section 2.03. |
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Legends |
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12 |
| Section 2.04. |
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Date
and Denomination of Notes; Payments on the Notes |
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16 |
| Section 2.05. |
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Execution, Authentication and Delivery of
Notes |
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18 |
| Section 2.06. |
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Exchange and Registration of Transfer of Notes; Transfer
Generally; Depositary |
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19 |
| Section 2.07. |
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Special Transfer Provisions |
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22 |
| Section 2.08. |
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Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost or Stolen Notes |
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| Section 2.09. |
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Temporary Notes |
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24 |
| Section 2.10. |
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Restriction on Resale |
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25 |
| Section 2.11. |
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Cancellation of Notes Paid, Etc |
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25 |
| Section 2.12. |
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CUSIP
Numbers |
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| Section 2.13. |
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Additional Notes, Purchases |
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| ARTICLE 3 |
| P ARTICULAR C
OVENANTS OF THE C
OMPANY |
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| Section 3.01. |
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Payment of Principal, Interest and Extension
Fee |
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26 |
| Section 3.02. |
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Additional Interest |
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26 |
| Section 3.03. |
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Maintenance of Office or Agency |
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26 |
| Section 3.04. |
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Appointments to Fill Vacancies in Trustee’s
Office |
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27 |
| Section 3.05. |
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Provisions as to Paying Agent |
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| Section 3.06. |
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Existence |
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28 |
| Section 3.07. |
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Stay,
Extension and Usury Laws |
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28 |
| Section 3.08. |
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Compliance Certificate; Statements as to
Defaults |
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| Section 3.09. |
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Further Instruments and Acts |
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| ARTICLE 4 |
| L ISTS OF
N OTEHOLDERS AND R
EPORTS BY THE C
OMPANY AND THE T
RUSTEE |
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| Section 4.01. |
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Lists
of Noteholders |
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4.02. |
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Preservation and Disclosure of Lists |
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| Section 4.03. |
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Reports by Trustee |
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| Section 4.04. |
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SEC
Reports; Financial Statements. |
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| ARTICLE 5 |
| D EFAULTS
AND R EMEDIES |
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| Section 5.01. |
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Events
of Default |
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| Section 5.02. |
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Payments of Notes on Default; Suit Therefor |
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| Section 5.03. |
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Application of Monies Collected by Trustee |
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| Section 5.04. |
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Proceedings by Noteholders |
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| Section 5.05. |
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Proceedings by Trustee |
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| Section 5.06. |
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Remedies Cumulative and Continuing |
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| Section 5.07. |
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Direction of Proceedings and Waiver of Defaults by Majority
of Noteholders |
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38 |
| Section 5.08. |
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Notice
of Defaults |
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| Section 5.09. |
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Undertaking to Pay Costs |
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| ARTICLE 6 |
| C ONCERNING
THE T RUSTEE |
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| Section 6.01. |
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Duties
and Responsibilities of Trustee |
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| Section 6.02. |
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Reliance on Documents, Opinions, Etc |
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| Section 6.03. |
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No
Responsibility for Recitals, Etc |
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| Section 6.04. |
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Trustee, Paying Agents, Conversion Agents or Note Registrar
May Own Notes |
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| Section 6.05. |
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Monies
to be Held in Trust |
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| Section 6.06. |
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Compensation and Expenses of Trustee |
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| Section 6.07. |
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Officer’s Certificate as Evidence |
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| Section 6.08. |
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Conflicting Interests of Trustee |
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| Section 6.09. |
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Eligibility of Trustee |
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| Section 6.10. |
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Resignation or Removal of Trustee |
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| Section 6.11. |
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Acceptance by Successor Trustee |
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| Section 6.12. |
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Succession by Merger, Etc |
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48 |
| Section 6.13. |
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Limitation on Rights of Trustee as Creditor |
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| Section 6.14. |
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Trustee’s Application for Instructions from the
Company |
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| ARTICLE 7 |
| C ONCERNING
THE N OTEHOLDERS |
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| Section 7.01. |
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Action
by Noteholders |
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49 |
| Section 7.02. |
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Proof
of Execution by Noteholders |
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| Section 7.03. |
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Who
are Deemed Absolute Owners |
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| Section 7.04. |
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Company-Owned Notes Disregarded |
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| Section 7.05. |
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Revocation of Consents; Future Holders Bound |
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| ARTICLE 8 |
| N OTEHOLDERS ’ M
EETINGS |
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Section 8.01.
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Purpose of Meetings |
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Section 8.02.
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Call
of Meetings by Trustee |
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Section 8.03.
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Call
of Meetings by Company or Noteholders |
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Section 8.04.
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Qualifications for Voting |
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Section 8.05.
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Regulations |
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Section 8.06.
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Voting |
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Section 8.07.
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No
Delay of Rights by Meeting |
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| ARTICLE 9 |
| S UPPLEMENTAL I
NDENTURES |
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Section 9.01.
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Supplemental Indentures without Consent of
Noteholders |
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Section 9.02.
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Supplemental Indentures with Consent of
Noteholders |
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Section 9.03.
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Effect
of Supplemental Indentures |
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Section 9.04.
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Notation on Notes |
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Section 9.05.
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Evidence of Compliance of Supplemental Indenture to be
Furnished Trustee |
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| ARTICLE 10 |
| C ONSOLIDATION , M
ERGER , S ALE , C
ONVEYANCE AND L
EASE |
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Section 10.01.
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Company May Consolidate, etc. on Certain
Terms |
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Section 10.02.
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Successor Corporation to be Substituted |
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Section 10.03.
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Officer’s Certificate and Opinion of Counsel to be
Given Trustee |
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| ARTICLE 11 |
| S ATISFACTION
AND D ISCHARGE OF I
NDENTURE |
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Section 11.01.
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Discharge of Indenture |
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Section 11.02.
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Deposited Monies to be Held in Trust by
Trustee |
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Section 11.03.
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Paying
Agent to Repay Monies Held |
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Section 11.04.
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Return
of Unclaimed Monies |
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Section 11.05.
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Reinstatement |
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| ARTICLE 12 |
| I MMUNITY
OF I NCORPORATORS , S
TOCKHOLDERS , O FFICERS
AND D IRECTORS |
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Section 12.01.
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Indenture and Notes Solely Corporate
Obligations |
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| ARTICLE 13 |
| C ONVERSION
OF N OTES |
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| Section 13.01. |
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Conversion Privilege. |
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61 |
| Section 13.02. |
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Conversion Procedures and Conversion
Settlement. |
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| Section 13.03. |
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Exchange in Lieu of Conversion. |
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66 |
| Section 13.04. |
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Adjustment of Conversion Rate |
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| Section 13.05. |
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Shares
to Be Fully Paid |
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76 |
| Section 13.06. |
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Effect
of Reclassification, Consolidation, Merger or Sale |
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| Section 13.07. |
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Certain Covenants |
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| Section 13.08. |
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Responsibility of Trustee |
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| Section 13.09. |
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Notice
to Holders Prior to Certain Actions |
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| Section 13.10. |
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Shareholder Rights Plans |
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| ARTICLE 14 |
| P URCHASE
OF N OTES AT O
PTION OF H
OLDERS |
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| Section 14.01. |
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Purchase at Option of Holders Upon a Designated
Event. |
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| ARTICLE 15 |
| M ISCELLANEOUS P
ROVISIONS |
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| Section 15.01. |
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Provisions Binding on Company’s
Successors |
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| Section 15.02. |
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Official Acts by Successor Corporation |
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| Section 15.03. |
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Addresses for Notices, Etc |
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| Section 15.04. |
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Governing Law |
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84 |
| Section 15.05. |
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Evidence of Compliance with Conditions Precedent;
Certificates and Opinions of Counsel to Trustee |
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| Section 15.06. |
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Legal
Holidays |
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| Section 15.07. |
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No
Security Interest Created |
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| Section 15.08. |
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Benefits of Indenture |
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| Section 15.09. |
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Table
of Contents, Headings, Etc |
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| Section 15.10. |
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Authenticating Agent |
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| Section 15.11. |
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Execution in Counterparts |
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| Section 15.12. |
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Qualification of Indenture |
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| Section 15.13. |
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Calculations |
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INDENTURE dated as of
August 14, 2007 between Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., a
Delaware corporation, as issuer (hereinafter sometimes called the
“ Company ”, as more fully set forth in
Section 1.01), and Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, as
trustee (hereinafter sometimes called the “ Trustee
”, as more fully set forth in Section 1.01).
WITNESSETH:
WHEREAS, for its lawful
corporate purposes, the Company has duly authorized the issuance of
its 5.75% Convertible Senior Notes due 2012 (the “
Notes ”) initially in an aggregate principal amount
not to exceed $1,500,000,000 (or $1,725,000,000 if the Initial
Purchaser (as defined below) exercises its option to purchase
additional Notes pursuant to Section 2(b) of the Purchase
Agreement (as defined below)), 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;
WHEREAS, the Notes, the
certificate of authentication to be borne by the Notes, a form of
assignment, a form of the Designated Event Purchase Notice (as
defined below), a form of conversion notice are to be substantially
in the forms hereinafter provided for;
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 (as defined
below) 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
D
EFINITIONS
Section 1.01 .
Definitions.
(A) 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, which are defined in the Trust
Indenture Act or which 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. If any provision hereof limits, qualifies or conflicts
with another provision hereof which is required to be included in
this Indenture by any of the provisions of the Trust Indenture Act,
such required provision shall control. The words
“herein,” “hereof,”
“hereunder,” and words of similar import refer to this
Indenture as a whole and not to any particular Article, Section or
other Subdivision. The terms defined in this Article include the
plural as well as the singular.
“ Additional
Interest ” means all amounts, if any, payable pursuant to
Section 2 of the Registration Rights Agreement.
“ Additional
Shares ” shall have the meaning specified in
Section 13.01(b)(i).
“ Adjustment
Determination Date ” shall have the meaning specified in
Section 13.04(i).
“ Adjustment
Event ” shall have the meaning specified in
Section 13.04(i).
“ 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.
“ Board of
Directors ” means the Board of Directors of the Company
or a committee of such Board duly authorized to act for it
hereunder.
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“ 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, or duly authorized
committee thereof (to the extent permitted by applicable law), and
to be in full force and effect on the date of such certification,
and delivered to the Trustee.
“ Business Day
” means, with respect to any Note, any day other than a
Saturday, a Sunday or a day on which the Federal Reserve Bank of
New York is closed.
“ Capital Lease
” means a lease that, in accordance with accounting
principles generally accepted in the United States of America,
would be recorded as a capital lease on the balance sheet of the
lessee.
“ 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.
“ close of
business ” means 5:00 p.m. (New York City
time).
“ Code ”
means the Internal Revenue Code of 1983, as amended.
“ Commission
” means the Securities and Exchange Commission.
“ Common Stock
” means, subject to Section 13.06, shares of common
stock of the Company, par value $0.01 per share, at the date of
this Indenture or shares of any class or classes resulting from any
reclassification or reclassifications thereof and that have no
preference in respect of dividends or of amounts payable in the
event of any voluntary or involuntary liquidation, dissolution or
winding up of the Company and that are not subject to redemption by
the Company; provided that if at any time there shall be
more than one such resulting class, the shares of each such class
then so issuable shall be substantially in the proportion which the
total number of shares of such class resulting from all such
reclassifications bears to the total number of shares of all such
classes resulting from all such reclassifications.
“ Company
” means Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., a Delaware corporation,
and subject to the provisions of Article 10, shall include its
successors and assigns and, to the extent the obligations hereunder
shall be to more than one entity pursuant to Section 13.06,
shall include each of such entities.
“ Company Order
” means a written order of the Company, signed by the
Company’s Chief Executive Officer, President, Vice President,
Treasurer or Assistant Treasurer or Secretary or any Assistant
Secretary, and delivered to the Trustee.
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“ Conversion
Agent ” shall have the meaning specified in
Section 3.03.
“ Conversion
Date ” shall have the meaning specified in
Section 13.02(c).
“ Conversion
Obligation ” shall have the meaning specified in
Section 13.01(a).
“ Conversion
Price ” means in respect of each $1,000 principal amount
of Notes, $1,000 divided by the Conversion Rate, as may be adjusted
from time to time as set forth herein.
“ Conversion
Rate ” shall have the meaning specified in
Section 13.01(a).
“ Corporate Trust
Office ” or other similar term means the principal
corporate trust office of the Trustee at which at any particular
time its corporate trust business shall be principally
administered, which office is, at the date as of which this
Indenture is dated, located at Wells Fargo Bank, National
Association, 707 Wilshire Blvd, 17 th Floor, Los Angeles, CA 90017, Attention: Corporate Trust
Services, Facsimile: 213-614-3355.
“ Custodian
” means Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, as custodian
for The Depository Trust Company, with respect to the Notes in
global form, or any successor entity thereto.
“ Default
” means any event that is, or after notice or passage of
time, or both, would be, an Event of Default.
“ Defaulted
Interest ” shall have the meaning specified in
Section 2.04.
“ Definitive
Notes ” shall have the meaning specified in
Section 2.06(d).
“ Depositary
” means, with respect to the Notes issuable or issued in
whole or in part in global form, the person specified in
Section 2.06(d) as the Depositary with respect to such Notes,
until a successor shall have been appointed and become such
pursuant to the applicable provisions of this Indenture, and
thereafter, “ Depositary ” shall mean or include
such successor.
“ Designated
Event ” will be deemed to have occurred upon a
Fundamental Change or a Termination of Trading.
“ Designated Event
Company Notice ” shall have the meaning specified in
Section 14.01(b).
“ Designated Event
Expiration Time ” shall have the meaning specified in
Section 14.01(b)(viii).
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“ Designated Event
Purchase Date ” shall have the meaning specified in
Section 14.01(a).
“ Designated Event
Purchase Notice ” shall have the meaning specified in
Section 14.01(a)(i).
“ Designated Event
Purchase Price ” shall have the meaning specified in
Section 14.01(a).
“ Designated
Institution ” shall have he meaning specified in
Section 13.03(a)(i).
“ Distributed
Property ” shall have the meaning specified in
Section 13.04(c).
“ Effective Date
” shall have the meaning specified in
Section 13.01(b)(ii).
“ Event of
Default ” means, with respect to the Notes, any event
specified in Section 5.01, continued for the period of time,
if any, and after the giving of notice, if any, therein
designated.
“ Ex-Date
” means the first date on which the shares of the Common
Stock trade on the applicable exchange or in the applicable market,
regular way, without the right to receive the issuance or
distribution in question.
“ Exchange Act
” means the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and
the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder.
“ Extension Fee
” shall have the meaning specified in
Section 5.01.
“ Fundamental
Change ” means any transaction or event (whether by means
of an exchange offer, liquidation, tender offer, consolidation,
merger, combination, reclassification, recapitalization or
otherwise) in connection with which more than 50% of the Common
Stock is exchanged for, converted into, acquired for or constitutes
solely the right to receive, consideration which is not at least
90% shares of common stock, or depositary receipts representing
such shares, that are:
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listed on, or immediately after the transaction or event will
be listed on, a United States national securities exchange;
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approved, or immediately after the transaction or event will be
approved, for quotation on a United States system of automated
dissemination of quotations of securities prices similar to the
NASDAQ Global Select Market prior to its designation as a national
securities exchange. |
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“ Global Note
” shall have the meaning specified in
Section 2.06(b).
“ Global Note
Legend ” shall have the meaning specified in
Section 2.03(d).
“ Indebtedness
” as applied to any Person, means (i) obligations,
contingent or otherwise, for money borrowed (other than unamortized
debt discount or premium); (ii) reimbursement and other
obligations pertaining to letters of credit issued for the account
of such Person; (iii) obligations under any swap, cap, collar,
forward purchase contract, derivatives contract or other similar
agreement pursuant to which such Person hedges risks related to
interest rates, currency exchange rates, commodity prices,
financial market conditions or other risks incurred by such Person
in the operation of its business; (iv) obligations evidenced
by bonds, debentures, promissory notes or other instruments or
arrangements; (v) obligations as lessee under a Capital Lease;
and (vi) obligations of such Person under any amendments,
renewals, extensions, modifications and refundings of any such
Indebtedness or obligations listed in clause (i), (ii), (iii),
(iv) or (v) above. All indebtedness of any type described
in the immediately preceding sentence which is secured by a lien
upon property owned by such Person, although such Person has not
assumed or become liable for the payment of such Indebtedness,
shall for all purposes be deemed to be Indebtedness of such Person.
All indebtedness for borrowed money incurred by any other Persons
which is directly guaranteed as to payment of principal by such
Person shall for all purposes be deemed to be Indebtedness of such
Person, but no other contingent obligation of such Person in
respect of indebtedness incurred by any other Persons shall for any
purpose be deemed to be indebtedness of such Person.
“ Indenture
” means this instrument as originally executed or, if amended
or supplemented as herein provided, as so amended or
supplemented.
“ Initial
Purchaser ” has the meaning set forth in the Purchase
Agreement.
“ Interest Payment
Date ” means February 15 and August 15 of each
year, beginning on February 15, 2008.
“ Last Reported Sale
Price ” of the Common Stock on any date means the closing
sale price per share of the Common Stock (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. securities exchange on which
the Common Stock is traded. If the Common Stock is not listed for
trading on a U.S. national or regional securities exchange on the
relevant date, the “ Last Reported Sale Price ”
will be the last quoted bid price per share of the Common Stock in
the over-the-counter market on the relevant date, as reported by
the National Quotation Bureau or similar organization. If the
Common Stock is not so quoted,
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the “ Last Reported Sale
Price ” will be the average of the mid-point of the last
bid and ask prices for the Common Stock on the relevant date from
each of at least three nationally recognized independent investment
banking firms, which may include the Initial Purchaser, selected by
the Company for this purpose.
“ Maturity Date
” means August 15, 2012.
“ Merger Event
” shall have the meaning specified in
Section 13.06.
“ Note ”
or “ Notes ” means any note or notes, as the
case may be, authenticated and delivered under this
Indenture.
“ Noteholder
” or “ holder ,” as applied to any Note,
or other similar terms (but excluding the term “
beneficial holder ”), means any person in whose name
at the time a particular Note is registered on the Note
Register.
“ Note Register
” shall have the meaning specified in
Section 2.06(a).
“ Note Registrar
” shall have the meaning specified in
Section 2.06(a).
“ Notice of
Conversion ” shall have the meaning specified in
Section 13.02(c).
“ Officer’s
Certificate ,” when used with respect to the Company,
means a certificate signed by one of the President, the Chief
Executive Officer, any Vice President, the Treasurer or any
Assistant Treasurer, Secretary or any Assistant Secretary of the
Company, which is delivered to the Trustee. Each such certificate
shall include the statements provided for in Section 15.05 if
and to the extent required by the provisions of such Section. The
officer giving an Officer’s Certificate pursuant to
Section 5.08 shall be the principal executive, financial or
accounting officer of the Company.
“ Offering
Memorandum ” means the offering memorandum dated
August 9, 2007 relating to the offering by the Company of the
Notes.
“ open of
business ” means 9:00 a.m. (New York City
time).
“ Opinion of
Counsel ” means an opinion in writing signed by legal
counsel, who may be an employee of or counsel to the Company, or
other counsel acceptable to the Trustee, which is delivered to the
Trustee. Each such opinion shall include the statements provided
for in Section 15.05 if and to the extent required by the
provisions of such Section.
“ Outstanding
,” when used with reference to the Notes, shall, subject to
the provisions of Section 7.04, mean, as of any particular
time, all Notes authenticated and delivered by the Trustee under
this Indenture, except:
(i) Notes theretofore
canceled by the Trustee or accepted by the Trustee for
cancellation,
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(ii) Notes, or portions
thereof, for the payment 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);
(iii) Notes in lieu of which,
or in substitution for which, other Notes shall have been
authenticated and delivered pursuant to the terms of
Section 2.08 unless proof satisfactory to the Trustee is
presented that any such Notes are held by protected purchasers in
due course; and
(iv) Notes converted pursuant
to Article 13.
“ Paying Agent
” shall have the meaning specified in
Section 3.03.
“ 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, including any syndicate
or group that would be deemed to be a “person” under
Section 13(d)(3) of the Exchange Act.
“ 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 2.08 in lieu of
a lost, destroyed or stolen Note shall be deemed to evidence the
same debt as the lost, destroyed or stolen Note that it
replaces.
“ Purchase
Agreement ” means the purchase agreement, dated
August 9, 2007 between the Company and the Initial Purchaser
relating to the purchase and sale of the Notes.
“ QIB ”
means any “qualified institutional buyer” (as such term
is defined in Rule 144A).
“ record date
” shall have the meaning specified in
Section 2.04.
“ Record Date
” shall mean, with respect to any dividend, distribution or
other transaction or event in which the holders of Common Stock
have the right to receive any cash, securities or other property or
in which the Common Stock (or other applicable security) is
exchanged for or converted into any combination of cash, securities
or other property, the date fixed for determination of stockholders
entitled to receive such cash, securities or other property
(whether such date is fixed by the Board of Directors, statute,
contract or otherwise).
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“ Reference
Property ” shall have the meaning specified in
Section 13.06(b).
“ Registration
Rights Agreement ” means the registration rights
agreement dated as of the date hereof between the Company and the
Initial Purchaser.
“ Responsible
Officer ,” when used with respect to the Trustee, shall
mean an officer of the Trustee in the Corporate Trust Office,
having direct responsibility for the administration of this
Indenture, and also, with respect to a particular matter, any other
officer to whom such matter is referred because of such
officer’s knowledge of and familiarity with the particular
subject.
“ Restricted
Securities ” shall have the meaning specified in
Section 2.03.
“ Restricted
Securities Legend ” shall have the meaning specified in
Section 2.03.
“ Rule 144
” means Rule 144 under the Securities Act.
“ Rule 144A
” means Rule 144A under the Securities Act.
“ Securities Act
” means the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and the rules
and regulations promulgated thereunder.
“ Spin-Off
” shall have the meaning specified in
Section 13.04(c).
“ Significant
Subsidiary ” means such Subsidiary of the Company as
meets the definition of “significant subsidiary” in
Rule 1-02 of Regulation S-X promulgated by the Commission as in
effect on the original date of issuance of the Notes.
“ Stock Price
” means the price paid per share of Common Stock in
connection with a Fundamental Change pursuant to which Additional
Shares shall be added to the Conversion Rate as set forth in
Section 13.01(b) hereof, which shall be equal to (i) if
holders of Common Stock receive only cash in such Fundamental
Change, the cash amount paid per share of Common Stock and
(ii) in all other cases, the average of the Last Reported Sale
Prices of the Common Stock over the five consecutive Trading Day
period ending on the Trading Day immediately preceding the
Effective Date of such Fundamental Change.
“ Subsidiary
” of the Company means (i) a corporation a majority of
whose Capital Stock with voting power, under ordinary
circumstances, to elect directors
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is at the time, directly or indirectly,
owned by the Company, by the Company and one or more Subsidiaries
of the Company or by one or more Subsidiaries of the Company or
(ii) any other Person (other than a corporation) in which the
Company, one or more Subsidiaries of the Company or the Company and
one or more Subsidiaries of the Company, directly or indirectly, at
the date of determination thereof, has greater than a fifty percent
(50%) ownership interest.
“ Successor
Company ” shall have the meaning specified in
Section 10.01(a).
“ Termination of
Trading ” will be deemed to have occurred if the Common
Stock is neither listed for trading on a U.S. national securities
exchange nor approved for quotation on a U.S. system of automated
dissemination of quotations of securities prices similar to the
NASDAQ Global Select Market prior to its designation as a national
securities exchange.
“ Trading Day
” means a day during which trading in the Common Stock
generally occurs. If the Common Stock (or other security for which
a closing sale price must be determined) is not listed for trading
on a U.S. national or regional securities exchange on the relevant
date, “ Trading Date ” means a Business
Day.
“ transfer
” shall have the meaning specified in
Section 2.03.
“ 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.
“ Trustee
” means Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, and its
successors and any corporation resulting from or surviving any
consolidation or merger to which it or its successors may be a
party and any successor trustee at the time serving as successor
trustee hereunder.
Section 1.02 .
Incorporation by Reference of Trust Indenture Act.
This Indenture is subject to
the mandatory provisions of the Trust Indenture Act, which are
incorporated by reference in and made a part of this Indenture. The
following Trust Indenture Act terms have the following
meanings:
“ indenture
securities ” means the Notes.
“ indenture security
holder ” means a holder.
“ indenture to be
qualified ” means this Indenture.
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“ indenture
trustee ” or “ institutional trustee ”
means the Trustee.
“ obligor
” on the indenture securities means the Company and any other
obligor on the indenture securities.
All other terms in this
Indenture that are defined by the Trust Indenture Act, defined by
it by reference to another statute or defined by Commission rule
have the meanings assigned to them by such definitions. If any
provision hereof limits, qualifies or conflicts with another
provision hereof which is required to be included in this Indenture
by the Trust Indenture Act, such required provision shall
control.
ARTICLE 2
I SSUE , D
ESCRIPTION , E XECUTION , R
EGISTRATION AND E
XCHANGE OF N
OTES
Section 2.01 .
Designation and Amount. The Notes shall be designated as the
“5.75% Convertible Senior Notes due 2012.” The
aggregate principal amount of the Notes that may be authenticated
and delivered under this Indenture is initially limited to
$1,500,000,000 (or $1,725,000,000 if the Initial Purchaser
exercises its option to purchase additional Notes pursuant to
Section 2(b) of the Purchase Agreement), subject to
Section 2.13 and except for Notes authenticated and delivered
upon registration or transfer of, or in exchange for, or in lieu of
other Notes pursuant to Section 2.06, Section 2.08,
Section 9.04 and Section 13.02.
Section 2.02 . Form
of Notes. The Notes and the Trustee’s certificate of
authentication to be borne by such Notes shall be substantially in
the form set forth in Exhibit A , with such applicable
legends as are provided for in Section 2.03.
Any of the Notes may have
such letters, numbers or other marks of identification and such
notations, legends or endorsements as the officers executing the
same may approve (execution thereof to be conclusive evidence of
such approval) and as are not inconsistent with the provisions of
this Indenture, or as may be required 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.
The Notes shall be issued
initially in the form of one or more permanent Global Notes with
the applicable legends as provided in Section 2.03. Each
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
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from time to time be increased or
reduced to reflect purchases, conversions, transfers or exchanges
permitted hereby. Any endorsement of a Global Note to reflect the
amount of any increase or decrease in the amount of outstanding
Notes represented thereby shall be made by the Trustee or the
Custodian, at the direction of the Trustee, in such manner and upon
instructions given by the holder of such Notes in accordance with
this Indenture. Payment of principal and accrued and unpaid
interest 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 forms of Note attached as Exhibit A hereto
are incorporated herein and 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 .
Legends. Each Note issued hereunder and each Common Stock
certificate representing shares of Common Stock issued upon
conversion of such Note (collectively, the “ Restricted
Securities ”) shall, upon issuance, bear the legend set
forth in Section 2.03(a) or 2.03(b), as applicable (each a
“ Restricted Securities Legend ”), and such
legend shall not be removed except as provided in
Section 2.03(c). Each such Restricted Security that bears or
is required to bear the applicable Restricted Securities Legend
shall be subject to the restrictions on transfer set forth in this
Section 2.03 (including the Restricted Securities Legend set
forth below), and the holder of each such Restricted Security, by
such holder’s acceptance thereof, shall be deemed to have
agreed to be bound by all such restrictions on transfer.
As used in Section 2.03,
the term “ transfer ” encompasses any sale,
pledge, transfer or other disposition whatsoever of any Restricted
Security.
(A) Restricted Securities
Legend for the Notes . Except as provided in
Section 2.03(c), any certificate evidencing such Note (and all
Notes issued in exchange therefor or substitution thereof, shall
bear a Restricted Securities Legend in substantially the following
form:
THIS SECURITY AND THE SHARES
OF ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES, INC. (THE “COMPANY”) COMMON
STOCK (“COMMON STOCK”) ISSUABLE UPON CONVERSION OF THIS
SECURITY HAVE NOT BEEN REGISTERED UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933,
AS AMENDED (THE “SECURITIES ACT”), OR ANY STATE
SECURITIES LAWS. NEITHER THIS SECURITY, THE SHARES OF COMMON STOCK
ISSUABLE UPON CONVERSION OF THIS SECURITY NOR ANY INTEREST OR
PARTICIPATION HEREIN OR THEREIN MAY BE REOFFERED, SOLD, ASSIGNED,
TRANSFERRED,
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PLEDGED, ENCUMBERED OR
OTHERWISE DISPOSED OF IN THE ABSENCE OF SUCH REGISTRATION OR UNLESS
SUCH TRANSACTION IS EXEMPT FROM, OR NOT SUBJECT TO, REGISTRATION.
THE HOLDER OF THIS SECURITY, BY ITS ACCEPTANCE HEREOF,
(1) AGREES TO OFFER, SELL OR OTHERWISE TRANSFER SUCH SECURITY,
PRIOR TO THE DATE (THE “RESALE RESTRICTION TERMINATION
DATE”) THAT IS TWO YEARS AFTER THE LAST ORIGINAL ISSUE DATE
HEREOF ONLY (A) TO THE COMPANY OR ANY SUBSIDIARY THEREOF,
(B) FOR SO LONG AS THE SECURITIES ARE ELIGIBLE FOR RESALE
PURSUANT TO RULE 144A, TO A PERSON IT REASONABLY BELIEVES IS A
“QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER” AS DEFINED IN RULE 144A
UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT THAT PURCHASES FOR ITS OWN ACCOUNT OR FOR
THE ACCOUNT OF A QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER TO WHICH NOTICE IS
GIVEN THAT THE TRANSFER IS BEING MADE IN RELIANCE ON RULE 144A,
(C) PURSUANT TO A REGISTRATION STATEMENT THAT HAS BEEN
DECLARED EFFECTIVE UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT, OR (D) PURSUANT
TO ANOTHER AVAILABLE EXEMPTION FROM THE REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS
OF THE SECURITIES ACT, SUBJECT TO THE RIGHTS OF THE COMPANY AND THE
TRUSTEE PRIOR TO ANY SUCH OFFER, SALE OR TRANSFER PURSUANT TO
CLAUSE (D) TO REQUIRE THE DELIVERY OF AN OPINION OF COUNSEL,
CERTIFICATION AND/OR OTHER INFORMATION SATISFACTORY TO EACH OF
THEM, AND IN EACH OF THE FOREGOING CASES WHERE REGISTRATION OR
TRANSFER OF THIS SECURITY IS REQUIRED, A CERTIFICATE OF TRANSFER IN
THE FORM APPEARING ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THIS SECURITY COMPLETED AND
DELIVERED BY THE TRANSFEROR TO THE TRUSTEE AND (2) AGREES THAT
IT WILL DELIVER TO EACH PERSON TO WHOM THIS NOTE IS TRANSFERRED A
NOTICE SUBSTANTIALLY TO THE EFFECT OF THIS LEGEND. THIS LEGEND WILL
BE REMOVED AFTER THE RESALE RESTRICTION TERMINATION DATE. THE
INDENTURE CONTAINS A PROVISION REQUIRING THE TRUSTEE TO REFUSE TO
REGISTER ANY TRANSFER OF THIS NOTE IN VIOLATION OF THE FOREGOING
RESTRICTION. IN ANY CASE, THE HOLDER HEREOF WILL NOT, DIRECTLY OR
INDIRECTLY ENGAGE IN ANY HEDGING TRANSACTIONS WITH REGARD TO THIS
SECURITY OR THE COMMON STOCK EXCEPT AS PERMITTED UNDER THE
SECURITIES ACT.
(B) Restricted Securities
Legend for the Common Stock Issued Upon Conversion of the Notes
. Each stock certificate representing Common Stock
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issued upon conversion of Notes bearing
a Restricted Securities Legend will, subject to the availability of
a Shelf Registration Statement (as defined in the Registration
Rights Agreement) and registration thereunder as set forth in the
Registration Rights Agreement, bear the following
legend:
THIS SECURITY HAS NOT BEEN
REGISTERED UNDER THE UNITED STATES SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS
AMENDED (THE “SECURITIES ACT”), AND ACCORDINGLY, MAY
NOT BE OFFERED OR SOLD EXCEPT AS SET FORTH IN THE FOLLOWING
SENTENCE. BY ITS ACQUISITION HEREOF, THE HOLDER AGREES
(1) THAT IT WILL NOT RESELL OR OTHERWISE TRANSFER THE SECURITY
EVIDENCED HEREBY, EXCEPT (A) TO THE ISSUER; (B) UNDER A
REGISTRATION STATEMENT THAT HAS BEEN DECLARED EFFECTIVE UNDER THE
SECURITIES ACT; (C) TO A PERSON THE SELLER REASONABLY BELIEVES
IS A QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER (AS DEFINED IN RULE 144A ADOPTED
UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT) THAT IS PURCHASING FOR ITS OWN ACCOUNT OR
FOR THE ACCOUNT OF ANOTHER QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER AND TO
WHOM NOTICE IS GIVEN THAT THE TRANSFER IS BEING MADE IN RELIANCE ON
RULE 144A, ALL IN COMPLIANCE WITH RULE 144A (IF AVAILABLE); OR
(D) UNDER ANY OTHER AVAILABLE EXEMPTION FROM THE REGISTRATION
REQUIREMENTS OF THE SECURITIES ACT; AND (2) IT WILL, PRIOR TO
ANY TRANSFER OF THIS SECURITY FURNISH TO THE TRANSFER AGENT AND THE
ISSUER SUCH CERTIFICATIONS, LEGAL OPINIONS OR OTHER INFORMATION AS
MAY BE REQUIRED 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.
(C) Removal of the
Restricted Securities Legends . The Restricted Securities
Legend may be removed from any Note or any Common Stock certificate
representing shares of the Common Stock issued upon conversion of
any Note if there is delivered to the Company such satisfactory
evidence, which may include an opinion of independent counsel, as
may be reasonably required by the Company, that neither such legend
nor the restrictions on transfer set forth therein are required to
ensure that transfers of such Note or shares of the Common Stock
issued upon conversion of Notes, as the case may be, will not
violate the registration requirements of the Securities Act or the
qualification requirements under any state securities laws. Upon
provision of such satisfactory evidence, at the written direction
of the Company, (x) in the case of a Note, the Trustee shall
authenticate and deliver in exchange for such Note another Note or
Notes having an equal aggregate principal amount that does not bear
such legend or (y) in the case of a Common Stock certificate
representing shares of the Common Stock, the
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transfer agent for the Common Stock
shall authenticate and deliver in exchange for the Common Stock
certificate or certificates representing such shares of Common
Stock bearing such legend, one or more new Common Stock
certificates representing a like aggregate number of shares of
Common Stock that do not bear such legend. If the Restricted
Securities Legend has been removed from a Note or Common Stock
certificates representing shares of the Common Stock issued upon
conversion of any Note as provided above, no other Note issued in
exchange for all or any part of such Note, or no other Common Stock
certificates issued in exchange for such Common Stock, shall bear
such legend, unless the Company has reasonable cause to believe
that such other Note is a “restricted security” (or
such shares of Common Stock are “restricted
securities”) within the meaning of Rule 144 and instructs the
Trustee in writing to cause a Restricted Securities Legend to
appear thereon.
Any Note (or Note issued in
exchange or substitution therefor) as to which the conditions for
removal of the Restricted Securities Legend set forth in
Section 2.03(a) as set forth therein have been satisfied may,
upon surrender of such Note for exchange to the Note Registrar in
accordance with the provisions of Section 2.07, be exchanged
for a new Note or Notes, of like tenor and aggregate principal
amount, which shall not bear the Restricted Securities Legend
required by Section 2.03(a).
Any Common Stock certificate
representing shares of Common Stock issued upon conversion of any
Note as to which the conditions for removal of the Restricted
Securities Legend set forth in Section 2.03(b) have been
satisfied may, upon surrender of the Common Stock certificates
representing such shares of Common Stock for exchange in accordance
with the procedures of the transfer agent for the Common Stock, be
exchanged for a new Common Stock certificate or certificates
representing a like aggregate number of shares of Common Stock,
which shall not bear the Restricted Securities Legend.
(D) Global Note Legend
. Each Global Note shall also bear the following legend (the
“ Global Note Legend ”) on the face
thereof:
UNLESS THIS CERTIFICATE IS
PRESENTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF THE DEPOSITORY TRUST
COMPANY, A NEW YORK CORPORATION (“DTC”), NEW YORK, NEW
YORK, TO THE COMPANY OR ITS AGENT FOR REGISTRATION OF TRANSFER,
EXCHANGE OR PAYMENT, AND ANY CERTIFICATE ISSUED IS REGISTERED IN
THE NAME OF CEDE & CO. OR IN SUCH OTHER NAME AS IS
REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC (AND ANY PAYMENT
IS MADE TO CEDE & CO. OR TO SUCH OTHER ENTITY AS IS
REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC), ANY TRANSFER,
PLEDGE OR OTHER USE HEREOF FOR VALUE OR OTHERWISE BY
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OR TO ANY PERSON IS WRONGFUL
INASMUCH AS THE REGISTERED OWNER HEREOF, CEDE & CO., HAS
AN INTEREST HEREIN.
TRANSFERS OF THIS GLOBAL NOTE
SHALL BE LIMITED TO TRANSFERS IN WHOLE, BUT NOT IN PART, TO
NOMINEES OF DTC OR TO A SUCCESSOR THEREOF OR SUCH SUCCESSOR’S
NOMINEE AND TRANSFERS OF PORTIONS OF THIS GLOBAL NOTE SHALL BE
LIMITED TO TRANSFERS MADE IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE RESTRICTIONS SET
FORTH IN THE INDENTURE REFERRED TO IN THE TERMS OF THE NOTE
ATTACHED HERETO.
(E) Legend for Definitive
Notes . Definitive Notes, in addition to the legend set forth
in Section 2.03(a), will also bear a legend substantially in
the following form:
THIS SECURITY WILL NOT BE
ACCEPTED IN EXCHANGE FOR A BENEFICIAL INTEREST IN A GLOBAL NOTE
UNLESS THE HOLDER OF THIS SECURITY, SUBSEQUENT TO SUCH EXCHANGE,
WILL HOLD NO NOTES.
Section 2.04 . Date
and Denomination of Notes; Payments on the Notes. The Notes
shall be issuable initially in fully registered form without
coupons in denominations of $1,000 principal amount and integral
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,
as applicable. Interest on the Notes (including any Additional
Interest) shall be computed on the basis of a 360-day year
comprised of twelve (12) 30-day months.
If any Interest Payment Date
(other than an Interest Payment Date coinciding with the Maturity
Date or required Designated Event Purchase Date) of a Note falls on
a day that is not a Business Day, such Interest Payment Date will
be postponed to the next succeeding Business Day. If the Maturity
Date or required Designated Event Purchase Date would fall on a day
that is not a Business Day, the required payment of interest
(including any Additional Interest), if any, and principal, will be
made on the next succeeding Business Day and no interest on such
payment will accrue for the period from and after the Maturity Date
or required Designated Event Purchase Date to such next succeeding
Business Day.
The Person in whose name any
Note (or its Predecessor Note) is registered on the Note Register
at the close of business on any record date with respect to any
Interest Payment Date shall be entitled to receive the interest
(including any Additional Interest) payable on such Interest
Payment Date. Interest shall be
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payable at the office of the Company
maintained by the Company for such purpose in Minneapolis,
Minnesota. The Company shall pay interest (including Additional
Interest, if any) (i) on any Global Note in immediately
available funds to the account of the Depositary or its nominee or
(ii) on Notes in certificated form (x) to holders having
an aggregate principal amount of $5,000,000 or less, by check
mailed to the holders of these Notes or (y) to holders having
an aggregate principal amount of more than $5,000,000, either by
check mailed to each holder or, upon application by a holder to the
Note Registrar not later than the relevant record date, by wire
transfer in immediately available funds to that holder’s
account within the United States, which application shall remain in
effect until the holder notifies, in writing, the Note Registrar to
the contrary. The term “ record date ” with
respect to any Interest Payment Date shall mean the February 1
or August 1 preceding the applicable February 15 or
August 15 Interest Payment Date, respectively.
Any interest on any Note
which is payable, but is not punctually paid or duly provided for,
on any Interest Payment Date (herein called “ Defaulted
Interest ”) shall forthwith cease to be payable to the
Noteholder on the relevant record date by virtue of his having been
such Noteholder, and such Defaulted Interest shall be paid by the
Company, at its election in each case, as provided in clause
(1) or (2) below:
(1) The Company may elect to
make payment of any Defaulted Interest to the Persons in whose
names the Notes (or their respective Predecessor Notes) are
registered at the close of business on a special record date for
the payment of such Defaulted Interest, which shall be fixed in the
following manner. The Company shall notify the Trustee in writing
of the amount of Defaulted Interest proposed to be paid on each
Note and the date of the proposed payment (which shall be not less
than twenty-five (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 (15) days and not less than ten
(10) days prior to the date of the proposed payment, and not
less than ten (10) 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 his address as it appears in the Note
Register, not less than ten (10) days prior to such special
record date. Notice of the proposed payment of such Defaulted
Interest
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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 2.04.
(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 2.05 .
Execution, Authentication and Delivery of Notes. The Notes
shall be signed in the name and on behalf of the Company by the
manual or facsimile signature of its Chairman or Vice-Chairman of
the Board of Directors, Chief Executive Officer, President or any
of its Vice Presidents.
At any time and from time to
time after the execution and delivery of this Indenture, the
Company may deliver Notes executed by the Company to the Trustee
for authentication, together with a Company Order for the
authentication and delivery of such Notes, and the Trustee in
accordance with such Company Order shall authenticate and deliver
such Notes, without any further action by the Company
hereunder.
Only such Notes as shall bear
thereon a certificate of authentication substantially in the form
set forth on the form of Note attached as Exhibit A hereto,
executed manually or by facsimile by the Trustee (or an
authenticating agent appointed by the Trustee as provided by
Section 15.10), shall be entitled to the benefits of this
Indenture or be valid or obligatory for any purpose. Such
certificate by the Trustee (or such an authenticating agent) upon
any Note executed by the Company shall be conclusive evidence that
the Note so authenticated has been duly authenticated and delivered
hereunder and that the holder is entitled to the benefits of this
Indenture.
In case any officer of the
Company who shall have signed any of the Notes shall cease to be
such officer before the Notes so signed shall have been
authenticated and delivered by the Trustee, or disposed of by the
Company, such Notes nevertheless may be authenticated and delivered
or disposed of as though the person who signed such Notes had not
ceased to be such officer of the Company and any Note may be signed
on behalf of the Company by such persons as, at the actual date of
the execution of such Note, shall be the proper officers of the
Company, although at the date of the execution of this Indenture
any such person was not such an officer.
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The Trustee shall have the
right to decline to authenticate and deliver any Notes under this
Section if the Trustee, being advised by counsel of national
reputation, determines that such action may not lawfully be taken
or if the Trustee in good faith shall determine that such action
would expose the Trustee to personal liability to existing
Noteholders.
Section 2.06 .
Exchange and Registration of Transfer of Notes; Transfer Generally;
Depositary. (a) The Company shall cause to be kept at the
Corporate Trust Office a register for the Notes (the register
maintained in such office and in any other office or agency of the
Company designated pursuant to Section 3.02 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 one or more co-registrars in
accordance with Section 3.03.
Upon surrender for
registration of transfer of any Note to the Note Registrar or any
co-registrar, and satisfaction of the requirements for such
transfer set forth in this Section 2.06, the Company shall
execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, in the
name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new
Notes of any authorized denominations and of a like aggregate
principal amount and bearing such restrictive legends as may be
required by this Indenture.
Notes may be exchanged for
other Notes of any authorized denominations and of a like aggregate
principal amount, upon surrender of such Notes to be exchanged at
any such office or agency maintained by the Company pursuant to
Section 3.03. Whenever any Notes are so surrendered for
exchange, the Company shall execute, and the Trustee shall
authenticate and deliver, the Notes which the Noteholder making the
exchange is entitled to receive, bearing registration numbers not
contemporaneously outstanding.
All Notes 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 his attorney-in-fact duly authorized in
writing.
No service charge shall be
charged to the Noteholder for any exchange or registration of
transfer of Notes, but the Company or the Trustee may require
payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax, assessments or other
governmental charges that may be imposed in connection
therewith.
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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 (a) any Notes
surrendered for conversion or, if a portion of any Note is
surrendered for conversion, such portion thereof surrendered for
conversion or (b) any Notes, or a portion of any Note,
surrendered for purchase (and not withdrawn) except in accordance
with Article 13 for conversion and Article 14 for purchase hereof,
respectively.
All Notes issued upon any
registration of transfer or exchange of Notes in accordance with
this Indenture shall be the valid obligations of the Company,
evidencing the same debt, and entitled to the same benefits under
this Indenture as the Notes surrendered upon such registration of
transfer or exchange.
(B) So long as the Notes are
eligible for book-entry settlement with the Depositary, unless
otherwise required by law, all Notes shall be represented by one or
more Notes in global form (each, a “ Global Note
”) registered in the name of the Depositary or the nominee of
the Depositary. The transfer and exchange of beneficial interests
in a Global Note, which 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) Any Global Note shall
initially bear (i) the Restricted Securities Legend set forth
in Section 2.03(a) and (ii) the Global Note Legend set
forth in Section 2.03(d), and may be endorsed with or have
incorporated in the text thereof such legends or recitals or
changes not inconsistent with the provisions of this Indenture as
may be required by the Custodian, the Depositary or by the National
Association of Securities Dealers, Inc. to comply with any
applicable law or any regulation thereunder or with the rules and
regulations of any securities exchange or automated quotation
system upon which the Notes may be listed or traded or designated
for issuance or to conform with any usage with respect thereto, or
to indicate any special limitations or restrictions to which any
particular Notes are subject.
Notwithstanding any other
provisions of this Indenture, a Global Note may not be transferred
as a whole or in part except 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.
(D) The Depositary shall be a
clearing agency registered under the Exchange Act. The Company
initially appoints The Depository Trust Company to act as
Depositary with respect to each Global Note. Initially, each Global
Note
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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
Cede & Co.
If at any time the Depositary
for a Global Note (i) notifies the Company that it is
unwilling or unable to continue as Depositary for such Note or
(ii) ceases to be registered as a clearing agency under the
Exchange Act, the Company may appoint a successor Depositary with
respect to such Note. If (1) a successor Depositary for such
Global Note is not appointed by the Company within ninety
(90) days after the Company receives such notice or the
Depositary ceasing to be a registered clearing agency, (2) the
Company, at its option, notifies the Trustee that it elects to
cause the issuance of Notes in definitive form (“
Definitive Notes ”) in exchange for all or any part of
the Notes represented by a Global Note, subject to the procedures
of the Depositary, or (3) an Event of Default has occurred and
is continuing and the Note Registrar has received a request from
the beneficial owner of a Note for the issuance of Definitive Notes
in exchange for a Global Note, the Company will execute, and the
Trustee, upon receipt of an Officer’s Certificate for the
authentication and delivery of Definitive Notes, will authenticate
and deliver Definitive Notes in an aggregate principal amount equal
to the principal amount of such Global Note, in exchange for such
Global Note, and upon delivery of the Global Note to the Trustee
such Global Note shall be canceled.
Definitive Notes issued in
exchange for all or a part of the Global Note pursuant to this
Section 2.06(d) 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, 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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Section 2.07 .
Special Transfer Provisions. Unless a Note is no longer a
Restricted Security, the following provisions shall apply to any
sale, pledge or other transfer of such Notes:
(a) Transfer of Notes to a
QIB . The following provisions shall apply with respect to the
registration of any proposed transfer of Notes to a QIB:
(i) If the Notes to be
transferred consist of a beneficial interest in the Global Notes,
the transfer of such interest may be effected only through the
book-entry systems maintained by The Depositary Trust
Company.
( II ) If the
Notes to be transferred consist of Definitive Notes, the Note
Registrar shall register the transfer if such transfer is being
made by a proposed transferor who has checked the box provided for
on the form of Note stating (or has otherwise advised the Company
and the Registrar in writing) that the sale has been made in
compliance with the provisions of Rule 144A to a transferee who has
signed a certification stating or has otherwise advised the Company
and the Note Registrar in writing that:
(A) it is purchasing the
Notes for its own account or an account with respect to which it
exercises sole investment discretion;
(B) it and any such account
is a QIB within the meaning of Rule 144A;
(C) it is aware that the sale
to it is being made in reliance on Rule 144A;
(D) it acknowledges that it
has received such information regarding the Company as it has
requested pursuant to Rule 144A or has determined not to request
such information; and
(E) it is aware that the
transferor is relying upon its foregoing representations in order
to claim the exemption from registration provided by Rule
144A.
(b) General . By its
acceptance of any Note bearing the Restricted Securities Legend,
each holder of such Note acknowledges the restrictions on transfer
of such Note set forth in this Indenture and agrees that it will
transfer such Note only as provided in this Indenture. The Note
Registrar shall not register a transfer of any Note unless such
transfer complies with the restrictions on transfer of such Note
set forth in this Indenture. The Note Registrar shall be
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entitled to receive and rely on written
instructions from the Company verifying that such transfer complies
with such restrictions on transfer. In connection with any transfer
of Notes (other than a transfer to the Company (or a Subsidiary of
the Company) or a transfer pursuant to Rule 144A or pursuant to a
registration statement declared effective under the Securities
Act), each holder agrees by its acceptance of the Notes to furnish
the Note Registrar or the Company such certifications, legal
opinions or other information as either of them may reasonably
require to confirm that such transfer is being made pursuant to an
exemption from, or a transaction not subject to, the registration
requirements of the Securities Act; provided that the Note
Registrar shall not be required to determine (but may rely on a
determination made by the Company with respect to) the sufficiency
of any such certifications, legal opinions or other
information.
The Note Registrar shall
retain copies of all certifications, letters, notices and other
written communications received pursuant to Section 2.06
hereof or this Section 2.07. The Company shall have the right
to inspect and make copies of all such letters, notices or other
written communications at any reasonable time upon the giving of
reasonable written notice to the Note Registrar.
Section 2.08 .
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 such authenticating agent such security or
indemnity as may be required by them to save each of them harmless
from any loss, liability, cost or expense caused by or connected
with such substitution, and, in every case of destruction, loss or
theft, the applicant shall also furnish to the Company, to the
Trustee and, if applicable, to such authenticating agent evidence
to their satisfaction of the destruction, loss or theft of such
Note and of the ownership thereof.
The Trustee or such
authenticating agent may authenticate any such substituted Note and
deliver the same upon the receipt of such security or indemnity as
the Trustee, the Company and, if applicable, such authenticating
agent may require. Upon the issuance of any substituted 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 which has matured or
is about to mature or has been surrendered for purchase upon a
Designated Event or is about to be converted into Common Stock
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
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authorize the conversion of the same
(without surrender thereof except in the case of a mutilated Note),
as the case may be, if the applicant for such payment or conversion
shall furnish to the Company, to the Trustee and, if applicable, to
such authenticating agent such security or indemnity as may be
required by them to save each of them harmless for any loss,
liability, cost or expense caused by or connected with such
substitution, and, in every case of destruction, loss or theft,
evidence satisfactory to the 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 2.08 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.
Section 2.09 .
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 3.02 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, such 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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Section 2.10 .
Restriction on Resale. Any Notes or shares of Common Stock
issued upon the conversion of Notes that are purchased or owned by
the Company or any Affiliate thereof may not be resold by the
Company or such Affiliate unless registered under the Securities
Act or resold pursuant to an exemption from the registration
requirements of the Securities Act in a transaction that results in
such Notes or shares of Common Stock, as the case may be, no longer
being “restricted securities” (as defined under Rule
144).
Section 2.11 .
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 destroy
canceled Notes in accordance with its customary procedures and,
after such destruction, shall deliver a certificate of such
destruction 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 2.12 . CUSIP
Numbers. The Company in issuing the Notes may use
“CUSIP” numbers (if then generally in use), and, if so,
the Trustee shall use “CUSIP” numbers in Company
Notices 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
Company Notice and that reliance may be placed only on the other
identification numbers printed on the Notes. The Company will
promptly notify the Trustee in writing of any change in the
“CUSIP” numbers.
Section 2.13 .
Additional Notes, Purchases. The Company may, without the
consent of the Noteholders and notwithstanding Section 2.01,
reopen the Notes and issue additional Notes hereunder with the same
terms and with the same CUSIP number as such Notes initially issued
hereunder in an unlimited aggregate principal amount, which will
form the same series with the Notes initially issued hereunder so
long as such additional Notes are fungible with such Notes
initially issued hereunder for U.S. federal income tax purposes.
The Company may also from time to time purchase Notes in tender
offers, open market purchases or negotiated transactions without
prior notice to Noteholders.
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ARTICLE 3
P ARTICULAR C
OVENANTS OF THE C
OMPANY
Section 3.01 .
Payment of Principal, Interest and Extension Fee. The Company
covenants and agrees that it will cause to be paid the principal
of, accrued and unpaid interest (including any Additional Interest)
on, each of the Notes and if applicable, payment of the Extension
Fee, Conversion Obligation and Additional Shares, at the places, at
the respective times and in the manner provided herein and in the
Notes.
Section 3.02 .
Additional Interest. If Additional Interest is payable by the
Company pursuant to the Registration Rights Agreement, the Company
shall deliver to the Trustee an Officer’s Certificate to that
effect stating (i) the amount of such Additional Interest that
is payable and (ii) the date on which such Additional Interest
is payable. Unless and until a Responsible Officer receives such a
certificate, the Trustee may assume without inquiry that no
Additional Interest is payable. If the Company has paid Additional
Interest directly to the persons entitled to it, the Company shall
deliver to the Trustee an Officer’s Certificate setting forth
the particulars of such payment.
Section 3.03 .
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, redemptions 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 not designated
or appointed by the Trustee. If at any time the Company shall fail
to maintain any such required office or agency or shall fail to
furnish the Trustee with the address thereof, such presentations,
surrenders, notices and demands may be made or served at the
Corporate Trust Office or the office or agency of the
Trustee.
The Company may also from
time to time designate 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
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and the office or agency of the Trustee
in Minneapolis, Minnesota shall be considered as one such office or
agency of the Company for each of the aforesaid
purposes.
So long as the Trustee is the
Note Registrar, the Trustee agrees to mail, or cause to be mailed,
the notices set forth in Section 6.10(a) and the third
paragraph of Section 6.11.
Section 3.04 .
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 6.10, a Trustee, so that there shall at all times be a
Trustee hereunder.
Section 3.05 .
Provisions as to Paying Agent. (a) If the Company shall
appoint a Paying Agent other than the Trustee or if the Trustee
shall appoint such a Paying Agent, the Company will cause such
Paying 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 3.05:
(i) that it will hold all
sums held by it as such agent for the payment of the principal of,
accrued and unpaid interest (including any Additional Interest) on,
and any Extension Fee with respect to the Notes (whether such sums
have been paid to it by the Company or by any other obligor on the
Notes) in trust for the benefit of the holders of the
Notes;
(ii) that it will give the
Trustee notice of any failure by the Company (or by any other
obligor on the Notes) to make any payment of the principal of,
accrued and unpaid interest (including any Additional Interest) on,
or any Extension Fee with respect to 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 of, accrued and unpaid
interest (including any Additional Interest) on, or any Extension
Fee with respect to the Notes, deposit with the Paying Agent a sum
sufficient to pay such principal, accrued and unpaid interest or
Extension Fee 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 of, accrued and unpaid interest (including any Additional
Interest) on, or any Extension Fee with respect to 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, accrued and
unpaid interest or Extension Fee so becoming due and will notify
the Trustee in writing of any failure to take such action and of
any failure by the Company (or any other obligor under the Notes)
to make any payment of the principal of, accrued and unpaid
interest on or any Extension Fee with respect to the Notes, when
the same shall become due and payable.
(c) Anything in this
Section 3.05 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 3.05,
such sums to be held by the Trustee upon the trusts herein
contained and upon such payment by the Company or any Paying Agent
to the Trustee, the Company or such Paying Agent shall be released
from all further liability with respect to such sums.
(d) Anything in this
Section 3.05 to the contrary notwithstanding, the agreement to
hold sums in trust as provided in this Section 3.05 is subject
to Section 11.03 and Section 11.04.
Section 3.06.
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 3.07 . 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
which would prohibit or forgive the Company from paying all or any
portion of the principal of, accrued and unpaid interest (including
any Additional Interest) on, or any Extension Fee with respect to
the Notes as contemplated herein, wherever enacted, now or at any
time hereafter in force, or which 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 3.08 .
Compliance Certificate; Statements as to Defaults. The Company
shall deliver to the Trustee within one hundred-twenty
(120) calendar days after the end of each fiscal year of the
Company (beginning with the fiscal
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year ending on December 30, 2007)
an Officer’s Certificate stating whether or not the signer
thereof has knowledge of any failure by the Company to comply with
all conditions and covenants then required to be performed under
this Indenture and, if so, specifying each such failure and the
nature thereof.
In addition, the Company
shall deliver to the Trustee, as soon as possible and in any event
within thirty (30) days after the Company becomes aware of the
occurrence of any Event of Default or Default, an Officer’s
Certificate setting forth the details of such Event of Default or
Default, its status and the action which the Company proposes to
take with respect thereto.
Section 3.09 .
Further Instruments and Acts. Upon request of the Trustee, the
Company will execute and deliver such further instruments and do
such further acts as may be reasonably necessary or proper to carry
out more effectively the purposes of this Indenture.
ARTICLE 4
L ISTS
OF N OTEHOLDERS AND R
EPORTS BY THE C
OMPANY AND THE T
RUSTEE
Section 4.01 . 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 fifteen (15) days after each February 1 and
August 1 in each year beginning with February 1, 2008,
and at such other times as the Trustee may request in writing,
within thirty (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 fifteen (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 4.02 .
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 4.01 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 4.01 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 such Notes and the corresponding
rights and duties of the Trustee, shall be as provided by the Trust
Indenture Act.
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(c) Every Noteholder, by
receiving and holding the same, agrees with the Company and the
Trustee that neither the Company nor the Trustee nor any agent of
either of them shall be held accountable by reason of any
disclosure of information as to names and addresses of Noteholders
made pursuant to the Trust Indenture Act.
Section 4.03 .
Reports by Trustee. (a) The Trustee shall transmit to
Noteholders such reports concerning the Trustee and its actions
under this Indenture as may be required pursuant to the Trust
Indenture Act at the times and in the manner provided pursuant
thereto. Reports so required to be transmitted at stated intervals
of not more than 12 months shall be transmitted no later than
March 1 in each calendar year, beginning with the year 2008.
Each such report shall be dated as of a date not more than sixty
(60) days prior to the date of transmission.
(b) A copy of such report
shall, at the time of such transmission to Noteholders, be filed by
the Trustee with each stock exchange and automated quotation system
upon which the Notes are listed and with the Company. The Company
will notify the Trustee in writing within a reasonable time when
the Notes are listed on any stock exchange or automated quotation
system and when any such listing is discontinued.
Section 4.04 . SEC
Reports; Financial Statements.
(a) The Company shall file
with the Trustee and the Commission, and transmit to Noteholders,
such information, documents and other reports and such summaries
thereof, as may be required pursuant to the Trust Indenture Act at
the times and in the manner provided pursuant to such Act;
provided that any such information, documents or reports
required to be filed with the Commission pursuant to
Section 13 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act shall be delivered to
the Trustee within thirty (30 days) after the same is required to
be filed with the Commission; provided , however ,
that the Company shall not be required to deliver to the Trustee
any material for which the Company has sought and received
confidential treatment by the Commission; provided further ,
each such report will be deemed to be so delivered to the Trustee
if the Company files such report with the Commission through the
Commission’s EDGAR system no later than the time such report
is required to be filed with the Commission pursuant to the
Exchange Act.
(b) In the event and for so
long as the Company is not subject to Section 13 or 15(d) of
the Exchange Act, it shall file with the Trustee and cause to be
mailed to each holder at such holder’s registered address,
upon the request of any holder or beneficial holder of the Notes or
the Common Stock issued upon conversion thereof, and make available
to such holder or beneficial holder of such Notes or Common Stock
in connection with any sale thereof and any prospective
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purchaser of Notes or Common Stock
designated by such holder or beneficial holder, the information
required pursuant to Rule 144A(d)(4) under the Securities Act and
it will take such further action as any holder or beneficial holder
of such Notes or Common Stock may reasonably request, all to the
extent required from time to time to enable such holder or
beneficial holder to sell its Notes or Common Stock without
registration under the Securities Act within the limitation of the
exemption provided by Rule 144A, as such Rule may be amended from
time to time.
(c) Delivery of such reports,
information and documents to the Trustee is for informational
purposes only, and the Trustee’s receipt of such shall not
constitute constructive notice of any information contained therein
or determinable from information contained therein, including the
Company’s compliance with any of its covenants hereunder (as
to which the Trustee is entitled to conclusively rely exclusively
on an Officer’s Certificate).
ARTICLE 5
D EFAULTS
AND R EMEDIES
Section 5.01 . Events
of Default. The following events shall be “ Events of
Default ” with respect to the Notes:
(a) default in any payment of
interest (including any Additional Interest) on any Note when due
and payable and the default continues for a period of thirty
(30) days;
(b) default in the payment of
principal of any Note when due and payable at the Maturity Date,
upon required purchase, upon declaration or otherwise;
(c) failure by the Company to
comply with its obligation to convert any Notes in accordance
herewith, upon exercise of a holder’s conversion
right;
(d) failure by the Company to
comply with its obligations under Article 10;
(e) failure by the Company to
issue a Designated Event Company Notice in accordance with
Section 14.01(b) when due;
(f) failure by the Company
for sixty (60) days to comply with any of its other agreements
(other than a covenant or warranty or default in whose performance
or whose breach is elsewhere in this Section specifically provided
for) contained in the Notes or the Indenture after written notice
of such default from the Trustee or the holders of at least
twenty-five percent (25%) in principal amount of the Notes
then outstanding has been received by the Company;
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(g) default by the Company or
any majority-owned Subsidiary of the Company in the payment of the
principal or interest on any mortgage, agreement or other
instrument under which there may be outstanding, or by which there
may be secured or evidenced, any debt for money borrowed in excess
of $50,000,000 in the aggregate of the Company and/or any
majority-owned Subsidiary, whether such debt now exists or shall
hereafter be created, which default results in such debt becoming
or being declared due and payable, and such acceleration shall not
have been rescinded or annulled within sixty (60) days after
written notice of such acceleration has been received by the
Company or such majority-owned Subsidiary;
(h) any judgment or judgments
for the payment of money in an aggregate amount in excess of
$50,000,000 (or its foreign currency equivalent at the time) that
shall be rendered against the Company or any majority-owned
Subsidiary of the Company and that shall not be waived, satisfied
or discharged for any period of sixty (60) consecutive days
during which a stay of enforcement shall not be in
effect;
(i) the Company or any of its
Significant Subsidiaries shall commence a voluntary case or other
proceeding seeking liquidation, reorganization or other relief with
respect to the Company or any of its Significant Subsidiaries or
its debts under any bankruptcy, insolvency or other similar law now
or hereafter in effect or seeking the appointment of a trustee,
receiver, liquidator, custodian or other similar official of the
Company or any of its Significant Subsidiaries or any substantial
part of its property, or shall consent to any such relief or to the
appointment of or taking possession by any such official in an
involuntary case or other proceeding commenced against it, or shall
make a general assignment for the benefit of creditors, or shall
fail generally to pay its debts as they become due; or
(j) an involuntary case or
other proceeding shall be commenced against the Company or any of
its Significant Subsidiaries seeking liquidation, reorganization or
other relief with respect to the Company, any of its Significant
Subsidiaries or such entity’s debts under any bankruptcy,
insolvency or other similar law now or hereafter in effect or
seeking the appointment of a trustee, receiver, liquidator,
custodian or other similar official of the Company or any of its
Significant Subsidiaries or any substantial part of its property,
and such involuntary case or other proceeding shall remain
undismissed and unstayed for a period of ninety
(90) consecutive days.
In case one or more Events of
Default shall have occurred and be continuing (whatever the reason
for such Event of Default and whether it shall be voluntary or
involuntary or be effected by operation of law or pursuant to any
judgment, decree or order of any court or any order, rule or
regulation of any administrative or governmental body), then, and
in each and every such case
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(other than an Event of Default
specified in Section 5.01(i) or Section 5.01(j)), unless
the principal of all of the Notes shall have already become due and
payable, either the Trustee or the holders of at least twenty-five
percent (25%) in aggregate principal amount of the Notes then
outstanding determined in accordance with Section 7.04, by
notice in writing to the Company (and to the Trustee if given by
Noteholders), may declare one hundred percent (100%) of the
principal of, and accrued and unpaid interest, Additional Interest,
if any, on, all the Notes to be due and payable immediately, and
upon any such declaration the same shall become and shall 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 5.01(i) or Section 5.01(j)
occurs and is continuing, the principal of all the Notes and
accrued and unpaid interest, Additional Interest, if any, shall be
immediately due and payable. This provision, however, is subject to
the conditions that if, at any time after the principal of the
Notes shall have been so declared due and payable, and before any
judgment or decree for the payment of the monies due shall have
been obtained or entered as hereinafter provided, the Company shall
pay or shall deposit with the Trustee a sum sufficient to pay
installments of accrued and unpaid interest and Additional
Interest, if any, upon all Notes and the principal of any and all
Notes that shall have become due other than by acceleration (with
interest on overdue installments of accrued and unpaid interest and
Additional Interest, if any (to the extent that payment of such
interest is enforceable under applicable law) on such principal at
the rate borne by the Notes during the period of such Default) and
amounts due to the Trustee pursuant to Section 6.06, and if
(1) rescission would not conflict with any judgment or decree
of a court of competent jurisdiction and (2) any and all
Events of Defaults under this Indenture, other than the nonpayment
of principal of and accrued and unpaid interest and Additional
Interest, if any, on Notes that shall have become due solely by
such acceleration, shall have been cured or waived pursuant to
Section 5.07, then and in every such case the holders of a
majority in aggregate principal amount of the Notes then
outstanding, by written notice to the Company and to the Trustee,
may waive all Defaults or Events of Default with respect to the
Notes and rescind and annul such declaration and its consequences
and such Default shall cease to exist, and any Event of Default
arising therefrom shall be deemed to have been cured for every
purpose of this Indenture; but no such waiver or rescission and
annulment shall extend to or shall affect any subsequent default or
Event of Default, or shall impair any right consequent thereon. The
Company shall notify the Responsible Officer of the Trustee in
writing, promptly upon becoming aware thereof, of any Event of
Default by delivering to the Trustee a statement specifying such
Event of Default and any action the Company has taken, is taking or
proposes to take with respect thereto.
Notwithstanding the
foregoing, if so elected by the Company, the sole remedy for an
Event of Default relating to the failure to comply with
Section 4.04(a) hereof or Section 314(a)(1) of the Trust
Indenture Act, will for the first
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sixty (60) days after the
occurrence of such an Event of Default consist exclusively of the
right to receive a one-time additional payment (the “
Extension Fee ”) on the Notes in an amount equal to
0.25% of the principal amount of the Notes. The Extension Fee will
be in addition to any Additional Interest that may accrue pursuant
to Section 3.08. On the sixty-first (61st) day after such
Event of Default (if the Event of Default relating to the reporting
obligations is not cured or waived prior to such sixty-first
(61st) day), the Notes will be subject to acceleration as
provided above. The foregoing provisions in this Section 5.01
will not affect the rights of Noteholders in the event of the
occurrence of any other Event of Default. In the event the Company
does not elect to pay the Extension Fee upon an Event of Default in
accordance with this paragraph, the Notes will be subject to
acceleration as provided above.
In order to elect to pay the
Extension Fee as the sole remedy during the first sixty
(60) days after the occurrence of an Event of Default relating
to the failure to comply with the reporting obligations in
accordance with the immediately preceding paragraph, the Company
must (i) notify all Noteholders and the Trustee and Paying
Agent of such election and pay such Extension Fee on or before the
close of business on the date on which such Event of Default occurs
and (ii) pay such Extension Fee on or before the close of
business on the date on which such Event of Default occurs. The
Extension Fee shall be payable to Noteholders of record on the date
of such notice. Upon the Company’s failure to timely give
such holders such notice or pay such Extension Fee, the Notes will
be subject to acceleration as provided above.
In case the Trustee shall
have proceeded to enforce any right under this Indenture and such
proceedings shall have been discontinued or abandoned because of
such waiver or rescission and annulment or for any other reason or
shall have been determined adversely to the Trustee, then and in
every such case the Company, the Noteholders, and the Trustee
shall, subject to any determination in such proceeding, be restored
respectively to their several positions and rights hereunder, and
all rights, remedies and powers of the Company, the Noteholders,
and the Trustee shall continue as though no such proceeding had
been instituted.
Section 5.02 .
Payments of Notes on Default; Suit Therefor. In the event that
the Trustee or the holders of not less than twenty-five percent
(25%) in aggregate principal amount of the Notes then
outstanding hereunder have declared the principal of, and accrued
and unpaid interest (including any Additional Interest) on, the
Notes, to be due and payable immediately in accordance with
Section 5.01, and the Company shall have failed forthwith to
pay such amounts, the Trustee, in its own name and as trustee of an
express trust, after being furnished suitable indemnity pursuant to
Section 6.01, shall be entitled and empowered to institute any
actions or proceedings at law or in equity for the collection of
the sums so due and unpaid (including such further amounts as shall
be sufficient to cover the reasonable costs and expenses of
collection, including
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reasonable compensation to the Trustee,
its agents, attorneys and counsel, and any expenses or liabilities
incurred by the Trustee hereunder other than through its negligence
or bad faith), and may prosecute any such action or proceeding to
judgment or final degree, and may enforce any such judgment or
final decree against the Company or any other obligor on the Notes
and collect in the manner provided by law out of the property of
the Company or any other obligor on the Notes wherever situated the
monies adjudged or decreed to be payable.
In case 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 case 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 5.02, shall be
entitled and empowered, by intervention in such proceedings or
otherwise, to file and prove a claim or claims for the whole amount
of principal and accrued and unpaid interest (including any
Additional 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 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 6.06; 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 6.06 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 which 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.
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Nothing herein contained
shall be deemed to authorize the Trustee to authorize or consent to
or accept or adopt on behalf of any Noteholder any plan of
reorganization, arrangement, adjustment or composition affecting
the Noteholder or the rights of any Noteholder thereof, or to
authorize the Trustee to vote in respect of the claim of any
Noteholder in any such proceeding.
All rights of action and of
asserting claims under this Indenture, or under any of the Notes,
may be enforced by the Trustee without the possession of any of the
Notes, or the production thereof at any trial or other proceeding
relative thereto, and any such suit or proceeding instituted by the
Trustee shall be brought in its own name as trustee of an express
trust, and any recovery of judgment shall, after provision for the
payment of the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and
advances of the Trustee, its agents and counsel, be for the ratable
benefit of the holders of the Notes.
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 5.03 .
Application of Monies Collected by Trustee. Any monies
collected by the Trustee pursuant to this Article 5 with respect to
the Notes shall be applied in the order following, at the date or
dates fixed by the Trustee for the distribution of such monies,
upon presentation of the several Notes, and stamping thereon the
payment, if only partially paid, and upon surrender thereof, if
fully paid:
First, to the payment of all
amounts due the Trustee under Section 6.06;
Second, in case the principal
of the outstanding Notes shall not have become due and be unpaid,
to the payment of interest (including any Additional Interest) on
the Notes in default in the order of the maturity 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, 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, if applicable, payments in respect of the Conversion
Obligation and Additional Shares) then owing and unpaid upon the
Notes for principal and interest (including any Additional
Interest), with interest on the
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overdue principal (to the extent that
such interest has been collected by the Trustee) upon overdue
installments of interest at the rate borne by the Notes, 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 (including any Additional 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 or any other Person lawfully
entitled thereto.
Section 5.04 .
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 hereinbefore
provided, and unless also the holders of not less than twenty-five
percent (25%) in aggregate principal amount of the Notes then
outstanding shall have made written request upon 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 sixty (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
pursuant to Section 5.07; it being understood and intended,
and being expressly covenanted by the holder of every Note with
every other 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 5.04, each and
every Noteholder and the Trustee shall be entitled to such relief
as can be given either at law or in equity.
Notwithstanding any other
provision of this Indenture and any provision of any Note, the
right of any Noteholder to receive payment of the principal of and
accrued and unpaid interest (including any Additional Interest) on
such Note, on or after the respective due dates expressed in such
Note, 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.
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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 his own behalf and for his own benefit, may enforce,
and may institute and maintain any proceeding suitable to enforce,
his rights of conversion as provided herein.
Section 5.05 .
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 of 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 5.06 .
Remedies Cumulative and Continuing. Except as provided in the
last paragraph of Section 2.08, all powers and remedies given
by this Article 5 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 5.04, every power
and remedy given by this Article 5 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 5.07 .
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 7.04 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 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 N
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