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Exhibit
4.1
THE PROVIDENCE SERVICE
CORPORATION
as Issuer
and
THE BANK OF NEW YORK TRUST
COMPANY, N.A.
as Trustee
Indenture
dated as of November
, 2007
$70,000,000
6.5% Convertible Senior
Subordinated Notes due 2014
TABLE OF
CONTENTS
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ARTICLE 1. DEFINITIONS AND
INCORPORATION BY REFERENCE
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Section 1.01
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Definitions
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Section 1.02
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Other Definitions
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Section 1.03
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Incorporation by Reference of Trust
Indenture Act
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Section 1.04
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Rules of Construction
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Section 1.05
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Acts of Holders
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ARTICLE 2. THE
NOTES
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Section 2.01
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Form, Dating and Denominations;
Legends
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Section 2.02
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Execution and
Authentication
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Section 2.03
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Registrar, Paying Agent and
Conversion Agent
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Section 2.04
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Paying Agent To Hold Money In
Trust
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Section 2.05
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Noteholder Lists
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Section 2.06
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Transfer and Exchange
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Section 2.07
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Replacement Notes
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Section 2.08
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Outstanding Notes
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Section 2.09
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Treasury Notes
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Section 2.10
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Temporary Notes
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Section 2.11
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Cancellation
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Section 2.12
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CUSIP Numbers
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Section 2.13
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Book-entry Provisions For Global
Notes
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Section 2.14
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Special Transfer
Provisions
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ARTICLE 3.
PURCHASES
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Section 3.01
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Repurchase At the Option of the
Holder
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Section 3.02
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Effect of Fundamental Change Purchase
Notice
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Section 3.03
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Deposit of Fundamental Change
Purchase Price
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Section 3.04
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Notes Purchased In
Part
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Section 3.05
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Covenant To Comply With Securities
Laws Upon Repurchase of Notes
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Section 3.06
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Mandatory Repurchase by the Company
if the Acquisition is not Consummated
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ARTICLE 4.
COVENANTS
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Section 4.01
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Payment of Notes
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Section 4.02
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Maintenance of Office or
Agency
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Section 4.03
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Existence
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Section 4.04
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Rule 144A Information and
Exchange Act Reports
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Section 4.05
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Reports to Trustee
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TABLE OF
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Section 4.06
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Stay, Extension and Usury
Laws
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Section 4.07
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Payment of Additional
Interest
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Section 4.08
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Limitation on Incurring Certain
Indebtedness
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ARTICLE 5. CONSOLIDATION,
MERGER, SALE OR LEASE OF ASSETS
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Section 5.01
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Consolidation, Merger, Sale or Lease
of Assets by the Company
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ARTICLE 6. DEFAULT AND
REMEDIES
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Section 6.01
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Events of Default
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Section 6.02
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Acceleration
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Section 6.03
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Other Remedies
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Section 6.04
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Waiver of Past
Defaults
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Section 6.05
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Control by Majority
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Section 6.06
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Limitation on Suits
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Section 6.07
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Rights of Holders to Receive
Payment
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Section 6.08
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Collection Suit by
Trustee
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Section 6.09
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Trustee May File Proofs of
Claim
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Section 6.10
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Priorities
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Section 6.11
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Restoration of Rights and
Remedies
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Section 6.12
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Undertaking for Costs
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Section 6.13
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Rights and Remedies
Cumulative
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Section 6.14
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Delay or Omission Not
Waiver
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Section 6.15
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Failure to File
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ARTICLE 7. THE
TRUSTEE
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Section 7.01
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General
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Section 7.02
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Certain Rights of
Trustee
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Section 7.03
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Individual Rights of
Trustee
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Section 7.04
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Trustee’s
Disclaimer
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Section 7.05
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Notice of Default
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Section 7.06
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Reports by Trustee to
Holders
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Section 7.07
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Compensation and
Indemnity
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Section 7.08
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Replacement of Trustee
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Section 7.09
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Successor Trustee by
Merger
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Section 7.10
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Eligibility
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Section 7.11
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Money Held in Trust
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ARTICLE 8. DISCHARGE
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Section 8.01
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Satisfaction and Discharge of the
Indenture
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Section 8.02
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Application of Trust
Money
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Section 8.03
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Repayment to Company
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Section 8.04
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Reinstatement
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TABLE OF
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ARTICLE 9. AMENDMENTS,
SUPPLEMENTS AND WAIVERS
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Section 9.01
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Amendments Without Consent of
Holders
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Section 9.02
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Amendments With Consent of
Holders
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Section 9.03
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Effect of Consent
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Section 9.04
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Trustee’s Rights and
Obligations
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Section 9.05
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Conformity With Trust Indenture
Act
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Section 9.06
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Payments for Consents
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ARTICLE 10.
CONVERSION
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Section 10.01
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Conversion Privilege and Conversion
Rate
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Section 10.02
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Conversion Procedure
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Section 10.03
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Fractional Shares
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Section 10.04
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Taxes on Conversion
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Section 10.05
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Company to Provide
Stock
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Section 10.06
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Adjustment of Conversion
Rate
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Section 10.07
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No Adjustment
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Section 10.08
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Notice of Adjustment
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Section 10.09
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Notice of Certain
Transactions
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Section 10.10
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Effect of Recapitalization,
Reclassification, Consolidation, Merger or Sale
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Section 10.11
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Trustee’s
Disclaimer
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Section 10.12
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Voluntary Increase
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ARTICLE 11. PAYMENT OF
INTEREST
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Section 11.01
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Interest Payments
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Section 11.02
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Defaulted Interest
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Section 11.03
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Interest Rights
Preserved
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ARTICLE 12.
SUBORDINATION
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Section 12.01
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Agreement to
Subordinate
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Section 12.02
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Payment to Holders
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Section 12.03
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Subrogation of Notes
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Section 12.04
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Authorization to Effect
Subordination
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Section 12.05
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Notice to Trustee
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Section 12.06
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Trustee’s Relation to Senior
Debt
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Section 12.07
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No Impairment of
Subordination
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Section 12.08
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Certain Conversions Deemed
Payment
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Section 12.09
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Article Applicable to Paying
Agents
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Section 12.10
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Senior Debt Entitled to
Rely
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Section 12.11
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Reinstatement
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Section 12.12
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Actions by Holders of Senior
Debt
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TABLE OF
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Section 12.13
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Reliance on Judicial Order or
Certificate of Liquidating Agent
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ARTICLE 13.
MISCELLANEOUS
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Section 13.01
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Trust Indenture Act of
1939
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Section 13.02
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Noteholder Communications; Noteholder
Actions
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Section 13.03
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Notices
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Section 13.04
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Communication by Holders with Other
Holders
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Section 13.05
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Certificate and Opinion as to
Conditions Precedent
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Section 13.06
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Statements Required in Certificate or
Opinion
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Section 13.07
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Legal Holiday
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Section 13.08
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Rules by Trustee, Paying Agent,
Conversion Agent and Registrar
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Section 13.09
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Governing Law
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Section 13.10
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No Adverse Interpretation of Other
Agreements
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Section 13.11
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Successors
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Section 13.12
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Duplicate Originals
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Section 13.13
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Separability
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Section 13.14
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Table of Contents and
Headings
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Section 13.15
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No Liability of Directors, Officers,
Employees, Incorporators, Members and Stockholders
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Section 13.16
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Waiver of Jury Trial
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Section 13.17
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Force Majeure
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| EXHIBIT A |
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Form of
Note |
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| EXHIBIT B |
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Restricted Common Stock Legend |
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CROSS REFERENCE TABLE
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TIA Section
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Indenture Section |
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310(a)(1)
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7.10 |
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(a)(2)
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7.10 |
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(a)(3)
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N.A. |
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(a)(4)
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N.A. |
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(b)
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7.08; 7.10 |
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(c)
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N.A. |
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311(a)
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N.A. |
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(b)
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N.A. |
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(c)
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N.A. |
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312(a)
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2.05 |
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(b)
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13.04 |
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(c)
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13.04 |
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313(a)
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7.06 |
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(b)(1)
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N.A. |
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(b)(2)
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7.06 |
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(c)
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13.03 |
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(d)
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7.06 |
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314(a)
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4.04; 4.05; 13.03 |
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(b)
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N.A. |
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(c)(1)
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13.05 |
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(c)(2)
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13.05 |
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(c)(3)
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N.A. |
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(d)
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N.A. |
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(e)
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13.06 |
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(f)
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N.A. |
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315(a)
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7.01 |
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(b)
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7.05; 13.02 |
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(c)
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7.01 |
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(d)
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7.01 |
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(e)
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6.11 |
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316(a) (last sentence)
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2.08 |
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(a)(1)(A)
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6.05 |
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(a)(1)(B)
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6.04 |
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(a)(2)
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N.A. |
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(b)
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6.07 |
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317(a)(1)
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6.08 |
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(a)(2)
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6.09 |
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(b)
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2.04 |
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318(a)
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13.01 |
N.A. means not applicable
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Note: This Cross Reference Table shall not, for any purpose, be
deemed to be part of the Indenture. |
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INDENTURE, dated as of
November , 2007, between The
Providence Service Corporation, a Delaware corporation, as the
“Company” and The Bank of New York Trust Company, N.A.,
a national banking association, as Trustee.
RECITALS
The Company has duly
authorized the execution and delivery of the Indenture to provide
for the initial issuance of $70,000,000 aggregate principal amount
of the Company’s 6.5% Convertible Senior Subordinated Notes
Due 2014 (the “Notes”). All things necessary to make
the Indenture a valid and binding agreement of the Company, in
accordance with its terms, have been done, and the Company has done
all things necessary to make the Notes, when executed by the
Company and authenticated and delivered by the Trustee and duly
issued by the Company, the valid obligations of the Company as
hereinafter provided. This Indenture is subject to, and will be
governed by, the provisions of the Trust Indenture Act that are
required to be a part of and govern indentures qualified under the
Trust Indenture Act.
THIS INDENTURE
WITNESSETH
For and in consideration of the premises
and the purchase of the Notes by the Holders thereof, the parties
hereto covenant and agree, for the equal and proportionate benefit
of all Holders, as follows:
ARTICLE 1.
DEFINITIONS AND
INCORPORATION BY REFERENCE
Section 1.01
Definitions .
“Acquisition”
means the acquisition by the Company or one or more direct or
indirect, wholly-owned Subsidiaries through a purchase, merger or
other acquisition transaction or series of transactions, of 100% of
the shares of Capital Stock of Target.
“Acquisition
Agreement” means the Agreement and Plan of Merger, dated as
of the date hereof, by and among Target, the Company, PRSC
Acquisition Corporation and CLCI Agent, LLC, as stockholder
representative.
“Acquisition
Disbandment Notice” means a notice from the Company to the
Holders that it is no longer pursuing the Acquisition.
“Additional
Interest” means additional interest owed to the Holders
pursuant to the Registration Rights Agreement.
“Affiliate”
means, with respect to any Person, any other Person directly or
indirectly controlling, controlled by, or under direct or indirect
common control with, such Person. For purposes of this definition,
“control” (including, with correlative meanings, the
terms “controlling,” “controlled by” and
“under common control with”) with respect to any
Person, means the possession, directly or indirectly, of the power
to direct or cause the direction of the management and policies of
such Person, whether through the ownership of Voting Securities, by
contract or otherwise.
“Agent” means any
Registrar, Paying Agent or Conversion Agent.
“Agent Member”
means a member of, or a participant in, the Depositary.
“Applicable Conversion
Rate” means the Conversion Rate on any Trading
Day.
“Applicable
Procedures” means, with respect to any transfer or exchange
of beneficial ownership interests in a Global Note, the rules and
procedures of the Depositary, in each case to the extent applicable
to such transfer or exchange.
“Bankruptcy
Default” has the meaning assigned to such term in
Section 6.01.
“Bankruptcy Law”
means Title 11 of the United States Code (or any successor
thereto) or any similar federal or state law for the relief of
debtors.
“Board of
Directors” means the board of directors or comparable
governing body of the Company, or any committee thereof duly
authorized to act on its behalf.
“Board
Resolution” means a resolution duly adopted by the Board of
Directors which is certified by the Secretary or an Assistant
Secretary of the Company and remains in full force and effect as of
the date of its certification.
“Business Day”
means any day except a Saturday, Sunday or other day on which
commercial banks in New York City are authorized or obligated to
close.
“Capital Stock”
means, with respect to any Person, any and all shares of stock of a
corporation, partnership interests or other equivalent interests
(however designated, whether voting or non-voting) in such
Person’s equity, entitling the holder to receive a share of
the profits and losses, and a distribution of assets, after
liabilities, of such Person.
“Cash” means such
coin or currency of the United States as at any time of payment is
legal tender for the payment of public and private
debts.
“Certificated
Note” means a Note in registered individual form without
interest coupons.
“Close of
Business” means 5:00 p.m. (New York City time).
“Closing Price”
of the Common Stock on any date means the closing sale price per
share (or if no closing sale price is reported, the average of the
bid and ask prices or, if more than one in either case, the average
of the average bid and the average ask prices) on that date as
reported in composite transactions for the principal U.S.
securities exchange on which the Common Stock is listed or admitted
for trading or, if the Common Stock is not listed or admitted for
trading on a U.S. national or regional securities exchange, as
reported on the quotation system on which such security is quoted.
If the Common Stock is not listed or admitted for trading on a
United States national or regional securities exchange and
not
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reported on a quotation system on the
relevant date, the “closing price” will be the last
quoted bid price for the Common Stock in the over-the-counter
market on the relevant date as reported by the National Quotation
Bureau or similar organization. If the Common Stock is not so
quoted, the last reported sale price will be the average of the
mid-point of the last bid and ask prices for the Common Stock on
the relevant date from each of at least three nationally recognized
investment banking firms selected by the Company for this
purpose.
“Common Stock”
means the common stock of the Company, $0.001 par value, as it
exists on the date of this Indenture and any shares of any class or
classes of Capital Stock of the Company resulting from any
reclassification or reclassifications thereof and which 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 which are not subject to redemption
by the Company; provided, however, that if at any time there shall
be more than one such resulting class, the shares of each such
class then so issuable on conversion of Notes 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
the party named as such in the first paragraph of the Indenture or
any successor obligor under the Indenture and the Notes pursuant to
Section 5.01.
“Consolidated
EBITDA” means, for any fiscal quarter of the Company and its
consolidated Subsidiaries, net income plus interest expense, income
taxes and depreciation, amortization and fees and expenses related
to the Acquisition and the related financing transactions incurred
in such fiscal quarter.
“Consolidated Total
Debt” means, at any date, the aggregate principal amount,
without duplication, of all Debt of the Company and its
Subsidiaries at such date determined on a consolidated
basis.
“Conversion Date”
means the date on which the Holder of the Note has complied with
all requirements under this Indenture to convert such
Note.
“Conversion
Price” per share of Common Stock as of any day means the
result obtained by dividing $1,000 by the Conversion Rate on such
day.
“Conversion Rate”
means 23.982 shares of Common Stock per $1,000 principal amount of
Notes, subject to adjustment pursuant to Article 10.
“Corporate Trust
Office” means the principal office of the Trustee at which
any time its corporate trust business shall be administered, which
at the date hereof is located at 700 S. Flower Street, Suite 500,
Los Angeles, California 90017, Attention: Corporate Unit, or such
other address as the Trustee may designate from time to time by
notice to the Holders and the Company, or the principal corporate
trust office of any successor Trustee (or such other address as
such successor Trustee may designate from time to time by notice to
the Holders and the Company).
“Credit
Agreement” means the Second Amended and Restated Loan and
Security Agreement dated as of June 28, 2005 (as amended and
in effect from time to time), by and among the Company, certain of
its subsidiaries named therein and CIT Healthcare LLC f/k/a
Healthcare Business Credit
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Corporation (“CIT”),
including the Second Amended and Restated Revolving Credit Note by
the Company and others listed therein for the benefit of CIT dated
June 28, 2005 and the Second Amended and Restated Term Note by
the Company and others listed therein for the benefit of CIT dated
June 28, 2005, and (y) the credit facility to be entered
into by the Company with CIT Healthcare LLC and CIT Capital
Securities LLC (and or any of their affiliates) simultaneously with
the Acquisition.
“Debt” means,
with respect to any Person, without duplication, (1) all
indebtedness of such Person for borrowed money (other than
non-recourse obligations); and (2) all obligations of such
Person evidenced by bonds, debentures, notes or other similar
instruments.
“Default” means
any event that is, or after notice or passage of time or both would
be, an Event of Default.
“Depositary”
means DTC or the nominee thereof, or any successor
thereto.
“DTC” means The
Depository Trust Company, a New York corporation, and its
successors.
“Event of
Default” has the meaning assigned to such term in
Section 6.01.
“Exchange Act”
means the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and the
rules and regulations of the Commission thereunder.
“GAAP” means
generally accepted accounting principles in the United States of
America as in effect from time to time.
“Global Note”
means a Note in registered global form without interest coupons
that is deposited with the Depositary or its custodian and
registered in the name of the Depositary or its nominee.
“Global Note
Legend” means the legend set forth in
Exhibit A.
“Guarantee” means
any obligation, contingent or otherwise, of any Person guaranteeing
in any manner any indebtedness of any other Person. The term
“Guarantee” used as a verb has a corresponding meaning.
The term “Guarantor” shall mean any Person Guaranteeing
any obligation.
“Holder” or
“Noteholder” means the registered holder of any
Note.
“Indenture” means
this indenture, as amended or supplemented from time to
time.
“Institutional
Accredited Investor” means an institutional “accredited
investor” as described in Rule 501(a)(1), (2), (3) or
(7) under the Securities Act.
“interest,” in
respect of the Notes, unless the context otherwise requires, refers
to interest and Additional Interest, if any.
“Interest Payment
Date” means each May 15 and November 15 of each
year, commencing May 15, 2008.
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“Issue Date”
means the date on which the Notes are originally issued under this
Indenture.
“Mandatory Repurchase
Price” means the price equal to (i) 100% of the
principal amount of the Notes outstanding, plus (ii) an amount
accrued on all outstanding Notes equal to 2% per month from
the date of this Indenture to, but excluding, the Mandatory
Repurchase Date, computed on the basis of a 360-day year of twelve
30-day months.
“Maturity Date”
means (i) with respect to the Notes, May 15, 2014, or
(ii) with respect to any scheduled payment of interest on the
Notes, the date specified as the fixed date on which such interest
payment is due and payable as set forth in this Indenture and the
Notes, not including any contingent obligation to repay, redeem or
repurchase prior to the regularly scheduled date for
payment.
“NASD” means the
National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc.
“Note Purchase
Agreement” means that certain Note Purchase Agreement, dated
as of November 6, 2007, among the Company and the
Purchasers.
“Notes” has the
meaning assigned to such term in the Recitals.
“Officer” means
the chairman of the Board of Directors, the president or chief
executive officer, any vice president, the chief financial officer,
the treasurer or any assistant treasurer, or the secretary or any
assistant secretary, of the Company.
“Officers’
Certificate” means a certificate signed in the name of the
Company (i) by the chairman of the Board of Directors, the
president or chief executive officer or a vice president and
(ii) by the chief financial officer, the chief accounting
officer, the treasurer or any assistant treasurer or the secretary
or any assistant secretary.
“Opinion of
Counsel” means a written opinion signed by legal counsel, who
may be an employee of or counsel to the Company.
“Paying Agent”
refers to a Person engaged to perform the obligations of the
Trustee in respect of payments made or funds held hereunder in
respect of the Notes.
“Person” means an
individual, a corporation, a partnership, a limited liability
company, an association, a trust or any other entity, including a
government or political subdivision or an agency or instrumentality
thereof.
“Purchasers”
means the Purchasers named in Exhibit A to the Note Purchase
Agreement.
“Register” has
the meaning assigned to such term in Section 2.03.
“Registrar” means
a Person engaged to maintain the Register.
“Registration Rights
Agreement” means the Registration Rights Agreement dated as
of November __, 2007, among the Company and Purchasers.
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“Regular Record
Date” for the interest payable on any Interest Payment Date
means the May 1 or November 1 (whether or not a Trading
Day) next preceding such Interest Payment Date.
“Responsible
Officer” means, when used with respect to the Trustee, any
officer within the corporate trust department of the Trustee,
including any vice president, assistant vice president, assistant
secretary, assistant treasurer, trust officer or any other officer
of the Trustee who customarily performs functions similar to those
performed by the persons who at the time shall be such officers,
respectively, or to whom any corporate trust matter is referred
because of such person’s knowledge of and familiarity with
the particular subject and who shall have direct responsibility for
the administration of this Indenture.
“Restricted
Certificated Note” means a Certificated Note that bears the
Restricted Note Legend.
“Restricted Common
Stock Legend” means the legend set forth in
Exhibit B.
“Restricted Global
Note” means a Global Note that bears the Restricted Note
Legend representing Notes transferred pursuant to Rule 144A
and in accordance with the Note Purchase Agreement.
“Restricted Note”
means a Note that bears the Restricted Note Legend.
“Restricted Note
Legend” means the legend set forth in
Exhibit A.
“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 of the Commission thereunder.
“Senior Debt”
means the principal of, premium, if any, interest on, including any
interest accruing after the commencement of any bankruptcy or
similar proceedings, whether or not a claim for post-petition
interest is allowed as a claim in the proceeding, or termination
payment with respect to or in connection with, and all fees, costs,
expenses and other amounts accrued or due on or under, one or more
facilities for secured senior Indebtedness, including the Credit
Agreement, and any Guarantees thereof (including by any pledge,
lien or security interest of collateral with respect thereto), as
any such facility may be amended, modified or supplemented from
time to time, including any deferrals, renewals, extensions,
refinancings or refundings thereof; provided ,
however , the amount of the Senior Debt shall not exceed an
amount that would cause the Total Leverage Ratio as at the last day
of any period of four consecutive fiscal quarters of the Company
ending with the most recently completed fiscal quarter to exceed
5.5:1.0; provided , further , each such facility and
the indebtedness thereunder is secured by substantially all of the
assets of the Company.
“Shelf Registration
Statement” has the meaning given such term in the
Registration Rights Agreement.
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“Significant
Subsidiary” means, in respect of any Person, a Subsidiary of
such Person that would constitute a “significant
subsidiary” as such term is defined under Rule 1-02 of
Regulation S-X under the Securities Act and the Exchange
Act.
“Subsidiary”
means with respect to any Person, any corporation, association or
other business entity of which more than 50% of the outstanding
Voting Securities is owned, directly or indirectly, by, or, in the
case of a partnership, the sole general partner or the managing
partner or the only general partners of which are, such Person and
one or more Subsidiaries of such Person (or a combination thereof).
Unless otherwise specified, “Subsidiary” means a
Subsidiary of the Company.
“Target” means
Charter LCI Corporation, a Delaware corporation.
A “Termination of
Trading” will be deemed to have occurred if the Common Stock
(or other common stock into which the Convertible Senior
Subordinated Notes are then convertible) is neither listed for
trading on a U.S. national securities exchange nor approved for
trading on an established U.S. system of automated dissemination of
quotations of securities prices and no American Depositary Shares
or similar instruments for such common stock are so listed or
approved for listing in the United States.
“Total Leverage
Ratio” means, as of the last day of any period of four
consecutive fiscal quarters, the ratio of (a) Consolidated
Total Debt on such day to (b) Consolidated EBITDA of the
Company and its Subsidiaries for such period.
“Trading Day”
means any day on which the Nasdaq Global Select Market or, if the
Common Stock is not listed on the Nasdaq Global Select Market, the
principal national securities exchange on which the Common Stock is
listed, is open for trading or, if the Common Stock is not so
listed, admitted for trading or quoted, any Business Day. A Trading
Day only includes those days that have a scheduled closing time of
4:00 p.m. (New York City time) or the then standard closing time
for regular trading on the relevant exchange or trading
system.
“Trustee” means
the party named as such in the first paragraph of the Indenture or
any successor trustee under the Indenture pursuant to Article
7.
“Trust Indenture
Act” means the Trust Indenture Act of 1939.
“Voting
Securities” means, with respect to any Person, securities of
any class or kind ordinarily having the power to vote generally for
the election of directors, managers or other voting members of the
governing body of such Person.
Section 1.02 Other
Definitions .
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owner”
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Change”
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Section 1.03
Incorporation by Reference of Trust Indenture Act
. Whenever this Indenture refers to a provision of the Trust
Indenture Act, the provision is incorporated by reference in and
made a part of this Indenture. The following Trust Indenture Act
terms used in this Indenture have the following
meanings:
“Commission”
means the Securities and Exchange Commission.
“indenture
securities” means the Notes.
“indenture security
holder” means a Noteholder.
“indenture to be
qualified” means this Indenture.
“indenture
trustee” or “institutional trustee” means the
Trustee.
“obligor” on the
indenture securities means the Company.
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All other Trust Indenture Act
terms used in this Indenture that are defined by the Trust
Indenture Act, defined by Trust Indenture Act reference to another
statute or defined by Securities Exchange Commission rule have the
meanings assigned to them by such definitions.
Section 1.04 Rules of
Construction . Unless the context otherwise requires or
except as otherwise expressly provided ,
(a) a term has the meaning
assigned to it;
(b) an accounting term not
otherwise defined has the meaning assigned to it in accordance with
GAAP;
(c) “herein,”
“hereof” and other words of similar import refer to the
Indenture as a whole and not to any particular Section, Article or
other subdivision;
(d) all references to
Sections or Articles or Exhibits refer to Sections or
Articles or Exhibits of or to the Indenture unless otherwise
indicated;
(e) references to agreements
or instruments, or to statutes or regulations, are to such
agreements or instruments, or statutes or regulations, as amended
from time to time (or to successor statutes and
regulations);
(f) in the event that a
transaction meets the criteria of more than one category of
permitted transactions or listed exceptions the Company may
classify such transaction as it, in its sole discretion,
determines;
(g) “or” is not
exclusive;
(h) “including”
means including, without limitation; and
(i) words in the singular
include the plural, and words in the plural include the
singular.
Section 1.05 Acts of
Holders . Any request, demand, authorization, direction,
notice, consent, waiver or other action provided by this Indenture
to be given or taken by Holders may be embodied in and evidenced by
one or more instruments (which may take the form of an electronic
writing or messaging or otherwise be in accordance with customary
procedures of the Depositary or the Trustee) of substantially
similar tenor signed by such Holders in person or by agent duly
appointed in writing (which may be in electronic form); and, except
as herein otherwise expressly provided, such action shall become
effective when such instrument or instruments are delivered to the
Trustee and, where it is hereby expressly required, to the Company.
Such instrument or instruments (and the action embodied therein and
evidenced thereby) are herein sometimes referred to as the
“Act” of Holders signing such instrument or
instruments. Proof of execution of any such instrument or of a
writing appointing any such agent (either of which may be in
electronic form) shall be sufficient for any purpose of this
Indenture and conclusive in favor of the Trustee and the Company,
if made in the manner provided in this Section.
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ARTICLE 2.
THE
NOTES
Section 2.01 Form,
Dating and Denominations; Legends .
(a) The Notes and the
Trustee’s certificate of authentication will be substantially
in the form attached as Exhibit A. The terms and provisions
contained in the form of the Note annexed as Exhibit A
constitute and are hereby expressly made a part of the Indenture.
The Notes may have notations, legends or endorsements required by
law, rules of or agreements with national securities exchanges to
which the Company is subject, or usage. Each Note will be dated the
date of its authentication. The Notes will be issuable only in
denominations of $1,000 in principal amount and any integral
multiple thereof.
(b) Restricted Notes .
All of the Notes are initially being offered and sold pursuant to
the Note Purchase Agreement to Purchasers, all of which are
Institutional Accredited Investors, and are initially being issued
in the form of one or more Certificated Notes substantially in the
form of Exhibit A hereto and containing the Restricted Note Legend,
which Note shall be duly executed by the Company and authenticated
by the Trustee as hereinafter provided. After a Note has been
transferred by a Holder pursuant to the Shelf Registration
Statement, such Note may be issued in global form substantially in
the form of Exhibit A hereto and containing the Global Note Legend,
which Note shall be deposited on behalf of the purchasers of the
Notes represented thereby with the Trustee, at its Corporate Trust
Office, as custodian for the Depositary, and registered in the name
of its nominee, Cede & Co., duly executed by the Company
and authenticated by the Trustee as hereinafter provided. The
aggregate principal amount of each of the Global Notes may from
time to time be increased or decreased by adjustments made on the
records of the Trustee as hereinafter provided, subject in each
case to compliance with the Applicable Procedures.
(c) Global Notes in
General . Each Global Note shall represent such of the
outstanding Notes as shall be specified therein and each shall
provide that it shall represent the aggregate amount of outstanding
Notes from time to time endorsed thereon and that the aggregate
amount of outstanding Notes represented thereby may from time to
time be reduced or increased, as appropriate, to reflect exchanges,
purchases or conversions of such Notes. Any adjustment of the
aggregate principal amount 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 in accordance with
instructions given by the Holder thereof as required by
Section 2.06 and shall be made on the records of the Trustee
and the Depositary.
Agent Members shall have no
rights under this Indenture with respect to any Global Note held on
their behalf by the Depositary or under the Global Note, and the
Depositary (including, for this purpose, its nominee) may be
treated by the Company, the Trustee and any agent of the Company or
the Trustee as the absolute owner and Holder of such Global Note
for all purposes whatsoever. Notwithstanding the foregoing, nothing
herein shall (A) prevent the Company, the Trustee or any agent
of the Company or the Trustee from giving effect to any written
certification, proxy or other authorization furnished by the
Depositary or (B) impair, as between the Depositary and its
Agent Members, the operation of customary practices governing the
exercise of the rights of a Holder of any Note.
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(d) Book Entry
Provisions . Prior to the time the Shelf Registration Statement
is declared effective by the Commission, the Company shall use its
reasonable efforts to execute and the Trustee shall, in accordance
with this Section 2.01(d), authenticate and deliver one or
more Global Notes with respect to Notes that are transferred to
Holders pursuant to the Shelf Registration Statement and that
(i) shall be registered in the name of the Depositary,
(ii) shall be delivered by the Trustee to the Depositary or
pursuant to the Depositary’s instructions and
(iii) shall bear the Global Note Legend substantially to the
effect set forth in Exhibit A. This Section 2.01(d) shall
only apply to Global Notes deposited with or on behalf of the
Depositary.
(e) Restriction on
Affiliate Transfers . No transfer of Notes to Affiliates of the
Company will be permitted.
Section 2.02
Execution and Authentication . An Officer shall sign
the Notes for the Company by manual or facsimile signature attested
by the manual or facsimile signature of the Secretary or an
Assistant Secretary of the Company. Typographic and other minor
errors or defects in any such facsimile signature shall not affect
the validity or enforceability of any Note which has been
authenticated and delivered by the Trustee.
If an Officer whose signature
is on a Note no longer holds that office at the time the Trustee
authenticates the Note, the Note shall be valid
nevertheless.
A Note shall not be valid
until an authorized signatory of the Trustee manually signs the
certificate of authentication on the Note. The signature shall be
conclusive evidence that the Note has been authenticated under this
Indenture.
The Trustee shall
authenticate and make available for delivery Notes for original
issue in the aggregate principal amount of $70,000,000 upon receipt
of a written order or orders of the Company signed by an Officer of
the Company (a “Company Order”). The Company Order
shall specify the amount of Notes to be authenticated, shall
provide that all such Notes will be represented initially by one or
more Certificated Notes and the date on which each original issue
of Notes is to be authenticated. The initial aggregate principal
amount of Notes outstanding at any time may not exceed $70,000,000
except as provided in Section 2.07 and except as provided in
the next succeeding paragraph.
The Trustee shall act as the
initial authenticating agent. Thereafter, the Trustee may appoint
an authenticating agent acceptable to the Company to authenticate
Notes. An authenticating agent may authenticate Notes whenever the
Trustee may do so. Each reference in this Indenture to
authentication by the Trustee includes authentication by such
agent. An authenticating agent shall have the same rights as an
Agent to deal with the Company or an Affiliate of the
Company.
The Notes shall be issuable
only in registered form without coupons and only in denominations
of $1,000 principal amount and any integral multiple
thereof.
In accordance with the terms
of that certain Escrow Agreement dated as of November __, 2007, by
and among the Company, The Bank of New York Trust Company, N.A., as
escrow agent (“Escrow Agent”), the Trustee and the
Holders (i) the Holders have agreed to deposit the aggregate
principal dollar amount of Notes (the “Escrow Funds”)
with the Escrow Agent and (ii) the Company has agreed to
deposit with the Escrow Agent the Notes to be received by the
Holders. The Escrow Funds and the Notes shall be released pursuant
to and at the times set forth in the Escrow Agreement.
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Section 2.03
Registrar, Paying Agent and Conversion Agent . The
Company shall maintain one or more offices or agencies where Notes
may be presented for registration of transfer or for exchange
(each, a “Registrar”), one or more offices or agencies
where Notes may be presented for payment (each, a “Paying
Agent”), one or more offices or agencies where Notes may be
presented for conversion (each, a “Conversion Agent”)
and one or more offices or agencies where notices and demands to or
upon the Company in respect of the Notes and this Indenture may be
served. The Company will at all times maintain a Paying Agent,
Conversion Agent, Registrar and an office or agency where notices
and demands to or upon the Company in respect of the Notes and this
Indenture may be served in the United States. One of the Registrars
(the “Primary Registrar”) shall keep a register of the
Notes and of their transfer and exchange (the
“Register”).
The Company shall enter into
an appropriate agency agreement with any Agent not a party to this
Indenture. The agreement shall implement the provisions of this
Indenture that relate to such Agent. The Company shall notify the
Trustee of the name and address of any Agent not a party to this
Indenture. If the Company fails to maintain a Registrar, Paying
Agent, Conversion Agent or agent for service of notices and demands
in any place required by this Indenture, or fails to give the
foregoing notice, the Trustee shall act as such. The Company or any
Affiliate of the Company may act as Paying Agent (except for the
purposes of Article 8).
The Company hereby initially
designates the Trustee as Paying Agent, Registrar, and Conversion
Agent, and the Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee as such office
or agency of the Company for each of the aforesaid
purposes.
Section 2.04 Paying
Agent To Hold Money In Trust . Prior to noon, New York
City time, on each date on which the principal amount of or
interest, if any, on any Notes is due and payable, the Company
shall deposit with a Paying Agent a sum sufficient to pay such
principal amount or interest, if any, so becoming due. A Paying
Agent shall hold in trust for the benefit of Noteholders or the
Trustee all money held by the Paying Agent for the payment of
principal amount of or interest, if any, on the Notes, and shall
notify the Trustee of any default by the Company (or any other
obligor on the Notes) in making any such payment. If the Company or
an Affiliate of the Company acts as Paying Agent, it shall, before
11:00 a.m., New York City time, on each date on which a payment of
the principal amount of or interest on any Notes is due and
payable, segregate the money and hold it as a separate trust fund.
The Company at any time may require a Paying Agent to pay all money
held by it to the Trustee, and the Trustee may at any time during
the continuance of any default, upon written request to a Paying
Agent, require such Paying Agent to pay forthwith to the Trustee
all sums so held in trust by such Paying Agent. Upon doing so, the
Paying Agent (other than the Company) shall have no further
liability for the money.
Section 2.05
Noteholder Lists . The Trustee shall preserve in as
current a form as is reasonably practicable the most recent list
available to it of the names and addresses of Noteholders. If the
Trustee is not the Primary Registrar, the Company shall furnish to
the Trustee on or before each semiannual interest payment date, and
at such other times as the Trustee may request in writing, a list
in such form and as of such date as the Trustee may reasonably
require of the names and addresses of Noteholders.
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Section 2.06 Transfer
and Exchange . Subject to compliance with any applicable
additional requirements contained in Section 2.14, when a Note
is presented to a Registrar with a request to register a transfer
thereof or to exchange such Note for an equal principal amount of
Notes of other authorized denominations, the Registrar shall
register the transfer or make the exchange as requested if its
requirements for such transactions are met; provided ,
however , that every Note presented or surrendered for
registration of transfer or exchange shall be duly endorsed or
accompanied by an assignment form in the applicable form included
in Exhibit A, and in form satisfactory to the Registrar duly
executed by the Holder thereof or its attorney duly authorized in
writing. To permit registration of transfers and exchanges, upon
surrender of any Note for registration of transfer or exchange at
an office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 2.03, the
Company shall execute and the Trustee shall authenticate Notes of a
like aggregate principal amount at the Registrar’s request.
Any exchange or transfer shall be without charge, except that the
Company or the Registrar may require payment of a sum sufficient to
cover any tax or other governmental charge that may be imposed in
relation thereto, and provided , that this sentence shall
not apply to any exchange pursuant to Section 2.10,
Section 3.04, Section 9.03(b) or Section 10.02(e)
not involving any transfer.
All Notes issued upon any
transfer or exchange of Notes shall be valid obligations of the
Company, evidencing the same debt and entitled to the same benefits
under this Indenture, as the Notes surrendered upon such transfer
or exchange.
Any Registrar appointed
pursuant to Section 2.03 shall provide to the Trustee such
information as the Trustee may reasonably require in connection
with the delivery by such Registrar of Notes upon transfer or
exchange of Notes.
Each Holder of a Note agrees
to indemnify the Company and the Trustee against any liability that
may result from the transfer, exchange or assignment of such
Holder’s Note in violation of any provision of this Indenture
and/or applicable United States federal or state securities
law.
The Trustee shall have no
obligation or duty to monitor, determine or inquire as to
compliance with any restrictions on transfer imposed under this
Indenture or under applicable law with respect to any transfer of
any interest in any Note (including any transfers between or among
Agent Members or other beneficial owners of interests in any Global
Note) other than to require delivery of such certificates and other
documentation or evidence as are expressly required by, and to do
so if and when expressly required by the terms of, this Indenture,
and to examine the same to determine substantial compliance as to
form with the express requirements hereof.
Section 2.07
Replacement Notes . If any mutilated Note is
surrendered to the Company, a Registrar or the Trustee, or the
Company, a Registrar and the Trustee receive evidence to their
satisfaction of the destruction, loss or theft of any Note, and
there is delivered to the Company, the applicable Registrar and the
Trustee such security or indemnity as will be required by them to
save each of them harmless, then, in the absence of notice to the
Company, such Registrar or the Trustee that such Note has been
acquired by a protected purchaser, the Company shall execute, and
upon its written request the Trustee shall authenticate and
deliver, in exchange for any such mutilated Note or in lieu of any
such destroyed, lost or stolen Note, a new Note of like tenor and
principal amount, bearing a number not contemporaneously
outstanding.
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In case any such mutilated,
destroyed, lost or stolen Note has become or is about to become due
and payable, or is about to be purchased by the Company pursuant to
Article 3, the Company in its discretion may, instead of issuing a
new Note, pay or purchase such Note, as the case may be.
Upon the issuance of any new
Notes under this Section 2.07, the Company may require the
payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental
charge that may be imposed in relation thereto and any other
reasonable expenses (including the reasonable fees and expenses of
the Trustee or the Registrar) in connection therewith.
Every new Note issued
pursuant to this Section 2.07 in lieu of any mutilated,
destroyed, lost or stolen Note shall constitute an original
additional contractual obligation of the Company, whether or not
the mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Note shall be at any time
enforceable by anyone, and shall be entitled to all benefits of
this Indenture equally and proportionately with any and all other
Notes duly issued hereunder.
The provisions of this
Section 2.07 are (to the extent lawful) exclusive and shall
preclude (to the extent lawful) all other rights and remedies with
respect to the replacement or payment of mutilated, destroyed, lost
or stolen Notes.
Section 2.08
Outstanding Notes . Notes outstanding at any time are
all Notes authenticated by the Trustee, except for those canceled
by it, those converted pursuant to Article 10, those delivered to
it for cancellation or surrendered for transfer or exchange and
those described in this Section 2.08 as not
outstanding.
If a Note is replaced
pursuant to Section 2.07, it ceases to be outstanding unless
the Company receives proof satisfactory to it that the replaced
Note is held by a protected purchaser.
If a Paying Agent holds at
noon, New York City time, on the Maturity Date Cash sufficient to
pay the principal amount of the Notes payable on that date, then on
and after the Maturity Date, such Notes shall cease to be
outstanding and the principal amount thereof shall cease to bear
interest.
Subject to the restrictions
contained in Section 2.09, a Note does not cease to be
outstanding because the Company or an Affiliate of the Company
holds the Note.
Section 2.09 Treasury
Notes . In determining whether the Holders of the required
principal amount of Notes have concurred in any notice, direction,
waiver or consent, Notes owned by the Company or any other obligor
on the Notes or by any Affiliate of the Company or of such other
obligor shall be disregarded, except that, for purposes of
determining whether the Trustee shall be protected in relying on
any such notice, direction, waiver or consent, only Notes which a
Responsible Officer of the Trustee actually knows are so owned
shall be so disregarded. Notes so owned which have been pledged in
good faith shall not be disregarded if the pledgee establishes to
the satisfaction of the Trustee the pledgee’s right so to act
with respect to the Notes and that the pledgee is not the Company
or any other obligor on the Notes or any Affiliate of the Company
or of such other obligor. 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).
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Section 2.10
Temporary Notes . Until definitive Notes are ready for
delivery, the Company may prepare and execute, and, upon receipt of
a Company Order, the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver,
temporary Notes. Temporary Notes shall be substantially in the form
of definitive Notes but may have variations that the Company with
the consent of the Trustee considers appropriate for temporary
Notes. Without unreasonable delay, the Company shall prepare and
the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver definitive Notes in
exchange for temporary Notes.
Section 2.11
Cancellation . The Company at any time may deliver
Notes to the Trustee for cancellation. The Registrar, the Paying
Agent and the Conversion Agent shall forward to the Trustee or its
agent any Notes surrendered to them for transfer, exchange, payment
or conversion. The Trustee and no one else shall cancel, in
accordance with its standard procedures, all Notes surrendered for
transfer, exchange, payment, conversion or cancellation and upon
written request of the Company shall deliver the canceled Notes to
the Company.
Section 2.12 CUSIP
Numbers . The Company in issuing any Global Notes may use
one or more “CUSIP” numbers (if then generally in use),
and, if so, the Trustee shall use “CUSIP” numbers in
notices of purchase as a convenience to Holders; provided ,
that any such notice may state that no representation is made as to
the correctness of such numbers either as printed on the Notes or
as contained in any notice of a purchase and that reliance may be
placed only on the other identification numbers printed on the
Notes, and any such purchase shall not be affected by any defect in
or omission of such numbers. The Company will promptly notify the
Trustee of any change in the “CUSIP”
numbers.
Section 2.13
Book-entry Provisions For Global Notes .
(a) Transfers of Global Notes
shall be limited to transfers in whole, but not in part, to the
Depositary, its successors or their respective nominees. In
addition, after Notes are issued pursuant to the Global Note,
Certificated Notes shall be transferred to all beneficial owners,
as identified by the Depositary, in exchange for their beneficial
interests in Global Notes if (i) the Depositary notifies the
Company that the Depositary is unwilling or unable to continue as
depositary for any Global Note (or the Depositary ceases to be a
“clearing agency” registered under Section 17A of
the Exchange Act) and a successor Depositary is not appointed by
the Company within 90 days of such notice or cessation or
(ii) an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing and
the Registrar has received a written request from the Depositary to
issue Certificated Notes.
(b) In connection with the
transfer of a Global Note in its entirety to beneficial owners
pursuant to Section 2.13(a), such Global Note shall be deemed
to be surrendered to the Trustee for cancellation, and the Company
shall execute, and the Trustee shall upon written instructions from
the Company authenticate and deliver, to each beneficial owner
identified by the Depositary in exchange for its beneficial
interest in such Global Note, an equal aggregate principal amount
of Certificated Notes of authorized denominations.
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(c) Any Certificated Note
constituting a Restricted Certificated Note delivered in exchange
for an interest in a Global Note pursuant to Section 2.13(a)
shall, except as otherwise provided by Section 2.14, bear the
Restricted Note Legend.
(d) The Holder of any Global
Note may grant proxies and otherwise authorize any Person to take
any action that a Holder is entitled to take under this Indenture
or the Notes.
Section 2.14 Special
Transfer Provisions .
(a) Notwithstanding any other
provisions of this Indenture, but except as provided in
Section 2.14(b), a Global Note may not be transferred except
as a whole 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.
(b) Every Note that bears or
is required under this Section 2.14(b) to bear the Restricted
Note Legend, and any Common Stock that bears or is required under
this Section 2.14(b) to bear the Restricted Common Stock
Legend (collectively, the “Restricted Securities”)
shall be subject to the restrictions on transfer set forth in the
Restricted Note Legend or the Restricted Common Stock Legend, as
the case may be, unless such restrictions on transfer shall be
waived by written consent of the Company, and the holder of each
such Restricted Security, by such Notes holder’s acceptance
thereof, agrees to be bound by all such restrictions on transfer.
As used in this Section 2.14(b), the term
“transfer” encompasses any sale, pledge, loan, transfer
or other disposition whatsoever of any Restricted Security or any
interest therein.
Any certificate evidencing
such Note (and all securities issued in exchange therefor or
substitution thereof), and any stock certificate representing
shares of Common Stock issued upon conversion of any Note, shall
bear a Restricted Note Legend or Restricted Common Stock Legend, as
the case may be, unless such Note or such shares of Common Stock
have been sold pursuant to a registration statement that has been
declared effective under the Securities Act (and which continues to
be effective at the time of such transfer) or pursuant to
Rule 144 or any similar provision then in force, or such
shares of Common Stock have been issued upon conversion of Notes
that have been transferred pursuant to a registration statement
that has been declared effective under the Securities Act or
pursuant to Rule 144 under the Securities Act, or unless
otherwise agreed by the Company in writing, with written notice
thereof to the Trustee.
Any Note (or security issued
in exchange or substitution therefor) as to which such restrictions
on transfer shall have expired in accordance with their terms or as
to conditions for removal of the Restricted Note Legend set forth
therein have been satisfied may, upon surrender of such Note for
exchange to the Registrar in accordance with the provisions of
Section 2.06, be exchanged for a new Note or Notes, of like
tenor and aggregate principal amount, which shall not bear the
Restricted Note Legend. If the Restricted Note surrendered for
exchange is represented by a Global Note bearing the Restricted
Note Legend, the principal amount of the legended Global Note shall
be reduced by the appropriate principal amount and the principal
amount of a Global Note without the Restricted Note Legend shall be
increased by an equal principal amount. If a Global Note without
the Restricted Note Legend is not then outstanding, the Company
shall execute and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver an
unlegended Global Note to the Depositary.
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Any such shares of Common
Stock as to which such restrictions on transfer shall have expired
in accordance with their terms or as to which the conditions for
removal of the Restricted Common Stock Legend set forth therein
have been satisfied may, upon surrender of the certificates
representing such shares of Common Stock for exchange in accordance
with the procedures of the transfer agent for the Common Stock, be
exchanged for a new certificate or certificates for a like number
of shares of Common Stock, which shall not bear the Restricted
Common Stock Legend required by this Section 2.14.
(c) By its acceptance of any
Note bearing the Restricted Note Legend, each Holder of such a Note
acknowledges the restrictions on transfer of such Note set forth in
this Indenture and in the Restricted Note Legend, and agrees that
it will transfer such Note only as provided in this Indenture and
as permitted by applicable law.
(d) The Registrar shall
retain copies of all letters, notices and other written
communications received pursuant to Section 2.13 or this
Section 2.14. The Company shall have the right to inspect and
make copies of all such letters, notices or other written
communications at any reasonable time during normal hours of
operation of the Registrar upon the giving of reasonable notice to
the Registrar.
ARTICLE 3.
PURCHASES
Section 3.01
Repurchase At the Option of the Holder .
(a) If there shall have
occurred a Fundamental Change, each Holder shall have the right, at
such Holder’s option, to require the Company to purchase for
Cash all or any portion of such Holder’s Notes in integral
multiples of $1,000 principal amount on a date selected by the
Company (the “Fundamental Change Purchase Date”), which
Fundamental Change Purchase Date shall be no later than 35 Trading
Days after the occurrence of such Fundamental Change, unless such
35 Trading Days would not provide Holders with at least 20 Trading
Days’ notice, in which event the Fundamental Change Purchase
Date shall be the day that provides the shortest period necessary
to provide 20 Trading Days’ notice as required by subsection
(b) of this Section 3.01, at a purchase price equal to
100% of the principal amount of the Notes to be purchased, plus
accrued and unpaid interest to, but excluding, the Fundamental
Change Purchase Date (the “Fundamental Change Purchase
Price”), subject to satisfaction by or on behalf of the
Holder of the requirements set forth in Section 3.01(c);
provided that if the Fundamental Change Purchase Date is after a
Regular Record Date and on or prior to the Interest Payment Date to
which it relates, interest accrued to the Interest Payment Date
will be paid to Holders of the Notes as of the preceding Regular
Record Date.
A “Fundamental
Change” shall be deemed to have occurred at such time as any
of the following events shall occur: (i) the acquisition by any
Person of beneficial ownership, directly or indirectly, through a
purchase, merger or other acquisition transaction or series of
transactions, of shares of the Company’s Capital Stock
entitling that Person to exercise 50% or more of the total voting
power of all
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shares of the Company’s Capital
Stock entitled to vote generally in elections of directors, other
than any acquisition by the Company, any of its subsidiaries or any
of its employee benefit plans; or (ii) the Company merges or
consolidates with or into any other Person, any merger of another
Person into the Company, or any sale, transfer or lease of all or
substantially all of the assets of the Company to another Person
(other than to one or more wholly-owned subsidiaries of the
Company), other than any such transaction (A) pursuant to
which the holders of 50% or more of the total voting power of all
shares of the Company’s capital stock entitled to vote
generally in the election of directors immediately prior to such
transaction have or have the entitlement to receive, directly or
indirectly, at least 50% or more of the total voting power of all
shares of capital stock entitled to vote generally in the election
of directors of the continuing or surviving corporation immediately
after such transaction or (B) any transaction which is
effected solely to change the jurisdiction of incorporation of the
Company and results in a reclassification, conversion or exchange
of outstanding shares of Common Stock into solely shares of common
stock; or (iii) if, during any consecutive two-year period,
individuals who at the beginning of that two-year period
constituted the Company’s Board of Directors, together with
any new directors whose election to the Company’s Board of
Directors, or whose nomination for election by the Company’s
stockholders, was approved by a vote of a majority of the directors
then still in office who were either directors at the beginning of
such period or whose election or nomination for election was
previously so approved, cease for any reason to constitute a
majority of the Company’s Board of Directors then in office;
or (iv) if the Company, its Board of Directors or its
stockholders pass a resolution approving a plan of liquidation,
dissolution or winding up of the Company; or (v) upon the
occurrence of a Termination of Trading.
For purposes of defining a
Fundamental Change:
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(x) |
the term “person” and the term “group”
have the meanings given by Section 13(d) and 14(d) of the
Exchange Act or any successor provisions; |
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(y) |
the term “group” includes any group acting for the
purpose of acquiring, holding or disposing of securities within the
meaning of Rule 13d-5(b)(1) under the Exchange Act or any
successor provision; and |
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(z) |
the term “beneficial owner” is determined in
accordance with Rules 13d-3 and 13d-5 under the Exchange Act
or any successor provisions, except that a person will be deemed to
have beneficial ownership of all shares that person has the right
to acquire irrespective of whether that right is exercisable
immediately or only after the passage of time. |
Notwithstanding the
foregoing, it will not constitute a Fundamental Change under either
prongs (i) or (ii) above if both (x) at least 90% of
the consideration for the Common Stock (excluding Cash payments for
fractional shares and Cash payments made in respect of
dissenter’s appraisal rights) in the transaction or
transactions otherwise constituting the Fundamental Change consists
of common stock, depository receipts or other certificates
representing common equity interests, together with any associated
rights, traded on a U.S. national securities exchange or approved
for trading on an established U.S. system of automated
dissemination of quotations of securities prices, or which will be
so traded or quoted when issued or exchanged in connection with
such Fundamental Change, and (y) as a result of such
transaction or transactions the Notes become convertible solely
into such common stock and associated rights.
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(b) Prior to the earlier of
(i) the consummation of the Acquisition and (ii) the
Acquisition Repurchase Deadline, the Company shall, prior to noon,
New York City time, on the Business Day immediately following the
date on which the Company has knowledge of an anticipated
Fundamental Change, post notice (the “Early Conversion
Notice”) of such anticipated Fundamental Change to the
Holders on the systems of the Depositary and the Company (or at the
Company’s request, the Trustee, in the Company’s name
and at the Company’s expense) shall mail a written notice of
such anticipated Fundamental Change by first-class mail to the
Trustee and to each Holder at their addresses shown in the register
of the Registrar (and to beneficial owners as required by
applicable law). Thereafter, as promptly as practicable following
the date the Company publicly announces the Fundamental Change
transaction, but in no event less than 20 Trading Days prior to the
anticipated effective date of a Fundamental Change in the case of a
Fundamental Change within the control of the Company or of which
the Company has at least 30 Trading Days prior notice, the Company
(or at the Company’s request, the Trustee, in the
Company’s name and at the Company’s expense) shall mail
a written notice of Fundamental Change (the text of which shall be
prepared by the Company) by first-class mail to each Holder at
their addresses shown in the register of the Registrar (and to
beneficial owners as required by applicable law). The notice shall
include a form of Fundamental Change Purchase Notice to be
completed by the Noteholder and shall state:
(i) briefly, the events
causing such Fundamental Change;
(ii) the anticipated
effective date of such Fundamental Change;
(iii) the last date by which
the Fundamental Change Purchase Notice pursuant to this
Section 3.01 must be given;
(iv) the Fundamental Change
Purchase Price;
(v) the Fundamental Change
Purchase Date;
(vi) the name and address of
the Paying Agent and the Conversion Agent;
(vii) that the Notes are then
convertible and the then-current Conversion Rate and any
adjustments thereto;
(viii) that Notes with
respect to which a Fundamental Change Purchase Notice has been
given by the Holder may be converted pursuant to Article 10 hereof
only if the Fundamental Change Purchase Notice has been withdrawn
in accordance with the terms of this Indenture;
(ix) briefly, the procedures
a Holder must follow to exercise rights under this
Section 3.01;
(x) that Notes must be
surrendered to the Paying Agent to collect payment of the
Fundamental Change Purchase Price;
(xi) that the Fundamental
Change Purchase Price for any Note as to which a Fundamental Change
Purchase Notice has been duly given and not withdrawn, together
with any accrued interest payable with respect thereto, will be
paid on or prior to the third Trading Day following the later of
the Fundamental Change Purchase Date and the time of surrender of
such Note;
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(xii) briefly, the conversion
rights of the Notes;
(xiii) the procedures for
withdrawing a Fundamental Change Purchase Notice;
(xiv) that, unless the
Company defaults in making payment of such Fundamental Change
Purchase Price and interest due, if any, interest on Notes
surrendered for purchase will cease to accrue on and after the
Fundamental Change Purchase Date; and
(xv) the CUSIP number of the
Notes.
(c) A Holder may exercise its
rights specified in Section 3.01(a) by delivery of a written
notice of purchase (a “Fundamental Change Purchase
Notice”) to the Paying Agent at any time prior to the Close
of Business on the Fundamental Change Purchase Date,
stating:
(i) the certificate number of
the Note which the Holder will deliver to be purchased, if
Certificated Notes have been issued, or notice compliant with the
relevant DTC procedures if the Notes are not
certificated;
(ii) the portion of the
principal amount of the Note which the Holder will deliver to be
purchased, which portion must be $1,000 or an integral multiple
thereof; and
(iii) that such Note shall be
purchased pursuant to the terms and conditions specified in this
Article 3.
The delivery of such Note to
the Paying Agent prior to, on or after the Fundamental Change
Purchase Date (together with all necessary endorsements) at the
offices of the Paying Agent shall be a condition to the receipt by
the Holder of the Fundamental Change Purchase Price therefor;
provided, however, that such Fundamental Change Purchase Price
shall be so paid pursuant to this Section 3.01 only if the
Note so delivered to the Paying Agent shall conform in all respects
to the description thereof set forth in the related Fundamental
Change Purchase Notice.
The Company shall purchase
from the Holder thereof, pursuant to this Section 3.01, a
portion of a Note if the principal amount of such portion is $1,000
or an integral multiple of $1,000. Provisions of this Indenture
that apply to the purchase of all of a Note also apply to the
purchase of such portion of such Note.
Any purchase by the Company
contemplated pursuant to the provisions of this Section 3.01
shall be consummated by the delivery of the consideration to be
received by the Holder (together with accrued and unpaid interest)
on or prior to the third Business Day following the later of the
Fundamental Change Purchase Date and the time of delivery of the
Note to the Paying Agent in accordance with this
Section 3.01.
Notwithstanding anything
herein to the contrary, any Holder delivering to the Paying Agent
the Fundamental Change Purchase Notice contemplated by this Section
3.01(c) shall have the right to
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withdraw such Fundamental Change
Purchase Notice at any time prior to the Close of Business on the
Fundamental Change Purchase Date by delivery of a written notice of
withdrawal to the Paying Agent in accordance with
Section 3.02.
The Paying Agent shall
promptly notify the Company of the receipt by it of any Fundamental
Change Purchase Notice or written withdrawal thereof.
There shall be no purchase of
any Notes pursuant to this Section 3.01 if there has occurred
(prior to, on or after, as the case may be, the giving, by the
Holders of such Notes, of the required Fundamental Change Purchase
Notice) and is continuing an Event of Default (other than a default
in the payment of the Fundamental Change Purchase Price). The
Paying Agent will promptly return to the respective Holders thereof
any Notes (x) with respect to which a Fundamental Change
Purchase Notice has been withdrawn in compliance with this
Indenture, or (y) held by it during the continuance of an
Event of Default (other than a default in the payment of the
Fundamental Change Purchase Price) in which case, upon such return,
the Fundamental Change Purchase Notice with respect thereto shall
be deemed to have been withdrawn.
Section 3.02 Effect
of Fundamental Change Purchase Notice .
(a) Upon receipt by the
Paying Agent of the Fundamental Change Purchase Notice specified in
Section 3.01(c), the Holder of the Note in respect of which
such Fundamental Change Purchase Notice was given shall (unless
such Fundamental Change Purchase Notice is withdrawn as specified
in the following two paragraphs) thereafter be entitled to receive
solely the Fundamental Change Purchase Price and any accrued and
unpaid interest, with respect to such Note. Such Fundamental Change
Purchase Price and interest shall be paid to such Holder, subject
to receipt of funds by the Paying Agent, on or prior to the third
Business Day following the later of (x) the Fundamental Change
Purchase Date, with respect to such Note (provided the conditions
in Section 3.01(c) have been satisfied) and (y) the time
of delivery of such Note to the Paying Agent by the Holder thereof
in the manner required by Section 3.01(c). Notes in respect of
which a Fundamental Change Purchase Notice has been given by the
Holder thereof may not be converted pursuant to Article 10 hereof
on or after the date of the delivery of such Fundamental Change
Purchase Notice unless such Fundamental Change Purchase Notice has
first been validly withdrawn as specified in
Section 3.02(b).
(b) A Fundamental Change
Purchase Notice may be withdrawn by means of a written notice of
withdrawal delivered to the office of the Paying Agent in
accordance with the Fundamental Change Purchase Notice at any time
prior to the Close of Business on the Fundamental Change Purchase
Date specifying:
(i) the certificate number of
the Note which the Holder will deliver to be purchased, if
Certificated Notes have been issued, or notice compliant with the
relevant DTC procedures, if the Notes are not
certificated,
(ii) the principal amount of
the Note with respect to which such notice of withdrawal is being
submitted, and
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(iii) the principal amount,
if any, of such Note which remains subject to the original
Fundamental Change Purchase Notice and which has been or will be
delivered for purchase by the Company.
A written notice of
withdrawal of a Fundamental Change Purchase Notice may be in the
form set forth in the preceding paragraph.
Section 3.03 Deposit
of Fundamental Change Purchase Price . Prior to 1:00 p.m.
(New York City time) on or prior to the third Business Day
following the Fundamental Change Purchase Date, the Company shall
deposit with the Trustee or with the Paying Agent (or, if the
Company or a Subsidiary or an Affiliate of either of them is acting
as the Paying Agent, shall segregate and hold in trust as provided
in Section 2.04) an amount of money (in immediately available
funds if deposited on such Trading Day) sufficient to pay the
aggregate Fundamental Change Purchase Price of all the Notes or
portions thereof which are to be purchased as of the Fundamental
Change Purchase Date.
If the Trustee or the Paying
Agent holds money sufficient to pay the Fundamental Change Purchase
Price of a Note on the third Business Day following the Fundamental
Change Purchase Date in accordance with the terms hereof, then,
immediately after the Fundamental Change Purchase Date, interest on
such Note will cease to accrue, whether or not the Note is
delivered to the Trustee or the Paying Agent, and all other rights
of the holder shall terminate, other than the right to receive the
Fundamental Change Purchase Price upon delivery of the
Note.
Section 3.04 Notes
Purchased In Part . Any Note which is to be purchased only
in part shall be surrendered at the office of the Paying Agent
(with, if the Company or the Trustee so requires, due endorsement
by, or a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the
Company and the Trustee duly executed by, the Holder thereof or
such Holder’s attorney duly authorized in writing) and the
Company shall execute and the Trustee shall authenticate and
deliver to the Holder of such Note, without service charge, a new
Note or Note, of any authorized denomination as requested by such
Holder in aggregate principal amount equal to, and in exchange for,
the portion of the principal amount of the Note so surrendered that
is not purchased.
Section 3.05 Covenant
To Comply With Securities Laws Upon Repurchase of Notes
. When complying with the provisions of Section 3.01
(provided, that such offer or purchase constitutes an “issuer
tender offer” for purposes of Rule 13e-4 (which term, as used
herein, includes any successor provision thereto) under the
Exchange Act at the time of such offer or purchase), and subject to
any exemptions available under applicable law, the Company
shall:
(a) comply with
Rule 13e-4 and Rule 14e-1 (or any successor provision)
under the Exchange Act, as applicable;
(b) file the related
Schedule TO (or any successor schedule, form or report) if
required under the Exchange Act, as applicable;
(c) otherwise comply with all
federal and state securities laws so as to permit the rights and
obligations under Section 3.01 to be exercised in the time and
in the manner specified therein.
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To the extent that the
provisions of any securities laws, rules or regulations conflict
with the provisions of Section 3.01, the Company’s
compliance with such laws, rules and regulations shall not in and
of itself cause a breach of its obligations under
Section 3.01.
Section 3.06
Mandatory Repurchase by the Company if the Acquisition is not
Consummated.
(a) If the Acquisition is not
consummated on or prior to the earlier of
(i) December 31, 2007 (which date may be extended by the
written consent of the Holders of a majority in aggregate principal
amount of the Notes to the earlier of February 15, 2008 and
the date to which the termination date in the Acquisition Agreement
shall have been extended pursuant to the terms of the Acquisition
Agreement) (the “Final Deadline Date”) and
(ii) the date on which the Company delivers an Acquisition
Disbandment Notice (the “Acquisition Repurchase
Deadline”), then the Company shall be required on the first
to occur of the Final Deadline Date or the Business Day following
the delivery of the Acquisition Disbandment Notice (the
“Mandatory Repurchase Date”), to repurchase (the
“Repurchase”) all of the Notes then outstanding at a
price payable in cash equal to the Mandatory Repurchase
Price.
(b) On the Mandatory
Repurchase Date, the Company shall direct the Trustee to mail, or
cause to be mailed, by first-class mail a notice of the Repurchase
(the form and content to be prepared by the Company) to each Holder
whose Notes are to be repurchased, at the address of such Holder
appearing in the security register. The notice shall
state:
(i) the Mandatory Repurchase
Date;
(ii) the Mandatory Repurchase
Price;
(iii) if the Notes are then
convertible, the Conversion Rate and the Conversion
Price;
(iv) the names and addresses
of the Paying Agent and the Conversion Agent;
(v) that the right to convert
the Notes called for Repurchase will terminate at the close of
business on the Business Day immediately preceding the Repurchase
Date, unless there shall be a Default in the payment of the
Repurchase Price;
(vi) that Notes to be
Repurchased must be surrendered to the Paying Agent to collect the
Mandatory Repurchase Price;
(vii) that, unless there
shall be a Default in the payment of the Repurchase Price, interest
on Notes to be Repurchased ceases to accrue on and after the
Mandatory Repurchase Date, and all rights of the Holders of such
Notes shall terminate on and after the Repurchase Date, other than
the right to receive, upon surrender of such Notes and in
accordance with this Indenture, the amounts due hereunder on such
Notes upon Repurchase; and
(viii) the CUSIP number or
numbers, as the case may be, of the Notes.
(c) If the Notes are then
convertible, the right, to the extent provided in Article 10 to
convert Notes to be Repurchased shall terminate at the close of
business on the Business Day immediately preceding the Repurchase
Date, unless there shall be a Default in the payment of the
Repurchase Price.
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(d) If the Acquisition is not
consummated prior to the Mandatory Repurchase Date, Notes to be
Repurchased shall become due and payable on the Mandatory
Repurchase Date at the Mandatory Repurchase Price, the Holders
shall not be entitled to receive and the Company shall not be
obligated to pay interest on the Notes accrued from the date of
issuance of the Notes, and, on and after such Mandatory Repurchase
Date (unless there shall be a Default in the payment of such
consideration), except as otherwise provided herein, such Notes
shall cease to bear interest, and all rights of the Holders of such
Notes shall terminate, other than the right to receive the
Mandatory Repurchase Price upon surrender of such Notes to the
Paying Agent. If any Note shall not be fully and duly paid in
accordance herewith upon Repurchase, the principal of, and accrued
and unpaid interest on, such Note shall, until paid, bear interest
at the rate borne by such Note on the principal amount of such
Note, and such Note shall be convertible to the extent provided in
Article 10.
(e) Prior to noon, New York
City time on the Mandatory Repurchase Date, the Company shall
deposit or cause to be deposited with a Paying Agent money, in
funds immediately available on the Mandatory Repurchase Date,
sufficient to pay the consideration payable as herein provided upon
Repurchase on all Notes outstanding on that date. The Paying Agent
shall return to the Company, as soon as practicable, any money not
required for that purpose.
ARTICLE 4.
COVENANTS
Section 4.01 Payment
of Notes .
(a) The Company agrees to pay
the principal of and interest on the Notes on the dates and in the
manner provided in the Notes and the Indenture. Not later than noon
(New York City time) on the due date of any principal of or
interest on any Notes, or any purchase price of the Notes, the
Company will deposit with the Trustee (or Paying Agent) money in
immediately available funds sufficient to pay such amounts,
provided that if the Company or any Affiliate of the Company is
acting as Paying Agent, it will, on or before each due date,
segregate and hold in a separate trust fund for the benefit of the
Holders a sum of money sufficient to pay such amounts until paid to
such Holders or otherwise disposed of as provided in the Indenture.
In each case the Company will promptly notify the Trustee of its
compliance with this paragraph.
(b) An installment of
principal or interest will be considered paid on the date due if
the Trustee (or Paying Agent, other than the Company or any
Affiliate of the Company) holds on that date money designated for
and sufficient to pay the installment. If the Company or any
Affiliate of the Company acts as Paying Agent, an installment of
principal or interest will be considered paid on the due date only
if paid to the Holders.
(c) The Company agrees to pay
interest on overdue principal, and, to the extent lawful, overdue
installments of interest at the rate per annum specified in the
Notes plus 2%.
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(d) Payments in respect of
the Notes represented by the Global Notes are to be made by wire
transfer of immediately available funds to the accounts specified
by the Holders of the Global Notes. With respect to Certificated
Notes, the Company will make all payments by wire transfer of
immediately available funds to the accounts specified by the
Holders thereof or, if no such account is specified, by mailing a
check to each Holder’s registered address.
Section 4.02
Maintenance of Office or Agency . The Company will
maintain in the United States, an office or agency where Notes may
be surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange or for
presentation for payment and where notices and demands to or upon
the Company in respect of the Notes and the Indenture may be
served. The Company hereby initially designates the Corporate Trust
Office of the Trustee as such office of the Company. The Company
will give prompt written notice to the Trustee of the location, and
any change in the location, of such office or agency. If at any
time the Company fails to maintain any such required office or
agency or fails to furnish the Trustee with the address thereof,
such presentations, surrenders, notices and demands may be made or
served to the Trustee.
The Company may also from
time to time designate one or more other offices or agencies where
the Notes may be surrendered or presented for any of such purposes
and may from time to time rescind such designations. The Company
will give prompt written notice to the Trustee of any such
designation or rescission and of any change in the location of any
such other office or agency.
Section 4.03
Existence . The Company will do or cause to be done all
things necessary to preserve and keep in full force and effect its
existence and the material rights and franchises of the Company,
except in the case of such rights and franchises, where the failure
to do so would not have a material adverse effect on the business
of the Company and its subsidiaries, taken as a whole, or the
Company has otherwise determined that it is not in the best
interest of the Company to do so; and provided further that this
Section does not prohibit any transaction otherwise permitted
by Section 5.01.
Section 4.04
Rule 144A Information and Exchange Act Reports
.
(a) At any time the Company
is not subject to Sections 13 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act,
the Company shall, so long as any of the Notes or any shares of
Common Stock issuable upon conversion thereof shall, at such time,
constitute “restricted securities” within the meaning
of Rule 144(a)(3) under the Securities Act, promptly provide
to the Trustee and shall, upon written request, provide to any
Noteholder, beneficial owner or prospective purchaser of Notes or
any shares of Common Stock issued upon conversion of any Notes, the
information required to be delivered pursuant to
Rule 144A(d)(4) under the Securities Act to facilitate the
resale of such Notes or shares of Common Stock pursuant to Rule
144A under the Securities Act.
(b) The Company shall deliver
to the Trustee, such annual, quarterly and current reports or other
information and documents that are required to be filed with the
Commission, copies of the Company’s annual reports (which
shall contain audited financial statements of the Company), and
quarterly and current reports and of the other information and
documents (or copies of such portions of any of the foregoing as
the Commission may by rules and regulations prescribe) that the
Company is required to file with the Commission pursuant to Section
13 or Section 15(d) of the Exchange Act at the time the Company is
required to file such annual, quarterly and current reports and
other information and documents; provided that any such annual,
quarterly and current reports, other information or
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documents required to be filed with the
Commission shall be deemed delivered to the Trustee at the same
time the same is filed with the Commission. The Company shall be
deemed to have complied with the previous sentence to the extent
that the Company shall have filed or furnished such annual,
quarterly and current reports or other information and documents to
the SEC via EDGAR (or any successor electronic delivery procedure).
In the event the Company is at any time no longer subject to the
reporting requirements of Section 13 or Section 15(d) of
the Exchange Act, the Company shall continue to provide the Trustee
and, upon written request, to each Noteholder, annual, quarterly
and current reports or other information and documents containing
substantially the same information as would have been required to
be filed with the SEC had the Company continued to have been
subject to such reporting requirements. In such event, such annual,
quarterly and current reports shall be provided at the times the
Company would have been required to provide the applicable report
had it continued to have been subject to such reporting
requirements.
Delivery of such reports,
information and documents to the Trustee is for informational
purposes only and the Trustee’s receipt of such shall not
constitute constructive notice of any information contained therein
or determinable from information contained therein, including the
Company’s compliance with any of its covenants hereunder (as
to which the Trustee is entitled to rely exclusively on
Officers’ Certificates).
Section 4.05 Reports
to Trustee .
(a) The Company will deliver
to the Trustee within 120 days after the end of each fiscal year a
certificate from the principal executive, financial or accounting
officer of the Company stating that the officer has conducted or
supervised a review of the activities of the Company and its
Subsidiaries and their performance under the Indenture and that,
based upon such review, the Company has fulfilled its obligations
hereunder or, if there has been a Default, specifying the Default
and its nature and status.
(b) The Company will deliver
to the Trustee, as soon as possible and in any event within 30 days
after the Company becomes aware or should reasonably become aware
of the occurrence of a Default, an Officers’ Certificate
setting forth the details of the Default, and the action which the
Company proposes to take with respect thereto.
Section 4.06 Stay,
Extension and Usury Laws . The Company covenants (to the
extent that it may lawfully do so) that it will 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 wherever
enacted, now or at any time hereafter in force, which may affect
the covenants or the performance of this Indenture; and the Company
(in each case, to the extent that it may lawfully do so) hereby
covenants that it will not, by resort to any such law to the extent
it would hinder, delay or impede the execution of any power herein
granted to the Trustee, but will suffer and permit the execution of
every such power as though no such law had been enacted.
Section 4.07 Payment
of Additional Interest . If Additional Interest is payable
by the Company pursuant to the Registration Rights Agreement, the
Company shall deliver to the Trustee a certificate to that effect
stating (i) the amount of such Additional Interest that is
payable, (ii) the reason why such Additional Interest is
payable and (iii) the date on which such Additional Interest
is payable. Unless and
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until a Responsible Officer of the
Trustee receives such a certificate, the Trustee may assume without
inquiry that no such Additional Interest is payable. If the Company
has paid Additional Interest directly to the Persons entitled to
it, the Company shall deliver to the Trustee a certificate setting
forth the particulars of such payment.
Section 4.08
Limitation on Incurring Certain Indebtedness . The
Company will not, directly or indirectly, incur, or suffer to
exist, any indebtedness (i) that by its terms would expressly
rank senior in right of payment to the Notes and subordinate in
right of payment to any of its Senior Debt or (ii) that ranks
pari passu with the Notes and has a maturity date prior to
May 15, 2014; provided that this clause (ii) shall not
apply to any indebtedness (a) of a Person or any Subsidiary
that is outstanding at the time such Person or Subsidiary becomes a
Subsidiary of the Company (or is merged into or consolidated with
the Company or any Subsidiary of the Company) or (b) in an
aggregate amount not to exceed $25 million.
For the purposes of this
Section 4.08, incur means, with respect to any indebtedness or
other obligation of any Person, to create, issue, incur (including
by conversion, exchange or otherwise), assume, guarantee or
otherwise become liable in respect of such indebtedness or other
obligation or the recording, as required pursuant to GAAP or
otherwise, of any such indebtedness or other obligation on the
balance sheet of such Person (and “incurrence,”
“incurred” and “incurring” shall have
meanings correlative to the foregoing).
ARTICLE 5.
CONSOLIDATION, MERGER,
SALE OR LEASE OF ASSETS
Section 5.01
Consolidation, Merger, Sale or Lease of Assets by the
Company .
(a) The Company, without the
consent of the Holders of any of the outstanding Notes,
may
(i) consolidate with or merge
with or into any Person, or
(ii) sell, convey, transfer,
or otherwise dispose of or lease all or substantially all of its
assets as an entirety or substantially an entirety, in one
transaction or a series of related transactions, to any
Person;
provided , that
(A) either (x) the
Company is the continuing Person or (y) the resulting,
surviving or transferee Person is a corporation, partnership,
limited liability company or trust organized and validly existing
under the laws of the United States of America, any State thereof
or the District of Columbia and expressly assumes by supplemental
indenture all of the obligations of the Company under the Indenture
and the Notes and the Registration Rights Agreement;
(B) immediately after giving
effect to the transaction, no Event of Default and no Default has
occurred and is continuing; and
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(C) the Company delivers to
the Trustee an Officers’ Certificate and an Opinion of
Counsel, each stating that the consolidation, merger, transfer or
lease and the supplemental indenture (if any) comply with the
Indenture.
(b) Upon the consummation of
any transaction effected in accordance with these provisions, if
the Company is not the continuing Person, the resulting, surviving
or transferee Person will succeed to, and be substituted for, and
may exercise every right and power of, the Company under the
Indenture and the Notes with the same effect as if such successor
Person had been named as the Company in the Indenture. Upon such
substitution, except in the case of a lease, unless the successor
is one or more of the Company’s Subsidiaries, the Company
will be released from its obligations under the Indenture and the
Notes.
ARTICLE 6.
DEFAULT AND
REMEDIES
Section 6.01 Events
of Default . An “Event of Default” occurs with
respect to the Notes if:
(a) the Company defaults in
the payment of the principal of any Note, or any Fundamental Change
Purchase Price or Mandatory Repurchase Price when the same becomes
due and payable on the Maturity Date, on the Fundamental Change
Purchase Date, on the Mandatory Repurchase Date, upon acceleration,
or otherwise, whether or not such payment is prohibited by the
subordination provisions of this Indenture;
(b) the Company fails to
provide the notice required by Section 3.01(b) on a timely
basis, whether or not such notice is prohibited by the
subordination provisions of this Indenture;
(c) the Company defaults in
the payment of interest (including any Additional Interest) on any
Note when the same becomes due and payable, and the default
continues for a period of 30 days, whether or not such payment is
prohibited by the subordination provisions of this
Indenture;
(d) the Company fails to
comply with its obligation to convert any Notes into shares of
Common Stock upon exercise of a Holder’s conversion
right;
(e) the Company fails to
comply with its obligations as provided under Article 5;
(f) any representation and
warranty contained in the Note Purchase Agreement is at the time
made inaccurate;
(g) the Company fails to
comply with any covenant contained in the Note Purchase Agreement,
the failure of which has not been cured within a period of 30
days;
(h) the Company fails to
comply with any other covenant or agreement of the Company in the
Indenture or the Notes and the default or breach continues for a
period of 60 consecutive days after receipt of written notice to
the Company by the Trustee or to the Company and the Trustee by the
Holders of 25% or more in aggregate principal amount of the Notes
then outstanding; provided, however, that the Company shall have
120 days after receipt of such notice to remedy, or receive a
waiver for, any failure to comply with Section 4.04(b) of this
Indenture so long as the Company is attempting to cure such failure
as promptly as reasonably practicable;
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(i) (i) the failure by
the Company to make any payment by the end of any applicable grace
period after maturity of any principal and/or accrued interest with
respect to Debt, where the amount of such unpaid and due principal
and/or accrued interest is in an aggregate amount in excess of
$10,000,000, or (ii) there is an acceleration of any principal
and/or accrued interest with respect to Debt where the amount of
such accelerated principal and interest is in an amount in excess
of $10,000,000 because of a default with respect to such Debt; in
any such case of (i) or (ii), without such Debt having been
paid or discharged or such acceleration having been cured, waived,
rescinded or annulled within a period of 30 days after written
notice to the Company by the Trustee or to the Company and the
Trustee by the Holders of not less than 25% in aggregate principal
amount of the Notes then outstanding; provided, however, if any
such failure or acceleration referred to in (i) or
(ii) above shall cease or be cured, waived, rescinded or
annulled, then the Event of Default by reason thereof shall be
deemed not to have occurred and any acceleration hereunder as a
result of the related Event of Default shall be automatically
rescinded;
(j) a final judgment or final
judgments for the payment of money are entered by a court or courts
of competent jurisdiction against the company or any of its
Subsidiaries and such judgment or judgments remain undischarged,
unpaid or unstayed for a period (during which execution shall not
be effectively stayed) of 60 days, provided that the aggregate of
all such undischarged judgments exceeds $10,000,000;
(k) the Company or any
Significant Subsidiary, pursuant to or under or within the meaning
of any Bankruptcy Law, (i) commences a voluntary case or
proceeding; (ii) consents to the entry of an order for relief
against it in an involuntary case or proceeding or the commencement
of any case against it; (iii) consents to the appointment of
any receiver, trustee, assignee, liquidator, custodian or similar
official of it or for any substantial part of its property;
(iv) makes a general assignment for the benefit of its
creditors; (v) files a petition in bankruptcy or answer or
consent seeking reorganization or relief; or (vi) consents to
the filing of such petition or the appointment of or taking
possession by any receiver, trustee, assignee, liquidator,
custodian or similar official; or
(l) a court of competent
jurisdiction enters an order or decree under any Bankruptcy Law
that (i) is for relief against the Company or any Significant
Subsidiary in an involuntary case or proceeding, or adjudicates the
Company or any Significant Subsidiary insolvent or bankrupt;
(ii) appoints any receiver, trustee, assignee, liquidator,
custodian or similar official of the Company or any Significant
Subsidiary or for any substantial part of its property; or
(iii) orders the winding up or liquidation of the Company or
any Significant Subsidiary, and the order or decree remains
unstayed and in effect for 60 days (an event of default specified
in clause (k) or (l) a “Bankruptcy
Default”).
Section 6.02
Acceleration .
(a) If an Event of Default,
other than a Bankruptcy Default with respect to the Company, occurs
and is continuing under the Indenture, the Trustee or the Holders
of at least 25% in aggregate of the outstanding principal amount of
the Notes, by written notice to the Company (and to the Trustee if
the notice is given by the Holders), may, and the Trustee at the
request of such Holders
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shall, in each case subject to the
provisions of Article 12, declare the principal of and accrued
interest on the Notes to be immediately due and payable. Upon a
declaration of acceleration, such principal and interest will
become immediately due and payable. If a Bankruptcy Default occurs
with respect to the Company, the principal of and accrued interest
on the Notes then outstanding will become immediately due and
payable without any declaration or other act on the part of the
Trustee or any Holder.
(b) The Holders of a majority
in principal amount of the outstanding Notes by written notice to
the Company and to the Trustee may waive all past defaults and
rescind and annul a declaration of acceleration with respect to
such Notes and its consequences if:
(i) all existing Events of
Default, other than the nonpayment of the principal of, premium, if
any, and interest on the Notes that have become due solely by the
declaration of acceleration, have been cured or waived,
and
(ii) the rescission would not
conflict with any judgment or decree of a court of competent
jurisdiction.
Section 6.03 Other
Remedies . If an Event of Default occurs and is
continuing, the Trustee may pursue, subject to the provisions of
Article 12, in its own name or as trustee of an express trust, any
available remedy by proceeding at law or in equity to collect the
payment of principal of and interest on the Notes or to enforce the
performance of any provision of the Notes or the Indenture. The
Trustee may maintain a proceeding even if it does not possess any
of the Notes or does not produce any of them in the
proceeding.
Section 6.04 Waiver
of Past Defaults . Except as otherwise provided in
Sections 6.02, 6.07 and 9.02(b), the Holders of a majority in
principal amount of the outstanding Notes may, by notice to the
Trustee, waive an existing Default and its consequences. Upon such
waiver, the Default will cease to exist, and any Event of Default
arising therefrom will be deemed to have been cured, but no such
waiver will extend to any subsequent or other Default or impair any
right consequent thereon.
Section 6.05 Control
by Majority . The Holders of a majority in aggregate
principal amount of the outstanding Notes may direct the
time,
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