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Title: Indenture
Governing Law: New York     Date: 6/18/2009
Industry: Containers and Packaging     Sector: Basic Materials

Indenture, Parties: sealed air corporation
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Exhibit 4.1

 

EXECUTION COPY

 

 

SEALED AIR CORPORATION

 

As Issuer

 

to

 

U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION

 

As Trustee

 


 

Indenture

 

Dated as of June 18, 2009

 


 

7 7 / 8 %  SENIOR NOTES DUE 2017

 

 



 

TABLE OF CONTENTS

 

 

Page

 

 

Parties

1

Recitals

1

 

ARTICLE ONE

Definitions and Other Provisions
of General Application

 

SECTION 101.  

Definitions

1

Accounts Receivable

2

Act

2

Additional Securities

2

Affiliate

2

Agent Member

2

Applicable Procedures

2

Authenticating Agent

2

Beneficial Owner

2

Board of Directors

3

Board Resolution

3

Business Day

3

Capital Lease

3

Capital Stock

3

Change of Control

3

Change of Control Offer

4

Change of Control Payment

4

Change of Control Payment Date

4

Clearstream

4

Commission

4

Company

4

Company Order

4

Company Request

4

Comparable Treasury Issue

4

Comparable Treasury Price

5

Consolidated Assets

5

Consolidated Net Tangible Assets

5

Continuing Directors

5

Corporate Trust Office

5

Corporation

5

Credit Agreements

5

Defaulted Interest

5

 


NOTE:  This table of contents shall not, for any reason, be deemed to be a part of this Indenture.

 

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Depositary

6

Disqualified Stock

6

Domestic Subsidiary

6

DTC

6

Equity Offering

6

Euroclear

6

Event of Default

6

Exchange Act

6

Expiration Date

6

Foreign Subsidiary

6

Funded Debt

6

Global Security

6

Holder

7

Indebtedness

7

Indenture

7

Independent Investment Banker

7

Initial Purchasers

7

Initial Regulation S Securities

7

Interest Payment Date

7

Issue Date

7

Lien

7

Material Subsidiary

7

Maturity

8

Non-Global Security

8

Notice of Default

8

Officers’ Certificate

8

Opinion of Counsel

8

Original Securities

8

Outstanding

8

Paying Agent

9

Permitted Encumbrances

9

Permitted Receivables Financing

9

Person

9

Predecessor Security

9

Principal Property

10

Purchase Agreement

10

Redemption Date

10

Reference Treasury Dealer

10

Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations

10

Regular Record Date

10

Regulation S

10

Regulation S Certificate

10

Regulation S Global Security

10

Regulation S Legend

11

Regulation S Securities

11

Resale Restriction Termination Date

11

 

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Restricted Global Security

11

Restricted Period

11

Restricted Securities

11

Restricted Securities Certificate

11

Restricted Securities Legend

11

Restricted Subsidiary

11

Rule 144

11

Rule 144A

11

Rule 144A Securities

11

Sale and Leaseback Transaction

11

Securities

12

Securities Act

12

Securities Act Legend

12

Security Register

12

Security Registrar

12

Special Record Date

12

Stated Maturity

12

Subsidiary

12

Subsidiary Guarantee

12

Subsidiary Guarantor

12

Treasury Rate

12

Trust Indenture Act

13

Trustee

13

Unrestricted Securities Certificate

13

U.S. GAAP

13

U.S. Government Obligations

13

Vice President

13

Voting Stock

13

SECTION 102.

Compliance Certificates and Opinions

14

SECTION 103.

Form of Documents Delivered to Trustee

14

SECTION 104.

Acts of Holders; Record Dates

15

SECTION 105.

Notices, Etc., to Trustee, Company and Subsidiary Guarantors

16

SECTION 106.

Notice to Holders; Waiver

17

SECTION 107.

Effect of Headings and Table of Contents

17

SECTION 108.

Successors and Assigns

17

SECTION 109.

Separability Clause

17

SECTION 110.

Benefits of Indenture

17

SECTION 111.

Governing Law

18

SECTION 112.

Legal Holidays

18

SECTION 113.

Confidentiality

18

 

ARTICLE TWO

Security Forms

 

SECTION 201.

Forms Generally; Initial Forms of Rule 144A and Regulation S

18

 

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SECTION 202.

Form of Face of Security

19

SECTION 203.

Form of Reverse of Security

23

SECTION 204.

Form of Trustee’s Certificate of Authentication

26

 

ARTICLE THREE

The Securities

 

SECTION 301.

Title and Terms

27

SECTION 302.

Denominations

28

SECTION 303.

Execution, Authentication, Delivery and Dating

28

SECTION 304.

Temporary Securities

28

SECTION 305.

Global Securities

29

SECTION 306.

Registration, Registration of Transfer and Exchange Generally; Certain Transfers and Exchanges; Securities Act Legends;

30

SECTION 307.

Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost and Stolen Securities

36

SECTION 308.

Payment of Interest; Interest Rights Preserved

37

SECTION 309.

Persons Deemed Owners

38

SECTION 310.

Cancellation

38

SECTION 311.

Computation of Interest

38

SECTION 312.

CUSIP Numbers

39

 

ARTICLE FOUR

Satisfaction and Discharge

 

SECTION 401.

Satisfaction and Discharge of Indenture

39

SECTION 402.

Application of Trust Money

40

 

ARTICLE FIVE

Remedies

 

SECTION 501.

Events of Default

40

SECTION 502.

Acceleration of Maturity; Rescission and Annulment

42

SECTION 503.

Collection of Indebtedness and Suits for Enforcement by Trustee

43

SECTION 504.

Trustee May File Proofs of Claim

43

SECTION 505.

Trustee May Enforce Claims Without Possession of Securities

44

SECTION 506.

Application of Money Collected

44

SECTION 507.

Limitation on Suits

44

SECTION 508.

Unconditional Right of Holders to Receive Principal, Premium and Interest

45

SECTION 509.

Restoration of Rights and Remedies

45

SECTION 510.

Rights and Remedies Cumulative

45

SECTION 511.

Delay or Omission Not Waiver

45

SECTION 512.

Control by Holders

46

SECTION 513.

Waiver of Past Defaults

46

 

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SECTION 514.

Undertaking for Costs

46

SECTION 515.

Waiver of Stay or Extension Laws

46

 

ARTICLE SIX

The Trustee

 

SECTION 601.

Certain Duties and Responsibilities

47

SECTION 602.

Notice of Defaults

47

SECTION 603.

Certain Rights of Trustee

47

SECTION 604.

Not Responsible for Recitals or Issuance of Securities

48

SECTION 605.

May Hold Securities

49

SECTION 606.

Money Held in Trust

49

SECTION 607.

Compensation and Reimbursement

49

SECTION 608.

Disqualification; Conflicting Interests

50

SECTION 609.

Corporate Trustee Required; Eligibility

50

SECTION 610.

Resignation and Removal; Appointment of Successor

50

SECTION 611.

Acceptance of Appointment by Successor

51

SECTION 612.

Merger, Conversion, Consolidation or Succession to Business

52

SECTION 613.

Preferential Collection of Claims Against Company

52

SECTION 614.

Appointment of Authenticating Agent

52

 

ARTICLE SEVEN

Holders’ Lists and Reports by Trustee and Company

 

SECTION 701.

Company to Furnish Trustee Names and Addresses of Holders

53

SECTION 702.

Preservation of Information; Communications to Holders

54

SECTION 703.

[Reserved]

54

SECTION 704.

Reports by Company and Restricted Subsidiaries

54

 

ARTICLE EIGHT

Merger, Consolidation, Etc.

 

SECTION 801.

Mergers, Consolidations and Certain Transfers, Leases and Acquisitions of Assets

56

SECTION 802.

Successor Substituted

56

 

ARTICLE NINE

Supplemental Indentures

 

SECTION 901.

Supplemental Indentures Without Consent of Holders

57

SECTION 902.

Supplemental Indentures with Consent of Holders

57

SECTION 903.

Execution of Supplemental Indentures

58

SECTION 904.

Effect of Supplemental Indentures

58

SECTION 905.

Reference in Securities to Supplemental Indentures

58

 

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ARTICLE TEN

Covenants

 

SECTION 1001.

Payment of Principal, Premium and Interest

59

SECTION 1002.

Maintenance of Office or Agency

59

SECTION 1003.

Money for Security Payments to Be Held in Trust

59

SECTION 1004.

Statement by Officers as to Default

60

SECTION 1005.

Existence

61

SECTION 1006.

Maintenance of Properties

61

SECTION 1007.

Payment of Taxes and Other Claims

61

SECTION 1008.

Maintenance of Insurance

61

SECTION 1009.

Limitation on Liens

61

SECTION 1010.

Limitations on Sale and Leaseback Transactions

63

SECTION 1011.

Waiver of Certain Covenants

63

SECTION 1012.

Repurchase of Securities upon a Change of Control

64

 

ARTICLE ELEVEN

Redemption of Securities

 

SECTION 1101.

Right of Redemption

66

SECTION 1102.

Applicability of Article

67

SECTION 1103.

Election to Redeem; Notice to Trustee

67

SECTION 1104.

Selection by Trustee of Securities to Be Redeemed

67

SECTION 1105.

Notice of Redemption

67

SECTION 1106.

Deposit of Redemption Price

68

SECTION 1107.

Securities Payable on Redemption Date

68

SECTION 1108.

Securities Redeemed in Part

68

 

ARTICLE TWELVE

 

Defeasance and Covenant Defeasance

 

SECTION 1201.

Company’s Option to Effect Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance

69

SECTION 1202.

Defeasance and Discharge

69

SECTION 1203.

Covenant Defeasance

69

SECTION 1204.

Conditions to Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance

70

SECTION 1205.

Deposited Money and U.S. Government Obligations to be Held in Trust; Other Miscellaneous Provisions

71

SECTION 1206.

Reinstatement

72

 

ARTICLE THIRTEEN

 

Subsidiary Guarantee

 

SECTION 1301.

[Reserved]

72

 

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SECTION 1302.

Subsidiary Guarantors

72

SECTION 1303.

Subsidiary Guarantors May Consolidate, Etc., on Certain Terms

72

SECTION 1304.

Release of Subsidiary Guarantors

72

 

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TESTIMONIUM

66

 

 

SIGNATURES AND SEALS

66

 

 

ANNEXES

 

 

 

ANNEX A Form of Regulation S Certificate

 

ANNEX B Form of Restricted Securities Certificate

 

ANNEX C Form of Unrestricted Securities Certificate

 

ANNEX D Form of Subsidiary Guarantee

 

ANNEX E Form of Form of Free Transferability Certificate

 

 

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INDENTURE, dated as of June 18, 2009, among SEALED AIR CORPORATION, a corporation duly organized and existing under the laws of the State of Delaware (herein called the “Company”), having its principal office at 200 Riverfront Boulevard, Elmwood Park, New Jersey 07407-1033 and U.S. Bank National Association a national banking association duly organized and existing under the laws of the United States of America, as trustee (herein called the “Trustee”).

 

RECITALS

 

The Company has duly authorized the creation of an issue of its 7 7 / 8 % Senior Notes due 2017 (herein called the “Securities”) of substantially the tenor hereinafter set forth, and to provide therefor the Company has duly authorized the execution and delivery of this Indenture.

 

All things necessary (i) to make the Securities, when executed by the Company and authenticated and delivered hereunder and duly issued by the Company, the valid obligations of the Company, and (ii) to make this Indenture a valid agreement of the Company, all in accordance with their respective terms, have been done.

 

NOW, THEREFORE, THIS INDENTURE WITNESSETH:

 

For and in consideration of the premises and the purchase of the Securities by the Holders thereof, it is mutually agreed, for the equal and proportionate benefit of all Holders of the Securities, as follows:

 

ARTICLE ONE

 

Definitions and Other Provisions
of General Application

 

SECTION 101.               Definitions . For all purposes of this Indenture, except as otherwise expressly provided or unless the context otherwise requires:

 

(1)    the terms defined in this Article have the meanings assigned to them in this Article and include the plural as well as the singular;
 
(2)    all other terms used herein which are defined in the Trust Indenture Act, either directly or by reference therein, have the meanings assigned to them therein;
 
(3)    all accounting terms not otherwise defined herein have the meanings assigned to them in accordance with U.S. GAAP, and, except as otherwise herein expressly provided, the term “U.S. GAAP” with respect to any computation required or permitted hereunder shall mean U.S. GAAP as are generally accepted at the date of such computation;

 

(4)    all references in this Indenture, the Securities and any Subsidiary Guarantee to principal in respect of any Security shall be deemed to mean and include any redemption price payable in respect of such Security pursuant to any redemption hereunder (and all

 

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such references to the Stated Maturity of the principal in respect of any Security shall be deemed to mean and include the Redemption Date with respect to any such Redemption Price, and express mention of the payment of any redemption price in any provision hereof or thereof shall not be construed as excluding reference to any redemption price in those provisions hereof or thereof where such express reference is not made);
 
(5)    unless the context otherwise requires, any reference to “Article”, “Section” or “Annex” refers to an Article or Section of or Annex to this Indenture; and
 
(6)    the words “herein”, “hereof” and “hereunder” and other words of similar import refer to this Indenture as a whole and not to any particular Article, Section or other subdivision.
 

“Accounts Receivable” means, with respect to any Person, all rights of such Person to the payment of money arising out of any sale, lease or other disposition of goods or provision of services by such Person.

 

“Act”, when used with respect to any Holder, has the meaning specified in Section 104.

 

“Additional Securities” has the meaning specified in Section 301.

 

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

 

“Agent Member” means any member of, or participant in, the Depositary.

 

“Applicable Procedures” means, with respect to any transfer or transaction involving a Global Security or beneficial interest therein, the rules and procedures of the Depositary for such Security, Euroclear and Clearstream, in each case to the extent applicable to such transaction and as in effect from time to time.

 

“Authenticating Agent” means any Person authorized by the Trustee pursuant to Section 614 to act on behalf of the Trustee to authenticate Securities.

 

“Beneficial Owner” has the meaning assigned to such term in Rule 13d-3 and Rule 13d-5 under the Exchange Act, except that in calculating the beneficial ownership of any particular “person” (as that term is used in Section 13(d)(3) of the Exchange Act), such “person” will be deemed to have beneficial ownership of all securities that such “person” has the right to acquire by conversion or exercise of other securities, whether such right is currently exercisable or is exercisable only upon the occurrence of a subsequent condition. The terms “Beneficially Owns” and “Beneficially Owned” will have a corresponding meaning.

 

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“Board of Directors” means, (i) with respect to the Company, the board of directors of the Company or, except in the context of the definitions of “Change of Control” and “Continuing Directors,” a duly authorized committee thereof; (ii) with respect to a partnership, the Board of Directors of the general partner of the partnership; and (iii) with respect to any other person, the board or committee of such person serving a similar function.

 

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

 

“Business Day” means each Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday which is not a day on which banking institutions in The City of New York are authorized or obligated by law or executive order to close.

 

“Capital Lease” means at any date any lease of property which, in accordance with U.S. GAAP, would be required to be capitalized on the balance sheet of the lessee.

 

“Capital Stock” means:

 

(i)             in the case of a corporation, corporate stock;

 

(ii)            in the case of an association or business entity, any and all shares, interests, participations, rights or other equivalents (however designated) of corporate stock;

 

(iii)           in the case of a partnership or limited liability company, partnership or membership interests (whether general or limited); and

 

(iv)           any other interest or participation that confers on a person the right to receive a share of the profits and losses of, or distributions of assets of, the issuing person.

 

“Change of Control” means the occurrence of any of the following:

 

(i)             the direct or indirect sale, transfer, conveyance or other disposition (other than by way of merger or consolidation), in one or a series of related transactions, of all or substantially all of the properties or assets of the Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, to any “person” (as that term is used in Section 13(d)(3) of the Exchange Act), other than to a Restricted Subsidiary or a person that becomes a Restricted Subsidiary of the Company as a result of a sale, transfer, conveyance or other disposition as it relates to such transaction;

 

(ii)            the adoption of a plan relating to the liquidation or dissolution of the Company;

 

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(iii)           any “person” or “group” (as such terms are used in Sections 13(d) and 14(d) of the Exchange Act) becomes the Beneficial Owner, directly or indirectly, of 50% or more of the voting power of the Voting Stock of the Company;

 

(iv)           the first day on which a majority of the members of the Board of Directors of the Company are not Continuing Directors; or

 

(v)            the Company consolidates with, or merges with or into, any person, or any person consolidates with, or merges with or into the Company, in any such event pursuant to a transaction in which any of the outstanding Voting Stock of the Company or such other person is converted into or exchanged for cash, securities or other property, other than any such transaction where (A) the Voting Stock of the Company outstanding immediately prior to such transaction is converted into or exchanged for Voting Stock (other than Disqualified Stock) of the surviving or transferee person constituting a majority of the outstanding shares of such Voting Stock of such surviving or transferee person (immediately after giving effect to such issuance) and (B) immediately after such transaction, no “person” or “group” (as such terms are used in Section 13(d) and 14(d) of the Exchange Act) becomes, directly or indirectly, the Beneficial Owner of 50% or more of the voting power of the Voting Stock of the surviving or transferee person.

 

“Change of Control Offer” has the meaning specified in Section 1012.

 

“Change of Control Payment” has the meaning specified in Section 1012.

 

“Change of Control Payment Date” has the meaning specified in Section 1012.

 

“Clearstream” means Clearstream Banking, société anonyme, Luxembourg (or any successor securities clearing agency).

 

“Commission” means the Securities and Exchange Commission, as from time to time constituted, created under the Exchange Act, or, if at any time after the execution of this instrument such Commission is not existing and performing the duties now assigned to it under the Trust Indenture Act, then the body performing such duties at such time.

 

“Company” means the Person named as the “Company” in the first paragraph of this instrument until a successor Person shall have become such pursuant to the applicable provisions of this Indenture, and thereafter “Company” shall mean such successor Person.

 

“Company Order” or “Company Request” means a written request or order signed in the name of the Company by its Chairman of the Board of Directors, its Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors, its Chief Executive Officer, its President, its Chief Financial Officer, or a Vice President, and by its Treasurer, an Assistant Treasurer, its Secretary or an Assistant Secretary, and delivered to the Trustee.

 

“Comparable Treasury Issue” means the United States Treasury security selected by the Independent Investment Banker as having a maturity comparable to the remaining term of the Securities to be redeemed that would be utilized, at the time of selection and in accordance

 

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with customary financial practice, in pricing new issues of corporate debt securities of comparable maturity to the remaining term of such Securities.

 

“Comparable Treasury Price” means, with respect to any Redemption Date for the Securities, (i) the average of the Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations for such Redemption Date, after excluding the highest and lowest such Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations, or (ii) if the Trustee obtains fewer than four such Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations, the average of all such quotations.

 

“Consolidated Assets” means, at any date, the total consolidated assets of the Company and its Subsidiaries, all as set forth on the most recent publicly issued balance sheet of the Company and its Subsidiaries and computed in accordance with U.S. GAAP.

 

“Consolidated Net Tangible Assets” means, at any date, Consolidated Assets after deducting therefrom, without duplication, (i) applicable reserves and other properly deductible items, (ii) all current liabilities and (iii) all goodwill, trade names, trademarks, patents, unamortized debt discount and expense and other like intangibles, all as set forth on the most recent publicly issued balance sheet of the Company and its Subsidiaries and computed in accordance with U.S. GAAP.

 

“Continuing Directors” means, as of any date of determination, any member of the Board of Directors of the Company who: (i) was a member of such Board of Directors on the issue date; or (ii) was nominated for election or elected to such Board of Directors with the approval of a majority of the Continuing Directors who were members of such Board of Directors at the time of such nomination or election.

 

“Corporate Trust Office” means the principal office of the Trustee in Atlanta, Georgia, at which its corporate trust business shall be administered at all times, which at the date hereof is 1349 West Peachtree Street, Suite 1050, Atlanta, Georgia 30309, Attention: Corporate Trust Services, and for purpose of maintaining a corporate trust office in the Borough of Manhattan, the City of New York pursuant to Sections 609 and 1002 hereunder, means the office of the Trustee located at 100 Wall Street, 16th Floor, New York, NY 10005, Attention: US Bank Corporate Trust Services.

 

“Corporation” means a corporation, association, company, joint-stock company or business trust.

 

“Credit Agreements” means the Credit Agreement, dated as of July 26, 2005, among the Company, certain of the Company’s subsidiaries, banks and financial institutions party thereto, and Citicorp USA, Inc., as agent for the lenders, as amended, as such Credit Agreement may be amended, supplemented, extended, renewed, restated, replaced, refinanced or modified from time to time (whether or not there is ever a period when there is no Credit Agreement then in effect), including, without limitation, by adding additional parties to or increasing the commitments under such Credit Agreement.

 

“Defaulted Interest” has the meaning specified in Section 308.

 

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“Depositary” means, with respect to any Securities, a clearing agency that is registered as such under the Exchange Act and is designated by the Company to act as Depositary for such Securities (or any successor securities clearing agency so registered).

 

“Disqualified Stock” means any Capital Stock that, by its terms (or by the terms of any security into which it is convertible, or for which it is exchangeable, in each case at the option of the holder thereof), or upon the happening of any event, matures or is mandatorily redeemable, pursuant to a sinking fund obligation or otherwise, or redeemable at the option of the holder thereof, in whole or in part, on or prior to the date that is one year after the date on which the Securities mature. Notwithstanding the preceding sentence, any Capital Stock that would constitute Disqualified Stock solely because the holders thereof have the right to require the Company to repurchase such Capital Stock upon the occurrence of a change of control or an asset sale (having customary terms and provisions) will not constitute Disqualified Stock. The term “Disqualified Stock” will also include any options, warrants or other rights that are convertible into Disqualified Stock or that are redeemable at the option of the holder, or required to be redeemed, prior to the date that is one year after the date on which the Securities mature.

 

“Domestic Subsidiary” means each Subsidiary of the Company that is not a Foreign Subsidiary.

 

“DTC” means The Depository Trust Company, a New York corporation.

 

“Equity Offering” means any public or private placement of Capital Stock (other than Disqualified Stock) of the Company (other than pursuant to a registration statement on Form S-8 or otherwise relating to equity securities issuable under any employee benefit plan of the Company) to any person other than any Subsidiary thereof.

 

“Euroclear” means the Euroclear Clearance System (or any successor securities clearing agency).

 

“Event of Default” has the meaning specified in Section 501.

 

“Exchange Act” means the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (or any successor statute), as it may be amended from time to time.

 

“Expiration Date” has the meaning specified in Section 104.

 

“Foreign Subsidiary” means (i) each Subsidiary of the Company not incorporated under the laws of the United States or of any State thereof and (ii) any other Subsidiary of the Company substantially all of the operations of which remain outside the United States.

 

“Funded Debt” means all Indebtedness having a maturity of more than 12 months from the date as of which the computation of Funded Debt is made or having a maturity of 12 months or less but by its terms being renewable or extendible beyond 12 months from such date at the option of the borrower.

 

“Global Security” means a Security that is registered in the Security Register in the name of a Depositary or a nominee thereof and bears the legend set forth in Section 202.

 

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“Holder” means a Person in whose name a Security is registered in the Security Register.

 

“Indebtedness” of any Person means, at any date, without duplication, (i) all obligations of such Person for borrowed money, (ii) all obligations of such Person evidenced by bonds, debentures, notes or other similar instruments, (iii) all obligations of such Person to pay the deferred purchase price of property or services (except trade accounts payable and accrued expenses arising in the ordinary course of business) to the extent such amounts would be, in accordance with U.S. GAAP, recorded as debt on a balance sheet of such Person, (iv) all obligations of such Person under Capital Leases, (v) all Indebtedness secured by a Lien on any asset of such Person, whether or not such Indebtedness is otherwise an obligation of such Person, (vi) all non-contingent obligations of such Person to reimburse any bank or other Person in respect of amounts paid under a letter of credit (other than letters of credit which secure obligations in respect of trade payables or other letters of credit not securing Indebtedness, unless such reimbursement obligation remains unsatisfied for more than three business days) and (vii) all guarantees or endorsements (other than endorsements for collection or deposit in the ordinary course of business) of such Person of Indebtedness of others.

 

“Indenture” means this instrument as originally executed or as it may from time to time be supplemented or amended by one or more indentures supplemental hereto entered into pursuant to the applicable provisions hereof, including, for all purposes of this instrument and any such supplemental indenture, the provisions of the Trust Indenture Act that are deemed to be a part of and govern this instrument and any such supplemental indenture, respectively.

 

“Independent Investment Banker” means one of the Reference Treasury Dealers appointed by the Company.

 

“Initial Purchasers” means Banc of America Securities LLC, Citigroup Global Markets Inc., Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC, Morgan Stanley & Co. Incorporated, RBS Securities Inc, BNP Paribas Securities Corp. and Calyon Securities (USA) Inc.

 

“Initial Regulation S Securities” means the Securities sold by the Initial Purchasers in the initial offering contemplated by the Purchase Agreement in reliance on Regulation S.

 

“Interest Payment Date” means the Stated Maturity of an installment of interest on the Securities.

 

“Issue Date” means the date on which the Securities are first authenticated and delivered under this Indenture.

 

“Lien” means any mortgage, pledge, hypothecation, encumbrance, lien (statutory or other) or other security agreement of any kind or nature whatsoever (including, without limitation, any conditional sale or other title retention agreement and any Capital Lease).

 

“Material Subsidiary” means any Subsidiary that, directly or indirectly through a Subsidiary, either (A) owns assets with a book value in excess of 5% of the book value of the Consolidated Assets of the Company and its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, measured as of the

 

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last day of the most recently completed fiscal quarter for which the Company has publicly issued financial statements or (B) generated annual revenues in excess of 5% of the revenues of the Company and its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, for the most recently completed four fiscal quarter period for which the Company has publicly issued financial statements.

 

“Maturity”, when used with respect to any Security, means the date on which the principal of such Security becomes due and payable as therein or herein provided, whether at the Stated Maturity or by declaration of acceleration, call for redemption or otherwise.

 

“Non-Global Security” means a certificated Security, registered in the name of the Holder thereof and issued in accordance with Section 306, substantially in the form of Security set forth in Sections 202 and 203, except that such Security shall not bear the legend in Section 202 to be inserted for a Global Security.

 

“Notice of Default” means a written notice of the kind specified in Section 501(4).

 

“Officers’ Certificate” of the Company or any Subsidiary Guarantor means a certificate signed by the Chairman of the Board of Directors, a Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors, the Chief Executive Officer, the President or a Vice President or the Chief Financial Officer, and by the Treasurer, an Assistant Treasurer, the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary of the Company or such Subsidiary Guarantor, as the case may be, and delivered to the Trustee.  One of the officers signing an Officers’ Certificate given pursuant to Section 1004 shall be the principal executive, financial or accounting officer of the Company or the chief operating officer of the Company.  Unless the context otherwise requires, each reference herein to an “Officers’ Certificate” means an Officers’ Certificate of the Company.  References herein, or in any Security or Subsidiary Guarantee, to any officer of a Subsidiary Guarantor or other Person that is a partnership means such officer of the partnership or, if none, of a general partner of the partnership authorized thereby to act on its behalf.

 

“Opinion of Counsel” means a written opinion of counsel, who may be counsel for the Company, and who shall be reasonably acceptable to the Trustee.

 

“Original Securities” has the meaning specified in Section 301.

 

“Outstanding”, when used with respect to Securities, means, as of the date of determination, all Securities theretofore authenticated and delivered under this Indenture, except :

 

(i)             Securities theretofore cancelled by the Trustee or delivered to the Trustee for cancellation;

 

(ii)            Securities for whose payment or redemption money in the necessary amount has been theretofore deposited with the Trustee or any Paying Agent (other than the Company or any Subsidiary Guarantor) in trust or set aside and segregated in trust by the Company or any Subsidiary Guarantor (if the Company or any Subsidiary Guarantor, as the case may be, shall act as a Paying Agent) for the Holders of such Securities; provided that, if such Securities are to be redeemed, notice of such redemption has been

 

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duly given pursuant to this Indenture or provision therefor satisfactory to the Trustee has been made;

 

(iii)           Securities which have been defeased pursuant to Section 1202 hereof; and

 

(iv)           Securities which have been paid pursuant to Section 307 or in exchange for or in lieu of which other Securities have been authenticated and delivered pursuant to this Indenture, other than any such Securities in respect of which there shall have been presented to the Trustee proof satisfactory to it that such Securities are held by a protected purchaser in whose hands such Securities are valid obligations of the Company;

 

provided , however , that in determining whether the Holders of the requisite principal amount of the Outstanding Securities have given any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent or waiver hereunder, Securities owned by the Company or any other obligor upon the Securities or any Affiliate of the Company or of such other obligor shall be disregarded and deemed not to be Outstanding, except that, in determining whether the Trustee shall be protected in relying upon any such request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent or waiver, only Securities which a responsible officer of the Trustee actually knows to be so owned shall be so disregarded.  Securities so owned which have been pledged in good faith may be regarded as Outstanding if the pledgee establishes to the satisfaction of the Trustee the pledgee’s right so to act with respect to such Securities and that the pledgee is not the Company or any other obligor upon the Securities or any Affiliate of the Company or of such other obligor.

 

“Paying Agent” means the Trustee or any other Person authorized by the Company to pay the principal of (and premium, if any) or interest on any Securities on behalf of the Company.

 

“Permitted Encumbrances” means, as of any particular time and with respect to any real property of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, (i) such easements, leases, subleases, encroachments, rights of way, minor defects, irregularities or encumbrances on title which are not unusual with respect to property similar in character to any such real property and which do not secure Indebtedness and do not materially impair such real property for the purpose for which it is held or materially interfere with the conduct of the business of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries and (ii) municipal and zoning ordinances which are not violated by the existing improvements and the present use made by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries of such real property.

 

“Permitted Receivables Financing” means a sale, pledge or any other transfer of Accounts Receivable as a method of financing.

 

“Person” means any individual, partnership, joint venture, firm, corporation, limited liability company, association, trust or other enterprise or any government or political subdivision or any agency, department or instrumentality thereof.

 

“Predecessor Security” of any particular Security means every Security issued before, and evidencing all or a portion of the same debt as that evidenced by, such particular Security; for the purposes of this definition, any Security authenticated and delivered under

 

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Section 307 in exchange for or in lieu of a mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Security shall be deemed to evidence the same debt as the mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Security.

 

“Principal Property” means any manufacturing plant located in the United States currently owned or subsequently acquired by the Company or any Subsidiary which has a gross book value which (including related land, improvements, machinery and equipment without deduction of any depreciation reserves) on the date as of which the determination is being made exceeds 1% of Consolidated Assets, other than properties or any portion of a particular property which the Company’s Board of Directors determines, in good faith, not to be of material importance to the business of the Company and its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, or, in the case of a portion of a particular property, to the use or operation of such property.

 

“Purchase Agreement” means the Purchase Agreement, dated as of June 12, 2009, between the Company and the Initial Purchasers, as such agreement may be amended from time to time.

 

“Redemption Date” means, with respect to any Securities to be redeemed, the date fixed for such redemption by or pursuant to this Indenture.

 

“Redemption Price” means, when used with respect to any Securities to be redeemed, the price at which such Security is to be redeemed pursuant to this Indenture.

 

“Reference Treasury Dealer” means each of Banc of America Securities LLC, Citigroup Global Markets Inc., Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC, Morgan Stanley & Co. Incorporated and RBS Securities Inc. and their respective successors (each, a “Primary Treasury Dealer”) appointed by the Company; provided , however , that if any of the foregoing shall cease to be a Primary Treasury Dealer, the Company shall substitute therefor another Primary Treasury Dealer.

 

“Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations” means, with respect to each Reference Treasury Dealer and any Redemption Date, the average, as determined by the Trustee, of the bid and asked prices for the Comparable Treasury Issue (expressed in each case as a percentage of its principal amount) quoted in writing to the Trustee by such Reference Treasury Dealer at 5:00 p.m. on the third Business Day preceding such Redemption Date.

 

“Regular Record Date” for the interest payable on any Interest Payment Date means the June 1 or the December 1 (whether or not a Business Day), as the case may be, next preceding such Interest Payment Date.

 

“Regulation S” means Regulation S under the Securities Act (or any successor provision), as it may be amended from time to time.

 

“Regulation S Certificate” means a certificate substantially in the form set forth in Annex A.

 

“Regulation S Global Security” has the meaning specified in Section 201.

 

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“Regulation S Legend” means a legend substantially in the form of the legend required in the form of Security set forth in Sections 202 and 204 to be placed upon a Regulation S Security.

 

“Regulation S Securities” means all Securities required pursuant to Section 306(c) to bear a Regulation S Legend.  Such term includes the Regulation S Global Security.

 

“Resale Restriction Termination Date”  has the meaning specified in Section 306(d)(i).

 

“Restricted Global Security” has the meaning specified in Section 201.

 

“Restricted Period” means the period of 41 consecutive days beginning on and including the later of (i) the day on which Securities are first offered to persons other than distributors (as defined in Regulation S) in reliance on Regulation S and (ii) the day on which the closing of the offering of Securities pursuant to the Purchase Agreement occurs.

 

“Restricted Securities” means all Securities required pursuant to Section 306(c) to bear a Restricted Securities Legend.  Such term includes the Restricted Global Security.

 

“Restricted Securities Certificate” means a certificate substantially in the form set forth in Annex B.

 

“Restricted Securities Legend” has the meaning specified in Section 202.

 

“Restricted Subsidiary” means any Subsidiary of the Company that is a Material Subsidiary and a Domestic Subsidiary.

 

“Rule 144” means Rule 144 under the Securities Act (or any successor provision), as it may be amended from time to time.

 

“Rule 144A” means Rule 144A under the Securities Act (or any successor provision), as it may be amended from time to time.

 

“Rule 144A Securities” means the Securities purchased by the Initial Purchasers from the Company pursuant to the Purchase Agreement, other than the Initial Regulation S Securities.

 

“Sale and Leaseback Transaction” means an arrangement with any lender or investor, or to which any lender or investor is a party, providing for the leasing by a Person of any Principal Property of such Person which has been or is being sold or transferred by such Person to such lender or investor or to any person to whom funds have been or are to be advanced by such lender or investor on the security of such Principal Property, other than such arrangements involving any Principal Property within 180 days after the purchase or completion of construction of such Principal Property.  The stated maturity of such arrangement shall be the date of the last payment of rent or any other amount due under such arrangement prior to the first date on which such arrangement may be terminated by the lessee without payment of a penalty.

 

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“Securities” has the meaning specified in the first paragraph of the recitals to this instrument, and includes both Original Securities and Additional Securities.

 

“Securities Act” means the Securities Act of 1933 (or any successor statute), as it may be amended from time to time.

 

“Securities Act Legend” means a Restricted Securities Legend or a Regulation S Legend.

 

“Security Register” and “Security Registrar” have the respective meanings specified in Section 306.

 

“Special Record Date” for the payment of any Defaulted Interest means a date fixed by the Trustee pursuant to Section 308.

 

“Stated Maturity”, when used with respect to any Security or any installment of interest thereon, means the date specified in such Security as the fixed date on which the principal of such Security or such installment of interest, as the case may be, is due and payable.

 

“Subsidiary” of any Person means (i) any corporation more than 50% of whose stock of any class or classes having by the terms of such stock ordinary voting power to elect a majority of the directors of such corporation (irrespective of whether or not at the time stock of any class or classes of such corporation shall have or might have voting power by reason of the happening of any contingency) is at the time owned by such Person and/or by one or more Subsidiaries of such Person or by such Person and one or more Subsidiaries of such Person and (ii) any partnership, association, limited liability company, joint venture or other entity in which such Person and/or one or more Subsidiaries of such Person or such Person and one or more Subsidiaries of such Person has more than a 50% equity interest at the time.

 

“Subsidiary Guarantee” means the unconditional guarantee by the Subsidiary Guarantor of the due and punctual payment of principal, premium, if any, and interest on the Securities, executed in the form established pursuant to Annex D hereof.

 

“Subsidiary Guarantor” means at any time each Subsidiary that has become a Subsidiary Guarantor pursuant to Section 1302 of this Indenture, in each case so long as it remains a Subsidiary Guarantor.

 

“Treasury Rate” means, with respect to any Redemption Date for the Securities, (i) the yield, under the heading which represents the average for the immediately preceding week, appearing in the most recently published statistical release designated “H.15(519)” or any successor publication which is published weekly by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and which establishes yields on actively traded United States Treasury securities adjusted to constant maturity under the caption “Treasury Constant Maturities”, for the maturity corresponding to the Comparable Treasury Issue (if no maturity is within three months before or after the maturity date for the Securities, yields for the two published maturities most closely corresponding to the Comparable Treasury Issue shall be determined and the Treasury Rate shall be interpolated or extrapolated from such yields on a straight line basis, rounding to the nearest month) or (ii) if such release (or any successor release) is not published during the week

 

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preceding the calculation date or does not contain such yields, the rate per annum equal to the semiannual equivalent yield to maturity of the Comparable Treasury Issue, calculated using a price for the Comparable Treasury Issue (expressed as a percentage of its principal amount) equal to the Comparable Treasury Price for such Redemption Date.  The Treasury Rate shall be calculated by the Independent Investment Banker on the third Business Day preceding the Redemption Date.

 

“Trust Indenture Act” means the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 as in force at the date as of which this instrument was executed; provided , however , that in the event the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 is amended after such date, “Trust Indenture Act” means, to the extent required by any such amendment, the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 as so amended.

 

“Trustee” means the Person named as the “Trustee” in the first paragraph of this instrument until a successor Trustee shall have become such pursuant to the applicable provisions of this Indenture, and thereafter “Trustee” shall mean such successor Trustee.

 

“Unrestricted Securities Certificate” means a certificate substantially in the form set forth in Annex C.

 

“U.S. GAAP” means generally accepted accounting principles in the United States of America.

 

“U.S. Government Obligations” means securities which are (i) direct obligations of the United States of America for the payment of which its full faith and credit is pledged or (ii) obligations of a Person controlled or supervised by and acting as an agency or instrumentality of the United States of America where the timely payment or payments thereunder are unconditionally guaranteed as a full faith and credit obligation by the United States of America and which, in the case of (i) or (ii), are not callable or redeemable except at the option of the holders thereof, and shall also include a depository receipt issued by a bank or trust company as custodian with respect to any such U.S. Government Obligation or specific payment of interest on or principal of other amount with respect to any such U.S. Government Obligation held by such custodian for the account of the holder of a depository receipt, provided that (except as required by law) such custodian is not authorized to make any deduction from the amount payable to the holder of such depository receipt from any amount received by the custodian in respect of the U.S. Government Obligation or the specific payment of interest on or principal of or other amount with respect to the U.S. Government Obligation evidenced by such depository receipt.

 

“Vice President”, when used with respect to the Company or the Trustee, means any vice president of such Person, whether or not designated by a number or a word or words added before or after the title “vice president”.

 

“Voting Stock” of any person as of any date means the Capital Stock of such person that is ordinarily entitled to vote in the election of the Board of Directors of such person.

 

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SECTION 102.               Compliance Certificates and Opinions .

 

Upon any application or request by the Company to the Trustee to take any action under any provision of this Indenture, the Company shall furnish to the Trustee such certificates and opinions as may be required under the Trust Indenture Act (as if such Act applied) or this Indenture.  Each such certificate or opinion shall be given in the form of an Officers’ Certificate, if to be given by an officer of the Company, or an Opinion of Counsel, if to be given by counsel, and shall comply with any requirement set forth in this Indenture.

 

Every certificate or opinion with respect to compliance with a condition or covenant provided for in this Indenture shall include

 

(1)    a statement that each individual signing such certificate or opinion has read such covenant or condition and the definitions herein relating thereto;
 
(2)    a brief statement as to the nature and scope of the examination or investigation upon which the statements or opinions contained in such certificate or opinion are based;
 
(3)    a statement that, in the opinion of each such individual, he has made such examination or investigation as is necessary to enable him to express an informed opinion as to whether or not such covenant or condition has been complied with; and
 
(4)    a statement as to whether, in the opinion of each such individual, such condition or covenant has been complied with.
 

SECTION 103.               Form of Documents Delivered to Trustee .

 

In any case where several matters are required to be certified by, or covered by an opinion of, any specified Person, it is not necessary that all such matters be certified by, or covered by the opinion of, only one such Person, or that they be so certified or covered by only one document, but one such Person may certify or give an opinion with respect to some matters and one or more other such Persons as to other matters, and any such Person may certify or give an opinion as to such matters in one or several documents.

 

Any certificate or opinion of an officer of the Company may be based, insofar as it relates to legal matters, upon a certificate or opinion of, or representations by, counsel, unless such officer knows, or in the exercise of reasonable care should know, that the certificate or opinion or representations with respect to the matters upon which his certificate or opinion is based are erroneous.  Any such certificate or opinion of counsel may be based, insofar as it relates to factual matters, upon a certificate or opinion of, or representations by, an officer or officers of the Company stating that the information with respect to such factual matters is in the possession of the Company, unless such counsel knows, or in the exercise of reasonable care should know, that the certificate or opinion or representations with respect to such matters are erroneous.

 

Where any Person is required to make, give or execute two or more applications, requests, consents, certificates, statements, opinions or other instruments under this Indenture, they may, but need not, be consolidated and form one instrument.

 

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SECTION 104.               Acts of Holders; Record Dates .

 

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 of substantially similar tenor signed by such Holders in person or by an agent of such Holders duly appointed in writing and, except as herein otherwise expressly provided, such action shall become effective when such instrument or instruments are delivered to the Trustee and, where 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 the Holders signing such instrument or instruments.  Proof of execution of any such instrument or of a writing appointing any such agent shall be sufficient for any purpose of this Indenture and (subject to Section 601) conclusive in favor of the Trustee and the Company, if made in the manner provided in this Section.

 

The fact and date of the execution by any Person of any such instrument or writing may be proved by the affidavit of a witness of such execution or by a certificate of a notary public or other officer authorized by law to take acknowledgments of deeds, certifying that the individual signing such instrument or writing acknowledged to him the execution thereof.  Where such execution is by a signer acting in a capacity other than his individual capacity, such certificate or affidavit shall also constitute sufficient proof of his authority.  The fact and date of the execution of any such instrument or writing, or the authority of the Person executing the same, may also be proved in any other manner which the Trustee deems sufficient.

 

The ownership of Securities shall be proved by the Security Register.

 

Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other Act of the Holder of any Security shall bind every future Holder of the same Security and the Holder of every Security issued upon the registration of transfer thereof or in exchange therefor or in lieu thereof in respect of anything done, omitted or suffered to be done by the Trustee or the Company in reliance thereon, whether or not notation of such action is made upon such Security.

 

The Company may set any day as a record date for the purpose of determining the Holders of Outstanding Securities entitled to give, make or take any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other action provided or permitted by this Indenture to be given, made or taken by Holders of Securities; provided that the Company may not set a record date for, and the provisions of this paragraph shall not apply with respect to, the giving or making of any notice, declaration, request or direction referred to in the next paragraph.  If any record date is set pursuant to this paragraph, the Holders of Outstanding Securities on such record date, and no other Holders, shall be entitled to take the relevant action, whether or not such Holders remain Holders after such record date; provided that no such action shall be effective hereunder unless taken on or prior to the applicable Expiration Date by Holders of the requisite principal amount of Outstanding Securities on such record date.  Nothing in this paragraph shall be construed to prevent the Company from setting a new record date for any action for which a record date has previously been set pursuant to this paragraph (whereupon the record date previously set shall automatically and with no action by any Person be cancelled and of no effect), and nothing in this paragraph shall be construed to render ineffective any action taken by Holders of the requisite principal amount of Outstanding Securities on the date such action is taken.  Promptly after any record date is set pursuant to this paragraph, the Company, at its own expense, shall cause notice of such record date, the proposed action by Holders and the

 

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applicable Expiration Date to be given to the Trustee in writing and to each Holder of Securities in the manner set forth in Section 106.

 

The Trustee may set any day as a record date for the purpose of determining the Holders of Outstanding Securities entitled to join in the giving or making of (i) any Notice of Default, (ii) any declaration of acceleration referred to in Section 502, (iii) any request to institute proceedings referred to in Section 507(2) or (iv) any direction referred to in Section 512.  If any record date is set pursuant to this paragraph, the Holders of Outstanding Securities on such record date, and no other Holders, shall be entitled to join in such notice, declaration, request or direction, whether or not such Holders remain Holders after such record date; provided that no such action shall be effective hereunder unless taken on or prior to the applicable Expiration Date by Holders of the requisite principal amount of Outstanding Securities on such record date.  Nothing in this paragraph shall be construed to prevent the Trustee from setting a new record date for any action for which a record date has previously been set pursuant to this paragraph (whereupon the record date previously set shall automatically and with no action by any Person be cancelled and of no effect), and nothing in this paragraph shall be construed to render ineffective any action taken by Holders of the requisite principal amount of Outstanding Securities on the date such action is taken.  Promptly after any record date is set pursuant to this paragraph, the Trustee, at the Company’s expense, shall cause notice of such record date, the proposed action by Holders and the applicable Expiration Date to be given to the Company in writing and to each Holder of Securities in the manner set forth in Section 106.

 

With respect to any record date set pursuant to this Section, the party hereto which sets such record date may designate any day as the “Expiration Date” and from time to time may change the Expiration Date to any earlier or later day; provided that no such change shall be effective unless notice of the proposed new Expiration Date is given to the other party hereto in writing, and to each Holder of Securities in the manner set forth in Section 106, on or prior to the existing Expiration Date.  If an Expiration Date is not designated with respect to any record date set pursuant to this Section, the party hereto which set such record date shall be deemed to have initially designated the 180th day after such record date as the Expiration Date with respect thereto, subject to its right to change the Expiration Date as provided in this paragraph.  Notwithstanding the foregoing, no Expiration Date shall be later than the 180th day after the applicable record date.

 

Without limiting the foregoing, a Holder entitled hereunder to take any action hereunder with regard to any particular Security may do so with regard to all or any part of the principal amount of such Security or by one or more duly appointed agents each of which may do so pursuant to such appointment with regard to all or any part of such principal amount.

 

SECTION 105.               Notices, Etc., to Trustee, Company and Subsidiary Guarantors . Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or Act of Holders or other document provided or permitted by this Indenture to be made upon, given or furnished to, or filed with,

 

(1)    the Trustee by any Holder or by the Company or any Subsidiary Guarantor shall be sufficient for every purpose hereunder if made, given, furnished or filed in writing to or with the Trustee at its Corporate Trust Office, Attention:  Corporate Trust Department, or at any other address previously furnished in writing to the Holders or the

 

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Company by the Trustee, or, with respect to notices by the Company or any Subsidiary Guarantor, transmitted by facsimile transmission (confirmed by guaranteed overnight courier) to the following facsimile numbers: (404) 898-2467 or to any other facsimile number previously furnished in writing to the Company by the Trustee, or
 
(2)    the Company or any Subsidiary Guarantor by the Trustee or by any Holder shall be sufficient for every purpose hereunder (unless otherwise herein expressly provided) if in writing and mailed, first-class postage prepaid, to it addressed to it at the address of the Company’s principal office specified in the first paragraph of this instrument, Attention:  General Counsel and Secretary, or at any other address previously furnished in writing to the Trustee by the Company or, with respect to notices by the Trustee, transmitted by facsimile transmission (confirmed by guaranteed overnight courier) to the following facsimile number: (201) 703-4231 or to any other facsimile number previously furnished in writing to the Trustee by the Company.
 

SECTION 106.               Notice to Holders; Waiver . Where this Indenture provides for notice to Holders of any event, such notice shall be sufficiently given (unless otherwise herein expressly provided) if in writing and mailed, first-class postage prepaid, to each Holder affected by such event, at his address as it appears in the Security Register, not later than the latest date (if any), and not earlier than the earliest date (if any), prescribed for the giving of such notice.  In any case where notice to Holders is given by mail, neither the failure to mail such notice, nor any defect in any notice so mailed, to any particular Holder shall affect the sufficiency of such notice with respect to other Holders.  Where this Indenture provides for notice in any manner, such notice may be waived in writing by the Person entitled to receive such notice, either before or after the event, and such waiver shall be the equivalent of such notice.  Waivers of notice by Holders shall be filed with the Trustee, but such filing shall not be a condition precedent to the validity of any action taken in reliance upon such waiver.

 

In case, by reason of the suspension of regular mail service or by reason of any other cause, it shall be impracticable to give such notice by mail, then such notification as shall be made with the approval of the Trustee shall constitute a sufficient notification for every purpose hereunder.

 

SECTION 107.               Effect of Headings and Table of Contents .  The Article and Section headings herein and the Table of Contents are for convenience only and shall not affect the construction hereof.

 

SECTION 108.               Successors and Assigns .  All covenants and agreements in this Indenture by the Company shall bind its successors and assigns, whether so expressed or not.

 

SECTION 109.               Separability Clause .  In case any provision in this Indenture or in the Securities or any Subsidiary Guarantee shall be invalid, illegal or unenforceable, the validity, legality and enforceability of the remaining provisions shall not in any way be affected or impaired thereby.

 

SECTION 110.               Benefits of Indenture .  Nothing in this Indenture or in the Securities or any Subsidiary Guarantee, express or implied, shall give to any Person, other than the parties hereto

 

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and their successors hereunder and the Holders of Securities, any benefit or any legal or equitable right, remedy or claim under this Indenture.

 

SECTION 111.               Governing Law THIS INDENTURE AND THE SECURITIES SHALL BE GOVERNED BY AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAW OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK.

 

SECTION 112.               Legal Holidays .  In any case where any Interest Payment Date, Redemption Date or Stated Maturity of any Security shall not be a Business Day, then (notwithstanding any other provision of this Indenture or of the Securities or any Subsidiary Guarantee) payment of interest or principal (and premium, if any) need not be made on such date, but may be made on the next succeeding Business Day with the same force and effect as if made on the Interest Payment Date, Redemption Date or at the Stated Maturity, provided that no interest shall accrue on the amount so payable for the period from and after such Interest Payment Date, Redemption Date or Stated Maturity, as the case may be, to such Business Day if such payment is made or duly provided for on such Business Day.

 

SECTION 113.               Confidentiality .

 

Notwithstanding anything to the contrary set forth herein or in any other written or oral understanding or agreement among the parties, the parties (and each employee, representative, or other agent of the parties) may disclose to any and all persons, without limitation of any kind, the tax treatment and any facts that may be relevant to the tax structure of the transactions (and any related transactions or arrangement) contemplated hereby, provided, however, that no party (and no employee, representative, or other agent thereof) shall disclose any other information that is not relevant to understanding the tax treatment and tax structure of the transactions contemplated hereby (including the identity of any party and any information that could lead another to determine the identity of any party), or any other information to the extent that such disclosure could reasonably result in a violation of any federal or state securities law.

 

ARTICLE TWO

Security Forms

 

SECTION 201.               Forms Generally; Initial Forms of Rule 144A and Regulation S .  The Securities and the Trustee’s certificates of authentication shall be in substantially the forms set forth in this Article, with such appropriate insertions, omissions, substitutions and other variations as are required or permitted by this Indenture, and may have such letters, numbers or other marks of identification and such legends or endorsements placed thereon as may be required to comply with the rules of any securities exchange or as may, consistently herewith, be determined by the officers executing such Securities, as evidenced by their execution thereof.

 

Any Subsidiary Guarantees shall be in substantially the form set forth in Annex D hereto.

 

The definitive Securities shall be typed, printed, lithographed or engraved or produced by any combination of these methods or may be produced in any other manner

 

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permitted by the rules of any securities exchange on which the Securities may be listed and (with respect to Global Securities) the rules of the Depositary, all as determined by the officers executing such Securities as evidenced by their execution thereof.

 

Upon their original issuance, Rule 144A Securities shall be issued in the form of one or more Global Securities registered in the name of DTC, as Depositary, or its nominee and deposited with the Trustee, as custodian for DTC, for credit by DTC to the respective accounts of beneficial owners of the Securities represented thereby (or such other accounts as they may direct).  Such Global Securities, together with their successor securities which are Global Securities other than the Regulation S Global Security, are collectively herein called the “Restricted Global Security”.

 

Upon their original issuance, Initial Regulation S Securities shall be issued in the form of one or more Global Securities registered in the name of DTC, as Depositary, or its nominee and deposited with the Trustee, as custodian for DTC, for credit by DTC to the respective accounts of beneficial owners of the Securities represented thereby (or such other accounts as they may direct); provided that upon such deposit all such Securities shall be credited to or through accounts maintained at DTC by or on behalf of Euroclear or Clearstream.  Such Global Securities, together with their successor securities which are Global Securities other than the Restricted Global Security, are collectively herein called the “Regulation S Global Security”.

 

SECTION 202.               Form of Face of Security .

 

Except as permitted by this Indenture, each Global Security and each Non-Global Security (and all Securities issued in exchange therefor or substitution thereof) shall bear the legend (the “Restricted Securities Legend”) in substantially the following form:

 

“THE NOTES HAVE NOT BEEN REGISTERED UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED (THE ‘‘SECURITIES ACT’’), OR ANY STATE SECURITIES LAWS. NEITHER THIS NOTE NOR ANY INTEREST OR PARTICIPATION HEREIN MAY BE REOFFERED, SOLD, ASSIGNED, TRANSFERRED, PLEDGED, ENCUMBERED OR OTHERWISE DISPOSED OF IN THE ABSENCE OF SUCH REGISTRATION OR UNLESS SUCH TRANSACTION IS EXEMPT FROM, OR NOT SUBJECT TO, REGISTRATION AS SET FORTH BELOW. BY ITS ACQUISITION HEREOF, THE HOLDER (1) REPRESENTS THAT (A) IT IS A “QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER” (AS DEFINED IN RULE 144A UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT (‘‘RULE 144A’’)), OR (B) IT IS NOT A U.S. PERSON AND IS ACQUIRING THIS NOTE IN AN OFFSHORE TRANSACTION, (2) AGREES TO OFFER, SELL, PLEDGE OR OTHERWISE TRANSFER SUCH NOTE PRIOR TO THE DATE WHICH IS ONE YEAR AFTER THE DATE OF ORIGINAL ISSUE HEREOF ONLY (A) TO THE COMPANY, (B) PURSUANT TO A REGISTRATION STATEMENT WHICH HAS BEEN DECLARED EFFECTIVE UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT, (C) FOR SO LONG AS THE NOTES ARE ELIGIBLE FOR RESALE PURSUANT TO RULE 144A TO A PERSON IT REASONABLY BELIEVES IS A QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER THAT PURCHASES FOR ITS OWN ACCOUNT OR FOR THE ACCOUNT OF A QUALIFIED

 

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INSTITUTIONAL BUYER TO WHOM NOTICE IS GIVEN THAT THE TRANSFER IS BEING MADE IN RELIANCE ON RULE 144A, (D) OUTSIDE THE UNITED STATES PURSUANT TO OFFERS AND SALES TO NON-U.S. PERSONS IN AN OFFSHORE TRANSACTION PURSUANT TO REGULATION S UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT IN A TRANSACTION MEETING THE REQUIREMENTS OF RULE 904 UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OR (E) PURSUANT TO ANOTHER AVAILABLE EXEMPTION FROM THE REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS OF THE SECURITIES ACT, SUBJECT TO THE COMPANY’S AND THE TRUSTEE’S RIGHT PRIOR TO ANY SUCH OFFER, SALE OR TRANSFER PURSUANT TO CLAUSE (E) TO REQUIRE THE DELIVERY OF AN OPINION OF COUNSEL, CERTIFICATION AND/OR OTHER INFORMATION SATISFACTORY TO EACH OF THEM.  IN THE CASE OF A GLOBAL NOTE,  THE BENEFICIAL INTEREST IN THIS GLOBAL NOTE CANNOT BE TRANSFERRED TO OR HELD BY AN AFFILIATE OF THE COMPANY.”

 

If the Security is a Regulation S Security, then insert —

 

“THIS NOTE (OR ITS PREDECESSOR) WAS ORIGINALLY ISSUED IN A TRANSACTION ORIGINALLY EXEMPT FROM REGISTRATION UNDER THE U.S. SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED (THE “SECURITIES ACT”), AND MAY NOT BE TRANSFERRED IN THE UNITED STATES OR TO, OR FOR THE ACCOUNT OR BENEFIT OF, ANY U.S. PERSON EXCEPT PURSUANT TO AN AVAILABLE EXEMPTION FROM THE REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS OF THE SECURITIES ACT AND ALL APPLICABLE STATE SECURITIES LAWS. TERMS USED ABOVE HAVE THE MEANINGS GIVEN TO THEM IN REGULATION S UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT.”

 

If the Security is a Global Security, then insert —

 

“UNLESS THIS NOTE IS PRESENTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF THE DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY TO THE COMPANY OR ITS AGENT FOR REGISTRATION OF TRANSFER, EXCHANGE OR PAYMENT, AND ANY NOTE ISSUED IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF CEDE & CO. OR TO SUCH OTHER ENTITY AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF THE DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY OR SUCH OTHER REPRESENTATIVE OF THE DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY OR SUCH OTHER NAME AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF THE DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY (AND ANY PAYMENT HEREON IS MADE TO CEDE & CO. OR TO SUCH OTHER ENTITY AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF THE DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY), ANY TRANSFER, PLEDGE OR OTHER USE HEREOF FOR VALUE OR OTHERWISE BY OR TO ANY PERSON IS WRONGFUL SINCE

 

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THE REGISTERED OWNER HEREOF, CEDE & CO., HAS AN INTEREST HEREIN.

 

TRANSFERS OF THIS GLOBAL NOTE SHALL BE LIMITED TO TRANSFERS IN WHOLE, BUT NOT IN PART, TO NOMINEES OF CEDE & CO. OR TO A SUCCESSOR THEREOF OR SUCH SUCCESSOR’S NOMINEE AND TRANSFERS OF PORTIONS OF THIS GLOBAL NOTE SHALL BE LIMITED TO TRANSFERS MADE IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE RESTRICTIONS SET FORTH IN SECTION 306 OF THE INDENTURE.”

 

Each Security issued hereunder that has more than a de minimis amount of original issue discount for U.S. Federal Income Tax purposes shall bear a legend in substantially the following form:

 

“THIS NOTE IS ISSUED WITH ORIGINAL ISSUE DISCOUNT FOR PURPOSES OF SECTION 1271 ET SEQ. OF THE INTERNAL REVENUE CODE.  A HOLDER MAY OBTAIN THE ISSUE PRICE, AMOUNT OF ORIGINAL ISSUE DISCOUNT, ISSUE DATE AND YIELD TO MATURITY FOR SUCH NOTES BY SUBMITTING A WRITTEN REQUEST FOR SUCH INFORMATION TO THE COMPANY AT THE FOLLOWING ADDRESS: SEALED AIR CORPORATION, 200 RIVERFRONT BOULEVARD, ELMWOOD PARK, NEW JERSEY 07407-1033  ATTENTION: GENERAL COUNSEL.”

 

SEALED AIR CORPORATION
7
7 / 8 % SENIOR NOTES DUE 2017

 

[If Restricted Global Security - CUSIP Number: 81211K AN0

[If Regulation S Global Security - CUSIP Number: U81193 AF8

 

No.                     

$                        

 

SEALED AIR CORPORATION, a corporation duly organized and existing under the laws of Delaware (herein called the “Company”, which term includes any successor Person under the Indenture hereinafter referred to), for value received, hereby promises to pay to                                     , or registered assigns, the principal sum of                              Dollars [if the Security is a Global Security, then insert — (which principal amount may from time to time be increased or decreased to such other principal amounts (which, when taken together with the principal amounts of all other Outstanding Securities, may be unlimited) by adjustments made on the records of the Trustee hereinafter referred to in accordance with the Indenture) ] on June 15, 2017 and to pay interest thereon from June 18, 2009 or from the most recent Interest Payment Date to which interest has been paid or duly provided for, semiannually on June 15 and December 15, in each year, commencing December 15, 2009, at the rate of 7 7 / 8 % per annum, until the principal hereof is paid or made available for payment, provided that any amount of interest on this Security which is overdue shall bear interest (to the extent that payment thereof shall be legally enforceable) at the rate per annum then borne by this Security from the date such

 

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amount is due to the day it is paid or made available for payment, and such overdue interest shall be payable on demand.

 

The interest so payable, and punctually paid or duly provided for, on any Interest Payment Date will, as provided in such Indenture, be paid to the Person in whose name this Security (or one or more Predecessor Securities) is registered at the close of business on the Regular Record Date for such interest, which shall be the June 1 or December 1 (whether or not a Business Day), as the case may be, next preceding such Interest Payment Date.  Any such interest not so punctually paid or duly provided for will forthwith cease to be payable to the Holder on the relevant Regular Record Date and may either be paid to the Person in whose name this Security (or one or more Predecessor Securities) is registered at the close of business on a Special Record Date for the payment of such Defaulted Interest to be fixed by the Trustee, notice whereof shall be given to Holders of Securities not less than 10 days prior to such Special Record Date, or be paid at any time in any other lawful manner not inconsistent with the requirements of any securities exchange on which the Securities may be listed, and upon such notice as may be required by such exchange, all as more fully provided in said Indenture.  Interest on this Security shall be computed on the basis set forth in the Indenture.

 

Payment of the principal of (and premium, if any) and interest on this Security will be made at the office or agency of the Company in the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York, New York, maintained for such purpose and at any other office or agency maintained by the Company for such purpose, in such coin or currency of the United States of America as at the time of payment is legal tender for payment of public and private debts; provided , however , that at the option of the Company payment of interest may be made by check mailed to the address of the Person entitled thereto as such address shall appear in the Security Register.

 

Reference is hereby made to the further provisions of this Security set forth on the reverse hereof, which further provisions shall for all purposes have the same effect as if set forth at this place.

 

Unless the certificate of authentication hereon has been executed by the Trustee referred to on the reverse hereof by manual signature, this Security shall not be entitled to any benefit under the Indenture or be valid or obligatory for any purpose.

 

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Company has caused this instrument to be duly executed under its corporate seal.

 

Dated:

 

 

[SEAL]

SEALED AIR CORPORATION

 

 

 

 

 

By

 

 

 

Attest:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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SECTION 203.                     Form of Reverse of Security .

 

This Security is one of a duly authorized issue of Securities of the Company designated as its 7 7 / 8 % Senior Notes Due 2017 (herein called the “Securities”) issued under an Indenture, dated as of June 18, 2009 (herein called the “Indenture”, which term shall have the meaning assigned to it in such instrument), between the Company and the Trustee, as Trustee (herein called the “Trustee”, which term includes any successor trustee under the Indenture).  The aggregate principal amount of the Securities is unlimited.  Reference is hereby made to the Indenture and all indentures supplemental thereto for a statement of the respective rights, limitations of rights, duties and immunities thereunder of the Company, the Trustee and the Holders of the Securities and of the terms upon which the Securities are, and are to be, authenticated and delivered.

 

The Securities are subject to redemption at the election of the Company in whole or in part, at any time and from time to time prior to June 15, 2013, upon not less than 30 days’ nor more than 60 days’ notice by first-class mail, at a Redemption Price equal to the greater of (i) 101% of the principal amount of such Securities and (ii) the sum of the present values of the remaining scheduled payments of principal and interest on such Securities from the Redemption Date to the applicable maturity date discounted, in either case, to the Redemption Date on a semiannual basis (assuming a 360-day year consisting of twelve 30-day months) at the Treasury Rate (as such term is defined in the Indenture) plus 50 basis points, plus, in either (i) or (ii), any interest accrued but not paid to the date of redemption.  For the avoidance of doubt, any calculation of the remaining scheduled payments of principal and interest pursuant to clause (ii) of the preceding sentence shall not include interest accrued as of the applicable Redemption Date.

 

In addition, at any time prior to June 15, 2012, the Company may redeem up to 35% of the principal amount of the Securities originally issued (including any Additional Securities originally issued after the Closing Date) with the net cash proceeds of one or more sales of the Company’s Capital Stock (other than Disqualified Stock) at a Redemption Price (expressed as a percentage of principal amount) of 107.875%, plus accrued and unpaid interest to the Redemption Date (subject to the right of Holders of record on the relevant Regular Record Date that is on or prior to the Redemption Date to receive interest due on an Interest Payment Date); provided that at least 65% of the aggregate principal amount of Securities originally issued (including any Additional Securities originally issued after the Closing Date) remains outstanding after each such redemption and notice of any such redemption is mailed within 60 days of each such sale of Capital Stock.

 

The Securities may be redeemed at the election of the Company, in whole or in part, at any time and from time to time on or after June 15, 2013 and prior to maturity, upon not less than 30 nor more than 60 days’ prior notice mailed by first-class mail to each Holder’s last address as it appears in the Security Register, at the following Redemption Prices (expressed in percentages of their principal amount), plus accrued and unpaid interest, if any, to the Redemption Date (subject to the right of Holders of record on the relevant Regular Record Date

 

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that is on or prior to the Redemption Date to receive interest due on an Interest Payment Date) if redeemed during the 12-month period commencing on June 15 of the years set forth below:

 

Year

 

Redemption Price

 

2013

 

103.938

%

2014

 

101.969

%

2015 and thereafter

 

100.000

%

 

In the event of redemption of this Security in part only, a new Security or Securities for the unredeemed  portion hereof will be issued in the name of the Holder hereof upon the cancellation hereof.

 

If a Change of Control occurs, each Holder of the Securities shall have the right to require the Company to repurchase all or any part (equal to $1,000 or an integral multiple of $1,000 in excess thereof) of that Holder’s Securities pursuant to an offer described below (a “Change of Control Offer”) at a price in cash (a “Change of Control Payment”) equal to not less than 101.000% of the aggregate principal amount thereof plus accrued and unpaid interest, if any, thereon, to the date of repurchase, subject to the right of the Holders of the Securities of record on the relevant Record Date to receive interest due on the relevant Interest Payment Date (the “Change of Control Payment Date,” which date will be no earlier than the date of such Change of Control).  The Change of Control Offer will be made in accordance with Section 1012 of the Indenture.

 

If an Event of Default shall occur and be continuing, the principal of all the Securities may be declared due and payable in the manner and with the effect provided in the Indenture.

 

The Indenture contains provisions for defeasance at any time of (i) the entire indebtedness of this Security or (ii) certain restrictive covenants and Events of Default with respect to this Security, in each case upon compliance with certain conditions set forth therein.

 

The Original Securities (as defined in the Indenture) and the Additional Securities (as defined in the Indenture), if any, shall constitute one series for all purposes under the Indenture, including without limitation, amendments, waivers and redemptions.

 

As provided in the Indenture and subject to certain limitations therein set forth, the obligations of the Company under the Indenture and this Security are, under certain circumstances provided in the Indenture, required to be guaranteed pursuant to Subsidiary Guarantees with respect to the payment of the principal, premium, if any, and interest on the Securities.  Each Holder, by holding this Security, agrees to all of the terms and provisions of any such Subsidiary Guarantees.  Each Subsidiary Guarantee issued pursuant to the terms of the Indenture shall provide that the Subsidiary Guarantor party thereto shall be released from its obligations under such Subsidiary Guarantee if it is no longer a subsidiary guarantor under, and as such term is defined in, the Credit Agreements and upon delivery to the Trustee of an Officers’ Certificate certifying to that effect.  On the date of original issuance of the Securities, no Subsidiaries of the Company shall be required to provide Subsidiary Guarantees.

 

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The Indenture permits, with certain exceptions as therein provided, the amendment thereof and the modification of the rights and obligations of the Company and the rights of the Holders of the Securities under the Indenture at any time by the Company and the Trustee with the consent of the Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Securities at the time Outstanding.  The Indenture also contains provisions permitting the Holders of specified percentages in aggregate principal amount of the Securities at the time Outstanding, on behalf of the Holders of all the Securities, to waive compliance by the Company with certain provisions of the Indenture and certain past defaults under the Indenture and their consequences.  Any such consent or waiver by the Holder of this Security shall be conclusive and binding upon such Holder and upon all future Holders of this Security and of any Security issued upon the registration of transfer hereof or in exchange herefor or in lieu hereof, whether or not notation of such consent or waiver is made upon this Security.

 

As provided in and subject to the provisions of the Indenture, the Holder of this Security shall not have the right to institute any proceeding with respect to the Indenture or for the appointment of a receiver or trustee or for any other remedy thereunder, unless such Holder shall have previously given the Trustee written notice of a continuing Event of Default with respect to the Securities, the Holders of not less than 25% in principal amount of the Securities at the time Outstanding shall have made written request to the Trustee to institute proceedings in respect of such Event of Default as Trustee and offered the Trustee indemnity reasonably satisfactory to the Trustee and the Trustee shall not have received from the Holders of a majority in principal amount of Securities at the time Outstanding a direction inconsistent with such request and shall have failed to institute any such proceeding for 60 days after receipt of such notice, request and offer of indemnity.  The foregoing shall not apply to certain suits described in the Indenture, including any suit instituted by the Holder of this Security for the enforcement of any payment of principal hereof or any premium or interest hereon on or after the respective due dates expressed herein (or, in the case of redemption, on or after the Redemption Date).

 

No reference herein to the Indenture and no provision of this Security or of the Indenture shall alter or impair the obligation of the Company, which is absolute and unconditional, to pay the principal of (and premium, if any) and interest on this Security at the times, place and rate, and in the coin or currency, herein prescribed.

 

As provided in the Indenture and subject to certain limitations therein set forth, the transfer of this Security is registrable in the Security Register for the Securities, upon surrender of this Security for registration of transfer at the office or agency of the Company in the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York (which initially shall be the office of the Trustee located at U.S. Bank National Association, 100 Wall Street, 16 th  Floor, New York, New York 10005), duly endorsed by, or accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Company and the Security Registrar duly executed by, the Holder hereof or his attorney duly authorized in writing, and thereupon one or more new Securities, of authorized denominations and for the same aggregate principal amount, will be issued to the designated transferee or transferees.

 

The Securities are issuable only in registered form without coupons in denominations of $1,000 and any integral multiple thereof.  As provided in the Indenture and subject to certain limitations therein set forth, Securities are exchangeable for a like aggregate

 

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principal amount of Securities of a different authorized denomination, as requested by the Holder surrendering the same.

 

No service charge shall be made for any such registration of transfer or exchange, but the Company may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental charge payable in connection therewith.

 

Prior to due presentment of this Security for registration of transfer, the Company, any Subsidiary Guarantor, the Trustee and any agent of the Company, any Subsidiary Guarantor or the Trustee, may treat the Person in whose name this Security is registered as the owner hereof for all purposes, whether or not this Security be overdue, and neither the Company, any Subsidiary Guarantor, the Trustee nor any such agent shall be affected by notice to the contrary.

 

All terms used in this Security which are defined in the Indenture shall have the meanings assigned to them in the Indenture.

 

OPTION OF HOLDER TO ELECT PURCHASE

 

If you want to elect to have this Security purchased by the Issuer pursuant to Section 1012, state the amount you elect to have purchased:

 

$                   

 

Date:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Your Signature:

 

 

 

(Sign exactly as your name appears on the face of this Security)

 

 

 

 

Tax Identification No.:

 

 

 

 

Signature Guarantee*:

 

 

 

 


* Participant in a recognized Signature Guarantee Medallion Program (or other signature guarantor acceptable to the Trustee).

 

SECTION 204.                     Form of Trustee’s Certificate of Authentication .

 

Dated:

 

This is one of the Securities described in the within-mentioned Indenture.

 

 

U.S. Bank National Association,

 

as Trustee

 

 

 

By:

 

 

Authorized Officer

 

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ARTICLE THREE

 

The Securities

 

SECTION 301.                                             Title and Terms .  The aggregate principal amount of Securities which may be authenticated and delivered under this Indenture is unlimited.  The Trustee shall authenticate Securities on the Issue Date in an aggregate principal amount not to exceed $400,000,000 (“Original Securities”).  In addition, subject to the provisions of Section 102, the Trustee shall authenticate additional Securities (“Additional Securities”) upon receipt of an Officers’ Certificate specifying the amount of Securities to be authenticated and the date on which such Securities are to be authenticated and certifying that all conditions precedent to the issuance of the Additional Securities contained herein have been complied with and that no default or Event of Default would occur as a result of the issuance of such Additional Securities.  The aggregate principal amount of the Additional Securities, if any, is unlimited.

 

The Securities shall be known and designated as the “7 7 / 8 % Senior Notes Due 2017” of the Company.  Their Stated Maturity shall be June 15, 2017 and they shall bear interest at the rate of 7 7 / 8 % per annum, from June 18, 2009 or from the most recent Interest Payment Date to which interest has been paid or duly provided for, as the case may be, payable semiannually on June 15 and December 15, commencing December 15, 2009, until the principal thereof is paid or made available for payment.

 

The principal of (and premium, if any) and interest on the Securities shall be payable at the office or agency of the Company in the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York, New York (which initially shall be the office of the Trustee located at U.S. Bank National Association, 100 Wall Street Plaza, 16 th  Floor, New York, New York 10005), maintained for such purpose and at any other office or agency maintained by the Company for such purpose; provided , however , that at the option of the Company payment of interest may be made by check mailed to the address of the Person entitled thereto as such address shall appear in the Security Register.

 

The Securities shall not have the benefit of any sinking fund obligations.

 

The Securities shall be subject to defeasance at the option of the Company as provided in Article Twelve.

 

The Original Securities and the Additional Securities, if any, shall constitute one series for all purposes under this Indenture, including, without limitation, amendments, waivers and redemptions.  The Additional Securities may have a different date of issue from the Original Securities and may have a different amount of interest payable on the first Interest Payment Date after issuance than is payable on the Original Securities, and with the same CUSIP number as the Original Securities (unless a temporary CUSIP number is necessary after issuance of the Original Securities hereby to allow such Securities to become freely tradeable under the Securities Act or to otherwise comply with U.S. securities laws).

 

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The Securities shall be guaranteed by any Subsidiary Guarantors as provided in Article Thirteen and any Subsidiary Guarantees, the form of which is set forth in Annex D hereto.

 

SECTION 302.                     Denominations .

 

The Securities shall be issuable only in registered form without coupons and only in denominations of $1,000 and any integral multiple thereof.

 

SECTION 303.                     Execution, Authentication, Delivery and Dating .  The Securities shall be executed on behalf of the Company by its Chairman of the Board, its Chief Executive Officer, its President or one of its Vice Presidents, under its corporate seal reproduced thereon attested by its Secretary or one of its Assistant Secretaries.  The signature of any of these officers or the Company’s seal on the Securities may be manual or facsimile.

 

Securities bearing the manual or facsimile signatures of individuals who were at any time the proper officers of the Company shall bind the Company, notwithstanding that such individuals or any of them have ceased to hold such offices prior to the authentication and delivery of such Securities or did not hold such offices at the date of such Securities.

 

At any time and from time to time after the execution and delivery of this Indenture, the Company may deliver Securities executed by the Company to the Trustee for authentication, together with a Company Order for the authentication and delivery of such Securities; and the Trustee in accordance with such Company Order shall authenticate and deliver such Securities as in this Indenture provided and not otherwise.

 

Each Security shall be dated the date of its authentication.

 

No Security shall be entitled to any benefit under this Indenture or be valid or obligatory for any purpose unless there appears on such Security a certificate of authentication substantially in the form provided for herein, executed by the Trustee by manual signature, and such certificate upon any Security shall be conclusive evidence, and the only evidence, that such Security has been duly authenticated and delivered hereunder.

 

SECTION 304.                     Temporary Securities .  Pending the preparation of definitive Securities, the Company may execute, and upon Company Order the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, temporary Securities, which Securities are printed, lithographed, typewritten, mimeographed or otherwise produced, in any authorized denomination, substantially of the tenor of the definitive Securities, in lieu of which they are issued and with such appropriate insertions, omissions, substitutions and other variations as the officers executing such Securities may determine, as evidenced by their execution thereof.

 

If temporary Securities are issued, the Company will cause definitive Securities to be prepared without unreasonable delay.  After the preparation of definitive Securities, the temporary Securities shall be exchangeable for definitive Securities, upon surrender of the temporary Securities at any office or agency of the Company designated pursuant to Section 1002, without charge to the Holder.  Upon surrender for cancellation of any one or more temporary Securities, the Company shall execute and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver in

 

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exchange therefor a like principal amount of definitive Securities of authorized denominations.  Until so exchanged the temporary Securities shall in all respects be entitled to the same benefits under this Indenture as definitive Securities.

 

SECTION 305.                     Global Securities .

 

(a)                                   Each Global Security authenticated under this Indenture shall be registered in the name of the Depositary designated by the Company for such Global Security or a nominee thereof and delivered to such Depositary or a nominee thereof or custodian therefor, and each such Global Security shall constitute a single Security for all purposes of this Indenture.

 

(b)                                  Notwithstanding any other provision in this Indenture, no Global Security may be exchanged in whole or in part for Securities registered, and no transfer of a Global Security in whole or in part may be registered, in the name of any Person other than the Depositary for such Global Security or a nominee thereof unless (i) such Depositary (A) has notified the Company that it is unwilling or unable to continue as Depositary for such Global Security and the Company fails to appoint a successor within 90 days or (B) has ceased to be a clearing agency registered as such under the Exchange Act and the Company fails to appoint a successor, (ii) upon the request of the Trustee or Holders of a majority of the outstanding principal amount of Securities, there shall have occurred and be continuing an Event of Default with respect to such Global Security, (iii) the Company executes and delivers to the Trustee an Officer’s Certificate stating that all Global Securities shall be exchanged in whole for Securities that are not Global Securities (in which case such exchange shall be effected by the Trustee), or (iv) under the circumstances set forth in Section 306(b)(viii).

 

(c)                                   If any Global Security is to be exchanged for other Securities or cancelled in whole, it shall be surrendered by or on behalf of the Depositary or its nominee to the Trustee, as Security Registrar, for exchange or cancellation as provided in this Article Three.  If any Global Security is to be exchanged for other Securities or cancelled in part, or if another Security is to be exchanged in whole or in part for a beneficial interest in any Global Security, then either (i) such Global Security shall be so surrendered for exchange or cancellation as provided in this Article Three or (ii) the principal amount thereof shall be reduced or increased by an amount equal to the portion thereof to be so exchanged or cancelled, or equal to the principal amount of such other Security to be so exchanged for a beneficial interest therein, as the case may be, by means of an appropriate adjustment made on the records of the Trustee, as Security Registrar, whereupon the Trustee, in accordance with the Applicable Procedures, shall instruct the Depositary or its authorized representative to make a corresponding adjustment to its records.  Upon any such surrender or adjustment of a Global Security, the Trustee shall, subject to Section 305(b) and as otherwise provided in this Article Three, authenticate and deliver any Securities issuable in exchange for such Global Security (or any portion thereof) to or upon the order of, and registered in such names as may be directed by, the Depositary or its authorized representative.  Upon the request of the Trustee in connection with the occurrence of any of the events specified in the preceding paragraph, the Company shall promptly make available to the Trustee a reasonable supply of Securities that are not in the form of Global Securities.  The Trustee shall be entitled to rely upon any order, direction or request of the Depositary or its authorized representative which is given or made pursuant to this Article Three if such order, direction or request is given or made in accordance with the Applicable Procedures.

 

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(d)                                  Every Security authenticated and delivered upon registration of transfer of, or in exchange for or in lieu of, a Global Security or any portion thereof, whether pursuant to this Article Three, Section 905, or Section 1108 or otherwise, shall be authenticated and delivered in the form of, and shall be, a Global Security, unless such Security is registered in the name of a Person other than the Depositary for such Global Security or a nominee thereof.

 

(e)                                   The Depositary or its nominee, as registered owner of a Global Security, shall be the Holder of such Global Security for all purposes under this Indenture, the Securities and any Subsidiary Guarantees, and owners of beneficial interests in a Global Security shall hold such interests pursuant to the Applicable Procedures.  Accordingly, any such owner’s beneficial interest in a Global Security will be shown only on, and the transfer of such interest shall be effected only through, records maintained by the Depositary or its nominee or its Agent Members.

 

SECTION 306.                     Registration, Registration of Transfer and Exchange Generally; Certain Transfers and Exchanges; Securities Act Legends; Applicable Procedures for Delegending .

 

(a)                                   The Company shall cause to be kept at the Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee a register (the  register maintained in such office and in any other office or agency designated pursuant to Section 1002 being herein sometimes collectively referred to as the “Security Register”) in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, the Company shall provide for the registration of Securities and of transfers and exchanges of Securities.  The Trustee is hereby appointed “Security Registrar” for the purpose of registering Securities and transfers and exchanges of Securities as herein provided.

 

Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Security at an office or agency of the Company designated pursuant to Section 1002 for such purpose, the Company shall execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Securities of any authorized denominations, of a like aggregate principal amount and bearing such restrictive legends as may be required by this Indenture.

 

At the option of the Holder, Securities may be exchanged for new Securities of any authorized denominations, of a like aggregate principal amount and bearing such restrictive legends as may be required by this Indenture, upon surrender of the Securities to be exchanged at such office or agency.  Whenever any Securities are so surrendered for exchange, the Company shall execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, the Securities which the Holder making the exchange is entitled to receive.

 

All Securities issued upon any registration of transfer or exchange of Securities shall be the valid obligations of the Company and any Subsidiary Guarantors, evidencing the same debt, and entitled to the same benefits under this Indenture, as the Securities, surrendered upon such registration of transfer or exchange.

 

Every Security presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or for exchange shall (if so required by the Company or the Trustee) be duly endorsed, or be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Company and the

 

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Security Registrar duly executed, by the Holder thereof or his attorney duly authorized in writing.

 

No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Securities, but the Company may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any registration of transfer or exchange of Securities, other than exchanges pursuant to Section 304, 305, 306, 905 or 1108 not involving any transfer.

 

The Company shall not be required (i) to issue, register the transfer of or exchange any Security during a period beginning at the opening of business 15 days before the day of the mailing of a notice of redemption of Securities selected for redemption under Section 1104 and ending at the close of business on the day of such mailing, or (ii) to register the transfer of or exchange any Security so selected for redemption in whole or in part, except the unredeemed portion of any Security being redeemed in part.

 

(b)                                  Certain Transfers and Exchanges .  Notwithstanding any other provision of this Indenture or the Securities, transfers and exchanges of Securities and beneficial interests in a Global Security of the kinds specified in this Section&


 
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