JUNIOR SUBORDINATED
INDENTURE
between
FIRST CHESTER COUNTY
CORPORATION
and
WILMINGTON TRUST
COMPANY,
as Trustee
____________________
Dated as of April 28,
2009
____________________
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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ARTICLE I-DEFINITIONS AND OTHER PROVISION OF
GENERAL APPLICATION
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SECTION 1.1. Definitions
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SECTION 1.2. Compliance Certificate and
Opinions
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SECTION 1.3. Forms of Documents Delivered to
Trustee
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SECTION 1.4. Acts of Holders
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SECTION 1.5. Notices, Etc.
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SECTION 1.6. Notice to Holders;
Waiver
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SECTION 1.7. Effect of Headings and Table of
Contents
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SECTION 1.8. Successors and Assigns
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SECTION 1.9. Separability Clause
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SECTION 1.10. Benefits of Indenture
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SECTION 1.11. Agreement Not to
Petition
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SECTION 1.12. Governing Law
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SECTION 1.13. Submission to
Jurisdiction
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SECTION 1.14. Conflict with TIA
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SECTION 1.15. Non-Business Days
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ARTICLE II-SECURITY FORMS
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SECTION 2.1. Form of Security
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SECTION 2.2. Restricted Legend
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SECTION 2.3. Form of Trustee's Certificate of
Authentication
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SECTION 2.4. Temporary Securities
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SECTION 2.5. Definitive Securities
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ARTICLE III-THE SECURITIES
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SECTION 3.1. Payment of Principal and
Interest
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SECTION 3.2. Denominations
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SECTION 3.3. Execution, Authentication, Delivery
and Dating
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SECTION 3.4. Global Securities
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SECTION 3.5. Registration, Transfer and Exchange
Generally
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SECTION 3.6. Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost and
Stolen Securities
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SECTION 3.7. Persons Deemed Owners
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SECTION 3.8. Cancellation
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SECTION 3.9. Deferrals of Interest Payment
Dates
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SECTION 3.10. Right of Set-Off
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SECTION 3.11. Agreed Tax Treatmen
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SECTION 3.12. CUSIP Numbers
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ARTICLE IV-SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE
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SECTION 4.1. Satisfaction and Discharge of
Indenture
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SECTION 4.2. Application of Trust
Money
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SECTION 5.1. Events of Default
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SECTION 5.2. Acceleration of Maturity;
Rescission and Annulment
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SECTION 5.3. Collection of Indebtedness and
Suits for Enforcement by Trustee
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SECTION 5.4. Trustee May File Proofs of
Claim
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SECTION 5.5. Trustee May Enforce Claim Without
Possession of Securities
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SECTION 5.6. Application of Money
Collected
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SECTION 5.7. Limitation on Suits
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SECTION 5.8. Unconditional Right of Holders to
Receive Principal, Premium and Interest;
Direct Action by Holders of Preferred Securities
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SECTION 5.9. Restoration of Rights and
Remedies
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SECTION 5.10. Rights and Remedies
Cumulative
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SECTION 5.11. Delay or Omission Not
Waiver
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SECTION 5.12. Control by Holders
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SECTION 5.13. Waiver of Past Defaults
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SECTION 5.14. Undertaking for Costs
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SECTION 5.15. Waiver of Usury, Stay or Extension
Laws
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ARTICLE VI-THE TRUSTEE
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SECTION 6.1. Corporate Trustee
Required
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SECTION 6.2. Representations and Warranties of
the Trustee
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SECTION 6.3. Certain Duties and
Responsibilities
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SECTION 6.4. Notice of Defaults
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SECTION 6.5. Certain Rights of
Trustee
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SECTION 6.6. May Hold Securities
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SECTION 6.7. Compensation; Reimbursement;
Indemnity
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SECTION 6.8. Resignation and Removal;
Appointment of Successor
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SECTION 6.9. Acceptance of Appointment by
Successor
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SECTION 6.10. Merger, Conversion, Consolidation
or Succession to Business
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SECTION 6.11. Not Responsible for Recitals or
Issuance of Securities
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SECTION 6.12. Appointment of Authenticating
Agent
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ARTICLE VII-HOLDERS' LISTS AND REPORTS BY
TRUSTEE AND COMPANY
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SECTION 7.1. Company to Furnish Trustee Names
and Addresses of Holders
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SECTION 7.2. Preservation of Information,
Communications to Holders
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SECTION 7.3. Reports by Company and
Trustee
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ARTICLE VIII-CONSOLIDATION, MERGER, CONVEYANCE,
TRANSFER OR LEASE
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SECTION 8.1. Company May Consolidate, Etc., Only
on Certain Terms
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SECTION 8.2. Successor Company
Substituted
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ARTICLE IX-SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES
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SECTION 9.1. Supplemental Indentures without
Consent of Holders.
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SECTION 9.2. Supplemental Indentures with
Consent of Holders
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SECTION 9.3. Execution of Supplemental
Indentures
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SECTION 9.4. Effect of Supplemental
Indentures
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SECTION 9.5. Reference in Securities to
Supplemental Indentures
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SECTION 10.1. Payment of Principal, Premium and
Interest.
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SECTION 10.2. Money for Security Payments to be
Held in Trust
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SECTION 10.3. Statement as to
Compliance
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SECTION 10.4. Additional Tax Sums
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SECTION 10.5. Additional Covenants
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SECTION 10.6. Waiver of Covenants
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SECTION 10.7. Treatment of Securities
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ARTICLE XI-REDEMPTION OF SECURITIES
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SECTION 11.1. Optional Redemption
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SECTION 11.2. Special Event
Redemption
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SECTION 11.3. Election to Redeem; Notice to
Trustee
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SECTION 11.4. Selection of Securities to be
Redeemed
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SECTION 11.5. Notice of Redemption
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SECTION 11.6. Deposit of Redemption
Price
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SECTION 11.7. Payment of Securities Called for
Redemption
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ARTICLE XII-SUBORDINATION OF
SECURITIES
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SECTION 12.1. Securities Subordinate to Senior
Debt
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SECTION 12.2. No Payment When Senior Debt in
Default; Payment Over of Proceeds Upon Dissolution, Etc.
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SECTION 12.3. Payment Permitted If No Default
and In Certain Circumstances
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SECTION 12.4. Subrogation to Rights of Holders
of Senior Debt
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SECTION 12.5. Provisions Solely to Define
Relative Rights
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SECTION 12.6. Trustee to Effectuate
Subordinatio
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SECTION 12.7. No Waiver of Subordination
Provisions
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SECTION 12.8. Notice to Trustee
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SECTION 12.9. Reliance on Judicial Order or
Certificate of Liquidating Agent
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SECTION 12.10. Trustee Not Fiduciary for Holders
of Senior Debt
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SECTION 12.11. Rights of Trustee as Holder of
Senior Debt; Preservation of Trustee's Rights
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SECTION 12.12. Article Applicable to Paying
Agents
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SECTION 12.13. Agreement Not to
Petition
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Junior Subordinated Indenture, dated
as of April 28, 2009, between First Chester County Corporation, a
Pennsylvania corporation (the “Company”), and
Wilmington Trust Company, a Delaware banking corporation, as
Trustee (in such capacity, the “Trustee”).
Recitals of the Company
Whereas, the Company has duly
authorized the execution and delivery of this Indenture to provide
for the issuance of its unsecured junior subordinated deferrable
interest notes issued to evidence loans made to the Company of the
proceeds from the issuance by First Chester County Capital Trust
IV, a Delaware statutory trust (the “Trust”), of
undivided preferred beneficial interests in the assets of the Trust
(the “Preferred Securities”) and undivided common
beneficial interests in the assets of the Trust (the “Common
Securities” and, collectively with the Preferred Securities,
the “Trust Securities”), and to provide the terms and
conditions upon which the unsecured junior subordinated deferrable
interest notes are to be authenticated, issued and delivered;
and
Whereas, all things necessary to
make this Indenture a valid agreement of the Company, in accordance
with its terms, have been done.
Now, therefore, this Indenture
Witnesseth:
For and in consideration of the
premises and the purchase of the unsecured junior subordinated
deferrable interest notes by the Holders thereof, it is mutually
covenanted and agreed, for the equal and proportionate benefit of
all Holders of the Securities, as follows:
ARTICLE I
Definitions and Other Provisions of
General Application
SECTION 1.1. Definitions.
For all purposes of this Indenture,
except as otherwise expressly provided or unless the context
otherwise requires:
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the terms defined in this Article I have the
meanings assigned to them in this Article I;
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(b) the
words “include,” “includes” and
“including” shall be deemed to be followed by the
phrase “without limitation;”
(c) all
accounting terms not otherwise defined herein have the meanings
assigned to them in accordance with GAAP;
(d) unless
the context otherwise requires, any reference to an
“Article” or a “Section” refers to an
Article or a Section, as the case may be, of this
Indenture;
(e) the
words “hereby,” “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;
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a reference to the singular includes the plural
and vice versa; and
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(g) the
masculine, feminine or neuter genders used herein shall include the
masculine, feminine and neuter genders. “Act” when used
with respect to any Holder, has the meaning specified in Section
1.4.
“Additional Tax Sums”
has the meaning specified in Section 10.4.
“Additional Taxes” means
taxes, duties or other governmental charges imposed on the Trust as
a result of a Tax Event (which, for the sake of clarity, does not
include amounts required to be deducted or withheld by the
Trust
from payments made by the Trust to
or for the benefit of the Holder of, or any Person that acquires a
beneficial interest in, the Securities).
“Administrative Trustee”
means, with respect to the Trust, a Person identified as an
“Administrative Trustee” in the Trust Agreement, solely
in its capacity as Administrative Trustee of the Trust under the
Trust Agreement and not in its individual capacity, or its
successor in interest in such capacity, or any successor
Administrative Trustee appointed as therein provided.
“Affiliate” of any
specified Person means any other Person directly or indirectly
controlling or controlled by or under direct or indirect common
control with such specified Person. For the purposes of this
definition, “control,” when used with respect to any
specified Person, means the power to direct 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.
“Applicable Depositary
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, 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 6.11
to act on behalf of the Trustee to authenticate the
Securities.
“Bankruptcy Code” means
Title 11 of the United States Code or any successor statute
thereto, in each case as amended from time to time. “Board of
Directors” means the board of directors of the Company or any
duly authorized committee of that board.
“Board Resolution” means
a copy of a resolution certified by the Secretary or an Assistant
Secretary of the Company to have been duly adopted by the Board of
Directors and to be in full force and effect on the date of such
certification.
“Business Day” means any
day other than (i) a Saturday or Sunday, (ii) a day on which
banking institutions in the City of New York are authorized or
required by law or executive order to remain closed or (iii) a day
on which the Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee is closed for
business.
“Capital Disqualification
Event” means the receipt by the Company of an Opinion of
Counsel experienced in such matters that, as a result of an
amendment to or a change in law, rule or regulation (including any
announced prospective change) or a change in interpretation or
application of law, rule or regulation by any legislative body,
court, governmental agency or regulatory authority, there is more
than an insubstantial risk that within ninety (90) days of the date
of such opinion, the aggregate liquidation amount of the Preferred
Securities will not be eligible to be treated by the Company as
“Tier 1 Capital” (or the then equivalent) for purposes
of the capital adequacy guidelines of the Federal Reserve or other
“appropriate Federal banking agency” as such term is
defined in 12 U.S.C. 1813(q), which amendment, change or
prospective change becomes effective or would become effective, as
the case may be, on or after the date of issuance of the
Securities; provided, however, that the inability of the Company to
treat all or any portion of the liquidation amount of the Preferred
Securities as Tier 1 Capital shall not constitute the basis for a
Capital Disqualification Event if such inability results from the
Company having such Preferred Securities outstanding in an amount
that for any reason is in excess of the amount which may now or
hereafter qualify for treatment as Tier 1 Capital under applicable
capital adequacy guidelines. By way of example, the inability of
the Company to treat all or any portion of the liquidation amount
of the Preferred Securities as Tier 1 Capital as a result of the
Final Rule on Risk-Based Capital Standards: Trust Preferred
Securities and the Definition of Capital, adopted on March 1, 2005,
by the Federal Reserve, shall not constitute the basis for a
Capital Disqualification Event.
“Common Securities” has
the meaning specified in the first recital of this Indenture.
“Common Stock” means the common stock, $1.00 par value,
of the Company.
“Company” means the
Person named as the “Company” in the first paragraph of
this Indenture until a successor corporation shall have become such
pursuant to the applicable provisions of this Indenture, and
thereafter “Company” shall mean such successor
corporation.
“Company Request” and
“Company Order” mean, respectively, the 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, President or a Vice President, and by
its Chief Financial Officer, Treasurer, an Assistant Treasurer, its
Secretary or an Assistant Secretary, and delivered to the
Trustee.
“Corporate Trust Office”
means the principal office of the Trustee at which at any
particular time its corporate trust business shall be administered,
which office at the date of this Indenture is located at Rodney
Square North, 1100 North Market Street, Wilmington, Delaware
19890-1615, Attention: Corporate Capital Markets.
“Debt” means, with
respect to any Person, whether recourse is to all or a portion of
the assets of such Person, whether currently existing or hereafter
incurred and whether or not contingent and without duplication, (i)
every obligation of such Person for money borrowed; (ii) every
obligation of such Person evidenced by bonds, debentures, notes or
other similar instruments, including obligations incurred in
connection with the acquisition of property, assets or businesses;
(iii) every reimbursement obligation of such Person with respect to
letters of credit, bankers’ acceptances or similar facilities
issued for the account of such Person; (iv) every obligation of
such Person issued or assumed as the deferred purchase price of
property or services (but excluding trade accounts payable or other
accrued liabilities arising in the ordinary course of business);
(v) every capital lease obligation of such Person; (vi) all
indebtedness of such Person, whether incurred on or prior to the
date of this Indenture or thereafter incurred, for claims in
respect of derivative products, including interest rate, foreign
exchange rate and commodity forward contracts, options and swaps
and similar arrangements; (vii) every obligation of the type
referred to in clauses (i) through (vi) of another Person and all
dividends of another Person the payment of which, in either case,
such Person has guaranteed or is responsible or liable for,
directly or indirectly, as obligor or otherwise; and (viii) any
renewals, extensions, refundings, amendments or modifications of
any obligation of the type referred to in clauses (i) through
(vii).
“Defaulted Interest” has
the meaning specified in Section 3.1.
“Delaware Trustee”
means, with respect to the Trust, the Person identified as the
“Delaware Trustee” in the Trust Agreement, solely in
its capacity as Delaware Trustee of the Trust under the Trust
Agreement and not in its individual capacity, or its successor in
interest in such capacity, or any successor Delaware Trustee
appointed as therein provided.
“Depositary” means an
organization registered as a clearing agency under the Exchange Act
that is designated as Depositary by the Company or any successor
thereto. DTC will be the initial Depositary.
“Depositary Participant”
means a broker, dealer, bank, other financial institution or other
Person for whom from time to time a Depositary effects book-entry
transfers and pledges of securities deposited with the
Depositary.
“Distributions” means
amounts payable in respect of the Trust Securities as provided in
the Trust Agreement and referred to therein as
“Distributions.”
“$” means the currency
of the United States of America that, as at the time of payment, is
legal tender for the payment of public and private
debts.
“DTC” means The
Depository Trust Company, a New York corporation.
“Equity Interests” means
any of (a) the partnership interests (general or limited) in a
partnership, (b) the membership interests in a limited liability
company or (c) the shares or stock interests (both common stock and
preferred stock) in a corporation.
“Event of Default” has
the meaning specified in Section 5.1.
“Exchange Act” means the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934 or any statute successor thereto,
in each case as amended from time to time. “Expiration
Date” has the meaning specified in Section 1.4.
“Extension Period” has
the meaning specified in Section 3.9.
“Federal Reserve” means
the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, the staff
thereof, or a Federal Reserve Bank, acting through delegated
authority, in each case under the rules, regulations and policies
of the Federal Reserve System, or if at any time after the
execution of this Indenture any such entity is not existing and
performing the duties now assigned to it, any successor body
performing similar duties or functions.
“GAAP” means United
States generally accepted accounting principles, consistently
applied, from time to time in effect.
“Global Security” means
a Security that evidences all or part of the Securities, the
ownership and transfers of which shall be made through book entries
by a Depositary.
“Government Obligation”
means (a) any security that is (i) a direct obligation of the
United States of America of which the full faith and credit of the
United States of America is pledged or (ii) an obligation of a
Person controlled or supervised by and acting as an agency or
instrumentality of the United States of America or the payment of
which is unconditionally guaranteed as a full faith and credit
obligation by the United States of America, which, in either case
(i) or (ii), is not callable or redeemable at the option of the
issuer thereof, and (b) any depositary receipt issued by a bank (as
defined in Section 3(a)(2) of the Securities Act) as custodian with
respect to any Government Obligation that is specified in clause
(a) above and held by such bank for the account of the holder of
such depositary receipt, or with respect to any specific payment of
principal of or interest on any Government Obligation that is so
specified and held, 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 depositary receipt from any amount
received by the custodian in respect of the Government Obligation
or the specific payment of principal or interest evidenced by such
depositary receipt.
“Guarantee Agreement”
means the Guarantee Agreement executed by the Company and
Wilmington Trust Company, as Guarantee Trustee, contemporaneously
with the execution and delivery of this Indenture, for the benefit
of the holders of the Preferred Securities, as modified, amended or
supplemented from time to time.
“Holder” means a Person
in whose name a Security is registered in the Securities
Register.
“Increased Interest”
means the interest, if any, that shall accrue on any amounts
payable on the Securities, the payment of which has not been made
on the applicable Interest Payment Date and which shall accrue at
the rate per annum, equal to 10%.
“Indenture” means this
instrument as originally executed or as it may from time to time be
amended or supplemented by one or more amendments or indentures
supplemental hereto entered into pursuant to the applicable
provisions hereof.
“Interest Payment Date”
means March 30th, June 30th, September 30th and December 30th of
each year, commencing on June 30, 2009, during the term of this
Indenture.
“Investment Company Act”
means the Investment Company Act of 1940 or any successor statute
thereto, in each case as amended from time to time.
“Investment Company
Event” means the receipt by the Company of an Opinion of
Counsel experienced in such matters to the effect that, as a result
of the occurrence of a change in law or regulation (including any
announced prospective change) or a written change in interpretation
or application of law or regulation by any legislative body, court,
governmental agency or regulatory authority, there is more than an
insubstantial risk that the Trust is or, within ninety (90) days of
the date of such opinion will be, considered an “investment
company” that is required to be registered under the
Investment Company Act, which change or prospective change becomes
effective or would become effective, as the case may be, on or
after the date of the issuance of the Securities.
“Liquidation Amount” has
the meaning specified in the Trust Agreement.
“Maturity” when used
with respect to any Security, means the date on which the principal
of such Security or any installment of principal becomes due and
payable as therein or herein provided, whether at the Stated
Maturity or by declaration of acceleration, call for redemption or
otherwise.
“Major Bank Subsidiary”
means any subsidiary of the Company that is a “major
subsidiary depository institution” as such term is used in
Appendix A to Regulation Y (12 C.F.R. Part 225), by the Federal
Reserve, providing for capital adequacy guidelines for bank holding
companies, and as such term may subsequently be defined or
interpreted in any rule, regulation, written interpretation or
other public issuance of the Federal Reserve. For purposes of this
definition, any “depository institution” subsidiary of
the Company within the meaning of Section 3(c) of the Federal
Deposit Insurance Act that would be considered a Major Bank
Subsidiary except for the fact that such subsidiary is not a
“bank” within the meaning of Section 3(a) of the Bank
Holding Company Act of 1956, shall be deemed to be a Major Bank
Subsidiary.
“Notice of Default”
means a written notice of the kind specified in Section
5.1(d).
“Officers’
Certificate” means a certificate signed by the Chairman of
the Board, a Vice Chairman of the Board, the Chief Executive
Officer, President or a Vice President, and by the Chief Financial
Officer, Treasurer, an Assistant Treasurer, the Secretary or an
Assistant Secretary, of the Company and delivered to the
Trustee.
“Opinion of Counsel”
means a written opinion of counsel, who may be counsel for or an
employee of the Company or any Affiliate of the Company.
“Original Issue Date”
means the date of original issuance of each Security.
“Outstanding” means,
when used in reference to any Securities, as of the date of
determination, all Securities theretofore authenticated and
delivered under this Indenture, except:
(i) Securities
theretofore canceled 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) in trust or set aside and segregated in
trust by the Company (if the Company shall act as its own Paying
Agent) for the Holders of such Securities; provided, that, if such
Securities are to be redeemed, notice of such redemption has been
duly given pursuant to this Indenture or provision therefor
satisfactory to the Trustee has been made; and
(iii) Securities
that have been paid, or in substitution for or in lieu of which
other Securities have been authenticated and delivered pursuant to
the provisions of this Indenture, unless proof satisfactory to the
Trustee is presented that any such Securities are held by Holders
in whose hands such Securities are valid, binding and legal
obligations of the Company;
provided, that, in determining
whether the Holders of the requisite principal amount of
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 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 that a Responsible Officer of
the Trustee actually knows to be so owned shall be so disregarded.
Securities so owned that 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 such other obligor. Notwithstanding anything
herein to the contrary, Securities initially issued to the Trust
that are owned by the Trust shall be deemed to be Outstanding
notwithstanding the ownership by the Company or an Affiliate of any
beneficial interest in the Trust.
“Paying Agent” means the
Trustee or any Person authorized by the Company to pay the
principal of or any premium or interest on, or other amounts in
respect of, any Securities on behalf of the Company.
“Person” means a legal
person, including any individual, corporation, company, estate,
partnership, joint venture, association, joint stock company,
limited liability company, trust, unincorporated association,
government or any agency or political subdivision thereof, or any
other entity of whatever nature.
“Place of Payment”
means, with respect to the Securities, the Corporate Trust Office
of the Trustee. “Preferred Securities” has the meaning
specified in the first recital of this Indenture.
“Predecessor Security”
of any particular Security means every previous Security 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 Section 3.6 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.
“Proceeding” has the
meaning specified in Section 12.2.
“Property Trustee” means
the Person identified as the “Property Trustee” in the
Trust Agreement, solely in its capacity as Property Trustee of the
Trust under the Trust Agreement and not in its individual capacity,
or its successor in interest in such capacity, or any successor
Property Trustee appointed as therein provided.
“Redemption Date” means,
when used with respect to any Security to be redeemed, the date
fixed for such redemption by or pursuant to this
Indenture.
“Redemption Price”
means, when used with respect to any Security to be redeemed, in
whole or in part, the price at which such Security or portion
thereof is to be redeemed as fixed by or pursuant to this
Indenture.
“Regular Record Date”
for the interest payable on any Interest Payment Date with respect
to the Securities means the date that is fifteen (15) days
preceding such Interest Payment Date (whether or not a Business
Day), provided, however, that in the event Book-Entry applies, the
record date shall be the Business Day prior to the Interest Payment
Date.
“Responsible Officer”
means, with respect to the Trustee, any Senior Vice President, any
Vice President, any Assistant Vice President, the Secretary, any
Assistant Secretary, the Treasurer, any Assistant Treasurer, any
Financial Services Officer or Assistant Financial Services Officer,
or any other officer in the Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee
with direct responsibility for the administration of this Indenture
and also means, with respect to a particular corporate trust
matter, any other officer to whom such matter is referred because
of that officer’s knowledge of and familiarity with the
particular subject.
“Rights Plan” means a
plan of the Company providing for the issuance by the Company to
all holders of its Equity Interests of rights entitling the holders
thereof to subscribe for or purchase Equity Interests of the
Company which rights (i) are deemed to be transferred with such
Equity Interests and (ii) are also issued in respect of future
issuances of such Equity Interests, in each case until the
occurrence of a specified event or events.
“Securities” or
“Security” means any debt securities or debt security,
as the case may be, authenticated and delivered under this
Indenture.
“Securities Act” means
the Securities Act of 1933 or any successor statute thereto, in
each case as amended from time to time. “Securities
Register” and “Securities Registrar” have the
respective meanings specified in Section 3.5.
“Senior Debt” means the
principal of and any premium and interest on (including interest
accruing on or after the filing of any petition in bankruptcy or
for reorganization relating to the Company, whether or not such
claim for post-petition interest is allowed in such proceeding) all
Debt of the Company, whether incurred on or prior to the date of
this Indenture or thereafter incurred, unless it is provided in the
instrument creating or evidencing the same or
pursuant to which the same is
outstanding, that such obligations are not superior in right of
payment to the Securities; provided, however, that if the Company
is subject to the regulation and supervision of an
“appropriate Federal banking agency” within the meaning
of 12 U.S.C. 1813(q), the Company shall have received the approval
of such appropriate Federal banking agency prior to issuing any
such obligation if not otherwise generally approved; provided
further, that Senior Debt shall not include any other debt
securities, and guarantees in respect of such debt securities,
issued to any trust other than the Trust (or a trustee of such
trust), partnership or other entity affiliated with the Company
that is a financing vehicle of the Company (a “financing
entity”), in connection with the issuance by such financing
entity of equity securities or other securities that are treated as
equity capital for regulatory capital purposes guaranteed by the
Company pursuant to an instrument that ranks pari passu with or
junior in right of payment to the Securities.
“Special Event” means
the occurrence of a Capital Disqualification Event, an Investment
Company Event or a Tax Event.
“Special Event Redemption
Price” has the meaning specified in Section 11.2.
“Special Record Date”
for the payment of any Defaulted Interest means a date fixed by the
Trustee pursuant to Section 3.1. “Stated Maturity”
means April 28, 2039.
“Subsidiary” means a
Person more than fifty percent (50%) of the outstanding voting
stock or other voting interests of which is owned, directly or
indirectly, by the Company or by one or more other Subsidiaries, or
by the Company and one or more other Subsidiaries. For purposes of
this definition, “voting stock” means stock that
ordinarily has voting power for the election of directors, whether
at all times or only so long as no senior class of stock has such
voting power by reason of any contingency.
“Tax Event” means the
receipt by the Company of an Opinion of Counsel experienced in such
matters to the effect that, as a result of (a) any amendment to or
change (including any announced prospective change) in the laws or
any regulations thereunder of the United States or any political
subdivision or taxing authority thereof or therein or (b) any
judicial decision or any official administrative pronouncement
(including any private letter ruling, technical advice memorandum
or field service advice) or regulatory procedure, including any
notice or announcement of intent to adopt any such pronouncement or
procedure (an “Administrative Action”), regardless of
whether such judicial decision or Administrative Action is issued
to or in connection with a proceeding involving the Company or the
Trust and whether or not subject to review or appeal, which
amendment, change, judicial decision or Administrative Action is
enacted, promulgated or announced, in each case, on or after the
date of issuance of the Securities, there is more than an
insubstantial risk that (i) the Trust is, or will be within ninety
(90) days of the date of such opinion, subject to United States
federal income tax with respect to income received or accrued on
the Securities, (ii) interest payable by the Company on the
Securities is not, or within ninety (90) days of the date of such
opinion, will not be, deductible by the Company, in whole or in
part, for United States federal income tax purposes, or (iii) the
Trust is, or will be within ninety (90) days of the date of such
opinion, subject to more than a de minimis amount of other taxes,
duties or other governmental charges.
“Trust” has the meaning
specified in the first recital of this Indenture.
“Trust Agreement” means
the Amended and Restated Trust Agreement executed and delivered by
the Company, the Property Trustee, the Delaware Trustee and the
Administrative Trustees named therein, contemporaneously with the
execution and delivery of this Indenture, for the benefit of the
holders of the Trust Securities, as amended or supplemented from
time to time.
“Trustee” means the
Person named as the “Trustee” in the first paragraph of
this instrument, solely in its capacity as such and not in its
individual capacity, until a successor Trustee shall have become
such pursuant to the applicable provisions of this Indenture, and,
thereafter, “Trustee” shall mean or include each Person
who is then a Trustee hereunder.
“Trust Indenture Act”
means the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 (“TIA”), as
amended and as in effect on the date as of this Indenture. Whenever
this Indenture refers to a provision of the TIA, the provision is
incorporated by
reference in and made a part of this
Indenture. The following TIA terms used in this Indenture have the
following meanings:
“Commission” means the
Securities and Exchange Commission.
“indenture securities”
means the Securities.
“indenture security
holder” means a Security Holder.
“indenture to be
qualified” means this Indenture.
“indenture trustee” or
“institutional trustee” means the Indenture
Trustee.
“obligor” on the
indenture securities means the Trust and any other obligor on the
indenture securities.
All other TIA terms used in this
Indenture that are defined by the TIA, defined by TIA reference to
another statute or defined by Commission rule have the meaning
assigned to them by such definitions.
“Trust Securities” has
the meaning specified in the first recital of this
Indenture.
SECTION 1.2. Compliance Certificate
and Opinions.
(a) 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 an Officers’ Certificate stating that
all conditions precedent (including covenants compliance with which
constitutes a condition precedent), if any, provided for in this
Indenture relating to the proposed action have been complied with
and an Opinion of Counsel stating that in the opinion of such
counsel all such conditions precedent (including covenants
compliance with which constitutes a condition precedent), if any,
have been complied with, except that, in the case of any such
application or request as to which the furnishing of such documents
is specifically required by any provision of this Indenture
relating to such particular application or request, no additional
certificate or opinion need be furnished.
(b) Every
certificate delivered to the Trustee with respect to compliance
with a condition or covenant provided for in this Indenture (other
than the certificate provided pursuant to Section 10.3) shall
include:
(i) a
statement by each individual signing such certificate or opinion
that such individual has read such covenant or condition and the
definitions herein relating thereto;
(ii) a
brief statement as to the nature and scope of the examination or
investigation upon which the statements or opinions of such
individual contained in such certificate or opinion are
based;
(iii) a
statement that, in the opinion of such individual, he or she has
made such examination or investigation as is necessary to enable
him or her to express an informed opinion as to whether or not such
covenant or condition has been complied with; and
(iv) a
statement as to whether, in the opinion of such individual, such
condition or covenant has been complied with.
SECTION 1.3. Forms of Documents
Delivered to Trustee.
(a) 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.
(b) 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 after reasonable inquiry should know, that the
certificate or opinion or representations with respect to matters
upon which his or her 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 after reasonable inquiry should know, that the
certificate or opinion or representations with respect to such
matters are erroneous.
(c) 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.
(d) Whenever,
subsequent to the receipt by the Trustee of any Board Resolution,
Officers’ Certificate, Opinion of Counsel or other document
or instrument, a clerical, typographical or other inadvertent or
unintentional error or omission shall be discovered therein, a new
document or instrument may be substituted therefor in corrected
form with the same force and effect as if originally received in
the corrected form and, irrespective of the date or dates of the
actual execution and/or delivery thereof, such substitute document
or instrument shall be deemed to have been executed and/or
delivered as of the date or dates required with respect to the
document or instrument for which it is substituted. Without
limiting the generality of the foregoing, any Securities issued
under the authority of such defective document or instrument shall
nevertheless be the valid obligations of the Company entitled to
the benefits of this Indenture equally and ratably with all other
Outstanding Securities.
SECTION 1.4. Acts of
Holders.
(a) Any
request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver
or other action provided by this Indenture to be given to 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 thereof duly appointed in writing; and,
except as herein otherwise expressly provided, such action shall
become effective when such instrument or instruments (including any
appointment of an agent) is or are delivered to the Trustee, and,
where it is hereby expressly required, to the Company. Such
instrument or instruments (and the action embodied therein and
evidenced thereby) are herein sometimes referred to as the
“Act” of 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 conclusive in favor of the Trustee
and the Company, if made in the manner provided in this Section
1.4.
(b) 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 the certificate of any 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 or her the execution thereof. Where such
execution is by a Person acting in other than his or her individual
capacity, such certificate or affidavit shall also constitute
sufficient proof of his or her authority. The fact and date of the
execution by any Person of any such instrument or writing, or the
authority of the Person executing the same, may also be proved in
any other manner that the Trustee deems sufficient and in
accordance with such reasonable rules as the Trustee may
determine.
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(c)
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The ownership of Securities shall be proved by
the Securities Register.
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(d) Any
request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver
or other action by 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 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.
(e) Without
limiting the foregoing, a Holder entitled 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.
(f) Except
as set forth in paragraph (g) of this Section 1.4, 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. 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 (as defined below) 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 canceled and of no effect).
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 applicable Expiration
Date to be given to the Trustee in writing and to each Holder of
Securities in the manner set forth in Section 1.6.
(g) 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 or rescission or annulment thereof
referred to in Section 5.2, (iii) any request to institute
proceedings referred to in Section 5.7(b) or (iv) any direction
referred to in Section 5.12. 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 canceled and of no effect). 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 1.6.
(h) With
respect to any record date set pursuant to paragraph (f) or (g) of
this Section 1.4, the party hereto that 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 1.6, 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 1.4, the party hereto that
set such record date shall be deemed to have initially designated
the ninetieth (90th) 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 one hundred
and eightieth (180th) day after the applicable record
date.
SECTION 1.5. Notices,
Etc.
Any request, demand, authorization,
direction, notice, consent, waiver, Act of Holders, or other
document provided or permitted by this Indenture to be made upon,
given or furnished to, or filed with:
(a) the
Trustee by any Holder, any holder of Preferred Securities or the
Company 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,
(b) the
Company by the Trustee, any Holder or any holder of Preferred
Securities shall be sufficient for every purpose hereunder if in
writing and mailed, first class, postage prepaid, to the Company
addressed to it at 9 North High Street, West Chester, Pennsylvania
19380, Attn: Chief Financial Officer, or at any other address
previously furnished in writing to the Trustee by the
Company.
SECTION 1.6. 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 to the address of such Holder as it appears in the
Securities Register, not later than the latest date, and not
earlier than the earliest date, prescribed for the giving of such
notice. If, by reason of the suspension of or irregularities in
regular mail service or for any other reason, it shall be
impossible or impracticable to mail notice of any event to Holders
when said notice is required to be given pursuant to any provision
of this Indenture, then any manner of giving such notice as shall
be reasonably satisfactory to the Trustee shall be deemed to be a
sufficient 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.
SECTION 1.7. 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 of this Indenture.
SECTION 1.8. Successors and
Assigns.
This Indenture shall be binding upon
and shall inure to the benefit of any successor to the Company and
the Trustee, including any successor by operation of law. Except in
connection with a transaction involving the Company that is
permitted under Article VIII and pursuant to which the assignee
agrees in writing to perform the Company’s obligations
hereunder, the Company shall not assign its obligations
hereunder.
SECTION 1.9. Separability
Clause.
If any provision in this Indenture
or in the Securities 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,
and there shall be deemed substituted for the provision at issue a
valid, legal and enforceable provision as similar as possible to
the provision at issue.
SECTION 1.10. Benefits of
Indenture.
Nothing in this Indenture or in the
Securities, express or implied, shall give to any Person, other
than the parties hereto and their successors and assigns, the
holders of Senior Debt, the Holders of the Securities and, to the
extent expressly provided in Sections 5.2, 5.8, 5.9, 5.11, 5.13,
9.2 and 10.6, the holders of Preferred Securities, any benefit or
any legal or equitable right, remedy or claim under this
Indenture.
SECTION 1.11. Agreement Not to
Petition.
Each of the Trustees and the
Depositor agree for the benefit of the Holders that, until at least
one year and one day after the Trust has been terminated in
accordance with Article IX, they shall not file, or join in the
filing of, a petition against the Trust under any Bankruptcy Law or
otherwise join in the commencement of any proceeding against the
Trust under any Bankruptcy Law. If the Depositor takes action in
violation of this Section 1.11, the Property Trustee agrees, for
the benefit of Holders, that at the expense of the Depositor, it
shall file an answer with the applicable bankruptcy court or
otherwise properly contest the filing of such petition by the
Depositor against the Trust or the commencement of such action and
raise the defense that the Depositor has agreed in writing not to
take such action and should be estopped and precluded therefrom and
such other defenses, if any, as counsel for the Property Trustee or
the Trust may assert.
This instrument may be executed in
any number of counterparts, each of which so executed shall be
deemed to be an original, but all such counterparts shall together
constitute but one and the same instrument. Delivery of an executed
signature page of this Indenture by facsimile transmission shall be
effective as delivery of a manually executed counterpart
hereof.
SECTION
1.12 Governing Law.
This Indenture and the rights and
obligations of each of the Holders, the Company and the Trustee
shall be construed and enforced in accordance with and governed by
the laws of the State of New York without reference to its conflict
of laws provisions.
SECTION
1.13 Submission to Jurisdiction.
ANY LEGAL ACTION OR PROCEEDING BY OR
AGAINST ANY PARTY HERETO OR WITH RESPECT TO OR ARISING OUT OF THIS
INDENTURE MAY BE BROUGHT IN OR REMOVED TO THE FEDERAL OR NEW YORK
STATE COURTS LOCATED IN NEW YORK, NEW YORK. BY EXECUTION AND
DELIVERY OF THIS INDENTURE, EACH PARTY ACCEPTS, FOR ITSELF AND IN
RESPECT OF ITS PROPERTY, GENERALLY AND UNCONDITIONALLY, THE
JURISDICTION OF THE AFORESAID COURTS (AND COURTS OF APPEALS
THEREFROM) FOR LEGAL PROCEEDINGS ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION
WITH THIS INDENTURE.
SECTION
1.14 Conflict with TIA.
If any provision hereof limits,
qualifies or conflicts with another provision hereof that is
required to be included in this Indenture by any of the provisions
of the TIA, such required provision shall control. The provisions
of TIA Sections 310 through 317 that impose duties on any person
(including the provisions automatically deemed included herein
unless expressly excluded by this Indenture) are a part of and
govern this Indenture, whether or not physically contained
herein.
SECTION
1.15 Non-Business Days.
If 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 the Securities) payment of interest, premium, if any,
or principal or other amounts in respect of such Security shall not
be made on such date, but shall be made on the next succeeding
Business Day (and no interest shall accrue in respect of the
amounts whose payment is so delayed for the period from and after
such Interest Payment Date, Redemption Date or Stated Maturity, as
the case may be, until such next succeeding Business Day) except
that, if such Business Day falls in the next succeeding calendar
year, such payment shall be made on the immediately preceding
Business Day, in each case with the same force and effect as if
made on the Interest Payment Date or Redemption Date or at the
Stated Maturity.
ARTICLE II
Security Forms
SECTION
2.1. Form of Security.
Any Security issued hereunder shall
be in substantially the following form:
First Chester County
Corporation
Fixed Rate Junior Subordinated Note
due 2039
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No.____________
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$____________
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First Chester County Corporation, a
corporation organized and existing under the laws of Pennsylvania
(hereinafter called the “Company,” which term includes
any successor Person under the Indenture hereinafter
referred
to), for value received, hereby
promises to pay to ____________ (the “Holder”), or
registered assigns, the principal sum of $____________ or such
other principal amount represented hereby as may be set forth in
the records of the Securities Registrar hereinafter referred to in
accordance with the Indenture on April 28, 2039. The Company
further promises to pay interest on said principal sum from April
28, 2009, or from the most recent Interest Payment Date to which
interest has been paid or duly provided for, quarterly (subject to
deferral as set forth herein) in arrears on March 30th, June 30th,
September 30th and December 30th of each year, commencing on June
30, 2009, or if any such day is not a Business Day, on the next
succeeding Business Day (and no interest shall accrue in respect of
the amounts whose payment is so delayed for the period from and
after such Interest Payment Date until such next succeeding
Business Day), except that, if such Business Day falls in the next
succeeding calendar year, such payment shall be made on the
immediately preceding Business Day, in each case, with the same
force and effect as if made on the Interest Payment Date, together
with Additional Tax Sums, if any, as provided in Section 10.4 of
the Indenture, until the principal hereof is paid or duly provided
for or made available for payment; provided, that any overdue
principal, premium, if any, or Additional Tax Sums and any overdue
installment of interest shall bear interest at the Increased
Interest rate (to the extent that the payment of such interest
shall be legally enforceable) until they are paid or made available
for payment, and such interest shall be payable on
demand.
The amount of interest payable for
any interest period shall be computed and paid on the basis of a
360-day year and the actual number of days elapsed in the relevant
interest period. The interest so payable, and punctually paid or
duly provided for, on any Interest Payment Date shall, as provided
in the 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
installment. Any such interest not so punctually paid or duly
provided for shall forthwith cease to be payable to the Holder on
such 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 ten (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 or automated quotation
system on which the Securities may be listed, traded or quoted and
upon such notice as may be required by such exchange or automated
quotation system, all as more fully provided in the
Indenture.
So long as no Event of Default
pursuant to Sections 5.1(c), (e), (f), (g) or (h) of the Indenture
has occurred and is continuing, the Company shall have the right,
at any time and from time to time during the term of this Security,
to defer the payment of interest on this Security for a period of
up to twenty (20) consecutive quarterly interest payment periods
(each such period, an “Extension Period”), during which
Extension Period(s), no interest shall be due and payable (except
any Additional Tax Sums that may be due and payable). No Extension
Period shall end on a date other than an Interest Payment Date, and
no Extension Period shall extend beyond the Stated Maturity of the
principal of this Security. No interest shall be due and payable
during an Extension Period (except any Additional Tax Sums that may
be due and payable), except at the end thereof, but each
installment of interest that would otherwise have been due and
payable during such Extension Period shall bear Increased Interest
(to the extent payment of such interest would be legally
enforceable) from the dates on which amounts would have otherwise
been due and payable until paid or made available for payment. At
the end of any such Extension Period, the Company shall pay all
interest then accrued and unpaid on this Security, together with
such Increased Interest. Prior to the termination of any such
Extension Period, the Company may further defer the payment of
interest; provided, that (i) all such previous and further
extensions comprising such Extension Period do not exceed twenty
(20) quarterly interest payment periods, (ii) no Extension Period
shall end on a date other than an Interest Payment Date and (iii)
no Extension Period shall extend beyond the Stated Maturity of the
principal of this Security. Upon the termination of any such
Extension Period and upon the payment of all accrued and unpaid
interest and any Increased Interest then due on any Interest
Payment Date, the Company may elect to begin a new Extension
Period; provided, that (i) such Extension Period does not exceed
twenty (20) quarterly interest payment periods, (ii) no Extension
Period shall end on a date other than an Interest Payment Date,
(iii) no Extension Period shall extend beyond the Stated Maturity
of the principal of this Security and (iv) no Event of Default
pursuant to Sections 5.1(c), (e), (f), (g) or (h) has occurred and
is continuing. The Company shall give (i) the Holder of this
Security, (ii) the Trustee, (iii) the Property Trustee and (iv) any
beneficial owner of the Preferred Securities reasonably identified
to the Company (which identification may be made by such beneficial
owner) written notice of its election to begin any such Extension
Period no earlier than the close of business on the fifteenth
(15th) Business Day prior to the next succeeding Interest Payment
Date on which interest on this Security would be payable but for
such deferral.
During any such Extension Period,
the Company shall not (i) declare or pay any dividends or
distributions on, or redeem, purchase, acquire or make a
liquidation payment with respect to, any of the Company’s
Equity Interests, (ii) vote in favor of or permit or otherwise
allow any of its Subsidiaries to declare or pay any dividends or
distributions on, or redeem, purchase, acquire or make a
liquidation payment with respect to or otherwise retire, any of
such Subsidiary’s Equity Interests entitling the holders
thereof to a stated rate of return, other than dividends or
distributions on Equity Interests issued by any Subsidiary solely
payable to the Company or any Subsidiary thereof (for the avoidance
of doubt, whether such Equity Interests are perpetual or
otherwise), or (iii) make any payment of principal of or any
interest or premium on or repay, repurchase or redeem any debt
securities of the Company that rank pari passu in all respects with
or junior in interest to this Security (other than (a) repurchases,
redemptions or other acquisitions of Equity Interests of the
Company in connection with (1) any employment contract, benefit
plan or other similar arrangement with or for the benefit of any
one or more employees, officers, directors or consultants, (2) a
dividend reinvestment or stockholder stock purchase or similar plan
with respect to any Equity Interests or (3) the issuance of Equity
Interests of the Company (or securities convertible into or
exercisable for such Equity Interests) as consideration in an
acquisition transaction entered into prior to the applicable
Extension Period, (b) as a result of an exchange or conversion of
any class or series of the Company’s Equity Interests (or any
Equity Interests of a Subsidiary of the Company) for any class or
series of the Company’s Equity Interests or of any class or
series of the Company’s indebtedness for any class or series
of the Company’s Equity Interests, (c) the purchase of
fractional interests in Equity Interests of the Company pursuant to
the conversion or exchange provisions of such Equity Interests or
the security being converted or exchanged, (d) any declaration of a
dividend in connection with any Rights Plan, the issuance of
rights, Equity Interests or other property under any Rights Plan,
or the redemption or repurchase of rights pursuant thereto or (e)
any dividend in the form of Equity Interests, warrants, options or
other rights where the dividend Equity Interests or the Equity
Interests issuable upon exercise of such warrants, options or other
rights are the same Equity Interests as those on which the dividend
is being paid or rank pari passu with or junior to such Equity
Interests, or (f) if the failure to do so would cause a default
event).
Payment of principal of, premium, if
any, and interest on this Security shall be made 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. Payments
of principal, premium, if any, and interest due at the Maturity of
this Security shall be made at the office or agency of the Company
maintained for that purpose in the Place of Payment upon surrender
of such Securities to the Paying Agent, and payments of interest
shall be made, subject to such surrender where applicable, by wire
transfer at such place and to such account at a banking institution
in the United States as may be designated in writing to the Paying
Agent at least ten (10) Business Days prior to the date for payment
by the Person entitled thereto unless proper written wire transfer
instructions have not been received by the relevant record date, in
which case such payments shall be made by check mailed to the
address of such Person as such address shall appear in the Security
Register. Notwithstanding the foregoing, so long as the Holder of
this Security is the Property Trustee, the payment of the principal
of (and premium, if any) and interest (including any overdue
installment of interest and Additional Tax Sums, if any) on this
Security will be made at such place and to such account as may be
designated by the Property Trustee.
The indebtedness evidenced by this
Security is, to the extent provided in the Indenture, subordinate
and junior in right of payment to the prior payment in full of all
Senior Debt, and this Security is issued subject to the provisions
of the Indenture with respect thereto. Each Holder of this
Security, by accepting the same, (a) agrees to and shall be bound
by such provisions, (b) authorizes and directs the Trustee on his
or her behalf to take such actions as may be necessary or
appropriate to effectuate the subordination so provided and (c)
appoints the Trustee his or her attorney-in-fact for any and all
such purposes. Each Holder hereof, by his or her acceptance hereof,
waives all notice of the acceptance of the subordination provisions
contained herein and in the Indenture by each holder of Senior
Debt, whether now outstanding or hereafter incurred, and waives
reliance by each such holder upon said provisions.
Unless the certificate of
authentication hereon has been executed by the Trustee by manual
signature, this Security shall not be entitled to any benefit under
the Indenture or be valid or obligatory for any purpose.
This Security is one of a duly
authorized issue of securities of the Company (the
“Securities”) issued under the Junior Subordinated
Indenture, dated as of April 28, 2009 (the
“Indenture”), between the Company and Wilmington Trust
Company, as Trustee (in such capacity, the “Trustee,”
which term includes any successor trustee under the Indenture), to
which Indenture and all indentures supplemental thereto reference
is hereby made for a statement of the respective rights,
limitations of rights, duties and immunities thereunder of the
Company, the Trustee,
the holders of Senior Debt and the
Holders of the Securities, and of the terms upon which the
Securities are, and are to be, authenticated and
delivered.
All terms used in this Security that
are defined in the Indenture or in the Amended and Restated Trust
Agreement, dated as of April 28, 2009 (as modified, amended or
supplemented from time to time, the “Trust Agreement”),
relating to First Chester County Capital Trust IV (the
“Trust”), among the Company, as Depositor, the trustees
named therein and the holders from time to time of the Trust
Securities issued pursuant thereto, shall have the meanings
assigned to them in the Indenture or the Trust Agreement, as the
case may be.
The Company may, on any Interest
Payment Date, at its option, upon not less than thirty (30)
days’ nor more than sixty (60) days’ written notice to
the Holders of the Securities (unless a shorter notice period shall
be satisfactory to the Trustee) on or after April 28, 2014 and
subject to the terms and conditions of Article XI of the Indenture,
redeem this Security in whole at any time or in part from time to
time at a Redemption Price equal to one hundred percent (100%) of
the principal amount hereof, together, in the case of any such
redemption, with accrued interest, including any Increased
Interest, to but excluding the date fixed for redemption; provided,
that the Company shall have received the prior approval of the
Federal Reserve if then required.
In addition, upon the occurrence and
during the continuation of a Special Event, the Company may, at its
option, upon not less than thirty (30) days’ nor more than
sixty (60) days’ written notice to the Holders of the
Securities (unless a shorter notice period shall be satisfactory to
the Trustee), redeem this Security, in whole but not in part,
subject to the terms and conditions of Article XI of the Indenture
at the Special Event Redemption Price; provided, that the Company
shall have received the prior approval of the Federal Reserve if
then required.
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 less than all the
Securities are to be redeemed, the particular Securities to be
redeemed shall be selected not more than sixty (60) days prior to
the Redemption Date by the Trustee from the Outstanding Securities
not previously called for redemption, by such method as the Trustee
shall deem fair and appropriate and which may provide for the
selection for redemption of a portion of the principal amount of
any Security.
The Indenture permits, with certain
exceptions as therein provided, the Company and the Trustee at any
time to enter into a supplemental indenture or indentures for the
purpose of modifying in any manner the rights and obligations of
the Company and of the Holders of the Securities, with the consent
of the Holders of not less than a majority in principal amount of
the Outstanding Securities. The Indenture also contains provisions
permitting Holders of specified percentages in principal amount of
the Securities, on behalf of the Holders of all 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.
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 any premium and
interest, including any Increased 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 Securities Register, upon
surrender of this Security for registration of transfer at the
office or agency of the Company maintained for such purpose, duly
endorsed by, or accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in
form satisfactory to the Company and the Securities Registrar and
duly executed by, the Holder hereof or such Holder’s attorney
duly authorized in writing, and thereupon one or more new
Securities, of like tenor, 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 minimum denominations of $1,000
and any integral multiple of $1,000 in excess thereof. As provided
in the Indenture and subject to certain limitations
therein set forth, Securities are
exchangeable for a like aggregate principal amount of Securities
and of like tenor 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 and
the Trustee may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any
tax or other governmental charge payable in connection
therewith.
The Company, the Trustee and any
agent of the Company 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, the Trustee nor any such agent shall be affected by notice
to the contrary.
The Company and, by its acceptance
of this Security or a beneficial interest herein, the Holder of,
and any Person that acquires a beneficial interest in, this
Security agree that, for United States federal, state and local tax
purposes, it is intended that this Security constitute
indebtedness.
This Security shall be construed and
enforced in accordance with and governed by the laws of the State
of Delaware, without reference to its conflict of laws
provisions.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Company has
duly executed this certificate this __ day of __, 20__.
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First Chester County Corporation
By:_____________________________
Name:
Title:
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SECTION 2.2. Restricted
Legend.
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(a)
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Any Security issued hereunder shall bear a
legend in substantially the following form:
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THIS SECURITY HAS NOT BEEN
REGISTERED UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED (THE
“SECURITIES ACT”), ANY STATE SECURITIES LAWS OR ANY
OTHER APPLICABLE SECURITIES LAW. NEITHER THIS SECURITY 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, THE REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS OF THE
SECURITIES ACT AND ANY APPLICABLE STATE SECURITIES LAWS. THE HOLDER
OF THIS SECURITY BY ITS ACCEPTANCE HEREOF AGREES TO OFFER, SELL OR
OTHERWISE TRANSFER THIS SECURITY ONLY (A) TO THE COMPANY, (B)
PURSUANT TO A REGISTRATION STATEMENT THAT HAS BEEN DECLARED
EFFECTIVE UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT, (C) TO A PERSON WHOM THE SELLER
REASONABLY BELIEVES IS A QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER IN A
TRANSACTION MEETING THE REQUIREMENTS OF RULE 144A SO LONG AS THIS
SECURITY IS ELIGIBLE FOR RESALE PURSUANT TO RULE 144A IN ACCORDANCE
WITH RULE 144A, (D) TO A NON-U.S. PERSON IN AN OFFSHORE TRANSACTION
IN ACCORDANCE WITH RULE 903 OR RULE 904 (AS APPLICABLE) OF
REGULATIONS UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT, (E) TO AN INSTITUTIONAL
“ACCREDITED INVESTOR” WITHIN THE MEANING OF
SUBPARAGRAPH (A) OF RULE 501 UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT THAT IS
ACQUIRING THIS SECURITY FOR ITS OWN ACCOUNT, OR FOR THE ACCOUNT OF
SUCH AN INSTITUTIONAL ACCREDITED INVESTOR, FOR INVESTMENT PURPOSES
AND NOT WITH A VIEW TO, OR FOR OFFER OR SALE IN CONNECTION WITH,
ANY DISTRIBUTION IN VIOLATION OF THE SECURITIES ACT, OR (F)
PURSUANT TO ANY OTHER AVAILABLE EXEMPTION FROM THE REGISTRATION
REQUIREMENTS OF THE SECURITIES ACT, SUBJECT TO THE COMPANY’S
RIGHT PRIOR TO ANY SUCH OFFER, SALE OR TRANSFER TO REQUIRE THE
DELIVERY OF AN OPINION OF COUNSEL, CERTIFICATION AND/OR
OTHER
INFORMATION SATISFACTORY TO IT IN
ACCORDANCE WITH THE INDENTURE, A COPY OF WHICH MAY BE OBTAINED FROM
THE COMPANY.
THE HOLDER OF THIS SECURITY, OR ANY
INTEREST THEREIN, BY ITS ACCEPTANCE HEREOF OR THEREOF AGREES,
REPRESENTS AND WARRANTS THAT IT IS NOT AN EMPLOYEE BENEFIT PLAN,
INDIVIDUAL RETIREMENT ACCOUNT OR OTHER PLAN OR ARRANGEMENT SUBJECT
TO TITLE I OF THE EMPLOYEE RETIREMENT INCOME SECURITY ACT OF 1974,
AS AMENDED (“ERISA”), OR SECTION 4975 OF THE INTERNAL
REVENUE CODE OF 1986, AS AMENDED (THE “CODE”) (EACH A
“PLAN”), OR AN ENTITY WHOSE UNDERLYING ASSETS INCLUDE
“PLAN ASSETS” BY REASON OF ANY PLAN’S INVESTMENT
IN THE ENTITY, AND NO PERSON INVESTING “PLAN ASSETS” OF
ANY PLAN MAY ACQUIRE OR HOLD THIS SECURITY OR ANY INTEREST THEREIN,
UNLESS SUCH PURCHASER OR HOLDER IS ELIGIBLE FOR THE EXEMPTIVE
RELIEF AVAILABLE UNDER U.S. DEPARTMENT OF LABOR PROHIBITED
TRANSACTION CLASS EXEMPTION 96-23, 95-60, 91-38, 90-1 OR 84-14 OR
ANOTHER APPLICABLE EXEMPTION OR ITS PURCHASE AND HOLDING OF THIS
SECURITY, OR ANY INTEREST THEREIN, ARE NOT PROHIBITED BY SECTION
406 OF ERISA OR SECTION 4975 OF THE CODE WITH RESPECT TO SUCH
PURCHASE AND HOLDING. ANY PURCHASER OR HOLDER OF THE SECURITIES OR
ANY INTEREST THEREIN WILL BE DEEMED TO HAVE REPRESENTED BY ITS
PURCHASE AND HOLDING THEREOF THAT EITHER (i) IT IS NOT AN EMPLOYEE
BENEFIT PLAN OR OTHER PLAN TO WHICH TITLE I OF ERISA OR SECTION
4975 OF THE CODE IS APPLICABLE, A TRUSTEE OR OTHER PERSON ACTING ON
BEHALF OF ANY SUCH EMPLOYEE BENEFIT PLAN OR PLAN, OR ANY OTHER
PERSON OR ENTITY USING THE “PLAN ASSETS” OF ANY SUCH
EMPLOYEE BENEFIT PLAN OR PLAN TO FINANCE SUCH PURCHASE, OR (ii)
SUCH PURCHASE OR HOLDING WILL NOT RESULT IN A PROHIBITED
TRANSACTION UNDER SECTION 406 OF ERISA OR SECTION 4975 OF THE CODE
FOR WHICH FULL EXEMPTIVE RELIEF IS NOT AVAILABLE UNDER AN
APPLICABLE STATUTORY OR ADMINISTRATIVE EXEMPTION.
THIS OBLIGATION IS NOT A DEPOSIT AND
IS NOT INSURED BY THE UNITED STATES OR ANY AGENCY OR FUND OF THE
UNITED STATES, INCLUDING THE FEDERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE
CORPORATION.”
(b) The
above legends shall not be removed from any Security unless there
is delivered to the Company satisfactory evidence, which may
include an Opinion of Counsel, as may be reasonably required to
ensure that any future transfers thereof may be made without
restriction under or violation of the provisions of the Securities
Act and other applicable law. Upon provision of such satisfactory
evidence, the Company shall execute and deliver to the Trustee, and
the Trustee shall deliver, at the written direction of the Company,
a Security that does not bear the legend.
SECTION 2.3. Form of Trustee’s
Certificate of Authentication.
The Trustee’s certificates of
authentication shall be in substantially the following
form:
This represents Securities referred
to in the within-mentioned Indenture.
Dated:
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WILMINGTON TRUST COMPANY, not in its
individual capacity but solely as Trustee
By:__________________________________
Authorized Officer
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SECTION 2.4. Temporary
Securities.
Pending the preparation of
definitive Securities, the Company may execute, and upon Company
Order the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, temporary
Securities that are printed, lithographed, typewritten,
mimeographed or otherwise produced, in any 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 not inconsistent with
the terms of this Indenture as the officers executing such
Securities may determine, as evidenced by their execution of such
Securities.
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 the office
or agency of the Company designated for that purpose 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 exchange therefor one or more
definitive Securities of any authorized denominations having the
same Original Issue Date and Stated Maturity and having the same
terms as such temporary Securities. Until so exchanged, the
temporary Securities shall in all respects be entitled to the same
benefits under this Indenture as definitive Securities.
SECTION 2.5. Definitive
Securities.
The Securities issued on the
Original Issue Date shall be in definitive form. The definitive
Securities shall be printed, lithographed or engraved, or produced
by any combination of these methods, if required by any securities
exchange on which the Securities may be listed, on a steel engraved
border or steel engraved borders or may be produced in any other
manner permitted by the rules of any securities exchange on which
the Securities may be listed, all as determined by the officers
executing such Securities, as evidenced by their execution of such
Securities.
ARTICLE III
The Securities
SECTION 3.1. Payment of Principal
and Interest.
(a) The
unpaid principal amount of the Securities shall bear interest at a
fixed rate per annum, 12% until paid or duly provided for, such
interest to accrue from the Original Issue Date or from the most
recent Interest Payment Date to which interest has been paid or
duly provided for, and any overdue principal, premium or Additional
Tax Sums and any overdue installment of interest shall bear
Increased Interest (to the extent payment of such interest would be
legally enforceable) from the dates such amounts are due until they
are paid or funds for the payment thereof are made available for
payment.
(b) Interest
and Increased Interest on any Security that is payable, and is
punctually paid or duly provided for, on any Interest Payment Date
shall be paid to the Person in whose name that Security (or one or
more Predecessor Securities) is registered at the close of business
on the Regular Record Date for such interest, except that interest
and any Increased Interest payable on the Stated Maturity (or any
date of principal repayment upon early Maturity) of the principal
of a Security or on a Redemption Date shall be paid to the Person
to whom principal is paid. The initial payment of interest on any
Security that is issued between a Regular Record Date and the
related Interest Payment Date shall be payable as provided in such
Security.
(c) Any
interest on any Security that is due and payable, but is not timely
paid or duly provided for, on any Interest Payment Date for
Securities (herein called “Defaulted Interest”) shall
forthwith cease to be payable to the registered Holder on the
relevant Regular Record Date by virtue of having been such Holder,
and such Defaulted Interest may be paid by the Company, at its
election in each case, as provided in paragraph (i) or (ii)
below:
(i) The
Company may elect to make payment of any Defaulted Interest to the
Persons in whose names the Securities (or their respective
Predecessor Securities) are registered at the close of business on
a special record date for the payment of such Defaulted Interest (a
“Special Record Date”), which shall be fixed in the
following manner. At least thirty (30) days prior to the date of
the proposed payment, the
Company shall notify the Trustee in
writing of the amount of Defaulted Interest proposed to be paid on
each Security and the date of the proposed payment, and at the same
time the Company shall deposit with the Trustee an amount of money
equal to the aggregate amount proposed to be paid in respect of
such Defaulted Interest or shall make arrangements satisfactory to
the Trustee for such deposit prior to the date of the proposed
payment, such money when deposited to be held in trust for the
benefit of the Persons entitled to such Defaulted Interest.
Thereupon the Trustee shall fix a Special Record Date for the
payment of such Defaulted Interest, which shall be not more than
fifteen (15) days and not less than ten (10) days prior to the date
of the proposed payment and not less than ten (10) days after the
receipt by the Trustee of the notice of the proposed payment. The
Trustee shall promptly notify the Company of such Special Record
Date and, in the name and at the expense of the Company, shall
cause notice of the proposed payment of such Defaulted Interest and
the Special Record Date therefor to be mailed, first class, postage
prepaid, to each Holder of a Security at the address of such Holder
as it appears in the Securities Register not less than ten (10)
days prior to such Special Record Date. Notice of the proposed
payment of such Defaulted Interest and the Special Record Date
therefor having been so mailed, such Defaulted Interest shall be
paid to the Persons in whose names the Securities (or their
respective Predecessor Securities) are registered on such Special
Record Date; or
(ii) The
Company may make payment of any Defaulted Interest in any other
lawful manner not inconsistent with the requirements of any
securities exchange or automated quotation system on which the
Securities may be listed, traded or quoted and, upon such notice as
may be required by such exchange or automated quotation system (or
by the Trustee if the Securities are not listed), if, after notice
given by the Company to the Trustee of the proposed payment
pursuant to this clause, such payment shall be deemed practicable
by the Trustee.
(d) Payments
of interest on the Securities shall include interest accrued to but
excluding the respective Interest Payment Dates. The amount of
interest payable for any interest period shall be computed and paid
on the basis of a 360-day year and the actual number of days
elapsed in the relevant interest period.
(e) Payment
of principal, premium, if any, and interest on the Securities shall
be made 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. Payments of principal, premium, if any, and interest
due at the Maturity of such Securities shall be made at the Place
of Payment upon surrender of such Securities to the Paying Agent
and payments of interest shall be made subject to such surrender
where applicable, by wire transfer at such place and to such
account at a banking institution in the United States as may be
designated in writing to the Paying Agent at least ten (10)
Business Days prior to the date for payment by the Person entitled
thereto unless proper written transfer instructions have not been
received by the relevant record date, in which case such payments
shall be made by check mailed to the address of such Person as such
address shall appear in the Security Register. Notwithstanding the
foregoing, so long as the holder of the Security is the Property
Trustee, the payment of the principal of (and premium if any) and
interest (including any overdue installment of interest and
Additional Tax Sums, if any) on the Security will be made at such
place and to such account as may be designated by the Property
Trustee.
(f) Subject
to the foregoing provisions of this Section 3.1, each Security
delivered under this Indenture upon transfer of or in exchange for
or in lieu of any other Security shall carry the rights to interest
accrued and unpaid, and to accrue, that were carried by such other
Security.
(g) If
payment of principal or interest on any Security is improperly
withheld or refused and accordingly the principal or interest on
the Securities is not paid when due, then interest on the
Securities will continue to accrue at the Increased Interest
rate.
SECTION 3.2.
Denominations.
The Securities shall be in
registered form without coupons and shall be issuable in minimum
denominations of $1,000 and any integral multiple of $1,000 in
excess thereof.
SECTION 3.3. Execution,
Authentication, Delivery and Dating.
(a) At
any time and from time to time after the execution and delivery of
this Indenture, the Company may deliver Securities in an aggregate
principal amount (including all then Outstanding Securities) not in
excess of up to $20 million 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 the Company Order shall authenticate and deliver
such Securities. In authenticating such Securities, and accepting
the additional responsibilities under this Indenture in relation to
such Securities, the Trustee shall be entitled to receive, and
shall be fully protected in relying upon:
(i) a
copy of any Board Resolution relating thereto; and
(ii) an
Opinion of Counsel stating that (1) such Securities, when
authenticated and delivered by the Trustee and issued by the
Company in the manner and subject to any conditions specified in
such Opinion of Counsel, will constitute valid and legally binding
obligations of the Company, subject to bankruptcy, insolvency,
fraudulent transfer, reorganization, moratorium and similar laws of
general applicability relating to or affecting creditors’
rights and to general equity principles; and (2) the Securities
have been duly authorized and executed by the Company and have been
delivered to the Trustee for authentication in accordance with this
Indenture.
(b) The
Securities shall be executed on behalf of the Company by its
Chairman of the Board, its Vice Chairman of the Board, its Chief
Executive Officer, its President or one of its Vice Presidents. The
signature of any of these officers 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.
(c) 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 the manual
signature of one of its authorized officers, and such certificate
upon any Security shall be conclusive evidence, and the only
evidence, that such Security has been duly authenticated and
delivered hereunder. Notwithstanding the foregoing, if any Security
shall have been authenticated and delivered hereunder but never
issued and sold by the Company, and the Company shall deliver such
Security to the Trustee for cancellation as provided in Section
3.8, for all purposes of this Indenture such Security shall be
deemed never to have been authenticated and delivered hereunder and
shall never be entitled to the benefits of this
Indenture.
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(d)
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Each Security shall be dated the date of its
authentication.
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SECTION 3.4. Global
Securities.
(a) Upon
the election of the Holder after the Original Issue Date, which
election need not be in writing, the Securities owned by such
Holder shall be issued in the form of one or more Global Securities
registered in the name of the Depositary o