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STARWOOD HOTELS AND RESORTS WORLDWIDE,
INC.
AND
U.S. BANK NATIONAL
ASSOCIATION,
as Trustee
SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE
NO. 2
Dated as of
May 23, 2008
1
THIS SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE
No. 2 (this “ Supplemental Indenture No. 2
”), dated as of May 23, 2008, is between STARWOOD HOTELS
AND RESORTS WORLDWIDE, INC., a Maryland corporation (the “
Company ”), and U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, a
national banking association, as trustee (the “
Trustee ”).
RECITALS
WHEREAS,
the Company has heretofore executed and delivered to the Trustee an
Indenture dated as of September 13, 2007, between the Company
and the Trustee (the “ Base Indenture ” and
together with this Supplemental Indenture No. 2, the “
Indenture ”), providing for the issuance from time to
time of series of the Company’s Securities;
WHEREAS,
Section 10.01(e) of the Base Indenture provides for the
Company and the Trustee to enter into an indenture supplemental to
the Base Indenture to establish the forms or terms of Securities of
any series as permitted by Section 2.01 or Section 2.02
of the Base Indenture;
WHEREAS,
pursuant to Section 2.02 of the Base Indenture, the Company
wishes to provide for the issuance of a new series of Securities to
be known as its 6 3/4 % Senior
Notes due 2018 (the “ Notes ”), the form and
terms of such Notes and the terms, provisions and conditions
thereof to be set forth as provided in this Supplemental Indenture
No. 2; and
WHEREAS,
the Company has requested that the Trustee execute and deliver this
Supplemental Indenture No. 2 and all requirements necessary to
make this Supplemental Indenture No. 2 a valid, binding and
enforceable instrument in accordance with its terms, and to make
the Notes, when executed by the Company and authenticated and
delivered by the Trustee, the valid, binding and enforceable
obligations of the Company, have been done and performed, and the
execution and delivery of this Supplemental Indenture No. 2
has been duly authorized in all respects;
NOW,
THEREFORE, in consideration of the covenants and agreements set
forth herein and for other good and valuable consideration, the
receipt and sufficiency of which are hereby acknowledged, the
parties hereto hereby agree as follows:
ARTICLE 1
DEFINITIONS
Section 1.01 Relation
to Base Indenture . This
Supplemental Indenture No. 2 constitutes an integral part of
the Base Indenture.
Section 1.02 Definition Of Terms . For all purposes of this Supplemental Indenture
No. 2:
(a) Capitalized terms used herein without definition
shall have the meanings set forth in the Base Indenture;
(b) a term defined anywhere in this Supplemental
Indenture No. 2 has the same meaning throughout;
(c) the singular includes the plural and vice
versa;
(d) headings are for convenience of reference only and
do not affect interpretation;
(e) the following terms have the meanings given to
them in this Section 1.02(e):
“
Business Day ” shall mean, unless otherwise specified,
any calendar day that is not a Saturday, Sunday or legal holiday in
New York, New York and on which commercial banks are open for
business in New York, New York.
“
Change of Control ” shall mean the occurrence of any
of the following: (1) the direct or indirect sale, transfer,
conveyance or other disposition (other than by way of merger or
consolidation), in one or a series of related transactions, of all
or substantially all of the assets of the Company and its
Subsidiaries taken as a whole to any Person other than the Company
or one of its subsidiaries, provided that the Company will
be deemed to own any asset that the Company sells, transfers,
conveys or otherwise disposes and, following such transaction,
manages pursuant to a management agreement or it is operated by a
third party subject to a franchise or license agreement with the
Company; (2) the consummation of any transaction (including,
without limitation, any merger or consolidation) the result of
which is that any Person becomes the beneficial owner, directly or
indirectly, of more than 50% of the then outstanding number of
shares of the Company’s Voting Stock; or (3) the first
day on which a majority of the members of the Company’s Board
of Directors are not Continuing Directors.
“
Change of Control Triggering Event ” shall mean the
occurrence of both a Change of Control and a Rating Event.
“
Capitalized Lease-Back Obligation ” shall mean the
total net rental obligations of the Company or any Restricted
Subsidiary under any lease entered into as part of a sale and
lease-back transaction involving a Principal Property discounted to
present value at the rate of 9% per annum.
“
Comparable Treasury Issue ” shall mean the United
States Treasury security selected by an Independent Investment
Banker as having a maturity comparable to the remaining term
(“ Remaining Life ”) of the Notes to be redeemed
that would be utilized, at the time of selection and in accordance
with customary financial practice, in pricing new issues of
corporate debt securities of comparable maturity to the remaining
term of such Notes.
“
Comparable Treasury Price ” shall mean, with respect
to any Redemption Date, (A) the average of the Reference
Treasury Dealer Quotations for such Redemption Date, after
excluding the highest and lowest such Reference Treasury Dealer
Quotations, or (B) if the Independent Investment Banker
obtains fewer than four such Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations,
the average of all such Quotations or, if only one such Quotation
is obtained, such Quotation.
“
Continuing Directors ” shall mean, as of any date of
determination, any member of the Company’s Board of Directors
who (1) was a member of such Board of Directors on the date of
the issuance of the Notes; or (2) was nominated for election
or elected to such Board of Directors with the approval of a
majority of the Continuing Directors who were members of such Board
of Directors at the time of such nomination or election (either by
a specific vote or by approval of the Company’s proxy
statement in which such member was named as a nominee for election
as a director, without objection to such nomination).
“
Exchange Act ” shall mean the Securities Exchange Act
of 1934, as amended.
“
Fair Value ” when used with respect to property, shall
mean the fair value as determined in good faith by the Board of
Directors.
“
Global Note ” shall have the meaning set forth in
Section 2.04.
“
Independent Investment Banker ” shall mean an
independent investment banking institution of national standing
appointed by the Company, which may be one of the Reference
Treasury Dealers.
“
Interest Payment Date ” shall have the meaning set
forth in Section 2.05(b).
“
Investment Grade Rating ” shall mean a rating equal to
or higher than Baa3 (or the equivalent) by Moody’s and BBB-
(or the equivalent) by S&P; and, if either of Moody’s or
S&P ceases to rate the Notes or fails to make a rating of the
Notes publicly available for reasons outside of the Company’s
control, the equivalent investment grade credit rating from a
“nationally recognized statistical rating organization”
within the meaning of Rule 15c3-1(c)(2)(vi)(F) under the
Exchange Act, selected by the Company (as certified by a resolution
of the Company’s Board of Directors) as a replacement
organization for Moody’s or S&P, or both, as the case may
be.
“
Maturity Date ” shall have the meaning set forth in
Section 2.02.
“
Moody’s ” shall mean Moody’s Investors
Service Inc.
“
Person ” has the meaning set forth in the Base
Indenture and includes a “person” or
“group” as these terms are used in
Section 13(d)(3) of the Exchange Act.
“
Principal Property ” shall mean any single property
owned by the Company or any of its Subsidiary having a gross book
value in excess of the greater of (i) $100 million and
(ii) 5% of Consolidated Net Assets, except any such property
or portion thereof which the Board of Directors by resolution
declares is not of material importance to the total business
conducted by the Company and its Subsidiaries as an entirety.
“
Rating Agency ” shall mean (1) each of
Moody’s and S&P; and (2) if either of Moody’s
or S&P ceases to rate the Notes or fails to make a rating of
the Notes publicly available for reasons outside of the
Company’s control, a “nationally recognized statistical
rating organization” within the meaning of
Rule 15c3-1(c)(2)(vi)(F) under the Exchange Act, selected by
the Company (as certified by a resolution of the Company’s
Board of Directors) as a replacement agency for Moody’s or
S&P, or both of them, as the case may be.
“
Rating Event ” shall mean the rating on the Notes is
lowered by each of the Rating Agencies and the Notes are rated
below an Investment Grade Rating by each of the Rating Agencies on
any day within the 60-day period (which 60-day period will be
extended so long as the rating of the Notes is under publicly
announced consideration for a possible downgrade by any of the
Rating Agencies) after the earlier of (1) the occurrence of a
Change of Control and (2) public notice of the occurrence of a
Change of Control or the Company’s intention to effect a
Change of Control; provided , however , that a Rating
Event otherwise arising by virtue of a particular reduction in
rating will not be deemed to have occurred in respect of a
particular Change of Control (and thus will not be deemed a Rating
Event for purposes of the definition of Change of Control
Triggering Event) if the Rating Agencies making the reduction in
rating to which this definition would otherwise apply do not
announce or publicly confirm or inform the Trustee in writing at
the Company’s or its request that the reduction was the
result, in whole or in part, of any event or circumstance comprised
of or arising as a result of, or in respect of, the applicable
Change of Control (whether or not the applicable Change of Control
has occurred at the time of the Rating Event).
“
Record Date ” shall mean, with respect to any Interest
Payment Date for the Notes, the first day, whether or not a
Business Day, of the calendar month in which such Interest Payment
Date falls.
“
Redemption Date ” shall mean, with respect to any
redemption of Notes, the date fixed for such redemption pursuant to
the Indenture and such Notes.
“
Reference Treasury Dealer ” shall mean any primary
U.S. government securities dealer in New York City (a “
Primary Treasury Dealer ”) that the Company selects.
The Company has selected Banc of America Securities LLC, J.P.
Morgan Securities Inc., Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith
Incorporated and Morgan Stanley & Co. Incorporated and their
respective successors as Primary Treasury Dealers.
“
Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations ” shall mean,
with respect to each Reference Treasury Dealer and any Redemption
Date, the average, as determined by the Independent Investment
Banker, of the bid and asked prices for the Comparable Treasury
Issue (expressed in each case as a percentage of its principal
amount) quoted in writing to the Independent Investment Banker by
the Reference Treasury Dealer at 5:00 p.m., New York City time, on
the third Business Day preceding such Redemption Date.
“
Restricted Subsidiary ” shall mean any of the
Company’s Subsidiaries organized and existing under the laws
of the United States of America and the principal business of which
is carried on within the United States of America (x) which
owns, or is a lessee pursuant to a capital lease of, any Principal
Property or (y) in which the investment of the Company and all
of its Subsidiaries exceeds 5% of Consolidated Net Assets as of the
date of such determination other than, in the case of either clause
(x) or (y), (i) each Subsidiary whose principal business
consists of finance, banking, credit, leasing, insurance, financial
services or other similar operations, or any combination thereof,
(ii) each Subsidiary formed or acquired after the date hereof
for the purpose of developing new assets or acquiring the business
or assets of another Person and which does not acquire any part of
the business or assets of the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary,
(iii) each Subsidiary organized under the laws of the United
States of America whose principal business consists of managing,
licensing, supervising, directing or controlling activities outside
the United States of America; and (iv) each subsidiary whose
principal business consists of conducting timeshare, fractional,
residential and related activities.
“
Unrestricted Subsidiary ” shall mean any of the
Company’s Subsidiaries other than a Restricted
Subsidiary.
“
S&P ” means Standard & Poor’s Rating
Services, a division of The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
“
Treasury Rate ” shall mean, with respect to any
Redemption Date, (i) the yield, under the heading which
represents the average for the immediately preceding week,
appearing in the most recently published statistical release
designated “H.15 (519)” or any successor publication
which is published weekly by the Board of Governors of the Federal
Reserve System and which establishes yields on actively traded
United States Treasury securities adjusted to constant maturity
under the caption “Treasury Constant Maturities,” for
the maturity corresponding to the Comparable Treasury Issue (if no
maturity is within three months before or after the Remaining Life,
yields for the two published maturities most closely corresponding
to the Comparable Treasury Issue shall be determined and the
Treasury Rate shall be interpolated or extrapolated from such
yields on a straight line basis, rounding to the nearest month),
(ii) if the period from the Redemption Date to the Maturity
Date of the Notes to be redeemed is less than one year, the weekly
average yield on actually traded United States Treasury securities
adjusted to a constant maturity of one year will be used, or
(iii) if such release (or any successor release) is not
published during the week preceding the calculation date or does
not contain such yields, the rate per annum equal to the semiannual
equivalent yield to maturity of the Comparable Treasury Issue,
calculated using a price for the Comparable Treasury Issue
(expressed as a percentage of its principal amount) equal to the
Comparable Treasury Price for such Redemption Date. The Treasury
Rate shall be calculated by the Company on the third Business Day
preceding such Redemption Date. The Trustee shall not be
responsible for any such calculation.
“
Voting Stock ” of any Person as of any date means the
capital stock of such Person that is at the time entitled to vote
generally in the election of the Board of Directors or similar
governing body of such Person.
The terms
“ Company ,” “ Trustee ,”
“ Indenture ,” “ Base Indenture
,” and “ Notes ” shall have the respective
meanings set forth in the recitals to this Supplemental Indenture
No. 2 and the paragraph preceding such recitals.
ARTICLE 2
GENERAL TERMS AND
CONDITIONS OF THE NOTES
Section 2.01 Designation and Principal Amount
. The Notes may be issued from time
to time upon written order of the Company for the authentication
and delivery of Notes pursuant to Section 2.03 of the Base
Indenture. There is hereby authorized a series of Securities
designated as the 6 3/4 %
Senior Notes due 2018, limited in aggregate principal amount to
U.S. $400,000,000 (except for Notes authenticated and delivered in
accordance with the last paragraph of Section 2.02 of the Base
Indenture or upon registration of transfer of, or in exchange for,
or in lieu of, other Notes pursuant to Sections 2.06, 2.07,
2.08, 3.03 or 10.04 of the Base Indenture).
Section 2.02 Maturity . The date upon which the Notes shall become due
and payable at final maturity, together with any accrued and unpaid
interest, is May 15, 2018 (the “ Maturity Date
”).
Section 2.03 Form,
Payment and Appointment .
Except as provided in Section 2.04, the Notes shall be issued
in fully registered, certificated form. Principal of and interest
on the Notes will be payable, the transfer of such Notes will be
registrable, and such Notes will be exchangeable for Notes of a
like aggregate principal amount, at the office or agency of the
Company maintained for such purpose in the Borough of Manhattan,
The City of New York, which shall initially be the Principal Office
of the Trustee; provided , however , that payment of
interest may be made at the option of the Company by check mailed
to the Person entitled thereto at such address as shall appear in
the Security register or by wire transfer to an account
appropriately designated by the Person entitled to payment;
provided , that the paying agent shall have received written
notice of such account designation at least five Business Days
prior to the date of such payment (subject to surrender of the
relevant Note in the case of a payment of interest on a Redemption
Date or the Maturity Date).
No service
charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange
of the Notes, but the Company may require payment from the holder
of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental charge
that may be imposed in connection therewith.
The
Security registrar and paying agent for the Notes shall initially
be the Trustee.
The Notes
shall be issuable in denominations of U.S. $2,000 and integral
multiples of U.S. $1,000 in excess thereof.
The
Specified Currency of the Notes shall be U.S. Dollars.
Section 2.04 Global
Notes . The Notes shall be
issued initially in the form of a permanent Global Security in
registered form (a “ Global Note ”), deposited
with The Depository Trust Company or such other Depositary as any
officer of the Company may from time to time designate. Unless and
until such Global Note is exchanged for Notes in certificated form,
such Global Note may be transferred, in whole but not in part, and
any payments on the Notes shall be made only to the Depositary or a
nominee of the Depositary, or to a successor Depositary selected or
approved by the Company or to a nominee of such successor
Depositary.
Section 2.05 Interest . (a) Interest payable on any Interest
Payment Date, the Maturity Date or, if applicable, the Redemption
Date, with respect to the Notes shall be the amount of interest
accrued from, and including, the immediately preceding Interest
Payment Date in respect of which interest has been paid or duly
provided for (or from and including the original issue date of
May 23, 2008, if no interest has been paid or duly provided
for with respect to the Notes) to, but excluding, such Interest
Payment Date, Maturity Date or, if applicable, Redemption Date, as
the case may be (each, an “ Interest Period
”).
(b) The Notes will bear interest at the rate of 6
3/4 % per year from the
original issue date thereof through and including the Maturity
Date. Interest on the Notes shall be payable semi-annually in
arrears on May 15 and November 15 of each year (each, an
“ Interest Payment Date ”), commencing
November 15, 2008, to the Persons in whose names the relevant
Notes are registered at the close of business on the Record Date
for such Interest Payment Date, except as provided in
Section 2.05(d).
(c) The amount of interest payable for any full
semi-annual Interest Period will be computed on the basis of a
360-day year consisting of twelve 30-day months. The amount of
interest payable for any period shorter than a full semi-annual
Interest Period for which interest is computed will be computed on
the basis of a 30-day month and, for any period less than a month,
on the basis of the actual number of days elapsed per 30-day month.
In the event that any scheduled Interest Payment Date for the Notes
falls on a day that is not a Business Day, then payment of interest
payable on such Interest Payment Date will be postponed to the next
succeeding day which is a Business Day (and no interest on such
payment will accrue for the period from and after such scheduled
Interest Payment Date).
(d) In the event that the Maturity Date or a
Redemption Date for any Note falls on a day that is not a Business
Day, then the related payments of principal, premium, if any, and
interest may be made on the next succeeding day that is a Business
Day (and no additional interest will accumulate on the amount
payable for the period from and after the Maturity Date). Interest
due on the Maturity Date or a Redemption Date (in each case,
whether or not an Interest Payment Date) of any Notes will be paid
to the Person to whom principal of such Notes is payable.
Section 2.06 No
Sinking Fund . The Notes
are not entitled to the benefit of any sinking fund.
ARTICLE 3
REDEMPTION OF THE
NOTES
Section 3.01 Optional
Redemption by Company .
Except as otherwise may be specified in this Supplemental Indenture
No. 2, the Company shall have the right to redeem the Notes,
in whole or in part, at any time or from time to time, at a
redemption price (the “ Optional Redemption Price
”) equal to the greater of:
(i) 100% of the principal amount plus accrued and
unpaid interest to, but excluding, the Redemption Date; and
(ii) the sum, as determined by an Independent
Investment Banker, of the present values of the remaining scheduled
payments of principal and interest (exclusive of interest accrued
to the Redemption Date) discounted to the Redemption Date on a
semi-annual basis (assuming a 360-day year consisting of twelve
30-day months) at the Treasury Rate plus 45 basis points, plus
accrued and unpaid interest on the principal amount being redeemed
to, but excluding, the Redemption Date.
The
Company will mail notice of such redemption to the registered
holders of the Notes to be redeemed not less than 30 nor more than
60 days prior to the Redemption Date. If Notes are only
partially redeemed pursuant to this Section 3.01, the Notes to
be redeemed will be selected by the Trustee in such manner as in
its sole discretion it shall deem appropriate and fair;
provided , that if at the time of redemption the Notes to be
redeemed are registered as a Global Note, the Depositary shall
determine, in accordance with its procedures, the principal amount
of the Notes to be redeemed held by each of its participants that
holds a position in such Notes. The Optional Redemption Price shall
be paid prior to 12:00 noon, New York City time, on the Redemption
Date or at such later time as is then permitted by the rules of the
Depositary for the Notes (if then registered as a Global Note);
provided , that the Company shall deposit with the Trustee
an amount sufficient to pay the Optional Redemption Price by
10:00 a.m., New York City time, on the date such Optional
Redemption Price is to be paid.
If money
sufficient to pay the redemption price of all of the Notes (or
portions thereof) to be redeemed on the Redemption Date is
deposited with the Trustee or paying agent on or before the
Redemption Date and certain other conditions are satisfied, then on
and after such Redemption Date, interest will cease to accrue on
such Notes (or such portion thereof) called for redemption.
Section 3.02 Change of
Control Triggering Event .
If a Change of Control Triggering Event occurs, unless the Company
has exercised its right to redeem the Notes as described in
Section 3.01, holders of Notes will have the right to require
the Company to repurchase all or any part (equal to $2,000 or an
integral multiple of $1,000 in excess thereof) of their Notes
pursuant to the offer described below (the “ Change of
Control Offer ”) on the terms set forth in the
Notes
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