Exhibit 4.4
REMARKETING AGREEMENT
REMARKETING AGREEMENT, dated as of
February 12, 2004 (this “Remarketing Agreement”)
by and among Affiliated Managers Group, Inc., a company organized
and existing under the laws of the State of Delaware (the
“Company”), The Bank of New York, a New York banking
corporation, not individually but solely as Purchase Contract Agent
and as attorney-in-fact of the holders of Purchase Contracts (each
as defined in the Purchase Contract Agreement (as defined herein)),
and Merrill Lynch & Co., Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner &
Smith Incorporated (“Merrill Lynch”).
WITNESSETH:
WHEREAS, the Company will issue its
PRIDES (the “PRIDES”) in an aggregate Stated Amount of
$250,000,000 under the Purchase Contract Agreement, dated as of
February 12, 2004, by and between the Purchase Contract Agent
and the Company (the “Purchase Contract Agreement”) as
amended or supplemented from time to time; and
WHEREAS, the Company will issue
concurrently in connection with the issuance of the PRIDES 4.125%
Senior Notes of the Company initially due February 17, 2010
(the “Senior Notes”) in an aggregate principal amount
of $250,000,000; and
WHEREAS, the PRIDES will initially
consist of 250,000 units referred to as “Income
PRIDES,” each such security consisting of a Senior Note in
the principal amount of $1,000 and a Purchase Contract issued by
the Company (“Purchase Contract”) pursuant to the
Purchase Contract Agreement, and no Growth PRIDES, each such
security consisting of certain U.S. Treasury Securities and a
Purchase Contract; and
WHEREAS, the Senior Notes forming a
part of the Income PRIDES will be pledged pursuant to the Pledge
Agreement (the “Pledge Agreement”), dated as of
February 12, 2004, by and among the Company, The Bank of New
York, as Collateral Agent, Purchase Contract Agent, Securities
Intermediary and Custodial Agent (the “Collateral
Agent”), to secure an Income PRIDES Holder’s
obligations under the related Purchase Contract on the Purchase
Contract Settlement Date; and
WHEREAS, the Remarketing Agent will
remarket in the manner provided herein the Senior Notes pledged
pursuant to the Pledge Agreement (the “Pledged Senior
Notes”) of the Income PRIDES Holders who have not already
settled their Purchase Contracts, and any Senior Notes that are not
pledged pursuant to the Pledge Agreement (the “Other Senior
Notes”) of the holders who have elected to have their Senior
Notes remarketed, in each case, as provided in the Purchase
Contract Agreement; and
WHEREAS, in the event of a Failed
Initial Remarketing, the holders of the Other Senior Notes electing
to have their Senior Notes remarketed and of the Holders of the
Pledged Senior Notes who have elected not to settle the Purchase
Contracts related to their Income PRIDES by Cash Settlement and who
have not settled their Purchase Contracts early upon the occurrence
of certain specified corporate transactions will be remarketed by
the Remarketing Agent on the
third Business Day immediately preceding the
Purchase Contract Settlement Date (the “Final Remarketing
Date”); and
WHEREAS, in the event of a
Successful Initial Remarketing, the applicable interest rate on the
Senior Notes will be reset on the Reset Date, to the Reset Rate to
be determined by the Reset Agent as the rate that such Senior Notes
should bear in order for the Applicable Principal Amount of the
Senior Notes to have an approximate aggregate market value of
100.25% of the Treasury Portfolio Purchase Price on the Initial
Remarketing Date plus the applicable Remarketing Fee, provided that
in the determination of such Reset Rate, the Company shall, if
applicable, limit the Reset Rate to the maximum rate permitted by
applicable law; and
WHEREAS, in the event of a Failed
Final Remarketing, the applicable interest rate on the Senior Notes
that remain outstanding on and after the Purchase Contract
Settlement Date will be reset on the third Business Day immediately
preceding the Purchase Contract Settlement Date, to the Reset Rate
to be determined by the Reset Agent as the rate that such Senior
Notes should bear in order to have an approximate market value of
100.25% of the aggregate principal amount of the Senior Notes on
the third Business Day immediately preceding the Purchase Contract
Settlement Date plus the applicable Remarketing Fee, provided that
in the determination of such Reset Rate, the Company shall, if
applicable, limit the Reset Rate to the maximum rate permitted by
applicable law; and
WHEREAS, the Company has requested
Merrill Lynch to act as the Reset Agent and as the Remarketing
Agent, and as such to perform the services described herein;
and
WHEREAS, Merrill Lynch is willing to
act as Reset Agent and Remarketing Agent and as such to perform
such duties on the terms and conditions expressly set forth
herein.
NOW, THEREFORE, for and in
consideration of the covenants herein made, and subject to the
conditions herein set forth, the parties hereto agree as
follows:
Section 1.
Definitions
.
Capitalized terms used and not defined in this Remarketing
Agreement shall have the meanings assigned to them in the Purchase
Contract Agreement or, if not therein defined, the Pledge
Agreement.
Section 2.
Appointment and
Obligations of Reset Agent and Remarketing Agent;
Remarketing.
(a)
The Company
hereby appoints Merrill Lynch and Merrill Lynch hereby accepts such
appointment, (i) as the Reset Agent to determine in consultation
with the Company, in the manner provided for herein and in the
Indenture (as in effect on the date of this Remarketing Agreement)
with respect to the Senior Notes, (1) the Reset Rate that, in the
opinion of the Reset Agent, will, when applied to the Senior Notes,
enable the Applicable Principal Amount of the Senior Notes to have
an approximate aggregate market value of 100.25% of the Treasury
Portfolio Purchase Price as of an Initial Remarketing Date, and (2)
in the event of a Failed Initial Remarketing, the Reset Rate that,
in the opinion of the Reset Agent, will, when applied to the Senior
Notes, enable a Senior Note to have an approximate market value of
100.25% of the aggregate principal amount of the Senior Notes as of
the third Business Day preceding the Purchase Contract Settlement
Date, provided, in each case, that the Company, by notice to
the
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Reset Agent prior to the
tenth Business Day preceding a proposed Initial Remarketing Date,
or the Purchase Contract Settlement Date, in the case of the Final
Remarketing (as defined below), shall, if applicable, limit the
Reset Rate so that it does not exceed the maximum rate permitted by
applicable law and (ii) as the exclusive Remarketing Agent (subject
to the right of Merrill Lynch to appoint additional remarketing
agents hereunder as described below) to (1) remarket the Other
Senior Notes of the holders electing to have such Other Senior
Notes remarketed and the Pledged Senior Notes of the Income PRIDES
Holders on an Initial Remarketing Date, for settlement on the third
Business Day following such remarketing and (2) in the case of a
Failed Initial Remarketing, remarket the Senior Notes of the
holders of the Other Senior Notes and of the Income PRIDES Holders
who have not settled the related Purchase Contracts early and have
failed to notify the Purchase Contract Agent, on or prior to the
fifth Business Day immediately preceding the Purchase Contract
Settlement Date, of their intention to settle the related Purchase
Contracts through Cash Settlement. In connection with any
remarketing contemplated hereby, the Remarketing Agent will enter
into a Supplemental Remarketing Agreement (the “Supplemental
Remarketing Agreement”) with the Company and the Purchase
Contract Agent, which shall either be (i) substantially in the form
attached hereto as Exhibit A (with such changes as the Company and
the Remarketing Agent may agree upon, it being understood that
changes may be necessary in the representations, warranties,
covenants and other provisions of the Supplemental Remarketing
Agreement due to changes in law or facts and circumstances or in
the event that Merrill Lynch is not the sole remarketing agent, and
with such further changes therein as the Remarketing Agent may
reasonably request) or (ii) in such other form as the Remarketing
Agent may reasonably request, subject to the approval of the
Company (such approval not to be unreasonably withheld).
Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, Merrill Lynch
shall not be obligated to act as Remarketing Agent or Reset Agent
hereunder unless the Supplemental Remarketing Agreement is in form
and substance reasonably satisfactory to Merrill Lynch. The
Company agrees that Merrill Lynch shall have the right, on 15
Business Days’ notice to the Company, to appoint one or more
additional remarketing agents so long as any such additional
remarketing agents shall be reasonably acceptable to the Company.
Upon any such appointment, the parties shall enter into an
appropriate amendment to this Remarketing Agreement to reflect the
addition of any such remarketing agent.
(b)
Pursuant to the
Supplemental Remarketing Agreement, the Remarketing Agent, either
as sole remarketing agent or as representative of a group of
remarketing agents appointed as aforesaid, will agree, subject to
the terms and conditions set forth herein and therein, to use its
reasonable efforts to (i) remarket, on each Initial Remarketing
Date (each an “Initial Remarketing”), the Senior Notes
that the Collateral Agent shall have notified the Remarketing Agent
have been tendered for, or otherwise are to be included in, such
Initial Remarketing, at a price per Senior Note such that the
aggregate price for the Applicable Principal Amount of the Senior
Notes is approximately 100.25% of the Treasury Portfolio Purchase
Price plus the Remarketing Fee and (ii) in the event of a Failed
Initial Remarketing, remarket, on the third Business Day
immediately preceding the Purchase Contract Settlement Date (the
“Final Remarketing”), the Senior Notes that the
Collateral Agent shall have notified the Remarketing Agent have
been tendered for, or otherwise are to be included in, the Final
Remarketing, at a price of approximately 100.25% of the aggregate
principal amount of such Senior Notes plus the Remarketing Fee.
Notwithstanding the preceding sentence, the Remarketing Agent shall
not remarket any Senior Notes for a price less than the price
necessary for the Applicable Principal Amount of the Senior Notes
to have an aggregate price equal to 100% of the Treasury
Portfolio
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Purchase Price (the “Minimum Initial
Remarketing Price”), in the case of any Initial Remarketing,
or the aggregate principal amount of such Senior Notes, in the case
of the Final Remarketing. After deducting the fee specified
in Section 3 below, the proceeds of such Initial Remarketing
or Final Remarketing, as the case may be, shall be paid to the
Collateral Agent in accordance with Section 4.6 or 6.3 of the
Pledge Agreement and Section 5.3 of the Purchase Contract
Agreement (each of which Sections are incorporated herein by
reference). The right of each holder of Senior Notes or
Income PRIDES to have Senior Notes tendered for any Initial
Remarketing or the Final Remarketing, as the case may be, shall be
limited to the extent that (i) the Remarketing Agent conducts an
Initial Remarketing and, in the event of a Failed Initial
Remarketing, a Final Remarketing pursuant to the terms of this
Remarketing Agreement, (ii) Senior Notes tendered have not been
called for redemption, (iii) the Remarketing Agent is able to find
a purchaser or purchasers for tendered Senior Notes at a price of
not less than the Minimum Initial Remarketing Price, in the case of
any Initial Remarketing, and 100% of the principal amount thereof,
in the case of the Final Remarketing and (iv) such purchaser or
purchasers deliver the purchase price therefor to the Remarketing
Agent as and when required. The Remarketing Agent shall not
be obligated to remarket any Senior Note if a condition precedent
to such remarketing is not fulfilled.
(c)
Neither the
Remarketing Agent nor the Reset Agent shall have any obligation
whatsoever to purchase any Senior Notes, whether in an Initial
Remarketing, the Final Remarketing or otherwise, and shall in no
way be obligated to provide funds to make payment upon tender of
Senior Notes for remarketing or to otherwise expend or risk their
own funds or incur or be exposed to financial liability in the
performance of their respective duties under this Remarketing
Agreement or any Supplemental Remarketing Agreement, and, without
limitation of the foregoing, the Remarketing Agent shall not be
deemed an underwriter of the remarketed Senior Notes. The
Company shall not be obligated in any case to provide funds to make
payment upon tender of Senior Notes for remarketing.
Section 3.
Fees . In the event of a
Successful Initial Remarketing, the Remarketing Agent shall retain
as a remarketing fee (the “Remarketing Fee”) (i) an
amount not exceeding 25 basis points (0.25%) of the Minimum Initial
Remarketing Price from any amount received in connection with such
Initial Remarketing in excess of the Minimum Initial Remarketing
Price if the remarketed Senior Notes mature on or prior to
February 17, 2010 or (ii) such other amount as agreed between
the Company and the Remarketing Agent if the maturity date of the
Senior Notes is otherwise extended on the Reset Date to a date
after February 17, 2010. In the event of a Successful
Final Remarketing, the Remarketing Agent shall retain as the
Remarketing Fee an amount not exceeding 25 basis points (0.25%), of
the principal amount of the remarketed Senior Notes from any amount
received in connection with such Final Remarketing in excess of the
aggregate principal amount of such remarketed Senior Notes if the
remarketed Senior Notes mature on or prior to February 17,
2010 or (ii) such other amount as agreed between the Company and
the Remarketing Agent if the maturity date of the Senior Notes is
otherwise extended on the Reset Date to a date after
February 17, 2010. In addition, the Reset Agent shall,
in either case, receive from the Company a reasonable and customary
fee (the “Reset Agent Fee”); provided, however, that if
the Remarketing Agent shall also act as the Reset Agent, then the
Reset Agent shall not be entitled to receive any such Reset Agent
Fee. Payment of such Reset Agent Fee shall be made by the
Company on the Initial Remarketing Date, in the case of a
Successful Initial Remarketing, or on the third Business Day
immediately preceding the
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Purchase Contract Settlement
Date, in the case of a Successful Final Remarketing, in immediately
available funds or, upon the instructions of the Reset Agent, by
certified or official bank check or checks or by wire
transfer.
Section 4.
Replacement and
Resignation of Remarketing Agent.
(a)
The Company may
in its absolute discretion replace Merrill Lynch as the Remarketing
Agent and/or as the Reset Agent in its capacity hereunder by giving
notice (i) prior to 3:00 p.m., New York City time on the eleventh
Business Day immediately prior to any Initial Remarketing Date, or
(ii) in the event of a Failed Initial Remarketing, prior to 3:00
p.m., New York City time on the eleventh Business Day immediately
prior to the Purchase Contract Settlement Date, provided, in either
case, that the Company must replace Merrill Lynch both as
Remarketing Agent and as Reset Agent unless Merrill Lynch shall
agree to continue to serve solely in one such capacity. Any
such replacement shall become effective upon the Company’s
appointment of a successor to perform the services that would
otherwise be performed hereunder by the Remarketing Agent and/or
the Reset Agent. Upon providing such notice, the Company
shall use all reasonable efforts to appoint such a successor and to
enter into a remarketing agreement with such successor as soon as
reasonably practicable. The Company shall notify the Purchase
Contract Agent, the Collateral Agent and the Custodial Agent of the
appointment of any such successor.
(b)
Merrill Lynch may
resign at any time and be discharged from its duties and
obligations hereunder as the Remarketing Agent and/or as the Reset
Agent by giving notice (i) prior to 3:00 p.m., New York City time
on the eleventh Business Day immediately prior to any Initial
Remarketing Date, or (ii) in the event of a Failed Initial
Remarketing, prior to 3:00 p.m., New York City time on the eleventh
Business Day immediately prior to the Purchase Contract Settlement
Date. Any such resignation shall become effective upon the
Company’s appointment of a successor to perform the services
that would otherwise be performed hereunder by the Remarketing
Agent and/or the Reset Agent. Upon receiving notice from the
Remarketing Agent and/or the Reset Agent that it wishes to resign
hereunder, the Company shall use all reasonable efforts to appoint
such a successor and enter into a remarketing agreement with it as
soon as reasonably practicable. The Company shall notify the
Purchase Contract Agent, the Collateral Agent and the Custodial
Agent of the appointment of any such successor.
Section 5.
Dealing in the
Securities . Each of the
Remarketing Agent and the Reset Agent, when acting hereunder or
under the Supplemental Remarketing Agreement or acting in its
individual or any other capacity, may, to the extent permitted by
law, buy, sell, hold or deal in any of the Senior Notes, Securities
or other securities of the Company. With respect to any
Senior Notes, Securities or other securities of the Company owned
by it, the Remarketing Agent and the Reset Agent may each exercise
any vote or join in any action with like effect as if it did not
act in any capacity hereunder. The Remarketing Agent and the
Reset Agent respectively, in its individual capacity, either as
principal or agent, may also engage in or have an interest in any
financial or other transaction with the Company as freely as if it
did not act in any capacity hereunder.
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Section 6.
Registration
Statement and Prospectus .
(a)
In connection
with any Initial Remarketing, the Company in its sole discretion,
may determine to (i) file and cause to be declared effective a
registration statement relating to the Senior Notes under the
Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “1933 Act”),
prior to the third Business Day immediately preceding such Initial
Remarketing Date, (ii) furnish a current preliminary prospectus
and, if applicable, a current preliminary prospectus supplement to
be used by the Remarketing Agent in such Initial Remarketing not
later than seven Business Days prior to such Initial Remarketing
Date (or such earlier date as the Remarketing Agent may reasonably
request) and in such quantities as the Remarketing Agent may
reasonably request, and (iii) furnish a current final prospectus
and, if applicable, a final prospectus supplement to be used by the
Remarketing Agent in such Initial Remarketing not later than the
third Business Day immediately preceding such Initial Remarketing
Date in such quantities as the Remarketing Agent may reasonably
request.
(b)
In the event of a
Failed Initial Remarketing and in connection with the Final
Remarketing, the Company in its sole discretion, may determine to
(i) file and cause to be declared effective a registration
statement relating to the Senior Notes under the 1933 Act prior to
the third Business Day immediately preceding the Purchase Contract
Settlement Date, (ii) furnish a current preliminary prospectus and,
if applicable, a current preliminary prospectus supplement to be
used by the Remarketing Agent in the Final Remarketing not later
than seven Business Days prior to the Purchase Contract Settlement
Date (or such earlier date as the Remarketing Agent may reasonably
request) and in such quantities as the Remarketing Agent may
reasonably request, and (iii) furnish a current final prospectus
and, if applicable, a final prospectus supplement to be
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