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EXCHANGE AND REGISTRATION RIGHTS AGREEMENT

Note Purchase Agreement

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Title: EXCHANGE AND REGISTRATION RIGHTS AGREEMENT
Governing Law: New York     Date: 10/30/2006
Industry: Oil Well Services and Equipment     Law Firm: Shearman Sterling    

EXCHANGE AND REGISTRATION RIGHTS AGREEMENT, Parties: plains all american pipeline lp , paa finance corp , citigroup global markets inc. , ubs securities llc , banc of america securities llc , wachovia capital markets  llc
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EXCHANGE AND REGISTRATION RIGHTS AGREEMENT

AMONG

PLAINS ALL AMERICAN PIPELINE, L.P.,

PAA FINANCE CORP.,

THE GUARANTORS

AND

THE INITIAL PURCHASERS

Dated as of October 30, 2006

 


 

PLAINS ALL AMERICAN PIPELINE, L.P.
PAA FINANCE CORP.

6.125% Senior Notes due 2017

EXCHANGE AND REGISTRATION RIGHTS AGREEMENT

October 30, 2006

Citigroup Global Markets Inc.
UBS Securities LLC
Banc of America Securities LLC
J.P. Morgan Securities Inc.
Wachovia Capital Markets, LLC
BNP Paribas Securities Corp.
SunTrust Capital Markets, Inc.
Comerica Securities, Inc.
Commerzbank Capital Markets Corp.
DnB NOR Markets, Inc.
Fortis Securities LLC
HSBC Securities (USA) Inc.
ING Financial Markets LLC
Mitsubishi UFJ Securities International plc
Piper Jaffray & Co.
RBC Capital Markets Corporation
Scotia Capital (USA) Inc.
Daiwa Securities America Inc.
SG Americas Securities, LLC
Wedbush Morgan Securities Inc.
Wells Fargo Securities, LLC

c/o Citigroup Global Markets Inc.
    388 Greenwich St., 34th Floor
    New York, New York 10013

Ladies and Gentlemen:

          Plains All American Pipeline, L.P., a Delaware limited partnership (the “Partnership”), PAA Finance Corp., a Delaware corporation (“PAA Finance,” and together with the Partnership, the “Issuers”) and the Guarantors listed on Schedule 1 hereto (the “Guarantors”), propose to issue and sell to the initial purchasers listed on Schedule 2 hereto (the “Initial Purchasers”), upon the terms set forth in a purchase agreement dated October 23, 2006 (the “Purchase Agreement”), $400,000,000 principal amount of 6.125% Senior Notes due 2017 (the “Securities”) and $600,000,000 principal amount of 6.650% Senior Notes due 2037 (the “2037

 


 

Notes”) relating to the initial placement of the Securities and the 2037 Notes (the “Initial Placement”). To induce the Initial Purchasers to enter into the Purchase Agreement and to satisfy a condition of your obligations thereunder, the Issuers and the Guarantors agree with you for your benefit and the benefit of the other holders from time to time of the Securities (including the Initial Purchasers) (each a “Holder” and, together, the “Holders”), as follows:

          1. Definitions . Capitalized terms used herein without definition shall have their respective meanings set forth in the Purchase Agreement. As used in this Agreement, the following capitalized defined terms shall have the following meanings:

          “2037 Notes” shall have the meaning set forth in the preamble hereto.

          “Act” shall mean the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and the rules and regulations of the Commission promulgated thereunder.

          “Affiliate” of any specified Person shall mean any other Person that, directly or indirectly, is in control of, is controlled by, or is under common control with, such specified Person. For purposes of this definition, control of a Person shall mean the power, direct or indirect, to direct or cause the direction of the management and policies of such Person whether by contract or otherwise; and the terms “controlling” and “controlled” shall have meanings correlative to the foregoing.

          “Broker-Dealer” shall mean any broker or dealer registered as such under the Exchange Act.

          “Business Day” shall mean any day other than a Saturday, a Sunday or a legal holiday or a day on which banking institutions or trust companies are authorized or obligated by law to close in New York City.

          “Commission” shall mean the Securities and Exchange Commission.

          “Exchange Act” shall mean the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and the rules and regulations of the Commission promulgated thereunder.

          “Exchange Offer Registration Period” shall mean the one-year period following the consummation of the Registered Exchange Offer, exclusive of any period during which any stop order shall be in effect suspending the effectiveness of the Exchange Offer Registration Statement.

          “Exchange Offer Registration Statement” shall mean a registration statement of the Issuers and the Guarantors on an appropriate form under the Act with respect to the Registered Exchange Offer, all amendments and supplements to such registration statement, including post-effective amendments thereto, in each case including the Prospectus contained therein, all exhibits thereto and all material incorporated by reference therein.

          “Exchanging Dealer” shall mean any Holder (which may include any Initial Purchaser) that is a Broker-Dealer and elects to exchange for New Securities any Securities that it acquired for its own account as a result of market-making activities or other trading activities

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(but not directly from the Issuers and the Guarantors or any Affiliate of the Issuers and the Guarantors) for New Securities.

          “Final Offering Memorandum” shall have the meaning set forth in the Purchase Agreement.

          “Guarantors” shall have the meaning set forth in the preamble hereto and shall also include any Guarantor’s successor.

          “Holder” shall have the meaning set forth in the preamble hereto.

          “Indenture” shall mean the Indenture relating to the Securities and the New Securities, dated as of September 25, 2002, among the Issuers and U.S. Bank National Association, as successor trustee, as amended by the Ninth Supplemental Indenture, dated as of October 30, 2006, among the Issuers, the Guarantors and the Trustee, as the same may be amended from time to time in accordance with the terms thereof.

          “Initial Placement” shall have the meaning set forth in the preamble hereto.

          “Initial Purchasers” shall have the meaning set forth in the preamble hereto.

          “Losses” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 7(d) hereof.

          “Majority Holders” shall mean the Holders of a majority of the aggregate principal amount of Securities registered under a Registration Statement.

          “Managing Underwriters” shall mean the investment banker or investment bankers and manager or managers that shall administer an underwritten offering.

          “New Securities” shall mean debt securities of the Issuers identical in all material respects to the Securities (except that the interest rate step-up provisions and the transfer restrictions shall be eliminated) and to be issued under the Indenture.

          “Prospectus” shall mean the prospectus included in any Registration Statement (including, without limitation, a prospectus that discloses information previously omitted from a prospectus filed as part of an effective registration statement in reliance upon Rule 430A under the Act), as amended or supplemented by any prospectus supplement, with respect to the terms of the offering of any portion of the Securities or the New Securities covered by such Registration Statement, and all amendments and supplements thereto and all material incorporated by reference therein.

          “Purchase Agreement” shall have the meaning set forth in the preamble hereto.

          “Registered Exchange Offer” shall mean the proposed offer of the Issuers and the Guarantors to issue and deliver to the Holders of the Securities that are not prohibited by any law or policy of the Commission from participating in such offer, in exchange for the Securities, a like aggregate principal amount of the New Securities.

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          “Registration Default” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 4(a) hereof.

          “Registration Statement” shall mean any Exchange Offer Registration Statement or Shelf Registration Statement that covers any of the Securities or the New Securities pursuant to the provisions of this Agreement, any amendments and supplements to such registration statement, including post-effective amendments (in each case including the Prospectus contained therein), all exhibits thereto and all material incorporated by reference therein.

          “Securities” shall have the meaning set forth in the preamble hereto.

          “Shelf Registration” shall mean a registration effected pursuant to Section 3 hereof.

          “Shelf Registration Period” has the meaning set forth in Section 3(b) hereof.

          “Shelf Registration Statement” shall mean a “shelf” registration statement of the Issuers and the Guarantors pursuant to the provisions of Section 3 hereof which covers some or all of the Securities or New Securities, as applicable, on an appropriate form under Rule 415 under the Act, or any similar rule that may be adopted by the Commission, amendments and supplements to such registration statement, including post-effective amendments, in each case including the Prospectus contained therein, all exhibits thereto and all material incorporated by reference therein.

          “Trustee” shall mean the trustee with respect to the Securities and the New Securities under the Indenture.

          “Trust Indenture Act” shall mean the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, as amended from time to time.

          “underwriter” shall mean any underwriter of Securities in connection with an offering thereof under a Shelf Registration Statement.

          2. Registered Exchange Offer . (a) Except as set forth in Section 3, the Issuers and the Guarantors shall prepare and shall use their reasonable best efforts to file with the Commission the Exchange Offer Registration Statement with respect to the Registered Exchange Offer, not later than 180 days following the date of the original issuance of the Securities (or if such 180th day is not a Business Day, the next succeeding Business Day). The Issuers and the Guarantors shall use their reasonable best efforts to cause the Exchange Offer Registration Statement to become effective under the Act within 270 days of the date of the original issuance of the Securities and to consummate the Registered Exchange Offer within 300 days of the date of the original issuance of the Securities (if such 270th or 300th day is not a Business Day, the next succeeding Business Day, as applicable).

          (a) Upon the effectiveness of the Exchange Offer Registration Statement, the Issuers and the Guarantors shall promptly commence the Registered Exchange Offer, it being the objective of such Registered Exchange Offer to enable each Holder electing to exchange Securities for New Securities (assuming that such Holder is not an Affiliate of the Issuers or the Guarantors, acquires the New Securities in the ordinary course of such Holder’s business, has no

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arrangements with any Person to participate in the distribution of the New Securities and is not prohibited by any law or policy of the Commission from participating in the Registered Exchange Offer) to trade such New Securities from and after their receipt without any limitations or restrictions under the Act and without material restrictions under the securities laws of a substantial proportion of the several states of the United States.

          (b) In connection with the Registered Exchange Offer, the Issuers and the Guarantors shall:

          (i) mail to each Holder a copy of the Prospectus forming part of the Exchange Offer Registration Statement, together with an appropriate letter of transmittal and related documents;

          (ii) keep the Registered Exchange Offer open for not less than 20 Business Days after the date the notice thereof is mailed to the Holders (or, in each case, longer if required by applicable law);

          (iii) use their reasonable best efforts to keep the Exchange Offer Registration Statement continuously effective under the Act, supplemented and amended as required under the Act to ensure that it is available for sales of New Securities by Exchanging Dealers during the Exchange Offer Registration Period;

          (iv) utilize the services of a bank depositary for the Registered Exchange Offer with an address in the Borough of Manhattan in New York City, which may be the Trustee or an Affiliate of the Trustee;

          (v) permit Holders to withdraw tendered Securities at any time prior to the close of business, New York time, on the last Business Day on which the Registered Exchange Offer is open;

          (vi) prior to effectiveness of the Exchange Offer Registration Statement, provide a supplemental letter to the Commission (A) stating that the Issuers and the Guarantors are conducting the Registered Exchange Offer in reliance on the position of the Commission in Exxon Capital Holdings Corporation (pub. avail. May 13, 1988) and Morgan Stanley and Co., Inc . (pub. avail. June 5, 1991) and (B) including a representation that the Issuers and the Guarantors have not entered into any arrangement or understanding with any Person to distribute the New Securities to be received in the Registered Exchange Offer and that, to the best of the Issuers’ and the Guarantors’ information and belief, each Holder participating in the Registered Exchange Offer is acquiring the New Securities in the ordinary course of business and has no arrangement or understanding with any Person to participate in the distribution of the New Securities; and

          (vii) comply in all material respects with all applicable laws.

          (c) As soon as practicable after the close of the Registered Exchange Offer, the Issuers and the Guarantors shall:

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          (i) accept for exchange all Securities tendered and not validly withdrawn pursuant to the Registered Exchange Offer; and

          (ii) issue and cause the Trustee promptly to authenticate a global certificate representing New Securities exchanged for Securities and to deliver to each Holder of Securities a principal amount of New Securities equal to the principal amount of the Securities of such Holder so accepted for exchange.

          (d) Each Holder hereby acknowledges and agrees that any Broker-Dealer and any such Holder using the Registered Exchange Offer to participate in a distribution of the New Securities (x) could not under Commission policy as in effect on the date of this Agreement rely on the position of the Commission in Morgan Stanley and Co., Inc. (pub. avail. June 5, 1991) and Exxon Capital Holdings Corporation (pub. avail. May 13, 1988), as interpreted in the Commission’s letter to Shearman & Sterling dated July 2, 1993 and similar no-action letters; and (y) must comply with the registration and prospectus delivery requirements of the Act in connection with any secondary resale transaction and must be covered by an effective registration statement containing the selling security holder information required by Item 507 or 508, as applicable, of Regulation S-K under the Act if the resales are of New Securities obtained by such Holder in exchange for Securities acquired by such Holder directly from the Issuers or the Guarantors or one of their Affiliates. Accordingly, each Holder participating in the Registered Exchange Offer shall be required to represent to the Issuers and the Guarantors that, at the time of the consummation of the Registered Exchange Offer:

          (i) any New Securities received by such Holder will be acquired in the ordinary course of business;

          (ii) such Holder will have no arrangement or understanding with any Person to participate in the distribution of the Securities or the New Securities within the meaning of the Act; and

          (iii) such Holder is not an Affiliate of the Issuers or the Guarantors.

          3. Shelf Registration . (a) If (i) due to any change in law or applicable interpretations thereof by the Commission’s staff, the Issuers and the Guarantors determine upon advice of their outside counsel that they are not permitted to effect the Registered Exchange Offer as contemplated by Section 2 hereof; (ii) for any other reason the Registered Exchange Offer is not consummated within 300 days of the date hereof; (iii) any Initial Purchaser so requests with respect to Securities that are not eligible to be exchanged for New Securities in the Registered Exchange Offer and that are held by it following consummation of the Registered Exchange Offer, or (iv) any Holder (other than an Initial Purchaser) is not eligible to participate in the Registered Exchange Offer, the Issuers and the Guarantors shall effect a Shelf Registration Statement in accordance with subsection (b) below.

          (b) (i) The Issuers and the Guarantors shall as promptly as practicable (but in no event more than 180 days after so required or requested pursuant to this Section 3), file with the Commission and thereafter shall use their reasonable best efforts to cause to be declared effective under the Act, within 270 days after so required or requested pursuant to this Section 3,

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a Shelf Registration Statement relating to the offer and sale of the Securities or the New Securities, as applicable, by the Holders thereof from time to time in accordance with the methods of distribution elected by such Holders and set forth in such Shelf Registration Statement; provided , however , that no Holder (other than an Initial Purchaser) shall be entitled to have the Securities held by it covered by such Shelf Registration Statement unless such Holder agrees in writing to be bound by all of the provisions of this Agreement applicable to such Holder; and provided further , that with respect to New Securities received by an Initial Purchaser in exchange for Securities constituting any portion of an unsold allotment, the Issuers and the Guarantors may, if permitted by current interpretations by the Commission’s staff, file a post-effective amendment to the Exchange Offer Registration Statement containing the information required by Item 507 or 508 of Regulation S-K, as applicable, in satisfaction of their obligations under this subsection with respect thereto, and any such Exchange Offer Registration Statement, as so amended, shall be referred to herein as, and governed by the provisions herein applicable to, a Shelf Registration Statement.

          (ii) The Issuers and the Guarantors shall use their reasonable best efforts to keep the Shelf Registration Statement continuously effective, supplemented and amended as required by the Act, in order to permit the Prospectus forming part thereof to be usable by Holders for a period of two years from the date the Shelf Registration Statement is declared effective by the Commission or such shorter period that will terminate when all the Securities or New Securities, as applicable, covered by the Shelf Registration Statement have been sold pursuant to the Shelf Registration Statement under the Act (in any such case, such period being called the “Shelf Registration Period”). The Issuers and the Guarantors shall be deemed not to have used their reasonable best efforts to keep the Shelf Registration Statement effective during the requisite period if either Issuer or any Guarantor voluntarily takes any action that would result in Holders of Securities covered thereby not being able to offer and sell such Securities during that period, unless (A) such action is required by applicable law; or (B) such action is taken by such Issuer or such Guarantor in good faith and for valid business reasons (not including avoidance of the Issuers’ or the Guarantors’ obligations hereunder), including the acquisition or divestiture of assets, so long as the Issuers and the Guarantors promptly thereafter comply with the requirements of Section 5(k) hereof, if applicable.

          (iii) The Issuers and the Guarantors shall cause the Shelf Registration Statement and the related Prospectus and any amendment or supplement thereto, as of the effective date of the Shelf Registration Statement or such amendment or supplement, (A) to comply in all material respects with the applicable requirements of the Act and the rules and regulations of the Commission; and (B) not to contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading.

          4. Additional Interest.

          (a) In the event that (i) the Issuers and the Guarantors have not filed the Exchange Offer Registration Statement or the Shelf Registration Statement with the Commission on or before the date on which such Registration Statement is required to be so filed pursuant to

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Section 2(a) and 3(b), respectively, or (ii) such Exchange Offer Registration Statement or Shelf Registration Statement has not been declared effective by the Commission under the Act on or before the date on which such Registration Statement is required to be declared effective under the Act pursuant to Section 2(a) or 3(b), respectively, or (iii) the Exchange Offer has not been consummated within 300 days after the date of issuance of the Securities, or (iv) the Exchange Offer Registration Statement or Shelf Registration Statement required by Section 2(a) or 3(b) hereof is filed and declared effective by the Commission under the Act but shall thereafter cease to be effective (except as specifically permitted herein) without being succeeded immediately by an additional Registration Statement filed and declared effective by the Commission under the Act (each such event referred to in clauses (i) through (iv) is referred to herein as a “Registration Default”), then the interest rate on the Securities will be increased, for the period from the occurrence of the Registration Default until such time as all Registration Defaults are cured (at which time the interest rate will be reduced to its initial rate) by 0.25% per annum during the first 90-day period following the occurrence and during the continuation of the Registration Default, and by 0.25% per annum for each subsequent 90-day period during which such Registration Default continues. The interest rate will not at any time be increased by greater than 0.50% per annum.

          (b) Without limiting the remedies available to the Initial Purchasers and the Holders, the Issuers and the Guarantors acknowledge that any failure by the Issuers or the Guarantors to comply with their obligations under Section 2(a) or 3(b) hereof may result in material irreparable injury to the Initial Purchasers or the Holders for which there is no adequate remedy at law, that it will not be possible to measure damages for such injuries precisely and that, in the event of any such failure, the Initial Purchasers or any Holder may obtain such relief as may be required to specifically enforce the Issuers’ and the Guarantors’ obligations under Section 2(a) or Section 3(b) hereof.

          5. Additional Registration Procedures . In connection with any Shelf Registration Statement and, to the extent applicable, any Exchange Offer Registration Statement, the following provisions shall apply.

          (a) The Issuers and the Guarantors shall:

          (i) furnish to you, not less than five Business Days prior to the filing thereof with the Commission, a copy of any Exchange Offer Registration Statement and any Shelf Registration Statement, and each amendment thereof and each amendment or supplement, if any, to the Prospectus included therein (including all documents incorporated by reference therein after the initial filing) and shall use their reasonable best efforts to reflect in each such document, when so filed with the Commission, such comments as you reasonably propose;

          (ii) include the information set forth in Annex A hereto on the facing page of the Exchange Offer Registration Statement, in Annex B hereto in the forepart of the Exchange Offer Registration Statement in a section setting forth details of the Exchange Offer, in Annex C hereto in the underwriting or plan of distribution section of the Prospectus contained in the Exchange Offer Registration Statement, and in Annex D hereto in the letter of transmittal delivered pursuant to the Registered Exchange Offer;

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          (iii) if requested by an Initial Purchaser, include the information required by Item 507 or 508 of Regulation S-K, as applicable, in the Prospectus contained in the Shelf Registration Statement; and

          (iv) in the case of a Shelf Registration Statement, include the names of the Holders that propose to sell Securities pursuant to the Shelf Registration Statement as selling security holders.

          (b) The Issuers and the Guarantors shall ensure that:

          (i) any Registration Statement and any amendment thereto and any Prospectus forming part thereof and any amendment or supplement thereto comply in all material respects with the Act and the rules and regulations thereunder; and

          (ii) any Registration Statement and any amendment thereto do not, when they become effective, contain an untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading.

          (c) The Issuers and the Guarantors shall advise you, the Holders of Securities covered by any Shelf Registration Statement and any Exchanging Dealer under any Exchange Offer Registration Statement that has provided in writing to the Issuers and the Guarantors a telephone or facsimile number and address for notices, and, if requested in writing by you or any such Holder or Exchanging Dealer, shall confirm such advice in writing (which notice pursuant to clauses (ii)-(v) hereof shall be accompanied by an instruction to suspend the use of the Prospectus until the Issuers and the Guarantors shall have remedied the basis for such suspension):

          (i) when a Registration Statement and any amendment thereto have been filed with the Commission and when the Registration Statement or any post-effective amendment thereto has become effective;

          (ii) of any request by the Commission for any amendment or supplement to the Registration Statement or the Prospectus or for additional information;

          (iii) of the issuance by the Commission of any stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or the initiation of any proceedings for that purpose;

          (iv) of the receipt by the Issuers and the Guarantors of any notification with respect to the suspension of the qualification of the Securities included therein for sale in any jurisdiction or the initiation of any proceeding for such purpose; and

          (v) of the happening of any event that requires any change in the Registration Statement or the Prospectus so that, as of such date, the statements therein are not misleading and do not omit to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein (in the case of the Prospectus, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made) not misleading .

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          (d) The Issuers and the Guarantors shall use their reasonable best efforts to obtain the withdrawal of any order suspending the effectiveness of any Registration Statement or the qualification of the Securities therein for sale in any jurisdiction at the earliest possible time.

          (e) The Issuers and the Guarantors shall furnish to each Holder of Securities covered by any Shelf Registration Statement, without charge, at least one copy of such Shelf Registration Statement and any post-effective amendment thereto, including all material incorporated therein by reference, and, if the Holder so requests in writing, all exhibits thereto (including exhibits incorporated by reference therein).

          (f) The Issuers and the Guarantors shall, during the Shelf Registration Period, deliver to each Holder of Securities covered by any Shelf Registration Statement, without charge, as many copies of the Prospectus (including each preliminary Prospectus) included in such Shelf Registration Statement and any amendment or supplement thereto as such Holder may reasonably request. The Issuers and the Guarantors consent to the use of the Prospectus or any amendment or supplement thereto by each of the selling Holders of Securities in connection with the offering and sale of the Securities


 
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