EXCHANGE AND REGISTRATION RIGHTS
AGREEMENT
PLAINS ALL AMERICAN PIPELINE,
L.P.,
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
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
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.
(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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