STEWART INFORMATION SERVICES
CORPORATION,
the Guarantors party hereto
Wells Fargo Bank N.A., as
Trustee
Dated as of October 15,
2009
6.00% Convertible Senior Notes due
2014
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ARTICLE
1 DEFINITIONS AND
INCORPORATION BY REFERENCE
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1
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Definitions
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Other
Definitions
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Trust Indenture
Act Provisions
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Rules Of
Construction
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ARTICLE
2 THE
SECURITIES
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Form and
Dating
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Execution and
Authentication
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Registrar,
Paying Agent and Conversion Agent
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Paying Agent To
Hold Money In Trust
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Conversion
Agent To Hold Money In Trust
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Lists of
Holders of Securities
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Transfer and
Exchange
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Replacement
Securities
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Outstanding
Securities
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Treasury
Securities
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Temporary
Securities
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Cancellation
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Restrictive
Legend; Additional Transfer and Exchange Requirements
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CUSIP
Numbers
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Calculations
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Payment of
Interest; Interest Rights Preserved
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Computation of
Interest
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Automatic
Exchange from Restricted Global Security to Unrestricted Global
Security
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ARTICLE
3 REPURCHASE
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Repurchase of
Securities at Option of the Holder upon a Fundamental
Change
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Effect of
Fundamental Change Purchase Notice
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Deposit of
Fundamental Change Purchase Price
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Securities
Purchased in Part
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Repayment to
the Company
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Compliance With
Securities Laws Upon Purchase of Securities
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Purchase of
Securities In Open Market
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ARTICLE
4 CONVERSION
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Right to
Convert
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
(continued)
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Conversion
Procedures
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Payments Upon
Conversion
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Adjustment of
Conversion Rate
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Certain Other
Adjustments
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Adjustments
Upon Certain Fundamental Changes
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Effect of
Recapitalization, Reclassification, Consolidation, Merger or
Sale
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Taxes on Shares
Issued
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Reservation of
Shares; Shares to be Fully Paid; Compliance With Governmental
Requirements; Listing of Common Stock
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Responsibility
of Trustee
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Notice to
Holders Prior to Certain Actions
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Stockholder
Rights Plan
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ARTICLE
5 COVENANTS
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Payment of
Securities
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Reports by
Company
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Compliance
Certificates
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Further
Instruments and Acts
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Maintenance of
Corporate Existence
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Rule 144A
Information Requirement
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Stay, Extension
And Usury Laws
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Payment of
Additional Interest
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Maintenance of
Office or Agency
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Additional Note
Guarantees
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Shareholder
Approval
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ARTICLE
6 CONSOLIDATION; MERGER;
SALE OF ASSETS
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Company May
Consolidate, Etc., Only on Certain Terms
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Successor
Substituted
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ARTICLE
7 DEFAULT AND
REMEDIES
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Events of
Default
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Acceleration;
Special Interest
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Collection of
Indebtedness and Suits for Enforcement by Trustee
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Trustee May
File Proofs of Claim
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Trustee May
Enforce Claims Without Possession of Securities
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Application of
Money Collected
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Limitation on
Suits
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
(continued)
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Unconditional
Right of Holders to Receive Payment and to Convert
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Restoration of
Rights and Remedies
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Rights and
Remedies Cumulative
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Delay or
Omission Not Waiver
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Control by
Holders
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Waiver of Past
Defaults
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Undertaking for
Costs
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Remedies
Subject to Applicable Law
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Additional
Interest
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ARTICLE
8 TRUSTEE
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Duties of
Trustee
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Notice of
Default
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Certain Rights
of Trustee
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Trustee Not
Responsible for Recitals, Dispositions of Securities or Application
of Proceeds Thereof
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Trustee and
Agents May Hold Securities; Collections; etc
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Money Held in
Trust
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Compensation
and Indemnification of Trustee and Its Prior Claim
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Conflicting
Interests
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Trustee
Eligibility
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Resignation and
Removal; Appointment of Successor Trustee
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Acceptance of
Appointment by Successor
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Merger,
Conversion, Consolidation or Succession to Business
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Preferential
Collection of Claims Against Company
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Reports By
Trustee
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ARTICLE
9 SATISFACTION AND
DISCHARGE OF INDENTURE
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Satisfaction
and Discharge of Indenture
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Application of
Trust Money
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Reinstatement
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ARTICLE
10 AMENDMENTS;
SUPPLEMENTS AND WAIVERS
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Without Consent
of Holders
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With Consent of
Holders
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Execution of
Supplemental Indentures and Agreements
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Effect of
Supplemental Indentures
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Conformity with
Trust Indenture Act
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
(continued)
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Reference in
Securities to Supplemental Indentures
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Notice of
Supplemental Indentures
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ARTICLE
11 NOTE
GUARANTEES
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Guarantee
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Limitation on
Guarantor Liability
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Execution and
Delivery of Note Guarantee
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Guarantors May
Consolidate, etc., on Certain Terms
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Releases
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ARTICLE
12 MISCELLANEOUS
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Conflict with
Trust Indenture Act
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Notices
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Disclosure of
Names and Addresses of Holders
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Compliance
Certificates and Opinions
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Acts of
Holders
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Benefits of
Indenture
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Legal
Holidays
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Governing Law;
Waiver of Trial by Jury
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No Adverse
Interpretation of Other Agreements
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No Personal
Liability of Directors, Officers, Employees and
Stockholders
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Successors and
Assigns
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Multiple
Counterparts
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Separability
Clause
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Schedules and
Exhibits
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Effect of
Headings and Table of Contents
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EXHIBIT A Form
of Security
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A-1
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Assignment
Form
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Form of
Conversion Notice
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Form of
Fundamental Change Purchase Notice
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Form of
Certificate to be Delivered upon Exchange or Registration of
Transfer of Restricted Securities
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EXHIBIT B Form
of Notation of Guarantee
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B-1
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EXHIBIT C
Guarantors
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C-1
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Form of
Supplemental Indenture to be Delivered by Subsequent
Guarantor
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TIA
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Indenture
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Section
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Section(s)
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310(a)(1)
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8.09
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(a)(2)
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8.09
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(a)(3)
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N.A.
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(a)(4)
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N.A.
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(a)(5)
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8.09
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(b)
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8.08
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(c)
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N.A.
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311(a)
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8.13
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(b)
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8.05
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(c)
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N.A.
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312(a)
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2.06
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(b)
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12.03
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(c)
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12.03
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313(a)
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8.14
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(a)
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(b)(1)
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N.A.
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(b)(2)
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8.14
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(a)
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(c)
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8.02, 8.14
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(d)
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8.14
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(b)
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314(a)
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5.02, 7.02
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(b)
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N.A.
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(c)(1)
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12.04
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(c)(2)
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12.04
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(c)(3)
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N.A.
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(d)
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N.A.
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(e)
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12.04
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(f)
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N.A.
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315(a)
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8.01
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(b)
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(b)
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8.02
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(c)
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8.01
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(d)
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8.01
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(c)
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(d)(2)
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8.01
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(c)
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(d)(3)
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8.01
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(c)
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(e)
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7.14
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316(a) (last
sentence)
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2.10
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(a)(1)
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7.12, 7.13
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(a)(2)
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N.A.
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(b)
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7.08
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(c)
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12.05
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(e)
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317(a)
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7.03, 7.04
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(b)
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2.04
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318(a)
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12.01
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(b)
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N.A.
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(c)
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12.01
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*
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This
Cross-Reference Table shall not, for any purpose, be deemed a part
of this Indenture.
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**
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N.A. means Not
Applicable.
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v
THIS INDENTURE,
dated as of October 15, 2009, is between Stewart Information
Services Corporation, a corporation duly organized under the laws
of the State of Delaware (the “Company”), the
Guarantors (as defined) and Wells Fargo Bank N.A., a New York
banking corporation, as Trustee (the
“Trustee”).
In consideration
of the purchase of the Securities (as defined herein) by the
Holders thereof, the parties hereto agree as follows for the
benefit of one another and for the equal and ratable benefit of the
Holders of the Company’s 6.00% Convertible Senior Notes due
2014.
DEFINITIONS AND INCORPORATION BY
REFERENCE
Section 1.01
Definitions .
“Additional
Interest” means all amounts, if any, payable pursuant to
Section 7.16 hereof. All references herein to interest accrued
or payable as of any date shall include any Additional Interest
accrued or payable as of such date.
“Affiliate”
means, with respect to any specified Person, any other Person
directly or indirectly controlling or controlled by or under direct
or indirect common control with such specified Person. For the
purposes of this definition, “control” when used with
respect to any Person means the power to direct the management and
policies of such Person, directly or indirectly, whether through
the ownership of voting securities, by contract or otherwise; and
the terms “controlling” and “controlled”
have meanings correlative to the foregoing.
“Agent”
means any Registrar, Paying Agent or Conversion Agent.
“Applicable
Conversion Share Price” means the volume-weighted average
price per share of Common Stock displayed on Bloomberg (or any
successor service) page STC<EQUITY>VAP in respect of the
period from 9:30 a.m. New York City time on the Trading Day
following receipt by the Company of a Conversion Notice to 4:00
p.m. New York City time on the fifth (5 th )
Trading Day following receipt by the Company of such Conversion
Notice, or if such price is not available on Bloomberg or any
successor service, the volume-weighted average price per share of
Common Stock means the average market value per share of Common
Stock over the subsequent five (5) Trading Days following
receipt by the Company of a Conversion Notice as determined by a
nationally recognized independent investment banking firm retained
by the Company for the purpose of making this
calculation.
“Applicable
Procedures” means, with respect to any conversion, transfer
or exchange of beneficial ownership interests in a Global Security,
the rules and procedures of the Depositary, to the extent
applicable to such conversion, transfer or exchange.
“Bankruptcy
Law” means Title 11 of the United States Code entitled
“Bankruptcy” or any other law relating to bankruptcy,
insolvency, winding up, liquidation, reorganization or relief of
debtors, whether in effect on the date hereof or
hereafter.
“Board of
Directors” means the board of directors of the Company or any
duly authorized committee of such board or any equivalent body in a
limited partnership, limited liability company or other entity
serving substantially the same function as a board of directors of
a corporation.
“Board
Resolution” means, with respect to any Person, a duly adopted
resolution (or other similar action) of the Board of Directors of
such Person.
“Business
Day” means any day other than a Saturday, a Sunday or any
other day on which banks or trust companies in The City of New York
are authorized or required by law, or executive order to be
closed.
“Capital
Stock” of any Person means any and all shares, interests,
rights to purchase, warrants, options, participations or other
equivalents of or interests in (however designated) the equity of
such Person, but excluding any debt securities convertible into
such equity.
“Cash”
or “cash” means such coin or currency of the United
States as at any time of payment is legal tender for the payment of
public and private debts.
“Certificated
Security” means a Security that is in substantially the form
attached as Exhibit A but that does not include the legend called
for by footnote 1 thereof or the Schedule of Exchanges of
Securities thereof.
“close of
business” means 5:00 p.m. New York City time.
“Common
Equity” of any Person means Capital Stock of the class or
classes pursuant to which the holders of such Capital Stock have
the general voting power under ordinary circumstances to elect at
least a majority of the board of directors, managers or trustees of
such Person (irrespective of whether or not at the time Capital
Stock of any other class or classes shall have or might have voting
power by reason of the happening of any contingency).
“Common
Stock” means the common stock of the Company, par value $1.00
per share, or any successor common stock thereto.
“Company”
means the party named as such in the first paragraph of this
Indenture until a successor replaces it pursuant to the applicable
provisions of this Indenture, and thereafter “Company”
shall mean such successor Company.
“Company
Request” or “Company Order” means a written
request or order signed in the name of the Company by any one of
its Chairman of the Board, its Chief Executive Officer, its
President, its Chief Operating Officer, its Chief Financial Officer
or a Vice President (regardless of Vice Presidential designation),
and by any one of its Treasurer, an Assistant Treasurer, any other
Vice President (regardless of Vice Presidential designation), its
Secretary or an Assistant Secretary, and delivered to the
Trustee.
“Continuing
Directors” means (i) individuals who on the date of
original issuance of the Securities constituted the Company’s
Board of Directors (ii) any new directors whose election to
the Company’s Board of Directors or whose nomination for
election by the Company’s stockholders was approved by at
least a majority of the directors then still in office (or a duly
constituted committee thereof), either who were directors on the
date of original issuance of the Securities or whose election or
nomination for election was previously so approved.
“Conversion
Price” means, in respect of each Security, as of any date,
$1,000, divided by the Conversion Rate as of such date.
“Conversion
Rate” means, initially,77.6398 shares of Common Stock per
$1,000 principal amount of Securities, subject to adjustment as set
forth herein.
“Corporate
Trust Office” means the office of the Trustee at which at any
particular time its corporate trust business shall be administered,
which office at the date hereof is located at 201 Main Street,
Suite 301, Fort Worth, Texas 76102, Attention: Corporate
Trust, or such other address as the Trustee may designate from time
to time by notice to the Company, or the principal corporate trust
office of any successor Trustee (or such other address as such
successor Trustee may designate from time to time by notice to the
Company).
“Default”
means any event that is, or after notice or passage of time or both
would be, an Event of Default.
“Exchange
Act” means the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended,
and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder, as in effect
from time to time.
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“Ex-Dividend
Date” means the first date upon which a sale of a share of
Common Stock does not automatically transfer the right to receive
the relevant distribution with respect to the share of Common Stock
to the buyer of such share of Common Stock.
“Final
Maturity Date” means October 15, 2014.
“Fundamental
Change” will be deemed to have occurred at the time after the
Securities are originally issued if any of the following
occurs:
(1) a
“person” or “group” within the meaning of
Section 13(d) of the Exchange Act, other than the Company, its
Subsidiaries, and its and their employee benefit plans, has become
the direct or indirect “beneficial owner,” as defined
in Rule 13d-3 under the Exchange Act, of the Company’s
Common Equity representing more than 50% of the voting power of the
Company’s Common Equity;
(2) consummation
of any share exchange, consolidation or merger of the Company or
other transaction or series of transactions pursuant to which the
Common Stock will be converted into cash, securities or other
property or any sale, lease or other transfer (other than
encumbrance) in one transaction or a series of transactions of all
or substantially all of the consolidated assets of the Company and
its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, to any Person other than one of
the Company’s Subsidiaries; provided, however, that a
transaction where the holders of all classes of the Company’s
Common Equity immediately prior to such transaction that is a share
exchange, consolidation or merger own, directly or indirectly, more
than 50% of all classes of Common Equity of the continuing or
surviving corporation or transferee or the parent thereof
immediately after such event shall not be a Fundamental
Change;
(3) the first
day on which a majority of the members of the Company’s Board
of Directors does not consist of Continuing Directors;
(4) the
Company’s stockholders approve any plan or proposal for the
liquidation or dissolution of the Company; or
(5) the
Common Stock (or other common stock into which the Securities are
then convertible) ceases to be listed or quoted on a national
securities exchange in the United States.
Notwithstanding
the foregoing, a Fundamental Change as a result of clause
(2) above will not be deemed to have occurred if 90% of the
consideration received or to be received by the holders of the
Common Stock, excluding cash payments for fractional shares, in
connection with the transaction or transactions constituting the
Fundamental Change consists of Publicly Traded Securities and as a
result of such transaction or transactions the Securities become
convertible into such Publicly Traded Securities, excluding cash
payments for fractional shares.
“GAAP”
means generally accepted accounting principles in the United States
of America set forth in the opinions and pronouncements of the
Accounting Principles Board of the American Institute of Certified
Public Accountants and statements and pronouncements of the
Financial Accounting Standards Board and the Public Company
Accounting Oversight Board or in such other statements by such
other entity as have been approved by a significant segment of the
accounting profession, which are in effect from time to
time.
“Global
Security” means a Security in global form that is in
substantially the form attached as Exhibit A and that includes
the legend called for in footnote 1 thereof and the Schedule of
Exchanges of Securities thereof and which is deposited with the
Depositary or its custodian and registered in the name of the
Depositary or its nominee.
“Guarantee”
means a guarantee other than by endorsement of negotiable
instruments for collection in the ordinary course of business,
direct or indirect, in any manner including, without limitation, by
way of a pledge of assets or through letters of credit or
reimbursement agreements in respect thereof, of all or any part of
any indebtedness (whether arising by virtue of partnership
arrangements, or by agreements to keep-well, to purchase assets,
goods, securities or services, to take or pay or to maintain
financial statement conditions or otherwise).
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(1) STC and
certain of STC’s wholly-owned domestic subsidiaries set forth
on Exhibit C ; and
(2) any other
Subsidiary of the Company that executes a Note Guarantee in
accordance with the provisions of this Indenture, and their
respective successors and assigns, in each case, until the Note
Guarantee of such Person has been released in accordance with the
provisions of this Indenture.
“Holder”
or “Holder of a Security” means the person in whose
name a Security is registered on the Registrar’s
books.
“Indenture”
means this instrument as originally executed (including all
exhibits and schedules thereto) and as it may from time to time be
supplemented or amended by one or more indentures supplemental
hereto entered into pursuant to the applicable provisions hereof,
including the provisions of the TIA that would be automatically
deemed to be part of this Indenture by operation of the TIA
assuming this Indenture were qualified under the TIA.
“Interest
Payment Date” means April 15 and October 15 of each
year, commencing April 15, 2010.
“Last
Reported Sale Price” of the Common Stock on any date means
the closing sale price per share of Common Stock (or if no closing
sale price is reported, the average of the bid and ask prices or,
if more than one in either case, the average of the average bid and
the average ask prices) on that date as reported in composite
transactions for the principal U.S. securities exchange on which
the Common Stock is traded. If the Common Stock is not listed for
trading on a U.S. national or regional securities exchange on the
relevant date, the “Last Reported Sale Price” shall be
the last quoted bid price for the Common Stock in the
over-the-counter market on the relevant date as reported by Pink
Sheets LLC or a similar organization. If the Common Stock is not so
quoted, the “Last Reported Sale Price” shall be the
average of the mid-point of the last bid and ask prices for the
Common Stock on the relevant date from each of at least three
nationally recognized independent investment banking firms selected
by the Company for this purpose.
“Make-Whole
Fundamental Change” means any transaction or event that
constitutes a Fundamental Change (determined after giving effect to
any exceptions or exclusions to such definition, but without regard
to the proviso in clause (2) of the definition
thereof).
“Note
Guarantee” means the Guarantee by each Guarantor of the
Company’s obligations under this Indenture and the
Securities, executed pursuant to the provisions of this
Indenture.
“Note
Trading Price” means, on any date of determination, the
average of the secondary market bid quotations per $1,000 principal
amount of Securities obtained by the Trustee for $5,000,000
principal amount of Securities at approximately 3:30 p.m., New York
City time, on such date of determination from two independent
nationally recognized securities dealers selected by the Company;
provided , however , if the Trustee can not
reasonably obtain at least two such bids but is able to reasonably
obtain one such bid, then such bid obtained by the Trustee shall be
used; provided , further , if the Trustee cannot
reasonably obtain at least one such bid or, in the reasonable
judgment of the Company, such bids are not indicative of the
secondary market value of the Securities, then the Note Trading
Price per $1,000 principal amount of Securities shall be deemed to
be less than ninety-eight percent (98%) of the product of the Last
Reported Sale Price on such date of determination and the
Conversion Rate on such date of determination.
“Officer”
means the Chairman, any Vice Chairman, the President, the Chief
Executive Officer, any Vice President, the Chief Financial Officer,
the Chief Operating Officer, the Treasurer or any Assistant
Treasurer, or the Secretary or any Assistant Secretary of the
Company.
“Officer’s
Certificate” means a certificate signed by an Officer of the
Company and delivered to the Trustee; provided ,
however , that for purposes of Section 5.03,
“Officer’s Certificate” means a certificate
signed by the principal executive officer, principal financial
officer, principal operating officer, principal accounting officer
or treasurer of the Company.
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“open of
business” means 9:00 a.m. (New York City time).
“Opinion of
Counsel” means a written opinion of counsel, who may be an
employee of or counsel for the Company and which opinion shall be
in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the
Trustee.
“Person”
means any individual, corporation, limited liability company,
partnership, joint venture, association, joint-stock company,
trust, unincorporated organization or government or any agency or
political subdivision thereof.
“Publicly
Traded Securities” means, in respect of a transaction
described in clause (2) of the definition of Fundamental
Change, shares of common stock traded on the New York Stock
Exchange, the NASDAQ Stock Market LLC or the NASDAQ Global Select
Market (or any or their respective successors) or which will be so
traded when issued or exchanged in connection with a Fundamental
Change.
“Registrar”
means initially the Trustee.
“Record
Date” means, with respect to any dividend, distribution or
other transaction or event in which the holders of Common Stock (or
other security) have the right to receive any cash, securities or
other property or in which the Common Stock (or other applicable
security) is exchanged for or converted into any combination of
cash, securities or other property, the date fixed for
determination of stockholders entitled to receive such cash,
securities or other property (whether such date is fixed by the
Board of Directors or by statute, contract or
otherwise).
“Regular
Record Date” means, with respect to the payment of interest
on the Securities, the March 31 (whether or not a Business
Day) immediately preceding an Interest Payment Date on
April 15 and the September 30 (whether or not a Business
Day) immediately preceding an Interest Payment Date on
October 15.
“Restricted
Global Security” means a Global Security that is a Restricted
Security.
“Restricted
Security” means a Security required to bear the Restrictive
Legend called for in footnote 2 set forth in the form of Security
attached as Exhibit A.
“Rule 144”
means Rule 144 under the Securities Act or any successor to
such Rule.
“Rule 144A”
means Rule 144A under the Securities Act or any successor to
such Rule.
“Scheduled
Trading Day” means a day that is scheduled to be a Trading
Day on the principal United States national or regional securities
exchange or market on which the Common Stock is listed or admitted
for trading. If the Common Stock is not so listed or admitted for
trading, “Scheduled Trading Day” means a Business
Day.
“SEC”
means the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
“Securities”
means up to $65,000,000 aggregate principal amount of 6.00%
Convertible Senior Notes due 2014, or any $1,000 principal amount
thereof (each a “Security”), as amended or supplemented
from time to time, that are issued under this Indenture.
“Securities
Act” means the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and the
rules and regulations promulgated thereunder, as in effect from
time to time.
“Securities
Custodian” means the Trustee, as custodian with respect to
the Securities in global form, or any successor thereto.
“Shareholder
Approval” means the requisite approval of the shareholders of
the Company to allow for the conversion of the Securities into
shares of Common Stock without restriction or without the payment
by the Company of cash.
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“Significant
Subsidiary” means, with respect to any Person, any Subsidiary
(or group of Subsidiaries as to which a specified condition
applies) that would be a “significant subsidiary” under
Rule 1-02(w) of Regulation S-X under the Securities
Act.
“Special
Record Date” for the payment of any Defaulted Interest means
a date fixed by the Trustee pursuant to
Section 2.16.
“Stated
Maturity” means, with respect to any installment of interest
or principal on any Security, the date on which such payment of
interest or principal shall become due and payable.
“STC”
means the Company’s indirect wholly-owned Subsidiary, Stewart
Title Company, a Texas corporation.
“Subsidiary”
means, with respect to any specified Person: (1) any
corporation, association or other business entity of which more
than 50% of the total voting power of shares of Capital Stock
entitled (without regard to the occurrence of any contingency) to
vote in the election of directors, managers or trustees of the
corporation, association or other business entity is at the time
owned or controlled, directly or indirectly, by that Person or one
or more of the other Subsidiaries of that Person (or a combination
thereof); or (2) any partnership (a) the sole general
partner or the managing general partner of which is such Person or
a Subsidiary of such Person or (b) the only general partners
of which are that Person or one or more Subsidiaries of that Person
(or any combination thereof).
“TIA”
means the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, as amended, and the rules
and regulations thereunder as in effect on the date of this
Indenture, except to the extent that the Trust Indenture Act or any
amendment thereto expressly provides for application of the Trust
Indenture Act as in effect on another date.
“Trading
Day” means a day on which (i) trading in the Common
Stock generally occurs on the New York Stock Exchange or, if the
Common Stock is not then listed on the New York Stock Exchange, on
the principal other United States national or regional securities
exchange on which the Common Stock is then listed or, if the Common
Stock is not then listed on a United States national or regional
securities exchange, in the principal other market on which the
Common Stock is then traded, and (ii) a Last Reported Sale
Price for the Common Stock is available on such securities exchange
or market. If the Common Stock (or other security for which a
closing sale price must be determined) is not so listed or traded,
“Trading Day” means a Business Day.
“Trustee”
means the party named as such in the first paragraph of this
Indenture until a successor replaces it in accordance with the
provisions of this Indenture, and thereafter means the
successor.
“Trust
Officer” means, with respect to the Trustee, any officer
within the corporate trust department of the Trustee, including any
vice president, assistant vice president, assistant secretary,
assistant treasurer, trust officer or any other officer of the
Trustee who customarily performs functions similar to those
performed by the Persons who at the time shall be such officers,
respectively, or to whom any corporate trust matter is referred
because of such person’s knowledge of and familiarity with
the particular subject and who shall have direct responsibility for
the administration of this Indenture.
“U.S.”
means the United States of America.
“Vice
President” when used with respect to the Company or the
Trustee, means any vice president, whether or not designated by a
number or a word or words added before or after the title
“vice president.”
Section 1.02
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Section 1.03
Trust Indenture Act Provisions .
Whenever this
Indenture refers to a provision of the TIA, that provision is
incorporated by reference in and made a part of this Indenture. The
following TIA term used in this Indenture has the following
meaning:
“obligor”
on the indenture securities means the Company or any other obligor
on the Securities.
All other terms
used in this Indenture that are defined in the TIA, defined by TIA
reference to another statute or defined by any SEC rule and not
otherwise defined herein have the meanings assigned to them
therein.
Section 1.04
Rules Of Construction .
For all purposes
of this Indenture, except as otherwise provided or unless the
context otherwise requires:
(1) a term has the
meaning assigned to it;
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(2) an accounting
term not otherwise defined has the meaning assigned to it in
accordance with GAAP;
(3) words in the
singular include the plural, and words in the plural include the
singular;
(4) the term
“merger” includes a statutory share exchange and the
term “merged” has a correlative meaning;
(5) the masculine
gender includes the feminine and the neuter;
(6) the terms
“include”, “including”, and similar terms
should be construed as if followed by the phrase “without
limitation”;
(7) references to
agreements and other instruments include subsequent amendments
thereto; and
(8) all
“Article”, “Exhibit” and
“Section” references are to Articles, Exhibits and
Sections, respectively, of or to this Indenture unless otherwise
specified herein, and the terms “hereunder,”
“herein,” “hereof” and other words of
similar import refer to this Indenture as a whole and not to any
particular Article, Section or other subdivision.
Section 2.01
Form and Dating .
The Securities and
the Trustee’s certificate of authentication shall be
substantially in the respective forms set forth in Exhibit A,
which Exhibit is incorporated in and made part of this Indenture.
The Securities may include such letters, numbers or other marks of
identification and such notations, legends, endorsements or changes
as the Officer executing the same may approve (execution thereof to
be conclusive evidence of such approval) and as are not
inconsistent with the provisions of this Indenture, or as may be
required by the Trustee, the Depositary, or as may be required to
comply with any applicable law or with any rule or regulation made
pursuant thereto or with any rule or regulation of any national
securities exchange or automated quotation system on which the
Securities may be listed or quoted, or to conform to usage, or to
indicate any special limitations or restrictions to which any
particular Securities are subject. Each Security shall be dated the
date of its authentication.
(a)
Restricted Global Securities . All of the Securities are
initially being offered and sold to qualified institutional buyers
as defined in Rule 144A (collectively, “ QIBs
” or individually, each a “ QIB ”) in
reliance on Rule 144A under the Securities Act and shall be
issued initially in the form of one or more Restricted Global
Securities, which shall be deposited on behalf of the purchasers of
the securities represented thereby with the Trustee, at its
Corporate Trust Office, as custodian for the depositary, The
Depository Trust Company (“ DTC ”, and such
depositary, or any successor thereto, being hereinafter referred to
as the “ Depositary ”), and registered in the
name of its nominee, Cede & Co. (or any successor thereto), for
the accounts of participants in the Depositary, duly executed by
the Company and authenticated by the Trustee as hereinafter
provided. The aggregate principal amount of the Restricted Global
Securities may from time to time be increased or decreased by
adjustments made on the records of the Securities Custodian as
hereinafter provided, subject in each case to compliance with the
Applicable Procedures.
(b)
Global Securities In General . The Global Security shall
represent such of the outstanding Securities as shall be specified
therein and each shall provide that it shall represent the
aggregate principal amount of outstanding Securities from time to
time endorsed thereon and that the aggregate principal amount of
outstanding Securities represented thereby may from time to time be
reduced or increased, as appropriate, to reflect exchanges,
purchases or conversions of such Securities.
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Members of, or
participants in, the Depositary (“ Agent Members
”) shall have no rights under this Indenture with respect to
any Global Security held on their behalf by the Depositary or under
the Global Security, and the Depositary (including, for this
purpose, its nominee) may be treated by the Company, the Trustee
and any agent of the Company or the Trustee as the absolute owner
and Holder of such Global Security for all purposes
whatsoever.
Notwithstanding
the foregoing, nothing herein shall (1) prevent the Company,
the Trustee or any agent of the Company or the Trustee from giving
effect to any written certification, proxy or other authorization
furnished by the Depositary or (2) impair, as between the
Depositary and its Agent Members, the operation of customary
practices governing the exercise of the rights of a Holder of any
Security.
(c) Book
Entry Provisions . The Company shall execute and the Trustee
shall, in accordance with this Section 2.01(c), authenticate
and deliver initially one or more Global Securities that
(1) shall be registered in the name of the Depositary or its
nominee, (2) shall be delivered by the Trustee to the
Depositary or pursuant to the Depositary’s instructions and
(3) shall bear legends substantially to the following
effect:
“UNLESS THIS
CERTIFICATE IS PRESENTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF THE
DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY TO THE COMPANY OR ITS AGENT FOR
REGISTRATION OF TRANSFER, EXCHANGE OR PAYMENT, AND ANY CERTIFICATE
ISSUED IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF CEDE & CO. OR IN SUCH OTHER
NAME AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF THE
DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY (AND ANY PAYMENT HEREON IS MADE TO CEDE
& CO. OR TO SUCH OTHER ENTITY AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED
REPRESENTATIVE OF THE DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY), ANY TRANSFER,
PLEDGE OR OTHER USE HEREOF FOR VALUE OR OTHERWISE BY OR TO ANY
PERSON IS WRONGFUL SINCE THE REGISTERED OWNER HEREOF, CEDE &
CO., HAS AN INTEREST HEREIN. THIS SECURITY IS A GLOBAL SECURITY
WITHIN THE MEANING OF THE INDENTURE HEREINAFTER REFERRED TO AND IS
REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF A DEPOSITARY OR A NOMINEE THEREOF. THIS
SECURITY IS EXCHANGEABLE FOR SECURITIES REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF A
PERSON OTHER THAN THE DEPOSITARY OR ITS NOMINEE ONLY IN THE LIMITED
CIRCUMSTANCES DESCRIBED IN THE INDENTURE AND, UNLESS AND UNTIL IT
IS EXCHANGED IN WHOLE OR IN PART FOR SECURITIES IN DEFINITIVE FORM,
THIS SECURITY MAY NOT BE TRANSFERRED EXCEPT AS A WHOLE BY THE
DEPOSITARY TO A NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITARY OR BY A NOMINEE OF THE
DEPOSITARY TO THE DEPOSITARY OR ANOTHER NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITARY
OR BY THE DEPOSITARY OR ANY SUCH NOMINEE TO A SUCCESSOR DEPOSITARY
OR A NOMINEE OF SUCH SUCCESSOR DEPOSITARY.”
Section 2.02
Execution and Authentication .
(a) The
aggregate principal amount of Securities which may be authenticated
and delivered under this Indenture is limited to $65,000,000
aggregate principal amount, except as provided in
Sections 2.07 and 2.08.
(b) The
Securities shall be executed on behalf of the Company by one of its
Officers. The signatures of any of the Officers on the Securities
may be manual or facsimile.
(c) Securities
bearing the manual or facsimile signatures of individuals who were
at any time the proper Officers of the Company shall bind the
Company, notwithstanding that such individuals or any of them have
ceased to hold such offices prior to the authentication and
delivery of such Securities or did not hold such offices on the
date on which such Securities were authenticated.
(d) No
Security endorsed thereon shall be entitled to any benefit under
this Indenture or be valid or obligatory for any purpose unless
there appears on such Security a certificate of authentication
substantially in the form provided for herein duly executed by the
Trustee by manual signature of an authorized signatory, and such
certificate upon any Security shall be conclusive evidence, and the
only evidence, that such Security has been duly authenticated and
delivered hereunder and is entitled to the benefits of this
Indenture.
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(e) The
Trustee shall authenticate and make available for delivery
Securities for original issue in the aggregate principal amount of
up to $65,000,000 upon receipt of a Company Order. The Company
Order shall specify the amount of Securities to be authenticated,
shall provide that all such Securities will be represented by a
Global Security and shall state the date on which each original
issue of Securities is to be authenticated.
(f) The
Trustee shall act as the initial authenticating agent. Thereafter,
the Trustee may appoint an authenticating agent acceptable to the
Company to authenticate Securities. An authenticating agent may
authenticate Securities whenever the Trustee may do so. Each
reference in this Indenture to authentication by the Trustee
includes authentication by such agent. An authenticating agent
shall have the same rights as an Agent to deal with the Company or
an Affiliate of the Company.
(g) The
Securities shall be issuable only in registered form without
coupons and only in denominations of $1,000 principal amount and
multiples of $1,000.
Section 2.03
Registrar, Paying Agent and Conversion Agent .
(a) The
Company shall maintain one or more offices or agencies where
Securities may be presented for registration of transfer or for
exchange (each, a “ Registrar ”), one or more
offices or agencies where Securities may be presented or
surrendered for payment (each, a “ Paying Agent
”), one or more offices or agencies where Securities may be
presented for conversion (each, a “ Conversion Agent
”) and one or more offices or agencies where notices and
demands to or upon the Company in respect of the Securities and
this Indenture may be served. The Company will at all times
maintain a Paying Agent, Conversion Agent, Registrar and an office
or agency where notices and demands to or upon the Company in
respect of the Securities and this Indenture may be served in the
Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York. One of the Registrars
(the “ Primary Registrar ”) shall keep a
register of the Securities and of their transfer and exchange. At
the option of the Company, any payment of cash may be made by check
mailed to the Holders at their addresses set forth in the register
of Holders.
(b) The
Company shall enter into an appropriate agency agreement with any
Agent not a party to this Indenture, provided that the Agent
may be an Affiliate of the Trustee. The agreement shall implement
the provisions of this Indenture that relate to such Agent. The
Company shall notify the Trustee of the name and address, and any
change in the name or address, of any Agent not a party to this
Indenture. If the Company fails to maintain a Registrar, Paying
Agent, Conversion Agent, or agent for service of notices and
demands in any place required by this Indenture, or fails to give
the foregoing notice, the Trustee shall act as such. The Company or
any Affiliate of the Company may act as Paying Agent (except for
the purposes of Article 9).
(c) The
Company hereby initially designates Wells Fargo Bank N.A. as Paying
Agent, Registrar, Primary Registrar, Securities Custodian and
Conversion Agent, and designates the Corporate Trust Office of the
Trustee as the office or agency of the Company for each of the
aforesaid purposes and as the office or agency where notices and
demands to or upon the Company in respect of the Securities and
this Indenture may be served.
Section 2.04
Paying Agent To Hold Money In Trust .
Unless otherwise
specified herein, prior to 10:00 a.m., New York City time, on
each due date of the payment of principal of, or interest
(including Additional Interest and Special Interest), if any, on
any Securities, the Company shall deposit a sum sufficient to pay
such principal or interest (including Additional Interest and
Special Interest), if any, so becoming due. A Paying Agent shall
hold in trust for the benefit of Holders of Securities or the
Trustee all money held by the Paying Agent for the payment of
principal of, or interest (including Additional Interest and
Special Interest), if any, on, the Securities, and shall notify the
Trustee of any failure by the Company (or any other obligor on the
Securities) to make any such payment. If the Company or an
Affiliate of the Company acts as Paying Agent, it shall, before
10:00 a.m., New York City time, on each due date of the
principal of, or interest (including Additional Interest and
Special Interest), if any, on, any Securities, segregate the money
and hold it as a separate trust fund for the benefit of Holders.
The Company at any time may require a Paying Agent to pay all money
held by it to the Trustee, and the Trustee may at any time during
the continuance of any Default, upon written request to a Paying
Agent, require such Paying Agent to pay forthwith to the Trustee
all sums so held in trust by such Paying Agent. Upon doing so, the
Paying Agent (other than the Company) shall have no further
liability for the money so paid to the Trustee.
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Any money
deposited with the Trustee or any Paying Agent, or then held by the
Company, in trust for the payment of the principal of or interest
(including Additional Interest and Special Interest), if any, on
any Security and remaining unclaimed for two years after such
principal or interest (including Additional Interest and Special
Interest), if any, has become due and payable shall promptly be
paid to the Company or (if then held by the Company) shall be
discharged from such trust; and the Holder of such Security shall
thereafter, as an unsecured general creditor, look only to the
Company for payment thereof, and all liability of the Trustee or
such Paying Agent with respect to such trust money, and all
liability of the Company as trustee thereof, shall thereupon cease;
provided , however , that the Trustee or such Paying
Agent, before being required to make any such repayment, may at the
expense of the Company cause to be published once, in a newspaper
published in the English language, customarily published on each
Business Day and of general circulation in The City of New York,
notice that such money remains unclaimed and that, after a date
specified therein, which shall not be less than 30 days from
the date of such publication, any unclaimed balance of such money
then remaining will promptly be repaid to the Company.
Section 2.05
Conversion Agent To Hold Money In Trust .
The Company shall
require each Conversion Agent (that is not the Trustee) to agree in
writing that the Conversion Agent will hold in trust for the
benefit of Holders or the Trustee all cash and shares of Common
Stock delivered by the Company to the Conversion Agent for the
delivery of amounts due upon conversion, and will notify the
Trustee of any default by the Company in making any such
delivery.
While any such
default continues, the Trustee may require a Conversion Agent to
deliver all cash and shares of Common Stock delivered by the
Company to it to the Trustee. Upon payment over to the Trustee, the
Conversion Agent (if other than the Company or a Subsidiary) shall
have no further liability in respect of such amounts. If the
Company or a Subsidiary acts as Conversion Agent, it shall
segregate and hold in a separate trust fund for the benefit of the
Holders all cash and shares of Common Stock held by it as
Conversion Agent. Upon any bankruptcy or reorganization proceedings
relating to the Company, the Trustee shall serve as Conversion
Agent for the Securities.
Section 2.06
Lists of Holders of Securities .
The Trustee shall
preserve in as current a form as is reasonably practicable the most
recent list available to it of the names and addresses of Holders
of Securities. The Company shall furnish or cause the Registrar to
furnish to the Trustee (a) semiannually, not more than
10 days after each Regular Record Date, a list, in such form
as the Trustee may reasonably require, of the names and addresses
of the Holders as of such Regular Record Date; and (b) at such
other times as the Trustee may request in writing, within
30 days after receipt by the Company of any such request, a
list of similar form and content to that in subsection
(a) hereof as of a date not more than 15 days prior to
the time such list is furnished; provided , however ,
that if and so long as the Trustee shall be the Primary Registrar,
no such list need be furnished.
Section 2.07
Transfer and Exchange .
(a) Subject
to compliance with any applicable additional requirements contained
in Section 2.13, when a Security is presented to a Registrar with a
request to register a transfer thereof or to exchange such Security
for an equal principal amount of Securities of other authorized
denominations, the Registrar shall register the transfer or make
the exchange as requested if its requirements for such transactions
are met; provided , however , that every Security
presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange
shall be duly endorsed or accompanied by an assignment form and, if
applicable, a transfer certificate each substantially in the form
included in Exhibit A, and completed in a manner satisfactory
to the Registrar and duly executed by the Holder thereof or its
attorney duly authorized in writing. To permit registration of
transfers and exchanges, upon surrender of any Security for
registration of transfer or exchange at an office or agency
maintained pursuant to Section 2.03(a), the Company shall
execute and the Trustee shall authenticate Securities of a like
aggregate principal amount at the Registrar’s request. Any
exchange or transfer shall be without charge, except that the
Company or the Registrar may require payment of a sum sufficient to
cover any transfer tax or similar governmental charge that may be
imposed in relation thereto; provided that this sentence shall not
apply to any exchange pursuant to Section 2.11, 2.13(a),
4.02(d) or 10.06.
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(b) Neither
the Company, any Registrar nor the Trustee shall be required to
register the transfer of or exchange any Securities or portions
thereof in respect of which a Fundamental Change Purchase Notice
has been delivered and not withdrawn by the Holder thereof (except,
in the case of the purchase of a Security in part, the portion
thereof not to be purchased).
(c) All
Securities issued upon any transfer or exchange of Securities shall
be valid obligations of the Company, evidencing the same debt and
entitled to the same benefits under this Indenture as the
Securities surrendered upon such registration of transfer or
exchange.
(d) Any
Registrar appointed pursuant to Section 2.03 shall provide to
the Trustee such information as the Trustee may reasonably require
in connection with the delivery by such Registrar of Securities
upon transfer or exchange of Securities.
(e) Each
Holder of a Security agrees to indemnify the Company and the
Trustee against any liability that may result from the registration
of transfer, exchange or assignment of such Holder’s Security
in violation of any provision of this Indenture and/or applicable
United States federal or state securities law.
(f) The
Trustee shall have no obligation or duty to monitor, determine or
inquire as to compliance with any restrictions on transfer imposed
under this Indenture or under applicable law with respect to any
transfer of any interest in any Security (including any transfers
between or among Agent Members or other beneficial owners of
interests in any Global Security) other than to require delivery of
such certificates and other documentation or evidence as are
expressly required by, and to do so if and when expressly required
by the terms of, this Indenture, and to examine the same to
determine substantial compliance as to form with the express
requirements hereof.
Section 2.08
Replacement Securities .
(a) If
(1) any mutilated Security is surrendered to the Trustee, or
(2) the Company and the Trustee receive evidence to their
satisfaction of the destruction, loss or theft of any Security, and
there is delivered to the Company and the Trustee, such security or
indemnity, in each case, as may be required by them to save each of
them harmless from any loss, expense, claim or liability, then, in
the absence of notice to the Company or the Trustee that such
Security has been acquired by a protected purchaser, the Company
shall execute and upon a Company Request the Trustee shall
authenticate and deliver, in exchange for any such mutilated
Security or in lieu of any such destroyed, lost or stolen Security,
a replacement Security of like tenor and principal amount, bearing
a number not contemporaneously outstanding.
(b) If any
such mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Security has become or is
about to become due and payable, or is about to be purchased by the
Company pursuant to Article 3, or converted pursuant to
Article 4, the Company in its discretion may, instead of
issuing a new Security, pay, purchase or convert such Security, as
the case may be.
(c) Upon the
issuance of any new Securities under this Section 2.08, the
Company may require the payment of a sum sufficient to cover any
tax or other governmental charge that may be imposed in relation
thereto and any other expenses (including the fees and expenses of
counsel and the Trustee) in connection therewith.
(d) Every new
Security issued pursuant to this Section 2.08 in lieu of any
mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Security shall constitute an
original additional contractual obligation of the Company, whether
or not the mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Security shall be
at any time enforceable by anyone, and shall be entitled to all
benefits of this Indenture equally and proportionately with any and
all other Securities duly issued hereunder.
(e) The
provisions of this Section 2.08 are (to the extent lawful)
exclusive and shall preclude (to the extent lawful) all other
rights and remedies with respect to the replacement or payment of
mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Securities.
Section 2.09
Outstanding Securities .
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(a) Securities
outstanding (“ Outstanding ”) at any time are
all Securities authenticated by the Trustee, except for those
canceled by it, those purchased pursuant to Article 3, those
converted pursuant to Article 4, those delivered to the
Trustee for cancellation or surrendered for transfer or exchange
and those described in this Section 2.09 as not
Outstanding.
(b) If a
Security is replaced pursuant to Section 2.08, such replaced
Security ceases to be Outstanding unless the Company receives proof
satisfactory to it that the replaced Security is held by a
protected purchaser.
(c) If a
Paying Agent holds in respect of the Outstanding Securities on a
Fundamental Change Purchase Date or the Final Maturity Date, as the
case may be, money sufficient to pay the principal of and accrued
interest (including Additional Interest and Special Interest), if
any, on Securities (or portions thereof) payable on that date, then
on and after such Fundamental Change Purchase Date or the Final
Maturity Date, such Securities (or portions thereof, as the case
may be) shall cease to be Outstanding, interest (including
Additional Interest and Special Interest), if any, on such
Securities shall cease to accrue and all other rights of the Holder
will terminate unless otherwise specified in this
Indenture.
(d) Subject
to the restrictions contained in Section 2.10, a Security does
not cease to be Outstanding because the Company or an Affiliate of
the Company holds the Security.
Section 2.10
Treasury Securities .
In determining
whether the Holders of the required principal amount of Securities
have concurred in any request, demand, authorization, notice,
direction, waiver or consent, Securities owned by the Company or
any other obligor on the Securities or by any Affiliate of the
Company or of such other obligor shall be disregarded, except that,
for purposes of determining whether the Trustee shall be protected
in relying on any such request, demand, authorization, notice,
direction, waiver or consent, only Securities which a Trust Officer
of the Trustee actually knows are so owned shall be so
disregarded.
Section 2.11
Temporary Securities .
Until definitive
Securities are ready for delivery, the Company may prepare and
execute, and, upon receipt of a Company Order, the Trustee shall
authenticate and deliver, temporary Securities. Temporary
Securities shall be substantially in the form of definitive
Securities but may have variations that the Company with the
consent of the Trustee considers appropriate for temporary
Securities. Without unreasonable delay, the Company shall prepare
and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver definitive
Securities in exchange for temporary Securities representing an
equal principal amount of Securities. The temporary Securities will
be exchanged for definitive Securities in accordance with
Sections 2.07 and 2.13 hereof. Until so exchanged, temporary
Securities shall have the same rights under this Indenture as the
definitive Securities.
Section 2.12
Cancellation .
The Company at any
time may deliver Securities to the Trustee for cancellation. The
Registrar, the Paying Agent and the Conversion Agent shall forward
to the Trustee any Securities surrendered to them for transfer,
exchange, purchase, payment or conversion. The Trustee and no one
else shall cancel, in accordance with its standard procedures, all
Securities surrendered for transfer, exchange, purchase, payment,
conversion or cancellation and shall dispose of the cancelled
Securities in accordance with its customary procedures or deliver
the canceled Securities to the Company upon request. All Securities
which are purchased or otherwise acquired by the Company or any of
its Subsidiaries prior to the Final Maturity Date pursuant to
Article 3 shall be delivered to the Trustee for cancellation,
and the Company may not hold or resell such Securities or issue any
new Securities to replace any such Securities or any Securities
that any Holder has converted pursuant to Article 4. The
Trustee shall maintain a record of all canceled Securities. The
Trustee shall provide the Company a list of all Securities that
have been canceled from time to time as requested by the Company in
writing.
Section 2.13
Restrictive Legend; Additional Transfer and Exchange
Requirements .
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(a) If
Securities are issued upon the transfer, exchange or replacement of
Securities subject to restrictions on transfer and bearing the
Restrictive Legend called for in footnote 2 set forth on the form
of Securities attached as Exhibit A (collectively, the “
Restrictive Legend ”), or if a request is made to
remove the Restrictive Legend on a Security, the Securities so
issued shall bear the Restrictive Legend, or the Restrictive Legend
shall not be removed, as the case may be, unless there is delivered
to the Company and the Registrar such satisfactory evidence, which
shall include an Opinion of Counsel if requested by the Company or
such Registrar, as may be reasonably required by the Company and
the Registrar, that neither the Restrictive Legend nor the
restrictions on transfer set forth therein are required to ensure
that transfers thereof comply with the provisions of Rule 144A
or Rule 144 under the Securities Act or that such Securities
are not “restricted” within the meaning of
Rule 144 under the Securities Act; provided that no such
evidence need be supplied in connection with the sale of such
Security pursuant to a registration statement that is effective
under the Securities Act at the time of such sale. Upon
(1) provision of such satisfactory evidence if requested or
(2) notification by the Company to the Trustee and Registrar
of the sale of such Security pursuant to a registration statement
that is effective under the Securities Act at the time of such
sale, the Trustee, at the written direction of the Company, shall
authenticate and deliver a Security that does not bear the
Restrictive Legend. If the Restrictive Legend is removed from the
face of a Security and the Security is subsequently held by an
affiliate of the Company within the meaning of Rule 144 under
the Securities Act, the Restrictive Legend shall be
reinstated.
(b) A Global
Security may not be transferred, in whole or in part, to any Person
other than the Depositary or a nominee or any successor thereof,
and no such transfer to any such other Person may be registered;
provided that the foregoing shall not prohibit any transfer
of a Security that is issued in exchange for a Global Security but
is not itself a Global Security. No transfer of a Security to any
Person shall be effective under this Indenture or the Securities
unless and until such Security has been registered in the name of
such Person. Notwithstanding any other provisions of this Indenture
or the Securities, transfers of a Global Security, in whole or in
part, shall be made only in accordance with this
Section 2.13.
(c) Subject
to Section 2.13(b) and in compliance with
Section 2.13(d), every Security shall be subject to the
restrictions on transfer provided in the Restrictive Legend.
Whenever any Restricted Security other than a Restricted Global
Security is presented or surrendered for registration of transfer
or in exchange for a Security registered in a name other than that
of the Holder, such Security must be accompanied by a certificate
in substantially the form set forth in Exhibit A, dated the
date of such surrender and signed by the Holder of such Security,
as to compliance with such restrictions on transfer. The Registrar
shall not be required to accept for such registration of transfer
or exchange any Security not so accompanied by a properly completed
certificate.
(d) The
restrictions imposed by the Restrictive Legend upon the
transferability of any Security shall cease and terminate when such
Security has been sold pursuant to an effective registration
statement under the Securities Act or transferred in compliance
with Rule 144 under the Securities Act (or any successor
provision thereto) or, if earlier, upon the date that is (x) one
year after the last date on which any of the Securities are
originally issued or such shorter period of time as permitted by
Rule 144 under the Securities Act (or any successor provision
thereunder) and (y) such later date, if any, as may be
required by applicable law (the “ Resale Restriction
Termination Date ”). Any Security as to which such
restrictions on transfer shall have expired in accordance with
their terms or shall have terminated may, upon a surrender of such
Security for exchange to the Registrar in accordance with the
provisions of this Section 2.13 (accompanied, in the event
that such restrictions on transfer have terminated by reason of a
transfer in compliance with Rule 144 or any successor
provision, by, if requested by the Company or the Registrar, an
Opinion of Counsel reasonably acceptable to the Company and the
Registrar and addressed to the Company and the Registrar, to the
effect that the transfer of such Security has been made in
compliance with Rule 144 or such successor provision), be
exchanged for a new Security, of like tenor and aggregate principal
amount, which shall not bear the Restrictive Legend. The Company
shall inform the Trustee of the effective date of any registration
statement registering the offer and sale of the Securities under
the Securities Act. The Trustee shall not be liable for any action
taken or omitted to be taken by it in good faith in accordance with
the aforementioned Opinion of Counsel.
As
used in Sections 2.13(c) and (d), the term
“transfer” encompasses any sale, pledge, transfer,
hypothecation or other disposition of any Security.
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(e) The
provisions below shall apply only to Global Securities or any
Securities issued in exchange for a Global Security:
(1) Each Global
Security authenticated under this Indenture shall be registered in
the name of the Depositary or a nominee thereof and delivered to
such Depositary or a nominee thereof or custodian therefor, and
each such Global Security shall constitute a single Security for
purposes of this Indenture.
(2)
Notwithstanding any other provisions of this Indenture or the
Securities, a Global Security shall not be exchanged in whole or in
part for a Security registered, and no transfer of a Global
Security in whole or in part shall be registered in the name of any
Person other than the Depositary or one or more nominees thereof;
provided that a Global Security may be exchanged for
Securities registered in the names of any person designated by the
Depositary in the event that (A) the Depositary has notified
the Company that it is unwilling or unable to continue as
Depositary for such Global Security or such Depositary has ceased
to be a “clearing agency” registered under the Exchange
Act, and in either case a successor Depositary is not appointed by
the Company within 60 days after receiving such notice or
becoming aware that the Depositary has ceased to be a
“clearing agency” or (B) an Event of Default has
occurred and is continuing with respect to the Securities. Any
Global Security exchanged pursuant to the preceding sentence shall
be so exchanged as directed by the Depositary. Any Security issued
in exchange for a Global Security or any portion thereof shall be a
Global Security; provided , however , that any such
Security so issued that is registered in the name of a Person other
than the Depositary or a nominee thereof shall not be a Global
Security.
(3) Securities
issued in exchange for a Global Security or any portion thereof
that are not issued as a Global Security shall be issued in
definitive, fully registered form, without interest coupons, shall
have a principal amount equal to that of such Global Security or
portion thereof to be so exchanged, shall be registered in such
names and be in such authorized denominations as the Depositary
shall designate and shall bear the applicable legends provided for
herein. Any Global Security to be exchanged in whole shall be
surrendered by the Depositary to the Trustee or the Registrar. With
regard to any Global Security to be exchanged in part, either such
Global Security shall be so surrendered for exchange or, if the
Trustee is acting as custodian for the Depositary or its nominee
with respect to such Global Security, the principal amount thereof
shall be reduced, by an amount equal to the portion thereof to be
so exchanged, by means of an appropriate adjustment made on the
records of the Trustee. Upon any such surrender or adjustment, the
Trustee shall authenticate and deliver the Security issuable on
such exchange to or upon the order of the Depositary or an
authorized representative thereof.
(4) Subject to
clause (6) of this Section 2.13(e), the registered Holder
may grant proxies and otherwise authorize any Person, including
Agent Members and Persons that may hold interests through Agent
Members, to take any action which a Holder is entitled to take
under this Indenture or the Securities.
(5) In the event
of the occurrence of any of the events specified in clause
(2) of this Section 2.13(e), the Company will promptly
make available to the Trustee a reasonable supply of Certificated
Securities in definitive, fully registered form, without interest
coupons.
(6) Neither Agent
Members nor any other Persons on whose behalf Agent Members may act
shall have any rights under this Indenture with respect to any
Global Security registered in the name of the Depositary or any
nominee thereof, or under any such Global Security, and the
Depositary or such nominee, as the case may be, may be treated by
the Company, the Trustee and any agent of the Company or the
Trustee as the absolute owner and Holder of such Global Security
for all purposes whatsoever. Notwithstanding the foregoing, nothing
herein shall (i) prevent the Company, the Trustee or any agent
of the Company or the Trustee from giving effect to any written
certification, proxy or other authorization furnished by the
Depositary or such nominee, as the case may be, or
(ii) impair, as between the Depositary, its Agent Members and
any other Person on whose behalf an Agent Member may act, the
operation of customary practices of such Persons governing the
exercise of the rights of a Holder of any Security.
(7) At such time
as all interests in a Global Security have been converted,
cancelled or exchanged for Securities in certificated form, such
Global Security shall, upon receipt thereof, be
cancelled
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by the Trustee
in accordance with standing procedures and instructions existing
between the Depositary and the Securities Custodian, subject to
Section 2.12 of this Indenture. At any time prior to such
cancellation, if any interest in a Global Security is converted,
canceled or exchanged for Securities in certificated form, the
principal amount of such Global Security shall, in accordance with
the standing procedures and instructions existing between the
Depositary and the Securities Custodian, be appropriately reduced,
and an endorsement shall be made on such Global Security, by the
Trustee or the Securities Custodian, at the direction of the
Trustee, to reflect such reduction.
(f) Until
Resale Restriction Termination Date, any stock certificate
representing Common Stock issued upon conversion of any Security
shall bear a legend in substantially the following form, unless
such Common Stock has been sold pursuant to an effective
registration statement under the Securities Act or transferred in
compliance with Rule 144 under the Securities Act (or any
successor provision thereto), or such Common Stock has been issued
upon conversion of Securities that have been transferred pursuant
to a registration statement that has been declared effective under
the Securities Act or pursuant to Rule 144 under the
Securities Act (or any successor provision thereto), or unless
otherwise agreed by the Company in writing with written notice
thereof to the transfer agent:
THIS SECURITY
IS ONE OF A DULY AUTHORIZED ISSUE OF SECURITIES OF STEWART
INFORMATION SERVICES CORPORATION (THE “COMPANY”)
DESIGNATED AS “6.00% CONVERTIBLE SENIOR NOTES DUE 2014”
(THE “SECURITIES”). THIS SECURITY AND THE SHARES OF
COMMON STOCK ISSUABLE UPON CONVERSION OF THIS SECURITY HAVE NOT
BEEN AND WILL NOT BE REGISTERED UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933,
AS AMENDED (THE “SECURITIES ACT”) OR ANY STATE
SECURITIES LAWS. NEITHER THIS SECURITY, THE SHARES OF COMMON STOCK
ISSUABLE UPON CONVERSION OF THIS SECURITY NOR ANY INTEREST OR
PARTICIPATION THEREIN MAY BE OFFERED, SOLD, PLEDGED OR OTHERWISE
TRANSFERRED EXCEPT IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE FOLLOWING SENTENCE. BY
ITS ACQUISITION HEREOF OR OF A BENEFICIAL INTEREST HEREIN, THE
ACQUIRER:
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FOR WHICH IT IS ACTING IS A “QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL
BUYER” (WITHIN THE MEANING OF RULE 144A UNDER THE SECURITIES
ACT) AND THAT IT EXERCISES SOLE INVESTMENT DISCRETION WITH RESPECT
TO EACH SUCH ACCOUNT, AND
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COMPANY THAT IT WILL NOT OFFER, RESELL, PLEDGE OR OTHERWISE
TRANSFER THIS SECURITY OR ANY BENEFICIAL INTEREST HEREIN, OR ANY
COMMON STOCK ISSUABLE UPON CONVERSION OF THIS SECURITY, PRIOR TO
THE DATE THAT IS (X) ONE YEAR AFTER THE LAST DATE ON WHICH ANY
OF THE SECURITIES ARE ORIGINALLY ISSUED OR SUCH SHORTER PERIOD OF
TIME AS PERMITTED BY RULE 144 UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OR ANY
SUCCESSOR PROVISION THEREUNDER, AND (Y) SUCH LATER DATE, IF
ANY, AS MAY BE REQUIRED BY APPLICABLE LAW, EXCEPT:
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REGISTRATION PROVIDED BY RULE 144 UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT (IF
AVAILABLE) OR ANY OTHER AVAILABLE EXEMPTION FROM THE REGISTRATION
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PRIOR TO THE
REGISTRATION OF ANY TRANSFER IN ACCORDANCE WITH (2)(D) ABOVE, THE
COMPANY AND THE TRUSTEE RESERVE THE RIGHT TO REQUIRE THE DELIVERY
OF SUCH LEGAL OPINIONS, CERTIFICATIONS OR OTHER EVIDENCE AS MAY
REASONABLY BE REQUIRED IN ORDER TO DETERMINE THAT THE PROPOSED
TRANSFER IS BEING MADE IN COMPLIANCE WITH THE SECURITIES ACT AND
APPLICABLE STATE SECURITIES LAWS. NO REPRESENTATION IS MADE AS TO
THE AVAILABILITY OF ANY EXEMPTION FROM THE REGISTRATION
REQUIREMENTS OF THE SECURITIES ACT.
Any such Common
Stock as to which such restrictions on transfer shall have expired
in accordance with their terms or as to which the conditions for
removal of the foregoing restrictive legend set forth therein have
been satisfied may, upon surrender of the certificates representing
such shares of Common Stock for exchange in accordance with the
procedures of the transfer agent for the Common Stock, be exchanged
for a new certificate or certificates for a like number of shares
of Common Stock, which shall not bear the restrictive legend
required by this Section 2.13(f).
Section 2.14
CUSIP Numbers .
The Company in
issuing the Securities may use one or more “CUSIP”
numbers (if then generally in use), and, if so, the Trustee shall
use “CUSIP” numbers in a Fundamental Change Purchase
Notice as a convenience to Holders; provided that any such
notice may state that no representation is made as to the
correctness of such numbers either as printed on the Securities or
as contained in any Fundamental Change Purchase Notice and that
reliance may be placed only on the other identification numbers
printed on the Securities, and any such purchase shall not be
affected by any defect in or omission of such numbers. The Company
will notify the Trustee in writing of any change in the
“CUSIP” numbers.
Section 2.15
Calculations .
Except as
otherwise specifically stated herein or in the Securities, all
calculations to be made in respect of the Securities shall be the
obligation of the Company. All calculations made by the Company or
its agent as contemplated pursuant to the terms hereof and of the
Securities shall be made in good faith and be final and binding on
the Holders absent manifest error. The Company shall provide a
schedule of calculations to the Trustee upon the Trustee’s
request, and the Trustee shall be entitled to conclusively rely
upon the accuracy of the calculations by the Company without
independent verification. The Trustee shall forward calculations
made by the Company to any Holder of Securities upon
request.
Section 2.16
Payment of Interest; Interest Rights Preserved .
Interest
(including Additional Interest and Special Interest), if any, on
any Security which is payable, and is punctually paid or duly
provided for, on the Stated Maturity of such interest (including
Additional Interest and Special Interest), if any, shall be paid to
the Person in whose name the Security is registered at the close of
business on the Regular Record Date for such interest
payment.
Any interest
(including Additional Interest and Special Interest), if any, on
any Security which is payable, but is not punctually paid or duly
provided for, on the Stated Maturity of such interest (including
Additional Interest and Special Interest), if any, and interest on
such defaulted interest at the then applicable interest rate borne
by the Securities, to the extent lawful (such defaulted interest
and interest thereon herein collectively called “
Defaulted Interest ”), shall forthwith cease to be
payable to the Holder on the Regular Record Date; and such
Defaulted Interest may be paid by the Company, at its election in
each case, as provided in Subsection (a) or
(b) below:
(a) The
Company may elect to make payment of any Defaulted Interest to the
Persons in whose names the Securities are registered at the close
of business on a Special Record Date for the payment of such
Defaulted Interest, which shall be fixed in the following manner.
The Company shall notify the Trustee in writing of the amount of
Defaulted Interest proposed to be paid on each Security and the
date (not less than 25 days after such notice) of the proposed
payment (the “ Special Payment Date ”), and on
the date of payment the Company shall deposit with the Trustee an
amount of money equal to the aggregate amount proposed to be paid
in respect of such
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Defaulted
Interest or shall make arrangements satisfactory to the Trustee for
such deposit prior to the Special Payment Date, such money when
deposited to be held in trust for the benefit of the Persons
entitled to such Defaulted Interest as in this subsection provided.
Upon receipt of such notice, the Trustee shall fix a Special Record
Date for the payment of such Defaulted Interest which shall be not
more than 15 days and not less than 10 days prior to the
date of the Special Payment Date and not less than 10 days
after the receipt by the Trustee of the notice of the proposed
payment. The Trustee shall promptly notify the Company in writing
of such Special Record Date. Unless the Company issues a press
release to the same effect, in the name and at the expense of the
Company, the Trustee shall cause notice of the proposed payment of
such Defaulted Interest and the Special Record Date therefor to be
mailed, first-class postage prepaid, to each Holder at its address
as it appears in the Security Register, not less than 10 days
prior to such Special Record Date or notify in such other manner as
the Trustee determines, including in accordance with any Applicable
Procedures. Notice of the proposed payment of such Defaulted
Interest and the Special Record Date and Special Payment Date
therefor having been so mailed or otherwise conveyed, such
Defaulted Interest shall be paid to the Persons in whose names the
Securities are registered on such Special Record Date and shall no
longer be payable pursuant to the following paragraph
(b).
(b) The
Company may make payment of any Defaulted Interest in any other
lawful manner not inconsistent with the requirements of any
national securities exchange on which the Securities may be listed,
and upon such notice as may be required by this Indenture not
inconsistent with the requirements of such exchange, if, after
written notice given by the Company to the Trustee of the proposed
payment pursuant to this subsection, such payment shall be deemed
practicable by the Trustee.
(c) Subject
to the foregoing provisions of this Section 2.16, each
Security delivered under this Indenture upon registration of
transfer of or in exchange for or in lieu of any other Security
shall carry the rights to interest (including Additional Interest
and Special Interest), if any, accrued and unpaid, and to accrue,
which were carried by such other Security.
Section 2.17
Computation of Interest .
Interest
(including Additional Interest and Special Interest) on the
Securities shall be computed on the basis of a 360-day year
comprised of twelve 30-day months.
Section 2.18
Automatic Exchange from Restricted Global Security to
Unrestricted Global Security .
Beneficial
interests in a Restricted Global Security or Common Stock issued
upon conversion of Restricted Securities (“ Restricted
Common Stock ”) shall be automatically exchanged into
beneficial interests in an unrestricted Global Security or stock
certificate representing unrestricted Common Stock, as applicable,
that is no longer subject to the restrictions set out in the
Restrictive Legend (the “ Unrestricted Global Security
” or “ Unrestricted Common Stock ”, as
applicable), without any action required by or on behalf of the
Holders (the “ Automatic Exchange”). In order to
effect such exchange, the Company shall at least 15 days but not
more than 30 days prior to the Resale Restriction Termination
Date, deliver a notice of Automatic Exchange (an “
Automatic Exchange Notice ”) to each Holder at such
Holder’s address appearing in the Security Register or
register maintained at the registrar for Common Stock, as
applicable, with a copy to the Trustee or transfer agent for Common
Stock, as applicable. The Automatic Exchange Notice shall identify
the Securities or Common Stock, as applicable, subject to the
Automatic Exchange and shall state: (1) the date of the
Automatic Exchange; (2) the section of this Indenture pursuant
to which the Automatic Exchange shall occur; (3) the
“CUSIP” number of the Restricted Global Security or
Restricted Common Stock, as applicable, from which such
Holders’ beneficial interests shall be transferred and
(4) the “CUSIP” number of the Unrestricted Global
Security or Unrestricted Common Stock, as applicable, into which
such holders’ beneficial interests shall be transferred. At
the Company’s request on no less than 5 days’
prior notice, the Trustee shall deliver, or, with respect to Common
Stock, the Company shall cause the transfer agent to deliver, in
the Company’s name and at its expense, the Automatic Exchange
Notice to each holder at such holder’s address appearing in
the Security Register or register maintained at the registrar for
Common Stock, as applicable; provided , however ,
that the Company shall have delivered to the Trustee or transfer
agent, as applicable, a Company Order and an Officer’s
Certificate requesting that the Trustee or transfer agent, as
applicable, give the Automatic Exchange Notice (in the name and at
the expense of the Company) and setting forth the information to be
stated in the Automatic Exchange Notice as provided in the
preceding sentence. As a condition to any such exchange pursuant to
this Section 2.18, the Trustee or transfer agent, as
applicable, shall be entitled to receive from the Company, and
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conclusively
without any liability, upon an Officer’s Certificate and an
Opinion of Counsel to the Company, in form and in substance
reasonably satisfactory to the Trustee or transfer agent, as
applicable, to the effect that such transfer of beneficial
interests to the Unrestricted Global Security or Unrestricted
Common Stock, as applicable, shall be effected in compliance with
the Securities Act. Upon such exchange of beneficial interests
pursuant to this Section 2.18, (i) with respect to the
Securities, the Security Registrar shall reflect on its books and
records the date of such transfer and a decrease and increase,
respectively, in the principal amount of the applicable Restricted
Global Security(s) and the Unrestricted Global Security,
respectively, equal to the principal amount of beneficial interests
transferred or (ii) with respect to Common Stock, the
registrar for Common Stock shall reflect on its books and records
the date of such transfer and a decrease and increase,
respectively, in the number of shares of the applicable Restricted
Common Stock and the Unrestricted Common Stock, respectively, equal
to the beneficial interests transferred. If an Unrestricted Global
Security is not then outstanding at the time of the Automatic
Exchange, the Company shall execute and the Trustee shall
authenticate and deliver an Unrestricted Global Security to the
Depositary. Following any such transfer pursuant to this
Section 2.18, the relevant Restricted Global Security or
Restricted Common Stock, as applicable, shall be
cancelled.
Section 3.01
Repurchase of Securities at Option of the Holder upon a
Fundamental Change .
(a) In the
event a Fundamental Change shall occur at any time when any
Securities remain outstanding, each Holder shall have the right, at
such Holder’s option, to require the Company to purchase for
cash any or all of such Holders’ Securities, or any portion
of the principal amount thereof, that is equal to $1,000 or an
integral multiple thereof on a date specified by the Company (the
“ Fundamental Change Purchase Date ”) that is no
earlier than the 20th calendar day following the date of, and no
later than the 35th calendar day following the date of, delivery of
the Fundamental Change Company Notice (as defined below) at a
purchase price in cash equal to 100% of the principal amount of the
Securities tendered for purchase, plus accrued and unpaid interest
(including Additional Interest and Special Interest), if any, on
those Securities to, but excluding, the Fundamental Change Purchase
Date (the “ Fundamental Change Purchase Price
”), subject to satisfaction by or on behalf of any Holder of
the requirements set forth in Section 3.01(c); provided that
if the Fundamental Change Purchase Date is on a date that is after
a Regular Record Date and on or prior to the corresponding Interest
Payment Date, the Fundamental Change Purchase Price shall be 100%
of the principal amount of the Securities repurchased but shall not
include accrued and unpaid interest (including Additional Interest
and Special Interest), if any. Instead, the Company shall pay such
accrued and unpaid interest (including Additional Interest and
Special Interest), if any, on the Interest Payment Date, to the
Holder of record at the close of business on the corresponding
Regular Record Date.
(b) On or
before the 20th calendar day after the occurrence of a Fundamental
Change, the Company shall mail a written notice of the occurrence
of the Fundamental Change and of the resulting purchase right to
the Trustee, Paying Agent and to each Holder of record of
Securities (a “ Fundamental Change Company Notice
”). The Fundamental Change Company Notice shall include the
form of a Fundamental Change Purchase Notice (defined below) to be
completed by the Holder and shall state:
(1) the events
causing such Fundamental Change;
(2) the date of
such Fundamental Change;
(3) the last date
by which the Fundamental Change Purchase Notice must be delivered
to elect the purchase option pursuant to this
Section 3.01;
(4) the
Fundamental Change Purchase Date;
(5) the
Fundamental Change Purchase Price;
(6) the
Holder’s right to require the Company to purchase the
Securities;
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(7) the name and
address of each Paying Agent and Conversion Agent;
(8) the then
effective Conversion Rate and any adjustments to the Conversion
Rate resulting from such Fundamental Change;
(9) the procedures
that the Holder must follow to exercise rights under Article 4
of this Indenture and that the Securities as to which a Fundamental
Change Purchase Notice has been given may be converted into Common
Stock pursuant to Article 4 of this Indenture only to the
extent that the Fundamental Change Purchase Notice has been
withdrawn in accordance with the terms of this
Indenture;
(10) the
procedures that the Holder must follow to exercise rights under
this Section 3.01;
(11) the
procedures for withdrawing a Fundamental Change Purchase
Notice;
(12) that, unless
the Company fails to pay such Fundamental Change Purchase Price,
Securities covered by any Fundamental Change Purchase Notice will
cease to be outstanding and interest, (including Additional
Interest and Special Interest), if any, will cease to accrue on and
after the Fundamental Change Purchase Date; and
(13) the CUSIP
number of the Securities.
At the
Company’s written request, the Trustee shall give such
Fundamental Change Company Notice in the Company’s name and
at the Company’s expense; provided that, in all cases,
the text of such Fundamental Change Company Notice shall be
prepared by the Company. In connection with the delivery of the
Fundamental Change Notice to the Holders, the Company shall publish
a notice containing substantially the same information that is
required in the Fundamental Change Company Notice in a newspaper of
general circulation in the City of New York or publish information
on a website of the Company or through such other public medium the
Company may use at that time. If any of the Securities is in the
form of a Global Security, then the Company shall modify such
notice to the extent necessary to accord with the Applicable
Procedures relating to the purchase of Global Securities. No
failure of the Company to give the Fundamental Change Company
Notice and no defect therein shall limit the purchase rights of the
Holders of Securities or affect the validity of the proceedings for
the purchase of the Securities pursuant to this
Section 3.01.
(c) A Holder
may exercise its rights specified in Section 3.01(a) upon
delivery of a written notice (which shall be in substantially the
form set forth in the form of Security attached as Exhibit A
under the heading “Fundamental Change Purchase Notice”
and which may be delivered by letter, overnight courier, hand
delivery, facsimile transmission or in any other written form and,
in the case of Global Securities, may be delivered electronically
or by other means in accordance with the Depositary’s
Applicable Procedures) of the exercise of such rights (a “
Fundamental Change Purchase Notice ”) to the Paying
Agent at any time prior to the close of business on the Business
Day immediately preceding the Fundamental Change Purchase Date,
subject to extension to comply with applicable law.
(1) The
Fundamental Change Purchase Notice shall state: (A) if
Certificated Securities are to be purchased, the certificate
numbers of the Securities which the Holder will deliver to be
purchased (or, if the Security is held in global form, any other
items required to comply with the Applicable Procedures),
(B) the portion of the principal amount of the Securities
which the Holder will deliver to be purchased, which portion must
be a principal amount of $1,000 or any integral multiple thereof
and (C) that such Security shall be purchased as of the
Fundamental Change Purchase Date pursuant to the terms and
conditions specified in the Securities and in this
Indenture.
(2) The delivery
of a Security for which a Fundamental Change Purchase Notice has
been timely delivered to any Paying Agent and not validly withdrawn
prior to, on or after the Fundamental Change Purchase Date
(together with all necessary endorsements) at the office of such
Paying Agent shall be a condition to the receipt by the Holder of
the Fundamental Change Purchase Price therefor.
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(3) The Company
shall only be obliged to purchase, pursuant to this
Section 3.01, a portion of a Security if the principal amount
of such portion is $1,000 or an integral multiple thereof.
Provisions of this Indenture that apply to the purchase of all of a
Security also apply to the purchase of such portion of such
Security.
(4)
Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, any Holder
delivering to a Paying Agent the Fundamental Change Purchase Notice
contemplated by this Section 3.01(c) shall have the right to
withdraw such Fundamental Change Purchase Notice in whole or in a
portion thereof that is a principal amount of $1,000 or in an
integral multiple thereof at any time prior to the close of
business on the Business Day prior to the Fundamental Change
Purchase Date by delivery of a written notice of withdrawal to the
Paying Agent in accordance with Section 3.02(b).
(5) A Paying Agent
shall promptly notify the Company of the receipt by it of any
Fundamental Change Purchase Notice or written withdrawal
thereof.
(6) Anything
herein to the contrary notwithstanding, in the case of Global
Securities, any Fundamental Change Purchase Notice may be delivered
or withdrawn and such Securities may be surrendered or delivered
for purchase in accordance with the Applicable Procedures as in
effect from time to time.
(7) There shall be
no repurchase of any Securities pursuant to this Section 3.01
if an Event of Default (other than a default in the payment of the
Fundamental Change Purchase Price) has occurred prior to, on or
after, as the case may, the giving by the Holders of such
Securities of the required Fundamental Change Purchase Notice and
such Event of Default is continuing. The Paying Agent will promptly
return to the respective Holders thereof any Securities
(x) with respect to which a Fundamental Change Purchase Notice
has been withdrawn in compliance with this Indenture, or
(y) held by it during the continuance of an Event of Default
(other than a default in the payment of the Fundamental Change
Purchase Price) in which case, upon such return, the Fundamental
Change Repurchase Notice with respect thereto shall be deemed to
have been withdrawn.
Section 3.02
Effect of Fundamental Change Purchase Notice .
(a) Upon
receipt by any Paying Agent of a Fundamental Change Purchase
Notice, the Holder of the Security in respect of which such
Fundamental Change Purchase Notice was given shall (unless such
Fundamental Change Purchase Notice is withdrawn as specified below)
thereafter be entitled to receive the Fundamental Change Purchase
Price with respect to such Security. The Fundamental Change
Purchase Price shall be paid to such Holder promptly following the
later of (i) the Fundamental Change Purchase Date with respect
to such Security (provided such Holder has satisfied the conditions
in Section 3.01) and (ii) the time of delivery of such
Security to a Paying Agent by the Holder thereof in the manner
required by Section 3.01. A Security in respect of which a
Fundamental Change Purchase Notice has been given by the Holder
thereof may not be converted pursuant to Article 4 hereof on
or after the date of the delivery of such Fundamental Change
Purchase Notice, unless either (i) such Fundamental Change
Purchase Notice has first been validly withdrawn in accordance with
Section 3.02(b); or (ii) there shall be a default in the
payment of the Fundamental Change Purchase Price, provided ,
that the conversion right with respect to such Security shall
terminate at the close of business on the date such default is
cured and such Security is purchased in accordance
herewith.
(b) A
Fundamental Change Purchase Notice may be withdrawn by any Holder
delivering such Fundamental Change Purchase Notice upon delivery of
a written notice of withdrawal (which may be delivered by mail,
overnight courier, hand delivery, facsimile transmission or in any
other written form and, in the case of Global Securities, may be
delivered electronically or by other means in accordance with the
Applicable Procedures) to and actually received by Paying Agent at
any time prior to the close of business on the Business Day
immediately preceding the Fundamental Change Purchase Date,
specifying:
(i) if
Certificated Securities are to be withdrawn, the certificate
numbers of the Securities in respect of which such notice of
withdrawal is being submitted (or, if the Security is held in
global form, any other items required to comply with the Applicable
Procedures);
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(ii) the
principal amount of the Securities in respect of which such notice
of withdrawal is being submitted, which principal amount must be
$1,000 or an integral multiple thereof; and
(iii) the
principal amount, if any, of the Securities that remains subject to
the original Fundamental Change Purchase Notice and that has been
or shall be delivered for purchase by the Company which principal
amount must be $1,000 or an integral multiple thereof.
The Paying Agent
will promptly return to the respective Holders thereof any
Certificated Securities with respect to which a Fundamental Change
Purchase Notice has been withdrawn in compliance with the
provisions of this Section 3.02(b).
Section 3.03
Deposit of Fundamental Change Purchase Price .
Prior to
10:00 a.m., New York City time, on a Fundamental Change
Purchase Date, the Company shall deposit with the Paying Agent (or
if the Company or an Affiliate of the Company is acting as the
Paying Agent, shall segregate and hold in trust as provided in
Section 2.04) an amount in cash (in immediately available
funds) sufficient to pay the aggregate Fundamental Change Purchase
Price of all the Securities or portions thereof that are to be
purchased on that Fundamental Change Purchase Date.
If a Paying Agent
holds, in accordance with the terms hereof, at 10:00 a.m., New
York City time, on a Fundamental Change Purchase Date, cash
sufficient to pay the aggregate Fundamental Change Purchase Price
of all Securities for which a Fundamental Change Purchase Notice
has been delivered and not validly withdrawn in accordance with
this Indenture, then, on and after such Repurchase Date, such
Securities shall cease to be outstanding and interest (including
Additional Interest and Special Interest), if any, on such
Securities shall cease to accrue, whether or not such Securities
are delivered to the Paying Agent, and the rights of the Holders in
respect thereof shall terminate (other than the right to receive
the Fundamental Change Purchase Price upon delivery of such
Securities by their Holders to the Paying Agent).
Section 3.04
Securities Purchased in Part .
Any Certificated
Security that is to be purchased only in part shall be surrendered
at the office of a Paying Agent (with, if the Company or the
Trustee so requires, due endorsement by, or a written instrument of
transfer in form reasonably satisfactory to the Company and the
Trustee duly executed by, the Holder thereof or such Holder’s
attorney duly authorized in writing), and promptly after a
Fundamental Change Purchase Date, the Company shall issue and the
Trustee shall, upon receipt of a Company Order (which the Company
agrees to deliver promptly), authenticate and deliver to the Holder
of such Security, without service charge, a new Security or
Securities, of such authorized denomination or denominations as may
be requested by such Holder, in aggregate principal amount equal
to, and in exchange for, the portion of the principal amount of the
Security so surrendered that is not purchased by the Company on
such Fundamental Change Purchase Date.
Section 3.05
Repayment to the Company .
To the extent that
the aggregate amount of cash deposited by the Company pursuant to
Section 3.03 exceeds the aggregate Fundamental Change Purchase
Price of the Securities or portions thereof that the Company is
obligated to purchase on the Fundamental Change Purchase Date, then
promptly after the applicable Fundamental Change Purchase Date, the
Paying Agent shall return any such excess cash to the
Company.
Section 3.06
Compliance With Securities Laws Upon Purchase of Securities
.
When complying
with the provisions of Article 3 hereof and subject to any
exemptions available under applicable law, the Company
shall:
(a) comply
with the provisions of any tender offer rules under the Exchange
Act that may then be applicable to the Company’s purchase of
Securities under Article 3;
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(b) file a
Schedule TO (or any successor or similar schedule, form or
report) if required under the Exchange Act; and
(c) otherwise
comply with all federal and state securities laws so as to permit
the rights and obligations in connection with any purchase pursuant
to this Article 3 to be exercised in the time and in the
manner specified herein.
To the extent that
compliance with any such laws, rules and regulations would result
in a conflict with any of the terms hereof, this Indenture is
hereby modified to the extent required for the Company to comply
with such laws, rules and regulations.
Section 3.07
Purchase of Securities In Open Market .
The Company may
purchase Securities in the open market or by tender at any price or
pursuant to private agreements. The Company shall surrender any
Security purchased by the Company pursuant to this Article 3
to the Trustee for cancellation. Any Securities surrendered to the
Trustee for cancellation may not be reissued or resold by the
Company and will be canceled promptly in accordance with
Section 2.12.
Section 4.01
Right to Convert . (a) Subject to and upon compliance
with the provisions of this Indenture and except as set forth in
Section 4.01(b) through Section 4.01(f), each Holder of
Securities shall have the right, at such Holder’s option, to
convert the principal amount of any such Securities, or any portion
of such principal amount equal to $1,000 or a multiple of $1,000
thereof, at the Conversion Rate in effect on the Conversion Date
for such Securities, at any time prior to the close of business on
the second Scheduled Trading Day immediately preceding the Final
Maturity Date.
(b) Prior to
the close of business on the Business Day immediately preceding the
earlier of (i) receipt of Shareholder Approval or
(ii) April 15, 2014, Holders of the Securities shall have
the right, at such Holder’s option, to convert the principal
amount of any such Securities, or any portion of such principal
amount equal to $1,000 or a multiple of $1,000 thereof, into the
number of shares of Common Stock and the amount of cash determined
in accordance with Section 4.03(a) if and only if:
(1) a Holder
surrenders any of its Securities for conversion during any calendar
quarter beginning after September 30, 2009, and only during
any such calendar quarter, in which the Last Reported Sale Price
for not less than any twenty (20) Trading Days in the thirty
(30) consecutive Trading Days ending on the last Trading Day
of the preceding calendar quarter is more than one hundred-thirty
percent (130%) of the Conversion Price in effect on the applicable
Trading Day; or
(2) a Holder
surrenders any of its Securities for conversion during the five (5)
consecutive Trading-Day period following any five
(5) consecutive Trading-Day period in which the Note Trading
Price determined following a reasonable request by a Holder of the
Securities was less than ninety-eight percent (98%) of the product
of the Last Reported Sale Price on the applicable Trading Day and
the Conversion Rate on the applicable Trading Day; or
(3) the shares of
Common Stock have ceased to be listed on a United States national
or regional securities exchange for a period of thirty
(30) consecutive Trading Days.
(c) If, prior
to the close of business on the Trading Day immediately preceding
the earlier of (i) receipt of Shareholder Approval or
(ii) April 15, 2014, the Company elects to distribute to
all holders of shares of Common Stock:
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(1) rights
entitling the holders of shares of Common Stock to purchase, for a
period expiring within forty-five (45) calendar days of the
date of the distribution of such rights, shares of Common Stock at
a price per share that is less than the Last Reported Sale Price on
the Trading Day immediately preceding the declaration date of such
distribution, or
(2) assets, debt
securities or rights to purchase securities of the Company with a
value per share of Common Stock that exceeds fifteen percent (15%)
of the Last Reported Sale Price on the Trading Day immediately
preceding the declaration date of such distribution,
then the
Company shall notify the Holders of Securities at least twenty
(20) calendar days prior to the Ex-Dividend Date for such
distribution and, following delivery of such notice, a Holder may
surrender any of its Securities for conversion into the number of
shares of Common Stock and the amount of cash determined in
accordance with Section 4.03(a) at any time until the earlier
of the close of business on the Business Day prior to the
Ex-Dividend Date or an announcement by the Company that such
distribution will not take place. Notwithstanding the foregoing, a
Holder of Securities may not exercise the conversion right set
forth in this Section 4.01(c) if a Holder of Securities will
receive the rights, assets, debt securities or rights to purchase
securities described the in clauses (1) and
(2) immediately preceding this paragraph in such distribution
that are equal to that which a Holder of Securities would have
received had such Holder converted its Securities into shares of
Common Stock immediately prior to such distribution.
(d) If, prior
to the close of business on the Trading Day immediately preceding
the earlier of receipt of Shareholder Approval or April 15,
2014, the Company is party to a consolidation, merger, binding
share exchange or a sale, lease or other transfer of all or
substantially all of the consolidated assets of the Company
pursuant to which all of the outstanding shares of Common Stock
would be exchanged for cash, securities or other property that does
not otherwise constitute a Fundamental Change, (i) the Company
shall notify Holders of the Securities of such transaction as
promptly as practicable following the date on which the Company
publicly announces such transaction (but in no event less than
fifteen (15) Business Days prior to the anticipated effective
date of such transaction), and (ii) a Holder of Securities may
surrender any of its Securities for conversion into the number of
shares of Common Stock and the amount of cash determined in
accordance with Section 4.03(a) at any time from and including
the date that is fifteen (15) Business Days prior to the
anticipated effective date of the transaction up to and including
five (5) Business Days after the effective date of such
transaction.
(e) If the
Company is party to a transaction that constitutes a Fundamental
Change prior to the close of business on the Trading Day
immediately preceding the earlier of receipt of Shareholder
Approval or April 15, 2014, (i) the Company shall notify
Holders of the Securities of such transaction as promptly as
practicable following the date on which the Company publicly
announces such transaction (but in no event less than five
(5) Business Days prior to the anticipated effective date of
such transaction), and (ii) if a Holder of Securities has not
exercised its right to require the Company to repurchase its
Securities pursuant to Section 3.01 of this Indenture, a
Holder of Securities may surrender any of its Securities for
conversion into the number of shares of Common Stock and the amount
of cash determined in accordance with Section 4.03(a) at any time
from and including the effective date of such transaction up to and
including the thirtieth (30 th )
Business Day following the effective date of the
transaction.
(f) If, prior
to the close of business on the Trading Day immediately preceding
the earlier of receipt of Shareholder Approval or April 15,
2014, the Company is party to a consolidation, merger, binding
share exchange or a sale, lease or other transfer of all or
substantially all of the consolidated assets of the Company
pursuant to which all of the outstanding shares of Common Stock
would be exchanged for cash, securities or other property, then
from and after the effective date of such transaction any
conversion of Securities, including the conversion value
deliverable in connection with such exchange, will be based on the
kind and amount of cash, securities or other property that a Holder
of Securities would have received if such Holder had converted its
Securities into shares of Common Stock immediately prior to the
effective date of such transaction; provided, however, if all of
outstanding shares of Common Stock would be exchanged in such
transaction for the right to receive more than a single type of
consideration based upon any form of election made by a holder of
shares of Common Stock, then the amount of consideration to be
received from and after the effective date of such transaction upon
any conversion of the Securities will be deemed to be the weighted
average of the types and amounts of consideration received by the
holders of shares of Common Stock that affirmatively make such an
election.
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(g) Securities
may not be converted after the close of business on the second
Scheduled Trading Day immediately preceding the Final Maturity
Date. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Indenture,
the Company shall have no obligation to request that the Trustee
determine the Note Trading Price unless a Holder of Securities
provides the Company with reasonable evidence that the Note Trading
Price per $1,000 principal amount of the Securities is less than
ninety-eight (98%) of the product of the Last Reported Sale Price
on the applicable Trading Day and the Conversion Rate on the
applicable Trading Day. If a Holder of Securities makes such a
request, the Company shall instruct the Trustee to determine the
Note Trading Price beginning on the next Trading Day and on each
successive Trading Day until the Note Trading Price is greater than
or equal to ninety-eight (98%) of the product of the Last Reported
Sale Price on the applicable Trading Day and the Conversion Rate on
the applicable Trading Day.
Section 4.02
Conversion Procedures . (a) Each Security shall be
convertible at the office of the Conversion Agent and, if
applicable, in accordance with the procedures of the
Depositary.
(b) In order
to exercise the conversion privilege with respect to any interest
in a Global Security, the Holder must complete the appropriate
instruction form for conversion pursuant to the Depositary’s
book-entry conversion program, furnish appropriate endorsements and
transfer documents if required by the Company or the Conversion
Agent, and pay the funds, if any, required by Section 4.03(c) and
any taxes or duties if required pursuant to Section 4.08, and
the Conversion Agent must be informed of the conversion in
accordance with the customary practice of the Depositary. In order
to exercise the conversion privilege with respect to any
Certificated Securities, the Holder of any such Securities to be
converted, in whole or in part, shall:
(i) complete
and manually sign the conversion notice provided on the back of the
Security (the “ Conversion Notice ”) or a
facsimile of the Conversion Notice;
(ii) deliver
the Conversion Notice, which is irrevocable, and the Security to
the Conversion Agent;
(iii) if
required, furnish appropriate endorsements and transfer
documents,
(iv) make
any payment required under Section 4.03(c); and
(v) if
required, pay all transfer or similar taxes as set forth in
Section 4.08.
The date on which
the Holder satisfies all of the applicable requirements set forth
above is the “ Conversion Date .” The Conversion
Agent will, as promptly as possible, and in any event within two
(2) Business Days of the receipt thereof, provide the Company
with notice of any conversion by a Holder of the
Securities.
(c) Each
Conversion Notice shall state the name or names (with address or
addresses) in which any certificate or certificates for shares of
Common Stock which shall be issuable on such conversion shall be
issued. All such Securities surrendered for conversion shall,
unless the shares issuable on conversion are to be issued in the
same name as the registration of such Securities, be duly endorsed
by, or be accompanied by instruments of transfer in form
satisfactory to the Company duly executed by, the Holder or his
duly authorized attorney.
(d) In case
any Securities of a denomination greater than $1,000 shall be
surrendered for partial conversion, the Company shall execute and
the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver to the Holder of the
Securities so surrendered, without charge, new Securities in
authorized denominations in an aggregate principal amount equal to
the unconverted portion of the surrendered Securities.
Each conversion
shall be deemed to have been effected as to any such Securities (or
portion thereof) surrendered for conversion on the relevant
Conversion Date. The person in whose name the certificate or
certificates for the number of shares of Common Stock that shall be
issuable upon such conversion shall become the holder of record of
such shares of Common Stock as of the close of business on such
Conversion Date. Notwithstanding the foregoing and anything
contained in this Indenture to the contrary, in no event shall a
Holder be entitled to the benefit of a Conversion Rate adjustment
pursuant to the provisions of Section 4.04 in respect of
Securities surrendered for
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conversion if,
by virtue of being deemed the record holder of the shares of Common
Stock issuable upon such conversion pursuant to the foregoing
sentence, such Holder participates, as a result of being such
holder of record, in the transaction or event that would otherwise
give rise to such Conversion Rate adjustment to the same extent and
in the same manner as holders of shares of Common Stock
generally.
(e) Upon the
conversion of an interest in Global Securities, the Trustee (or
other Conversion Agent appointed by the Company) shall make a
notation on such Global Securities as to the reduction in the
principal amount represented thereby. The Company shall notify the
Trustee in writing of any conversions of Securities effected
through any Conversion Agent other than the Trustee.
(f) Notwithstanding
the foregoing, a Security in respect of which a Holder has
delivered a Fundamental Change Purchase Notice exercising such
Holder’s option to require the Company to purchase such
Security may be converted only if such notice of exercise is
withdrawn in accordance with Article 3 hereof prior to the
close of business on the Business Day prior to the relevant
Fundamental Change Purchase Date.
Section 4.03
Payments Upon Conversion . (a) Upon any conversion of
Securities prior to the close of business on the Trading Day
immediately preceding the earlier of receipt of Shareholder
Approval or April 15, 2014, the Company shall deliver to the
converting Holder a number of shares equal to (i) the
aggregate principal amount of Securities to be converted divided by
$1,000, multiplied by (ii) 56.0871 (“Initial Maximum
Conversion Rate”, as adjusted for Conversion Rate
adjustments), and an amount of cash equal to (i) the aggregate
principal amount of Securities to be converted divided by $1,000,
multiplied by (ii) the difference between the applicable
conversion rate and Initial Maximum Conversion Rate, multiplied by
(iii) the Applicable Conversion Share Price.
(b) Upon any
conversion of Securities after the earlier of receipt of
Shareholder Approval or April 15, 2014, on the third Business
Day immediately following the Conversion Date, the Company shall
deliver to the converting Holder a number of shares of Common Stock
equal to (i) the aggregate principal amount of such Securities
to be converted divided by $1,000, multiplied by (ii) the
Conversion Rate in effect as of such Conversion Date, together with
any cash payment for any fractional share of Common Stock as
described in this Section 4.03.
(c) Subject
to Section 4.03(c) below, upon conversion, Holders shall not
receive any separate cash payment for accrued and unpaid interest
(including Additional Interest and Special Interest), if any,
unless such conversion occurs between a Regular Record Date and the
Interest Payment Date to which it relates.
(d) Upon the
conversion of any Securities, the Holder will not be entitled to
receive any separate cash payment for accrued and unpaid interest
(including Additional Interest and Special Interest), if any,
except to the extent specified below. The Company’s delivery
to the Holder of Common Stock together with any cash payment for
any fractional share of Common Stock, into which a Security is
convertible will be deemed to satisfy in full the Company’s
obligation to pay the principal amount of the Securities so
converted and accrued and unpaid interest (including Additional
Interest and Special Interest), if any, to, but not including, the
Conversion Date. As a result, accrued and unpaid interest
(including Additional Interest and Special Interest), if any, to,
but not including, the Conversion Date will be deemed to be paid in
full rather than cancelled, extinguished or forfeited.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, if Securities are converted after
the close of business on a Regular Record Date for the payment of
interest, Holders of such Securities at the close of business on
such Regular Record Date will receive the interest (including
Additional Interest and Special Interest), if any, payable on such
Securities on the corresponding Interest Payment Date
notwithstanding the conversion. Securities surrendered for
conversion during the period from the close of business on any
Regular Record Date to the open of business on the immediately
following Interest Payment Date must be accompanied by funds equal
to the amount of interest (including Additional Interest and
Special Interest), if any, payable on the Securities so converted
on such following Interest Payment Date; provided that no such
payment need be made (i) for conversions following the Regular
Record Date immediately preceding the Final Maturity Date,
(ii) if the Company has specified a Fundamental Change
Purchase Date that is after a Regular Record Date and on or prior
to the corresponding Interest Payment Date, or (iii) to the
extent of any overdue interest, if any overdue interest exists at
the time of conversion with respect to such Security.
(e) The
Company shall not issue fractional shares of Common Stock upon
conversion of Securities. If multiple Securities shall be
surrendered for conversion at one time by the same Holder, the
number of full shares which shall be issuable upon conversion shall
be computed on the basis of the aggregate principal amount of
the
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Securities (or
specified portions thereof to the extent permitted hereby) so
surrendered. If any fractional share of Common Stock would be
issuable upon the conversion of any Securities, the Company shall
make payment therefor in cash in lieu of fractional shares of
Common Stock based on the Last Reported Sale Price on the relevant
Conversion Date.
Section 4.04
Adjustment of Conversion Rate . The Conversion Rate shall be
adjusted from time to time by the Company if any of the following
events occurs, except that the Company will not make any adjustment
to the Conversion Rate if Holders of Securities participate, as a
result of holding the Securities, in any of the transactions
described under Section 4.04(a) (but only with respect to
stock dividends or distributions), Section 4.04(b),
Section 4.04(c), and Section 4.04(d), at the same time as
holders of the Common Stock participate, without having to convert
their Securities, as if such Holders held a number of shares of
Common Stock equal to the Conversion Rate in effect for such
Securities immediately prior to the Record Date for such
event.
(a) If the
Company, at any time or from time to time while any of the
Securities are outstanding, exclusively issues shares of its Common
Stock as a dividend or distribution on shares of Common Stock, or
if the Company effects a share split or share combination, then the
Conversion Rate will be adjusted based on the following
formula:
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Record Date of such dividend or distribution, or immediately prior
to the open of business on the effective date of such share split
or share combination, as applicable;
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shares of Common Stock outstanding immediately prior to the open of
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shares of Common Stock outstanding immediately after giving effect
to such dividend, distribution, share split or share
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Such adjustment
shall become effective immediately after the open of business on
the Record Date for such dividend or distribution or the effective
date for such share split or share combination. If any dividend or
distribution of the type described in this Section 4.04(a) is
declared but not so paid or made, the Conversion Rate shall again
be adjusted to the Conversion Rate which would then be in effect if
such dividend or distribution had not been declared.
(b) If the
Company, at any time or from time to time while any of the
Securities are outstanding, issues to all or substantially all
holders of the Common Stock any rights or warrants entitling them
for a period of not more than 60 calendar days after the
announcement date of such issuance to subscribe for or purchase
shares of the Common Stock at a price per share less than the
average of the Last Reported Sale Prices of Common Stock for the 10
consecutive Trading-Day period ending on the Trading Day
immediately preceding the date of announcement of such issuance,
the Conversion Rate shall be adjusted based on the following
formula:
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