3.50% CONVERTIBLE SENIOR NOTES
DUE 2029
DATED AS OF AUGUST 4,
2009
U.S. BANK NATIONAL
ASSOCIATION,
AS TRUSTEE
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ARTICLE 1 DEFINITIONS AND INCORPORATION BY
REFERENCE
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1
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1
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SECTION 1.2. OTHER DEFINITIONS
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SECTION 1.3. TRUST INDENTURE ACT
PROVISIONS
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SECTION 1.4. RULES OF CONSTRUCTION
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SECTION 2.1. FORM AND DATING
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SECTION 2.2. EXECUTION AND
AUTHENTICATION
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10
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SECTION 2.3. REGISTRAR, PAYING AGENT AND
CONVERSION AGENT
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SECTION 2.4. PAYING AGENT TO HOLD MONEY IN
TRUST
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SECTION 2.5. SECURITYHOLDER LISTS
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SECTION 2.6. TRANSFER AND EXCHANGE
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SECTION 2.7. REPLACEMENT SECURITIES
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SECTION 2.8. OUTSTANDING SECURITIES
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SECTION 2.9. TREASURY SECURITIES
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SECTION 2.10. TEMPORARY SECURITIES
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SECTION 2.11. CANCELLATION
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SECTION 2.12. LEGEND; ADDITIONAL TRANSFER AND
EXCHANGE REQUIREMENTS
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SECTION 2.13. CUSIP NUMBERS
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ARTICLE 3 REDEMPTION AND PURCHASE
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SECTION 3.1. TO REDEEM; NOTICE TO
TRUSTEE
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SECTION 3.2. SELECTION OF SECURITIES TO BE
REDEEMED
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SECTION 3.3. NOTICE OF REDEMPTION
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SECTION 3.4. EFFECT OF NOTICE OF
REDEMPTION
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SECTION 3.5. DEPOSIT OF REDEMPTION
PRICE
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SECTION 3.6. SECURITIES REDEEMED IN
PART
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SECTION 3.7. PURCHASE OF SECURITIES AT OPTION OF
THE HOLDER UPON FUNDAMENTAL CHANGE
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SECTION 3.8. EFFECT OF FUNDAMENTAL CHANGE
PURCHASE NOTICE
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SECTION 3.9. DEPOSIT OF FUNDAMENTAL CHANGE
PURCHASE PRICE
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SECTION 3.10. REPAYMENT TO THE
COMPANY
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SECTION 3.11. PURCHASE OF SECURITIES AT OPTION
OF THE HOLDER ON SPECIFIED DATES
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SECTION 3.12. SECURITIES PURCHASED IN
PART
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SECTION 3.13. COMPLIANCE WITH SECURITIES LAWS
UPON PURCHASE OF SECURITIES
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SECTION 3.14. PURCHASE OF SECURITIES
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SECTION 4.1. CONVERSION PRIVILEGE AND CONVERSION
RATE
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SECTION 4.2. CONVERSION PROCEDURE
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SECTION 4.3. FRACTIONAL SHARES
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SECTION 4.4. TAXES ON CONVERSION
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SECTION 4.5. COMPANY TO PROVIDE STOCK
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SECTION 4.6. ADJUSTMENT OF CONVERSION
RATE
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SECTION 4.7. NO ADJUSTMENT
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SECTION 4.8. ADJUSTMENT FOR TAX
PURPOSES
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SECTION 4.9. NOTICE OF ADJUSTMENT
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SECTION 4.10. NOTICE OF CERTAIN
TRANSACTIONS
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SECTION 4.11. EFFECT OF RECLASSIFICATION,
CONSOLIDATION, MERGER OR SALE ON CONVERSION PRIVILEGE
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SECTION 4.12. TRUSTEE’S
DISCLAIMER
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SECTION 4.13. VOLUNTARY INCREASE
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SECTION 4.14. PAYMENT OF CASH IN LIEU OF COMMON
STOCK.
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SECTION 4.15. RIGHTS PLAN
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SECTION 5.1. PAYMENT OF SECURITIES
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SECTION 5.3. COMPLIANCE CERTIFICATES
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SECTION 5.4. FURTHER INSTRUMENTS AND
ACTS
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SECTION 5.5. MAINTENANCE OF CORPORATE
EXISTENCE
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SECTION 5.6. RULE 144A INFORMATION
REQUIREMENT
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SECTION 5.7. STAY, EXTENSION AND USURY
LAWS
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SECTION 5.8. ADDITIONAL INTEREST; RECEIPT OF
REQUEST TO DELEGEND THE SECURITIES
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ARTICLE 6 CONSOLIDATION, MERGER, CONVEYANCE,
TRANSFER OR LEASE
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SECTION 6.1. COMPANY MAY CONSOLIDATE, ETC., ONLY
ON CERTAIN TERMS
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SECTION 6.2. SUCCESSOR SUBSTITUTED
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ARTICLE 7 DEFAULT AND REMEDIES
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SECTION 7.1. EVENTS OF DEFAULT
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SECTION 7.2. ACCELERATION
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SECTION 7.3. OTHER REMEDIES
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SECTION 7.4. WAIVER OF DEFAULTS AND EVENTS OF
DEFAULT
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SECTION 7.5. CONTROL BY MAJORITY
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SECTION 7.6. LIMITATIONS ON SUITS
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SECTION 7.7. RIGHTS OF HOLDERS TO RECEIVE
PAYMENT AND TO CONVERT
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SECTION 7.8. COLLECTION SUIT BY
TRUSTEE
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SECTION 7.9. TRUSTEE MAY FILE PROOFS OF
CLAIM
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SECTION 7.11. UNDERTAKING FOR COSTS
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SECTION 8.1. DUTIES OF TRUSTEE
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SECTION 8.2. RIGHTS OF TRUSTEE
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SECTION 8.3. INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS OF
TRUSTEE
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SECTION 8.4. TRUSTEE’S
DISCLAIMER
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SECTION 8.5. NOTICE OF DEFAULT OR EVENTS OF
DEFAULT
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SECTION 8.6. REPORTS BY TRUSTEE TO
HOLDERS
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SECTION 8.7. COMPENSATION AND
INDEMNITY
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SECTION 8.8. REPLACEMENT OF TRUSTEE
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SECTION 8.9. SUCCESSOR TRUSTEE BY MERGER,
ETC
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SECTION 8.10. ELIGIBILITY;
DISQUALIFICATION
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SECTION 8.11. PREFERENTIAL COLLECTION OF CLAIMS
AGAINST COMPANY
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ARTICLE 9 SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE OF
INDENTURE
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SECTION 9.1. SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE OF
INDENTURE
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SECTION 9.2. APPLICATION OF TRUST
MONEY
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SECTION 9.3. REPAYMENT TO COMPANY
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SECTION 9.4. REINSTATEMENT
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ARTICLE 10 AMENDMENTS, SUPPLEMENTS AND
WAIVERS
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SECTION 10.1. WITHOUT CONSENT OF
HOLDERS
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SECTION 10.2. WITH CONSENT OF HOLDERS
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SECTION 10.3. COMPLIANCE WITH TRUST INDENTURE
ACT
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SECTION 10.4. REVOCATION AND EFFECT OF
CONSENTS
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SECTION 10.5. NOTATION ON OR EXCHANGE OF
SECURITIES
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SECTION 10.6. TRUSTEE TO SIGN AMENDMENTS,
ETC
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SECTION 10.7. EFFECT OF SUPPLEMENTAL
INDENTURES
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SECTION 11.1. TRUST INDENTURE ACT
CONTROLS
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SECTION 11.3. COMMUNICATIONS BY HOLDERS WITH
OTHER HOLDERS
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SECTION 11.4. CERTIFICATE AND OPINION AS TO
CONDITIONS PRECEDENT
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SECTION 11.5. RECORD DATE FOR VOTE OR CONSENT OF
SECURITYHOLDERS
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SECTION 11.6. RULES BY TRUSTEE, PAYING AGENT,
REGISTRAR AND CONVERSION AGENT
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SECTION 11.7. LEGAL HOLIDAYS
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SECTION 11.8. GOVERNING LAW
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SECTION 11.9. NO ADVERSE INTERPRETATION OF OTHER
AGREEMENTS
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SECTION 11.10. NO RECOURSE AGAINST
OTHERS
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SECTION 11.11. SUCCESSORS
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SECTION 11.12. MULTIPLE COUNTERPARTS
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SECTION 11.13. SEPARABILITY
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SECTION 11.14. TABLE OF CONTENTS, HEADINGS,
ETC
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TIA
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INDENTURE
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SECTION
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SECTION
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Section
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11.1
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8.10
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8.10
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N.A.**
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N.A.
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8.10
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8.10
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N.A.
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Section
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11.1
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8.11
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8.11
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N.A.
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Section
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11.1
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2.5
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11.3
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11.3
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Section
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11.1
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8.6(a)
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N.A.
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8.6(a)
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8.6(a)
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N.A.
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Section
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11.1
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5.2
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N.A.
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11.4(a)
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11.4(a)
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N.A.
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N.A.
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11.4(b)
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N.A.
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Section
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11.1
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11.1
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11.1
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11.1
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This
Cross-Reference Table shall not, for any purpose, be deemed a part
of this Indenture.
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N.A. means Not
Applicable.
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THIS
INDENTURE dated as of August 4, 2009 is between Sybase, Inc.,
a corporation incorporated under the laws of the State of Delaware
(the “ Company ”), and U.S. Bank National
Association, a national banking association organized and existing
under the laws of the United States, as Trustee (the “
Trustee ”).
In
consideration of the purchase of the Securities (as defined herein)
by the Holders thereof, both parties agree as follows for the
benefit of the other and for the equal and ratable benefit of the
Holders of the Company’s 3.50% Convertible Senior Notes Due
2029.
ARTICLE 1
DEFINITIONS AND INCORPORATION BY REFERENCE
SECTION 1.1. DEFINITIONS.
“
Additional Interest ” means the additional interest
that may be payable pursuant to Section 5.8 and
Section 7.2(b); provided that neither Section 5.8 nor
Section 7.2(b) shall preclude interest from accruing
simultaneously under the other Section. All references herein to
interest accrued or payable as of any date shall include any
Additional Interest accrued or payable as of such date as provided
in either Section 5.8 or Section 7.2(b).
“
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.
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Applicable Procedures ” means, with respect to any
transfer or exchange of beneficial ownership interests in a Global
Security, the rules and procedures of the Depositary, in each case
to the extent applicable to such transfer or exchange.
“
Board of Directors ” means either the board of
directors of the Company or any committee of the Board of Directors
authorized to act for it with respect to this Indenture; provided
that, for purposes of Section 3.7(b)(3) hereof, such term
shall mean the board of directors of the Company and not any
committee thereof.
“
Business Day ” means any weekday that is not a day on
which banking institutions in the City of New York are authorized
or obligated by law or executive order to close or be
closed.
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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) equity of such Person, but excluding any debt
securities convertible into such equity.
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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 hereto as Exhibit A
that does not include the information or the schedule called for by
footnotes 1 and 3 thereof.
“
close of business ” means 5:00 p.m., local time, in
the City of New York.
“
Closing Price ” means the last reported sale price per
share of Common Stock (or, if no last sale price is reported, the
average of the bid and ask prices per share or, if more than one in
either case, the average of the average bid and the average ask
prices per share) on such date reported by the New York Stock
Exchange or, if the Common Stock is not quoted on the New York
Stock Exchange, as reported by the principal national or regional
securities exchange or quotation system on which the Common Stock
is listed. If the Common Stock is not listed for trading on a U.S.
national or regional securities exchange on the relevant date, the
“closing price” will 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 similar organization. If the
Common Stock is not so quoted, the “closing price” will
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.
“
Common Stock ” means the common stock of the Company,
$0.001 par value per share, as it exists on the date of this
Indenture and any shares of any class or classes of capital stock
of the Company resulting from any reclassification or
reclassifications thereof and which have no preference in respect
of dividends or of amounts payable in the event of any voluntary or
involuntary liquidation, dissolution or winding-up of the Company
and which are not subject to redemption by the Company; provided,
however, that if at any time there shall be more than one such
resulting class, the shares of each such class then so issuable on
conversion of Securities shall be substantially in the proportion
which the total number of shares of such class resulting from all
such reclassifications bears to the total number of shares of all
such classes resulting from all such reclassifications.
“
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.
“
Conversion Price ” per share of Common Stock as of any
day means the result obtained by dividing (i) $1,000 by
(ii) the then applicable Conversion Rate.
“
Conversion Rate ” means the rate at which the
Securities are convertible, which rate shall be initially 20.8836
shares of Common Stock for each $1,000 principal amount of
Securities, as adjusted from time to time pursuant to the
provisions of this Indenture.
“
Conversion Reference Period ” means:
(i) if
the Company has specified a Redemption Date, for Securities that
are converted on or after the 25 th Scheduled Trading Day prior to the redemption of
the Securities, the 20 consecutive Trading Days
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beginning on
the 22 nd
Scheduled Trading Day prior to the
Redemption Date (in the case of a partial redemption, this clause
(i) shall only apply to those Securities that are subject to
redemption);
(ii) for
Securities that are converted on or after the 25
th Scheduled Trading Day prior to the Final
Maturity Date, the 20 consecutive Trading Days beginning on the
22 nd
Scheduled Trading Day prior to the
Final Maturity Date; and
(iii) in
all other instances, the 20 consecutive Trading Days beginning on
the third Trading Day following the Conversion Date.
“
Conversion Value ” means, for each $1,000 principal
amount of Securities converted, an amount equal to the product of
(i) the Conversion Rate in effect on the Conversion Date and
(ii) the average of the Closing Prices of the Company’s
Common Stock for each of the 20 consecutive Trading Days of the
Conversion Reference Period; provided that, after the consummation
of a Fundamental Change in which the consideration is comprised
entirely of cash and the Securities become convertible solely into
cash, the amount in clause (ii) of this definition shall be
the cash price per share received by holders of the Company’s
Common Stock in such Fundamental Change; and provided further, that
in the event of any conversion rate adjustment during the
Conversion Reference Period, from and after the effective date of
such adjustment, the Conversion Rate for purposes of clause
(i) of this definition shall mean the Conversion Rate as so
adjusted.
“
Corporate Trust Office ” means the principal office of
the Trustee at which at any particular time its corporate trust
business shall be administered which office at the date of the
execution of this Indenture is located at 633 West Fifth Street,
24th Floor, Los Angeles, CA 90071; Attention: Corporate Trust
Services (Sybase, Inc. — 3.50% Convertible Senior Notes due
2029) or at any other time at such other address as the Trustee may
designate from time to time by notice to the Company.
“
Daily Share Amount ” means, for each Trading Day of
the Conversion Reference Period and for each $1,000 principal
amount of Securities surrendered for conversion, a number of shares
of Common Stock (but in no event less than zero) equal to
(i) the difference between (a) the Closing Price on such
Trading Day multiplied by the Conversion Rate in effect on the
Conversion Date, appropriately adjusted to take into account the
occurrence on such Trading Day of any event which would require an
adjustment pursuant to Section 4.6, and (b) $1,000, divided by
(ii) the Closing Price on such Trading Day multiplied by
20.
“
Default ” means, when used with respect to the
Securities, any event which 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.
“
Final Maturity Date ” means August 15,
2029.
“
GAAP ” means generally accepted accounting principles
in the United States of America as in effect from time to time,
including those set forth in (1) the opinions and
pronouncements of the Accounting Principles Board of the American
Institute of Certified Public Accountants, (2) the statements
and pronouncements of the Financial Accounting Standards Board,
(3) such other statements by such other entity as approved by
a significant segment of the accounting profession and (4) the
rules and regulations of the
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SEC governing
the inclusion of financial statements (including pro forma
financial statements) in registration statements filed under the
Securities Act and periodic reports required to be filed pursuant
to Section 13 of the Exchange Act, including opinions and
pronouncements in staff accounting bulletins and similar written
statements from the accounting staff of the SEC.
“
Global Security ” means a Security in global form that
is in substantially the form attached hereto as
Exhibit A and that includes the information and
schedule called for by footnotes 1 and 3 thereof and which is
deposited with the Depositary or its custodian and registered in
the name of the Depositary or its nominee.
“
Holder ” or “ Securityholder ”
means the person in whose name a Security is registered on the
Primary Registrar’s books.
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Indenture ” means this Indenture as amended or
supplemented from time to time pursuant to the terms of this
Indenture.
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Initial Purchasers ” means Merrill Lynch, Pierce,
Fenner & Smith Incorporated and J.P Morgan Securities
Inc.
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Interest Payment Date ” means February 15 and
August 15 of each year, commencing February 15,
2010.
“
Officer ” means the Chairman or any Co-Chairman of the
Board of Directors, any Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors,
the Chief Executive Officer, the President, any Vice President, the
Chief Financial Officer, the Controller, the Secretary, any
Assistant Controller or any Assistant Secretary of the
Company.
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Officers’ Certificate ” means a certificate
signed by two Officers; provided, however, that for purposes of
Sections 4.11 and 5.3, “ Officers’
Certificate ” means a certificate signed by the principal
executive officer, principal financial officer or principal
accounting officer of the Company and by one other
Officer.
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opening of business ” means 9:00 a.m., local time, in
the City of New York.
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Opinion of Counsel ” means a written opinion from
legal counsel. The counsel may be an employee of or counsel to the
Company or the Trustee.
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Person ” or “ person ” means any
individual, corporation, partnership, limited liability company,
joint venture, association, joint-stock company, trust,
unincorporated organization, government or any agency or political
subdivision thereof or any other entity.
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Principal ” or “ principal ” of a
debt security, including the Securities, means the principal of the
security plus, when appropriate, the premium, if any, on the
security.
“
Redemption Date ” when used with respect to any
Security to be redeemed, means the date fixed by the Company for
such redemption pursuant to Section 3.
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Regular Record Date ” means, with respect to each
Interest Payment Date, the February 1 or August 1, as the case
may be, next preceding such Interest Payment Date.
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Restricted Global Security ” means a Global Security
that is a Restricted Security.
“
Restricted Security ” means a Security required to
bear the restricted legend called for by footnote 2 in the form of
Security set forth in Exhibit A of this
Indenture.
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Rule 144 ” means Rule 144 under the
Securities Act or any successor to such Rule.
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Rule 144A ” means Rule 144A under the
Securities Act or any successor to such Rule.
“
SEC ” means the Securities and Exchange
Commission.
“
Securities ” means the 3.50% Convertible Senior Notes
due 2029 or any of them (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.
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Significant Subsidiary ” means, in respect of any
Person, a Subsidiary of such Person that would constitute a
“significant subsidiary” as such term is defined under
Rule 1-02 of Regulation S-X under the Securities
Act.
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Subsidiary ” means, in respect of any Person, any
corporation, association, partnership or other business entity of
which more than 50% of the total voting power of shares of Capital
Stock or other interests (including partnership interests) entitled
(without regard to the occurrence of any contingency) to vote in
the election of directors, managers, general partners or trustees
thereof is at the time owned or controlled, directly or indirectly,
by (i) such Person; (ii) such Person and one or more
Subsidiaries of such Person; or (iii) one or more Subsidiaries
of such Person.
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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 as provided in
Section 10.3, and except to the extent any amendment to the
Trust Indenture Act expressly provides for application of the Trust
Indenture Act as in effect on another date.
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Trading Day ” means a day during which trading in
securities generally occurs on the New York Stock Exchange (or, if
the Common Stock is not traded on the New York Stock Exchange, on
the principal other market on which the Common Stock is then
traded), other than a day on which the material suspension of or
limitation on trading is imposed that affects either the New York
Stock Exchange (or, if applicable, such other market) in its
entirety or only the shares of the Company’s Common Stock (by
reason of movements in price exceeding limits permitted by the
relevant market on which the shares are traded or otherwise) or on
which the New York Stock Exchange (or, if applicable, such other
market) cannot clear the transfer of the Company’s shares due
to an event beyond the Company’s control.
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Trading Price ” of the Securities on any date of
determination means the average of the secondary market bid
quotations per Security obtained by the Trustee for $5,000,000
principal amount of the Securities at approximately 3:30 p.m., New
York City time, on such determination date from two independent
nationally recognized securities dealers the Company selects, which
may include either or both of the Initial Purchasers, provided that
if at least two such bids cannot be reasonably obtained by the
Trustee, but one such bid can be reasonably obtained by the
Trustee, this one bid will be used. If the Trustee cannot
reasonably obtain at least one bid for $5,000,000 principal amount
of the Securities from a nationally recognized securities dealer or
if in the Company’s reasonable judgment, the bid quotations
are not indicative of the secondary market value of the Securities,
then the Trading Price of the Securities will be deemed to be less
than 98% of the then current Conversion Rate multiplied by the
Closing Price of Common Stock on such determination
date.
“
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 assigned to the Corporate Trust Office, and also, with
respect to a particular matter, any other officer to whom such
matter is referred because of such officer’s knowledge of and
familiarity with the particular subject.
“
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 1.2. OTHER DEFINITIONS.
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2.1
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“Company
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Put Right Notice”
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Notice”
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Price”
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SECTION 1.3. 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.
This Indenture shall also include those provisions of the TIA
required to be included herein by the provisions of the Trust
Indenture Reform Act of 1990. The following TIA terms used in this
Indenture have the following meanings:
“indenture
securities” means the Securities;
“indenture
security holder” means a Securityholder;
“indenture
to be qualified” means this Indenture;
“indenture
trustee” or “institutional trustee” means the
Trustee; and
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“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 1.4. RULES OF CONSTRUCTION.
(a)
Unless the context otherwise requires:
(1)
a term has the meaning assigned to it;
(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)
provisions apply to successive events and transactions;
(5)
the term “merger” includes a statutory share exchange
and the term “merged” has a correlative
meaning;
(6)
the masculine gender includes the feminine and the
neuter;
(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 “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 2.1. 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 have notations, legends
or endorsements required by law, stock exchange or automated
quotation system rule or regulation or usage. The Company shall
provide any such notations, legends or endorsements to the Trustee
in writing. Each Security shall be dated the date of its
authentication. The Securities are being offered and sold by the
Company pursuant to a Purchase Agreement dated July 29, 2009
(the “ APurchase Agreement ”) between the
Company and the Initial Purchasers, in transactions exempt from, or
not subject to, the registration requirements of the Securities
Act.
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(a)
Restricted Global Securities . All of the Securities are
initially being offered and sold by the Company to the Initial
Purchasers for resale 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.
A
(b)
Global Securities In General . Each Global Security shall
represent such of the outstanding Securities as shall be specified
therein and each shall provide that it shall represent the
aggregate amount of outstanding Securities from time to time
endorsed thereon and that the aggregate amount of outstanding
Securities represented thereby may from time to time be reduced or
increased, as appropriate, to reflect replacements, exchanges,
purchases, redemptions, or conversions of such Securities. Any
adjustment of the aggregate principal amount of a Global Security
to reflect the amount of any increase or decrease in the amount of
outstanding Securities represented thereby shall be made by the
Trustee in accordance with instructions given by the Holder thereof
as required by Section 2.12 hereof and shall be made on the
records of the Trustee and the Depositary.
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 Subsection 2.1(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
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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 2.2. EXECUTION AND AUTHENTICATION.
(a)
The aggregate principal amount of Securities which may be
authenticated and delivered under this Indenture is limited to
$400,000,000 except as provided in Sections 2.6 and
2.7.
(b)
Two Officers shall sign the Securities for the Company by manual or
facsimile signature, one of whom shall be the Secretary or an
Assistant Secretary of the Company. Typographic and other minor
errors or defects in any such facsimile signature shall not affect
the validity or enforceability of any Security that has been
authenticated and delivered by the Trustee.
(c)
If an Officer whose signature is on a Security no longer holds that
office at the time the Trustee authenticates the Security, the
Security shall be valid nevertheless.
(d)
A Security shall not be valid until an authorized signatory of the
Trustee manually signs the certificate of authentication on the
Security. The signature shall be conclusive evidence that the
Security has been authenticated under this Indenture.
(e)
The Trustee shall authenticate and make available for delivery
Securities for original issue in the aggregate principal amount of
up to $400,000,000 upon receipt of a written order or orders of the
Company signed by an Officer of the Company (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 Restricted Global Security and
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
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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
any multiple thereof.
SECTION 2.3.
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 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.
(b) The
Company shall enter into an appropriate agency agreement with any
Agent not a party to this Indenture. 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 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 Section 5.1 and
Article 9), Conversion Agent and Registrar.
(c) The
Company hereby initially designates the Trustee as Paying Agent,
Registrar, Securities Custodian and Conversion Agent, and each of
the Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee and the office or agency
of U.S. Bank Trust National Association, an Affiliate of the
Trustee, in the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York, one
such office or agency of the Company for each of the aforesaid
purposes.
SECTION 2.4.
PAYING AGENT TO HOLD MONEY IN TRUST.
Prior to
11:00 a.m., New York City time, on each due date of the
principal of, or interest on, any Securities, the Company shall
deposit with a Paying Agent a sum sufficient to pay such principal
or interest so becoming due. Subject to Section 9.2, a Paying
Agent shall hold in trust for the benefit of Securityholders or the
Trustee all money held by the Paying Agent for the payment of
principal of, or interest 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
11:00 a.m., New York City time, on each due date of the
principal of, or interest on, any Securities, segregate the money
and hold it as a separate trust fund. 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
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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.
SECTION 2.5. SECURITYHOLDER LISTS.
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 Securityholders. If the Trustee is not the Primary
Registrar, the Company shall furnish to the Trustee on or before
each semiannual Interest Payment Date and at such other times as
the Trustee may request in writing, a list in such form and as of
such date as the Trustee may reasonably require of the names and
addresses of Securityholders.
SECTION 2.6. TRANSFER AND EXCHANGE.
(a)
Subject to compliance with any applicable additional requirements
contained in Section 2.12, 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; 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 in
the form included in Exhibit A , and in form
satisfactory to the Registrar 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 2.3, 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 tax
or other governmental charge that may be imposed in relation
thereto, and provided , that this sentence shall not apply
to any exchange pursuant to Section 2.10, 2.12(a), 3.6, 3.12,
4.2(e) or 10.5.
(b)
Neither the Company, any Registrar nor the Trustee shall be
required to exchange or register a transfer of (1) any
Securities for a period of 15 days next preceding mailing of a
notice of Securities to be redeemed, (2) any Securities or
portions thereof selected or called for redemption (except in the
case of redemption of a Security in part, the portion thereof not
to be redeemed) or (3) 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 transfer or exchange.
(d)
Any Registrar appointed pursuant to Section 2.3 hereof 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.
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(e)
Each Holder of a Security agrees to indemnify the Company and the
Trustee against any liability that may result from the 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 2.7. REPLACEMENT SECURITIES.
(a)
If any mutilated Security is surrendered to the Company, a
Registrar or the Trustee, or the Company, a Registrar and the
Trustee receive evidence to their satisfaction of the destruction,
loss or theft of any Security, and there is delivered to the
Company, the applicable Registrar and the Trustee such security or
indemnity as will be required by them to save each of them
harmless, then, in the absence of notice to the Company, such
Registrar or the Trustee that such Security has been acquired by a
bona fide purchaser, the Company shall execute, and upon its
written 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 new Security of like tenor
and principal amount, bearing a number not contemporaneously
outstanding.
(b)
In case any such mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Security has
become or is about to become due and payable, or is about to be
purchased or redeemed 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, redeem, purchase or
convert such Security, as the case may be.
(c)
Upon the issuance of any new Securities under this
Section 2.7, 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 reasonable expenses
(including the reasonable fees and expenses of the Trustee or the
Registrar) in connection therewith.
(d)
Every new Security issued pursuant to this Section 2.7 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 2.7 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.
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SECTION 2.8. OUTSTANDING SECURITIES.
(a)
Securities outstanding at any time are all Securities authenticated
by the Trustee, except for those canceled by it, those redeemed or
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 2.8 as not outstanding.
(b)
If a Security is replaced pursuant to Section 2.7, it ceases
to be outstanding unless the Company receives proof satisfactory to
it that the replaced Security is held by a bona fide
purchaser.
(c)
If a Paying Agent (other than the Company or an Affiliate of the
Company) holds in respect of the outstanding Securities on a
Redemption Date, a Fundamental Change Purchase Date or the Final
Maturity Date money sufficient to pay the principal of (including
premium, if any) and accrued interest on Securities (or portions
thereof) payable on that date, then on and after such Redemption
Date, Fundamental Change Purchase Date, or the Final Maturity Date,
as the case may be, such Securities (or portions thereof, as the
case may be) shall cease to be outstanding and interest on them
shall cease to accrue; provided that if such Securities are
to be redeemed, notice of such redemption has been duly given
pursuant to this Indenture or provision thereof satisfactory to the
Trustee has been made.
(d)
Subject to the restrictions contained in Section 2.9, a
Security does not cease to be outstanding because the Company or an
Affiliate of the Company holds the Security.
SECTION 2.9. TREASURY SECURITIES.
In
determining whether the Holders of the required principal amount of
Securities have concurred in any 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 notice, direction, waiver or consent, only Securities
which a Trust Officer of the Trustee actually knows are so owned
shall be so disregarded. Securities so owned which have been
pledged in good faith shall not be disregarded if the pledgee
establishes to the satisfaction of the Trustee the pledgee’s
right so to act with respect to the Securities and that the pledgee
is not the Company or any other obligor on the Securities or any
Affiliate of the Company or of such other obligor.
SECTION 2.10. 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.
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SECTION 2.11. 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 or its agent any Securities
surrendered to them for transfer, exchange, redemption, purchase,
payment or conversion. The Trustee and no one else shall cancel, in
accordance with its standard procedures, all Securities surrendered
for transfer, exchange, redemption, 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. All Securities which are redeemed,
purchased or otherwise acquired by the Company or any of its
Subsidiaries prior to the Final Maturity Date 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.
SECTION 2.12. LEGEND; ADDITIONAL TRANSFER AND EXCHANGE
REQUIREMENTS.
(a)
If Securities are issued upon the transfer, exchange or replacement
of Securities subject to restrictions on transfer and bearing the
legends called for by footnote 2 set forth on the forms of
Securities attached hereto as Exhibit A (collectively,
the “ Legend ”), or if a request is made to
remove the Legend on a Security, the Securities so issued shall
bear the Legend, or the 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 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 or that such
Securities are not “restricted” within the meaning of
Rule 144; provided that no such evidence need be
supplied in connection with the sale of such Security pursuant to a
registration statement that is effective 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 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 Legend. If the Legend is
removed from the face of a Security and the Security is
subsequently held by an Affiliate of the Company, the 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 2.12.
(c)
Subject to the succeeding paragraph, every Security shall be
subject to the restrictions on transfer provided in the Legend
other than a Restricted Global Security. Whenever any Restricted
Security other than a Restricted Global Security is presented or
surrendered for registration of transfer or for 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
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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 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 or,
if earlier, upon the expiration of the holding period applicable to
sales thereof under Rule 144(d). 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 2.12, 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 resale 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 or registration statement.
As used in the
preceding Subsections 2.12(c) and (d), the term
“transfer” encompasses any sale, pledge, transfer,
hypothecation or other disposition of any Security.
(e)
The provisions below shall apply only to Global
Securities:
(1) 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 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 a successor
Depositary is not appointed by the Company within 90 days,
(B) the Company has provided the Depositary with written
notice that it has decided to discontinue use of the system of
book-entry transfer through the Depositary or any successor
Depositary or (C) an Event of Default has occurred and is
continuing with respect to the Securities. Any Global Security
exchanged pursuant to subclauses (A) or (B) immediately
above shall be so exchanged in whole and not in part, and any
Global Security exchanged pursuant to subclause (C) above may
be exchanged in whole or from time to time in part as directed by
the Depositary. Any Security issued in exchange for a Global
Security or any portion thereof shall be a Global Security;
provided 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.
(2) Securities
issued in exchange for a Global Security or any portion thereof
shall be issued in definitive, fully registered form, without
interest coupons, shall have an aggregate 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, as 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
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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.
(3)
Subject to the provisions of clause (5) of this Subsection
2.12(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.
(4)
In the event of the occurrence of any of the events specified in
clause (1) of this Subsection 2.12(e) above, the Company will
promptly make available to the Trustee a reasonable supply of
Certificated Securities in definitive, fully registered form,
without interest coupons.
(5)
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 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 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.
SECTION 2.13. 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 notices of
redemption or purchase 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 notice of a redemption or purchase and that
reliance may be placed only on the other identification numbers
printed on the Securities, and any such redemption or purchase
shall not be affected by any defect in or omission of such numbers.
The Company will promptly notify the Trustee of any change in the
“CUSIP” numbers.
ARTICLE 3
REDEMPTION AND PURCHASE
SECTION 3.1. TO REDEEM; NOTICE TO TRUSTEE.
(a)
Prior to August 20, 2014, the Securities shall not be
redeemable. The Company may, at its option, redeem the Securities
at any time on or after August 20, 2014 in whole, or from time
to time in part (which must be equal to $1,000 or any multiple
thereof), at a Redemption Price in cash equal to 100% of the
principal amount of the Securities being redeemed, plus accrued and
unpaid interest to, but excluding, the Redemption Date (the “
Redemption Price ”); provided that if the
Redemption Date falls after a Regular Record Date and on or before
an Interest Payment Date, then the interest will be payable to the
Holders in whose names the Securities are registered at the close
of business on such Regular Record Date and the
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term Redemption
Price shall not include such interest. Securities or portions of
the Securities called for redemption shall be convertible by the
Holder in accordance with the provisions of Article 4 until
the close of business on the Business Day prior to the Redemption
Date.
(b)
If the Company elects to redeem Securities pursuant to this
Section 3.1, it shall notify the Trustee at least 35 days
prior to the Redemption Date as fixed by the Company (unless a
shorter notice shall be satisfactory to the Trustee) of the
Redemption Date and the principal amount of Securities to be
redeemed. If fewer than all of the Securities are to be redeemed,
the record date relating to such redemption shall be selected by
the Company and given to the Trustee, which record date shall not
be less than five days after the date of notice to the
Trustee.
SECTION 3.2. SELECTION OF SECURITIES TO BE
REDEEMED.
(a)
If less than all of the Securities are to be redeemed, unless the
procedures of the Depositary provide otherwise, the Trustee shall,
at least 30 days but not more than 60 days prior to the
Redemption Date, select the Securities to be redeemed. The Trustee
shall make the selection from the Securities outstanding and not
previously called for redemption by lot, or in its discretion, on a
pro rata basis. Securities in denominations of $1,000 may only be
redeemed in whole. The Trustee may select for redemption portions
(equal to $1,000 or any multiple thereof) of the principal of
Securities that have denominations larger than $1,000. Provisions
of this Indenture that apply to Securities called for redemption
also apply to portions of Securities called for
redemption.
(b)
If any Security selected for partial redemption is converted in
part before termination of the conversion right with respect to the
portion of the Security so selected, the converted portion of such
Security shall be deemed to be the portion selected for redemption.
Securities which have been converted subsequent to the Trustee
commencing selection of Securities to be redeemed but prior to
redemption of such Securities shall be treated by the Trustee as
outstanding for the purpose of such selection.
SECTION 3.3. NOTICE OF REDEMPTION.
(a)
At least 30 days but not more than 60 days before a
Redemption Date, the Company shall give notice of redemption in
accordance with Section 11.2 to each Holder of Securities to
be redeemed at such Holder’s address as it appears on the
Registrar’s books.
(b)
The notice shall identify the Securities (including CUSIP numbers)
to be redeemed and shall state:
(2) the
Redemption Price;
(3) the
then effective Conversion Price and Conversion Rate;
(4) the
name and address of each Paying Agent and Conversion
Agent;
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(5) that
Securities called for redemption must be presented and surrendered
to a Paying Agent to collect the Redemption Price;
(6) that
Holders who wish to convert Securities must surrender such
Securities for conversion no later than the close of business on
the Business Day immediately preceding the Redemption Date and must
satisfy the other requirements set forth in paragraph 9 of the
Securities and Article 4 hereof;
(7) that,
unless the Company defaults in making the payment of the Redemption
Price, interest on Securities called for redemption shall cease to
accrue on and after the Redemption Date and the only remaining
right of the Holder shall be to receive payment of the Redemption
Price plus any accrued and unpaid interest payable to such Holder
upon presentation and surrender to a Paying Agent of the
Securities; and
(8) if
any Security is being redeemed in part, the portion of the
principal amount of such Security to be redeemed and that, after
the Redemption Date, upon presentation and surrender of such
Security, a new Security or Securities in aggregate principal
amount equal to the unredeemed portion thereof will be
issued.
(c)
If any of the Securities to be redeemed is in the form of a Global
Security, then the Company shall modify such notice to the extent
necessary to accord with the procedures of the Depositary
applicable to redemptions. At the Company’s request, which
request shall (1) be irrevocable once given and (2) set
forth all relevant information required by clauses (1) through
(8) of Subsection 3.3(b), the Trustee shall give such notice
of redemption to each Holder on behalf of the Company and at the
Company’s expense; provided , however , that,
in all cases, the text of such notice of redemption shall be
prepared by the Company.
SECTION 3.4. EFFECT OF NOTICE OF REDEMPTION.
Once
notice of redemption is given, Securities called for redemption
become due and payable on the Redemption Date and at the Redemption
Price stated in the notice, except for Securities that are
converted in accordance with the provisions of Article 4. On
or after the Redemption Date and upon presentation and surrender to
a Paying Agent, Securities called for redemption shall be paid at
the Redemption Price.
SECTION 3.5. DEPOSIT OF REDEMPTION PRICE.
Prior
to 11:00 a.m., New York City time, on the Redemption Date, the
Company shall deposit with a Paying Agent (or, if the Company acts
as Paying Agent, shall segregate and hold in trust) an amount of
money (in immediately available funds if deposited on such
Redemption Date) sufficient to pay the Redemption Price of all
Securities to be redeemed on that date, other than Securities or
portions thereof called for redemption on that date which have been
delivered by the Company to the Trustee for cancellation or have
been converted. The Paying Agent shall as promptly as practicable
return to the Company any money not required for that purpose
because of the conversion of Securities pursuant to Article 4
or, if such money is then held by the Company in trust and is not
required for such purpose, it shall be discharged from the
trust.
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SECTION 3.6. SECURITIES REDEEMED IN PART.
Upon
presentation and surrender of a Security that is redeemed in part,
the Company shall execute and the Trustee shall authenticate and
deliver to the Holder a new Security equal in principal amount to
the unredeemed portion of the Security surrendered.
SECTION 3.7. PURCHASE OF SECURITIES AT OPTION OF THE HOLDER UPON
FUNDAMENTAL CHANGE .
If
at any time the Securities remain outstanding there shall have
occurred a Fundamental Change, all or any portion of the Securities
of any Holder equal to $1,000 or a multiple of $1,000, shall be
purchased by the Company, at the option of such Holder, at a
purchase price in cash equal to 100% of the principal amount of the
Securities to be purchased, together with interest accrued and
unpaid to, but excluding, the Fundamental Change Purchase Date (the
“ Fundamental Change Purchase Price ”), on the
date (the “ Fundamental Change Purchase Date ”)
that is specified by the Company and is not less than 20 or more
than 35 calendar days following the date of the Company Fundamental
Change Notice; provided , however , if the
Fundamental Change Purchase Date is an Interest Payment Date, then
interest on the Securities shall be payable to the Holders in whose
name the Securities are registered at the close of business on such
Regular Record Date and the term Fundamental Change Purchase Price
shall not include such interest.
(a)
Whenever in this Indenture (including Sections 2.1, 7.1 and
7.7 hereof) or in the form of Securities there is a reference, in
any context, to the principal of any Securities as of any time,
such reference shall be deemed to include reference to the
Fundamental Change Purchase Price payable in respect to such
Securities to the extent that such Fundamental Change Purchase
Price is, was or would be so payable at such time, and express
mention of the Fundamental Change Purchase Price in any provision
of this Indenture shall not be construed as excluding the
Fundamental Change Purchase Price in those provisions of this
Indenture when such express mention is not made.
(b)
A “ Fundamental Change ” of the Company, or any
successor entity that is subject to the terms of this Indenture,
shall be deemed to have occurred at such time after the original
issuance of Securities as any of the following events shall
occur:
(1) the
acquisition by any person of beneficial ownership, directly or
indirectly, through a purchase, merger (except a merger or
consolidation described in subclause (2) of this Subsection)
or other acquisition transaction or series of transactions, of
shares of the Capital Stock of the Company entitling that person to
exercise 50% or more of the total voting power of all shares of
such Capital Stock entitled to vote generally in elections of
directors, other than any acquisition by the Company, any of its
Subsidiaries or any employee benefit plans of the
Company;
(2) any
merger or consolidation of the Company with or into any other
person, any merger of another person into the Company, or any
conveyance, transfer, sale, lease or other disposition of all or
substantially all of the Company’s properties and assets to
another person (other than to one or more wholly-owned Subsidiaries
of the Company), except:
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(A)
any transaction pursuant to which holders of the Capital Stock of
the Company immediately prior to the transaction are entitled to
exercise, directly or indirectly, 50% or more of the total voting
power of all shares of the Capital Stock of the Company entitled to
vote generally in the election of directors of the continuing or
surviving person immediately after the transaction in substantially
the same proportion as such ownership immediately prior to such
transaction; or
(B)
any merger solely for the purpose of changing the Company’s
jurisdiction of incorporation and resulting in a reclassification,
conversion or exchange of outstanding shares of Common Stock solely
into shares of common stock of the surviving entity;
(3) during
any consecutive two-year period, individuals who at the beginning
of that two-year period constituted the Board of Directors
(together with any new directors whose election to the Board of
Directors, or whose nomination for election by the stockholders of
the Company, was approved by a vote of a majority of the directors
then still in office who were either directors at the beginning of
such period or whose election or nomination for election were
previously so approved) cease to constitute a majority of the Board
of Directors then in office;
(4) a
resolution is passed by the Company’s stockholders approving
a plan of liquidation or dissolution of the Company; or
(5) the
Common Stock of the Company (or other Capital Stock into which the
Securities are convertible pursuant to Section 4.1 hereof)
ceases to be listed on a national securities exchange located in
the United States.
Beneficial
ownership shall be determined in accordance with Rule 13d-3
promulgated by the SEC under the Exchange Act. The term
“person” includes any syndicate or group that would be
deemed to be a “person” under Section 13(d)(3) of
the Exchange Act.
(c)
Notwithstanding anything to the contrary set forth in this
Section 3.7, a Fundamental Change will be deemed not to have
occurred if, in the case of a merger or consolidation, more than
90% of the consideration (excluding cash payments for fractional
shares and cash payments made pursuant to dissenters’
appraisal rights) in a merger or consolidation otherwise
constituting a Fundamental Change consists of shares of common
stock, depositary receipts, ordinary shares or other certificates
representing common equity interests traded on a U.S. national
securities exchange, or will be so traded or quoted immediately
following such merger or consolidation, and as a result of such
merger or consolidation the Securities become convertible in
accordance with Section 4.11 hereof into cash in an amount
equal to the lesser of $1,000 and the Conversion Value and, if the
Conversion Value is greater than $1,000, payment of the excess
value in the form of cash or such common stock, depositary
receipts, ordinary shares or other certificates representing common
equity interests.
(d)
On or before the 20 th day after the occurrence of a Fundamental
Change, the Company, or, at the written request and expense of the
Company, the Trustee, shall give written notice of the Fundamental
Change (the “ Company Fundamental Change Notice
”) to the Trustee (if the Trustee does not mail such notice),
the Paying Agent and to each Holder (and to beneficial owners as
required by applicable law) in accordance with Section 11.2.
The Company Fundamental Change Notice shall include the form of a
Fundamental Change Purchase Notice to be completed by the Holder
and shall state:
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(1)
the date of such Fundamental Change and, briefly, the events
causing such Fundamental Change;
(2)
the date by which the Fundamental Change Purchase Notice pursuant
to this Section 3.7 must be given;
(3)
the Fundamental Change Purchase Date;
(4)
the Fundamental Change Purchase Price;
(5)
the Holder’s right to require the Company to purchase the
Security and the last date on which a Holder may exercise such
right;
(6)
briefly, the conversion rights of the Securities;
(7)
the name and address of each Paying Agent and Conversion Agent and
that the Securities must be surrendered to the Paying Agent to
collect payment;
(8)
the then effective Conversion Price and Conversion Rate and any
adjustments to the Conversion Rate ;
(9)
the procedures that the Holder must follow to exercise conversion
rights under Article 4 and that Securities as to which a
Fundamental Change Purchase Notice has been given may be converted
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 3.7;
(11)
the procedures for withdrawing a Fundamental Change Purchase
Notice, including a form of notice of withdrawal; and
(12)
whether such notice constitutes a Non-Stock Fundamental Change in
accordance with Section 4.1(i).
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
procedures of the Depositary applicable to the purchase of Global
Securities.
Contemporaneously with providing such
Fundamental Change Purchase Notice, the Company shall publish a
notice containing the information therein in a newspaper of general
circulation in New York City, New York, or publish such information
on the Company’s website or through such other public medium
as the Company may use at that time.
(e)
A Holder may exercise its rights specified in this Section 3.7
upon delivery of a written notice (which shall be in substantially
the form included in Exhibit A hereto and which may be
delivered by letter, overnight courier, hand delivery, facsimile
transmission or in any other written form and, in the
case
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of Global
Securities, may be delivered electronically or by other means in
accordance with the Depositary’s customary procedures) of the
exercise of such rights (a “ Fundamental Change Purchase
Notice ”) together with the Securities with respect to
which such rights are being exercised to any Paying Agent at any
time prior to the close of business on the Business Day immediately
preceding the Fundamental Change Purchase Date.
(1) The
delivery of such Security to any Paying Agent prior to, on or prior
to the close of business on the Business Day immediately preceding
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.
(2) The
Company shall only be obliged to purchase pursuant to this
Section 3.7, a portion of a Security if the principal amount
of such portion is $1,000 or a multiple of $1,000. 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.
(3) Notwithstanding
anything herein to the contrary, any Holder delivering to a Paying
Agent the Fundamental Change Purchase Notice contemplated by this
Subsection 3.7(e) 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 a multiple thereof at any time
prior to the close of business on the Business Day immediately
preceding the Fundamental Change Purchase Date by delivery of a
written notice of withdrawal to the Paying Agent in accordance with
Section 3.8.
(4) A
Paying Agent shall promptly notify the Company of the receipt by it
of any Fundamental Change Purchase Notice or written withdrawal
thereof.
(5) 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.
SECTION 3.8. EFFECT OF FUNDAMENTAL CHANGE PURCHASE NOTICE
.
(a)
Upon receipt by any Paying Agent of a properly completed
Fundamental Change Purchase Notice and Securities from a Holder in
accordance with Section 3.7(e), 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.
Such Fundamental Change Purchase Price shall be paid to such Holder
promptly following the later of (1) the Fundamental Change
Purchase Date with respect to such Security ( provided that
the conditions in Subsection 3.7(e) have been satisfied) and
(2) the time of delivery of such Security to a Paying Agent by
the Holder thereof in the manner required by Subsection 3.7(e).
Securities in respect of which a Fundamental Change Purchase Notice
has been given by the Holder thereof may not be converted pursuant
to Article 4 on or after the date of the delivery of such
Fundamental Change Purchase Notice unless such Fundamental Change
Purchase Notice has first been validly withdrawn in accordance with
Subsection 3.8 (b) with respect to the Securities to be
converted.
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(b)
A Fundamental Change Purchase Notice may be withdrawn by means of a
written notice (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
Depositary’s customary procedures) of withdrawal delivered by
the Holder to a Paying Agent at any time prior to the close of
business on the Business Day immediately preceding the Fundamental
Change Purchase Date, specifying the principal amount of the
Security or portion thereof (which must be a principal amount of
$1,000 or a multiple of $1,000 in excess thereof) with respect to
which such notice of withdrawal is being submitted, the certificate
number (if in certificated form) of the Securities so withdrawn and
the principal amount of Securities (if any) that remain subject to
the Fundamental Change Purchase Notice. In the case of Global
Securities, any withdrawal notice must comply with the Applicable
Procedures in effect from time to time.
SECTION 3.9. DEPOSIT OF FUNDAMENTAL CHANGE PURCHASE
PRICE
(a)
On or before 11:00 a.m. New York City time on the Fundamental
Change Purchase Date, the Company shall deposit with the Trustee or
with a Paying Agent (other than the Company or an Affiliate of the
Company) an amount of money (in immediately available funds if
deposited on such Fundamental Change Purchase Date) sufficient to
pay the aggregate Fundamental Change Purchase Price of all the
Securities or portions thereof that are to be purchased on such
Fundamental Change Purchase Date. The manner in which the deposit
required by this Section 3.9 is made by the Company shall be
at the option of the Company, provided that such deposit
shall be made in a manner such that the Trustee or a Paying Agent
shall have immediately available funds on the Fundamental Change
Purchase Date.
(b)
If a Paying Agent holds, in accordance with the terms hereof, money
sufficient to pay the Fundamental Change Purchase Price of any
Security for which a Fundamental Change Purchase Notice has been
tendered and not withdrawn in accordance with this Indenture then,
on the Fundamental Change Purchase Date, such Security will cease
to be outstanding, interest will cease to accrue and the rights of
the Holder in respect thereof shall terminate (other than the right
to receive the Fundamental Change Purchase Price as aforesaid). The
Company shall publicly announce the principal amount of Securities
repurchased on or as soon as practicable after the Fundamental
Change Purchase Date.
SECTION 3.10. REPAYMENT TO THE COMPANY .
To
the extent that the aggregate amount of cash deposited by the
Company pursuant to Section 3.9 exceeds the aggregate Fundamental
Change Purchase Price of the Securities or portions thereof that
the Company is obligated to purchase, then promptly after the
Fundamental Change Purchase Date the Trustee or a Paying Agent, as
the case may be, shall return any such excess cash to the
Company.
SECTION 3.11. PURCHASE OF SECURITIES AT OPTION OF THE HOLDER ON
SPECIFIED DATES
(a)
Securities shall be purchased in cash in whole or in part (which
must be equal to $1,000 or any multiple thereof) by the Company, at
the option of Holders, in accordance with the provisions of this
Section 3.11 and paragraph 8 of the Securities promptly after
August 15, 2014, August 15, 2019 and August 15, 2024
(each, a “ Put Right Purchase Date ”), at a
purchase price per Security in cash equal to
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100% of the
aggregate principal amount of the Security, together with any
accrued and unpaid interest if any up to but not including the
applicable Put Right Purchase Date (the “ Put Right
Purchase Price ”).
(b)
The Company shall give written notice of the applicable Put Right
Purchase Date in accordance with Section 11.2 to the Trustee
and to each Holder (at its address shown in the register of the
Registrar) not less than 20 Business Days prior to each Put Right
Purchase Date (the “ Company Put Right Notice
”). Each Company Put Right Notice shall include a form of Put
Right Purchase Notice to be completed by a Holder and shall
state:
(1)
the Put Right Purchase Price, the Put Right Purchase Date and the
Conversion Price and Conversion Rate then in effect;
(2)
the name and address of the Paying Agent and the Conversion
Agent;
(3)
that Securities as to which a Put Right Purchase Notice has been
given may be converted if they are otherwise convertible only in
accordance with Article 4 hereof and paragraph 9 of the
Securities only to the extent that the Put Right Purchase Notice
has been withdrawn in accordance with the terms of this
Indenture;
(4)
that Securities must be surrendered to the Paying Agent to collect
payment;
(5)
that the Put Right Purchase Price for any Security as to which a
Put Right Purchase Notice has been given and not withdrawn will be
paid promptly following the later of the Put Right Purchase Date
and the time of surrender of such Security as described in
subclause (4) above;
(6)
the procedures the Holder must follow to exercise rights under this
Section and a brief description of those rights;
(7)
briefly, the conversion rights of the Securities;
(8)
the procedures for withdrawing a Put Right Purchase Notice as set
forth in Subsection 3.11(g);
(9)
that, unless the Company fails to pay such Put Right Purchase Price
on Securities for which a Put Right Purchase Notice has been
submitted, such Securities shall no longer be outstanding and
interest on such Securities will cease to accrue on and after the
Put Right Purchase Date; and
(10)
the CUSIP number of the Securities.
(c)
If any of the Securities are to be redeemed in the form of a Global
Security, the Company shall modify such Company Put Right Notice to
the extent necessary to accord with the procedures of the
Depositary applicable to repurchases.
(d)
At the Company’s request, the Trustee shall give such Company
Put Right Notice on behalf of the Company and at the
Company’s expense; provided , however , that,
in all cases, the text of such Company Put Right Notice shall be
prepared by the Company.
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(e)
To exercise its rights pursuant to this Section 3.11, the
Holder shall deliver to the Paying Agent a written notice of
purchase in the form set forth in Exhibit A attached
hereto (a “ Put Right Purchase Notice ”) at any
time from the opening of business on the date that is 20 Business
Days prior to the applicable Put Right Purchase Date until the
close of business on the Put Right Purchase Date
stating:
(1)
if certificated Securities have been issued, the certificate number
of the Security which the Holder will deliver to be purchased (or
if the Securities are not certificated, the Put Right Purchase
Notice must comply with the procedures of the Depositary applicable
to purchases),
(2)
the portion (which may be 100%) of the principal amount of the
Security which the Holder will deliver to be purchased, which
portion must be in a principal amount of $1,000 or a multiple
thereof, and
(3)
that such Security shall be purchased as of the applicable Put
Right Purchase Date pursuant to the terms and conditions in this
Section 3.11.
(f)
The Company shall purchase all Securities with respect to which a
Put Right Purchase Notice is given and not withdrawn, upon the
later of the applicable Put Right Purchase Date and delivery of
such Securities to the Paying Agent (together with all necessary
endorsements) at the offices of the Paying Agent (if the Securities
are not certificated, such delivery must comply with the procedures
of the Depositary applicable to purchases). Delivery of such
Security shall be a condition to receipt by the Holder of the Put
Right Purchase Price therefor. The Put Right Purchase Price shall
be paid pursuant to this Section 3.11 only if the Security
delivered to the Paying Agent conforms in all respects to the
description thereof in the related Put Right Purchase Notice, as
determined by the Company.
(g)
Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, any Holder
delivering to the Paying Agent the Put Right Purchase Notice
contemplated by this Section 3.11 shall have the right to
withdraw such Put Right Purchase Notice at any time prior to the
close of business on the Put Right Purchase Date by delivery of a
written notice of withdrawal to the Paying Agent
specifying:
(1)
the certificate number, if any, of the Security in respect of which
such notice of withdrawal is being submitted (or, if the Securities
are not certificated, the withdrawal notice must comply with the
procedures of the Depositary applicable to withdrawals),
(2)
the aggregate principal amount of the Security (which must be equal
to $1,000 or a multiple thereof) with respect to which such notice
of withdrawal is being submitted, and
(3)
the aggregate principal amount, if any, of such Security which
remains subject to the original Put Right Purchase Notice and which
has been or will be delivered for purchase by the
Company.
(h)
The Paying Agent shall promptly notify the Company of the receipt
by it of any Put Right Purchase Notice or written notice of
withdrawal thereof.
(i)
On or before 11:00a.m. (local time in the City of New York) on the
Business Day following the Put Right Purchase Date, the Company
shall deposit with the Trustee or 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
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trust as
provided in Section 2.4) an amount of money (in immediately
available funds if deposited on or after such Put Right Purchase
Date) sufficient to pay the aggregate Put Right Purchase Price of
all the Securities or portions thereof which are to be purchased as
of the Put Right Purchase Date. The manner in which the deposit
required by this Section 3.11(i) is made by the Company shall
be at the option of the Company; provided that such deposit
shall be made in a manner such that the Trustee or a Paying Agent
shall have immediately available funds by the close of business on
the Business Day after the Put Right Purchase Date.
(1)
If a Paying Agent holds, in accordance with the terms hereof, money
sufficient to pay the Put Right Purchase Price of any Security for
which a Put Right Purchase Notice has been tendered and not
withdrawn on the Put Right Purchase Date, then, on the close of
business on the Business Day after the Put Right Purchase Date,
such Security will cease to be outstanding, and interest shall
cease to accrue on such Security whether or not the Security is
delivered to the Paying Agent, and the rights of the Holder in
respect thereof shall terminate (other than the right to receive
the Put Right Purchase Price as aforesaid).
(2)
The Put Right Purchase Price shall be paid to such Holder with
respect to Securities for which a Put Right Purchase Notice has
been tendered and not withdrawn, subject to receipt of funds by the
Paying Agent, promptly following the later of (A) the Business
Day after the Put Right Purchase Date with respect to such Security
( provided that the conditions in Subsection 3.11(f) have
been satisfied) and (B) the time of delivery of such Security
to the Paying Agent by the Holder thereof in the manner required by
Section 3.11(f). Securities in respect of which a Put Right
Purchase Notice has been given by the Holder thereof, if
convertible pursuant to Article 4 hereof, may not be converted
on or after the date of the delivery of such Put Right Purchase
Notice, unless such Put Right Purchase Notice has first been
validly withdrawn as specified in Subsection 3.11(g).
(3)
To the extent that the aggregate amount of cash deposited by the
Company pursuant to this Subsection 3.11(i) exceeds the aggregate
Put Right Purchase Price of the Securities or portions thereof that
the Company is obligated to purchase, then promptly after the Put
Right Purchase Date the Trustee or a Paying Agent, as the case may
be, shall return any such excess cash to the Company.
(j)
The Company shall only be obligated to purchase, pursuant to this
Section 3.11, a portion of a Security if the principal amount
of such portion is $1,000 or a multiple of $1,000. 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.
(k)
Upon receipt by the Paying Agent of the Put Right Purchase Notice
specified in subsection 3.11(f), the Holder of the Security in
respect of which such Put Right Purchase Notice was given shall
(unless such Put Right Purchase Notice is withdrawn as specified
herein) thereafter be entitled to receive solely the Put Right
Purchase Price with respect to such Security.
SECTION 3.12. SECURITIES PURCHASED IN PART .
Any
Security that is to be purchased only in part shall be surrendered
at the office of a Paying Agent, and promptly after the Fundamental
Change Purchase Date or the Put Right Purchase Date, as the case
may be, the Company shall execute and the Trustee shall
authenticate and deliver to the Holder of such Security,
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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.
SECTION 3.13. COMPLIANCE WITH SECURITIES LAWS UPON PURCHASE OF
SECURITIES
In
connection with any offer to purchase of Securities under
Section 3.7 or Section 3.11, the Company shall
(a) comply with Rule 13e-4 and Rule 14e-1 (or any
successor to either such Rule), if applicable, under the Exchange
Act, (b) file the related 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 in connection with such offer to purchase or
purchase of Securities, all so as to permit the rights of the
Holders and obligations of the Company under Sections 3.7
through 3.11 to be exercised in the time and in the manner
specified therein.
SECTION 3.14. PURCHASE OF SECURITIES
The
Company (a) shall, on or prior to the date that is two years
from the latest issuance of any Securities in accordance with
Section 2.11 surrender any Security purchased by the Company
pursuant to this Article 3 to the Trustee for cancellation,
and (b) after such date, may (to the extent permitted by
applicable law) reissue or sell such Security or surrender such
Security to the Trustee for cancellation as aforesaid. 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 2.11.
SECTION 4.1. CONVERSION PRIVILEGE AND CONVERSION RATE
.
(a)
Subject to and upon compliance with the provisions of this Article
and the Securities, at the option of the Holder thereof, any
Security or portion thereof that is a multiple of $1,000 principal
amount may be converted on or prior to the close of business on the
Final Maturity Date, unless previously redeemed by the Company or
purchased by the Company at the Holders’ option, at the
Conversion Rate in effect at the time of conversion and subject to
the adjustments described below, into the kind and amount of
consideration determined in accordance with Section 4.14 hereof
only under the following circumstances:
(1)
on any date during any fiscal quarter commencing after
September 30, 2009 (and only during such fiscal quarter) if
the Closing Price per share of the Common Stock was more than 130%
of the then current Conversion Price for at least 20 Trading Days
in the period of the 30 consecutive Trading Days ending on the last
Trading Day of the previous fiscal quarter;
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(2)
with respect to Securities called for redemption by the Company
pursuant to Section 3.1, until the close of business on the
Business Day prior to the Redemption Date;
(3)
if the Company distributes to all or substantially all holders of
Common Stock rights, options or warrants (other than pursuant to a
stockholder rights plan) entitling them to purchase Common Stock at
less than the Closing Price per share of the Common Stock on the
day preceding the declaration for such distribution;
(4)
if the Company distributes to all or substantially all holders of
Common Stock cash, assets, debt securities or capital stock (other
than pursuant to a stockholder rights plan, share split of Common
Stock or a dividend or distribution on its Common Stock in shares
of Common Stock), which distribution has a per share value as
determined by the Board of Directors exceeding 10% of the Closing
Price per share of the Common Stock on the day preceding the
declaration for such distribution;
(5)
(i) if the Company becomes a party to a consolidation, merger
or binding share exchange pursuant to which all or substantially
all of the Company’s Common Stock would be converted to cash,
securities or other property, (i) if a Fundamental Change
occurs, or (iii) if an event occurs that would have been a
Fundamental Change but for the existence of the Fundamental Change
exception set forth in the proviso to Section 3.7(c) hereof,
other than in the case of (i) or (iii) an event described
in clauses (A) or (B) of
Section 3.7(b)(2);
(6)
during the five consecutive Business Day period after any five
consecutive Trading Day period in which the Trading Price per
$1,000 principal amount of Securities, as determined following a
request by a Holder in accordance with the procedures described
below in Section 4.1(d)(ii), for each Trading Day of such five
Trading Day period was less than 98% of the product of the average
of the Closing Prices of the Common Stock for such five Trading Day
period and the then current Conversion Rate; or
(7)
On or after February 15, 2029, until the close of the business
on the Business Day immediately preceding the Final Maturity
Date.
(b)
In the case of a distribution contemplated by clauses (3) and
(4) of Section 4.1(a), the Company shall notify Holders
at least 20 days prior to the ex-dividend date (the first date
on which the Common Stock trades, regular way, on the relevant
market from which the Closing Price was obtained without the right
to receive such right, warrant, dividend or distribution) for such
distribution (the “ Distribution Notice ”). Once
the Company has given the Distribution Notice, Holders may
surrender their Securities for conversion at any time until the
earlier of (i) the close of business on the Business Day next
preceding the ex-dividend date and (ii) the Company’s
announcement that such distribution will not take place. In the
event of a distribution contemplated by clauses (3) and
(4) of Section 4.1(a), Holders may not convert the
Securities if the Holders may otherwise participate in such
distribution without converting their Securities. The Company will
provide written notice to the Conversion Agent as soon as
reasonably practicable of any anticipated or actual event or
transaction that will cause or causes the Securities to become
convertible pursuant to clauses (3) or (4) of
Section 4.1(a).
(c)
In the case of a transaction contemplated by clause (5) of
Section 4.1(a) the Company will notify Holders (i) at
least 25 days prior to the anticipated effective date of such
transaction if such
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anticipated
effective date is known to the Company or (ii) if such
anticipated effective date is not known to the Company prior to
such 25th day, then within five Trading Days after the Company
becomes aware of such transaction (the “ Merger Notice
”). Holders may surrender Securities for conversion at any
time from and after the date which is 15 days prior to the
anticipated effective date of such transaction or after delivery of
the Merger Notice in accordance with clause (ii) of the
preceding sentence if such delivery occurs after such 15th day;
provided, however, that Holders’ rights to convert Securities
shall terminate upon notice by the Company to the Holders that such
contemplated transaction will not occur.
(d)
(i) For each fiscal quarter of the Company commencing after
September 30, 2009, the Conversion Agent, on behalf of the
Company, will determine, on the first Business Day following the
last Trading Day of the prior fiscal quarter, whether the
Securities are convertible pursuant to clause (1) of
Section 4.1(a), and, if so, will notify the Trustee and the
Company in writing.
(ii) The
Trustee shall have no obligation to determine the Trading Price of
the Securities and whether the Securities are convertible pursuant
to clause (7) of Section 4.1(a) unless the Company has
requested such determination; and the Company shall have no
obligation to make such request unless a Holder of the Securities
provides the Company with reasonable evidence that the Trading
Price per $1,000 principal amount of Securities is reasonably
likely to be less than 98% of the product of the Closing Price of
our Common Stock and the Conversion Rate then in effect per $1,000
principal amount of Securities. At such time, the Company shall
instruct the Trustee to determine the Trading Price of the
Securities beginning on the next Trading Day and on each successive
Trading Day for 10 consecutive Trading Days to determine whether
the Trading Prices for the Securities for each Trading Day in any
five consecutive Trading Day period within such 10 Trading Day
period is less than 98% of the product of (A) the average of
the Closing Prices of the Common Stock for such five Trading Day
period and (B) the then current Conversion Rate, and to notify
the Company accordingly.
(e)
The conversion rights pursuant to this Article 4 shall
commence on the initial issuance date of the Securities and expire
at the close of business on the Business Day immediately preceding
the Final Maturity Date, but shall be exercisable only upon the
occurrence and during the time periods specified with respect to
each circumstance pursuant to which the Securities become
convertible pursuant to Section 4.1(a), subject, in the case
of conversion of any Global Security, to any Applicable Procedures.
If a Security is called for redemption or submitted or presented
for purchase pursuant to Article 3, such conversion right
shall terminate at the close of business on the Business Day
immediately preceding the Redemption Date, Put Right Purchase Date
or Fundamental Change Purchase Date, as the case may be, for such
Security (unless the Company shall fail to make the Redemption
Price, Put Right Purchase Price, or Fundamental Change Purchase
Price payment when due in accordance with Article 3, in which case
the conversion right shall terminate at the close of business on
the date such failure is cured and such Security is redeemed or
purchased, as the case may be). Securities in respect of which a
Fundamental Change Purchase Notice or a Put Right Purchase Notice,
as the case may be, has been delivered may not be surrendered for
conversion pursuant to this Article 4 prior to a valid
withdrawal of such Fundamental Change Purchase Notice or Put Right
Purchase Notice, as the case may be, in accordance with the
provisions of Article 3.
(f)
Provisions of this Indenture that apply to conversion of all of a
Security also apply to conversion of a portion of a
Security.
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(g)
A Holder of Securities is not entitled to any rights of a holder of
Common Stock until such Holder has converted its Securities into
Common Stock, and only to the extent such Securities are converted
into Common Stock pursuant to this Article 4.
(i)
Subject to Section 4.11, if a Holder elects to convert a
Security in connection with a Fundamental Change referred to in
Section 3.7 (without regards to Section 3.7(b)(2)(A)),
other than Section 3.7(b)(3), pursuant to which 10% or more of
the consideration for the Common Stock (other than cash payments
for fractional shares and cash payments made in respect of
dissenters’ appraisal rights) in such transaction consists of
cash or securities (or other property) that are not traded or
scheduled to be traded immediately following such transaction on a
U.S. national securities exchange (a “ Non-Stock
Fundamental Change ”) that occurs on or prior to August
20, 2014, the Company will increase the Conversion Rate by an
amount expressed as a number of shares of Common Stock (the “
Additional Common Stock ”) determined by reference to
the table below, based on the date on which the Non-Stock
Fundamental Change becomes effective or the date on which the
Common Stock ceases to be traded on a U.S. National securities
exchange (the “ Effective Date ”) and the price
(the “ Stock Price ”) paid (or deemed paid) per
share for the Common Stock in the Non-Stock Fundamental Change. If
Holders of Common Stock receive only cash in the Non-Stock
Fundamental Change, the Stock Price s
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