Exhibit 10.2
EXECUTION COPY
September 13, 2006
Time Warner Telecom Inc.
10475 Park Meadows Drive
Littleton, Colorado 80124
Attn: Paul B. Jones
Ladies and Gentlemen:
In accordance with Section 4.1
of that certain Stockholders’ Agreement dated May 10,
1999, as amended, by and among Time Warner Telecom Inc., a Delaware
corporation (the “ Company ”), Advance/Newhouse
Partnership, a New York general partnership (“ A/N
”), Time Warner Companies, Inc. (“ Time Warner
”) and certain affiliates of Time Warner (as amended, the
“ Stockholders’ Agreement ”), Time Warner
and A/N hereby request that the Company register the sale of up to
31,625,000 shares of Class A common stock of the Company (the
“ Restricted Stock ”) under the Securities Act
of 1933, as amended, on the Company’s Registration Statement
on Form S-3, File No. 333-132504 (the “ Registration
Statement ”), which registration shall count as a Demand
Registration (as defined in the Stockholders’ Agreement). The
proposed sale under the Registration Statement by Time Warner,
either directly or through certain of its affiliates, including
Warner Communications Inc. and TW/TAE, Inc. (collectively, the
“ Time Warner Group ”), and A/N, either directly
or through its affiliates, including Advance Telecom Holdings Corp.
and Newhouse Telecom Holdings Corp. (collectively, the “
A/N Group ” and with the Time Warner Group, the
“ Class B Stockholders ”), will be effected by
means of a secondary underwritten offering of the Restricted Stock
(the “ Offering ”). The Time Warner Group hereby
selects Deutsche Bank Securities Inc. to serve as the lead
bookrunning manager for the Offering and the A/N Group hereby
selects JPMorgan Securities Inc. to serve as the co-manager of the
Offering.
The Class B Stockholders hereby
agree that immediately prior to their conversion of Class B common
stock to be sold in the Offering into Restricted Stock on the
closing date of the Offering they will deliver a written consent of
stockholders to amend and restate the Certificate of Incorporation
of the Company in accordance with Exhibit A attached hereto. The
Class B Stockholders further agree that immediately prior to their
conversion of Class B common stock to be sold in the Offering into
Restricted Stock on the closing date of the Offering they will
deliver a written consent of stockholders to authorize the Company
to amend the Certificate of Incorporation of the Company in
accordance with Exhibit B attached hereto. The Company shall file
such amendment set forth in Exhibit B prior to July 13, 2007
unless it shall have otherwise changed its corporate name and
amended its certificate of incorporation to delete “Time
Warner” from its name prior to such date. For avoidance of
doubt, the Company hereby agrees that it shall effect
the
change of its corporate name (and amendment of
its certificate of incorporation) to delete “Time
Warner” from its name prior to July 13, 2007.
Each of Time Warner and A/N
represents and warrants to the Company that it has the corporate
power and authority to act on behalf of the Time Warner Group and
the A/N Group, respectively, that this agreement is executed and
delivered on behalf of, and is binding upon, each member of the
Time Warner Group and the A/N Group, respectively. The Company
represents to each of Time Warner and A/N that it has the corporate
power and authority to enter into this agreement and that this
agreement is executed and delivered on behalf of, and is binding
upon, the Company.
This agreement may not be amended or
modified in any respect except by an instrument in writing signed
by all of the parties hereto. Any failure of any party hereto to
comply with any obligation, covenant, agreement or condition
contained herein may be waived by the party or parties entitled to
the benefits thereof, but such waiver or failure to insist upon
strict compliance with such obligation, covenant, agreement or
condition shall not operate as a waiver of, or estoppel with
respect to, any subsequent or other failure.
This agreement shall be governed by,
and construed in accordance with, the law of the State of New York
without reference to choice of law principles, including all
matters of construction, validity and performance except to the
extent the laws of Delaware are mandatorily applicable.
This agreement may be executed in
one or more counterparts, each of which shall be an original, but
all of which taken together shall constitute one and the same
agreement.
If you have any questions regarding
this request, please let us know.
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Very truly yours,
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TIME WARNER COMPANIES, INC.
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/s/ Brenda C. Karickhoff
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By: Brenda C. Karickhoff
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Its: Senior Vice President
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WARNER COMMUNICATIONS INC.
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/s/ Brenda C. Karickhoff
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By: Brenda C. Karickhoff
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Its: Senior Vice President
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TW/TAE, INC.
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/s/ Brenda C. Karickhoff
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By: Brenda C. Karickhoff
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Its: Senior Vice President
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ADVANCE/NEWHOUSE PARTNERSHIP
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/s/ S.I. Newhouse, Jr.
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By: S.I. Newhouse, Jr.
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Its: Vice President
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ADVANCE TELECOM HOLDINGS CORP.
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/s/ S.I. Newhouse, Jr.
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By: S.I. Newhouse, Jr.
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Its: Vice President
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NEWHOUSE TELECOM HOLDINGS CORP.
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/s/ S.I. Newhouse, Jr.
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By: S.I. Newhouse, Jr.
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Its: Vice President
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ACCEPTED AND AGREED:
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TIME WARNER TELECOM INC.
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/s/ Paul B. Jones
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By: Paul B. Jones
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Its: Senior Vice President
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General
Counsel & Regulatory Policy
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EXHIBIT A
RESTATED CERTIFICATE OF
INCORPORATION
OF
TIME WARNER TELECOM INC.
The undersigned officers of Time
Warner Telecom Inc., a Delaware corporation (the
“Corporation”), do hereby certify as
follows:
(1) The present name of the
Corporation is Time Warner Telecom Inc. The Corporation was
originally incorporated under the name TW Telecom Merger Corp., and
its original certificate of incorporation was filed with the office
of the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware on May 4,
1999.
(2) This Restated Certificate of
Incorporation was duly adopted in accordance with Sections 242
and 245 of the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware and
by written consent of stockholders in accordance with
Section 228 of the General Corporation Law of the State of
Delaware.
(3) This Restated Certificate of
Incorporation restates and integrates and further amends the
certificate of incorporation of the Corporation.
(4) The text of the certificate of
incorporation of the Corporation is amended and restated so as to
read in its entirety as follows:
ARTICLE I
Name
The name of this corporation
(hereinafter the “ Corporation ”) is TIME WARNER
TELECOM INC.
ARTICLE II
Address; Registered Agent
The address of the
Corporation’s registered office in the State of Delaware, New
Castle county is Corporation Trust Center, 1209 Orange Street,
Wilmington, Delaware 19801. The name of the Corporation’s
registered agent at such address is The Corporation Trust
Company.
ARTICLE III
Purpose
The purpose of the Corporation is to
engage in any lawful act or activity for which corporations may be
organized under the General Corporation Law of the State of
Delaware (the “ DGCL ”); provided ,
however , that until the earlier of (i) the date that
is five years after the date of filing of this Restated Certificate
of Incorporation and (ii) the date on which the outstanding
shares of Class B Stock (as defined herein) no longer represent at
least fifty percent (50%) of the total voting power in the
election of directors of the Corporation (“ Voting
Power ”) of all outstanding shares of all classes and
series of capital stock of the Corporation entitled generally to
vote in such election (“ Voting Stock ”) (the
earlier of (i) and (ii) being called the “
Termination Date ”), the Corporation shall not,
directly or indirectly (through a subsidiary or affiliate of the
Corporation), engage in the business of providing, offering,
packaging, marketing, promoting or branding (alone or jointly with
or as an agent for other parties) any Residential Services or
engage in the business of producing, packaging, distributing,
marketing, hosting, offering, promoting, branding or otherwise
providing Content Services, unless such action shall be approved in
advance by the affirmative vote of the holders of one hundred
percent (100%) of the Voting Power of the outstanding shares
of Class B Stock, voting separately as a class.
“ Residential Services
” shall mean wireline telecommunications services or other
services (including, without limitation, data services) of any
nature provided, directly or indirectly, to third party end-users
at address locations other than Business Locations. “
Business Locations ” shall mean (i) address
locations that are used solely for business purposes, including,
without limitation, public spaces within business locations and
governmental offices and (ii) hotels, hospitals, jails and the
business offices of residential facilities within educational
institutions and within nursing and assisted living
complexes.
“ Content Services
” means entertainment, information or other content services,
whether fixed or interactive, or any services incidental thereto;
provided , however , that Content Services shall not
include acting solely as a carrier of video, audio or data of
unaffiliated third parties by providing transport services, so long
as the Corporation has no other direct or indirect pecuniary
interest in the transmitted information or content.
ARTICLE IV
Capital Stock
SECTION 1. Authorized Capital
Stock. The total number of shares of all classes of capital
stock that the Corporation shall have authority to issue is
459,800,000 shares, consisting of (i) 439,800,000 shares of
Common Stock, par value of $0.01 per share (“ Common
Stock ”), and (ii) 20,000,000 shares of Preferred
Stock, par value of $0.01 per share (“ Preferred Stock
”). The Common Stock shall be divided into classes as
follows: 277,300,000 shares of
Class A Common Stock (“ Class A
Stock ”) and 162,500,000 shares of Class B Common Stock
(“ Class B Stock ”).
SECTION 2. Common Stock.
(a) Except as otherwise provided in this Restated Certificate
of Incorporation, the Class A Stock and the Class B Stock
shall have the same rights and privileges and shall rank equally,
share ratably and be identical in all respects as to all
matters.
(b) Subject to provisions of law and
the terms of any outstanding Preferred Stock, the holders of the
Class A Stock and the Class B Stock shall be entitled to
receive dividends or other distributions with respect to such
stock, in an equal amount per share, at such times and in such
amounts as may be determined by the Board and declared out of any
funds lawfully available therefor, and shares of Preferred Stock of
any series shall not be entitled to share therein except as
otherwise expressly provided in the resolution or resolutions of
the Board providing for the issue of such series. Dividends and
other distributions with respect to the Class A Stock and the
Class B Stock shall be payable only when, as and if declared by the
Board.
(c) Subject to the provisions of law
and the terms of any outstanding Preferred Stock, if at any time a
dividend or other distribution with respect to the Class A
Stock or Class B Stock is to be paid in shares of Class A
Stock, Class B Stock or any other securities of the Corporation or
any other corporation, partnership, limited liability company,
trust or legal entity (“ Person ”) (hereinafter
sometimes called a “ share distribution ”), such
share distribution shall be declared and paid only as follows, and
share distributions declared and paid as follows shall be deemed to
be equal distributions for purposes of the preceding
paragraph:
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(i)
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a share
distribution (A) consisting of Class A Stock (or
Convertible Securities that are convertible into, exchangeable for,
or evidence the right to purchase, shares of Class A Stock) to
holders of Class A Stock and Class B Stock, on an equal per
share basis; or (B) consisting of shares of Class B Stock (or
Convertible Securities that are convertible into, exchangeable for
or evidence the right to purchase shares of Class B Stock) to
holders of Class A Stock and Class B Stock, on an equal per
share basis; or (C) consisting of shares of Class A Stock
(or Convertible Securities that are convertible into, exchangeable
for or evidence the right to purchase shares of Class A Stock)
to holders of Class A Stock and, on an equal per share basis,
shares of Class B Stock (or Convertible Securities that are
convertible into, exchangeable for or evidence the right to
purchase shares of Class B Stock) to holders of Class B Stock;
and
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(ii)
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a share distribution consisting
of shares of any class or series of securities of the Corporation
or any other Person other than Class A Stock or Class B Stock
(and other than Convertible Securities that are convertible into,
exchangeable for or evidence the right to purchase shares of
Class A Stock or Class B Stock), either on the basis of a
distribution of identical securities, on an equal per share basis,
to holders of Class A Stock and Class B Stock or on the basis
of a distribution
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of one class or series of
securities to holders of Class A Stock and another class or
series of securities to holders of Class B Stock, provided that the
securities so distributed (and, if applicable, the securities into
which the distributed securities are convertible, or for which they
are exchangeable, or which the distributed securities evidence the
right to purchase) do not differ in any respect other than their
relative voting rights and related differences in conversion and
share distribution provisions, with holders of shares of Class B
Stock receiving the class or series having the higher relative
voting rights (without regard to whether such rights differ to a
greater or lesser extent than the corresponding differences in
voting rights and related differences in conversion and share
distribution provisions between the Class A Stock and the
Class B Stock), provided that if the securities so distributed
constitute capital stock of a Subsidiary of the Corporation, such
rights shall not differ to a greater extent than the corresponding
differences in voting rights, conversion and share distribution
provisions between the Class A Stock and Class B Stock, and
provided in each case that such distribution is otherwise made on
an equal per share basis.
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As used herein, the term “
Subsidiary ” means, when used with respect to any
Person, (i) a corporation in which such Person and/or one or
more Subsidiaries of such Person, directly or indirectly, owns
capital stock having a majority of the Voting Power of such
corporation’s Voting Stock; and (ii) any other Person
(other than a corporation) in which such Person and/or one or more
Subsidiaries of such Person, directly or indirectly, has (x) a
majority ownership interest or (y) the power to elect or
direct the election of a majority of the members of the governing
body of such first-named Person.
As used herein, the term “
Convertible Securities ” shall mean any securities of
the Corporation (other than any class of Common Stock) that are
convertible into, exchangeable for, or evidence the right to
purchase any class of Common Stock, whether upon conversion,
exercise or exchange, pursuant to anti-dilution provisions of such
securities or otherwise.
(d) If the Corporation shall in any
manner reclassify, subdivide or combine the outstanding shares of
Class A Stock or Class B Stock, the outstanding shares of the
other class of Common Stock shall be proportionally reclassified,
subdivided or combined in the same manner and on the same basis as
the outstanding shares of Class A Stock or Class B Stock, as
the case may be, that have been reclassified, subdivided or
combined so as to preserve the relative Voting Power of each class
and the relative proportion of the equity of the Corporation
represented by each class immediately prior to the transaction
giving rise to an adjustment pursuant to this paragraph.
(e)
(i) Each share of Class B Stock
may at any time be converted into one fully paid and nonassessable
share of Class A Stock. Such right shall be exercised by the
surrender of the certificate representing such share of
Class B Stock to be converted to the
Corporation at any time during
normal business hours at the principal executive offices of the
Corporation, or if an agent for the registration of transfer of
shares of Class B Stock is then duly appointed and acting
(said agent being hereinafter called the “ Transfer
Agent ”), then at the office of the Transfer Agent,
accompanied by a written notice of the election by the holder
thereof to convert and (if so required by the Corporation or the
Transfer Agent) by instruments of transfer, in form satisfactory to
the Corporation and to the Transfer Agent, duly executed by such
holder or such holder’s duly authorized attorney, and
together with any necessary transfer tax stamps or funds therefor,
if required pursuant to subparagraph (v) of this
subsection (e).
(ii) As promptly as practicable
after the surrender for conversion of a certificate representing
shares of Class B Stock in the manner provided in
paragraph (i) of this subsection (e) and the payment in
cash of any amount required by the provisions of
paragraphs (i) and (v) of this subsection (e), the
Corporation will deliver or cause to be delivered at the office of
the Transfer Agent to or upon the written order of the holder of
such certificate, a certificate or certificates representing the
number of full shares of Class A Stock issuable upon such
conversion, issued in such name or names as such holder may direct.
Such conversion shall be deemed to have been made immediately prior
to the close of business on the date of the surrender of the
certificates representing shares of Class B Stock, and all
rights of the holder of such shares as such holder shall cease at
such time and the person or persons in whose name or names the
certificate or certificates representing the shares of Class A
Stock are to be issued shall be treated for all purposes as having
become the record holder or holders of such shares of Class A
Stock at such time; provided , however , if any such
surrender and payment is made on any date when the stock transfer
books of the Corporation shall be closed, the person or persons in
whose name or names the certificate or certificates representing
shares of Class A Stock are to be issued as the record holder
or holders thereof shall be treated for all purposes as having
become the record holder or holders of such shares immediately
prior to the close of business on the next succeeding day on which
such stock transfer books are open.
(iii) No adjustments in respect of
dividends shall be made upon the conversion of any share of
Class B Stock; provided , however , that if a
share shall be converted subsequent to the record date for the
payment of a dividend or other distribution on shares of
Class B Stock but prior to such payment, the registered holder
of such share at the close of business on such record date shall be
entitled to receive the dividend or other distribution payable on
such share upon the date set for payment of such dividend or other
distribution notwithstanding the conversion thereof or the
Corporation’s default in payment of the dividend due on such
date.
(iv) The Corporation will at all
times reserve and keep available, solely for the purpose of
issuance upon conversion of the outstanding shares of Class B
Stock, such number of shares of Class A Stock as shall be
issuable upon the conversion of all such outstanding shares;
provided , however , that nothing contained herein
shall be construed
to preclude the Corporation from
satisfying its obligations in respect of the conversion of the
outstanding shares of Class B Stock by delivery of purchased
shares of Class A Stock which are held in the treasury of the
Corporation. If any shares of Class A Stock required to be
reserved for purposes of conversion hereunder require registration
with or approval of any governmental authority under any Federal or
state law before such shares of Class A Stock may be issued
upon conversion, the Corporation will cause such shares to be duly
registered or approved, as the case may be. All shares of
Class A Stock which shall be issued upon conversion of the
shares of Class B Stock will, upon issue, be fully paid and
nonassessable and not subject to any preemptive rights.
(v) The issuance of certificates for
shares of Class A Stock upon conversion of shares of
Class B Stock shall be made without charge for any stamp or
other similar tax in respect of such issuance. However, if any such
certificate is to be issued in a name other than that of the holder
of the share or shares of Class B Stock converted, the person
or persons requesting the issuance thereof shall pay to the
Corporation the amount of any tax which may be payable in respect
of any transfer involved in such issuance or shal