Indenture for 5.875% Convertible Senior Secured Notes due 2030 – 3D Systems Corporation, Guarantors, and Wilmington Savings Fund Society, FSB
This agreement is an indenture between 3D Systems Corporation, certain guarantors, and Wilmington Savings Fund Society, FSB, acting as trustee and collateral agent. It governs the issuance of 5.875% Convertible Senior Secured Notes due in 2030. The contract outlines the terms for payment, conversion, redemption, and repurchase of the notes, as well as the rights and obligations of the company, guarantors, and noteholders. It also details the collateral securing the notes and the trustee’s responsibilities. The agreement includes provisions for default, remedies, and other key protections for investors.
Exhibit 4.1
Execution Version
3D SYSTEMS CORPORATION,
THE GUARANTORS PARTY HERETO
AND
WILMINGTON SAVINGS FUND SOCIETY, FSB,
as Trustee and Collateral Agent
INDENTURE
Dated as of June 23, 2025
5.875% Convertible Senior Secured Notes due 2030
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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ARTICLE 1 | ||||||
DEFINITIONS | ||||||
Section 1.01. | Definitions | 1 | ||||
Section 1.02. | References to Interest | 30 | ||||
ARTICLE 2 | ||||||
ISSUE, DESCRIPTION, EXECUTION, REGISTRATION AND EXCHANGE OF NOTES | ||||||
Section 2.01. | Designation and Amount | 30 | ||||
Section 2.02. | Form of Notes | 31 | ||||
Section 2.03. | Date and Denomination of Notes; Payments of Interest and Defaulted Amounts | 31 | ||||
Section 2.04. | Execution, Authentication and Delivery of Notes | 33 | ||||
Section 2.05. | Exchange and Registration of Transfer of Notes; Restrictions on Transfer; Depositary | 33 | ||||
Section 2.06. | Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost or Stolen Notes | 39 | ||||
Section 2.07. | Temporary Notes | 40 | ||||
Section 2.08. | Cancellation of Notes Paid, Converted, Etc | 40 | ||||
Section 2.09. | CUSIP Numbers | 41 | ||||
Section 2.10. | Additional Notes; Repurchases | 41 | ||||
ARTICLE 3 | ||||||
SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE | ||||||
Section 3.01. | Satisfaction and Discharge | 41 | ||||
ARTICLE 4 | ||||||
PARTICULAR COVENANTS OF THE COMPANY | ||||||
Section 4.01. | Payment of Principal and Interest | 42 | ||||
Section 4.02. | Maintenance of Office or Agency | 42 | ||||
Section 4.03. | Appointments to Fill Vacancies in Trustees Office | 42 | ||||
Section 4.04. | Provisions as to Paying Agent | 42 | ||||
Section 4.05. | Existence; Conduct of Business | 44 | ||||
Section 4.06. | Rule 144A Information Requirement and Annual Reports. | 44 | ||||
Section 4.07. | Stay, Extension and Usury Laws | 46 | ||||
Section 4.08. | Compliance Certificate; Statements as to Defaults | 46 | ||||
Section 4.09. | Covenant to Guarantee Obligations and Give Security | 47 | ||||
Section 4.10. | Maintenance of Insurance | 48 | ||||
Section 4.11. | Impairment of Security Interest | 48 | ||||
Section 4.12. | Limitation on Incurrence of Indebtedness and Liens | 48 | ||||
Section 4.13. | Limitation on Restricted Payments, Restricted Debt Payments and Investments | 49 | ||||
Section 4.14. | Post-Closing Covenant | 52 |
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Section 4.15. | Further Instruments and Acts | 52 | ||||
Section 4.16. | Asset Sales | 52 | ||||
Section 4.17. | Sale and Leaseback Transactions | 54 | ||||
Section 4.18. | Swap Contracts | 54 | ||||
Section 4.19. | Transactions with Affiliates | 55 | ||||
Section 4.20. | Restrictive Agreements | 55 | ||||
Section 4.21. | Amendment of Material Documents | 55 | ||||
Section 4.22. | Cash Management Systems | 56 | ||||
Section 4.23. | No Liability Management Transactions | 56 | ||||
Section 4.24. | Compliance with Laws | 56 | ||||
Section 4.25. | Maintenance of Property | 56 | ||||
Section 4.26. | Payment of Taxes | 57 | ||||
Section 4.27. | Anti-Corruption Laws; Sanctions | 57 | ||||
Section 4.28. | Minimum Cash | 57 | ||||
Section 4.29. | Minimum Accounts Receivable and Inventory | 57 | ||||
Section 4.30. | Restricted Cash Account | 57 | ||||
ARTICLE 5 | ||||||
LISTS OF HOLDERS AND REPORTS BY THE COMPANY AND THE TRUSTEE | ||||||
Section 5.01. | Lists of Holders | 58 | ||||
Section 5.02. | Preservation and Disclosure of Lists | 58 | ||||
ARTICLE 6 | ||||||
DEFAULTS AND REMEDIES | ||||||
Section 6.01. | Events of Default | 58 | ||||
Section 6.02. | Acceleration; Rescission and Annulment | 60 | ||||
Section 6.03. | Additional Interest | 61 | ||||
Section 6.04. | Payments of Notes on Default; Suit Therefor | 62 | ||||
Section 6.05. | Application of Monies Collected by Trustee | 63 | ||||
Section 6.06. | Proceedings by Holders | 64 | ||||
Section 6.07. | Proceedings by Trustee | 65 | ||||
Section 6.08. | Remedies Cumulative and Continuing | 65 | ||||
Section 6.09. | Direction of Proceedings and Waiver of Defaults by Supermajority of Holders | 65 | ||||
Section 6.10. | Notice of Defaults | 66 | ||||
Section 6.11. | Undertaking to Pay Costs | 66 | ||||
ARTICLE 7 | ||||||
CONCERNING THE TRUSTEE | ||||||
Section 7.01. | Duties and Responsibilities of Trustee | 66 | ||||
Section 7.02. | Rights of the Trustee. Except as otherwise provided in Section 7.01: | 67 | ||||
Section 7.03. | No Responsibility for Recitals, Etc | 70 | ||||
Section 7.04. | Trustee, Paying Agents, Conversion Agents, Bid Solicitation Agent or Note Registrar May Own Notes | 70 | ||||
Section 7.05. | Monies to Be Held in Trust | 71 |
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Section 7.06. | Compensation and Expenses of Trustee | 71 | ||||
Section 7.07. | Officers Certificate as Evidence | 72 | ||||
Section 7.08. | Eligibility of Trustee | 72 | ||||
Section 7.09. | Resignation or Removal of Trustee | 72 | ||||
Section 7.10. | Acceptance by Successor Trustee | 73 | ||||
Section 7.11. | Succession by Merger, Etc | 73 | ||||
Section 7.12. | Trustees Application for Instructions from the Company | 74 | ||||
ARTICLE 8 | ||||||
CONCERNING THE HOLDERS | ||||||
Section 8.01. | Action by Holders | 74 | ||||
Section 8.02. | Proof of Execution by Holders | 74 | ||||
Section 8.03. | Who Are Deemed Absolute Owners | 74 | ||||
Section 8.04. | Company-Owned Notes Disregarded | 75 | ||||
Section 8.05. | Revocation of Consents; Future Holders Bound | 75 | ||||
ARTICLE 9 | ||||||
HOLDERS MEETINGS | ||||||
Section 9.01. | Purpose of Meetings | 75 | ||||
Section 9.02. | Call of Meetings by Trustee | 76 | ||||
Section 9.03. | Call of Meetings by Company or Holders | 76 | ||||
Section 9.04. | Qualifications for Voting | 76 | ||||
Section 9.05. | Regulations | 76 | ||||
Section 9.06. | Voting | 77 | ||||
Section 9.07. | No Delay of Rights by Meeting | 77 | ||||
ARTICLE 10 | ||||||
SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES | ||||||
Section 10.01. | Supplemental Indentures Without Consent of Holders | 77 | ||||
Section 10.02. | Supplemental Indentures -with Consent of Holders | 78 | ||||
Section 10.03. | Effect of Supplemental Indentures | 80 | ||||
Section 10.04. | Notation on Notes | 80 | ||||
Section 10.05. | Evidence of Compliance of Supplemental Indenture to Be Furnished Trustee | 80 | ||||
ARTICLE 11 | ||||||
CONSOLIDATION, MERGER, SALE, CONVEYANCE AND LEASE | ||||||
Section 11.01. | Company May Consolidate, Etc | 80 | ||||
Section 11.02. | Successor Corporation to Be Substituted | 81 | ||||
Section 11.03. | Officers Certificate and Opinion of Counsel to Be Given to Trustee | 82 | ||||
ARTICLE 12 | ||||||
IMMUNITY OF INCORPORATORS, STOCKHOLDERS, OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS | ||||||
Section 12.01. | Indenture and Notes Solely Corporate Obligations | 82 |
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ARTICLE 13 | ||||||
GUARANTEES | ||||||
Section 13.01. | Guarantee | 82 | ||||
Section 13.02. | Limitation on Liability; Termination, Release and Discharge | 84 | ||||
Section 13.03. | Right of Contribution | 85 | ||||
Section 13.04. | No Subrogation | 85 | ||||
Section 13.05. | Subordination | 86 | ||||
ARTICLE 14 | ||||||
CONVERSION OF NOTES | ||||||
Section 14.01. | Conversion Privilege | 86 | ||||
Section 14.02. | Conversion Procedure; Settlement Upon Conversion. | 88 | ||||
Section 14.03. | Increased Conversion Rate Applicable to Certain Notes Surrendered in Connection -with Make-Whole Fundamental Changes or During a Redemption Period | 92 | ||||
Section 14.04. | Adjustment of Conversion Rate | 94 | ||||
Section 14.05. | Adjustments of Prices | 103 | ||||
Section 14.06. | Shares to Be Fully Paid | 103 | ||||
Section 14.07. | Effect of Recapitalizations, Reclassifications and Changes of the Common Stock. | 103 | ||||
Section 14.08. | Certain Covenants | 105 | ||||
Section 14.09. | Responsibility of Trustee | 105 | ||||
Section 14.10. | Notice to Holders Prior to Certain Actions | 106 | ||||
Section 14.11. | Stockholder Rights Plans | 106 | ||||
Section 14.12. | Exchange in Lieu of Conversion | 106 | ||||
Section 14.13. | Beneficial Ownership Limitations | 107 | ||||
ARTICLE 15 | ||||||
REPURCHASE OF NOTES AT OPTION OF HOLDERS | ||||||
Section 15.01. | Repurchase of Securities at Option of the Holder on Specified Date. | 109 | ||||
Section 15.02. | Repurchase at Option of Holders Upon a Fundamental Change | 111 | ||||
Section 15.03. | Withdrawal of Repurchase Notice | 113 | ||||
Section 15.04. | Deposit of Repurchase Price | 113 | ||||
Section 15.05. | Covenant to Comply -with Applicable Laws Upon Repurchase of Notes | 114 | ||||
ARTICLE 16 | ||||||
OPTIONAL REDEMPTION | ||||||
Section 16.01. | Optional Redemption | 114 | ||||
Section 16.02. | Notice of Optional Redemption; Selection of Notes. | 115 | ||||
Section 16.03. | Payment of Notes Called for Redemption. | 116 | ||||
Section 16.04. | Restrictions on Redemption | 116 |
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ARTICLE 17 | ||||||
MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS | ||||||
Section 17.01. | Provisions Binding on Companys Successors | 117 | ||||
Section 17.02. | Official Acts by Successor Corporation | 117 | ||||
Section 17.03. | Addresses for Notices, Etc | 117 | ||||
Section 17.04. | Governing Law; Jurisdiction | 117 | ||||
Section 17.05. | Evidence of Compliance with Conditions Precedent; Certificates and Opinions of Counsel to Trustee and Collateral Agent | 118 | ||||
Section 17.06. | Legal Holidays | 118 | ||||
Section 17.07. | No Security Interest Created | 118 | ||||
Section 17.08. | Benefits of Indenture | 118 | ||||
Section 17.09. | Table of Contents, Headings, Etc | 119 | ||||
Section 17.10. | Authenticating Agent | 119 | ||||
Section 17.11. | Execution in Counterparts | 120 | ||||
Section 17.12. | Severability | 120 | ||||
Section 17.13. | Waiver of Jury Trial | 120 | ||||
Section 17.14. | Force Majeure | 120 | ||||
Section 17.15. | Calculations | 120 | ||||
Section 17.16. | USA PATRIOT Act | 121 | ||||
Section 17.17. | Tax Withholding | 121 | ||||
Section 17.18. | Electronic Communications | 121 | ||||
Section 17.19. | FATCA | 122 | ||||
Section 17.20. | Economic Sanctions | 122 | ||||
ARTICLE 18 | ||||||
COLLATERAL DOCUMENTS; COLLATERAL AGENT | ||||||
Section 18.01. | Collateral Documents | 122 | ||||
Section 18.02. | Collateral Agent | 122 | ||||
Section 18.03. | Release of Collateral; Non-Disturbance | 124 | ||||
Section 18.04. | Suits to Protect the Collateral | 125 | ||||
Section 18.05. | Authorization of Action to be Taken | 126 | ||||
Section 18.06. | Purchaser Protection | 126 | ||||
Section 18.07. | Powers Exercisable by Receiver or Trustee | 127 | ||||
Section 18.08. | Release Upon Termination of the Companys Obligations | 127 | ||||
Section 18.09. | Collateral Agent; Collateral Documents | 127 | ||||
Section 18.10. | Replacement of Collateral Agent | 127 | ||||
Section 18.11. | Acceptance by Collateral Agent | 128 |
EXHIBITS AND SCHEDULES
Exhibit A | Form of Note | |
Exhibit B | Form of Supplemental Indenture to be Delivered by Guarantor | |
Schedule I | Permitted Dispositions |
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INDENTURE dated as of June 23, 2025 between 3D SYSTEMS CORPORATION., a Delaware corporation, as issuer (the Company, as more fully set forth in Section 1.01) and WILMINGTON SAVINGS FUND SOCIETY, FSB, a federal savings bank, as trustee (the Trustee, as more fully set forth in Section 1.01) and collateral agent (in such capacity, the Collateral Agent, as more fully set forth in Section 1.01).
WITNESSETH:
WHEREAS, for its lawful corporate purposes, the Company has duly authorized the issuance of its 5.875% Convertible Senior Secured Notes due 2030 (the Notes), initially in an aggregate principal amount not to exceed $92,030,000.00, subject to Section 2.10, and in order to provide the terms and conditions upon which the Notes are to be authenticated, issued and delivered, the Company and the Guarantors have duly authorized the execution and delivery of this Indenture; and
WHEREAS, the Form of Note, the certificate of authentication to be borne by each Note, the Form of Notice of Conversion, the Form of Fundamental Change Repurchase Notice and the Form of Assignment and Transfer to be borne by the Notes are to be substantially in the forms hereinafter provided; and
WHEREAS, all acts and things necessary to make the Notes, when executed by the Company and authenticated and delivered by the Trustee or a duly authorized authenticating agent, as provided in this Indenture, the valid, binding and legal obligations of the Company, and this Indenture the valid, binding and legal agreement of the Company, the Guarantors, the Trustee and the Collateral Agent, have been done and performed, and the execution of this Indenture and the issuance hereunder of the Notes have in all respects been duly authorized.
NOW, THEREFORE, THIS INDENTURE WITNESSETH:
That in order to declare the terms and conditions upon which the Notes are, and are to be, authenticated, issued and delivered, and in consideration of the premises and of the purchase and acceptance of the Notes by the Holders thereof, the Company and the Guarantors covenants and agree with the Trustee and the Collateral Agent for the equal and proportionate benefit of the respective Holders from time to time of the Notes (except as otherwise provided below), as follows:
ARTICLE 1
DEFINITIONS
Section 1.01. Definitions. The terms defined in this Section 1.01 (except as herein otherwise expressly provided or unless the context otherwise requires) for all purposes of this Indenture and of any indenture supplemental hereto shall have the respective meanings specified in this Section 1.01. The words herein, hereof, hereunder and words of similar import refer to this Indenture as a whole and not to any particular Article, Section or other subdivision. The terms defined in this Article include the plural as well as the singular.
Account Control Agreement means an agreement, in form and substance satisfactory to the Collateral Agent, among any Note Party, a banking institution or securities intermediary maintaining a Controlled Account, and the Collateral Agent, with respect to collection and control of all deposits and balances held in a deposit account maintained by such Note Party with such banking institution (or all securities and other securities entitlements held in a securities account maintained by such Note Party with such securities intermediary), it being understood that any Account Control Agreement that purports to impose individual liability on the Collateral Agent will not be satisfactory to the Collateral Agent.
Acquisition means any transaction, or any series of related transactions, consummated on or after the Issue Date, by which any Person (a) purchases, in-licenses or otherwise acquires any going concern business, a line of business or division or product, or all or substantially all of the assets of any other Person (other than an existing Subsidiary), whether through purchase of assets, in-licensing, merger or otherwise, or (b) directly or indirectly acquires (in one transaction or as the most recent transaction in a series of transactions) at least a majority (in number of votes) of the equity interests of a Person which has ordinary voting power for the election of directors or other similar management personnel of a Person (other than equity interests having such power only by reason of the happening of a contingency) or a majority of the outstanding equity interests of a Person.
Additional Interest means all amounts, if any, payable pursuant to Section 4.06(d), Section 4.06(e) and Section 6.03, as applicable.
Additional Shares shall have the meaning specified in Section 14.03.
Affiliate of any specified Person means 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 specified Person means the power to direct or cause the direction of 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. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, the determination of whether one Person is an Affiliate of another Person for purposes of this Indenture shall be made based on the facts at the time such determination is made or required to be made, as the case may be, hereunder.
Agreed Security Principles shall mean any grant of a Lien or provision of a guarantee by any Person that would: (a) result in any breach of corporate benefit, financial assistance, capital preservation, fraudulent preference, thin capitalization rules, retention of title claims or any other law or regulation (or analogous restriction) of the jurisdiction of organization of such Person; (b) result in any risk to the officers of such Person of contravention of their fiduciary duties and/or of civil or criminal liability under applicable laws; (c) result in costs (tax, administrative or otherwise) that are materially disproportionate to the benefit obtained by the beneficiaries of such Lien and/or guarantee; or (d) result in a breach of a material agreement binding on such Person (other than any material agreements between the Company or any Subsidiary of the Company on one hand, and the Company or any Subsidiary of the Company on the other) that may not be amended or otherwise modified using commercially reasonable efforts to avoid such breach.
Anti-Corruption Laws means all laws, rules, and regulations of any jurisdiction applicable to the Company or any of its Affiliates from time to time concerning or relating to bribery or corruption.
Applicable Procedures means, with respect to a Depositary, as to any matter at any time, the policies and procedures of such Depositary, if any, that are applicable to such matter at such time.
Asset Sale means:
(a) the sale, conveyance, transfer or other Disposition (whether in a single transaction or a series of related transactions) of property or assets of the Company or any Subsidiary of the Company; or
(b) the issuance or sale of Capital Stock (other than directors qualifying shares, shares or interests required to be held by foreign nationals or other third parties to the extent required by
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applicable law) of any Subsidiary of the Company (other than to the Company or a Wholly Owned Subsidiary of the Company), whether in a single transaction or a series of related transactions, in each case, other than:
(i) a sale, exchange or other Disposition of obsolete, damaged, unnecessary, unsuitable or worn out equipment, or other assets, in the ordinary course of business, or Dispositions of property no longer used, useful or economically practicable to maintain in the conduct of the business of the Company and its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole;
(ii) the sale, conveyance, lease or other Disposition of all or substantially all of the assets of the Company or any Guarantor in compliance with the provisions described under Article 11 or any Disposition that constitutes a Fundamental Change;
(iii) any Restricted Payment or a Permitted Investment that is permitted to be made, and is made, under Section 4.13;
(iv) any Disposition of assets or issuance or sale of Capital Stock of any Subsidiary of the Company, in a single transaction or series of related transactions, together with other Dispositions utilizing this clause (iv), with an aggregate Fair Market Value of less than $1,000,000;
(v) Dispositions among the Company and its Subsidiaries that are Guarantors or by any Subsidiary of the Company to the Company or any Guarantor and (ii) Dispositions among Subsidiaries which are not Guarantors;
(vi) any settlement of or payment in respect of any property or casualty insurance claim or any condemnation proceeding relating to any property or assets of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries;
(vii) any sale or Disposition deemed to occur in connection with the granting or creation of any Lien permitted under this Indenture;
(viii) the licensing or sub-licensing of general intangibles other than Intellectual Property in the ordinary course of business;
(ix) the sale, lease, assignment, license or sublease of inventory, equipment, accounts receivable or other current assets held for sale in the ordinary course of business, and Dispositions of accounts receivable in connection with the collection or compromise thereof;
(x) the lease, assignment, license, sublicense or sublease of any real or personal property in the ordinary course of business;
(xi) non-exclusive licenses, sublicenses or cross-licenses of Intellectual Property in the ordinary course of business and consistent with past practices;
(xii) the surrender or waiver of contract rights or settlement, release or surrender of a contract, tort or other litigation claim in the ordinary course of business;
(xiii) the sale, exchange or other Disposition of cash or Cash Equivalents or investment grade securities in the ordinary course of business;
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(xiv) the lapse, abandonment or other Disposition of registered patents, trademarks and other intellectual property of the Company and its Subsidiaries to the extent not economically desirable in the conduct of their businesses as determined by the Company in its sole discretion; or
(xv) contemplated Dispositions set forth in Schedule I to the extent the Fair Market Value of all such Dispositions does not exceed $20,000,000 in the aggregate.
provided that, notwithstanding anything in this definition to the contrary, the Disposition of Capital Stock of any Guarantor shall constitute an Asset Sale.
Asset Sale Offer shall have the meaning specified in Section 4.16.
Attribution Parties shall have the meaning specified in Section 14.13(a).
Bankruptcy Code means Title 11 of the United States Code, as amended.
Bid Solicitation Agent means the Company or the Person appointed by the Company to solicit bids for the Trading Price of the Notes in accordance with Section 14.01 (b)(i). The Company shall initially act as the Bid Solicitation Agent.
Board of Directors means the board of directors of the Company or a committee of such board duly authorized to act for it hereunder.
Board Resolution means a copy of a resolution certified by the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary of the Company to have been duly adopted by the Board of Directors, and to be in full force and effect on the date of such certification, and delivered to the Trustee.
Business Day means any day other than a Saturday, a Sunday or a day on which the Federal Reserve Bank of New York is authorized or required by law or executive order to close or be closed, except that, solely for purposes of Section 17.06, a day on which the applicable place of payment is authorized or required by law or executive order to close or be closed will be deemed not to be a Business Day.
Capital Lease means any lease (or other arrangement conveying the right to use real or personal property) that is required to be capitalized for financial reporting purposes in accordance with GAAP (with the amount of any indebtedness in respect of a capital lease being the capitalized amount of the obligations under such capital lease determined in accordance with GAAP).
Capital Lease Obligations of any Person means the obligations of such Person to pay rent or other amounts under any lease of (or other arrangement conveying the right to use) real or personal property, or a combination thereof, which obligations are required to be classified and accounted for as Capital Leases, and the amount of such obligations shall be the capitalized amount thereof determined in accordance with GAAP.
Capital Stock means, for any entity, any and all shares, interests, rights to purchase, warrants, options, participations or other equivalents of or interests in (however designated) stock issued by that entity; provided that debt securities that are convertible into or exchangeable for Capital Stock shall not constitute Capital Stock prior to their conversion or exchange, as the case may be.
Cash Equivalent means an Investment of the type set forth in clauses (a) through (e) of the definition of Permitted Investment.
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Cash Settlement shall have the meaning specified in Section 14.02(a)(i).
CFC means (a) any Person that is a controlled foreign corporation (within the meaning of Section 957 of the Code) and (b) each Subsidiary of any Person described in clause (a).
Clause A Distribution shall have the meaning specified in Section 14.04(c).
Clause B Distribution shall have the meaning specified in Section 14.04(c).
Clause C Distribution shall have the meaning specified in Section 14.04(c).
close of business means 5:00 p.m. (New York City time).
Code means the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, or any successor statute thereto.
Collateral means, collectively, all of the Security Agreement Collateral and all other Property of whatever kind and nature, whether now existing or hereafter acquired, pledged or purported to be pledged as collateral or otherwise subject to a security interest or purported to be subject to a security interest under any Collateral Document, excluding in all events Excluded Assets.
Collateral Agent means the Person named as the Collateral Agent in the first paragraph of this Indenture until a successor Collateral Agent shall have become such pursuant to the applicable provisions of this Indenture, and thereafter Collateral Agent shall mean or include each Person who is then a Collateral Agent hereunder.
Collateral Documents means, collectively, the Security Agreement and each other security agreement or pledge agreement executed and delivered pursuant to Section 4.09 to secure any of the Obligations.
Combination Settlement shall have the meaning specified in Section 14.02(a).
Commission means the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, as from time to time constituted, created under the Exchange Act, or, if at any time after the execution of this instrument such Commission is not existing and performing the duties now assigned to it under the Trust Indenture Act, then the body performing such duties at such time.
Common Equity of any Person means Capital Stock of such Person that is generally entitled (a) to vote in the election of directors of such Person or (b) if such Person is not a corporation, to vote or otherwise participate in the selection of the governing body, partners, managers or others that will control the management or policies of such Person.
Common Stock means the common stock of the Company, par value $0.001 per share, at the date of this Indenture, subject to Section 14.07.
Company shall have the meaning specified in the first paragraph of this Indenture, and subject to the provisions of Article 11, shall include its successors and assigns.
Company Order means a written order of the Company, signed on behalf of the Company by an Officer.
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Company Put Right Notice shall have the meaning specified in Section 15.01(c).
Company Put Right Notice Date shall have the meaning specified in Section 15.01(c).
Controlled Account shall have the meaning specified in Section 4.22.
Conversion Agent shall have the meaning specified in Section 4.02.
Conversion Consideration shall have the meaning specified in Section 14.12.
Conversion Date shall have the meaning specified in Section 14.02(c).
Conversion Obligation shall have the meaning specified in Section 14.01(a).
Conversion Price means as of any time, $1,000, divided by the Conversion Rate as of such time.
Conversion Rate shall have the meaning specified in Section 14.01(a).
Corporate Event shall have the meaning specified in Section 14.01(d).
Corporate Trust Office means the principal office of the Trustee at which at any time its corporate trust business shall be administered, which office at the date hereof is located at 500 Delaware Avenue, 11th Floor, Wilmington, Delaware, 19801, Attention: Global Capital Markets, or such other address as the Trustee may designate from time to time by notice to the Holders and the Company, or the principal corporate trust office of any successor Trustee.
Custodian means the Trustee, as custodian for The Depository Trust Company, with respect to the Global Notes, or any successor entity thereto.
Daily Conversion Value means, for each of the 40 consecutive Trading Days during the Observation Period, l/40th of the product of (a) the Conversion Rate on such Trading Day and (b) the Daily VWAP for such Trading Day.
Daily Measurement Value means the Specified Dollar Amount (if any), divided by 40.
Daily Settlement Amount, for each of the 40 consecutive Trading Days during the Observation Period, shall consist of:
(a) cash in an amount equal to the lesser of (i) the Daily Measurement Value and (ii) the Daily Conversion Value on such Trading Day; and
(b) if the Daily Conversion Value on such Trading Day exceeds the Daily Measurement Value, a number of shares of Common Stock equal to (i) the difference between the Daily Conversion Value and the Daily Measurement Value, divided by (ii) the Daily VWAP for such Trading Day.
Daily VWAP means, for each of the 40 consecutive Trading Days during the relevant Observation Period, the per share volume-weighted average price as displayed under the heading Bloomberg VWAP on Bloomberg page DDD <equity> AQR (or its equivalent successor if such page is not available) in respect of the period from the scheduled open of trading until the scheduled close of trading of the primary trading session on such Trading Day (or if such volume-weighted average price is unavailable, the market value of one share of
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the Common Stock on such Trading Day determined, using a volume-weighted average method, by a nationally recognized independent investment banking firm retained for this purpose by the Company). The Daily VWAP shall be determined without regard to after-hours trading or any other trading outside of the regular trading session trading hours.
Debtor Relief Laws means the Bankruptcy Code, and all other liquidation, conservatorship, bankruptcy, assignment for the benefit of creditors, moratorium, rearrangement, receivership, insolvency, reorganization, or similar debtor relief laws of the United States or other applicable jurisdictions from time to time in effect and affecting the rights of creditors generally.
Default means any event that is, or after notice or passage of time, or both, would be, an Event of Default.
Default Settlement Method means, initially, Combination Settlement with a Specified Dollar Amount of $1,000 per $1,000 principal amount of Notes; provided that the Company may, from time to time, prior to March 15, 2030, change the Default Settlement Method by sending notice of the new Default Settlement Method to the Holders, the Trustee and the Conversion Agent (if other than the Trustee), all in accordance with, and subject to, the last paragraph of Section 14.02(a)(ii).
Defaulted Amounts means any amounts on any Note (including, without limitation, the Fundamental Change Repurchase Price, the Redemption Price, principal and interest) that are payable but are not punctually paid or duly provided for.
De-legending Deadline Date means, (a) with respect to the Notes issued pursuant to the Subscription Agreements (and any Notes issued in exchange therefor or in substitution thereof), the 380th day after the last date of original issuance of such Notes and (b) with respect to any additional Notes issued pursuant to Section 2.10 (and any Notes issued in exchange therefor or in substitution thereof), the 380th day after the last date of original issuance of such additional Notes; provided that if such 380th day is after a Regular Record Date and on or before the next Interest Payment Date, then the De-legending Deadline Date will instead be the second Business Day immediately after such Interest Payment Date.
delivered with respect to any notice to be delivered, given or mailed to a Holder pursuant to this Indenture, shall mean notice (x) given to the Depositary (or its designee) pursuant to the standing instructions from the Depositary or its designee, including by electronic mail in accordance with accepted practices or Applicable Procedures (in the case of a Global Note) or (y) mailed to such Holder by first class mail, postage prepaid, at its address as it appears on the Note Register, in each case in accordance with Section 17.03. Notice so delivered shall be deemed to include any notice to be mailed or given, as applicable, under this Indenture.
Depositary means, with respect to each Global Note, the Person specified in Section 2.05(c) as the Depositary with respect to such Notes, until a successor shall have been appointed and become such pursuant to the applicable provisions of this Indenture, and thereafter, Depositary shall mean or include such successor.
Disposition means the sale, transfer, issuance, license, lease or other disposition (including any sale and leaseback transaction), whether in one transaction or in a series of transactions, of any property or assets (including, without limitation, any Capital Stock of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries) by any Person (or the granting of any option or other right to do any of the foregoing), including any sale, assignment, transfer or other disposal, with or without recourse, of any notes or accounts receivable or any rights and claims associated therewith.
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Disqualified Stock means any Capital Stock that, by its terms (or by the terms of any security into which it is convertible, or for which it is exchangeable, in each case at the option of the holder thereof), or upon the happening of any event, matures or is mandatorily redeemable, pursuant to a sinking fund obligation or otherwise, or redeemable at the option of the holder thereof, in whole or in part, on or prior to the date that is 91 days after the date on which the Notes mature (other than, in each case, any provision requiring an offer to purchase such Capital Stock as a result of a change of control, delisting, asset sale or similar provision or any other provision permitting holders to convert such Capital Stock so long as any right of the holders thereof upon the occurrence of a change of control, delisting, asset sale or similar provision shall be subject to the prior repayment in full in cash of the Notes and the other Obligations); provided that if such Capital Stock are issued pursuant to a plan for the benefit of employees of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries or by any such plan to such employees, such Capital Stock shall not constitute Disqualified Stock solely because it may be required to be repurchased by the Company in order to satisfy applicable statutory or regulatory obligations. The amount of Disqualified Stock deemed to be outstanding at any time for purposes of this Indenture will be the maximum amount that the Company and its Subsidiaries may become obligated to pay upon maturity of, or pursuant to any mandatory redemption provisions of, such Disqualified Stock or portion thereof, plus accrued dividends.
Distributed Property shall have the meaning specified in Section 14.04(c).
Domestic Foreign Holding Company means, as to any Person, any Domestic Subsidiary of such Person that has no material assets other than Equity Interests (including, for this purpose, any debt or other instrument treated as equity under the Code) of one or more CFC.
Domestic Subsidiary means a Subsidiary that is not a Foreign Subsidiary.
Effective Date shall have the meaning specified in Section 14.03(c), except that, as used in Section 14.04 and Section 14.05, Effective Date means the first date on which shares of the Common Stock trade on the applicable exchange or in the applicable market, regular way, reflecting the relevant share split or share combination, as applicable.
Electronic Means means the following communications methods: e-mail, secure electronic transmission containing applicable authorization codes, passwords and/or authentication keys issued by the Trustee, or another method or system specified by the Trustee as available for use in connection with its services hereunder.
Equity Interests means Capital Stock and all warrants, options or other rights to acquire Capital Stock (but excluding any debt security that is convertible into, or exchangeable for, any combination of Capital Stock and/or cash).
Event of Default shall have the meaning specified in Section 6.01.
Exchange Act means the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder.
Exchange Election shall have the meaning specified in Section 14.12.
Excluded Account has the meaning assigned to such term in the Security Agreement.
Excluded Asset shall have the meaning assigned to such term in the Security Agreement.
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Excluded Entity means (a) any non-Wholly Owned Subsidiary to the extent a guarantee of the Obligations and a pledge of the assets thereof in support of such guarantee is contractually prohibited or would require the consent of any third-party holder of the Capital Stock thereof (unless and until such consent is obtained); provided that, in the event (i) such non-Wholly Owned Subsidiary becomes a Wholly Owned Subsidiary of the Company or a Guarantor or any of their Subsidiaries (including in connection with the exercise of put/call arrangements under any such agreements governing such joint venture arrangements which results in such non-Wholly Owned Subsidiary becoming a Wholly Owned Subsidiary of the Company or a Guarantor or any of their Subsidiaries), (ii) the Company or a Guarantor or any of their Subsidiaries are permitted or able to cause (without obtaining the consent of any third party nor incurring any penalty or expense) such non-Wholly Owned Subsidiary to provide a guarantee of the Obligations or the pledge of the assets thereof in support of such guarantee or (iii) such non-Wholly Owned Subsidiary does not otherwise meet the definition of Excluded Entity, in each case, such Subsidiary shall promptly (and in any event within the time periods set forth in Section 4.09 of this Indenture) become a Guarantor pursuant to the terms of this Indenture, (b) any Subsidiary of the Company or a Guarantor that is prohibited by applicable law, rule or regulation or by any contractual obligation existing on the Issue Date or on the date any such Subsidiary is acquired, in each case from guaranteeing the Obligations or which would require governmental (including regulatory) consent, approval, license or authorization to provide such a guarantee, for so long as such prohibition or circumstance exists, or for which the provision of such guarantee would result in material adverse tax consequence (including as a result of the operation of Section 956 of the Code, or any similar law or regulation in any applicable jurisdiction) to the Company or a Guarantor or one of their Subsidiaries (as reasonably determined in good faith by the Company), (c) any CFC or (d) any Domestic Foreign Holding Company.
Expiration Date shall have the meaning specified in Section 14.04(e).
Ex-Dividend Date means the first date on which shares of the Common Stock trade on the applicable exchange or in the applicable market, regular way, without the right to receive the issuance, dividend or distribution in question, from the Company or, if applicable, from the seller of Common Stock on such exchange or market (in the form of due bills or otherwise) as determined by such exchange or market.
Existing Convertible Notes means the 0% Convertible Senior Notes due 2026 of the Company outstanding on the Issue Date.
Fair Market Value means, with respect to any Property at the time of determination, the price that could be negotiated in an arms-length free market transaction, for cash, between a willing seller and a willing buyer, neither of whom is under pressure or compulsion to complete the transaction. Fair Market Value shall be determined, except as otherwise provided, by an Officer of the Company or such Officers designee.
Foreign Subsidiary means each Subsidiary that is organized under the laws of any jurisdiction other than the United States or any state thereof or the District of Columbia (or, for the avoidance of doubt, organized in or under the laws of any U.S. possession or territory).
Form of Assignment and Transfer means the Form of Assignment and Transfer attached as Attachment 3 to the Form of Note attached hereto as Exhibit A.
Form of Fundamental Change Repurchase Notice means the Form of Fundamental Change Repurchase Notice attached as Attachment 2 to the Form of Note attached hereto as Exhibit A.
Form of Note means the Form of Note attached hereto as Exhibit A.
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Form of Notice of Conversion means the Form of Notice of Conversion attached as Attachment 1 to the Form of Note attached hereto as Exhibit A.
Fundamental Change shall be deemed to have occurred at the time after the Notes are originally issued if any of the following occurs:
(a) a person or group within the meaning of Section 13(d) of the Exchange Act, other than the Company, its Wholly Owned Subsidiaries and the employee benefit plans of the Company and its Wholly Owned Subsidiaries, becomes the direct or indirect beneficial owner, as defined in Rule 13d-3 under the Exchange Act, of the Common Stock representing more than 50% of the voting power of the Common Stock and files a Schedule TO (or any successor schedule, form or report) or any schedule, form or report under the Exchange Act disclosing such fact; provided that no person or group shall be deemed to be the beneficial owner of any securities tendered pursuant to a tender or exchange offer made by or on behalf of such person or group until such tendered securities are accepted for purchase or exchange under such offer;
(b) the consummation of (A) any recapitalization, reclassification or change of the Common Stock (other than changes resulting from a subdivision, combination or a change in par value) as a result of which the Common Stock would be converted into, or exchanged for, stock, other securities, other property or assets; (B) any share exchange, consolidation or merger of the Company pursuant to which the Common Stock will be converted into or exchanged for cash, securities or other property or assets; or (C) any sale, lease or other transfer in one transaction or a series of transactions of all or substantially all of the consolidated assets of the Company and its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, to any Person other than one or more of the Companys Wholly Owned Subsidiaries; provided, however, that a transaction described in clause (A) or (B) in which the holders of all classes of the Companys Common Equity immediately prior to such transaction own, directly or indirectly, more than 50% of all classes of Common Equity of the continuing or surviving corporation or transferee or the parent thereof immediately after such transaction in substantially the same proportions (relative to each other) as such ownership immediately prior to such transaction shall not be a Fundamental Change pursuant to this clause (b);
(c) the Companys stockholders approve any plan or proposal for the liquidation or dissolution of the Company; or
(d) the Common Stock (or other Common Equity underlying the Notes) ceases to be listed or quoted on any of the New York Stock Exchange, The Nasdaq Global Select Market or The Nasdaq Global Market (or any of their respective successors);
provided, however, that a transaction or transactions described in clause (a) or clause (b) above shall not constitute a Fundamental Change, if at least 90% of the consideration received or to be received by the common stockholders of the Company, excluding cash payments for fractional shares and cash payments made in respect of dissenters appraisal rights, in connection with such transaction or transactions consists of shares of common stock that are listed or quoted on any of the New York Stock Exchange, The Nasdaq Global Select Market or The Nasdaq Global Market (or any of their respective successors) or will be so listed or quoted when issued or exchanged in connection with such transaction or transactions and as a result of such transaction or transactions such consideration becomes Reference Property for the Notes, excluding cash payments for fractional shares and cash payments made in respect of dissenters appraisal rights (subject to the provisions of Section 14.02). Any event, transaction or series of related transactions that constitute a Fundamental Change under both clause (a) and clause (b) above (determined without regard to the proviso in clause (b) above) shall be deemed to be a
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Fundamental Change solely under clause (b) above (subject to the proviso to clause (b)). If any transaction in which the Common Stock is replaced by the securities of another entity occurs, following completion of any related Make-Whole Fundamental Change Period (or, in the case of a transaction that would have been a Fundamental Change or a Make-Whole Fundamental Change but for the proviso immediately following clause (d) of this definition, following the effective date of such transaction) references to the Company in this definition shall instead be references to such other entity.
Fundamental Change Company Notice shall have the meaning specified in Section 15.02(c).
Fundamental Change Repurchase Date shall have the meaning specified in Section 15.02(a).
Fundamental Change Repurchase Notice shall have the meaning specified in Section 15.02(b)(i).
Fundamental Change Repurchase Price shall have the meaning specified in Section 15.02(a).
GAAP means generally accepted accounting principles in the United States as in effect on the date hereof, without giving effect, for the avoidance of doubt, to ASU 2016-02, Leases (Topic 842).
General Beneficial Ownership Limitation shall have the meaning specified in Section 14.13(d).
Global Note shall have the meaning specified in Section 2.05(b).
Guarantee or guarantee means a guarantee (other than by endorsement of negotiable instruments for collection in the ordinary course of business), direct or indirect, in any manner (including letters of credit and reimbursement agreements in respect thereof), of all or any part of any Indebtedness or other obligations.
Guaranteed Obligations shall have the meaning specified in Section 13.01.
Guarantor means 3D Systems, Inc., a California corporation, 3D Holdings, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company, and each Subsidiary of the Company that is or becomes a party to this Indenture and the Notes Documents.
Holder means any Person in whose name at the time a particular Note is registered on the Note Register.
Holder Action shall have the meaning specified in Section 10.02.
Holder Action Consent Fee shall have the meaning specified in Section 10.02.
Hostile Acquisition means (a) the acquisition of the equity interests of a Person through a tender offer or similar solicitation of the owners of such equity interests which has not been approved (prior to such acquisition) by the Board of Directors (or any other applicable governing body) of such Person or by similar action if such Person is not a corporation and (b) any such acquisition as to which such approval has been withdrawn.
incur shall have the meaning specified in Section 4.12.
Indebtedness means, with respect to any specified Person, any indebtedness of such Person (excluding accrued expenses and trade payables), whether or not contingent and without duplication:
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(a) in respect of borrowed money;
(b) evidenced by bonds, notes, debentures or similar instruments or letters of credit (or reimbursement agreements in respect thereof);
(c) in respect of bankers acceptances;
(d) representing Capital Lease Obligations;
(e) representing the balance deferred and unpaid of the purchase price of any property or services, which purchase price is more than six months after the date of placing the property in service or taking delivery and title thereto; or
(f) representing any Swap Contracts,
in each case, if and to the extent any of the preceding items (other than letters of credit and Swap Contracts) would appear as a liability upon a balance sheet (excluding the footnotes) of the specified Person prepared in accordance with GAAP. In addition, the term Indebtedness includes (i) to the extent not otherwise included, the guarantee by the specified Person of any Indebtedness of any other Person and (ii) all Indebtedness of others secured by a Lien on any asset of the specified Person (whether or not such Indebtedness is assumed by the specified Person) equal to the lesser of (x) the Fair Market Value of such asset as of the date of determination and (y) the amount of such Indebtedness.
Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the foregoing paragraph, the term Indebtedness will not include (a) in connection with any investment or other acquisition or any asset sale or other Disposition, purchase price adjustments, indemnities or earn-out, milestone, contingent or other deferred payments of a similar nature, unless such payments are required under GAAP to appear as a liability on the balance sheet (excluding the footnotes); (b) contingent obligations incurred in the ordinary course of business and not in respect of borrowed money; (c) deferred or prepaid revenues; (d) any Capital Stock; (e) purchase price holdbacks in respect of a portion of the purchase price of an asset to satisfy warranty or other unperformed obligations of the respective seller; or (f) deferred compensation and severance, pension, health and welfare retirement and equivalent benefits to current or former employees, directors or managers of such Person and its subsidiaries. Indebtedness shall be calculated without giving effect to the effects of: (i) Accounting Standards Codification Topic 815 Derivatives and Hedging and related interpretations to the extent such effects would otherwise increase or decrease an amount of Indebtedness for any purpose under this Indenture as a result of accounting for any embedded derivatives created by the terms of such Indebtedness and (ii) any election under GAAP to value any Indebtedness at fair value or any other accounting principle that results in the amount of any such Indebtedness (other than zero coupon Indebtedness) as reflected on such balance sheet to be below the stated principal amount of such Indebtedness.
Indenture means this instrument as originally executed or, if amended or supplemented as herein provided, as so amended or supplemented.
Initial Holders means the Holders party to the Subscription Agreements and each of their respective Affiliates. For the avoidance of doubt, a Holder shall no longer be an Initial Holder to the extent the aggregate principal amount of the Notes held by such Holder and its Affiliates is less than Five Million Dollars ($5,000,000) at any time after the Issue Date.
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Initial Holder Existing Convertible Notes means the Existing Convertible Notes held by the Initial Holders as of the Issue Date.
Intellectual Property has the meaning specified in the Security Agreement.
Interest Payment Date means each June 15 and December 15 of each year, beginning on December 15, 2025.
Investment means, with respect to any specified Person, all direct or indirect investments by such specified Person in other Persons (including Affiliates) in the forms of loans (including guarantees of Indebtedness or other Obligations), advances or capital contributions (excluding (i) commission, travel and similar advances to Officers and employees made in the ordinary course of business and (ii) extensions of credit to customers or advances, deposits or payment to or with suppliers, lessors or utilities or for workers compensation, in each case, that are incurred in the ordinary course of business), or purchases or other acquisitions for consideration of Indebtedness, Capital Stock or other securities.
Issue Date means June 23, 2025.
Last Reported Sale Price of the Common Stock (or other security for which a closing sale price must be determined) on any date means the closing sale price per share (or if no closing sale price is reported, the average of the bid and ask prices or, if more than one in either case, the average of the average bid and the average ask prices) on that date as reported in composite transactions for the principal U.S. national or regional securities exchange on which the Common Stock (or such other security) is traded. If the Common Stock (or such other security) is not listed for trading on a U.S. national or regional securities exchange on the relevant date, the Last Reported Sale Price shall be the last quoted bid price per share for the Common Stock (or such other security) in the over-the-counter market on the relevant date as reported by OTC Markets Group Inc. or a similar organization. If the Common Stock (or such other security) is not so quoted, the Last Reported Sale Price shall be the average of the mid-point of the last bid and ask prices per share for the Common Stock (or such other security) on the relevant date from each of at least three nationally recognized independent investment banking firms selected by the Company for this purpose. The Last Reported Sale Price shall be determined without regard to after-hours trading or any other trading outside of regular trading session hours.
Liability Management Transaction shall mean any refinancing, retirement, exchange, extension, amendment, repurchase, replacement, or defeasance of any existing Indebtedness of the Company or any Subsidiary (including the Notes) with any other Indebtedness, Capital Stock (or the proceeds of any other Indebtedness, Capital Stock) that is/are contractually, structurally or temporally senior (i.e., having a shorter maturity than the debt being refinanced)(including as to Lien priority with respect to any collateral, or by means of additional collateral or additional guarantors, obligors or other credit support) to any of the Notes (including, for the avoidance of doubt, through any incurrence of Indebtedness or the sale of, Capital Stock by a Person that is not a Note Party, whether or not such Person owns any assets or property).
Lien means, with respect to any asset, (a) any mortgage, deed of trust, lien, pledge, hypothecation, encumbrance, charge or security interest in, on or of such asset, (b) the interest of a vendor or a lessor under any conditional sale agreement, capital lease or title retention agreement (or any financing lease having substantially the same economic effect as any of the foregoing) relating to such asset and (c) in the case of securities, any purchase option, call or similar right of a third party with respect to such securities; provided that in no event shall an operating lease be deemed to constitute a Lien.
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Make-Whole Fundamental Change means any transaction or event that constitutes a Fundamental Change (as defined above and determined after giving effect to any exceptions to or exclusions from such definition, but without regard to the proviso in clause (b) of the definition thereof).
Make-Whole Fundamental Change Period shall have the meaning specified in Section 14.03.
Market Disruption Event means, for the purposes of determining amounts due upon conversion (a) a failure by the primary U.S. national or regional securities exchange or market on which the Common Stock is listed or admitted for trading to open for trading during its regular trading session or (b) the occurrence or existence prior to 1:00 p.m., New York City time, on any Scheduled Trading Day for the Common Stock for more than one half-hour period in the aggregate during regular trading hours of any suspension or limitation imposed on trading (by reason of movements in price exceeding limits permitted by the relevant stock exchange or otherwise) in the Common Stock or in any options contracts or futures contracts trading on any U.S. exchange relating to the Common Stock.
Material Adverse Effect means a material adverse effect on (a) the business, assets, operations or financial condition of the Company and its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, (b) the ability of the Note Parties, taken as a whole, to perform any of their payment Obligations when due, (c) the Collateral (taken as a whole), or the Collateral Agents Liens (on behalf of itself and the other Secured Parties) on such Collateral or the priority of such Liens, or (d) the validity or enforceability of this Indenture or any and all other Note Documents or the rights of or benefits available to the Trustee, the Collateral Agent or the Holders under any of the Note Documents.
Material Asset means any property, business or asset in each case that is of material value or that is material to the operation of the business of the Company and its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole. For the avoidance of doubt, Material Asset shall include Material Intellectual Property.
Material Intellectual Property means any Intellectual Property that is material to the operation of the business of the Company and its Subsidiaries.
Material Domestic Subsidiary means (a) a Domestic Subsidiary of the Company that has total assets in excess of 2.5% of consolidated total assets (other than goodwill) of the Company and its Subsidiaries or contributed greater than 2.5% of the consolidated revenue of the Company and its Subsidiaries (based upon and as of the date of delivery of the most recent consolidated financial statements of the Company); or (b) any Domestic Subsidiary that directly owns Equity Interests in any other Material Subsidiary; provided that (x) the total assets or consolidated revenue of all the Domestic Subsidiaries that are not Material Subsidiaries shall not exceed 5% of the consolidated total assets (other than goodwill) or consolidated revenue, as the case may be, of the Company and its Subsidiaries (tested as of the date of delivery of the most recent consolidated financial statements of the Company and its Subsidiaries) and (y) any Domestic Subsidiary that owns any Material Intellectual Property shall be a Material Domestic Subsidiary.
Material Foreign Subsidiary means (a) a Foreign Subsidiary of the Company that has total assets in excess of 5.0% of consolidated total assets (other than goodwill) of the Company and its Subsidiaries or contributed greater than 5.0% of the consolidated revenue of the Company and its Subsidiaries (based upon and as of the date of delivery of the most recent consolidated financial statements of the Company); or (b) any Foreign Subsidiary that directly owns Equity Interests in any other Material Subsidiary; provided that the total assets or consolidated revenue of all the Foreign Subsidiaries that are not Material Subsidiaries shall not exceed 10% of the consolidated total assets (other than goodwill) or consolidated revenue, as the case may be, of the
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Company and its Subsidiaries (tested as of the date of delivery of the most recent consolidated financial statements of the Company and its Subsidiaries).
Material Subsidiary means a Material Domestic Subsidiary or a Material Foreign Subsidiary.
Maturity Date means June 15, 2030.
Net Proceeds means, (a) with respect to any Disposition by the Company, any Subsidiary or any of their Subsidiaries, the excess, if any, of (i) the sum of cash and Cash Equivalents received by the Company or a Guarantor in connection with such transaction (including any cash or Cash Equivalents received (x) by way of deferred payment pursuant to, or by monetization of, a note receivable or otherwise, but only as and when so received, unless, for the avoidance of doubt, any such cash or Cash Equivalents received by monetization is in the form of retained collections that do not constitute purchase price or consideration for the sale or other Disposition of the asset subject to such Disposition received by the Company, any Subsidiary or any of their Subsidiaries for such Disposition and (y) as a result of unwinding any related hedge agreements in connection with such transaction) over (ii) the sum of, without duplication, (A) the principal amount of any Indebtedness that is secured by the applicable asset by a Lien permitted hereunder which is senior to the Collateral Agents Lien on such asset and that is required to be repaid (or to establish an escrow for the future repayment thereof) in connection with such transaction (other than Indebtedness under this Indenture), (B) the reasonable and customary out-of-pocket expenses incurred by such Person in connection with such transaction (including, without limitation, appraisals, brokerage, legal, title and recording or transfer tax expenses and commissions and legal, accounting and investment banking fees, sales commissions and other reasonable and customary fees and expenses) paid by such Person to third parties (other than Affiliates) in cash, (C) the taxes paid or the Companys good faith and reasonable estimation of income, franchise, sales and other applicable taxes required to be paid as a result of such transaction, and (D) any amount subject to an escrow or provided as a reserve against any liabilities in respect of any indemnification obligations or purchase price adjustment associated with any such Disposition and which are reasonably expected to be paid (provided that, to the extent and at any time such amounts are not paid and are released from such escrow or reserve to the Company or any Guarantor, such amounts shall constitute Net Proceeds) and (b) in connection with any issuance or sale of Indebtedness by the Company or any Guarantor or any of their Subsidiaries, or any issuance or sale of Capital Stock by the Company, the cash proceeds received from such issuance or incurrence, net of the reasonable and customary out-of-pocket expenses incurred by such Person in connection with such transaction, including attorneys fees, investment banking fees, accountants fees, underwriting discounts and commissions and other customary fees and expenses actually incurred in connection therewith paid by such Person to third parties (other than Affiliates).
Note or Notes shall have the meaning specified in the first paragraph of the recitals of this Indenture.
Note Guarantee means the guarantee by any Guarantor of the Companys Obligations under this Indenture and the Notes.
Note Party or Note Parties means, collectively, the Company and the Guarantors
Note Register shall have the meaning specified in Section 2.05(a).
Note Registrar shall have the meaning specified in Section 2.05(a).
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Notes Documents means this Indenture, the Notes, the Note Guarantees, and the Collateral Documents.
Notice of Conversion shall have the meaning specified in Section 14.02(b).
Obligations means all advances to, and debts, liabilities, obligations, covenants and duties of, the Note Parties arising under this Indenture or the Notes Documents or otherwise with respect to any Note, whether direct or indirect (including those acquired by assumption), absolute or contingent, due or to become due, now existing or hereafter arising and including interest and fees that accrue after the commencement by or against any Note Party of any proceeding under any Debtor Relief Laws naming a Note Party as the debtor in such proceeding, regardless of whether such interest and fees are allowed claims in such proceeding. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the Obligations of the Note Parties under the Indenture or the Notes Documents include any obligations to pay principal, interest, reimbursement obligations, charges, expenses, fees, disbursements, attorney costs, indemnities and other amounts, in each case, payable by the Note Parties under the Indenture or the Notes Documents.
Observation Period with respect to any Note surrendered for conversion means: (i) subject to clause (ii), if the relevant Conversion Date occurs prior to March 15, 2030, the 40 consecutive Trading Day period beginning on, and including, the second Trading Day immediately succeeding such Conversion Date; (ii) with respect to any Notes called for redemption (or deemed called for redemption as described in Section 14.01(f), if the relevant Conversion Date with respect to such Notes occurs during the related Redemption Period, the 40 consecutive Trading Days beginning on, and including, the 41st Scheduled Trading Day immediately preceding such Redemption Date and (iii) subject to clause (ii), if the relevant Conversion Date occurs on or after March 15, 2030, the 40 consecutive Trading Days beginning on, and including, the 41st Scheduled Trading Day immediately preceding the Maturity Date.
Officer means, with respect to the Company, the President, the Chief Executive Officer, the Chief Financial Officer, the Chief Accounting Officer, the Chief Legal Officer, the Treasurer, the Secretary, any assistant Secretary or any Executive Vice President.
Officers Certificate, when used with respect to the Company, means a certificate that is delivered to the Trustee and that is signed on behalf of the Company by an Officer of the Company that meets the requirements of Section 17.05.
open of business means 9:00 a.m. (New York City time).
Opinion of Counsel means an opinion in writing signed by legal counsel, who may be an employee of or counsel to the Company or other counsel, that is delivered to the Trustee. Each such opinion shall include the statements provided for in Section 17.05 if and to the extent required by the provisions of such Section 17.05.
Optional Redemption shall have the meaning specified in Section 16.01.
outstanding, when used with reference to Notes, shall, subject to the provisions of Section 8.04, mean, as of any particular time, all Notes authenticated and delivered by the Trustee under this Indenture, except:
(a) Notes theretofore canceled by the Trustee or accepted by the Trustee for cancellation;
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(b) Notes, or portions thereof, that have become due and payable and in respect of which monies in the necessary amount shall have been deposited in trust with the Trustee or with any Paying Agent (other than the Company) or shall have been set aside and segregated in trust by the Company (if the Company shall act as its own Paying Agent);
(c) Notes that have been paid pursuant to Section 2.06 or Notes in lieu of which, or in substitution for which, other Notes shall have been authenticated and delivered pursuant to the terms of Section 2.06 unless proof satisfactory to the Trustee is presented that any such Notes are held by protected purchasers in due course;
(d) Notes surrendered for purchase in accordance with Article 15 for which Paying Agent holds money sufficient to pay the Fundamental Change Repurchase Price, in accordance with Section 15.04(b);
(e) Notes converted pursuant to Article 14 and required to be canceled pursuant to Section 2.08;
(f) Notes redeemed pursuant to Article 16; and
(g) Notes repurchased by the Company pursuant to the last sentence of Section 2.10 after the Company surrenders them to the Trustee for cancellation in accordance with Section 2.08.
Partial Redemption Limitation shall have the meaning specified in Section 16.02(d).
Paying Agent shall have the meaning specified in Section 4.02.
Permitted Acquisition means any Acquisition by any Note Party in a transaction that satisfies each of the following requirements:
(a) such Acquisition is not a Hostile Acquisition;
(b) the Person, business or product, as applicable, acquired in connection with such Acquisition is engaged, directly or indirectly, in any line of business in which the Company and its Subsidiaries are engaged on the Issue Date and any business operations or activities that are reasonably complementary, ancillary, substantially similar, related, or incidental thereto or any business or activity that is a reasonable extension, development or expansion thereof or ancillary thereto;
(c) both before and immediately after giving effect (including giving effect on a pro forma basis) to such Acquisition, no Event of Default then exists or would result therefrom;
(d) as soon as available, but not less than thirty (30) days prior to such Acquisition (or such shorter period as agreed by the Supermajority Holders in their sole discretion), the Company has provided the Holders (i) notice of such Acquisition and (ii) a copy of all business and financial information reasonably requested by the Supermajority Holders including pro forma financial statements and statements of cash flow;
(e) if such Acquisition is an acquisition of equity interests, such Acquisition will not result in any violation of Regulation U;
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(f) if such Acquisition involves a merger or a consolidation involving any Note Party, such Note Party shall be the surviving entity (provided that any such merger or consolidation involving the Company shall result in the Company as the surviving entity);
(g) no Note Party shall, as a result of or in connection with any such Acquisition, assume or incur any direct or contingent liabilities (whether relating to environmental, tax, litigation, or other matters) that would have a Material Adverse Effect;
(h) in connection with an Acquisition of the equity interests of any Person, all Liens (other than Permitted Liens) on any property of such Person shall be terminated, and in connection with an Acquisition of the assets of any Person, all Liens on such assets shall be terminated, in each case, except for Permitted Liens;
(i) any newly acquired or formed Material Domestic Subsidiary of the Company shall become a Note Party and all actions required to be taken with respect to such newly acquired or formed Material Domestic Subsidiary of the Company required under Section 4.09 shall have been taken; and
(j) upon the request by the Supermajority Holders, the Company shall have delivered to the Trustee the final executed documentation relating to such Acquisition promptly following the consummation thereof;
provided that the total consideration paid or payable (including all transaction costs, assumed Indebtedness, and the maximum amount of all Earn-Outs (other than royalty payments based solely on a percentage of sales or revenues attributable to the Permitted Acquisitions), but disregarding any working capital adjustments) for all Permitted Acquisitions shall not exceed, on a cumulative basis subsequent to the Issue Date, $20,000,000.
Permitted Indebtedness means, without duplication, each of the following:
(a) [reserved];
(b) (i) the incurrence by the Company and the Guarantors of Indebtedness represented by the Notes and the related Guarantees in an aggregate amount not to exceed $92,030,000.00 at any time outstanding and (ii) Additional Notes so long as the aggregate principal amount of such Additional Notes, together with the aggregate principal amount of any Indebtedness incurred in reliance on clause (a) above, does not exceed $0 at any time outstanding;
(c) Swap Contracts entered into in the ordinary course of business or consistent with past practice (and not for speculative purposes) to hedge or mitigate commercial risk pertaining to interest rates or currency exchange rates;
(d) Indebtedness existing on the date of this Indenture (other than the Notes) (Existing Indebtedness);
(e) Indebtedness secured by any Lien imposed by law, such as carriers, warehousemens, landlords, mechanics Liens and other like Liens, and customary Liens retained by or granted to carriers, landlords and mechanics under the terms of agreements pursuant to which services are rendered or property is leased by such Persons to the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, in each case, either (a) incurred or arising in the ordinary course of business or consistent with past practice or (b) for sums not overdue for a period of more than 60 days or being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings;
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(f) Indebtedness relating to pooled deposit or sweep accounts to permit satisfaction of overdraft, cash pooling or similar obligations incurred in the ordinary course of business or consistent with past practice;
(g) [reserved];
(h) Indebtedness in respect of bank guarantees, statutory obligations, surety or performance bonds and similar instruments incurred in the ordinary course of business or consistent with past practice;
(i) Indebtedness incurred by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries (i) consisting of the financing of insurance premiums in the ordinary course of business or consistent with past practice; (ii) in respect of workers compensation claims, health, disability and other types of employee benefits, social security benefits, unemployment and other self-insurance obligations, vehicle, property, casualty or liability insurance or other similar bonds or (iii) arising from the honoring by a bank or other financial institution of a check, draft or similar instrument drawn against insufficient funds, so long as such Indebtedness is covered within ten Business Days of notification to the Company or any of its Subsidiaries of its incurrence;
(j) Indebtedness incurred by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries in the ordinary course of business or consistent with past practice arising from business credit card programs, treasury, payment processing services, depository, over-draft and cash management services;
(k) Indebtedness representing any taxes, assessments or governmental charges to the extent such taxes are being contested in good faith and adequate reserves have been provided therefor in conformity with GAAP;
(l) (i) Indebtedness owed to the Company or a Guarantor, and (ii) other intercompany Indebtedness; provided that no such Indebtedness of the Company shall be secured Indebtedness; provided further that (A) neither the Company nor any Wholly Owned Subsidiary of a the Company may borrow money from a non-Wholly Owned Subsidiary of the Company pursuant to clause (l)(ii) and (B) if the Company or a Guarantor incurs such Indebtedness to a Subsidiary that is not a Guarantor, any such intercompany Indebtedness or the guarantees thereof are expressly subordinated in right of payment to the obligations of the Company or such Guarantor represented by the Notes or such Guarantee, as applicable, and if secured, is secured by Liens that are junior to the Liens securing the Obligations;
(m) customer deposits and advance payments received in the ordinary course of business or consistent with past practice from customers for goods or services purchased in the ordinary course of business or consistent with past practice;
(n) the incurrence of Indebtedness (other than for borrowed money) arising from agreements of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries providing for indemnification, adjustment of purchase price, working capital adjustments, holdback, earn-outs or similar obligations of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries pursuant to such agreements, in each case, incurred in connection with the acquisition or Disposition of any Subsidiary, investment, business, property or asset;
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(o) Indebtedness to the extent that the net proceeds thereof are promptly (and in any event, no more than one (1) Business Day thereafter) deposited to defease or to satisfy and discharge the Notes in accordance with this Indenture;
(p) the guarantee by the Company or any of the Guarantors of Indebtedness of the Company or a Guarantor constituting Permitted Indebtedness and the guarantee by any Subsidiary that is not a Guarantor of Indebtedness of another Subsidiary that is not a Guarantor, in each case, to the extent that the guaranteed Indebtedness constituted Permitted Indebtedness; provided that (a) if the Indebtedness being guaranteed is subordinated in right of payment to or pari passu with the Notes, then the guarantee must be subordinated or pari passu, as applicable, in right of payment to the same extent as the Indebtedness guaranteed and (b) such guaranteeing Subsidiary that is not a Guarantor shall have also provided a Guarantee of the Notes;
(q) Disqualified Stock of a Subsidiary that is not a Note Party to the extent such Disqualified Stock is issued in connection with a Disposition set forth in Schedule I.
(r) Indebtedness incurred by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries in a principal amount (or accreted amount as applicable) at any time outstanding that, when aggregated with the principal amount of all Indebtedness then outstanding under this clause (r), does not exceed $10,000,000 in the aggregate at any time outstanding; and
(s) any Indebtedness issued in exchange for, or the net proceeds of which are promptly used to extend, refinance, renew, replace, defease or refund (x) any Indebtedness incurred under clauses (d) or (r) above or (y) Indebtedness incurred pursuant this clause (s) (any such Indebtedness issued in exchange for, or the net proceeds of which are promptly used to extend, refinance, renew, replace, defease or refund the Indebtedness referred to in the foregoing clauses (x) and (y), Refinancing Indebtedness), provided that (i) if secured, the Liens securing such Refinancing Indebtedness encumber only the assets subject to the Liens securing such Indebtedness being renewed, refunded, refinanced, replaced, defeased or discharged, and (ii) the principal amount (or accreted value, if applicable) of such Refinancing Indebtedness does not exceed the principal amount (or accreted value, if applicable) of the Indebtedness renewed, refunded, refinanced, replaced, defeased or discharged (plus all accrued interest on the Indebtedness and the amount of all fees, commissions and expenses, including reasonable and customary premiums, underwriting discounts defeasance costs, original issue discount, incurred in connection therewith).
In the event that an item of Indebtedness or Disqualified Stock meets the criteria of more than one of the categories of Permitted Indebtedness, the Company may, in its sole discretion, classify or divide such item of Indebtedness or Disqualified Stock (or any portion thereof) on the date of its incurrence, or later reclassify all or a portion of such item of Indebtedness or Disqualified Stock (or any portion thereof) (based on circumstances existing on the date of such reclassification) and will only be required to include the amount and type of such Indebtedness or Disqualified Stock in one of the above clauses.
Permitted Investments means each of the following:
(a) Investments in (i) cash or (ii) readily marketable obligations issued or directly and fully guaranteed or insured by the United States of America or any agency or instrumentality thereof having maturities of not more than 360 days from the date of acquisition thereof; provided that, in the case of Investments of the type described in clause (ii), the full faith and credit of the United States of America is pledged in support thereof;
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(b) Investments in corporate debt issued by any Person organized under the laws of any state of the United States of America and rated at least Prime-1 (or the then equivalent grade) by Moodys or at least A-1 (or the then equivalent grade) by S&P, in each case with maturities of not more than 365 days from the date of acquisition thereof;
(c) Investments in time deposits with, or insured certificates of deposit or bankers acceptances of, any commercial bank that (i) (A) is organized under the laws of the United States of America, any state thereof or the District of Columbia or is the principal banking subsidiary of a bank holding company organized under the laws of the United States of America, any state thereof or the District of Columbia, and is a member of the Federal Reserve System, (ii) issues (or the parent of which issues) commercial paper rated as described in clause (b) of this definition and (iii) has combined capital and surplus of at least $1,000,000,000, in each case with maturities of not more than 365 days from the date of acquisition thereof;
(d) Investments in fully collateralized repurchase agreements with a term of not more than 30 days for securities described in clause (a) above (without regard to the limitation on maturity contained in such clause) and entered into with a financial institution satisfying the criteria described in clause (c) above or with any primary dealer and having a market value at the time that such repurchase agreement is entered into of not less than 100% of the repurchase obligation of such counterparty entity with whom such repurchase agreement has been entered into;
(e) Investments, classified in accordance with GAAP as current assets of the Company or any Guarantor, in any money market fund, mutual fund, or other investment companies that are registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended, which are administered by financial institutions that have the highest rating obtainable from either Moodys or S&P, and which invest solely in one or more of the types of securities described in clauses (a) through (d) above;
(f) Investments (i) existing on the Issue Date, (ii) made pursuant to binding commitments or in joint ventures in existence on the Issue Date or as required by, or made pursuant to, buy/sell arrangements between the joint venture parties set forth in, joint venture agreements and similar binding arrangements in effect on the Issue Date and (iii) that replaces, refinances, refunds, renews or extends any Investment described under either of the immediately preceding clauses (i) or (ii), provided that any such Investment is in an amount that does not exceed the amount replaced, refinanced, refunded, renewed or extended, except as contemplated pursuant to the terms of such Investment in existence on the Issue Date or as otherwise permitted under this definition;
(g) Investments by and between the Company and Guarantors; (ii) Investments by and between Subsidiaries of the Company who are not Guarantors; (iii) [reserved]; and (iv) Investments by and between Subsidiaries of the Company (or an Investment in a Subsidiary of the Company by the Company) consisting of intercompany Indebtedness otherwise incurred in compliance with Section 4.12 hereof and otherwise incurred in the ordinary course of business;
(h) Investments consisting of extensions of credit in the nature of accounts receivable or notes receivable arising from the grant of trade credit in the ordinary course of business, and Investments received in satisfaction or partial satisfaction thereof from financially troubled account debtors to the extent reasonably necessary in order to prevent or limit loss;
(i) Guarantees constituting Permitted Indebtedness;
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(j) so long as no Default or Event of Default has occurred and is continuing or would be caused by such Investment, Investments by the Company or any Guarantor in non-speculative hedging agreements permitted hereunder, entered into in the ordinary course of business and consistent with past practice;
(k) Investments received in connection with the bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or similar proceeding of, or settlement of delinquent accounts and disputes with, customers and suppliers, in each case in the ordinary course of business;
(l) loans and advances to officers, directors and employees of the Company or any Subsidiary of the Company, in each case in the ordinary course of business; in an amount not to exceed $500,000 to any individual at any time or in an aggregate amount not to exceed $2,000,000 at any time;
(m) any Permitted Acquisition;
(n) deposits made in the ordinary course of business to secure the performance of leases or other obligations pursuant to Section 4.12 and (ii) Investments consisting of Uniform Commercial Code Article 3 endorsements for collection or deposit and Uniform Commercial Code Article 4 customary trade arrangements with customers;
(o) Investments consisting of (x) transactions permitted under Article 11 and (y) repayments (including by way of defeasance or irrevocable deposit) or other acquisitions of Indebtedness of any Subsidiary not prohibited hereunder and payments at maturity of the Existing Convertible Notes or repurchases or other acquisitions of the Existing Convertible Notes to the extent permitted under Section 4.13;
(p) advances in the form of a prepayment of expense to vendors, suppliers and trade creditors consistent with their past practices, so long as such expenses were incurred in the ordinary course of business;
(q) Investments in promissory notes, securities and other non-cash consideration or other assets received in connection with an Asset Sale made pursuant to Section 4.16 or any other Disposition of assets not constituting an Asset Sale;
(r) purchases of intellectual property or other similar assets (or any series of related Dispositions thereof) in respect of a particular asset owned by or licensed to a joint venture in connection with a Disposition of all or substantially all of the intellectual property related to such asset;
(s) Investments consisting of purchases and acquisitions of inventory, supplies, materials and equipment or purchases of contract rights or licenses or leases of Intellectual Property, in each case in the ordinary course of business;
(t) Investments resulting from the acquisition of a Person, otherwise permitted by this Indenture, which Investments at the time of such acquisition were held by the acquired Person and were not acquired in contemplation of the acquisition of such Person;
(u) Investments in any Person to the extent the consideration for such Investments consists solely of Capital Stock of the Company (other than Disqualified Stock);
(v) Investments in or repurchases or other acquisitions of the Notes; and
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(w) Investments in exchange for, or out of or with the net cash proceeds from the substantially concurrent contribution to the Common Equity of the Company; provided that any Investments made into a Foreign Subsidiary (or resulting in the acquisition or formation of a Foreign Subsidiary) shall not exceed $5,000,000 after the Issue Date.
provided, however, that notwithstanding the foregoing, in the case of (y) Investments by any Foreign Subsidiary or (z) Investments made or held in a jurisdiction outside the United States, Permitted Investments shall also include (A) Investments of the type and maturity described in clauses (a) through (e) above of foreign obligors, which Investments or obligors (or the parents of such obligors) have ratings described in such clauses or equivalent ratings from comparable foreign rating agencies (and which Investments may be denominated in Dollars, Euros, or the local currency), (B) other short-term Investments utilized by Foreign Subsidiaries in accordance with normal investment practices for cash management in the ordinary course of business in Investments analogous to the foregoing Investments in clauses (a) through (e) and in this definition and (C) cash and Cash Equivalents that are required under applicable foreign law (including to comply with (or is advisable to facilitate compliance with) any applicable foreign takeover statutes) to be held in a foreign bank account; and provided, further, that with respect to any Investment, the Company may, in its sole discretion, at any time allocate all or any portion of such Investment to one or more of the above clauses (a) through (v) so that all or a portion of such Investment would be a Permitted Investment. The amount of any Investment shall be measured on the date of each such Investment made and without giving effect to subsequent changes in value other than as a result of repayments of loans or advances, redemptions, returns of capital, sales or other Dispositions thereof or similar events.
Permitted Lien means any:
(a) Liens securing Existing Indebtedness (other than the Existing Convertible Notes) or Refinancing Indebtedness in respect thereof;
(b) Liens in favor of the Company or its Subsidiaries;
(c) Liens securing Indebtedness which is owed to a Note Party;
(d) Liens for taxes not yet due and payable and taxes that are being contested in good faith and for which adequate reserves have been established in accordance with GAAP, (y) bankers liens, rights of setoff or similar rights and remedies as to deposit accounts or other funds maintained with depository institutions and (z) carriers, warehousemens, mechanics, materialmens, repairmens and other like Liens imposed by law;
(e) Liens incurred (x) in the ordinary course of business to secure the performance of tenders, statutory obligations, surety, stay, customs and appeal bonds, bids, leases, government contracts, trade contracts, payment processing agreements, performance and return-of-money bonds and other similar obligations (exclusive of obligations for the payment of borrowed money) and (y) pursuant to pledges and deposits of cash or Cash Equivalents in the ordinary course of business securing obligations in respect of letters of credit, bank guaranties, surety bonds, performance bonds or similar instruments posted with respect to the items described in clause (x);
(f) Liens on insurance policies and the proceeds thereof securing the financing of the premiums with respect thereto;
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(g) Liens on specific items of inventory or other goods and the proceeds thereof securing the relevant Persons obligations in respect of documentary letters of credit or bankers acceptances issued or created for the account of such Person to facilitate the purchase, shipment or storage of such inventory or goods;
(h) Liens on cash or Cash Equivalents (or the accounts in which such cash or Cash Equivalents are held) arising in connection with the defeasance, discharge or redemption of Indebtedness;
(i) in connection with the sale or transfer of any Capital Stock or other assets in a transaction not prohibited hereby, customary rights and restrictions contained in agreements relating to such sale or transfer pending the completion thereof;
(j) Liens in favor of customs and revenue authorities arising as a matter of law to secure payment of customs duties in connection with the importation of goods;
(k) Liens securing or otherwise arising from judgments not constituting an Event of Default;
(l) Liens securing the Notes (other than Additional Notes);
(m) Liens securing Additional Notes permitted to be incurred under clause (b)(ii) of the definition of Permitted Indebtedness;
(n) [reserved];
(o) any (i) interest or title of a lessor or sublessor under any lease not prohibited by this Indenture, (ii) Lien or restriction that the interest or title of such lessor or sublessor may be subject to, or (iii) subordination of the interest of the lessee or sublessee under such lease to any Lien or restriction referred to in the preceding clause (ii);
(p) Liens arising from filing Uniform Commercial Code financing statements relating solely to (i) operating leases and (ii) consignments and/or bailments;
(q) customary rights of set-off, revocation, refund or chargeback under deposit agreements or under the Uniform Commercial Code or common law of banks or other financial institutions where the Company or any of its Subsidiaries maintains deposits (other than deposits intended as cash collateral) in the ordinary course of business;
(r) encumbrances, including, but not limited to, zoning, building and land use laws and restrictions, easements, rights-of-way, covenants, other restrictions on the real property and all matters of record or that would be shown on an accurate survey of the real property, none of which materially impairs the use of such property, and none of which is violated in any material respect by existing or proposed structures or land use;
(s) Liens securing Indebtedness permitted to be incurred under clause (r) of the definition of Permitted Indebtedness; and
(t) exclusive and non-exclusive licenses between Note Parties (with respect to Intellectual Property and other property), non-exclusive licenses between a Note Party and another Person (other than a Note Party) (with respect to Intellectual Property and other property) and leases or subleases
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granted to third parties and not adversely interfering in any material respect with the ordinary conduct of the business of the Company or its Subsidiaries.
Person means an individual, a corporation, a limited liability company, an association, a partnership, a joint venture, a joint stock company, a trust, an unincorporated organization or a government or an agency or a political subdivision thereof.
Physical Notes means permanent certificated Notes in registered form issued in denominations of $1,000 principal amount and integral multiples thereof.
Physical Settlement shall have the meaning specified in Section 14.02(a).
Pledged Equity Interests shall have the meaning specified in the Security Agreement.
Predecessor Note of any particular Note means every previous Note evidencing all or a portion of the same debt as that evidenced by such particular Note; and, for the purposes of this definition, any Note authenticated and delivered under Section 2.06 in lieu of or in exchange for a mutilated, lost, destroyed or stolen Note shall be deemed to evidence the same debt as the mutilated, lost, destroyed or stolen Note that it replaces.
Put Right Repurchase Date shall have the meaning specified in Section 15.01(a).
Put Right Repurchase Notice shall have the meaning specified in Section 15.01(b)(i).
Put Right Repurchase Price shall have the meaning specified in Section 15.01(a).
Qualified Cash means, as of any date of determination, the sum of (a) all unrestricted cash and/or Cash Equivalents of the Note Parties maintained in Controlled Accounts (subject to any applicable time periods set forth in Sections 4.14 or 4.22 of this Indenture) on such date plus (b) at any time prior to the Restricted Cash Account Termination Date, the Restricted Cash Amount.
Real Property means, collectively, all right, title and interest (including any leasehold estate) in and to any and all parcels of or interests in real property owned or leased by any Person, whether by lease, license or other means, together with, in each case, all easements, hereditaments and appurtenances relating thereto, all improvements and appurtenant fixtures and equipment, all general intangibles and contract rights and other property and rights incidental to the ownership, lease or operation thereof.
Record Date means, with respect to any dividend, distribution or other transaction or event in which the holders of Common Stock (or other applicable security) have the right to receive any cash, securities or other property or in which the Common Stock (or such other security) is exchanged for or converted into any combination of cash, securities or other property, the date fixed for determination of holders of the Common Stock (or such other security) entitled to receive such cash, securities or other property (whether such date is fixed by the Board of Directors, by statute, by contract or otherwise).
Redemption Date shall have the meaning specified in Section 16.02.
Redemption Notice shall have the meaning specified in Section 16.02.
Redemption Notice Date shall have the meaning specified in Section 16.01.
Redemption Period shall have the meaning specified in Section 14.01 (f).
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Redemption Price means, for any Notes to be redeemed pursuant to Section 16.01, 100% of the principal amount of such Notes, plus accrued and unpaid interest, if any, to, but excluding, the Redemption Date (unless the Redemption Date falls after a Regular Record Date but on or prior to the immediately succeeding Interest Payment Date, in which case interest accrued to the Interest Payment Date will be paid by the Company to Holders of record of such Notes as of the close of business on such Regular Record Date, and the Redemption Price will be equal to 100% of the principal amount of such Notes). The Trustee shall not be responsible for determining the Redemption Price.
Reference Property shall have the meaning specified in Section 14.07(a).
Regular Record Date with respect to any Interest Payment Date, means the June 1 or December 1 (whether or not such day is a Business Day) immediately preceding the applicable June 15 or December 15 Interest Payment Date, respectively.
Release Conditions shall have the meaning specified in Section 4.30(b)(i).
Reporting Event of Default shall have the meaning specified in Section 6.03.
Repurchase Date means a Fundamental Change Repurchase Date or Put Right Repurchase Date, as applicable.
Repurchase Notice means a Fundamental Change Repurchase Notice or Put Right Repurchase Notice, as applicable.
Repurchase Price means a Fundamental Change Repurchase Price or Put Right Repurchase Price, as applicable.
Resale Restriction Termination Date shall have the meaning specified in Section 2.05(c).
Responsible Officer means, when used with respect to the Trustee, any officer within the Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee, including any vice president, assistant vice president, assistant secretary, assistant treasurer, trust officer or any other officer of the Trustee who customarily performs functions similar to those performed by the Persons who at the time shall be such officers, who shall have direct responsibility for the administration of this Indenture or any other officer to whom any corporate trust matter relating to this Indenture is referred because of such persons knowledge of and familiarity with the particular subject.
Restricted Cash Amount shall have the meaning specified in Section 4.30(a).
Restricted Cash Account means the Restricted Account (or other similar term) as defined in the Restricted Cash Account Agreement.
Restricted Cash Account Agreement means that certain Account Control Agreement dated on or prior to June 30, 2025, as the same may be amended, amended and restated, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time, to be entered into among the Collateral Agent, the Company and the Restricted Cash Account Bank with respect to the Collateral Agents full-dominion control over the Restricted Cash Amount.
Restricted Cash Account Bank means the financial institution at which the Restricted Cash Account is maintained.
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Restricted Cash Account Termination Date mean the date on which all of the Restricted Cash Amount has been released in accordance with either Section 4.30(b)(i) or Section 4.30(b)(ii).
Restricted Debt means (x) any unsecured Indebtedness of the type referred to in clauses (a), (b) and (c) of the definition of Indebtedness, (y) any Indebtedness that is subordinated in right of payment to the Notes or (z) any Indebtedness which is secured by a Lien on the Collateral on a junior basis. For the avoidance of doubt, the Notes shall not constitute Restricted Debt.
Restricted Debt Payment means any payment in cash in respect of the principal of (including any paid-in-kind principal) any Restricted Debt, including, without limitation, any payment at stated maturity, the principal portion of any amortization payment, any purchase, redemption, retirement, acquisition, cancellation or termination of any Restricted Debt, and any sinking fund or similar deposit in respect of such Restricted Debt.
Restricted Investment means any Investment other than a Permitted Investment.
Restricted Payment means any declaration or payment of any dividend, any distribution or other payment (whether made in cash, securities or other property) on or in respect of the Companys or any of its Subsidiaries Equity Interests (including any payment in connection with any merger or consolidation involving the Company or any of its Subsidiaries) other than:
(a) any dividend or distribution payable solely in Capital Stock of the Company (other than Disqualified Stock); or
(b) any dividend or distribution by a Subsidiary to the Company or another Subsidiary, so long as, in the case of any dividend or distribution payable on or in respect of any Capital Stock issued by a Subsidiary that is not a Wholly Owned Subsidiary, the Company or the Subsidiary holding such Capital Stock receives at least its pro rata share of such dividend or distribution.
Restricted Securities shall have the meaning specified in Section 2.05(c).
Restrictive Legend shall have the meaning specified in Section 2.05(c).
Rule 144 means Rule 144 as promulgated under the Securities Act.
Rule 144A means Rule 144A as promulgated under the Securities Act.
Sale and Leaseback Transaction has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 4.17.
Sanctions means all economic or financial sanctions or trade embargoes imposed, administered or enforced from time to time by (a) the U.S. government, including those administered by the Office of Foreign Assets Control of the United States Department of the Treasury or the U.S. Department of State, or (b) the United Nations Security Council, the European Union, any European Union member state or His Majestys Treasury of the United Kingdom or other sanctions authority applicable to the Company or any of its Affiliates.
Scheduled Trading Day means a day that is scheduled to be a Trading Day on the principal U.S. national or regional securities exchange or market on which the Common Stock is listed or admitted for trading. If the Common Stock is not so listed or admitted for trading, Scheduled Trading Day means a Business Day.
Secured Parties means the Trustee, the Collateral Agent and the Holders of the Notes.
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Securities Act means the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder.
Security Agreement means that certain Security Agreement, dated as of the date hereof, between the Company, certain other Note Parties, and the Collateral Agent for the benefit of the Secured Parties, as amended, restated, amended and restated, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time by one or more Security Joinder Agreements or otherwise.
Security Agreement Collateral means all property pledged or granted as collateral pursuant to the Security Agreement delivered on the Issue Date or thereafter pursuant to this Indenture or the Collateral Documents.
Security Joinder Agreement means a joinder agreement substantially in the form attached to the Security Agreement.
Settlement Amount has the meaning specified in Section 14.02(a)(iii).
Settlement Method means, with respect to any conversion of Notes, Physical Settlement, Cash Settlement or Combination Settlement, as elected (or deemed to have been elected) by the Company.
Settlement Method Election Deadline has the meaning specified in Section 14.02(a)(i).
Settlement Notice has the meaning specified in Section 14.02(a)(i).
Share Exchange Event has the meaning specified in Section 14.07(a).
Significant Subsidiary means a Subsidiary of the Company that has the meaning set forth in the definition of significant subsidiary in Article 1, Rule l-02(w) of Regulation S-X promulgated by the Securities and Exchange Commission (or any successor rule); provided that, in the case of a Subsidiary of the Company that meets the criteria of clause (1)(iii) of the definition thereof but not clause (1)(i) or (1)(ii) thereof, in each case as such rule is in effect on the first original issue date of the Notes, such Subsidiary shall not be deemed to be a Significant Subsidiary unless such Subsidiarys income (or loss) from continuing operations before income taxes, exclusive of amounts attributable to any non-controlling interests for the last completed fiscal year prior to the date of such determination exceeds $25,000,000 (with such amount calculated pursuant to Rule l-02(w) as in effect on the first original issue date of the Notes). For the avoidance of doubt, for purposes of this definition, to the extent any such Subsidiary would not be deemed to be a significant subsidiary under the relevant definition set forth in Article 1, Rule l-02(w) of Regulation S-X (or any successor rule) as in effect on the relevant date of determination, such Subsidiary shall not be deemed to be a Significant Subsidiary hereunder irrespective of whether such Subsidiary would otherwise be deemed to be a Significant Subsidiary after giving effect to the proviso in the immediately preceding sentence.
Specified Dollar Amount means the maximum cash amount per $1,000 principal amount of Notes to be received upon conversion as specified in the Settlement Notice (or deemed specified as provided in Section 14.02(a)(i) or (ii)) related to any converted Notes.
Spin-Off shall have the meaning specified in Section 14.04(c).
Stock Price shall have the meaning specified in Section 14.03(c).
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Subordinated Indebtedness of a Person means any Indebtedness of such Person the payment of which is contractually subordinated to payment of the Obligations on terms satisfactory to the Collateral Agent (acting as directed by the Supermajority Holders).
Subscription Agreements means those certain Subscription Agreements, dated June 17, 2025, between the Company and the Investors party thereto.
Subsidiary means, with respect to 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. Unless otherwise specified, all references herein to a Subsidiary or to Subsidiaries shall refer to a Subsidiary or Subsidiaries of the Company.
Successor Company shall have the meaning specified in Section 11.01(a).
Supermajority Holders means the holders of more than two-thirds in aggregate principal amount of the Notes then outstanding determined in accordance with Section 8.04.
Swap Contract means (i) any and all rate swap transactions, basis swaps, credit derivative transactions, forward rate transactions, commodity swaps, commodity options, forward commodity contracts, equity or equity index swaps or options, bond or bond price or bond index swaps or options or forward bond or forward bond price or forward bond index transactions, interest rate options, forward foreign exchange transactions, cap transactions, floor transactions, collar transactions, currency swap transactions, cross-currency rate swap transactions, currency options, spot contracts, or any other similar transactions or any combination of any of the foregoing (including any options to enter into any of the foregoing), whether or not any such transaction is governed by or subject to any master agreement, and (ii) any and all transactions of any kind, and the related confirmations, which are subject to the terms and conditions of, or governed by, any form of master agreement published by the International Swaps and Derivatives Association, Inc., any International Foreign Exchange Master Agreement, or any other master agreement (any such master agreement, together with any related schedules, a master agreement), including any such obligations or liabilities under any master agreement. For the avoidance of doubt, none of the Companys equity securities that are issued or distributed pursuant to any of the Companys equity incentive plans shall be considered a Swap Contract.
Trading Day means a day on which (i) trading in the Common Stock (or other security for which a closing sale price must be determined) generally occurs on the New York Stock Exchange or, if the Common Stock (or such other security) is not then listed on the New York Stock Exchange, on the principal other U.S. national or regional securities exchange on which the Common Stock (or such other security) is then listed or, if the Common Stock (or such other security) is not then listed on a U.S. national or regional securities exchange, on the principal other market on which the Common Stock (or such other security) is then traded and (ii) a Last Reported Sale Price for the Common Stock (or closing sale price for such other security) is available on such securities exchange or market; provided that if the Common Stock (or such other security) is not so listed or traded, Trading Day means a Business Day; and provided, further, that for purposes of determining amounts due upon conversion only, Trading Day means a day on which (x) there is no Market Disruption Event and (y) trading in the Common Stock generally occurs on The New York Stock Exchange or, if the Common Stock is not then listed on The New York Stock Exchange, on the principal other U.S. national or regional securities exchange on which the Common Stock is then listed or, if the Common Stock is not then listed on a U.S. national or regional securities exchange, on the principal other market on which the Common Stock is then
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listed or admitted for trading, except that if the Common Stock is not so listed or admitted for trading, Trading Day means a Business Day.
Trading Price per $1,000 principal amount of the Notes on any date of determination means the average of the secondary market bid quotations obtained by the Bid Solicitation Agent for $5,000,000 principal amount of Notes at approximately 3:30 p.m., New York City time, on such determination date from three independent nationally recognized securities dealers the Company selects for this purpose; provided that if three such bids cannot reasonably be obtained by the Bid Solicitation Agent but two such bids are obtained, then the average of the two bids shall be used, and if only one such bid can reasonably be obtained by the Bid Solicitation Agent, that one bid shall be used. If the Bid Solicitation Agent cannot reasonably obtain at least one bid for $5,000,000 principal amount of Notes from a nationally recognized securities dealer on any determination date, then the Trading Price per $1,000 principal amount of Notes on such determination date shall be deemed to be less than 98% of the product of the Last Reported Sale Price of the Common Stock and the Conversion Rate.
transfer shall have the meaning specified in Section 2.05(c).
Trigger Event shall have the meaning specified in Section 14.04(c).
Trust Indenture Act means the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, as amended.
Trustee means the Person named as the Trustee in the first paragraph of this Indenture until a successor trustee shall have become such pursuant to the applicable provisions of this Indenture, and thereafter Trustee shall mean or include each Person who is then a Trustee hereunder.
unit of Reference Property shall have the meaning specified in Section 14.07(a).
Valuation Period shall have the meaning specified in Section 14.04(c).
Wholly Owned Subsidiary means, with respect to any Person, any Subsidiary of such Person, except that, solely for purposes of this definition, the reference to more than 50% in the definition of Subsidiary shall be deemed replaced by a reference to 100%.
Section 1.02. References to Interest. Unless the context otherwise requires, any reference to interest on, or in respect of, any Note in this Indenture shall be deemed to include Additional Interest if, in such context, Additional Interest is, was or would be payable pursuant to any of Section 4.06(d), Section 4.06(e) and Section 6.03, or to such interest payable on any Defaulted Amounts as set forth in Section 2.03(c). Unless the context otherwise requires, any express mention of Additional Interest in any provision hereof shall not be construed as excluding Additional Interest in those provisions hereof where express mention is not made.
ARTICLE 2
ISSUE, DESCRIPTION, EXECUTION, REGISTRATION AND EXCHANGE OF NOTES
Section 2.01. Designation and Amount. The Notes shall be designated as the 5.875% Convertible Senior Secured Notes due 2030. The aggregate principal amount of Notes that may be authenticated and delivered under this Indenture is initially limited to $92,030,000.00, subject to Section 2.10 and except for Notes authenticated and delivered upon registration or transfer of, or in exchange for, or in lieu of other Notes to the extent expressly permitted hereunder.
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Section 2.02. Form of Notes. The Notes and the Trustees certificate of authentication to be borne by such Notes shall be substantially in the respective forms set forth in Exhibit A, the terms and provisions of which shall constitute, and are hereby expressly incorporated in and made a part of this Indenture. To the extent applicable, the Company and the Trustee, by their execution and delivery of this Indenture, expressly agree to such terms and provisions and to be bound thereby. In the case of any conflict between this Indenture and a Note, the provisions of this Indenture shall control and govern to the extent of such conflict.
Any Global Note may be endorsed with or have incorporated in the text thereof such legends or recitals or changes not inconsistent with the provisions of this Indenture as may be required by the Custodian or the Depositary, or as may be required to comply with any applicable law or any regulation thereunder or with the rules and regulations of any securities exchange or automated quotation system upon which the Notes may be listed or traded or designated for issuance or to conform with any usage with respect thereto, or to indicate any special limitations or restrictions to which any particular Notes are subject.
Any of the Notes may have such letters, numbers or other marks of identification and such notations, legends or endorsements as the Officer executing the same may approve (execution thereof to be conclusive evidence of such approval) and as are not inconsistent with the provisions of this Indenture, or as may be required to comply with any law or with any rule or regulation made pursuant thereto or with any rule or regulation of any securities exchange or automated quotation system on which the Notes may be listed or designated for issuance, or to conform to usage or to indicate any special limitations or restrictions to which any particular Notes are subject.
Each Global Note shall represent such principal amount of the outstanding Notes as shall be specified therein and shall provide that it shall represent the aggregate principal amount of outstanding Notes from time to time endorsed thereon and that the aggregate principal amount of outstanding Notes represented thereby may from time to time be increased or reduced to reflect redemptions, repurchases, cancellations, conversions, transfers or exchanges permitted hereby. Any endorsement of a Global Note to reflect the amount of any increase or decrease in the amount of outstanding Notes represented thereby shall be made by the Trustee or the Custodian, at the direction of the Trustee, in such manner and upon instructions given by the Holder of such Notes in accordance with this Indenture. Payment of principal (including the Fundamental Change Repurchase Price or the Redemption Price, if applicable) of, and accrued and unpaid interest on, a Global Note shall be made to the Holder of such Note on the date of payment, unless a record date or other means of determining Holders eligible to receive payment is provided for herein.
Section 2.03. Date and Denomination of Notes; Payments of Interest and Defaulted Amounts. (a) The Notes shall be issuable in registered form without coupons in denominations of $1,000 principal amount and integral multiples thereof. Each Note shall be dated the date of its authentication and shall bear interest from the date specified on the face of the Notes. Accrued interest on the Notes shall be computed on the basis of a 360-day year composed of twelve 30-day months and, for partial months, on the basis of the number of days actually elapsed in a 30-day month.
(b) The Person in whose name any Note (or its Predecessor Note) is registered on the Note Register at the close of business on any Regular Record Date with respect to any Interest Payment Date shall be entitled to receive the interest payable on such Interest Payment Date. The principal amount of any Note (x) in the case of any Physical Note, shall be payable at the office or agency of the Company maintained by the Company for such purposes in the United States, which shall initially be the Corporate Trust Office and (y) in the case of any Global Note, shall be payable by wire transfer of immediately available funds to the account of the Depositary or its nominee. The Company shall pay, or cause the Paying Agent to pay, interest, if any, (i) on any Physical Notes (A) to Holders holding Physical Notes having an aggregate principal amount of $2,000,000
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or less, by check mailed to the Holders of these Notes at their address as it appears in the Note Register and (B) to Holders holding Physical Notes having an aggregate principal amount of more than $2,000,000, either by check mailed to each Holder or, upon application by such a Holder to the Note Registrar not later than the relevant Regular Record Date, by wire transfer in immediately available funds to that Holders account within the United States if such Holder has provided the Trustee or Paying Agent (if other than the Trustee) with the requisite information necessary to make such wire transfer, which application shall remain in effect until the Holder notifies, in writing, the Note Registrar to the contrary or (ii) on any Global Note by wire transfer of immediately available funds to the account of the Depositary or its nominee.
(c) Any Defaulted Amounts shall forthwith cease to be payable to the Holder on the relevant payment date but shall accrue interest per annum at the rate borne by the Notes, subject to the enforceability thereof under applicable law, from, and including, such relevant payment date, and such Defaulted Amounts together with such interest thereon shall be paid by the Company, at its election in each case, as provided in clause (i) or (ii) below:
(i) The Company may elect to make payment of any Defaulted Amounts to the Persons in whose names the Notes (or their respective Predecessor Notes) are registered at the close of business on a special record date for the payment of such Defaulted Amounts, which shall be fixed in the following manner. The Company shall notify the Trustee in writing of the amount of the Defaulted Amounts proposed to be paid on each Note and the date of the proposed payment (which shall be not less than 25 days after the receipt by the Trustee of such notice, unless the Trustee shall consent to an earlier date), and at the same time the Company shall deposit with the Trustee an amount of money equal to the aggregate amount to be paid in respect of such Defaulted Amounts or shall make arrangements satisfactory to the Trustee for such deposit on or prior to the date of the proposed payment, such money when deposited to be held in trust for the benefit of the Persons entitled to such Defaulted Amounts as in this clause provided. Thereupon the Company shall fix a special record date for the payment of such Defaulted Amounts which shall be not more than 15 days and not less than 10 days prior to the date of the proposed payment, and not less than 10 days after the receipt by the Trustee of the notice of the proposed payment. The Company shall promptly notify the Trustee in writing of such special record date and the Trustee, in the name and at the expense of the Company, shall cause notice of the proposed payment of such Defaulted Amounts and the special record date therefor to be delivered to each Holder at its address as it appears in the Note Register, or by electronic means to the Depositary in the case of Global Notes, not less than 10 days prior to such special record date. Notice of the proposed payment of such Defaulted Amounts and the special record date therefor having been so delivered, such Defaulted Amounts shall be paid to the Persons in whose names the Notes (or their respective Predecessor Notes) are registered at the close of business on such special record date and shall no longer be payable pursuant to the following clause (ii) of this Section 2.03(c). The Trustee shall have no responsibility whatsoever for the calculation of the Defaulted Amounts.
(ii) The Company may make payment of any Defaulted Amounts in any other lawful manner not inconsistent with the requirements of any securities exchange or automated quotation system on which the Notes may be listed or designated for issuance, and upon such written notice as may be required by such exchange or automated quotation system, if, after notice given by the Company to the Trustee of the proposed payment pursuant to this clause, such manner of payment shall be deemed practicable by the Trustee.
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Section 2.04. Execution, Authentication and Delivery of Notes. The Notes shall be signed in the name and on behalf of the Company by the manual or electronic signature of one of its Officers.
At any time and from time to time after the execution and delivery of this Indenture, the Company may deliver Notes executed by the Company to the Trustee for authentication, together with a Company Order for the authentication and delivery of such Notes, and the Trustee in accordance with such Company Order shall authenticate and deliver such Notes, without any further action by the Company hereunder; provided that the Trustee shall be entitled to receive an Officers Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel of the Company with respect to the issuance, authentication and delivery of such Notes.
Only such Notes as shall bear thereon a certificate of authentication substantially in the form set forth on the Form of Note attached as Exhibit A hereto, executed manually or electronically by an authorized signatory officer of the Trustee (or an authenticating agent appointed by the Trustee as provided by Section 17.10), shall be entitled to the benefits of this Indenture or be valid or obligatory for any purpose. Such certificate by the Trustee (or such an authenticating agent) upon any Note executed by the Company shall be conclusive evidence that the Note so authenticated has been duly authenticated and delivered hereunder and that the Holder is entitled to the benefits of this Indenture.
In case any Officer of the Company who shall have signed any of the Notes shall cease to be such Officer before the Notes so signed shall have been authenticated and delivered by the Trustee, such Notes nevertheless may be authenticated and delivered as though the person who signed such Notes had not ceased to be such Officer of the Company; and any Note may be signed on behalf of the Company by such persons as, at the actual date of the execution of such Note, shall be the Officers of the Company, although at the date of the execution of this Indenture any such person was not such an Officer.
Section 2.05. Exchange and Registration of Transfer of Notes; Restrictions on Transfer; Depositary.
(a) The Company shall cause to be kept at the Corporate Trust Office a register (the register maintained in such office or in any other office or agency of the Company designated pursuant to Section 4.02, the Note Register) in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, the Company shall provide for the registration of Notes and of transfers of Notes. Such register shall be in written form or in any form capable of being converted into written form within a reasonable period of time. The Trustee is hereby initially appointed the Note Registrar for the purpose of registering Notes and transfers of Notes as herein provided. The Company may appoint one or more co-Note Registrars in accordance with Section 4.02.
Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Note to the Note Registrar or any co-Note Registrar, and satisfaction of the requirements for such transfer set forth in this Section 2.05, the Company shall execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Notes of any authorized denominations and of a like aggregate principal amount and bearing such legends as may be required by this Indenture.
Notes may be exchanged for other Notes of any authorized denominations and of a like aggregate principal amount, upon surrender of the Notes to be exchanged at any such office or agency maintained by the Company pursuant to Section 4.02. Whenever any Notes are so surrendered for exchange, the Company shall execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, the Notes that the Holder making the exchange is entitled to receive, bearing registration numbers not contemporaneously outstanding.
All Notes presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or for exchange, repurchase or conversion shall (if so required by the Company, the Trustee, the Note Registrar or any co-Note Registrar) be duly
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endorsed, or be accompanied by a written instrument or instruments of transfer in form satisfactory to the Company and the Note Registrar and duly executed, by the Holder thereof or its attorney-in-fact duly authorized in writing.
No service charge shall be imposed by the Company, the Trustee, the Note Registrar, any co-Note Registrar or the Paying Agent for any exchange or registration of transfer of Notes, but the Company may require a Holder to pay a sum sufficient to cover any documentary, stamp or similar issue or transfer tax or other similar governmental charge required in connection therewith as a result of the name of the Holder of new Notes issued upon such exchange or registration of transfer being different from the name of the Holder of the old Notes surrendered for exchange or registration of transfer or otherwise required by law.
None of the Company, the Trustee, the Note Registrar or any co-Note Registrar shall be required to exchange or register a transfer of (i) any Notes surrendered for conversion or, if a portion of any Note is surrendered for conversion, such portion thereof surrendered for conversion, (ii) any Notes, or a portion of any Note, surrendered for repurchase (and not withdrawn) in accordance with Article 15 or (iii) any Notes selected for Optional Redemption in accordance with Article 16, except the unredeemed portion of any Note being redeemed in part.
All Notes issued upon any registration of transfer or exchange of Notes in accordance with this Indenture shall be the valid obligations of the Company, evidencing the same debt, and entitled to the same benefits under this Indenture as the Notes surrendered upon such registration of transfer or exchange.
(b) So long as the Notes are eligible for book-entry settlement with the Depositary, unless otherwise required by law, subject to the seventh paragraph from the end of Section 2.05(c) all Notes shall be represented by one or more Notes in global form (each, a Global Note) registered in the name of the Depositary or the nominee of the Depositary. The transfer and exchange of beneficial interests in a Global Note that does not involve the issuance of a Physical Note shall be effected through the Depositary (but not the Trustee or the Custodian) in accordance with this Indenture (including the restrictions on transfer set forth herein) and the Applicable Procedures.
(c) Every Note that bears or is required under this Section 2.05(c) to bear the legend set forth in this Section 2.05(c) (together with any Common Stock issued upon conversion of the Notes that is required to bear the legend set forth in Section 2.05(d), collectively, the Restricted Securities) shall be subject to the restrictions on transfer set forth in this Section 2.05(c) (including the legend set forth below), unless such restrictions on transfer shall be eliminated or otherwise waived by written consent of the Company, and the Holder of each such Restricted Security, by such Holders acceptance thereof, agrees to be bound by all such restrictions on transfer. As used in this Section 2.05(c) and Section 2.05(d), the term transfer encompasses any sale, pledge, transfer or other Disposition whatsoever of any Restricted Security.
Until the date (the Resale Restriction Termination Date) that is the later of (1) the date that is one year after the last date of original issuance of the Notes, or such shorter period of time as permitted by Rule 144 or any successor provision thereto, and (2) such later date, if any, as may be required by applicable law, any certificate evidencing such Note (and all securities issued in exchange therefor or substitution thereof, other than Common Stock, if any, issued upon conversion thereof, which shall bear the legend set forth in Section 2.05(d), if applicable) shall bear a legend in substantially the following form (the Restrictive Legend) (unless such Notes have been transferred pursuant to a registration statement that has become or been declared effective under the Securities Act and that continues to be effective at the time of such transfer, or sold pursuant to the exemption from registration provided by Rule 144 or any similar provision then in force under the Securities Act, or unless otherwise agreed by the Company in writing, with notice thereof to the Trustee):
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THIS SECURITY AND THE COMMON STOCK, IF ANY, ISSUABLE UPON CONVERSION OF THIS SECURITY HAVE NOT BEEN REGISTERED UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED (THE SECURITIES ACT), AND MAY NOT BE OFFERED, SOLD, PLEDGED OR OTHERWISE TRANSFERRED EXCEPT IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE FOLLOWING SENTENCE. BY ITS ACQUISITION HEREOF OR OF A BENEFICIAL INTEREST HEREIN, THE ACQUIRER:
(1) REPRESENTS THAT IT AND ANY ACCOUNT FOR WHICH IT IS ACTING IS A QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER (WITHIN THE MEANING OF RULE 144A UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT) AND THAT IT EXERCISES SOLE INVESTMENT DISCRETION WITH RESPECT TO EACH SUCH ACCOUNT, AND
(2) AGREES FOR THE BENEFIT OF 3D SYSTEMS CORPORATION (THE COMPANY) THAT IT WILL NOT OFFER, SELL, PLEDGE OR OTHERWISE TRANSFER THIS SECURITY AND THE COMMON STOCK, IF ANY, ISSUABLE UPON CONVERSION OF THIS SECURITY, IF ANY OR ANY BENEFICIAL INTEREST HEREIN OR THEREIN PRIOR TO THE DATE THAT IS THE LATER OF (X) ONE YEAR AFTER THE LAST ORIGINAL ISSUE DATE HEREOF OR SUCH SHORTER PERIOD OF TIME AS PERMITTED BY RULE 144 UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OR ANY SUCCESSOR PROVISION THERETO AND (Y) SUCH LATER DATE, IF ANY, AS MAY BE REQUIRED BY APPLICABLE LAW, EXCEPT:
(i) TO THE COMPANY OR ANY SUBSIDIARY THEREOF, OR
(ii) PURSUANT TO A REGISTRATION STATEMENT WHICH HAS BECOME EFFECTIVE UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT, OR
(iii) TO A PERSON REASONABLY BELIEVED TO BE A QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER IN COMPLIANCE WITH RULE 144A UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT, OR
(iv) PURSUANT TO AN EXEMPTION FROM REGISTRATION PROVIDED BY RULE 144 UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OR ANY OTHER AVAILABLE EXEMPTION FROM THE REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS OF THE SECURITIES ACT.
PRIOR TO THE REGISTRATION OF ANY TRANSFER IN ACCORDANCE WITH CLAUSE (2)(D) ABOVE, THE COMPANY AND THE TRUSTEE RESERVE THE RIGHT TO REQUIRE THE DELIVERY OF SUCH LEGAL OPINIONS, CERTIFICATIONS OR OTHER EVIDENCE AS MAY REASONABLY BE REQUIRED IN ORDER FOR THE COMPANY TO DETERMINE THAT THE PROPOSED TRANSFER IS BEING MADE IN COMPLIANCE WITH THE SECURITIES ACT AND APPLICABLE STATE SECURITIES LAWS. NO REPRESENTATION IS MADE AS TO THE AVAILABILITY OF ANY EXEMPTION FROM THE REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS OF THE SECURITIES ACT.
NO AFFILIATE (AS DEFINED IN RULE 144 UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT) OF THE COMPANY OR PERSON THAT HAS BEEN AN AFFILIATE (AS DEFINED IN RULE 144 UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT) OF THE COMPANY DURING THE THREE IMMEDIATELY PRECEDING MONTHS MAY PURCHASE, OTHERWISE ACQUIRE OR OWN THIS SECURITY OR A BENEFICIAL INTEREST HEREIN.
No transfer of any Note prior to the Resale Restriction Termination Date will be registered by the Note Registrar unless the applicable box on the Form of Assignment and Transfer has been checked.
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Any Note (or security issued in exchange or substitution therefor) (i) as to which such restrictions on transfer shall have expired in accordance with their terms, (ii) that has been transferred pursuant to a registration statement that has become effective or been declared effective under the Securities Act and that continues to be effective at the time of such transfer or (iii) that has been sold pursuant to the exemption from registration provided by Rule 144 or any similar provision then in force under the Securities Act, may, upon surrender of such Note for exchange to the Note Registrar in accordance with the provisions of this Section 2.05, be exchanged for a new Note or Notes, of like tenor and aggregate principal amount, which shall not bear the Restrictive Legend required by this Section 2.05(c) and shall not be assigned (or deemed assigned) a restricted CUSIP number. The Restrictive Legend set forth above and affixed on any Note will be deemed, in accordance with the terms of the certificate representing such Note, to be removed therefrom upon the Companys delivery to the Trustee of written notice to such effect, without further action by the Company, the Trustee, the Holder(s) thereof or any other Person; at such time, such Note will be deemed to be assigned an unrestricted CUSIP number as provided in the certificate representing such Note, it being understood that the Depositary of any Global Note may require a mandatory exchange or other process to cause such Global Note to be identified by an unrestricted CUSIP number in the facilities of such Depositary. Without limiting the generality of any other provision of this Indenture, the Trustee will be entitled to receive an instruction letter from the Company before taking any action with respect to effecting any such mandatory exchange or other process. The Company and the Trustee reserve the right to require the delivery of such legal opinions, certifications or other evidence as may reasonably be required in order for the Company to determine that any proposed transfer of any Note is being made in compliance with the Securities Act and applicable state securities laws.
The Company shall be entitled to instruct the Custodian in writing to so surrender any Global Note as to which any of the conditions set forth in clause (i) through (iii) of the immediately preceding paragraph have been satisfied, and, upon such instruction, the Custodian shall so surrender such Global Note for exchange; and any new Global Note so exchanged therefor shall not bear the Restrictive Legend specified in this Section 2.05(c) and shall not be assigned (or deemed assigned) a restricted CUSIP number. The Company shall promptly notify the Trustee in writing upon the occurrence of the Resale Restriction Termination Date and promptly after a registration statement, if any, with respect to the Notes or any Common Stock issued upon conversion of the Notes has been declared effective under the Securities Act. Any exchange pursuant to the foregoing paragraph shall be in accordance with the Applicable Procedures.
Notwithstanding any other provisions of this Indenture (other than the provisions set forth in this Section 2.05(c)), a Global Note may not be transferred as a whole or in part except (i) 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 and (ii) for exchange of a Global Note or a portion thereof for one or more Physical Notes in accordance with the second immediately succeeding paragraph.
The Depositary shall be a clearing agency registered under the Exchange Act. The Company initially appoints The Depository Trust Company to act as Depositary with respect to each Global Note. Initially, each Global Note shall be issued to the Depositary, registered in the name of Cede & Co., as the nominee of the Depositary, and deposited with the Trustee as custodian for Cede & Co.
If (i) the Depositary notifies the Company at any time that the Depositary is unwilling or unable to continue as depositary for the Global Notes and a successor depositary is not appointed within 90 days, (ii) the Depositary ceases to be registered as a clearing agency under the Exchange Act and a successor depositary is not appointed within 90 days or (iii) an Event of Default with respect to the Notes has occurred and is continuing and, subject to the Applicable Procedures, a beneficial owner of any Note requests that its beneficial
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interest therein be issued as a Physical Note, the Company shall execute, and the Trustee, upon receipt of an Officers Certificate, an Opinion of Counsel and a Company Order for the authentication and delivery of Notes, shall authenticate and deliver (x) in the case of clause (iii), a Physical Note to such beneficial owner in a principal amount equal to the principal amount of such Note corresponding to such beneficial owners beneficial interest and (y) in the case of clause (i) or (ii), Physical Notes to each beneficial owner of the related Global Notes (or a portion thereof) in an aggregate principal amount equal to the aggregate principal amount of such Global Notes in exchange for such Global Notes, and upon delivery of the Global Notes to the Trustee such Global Notes shall be canceled.
Physical Notes issued in exchange for all or a part of the Global Note pursuant to this Section 2.05(c) shall be registered in such names and in such authorized denominations as the Depositary, pursuant to instructions from its direct or indirect participants or otherwise, or, in the case of clause (iii) of the immediately preceding paragraph, the relevant beneficial owner, shall instruct the Trustee. Upon execution and authentication, the Trustee shall deliver such Physical Notes to the Persons in whose names such Physical Notes are so registered.
At such time as all interests in a Global Note have been converted, canceled, repurchased, redeemed or transferred, such Global Note shall be, upon receipt thereof, canceled by the Trustee in accordance with standing procedures and existing instructions between the Depositary and the Custodian. At any time prior to such cancellation, if any interest in a Global Note is exchanged for Physical Notes, converted, canceled, repurchased, redeemed or transferred to a transferee who receives Physical Notes therefor or any Physical Note is exchanged or transferred for part of such Global Note, the principal amount of such Global Note shall, in accordance with the standing procedures and instructions existing between the Depositary and the Custodian, be appropriately reduced or increased, as the case may be, and an endorsement shall be made on such Global Note, by the Trustee or the Custodian, at the direction of the Trustee, to reflect such reduction or increase.
In connection with any proposed transfer involving Physical Notes, or any exchange of Global Notes for Physical Notes, the Company shall use commercially reasonable efforts to provide or cause to be provided to the Trustee all information reasonably requested by the Trustee from the Company that is both reasonably available to the Company and necessary, as reasonably determined by the Trustee, to allow the Trustee to comply with any applicable cost basis reporting obligation under Internal Revenue Code Section 6045. The Trustee may rely on information provided to it by Holders and the Company and shall have no responsibility to verify or ensure the accuracy of such information.
None of the Company, the Trustee (including in its capacity as Paying Agent) or any agent of the Company or the Trustee shall have any responsibility or liability for the payment of amounts to owners of beneficial interest in a Global Note, for any aspect of the records relating to or payments made on account of beneficial ownership interests of a Global Note or maintaining, supervising or reviewing any records relating to such beneficial ownership interests.
Neither the Company nor the Trustee shall have any responsibility or liability for any act or omission of the Depositary. All notices and communications to be given to the Holders and all payments to be made to Holders in respect of the Notes shall be given or made only to, or upon the order of, the registered Holder(s) (which shall be the Depositary or its nominee in the case of a Global Note).
The rights of beneficial owners in any Global Note shall be exercised only through the Depositary subject to the Applicable Procedures of the Depositary. The Trustee may rely and shall be fully protected in relying upon information furnished by the Depositary with respect to its members, participants and any beneficial owners.
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(d) Until the Resale Restriction Termination Date, any stock certificate representing Common Stock issued upon conversion of a Note shall bear a legend in substantially the following form (unless such Common Stock has been transferred pursuant to a registration statement that has become or been declared effective under the Securities Act and that continues to be effective at the time of such transfer, or pursuant to the exemption from registration provided by Rule 144 or any similar provision then in force under the Securities Act, or such Common Stock has been issued upon conversion of a Note that has been transferred pursuant to a registration statement that has become or been declared effective under the Securities Act and that continues to be effective at the time of such transfer, or pursuant to the exemption from registration provided by Rule 144 or any similar provision then in force under the Securities Act, or unless otherwise agreed by the Company with written notice thereof to the Trustee and any transfer agent for the Common Stock):
THIS SECURITY HAS NOT BEEN REGISTERED UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED (THE SECURITIES ACT), AND MAY NOT BE OFFERED, SOLD, PLEDGED OR OTHERWISE TRANSFERRED EXCEPT IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE FOLLOWING SENTENCE. BY ITS ACQUISITION HEREOF OR OF A BENEFICIAL INTEREST HEREIN, THE ACQUIRER:
(1) REPRESENTS THAT IT AND ANY ACCOUNT FOR WHICH IT IS ACTING IS A QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER (WITHIN THE MEANING OF RULE 144A UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT) AND THAT IT EXERCISES SOLE INVESTMENT DISCRETION WITH RESPECT TO EACH SUCH ACCOUNT, AND
(2) AGREES FOR THE BENEFIT OF 3D SYSTEMS CORPORATION (THE COMPANY) THAT IT WILL NOT OFFER, SELL, PLEDGE OR OTHERWISE TRANSFER THIS SECURITY OR ANY BENEFICIAL INTEREST HEREIN PRIOR TO THE DATE THAT IS THE LATER OF (X) ONE YEAR AFTER THE LAST ORIGINAL ISSUE DATE OF THE SERIES OF NOTES UPON THE CONVERSION OF WHICH THIS SECURITY WAS ISSUED OR SUCH SHORTER PERIOD OF TIME AS PERMITTED BY RULE 144 UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OR ANY SUCCESSOR PROVISION THERETO AND (Y) SUCH LATER DATE, IF ANY, AS MAY BE REQUIRED BY APPLICABLE LAW, EXCEPT:
(i) TO THE COMPANY OR ANY SUBSIDIARY THEREOF, OR
(ii) PURSUANT TO A REGISTRATION STATEMENT WHICH HAS BECOME EFFECTIVE UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT, OR
(iii) TO A PERSON REASONABLY BELIEVED TO BE A QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER IN COMPLIANCE WITH RULE 144A UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT, OR
(iv) PURSUANT TO AN EXEMPTION FROM REGISTRATION PROVIDED BY RULE 144 UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OR ANY OTHER AVAILABLE EXEMPTION FROM THE REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS OF THE SECURITIES ACT.
PRIOR TO THE REGISTRATION OF ANY TRANSFER IN ACCORDANCE WITH CLAUSE (2)(D) ABOVE, THE COMPANY AND THE TRANSFER AGENT FOR THE COMPANYS COMMON STOCK RESERVE THE RIGHT TO REQUIRE THE DELIVERY OF SUCH LEGAL OPINIONS, CERTIFICATIONS OR OTHER EVIDENCE AS MAY REASONABLY BE REQUIRED IN ORDER FOR THE COMPANY TO DETERMINE THAT THE PROPOSED TRANSFER IS BEING MADE IN COMPLIANCE WITH THE SECURITIES ACT AND APPLICABLE STATE SECURITIES LAWS. NO
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REPRESENTATION IS MADE AS TO THE AVAILABILITY OF ANY EXEMPTION FROM THE REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS OF THE SECURITIES ACT.
Any such Common Stock (i) as to which such restrictions on transfer shall have expired in accordance with their terms, (ii) that has been transferred pursuant to a registration statement that has become or been declared effective under the Securities Act and that continues to be effective at the time of such transfer or (iii) that has been sold pursuant to the exemption from registration provided by Rule 144 or any similar provision then in force under the Securities Act, may, upon surrender of the certificates representing such shares of Common Stock for exchange in accordance with the procedures of the transfer agent for the Common Stock, be exchanged for a new certificate or certificates for a like aggregate number of shares of Common Stock, which shall not bear the restrictive legend required by this Section 2.05(d).
(e) Any Note that is owned by any Affiliate of the Company (or any Person who was an Affiliate of the Company at any time during the three months immediately preceding) may not be resold by such Affiliate (or such Person, as the case may be) unless registered under the Securities Act or resold pursuant to an exemption from the registration requirements of the Securities Act in a transaction that results in such Note no longer being a restricted security (as defined under Rule 144).
(f) Notwithstanding anything contained herein to the contrary, neither the Trustee nor the Note Registrar shall be responsible for ascertaining whether any transfer complies with the registration provisions of, or exemptions from, the Securities Act, applicable state securities laws or other applicable law; nor shall either have an obligation to monitor or determine compliance with any restrictions on transfer imposed hereunder with respect to any transfer of any interest in any Note (including any transfers between or among Depositary participants or beneficial owners of interests in any Global Note).
(g) Neither the Trustee nor any agent shall have any responsibility or liability for any actions taken or not taken by the Depositary, and may assume performance absent written notice to the contrary.
Section 2.06. Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost or Stolen Notes. In case any Note shall become mutilated or be destroyed, lost or stolen, the Company in its discretion may execute, and upon receipt of a Company Order, the Trustee or an authenticating agent appointed by the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, a new Note, bearing a registration number not contemporaneously outstanding, in exchange and substitution for the mutilated Note, or in lieu of and in substitution for the Note so destroyed, lost or stolen. In every case the applicant for a substituted Note shall furnish to the Company, to the Trustee and, if applicable, to such authenticating agent such security or indemnity as may be required by them to save each of them harmless from any loss, liability, cost or expense caused by or connected with such substitution, and, in every case of destruction, loss or theft, the applicant shall also furnish to the Company, to the Trustee and, if applicable, to such authenticating agent evidence to their satisfaction of the destruction, loss or theft of such Note and of the ownership thereof.
The Trustee or such authenticating agent may authenticate any such substituted Note and deliver the same upon the receipt of such security or indemnity as the Trustee, the Company and, if applicable, such authenticating agent may require. No service charge shall be imposed by the Company, the Trustee, the Note Registrar, any co-Note Registrar or the Paying Agent upon the issuance of any substitute Note, but the Company may require a Holder to pay a sum sufficient to cover any documentary, stamp or similar issue or transfer tax or other similar governmental charge required in connection therewith as a result of the name of the Holder of the new substitute Note being different from the name of the Holder of the old Note that became mutilated or was destroyed, lost or stolen. In case any Note that has matured or is about to mature or has been surrendered for required repurchase or is about to be converted in accordance with Article 14 shall become
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mutilated or be destroyed, lost or stolen, the Company may, in its sole discretion, instead of issuing a substitute Note, pay or authorize the payment of or convert or authorize the conversion of the same (without surrender thereof except in the case of a mutilated Note), as the case may be, if the applicant for such payment or conversion shall furnish to the Company, to the Trustee and, if applicable, to such authenticating agent such security or indemnity as may be required by them to save each of them harmless for any loss, liability, cost or expense caused by or connected with such substitution, and, in every case of destruction, loss or theft, evidence satisfactory to the Company, the Trustee and, if applicable, any Paying Agent or Conversion Agent evidence of their satisfaction of the destruction, loss or theft of such Note and of the ownership thereof.
Every substitute Note issued pursuant to the provisions of this Section 2.06 by virtue of the fact that any Note is destroyed, lost or stolen shall constitute an additional contractual obligation of the Company, whether or not the destroyed, lost or stolen Note shall be found at any time, and shall be entitled to all the benefits of (but shall be subject to all the limitations set forth in) this Indenture equally and proportionately with any and all other Notes duly issued hereunder. To the extent permitted by law, all Notes shall be held and owned upon the express condition that the foregoing provisions are exclusive with respect to the replacement, payment, redemption, conversion or repurchase of mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Notes and shall preclude any and all other rights or remedies notwithstanding any law or statute existing or hereafter enacted to the contrary with respect to the replacement, payment, redemption, conversion or repurchase of negotiable instruments or other securities without their surrender.
Section 2.07. Temporary Notes. Pending the preparation of Physical Notes, the Company may execute and the Trustee or an authenticating agent appointed by the Trustee shall, upon receipt of a Company Order, authenticate and deliver temporary Notes (printed or lithographed). Temporary Notes shall be issuable in any authorized denomination, and substantially in the form of the Physical Notes but with such omissions, insertions and variations as may be appropriate for temporary Notes, all as may be determined by the Company. Every such temporary Note shall be executed by the Company and authenticated by the Trustee or such authenticating agent upon the same conditions and in substantially the same manner, and with the same effect, as the Physical Notes. Without unreasonable delay, the Company shall execute and deliver to the Trustee or such authenticating agent Physical Notes (other than any Global Note) and thereupon any or all temporary Notes (other than any Global Note) may be surrendered in exchange therefor, at each office or agency maintained by the Company pursuant to Section 4.02 and the Trustee or such authenticating agent shall authenticate and deliver in exchange for such temporary Notes an equal aggregate principal amount of Physical Notes. Such exchange shall be made by the Company at its own expense and without any charge therefor. Until so exchanged, the temporary Notes shall in all respects be entitled to the same benefits and subject to the same limitations under this Indenture as Physical Notes authenticated and delivered hereunder.
Section 2.08. Cancellation of Notes Paid, Converted, Etc. The Company shall cause all Notes surrendered for the purpose of payment at maturity, repurchase upon a Fundamental Change, redemption, registration of transfer or exchange or conversion, if surrendered to any Person that the Company controls, to be surrendered to the Trustee for cancellation. All Notes delivered to the Trustee shall be canceled by it in accordance with its customary procedures. Except for any Notes surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange, or as otherwise expressly permitted by any of the provisions of this Indenture, no Notes shall be authenticated in exchange for any Notes surrendered to the Trustee for cancellation. The Trustee shall dispose of canceled Notes in accordance with its customary procedures. After such cancellation, the Trustee shall deliver a certificate of such cancellation to the Company, at the Companys written request in a Company Order.
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Section 2.09. CUSIP Numbers. The Company in issuing the Notes may use CUSIP numbers (if then generally in use), and, if so, the Trustee shall use CUSIP numbers in all notices issued to Holders as a convenience to such 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 Notes or on such notice and that reliance may be placed only on the other identification numbers printed on the Notes. The Company shall promptly notify the Trustee in writing of any change in the CUSIP numbers.
Section 2.10. Additional Notes; Repurchases. Subject to Article 4, the Company may, without the consent of, or notice to, the Holders and notwithstanding Section 2.01, issue additional Notes hereunder with the same terms as the Notes initially issued hereunder (other than differences in the issue date, the issue price and interest accrued prior to the issue date of such additional Notes) in an aggregate principal amount not to exceed the amount set forth in clause (b)(ii) of the definition of Permitted Indebtedness; provided that if any such additional Notes are not fungible with the Notes initially issued hereunder for U.S. federal income tax or securities law purposes, such additional Notes shall have a separate CUSIP number. Prior to the issuance of any such additional Notes, the Company shall deliver to the Trustee a Company Order, an Officers Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel, such Officers Certificate and Opinion of Counsel to cover such matters, in addition to those required by Section 17.05, as the Trustee shall reasonably request. In addition, the Company may, to the extent permitted by law and without the consent of Holders, and directly or indirectly (regardless of whether such Notes are surrendered to the Company), repurchase Notes in the open market or otherwise, whether by the Company or its Subsidiaries or through a private or public tender or exchange offer or through counterparties to private agreements, including by cash-settled swaps or other derivatives, without prior notice to the Holders of the Notes. The Company may, to the extent permitted by applicable law, reissue, resell or surrender to the Trustee for cancellation in accordance with Section 2.08 any Notes that the Company or its Subsidiaries may repurchase (other than Notes repurchased upon a Fundamental Change), in the case of a reissuance or resale, so long as such Notes do not constitute restricted securities (as defined under Rule 144) upon such reissuance or resale; provided that if any such reissued or resold Notes are not fungible with the Notes initially issued hereunder for U.S. federal income tax or securities law purposes, such reissued or resold Notes shall have one or more separate CUSIP numbers. Any Notes that the Company or its Subsidiaries may repurchase shall be considered outstanding for all purposes under this Indenture (other than, at any time when such Notes are held by the Company, any of its Subsidiaries or its Affiliates or any Subsidiary of any of such Affiliates, for the purpose of determining whether Holders of the requisite aggregate principal amount of Notes have concurred in any direction, consent, waiver or other action under this Indenture) unless and until such time the Company surrenders them to the Trustee for cancellation in accordance with Section 2.08 and, upon receipt of a written order from the Company, the Trustee shall cancel all Notes so surrendered.
ARTICLE 3
SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE
Section 3.01. Satisfaction and Discharge. This Indenture and the Notes shall upon request of the Company contained in an Officers Certificate cease to be of further effect, and the Trustee, at the expense of the Company, shall execute such instruments reasonably requested by the Company acknowledging satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture and the Notes, when (A) (i) all Notes theretofore authenticated and delivered (other than (x) Notes which have been destroyed, lost or stolen and which have been replaced, paid or converted as provided in Section 2.06 and (y) Notes for whose payment money has theretofore been deposited in trust or segregated and held in trust by the Company and thereafter repaid to the Company or discharged from such trust, as provided in Section 4.04(d)) have been delivered to the Trustee for cancellation; or (ii) after the Notes have (x) become due and payable, whether on the Maturity Date, on any Fundamental Change Repurchase Date, any Redemption Date or otherwise and/or (y) been converted (and the related consideration due upon
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conversion has been determined), the Company has irrevocably deposited with the Trustee (x) cash, shares of Common Stock or a combination thereof, as applicable, sufficient to pay all of the outstanding Notes and (y) has paid in cash all other sums due and payable under this Indenture by the Company; and (B) the Company has delivered to the Trustee an Officers Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel, each stating that all conditions precedent herein provided for relating to the satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture have been complied with. Notwithstanding the satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture, the obligations of the Company to the Trustee under Section 7.06 shall survive.
ARTICLE 4
PARTICULAR COVENANTS OF THE COMPANY
Section 4.01. Payment of Principal and Interest. The Company covenants and agrees that it will cause to be paid the principal (including the Fundamental Change Repurchase Price or the Redemption Price, if applicable) of, the Settlement Amounts owed upon conversion on, and accrued and unpaid interest on, each of the Notes at the places, at the respective times and in the manner provided herein and in the Notes.
Section 4.02. Maintenance of Office or Agency. The Company will maintain in the United States an office or agency where the Notes may be surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange or for presentation for payment or repurchase (Paying Agent) or for conversion (Conversion Agent) and where notices in respect of the Notes and this Indenture may be made. The Company will give prompt written notice to the Trustee of the location, and any change in the location, of such office or agency. If at any time the Company shall fail to maintain any such required office or agency or shall fail to furnish the Trustee with the address thereof, such presentations, surrenders, notices and demands may be made at the Corporate Trust Office.
The Company may also from time to time designate as Paying Agent one or more other offices or agencies where the Notes may be presented or surrendered for any or all such purposes and may from time to time rescind such designations; provided that no such designation or rescission shall in any manner relieve the Company of its obligation to maintain an office or agency in the United States for such purposes. The Company will give prompt written notice to the Trustee of any such designation or rescission and of any change in the location of any such other office or agency. The terms Paying Agent and Conversion Agent include any such additional or other offices or agencies, as applicable.
The Company hereby initially designates the Trustee as the Paying Agent, Note Registrar, Custodian and Conversion Agent and the Corporate Trust Office as a place where Notes may be surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange or for presentation for payment or repurchase (if applicable) or for conversion and where notices in respect of the Notes and this Indenture may be made, provided that the Corporate Trust Office shall not be a place for service of legal process on the Company.
Section 4.03. Appointments to Fill Vacancies in Trustees Office. The Company, whenever necessary to avoid or fill a vacancy in the office of Trustee, will appoint, in the manner provided in Section 7.09, a Trustee, so that there shall at all times be a Trustee hereunder.
Section 4.04. Provisions as to Paying Agent. If the Company shall appoint a Paying Agent other than the Trustee, the Company will cause such Paying Agent to execute and deliver to the Trustee an instrument in which such agent shall agree with the Trustee, subject to the provisions of this Section 4.04:
(i) that it will hold all sums held by it as such agent for the payment of the principal (including the Fundamental Change Repurchase Price or the Redemption Price, if applicable) of, and accrued and unpaid interest on, the Notes in trust for the benefit of the Holders of the Notes;
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(ii) that it will give the Trustee prompt notice of any failure by the Company to make any payment of the principal (including the Fundamental Change Repurchase Price or the Redemption Price, if applicable) of, and accrued and unpaid interest on, the Notes when the same shall be due and payable; and
(iii) that at any time during the continuance of an Event of Default, upon request of the Trustee, it will forthwith pay to the Trustee all sums so held in trust;
provided, that a Paying Agent appointed as contemplated under Section 15.02(f) shall not be required to deliver any such instrument.
The Company shall, on or before each due date of the principal (including the Fundamental Change Repurchase Price or the Redemption Price, if applicable) of, or accrued and unpaid interest on, the Notes, deposit with the Paying Agent a sum sufficient to pay such principal (including the Fundamental Change Repurchase Price or the Redemption Price, if applicable) or accrued and unpaid interest, and (unless such Paying Agent is the Trustee) the Company will promptly notify the Trustee in writing of any failure to take such action; provided that if such deposit is made on the due date, such deposit must be received by the Paying Agent by 11:00 a.m., New York City time, on such date.
(b) If the Company shall act as its own Paying Agent, it will, on or before each due date of the principal (including the Fundamental Change Repurchase Price or the Redemption Price, if applicable) of, and accrued and unpaid interest on, the Notes, set aside, segregate and hold in trust for the benefit of the Holders of the Notes a sum sufficient to pay such principal (including the Fundamental Change Repurchase Price or the Redemption Price, if applicable) and accrued and unpaid interest so becoming due and will promptly notify the Trustee in writing of any failure to take such action and of any failure by the Company to make any payment of the principal (including the Fundamental Change Repurchase Price or the Redemption Price, if applicable) of, or accrued and unpaid interest on, the Notes when the same shall become due and payable.
(c) Anything in this Section 4.04 to the contrary notwithstanding, the Company may, at any time, for the purpose of obtaining a satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture, or for any other reason, pay, cause to be paid or deliver to the Trustee all sums or amounts held in trust by the Company or any Paying Agent hereunder as required by this Section 4.04, such sums or amounts to be held by the Trustee upon the trusts herein contained and upon such payment or delivery by the Company or any Paying Agent to the Trustee, the Company or such Paying Agent shall be released from all further liability but only with respect to such sums or amounts. Upon the occurrence of any event specified in Section 6.01(h) or Section 6.01(i), the Trustee shall automatically become the Paying Agent.
(d) Subject to applicable law, any money or property deposited with the Trustee, the Conversion Agent or any Paying Agent, or any money and shares of Common Stock then held by the Company, in trust for the payment of the principal (including the Fundamental Change Repurchase Price or the Redemption Price, if applicable) of, accrued and unpaid interest on and the consideration due upon conversion of any Note and remaining unclaimed for two years after such principal (including the Fundamental Change Repurchase Price or the Redemption Price, if applicable), interest or consideration due upon conversion has become due and payable shall be paid to the Company on request of the Company contained in an Officers Certificate, or (if then held by the Company) shall be discharged from such trust and the Trustee shall have no further liability with respect to such funds or property; and the Holder of such Note shall thereafter, as an unsecured general creditor, look only to the Company for payment thereof, and all liability of the Trustee, the Conversion Agent or such Paying Agent with respect to such trust money, and all liability of the Company as trustee with respect to such trust money and shares of Common Stock, shall thereupon cease;
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Section 4.05. Existence; Conduct of Business. Subject to Article 11, each Note Party shall (a) do or cause to be done all things reasonably necessary to preserve, renew and keep in full force and effect its legal existence and the rights, qualifications, licenses, permits, privileges, franchises, governmental authorizations, rights in or to Intellectual Property material to the conduct of its business (in each case subject to any exceptions expressly permitted by this Indenture), licenses and permits material to the conduct of its business, (b) maintain all requisite authority to conduct its business in each jurisdiction in which its business is conducted, except, in each case, where the failure to do so would not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect, and (c) carry on and conduct its business in substantially the same manner and in substantially the same fields of enterprise as it is presently conducted or as are reasonably related, incidental, ancillary or complementary to or a natural extension of the same.
Section 4.06. Rule 144A Information Requirement and Annual Reports.
(a) At any time the Company is not subject to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act, the Company shall, so long as any of the Notes or any shares of Common Stock issuable upon conversion thereof shall, at such time, constitute restricted securities within the meaning of Rule 144(a)(3) under the Securities Act, promptly provide to the Trustee and, upon written request, any Holder, beneficial owner or prospective purchaser of such Notes or any shares of Common Stock issuable upon conversion of such Notes, the information required to be delivered pursuant to Rule 144A(d)(4) under the Securities Act to facilitate the resale of such Notes or shares of Common Stock pursuant to Rule 144A.
(b) The Company shall file with the Trustee the following:
(i) within 15 days after the same are required to be filed with the Commission, copies of any documents or reports that the Company is required to file with the Commission pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act (giving effect to any grace period provided by Rule 12b-25 under the Exchange Act). Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Company shall in no event be required to file with, or otherwise provide or disclose to, the Trustee or any Holder any information for which the Company is requesting (assuming such request has not been denied), or has received, confidential treatment from the Commission, or any correspondence with the Commission. Any such document or report that the Company files with the Commission via the Commissions EDGAR system (or any successor thereto) shall be deemed to be filed with the Trustee for purposes of this Section 4.06(b)(i) at the time such documents are filed via the EDGAR system (or any successor thereto), it being understood that the Trustee shall not be responsible for determining whether such filings have been made.
(ii) Unless previously filed or furnished with the Commission via the Commissions EDGAR system (or any successor thereto), if the Company is not subject to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act at any time when any Notes or shares of Common Stock issuable upon conversion of the Notes are outstanding:
(1) within one hundred twenty (120) days after the end of each fiscal year of the Company, copies of its audited consolidated balance sheet and related statements of operations, stockholders equity and cash flows as of the end of and for such year, setting forth in each case in comparative form the figures for the previous fiscal year, all reported on by independent public accountants of recognized national standing to the effect that such consolidated financial statements present fairly in all material respects the financial condition and results of operations of the Company and its consolidated Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP consistently applied; and
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(2) within forty-five (45) days after the end of each of the first three fiscal quarters of each fiscal year of the Company, copies of its consolidated balance sheet and related statements of operations, stockholders equity and cash flows as of the end of and for such fiscal quarter and the then elapsed portion of such fiscal year, setting forth in each case in comparative form the figures for the corresponding period or periods of (or, in the case of the balance sheet, as of the end of) the previous fiscal year.
(c) Delivery of the reports, information, and other documents described in subsection (b) above to the Trustee is for informational purposes only, and the Trustees receipt of such shall not constitute constructive or actual notice of any information contained therein or determinable from information contained therein or determinable therefrom, including the Companys compliance with any of its covenants hereunder (as to which the Trustee is entitled to conclusively rely on an Officers Certificate).
(d) If, at any time during the six-month period beginning on, and including, the date that is six months after the last date of original issuance of the Notes, the Company fails to timely file any document or report that it is required to file with the Commission pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act, as applicable (after giving effect to all applicable grace periods provided by Rule 12b-25 or any successor rule under the Exchange Act and other than reports on Form 8-K), or the Notes are not otherwise freely tradable pursuant to Rule 144 by Holders other than the Companys Affiliates or Holders that were the Companys Affiliates at any time during the three months immediately preceding (as a result of restrictions pursuant to U.S. securities laws or the terms of this Indenture or the Notes), the Company shall pay Additional Interest on the Notes. Such Additional Interest shall accrue on the Notes at the rate of 0.50% per annum of the principal amount of the Notes outstanding for each day during such period for which the Companys failure to file has occurred and is continuing or the Notes are not otherwise freely tradable pursuant to Rule 144 by Holders other than the Companys Affiliates (or Holders that were the Companys Affiliates at any time during the three months immediately preceding) without restrictions pursuant to U.S. securities laws or the terms of this Indenture or the Notes. As used in this Section 4.06(d), documents or reports that the Company is required to file with the Commission pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act does not include documents or reports that the Company furnishes to the Commission pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act.
(e) If, and for so long as, the Restrictive Legend on the Notes specified in Section 2.05(c) has not been removed, the Notes are assigned a restricted CUSIP or the Notes are not otherwise freely tradable pursuant to Rule 144 by Holders other than the Companys Affiliates or Holders that were the Companys Affiliates at any time during the three months immediately preceding (without restrictions pursuant to U.S. securities laws or the terms of this Indenture or the Notes) as of the De-legending Deadline Date, the Company shall pay Additional Interest on the Notes at a rate equal to 0.50% per annum of the principal amount of Notes outstanding until the Restrictive Legend on the Notes has been removed in accordance with Section 2.05(c), the Notes are assigned an unrestricted CUSIP and the Notes are freely tradable pursuant to Rule 144 by Holders other than the Companys Affiliates (or Holders that were the Companys Affiliates at any time during the three months immediately preceding) without restrictions pursuant to U.S. securities laws or the terms of this Indenture or the Notes; provided, however, that no Additional Interest shall accrue or be owed pursuant to this Section 4.06(e) until the fifteenth Business Day following written notification to the Company by the Trustee (at the written direction of the Holders) or any Holder or beneficial owner of the Notes requesting that the Company comply with its obligations described in this Section 4.06(e) (which notice may be given at any time after the 330th day after the last date of original issuance of the Notes), it being understood and agreed that in no event shall Additional Interest accrue or be owed pursuant to this Section 4.06(e) for any period prior to the 380th day after the last date of original issuance of the Notes or any additional Notes, as the case may be. The Restrictive Legend on the Notes shall be deemed removed pursuant to the terms of this Indenture as provided in
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Section 2.05(c), and, at such time, the Notes will, pursuant to, and subject to the provisions of, such Section, be deemed assigned an unrestricted CUSIP number. However, for the avoidance of doubt, Global Notes will continue to bear Additional Interest pursuant to this paragraph until such time as they are identified by an unrestricted CUSIP in the facilities of the Depositary therefor, as a result of completion of such Depositarys mandatory exchange process or otherwise.
(f) Additional Interest will be payable in arrears on each Interest Payment Date following accrual in the same manner as regular interest on the Notes; provided, that if Additional Interest begins to accrue pursuant to Section 4.06(d) after the close of business on a Regular Record Date and prior to the open of business on the corresponding Interest Payment Date, the Additional Interest that accrues during such period will be due on the Interest Payment Date next succeeding such corresponding Interest Payment Date, and no interest shall accrue in respect of such delay.
(g) The Additional Interest that is payable in accordance with Section 4.06(d) or Section 4.06(e) shall be in addition to, and not in lieu of, any Additional Interest that may be payable as a result of the Companys election pursuant to Section 6.03. However, in no event shall any Additional Interest that may accrue as a result of the Companys failure to timely file any document or report that it is required to file with the Commission pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act, as applicable (after giving effect to all applicable grace periods thereunder and other than reports on Form 8-K), as described in Section 4.06(d), together with any Additional Interest payable at the Companys election as the remedy for a Reporting Event of Default, accrue at a rate in excess of 0.50% per annum pursuant to this Indenture, regardless of the number of events or circumstances giving rise to the requirement to pay such Additional Interest. If the Company is required to pay Additional Interest, the Company will notify the Trustee, the Paying Agent and the Holders in writing, prior to the applicable Record Date, of the amount of Additional Interest due on the applicable Interest Payment Date.
(h) If Additional Interest is payable by the Company pursuant to Section 4.06(d) or Section 4.06(e), the Company shall deliver to the Trustee an Officers Certificate to that effect stating (i) the amount of such Additional Interest that is payable and (ii) the date on which such Additional Interest is payable. Unless and until a Responsible Officer of the Trustee receives at the Corporate Trust Office such a certificate, the Trustee may assume without inquiry that no such Additional Interest is payable and the Trustee shall not have any duty to verify the Companys calculation of Additional Interest. If the Company has paid Additional Interest directly to the Persons entitled to it, the Company shall deliver to the Trustee an Officers Certificate setting forth the particulars of such payment.
Section 4.07. Stay, Extension and Usury Laws. The Company and each Guarantor covenants (to the extent that it may lawfully do so) that it shall not at any time insist upon, plead, or in any manner whatsoever claim or take the benefit or advantage of, any stay, extension or usury law or other law that would prohibit or forgive the Company or such Guarantor from paying all or any portion of the principal of or interest on the Notes as contemplated herein, wherever enacted, now or at any time hereafter in force, or that may affect the covenants or the performance of this Indenture; and the Company and each Guarantor (to the extent it may lawfully do so) hereby expressly waives all benefit or advantage of any such law, and covenants that it will not, by resort to any such law, hinder, delay or impede the execution of any power herein granted to the Trustee, but will suffer and permit the execution of every such power as though no such law had been enacted.
Section 4.08. Compliance Certificate; Statements as to Defaults. So long as any Notes are outstanding, the Company shall deliver to the Trustee within 120 days after the end of each calendar year of the Company (beginning with the calendar year ending on December 31, 2025) an Officers Certificate stating whether the signers thereof have knowledge of any Default under this Indenture that occurred during the previous year.
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In addition, the Company shall deliver to the Trustee within 30 days after an officer of the Company becomes aware of the occurrence of any Event or Events of Default or Default, an Officers Certificate setting forth the details of such Event or Events of Default or Default, its status and the action that the Company is taking or proposing to take in respect thereof; provided that the Company is not required to deliver such notice if such Event of Default or Default is no longer continuing has been cured.
Section 4.09. Covenant to Guarantee Obligations and Give Security. The Company will:
(a) If, after the date of this Indenture, the Company or any Subsidiary of the Company forms or acquires any direct Material Domestic Subsidiary or any direct Subsidiary becomes a Material Domestic Subsidiary (other than an Excluded Entity), then the Company will:
(i) promptly (and in any event within 45 days) after the date of formation or acquisition or becoming a direct Material Domestic Subsidiary of a Note Party, as applicable, cause the parent Note Party of such Subsidiary to execute and deliver to the Trustee (x) a supplemental indenture to this Indenture substantially in the form of Exhibit B pursuant to which such Subsidiary will irrevocably and unconditionally Guarantee, on a joint and several basis, the full and prompt payment of the principal of, premium, if any, and interest in respect of the Notes on a senior basis and all other Obligations under this Indenture and (y) joinders to any applicable Collateral Documents (including the Security Joinder Agreement), together with any filings and agreements to the extent required by the Collateral Documents to create or perfect the security interests for the benefit of the Holders in the Collateral of such Subsidiary, and
(ii) promptly (and in any event within 45 days) deliver to the Collateral Agent the certificates, if any, representing all of the certificated Capital Stock of such Subsidiary held by the Company or such Guarantor, as applicable, together with undated stock powers or other appropriate instruments of transfer executed and delivered in blank by a duly authorized officer of the holder(s) of such Capital Stock; provided that, during any period in which delivery is not practicable, impossible or otherwise restricted as a result of a force majeure (including, without limitation, a pandemic, outbreak or similar health issue), no certificates or instruments representing any Pledged Equity Interests shall be required to be delivered to the Collateral Agent but shall be required to be delivered promptly after the expiration of any such period.
(b) The Company shall cause each of its Subsidiaries (other than an Excluded Entity) that directly or indirectly guarantees or otherwise becomes liable (on a contingent basis or otherwise) for any Indebtedness of the Company or any Guarantor to, within 30 days after so becoming liable for such Indebtedness, execute and deliver to the Trustee (x) a supplemental indenture to this Indenture substantially in the form of Exhibit B pursuant to which such Subsidiary will irrevocably and unconditionally Guarantee, on a joint and several basis, the full and prompt payment of the principal of, premium, if any, and interest in respect of the Notes on a senior basis and all other Obligations under this Indenture and (y) joinders to any applicable Collateral Documents (including the Security Joinder Agreement), together with any filings and agreements to the extent required by the Collateral Documents to create or perfect the security interests for the benefit of the Holders in the Collateral of such Subsidiary.
(c) If, after the date of this Indenture, a Note Party forms or acquires any Material Foreign Subsidiary or a Subsidiary of such Note Party becomes a Material Foreign Subsidiary (other than an Excluded Entity), then, subject to the Agreed Security Principles, the Company will:
(i) promptly (and in any event within 75 days) after the date of formation or acquisition or becoming a Material Foreign Subsidiary, as applicable, cause the parent entity of such Subsidiary to
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execute and deliver to the Trustee a local law pledge agreement, share charge, or other similar document providing the Collateral Agent with a perfected security interest in all Pledged Equity Interests in such Material Foreign Subsidiary under the laws of such Subsidiarys jurisdiction of organization; provided such document shall be in form and substance customary for such Subsidiarys jurisdiction of organization as proposed by the Company and reasonably acceptable to the Collateral Agent, and
(ii) promptly (and in any event within 75 days) deliver to the Collateral Agent the certificates, if any, representing all of the certificated Capital Stock evidencing such Pledged Equity Interests in such Subsidiary held by such Note Party, together with undated stock powers or other appropriate instruments of transfer executed and delivered in blank by a duly authorized officer of the holder(s) of such Capital Stock; provided that, during any period in which delivery is not practicable, impossible or otherwise restricted as a result of a force majeure (including, without limitation, a pandemic, outbreak or similar health issue), no certificates or instruments representing any Pledged Equity Interests shall be required to be delivered to the Collateral Agent but shall be required to be delivered promptly after the expiration of any such period.
(d) Notwithstanding any provision of this Indenture (other than Section 4.09(b) of this Indenture) or any other Collateral Document to the contrary (including any provision that would otherwise apply notwithstanding other provisions or that is the beneficiary of other overriding language):
(i) no more than 65% of the issued and outstanding Equity Interests of any CFC or Domestic Foreign Holding Company shall be pledged or similarly hypothecated to guarantee, secure or support any Obligation of the Company or any Guarantor; (ii) no CFC or Domestic Foreign Holding Company shall guarantee or support any Obligation of the Company or any Guarantor; (iii) no security or similar interest shall be granted in the assets of any CFC or Domestic Foreign Holding Company (including indirectly by way of an offset or otherwise) which security or similar interests guarantees or supports any Obligation of the Company or any Guarantor; and
(ii) no Subsidiary of the Company shall grant security interests to secure the Obligations if such security interests would contravene the Agreed Security Principles.
Section 4.10. Maintenance of Insurance. The Company will maintain (and will cause each Guarantor to maintain), with insurance companies that the Company believes (in the good faith judgment of the management of the Company) are financially sound and responsible at the time the relevant coverage is placed or renewed, insurance with respect to its insurable property in at least such amounts (after giving effect to any self-insurance which the Company believes (in the good faith judgment of management of the Company) is reasonable and prudent in light of the size and nature of its business) and against at least such risks (and with such risk retentions) as the Company believes (in the good faith judgment of the management of the Company) are reasonable and prudent in light of the size and nature of its business.
Section 4.11. Impairment of Security Interest. The Company shall not, and shall not permit any of its Subsidiaries to, knowingly take or omit to take any action that would have the result of impairing the security interest with respect to the Collateral for the benefit of the Secured Parties; provided that the foregoing shall not prohibit the incurrence of Permitted Liens, the Disposition of assets otherwise permitted or not prohibited under this Indenture or any other action or inaction that is otherwise permitted or not prohibited by this Indenture.
Section 4.12. Limitation on Incurrence of Indebtedness and Liens.
(a) The Company shall not and shall not permit any Subsidiary to, directly or indirectly, incur, assume, guarantee or otherwise become liable (incur) with respect to any Indebtedness or Disqualified Stock
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and shall not permit any Subsidiary to issue shares of Disqualified Stock. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary therein, this Section 4.12(a) will not prohibit the incurrence of any Permitted Indebtedness.
(b) The accrual of interest, the accretion or amortization of original issue discount, the payment of interest on any Indebtedness in the form of additional Indebtedness with the same terms, the reclassification of preferred stock as Indebtedness due to a change in accounting principles and the reclassification of operating leases as Capital Leases due to a change in accounting principles will not be deemed to be an incurrence of Indebtedness for purposes of this Section 4.12. For purposes of determining compliance with any U.S. dollar-denominated restriction on the incurrence of Indebtedness, the U.S. dollar equivalent principal amount of Indebtedness denominated in a foreign currency shall be utilized, calculated based on the relevant currency exchange rate in effect on the date such Indebtedness was incurred (or, in the case of revolving Indebtedness, on the date such Indebtedness was first committed); provided that if any such Indebtedness is incurred to refinance other Indebtedness denominated in a foreign currency, and such refinancing would cause the applicable U.S. dollar-denominated restriction to be exceeded if calculated at the relevant currency exchange rate in effect on the date of such refinancing, such U.S. dollar-denominated restriction shall be deemed not to have been exceeded so long as the principal amount of such refinancing Indebtedness does not exceed the principal amount of such Indebtedness being refinanced.
(c) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Section 4.12, the maximum amount of Indebtedness that the Company or any of its Subsidiaries may incur pursuant to this Section 4.12 shall not be deemed to be exceeded solely as a result of fluctuations in exchange rates or currency values.
(d) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary set forth herein, the Company shall not, and shall not permit any of its Subsidiaries to, directly or indirectly, incur, assume, guarantee or otherwise become liable for any Indebtedness, that is secured on a pari passu basis with the Obligations, other than Indebtedness incurred in reliance on clauses (a) or (b) of the definition of Permitted Indebtedness.
(e) Subject to clause (f) below, the Company shall not, and shall not permit any of its Subsidiaries to, directly or indirectly, create, incur, assume or suffer to exist any Lien securing any Indebtedness on any of its property or assets (including Equity Interests of Subsidiaries), whether owned on the Issue Date or acquired after that date, other than a Permitted Lien.
(f) Notwithstanding anything contained herein to the contrary:
(i) the Company shall not, and shall not permit any Subsidiary to, directly or indirectly, create, incur, or assume any Lien (except a Permitted Lien of the type set forth in clauses (d), (i), (l), (m), or (t) of the definition of Permitted Lien) on any Intellectual Property of the Company or its Subsidiaries (a Prohibited IP Lien), whether owned at the Issue Date or thereafter acquired, or any income or profits therefrom, or assign or convey any right to receive income therefrom, unless the Obligations are secured by a Lien on such property, assets or proceeds that is senior in priority to such Prohibited IP Lien; and
(ii) the term Excluded Asset shall not include Intellectual Property or any income or profits therefrom at any time that a Prohibited IP Lien exists.
Section 4.13. Limitation on Restricted Payments, Restricted Debt Payments and Investments.
(a) The Company shall not, and shall not permit any of its Subsidiaries, directly or indirectly, to make any Restricted Payment other than:
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(i) payments made or expected to be made by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries in respect of withholding or similar taxes payable upon exercise or vesting of equity or equity-linked securities referencing Common Stock by any future, present or former employee, director, officer, member of management or consultant of the Company or any Subsidiary of the Company or any direct or indirect parent company of the Company and any repurchases of such equity-linked securities or of Common Stock deemed to occur upon exercise or vesting of such Common Stock, stock options, warrants or other equity-based awards if Common Stock represents a portion of the exercise price or vesting of such options, warrants or awards;
(ii) cash payments or payments in lieu of issuing fractional shares in connection with the exercise, vesting, conversion or grant of Common Stock or of warrants, options or other securities vesting as, convertible into or exchangeable for Common Stock of the Company or any direct or equity of indirect parent of the Company;
(iii) payments in respect of Common Stock deemed to occur upon the redemption, purchase, conversion, discharge, defeasance or other repayment or acquisition of Indebtedness of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries that is convertible into, exchangeable for, or in reference to, Common Stock, including any Restricted Debt Payment made in compliance with Section 4.13(b);
(iv) any Restricted Payment to pay for the repurchase, redemption or other acquisition or retirement for value of Common Stock of the Company or equity of any direct or indirect parent company of the Company held by any future, present or former employee, director, officer, member of management or consultant of the Company, any of its Subsidiaries or any of its direct or indirect parent companies pursuant to any management equity plan or stock option plan or any other management or employee benefit plan or arrangement, or any stock subscription or shareholder agreement; provided that the aggregate amount of Restricted Payments made under this clause (iv) do not exceed in any calendar year an amount equal to $5,000,000 (with unused amounts in any calendar year being carried over to the next succeeding calendar year), provided further that the repurchase of Common Stock deemed to occur upon the exercise of options, warrants or similar instruments if such Common Stock represent all or a portion of the exercise price thereof or payments or in lieu of the issuance of fractional shares of Common Stock or in respect of withholding to pay other taxes payable in connection therewith, will not be deemed to constitute a Restricted Payment;
(v) the purchase by the Company of fractional shares arising out of stock dividends, splits, combinations, tenders or exchanges of Common Stock, stock options, other equity awards or business combinations and payments or distributions to dissenting stockholders pursuant to applicable law in connection with a consolidation, merger or transfer of assets;
(vi) any Restricted Payment made by the Company to comply with the terms of the Indenture or the Collateral Documents;
(vii) any Restricted Payment contemplated to occur on the Issue Date to effectuate the Share Repurchase (as defined in the Subscription Agreements) so long as such Share Repurchase does not exceed 8,000,000 shares of Common Stock and the aggregate amount of Restricted Payments under this clause (vii) to effectuate the Share Repurchase does not exceed $14,960,000;
(viii) the making of any Restricted Payment in exchange for, or out of or with the net cash proceeds from the substantially concurrent contribution to the Common Equity of the Company or from the substantially concurrent sale (other than to a Subsidiary of the Company) of, Capital Stock (other than Disqualified Stock) of the Company;
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(ix) any Restricted Payment made by a Wholly-Owned Subsidiary of the Company to its direct parent entity or any Note Party; and
(x) the payment of any dividend or the consummation of any redemption within 60 days after the date of declaration of the dividend or giving of the redemption notice, as the case may be, if at the date of declaration or notice, the dividend or redemption payment would have complied with this Indenture.
(b) The Company shall not, and shall not permit any of its Subsidiaries, directly or indirectly, to make any Restricted Debt Payment other than:
(i) any payments with respect to any purchase, defeasance, redemption, repurchase, repayment or other acquisition or retirement thereof made by exchange for, or out of the proceeds of, Refinancing Indebtedness;
(ii) any payments permitted by the applicable terms of subordination that are approved in accordance with Section 10.03 of this Indenture;
(iii) (x) Restricted Debt Payments in exchange for, or with proceeds of any issuance of, Common Equity, and (y) Restricted Debt Payments as a result of the conversion of all or any portion of any Restricted Debt into Common Equity;
(iv) Restricted Debt Payments as part of applicable high-yield discount obligation catch-up payments;
(v) any payments of principal pursuant to mandatory repurchase offers with respect to Restricted Debt (and related payments of interest) made in connection with any fundamental change repurchase offer (however characterized) (such offer, not including any payment for accrued but unpaid interest, not exceeding 101% of the outstanding principal balance of such Restricted Debt), provided that such Restricted Debt Payment may only be made concurrently with, or following, any payment of the Fundamental Change Repurchase Price hereunder in respect of the transaction giving rise to such fundamental change repurchase offer;
(vi) (i) scheduled payments, including payment at maturity, of the Existing Convertible Notes and (ii) open market or other repurchases or retirements of the Existing Convertible Notes (including any exchange into or refinancing involving Permitted Indebtedness); provided that, with respect to this clause (ii), no Existing Convertible Notes held by any Person other than an Initial Holder may be repurchased or retired until the Company repurchases or retires at least eighty percent (80%) of the aggregate principal amount of the Initial Holder Existing Convertible Notes (for purposes of this calculation, excluding any Initial Holder Existing Convertible Notes sold by the Initial Holders after the Issue Date to any Person other than the Company or its Subsidiaries); and
(vii) any Restricted Debt Payment made by the Company or its Subsidiaries to comply with applicable laws or the terms of the Indenture or the Collateral Documents.
(c) The Company shall not, and shall not permit any of its Subsidiaries, directly or indirectly, to make any Restricted Investment. For purposes of this Indenture, if the Company or any Subsidiary of the Company sells or otherwise disposes of any voting stock of any Subsidiary or engages in any other transaction such that, after giving effect to any such sale, disposition or other transaction, such entity is no longer a Wholly-Owned Subsidiary of the Company, the Company shall be deemed to have made an Investment on the date of
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any such sale, disposition or other transaction equal to the Fair Market Value of the Capital Stock of such Subsidiary sold or disposed of.
(d) The amount of all Investments, Restricted Debt Payments or Restricted Payments (other than cash) shall be the Fair Market Value on the date of such Investment, Restricted Debt Payment or Restricted Payment, as applicable, of the asset(s) or securities proposed to be paid, transferred or issued by the Company or Subsidiary, as the case may be, pursuant to such Investment, Restricted Debt Payment or Restricted Payment, without giving effect to subsequent changes in value. The Fair Market Value of any cash Investment, Restricted Debt Payment or Restricted Payment shall be its face amount.
(e) For purposes of determining compliance with this Section 4.13, if any Investment, Restricted Debt Payment or Restricted Payment (or portion thereof) would be permitted pursuant to one or more provisions described above and/or is entitled to be incurred under one or more of the categories of Permitted Investments, the Company may divide and classify such Investment, Restricted Debt Payment or Restricted Payment in any manner that complies with this covenant and may later divide and reclassify (based on circumstances existing on the date of such reclassification) any such Investment, Restricted Debt Payment or Restricted Payment (or a portion thereof) so long as the Investment, Restricted Debt Payment or Restricted Payment (as so divided and/or reclassified) would be permitted to be made in reliance on the applicable exception as of the date of such reclassification.
Section 4.14. Post-Closing Covenant.
(a) On or prior to the date that is forty-five (45) days following the Issue Date, the Note Parties shall deliver, or cause to be delivered, to the Collateral Agent, all Pledged Equity Interests required to be pledged as Collateral duly indorsed by an effective indorsement (within the meaning of Section 8-107 of the Uniform Commercial Code), or accompanied by share transfer powers or other instruments of transfer duly endorsed by such an effective endorsement, in blank.
(b) On or prior to the date that is ninety (90) days following the Issue Date, each Note Party shall, with respect to each direct Subsidiary of such Note Party that is a Material Foreign Subsidiary, execute and deliver (and cause the relevant counterparties to execute and deliver) to the Collateral Agent, subject to the Agreed Security Principles, (i) a local law pledge agreement, share charge, or other similar document providing the Collateral Agent with a perfected security interest in all Pledged Equity Interests in such Material Foreign Subsidiary under the laws of such Subsidiarys jurisdiction of organization; provided such document shall be in form and substance customary for such Subsidiarys jurisdiction of organization as proposed by the Company and reasonably acceptable to the Collateral Agent, and (ii) all of the certificated Capital Stock evidencing such Pledged Equity Interests in such Subsidiary held by such Note Party, as applicable, together with undated stock powers or other appropriate instruments of transfer executed and delivered in blank by a duly authorized officer of the holder(s) of such Capital Stock.
(c) On or prior to the date that is ninety (90) days following the Issue Date, the Note Parties shall execute and deliver (and cause the relevant counterparties to execute and deliver) to the Collateral Agent an Account Control Agreement with respect to each Controlled Account in existence on the Issue Date.
Section 4.15. Further Instruments and Acts. . Upon request of the Trustee, the Company will execute and deliver such further instruments and do such further acts as may be reasonably necessary or proper to carry out more effectively the purposes of this Indenture.
Section 4.16. Asset Sales.
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(a) The Company shall not, and shall not permit any of its Subsidiaries to, consummate an Asset Sale, unless (i) the Company (or the Subsidiary, as the case may be) receives consideration at the time of the Asset Sale at least equal to the Fair Market Value (measured as of the date of the definitive agreement with respect to such Asset Sale) of the assets, property or Capital Stock issued or sold or otherwise disposed of; and (ii) at least 75% of the consideration received from such Asset Sale and all other Asset Sales since the Issue Date on a cumulative basis is, or will be when paid (in the case of milestones, royalties and other deferred payment obligations), in the form of cash or Cash Equivalents; and (iii) immediately after giving effect to such Asset Sale, no Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing under this Indenture.
(b) Within 180 days after the receipt of any Net Proceeds from an Asset Sale, such Net Proceeds may be used to permanently repay the Notes and/or the Existing Convertible Notes (to the extent such Existing Convertible Notes are held by Initial Holders), or any portion or combination thereof. Any Net Proceeds from Asset Sales not applied pursuant to the immediately preceding sentence in any fiscal year in excess of $10,000,000 (when aggregated with the Net Proceeds received by the Company and its Subsidiaries from prior Asset Sales in such fiscal year not so applied) will constitute Excess Proceeds. Within 30 days after the earlier of (i) receipt of any Excess Proceeds in excess of $10,000,000 or (ii) 180 days from the date the Company first receives $1 of Excess Proceeds, the Company will use at least 70% of such Excess Proceeds (the Subject Excess Proceeds) to make an offer (each, an Asset Sale Offer) to (1) all Holders of Notes or, alternatively, (2) subject to compliance with the other provisions of this Indenture, including Section 4.13(b), all Holders of Notes and all holders of the Existing Convertible Notes in equal proportions, to purchase the maximum principal amount of Notes and/or Existing Convertible Notes, as the case may be, of such Subject Excess Proceeds (the Offer Amount). The offer price for the Notes in any Asset Sale Offer will be equal to at least the greater of (x) 100% of the aggregate principal amount purchased plus accrued and unpaid interest on such principal amount to the date of purchase or (y) the value of the Notes on an as converted basis as of the date of the Asset Sale Offer with the Conversion Rate adjusted pursuant to Sections 14.03 and 14.04 in respect of a Make-Whole Fundamental Change, plus accrued and unpaid interest thereon, in each case payable in cash, Common Stock or a combination thereof, to be determined in the Companys sole discretion. The Company shall be solely responsible for the calculation of the Offer Amount, and the Trustee shall have no duty to calculate or verify the Companys calculation thereof. The Company will conduct the Asset Sale Offer using procedures applicable to a repurchase offer set forth in Section 16.02. If any Subject Excess Proceeds remain after consummation of an Asset Sale Offer, the Company may use those Subject Excess Proceeds for any purpose not otherwise prohibited by this Indenture. If the aggregate principal amount of Notes and/or Existing Convertible Notes tendered in or required to be prepaid or redeemed in connection with such Asset Sale Offer exceeds the Offer Amount, the Company will select the Notes and/or Existing Convertible Notes to be purchased, prepaid or redeemed on a pro rata basis (subject to adjustment to maintain the authorized minimum denomination of the Notes and/or Existing Convertible Notes), based on the amounts tendered or required to be prepaid or redeemed.
(c) The Company shall not be required to make more than one Asset Sale Offer in any calendar quarter and the 30 day period referred to in clause (b) above will be tolled during any period when the Company is in earnings black-out or while Commission comments are pending on any Schedule TO relating to any Asset Sale Offer. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Section 4.16, the Company shall be entitled to delay the launch of the Asset Sale Offer for a reasonable period of time not to exceed sixty (60) days in succession or one-hundred twenty (120) days in the aggregate in any rolling twelve (12) month period (a Suspension Period) if the board of directors of the Company shall determine in its reasonable and good faith judgment that (a) it is not feasible for the Company to comply with applicable securities laws because of the unavailability of audited or other required financial statements, provided that the Company shall use its commercially reasonable efforts to obtain and/or file such financial statements as promptly as practicable, or (b) the Asset Sale Offer documents would require the disclosure of material, non-public information, the premature
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disclosure of which would be materially detrimental to the Company and, in each case of clauses (a) and (b), subject to the delivery to the Trustee of a certificate signed by the chief executive officer or the chief financial officer of the Company certifying as to the determination of the Companys board of directors described above; provided, however, that any Suspension Period shall terminate upon the earliest of (i) the date upon which the Company notifies the Holders in writing that suspension of such rights for the grounds set forth in this Section 4.16(c) is no longer necessary, (ii) in the case of clause (a) above, the date upon which the Company has filed such reports or obtained and filed the financial information required to be included or incorporated by reference in the Asset Sale Offer documents and (iii) in the case of clause (b) above, at such time as the public disclosure of such information is otherwise made. The Company will use commercially reasonable efforts to limit the length of any Suspension Period and shall notify the Holders promptly if the suspension for the grounds set forth in this Section 4.16(c) is no longer necessary. Notice of the commencement of a Suspension Period shall simply specify such commencement and shall not contain any facts or circumstances relating to such commencement or any material non-public information. The Trustee shall have no duty or obligation to monitor the existence or termination of any Suspension Period. For the duration of any Suspension Period, the Company shall cause the relevant Subject Excess Proceeds to be deposited into an account that is subject to a first priority perfected Lien (subject to Permitted Liens) for the benefit of the Collateral Agent under an Account Control Agreement.
(d) The Company shall cause any Net Proceeds that are Excess Proceeds to be invested in Cash Equivalents or held in the form of cash and the Company and its Subsidiaries shall not use such Net Proceeds for any purpose other than consummation of an Asset Sale Offer until the Company has consummated an Asset Sale Offer to purchase the maximum principal amount of Notes of such Subject Excess Proceeds.
(e) The Company will comply with the requirements of Rule 14e-1 and Rule 13e-4 under the Exchange Act and any other securities laws and regulations thereunder to the extent those laws and regulations are applicable in connection with each repurchase of Notes pursuant to an Asset Sale Offer. To the extent that the provisions of any securities laws or regulations conflict with the provisions of Section 16.02 hereof or this Section 4.16, the Company will comply with the applicable securities laws and regulations and will not be deemed to have breached its obligations under Section 16.02 hereof or this Section 4.16 by virtue of such compliance. For purposes of this Section 4.16, the Company shall convert any non-U.S. dollar Net Proceeds into U.S. dollars using the relevant currency exchange rate in effect on the date such Net Proceeds are received and such converted U.S. dollar amounts shall be utilized for purposes of complying with the provisions of this Section 4.16.
Section 4.17. Sale and Leaseback Transactions. The Company will not, nor will it permit any Subsidiary to, enter into or suffer to exist any arrangement, directly or indirectly, whereby it shall sell or transfer any property, real or personal, used or useful in its business, whether now owned or hereafter acquired, and thereafter rent or lease such property or other property that it intends to use for substantially the same purpose or purposes as the property sold or transferred (a Sale and Leaseback Transaction) on or after the Issue Date, unless such Person would be entitled to (a) incur Indebtedness in an amount equal to the Indebtedness attributable to such Sale and Leaseback Transaction pursuant to Section 4.12(a) and (b) create a Lien on such property securing the Indebtedness attributable to such Sale and Leaseback Transaction pursuant to Section 4.12(e).
Section 4.18. Swap Contracts. The Company will not, nor will it permit any Subsidiary to, enter into or suffer to exist any Swap Contract, except (a) Swap Contracts entered into to hedge or mitigate risks to which the Company or any Subsidiary of the Company has actual exposure (other than those in respect of equity interests of the Company or any Subsidiary of the Company), and (b) Swap Contracts entered into in order to effectively cap, collar or exchange interest rates (from floating to fixed rates, from one floating rate to another
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floating rate or otherwise) with respect to any interest-bearing liability or investment of the Company or any Subsidiary of the Company.
Section 4.19. Transactions with Affiliates. The Company will not, nor will it permit any Subsidiary to, sell, lease or otherwise transfer any property or assets to, or purchase, lease or otherwise acquire any property or assets from, or otherwise engage in any other transactions with, any Affiliates of the Company or Subsidiary, as applicable, on or after the Issue Date, except (a) transactions that (i) are in the ordinary course of business and (ii) are at prices and on terms and conditions not less favorable to such Note Party or such Subsidiary than could be obtained on an arms-length basis from unrelated third parties, (b) transactions between or among the Note Parties only, (c) any investment permitted by clauses (f), (g), (i), (o), or (w) of the definition of Permitted Investment, (d) (i) any Indebtedness permitted under clauses (d), (i), or (l) of the definition of Permitted Indebtedness and (ii) any Liens permitted under clauses (a), (b), or (c) of the definition of Permitted Lien, (e) any Restricted Payment or Restricted Debt Payment permitted by Section 4.13, (f) loans or advances to employees permitted under clause (l) of the definition of Permitted Investment, (g) the payment of reasonable fees to directors of the Company or any Subsidiary of the Company who are not employees of the Company or any Subsidiary of the Company, and compensation and employee benefit arrangements paid to, and indemnities provided for the benefit of, directors, officers or employees of the Company or its Subsidiaries in the ordinary course of business, (h) any sale of Capital Stock (other than Disqualified Stock) of the Company; and (i) any issuances of securities or other payments, awards or grants in cash, securities or otherwise, in each case of the Company, pursuant to, or the funding of, customary employment agreements, stock options and stock ownership plans or similar arrangements approved by the Companys Board of Directors.
Section 4.20. Restrictive Agreements. The Company will not, nor will it permit any Subsidiary of the Company to, directly or indirectly enter into or assume any agreement or other arrangement that prohibits, restricts or imposes any condition upon (a) the ability of the Company or Subsidiary, as applicable, to create or incur any Lien upon any of its property or assets, or (b) the ability of any such Persons Subsidiaries to pay dividends or other distributions with respect to any equity interests or to make or repay loans or advances to the Company or any other Subsidiary or to Guarantee Indebtedness of the Company or any other Subsidiary; provided that (i) the foregoing shall not apply to restrictions and conditions imposed by any requirement of law or by any Note Document, (ii) the foregoing shall not apply to restrictions and conditions existing on the date hereof (but shall apply to any extension or renewal of, or any amendment or modification materially expanding the scope of, any such restriction or condition), (iii) the foregoing shall not apply to customary restrictions and conditions contained in agreements relating to the sale of a Subsidiary pending such sale, provided such restrictions and conditions apply only to the Subsidiary that is to be sold and such sale is permitted hereunder, (iv) clause (a) of the foregoing shall not apply to restrictions or conditions imposed by any agreement relating to secured Indebtedness permitted by this Indenture if such restrictions or conditions apply only to the property or assets securing such Indebtedness, (v) clause (a) of the foregoing shall not apply to customary provisions in leases, licenses and other contracts, (vi) [reserved] and (vii) the foregoing shall not apply to any restrictions or conditions set forth in any agreement in effect at any time any Person becomes a Subsidiary; provided that such agreement was not entered into in contemplation of such Person becoming a Subsidiary and the restriction or condition set forth in such agreement does not apply to the Company or any other Subsidiary.
Section 4.21. Amendment of Material Documents. On or after the Issue Date, the Company will not, nor will it permit any Note Party to, amend, modify or waive any of its rights under (a) any agreement relating to any Subordinated Indebtedness, except as may be permitted under the applicable subordination or intercreditor agreement or (b) its charter, articles or certificate of organization or incorporation and bylaws or operating, management or partnership agreement, or other organizational or governing documents, in each case,
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to the extent any such amendment, modification or waiver would be adverse to the Holders in any material respect.
Section 4.22. Cash Management Systems. On or after the Issue Date, each Note Party shall enter into, and cause each depository, securities intermediary or commodities intermediary to enter into, Account Control Agreements to the extent that such an Account Control Agreement is required for a perfected security interest under the applicable law of the relevant jurisdiction (as determined by the Supermajority Holders) with respect to each deposit, securities, commodity or similar account maintained by such Person (other than Excluded Accounts) (such deposit, securities, commodity or similar accounts, Controlled Accounts) as of and after the Issue Date; provided, however, that, the Note Parties shall comply with the provisions of this Section 4.22 (i) with respect to accounts (other than Excluded Accounts) of the Note Parties open as of the Issue Date, on or before the last day of the time period set forth in Section 4.14 (or such later period as reasonably agreed by the Supermajority Holders and communicated to the Trustee, the Collateral Agent and the Company in writing, which may be by email) and (ii) with respect to any other such account (other than Excluded Accounts) of the Note Parties, on or before the date that is sixty (60) days following the closing date of any Permitted Acquisition or the opening of any new account, as applicable (or such later period as reasonably agreed by the Supermajority Holders and communicated to the Trustee, the Collateral Agent and the Company in writing, which may be by email).
Section 4.23. No Liability Management Transactions. Neither the Company nor any of its respective Subsidiaries shall, directly or indirectly, (i) create, incur, assume or otherwise become or remain liable with respect to any Indebtedness or issue any Capital Stock, (ii) create, incur, assume or permit or suffer to exist any Lien on or with respect to any property of any kind owned by it, whether now owned or hereafter acquired, or any income or profits therefrom, (iii) make or own any Investment in any other Person, (iv)enter into any transaction of merger, consolidation or amalgamation, or liquidate, wind up or dissolve themselves (or suffer any liquidation or dissolution) or (v) enter into any Asset Sale or otherwise convey, sell, lease or dispose of all or any part of its property or assets or to otherwise engage in any other activity, in each case, that is undertaken in connection with a Liability Management Transaction.
Section 4.24. Compliance with Laws. Except in each case as would not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect, the Company shall, and shall cause each of its Subsidiaries to, comply with each requirement of law applicable to it or its property (including without limitation environmental laws).
Section 4.25. Maintenance of Property. The Company will, and will cause each of its Subsidiaries to, keep and maintain all property material to the conduct of its business in good working order and condition, ordinary wear and tear excepted. Each Note Party will, and will cause each of its Subsidiaries to (a) maintain in full force and effect, pay all costs and expenses related to, and renew, file for, prosecute and enforce all Material Intellectual Property, and all other Intellectual Property owned, used or controlled by such Note Party or any such Subsidiary that are necessary or useful in the conduct of its business, except where the failure to do so, individually or in the aggregate, would not reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect, (b) promptly after obtaining knowledge thereof, notify the Collateral Agent of any infringement, misappropriation or other violation by any Person of any Material Intellectual Property where such infringement, misappropriation, or other violation would reasonably be expected to be material to the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, and use commercially reasonable efforts to stop, curtail or abate such infringement, misappropriation or other violation, and (c) promptly after obtaining knowledge thereof, notify the Collateral Agent of any claim by any Person that the conduct of the business of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries has infringed, misappropriated or otherwise violated any Intellectual Property of such Person, where such claim would reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.
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Section 4.26. Payment of Taxes. The Company will, and will cause each of its Subsidiaries to, pay all material taxes imposed upon it or any of its properties or assets or in respect of any of its income, businesses or franchises before any penalty accrues thereon (taking into account any valid extensions thereon); unless such tax or claim is being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings and such Note Party has set aside on its books adequate reserves with respect thereto in accordance with GAAP, except to the extent that the failure to do so could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.
Section 4.27. Anti-Corruption Laws; Sanctions. The Company will, and will cause each of its Subsidiaries to, maintain in effect policies and procedures designed to achieve compliance by such Note Party, its Subsidiaries and their respective directors, officers, employees and agents with Anti-Corruption Laws and applicable Sanctions. No Note Party shall, and no Note Party shall permit any of its Subsidiaries to, directly or knowingly indirectly, fail to comply with Anti-Corruption Laws and applicable Sanctions. The Company shall not use, and shall procure that its Subsidiaries and its or their respective directors, officers, employees and agents shall not use, the proceeds of any Notes (i) in furtherance of an offer, payment, promise to pay, or authorization of the payment or giving of money, or anything else of value, to any Person in violation of any Anti-Corruption Laws, (ii) for the purpose of funding, financing or facilitating any activities, business or transaction of or with any Person in violation of applicable Sanctions, and/or (iii) in any manner that would reasonably be expected to result in the violation of any Sanctions applicable to any party hereto.
Section 4.28. Minimum Cash. Commencing with the fiscal quarter ending June 30, 2025, the Note Parties shall, on a consolidated basis, maintain at least Forty Million ($40,000,000) in Qualified Cash as of the last day of each fiscal quarter.
Section 4.29. Minimum Accounts Receivable and Inventory. Commencing with the fiscal quarter ending June 30, 2025, the Note Parties shall, on a consolidated basis, maintain as of the last day of each fiscal quarter, at least Seventy-Five Million ($75,000,000) in accounts (as defined in Section 9-102 of the Uniform Commercial Code) and inventory (as defined in Section 9-102 of the Uniform Commercial Code) located in the United States.
Section 4.30. Restricted Cash Account.
(a) On or prior to June 30, 2025, $16,773,000 of the gross proceeds from the offering of the Notes will be placed into the Restricted Cash Account pursuant to the Restricted Cash Account Agreement (such funds, together with all other funds, interest, and payments credited to the Restricted Cash Account are referred to, collectively, as the Restricted Cash Amount). The Company shall ensure that the Restricted Cash Account maintains a balance of at least $16,773,000 until the Restricted Cash Account Termination Date. Pursuant to the Security Agreement, the Company will grant to the Collateral Agent, for the benefit of the Secured Parties, a security interest on a first priority basis in the Restricted Cash Account and all deposits therein to secure the Obligations pending disbursement as described below.
(b) The Restricted Cash Amount may only be released to the Company from the Restricted Cash Account in accordance with the following:
(i) Upon delivery to the Collateral Agent of an Officers Certificate of the Company certifying to the Collateral Agent that one hundred percent (100%) of the aggregate principal amount of the Initial Holder Existing Convertible Notes (x) have been converted into or exchanged for Capital Stock of the Company that is freely-transferrable by such Initial Holders in accordance with applicable laws or (y) repurchased or retired by the Company in accordance with Section 4.13(b) of this Indenture (the Release Conditions), (A) the Collateral Agent is irrevocably authorized to instruct the Restricted
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Cash Account Bank to release the Restricted Cash Amount to the Company and (B) the Collateral Agent shall no later than 10:00 a.m. New York City time on the Business Day immediately following the date of delivery of the certificate described in this clause (i), instruct the Restricted Cash Account Bank, in accordance with the requirements of the Restricted Cash Account Agreement, to promptly release the Restricted Cash Amount to the Company or its designee (as the Company may designate in writing).
(ii) If the Release Conditions have not been satisfied as of the date on which all amounts then due and payable by the Company under the Indenture or the Notes shall have been paid in full, the release of the Restricted Cash Amount and the termination of the Restricted Cash Account Agreement shall be consummated in accordance with Section 18.03 of this Indenture.
(c) Following the Restricted Cash Account Termination Date, the Company shall have no further obligation to maintain the Restricted Cash Account and the Collateral Agent is authorized and directed to terminate the Restricted Cash Account Agreement.
ARTICLE 5
LISTS OF HOLDERS AND REPORTS BY THE COMPANY AND THE TRUSTEE
Section 5.01. Lists of Holders. The Company covenants and agrees that it will furnish or cause to be furnished to the Trustee, semi-annually, no later than June 1 and December 1 in each year beginning with December 1, 2025, and at such other times as the Trustee may request in writing, within 15 days after receipt by the Company of any such request (or such lesser time as the Trustee may reasonably request in order to enable it to timely provide any notice to be provided by it hereunder), a list in such form as the Trustee may reasonably require of the names and addresses of the Holders as of a date not more than 15 days (or such other date as the Trustee may reasonably request in order to so provide any such notices) prior to the time such information is furnished, except that no such list need be furnished so long as the Trustee is acting as Note Registrar.
Section 5.02. Preservation and Disclosure of Lists. The Trustee shall preserve, in as current a form as is reasonably practicable, all information as to the names and addresses of the Holders contained in the most recent list furnished to it as provided in Section 5.01 or maintained by the Trustee in its capacity as Note Registrar, if so acting. The Trustee may destroy any list furnished to it as provided in Section 5.01 upon receipt of a new list so furnished.
ARTICLE 6
DEFAULTS AND REMEDIES
Section 6.01. Events of Default. Each of the following events shall be an Event of Default with respect to the Notes:
(a) default in any payment of interest on any Note when due and payable, and the default continues for a period of 30 days;
(b) default in the payment of principal of any Note when due and payable on the Maturity Date, upon Optional Redemption, upon any required repurchase, upon declaration of acceleration or otherwise;
(c) failure by the Company to comply with its obligation to convert the Notes in accordance with this Indenture upon exercise of a Holders conversion right, and such failure continues for three Business Days;
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(d) failure by the Company to issue (i) a Fundamental Change Company Notice in accordance with Section 15.02(c) when due, and such failure continues for three Business Days, (ii) notice of a specified corporate event in accordance with Section 14.01(c) when due or (iii) notice of a specified corporate event in accordance with 14.01(d) when due, and such failure continues for two Business Days;
(e) failure by the Company or a Guarantor to comply with its obligations under Article 11;
(f) failure by the Company or any of the Guarantors, as applicable, for 60 days after written notice to the Company from the Trustee or the Holders of at least 25% in principal amount of the Notes then outstanding has been received by the Company to comply with any of its other agreements contained in the Notes or this Indenture or the Collateral Documents;
(g) default by the Company or any Significant Subsidiary of the Company with respect to any mortgage, agreement or other instrument under which there may be outstanding, or by which there may be secured or evidenced, any indebtedness for money borrowed in excess of $45,000,000 (or its foreign currency equivalent) in the aggregate of the Company and/or any such Significant Subsidiary, whether such indebtedness now exists or shall hereafter be created (i) resulting in such indebtedness becoming or being declared due and payable prior to its stated maturity or (ii) constituting a failure to pay the principal of any such debt when due and payable at its stated maturity, upon required repurchase, upon declaration of acceleration or otherwise, in each case, after the expiration of any applicable grace period, if such acceleration shall not have been rescinded or annulled or such failure to pay or default shall not have been cured or waived, or such indebtedness shall not have been paid or discharged, as the case may be, within 30 days after written notice to the Company by the Trustee or to the Company and the Trustee by Holders of at least 25% in aggregate principal amount of Notes then outstanding in accordance with this Indenture;
(h) the Company or any Significant Subsidiary shall commence a voluntary case or other proceeding seeking liquidation, reorganization or other relief with respect to the Company or any such Significant Subsidiary or its debts under any bankruptcy, insolvency or other similar law now or hereafter in effect or seeking the appointment of a trustee, receiver, liquidator, custodian or other similar official of the Company or any such Significant Subsidiary or any substantial part of its property, or shall consent to any such relief or to the appointment of or taking possession by any such official in an involuntary case or other proceeding commenced against it, or shall make a general assignment for the benefit of creditors, or shall publicly admit in writing that it generally is not paying, or is unable to pay, its debts as they become due;
(i) an involuntary case or other proceeding shall be commenced against the Company or any Significant Subsidiary seeking liquidation, reorganization or other relief with respect to the Company or such Significant Subsidiary or its debts under any bankruptcy, insolvency or other similar law now or hereafter in effect or seeking the appointment of a trustee, receiver, liquidator, custodian or other similar official of the Company or such Significant Subsidiary or any substantial part of its property, and such involuntary case or other proceeding shall remain undismissed and unstayed for a period of 60 consecutive days;
(j) a final judgment for the payment of $45,000,000 (or its foreign currency equivalent) or more (excluding any amounts covered by insurance or third-party indemnity) in the aggregate rendered against the Company or any Significant Subsidiary of the Company, which judgment is not discharged or stayed within 60 days after (i) the date on which the right to appeal thereof has expired if no such appeal has commenced, or (ii) the date on which all rights to appeal have been extinguished;
(k) any security interest and Liens purported to be created by any Collateral Document on any material portion of the Collateral shall cease to be in full force and effect or shall cease to give the Collateral
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Agent, for the benefit of the Secured Parties, the Liens, rights, powers and privileges purported to be created and granted under such Collateral Documents (including a valid and perfected security interest in and Lien on all of the Collateral thereunder in favor of the Collateral Agent with the priority required by the Collateral Documents) with respect to a material portion of the Collateral, or shall be asserted by or on behalf of the Company not to be a valid and perfected security interest in or Lien on the Collateral covered thereby (in each case, except (i) the failure of the Collateral Agent to maintain possession of possessory Collateral received by it, which failure is not a direct result of any act, omission, advice or direction of the Company, (ii) to the extent permitted under the Indenture or the Collateral Documents or (iii) as a result of the satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture in accordance with Section 3.01); or
(l) a Note Guarantee of a Guarantor ceases to be in full force and effect (except as contemplated by the terms thereof) or the Company or Guarantor denies or disaffirms its obligations under this Indenture or any Guarantee with respect to the Notes (except as contemplated by the terms hereof or thereof).
Section 6.02. Acceleration; Rescission and Annulment. If one or more Events of Default shall have occurred and be continuing (whatever the reason for such Event of Default and whether it shall be voluntary or involuntary or be effected by operation of law or pursuant to any judgment, decree or order of any court or any order, rule or regulation of any administrative or governmental body), then, and in each and every such case (other than an Event of Default specified in Section 6.01(h) or Section 6.01 (i) with respect to the Company), unless the principal of all of the Notes shall have already become due and payable, either the Trustee or the Holders of at least 25% in aggregate principal amount of the Notes then outstanding determined in accordance with Section 8.04, by notice in writing to the Company (and to the Trustee if given by Holders), may declare 100% of the principal of, and accrued and unpaid interest on, all the Notes to be due and payable immediately, and upon any such declaration the same shall become and shall automatically be immediately due and payable, anything contained in this Indenture or in the Notes to the contrary notwithstanding. If an Event of Default specified in Section 6.01(h) or Section 6.01 (i) with respect to the Company occurs and is continuing, 100% of the principal of, and accrued and unpaid interest, if any, on, all Notes shall become and shall automatically be immediately due and payable without any act or declaration on the part of the trustee or any holder.
The immediately preceding paragraph, however, is subject to the conditions that if, at any time after the principal of the Notes shall have been so declared due and payable, and before any judgment or decree for the payment of the monies due shall have been obtained or entered as hereinafter provided, the Company shall pay or shall deposit with the Trustee a sum sufficient to pay installments of accrued and unpaid interest upon all Notes and the principal of any and all Notes that shall have become due otherwise than by acceleration (with interest on overdue installments of accrued and unpaid interest to the extent that payment of such interest is enforceable under applicable law, and on such principal at the rate borne by the Notes at such time) and amounts due to the Trustee or the Collateral Agent pursuant to Section 7.06 and Section 18.02(e), and if (1) rescission would not conflict with any judgment or decree of a court of competent jurisdiction and (2) any and all existing Events of Default under this Indenture, other than the nonpayment of the principal of and accrued and unpaid interest, if any, on Notes that shall have become due solely by such acceleration, shall have been cured or waived pursuant to Section 6.09, then and in every such case (except as provided in the immediately succeeding sentence) the Supermajority Holders, by written notice to the Company and to the Trustee, may waive all Defaults or Events of Default with respect to the Notes (except with respect to any continuing defaults relating to nonpayment of principal or any interest or with respect to the failure to deliver the consideration due upon conversion) and rescind and annul such declaration and its consequences and such Default shall cease to exist, and any Event of Default arising therefrom shall be deemed to have been cured for every purpose of this Indenture; but no such waiver or rescission and annulment shall extend to or shall affect any subsequent Default or Event of Default, or shall impair any right consequent thereon. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary
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herein, no such waiver or rescission and annulment shall extend to or shall affect any Default or Event of Default resulting from (i) the nonpayment of the principal (including the Fundamental Change Repurchase Price or the Redemption Price, if applicable) of, or accrued and unpaid interest on, any Notes, (ii) a failure to repurchase any Notes when required or (iii) a failure to pay or deliver, as the case may be, the consideration due upon conversion of the Notes.
Section 6.03. Additional Interest. Notwithstanding anything in this Indenture or in the Notes to the contrary, to the extent the Company elects, the sole remedy for an Event of Default relating to the Companys failure to comply with its obligations as set forth in Section 4.06(b)(i) (a Reporting Event of Default) shall after the occurrence of such an Event of Default consist exclusively of the right to receive Additional Interest on the Notes at a rate equal to: (i) 0.25% per annum of the principal amount of the Notes outstanding for each day during the period beginning on, and including, the date on which such Event of Default first occurs and ending on the earlier of (x) the date on which such Event of Default is cured or validly waived in accordance with this Article 6 and (y) the 180th day immediately following, and including, the date on which such Event of Default first occurs and (ii) if such Event of Default has not been cured or validly waived prior to the 181st day immediately following, and including, the date on which such Event of Default first occurs, 0.50% per annum of the principal amount of Notes outstanding for each day during the period beginning on, and including, the 181st day immediately following, and including, the date on which such Event of Default first occurs and ending on the earlier of (x) the date on which the Event of Default is cured or validly waived in accordance with this Article 6 and (y) the 360th day immediately following, and including, the date on which such Event of Default first occurs. Additional Interest payable pursuant to this Section 6.03 shall be in addition to, not in lieu of, any Additional Interest payable pursuant to Section 4.06(d) or Section 4.06(e), subject to the second immediately succeeding paragraph. If the Company so elects, such Additional Interest shall be payable in the same manner and on the same dates as the stated interest payable on the Notes and shall accrue on all outstanding Notes from, and including, the date on which the Reporting Event of Default first occurs to, and including, the 360th day thereafter (or such earlier date on which such Event of Default is cured or validly waived in accordance with this Article 6). On the 361st day after such Event of Default first occurs (if Reporting Event of Default is not cured or validly waived in accordance with this Article 6 prior to such 361st day), such Additional Interest shall cease to accrue and the Notes shall be immediately subject to acceleration as provided in Section 6.02. The provisions of this paragraph will not affect the rights of Holders of Notes in the event of the occurrence of any Event of Default other than a Reporting Event of Default. In the event the Company does not elect to pay Additional Interest following an Event of Default in accordance with this Section 6.03 or the Company has elected to make such payment but does not pay the Additional Interest when due, the Notes shall be immediately subject to acceleration as provided in Section 6.02.
In order to elect to pay Additional Interest as the sole remedy during the first 360 days after the occurrence of any Event of Default described in the immediately preceding paragraph, the Company must notify all Holders of the Notes, the Trustee and the Paying Agent in an Officers Certificate (consistent with Section 4.06(h)) of such election prior to the beginning of such 360-day period. Upon the failure to timely give such notice, the Notes shall be immediately subject to acceleration as provided in Section 6.02.
In no event shall Additional Interest payable at the Companys election as the remedy for an Event of Default relating to the Companys failure to comply with its reporting obligations as set forth in Section 4.06(b)(i), together with any Additional Interest that may accrue as a result of the Companys failure to timely file any document or report that it is required to file with the Commission pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act, as applicable (after giving effect to all applicable grace periods provided by Rule 12b-25 or any successor rule under the Exchange Act and other than reports on Form 8-K), pursuant to Section 4.06(d), accrue at a rate in excess of 0.50% per annum pursuant to this Indenture, regardless of the number of events or
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circumstances giving rise to the requirement to pay such Additional Interest. The Trustee shall have no duty to calculate or verify the calculation of Additional Interest.
Section 6.04. Payments of Notes on Default; Suit Therefor. If an Event of Default described in clause (a) or (b) of Section 6.01 shall have occurred, the Company shall, upon demand of the Trustee, pay to the Trustee, for the benefit of the Holders of the Notes, the whole amount then due and payable on the Notes for principal and interest, if any, with interest accruing on any overdue principal and interest, if any, at the rate borne by the Notes at such time, and, in addition thereto, such further amount as shall be sufficient to cover any amounts due to the Trustee and Collateral Agent under Section 7.06 and Section 18.02(e). If the Company shall fail to pay such amounts forthwith upon such demand, the Trustee, in its own name and as trustee of an express trust, or the Collateral Agent may institute a judicial proceeding for the collection of the sums so due and unpaid, may prosecute such proceeding to judgment or final decree and may enforce the same against the Company or any other obligor upon the Notes and collect the moneys adjudged or decreed to be payable in the manner provided by law out of the property of the Company or any other obligor upon the Notes, wherever situated.
In the event there shall be pending proceedings for the bankruptcy or for the reorganization of the Company or any other obligor on the Notes under Title 11 of the United States Code, or any other applicable law, or in case a receiver, assignee or trustee in bankruptcy or reorganization, liquidator, sequestrator or similar official shall have been appointed for or taken possession of the Company or such other obligor, the property of the Company or such other obligor, or in the event of any other judicial proceedings relative to the Company or such other obligor, or to the creditors or property of the Company or such other obligor, the Trustee, irrespective of whether the principal of the Notes shall then be due and payable as therein expressed or by declaration or otherwise and irrespective of whether the Trustee shall have made any demand pursuant to the provisions of this Section 6.04, shall be entitled and empowered, by intervention in such proceedings or otherwise, to file and prove a claim or claims for the whole amount of principal and accrued and unpaid interest, if any, in respect of the Notes, and, in case of any judicial proceedings, to file such proofs of claim and other papers or documents and to take such other actions as it may deem necessary or advisable in order to have the claims of the Trustee (including any claim for the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the Trustee and Collateral Agent and their agents and counsel) and of the Holders allowed in such judicial proceedings relative to the Company or any other obligor on the Notes, its or their creditors, or its or their property, and to collect and receive any monies or other property payable or deliverable on any such claims, and to distribute the same after the deduction of any amounts due to the Trustee and Collateral Agent under Section 7.06 Section 18.02(e); and any receiver, assignee or trustee in bankruptcy or reorganization, liquidator, custodian or similar official is hereby authorized by each of the Holders to make such payments to the Trustee, as administrative expenses, and, in the event that the Trustee shall consent to the making of such payments directly to the Holders, to pay to each of the Trustee and Collateral Agent any amount due it for reasonable compensation, expenses, advances and disbursements, including agents and counsel fees, and including any other amounts due to the Trustee and Collateral Agent under Section 7.06 and Section 18.02(e), incurred by it up to the date of such distribution. To the extent that such payment of reasonable compensation, expenses, advances and disbursements out of the estate in any such proceedings shall be denied for any reason, payment of the same shall be secured by a lien on, and shall be paid out of, any and all distributions, dividends, monies, securities and other property that the Holders of the Notes may be entitled to receive in such proceedings, whether in liquidation or under any plan of reorganization or arrangement or otherwise.
Nothing herein contained shall be deemed to authorize the Trustee to authorize or consent to or accept or adopt on behalf of any Holder any plan of reorganization, arrangement, adjustment or composition affecting
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such Holder or the rights of any Holder thereof, or to authorize the Trustee to vote in respect of the claim of any Holder in any such proceeding.
All rights of action and of asserting claims under this Indenture, or under any of the Notes, may be enforced by the Trustee without the possession of any of the Notes, or the production thereof at any trial or other proceeding relative thereto, and any such suit or proceeding instituted by the Trustee shall be brought in its own name as trustee of an express trust, and any recovery of judgment shall, after provision for the payment of the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the Trustee, the Collateral Agent and their agents and counsel, be for the ratable benefit of the Holders of the Notes.
In any proceedings brought by the Trustee (and in any proceedings involving the interpretation of any provision of this Indenture to which the Trustee shall be a party) the Trustee shall be held to represent all the Holders of the Notes, and it shall not be necessary to make any Holders of the Notes parties to any such proceedings.
In case the Trustee shall have proceeded to enforce any right under this Indenture and such proceedings shall have been discontinued or abandoned because of any waiver pursuant to Section 6.09 or any rescission and annulment pursuant to Section 6.02 or for any other reason or shall have been determined adversely to the Trustee, then and in every such case the Company, the Holders and the Trustee shall, subject to any determination in such proceeding, be restored respectively to their several positions and rights hereunder, and all rights, remedies and powers of the Company, the Holders and the Trustee shall continue as though no such proceeding had been instituted.
Section 6.05. Application of Monies Collected by Trustee. Any monies or property collected by the Trustee pursuant to this Article 6 with respect to the Notes shall be applied in the following order, at the date or dates fixed by the Trustee for the distribution of such monies or property, upon presentation of the several Notes, and stamping thereon the payment, if only partially paid, and upon surrender thereof, if fully paid:
First, to the payment of all amounts due the Trustee (in each of its capacities under this Indenture) and the Collateral Agent, including their agents and counsel, under Section 7.06 and Section 18.02(e);
Second, in case the principal of the outstanding Notes shall not have become due and be unpaid, to the payment of interest on, and any cash due upon conversion of, the Notes in default in the order of the date due of the payments of such interest and cash due upon conversion, as the case may be, with interest (to the extent that such interest has been collected by the Trustee) upon such overdue payments at the rate borne by the Notes at such time, such payments to be made ratably to the Persons entitled thereto;
Third, in case the principal of the outstanding Notes shall have become due, by declaration or otherwise, and be unpaid to the payment of the whole amount (including, if applicable, the payment of the Fundamental Change Repurchase Price, the Redemption Price and any cash due upon conversion) then owing and unpaid upon the Notes for principal and interest, if any, with interest (to the extent that such interest has been collected by the Trustee) on the overdue principal and, to the extent that such interest and has been collected by the Trustee, upon overdue installments of interest at the rate borne by the Notes at such time, and in case such monies shall be insufficient to pay in full the whole amounts so due and unpaid upon the Notes, then to the payment of such principal (including, if applicable, the Fundamental Change Repurchase Price, the Redemption Price and any cash due upon conversion) and interest without preference or priority of principal over interest, or of interest over principal or of any installment of interest over any other installment of interest, or of any Note over any other Note, ratably to the aggregate of such principal (including, if applicable, the
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Fundamental Change Repurchase Price, the Redemption Price and any cash due upon conversion) and accrued and unpaid interest; and
Fourth, to the payment of the remainder, if any, to the Company or, to the extent the Trustee collects any amount for any Guarantor, to such Guarantor.
Section 6.06. Proceedings by Holders. Except to enforce the right to receive payment of principal (including, if applicable, the Fundamental Change Repurchase Price or the Redemption Price) or interest when due, or the right to receive payment or delivery of the consideration due upon conversion, no Holder of any Note shall have any right by virtue of or by availing of any provision of this Indenture to institute any suit, action or proceeding in equity or at law upon or under or with respect to this Indenture, or for the appointment of a receiver, trustee, liquidator, custodian or other similar official, or for any other remedy hereunder, unless:
(a) such Holder previously shall have given to the Trustee written notice of an Event of Default and of the continuance thereof, as herein provided;
(b) Holders of at least 25% in aggregate principal amount of the Notes then outstanding shall have made written request upon the Trustee to institute such action, suit or proceeding in its own name as Trustee hereunder;
(c) such Holders shall have offered to the Trustee and Collateral Agent such security and/or indemnity satisfactory to the Trustee and the Collateral Agent against any loss, cost, liability or expense to be incurred therein or thereby;
(d) the Trustee for 60 days after its receipt of such notice, request and offer of such security and/or indemnity, shall have neglected or refused to institute any such action, suit or proceeding; and
(e) no direction that, in the opinion of the Trustee, is inconsistent with such written request shall have been given to the Trustee by the Supermajority Holders within such 60-day period pursuant to Section 6.09,
it being understood and intended, and being expressly covenanted by the taker and Holder of every Note with every other taker and Holder and the Trustee that no one or more Holders shall have any right in any manner whatever by virtue of or by availing of any provision of this Indenture to affect, disturb or prejudice the rights of any other Holder, or to obtain or seek to obtain priority over or preference to any other such Holder, or to enforce any right under this Indenture, except in the manner herein provided and for the equal, ratable and common benefit of all Holders (except as otherwise provided herein). For the protection and enforcement of this Section 6.06, each and every Holder and the Trustee shall be entitled to such relief as can be given either at law or in equity.
Notwithstanding any other provision of this Indenture and any provision of any Note, each Holder shall have the contractual right to receive payment or delivery, as the case may be, of (x) the principal (including the Fundamental Change Repurchase Price or the Redemption Price, if applicable) of, (y) accrued and unpaid interest, if any, on, and (z) the consideration due upon conversion of, such Note, on or after the respective due dates expressed or provided for in such Note or in this Indenture, and the contractual right to institute suit for the enforcement of any such payment or delivery, as the case may be, on or after such respective dates, shall not be amended without the consent of each Holder.
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Section 6.07. Proceedings by Trustee. In case of an Event of Default, the Trustee may in its discretion proceed to protect and enforce the rights vested in it by this Indenture by such appropriate judicial proceedings as are necessary to protect and enforce any of such rights, either by suit in equity or by action at law or by proceeding in bankruptcy or otherwise, whether for the specific enforcement of any covenant or agreement contained in this Indenture or in aid of the exercise of any power granted in this Indenture, or to enforce any other legal or equitable right vested in the Trustee by this Indenture or by law.
Section 6.08. Remedies Cumulative and Continuing. Except as provided in the last paragraph of Section 2.06, all powers and remedies given by this Article 6 to the Trustee or to the Holders shall, to the extent permitted by law, be deemed cumulative and not exclusive of any thereof or of any other powers and remedies available to the Trustee or the Holders of the Notes, by judicial proceedings or otherwise, to enforce the performance or observance of the covenants and agreements contained in this Indenture, and no delay or omission of the Trustee or of any Holder of any of the Notes to exercise any right or power accruing upon any Default or Event of Default shall impair any such right or power, or shall be construed to be a waiver of any such Default or Event of Default or any acquiescence therein; and, subject to the provisions of Section 6.06, every power and remedy given by this Article 6 or by law to the Trustee or to the Holders may be exercised from time to time, and as often as shall be deemed expedient, by the Trustee or by the Holders.
Section 6.09. Direction of Proceedings and Waiver of Defaults by Supermajority of Holders. Subject to the Trustees and Collateral Agents right to receive security and/or indemnity from the relevant Holders as described herein, the Supermajority Holders shall have the right to direct the time, method and place of conducting any proceeding for any remedy available to the Trustee or the Collateral Agent or exercising any trust or power conferred on the Trustee or the Collateral Agent with respect to the Notes; provided, however, that (a) such direction shall not be in conflict with any rule of law or with this Indenture, and (b) the Trustee and Collateral Agent may take any other action deemed proper by the Trustee that is not inconsistent with such direction. The Trustee and the Collateral Agent, as applicable, may refuse to follow any direction that it determines is unduly prejudicial to the rights of any other Holder or that would involve the Trustee or Collateral Agent in personal liability (it being understood that the Trustee shall not have an affirmative duty to ascertain whether or not such direction would be unduly prejudicial to any other Holder) or that conflicts with applicable law or this Indenture. The Supermajority Holders (including consents obtained in connection with a tender offer or exchange offer for, or purchase of, the Notes) may on behalf of the Holders of all of the Notes (x) waive any past Default or Event of Default hereunder and its consequences except a default in the payment of accrued and unpaid interest, if any, on, or the principal (including any Fundamental Change Repurchase Price or Redemption Price, if applicable) of, the Notes when due that has not been cured pursuant to the provisions of Section 6.01, a failure by the Company to pay or deliver, as the case may be, the consideration due upon conversion of the Notes or a default in respect of a covenant or provision hereof which under Article 10 cannot be modified or amended without the consent of each Holder of an outstanding Note affected; and (y) rescind any resulting acceleration of the Notes and its consequences if (i) such rescission would not conflict with any judgment or decree of a court of competent jurisdiction and (ii) all existing Events of Default (other than nonpayment of the principal of, and interest on, the Notes that have become due solely by such acceleration) have been cured or waived. Upon any such waiver the Company, the Trustee and the Holders of the Notes shall be restored to their former positions and rights hereunder; but no such waiver shall extend to any subsequent or other Default or Event of Default or impair any right consequent thereon. Whenever any Default or Event of Default hereunder shall have been waived as permitted by this Section 6.09, said Default or Event of Default shall for all purposes of the Notes and this Indenture be deemed to have been cured and to be not continuing; but no such waiver shall extend to any subsequent or other Default or Event of Default or impair any right consequent thereon.
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Section 6.10. Notice of Defaults. The Trustee shall, after the occurrence and continuance of a Default of which a Responsible Officer has received written notice thereof, deliver to all Holders notice of such Default within 90 days after such Responsible Officer receives such notice, unless such Defaults shall have been cured or waived before the giving of such notice; provided that, except in the case of a Default in the payment of the principal of (including the Fundamental Change Repurchase Price or the Redemption Price, if applicable), or accrued and unpaid interest on, any of the Notes or a Default in the payment or delivery of the consideration due upon conversion, the Trustee shall be protected in withholding such notice if and so long as a Responsible Officer of the Trustee in good faith determines that the withholding of such notice is in the interests of the Holders.
Section 6.11. Undertaking to Pay Costs. All parties to this Indenture agree, and each Holder of any Note by its acceptance thereof shall be deemed to have agreed, that any court may, in its discretion, require, in any suit for the enforcement of any right or remedy under this Indenture, or in any suit against the Trustee for any action taken or omitted by it as Trustee, the filing by any party litigant in such suit of an undertaking to pay the costs of such suit and that such court may in its discretion assess reasonable costs, including reasonable attorneys fees and expenses, against any party litigant in such suit, having due regard to the merits and good faith of the claims or defenses made by such party litigant; provided that the provisions of this Section 6.11 (to the extent permitted by law) shall not apply to any suit instituted by the Trustee, to any suit instituted by any Holder, or group of Holders, holding in the aggregate more than 10% in principal amount of the Notes at the time outstanding determined in accordance with Section 8.04, or to any suit instituted by any Holder for the enforcement of the payment of the principal of or accrued and unpaid interest, if any, on any Note (including, but not limited to, the Fundamental Change Repurchase Price or the Redemption Price, if applicable) on or after the due date expressed or provided for in such Note or to any suit for the enforcement of the right to convert any Note, or receive the consideration due upon conversion, in accordance with the provisions of Article 14.
ARTICLE 7
CONCERNING THE TRUSTEE
Section 7.01. Duties and Responsibilities of Trustee.
(a) Except during the continuance of an Event of Default of which a Responsible Officer of the Trustee has received written notice in accordance with the provisions herein,
(1) the Trustee undertakes to perform such duties and obligations and only such duties and obligations as are specifically set forth in this Indenture, and no implied covenants or obligations shall be read into this Indenture against the Trustee; and
(2) in the absence of bad faith or willful misconduct on its part, the Trustee may conclusively rely, as to the truth of the statements and the correctness of the opinions expressed therein, upon certificates or opinions furnished to the Trustee and conforming to the requirements of this Indenture; but in the case of any such certificates or opinions which by any provision hereof are specifically required to be furnished to the Trustee, the Trustee shall be under a duty to examine the same to determine whether or not they conform to the requirements of this Indenture (but need not confirm or investigate the accuracy of mathematical calculations or other facts stated therein).
(b) In case an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing of which a Responsible Officer of the Trustee has received written notice in accordance with the provisions herein, the Trustee shall exercise such of the rights and powers vested in it by this Indenture, and use the same degree of care and skill in their exercise, as a prudent person would exercise or use under the circumstances in the conduct of his or her own affairs.
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(c) No provision of this Indenture shall be construed to relieve the Trustee from liability for its own grossly negligent action, its own grossly negligent failure to act, or its own willful misconduct, except that:
(1) this Subsection shall not be construed to limit the effect of Subsection (a) of this Section;
(2) the Trustee shall not be liable for any error of judgement made in good faith by a Responsible Officer, unless it shall be proved that the Trustee was grossly negligent in ascertaining the pertinent facts;
(3) the Trustee shall not be liable with respect to any action taken or omitted to be taken by it in good faith in accordance with the direction of the Supermajority Holders, relating to the time, method and place of conducting any proceeding for any remedy available to the Trustee, or exercising any trust or power conferred upon the Trustee, under this Indenture; and
(4) no provision of this Indenture shall require the Trustee to expend or risk its own funds or otherwise incur any financial liability in the performance of any of its duties hereunder, or in the exercise of any of its rights or powers, if it shall have reasonable grounds for believing that repayment of such funds or adequate indemnity against such risk or liability is not reasonably assured to it.
(d) Whether or not therein expressly so provided, every provision of this Indenture relating to the conduct or affecting the liability of or affording protection to the Trustee shall be subject to the provisions of this Section.
Section 7.02. Rights of the Trustee. Except as otherwise provided in Section 7.01:
(a) The Trustee may conclusively rely and shall be fully protected in acting upon any resolution, certificate, statement, instrument, opinion, report, notice, request, consent, order, bond, note, coupon or other paper or document (whether in original or electronic form) believed by it in good faith to be genuine and to have been signed or presented by the proper party or parties.
(b) Any request, direction, order or demand of the Company mentioned herein shall be sufficiently evidenced by an Officers Certificate (unless other evidence in respect thereof be herein specifically prescribed); and any Board Resolution may be evidenced to the Trustee by a copy thereof certified by the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary of the Company. Before the Trustee acts or refrains from acting, it may require an Officers Certificate or an Opinion of Counsel or both. The Trustee shall not be liable for any action it takes or omits to take in good faith in reliance on such Officers Certificate or Opinion of Counsel.
(c) The Trustee may consult with counsel and require an Opinion of Counsel and any written or verbal advice of such counsel or Opinion of Counsel shall be full and complete authorization and protection in respect of any action taken or omitted by it hereunder in good faith and in reliance on such advice or Opinion of Counsel.
(d) The Trustee shall not be bound to make any investigation into the facts or matters stated in any resolution, certificate, statement, instrument, opinion, report, notice, request, direction, consent, order, bond, debenture or other paper or document, but the Trustee, in its discretion, may make such further inquiry or investigation into such facts or matters as it may see fit, and, if the Trustee shall determine to make such further inquiry or investigation, it shall be entitled, at a reasonable time on any Business Day after reasonable notice, to examine the books, records and premises of the Company, personally or by agent or attorney at the expense of the Company and shall incur no liability of any kind by reason of such inquiry or investigation.
(e) The Trustee may execute any of the trusts or powers hereunder or perform any duties hereunder either directly or by or through agents, custodians, nominees or attorneys and the Trustee shall not be
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responsible for any misconduct or negligence on the part of any agent, custodian, nominee or attorney appointed by it with due care hereunder. The permissive rights of the Trustee enumerated herein shall not be construed as duties.
(f) The Trustee shall not be required to give any bond or surety in respect of the execution of the trusts and powers under this Indenture.
(g) The Trustee may request that the Company deliver an Officers Certificate setting forth the names of individuals and/or titles of officers authorized at such time to take specified actions pursuant to this Indenture, which Officers Certificate may be signed by any Person authorized to sign an Officers Certificate, including any Person specified as so authorized in any such certificate previously delivered and not superseded.
(h) The Trustee shall not be deemed to have notice or knowledge of any Default or Event of Default, unless written notice of any event which is in fact such a Default or Event of Default (and stating the occurrence of a Default or Event of Default) is received by a Responsible Officer of the Trustee at the Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee, and such notice references the Notes and this Indenture.
(i) The Trustee shall not be responsible or liable for any action it takes or omits to take in good faith which it reasonably believes to be authorized or within its rights or powers.
(j) Neither the Trustee nor any of its directors, officers, employees, agents or affiliates shall be responsible for nor have any duty to monitor the performance or any action of the Company, or any of their respective directors, members, officers, agents, affiliates or employee, nor shall it have any liability in connection with the malfeasance or nonfeasance by such party. The Trustee shall not be responsible for any inaccuracy in the information obtained from the Company or for any inaccuracy or omission in the records which may result from such information or any failure by the Trustee to perform its duties as set forth herein as a result of any inaccuracy or incompleteness.
(k) In no event shall the Trustee be responsible or liable for any punitive, special, indirect or consequential loss or damage of any kind whatsoever (including but not limited to lost profits), even if the Trustee has been advised of the likelihood of such loss or damage and regardless of the form of action.
(l) Neither the Trustee nor any Agent shall have any responsibility or liability for any actions taken or not taken by the Depositary.
(m) The Trustee shall be under no obligation to exercise any of the rights or powers vested in it by this Indenture at the request or direction of any of the Holders pursuant to this Indenture, unless such Holders shall have offered to the Trustee security and/or indemnity satisfactory to the Trustee against the costs, expenses and liabilities which might be incurred by it in compliance with such request or direction.
(n) The rights, privileges, protections, immunities and benefits given to the Trustee, including, without limitation, its right to be indemnified, are extended to, and shall be enforceable by, the Trustee in each of its capacities hereunder, including as Collateral Agent and Conversion Agent, and each agent, custodian and other Person employed to act hereunder.
(o) Whenever in the administration of this Indenture the Trustee shall deem it desirable that a matter be proved or established prior to taking, suffering or omitting any action hereunder, the Trustee (unless other evidence be herein specifically prescribed) may, in the absence of bad faith on its part, conclusively rely upon an Officers Certificate.
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(p) In the absence of written investment direction from the Company, all cash received by the Trustee shall remain uninvested and be placed in a non-interest bearing trust account, and in no event shall the Trustee be liable for the selection of investments or for investment losses incurred thereon.
(q) The Trustee may retain professional advisers to assist it in performing its duties under this Indenture and the other Note Documents. The Trustee may consult with counsel, and the advice or opinion of counsel with respect to legal matters relating to this Indenture, the Notes and the Note Documents shall be full and complete authorization and protection from liability in respect of any action taken, omitted or suffered by it hereunder in good faith and in accordance with the advice or opinion of such counsel.
(r) In the event the Trustee receives inconsistent or conflicting requests and indemnity from two or more groups of Holders, each representing less than the majority in aggregate principal amount of the Notes then outstanding, pursuant to the provisions of this Indenture, the Trustee, in its sole discretion, may determine what action, if any, shall be taken and shall be held harmless and shall not incur any liability for its failure to act until such inconsistency or conflict is, in their reasonable opinion, resolved.
(s) Unless otherwise specifically provided in this Indenture, any demand, request, direction or notice from the Issuer will be sufficient if signed by one Officer of the Issuer.
(t) The Trustee may refrain from taking any action in any jurisdiction if the taking of such action would, in its opinion, based upon legal advice, be contrary to any law, rule or regulation of that jurisdiction, including of the State of New York.
(u) Neither the Trustee nor the Registrar shall have any obligation or duty to monitor, determine or inquire as to compliance with any restrictions on transfer imposed under this Indenture or the Notes or under applicable law with respect to any transfer of any interest in any Note (including any transfers between or among Depositary participants, members or beneficial owners in any Global Note) 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.
(v) The Trustee shall not be deemed to have knowledge of any fact or matter unless such fact or matter is known to a Responsible Officer of the Trustee.
(w) The permissive rights of the Trustee enumerated herein and under the Collateral Documents shall not be construed as duties of the Trustee.
(x) The Trustee will not be liable to any person if prevented or delayed in performing any of its obligations or discretionary functions under this Indenture by reason of any present or future law applicable to it, by any governmental or regulatory authority or by any circumstances beyond its control.
(y) No provision of this Indenture shall require the Trustee to do anything which, in its opinion, may be illegal or contrary to applicable law or regulation. The Trustee may refrain from taking any action in any jurisdiction if the taking of such action in that jurisdiction would, in its opinion, be contrary to any law of that jurisdiction including but not limited the United States of America (or any jurisdiction forming a part of it), the European Union or any other country, or any directive or regulation of any agency of any state or jurisdiction and may, without liability, do anything which is, in its reasonable opinion, necessary to comply with any such law.
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(z) The Trustee may assume without inquiry, in the absence of actual knowledge or written notice, that the Issuer is duly complying with their obligations contained in this Indenture required to be observed and performed by them, and that no Default or Event of Default or other event that would require repayment of the Notes has occurred.
(aa) The Trustee shall be entitled to make payments net of any Taxes or other sums required by any applicable law to be withheld or deducted.
(bb) At any time that the security granted pursuant to the Collateral Documents has become enforceable and the Holders have given a direction to the Trustee to enforce such security, the Trustee is not required to give any direction to the Collateral Agent with respect thereto unless it has been indemnified and secured in accordance with the provisions hereof. In any event, in connection with any enforcement of such security, the Trustee is not responsible for:
(i) any failure of the Collateral Agent to enforce such security within a reasonable time or at all;
(ii) any failure of the Collateral Agent to pay over the proceeds of enforcement of the Collateral;
(iii) any failure of the Collateral Agent to realize such security for the best price obtainable;
(iv) monitoring the activities of the Collateral Agent in relation to such enforcement;
(v) taking any enforcement action itself in relation to such security;
(vi) agreeing to any proposed course of action by the Collateral Agent which could result in the Trustee incurring any liability for its own account; or
(vii) paying any fees, costs or expenses of the Collateral Agent.
Section 7.03. No Responsibility for Recitals, Etc. The recitals contained herein and in the Notes (except in the Trustees certificate of authentication) shall be taken as the statements of the Company, and the Trustee assumes no responsibility for the correctness of the same. The Trustee makes no representations as to the validity, sufficiency or enforceability of this Indenture or of the Notes or any other documents used in connection with the sale or distribution of the Notes. The Trustee shall not be accountable for the use or application by the Company of any Notes or the proceeds of any Notes authenticated and delivered by the Trustee in conformity with the provisions of this Indenture or any money paid to the Company or upon the Companys direction under any provision of the Indenture. The Trustee shall have no responsibility or liability with respect to any disclosure material prepared or distributed with respect to the issuance of the Notes. The Trustee shall not be bound to ascertain or inquire as to the performance, observance or breach of any covenants, conditions, representations, warranties or agreements on the part of the Company. The Trustee shall have no obligation to pursue any action that is not in accordance with applicable law.
Section 7.04. Trustee, Paying Agents, Conversion Agents, Bid Solicitation Agent or Note Registrar May Own Notes. The Trustee, any Paying Agent, any Conversion Agent, Bid Solicitation Agent or Note Registrar (in each case, if other than an Affiliate of the Company), in its individual or any other capacity, may
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become the owner or pledgee of Notes with the same rights it would have if it were not the Trustee, Paying Agent, Conversion Agent, Bid Solicitation Agent or Note Registrar.
Section 7.05. Monies to Be Held in Trust. All monies received by the Trustee shall, until used or applied as herein provided, be held in trust for the purposes for which they were received. Money held by the Trustee in trust hereunder need not be segregated from other funds except to the extent required by law. The Trustee shall be under no liability for interest on any money received by it hereunder except as may be agreed from time to time by the Company and the Trustee.
Section 7.06. Compensation and Expenses of Trustee. The Company and each Guarantor, jointly and severally, covenants and agrees to pay to the Trustee, in any capacity under this Indenture from time to time, and the Trustee shall be entitled to, compensation for all services rendered by it hereunder in any capacity (which shall not be limited by any provision of law in regard to the compensation of a trustee of an express trust) as mutually agreed to in writing between the Trustee and the Company, and the Company and each Guarantor, jointly and severally, agreed it will pay or reimburse the Trustee upon its request for all reasonable and documented expenses, disbursements and advances reasonably incurred or made by the Trustee in accordance with any of the provisions of this Indenture in any capacity thereunder (including the compensation and the reasonable and documented expenses and disbursements of its agents and counsel and of all Persons not regularly in its employ) except any such expense, disbursement or advance as shall have been caused by the Trustees own gross negligence or willful misconduct as adjudicated by a final non-appealable decision of a court of competent jurisdiction. The Company and each Guarantor, jointly and severally, covenants and agrees to indemnify each of the Trustee or any predecessor Trustee, in each case, in any capacity under this Indenture, and their respective agents for, and to hold them harmless against, any and all loss, damage, claims, liability or expense, including taxes (other than taxes based upon, measured by or determined by the income of the Trustee (however denominated)), arising out of or in connection with the acceptance or administration of the trust or trusts hereunder, including the costs and expenses of defending itself against any claim (whether asserted by the Company, or any Holder or any other Person) or liability in connection with the exercise or performance of any of its powers or duties hereunder, or in connection with enforcing the provisions of this Section, except to the extent that such loss, damage, claim, liability or expense is due to its own gross negligence or willful misconduct as adjudicated by a final non-appealable decision of a court of competent jurisdiction. The obligations of the Company and each Guarantor under this Section 7.06 to compensate or indemnify the Trustee and to pay or reimburse the Trustee for expenses, disbursements and advances shall be secured by a senior lien to which the Notes are hereby made subordinate on all money or property held or collected by the Trustee, except, subject to the effect of Section 6.05, funds held in trust herewith for the benefit of the Holders of particular Notes. The Trustees right to receive payment of any amounts due under this Section 7.06 shall not be subordinate to any other liability or indebtedness of the Company. The obligation of the Company and each Guarantor under this Section 7.06 shall survive the satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture and the earlier resignation or removal of the Trustee. The Company and the Guarantors need not pay for any settlement made without the Companys consent, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld. The indemnification provided in this Section 7.06 shall extend to the officers, directors, agents and employees of the Trustee, in any of its capacities hereunder.
Without prejudice to any other rights available to the Trustee under applicable law, when the Trustee and its agents and any authenticating agent incur expenses or render services after an Event of Default specified in Section 6.01(h) or Section 6.01 (i) occurs, the expenses and the compensation for the services are intended to constitute expenses of administration under any bankruptcy, insolvency or similar laws.
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Section 7.07. Officers Certificate as Evidence. Except as otherwise provided in Section 7.01, whenever in the administration of the provisions of this Indenture the Trustee shall deem it necessary or desirable that a matter be proved or established prior to taking or omitting any action hereunder, such matter (unless other evidence in respect thereof be herein specifically prescribed) may, in the absence of gross negligence and willful misconduct on the part of the Trustee, be deemed to be conclusively proved and established by an Officers Certificate delivered to the Trustee, and such Officers Certificate, in the absence of gross negligence and willful misconduct on the part of the Trustee, shall be full warrant to the Trustee for any action taken or omitted by it under the provisions of this Indenture upon the faith thereof.
Section 7.08. Eligibility of Trustee. There shall at all times be a Trustee hereunder which shall be a Person that is eligible pursuant to the Trust Indenture Act (as if the Trust Indenture Act were applicable hereto) to act as such and has a combined capital and surplus of at least $50,000,000. If such Person publishes reports of condition at least annually, pursuant to law or to the requirements of any supervising or examining authority, then for the purposes of this Section, the combined capital and surplus of such Person shall be deemed to be its combined capital and surplus as set forth in its most recent report of condition so published. If at any time the Trustee shall cease to be eligible in accordance with the provisions of this Section, it shall resign immediately in the manner and with the effect hereinafter specified in this Article.
Section 7.09. Resignation or Removal of Trustee. The Trustee may at any time resign by giving written notice of such resignation to the Company. Upon receiving such notice of resignation, the Company shall promptly notify all Holders and appoint a successor trustee by written instrument, in duplicate, executed by order of the Board of Directors, one copy of which instrument shall be delivered to the resigning Trustee and one copy to the successor trustee. If no successor trustee shall have been so appointed and have accepted appointment within 60 days after the giving of such notice of resignation to the Holders, the resigning Trustee may, upon ten Business Days notice to the Company and the Holders and at the expense of the Company, petition any court of competent jurisdiction for the appointment of a successor trustee, or any Holder who has been a bona fide holder of a Note or Notes for at least six months (or since the date of this Indenture) may, subject to the provisions of Section 6.11, on behalf of himself or herself and all others similarly situated, petition any such court for the appointment of a successor trustee. Such court may thereupon, after such notice, if any, as it may deem proper and prescribe, appoint a successor trustee.
(a) In case at any time any of the following shall occur:
(i) the Trustee shall cease to be eligible in accordance with the provisions of Section 7.08 and shall fail to resign after written request therefor by the Company or by any such Holder, or
(ii) the Trustee shall become incapable of acting, or shall be adjudged a bankrupt or insolvent, or a receiver of the Trustee or of its property shall be appointed, or any public officer shall take charge or control of the Trustee or of its property or affairs for the purpose of rehabilitation, conservation or liquidation, then, in either case, the Company may by a Board Resolution remove the Trustee and appoint a successor trustee by written instrument, in duplicate, executed by order of the Board of Directors, one copy of which instrument shall be delivered to the Trustee so removed and one copy to the successor trustee, or, subject to the provisions of Section 6.11, any Holder who has been a bona fide holder of a Note or Notes for at least six months (or since the date of this Indenture) may, on behalf of himself or herself and all others similarly situated, petition any court of competent jurisdiction at the expense of the Company for the removal of the Trustee and the appointment of a successor trustee. Such court may thereupon, after such notice, if any, as it may deem proper and prescribe, remove the Trustee and appoint a successor trustee.
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(b) The Supermajority Holders, may at any time remove the Trustee and nominate a successor trustee that shall be deemed appointed as successor trustee unless within ten days after notice to the Company of such nomination the Company objects thereto, in which case the Trustee so removed or any Holder, upon the terms and conditions and otherwise as in Section 7.09(a) provided, may petition any court of competent jurisdiction for an appointment of a successor trustee.
(c) Any resignation or removal of the Trustee and appointment of a successor trustee pursuant to any of the provisions of this Section 7.09 shall become effective upon acceptance of appointment by the successor trustee as provided in Section 7.10.
Section 7.10. Acceptance by Successor Trustee. Any successor trustee appointed as provided in Section 7.09 shall execute, acknowledge and deliver to the Company and to its predecessor trustee an instrument accepting such appointment hereunder, and thereupon the resignation or removal of the predecessor trustee shall become effective and such successor trustee, without any further act, deed or conveyance, shall become vested with all the rights, powers, duties and obligations of its predecessor hereunder, with like effect as if originally named as Trustee herein; but, nevertheless, on the written request of the Company or of the successor trustee, the trustee ceasing to act shall, upon payment of any amounts then due it pursuant to the provisions of Section 7.06, execute and deliver an instrument transferring to such successor trustee all the rights and powers of the trustee so ceasing to act. Upon request of any such successor trustee, the Company shall execute any and all instruments in writing for more fully and certainly vesting in and confirming to such successor trustee all such rights and powers. Any trustee ceasing to act shall, nevertheless, retain a senior lien to which the Notes are hereby made subordinate on all money or property held or collected by such trustee as such, except for funds held in trust for the benefit of Holders of particular Notes, to secure any amounts then due it pursuant to the provisions of Section 7.06.
No successor trustee shall accept appointment as provided in this Section 7.10 unless at the time of such acceptance such successor trustee shall be eligible under the provisions of Section 7.08.
Upon acceptance of appointment by a successor trustee as provided in this Section 7.10, each of the Company and the successor trustee, at the written direction and at the expense of the Company shall deliver or cause to be delivered notice of the succession of such trustee hereunder to the Holders. If the Company fails to deliver such notice within ten days after acceptance of appointment by the successor trustee, the successor trustee shall cause such notice to be delivered at the expense of the Company.
Section 7.11. Succession by Merger, Etc. Any corporation or other entity into which the Trustee may be merged or converted or with which it may be consolidated, or to which the Trustee may sell or transfer all or substantially all of its corporate trust business, or any corporation or other entity resulting from any merger, conversion or consolidation to which the Trustee shall be a party, or any corporation or other entity succeeding to all or substantially all of the corporate trust business of the Trustee (including the administration of this Indenture), shall be the successor to the Trustee hereunder without the execution or filing of any paper or any further act on the part of any of the parties hereto; provided that in the case of any corporation or other entity succeeding to all or substantially all of the corporate trust business of the Trustee such corporation or other entity shall be eligible under the provisions of Section 7.08.
In case at the time such successor to the Trustee shall succeed to the trusts created by this Indenture, any of the Notes shall have been authenticated but not delivered, any such successor to the Trustee may adopt the certificate of authentication of any predecessor trustee or authenticating agent appointed by such predecessor trustee, and deliver such Notes so authenticated; and in case at that time any of the Notes shall not have been authenticated, any successor to the Trustee or an authenticating agent appointed by such successor trustee may
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authenticate such Notes either in the name of any predecessor trustee hereunder or in the name of the successor trustee; and in all such cases such certificates shall have the full force which it is anywhere in the Notes or in this Indenture provided that the certificate of the Trustee shall have; provided, however, that the right to adopt the certificate of authentication of any predecessor trustee or to authenticate Notes in the name of any predecessor trustee shall apply only to its successor or successors by merger, conversion or consolidation.
Section 7.12. Trustees Application for Instructions from the Company. Any application by the Trustee for written instructions from the Company (other than with regard to any action proposed to be taken or omitted to be taken by the Trustee that affects the rights of the Holders of the Notes under this Indenture) may, at the option of the Trustee, set forth in writing any action proposed to be taken or omitted by the Trustee under this Indenture and the date on and/or after which such action shall be taken or such omission shall be effective. The Trustee shall not be liable to the Company for any action taken by, or omission of, the Trustee in accordance with a proposal included in such application on or after the date specified in such application (which date shall not be less than three Business Days after the date any officer that the Company has indicated to the Trustee should receive such application actually receives such application, unless any such officer shall have consented in writing to any earlier date), unless, prior to taking any such action (or the effective date in the case of any omission), the Trustee shall have received written instructions in accordance with this Indenture in response to such application specifying the action to be taken or omitted.
ARTICLE 8
CONCERNING THE HOLDERS
Section 8.01. Action by Holders. Whenever in this Indenture it is provided that the Holders of a specified percentage of the aggregate principal amount of the Notes may take any action (including the making of any demand or request, the giving of any notice, consent or waiver or the taking of any other action), the fact that at the time of taking any such action, the Holders of such specified percentage have joined therein may be evidenced (a) by any instrument or any number of instruments of similar tenor executed by Holders in person or by agent or proxy appointed in writing, or (b) by the record of the Holders voting in favor thereof at any meeting of Holders duly called and held in accordance with the provisions of Article 9, or (c) by a combination of such instrument or instruments and any such record of such a meeting of Holders. Whenever the Company solicits the taking of any action by the Holders of the Notes, the Company may, but shall not be required to, fix in advance of such solicitation, a date as the record date for determining Holders entitled to take such action. The record date if one is selected shall be not more than fifteen days prior to the date of commencement of solicitation of such action.
Section 8.02. Proof of Execution by Holders. Subject to the provisions of Section 7.01, Section 7.02 and Section 9.05, proof of the execution of any instrument by a Holder or its agent or proxy shall be sufficient if made in accordance with such reasonable rules and regulations as may be prescribed by the Trustee or in such manner as shall be satisfactory to the Trustee. The holding of Notes shall be proved by the Note Register or by a certificate of the Note Registrar. The record of any Holders meeting shall be proved in the manner provided in Section 9.06.
Section 8.03. Who Are Deemed Absolute Owners. The Company, the Trustee, any authenticating agent, any Paying Agent, any Conversion Agent and any Note Registrar may deem the Person in whose name a Note shall be registered upon the Note Register to be, and may treat it as, the absolute owner of such Note (whether or not such Note shall be overdue and notwithstanding any notation of ownership or other writing thereon made by any Person other than the Company or any Note Registrar) for the purpose of receiving payment of or on account of the principal (including any Fundamental Change Repurchase Price or Redemption Price, if applicable) of and (subject to Section 2.03) accrued and unpaid interest on such Note, for conversion of
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such Note and for all other purposes; and neither the Company nor the Trustee nor any Paying Agent nor any Conversion Agent nor any Note Registrar shall be affected by any notice to the contrary. The sole registered holder of a Global Note shall be the Depositary or its nominee. All such payments or deliveries so made to any Holder for the time being, or upon its order, shall be valid, and, to the extent of the sums or shares of Common Stock so paid or delivered, effectual to satisfy and discharge the liability for monies payable or shares deliverable upon any such Note. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Indenture or the Notes following an Event of Default, any holder of a beneficial interest in a Global Note may directly enforce against the Company, without the consent, solicitation, proxy, authorization or any other action of the Depositary or any other Person, such holders right to exchange such beneficial interest for a Note in certificated form in accordance with the provisions of this Indenture.
Section 8.04. Company-Owned Notes Disregarded. In determining whether the Holders of the requisite aggregate principal amount of Notes have concurred in any direction, consent, waiver or other action under this Indenture, Notes that are owned by the Company, by any Subsidiary thereof or by any Affiliate of the Company or any Subsidiary thereof shall be disregarded and deemed not to be outstanding for the purpose of any such determination; and the Company shall provide an Officers Certificate to the Trustee setting forth whether any Notes are so owned by the Company, its Affiliates or any Subsidiary thereof, and, if so, the amounts thereof. The Trustee shall be entitled to accept such Officers Certificate as conclusive evidence of the facts therein set forth and of the fact that all Notes not listed therein are outstanding for the purpose of any such direction, consent, waiver or other action.
Section 8.05. Revocation of Consents; Future Holders Bound. At any time prior to (but not after) the evidencing to the Trustee, as provided in Section 8.01, of the taking of any action by the Holders of the percentage of the aggregate principal amount of the Notes specified in this Indenture in connection with such action, any Holder of a Note that is shown by the evidence to be included in the Notes the Holders of which have consented to such action may, by filing written notice with the Trustee at its Corporate Trust Office and upon proof of holding as provided in Section 8.02, revoke such action so far as concerns such Note. Except as aforesaid, any such action taken by the Holder of any Note shall be conclusive and binding upon such Holder and upon all future Holders and owners of such Note and of any Notes issued in exchange or substitution therefor or upon registration of transfer thereof, irrespective of whether any notation in regard thereto is made upon such Note or any Note issued in exchange or substitution therefor or upon registration of transfer thereof.
ARTICLE 9
HOLDERS MEETINGS
Section 9.01. Purpose of Meetings. A meeting of Holders may be called at any time and from time to time pursuant to the provisions of this Article 9 for any of the following purposes:
(a) to give any notice to the Company or to the Trustee or to give any directions to the Trustee permitted under this Indenture, or to consent to the waiving of any Default or Event of Default hereunder (in each case, as permitted under this Indenture) and its consequences, or to take any other action authorized to be taken by Holders pursuant to any of the provisions of Article 6;
(b) to remove the Trustee and nominate a successor trustee pursuant to the provisions of Article 7;
(c) to consent to the execution of an indenture or indentures supplemental hereto pursuant to the provisions of Section 10.02; or
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(d) to take any other action authorized to be taken by or on behalf of the Holders of any specified aggregate principal amount of the Notes under any other provision of this Indenture or under applicable law.
Section 9.02. Call of Meetings by Trustee. The Trustee may at any time call a meeting of Holders to take any action specified in Section 9.01, to be held at such time and at such place as the Trustee shall determine. Notice of every meeting of the Holders, setting forth the time and the place of such meeting and in general terms the action proposed to be taken at such meeting and the establishment of any record date pursuant to Section 8.01, shall be delivered to Holders of such Notes. Such notice shall also be delivered to the Company. Such notices shall be delivered not less than 20 nor more than 90 days prior to the date fixed for the meeting.
Any meeting of Holders shall be valid without notice if the Holders of all Notes then outstanding are present in person or by proxy or if notice is waived before or after the meeting by the Holders of all Notes then outstanding, and if the Company and the Trustee are either present by duly authorized representatives or have, before or after the meeting, waived notice.
Section 9.03. Call of Meetings by Company or Holders. In case at any time the Company, pursuant to a Board Resolution, or the Holders of at least 10% of the aggregate principal amount of the Notes then outstanding, shall have requested the Trustee to call a meeting of Holders, by written request setting forth in reasonable detail the action proposed to be taken at the meeting, and the Trustee shall not have delivered the notice of such meeting within 20 days after receipt of such request, then the Company or such Holders may determine the time and the place for such meeting and may call such meeting to take any action authorized in Section 9.01, by delivering notice thereof as provided in Section 9.02.
Section 9.04. Qualifications for Voting. To be entitled to vote at any meeting of Holders a Person shall be a Holder of one or more Notes on the record date pertaining to such meeting or be a Person appointed by an instrument in writing as proxy by a Holder of one or more Notes on the record date pertaining to such meeting. The only Persons who shall be entitled to be present or to speak at any meeting of Holders shall be the Persons entitled to vote at such meeting and their counsel and any representatives of the Trustee and its counsel and any representatives of the Company and its counsel.
Section 9.05. Regulations. Notwithstanding any other provisions of this Indenture, the Trustee may make such reasonable regulations as it may deem advisable for any meeting of Holders, in regard to proof of the holding of Notes and of the appointment of proxies, and in regard to the appointment and duties of inspectors of votes, the submission and examination of proxies, certificates and other evidence of the right to vote, and such other matters concerning the conduct of the meeting as it shall think fit.
The Trustee shall, by an instrument in writing, appoint a temporary chairman of the meeting, unless the meeting shall have been called by the Company or by Holders as provided in Section 9.03, in which case the Company or the Holders calling the meeting, as the case may be, shall in like manner appoint a temporary chairman. A permanent chairman and a permanent secretary of the meeting shall be elected by vote of the Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Notes represented at the meeting and entitled to vote at the meeting.
Subject to the provisions of Section 8.04, at any meeting of Holders each Holder or proxyholder shall be entitled to one vote for each $1,000 principal amount of Notes held or represented by him or her; provided, however, that no vote shall be cast or counted at any meeting in respect of any Note challenged as not outstanding and ruled by the chairman of the meeting to be not outstanding. The chairman of the meeting shall have no right to vote other than by virtue of Notes held by it or instruments in writing as aforesaid duly
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designating it as the proxy to vote on behalf of other Holders. Any meeting of Holders duly called pursuant to the provisions of Section 9.02 or Section 9.03 may be adjourned from time to time by the Holders of a majority of the aggregate principal amount of Notes represented at the meeting, whether or not constituting a quorum, and the meeting may be held as so adjourned without further notice.
Section 9.06. Voting. The vote upon any resolution submitted to any meeting of Holders shall be by written ballot on which shall be subscribed the signatures of the Holders or of their representatives by proxy and the outstanding aggregate principal amount of the Notes held or represented by them. The permanent chairman of the meeting shall appoint two inspectors of votes who shall count all votes cast at the meeting for or against any resolution and who shall make and file with the secretary of the meeting their verified written reports in duplicate of all votes cast at the meeting. A record in duplicate of the proceedings of each meeting of Holders shall be prepared by the secretary of the meeting and there shall be attached to said record the original reports of the inspectors of votes on any vote by ballot taken thereat and affidavits by one or more Persons having knowledge of the facts setting forth a copy of the notice of the meeting and showing that said notice was delivered as provided in Section 9.02. The record shall show the aggregate principal amount of the Notes voting in favor of or against any resolution. The record shall be signed and verified by the affidavits of the permanent chairman and secretary of the meeting and one of the duplicates shall be delivered to the Company and the other to the Trustee to be preserved by the Trustee, the latter to have attached thereto the ballots voted at the meeting.
Any record so signed and verified shall be conclusive evidence of the matters therein stated.
Section 9.07. No Delay of Rights by Meeting. Nothing contained in this Article 9 shall be deemed or construed to authorize or permit, by reason of any call of a meeting of Holders or any rights expressly or impliedly conferred hereunder to make such call, any hindrance or delay in the exercise of any right or rights conferred upon or reserved to the Trustee or to the Holders under any of the provisions of this Indenture or of the Notes. Nothing contained in this Article 9 shall be deemed or construed to limit any Holders actions pursuant to the Applicable Procedures so long as the Notes are Global Notes.
ARTICLE 10
SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES
Section 10.01. Supplemental Indentures Without Consent of Holders. Without notice to or the consent of any Holder, the Company and the Trustee, at the Companys expense, may from time to time and at any time amend or supplement this Indenture or the Notes for one or more of the following purposes:
(a) to cure any ambiguity, omission, defect or inconsistency;
(b) to provide for the assumption by a Successor Company of the obligations of the Company under this Indenture pursuant to, and in compliance with, the provisions of Article 11;
(c) to add guarantees with respect to the Notes;
(d) to secure the Notes;
(e) to add to the covenants or Events of Default of the Company for the benefit of the Holders or surrender any right or power conferred upon the Company;
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(f) to make any change that the Company determines in good faith (as certified in an Officers Certificate) does not adversely affect the rights of any Holder in any material respect;
(g) in connection with any Share Exchange Event, to provide that the notes are convertible into Reference Property, subject to the provisions of Section 14.02, and make such related changes to the terms of the Notes to the extent expressly required by Section 14.07;
(h) comply with any requirement of the Commission in connection with the qualification of this Indenture under the Trust Indenture Act to the extent this Indenture is qualified thereunder;
(i) provide for the issuance of additional Notes;
(j) provide for the appointment of a successor Trustee, Collateral Agent, Note Registrar, Paying Agent, Bid Solicitation Agent or Conversion Agent;
(k) comply with the rules of any applicable securities depositary in a manner that does not adversely affect the rights of any Holder;
(l) irrevocably elect a Settlement Method (including Combination Settlement with a Specified Dollar Amount per $1,000 principal amount of Notes of $1,000 or with an ability to continue to set the Specified Dollar Amount per $1,000 principal amount of Notes at or above any specific amount set forth in such election notice) or a Specified Dollar Amount, or eliminate the Companys right to elect a Settlement Method (including at the Companys option upon an irrevocable election as provided in Section 14.02(a)(iv)), or change the Default Settlement Method; provided, however, that no such election, elimination or change will affect any Settlement Method theretofore elected (or deemed to be elected) with respect to any Note pursuant to the provisions of Article 14); or
(m) increase the Conversion Rate as provided in this Indenture.
Upon the written request of the Company, the Trustee is hereby authorized to join with the Company in the execution of any such supplemental indenture, but the Trustee shall not be obligated to enter into any supplemental indenture that affects the Trustees own rights, duties or immunities under this Indenture or otherwise.
Any supplemental indenture authorized by the provisions of this Section 10.01 may be executed by the Company and the Trustee without the consent of the Holders of any of the Notes at the time outstanding, notwithstanding any of the provisions of Section 10.02.
Section 10.02. Supplemental Indentures -with Consent of Holders. With the consent (evidenced as provided in Article 8) of the Supermajority Holders (determined in accordance with Article 8 and including, without limitation, consents obtained in connection with a repurchase of, or tender or exchange offer for, Notes), the Company and the Trustee, at the Companys expense, may from time to time and at any time enter into an indenture or indentures supplemental hereto for the purpose of adding any provisions to or changing in any manner or eliminating any of the provisions of this Indenture, any supplemental indenture or the Notes or of modifying in any manner the rights of the Holders; provided, however, that, without the consent of each Holder of an outstanding Note affected, no such supplemental indenture shall:
(a) reduce the principal amount of Notes whose Holders must consent to an amendment;
(b) reduce the rate of or extend the stated time for payment of any interest on any Note;
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(c) reduce the principal of or extend the Maturity Date of any Note;
(d) make any change that adversely affects the conversion rights of any Notes other than as permitted or required by this Indenture;
(e) reduce the Fundamental Change Repurchase Price or the Redemption Price of any Note or amend or modify in any manner adverse to the Holders the Companys obligation to make such payments, whether through an amendment or waiver of provisions in the covenants, definitions or otherwise;
(f) make any Note payable in money, or at a place of payment, other than that stated in the Note;
(g) change the ranking of the Notes or any Note Guarantee in any manner adverse to the Holders;
(h) eliminate the contractual right of any Holder to institute suit for the enforcement right to receive payment or delivery, as the case may be, of the principal (including the Fundamental Change Repurchase Price or the Redemption Price, if applicable) of, accrued and unpaid interest, if any, on, and the consideration due upon conversion of, its Notes, on or after the respective due dates expressed or provided for in the Notes or this Indenture;
(i) make any change in this Article 10 that requires each Holders consent or in the waiver provisions in Section 6.02 or Section 6.09; or
(j) (x) subordinate the Obligations hereunder to any other Indebtedness or (y) subordinate the Collateral Agents Liens on all or substantially all of the Collateral to the Liens securing any other Indebtedness; provided that the foregoing clauses (x) and (y) shall not apply (1) to the extent expressly permitted pursuant to the Note Documents as in effect on the Issue Date and (2) to any debtor-in-possession financing or similar financing; provided that the contemplated debtor-in-possession financing or similar financing may not include a roll-up or refinancing, in whole or in part, of any Notes unless each Holder holding at least 15% of the outstanding principal amount of the Notes then outstanding on the date such determination is made by the Company has been given an opportunity to participate in such roll-up or refinancing on the same economic terms (other than bona fide backstop fees (which may be in the form of original issue discount)) and on a pro rata basis (which pro rata basis shall be determined as a percentage of all Notes) for a period of at least five (5) Business Days from the date of written notice in accordance with this Indenture.
In addition, notwithstanding the foregoing, any amendment to, or waiver of, the provisions of this Indenture or any Notes Document that has the effect of (a) releasing all or substantially all of the Collateral or (b) permitting the incurrence of Indebtedness that is senior in priority to or pari passu with the Notes issued on the Issue Date, whether by lien priority or priority of payment, shall, in each case, require the consent of the Holders of at least 75% in aggregate principal amount of the Notes then outstanding under this Indenture (including any consents obtained in connection with a tender offer or exchange for the Notes). If any amendment to, or waiver of, the provisions of this Indenture or any Notes Document to which it is a party affects the rights or obligations of the Collateral Agent, then in such case the consent of the Collateral Agent shall also be required.
Upon the written request of the Company, and upon the filing with the Trustee of evidence of the consent of the requisite Holders as aforesaid and subject to Section 10.05, the Trustee shall join with the Company in the execution of such supplemental indenture, unless such supplemental indenture affects the
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Trustees own rights, duties, obligations or immunities under this Indenture, the other Notes Documents, or otherwise, in which case the Trustee may in its discretion, but shall not be obligated to, enter into such supplemental indenture. For the avoidance of doubt, the Collateral Agent, Paying Agent, any transfer agent and Registrar shall not be required to enter into any supplemental indenture unless the terms thereof affect its own rights, duties, obligations or immunities under this Indenture.
Holders do not need under this Section 10.02 to approve the particular form of any proposed supplemental indenture. It shall be sufficient if such Holders approve the substance thereof. After any such supplemental indenture becomes effective, the Company shall deliver to the Holders (with a copy to the Trustee) a notice briefly describing such supplemental indenture. However, the failure to give such notice to all the Holders (with a copy to the Trustee), or any defect in the notice, will not impair or affect the validity of the supplemental indenture.
Notwithstanding anything to the contrary, in connection with the entry into a supplemental indenture in accordance with this Section 10.02 or a waiver granted in accordance with Section 6.02 or 6.09 of this Indenture (each, a Holder Action) (i) any consent or similar fee paid to the Initial Holders consenting to such Holder Action (each, a Holder Action Consent Fee) shall be shared pro rata amongst all Initial Holders consenting to such Holder Action and (ii) each Initial Holder that, for any reason, is not solicited by the Company for consent to such Holder Action with a bona fide opportunity to consider and respond to such solicitation shall be entitled to share in the related Holder Action Consent Fee as if such Initial Holder had consented to such Holder Action irrespective of whether such Initial Holder actually consented to the proposed Holder Action.
Section 10.03. Effect of Supplemental Indentures. Upon the execution of any supplemental indenture pursuant to the provisions of this Article 10, this Indenture shall be and be deemed to be modified and amended in accordance therewith and the respective rights, limitation of rights, obligations, duties and immunities under this Indenture of the Trustee, the Collateral Agent, the Company and the Holders shall thereafter be determined, exercised and enforced hereunder subject in all respects to such modifications and amendments and all the terms and conditions of any such supplemental indenture shall be and be deemed to be part of the terms and conditions of this Indenture for any and all purposes.
Section 10.04. Notation on Notes. Notes authenticated and delivered after the execution of any supplemental indenture pursuant to the provisions of this Article 10 may, at the Companys expense, bear a notation as to any matter provided for in such supplemental indenture. If the Company shall so determine, new Notes so modified as to conform, in the opinion of the Board of Directors, to any modification of this Indenture contained in any such supplemental indenture may, at the Companys expense, be prepared and executed by the Company, authenticated, upon receipt of a Company Order, by the Trustee (or an authenticating agent duly appointed by the Trustee pursuant to Section 17.10) and delivered in exchange for the Notes then outstanding, upon surrender of such Notes then outstanding.
Section 10.05. Evidence of Compliance of Supplemental Indenture to Be Furnished Trustee. In addition to the documents required by Section 17.05, the Trustee shall receive an Officers Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel stating that the execution of such supplemental indenture is authorized or permitted by this Indenture.
ARTICLE 11
CONSOLIDATION, MERGER, SALE, CONVEYANCE AND LEASE
Section 11.01. Company May Consolidate, Etc. on Certain Terms. Subject to the provisions of Section 11.02, the Company shall not consolidate with, merge with or into, or sell, convey, transfer or lease all or substantially all of the consolidated assets of the Company and the Companys Subsidiaries, taken as a
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whole, to another Person (other than any such sale, conveyance, transfer or lease to one or more of the Companys direct or indirect Wholly Owned Subsidiaries), unless:
(a) the resulting, surviving or transferee Person (the Successor Company), if not the Company, shall be a corporation organized and existing under the laws of the United States of America, any State thereof or the District of Columbia, and the Successor Company (if not the Company) shall expressly assume, by supplemental indenture all of the obligations of the Company under the Notes and this Indenture and the Collateral Documents;
(b) immediately after giving effect to such transaction, no Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing under this Indenture; and
(c) if the Company is not the Successor Company, the Successor Company shall have delivered to the Trustee an Officers Certificate and Opinion of Counsel, each stating that such consolidation, merger, sale, conveyance, transfer or lease complies with this Indenture and an opinion of counsel stating that the supplemental indenture is the valid and binding obligation of the Successor Company, subject to customary exceptions and qualifications.
For purposes of this Section 11.01, the sale, conveyance, transfer or lease of all or substantially all of the properties and assets of one or more Subsidiaries of the Company to another Person, which properties and assets, if held by the Company instead of such Subsidiaries, would constitute all or substantially all of the properties and assets of the Company on a consolidated basis, shall be deemed to be the sale, conveyance, transfer or lease of all or substantially all of the properties and assets of the Company to another Person.
Section 11.02. Successor Corporation to Be Substituted. In case of any such consolidation, merger, sale, conveyance, transfer or lease and upon the assumption by the Successor Company, by supplemental indenture, executed and delivered to the Trustee and satisfactory in form to the Trustee, of the due and punctual payment of the principal of and accrued and unpaid interest on all of the Notes, the due and punctual delivery and/or payment, as the case may be, of any consideration due upon conversion of the Notes and the due and punctual performance of all of the covenants and conditions of this Indenture to be performed by the Company, such Successor Company (if not the Company) shall succeed to and, except in the case of a lease of all or substantially all of the consolidated assets of the Company and the Companys Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, shall be substituted for the Company, with the same effect as if it had been named herein as the party of the first part, and the Company shall be discharged from its obligations under the Notes and this Indenture (except in the case of a lease of all or substantially all of the consolidated assets of the Company and the Companys Subsidiaries, taken as a whole). Such Successor Company thereupon may cause to be signed, and may issue either in its own name or in the name of the Company any or all of the Notes issuable hereunder which theretofore shall not have been signed by the Company and delivered to the Trustee; and, upon the order of such Successor Company instead of the Company and subject to all the terms, conditions and limitations in this Indenture prescribed, the Trustee shall authenticate and shall deliver, or cause to be authenticated and delivered, any Notes that previously shall have been signed and delivered by the Officers of the Company to the Trustee for authentication, and any Notes that such Successor Company thereafter shall cause to be signed and delivered to the Trustee for that purpose. All the Notes so issued shall in all respects have the same legal rank and benefit under this Indenture as the Notes theretofore or thereafter issued in accordance with the terms of this Indenture as though all of such Notes had been issued at the date of the execution hereof. In the event of any such consolidation, merger, sale, conveyance or transfer (but not in the case of a lease), upon compliance with this Article 11 the Person named as the Company in the first paragraph of this Indenture (or any successor that shall thereafter have become such in the manner prescribed in this Article 11) may be dissolved, wound up and
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liquidated at any time thereafter and, except in the case of a lease, such Person shall be released from its liabilities as obligor and maker of the Notes and from its obligations under this Indenture and the Notes.
In case of any such consolidation, merger, sale, conveyance, transfer or lease, such changes in phraseology and form (but not in substance) may be made in the Notes thereafter to be issued as may be appropriate.
Section 11.03. Officers Certificate and Opinion of Counsel to Be Given to Trustee. If a supplemental indenture is required pursuant to this Article 11 as a result of the Company not being the Successor Company, no such consolidation, merger, sale, conveyance, transfer or lease shall be effective unless the Trustee shall receive (and shall be conclusively entitled to rely upon) an Officers Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel as conclusive evidence that any such consolidation, merger, sale, conveyance, transfer or lease and any such assumption complies with the provisions of this Article 11, and that the supplemental indenture is the valid, binding obligations of the Successor Company, enforceable against such Successor Company in accordance with its terms, such Opinion of Counsel to be subject to customary exceptions.
ARTICLE 12
IMMUNITY OF INCORPORATORS, STOCKHOLDERS, OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS
Section 12.01. Indenture and Notes Solely Corporate Obligations. No recourse for the payment of the principal of or accrued and unpaid interest on, or the payment or delivery of consideration due upon conversion of, any Note, nor for any claim based thereon or otherwise in respect thereof, and no recourse under or upon any obligation, covenant or agreement of the Company in this Indenture or in any supplemental indenture or in any Note, nor because of the creation of any indebtedness represented thereby, shall be had against any incorporator, stockholder, employee, agent, Officer or director or Subsidiary, as such, past, present or future, of the Company or of any successor corporation, either directly or through the Company or any successor corporation, whether by virtue of any constitution, statute or rule of law, or by the enforcement of any assessment or penalty or otherwise; it being expressly understood that all such liability is hereby expressly waived and released as a condition of, and as a consideration for, the execution of this Indenture and the issue of the Notes.
ARTICLE 13
GUARANTEES
Section 13.01. Guarantee. Subject to the provisions of this Article 13, each Guarantor hereby fully, unconditionally and irrevocably guarantees, as primary obligor and not merely as surety, jointly and severally with each other Guarantor, to each Holder of the Notes, the Trustee and the Collateral Agent the full and punctual payment when due, whether at maturity, by acceleration or otherwise, of the principal of, premium, if any, and interest (including Additional Interest, if any) on the Notes, fees, expenses, indemnities and all other Obligations and liabilities of the Company under this Indenture and the Collateral Documents (including without limitation interest (including Additional Interest, if any) accruing after the filing of any petition or application in bankruptcy, or the commencement of any insolvency, reorganization or like proceeding, relating to the Company or any Guarantor whether or not a claim for post-filing or post-petition interest is allowed in such proceeding) (all the foregoing being hereinafter collectively called the Guaranteed Obligations). Each Guarantor agrees that the Guaranteed Obligations will rank equally in right of payment with other Indebtedness of such Guarantor, except to the extent such other Indebtedness is subordinate to the Guaranteed Obligations, in which case the obligations of the Guarantors under the Note Guarantees will rank senior in right of payment to such other Indebtedness.
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To evidence its Note Guarantee set forth in this Section 13.01, each Guarantor hereby agrees that this Indenture shall be executed on behalf of such Guarantor by an Officer of such Guarantor.
Each Guarantor hereby agrees that its Note Guarantee set forth in this Section 13.01 shall remain in full force and effect notwithstanding the absence of the endorsement of any notation of such Note Guarantee on the Notes.
If an Officer whose signature is on this Indenture no longer holds that office at the time the Trustee authenticates the Note, the Note Guarantee shall be valid nevertheless.
Each Guarantor further agrees (to the extent permitted by law) that the Guaranteed Obligations may be extended or renewed, in whole or in part, without notice or further assent from it, and that it will remain bound under this Article 13 notwithstanding any extension or renewal of any Guaranteed Obligation.
Each Guarantor waives presentation to, demand of payment from and protest to the Company of any of the Guaranteed Obligations and also waives notice of protest for nonpayment. Each Guarantor waives notice of any default under the Notes or the Guaranteed Obligations.
Each Guarantor further agrees that its Note Guarantee herein constitutes a Guarantee of payment when due (and not a Guarantee of collection) and waives any right to require that any resort be had by any Holder to any security held for payment of the Guaranteed Obligations.
Except as set forth in Section 13.02, the obligations of each Guarantor hereunder shall not be subject to any reduction, limitation, impairment or termination for any reason (other than payment of the Guaranteed Obligations in full), including any claim of waiver, release, surrender, alteration or compromise, and shall not be subject to any defense of setoff, counterclaim, recoupment or termination whatsoever or by reason of the invalidity, illegality or unenforceability of the Guaranteed Obligations or otherwise. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the Guaranteed Obligations of each Guarantor herein shall not be discharged or impaired or otherwise affected by (a) the failure of the Trustee, the Collateral Agent or any Holder to assert any claim or demand or to enforce any right or remedy against the Company or any other Person under this Indenture, the Notes or any other agreement or otherwise; (b) any extension or renewal of any thereof; (c) any rescission, waiver, amendment or modification of any of the terms or provisions of this Indenture, the Notes or any other agreement; (d) the release of any security held by the Collateral Agent or any Holder for the Guaranteed Obligations; (e) the failure of the Trustee, the Collateral Agent or any Holder to exercise any right or remedy against any other Guarantor; (f) any change in the ownership of the Company; (g) any default, failure or delay, willful or otherwise, in the performance of the Guaranteed Obligations; or (h) any other act or thing or omission or delay to do any other act or thing which may or might in any manner or to any extent vary the risk of any Guarantor or would otherwise operate as a discharge of such Guarantor as a matter of law or equity (other than, in each case, payment in full of the Obligations (other than contingent obligations and expense reimbursement not yet due and payable)).
Each Guarantor agrees that its Note Guarantee herein shall remain in full force and effect until payment in full of all the Guaranteed Obligations or such Guarantor is released from its Note Guarantee in compliance with Section 13.02 or Article 3. Each Guarantor further agrees that its Note Guarantee herein shall continue to be effective or be reinstated, as the case may be, if at any time payment, or any part thereof, of principal of, premium, if any, or interest (including Additional Interest, if any) on any of the Guaranteed Obligations is rescinded or must otherwise be restored by any Holder upon the bankruptcy, insolvency or reorganization of the Company or otherwise.
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In furtherance of the foregoing and not in limitation of any other right which any Holder has at law or in equity against any Guarantor by virtue hereof, upon the failure of the Company to pay any of the Guaranteed Obligations when and as the same shall become due, whether at maturity, by acceleration, or otherwise, each Guarantor hereby promises to and will, upon receipt of written demand by the Trustee, forthwith pay, or cause to be paid, in cash, to the Holders or the Trustee on behalf of the Holders an amount equal to the sum of (i) the unpaid amount of such Guaranteed Obligations then due and owing and (ii) accrued and unpaid interest (including Additional Interest, if any) on such Guaranteed Obligations then due and owing (but only to the extent not prohibited by law) (including interest accruing after the filing of any petition or application in bankruptcy or the commencement of any insolvency, reorganization or like proceeding relating to the Company or any Guarantor whether or not a claim for post filing or post petition interest is allowed in such proceeding).
Each Guarantor further agrees that, as between such Guarantor, on the one hand, and the Holders, on the other hand, (x) the maturity of the Guaranteed Obligations guaranteed hereby may be accelerated as provided in this Indenture for the purposes of its Note Guarantee herein, notwithstanding any stay, injunction or other prohibition preventing such acceleration in respect of the Guaranteed Obligations guaranteed hereby and (y) in the event of any such declaration of acceleration of such Guaranteed Obligations, such Guaranteed Obligations (whether or not due and payable) shall forthwith become due and payable by the Guarantor for the purposes of this Note Guarantee.
Each Guarantor also agrees to pay any and all fees, costs and expenses (including reasonable attorneys fees and expenses) incurred by the Collateral gent, Trustee or the Holders in enforcing any rights under this Section 13.01.
Each Guarantor assumes all responsibility for being and keeping itself informed of the Companys and each other Guarantors financial condition and assets, and of all other circumstances bearing upon the risk of nonpayment of the Guaranteed Obligations and the nature, scope and extent of the risks that such Guarantor assumes and incurs hereunder, and agrees that none of the Secured Parties will have any duty to advise such Guarantor of information known to it or any of them regarding such circumstances or risks.
Section 13.02. Limitation on Liability; Termination, Release and Discharge.
(a) Any term or provision of this Indenture to the contrary notwithstanding, the obligations of each Guarantor hereunder will be limited to the maximum amount as will, after giving effect to all other contingent and fixed liabilities of such Guarantor and after giving effect to any collections from or payments made by or on behalf of any other Guarantor in respect of the obligations of such other Guarantor under its Note Guarantee or pursuant to its contribution obligations under this Indenture, not render the obligations of such Guarantor under its Note Guarantee subject to avoidance under applicable law as a fraudulent conveyance, fraudulent transfer or unjust preference, including under federal, foreign, or state law, or otherwise void or voidable under any similar laws affecting the rights of creditors generally.
(b) Any Note Guarantee of a Guarantor (x) in the case of clause (i) below, at the election of the Company, may be released and discharged and such Guarantor and its obligations under this Indenture and the other Notes Documents shall be released and discharged and (y) in the case of clauses (ii), (iii), (iv) and (v) below, shall be automatically (and without any further action on the part of the Company or any Secured Party) be released and discharged and such Guarantor and its obligations under this Indenture and the other Notes Documents shall be released and discharged:
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(ii) in connection with any sale or other Disposition of all or substantially all of the assets of such Guarantor (including by way of merger or consolidation or amalgamation) to a Person that is not (either before or after giving effect to such transaction) a Subsidiary of the Company;
(iii) in connection with any sale or other Disposition of the Capital Stock of such Guarantor after which such Guarantor is no longer a Subsidiary of the Company;
(iv) in connection with the dissolution of such Guarantor under applicable law; provided that the Person who receives the assets of such dissolving Guarantor shall be or become a Note Party if such Person is the Company or a Subsidiary of the Company; or
(v) upon repayment in full of the Notes, or discharge of the Notes as provided in Article 3.
(c) With respect to any release of any Note Guarantee, upon receipt of an Officers Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel each stating that all conditions precedent under this Indenture and the other Notes Documents, as applicable, to such release have been met and that it is proper for the Trustee or the Collateral Agent to execute and deliver the documents requested by the Company in connection with such release, and any instruments of termination, satisfaction, discharge or release prepared by the Company, the Trustee and the Collateral Agent shall execute, deliver or acknowledge (at the Companys expense) such instruments or releases to evidence the release and discharge of any Note Guarantee permitted to be released pursuant to this Indenture. Neither the Trustee nor the Collateral Agent shall be liable for any such release undertaken in reliance upon any such Officers Certificate or Opinion of Counsel, and notwithstanding any term hereof or in any other Notes Document to the contrary, the Trustee and the Collateral Agent shall not be under any obligation to execute and deliver any such instrument of release, satisfaction, discharge or termination, unless and until it receives such Officers Certificate and Opinion of Counsel.
Section 13.03. Right of Contribution. Each Guarantor hereby agrees that to the extent that any Guarantor shall have paid more than its proportionate share of any payment made on the obligations under the Note Guarantees, such Guarantor shall be entitled to seek and receive contribution from and against the Company or any other Guarantor who has not paid its proportionate share of such payment. The provisions of this Section 13.03 shall in no respect limit the obligations and liabilities of each Guarantor to the Trustee, the Collateral Agent and the Holders and each Guarantor shall remain liable to the Trustee, the Collateral Agent and the Holders for the full amount guaranteed by such Guarantor hereunder.
Section 13.04. No Subrogation. Notwithstanding any payment or payments made by each Guarantor hereunder, no Guarantor shall be entitled to be subrogated to any of the rights of the Trustee, the Collateral Agent or any Holder against the Company or any other Guarantor or any collateral security or guarantee or right of offset held by the Trustee, the Collateral Agent or any Holder for the payment of the Guaranteed Obligations, nor shall any Guarantor seek or be entitled to seek any contribution or reimbursement from the Company or any other Guarantor in respect of payments made by such Guarantor hereunder, until all amounts owing to the Trustee, the Collateral Agent and the Holders by the Company on account of the Guaranteed Obligations are paid in full. If any amount shall be paid to any Guarantor on account of such subrogation rights at any time when all of the Guaranteed Obligations shall not have been paid in full, such amount shall be held by such Guarantor in trust for the Trustee, the Collateral Agent and the Holders, segregated from other funds of such Guarantor, and shall, forthwith upon receipt by such Guarantor, be turned over to the Trustee in the exact form received by such Guarantor (duly indorsed by such Guarantor to the Trustee, if required), to be applied against the Guaranteed Obligations.
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Section 13.05. Subordination. Notwithstanding any provision of this Indenture to the contrary, all rights of the Guarantors under Section 13.04, and all other rights of indemnity, contribution or subrogation under applicable law or otherwise, shall be fully subordinated to the payment in full in cash of the Obligations. No failure on the part of the Company or any Guarantor to make the payments required by Section 13.04 (or any other payments required under applicable law or otherwise) shall in any respect limit the obligations and liabilities of any Guarantor with respect to its obligations hereunder, and each Guarantor shall remain liable for the full amount of the obligations of such Guarantor hereunder.
ARTICLE 14
CONVERSION OF NOTES
Section 14.01. Conversion Privilege. (a) Subject to and upon compliance with the provisions of this Article 14, each Holder of a Note shall have the right, at such Holders option, to convert all or any portion (if the portion to be converted is $1,000 principal amount or an integral multiple thereof) of such Note (i) subject to satisfaction of the conditions described in Section 14.01(c)-(f), at any time prior to the close of business on the Business Day immediately preceding March 15, 2030 under the circumstances and during the periods set forth in Section 14.01(c)-(f), and (ii) regardless of the conditions described in Section 14.01(c)-(f), at any time prior to the close of business on the second Scheduled Trading Day immediately preceding the Maturity Date, in each case, at an initial conversion rate of ###-###-#### shares of Common Stock (subject to adjustment as provided in this Article 14, the Conversion Rate) per $1,000 principal amount of Notes (subject to, and in accordance with, the settlement provisions of Section 14.02, the Conversion Obligation).
(b) [Reserved.]
(c) If, prior to the close of business on the Business Day immediately preceding March 15, 2030, the Company elects to:
(i) issue to all or substantially all holders of the Common Stock any rights, options or warrants (other than pursuant to a stockholders rights plan, so long as such rights have not separated from the shares of the Common Stock) entitling them, for a period of not more than 45 calendar days after the announcement date of such issuance, to subscribe for or purchase shares of the Common Stock at a price per share that is less than the average of the Last Reported Sale Prices of the Common Stock for the 10 consecutive Trading Day period ending on, and including, the Trading Day immediately preceding the date of announcement of such issuance; or
(ii) distribute to all or substantially all holders of the Common Stock the Companys assets, securities or rights to purchase securities of the Company (other than pursuant to a stockholders rights plan, so long as such rights have not separated from the shares of the Common Stock), which distribution has a per share value, as reasonably determined by the Company, exceeding 10% of the Last Reported Sale Price of the Common Stock on the Trading Day preceding the date of announcement for such distribution,
then, in either case, the Company shall notify all Holders of the Notes, the Trustee and the Conversion Agent (if other than the Trustee) in writing at least 45 Scheduled Trading Days prior to the Ex-Dividend Date for such issuance or distribution (or, if later in the case of any such separation of rights issued pursuant to a stockholder rights plan, as soon as reasonably practicable after the Company becomes aware that such separation or triggering event has occurred or will occur). Once the Company has given such notice, a Holder may surrender all or any portion of its Notes for conversion at any time until the earlier of (1) the close of business on the Business Day immediately preceding the Ex-Dividend
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Date for such issuance or distribution and (2) the Companys announcement that such issuance or distribution will not take place.
Holders may not convert their Notes pursuant to this Section 14.01 (c) if they participate (other than in the case of a share split or share combination in respect of the Common Stock), at the same time and upon the same terms as holders of the Common Stock and solely as a result of holding the Notes, in any of the transactions described above without having to convert their Notes as if they held a number of shares of Common Stock equal to the applicable Conversion Rate as of the Record Date for such issuance or distribution, as the case may be, multiplied by the principal amount (expressed in thousands) of Notes held by such Holder.
(d) If a transaction or event that constitutes a Fundamental Change or a Make-Whole Fundamental Change occurs prior to the close of business on the Business Day immediately preceding March 15, 2030, regardless of whether a Holder has the right to require the Company to repurchase the Notes pursuant to Section 15.02, or if the Company is a party to a Share Exchange Event (other than a Share Exchange Event that is solely for the purpose of changing the Companys jurisdiction of organization that (x) does not constitute a Fundamental Change or a Make-Whole Fundamental Change and (y) results in a reclassification, conversion or exchange of outstanding shares of the Common Stock solely into shares of common stock of the surviving entity and such common stock becomes Reference Property for the Notes) that occurs prior to the close of business on the Business Day immediately preceding March 15, 2030 (each such Fundamental Change, Make-Whole Fundamental Change or Share Exchange Event, a Corporate Event), all or any portion of a Holders Notes may be surrendered for conversion at any time from or after the effective date of the Corporate Event until the earlier of (x) 35 Trading Days after the effective date of such Corporate Event or, if such Corporate Event also constitutes a Fundamental Change, until the close of business on the Business Day immediately preceding the related Fundamental Change Repurchase Date and (y) the second Scheduled Trading Day immediately preceding the Maturity Date. The Company shall notify Holders, the Trustee and the Conversion Agent (if other than the Trustee) in writing no later than the effective date of such Corporate Event.
(e) [Reserved.]
(f) If the Company calls a Note for redemption pursuant to Article 16, then the Holder of such Note called for redemption may surrender such Note (or any portion thereof) called for redemption for conversion at any time from, and including, the Redemption Notice Date with respect to such Note until the close of business on the second Scheduled Trading Day immediately preceding the Redemption Date (or, if the Company defaults in the payment of the Redemption Price, until the close of business on the Scheduled Trading Day immediately preceding the date on which the Redemption Price has been paid or duly provided for (any such period, a Redemption Period). After that time, the right to convert such Note on account of the Companys delivery of the Redemption Notice shall expire. If the Company elects to redeem less than all of the outstanding Notes pursuant to an Optional Redemption pursuant to Article 16 and the Holder of any Note (or any owner of a beneficial interest in any Global Note) is reasonably not able to determine, before the close of business on the 44th Scheduled Trading Day immediately before the relevant Redemption Date, whether such Note or beneficial interest, as applicable, is to be redeemed pursuant to such Optional Redemption, then such Holder or owner, as applicable, will be entitled to convert such Note or beneficial interest, as applicable, at any time during the related Redemption Period, and each such conversion will be deemed to be of a Note called for redemption. The Trustee shall not be obligated to make any determination in connection with the foregoing.
If a Holder elects to convert Notes called for redemption pursuant to this Section 14.01(f) during the related Redemption Period, the Company will, under certain circumstances, increase the Conversion Rate for such Notes pursuant to Section 14.03. Accordingly, if the Company elects to redeem fewer than all of the outstanding Notes pursuant to Article 16, Holders of the Notes not called for redemption will not be entitled to
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convert such Notes pursuant to this Section 14.01(f) on account of the Redemption Notice and will not be entitled to an increase in the Conversion Rate on account of the Redemption Notice for conversions of such Notes during the related Redemption Period even if such Notes are otherwise convertible, except in the limited circumstances set forth in the immediately preceding paragraph.
Section 14.02. Conversion Procedure; Settlement Upon Conversion.
(a) Subject to this Section 14.02, Section 14.03(b) and Section 14.07(a), upon conversion of any Note, the Company shall satisfy its Conversion Obligation by paying or delivering, as the case may be, to the converting Holder, in respect of each $1,000 principal amount of Notes being converted, cash (Cash Settlement), shares of Common Stock, together with cash, if applicable, in lieu of delivering any fractional share of Common Stock in accordance with subsection (j) of this Section 14.02 (Physical Settlement) or a combination of cash and shares of Common Stock, together with cash, if applicable, in lieu of delivering any fractional share of Common Stock in accordance with subsection (j) of this Section 14.02 (Combination Settlement), at its election, as set forth in this Section 14.02
(i) All conversions for which the relevant Conversion Date occurs on or after March 15, 2030 or during a Redemption Period shall be settled using the same Settlement Method. Except for any conversions for which the relevant Conversion Date occurs on or after March 15, 2030 or during a Redemption Period, the Company shall use the same Settlement Method for all conversions with the same Conversion Date, but the Company shall not have any obligation to use the same Settlement Method with respect to conversions with different Conversion Dates. If, in respect of any Conversion Date (or applicable period, as the case may be), the Company elects to deliver a notice (the Settlement Notice) of the relevant Settlement Method in respect of such Conversion Date (or such period, as the case may be), the Company shall deliver such Settlement Notice to converting Holders, the Trustee and the Conversion Agent (if other than the Trustee) no later than the close of business on the Trading Day immediately following the related Conversion Date (or, in the case of any conversions for which the relevant Conversion Date occurs (x) during a Redemption Period, in such Redemption Notice or (y) on or after March 15, 2030, no later than March 15, 2030) (in each case, the Settlement Method Election Deadline). Such Settlement Notice shall specify the relevant Settlement Method and in the case of an election of Combination Settlement, the relevant Settlement Notice shall indicate the Specified Dollar Amount per $1,000 principal amount of Notes. If the Company does not elect a Settlement Method prior to the relevant Settlement Method Election Deadline with respect to a conversion, the Company shall be deemed to have elected the Default Settlement Method with respect to such conversion. If the Company delivers a Settlement Notice prior to the relevant Settlement Method Election Deadline with respect to a conversion electing Combination Settlement (or is deemed to have elected Combination Settlement) in respect of its Conversion Obligation but does not indicate a Specified Dollar Amount per $1,000 principal amount of Notes to be converted in such Settlement Notice, and does not deliver an updated Settlement Notice with such Specified Dollar Amount listed then on or prior to the Settlement Method Election Deadline, the Specified Dollar Amount per $1,000 principal amount of Notes shall be deemed to be $1,000.
(ii) The Company may, from time to time, prior to March 15, 2030, change the Default Settlement Method by sending notice of the new Default Settlement Method to the Holders, the Trustee and the Conversion Agent (if other than the Trustee). In addition, the Company may, by notice to the Holders, the Trustee and the Conversion Agent (if other than the Trustee) prior to March 15, 2030, at its option, elect to irrevocably fix the Settlement Method to any Settlement
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Method that the Company is then permitted to elect, including Combination Settlement with (x) a Specified Dollar Amount of $1,000 per $1,000 principal amount of Notes or (y) with an ability to continue to set the Specified Dollar Amount per $1,000 principal amount of Notes at or above any specific amount set forth in such election notice. Concurrently with providing notice to all Holders of an election to change the Default Settlement Method or irrevocably fix the Settlement Method, the Company shall promptly either post an announcement on its website or issue a report on Form 8-K (or any successor form) disclosing such Default Settlement Method or irrevocably fixed Settlement Method. If the Company changes the Default Settlement Method or elects to irrevocably fix the Settlement Method, in either case, to Combination Settlement with an ability to continue to set the Specified Dollar Amount per $1,000 principal amount of Notes at or above a specified amount, the Company will, after the date of such change or election, as the case may be, inform Holders converting their Notes, the Trustee, and the Conversion Agent (if other than the Trustee) in writing of such Specified Dollar Amount no later than the relevant Settlement Method Election Deadline, or, if the Company does not timely notify Holders, such Specified Dollar Amount will be the specific amount set forth in the change or election notice or, if no specific amount was set forth in the change or election notice, such Specified Dollar Amount will be $1,000 per $1,000 principal amount of Notes. Such change in the Default Settlement Method or irrevocable election shall apply for all conversions of Notes with Conversion Dates occurring subsequent to delivery of such notice; provided, however, that no such change in the Default Settlement Method or irrevocable election will affect any Settlement Method theretofore elected (or deemed to be elected) with respect to any Note. For the avoidance of doubt, such an irrevocable election, if made, shall be effective without the need to amend this Indenture or the Notes, including pursuant to Section 10.01(1). However, the Company may nonetheless choose to execute such an amendment at its option. The Trustee and the Conversion Agent (if other than the Trustee) shall have no responsibility for any such election of a Settlement Method.
(iii) The cash, shares of Common Stock or combination of cash and shares of Common Stock in respect of any conversion of Notes (the Settlement Amount) shall be computed as follows:
(i) if the Company elects (or is deemed to have elected) to satisfy its Conversion Obligation in respect of such conversion by Physical Settlement, the Company shall deliver to the converting Holder in respect of each $1,000 principal amount of Notes being converted a number of shares of Common Stock equal to the Conversion Rate in effect on the Conversion Date;
(ii) if the Company elects (or is deemed to have elected) to satisfy its Conversion Obligation in respect of such conversion by Cash Settlement, the Company shall pay to the converting Holder in respect of each $1,000 principal amount of Notes being converted cash in an amount equal to the sum of the Daily Conversion Values for each of the 40 consecutive Trading Days during the related Observation Period; and
(iii) if the Company elects (or is deemed to have elected) to satisfy its Conversion Obligation in respect of such conversion by Combination Settlement, the Company shall pay or deliver, as the case may be, to the converting Holder in respect of each $1,000 principal amount of Notes being converted, a Settlement Amount equal to the sum of the Daily Settlement Amounts for each of the 40 consecutive Trading Days during the related Observation Period.
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(iv) The Daily Settlement Amounts (if applicable) and the Daily Conversion Values (if applicable) shall be determined by the Company promptly following the last day of the Observation Period. Promptly and in any event within one Business Day following the last day of the Observation Period after such determination of the Daily Settlement Amounts or the Daily Conversion Values, as the case may be, and the amount of cash payable in lieu of delivering any fractional share of Common Stock, the Company shall notify the Trustee and the Conversion Agent (if other than the Trustee), in writing, of the Daily Settlement Amounts or the Daily Conversion Values, as the case may be, and the amount of cash payable in lieu of delivering fractional shares of Common Stock, subject to Applicable Procedures. The Trustee and the Conversion Agent (if other than the Trustee) shall have no responsibility for any such determination.
(b) Subject to Section 14.02(e), before any Holder of a Note shall be entitled to convert a Note as set forth above, such Holder shall in the case of a Global Note, comply with the Applicable Procedures in effect at that time and, if required, pay funds equal to the interest payable on the next Interest Payment Date to which such Holder is not entitled as set forth in Section 14.02(h) and, if required, pay all transfer or similar taxes, if any, pursuant to Section 14.02(e) and in the case of a Physical Note or a Global Note not approved for processing through the Depositary, (1) complete, manually sign and deliver an irrevocable notice to the Conversion Agent as set forth in the Form of Notice of Conversion (or a PDF or other electronic transmission thereof (a Notice of Conversion) at the office of the Conversion Agent and state in writing therein the principal amount of Notes to be converted and the name or names (with addresses) in which such Holder wishes the certificate or certificates for any shares of Common Stock to be delivered upon settlement of the Conversion Obligation to be registered, (2) surrender such Notes, duly endorsed to the Company or in blank (and accompanied by appropriate endorsement and transfer documents), at the office of the Conversion Agent, (3) if required, furnish appropriate endorsements and transfer documents, (4) if required, pay funds equal to interest payable on the next Interest Payment Date to which such Holder is not entitled as set forth in Section 14.02(h) and (5) if required, pay all transfer or similar taxes, if any, pursuant to Section 14.02(e). The Trustee (and if different, the Conversion Agent) shall promptly notify the Company of any conversion pursuant to this Article 14. No Notice of Conversion with respect to any Notes may be surrendered by a Holder thereof if such Holder has also delivered a Fundamental Change Repurchase Notice to the Company in respect of such Notes and has not validly withdrawn such Fundamental Change Repurchase Notice in accordance with Section 15.03.
If more than one Note shall be surrendered for conversion at one time by the same Holder, the Conversion Obligation with respect to such Notes shall be computed on the basis of the aggregate principal amount of the Notes (or specified portions thereof to the extent permitted thereby) so surrendered.
(c) A Note shall be deemed to have been converted immediately prior to the close of business on the date (the Conversion Date) that the Holder has complied with the requirements set forth in subsection (b) above. Except as set forth in Section 14.03(b) and Section 14.07(a), the Company shall pay or deliver, as the case may be, the consideration due in respect of the Conversion Obligation on the second Business Day following the relevant Conversion Date, if the Company elects Physical Settlement, or on the second Business Day immediately following the last Trading Day of the Observation Period, in the case of any other Settlement Method. If any shares of Common Stock are due to a converting Holder, the Company shall issue or cause to be issued, and deliver to such Holder, or such Holders nominee or nominees, the full number of shares of Common Stock to which such Holder shall be entitled, in book-entry format through the Depositary, in satisfaction of the Companys Conversion Obligation.
(d) In case any Note shall be surrendered for partial conversion, the Company shall execute and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver to or upon the written order of the Holder of the Note so surrendered a
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new Note or Notes in authorized denominations in an aggregate principal amount equal to the unconverted portion of the surrendered Note, without payment of any service charge by the converting Holder but, if required by the Company or Trustee, with payment of a sum sufficient to cover any documentary, stamp or similar issue or transfer tax or similar governmental charge required by law or that may be imposed in connection therewith as a result of the name of the Holder of the new Notes issued upon such conversion being different from the name of the Holder of the old Notes surrendered for such conversion.
(e) If a Holder submits a Note for conversion, the Company shall pay any documentary, stamp or similar issue or transfer tax due on the issue of any shares of Common Stock upon conversion, unless the tax is due because the Holder requests such shares to be issued in a name other than the Holders name, in which case the Holder shall pay that tax. The Company acting through its Common Stock transfer agent may refuse to deliver the certificates representing the shares of Common Stock being issued in a name other than the Holders name until a sum sufficient to pay any tax that is due by such Holder in accordance with the immediately preceding sentence is paid.
(f) Except as provided in Section 14.04, no adjustment shall be made for dividends on any shares of Common Stock issued upon the conversion of any Note as provided in this Article 14.
(g) Upon the conversion of an interest in a Global Note, the Trustee, or the Custodian at the direction of the Trustee, shall make a notation on such Global Note as to the reduction in the principal amount represented thereby. The Company shall notify the Trustee in writing of any conversion of Notes effected through any Conversion Agent other than the Trustee.
(h) Upon conversion, a Holder shall not receive any separate cash payment for accrued and unpaid interest, if any, except as set forth below, and the Company will not adjust the Conversion Rate for any accrued and unpaid interest. The Companys settlement of the full Conversion Obligation shall be deemed to satisfy in full its obligation to pay the principal amount of the Note and accrued and unpaid interest, if any, to, but excluding, the relevant Conversion Date. As a result, accrued and unpaid interest, if any, to, but excluding, the relevant Conversion Date shall be deemed to be paid in full rather than canceled, extinguished or forfeited. Upon a conversion of Notes, whether into cash or into a combination of cash and shares of Common Stock, accrued and unpaid interest will be deemed to be paid first out of the cash paid upon such conversion. Notwithstanding the foregoing, if Notes are converted after the close of business on a Regular Record Date but prior to the open of business on the immediately following Interest Payment Date, Holders of such Notes as of the close of business on such Regular Record Date will receive the full amount of interest payable on such Notes on such Interest Payment Date notwithstanding the conversion. However, Notes surrendered for conversion during the period from the close of business on any Regular Record Date to the open of business on the immediately following Interest Payment Date must be accompanied by funds equal to the amount of interest payable on the Notes so converted on the corresponding Interest Payment Date (regardless of whether the converting Holder was the Holder of record on the corresponding Regular Record Date); provided that no such payment shall be required (1) for conversions following the close of business on the Regular Record Date immediately preceding the Maturity Date; (2) if the Company has specified a Fundamental Change Repurchase Date that is after a Regular Record Date and on or prior to the Business Day immediately following the corresponding Interest Payment Date; (3) if the Company has specified a Redemption Date that is after a Regular Record Date and on or prior to the second Business Day immediately following the corresponding Interest Payment Date or (4) to the extent of any Defaulted Amounts, if any Defaulted Amounts exist at the time of conversion with respect to such Note. Therefore, for the avoidance of doubt, all Holders of record on the Regular Record Date immediately preceding the Maturity Date, any Redemption Date and any Fundamental Change Repurchase Date described in clause (2) above shall receive the full interest payment due on the
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Maturity Date or other applicable Interest Payment Date in cash regardless of whether their Notes have been converted, redeemed and/or repurchased, as applicable, following such Regular Record Date.
(i) The Person in whose name the shares of Common Stock shall be issuable upon conversion shall be treated as a stockholder of record as of the close of business on the relevant Conversion Date (if the Company elects to satisfy the related Conversion Obligation by Physical Settlement) or the last Trading Day of the relevant Observation Period (if the Company elects to satisfy the related Conversion Obligation by Combination Settlement), as the case may be. Upon a conversion of Notes, such Person shall no longer be a Holder of such Notes surrendered for conversion.
(j) The Company shall not issue any fractional share of Common Stock upon conversion of the Notes and shall instead pay cash in lieu of delivering any fractional share of Common Stock issuable upon conversion based on the Daily VWAP for the relevant Conversion Date (or, if such Conversion Date is not a Trading Day, the immediately preceding Trading Day), in the case of Physical Settlement, or based on the Daily VWAP for the last Trading Day of the relevant Observation Period, in the case of Combination Settlement. For each Note surrendered for conversion, if the Company has elected (or is deemed to have elected) Combination Settlement, the full number of shares that shall be issued upon conversion thereof shall be computed on the basis of the aggregate Daily Settlement Amounts for the relevant Observation Period and any fractional shares remaining after such computation shall be paid in cash.
(k) Whenever the Conversion Rate is adjusted as herein provided, the Company shall promptly file with the Trustee (and the Conversion Agent if not the Trustee) an Officers Certificate setting forth (i) the adjusted Conversion Rate, (ii) the subsection of this Section 14.04 pursuant to which such adjustment has been made, showing in reasonable detail the facts upon which such adjustment is based and (iii) the date as of which such adjustment is effective (which certificates shall be conclusive evidence of the accuracy of such adjustment absent manifest error). Unless and until a Responsible Officer of the Trustee shall have received such Officers Certificate, the Trustee shall not be deemed to have knowledge of any adjustment of the Conversion Rate and may assume without inquiry that the last Conversion Rate of which it has knowledge is still in effect. Promptly after delivery of such certificate, the Company shall prepare a notice of such adjustment of the Conversion Rate setting forth the adjusted Conversion Rate and the date on which each adjustment becomes effective and shall deliver such notice of such adjustment of the Conversion Rate to each Holder (copying the Trustee and Conversion Agent). Failure to deliver such notice shall not affect the legality or validity of any such adjustment.
Section 14.03. Increased Conversion Rate Applicable to Certain Notes Surrendered in Connection -with Make-Whole Fundamental Changes or During a Redemption Period.
(a) If (i) the Effective Date of a Make-Whole Fundamental Change occurs prior to the Maturity Date and a Holder elects to convert its Notes in connection with such Make-Whole Fundamental Change, or (ii) the Company issues a Redemption Notice and a Holder elects to convert Notes during the related Redemption Period, the Company shall, under the circumstances described below, increase the Conversion Rate for the Notes so surrendered for conversion by a number of additional shares of Common Stock (the Additional Shares), as described below. A conversion of Notes shall be deemed for these purposes to be in connection with such Make-Whole Fundamental Change if the relevant Conversion Date occurs during the period from, and including, the Effective Date of the Make-Whole Fundamental Change up to, and including, the close of business on the Business Day immediately prior to the related Fundamental Change Repurchase Date (or, in the case of a Make-Whole Fundamental Change that would have been a Fundamental Change but for the proviso in clause (b) of the definition thereof, the 35th Trading Day immediately following the Effective Date of such Make-Whole Fundamental Change) (such period, the Make-Whole Fundamental Change Period). For the
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avoidance of doubt, the Company will increase the Conversion Rate during the related Redemption Period only with respect to Conversions of Notes called (or deemed called as contemplated by Section 14.01(f)) for redemption. Accordingly, if the Company elects to redeem less than all of the outstanding Notes as described under Article 16, Holders of the Notes not called for redemption will not be entitled to an increased Conversion Rate for conversions of such Notes (on account of the Notice of Redemption) during the applicable redemption Period, except in the limited circumstance set forth under Section 14.01 (f).
(b) Upon surrender of Notes for conversion in connection with a Make-Whole Fundamental Change pursuant to Section 14.01(d) or during a Redemption Period, the Company shall pay or deliver, as the case may be, the consideration due in respect of such converted Notes, based on the Conversion Rate as increased to reflect the Additional Shares pursuant to the table set forth in Section 14.03(d) below, in accordance with Section 14.02; provided, however, that if, at the effective time of a Make-Whole Fundamental Change described in clause (b) of the definition of Fundamental Change, the Reference Property following such Make-Whole Fundamental Change is composed entirely of cash, for any conversion of Notes following the Effective Date of such Make-Whole Fundamental Change, the Conversion Obligation shall be calculated based solely on the Stock Price for the transaction and shall be deemed to be an amount of cash per $1,000 principal amount of converted Notes equal to the Conversion Rate (including any adjustment for Additional Shares), multiplied by such Stock Price. In such event, the Conversion Obligation shall be paid to Holders in cash on the second Business Day following the Conversion Date. The Company shall notify in writing the Holders, the Trustee and the Conversion Agent (if other than the Trustee) of the Effective Date of any Make-Whole Fundamental Change in writing no later than five Business Days after such Effective Date.
(c) The number of Additional Shares, if any, by which the Conversion Rate shall be increased shall be determined by reference to the table below, based on the date on which the Make-Whole Fundamental Change occurs or becomes effective (the Effective Date) or the Redemption Notice Date, as applicable, and the price paid (or deemed to be paid) per share of the Common Stock in the Make-Whole Fundamental Change or on the Redemption Notice Date(the Stock Price). If the holders of the Common Stock receive in exchange for their Common Stock only cash in a Make-Whole Fundamental Change described in clause (b) of the definition of Fundamental Change, the Stock Price shall be the cash amount paid per share. Otherwise, the Stock Price shall be the average of the Last Reported Sale Prices of the Common Stock over the five consecutive Trading Day period ending on, and including, the Trading Day immediately preceding the Effective Date of the Make-Whole Fundamental Change or the Redemption Notice Date, as the case may be. In the event that a conversion during a Redemption Period would also be deemed to be in connection with a Make-Whole Fundamental Change, a Holder of the Notes to be converted will be entitled to a single increase to the Conversion Rate with respect to the first to occur of the applicable Redemption Notice Date or the Effective Date of the applicable Make-Whole Fundamental Change, and the later event will be deemed not to have occurred for purposes of this Section 14.03. The Board of Directors shall make appropriate adjustments to the Stock Price, in its good faith determination, to account for any adjustment to the Conversion Rate that becomes effective, or any event requiring an adjustment to the Conversion Rate where the Ex-Dividend Date, Effective Date (as such term is used in Section 14.04) or Expiration Date of the event occurs during such five consecutive Trading Day period.
(d) The Stock Prices set forth in the column headings of the table below shall be adjusted as of any date on which the Conversion Rate of the Notes is otherwise adjusted. The adjusted Stock Prices shall equal the Stock Prices applicable immediately prior to such adjustment, multiplied by a fraction, the numerator of which is the Conversion Rate immediately prior to such adjustment giving rise to the Stock Price adjustment and the denominator of which is the Conversion Rate as so adjusted. The number of Additional Shares set forth
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in the table below shall be adjusted in the same manner and at the same time as the Conversion Rate as set forth in Section 14.04.
(e) The following table sets forth the number of Additional Shares of Common Stock by which the Conversion Rate shall be increased per $1,000 principal amount of Notes pursuant to this Section 14.03 for each Stock Price and Effective Date or Redemption Notice Date, as applicable, set forth below:
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Effective Date / | $1.87 | $2.00 | $2.15 | $2.24 | $2.50 | $2.92 | $3.00 | $3.25 | $3.50 | $4.00 | $4.50 | $5.00 | $5.50 | $8.00 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
June 23, 2025 | 89.1265 | 89.1265 | 89.1265 | 89.1265 | 72.7800 | 49.4555 | 46.0600 | 37.0031 | 29.8343 | 19.4475 | 12.5578 | 7.8880 | 4.6927 | 0.0000 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
June 15, 2026 | 89.1265 | 89.1265 | 89.1265 | 89.1265 | 69.6520 | 46.2842 | 42.9367 | 34.1015 | 27.2000 | 17.3700 | 10.9800 | 6.7260 | 3.8691 | 0.0000 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
June 15, 2027 | 89.1265 | 89.1265 | 89.1265 | 83.8259 | 62.4000 | 40.0651 | 36.9500 | 28.8369 | 22.6200 | 13.9725 | 8.5067 | 4.9600 | 2.6436 | 0.0000 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
June 15, 2028 | 89.1265 | 89.1265 | 79.8605 | 71.0938 | 51.4160 | 31.4247 | 28.7133 | 21.7723 | 16.6029 | 9.6900 | 5.5333 | 2.9520 | 1.3418 | 0.0000 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
June 15, 2029 | 89.1265 | 83.2950 | 64.2140 | 55.0580 | 35.7520 | 18.7055 | 16.6533 | 11.7385 | 8.4029 | 4.3975 | 2.2267 | 0.9800 | 0.2891 | 0.0000 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
June 15, 2030 | 89.1265 | 54.3650 | 19.4837 | 0.7946 | 0.0000 | 0.0000 | 0.0000 | 0.0000 | 0.0000 | 0.0000 | 0.0000 | 0.0000 | 0.0000 | 0.0000 |
The exact Stock Price and Effective Date or Redemption Notice Date may not be set forth in the table above, in which case:
(i) if the Stock Price is between two Stock Prices in the table above or the Effective Date or Redemption Notice Date, as the case may be, is between two Effective Dates or Redemption Notice Dates, as applicable, in the table, the number of Additional Shares shall be determined by a straight-line interpolation between the number of Additional Shares set forth for the higher and lower Stock Prices and the earlier and later Effective Dates or Redemption Notice Dates, as applicable, based on a 365- or 366-day year, as applicable;
(ii) if the Stock Price is greater than $8.00 per share (subject to adjustment in the same manner as the Stock Prices set forth in the column headings of the table above pursuant to subsection (d) above), no Additional Shares shall be added to the Conversion Rate; and
(iii) if the Stock Price is less than $1.87 per share (subject to adjustment in the same manner as the Stock Prices set forth in the column headings of the table above pursuant to subsection (d) above), no Additional Shares shall be added to the Conversion Rate.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, in no event shall the Conversion Rate per $1,000 principal amount of Notes exceed ###-###-#### shares of Common Stock, subject to adjustment in the same manner as the Conversion Rate pursuant to Section 14.04.
(f) Nothing in this Section 14.03 shall prevent an adjustment to the Conversion Rate pursuant to Section 14.04 in respect of a Make-Whole Fundamental Change.
Section 14.04. Adjustment of Conversion Rate. The Conversion Rate shall be adjusted from time to time by the Company if any of the following events occurs, except that the Company shall not make any adjustments to the Conversion Rate if Holders of the Notes participate (other than in the case of (x) a share split or share
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combination or (y) a tender or exchange offer), at the same time and upon the same terms as holders of the Common Stock and solely as a result of holding the Notes, in any of the transactions described in this Section 14.04, without having to convert their Notes, as if they held a number of shares of Common Stock equal to the Conversion Rate, multiplied by the principal amount (expressed in thousands) of Notes held by such Holder.
(a) If the Company exclusively issues shares of Common Stock as a dividend or distribution on shares of the Common Stock, or if the Company effects a share split or share combination in respect of the shares of Common Stock, the Conversion Rate shall be adjusted based on the following formula:
where,
CR0 = | the Conversion Rate in effect immediately prior to the open of business on the Ex-Dividend Date of such dividend or distribution, or immediately prior to the open of business on the Effective Date of such share split or share combination, as applicable; |
CR = | the Conversion Rate in effect immediately after the open of business on such Ex-Dividend Date or Effective Date, as applicable; |
OS0 = | the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding immediately prior to the open of business on such Ex-Dividend Date or Effective Date, as applicable, before giving effect to such dividend, distribution, share split or share combination; and |
OS = | the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding immediately after giving effect to such dividend, distribution, share split or share combination. |
Any adjustment made under this Section 14.04(a) shall become effective immediately after the open of business on the Ex-Dividend Date for such dividend or distribution, or immediately after the open of business on the Effective Date for such share split or share combination, as applicable. If any dividend or distribution of the type described in this Section 14.04(a) is declared but not so paid or made, the Conversion Rate shall be immediately readjusted, effective as of the date the Board of Directors determines not to pay such dividend or distribution, to the Conversion Rate that would then be in effect if such dividend or distribution had not been declared.
(b) If the Company issues to all or substantially all holders of the Common Stock any rights, options or warrants (other than pursuant to a stockholders rights plan) entitling them, for a period of not more than 45 calendar days after the announcement date of such issuance, to subscribe for or purchase shares of the Common Stock at a price per share that is less than the average of the Last Reported Sale Prices of the Common Stock for the 10 consecutive Trading Day period ending on, and including, the Trading Day immediately preceding the date of announcement of such issuance, the Conversion Rate shall be increased based on the following formula:
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where,
CR0 = | the Conversion Rate in effect immediately prior to the open of business on the Ex-Dividend Date for such issuance; |
CR = | the Conversion Rate in effect immediately after the open of business on such Ex-Dividend Date; |
OS0 = | the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding immediately prior to the open of business on such Ex-Dividend Date; |
X = | the total number of shares of Common Stock issuable pursuant to such rights, options or warrants; and |
Y = | the number of shares of Common Stock equal to the aggregate price payable to exercise such rights, options or warrants, divided by the average of the Last Reported Sale Prices of the Common Stock over the 10 consecutive Trading Day period ending on, and including, the Trading Day immediately preceding the date of announcement of the issuance of such rights, options or warrants. |
Any increase made under this Section 14.04(b) shall be made successively whenever any such rights, options or warrants are issued and shall become effective immediately after the open of business on the Ex-Dividend Date for such issuance. To the extent that shares of the Common Stock are not delivered after the expiration of such rights, options or warrants, the Conversion Rate shall be decreased to the Conversion Rate that would then be in effect had the increase with respect to the issuance of such rights, options or warrants been made on the basis of delivery of only the number of shares of Common Stock actually delivered. If such rights, options or warrants are not so issued, the Conversion Rate shall be decreased to the Conversion Rate that would then be in effect if such Ex-Dividend Date for such issuance had not occurred.
For purposes of this Section 14.04(b) and for the purpose of Section 14.01(c)(i), in determining whether any rights, options or warrants entitle the holders of the Common Stock to subscribe for or purchase shares of the Common Stock at a price per share that is less than such average of the Last Reported Sale Prices of the Common Stock for the 10 consecutive Trading Day period ending on, and including, the Trading Day immediately preceding the date of announcement for such issuance, and in determining the aggregate offering price of such shares of Common Stock, there shall be taken into account any consideration received by the Company for such rights, options or warrants and any amount payable on exercise or conversion thereof, the value of such consideration, if other than cash, to be determined by the Company.
(c) If the Company distributes shares of its Capital Stock, evidences of its indebtedness, other assets or property of the Company or rights, options or warrants to acquire its Capital Stock or other securities, to all or substantially all holders of the Common Stock, excluding dividends, distributions or issuances (including share splits) as to which an adjustment was effected pursuant to Section 14.04(a) or Section 14.04(b), except as otherwise described in Section 14.11, rights issued pursuant to any stockholders rights plan of the Company then in effect, dividends or distributions paid exclusively in cash as to which the provisions set forth in Section 14.04(d) shall apply, dividends or distributions of Reference Property in exchange for or upon conversion of the Common Stock in a Share Exchange Event, and Spin-Offs as to which the provisions set forth below in this Section 14.04(c) shall apply (any of such shares of Capital Stock, evidences of indebtedness, other assets or property or rights, options or warrants to acquire Capital Stock or other securities, the Distributed Property), then the Conversion Rate shall be increased based on the following formula:
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where,
CR0 = | the Conversion Rate in effect immediately prior to the open of business on the Ex-Dividend Date for such distribution; |
CR = | the Conversion Rate in effect immediately after the open of business on such Ex-Dividend Date; |
SP0 = | the average of the Last Reported Sale Prices of the Common Stock over the 10 consecutive Trading Day period ending on, and including, the Trading Day immediately preceding the Ex-Dividend Date for such distribution; and |
FMV = | the fair market value (as determined by the Company) of the Distributed Property with respect to each outstanding share of the Common Stock on the Ex-Dividend Date for such distribution. |
Any increase made under the portion of this Section 14.04(c) above shall become effective immediately after the open of business on the Ex-Dividend Date for such distribution. If such distribution is not so paid or made, the Conversion Rate shall be decreased to the Conversion Rate that would then be in effect if such distribution had not been declared. Notwithstanding the foregoing, if FMV (as defined above) is equal to or greater than SP0 (as defined above), in lieu of the foregoing increase, each Holder of a Note shall receive, in respect of each $1,000 principal amount thereof, at the same time and upon the same terms as holders of the Common Stock receive the Distributed Property, the amount and kind of Distributed Property such Holder would have received if such Holder owned a number of shares of Common Stock equal to the Conversion Rate in effect on the Ex-Dividend Date for the distribution. If the Board of Directors determines the FMV (as defined above) of any distribution for purposes of this Section 14.04(c) by reference to the actual or when-issued trading market for any securities, it shall in doing so consider the prices in such market over the same period used in computing the Last Reported Sale Prices of the Common Stock over the 10 consecutive Trading Day period ending on, and including, the Trading Day immediately preceding the Ex-Dividend Date for such distribution.
With respect to an adjustment pursuant to this Section 14.04(c) where there has been a payment of a dividend or other distribution on the Common Stock of shares of Capital Stock of any class or series, or similar equity interest, of or relating to a Subsidiary or other business unit of the Company, that are, or, when issued, will be, listed or admitted for trading on a U.S. national securities exchange (a Spin-Off), the Conversion Rate shall be increased based on the following formula:
where,
CR0 = | the Conversion Rate in effect immediately prior to the end of the Valuation Period; |
CR = | the Conversion Rate in effect immediately after the end of the Valuation Period; |
FMV0 = | the average of the Last Reported Sale Prices of the Capital Stock or similar equity interest distributed to holders of the Common Stock applicable to one share of the Common Stock (determined by |
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reference to the definition of Last Reported Sale Price as set forth in Section 1.01 as if references therein to Common Stock were to such Capital Stock or similar equity interest) over the first 10 consecutive Trading Day period after, and including, the Ex-Dividend Date of the Spin-Off (the Valuation Period); provided, that if there is no Last Reported Sale Price of the Capital Stock or similar equity interest distributed to holders of the Common Stock on such Ex-Dividend Date, the Valuation Period shall be the first 10 consecutive Trading Day period after, and including, the first date such Last Reported Sale Price is available; and |
MP0 | = the average of the Last Reported Sale Prices of the Common Stock over the Valuation Period. |
The increase to the Conversion Rate under the preceding paragraph shall occur at the close of business on the last Trading Day of the Valuation Period; provided that (x) in respect of any conversion of Notes for which Physical Settlement is applicable, if the relevant Conversion Date occurs during the Valuation Period, the reference to 10 in the preceding paragraph shall be deemed to be replaced with such lesser number of Trading Days as have elapsed from, and including, the Ex-Dividend Date of such Spin-Off to, and including, the Conversion Date in determining the Conversion Rate and (y) in respect of any conversion of Notes for which Cash Settlement or Combination Settlement is applicable, for any Trading Day that falls within the relevant Observation Period for such conversion and within the Valuation Period, the reference to 10 in the preceding paragraph shall be deemed to be replaced with such lesser number of Trading Days as have elapsed from, and including, the Ex-Dividend Date of such Spin-Off to, and including, such Trading Day in determining the Conversion Rate as of such Trading Day of such Observation Period. If any dividend or distribution that constitutes a Spin-Off is declared but not so paid or made, the Conversion Rate shall be immediately decreased, effective as of the date the Board of Directors determines not to pay or make such dividend or distribution, to the Conversion Rate that would then be in effect if such dividend or distribution had not been declared or announced.
For purposes of this Section 14.04(c) (and subject in all respect to Section 14.11), rights, options or warrants distributed by the Company to all holders of the Common Stock entitling them to subscribe for or purchase shares of the Companys Capital Stock, including Common Stock (either initially or under certain circumstances), which rights, options or warrants, until the occurrence of a specified event or events (Trigger Event): (i) are deemed to be transferred with such shares of the Common Stock; (ii) are not exercisable; and (iii) are also issued in respect of future issuances of the Common Stock, shall be deemed not to have been distributed for purposes of this Section 14.04(c) (and no adjustment to the Conversion Rate under this Section 14.04(c) will be required) until the occurrence of the earliest Trigger Event, whereupon such rights, options or warrants shall be deemed to have been distributed and an appropriate adjustment (if any is required) to the Conversion Rate shall be made under this Section 14.04(c). If any such right, option or warrant, including any such existing rights, options or warrants distributed prior to the date of this Indenture, are subject to events, upon the occurrence of which such rights, options or warrants become exercisable to purchase different securities, evidences of indebtedness or other assets, then the date of the occurrence of any and each such event shall be deemed to be the date of distribution and Ex-Dividend Date with respect to new rights, options or warrants with such rights (in which case the existing rights, options or warrants shall be deemed to terminate and expire on such date without exercise by any of the holders thereof. In addition, in the event of any distribution (or deemed distribution) of rights, options or warrants, or any Trigger Event or other event (of the type described in the immediately preceding sentence) with respect thereto that was counted for purposes of calculating a distribution amount for which an adjustment to the Conversion Rate under this Section 14.04(c) was made, (1) in the case of any such rights, options or warrants that shall all have been redeemed or purchased without exercise by any holders thereof, upon such final redemption or purchase (x) the Conversion Rate shall be readjusted as if such rights, options or warrants had not been issued and (y) the Conversion Rate shall then
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again be readjusted to give effect to such distribution, deemed distribution or Trigger Event, as the case may be, as though it were a cash distribution, equal to the per share redemption or purchase price received by a holder or holders of Common Stock with respect to such rights, options or warrants (assuming such holder had retained such rights, options or warrants), made to all holders of Common Stock as of the date of such redemption or purchase, and (2) in the case of such rights, options or warrants that shall have expired or been terminated without exercise by any holders thereof, the Conversion Rate shall be readjusted as if such rights, options and warrants had not been issued.
For purposes of Section 14.04(a), Section 14.04(b) and this Section 14.04(c), if any dividend or distribution to which this Section 14.04(c) is applicable also includes one or both of:
(A) a dividend or distribution of shares of Common Stock to which Section 14.04(a) is applicable (the Clause A Distribution); or
(B) a dividend or distribution of rights, options or warrants to which Section 14.04(b) is applicable (the Clause B Distribution),
then, in either case, (1) such dividend or distribution, other than the Clause A Distribution and the Clause B Distribution, shall be deemed to be a dividend or distribution to which this Section 14.04(c) is applicable (the Clause C Distribution) and any Conversion Rate adjustment required by this Section 14.04(c) with respect to such Clause C Distribution shall then be made, and (2) the Clause A Distribution and Clause B Distribution shall be deemed to immediately follow the Clause C Distribution and any Conversion Rate adjustment required by Section 14.04(a) and Section 14.04(b) with respect thereto shall then be made, except that, if determined by the Company (I) the Ex-Dividend Date of the Clause A Distribution and the Clause B Distribution shall be deemed to be the Ex-Dividend Date of the Clause C Distribution and (II) any shares of Common Stock included in the Clause A Distribution or Clause B Distribution shall be deemed not to be outstanding immediately prior to the open of business on such Ex-Dividend Date or Effective Date within the meaning of Section 14.04(a) or outstanding immediately prior to the open of business on such Ex-Dividend Date within the meaning of Section 14.04(b).
(d) If the Company pays or makes any cash dividend or distribution to all or substantially all holders of the Common Stock, the Conversion Rate shall be adjusted based on the following formula:
where,
CR0 = | the Conversion Rate in effect immediately prior to the open of business on the Ex-Dividend Date for such dividend or distribution; |
CR = | the Conversion Rate in effect immediately after the open of business on the Ex-Dividend Date for such dividend or distribution; |
SP0 = | the Last Reported Sale Price of the Common Stock on the Trading Day immediately preceding the Ex-Dividend Date for such dividend or distribution; and |
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C = | the amount in cash per share the Company distributes to all or substantially all holders of the Common Stock. |
Any increase pursuant to this Section 14.04(d) shall become effective immediately after the open of business on the Ex-Dividend Date for such dividend or distribution. If such dividend or distribution is not so paid, the Conversion Rate shall be decreased, effective as of the date the Board of Directors or a committee thereof determines not to make or pay such dividend or distribution, to be the Conversion Rate that would then be in effect if such dividend or distribution had not been declared. Notwithstanding the foregoing, if C (as defined above) is equal to or greater than SP0 (as defined above), in lieu of the foregoing increase, each Holder of a Note shall receive, for each $1,000 principal amount of Notes, at the same time and upon the same terms as holders of shares of the Common Stock, the amount of cash that such Holder would have received if such Holder owned a number of shares of Common Stock equal to the Conversion Rate on the Ex-Dividend Date for such cash dividend or distribution.
(e) If the Company or any of its Subsidiaries makes a payment in respect of a tender or exchange offer for the Common Stock that is subject to the then-applicable tender offer rules under the Exchange Act (other than an odd lot tender offer), to the extent that the cash and value of any other consideration included in the payment per share of the Common Stock exceeds the average of the Last Reported Sale Prices of the Common Stock over the 10 consecutive Trading Day period commencing on, and including, the Trading Day next succeeding the last date on which tenders or exchanges may be made pursuant to such tender or exchange offer, the Conversion Rate shall be increased based on the following formula:
where,
CR0 = | the Conversion Rate in effect immediately prior to the close of business on the 10th Trading Day immediately following, and including, the Trading Day next succeeding the date such tender or exchange offer expires (the date such tender offer or exchange offer expires, the Expiration Date); |
CR = | the Conversion Rate in effect immediately after the close of business on the 10th Trading Day immediately following, and including, the Trading Day next succeeding the Expiration Date; |
AC = | the aggregate value of all cash and any other consideration (as determined by the Company) paid or payable for shares of Common Stock purchased in such tender or exchange offer; |
OS0 = | the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding immediately prior to the Expiration Date (prior to giving effect to the purchase of all shares of Common Stock accepted for purchase or exchange in such tender or exchange offer); |
OS = | the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding immediately after the Expiration Date (after giving effect to the purchase of all shares of Common Stock accepted for purchase or exchange in such tender or exchange offer); and |
SP = | the average of the Last Reported Sale Prices of the Common Stock over the 10 consecutive Trading Day period commencing on, and including, the Trading Day next succeeding the Expiration Date. |
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The increase to the Conversion Rate under this Section 14.04(e) shall occur at the close of business on the 10th Trading Day immediately following, and including, the Trading Day next succeeding the date such tender or exchange offer expires; provided that (x) in respect of any conversion of Notes for which Physical Settlement is applicable, if the relevant Conversion Date occurs during the 10 Trading Days immediately following, and including, the Trading Day next succeeding the Expiration Date of any tender or exchange offer, references to 10 or 10th in the preceding paragraph shall be deemed replaced with such lesser number of Trading Days as have elapsed from, and including, the Trading Day next succeeding the date that such tender or exchange offer expires to, and including, the Conversion Date in determining the Conversion Rate and (y) in respect of any conversion of Notes for which Cash Settlement or Combination Settlement is applicable, for any Trading Day that falls within the relevant Observation Period for such conversion and within the 10 Trading Days immediately following, and including, the Trading Day next succeeding the Expiration Date of any tender or exchange offer, references to 10 or 10th in the preceding paragraph shall be deemed replaced with such lesser number of Trading Days as have elapsed from, and including, the Trading Day next succeeding the Expiration Date of such tender or exchange offer to, and including, such Trading Day in determining the Conversion Rate as of such Trading Day of such Observation Period.
In the event that the Company or one of its Subsidiaries is obligated to purchase shares of Common Stock pursuant to any such tender offer or exchange offer, but the Company is, or such Subsidiary is, permanently prevented by applicable law from consummating any such purchases, or all such purchases are rescinded, then the Conversion Rate shall be decreased to be the Conversion Rate that would then be in effect if such tender offer or exchange offer had not been made or had been made only in respect of the purchases that have been consummated.
(f) [Reserved].
(g) Except as stated herein, the Company shall not adjust the Conversion Rate for the issuance of shares of the Common Stock or any securities convertible into or exchangeable for shares of the Common Stock or the right to purchase shares of the Common Stock or such convertible or exchangeable securities.
(h) In addition to those adjustments required by clauses (a), (b), (c), (d) and (e) of this Section 14.04, and to the extent permitted by applicable law and subject to the applicable rules of The New York Stock Exchange, the Company from time to time may increase the Conversion Rate by any amount for a period of at least 20 Business Days if the Board of Directors or a committee thereof determines that such increase would be in the Companys best interest. In addition, to the extent permitted by applicable law and subject to the applicable rules of The New York Stock Exchange, the Company may (but is not required to) increase the Conversion Rate to avoid or diminish any income tax to holders of Common Stock or rights to purchase Common Stock in connection with a dividend or distribution of shares of Common Stock (or rights to acquire shares of Common Stock) or similar event. Whenever the Conversion Rate is increased pursuant to either of the preceding two sentences, the Company shall deliver to the Holder of each Note, the Trustee and the Conversion Agent a notice of the increase at least 15 days prior to the date the increased Conversion Rate takes effect, and such notice shall state the increased Conversion Rate and the period during which it will be in effect.
(i) Except as stated in this Indenture, the Company shall not adjust the Conversion Rate for the issuance of shares of Common Stock or any securities convertible into or exchangeable for shares of Common Stock or the right to purchase shares of Common Stock or such convertible or exchangeable securities. For illustrative purposes only and without limiting the generality of the preceding sentence, the Conversion Rate shall not be adjusted:
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(i) Upon the issuance of any shares of Common Stock at a price below the Conversion Price or otherwise, other than any such issuance described in Section 14.04(a), (b), or (c) above;
(ii) upon the issuance of any shares of Common Stock pursuant to any present or future plan providing for the reinvestment of dividends or interest payable on the Companys securities and the investment of additional optional amounts in shares of Common Stock under any plan;
(iii) upon the issuance of any shares of Common Stock or options or rights to purchase those shares pursuant to any present or future employee, director or consultant or incentive benefit plan (including pursuant to any evergreen plan) or program of or assumed by the Company or any of the Companys Subsidiaries or in connection with any such shares withheld by the Company for tax withholding purposes;
(iv) upon the issuance of any shares of the Common Stock pursuant to any option, warrant, right or exercisable, exchangeable or convertible security not described in clause (iii) of this subsection and outstanding as of the date the Notes were first issued;
(v) for a tender offer by any party other than a tender offer by the Company or one or more of the Companys Subsidiaries as described in Section 14.04(e);
(vi) upon the repurchase of any shares of Common Stock pursuant to an open market share repurchase program or other buy-back transaction, (including, without limitation, through any structured or derivative transactions such as accelerated share repurchase transactions or similar forward derivatives), that is not a tender offer or exchange offer of the nature described in Section 14.04(e);
(vii) solely for a change in the par value (or lack of par value) of the Common Stock; or
(viii) for accrued and unpaid interest, if any.
(j) The Company will not be required to adjust the applicable Conversion Rate pursuant to clauses (a), (b), (c), (d) or (e) of this Section 14.04 unless the adjustment would result in a change of at least 1% in the then effective Conversion Rate. However, the Company will defer and carry forward any adjustment to such Conversion Rate that the Company would otherwise have to make and take that adjustment into account in any subsequent adjustment. Notwithstanding the foregoing, all such carried-forward adjustments shall be made with respect to the Notes: (i) when all such deferred adjustments would result in an aggregate change of at least 1% to the Conversion Rate; (ii) on the Conversion Date for any Note (in the case of Physical Settlement), (iii) on each Trading Day of the applicable Observation Period for any Note (in the case of Cash Settlement or Combination Settlement); (iv) on the date a Fundamental Change or Make-Whole Fundamental Change occurs; (v) on any date on which the Company delivers a Redemption Notice; and (vi) for any adjustments that have not been made prior to March 15, 2030, on March 15, 2030. All calculations and other determinations under this Article 14 shall be made by the Company and shall be made to the nearest one-ten thousandth (1/10,000th) of a share.
(k) Whenever the Conversion Rate is adjusted as herein provided, the Company shall promptly file with the Trustee (and the Conversion Agent if not the Trustee) an Officers Certificate setting forth the Conversion Rate after such adjustment and setting forth a brief statement of the facts requiring such adjustment. Neither the Trustee nor the Conversion Agent shall have any responsibility to verify the accuracy of any adjustment to the Conversion Rate. Unless and until a Responsible Officer of the Trustee shall have received
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such Officers Certificate, the Trustee shall not be deemed to have knowledge of any adjustment of the Conversion Rate and may assume without inquiry that the last Conversion Rate of which it has knowledge is still in effect. Promptly after delivery of such certificate, the Company shall prepare a notice of such adjustment of the Conversion Rate setting forth the adjusted Conversion Rate and the date on which each adjustment becomes effective and shall deliver such notice of such adjustment of the Conversion Rate to each Holder. Failure to deliver such notice shall not affect the legality or validity of any such adjustment.
(l) For purposes of this Section 14.04, the number of shares of Common Stock at any time outstanding shall not include shares of Common Stock held in the treasury of the Company so long as the Company does not pay any dividend or make any distribution on shares of Common Stock held in the treasury of the Company, but shall include shares of Common Stock issuable in respect of scrip certificates issued in lieu of fractions of shares of Common Stock.
Section 14.05. Adjustments of Prices. Whenever any provision of this Indenture requires the Company to calculate the Last Reported Sale Prices, the Daily VWAPs, the Daily Conversion Values or the Daily Settlement Amounts over a span of multiple days (including an Observation Period and the period for determining the Stock Price for purposes of a Make-Whole Fundamental Change or Optional Redemption), the Company shall make appropriate adjustments (without duplication in respect of any adjustment made pursuant to Section 14.04) to each to account for any adjustment to the Conversion Rate that becomes effective, or any event requiring an adjustment to the Conversion Rate where the Ex-Dividend Date, Effective Date or Expiration Date, as the case may be, of the event occurs, at any time during the period when the Last Reported Sale Prices, the Daily VWAPs, the Daily Conversion Values or the Daily Settlement Amounts are to be calculated.
Section 14.06. Shares to Be Fully Paid. The Company shall reserve, free from preemptive rights, out of its authorized but unissued shares or shares held in treasury, sufficient shares of Common Stock to provide for conversion of the Notes from time to time as such Notes are presented for conversion (assuming delivery of the maximum number of Additional Shares pursuant to Section 14.03 and that at the time of computation of such number of shares, all such Notes would be converted by a single Holder and that Physical Settlement were applicable).
Section 14.07. Effect of Recapitalizations, Reclassifications and Changes of the Common Stock.
(a) In the case of:
(i) any recapitalization, reclassification or change of the Common Stock (other than changes in par value or resulting from a subdivision or combination),
(ii) any consolidation, merger or combination involving the Company,
(iii) any sale, lease or other transfer to a third party of all or substantially all of the consolidated assets of the Company and the Companys Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, or
(iv) any statutory share exchange,
in each case, as a result of which the Common Stock would be converted into, or exchanged for, stock, other securities, other property or assets (including cash or any combination thereof (any such event, a Share Exchange Event), then at and after the effective time of such Share Exchange Event, the right to convert each $1,000 principal amount of Notes shall be changed into a right to convert such principal amount of Notes into the kind and amount of shares of stock, other securities or other property or assets (including cash or any
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combination thereof) that a holder of a number of shares of Common Stock equal to the Conversion Rate immediately prior to such Share Exchange Event would have owned or been entitled to receive (the Reference Property, with each unit of Reference Property meaning the kind and amount of Reference Property that a holder of one share of Common Stock is entitled to receive) upon such Share Exchange Event and, prior to or at the effective time of such Share Exchange Event, the Company or the successor or acquiring Person, as the case may be, shall execute with the Trustee a supplemental indenture permitted under Section 10.01(g) providing for such change in the right to convert each $1,000 principal amount of Notes; provided, however, that at and after the effective time of the Share Exchange Event (A) the Company or the successor or acquiring company, as the case may be, shall continue to have the right to determine the form of consideration to be paid or delivered, as the case may be, upon conversion of Notes in accordance with Section 14.02 and (B) (I) any amount payable in cash upon conversion of the Notes in accordance with Section 14.02 shall continue to be payable in cash, (II) any shares of Common Stock that the Company would have been required to deliver upon conversion of the Notes in accordance with Section 14.02 shall instead be deliverable in the amount and type of Reference Property that a holder of that number of shares of Common Stock would have received in such Share Exchange Event and (III) the Daily VWAP shall be calculated based on the value of a unit of Reference Property.
If the Share Exchange Event causes the Common Stock to be converted into, or exchanged for, the right to receive more than a single type of consideration (determined based in part upon any form of stockholder election), then (i) the Reference Property into which the Notes will be convertible shall be deemed to be the weighted average of the types and amounts of consideration actually received by the holders of Common Stock, and (ii) the unit of Reference Property for purposes of the immediately preceding paragraph shall refer to the consideration referred to in clause (i) attributable to one share of Common Stock. If the holders of the Common Stock receive only cash in such Share Exchange Event, then for all conversions for which the relevant Conversion Date occurs after the effective date of such Share Exchange Event (A) the consideration due upon conversion of each $1,000 principal amount of Notes shall be solely cash in an amount equal to the Conversion Rate in effect on the Conversion Date (as may be increased by any Additional Shares pursuant to Section 14.03), multiplied by the price paid per share of Common Stock in such Share Exchange Event and (B) the Company shall satisfy the Conversion Obligation by paying such cash amount to converting Holders on the second Business Day immediately following the relevant Conversion Date. The Company shall notify Holders, the Trustee and the Conversion Agent (if other than the Trustee) in writing of such weighted average as soon as reasonably practicable after such determination is made.
If the Reference Property in respect of any Share Exchange Event includes, in whole or in part, shares of common equity or equity-linked securities, such supplemental indenture described in the second immediately preceding paragraph shall provide for anti-dilution and other adjustments that shall be as nearly equivalent as is possible to the adjustments provided for in this Article 14 with respect to the portion of the Reference Property consisting of such common equity or equity-linked securities. If, in the case of any Share Exchange Event, the Reference Property includes shares of stock, securities or other property or assets (other than cash and/or Cash Equivalents) of a Person other than the successor or purchasing corporation, as the case may be, in such Share Exchange Event, then such supplemental indenture shall also be executed by such other Person, if such other Person is an affiliate of the Company or the successor or acquiring company, and shall contain such additional provisions to protect the interests of the Holders of the Notes as the Board of Directors (or an authorized committee thereof) shall reasonably consider necessary by reason of the foregoing, including the provisions providing for the purchase rights set forth in Article 15.
(b) When the Company executes a supplemental indenture pursuant to subsection (a) of this Section 14.07, the Company shall promptly file with the Trustee an Officers Certificate briefly stating the reasons therefor, the kind or amount of cash, securities or property or asset that will comprise a unit of
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Reference Property after any such Share Exchange Event, any adjustment to be made with respect thereto and that all conditions precedent have been complied with, and shall promptly deliver or cause to be delivered notice thereof to all Holders. The Company shall cause notice of the execution of such supplemental indenture to be delivered to each Holder within 20 days after execution thereof. Failure to deliver such notice shall not affect the legality or validity of such supplemental indenture.
(c) None of the foregoing provisions shall affect the right of a holder of Notes to convert its Notes into cash or a combination of cash and shares of Common Stock as set forth in Section 14.01 and Section 14.02 prior to the effective date of such Share Exchange Event.
(d) The above provisions of this Section shall similarly apply to successive Share Exchange Events.
Section 14.08. Certain Covenants. Subject to Sections 14.02(d) and 14.02(e), the Company covenants that all shares of Common Stock issued upon conversion of Notes will be fully paid and non-assessable by the Company and free from all taxes, liens and charges with respect to the issue thereof.
(a) The Company covenants that, if any shares of Common Stock to be provided for the purpose of conversion of Notes hereunder require registration with or approval of any governmental authority under any federal or state law before such shares of Common Stock may be validly issued upon conversion, the Company will, to the extent then permitted by the rules and interpretations of the Commission, secure such registration or approval, as the case may be.
(b) The Company further covenants that if at any time the Common Stock shall be listed on any national securities exchange or automated quotation system the Company will list and use its commercially reasonable efforts to keep listed, so long as the Common Stock shall be so listed on such exchange or automated quotation system, any Common Stock issuable upon conversion of the Notes.
Section 14.09. Responsibility of Trustee. The Trustee and any other Conversion Agent shall not at any time be under any duty or responsibility to any Holder to determine the Conversion Rate (or any adjustment thereto) or whether any facts exist that may require any adjustment (including any increase) of the Conversion Rate, or with respect to the nature or extent or calculation of any such adjustment when made, or with respect to the method employed, or herein or in any supplemental indenture provided to be employed, in making the same. The Trustee and any other Conversion Agent shall not be accountable with respect to the validity or value (or the kind or amount) of any shares of Common Stock, or of any securities, property or cash that may at any time be issued or delivered upon the conversion of any Note; and the Trustee and any other Conversion Agent make no representations with respect thereto. Neither the Trustee nor any Conversion Agent shall be responsible for any failure of the Company to issue, transfer or deliver any shares of Common Stock or stock certificates or other securities or property or cash upon the surrender of any Note for the purpose of conversion or to comply with any of the duties, responsibilities or covenants of the Company contained in this Article. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, neither the Trustee nor any Conversion Agent shall be under any responsibility to determine the correctness of any provisions contained in any supplemental indenture entered into pursuant to Section 14.07 relating either to the kind or amount of shares of stock or securities or property (including cash) receivable by Holders upon the conversion of their Notes after any event referred to in such Section 14.07 or to any adjustment to be made with respect thereto, but, subject to the provisions of Section 7.01, may accept (without any independent investigation) as conclusive evidence of the correctness of any such provisions, and shall be protected in relying upon, the Officers Certificate (which the Company shall be obligated to file with the Trustee prior to the execution of any such supplemental indenture) with respect thereto. Neither the Trustee nor the Conversion Agent shall be responsible for determining or investigating whether any event contemplated
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by Section 14.01(b) has occurred that makes the Notes eligible for conversion or no longer eligible therefor. The Trustee and the Conversion Agent may conclusively rely upon any notice with respect to the commencement or termination of such conversion rights, and the Company agrees to deliver such notices to the Trustee and the Conversion Agent immediately after the occurrence of any such event or at such other times as shall be provided for in Section 14.01(b). Neither the Trustee nor the Conversion Agent shall have any obligation to make any calculation or to determine whether the Notes may be surrendered for conversion pursuant to this Indenture, or to notify the Company or the Depositary or any of the Holders if the Notes have become convertible pursuant to the terms of this Indenture.
Section 14.10. Notice to Holders Prior to Certain Actions. In case of any:
(a) action by the Company or one of its Subsidiaries that would require an adjustment in the Conversion Rate pursuant to Section 14.04 or Section 14.11;
(b) Share Exchange Event; or
(c) voluntary or involuntary dissolution, liquidation or winding-up of the Company;
then, in each case (unless notice of such event is otherwise required pursuant to another provision of this Indenture) and to the extent applicable, the Company shall cause to be filed with the Trustee and the Conversion Agent (if other than the Trustee) and to be delivered to each Holder, a notice stating the date on which a record is to be taken for the purpose of such action by the Company or one of its Subsidiaries or, if a record is not to be taken, the date as of which the holders of Common Stock of record are to be determined for the purposes of such action by the Company or one of its Subsidiaries no later than the earlier of the date notice of such date is required to be provided under Rule 10b-17 of the Exchange Act, other applicable Commission rule or applicable rules of the principal U.S. national or regional securities exchange on which the Common Stock is then listed or admitted for trading and such date is publicly announced by the Company. Failure to give such notice, or any defect therein, shall not affect the legality or validity of such action by the Company or one of its Subsidiaries, Share Exchange Event, dissolution, liquidation or winding-up.
Section 14.11. Stockholder Rights Plans. If the Company has a stockholder rights plan in effect upon conversion of the Notes, each share of Common Stock, if any, issued upon such conversion shall be entitled to receive the appropriate number of rights, if any, under such stockholder rights plan and the certificates representing the Common Stock issued upon such conversion shall bear such legends, if any, in each case as may be provided by the terms of any such stockholder rights plan, as the same may be amended from time to time. However, if, prior to any conversion of Notes, the rights have separated from the shares of Common Stock in accordance with the provisions of the applicable stockholder rights plan, the Conversion Rate shall be adjusted at the time of separation as if the Company distributed to all or substantially all holders of the Common Stock Distributed Property as provided in the first paragraph of Section 14.04(c), subject to readjustment in the event of the expiration, termination or redemption of such rights.
Section 14.12. Exchange in Lieu of Conversion. When a Holder surrenders its Notes for conversion, the Company may, at its election (an Exchange Election), cause such Notes to be delivered on or prior to the first Trading Day following the Conversion Date to one or more financial institutions designated by the Company for exchange in lieu of conversion. In order to accept any Notes surrendered for conversion, the designated financial institution must agree to timely deliver, in exchange for such Notes, the cash, shares of Common Stock or combination thereof that would otherwise be due upon conversion as described in Section 14.02 (the Conversion Consideration). If the Company makes an Exchange Election, the Company shall, by the close of business on the first Trading Day following the relevant Conversion Date, notify the Trustee, the
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Conversion Agent and the Holder surrendering its Notes for conversion that it has made the Exchange Election, and the Company shall notify the designated financial institution(s) of the relevant deadline for delivery of the Conversion Consideration and the type of Conversion Consideration to be paid and/or delivered, as the case may be. The Company, the Holder surrendering its Notes for conversion, and the Conversion Agent shall cooperate to cause such Notes to be delivered to the financial institution, and the Conversion Agent shall be entitled to conclusively rely upon the Companys instruction in connection with effecting such Exchange Election and shall have no liability in respect of such Exchange Election outside its control.
Any Notes exchanged by the designated financial institution(s), subject to Applicable Procedures, shall remain outstanding, notwithstanding the surrender thereof by the Holder of such Notes. If the designated financial institution(s) agree(s) to accept any Notes for exchange but does not timely pay and/or deliver, as the case may be, the related Conversion Consideration, or if such designated financial institution does not accept the Notes for exchange, the Company shall notify the Trustee, the Conversion Agent and the Holder surrendering its Notes for conversion, and pay and/or deliver, as the case may be, the relevant Conversion Consideration as if the Company had not made an Exchange Election.
The Companys designation of any financial institution to which the Notes may be submitted for exchange does not require such financial institution to accept any Notes (unless the financial institution has separately made an agreement with the Company). The Company may, but shall not be obligated to, enter into a separate agreement with any designated financial institution that would compensate it for any such transaction. The Company will comply and will cause the designated financial institution(s) to comply with the Applicable Procedures.
Section 14.13. Beneficial Ownership Limitations
(a) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Indenture, no Holder will be entitled to receive shares of Common Stock upon conversion of Notes and no conversion of Notes shall take place for such Holder to the extent (but only to the extent) that such receipt of (or conversion into) shares of Common Stock would cause such Holder (together with the Holders Affiliates, and any other Persons acting as a group together with the Holder or any of the Holders Affiliates (such Persons, Attribution Parties)) to beneficially own shares of Common Stock in excess of the General Beneficial Ownership Limitations. For purposes of the foregoing sentence, the number of shares of Common Stock beneficially owned by the Holder and its Affiliates and Attribution Parties shall include the number of shares of Common Stock issuable upon conversion of any Notes with respect to which such determination is being made, but shall exclude the number of shares of Common Stock which are issuable upon (i) conversion of the remaining, unconverted principal amount of Notes beneficially owned by the Holder and its Affiliates and Attribution Parties and (ii) exercise or conversion of the unexercised or unconverted portion of any other securities of the Company subject to a limitation on conversion or exercise analogous to the limitation contained herein (including, without limitation, any other Notes) beneficially owned by the Holder and its Affiliates and Attribution Parties. Except as set forth in the preceding sentence, for purposes of this provision, beneficial ownership shall be calculated in accordance with Section 13(d) of the Exchange Act and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder. Any purported delivery of shares of Common Stock upon conversion of the Notes shall be void and have no effect to the extent (but only to the extent) that such delivery would result in the converting Holder violating the General Beneficial Ownership Limitations. Solely for the purpose of this Section 14.13, in the case of Global Notes, Holder shall mean a person that holds a beneficial interest in the Notes and not the Depositary or its nominee.
(b) To the extent that the limitation contained in this Section 14.13 applies, the determination of whether any Notes are convertible (in relation to other securities beneficially owned by the Holder) and of which principal amount of such Notes are convertible shall be in the sole discretion of the Holder, and the
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submission of a Notice of Conversion shall be deemed to be the Holders determination of whether any Notes may be converted (in relation to other securities beneficially owned by the Holder) and which principal amount such Notes are convertible, in each case subject to the General Beneficial Ownership Limitations. To ensure compliance with this restriction, the Holder shall be deemed to represent to the Company each time it delivers a Notice of Conversion that such Notice of Conversion has not violated the restrictions set forth in this Section 14.13 and the Company shall have no obligation to verify or confirm the accuracy of such determination. In addition, a determination as to any group status as contemplated above shall be determined in accordance with Section 13(d) of the Exchange Act and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder. For the avoidance of doubt, no breach, default or Event of Default shall occur hereunder if the Company, in reliance on a Holders Notice of Conversion, converts shares of Common Stock for such Holder that, either on the applicable Settlement Date or cumulatively, causes such Holder to exceed the General Beneficial Ownership Limitation.
(c) For purposes of this Section 14.13, in determining the number of outstanding shares of Common Stock, the Holder may rely on the number of outstanding shares of Common Stock as stated in the most recent of the following: (i) the Companys most recent periodic or annual report filed with the Commission, as the case may be, (ii) a more recent public announcement by the Company, or (iii) a more recent written notice by the Company to such Holder setting forth the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding. Upon the written request of a Holder, the Company shall within two Trading Days confirm in writing to the Holder the number of shares of Common Stock then outstanding. In any case, for the purposes of this Section 14.13(c), the number of outstanding shares of Common Stock shall be determined after giving effect to the conversion or exercise of securities of the Company, including the Notes, by the Holder since the date as of which such number of outstanding shares of Common Stock was reported.
(d) The General Beneficial Ownership Limitation shall be 4.99% of the number of shares of the Common Stock outstanding immediately after giving effect to the issuance of shares of Common Stock in the applicable conversion of Notes. Notwithstanding the foregoing, a Holder may waive the General Beneficial Ownership Limitation by written notice to the Company; provided that a waiver by a Holder of the General Beneficial Ownership Limitation requires not less than 61 days prior written notice (with such waiver of the General Beneficial Ownership Limitation taking effect only upon the expiration of such 61 day notice period and applying only to such Holder and not to any other Holder).
(e) Any Notes surrendered for conversion for which shares of Common Stock are not delivered due to the General Beneficial Ownership Limitations shall not be extinguished and, such Holder may either:
(i) request return of the Notes surrendered by such Holder for conversion, after which the Company shall deliver such Notes to such Holder within two Trading Days after receipt of such request; or
(ii) when and if able, certify to the Company that the person (or persons) receiving shares of Common Stock upon conversion is not, and would not, as a result of such conversion, become the beneficial owner of shares of Common Stock outstanding at such time in excess of the applicable General Beneficial Ownership Limitations, after which the Company shall deliver any such shares of Common Stock withheld on account of such applicable General Beneficial Ownership Limitations by the later of (x) the date such shares were otherwise due to such person (or persons) and (y) two Trading Days after receipt of such certification; provided, however, until such time as the affected Holder gives such notice, no person shall be deemed to be the stockholder of record with respect to the shares of Common Stock otherwise deliverable upon conversion in excess of any applicable General Beneficial Ownership Limitations.
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(f) Neither the Trustee nor the Conversion Agent (if other than the Trustee) shall be responsible for monitoring, determining or verifying the General Beneficial Ownership Limitation.
ARTICLE 15
REPURCHASE OF NOTES AT OPTION OF HOLDERS
Section 15.01. Repurchase of Securities at Option of the Holder on Specified Date.
(a) Each Holder shall have the right, at such Holders option, to require the Company to repurchase for cash all of such Holders Notes, or any portion of the principal amount thereof that is equal to $1,000 or an integral multiple of $1,000, on June 23, 2028 (the Put Right Repurchase Date) at a repurchase price per Note equal to 100% of the aggregate principal amount of the Notes being repurchased, together with any accrued and unpaid interest up to, but not including, such Put Right Repurchase Date (the Put Right Repurchase Price).
(b) Repurchases of Notes under this Section 15.01 shall be made, at the option of the Holder thereof, upon:
(i) delivery to the Trustee (or other Paying Agent appointed by the Company) by the Holder of a written notice of purchase (a Put Right Repurchase Notice) in the form set forth in Attachment 4 to the Form of Note attached hereto as Exhibit A, if the Notes are Physical Notes, or in compliance with the Applicable Procedures for surrendering interests in Global Notes, if the Notes are Global Notes, at any time from the opening of business on the date that is 25 Business Days prior to the applicable Put Right Repurchase Date until the close of business on the fifth Business Day prior to such Put Right Repurchase Date; and
(ii) delivery of such Note to the Paying Agent prior to, on or after the Put Right Repurchase Date (together with all necessary endorsements) at the offices of the Paying Agent, such delivery being a condition to receipt by the Holder of the Put Right Repurchase Price therefor, which shall be so paid pursuant to this Section 15.01 only if the Note so delivered to the Paying Agent shall conform in all respects to the description thereof in the related Put Right Repurchase Notice, as determined by the Company.
The Put Right Repurchase Notice in respect of any Notes to be repurchased shall state:
(A) in the case of Physical Notes, the certificate numbers of the Notes to be delivered for repurchase;
(B) the portion of the principal amount of Notes to be repurchased, which must be in minimum denominations of $1,000 or an integral multiple thereof; and
(C) that the Notes are to be repurchased by the Company pursuant to the applicable provisions of the Notes and this Indenture;
provided, however, that if the Notes are Global Notes, the Put Right Repurchase Notice must comply with the Applicable Procedures.
Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, any Holder delivering to the Paying Agent the Put Right Repurchase Notice contemplated by this Section 15.01 shall have the right to withdraw, in whole or in part, such Put Right Repurchase Notice at any time prior to the close of business on the Business Day
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immediately preceding the Put Right Repurchase Date by delivery of a written notice of withdrawal to the Paying Agent in accordance with Section 15.03 or in accordance with Applicable Procedures.
The Paying Agent shall promptly notify the Company of the receipt by it of any Put Right Repurchase Notice or written notice of withdrawal thereof.
(c) In connection with any purchase of Notes pursuant to this Section 15.01, the Company shall give written notice of the Put Right Repurchase Date to the Holders (the Company Put Right Notice). The Company Put Right Notice shall be sent by first-class mail to the Trustee and to each Holder (and to each beneficial owner as required by applicable law) that has delivered a Put Right Repurchase Notice within ten Business Days of receipt of such Put Right Repurchase Notice, or, if a shorter period, at least two Business Days prior to any Put Right Repurchase Date (the Company Put Right Notice Date). Each Company Put Right Notice shall include a form of Put Right Repurchase Notice to be completed by a Noteholder and shall state:
(i) the Put Right Repurchase Price;
(ii) the name and address of the Paying Agent and the Conversion Agent, if applicable;
(iii) if applicable, the Conversion Rate and any adjustments to the Conversion Rate;
(iv) that the Notes with respect to which a Put Right Repurchase Notice has been delivered by a Holder may be converted only if the Holder withdraws the Put Right Repurchase Notice in accordance with the terms of this Indenture; and
(v) the procedures that Holders must follow to require the Company to repurchase their Notes.
No failure of the Company to give the foregoing notices and no defect therein shall limit the Holders repurchase rights or affect the validity of the proceedings for the repurchase of the Notes pursuant to this Section 15.01.
At the Companys request, the Trustee shall give such Company Put Right Notice in the Companys name and at the Companys expense; provided, however, that, in all cases, the text of such Company Put Right Notice shall be prepared by the Company.
(d) Notwithstanding the foregoing, no Notes may be repurchased by the Company on any date at the option of the Holders in accordance with this Section 15.01 if the principal amount of the Notes has been accelerated, and such acceleration has not been rescinded, on or prior to such date (except in the case of an acceleration resulting from a Default by the Company in the payment of the Put Right Repurchase Price with respect to such Notes). The Paying Agent will promptly return to the respective Holders thereof any Physical Notes held by it during the acceleration of the Notes (except in the case of an acceleration resulting from a Default by the Company in the payment of the Put Right Repurchase Price with respect to such Notes), or any instructions for book-entry transfer of the Notes in compliance with the Applicable Procedures shall be deemed to have been canceled, and, upon such return or cancellation, as the case may be, the Put Right Repurchase Notice with respect thereto shall be deemed to have been withdrawn.
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(e) For purposes of this Article 15, the Paying Agent may be any agent, depositary, tender agent, paying agent or other agent (including the Trustee) appointed by the Company to accomplish the purposes set forth herein.
Section 15.02. Repurchase at Option of Holders Upon a Fundamental Change. (a) If a Fundamental Change occurs at any time, each Holder shall have the right, at such Holders option, to require the Company to repurchase for cash all of such Holders Notes, or any portion of the principal amount thereof that is equal to $1,000 or an integral multiple of $1,000, on the date (the Fundamental Change Repurchase Date) specified by the Company that is not less than 20 Business Days or more than 35 Business Days following the date of the Fundamental Change Company Notice at a repurchase price equal to 100% of the principal amount thereof, plus accrued and unpaid interest thereon to, but excluding, the Fundamental Change Repurchase Date (the Fundamental Change Repurchase Price), unless the Fundamental Change Repurchase Date falls after a Regular Record Date but on or prior to the Interest Payment Date to which such Regular Record Date relates, in which case the Company shall instead pay the full amount of accrued and unpaid interest (to, but excluding, such Interest Payment Date) to Holders of record as of the close of business on such Regular Record Date, and the Fundamental Change Repurchase Price shall be equal to 100% of the principal amount of Notes to be repurchased pursuant to this Article 15. The Fundamental Change Repurchase Date shall be subject to postponement in order to allow the Company to comply with applicable law.
(b) Repurchases of Notes under this Section 15.02 shall be made, at the option of the Holder thereof, upon:
(i) delivery to the Paying Agent by a Holder of a duly completed notice (the Fundamental Change Repurchase Notice) in the form set forth in Attachment 2 to the Form of Note attached hereto as Exhibit A, if the Notes are Physical Notes, or in compliance with the Applicable Procedures for surrendering interests in Global Notes, if the Notes are Global Notes, in each case on or before the close of business on the Business Day immediately preceding the Fundamental Change Repurchase Date; and
(ii) delivery of the Notes, if the Notes are Physical Notes, to the Paying Agent at any time after delivery of the Fundamental Change Repurchase Notice (together with all necessary endorsements for transfer) at the office of the Paying Agent, or book-entry transfer of the Notes, if the Notes are Global Notes, in compliance with the Applicable Procedures, in each case such delivery being a condition to receipt by the Holder of the Fundamental Change Repurchase Price therefor.
The Fundamental Change Repurchase Notice in respect of any Notes to be repurchased shall state:
(i) in the case of Physical Notes, the certificate numbers of the Notes to be delivered for repurchase;
(ii) the portion of the principal amount of Notes to be repurchased, which must be in minimum denominations of $1,000 or an integral multiple thereof; and
(iii) that the Notes are to be repurchased by the Company pursuant to the applicable provisions of the Notes and this Indenture;
provided, however, that if the Notes are Global Notes, the Fundamental Change Repurchase Notice must comply with the Applicable Procedures.
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Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, any Holder delivering to the Paying Agent the Fundamental Change Repurchase Notice contemplated by this Section 15.02 shall have the right to withdraw, in whole or in part, such Fundamental Change Repurchase Notice at any time prior to the close of business on the Business Day immediately preceding the Fundamental Change Repurchase Date by delivery of a written notice of withdrawal to the Paying Agent in accordance with Section 15.03 or in accordance with Applicable Procedures.
The Paying Agent shall promptly notify the Company of the receipt by it of any Fundamental Change Repurchase Notice or written notice of withdrawal thereof.
(c) On or before the 20th Business Day after the occurrence of the effective date of a Fundamental Change, the Company shall provide to all Holders of Notes, the Trustee, the Conversion Agent (if other than the Trustee) and the Paying Agent (in the case of a Paying Agent other than the Trustee) a written notice (the Fundamental Change Company Notice) of the occurrence of the effective date of the Fundamental Change and of the repurchase right at the option of the Holders arising as a result thereof. In the case of Physical Notes, such notice shall be by first class mail or, in the case of Global Notes, such notice shall be delivered in accordance with the Applicable Procedures of the Depositary. Each Fundamental Change Company Notice shall specify:
(i) the events causing the Fundamental Change;
(ii) the effective date of the Fundamental Change;
(iii) the last date on which a Holder may exercise the repurchase right pursuant to this Article 15;
(iv) the Fundamental Change Repurchase Price;
(v) the Fundamental Change Repurchase Date;
(vi) the name and address of the Paying Agent and the Conversion Agent, if applicable;
(vii) if applicable, the Conversion Rate and any adjustments to the Conversion Rate;
(viii) that the Notes with respect to which a Fundamental Change Repurchase Notice has been delivered by a Holder may be converted only if the Holder withdraws the Fundamental Change Repurchase Notice in accordance with the terms of this Indenture; and
(ix) the procedures that Holders must follow to require the Company to repurchase their Notes.
No failure of the Company to give the foregoing notices and no defect therein shall limit the Holders repurchase rights or affect the validity of the proceedings for the repurchase of the Notes pursuant to this Section 15.02.
At the Companys request, given at least five days prior to the date the Fundamental Change Company Notice is to be sent to the Holders (or such shorter period as agreed by the Paying Agent) the Paying Agent shall give such notice in the Companys name and at the Companys expense; provided, however, that, in all cases, the text of such Fundamental Change Company Notice shall be prepared by the Company.
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(d) Notwithstanding the foregoing, no Notes may be repurchased by the Company on any date at the option of the Holders in connection with a Fundamental Change if the principal amount of the Notes has been accelerated, and such acceleration has not been rescinded, on or prior to such date (except in the case of an acceleration resulting from a Default by the Company in the payment of the Fundamental Change Repurchase Price with respect to such Notes). The Paying Agent will promptly return to the respective Holders thereof any Physical Notes held by it during the acceleration of the Notes (except in the case of an acceleration resulting from a Default by the Company in the payment of the Fundamental Change Repurchase Price with respect to such Notes), or any instructions for book-entry transfer of the Notes in compliance with the Applicable Procedures shall be deemed to have been canceled, and, upon such return or cancellation, as the case may be, the Fundamental Change Repurchase Notice with respect thereto shall be deemed to have been withdrawn.
(e) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Indenture, the Company shall not be required to repurchase, or to make an offer to repurchase, the Notes upon a Fundamental Change if a third party makes such an offer in the same manner, at the same time and otherwise in compliance with the requirements for an offer made by the Company as set forth in this Article 15, and such third party purchases all Notes properly surrendered and not validly withdrawn under its offer in the same manner, at the same time and otherwise in compliance with the requirements for an offer made by the Company as set forth in this Article 15.
(f) For purposes of this Article 15, the Paying Agent may be any agent, depositary, tender agent, paying agent or other agent (including the Trustee) appointed by the Company to accomplish the purposes set forth herein.
Section 15.03. Withdrawal of Repurchase Notice. A Repurchase Notice may be withdrawn (in whole or in part) by means of a written notice of withdrawal received by the Paying Agent at the office of the Paying Agent in accordance with this Section 15.03 at any time prior to the close of business on the Business Day immediately preceding the applicable Repurchase Date, specifying:
(i) the principal amount of the Notes with respect to which such notice of withdrawal is being submitted, which must be in minimum denominations of $1,000 or an integral multiple thereof,
(ii) if Physical Notes have been issued, the certificate number of the Note in respect of which such notice of withdrawal is being submitted, and
(iii) the principal amount, if any, of such Note that remains subject to the original Repurchase Notice, which portion must be in principal amounts of $1,000 or an integral multiple of $1,000;
provided, however, that if the Notes are Global Notes, the notice must comply with Applicable Procedures of the Depositary.
Section 15.04. Deposit of Repurchase Price. The Company will deposit with the Paying Agent, or if the Company is acting as its own Paying Agent, set aside, segregate and hold in trust as provided in Section 4.04 on or prior to 11:00 a.m., New York City time (or such later time to which the Trustee may agree), on the applicable Repurchase Date (subject to extension in order to allow the Company to comply with applicable law) an amount of money sufficient to repurchase all of the Notes to be repurchased at the appropriate Repurchase Price. Subject to receipt of funds and/or Notes by the Paying Agent, payment for Notes surrendered for repurchase (and not withdrawn prior to the close of business on the Business Day immediately preceding the Fundamental Change Repurchase Date) will be made on the later of (i) the applicable Repurchase Date
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(provided the Holder has satisfied the conditions in Section 15.01 or Section 15.02, as applicable) and (ii) the time of book-entry transfer or the delivery of such Note to the Paying Agent by the Holder thereof in the manner required by Section 15.01 or Section 15.02, as applicable, by mailing checks for the amount payable to the Holders of such Notes entitled thereto as they shall appear in the Note Register; provided, however, that payments to the Depositary shall be made by wire transfer of immediately available funds to the account of the Depositary or its nominee. The Paying Agent shall, promptly after such payment and upon written demand by the Company, return to the Company any funds in excess of the Repurchase Price.
(a) If by 11:00 a.m. New York City time (or such later time to which the Trustee may agree), on the applicable Repurchase Date, the Paying Agent holds money sufficient to make payment on all the Notes or portions thereof that are to be repurchased on such Repurchase Date, or, if extended in order to allow the Company to comply with applicable law, such later date, then, with respect to the Notes that have been properly surrendered for repurchase and have not been validly withdrawn, such Notes will cease to be outstanding, interest will cease to accrue on such Notes on the Repurchase Date or, if extended in order to allow the Company to comply with applicable law, such later date (whether or not book-entry transfer of the Notes has been made or the Notes have been delivered to the Paying Agent) and all other rights of the Holders of such Notes with respect to the Notes will terminate on the Repurchase Date or, if extended in order to allow the Company to comply with applicable law, such later date (other than (x) the right to receive the applicable Repurchase Price and (y) if the Repurchase Date falls after a Regular Record Date but on or prior to the related Interest Payment Date, the right of the Holder of record on such Regular Record Date to receive the full amount of accrued and unpaid interest to, but excluding, such Interest Payment Date).
(b) Upon surrender of a Physical Note that is to be repurchased in part pursuant to Section 15.01 or Section 15.02, as applicable, the Company shall execute and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver to the Holder a new Note in an authorized denomination equal in principal amount to the unrepurchased portion of the Note surrendered.
Section 15.05. Covenant to Comply -with Applicable Laws Upon Repurchase of Notes. In connection with any repurchase offer, the Company will, if required:
(a) comply with the tender offer rules under the Exchange Act that may then be applicable;
(b) file a Schedule TO or any other required schedule under the Exchange Act; and
(c) otherwise comply in all material respects with all federal and state securities laws in connection with any offer by the Company to repurchase the Notes;
in each case, so as to permit the rights and obligations under this Article 15 to be exercised in the time and in the manner specified in this Article 15 subject to postponement in order to allow the Company to comply with applicable law. To the extent that the provisions of any securities laws or regulations conflict with the provisions of this Indenture relating to the Companys obligations to purchase the Notes upon a Fundamental Change, the Company will comply with the applicable securities laws and regulations and will not be deemed to have breached its obligations under such provisions of this Indenture by virtue of such conflict.
ARTICLE 16
OPTIONAL REDEMPTION
Section 16.01. Optional Redemption. No sinking fund is provided for the Notes. The Notes shall not be redeemable by the Company prior to June 23, 2028. On or after June 23, 2028 and prior to the 41st Scheduled
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Trading Day immediately preceding the Maturity Date, the Company may redeem, at its option, (an Optional Redemption) for cash all or any portion of the Notes (subject to the Partial Redemption Limitation in Section 16.02(d)), at the Redemption Price, if the Last Reported Sale Price of the Common Stock has been at least 130% of the Conversion Price then in effect for at least 20 Trading Days (whether or not consecutive) during any 30 consecutive Trading Day period (including the last Trading Day of such period) ending on, and including, the Trading Day immediately preceding the date on which the Company provides the Redemption Notice (a Redemption Notice Date) in accordance with Section 16.02.
Section 16.02. Notice of Optional Redemption; Selection of Notes.
(a) In case the Company exercises its Optional Redemption right to redeem all or, as the case may be, any part of the Notes pursuant to Section 16.01, it shall fix a date for redemption (each, a Redemption Date) and it or, at its written request together with the Redemption Notice to be given, an Officers Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel received by the Trustee not less than five Scheduled Trading Days prior to the Redemption Notice Date (or such shorter period of time as may be acceptable to the Trustee), the Trustee, in the name of and at the expense of the Company, shall deliver or cause to be delivered a notice of such Optional Redemption (a Redemption Notice) not less than 45 nor more than 65 Scheduled Trading Days prior to the Redemption Date to each Holder of Notes so to be redeemed as a whole or in part; provided, however, that, if the Company shall give such notice, it shall also give written notice of the Redemption Date to the Trustee, the Conversion Agent (if other than the Trustee) and the Paying Agent (if other than the Trustee). The Redemption Date must be a Business Day.
(b) The Redemption Notice, if delivered in the manner herein provided, shall be conclusively presumed to have been duly given, whether or not the Holder receives such notice. In any case, failure to give such Redemption Notice or any defect in the Redemption Notice to the Holder of any Note designated for redemption as a whole or in part shall not affect the validity of the proceedings for the redemption of any other Note.
(c) Each Redemption Notice shall specify:
(i) the Redemption Date;
(ii) the Redemption Price;
(iii) that on the Redemption Date, the Redemption Price will become due and payable upon each Note to be redeemed, and that interest thereon, if any, shall cease to accrue on and after the Redemption Date;
(iv) the place or places where such Notes are to be surrendered for payment of the Redemption Price;
(v) that Holders may surrender their Notes for conversion at any time prior to the close of business on the second Scheduled Trading Day immediately preceding the Redemption Date (unless the Company fails to pay the Redemption Price, in which case a Holder of Notes subject to such Optional Redemption may convert such Notes until the close of business on the Scheduled Trading Day immediately preceding the date on which the Redemption Price has been paid or duly provided for);
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(vi) the procedures a converting Holder must follow to convert its Notes and the Settlement Method and Specified Dollar Amount, if applicable;
(vii) the Conversion Rate and, if applicable, the number of Additional Shares added to the Conversion Rate in accordance with Section 14.03;
(viii) the CUSIP, ISIN or other similar numbers, if any, assigned to such Notes; and
(ix) in case any Note is to be redeemed in part only, the portion of the principal amount thereof to be redeemed and on and after the Redemption Date, upon surrender of such Note, a new Note in principal amount equal to the unredeemed portion thereof shall be issued, which principal amount must be $1,000 or a multiple thereof.
A Redemption Notice shall be irrevocable.
(d) If the Company elects to redeem fewer than all of the outstanding Notes, at least $25.0 million aggregate principal amount of Notes must be outstanding and not subject to redemption as of the relevant Redemption Notice Date (such requirement, the Partial Redemption Limitation). If fewer than all of the outstanding Notes are to be redeemed, the Notes to be redeemed will be selected according to the Applicable Procedures, in the case of Notes represented by a Global Note, or, in the case of Notes represented by Physical Notes, on a pro rata or by lot basis or by another method consistent with the Trustees customary procedures. In the event of any redemption in part, the Company shall not be required to register the transfer of or exchange any Note so selected for redemption, in whole or in part, except the unredeemed portion of any such Note being redeemed in part. If any Note selected for partial redemption is submitted for conversion in part after such selection, the portion of the Note submitted for conversion shall be deemed (so far as may be possible) to be from the portion selected for redemption, subject to the Applicable Procedures.
Section 16.03. Payment of Notes Called for Redemption. (a) If any Redemption Notice has been given in respect of the Notes in accordance with Section 16.02, the Notes shall become due and payable on the Redemption Date at the place or places stated in the Redemption Notice and at the applicable Redemption Price. On presentation and surrender of the Notes at the place or places stated in the Redemption Notice, the Notes shall be paid and redeemed by the Company at the applicable Redemption Price.
(b) Prior to 11:00 a.m. New York City time on the Redemption Date (or such later time to which the Trustee may agree), the Company shall deposit with the Paying Agent or, if the Company or a Subsidiary of the Company is acting as the Paying Agent, shall segregate and hold in trust as provided in Section 7.05 an amount of cash (in immediately available funds if deposited on the Redemption Date), sufficient to pay the Redemption Price of all of the Notes to be redeemed on such Redemption Date. Subject to receipt of funds by the Paying Agent, payment for the Notes to be redeemed shall be made on the Redemption Date for such Notes. The Paying Agent shall, promptly after such payment and upon written demand by the Company, return to the Company any funds in excess of the Redemption Price.
Section 16.04. Restrictions on Redemption. The Company may not redeem any Notes on any date if the principal amount of the Notes has been accelerated in accordance with the terms of this Indenture, and such acceleration has not been rescinded, on or prior to the Redemption Date (except in the case of an acceleration resulting from a Default by the Company in the payment of the Redemption Price with respect to such Notes).
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ARTICLE 17
MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS
Section 17.01. Provisions Binding on Companys Successors. All the covenants, stipulations, promises and agreements of the Company contained in this Indenture shall bind its successors and assigns whether so expressed or not.
Section 17.02. Official Acts by Successor Corporation. Any act or proceeding by any provision of this Indenture authorized or required to be done or performed by any board, committee or Officer of the Company shall and may be done and performed with like force and effect by the like board, committee or officer of any corporation or other entity that shall at the time be the lawful sole successor of the Company.
Section 17.03. Addresses for Notices, Etc. Any notice or demand that by any provision of this Indenture is required or permitted to be given or served by the Trustee, the Collateral Agent or by the Holders on the Company shall be deemed to have been sufficiently given or made, for all purposes if given or served by being deposited postage prepaid by registered or certified mail in a post office letter box addressed (until another address is filed by the Company with the Trustee and the Collateral Agent) to 3D Systems Corporation, 333 Three D Systems Circle Rock Hill, South Carolina 29730, Attention: Chief Legal Officer. Any notice, direction, request or demand hereunder to or upon the Trustee or Collateral Agent shall be deemed to have been sufficiently given or made, for all purposes, if given or served by overnight delivery with a reputable national overnight delivery service, being deposited postage prepaid by registered or certified mail in a post office letter box addressed to the Corporate Trust Office or sent electronically in PDF format, whether sent by mail or electronically, upon actual receipt by the Trustee or Collateral Agent, as applicable.
The Trustee and the Collateral Agent, by notice to the Company, may designate additional or different addresses for subsequent notices or communications.
Any notice or communication delivered or to be delivered to a Holder of Physical Notes shall be mailed to it by first class mail, postage prepaid, at its address as it appears on the Note Register and shall be sufficiently given to it if so mailed within the time prescribed. Any notice or communication delivered or to be delivered to a Holder of Global Notes shall be delivered in accordance with the Applicable Procedures of the Depositary and shall be sufficiently given to it if so delivered within the time prescribed.
Failure to mail or deliver a notice or communication to a Holder or any defect in it shall not affect its sufficiency with respect to other Holders. If a notice or communication is mailed or delivered, as the case may be, in the manner provided above, it is duly given, whether or not the addressee receives it.
In case by reason of the suspension of regular mail service or by reason of any other cause it shall be impracticable to give such notice to Holders by mail, then such notification as shall be made with the approval of the Trustee shall constitute a sufficient notification for every purpose hereunder.
Section 17.04. Governing Law; Jurisdiction. THIS INDENTURE AND EACH NOTE, AND ANY CLAIM, CONTROVERSY OR DISPUTE ARISING UNDER OR RELATED TO THIS INDENTURE AND EACH NOTE, SHALL BE GOVERNED BY, AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH, THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK (WITHOUT REGARD TO THE CONFLICTS OF LAWS PROVISIONS THEREOF).
The Company irrevocably consents and agrees, for the benefit of the Holders from time to time of the Notes and the Trustee and the Collateral Agent, that any legal action, suit or proceeding against it with respect
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to obligations, liabilities or any other matter arising out of or in connection with this Indenture or the Notes may be brought in the courts of the State of New York or the courts of the United States located in the Borough of Manhattan, New York City, New York and, until amounts due and to become due in respect of the Notes have been paid, hereby irrevocably consents and submits to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of each such court in personam, generally and unconditionally with respect to any action, suit or proceeding for itself in respect of its properties, assets and revenues.
The Company irrevocably and unconditionally waives, to the fullest extent permitted by law, any objection which it may now or hereafter have to the laying of venue of any of the aforesaid actions, suits or proceedings arising out of or in connection with this Indenture brought in the courts of the State of New York or the courts of the United States located in the Borough of Manhattan, New York City, New York and hereby further irrevocably and unconditionally waives and agrees not to plead or claim in any such court that any such action, suit or proceeding brought in any such court has been brought in an inconvenient forum.
Section 17.05. Evidence of Compliance with Conditions Precedent; Certificates and Opinions of Counsel to Trustee and Collateral Agent. Upon any application or demand by the Company to the Trustee or Collateral Agent to take any action under any of the provisions of this Indenture or the other Notes Documents, the Company shall furnish to the Trustee or Collateral Agent, as applicable, an Officers Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel, in form reasonably satisfactory to the Trustee, stating that in the judgment of the applicable signor, all conditions precedent including any covenants, compliance with such which constitutes a condition precedent to such action have been complied with.
Each Officers Certificate and Opinion of Counsel provided for, by or on behalf of the Company in this Indenture and delivered to the Trustee or Collateral Agent, as applicable, with respect to compliance with this Indenture (other than the Officers Certificates provided for in Section 4.08) shall include a statement that the person signing such certificate is familiar with the requested action and this Indenture and the other Notes Documents; a brief statement as to the nature and scope of the examination or investigation upon which the statement contained in such certificate is based; a statement that, in the judgment of such person, he or she has made such examination or investigation as is necessary to enable him or her to express an informed judgment as to whether or not such action is permitted by this Indenture; and a statement as to whether or not, in the judgment of such person, such action is permitted by this Indenture and the other Notes Documents and that all conditions precedent to such action have been complied with.
Section 17.06. Legal Holidays. In any case where any Interest Payment Date, any Redemption Date, any Fundamental Change Repurchase Date, or the Maturity Date is not a Business Day, then any action to be taken on such date need not be taken on such date, but may be taken on the next succeeding Business Day with the same force and effect as if taken on such date, and no interest shall accrue in respect of the delay. For purposes of the foregoing sentence, a day on which the applicable place of payment is authorized or required by law or executive order to close or be closed will be deemed not to be a Business Day.
Section 17.07. No Security Interest Created. Nothing in this Indenture or in the Notes, expressed or implied, shall be construed to constitute a security interest under the Uniform Commercial Code or similar legislation, as now or hereafter enacted and in effect, in any jurisdiction.
Section 17.08. Benefits of Indenture. Nothing in this Indenture or in the Notes, expressed or implied, shall give to any Person, other than the Holders, the parties hereto, any Paying Agent, any transfer agent, any Conversion Agent, any Bid Solicitation Agent, any Custodian, any authenticating agent, any Note Registrar and their successors hereunder, any benefit or any legal or equitable right, remedy or claim under this Indenture.
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Section 17.09. Table of Contents, Headings, Etc. The table of contents and the titles and headings of the articles and sections of this Indenture have been inserted for convenience of reference only, are not to be considered a part hereof, and shall in no way modify or restrict any of the terms or provisions hereof.
Section 17.10. Authenticating Agent. The Trustee may appoint an authenticating agent that shall be authorized to act on its behalf and subject to its direction in the authentication and delivery of Notes in connection with the original issuance thereof and transfers and exchanges of Notes hereunder, including under Section 2.04, Section 2.05, Section 2.06, Section 2.07, Section 10.04 and Section 15.04 as fully to all intents and purposes as though the authenticating agent had been expressly authorized by this Indenture and those Sections to authenticate and deliver Notes. For all purposes of this Indenture, the authentication and delivery of Notes by the authenticating agent shall be deemed to be authentication and delivery of such Notes by the Trustee and a certificate of authentication executed on behalf of the Trustee by an authenticating agent shall be deemed to satisfy any requirement hereunder or in the Notes for the Trustees certificate of authentication. Such authenticating agent shall at all times be a Person eligible to serve as trustee hereunder pursuant to Section 7.08.
Any corporation or other entity into which any authenticating agent may be merged or converted or with which it may be consolidated, or any corporation or other entity resulting from any merger, consolidation or conversion to which any authenticating agent shall be a party, or any corporation or other entity succeeding to the corporate trust business of any authenticating agent, shall be the successor of the authenticating agent hereunder, if such successor corporation or other entity is otherwise eligible under this Section 17.10, without the execution or filing of any paper or any further act on the part of the parties hereto or the authenticating agent or such successor corporation or other entity.
Any authenticating agent may at any time resign by giving written notice of resignation to the Trustee and to the Company. The Trustee may at any time terminate the agency of any authenticating agent by giving written notice of termination to such authenticating agent and to the Company. Upon receiving such a notice of resignation or upon such a termination, or in case at any time any authenticating agent shall cease to be eligible under this Section, the Trustee may appoint a successor authenticating agent (which may be the Trustee), shall give written notice of such appointment to the Company and shall deliver notice of such appointment to all Holders.
The Company agrees to pay to the authenticating agent from time to time reasonable compensation for its services although the Company may terminate the authenticating agent, if it determines such agents fees to be unreasonable.
The provisions of Section 7.02, Section 7.03, Section 7.04, Section 7.06, Section 8.03 and this Section 17.10 shall be applicable to any authenticating agent.
If an authenticating agent is appointed pursuant to this Section 17.10, the Notes may have endorsed thereon, in addition to the Trustees certificate of authentication, an alternative certificate of authentication in the following form:
,
as Authenticating Agent, certifies that this is one of the Notes described
in the within-named Indenture.
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Section 17.11. Execution in Counterparts. This Indenture may be executed in any number of counterparts, each of which shall be an original, but such counterparts shall together constitute but one and the same instrument. The exchange of copies of this Indenture and of signature pages by electronic or PDF transmission shall constitute effective execution and delivery of this Indenture as to the parties hereto and may be used in lieu of the original Indenture for all purposes.
Section 17.12. Severability. In the event any provision of this Indenture or in the Notes shall be invalid, illegal or unenforceable, then (to the extent permitted by law) the validity, legality or enforceability of the remaining provisions shall not in any way be affected or impaired.
Section 17.13. Waiver of Jury Trial. EACH OF THE COMPANY, THE TRUSTEE AND THE COLLATERAL AGENT HEREBY IRREVOCABLY WAIVES, TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, ANY AND ALL RIGHT TO TRIAL BY JURY IN ANY LEGAL PROCEEDING ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THIS INDENTURE, THE NOTES OR THE TRANSACTIONS CONTEMPLATED HEREBY.
Section 17.14. Force Majeure. In no event shall the Trustee or the Collateral Agent (in all of their various capacities hereunder) be responsible or liable for any failure or delay in the performance of its obligations hereunder arising out of or caused by, directly or indirectly, forces beyond its control, including, without limitation, any act or provision of any present or future law or regulation or governmental authority, strikes, work stoppages, labor disputes, disease, epidemic or pandemic, quarantine, national emergency, accidents, acts of war or terrorism, civil or military disturbances, nuclear or natural catastrophes or acts of God, and interruptions, loss or malfunctions of utilities, communications or computer (software and hardware) services; malware or ransomware, communication systems failure or unavailability of the Federal Reserve Bank wire or telex system or other wire or other funds transfer systems, or unavailability of any securities clearing system it being understood that the Trustee and the Collateral Agent shall use reasonable efforts that are consistent with accepted practices in the banking industry to resume performance as soon as practicable under the circumstances.
Section 17.15. Calculations. The Company shall be responsible for making all calculations called for under the Notes. These calculations include, but are not limited to, determinations of the Redemption Price, Stock Price, Trading Price of the Notes (for purposes of determining whether the Notes are convertible as described herein), the Last Reported Sale Prices of the Common Stock, the Trading Price, the Daily VWAPs, the Daily Conversion Values, the Daily Settlement Amounts, accrued interest payable on the Notes, the Redemption Price, any Additional Interest payable on the Notes, and the Conversion Rate of the Notes, including adjustments to the Conversion Price and the Conversion Rate. The Company shall make all these calculations in good faith and, absent manifest error, the Companys calculations shall be final and binding on Holders of Notes. The Company shall provide a schedule of its calculations to each of the Trustee and the Conversion Agent, and each of the Trustee and Conversion Agent is entitled to rely conclusively upon the accuracy of the Companys calculations without independent verification. The Company will forward the Companys calculations to any Holder of Notes upon the written request of that Holder at the sole cost and expense of the Company. Neither the Trustee nor the Conversion Agent shall have any responsibility or liability with respect to performing calculations under the Notes.
In no event shall the Trustee or Conversion Agent be responsible for making any calculations under this Indenture or for determining amounts to be paid or for monitoring any stock price. For the avoidance of doubt, the Trustee and the Conversion Agent shall rely conclusively on the calculations and information provided to them by the Company as to Daily VWAP, Trading Price, Daily Conversion Value, Daily Settlement Amount and Last Reported Sale Price. Nor shall the Trustee or the Conversion Agent be charged with knowledge of or
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have any duties to monitor any General Beneficial Ownership Limitations or Observation Period or determine whether the Notes are convertible or to notify the Company, the Holders or DTC if the Notes have become convertible or whether any adjustments to the Conversion Rate are required.
Section 17.16. USA PATRIOT Act. The parties hereto acknowledge that in accordance with Section 326 of the USA PATRIOT Act, the Trustee and the Collateral Agent , like all financial institutions and in order to help fight the funding of terrorism and money laundering, is required to obtain, verify, and record information that identifies each person or legal entity that establishes a relationship or opens an account with the Trustee or the Collateral Agent. The parties to this Indenture agree that they will provide the Trustee and the Collateral Agent with such information as it may reasonably request in order for the Trustee and the Collateral Agent to satisfy the requirements of the USA PATRIOT Act.
Section 17.17. Tax Withholding. The Company or the Trustee, as the case may be, shall be entitled to make a deduction or withholding from any payment which it makes under this Indenture for or on account of any present or future taxes, duties or charges if and to the extent so required by any applicable law and any current or future regulations or agreements thereunder or official interpretations thereof or any law implementing an intergovernmental approach thereto or by virtue of the relevant Holder failing to satisfy any certification or other requirements in respect of the Notes, in which event the Company or the Trustee, as the case may be, shall make such payment after such withholding or deduction has been made and shall account to the relevant authorities for the amount so withheld or deducted and shall have no obligation to gross up any payment hereunder or pay any additional amount as a result of such withholding tax. In order to assist the Trustee with its compliance with Section 1471 through 1474 of the U. S. Internal Revenue Code and the rules and regulations thereunder (as in effect from time to time, collectively, the Applicable Law), the Company agrees to provide the Trustee, upon request, information regarding the transaction which the Company has in its possession to allow the Trustee to determine whether it has tax related obligations under Applicable Law.
Section 17.18. Electronic Communications. The Trustee shall have the right to accept and act upon instructions, including funds transfer instructions (Instructions) given pursuant to this Indenture and delivered using Electronic Means (as hereinafter defined); provided, however, that the Company shall provide to the Trustee an incumbency certificate listing officers with the authority to provide such Instructions (Authorized Officers) and containing specimen signatures of such Authorized Officers, which incumbency certificate shall be amended by the Company whenever a person is to be added or deleted from the listing. If the Company elects to give the Trustee Instructions using Electronic Means and the Trustee in its discretion elects to act upon such Instructions, the Trustees understanding of such Instructions shall be deemed controlling. The Company understands and agrees that the Trustee cannot determine the identity of the actual sender of such Instructions and that the Trustee shall conclusively presume that directions that purport to have been sent by an Authorized Officer listed on the incumbency certificate provided to the Trustee have been sent by such Authorized Officer. The Company shall be responsible for ensuring that only Authorized Officers transmit such Instructions to the Trustee and that the Company and all Authorized Officers are solely responsible to safeguard the use and confidentiality of applicable user and authorization codes, passwords and/or authentication keys upon receipt by the Company. The Trustee shall not be liable for any losses, costs or expenses arising directly or indirectly from the Trustees reliance upon and compliance with such Instructions notwithstanding such directions conflict or are inconsistent with a subsequent written instruction. The Company agrees: (i) to assume all risks arising out of the use of Electronic Means to submit Instructions to the Trustee, including without limitation the risk of the Trustee acting on unauthorized Instructions, and the risk of interception and misuse by third parties; (ii) that it is fully informed of the protections and risks associated with the various methods of transmitting Instructions to the Trustee and that there may be more secure methods of transmitting Instructions than the method(s) selected by the Company; (iii) that the security procedures (if any)
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to be followed in connection with its transmission of Instructions provide to it a commercially reasonable degree of protection in light of its particular needs and circumstances; and (iv) to notify the Trustee immediately upon learning of any compromise or unauthorized use of the security procedures.
Section 17.19. FATCA. In order to comply with applicable tax laws, rules and regulations (inclusive of directives, guidelines and interpretations promulgated by competent authorities) in effect from time to time (Applicable Law), the Company agrees (i) to provide to Wilmington Savings Fund Society, FSB upon request information the Company has in its reasonable possession about the applicable parties and/or transactions (including any modification to the terms of such transactions) so Wilmington Savings Fund Society, FSB can determine whether it has tax related obligations under Applicable Law, and (ii) that Wilmington Savings Fund Society, FSB shall be entitled to make any withholding or deduction from payments under this Indenture to the extent necessary to comply with Applicable Law. The terms of this section shall survive the termination of this Indenture.
Section 17.20. Economic Sanctions.
(a) The Company represents that neither it nor any of its affiliates, subsidiaries, directors or officers are the target or subject of any Sanctions; and
(b) The Company covenants that neither it nor any of its affiliates, subsidiaries, directors or officers will directly or indirectly use any payments made pursuant to this Indenture, (i) to fund or facilitate any activities of or business with any person who, at the time of such funding or facilitation, is the subject or target of Sanctions, (ii) to fund or facilitate any activities of or business with any country or territory that is the target or subject of Sanctions, or (iii) in any other manner that will result in a violation of Sanctions by any person.
ARTICLE 18
COLLATERAL DOCUMENTS; COLLATERAL AGENT
Section 18.01. Collateral Documents. The payment of the principal, interest (including Additional Interest) and premium, if any, on the Notes when due, whether on an Interest Payment Date, at maturity, by acceleration, repurchase, or otherwise, the payment of all other Obligations of the Company under this Indenture, the Notes, and the Collateral Documents and performance of all other obligations of the Company and any Guarantor to the Holders of the Notes or the Trustee or the Collateral Agent under this Indenture, the Notes and the other Notes Documents, according to the terms hereunder or thereunder, are secured as provided in the Collateral Documents, which the Collateral Agent and the Company have entered into simultaneously with the execution of this Indenture, and will be secured by Collateral Documents delivered after the date of this Indenture as required or permitted by this Indenture.
Section 18.02. Collateral Agent.
(a) The Collateral Agent agrees that it will hold the security interests in the Collateral created under the Collateral Documents to which it is a party as contemplated by this Indenture, and any and all proceeds thereof, for the benefit of, the Secured Parties, without limiting the Collateral Agents rights, including under this Section 18.02, to act in preservation of the security interest in the Collateral. The Collateral Agent is authorized and empowered to appoint one or more co-Collateral Agents as it deems necessary or appropriate; provided, however, that no Collateral Agent hereunder shall be personally liable by reason of any act or omission of any other Collateral Agent hereunder.
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(b) Neither the Trustee nor the Collateral Agent nor any of their respective officers, directors, employees, attorneys or agents will be responsible or liable for the existence, genuineness, value or protection of any Collateral, for the legality, enforceability, effectiveness, or sufficiency of the Notes Documents, for the creation, perfection, priority, sufficiency or protection of any Lien, including without limitation not being responsible for payment of any taxes, charges or assessments upon the Collateral or otherwise as to the maintenance of the Collateral, or for any defect or deficiency as to any such matters, or for any failure to demand, collect, foreclose or realize upon or otherwise enforce any of the Liens or the Collateral Documents or any delay in doing so. Neither the Trustee nor the Collateral Agent nor any of their respective officers, directors, employees, attorneys or agents will be responsible or liable for making any filings or recordings to perfect or maintain the perfection of the Collateral Agents Lien in the Collateral (including any termination of Liens in the Collateral), including without limitation, the filing of any Uniform Commercial Code financing statements, continuation statements, termination statements or amendments, or any filings with respect to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office or U.S. Copyright Office.
(c) The Collateral Agent will be subject to such directions as may be given to it from time to time by the Trustee or the Supermajority Holders (as required or permitted by this Indenture). Except as directed by the Trustee or any representatives of the Trustee as required or permitted by this Indenture, and only if indemnified to its satisfaction, the Collateral Agent will not be obligated:
(i) to act upon direction purported to be delivered to it by any Person;
(ii) to foreclose upon or otherwise enforce any Lien created under the Collateral Documents; or
(iii) to take any other action whatsoever with regard to any or all of the Liens, Collateral Documents or Collateral.
(d) The Collateral Agent will be accountable only for amounts that it actually receives as a result of the enforcement of the Liens or Collateral Documents.
(e) In acting as Collateral Agent hereunder and under the Notes Documents, the Collateral Agent shall be entitled to conclusively rely upon and enforce each and all of the rights, privileges, immunities, indemnities and benefits of the Trustee under Article 7 of this Indenture; provided that in that context any references in such Article 7 of this Indenture to Trustee shall be references to Collateral Agent. Without limiting the immediately preceding sentence, the Collateral Agent shall be entitled to compensation, reimbursement and indemnity in the same manner as the Trustee as provided in Section 7.06 of this Indenture.
(f) At all times when the entity serving as Trustee is not the Collateral Agent, the Company will deliver to the Trustee copies of all Collateral Documents delivered to the Collateral Agent and copies of all documents delivered to the Collateral Agent pursuant to the Collateral Documents.
(g) Notwithstanding any provision to the contrary contained elsewhere in the Indenture and the Notes Documents, the duties of the Collateral Agent shall be ministerial and administrative in nature, and the Collateral Agent shall not have any duties or responsibilities, except those expressly set forth herein and in the Notes Documents, to which the Collateral Agent is a party, nor shall the Collateral Agent have or be deemed to have any trust or other fiduciary relationship with the Trustee, any Holder, or any other party, and no implied covenants, functions, responsibilities, duties, obligations or liabilities shall be read into the Indenture and the Collateral Documents, or otherwise exist against the Collateral Agent. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing sentence, the use of the term agent in the Indenture with reference to the Collateral Agent is not
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intended to connote any fiduciary or other implied (or express) obligations arising under agency doctrine of any applicable law. Instead, such term is used merely as a matter of market custom, and is intended to create or reflect only an administrative relationship between independent contracting parties.
(h) The Collateral Agent shall not be deemed to have knowledge or notice of the occurrence of any Default or Event of Default, unless a Responsible Officer of the Collateral Agent shall have received written notice from the Trustee or the Company referring to the Indenture, describing such Default or Event of Default and stating that such notice is a notice of default.
(i) No provision of this Indenture or any Collateral Document shall require the Collateral Agent to expend or risk its own funds or otherwise incur any financial liability in the performance of any of its duties hereunder or thereunder or to take or omit to take any action hereunder or thereunder or take any action at the request or direction of Holders or the Trustee unless it shall have received indemnity satisfactory to the Collateral Agent against potential costs and liabilities incurred by the Collateral Agent relating thereto. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Indenture or the Collateral Documents, in the event the Collateral Agent is entitled or required to commence an action to foreclose or otherwise exercise its remedies to acquire control or possession of the Collateral, the Collateral Agent shall not be required to commence any such action or exercise any remedy or to inspect or conduct any studies of any property under any mortgage or take any such other action if the Collateral Agent has determined that the Collateral Agent may incur personal liability as a result of the presence at, or release on or from, the Collateral or such property, of any hazardous substances. The Collateral Agent shall at any time be entitled to cease taking any action described in this clause (i) if it no longer reasonably deems any indemnity, security or undertaking from the Company or the Holders to be sufficient.
(j) The parties hereto and the Holders hereby agree and acknowledge that neither the Collateral Agent nor the Trustee shall assume, be responsible for or otherwise be obligated for any liabilities, claims, causes of action, suits, losses, allegations, requests, demands, penalties, fines, settlements, damages (including foreseeable and unforeseeable), judgments, expenses and costs (including but not limited to, any remediation, corrective action, response, removal or remedial action, or investigation, operations and maintenance or monitoring costs, for personal injury or property damages, real or personal) of any kind whatsoever, pursuant to any environmental law as a result of the Indenture, the Collateral Documents or any actions taken pursuant hereto or thereto. Further, the parties hereto and the Holders hereby agree and acknowledge that in the exercise of its rights under the Indenture and the Collateral Documents, the Collateral Agent may hold or obtain indicia of ownership primarily to protect the security interest of the Collateral Agent in the Collateral and that any such actions taken by the Collateral Agent shall not be construed as or otherwise constitute any participation in the management of such Collateral. In the event that the Collateral Agent is required to acquire title to an asset for any reason, or take any managerial action of any kind in regard thereto, in order to carry out any obligation for the benefit of another, which in the Collateral Agents sole discretion may cause it to be considered an owner or operator under the provisions of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act (CERCLA), 42 U.S.C. §9601, et seq., or otherwise cause it to incur liability under CERCLA or any other federal, state or local law, the Collateral Agent and reserves the right, instead of taking such action, to either resign or arrange for the transfer of the title or control of the asset to a court-appointed receiver. Neither the Collateral Agent nor the Trustee shall be liable to any person for any environmental claims or contribution actions under any federal, state or local law, rule or regulation by reason of the Collateral Agents actions and conduct as authorized, empowered and directed hereunder or relating to the discharge, release or threatened release of hazardous materials into the environment.
Section 18.03. Release of Collateral; Non-Disturbance.
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(a) Subject to Section 18.03(b) and (c) hereof, the Liens on the Collateral securing the Notes will be automatically released in whole or in part, as applicable, under one or more of the following circumstances:
(i) in whole upon:
(i) satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture as set forth under Section 3.01; or
(ii) repayment in full of, or full conversion of the Notes;
(ii) in whole or in part, as applicable, with the consent of the requisite Holders of the Notes in accordance with Article 11, including consents obtained in connection with a tender offer or exchange offer, or purchase of Notes; or (iii) in part, as to any asset constituting Collateral:
(i) that is sold, transferred or otherwise disposed of by the Company or a Guarantor to any Person that is not the Company or a Guarantor in a transaction permitted by the Indenture or the Collateral Documents;
(ii) to the extent such asset ceases to be Collateral or is no longer required to be Collateral as a result of any transaction or any other event not prohibited by the Indenture; or
(b) [Reserved].
(c) With respect to any release of the Liens on the Collateral, upon receipt of an Officers Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel each stating that all conditions precedent under this Indenture and the Collateral Documents, as applicable, to such release or the entry into such agreements have been met and that it is proper for the Trustee or the Collateral Agent to execute and deliver the documents requested by the Company in connection with such release or the entry into such agreements, and in the case of any release any appropriate instruments of termination, satisfaction, discharge or release prepared by the Company, the Trustee and the Collateral Agent shall execute, deliver or acknowledge (at the Companys expense) such instruments or releases to evidence the release and discharge of any Collateral permitted to be released pursuant to this Indenture. Neither the Trustee nor the Collateral Agent shall be liable for any such release undertaken in reliance upon any such Officers Certificate or Opinion of Counsel, and notwithstanding any term hereof or in any Collateral Document to the contrary, the Trustee and the Collateral Agent shall not be under any obligation to release any such Lien and security interest, or execute and deliver any such instrument of release, satisfaction, discharge or termination, unless and until such party receives such Officers Certificate and Opinion of Counsel.
(d) At any time when an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing and the maturity of the Notes has been accelerated (whether by declaration or otherwise) and the Trustee has delivered notice of acceleration to the Collateral Agent, no release of the Liens on the Collateral pursuant to the provisions of this Indenture or the Collateral Documents shall be effective as against the Holders.
Section 18.04. Suits to Protect the Collateral. Subject to the provisions of the Collateral Documents, the Trustee is authorized and empowered to institute and maintain, or direct the Collateral Agent to institute and maintain, such suits and proceedings to protect or enforce the Liens securing the Notes or to prevent any impairment of the Collateral by any acts which may be unlawful or in violation of any of the Collateral Documents or this Indenture, and such suits and proceedings to preserve or protect its interest and the interests of the Holders of the Notes in the Collateral (including suits or proceedings to restrain the enforcement of or compliance with any legislative or other governmental enactment, rule or order that may be unconstitutional or
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otherwise invalid if the enforcement of, or compliance with, such enactment, rule or order would impair the Liens created under the Collateral Documents or be prejudicial to the interests of the Holders of the Notes).
Section 18.05. Authorization of Action to be Taken.
(a) Each Holder of Notes by its acceptance of the Notes consents and agrees to the terms of each Collateral Document, as originally in effect and as amended, restated, amended and restated, supplemented or otherwise modified or replaced from time to time in accordance with its terms or the terms of this Indenture, authorizes and directs the Trustee and the Collateral Agent, as applicable, to enter into the Collateral Documents to which such party is a party, authorizes and empowers the Trustee and the Collateral Agent to bind the Holders of Notes as set forth in the Collateral Documents to which either such party is party and to perform its respective obligations and exercise its respective rights and powers thereunder. Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver, approval, exercise of judgment or discretion, designation or other action provided or permitted by this Indenture to be given, taken or exercised by the Collateral Agent, shall be given, taken or exercised by the Collateral Agent at the direction of the Trustee (who may seek directions from the Supermajority Holders) or at the direction from the Supermajority Holders. Any notice, agreement, certificate or other document delivered to the Collateral Agent by the Company or any other Person in connection with any of the Indenture or the Collateral Documents, shall promptly be delivered by the Company or such Person to the Trustee.
(b) The Collateral Agent and the Trustee are authorized and empowered to receive for the benefit of the Holders of Notes any funds collected or distributed under the Collateral Documents to which the Collateral Agent or the Trustee is a party and to make further distributions of such funds to the Holders of Notes according to the provisions of this Indenture.
(c) The Trustee may (but shall not be obligated to), in its sole discretion and without the consent of any Holders, during the continuance of an Event of Default, direct, on behalf of the Holders, the Collateral Agent to take all actions it deems necessary or appropriate in order to:
(i) foreclose upon or otherwise enforce any or all of the Liens created under the Collateral Documents;
(ii) enforce any of the terms of the Collateral Documents to which the Collateral Agent or Trustee is a party;
(iii) collect and receive payment of any and all Obligations to the extent then due and payable.
(d) At any time after the Issue Date, upon delivery to the Collateral Agent and the Trustee of an Officers Certificate and written request from the Company, the Collateral Agent shall enter into such Collateral Documents reasonably requested by the Company (at the sole expense and cost of the Company, including legal fees and expenses of the Trustee and the Collateral Agent). Neither the Trustee nor the Collateral Agent shall have any liability to any Person for entering into an intercreditor agreement or joinder thereto or any other Collateral Document in reliance on an Officers Certificate.
Section 18.06. Purchaser Protection. In no event shall any purchaser in good faith of any property purported to be released hereunder be bound to ascertain the authority of the Collateral Agent or the Trustee to execute the release or to inquire as to the satisfaction of any conditions required by the provisions hereof for the exercise of such authority or to see the application of any consideration given by such purchaser or other
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transferee; nor shall any purchaser or other transferee of any property or rights permitted by this Article 18 to be sold be under any obligation to ascertain or inquire into the authority of the Company to make any such sale or other transfer.
Section 18.07. Powers Exercisable by Receiver or Trustee. In case the Collateral shall be in the possession of a receiver or trustee, lawfully appointed, the powers conferred in this Article 18 upon the Company with respect to the release, sale or other Disposition of such property may be exercised by such receiver or trustee, and an instrument signed by such receiver or trustee shall be deemed the equivalent of any similar instrument of the Company or of any Officer or Officers thereof required by the provisions of this Article 18; and if the Trustee shall be in possession of the Collateral under any provision of this Indenture, then such powers may be exercised by the Trustee.
Section 18.08. Release Upon Termination of the Companys Obligations. In the event that the Company delivers to the Trustee an Officers Certificate certifying that (i) payment in full of the principal of, together with any premium and accrued and unpaid interest on, the Notes and all other Obligations under this Indenture and the Collateral Documents that are due and payable at or prior to the time such principal, together with any premiums and accrued and unpaid interest, are paid or (ii) [reserved], the Trustee shall deliver to the Company and the Collateral Agent a notice stating that the Trustee, on behalf of the Holders, disclaims and gives up any and all rights it has in or to the Collateral, and any rights it has under the Collateral Documents, and upon receipt by the Collateral Agent of such notice, the Collateral Agent shall be deemed not to hold a Lien in the Collateral on behalf of the Trustee and shall execute and deliver (at the expense of the Company) such instruments of release as reasonably requested by the Company to acknowledge the release and discharge of such Lien as soon as is reasonably practicable.
Section 18.09. Collateral Agent; Collateral Documents.
(a) Wilmington Savings Fund Society, FSB is hereby designated and appointed as the Collateral Agent for the Secured Parties under this Indenture and the Collateral Documents and Wilmington Savings Fund Society, FSB hereby accepts such designation and appointment.
(b) By their acceptance of the Notes, the Holders hereby authorize and direct the Trustee and Collateral Agent, as the case may be, to execute and deliver any Collateral Documents in which the Trustee or the Collateral Agent, as applicable, is named as a party, including any Collateral Documents executed after the date of this Indenture. It is hereby expressly acknowledged and agreed that, in doing so, the Trustee and the Collateral Agent are (A) expressly authorized to make the representations attributed to the Holders in any such agreements and (B) not responsible for the terms or contents of such agreements, or for the validity or enforceability thereof, or the sufficiency thereof for any purpose. Whether or not so expressly stated therein, in entering into, or taking (or forbearing from) any action under, any Collateral Documents, the Trustee and the Collateral Agent each shall have all the rights, immunities, indemnities and other protections granted to it under this Indenture (in addition to those that may be granted to it under the terms of such other agreement or agreements).
Section 18.10. Replacement of Collateral Agent.
(a) The Collateral Agent may resign at any time by so notifying the Company in writing not less than 45 days prior to the effective date of such resignation. The Supermajority Holders may remove the Collateral Agent by so notifying the removed Collateral Agent in writing not less than 30 days prior to the effective date of such removal and may appoint a successor Collateral Agent with the Companys written consent. If:
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(i) the Collateral Agent shall become incapable of acting, or shall be adjudged a bankrupt or insolvent, or a receiver of the Collateral Agent or of its property shall be appointed, or any public officer shall take charge or control of the Collateral Agent or of its property or affairs for the purpose of rehabilitation, conservation or liquidation; or (ii) the Collateral Agent otherwise becomes incapable of acting then, the Company may by a Board Resolution remove the Collateral Agent and appoint a successor collateral agent by written instrument, in duplicate, executed by order of the Board of Directors, one copy of which instrument shall be delivered to the Collateral Agent so removed and one copy to the successor collateral agent, or, subject to the provisions of Section 6.11, any Holder who has been a bona fide holder of a Note or Notes for at least six months (or since the date of this Indenture) may, on behalf of itself and all others similarly situated, petition, at the Companys expense, any court of competent jurisdiction for the removal of the Collateral Agent and the appointment of a successor Collateral Agent. Such court may thereupon, after such notice, if any, as it may deem proper and prescribe, remove the Collateral Agent and appoint a successor Collateral Agent.
(b) If the Collateral Agent consolidates, merges or converts into, or transfers all or substantially all of its corporate trust business to, another corporation, the successor corporation without any further act shall be the successor Collateral Agent.
Section 18.11. Acceptance by Collateral Agent. Any successor Collateral Agent appointed as provided in Section 18.10 shall execute, acknowledge and deliver to the Company and to its predecessor Collateral Agent an instrument accepting such appointment hereunder, and thereupon the resignation or removal of the predecessor Collateral Agent shall become effective and such successor Collateral Agent, without any further act, deed or conveyance, shall become vested with all the rights, powers, duties and obligations of its predecessor hereunder, with like effect as if originally named as Collateral Agent herein; but, nevertheless, on the written request of the Company or of the successor Collateral Agent, the Collateral Agent ceasing to act shall, at the expense of the Company and subject to payment of any amounts then due pursuant to the provisions of Section 7.06, execute and deliver an instrument transferring to such successor Collateral Agent all the rights and powers of the Collateral Agent so ceasing to act. Upon request of any such Collateral Agent, the Company shall execute any and all instruments in writing for more fully and certainly vesting in and confirming to such successor Collateral Agent all such rights and powers. Any Collateral Agent ceasing to act shall, nevertheless, retain a senior lien to which the Notes are hereby made subordinate on all money or property held or collected by such Collateral Agent as such, except for funds held in trust for the benefit of Holders of particular Notes, to secure any amounts then due it pursuant to the provisions of Section 7.06.
Upon acceptance of appointment by a successor Collateral Agent as provided in Section 18.11, each of the Company and the successor Collateral Agent, at the written direction and at the expense of the Company, shall give or cause to be given notice of the succession of such Collateral Agent hereunder to the Holders in accordance with Section 18.03.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Indenture to be duly executed as of the date first written above.
3D SYSTEMS CORPORATION, as Issuer | ||
By: | /s/ Jeffrey D. Creech | |
Name: Jeffrey D. Creech | ||
Title: Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer | ||
3D SYSTEMS, INC., as Guarantor | ||
By: | /s/ Jeffrey D. Creech | |
Name: Jeffrey D. Creech | ||
Title: Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer | ||
3D HOLDINGS, LLC, as Guarantor | ||
By: | /s/ Jeffrey D. Creech | |
Name: Jeffrey D. Creech | ||
Title: Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer | ||
WILMINGTON SAVINGS FUND SOCIETY, FSB, as Trustee | ||
By: | /s/ Craig Cramer | |
Name: Craig Cramer | ||
Title: Relationship Manager |
EXHIBIT A
[FORM OF FACE OF NOTE]
[INCLUDE FOLLOWING LEGEND IF A GLOBAL NOTE]
[UNLESS THIS CERTIFICATE IS PRESENTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF THE DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY, A NEW YORK CORPORATION (DTC), 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 DTC (AND ANY PAYMENT HEREUNDER IS MADE TO CEDE & CO. OR TO SUCH OTHER ENTITY AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC), ANY TRANSFER, PLEDGE, OR OTHER USE HEREOF FOR VALUE OR OTHERWISE BY OR TO ANY PERSON IS WRONGFUL INASMUCH AS THE REGISTERED OWNER HEREOF, CEDE & CO., HAS AN INTEREST HEREIN.]
[INCLUDE FOLLOWING LEGEND IF A RESTRICTED SECURITY]
[THIS SECURITY AND THE COMMON STOCK, IF ANY, ISSUABLE UPON CONVERSION OF THIS SECURITY HAVE NOT BEEN REGISTERED UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED (THE SECURITIES ACT), AND MAY NOT BE OFFERED, SOLD, PLEDGED OR OTHERWISE TRANSFERRED EXCEPT IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE FOLLOWING SENTENCE. BY ITS ACQUISITION HEREOF OR OF A BENEFICIAL INTEREST HEREIN, THE ACQUIRER:
(1) REPRESENTS THAT IT AND ANY ACCOUNT FOR WHICH IT IS ACTING IS A QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER (WITHIN THE MEANING OF RULE 144A UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT) AND THAT IT EXERCISES SOLE INVESTMENT DISCRETION WITH RESPECT TO EACH SUCH ACCOUNT, AND
(2) AGREES FOR THE BENEFIT OF 3D SYSTEMS CORPORATION (THE COMPANY) THAT IT WILL NOT OFFER, SELL, PLEDGE OR OTHERWISE TRANSFER THIS SECURITY AND THE COMMON STOCK, IF ANY, ISSUABLE UPON CONVERSION OF THIS SECURITY, IF ANY OR ANY BENEFICIAL INTEREST HEREIN OR THEREIN PRIOR TO THE DATE THAT IS THE LATER OF (X) ONE YEAR AFTER THE LAST ORIGINAL ISSUE DATE HEREOF OR SUCH SHORTER PERIOD OF TIME AS PERMITTED BY RULE 144 UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OR ANY SUCCESSOR PROVISION THERETO AND (Y) SUCH LATER DATE, IF ANY, AS MAY BE REQUIRED BY APPLICABLE LAW, EXCEPT:
(i) TO THE COMPANY OR ANY SUBSIDIARY THEREOF, OR
(ii) PURSUANT TO A REGISTRATION STATEMENT WHICH HAS BECOME EFFECTIVE UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT, OR
(iii) TO A PERSON REASONABLY BELIEVED TO BE A QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER IN COMPLIANCE WITH RULE 144A UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT, OR
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(iv) PURSUANT TO AN EXEMPTION FROM REGISTRATION PROVIDED BY RULE 144 UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OR ANY OTHER AVAILABLE EXEMPTION FROM THE REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS OF THE SECURITIES ACT.
PRIOR TO THE REGISTRATION OF ANY TRANSFER IN ACCORDANCE WITH CLAUSE (2)(D) ABOVE, THE COMPANY AND THE TRUSTEE RESERVE THE RIGHT TO REQUIRE THE DELIVERY OF SUCH LEGAL OPINIONS, CERTIFICATIONS OR OTHER EVIDENCE AS MAY REASONABLY BE REQUIRED IN ORDER FOR THE COMPANY TO DETERMINE THAT THE PROPOSED TRANSFER IS BEING MADE IN COMPLIANCE WITH THE SECURITIES ACT AND APPLICABLE STATE SECURITIES LAWS. NO REPRESENTATION IS MADE AS TO THE AVAILABILITY OF ANY EXEMPTION FROM THE REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS OF THE SECURITIES ACT.
NO AFFILIATE (AS DEFINED IN RULE 144 UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT) OF THE COMPANY OR PERSON THAT HAS BEEN AN AFFILIATE (AS DEFINED IN RULE 144 UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT) OF THE COMPANY DURING THE THREE IMMEDIATELY PRECEDING MONTHS MAY PURCHASE, OTHERWISE ACQUIRE OR OWN THIS SECURITY OR A BENEFICIAL INTEREST HEREIN.]1
1 | The Restrictive Legend shall be deemed removed from the face of this Note without further action by the Company, Trustee or the Holders of this Note at such time and in the manner provided under Section 2.05 of the Indenture. |
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3D Systems Corporation
5.875% Convertible Senior Secured Note due 2030
No. [ ] | [Initially]2 | $[ ] |
CUSIP No. 88554D AE63
3D Systems Corporation, a corporation duly organized and validly existing under the laws of the State of Delaware (the Company, which term includes any successor corporation or other entity under the Indenture referred to on the reverse hereof), for value received hereby promises to pay to [CEDE & CO.]4 [ ]5, or registered assigns, the principal sum [as set forth in the Schedule of Exchanges of Notes attached hereto]6 [of $[____]]7, which amount, taken together with the principal amounts of all other outstanding Notes, shall not, unless permitted by the Indenture, exceed $[______] in aggregate at any time, in accordance with the rules and the Applicable Procedures, on June 15, 2030, and interest thereon as set forth below. Accrued interest on the Notes shall be computed on the basis of a 360-day year composed of twelve 30-day months and, for partial months, on the basis of the number of days actually elapsed in a 30-day month.
This Note shall bear interest at the rate of 5.875% per year from June 23, 2025, or from the most recent date to which interest has been paid or provided for to, but excluding, the next scheduled Interest Payment Date until June 15, 2030. Interest is payable semi-annually in arrears on each June 15 and December 15, commencing on December 15, 2025, to Holders of record at the close of business on the preceding June 1 and December 1 (whether or not such day is a Business Day), respectively. Additional Interest will be payable as set forth in Section 4.06(d), Section 4.06(e) and Section 6.03 of the within-mentioned Indenture, and any reference to interest on, or in respect of, any Note therein shall be deemed to include Additional Interest, if, in such context, Additional Interest is, was or would be payable pursuant to any of such Section 4.06(d), Section 4.06(e) or Section 6.03. Any express mention of the payment of Additional Interest in any provision therein shall not be construed as excluding Additional Interest in those provisions thereof where such express mention is not made.
Any Defaulted Amounts shall accrue interest per annum at the rate borne by the Notes, subject to the enforceability thereof under applicable law, from, and including, the relevant payment date to, but excluding, the date on which such Defaulted Amounts shall have been paid by the Company, at its election, in accordance with Section 2.03(c) of the Indenture.
The Company shall pay the principal of and interest, if any, on this Note, if and so long as such Note is a Global Note, in immediately available funds to the Depositary or its nominee, as the case may be, as the registered Holder of such Note. As provided in and subject to the provisions of the Indenture, the Company shall pay the principal of any Notes (other than Notes that are Global Notes) at the office or agency designated by the Company for that purpose. The Company has initially designated the Trustee as its Paying Agent and Note Registrar in respect of the Notes and its Corporate Trust Office located in the United States of America as a place where Notes may be presented for payment or for registration of transfer and exchange.
2 | Include if a global note. |
3 | At such time as the Company notifies the Trustee that the Restrictive Legend is to be removed in accordance with the Indenture, the CUSIP number for this Note shall be deemed to be 88554D AF3 in accordance with Applicable Procedures. |
4 | Include if a global note. |
5 | Include if a physical note. |
6 | Include if a global note. |
7 | Include if a physical note. |
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Reference is made to the further provisions of this Note set forth on the reverse hereof, including, without limitation, provisions giving the Holder of this Note the right to convert this Note into cash, shares of Common Stock or a combination of cash and shares of Common Stock, as applicable, on the terms and subject to the limitations set forth in the Indenture. Such further provisions shall for all purposes have the same effect as though fully set forth at this place.
This Note, and any claim, controversy or dispute arising under or related to this Note, shall be construed in accordance with and governed by the laws of the State of New York (without regard to the conflicts of laws provisions thereof).
In the case of any conflict between this Note and the Indenture, the provisions of the Indenture shall control and govern.
This Note shall not be valid or become obligatory for any purpose until the certificate of authentication hereon shall have been signed manually or electronically by the Trustee or a duly authorized authenticating agent under the Indenture.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Company has caused this Note to be duly executed.
3D SYSTEMS CORPORATION | ||
By: |
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Name: | ||
Title: |
Dated:
TRUSTEES CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION
WILMINGTON SAVINGS FUND SOCIETY, FSB
as Trustee, certifies that this is one of the Notes described
in the within-named Indenture.
By: |
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Authorized Signatory |
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[FORM OF REVERSE OF NOTE]
3D Systems Corporation
5.875% Convertible Senior Secured Note due 2030
This Note is one of a duly authorized issue of Notes of the Company, designated as its 5.875% Convertible Senior Secured Notes due 2030 (the Notes), limited to the aggregate principal amount of $[________], all issued or to be issued under and pursuant to an Indenture dated as of June 23, 2025 (the Indenture), between the Company and Wilmington Savings Fund Society, FSB (the Trustee), to which Indenture and all indentures supplemental thereto reference is hereby made for a description of the rights, limitations of rights, obligations, duties and immunities thereunder of the Trustee, the Company and the Holders of the Notes. Additional Notes may be issued in an unlimited aggregate principal amount, subject to certain conditions specified in the Indenture. Capitalized terms used in this Note and not defined in this Note shall have the respective meanings set forth in the Indenture.
To guarantee the due and punctual payment of the principal and interest (including post-filing or post-petition interest) on the Notes and all other amounts payable by the Company under the Indenture, the Notes and the other Note Documents when and as the same shall be due and payable, whether at maturity, by acceleration or otherwise, according to the terms of the Notes and the Indenture, the Guarantors will unconditionally guarantee (and future guarantors, jointly and severally with the Guarantors, will fully and unconditionally Guarantee) such obligations on a senior secured basis pursuant to the terms of the Indenture.
The Notes and the Guarantors Guarantees of the Notes will be secured by the Collateral on the terms and subject to the conditions set forth in the Indenture and the Collateral Documents. The Collateral Agent will hold the Collateral for the benefit of the Secured Parties pursuant to the Collateral Documents. Each Holder, by accepting this Note, consents and agrees to the terms of the Collateral Documents (including the provisions providing for the foreclosure and release of Collateral), as the same may be in effect or may be amended from time to time in accordance with their terms and the Indenture and authorizes and directs the Collateral Agent to enter into the Collateral Documents and to perform its obligations and exercise its rights thereunder in accordance therewith.
In case certain Events of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, the principal of, and interest on, all Notes may be declared, by either the Trustee or Holders of at least 25% in aggregate principal amount of Notes then outstanding, and upon said declaration shall become, due and payable, in the manner, with the effect and subject to the conditions and certain exceptions set forth in the Indenture.
Subject to the terms and conditions of the Indenture, the Company will make all payments and deliveries in respect of the Fundamental Change Repurchase Price on the Fundamental Change Repurchase Date, the Redemption Price on the Redemption Date and the principal amount on the Maturity Date, as the case may be, to the Holder who surrenders a Note to a Paying Agent to collect such payments in respect of the Note. The Company will pay cash amounts in money of the United States that at the time of payment is legal tender for payment of public and private debts.
The Indenture contains provisions permitting the Company and the Trustee in certain circumstances, without the consent of the Holders of the Notes, and in certain other circumstances, with the consent of the Supermajority Holders, evidenced as in the Indenture provided, to execute supplemental indentures modifying the terms of the Indenture and the Notes as described therein. It is also provided in the Indenture that, subject to certain exceptions, the Supermajority Holders may on behalf of the Holders of all of the Notes waive any past Default or Event of Default under the Indenture and its consequences.
Ex A-6
Notwithstanding any other provision of the Indenture or any provision of this Note, each Holder shall have the contractual right to receive payment or delivery, as the case may be, of (x) the principal (including the Fundamental Change Repurchase Price and the Redemption Price, if applicable) of, (y) accrued and unpaid interest, if any, on, and (z) the consideration due upon conversion of, this Note, on or after the respective due dates expressed or provided for in this Note or in the Indenture, and the contractual right to institute suit for the enforcement of any such payment or delivery, as the case may be, on or after such respective dates, shall not be amended without the consent of each Holder.
The Notes are issuable in registered form without coupons in denominations of $1,000 principal amount and integral multiples thereof. At the office or agency of the Company referred to on the face hereof, and in the manner and subject to the limitations provided in the Indenture, Notes may be exchanged for a like aggregate principal amount of Notes of other authorized denominations, without payment of any service charge but, if required by the Company or Trustee, with payment of a sum sufficient to cover any transfer or similar tax that may be imposed in connection therewith as a result of the name of the Holder of the new Notes issued upon such exchange of Notes being different from the name of the Holder of the old Notes surrendered for such exchange.
The Notes are not subject to redemption prior to June 20, 2028. The Notes shall be redeemable at the Companys option on or after June 20, 2028 in accordance with the terms and subject to the conditions specified in the Indenture. No sinking fund is provided for the Notes.
Upon the occurrence of a Fundamental Change, the Holder has the right, at such Holders option, to require the Company to repurchase for cash all of such Holders Notes or any portion thereof (in principal amounts of $1,000 or integral multiples thereof) on the Fundamental Change Repurchase Date at a price equal to the Fundamental Change Repurchase Price.
Subject to the provisions of the Indenture, the Holder hereof has the right, at its option, during certain periods and upon the occurrence of certain conditions specified in the Indenture, prior to the close of business on the second Scheduled Trading Day immediately preceding the Maturity Date, to convert any Notes or portion thereof that is $1,000 or an integral multiple thereof, into cash, shares of Common Stock or a combination of cash and shares of Common Stock, as applicable, at the Conversion Rate specified in the Indenture, as adjusted from time to time as provided in the Indenture.
Ex A-7
ABBREVIATIONS
The following abbreviations, when used in the inscription of the face of this Note, shall be construed as though they were written out in full according to applicable laws or regulations:
TEN COM = as tenants in common
UNIF GIFT MIN ACT = Uniform Gifts to Minors Act
CUST = Custodian
TEN ENT = as tenants by the entireties
JT TEN = joint tenants with right of survivorship and not as tenants in common
Additional abbreviations may also be used though not in the above list.
Ex A-8
SCHEDULE A8
SCHEDULE OF EXCHANGES OF NOTES
3D Systems Corporation
5.875% Convertible Senior Secured Notes due 2030
The initial principal amount of this Global Note is DOLLARS ($[ ]). The following increases or decreases in this Global Note have been made:
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Ex A-9
ATTACHMENT 1
[FORM OF NOTICE OF CONVERSION]
To: | Wilmington Savings Fund Society, FSB |
500 Delaware Avenue, 11th Floor
Wilmington, Delaware, 19801
Attention: Global Capital Markets
RE: | 3D Systems Notice of Conversion |
The undersigned registered owner of this Note hereby exercises the option to convert this Note, or the portion hereof (that is $1,000 principal amount or an integral multiple thereof) below designated, into cash, shares of Common Stock or a combination of cash and shares of Common Stock, at the Companys election, in accordance with the terms of the Indenture referred to in this Note, and directs that any cash payable and any shares of Common Stock issuable and deliverable upon such conversion, together with any cash for any fractional share, and any Notes representing any unconverted principal amount hereof, be issued and delivered to the registered Holder hereof unless a different name has been indicated below. If any shares of Common Stock or any portion of this Note not converted are to be issued in the name of a Person other than the undersigned, the undersigned will pay all documentary, stamp or similar issue or transfer taxes, if any in accordance with Section 14.02(d) and Section 14.02(e) of the Indenture. Any amount required to be paid to the undersigned on account of interest accompanies this Note. Capitalized terms used herein but not defined shall have the meanings ascribed to such terms in the Indenture.
Dated: | ||
Signature(s) |
Signature Guarantee | ||
Signature(s) must be guaranteed by an eligible Guarantor Institution (banks, stock brokers, savings and loan associations and credit unions) with membership in an approved signature guarantee medallion program pursuant to Securities and Exchange Commission Rule 17Ad-15 if shares of Common Stock are to be issued, or Notes are to be delivered, other than to and in the name of the registered holder. |
Fill in for registration of shares if to be issued, and Notes if to be delivered, other than to and in the name of the registered holder: |
(Name) |
(Street Address) |
(City, State and Zip Code) |
Please print name and address |
Principal amount to be converted (if less than all): $ ,000 |
NOTICE: The above signature(s) of the Holder(s) hereof must correspond with the name as written upon the face of the Note in every particular without alteration or enlargement or any change whatever. |
Social Security or Other Taxpayer |
Identification Number |
ATTACHMENT 2
[FORM OF FUNDAMENTAL CHANGE REPURCHASE NOTICE]
To: Paying Agent
The undersigned registered owner of this Note hereby acknowledges receipt of a notice from 3D Systems Corporation (the Company) as to the occurrence of a Fundamental Change with respect to the Company and specifying the Fundamental Change Repurchase Date and requests and instructs the Company to pay to the registered holder hereof in accordance with Section 15.02 of the Indenture referred to in this Note (1) the entire principal amount of this Note, or the portion thereof (that is $1,000 principal amount or an integral multiple thereof) below designated, and (2) if such Fundamental Change Repurchase Date does not fall during the period after a Regular Record Date and on or prior to the corresponding Interest Payment Date, accrued and unpaid interest, if any, thereon to, but excluding, such Fundamental Change Repurchase Date. Capitalized terms used herein but not defined shall have the meanings ascribed to such terms in the Indenture.
In the case of Physical Notes, the certificate numbers of the Notes to be repurchased are as set forth below:
Dated: | ||||||
Signature(s) | ||||||
Social Security or Other Taxpayer | ||||||
Identification Number | ||||||
Principal amount to be repaid (if less than all): | ||||||
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NOTICE: The above signature(s) of the Holder(s) hereof must correspond with the name as written upon the face of the Note in every particular without alteration or enlargement or any change whatever |
ATTACHMENT 3
[FORM OF ASSIGNMENT AND TRANSFER]
For value received hereby sell(s), assign(s) and transfer(s) unto (Please insert social security or Taxpayer Identification Number of assignee) the within Note, and hereby irrevocably constitutes and appoints attorney to transfer the said Note on the books of the Company, with full power of substitution in the premises.
In connection with any transfer of the within Note occurring prior to the Resale Restriction Termination Date, as defined in the Indenture governing such Note, the undersigned confirms that such Note is being transferred:
☐ To 3D Systems Corporation or a subsidiary thereof; or
☐ Pursuant to a registration statement that has become or been declared effective under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended; or
☐ Pursuant to and in compliance with Rule 144A under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended; or
☐ Pursuant to and in compliance with Rule 144 under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, or any other available exemption from the registration requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.
ATTACHMENT 4
[FORM OF PUT RIGHT REPURCHASE NOTICE]
To: Trustee
The undersigned registered owner of this Note hereby requests and instructs the Company to pay to the registered holder hereof in accordance with Section 15.01 of the Indenture referred to in this Note (1) the entire principal amount of this Note, or the portion thereof (that is $1,000 principal amount or an integral multiple thereof) below designated, and (2) accrued and unpaid interest, if any, thereon to, but excluding, the Put Right Repurchase Date. Capitalized terms used herein but not defined shall have the meanings ascribed to such terms in the Indenture.
In the case of Physical Notes, the certificate numbers of the Notes to be repurchased are as set forth below:
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Social Security or Other Taxpayer | ||||||
Identification Number | ||||||
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$ ,000 |
NOTICE: The above signature(s) of the Holder(s) hereof must correspond with the name as written upon the face of the Note in every particular without alteration or enlargement or any change whatever
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Signature Guarantee | ||
Signature(s) must be guaranteed by an eligible Guarantor Institution (banks, stock brokers, savings and loan associations and credit unions) with membership in an approved signature guarantee medallion program pursuant to Securities and Exchange Commission | ||
Rule 17Ad-15 if Notes are to be delivered, other than to and in the name of the registered holder. |
NOTICE: The signature on the assignment must correspond with the name as written upon the face of the Note in every particular without alteration or enlargement or any change whatever.
EXHIBIT B
[FORM OF SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE
TO BE DELIVERED BY SUBSEQUENT GUARANTORS]
This [ ] SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE, dated as of __________ __, 20__ is by and among ____________________ (the Guaranteeing Subsidiary), a direct or indirect subsidiary of 3D SYSTEMS CORPORATION., a Delaware corporation, as issuer (the Company) and WILMINGTON SAVINGS FUND SOCIETY, FSB, a federal savings bank, as Trustee.
RECITALS
WHEREAS, the Company has heretofore executed and delivered to the Trustee and the Collateral Agent the Indenture (the Indenture), dated as of June 23, 2025, providing for the issuance of 5.875% Convertible Senior Secured Notes due 2030 (the Notes);
WHEREAS, the Indenture provides that under certain circumstances the Guaranteeing Subsidiary shall execute and deliver to the Trustee and Collateral Agent a supplemental indenture pursuant to which the Guaranteeing Subsidiary shall unconditionally guarantee all of the Companys obligations under the Notes and the Indenture on the terms and conditions set forth herein and under the Indenture (the Guarantee);
WHEREAS, Section 11.01 of the Indenture provides that the parties may amend or supplement the Indenture in order to add Guarantors pursuant to the Indenture, without the consent of the Holders; and
WHEREAS, all acts and things prescribed by the Indenture to make this Supplemental Indenture a valid instrument legally binding on the parties in accordance with its terms, have been duly done and performed;
NOW, THEREFORE, in compliance with the provisions of the Indenture and in consideration of the above premises, the parties covenant and agree for the equal and proportionate benefit of the respective Holders as follows:
(1) Capitalized Terms. Capitalized terms used herein without definition shall have the meanings assigned to them in the Indenture.
(2) Agreement to Guarantee. The Guaranteeing Subsidiary hereby agrees as follows:
(a) Along with all other Guarantors named in the Indenture (including pursuant to any supplemental indentures), to jointly and severally unconditionally guarantee to each Holder of a Note authenticated and delivered by the Trustee, the Trustee, the Collateral Agent and their respective successors and assigns, irrespective of the validity and enforceability of the Indenture, the Notes or the obligations of the Company hereunder or thereunder, that:
(i) the principal of and interest and premium, if any, on the Notes shall be promptly paid in full when due, whether at maturity, by acceleration, redemption or otherwise, and interest on the overdue principal of and interest on the Notes, if any, if lawful, and all other obligations of the Company to the Holders, the Trustee or the Collateral Agent thereunder shall be promptly paid in full, all in accordance with the terms thereof; and
Ex. B-1
(ii) in case of any extension of time of payment or renewal of any Notes or any of such other obligations, that same shall be promptly paid in full when due in accordance with the terms of the extension or renewal, whether at stated maturity, by acceleration or otherwise. Failing payment when due of any amount so guaranteed for whatever reason, the Guarantors and the Guaranteeing Subsidiary shall be jointly and severally obligated to pay the same immediately. This is a guarantee of payment and not a guarantee of collection.
(b) The obligations hereunder shall be unconditional, irrespective of the validity, regularity or enforceability of the Notes or the Indenture, the absence of any action to enforce the same, any waiver or consent by any Holder with respect to any provisions hereof or thereof, the recovery of any judgment against the Company or any other Guarantor, any action to enforce the same or any other circumstance which might otherwise constitute a legal or equitable discharge or defense of a guarantor.
(c) The Guaranteeing Subsidiary hereby waives diligence, presentment, demand of payment, filing of claims with a court in the event of insolvency or bankruptcy of the Company, any right to require a proceeding first against the Company, protest, notice and all demands whatsoever.
(d) Except as provided in the Indenture and herein, the Guarantee shall not be discharged except by full payment of the obligations contained in the Notes, the Indenture and this Supplemental Indenture. The Guaranteeing Subsidiary accepts all obligations applicable to a Guarantor under the Indenture, including Article 13 of the Indenture (which is deemed incorporated in this Supplemental Indenture and applicable to this Guarantee). The Guaranteeing Subsidiary acknowledges that by executing this Supplemental Indenture, it shall become a Guarantor under the Indenture and subject to all the terms and conditions applicable to Guarantors contained therein.
(e) If any Holder, the Trustee or the Collateral Agent is required by any court or otherwise to return to the Company, the Guarantors (including the Guaranteeing Subsidiary), or any custodian, trustee, liquidator or other similar official acting in relation to any of the Company or the Guarantors, any amount paid either to the Trustee, the Collateral Agent or such Holder, this Guarantee, to the extent theretofore discharged, shall be reinstated in full force and effect.
(f) The Guaranteeing Subsidiary shall not be entitled to any right of subrogation in relation to the Holders in respect of any obligations guaranteed hereby until payment in full of all obligations guaranteed hereby.
(g) As between the Guaranteeing Subsidiary, on the one hand, and the Holders, the Trustee and Collateral Agent, on the other hand, (x) the maturity of the obligations guaranteed hereby may be accelerated as provided in Article 6 of the Indenture for the purposes of this Guarantee, notwithstanding any stay, injunction or other prohibition preventing such acceleration in respect of the obligations guaranteed hereby, and (y) in the event of any declaration of acceleration of such obligations as provided in Article 6 of the Indenture, such obligations (whether or not due and payable) shall forthwith become due and payable by the Guaranteeing Subsidiary for the purpose of this Guarantee.
(h) The Guaranteeing Subsidiary shall have the right to seek contribution from any non-paying Guarantor so long as the exercise of such right does not impair the rights of the Holders under this Guarantee.
Ex. B-2
(i) Pursuant to Section 13.02 of the Indenture, after giving effect to all other contingent and fixed liabilities that are relevant under any applicable Bankruptcy or fraudulent conveyance laws, or similar limitation, and after giving effect to any collections from, rights to receive contribution from or payments made by or on behalf of any other Guarantor in respect of the obligations of such other Guarantor under Article 13 of the Indenture, this new Guarantee shall be limited to the maximum amount permissible such that the obligations of such Guarantor under this Guarantee shall not constitute a fraudulent transfer or conveyance, or similar limitation.
(j) This Guarantee shall remain in full force and effect and continue to be effective should any petition be filed by or against the Company for liquidation, reorganization, should the Company become insolvent or make an assignment for the benefit of creditors or should a receiver or trustee be appointed for all or any significant part of the Companys assets, and shall, to the fullest extent permitted by law, continue to be effective or be reinstated, as the case may be, if at any time payment and performance of the Notes are, pursuant to applicable law, rescinded or reduced in amount, or must otherwise be restored or returned by any obligee on the Notes and Guarantee, whether as a voidable preference, fraudulent transfer or otherwise, all as though such payment or performance had not been made. In the event that any payment or any part thereof, is rescinded, reduced, restored or returned, the Note shall, to the fullest extent permitted by law, be reinstated and deemed reduced only by such amount paid and not so rescinded, reduced, restored or returned.
(k) In case any provision of this Guarantee shall be invalid, illegal or unenforceable, the validity, legality, and enforceability of the remaining provisions shall not in any way be affected or impaired thereby.
(l) This Guarantee shall be a general secured senior obligation of such Guaranteeing Subsidiary, ranking equally in right of payment with all existing and future Senior Indebtedness of the Guaranteeing Subsidiary, if any.
(m) Each payment to be made by the Guaranteeing Subsidiary in respect of this Guarantee shall be made without set-off, counterclaim, reduction or diminution of any kind or nature.
(3) Execution and Delivery. The Guaranteeing Subsidiary agrees that the Guarantee shall remain in full force and effect notwithstanding the absence of the endorsement of any notation of such Guarantee on the Notes.
(4) No Recourse Against Others. No past, present or future director, officer, employee, incorporator, member, partner or stockholder of the Guaranteeing Subsidiary (other than the Company and the Guarantors) shall have any liability for any obligations of the Company or the Guarantors (including the Guaranteeing Subsidiary) under the Notes, any Guarantees, the Indenture or this Supplemental Indenture or for any claim based on, in respect of, or by reason of, such obligations or their creation. Each Holder by accepting Notes waives and releases all such liability. The waiver and release are part of the consideration for issuance of the Notes.
(5) Governing Law, Jury Trial Waiver. THIS SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE WILL BE GOVERNED BY AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK.
Ex. B-3
EACH OF THE COMPANY, THE GUARANTEEING SUBSIDIARY AND THE TRUSTEE HEREBY IRREVOCABLY WAIVES, TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, ANY AND ALL RIGHT TO TRIAL BY JURY IN ANY LEGAL PROCEEDING ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THIS SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE OR THE TRANSACTIONS CONTEMPLATED HEREBY.
(6) Counterparts. The parties may sign any number of copies of this Supplemental Indenture. Each signed copy shall be an original, but all of them together represent the same agreement. The exchange of copies of this Supplemental Indenture and of signature pages by facsimile or PDF transmission shall constitute effective execution and delivery of this Supplemental Indenture as to the parties hereto and may be used in lieu of the original Supplemental Indenture for all purposes. Signatures of the parties hereto transmitted by facsimile or PDF shall be deemed to be their original signatures for all purposes.
(7) Effect of Headings. The Section headings herein are for convenience only and shall not affect the construction hereof.
(8) The Trustee and Collateral Agent. Neither the Trustee nor the Collateral Agent shall be responsible in any manner whatsoever for or in respect of the validity or sufficiency of this Supplemental Indenture, the Guarantee of the Guaranteeing Subsidiary or for or in respect of the recitals contained herein, all of which recitals are made solely by the Company and the Guaranteeing Subsidiary.
(9) Subrogation. The Guaranteeing Subsidiary shall be subrogated to all rights of Holders against the Company in respect of any amounts paid by the Guaranteeing Subsidiary pursuant to the provisions of Section 2.01 hereof and Section 13.01 of the Indenture; provided that, if an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, the Guaranteeing Subsidiary shall not be entitled to enforce or receive any payments arising out of, or based upon, such right of subrogation until all amounts then due and payable by the Company under the Indenture or the Notes shall have been paid in full.
(10) Benefits Acknowledged. The Guaranteeing Subsidiarys Guarantee is subject to the terms and conditions set forth in the Indenture. The Guaranteeing Subsidiary acknowledges that it shall receive direct and indirect benefits from the financing arrangements contemplated by the Indenture and this Supplemental Indenture and that the guarantee and waivers made by it pursuant to this Guarantee are knowingly made in contemplation of such benefits.
(11) Successors. All agreements of the Guaranteeing Subsidiary in this Supplemental Indenture shall bind its Successors, except as otherwise provided in this Supplemental Indenture. All agreements of the Trustee and the Collateral Agent in this Supplemental Indenture shall bind its successors.
Ex. B-4
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Supplemental Indenture to be duly executed, all as of the date first above written.
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[GUARANTEEING SUBSIDIARY] | ||
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Ex. B-5