CELL THERAPEUTICS, INC., as Company U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, as Trustee

EX-4.1 2 dex41.htm INDENTURE, DATED SEPTEMBER 29, 2008 Indenture, dated September 29, 2008

Exhibit 4.1

CELL THERAPEUTICS, INC.,

as Company

U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION,

as Trustee

INDENTURE

Dated as of September 29, 2008

15.5% CONVERTIBLE SENIOR NOTES DUE 2012


TABLE OF CONTENTS

 

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ARTICLE I DEFINITIONS AND OTHER PROVISIONS OF GENERAL APPLICATION

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SECTION 1.1 Definitions

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SECTION 1.2 Compliance Certificates and Opinions

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SECTION 1.3 Form of Documents Delivered to the Trustee

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SECTION 1.4 Acts of Holders of Securities

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SECTION 1.5 Notices, Etc., to Trustee and Company

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SECTION 1.6 Notice to Holders of Securities; Waiver

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SECTION 1.7 Effect of Headings and Table of Contents

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SECTION 1.8 Successors and Assigns

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SECTION 1.9 Separability Clause

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SECTION 1.10 Benefits of Indenture

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SECTION 1.11 Governing Law

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SECTION 1.12 Legal Holidays

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SECTION 1.13 Conflict with Trust Indenture Act

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SECTION 1.14 Counterparts

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ARTICLE II THE SECURITIES

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SECTION 2.1 Form Generally

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SECTION 2.2 Title and Terms

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SECTION 2.3 Denominations

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SECTION 2.4 Execution, Authentication, Delivery and Dating

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SECTION 2.5 Global Securities

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SECTION 2.6 Registration, Registration of Transfer and Exchange

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SECTION 2.7 Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost or Stolen Securities

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SECTION 2.8 Payment of Interest; Interest Rights Preserved

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SECTION 2.9 Persons Deemed Owners

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SECTION 2.10 Cancellation

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SECTION 2.11 Computation of Interest

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SECTION 2.12 CUSIP Numbers

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ARTICLE III SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE

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SECTION 3.1 Satisfaction and Discharge of Indenture

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SECTION 3.2 Application of Trust Money

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ARTICLE IV REMEDIES

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SECTION 4.1 Events of Default

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SECTION 4.2 Acceleration of Maturity; Rescission and Annulment

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SECTION 4.3 Collection of Indebtedness and Suits for Enforcement by Trustee

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SECTION 4.4 Trustee May File Proofs of Claim

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SECTION 4.5 Trustee May Enforce Claims without Possession of Securities

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SECTION 4.6 Application of Money Collected

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SECTION 4.7 Limitation on Suits

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SECTION 4.8 Unconditional Right of Holders to Receive Principal, Premium and Interest and to Convert

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SECTION 4.9 Restoration of Rights and Remedies

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SECTION 4.10 Rights and Remedies Cumulative

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SECTION 4.11 Delay or Omission Not Waiver

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SECTION 4.12 Control by Holders of Securities

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SECTION 4.13 Waiver of Past Defaults

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SECTION 4.14 Undertaking for Costs

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SECTION 4.15 Waiver of Stay, Usury or Extension Laws

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ARTICLE V THE TRUSTEE

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SECTION 5.1 Certain Duties and Responsibilities

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SECTION 5.2 Notice of Defaults

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SECTION 5.3 Certain Rights of Trustee

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SECTION 5.4 Not Responsible for Recitals or Issuance of Securities

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SECTION 5.5 May Hold Securities, Act as Trustee under Other Indentures

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SECTION 5.6 Money Held in Trust

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SECTION 5.7 Compensation and Reimbursement

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SECTION 5.8 Corporate Trustee Required; Eligibility

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SECTION 5.9 Resignation and Removal; Appointment of Successor

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SECTION 5.10 Acceptance of Appointment by Successor

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SECTION 5.11 Merger, Conversion, Consolidation or Succession to Business

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SECTION 5.12 Authenticating Agents

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SECTION 5.13 Disqualification; Conflicting Interests

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SECTION 5.14 Preferential Collection of Claims Against Company

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ARTICLE VI CONSOLIDATION, MERGER, CONVEYANCE, TRANSFER OR LEASE

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SECTION 6.1 Company May Consolidate, Etc., Only on Certain Terms

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SECTION 6.2 Successor Substituted

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ARTICLE VII SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES

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SECTION 7.1 Supplemental Indentures without Consent of Holders of Securities

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SECTION 7.2 Supplemental Indentures with Consent of Holders of Securities

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SECTION 7.3 Execution of Supplemental Indentures

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SECTION 7.4 Effect of Supplemental Indentures

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SECTION 7.5 Reference in Securities to Supplemental Indentures

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SECTION 7.6 Notice of Supplemental Indentures

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ARTICLE VIII COVENANTS

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SECTION 8.1 Payment of Principal, Premium and Interest

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SECTION 8.2 Maintenance of Offices or Agencies

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SECTION 8.3 Money for Security Payments to Be Held in Trust

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SECTION 8.4 Existence

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SECTION 8.5 Statement by Officers as to Default

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SECTION 8.6 Delivery of Certain Information

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SECTION 8.7 Incurrence of Indebtedness

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ARTICLE IX MAKE-WHOLE PROVISION

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ARTICLE X CONVERSION OF SECURITIES

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SECTION 10.1 Conversion Privilege and Conversion Rate

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SECTION 10.2 Exercise of Conversion Privilege

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SECTION 10.3 Fractions of Shares

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SECTION 10.4 Adjustment of Conversion Rate

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SECTION 10.5 Notice of Adjustments of Conversion Rate

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SECTION 10.6 Notice of Certain Corporate Action

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SECTION 10.7 Company to Reserve Common Stock

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SECTION 10.8 Taxes on Conversions

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SECTION 10.9 Covenant as to Common Stock

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SECTION 10.10 Cancellation of Converted Securities

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SECTION 10.11 Provision in Case of Consolidation, Merger or Sale of Assets

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SECTION 10.12 Responsibility of Trustee for Conversion Provisions

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SECTION 10.13 Automatic Conversion

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SECTION 10.14 Compensation for Buy-In on Failure to Timely Deliver Certificates Upon Conversion

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ARTICLE XI RANKING

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ARTICLE XII REPURCHASE OF SECURITIES AT THE OPTION OF THE HOLDER UPON A CHANGE IN CONTROL

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SECTION 12.1 Right to Require Repurchase

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SECTION 12.2 Notices; Method of Exercising Repurchase Right, Etc.

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ARTICLE XIII HOLDERS LISTS AND REPORTS BY TRUSTEE AND COMPANY; NON-RECOURSE

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SECTION 13.1 Company to Furnish Trustee Names and Addresses of Holders

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SECTION 13.2 Preservation of Information

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SECTION 13.3 No Recourse Against Others

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SECTION 13.4 Reports by Trustee

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SECTION 13.5 SECTION 13 or 15(d) Reports by Company

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CROSS-REFERENCE TABLE*

 

TIA
SECTION

       

INDENTURE SECTION

Section    310(a)(1)    5.8
   (a)(2)    5.8
   (a)(3)    N/A**
   (a)(4)    N/A**
   (a)(5)    5.8
   (b)    5.9, 5.10, 5.13
   (c)    N/A**
Section    311(a)    5.14
   (b)    5.14
   (c)    N/A**
Section    312(a)    13.1, 13.2
   (b)    13.2
   (c)    13.2
Section    313(a)    13.4
   (b)(1)    N/A
   (b)(2)    13.4
   (c)    1.6, 13.4
   (d)    13.4
Section    314(a)    1.5, 8.5, 8.6, 13.5
   (b)    N/A**
   (c)(1)    1.2
   (c)(2)    1.2
   (c)(3)    N/A**
   (d)    N/A**
   (e)    1.2
   (f)    N/A**
Section    315(a)    5.1(a)
   (b)    1.6, 5.2
   (c)    5.1(b)
   (d)    5.1(c)
   (e)    4.14
Section    316(a)(last sentence)    1.1
   (a)(1)(A)    4.12
   (a)(1)(B)    4.13
   (a)(2)    N/A
   (b)    4.8

 

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TIA
SECTION

       

INDENTURE SECTION

     (c)    1.4(e)
Section    317(a)(1)    4.3
   (a)(2)    4.4
   (b)    3.2
Section    318(a)    1.13

 

* This Cross-Reference Table shall not, for any purpose, be deemed a part of this Indenture.

 

** N/A means Not Applicable

 

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INDENTURE, dated as of September 29, 2008, between Cell Therapeutics, Inc., a corporation duly organized and existing under the laws of the State of Washington, having its principal office at 501 Elliott Avenue West, Suite 400, Seattle, Washington 98119 (herein called the “Company”), and U.S. Bank National Association, as Trustee hereunder (herein called the “Trustee”).

RECITALS OF THE COMPANY

The Company has duly authorized the creation of an issue of its 15.5% Convertible Senior Notes due 2012 (herein called the “Securities”), of substantially the tenor and amount hereinafter set forth, and to provide therefor the Company has duly authorized the execution and delivery of this Indenture.

All things necessary to make the Securities, when the Securities are executed by the Company and authenticated and delivered hereunder, the valid obligations of the Company and to make this Indenture a valid agreement of the Company, in accordance with their and its terms, have been done. Further, all things necessary to duly authorize the issuance of shares of common stock of the Company issuable upon the conversion of the Securities, and to duly reserve for issuance the number of shares of Common Stock issuable upon such conversion, have been done.

NOW, THEREFORE, THIS INDENTURE WITNESSETH:

For and in consideration of the premises and the purchase of the Securities by the Holders thereof, it is mutually covenanted and agreed, for the equal and proportionate benefit of all Holders of the Securities, as follows:

ARTICLE I

DEFINITIONS AND OTHER PROVISIONS

OF GENERAL APPLICATION

SECTION 1.1 Definitions.

For all purposes of this Indenture, except as otherwise expressly provided or unless the context otherwise requires:

(a) the terms defined in this Article I have the meanings assigned to them in this Article I and include the plural as well as the singular;

(b) all accounting terms not otherwise defined herein have the meanings assigned to them in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles in the United States; and

(c) the words “herein,” “hereof” and “hereunder” and other words of similar import refer to this Indenture as a whole and not to any particular Article, Section or other subdivision.

Act,” when used with respect to any Holder of a Security, has the meaning specified in Section 1.4(a).


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 the management and policies of such Person, directly or indirectly, whether through the ownership of voting securities, by contract or otherwise; and the terms “controlling” and “controlled” have meanings correlative to the foregoing.

Agent Members” means a member of, or a participant in, the Depositary.

Aggregate Current Market Price” has the meaning specified in Section 10.4(e).

American Depository Shares” means US. Dollar denominated forms of equity ownership held in deposit in a custodian bank and evidenced by physical certificates of ownership (“American Depositary Receipts”) issued by a U.S. bank.

Applicable Procedures” means, with respect to any transfer or transaction involving a Global Security or beneficial interest therein, the rules and procedures of the Depositary for such Security, to the extent applicable to such transaction and as in effect from time to time.

Authenticating Agent” means any Person authorized pursuant to Section 5.12 to act on behalf of the Trustee to authenticate Securities.

Automatic Conversion” has the meaning specified in Section 10.13.

Automatic Conversion Date” has the meaning specified in Section 10.13.

Automatic Conversion Notice” has the meaning specified in Section 10.13.

Board of Directors” means either the board of directors of the Company or any duly authorized committee of that board.

Board Resolution” means a resolution duly adopted by the Board of Directors, a copy of which, 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, shall have been delivered to the Trustee.

Business Day,” when used with respect to any Place of Payment, Place of Conversion or any other place, as the case may be, means each Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday that is not a day on which banking institutions in such Place of Payment, Place of Conversion or other place, as the case may be, are authorized or obligated by law or executive order to close; provided, however, that a day on which banking institutions in New York, New York are authorized or obligated by law or executive order to close shall not be a Business Day for purposes of Section 10.5.

Cash Equivalents” means (1) securities issued or directly and fully guaranteed or insured by the United States government or any agency or instrumentality thereof (provided that the full faith and credit of the United States is pledged in support thereof) having maturities of not more than six months from the date of acquisition, (2) certificates of deposit and eurodollar time deposits with

 

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maturities of six months or less from the date of acquisition, bankers’ acceptances with maturities not exceeding six months and overnight bank deposits, in each case with any domestic commercial bank having capital and surplus in excess of $500 million and a Thompson Bank Watch Rating of “B” or better, (3) repurchase obligations with a term of not more than seven (7) days for underlying securities of the types described in clause (1) above entered into with any financial institution meeting the qualifications specified in clause (2) above, (4) commercial paper having the highest rating obtainable from Moody’s Investors Service, Inc. or Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services and in each case maturing within six months after the date of acquisition and (5) money market funds at least ninety-five percent (95%) of the assets of which constitute Cash Equivalents of the kinds described in clauses (1)-(4) of this definition.

Change in Control” means the occurrence at any time, after the original issuance of the Securities, of any of the following events:

(1) the acquisition by any Person (including any syndicated group that would be deemed to be a “person” under Section 13(d)(3) of the Exchange Act) of beneficial ownership, directly or indirectly, through a purchase, merger or other acquisition transaction or series of transactions, of shares of capital stock of the Company entitling such Person to exercise more than thirty three percent (33%) of the total voting power of all shares of capital stock of the Company entitled to vote generally in the elections of directors, other than any such acquisition by the Company, any Subsidiary or any employee benefit plan of the Company; or

(2) any Person shall succeed in having sufficient of its nominees (who are not supported by a majority of the then current Board of Directors of the Company) elected to the Board of Directors of the Company such that such nominees, when added to any existing directors remaining on the Board of Directors of the Company after such election who are Affiliates of or acting in concert with any such Person, shall constitute a majority of the Board of Directors of the Company; or

(3) any consolidation or merger of the Company with or into any other Person, or any merger of another Person with or into the Company (other than (A) a merger (i) that does not result in any reclassification, conversion, exchange or cancellation of outstanding shares of the Company’s capital stock and (ii) pursuant to which holders of Common Stock immediately prior to such transaction have, directly or indirectly, sixty seven percent (67%) or more of the total voting power of all shares of capital stock or other ownership interests entitled to vote generally in the election of directors of the continuing or surviving Person immediately after such transaction and (B) any merger that is effected solely to change the jurisdiction of incorporation of the Company and results in a reclassification, conversion or exchange of outstanding shares of Common Stock solely into shares of common stock of the Company or another Person); or

(4) any conveyance, transfer, sale, lease or other disposition of all or substantially all of the Company’s assets to another Person.

For the purposes of this definition, “beneficial owner,” has the meaning attributed to it in Rules 13d-3 under the Exchange Act, whether or not applicable.

 

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Closing Price” means, with respect to the Common Stock on any day, the closing sale price regular way on such day or, in the case where no such sale takes place on such day, the average of the reported closing bid and asked prices, regular way, in each case on the Nasdaq Global Market or New York Stock Exchange, as applicable, or, if the Common Stock is not listed or admitted to trading on such National Market or Exchange, on the principal national security exchange or quotation system on which such security is quoted or listed or admitted to trading, or, if not quoted or listed or admitted to trading on any national securities exchange or quotation system, the average of the closing bid and asked prices of the Common Stock on the over-the-counter market on the day in question as reported by the National Quotation Bureau Incorporated, or a similar generally accepted reporting service, or if not so available, in such manner as furnished by any New York Stock Exchange member firm selected from time to time by the Board of Directors for that purpose, or if no bid or asked price is available a price determined in good faith by the Board of Directors, whose determination shall be conclusive and described in a Board Resolution.

Code” has the meaning specified in Section 2.1.

Combined Cash and Tender Amount” has the meaning specified in Section 10.4(e).

Combined Tender and Cash Amount” has the meaning specified in Section 10.4(f).

Commission” means the United States 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 Stock” means the shares of the class designated as common stock of the Company at the date of this Indenture or as such stock may be reconstituted from time to time. Subject to the provisions of Section 10.11, shares issuable on conversion or repurchase of Securities shall include only shares of Common Stock or shares of any class or classes of common stock resulting from any reclassification or reclassifications thereof; provided, however, that if at any time there shall be more than one such resulting class, the shares so issuable on conversion of Securities shall include shares of all such classes, and the shares of each such class then so issuable shall be substantially in the proportion that the total number of shares of such class resulting from all such reclassifications bears to the total number of shares of all such classes resulting from all such reclassifications.

Company” means the Person named as the “Company” in the first paragraph of this instrument until a successor Person shall have become such pursuant to the applicable provisions of this Indenture, and thereafter “Company” shall mean such successor Person.

Company Notice” has the meaning specified in Section 12.2(a).

Company Request” or “Company Order” means a written request or order signed in the name of the Company by its Chairman of the Board, its Vice Chairman of the Board, its Chief Executive Officer, its President or a Vice President, and by its principal financial officer, Treasurer, an Assistant Treasurer, its Secretary or an Assistant Secretary, and delivered to the Trustee.

Completion Date” has the meaning specified in Section 10.4(f).

 

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Constituent Person” has the meaning specified in Section 10.11.

Conversion Agent” means any Person authorized by the Company to convert Securities in accordance with Article X. The Company has initially appointed the Trustee as its Conversion Agent.

Conversion Price” means the amount equal to U.S. $1,000 divided by the Conversion Rate.

Conversion Date” means the date on which both the Securities and the duly signed and completed notice have been delivered to the Trustee.

Conversion Rate” has the meaning specified in Section 10.1.

Conversion Shares” has the meaning specified in Section 10.4(m).

Corporate Trust Office” means the office of the Trustee at which at any particular time the trust created by this Indenture shall be administered (which at the date of this Indenture is located at 633 West Fifth Street, 24th Floor, Los Angeles, CA 90071, Attn: Corporate Trust Services (Cell Therapeutics, Inc. – 15.5% Convertible Senior Notes due 2012)).

Corporation” means a corporation, company, association, joint-stock company or business trust.

Defaulted Interest” has the meaning specified in Section 2.8.

Depositary” means, with respect to any Registered Securities, a clearing agency that is registered as such under the Exchange Act and is designated by the Company to act as Depositary for such Registered Securities (or any successor securities clearing agency so registered).

Distribution Date” has the meaning specified in Section 10.4(m).

Dollar” or “U.S. $” means a dollar or other equivalent unit in such coin or currency of the United States as at the time shall be legal tender for the payment of public and private debts.

DTC” means The Depository Trust Company, a New York corporation.

Event of Default” has the meaning specified in Section 4.1.

Exchange Act” means the United States Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (or any successor statute), as amended from time to time.

Existing Notes means the Existing 2003 Senior Subordinated Notes, the Existing 2005 Senior Notes, the Existing 2006 Senior Notes, the Existing 2007 Senior Notes, the Existing 2008 Senior Notes, the Existing 2008 15% Senior Notes, the Existing 2008 18.33% Senior Notes, the Existing 2008 Series B 18.33% Senior Notes and the Existing 2008 10% Senior Notes.

Existing 2003 Senior Subordinated Notes” means the Company’s 4% Convertible Senior Subordinated Notes due July 1, 2010, issued under the Existing 2003 Senior Subordinated Notes Indenture.

 

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Existing 2003 Senior Subordinated Notes Indenture” means the Indenture dated as of June 23, 2003, between the Company and the Trustee.

Existing 2005 Senior Notes” means the Company’s 6.75% Convertible Senior Notes due October 31, 2010, issued under the Existing 2005 Senior Notes Indenture.

Existing 2005 Senior Notes Indenture” means the Indenture dated November 4, 2005 by and between the Company and the Trustee.

Existing 2006 Senior Notes” means the Company’s 7.5% Convertible Senior Notes due 2011, issued under the Existing 2006 Senior Notes Indenture.

Existing 2006 Senior Notes Indenture” means the Indenture dated April 27, 2006 by and between the Company and the Trustee.

Existing 2007 Senior Notes” means the Company’s 5 3/4% Convertible Senior Notes due 2011, issued under the Existing 2007 Senior Notes Indenture.

Existing 2007 Senior Notes Indenture” means the Indenture dated December 12, 2007 by and between the Company and the Trustee.

Existing 2008 Senior Notes” means the Company’s 9% Convertible Senior Notes due 2012, issued under the Existing 2008 Senior Notes Indenture.

Existing 2008 Senior Notes Indenture” means the Indenture dated March 3, 2008 by and between the Company and the Trustee.

Existing 2008 10% Senior Notes” means the Company’s 10% Convertible Senior Notes due 2012, issued under the Existing 2008 10% Senior Notes Indenture.

Existing 2008 10% Senior Notes Indenture” means the Indenture dated September 15, 2008 by and between the Company and the Trustee.

Existing 2008 15% Senior Notes” means the Company’s 15% Convertible Senior Notes due 2011, issued under the Existing 2008 15% Senior Notes Indenture.

Existing 2008 15% Senior Notes Indenture” means the Indenture dated June 12, 2008 by and between the Company and the Trustee.

Existing 2008 18.33% Senior Notes” means the Company’s 18.33% Convertible Senior Notes due 2011, issued under the Existing 2008 18.33% Senior Notes Indenture.

Existing 2008 18.33% Senior Notes Indenture” means the Indenture dated July 24, 2008 by and between the Company and the Trustee.

Existing 2008 Series B 18.33% Senior Notes” means the Company’s Series B 18.33% Convertible Senior Notes due 2011, issued under the Existing 2008 Series B 18.33% Senior Notes Indenture.

 

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Existing 2008 Series B 18.33% Senior Notes Indenture” means the Indenture dated August 19, 2008 by and between the Company and the Trustee.

GAAP” means generally accepted accounting principles.

Global Security” means a Registered Security that is registered in the Security Register in the name of a Depositary or a nominee thereof.

Holder” means the Person in whose name the Security is registered in the Security Register.

Indebtedness” means the principal of (and premium, if any) and interest (including all interest accruing subsequent to the commencement of any bankruptcy or similar proceeding, whether or not a claim for post-petition interest is allowable as a claim in any such proceeding) on, and rent payable on or in connection with, and all fees, costs, claims, expenses and other amounts payable in connection with, the following, whether absolute or contingent, secured or unsecured, due or to become due, outstanding on the date of this Indenture or thereafter created, incurred or assumed: (1) all the Company’s indebtedness evidenced by a credit or loan agreement, note, bond, debenture, or other similar instrument whether or not the recourse of the lender is to all of the Company’s assets or only to a portion, (2) all of the Company’s indebtedness, obligations and other liabilities, contingent or otherwise, for borrowed money, including, without limitation, overdrafts, foreign exchange contracts, currency exchange agreements, interest rate protection agreements and any loans or advances from banks, whether or not evidenced by notes or similar instruments, or bonds, debentures, notes or similar instruments, whether or not the recourse of the lender is to all of the Company’s assets or only to a portion thereof, (3) all of the Company’s obligations as lessee under leases required to be capitalized on the balance sheet of the lessee under GAAP, (4) all of the Company’s obligations and other liabilities, contingent or otherwise, under any lease or related document, including a purchase agreement, in connection with the lease of real property or improvements, or any personal property included as part of any such lease, which provides that the Company is contractually obligated to purchase or cause a third party to purchase the leased property and thereby guarantee a residual value of leased property to the lessor and all of the Company’s obligations under such lease or related document to purchase or cause a third party to purchase the leased property, whether or not such lease transaction is characterized as an operating lease or capitalized lease in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles, (5) all of the Company’s obligations under interest rate and currency swaps, caps, floors, collars, hedge agreements, forward contracts, or similar agreements or arrangements, (6) all of the Company’s obligations with respect to letters of credit, bank guarantees, bankers’ acceptances and similar facilities, including related reimbursement obligations, (7) all of the Company’s obligations issued or assumed as the deferred purchase price of property or services (but excluding trade accounts payable and accrued liabilities arising in the ordinary course of business), (8) all of the Company’s obligations of the type referred to in clauses (1) through (7) above of another Person and all dividends of another Person, the payment of which, in either case, the Company has assumed or guaranteed or for which the Company is responsible or liable, directly or indirectly, jointly or severally, as obligor, guarantor or otherwise or which is secured by a lien on the Company’s property and (9) renewals, extensions, modifications, replacements, restatements and refundings of, or any indebtedness or obligation issued in exchange for, any such indebtedness or obligation described in clauses (1) through (8) of this definition; provided, however, that Indebtedness shall not include accounts payable or other accrued liabilities or obligations incurred in the ordinary course of

 

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business in connection with the obtaining of materials or services and any indebtedness or obligation that the Company may owe to any direct or indirect Subsidiary and obligations owed to a Person specified in clause (11) of the definition of Permitted Lien in connection with the licensing and/or partnering arrangement referred to therein.

Indenture” means this instrument as originally executed or as it may from time to time be supplemented or amended by one or more indentures supplemental hereto entered into pursuant to the applicable provisions hereof, including, for all purposes of this instrument and any such supplemental indenture, the provisions of the Trust Indenture Act that are deemed to be a part of and govern this instrument and any such supplemental indenture, respectively.

Interest Payment Date” means the Stated Maturity of an installment of interest on the Securities.

Lien” means, with respect to any asset, any mortgage, lien, pledge, charge, security interest or encumbrance of any kind with respect to such asset.

Maturity,” when used with respect to any Security, means the date on which the principal of such Security becomes due and payable as therein or herein provided, whether at the Stated Maturity or by declaration of acceleration, conversion, exercise of the repurchase right set forth in Article XII or otherwise.

Make-Whole Payment” has the meaning specified in Article IX.

Member” means any member of, or participant in, the Depositary.

New Rights Plan” has the meaning specified in Section 10.4(d)

Non-electing Share” has the meaning specified in Section 10.11.

Notice of Default” has the meaning specified in Section 4.1.

Officers’ Certificate” means a certificate signed by the Chairman of the Board, a Vice Chairman of the Board, the Chief Executive Officer, the President or a Vice President and by the principal financial officer, the Treasurer, an Assistant Treasurer, the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary of the Company, and delivered to the Trustee.

Opinion of Counsel” means a written opinion of counsel, who may be counsel for or employed by the Company and who shall be acceptable to the Trustee.

Outstanding,” when used with respect to Securities, means, as of the date of determination, all Securities theretofore authenticated and delivered under this Indenture, except:

(1) securities theretofore cancelled by the Trustee or delivered to the Trustee for cancellation;

(2) securities for the payment of which money in the necessary amount has been theretofore deposited with the Trustee or any Paying Agent (if other than the Company) in trust or set aside and segregated in trust by the Company (if the Company shall act as its own Paying Agent) for the Holders of such Securities; and

 

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(3) securities that have been paid pursuant to Section 2.7 or in exchange for or in lieu of which other Securities have been authenticated and delivered pursuant to this Indenture, other than any such Securities in respect of which there shall have been presented to the Trustee proof satisfactory to it that such Securities are held by a bona fide purchaser in whose hands such Securities are valid obligations of the Company;

provided, however, that in determining whether the Holders of the requisite principal amount of Outstanding Securities are present at a meeting of Holders of Securities for quorum purposes or have given any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent or waiver hereunder, Securities owned by the Company or any other obligor upon the Securities or any Affiliate of the Company or such other obligor shall be disregarded and deemed not to be Outstanding, except that, in determining whether the Trustee shall be protected in relying upon any such determination as to the presence of a quorum or upon any such request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent or waiver, only Securities that a Responsible Officer of the Trustee actually knows to be so owned shall be so disregarded. Securities so owned that have been pledged in good faith may be regarded as Outstanding if the pledgee establishes to the satisfaction of the Trustee the pledgee’s right so to act with respect to such Securities and that the pledgee is not the Company or any other obligor upon the Securities or any Affiliate of the Company or such other obligor.

Paying Agent” means any Person authorized by the Company to pay the principal of or interest on any Securities on behalf of the Company and, except as otherwise specifically set forth herein, such term shall include the Company if it shall act as its own Paying Agent. The Company has initially appointed the Trustee as its Paying Agent.

Permitted Lien” means the following types of Liens:

(1) Liens imposed by law for taxes, fees, assessments or other governmental charges or levies that are not yet due and payable or are being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings as to which the Company or its Subsidiaries shall have set aside on its books such reserves as may be required pursuant to GAAP;

(2) carriers’, warehousemen’s, mechanics’, materialmen’s, repairmen’s, vendors’ or lessors’ Liens (and deposits to obtain the release of such Liens), set-off rights and other like Liens imposed by law (or contract, to the extent that such contractual Liens are similar in nature and scope to Liens imposed by law), in each case arising in the ordinary course of business and securing obligations that either (a) are not overdue by more than sixty (60) days or (ii) are being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings as to which the Company or its Subsidiaries shall have set aside on its books such reserves as may be required pursuant to GAAP;

(3) Liens incurred and pledges and deposits made in the ordinary course of business in connection with workers’ compensation, disability or unemployment insurance, old-age pensions, retiree health benefits and other similar plans or programs and other social security laws or regulations;

 

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(4) deposits to secure the performance of bids, trade contracts, leases, statutory obligations, surety and appeal bonds, performance bonds and other obligations of a like nature, in each case in the ordinary course of business;

(5)(a) easements, covenants, conditions, restrictions, zoning restrictions, building codes, land use laws, leases, subleases, licenses, rights of way, minor irregularities in, or lack of, title and similar encumbrances affecting real property, (b) with respect to any lessee’s or licensee’s interest in real or personal property, mortgages, liens, rights and obligations and other encumbrances arising by, through or under any owner, lessor or licensor thereof, with or without the lessee’s or licensee’s consent and (c) leases, licenses, rights and obligations in connection with patents, copyrights, trademarks, tradenames and other intellectual property, in each case that do not secure the payment of borrowed money (other than, with respect to any lessee’s or licensee’s interest in real or personal property, mortgages, liens, rights and obligations and other encumbrances arising by, through or under any owner, lessor or licensor thereof) to the extent, in the case of each of clauses (a), (b) and (c), that the Liens referred to therein do not, in the aggregate, materially detract from the value of the affected property as used by the Company and its Subsidiaries in the ordinary course of business taken as a whole or materially interfere with the ordinary conduct of the business of the Company and its Subsidiaries taken as a whole;

(6) Liens in favor of customs and revenue authorities to secure payment of customs duties in connection with the importation of goods;

(7) any interest or title of a lessor under any capitalized lease obligation; provided, however, that such Liens do not extend to any property or assets which is not leased property subject to such capitalized lease obligation;

(8) Liens securing purchase money indebtedness incurred in the ordinary course of business; provided, however, that (a) such purchase money indebtedness shall not exceed the purchase price or other cost of such property or equipment and shall not be secured by any property or equipment of the Company or any Subsidiary of the Company other than the property and equipment so acquired and (b) the Lien securing such purchase money indebtedness shall be created within ninety (90) days of such acquisition;

(9) Liens securing interest swap obligations which interest swap obligations relate to Indebtedness that is otherwise permitted under the indenture;

(10) Liens securing Indebtedness under currency agreements;

(11) Liens in favor of Strategic Partners in connection with a biopharmaceutical licensing and/or partnering arrangement;

(12) judgment Liens not giving rise to an Event of Default so long as such Lien is adequately bonded and any appropriate legal proceedings which may have been duly initiated for the review of such judgment shall not have been finally terminated or the period within which such proceedings may be initiated shall not have expired;

(13) Liens upon specific items of inventory or other goods and proceeds of any Person securing such Person’s obligations in respect of bankers’ acceptances issued or created for the account of such Person to facilitate the purchase, shipment or storage of such inventory or other goods;

 

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(14) Liens securing reimbursement obligations with respect to commercial letters of credit which encumber documents and other property relating to such letters of credit and products and proceeds thereof;

(15) banker’s Liens, rights of setoff and similar Liens with respect to cash and Cash Equivalents on deposit in one or more bank accounts in the ordinary course of business; and

(16) Liens arising from filing Uniform Commercial Code financing statements regarding leases.

Person” means a natural person, Corporation, limited liability company, partnership, joint venture, trust, estate, unincorporated organization or government or any agency or political subdivision thereof.

Place of Conversion” has the meaning specified in Section 2.2.

Place of Payment” has the meaning specified in Section 2.2.

Predecessor Security” of any particular Security means every previous Security evidencing all or a portion of the same debt as that evidenced by such particular Security; and, for the purposes of this definition, any Security authenticated and delivered under Section 2.7 in exchange for or in lieu of a mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Security shall be deemed to evidence the same debt as the mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Security.

Record Date” means any Regular Record Date or Special Record Date.

Record Date Period” means the period from the close of business of any Regular Record Date next preceding any Interest Payment Date to the opening of business on such Interest Payment Date.

Registered Common Stock” means Common Stock that does not require registration or approval under any federal securities law or, if applicable, the securities laws of any state where a holder is located, before such shares are freely transferable without being subject to transfer restrictions under the Securities Act.

Registered Securities” has the meaning specified in Section 2.1.

Regular Record Date” for interest payable in respect of any Registered Security on any Interest Payment Date means the May 1 and the November 1 (whether or not a Business Day), as the case may be, next preceding such Interest Payment Date.

Repurchase Date” has the meaning specified in Section 12.1.

Repurchase Price” has the meaning specified in Section 12.1.

 

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Responsible Officer,” when used with respect to the Trustee, means any officer within the Corporate Trust Office, including without limitation any vice president, assistant vice president, assistant treasurer, corporate trust officer or other employee of the Trustee customarily performing functions similar to those performed by any of the above designated officers, and also means, with respect to a particular corporate trust matter, any other officer to whom such matter is referred because of his knowledge and familiarity with the particular subject.

Restricted Global Security” has the meaning specified in Section 2.1.

Secured Indebtedness” means Indebtedness secured by a Lien other than a Permitted Lien.

Securities” has the meaning ascribed to it in the first paragraph under the caption “Recitals of the Company.”

Securities Act” means the United States Securities Act of 1933 (or any successor statute), as amended from time to time.

Security Register” and “Security Registrar” have the respective meanings specified in Section 2.6.

Significant Subsidiary” means any Subsidiary that would be a “significant subsidiary” as defined in Article 1, Rule 1-02 of Regulation S-X, promulgated pursuant to the Securities Act, as such regulation is in effect on the date hereof.

Special Record Date” for the payment of any Defaulted Interest means a date fixed by the Company pursuant to Section 2.8.

Stated Maturity,” when used with respect to any Security or any installment of interest thereon, means the date specified in such Security as the fixed date on which the principal of such Security or such installment of interest is due and payable.

Strategic Partner” means (i) a pharmaceutical or biotechnology company with book equity of at least U.S. $200,000,000, (ii) a pharmaceutical or biotechnology company with sales of at least U.S. $150,000,000, or (iii) a publicly traded, or division or subdivision of a publicly traded, pharmaceutical or biotechnology company with market capitalization in excess of U.S. $200,000,000.

Subsidiary” means a Person more than fifty percent (50%) of the outstanding voting stock of which is owned, directly or indirectly, by the Company or by one or more other Subsidiaries, or by the Company and one or more other Subsidiaries. For the purposes of this definition, “voting stock” means stock or other similar interests in the Person that ordinarily has or have voting power for the election of directors or Persons performing similar functions, whether at all times or only so long as no senior class of stock or other interests has or have such voting power by reason of any contingency.

Successor Security” of any particular Security means every Security issued after, and evidencing all or a portion of the same debt as that evidenced by, such particular Security; and, for the purposes of this definition, any Security authenticated and delivered under Section 2.7 in exchange for or in lieu of a mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Security shall be deemed to evidence the same debt as the mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Security.

 

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Trading Day” means: (1) if the Common Stock is listed or admitted for trading on any national securities exchange, days on which such national securities exchange is open for business; (2) if the Common Stock is quoted on the Nasdaq Global Market or any other system of automated dissemination of quotations of securities prices, days on which trades may be effected through such system; or (3) if the Common Stock is not listed or admitted for trading on any national securities exchange or quoted on the Nasdaq Global Market or any other system of automated dissemination of quotation of securities prices, days on which the Common Stock is traded regular way in the over-the-counter market and for which a closing bid and a closing asked price for the Common Stock are available.

Trust Indenture Act” means the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 as in force at the date as of which this instrument was executed; provided, however, that in the event the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 is amended after such date, “Trust Indenture Act” means, to the extent required by any such amendment, the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 as so amended.

Trustee” means the Person named as the “Trustee” in the first paragraph of this instrument until a successor Trustee shall have become such pursuant to the applicable provisions of this Indenture, and thereafter “Trustee” shall mean such successor Trustee.

United States” means the United States of America (including the several States and the District of Columbia), its territories, its possessions and other areas subject to its jurisdiction (its “possessions” including Puerto Rico, the United States Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, Wake Island and the Northern Mariana Islands).

Vice President,” when used with respect to the Company, means any vice president, whether or not designated by a number or a word or words added before or after the title “vice president.”

Volume Weighted Average Price” means, with respect to the Common Stock of the Company, for any day the volume weighted average price per share of Common Stock as displayed on Bloomberg on the Nasdaq Global Market from 9:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. (New York City time) on that day (or if such volume weighted average price is not available, the market value of one share on such day as the Company determines in good faith using a volume weighted method).

SECTION 1.2 Compliance Certificates and Opinions.

Upon any application or request by the Company to the Trustee to take any action under any provision of this Indenture, the Company shall furnish to the Trustee an Officers’ Certificate stating that all conditions precedent, if any, provided for in this Indenture relating to the proposed action have been complied with and, if required by the Trust Indenture Act, an Opinion of Counsel stating that in the opinion of such counsel all such conditions precedent, if any, have been complied with, except that in the case of any such application or request as to which the furnishing of such documents is specifically required by any provision of this Indenture relating to such particular application or request, no additional certificate or opinion need be furnished. Every certificate or opinion with respect to compliance with a condition or covenant provided for in this Indenture shall include:

(a) a statement that each individual signing such certificate or opinion has read such covenant or condition and the definitions herein relating thereto;

 

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(b) a brief statement as to the nature and scope of the examination or investigation upon which the statements or opinions contained in such certificate or opinion are based;

(c) a statement that, in the opinion of such individual, he has made such examination or investigation as is necessary to enable him to express an informed opinion as to whether or not such covenant or condition has been complied with; and

(d) a statement as to whether, in the opinion of each such individual, such condition or covenant has been complied with; provided, however, with respect to matters of fact, an Opinion of Counsel may rely on an Officers’ Certificate or certificates of public officials.

SECTION 1.3 Form of Documents Delivered to the Trustee.

In any case where several matters are required to be certified by, or covered by an opinion of, any specified Person, it is not necessary that all such matters be certified by, or covered by the opinion of, only one such Person, or that they be so certified or covered by only one document, but one such Person may certify or give an opinion with respect to some matters and one or more other such Persons as to other matters, and any such Person may certify or give an opinion as to such matters in one or several documents.

Any certificate or opinion of an officer of the Company may be based, insofar as it relates to legal matters, upon a certificate or opinion of, or representations by, counsel, unless such officer knows, or in the exercise of reasonable care should know, that the certificate or opinion or representations with respect to the matters upon which such certificate or opinion is based are erroneous. Any such certificate or opinion of counsel may be based, insofar as it relates to factual matters, upon a certificate or opinion of, or representations by, an officer or officers of the Company or any other Person stating that the information with respect to such factual matters is in the possession of the Company or such other Person, unless such counsel knows, or in the exercise of reasonable care should know, that the certificate or opinion or representations with respect to such matters are erroneous.

Where any Person is required to make, give or execute two or more applications, requests, consents, certificates, statements, opinions or other instruments under this Indenture, they may, but need not, be consolidated and form one instrument.

SECTION 1.4 Acts of Holders of Securities.

(a) Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other action provided or permitted by this Indenture to be given or taken by Holders of Securities may be embodied in and evidenced by one or more instruments of substantially similar tenor signed by such Holders in person or by an agent or proxy duly appointed in writing by such Holders. Such action shall become effective when such instrument or instruments is delivered to the Trustee and, where it

 

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is hereby expressly required, to the Company. The Trustee shall promptly deliver to the Company copies of all such instruments delivered to the Trustee. Such instrument or instruments (and the action embodied therein and evidenced thereby) are herein sometimes referred to as the “Act” of the Holders of Securities signing such instrument or instruments. Proof of execution of any such instrument or of a writing appointing any such agent or proxy, or of the holding by any Person of a Security, shall be sufficient for any purpose of this Indenture and (subject to Section 5.1) conclusive in favor of the Trustee and the Company if made in the manner provided in this Section 1.4.

(b) The fact and date of the execution by any Person of any such instrument or writing may be proved by the affidavit of a witness of such execution or by a certificate of a notary public or other officer authorized by law to take acknowledgments of deeds, certifying that the individual signing such instrument or writing acknowledged to him the execution thereof. Where such execution is by a signer acting in a capacity other than his individual capacity, such certificate or affidavit shall also constitute sufficient proof of his authority.

(c) The principal amount and serial number of any Registered Security held by any Person, and the date of his holding the same, shall be proved by the Security Register.

(d) The fact and date of execution of any such instrument or writing and the authority of the Person executing the same may also be proved in any other manner that the Trustee deems sufficient; and the Trustee may in any instance require further proof with respect to any of the matters referred to in this Section 1.4.

(e) The Company may set any day as the record date for the purpose of determining the Holders entitled to give or take any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other action, or to vote on any action, authorized or permitted by this Indenture to be given or taken by Holders. Promptly and in any case not later than ten (10) days after setting a record date, the Company shall notify the Trustee and the Holders of such record date. If not set by the Company prior to the first solicitation of a Holder made by any Person in respect of any such action, or, in the case of any such vote, prior to such vote, the record date for any such action or vote shall be the thirtieth (30th) day (or, if later, the date of the most recent list of Holders required to be provided pursuant to Section 13.1) prior to such first solicitation or vote, as the case may be. With regard to any record date, the Holders on such date (or their duly appointed agents or proxies), and only such Persons, shall be entitled to give or take, or vote on, the relevant action, whether or not such Holders remain Holders after such record date. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Company shall not set a record date for, and the provisions of this paragraph shall not apply with respect to, any notice, declaration or direction referred to in the next paragraph.

Upon receipt by the Trustee from any Holder of (1) any Notice of Default or breach referred to in Section 4.1(d), if such default or breach has occurred and is continuing and the Trustee shall not have given such a notice to the Company, (2) any declaration of acceleration referred to in Section 4.2, if an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing and the Trustee shall not have given such a declaration to the Company, or (3) any direction referred to in Section 4.12, if the Trustee shall not have taken the action specified in such direction, then, with respect to clauses (2) and (3), a record date shall automatically and without any action by the Company or the Trustee be set for determining the Holders entitled to join in such declaration or direction, which record date shall be the close of business on the tenth (10th) day (or, if such day is not a Business Day, the next

 

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succeeding Business Day) following the day on which the Trustee receives such declaration or direction, and, with respect to clause (1), the Trustee may set any day as a record date for the purpose of determining the Holders entitled to join in such Notice of Default. Promptly after such receipt by the Trustee of any such declaration or direction referred to in clause (2) or (3), and promptly after setting any record date with respect to clause (1), and as soon as practicable thereafter, the Trustee shall notify the Company and the Holders of any such record date so fixed. The Holders on such record date (or their duly appointed agents or proxies), and only such Persons, shall be entitled to join in such notice, declaration or direction, whether or not such Holders remain Holders after such record date; provided, however, that, unless such notice, declaration or direction shall have become effective by virtue of Holders of the requisite principal amount of Securities on such record date (or their duly appointed agents or proxies) having joined therein on or prior to the ninetieth (90th) day after such record date, such notice, declaration or direction shall automatically and without any action by any Person be cancelled and of no further effect. Nothing in this paragraph shall be construed to prevent a Holder (or a duly appointed agent or proxy thereof) from giving, before or after the expiration of such 90-day period, a notice, declaration or direction contrary to or different from, or, after the expiration of such period, identical to, the notice, declaration or direction to which such record date relates, in which event a new record date in respect thereof shall be set pursuant to this paragraph. In addition, nothing in this paragraph shall be construed to render ineffective any notice, declaration or direction of the type referred to in this paragraph given at any time to the Trustee and the Company by Holders (or their duly appointed agents or proxies) of the requisite principal amount of Securities on the date such notice, declaration or direction is so given.

(f) Except as provided in Sections 4.2 and 4.13, any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, election, waiver or other Act of the Holder of any Security shall bind every future Holder of the same Security and the Holder of every Security issued upon the registration of transfer thereof or in exchange therefor or in lieu thereof in respect of anything done, omitted or suffered to be done by the Trustee or the Company in reliance thereon, whether or not notation of such action is made upon such Security.

SECTION 1.5 Notices, Etc., to Trustee and Company.

Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, election, waiver or other Act of Holders of Securities or other document provided or permitted by this Indenture to be made upon, given or furnished to, or filed with:

(a) the Trustee by any Holder of Securities or by the Company shall be sufficient for every purpose hereunder if made, given, furnished or filed in writing to or with the Trustee and received at the Corporate Trust Office, Attention: Corporate Trust Services (Cell Therapeutics, Inc. – 15.5% Convertible Senior Notes due 2012), and shall be deemed given when received; or

(b) the Company by the Trustee or by any Holder of Securities shall be sufficient for every purpose hereunder (unless otherwise herein expressly provided) if in writing, mailed, first-class postage prepaid, or telecopied and confirmed by mail, first-class postage prepaid, or delivered by hand or overnight courier, addressed to the Company at 501 Elliott Avenue West, Suite 400, Seattle, Washington 98119, Attention: Louis A. Bianco (telecopy no.: (206)  ###-###-####), or at any other address previously furnished in writing to the Trustee by the Company, and shall be deemed given when received.

 

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Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, election or waiver required or permitted under this Indenture shall be in the English language, except that any published notice may be in an official language of the country of publication.

SECTION 1.6 Notice to Holders of Securities; Waiver.

Except as otherwise expressly provided herein, where this Indenture provides for notice to Holders of Securities of any event, such notice shall be sufficiently given to Holders if in writing and mailed, first-class postage prepaid, to each Holder of a Security affected by such event, at the address of such Holder as it appears in the Security Register, not earlier than the earliest date and not later than the latest date prescribed for the giving of such notice.

Neither the failure to mail such notice, nor any defect in any notice so mailed, to any particular Holder of a Registered Security shall affect the sufficiency of such notice with respect to other Holders of Registered Securities. 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 by mail, then such notification to Holders of Registered Securities as shall be made with the approval of the Trustee, which approval shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed, shall constitute a sufficient notification to such Holders for every purpose hereunder.

Such notice shall be deemed to have been given when such notice is mailed.

Where this Indenture provides for notice in any manner, such notice may be waived in writing by the Person entitled to receive such notice, either before or after the event, and such waiver shall be the equivalent of such notice. Waivers of notice by Holders of Securities shall be filed with the Trustee, but such filing shall not be a condition precedent to the validity of any action taken in reliance upon such waiver.

SECTION 1.7 Effect of Headings and Table of Contents.

The Article and Section headings herein and the Table of Contents are for convenience only and shall not affect the construction hereof.

SECTION 1.8 Successors and Assigns.

All covenants and agreements in this Indenture by the Company and by the Trustee shall bind its successors and assigns, whether so expressed or not.

SECTION 1.9 Separability Clause.

In case any provision in this Indenture or the Securities 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.

 

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SECTION 1.10 Benefits of Indenture.

Nothing in this Indenture or in the Securities, express or implied, shall give to any Person, other than the parties hereto and their successors and assigns hereunder and the Holders of Securities, any benefit or legal or equitable right, remedy or claim under this Indenture.

SECTION 1.11 Governing Law.

THIS INDENTURE AND THE SECURITIES SHALL BE GOVERNED BY AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, THE NEW YORK GENERAL OBLIGATIONS LAW §5-1401.

SECTION 1.12 Legal Holidays.

In any case where any Interest Payment Date, Repurchase Date or Stated Maturity of any Security or the last day on which a Holder of a Security has a right to convert his Security shall not be a Business Day at a Place of Payment or Place of Conversion, as the case may be, then (notwithstanding any other provision of this Indenture or of the Securities) payment of principal of, premium, if any, or interest on, or the payment of the Repurchase Price with respect to, or delivery for conversion of, such Security need not be made at such Place of Payment or Place of Conversion, as the case may be, on or by such day, but may be made on or by the next succeeding Business Day at such Place of Payment or Place of Conversion, as the case may be, with the same force and effect as if made on the Interest Payment Date or Repurchase Date, or at the Stated Maturity or by such last day for conversion; provided, however, that in the case that payment is made on such succeeding Business Day, no interest shall accrue on the amount so payable for the period from and after such Interest Payment Date, Repurchase Date, Stated Maturity or last day for conversion, as the case may be.

SECTION 1.13 Conflict with Trust Indenture Act.

If any provision hereof limits, qualifies or conflicts with a provision of the Trust Indenture Act that is required under such act to be a part of and govern this Indenture, the latter provision shall control. If any provision of this Indenture modifies or excludes any provision of the Trust Indenture Act that may be so modified or excluded, the latter provision shall be deemed to apply to this Indenture as so modified or to be excluded, as the case may be. Until such time as this Indenture shall be qualified under the Trust Indenture Act, this Indenture, the Company and the Trustee shall be deemed for all purposes hereof to be subject to and governed by the Trust Indenture Act to the same extent as would be the case if this Indenture were so qualified on the date hereof.

SECTION 1.14 Counterparts.

This instrument may be executed in any number of counterparts, each of which so executed shall be deemed to be an original, but all such counterparts shall together constitute but one and the same instrument.

 

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ARTICLE II

THE SECURITIES

SECTION 2.1 Form Generally.

The Securities and the Trustee’s certificate of authentication shall be in substantially the form set forth in Exhibit A hereto, which Exhibit is incorporated into this Indenture, with such appropriate insertions, omissions, substitutions and other variations as are required or permitted by this Indenture, and may have such letters, numbers or other marks of identification and such legends or endorsements placed thereon as may be required to comply with the rules of any securities exchange or the Internal Revenue Code of l986, as amended, and regulations thereunder (the “Code”), or as may, consistently herewith, be determined by the officers executing such Securities, as evidenced by their execution thereof. All Securities shall be issued in registered form, as opposed to bearer form, and shall sometimes be referred to as the “Registered Securities.”

The Securities shall be printed, lithographed, typewritten or engraved or produced by any combination of these methods on steel engraved borders, if so required by any securities exchange upon which the Securities may be listed, or may be produced in any other manner permitted by the rules of any such securities exchange, or, if the Securities are not listed on a securities exchange, in any other manner approved by the Company, all as determined by the officers executing such Securities, as evidenced by their execution thereof.

Upon their original issuance, Securities shall be issued in the form of one or more Global Securities without interest coupons and shall be registered in the name of DTC, as Depositary, or its nominee and deposited with the Trustee, as custodian for DTC, for credit by DTC to the respective accounts of beneficial owners of the Securities represented thereby (or such other accounts as they may direct). Such Global Security, together with its Successor Securities that are Global Securities, are collectively herein called the “Restricted Global Security.”

SECTION 2.2 Title and Terms.

The aggregate principal amount of Securities that may be authenticated and delivered under this Indenture is limited to U.S. $14,210,526, except for Securities authenticated and delivered in exchange for, or in lieu of, other Securities pursuant to Section 2.5, 2.6, 2.7, 7.5, 10.2 or 12.2(e).

The Securities shall be known and designated as the “15.5% Convertible Senior Notes due 2012” of the Company. Their Stated Maturity shall be September 29, 2012 and they shall bear interest on their principal amount from September 29, 2008, payable semiannually in arrears on May 15 and November 15 in each year, commencing November 15, 2008, at the rate of 15.5% per annum until the principal thereof is due and at the rate then in effect on any overdue principal and, to the extent permitted by law, on any overdue interest; provided, however, that payments shall only be made on Business Days as provided in Section 1.12.

The principal of, premium, if any, interest and Make-Whole Payment on the Securities shall be payable as provided in the form of Securities attached hereto as Exhibit A, and the Repurchase Price shall be payable at such places as are identified in the Company Notice given pursuant to Section 12.2 (any city in which any Paying Agent is located being herein called a “Place of Payment”).

 

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The Securities shall be convertible as provided in Article X (any city in which any Conversion Agent is located being herein called a “Place of Conversion”).

The Securities shall be subject to repurchase by the Company at the option of the Holders as provided in Article XII.

SECTION 2.3 Denominations.

The Securities shall be issuable only in registered form, without interest coupons, in any denomination.

SECTION 2.4 Execution, Authentication, Delivery and Dating.

The Securities shall be executed on behalf of the Company by its Chairman of the Board, its Vice Chairman of the Board, its Chief Executive Officer, its President, one of its Vice Presidents, its Chief Financial Officer, its Treasurer or its Controller and attested by its Secretary or one of its Assistant Secretaries. Any such signature may be manual or facsimile.

Securities bearing the manual or facsimile signature of individuals who were at any time the proper officers of the Company shall bind the Company, notwithstanding that such individuals or any of them have ceased to hold such offices prior to the authentication and delivery of such Securities or did not hold such offices at the date of such Securities.

At any time and from time to time after the execution and delivery of this Indenture, the Company may deliver Securities executed by the Company to the Trustee or to its order for authentication, together with a Company Order for the authentication and delivery of such Securities, and the Trustee in accordance with such Company Order shall authenticate and make available for delivery such Securities as provided in this Indenture and not otherwise.

Each Security shall be dated the date of its authentication.

No Security shall be entitled to any benefit under this Indenture or be valid or obligatory for any purpose unless there appears on such Security a certificate of authentication substantially in the form provided for herein executed by the Trustee by manual signature of an authorized signatory, and such certificate upon any Security shall be conclusive evidence, and the only evidence, that such Security has been duly authenticated and delivered hereunder.

SECTION 2.5 Global Securities.

Each Global Security authenticated under this Indenture shall be registered in the name of the Depositary designated by the Company for such Global Security or a nominee thereof and delivered to such Depositary or a nominee thereof or custodian therefor, and each such Global Security shall constitute a single Security for all purposes of this Indenture.

Notwithstanding any other provision in this Indenture, no Global Security may be exchanged in whole or in part for Securities registered, and no transfer of a Global Security in whole or in part may be registered, in the name of any Person other than the Depositary for such Global Security or a nominee thereof unless (A) such Depositary (i) has notified the Company that it is unwilling or

 

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unable to continue as Depositary for such Global Security or (ii) has ceased to be a clearing agency registered as such under the Exchange Act or announces an intention permanently to cease business or does in fact do so or (B) there shall have occurred and be continuing an Event of Default with respect to such Global Security.

If any Global Security is to be exchanged for other Securities or cancelled in whole, it shall be surrendered by or on behalf of the Depositary or its nominee to the Trustee, as Security Registrar, for exchange or cancellation, as provided in this Article II. If any Global Security is to be exchanged for other Securities or cancelled in part, or if another Security is to be exchanged in whole or in part for a beneficial interest in any Global Security, in each case, as provided in Section 2.6, then either (A) such Global Security shall be so surrendered for exchange or cancellation, as provided in this Article II, or (B) the principal amount thereof shall be reduced or increased by an amount equal to the portion thereof to be so exchanged or cancelled or equal to the principal amount of such other Security to be so exchanged for a beneficial interest therein, as the case may be, by means of an appropriate adjustment made on the records of the Trustee, as Security Registrar, whereupon the Trustee, in accordance with the Applicable Procedures, shall instruct the Depositary or its authorized representative to make a corresponding adjustment to its records. Upon any such surrender or adjustment of a Global Security, the Trustee shall, subject to Section 2.6(c) and as otherwise provided in this Article II, authenticate and make available for delivery any Securities issuable in exchange for such Global Security (or any portion thereof) to or upon the order of, and registered in such names as may be directed by, the Depositary or its authorized representative. Upon the request of the Trustee in connection with the occurrence of any of the events specified in the preceding paragraph, the Company shall promptly make available to the Trustee a reasonable supply of Securities that are not in the form of Global Securities. The Trustee shall be entitled to rely upon any order, direction or request of the Depositary or its authorized representative which is given or made pursuant to this Article II.

Every Security authenticated and delivered upon registration of transfer of, or in exchange for or in lieu of, a Global Security or any portion thereof, whether pursuant to this Article II or otherwise, shall be authenticated and delivered in the form of, and shall be, a registered Global Security, unless such Security is registered in the name of a Person other than the Depositary for such Global Security or a nominee thereof, in which case such Registered Security shall be authenticated and delivered in definitive, fully registered form, without interest coupons.

The Depositary or its nominee, as registered owner of a Global Security, shall be the Holder of such Global Security for all purposes under the Indenture and the Registered Securities, and owners of beneficial interests in a Global Security shall hold such interests pursuant to the Applicable Procedures. Accordingly, any such owner’s beneficial interest in a Global Security shall be shown only on, and the transfer of such interest shall be effected only through, records maintained by the Depositary or its nominee or its Agent Members, and such owners of beneficial interests in a Global Security shall not be considered the owners or holders thereof.

SECTION 2.6 Registration, Registration of Transfer and Exchange.

(a) The Company shall cause to be kept at the Corporate Trust Office a register (the register maintained in such office and in any other office or agency of the Company designated pursuant to Section 8.2 being herein sometimes collectively referred to as the “Security Register”)

 

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in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, the Company shall provide for the registration of Registered Securities and of transfers of Registered Securities. The Trustee is hereby appointed “Security Registrar” for the purpose of registering Registered Securities and transfers and exchanges of Registered Securities as herein provided.

Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Security at an office or agency of the Company designated pursuant to Section 8.2 for such purpose, the Company shall execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Securities of any authorized denominations and of a like aggregate principal amount and bearing such restrictive legends as may be required by this Indenture.

At the option of the Holder, and subject to the other provisions of this Section 2.6, Securities may be exchanged for other Securities of any authorized denomination and of a like aggregate principal amount, upon surrender of the Securities to be exchanged at any such office or agency. Whenever any Securities are so surrendered for exchange, and subject to the other provisions of this Section 2.6, the Company shall execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and make available for delivery, the Securities the Holder making the exchange is entitled to receive. Every Security presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or for exchange shall (if so required by the Company or the Security Registrar) be duly endorsed, or be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Company and the Security Registrar, duly executed by the Holder thereof or his attorney duly authorized in writing.

All Securities issued upon any registration of transfer or exchange of Securities shall be the valid obligations of the Company, evidencing the same debt, subject to the other provisions of this Section 2.6, and entitled to the same benefits under this Indenture, as the Securities surrendered upon such registration of transfer or exchange.

No service charge shall be made to a Holder for any registration of transfer or exchange of Securities except as provided in Section 2.7, but the Company may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any registration of transfer or exchange of Securities, other than exchanges pursuant to Section 2.5, 7.5, 10.2 or 12.2(e) (other than where the shares of Common Stock are to be issued or delivered in a name other than that of the Holder of the Security) not involving any transfer and other than any stamp and other duties, if any, that may be imposed in connection with any such transfer or exchange by the United States or any political subdivision thereof or therein, which shall be paid by the Company.

(b) Neither the Trustee, the Paying Agent nor any of their agents shall (1) have any duty to monitor compliance with or with respect to any federal or state or other securities or tax laws or (2) have any duty to obtain documentation on any transfers or exchanges other than as specifically required hereunder.

SECTION 2.7 Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost or Stolen Securities.

If any mutilated Security is surrendered to the Trustee, the Company shall execute and the Trustee shall authenticate and make available for delivery in exchange therefor a new Security of like tenor and principal amount and bearing a number not contemporaneously outstanding.

 

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If there be delivered to the Company and to the Trustee:

(a) evidence to their satisfaction of the destruction, loss or theft of any Security, and

(b) such security or indemnity as may be satisfactory to the Company and the Trustee to save each of them and any agent of either of them harmless,

then, in the absence of actual notice to the Company or the Trustee that such Security has been acquired by a bona fide purchaser, the Company shall execute and the Trustee shall authenticate and make available for delivery, in lieu of any such destroyed, lost or stolen Security, a new Security of like tenor and principal amount and bearing a number not contemporaneously outstanding.

In case any such mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Security has become or is about to become due and payable, the Company in its discretion, but subject to any conversion rights, may, instead of issuing a new Security, pay such Security, upon satisfaction of the conditions set forth in the preceding paragraph.

Upon the issuance of any new Security under this Section 2.7, the Company may require the payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental charge that may be imposed in relation thereto (other than any stamp and other duties, if any, that may be imposed in connection therewith by the United States or any political subdivision thereof or therein, which shall be paid by the Company) and any other expenses (including the fees and expenses of the Trustee) connected therewith.

Every new Security issued pursuant to this Section 2.7 in lieu of any mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Security shall constitute an original additional contractual obligation of the Company, whether or not the mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Security shall be at any time enforceable by anyone, and such new Security shall be entitled to all the benefits of this Indenture equally and proportionately with any and all other Securities duly issued hereunder.

The provisions of this Section 2.7 are exclusive and shall preclude (to the extent lawful) all other rights and remedies of any Holder with respect to the replacement or payment of mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Securities.

SECTION 2.8 Payment of Interest; Interest Rights Preserved.

Interest on any Security that is payable, and is punctually paid or duly provided for, on any Interest Payment Date shall be paid in immediately available funds.

Any interest on any Security that is payable, but is not punctually paid or duly provided for, on any Interest Payment Date (“Defaulted Interest”) shall forthwith cease to be payable to the Holder on the relevant Regular Record Date by virtue of having been such Holder, and such Defaulted Interest may be paid by the Company, at its election in each case, as provided in clause (a) or (b) below:

(a) The Company may elect to make payment of any Defaulted Interest to the Persons in whose names the Securities (or their respective Predecessor Securities) are registered at the close of business on a Special Record Date for the payment of such Defaulted Interest, which shall be fixed

 

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in the following manner. The Company shall notify the Trustee in writing of the amount of Defaulted Interest proposed to be paid on each Security, the date of the proposed payment and the Special Record Date, and at the same time the Company shall deposit with the Trustee an amount of money equal to the aggregate amount proposed to be paid in respect of such Defaulted Interest or shall make arrangements satisfactory to the Trustee for such deposit 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 Interest as provided in this clause. The Special Record Date for the payment of such Defaulted Interest shall be not more than fifteen (15) days and not less than ten (10) days prior to the date of the proposed payment and not less than fifteen (15) days after the receipt by the Trustee of the notice of the proposed payment. The Trustee, in the name and at the expense of the Company, shall cause notice of the proposed payment of such Defaulted Interest and the Special Record Date therefor to be mailed, first-class postage prepaid, to each Holder at such Holder’s address as it appears in the Security Register, not less than ten (10) days prior to such Special Record Date. Notice of the proposed payment of such Defaulted Interest and the Special Record Date therefor having been so mailed, such Defaulted Interest shall be paid to the Persons in whose names the Securities (or their respective Predecessor Securities) are registered at the close of business on such Special Record Date and shall no longer be payable pursuant to the following clause (b).

(b) The Company may make payment of any Defaulted Interest in any other lawful manner not inconsistent with the requirements of any securities exchange on which the Securities may be listed, and upon such notice as may be required by such exchange, 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.

Subject to the foregoing provisions of this Section 2.8 and Section 2.6, each Security delivered under this Indenture upon registration of transfer of or in exchange for or in lieu of any other Security shall carry the rights to interest accrued and unpaid, and to accrue, that were carried by such other Security.

Interest on any Security that is converted in accordance with Section 10.2 during a Record Date Period shall be payable in accordance with the provisions of Section 10.2.

SECTION 2.9 Persons Deemed Owners.

Prior to due presentment of a Security for registration of transfer, the Company, the Trustee and any agent of the Company or the Trustee may treat the Person in whose name such Security is registered as the owner of such Security for the purpose of receiving payment of principal of, premium, if any, and (subject to Section 2.8) interest on such Security and for all other purposes whatsoever, whether or not such Security be overdue, and neither the Company, the Trustee nor any agent of the Company or the Trustee shall be affected by notice to the contrary.

SECTION 2.10 Cancellation.

All Securities surrendered for payment, repurchase, registration of transfer or exchange or conversion shall, if surrendered to any Person other than the Trustee, be delivered to the Trustee. All Securities so delivered to the Trustee shall be cancelled promptly by the Trustee. No Securities shall be authenticated in lieu of or in exchange for any Securities cancelled as provided in this Section 2.10. The Trustee shall dispose of all cancelled Securities in accordance with applicable law and its customary practices in effect from time to time.

 

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SECTION 2.11 Computation of Interest.

Interest on the Securities shall be computed on the basis of a 360-day year of twelve (12) 30-day months.

SECTION 2.12 CUSIP Numbers.

The Company in issuing Securities shall obtain and use “CUSIP” numbers (if then generally in use) in addition to serial numbers and the Trustee shall use such CUSIP numbers in addition to serial numbers in notices of repurchase as a convenience to Holders; provided, however, that any such notice may state that no representation is made as to the correctness of such CUSIP numbers either as printed on the Securities or as contained in any notice of a repurchase and that reliance may be placed only on the serial or other identification numbers printed on the Securities, and any such repurchase shall not be affected by any defect in or omission of such CUSIP numbers. The Company shall promptly notify the Trustee in writing of any change in any such CUSIP number.

ARTICLE III

SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE

SECTION 3.1 Satisfaction and Discharge of Indenture.

This Indenture shall upon Company Request cease to be of further effect (except as to any surviving rights of conversion, or registration of transfer or exchange, or replacement of Securities herein expressly provided for and the Company’s obligations to the Trustee pursuant to Section 5.7), and the Trustee, at the expense of the Company, shall execute proper instruments in form and substance satisfactory to the Trustee acknowledging satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture, when:

(a) either:

(1) all Securities theretofore authenticated and delivered (other than (A) Securities that have been destroyed, lost or stolen and that have been replaced or paid as provided in Section 2.7 and (B) Securities 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 8.3) have been delivered to the Trustee for cancellation; or

(2) all such Securities not theretofore delivered to the Trustee or its agent for cancellation (other than Securities referred to in clauses (A) and (B) of clause (a)(1) above):

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(ii) will have become due and payable at their Stated Maturity within one (1) year; and the Company, in the case of clause (i) or (ii) above, has deposited or caused to be deposited with the Trustee as trust funds (immediately available to the Holders in the case of clause (i) above) an amount sufficient to pay and discharge the entire principal, premium, if any, and interest on such Securities not theretofore delivered to the Trustee for cancellation, to the date of such deposit (in the case of Securities that have become due and payable) or to the Stated Maturity; and

(b) the Company has paid or caused to be paid all other sums payable hereunder by the Company; and

(c) the Company has delivered to the Trustee an Officers’ Certificate 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 5.7, the obligations of the Company to any Authenticating Agent under Section 5.12, the obligations of the Trustee under Section 3.2 and the last paragraph of Section 8.3, if money shall have been deposited with the Trustee pursuant to clause (a)(2) of this Section 3.1, the obligations of the Company and the Trustee and the rights of the Holders under Article IV and the obligations of the Company and the Trustee under Section 2.6 and Article X shall survive. Funds held in trust pursuant to this Section 3.1 are not subject to the provisions of Article XI.

SECTION 3.2 Application of Trust Money.

Subject to the provisions of the last paragraph of Section 8.3, all money deposited with the Trustee pursuant to Section 3.1 shall be held in trust and applied by it, in accordance with the provisions of the Securities and this Indenture, to the payment, either directly or through any Paying Agent (including the Company acting as its own Paying Agent), to the Persons entitled thereto, of the principal, premium, if any, interest and Make-Whole Payment, if any, for whose payment such money has been deposited with the Trustee.

All moneys deposited with the Trustee pursuant to Section 3.1 (and held by it or any Paying Agent) for the payment of Securities subsequently converted shall be returned to the Company upon Company Request.

ARTICLE IV

REMEDIES

SECTION 4.1 Events of Default.

Event of Default,” wherever used herein, means any one of the following events (whatever the reason for such Event of Default and whether it shall be occasioned by the provisions of Article XI or 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):

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(b) default in the payment of any interest if any, upon any Security when it becomes due and payable, or in the payment of the Make-Whole Amount when due, and continuance of such default for a period of thirty (30) days;

(c) failure by the Company to give the Company Notice in accordance with Section 12.2; or

(d) default in the performance, or breach, of any covenant of the Company or any Subsidiary in this Indenture (other than a covenant of default in the performance or breach of which is specifically dealt with elsewhere in this Section 4.1), and continuance of such default or breach for a period of thirty (30) days after there has been given, by registered or certified mail, to the Company by the Trustee or to the Company and the Trustee by the Holders of at least $1,000,000 in aggregate principal amount of the Outstanding Securities, a written notice specifying such default or breach and requiring it to be remedied and stating that such notice is a “Notice of Default” hereunder; or

(e) default in the payment when due of the principal of any indebtedness under any bond, debenture, note or other evidence of indebtedness for money borrowed by the Company or any Significant Subsidiary in excess of U.S. $10,000,000, whether such indebtedness now exists or shall hereafter be created, if the indebtedness is not discharged and such default continues for a period of thirty (30) days or more, or if such indebtedness has been accelerated, such acceleration is not annulled, within a period of thirty (30) days after there shall have been given, by registered or certified mail, to the Company by the Trustee or to the Company and the Trustee by the Holders of at least $1,000,000 in aggregate principal amount of the Outstanding Securities a written notice specifying such default and requiring the Company to cause such indebtedness to be discharged or such acceleration to be rescinded or annulled and stating that such notice is a “Notice of Default” hereunder;

(f) the entry by a court having jurisdiction in the premises of (1) a decree or order for relief in respect of the Company or any Significant Subsidiary in an involuntary case or proceeding under any applicable federal or state bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or other similar law or (2) a decree or order adjudging the Company or any Significant Subsidiary a bankrupt or insolvent, or approving as properly filed a petition seeking reorganization, arrangement, adjustment or composition of or in respect of the Company or any Significant Subsidiary under any applicable federal or state law, or appointing a custodian, receiver, liquidator, assignee, trustee, sequestrator or other similar official of the Company or any Significant Subsidiary or of any substantial part of its property, or ordering the winding up or liquidation of its affairs, and the continuance of any such decree or order for relief or any such other decree or order unstayed and in effect for a period of sixty (60) consecutive days; or

(g) the commencement by the Company or any Significant Subsidiary of a voluntary case or proceeding under any applicable federal or state bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or other similar law or of any other case or proceeding to be adjudicated a bankrupt or insolvent, or the consent by it to the entry of a decree or order for relief in respect of the Company or any Significant Subsidiary in an involuntary case or proceeding under any applicable federal or state bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or other similar law or to the commencement of any bankruptcy or insolvency case or proceeding against it, or the filing by it of a petition or answer or consent seeking

 

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reorganization or similar relief under any applicable federal or state law, or the consent by it to the filing of such petition or to the appointment of or taking possession by a custodian, receiver, liquidator, assignee, trustee, sequestrator or other similar official of the Company or any Significant Subsidiary or of any substantial part of its property, or the making by it of an assignment for the benefit of creditors, or the admission by it in writing of its inability to pay its debts generally as they become due, or the taking of corporate action by the Company or any Significant Subsidiary in furtherance of any such action.

SECTION 4.2 Acceleration of Maturity; Rescission and Annulment.

If an Event of Default (other than an Event of Default specified in Section 4.1(f) or 4.1(g) with respect to the Company) occurs and is continuing, then in every such case the Trustee or each Holder of not less than $1,000,000 in aggregate principal amount of the Outstanding Securities may declare the principal of all the Securities to be due and payable immediately, by a notice in writing to the Company (and to the Trustee if given by the Holders), and upon any such declaration, such principal and all accrued and unpaid interest thereon shall become immediately due and payable. If an Event of Default specified in Section 4.1(f) or 4.1(g) with respect to the Company occurs, the principal of, and accrued and unpaid interest on, all the Securities shall ipso facto become immediately due and payable without any declaration or other Act of the Holder or any act on the part of the Trustee.

If an Event of Default occurs, the outstanding Securities shall bear interest from the date of the event that creates the Event of Default until such Event of Default is cured at the rate of twenty-one percent (21%) per annum, regardless of when or whether the Holders deliver a Notice of Default or any Holder or the Trustee declares the outstanding principal balance due and payable as provided in this Section 4.2.

At any time after such declaration of acceleration has been made and before a judgment or decree for payment of the money due has been obtained by the Trustee as hereinafter in this Article IV provided, the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities, by written notice to the Company and the Trustee, may rescind and annul such declaration of acceleration and its consequences if:

(a) the Company has paid or deposited with the Trustee a sum sufficient to pay:

(1) all overdue interest, if any, on all Securities;

(2) the principal of and premium, if any, on any Securities that have become due otherwise than by such declaration of acceleration and any interest thereon at the rate borne by the Securities;

(3) to the extent permitted by applicable law, interest upon overdue interest at the rate then in effect; and

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(b) all Events of Default (other than the non-payment of the principal of, and any premium and interest on Securities that have become due solely by such declaration of acceleration) have been cured or waived as provided in Section 4.13.

No rescission or annulment referred to above shall affect any subsequent default or impair any right consequent thereon.

SECTION 4.3 Collection of Indebtedness and Suits for Enforcement by Trustee.

The Company covenants that if:

(a) default is made in the payment of any interest on any Security when it becomes due and payable and such default continues for a period of thirty (30) days; or

(b) default is made in the payment of the principal of or premium, if any, on any Security at the Maturity thereof;

the Company will upon demand by the Trustee, pay to the Trustee, for the benefit of the Holders of such Securities, the whole amount then due and payable on such Securities for principal, premium, if any, and interest on any overdue principal, premium, if any, and, to the extent permitted by applicable law, on any overdue interest at the rate then in effect, and in addition thereto, such further amount as shall be sufficient to cover the reasonable costs and expenses of collection, including the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the Trustee, its agents and its counsel.

If the Company fails to pay such amounts forthwith upon such demand, the Trustee, in its own name and as trustee of an express trust, 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 Securities 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 Securities, wherever situated.

If an Event of Default occurs and is continuing, the Trustee may in its discretion proceed to protect and enforce its rights and the rights of the Holders of Securities by such appropriate judicial proceedings as the Trustee shall deem most effective to protect and enforce any such rights, whether for the specific enforcement of any covenant or agreement in this Indenture or in aid of the exercise of any power granted herein, or to enforce any other proper remedy.

SECTION 4.4 Trustee May File Proofs of Claim.

In case of the pendency of any receivership, insolvency, liquidation, bankruptcy, reorganization, arrangement, adjustment, composition or other judicial proceeding relating to the Company or any other obligor upon the Securities or the property of the Company or of such other obligor or the creditors of either, the Trustee (whether or not the principal of, and any interest on, the Securities shall then be due and payable as therein expressed or by declaration or otherwise and whether or not the Trustee shall have made any demand on the Company for the payment of overdue principal or interest) shall be entitled and empowered, by intervention in such proceeding or otherwise:

(a) to file and prove a claim for the whole amount of principal, premium, if any, or interest owing and unpaid in respect of the Securities and take such other actions, including participating as a member, voting or otherwise, of any official committee of creditors appointed in such matter, and to file such other papers or documents, in each of the foregoing cases, as may be 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, its agents and its counsel) and of the Holders of Securities allowed in such judicial proceeding; and

 

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(b) to collect and receive any moneys or other property payable or deliverable on any such claim and to distribute the same; and any custodian, receiver, assignee, trustee, liquidator, sequestrator or other similar official in any such judicial proceeding is hereby authorized by each Holder of Securities to make such payments to the Trustee and, in the event that the Trustee shall consent to the making of such payments directly to the Holders of Securities, to pay to the Trustee any amount due to it for the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the Trustee, its agents and its counsel and any other amounts due the Trustee under Section 5.7.

Nothing herein contained shall be deemed to authorize the Trustee to authorize or consent to or accept or adopt on behalf of any Holder of a Security any plan of reorganization, arrangement, adjustment or composition affecting the Securities or the rights of any Holder thereof or to authorize the Trustee to vote in respect of the claim of any Holder of a Security in any such proceeding; provided, however, that the Trustee may, on behalf of such Holders, vote for the election of a trustee in bankruptcy or similar official.

SECTION 4.5 Trustee May Enforce Claims without Possession of Securities.

All rights of action and claims under this Indenture or the Securities may be prosecuted and enforced by the Trustee without the possession of any of the Securities or the production thereof in any proceeding relating thereto, and any such 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, its agents and its counsel, be for the ratable benefit of the Holders of the Securities in respect of which judgment has been recovered.

SECTION 4.6 Application of Money Collected.

Subject to Article XI, any money collected by the Trustee pursuant to this Article IV shall be applied in the following order, at the date or dates fixed by the Trustee and, in case of the distribution of such money on account of principal, premium, if any, or interest, upon presentation of the Securities and the notation thereon of the payment if only partially paid and upon surrender thereof if fully paid:

FIRST: to the payment of all amounts due the Trustee under Section 5.7;

SECOND: to the payment of the amounts then due and unpaid for principal of, premium, if any, or interest on, the Securities in respect of which or for the benefit of which such money has been collected, ratably, without preference or priority of any kind, according to the amounts due and payable on such Securities for principal, premium, if any, and interest, respectively; and

 

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THIRD: any remaining amounts shall be repaid to the Company.

SECTION 4.7 Limitation on Suits.

No Holder of any Security shall have any right to institute any proceeding, judicial or the like, with respect to this Indenture, or for the appointment of a receiver or trustee, or for any other remedy hereunder, unless:

(a) such Holder has previously given written notice to the Trustee of a continuing Event of Default;

(b) the Holders of not less than $1,000,000 in aggregate principal amount of the Outstanding Securities shall have made written request to the Trustee to institute proceedings in respect of such Event of Default in its own name as Trustee hereunder;

(c) such Holder or Holders have furnished to the Trustee reasonable indemnity against the costs, expenses and liabilities to be incurred in compliance with such request;

(d) the Trustee for thirty (30) days after its receipt of such notice, request and offer of indemnity, has failed to institute any such proceeding; and

(e) the Trustee has not received any direction inconsistent with such written request from the Holders of a majority of the aggregate principal amount of the Outstanding Securities during the 30-day period referred to in (d) above;

it being understood and intended that no one or more of such 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 of such Holders, or to obtain or seek to obtain priority or preference over any other of such Holders or to enforce any right under this Indenture, except in the manner herein provided and for the equal and ratable benefit of all such Holders.

SECTION 4.8 Unconditional Right of Holders to Receive Principal, Premium and Interest and to Convert.

Notwithstanding any other provision in this Indenture, the Holder of any Security shall have the right, which is absolute and unconditional, to receive payment of the principal of, premium, if any, and (subject to Section 2.8) interest on such Security on the respective Stated Maturities expressed in such Security (or, in the case of repurchase, on the Repurchase Date), and to convert such Security in accordance with Article X, and to institute suit for the enforcement of any such payment and right to convert, and such rights shall not be impaired without the consent of such Holder.

SECTION 4.9 Restoration of Rights and Remedies.

If the Trustee or any Holder of a Security has instituted any proceeding to enforce any right or remedy under this Indenture and such proceeding has been discontinued or abandoned for any reason, or has been determined adversely to the Trustee or to such Holder, then and in every such case, subject to any determination in such proceeding, the Company, the Trustee and the Holders of Securities shall be restored severally and respectively to their former positions hereunder and thereafter all rights and remedies of the Trustee and such Holders shall continue as though no such proceeding had been instituted.

 

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SECTION 4.10 Rights and Remedies Cumulative.

Except as otherwise provided with respect to the replacement or payment of mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Securities in the last paragraph of Section 2.7, no right or remedy herein conferred upon or reserved to the Trustee or to the Holders of Securities is intended to be exclusive of any other right or remedy, and every right and remedy shall, to the extent permitted by law, be cumulative and in addition to every other right and remedy given hereunder or now or hereafter existing at law or in equity or otherwise. The assertion or employment of any right or remedy hereunder, or otherwise, shall not prevent the concurrent assertion or employment of any other appropriate right or remedy.

SECTION 4.11 Delay or Omission Not Waiver.

No delay or omission of the Trustee or of any Holder of any Security to exercise any right or remedy accruing upon any Event of Default shall impair any such right or remedy or constitute a waiver of any such Event of Default or any acquiescence therein. Every right and remedy given by this Article IV or by law to the Trustee or to the Holders of Securities may be exercised from time to time, and as often as may be deemed expedient, by the Trustee or (subject to the limitations contained in this Indenture) by the Holders of Securities, as the case may be.

SECTION 4.12 Control by Holders of Securities.

The Holders of a majority in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities shall have the right to direct the time, method and place of conducting any proceeding for any remedy available to the Trustee or exercising any trust or power conferred on the Trustee, provided that:

(a) such direction shall not be in conflict with any rule of law or with this Indenture; and

(b) the Trustee may take any other action deemed proper by the Trustee that is not inconsistent with such direction.

SECTION 4.13 Waiver of Past Defaults.

The Holders, either (a) through the written consent of not less than a majority in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities or (b) by the adoption of a resolution, at a meeting of Holders of the Outstanding Securities at which a quorum is present, by the Holders of at least a majority in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities represented at such meeting, may on behalf of the Holders of all the Securities waive any past default hereunder and its consequences, except a default (1) in the payment of the principal of, premium, if any, interest or the Repurchase Price on any Security or (2) in respect of a covenant or provision hereof that under Article VII cannot be modified or amended without the consent of the Holder of each Outstanding Security affected.

 

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Upon any such waiver, 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 shall extend to any subsequent or other default or impair any right consequent thereon.

SECTION 4.14 Undertaking for Costs.

All parties to this Indenture agree, and each Holder of any Security by his 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, suffered 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; but the provisions of this Section 4.14 shall not apply to any suit instituted by the Company, to any suit instituted by the Trustee, to any suit instituted by any Holder, or group of Holders, holding in the aggregate more than ten percent (10%) in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities, or to any suit instituted by any Holder of any Security for the enforcement of the payment of the principal of, premium, if any, or interest on any Security on or after the respective Stated Maturity or Maturities expressed in such Security (or, in the case of repurchase, on or after the Repurchase Date) or for the enforcement of the right to convert any Security in accordance with Article X.

SECTION 4.15 Waiver of Stay, Usury or Extension Laws.

The Company covenants (to the extent that it may lawfully do so) that it will not at any time insist upon, or plead, or in any manner whatsoever claim or take the benefit or advantage of, any stay, usury or extension law wherever enacted, now or at any time hereafter in force, that may affect the covenants or the performance of this Indenture; and the Company (to the extent that it may lawfully do so) hereby expressly waives all benefit or advantage of any such law and covenants that it will not hinder, delay or impede by reason of such law 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.

ARTICLE V

THE TRUSTEE

SECTION 5.1 Certain Duties and Responsibilities.

(a) Except during the continuance of an Event of Default:

(1) the Trustee undertakes to perform such duties and only such duties 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 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 that 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 not to verify the contents thereof.

 

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(b) In case an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, 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 man would exercise or use under the circumstances in the conduct of his own affairs.

(c) No provision of this Indenture shall be construed to relieve the Trustee from liability for its own negligent action, its own negligent failure to act, or its own willful misconduct, except that:

(1) this paragraph (c) shall not be construed to limit the effect of paragraph (a) of this Section 5.1;

(2) the Trustee shall not be liable for any error of judgment made in good faith by a Responsible Officer, unless it shall be proved that the Trustee was 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 Holders of a majority in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities 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 5.1.

SECTION 5.2 Notice of Defaults.

Within thirty (30) days after the occurrence of any default hereunder as to which a Responsible Officer of the Trustee has actually received written notice, the Trustee shall give to all Holders of Securities, in the manner provided in Section 1.6, notice of such default, unless such default shall have been cured or waived; provided, however, that, except in the case of a default in the payment of the principal of, premium, if any, or interest on any Security, the Trustee shall be protected in withholding such notice if and so long as the board of directors, the executive committee or a trust committee of directors or Responsible Officers of the Trustee in good faith determines that the withholding of such notice is in the interest of the Holders. For the purpose of this Section 5.2, the term “default” means any event that is, or after notice or lapse of time or both would become, an Event of Default.

 

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SECTION 5.3 Certain Rights of Trustee.

Subject to the provisions of Section 5.1:

(a) the Trustee may rely and shall be protected in acting or refraining from acting upon any resolution, Officers’ Certificate, other certificate, statement, instrument, opinion, report, notice, request, direction, consent, order, bond, debenture, note, coupon, other evidence of Indebtedness or other paper or document believed by it to be genuine and to have been signed or presented by the proper party or parties;

(b) any request or direction of the Company mentioned herein shall be sufficiently evidenced by a Company Request or Company Order and any resolution of the Board of Directors shall be sufficiently evidenced by a Board Resolution;

(c) 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, rely upon an Officers’ Certificate;

(d) the Trustee may consult with counsel of its selection and the advice of such counsel or any Opinion of Counsel shall be full and complete authorization and protection in respect of any action taken, suffered or omitted by it hereunder in good faith and in reliance thereon;

(e) 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 of Securities pursuant to this Indenture, unless such Holders shall have offered to the Trustee reasonable security or indemnity against the costs, expenses and liabilities that might be incurred by it in compliance with such request or direction;

(f) 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, note, coupon, other evidence of Indebtedness or other paper or document, but the Trustee 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 to examine the books, records and premises of the Company, personally or by agent or attorney; and

(g) the Trustee may execute any of the trusts or powers hereunder or perform any duties hereunder either directly or by or through agents or attorneys, and the Trustee shall not be responsible for any misconduct or negligence on the part of any agent or attorney appointed with due care by it hereunder.

SECTION 5.4 Not Responsible for Recitals or Issuance of Securities.

The recitals contained herein and in the Securities (except the Trustee’s certificates of authentication) shall be taken as the statements of the Company, and the Trustee assumes no responsibility for their correctness. The Trustee makes no representations as to the validity or sufficiency of this Indenture, of the Securities or of the Common Stock issuable upon the conversion of the Securities. The Trustee shall not be accountable for the use or application by the Company of Securities or the proceeds thereof.

 

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SECTION 5.5 May Hold Securities, Act as Trustee under Other Indentures.

The Trustee, any Authenticating Agent, any Paying Agent, any Conversion Agent or any other agent of the Company or the Trustee, in its individual or any other capacity, may become the owner or pledgee of Securities and may otherwise deal with the Company with the same rights it would have if it were not Trustee, Authenticating Agent, Paying Agent, Conversion Agent or such other agent.

The Trustee may become and act as trustee under other indentures under which other securities, or certificates of interest or participation in other securities, of the Company are outstanding in the same manner as if it were not Trustee hereunder.

SECTION 5.6 Money Held in Trust.

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 otherwise agreed in writing with the Company.

SECTION 5.7 Compensation and Reimbursement.

The Company agrees:

(a) to pay to the Trustee from time to time such reasonable compensation as the Company and the Trustee shall from time to time agree in writing for all services rendered by it hereunder (which compensation shall not be limited by any provision of law in regard to the compensation of a trustee of an express trust);

(b) to reimburse the Trustee upon its request for all reasonable expenses, disbursements and advances incurred or made by the Trustee in accordance with any provision of this Indenture (including the reasonable compensation and the expenses and disbursements of its agents and counsel), except any such expense, disbursement or advance as may be attributable to its negligence or bad faith; and

(c) to indemnify the Trustee (and its directors, officers, employees and agents) for, and to hold it harmless against, any and all loss, damage, claim, liability or expense, including taxes (other than taxes based on the income of the Trustee), incurred without negligence, bad faith or willful misconduct on its part, arising out of or in connection with the acceptance or administration of this trust, including the reasonable costs, expenses and reasonable attorneys’ fees of defending itself against any claim or liability in connection with the exercise or performance of any of its powers or duties hereunder.

When the Trustee incurs expenses or renders services in connection with an Event of Default specified in Section 4.1(g) or Section 4.1(h) with respect to the Company, the expenses (including the reasonable charges of its counsel) and the compensation for the services are intended to constitute expenses of the administration under any applicable federal or state bankruptcy, insolvency or other similar law.

 

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The Trustee shall have a lien prior to the Securities as to all property and funds held by it hereunder for any amount owing it or any predecessor Trustee pursuant to this Section 5.7, except with respect to funds held in trust for the benefit of the Holders of particular Securities.

The provisions of this Section 5.7 shall survive the termination of this Indenture or the earlier resignation or removal of the Trustee.

SECTION 5.8 Corporate Trustee Required; Eligibility.

There shall at all times be a Trustee hereunder which shall be a Person that is eligible pursuant to the Trust Indenture Act to act as such, having a combined capital and surplus (or for such purposes, the combined capital and surplus of any parent holding company) of at least U.S. $25,000,000, subject to supervision or examination by federal or state authority, in good standing and having an established place of business or agency in the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York. If such corporation publishes reports of condition at least annually, pursuant to law or to the requirements of said supervising or examining authority, then for the purposes of this Section 5.8, the combined capital and surplus of such corporation 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 5.8, it shall resign immediately in the manner and with the effect hereinafter specified in this Article V and a successor shall be appointed pursuant to Section 5.9.

SECTION 5.9 Resignation and Removal; Appointment of Successor.

(a) No resignation or removal of the Trustee and no appointment of a successor Trustee pursuant to this Article V shall become effective until the acceptance of appointment by the successor Trustee in accordance with the applicable requirements of Section 5.10.

(b) The Trustee may resign at any time by giving written notice thereof to the Company. If the instrument of acceptance by a successor Trustee required by Section 5.10 shall not have been delivered to the Trustee within thirty (30) days after the giving of such notice of resignation, the resigning Trustee or the Company may petition any court of competent jurisdiction for the appointment of a successor Trustee.

(c) The Trustee may be removed at any time by Act of the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities, delivered to the Trustee and the Company. If the instrument of acceptance by a successor Trustee required by Section 5.10 shall not have been delivered to the Trustee within thirty (30) days after the giving of such notice of removal, the removed Trustee or the Company may petition any court of competent jurisdiction for the appointment of a successor Trustee.

(d) If at any time:

(1) the Trustee shall cease to be eligible under Section 5.8 and shall fail to resign after written request therefor by the Company or by any Holder of a Security who has been a bona fide Holder of a Security for at least six (6) months; or

 

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(2) 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, (i) in any such case the Company may remove the Trustee, or (ii) in the case of clause (d)(1) above only and subject to Section 4.14, any Holder of a Security who has been a bona fide Holder of a Security for at least six (6) months may, on behalf of himself and all others similarly situated, petition any court of competent jurisdiction for the removal of the Trustee and the appointment of a successor Trustee.

(e) If the Trustee shall resign, be removed or become incapable of acting, or if a vacancy shall occur in the office of Trustee for any cause, the Company shall promptly appoint a successor Trustee and shall comply with the applicable requirements of this Section 5.9 and Section 5.10. If, within one (1) year after such resignation, removal or incapability, or occurrence of such vacancy, a successor Trustee shall be appointed by Act of the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities delivered to the Company and the retiring Trustee, the successor Trustee so appointed shall, forthwith upon its acceptance of such appointment in accordance with the applicable requirements of Section 5.10, become the successor Trustee and supersede the successor Trustee appointed by the Company. If no successor Trustee shall have been so appointed by the Company or the Holders of Securities and accepted appointment in the manner required by this Section 5.9 and Section 5.10, any Holder of a Security who has been a bona fide Holder of a Security for at least six (6) months may, on behalf of himself and all others similarly situated, petition any court of competent jurisdiction for the appointment of a successor Trustee.

(f) The successor Trustee shall give notice of each resignation and each removal of the Trustee and each appointment of a successor Trustee to all Holders of Securities in the manner provided in Section 1.6. Each notice shall include the name of the successor Trustee and the address of its Corporate Trust Office.

SECTION 5.10 Acceptance of Appointment by Successor.

Every successor Trustee appointed hereunder shall execute, acknowledge and deliver to the Company and to the retiring Trustee an instrument accepting such appointment, and thereupon the resignation or removal of the retiring Trustee shall become effective and such successor Trustee, without any further act, deed or conveyance, shall become vested with all the rights, powers, trusts and duties of the retiring Trustee. Such retiring Trustee shall, upon payment of its charges, promptly execute and deliver an instrument transferring to such successor Trustee all the rights, powers and trusts of the retiring Trustee and shall duly assign, transfer and deliver to such successor Trustee all property and money held by such retiring Trustee hereunder. Upon request of any such successor Trustee, the Company shall execute any and all instruments for more fully and certainly vesting in and confirming to such successor Trustee all such rights, powers and trusts.

 

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No successor Trustee shall accept its appointment unless at the time of such acceptance such successor Trustee shall be eligible under this Article V.

SECTION 5.11 Merger, Conversion, Consolidation or Succession to Business.

Any corporation into which the Trustee may be merged or converted or with which it may be consolidated, or any corporation resulting from any merger, conversion or consolidation to which the Trustee shall be a party, or any corporation succeeding to all or substantially all of the corporate trust business of the Trustee (including the administration of the trust created by this Indenture), shall be the successor of the Trustee hereunder (provided such corporation shall be otherwise eligible under this Article V), without the execution or filing of any paper or any further act on the part of any of the parties hereto. In case any Securities shall have been authenticated, but not delivered, by the Trustee then in office, any successor by merger, conversion or consolidation to such authenticating Trustee may adopt such authentication and deliver the Securities so authenticated with the same effect as if such successor Trustee had itself authenticated such Securities.

SECTION 5.12 Authenticating Agents.

The Trustee may, with the consent of the Company, appoint an Authenticating Agent or Agents acceptable to the Company with respect to the Securities, which shall be authorized to act on behalf of the Trustee to authenticate Securities issued upon exchange or substitution pursuant to this Indenture.

Securities authenticated by an Authenticating Agent shall be entitled to the benefits of this Indenture and shall be valid and obligatory for all purposes as if authenticated by the Trustee hereunder, and every reference in this Indenture to the authentication and delivery of Securities by the Trustee or the Trustee’s certificate of authentication shall be deemed to include authentication and delivery on behalf of the Trustee by an Authenticating Agent and a certificate of authentication executed on behalf of the Trustee by an Authenticating Agent. Each Authenticating Agent shall be subject to acceptance by the Company and shall at all times be a corporation organized and doing business under the laws of the United States of America, any state thereof or the District of Columbia, authorized under such laws to act as Authenticating Agent and subject to supervision or examination by government or other fiscal authority. If at any time an Authenticating Agent shall cease to be eligible in accordance with the provisions of this Section 5.12, such Authenticating Agent shall resign immediately in the manner and with the effect specified in this Section 5.12.

Any corporation into which an Authenticating Agent may be merged or converted or with which it may be consolidated, or any corporation resulting from any merger, conversion or consolidation to which such Authenticating Agent shall be a party, or any corporation succeeding to the corporate agency or corporate trust business of an Authenticating Agent, shall continue to be an Authenticating Agent (provided such corporation shall be otherwise eligible under this Section 5.12), without the execution or filing of any paper or any further act on the part of the Trustee or the Authenticating Agent.

 

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An Authenticating Agent may resign at any time by giving written notice thereof to the Trustee and to the Company. The Trustee may at any time terminate the agency of an Authenticating Agent by giving written notice thereof 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 such Authenticating Agent shall cease to be eligible in accordance with the provisions of this Section 5.12, the Trustee may appoint a successor Authenticating Agent, which shall be subject to acceptance by the Company. Any successor Authenticating Agent, upon acceptance of its appointment hereunder, shall become vested with all the rights, powers and duties of its predecessor hereunder, with like effect as if originally named as an Authenticating Agent. No successor Authenticating Agent shall be appointed unless eligible under the provisions of this Section 5.12.

The Company agrees to pay to each Authenticating Agent from time to time reasonable compensation for its services under this Section 5.12.

If an Authenticating Agent is appointed with respect to the Securities pursuant to this Section 5.12, the Securities may have endorsed thereon, in addition to or in lieu of the Trustee’s certification of authentication, an alternative certificate of authentication in the following form:

This is one of the Securities referred to in the within-mentioned Indenture.

 

By: U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION,
By:                   , as Authenticating Agent
By    
  Authorized Signature

SECTION 5.13 Disqualification; Conflicting Interests.

If the Trustee has or shall acquire a conflicting interest within the meaning of the Trust Indenture Act, the Trustee shall either eliminate such interest or resign as Trustee hereunder, to the extent and in the manner provided by, and subject to the provisions of, the Trust Indenture Act and this Indenture.

SECTION 5.14 Preferential Collection of Claims Against Company.

If and when the Trustee shall be or become a creditor of the Company (or any other obligor upon the Securities), the Trustee shall be subject to the provisions of the Trust Indenture Act regarding the collection of claims against the Company (or any such other obligor).

ARTICLE VI

CONSOLIDATION, MERGER, CONVEYANCE, TRANSFER OR LEASE

SECTION 6.1 Company May Consolidate, Etc., Only on Certain Terms.

Without the consent or affirmative vote of the Holders of each Outstanding Security, the Company shall not consolidate with or merge into any other Person or convey, transfer, sell or lease its properties and assets substantially as an entirety to any Person, and the Company shall not permit any Person to consolidate with or merge into it or convey, transfer, sell or lease such Person’s properties and assets substantially as an entirety to it, unless:

(a) the Company is the surviving person or the Person formed by such consolidation or into which the Company is merged, or the Person to which the Company’s properties and assets are conveyed, transferred, sold or leased, shall be (1) a corporation, limited liability company, partnership or trust organized and validly existing under the laws of the United States of America, any state thereof or the District of Columbia or (2) organized under the laws of a jurisdiction outside the United States of America and have common stock or American Depository Shares representing such common stock traded on a national securities exchange in the United States, including The Nasdaq Stock Market, Inc., and, in each case, if other than the Company, shall expressly assume, by an indenture supplemental hereto, executed and delivered to the Trustee, in form satisfactory to the Trustee, the due and punctual payment of the principal of, premium, if any, and interest on all of the Securities as applicable, and the performance or observance of every covenant of this Indenture on the part of the Company to be performed or observed;

 

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(b) immediately after giving effect to such transaction, no Event of Default, and no event that, after notice or lapse of time or both, would become an Event of Default, shall have occurred and be continuing; and

(c) the Company has delivered to the Trustee an Officers’ Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel, each stating that such consolidation, merger, conveyance, transfer or lease and, if a supplemental indenture is required in connection with such transaction, such supplemental indenture, comply with this Article VI and that all conditions precedent herein provided for relating to such transaction have been complied with, together with any documents required under Section 7.3.

SECTION 6.2 Successor Substituted.

Upon any consolidation of the Company with, or merger of the Company into, any other Person or any conveyance, transfer of all or substantially all the assets of the Company in accordance with Section 6.1, the successor Person formed by such consolidation or into which the Company is merged or to which such conveyance or transfer is made shall succeed to, and be substituted for, and may exercise every right and power of, the Company under this Indenture with the same effect as if such successor Person had been named as the Company herein, and thereafter, except in the case of a lease, the predecessor Person shall be relieved of all the obligations and covenants under this Indenture and the Securities except with respect to any obligations that arise from, or are related to, such transaction.

ARTICLE VII

SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES

SECTION 7.1 Supplemental Indentures without Consent of Holders of Securities.

Without the consent or affirmative vote of any Holders of Securities, the Company, when authorized by a Board Resolution, and the Trustee, at any time and from time to time, may enter into one or more indentures supplemental hereto for any of the following purposes:

(a) to evidence the succession of another Person to the Company and the assumption by any such successor of the covenants and obligations of the Company herein and in the Securities as permitted by this Indenture; or

 

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(b) to add to the covenants of the Company for the benefit of the Holders of Securities or to surrender any right or power herein conferred upon the Company; or

(c) to guarantee or secure the Securities; or

(d) to make provision with respect to the conversion rights of Holders of Securities pursuant to Section 10.11; or

(e) to comply with the requirements of the Trust Indenture Act or the rules and regulations of the Commission thereunder in order to effect or maintain the qualification of this Indenture under the Trust Indenture Act, as contemplated by this Indenture or otherwise; or

(f) to evidence and provide for the acceptance of appointment hereunder by a successor Trustee; or

(g) to cure any ambiguity, to correct or supplement any provision herein that may be inconsistent with any other provision herein or that is otherwise defective, or to make any other provisions with respect to matters or questions arising under this Indenture as the Company and the Trustee may deem necessary or desirable (provided such action pursuant to this clause (h) shall not adversely affect the interests of the Holders of Securities in any material respect).

Upon Company Request accompanied by a Board Resolution authorizing the execution of any such supplemental indenture, and subject to and upon receipt by the Trustee of the documents described in Section 7.3 hereof, the Trustee shall join with the Company in the execution of any supplemental indenture authorized or permitted by the terms of this Indenture and to make any further appropriate agreements and stipulations that may be therein contained.

SECTION 7.2 Supplemental Indentures with Consent of Holders of Securities.

With either (a) the written consent of the Holders of not less than a majority in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities, by the Act of said Holders delivered to the Company and the Trustee, or (b) by the adoption of a resolution, at a meeting of Holders of the Outstanding Securities at which a quorum is present, by the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities represented at such meeting, the Company, when authorized by a Board Resolution, and the Trustee may 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 or of modifying in any manner the rights of the Holders of Securities under this Indenture; provided, however, that no such supplemental indenture shall, without the consent or affirmative vote of the Holder of each Outstanding Security affected thereby:

(1) change the Stated Maturity of the principal of, or any installment of interest on, any Security, or reduce the principal amount, any premium or the rate of interest payable thereon, or change the place at which or the coin or currency in which any Security or the interest or any premium thereon or any other amount in respect thereof is payable; or

(2) impair the right to institute suit for the enforcement of any payment in respect of any Security on or after the Stated Maturity thereof (or, in the case of any repurchase, on or after the Repurchase Date); or

 

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(3) except as permitted by Section 10.11, adversely affect the right to convert any Security as provided in Article X; or

(4) modify the provisions of this Indenture with respect to the ranking of the Securities in a manner adverse to the Holders of any Securities; or

(5) reduce the percentage in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities the consent of whose Holders is required for any supplemental indenture to modify or amend any provision of this Indenture or the consent of whose Holders is required for any waiver (of compliance with certain provisions of this Indenture or certain defaults hereunder and their consequences) provided for in this Indenture; or

(6) modify any of the provisions of this Section 7.2 except to increase any required percentage contained herein or therein or to provide that certain other provisions of this Indenture cannot be modified or waived without the consent of the Holder of each Outstanding Security affected thereby; or

(7) amend or modify the provisions of Article XII in a manner adverse to the Holders after the Holder’s right to require the Company to repurchase the Securities upon a Change in Control arises, except in accordance with the terms of this Indenture.

It shall not be necessary for any Act of Holders of Securities under this Section 7.2 to approve the particular form of any proposed supplemental indenture, but it shall be sufficient if such Act shall approve the substance thereof.

The quorum at any meeting called to adopt a resolution shall be Holders representing a majority in aggregate principal amount of Securities at the time Outstanding.

SECTION 7.3 Execution of Supplemental Indentures.

In executing, or accepting the additional trusts created by, any supplemental indenture permitted by this Section VII or the modifications thereby of the trusts created by this Indenture, the Trustee shall be entitled to receive, and (subject to Sections 5.1 and 5.3) shall be fully protected in relying upon, an Opinion of Counsel stating that the execution of such supplemental indenture is authorized or permitted by this Indenture and that such supplemental indenture has been duly authorized, executed and delivered by the Company and constitutes a valid and legally binding obligation of the Company enforceable against the Company in accordance with its terms. The Trustee may, but shall not be obligated to, enter into any such supplemental indenture that affects the Trustee’s own rights, duties or immunities under this Indenture or otherwise.

SECTION 7.4 Effect of Supplemental Indentures.

Upon the execution of any supplemental indenture under this Section VII, this Indenture shall be modified in accordance therewith, and such supplemental indenture shall form a part of this Indenture for all purposes; and every Holder of Securities theretofore or thereafter authenticated and delivered hereunder appertaining thereto shall be bound thereby.

 

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SECTION 7.5 Reference in Securities to Supplemental Indentures.

Securities authenticated and delivered after the execution of any supplemental indenture pursuant to this Section VII may, and shall if required by the Trustee, bear a notation in form approved by the Trustee as to any matter provided for in such supplemental indenture. If the Company shall so determine, new Securities so modified as to conform, in the opinion of the Company and the Trustee, to any such supplemental indenture may be prepared and executed by the Company and authenticated and delivered by the Trustee in exchange for Outstanding Securities.

SECTION 7.6 Notice of Supplemental Indentures.

Promptly after the execution by the Company and the Trustee of any supplemental indenture pursuant to the provisions of Section 7.2, the Company shall give notice to all Holders of Securities of such fact, setting forth in general terms the substance of such supplemental indenture, in the manner provided in Section 1.6. Any failure of the Company to give such notice, or any defect therein, shall not in any way impair or affect the validity of any such supplemental indenture.

ARTICLE VIII

COVENANTS

SECTION 8.1 Payment of Principal, Premium and Interest.

The Company covenants and agrees that it will duly and punctually pay the principal of and premium, if any, and interest on the Securities in accordance with the terms of the Securities and this Indenture. By no later than 12:00 noon Eastern time on the date of the Stated Maturity of any Security, the Company shall deposit or cause to be deposited with the Trustee, all principal and premium payments so due, which payments shall be in immediately available funds on the date of such Stated Maturity. By no later than 12:00 noon Eastern time on the due date for any installment of interest, the Company shall deposit or cause to be deposited with the Trustee, all interest payments so due, which payments shall be in immediately available funds on the due date.

SECTION 8.2 Maintenance of Offices or Agencies.

The Company hereby appoints the New York City office of the Trustee as its agent in the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York, where Securities may be presented or surrendered for payment, where Securities may be surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange, where Securities may be surrendered for conversion, and where notices and demands to or upon the Company in respect of the Securities and this Indenture may be served.

The Company may at any time and from time to time vary or terminate the appointment of any such agent or appoint any additional agents for any or all of such purposes; provided, however, that until all of the Securities have been delivered to the Trustee for cancellation, or moneys sufficient to pay the principal of, premium, if any, and interest on the Securities have been made available for payment and either paid or returned to the Company pursuant to the provisions of Section 8.3, the Company shall maintain in the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York, an office or agency where Securities may be presented or surrendered for payment and conversion, where Securities may be surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange and where notices and demands to or upon the Company in respect of the Securities and this Indenture may be served. The Company shall give prompt written notice to the Trustee, and notice to the Holders in accordance with Section 1.6, of the appointment or termination of any such agents and of the location and any change in the location of any such office or agency.

 

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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, presentations and surrenders may be made and notices and demands may be served on the Corporate Trust Office.

SECTION 8.3 Money for Security Payments to Be Held in Trust.

If the Company will act as its own Paying Agent, it shall, on or before each due date of the principal of, premium, if any, or interest on any of the Securities, segregate and hold in trust for the benefit of the Persons entitled thereto a sum sufficient to pay the principal, premium, if any, or interest so becoming due until such sums shall be paid to such Persons or otherwise disposed of as herein provided, and the Company will promptly notify the Trustee of its action or failure so to act.

Whenever the Company shall have one or more Paying Agents, it will, no later than 12:00 noon Eastern time on each due date of the principal of, premium, if any, or interest on any Securities, deposit with such Paying Agent(s) a sum sufficient to pay the principal, premium, if any, or interest so becoming due, such sum to be held for the benefit of the Persons entitled to such principal, premium, if any, or interest, and (unless such Paying Agent is the Trustee) the Company will promptly notify the Trustee of any failure so to act.

The Company will cause each Paying Agent other than the Trustee to execute and deliver to the Trustee an instrument in which such Paying Agent shall agree with the Trustee, subject to the provisions of this Section 8.3, that such Paying Agent will:

(a) hold all sums held by it for the payment of the principal of, premium, if any, or interest on Securities for the benefit of the Persons entitled thereto until such sums shall be paid to such Persons or otherwise disposed of as herein provided;

(b) give the Trustee notice of any default by the Company (or any other obligor upon the Securities) in the making of any payment of principal, premium, if any, or interest; and

(c) at any time during the continuance of any such default, upon the written request of the Trustee, forthwith pay to the Trustee all sums so held by such Paying Agent.

The Company may at any time, for the purpose of obtaining the satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture or for any other purpose, pay, or by Company Order direct any Paying Agent to pay, to the Trustee all sums held in trust by the Company or such Paying Agent, such sums to be held by the Trustee upon the same trusts as those upon which such sums were held by the Company or such Paying Agent; and, upon such payment by any Paying Agent to the Trustee, such Paying Agent shall be released from all further liability with respect to such money.

Anything contained herein to the contrary notwithstanding, any money held by the Trustee or any Paying Agent in trust for the payment and discharge of the principal of, premium, if any, or interest on any Security that remains unclaimed for two (2) years after the date when each payment of such principal, premium, or interest has become payable shall, upon the request of the Company,

 

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be repaid by the Trustee to the Company as its absolute property free from trust, and the Trustee shall thereupon be released and discharged with respect thereto and the Holders shall look only to the Company for the payment of the principal, premium or interest on such Security. The Trustee shall not be liable to the Company or any Holder for interest on funds held by it for the payment and discharge of the principal, premium or interest on any of the Securities to any Holder. The Company shall not be liable for any interest on the sums paid to it pursuant to this paragraph and shall not be regarded as a trustee of such money.

SECTION 8.4 Existence.

Subject to Article VI, the Company will do or cause to be done all things necessary to preserve and keep in full force and effect its existence, rights (charter and statutory) and franchises; provided, however, that the Company shall not be required to preserve any such right or franchise if the Board of Directors shall determine that the preservation thereof is no longer desirable in the conduct of the business of the Company and that the loss thereof is not disadvantageous in any material respect to the Holders.

SECTION 8.5 Statement by Officers as to Default.

The Company shall deliver to the Trustee, within one hundred twenty (120) days after the end of each fiscal year of the Company ending after the date hereof, an Officers’ Certificate (one of the signers of which shall be the Company’s principal executive, principal financial or principal accounting officer), stating whether or not to the best knowledge of the signers thereof the Company is in default in the performance and observance of any of the terms, provisions and conditions of this Indenture (without regard to any period of grace or requirement of notice provided hereunder) and, if the Company shall be in default, specifying all such defaults and the nature and status thereof of which they have knowledge.

The Company will deliver to the Trustee, forthwith upon becoming aware of any default in the performance or observance of any covenant, agreement or condition contained in this Indenture, or any Event of Default, an Officers’ Certificate specifying with particularity such default or Event of Default and further stating what action the Company has taken, is taking or proposes to take with respect thereto.

Any notice required to be given under this Section 8.5 shall be delivered to the Trustee at the Corporate Trust Office.

SECTION 8.6 Delivery of Certain Information.

The Company will deliver to the Trustee within fifteen (15) days after the filing of the same with the Commission, copies of the quarterly and annual reports and of the information, documents and other reports, if any, which the Company is required to file with the Commission pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act. Documents filed by the Company with the Commission via the EDGAR system shall be deemed to be filed with the Trustee as of the time such documents are filed via EDGAR. Notwithstanding that the Company may not be subject to the reporting requirements of Section 13 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act, the Company will file with the Commission, to the extent permitted, and provide the Trustee and Holders with such annual reports and such information, documents and other reports specified in Sections 13 and 15(d) of the

 

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Exchange Act. Delivery of such reports, information and documents to the Trustee is for informational purposes only and the Trustee’s receipt of such shall not constitute constructive notice of any information contained therein or determinable from information contained therein.

SECTION 8.7 Incurrence of Indebtedness.

The Company will not, and will not permit any of its Subsidiaries to, incur or suffer to exist (i) at any time that $10,000,000 or more in aggregate principal amount of the Securities are outstanding, Indebtedness that is structurally senior or senior by its terms to the Securities or (ii) Secured Indebtedness, in an aggregate principal amount exceeding $10,000,000, unless the Securities are equally and ratably secured with such Secured Indebtedness in excess of such $10,000,000 limit; provided that Liens in favor of Strategic Partners granted in connection with biopharmaceutical licensing and/or partnering arrangements shall not be subject to these restrictions.

ARTICLE IX

MAKE-WHOLE PROVISION

Upon the conversion of any Security pursuant to Article X hereof the Company will pay to the Holders of the Securities so converted cash with respect to the Security so converted in an amount equal to U.S. $0.62 per $1.00 principal amount of the Securities, less the amount of any interest paid on the Securities before the relevant Conversion Date (the “Make-Whole Payment”). The Company shall pay the Make-Whole Payment within five (5) business days of the applicable Conversion Date.

ARTICLE X

CONVERSION OF SECURITIES

SECTION 10.1 Conversion Privilege and Conversion Rate.

Subject to and upon compliance with the provisions of this Article X, at the option of the Holder thereof, any Security or any portion of the principal amount thereof that is U.S. $1,000 or an integral multiple of U.S. $1,000 may be converted into fully paid and nonassessable shares (calculated as to each conversion to the nearest 1/100th of a share) of Common Stock of the Company at the Conversion Rate, determined as hereinafter provided, in effect at the time of conversion. Such conversion right shall commence upon the original issuance of the Securities and expire at the close of business two (2) Business Days prior to the Stated Maturity, unless the Security has been previously repurchased or converted, subject, in the case of conversion of any Global Security, to any Applicable Procedures. In case the Holder of a Security exercises his right to require the Company to repurchase the Security, such conversion right in respect of the Security, or portion thereof so called, shall expire at the close of business on the Business Day immediately preceding the Repurchase Date, unless the Company defaults in making the payment due upon repurchase (in each case subject, as aforesaid, to any Applicable Procedures with respect to any Global Security).

The rate at which shares of Common Stock shall be delivered upon conversion (herein called the “Conversion Rate”) shall be initially 0 ###-###-#### shares of Common Stock for each U.S. $1.00 principal amount of Securities. The Conversion Rate shall be adjusted in certain instances as provided in this Article X.

 

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SECTION 10.2 Exercise of Conversion Privilege.

In order to exercise the conversion privilege, the Holder of any Security to be converted shall surrender such Security, duly endorsed or assigned to the Company or in blank, at any office or agency of the Company maintained for that purpose pursuant to Section 8.2, accompanied by a duly signed and completed notice of conversion substantially in the form attached hereto as Exhibit C stating that the Holder elects to convert such Security or, if less than the entire principal amount thereof is to be converted, the portion thereof to be converted. Each Security surrendered for conversion (in whole or in part) during the period from the close of business on any Regular Record Date next preceding any Interest Payment Date to the opening of business on such Interest Payment Date shall (except in the case of any Security or portion thereof that is to be repurchased on a Repurchase Date, with the consequence that the conversion right of such Security would terminate between such Regular Record Date and the close of business on such Interest Payment Date) be accompanied by payment in New York Clearing House funds or other funds acceptable to the Company of an amount equal to the interest payable on such Interest Payment Date on the principal amount of such Security (or part thereof, as the case may be) being surrendered for conversion. The interest so payable on such Interest Payment Date, with respect to any Security (or portion thereof, if applicable) that is surrendered for conversion during the period from the close of business on any Regular Record Date next preceding any Interest Payment Date to the opening of business on such Interest Payment Date, shall be paid to the Holder of such Security as of such Regular Record Date. Interest payable in respect of any Security surrendered for conversion on or after an Interest Payment Date shall be paid to the Holder of such Security as of the next preceding Regular Record Date, notwithstanding the exercise of the right of conversion. Except as provided in this paragraph and subject to the last paragraph of Section 2.8, no cash payment or adjustment shall be made upon any conversion on account of any interest accrued from the Interest Payment Date next preceding the conversion date, in respect of any Security (or part thereof, as the case may be) surrendered for conversion, or on account of any dividends on the Common Stock issued upon conversion. The Company’s delivery to the Holder of the number of shares of Common Stock (and cash in lieu of fractions thereof, as provided in this Indenture) into which a Security is convertible and any rights pursuant to Section 10.6(m) will be deemed to satisfy the Company’s obligation to pay the principal amount of the Security.

Securities shall be deemed to have been converted on the day of surrender of such Securities for conversion in accordance with the foregoing provisions, and at such time the rights of the Holders of such Securities as Holders shall cease, and the Person or Persons entitled to receive the Common Stock issuable upon conversion shall be treated for all purposes as the record holder or holders of such Common Stock at such time. As promptly as practicable on or after the conversion date, the Company shall issue and deliver to the Trustee, for delivery to the Holder, a certificate or certificates for the number of full shares of Common Stock issuable upon conversion, together with payment in lieu of any fraction of a share, as provided in Section 10.3.

Neither the Trustee nor any agent maintained for the purpose of such conversion shall have any responsibility for the inclusion or content of any restrictive legends on such Common Stock; provided, however, that the Trustee or any agent maintained for the purpose of such conversion shall have provided to the Company or to the Company’s transfer agent for such Common Stock, prior to or concurrently with a request to the Company to deliver such Common Stock, written notice that the Securities delivered for conversion are Securities.

 

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In the case of any Security that is converted in part only, upon such conversion the Company shall execute and the Trustee shall authenticate and make available for delivery to the Holder thereof, at the expense of the Company, a new Registered Security or Securities of authorized denominations in an aggregate principal amount equal to the unconverted portion of the principal amount of such Security. A Security may be converted in part, but only if the principal amount of such Security to be converted is any integral multiple of U.S. $1,000 and the principal amount of such security to remain Outstanding after such conversion is equal to U.S. $1,000 or any integral multiple of U.S. $1,000 in excess thereof.

Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, the number of Conversion Shares that may be acquired by the Holder upon any conversion of the Securities (or otherwise in respect hereof) shall be limited to the extent necessary to insure that, following such exercise (or other issuance), the total number of shares of Common Stock then beneficially owned by such Holder and its Affiliates and any other persons whose beneficial ownership of Common Stock would be aggregated with the Holder’s for purposes of Section 13(d) of the Exchange Act, does not exceed 9.999% of the total number of issued and outstanding shares of Common Stock (including for such purpose the shares of Common Stock issuable upon such conversion). For such purposes, beneficial ownership shall be determined in accordance with Section 13(d) of the Exchange Act and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder. This provision shall not restrict the number of shares of Common Stock which a Holder may receive or beneficially own in order to determine the amount of securities or other consideration that such Holder may receive in the event of a Change in Control. This restriction may not be waived.

Unless and until the Trustee receives an Officers’ Certificate from the Company notifying the Trustee that, upon a conversion of Securities, a Holder would own in excess of 9.999% of the total number of issued and outstanding shares of Common Stock (including for such purpose the shares of Common Stock issuable upon such conversion), the Trustee may assume without inquiry (i) that no Holder owns or upon a conversion of Securities would own in excess of that number and, therefore, (ii) that each Holder is in compliance with the requirements of this Section 10.2.

SECTION 10.3 Fractions of Shares.

No fractional shares of Common Stock shall be issued upon conversion of any Security or Securities. If more than one Security shall be surrendered for conversion at one time by the same Holder, the number of full shares that shall be issuable upon conversion thereof shall be computed on the basis of the aggregate principal amount of the Securities (or specified portions thereof) so surrendered. Instead of any fractional share of Common Stock that would otherwise be issuable upon conversion of any Security or Securities (or specified portions thereof), the Company shall calculate and pay a cash adjustment in respect of such fraction (calculated to the nearest 1/100th of a share) in an amount equal to the same fraction of the Closing Price at the close of business on the day of conversion.

 

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SECTION 10.4 Adjustment of Conversion Rate.

The Conversion Rate shall be subject to adjustments from time to time as follows:

(a) In case the Company shall pay or make a dividend or other distribution on any class of capital stock of the Company payable in shares of Common Stock, the Conversion Rate in effect at the opening of business on the day following the date fixed for the determination of stockholders entitled to receive such dividend or other distribution shall be increased by dividing such Conversion Rate by a fraction of which the numerator shall be the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding at the close of business on the date fixed for such determination and the denominator shall be the sum of such number of shares and the total number of shares constituting such dividend or other distribution, such increase to become effective (subject to paragraph (l) of this Section 10.4) immediately after the opening of business on the day following the date fixed for such determination. For the purposes of this paragraph (a), the number of shares of Common Stock at any time outstanding shall not include shares held in the treasury of the Company but shall include shares issuable in respect of scrip certificates issued in lieu of fractions of shares of Common Stock. The Company will not pay any dividend or make any distribution on shares of Common Stock held in the treasury of the Company.

(b) In case the Company shall issue rights, options or warrants to all holders of its Common Stock entitling them to subscribe for or purchase shares of Common Stock at a price per share less than the current market price per share (determined as provided in paragraph (h) of this Section 10.4) of the Common Stock on the date fixed for the determination of stockholders entitled to receive such rights, options or warrants (other than any rights, options or warrants (1) that by their terms will also be issued to any Holder upon conversion of a Security into shares of Common Stock without any action required by the Company or any other Person or (2) that are only exercisable upon the occurrence of a specified triggering event and such triggering event has not occurred), the Conversion Rate in effect at the opening of business on the day following the date fixed for such determination shall be increased by dividing such Conversion Rate by a fraction of which the numerator shall be the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding at the close of business on the date fixed for such determination plus the number of shares of Common Stock which the aggregate of the offering price of the total number of shares of Common Stock so offered for subscription or purchase would purchase at such current market price and the denominator shall be the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding at the close of business on the date fixed for such determination plus the number of shares of Common Stock so offered for subscription or purchase, such increase to become effective (subject to paragraph (l) of this Section 10.4) immediately after the opening of business on the day following the date fixed for such determination. For the purposes of this paragraph (b), the number of shares of Common Stock at any time outstanding shall not include shares held in the treasury of the Company but shall include shares issuable in respect of scrip certificates issued in lieu of fractions of shares of Common Stock. The Company will not issue any rights, options or warrants in respect of shares of Common Stock held in the treasury of the Company.

(c) In case outstanding shares of Common Stock shall be subdivided into a greater number of shares of Common Stock, the Conversion Rate in effect at the opening of business on the day following the day upon which such subdivision becomes effective shall be proportionately increased, and, conversely, in case outstanding shares of Common Stock shall each be combined into a smaller number of shares of Common Stock, the Conversion Rate in effect at the opening of business on the day following the day upon which such combination becomes effective shall be proportionately reduced, such increase or reduction, as the case may be, to become effective immediately after the opening of business on the day following the day upon which such subdivision or combination becomes effective.

 

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(d) In case the Company shall, by dividend or otherwise, distribute to all holders of its Common Stock evidences of its Indebtedness, shares of any class of capital stock, or other property (including cash or assets or securities, but excluding (1) any rights, options or warrants referred to in paragraph (b) of this Section 10.4 and the distribution of rights to all holders of Common Stock pursuant to the adoption of a stockholders’ rights plan or the detachment of such rights under the terms of such stockholders’ rights plan, (2) any dividend or distribution paid in cash, except as set forth in paragraphs (e) and (f) of this Section 10.4, (3) any dividend or distribution referred to in paragraph (a) of this Section 10.4 and (4) any merger or consolidation paid in cash to which Section 10.11 applies), the Conversion Rate shall be adjusted so that the same shall equal the rate determined by dividing the Conversion Rate in effect immediately prior to the close of business on the date fixed for the determination of stockholders entitled to receive such distribution by a fraction of which the numerator shall be the current market price per share (determined as provided in paragraph (h) of this Section 10.4) of the Common Stock on the date fixed for such determination less the then fair market value (as determined by the Board of Directors, whose determination shall be conclusive and described in a Board Resolution) of the portion of the assets, shares or evidences of Indebtedness so distributed applicable to one share of Common Stock and the denominator shall be such current market price per share of the Common Stock, such adjustment to become effective (subject to paragraph (l) of this Section 10.4) immediately prior to the opening of business on the day following the date fixed for the determination of stockholders entitled to receive such distribution.

If the Company implements a stockholders’ rights plan (“New Rights Plan”), the Company will provide under such New Rights Plan that the Holders of the Securities will receive, in addition to the Common Stock, the rights under the New Rights Plan (whether or not the rights under the New Rights Plan have separated from the Common Stock at the time of conversion), subject to any limitations set forth in the New Rights Plan.

(e) In case the Company shall, by dividend or otherwise, distribute to all holders of its Common Stock cash (excluding cash portions of distribution referred to in Section 10.4(d) and any cash that is distributed upon a merger or consolidation to which Section 10.11 applies) in an aggregate amount that, combined together with (1) the aggregate amount of any other cash distributions to all holders of its Common Stock made exclusively in cash within the 365-day period preceding the date of payment of such distribution and in respect of which no adjustment pursuant to this paragraph (e) has been made and (2) the aggregate of any cash plus the fair market value (as determined by the Board of Directors, whose determination shall be conclusive and described in a Board Resolution) of consideration payable in respect of any tender offer by the Company or any Subsidiary for all or any portion of the Common Stock concluded within the 365-day period preceding the date of payment of such distribution and in respect of which no adjustment pursuant to paragraph (f) of this Section 10.4 has been made (the “Combined Cash and Tender Amount”) exceeds one percent (1%) of the product of the current market price per share (determined as provided in paragraph (h) of this Section 10.4) of the Common Stock on the date for the determination of holders of shares of Common Stock entitled to receive such distribution times the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding on such date (the “Aggregate Current Market Price”), then, and in each such case, immediately after the close of business on such date for

 

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determination, subject to paragraph (l) of Section 10.4, the Conversion Rate shall be adjusted so that the same shall equal the rate determined by dividing the Conversion Rate in effect immediately prior to the close of business on the date fixed for determination of the stockholders entitled to receive such distribution by a fraction (A) the numerator of which shall be equal to the current market price per share (determined as provided in paragraph (h) of this Section 10.4) of the Common Stock on the date fixed for such determination less an amount equal to the quotient of (i) the excess of such Combined Cash and Tender Amount over one percent (1%) of such Aggregate Current Market Price divided by (ii) the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding on such date fixed for determination and (B) the denominator of which shall be equal to the current market price per share (determined as provided in paragraph (h) of this Section 10.4) of the Common Stock on such date fixed for determination.

(f) In case a tender offer made by the Company or any Subsidiary for all or any portion of the Common Stock shall be completed for an aggregate consideration consisting of cash and/or property having a fair market value (as determined by the Board of Directors, whose determination shall be conclusive and described in a Board Resolution) that combined together with (1) the aggregate of the cash plus the fair market value (as determined by the Board of Directors, whose determination shall be conclusive and described in a Board Resolution), of consideration payable in respect of any other tender offer by the Company or any Subsidiary for all or any portion of the Common Stock concluded within the 365-day period preceding the completion of such tender offer and in respect of which no adjustment pursuant to this paragraph (f) has been made and (2) the aggregate amount of any distributions to all holders of the Company’s Common Stock made exclusively in cash within the 365-day period preceding the completion of such tender offer and in respect of which no adjustment pursuant to paragraph (e) of this Section 10.4 has been made (the “Combined Tender and Cash Amount”) exceeds ten percent (10%) of the product of the current market price per share of the Common Stock (determined as provided in paragraph (h) of this Section 10.4) as of the completion of such tender offer (the “Completion Date”) times the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding (including any tendered shares) as of the Completion Date, then, and in each such case, immediately prior to the opening of business on the day after the date of the Completion Date, the Conversion Rate shall be adjusted so that the same shall equal the rate determined by dividing the Conversion Rate immediately prior to close of business on the Completion Date by a fraction (A) the numerator of which shall be equal to (i) the product of (x) the current market price per share of the Common Stock (determined as provided in paragraph (h) of this Section 10.4) on the Completion Date multiplied by (y) the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding (including any tendered shares) on the Completion Date less (ii) the Combined Tender and Cash Amount, and (B) the denominator of which shall be equal to the product of (x) the current market price per share of the Common Stock (determined as provided in paragraph (h) of this Section 10.4) as of the Completion Date multiplied by (y) the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding (including any tendered shares) as of the Completion Date less the number of all shares validly tendered and not withdrawn as of the Completion Date.

(g) The reclassification of Common Stock into securities including other than Common Stock (other than any reclassification upon a consolidation or merger to which Section 10.11 applies) shall be deemed to involve (1) a distribution of such securities other than Common Stock to all holders of Common Stock (and the effective date of such reclassification shall be deemed to be “the date fixed for the determination of stockholders entitled to receive such distribution” and “the date fixed for such determination” within the meaning of paragraph (d) of this Section 10.4), and

 

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(2) a subdivision or combination, as the case may be, of the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding immediately prior to such reclassification into the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding immediately thereafter (and the effective date of such reclassification shall be deemed to be “the day upon which such subdivision becomes effective” or “the day upon which such combination becomes effective”, as the case may be, and “the day upon which such subdivision or combination becomes effective” within the meaning of paragraph (c) of this Section 10.4).

(h) For the purpose of any computation under paragraphs (b), (d), (e) or (f) of this Section 10.4, the current market price per share of Common Stock on any date shall be calculated by the Company and be deemed to be the Volume Weighted Average Price for the Trading Day before the “ex date” with respect to the issuance or distribution requiring such computation. For purposes of this paragraph, the term “ex date,” when used with respect to any issuance or distribution, means the first date on which the Common Stock trades regular way in the applicable securities market or on the applicable securities exchange without the right to receive such issuance or distribution.

(i) No adjustment in the Conversion Rate shall be required unless such adjustment (plus any adjustments not previously made by reason of this paragraph (i)) would require an increase or decrease of at least one percent in such rate; provided, however, that any adjustments which by reason of this paragraph (i) are not required to be made shall be carried forward and taken into account in any subsequent adjustment. All calculations under this Article X shall be made to the nearest cent or to the nearest one-hundredth of a share, as the case may be.

(j) The Company may make such increases in the Conversion Rate, for the remaining term of the Securities or any shorter term, in addition to those required by paragraphs (a), (b), (c), (d), (e) and (f) of this Section 10.4, as it considers to be advisable in order to avoid or diminish any income tax liability to any holders of shares of Common Stock resulting from any dividend or distribution of Common Stock or issuance of rights or warrants to purchase or subscribe for Common Stock or from any event treated as such for income tax purposes.

To the extent permitted by applicable law, the Company from time to time may increase the Conversion Rate by any amount for any period of time if the period is at least twenty (20) days and the Board of Directors shall have made a determination that such increase would be in the best interests of the Company, which determination shall be conclusive. Whenever the Conversion Rate is increased pursuant to the preceding sentence, the Company shall give notice of the increase to the Holders of Securities in the manner provided in Section 1.6 at least fifteen (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.

(k) Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this Section 10.4, no adjustment of the Conversion Rate shall be required to be made (1) upon the issuance of shares of Common Stock pursuant to any present or future plan for the reinvestment of dividends, (2) because of a tender or exchange offer of the character described in Rule 13e-4(h) (5) under the Exchange Act or any successor rule thereto or (3) as a result of a rights plan or poison pill implemented by the Company.

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adjustment), in which case the Company shall, with respect to any Security converted after such record date and on and before such adjustment shall have become effective (1) defer paying any cash payment pursuant to Section 10.3 hereof or issuing to the Holder of such Security the number of shares of Common Stock issuable upon such conversion in excess of the number of shares of Common Stock issuable thereupon only on the basis of the Conversion Rate prior to adjustment, and (2) not later than five (5) Business Days after such adjustment shall have become effective, pay to such Holder the appropriate cash payment pursuant to Section 10.3 hereof and issue to such Holder the additional shares of Common Stock issuable on such conversion. Notwithstanding the foregoing, no adjustment of the Conversion Rate shall be made if the event giving rise to such adjustment does not occur.

(m) In the event that the Company distributes rights or warrants (other than those referred to in paragraph (b) above) pro rata to holders of Common Stock, so long as any such rights or warrants have not expired, the Company shall make proper provision so that the Holder of any Security surrendered for conversion will be entitled to receive upon such conversion, in addition to the Common Stock issuable upon conversion of the Securities (the “Conversion Shares”), a number of rights and warrants to be determined as follows: (i) if such conversion occurs on or prior to the date for the distribution to the holders of rights or warrants of separate certificates evidencing such rights or warrants (the “Distribution Date”), the same number of rights or warrants to which a holder of a number of shares of Common Stock equal to the number of Conversion Shares is entitled at the time of such conversion in accordance with the terms and provisions of and applicable to the rights or warrants, and (ii) if such conversion occurs after such Distribution Date, the same number of rights or warrants to which a holder of the number of shares of Common Stock into which the principal amount of such Security so converted was convertible immediately prior to such Distribution Date would have been entitled on such Distribution Date in accordance with the terms and provisions of and applicable to the rights or warrants.

(n) In the event of a Change in Control, the Conversion Rate shall automatically adjust to 90% of the Conversion Rate in effect immediately prior to the event that results in a Change of Control. If the transaction causing the Change in Control is not consummated for any reason, the Conversion Rate shall revert back to the Conversion Rate in effect prior to the adjustment provided by this section.

(o) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary, in the event that the Company shall effect any increase in the Conversion Rate pursuant to this Section 10.4, the Company shall procure any required shareholder approvals.

SECTION 10.5 Notice of Adjustments of Conversion Rate.

Whenever the Conversion Rate is adjusted as herein provided:

(a) the Company shall compute the adjusted Conversion Rate in accordance with Section 10.4 and shall prepare a certificate signed by the Chief Financial Officer of the Company setting forth the adjusted Conversion Rate and showing in reasonable detail the facts upon which such adjustment is based, and such certificate shall promptly be filed with the Trustee and with the Conversion Agent; and

 

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(b) upon each such adjustment, a notice stating that the Conversion Rate has been adjusted and setting forth the adjusted Conversion Rate shall be required, and as soon as practicable after it is required, such notice shall be provided by the Company to all Holders in accordance with Section 1.6.

Neither the Trustee nor the Conversion Agent shall be under any duty or responsibility with respect to any such certificate or the information and calculations contained therein, except to exhibit the same to any Holder of Securities desiring inspection thereof at its office during normal business hours. Unless and until a Responsible Officer of the Trustee and Conversion Agent receive notice of an adjusted Conversion Rate, the Trustee and the Conversion Agent may rely without inquiry on the Conversion Rate most recently in effect.

SECTION 10.6 Notice of Certain Corporate Action.

In case:

(a) the Company shall declare a dividend (or any other distribution) on its Common Stock payable (i) otherwise than exclusively in cash or (ii) exclusively in cash in an amount that would require any adjustment pursuant to Section 10.4; or

(b) the Company shall authorize the granting to the holders of its Common Stock of rights, options or warrants to subscribe for or purchase any shares of capital stock of any class or of any other rights;

(c) or of any reclassification of the Common Stock of the Company, or of any consolidation, merger or share exchange to which the Company is a party and for which approval of any stockholders of the Company is required, or of the conveyance, sale, transfer or lease of all or substantially all of the assets of the Company; or

(d) of the voluntary or involuntary dissolution, liquidation or winding up of the Company;

then the Company shall cause to be filed at each office or agency maintained for the purpose of conversion of Securities pursuant to Section 8.2, and shall cause to be provided to all Holders in accordance with Section 1.6, at least twenty (20) days (or ten (10) days in any case specified in clause (a) or (b) above) prior to the applicable record or effective date hereinafter specified, a notice stating (1) the date on which a record is to be taken for the purpose of such dividend, distribution, rights, options or warrants, or, if a record is not to be taken, the date as of which the holders of Common Stock of record to be entitled to such dividend, distribution, rights, options or warrants are to be determined or (2) the date on which such reclassification, consolidation, merger, conveyance, transfer, sale, lease, dissolution, liquidation or winding up is expected to become effective, and the date as of which it is expected that holders of Common Stock of record shall be entitled to exchange their shares of Common Stock for securities, cash or other property deliverable upon such reclassification, consolidation, merger, conveyance, transfer, sale, lease, dissolution, liquidation or winding up. Neither the failure to give such notice or the notice referred to in the following paragraph nor any defect therein shall affect the legality or validity of the proceedings described in clauses (a) through (d) of this Section 10.6. If at the time the Trustee shall not be the Conversion Agent, a copy of such notice shall also forthwith be filed by the Company with the Trustee.

 

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The Company shall cause to be filed at each office or agency maintained for the purpose of conversion of Securities pursuant to Section 8.2, and shall cause to be provided to all Holders in accordance with Section 1.6, notice of any tender offer by the Company or any Subsidiary for all or any portion of the Common Stock at or about the time that such notice of tender offer is provided to the public generally.

SECTION 10.7 Company to Reserve Common Stock.

The Company shall at all times reserve and keep available, free from preemptive rights, out of its authorized but unissued Common Stock, for the purpose of effecting the conversion of Securities, the full number of shares of Common Stock then issuable upon the conversion of all Outstanding Securities.

SECTION 10.8 Taxes on Conversions.

Except as provided in the next sentence, the Company will pay any and all taxes and duties that may be payable in respect of the issue or delivery of shares of Common Stock on conversion of Securities pursuant hereto. The Company shall not, however, be required to pay any tax or duty which may be payable in respect of any transfer involved in the issue and delivery of shares of Common Stock in a name other than that of the Holder of the Security or Securities to be converted, and no such issue or delivery shall be made unless and until the Person requesting such issue has paid to the Company the amount of any such tax or duty or has established to the satisfaction of the Company that such tax or duty has been paid.

SECTION 10.9 Covenant as to Common Stock.

The Company agrees that all shares of Common Stock that may be delivered upon conversion of Securities, upon such delivery, will be newly issued shares and will have been duly authorized and validly issued and will be fully paid and nonassessable and, except as provided in Section 10.8, the Company will pay all taxes, liens and charges with respect to the issue thereof.

SECTION 10.10 Cancellation of Converted Securities.

All Securities delivered for conversion shall be delivered to the Trustee or its agent to be cancelled by or at the direction of the Trustee, which shall dispose of the same as provided in Section 2.10.

SECTION 10.11 Provision in Case of Consolidation, Merger or Sale of Assets.

In case of any consolidation or merger of the Company with or into any other Person, any merger of another Person with or into the Company (other than a merger that does not result in any reclassification, conversion, exchange or cancellation of outstanding shares of Common Stock of the Company) or any conveyance, sale, transfer or lease of all or substantially all of the assets of the Company, the Person formed by such consolidation or resulting from such merger or that acquires such assets, as the case may be, shall execute and deliver to the Trustee a supplemental indenture providing that the Holder of each Security then Outstanding shall have the right thereafter, during the period such Security shall be convertible as specified in Section 10.1, to convert such Security only into the kind and amount of securities, cash and other property receivable upon such

 

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consolidation, merger, conveyance, sale, transfer or lease by a holder of the number of shares of Common Stock of the Company into which such Security might have been converted immediately prior to such consolidation, merger, conveyance, sale, transfer or lease, assuming such holder of Common Stock of the Company (a) is not a Person with which the Company consolidated or merged with or into or that merged into or with the Company or to which such conveyance, sale, transfer or lease was made, as the case may be (a “Constituent Person”), or an Affiliate of a Constituent Person and (b) failed to exercise his rights of election, if any, as to the kind or amount of securities, cash and other property receivable upon such consolidation, merger, conveyance, sale, transfer or lease (provided that if the kind or amount of securities, cash and other property receivable upon such consolidation, merger, conveyance, sale, transfer, or lease is not the same for each share of Common Stock of the Company held immediately prior to such consolidation, merger, conveyance, sale, transfer or lease by other than a Constituent Person or an Affiliate thereof and in respect of which such rights of election shall not have been exercised (“Non-electing Share”), then for the purpose of this Section 10.11 the kind and amount of securities, cash and other property receivable upon such consolidation, merger, conveyance, sale, transfer or lease by the holders of each Non-electing Share shall be deemed to be the kind and amount so receivable per share by a plurality of the Non-electing Shares). Such supplemental indenture shall provide for adjustments that, for events subsequent to the effective date of such supplemental indenture, shall be as nearly equivalent as may be practicable to the adjustments provided for in this Article X. The above provisions of this Section 10.11 shall similarly apply to successive consolidations, mergers, conveyances, sales, transfers or leases. Notice of the execution of such a supplemental indenture shall be given by the Company to the Holder of each Security as provided in Section 1.6 promptly upon such execution.

Neither the Trustee nor the Conversion Agent shall be under any responsibility to determine the correctness of any provisions contained in any such supplemental indenture relating either to the kind or amount of shares of stock or other securities or property or cash receivable by Holders of Securities upon the conversion of their Securities after any such consolidation, merger, conveyance, transfer, sale or lease or to any such adjustment but may accept as conclusive evidence of the correctness of any such provisions, and shall be protected in relying upon, an Officers Certificate or an Opinion of Counsel with respect thereto, which the Company shall cause to be furnished to the Trustee upon request.

SECTION 10.12 Responsibility of Trustee for Conversion Provisions.

(a) The Trustee, subject to the provisions of Section 5.1, and any Conversion Agent shall not at any time be under any duty or responsibility to any Holder of Securities to determine whether any facts exist that may require any adjustment of the Conversion Rate, or with respect to the nature or extent of any such adjustment when made, or with respect to the method employed herein or in any supplemental indenture in making the same, or whether a supplemental indenture need be entered into. Neither the Trustee, subject to the provisions of Section 5.1, nor any Conversion Agent shall be accountable with respect to the validity or value (or the kind or amount) of any Common Stock, or of any other securities or property or cash, that may at any time be issued or delivered upon the conversion of any Security; and it or they do not make any representation with respect thereto. Neither the Trustee, subject to the provisions of Section 5.1, nor any Conversion Agent shall be responsible for any failure of the Company to make or calculate any cash payment or to issue, transfer or deliver any shares of Common Stock or share certificates or other securities or property or cash upon the surrender of any Security for the purpose of conversion; and the Trustee, subject to the provisions of Section 5.1, and any Conversion Agent shall not be responsible for any failure of the Company to comply with any of the covenants of the Company contained in this Article X.

 

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SECTION 10.13 Automatic Conversion.

(a) If at any time after September 29, 2009 and on or prior to Stated Maturity, the Closing Price of the Common Stock has exceeded two hundred percent (200%) of the Conversion Price then in effect for at least twenty (20) Trading Days in any thirty (30) consecutive Trading Day period, ending within five (5) Trading Days prior to the date of the Automatic Conversion Notice (as defined below) the Securities shall automatically convert as provided herein (an “Automatic Conversion”); provided, however, that such Automatic Conversion shall be subject to Section 10.2 hereof. The amount of Securities that shall automatically convert for any 30 Trading Day period shall equal the lesser of (i) the value of ten (10) times the Volume Weighted Average Price of the Common Stock during such 20 day triggering period times the average daily trading volume of the Common Stock during such 20 day period, rounded down to the nearest $1,000, and (ii) one half of the principal amount of the Securities that have been authenticated under the Indenture as of the date of the Automatic Conversion Notice. Each 30 Trading Day period for which an Automatic Conversion may be triggered shall commence anew at the end of the period which triggered the Automatic Conversion.

(b) Upon Automatic Conversion, the Company shall pay to Holders a Make-Whole Payment in accordance with Article IX hereof.

(c) At the request and expense of the Company, the Trustee shall mail or cause to be mailed to each Holder notice (the “Automatic Conversion Notice”) of an Automatic Conversion not more than thirty (30) days but not less than twenty (20) days prior to the date on which the Notes will be Automatically Converted (the “Automatic Conversion Date”). If the Company gives such notice, it shall also deliver a copy of such Automatic Conversion Notice to the Trustee. Such mailing shall be by first class mail. Such notice, if mailed 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 notice by mail or any defect in the notice to the holder of any Security shall not affect the validity of the proceedings for the Automatic Conversion of any other Security.

(d) Each Automatic Conversion Notice shall state:

(1) the aggregate principal amount of Securities to be automatically converted,

(2) the CUSIP, ISIN or similar number or numbers of the Securities being automatically converted,

(3) the Automatic Conversion Date,

(4) that on and after said date Interest thereon will cease to accrue,

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(6) the place or places where the Securities are to be surrendered for conversion, and

(7) the Conversion Price then in effect.

(e) Prior to or contemporaneous with the mailing of an Automatic Conversion Notice to the Holders, the Company shall issue a press release containing the information contained in the Automatic Conversion Notice.

(f) In the event of an Automatic Conversion, the Company shall issue and deliver (i) a certificate or certificates for the number of Conversion Shares and (ii) any cash in respect of any fractional shares of Common Stock otherwise issuable upon conversion or the Make-Whole Payment, for payment to the Holders as promptly after the Automatic Conversion Date, as practicable in accordance with the provisions of this Article X, but in no event later than the close of business on the third next succeeding Business Day following such Automatic Conversion Date.

(g) All Securities subject to an Automatic Conversion shall be delivered to the Trustee or its agent to be cancelled by or at the direction of the Trustee, which shall dispose of the same as provided in Section 2.10.

(h) If less than all the Securities are to be Automatically Converted, the particular Securities to be converted shall be selected by the Trustee at least five (5) Business Days prior to the date that the Automatic Conversion Notice is given from the Outstanding Securities by lot or such method as the Trustee may deem fair and appropriate.

(i) Upon Automatic Conversion, Interest on the Securities shall cease to accrue and, except as provided in Section 5.6, to be entitled to any benefit or security under this Indenture, and the holders thereof shall have no right in respect of such Securities except the right to receive the Common Stock and cash, if any, to which they are entitled pursuant to this Section 10.13.

(j) If any of the provisions of this Section 10.13 are inconsistent with applicable law at the time of such Automatic Conversion, such law shall govern.

(k) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary, in the event that the Company shall effect Automatic Conversion pursuant to this Section 10.13, the Company shall procure any required shareholder approvals.

SECTION 10.14 Compensation for Buy-In on Failure to Timely Deliver Certificates Upon Conversion

If the Company fails to deliver to a Holder the applicable certificate or certificates for Common Stock by the fifth Trading Day following the delivery of the notice of conversion to the Trustee, and if after such date such Holder is required by its brokerage firm to purchase (in an open market transaction or otherwise), or the Holder’s brokerage firm purchases, shares of Common Stock to deliver in satisfaction of a sale by such Holder of the Conversion Shares which such Holder was entitled to receive upon the conversion relating to such notice of conversion (a “Buy-In”), then the Company shall (A) pay in cash to such Holder (in addition to any other remedies available to or elected by such Holder) the amount by which (x) such Holder’s total purchase price (including any

 

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brokerage commissions) for the shares of Common Stock so purchased exceeds (y) the product of (1) the aggregate number of shares of Common Stock that such Holder was entitled to receive from the conversion at issue multiplied by (2) the actual sale price at which the sell order giving rise to such purchase obligation was executed (including any brokerage commissions) and (B) at the option of such Holder, either reissue (if surrendered) Securities equal to the aggregate principal amount of Securities submitted for conversion or deliver to such Holder the number of shares of Common Stock that would have been issued if the Company had timely complied with its delivery requirements under Section 10.2. For example, if a Holder purchases shares of Common Stock having a total purchase price of $11,000 to cover a Buy-In with respect to an attempted conversion of Securities with respect to which the actual sale price (including any brokerage commissions) giving rise to such purchase obligation was a total of $10,000 under clause (A) of the immediately preceding sentence, the Company shall be required to pay such Holder $1,000. The Holder shall provide the Company written notice indicating the amounts payable to such Holder in respect of the Buy-In and, upon request of the Company, evidence of the amount of such loss. Nothing herein shall limit a Holder’s right to pursue any other remedies available to it hereunder, at law or in equity including, without limitation, a decree of specific performance and/or injunctive relief with respect to the Company’s failure to timely deliver certificates representing shares of Common Stock upon conversion of the Securities as required pursuant to the terms hereof.

ARTICLE XI

RANKING

The Securities will rank pari passu in right of payment with all existing and future senior Indebtedness and with the Company’s Existing 2005 Senior Notes, Existing 2006 Senior Notes, Existing 2007 Senior Notes, Existing 2008 Senior Notes, Existing 2008 15% Senior Notes, Existing 2008 18.33% Senior Notes, Existing 2008 Series B 18.33% Senior Notes and Existing 2008 10% Senior Notes. The Securities will be senior in right of payment to the Company’s Existing 2003 Senior Subordinated Notes. The Securities will also effectively be senior in right of payment to the liabilities of the Company’s Subsidiaries.

ARTICLE XII

REPURCHASE OF SECURITIES AT THE

OPTION OF THE HOLDER UPON A CHANGE IN CONTROL

SECTION 12.1 Right to Require Repurchase.

In the event that a Change in Control shall occur, then each Holder shall have the right, at the Holder’s option, but subject to the provisions of Section 12.2, to require the Company to repurchase for cash, and upon the exercise of such right the Company shall repurchase, all of such Holder’s Securities, or any portion of the principal amount thereof that is equal to U.S. $1,000 or any greater integral multiple of U.S. $1,000, on the date (the “Repurchase Date”) that is fixed by the Company at a cash purchase price equal to one hundred percent (100%) of the principal amount of the Securities to be repurchased plus interest accrued to, but excluding, the Repurchase Date (the “Repurchase Price”); provided, however, that installments of interest on Securities whose Stated Maturity is on or prior to the Repurchase Date shall be payable to the Holders of such Securities, or one or more Predecessor Securities, registered as such on the relevant Record Date according to their terms and the provisions of Section 2.8. The Repurchase Date will be determined by the Company

 

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in the following manner: (i) the Company will give notice of the Change in Control as contemplated in Section 12.2(a); (ii) each Holder electing to exercise the repurchase right must deliver, on or before the thirtieth (30th) day (or such greater period as may be required by applicable law) after the date of the Company’s notice provided in provision (i) above: (A) irrevocable written notice to the trustee of such Holder’s exercise of its repurchase right; and (B) the Securities with respect to which such repurchase right is being exercised; and (iii) the Company will make the repurchase on a date that is no later than forty-five (45) days after the Holder has delivered the notice provided in proviso (ii) above. Such right to require the repurchase of the Securities shall not continue after a discharge of the Company from its obligations with respect to the Securities in accordance with Article III unless a Change in Control shall have occurred prior to such discharge. Whenever in this Indenture (including Sections 2.2, 4.1(a) and 4.8) there is a reference, in any context, to the principal of any Security as of any time, such reference shall be deemed to include reference to the Repurchase Price that has become and remains payable in respect of such Security to the extent that such Repurchase Price is, was or would be so payable at such time, and express mention of the Repurchase Price in any provision of this Indenture shall not be construed as excluding the Repurchase Price in those provisions of this Indenture when such express mention is not made.

SECTION 12.2 Notices; Method of Exercising Repurchase Right, Etc.

(a) On or before the thirtieth (30th) day after the occurrence of a Change in Control, the Company or, at the request and expense of the Company on or before the thirtieth (30th) day after such occurrence, the Trustee, shall give to all Holders of Securities, in the manner provided in Section 1.6, notice (the “Company Notice”) of the occurrence of the Change in Control and of the repurchase right set forth herein arising as a result thereof. The Company shall also deliver a copy of such notice of a repurchase right to the Trustee.

Each notice of a repurchase right shall state:

(1) the Repurchase Date,

(2) the date by which the repurchase right must be exercised,

(3) the Repurchase Price,

(4) a description of the procedure that a Holder must follow to exercise a repurchase right, and the place or places where such Securities are to be surrendered for payment of the Repurchase Price and accrued interest, if any,

(5) that on the Repurchase Date, the Repurchase Price, and accrued interest, if any, will become due and payable upon each such Security designated by the Holder to be repurchased and that interest thereon shall cease to accrue on and after said date,

(6) the Conversion Rate then in effect, the date on which the right to convert the principal amount of the Securities to be repurchased will terminate and the place or places where such Securities may be surrendered for conversion,

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(8) the CUSIP number or numbers of such Securities.

No failure of the Company to give the foregoing notices or defect therein shall limit any Holder’s right to exercise a repurchase right or affect the validity of the proceedings for the repurchase of Securities.

If any of the foregoing provisions or other provisions of this Article XII are inconsistent with applicable law, such law shall govern.

(b) To exercise a repurchase right, a Holder shall deliver to the Trustee on or before the thirtieth (30th) day (or such greater period as may be required by applicable law) after the date of the Company Notice (1) written notice of the Holder’s exercise of such right, which notice shall set forth the name of the Holder, the principal amount of the Securities to be repurchased (and, if any Security is to repurchased in part, the serial number thereof, the portion of the principal amount thereof to be repurchased and the name of the Person in which the portion thereof to remain Outstanding after such repurchase is to be registered) and a statement that an election to exercise the repurchase right is being made thereby, and (2) the Securities with respect to which the repurchase right is being exercised. Such written notice shall be irrevocable, except that the right of the Holder to convert the Securities with respect to which the repurchase right is being exercised shall continue until the close of business on the Business Day immediately preceding the Repurchase Date.

(c) In the event a repurchase right shall be exercised in accordance with the terms hereof, the Company shall pay or cause to be paid to the Trustee the Repurchase Price in cash for payment to the Holder on the Repurchase Date together with accrued and unpaid interest to the Repurchase Date payable with respect to the Securities as to which the purchase right has been exercised; provided, however, that installments of interest that mature on or prior to the Repurchase Date shall be payable in cash to the Holders of such Securities, or one or more Predecessor Securities, registered as such at the close of business on the relevant Regular Record Date.

(d) If any Security (or portion thereof) surrendered for repurchase shall not be so paid on the Repurchase Date, the principal amount of such Security (or portion thereof, as the case may be) shall, until paid, bear interest to the extent permitted by applicable law from the Repurchase Date at the rate then in effect per annum, and each Security shall remain convertible into Common Stock until the principal of such Security (or portion thereof, as the case may be) shall have been paid or duly provided for.

(e) Any Security that is to be repurchased only in part shall be surrendered to the Trustee (with, if the Company or the Trustee so requires, due endorsement by, or a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Company and the Trustee duly executed by, the Holder thereof or his attorney duly authorized in writing), and the Company shall execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and make available for delivery to the Holder of such Security without service charge, a new Security or Securities, containing identical terms and conditions, each in an authorized denomination in aggregate principal amount equal to and in exchange for the unrepurchased portion of the principal of the Security so surrendered.

 

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(f) No fractions of shares shall be issued upon repurchase of Securities. If more than one Security shall be repurchased from the same Holder and the Repurchase Price shall be payable in shares of Common Stock, the number of full shares that shall be issuable upon such repurchase shall be computed on the basis of the aggregate principal amount of the Securities so repurchased. Instead of any fractional share of Common Stock that would otherwise be issuable on the repurchase of any Security or Securities, the Company will deliver to the applicable Holder a check for the current market value of such fractional share. The current market value of a fraction of a share is determined by multiplying the current market price of a full share by the fraction and rounding the result to the nearest cent. For purposes of this Section 12.2, the current market price of a share of Common Stock is the average of the high and low sales price per share of the Common Stock on the Trading Day immediately preceding the Repurchase Date.

(g) All Securities delivered for repurchase shall be delivered to the Trustee to be canceled at the direction of the Trustee, which shall dispose of the same as provided in Section 2.10.

ARTICLE XIII

HOLDERS LISTS AND REPORTS BY

TRUSTEE AND COMPANY; NON-RECOURSE

SECTION 13.1 Company to Furnish Trustee Names and Addresses of Holders.

The Company will furnish or cause to be furnished to the Trustee:

(a) semi-annually, not more than fifteen (15) days after the Regular Record Date, a list, in such form as the Trustee may reasonably require, of the names and addresses of the Holders of Securities as of such Regular Record Date, and

(b) at such other times as the Trustee may reasonably request in writing, within thirty (30) days after the receipt by the Company of any such request, a list of similar form and content as of a date not more than fifteen (15) days prior to the time such list is furnished;

provided, however, that no such list need be furnished so long as the Trustee is acting as Security Registrar.

SECTION 13.2 Preservation of Information.

(a) The Trustee shall preserve, in as current a form as is reasonably practicable, the names and addresses of Holders contained in the most recent list furnished to the Trustee as provided in Section 13.1 and the names and addresses of Holders received by the Trustee in its capacity as Security Registrar. The Trustee may destroy any list furnished to it as provided in Section 13.1 upon receipt of a new list so furnished.

(b) After this Indenture has been qualified under the Trust Indenture Act, the rights of Holders to communicate with other Holders with respect to their rights under this Indenture or under the Securities, and the corresponding rights and duties of the Trustee, shall be as provided by the Trust Indenture Act.

(c) Every Holder of Securities, by receiving and holding the same, agrees with the Company and the Trustee that neither the Company nor the Trustee nor any agent of either of them shall be held accountable by reason of any disclosure of information as to names and addresses of Holders made pursuant to the Trust Indenture Act.

 

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SECTION 13.3 No Recourse Against Others.

An incorporator or any past, present or future director, officer, employee or stockholder, as such, of the Company or any successor entity shall not have any liability for any obligations of the Company under the Securities or this Indenture or for any claim based on, in respect of or by reason of such obligations or their creation. By accepting a Security, each Holder shall waive and release all such liability. Such waiver and release shall be part of the consideration for the issue of the Securities.

SECTION 13.4 Reports by Trustee.

(a) After this Indenture has been qualified under the Trust Indenture Act, the Trustee shall transmit to Holders such reports concerning the Trustee and its actions under this Indenture as may be required pursuant to the Trust Indenture Act at the times and in the manner provided therein. If required by Section 313(a) of the Trust Indenture Act, the Trustee shall, within sixty (60) days after each May 15 following the date of this Indenture, deliver to Holders a brief report, dated as of such May 15, that complies with the provisions of such Section 313(a).

(b) After this Indenture has been qualified under the Trust Indenture Act, a copy of each such report shall, at the time of such transmission to Holders, be filed by the Trustee with each stock exchange upon which the Securities are listed, with the Commission and with the Company. The Company will promptly notify the Trustee when the Securities are listed on any stock exchange.

SECTION 13.5 Section 13 or 15(d) Reports by Company.

After this Indenture has been qualified under the Trust Indenture Act, the Company shall file with the Trustee and the Commission, and transmit to Holders, such information, documents and other reports, and such summaries thereof, as may be required pursuant to the Trust Indenture Act at the times and in the manner provided therein; provided, however, that any such information, documents or reports required to be filed with the Commission pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act shall be filed with the Trustee within fifteen (15) days after the same is so required to be filed with the Commission. Documents filed by the Company with the Commission via the EDGAR system shall be deemed to be filed with the Trustee as of the time such documents are filed via EDGAR.

Delivery of such reports, information and documents to the Trustee is for informational purposes only and the Trustee’s receipt thereof shall not constitute constructive notice of any information contained therein or determinable from information contained therein, including the Company’s compliance with any of its covenants hereunder (as to which the Trustee is entitled to rely exclusively on Officers’ Certificates).

 

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Indenture to be duly executed, all as of the day and year first above written.

 

CELL THERAPEUTICS, INC.
By   /s/ Louis A. Bianco
Name:   Louis A. Bianco
Title:   Executive Vice President, Finance and Administration

U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION,

as Trustee

By   /s/ Paula M. Oswald
Name:   Paula M. Oswald
Title:   Vice President

 

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EXHIBIT A

[FORM OF FACE]

[THE FOLLOWING LEGEND SHALL APPEAR ON THE FACE OF EACH GLOBAL SECURITY:

THIS NOTE IS A GLOBAL SECURITY WITHIN THE MEANING OF THE INDENTURE HEREINAFTER REFERRED TO AND IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF THE DEPOSITARY OR A NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITARY, WHICH MAY BE TREATED BY THE COMPANY, THE TRUSTEE AND ANY AGENT THEREOF AS OWNER AND HOLDER OF THIS NOTE FOR ALL PURPOSES.]

[THE FOLLOWING LEGEND SHALL APPEAR ON THE FACE OF EACH GLOBAL SECURITY FOR WHICH THE DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY IS TO BE THE DEPOSITARY:

UNLESS THIS CERTIFICATE IS PRESENTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF THE DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY, A NEW YORK CORPORATION (“DTC”), TO THE ISSUER 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 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.]


CELL THERAPEUTICS, INC.

15.5% CONVERTIBLE SENIOR NOTE DUE SEPTEMBER 29, 2012

 

No.                    U.S. $                    

CUSIP No.

Cell Therapeutics, Inc., a corporation duly organized and existing under the laws of the State of Washington (herein called the “Company,” which term includes any successor Person under the Indenture referred to on the reverse hereof), for value received, hereby promises to pay to Cede & Co., or registered assigns, the principal sum of                          United States Dollars (U.S. $                    ) [if this Security is a Global Security, then insert — (which principal amount may from time to time be increased or decreased to such other principal amounts (which, taken together with the principal amounts of all other Outstanding Securities, shall not exceed $                     in the aggregate at any time, [by adjustments made on the records of the Trustee hereinafter referred to in accordance with the Indenture)]] on September 29, 2012, unless repurchased on an earlier date.

Interest Payment Dates: [            ] and [        ]

Regular Record Dates:   [            ] and [        ]

Reference is hereby made to the further provisions of this Security set forth on the reverse hereof, which further provisions shall for all purposes have the same effect as if set forth at this place.

SIGNATURE PAGE FOLLOWS


IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Company has caused this Security to be duly executed.

 

CELL THERAPEUTICS, INC.
By:    
Name:  
Title:  

 

Attest:
     
Name:  
Dated:   ____________________________

This is one of the Securities referred to in the within-mentioned Indenture.

 

U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION,

as Trustee

By:    
  Authorized Signatory

 

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[FORM OF REVERSE]

Indenture; Defined Terms. This Security is one of a duly authorized issue of securities of the Company designated as its “15.5% Convertible Senior Notes due September 29, 2012” (herein called the “Securities”), limited in aggregate principal amount to U.S. $14,210,526, issued and to be issued under an Indenture dated as of September 29, 2008 (herein called the “Indenture”) between the Company and U.S. Bank National Association, as Trustee (herein called the “Trustee,” which term includes any successor trustee under the Indenture), to which Indenture and all indentures supplemental thereto reference is hereby made for a statement of the respective rights, limitations of rights, duties and immunities thereunder of the Company, the Trustee and the Holders of the Securities and of the terms upon which the Securities are, and are to be, authenticated and delivered. To the extent any provision of this Security conflicts with the express provisions of the Indenture, the provisions of the Indenture shall govern and be controlling. All terms used in this Security which are defined in the Indenture shall have the meanings assigned to them in the Indenture.

Payments of Interest. The Company promises to pay interest on the principal amount of this Security, from September 29, 2008, or from the most recent Interest Payment Date (as defined below) to which interest has been paid or duly provided for, semiannually in arrears on May 15 and November 15 in each year (each, an “Interest Payment Date”), commencing November 15, 2008, at the rate of 15.5% per annum, until the principal hereof is due, and at the rate then in effect on any overdue principal and premium, if any, and, to the extent permitted by law, on any overdue interest. The interest so payable, and punctually paid or duly provided for, on any Interest Payment Date will, as provided in the Indenture, be paid to the Person in whose name this Security (or one or more Predecessor Securities) is registered at the close of business on the Regular Record Date for such interest, which shall be May 1 and November 1 (whether or not a Business Day), as the case may be, next preceding such Interest Payment Date. Any interest not punctually paid or duly provided for shall be payable as provided in the Indenture.

Method of Payment. Payment of interest on this Security may be made at the option of the Company as follows: (i) by United States Dollar check mailed to the address of the Person entitled thereto as such address shall appear in the Security Register or, (ii) upon written application by the Holder to the Security Registrar setting forth wire instructions not later than the relevant Record Date, by wire transfer to a United States dollar account (such a wire transfer to be made only to a Holder of an aggregate principal amount of Registered Securities in excess of U.S. $2,000,000 and only if such Holder shall have furnished wire instructions in writing to the Trustee no later than 15 days prior to the relevant payment date) maintained by the payee.

Payments of Principal. Payments of principal shall be made upon the surrender of this Security at the Corporate Trust Office or at such other office or agency of the Company as may be designated by it for such purpose in the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York, in such coin or currency of the United States of America as at the time of payment shall be legal tender for the payment of public and private debts, or at such other offices or agencies as the Company may designate, by United States Dollar check drawn on, or wire transfer to, a United States Dollar account (such a wire transfer to be made only to a Holder of an aggregate principal amount of Registered Securities in excess of U.S. $2,000,000 and only if such Holder shall have furnished wire instructions in writing to the Trustee no later than 15 days prior to the relevant payment date) maintained by the payee.


Sinking Fund. No sinking fund is provided for the Securities.

Tax. Except as specifically provided herein and in the Indenture, the Company shall not be required to make any payment with respect to any tax, assessment or other governmental charge imposed by any government or any political subdivision or taxing authority thereof or therein.

In any case where the due date for the payment of the principal of, premium, if any, or interest on any Security or the last day on which a Holder of a Security has a right to convert its Security shall be, at any Place of Payment or Place of Conversion, as the case may be, a day on which banking institutions at such Place of Payment or Place of Conversion are authorized or obligated by law or executive order to close, then payment of principal, premium, if any, or interest or delivery for conversion of such Security need not be made on or by such date at such place but may be made on or by the next succeeding day at such place which is not a day on which banking institutions are authorized or obligated by law or executive order to close, with the same force and effect as if made on the date for such payment or the date fixed for repurchase, or by such last day for conversion, and no interest shall accrue on the amount so payable for the period from and after such due date. Interest on the Securities shall be computed on the basis of a 360-day year of twelve 30-day months.

Conversion at Option of Holder. Subject to and upon compliance with the provisions of the Indenture, the Holder of this Security is entitled, at its option, at any time after the original issue date of the Securities and on or before the close of business on September 29, 2012, or in case the Holder of this Security has exercised his right to require the Company to repurchase this Security or such portion hereof, then in respect of this Security until and including, but (unless the Company defaults in making the payment due upon repurchase) not after, the close of business on the Business Day immediately preceding the Repurchase Date to convert this Security or any portion of the principal amount hereof that is an integral multiple of U.S. $1,000 into fully paid and nonassessable shares of Common Stock of the Company at the initial Conversion Rate per U.S. $1,000 principal amount of Securities (or at the current adjusted Conversion Rate, if any adjustment has been made as provided in the Indenture) by surrender of this Security, duly endorsed or assigned to the Company or in blank.

In case such surrender shall be made during the period from the close of business on any Regular Record Date next preceding any Interest Payment Date to the opening of business on such Interest Payment Date (except if this Security or a portion thereof is repurchasable on a Repurchase Date, with the consequence that the conversion right of such Security would terminate between such Regular Record Date and the close of business on such Interest Payment Date), also accompanied by payment in New York Clearing House or other funds acceptable to the Company of an amount equal to the interest payable on such Interest Payment Date on the principal amount of this Security then being converted and also the conversion notice hereon duly executed, to the Company at the Corporate Trust Office, or at such other office or agency of the Company, subject to any laws or regulations applicable thereto and subject to the right of the Company to terminate the appointment of any Conversion Agent (as defined below) as may be designated by it for such purpose in the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York, or at such other offices or agencies as the Company may designate.

 

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The interest so payable on such Interest Payment Date, with respect to any Security (or portion thereof, if applicable) that is surrendered for conversion during the period from the close of business on any Regular Record Date next preceding any Interest Payment Date to the opening of business on such Interest Payment Date, shall be paid to the Holder of such Security as of such Regular Record Date. Interest payable in respect of any Security surrendered for conversion on or after an Interest Payment Date shall be paid to the Holder of such Security as of the next preceding Regular Record Date, notwithstanding the exercise of the right of conversion.

Except as provided in this paragraph and subject to the Indenture, no cash payment or adjustment shall be made upon any conversion on account of any interest accrued from the Interest Payment Date next preceding the conversion date, in respect of any Security (or part thereof, as the case may be) surrendered for conversion, or on account of any dividends on the Common Stock issued upon conversion.

The Company’s delivery to the Holder of the number of shares of Common Stock (and cash in lieu of fractions thereof, as provided in this Indenture) into which a Security is convertible and any rights pursuant to Section 10.4(m) of the Indenture will be deemed to satisfy the Company’s obligation to pay the principal amount of the Security.

No fractions of shares or scrip representing fractions of shares will be issued on conversion, but instead of any fractional interest (calculated to the nearest 1/100th of a share) the Company shall pay a cash adjustment as provided in the Indenture.

The Conversion Rate is subject to adjustment as provided in the Indenture. In addition, the Indenture provides that in case of certain consolidations or mergers to which the Company is a party or the conveyance, transfer, sale or lease of all or substantially all of the property and assets of the Company, the Indenture shall be amended, without the consent of any Holders of Securities, so that this Security, if then Outstanding, will be convertible thereafter, during the period this Security shall be convertible as specified above, only into the kind and amount of securities, cash and other property receivable upon such consolidation, merger, conveyance, transfer, sale or lease by a holder of the number of shares of Common Stock of the Company into which this Security could have been converted immediately prior to such consolidation, merger, conveyance, transfer, sale or lease (assuming such holder of Common Stock is not a Constituent Person or an Affiliate of a Constituent Person, failed to exercise any rights of election and received per share the kind and amount received per share by a plurality of Non-electing Shares). No adjustment in the Conversion Rate will be made until such adjustment would require an increase or decrease of at least one percent of such rate; provided that any adjustment that would otherwise be made will be carried forward and taken into account in the computation of any subsequent adjustment.

Automatic Conversion of Notes. The Notes will automatically convert (an “Automatic Conversion”) at any time after September 29, 2009 if the Closing Price (as defined in the Indenture) per share of the Common Stock has exceeded two hundred percent (200%) of the Conversion Price then in effect for at least twenty (20) Trading Days within a period of thirty (30) consecutive Trading Days ending within five (5) Trading Days of the date the Company gives to all holders of Notes a notice of the Automatic Conversion. The amount of Securities that shall automatically convert for any 30 Trading Day period shall equal the lesser of (i) the value of ten (10) times the Volume Weighted Average Price of the Common Stock during such 20 day triggering period times the

 

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average daily trading volume of the Common Stock during such 20 day period, rounded down to the nearest $1,000, and (ii) one half of the principal amount of the Securities that have been authenticated under the Indenture as of the date of the Automatic Conversion Notice. Each 30 Trading Day period for which an Automatic Conversion may be triggered shall commence anew at the end of the period which triggered the Automatic Conversion.

The Company, or at its request (which must be received by the Trustee at least five (5) Business Days prior to the date the Trustee is requested to give notice as described below unless a shorter period is agreed to by the Trustee), the Trustee in the name of and at the expense of the Company, shall send or cause to be sent a notice of the Automatic Conversion not more than thirty (30) days but not less than five (5) days before the date of effectiveness of the Automatic Conversion as set forth in the Indenture.

Make-Whole Payment. Upon the conversion of any Security, the Company will pay to the Holders of the Securities so converted cash with respect to the Security so converted in an amount equal to U.S. $0.62 per $1.00 principal amount of the Securities, less the amount of any interest paid on the Securities before the relevant Conversion Date.

Compensation for Buy-In on Failure to Timely Deliver Certificates Upon Conversion. If the Company fails to deliver to a Holder the applicable certificate or certificates by the fifth Trading Day following the delivery of the notice of conversion to the Trustee, and if after such date such Holder is required by its brokerage firm to purchase (in an open market transaction or otherwise), or the Holder’s brokerage firm purchases, shares of Common Stock to deliver in satisfaction of a sale by such Holder of the Conversion Shares which such Holder was entitled to receive upon the conversion relating to such notice of conversion (a “Buy-In”), then the Company shall (A) pay in cash to such Holder (in addition to any other remedies available to or elected by such Holder) the amount by which (x) such Holder’s total purchase price (including any brokerage commissions) for the shares of Common Stock so purchased exceeds (y) the product of (1) the aggregate number of shares of Common Stock that such Holder was entitled to receive from the conversion at issue multiplied by (2) the actual sale price at which the sell order giving rise to such purchase obligation was executed (including any brokerage commissions) and (B) at the option of such Holder, either reissue (if surrendered) Securities equal to the aggregate principal amount of Securities submitted for conversion or deliver to such Holder the number of shares of Common Stock that would have been issued if the Company had timely complied with its delivery requirements under the Indenture.

Optional Repurchase Upon Change of Control. If a Change in Control occurs, the Holder of this Security, at the Holder’s option, shall have the right, in accordance with the provisions of the Indenture, to require the Company to repurchase this Security (or any portion of the principal amount hereof that is equal to U.S. $1,000 or any greater integral multiple of U.S. $1,000) for cash at a Repurchase Price equal to 100% of the principal amount thereof plus interest accrued to, but excluding, the Repurchase Date.

 

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[The following paragraph shall appear in each Registered Security that is not a Global Security:

In the event of repurchase or conversion of this Security in part only, a new Registered Security or Registered Securities for the unrepurchased or unconverted portion hereof will be issued in the name of the Holder hereof.]

Event of Default and Remedies. If an Event of Default shall occur and be continuing, the principal of all the Securities, together with accrued and unpaid interest, if any, to the date of declaration, may be declared due and payable in the manner and with the effect provided in the Indenture.

As provided in and subject to the provisions of the Indenture, the Holder of this Security shall not have the right to institute any proceeding with respect to the Indenture or for the appointment of a receiver or trustee or for any other remedy thereunder, unless such Holder shall have previously given the Trustee written notice of a continuing Event of Default, the Holders of not less than $1,000,000 in aggregate principal amount of the Outstanding Securities shall have made written request to the Trustee to institute proceedings in respect of such Event of Default as Trustee and furnished the Trustee reasonable indemnity, the Trustee shall have failed to institute any such proceeding for 30 days after receipt of such notice, request and offer of indemnity, and the Trustee has not received any direction inconsistent with such written request from the Holders of a majority of the aggregate principal amount of the Outstanding Securities during such 30 day period. The foregoing shall not apply to any suit instituted by the Holder of this Security for the enforcement of any payment of principal hereof, premium, if any, Make-Whole Payment, if any, or interest hereon on or after the respective due dates expressed herein or for the enforcement of the right to convert or repurchase this Security as provided in the Indenture.

Amendment, Supplement and Waiver. The Indenture permits, with certain exceptions as therein provided, the amendment thereof and the modification of the rights and obligations of the Company and the rights of the Holders of the Securities under the Indenture at any time by the Company and the Trustee with the written consent of the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the Securities at the time Outstanding. The Indenture also contains provisions permitting the Holders of specified percentages in principal amount of the Securities at the time Outstanding, on behalf of the Holders of all the Securities, to waive compliance by the Company with certain provisions of the Indenture and certain past defaults under the Indenture and their consequences. Any such consent or waiver by the Holder of this Security shall be conclusive and binding upon such Holder and upon all future Holders of this Security and of any Security issued in exchange herefor or in lieu hereof, whether or not notation of such consent or waiver is made upon this Security or such other Security.

Denominations; Transfer; Exchange. As provided in the Indenture and subject to certain limitations therein set forth, the transfer of Registered Securities is registrable on the Security Register upon surrender of a Registered Security for registration of transfer at the Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee or at such other office or agency of the Company as may be designated by it for such purpose in the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York, or at such other offices or agencies as the Company may designate, duly endorsed by, or accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Company and the Security Registrar duly executed by, the Holder thereof or his attorney duly authorized in writing, and thereupon one or more new Registered Securities, of authorized denominations and for the same aggregate principal amount, will be issued to the designated transferee or transferees by the Registrar. No service charge shall be made for any such registration of transfer or exchange, but the Company may require payment of a sum sufficient to recover any tax or other governmental charge payable in connection therewith.

 

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[The following paragraph shall appear in each Global Security:

In the event of a deposit or withdrawal of an interest in this Security, including an exchange, transfer, repurchase or conversion of this Security in part only, the Trustee, as custodian of the Depositary, shall make an adjustment on its records to reflect such deposit or withdrawal in accordance with the Applicable Procedures.]

Persons Deemed Owners. Prior to due presentation of a Registered Security for registration of transfer, the Company, the Trustee and any agent of the Company or the Trustee may treat the Person in whose name such Registered Security is registered as the owner thereof for all purposes, whether or not such Security be overdue, and neither the Company, the Trustee nor any such agent shall be affected by notice to the contrary.

Governing Law. The Indenture and this Security shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of New York, United States of America, including, without limitation, Section 5-1401 of the New York General Obligations Law.

Authentication. Unless the certificate of authentication has been executed by the Trustee or an Authenticating Agent by the manual signature of one of their respective authorized signatories, this Security shall not be entitled to any benefit under the Indenture or be valid or obligatory for any purpose.

 

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EXHIBIT B

ELECTION OF HOLDER TO REQUIRE REPURCHASE

1. Pursuant to Section 12.1 of the Indenture, the undersigned hereby elects to have the principal amount of this Security set forth below repurchased by the Company.

2. The undersigned hereby directs the Trustee or the Company to pay it or an amount in cash equal to 100% of the principal amount to be repurchased (as set forth below), plus interest accrued to the Repurchase Date.

 

Dated: ___________________
  
Signature

 

Signature Guaranteed
  

 

Principal amount to be repurchased:
  
(must be equal to U.S. $1,000 or any greater integral multiple of U.S. $1,000):

 

Remaining principal amount following such repurchase:
  

NOTICE: The signature to the foregoing election must correspond to the name as written upon the face of this Security in every particular, without alteration or any change whatsoever.

 

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EXHIBIT C

CONVERSION NOTICE

The undersigned Holder of this Security hereby irrevocably exercises the option to convert this Security, or any portion of the principal amount hereof below designated, into shares of Common Stock in accordance with the terms of the Indenture referred to in this Security and directs that such shares, together with a check in payment for any fractional share and any Securities representing any unconverted principal amount hereof, be delivered to and be registered in the name of the undersigned unless a different name has been indicated below. If shares of Common Stock or Securities are to be registered in the name of a Person other than the undersigned, the undersigned will pay all transfer taxes payable with respect thereto. Any amount required to be paid by the undersigned on account of interest accompanies this Security.

 

Dated: ____________________       
    Signature

 

If shares or Registered Securities are registered in the name of a Person other than the Holder, please print such Person’s name and address

 

_______________________________________________

 

_______________________________________________

Address

 

_______________________________________________

Social Security or other Taxpayer Identification Number, if any

 

 

_______________________________________________

Signature Guaranteed

 

If only a portion of the Securities is to be to be converted, please indicate:

 

1.      Principal amount to be converted:

 

U.S. $_________________

 

2.      Principal amount and denomination of Registered Securities representing unconverted principal amount to be issued:

 

Amount: U.S. $_________________

 

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