DEXCOM, INC.,

EX-4.01 2 a07-7694_1ex4d01.htm EX-4.01

Exhibit 4.01

 

 

 

 

DEXCOM, INC.,

as Issuer

 

AND

 

Wells Fargo Bank, National Association,

as Trustee

 

INDENTURE

Dated as of March 9, 2007

 

4.75% Convertible Senior Notes due 2027

 




TABLE OF CONTENTS

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ARTICLE 1. Definitions and Other Provisions of General Application

1

 

 

 

Section 1.01

Definitions

1

Section 1.02

Compliance Certificates and Opinions

11

Section 1.03

Form of Documents Delivered to Trustee

11

Section 1.04

Acts of Holders; Record Dates.

12

Section 1.05

Notices, Etc., to Trustee and Company

13

Section 1.06

Notice to Holders; Waiver

13

Section 1.07

Conflict with Trust Indenture Act

13

Section 1.08

Effect of Headings and Table of Contents

14

Section 1.09

Successors and Assigns

14

Section 1.10

Severability Clause

14

Section 1.11

Benefits of Indenture

14

Section 1.12

Governing Law

14

Section 1.13

No Recourse Against Others

14

 

 

 

ARTICLE 2. Security Forms

14

 

 

 

Section 2.01

Forms Generally

14

Section 2.02

Form of Face of Security

15

Section 2.03

Form of Reverse of Security.

18

Section 2.04

Form of Trustee’s Certificate of Authentication

26

Section 2.05

Legend on Restricted Securities

27

 

 

 

ARTICLE 3. The Securities

27

 

 

 

Section 3.01

Title and Terms; Payments

27

Section 3.02

Ranking

27

Section 3.03

Denominations

27

Section 3.04

Execution, Authentication, Delivery and Dating

28

Section 3.05

Temporary Securities

28

Section 3.06

Registration; Registration of Transfer and Exchange; Restrictions on Transfer.

29

Section 3.07

Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost and Stolen Securities

30

Section 3.08

Persons Deemed Owners

31

Section 3.09

Book-Entry Provisions for Global Securities.

31

Section 3.10

Cancellation and Transfer Provisions

33

Section 3.11

CUSIP Numbers

34

 

 

 

ARTICLE 4. Particular Covenants of the Company

34

 

 

 

Section 4.01

Payment of Principal and Interest

34

Section 4.02

Maintenance of Office or Agency

34

Section 4.03

Appointments to Fill Vacancies in Trustee’s Office

35

 

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Section 4.04

Provisions as to Paying Agent.

 

35

Section 4.05

Existence

 

36

Section 4.06

Maintenance of Properties

 

36

Section 4.07

Payment of Taxes and Other Claims

 

36

Section 4.08

Rule 144A Information Requirement

 

37

Section 4.09

Resale of Certain Securities

 

37

Section 4.10

Commission Filings and Reports

 

37

Section 4.11

Book-Entry System

 

38

Section 4.12

Additional Interest under the Registration Rights Agreement and Special Interest under this Indenture

 

38

Section 4.13

Stay; Extension and Usury Laws

 

38

Section 4.14

Compliance Certificate

 

38

Section 4.15

Incurrence of Indebtedness.

 

39

 

 

 

 

ARTICLE 5. Redemption and Repurchase

 

39

 

 

 

Section 5.01

Selection of Securities to Be Redeemed.

 

39

Section 5.02

Notice of Redemption.

 

40

Section 5.03

Effect of Notice of Redemption.

 

41

Section 5.04

Deposit of Redemption Price.

 

41

Section 5.05

Optional Redemption.

 

41

Section 5.06

Mandatory Redemption.

 

42

Section 5.07

Repurchase at Option of Holders Upon a Fundamental Change.

 

42

Section 5.08

Effect of Fundamental Change Repurchase Notice

 

44

Section 5.09

Withdrawal of Fundamental Change Repurchase Notice.

 

44

Section 5.10

Deposit of Fundamental Change Repurchase Price

 

45

Section 5.11

Repurchase of Securities at the Option of the Holder on Specified Dates

 

45

Section 5.12

Securities Redeemed or Repurchased in Whole or in Part

 

47

Section 5.13

Covenant to Comply With Securities Laws Upon Repurchase of Securities

 

48

Section 5.14

Repayment to the Company

 

48

 

 

 

 

ARTICLE 6. Conversion

 

48

 

 

 

Section 6.01

Right to Convert.

 

48

Section 6.02

Automatic Conversion

 

48

Section 6.03

Conversion Procedure.

 

49

Section 6.04

Settlement Upon Conversion.

 

51

Section 6.05

Adjustment of Conversion Rate

 

52

Section 6.06

Effect of Reclassification, Consolidation, Merger or Sale

 

58

Section 6.07

Adjustments of Average Prices

 

60

Section 6.08

Adjustments Upon Certain Fundamental Changes.

 

60

Section 6.09

Taxes on Shares Issued

 

61

Section 6.10

Reservation of Shares; Shares to be Fully Paid; Compliance With Governmental Requirements; Listing of Common Stock

 

61

Section 6.11

Responsibility of Trustee

 

61

 

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Section 6.12

Notice to Holders Prior to Certain Actions

 

62

Section 6.13

Stockholder Rights Plan

 

63

Section 6.14

Company Determination Final

 

63

Section 6.15

Exchange in Lieu of Conversion.

 

63

 

 

 

 

ARTICLE 7. Events of Default; Remedies

 

64

 

 

 

Section 7.01

Events of Default

 

64

Section 7.02

Acceleration of Maturity; Rescission and Annulment.

 

65

Section 7.03

Collection of Indebtedness and Suits for Enforcement by Trustee

 

66

Section 7.04

Trustee May File Proofs of Claim

 

67

Section 7.05

Application of Money Collected

 

67

Section 7.06

Limitation on Suits

 

68

Section 7.07

Unconditional Right of Holders to Receive Payment

 

68

Section 7.08

Restoration of Rights and Remedies

 

68

Section 7.09

Rights and Remedies Cumulative

 

69

Section 7.10

Delay or Omission Not Waiver

 

69

Section 7.11

Control by Holders

 

69

Section 7.12

Waiver of Past Defaults

 

69

Section 7.13

Undertaking for Costs

 

69

Section 7.14

Waiver of Stay or Extension Laws

 

70

Section 7.15

Violations of Certain Covenants

 

70

Section 7.16

Notice of Default

 

70

Section 7.17

Default Interest

 

70

 

 

 

 

ARTICLE 8. Consolidation, Merger, Conveyance, Transfer or Lease

 

70

 

 

 

Section 8.01

Company May Consolidate, etc., Only on Certain Terms

 

70

Section 8.02

Successor Substituted

 

71

 

 

 

 

ARTICLE 9. The Trustee

 

71

 

 

 

Section 9.01

Duties and Responsibilities of Trustee

 

71

Section 9.02

Notice of Defaults

 

72

Section 9.03

Reliance on Documents, Opinions, Etc

 

72

Section 9.04

No Responsibility for Recitals, Etc

 

74

Section 9.05

Trustee, Paying Agents, Conversion Agents or Registrar May Own Securities

 

74

Section 9.06

Monies to be Held in Trust

 

74

Section 9.07

Compensation and Expenses of Trustee

 

74

Section 9.08

Officers’ Certificate as Evidence

 

75

Section 9.09

Conflicting Interests of Trustee

 

75

Section 9.10

Eligibility of Trustee

 

75

Section 9.11

Resignation or Removal of Trustee.

 

75

Section 9.12

Acceptance by Successor Trustee

 

76

Section 9.13

Succession by Merger, Etc

 

77

Section 9.14

Preferential Collection of Claims

 

77

 

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Section 9.15

Trustee’s Application for Instructions from the Company

 

77

 

 

 

 

ARTICLE 10. Holders’ Lists and Reports by Trustee

 

78

 

 

 

Section 10.01

Company to Furnish Trustee Names and Addresses of Holders

 

78

Section 10.02

Preservation of Information; Communications to Holders.

 

78

Section 10.03

Reports By Trustee

 

78

 

 

 

 

ARTICLE 11. Satisfaction And Discharge

 

79

 

 

 

Section 11.01

Discharge of Indenture

 

79

Section 11.02

Deposited Monies to be Held in Trust by Trustee

 

79

Section 11.03

Paying Agent to Repay Monies Held

 

80

Section 11.04

Return of Unclaimed Monies

 

80

Section 11.05

Reinstatement

 

80

 

 

 

 

ARTICLE 12. Supplemental Indentures

 

80

 

 

 

Section 12.01

Supplemental Indentures Without Consent of Holders

 

80

Section 12.02

Supplemental Indentures With Consent of Holders

 

81

Section 12.03

Execution of Supplemental Indentures

 

82

Section 12.04

Effect of Supplemental Indentures

 

82

Section 12.05

Conformity with Trust Indenture Act

 

82

Section 12.06

Reference in Securities to Supplemental Indentures

 

82

Section 12.07

Notice to Holders of Supplemental Indentures

 

83

 

 

 

 

ARTICLE 13. Miscellaneous

 

83

 

 

 

Section 13.01

Trust Indenture Act Controls

 

83

Section 13.02

Notices

 

83

Section 13.03

Communication by Holders with other Holders

 

84

Section 13.04

Certificate and Opinion as to Conditions Precedent

 

84

Section 13.05

Statements Required in Certificate or Opinion

 

84

Section 13.06

When Securities Are Disregarded

 

84

Section 13.07

Rules by Trustee, Paying Agent and Registrar

 

85

Section 13.08

Legal Holidays

 

85

Section 13.09

Governing Law

 

85

Section 13.10

No Recourse Against Others

 

85

Section 13.11

Successors

 

85

Section 13.12

Multiple Originals

 

85

Section 13.13

Qualification of Indenture

 

85

Section 13.14

Table of Contents; Headings

 

85

Section 13.15

Severability Clause

 

86

Section 13.16

Calculations

 

86

Section 13.17

Waiver of Jury Trial

 

86

Section 13.18

Force Majeure

 

86

 

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INDENTURE, dated as of  March 9, 2007, between DexCom, Inc., a corporation duly organized and existing under the laws of the State of Delaware (the “Company”), having its principal office at 5555 Oberlin Drive, San Diego, California 92121 and Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, a national banking association, as Trustee (the “Trustee”).

RECITALS OF THE COMPANY

WHEREAS, the Company has duly authorized the creation of an issue of 4.75% Convertible Senior Notes due 2027 (each a “Security” and collectively, the “Securities”) of the tenor and amount hereinafter set forth, and to provide therefor the Company has duly authorized the execution and delivery of this Indenture; and

WHEREAS, all things necessary to make the Securities, when executed by the Company and authenticated and delivered hereunder and duly issued by the Company, the valid and legally binding obligations of the Company, and to make this Indenture a valid and legally binding agreement of the Company, in accordance with the terms of the Securities and the Indenture, have been done;

NOW, THEREFORE, THIS INDENTURE WITNESSETH, for and in consideration of the premises and the purchases of the Securities by the Holders thereof, it is mutually agreed, for the benefit of the Company and the equal and proportionate benefit of all Holders of the Securities, as follows:

ARTICLE 1.
Definitions and Other Provisions of General Application

Section 1.01           Definitions.  For all purposes of this Indenture, except as otherwise expressly provided or unless the context otherwise requires:

(i)            the terms defined in this Article 1 have the meanings assigned to them in this Article and include the plural as well as the singular;

(ii)           all other terms used herein that are defined in the Trust Indenture Act, either directly or by reference therein, have the meanings assigned to them therein;

(iii)          all accounting terms not otherwise defined herein have the meanings assigned to them in accordance with GAAP; and

(iv)          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, has the meaning specified in Section 1.04.

Additional Interest” shall mean Additional Interest as defined in the Registration Rights Agreement.

Additional Shares” has the meaning specified in Section 6.08(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” has the meaning specified in Section 3.09.

“Auto-Conversion Price” has the meaning specified in Section 6.02(a).

“Automatic Conversion” has the meaning specified in Section 6.02(a).

“Automatic Conversion Date” has the meaning specified in Section 6.02(a).

“Automatic Conversion Notice” has the meaning specified in Section 6.02(a).

Bid Solicitation Agent” means an independent nationally recognized securities dealer selected by the Company to solicit market bid quotations for the Securities, which shall in no event be an Affiliate of the Company.

Board of Directors” means, with respect to any Person, either the board of directors of such Person or any duly authorized committee of that board.

Board Resolution” means, with respect to any Person, a copy of a resolution certified by the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary of such Person to have been duly adopted by the Board of Directors and to be in full force and effect on the date of such certification, and delivered to the Trustee.

‘‘Borrowing Base’’ has the meaning specified in Section 4.15.

Business Day” means any day other than a Saturday, a Sunday or a day on which the Federal Reserve Bank in The City of New York is authorized or obligated by law, executive order or governmental decree to be closed.

Capital Stock” means any and all shares, interests, participations, rights or other equivalents (however designated) of corporate stock and, with respect to partnerships, partnership interests (whether general or limited) and any other interest or participation that confers on a Person the right to receive a share of the profits and losses of, or distributions of assets of, such partnership.

Code” means the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended.

Commission” means the 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.

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Common Stock” means the shares of common stock, par value $0.001 per share, of the Company as they exist on the date of this Indenture or any other shares of Capital Stock of the Company into which the Common Stock shall be reclassified or changed or, in the event of a merger, consolidation or other similar transaction involving the Company that is otherwise permitted hereunder in which the Company is not the surviving corporation, the common stock, common equity interests, ordinary shares or depositary shares or other certificates representing common equity interests of such surviving corporation or its direct or indirect parent corporation.

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 Request” or “Company Order” means a written request or order signed in the name of the Company by its Chief Executive Officer, its President or its Chief Financial Officer, and by its Treasurer or its Secretary, and delivered to the Trustee.

Conversion Agent” means the Trustee or such other office or agency designated by the Company where Securities may be presented for conversion.

Conversion Date” has the meaning specified in Section 6.03(b).

Conversion Notice” shall have the meaning specified in Section 6.03(b).

Conversion Price” means as of any date $1,000 divided by the Conversion Rate as of such date.

Conversion Rate” has the meaning specified in Section 2.03.

Corporate Trust Office” means the office of the Trustee at which the corporate trust business of the Trustee shall, at any particular time, be principally administered, which office is, at the date as of which this Indenture is dated, located at 707 Wilshire Blvd., 17th Floor, Los Angeles, CA 90017, Attention:  Corporate Trust Services (DexCom, Inc.,  4.75% Convertible Senior Notes due 2027).

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

Custodian” means Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, as custodian with respect to the Securities in global form, or any successor entity.

Daily VWAP” means, for each of the 20 consecutive Trading Days during the Observation Period, the per share volume-weighted average price as displayed under the heading “Bloomberg VWAP” on Bloomberg page “DXCM.UQ <equity> AQR” (or its equivalent successor if such page is not available) in respect of the period from 9:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. (New York City time) on such Trading Day (or if such volume-weighted average price is unavailable, the market value of one share of Common Stock on such Trading Day determined, using a volume-weighted average method, by a nationally recognized independent investment banking firm retained for such purpose by the Company).

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Default” means any event that is or with the passage of time or the giving of notice or both would become an Event of Default.

Depositary” means The Depository Trust Company until a successor Depositary shall have become such pursuant to the applicable provisions of this Indenture, and thereafter “Depositary” shall mean such successor Depositary.

Effective Date” has the meaning specified in Section 6.08(b).

Event of Default” has the meaning specified in Section 7.01(f).

Ex Date” means, with respect to any issuance, dividend or distribution on the Common Stock or any other equity security, the first date on which shares of the Common Stock or such other equity security trade on the applicable exchange or in the applicable market, regular way, without the right to receive the issuance, dividend or distribution in question.

Exchange Act” means the U.S. Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.

Exchange Rate Contract” means, with respect to any Person, any currency swap agreement, forward exchange rate agreement, foreign currency future or option, exchange rate collar agreement, exchange rate insurance or other agreement or arrangement, or combination thereof, the principal purpose of which is to provide protection against fluctuations in currency exchange rates.  An Exchange Rate Contract may also include an Interest Rate Agreement.

Fair Market Value” means the amount that a willing buyer would pay a willing seller in an arm’s length transaction.

Fundamental Change” means the occurrence of any of the following events at any time after the Securities are originally issued:

(1)           a “person” or “group” within the meaning of Section 13(d) of the Exchange Act other than the Company, its Subsidiaries or its or their employee benefit plans becomes the direct or indirect “beneficial owner,” as defined in Rule 13d-3 under the Exchange Act, of the Company’s common equity representing more than 50% of the voting power of the Company’s common equity;

(2)           consummation of any share exchange, consolidation or merger of the Company pursuant to which the Company’s common stock will be converted into cash, securities or other property or any sale, lease or other transfer in one transaction or a series of transactions of all or substantially all of the consolidated assets of the Company and its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, to any person other than one of the Company’s wholly-owned Subsidiaries; provided, however, that a transaction where the holders of more than 50% of all classes of the Company’s common equity immediately prior to such transaction own, directly or indirectly, more than 50% of all classes of common equity of the continuing or surviving corporation or transferee immediately after such event shall not be a Fundamental Change;

(3)           the Company’s stockholders approve any plan or proposal for the liquidation or dissolution of the Company; or

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(4)           the Common Stock, or other common stock or American Depository Receipts into which the Securities are then convertible, ceases to be listed for trading on a United States national securities exchange or quoted on an established over-the-counter trading market in the U.S.

Notwithstanding the foregoing, a Fundamental Change as a result of clause (2) above will not be deemed to have occurred if (i) 90% or more of the consideration received or to be received by the holders of Common Stock, excluding cash payments for fractional shares and cash payments in respect of dissenters’ or appraisal rights, in the transaction or transactions otherwise constituting the Fundamental Change consists of Publicly Traded Securities and, as a result of such transaction or transactions, the Securities become convertible into such Publicly Traded Securities, excluding cash payments for fractional shares and cash payments in respect of dissenters’ or appraisal rights.

Fundamental Change Company Notice” has the meaning specified in Section 5.07(b).

Fundamental Change Repurchase Date” has the meaning specified in Section 5.07(a).

Fundamental Change Repurchase Notice” has the meaning specified in Section 5.07(a).

Fundamental Change Repurchase Price” has the meaning specified in Section 5.07(a).

GAAP” means generally accepted accounting principles set forth in the opinions and pronouncements of the Accounting Principles Board of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and statements and pronouncements of the Financial Accounting Standards Board or in such other statements by such other entity as have been approved by a significant segment of the accounting profession, in each case, as in effect in the United States on the date hereof.

Global Security” means a Security in global form registered in the Security Register in the name of a Depositary or a nominee thereof.

Holder” or “Securityholder” means a Person in whose name a Security is registered in the Security Register.

Indebtedness” means (except with respect to Section 4.15 of this Indenture), with respect to any Person, without duplication, (i) any indebtedness or obligation, whether contingent or not, (1) evidenced by a credit or loan agreement, note, bond, debenture or similar written obligation or instrument (whether or not the recourse of the lender is to the whole of the assets of such Person or to only a portion thereof) or (2) for money borrowed, (ii) all obligations (1) as lessee under leases required to be capitalized on such Person’s balance sheet under GAAP or (2) as lessee under other leases for facilities, capital equipment or related assets, whether or not capitalized, entered into or leased for financing purposes, (iii) all net obligations under Interest Rate Agreements, Exchange Rate Contracts or similar agreements or arrangements, (iv) all obligations and liabilities (contingent or otherwise) of such Person with respect to letters of credit, bankers’ acceptances and similar facilities (including reimbursement obligations with respect to the foregoing), (v) all obligations and liabilities (contingent or otherwise) of such

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Person issued or assumed as the deferred purchase price of any property or services (but excluding trade accounts payable and accrued liabilities arising in the ordinary course of business), (vi) obligations of the type described in clauses (i) through (v) above of any third party and all dividends of any third party payment of which, in either case, such Person has assumed or guaranteed, or for which the Person first referenced above is responsible or liable, directly or indirectly, jointly or severally, as obligor, guarantor or otherwise, or that are secured by a lien on such Person’s property and (vii) any and all renewals, extensions, modifications, replacements, restatements and refundings of, or any indebtedness or obligation issued in exchange for, any indebtedness, obligation or liability of the kinds described in clauses (i) through (vi).  The amount of any Indebtedness outstanding as of any date shall be the accreted value thereof, in the case of any Indebtedness issued with original issue discount.  The amount of any Indebtedness outstanding as of any date with respect to any Exchange Rate Contract or Interest Rate Agreement shall be the termination value thereof.  Indebtedness shall not include liabilities for taxes of any kind.  For the purposes of Section 4.15 of this Indenture, “Indebtedness” has the meaning specified 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.

Initial Purchaser” means Piper Jaffray & Co.

Interest Payment Date” means each March 15 and September 15 of each year.

Interest Rate Agreement” means, with respect to any Person, any interest rate swap agreement, interest rate cap agreement, interest rate collar agreement or other similar agreement the principal purpose of which is to protect the party indicated therein against fluctuations in interest rates.

Issue Date” means the date the Securities are originally issued as set forth on the face of the Security under this Indenture.

Last Reported Sale Price” means, on any date, the closing sale price per share of the Common Stock (or, if no closing sale price is reported, the average of the bid and ask prices or, if more than one in either case, the average of the average bid and the average ask prices) on such date as reported in composite transactions for the principal U.S. national or regional securities exchange on which the Common Stock is listed for trading.  The “Last Reported Sale Price” shall be determined without reference to after-hours or extended market trading.  If the Common Stock is not listed for trading on a U.S. national or regional securities exchange, “Last Reported Sale Price” shall mean the last quoted bid price for the Common Stock in the over-the-counter market on such date as reported by the National Quotation Bureau Incorporated or any successor organization thereto.  If the Common Stock is not so quoted, “Last Reported Sale Price” shall mean the average of the mid-point of the last bid and ask prices for the Common Stock on such date from each of at least three nationally recognized independent investment banking firms selected by the Company for such purpose.

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Legal Holiday” has the meaning specified in Section 13.08.

Majority Owner” means, with respect to an entity, another entity that has “beneficial ownership” (as defined in Rule 13(d)(3) under the Exchange Act) of more than 50% of the total voting power of all shares of the first entity’s Capital Stock that are entitled to vote generally in the election of directors.

“Make-Whole Interest Payment” has the meaning specified in Section 6.02(a).

Market Disruption Event” means, if the Common Stock is listed on a U.S. national or regional securities exchange, the occurrence or existence during the one half hour period ending on the scheduled close of trading on any Trading Day for the Common Stock of any material suspension or limitation imposed on trading (by reason of movements in price exceeding limits permitted by such exchange or otherwise) in the Common Stock or in any options, contracts or future contracts relating to the Common Stock.

Maturity,” when used with respect to any Security, means the date on which the principal or Fundamental Change Repurchase Price of such Security becomes due and payable as therein or herein provided, whether at the Stated Maturity or Fundamental Change Repurchase Date, by declaration of acceleration or otherwise.

Notice of Default” has the meaning specified in Section 7.01.

Observation Period” with respect to any Security means the 20 consecutive Trading Day period beginning on and including the second Trading Day after the related Conversion Date, except that with respect to any conversion occurring during the period beginning on December 15, 2011, and ending at 5:00 p.m., New York City time, on the second Scheduled Trading Day prior to the Stated Maturity of the Securities, Observation Period means the first 20 Trading Days beginning on and including the 22nd Scheduled Trading Day prior to the Stated Maturity of the Securities.

Officers’ Certificate” means a certificate signed by the Chief Executive Officer, the President or the Chief Financial Officer, and by the Treasurer or the Secretary, of the Company, and delivered to the Trustee.  One of the officers signing an Officers’ Certificate given pursuant to Section 4.14 shall be the principal executive, financial or accounting officer of the Company.

Opinion of Counsel” means a written opinion of counsel, who may be external or in-house counsel for the Company.

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

(i)            Securities theretofore cancelled by the Trustee or accepted by the Trustee for cancellation;

(ii)           Securities, or portions thereof, for whose payment or repurchase money in the necessary amount has been theretofore deposited with the Trustee or any Paying Agent (other than the Company) in trust or set aside and segregated in trust by the

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Company (if the Company shall act as its own Paying Agent) for the Holders of such Securities; provided that if such Securities are to be repurchased prior to the maturity thereof, notice of such repurchase shall have been given to the Holders as herein provided, or provision satisfactory to a Responsible Officer of the Trustee shall have been made for giving such notice;

(iii)          Securities that have been paid or in exchange for or in lieu of which other Securities have been authenticated and delivered pursuant to this Indenture; and

(iv)          Securities converted into Common Stock pursuant to Article 6;

provided, however, that, in determining whether the Holders of the requisite Principal Amount of the Outstanding Securities 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 of 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 request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent or waiver, only Securities which a Responsible Officer of the Trustee actually knows to be so owned shall be so disregarded.  Securities so owned which 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 of such other obligor.

Paying Agent” means any Person (including the Company) authorized by the Company to pay the Principal Amount of, interest on, including Additional Interest and  Special Interest, or the Fundamental Change Repurchase Price of, any Securities on behalf of the Company.  Wells Fargo Bank. National Association shall initially be the Paying Agent.

Person” means any individual, corporation, partnership, limited liability company, joint venture, trust, unincorporated organization or government or any agency or political subdivision thereof.

Physical Securities” means permanent certificated Securities in registered form issued in denominations of $1,000 Principal Amount and integral multiples thereof.

Principal Amount” of a Security means the Principal Amount as set forth on the face of the Security.

Publicly Traded Securities” means shares of Capital Stock or American Depository Receipts that are traded on a U.S. national securities exchange or quoted on an established automated over-the-counter trading market in the U.S. or, with respect to a transaction described in any of clauses (1) through (4) of the definition of “Fundamental Change”, which will be so traded or quoted when issued or exchanged in connection with such event.

Purchase Agreement” means the Purchase Agreement, dated  February 28, 2007, entered into by the Company and the Initial Purchaser in connection with the sale of the Securities, as amended by the Amendment to the Purchase Agreement, dated March 5, 2007 between the Company and the Initial Purchaser.

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Qualified Institutional Buyer” or “QIB” shall have the meaning specified in Rule 144A.

Record Date” means, with respect to the payment of interest on the Securities, including Additional Interest and  Special Interest, if any, the March 1 (whether or not a Business Day) next preceding an Interest Payment Date on March 15 and September 1 (whether or not a Business Day) next preceding an Interest Payment Date on September 15.

“Redemption Date” has the meaning specified in Section 5.05.

Reference Property” has the meaning specified in Section 6.06.

Registration Rights Agreement” means the Registration Rights Agreement, dated as of March 9, 2007, between the Company and the Initial Purchaser, for the benefit of itself and the Holders, as the same may be amended or modified from time to time in accordance with the terms thereof.

“Repurchase Date” has the meaning specified in Section 5.11(a).

“Repurchase Election Notice” has the meaning specified in Section 5.11(b).

“Repurchase Notice” has the meaning specified in Section 5.11(b).

“Repurchase Price” has the meaning specified in Section 5.11(a).

Resale Registration Statement” means a registration statement under the Securities Act registering the Securities for resale pursuant to the terms of the Registration Rights Agreement.

Responsible Officer” means any officer of the Trustee within the Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee with direct responsibility for the administration of this Indenture and also, with respect to a particular matter, any other officer of the Trustee to whom such matter is referred because of such officer’s knowledge and familiarity with the particular subject.

Restricted Global Security” means a Global Security representing Restricted Securities.

Restricted Security” or “Restricted Securities” has the meaning specified in Section 2.05.

Rule 144” means Rule 144 under the Securities Act (including any successor rule thereto), as the same may be amended from time to time.

Rule 144A” means Rule 144A under the Securities Act (including any successor rule thereto), as the same may be amended from time to time.

Rule 144A Information” has the meaning specified in Section 2.03.

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Scheduled Trading Day” means a day that is scheduled to be a trading day on the principal U.S. national or regional securities exchange or market on which the Common Stock is listed or admitted for trading.

Securities Act” means the U.S. Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and the rules and regulations of the Commission promulgated thereunder.

Security” or “Securities” has the meaning specified in the first paragraph of the Recitals of the Company.

Security Register” and “Security Registrar” have the respective meanings specified in Section 3.06.

Significant Subsidiary” shall have the meaning given to such term in Rule 1-02(w) of Regulation S-X under the Securities Act.

Special Interest” has the meaning specified in Section 7.02.

Spin-Off” has the meaning specified in Section 6.05(c).

Stated Maturity,” when used with respect to any Security, means the date specified in such Security as the fixed date on which an amount equal to the Principal Amount of such Security together with accrued and unpaid interest, if any, is due and payable.

Stock Price” has the meaning specified in Section 6.08(b).

Stock Transfer Agent” means American Stock Transfer & Trust Company Investor Services, L.L.C., or such other Person as may be designated by the Company as the transfer agent for the Common Stock.

Stockholder Rights Agreement” means the Rights Agreement, dated as of March 11, 2005, between the Company and American Stock Transfer & Trust Company

 “Subsidiary” means a corporation more than 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 which ordinarily has voting power for the election of directors, whether at all times or only so long as no senior class of stock has such voting power by reason of any contingency.

Successor Company” has the meaning specified in Section 8.01.

Trading Day” means a day during which (i) trading in the Company’s Common Stock generally occurs on the principal U.S. national or regional securities exchange or market on which the Company’s Common Stock is listed or admitted to trading and (ii) there is no Market Disruption Event.

Transfer Restricted Security” means a Security required to bear the restricted legend set forth in the form of Security in Section 2.02.

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Trigger Event” has the meaning specified in Section 6.05(b).

Trust Indenture Act” means the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 as in effect on the date as of which this Indenture 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.

U.S.” means the United States of America.

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

Section 1.02           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 such certificates and opinions as may be required under the Trust Indenture Act.  Each such certificate or opinion shall be given in the form of an Officers’ Certificate, if to be given by an officer of the Company, or an Opinion of Counsel, if to be given by counsel, and shall comply with the requirements of the Trust Indenture Act and any other requirement set forth in this Indenture.

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;

(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 each such individual, such individual has made such examination or investigation as is necessary to enable such individual 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.

Section 1.03           Form of Documents Delivered to 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.

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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 his 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 stating that the information with respect to such factual matters is in the possession of the Company, 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 1.04           Acts of Holders; Record Dates.

(a)           Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other action provided by this Indenture to be given or taken by Holders may be embodied in and evidenced by one or more instruments of substantially similar tenor signed by such Holders in person or by agent duly appointed in writing and, except as herein otherwise expressly provided, such action shall become effective when such instrument or instruments are delivered to the Trustee and, where it is hereby expressly required, to the Company.  Such instrument or instruments (and the action embodied therein and evidenced thereby) are herein sometimes referred to as an “Act” of the Holders signing such instrument or instruments.  Proof of execution of any such instrument or of a writing appointing any such agent shall be sufficient for any purpose of this Indenture and (subject to Section 9.01) conclusive in favor of the Trustee and the Company, if made in the manner provided in this Section.

(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.  The fact and date of the execution of any such instrument or writing, or the authority of the Person executing the same, may also be proved in any other manner which the Trustee reasonably deems sufficient.

(c)           The Company may, in the circumstances permitted by the Trust Indenture Act, fix 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 to be given or taken by Holders.  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 30th day (or, if later, the date of the most recent list of Holders required to be provided pursuant to Section 10.01) prior to such first solicitation or vote, as the case may be.  With regard to any record date, only the Holders on such date (or their duly designated proxies) shall be entitled to give or take, or vote on, the relevant action.

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(d)           The ownership of Securities shall be proved by the Security Register.

(e)           Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, 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 1.05           Notices, Etc., to Trustee and Company.  Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or Act of Holders or other document provided or permitted by this Indenture to be made upon, given or furnished to, or filed with:

(i)            the Trustee by any Holder or by the Company shall be sufficient for every purpose hereunder if made, given, furnished or filed in writing to or with the Trustee at its applicable Corporate Trust Office; or

(ii)           the Company by the Trustee or by any Holder shall be sufficient for every purpose hereunder (unless otherwise herein expressly provided) if in writing and mailed, first-class postage prepaid, to the Company addressed to it at the address of its principal office specified in the first paragraph of this instrument or at any other address previously furnished in writing to the Trustee by the Company, Attention:  General Counsel, which notice shall be deemed given when actually received by the Company. .

Section 1.06           Notice to Holders; Waiver.  Where this Indenture provides for notice to Holders of any event, such notice shall be sufficiently given (unless otherwise herein expressly provided) if in writing and mailed, first-class postage prepaid, to each Holder affected by such event, at such Holder’s address as it appears in the Security Register, not later than the latest date (if any), and not earlier than the earliest date (if any), prescribed for the giving of such notice.  In any case where notice to Holders is given by mail, neither the failure to mail such notice, nor any defect in any notice so mailed, to any particular Holder shall affect the sufficiency of such notice with respect to other Holders.  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 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.

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 as shall be made with the approval of the Trustee shall constitute a sufficient notification for every purpose hereunder.

Whenever under this Indenture the Trustee is required to provide any notice by mail, in all cases the Trustee may alternatively provide notice by overnight courier or by telefacsimile, with confirmation of transmission.

Section 1.07           Conflict with Trust Indenture Act.  If any provision hereof limits, qualifies or conflicts with a provision of the Trust Indenture Act that is required hereunder to be a part of and govern this Indenture, the latter provision shall control.  If any provision of this Indenture

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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.

Section 1.08           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, and all Article and Section references are to Articles and Sections, respectively, of this Indenture unless otherwise expressly stated.

Section 1.09           Successors and Assigns.  All covenants and agreements in this Indenture by the Company shall bind its successors and assigns, whether so expressed or not.

Section 1.10           Severability Clause.  In case any provision in this Indenture or in 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.

Section 1.11           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 respective successors hereunder and the Holders of Securities, any benefit or any legal or equitable right, remedy or claim under this Indenture.

Section 1.12           Governing Law.  This Indenture and the Securities shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of New York.

Section 1.13           No Recourse Against Others.  No director, officer, employee, stockholder or Affiliate of the Company from time to time shall have any liability for any obligations of the Company under the Securities or this Indenture.  Each Holder by accepting a Security waives and releases such liability.

ARTICLE 2.
Security Forms

Section 2.01           Forms Generally.  The Securities and the Trustee’s certificates of authentication shall be in substantially the forms set forth in this Article, 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 Depositary therefor, the Code and regulations thereunder, or as may, consistently herewith, be determined by the officers executing such Securities, as evidenced by their execution thereof.

The Securities shall initially be issued in the form of permanent Global Securities in registered form in substantially the form set forth in this Article.  The aggregate Principal Amount of the Global Securities may from time to time be increased or decreased by adjustments made on the records of the Trustee, as custodian for the Depositary, as hereinafter provided.

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Section 2.02           Form of Face of Security.  [INCLUDE IF SECURITY IS A RESTRICTED SECURITY — THE SALE OF THIS SECURITY HAS NOT BEEN REGISTERED UNDER THE UNITED STATES SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED (THE “SECURITIES ACT”), AND ACCORDINGLY, THIS SECURITY MAY NOT BE OFFERED OR SOLD EXCEPT AS SET FORTH IN THE FOLLOWING SENTENCE.  BY ITS ACQUISITION HEREOF, THE HOLDER AGREES (1) THAT IT WILL NOT WITHIN THE LATER OF (X) TWO YEARS AFTER THE LATEST ISSUE DATE OF THIS SECURITY AND (Y) THREE MONTHS AFTER IT CEASES TO BE AN AFFILIATE (WITHIN THE MEANING OF RULE 144 UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT) OF THE ISSUER, OFFER, RESELL, PLEDGE OR OTHERWISE TRANSFER THE SECURITY EVIDENCED HEREBY OR THE COMMON STOCK ISSUABLE UPON CONVERSION OF SUCH SECURITY, EXCEPT (A) TO THE ISSUER; (B) UNDER A REGISTRATION STATEMENT THAT HAS BEEN DECLARED EFFECTIVE UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT; (C) TO A PERSON THE SELLER REASONABLY BELIEVES IS A QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER (AS DEFINED IN RULE 144A UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT) THAT IS PURCHASING FOR ITS OWN ACCOUNT OR FOR THE ACCOUNT OF ANOTHER QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER AND TO WHOM NOTICE IS GIVEN THAT THE TRANSFER IS BEING MADE IN RELIANCE ON RULE 144A, ALL IN COMPLIANCE WITH RULE 144A (IF AVAILABLE); OR (D) UNDER ANY OTHER AVAILABLE EXEMPTION FROM THE REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS OF THE SECURITIES ACT; AND (2) THAT IT WILL, PRIOR TO ANY TRANSFER OF THIS SECURITY WITHIN THE LATER OF (X) TWO YEARS AFTER THE LATEST ISSUE DATE OF THIS SECURITY AND (Y) THREE MONTHS AFTER IT CEASES TO BE AN AFFILIATE (WITHIN THE MEANING OF RULE 144 ADOPTED UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT) OF THE ISSUER, FURNISH TO THE TRUSTEE AND THE ISSUER SUCH CERTIFICATIONS, LEGAL OPINIONS OR OTHER INFORMATION AS MAY BE REQUIRED PURSUANT TO THE INDENTURE TO CONFIRM THAT SUCH TRANSFER IS BEING MADE PURSUANT TO AN EXEMPTION FROM, OR IN A TRANSACTION NOT SUBJECT TO, THE REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS OF THE SECURITIES ACT.]

[INCLUDE IF SECURITY IS A GLOBAL SECURITY — THIS SECURITY IS A GLOBAL SECURITY WITHIN THE MEANING OF THE INDENTURE HEREINAFTER REFERRED TO AND IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF A DEPOSITARY OR A NOMINEE THEREOF.  THIS SECURITY MAY NOT BE EXCHANGED IN WHOLE OR IN PART FOR A SECURITY REGISTERED, AND NO TRANSFER OF THIS SECURITY IN WHOLE OR IN PART MAY BE REGISTERED, IN THE NAME OF ANY PERSON OTHER THAN SUCH DEPOSITARY OR A NOMINEE THEREOF, EXCEPT IN THE LIMITED CIRCUMSTANCES DESCRIBED IN THE INDENTURE.

UNLESS THIS CERTIFICATE IS PRESENTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF THE DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY (“DTC”), A NEW YORK CORPORATION, TO THE COMPANY OR ITS AGENT FOR REGISTRATION OF TRANSFER, EXCHANGE OR PAYMENT, AND ANY CERTIFICATE ISSUED IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF CEDE & CO. OR IN SUCH OTHER NAME AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC (AND ANY PAYMENT IS MADE TO CEDE & CO. OR TO SUCH OTHER ENTITY AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC), ANY TRANSFER, PLEDGE OR OTHER

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USE HEREOF FOR VALUE OR OTHERWISE BY OR TO ANY PERSON IS WRONGFUL IN AS MUCH AS THE REGISTERED OWNER HEREOF, CEDE & CO., HAS AN INTEREST HEREIN.]

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4.75% Convertible Senior Notes due 2027

No. 1

CUSIP NO. 252131AC1

U.S. $60,000,000

 

DexCom, Inc., a corporation duly organized and validly existing under the laws of the State of Delaware (herein called the “Company”), which term includes any successor corporation 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 Sixty Million United States Dollars ($60,000,000) (which amount may from time to time be increased or decreased by adjustments made on the records of the Trustee, as custodian for the Depositary, in accordance with the rules and procedures of the Depositary) on March 15, 2027.  Payment of the principal of this Security shall be made by check mailed to the address of the Holder of this Security specified in the register of Securities, or, at the option of the Company, by wire transfer in immediately available funds, in such lawful money of the United States of America as at the time of payment shall be legal tender for the payment of public and private debts.

The issue date of this Security is March 9, 2007.

Reference is made to the further provisions of this Security set forth on the reverse hereof, including, without limitation, provisions giving the Holder the right to convert this Security into Common Stock of the Company and to require the Company to repurchase this Security upon certain events, in each case, on the terms and subject to the limitations referred to on the reverse hereof and as more fully specified in the Indenture.  Such further provisions shall for all purposes have the same effect as though fully set forth at this place.  Capitalized terms used but not defined herein shall have such meanings as are ascribed to such terms in the Indenture.

This Security shall be deemed to be a contract made under the laws of the State of New York, and for all purposes shall be construed in accordance with and governed by the laws of said State.

This Security shall not be valid or become obligatory for any purpose until the certificate of authentication hereon shall have been manually signed by the Trustee or a duly authorized authenticating agent under the Indenture.

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

DEXCOM, INC.

 

 

 

 

 

By:

/s/ Steven J. Kemper

 

 

Authorized Signatory

 

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

 

 

 

 

 

Dated:  March 9, 2007

Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, as Trustee

 

 

 

 

 

By:

/s/ Maddy Hall

 

 

Authorized Signatory

 

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Section 2.03           Form of Reverse of Security.

DEXCOM, INC.
4.75
% Convertible Senior Notes Due 2027

This Security is one of a duly authorized issue of Securities of the Company, designated as its 4.75% Convertible Senior Notes due 2027 (the “Securities”), all issued or to be issued under and pursuant to an Indenture dated as of  March 9, 2007 (the “Indenture”), between the Company and Wells Fargo Bank, National Association (the “Trustee”), to which Indenture and all indentures supplemental thereto reference is hereby made for a description of the rights, limitations of rights, obligations, duties and immunities thereunder of the Trustee, the Company and the Holders of the Securities.

Interest.  The Securities will bear interest at a rate of 4.75% per year.  Interest on the Securities will accrue from  March 9, 2007.  Interest will be payable semiannually in arrears on March 15 and September 15, beginning September 15, 2007, and at maturity.

Interest will be paid to the person in whose name a Security is registered at the close of business on March 1 or September 1, as the case may be, immediately preceding the relevant Interest Payment Date.  Interest on the Securities will be computed on the basis of a 360-day year composed of twelve 30-day months.

Ranking.  The Securities rank equally in right of payment with all the Company’s existing and future unsecured senior debt and are senior in right of payment to all of the Company’s future subordinated debt, if any.

Redemption at the Option of the Company.  Subject to the terms and conditions of the Indenture, on or after March 20, 2010, the Company may redeem for cash all or part of the Securities at any time for a price equal to 100% of the Principal Amount of the Securities to be redeemed plus any accrued and unpaid interest, including Additional Interest and Special Interest, if any, to, but excluding, the redemption date.

Repurchase at the Option of the Holder.  Subject to the terms and conditions of the Indenture, Holders have the right to require the Company to repurchase the Securities for cash on March 15, 2012, March 15, 2017 and March 15, 2022. The Repurchase Price will 100% of the Principal Amount plus accrued and unpaid interest, including Additional Interest and Special Interest, if any, to, but excluding, the Repurchase Date.

Repurchase by the Company at the Option of the Holder Upon a Fundamental Change.  Subject to the terms and conditions of the Indenture, the Company shall become obligated, at the option of the Holder, to repurchase the Securities if a Fundamental Change occurs at any time prior to the Stated Maturity at 100% of the Principal Amount plus accrued and unpaid interest, including Additional Interest and  Special Interest, if any, to, but excluding, the Fundamental Change Repurchase Date, which amount will be paid in cash.

Withdrawal of Fundamental Change Repurchase Notice.  Holders have the right to withdraw, in whole or in part, any Fundamental Change Repurchase Notice, as the case may be,

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by delivering to the Paying Agent a written notice of withdrawal in accordance with the provisions of the Indenture.

Payment of Fundamental Change Repurchase Price.  If cash sufficient to pay the Fundamental Change Repurchase Price of all Securities or portions thereof to be repurchased on a Fundamental Change Repurchase Date is deposited with the Paying Agent on the Fundamental Change Repurchase Date, such Securities will cease to be outstanding and interest will cease to accrue on such Securities (or portions thereof) immediately after such Fundamental Change Repurchase Date, and the Holder thereof shall have no other rights as such (other than the right to receive the Fundamental Change Repurchase Price upon surrender of such Security).

Conversion at the Option of the Holder.  Subject to and in compliance with the provisions of the Indenture, the Holder hereof has the right, at its option, to convert the Principal Amount hereof or any portion of such principal which is $1,000 or an integral multiple thereof, into shares of Common Stock at the Conversion Rate.  The initial Conversion Rate is 128.2051 shares of Common Stock per $1,000 Principal Amount of Securities (equivalent to a conversion price of $7.80), subject to adjustment in certain events described in the Indenture.  No fractional shares will be issued upon any conversion, but an adjustment and payment in cash will be made, as provided in the Indenture, in respect of any fraction of a share which would otherwise be issuable upon the surrender of any Securities for conversion.  Securities in respect of which a Holder is exercising its right to require repurchase on a Fundamental Change Repurchase Date may be converted only if such Holder withdraws its election to exercise such right in accordance with the terms of the Indenture.

Automatic Conversion by the Company.  Subject to and in compliance with the provisions of the Indenture  (including without limitation the conditions of conversion of this Security set forth in Article 6 of the Indenture), the Company may elect for Automatic Conversion some or all the Securities if the closing price of the Common Stock has exceeded 150% of the Conversion Price for at least 20 Trading Days during any consecutive 30-Trading Day period ending within five Trading Days prior to the date of the Automatic Conversion Notice; provided however, that, during the two year period commencing on the date of the last delivery of the Securities under the Indenture, the Company may only automatically convert the Securities if, in accordance with the terms of the Registration Rights Agreement, a registration statement registering the resale of the Securities and Common Stock issuable upon conversion of the Securities is declared effective under the Securities Act prior to the date of the Automatic Conversion Notice and such registration statement remains effective on the date selected for Automatic Conversion. If an Automatic Conversion occurs on or prior to March 15, 2010, the Company will also pay to the Holder the Make-Whole Interest Payment in cash or, at the Company’s option, in Common Stock..

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 rules and procedures of the Depositary.

Subject to certain limitations in the Indenture, at any time when the Company is not subject to Section 13 or 15(d) of the United States Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, upon the request of a Holder of a Restricted Security, the Company will promptly furnish or

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cause to be furnished Rule 144A Information (as defined below) to such Holder of Restricted Securities, or to a prospective purchaser of any such security designated by any such Holder, to the extent required to permit compliance by any such Holder with Rule 144A under the Securities Act.  “Rule 144A Information” shall be such information as is specified pursuant to Rule 144A(d)(4) under the Securities Act (or any successor provision thereto).

If an Event of Default shall occur and be continuing, the Principal Amount and accrued and unpaid interest, including Additional Interest and Special Interest, if any, through such date on all the Securities may be declared due and payable in the manner and with the effect 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 consent of the Holders of not less than a majority in aggregate Principal Amount of the Outstanding Securities.  The Indenture also contains provisions permitting the Holders of a majority in aggregate Principal Amount of the Outstanding Securities, 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 any provision of or applicable to this Security shall be conclusive and binding upon such Holder and upon all future Holders of this Security and of any Security issued upon the registration of transfer hereof or in exchange herefor or in lieu hereof, whether or not notation of such consent or waiver is made upon this Security.

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 with respect to the Securities, the Holders of not less than 25% 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 offered the Trustee reasonable indemnity satisfactory to it, the Trustee shall not have received from the Holders of a majority in Principal Amount of Outstanding Securities a direction inconsistent with such request, and the Trustee shall have failed to institute any such proceeding, for 60 days after receipt of such notice, request and offer of indemnity.  The foregoing shall not apply to any suit instituted by a Holder of this Security for the enforcement of any payment of the Principal Amount, Fundamental Change Repurchase Price or Make-Whole Interest Payment hereof on or after the respective due dates expressed herein.

No reference herein to the Indenture and no provision of this Security or of the Indenture shall alter or impair the obligation of the Company, which is absolute and unconditional, to pay the Principal Amount, Fundamental Change Repurchase Price or Make-Whole Interest Payment of, and interest, including Additional Interest and  Special Interest, if any, on, this Security at the times, place and rate, and in the coin or currency, herein prescribed.

Transfer, Exchange, Denominations.  As provided in the Indenture and subject to certain limitations therein set forth, the transfer of this Security is registrable in the Security Register,

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upon surrender of this Security for registration of transfer at the office or agency of the Company, 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 hereof or his attorney duly authorized in writing, and thereupon one or more new Securities, of authorized denominations and for the same aggregate Principal Amount, will be issued to the designated transferee or transferees.

The Securities are issuable only in registered form in denominations of $1,000 and any integral multiple of $1,000 above that amount, as provided in the Indenture and subject to certain limitations therein set forth.  Securities are exchangeable for a like aggregate Principal Amount of Securities of a different authorized denomination, as requested by the Holder surrendering the same.

No service charge shall be made for any such registration of transfer or exchange, but the Company and the Security Registrar may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental charge payable in connection therewith.

Prior to due presentment of this Security for registration of transfer, the Company, the Trustee and the Security Registrar and any agent of the Company or the Trustee may treat the Person in whose name this Security is registered as the owner hereof for all purposes, whether or not this Security be overdue, and neither the Company, the Trustee nor any such agent shall be affected by notice to the contrary.

This Security shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of New York.

All terms used in this Security that are defined in the Indenture shall have the meanings assigned to them in the Indenture.

ASSIGNMENT FORM

If you want to assign this Security, fill in the form below and have your signature guaranteed:

I or we assign and transfer this Security to:

(Print or type name, address and zip code and social security or tax ID number of assignee)

and irrevocably appoint                                                                   to transfer this Security on the books of the Company.  The agent may substitute another to act for him.

 

Date:

 

Signed:

 

 

 

 

 

(Sign exactly as your name appears on the other side of this Security)

Signature

 

 

 

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Guarantee:

 

 

 

Note:  Signatures must be guaranteed by an “eligible guarantor institution” meeting the requirements of the Security Registrar, which requirements include membership or participation in the Security Transfer Agent Medallion Program (“STAMP”) or such other “signature guarantee program” as may be determined by the Security Registrar in addition to, or in substitution for, STAMP, all in accordance with the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.

In connection with any transfer of this Security occurring prior to the date which is the earlier of (i) the date of the declaration by the Commission of the effectiveness of a registration statement under the Securities Act, as amended (the “Securities Act”), covering resales of this Security (which effectiveness shall not have been suspended or terminated at the date of the transfer) and (ii) the second anniversary of the Issue Date set forth on the face of this Security, the undersigned confirms that it has not utilized any general solicitation or general advertising in connection with the transfer and that this Security is being transferred:

[Check One]

(1)                                  o            to the Company or a subsidiary thereof; or

(2)                                  o            to a “Qualified Institutional Buyer” pursuant to and in compliance with Rule 144A under the Securities Act; or

(3)                                  o            pursuant to the exemption from registration provided by Rule 144 under the Securities Act.

Unless one of the above boxes is checked, the Trustee will refuse to register any of the Securities evidenced by this certificate in the name of any Person other than the registered Holder thereof, provided that if box (3) is checked, the Company may require (and shall deliver to the Trustee and the Security Registrar), prior to registering any such transfer of the Securities, in its sole discretion, such legal opinions, certifications and other information as the Company may reasonably request to confirm that such transfer is being made pursuant to an exemption from, or in a transaction not subject to, the registration requirements of the Securities Act.

If none of the foregoing boxes is checked, the Trustee or Security Registrar shall not be obligated to register this Security in the name of any Person other than the Holder hereof unless and until the conditions to any such transfer of registration set forth herein and in Section 3.10 of the Indenture shall have been satisfied.

Date:

 

Signed:

 

 

 

 

 

(Sign exactly as your name appears on the other side of this Security)

Signature Guarantee:

 

 

 

Note:  Signatures must be guaranteed by an “eligible guarantor institution” meeting the requirements of the Security Registrar, which requirements include membership or participation

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in the Security Transfer Agent Medallion Program (“STAMP”) or such other “signature guarantee program” as may be determined by the Security Registrar in addition to, or in substitution for, STAMP, all in accordance with the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.

TO BE COMPLETED BY PURCHASER IF (2) ABOVE IS CHECKED

The undersigned represents and warrants that it is purchasing this Security for its own account or an account with respect to which it exercises sole investment discretion and that it and any such account is a “qualified institutional buyer” within the meaning of Rule 144A under the Securities Act and is aware that the sale to it is being made in reliance on Rule 144A and acknowledges that it has received such information regarding the Company as the undersigned has requested pursuant to Rule 144A or has determined not to request such information and that it is aware that the transferor is relying upon the undersigned’s foregoing representations in order to claim the exemption from registration provided by Rule 144A.

Date:

Signed:

 

 

NOTICE: To be executed by an executive officer.

 

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CONVERSION NOTICE

If you want to convert this Security into Common Stock of the Company (or, if applicable, cash and Common Stock of the Company, if any), check the box: o

To convert only part of this Security, state the Principal Amount to be converted (which must be $1,000 or an integral multiple of $1,000):

$

 

 

 

 

 

              If you want the stock certificate, if any, made out in another person’s name, fill in the form below:

 

 

 

(Insert other person’s social security or tax ID no.)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(Print or type other person’s name, address and zip code)

 

 

 

              Date:

 

Signed:

 

 

 

 

 

(Sign exactly as your name appears on the other side of this Security)

 

 

 

Signature Guarantee:

 

 

 

Note:  Signatures must be guaranteed by an “eligible guarantor institution” meeting the requirements of the Security Registrar, which requirements include membership or participation in the Security Transfer Agent Medallion Program (“STAMP”) or such other “signature guarantee program” as may be determined by the Security Registrar in addition to, or in substitution for, STAMP, all in accordance with the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.

EXHIBIT A-1

Form of Fundamental Change Repurchase Notice

 

,

 

 

Wells Fargo Bank, National Association

[Address]

Fax:

Re:

DexCom, Inc.(the Company”)

 

4.75% Convertible Senior Notes due 2027

 

 

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This is a Fundamental Change Repurchase Notice as defined in Section 5.07(a) of the Indenture dated as of March 9, 2007 (the “Indenture”) between the Company and Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, as Trustee.  Terms used but not defined herein shall have the meanings ascribed to them in the Indenture.

Certificate No(s). of Securities:

 

 

(if certificated)

 

 

I intend to deliver the following aggregate Principal Amount of Securities for purchase by the Company pursuant to Section 5.07 of the Indenture (in multiples of $1,000):

$

 

 

 

I hereby agree that the Securities will be purchased as of the Fundamental Change Repurchase Date pursuant to the terms and conditions thereof and of the Indenture.

Signed:

EXHIBIT A-2

Form of Repurchase Election Notice

 

,

 

 

Wells Fargo Bank, National Association

[Address]

Fax:

Re:

DexCom, Inc.(the “Company”)

 

4.75% Convertible Senior Notes due 2027

 

 

This is a Repurchase Election Notice as defined in Section 5.11(b) of the Indenture dated as of March 9, 2007 (the “Indenture”) between the Company and Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, as Trustee.  Terms used but not defined herein shall have the meanings ascribed to them in the Indenture.

Certificate No(s). of Securities:

 

 

(if certificated)

 

 

I intend to deliver the following aggregate Principal Amount of Securities for purchase by the Company pursuant to Section 5.11 of the Indenture (in multiples of $1,000):

$

 

 

 

I hereby agree that the Securities will be purchased as of the Repurchase Date pursuant to the terms and conditions thereof and of the Indenture.

Signed:

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Section 2.04           Form of Trustee’s Certificate of Authentication.  This is one of the Securities referred to in the within-mentioned Indenture.

Dated:

 

 

Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, as Trustee

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

By:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Authorized Signatory

 

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Section 2.05           Legend on Restricted Securities.  During the period beginning on the Issue Date and ending on the date two years from such date, any Security, including any Security issued in exchange therefor or in lieu thereof, shall be deemed a “Restricted Security” and shall be subject to the restrictions on transfer provided in the legends set forth on the face of the form of Security in Section 2.02; provided, however, that the term “Restricted Security” shall not include any Securities as to which restrictions have been terminated in accordance with Section 3.06.  All Securities shall bear the applicable legends set forth on the face of the form of Security in Section 2.02.  Except as provided in Section 3.06 and Section 3.10, the Trustee shall not issue any unlegended Security until it has received an Officers’ Certificate from the Company directing it to do so.

ARTICLE 3.
The Securities

Section 3.01           Title and Terms; Payments.  The aggregate Principal Amount of Securities that may be authenticated and delivered under this Indenture $60,000,000, except for Securities authenticated and delivered upon registration or transfer of, or in exchange for, or in lieu of, other Securities pursuant to Sections 2.05, 3.05, 3.06, 3.07, 5.12 or 12.02.

The Securities shall be known and designated as the “4.75% Convertible Senior Notes due 2027” of the Company.  The Principal Amount shall be payable at the Stated Maturity.

The Principal Amount of and interest on Global Securities registered in the name of Depositary or its nominee shall be paid by wire transfer in immediately available funds to Depositary or its nominee, as applicable.

The Principal Amount of Physical Securities shall be payable at the Corporate Trust Office and at any other office or agency maintained by the Company for such purpose.  Interest on Physical Securities will be payable (i) to Holders having an aggregate Principal Amount of $5,000,000 or less of Securities, by check mailed to such Holders at the address set forth in the Security Register and (ii) to Holders having an aggregate Principal Amount of more than $5,000,000 of Securities, either by check mailed to such Holders or, upon application by a Holder to the Security Registrar not later than two days prior to the relevant Record Date for such interest payment, by wire transfer in immediately available funds to such Holder’s account within the United States, which application shall remain in effect until the Holder notifies the Security Registrar to the contrary in writing.

Section 3.02           Ranking.  The Securities constitute a senior unsecured general obligation of the Company, ranking equally in right of payment all of the existing and future senior unsecured and unsubordinated Indebtedness of the Company and ranking senior in right of payment any future Indebtedness of the Company that is expressly made subordinate to the Securities by the terms of such Indebtedness.

Section 3.03           Denominations.  The Securities shall be issuable only in registered form without coupons and in denominations of $1,000 and any integral multiple of $1,000 above that amount.

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Section 3.04           Execution, Authentication, Delivery and Dating.  The Securities shall be executed on behalf of the Company by its Chief Executive Officer, its President, its Chief Financial Officer or its Treasurer.

Securities bearing the manual or facsimile signatures of individuals who were at any time the proper officers of the Company shall bind the Company, notwithstanding that such individuals or any of them have ceased to hold such offices prior to the authentication and delivery of such Securities or did not hold such offices 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 for authentication, together with a Company Order for the authentication and delivery of such Securities.  The Company Order shall specify the amount of Securities to be authenticated, and shall further specify the amount of such Securities to be issued as a Global Security or as Physical Securities.  The Trustee in accordance with such Company Order shall authenticate and deliver such Securities as in this Indenture provided 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, 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 3.05           Temporary Securities.  Pending the preparation of definitive Securities, the Company may execute, and upon Company Order the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, temporary Securities that are printed, lithographed, typewritten, mimeographed or otherwise produced, in any authorized denomination, substantially of the tenor of the definitive Securities in lieu of which they are issued and with such appropriate insertions, omissions, substitutions and other variations as the officers executing such Securities may determine, as evidenced by their execution of such Securities; provided, that any such temporary Securities shall bear legends on the face of such Securities as set forth in Section 2.02.

If temporary Securities are issued, the Company will cause definitive Securities to be prepared without unreasonable delay.  After the preparation of definitive Securities, the temporary Securities shall be exchangeable for definitive Securities upon surrender of the temporary Securities at any office or agency of the Company designated pursuant to Section 4.02, without charge to the Holder.  Upon surrender for cancellation of any one or more temporary Securities, the Company shall execute and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver in exchange therefor a like Principal Amount of Physical Securities of authorized denominations.  Until so exchanged, the temporary Securities shall in all respects be entitled to the same benefits under this Indenture as Physical Securities.

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Section 3.06           Registration; Registration of Transfer and Exchange; Restrictions on Transfer.

(a)           The Company shall cause to be kept at the applicable Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee a register (the register maintained in such office and in any other office or agency designated pursuant to Section 4.02 being herein sometimes collectively referred to as the “Security Register”) in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, the Company shall provide for the registration of Securities and of transfers of Securities.  The Trustee is hereby appointed “Security Registrar” (the “Security Registrar”) for the purpose of registering Securities and transfers of 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 4.02 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 tenor, each such Security bearing such restrictive legends as may be required by this Indenture (including Sections 2.02, 2.05 and 3.10).

At the option of the Holder and subject to the other provisions of this Section 3.06 and to Section 3.10, Securities may be exchanged for other Securities of any authorized denominations and of a like aggregate Principal Amount and tenor, upon surrender of the Securities to be exchanged at such office or agency.  Whenever any Securities are so surrendered for exchange, the Company shall execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, the Securities which the Holder making the exchange is entitled to receive.

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

Every Security presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or for exchange shall (if so required by the Company or the Trustee) 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.  As a condition to the registration of transfer of any Restricted Securities, the Company or the Trustee may require evidence satisfactory to them as to the compliance with the restrictions set forth in the legend on such securities.

Except as provided in the following sentence and in Section 3.10, all Securities originally issued hereunder and all Securities issued upon registration of transfer or exchange or replacement thereof shall be Restricted Securities and shall bear the legends required by Sections 2.02 and 2.05, unless the Company shall have delivered to the Trustee (and the Security Registrar, if other than the Trustee) a Company Order stating that the Security is not a Restricted Security and may be issued without such legend thereon.  Securities that are issued upon registration of transfer of, or in exchange for, Securities that are not Restricted Securities shall not be Restricted Securities and shall not bear such legend.

No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Securities, but the Company and the Security Registrar may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover

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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 3.05 not involving any transfer.

Neither the Company nor the Security Registrar shall be required to exchange or register a transfer of any Security (i) that has been surrendered for conversion, (ii) during a period of 15 days next preceding the selection of any Securities to be redeemed or (iii) as to which a Fundamental Change Repurchase Notice or Repurchase Notice has been delivered and not withdrawn, except that where such Fundamental Change Repurchase Notice or Repurchase Notice provides that such Security is to be purchased only in part, the Company and the Security Registrar shall be required to exchange or register a transfer of the portion thereof not to be purchased.

(b)           Beneficial ownership of every Restricted Security shall be subject to the restrictions on transfer provided in the legends required to be set forth on the face of each Restricted Security pursuant to Sections 2.02 and 2.05, unless such restrictions on transfer shall be terminated in accordance with this Section 3.06(b) or Section 3.10.  The Holder of each Restricted Security, by such Holder’s acceptance thereof, agrees to be bound by such restrictions on transfer.

The restrictions imposed by this Section 3.06 and by Sections 2.02, 2.05 and 3.10 upon the transferability of any particular Restricted Security shall cease and terminate upon delivery by the Company to the Trustee of an Officers’ Certificate stating that such Restricted Security has been sold pursuant to an effective Resale Registration Statement under the Securities Act or transferred in compliance with Rule 144 under the Securities Act (or any successor provision thereto).  Any Restricted Security as to which the Company has delivered to the Trustee an Officers’ Certificate stating that such restrictions on transfer shall have expired in accordance with their terms or shall have terminated may, upon surrender of such Restricted Security for exchange to the Security Registrar in accordance with the provisions of this Section 3.06, be exchanged for a new Security, of like tenor and aggregate Principal Amount, which shall not bear the restrictive legends required by Sections 2.02 and 2.05.  The Company shall inform the Trustee in writing of the effective date of any Resale Registration Statement registering the Securities under the Securities Act.  The Trustee shall not be liable for any action taken or omitted to be taken by it in good faith in accordance with the aforementioned resale registration statement.

As used in the preceding two paragraphs of this Section 3.06, the term “transfer” encompasses any sale, pledge, transfer or other disposition of any Restricted Security.

(c)           Neither the Trustee, the Security Registrar nor any of their respective agents shall (i) have any duty to monitor compliance with or with respect to any federal or state or other securities or tax laws or (ii) have any duty to obtain documentation relating to any transfers or exchanges other than as specifically required hereunder.

Section 3.07           Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost and Stolen Securities.  If any mutilated Security is surrendered to the Trustee, the Company shall execute and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver 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 shall be delivered to the Company and the Trustee (i) evidence to their satisfaction of the destruction, loss or theft of any Security and (ii) such security or indemnity as may be required by them to save each of them and any agent of either of them harmless, then, in the absence of 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 deliver, 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 may, instead of issuing a new Security, pay such Security.

Upon the issuance of any new Security under this Section 3.07, the Company may require payment by the Holder of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental charge that may be imposed in relation thereto and any other expenses (including the fees and expenses of the Trustee) connected therewith.

Every new Security issued pursuant to this Section 3.07 in lieu of any destroyed, lost or stolen Security shall constitute an original additional contractual obligation of the Company, whether or not the destroyed, lost or stolen Security shall be at any time enforceable by anyone, and 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 are exclusive and shall preclude (to the extent lawful) all other rights and remedies with respect to the replacement or payment of mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Securities.

Section 3.08           Persons Deemed Owners.  Prior to due presentment of a Security for registration of transfer, the Company, the Trustee, the Security Registrar and any agent of the Company, the Trustee or the Security Registrar may treat the Person in whose name such Security is registered in the Security Registrar as the owner of such Security for the purpose of receiving payment of the principal of such Security and for all other purposes whatsoever, whether or not such Security be overdue, and neither the Company, the Trustee, the Security Registrar nor any agent of the Company, the Trustee or the Security Registrar shall be affected by notice to the contrary.

Section 3.09           Book-Entry Provisions for Global Securities.

(a)           The Global Securities initially shall (i) be registered in the name of the Depositary or the nominee of such Depositary, (ii) be delivered to the Trustee as custodian for the Depositary and (iii) bear legends as set forth on the face of the form of Security in Section 2.02.

Members of, or participants in, the Depositary (“Agent Members”) shall have no rights under this Indenture with respect to any Global Security held on their behalf by the Depositary, or the Trustee as its custodian, or under the Global Security, and the Depositary may be treated by the Company, the Trustee and any agent of the Company or the Trustee as the absolute owner of the Global Security for all purposes whatsoever.  Notwithstanding the foregoing, nothing herein shall prevent the Company, the Trustee or any agent of the Company or the Trustee from

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giving effect to any written certification, proxy or other authorization furnished by the Depositary or impair, as between the Depositary and its Agent Members, the operation of customary practices governing the exercise of the rights of any Holder.

(b)           Transfers of the Global Securities shall be limited to transfers in whole, but not in part, to the Depositary, its successors or their respective nominees.  Interests of beneficial owners in a Global Security may be transferred or exchanged, in whole or in part, for Physical Securities in accordance with the rules and procedures of the Depositary and the provisions of Section 3.10.  In addition, Physical Securities shall be transferred to all beneficial owners in exchange for their beneficial interests in the Global Securities if (i) such Depositary has notified the Company that the Depositary (A) is unwilling or unable to continue as Depositary for such Global Security or (B) has ceased to be a clearing agency registered under the Exchange Act when the Depositary is required to be so registered to act as such Depositary and, in either such case, no successor Depositary shall have been appointed within 90 days of such notification, (ii) there shall have occurred and be continuing an Event of Default with respect to such Global Security and the Outstanding Securities shall have become due and payable pursuant to Section 7.02 and the Trustee requests that Physical Securities be issued or (iii) the Company, at its option, notifies the Trustee that it elects to cause the issuance of Physical Securities, subject to applicable procedures of the Depositary; provided that Holders of Physical Securities offered and sold in reliance on Rule 144A shall have the right, subject to applicable law, to request that such Securities be exchanged for interests in the applicable Global Security.

(c)           In connection with any transfer or exchange of a portion of the beneficial interest in the Global Security to beneficial owners pursuant to paragraph (b) above, the Security Registrar shall (if one or more Physical Securities are to be issued) reflect on its books and records the date and a decrease in the Principal Amount of the Global Security in an amount equal to the Principal Amount of the beneficial interest in the Global Security to be transferred, and the Company shall execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, one or more Physical Securities of like tenor and amount.

(d)           In connection with the transfer of the entire Global Security to beneficial owners pursuant to paragraph (b) above, the Global Security shall be deemed to be surrendered to the Trustee for cancellation, and the Company shall execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, to each beneficial owner identified by the Depositary in exchange for its beneficial interest in the Global Security, an equal aggregate Principal Amount of Physical Securities of authorized denominations and the same tenor.

(e)           Any Physical Security constituting a Restricted Security delivered in exchange for an interest in the Global Security pursuant to paragraph (c) or (d) above shall, except as otherwise provided by paragraph (c) of Section 3.10, bear the legend regarding transfer restrictions applicable to the Physical Securities set forth on the face of the form of Security in Section 2.02.

(f)            The Holder of the Global Securities may grant proxies and otherwise authorize any Person, including Agent Members and Persons that may hold interests through Agent Members, to take any action that a Holder is entitled to take under this Indenture or the Securities.

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Section 3.10           Cancellation and Transfer Provisions.  The Company at any time may deliver to the Trustee for cancellation any Securities previously authenticated and delivered hereunder that the Company may have acquired in any manner whatsoever, and may deliver to the Trustee for cancellation any Securities previously authenticated hereunder which the Company has not issued and sold.  The Trustee shall cancel and dispose of all Securities surrendered for registration of transfer, exchange, payment, purchase, repurchase, conversion (pursuant to Article 6 hereof) or cancellation in accordance with its customary practices.  If the Company shall acquire any of the Securities, such acquisition shall not operate as a redemption or satisfaction of the indebtedness represented by such Securities unless and until the same are delivered to the Trustee for cancellation.  The Company may not issue new Securities to replace Securities it has paid in full or delivered to the Trustee for cancellation.

(a)           Transfers to QIBs.  The following provisions shall apply with respect to the registration of any proposed transfer of a Security constituting a Restricted Security to a QIB:

(i)            the Security Registrar shall register the transfer if such transfer is being made by a proposed transferor who has checked the box provided for on the form of Security stating, or has otherwise advised the Company and the Security Registrar in writing, that the sale has been made in compliance with the provisions of Rule 144A to a transferee who has signed the certification provided for on the form of Security stating, or has otherwise advised the Company and the Security Registrar in writing, that it is purchasing the Security for its own account or an account with respect to which it exercises sole investment discretion and that it and any such account is a QIB within the meaning of Rule 144A, and is aware that the sale to it is being made in reliance on Rule 144A and acknowledges that it has received such information regarding the Company as it has requested pursuant to Rule 144A or has determined not to request such information and that it is aware that the transferor is relying upon its foregoing representations in order to claim the exemption from registration provided by Rule 144A; and

(ii)           if the proposed transferee is an Agent Member, and the Securities to be transferred consist of Physical Securities which after transfer are to be evidenced by an interest in the Global Security, upon receipt by the Security Registrar of instructions given in accordance with the Depositary’s and the Security Registrar’s procedures, the Security Registrar shall reflect on its books and records the date and an increase in the Principal Amount of the Global Security in an amount equal to the Principal Amount of the Physical Securities to be transferred, and the Trustee shall cancel the Physical Securities so transferred.

(b)           Private Placement Legend.  Upon the registration of transfer, exchange or replacement of Securities not bearing the legends required by Sections 2.02 and 2.05, the Security Registrar shall deliver Securities that do not bear such legends.  Except in the case of a registration of transfer, exchange or replacement contemplated by the Registration Rights Agreement, upon the registration of transfer, exchange or replacement of Securities bearing the legends required by Sections 2.02 and 2.05, the Security Registrar shall deliver only Securities that bear such legends unless there is delivered to the Security Registrar an Opinion of Counsel reasonably satisfactory to the Company and the Trustee to the effect that neither such legend nor the related restrictions on transfer are required in order to maintain compliance with the provisions of the Securities Act.

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(c)           General.  By its acceptance of any Security bearing the legends required by Sections 2.02 and 2.05, each Holder of such a Security acknowledges the restrictions on transfer of such Security set forth in this Indenture and in such legends and agrees that it will transfer such Security only as provided in this Indenture.

The Security Registrar shall retain, in accordance with its customary procedures, copies of all letters, notices and other written communications received pursuant to this Section 3.10.  The Company shall have the right to inspect and make copies of all such letters, notices or other written communications at any reasonable time upon the giving of reasonable written notice to the Security Registrar.

Section 3.11           CUSIP Numbers.  In issuing the Securities, the Company may use “CUSIP” numbers (if then generally in use), and, if so, the Trustee shall use “CUSIP” numbers in notices of redemption as a convenience to Holders; provided that any such notice may state that no representation is made as to the correctness of such numbers either as printed on the Securities or as contained in any notice of a redemption and that reliance may be placed only on the other identification numbers printed on the Securities, and any such redemption shall not be affected by any defect in or omission of such numbers.  The Company will promptly notify the Trustee of any change in the “CUSIP” numbers.

ARTICLE 4.
Particular Covenants of the Company

Section 4.01           Payment of Principal and Interest.  The Company covenants and agrees that it shall duly and punctually pay or cause to be paid the principal of and interest (including Additional Interest and Special Interest, if any), on each of the Securities and any Make-Whole Interest Payment at the places, at the respective times and in the manner provided herein and in the Securities.

Section 4.02           Maintenance of Office or Agency.  The Company shall maintain an office or agency, where the Securities may be surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange or for presentation for payment or 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 shall give prompt written notice to the Trustee of the location, and any change in the location, of such office or agency not designated or appointed by the Trustee.  If at any time the Company shall fail to maintain any such required office or agency or shall fail to furnish the Trustee with the address thereof, such presentations, surrenders, notices and demands may be made or served at the Corporate Trust Office, and the Company hereby appoints the Trustee as its agent to receive all such presentations, surrenders, notices and demands.

The Company may also from time to time designate co-registrars and one or more offices or agencies where the Securities may be presented or surrendered for any or all such purposes and may from time to time rescind such designations.

The Company will give prompt written notice of any such designation or rescission and of any change in the location of any such other office or agency.

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The Company hereby initially designates the Trustee as paying agent, Security Registrar, Custodian and conversion agent and the Corporate Trust Office.

So long as the Trustee is the Security Registrar, the Trustee agrees to mail, or cause to be mailed, the notices set forth in Section 9.11(a) and the third paragraph of Section 9.12.  If co-registrars have been appointed in accordance with this Section, the Trustee shall mail such notices only to the Company and the holders of Securities it can identify from its records.

Section 4.03           Appointments to Fill Vacancies in Trustee’s Office.  The Company, whenever necessary to avoid or fill a vacancy in the office of Trustee, will appoint, in the manner provided in Section 9.12, a Trustee, so that there shall at all times be a Trustee hereunder.

Section 4.04           Provisions as to Paying Agent.

(a)           If the Company shall appoint a Paying Agent other than the Trustee, or if the Trustee shall appoint such a Paying Agent, the Company will cause such Paying Agent to execute and deliver to the Trustee an instrument in which such agent shall agree with the Trustee, subject to the provisions of this Section 4.04:

(i)            that it will hold all sums held by it as such agent for the payment of the principal of or interest, including Additional Interest and  Special Interest, if any, or any Make-Whole Interest Payment on the Securities (whether such sums have been paid to it by the Company or by any other obligor on the Securities) in trust for the benefit of the holders of the Securities;

(ii)           that it will give the Trustee notice of any failure by the Company (or by any other obligor on the Securities) to make any payment of the principal of or interest, including Additional Interest and  Special Interest, if any, or any Make-Whole Interest Payment on the Securities when the same shall be due and payable; and

(iii)          that at any time during the continuance of an Event of Default, upon request of the Trustee, it will forthwith pay to the Trustee all sums so held in trust.

The Company shall, on or before each due date of the principal of or interest, including Additional Interest and  Special Interest, if any, on the Securities, deposit with the paying agent a sum (in funds which are immediately available on the due date for such payment) sufficient to pay such principal or interest, and (unless such paying agent is the Trustee) the Company will promptly notify the Trustee of any failure to take such action; provided, however, that if such deposit is made on the due date, such deposit shall be received by the paying agent by 10:00 a.m. New York City time, on such date.

(b)           If the Company shall act as its own Paying Agent, it will, on or before each due date of the principal of or interest on the Securities, set aside, segregate and hold in trust for the benefit of the holders of the Securities a sum sufficient to pay such principal or interest, including Additional Interest and  Special Interest, if any, or any Make-Whole Interest Payment so becoming due and will promptly notify the Trustee of any failure to take such action and of any failure by the Company (or any other obligor under the Securities) to make any payment of

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the principal of or interest, including Additional Interest and  Special Interest, if any, on the Securities when the same shall become due and payable.

(c)           Anything in this Section 4.04 to the contrary notwithstanding, the Company may, at any time, for the purpose of obtaining a satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture, or for any other reason, pay or cause to be paid to the Trustee all sums held in trust by the Company or any paying agent hereunder as required by this Section 4.04, such sums to be held by the Trustee upon the trusts herein contained and upon such payment by the Company or any paying agent to the Trustee, the Company or such paying agent shall be released from all further liability with respect to such sums.

(d)           Anything in this Section 4.04 to the contrary notwithstanding, the agreement to hold sums in trust as provided in this Section 4.04 is subject to Section 11.03 and Section 11.04.

The Trustee shall not be responsible for the actions of any other paying agents (including the Company if acting as its own paying agent) and shall have no control of any funds held by such other paying agents.

Section 4.05           Existence.  Subject to Article 8, the Company will do or cause to be done all things necessary to preserve and keep in full force and effect its existence and rights (charter and statutory); provided, however, that the Company shall not be required to preserve any such right if the Company 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 of the Securities.

Section 4.06          Maintenance of Properties.  The Company will cause all properties used or useful in the conduct of its business or the business of any Significant Subsidiary to be maintained and kept in good condition, repair and working order and supplied with all necessary equipment and will cause to be made all necessary repairs, renewals, replacements, betterments and improvements thereof, all as in the judgment of the Company may be necessary so that the business carried on in connection therewith may be properly and advantageously conducted at all times; provided, however, that nothing in this Section shall prevent the Company from discontinuing the operation or maintenance of any of such properties if such discontinuance is, in the judgment of the Company, desirable in the conduct of its business or the business of any subsidiary.

Section 4.07           Payment of Taxes and Other Claims.  The Company will pay or discharge, or cause to be paid or discharged, before the same may become delinquent, (i) all taxes, assessments and governmental charges levied or imposed upon the Company or any Significant Subsidiary or upon the income, profits or property of the Company or any Significant Subsidiary, (ii) all claims for labor, materials and supplies which, if unpaid, might by law become a lien or charge upon the property of the Company or any Significant Subsidiary and (iii) all stamps and other duties, if any, which may be imposed by the United States or any political subdivision thereof or therein in connection with the issuance, transfer, exchange or conversion of any Securities or with respect to this Indenture; provided, however, that, in the case of clauses (i) and (ii), the Company shall not be required to pay or discharge or cause to be paid or discharged any such tax, assessment, charge or claim (A) if the failure to do so will not, in the aggregate, have a

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material adverse impact on the Company, or (B) if the amount, applicability or validity is being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings.

Section 4.08           Rule 144A Information Requirement.  Within the period prior to the expiration of the holding period applicable to sales thereof under Rule 144(k) under the Securities Act (or any successor provision), the Company covenants and agrees that it shall, during any period in which it is not subject to Section 13 or 15(d) under the Exchange Act, make available to any holder or beneficial holder of Securities or any Common Stock issued upon conversion thereof which continue to be Restricted Securities in connection with any sale thereof and any prospective purchaser of Securities or such Common Stock designated by such holder or beneficial holder, the information required pursuant to Rule 144A(d)(4) under the Securities Act upon the request of any holder or beneficial holder of the Securities or such Common Stock and it will take such further action as any holder or beneficial holder of such Securities or such Common Stock may reasonably request, all to the extent required from time to time to enable such holder or beneficial holder to sell its Securities or Common Stock without registration under the Securities Act within the limitation of the exemption provided by Rule 144A, as such rule may be amended from time to time.  Upon the request of any holder or any beneficial holder of the Securities or such Common Stock, the Company will deliver to such holder a written statement as to whether it has complied with such requirements.

Section 4.09           Resale of Certain Securities.  During the period beginning on the date of issuance of the Securities and ending on the date that is two years thereafter, the Company shall not, and shall use reasonable efforts to not permit any of its “affiliates” (as defined under Rule 144 under the Securities Act or any successor provision thereto) to, resell any Securities which constitute “restricted securities” under Rule 144 that have been reacquired by any of them.  The Trustee shall have no responsibility in respect of the Company’s performance of its agreement in the preceding sentence.

Section 4.10           Commission Filings and Reports.  The Company covenants to comply with Section 314(a) of the Trust Indenture Act as it relates to reports, information and documents that the Company may be required to file with the Trustee pursuant to such Section 314(a) and with the Commission pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act or otherwise by the Exchange Act, the Trust Indenture Act or other rules and regulations of the Commission and to file such reports, information and documents with the Trustee within 15 calendar days after the same is filed with the Commission; provided that in each case the delivery of materials to the Trustee by electronic means or filing of documents pursuant to the Commission’s “EDGAR” system (or any successor electronic filing system) shall be deemed to constitute “filing” with the Trustee for purposes of this Section 4.10.  In the event the Company is no longer a subject to the reporting requirements of Section 13 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act, the Company shall continue to provide the Trustee with reports containing substantially the same information as would have been required to be filed with the Commission had the Company continued to have been subject to such reporting requirements.  In such event, such reports will be provided at the times the Company would have been required to provide reports had it continued to have been subject to the reporting requirements. 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,

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including the Company’s compliance with any of its covenants hereunder (as to which the Trustee is entitled to rely exclusively on Officers’ Certificates).

Section 4.11           Book-Entry System.  If the Securities cease to trade in the Depositary’s book-entry settlement system, the Company covenants and agrees that it shall use reasonable efforts to make such other book entry arrangements that it determines are reasonable for the Securities.

Section 4.12           Additional Interest under the Registration Rights Agreement and Special Interest under this Indenture.  If at any time Additional becomes payable by the Company pursuant to the Registration Rights Agreement or Special Interest becomes payable pursuant to Section 7.02 of this Indenture, the Company shall promptly deliver to the Trustee a certificate to that effect and stating (i) the amount of such Additional or Special Interest that is payable, as applicable and (ii) the date on which such Additional or Special Interest, as applicable, is payable.  Unless and until a Responsible Officer of the Trustee receives such a certificate, the Trustee may assume without inquiry that no Additional or Special Interest, as applicable, is payable.  If the Company has paid Additional or Special Interest directly to the Persons entitled to such Additional or Special Interest, the Company shall deliver to the Trustee a certificate setting forth the particulars of such payment.

Section 4.13           Stay; Extension and Usury Laws.  The Company covenants (to the extent that it may lawfully do so) that it shall not at any time insist upon, plead, or in any manner whatsoever claim or take the benefit or advantage of, any stay, extension or usury law or other law which would prohibit or forgive the Company from paying all or any portion of the principal of or interest, including Additional Interest and  Special Interest, if any, on the Securities as contemplated herein, wherever enacted, now or at any time hereafter in force, or which may affect the covenants or the performance of this Indenture and the Company (to the extent it may lawfully do so) hereby expressly waives all benefit or advantage of any such law, and covenants that it will not, by resort to any such law, hinder, delay or impede the execution of any power herein granted to the Trustee, but will suffer and permit the execution of every such power as though no such law had been enacted.

Section 4.14           Compliance Certificate.  The Company shall deliver to the Trustee, within one hundred twenty (120) days after the end of each fiscal year of the Company, an Officer’s Certificate, stating whether or not to the knowledge of the signer 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 the status thereof of which the signer may have knowledge.

The Company shall deliver to the Trustee, as soon as possible and in any event within 30 days after the Company becomes aware of the occurrence of any Event of Default or an event which, with notice or the lapse of time or both, would constitute an Event of Default, an Officers’ Certificate setting forth the details of such Event of Default or Default, its status and the action which the Company proposes to take with respect thereto.

Any notice required to be given under this Section 4.14 shall be delivered to a Responsible Officer of the Trustee at its Corporate Trust Office.

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Section 4.15           Incurrence of Indebtedness.

Unless and until the aggregate Principal Amount of Securities outstanding is less than $10.0 million, the Company shall not, and shall not permit any of its Subsidiaries to, directly or indirectly, create, incur, issue, assume, guaranty or otherwise become directly or indirectly liable, contingently or otherwise, with respect to (collectively, ‘‘incur’’) any Indebtedness that is senior to or pari passu with the Securities without the prior consent of Holders of not less than a majority in aggregate Principal Amount of the Securities then outstanding. However, the foregoing limitation shall not limit (i) the incurrence by the Company of Indebtedness represented by mortgage financings or purchase money obligations, in each case incurred for the purpose of financing all or any part of the purchase price or cost of construction or improvement of property used in the business of the Company and related fees and expenses, (ii) Indebtedness incurred to finance accounts receivable or inventory not to exceed the greater of (a) $5.0 million and (b) the Borrowing Base (as defined below), in each case at any one time outstanding, (iii) the incurrence by the Company of Indebtedness represented by the Securities or (iv) the incurrence by the Company of additional Indebtedness in an aggregate Principal Amount (or accreted value, as applicable) not to exceed $15.0 million at any one time outstanding.

Notwithstanding any other provision of this Indenture, solely for the purposes of this Section 4.15, the term ‘‘Indebtedness’’ shall mean any indebtedness of the Company or its Subsidiaries in respect of borrowed money, whether or not evidenced by bonds, notes, debentures or similar instruments.

‘‘Borrowing Base’’ means, as of any date, an amount equal to:

(1) 85% of the face amount of all accounts receivable owned by the Company as of the end of the most recent fiscal quarter preceding such date that were not more than 90 days past due; plus

(2) 50% of the book value of all inventory, net of reserves, owned by the Company as of the end of the most recent fiscal quarter preceding such date.

Solely for the purpose of this Section 4.15, Indebtedness of Subsidiaries will be deemed to be “senior” unless it is specifically by its terms made subordinated to the Securities.

ARTICLE 5.
Redemption and Repurchase

Section 5.01           Selection of Securities to Be Redeemed.

If less than all of the Securities are to be redeemed at any time, the Trustee will select Securities for redemption by lot, or on a pro rata by another basis the Trustee considers fair and appropriate, subject to applicable procedures of the Depositary.

 In the event of partial redemption by lot, the particular Securities to be redeemed will be selected, unless otherwise provided herein, not less than 20 nor more than 60 days prior to the redemption date by the Trustee from the outstanding Securities not previously called for redemption, repurchased or converted.

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The Trustee will promptly notify the Company in writing of the Securities selected for redemption and, in the case of any Security selected for partial redemption, the Principal Amount thereof to be redeemed.  Securities and portions of Securities selected will be in amounts of $1,000 or whole multiples of $1,000; except that if all of the Securities of a Holder are to be redeemed, the entire outstanding amount of Securities held by such Holder, even if not a multiple of $1,000, shall be redeemed.  Except as provided in the preceding sentence, provisions of this Indenture that apply to Securities called for redemption also apply to portions of Securities called for redemption.

Section 5.02           Notice of Redemption.

At least 20 days but not more than 60 days before a redemption date, the Company will mail or cause to be mailed, by first class mail, a notice of redemption to the Trustee, the Paying Agent and each Holder whose Securities are to be redeemed at its registered address.

The notice will identify the Securities to be redeemed and will state:

(i)            the Redemption Date;

(ii)           the redemption price;

(iii)          the then current Conversion Rate;

(iv)          if any Security is being redeemed in part, the portion of the Principal Amount of such Security to be redeemed and that, after the redemption date upon surrender of such Security, a new Security or Securities in Principal Amount equal to the unredeemed portion will be issued upon cancellation of the original Security;

(v)           the name and address of the Paying Agent and Conversion Agent;

(vi)          that Securities called for redemption must be surrendered to the Paying Agent to collect the redemption price;

(vii)         that Holders who wish to covert Securities must surrender such Securities for conversion no later than the close of business on the Business Day immediately preceding the Redemption Date and must satisfy the other requirements in Article 6 of this Indenture;

(viii)        that, unless the Company defaults in making such redemption payment, interest on Securities called for redemption ceases to accrue on and after the redemption date;

(ix)           the Section of this Indenture pursuant to which the Securities called for redemption are being redeemed; and

(x)            that no representation is made as to the correctness or accuracy of the CUSIP number, if any, listed in such notice or printed on the Securities.

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At the Company’s request, the Trustee will give the notice of redemption in the Company’s name and at its expense; provided, however, that the Company has delivered to the Trustee, at least 45 days prior to the redemption date, an Officers’ Certificate requesting that the Trustee give such notice and setting forth the information to be stated in such notice as provided in the preceding paragraph.

Section 5.03           Effect of Notice of Redemption.

Once notice of redemption is mailed in accordance with Section 4.03 hereof, Securities called for redemption become irrevocably due and payable on the redemption date at the redemption price.  A notice of redemption may not be conditional.

Section 5.04           Deposit of Redemption Price.

Prior to 10:00 a.m. (local time in The City of New York) on the Redemption Date (as defined below), the Company shall deposit with the Trustee or with the Paying Agent (or, if the Company or a Subsidiary or an Affiliate of either of them is acting as the Paying Agent, shall segregate and hold in trust as provided herein) money sufficient to pay the redemption price of and accrued interest and Additional Interest and Special Interest, if any, on all Securities to be redeemed on that date.  The Trustee or the Paying Agent will promptly return to the Company any money deposited with the Trustee or the Paying Agent by the Company in excess of the amounts necessary to pay the redemption price of, and accrued interest Additional Interest and Special Interest, if any, on, all Securities to be redeemed.

If the Company complies with the provisions of the preceding paragraph, on and after the redemption, interest will cease to accrue on the Securities or the portions of Securities called for redemption.  If a Security is redeemed on or after an interest record date but on or prior to the related interest payment date, then any accrued and unpaid interest shall be paid to the Person in whose name such Security was registered at the close of business on such record date.  If any Security called for redemption is not so paid upon surrender for redemption because of the failure of the Company to comply with the preceding paragraph, interest shall be paid on the unpaid principal, from the redemption date until such principal is paid, and to the extent lawful on any interest not paid on such unpaid principal, in each case at the rate provided in the Securities and in Section 4.01 hereof.

Section 5.05           Optional Redemption.

(a)           Prior to March 20, 2007, the Securities will not be redeemable.

(b)           On or after March 20, 2007, the Company may, at its option, redeem all or from time to time any part of the Securities at any time upon not less than 20 nor more than 60 days’ notice, for a price equal to 100% of the Principal Amount of the Securities to be redeemed plus any accrued and unpaid interest, including Additional Interest and Special Interest, if any, to but excluding the redemption date (the “Redemption Date”), subject to the rights of Holders on the relevant record date to receive interest on the relevant interest payment date.

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(c)           Unless the Company defaults in the payment of the redemption price, interest will cease to accrue on the Securities or portions thereof called for redemption on the applicable redemption date.

(d)           Any redemption pursuant to this Section 5.05 shall be made pursuant to the provisions of Sections 5.01 through 5.04 and 5.12 hereof.

Section 5.06           Mandatory Redemption.

The Company is not required to make mandatory redemption or sinking fund payments with respect to the Securities.

Section 5.07           Repurchase at Option of Holders Upon a Fundamental Change.

(a)           Generally.  If a Fundamental Change occurs at any time prior to the Maturity of the Securities, then each Securityholder shall have the right, at such Holder’s option, to require the Company to repurchase any or all of such Holder’s Securities, or any portion thereof, that is equal to $1,000 or an integral  multiple of $1,000 Principal Amount.  The Fundamental Change Repurchase Date (as defined below) will be a Business Day specified by the Company that is not less than 20 nor more than 35 calendar days following the date of the Fundamental Change Company Notice (as defined below), subject to extension to comply with applicable law (the “Fundamental Change Repurchase Date”), at a repurchase price equal to 100% of the Principal Amount thereof, together with accrued and unpaid interest, including Additional Interest and  Special Interest, if any, to, but excluding, the Fundamental Change Repurchase Date (the “Fundamental Change Repurchase Price”); provided, however, that if Securities are repurchased pursuant to this Section 5.07 on any Interest Payment Date, the interest, including Additional Interest and  Special Interest, if any, payable in respect of such Interest Payment Date shall be payable to the Holders of record as of the corresponding Record Date.

Repurchases of Securities under this Section 5.07 shall be made, at the option of the Holder thereof, upon:

(i)            delivery to the Trustee (or other Paying Agent appointed by the Company) by a Holder, prior to the close of business on the Business Day immediately preceding the Fundamental Change Repurchase Date, subject to extension to comply with applicable law, of a duly completed notice (the “Fundamental Change Repurchase Notice”) in the form set forth on Exhibit A-1 of the Securities or otherwise specifying:

(A)          if certificated, the certificate numbers of Securities to be delivered for repurchase;
(B)           the portion of the Principal Amount of Securities to be repurchased, which must be $1,000 or an integral multiple thereof; and
(C)           that the Securities are to be repurchased by the Company pursuant to the applicable provisions of the Securities and the Indenture; and

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(ii)           delivery or book-entry transfer of the Securities to the Trustee (or other Paying Agent appointed by the Company) at any time after delivery of the Fundamental Change Repurchase Notice (together with all necessary endorsements) at the applicable Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee (or other Paying Agent appointed by the Company), such delivery being a condition to receipt by the Holder of the Fundamental Change Repurchase Price therefor; provided that such Fundamental Change Repurchase Price shall be so paid pursuant to this Section 5.07 only if the Securities so delivered to the Trustee (or other Paying Agent appointed by the Company) shall conform in all respects to the description thereof in the related Fundamental Change Repurchase Notice.

Any purchase by the Company contemplated pursuant to the provisions of this Section 5.07 shall be consummated by the delivery of the consideration to be received by the Holder promptly following the later of the Fundamental Change Repurchase Date and the time of the book-entry transfer or delivery of the Securities.

Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, any Holder delivering to the Trustee (or other Paying Agent appointed by the Company) the Fundamental Change Repurchase Notice contemplated by this Section 5.07 shall have the right to withdraw such Fundamental Change Repurchase Notice at any time prior to the close of business on the Fundamental Change Repurchase Date by delivery of a written notice of withdrawal to the Trustee (or other Paying Agent appointed by the Company) in accordance with Section 5.09 below.

The Trustee (or other Paying Agent appointed by the Company) shall promptly notify the Company of the receipt by it of any Fundamental Change Repurchase Notice or written notice of withdrawal thereof.

(b)           Fundamental Change Company Notice.  On or before the 20th day after the occurrence of a Fundamental Change, the Company shall provide to all Holders of record of the Securities and the Trustee and Paying Agent a notice (the “Fundamental Change Company Notice”) of the occurrence of such Fundamental Change and of the repurchase right at the option of the Holders arising as a result thereof.  Such mailing shall be by first class mail.  Simultaneously with providing such Fundamental Change Company Notice, the Company shall publish a notice containing the information included therein once in a newspaper of general circulation in The City of New York or publish such information on the Company’s website or through such other public medium as the Company may use at such time.

Each Fundamental Change Company Notice shall specify:

(i)            the events causing the Fundamental Change;

(ii)           the date of the Fundamental Change;

(iii)          the last date on which a Holder may exercise the repurchase right;

(iv)          the Fundamental Change Repurchase Price;

(v)           the Fundamental Change Repurchase Date;

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(vi)          the name and address of the Paying Agent and the Conversion Agent, if applicable;

(vii)         if applicable, the applicable Conversion Rate and any adjustments to the applicable Conversion Rate;

(viii)        if applicable, that the Securities with respect to which a Fundamental Change Repurchase Notice has been delivered by a Holder may be converted only if the Holder withdraws the Fundamental Change Repurchase Notice in accordance with Section 5.09; and

(ix)           the procedures that Holders must follow to require the Company to repurchase their Securities.

No failure of the Company to give the foregoing notices and no defect therein shall limit any Holder’s repurchase rights or affect the validity of the proceedings for the repurchase of the Securities pursuant to this Section 5.07.

(c)           No Payment During Events of Default.  There shall be no repurchase of any Securities pursuant to this Section 5.07 if there has occurred (prior to, on or after, as the case may be, the giving, by the Holders of such Securities, of the required Fundamental Change Repurchase Notice) and is continuing an Event of Default (other than a default that is cured by the payment of the Fundamental Change Repurchase Price with respect to such Securities).  The Paying Agent will promptly return to the respective Holders thereof any Securities (i) with respect to which a Fundamental Change Repurchase Notice has been withdrawn in compliance with this Indenture, or (ii) held by it during the continuance of an Event of Default (other than a default that is cured by the payment of the Fundamental Change Repurchase Price with respect to such Securities) in which case, upon such return, the Fundamental Change Repurchase Notice with respect thereto shall be deemed to have been withdrawn.

(d)           Payment of Fundamental Change Repurchase Price.  The Securities to be repurchased pursuant to this Section 5.07 shall be paid for in cash.

Section 5.08           Effect of Fundamental Change Repurchase Notice.  Upon receipt by the Paying Agent of the Fundamental Change Repurchase Notice specified in Section 5.07(a), the Holder of the Security in respect of which such Fundamental Change Repurchase Notice was given shall (unless such Fundamental Change Repurchase Notice is withdrawn as specified in the following two paragraphs) thereafter be entitled to receive solely the Fundamental Change Repurchase Price with respect to such Security.  Such Fundamental Change Repurchase Price shall be paid to such Holder, subject to receipt of funds by the Paying Agent, promptly following the later of (x) the Fundamental Change Repurchase Date with respect to such Security (provided the conditions in Section 5.07(a) have been satisfied) and (y) the time of delivery of such Security to the Paying Agent by the Holder thereof in the manner required by Section 5.07(b).

Section 5.09           Withdrawal of Fundamental Change Repurchase Notice.

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Change Company Notice at any time prior to the close of business on the Business Day immediately preceding the Fundamental Change Repurchase Date, specifying:

(i)            the Principal Amount of the Securities with respect to which such notice of withdrawal is being submitted;

(ii)           if Physical Securities have been issued, the certificate numbers of the withdrawn Securities; and

(iii)          the Principal Amount of such Securities that remains subject to the original Fundamental Change Repurchase Notice, which portion must be in Principal Amounts of $1,000 or an integral multiple of $1,000;

provided, however, that if the Securities are not in certificated form, the notice must comply with appropriate procedures of the Depositary.

Section 5.10           Deposit of Fundamental Change Repurchase Price.  Prior to 10:00 a.m. (local time in The City of New York) on the Fundamental Change Repurchase Date, the Company shall deposit with the Trustee or with the Paying Agent (or, if the Company or a Subsidiary or an Affiliate of either of them is acting as the Paying Agent, shall segregate and hold in trust as provided herein) an amount of money (in immediately available funds if deposited on such Business Day) sufficient to pay the Fundamental Change Repurchase Price, of all the Securities or portions thereof that are to be repurchased as of the Fundamental Change Repurchase Date.  The Company shall promptly notify the Trustee in writing of the amount of any deposits of cash made pursuant to this Section 5.10.  If the Paying Agent holds cash sufficient to pay the Fundamental Change Repurchase Price of any Security for which a Fundamental Change Repurchase Notice has been tendered and not withdrawn in accordance with this Indenture as of the close of business on the Fundamental Change Repurchase Date, then immediately following the Fundamental Change Repurchase Date, (a) such Security will cease to be outstanding and interest will cease to accrue thereon and (b) all other rights of the Holder in respect thereof will terminate (other than the right to receive the Fundamental Change Repurchase Price and previously accrued and unpaid interest, including Additional Interest and  Special Interest, if any, upon delivery or transfer of such Security).

Section 5.11           Repurchase of Securities at the Option of the Holder on Specified Dates

(a)           The Holders may require the Company to repurchase the outstanding Securities for cash on March 15, 2012, March 15, 2017, and March 15, 2022 (each a “Repurchase Date”) at a purchase price per Security equal to 100% of the aggregate Principal Amount of the Security, together with any accrued and unpaid interest, including Additional or Special Interest, if any, to but not including the applicable Repurchase Date (the “Repurchase Price”); provided that if such Repurchase Date is an interest payment date, interest on the Securities will be payable to the Holders in whose names the Securities are registered at the close of business on the relevant Record Date.

(b)           The Company shall be required to repurchase any outstanding Security for which a Holder delivers a written repurchase notice to the Paying Agent (the “Repurchase Notice”).  This notice must be delivered during the period beginning at any time from the opening of

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business on the date that is 20 business days prior to the repurchase date until the close of business on the repurchase date.   To exercise the repurchase right, each Holder must deliver, on or before the business day immediately preceding the repurchase date, subject to extension to comply with applicable law, the Securities to be repurchased, duly endorsed for transfer, together with a written Repurchase Notice.  Each Repurchase Notice shall include a repurchase election notice, in substantially the form set forth as Exhibit A-2 of the Securities (a “Repurchase Election Notice”) to be completed by a Holder.

(c)           Repurchases of Securities by the Company pursuant to this Section 5.11 shall be made, at the option of the Holder thereof, upon:

(i)            delivery to the Paying Agent by the Holder of the Repurchase Election Notice at any time from the opening of business on the date that is 20 Business Days prior to the applicable Repurchase Date until the close of business on the Business Day immediately preceding such Repurchase Date stating:

(A)          if certificated Securities have been issued, the certificate number of the Security which the Holder will deliver to be purchased (or, if a Holder’s Securities are not certificated, the Repurchase Election Notice must comply with applicable procedures of the Depositary),
(B)           the portion (which may be 100%) of the Principal Amount of the Securities which the Holder will deliver to be repurchased, which portion must be in a Principal Amount of $1,000 or an integral multiple thereof, and
(C)           that such Securities shall be repurchased as of the applicable Repurchase Date pursuant to the terms and conditions specified in this Section 5.11 of this Indenture.

(ii)           delivery of such Security to the Paying Agent at any time after delivery of the Repurchase Notice (together with all necessary endorsements) at the offices of the Paying Agent. Delivery of such Security shall be a condition to receipt by the Holder of the Repurchase Price therefor. The Repurchase Price shall be paid pursuant to this Section 5.11 only if the Security delivered to the Paying Agent shall conform in all respects to the description thereof in the related Repurchase Election Notice, as determined by the Company.

(d)           Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, any Holder delivering to the Paying Agent the Repurchase Election Notice contemplated by this Section 5.11 shall have the right to withdraw such Repurchase Election Notice at any time prior to the close of business on the Business Day immediately preceding the Repurchase Date by delivery of a written notice of withdrawal to the Paying Agent specifying:

(i)            if certificated Securities have been issued, the certificate number of the Security in respect of which such notice of withdrawal is being submitted (or, if a Holder’s Securities are not certificated, the withdrawal notice must comply with the applicable procedures of the Depositary),

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(ii)           the aggregate Principal Amount of the Security with respect to which such notice of withdrawal is being submitted, and

(iii)          the aggregate Principal Amount, if any, of such Security which remains subject to the original Repurchase Election Notice and which has been or will be delivered for purchase by the Company.

The Paying Agent shall promptly notify the Company of the receipt by it of any Repurchase Election Notice or written notice of withdrawal thereof.

(e)           On or before 10:00 a.m. (local time in The City of New York) on the applicable Repurchase Date, the Company shall deposit with the Trustee or with the Paying Agent (or if the Company or an Affiliate of the Company is acting as the Paying Agent, shall segregate and hold in trust) an amount of money (in immediately available funds if deposited on such Repurchase Date) sufficient to pay the aggregate Repurchase Price of all the Securities or portions thereof which are to be purchased as of the applicable Repurchase Date. The manner in which the deposit required by this Section 5.11(e) is made by the Company shall be at the option of the Company; provided that such deposit shall be made in a manner such that the Trustee or a Paying Agent shall have immediately available funds on the applicable Repurchase Date.

(f)                 If a Paying Agent holds, in accordance with the terms hereof, money sufficient to pay the Repurchase Price of any Security for which a Repurchase Election Notice has been tendered and not withdrawn on the applicable Repurchase Date, then, on the applicable Repurchase Date, such Security will cease to be outstanding, whether or not the Security is delivered to the Paying Agent, and the rights of the Holder in respect thereof shall terminate (other than the right to receive the Repurchase Price as aforesaid) and interest will cease to accrue on such Security.

(g)                The Repurchase Price shall be paid promptly to such Holder with respect to Securities for which a Repurchase Election Notice has been tendered and not withdrawn, subject to receipt of funds by the Paying Agent, promptly following the later of (x) the Repurchase Date with respect to such Security (provided the conditions in Section 5.11(c) have been satisfied) and (y) the time of delivery of such Security to the Paying Agent by the Holder thereof in the manner required by Section 5.11(c). Securities in respect of which a Repurchase Election Notice has been given by the Holder thereof may not be converted pursuant to Article 6 hereof on or after the date of the delivery of such Repurchase Election Notice, unless the Securities are otherwise then convertible in accordance with Article 6 and such Repurchase Election Notice has first been validly withdrawn as specified in Section 5.11(d).

Section 5.12           Securities Redeemed or Repurchased in Whole or in Part.  Any Security that is to be repurchased, whether in whole or in part, shall be surrendered at the office of the Paying Agent (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 such Holder’s attorney duly authorized in writing) and the Company shall execute and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver to the Holder of such Security, without service charge, a new Security or Securities, of any authorized denomination as requested by such Holder in aggregate Principal Amount equal to, and in exchange for, the portion of the Principal Amount of the Security so surrendered which is not repurchased.

 

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Section 5.13           Covenant to Comply With Securities Laws Upon Repurchase of Securities.  In connection with any offer to repurchase Securities under Section 5.07 or Section 5.11 (provided that such offer or repurchase constitutes an “issuer tender offer” for purposes of Rule 13e-4 (which term, as used herein, includes any successor provision thereto) under the Exchange Act at the time of such offer or repurchase), the Company shall (i) comply with Rule 13e-4 and Rule 14e-1 under the Exchange Act, (ii) file the related Schedule TO (or any successor schedule, form or report) under the Exchange Act, and (iii) otherwise comply with all Federal and state securities laws so as to permit the rights and obligations under Section 5.01 or Section 5.11, as applicable, to be exercised in the time and in the manner specified in therein.

Section 5.14           Repayment to the Company.  The Trustee and the Paying Agent shall return to the Company any cash that remains unclaimed, together with interest, including Additional Interest and  Special Interest, if any, or dividends, if any, thereon, held by them for the payment of the Fundamental Change Repurchase Price or Repurchase Price, as applicable; provided that to the extent that the aggregate amount of cash deposited by the Company pursuant to Section 5.10 or Section 5.11(d), as applicable, exceeds the aggregate Fundamental Change Repurchase Price, or Repurchase Price, as applicable, of the Securities or portions thereof which the Company is obligated to repurchase as of the Fundamental Change Repurchase Date or Repurchase Date, as applicable, then as soon as practicable following the Fundamental Change Repurchase Date or Repurchase Date, as applicable, the Trustee or the Paying Agent, as the case may be, shall return any such excess to the Company.

ARTICLE 6.
Conversion

Section 6.01           Right to Convert.

(a)           Subject to and upon compliance with the provisions of this Indenture, each Holder shall have the right, at such Holder’s option, at any time following the Issue Date of the Securities hereunder through the close of business on the first Scheduled Trading Day immediately prior to the Stated Maturity to convert the Principal Amount of any such Securities, or any portion of such Principal Amount which is $1,000 or an integral multiple thereof at the Conversion Rate then in effect.

(b)           Notwithstanding the foregoing, a Security in respect of which a Holder has delivered a Fundamental Change Repurchase Notice or a Repurchase Notice exercising such Holder’s option to require the Company to repurchase such Security may be converted only if such notice of exercise is withdrawn in accordance with Article 5 hereof prior to the close of business on the Fundamental Change Repurchase Date or Repurchase Date, as applicable.

Section 6.02           Automatic Conversion

(a)           The Company may elect to automatically convert some or all of the Securities (an “Automatic Conversion”) at any time on or prior to Stated Maturity if the closing price of the Common Stock has exceeded 150% of the Conversion Price (referred to as the ‘‘Auto-Conversion Price’’) for at least 20 Trading Days during any consecutive 30-day Trading Day period ending within five Trading Days prior to the date of the Automatic Conversion Notice (as defined below); provided however, that until March 8, 2009, the Company may elect Automatic

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Conversion of the Securities only if, in accordance with the Registration Rights Agreement, a registration statement with respect to the resale of the Common Stock issuable upon conversion has been declared effective under the Securities Act prior to the date of the Notice of such Automatic Conversion and such registration statement remains effective on the date of Automatic Conversion (the “Automatic Conversion Date”).  Upon the Automatic Conversion Date, and without any requirement of further action by the Company or the Holders, the Securities subject to such Automatic Conversion shall be converted into Common Stock in accordance with Sections 6.03 and 6.04.  If an Automatic Conversion occurs on or prior to March 15, 2010, the Company will pay additional interest in an amount equal to three full years of interest on the Securities, less any interest actually paid or provided for on the Securities prior to such Automatic Conversion (the “Make-Whole Interest Payment”).  The Company may, at its option, pay the Make-Whole Interest Payment in cash or in Common Stock. In the event that the Company elects to pay the Make-Whole Interest Payment in Common Stock, the shares of Common Stock will be valued at the Auto-Conversion Price.

(b)           The Company or, at the request of the Company, the Trustee, shall give to all Holders a notice (the “Automatic Conversion Notice”) not more than 30 and not less than 20 days prior to the Automatic Conversion Date.  The Company shall also deliver a copy of the Automatic Conversion Notice to the Trustee.

(c)           Each Automatic Conversion Notice shall state: (1) the Automatic Conversion Date, (2) whether the Make-Whole Interest Payment, if any, shall be paid by the Company and, if so, if it shall be paid in cash or by delivery of shares of Common Stock, (3) the place or places where such Securities are to be surrendered for conversion and accrued and unpaid Make-Whole Interest Payment, if any, and (4) the Conversion Price then in effect.

(d)           If the Company elects Automatic Conversion of some, but not all, of the Securities, the Trustee will select the Securities to be automatically converted in Principal Amount of $1,000 or in whole multiples thereof, by lot or on a pro rata basis or by another method that the Trustee considers fair and appropriate. If any Securities are to be automatically converted in part only, the Company will issue a security or securities with a Principal Amount equal to the unconverted principal portion thereof.

(e)           If a portion of a Holders Securities are selected for partial Automatic Conversion and such Holders voluntarily converts a portion of such Securities, the voluntarily converted portion will be deemed to be taken from the portion selected for Automatic Conversion.

Section 6.03           Conversion Procedure.

(a)           Each Security shall be convertible at the office of the Conversion Agent.

(b)           In the case of a conversion pursuant to Section 6.01, in order to exercise the conversion right with respect to any interest in Global Securities, the Holder must complete the appropriate instruction form for conversion pursuant to the Depositary’s book-entry conversion program, furnish appropriate endorsements and transfer documents if required by the Company or the Trustee or Conversion Agent, and pay the funds, if any, required by this Section 6.03 and any transfer taxes if required pursuant to Section 6.08.  In order to exercise the conversion right

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with respect to any Securities in certificated form, the Holder of any such Securities to be converted, in whole or in part, shall:

(i)            complete and manually sign the conversion notice provided on the back of the Security (the “Conversion Notice”) or facsimile of the conversion notice and deliver such notice to a Conversion Agent;

(ii)           deliver the conversion notice, which is irrevocable, and the Security to a Conversion Agent;

(iii)          if required, furnish appropriate endorsements and transfer documents,

(iv)          make any payment required under Section 6.04(d); and

(v)           if required, pay any transfer or similar tax.

The date on which the Holder satisfies all of the applicable requirements set forth above is the “Conversion Date.”

(c)           Each Conversion Notice shall state the name or names (with address or addresses) in which any certificate or certificates for shares of Common Stock which shall be issuable on such conversion shall be issued.  All such Securities surrendered for conversion shall, unless the shares issuable on conversion are to be issued in the same name as the registration of such Securities, be duly endorsed by, or be accompanied by instruments of transfer in form satisfactory to the Company duly executed by, the Holder or his duly authorized attorney.

(d)           On the third Business Day immediately following the Conversion Date, in the case of any conversion pursuant to Section 6.01 or Section 6.02, subject to compliance with any restrictions on transfer if shares issuable on conversion are to be issued in a name other than that of the Holder (as if such transfer were a transfer of the Securities (or portion thereof) so converted), the Company shall issue and shall deliver to such Holder at the office of the Conversion Agent, a certificate or certificates for the number of full shares of Common Stock issuable and a check or cash for any cash amounts payable in respect of such conversion in accordance with the provisions of this Article 6.  In case any Securities of a denomination greater than $1,000 shall be surrendered for partial conversion, the Company shall execute and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver to the Holder of the Securities so surrendered, without charge to him, new Securities in authorized denominations in an aggregate Principal Amount equal to the unconverted portion of the surrendered Securities.

Each conversion shall be deemed to have been effected as to any such Securities (or portion thereof) on the date on which the requirements set forth above in this Section 6.03 have been satisfied as to such Securities (or portion thereof), and the person in whose name any certificate or certificates for shares of Common Stock shall be issuable upon such conversion shall be deemed to have become on said date the Holder of record of the shares represented thereby; provided, however, that in case of any such surrender on any date when the stock transfer books of the Company shall be closed, the person or persons in whose name the certificate or certificates for such shares are to be issued shall be deemed to have become the record Holder thereof for all purposes on the next day on which such stock transfer books are

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open, but such conversion shall be at the Conversion Rate in effect on the date upon which such Securities shall be surrendered.

(e)           Upon the conversion of an interest in Global Securities, the Trustee (or other Conversion Agent appointed by the Company) shall make a notation on such Global Securities as to the reduction in the Principal Amount represented thereby.  The Company shall notify the Trustee in writing of any conversions of Securities effected through any Conversion Agent other than the Trustee.

(f)            Each stock certificate representing Common Stock issued upon conversion of the Securities that are Restricted Securities shall bear the legend in substantially the form of Exhibit A hereto.

Section 6.04           Settlement Upon Conversion.

(a)           Upon the conversion of Securities, the Company shall, subject to the provisions of this Article 6, deliver to converting Holders, in respect of each $1,000 Principal Amount of Securities being converted, a number of shares of Common Stock equal to the applicable Conversion Rate.

(b)           Upon conversion, Holders shall not receive any separate cash payment for accrued and unpaid interest, including Additional Interest and  Special Interest, if any, unless such conversion occurs between a Record Date and the Interest Payment Date to which it relates.

(c)           If Securities are converted after 5:00 p.m., New York City time, on a Record Date for the payment of interest, Holders of such Securities at 5:00 p.m., New York City time, on such Record Date will receive the interest and Additional Interest and  Special Interest, if any, payable on such Securities on the corresponding Interest Payment Date notwithstanding the conversion.  Securities surrendered for conversion pursuant to Section 6.01 during the period from 5:00 p.m., New York City time, on any Record Date to 9:00 a.m., New York City time, on the immediately following Interest Payment Date, must be accompanied by funds equal to the amount of interest and Additional Interest and  Special Interest, if any, payable on the Securities so converted; provided that no such payment need be made (i) if the Company has specified a Fundamental Change Repurchase Date that is after a Record Date and on or prior to the corresponding Interest Payment Date; (ii) in respect of any conversion which occurs after the Record Date for the interest payment due on March 15, 2012 and on or prior to the corresponding Interest Payment Date or (iii) to the extent of any overdue interest, if any overdue interest exists at the time of conversion with respect to such Security.

(d)           The Company shall not issue fractional shares of Common Stock upon conversion of Securities.  If multiple Securities shall be surrendered for conversion at one time by the same Holder, the number of full shares which shall be issuable upon conversion shall be computed on the basis of the aggregate Principal Amount of the Securities (or specified portions thereof to the extent permitted hereby) so surrendered.  If any fractional share of stock would be issuable upon the conversion of any Securities, the Company shall make payment therefor to the Holder of such Securities in cash equal to the fraction of a share of Common Stock otherwise issuable multiplied by the Daily VWAP for the Conversion Date, in the case of any conversion settled

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pursuant to Section 6.03(a), or for the last day of the Observation Period, in the case of any conversion settled pursuant to Section 6.03(b).

Section 6.05           Adjustment of Conversion Rate.  The Conversion Rate shall be adjusted from time to time by the Company if any of the following events occurs, except that the Company will not make any adjustment if holders of Securities may participate in any of the transaction below as a result of holding the Securities, without having to convert their Securities, along with the holders of Common Stock, as if such holders of Securities held a number of Common Stock equal to the applicable Conversion Rate, multiplied by the Principle Amount (expressed in thousands) of Securities held by such Holder.

(a)           If the Company, at any time or from time to time while any of the Securities are outstanding, issues shares of its Common Stock as a dividend or distribution on shares of Common Stock, or if the Company effects a share split or share combination, the Conversion Rate will be adjusted based on the following formula:

where

CR0                           =              the Conversion Rate in effect immediately prior to the Ex Date of such dividend or distribution, or the effective date of such share split or combination, as applicable;

CR’                            =              the Conversion Rate in effect immediately after such Ex Date or effective date;

OS0                           =              the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding immediately prior to such Ex Date or effective date; and

OS’                            =              the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding immediately after such Ex Date or effective date.

Such adjustment shall become effective immediately after the opening of business on the day following the record date for such dividend or distribution, or the date fixed for determination for such share split or share combination.  If any dividend or distribution of the type described in this Section 6.04(a) is declared but not so paid or made, the Conversion Rate shall again be adjusted to the Conversion Rate which would then be in effect if such dividend or distribution had not been declared.

(b)           If the Company, at any time or from time to time while any of the Securities are outstanding, issues to all or substantially all holders of its outstanding shares of Common Stock any rights or warrants entitling them for a period of not more than 60 calendar days to subscribe for or purchase shares of Common Stock (or securities convertible into or exchangeable or exercisable for Common Stock) at a price per share (or having a conversion, exchange or exercise price per share) less than the average of the Last Reported Sale Prices of Common Stock for the 10 consecutive Trading Day period ending on the Business Day immediately preceding

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the date of announcement of such issuance, the Conversion Rate shall be adjusted based on the following formula:

where

CR0                           =              the Conversion Rate in effect immediately prior to the Ex Date for such issuance;

CR’                            =              the Conversion Rate in effect immediately after the Ex Date for such issuance;

OS0                           =              the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding immediately after the Ex Date for such issuance;

X                                       =              the total number of shares of Common Stock issuable pursuant to such rights; and

Y                                        =              the number of shares of Common Stock equal to the aggregate price payable to exercise such rights divided by the average of the Last Reported Sale Prices of Common Stock for the 10 consecutive Trading Day period ending on the Business Day immediately preceding the date of announcement of the issuance of such rights.

To the extent that shares of Common Stock (or securities convertible into or exchangeable or exercisable for shares of Common Stock) are not delivered pursuant to such rights or warrants, upon the expiration or termination of such rights or warrants, the Conversion Rate shall be readjusted to the Conversion Rate which would then be in effect had the adjustments made upon the issuance of such rights or warrants been made on the basis of the delivery of only the number of shares of Common Stock (or securities convertible into or exchangeable or exercisable for shares of Common Stock) actually delivered.  In the event that such rights or warrants are not so issued, the Conversion Rate shall again be adjusted to be the Conversion Rate which would then be in effect if the date fixed for the determination of stockholders entitled to receive such rights or warrants had not been fixed.  In determining whether any rights or warrants entitle the holders to subscribe for or purchase shares of Common Stock at less than the average of the Last Reported Sale Prices of Common Stock for the 10 consecutive Trading Day period ending on the Business Day immediately preceding the date of announcement of such issuance, and in determining the aggregate offering price of such shares of Common Stock, there shall be taken into account any consideration received for such rights or warrants and the value of such consideration, if other than cash, to be determined in good faith by the Board of Directors of the Company.

For the purposes of this Section 6.05(b), rights or warrants distributed by the Company to all holders of its Common Stock entitling them to subscribe for or purchase shares of the Company’s capital stock (either initially or under certain circumstances), which rights or warrants, until the occurrence of a specified event or events (a “Trigger Event”):  (1) are

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deemed to be transferred with such shares of Common Stock; (2) are not exercisable; and (3) are also issued in respect of future issuances of Common Stock, shall be deemed not to have been distributed for purposes of this Section 6.05(b), (and no adjustment to the Conversion Rate under this Section 6.05(b) will be required) until the occurrence of the earliest Trigger Event, whereupon such rights and warrants shall be deemed to have been distributed and an appropriate adjustment (if any is required) to the Conversion Rate shall be made under this Section 6.05(b).  If any such right or warrant, including any such existing rights or warrants distributed prior to the date of this Indenture, are subject to events, upon the occurrence of which such rights or warrants become exercisable to purchase different securities, evidences of Indebtedness or other assets, then the date of the occurrence of any and each such event shall be deemed to be the date of distribution and record date with respect to new rights or warrants with such rights (and a termination or expiration of the existing rights or warrants without exercise by any of the holders thereof).  In addition, in the event of any distribution (or deemed distribution) of rights or warrants, or any Trigger Event or other event (of the type described in the preceding sentence) with respect thereto that was counted for purposes of calculating a distribution amount for which an adjustment to the Conversion Rate under this Section 6.05(b) was made, (1) in the case of any such rights or warrants which shall all have been redeemed or repurchased without exercise by any Holders thereof, the Conversion Rate shall be readjusted upon such final repurchase to give effect to such distribution or Trigger Event, as the case may be, as though it were a cash distribution, equal to the per share redemption or repurchase price received by a holder of Common Stock with respect to such rights or warrants (assuming such holder had retained such rights or warrants), made to all applicable holders of Common Stock as of the date of such redemption or repurchase, and (2) in the case of such rights or warrants which shall have expired or been terminated without exercise by any holders thereof, the Conversion Rate shall be readjusted as if such rights and warrants had not been issued.

(c)           If the Company, at any time or from time to time while the Securities are outstanding, distributes shares of any class of Capital Stock of the Company, evidences of its Indebtedness or other assets or property of the Company to all or substantially all holders of its Common Stock, excluding:

(i)            dividends or distributions referred to in Section 6.05(a);

(ii)           rights or warrants referred to in Section 6.05(b); and

(iii)          dividends or distributions referred to in Section 6.05(d);

then the conversion rate will be adjusted based on the following formula:

where

CR0                           =              the Conversion Rate in effect immediately prior to the Ex Date for such distribution;

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CR’                            =              the Conversion Rate in effect immediately after the Ex Date for such distribution;

SP0                             =              the average of the Last Reported Sale Prices of the Common Stock over the 10 consecutive Trading Day period ending on the Trading Day immediately preceding the Ex Date for such distribution; and

FMV                     =              the Fair Market Value (as determined by the Board of Directors of the Company) of the shares of Capital Stock, evidences of Indebtedness, assets or property distributed with respect to each outstanding share of the Common Stock on the Ex Date for such distribution.

Such adjustment shall become effective immediately prior to the opening of business on the day following the record date for such distribution.  If the Board of Directors of the Company determines the Fair Market Value of any distribution for purposes of this Section 6.05(c) by reference to the actual or when issued trading market for any securities, it must in doing so consider the prices in such market over the same period used in computing the average of the Last Reported Sale Prices of the Common Stock.

With respect to an adjustment pursuant to this Section 6.05(c) where there has been a payment of a dividend or other distribution on the Common Stock or shares of Capital Stock of any class or series, or similar equity interest, of or relating to a Subsidiary or other business unit (a “Spin-Off”), the Conversion Rate in effect immediately before 5:00 p.m., New York City time, on the effective date of such Spin-Off shall be increased based on the following formula:

where

CR0                           =              the Conversion Rate in effect immediately prior to the effective date of the adjustment;

CR’                            =              the Conversion Rate in effect immediately after the effective date of the adjustment;

FMV0                =              the average of the Last Reported Sale Prices of the Capital Stock or similar equity interest distributed to holders of Common Stock applicable to one share of Common Stock over the first ten consecutive Trading Day period after the effective date of the Spin-Off; and

MP0                        =              the average of the Last Reported Sale Prices of Common Stock over the first ten consecutive Trading Day period after the effective date of the Spin-Off.

The adjustment to the Conversion Rate under the preceding paragraph will occur on the tenth Trading Day from, and including, the effective date of the Spin-Off.

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(d)           If any cash dividend or other distribution is made to all or substantially all holders of Common Stock, the Conversion Rate shall be adjusted based on the following formula:

where

CR0                           =              the Conversion Rate in effect immediately prior to the Ex Date for such distribution;

CR’                            =              the Conversion Rate in effect immediately after the Ex Date for such distribution;

SP0                             =              the Last Reported Sale Price of a share of Common Stock on the Trading Day immediately preceding the Ex Date for such distribution; and

C                                      =              the amount in cash per share the Company distributes to holders of Common Stock.

(e)           If the Company or any of its Subsidiaries makes a payment in respect of a tender offer or exchange offer for Common Stock to the extent that the cash and value of any other consideration included in the payment per share of Common Stock exceeds the Last Reported Sale Price per share of Common Stock on the Trading Day next succeeding the last date on which tenders or exchanges may be made pursuant to such tender or exchange offer, the Conversion Rate shall be increased based on the following formula:

where

CR0                           =              the Conversion Rate in effect immediately prior to the effective date of the adjustment;

CR’                            =              the Conversion Rate in effect immediately after the effective date of the adjustment;

AC                              =              the Fair Market Value (as determined by the Board of Directors) of the aggregate consideration paid or payable for shares purchased in such tender or exchange offer;

OS0                           =              the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding immediately prior to the date such tender or exchange offer expires;

OS’                            =              the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding immediately after the date such tender or exchange offer expires; and

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SP’                              =              the average of the Last Reported Sale Prices of Common Stock over the 10 consecutive Trading Day period commencing on the Trading Day next succeeding the date such tender or exchange offer expires.

The adjustment to the Conversion Rate under this Section 6.05(e) shall occur on the tenth Trading Day from, and including the Trading Day next succeeding the date such tender or exchange offer expires.

If the Company is obligated to repurchase shares pursuant to any such tender or exchange offer, but the Company is permanently prevented by applicable law from effecting any such purchases or all such purchases are rescinded, the Conversion Rate shall again be adjusted to be the Conversion Rate that would then be in effect if such tender or exchange had not been made.

(f)            For purposes of this Section 6.05, “record date” shall mean, with respect to any dividend, distribution or other transaction or event in which the holders of Common Stock have the right to receive any cash, securities or other property or in which the Common Stock (or other applicable security) is exchanged for or converted into any combination of cash, securities or other property, the date fixed for determination of stockholders entitled to receive such cash, securities or other property (whether such date is fixed by the Board of Directors or by statute, contract or otherwise).

(g)           If application of the formulas provided in Sections 6.05(a), 6.05(b), 6.05(c), 6.05(d) or 6.05(e) would result in a decrease in the Conversion Rate, no adjustment to the Conversion Rate shall be made except in the case of a subdivision or split of the Company’s Common Stock.

(h)           To the extent permitted by applicable law and subject to subsection (i) below, 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 20 days, the increase is irrevocable during the period 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 this Section 6.05(g), the Company shall mail to Holders of record of the Securities a notice of the increase at least 15 days prior to the date the increased Conversion Rate takes effect, and such notice shall state the increased Conversion Rate and the period during which it will be in effect.

(i)            The Company may make such increases in the Conversion Rate, in addition to any adjustments required by Section 6.05(a), 6.05(b), 6.05(c), 6.05(d), 6.05(e) or 6.05(f), as the Board of Directors considers to be advisable to avoid or diminish any income tax to holders of Common Stock or rights to purchase Common Stock resulting from any dividend or distribution of stock (or rights to acquire stock) or from any event treated as such for income tax purposes.

(j)            All calculations under this Article 6 shall be made by the Company and shall be made to the nearest cent or to the nearest one-ten-thousandth of a share, as the case may be.

(k)           Whenever the Conversion Rate is adjusted as herein provided, the Company shall promptly file with the Trustee and any Conversion Agent an Officers’ Certificate setting forth the Conversion Rate after such adjustment and setting forth a brief statement of the facts

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requiring such adjustment.  Unless and until a Responsible Officer of the Trustee shall have received such Officers’ Certificate, the Trustee shall not be deemed to have knowledge of any adjustment of the Conversion Rate and may assume without inquiry that the last Conversion Rate of which it has knowledge is still in effect.  Promptly after delivery of such certificate, the Company shall prepare a notice of such adjustment of the Conversion Rate setting forth the adjusted Conversion Rate and the date on which each adjustment becomes effective and shall mail such notice of such adjustment of the Conversion Rate to each Securityholder at such Holder’s last address appearing on the list of Securityholders provided for in Section 3.06, within 20 days after execution thereof.  Failure to deliver such notice shall not affect the legality or validity of any such adjustment.

(l)            In any case in which this Section 6.05 provides that an adjustment shall become effective immediately after a record date for an event, the Company may defer until the occurrence of such event (i) issuing to the Holder of any Securities converted after such record date and before the occurrence of such event the additional shares of Common Stock issuable upon such conversion by reason of the adjustment required by such event over and above the Common Stock issuable upon such conversion before giving effect to such adjustment and (ii) paying to such Holder any amount in cash in lieu of any fraction pursuant to Section 6.04.

(m)          For purposes of this Section 6.05, the number of shares of Common Stock at any time outstanding shall not include shares held in the treasury of the Company so long as the Company does not pay any dividend or make any distribution on shares of Common Stock held in the treasury of the Company, but shall include shares issuable in respect of scrip certificates issued in lieu of fractions of shares of Common Stock.

(n)           In no event will the total number of shares of Common Stock issuable upon conversion exceed 153.8 shares of Common Stock per $1,000 Principal Amount of Securities, whether as a result of an increase in the Conversion Rate in connection with a Fundamental Change or otherwise, subject in each case to adjustments in the same manner as the Conversion Rate as set forth in subsections (a), (b) and (c) of this Section 6.05 (the “Conversion Rate Cap”).  The Company shall not take any action described in subsections (d) or (e) of this Section 6.05 if, as a result of such action, the adjustment to the Conversion Rate that would otherwise be made pursuant to the provisions of subsections (d) or (e) of this Section 6.05 would be limited by the Conversion Rate Cap, unless such action would not result in a violation of NASD Rule 4350 as such rule or successor to such rule may be then in effect and interpreted by the NASD (or any similar rule of any other stock exchange which is the primary exchange upon which the Common Stock is listed). If such action would not result in a violation of NASD Rule 4350, or any successor rule or similar rule of any other stock exchange which is the primary exchange upon which the Common Stock is then listed, then the Conversion Rate Cap shall not apply to such action taken by the Company.

Section 6.06           Effect of Reclassification, Consolidation, Merger or Sale.  If any of the following events occur:

(i)            any recapitalization, reclassification or change of shares of Common Stock issuable upon conversion of the Securities (other than a change in par value, or from par value to no par value, or from no par value to par value, or as a result of a subdivision or

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combination, or any other change for which an adjustment is provided in Section 6.05(c));

(ii)           any consolidation, merger or combination to which the Company is a party other than a merger in which the Company is the continuing corporation and which does not result in any reclassification of, or change (other than in par value, or from par value to no par value, or from no par value to par value, or as a result of a subdivision or combination) in outstanding shares of Common Stock; or

(iii)          any sale, lease or other transfer of all or substantially all of the properties and assets of the Company and its Subsidiaries to any other Person, or any statutory share exchange, in each case as a result of which holders of Common Stock shall be entitled to receive stock, securities or other property or assets (including cash or any combination of the foregoing) with respect to or in exchange for such Common Stock, then the Company or the successor or purchasing person, as the case may be, shall execute with the Trustee a supplemental indenture (which shall comply with the Trust Indenture Act as in force at the date of execution of such supplemental indenture) providing that the Securities shall be convertible into the kind and amount of shares of stock, securities or other property or assets (including cash) receivable upon such reclassification, change, consolidation, merger, combination, sale or conveyance by a holder of a number of shares of Common Stock issuable upon conversion of such Securities (assuming, for such purposes, a sufficient number of authorized shares of Common Stock available to convert all such Securities) immediately prior to such reclassification, change, consolidation, merger, combination, sale or conveyance (the “Reference Property”).  If the transaction causes Common Stock to be converted into the right to receive more than a single type of consideration (determined based in part upon any from of stockholder election), the Reference Property into which the Securities will be convertible shall be deemed to be the weighted average of the types and amounts of consideration received by the holders of Common Stock that affirmatively make such election.  Such supplemental indenture shall provide for adjustments which shall be as nearly equivalent as may be practicable to the adjustments provided for in this Article 6.  If, in the case of any such reclassification, change, consolidation, merger, combination, sale or conveyance, the Reference Property receivable thereupon by a holder of Common Stock includes shares of stock, securities or other property or assets (including cash) of a corporation other than the successor or purchasing corporation, as the case may be, in such reclassification, change, consolidation, merger, combination, sale or conveyance, then such supplemental indenture shall also be executed by such other corporation and shall contain such additional provisions to protect the interests of the Holders of the Securities as the Board of Directors shall reasonably consider necessary by reason of the foregoing.

The Company shall cause notice of the execution of such supplemental indenture to be mailed to each Holder, at the address of such Holder as it appears on the register of the Securities maintained by the Registrar, within 20 days after execution thereof.  Failure to deliver such notice shall not affect the legality or validity of such supplemental indenture.  The above provisions of this Section shall similarly apply to successive reclassifications, changes, consolidations, mergers, combinations, sales and conveyances.  If this Section 6.06 applies to any event or occurrence, Section 6.05 shall not apply.

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Section 6.07           Adjustments of Average Prices.  Whenever a provision of the Indenture requires the calculation of an average of Last Reported Sale Prices or Daily VWAP over a span of multiple days, the Company will make appropriate adjustments to account for any adjustment to the Conversion Rate that becomes effective, or any event requiring an adjustment to the conversion rate that becomes effective, or any event requiring an adjustment to the Conversion Rate where the Ex Date of the event occurs, at any time during the period from which the average is to be calculated.

Section 6.08           Adjustments Upon Certain Fundamental Changes.

(a)           If a Holder elects to convert Securities in connection with a Fundamental Change that is consummated on or before March 15, 2010, the Conversion Rate for such Securities shall be increased by an additional number of shares of Common Stock (the “Additional Shares”) as described below.

(b)           The number of Additional Shares shall be determined by reference to the table attached as Schedule A hereto, based on the date on which the Fundamental Change occurs or becomes effective (the “Effective Date”) and the price (the “Stock Price”) paid per share of Common Stock in the Fundamental Change.  If the Fundamental Change is a transaction described in clause (2) of the definition thereof, and holders of Common Stock receive only cash in such Fundamental Change, the Stock Price shall be the cash amount paid per share.  In all other cases, the Stock Price shall be the average of the Last Reported Sale Prices of Common Stock over the five Trading Day period ending on the Trading Day preceding the Effective Date of the Fundamental Change.

(c)           The Stock Prices set forth in the first row of the table in Schedule A hereto shall be adjusted as of any date on which the Conversion Rate of the Securities is otherwise adjusted.  The adjusted Stock Prices shall equal the Stock Prices applicable immediately prior to such adjustment, multiplied by a fraction, the numerator of which is the Conversion Rate immediately prior to such adjustment and the denominator of which is the Conversion Rate as so adjusted.  The number of Additional Shares set forth in such table shall be adjusted in the same manner as the Conversion Rate as set forth in Section 6.05.

(d)           In the event that the exact Stock Prices and Effective Dates relating to a Fundamental Change are not set forth in the table in Schedule A, then:

(i)            If the Stock Price is between two Stock Price amounts in the table or the Effective Date is between two Effective Dates in the table, the number of Additional Shares shall be determined by a straight-line interpolation between the number of Additional Shares set forth for the higher and lower Stock Price amounts and the two dates, as applicable, based on a 365-day year.

(ii)           If the Stock Price is greater than $50.00 per share (subject to adjustment in the same manner as the Conversion Rate as set forth in Section 6.05), no Additional Shares will be issued upon conversion.

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(iii)          If the Stock Price is less than $6.50 per share (subject to adjustment in the same manner as the Conversion Rate as set forth in Section 6.05), no Additional Shares will be issued upon conversion.

Section 6.09           Taxes on Shares Issued.  Any issue of stock certificates on conversions of Securities shall be made without charge to the converting Holder for any documentary, transfer, stamp or any similar tax in respect of the issue thereof, and the Company shall pay any and all documentary, stamp or similar issue or transfer taxes 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 such tax which may be payable in respect of any transfer involved in the issue and delivery of stock in any name other than that of the Holder of any Securities converted, and the Company shall not be required to issue or deliver any such stock certificate unless and until the person or persons requesting the issue thereof shall have paid to the Company the amount of such tax or shall have established to the satisfaction of the Company that such tax has been paid.

Section 6.10           Reservation of Shares; Shares to be Fully Paid; Compliance With Governmental Requirements; Listing of Common Stock.  The Company shall provide, free from preemptive rights, out of its authorized but unissued shares or shares held in treasury, sufficient shares of Common Stock to provide for the conversion of the Securities from time to time as such Securities are presented for conversion (assuming that, at the time of the computation of such number of shares or securities, all such Securities would be held by a single Holder).

Before taking any action that would cause an adjustment increasing the Conversion Rate to an amount that would cause the Conversion Price to be reduced below the then par value, if any, of the shares of Common Stock issuable upon conversion of the Securities, the Company will take all corporate action which may, in the opinion of its counsel, be necessary in order that the Company may validly and legally issue shares of such Common Stock at such adjusted Conversion Price.

The Company covenants that all shares of Common Stock that may be issued upon conversion of Securities shall be newly issued shares or treasury shares, shall be duly authorized, validly issued, fully paid and non-assessable and shall be free from preemptive rights and free from any lien or adverse claim.

The Company shall use its reasonable efforts to list or cause to have quoted any shares of Common Stock to be issued upon conversion of Securities on each national securities exchange or over-the-counter or other domestic market on which the Common Stock is then listed or quoted.

Section 6.11           Responsibility of Trustee.  The Trustee and any other Conversion Agent shall not at any time be under any duty or responsibility to any Securityholder to determine the Conversion Rate or whether any facts exist which may require any adjustment of the Conversion Rate, or with respect to the nature or extent or calculation of any such adjustment when made, or with respect to the method employed, or herein or in any supplemental indenture provided to be employed, in making the same.  The Trustee and any other Conversion Agent shall not be accountable with respect to the validity or value (or the kind or amount) of any shares of Common Stock, or of any securities or property, which may at any time be issued or delivered

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upon the conversion of any Securities; and the Trustee and any other Conversion Agent make no representations with respect thereto.  Neither the Trustee nor any Conversion Agent shall be responsible for any failure of the Company to issue, transfer or deliver any shares of Common Stock or stock certificates or other securities or property or cash upon the surrender of any Securities for the purpose of conversion or to comply with any of the duties, responsibilities or covenants of the Company contained in this Article 6.  Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, neither the Trustee nor any Conversion Agent shall be under any responsibility to determine the correctness of any provisions contained in any supplemental indenture entered into pursuant to Section 6.06 relating either to the kind or amount of shares of stock or securities or property (including cash) receivable by Holders upon the conversion of their Securities after any event referred to in such Section 6.06 or to any adjustment to be made with respect thereto, but, subject to the provisions of Section 9.01, may accept as conclusive evidence of the correctness of any such provisions, and shall be protected in relying upon, the Officers’ Certificate (which the Company shall be obligated to file with the Trustee prior to the execution of any such supplemental indenture) with respect thereto.

Section 6.12           Notice to Holders Prior to Certain Actions.  In case:

(a)           the Company shall declare a dividend (or any other distribution) on its Common Stock that would require an adjustment in the Conversion Rate pursuant to Section 6.05; or

(b)           the Company shall authorize the granting to the holders of all or substantially all of its Common Stock of rights or warrants to subscribe for or purchase any share of any class or any other rights or warrants; or

(c)           of any reclassification or reorganization of the Common Stock of the Company (other than a subdivision or combination of its outstanding Common Stock, or a change in par value, or from par value to no par value, or from no par value to par value), or of any consolidation or merger to which the Company is a party and for which approval of any stockholders of the Company is required, or of the sale, lease or transfer of all or substantially all of the assets of the Company or any of its Significant Subsidiaries; or

(d)           of the voluntary or involuntary dissolution, liquidation or winding up of the Company or any of its Significant Subsidiaries; then, in each case, the Company shall cause to be filed with the Trustee and the Conversion Agent and to be mailed to each Securityholder at such Holder’s address appearing on the list of Securityholders provided for in Section 3.06 of this Indenture, as promptly as practicable but in any event at least 15 days prior to the applicable date hereinafter specified, a notice stating (x) the date on which a record is to be taken for the purpose of such dividend, distribution or rights 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 or rights are to be determined, or (y) the date on which such reclassification, consolidation, merger, sale, lease, transfer, dissolution, liquidation or winding up is expected to become effective or occur, and the date as of which it is expected that holders of Common Stock of record shall be entitled to exchange their Common Stock for securities or other property deliverable upon such reclassification, consolidation, merger, sale, transfer, dissolution, liquidation or winding up.  Failure to give such notice, or any defect therein, shall not affect the legality or validity of such dividend, distribution, reclassification, consolidation, merger, sale, transfer, dissolution, liquidation or winding up.

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Section 6.13           Stockholder Rights Plan.  Each share of Common Stock issued upon conversion of Securities pursuant to this Article 6 shall be entitled to receive the appropriate number of rights, if any, and the certificates representing the Common Stock issued upon such conversion shall bear such legends, if any, in each case as may be provided by the terms of the Stockholder Rights Plan and any subsequent stockholder rights agreement adopted by the Company, as any such agreement may be amended from time to time.  If at the time of conversion, however, the rights have separated from the shares of Common Stock in accordance with the provisions of the applicable stockholder rights agreement so that the Holders of the Securities would not be entitled to receive any rights in respect of Common Stock issuable upon conversion of the Securities, the Conversion Rate will be adjusted at the time of separation as if the Company has distributed to all holders of Common Stock, shares of Capital Stock of the Company, evidence of indebtedness or assets as provided in Section 6.05(c), subject to readjustment in the event of the expiration, termination or redemption of such rights.

Section 6.14           Company Determination Final.  Any determination that the Company or its Board of Directors must make pursuant to this Article 6 shall be conclusive if made in good faith and in accordance with the provisions of this Article 6, absent manifest error, and set forth in a Board Resolution.

Section 6.15           Exchange in Lieu of Conversion.

(a)           If at any time when a Holder surrenders Securities for conversion prior to the Stated Maturity of the Securities, the Company:

(i)            has entered into an agreement with a Financial Institution designated by the Company (a “Designated Institution”) under which the Designated Institution may accept such Securities in exchange for shares of Common Stock and cash, as applicable, equal to the consideration due upon conversion as provided in Section 6.04; and

(ii)           notifies the Holder surrendering such Securities for conversion by the close of business on the Business Day immediately following the Conversion Date that it has directed the Designated Institution to make an exchange in lieu of conversion, then, notwithstanding anything in this Indenture to the contrary, the Company may direct the Conversion Agent to surrender such Securities to the Designated Institution for exchange in lieu of conversion.

(b)           If the Designated Institution accepts Securities surrendered for exchange, it shall deliver the number of shares of Common Stock and the amount of cash, as applicable, specified in Section 6.04 to the Conversion Agent and the Conversion Agent shall deliver such shares of Common Stock and cash, as applicable, to the Holder, within the time periods specified in Section 6.03(d), which delivery shall be deemed to satisfy the Company’s conversion obligations under this Article 6 with respect to the surrendered Securities.  Any Securities so exchanged by such Designated Institution shall remain Outstanding for all purposes under this Indenture.

(c)           If the Designated Institution agrees to accept any Securities for exchange but does not timely deliver the related consideration to the Conversion Agent, or if the Designated Institution does not accept such Securities for exchange, the Company shall, as promptly as

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practicable thereafter, convert such Securities into shares of Common Stock and cash, as applicable, in accordance with the provisions of Section 6.03 and Section 6.04.

(d)           For the avoidance of doubt, in no event will the Company’s designation of a Financial Institution pursuant to this Section 6.15 require such Financial Institution to accept any Securities for exchange.

ARTICLE 7.
Events of Default; Remedies

Section 7.01           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 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):

(a)           default in the payment of interest, including Additional Interest and  Special Interest, on any Securities when due and payable and such default continues for a period of 30 days;

(b)           default in the payment of the Principal Amount or Fundamental Change Repurchase Price on any Security at Maturity or when such amount otherwise becomes due and payable;

(c)           default in the Company’s obligation to convert the Securities into shares of Common Stock upon exercise of a Holder’s conversion rights in accordance with Article 6 hereof and such default continues for a period of five days;

(d)           failure by the Company to provide the Fundamental Change Company Notice to Holders when due;

(e)           failure by the Company to comply with its obligations under Article 8;

(f)            default in the observance or performance of any covenant of the Company in this Indenture, and such default continues for a period of 60 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 25% in aggregate Principal Amount of the Outstanding Securities a written notice specifying such default and requiring it to be remedied and stating that such notice is a “Notice of Default” hereunder;

(g)           default by the Company or any Significant Subsidiary of the Company in the payment of the principal or interest by the end of the applicable grace period, if any, on any mortgage, agreement or other instrument under which there may be outstanding, or by which there may be secured or evidenced any Indebtedness for money borrowed in excess of $10,000,000 in the aggregate of the Company and/or any such Significant Subsidiary, whether such Indebtedness now exists or is hereafter created, resulting in such Indebtedness in excess of $10,000,000 in the aggregate becoming or being declared due and payable prior to the scheduled maturity thereof, or not being paid by the Company when due at the scheduled maturity thereof;

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(h)           the rendering against the Company or any of its Subsidiaries of a final judgment for the payment of $10,000,000 or more, excluding any amounts covered by insurance, which judgment remains undischarged and unstayed within 60 days after (i) the date on which the right to appeal such judgment has expired if no such appeal has commenced or (ii) the date of which all rights to appeal such judgment have been extinguished;

(i)            the entry by a court having jurisdiction in the premises of (i) a decree or order for relief in respect of the Company of a voluntary case or proceeding under any applicable federal or state bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or other similar law, (ii) a decree or order adjudging the Company or a Significant Subsidiary of the Company as bankrupt or insolvent, or approving as properly filed a petition seeking reorganization, arrangement, adjustment or composition of or in respect of the Company under any applicable federal or state law or (iii) appointing a custodian, receiver, liquidator, assignee, trustee, sequestrator or other similar official of the Company or of a Significant Subsidiary of the Company 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 60 consecutive days; or

(j)            the commencement by the Company or by a Significant Subsidiary of the Company 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 of a Significant Subsidiary of the Company 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 reorganization or 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 of a Significant Subsidiary of the Company 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 by a Significant Subsidiary of the Company in furtherance of any such action.

Section 7.02           Acceleration of Maturity; Rescission and Annulment.

(a)           If an Event of Default (other than those specified in Section 7.01(i) and 7.01(j)) occurs and is continuing, then and in every such case the Trustee by notice to the Company, or the Holders of not less than 25% in aggregate Principal Amount of the Outstanding Securities by notice to the Company and the Trustee may, and the Trustee at the request of such Holders shall, declare the Principal Amount plus accrued and unpaid interest, including Additional Interest and  Special Interest, if any, on all the Outstanding Securities to be due and payable immediately, by a notice in writing to the Company (and to the Trustee if given by Holders), and upon any such declaration such Principal Amount plus accrued and unpaid interest, including Additional Interest and  Special Interest, if any, shall become immediately due and payable.

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Additional Interest and  Special Interest, if any, on all Outstanding Securities will ipso facto become due and payable without any declaration or other act on the part of the Trustee or any Holder.

Notwithstanding the foregoing or anything to the contrary set forth in this Indenture, to the extent elected by the Company, the sole remedy for an Event of Default relating to the failure to comply with the reporting obligations set forth in Section 4.10 herein and for any failure to comply with the requirements of Section 314(a)(1) of the Trust Indenture Act, will for the first 180 days after the occurrence of such an Event of Default consist exclusively of the right to receive special interest on the Securities at an annual rate equal to 0.25% of the Principal Amount of the Securities (“Special Interest”). The Special Interest will accrue on all outstanding Securities from and including the date on which an Event of Default relating to a failure to comply with the reporting obligations set forth in Section 4.10 herein first occurs to but not including the 180th day thereafter (or such earlier date on which the Event of Default shall have been cured or waived). On such 180th day (or earlier, if the Event of Default relating to the reporting obligations is cured or waived prior to such 180th day), such Special Interest will cease to accrue and, if the Event of Default relating to reporting obligations has not been cured or waived prior to such 180th day, the Securities will be subject to acceleration as provided in the first paragraph of Section 7.02(a). In the event the Company does not elect to pay Special Interest upon an Event of Default in accordance with this paragraph, the Securities will be subject to acceleration as provided above. If the Company elects to pay Special Interest as the sole remedy an Event of Default relating to the failure to comply with reporting obligations in Section 4.10 or for any failure to comply with the requirements of Section 314(a)(1) of the Trust Indenture Act in,  the Company will notify all Holders, the Trustee and Paying Agent of such election on or before the close of business on the date on which such Event of Default first occurs.

(b)           At any time after such a 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 7 provided, the Holders of a majority in aggregate Principal Amount of the Outstanding Securities, by written notice to the Company and the Trustee, may rescind and annul such declaration and its consequences if:

(i)            such rescission and annulment will not conflict with any judgment or decree of a court of competent jurisdiction; and

(ii)           all Events of Default, other than the non-payment of the Principal Amount plus accrued and unpaid interest, including Additional Interest and  Special Interest, or any payment of the Repurchase Price or Fundamental Change Repurchase Price or any provision which may not be modified or amended without the consent of the Holder of each outstanding Security affected, that have become due solely by such declaration of acceleration, have been cured or waived as provided in Section 7.12.

No such rescission shall affect any subsequent default or impair any right consequent thereon.

Section 7.03           Collection of Indebtedness and Suits for Enforcement by Trustee.  The Company covenants that if a Default is made in the payment of the Principal Amount plus

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accrued and unpaid interest, including Additional Interest and  Special Interest, if any, at the Maturity thereof or in the payment of the Fundamental Change Repurchase Price or Repurchase Price in respect of any Security, the Company will, upon demand of the Trustee, pay to it, for the benefit of the Holders of such Securities, the whole amount then due and payable on such Securities, and, in addition thereto, such further amount as shall be sufficient to cover the costs and expenses of collection, including the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the Trustee, its agents and counsel.

If an Event of Default occurs and is continuing, the Trustee may, but shall not be obligated to, pursue any available remedy to collect the payment of the Principal Amount plus accrued but unpaid interest, including Additional Interest and Special Interest, if any, on the Securities or to enforce the performance of any provision of the Securities or this Indenture.  The Trustee may maintain a proceeding even if the Trustee does not possess any of the Securities or does not produce any of the Securities in the proceeding.  A delay or omission by the Trustee or any Holder in exercising any right or remedy accruing upon an Event of Default shall not impair the right or remedy or constitute a waiver of, or acquiescence in, the Event of Default.  No remedy is exclusive of any other remedy.  All available remedies are cumulative.

Section 7.04           Trustee May File Proofs of Claim.  In case of any judicial proceeding relative to the Company (or any other obligor upon the Securities), its property or its creditors, the Trustee shall be entitled and empowered, by intervention in such proceeding or otherwise, to take any and all actions authorized under the Trust Indenture Act in order to have claims of the Holders and the Trustee allowed in any such proceeding.  In particular, the Trustee shall be authorized to collect and receive any moneys or other property payable or deliverable on any such claims 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 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, to pay to the Trustee any amount due it for the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the Trustee, its agents and counsel and any other amounts due the Trustee under Section 9.07.

No provision of this Indenture shall be deemed to authorize the Trustee to authorize or consent to or accept or adopt on behalf of any Holder any plan of reorganization, arrangement, adjustment or composition affecting the Securities or the rights of any Holder thereof or to authorize the Trustee to vote in respect of the claim of any Holder in any such proceeding.

Section 7.05           Application of Money Collected.  Any money collected by the Trustee pursuant to this Article 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 to Holders, 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 9.07;

SECOND:  To the payment of the amounts then due and unpaid on the Securities for the Principal Amount, Fundamental Change Repurchase Price, Repurchase Price, Make-Whole Interest Payment or interest, including Additional Interest and  Special Interest, as the case may be, in respect of which or for the benefit of which such money has been collected, ratably,

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without preference or priority of any kind, according to the amounts due and payable on such Securities; and

THIRD:  To the payment of the remainder, if any, to the Company or any other Person lawfully entitled thereto.

Section 7.06           Limitation on Suits No Holder of any Security shall have any right to institute any proceeding, judicial or otherwise, with respect to this Indenture, or for the appointment of a receiver or trustee, or for any other remedy hereunder (other than in the case of an Event of Default specified in Section 7.01(a) or Section 7.01(b)), unless:

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

(ii)           the Holders of not less than 25% 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;

(iii)          such Holder or Holders have offered to the Trustee indemnity reasonably satisfactory to it against the costs, expenses and liabilities to be incurred in compliance with such request;

(iv)          the Trustee for 60 days after its receipt of such notice, request and offer of security or indemnity has failed to institute any such proceeding; and

(v)           no direction, in the opinion of the Trustee, inconsistent with such written request has been given to the Trustee during such 60-day period by the Holders of a majority in aggregate Principal Amount of the Outstanding Securities;

it being understood and intended that no one or more Holders shall have any right in any manner whatever by virtue of, or by availing itself of, any provision of this Indenture to affect, disturb or prejudice the rights of any other Holders, or to obtain or to seek to obtain priority or preference over any other Holders or to enforce any right under this Indenture, except in the manner herein provided and for the equal and ratable benefit of all the Holders.

Section 7.07           Unconditional Right of Holders to Receive Payment.  Notwithstanding any other provision of this Indenture, the right of any Holder to receive payment of the Principal Amount, Fundamental Change Repurchase Price or interest in respect of the Securities held by such Holder, on or after the respective due dates expressed in the Securities or any Fundamental Change Repurchase Date, as applicable, and to convert the Securities in accordance with Article 6, or to bring suit for the enforcement of any such payment on or after such respective dates or the right to convert, shall not be impaired or affected adversely without the consent of such Holder.

Section 7.08           Restoration of Rights and Remedies.  If the Trustee or any Holder 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

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determination in such proceeding, the Company, the Trustee and the Holders shall be restored severally and respectively to their former positions hereunder and thereafter all rights and remedies of the Trustee and the Holders shall continue as though no such proceeding had been instituted.

Section 7.09           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 3.07, no right or remedy herein conferred upon or reserved to the Trustee or to the Holders 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 shall not prevent the concurrent assertion or employment of any other appropriate right or remedy.

Section 7.10           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 an acquiescence therein.  Every right and remedy given by this Article or by law to the Trustee or to the Holders may be exercised from time to time, and as often as may be deemed expedient, by the Trustee or by the Holders, as the case may be.

Section 7.11           Control by Holders.  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:

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

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

Section 7.12           Waiver of Past Defaults.  The Holders of not less than a majority in Principal Amount of the Outstanding Securities may on behalf of the Holders of all the Securities waive any past Default hereunder and its consequences, except a Default:

(i)            Described in Section 7.01(a) or Section 7.01(b); or

(ii)           in respect of a covenant or provision hereof which under Article 12 cannot be modified or amended without the consent of the Holder of each Outstanding Security affected.

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.

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it as Trustee, in either case in respect of the Securities, a court may require any party litigant in such suit to file an undertaking to pay the costs of the suit, and the court may assess reasonable costs, including reasonable attorney’s fees and expenses, against any party litigant in the suit having due regard to the merits and good faith of the claims or defenses made by the party litigant; but the provisions of this Section 7.13 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 10% in Principal Amount of the Outstanding Securities, or to any suit instituted by any Holder for the enforcement of the payment of the Principal Amount on any Security on or after Maturity of such Security or the Fundamental Change Repurchase Price.

Section 7.14           Waiver of Stay 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, or extension law wherever enacted, now or at any time hereafter in force, which 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 the execution of any power herein granted to the Trustee, but will suffer and permit the execution of every such power as though no such law had been enacted.

Section 7.15           Violations of Certain Covenants.  A violation of Section 4.10 or any other covenant or agreement in this Indenture that expressly provides that a violation of such covenant or agreement shall not constitute an Event of Default may only be enforced by the Trustee by instituting a legal proceeding against the Company for enforcement of such covenant or agreement.

Section 7.16           Notice of Default.  The Trustee may withhold notice to the Holders of the Securities of any Event of Default, except defaults in payment of Principal Amount or interest, including Additional Interest and  Special Interest, if any, on the Securities, if and so long as a committee of the trust officers of the Trustee in good faith determines that the withholding of such notice is in the interest of the Holders of the Securities.

Section 7.17           Default Interest.  Payments of the Fundamental Change Repurchase Price, principal or interest, including Additional Interest and  Special Interest, if any, that are not made when due will accrue interest at the annual rate of 1% per annum above the then-applicable interest rate from the required payment date.

ARTICLE 8.
Consolidation, Merger, Conveyance, Transfer or Lease

Section 8.01           Company May Consolidate, etc., Only on Certain Terms.  The Company shall not consolidate with or merge into any other Person or convey, transfer or lease all or substantially all of its properties and assets to any Person, and the Company shall not permit any Person to consolidate with or merge into the Company or convey, transfer or lease all or substantially all of its properties and assets to the Company, unless:

(a)           the resulting, surviving or transferee Person (the “Successor Company”) is a corporation organized and validly existing under the laws of the United States of America, any

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State thereof or the District of Columbia or is a corporation, limited liability company, partnership or trust organized and existing under the laws of a jurisdiction outside the United States;

(b)           the Successor Company (if not the Company itself) expressly assumes, by a supplemental indenture, executed and delivered to the Trustee, in form reasonably satisfactory to the Trustee, all of the obligations of the Company under the Securities, and this Indenture; and

(c)           immediately after giving effect to such transaction, no Event of Default, shall have occurred and be continuing.

Section 8.02           Successor Substituted.  Upon any consolidation of the Company with, or merger of the Company into, any other Person or any conveyance, transfer or lease of the properties and assets of the Company substantially as an entirety in accordance with Section 8.01, the successor Person formed by such consolidation or into which the Company is merged or to which such conveyance, transfer or lease 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.

ARTICLE 9.
The Trustee

Section 9.01           Duties and Responsibilities of Trustee.  The Trustee, prior to the occurrence of an Event of Default and after the curing of all Events of Default which may have occurred, undertakes to perform such duties and only such duties as are specifically set forth in this Indenture.  In case an Event of Default has occurred (which has not been cured or waived), the Trustee shall exercise such of the rights and powers vested in it by this Indenture, and use the same degree of care and skill in their exercise, as a prudent person would exercise or use under the circumstances in the conduct of his own affairs.

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:

(a)           prior to the occurrence of an Event of Default and after the curing or waiving of all Events of Default which may have occurred:

(i)            the duties and obligations of the Trustee shall be determined solely by the express provisions of this Indenture and the Trust Indenture Act, and the Trustee shall not be liable except for the performance of such duties and obligations as are specifically set forth in this Indenture and no implied covenants or obligations shall be read into this Indenture and the Trust Indenture Act against the Trustee; and

(ii)           in the absence of bad faith and willful misconduct on the part of the Trustee, the Trustee may conclusively rely as to the truth of the statements and the correctness of the opinions expressed therein, upon any certificates or opinions furnished to the Trustee and conforming to the requirements of this Indenture; but, in the case of any such certificates or opinions which by any provisions hereof are specifically required

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to be furnished to the Trustee, the Trustee shall be under a duty to examine the same to determine whether or not they conform to the requirements of this Indenture (but need not confirm or investigate the accuracy of any mathematical calculations or other facts stated therein);

(b)           the Trustee shall not be liable for any error of judgment made in good faith by a Responsible Officer or Officers of the Trustee, unless the Trustee was negligent in ascertaining the pertinent facts;

(c)           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 written direction of the holders of not less than a majority in Principal Amount of the Securities at the time outstanding determined as provided in Section 1.04 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;

(d)           whether or not therein 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;

(e)           the Trustee shall not be liable in respect of any payment (as to the correctness of amount, entitlement to receive or any other matters relating to payment) or notice effected by the Company or any paying agent or any records maintained by any co-registrar with respect to the Securities; and

(f)            if any party fails to deliver a notice relating to an event the fact of which, pursuant to this Indenture, requires notice to be sent to the Trustee, the Trustee may conclusively rely on its failure to receive such notice as reason to act as if no such event occurred.

None of the provisions contained in this Indenture shall require the Trustee to expend or risk its own funds or otherwise incur personal financial liability in the performance of any of its duties or in the exercise of any of its rights or powers, if there is reasonable ground for believing that the repayment of such funds or adequate indemnity against such risk or liability is not reasonably assured to it.

Section 9.02           Notice of Defaults.  The Trustee shall give the Holders notice of any Default hereunder within 60 days after the occurrence thereof; provided, that (except in the case of any Default in the payment of Principal Amount or Interest on any of the Securities or Fundamental Change Repurchase Price), the Trustee shall be protected in withholding such notice if and so long as a committee of officers of the Trustee in good faith determines that the withholding of such notice is in the interest of the holders of Securities.

Section 9.03           Reliance on Documents, Opinions, Etc. Except as otherwise provided in Section 9.01:

(a)           the Trustee may rely and shall be protected in acting upon any resolution, certificate, statement, instrument, opinion, report, notice, request, consent, order, bond, debenture, note, coupon or other paper or document (whether in its original or facsimile form)

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believed by it in good faith to be genuine and to have been signed or presented by the proper party or parties;

(b)           any request, direction, order or demand of the Company mentioned herein shall be sufficiently evidenced by an Officers’ Certificate (unless other evidence in respect thereof be herein specifically prescribed); and any resolution of the Board of Directors may be evidenced to the Trustee by a copy thereof certified by the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary of the Company;

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

(d)           the Trustee shall be under no obligation to exercise any of the rights or powers vested in it by this Indenture at the request, order or direction of any of the Securityholders pursuant to the provisions of this Indenture, unless such Securityholders shall have offered to the Trustee security or indemnity reasonably satisfactory to it against the costs, expenses and liabilities which may be incurred therein or thereby;

(e)           the Trustee shall not be bound to make any investigation into the facts or matters stated in any resolution, certificate, statement, instrument, opinion, report, notice, request, direction, consent, order, bond, debenture or other paper or document, but the Trustee, in its discretion, may make such further inquiry or investigation into such facts or matters as it may see fit, and, if the Trustee shall determine to make such further inquiry or investigation, it shall be entitled to examine the books, records and premises of the Company, personally or by agent or attorney (at the reasonable expense of the Company and shall incur no liability of any kind by reason of such inquiry or investigation);

(f)            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 by it with due care hereunder;

(g)           the Trustee shall not be liable for any action taken, suffered, or omitted to be taken by it in good faith and reasonably believed by it to be authorized or within the discretion or rights or powers conferred upon it by this Indenture;

(h)           in no event shall the Trustee be responsible or liable for special, indirect, or consequential loss or damage of any kind whatsoever (including, but not limited to, loss of profit) irrespective of whether the Trustee has been advised of the likelihood of such loss or damage and regardless of the form of action;

(i)            the Trustee shall not be deemed to have notice of any Default or Event of Default unless a Responsible Officer of the Trustee has actual knowledge thereof or unless written notice of any event which is in fact such a default is received by the Trustee at the Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee, and such notice references the Securities and the Indenture; and

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(j)            the rights, privileges, protections, immunities and benefits given to the Trustee, including, without limitation, its right to be indemnified, are extended to, and shall be enforceable by, the Trustee in each of its capacities hereunder, and each agent, custodian and other Person employed to act hereunder.

Section 9.04           No Responsibility for Recitals, Etc.  The recitals contained herein and in the Securities (except in the Trustee’s certificate of authentication) shall be taken as the statements of the Company, and the Trustee assumes no responsibility for the correctness of the same.  The Trustee makes no representations as to the validity or sufficiency of this Indenture or of the Securities.  The Trustee shall not be accountable for the use or application by the Company of any Securities or the proceeds of any Securities authenticated and delivered by the Trustee in conformity with the provisions of this Indenture.

Section 9.05           Trustee, Paying Agents, Conversion Agents or Registrar May Own Securities.  The Trustee, any paying agent, any conversion agent or Security Registrar, in its individual or any other capacity, may become the owner or pledgee of Securities with the same rights it would have if it were not Trustee, paying agent, conversion agent or Security Registrar.

Section 9.06           Monies to be Held in Trust.  Subject to the provisions of Section 11.04, all monies and properties received by the Trustee shall, until used or applied as herein provided, be held in trust for the purposes for which they were received.  Money held by the Trustee in trust hereunder need not be segregated from other funds except to the extent required by law.  The Trustee shall be under no liability for interest on any money received by it hereunder except as may be agreed in writing from time to time by the Company and the Trustee.

Section 9.07           Compensation and Expenses of Trustee.  The Company covenants and agrees to pay to the Trustee from time to time, and the Trustee shall be entitled to, reasonable compensation for all services rendered by it hereunder in any capacity (which shall not be limited by any provision of law in regard to the compensation of a trustee of an express trust) as mutually agreed to from time to time in writing between the Company and the Trustee, and the Company will pay or reimburse the Trustee upon its request for all reasonable expenses, disbursements and advances reasonably incurred or made by the Trustee in accordance with any of the provisions of this Indenture (including the reasonable compensation and the expenses and disbursements of its counsel and of all Persons not regularly in its employ) except any such expense, disbursement or advance as may arise from its negligence, willful misconduct or bad faith.  The Company also covenants to indemnify the Trustee (or any officer, director or employee of the Trustee), in any capacity under this Indenture and its agents and any authenticating agent for, and to hold them harmless against, any and all loss, liability, claim or expense incurred without negligence, willful misconduct or bad faith on the part of the Trustee or such officers, directors, employees and agent or authenticating agent, as the case may be, and arising out of or in connection with the acceptance or administration of this trust or in any other capacity hereunder, including the costs and expenses of defending themselves against any claim of liability in the premises.  The obligations of the Company under this Section 9.07 to compensate or indemnify the Trustee and to pay or reimburse the Trustee for expenses, disbursements and advances shall be secured by a lien prior to that of the Securities upon all property and funds held or collected by the Trustee as such, except funds held in trust for the benefit of the holders of particular Securities.  The obligation of the Company under this Section shall survive the satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture.

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When the Trustee and its agents and any authenticating agent incur expenses or render services after an Event of Default specified in Section 7.01(j) with respect to the Company occurs, the expenses and the compensation for the services are intended to constitute expenses of administration under any bankruptcy, insolvency or similar laws.

Section 9.08           Officers’ Certificate as Evidence.  Except as otherwise provided in Section 9.01, whenever in the administration of the provisions of this Indenture the Trustee shall deem it necessary or desirable that a matter be proved or established prior to taking or omitting any action hereunder, such matter (unless other evidence in respect thereof be herein specifically prescribed) may, in the absence of negligence or willful misconduct on the part of the Trustee, be deemed to be conclusively proved and established by an Officers’ Certificate delivered to the Trustee.

Section 9.09           Conflicting Interests of Trustee.  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, to the extent and in the manner provided by, and subject to the provisions of, the Trust Indenture Act and this Indenture.

Section 9.10           Eligibility of Trustee.  There shall at all times be a Trustee hereunder which shall be a Person that is eligible pursuant to the Trust Indenture Act to act as such and has a combined capital and surplus of at least $50,000,000 (or if such Person is a member of a bank holding company system, its bank holding company shall have a combined capital and surplus of at least $50,000,000).  If such Person publishes reports of condition at least annually, pursuant to law or to the requirements of any supervising or examining authority, then for the purposes of this Section the combined capital and surplus of such Person shall be deemed to be its combined capital and surplus as set forth in its most recent report of condition so published.  If at any time the Trustee shall cease to be eligible in accordance with the provisions of this Section 9.10, it shall resign immediately in the manner and with the effect hereinafter specified in this Article.

Section 9.11           Resignation or Removal of Trustee.

(a)           The Trustee may at any time resign by giving written notice of such resignation to the Company and to the holders of Securities.  Upon receiving such notice of resignation, the Company shall promptly appoint a successor trustee by written instrument, in duplicate, executed by order of the Board of Directors, one copy of which instrument shall be delivered to the resigning Trustee and one copy to the successor trustee.  If no successor trustee shall have been so appointed and have accepted appointment sixty (60) days after the mailing of such notice of resignation to the Securityholders, the resigning Trustee may, upon ten (10) business days’ notice to the Company and the Securityholders, appoint a successor identified in such notice or may petition, at the expense of the Company, any court of competent jurisdiction for the appointment of a successor trustee, or, if any Securityholder who has been a bona fide holder of a Security or Securities for at least six (6) months may, subject to the provisions of Section 7.13, on behalf of himself and all others similarly situated, petition any such court for the appointment of a successor trustee.  Such court may thereupon, after such notice, if any, as it may deem proper and prescribe, appoint a successor trustee.

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(i)            the Trustee shall fail to comply with Section 9.09 after written request therefor by the Company or by any Securityholder who has been a bona fide holder of a Security or Securities for at least six (6) months; or

(ii)           the Trustee shall cease to be eligible in accordance with the provisions of Section 9.10 and shall fail to resign after written request therefor by the Company or by any such Securityholder; or

(iii)          the Trustee shall become incapable of acting, or shall be adjudged a bankrupt or insolvent, or a receiver of the Trustee or of its property shall be appointed, or any public officer shall take charge or control of the Trustee or of its property or affairs for the purpose of rehabilitation, conservation or liquidation; then, in any such case, the Company may remove the Trustee and appoint a successor trustee by written instrument, in duplicate, executed by order of the Board of Directors, one copy of which instrument shall be delivered to the Trustee so removed and one copy to the successor trustee, or, subject to the provisions of Section 7.13, any Securityholder who has been a bona fide holder of a Security or Securities 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; provided, however, that if no successor Trustee shall have been appointed and have accepted appointment sixty (60) days after either the Company or the Securityholders has removed the Trustee, the Trustee so removed may petition at its own expense any court of competent jurisdiction for an appointment of a successor trustee.  Such court may thereupon, after such notice, if any, as it may deem proper and prescribe, remove the Trustee and appoint a successor trustee.

(c)           The holders of a majority in aggregate Principal Amount of the Securities at the time outstanding may at any time remove the Trustee and nominate a successor trustee which shall be deemed appointed as successor trustee unless, within ten (10) days after notice to the Company of such nomination, the Company objects thereto, in which case the Trustee so removed or any Securityholder, or if such Trustee so removed or any Securityholder fails to act, the Company, upon the terms and conditions and otherwise as in Section 9.11(a) provided, may petition any court of competent jurisdiction for an appointment of a successor trustee.

(d)           Any resignation or removal of the Trustee and appointment of a successor trustee pursuant to any of the provisions of this Section 7.10 shall become effective upon acceptance of appointment by the successor trustee as provided in Section 9.12.

Section 9.12           Acceptance by Successor Trustee.  Any successor trustee appointed as provided in Section 9.11 shall execute, acknowledge and deliver to the Company and to its predecessor trustee an instrument accepting such appointment hereunder, and thereupon the resignation or removal of the predecessor trustee shall become effective and such successor trustee, without any further act, deed or conveyance, shall become vested with all the rights, powers, duties and obligations of its predecessor hereunder, with like effect as if originally named as trustee herein; but, nevertheless, on the written request of the Company or of the successor trustee, the trustee ceasing to act shall, upon payment of any amount then due it pursuant to the provisions of Section 9.07, execute and deliver an instrument transferring to such successor trustee all the rights and powers of the trustee so ceasing to act.  Upon request of any

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such successor trustee, the Company shall execute any and all instruments in writing for more fully and certainly vesting in and confirming to such successor trustee all such rights and powers.  Any trustee ceasing to act shall, nevertheless, retain a lien upon all property and funds held or collected by such trustee as such, except for funds held in trust for the benefit of holders of particular Securities, to secure any amounts then due it pursuant to the provisions of Section 9.07.

No successor trustee shall accept appointment as provided in this Section 7.11 unless, at the time of such acceptance, such successor trustee shall be qualified under the provisions of Section 9.09 and be eligible under the provisions of Section 9.10.

Upon acceptance of appointment by a successor trustee as provided in this Section 7.11, the Company (or the former trustee, at the written direction of the Company) shall mail or cause to be mailed notice of the succession of such trustee hereunder to the holders of Securities at their addresses as they shall appear on the Security Register.  If the Company fails to mail such notice within ten (10) days after acceptance of appointment by the successor trustee, the successor trustee shall cause such notice to be mailed at the expense of the Company.

Section 9.13           Succession by Merger, Etc.  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 any trust created by this Indenture), shall be the successor to the Trustee hereunder without the execution or filing of any paper or any further act on the part of any of the parties hereto, provided that in the case of any corporation succeeding to all or substantially all of the corporate trust business of the Trustee, such corporation shall be qualified under the provisions of Section 9.09 and eligible under the provisions of Section 9.10.

In case at the time such successor to the Trustee shall succeed to the trusts created by this Indenture, any of the Securities shall have been authenticated but not delivered, any such successor to the Trustee may adopt the certificate of authentication of any predecessor trustee or authenticating agent appointed by such predecessor trustee, and deliver such Securities so authenticated; and in case at that time any of the Securities shall not have been authenticated, any successor to the Trustee or any authenticating agent appointed by such successor trustee may authenticate such Securities in the name of the successor trustee; and in all such cases such certificates shall have the full force that is provided in the Securities or in this Indenture; provided, however, that the right to adopt the certificate of authentication of any predecessor Trustee or authenticate Securities in the name of any predecessor Trustee shall apply only to its successor or successors by merger, conversion or consolidation.

Section 9.14           Preferential Collection of Claims.  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 the claims against the Company (or any such other obligor).

Section 9.15           Trustee’s Application for Instructions from the Company.  Any application by the Trustee for written instructions from the Company (other than with regard to any action proposed to be taken or omitted to be taken by the Trustee that affects the rights of the holders of

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the Securities under this Indenture) may, at the option of the Trustee, set forth in writing any action proposed to be taken or omitted by the Trustee under this Indenture and the date on and/or after which such action shall be taken or such omission shall be effective.  The Trustee shall not be liable for any action taken by, or omission of, the Trustee in accordance with a proposal included in such application on or after the date specified in such application (which date shall not be less than three (3) Business Days after the date any officer of the Company actually receives such application, unless any such officer shall have consented in writing to any earlier date) unless prior to taking any such action (or the effective date in the case of an omission), the Trustee shall have received written instructions in response to such application specifying the action to be taken or omitted.

ARTICLE 10.
Holders’ Lists and Reports by Trustee

Section 10.01         Company to Furnish Trustee Names and Addresses of Holders.  The Company will furnish or cause to be furnished to the Trustee:

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

(ii)           at such other times as the Trustee may request in writing, within 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 15 days prior to the time such list is furnished;

excluding from any such list names and addresses received by the Trustee in its capacity as Security Registrar; provided, however, that no such list need be furnished so long as the Trustee is acting as Security Registrar.

Section 10.02         Preservation of Information; Communications to Holders.

(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 10.01 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 10.01 upon receipt of a new list so furnished.

(b)           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 Securityholder, 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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Trust Indenture Act at the times and in the manner provided pursuant thereto.  Reports so required to be transmitted at stated intervals of not more than 12 months shall be transmitted no later than July 15 of each calendar year, commencing on July 15, 2007.  Each such report shall be dated as of a date not more than 60 days prior to the date of transmission.

(a)           A copy of each such report shall, at the time of such transmission to Holders, be filed by the Trustee with each stock exchange, if any, upon which the Securities are listed, with the Commission and with the Company.  The Company will notify the Trustee when the Securities are listed on any stock exchange or of any delisting thereof.

ARTICLE 11.
Satisfaction And Discharge

Section 11.01         Discharge of Indenture.  When (a) the Company shall deliver to the Trustee for cancellation all Securities theretofore authenticated (other than any Securities that have been destroyed, lost or stolen and in lieu of or in substitution for which other Securities shall have been authenticated and delivered) and not theretofore canceled, or (b) all the Securities not theretofore canceled or delivered to the Trustee for cancellation shall have become due and payable, or are by their terms to become due and payable within one year or are to be called for redemption within one year under arrangements satisfactory to the Trustee for the giving of notice of redemption, and the Company shall deposit with the Trustee, in trust, funds sufficient to pay at maturity or upon redemption of all of the Securities (other than any Securities that shall have been mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen and in lieu of or in substitution for which other Securities shall have been authenticated and delivered) not theretofore canceled or delivered to the Trustee for cancellation, including principal and interest, including Additional Interest and  Special Interest, if any, due or to become due to such date of maturity or redemption date, as the case may be, accompanied by a verification report, as to the sufficiency of the deposited amount, from an independent certified accountant or other financial professional satisfactory to the Trustee, and if the Company shall also pay or cause to be paid all other sums payable hereunder by the Company, then this Indenture shall cease to be of further effect (except as to (i) remaining rights of registration of transfer, substitution and exchange and conversion of Securities, (ii) rights hereunder of Securityholders to receive payments of principal of and interest, including Additional Interest and  Special Interest, if any, on, the Securities and the other rights, duties and obligations of Securityholders, as beneficiaries hereof with respect to the amounts, if any, so deposited with the Trustee and (iii) the rights, obligations and immunities of the Trustee hereunder), and the Trustee, on written demand of the Company accompanied by an Officers’ Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel as required by Section 1.02 and at the cost and expense of the Company, shall execute proper instruments acknowledging satisfaction of and discharging this Indenture; the Company, however, hereby agrees to reimburse the Trustee for any costs or expenses thereafter reasonably and properly incurred by the Trustee and to compensate the Trustee for any services thereafter reasonably and properly rendered by the Trustee in connection with this Indenture or the Securities.

Section 11.02         Deposited Monies to be Held in Trust by Trustee.  Subject to Section 11.04, all monies deposited with the Trustee pursuant to Section 11.01 shall be held in trust for the sole benefit of the Securityholders, and such monies shall be applied by the Trustee to the payment, either directly or through any paying agent (including the Company if acting as its own paying agent), to the holders of the particular Securities for the payment or redemption of which

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such monies have been deposited with the Trustee, of all sums due and to become due thereon for principal and interest, including Additional Interest and  Special Interest, if any.

Section 11.03         Paying Agent to Repay Monies Held.  Upon the satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture, all monies then held by any paying agent of the Securities (other than the Trustee) shall, upon written request of the Company, be repaid to it or paid to the Trustee, and thereupon such paying agent shall be released from all further liability with respect to such monies.

Section 11.04         Return of Unclaimed Monies.  Subject to the requirements of applicable law, any monies deposited with or paid to the Trustee for payment of the principal of or interest, including Additional Interest and  Special Interest, if any, on Securities and not applied but remaining unclaimed by the holders of Securities for two years after the date upon which the principal of or interest, including Additional Interest and  Special Interest, if any, on such Securities, as the case may be, shall have become due and payable, shall be repaid to the Company by the Trustee on demand and all liability of the Trustee shall thereupon cease with respect to such monies; and the holder of any of the Securities shall thereafter look only to the Company for any payment that such holder may be entitled to collect unless an applicable abandoned property law designates another Person.

Section 11.05         Reinstatement.  If the Trustee or the paying agent is unable to apply any money in accordance with Section 11.02 by reason of any order or judgment of any court or governmental authority enjoining, restraining or otherwise prohibiting such application, the Company’s obligations under this Indenture and the Securities shall be revived and reinstated as though no deposit had occurred pursuant to Section 11.01 until such time as the Trustee or the paying agent is permitted to apply all such money in accordance with Section 11.02; provided, however, that if the Company makes any payment of interest on or principal of any Security following the reinstatement of its obligations, the Company shall be subrogated to the rights of the holders of such Securities to receive such payment from the money held by the Trustee or paying agent.

ARTICLE 12.
Supplemental Indentures

Section 12.01         Supplemental Indentures Without Consent of Holders.  Without the consent of any Holders, 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, in form satisfactory to the Trustee, for any of the following purposes:

(i)            to cure any ambiguity or correct any omission, defect or inconsistency contained herein, so long as such action will not adversely affect the interest of the Holders;

(ii)           to provide for the assumption by a successor corporation, partnership, trust or limited liability company of the obligations of the Company contained herein;

(iii)          to provide for uncertificated Securities in addition to or in place of certificated Securities; provided that the Company receives an opinion of nationally

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recognized tax counsel that such uncertificated Securities are issued in registered form for purposes of Section 163(f) of the Code, or in a manner such that the uncertificated Securities are described in Section 163(f)(2)(B) of the Code;

(iv)          to add guarantees with respect to the Securities;

(v)           to secure the Securities;

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

(vii)         to add or modify any other provision herein with respect to matters or questions arising hereunder which the Company and the Trustee may deem necessary or desirable and which does not materially and adversely affect the rights of any Holder;

(viii)        to modify, eliminate or add to the provisions of this Indenture to such extent as shall be necessary to effect the qualifications of this Indenture under the Trust Indenture Act, or under any similar federal statute hereafter enacted; or

(x)            to conform the provisions of this Indenture to the description thereof contained in the final offering memorandum dated March 6, 2007.

Section 12.02         Supplemental Indentures With Consent of Holders.  With the consent of the Holders of not less than a majority in Principal Amount of the Outstanding Securities, by Act of said Holders delivered to the Company and the Trustee, 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 under this Indenture; provided, however, that no such supplemental indenture shall, without the consent of the Holder of each Outstanding Security affected thereby,

(i)            reduce the rate or extend the time of payment of any Interest, including any Additional Interest and  Special Interest, on any Security;

(ii)           reduce the Principal Amount of, or extend the Stated Maturity of, any Security;

(iii)          make any change that impairs or adversely affects the conversion rights or Conversion Rate of any Securities;

(iv)          reduce the Repurchase Price, Fundamental Change Repurchase Price or redemption price of any Security or amend or modify in any manner adverse to the Holders of Securities the Company’s obligation to make such payments, whether through an amendment or waiver of provisions in the covenants, definitions or otherwise;

(v)           make any Security payable in currency other than that stated in such Security;

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(vi)          change the ranking of the Securities in any manner that adversely affects the rights of Holders of Securities under this Indenture;

(vii)         impair the right of a Securityholder to institute a suit for the enforcement of any payment on or with respect to such Securityholder’s Securities;

(viii)        make any change that impairs or adversely affects (a) the rights of a Securityholder to convert a Security or (b) the Conversion Rate of any Securities;

(ix)           modify any of the provisions of this Section 12.02 or Section 7.12, except to increase any such percentage 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.

It shall not be necessary for any Act of Holders under this Section 12.02 to approve the particular form of any proposed supplemental indenture, but it shall be sufficient if such Act shall approve the substance thereof.

Section 12.03         Execution of Supplemental Indentures.  In executing, or accepting the additional trusts created by, any supplemental indenture permitted by this Article 12 or the modifications thereby of the trusts created by this Indenture, the Trustee shall be provided with, and (subject to Section 9.01) shall be fully protected in relying upon, in addition to the documents required by Section 1.02, an Opinion of Counsel stating that the execution of such supplemental indenture is authorized or permitted by this Indenture.  Subject to the preceding sentence, the Trustee shall sign such supplemental indenture if the same does not adversely affect the Trustee’s own rights, duties or immunities under this Indenture or otherwise.  The Trustee may, but shall not be obligated to, enter into any such supplemental indenture that adversely affects the Trustee’s own rights, duties or immunities under this Indenture or otherwise.

Section 12.04         Effect of Supplemental Indentures.  Upon the execution of any supplemental indenture under this Article 12, this Indenture shall be modified in accordance therewith, and such supplemental indenture shall form a part of this Indenture for all purposes; and every Securityholder theretofore or thereafter authenticated and delivered hereunder shall be bound thereby.

Section 12.05         Conformity with Trust Indenture Act.  Every supplemental indenture executed pursuant to this Article shall conform to the requirements of the Trust Indenture Act.

Section 12.06         Reference in Securities to Supplemental Indentures.  Securities authenticated and delivered after the execution of any supplemental indenture pursuant to this Article 12 shall 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 Trustee and the Company, 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.

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Section 12.07         Notice to Holders of Supplemental Indentures.  The Company shall cause notice of the execution of any supplemental indenture to be mailed to each Securityholder, at his address appearing on the Security Register provided for in this Indenture, within 20 days after execution thereof.  Failure to deliver such notice shall not affect the legality or validity of such supplemental indenture.

ARTICLE 13.
Miscellaneous

Section 13.01         Trust Indenture Act Controls.  If any provision of this Indenture limits, qualifies or conflicts with another provision which is required to be included in this Indenture by the Trust Indenture Act, the provision required by the Trust Indenture Act shall control.

Section 13.02         Notices.  Any notice or communication shall be in writing (including telecopy promptly confirmed in writing) and delivered in person or mailed by first-class mail addressed as follows:

if to the Company

DexCom, Inc.

555 Oberlin Drive

San Diego, California 92121

Attention: General Counsel

Fax:

if to the Trustee:

Wells Fargo Bank, National Association

707 Wilshire Blvd. 17th Floor

Los Angeles, CA 90017

Attention: Corporate Trust Services

(DexCom 4.75% Convertible Senior Notes due 2027)

Fax: 213 ###-###-####

 

The Company or the Trustee by notice to the other may designate additional or different addresses for subsequent notices or communications.

Any notice or communication mailed to a registered Holder shall be mailed to the Holder at the Holder’s address as it appears on the registration books of the Registrar and shall be sufficiently given if so mailed within the time prescribed.

Failure to mail a notice or communication to a Holder or any defect in it shall not affect its sufficiency with respect to other Holders.  If a notice or communication is mailed in the manner provided above, it is duly given, whether or not the addressee receives it, except that notices to the Trustee shall be effective only upon receipt.

The Trustee agrees to accept and act upon facsimile transmission of written instructions and/or directions pursuant to this Indenture given by the Company, provided, however, that (i)

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the Company, subsequent to such facsimile transmission of written instructions and/or directions, shall provide the originally executed instructions and/or directions to the Trustee in a timely manner and (ii) such originally executed instructions and/or directions shall be signed by an authorized officer of the Company.

Section 13.03         Communication by Holders with other Holders.  Holders may communicate pursuant to § 312(b) of the Trust Indenture Act with other Holders with respect to their rights under this Indenture or the Securities.  The Company, the Trustee, the Registrar and anyone else shall have the protection of § 312(c) of the Trust Indenture Act.

Section 13.04         Certificate and Opinion as to Conditions Precedent.  Upon any request or application by the Company to the Trustee to take or refrain from taking any action under this Indenture, the Company shall furnish to the Trustee:

(a)           an Officers’ Certificate in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Trustee stating that, in the opinion of the signers, all conditions precedent, if any, provided for in this Indenture relating to the proposed action have been complied with; and

(b)           an Opinion of Counsel in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Trustee stating that, in the opinion of such counsel, all such conditions precedent have been complied with.

Section 13.05         Statements Required in Certificate or Opinion.  Each certificate or opinion with respect to compliance with a covenant or condition provided for in this Indenture shall include:

(a)           a statement that the individual making such certificate or opinion has read such covenant or condition;

(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 or not, in the opinion of such individual, such covenant or condition has been complied with.

In giving such Opinion of Counsel, counsel may rely as to factual matters on an Officers’ Certificate or on certificates of public officials.

Section 13.06         When Securities Are Disregarded.  In determining whether the Holders of the required Principal Amount of Securities have concurred in any direction, waiver or consent, Securities owned by the Company or by any Person directly or indirectly controlling or controlled by or under direct or indirect common control with the Company shall be disregarded and deemed not to be outstanding, except that, for the purpose of determining whether the Trustee shall be protected in relying on any such direction, waiver or consent, only Securities

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which a Trust Officer of the Trustee actually knows are so owned shall be so disregarded.  Also, subject to the foregoing, only Securities outstanding at the time shall be considered in any such determination.

Section 13.07         Rules by Trustee, Paying Agent and Registrar.  The Trustee may make reasonable rules for action by, or a meeting of, Holders.  The Registrar and the Paying Agent may make reasonable rules for their functions.

Section 13.08         Legal Holidays.  A “Legal Holiday” is a Saturday, a Sunday or other day on which commercial banking institutions are authorized or required to be closed in New York, New York.  If an Interest Payment Date is a Legal Holiday, payment shall be made on the next succeeding day that is not a Legal Holiday, and no interest or Additional or Special Interest, if any, shall accrue for the intervening period.  If a Record Date is a Legal Holiday, the Record Date shall not be affected.  In any case where the Stated Maturity of any Security is a Legal Holiday, then (notwithstanding any other provision of this Indenture or of the Securities) payment of principal need not be made on such date, but may be made on the next succeeding the next succeeding day that is not a Legal Holiday, with the same force and effect as if made on at the Stated Maturity.

Section 13.09         Governing Law.  THIS INDENTURE AND THE SECURITIES SHALL BE GOVERNED BY, AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH, THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK.

Section 13.10         No Recourse Against Others.  An incorporator, director, officer, employee, Affiliate or stockholder of the Company, solely by reason of this status, shall not have any liability for any obligations of the Company under the Securities, 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.  The waiver and release shall be part of the consideration for the issue of the Securities.

Section 13.11         Successors.  All agreements of the Company in this Indenture and the Securities shall bind their respective successors.  All agreements of the Trustee in this Indenture shall bind its successors.

Section 13.12         Multiple Originals.  The parties may sign any number of copies of this Indenture.  Each signed copy shall be an original, but all of them together represent the same agreement.  One signed copy is enough to prove this Indenture.

Section 13.13         Qualification of Indenture.  The Company shall qualify this Indenture under the Trust Indenture Act in accordance with the terms and conditions of the Registration Rights Agreement and shall pay all reasonable costs and expenses (including attorneys’ fees and expenses for the Company, the Trustee and the Holders) incurred in connection therewith, including, but not limited to, costs and expenses of qualification of this Indenture and the Securities and the printing of this Indenture and the Securities.

Section 13.14         Table of Contents; Headings.  The table of contents, cross-reference sheet and headings of the Articles and Sections of this Indenture have been inserted for convenience of

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reference only, are not intended to be considered a part hereof and shall not modify or restrict any of the terms or provisions hereof.

Section 13.15         Severability Clause.  In case any provision in this Indenture 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 and such provision shall be ineffective only to the extent of such invalidity, illegality or unenforceability.

Section 13.16         Calculations.  Except as otherwise provided herein, the Company will be responsible for making all calculations called for under the Indenture and the Securities.  The Company will make all such calculations in good faith and, absent manifest error, its calculations will be final and binding on Holders.  The Company upon request will provide a schedule of its calculations to each of the Trustee and the Conversion Agent, and each of the Trustee and Conversion Agent is entitled to rely conclusively upon the accuracy of the Company’s calculations without independent verification.  The Trustee will deliver a copy of such schedule to any Holder upon the request of such Holder.

Section 13.17         Waiver of Jury Trial.  EACH OF THE COMPANY AND THE TRUSTEE HEREBY IRREVOCABLY WAIVES, TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, ANY AND ALL RIGHT TO TRIAL BY JURY IN ANY LEGAL PROCEEDING ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THIS AGREEMENT, THE SECURITIES OR THE TRANSACTION CONTEMPLATED THEREBY.

Section 13.18         Force Majeure.  In no event shall the Trustee be responsible or liable for any failure or delay in the performance of its obligations hereunder arising out of or caused by, directly or indirectly, forces beyond its control, including, without limitation, strikes, work stoppages, accidents, acts of war or terrorism, civil or military disturbances, nuclear or natural catastrophes or acts of God, and interruptions, loss or malfunctions of utilities, communications or computer (software or hardware) services; it being understood that the Trustee shall use reasonable efforts which are consistent with accepted practices in the banking industry to resume performance as soon as practicable under the circumstances.

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

DexCom Inc.

 

 

 

 

 

By:

/s/ Andrew P. Rasdal

 

 

 

Andrew P. Rasdal

 

 

[Trustee Signature Follows]

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WELLS FARGO BANK,

 

NATIONAL ASSOCIATION

 

 

 

By:

/s/ Maddy Hall

 

 

 

Madeliena J. Hall

 

 

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SCHEDULE A

The following table sets forth the number of Additional Shares to be received per $1,000 Principal Amount of Securities pursuant to Section 6.08 of this Indenture:

Stock Price on
Effective Date

 

March 9, 2007

 

March 15, 2008

 

March 15, 2009

 

March 15, 2010

$6.50

25.6

 

25.6

 

25.6

 

25.6

$8.50

19.3

 

15.7

 

10.6

 

0.0

$10.50

13.5

 

9.3

 

4.9

 

0.0

$12.50

11.3

 

7.6

 

3.8

 

0.0

$14.50

9.7

 

6.6

 

3.3

 

0.0

$16.50

8.5

 

5.8

 

2.9

 

0.0

$18.50

7.6

 

5.1

 

2.6

 

0.0

$20.50

6.9

 

4.6

 

2.3

 

0.0

$30.00

4.7

 

3.2

 

1.6

 

0.0

$40.00

3.5

 

2.4

 

1.2

 

0.0

$50.00

2.8

 

1.9

 

1.0

 

0.0

 




EXHIBIT A

THE SALE OF THIS SECURITY HAS NOT BEEN REGISTERED UNDER THE UNITED STATES SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED (THE “SECURITIES ACT”), AND ACCORDINGLY, THIS SECURITY MAY NOT BE OFFERED OR SOLD EXCEPT AS SET FORTH IN THE FOLLOWING SENTENCE.  BY ITS ACQUISITION HEREOF, THE HOLDER AGREES (1) THAT IT WILL NOT WITHIN THE LATER OF (X) TWO YEARS AFTER THE LATEST ISSUE DATE OF THE NOTES UPON THE CONVERSION OF WHICH THIS SECURITY WAS ISSUED AND (Y) THREE MONTHS AFTER IT CEASES TO BE AN AFFILIATE (WITHIN THE MEANING OF RULE 144 UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT) OF THE ISSUER, OFFER, RESELL, PLEDGE OR OTHERWISE TRANSFER THE SECURITY EVIDENCED HEREBY, EXCEPT (A) TO THE ISSUER; (B) UNDER A REGISTRATION STATEMENT THAT HAS BEEN DECLARED EFFECTIVE UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT; (C) TO A PERSON THE SELLER REASONABLY BELIEVES IS A QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER (AS DEFINED IN RULE 144A UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT) THAT IS PURCHASING FOR ITS OWN ACCOUNT OR FOR THE ACCOUNT OF ANOTHER QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER AND TO WHOM NOTICE IS GIVEN THAT THE TRANSFER IS BEING MADE IN RELIANCE ON RULE 144A, ALL IN COMPLIANCE WITH RULE 144A (IF AVAILABLE); OR (D) UNDER ANY OTHER AVAILABLE EXEMPTION FROM THE REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS OF THE SECURITIES ACT; AND (2) AGREES THAT IT WILL, PRIOR TO ANY TRANSFER OF THIS SECURITY WITHIN THE LATER OF (X) TWO YEARS AFTER THE LATEST ISSUE DATE OF THE NOTES UPON THE CONVERSION OF WHICH THIS SECURITY WAS ISSUED AND (Y) THREE MONTHS AFTER IT CEASES TO BE AN AFFILIATE (WITHIN THE MEANING OF RULE 144 ADOPTED UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT) OF THE ISSUER, FURNISH TO THE TRANSFER AGENT AND THE ISSUER SUCH CERTIFICATIONS, LEGAL OPINIONS OR OTHER INFORMATION AS MAY BE REQUIRED TO CONFIRM THAT SUCH TRANSFER IS BEING MADE PURSUANT TO AN EXEMPTION FROM, OR IN A TRANSACTION NOT SUBJECT TO, THE REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS OF THE SECURITIES ACT.

 

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