EX-4.3: FORM OF 7.125% NOTES DUE 2018
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EX-4.3 4 y51618k2exv4w3.htm EX-4.3: FORM OF 7.125% NOTES DUE 2018 EX-4.3
EXHIBIT 4.3
Form of Note
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 of a Depositary. This Security is exchangeable for Securities registered in the name of a person other than the Depositary or its nominee only in the limited circumstances described in the Indenture and may not be transferred except as a whole by the Depositary to a nominee of the Depositary or by a nominee of the Depositary to the Depositary or another nominee of the Depositary.
Form of Note
MEDCO HEALTH SOLUTIONS, INC.
7.125% Notes due 2018
No. [ ] | ||
CUSIP No: 58405U AD 4 | $ |
MEDCO HEALTH SOLUTIONS, INC., a corporation duly organized and existing under the laws of Delaware (herein called the Company, which term includes any successor corporation under the Indenture hereinafter referred to), for value received, hereby promises to pay to, or registered assigns, the principal sum of HUNDRED MILLION DOLLARS ($ ) on March 15, 2018, and to pay interest thereon from March 18, 2008, semi-annually on March 15 and September 15 in each year, commencing September 15, 2008, at the rate of 7.125% per annum, until the principal hereof is paid or made available for payment. Interest on this Security shall be calculated on a pro rata basis using twelve 30-day months and a 360-day year. The interest so payable, and punctually paid or duly provided for, on any Interest Payment Date will, as provided in such Indenture, be paid to the Person in whose name this Security (or one or more Predecessor Securities) is registered at the close of business on the Regular Record Date for such interest, which shall be the February 28 or August 31 (whether or not a Business Day), as the case may be, next preceding such Interest Payment Date. Any such interest not so punctually paid or duly provided for will forthwith cease to be payable to the Holder on such Regular Record Date and may either be paid to the Person in whose name this Security (or one or more Predecessor Securities) is registered at the close of business on a Special Record Date for the payment of such Defaulted Interest to be fixed by the Trustee, notice whereof shall be given to Holders of Securities of this series not less than 10 days prior to such Special Record Date, or be paid at any time in any other lawful manner not inconsistent with the requirements of any securities exchange on which the Securities of this series may be listed, and upon such notice as may be required by such exchange, all as more fully provided in said Indenture.
Payment of the principal of and interest on this Security shall be payable at the Corporate Trust Office of U.S. Bank Trust National Association, located at 100 Wall Street, Suite 1600, New York, NY 10005 or at such other office or agency of the Company maintained for that purpose in New York, NY, in such coin or currency of the United States of America as at the time of payment is legal tender for payment of public and private debts; provided, however, that at the option of the Company, interest may be paid by check mailed to the address of the person entitled thereto as such address shall appear on the Security Register or by transfer to an account maintained by the payee with a bank located in the United States; and, provided, further, that so long as this Security is registered in the name of DTC or its nominee, principal and interest payments will be paid to DTC or its nominee, as the Holder, by wire transfer in same-day funds.
For purposes of the Indenture, business day means each Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday that is not a day on which banking institutions in New York City are authorized or obligated by law or executive order to close.
Reference is hereby made to the further provisions of this Security set forth on the reverse hereof, which further provisions shall for all purposes have the same effect as if set forth at this place.
Unless the certificate of authentication hereon has been executed by the Trustee referred to on the reverse hereof by manual signature, this Security shall not be entitled to any benefit under the Indenture or be valid or obligatory for any purpose.
The Indenture and the Securities 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 meaning assigned to them in the Indenture.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Company has caused this instrument to be duly executed under its corporate seal.
Dated:
MEDCO HEALTH SOLUTIONS, INC. | ||||
By: | ||||
Peter Gaylord | ||||
Senior Vice President and Treasurer |
Attest: | ||||
By: | ||||
Lori B. Marino | ||||
Assistant Secretary |
Dated:
TRUSTEES CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION
This is one of the Securities of the series designated therein referred to in the within-mentioned Indenture.
U.S. BANK TRUST NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, As Trustee | ||||
By: | ||||
Authorized Signatory | ||||
Reverse of Security
This Security is one of a duly authorized issue of securities of the Company (herein called the Securities), issued and to be issued in one or more series under an Indenture, dated as of March 18, 2008 (herein called the Indenture), from the Company to U.S. Bank Trust National Association, as trustee (herein called the Trustee, which term includes any successor trustee under the Indenture), to which the Indenture and all indentures supplemental thereto reference is hereby made for a statement of the respective rights, limitations of rights, duties and immunities thereunder of the Company, the Trustee and the Holders of the Securities and of the terms upon which the Securities are, and are to be, authenticated and delivered. This Security is one of the series designated on the face hereof, limited in aggregate principal amount to HUNDRED MILLION DOLLARS ($ ) except for Securities authenticated and delivered upon registration or transfer of, or in exchange for, or in lieu of, Securities pursuant to Sections 304, 305, 306, 906 or 1107 and subject to the right of the Company to re-open the Series of Securities.
The Securities of this series are subject to redemption upon not less than 30 days but not more than 60 days notice by mail, at any time, as a whole or in part, at the election of the Company, at a Redemption Price equal to the greater of (i) 100% of the principal amount, together in the case of any such redemption with accrued and unpaid interest to the Redemption Date and (ii) the Make-Whole Amount for the Securities. On and after any redemption date (unless we default in the payment of the redemption price and accrued interest) interest will cease to accrue on the notes of portions of them called for redemption.
Make-Whole Amount means the sum, as determined by a Quotation Agent (defined below), of the present values of the principal amount of the notes to be redeemed, together with scheduled payments of interest (exclusive of interest to the redemption date) from the redemption date to the stated maturity of the notes discounted to the redemption date on a semi-annual basis, assuming a 360-day year consisting of twelve 30-day months, at the Adjusted Treasury Rate (defined below), plus accrued and unpaid interest on the principal amount of the notes being redeemed to the redemption date.
Adjusted Treasury Rate means, with respect to any redemption date, (i) the yield, under the heading which represents the average for the immediately preceding week, appearing in the most recently published statistical release designated H.15 (519) or any successor publication which is published weekly by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and which establishes yields on actively traded U.S. Treasury securities adjusted to constant maturity under the caption Treasury Constant Maturities, for the maturity corresponding to the Comparable Treasury Issue (as defined below) (if no maturity is within three months before or after the remaining term of the notes, yields for the two published maturities most closely corresponding to the Comparable Treasury Issue shall be determined and the Adjusted Treasury Rate shall be interpolated or extrapolated from such yields on a straight-line basis, rounding to the nearest month) or (ii) if such release (or any successor release) is not published during the week preceding the calculation date or does not contain such yields, the rate per year equal to the semi-annual equivalent yield to maturity of the Comparable Treasury Issue assuming a price for the Comparable Treasury Issue (expressed as a percentage of its principal amount) equal to the
Comparable Treasury Price for such redemption date, in each case calculated on the third business day preceding the redemption date, plus 0.50%.
Comparable Treasury Issue means the U.S. Treasury security selected by the Quotation Agent as having a maturity comparable to the remaining term from the redemption date to the stated maturity of the notes that would be utilized, at the time of selection and in accordance with customary financial practice, in pricing new issues of corporate debt securities of comparable maturity to the remaining term of the notes.
Comparable Treasury Issue means the United States Treasury security selected by the Quotation Agent as having a maturity comparable to the remaining term from the redemption date to the Stated Maturity of the Securities that would be utilized, at the time of selection and in accordance with customary financial practice, in pricing new issues of corporate debt securities of comparable maturity to the remaining term of the Securities.
Comparable Treasury Price means, with respect to any redemption date, if clause (ii) of the definition of Adjusted Treasury Rate is applicable, the average of three, or such lesser number as is obtained by the Trustee, Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations for such redemption date.
Quotation Agent means one Reference Treasury Dealer selected by the Company.
Reference Treasury Dealer means Citigroup Global Markets Inc., J.P. Morgan Securities Inc., Banc of America Securities LLC or Barclays Capital Inc., and any successor thereto or any other primary United States Government securities dealers selected by the Company.
Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations means, with respect to each Reference Treasury Dealer and any redemption date, the average, as determined by a Reference Treasury Dealer, of the bid and asking prices for the Comparable Treasury Issue, expressed in each case as a percentage of its principal amount, quoted in writing to the trustee by such Reference Treasury Dealer at 5:00 p.m., New York City time, on the third Business Day preceding such redemption date.
In the event of redemption of this Security in part only, a new Security or Securities of this series and of like tenor for the unredeemed portion hereof will be issued in the name of the Holder hereof upon the cancellation hereof.
The interest rate payable on the Securities of this series are subject to adjustments from time to time if either Moodys Investors Service, Inc or its successor (Moodys) or Standard & Poors Rating Services, a division of The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc., or its successor (S&P) downgrades (or subsequently upgrades) the debt rating assigned to the notes of that series, in the manner described below.
If the rating from Moodys of the notes of a series is decreased to a rating set forth in the immediately following table, the interest rate on the notes of that series will increase from the
interest rate payable on the notes of that series on the date of their issuance by the percentage set forth opposite that rating:
Rating | Percentage | |||
Ba1 | 0.25 | % | ||
Ba2 | 0.50 | % | ||
Ba3 | 0.75 | % | ||
B1 or below | 1.00 | % |
If the rating from S&P of the notes of a series is decreased to a rating set forth in the immediately following table, the interest rate on the notes of that series will increase from the interest rate payable on the notes of that series on the date of their issuance by the percentage set forth opposite that rating:
Rating | Percentage | |||
BB+ | 0.25 | % | ||
BB | 0.50 | % | ||
BB- | 0.75 | % | ||
B+ or below | 1.00 | % |
If at any time the interest rate on the notes of a series has been adjusted upward and either Moodys or S&P, as the case may be, subsequently increases its rating of the notes of that series to any of the threshold ratings set forth above, the interest rate on the notes of that series will be decreased such that the interest rate for the notes of that series equals the interest rate payable on the notes of that series on the date of their issuance plus the percentages set forth opposite the ratings from the tables above in effect immediately following the increase. If Moodys subsequently increases its rating of the notes of a series to Baa3 or higher, and S&P increases its rating to BBB- or higher the interest rate on the notes of that series will be decreased to the interest rate payable on the notes of that series on the date of their issuance. In addition, the interest rates on the notes of each series will permanently cease to be subject to any adjustment described above (notwithstanding any subsequent decrease in the ratings by either or both rating agencies) if the notes of that series become rated A2 and A or higher by Moodys and S&P, respectively (or one of these ratings if the notes are only rated by one rating agency).
Each adjustment required by any decrease or increase in a rating set forth above, whether occasioned by the action of Moodys or S&P, shall be made independent of any and all other adjustments. In no event shall (1) the interest rate for the notes be reduced to below the interest rate payable on the notes on the date of their issuance or (2) the total increase in the interest rate on the notes exceed 2.00% above the interest rate payable on the notes on the date of their issuance.
If either Moodys or S&P ceases to provide a rating of the notes, any subsequent increase or decrease in the interest rate of the notes necessitated by a reduction or increase in the rating by the agency continuing to provide the rating shall be twice the percentage set forth in the applicable table above. No adjustments in the interest rate of the notes shall be made solely as a result of either Moodys or S&P ceasing to provide a rating. If both Moodys and S&P cease to provide a rating of the notes, the interest rate on the notes will increase to, or remain at, as the case may be, 2.00% above the interest rate payable on the notes on the date of their issuance.
Any interest rate increase or decrease described above will take effect from the first day of the interest period during which a rating change requires an adjustment in the interest rate.
If the interest rate payable on the notes is increased as described above the term interest, as used with respect to the notes, will be deemed to include any such additional interest unless the context otherwise requires.
If a Change of Control Triggering Event occurs, unless we have exercised our right to redeem the notes as described under Optional Redemption, each holder of notes will have the right to require us to purchase all or a portion of such holders notes at a purchase price equal to 101% of the principal amount thereof plus accrued and unpaid interest, if any, to the date of purchase, subject to the rights of holders of notes on the relevant record date to receive interest due on the relevant interest payment date.
Change of Control Payment means a purchase price in cash equal to 101% of the principal amount of such Notes plus accrued and unpaid interest thereon, if any, to the date of repurchase, subject to the rights of Holders of Notes on the relevant record date to receive interest due on the relevant Interest Payment Date.
Change of Control Triggering Event means the occurrence of both a Change of Control and a Below Investment Grade Rating Event.
The Change of Control Offer will be made in accordance with the terms specified in the Indenture.
The Indenture contains provisions for defeasance at any time of the entire outstanding indebtedness of this Security and certain restrictive covenants and Events of Default with respect to this Security, in each case upon compliance with certain conditions set forth in the Indenture.
If an Event of Default with respect to Securities of this series shall occur and be continuing, the principal of the Securities of this series may be declared due and payable in the manner and with the effect provided in the Indenture.
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 of each series to be affected under the Indenture at any time by the Company and the Trustee with the consent of the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the Securities at the time Outstanding of each series to be affected. The Indenture also contains provisions permitting the Holders of specified percentages in principal amount of the Securities
of each series at the time Outstanding, on behalf of the Holders of all Securities of such series, to waive compliance by the Company with certain provisions of the Indenture and certain past defaults under the Indenture and their consequences. Any such consent or waiver by the Holder of this Security shall be conclusive and binding upon such Holder and upon all future Holders of this Security and of any Security issued 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 of this series, the Holders of not less than 25% in principal amount of the Securities of this series at the time Outstanding 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, and the Trustee shall not have received from the Holders of a majority in principal amount of Securities of this series at the time Outstanding a direction inconsistent with such request, and 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 the Holder of this Security for the enforcement of any payment of principal hereof or any premium or interest hereon 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 of (and premium, if any) and interest on this Security at the times, place and rate, and in the coin or currency, herein prescribed.
As provided in the Indenture and subject to certain limitations therein set forth, the transfer of this Security is registerable in the Security Register, upon surrender of this Security for registration of transfer at the office or agency of the Company in any place where the principal of (and premium, if any) and interest on this Security are payable, 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 this series and of like tenor, of authorized denominations and for the same aggregate principal amount, will be issued to the designated transferee or transferees.
The Securities of this series are issuable only in registered form without coupons in denominations of $2000 and integral multiples of $1,000 above that amount. As provided in the Indenture and subject to certain limitations therein set forth, Securities of this series are exchangeable for a like aggregate principal amount of Securities of this series and of like tenor 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 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 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.
All terms used in this Security that are defined in the Indenture shall have the meaning assigned to them in the Indenture.
Option of Holder to Elect Purchase
If you want to elect to have this Security purchased by the Company pursuant to the Indenture, check the box below:
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If you want to elect to have only part of the Security purchased by the Company pursuant to the Indenture, state the amount you elect to have purchased:
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Date:
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Signature Guarantee:** | ||||
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Assignment Form
To assign this Security, fill in the form below: (I) or (we) assign and transfer this Security to: |
Assignees social security or tax I.D. number: |
Assignees name, address and zip code: |
and irrevocably appoint as agent to transfer this Security on the books of the Company. The agent may substitute another to act for him.
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