Indenture, dated March 19, 2024, between Rithm Capital Corp. and U.S. Bank Trust Company, National Association, as trustee

Appendix A — Transfer Restrictions

Exhibit A — Form of Note

Exhibit B — Form of Supplemental Indenture

Exhibit C — Form of Transfer Certificate for Transfer or Exchange from Rule 144A Global Note to Regulation S Global Note prior to the Expiration of the Distribution Compliance Period

Exhibit D — Form of Transfer Certificate for the Transfer or Exchange from Rule 144A Global Note to Regulation S Global Note after the Expiration of the Distribution Compliance Period

Exhibit E — Form of Transfer Certificate for Transfer or Exchange from Regulation S Global Note to Rule 144A Global Note prior to the Expiration of the Distribution Compliance Period

Exhibit F — Form of Transfer Certificate for Other Transfers and Exchanges

Note:  This Table of Contents shall not, for any purpose, be deemed to be part of this Indenture.

INDENTURE dated as of March 19, 2024 (this “Indenture”) between RITHM CAPITAL CORP., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), and U.S. BANK TRUST COMPANY, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, a national banking association, as Trustee (the “Trustee”).

Each party hereto agrees as follows for the benefit of the other party and for the equal and ratable benefit of the Holders of the Company’s 8.000% Senior Notes due 2029 to be issued, from time to time, as provided in this Indenture:

SECTION 1.01    Definitions.

“Acquired Indebtedness” means Indebtedness of a Person or any of its Subsidiaries existing at the time such Person becomes a Subsidiary of the Company or at the time it merges or consolidates with or into the Company or any of its Subsidiaries or assumed by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries in connection with the acquisition of assets from such Person and in each case whether or not incurred by such Person in connection with, or in anticipation or contemplation of, such Person becoming a Subsidiary of the Company or such merger, consolidation or acquisition.  Acquired Indebtedness shall be deemed to have been incurred on the date such Person becomes a Subsidiary of the Company or merges or consolidates with or into the Company or any of its Subsidiaries or the date of the assumption of such Indebtedness by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, as applicable.

“Additional Notes” means additional 8.000% Senior Notes due 2029 issued under this Indenture after the Issue Date.

“Affiliate” means, with respect to any specified Person, any other Person who, directly or indirectly, through one or more intermediaries, controls, or is controlled by, or is under common control with, such specified Person.  As used in the immediately preceding sentence and in the definition of “Subsidiary,” the term “control” means the possession, directly or indirectly, of the power to direct or cause the direction of the management and policies of a Person, whether through the ownership of voting securities, by contract or otherwise; and the terms “controlling” and “controlled” have meanings correlative of the foregoing.

“Agent” means any Registrar, Paying Agent or co-Registrar.

“Bankruptcy Law” means Title 11, U.S. Code or any similar Federal, state or foreign law for the relief of debtors.

“Board of Directors” means, as to any Person, the board of directors, managers or trustees or other governing body of such Person (or, if such Person is a partnership or limited liability company that does not have such a governing body, the board of directors, managers or trustees or other governing body of any direct or indirect general partner of such partnership or of any direct or indirect managing member or other managing Person of such limited liability company) or any duly authorized committee thereof.

“Business Day” means each Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday that is not a day on which banking institutions in The City of New York or the place of payment are authorized or obligated by law or executive order to close.

“Capital Stock” means:

(1)          with respect to any Person other than a business trust, any and all shares, interests, participations or other equivalents (however designated and whether or not voting) of or in its corporate stock or, if such Person is not a corporation, its equity; and

(2)          with respect to any Person that is a business trust, any and all beneficial ownership interests (however designated and whether or not voting) in such Person;

in each case including each class or series of Common Stock and Preferred Stock of such Person but in each case excluding any Indebtedness (other than Indebtedness of the type under clause (9) of the definition of “Indebtedness”) or debt securities convertible into or exchangeable for, or any options, warrants, contracts or other securities (including derivative instruments) exercisable or exchangeable for, convertible into or otherwise for or relating to the purchase or sale of, any of the items referred to in clauses (1) or (2) above.

“Cash Management Obligations” means obligations of the Company or any Subsidiary of the Company in relation to (1) treasury, depository or cash management services, arrangements or agreements (including, without limitation, credit, debt or other purchase card programs and intercompany cash management services) or any automated clearinghouse (“ACH”) transfers of funds (including reimbursement and indemnification obligations with respect to letters of credit or similar instruments), and (2) netting services, overdraft protections, controlled disbursement, ACH transactions, return items, interstate deposit network services, supplier services, cash pooling and operational foreign exchange management, Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication transfers and similar programs.

“Change of Control” means:

(1)          the Company becomes aware (by way of a report or any other filing pursuant to Section 13(d) of the Exchange Act, proxy or written notice, the accuracy of which has been confirmed by the Company) that any “person” or “group” of related persons (as such terms are used in Sections 13(d) and 14(d) of the Exchange Act as in effect on the Issue Date), other than the Company, any of its Subsidiaries or one or more Permitted Holders, is or has become the “beneficial owner” (as defined in Rules 13d-3 and 13d-5 under the Exchange Act as in effect on the Issue Date), directly or indirectly, of Voting Stock of the Company representing more than 50% of the combined voting power of all of the outstanding Voting Stock of the Company;

(2)          the sale, lease, transfer, conveyance or other disposition (other than by way of merger, consolidation or other business combination transaction), in one transaction or a series of related transactions, of all or substantially all of the assets of the Company and its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole (other than the sale, assignment, transfer, lease, conveyance or other disposition of Securitization Assets, Repurchase Agreement Assets, Investments or other securities or assets, in each case in the ordinary course of business or consistent with past practice) to any Person (other than the Company, one or more Subsidiaries of the Company or one or more Permitted Holders); or

(3)          the sale, lease, transfer, conveyance or other disposition (other than by way of merger, consolidation or other business combination transaction of the Company), in one transaction or a series of related transactions, of the Mortgage Business of the Company (and which, for the avoidance of doubt, would exclude the sale, assignment, transfer, lease, conveyance or other disposition of Securitization Assets, Repurchase Agreement Assets, Investments or other securities or assets, in each case in the ordinary course of business or consistent with past practice).

Notwithstanding the foregoing, (I) a transaction will not be deemed to be a Change of Control if (1) the Company becomes a direct or indirect Wholly Owned Subsidiary of a parent entity and (2) either (A) the direct or indirect holders of the outstanding Voting Stock of such parent entity immediately following that transaction are substantially the same as the holders of the outstanding Voting Stock of the Company (or another parent entity of which the Company is a Wholly Owned Subsidiary) immediately prior to that transaction (and in substantially the same proportion as immediately prior to that transaction) or (B) as a result of such transaction, no Person (other than a parent entity satisfying the requirements of this sentence) becomes the beneficial owner, directly or indirectly, of more than 50% of the combined voting power of all of the outstanding Voting Stock of such parent entity and (II) the reference in clauses (2) and (3) of the immediately preceding paragraph to sales, assignments, transfers, leases, conveyances or other dispositions of Securitization Assets, Repurchase Agreement Assets, Investments or other securities or assets in the ordinary course of business or consistent with past practice shall include, without limitation, any sales, assignments, transfers, leases, conveyances or other dispositions of Securitization Assets, Repurchase Agreement Assets, Investments or other securities or assets (1) that are made (x) to any Securitization Entity for the purpose of enabling such Securitization Entity to securitize the assets so sold, assigned, transferred, leased, conveyed or disposed of or enabling such Securitization Entity to issue Non-Recourse Indebtedness secured by such assets or to enter into any Repurchase Agreements with respect to such assets or (y) to any Person pursuant to a Repurchase Agreement that is otherwise permitted (or not prohibited) by this Indenture, under which such Person is a buyer of Repurchase Agreement Assets, and (2) that the Company in good faith determines to be consistent with past practice of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries or to reflect customary or accepted practice in the businesses, industries or markets in which the Company or any of its Subsidiaries operates or reasonably expects to operate or that reflect reasonable extensions, evolutions or developments of any of the foregoing (including, without limitation, by way of new transactions or structures), and as a result, none of the foregoing shall constitute a Change of Control.

“Commodity Agreement” means any commodity futures contract, commodity swap, commodity option or other similar agreement or arrangement designed to protect against fluctuations in the price of commodities or to otherwise manage commodity prices or the risk of fluctuations in commodity prices.

“Common Stock” means, with respect to (a) any Person other than a business trust, any and all shares, interests, participations or other equivalents (however designated and whether voting or non-voting) of or in such Person’s common stock or, if such Person is not a corporation, its common equity or (b) any Person that is a business trust, any and all common beneficial ownership interests (however designated and whether voting or non-voting) in such Person, in each case including, without limitation, all series and classes of such common stock, other common equity or common beneficial ownership interests, as the case may be, but in each case excluding any Indebtedness (other than Indebtedness of the type under clause (9) of the definition of “Indebtedness”) or debt securities convertible into or exchangeable for, or any options, warrants, contracts or other securities (including derivative instruments) exercisable or exchangeable for, convertible into or otherwise for or relating to the purchase or sale of, any of the foregoing.  The determination of whether any beneficial ownership interests or equity constitute common beneficial ownership interest or common equity, respectively, shall be made by the Company in good faith.

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

“Consolidated Net Worth” of any Person means, as of any determination date, the Consolidated Shareholders’ Equity (or, if such Person is not a corporation, the consolidated equity interests of its partners, members or other equity owners), including common equity and preferred equity, of such Person and its Subsidiaries, determined on a consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP, less (without duplication) amounts attributable to Disqualified Capital Stock of such Person and Capital Stock of such Person’s consolidated Subsidiaries not owned, directly or indirectly, by such Person.

“Consolidated Non-Funding Debt” means, with respect to any Person as of any determination date, an amount equal to the sum of (a) the aggregate amount of all outstanding Non-Funding Indebtedness for borrowed money of such Person and its Subsidiaries and obligations in respect of Financing Lease Obligations that constitute Non-Funding Indebtedness, plus (b) the amount of all outstanding Disqualified Capital Stock of such Person and all outstanding Preferred Stock issued by any Subsidiary of such Person (such amounts determined in accordance with the definition of “Indebtedness”) that constitutes Non-Funding Indebtedness, in each case calculated on a consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP.

“Consolidated Non-Funding Debt to Equity Ratio” means, with respect to any Person on any determination date, the ratio of (x) Consolidated Non-Funding Debt of such Person as of such determination date to (y) the Consolidated Shareholders’ Equity (or, if such Person is not a corporation, the consolidated equity interests of its partners, members or other equity owners) of such Person as of such determination date.  In the event that the Company or any Subsidiary incurs, issues, assumes, Guarantees, redeems, defeases, retires or extinguishes any Consolidated Non-Funding Debt (other than Consolidated Non-Funding Debt incurred under any revolving credit facility unless such Indebtedness has been permanently repaid and has not been replaced), issues or redeems Disqualified Capital Stock or Preferred Stock or consummates a Mortgage Business Capital Raise subsequent to the date of the most recent consolidated balance sheet for which the Consolidated Non-Funding Debt to Equity Ratio is being calculated but prior to or simultaneously with the event for which the calculation of the Consolidated Non-Funding Debt to Equity Ratio is made (the “Consolidated Non-Funding Debt to Equity Ratio Calculation Date”), then the Consolidated Non-Funding Debt to Equity Ratio shall be calculated giving pro forma effect to such incurrence, issuance, assumption, guarantee, redemption, defeasance, retirement or extinguishment of Indebtedness or Mortgage Business Capital Raise as if the same had occurred prior to such determination date; provided, however, that the pro forma calculation shall not give effect to any Indebtedness incurred on such determination date (or the proceeds thereof) pursuant to the provisions described in the definition of “Permitted Indebtedness.”

For purposes of making the computation referred to above, (a) any Investments, acquisitions, dispositions, mergers, consolidations and disposed operations that have been made by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries on or prior to or simultaneously with the Consolidated Non-Funding Debt to Equity Ratio Calculation Date shall be calculated on a pro forma basis assuming that all such Investments, acquisitions, dispositions, mergers, consolidations and disposed or discontinued operations had occurred prior to the Consolidated Non-Funding Debt to Equity Ratio Calculation Date and (b) notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, following a Mortgage Business Capital Raise, for purposes of determining Consolidated Shareholders’ Equity and Consolidated Non-Funding Debt, any Mortgage Business Entity included in any such computation shall be limited to the direct and indirect retained equity interest of the Company and its Subsidiaries (other than any other Mortgage Business Entity) in such Mortgage Business Entity.

For purposes of this definition, whenever pro forma effect is to be given to a transaction, the pro forma calculations shall be made in good faith by a responsible financial or accounting officer of the Company.

“Consolidated Shareholders’ Equity” means, with respect to any Person as of any determination date, the total equity (capital), shareholders’ equity or partners’ capital, as applicable, as shown on the most recent consolidated balance sheet of such Person and its Subsidiaries that is internally available, determined on a pro forma basis in a manner consistent with the pro forma basis contained in the definition of Consolidated Non-Funding Debt to Equity Ratio.  For the avoidance of doubt, Consolidated Shareholders’ Equity includes both common and preferred equity.

“Control Investment Affiliate” means, as to any Person, any other Person that (a) directly or indirectly, is in control of, is controlled by, or is under common control with, such Person and (b) exists primarily for the purpose of making equity or debt investments in one or more companies.  For purposes of this definition, “control” of a Person means the power, directly or indirectly, to direct or cause the direction of the management and policies of such Person, whether by contract or otherwise.

“Convertible Notes” means debt securities, the terms of which provide for conversion into, or the exchange for, Capital Stock, cash in lieu thereof and/or a combination of Capital Stock and cash in lieu thereof.

“Corporate Trust Office” means the corporate trust office of the Trustee located at U.S. Bank Trust Company, National Association, 111 Filmore Ave, Saint Paul, MN 55107, or such other office designated by the Trustee by written notice to the Company, at which at any particular time its corporate trust business shall be administered.

“Credit Enhancement Agreements” means, collectively, any documents, instruments, guarantees or agreements entered into by the Company, any of its Subsidiaries or any Securitization Entity for the purpose of providing credit support (that is reasonably customary as determined by the Company) with respect to any Permitted Funding Indebtedness or Permitted Securitization Indebtedness.

“Credit Facilities” means, with respect to the Company or any Subsidiary of the Company, any debt, loan, credit, warehousing, securitization or repurchase facilities or agreements (including, without limitation, Repurchase Agreements), commercial paper or overdraft facilities or agreements, indentures, or other instruments and agreements (any or all of which may be outstanding at the same time), in each case with banks or other lenders, financial institutions, brokers, dealers, trustees, agents, buyers, sellers or other Persons, and any notes, bonds, debentures or similar instruments, in each case providing for, evidencing, creating or pursuant to which there may be incurred, issued, evidenced, secured or created revolving credit loans, term loans, debt securities, receivables financing (including through the sale of receivables to banks, lenders, investors or other Persons or to special-purpose entities formed to borrow from banks, lenders, investors or other Persons against such receivables), securitizations, letters of credit, sales and repurchases of Investments or other securities or assets, or other Indebtedness, together in each case with any and all existing and future documents related thereto (including, without limitation, any promissory notes, security agreements, intercreditor agreements, mortgages, other collateral documents, guarantees and letters of credit), in each case whether in effect on the Issue Date or entered into or assumed thereafter and in each case as the same may have been or may be amended, restated, amended and restated, supplemented, modified, renewed, extended, refunded, refinanced, restructured or replaced in any manner (whether before, upon or after termination or otherwise and including by means of sales of debt securities to investors or other Persons) in whole or in part from time to time (including successive amendments, restatements, amendments and restatements, supplements, modifications, renewals, extensions, refundings, refinancings, restructurings or replacements of any of the foregoing, including into one or more debt, loan, credit, warehousing, securitization or repurchase facilities or agreements, commercial paper or overdraft facilities or agreements, indentures or other instruments or agreements, and also including by means of sales of debt securities to investors or other Persons) and including any of the foregoing changing the maturity, amount, committed amount or other terms thereof, changing (in whole or in part) revolving credit facilities to term loan facilities and vice versa, and whether or not with the original or other buyers, sellers, borrowers, issuers, guarantors, agents, lenders, financial institutions, brokers, dealers, trustees, investors or other parties.

“Currency Agreement” means any foreign exchange contract, currency swap agreement or other agreement or arrangement designed to protect against fluctuations in currency values or otherwise manage currency exchange rates or currency exchange rate risk.

“Custodian” means any receiver, trustee, assignee, liquidator, sequestrator or similar official under any Bankruptcy Law.

 “Default” means an event or condition the occurrence of which is, or with the lapse of time or the giving of notice or both would be, an Event of Default.

“Depositary” means DTC or any successor depositary for the Global Notes.

“Derivative Instrument” with respect to a Person, means any contract, instrument or other right to receive payment or delivery of cash or other assets to which such Person or any Affiliate of such Person that is acting in concert with such Person in connection with such Person’s investment in the Notes (other than a Screened Affiliate) is a party (whether or not requiring further performance by such Person), the value and/or cash flows of which (or any material portion thereof) are materially affected by the value and/or performance of the Notes and/or the creditworthiness of the Company and/or any one or more of the Guarantors (the “Performance References”).

“Disqualified Capital Stock” means, with respect to any Person, any Capital Stock of such Person which by its terms (or by the terms of any security into which it is convertible or for which it is exchangeable at the option of the holder thereof) or upon the happening of any event:

(1)          matures or is mandatorily redeemable in each case for cash or in exchange for Indebtedness (pursuant to a sinking fund obligation or otherwise); or

(2)          is redeemable or repurchasable for cash or in exchange for Indebtedness at the option of the holder of such Capital Stock in whole or in part,

in each case on or prior to the earlier of (a) the stated maturity date of the Notes or (b) the date on which there are no Notes outstanding; provided, however, that (i) only the portion of such Capital Stock which so matures or is mandatorily redeemable or is so redeemable or repurchasable at the option of the holder thereof prior to the earlier of such dates will be deemed to be Disqualified Capital Stock, (ii) any Capital Stock that would constitute Disqualified Capital Stock solely because the holders thereof have the right to require such Person to redeem, repay, exchange or repurchase such Capital Stock upon the occurrence of a Change of Control, Mortgage Business Triggering Event, fundamental change or similar event (howsoever defined or referred to) shall not constitute Disqualified Capital Stock if any such redemption, repayment, exchange or repurchase obligation is subject to compliance by the relevant Person with Section 4.06 of this Indenture, (iii) any options, warrants and contracts (including derivative instruments) exercisable or exchangeable for, convertible into or otherwise for or relating to the purchase or sale of Capital Stock, and any securities (other than Capital Stock) convertible into or exchangeable for any shares of Capital Stock, shall not constitute Disqualified Capital Stock, (iv) Capital Stock will not be deemed to be Disqualified Capital Stock as a result of provisions in any stock option plan, restricted stock plan, or other equity incentive plan or any award or agreement issued or entered into thereunder that requires such Person or any of its Subsidiaries, or gives any current or former employee, director or consultant or their heirs, executors, administrators or assigns the right to require such Person or any of its Subsidiaries, to purchase, redeem or otherwise acquire or retire for value or otherwise Capital Stock or any other equity awards (including, without limitation, options, warrants or other rights to purchase or acquire Capital Stock, restricted stock and restricted stock units) issued or issuable under any such plan, award or agreement; and (v) Capital Stock will not constitute Disqualified Capital Stock to the extent that such Person or any of its Subsidiaries has the option of paying for such Capital Stock at maturity, upon mandatory redemption, or upon any redemption, exchange or repurchase at the option of the holder of such Capital Stock, as the case may be, with Capital Stock (other than Disqualified Capital Stock) of such Person, any other Person of which such Person is a Subsidiary or any of their respective Subsidiaries.

“Domestic Subsidiary” means, with respect to any Person, any Subsidiary of such Person other than a Foreign Subsidiary.

“DTC” means The Depository Trust Company.

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

“Excluded Subsidiary” means any of the following Subsidiaries of the Company, whether any such Subsidiary is in existence on the Issue Date or is formed or acquired or becomes a Subsidiary of the Company thereafter:  (i) a Subsidiary of the Company that is prohibited, in the good faith judgment of the Company, from providing a Guarantee of the Notes or from incurring or having Indebtedness by any law, rule or regulation, or by any judgment, order, decree, pronouncement, interpretation or other action of any court, government, or governmental or administrative authority or official or arbitrator having jurisdiction over such Subsidiary or the Company, (ii) any Subsidiary of the Company that, in the good faith judgment of the Company, is prohibited from providing a Guarantee of the Notes or from incurring or having Indebtedness by any instrument or agreement (as the same may be amended, supplemented, restated, replaced or otherwise modified from time to time) to which the Company or any Subsidiary of the Company is a party or by which any of them is bound or by any Organizational Documents (as the same may be amended, supplemented, restated, replaced or otherwise modified from time to time) of any such Subsidiary or (iii) any Subsidiary of the Company if its providing a Guarantee of the Notes would require or would be reasonably likely to require, in the good faith judgment of the Company, the Company or any Subsidiary of the Company to register as an “investment company” under the Investment Company Act or would cause or would be reasonably likely to cause, in the good-faith judgment of the Company, the Company or any Subsidiary of the Company to become subject to regulation under the Investment Company Act.  For purposes of clarity, it is understood and agreed that a Subsidiary of the Company that is not an Excluded Subsidiary may at any time become an Excluded Subsidiary in accordance with the provisions of the foregoing sentence.

“Existing 2025 Notes” means the Company’s 6.250% senior unsecured notes due 2025.

“fair market value” means, with respect to any asset or property, the price which could be negotiated in an arm’s-length, free market transaction, for cash, between a willing seller and a willing and able buyer, neither of whom is under undue pressure or compulsion to complete the transaction.  Fair market value shall be determined by management of the Company in good faith.

“FASB” means the Financial Accounting Standards Board or any successor thereto.

“Financing Lease Obligation” means an obligation that is required to be accounted for as a finance lease (and, for the avoidance of doubt, not a straight-line or operating lease) on both the balance sheet and income statement for financial reporting purposes in accordance with GAAP, including, without limitation, Accounting Standards Codification 842 and related accounting rules and regulations, as such may be amended or re-codified from time to time, which obligation effectively transfers control of the underlying asset and constitutes an in-substance financed purchase of an asset, provided that the amount of any Financing Lease Obligation shall be the amount thereof accounted for as a liability in accordance with GAAP; and provided, further and for the avoidance of doubt, the term “Financing Lease Obligation” does not include obligations under any operating leases entered into in the ordinary course of business that do not effectively transfer control of the underlying asset and do not represent an in-substance financed purchase of an asset under GAAP, including, without limitation, Accounting Standards Codification 842 and related accounting rules and regulations, as such may be amended or re-codified from time to time, notwithstanding that GAAP and such accounting rules and regulations, such as Accounting Standards Codification 842, may require that such obligations be recognized on the balance sheet of such Person as a lease liability (along with the related right-of-use asset).

“Foreign Subsidiary” means, with respect to any Person, (a) any Subsidiary of such Person that is not organized or existing under the laws of the United States, any state thereof or the District of Columbia, and any Subsidiary (including any Subsidiary that would otherwise be a Domestic Subsidiary) of such Subsidiary, (b) any Subsidiary of such Person that has no material assets (with the determination of materiality to be made in good faith by the Company) other than Capital Stock of (or Capital Stock of and debt obligations owed or treated as owed by) one or more Foreign Subsidiaries (or Subsidiaries thereof), and (c) any Subsidiary (including any Subsidiary that would otherwise be a Domestic Subsidiary) of such Person that owns any Capital Stock of a Foreign Subsidiary if its providing a Guarantee of the Notes could reasonably be expected, in the good faith judgment of the Company, to cause any earnings of such Foreign Subsidiary, as determined for U.S. federal income tax purposes, to be treated as a deemed dividend to such Foreign Subsidiary’s United States parent for U.S. federal income tax purposes.

“GAAP” means generally accepted accounting principles in the United States as in effect from time to time, consistently applied; provided that, (I) notwithstanding the foregoing but subject to clause (II) of this proviso, for purposes of determining compliance with any covenant (including the computation under any financial covenant and any related definitions) contained in this Indenture or the amount of Indebtedness (including, without limitation, for purposes of clause (4) of the first paragraph of Section 6.01) or other liabilities, assets, stockholders (or other) equity, net worth, revenues, expenses or net income (loss) of any Person or any of its Subsidiaries or any other amounts appearing in, derived from or used in compiling or preparing, the financial statements (including notes thereto) of any Person or any of its Subsidiaries, or making any financial or accounting computation or determination relevant to any Person or any of its Subsidiaries, (a) leases shall be classified and accounted for in accordance with FASB Accounting Standards Codification (“ASC”) 840 as in effect on September 16, 2020, (b) Indebtedness of any Person and its Subsidiaries shall exclude the effects of ASC 825 and ASC 470-20 (or any successor or replacement provisions thereto), as the same may be amended, modified or supplemented from time to time, on financial liabilities, (c) the Company shall make such adjustments as it determines in good faith are necessary to remove the impact of consolidating any variable interest entities under the requirements of ASC 810 or transfers of financial assets accounted for as secured borrowings under ASC 860, as both of such ASC sections are in effect on September 16, 2020 and (d) if any Person shall own, directly or indirectly, less than 100% of the outstanding Common Stock of any Subsidiary of such Person, then only a pro rata portion of the Indebtedness, other liabilities, assets, stockholders (or other) equity, net worth, revenues, expenses or net income (loss) of such Subsidiary or any other amounts relevant to such Subsidiary appearing in, derived from or used in compiling or preparing the financial statements (including notes thereto) of such Subsidiary or of such Person or any of its Subsidiaries, as applicable, shall be included for purposes of determining compliance with any such covenant or determining any such amount or making any such financial or accounting computation or determination referred to above, such pro rata portion to be proportionate to the percentage of the outstanding Common Stock of such Subsidiary owned, directly or indirectly, by such Person (or, at the option of such Person, proportionate to such Person’s total direct and indirect participation or economic interests (expressed as a percentage) in the stockholders (or other) equity or net income (loss) of such Subsidiary or in any other amount or item referred to above or relevant to such Subsidiary or any such determination or computation) and (II) clause (I) of this proviso shall not be applicable for purposes of the Financial Reports and other reports and information to be delivered by the Company pursuant to Section 4.09.  For the avoidance of doubt, revenues, expenses, gains and losses that are included in results of discontinued operations because of the application of ASC 205 (or any successor or replacement provisions thereto), as the same may be amended, modified or supplemented from time to time, will be treated as revenues, expenses, gains and losses from continuing operations.

“Global Note” means a Note in registered global form without coupons, registered in the name of a Depositary or its nominee.

“Guarantee” means, individually, any guarantee of the Notes by a Guarantor pursuant to the terms of this Indenture and, collectively, all such guarantees of the Notes by Guarantors pursuant to the terms of this Indenture, in each case as any such guarantees may be amended or supplemented from time to time.

 “Guarantor” means each Domestic Subsidiary of the Company, if any, that guarantees the payment of the Notes pursuant to the terms of this Indenture; provided that no Excluded Subsidiary or Securitization Entity shall be deemed to be, or shall be required to become, a Guarantor; and provided, further, that, upon release or discharge of any such Domestic Subsidiary from its Guarantee of the Notes, or upon the termination of any such Guarantee, in accordance with this Indenture, such Domestic Subsidiary shall cease to be a Guarantor.

“Holder” means a Person in whose name a Note is registered on the Registrar’s books.

“incur” has the meaning set forth in Section 4.07(a).  The terms “incurred” and “incurring” shall have correlative meanings.

“Indebtedness” means with respect to any Person, without duplication:

(1)          the principal amount of indebtedness of such Person for borrowed money;

(2)          the principal amount of indebtedness of such Person evidenced by bonds, debentures, notes or other similar instruments;

(3)          all Financing Lease Obligations of such Person;

(4)          all payment obligations of such Person issued or assumed as the deferred purchase price of property and all payment obligations of such Person under conditional sale or other title retention agreements relating to assets purchased by such Person (but, in each case, excluding trade accounts payable and other accrued liabilities arising in the ordinary course of business and any earn-out, margin posting or payment or similar obligations and also excluding all obligations other than those relating to payment of the purchase price of the applicable property or assets);

(5)          the principal component of all obligations of such Person for the reimbursement of any obligor on any letter of credit, banker’s acceptance or similar credit transaction (except in each case to the extent such obligations relate to trade payables or other accrued liabilities arising in the ordinary course of business);

(6)          guarantees by such Person of the principal component of Indebtedness of other Persons of the types referred to in clauses (1) through (5) above and clauses (8) and (10) below to the extent (and only to the extent) guaranteed by such referent Person;

(7)          Indebtedness of any other Person of the type referred to in clauses (1) through (6) above which is secured by any Lien on any property or asset of such referent Person, the amount of such Indebtedness of such referent Person being deemed to be the lesser of the fair market value of such property or asset and the amount of the Indebtedness of such other Person so secured;

(8)          all net payment obligations of such Person under Commodity Agreements, Currency Agreements and Interest Rate Agreements of such Person;

(9)          all outstanding Disqualified Capital Stock issued by such Person, and all outstanding Preferred Stock issued by any Subsidiary of such Person, with the amount of Indebtedness represented by such Disqualified Capital Stock or Preferred Stock being equal to the greater of its voluntary or involuntary liquidation preference and, if such Disqualified Capital Stock or Preferred Stock is subject to repurchase at the option of holder, its maximum fixed repurchase price (or, if such Disqualified Capital Stock or such Preferred Stock does not have a liquidation preference or a maximum fixed repurchase price, its estimated repurchase price as determined by the Company in good faith), but excluding in each case accrued dividends and premium, if any (for purposes of this clause (9), “fixed repurchase price” shall mean a price specified as a fixed amount in U.S. dollars or other applicable currency); and

(10)          all repurchase obligations (excluding accrued interest or any portion of such obligations representing accrued interest) of such Person under Repurchase Agreements to which it is party.

For purposes of determining the amount of Indebtedness under any covenants, definitions or other provisions of this Indenture, (a) guarantees of, and obligations in respect of letters of credit, bankers’ acceptances and other similar instruments relating to, or Liens securing, Indebtedness that is otherwise included in the determination of a particular amount of Indebtedness shall not be included and the incurrence or creation of any such guarantees, obligations or Liens shall not be deemed to be the incurrence of Indebtedness; (b) unless otherwise expressly provided in this Indenture, the amount of Indebtedness issued at a price that is less than the principal amount thereof shall be equal to the amount of the liability in respect thereof determined in accordance with GAAP; and (c) if any Person shall own, directly or indirectly, less than 100% of the outstanding Common Stock of any Subsidiary of such Person, then only a pro rata portion of the Indebtedness, of such Subsidiary shall be included for purposes of determining the amount of Indebtedness of such Person and its Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis, such pro rata portion to be determined as set forth in the definition of GAAP.  For purposes of clarity, it is understood and agreed that, anything in this Indenture to the contrary notwithstanding, Indebtedness of variable interest entities (within the meaning of GAAP) shall not be deemed Indebtedness of any Person or any of its Subsidiaries.  For purposes of determining compliance with any U.S. dollar-denominated restriction (including, without limitation, those set forth in any definition) on the amount or incurrence of any Indebtedness, the U.S. dollar-equivalent amount of Indebtedness denominated in a foreign currency shall be calculated based on the relevant currency exchange rate in effect on the date such Indebtedness was incurred, in the case of term Indebtedness, or first committed, in the case of revolving credit Indebtedness; provided that if such Indebtedness is incurred to Refinance other Indebtedness denominated in a foreign currency, and such Refinancing would cause the applicable U.S. dollar-denominated restriction to be exceeded if calculated at the relevant currency exchange rate in effect on the date of such Refinancing, such U.S. dollar-denominated restriction shall be deemed not to have been exceeded so long as the principal amount (or, if incurred with original issue discount, the issue price) of such Refinancing Indebtedness does not exceed the principal amount (or if incurred with original issue discount, the accreted value) of such Indebtedness being Refinanced plus any additional Indebtedness incurred to pay interest or dividends thereon plus the amount of any premium (including tender premiums), defeasance costs and any fees and expenses incurred in connection with the incurrence of such Refinancing Indebtedness; and provided, further, notwithstanding anything to the contrary set forth in Section 4.07, Section 4.08, the definition of “Permitted Indebtedness” or elsewhere in this Indenture, the maximum amount of Indebtedness that the Company and its Subsidiaries may incur pursuant to Section 4.07 and such definition shall not be deemed to be exceeded, nor shall the Company be deemed to have breached its obligations under Section 4.08, solely as a result of fluctuations in currency exchange rates.  Subject to the foregoing, the principal amount of any Indebtedness incurred to Refinance other Indebtedness, if incurred in a different currency from the Indebtedness being Refinanced, shall be calculated based on the currency exchange rate applicable to the currencies in which such Refinancing Indebtedness and Indebtedness being Refinanced are denominated that is in effect on the date of such Refinancing.  Unsecured Indebtedness shall not be treated as subordinated or junior to secured Indebtedness merely because such Indebtedness is unsecured and no senior Indebtedness shall be treated as subordinated or junior to any other senior Indebtedness solely because such Indebtedness has a junior priority with respect to shared collateral or because it is guaranteed by other obligors.  For purposes of clarity, it is understood and agreed that, anything in this Indenture to the contrary notwithstanding, the term “Indebtedness” shall not include any commitment to make loans, advances or other Investments, or to purchase Investments, Persons or other securities or assets.

“Indenture” means this Indenture, as amended or supplemented from time to time.

“Independent Financial Advisor” means any accounting firm, investment advisory firm, valuation firm, consulting firm, appraisal firm, investment bank, bank, trust company or similar entity of recognized standing selected by the Company from time to time.

“Initial Purchasers” means Citigroup Global Markets Inc., Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC, Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC, UBS Securities LLC, Wells Fargo Securities, LLC, BTIG, LLC and Keefe, Bruyette & Woods, Inc.

“Insolvency Event” means, with respect to any Person, (a) the filing of a decree or order for relief by a court having jurisdiction in the premises with respect to such Person or any part of its assets or property in an involuntary case under any applicable Insolvency Law, or appointing a receiver, liquidator, assignee, custodian, trustee, sequestrator or similar official for such Person or for any part of its assets or property, or ordering the winding-up or liquidation of such Person’s affairs, (b) the commencement by such Person of a voluntary case under any applicable Insolvency Law, (c) the consent by such Person to the entry of an order for relief in an involuntary case under any applicable Insolvency Law, (d) the consent by such Person to the appointment of or taking possession by a receiver, liquidator, assignee, custodian, trustee, sequestrator or similar official for such Person or for any part of its assets or property, (e) the making by such Person of any general assignment for the benefit of creditors, (f) the admission in a legal proceeding of the inability of such Person to pay its debts generally as they become due or (g) the failure by such Person generally to pay its debts as they become due.

“Insolvency Laws” means Title 11 of the United States Code and all other applicable liquidation, conservatorship, bankruptcy, moratorium, rearrangement, receivership, insolvency, reorganization, suspension of payments and similar debtor relief laws from time to time in effect affecting the rights of creditors generally.

“Intercompany Indebtedness” means Indebtedness of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries owing to the Company or any of its Subsidiaries.

“interest” means, with respect to any Note, interest payable on such Note.

“Interest Payment Date” means April 1 and October 1 of each year.

“Interest Rate Agreement” means any interest rate swap, cap, floor, collar, hedge or similar agreements and any other agreement or arrangement designed to manage interest rates or interest rate risk.

“Investment” means any direct or indirect loan, loan origination or other extension of credit (including, without limitation, a guarantee), any advance or capital contribution (by means of any transfer of cash or other property to others or any payment for property or services for the account or use of others), any Capital Stock, bonds, notes, debentures or other securities or evidences of Indebtedness, any servicing rights, any real property or interests in real property (including, without limitation, improvements, fixtures and accessions thereto and ground leases), and any other investment assets (whether tangible or intangible), including limited and general partnership interests, finance real estate and real estate related assets, including, but not limited to, servicing advance receivables, mortgage servicing rights or interests in mortgage servicing rights (such as “excess mortgage servicing rights” or “rights to mortgage servicing rights”), mortgage loans and mortgage-backed securities, consumer loans, business loans or other receivables or equity interests in one or more entities that own any of the foregoing or interests therein.  “Investment” shall exclude extensions of trade credit in the ordinary course of business, but, unless otherwise expressly stated or the context otherwise requires, shall include acquisitions of any of the foregoing or of any Person, whether by merger, consolidation, acquisition of Capital Stock or assets or otherwise.

“Investment Company Act” means the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended, and the rules and regulations of the SEC promulgated thereunder.

“Investment Grade Rating” means a rating equal to or higher than Baa3 (or the equivalent) by Moody’s and BBB- (or the equivalent) by S&P.

“Issue Date” means March 19, 2024.

“Lien” means any lien, mortgage, deed of trust, pledge, security interest, charge or encumbrance of any kind (including any conditional sale or other title retention agreement, any lease in the nature thereof and any agreement to give any security interest).

“Long Derivative Instrument” means a Derivative Instrument (i) the value of which generally increases, and/or the payment or delivery obligations under which generally decrease, with positive changes to the Performance References and/or (ii) the value of which generally decreases, and/or the payment or delivery obligations under which generally increase, with negative changes to the Performance References.

“Management Group” means at any time, the Chairman of the Board of Directors, any President, any Executive Vice President, any Managing Director, any Treasurer and any Secretary or other executive officer of the Company or any successor to the Company at such time.

“Moody’s” means Moody’s Investors Service, Inc., and any successor to the credit rating business thereof.

“Mortgage Business” means the mortgage origination or servicing platform business or the corresponding assets of such businesses owned or operated by the Company or its direct and indirect Subsidiaries.

“Mortgage Business Entity” means any direct or indirect Subsidiary of the Company whose primary business consists of the Mortgage Business.

“Mortgage Business Capital Raise” means (1) any transaction or series of related transactions including any acquisition by, or business combination or other similar transaction with, another entity that results in any of the Capital Stock of a Mortgage Business Entity or such other entity that following such transaction or transactions owns or operates a Mortgage Business Entity or the Mortgage Business being publicly traded on any U.S. national securities exchange or over-the-counter market or any analogous exchange or market, and (2) the incurrence of any Non-Funding Indebtedness for borrowed money by a Mortgage Business Entity.

“Mortgage Business Triggering Event” means a Rating Agency’s announcement or confirmation in writing that it has or intends to (a) withdraw its rating of the Notes or (b) decrease its rating of the Notes to a rating at least one level lower than the rating of the Notes prior to such Mortgage Business Triggering Event, and either (A) when announcing such decision or intent, such Rating Agency announces publicly or confirms in writing that the reduction was primarily attributable to any event or circumstance associated with, comprised of or arising as a result of, or in respect of, (i) a Mortgage Business Capital Raise or (ii) an offering of equity of a Mortgage Business Entity subsequent to a Mortgage Business Capital Raise of such entity, or (B) such withdrawal or decrease in rating occurs within fifteen (15) days following the consummation of or expected or announced consummation of any of the events described in clause (i) and (ii) above.

“MSR” means (i) mortgage servicing rights (including master servicing rights) entitling the holder to service mortgage loans, (ii) “Rights to MSRs” as described in the Company’s financial statements, or (iii) “excess” interests in mortgage servicing rights (including master servicing rights).

“MSR Facility” means any financing arrangement of any kind, including, but not limited to, financing arrangements in the form of repurchase facilities, loan agreements, note issuance facilities and commercial paper facilities, with a financial institution or other lender or purchaser in any case exclusively to finance or refinance the purchase, investment in, pooling or funding by the Company or a Subsidiary of the Company of MSRs invested in, purchased, or owned by the Company or any Subsidiary of the Company in the ordinary course of business or otherwise secured by MSR cashflow.

“Net Cash Proceeds,” with respect to any issuance or sale of Capital Stock or incurrence of Indebtedness, means the cash proceeds of such issuance, sale or incurrence, as the case may be, net of attorneys’ fees, accountants’ fees, underwriters’ or placement agents’ fees, discounts and commissions and brokerage, consultant and other fees and expenses incurred in connection with such issuance, sale or incurrence, as the case may be, and net of taxes paid or payable as a result thereof.

“Net Short” means, with respect to a Holder or beneficial owner, as of a date of determination, either (i) the value of its Short Derivative Instruments exceeds the sum of the (x) the value of its Notes plus (y) the value of its Long Derivative Instruments as of such date of determination or (ii) it is reasonably expected that such would have been the case were a Failure to Pay or Bankruptcy Credit Event (each as defined in the 2014 ISDA Credit Derivatives Definitions) to have occurred with respect to the Company or any Guarantor immediately prior to such date of determination.

“Non-Funding Indebtedness” means Indebtedness other than Permitted Funding Indebtedness.

“Non-Guarantor Subsidiary” means any Subsidiary of the Company that is not a Guarantor of the Notes.

“Non-Recourse Indebtedness” means any Indebtedness of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries:

(1)          that is advanced to finance the acquisition (including from the Company or a Subsidiary of the Company) of Securitization Assets or other assets and secured only by the assets to which such Indebtedness relates (or by a pledge of equity in the Securitization Entity or Subsidiary of the Company owning such assets) without recourse to the Company or any of its Subsidiaries (excluding any such Subsidiary that is a Securitization Entity or that owns no significant assets (as determined in good faith by the Company) other than its interest in a Securitization Entity and, in each case, is a borrower, guarantor, pledgor or other obligor of such Indebtedness) (other than recourse pursuant to Standard Recourse Undertakings, unless, until and for so long as (but solely for purposes of clause (4) of the first paragraph of Section 6.01) a claim for payment has been made under any such Standard Recourse Undertakings (which has not been satisfied or waived) at which time the obligations with respect to any such Standard Recourse Undertakings shall (solely for purposes of clause (4) of the first paragraph of Section 6.01) not be considered Non-Recourse Indebtedness to the extent, and only to the extent, that such claim is a claim for the payment of Indebtedness for borrowed money of the Company or any Subsidiary of the Company and is also a liability (for GAAP purposes) of the Company or such Subsidiary, as applicable (excluding any such Subsidiary that is a Securitization Entity or that owns no significant assets (as determined in good faith by the Company) other than its interest in a Securitization Entity and, in each case, is a borrower, guarantor, pledgor or other obligor of such Indebtedness));

(2)          that is advanced to any Subsidiaries or group of Subsidiaries of the Company formed for the sole purpose of acquiring or holding Securitization Assets or other assets (directly or indirectly) against which a loan is obtained or other Indebtedness is issued without recourse to, and with no cross-collateralization against, any other assets of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries (excluding any such Subsidiary that is a Securitization Entity or that owns no significant assets (as determined in good faith by the Company) other than its interest in a Securitization Entity and, in each case, is a borrower, guarantor, pledgor or other obligor of such Indebtedness) (other than recourse pursuant to Standard Recourse Undertakings, unless, until and for so long as (but solely for purposes of clause (4) of the first paragraph of Section 6.01) a claim for payment has been made under any such Standard Recourse Undertakings (which has not been satisfied or waived) at which time the obligations with respect to any such Standard Recourse Undertakings shall (solely for purposes of clause (4) of the first paragraph of Section 6.01) not be considered Non-Recourse Indebtedness to the extent, and only to the extent, that such claim is a claim for the payment of Indebtedness for borrowed money of the Company or any Subsidiary of the Company and is also a liability (for GAAP purposes) of the Company or such Subsidiary, as applicable (excluding any such Subsidiary that is a Securitization Entity or that owns no significant assets (as determined in good faith by the Company) other than its interest in a Securitization Entity and, in each case, is a borrower, guarantor, pledgor or other obligor of such Indebtedness));

(3)          that is advanced to finance the acquisition of real property and secured by only the real property (and any accessions, improvements and fixtures thereto) to which such Indebtedness relates (or by a pledge of equity in the Securitization Entity or Subsidiary of the Company owning such assets) without recourse to the Company or any of its Subsidiaries (excluding any such Subsidiary that is a Securitization Entity or that owns no significant assets (as determined in good faith by the Company) other than its interest in a Securitization Entity and, in each case, is a borrower, guarantor, pledgor or other obligor of such Indebtedness) (other than recourse pursuant to Standard Recourse Undertakings, unless, until and for so long as (but solely for purposes of clause (4) of the first paragraph of Section 6.01) a claim for payment has been made under any such Standard Recourse Undertakings (which has not been satisfied or waived) at which time the obligations with respect to any such Standard Recourse Undertakings shall (solely for purposes of clause (4) of the first paragraph of Section 6.01) not be considered Non-Recourse Indebtedness to the extent, and only to the extent, that such claim is a claim for the payment of Indebtedness for borrowed money of the Company or any Subsidiary of the Company and is also a liability (for GAAP purposes) of the Company or such Subsidiary, as applicable (excluding any such Subsidiary that is a Securitization Entity or that owns no significant assets (as determined in good faith by the Company) other than its interest in a Securitization Entity and, in each case, is a borrower, guarantor, pledgor or other obligor of such Indebtedness));

(4)          in respect of which recourse for payment is contractually limited to specific assets (including, without limitation, intangible assets) of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries encumbered by a Lien securing such Indebtedness (other than recourse pursuant to Standard Recourse Undertakings, unless, until and for so long as (but solely for purposes of clause (4) of the first paragraph of Section 6.01) a claim for payment has been made under any such Standard Recourse Undertakings (which has not been satisfied or waived) at which time the obligation with respect to any such Standard Recourse Undertakings shall (solely for purposes of clause (4) of the first paragraph of Section 6.01) not be considered Non-Recourse Indebtedness to the extent, and only to the extent, that such claim is a claim for the payment of Indebtedness for borrowed money of the Company or any Subsidiary of the Company and is also a liability (for GAAP purposes) of the Company or such Subsidiary, as applicable (excluding any such Subsidiary that is a Securitization Entity or that owns no significant assets (as determined in good faith by the Company) other than its interest in a Securitization Entity and, in each case, is a borrower, guarantor, pledgor or other obligor of such Indebtedness)); or

(5)          customary completion or budget guarantees provided to lenders in connection with any of the foregoing clauses (1) through (4) in the ordinary course of business.

For the purposes of clarity, it is understood and agreed that, solely for purposes of clause (4) of the first paragraph of Section 6.01, if the payment of any Indebtedness for borrowed money of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries that would otherwise constitute Non-Recourse Indebtedness is guaranteed in part but not in whole by the Company or a Subsidiary of the Company in such manner that the portion of such Indebtedness so guaranteed no longer constitutes Non-Recourse Indebtedness, then (solely for the purposes of clause (4) of the first paragraph of Section 6.01) the portion of the Indebtedness so guaranteed shall be deemed to constitute recourse Indebtedness and the remainder of such Indebtedness shall be deemed to constitute Non-Recourse Indebtedness.

“Notes” means the Company’s 8.000% Senior Notes due 2029 (including, for the avoidance of doubt, any Additional Notes) issued under this Indenture, all of which shall be treated as a single class of securities for all purposes (including voting) under this Indenture, as the Notes may be amended or supplemented from time to time.

“Offering Memorandum” means the Company’s offering memorandum dated March 5, 2024 relating to the Notes, as the same may have been or may be amended or supplemented from time to time.

“Officer” means, with respect to any Person, (1) the Chairman, the Chief Executive Officer, the President, the Chief Operating Officer, the Chief Investment Officer, the Chief Financial Officer, the Chief Accounting Officer, the Controller, any Vice President (whether or not the title “Vice President” is preceded or followed by any other title such as “Senior,” “Executive” or otherwise), any Managing Director, the Treasurer, any Assistant Treasurer, the Secretary and any Assistant Secretary (a) of such Person or (b) if such Person is a limited or general partnership or limited liability company that does not have officers, of any direct or indirect general partner or managing member, as the case may be, of such Person, and (2) any other individual designated as an “Officer” by the Board of Directors of such Person (or, if applicable, by the Board of Directors of any general partner or managing member referred to in clause (1)(b)) above.

“Officers’ Certificate” means, with respect to any Person, a certificate signed by two Officers of such Person.

“Opinion of Counsel” means a written opinion from legal counsel, which may be an employee of or counsel to the Company.  Anything in this Indenture to the contrary notwithstanding, any such opinion of legal counsel may rely, as to factual matters, on a certificate of an Officer (or similar official) of the Company, any Guarantor or any other Person and on certificates and statements of governmental bodies and officials and may include customary qualifications, limitations and exceptions.

“Organizational Documents” means, with respect to any entity, its charter and bylaws, its limited or general partnership agreement and certificate of limited or general partnership, its limited liability company agreement, operating agreement or other similar agreement and its limited liability company certificate, its trust agreement, or any similar organizational documents of such entity, in each case as the same may be amended, restated, amended and restated, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time.

“Performance References” has the meaning set forth for such term in the definition of Derivative Instrument.

“Permitted Business Transfer” means the sale, assignment, transfer, lease, conveyance or other disposition, in one transaction or a series of related transactions, of the operations and/or assets comprising one or more lines of business or similar internal business units of the Company and/or its Subsidiaries (including but not limited to all assets used in or reasonably related to such business, equity interests of any Subsidiary owning or operating any such business and cash and cash equivalents that are incidental to such business) so long as the operations or assets being sold, assigned or otherwise transferred in the Permitted Business Transfer do not account for, in the aggregate, greater than 50% of the Consolidated Net Worth of the Company and its Subsidiaries for the most recently ended fiscal quarter for which financial statements are internally available.

“Permitted Funding Indebtedness” means (i) any Indebtedness incurred in connection with investment activities of a Similar Business, including, without limitation, (a) Indebtedness under Warehouse Facilities, MSR Facilities and residual funding facilities or other Indebtedness to finance real estate and real estate related assets, including, but not limited to, servicing advance receivables, mortgage servicing rights or interests in mortgage servicing rights (such as “excess mortgage servicing rights” or “rights to mortgage servicing rights”), mortgage loans and mortgage-backed securities, consumer loans, collateralized loan obligations, other receivables or equity interests in one or more entities that own any of the foregoing or interests therein, and (b) Non-Recourse Indebtedness, as well as any Indebtedness incurred by the Company and/or its Subsidiaries in the ordinary course of their respective businesses and (ii) any Refinancing of the Indebtedness under clause (i), provided, however, that solely as of the date of the incurrence of such Permitted Funding Indebtedness, the excess (determined as of the most recent date for which internal financial statements are available), if any, of (x) the amount of any Secured Indebtedness incurred under clause (i)(a) or clause (ii) of this definition (solely in respect of a Refinancing of Indebtedness incurred under clause (i)(a)) for which the holder thereof has contractual recourse to the Company or its Subsidiaries to satisfy claims with respect thereto over (y) the aggregate (without duplication of amounts) Realizable Value of the assets that secure such Indebtedness shall not be Permitted Funding Indebtedness (but shall not be deemed to be a new incurrence of Indebtedness subject to the provisions in Section 4.07 except with respect to, and solely to the extent of, any such excess that exists upon the initial incurrence of such Indebtedness under this clause (ii) which excess shall be entitled to be incurred pursuant to any other provision under Section 4.07.  The amount of any Permitted Funding Indebtedness shall be determined in accordance with the definition of “Indebtedness.”

“Permitted Hedging Agreement” means (a) an agreement pursuant to which the Company or any of its Subsidiaries acquires a call or a capped call option requiring the counterparty thereto to deliver to the Company or any of its Subsidiaries shares of common stock in the Company, the cash value of such shares or cash representing the termination value of such option or a combination thereof from time to time upon settlement, exercise or early termination of such option and (b) an agreement pursuant to which, among other things, the Company or any of its Subsidiaries issues to the counterparty thereto warrants to acquire common stock of the Company, cash in lieu of delivering shares of common stock or cash representing the termination value of such option, or a combination thereof upon settlement, exercise or early termination thereof.

“Permitted Holders” means, collectively, Sculptor Capital LP, its Affiliates and the Management Group; provided that the definition of “Permitted Holders” shall not include any Control Investment Affiliate whose primary purpose is the operation of an ongoing business (excluding any business whose primary purpose is the investment of capital or assets).  Any Person or group whose acquisition of beneficial ownership constitutes a Change of Control in respect of which a Change of Control Offer is made in accordance with the requirements of this Indenture will thereafter, together with its Affiliates, constitute an additional Permitted Holder.

“Permitted Indebtedness” means, without duplication, each of the following:

(1)          Notes in an aggregate principal amount not to exceed the aggregate principal amount thereof issued on the Issue Date;

(2)          Indebtedness consisting of Convertible Notes;

(3)          Indebtedness of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries incurred under any Credit Facilities (including the issuance and creation of letters of credit, bankers’ acceptances and similar instruments thereunder) if, immediately after giving effect to the incurrence of such Indebtedness and the receipt and application of the proceeds therefrom, the aggregate principal amount of Indebtedness of the Company and its consolidated Subsidiaries, determined on a consolidated basis under GAAP, outstanding under this clause (3) shall not exceed the greater of $1,050.0 million and 3.0% of Total Assets at any one time outstanding, plus, in the case of any Refinancing of any Indebtedness incurred pursuant to this clause (3), the aggregate amount of fees, underwriting discounts, premium (including tender premiums), defeasance costs and other fees and expenses in connection with such Refinancing;

(4)          Indebtedness of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries incurred or outstanding on the Issue Date (including the Existing 2025 Notes and any guarantees thereof);

(5)          Indebtedness of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries under Commodity Agreements, Currency Agreements, Interest Rate Agreements or Permitted Hedging Agreements incurred or entered into for hedging purposes;

(6)          Intercompany Indebtedness; provided, however, that:

(a)          if the Company is the obligor on Indebtedness owing to and held by a Non-Guarantor Subsidiary, such Indebtedness is expressly subordinated in right of payment to the Notes, provided that such subordination shall not be required if such Indebtedness is incurred in connection with Permitted Funding Indebtedness;

(b)          if a Guarantor is the obligor on Indebtedness owing to and held by a Non-Guarantor Subsidiary, such Indebtedness is expressly subordinated in right of payment to such Guarantor’s Guarantee of the Notes, provided that such subordination shall not be required if such Indebtedness is incurred in connection with Permitted Funding Indebtedness; and

(c)          (i) any subsequent issuance or transfer of Capital Stock or other event which results in any such Indebtedness being held by a Person other than the Company or a Subsidiary of the Company and (ii) any sale or other transfer of any such Indebtedness to a Person other than the Company or a Subsidiary of the Company, shall in each case referred to in clause (i) and (ii) immediately above be deemed to constitute an incurrence of such Indebtedness by the Company or such Subsidiary not permitted by this clause (6).

(7)          Indebtedness of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries arising from the honoring by a bank or other financial institution of a check, draft or similar instrument drawn against insufficient funds; provided, however, that such Indebtedness is extinguished within five Business Days of incurrence;

(8)          (x) Indebtedness of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries in respect of bankers’ acceptances, workers’ compensation claims, surety, performance, bid, customs, stay, appeal, tax or similar bonds, security deposits, performance or completion guarantees and payment obligations in connection with self-insurance or similar obligations provided or obtained by the Company or any Subsidiary of the Company and (y) Indebtedness of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries owed to (including in respect of letters of credit for the benefit of) any Person in connection with workers’ compensation, early retirement or termination obligations, pension fund obligations or contributions or similar claims, obligations, taxes or contributions for social security, wages or unemployment, health, disability or other employee benefits, or property, casualty or liability insurance provided to the Company or any of its Subsidiaries pursuant to reimbursement or indemnification obligations of such Person;

(9)          Refinancing Indebtedness of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries;

(10)          Indebtedness of the Company and its Subsidiaries if, immediately after giving effect to the incurrence of any such Indebtedness and the receipt and application of the proceeds therefrom, the aggregate principal amount of Indebtedness of the Company and its consolidated Subsidiaries, determined on a consolidated basis under GAAP, outstanding under this clause (10) shall not exceed the greater of (x) $700.0 million and (y) 2.0% of Total Assets at any one time outstanding, plus, in the case of any Refinancing of any Indebtedness incurred pursuant to this clause (10), the aggregate amount of fees, underwriting discounts, premium (including tender premiums), defeasance costs and other fees and expenses in connection with such Refinancing;

(11)        Indebtedness of any Person (a) outstanding on the date of any acquisition of Investments or other securities or assets from such Person, including through the acquisition of a Person that becomes a Subsidiary of the Company or is acquired by, or merged or consolidated with or into, the Company or any Subsidiary of the Company, or that is assumed by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries in connection with any such acquisition (other than Indebtedness incurred by such Person in connection with, or in contemplation of, such acquisition, merger or consolidation) or (b) incurred by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries to provide all or any portion of the funds utilized to acquire, or to consummate the transaction or series of related transactions in connection with or in contemplation of any acquisition of, any Investments or other securities or assets, including through the acquisition of a Person that becomes a Subsidiary of the Company or is acquired by, or merged or consolidated with or into, the Company or any Subsidiary of the Company, provided, however, that immediately after giving effect to the incurrence of such Indebtedness pursuant to this clause (11) and, if applicable, the repayment, repurchase, defeasance, redemption, Refinancing or other discharge of any other Indebtedness in connection with such acquisition, merger or consolidation, either (i) the Company would have been able to incur at least $1.00 of additional Indebtedness pursuant to Section 4.07(b) or (ii) the Consolidated Non-Funding Debt to Equity Ratio of the Company would not have been greater than the Consolidated Non-Funding Debt to Equity Ratio immediately prior to such transaction;

(12)        Indebtedness of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries arising from agreements of the Company or a Subsidiary of the Company providing for indemnification, adjustment of purchase price, earn-outs or similar obligations, in each case incurred or assumed in connection with an investment in or the acquisition or disposition of any business, Investments or other securities or assets of the Company or any business, Investments, other securities or assets or Capital Stock of a Subsidiary of the Company, other than guarantees of Indebtedness incurred by any Person acquiring all or any portion of such business, Investments, assets or Capital Stock for the purpose of financing such acquisition;

(13)        Indebtedness incurred by the Company or any Subsidiary of the Company in connection with (i) insurance premium financing arrangements, (ii) deferred compensation payable to directors, officers, members of management, employees or consultants of the Company or any Subsidiary of the Company, (iii) contingent obligations arising under indemnity agreements to title insurance companies to cause such title insurers to issue title insurance policies in the ordinary course of business with respect to real property of the Company or any Subsidiary of the Company, (iv) unfunded pension fund and other employee benefit plan obligations and liabilities to the extent they are permitted to remain unfunded under applicable law and (v) obligations, contingent or otherwise, for the payment of money under any non-compete, consulting or similar arrangements entered into with the seller of a business or any other similar arrangements providing for the deferred payment of the purchase price for an Investment or other securities or assets or any other acquisition;

(14)        Indebtedness of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries owed to banks and other financial institutions incurred in connection with Cash Management Obligations and other ordinary banking arrangements to provide treasury services or to manage cash balances of the Company and its Subsidiaries;

(15)         Indebtedness consisting of promissory notes issued by the Company or any Subsidiary of the Company to future, present or former directors, officers, employees or consultants of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries or their respective assigns, estates, heirs, family members, spouses, former spouses, domestic partners or former domestic partners to finance the purchase, redemption or other acquisition, cancellation or retirement of Capital Stock, or options, warrants, equity appreciation rights or other rights to purchase or acquire Capital Stock or other equity-based awards, of the Company or any Subsidiary of the Company;

(16)        Indebtedness of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries to the extent the Net Cash Proceeds from such Indebtedness are, within 60 days after such Indebtedness is incurred:

(i)           used to purchase any or all of the Notes tendered in a Change of Control Offer made as a result of a Change of Control;

(ii)          used to redeem any or all of the Notes pursuant to this Indenture;

(iii)         deposited to effect Legal Defeasance, Covenant Defeasance or satisfaction and discharge of the Notes pursuant to this Indenture; or

(iv)         used to purchase any or all of the Notes tendered in a Mortgage Business Triggering Event Offer made as a result of a Mortgage Business Triggering Event;

(17)        guarantees of Indebtedness of the Company or any Subsidiary of the Company (including, without limitation, Guarantees, if any, of the Notes) by the Company or any Subsidiary of the Company; provided that such Indebtedness was incurred or outstanding on the Issue Date or was permitted (or not prohibited) to be incurred by Section 4.07(b) or any other provision of this definition of “Permitted Indebtedness”;

(18)        Permitted Funding Indebtedness; and

(19)        Permitted Securitization Indebtedness and Indebtedness under Credit Enhancement Agreements or arising out of or to fund purchases of all remaining outstanding asset backed securities of any Securitization Entity for the purpose of relieving the Company or a Subsidiary of the Company of the administrative expense of servicing such Securitization Entity.

For purposes of determining compliance with Section 4.07 and 5.01, and for purposes of the foregoing provisions of the definition of “Permitted Indebtedness” and the definition of “Refinancing Indebtedness,” in the event that an item of Indebtedness (including Indebtedness incurred or outstanding on the Issue Date) or portion thereof meets the criteria of more than one of the categories of Permitted Indebtedness described in clauses (1) through (19) above or is entitled to be incurred pursuant to Section 4.07(b), the Company shall, in its sole discretion, classify (and may later reclassify) such item of Indebtedness (or any portion thereof) in any manner that complies with Section 4.07 (including, without limitation, paragraph (b) thereof) or with the foregoing provisions of the definition of “Permitted Indebtedness” (it being understood, for purposes of clarity, that the Company will be entitled to divide and classify, and subsequently re-divide and reclassify, an item of Indebtedness into one or more of the categories of Indebtedness referred to in this sentence).  In determining compliance with the amount of Indebtedness permitted or which may be incurred under, or classified or reclassified to, clauses (3) and (10) above, the aggregate principal amount of Indebtedness outstanding under any such clause and the amount of Total Assets of the Company and its consolidated Subsidiaries shall be determined after giving effect to the incurrence of the applicable Indebtedness under, or the classification or reclassification of the applicable Indebtedness to such clause, as the case may be, and, if applicable, the receipt and application of the proceeds therefrom (including, without limitation, to repay other Indebtedness and to acquire Investments, Persons, or other securities or assets), and the maximum amount of Indebtedness that the Company and its Subsidiaries may incur pursuant to such clauses (3) and (10) shall not be deemed to be exceeded solely as a result of a subsequent decline in the amount of Total Assets of the Company.  Accrual of interest, accretion or amortization of original issue discount, payment of interest on any Indebtedness in the form of additional Indebtedness with substantially the same terms, and the accrual, accumulation or payment of dividends on Disqualified Capital Stock in the form of additional shares of the same class or series of Disqualified Capital Stock will not be deemed to be an incurrence of Indebtedness or an issuance of Disqualified Capital Stock for purposes of Section 4.07 or Section 5.01 or the foregoing provisions of the definition of “Permitted Indebtedness.”

For purposes of the calculation of the Consolidated Non-Funding Debt to Equity Ratio or the incurrence of any Indebtedness pursuant to clauses (3) and (10) of the definition of “Permitted Indebtedness,” the Company may elect, pursuant to an Officers’ Certificate delivered to the Trustee, to treat all or any portion of the commitment (any such amount elected until revoked as described below, an “Elected Amount”) under any Indebtedness which is to be incurred (or any commitment in respect thereto) as being incurred as of the applicable commitment date and (i) any subsequent incurrence of Indebtedness under such commitment (so long as the total amount under such Indebtedness does not exceed the Elected Amount) shall not be deemed, for purposes of this calculation, to be an incurrence of additional Indebtedness at such subsequent time, (ii) the Company may revoke an election of an Elected Amount pursuant to an Officers’ Certificate delivered to the Trustee and (iii) for purposes of all subsequent calculations of the Consolidated Non-Funding Debt to Equity Ratio, the Elected Amount (if any) shall be deemed to be outstanding, whether or not such amount is actually outstanding, so long as the applicable commitment remains outstanding.

In the event that the Company or a Subsidiary (x) incurs Indebtedness to finance an acquisition or (y) assumes Indebtedness of Persons that are acquired by the Company or any Subsidiary or merged into the Company or a Subsidiary in accordance with the terms of this Indenture, the date of determination of the Consolidated Non-Funding Debt to Equity Ratio or any other ratio, as applicable, or the determination of Total Assets under clauses (3) and (10) of the definition of “Permitted Indebtedness” shall, at the option of the Company, be (a) the date that a definitive agreement for such acquisition (whether by merger, amalgamation, consolidation or other business combination or the acquisition of Capital Stock or otherwise and which may include, for the avoidance of doubt, a transaction that may constitute a Change of Control) is entered into and the Consolidated Non-Funding Debt to Equity Ratio or any other ratio or determination of Total Assets, as applicable, shall be calculated giving pro forma effect to such acquisition and any actions or transactions related thereto (including any incurrence or assumption of Indebtedness and the use of proceeds thereof, the prepayment of any Indebtedness for which an irrevocable notice of prepayment or redemption is delivered) consistent with the definition of the Consolidated Non-Funding Debt to Equity Ratio or any other ratio, as applicable, and, for the avoidance of doubt, (A) if any such ratios or amounts are exceeded as a result of fluctuations in such ratio or amounts at or prior to the consummation of the relevant acquisition, such ratios or amounts will not be deemed to have been exceeded as a result of such fluctuations solely for purposes of determining whether such acquisition and any related transactions are permitted hereunder and (B) such ratios or amounts shall not be tested at the time of consummation of such acquisition or related transactions; provided, further, that if the Company elects to have such determinations occur at the time of entry into such definitive agreement, (i) any such acquisition and related actions or transactions shall be deemed to have occurred on the date the definitive agreement is entered into and to be outstanding thereafter for purposes of calculating any ratios or amounts under this Indenture after the date of such agreement and before the earlier of the date of consummation of such acquisition or the date such agreement is terminated or expires without consummation of such acquisition and (ii) to the extent any agreement is terminated or expires without consummation of such acquisition or (b) the date such Indebtedness is incurred or assumed.

“Permitted Securitization Indebtedness” means Securitization Indebtedness; provided that (i) in connection with any Securitization, any other Permitted Funding Indebtedness used to finance the purchase, origination or pooling of any assets subject to such Securitization is repaid in connection with such Securitization to the extent of the net proceeds received by the Company and its Subsidiaries from the applicable Securitization Entity, and (ii) the excess (determined as of the most recent date for which internal financial statements are available), if any, of (x) the amount of any such Securitization Indebtedness for which the holder thereof has contractual recourse to the Company or its Subsidiaries to satisfy claims with respect to such Securitization Indebtedness (excluding recourse for Standard Recourse Undertakings) over (y) the aggregate (without duplication of amounts) Realizable Value of the assets that secure such Securitization Indebtedness shall not be Permitted Securitization Indebtedness (but shall not be deemed to be a new incurrence of Indebtedness subject to the provisions in Section 4.07 except with respect to, and solely to the extent of, any such excess that exists upon the initial incurrence of such Indebtedness which excess shall be entitled to be incurred pursuant to any other provisions in Section 4.07).

“Person” means an individual, limited or general partnership, limited liability company, corporation, unincorporated organization, trust, association, joint-stock company or joint venture, or a government or any agency or political subdivision thereof or any other entity.

“Preferred Stock” of any Person means any Capital Stock of such Person that has preferential rights over any other Capital Stock of such Person with respect to dividends or redemptions or upon liquidation, dissolution or winding-up.

“Qualified Equity Offering” means any private or public issuance or sale by the Company of its Capital Stock (other than Disqualified Capital Stock) for cash.  Notwithstanding the foregoing, the term “Qualified Equity Offering” shall not include:

(1)          any issuance and sale registered on Form S-4 or Form S-8;

(2)          any issuance and sale to any of the Company’s Subsidiaries or to any employee stock ownership plan or trust established by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries for the benefit of their respective employees; or

(3)          any issuance of Capital Stock in connection with a transaction that constitutes a Change of Control.

“Rating Agencies” means (1) each of Moody’s and S&P; and (2) if either Moody’s or S&P ceases to rate the Notes or fails to make a rating of the Notes publicly available for reasons outside of the Company’s control, a “nationally recognized statistical rating organization” as such term is defined in Section 3(a)(62) of the Exchange Act, selected by the Company as a replacement agency for Moody’s or S&P, or either of them, as the case may be.

“Realizable Value” of an asset means the lesser of (x) if applicable, the face value of such asset and (y) the market value of such asset as determined by the Company in accordance with the agreement governing the applicable Permitted Funding Indebtedness, as the case may be, (or, if such agreement does not contain any related provision, as determined in good faith by management of the Company); provided, however, that the realizable value of any asset described above which an unaffiliated third party has a binding contractual commitment to purchase from the Company or any of its Subsidiaries shall be the minimum price payable to the Company or such Subsidiary for such asset pursuant to such contractual commitment.

“Record Date” means March 15 and September 15 of each year.

“Redemption Date” means a date fixed for redemption of Notes as provided pursuant to this Indenture and the Notes.

“Refinance” means, in respect of any security or Indebtedness, to refinance, extend, renew, replace or refund (including pursuant to any defeasance, covenant defeasance or satisfaction, discharge or similar mechanism), or to issue a security or incur new Indebtedness in exchange or replacement for such security or Indebtedness in whole or in part.  “Refinanced” and “Refinancing” shall have correlative meanings.

“Refinancing Indebtedness” means Indebtedness of the Company or any Subsidiary of the Company that Refinances any other Indebtedness of the Company or any Subsidiary of the Company incurred or outstanding in accordance with, or not in violation of, Section 4.07 (other than Indebtedness incurred or outstanding under clauses (3), (5) through (8), (10), (12) through (15), (18) and (19) of the definition of “Permitted Indebtedness”), including without limitation Indebtedness that Refinances Refinancing Indebtedness; provided, however, that:

(1)          such Refinancing Indebtedness has an aggregate principal amount (or if incurred with original issue discount, an aggregate issue price) that is equal to or less than the sum of the aggregate principal amount (or, if incurred with original issue discount, the aggregate accreted value) of the Indebtedness being Refinanced plus, without duplication, any additional Indebtedness incurred to pay interest or dividends thereon and the amount of any premium (including tender premium), defeasance costs and any fees and expenses incurred in connection with such Refinancing;

(2)          such Refinancing Indebtedness has a Weighted Average Life to Maturity at the time such Refinancing Indebtedness is incurred that is equal to or greater than the Weighted Average Life to Maturity of the Indebtedness being Refinanced at such time; and

(3)          (a) if the final stated maturity of the Indebtedness being Refinanced is earlier than the final stated maturity of the Notes, the Refinancing Indebtedness has a final stated maturity no earlier than the final stated maturity of the Indebtedness being Refinanced or (b) if the final stated maturity of the Indebtedness being Refinanced is on or later than the final stated maturity of the Notes, the Refinancing Indebtedness has a final stated maturity at least 91 days later than the final stated maturity of the Notes;

provided that if such Indebtedness being Refinanced is subordinate to the Notes in right of payment pursuant to the terms of any instrument, contract or agreement evidencing such Indebtedness being Refinanced or under which such Indebtedness shall have been incurred, then such Refinancing Indebtedness shall be subordinate to the Notes at least to the same extent as provided in the documentation governing the Indebtedness being Refinanced.  For purposes of clarity, it is understood and agreed that (x) whether any particular item of Indebtedness is outstanding under any of the foregoing clauses of the definition of “Permitted Indebtedness” shall be determined after giving effect to any classification or reclassification of Indebtedness by the Company pursuant to the paragraph immediately following the definition of “Permitted Indebtedness,” (y) if the terms of any Indebtedness being Refinanced provide that the final stated maturity thereof may be extended, whether at the option of the borrower or otherwise, the final stated maturity of such Indebtedness shall be determined, for purposes of this definition, without giving effect to any such extension unless such extension is in effect at the time of such Refinancing and (z) the conditions set forth in clauses (2) and (3) of this definition shall not be applicable with respect to any Disqualified Capital Stock that does not have a final stated maturity.  For purposes of this definition, if all of the outstanding shares of any class or series of Disqualified Capital Stock by their terms mature or are mandatorily redeemable (in whole and not in part) on a fixed and determinable date, and if such maturity or mandatory redemption date is not subject to or contingent upon the occurrence of any event or condition, then such maturity date or mandatory redemption date, as the case may be, shall be deemed to be the final stated maturity of such Disqualified Capital Stock for purposes of this definition and the definition of “Weighted Average Life to Maturity.”

“Repurchase Agreement” means an agreement between the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, as seller (in any such case, the “Repo Seller”), and one or more banks, other financial institutions or other investors, lenders or other Persons, as buyer (in any such case, the “Repo Buyer”), and any other parties thereto, under which the Company or such Subsidiary or Subsidiaries, as the case may be, are permitted to finance the origination, acquisition or ownership otherwise of loans, Investments, Capital Stock, other securities, servicing rights or any other tangible or intangible property or assets and interests in any of the foregoing (collectively, “Applicable Assets”) by means of repurchase transactions pursuant to which the Repo Seller sells, on one or more occasions, Applicable Assets to the Repo Buyer with an obligation of the Repo Seller to repurchase such Applicable Assets on a date or dates and at a price or prices specified in or pursuant to such agreement, and which may also provide for payment by the Repo Seller of interest, fees, expenses, indemnification payments and other amounts, and any other similar agreement, instrument or arrangement, together with any and all existing and future documents related thereto (including, without limitation, any promissory notes, security agreements, intercreditor agreements, mortgages, other collateral documents and guarantees), in each case as the same may have been or may be amended, restated, amended and restated, supplemented, modified, renewed, extended, refunded, refinanced, restructured or replaced in any manner (whether before, upon or after termination or otherwise) in whole or in part from time to time (including successive amendments, restatements, amendments and restatements, supplements, modifications, renewals, extensions, refundings, refinancings, restructurings or replacements of any of the foregoing), and whether or not with the original or other sellers, buyers, guarantors, agents, lenders, banks, financial institutions, investors or other parties.

“Repurchase Agreement Assets” means any Applicable Assets that are or may be sold by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries pursuant to a Repurchase Agreement.

“Residual Interests” means any residual, subordinated, reserve accounts and retained ownership interest held by the Company or a Subsidiary in any Securitization Entity, Warehouse Facility or MSR Facility, regardless of whether required to appear on the face of the consolidated financial statements in accordance with GAAP.

“Responsible Officer” means, when used with respect to the Trustee, any officer in the corporate trust department of the Trustee, including any vice president, trust officer or any other officer of the Trustee to whom any corporate trust matter is referred because of such officer’s knowledge of and familiarity with the particular subject and shall also mean any officer who shall have direct responsibility for the administration of this Indenture.

“Rithm Fund” means any multi-strategy fund, credit fund, collateralized loan obligations, real estate fund, hedge fund, equity fund, managed account, real estate investment trust, business development company, private equity fund and any other investment vehicles for which the Company, any of its Subsidiaries or any other entity directly or indirectly controlled by the foregoing, provides asset management services from time to time.

“S&P” means S&P Global Ratings, a division of S&P Global Inc. or any successor to the credit ratings business thereof.

“Screened Affiliate” means any Affiliate of a Holder (i) that makes investment decisions independently from such Holder and any other Affiliate of such Holder that is not a Screened Affiliate, (ii) that has in place customary information screens between it and such Holder and any other Affiliate of such Holder that is not a Screened Affiliate and such screens prohibit the sharing of information with respect to the Company or its Subsidiaries, (iii) whose investment policies are not directed by such Holder or any other Affiliate of such Holder that is acting in concert with such Holder in connection with its investment in the Notes, and (iv) whose investment decisions are not influenced by the investment decisions of such Holder or any other Affiliate of such Holder that is acting in concert with such Holders in connection with its investment in the Notes.

“Sculptor Facility” means the Second Amendment to Credit Agreement and Waiver, dated as of December 19, 2023, entered into in connection with the Credit and Guaranty Agreement, dated as of September 25, 2020 (as amended by the First Amendment to Credit Agreement, dated as of December 20, 2022 and as further amended, supplemented or otherwise modified), by and among Sculptor Capital LP, as borrower, Sculptor Capital Advisors LP and Sculptor Capital Advisors II LP, as a guarantors, the lenders from time to time party thereto, and Delaware Life Insurance Company, as administrative agent, as may have been or may be amended, restated, amended and restated, supplemented, modified, renewed, extended, refunded, refinanced, restructured or replaced in any manner (whether before, upon or after termination or otherwise) in whole or in part from time to time (including successive amendments, restatements, amendments and restatements, supplements, modifications, renewals, extensions, refundings, refinancings, restructurings or replacements of any of the foregoing), and whether or not with the original or other borrowers, guarantors, agents, lenders, banks, financial institutions, investors or other parties.

“SEC” means the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission or any successor thereto.

“Secured Indebtedness” means any Indebtedness of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries secured by a Lien upon the property of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries.  For purposes of clarity, it is understood and agreed that Indebtedness of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries under a Repurchase Agreement constitutes Secured Indebtedness.

“Securities Act” means the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.

“Securitization” means a public or private transfer, sale or financing of servicing advances, MSRs, mortgage loans, mortgage-backed securities, installment contracts, other loans, accounts receivable, real estate assets, mortgage receivables and any other assets capable of being securitized (collectively, “Securitization Assets”) by which the Company or any of its Subsidiaries directly or indirectly securitizes a pool of specified Securitization Assets or incurs Non-Recourse Indebtedness secured by specified Securitization Assets, including any such transaction involving the sale of specified Securitization Assets to a Securitization Entity.

“Securitization Asset” has the meaning set forth in the definition of “Securitization.”

“Securitization Entity” means (i) any Person established for the purpose of issuing asset-backed or mortgage-backed or mortgage pass-through securities of any kind (including collateralized mortgage obligations and net interest margin securities) or other similar securities; (ii) any special-purpose Subsidiary established for the purpose of selling, depositing or contributing Securitization Assets into a Person described in clause (i) or for the purpose of holding Capital Stock of, or securities issued by, any related Securitization Entity, regardless of whether such special-purpose Subsidiary is an issuer of securities; provided that such special-purpose Subsidiary described in this clause (ii) is not an obligor with respect to any Indebtedness of the Company or any Guarantor; (iii) any Person established for the purpose of holding Securitization Assets and issuing Non-Recourse Indebtedness secured by such Securitization Assets; (iv) any special-purpose Subsidiary formed exclusively for the purpose of satisfying the requirements of Credit Enhancement Agreements (including without limitation, any Subsidiary that is established for the purpose of owning another Securitization Entity and pledging the equity of that other Securitization Entity as security for the Indebtedness of such other Securitization Entity) and regardless of whether such Subsidiary is an issuer of securities, provided that such special-purpose Subsidiary is not an obligor with respect to any Indebtedness of the Company or any Guarantor other than under Credit Enhancement Agreements; and (v) any other Subsidiary which is established for the purpose of (x) acting as sponsor for and organizing and initiating Securitizations or (y) facilitating or entering into a Securitization, in each case that engages in activities reasonably related or incidental thereto and that is not an obligor or guarantor with respect to any Indebtedness of the Company.  Whether or not a Person is a Securitization Entity shall be determined in good faith by the Company.

“Securitization Indebtedness” means (i) Indebtedness of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries incurred pursuant to on-balance sheet Securitizations treated as financings and (ii) any Indebtedness consisting of advances made to the Company or any of its Subsidiaries based upon bonds, debentures, notes, certificates or other securities issued by a Securitization Entity pursuant to a Securitization and acquired or retained by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries.

 “Securitization Repurchase Obligation” means any obligation of a seller of Securitization Assets in a Securitization to repurchase Securitization Assets, or to make a payment in respect thereof, arising as a result of a breach of a representation, warranty or covenant or otherwise, including, without limitation, as a result of a receivable or portion thereof becoming subject to any asserted defense, dispute, offset or counterclaim of any kind as a result of any action taken by, any failure to take action by or any other event relating to the seller.

“Senior Officer” means, with respect to any Person, the Chief Executive Officer, the President, the Chief Operating Officer, the Chief Investment Officer, the Chief Financial Officer, the Chief Accounting Officer or any Executive Vice President (a) of such Person or (b) if such Person is a limited or general partnership or limited liability company that does not have officers, of any direct or indirect general partner or managing member of such Person.

“Short Derivative Instrument” means a Derivative Instrument (i) the value of which generally decreases, and/or the payment or delivery obligations under which generally increase, with positive changes to the Performance References and/or (ii) the value of which generally increases, and/or the payment or delivery obligations under which generally decrease, with negative changes to the Performance References.

“Significant Subsidiary” means any Subsidiary that would be a “significant subsidiary” as defined in Article 1, Rule 1-02(w)(1) or (2) of Regulation S-X, promulgated pursuant to the Securities Act, as such regulation is in effect on the Issue Date.

“Similar Business” means (a) any businesses, services or activities engaged in by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries on the Issue Date and (b) any businesses, services and activities engaged in by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries that are related, complementary, incidental, ancillary or similar to any of the foregoing or are extensions, expansions or developments of any thereof.

“Standard Recourse Undertakings” means, with respect to any Securitization or Indebtedness, (a) such representations, warranties, covenants and indemnities which are customarily (as determined by the Company) made by sellers of financial assets or other Securitization Assets or an Affiliate of such sellers, including without limitation, Securitization Repurchase Obligations, and (b) such customary (as determined by the Company) carve-out or other matters for which the Company or any of its Subsidiaries acts as an indemnitor or guarantor in connection with any such Securitization or Indebtedness, such as fraud, misappropriation and misapplication of funds, misrepresentation, criminal acts, repurchase obligations for breach of representations or warranties, environmental indemnities, Insolvency Events, misstatement or omission with respect to transaction offering documents or marketing materials, indemnification of transaction parties, non-approved transfers, “keep-well” or similar arrangements and other similar undertakings which the Company determines in good faith to constitute standard undertakings customarily provided by sellers of financial assets or an Affiliate of such sellers or consistent with past practice of the Company.

“Subsidiary” means, with respect to any Person and at any time, any other Person if (a) more than 50% of the total combined voting power of all of such other Person’s outstanding Voting Stock is at the time owned, directly or indirectly, by such referent Person or one or more other Subsidiaries of such referent Person or (b) the management and policies of such other Person are otherwise controlled (as determined in good faith by such referent Person), directly or indirectly, by such referent Person and/or one or more other Subsidiary of such referent Person.  As used in the immediately preceding sentence, the term “controlled” shall have the meaning set forth in the definition of “Affiliate.”  For purposes of clarity, it is understood and agreed that, anything in this Indenture to the contrary notwithstanding, (i) variable interest entities (within the meaning of GAAP) shall not be deemed to be Subsidiaries of any Person and (ii) the term “Subsidiary” shall not include (1) any Rithm Fund or (2) any entity controlled by any Rithm Fund.

 “Total Assets” means the total assets of the Company and its Subsidiaries determined on a consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP as shown on the most recent consolidated balance sheet of the Company that is internally available, determined on a pro forma basis in a manner consistent with the pro forma basis in the definition of Consolidated Non-Funding Debt to Equity Ratio.  Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, for purposes of calculating the Total Assets of the Company and its Subsidiaries following a Mortgage Business Capital Raise, the assets of any Mortgage Business Entity included in any such calculation shall be limited to the direct and indirect retained equity interest of the Company and its Subsidiaries (other than any other Mortgage Business Entity) in such Mortgage Business Entity.

“Total Unencumbered Assets” as of any date of determination means the sum of:

(1)          those Undepreciated Real Estate Assets not securing any portion of Secured Indebtedness; and

(2)          all other assets (but excluding goodwill) of the Company and its Subsidiaries not securing any portion of Secured Indebtedness,

determined on a consolidated basis for the Company and its Subsidiaries in accordance with GAAP.  For purposes of this definition, Total Unencumbered Assets shall include (i) Residual Interests, except to the extent such Residual Interests (and without regard to the underlying collateral in respect thereof) are pledged to secure Indebtedness of the Company or a Subsidiary and, for the avoidance of doubt, Liens on the Capital Stock of Subsidiaries of the Company required by the terms of any Credit Facility shall be disregarded for purposes of this definition and neither the Capital Stock of such Subsidiaries nor the assets held by such Subsidiaries shall be deemed to secure any portion of Secured Indebtedness solely as a result of such Liens and (ii) assets equal to (A) the total assets of the Company and its Subsidiaries determined on a consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP securing Secured Indebtedness that is Acquired Indebtedness (or any Refinancing Indebtedness in respect thereof) minus (B) the then outstanding aggregate principal amount of such Secured Indebtedness that is Acquired Indebtedness (or any Refinancing Indebtedness in respect thereof); provided that the difference may not be less than zero.  Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, for purposes of calculating the Total Unencumbered Assets of the Company and its Subsidiaries, (x) following a Mortgage Business Capital Raise, the assets of any Mortgage Business Entity included in any such calculation shall be limited to the direct and indirect retained equity interest of the Company and its Subsidiaries (other than any other Mortgage Business Entity) in such Mortgage Business Entity and (y) the Sculptor Facility shall be deemed to be Acquired Indebtedness.

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

“Undepreciated Real Estate Assets” means, as of any date, the cost (being the original cost to the Company or any of its Subsidiaries plus capital improvements) of real estate assets of the Company and its Subsidiaries on such date, before depreciation and amortization of such real estate assets, determined on a consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP.  For the avoidance of doubt, it is understood and agreed that, anything in the foregoing sentence to the contrary notwithstanding, the cost of real estate assets shall include any portion of such cost that may be allocated to intangible assets under GAAP.

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

“Unsecured Indebtedness” means Non-Funding Indebtedness of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries that is not Secured Indebtedness, determined on a consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP.  Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, for purposes of determining compliance with Section 4.08, following a Mortgage Business Capital Raise, the assets and Unsecured Indebtedness of any Mortgage Business Entity included in any such calculation shall be limited to the direct and indirect retained equity interest of the Company and its Subsidiaries (other than any other Mortgage Business Entity) in such Mortgage Business Entity.

“U.S. Government Obligations” means securities that are (a) direct obligations of the United States of America for the timely payment of which its full faith and credit is pledged or (b) obligations of a Person controlled or supervised by and acting as an agency or instrumentality of the United States of America the timely payment of which is unconditionally guaranteed as a full faith and credit obligation of the United States of America, which, in either case, are not callable or redeemable at the option of the issuer thereof, and shall also include a depositary receipt issued by a bank (as defined in Section 3(a)(2) of the Securities Act), as custodian with respect to any such U.S. Government Obligations or a specific payment of principal of or interest on any such U.S. Government Obligations held by such custodian for the account of the holder of such depositary receipt; provided that (except as required by law) such custodian is not authorized to make any deduction from the amount payable to the holder of such depositary receipt from any amount received by the custodian in respect of the U.S. Government Obligations or the specific payment of principal of or interest on the U.S. Government Obligations evidenced by such depositary receipt.

“U.S. Legal Tender” means such coin or currency of the United States of America as at the time of payment shall be legal tender for the payment of public and private debts.

“Voting Stock” means, with respect to any Person, all classes and series of Capital Stock of such Person the holders of which are ordinarily, in the absence of contingencies, entitled to vote in the election of the directors, managers or trustees (or other persons performing similar functions), as the case may be, of such Person.

“Warehouse Facility” means any financing arrangement of any kind, including, but not limited to, financing arrangements in the form of repurchase facilities, loan agreements, note issuance facilities and commercial paper facilities (excluding in all cases, any Securitization), with a financial institution or other lender or purchaser exclusively to (i) finance or refinance the purchase, investment in or funding by the Company or a Subsidiary of the Company of, provide funding to the Company or a Subsidiary of the Company through the transfer of, loans, mortgage related securities and other mortgage-related receivables purchased or invested in by the Company or any Subsidiary of the Company in the ordinary course of business, (ii) finance or refinance the purchase, investment in or funding by the Company or a Subsidiary of the Company of, provide funding to the Company or a Subsidiary of the Company through the transfer of, loans, consumer loan-related securities and other consumer loan-related receivables purchased or invested in by the Company or any Subsidiary of the Company in the ordinary course of business, (iii) finance the funding of or refinance servicing advances; or (iv) finance or refinance the carrying of real property and other mortgage-related receivables purchased or invested in by the Company or any Subsidiary of the Company; provided that such purchase, investment, pooling, funding, refinancing and carrying is in the ordinary course of business.

“Weighted Average Life to Maturity” means, when applied to any Indebtedness or Disqualified Capital Stock as of any date of determination, the number of years obtained by dividing:  (1) the sum of the products obtained by multiplying (i) the amount of each then remaining scheduled principal payment of such Indebtedness or scheduled redemption payment or similar scheduled payment with respect to such Disqualified Capital Stock, including payment at final stated maturity, by (ii) the number of years (calculated to the nearest one-twelfth) from the date of determination to the date of such payment by (2) the sum of all such payments.  For purposes of clause (1) of the immediately preceding sentence, a payment shall be deemed to be “scheduled” only if such payment is mandatory and not subject to or contingent upon the occurrence of any event or condition and the term “final stated maturity,” as applied to any Disqualified Capital Stock, shall have the meaning set forth in the final sentence of the definition of “Refinancing Indebtedness.”

“Wholly Owned Subsidiary” of any Person means any Subsidiary of such Person of which all the outstanding Voting Stock of such Subsidiary (other than directors’ qualifying shares and other than an immaterial amount of Voting Stock required to be owned by other Persons pursuant to applicable law or regulation) is owned by such Person and/or one or more Wholly Owned Subsidiaries of such Person.

In this Indenture (a) references to sections of, or rules or regulations under, the Securities Act, the Exchange Act or the TIA shall be deemed to include substitute, replacement or successor sections, rules or regulations, as the case may be, promulgated by the SEC from time to time and (b) references to accounting standards, codifications or pronouncements shall be deemed to include any substitute, replacement or successor accounting standards, codifications or pronouncements promulgated by the FASB or any other recognized accounting authority in the United States of America, except, in each case, as otherwise set forth in the definitions of Change of Control, GAAP and Significant Subsidiary or any other provision of this Indenture which expressly provides that a law, rule or regulation, or any accounting standard, codification or pronouncement, shall be the law, rule, regulation, standard, codification or pronouncement, as applicable, as in effect on the Issue Date or other specified date and except as the context otherwise requires.

SECTION 1.02     Other Definitions.

SECTION 1.03     Inapplicability of Trust Indenture Act.

This Indenture is not, and will not be, qualified under, subject to, or incorporate, restate or make reference to, any provisions of the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, as amended, as in effect on the Issue Date (the “TIA”), and the provisions of the TIA that would otherwise be made part of this Indenture are not, and will not be, included in this Indenture.

SECTION 1.04     Rules of Construction.

Unless otherwise expressly stated or the context otherwise requires:

(1)          a term has the meaning assigned to it;

(2)          an accounting term not otherwise defined has the meaning assigned to it in accordance with GAAP;

(3)          “or” is not exclusive;

(4)          the words “including,” “includes” and similar words shall be deemed to be followed by “without limitation”;

(5)          “will” shall be interpreted to express a command;

(6)          words in the singular include the plural and words in the plural include the singular;

(7)          provisions apply to successive events and transactions;

(8)          “herein,” “hereof” and other words of similar import refer to this Indenture as a whole and not to any particular Article, Section, Appendix, Exhibit, clause or other subdivision;

(9)          Unsecured Indebtedness shall not be deemed to be subordinate or junior to secured Indebtedness merely by virtue of its nature as unsecured Indebtedness; and

(10)          “$” and “U.S. dollars” each refer to U.S. Legal Tender.

SECTION 2.01     Amount of Notes Unlimited.

The aggregate principal amount of Notes which may be authenticated and delivered under this Indenture is unlimited and the Company may issue an unlimited principal amount of Additional Notes under this Indenture having identical terms as the Notes initially issued under this Indenture on the Issue Date (other than issue date, and, if applicable, issue price, the first Interest Payment Date and the date from which interest will accrue); provided that if any Additional Notes are not fungible with the Notes initially issued on the Issue Date for U.S. federal income tax purposes, such Additional Notes will have separate CUSIP and ISIN numbers from the Notes initially issued on the Issue Date.  The Company may issue Additional Notes in compliance with the terms of this Indenture, including the provisions of Section 4.07.  The Notes initially issued on the Issue Date, any Additional Notes subsequently issued under this Indenture that may be issued will be treated as a single class for all purposes under this Indenture.

SECTION 2.02     Form and Dating; Denominations.

The Notes (including Global Notes) and the Trustee’s certificate of authentication thereon shall be substantially in the form of Exhibit A hereto, which is hereby incorporated in and expressly made a part of this Indenture.  The Notes shall bear such legends as may be required by Appendix A hereto (which is incorporated in and expressly made a part of this Indenture) and may have such other notations, legends or endorsements required by law, stock exchange rule, agreements to which the Company is subject, if any, or usage.  The Company shall approve the forms of the Notes and any notation, legend or endorsement on them.  Each Note shall be dated the date of its authentication.  The Notes shall be issuable only in registered form without coupons in denominations of $2,000 and integral multiples of $1,000 in excess thereof.

Unless otherwise provided in an Officers’ Certificate, Notes shall be issued initially in the form of one or more Global Notes in registered form without coupons, which shall be deposited with the Note Custodian, duly executed by the Company and authenticated by the Trustee as hereinafter provided, and shall bear the applicable legends required by Appendix A.  The aggregate principal amount of a Global Note may from time to time be increased or decreased by adjustments made on the records of the Registrar and the Note Custodian, and on the “Schedule of Increases or Decreases in Global Note” attached to such Global Note.

Notes may be issued in the form of Certificated Notes in registered form without coupons and that do not bear a Global Note Legend, duly executed by the Company and authenticated by the Trustee as hereinafter provided, in exchange for interests in Global Notes only in the circumstances and manner set forth in Section 2.15 and in compliance with the provisions, if applicable, of Appendix A.

SECTION 2.03     Execution and Authentication.

An Officer shall sign the Notes for the Company by manual, facsimile or electronic image scan (e.g., pdf) signature.

If an Officer whose signature is on a Note was an Officer at the time of such execution but no longer holds that office at the time the Trustee authenticates the Note, the Note shall nevertheless be valid.

The Trustee shall authenticate Notes for original issue on the Issue Date in the aggregate principal amount of $775,000,000 (the “Initial Notes”) upon receipt by the Trustee of a written order of the Company in the form of an Officers’ Certificate.  In addition, the Trustee shall from time to time thereafter authenticate Additional Notes in unlimited amount (so long as not otherwise prohibited by the terms of this Indenture, including without limitation, Section 4.07) for original issue upon receipt by the Trustee of a written order of the Company in the form of an Officers’ Certificate.

At any time and from time to time after the execution and delivery of this Indenture, the Company may deliver Notes executed by the Company to the Trustee for authentication, together with a written order of the Company in the form of an Officers’ Certificate for the authentication and delivery of such Notes, and the Trustee in accordance with such written order of the Company shall authenticate and deliver such Notes.

A Note shall not be valid until an authorized signatory of the Trustee manually signs the certificate of authentication on the Note.  The signature shall be conclusive evidence that the Note has been authenticated under this Indenture.

The Trustee may appoint an authenticating agent reasonably acceptable to the Company to authenticate the Notes.  Unless limited by the terms of such appointment, an authenticating agent may authenticate Notes whenever the Trustee may do so.  Each reference in this Indenture to authentication by the Trustee includes authentication by such authenticating agent.  An authenticating agent has the same rights as an Agent to deal with the Company and Affiliates of the Company.

SECTION 2.04     Registrar and Paying Agent.

The Company shall maintain an office or agency in the United States of America where (a) Notes may be presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or for exchange (the “Registrar”), (b) Notes may be presented or surrendered for payment (the “Paying Agent”) and (c) notices and demands to or upon the Company in respect of the Notes and this Indenture may be served.  The Company may also from time to time designate (without notice to Holders) one or more other offices or agencies where the Notes may be presented or surrendered for any or all such purposes and where such notices and demands may be served and may from time to time rescind or change such designations; provided, however, that no such designation, rescission or change shall relieve the Company of its obligation to maintain an office or agency in the United States of America for such purposes.  The Company may change or remove any Paying Agent, Registrar or co-Registrar without notice to any Holder so long as there is a Paying Agent and Registrar in United States of America.  The Company will give prompt written notice to the Trustee of any such designation, rescission, removal or change referred to in the two immediately preceding sentences.  The Company or any of its Domestic Subsidiaries may act as Registrar, co-Registrar or Paying Agent.  The Registrar shall keep a register of the Notes and of their transfer and exchange.  The Company, upon written notice to the Trustee but without notice to Holders, may appoint one or more co-Registrars and one or more additional paying agents and may rescind the appointment of and change any such co-Registrars or additional paying agents.  The term “Paying Agent” includes any additional paying agent.

The Company shall enter into an appropriate agency agreement with any Agent not a party to this Indenture, which agreement shall implement the provisions of this Indenture that relate to such Agent.  The Company shall notify the Trustee in writing of the name and address of any such Agent.  If the Company fails to maintain a Registrar or Paying Agent, the Trustee shall act as such.

The Company hereby appoints the Trustee, acting through its Corporate Trust Office in the United States of America, as initial Paying Agent and Registrar for the Notes.

SECTION 2.05     Paying Agent To Hold Money in Trust.

On or prior to 11:00 a.m.  (New York City time) on each due date of principal of, or premium, if any, or interest on any Note, the Company shall deposit with the Paying Agent a sum sufficient to pay such principal, premium, if any, and interest so becoming due.  The Company shall require each Paying Agent (other than the Trustee) to agree in writing that the Paying Agent shall hold in trust for the benefit of Holders or the Trustee all money held by the Paying Agent for the payment of principal of, premium, if any, or interest on the Notes and shall notify the Trustee in writing of any default by the Company in making any such payment.  If the Company or a Domestic Subsidiary acts as Paying Agent, it shall segregate the money held by it as Paying Agent and hold it as a separate trust fund.  The Company at any time may require a Paying Agent to pay all money held by it to the Trustee and to account for any funds disbursed by the Paying Agent.  Upon complying with this Section 2.05, the Paying Agent shall have no further liability for the money delivered to the Trustee.

SECTION 2.06     Holder Lists.

The Trustee shall preserve in as current a form as is reasonably practicable the most recent list available to it of the names and addresses of Holders.  If the Trustee is not the Registrar, the Company shall furnish to the Trustee, in writing at least five Business Days before each Interest Payment Date and at such other times as the Trustee may reasonably request in writing, a list in such form and as of such date as the Trustee may reasonably require of the names and addresses of Holders.

SECTION 2.07     Transfer and Exchange.

Subject to Section 2.15 and, if applicable, the provisions of Appendix A, when Notes are presented to the Registrar or a co-Registrar with a request to register the transfer of such Notes or to exchange such Notes for an equal principal amount of Notes of other authorized denominations, the Registrar or co-Registrar shall register the transfer or make the exchange as requested if its requirements and any applicable requirements under Appendix A for such transaction are met; provided, however, that the Notes surrendered for transfer or exchange shall be duly endorsed or accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Company and the Registrar or co-Registrar, duly executed by the Holder thereof or his or her attorney duly authorized in writing.  The Company, the Registrar, any co-Registrar and the Trustee may require a Holder to furnish such endorsements and transfer documents as any of them may reasonably request in connection with the registration of transfer or exchange of Notes, in addition to any documents that otherwise are required or may be required as provided in this Indenture (including Exhibit A hereto).  A Note may not be transferred or exchanged unless such Note shall have been surrendered at an office or agency maintained by the Company for such purpose.  To permit registrations of transfers and exchanges, the Company shall execute and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver Notes at the Registrar’s or co-Registrar’s request.  No service charge shall be imposed by the Company, the Trustee or any Registrar, Paying Agent or co-Registrar for any registration of transfer or exchange (other than pursuant to Section 2.08), but the Company, the Registrar or any co-Registrar may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any transfer tax or similar governmental charge payable in connection therewith.

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

To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, prior to the due presentment of any Note for registration of transfer or exchange, the Company, the Trustee and any Agent shall deem and treat the Person in whose name such Note is registered as the absolute owner of such Note for the purpose of receiving payment of principal, premium, if any, and (subject to the Record Date provisions of the Notes) interest on such Notes and for all other purposes, and none of the Company, the Trustee or any Agent shall be affected or incur any liability by notice to the contrary.

The Registrar or any co-Registrar shall not be required to register the transfer of or exchange any Note (i) during a period beginning at the opening of business 15 days before the mailing (or, if not mailed, other transmittal) of a notice of redemption of Notes and ending at the close of business on the day of such mailing (or other transmittal), (ii) selected for redemption in whole or in part pursuant to Article 3, except the unredeemed portion of any Note being redeemed in part, or (iii) tendered for repurchase pursuant to a Change of Control Offer or Mortgage Business Triggering Event Offer and not validly withdrawn.

Any Holder of a beneficial interest in a Global Note shall, by acceptance of such beneficial interest, agree that transfers of beneficial interests in such Global Notes may be effected only through a book-entry system maintained by the Depositary for such Global Note (or its agent), and that ownership of a beneficial interest in the Note shall be required to be reflected in a book-entry system.

SECTION 2.08     Replacement Notes.

If a mutilated Note is surrendered to the Trustee or if the Holder of a Note claims that the Note has been lost, destroyed or stolen, and if the Company and the Trustee receive evidence to their satisfaction of the ownership and loss, destruction or theft of such Note, the Company shall issue and the Trustee shall authenticate a replacement Note if the Trustee’s requirements are met and subject to satisfaction of any additional requirements, if applicable, as may be set forth in Appendix A hereto.  Such Holder must provide an indemnity bond or other indemnity, sufficient in the judgment of both the Company and the Trustee to protect the Company, the Trustee and any Agent from any loss which any of them may suffer if a Note is replaced.  The Company may charge such Holder for the reasonable expenses of the Company, the Trustee and any Agent in replacing a Note pursuant to this Section 2.08, including reasonable fees and expenses of counsel to the Company, the Trustee or any Agent, as well as any transfer tax or similar governmental charge payable in connection therewith.

Every replacement Note is an additional obligation of the Company.

To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, the provisions of this Section 2.08 shall be exclusive and shall preclude all other rights and remedies with respect to the replacement or payment of mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Notes.

SECTION 2.09     Outstanding Notes.

Notes outstanding at any time are all the Notes that have been authenticated by the Trustee except those cancelled by it, those delivered to it for cancellation, those reductions and increases in the interests in Global Notes effected by the Trustee, the Registrar or the Note Custodian in accordance with the provisions hereof, and those described in this Section as not outstanding.  A Note does not cease to be outstanding because the Company or any of its Affiliates holds the Note (subject to the provisions of Section 2.10).

If a Note is replaced pursuant to Section 2.08 (other than a mutilated Note surrendered for replacement), it ceases to be outstanding unless a Responsible Officer of the Trustee receives proof satisfactory to it that the replaced Note is held by a protected purchaser, as such term is defined in Section 8-303 of the Uniform Commercial Code as in effect in the State of New York.  A mutilated Note ceases to be outstanding upon surrender of such Note and replacement thereof pursuant to Section 2.08.  If the principal amount of any Note is considered paid under Section 4.01, it ceases to be outstanding and interest ceases to accrue.  If on any Redemption Date, maturity date, Change of Control Payment Date, Mortgage Business Triggering Event Payment Date or any other date on which a payment of principal of a Note is due, the Trustee or Paying Agent (other than the Company or an Affiliate thereof) holds U.S. Legal Tender in an amount sufficient to pay all of the principal, premium, if any, and interest due on such Note payable on that date, then on and after that date such Note ceases to be outstanding and interest on it ceases to accrue.

SECTION 2.10     Treasury Notes.

In determining whether the Holders of the required principal amount of Notes have concurred in any direction, waiver or consent, Notes owned by the Company or any of its Affiliates shall be disregarded, except that, for the purposes of determining whether the Trustee shall be protected in conclusively relying on any such direction, waiver or consent, only Notes that a Responsible Officer of the Trustee actually knows are so owned shall be disregarded.

SECTION 2.11     Temporary Notes.

Until definitive Notes are ready for delivery, the Company may prepare and the Trustee shall authenticate temporary Notes.  Temporary Notes shall be substantially in the form of definitive Notes but may have variations that the Company considers appropriate for temporary Notes.  Without unreasonable delay, the Company shall prepare and the Trustee shall authenticate definitive Notes in exchange for temporary Notes.  Until such exchange, Holders of temporary Notes shall be entitled to the same rights, benefits and privileges as Holders of definitive Notes.  Anything herein to the contrary notwithstanding, the Notes may be in typewritten form.

SECTION 2.12     Cancellation.

The Company at any time may deliver Notes to the Trustee for cancellation.  The Registrar, any co-Registrar and the Paying Agent shall forward to the Trustee any Notes surrendered to them for registration of transfer, exchange or payment.  The Trustee, at the written direction of the Company, and no one else, shall cancel and dispose of all Notes surrendered for registration of transfer, exchange, payment or cancellation in accordance with its then customary procedures and deliver a certificate of such disposal to the Company upon its written request therefor unless the Company directs the Trustee to deliver canceled Notes to the Company.  The Company may not issue new Notes to replace Notes it has redeemed, paid or delivered to the Trustee for cancellation.  If the Company or any Affiliate shall acquire any of the Notes, such acquisition shall not operate as a redemption or satisfaction of the Indebtedness represented by such Notes unless and until the same are surrendered to the Trustee for cancellation pursuant to this Section 2.12.

SECTION 2.13     Defaulted Interest.

If the Company defaults in a payment of interest on the Notes, the Company shall pay the defaulted interest, plus, to the extent lawful, any interest payable on the defaulted interest at the rate provided in the last paragraph of Section 4.01, in any lawful manner.  The Company may pay the defaulted interest to the Persons who are Holders on a subsequent special record date.  The Company shall fix or cause to be fixed any such special record date and the related payment date and shall promptly mail or cause the Trustee (at the request and expense of the Company) to mail (or, in the case of Global Notes, otherwise transmit in accordance with the Depositary’s applicable procedures) to each Holder, with a copy to the Trustee (if mailed or transmitted by the Company), a notice that states the special record date, the payment date and the amount of defaulted interest to be paid.

SECTION 2.14     CUSIP and ISIN Numbers.

The Company in issuing the Notes may use CUSIP and/or ISIN numbers, and if so, the Trustee shall use the CUSIP and/or ISIN numbers in notices of redemption, repurchase, Change of Control Offers, Mortgage Business Triggering Event Offers or exchanges and on checks or advice of payment as a convenience to Holders; provided, however, that neither the Company nor the Trustee shall have any responsibility for any defect in the CUSIP or ISIN numbers that appear on any Note or any such notice, check or advice of payment, and any such notice or advice of payment may state that no representation is made as to the correctness or accuracy of such CUSIP or ISIN numbers and that reliance may be placed only on the other identification numbers printed on the Notes, and no such redemption, repurchase, Change of Control Offer, Mortgage Business Triggering Event Offer, exchange, advice or payment shall be affected by any defect in or omission of any such numbers.  The Company shall promptly notify the Trustee in writing of any change in CUSIP numbers.

SECTION 2.15     Book-Entry Provisions for Global Notes.

(a)          Unless otherwise specified in an Officers’ Certificate or as provided in 2.15(b) below, the Global Notes shall (i) be registered in the name of the Depositary or a nominee of such Depositary, (ii) be delivered to the Note Custodian for such Depositary and (iii) bear such legends as may be required by Appendix A hereto.

Members of, or participants in, the Depositary (“Participants”) shall have no rights under this Indenture with respect to any Global Note held on their behalf by the Depositary or the Note Custodian, or under the Global Notes, and the Depositary shall be treated by the Company, the Trustee and any Agent as the absolute owner of the Global Note for all purposes whatsoever.  Notwithstanding the foregoing, nothing herein shall prevent the Company or the Trustee from giving effect to any written certification, proxy or other authorization furnished by the Depositary or impair, as between the Depositary and its Participants, the operation of Depositary’s customary procedures governing the exercise of the rights of a Holder or beneficial owner of any Note.

(b)          Transfers of Global Notes 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 the Global Notes may be exchanged for Certificated Notes only as follows and subject, if applicable, to the further requirements set forth in this Indenture, including Appendix A hereto.  Certificated Notes shall be transferred to all beneficial owners in exchange for their beneficial interests in Global Notes if (1) the Depositary notifies the Company that the Depositary is unwilling or unable to continue as depositary for the Global Notes or ceases to be a clearing agency registered under the Exchange Act (if such registration is required by applicable law) and the Company does not appoint a successor Depositary for the Notes within 90 days after the Company receives such notification or becomes aware that the Depositary has ceased to be so registered, as the case may be, (2) the Company, at its option and subject to the Depositary’s procedures, notifies the Trustee in writing that the Company elects to cause the issuance of Certificated Notes or (3) there shall have occurred and be continuing an Event of Default.  The Trustee and the Registrar shall have no obligation to effect an exchange of Global Notes for Certificated Notes pursuant to clause (3) of the immediately preceding sentence until receipt of a written request from the Company.  In all cases, Certificated Notes delivered in exchange for any Global Note or beneficial interests therein will be registered in the names, and issued in any authorized denominations, requested by or on behalf of the Depositary (in accordance with its customary procedures) and, if applicable, will bear the applicable restrictive legends referred to in Appendix A hereto unless the Company determines otherwise or such legend shall have been removed as provided in Appendix A hereto, and in any event subject, if applicable, to the requirements set forth in Appendix A hereto.

SECTION 3.01     Notices to Trustee.

If the Company elects to redeem Notes pursuant to Section 5 of the Notes, it shall notify the Trustee in writing of the Redemption Date, the principal amount of Notes to be redeemed and whether the redemption is being made pursuant to paragraph (a), (b) or (c) of Section 5 of the Notes.

The Company shall give each notice to the Trustee provided for in this Section 3.01 at least five days before notice of redemption is required to be mailed (or otherwise transmitted) to Holders pursuant to Section 3.03 (unless a shorter notice shall be agreed to by the Trustee in writing); provided that such notice may be revoked by the Company by written notice to the Trustee at any time prior to the date specified by the Company for the Trustee to forward notice of such redemption to Holders as provided in Section 3.03 or, if the Company does not request the Trustee to forward notice of such redemption to Holders, at any time prior to the Company’s giving of the notice of such redemption to Holders pursuant to Section 3.03.

SECTION 3.02     Selection of Notes To Be Redeemed.

If less than all the Notes are to be redeemed at any time, selection of the Notes for redemption will be made by the Trustee pro rata or by lot; provided that, in the case of Notes represented by one or more Global Notes, interests in such Global Notes will be selected for redemption by the Depositary in accordance with its applicable procedures therefor.  Notes shall be redeemed in a minimum principal amount of $1,000 and integral multiples of $1,000 in excess thereof; provided that the remaining principal amount of any Note redeemed in part shall be $2,000 or an integral multiple of $1,000 in excess thereof.  Provisions of this Indenture that apply to Notes called for redemption also apply to portions of Notes called for redemption.  The Trustee shall notify the Company promptly of the Notes or portions of Notes to be redeemed.

SECTION 3.03     Notice of Redemption.

Subject to the provisions of Section 3.05, notice of any redemption of the Notes will be delivered electronically or mailed by the Company by first-class mail, or, if the Notes are represented by one or more Global Notes and if the Depositary’s applicable procedures so provide, transmitted in accordance with the Depositary’s applicable procedures therefor, at least 10 but not more than 60 days before the applicable Redemption Date to each Holder of Notes (with a copy to the Trustee) to be redeemed at its registered address (or at such other address or in such other manner as may be provided by the Depositary’s applicable procedures).  Each notice for redemption shall identify the Notes (including the CUSIP number) to be redeemed and include statements to substantially the following effect (with such changes therein or additions thereto as the Company in its sole discretion may deem appropriate):

(1)          the Redemption Date;

(2)          the redemption price (or, if not then ascertainable at the time, a general statement regarding how the redemption price will be calculated) and that accrued and unpaid interest, if any, on the Notes to be redeemed shall be paid to, but excluding, the applicable Redemption Date (subject to the right of the Holders of record on the relevant Record Date to receive interest due on any Interest Payment Date falling on or prior to such Redemption Date);

(3)          the name and address of the Paying Agent;

(4)          that the Notes called for redemption must be surrendered to the Paying Agent to collect the redemption price plus accrued interest, if any;

(5)          if less than all the outstanding Notes are to be redeemed, the identification and principal amounts of the particular Notes to be redeemed and stating that on and after the Redemption Date, upon surrender of that Note, the Holder will receive, without charge, a new Note or Notes of authorized denominations for the principal amount of the Note remaining unredeemed (or, in the case of Global Notes, appropriate adjustments of the principal amount of a Global Note will be made, as applicable);

(6)          that, on and after the Redemption Date, interest will cease to accrue on the Notes or portions thereof called for redemption as long as the Company has irrevocably deposited with a Paying Agent, on or before the applicable Redemption Date, funds in an amount sufficient to pay the redemption price of the Notes or portions thereof called for redemption on such Redemption Date and accrued and unpaid interest, if any, thereon to, but excluding, such Redemption Date (subject to the right of Holders of record on the relevant Record Date to receive interest due on any Interest Payment Date falling on or prior to such Redemption Date), and the only remaining right of the Holders of the Notes or portions thereof called for redemption will be to receive payment of the redemption price and such accrued and unpaid interest, if any, upon surrender of the Notes to be redeemed to the Paying Agent; and

(7)          any conditions to such redemption as determined by the Company in its sole discretion, and, if such redemption is subject to conditions, the Company may at its option also include a statement to the effect that the Redemption Date may be delayed, on one or more occasions and in the Company’s sole discretion, either (at the Company’s option) to a date specified by the Company in such notice or in a subsequent notice to Holders (subject, if the Company shall so elect, to the satisfaction of any or all such conditions or the Company’s written waiver of any such conditions that are not satisfied) or until such time as any or all such conditions have been satisfied or waived by the Company in writing, and that, if any such condition shall not have been satisfied as and when required (as determined by the Company in its sole discretion and taking into account any election by the Company to delay such Redemption Date), then (unless the Company shall have waived in writing any such conditions that are not satisfied), the Company shall have no obligation to redeem the Notes called for redemption on such Redemption Date (as the same may have been delayed by the Company as aforesaid) and may cancel such proposed redemption and rescind such notice of redemption, or any other statement that the Company in its sole discretion may deem necessary or advisable concerning matters described in Section 3.05 or to implement any provision of Section 3.05.

At the Company’s written request (which shall specify the date on which the notice of redemption shall be given), the Trustee shall give the notice of redemption in the Company’s name and at the Company’s expense unless the Company shall have revoked such notice of redemption as provided in Section 3.01.  In such event, the Company shall provide the Trustee with the information required by this Section 3.03 at least five days prior to the Trustee giving the notice of redemption, unless the Trustee consents to a shorter period.

The notice, if mailed (or otherwise transmitted) in a manner herein provided, shall be conclusively presumed to have been given, whether or not the Holder receives such notice.  In any case, failure to give such notice by mail (or to transmit such notice in accordance with the Depositary’s applicable procedures) or any defect in the notice to the Holder of any Note designated for redemption in whole or in part shall not affect the validity of the proceedings for the redemption of any other Note.

SECTION 3.04     Effect of Notice of Redemption.

Once notice of redemption is mailed (or otherwise transmitted) in accordance with Section 3.03 and all conditions (if any) to such redemption are satisfied as and when required (as determined by the Company in its sole discretion and taking into account any election by the Company to delay the applicable Redemption Date as provided in Section 3.05) or the Company waives in writing any such conditions that are not satisfied, (i) Notes called for redemption become irrevocably due and payable on the Redemption Date (or, if the Company has delayed such Redemption Date, the applicable delayed Redemption Date (as defined in Section 3.05), as the case may be) and at the applicable redemption price plus accrued and unpaid interest, if any, to, but excluding, the applicable Redemption Date (or delayed Redemption Date, as applicable) (subject to the right of Holders of record on the relevant Record Date to receive interest due on any Interest Payment Date falling on or prior to such Redemption Date), (ii) upon surrender to the Paying Agent, such Notes or portions thereof called for redemption shall be paid at the redemption price plus accrued and unpaid interest, if any, thereon to, but excluding, the applicable Redemption Date (or, if the Company has delayed such Redemption Date, to, but excluding, the applicable delayed Redemption Date, as the case may be), except that the interest payable on any Interest Payment Date falling on or prior to such Redemption Date (or delayed Redemption Date, as the case may be) shall be paid to the Persons who were the Holders of record at the close of business on the applicable Record Date, and (iii) on and after the applicable Redemption Date (or, if the Company has delayed such Redemption Date, the applicable delayed Redemption Date, as the case may be) interest shall cease to accrue on Notes or portions thereof called for redemption.

SECTION 3.05     Conditions to Redemption.

(a)          Any redemption of the Notes may, in the Company’s sole discretion, be subject to one or more conditions precedent, which shall be described in the related notice of redemption to Holders of Notes, which conditions may include, without limitation, completion of one or more Qualified Equity Offerings or other securities offerings or other financings, transactions or events.  If such redemption is subject to satisfaction of one or more conditions precedent, such notice to Holders of Notes may (at the option of the Company) include a statement to the effect that the Redemption Date may be delayed, on one or more occasions and in the Company’s sole discretion, either (at the Company’s option) to a date specified by the Company in such notice or in a subsequent notice to such Holders (subject, if the Company shall so elect, to satisfaction of any or all such conditions or the Company’s written waiver of any such conditions that are not satisfied) or until such time as any or all of such conditions have been satisfied or waived by the Company in writing, and that, if any such conditions shall not have been satisfied as and when required (as determined by the Company in its sole discretion and taking into account any election by the Company to delay such Redemption Date), then (unless the Company shall have waived in writing any such conditions that are not satisfied), the Company shall have no obligation to redeem the Notes called for redemption on such Redemption Date (as the same may have been delayed by the Company as aforesaid) and may cancel such proposed redemption and rescind any notice of such redemption.  In order to delay any Redemption Date (or to further delay any delayed Redemption Date (as defined below)), the Company shall provide written notice (which may be delivered electronically) to the Trustee at least one Business Day before such Redemption Date (or such delayed Redemption Date, as the case may be), to the effect that the Company has elected to delay such Redemption Date (or such delayed Redemption Date, as the case may be) and specifying the new Redemption Date (a “delayed Redemption Date”) (which may, at the Company’s option, be specified as the date on which any or all conditions to such redemption are satisfied (as determined by the Company in its sole discretion) or waived by the Company), and the Trustee shall provide such notice to each Holder of the Notes that were to be redeemed in the same manner in which the notice of redemption was given.  The Company may delay any Redemption Date on one or more occasions.

(b)          If all conditions precedent (if any) to any redemption of the Notes shall not have been satisfied as and when required (as determined by the Company in its sole discretion and taking into account any election by the Company to delay such Redemption Date) or waived by the Company in writing and the Company has not elected to delay (or further delay) the applicable Redemption Date (or the applicable delayed Redemption Date, as the case may be), the Company shall provide written notice (which may be delivered electronically) to the effect that the Company has elected to cancel such redemption to the Trustee prior to close of business one Business Day prior to such Redemption Date (or such delayed Redemption Date, as the case may be).  Upon the Trustee’s receipt of such notice, the notice of such redemption shall be automatically rescinded and such redemption shall, without penalty, be automatically cancelled and the Company shall have no obligation to redeem the Notes called for redemption.  Promptly after receipt of such notice, the Trustee shall provide such notice to each Holder of the Notes that were to have been redeemed in the same manner in which the notice of redemption was given.

SECTION 3.06     Deposit of Redemption Price.

Prior to or on the Redemption Date, subject to the satisfaction of any conditions specified in the applicable notice of redemption pursuant to Section 3.05, the Company shall irrevocably deposit with the Paying Agent (or, if the Company or a Domestic Subsidiary is the Paying Agent, shall segregate and hold in trust) money sufficient to pay the redemption price of and accrued interest, if any (subject to the right of Holders of record on the relevant Record Date to receive interest due on an Interest Payment Date falling on or prior to the Redemption Date (or delayed Redemption Date, as applicable)), on all Notes and portions of Notes to be redeemed on the Redemption Date (or delayed Redemption Date, as applicable), other than Notes or portions of Notes called for redemption that have been delivered by the Company to the Trustee for cancellation.

SECTION 3.07     Notes Redeemed in Part.

Upon surrender of a Note that is redeemed in part, the Company shall execute and the Trustee, upon written request from the Company, shall authenticate and mail or deliver (including by book-entry transfer) to the applicable Holder (at the Company’s expense) a new Note registered in the same name and bearing the same legends, if any, as the Notes surrendered for redemption, equal in principal amount to the unredeemed portion of the Note surrendered (it being understood that, notwithstanding anything in this Indenture to the contrary, no Officers’ Certificate or Opinion of Counsel will be required for the Trustee to authenticate and mail or deliver any such new Note).

SECTION 4.01     Payment of Notes.

The Company shall pay the principal of, and premium, if any, and interest on, the Notes on the dates and in the manner provided in the Notes and in this Indenture.  Principal, premium and interest shall be considered paid on the date due if on such date there has been irrevocably deposited with the Trustee or the Paying Agent money sufficient to pay the principal, premium and interest due on such date.  Interest on the Notes shall be computed on the basis of a 360-day year comprised of twelve 30-day months.

The Company shall pay the principal of and premium, if any, on, and may pay interest on, any Certificated Notes at the office or agency maintained by the Company for such purpose in the United States of America as required by Section 4.02, upon surrender of such Certificated Notes by the Holders thereof at such office or agency.  Interest on any Certificated Notes may also be paid, at the Company’s option, by check mailed to the addresses of the Holders entitled thereto appearing in the registry books of the Registrar or by wire transfer to accounts in the United States of America specified by such Holders.

The Company will pay principal of, and premium, if any, and interest on, Global Notes registered in the name of the Depositary or its nominee in immediately available funds to the Depositary or its nominee, as the case may be, as the Holder of such Global Note.

The Company will pay interest on overdue principal of, and, to the extent permitted by applicable law, on overdue premium, if any, and overdue installments of interest on, the Notes at a per annum rate equal to the interest per annum otherwise borne by the Notes, to, but excluding, the date on which such overdue principal, premium or interest, as the case may be, is considered paid or provided for as provided in the first paragraph of this Section 4.01 or is otherwise paid or provided for.

SECTION 4.02     Maintenance of Office or Agency.

The Company shall maintain in the United States of America the office or agency required under Section 2.04.  The Company shall give prompt written notice to the Trustee of the location, and any change in the location, of such office or agency in the United States of America (unless such office or agency is an office of the Trustee).  If at any time the Company shall fail to maintain any such required office or agency in the United States of America or shall fail to furnish the Trustee written notice of the address thereof, the presentations, surrenders, notices and demands referred to in Section 2.04 may be made or served at the address of the Trustee set forth in Section 11.02; provided that the Trustee shall not be deemed an agent of the Company for service of legal process.

The Company may also from time to time designate one or more other offices or agencies where the Notes may be presented or surrendered for any or all such purposes and may from time to time rescind or change such designations, all as further provided in Section 2.04.

The Company hereby initially designates the Corporate Trust Office of U.S. Bank Trust Company, National Association in Saint Paul, Minnesota, which on the date hereof is located at 111 Filmore Ave, Saint Paul, MN 55107, as such office of the Company in accordance with this Section 4.02 and Section 2.04.

SECTION 4.03     Compliance Certificate; Notice of Default.

(a)          The Company shall deliver to the Trustee, within 120 days after the end of each fiscal year of the Company, an Officers’ Certificate signed by the principal executive officer, the principal financial officer or the principal accounting officer of the Company and also signed by one Officer of each Guarantor, if any, stating that a review of the activities of the Company and its Subsidiaries has been made under the supervision of the signing Officer with a view to determining whether the Company and each Guarantor, if any, has complied with all conditions and covenants applicable to it under this Indenture and further stating, as to each such Officer signing such certificate, that to such Officers’ knowledge, the Company and each Guarantor, if any, during such preceding fiscal year has kept, observed, performed and fulfilled each such covenant and condition and no Default or Event of Default occurred during such year and at the date of such certificate there is no Default or Event of Default that has occurred and is continuing or, if such signer does know of any such Default or Event of Default, the certificate shall describe such Default or Event of Default and the status thereof.

(b)          The Company shall deliver to the Trustee promptly, and in any event within 30 days, after any Senior Officer of the Company obtains knowledge of a Default or Event of Default an Officers’ Certificate specifying the Default or Event of Default and describing its status and the action taken or proposed to be taken in respect thereof.

SECTION 4.04     Waiver of Stay, Extension or Usury Laws.

To the extent permitted by applicable law, the Company and each Guarantor, if any, covenants that it will not at any time insist upon, plead, or in any manner whatsoever claim or take the benefit or advantage of, any stay or extension law or any usury law or other similar law that would prohibit or forgive the Company or such Guarantor, as applicable, from paying all or any portion of the principal of, or premium, if any, or interest on, the Notes or the Guarantee of any such Guarantor, as applicable, 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, to the extent permitted by applicable law, the Company and each Guarantor, if any, 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 4.05     Suspension of Covenants and Guarantees.

(a)          Section 4.10 (other than the portions thereof relating to the termination and release of each Guarantor from its Guarantee of the Notes and from all of its obligations under its Guarantee of the Notes and this Indenture as provided in Section 10.05), Section 4.07 and clauses (2) and (4) of Section 5.01(a) (collectively, the “Suspended Covenants”) will automatically cease to apply to the Notes and will be of no force or effect on and after any date that (A) the Notes have an Investment Grade Rating from both Rating Agencies and (B) no Default or Event of Default has occurred and is continuing with respect to the Notes.  If on any date thereafter the Notes do not have an Investment Grade Rating from both Rating Agencies, the Suspended Covenants will be automatically reinstated, effective as of such date (the “Reversion Date”) and will be applicable pursuant to the terms of this Indenture (including in connection with performing any calculation or assessment to determine compliance with the terms of this Indenture), unless and until such date as (x) the Notes shall again have an Investment Grade Rating from both Rating Agencies and (y) no Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing with respect to the Notes (in which event the Suspended Covenants will automatically cease to apply, effective on and after such date, to the Notes until such time as the Notes do not have an Investment Grade Rating from both Rating Agencies); provided, however, that no Default, Event of Default or other breach of any kind shall subsequently occur (including in respect of any subsequent calculation of Total Unencumbered Assets) or be deemed to exist or to have occurred under this Indenture, the Notes or the Guarantees, if any, of the Notes with respect to the Suspended Covenants based on, and none of the Company, any of the Guarantors, if any, or any of the Company’s Subsidiaries shall, with respect to the Suspended Covenants bear any liability for, any actions taken or events occurring during any Suspension Period or any actions taken at any time pursuant to any agreement or instrument entered into or obligation arising or incurred during any Suspension Period, regardless of whether such actions, events, agreements, instruments or obligations would have been permitted if the Suspended Covenants, if any, remained in effect during the Suspension Period.  The period of time from and including the date of suspension of the Suspended Covenants to but excluding the Reversion Date or, if there is no Reversion Date, through and including the final maturity date of the Notes is referred to as a “Suspension Period.” For purposes of clarity, it is understood that there may be one or more Suspension Periods and one or more Reversion Dates with respect to the Notes

(b)          On the Reversion Date with respect to the Notes and anything in this Indenture to the contrary notwithstanding, all Indebtedness incurred during the applicable Suspension Period will be deemed to have been outstanding on the Issue Date so that it is classified under clause (4) of the definition of “Permitted Indebtedness,” subject to the right of the Company to classify and reclassify all such Indebtedness (or any portions thereof) as contemplated by the provisions described in the paragraph immediately following the definition of “Permitted Indebtedness.”

(c)          All of the Guarantees, if any, of the Notes and all of the obligations of the Guarantors, if any, under such Guarantees and this Indenture will be automatically suspended and will be of no force or effect during any Suspension Period but will be automatically reinstated (except in the case of a Guarantor whose Guarantee of the Notes shall have been released and terminated as described in Section 4.10) on the applicable Reversion Date, if any, and if the Company is required to execute and deliver to the Trustee a supplemental indenture to evidence the reinstatement of any such Guarantee, such supplemental indenture shall be delivered within 30 days after such Reversion Date .

(d)          The Company shall deliver an Officers’ Certificate to the Trustee notifying the Trustee of the commencement of any Suspension Period or the occurrence of any Reversion Date promptly (but in no event later than ten Business Days) after such commencement or occurrence, as the case may be, and the Trustee shall have no obligation to monitor or determine whether a Suspension Period or a Reversion Date has occurred or exists; provided that any failure by the Company to deliver any such Officers’ Certificate shall not constitute a Default or Event of Default or affect the automatic suspension or automatic reinstatement of the Suspended Covenants, the Guarantees (if any) of the Notes and the other obligations referred to in this Section 4.05 during any Suspension Period or on any Reversion Date, as the case may be.

SECTION 4.06     Change of Control; Mortgage Business Triggering Event.

(a)          Upon the occurrence of a Change of Control or a Mortgage Business Triggering Event, each Holder of Notes will have the right (unless the Company has exercised its right to redeem all of the then outstanding Notes pursuant to Section 5 of the Notes by sending (or causing the Trustee to send) a notice of redemption) to require that the Company purchase all or a portion of such Holder’s Notes pursuant to the offer described below (a “Change of Control Offer” or “Mortgage Business Triggering Event Offer,” as applicable) at a purchase price in cash equal to 101% of the principal amount thereof (such price, the “Change of Control Purchase Price” or “Mortgage Business Triggering Event Purchase Price,” as applicable) plus accrued and unpaid interest to, but excluding, the applicable Change of Control Payment Date or Mortgage Business Triggering Event Payment Date (subject to the right of Holders of record on the relevant Record Date to receive interest due on any Interest Payment Date falling on or prior to such Change of Control Payment Date or Mortgage Business Triggering Event Payment Date (as each term is defined below)).

(b)          Within 30 days following the date upon which a Change of Control or Mortgage Business Triggering Event shall have occurred, the Company must (unless the Company has exercised its right to redeem all of the Notes pursuant to Section 5 of the Notes by sending (or causing the Trustee to send) a notice of redemption) send (or cause to be sent), electronically or by first class mail, a notice to each Holder of Notes (or, in the case of Global Notes, send such notice in accordance with the applicable procedures, if any, of the Depositary), with a copy to the Trustee, which notice shall govern the terms of the Change of Control Offer or Mortgage Business Triggering Event Offer.  Such notice shall state:

(1)          that the Change of Control Offer or Mortgage Business Triggering Event Offer is being made pursuant to this Indenture and that all Notes that are validly tendered and not withdrawn will be accepted for payment;

(2)          the Change of Control Purchase Price or Mortgage Business Triggering Event Purchase Price and the purchase date, which must be a Business Day no earlier than 10 days nor later than 60 days from the date such notice is mailed (or otherwise transmitted), other than as may be required by law (the “Change of Control Payment Date” or “Mortgage Business Triggering Event Payment Date,” as applicable);

(3)          that any Note not tendered will continue to accrue interest;

(4)          that any Note accepted for payment pursuant to the Change of Control Offer or Mortgage Business Triggering Event Offer shall cease to accrue interest on and after the Change of Control Payment Date or Mortgage Business Triggering Event Payment Date, as applicable (unless the Company shall default in the payment of the Change of Control Purchase Price or Mortgage Business Triggering Event Purchase Price of the Notes) and the only remaining right of the Holder will be to receive payment of the Change of Control Purchase Price or Mortgage Business Triggering Event Purchase Price upon surrender of the applicable Note to the Paying Agent;

(5)          that Holders electing to have a portion of a Note purchased pursuant to a Change of Control Offer or Mortgage Business Triggering Event Offer may only elect to have such Note purchased in denominations of $1,000 and integral multiples of $1,000 in excess thereof; provided that the remaining principal amount of any such Note surrendered for repurchase in part shall be $2,000 or an integral multiple of $1,000 in excess thereof;

(6)          that if a Holder elects to have a Note purchased pursuant to a Change of Control Offer or Mortgage Business Triggering Event Offer it will be required to surrender the Note, with the form entitled “Option of Holder to Elect Purchase” on the reverse of or attached to the Note duly completed, to the Person and at the address specified in the notice (or, in the case of Global Notes, to surrender the Note and provide the information required by such form in accordance with the applicable procedures, if any, of the Depositary) prior to the close of business on the third Business Day prior to the Change of Control Payment Date or Mortgage Business Triggering Event Payment Date;

(7)          that a Holder will be entitled to withdraw its election if the Company receives, not later than the close of business on the third Business Day preceding the Change of Control Payment Date or Mortgage Business Triggering Event Payment Date, a facsimile transmission or letter setting forth the name of such Holder, the principal amount of Notes such Holder delivered for purchase, and a statement that such Holder is withdrawing its election to have such Notes purchased; and

(8)          that if any Note is purchased only in part a new Note will be issued in principal amount equal to the unpurchased portion of the Note surrendered.

(c)          On or before a Change of Control Payment Date or Mortgage Business Triggering Event for the Notes, the Company will, to the extent lawful:

(1)          accept for payment all Notes or portions of Notes (in denominations of $1,000 and integral multiples of $1,000 in excess thereof) validly tendered and not withdrawn pursuant to the Change of Control Offer or Mortgage Business Triggering Event Offer; provided that if, following repurchase of a portion of a Note, the remaining principal amount thereof would be less than $2,000, then the portion of such Note so repurchased shall be reduced so that the remaining principal amount of such Note outstanding immediately after such repurchase is $2,000;

(2)          irrevocably deposit with a Paying Agent an amount equal to the payment due in respect of all Notes or portions thereof so tendered and not withdrawn;

(3)          deliver or cause to be delivered to the Trustee for cancellation the Notes so accepted for payment; and

(4)          deliver to the Trustee an Officers’ Certificate stating that such Notes or portions thereof were accepted for payment by the Company in accordance with the applicable provisions of this Indenture.

(d)          The Company, the depositary, if any, appointed by the Company for such Change of Control Offer or Mortgage Business Triggering Event Offer or a Paying Agent, as the case may be, shall promptly mail or deliver (or, in the case of Global Notes, deliver in accordance with the applicable procedures, if any, of the Depositary) to each tendering Holder an amount equal to the Change of Control Purchase Price or Mortgage Business Triggering Event Purchase Price of the Notes validly tendered by such Holder and not withdrawn and accepted by the Company for purchase.  Further, the Company shall promptly issue a new Note, and the Trustee, upon written request from the Company, shall authenticate and mail or deliver (including by book-entry transfer) such new Note to such Holder, in a principal amount equal to any unpurchased portion of the Note accepted for payment (it being understood that, notwithstanding anything in this Indenture to the contrary, no Officers’ Certificate or Opinion of Counsel will be required for the Trustee to authenticate and mail or deliver any such new Note).  Any Note not so accepted shall be promptly mailed or delivered (including by book-entry transfer) by the Company or the Trustee to the Holder thereof.

(e)          Interest on Notes (or portions thereof) validly tendered and not withdrawn pursuant to a Change of Control Offer or Mortgage Business Triggering Event Offer will cease to accrue on and after the applicable Change of Control Payment Date or Mortgage Business Triggering Event Payment Date (unless the Company shall default in the payment of such Change of Control Purchase Price or Mortgage Business Triggering Event Purchase Price of the Notes).

(f)          If the Change of Control Payment Date or Mortgage Business Triggering Event Payment Date is on or after a Record Date and on or before the related Interest Payment Date for the Notes, any accrued and unpaid interest on the Notes to, but excluding, the Change of Control Payment Date or Mortgage Business Triggering Event Payment Date will be paid to the Persons in whose names the applicable Notes are registered at the close of business on the applicable Record Date.

(g)          The Company will not be required to make a Change of Control Offer or a Mortgage Business Triggering Event Offer for the Notes upon a Change of Control or a Mortgage Business Triggering Event, as applicable, if a third party (including a Mortgage Business Entity in the case of a Mortgage Business Triggering Event Offer) makes the Change of Control Offer or the Mortgage Business Triggering Event Offer, as applicable, in the manner, at the times and otherwise in compliance with the requirements set forth in this Indenture that are applicable to a Change of Control Offer or a Mortgage Business Triggering Event Offer, as applicable, made by the Company and purchases all Notes validly tendered and not withdrawn under such Change of Control Offer or Mortgage Business Triggering Event Offer, as applicable.  Notwithstanding anything in this Indenture to the contrary, a Change of Control Offer or a Mortgage Business Triggering Event Offer may be made in advance of a Change of Control or a Mortgage Business Triggering Event, as applicable, conditioned upon the occurrence of such a Change of Control or Mortgage Business Triggering Event, as applicable, if a definitive agreement regarding such Change of Control or Mortgage Business Triggering Event, as applicable, is in effect at the time of making the Change of Control Offer or the Mortgage Business Triggering Event Offer, as applicable.

(h)          If Holders of not less than 90% in aggregate principal amount of the outstanding Notes validly tender and do not withdraw such Notes in a Change of Control Offer or Mortgage Business Triggering Event Offer and the Company, or any third party making a Change of Control Offer in lieu of the Company as described above, purchases all of the Notes validly tendered and not withdrawn by such Holders, the Company or such third party (in the case of a Change of Control Offer) will have the right, upon not less than 10 nor more than 60 days’ prior notice, given not more than 30 days following such purchase pursuant to the Change of Control Offer or Mortgage Business Triggering Event Offer described above, to redeem or purchase as the case may be all Notes that remain outstanding following such purchase at a price in cash equal to the applicable Change of Control Payment or Mortgage Business Triggering Event Payment plus accrued and unpaid interest to but excluding the date of redemption or purchase as the case may be.

(i)          The Company will comply with the requirements of Rule 14e-1 under the Exchange Act and any other securities laws and regulations thereunder to the extent such laws and regulations are applicable in connection with the repurchase of Notes pursuant to a Change of Control Offer or Mortgage Business Triggering Event Offer.  To the extent that any securities laws or regulations conflict with the provisions of this Indenture relating to a Change of Control Offer or Mortgage Business Triggering Event Offer, the Company shall comply with the applicable securities laws and regulations and shall not be deemed to have breached its obligations under such provisions of this Indenture by virtue thereof.  Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Company may rely on any no-action letters issued by the SEC indicating that the staff of the SEC will not recommend enforcement action in the event a tender offer satisfies certain conditions.

(j)          The provisions of this Indenture relating to the Company’s obligation to make an offer to repurchase the Notes as a result of a Change of Control or Mortgage Business Triggering Event (including the respective definitions relating thereto) and the terms of any such offer may, subject to the limitations set forth in Section 9.02, be waived or modified with the written consent of the Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the outstanding Notes.  A Change of Control Offer or Mortgage Business Triggering Event Offer may be made at the same time as consents are solicited with respect to an amendment, supplement or waiver of this Indenture, the Notes and/or the Guarantees so long as the tender of Notes by a Holder is not conditioned upon the delivery of consents by such Holder.  In addition, the Company or any third party that is making the Change of Control Offer may, subject to applicable law, increase or decrease the applicable Change of Control Payment or Mortgage Business Triggering Event Payment (or, in each case, decline to pay any early tender or similar premium) being offered to Holders at any time in its sole discretion, so long as the applicable Change of Control Payment or Mortgage Business Triggering Event Payment is at least equal to 101.0% of the aggregate principal amount of the Notes being repurchased, plus accrued and unpaid interest thereon.

SECTION 4.07     Limitation on Incurrence of Additional Indebtedness.

(a)          The Company will not, and will not permit any of its Subsidiaries to, directly or indirectly, create, incur, assume, guarantee or otherwise become liable for payment of (collectively, “incur”) any Indebtedness (including, without limitation, Acquired Indebtedness) other than Permitted Indebtedness and other than as provided in paragraph (b) below.

(b)          Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Company or any of its Subsidiaries may incur Indebtedness (including, without limitation, Acquired Indebtedness) if, on the date of the incurrence of such Indebtedness and immediately after giving effect to the incurrence of such Indebtedness and the repayment, repurchase, defeasance, redemption or other discharge of any other Indebtedness with the proceeds of the Indebtedness being so incurred or in connection with the transactions pursuant to which such Indebtedness is being incurred, on a pro forma basis:

(1)          the Consolidated Non-Funding Debt to Equity Ratio of the Company and its Subsidiaries is not greater than 1.00 to 1.00; and

(2)          no Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing or would occur as a consequence of incurring such Indebtedness.

SECTION 4.08     Maintenance of Total Unencumbered Assets.

The Company will maintain Total Unencumbered Assets of not less than 120% of the aggregate outstanding principal amount of the Unsecured Indebtedness of the Company and its Subsidiaries, in each case determined on a consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP and tested as of the last day of the most recent fiscal quarter for which consolidated financial statements of the Company are internally available (the “ratio determination date”).  In the event that such ratio is not satisfied as of the ratio determination date but the Company satisfies such ratio as of a later date, then the Company will be deemed to have satisfied its obligations with respect to such ratio as of such later date and any Default with respect to such ratio shall be deemed to have been cured.

SECTION 4.09     Reports to Holders.

(a)          Whether or not required by the rules and regulations of the SEC and so long as any Notes are outstanding, the Company will mail or otherwise transmit to the Holders of the outstanding Notes:

(1)          all quarterly and annual financial information that would be required to be contained in Items 6, 7, 7A and 8 of Part II of a filing with the SEC on Form 10-K and Items 1, 2 and 3 of Part I of a filing with the SEC on Form 10-Q, as applicable, if the Company were required to file such forms pursuant to the Exchange Act and the applicable rules and regulations of the SEC thereunder and, with respect to the annual information only, a report on the Company’s annual financial statements by the Company’s independent public accounting firm, in each case within 15 days (or the next succeeding Business Day if such 15th day is not a Business Day) after the last day of the applicable time period for filing with the SEC (plus any applicable extensions of such time period) specified in the relevant form or in the rules and regulations of the SEC or any other applicable laws, rules or regulations; and

(2)          all current reports that would be required to be filed with the SEC on Form 8-K if the Company were required to file such reports pursuant to the Exchange Act and the applicable rules and regulations of the SEC thereunder, in each case within three Business Days after the last day of the applicable time period for filing with the SEC (plus any applicable extensions of such time period) specified in Form 8-K or in the rules and regulations of the SEC or any other applicable laws, rules or regulations; provided, however, that no such report will be required to be furnished to the extent such report would be required by Items 1.04, 3.01, 3.02, 3.03, 5.02(e), 5.03, 5.04, 5.05, 5.06, 5.07 or 5.08 of Form 8-K;

provided, however, that, in the event that the Company is not subject to the reporting requirements of Sections 13(a) or 15(d) of the Exchange Act, (i) the time periods for filing of the foregoing information and reports (collectively, the “Financial Reports”) specified in the relevant forms or rules and regulations of the SEC or any other applicable laws, rules or regulations as described in clauses (1) and (2) above shall be those applicable to a non-accelerated filer or shall otherwise be the longest available time period under such forms, rules and regulations of the SEC or other applicable laws, rules or regulations, as the case may be, (plus any applicable extensions of such time period) and (ii) the Financial Reports (A) will not be required to comply with Section 302 or Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, or related Items 307 and 308 of Regulation S-K promulgated by the SEC, or Item 10(e) of Regulation S-K or Regulation G (with respect to any non-GAAP financial measures contained therein) promulgated by the SEC, (B) will not be required to include information required by Item 601 of Regulation S-K promulgated by the SEC, (C) will not be required to include financial statements for any acquired entity, businesses or assets (whether acquired by merger, consolidation, acquisition of assets or Capital Stock or otherwise) unless such acquisition has occurred and such financial statements would be required by Rule 3-05 of Regulation S-X promulgated by the SEC to be included in an annual report on Form 10-K, quarterly report on Form 10-Q or current report on Form 8-K of the Company, as the case may be; provided that, notwithstanding that such Rule 3‑05 or any other law, rule or regulation would require that some or all of such financial statements be audited, the Company may nonetheless deliver unaudited financial statements unless the Company shall have obtained such audited financial statements in connection with such acquisition, and provided, further, that the Company shall in no event be required to provide any financial statements as of dates or for periods earlier or other than the dates or periods that would otherwise be required by such Rule 3-05 for any such acquisition, (D) will not be required to include the schedules identified in Rule 5-04 of Regulation S-X promulgated by the SEC, (E) will not be required to comply with Rule 3-10 of Regulation S-X promulgated by the SEC (or any successor provision, including Rule 13-01) or contain separate financial statements for the Company, any Guarantors or other Subsidiaries the shares of which are pledged to secure the Notes or any Guarantee that would be required under (a) Section 3-09 of Regulation S-X to the extent that the Company determines in its good faith judgment that such information would not be material to the Holders or the business, assets, operations, financial positions or prospects of the Company and its Subsidiaries, (b) Section 3-10 of Regulation S-X (or any successor provision, including Rule 13-01) or (c) Section 3-16 of Regulation S-X (or any successor provision, including Rule 13-02), respectively, promulgated by the SEC and (F) under clause (2) above shall not be required to be furnished if the Company determines in its good faith judgment that such event is not material to the Holders or the business, assets, operations or financial position of the Company and its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, and in no event shall such reports be required to include as an exhibit copies of any agreements, financial statements or other items that would be required to be filed as exhibits to a current report on Form 8-K (other than historical and pro forma financial statements to the extent reasonably available and subject to the limitations set forth above).  For purposes of clarity, it is understood and agreed that (x) the Company may, in its sole discretion, include in any of the Financial Reports information in addition to that specified in clauses (1) and (2) above and any information that it would otherwise be entitled to omit pursuant to the provisions described above, and (y) no financial statements shall be required for the acquisition or disposition of any entity, business or assets (whether acquired or disposed of by merger, consolidation, acquisition or disposition of assets or Capital Stock or otherwise) unless such acquisition or disposition, as the case may be, shall have occurred.

(b)          The Company and the Guarantors, if any, agree to make available to Holders of any outstanding Notes and to prospective purchasers designated by such Holders, upon request, the information required to be delivered pursuant to Rule 144A(d)(4) under the Securities Act so long as such Notes (other than Notes held by the Company or an “affiliate” (as defined in Rule 144 under the Securities Act) of the Company) are not freely transferable under the Securities Act.

(c)          If the Company is a Subsidiary of any direct or indirect parent entity, the Financial Reports required pursuant to Section 4.09 (a) above may be those of such parent entity instead of the Company; provided that, if there are material differences (as determined in good faith by the Company) between the consolidated results of operations and financial condition of such parent entity and its consolidated Subsidiaries, on the one hand, and of the Company and its consolidated Subsidiaries, on the other hand, the quarterly and annual Financial Reports required by Section 4.09(a) will include a presentation (which may be unaudited), either on the face of the financial statements or in the notes thereto, of the financial condition and results of operations of the Company and its Subsidiaries (it being understood and agreed that such presentation may take the form of a condensed consolidating statement of operations and a condensed consolidating balance sheet (in each case without notes thereto) or a presentation similar to that required by Rule 3-10 of Regulation S-X (or any successor provision, including Rule 13-01) promulgated by the SEC (whether or not such rule is applicable) for the applicable periods).

(d)          Anything in this Indenture to the contrary notwithstanding, the Company shall be deemed to have satisfied its obligation to mail, transmit or otherwise furnish any Financial Report or other information pursuant to Section 4.09(a) or Section 4.09(c) above by (a) filing or furnishing such Financial Report or other information (or another document containing the information that would otherwise have been included in such Financial Report or containing such other information, as applicable) with the SEC for public availability or (b) posting such Financial Report or other information (or another document containing the information that would otherwise have been included in such Financial Report or containing such other information) on a website (which may be a password protected website) hosted by the Company or by a third party, in each case within the applicable time period specified above, provided, however, that the Trustee shall have no responsibility whatsoever to determine if such filing or posting has occurred.

(e)          If any Financial Report or other information required by this Section 4.09 (or any other document referred to in Section 4.09 (d) above) is not filed, mailed, posted, transmitted or otherwise furnished within the applicable time period specified above and such Financial Report or other information (or other document) is subsequently mailed, filed, posted, transmitted or otherwise furnished, the Company will be deemed to have satisfied its obligations under this Section 4.09 with respect to such Financial Report or other information (or other document), as the case may be, and any Default or Event of Default with respect thereto or resulting therefrom shall be deemed to have been cured and any acceleration of the Notes resulting therefrom shall be deemed to have been rescinded so long as such rescission would not conflict with any applicable judgment or decree of a court of competent jurisdiction.

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

SECTION 4.10     Future Guarantees.

The Company will not permit any Domestic Subsidiary of the Company (other than a Domestic Subsidiary of the Company that is a Guarantor, an Excluded Subsidiary or a Securitization Entity) to, directly or indirectly, guarantee or otherwise become an obligor (whether as co-issuer, co-obligor, co-borrower or otherwise) under any Non-Funding Indebtedness for borrowed money under any Credit Facility of the Company or any Guarantor with an aggregate principal amount in excess of $50.0 million, unless: (1) the Company will cause such Domestic Subsidiary to execute and deliver to the Trustee, within 30 days after the date such Domestic Subsidiary guarantees or becomes an obligor under such Indebtedness (except as set forth in the proviso below), a supplemental indenture in the form of Exhibit B pursuant to which such Domestic Subsidiary will unconditionally guarantee the payment of the Notes, jointly and severally with all other Guarantors (if any) of the Notes; provided that, (a) if such Indebtedness is by its express terms subordinated in right of payment to the Notes or such Guarantor’s Guarantee, any such guarantee of such Domestic Subsidiary of such Indebtedness shall be subordinated in right of payment to the Notes or such Guarantee substantially to the same extent as such Indebtedness is subordinated to the Notes or such Guarantor’s Guarantee; (b) if a Domestic Subsidiary that would have been required to guarantee the Notes but for the fact that it was an Excluded Subsidiary or a Securitization Entity shall be required to guarantee the Notes because it shall have ceased to be an Excluded Subsidiary or a Securitization Entity, or if a Subsidiary that was a Foreign Subsidiary shall be required to guarantee the Notes because it shall have become a Domestic Subsidiary that is not an Excluded Subsidiary or a Securitization Entity, as the case may be, the supplemental indenture referred to above shall be delivered to the Trustee within 30 days after the date such Domestic Subsidiary shall have ceased to be an Excluded Subsidiary or a Securitization Entity or such Foreign Subsidiary shall have become a Domestic Subsidiary that is not an Excluded Subsidiary or Securitization Entity, as the case may be; and (2) such Domestic Subsidiary waives and will not in any manner whatsoever claim or take the benefit or advantage of, any rights of reimbursement, indemnity or subrogation or any other rights against the Company or any other Subsidiary of the Company as a result of any payment by such Domestic Subsidiary under its Guarantee until payment in full of obligations under this Indenture; provided that, that this paragraph shall not be applicable to any Indebtedness (whether arising from a guarantee or other incurrence) of any Domestic Subsidiary that existed at the time such Person became a Domestic Subsidiary and was not incurred in connection with, or in contemplation of, such Person becoming a Domestic Subsidiary.  Anything in this Indenture to the contrary notwithstanding, no Excluded Subsidiary, Securitization Entity or Foreign Subsidiary shall be required to guarantee the Notes or become a Guarantor.

The obligations of each Guarantor, if any, under its Guarantee of the Notes and under Article 10 of this Indenture will be limited as provided in Section 10.03.

Anything in this Indenture to the contrary notwithstanding, each Guarantor’s Guarantee of the Notes will automatically and permanently terminate and be released, all obligations of such Guarantor under its Guarantee of the Notes and this Indenture will automatically and permanently terminate and such Guarantor will be automatically and permanently released from all of its obligations under its Guarantee of the Notes and this Indenture under the circumstances set forth in Section 10.05.

SECTION 5.01     Merger, Consolidation and Sale of Assets.

(a)          The Company will not, in a single transaction or series of related transactions, consolidate or merge with or into any Person, or sell, assign, transfer, lease, convey or otherwise dispose of all or substantially all of the Company’s properties and assets determined on a consolidated basis (it being understood that each of (i) the sale, assignment, transfer, lease, conveyance or other disposition of Securitization Assets, Repurchase Agreement Assets, Investments or other securities or assets, in each case in the ordinary course of business or consistent with past practice and (ii) a Permitted Business Transfer shall not constitute the sale, assignment, transfer, lease, conveyance or disposition of all or substantially all of the Company’s properties and assets) to any Person, unless:

(1)          either

(A)         the Company shall be the surviving or continuing Person; or

(B)          the Person (if other than the Company) formed by such consolidation or into which the Company is merged or the Person which acquires by sale, assignment, transfer, lease, conveyance or other disposition all or substantially all of the Company’s properties and assets (the “Surviving Entity”):

(i)        shall be an entity organized and validly existing under the laws of the United States or any State thereof or the District of Columbia, and if the Surviving Entity is not a corporation, a co-obligor of the Notes is a corporation organized and validly existing under such laws; and

(ii)       shall expressly assume, by supplemental indenture, executed and delivered to the Trustee, the due and punctual payment of the principal of, and premium, if any, and interest on all of the Notes and the performance of every covenant in the Notes and this Indenture on the part of the Company to be performed or observed;

(2)          immediately after giving pro forma effect to such transaction and, if applicable, the assumption contemplated by Section 5.01(a) (1)(B)(ii) above (including giving pro forma effect to any Indebtedness and Acquired Indebtedness incurred and any repayment, repurchase, defeasance, redemption or other discharge of Indebtedness by the Company or the Surviving Entity, as the case may be, or any of their respective Subsidiaries in connection with such transaction), the Company or such Surviving Entity, as the case may be:  (a) shall have a Consolidated Net Worth equal to or greater than the Consolidated Net Worth of the Company immediately prior to such transaction, in each case determined based on the Consolidated Net Worth of the Company or the Surviving Entity, as the case may be, as of the end of the most recent fiscal quarter ending on or prior to the date of such transaction for which financial statements of the Company or the Surviving Entity, as the case may be, are internally available; or (b) shall be able to incur at least $1.00 of additional Indebtedness pursuant to Section 4.07(b); or (c) shall have a Consolidated Non-Funding Debt to Equity Ratio that is not greater than the Consolidated Non-Funding Debt to Equity Ratio of the Company immediately prior to such transaction;

(3)          immediately after giving pro forma effect to such transaction (and treating any Indebtedness and Acquired Indebtedness that becomes an obligation of the Company or the Surviving Entity, as the case may be, or any of its Subsidiaries as a result of such transaction as having been incurred by the Company or the Surviving Entity, as the case may be, or such Subsidiary at the time of such transaction, and any Indebtedness to be repaid, repurchased, defeased, redeemed or otherwise discharged by the Company or the Surviving Entity or any of their respective Subsidiaries in connection with such transaction as having been repaid, repurchased, defeased, redeemed or otherwise discharged at the time of such transaction), no Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing;

(4)          if the Surviving Entity is not the Company, each Guarantor (unless it is the Surviving Entity, in which case Section 5.01(a)(1)(B) above shall apply) shall have by supplemental indenture confirmed that its Guarantee of the Notes shall apply to such Surviving Entity’s obligations under this Indenture and the Notes; and

(5)          the Company or the Surviving Entity shall have delivered to the Trustee an Officers’ Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel (which Opinion of Counsel may be subject to customary assumptions, limitations and exceptions), each stating that such consolidation, merger, sale, assignment, transfer, lease, conveyance or other disposition and, if a supplemental indenture is required in connection with such transaction, such supplemental indenture complies with the applicable provisions of this Indenture.

(b)          Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 5.01(a), any Subsidiary of the Company may merge into or transfer all or any part of its properties and assets to the Company or the Surviving Entity or any other Subsidiary of the Company or the Surviving Entity or consolidate with any other Subsidiary of the Company or the Surviving Entity and, except in the case of a merger into the Company or the Surviving Entity, Section 5.01(f), shall not apply to any such transaction.  In addition, notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this Section 5.01, any Subsidiary of the Company may consolidate with the Company or the Surviving Entity, and Sections 5.01(a)(2) and 5.01(a)(3) shall not apply to any such transaction.

(c)          For purposes of the foregoing, the sale, assignment, transfer, lease, conveyance or other disposition, in a single transaction or series of related transactions, of all or substantially all of the properties and assets of one or more Subsidiaries of the Company (it being understood that each of (i) the sale, assignment, transfer, lease, conveyance or other disposition of Securitization Assets, Repurchase Agreement Assets, Investments or other securities or assets, in each case in the ordinary course of business or consistent with past practice and (ii) a Permitted Business Transfer shall not constitute the sale, assignment, transfer, lease, conveyance or disposition of all or substantially all of the Company’s properties and assets), the Capital Stock of which constitutes all or substantially all of the properties and assets of the Company on a consolidated basis, shall be deemed to be the transfer of all or substantially all of the properties and assets of the Company.

(d)          For purposes of clarity, it is understood and agreed that references in this Section 5.01 to sales, assignments, transfers, leases, conveyances or other dispositions of Securitization Assets, Repurchase Agreement Assets, Investments or other securities or assets in the ordinary course of business or consistent with past practice shall include, without limitation, any sales, assignments, transfers, leases, conveyances or other dispositions of Securitization Assets, Repurchase Agreement Assets, Investments or other securities or assets (1) that are made (x) to any Securitization Entity for the purpose of enabling such Securitization Entity to securitize the assets so sold, assigned, transferred, leased, conveyed or disposed of or enabling such Securitization Entity to issue Non-Recourse Indebtedness secured by such assets or to enter into any Repurchase Agreements with respect to such assets or (y) to any Person pursuant to a Repurchase Agreement that is otherwise permitted (or not prohibited) by this Indenture, under which such Person is a buyer of Repurchase Agreement Assets, and (2) that the Company in good faith determines to be (i) in the ordinary course of business or (ii) consistent with past practice of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries or to reflect customary or accepted practice in the businesses, industries or markets in which the Company or any of its Subsidiaries operates or reasonably expects to operate or that reflect reasonable extensions, evolutions or developments of any of the foregoing (including, without limitation, by way of new transactions or structures), and as a result, none of the foregoing shall constitute a sale, assignment, transfer, lease, conveyance or other disposition of all or substantially all of the Company’s properties and assets, on a consolidated basis or otherwise, for purposes of the other paragraphs of this Section 5.01.

(e)          Upon any consolidation or merger or any sale, assignment, transfer, lease, conveyance or other disposition of all or substantially all of the properties or assets of the Company in accordance with the foregoing in which the Company is not the surviving or continuing entity, as the case may be, the Surviving Entity shall succeed to, and be substituted for, and may exercise every right and power of, the Company under this Indenture and the Notes with the same effect as if such Surviving Entity had been named as the “Company” herein and therein, and the Company shall be released from all of its obligations under this Indenture and the Notes; provided that, in the case of a lease of all or substantially all of the properties and assets of the Company, the Company will not be released from its obligation to pay the principal of and premium, if any, and interest on the Notes.

(f)          If the Surviving Entity in any transaction described in, and made in compliance with, this Section 5.01 shall be a Guarantor of the Notes, or if a Guarantor shall merge or consolidate with or into the Company or the Surviving Entity, as the case may be, in any transaction described in, and made in compliance with this Section 5.01, such Guarantor’s Guarantee of the Notes will automatically terminate and be released and such Guarantor will automatically be released from all of its obligations under its Guarantee of the Notes and all of its obligations as a Guarantor under this Indenture contemporaneously with such transaction.

SECTION 6.01     Events of Default.  Each of the following events shall be an “Event of Default”:

(1)          the failure to pay interest on any of the outstanding Notes when the same becomes due and payable and the default continues for a period of 30 days;

(2)          the failure to pay the principal of and premium, if any, on any of the outstanding Notes when such principal becomes due and payable, at maturity or otherwise (including the failure to make a payment to purchase Notes validly tendered and not withdrawn pursuant to a Change of Control Offer or Mortgage Business Trigger Event Offer);

(3)          failure by the Company or any Guarantor to comply with any of its other covenants or agreements contained in this Indenture (other than covenants or agreements a default in whose performance would constitute an Event of Default under clause (1) or (2) above) and such default continues for a period of 60 days after the Company receives written notice (with a copy to the Trustee if given by Holders) specifying the default (and demanding that such default be remedied) from the Trustee or the Holders of at least 30% of the outstanding principal amount of the Notes (except in the case of a default with respect to Section 5.01, which will constitute an Event of Default when the Company receives the written notice specified in this clause (3) (with a copy to the Trustee if given by Holders) but without any requirement that such default continue for 60 days);

(4)          the failure to pay at final stated maturity (giving effect to any applicable grace periods and any extensions thereof) the principal amount of any Indebtedness for borrowed money (other than Non-Recourse Indebtedness) of the Company or any Subsidiary of the Company and such payment shall not have been made, waived or extended within 30 days after such final stated maturity (giving effect to any applicable grace periods and any extensions thereof) (a “Payment Default”), or the acceleration of the final stated maturity of any Indebtedness for borrowed money (other than Non-Recourse Indebtedness) of the Company or any Subsidiary of the Company and such acceleration shall not have been rescinded, annulled, waived or otherwise cured within 30 days after receipt by the Company or such Subsidiary of the Company of written notice of any such acceleration (an “Acceleration”), if the aggregate principal amount of such Indebtedness, together with the aggregate principal amount of any other Indebtedness for borrowed money (other than Non-Recourse Indebtedness) of the Company or any Subsidiary of the Company as to which a Payment Default or an Acceleration shall have occurred and shall be continuing, exceeds the greater of $350.0 million and 1.0% of Total Assets at any time;

(5)          (a) the Company or a Significant Subsidiary, pursuant to or within the meaning of any Bankruptcy Law:

(i)           commences a voluntary case or proceeding;

(ii)          consents to the entry of judgment, decree or order for relief against it in an involuntary case or proceeding;

(iii)         consents to the appointment of a Custodian of it or for any substantial part of its property;

(iv)         makes a general assignment for the benefit of its creditors;

(v)          consents to or acquiesces in the institution of a bankruptcy or an insolvency proceeding against it; or

(vi)         takes any corporate action to authorize or effect any of the foregoing; or

(b)          a court of competent jurisdiction enters an order or decree under any Bankruptcy Law that:

(i)           is for relief in an involuntary case against the Company or a Significant Subsidiary pursuant to or within the meaning of any Bankruptcy Law;

(ii)          appoints a Custodian for all or substantially all of the property of the Company or a Significant Subsidiary pursuant to or within the meaning of any Bankruptcy Law; or

(iii)         orders the winding up or liquidation of the Company or a Significant Subsidiary pursuant to or within the meaning of any Bankruptcy Law;

and in the case of each of (i), (ii) and (iii) of this paragraph (b), such order, decree or relief remains unstayed and in effect for 60 days; or

(6)          any Guarantee of the Notes by a Guarantor that is a Significant Subsidiary of the Company ceases (or the Guarantees of the Notes by a group of Guarantors that together would constitute a Significant Subsidiary of the Company cease) to be in full force and effect for a period of 30 days, or a Guarantor of the Notes that is a Significant Subsidiary of the Company (or a group of Guarantors of the Notes that together would constitute a Significant Subsidiary of the Company) denies or disaffirms in writing its obligations under its Guarantee (or their obligations under their Guarantees, as the case may be) of the Notes unless such denial or disaffirmation, as applicable, is rescinded, canceled or terminated within 30 days, in each case other than by reason of the release, termination or discharge of any such Guarantees or Guarantors in accordance with the terms of this Indenture or as a result of the discharge of this Indenture pursuant to Section 8.01 or as a result of Legal Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance pursuant to Section 8.02;

provided that a notice of Default may not be given with respect to any action taken, and reported publicly or to Holders more than two years prior to such notice of Default.  Any notice of Default, notice of acceleration or instruction to the Trustee to provide a notice of Default, notice of acceleration or take any other action (a “Noteholder Direction”) provided by any one or more Holders (each a “Directing Holder”) must be accompanied by a written representation from each such Holder delivered to the Company and the Trustee that such Holder is not (or, in the case such Holder is DTC or its nominee, that such Holder is being instructed solely by beneficial owners that are not) Net Short (a “Position Representation”), which representation, in the case of a Noteholder Direction relating to the delivery of a notice of Default shall be deemed a continuing representation until the resulting Event of Default is cured or otherwise ceases to exist or the Notes are accelerated.  In addition, each Directing Holder is deemed, at the time of providing a Noteholder Direction, to covenant to provide the Company with such other information as the Company may reasonably request from time to time in order to verify the accuracy of such Noteholder’s Position Representation within five Business Days of request therefor (a “Verification Covenant”).  In any case in which the Holder is DTC or its nominee, any Position Representation or Verification Covenant required hereunder shall be provided by the beneficial owner of the Notes in lieu of DTC or its nominee and DTC shall be entitled to conclusively rely on such Position Representation and Verification Covenant in delivering its direction to the Trustee.

If, following the delivery of a Noteholder Direction, but prior to acceleration of the Notes, the Company determines in good faith that there is a reasonable basis to believe a Directing Holder was, at any relevant time, in breach of its Position Representation and provides to the Trustee an Officers’ Certificate stating that the Company has initiated litigation in a court of competent jurisdiction seeking a determination that such Directing Holder was, at such time, in breach of its Position Representation, and seeking to invalidate any Event of Default that resulted from the applicable Noteholder Direction, the cure period with respect to such Default shall be automatically stayed and the cure period with respect to such Event of Default shall be automatically reinstituted and any remedy stayed pending a final and non-appealable determination of a court of competent jurisdiction on such matter.  If, following the delivery of a Noteholder Direction, but prior to acceleration of the Notes, the Company provides to the Trustee an Officers’ Certificate stating that a Directing Holder failed to satisfy its Verification Covenant, the cure period with respect to such Default shall be automatically stayed and the cure period with respect to any Event of Default that resulted from the applicable Noteholder Direction shall be automatically reinstituted and any remedy stayed pending satisfaction of such Verification Covenant. Any breach of the Position Representation shall result in such Holder’s participation in such Noteholder Direction being disregarded; and, if, without the participation of such Holder, the percentage of Notes held by the remaining Holders that provided such Noteholder Direction would have been insufficient to validly provide such Noteholder Direction, such Noteholder Direction shall be void ab initio, with the effect that such Event of Default shall be deemed never to have occurred, acceleration voided and the Trustee shall be deemed not to have received such Noteholder Direction or any notice of such Default or Event of Default.

Notwithstanding anything in the preceding two paragraphs to the contrary, any Noteholder Direction delivered to the Trustee during the pendency of an Event of Default as the result of a bankruptcy or similar proceeding shall not require compliance with the foregoing paragraphs.

For the avoidance of doubt, the Trustee shall be entitled to conclusively rely without liability on any Noteholder Direction delivered to it in accordance with this Indenture, shall have no duty to inquire as to or investigate the accuracy of any Position Representation, enforce compliance with any Verification Covenant, verify any statements in any Officers’ Certificate delivered to it, or otherwise make calculations, investigations or determinations with respect to Derivative Instruments, Net Shorts, Long Derivative Instruments, Short Derivative Instruments or otherwise and shall have no liability for ceasing to take any action, staying any remedy or otherwise failing to act in accordance with a Noteholder Direction during the pendency of any litigation or following receipt from the Company of an Officers’ Certificate stating that a Directing Holder failed to satisfy its Verification Covenant.  The Trustee shall have no liability to the Company, any Holder or any other Person in acting in good faith on a Noteholder Direction.

The foregoing will constitute Events of Default whatever the reason for any such Event of Default and whether it is voluntary or involuntary or is 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.

SECTION 6.02     Acceleration.

If an Event of Default with respect to the Notes (other than an Event of Default specified in clause (5) of the first paragraph of Section 6.01 with respect to the Company) shall occur and be continuing, the Trustee, upon written direction of the Holders of at least 30% in aggregate principal amount of outstanding Notes, or the Holders of at least 30% in aggregate principal amount of outstanding Notes may, and the Trustee at the written request of such Holders shall, declare the principal of and accrued and unpaid interest on all the outstanding Notes to be due and payable by notice in writing to the Company and (if the notice is given by Holders) to the Trustee specifying the Event of Default and that it is a “notice of acceleration,” and, upon such a declaration, such principal and accrued and unpaid interest shall become immediately due and payable.  If an Event of Default specified in clause (5) of the first paragraph of Section 6.01 with respect to the Company occurs and is continuing, then all unpaid principal of, and accrued and unpaid interest on, all of the outstanding Notes shall ipso facto become and be immediately due and payable without any declaration or other act on the part of the Trustee or any Holder.

At any time after any such acceleration, the Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the outstanding Notes by written notice to the Trustee and the Company may rescind and cancel any such acceleration and its consequences if (i) the rescission would not conflict with any judgment or decree of a court of competent jurisdiction, (ii) all existing Events of Default, other than nonpayment of principal of or interest on the Notes that have become due solely because of the acceleration, have been cured or waived, (iii) to the extent the payment of such interest is lawful, interest on overdue installments of interest and overdue principal, in each case which have become due otherwise than by such acceleration, at the per annum rate specified in the last paragraph of Section 4.01, has been paid; and (iv) the Company has paid the Trustee its reasonable compensation and reimbursed the Trustee for its reasonable expenses, disbursements and advances in connection with such acceleration and rescission.

In the event of acceleration of the Notes because an Event of Default specified in clause (4) of the first paragraph of Section 6.01 has occurred and is continuing, the acceleration of the Notes shall be automatically rescinded and cancelled if (a) within 60 days after such acceleration of the Notes as a result of such Event of Default, the aggregate principal amount of Indebtedness for borrowed money (other than Non-Recourse Indebtedness) of the Company or any Subsidiary of the Company as to which a Payment Default or an Acceleration shall have occurred and shall be continuing shall be less than the greater of $350.0 million and 1.0% of Total Assets, whether as a result of any such Payment Default or Payment Defaults or Acceleration or Accelerations, as the case may be, having been remedied or cured or waived by the holders of the relevant Indebtedness, the relevant Indebtedness having been repaid, redeemed, defeased or otherwise discharged, or otherwise, (b) the rescission would not conflict with any judgment or decree of a court of competent jurisdiction and (c) all existing Events of Default, other than nonpayment of the principal of or interest on the Notes that shall have become due solely because of the acceleration, have been cured or waived.

No rescission of acceleration of the Notes pursuant to this Section 6.02 shall affect any subsequent Default or impair any right consequent thereto.

SECTION 6.03     Other Remedies.

If an Event of Default occurs and is continuing, the Trustee may pursue any available remedy by proceeding at law or in equity to collect the payment of principal of, or premium, if any, or interest on, the Notes or to enforce the performance of any provision of the Notes or this Indenture.

The Trustee may maintain a proceeding even if it does not possess any of the Notes or does not produce any of them in the proceeding.  To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, 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 and all available remedies are cumulative.

SECTION 6.04     Waiver of Past Defaults.

The Holders of a majority in principal amount of the outstanding Notes may waive, by their consent (including, without limitation, consents obtained in connection with a purchase of, or tender offer or exchange offer for, the Notes), any Default or Event of Default and its consequences except a continuing default in the payment of the principal, premium, if any, or interest on any Notes held by any non-consenting Holder (excluding a default in payment resulting from an acceleration that has been or is being waived or rescinded or that has been cured).  Upon any such waiver, such Default or Event of 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 Event of Default or impair any right consequent thereon.

SECTION 6.05     Control by Majority.

Subject to Section 7.02(g), the Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Notes then outstanding may direct the time, method and place of conducting any proceeding for exercising any remedy available to the Trustee or of exercising any trust or power conferred on the Trustee under this Indenture.  Subject to Section 7.01, however, the Trustee may refuse to follow any direction that conflicts with law or this Indenture or that the Trustee determines is unduly prejudicial to the rights of other Holders or would involve the Trustee in personal liability; provided, however, that the Trustee may take any other action that is proper and that is not inconsistent with such direction, and provided further, that the Trustee shall not have an affirmative duty to ascertain whether such action is prejudicial.

SECTION 6.06     Limitation on Suits.

Subject to Section 6.07, a Holder may not pursue any remedy with respect to this Indenture or the Notes or any Guarantees, unless:

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

(2)          the Holders of at least 25% in aggregate principal amount of the Notes then outstanding shall have made a written request, and such Holder or Holders shall have offered security or indemnity reasonably satisfactory to the Trustee to pursue a remedy; and

(3)          the Trustee has failed to comply with such request and has not received from the Holders of at least a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Notes outstanding a direction inconsistent with such request within 60 days after such notice, request and offer of security or indemnity.

SECTION 6.07     Rights of Holders to Receive Payment.

Notwithstanding any other provision of this Indenture, the right of any Holder to receive payment of principal of, premium, if any, and interest on, the Notes held by such Holder on or after the respective due dates expressed or provided for in the Notes, or to bring suit for the enforcement of any such payment on or after such respective dates, shall not be impaired or affected without the consent of such Holder.

SECTION 6.08     Collection Suit by Trustee.

If an Event of Default specified in clause (1) or (2) of the first paragraph of Section 6.01 occurs and is continuing, the Trustee may recover judgment in its own name and as trustee of an express trust against the Company for the whole amount of principal, premium, if any, and accrued interest remaining unpaid (together with interest on any overdue interest (to the extent permitted by applicable law) at the rate per annum specified in the last paragraph of Section 4.01) and 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.

SECTION 6.09     Trustee May File Proofs of Claim.

The Trustee may file such proofs of claim and other papers or documents as may be necessary or advisable in order to have the claims of the Trustee and the Holders allowed in any judicial proceedings relating to the Company, its creditors or its property and any Custodian 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 (it being understood it shall be under no obligation to do so), to pay to the Trustee any amount due to it for the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the Trustee, its agents and its counsel, and any other amounts due the Trustee under Section 7.07.  Nothing herein contained shall be deemed to authorize the Trustee to authorize or consent to, or accept or adopt, on behalf of any Holder, any plan of reorganization, arrangement, adjustment or composition affecting the Notes 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 6.10     Priorities.

If the Trustee collects any money or property pursuant to this Article 6, it shall pay out the money or property in the following order:

FIRST:  to the Trustee for amounts due under Section 7.07;

SECOND:  to Holders for amounts due and unpaid on the Notes for principal.  premium, if any, and interest, ratably, without preference or priority of any kind, according to the amounts due and payable on the Notes for principal, premium, if any, and interest; and

THIRD:  to the Company.

The Trustee, upon prior notice to the Company, may fix a record date and payment date for any payment to Holders pursuant to this Section 6.10.  Promptly after any record date or payment date is set pursuant to this Section 6.10, the Trustee shall cause notice of such record date or payment date or both, as the case may be, to be given to the Company and each Holder in the manner set forth in Section 11.02.

SECTION 6.11     Undertaking for Costs.

In any suit for the enforcement of any right or remedy under this Indenture or in any suit against the Trustee for any action taken or omitted by it as Trustee, a court in its discretion may require the filing by any party litigant in the suit of an undertaking to pay the costs of the suit, and the court in its discretion may assess reasonable costs, including reasonable attorneys’ 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.  This Section 6.11 does not apply to a suit by the Trustee, a suit by a Holder pursuant to Section 6.07 or a suit by Holders of more than 10% in principal amount of the outstanding Notes.

SECTION 7.01     Duties of Trustee.

(a)          If an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, the Trustee shall exercise such 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 such person’s own affairs.

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

(1)          the Trustee undertakes to perform such duties and only such duties as are specifically set forth in this Indenture, and no implied covenants or obligations shall be read into this Indenture against the Trustee; and

(2)          in the absence of gross negligence or willful misconduct on its part, the Trustee may conclusively rely, without liability, as to the truth of the statements and the correctness of the opinions expressed therein, upon certificates or opinions furnished to the Trustee and conforming to the requirements of this Indenture.  However, in the case of certificates or opinions specifically required by any provision hereof to be furnished to it, the Trustee shall examine the certificates and opinions to determine whether or not they conform to the requirements of this Indenture (but need not confirm or investigate the accuracy of mathematical calculations stated therein).

(c)          Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, the Trustee may not be relieved from liability for its own gross negligence or its own willful misconduct, except that:

(1)          This paragraph does not limit the effect of paragraph (b) of this Section 7.01.

(2)          The Trustee shall not be liable for any error of judgment made in good faith by a Responsible Officer unless it is proved that the Trustee was negligent in ascertaining the pertinent facts.

(3)          The Trustee shall not be liable with respect to any action it takes or omits to take in good faith in accordance with a direction received by it pursuant to Section 6.05.

(d)          Every provision of this Indenture that in any way relates to the Trustee is subject to paragraphs (a), (b) and (c) of this Section 7.01.

(e)          The Trustee shall not be liable for interest on any money received by it except as the Trustee may agree in writing with the Company.

(f)          Money held in trust by the Trustee need not be segregated from other funds except to the extent required by law.

(g)          No provision of this Indenture shall require the Trustee to expend or risk its own funds or otherwise incur any liability in the performance of any of its duties hereunder or to take or omit to take any action under this Indenture or take any action at the request or direction of Holders if it shall have reasonable grounds for believing that repayment of such funds is not assured to it.

(h)          The Trustee shall not be deemed to have notice of a Default or an Event of Default unless a Responsible Officer of the Trustee has received written notice thereof from the Company or any Holder and such notice references the Notes and this Indenture.

SECTION 7.02     Rights of Trustee.

Subject to Section 7.01:

(a)          The Trustee may conclusively rely without liability on any document believed by it to be genuine and to have been signed or presented by the proper Person.  The Trustee need not investigate any fact or matter stated in the document.

(b)          Before the Trustee acts or refrains from acting, it may require an Officers’ Certificate or an Opinion of Counsel.  The Trustee shall not be liable for any action it takes or omits to take in good faith in reliance on such Officers’ Certificate or Opinion of Counsel.

(c)          The Trustee may act through agents and shall not be responsible for the misconduct or negligence of any agent appointed with due care.

(d)          The Trustee shall not be liable for any action it takes or omits to take in good faith that it reasonably believes to be authorized or within its rights or powers; provided, however, that, subject to paragraph (b) of Section 7.01, the Trustee’s conduct does not constitute willful misconduct or gross negligence.

(e)          The Trustee may consult with counsel of its selection, and the advice or opinion of counsel with respect to legal matters relating to this Indenture and the Notes shall be full and complete authorization and protection from liability in respect to any action taken, omitted or suffered by it hereunder in good faith and in accordance with the advice or opinion of such counsel.

(f)          The permissive rights of the Trustee to do things enumerated in this Indenture shall not be construed as a duty unless so specified herein.

(g)          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 Holders of the Notes, unless such Holders have offered to the Trustee security and/or indemnity reasonably satisfactory to the Trustee against the costs, claims, expenses and liabilities which might be incurred by it in compliance with such request or direction.

(h)          The Trustee shall not be bound to make any investigation into the facts or matters stated in any resolution, certificate (including any Officers’ Certificate), statement, instrument, opinion (including any Opinion of Counsel), notice, request, direction, consent, order, bond, debenture or other paper or document, but the Trustee may make such further inquiry or investigation into such facts or matters as it may see fit.

(i)          The rights, privileges, protections, indemnities, 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.

(j)          In no event shall the Trustee be responsible or liable for special, indirect, punitive 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.

(k)          The Trustee may request that the Company deliver a certificate setting forth the names of individuals and/or titles of officers authorized at such time to take specified actions pursuant to this Indenture.

SECTION 7.03     Individual Rights of Trustee.

The Trustee in its individual or any other capacity may become the owner or pledgee of Notes and may otherwise deal with the Company or its Affiliates with the same rights it would have if it were not Trustee.  Any Paying Agent, Registrar or co-Registrar may do the same with like rights.  However, the Trustee must comply with Section 7.10.

SECTION 7.04    Trustee’s Disclaimer.

The Trustee shall not be responsible for and makes no representation as to the validity, priority or adequacy of this Indenture or the Notes, it shall not be accountable for the Company’s use of the proceeds from the Notes, and it shall not be responsible for any statement of the Company in this Indenture or in any document issued in connection with the sale of the Notes or any statement in the Notes other than the Trustee’s certificate of authentication.

SECTION 7.05     Notice of Defaults.

If a Default or Event of Default occurs and is continuing and a Responsible Officer of the Trustee receives written notice of such Default or Event of Default, the Trustee shall mail to each Holder notice of the Default or Event of Default within 90 days after written notice of it is received by the Trustee.  Except in the case of an Event of Default in payment of principal of, premium, if any, or interest on any Note, the Trustee may withhold the notice if and so long as it in good faith determines that withholding the notice is in the interests of Holders.

SECTION 7.06     [Reserved].

SECTION 7.07     Compensation and Indemnity.

The Company shall pay to the Trustee from time to time such compensation as the Company and the Trustee shall from time to time agree in writing for the Trustee’s services hereunder.  The Trustee’s compensation shall not be limited by any law on compensation of a trustee of an express trust.  The Company shall reimburse the Trustee upon request for all reasonable out-of-pocket expenses incurred or made by it, including costs of collection, in addition to the compensation for its services, except any such expenses as shall have been caused by the Trustee’s own gross negligence or willful misconduct.  Such expenses shall include the reasonable fees and out-of-pocket expenses of the Trustee’s agents, counsel and accountants.  The Company shall indemnify the Trustee and hold it harmless against any and all loss, liability, claim, damage or expense (including reasonable attorneys’ fees and expenses) incurred by it in connection with the acceptance or administration of this trust and the performance of its duties hereunder, including those incurred in connection with enforcement of its right to indemnity hereunder.  The Trustee shall notify the Company promptly of any third-party claim of which a Responsible Officer has received notice or of which a Responsible Officer has otherwise become aware for which the Trustee or any Trustee Party (as defined below) may seek indemnity.  The Company shall defend such claim and the Trustee shall cooperate and shall cause all Trustee Parties to cooperate in the defense.  The Trustee and all Trustee Parties may have one firm of separate counsel selected by the Trustee in connection with the defense of such claim by the Company and the Company shall pay the reasonable fees and out-of-pocket expenses of such counsel; provided, however, that the Company (having assumed the defense) will not be required to pay such fees and expenses if, subject to the approval of the Trustee (which approval shall not be unreasonably withheld), there is no conflict of interest between the Company, on the one hand, and the Trustee and any Trustee Parties subject to the claim, on the other hand, in connection with such defense as reasonably determined by the Trustee.  The Company need not reimburse any expense or indemnify against any loss, damage, claim, liability or expense caused by or resulting from the willful misconduct or gross negligence of the Trustee or a Trustee Party.  The Company need not pay for any settlement made by the Trustee or any Trustee Party without the Company’s written consent, such consent not to be unreasonably withheld.  All indemnifications and releases from liability granted hereunder to the Trustee shall extend to its officers, directors, employees, agents and successors (collectively, “Trustee Parties”).

To secure the Company’s payment obligations in this Section 7.07, the Trustee shall have a lien prior to the Notes on all money or property held or collected by the Trustee pursuant to this Indenture, other than money or property held in trust to pay principal of, or premium, if any, or interest on, or other amounts payable to Holders under, the Notes or the Guarantees.

The Company’s payment obligations pursuant to this Section 7.07 shall survive the resignation or removal of the Trustee and the discharge or termination of this Indenture.  Without prejudice to any other rights available to the Trustee under applicable law, when the Trustee incurs expenses after the occurrence of a Default specified in clause (5) of the first paragraph of Section 6.01 with respect to the Company, the expenses are intended to constitute expenses of administration under applicable Insolvency Law.

SECTION 7.08     Replacement of Trustee.

The Trustee may resign at any time by giving 30 days prior written notice of such resignation to the Company.  The Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Notes then outstanding may, upon 30 days prior written notice to the Company and the Trustee, remove the Trustee and may appoint a successor Trustee; provided that so long as no Default or Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, the Company shall have the right to consent to the successor Trustee, such consent not to be unreasonably withheld.  The Company may remove the Trustee if:

(1)          the Trustee fails to comply with Section 7.10;

(2)          the Trustee is adjudged bankrupt or insolvent;

(3)          a receiver or other public officer takes charge of the Trustee or its property; or

(4)          the Trustee becomes incapable of acting.

If the Trustee resigns or is removed or if a vacancy exists in the office of Trustee for any reason, the Company shall notify each Holder of such event and shall promptly appoint a successor Trustee.  Within one year after the successor Trustee takes office, the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the Notes may appoint a successor Trustee to replace the successor Trustee appointed by the Company.

A successor Trustee shall deliver a written acceptance of its appointment to the retiring Trustee and to the Company.  Immediately after that, the retiring Trustee shall transfer, after payment of all sums then owing to the retiring Trustee pursuant to Section 7.07, all money and property held by it as Trustee to the successor Trustee, subject to the lien provided in Section 7.07, whereupon the resignation or removal of the retiring Trustee shall become effective, and the successor Trustee shall have all the rights, powers and duties of the Trustee under this Indenture.  The successor Trustee shall cause to be delivered a notice of its succession to all Holders.

Anything in this Section 7.08 to the contrary notwithstanding but subject to the provisions of Section 7.09, no resignation or removal of the Trustee and no appointment of a successor Trustee pursuant to this Section 7.08 shall become effective until the acceptance of appointment by the successor Trustee pursuant to this Section 7.08.

If a successor Trustee does not take office within 60 days after the retiring Trustee resigns or is removed, the retiring Trustee (at the expense of the Company), the Company or the Holders of at least 10% in aggregate principal amount of the Notes then outstanding may petition any court of competent jurisdiction for the appointment of a successor Trustee.

If the Trustee fails to comply with Section 7.10, any Holder who has been a bona fide Holder of a Note for at least six months may petition any court of competent jurisdiction for the removal of the Trustee and the appointment of a successor Trustee.

Notwithstanding the replacement of the Trustee pursuant to this Section 7.08, the Company’s obligations under Section 7.07 shall continue for the benefit of the retiring Trustee.

SECTION 7.09     Successor Trustee by Merger.

If the Trustee consolidates with, merges or converts into, or transfers all or substantially all its corporate trust business to, another corporation or bank, the resulting, surviving or transferee corporation or bank, without any further act shall be the successor Trustee; provided that such corporation or bank shall be otherwise qualified and eligible under this Article 7.

In case at the time such successor or successors (by merger, conversion, transfer of all or substantially all of its corporate trust business or consolidation) to the Trustee shall succeed to the trusts created by this Indenture any of the Notes shall have been authenticated but not delivered, any such successor to the Trustee may adopt the certificate of authentication of any predecessor Trustee and deliver such Notes so authenticated; and in case at that time any of the Notes shall not have been authenticated, any such successor to the Trustee may authenticate such Notes either in the name of any predecessor hereunder or in the name of the successor to the Trustee; and in all such cases such certificates shall have the same full force and effect as if they had been authenticated by the predecessor Trustee.

SECTION 7.10     Eligibility; Disqualification.

The Trustee shall have (or, in the case of a corporation included in a bank holding company system, the related bank holding company shall have) a combined capital and surplus of at least $50,000,000 as set forth in its (or its related bank holding company’s) most recent published annual report of condition.

SECTION 8.01     Discharge of Liability on Notes.

This Indenture will be discharged and will cease to be of further effect (except as to surviving rights of registration of transfer or exchange of the Notes as expressly provided for in this Indenture and except for the Trustee’s right to reimbursement of fees and expenses and indemnification as expressly provided for in this Indenture) as to all outstanding Notes, and all of the Guarantees, if any, of the Notes shall be discharged, terminated and released, when:

(1)          either

(a)          all Notes theretofore authenticated and delivered (except lost, stolen or destroyed Notes that have been replaced or paid and Notes for whose payment money has theretofore been deposited in trust or segregated and held in trust by the Company and thereafter repaid to the Company or discharged from such trust) have been delivered to the Trustee for cancellation; or

(b)          all Notes not theretofore delivered to the Trustee for cancellation have become due and payable by giving of a notice of redemption, upon stated maturity or otherwise, will become due and payable within one year (upon stated maturity or otherwise), or are to be called for redemption within one year under arrangements satisfactory to the Trustee for the giving of notice of redemption by the Trustee in the name, and at the expense, of the Company, and the Company or any other Person on behalf of the Company has irrevocably deposited or caused to be deposited with the Trustee cash in such amount as will be sufficient, U.S. Government Obligations the scheduled payments of principal of and interest on which will be sufficient (without any reinvestment of such interest), or a combination thereof in such amounts as will be sufficient, to pay and discharge the entire Indebtedness on such Notes not theretofore delivered to the Trustee for cancellation, for principal of, premium, if any, and interest on such Notes to the date of maturity or redemption, as the case may be, together with irrevocable instructions from the Company directing the Trustee to apply such funds to the payment thereof at maturity or redemption;

(2)          the Company or any Person on behalf of the Company has paid or caused to be paid all other sums payable by the Company under this Indenture; and

(3)          the Company has delivered to the Trustee an Officers’ Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel (which Opinion of Counsel may be subject to customary assumptions, exceptions and limitations) stating that all conditions precedent under this Section 8.01 relating to the satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture have been complied with.

Notwithstanding the foregoing paragraph, the provisions of Sections 8.04, 8.05, 8.06, 8.07 and 11.08 and, if the outstanding Notes have been or are to be called for redemption, Article 3 shall survive until the Notes have been cancelled or are no longer outstanding.

After such delivery or irrevocable deposit, the Trustee upon written request shall execute proper instruments acknowledging the discharge of this Indenture and the Company’s obligations under the Notes and this Indenture and, if applicable, the obligations of all Guarantors under the Guarantees and this Indenture, except for those surviving obligations specified above.

SECTION 8.02     Legal Defeasance and Covenant Defeasance.

(a)          The Company may, at its option and at any time, elect to have either Section 8.02(b) or (c) be applied to the Notes upon compliance with the conditions set forth in Section 8.03.

(b)          Upon the Company’s exercise under Section 8.02(a) of the option under this Section 8.02(b), the Company and the Guarantors, if any, shall be discharged from all of their obligations under the Notes, the Guarantees, if any, and this Indenture (“Legal Defeasance”) on the date that the applicable conditions set forth in Section 8.03 shall have been satisfied, and on or after that date any omission to comply with any such obligations shall no longer constitute a Default or Event of Default.  Such Legal Defeasance shall mean that the Company shall be deemed to have paid and discharged the entire indebtedness represented by the outstanding Notes (which shall thereafter be deemed to be outstanding only for purposes of the provisions of this Indenture referred to in clauses (1) through (4) below), the Guarantors, if any, shall be released from all of their obligations under this Indenture and their Guarantees of the Notes, and the Company shall be released from all of its other obligations under this Indenture and the Notes, except that the following provisions of this Indenture shall survive:

(1)          the rights of Holders to receive, solely from the trust fund described in clause (1) of the first paragraph of Section 8.03, payments in respect of the principal of, and premium, if any, and interest on the Notes when such payments are due;

(2)          the Company’s obligations with respect to the Notes concerning issuing temporary Notes, registration of Notes, mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Notes and the maintenance of an office or agency for payments on the Notes;

(3)          the rights, powers, trust, duties, privileges, indemnities and immunities of the Trustee and the Company’s obligations in connection therewith; and

(4)          the provisions of this Section 8.02, Sections 8.04, 8.05, 8.06, 8.07 and 11.08 and, if the outstanding Notes have been or are to be called for redemption, Article 3.

On and after the date of Legal Defeasance, payment of the Notes may not be accelerated because of an Event of Default and, upon such Legal Defeasance, the Guarantees, if any, of the Notes and all obligations of the Guarantors under this Indenture and the Guarantees shall automatically terminate.

Subject to compliance with this Article 8, the Company may exercise its option under this Section 8.02(b) notwithstanding the prior exercise of its option under Section 8.01(c).

(c)          Upon the Company’s exercise under Section 8.02(a) of the option under this Section 8.02(c), the Company and the Guarantors, if any, shall be released and discharged from all of their covenants and agreements under Sections 4.06 through 4.10, inclusive, and clauses (2) and (4) of Section 5.01(a) on the date that the applicable conditions set forth in Section 8.03 shall have been satisfied (“Covenant Defeasance”), and on or after that date the foregoing covenants and agreements shall no longer apply, and the Notes shall be deemed not to be outstanding for purposes of any direction, waiver, consent or declaration or act of Holders (and the consequences of any thereof) in connection with any such covenants or agreements, but shall continue to be deemed outstanding for all other purposes hereunder, and the Company and the Guarantors, if any, may omit to comply with and shall have no liability in respect of any term, condition, obligation or limitation set forth in any of the Sections, clauses and other provisions set forth above in this Section 8.02(c), whether directly or indirectly, by reason of any reference elsewhere herein to any such Section, clause or other provision or by reason of any reference in any such Section, clause or other provision to any other Section, clause or provision herein or in any other document and such omission to comply with any covenant or agreement set forth in any such Section, clause or other provision shall not constitute a Default or Event of Default under this Indenture.  On and after the date that Covenant Defeasance occurs, (x) the Events of Default described in clauses (1) and (2) (solely insofar as such clauses relate to any failure to pay amounts due in connection with a Change of Control Offer or Mortgage Business Triggering Event Offer), clause (3) (solely insofar as it relates to the covenants and agreements as to which Covenant Defeasance has occurred), clause (4), clause (5) (except with respect to Company) and clause (6) of the first paragraph of Section 6.01 will no longer constitute Events of Default or otherwise apply and (y) the Guarantors, if any, of the Notes shall be automatically released from all of their obligations under their Guarantees of the Notes and this Indenture and such Guarantees will be automatically released, terminated and discharged.

(d)          Subject to compliance with Section 8.02(b) or (c), the Trustee, upon written request, shall execute proper instruments acknowledging such Legal Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance and the release, termination and/or discharge of the instruments, agreements and other provisions referred to in such Section 8.02(b) or (c), as applicable.