TPC GROUP LLC, as Company andthe Guarantors named herein 8 1/4% Senior Secured Notes due 2017 INDENTURE Dated as of October 5, 2010 WILMINGTON TRUSTCOMPANY, as Trustee and DEUTSCHEBANK TRUST COMPANY AMERICAS, as Collateral Agent, Paying Agent, Registrar and Authentication Agent CROSS-REFERENCE TABLE

EX-4.1 2 dex41.htm INDENTURE DATED AS OF OCTOBER 5, 2010 Indenture dated as of October 5, 2010

Exhibit 4.1

TPC GROUP LLC,

as Company

and the Guarantors named herein

8 1 /4% Senior Secured Notes due 2017

 

 

INDENTURE

Dated as of October 5, 2010

 

 

WILMINGTON TRUST COMPANY,

as Trustee

and

DEUTSCHE BANK TRUST COMPANY AMERICAS,

as Collateral Agent, Paying Agent, Registrar and Authentication Agent


CROSS-REFERENCE TABLE

 

   TIA

Section

   Indenture
Section

310(a)(1)

   7.10

(a)(2)

   7.10

(a)(3)

   N/A

(a)(4)

   N/A

(b)

   7.08; 7.10

(c)

   N/A

311(a)

   7.11

(b)

   7.11

(c)

   N/A

312(a)

   2.06

(b)

   13.03

(c)

   13.03

313(a)

   7.06

(b)(1)

   11.06

(b)(2)

   7.06

(c)

   7.06

(d)

   4.02; 4.09

314(a)

   4.02; 4.09

(b)

   11.02

(c)(1)

   13.04

(c)(2)

   13.04

(c)(3)

   N/A

(d)

   11.06

(e)

   13.05

(f)

   4.10

315(a)

   7.01

(b)

   7.05

(c)

   7.01

(d)

   7.01

(e)

   6.11

316(a) (last sentence)

   13.06

(a)(1)(A)

   6.05

(a)(1)(B)

   6.04

(a)(2)

   N/A

(b)

   6.07

317(a)(1)

   6.08

(a)(2)

   6.09

(b)

   2.05

318(a)

   13.01


TABLE OF CONTENTS

 

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ARTICLE 1
DEFINITIONS AND INCORPORATION BY REFERENCE

SECTION 1.01.

     Definitions    1

SECTION 1.02.

     Other Definitions    36

SECTION 1.03.

     Incorporation by Reference of Trust Indenture Act    37

SECTION 1.04.

     Rules of Construction    37
ARTICLE 2
THE SECURITIES

SECTION 2.01.

     Amount of Securities; Issuable in Series    39

SECTION 2.02.

     Form and Dating    39

SECTION 2.03.

     Execution and Authentication    40

SECTION 2.04.

     Registrar and Paying Agent    41

SECTION 2.05.

     Paying Agent to Hold Money in Trust    41

SECTION 2.06.

     Holder Lists    42

SECTION 2.07.

     Transfer and Exchange    42

SECTION 2.08.

     Replacement Securities    43

SECTION 2.09.

     Outstanding Securities    43

SECTION 2.10.

     Temporary Securities    44

SECTION 2.11.

     Cancellation    44

SECTION 2.12.

     Defaulted Interest    44

SECTION 2.13.

     CUSIP Numbers, ISINs, etc.    44

SECTION 2.14.

     Calculation of Specified Percentage of Securities    45
ARTICLE 3
REDEMPTION

SECTION 3.01.

     Redemption    45

SECTION 3.02.

     Applicability of Article    45

SECTION 3.03.

     Notices to Trustee    45

SECTION 3.04.

     Selection of Securities to Be Redeemed    46

SECTION 3.05.

     Notice of Optional Redemption    46

SECTION 3.06.

     Effect of Notice of Redemption    47

SECTION 3.07.

     Deposit of Redemption Price    47

SECTION 3.08.

     Securities Redeemed in Part    47

 

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ARTICLE 4
COVENANTS

SECTION 4.01.

     Payment of Securities    48

SECTION 4.02.

     Reports and Other Information    48

SECTION 4.03.

    

Limitation on Incurrence of Indebtedness and Issuance of Disqualified Stock and Preferred Stock

   50

SECTION 4.04.

     Limitation on Restricted Payments    55

SECTION 4.05.

     Dividend and Other Payment Restrictions Affecting Subsidiaries    60

SECTION 4.06.

     Asset Sales    62

SECTION 4.07.

     Transactions with Affiliates    66

SECTION 4.08.

     Change of Control    69

SECTION 4.09.

     Compliance Certificate    70

SECTION 4.10.

     Further Assurances, Instruments and Acts    71

SECTION 4.11.

     Future Guarantors    71

SECTION 4.12.

     Liens    71

SECTION 4.13.

     Maintenance of Office or Agency    72

SECTION 4.14.

     Insurance    72

SECTION 4.15.

     Maintenance of Properties    73

SECTION 4.16.

     Real Property    74

SECTION 4.17.

     Post-Closing Collateral    74

SECTION 4.18.

     Notification    76

SECTION 4.19.

     Payment of Charges    76
ARTICLE 5
SUCCESSOR COMPANY

SECTION 5.01.

     When Company May Merge or Transfer Assets    77
ARTICLE 6
DEFAULTS AND REMEDIES

SECTION 6.01.

     Events of Default    80

SECTION 6.02.

     Acceleration    82

SECTION 6.03.

     Other Remedies    83

SECTION 6.04.

     Waiver of Past Defaults    83

SECTION 6.05.

     Control by Majority    83

SECTION 6.06.

     Limitation on Suits    84

SECTION 6.07.

     Rights of the Holders to Receive Payment    84

SECTION 6.08.

     Collection Suit by Trustee    84

SECTION 6.09.

     Trustee May File Proofs of Claim    84

SECTION 6.10.

     Priorities    85

 

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SECTION 6.11.

     Undertaking for Costs    85

SECTION 6.12.

     Waiver of Stay or Extension Laws    85
ARTICLE 7
TRUSTEE

SECTION 7.01.

     Duties of Trustee    86

SECTION 7.02.

     Rights of Trustee    87

SECTION 7.03.

     Individual Rights of Trustee    88

SECTION 7.04.

     Trustee’s Disclaimer    88

SECTION 7.05.

     Notice of Defaults    88

SECTION 7.06.

     Reports by Trustee to the Holders    88

SECTION 7.07.

     Compensation and Indemnity    89

SECTION 7.08.

     Replacement of Trustee    90

SECTION 7.09.

     Successor Trustee by Merger    91

SECTION 7.10.

     Eligibility; Disqualification    91

SECTION 7.11.

     Preferential Collection of Claims Against Company    91
ARTICLE 8
DISCHARGE OF INDENTURE; DEFEASANCE

SECTION 8.01.

     Discharge of Liability on Securities; Defeasance    91

SECTION 8.02.

     Conditions to Defeasance    93

SECTION 8.03.

     Application of Trust Money    94

SECTION 8.04.

     Repayment to Company    94

SECTION 8.05.

     Indemnity for U.S. Government Obligations    94

SECTION 8.06.

     Reinstatement    94
ARTICLE 9
AMENDMENTS AND WAIVERS

SECTION 9.01.

     Without Consent of the Holders    95

SECTION 9.02.

     With Consent of the Holders    96

SECTION 9.03.

     Compliance with Trust Indenture Act    97

SECTION 9.04.

     Revocation and Effect of Consents and Waivers    97

SECTION 9.05.

     Notation on or Exchange of Securities    98

SECTION 9.06.

     Trustee to Sign Amendments    98

SECTION 9.07.

     Payment for Consent    98

SECTION 9.08.

     Additional Voting Terms; Calculation of Principal Amount    98

 

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ARTICLE 10
GUARANTEES
SECTION 10.01.      Guarantees    99
SECTION 10.02.      Limitation on Liability    101
SECTION 10.03.      Successors and Assigns    102
SECTION 10.04.      No Waiver    102
SECTION 10.05.      Modification    102
SECTION 10.06.      Execution of Supplemental Indenture for Future Guarantors    102
SECTION 10.07.      Non-Impairment    103
ARTICLE 11
SECURITY
SECTION 11.01.      Security Documents; Additional Collateral; Intercreditor Agreement    103
SECTION 11.02.      Recording, Registration and Opinions    104
SECTION 11.03.      Releases of Collateral    104
SECTION 11.04.      Form and Sufficiency of Release    105
SECTION 11.05.      Possession and Use of Collateral    106
SECTION 11.06.      Reports and Certificates Relating to Collateral    106
SECTION 11.07.      Collateral Agent    107
SECTION 11.08.      Purchaser Protected    110
SECTION 11.09.     

Authorization of Actions to Be Taken by the Collateral Agent Under the Security Documents

   110
SECTION 11.10.      Authorization of Receipt of Funds by the Trustee Under the Security Agreement    111
SECTION 11.11.      Powers Exercisable by Receiver or Collateral Agent    111
SECTION 11.12.      Compensation and Indemnification    111
ARTICLE 12
APPLICATION OF TRUST MONIES
SECTION 12.01.      Collateral Account    111
SECTION 12.02.      Withdrawal of Net Cash Proceeds to Fund an Asset Sale Offer    111
SECTION 12.03.      Withdrawal of Trust Monies for Investment in Replacement Assets    112
SECTION 12.04.      Investment of Trust Monies    112
SECTION 12.05.      Use of Trust Monies; Retirement of Securities    112
SECTION 12.06.      Disposition of Securities Retired    113

 

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ARTICLE 13
MISCELLANEOUS
SECTION 13.01.      Trust Indenture Act Controls    113
SECTION 13.02.      Notices    113
SECTION 13.03.      Communication by the Holders with Other Holders    114
SECTION 13.04.      Certificate and Opinion as to Conditions Precedent    115
SECTION 13.05.      Statements Required in Certificate or Opinion    115
SECTION 13.06.      When Securities Disregarded    115
SECTION 13.07.      Rules by Trustee, Paying Agent and Registrar    116
SECTION 13.08.      Legal Holidays    116
SECTION 13.09.      Governing Law    116
SECTION 13.10.      No Recourse Against Others    116
SECTION 13.11.      Successors    116
SECTION 13.12.      Multiple Originals    116
SECTION 13.13.      Table of Contents; Headings    116
SECTION 13.14.      Indenture Controls    116
SECTION 13.15.      Severability    116
SECTION 13.16.      Waiver of Jury Trial    117
SECTION 13.17.      Patriot Act    117

 

Appendix A        Provisions Relating to Initial Securities, Additional Securities and   
       Exchange Securities   
EXHIBIT INDEX
Exhibit A        Initial Security   
Exhibit B        Exchange Security   
Exhibit C        Form of Transferee Letter of Representation   
Exhibit D        Form of Supplemental Indenture   
SCHEDULE INDEX
Schedules 1        Title Insurance Coverage Amounts   

 

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INDENTURE dated as of October 5, 2010 among TPC GROUP LLC, a Texas limited liability company (the “Company”), the Guarantors, WILMINGTON TRUST COMPANY, as trustee (in such capacity, the “Trustee”), and DEUTSCHE BANK TRUST COMPANY AMERICAS, as collateral agent (in such capacity, the “Collateral Agent”) and paying agent, registrar and authentication agent (in such capacity, the “Authentication Agent”).

Each party agrees as follows for the benefit of the other parties and for the equal and ratable benefit of the Holders of (a) $350,000,000 aggregate principal amount of the Company’s 8 1/4% Senior Secured Notes due October 1, 2017 (the “Original Securities”) issued on the date hereof, (b) any Additional Securities that may be issued after the date hereof in the form of Exhibit A (all such securities in clauses (a) and (b) being referred to collectively as the “Initial Securities”) and (c) if and when issued as provided in the Registration Rights Agreement or otherwise registered under the Securities Act and issued, the Company’s 8 1/4% Senior Secured Notes due October 1, 2017 (the “Exchange Securities” and, together with the Initial Securities, the “Securities”) issued in the Registered Exchange Offer in exchange for any Initial Securities or otherwise registered under the Securities Act and issued in the form of Exhibit B. Subject to the conditions and compliance with the covenants set forth herein, the Company may issue an unlimited aggregate principal amount of Additional Securities.

ARTICLE 1

DEFINITIONS AND INCORPORATION BY REFERENCE

SECTION 1.01.    Definitions.

ABL Facility Collateral Agent” means Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas, as collateral agent under the Credit Agreement, and its successors and/or assigns in such capacity.

ABL Obligations” means (i) the Indebtedness and other obligations incurred under Section 4.03(b)(i) and (xvii) (to the extent incurred under a Credit Facility) which are secured by Permitted Liens on the Collateral, including any interest, fees, expenses or indemnification obligations related thereto and (ii) certain Hedging Obligations and cash management and other “bank product” obligations owed to an agent, an arranger or a lender or an affiliate of an agent, an arranger or a lender under a Credit Facility and more particularly described in the Intercreditor Agreement.

ABL Priority Collateral” will generally be defined in the Intercreditor Agreement as all of the following assets (whether now owned or hereafter acquired) of the Company or any Guarantor:

(a)        all Accounts (as defined under the UCC);

(b)        all Inventory (as defined under the UCC);


(c)        all payments and receivables in respect of Inventory and Accounts and all Deposit Accounts and other bank accounts into which such payments, receivables and related proceeds are deposited and otherwise maintained;

(d)        all General Intangibles (as defined under the UCC) relating to the foregoing;

(e)        all books and records relating to the foregoing; and

(f)        all proceeds and products of any and all of the foregoing (including without, limitation, all insurance and claims for insurance effected in respect thereof or held for the benefit of the Company or any Guarantor in respect thereof).

For the avoidance of doubt, no proceeds of any loans under the Credit Agreement or any proceeds of deposit accounts shall constitute ABL Priority Collateral to the extent that the proceeds thereof are used to acquire assets or property that would otherwise constitute Notes Priority Collateral.

ABL Security Documents” means one or more security agreements, pledges, mortgages, deeds of trust, pledge agreements, collateral assignments, trust deeds or other security documents or instruments evidencing or creating or purporting to create any security interests in favor of the ABL Facility Collateral Agent under the Credit Agreement or another Credit Facility.

Acquired Indebtedness” means, with respect to any specified Person:

(1)        Indebtedness of any other Person existing at the time such other Person is merged or consolidated with or into the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary or becomes a Restricted Subsidiary of such specified Person, and

(2)        Indebtedness secured by a Lien encumbering any asset acquired by such specified Person,

in each case, other than Indebtedness Incurred as consideration in, in contemplation of, or to provide all or any portion of the funds or credit support utilized to consummate, the transaction or series of related transactions pursuant to which such other Person became a Restricted Subsidiary of such specified Person or was otherwise acquired by such specified Person, or such asset was acquired by such specified Person, as applicable.

Additional Interest” means all additional interest then owing pursuant to the Registration Rights Agreement.

Additional Securities” means Securities issued from time to time under this Indenture subsequent to the Issue Date.

 

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Affiliate” of any specified Person means any other Person directly or indirectly controlling or controlled by or under direct or indirect common control with such specified Person. For purposes of this definition, “control” (including, with correlative meanings, the terms “controlling,” “controlled by” and “under common control with”), as used with respect to any Person, means the possession, directly or indirectly, of the power to direct or cause the direction of the management or policies of such Person, whether through the ownership of voting securities, by agreement or otherwise.

Appendix” means Appendix A attached hereto.

Applicable Premium” means, with respect to any Security on any applicable redemption date, the greater of:

(1)        1.0% of the then outstanding principal amount of the Security; and

(2)        the excess of:

(a)        the present value at such redemption date of (i) the redemption price of the Security at October 1, 2013 as set forth in Paragraph 5 of the applicable Security plus (ii) all required interest payments due on such Security through October 1, 2013 (excluding accrued but unpaid interest), computed using a discount rate equal to the Treasury Rate as of such redemption date plus 50 basis points; over

(b)        the then outstanding principal amount of the Security.

Asset Sale” means:

(1)        the sale, conveyance, transfer or other disposition (whether in a single transaction or a series of related transactions) of property or assets (including by way of a Sale/Leaseback Transaction) of the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary (each referred to in this definition as a “disposition”), or

(2)        the issuance or sale of Equity Interests (other than directors’ qualifying shares or shares or interests required to be held by foreign nationals or other third parties to the extent required by applicable law) of any Restricted Subsidiary (other than to the Company or another Restricted Subsidiary) (whether in a single transaction or a series of related transactions),

in each case other than:

(a)        a disposition of cash, Cash Equivalents or Investment Grade Securities or redundant, surplus, obsolete, damaged or worn out property or equipment in the ordinary course of business;

 

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(b)        the disposition of all or substantially all of the assets of the Company in a manner permitted pursuant to Section 5.01 or any disposition that constitutes a Change of Control;

(c)        any Restricted Payment that is permitted to be made under Section 4.04 or any Permitted Investment;

(d)        any disposition of assets or issuance or sale of Equity Interests of any Restricted Subsidiary with an aggregate Fair Market Value of less than $5.0 million;

(e)        any disposition of property or assets by a Restricted Subsidiary to the Company or by the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary to a Restricted Subsidiary; provided that, to the extent such property or assets constitutes Collateral, such disposition is to the Company or a Guarantor;

(f)        sales of assets received by the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries upon the foreclosure on a Lien;

(g)        sales, leases or other dispositions of products, services, accounts or inventory in the ordinary course of business;

(h)        the lease, assignment or sublease of any real or personal property in the ordinary course of business;

(i)        the grant in the ordinary course of business of any license of patents, trademarks, know-how and any other intellectual property;

(j)        the exercise by any Person in whose favor a Permitted Lien is granted of any of its rights in respect of such Permitted Lien;

(k)        a surrender or waiver of contract rights or the settlement, release or surrender of contract, tort or other claims of any kind;

(l)        any disposition of Equity Interests in, or other ownership interest in or assets or property of, an Unrestricted Subsidiary;

(m)        the sale of any property in a Sale/Leaseback Transaction within six months of the acquisition of such property; and

(n)        any disposition of (x) MTBE Assets, (y) Capital Stock of any MTBE Subsidiary or Permitted MTBE Joint Venture and (z) the real property upon which MTBE Assets disposed of pursuant to subclause (x) are located; provided that with respect to the disposition of real property (A) the boundaries of the real property being disposed of shall have been described in a third-party survey and (B) the Collateral Agent shall have received an Officers’ Certificate from the Company certifying that (i) the real property being disposed relates primarily to the MTBE Assets and (ii) the disposition of such real

 

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property does not materially adversely affect or impair (1) the business operations of the Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries as a whole or (2) the validity or priority of the Lien of the Security Documents on the balance of the Mortgaged Property.

Authentication Agent” means the party named as such in the preamble to this Indenture and any successor thereto.

Board of Directors” means as to any Person, the board of directors or managers, as applicable, of such Person (or, if such Person is a partnership, the board of directors or other governing body of the general partner of such Person) or any duly authorized committee thereof.

Borrowing Base” means the sum of (1) 85% of the book value (calculated in accordance with GAAP) of the accounts receivable of the Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries and (2) 65% of the book value (calculated in accordance with GAAP) of the inventory of the Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries, in each case as shown on the most recent consolidated balance sheet of the Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries.

Business Day” means a day other than a Saturday, Sunday or any other day on which banking institutions are authorized or required by law to close in New York City.

Capital Stock” means:

(1)        in the case of a corporation, corporate stock;

(2)        in the case of an association or business entity, any and all shares, interests, participations, rights or other equivalents (however designated) of corporate stock;

(3)        in the case of a partnership or limited liability company, partnership or membership interests (whether general or limited); and

(4)        any other interest or participation that confers on a Person the right to receive a share of the profits and losses of, or distributions of assets of, the issuing Person.

Capitalized Lease Obligation” means, at the time any determination thereof is to be made, the amount of the liability in respect of a capital lease that would at such time be required to be capitalized and reflected as a liability on a balance sheet (excluding the footnotes thereto) in accordance with GAAP.

Cash Equivalents” means:

(1)        any evidence of indebtedness, maturing not more than one year after the date of issue, issued by the United States of America or any instrumentality or agency thereof, the principal, interest and premium, if any, of which is guaranteed fully by, or backed by the full faith and credit of, the United States of America;

(2)        U.S. dollar, Canadian dollar or euro denominated (or other foreign currency fully hedged) time deposits, certificates of deposit and bankers acceptances maturing

 

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not more than one year after the date of purchase, issued by any commercial banking institution having, or which is the principal banking subsidiary of a bank holding company having, combined capital and surplus and undivided profits of not less than $200 million and a commercial paper rating of “P-1” (or higher) according to Moody’s, “A-1” (or higher) according to S&P or the equivalent rating by any other nationally recognized rating agency in the United States (any such bank, an “Approved Bank”), or a non-United States commercial banking institution which is either currently ranked among the 100 largest banks in the world (by assets, according to the American Banker), has combined capital and surplus and undivided profits of not less than $500 million or whose commercial paper (or the commercial paper of such bank’s holding company) has a rating of “P-1” (or higher) according to Moody’s, “A-1” (or higher) according to S&P or the equivalent rating by any other nationally recognized rating agency;

(3)        marketable general obligations issued by any state of the United States of America or any political subdivision of any such state or any public instrumentality thereof maturing within two years from the date of acquisition thereof and, at the time of acquisition thereof, having a credit rating of “A” (or the equivalent thereof) or better from either S&P or Moody’s;

(4)        commercial paper, maturing not more than one year after the date of purchase, issued or guaranteed by a corporation (other than the Company or any Subsidiary of the Company or any of their respective Affiliates) organized and existing under the laws of any state within the United States of America with a rating, at the time as of which any determination thereof is to be made, of “P-1” (or higher) according to Moody’s, “A-1” (or higher) according to S&P or the equivalent rating by any other nationally recognized rating agency;

(5)        demand deposits with any bank or trust company maintained in the ordinary course of business;

(6)        repurchase or reverse repurchase agreements covering obligations of the type specified in clause (1) and (2) with a term of not more than seven days with any Approved Bank; and

(7)        shares of any money market mutual fund rated at least AAA or the equivalent thereof by S&P or at least Aaa or the equivalent thereof by Moody’s, including, without limitation, any money market mutual fund.

Casualty or Condemnation Event” means, with respect to any property or asset, any (i) loss or destruction of, or damage to, such property or assets or (ii) any condemnation, seizure or taking, by exercise of the power of eminent domain or otherwise, of such property or asset, or confiscation or requisition of the use of such property or asset.

 

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Change of Control” means the occurrence of any of the following events:

(i)        the sale, lease or transfer, in one or a series of related transactions, of all or substantially all the assets of the Company and its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, to any Person, other than any transaction in compliance with Section 5.01; or

(ii)        the Company becomes aware (by way of a report or any other filing pursuant to Section 13(d) of the Exchange Act, proxy, vote, written notice or otherwise) of the acquisition by any Person or group (within the meaning of Section 13(d)(3) or Section 14(d)(2) of the Exchange Act, or any successor provision), including any group acting for the purpose of acquiring, holding or disposing of securities (within the meaning of Rule 13d-5(b)(1) under the Exchange Act), in a single transaction or in a related series of transactions, by way of merger, consolidation or other business combination or purchase of beneficial ownership (within the meaning of Rule 13d-3 under the Exchange Act, or any successor provision), of more than 50% of the total voting power of the Voting Stock of Parent,

(iii)        during any period of two consecutive years, individuals who at the beginning of such period constituted the Board of Directors of Parent (together with any new directors whose election by the Board of Directors or whose nomination for election by the equityholders of the Company was approved by a vote of a majority of the directors of Parent then still in office who were either directors at the beginning of such period or whose election or nomination for election was previously so approved) cease for any reason to constitute a majority of Parent’s Board of Directors then in office, or

(iv)        Parent fails to directly or indirectly own all of the Capital Stock of the Company.

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

Collateral” means all the assets and properties subject or purported to be subject to the security interests and liens created by the Security Documents and shall include any Mortgaged Property.

Collateral Account” means the collateral account established pursuant to this Indenture and the Security Documents in the name and under sole dominion and control of the Collateral Agent.

Collateral Agent” means Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas, in its capacity as Collateral Agent under the Security Documents, together with its successors.

Company” means the party named as such in the Preamble to this Indenture until a successor replaces it and, thereafter, means the successor and, for purposes of any provision contained herein and required by the TIA, each other obligor on the Securities.

 

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consolidated” means, with respect to any Person, such Person consolidated with its Restricted Subsidiaries, and shall not include any Unrestricted Subsidiary, but the interest of such Person in an Unrestricted Subsidiary shall be accounted for as an Investment.

Consolidated Interest Expense” means, with respect to any Person for any period, the sum, without duplication, of:

(1)        consolidated interest expense of such Person and its Restricted Subsidiaries for such period, to the extent such expense was deducted in computing Consolidated Net Income (including amortization of original issue discount, the interest component of Capitalized Lease Obligations and net payments and receipts (if any) pursuant to interest rate Hedging Obligations, and excluding amortization of deferred financing fees and expensing of any bridge or other financing fees, the non-cash portion of interest expense resulting from the reduction in the carrying value under purchase accounting of such Person’s or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries’ outstanding Indebtedness and commissions, discounts, yield and other fees and charges; and

(2)        consolidated capitalized interest of such Person and its Restricted Subsidiaries for such period, whether paid or accrued;

less interest income for such period;

provided that, for purposes of calculating Consolidated Interest Expense, no effect shall be given to the discount and/or premium resulting from the bifurcation of derivatives under FAS No. 133 and related interpretations as a result of the terms of the Indebtedness to which such Consolidated Interest Expense relates.

For purposes of this definition, interest on a Capitalized Lease Obligation shall be deemed to accrue at an interest rate reasonably determined by such Person to be the rate of interest implicit in such Capitalized Lease Obligation in accordance with GAAP.

Consolidated Net Income” means, with respect to any Person for any period, the aggregate of the Net Income of such Person and its Restricted Subsidiaries for such period, on a consolidated basis, determined in accordance with GAAP; provided, however, that:

(1)        any net after-tax extraordinary, nonrecurring or unusual gains or losses or income or expenses (less all fees and expenses relating thereto), shall be excluded;

(2)        the Net Income for such period shall not include the cumulative effect of a change in accounting principles during such period;

(3)        any net after-tax income or loss from discontinued operations and any net after-tax gains or losses on disposal of discontinued operations shall be excluded;

(4)        any net after-tax gains or losses (less all fees and expenses or charges relating thereto) attributable to business dispositions or asset dispositions other than in the

 

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ordinary course of business (as determined in good faith by the Company) shall be excluded;

(5)        any net after-tax gains or losses (less all fees and expenses or charges relating thereto) attributable to the early extinguishment of indebtedness shall be excluded;

(6)        the Net Income for such period of any Person that is not a Subsidiary of such Person, or is an Unrestricted Subsidiary, or that is accounted for by the equity method of accounting, shall be included only to the extent of the amount of dividends or distributions or other payments paid in cash (or to the extent converted into cash) to such Person or a Restricted Subsidiary thereof in respect of such period;

(7)        solely for the purpose of determining the amount available for Restricted Payments under Section 4.04(a)(3), the Net Income for such period of any Restricted Subsidiary (other than any Guarantor) shall be excluded to the extent that the declaration or payment of dividends or similar distributions by such Restricted Subsidiary of its Net Income is not at the date of determination permitted without any prior governmental approval (which has not been obtained) or, directly or indirectly, by the operation of the terms of its charter or any agreement, instrument, judgment, decree, order, statute, rule or governmental regulation applicable to that Restricted Subsidiary or its stockholders, unless such restrictions with respect to the payment of dividends or similar distributions have been legally waived; provided that (x) the net loss of any such Restricted Subsidiary shall be included therein and (y) the Consolidated Net Income of such Person shall be increased by the amount of dividends or other distributions or other payments actually paid in cash (or converted into cash) by any such Restricted Subsidiary to such Person, to the extent not already included therein;

(8)        any non-cash impairment charges or asset write-off resulting from the application of FAS Nos. 142 and 144, and the amortization of intangibles arising pursuant to FAS No. 141, shall be excluded;

(9)        unrealized non-cash losses and gains under hedging contracts, including, without limitation, those resulting from the application of FAS No. 133, shall be excluded; and

(10)        any non-cash compensation expense realized from employee benefit plans or post-employment benefit plans, grants of stock appreciation or similar rights, stock options or other rights to officers, directors and employees of such Person or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries shall be excluded.

Notwithstanding the foregoing, for the purpose of Section 4.04 only (i) Consolidated Net Income shall be reduced by the amount of any Permitted Parent Tax Payments made by the Company to the extent such Permitted Tax Payments would otherwise increase the amount of Restricted Payments permitted under such covenant and (ii) there shall be excluded from Consolidated Net Income any dividends, repayments of loans or advances or other transfers of assets from Unrestricted Subsidiaries of the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary of the Company

 

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to the extent such dividends, repayments or transfers increase the amount of Restricted Payments permitted under Section 4.04(a)(3)(E).

Consolidated Net Tangible Assets” means, on any date, the aggregate amount of Total Assets of the Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries minus (a) all current liabilities of the Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries (excluding current maturities of long term debt), (b) all goodwill of the Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries and (c) current and long term assets attributable to derivative contracts, all determined on a consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP.

Consolidated Non-cash Charges” means, with respect to any Person for any period, the aggregate depreciation, amortization, impairment, compensation, rent and other non-cash expenses and non-cash charges of such Person and its Restricted Subsidiaries reducing Consolidated Net Income of such Person for such period on a consolidated basis and otherwise determined in accordance with GAAP, but excluding any such charge which consists of or requires an accrual of, or cash reserve for, anticipated cash charges for any future period.

Consolidated Taxes” means, with respect to any Person and its Restricted Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis for any period, provision for taxes based on income, profits or capital, including, without limitation, state franchise and similar taxes, and including an amount equal to the amount of tax distributions actually made to the holders of Capital Stock of such Person.

Contingent Obligations” means, with respect to any Person, any obligation of such Person guaranteeing any leases, dividends or other obligations that do not constitute Indebtedness (referred to in this definition as “primary obligations”) of any other Person (referred to in this definition as the “primary obligor”) in any manner, whether directly or indirectly, including, without limitation, any obligation of such Person, whether or not contingent:

(1)        to purchase any such primary obligation or any property constituting direct or indirect security therefor,

(2)        to advance or supply funds:

(a)        for the purchase or payment of any such primary obligation; or

(b)        to maintain working capital or equity capital of the primary obligor or otherwise to maintain the net worth or solvency of the primary obligor; or

(3)        to purchase property, securities or services primarily for the purpose of assuring the owner of any such primary obligation of the ability of the primary obligor to make payment of such primary obligation against loss in respect thereof.

Credit Agreement” means the Amended and Restated Revolving Credit Agreement dated as of April 29, 2010 among the Company, certain subsidiaries of the Company, the financial institutions named therein, Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas, as administrative

 

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agent and collateral agent, and Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas and Wells Fargo Capital Finance, LLC, as co-collateral agents, as amended, restated, supplemented, modified, waived, replaced (whether or not upon termination, and whether with the original lenders, investors, agents or otherwise), restructured, repaid, refunded or refinanced (including by means of any capital markets transaction and including any refinancing that increases the amount of Indebtedness borrowed or issued thereunder) in whole or in part from time to time.

Credit Facilities” means one or more debt facilities (including, without limitation, the Credit Agreement), commercial paper facilities or Debt Issuances, in each case with banks or other institutional lenders or institutional investors providing for revolving credit loans, term loans, receivables financing (including through the sale of receivables to such lenders or to special purpose entities formed to borrow from such lenders against such receivables), letters of credit or other borrowings or Debt Issuances, in each case as amended, restated, supplemented, modified, waived, replaced (whether or not upon termination, and whether with the original lenders, investors, agents or otherwise), restructured, repaid, refunded or refinanced (including by means of any capital markets transaction and including any refinancing that increases the amount of Indebtedness borrowed or issued thereunder) in whole or in part from time to time.

Debt Issuance” means, with respect to the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries, one or more issuances after the Issue Date of Indebtedness evidenced by notes, debentures, bonds or other similar securities or instruments.

Default” means any event which is, or after notice or passage of time or both would be, an Event of Default.

Designated Non-cash Consideration” means the Fair Market Value of non-cash consideration received by the Company or one of its Restricted Subsidiaries in connection with an Asset Sale that is so designated as Designated Non-cash Consideration pursuant to an Officers’ Certificate, setting forth the basis of such valuation, less the amount of cash or Cash Equivalents received in connection with a subsequent sale of such Designated Non-cash Consideration.

Designated Preferred Stock” means Preferred Stock of the Company or any Parent Company (other than Disqualified Stock), that is issued for cash (other than to the Company or any of its Subsidiaries or an employee stock ownership plan or trust established by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries) and is so designated as Designated Preferred Stock pursuant to an Officers’ Certificate of the Company on or promptly after the issuance date thereof, the cash proceeds of which are excluded from the calculation set forth in Section 4.04(a)(3).

Discharge of ABL Obligations” means that the ABL Obligations have been terminated and that there remain no obligations of any kind whatsoever of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries with respect thereto (other than contingent indemnification obligations as to which no claims shall have accrued or be pending).

Disqualified 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 redeemable or exchangeable), or upon the happening of any event:

 

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(1)       matures or is mandatorily redeemable, pursuant to a sinking fund obligation or otherwise (other than as a result of a change of control or asset sale; provided that the purchase requirement triggered by the occurrence of a change of control or asset sale may not become operative until compliance with the asset sale and change of control provisions applicable to the Securities (including the purchase of any Securities tendered pursuant thereto)), or

(2)       is redeemable at the option of the holder thereof, in whole or in part,

in each case prior to 91 days after the maturity date of the Securities; provided, however, that only the portion of Capital Stock which so matures or is mandatorily redeemable, is so convertible or exchangeable or is so redeemable at the option of the holder thereof prior to such date shall be deemed to be Disqualified Stock; provided, further, however, that if such Capital Stock is issued to any employee or to any plan for the benefit of employees of the Company or its Subsidiaries or by any such plan to such employees, such Capital Stock shall not constitute Disqualified Stock solely because it may be required to be repurchased by the Company in order to satisfy applicable statutory or regulatory obligations or as a result of such employee’s termination, death or disability; provided, further, that any class of Capital Stock of such Person that by its terms authorizes such Person to satisfy its obligations thereunder by delivery of Capital Stock that is not Disqualified Stock shall not be deemed to be Disqualified Stock. The amount (or principal amount) of Disqualified Stock deemed to be outstanding at any time for purposes of the indenture will be the maximum amount that the Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries may become obligated to pay upon the maturity of, or pursuant to any mandatory redemption provisions of, such Disqualified Stock, exclusive of accrued dividends.

Domestic Subsidiary” means a Restricted Subsidiary that is not a Foreign Subsidiary.

EBITDA” means, with respect to any Person for any period, the Consolidated Net Income of such Person for such period plus, without duplication, to the extent the same was deducted in calculating Consolidated Net Income:

(1)       Consolidated Taxes; plus

(2)       Consolidated Interest Expense; plus

(3)       Consolidated Non-cash Charges; plus

(4)       any expenses or charges (other than Consolidated Non-cash Charges) related to any issuance of Equity Interests, Investment, acquisition, disposition, recapitalization or the Incurrence or repayment of Indebtedness permitted to be incurred by this Indenture (including a refinancing thereof) (whether or not successful), including (i) such fees, expenses or charges related to the offering of the Securities, (ii) any amendment or other modification of the Securities or other Indebtedness and (iii) any Additional Interest in respect of the Securities; plus

 

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(5)       any costs or expense incurred pursuant to any management equity plan or stock option plan or other management or employee benefit plan or agreement or any stock subscription, to the extent that such costs or expenses are funded with cash proceeds contributed to the capital of the Company or a Guarantor or the net cash proceeds of an issuance of Equity Interests of the Company (other than Disqualified Stock) solely to the extent that such net cash proceeds are excluded from the calculation of the amount available for Restricted Payments under Section 4.04(a)(3); plus

(6)       (a) the Net Income of any Person and its Restricted Subsidiaries shall be calculated without deducting the income attributed to, or adding the loses attributed to, the minority equity interests of third parties in any non-wholly owned Restricted Subsidiary except to the extent of the dividends declared or paid in respect of such period or any prior period on the shares of Capital Stock of such Restricted Subsidiary held by such third parties and (b) any ordinary course dividend, distributions or other payment paid in cash and received from any Person in excess of amounts included in clause (6) pursuant to the definition of “Consolidated Net Income” shall be included;

less, without duplication, non-cash items increasing Consolidated Net Income for such period (excluding any items which represent the reversal of any accrual of, or cash reserve for, anticipated cash charges in any prior period).

Equity Interests” means Capital Stock and all warrants, options or other rights to acquire Capital Stock (but excluding any debt security that is convertible into, or exchangeable for, Capital Stock).

Equity Offering” means any public or private sale after the Issue Date of common stock or Preferred Stock of the Company or a Parent Company (other than Disqualified Stock), other than:

(1)       public offerings with respect to the Company’s or a Parent Company’s common stock registered on Form S-8; and

(2)       any such public or private sale that constitutes an Excluded Contribution.

Exchange Act” means the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and the rules and regulations of the SEC promulgated thereunder.

Excluded Contributions” means the net cash proceeds and the Fair Market Value (as determined in accordance with the last sentence of Section 4.04(a)) of property other than cash received by the Company after the Issue Date from:

(1)       contributions to its common equity capital, and

(2)       the issue or sale (other than to a Subsidiary of the Company or pursuant to any Company or Subsidiary management equity plan or stock option plan or any other management or employee benefit plan or agreement) of Equity Interests (other than

 

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Disqualified Stock and Designated Preferred Stock) of the Company or any Parent Company,

in each case designated as Excluded Contributions pursuant to an Officers’ Certificate of the Company on or promptly after the date such capital contributions are made or the date such Equity Interests are issued or sold, as the case may be.

Fair Market Value” means, with respect to any asset or property, the price which could be negotiated in an arm’s-length 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.

FAS” means the Statement of Financial Accounting Standards, including any codification or renumbering of such standards or any successor or replacement section or sections promulgated by the Financial Accounting Standards Board.

Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio” means, with respect to any Person for any period, the ratio of EBITDA of such Person for such period to the Fixed Charges of such Person for such period. In the event that the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries Incurs or redeems any Indebtedness (other than in the case of revolving credit borrowings, in which case interest expense shall be computed based upon the average daily balance of such Indebtedness during the applicable period) or issues or redeems Preferred Stock subsequent to the commencement of the period for which the Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio is being calculated but prior to the event for which the calculation of the Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio is made (referred to in this definition as the “Calculation Date”), then the Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio shall be calculated giving pro forma effect to such Incurrence or redemption of Indebtedness, or such issuance or redemption of Preferred Stock, as if the same had occurred at the beginning of the applicable four-quarter period.

For purposes of making the computation referred to in the preceding paragraph, Investments, acquisitions, dispositions, mergers, consolidations and discontinued operations (as determined in accordance with GAAP), in each case with respect to an operating unit of a business, and operational changes, that the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries has both determined to make and made after the Issue Date and during the four-quarter reference period or subsequent to such reference period and on or prior to or simultaneously with the Calculation Date (each, for purposes of this definition, a “pro forma event”) shall be calculated on a pro forma basis assuming that all such Investments, acquisitions, dispositions, mergers, consolidations, discontinued operations and operational changes (and the change of any associated fixed charge obligations and the change in EBITDA resulting therefrom) had occurred on the first day of the four-quarter reference period. If since the beginning of such period any Person that subsequently became a Restricted Subsidiary or was merged with or into the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary since the beginning of such period shall have made or effected any Investment, acquisition, disposition, merger, consolidation or discontinued operation, in each case with respect to an operating unit of a business, or operational change that would have required adjustment pursuant to this definition, then the Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio shall be calculated giving pro forma effect thereto for such period as if such Investment, acquisition, disposition, merger, consolidation,

 

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discontinued operation, or operational change had occurred at the beginning of the applicable four-quarter period.

In addition, for purposes of making the computation referred to in the second preceding paragraph, (i) any Person that is a Restricted Subsidiary of the specified Person on the Calculation Date will be deemed to have been a Restricted Subsidiary of the specified Person at all times during the applicable four-quarter period, and (ii) any Person that is not a Restricted Subsidiary of the specified Person on the Calculation Date will be deemed not to have been a Restricted Subsidiary of the specified Person at any time during the applicable four-quarter period.

For purposes of this definition, whenever pro forma effect is to be given to any pro forma event, the pro forma calculations shall be made in good faith by a responsible financial or accounting officer of the Company. If any Indebtedness bears a floating rate of interest and is being given pro forma effect, the interest on such Indebtedness shall be calculated as if the rate in effect on the Calculation Date had been the applicable rate for the entire period (taking into account any Hedging Obligations applicable to such Indebtedness if such Hedging Obligation has a remaining term in excess of 12 months). Interest on a Capitalized Lease Obligation shall be deemed to accrue at an interest rate reasonably determined by a responsible financial or accounting officer of the Company to be the rate of interest implicit in such Capitalized Lease Obligation in accordance with GAAP. For purposes of making the computation referred to above, interest on any Indebtedness under a revolving credit facility computed on a pro forma basis shall be computed based upon the average daily balance of such Indebtedness during the applicable period. Interest on Indebtedness that may optionally be determined at an interest rate based upon a factor of a prime or similar rate, a eurocurrency interbank offered rate, or other rate, shall be deemed to have been based upon the rate actually chosen, or, if none, then based upon such optional rate chosen as the Company may designate. Any such pro forma calculation shall comply with the requirements of Rule 11-02 of Regulation S-X as promulgated by the SEC.

Fixed Charges” means, with respect to any Person for any period, the sum of:

(1)       Consolidated Interest Expense of such Person for such period, and

(2)       all cash dividend payments (excluding items eliminated in consolidation) on any series of Preferred Stock or Disqualified Stock of such Person and its Restricted Subsidiaries.

Flood Insurance Laws” means, collectively, (i) the National Flood Insurance Act of 1968 as now or hereafter in effect or any successor statute thereto, (ii) the Flood Disaster Protection Act of 1973 as now or hereafter in effect or any successor statute thereto, (iii) the National Flood Insurance Reform Act of 1994 as now or hereafter in effect or any successor statute thereto and (iv) the Flood Insurance Reform Act of 2004 as now or hereafter in effect or any successor statute thereto.

 

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Foreign Subsidiary” means a Restricted Subsidiary not organized or existing under the laws of the United States of America or any state thereof or the District of Columbia, or any direct or indirect subsidiary of any such Restricted Subsidiary.

GAAP” means generally accepted accounting principles set forth in the opinions and pronouncements of the Accounting Principles Board of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and statements and pronouncements of the Financial Accounting Standards Board or in such other statements by such other entity as have been approved by a significant segment of the accounting profession, which are in effect on the Issue Date. For the purposes of this Indenture, the term “consolidated” with respect to any Person shall mean such Person consolidated with its Restricted Subsidiaries, and shall not include any Unrestricted Subsidiary, but the interest of such Person in an Unrestricted Subsidiary will be accounted for as an Investment. At any time after the Issue Date, the Company may elect to apply IFRS accounting principles in lieu of GAAP and, upon any such election, references herein to GAAP shall thereafter be construed to mean IFRS (except as otherwise provided in the Indenture); provided that any such election, once made, shall be irrevocable; provided, further, any calculation or determination in the Indenture that requires the application of GAAP for periods that include fiscal quarters ended prior to the Company’s election to apply IFRS shall remain as previously calculated or determined in accordance with GAAP. The Company shall give notice of any such election made in accordance with this definition to the Trustee.

guarantee” means a guarantee (other than by endorsement of negotiable instruments for collection in the ordinary course of business), direct or indirect, in any manner (including, without limitation, letters of credit and reimbursement agreements in respect thereof), of all or any part of any Indebtedness.

Guarantee” means any guarantee of the obligations of the Company under this Indenture and the Securities by any Person in accordance with the provisions of this Indenture.

Guarantor” means any Person that Incurs a Guarantee; provided that upon the release or discharge of such Person from its Guarantee in accordance with this Indenture, such Person shall cease to be a Guarantor.

Hedging Obligations” means, with respect to any Person, the obligations of such Person under:

(1)       currency exchange, interest rate or commodity swap agreements, currency exchange, interest rate or commodity cap agreements and currency exchange, interest rate or commodity collar agreements; and

(2)       other agreements or arrangements designed to protect such Person against fluctuations in currency exchange rates, interest rates or commodity prices.

Holder” means the Person in whose name a Security is registered on the registrar’s books.

 

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IFRS” means International Financial Reporting Standards, as promulgated by the International Accounting Standards Board, which are in effect on the Issue Date.

Incur” means issue, assume, guarantee, incur or otherwise become liable for; provided, however, that any Indebtedness or Capital Stock of a Person existing at the time such person becomes a Subsidiary (whether by merger, consolidation, acquisition or otherwise) shall be deemed to be Incurred by such Person at the time it becomes a Subsidiary.

Indebtedness” means, with respect to any Person:

(1)       the principal and premium (if any) of any indebtedness of such Person, whether or not contingent, (a) in respect of borrowed money, (b) evidenced by bonds, notes, debentures or similar instruments or letters of credit or bankers’ acceptances (or, without duplication, reimbursement agreements in respect thereof), (c) representing the deferred and unpaid purchase price of any property, except any such balance that constitutes a trade payable or similar obligation to a trade creditor Incurred, in the ordinary course of business, which purchase price is due more than six months after the date of placing the property in service or taking delivery and title thereto, (d) in respect of Capitalized Lease Obligations, or (e) representing any Hedging Obligations, if and to the extent that any of the foregoing indebtedness (other than letters of credit and Hedging Obligations) would appear as a liability on a balance sheet (excluding the footnotes thereto) of such Person prepared in accordance with GAAP;

(2)       to the extent not otherwise included, any obligation of such Person to be liable for, or to pay, as obligor, guarantor or otherwise, on the Indebtedness of another Person (other than by endorsement of negotiable instruments for collection in the ordinary course of business); and

(3)       to the extent not otherwise included, Indebtedness of another Person secured by a Lien on any asset owned by such Person (whether or not such Indebtedness is assumed by such Person); provided, however, that the amount of such Indebtedness will be the lesser of: (a) the Fair Market Value of such asset at such date of determination, and (b) the amount of such Indebtedness of such other Person;

provided that the following shall be deemed not to constitute Indebtedness:

(i)        Contingent Obligations;

(ii)       any indebtedness which has been defeased in accordance with GAAP or defeased pursuant to the deposit of cash or Cash Equivalents (in an amount sufficient to satisfy all such indebtedness obligations at maturity or redemption, as applicable, and all payments of interest and premium, if any) in a trust or account created or pledged for the sole benefit of the holders of such indebtedness, and the other applicable terms of the instrument governing such indebtedness; and

 

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(iii)       any obligations arising from agreements of a Person providing for indemnification, guarantees, adjustment of purchase price, holdbacks, contingent payment obligations based on a final financial statement or performance of acquired or disposed of assets or similar obligations (other than guarantees of Indebtedness), in each case, incurred or assumed by such Person in connection with the acquisition or disposition of assets (including through mergers, consolidations or otherwise).

The amount (or principal amount) of any Indebtedness outstanding as of any date will be:

(1)         the accreted value of the Indebtedness, in the case of any Indebtedness issued with original issue discount;

(2)         in the case of Hedging Obligations, the termination value of the agreement or arrangement giving rise to such Hedging Obligations that would be payable by such Person at such date; and

(3)         the principal amount of the Indebtedness, in the case of any other Indebtedness.

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

Independent Financial Advisor” means an accounting, appraisal or investment banking firm or consultant to Persons engaged in a Similar Business, in each case of nationally recognized standing that is, in the good faith determination of the Company, qualified to perform the task for which it has been engaged.

Initial Mortgaged Property” means each parcel of real property designated as being subject to a Mortgage on Schedule 4 to the Purchase Agreement dated September 29, 2010, among the Company, the Guarantors and the Initial Purchasers and the improvements and fixtures located thereon

Initial Purchasers” means Deutsche Bank Securities Inc., J.P. Morgan Securities LLC, Oppenheimer & Co. Inc., Macquarie Capital (USA) Inc. and such other initial purchasers party to the purchase agreement or future purchase agreements entered into in connection with an offer and sale of notes.

Intercreditor Agreement” means the Intercreditor Agreement dated the Issue Date by and among the ABL Facility Collateral Agent and the Collateral Agent and consented to and acknowledged by the Company, as the same may be amended, modified, restated, supplemented or replaced from time to time in accordance with its terms.

 

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Investment Grade Securities” means:

(1)         securities issued or directly and fully guaranteed or insured by the U.S. government or any agency or instrumentality thereof (other than Cash Equivalents) and in each case with maturities not exceeding two years from the date of acquisition,

(2)         securities that have a rating equal to or higher than Baa3 (or the equivalent) by Moody’s or BBB- (or the equivalent) by S&P, or an equivalent rating by any other Rating Agency,

(3)         investments in any fund that invests at least 95% of its assets in investments of the type described in clauses (1) and (2) which fund may also hold immaterial amounts of cash pending investment and/or distribution, and

(4)         corresponding instruments in countries other than the United States customarily utilized for high quality investments and in each case with maturities not exceeding two years from the date of acquisition.

Investments” means, with respect to any Person, all investments by such Person in other Persons (including Affiliates) in the form of loans (including guarantees), advances or capital contributions (excluding accounts receivable, trade credit and advances to customers and commission, travel and similar advances to officers, employees and consultants made in the ordinary course of business), purchases or other acquisitions for consideration of Indebtedness, Equity Interests or other securities issued by any other Person and investments that are required by GAAP to be classified on the balance sheet of the Company in the same manner as the other investments included in this definition to the extent such transactions involve the transfer of cash or other property. Except as otherwise provided in the indenture, the amount of an Investment will be determined at the time the Investment is made and without giving effect to subsequent changes in value or write-ups, write-downs or write-offs with respect to such Investment. For purposes of the definition of “Unrestricted Subsidiary” and Section 4.04:

(1)         “Investments” shall include the portion (proportionate to the Company’s equity interest in such Subsidiary) of the Fair Market Value of the net assets of a Subsidiary of the Company at the time that such Subsidiary is designated an Unrestricted Subsidiary; provided, however, that upon a redesignation of such Subsidiary as a Restricted Subsidiary, the Company shall be deemed to continue to have a permanent “Investment” in an Unrestricted Subsidiary equal to an amount (if positive) equal to:

(a)         the Company’s “Investment” in such Subsidiary at the time of such redesignation less

(b)         the portion (proportionate to the Company’s equity interest in such Subsidiary) of the Fair Market Value of the net assets of such Subsidiary at the time of such redesignation; and

 

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(2)         any property transferred to or from an Unrestricted Subsidiary shall be valued at its Fair Market Value at the time of such transfer, in each case as determined in good faith by the Board of Directors of the Company.

Issue Date” means October 5, 2010.

Lien” means, with respect to any asset, any mortgage, lien, pledge, charge, security interest or encumbrance of any kind in respect of such asset, whether or not filed, recorded or otherwise perfected under applicable law (including any conditional sale or other title retention agreement, any lease in the nature thereof, any option or other agreement to sell or give a security interest in and any filing of or agreement to give any financing statement under the Uniform Commercial Code (or equivalent statutes) of any jurisdiction); provided that in no event shall an operating lease, rights of set-off or netting arrangements be deemed to constitute a Lien.

Material Domestic Subsidiary” means any Domestic Subsidiary of the Company, of which either (i) the consolidated assets were more than 2% of the Company’s consolidated assets as of the end of the most recently completed fiscal year of the Company for which audited financial statements are available or (ii) the consolidated total revenues of which were more than 2% of the Company’s consolidated total revenues for such period; provided that any Domestic Subsidiary shall be deemed a Material Domestic Subsidiary if either (a) the consolidated assets of such Domestic Subsidiary would cause the consolidated assets of all Domestic Subsidiaries which are not Material Domestic Subsidiaries to exceed 5% of the Company’s consolidated assets or (b) the consolidated total revenues of such Domestic Subsidiary would cause the consolidated total revenues of all Domestic Subsidiaries which are not Material Domestic Subsidiaries to exceed 5% of the Company’s consolidated total revenues.

Moody’s” means Moody’s Investors Service, Inc. or any successor to the rating agency business thereof.

Mortgage” means each mortgage, deed of trust or deed to secure debt creating a lien on the Mortgaged Property granted by the Company or any Subsidiary in favor of the Collateral Agent for the benefit of the Secured Parties securing the Secured Obligations.

Mortgaged Property” means all right, title and interest of the Company and its Subsidiaries in and to (i) the Initial Mortgaged Property and (ii) each additional parcel of real property (and the improvements and fixtures located thereon) that becomes subject to a Mortgage pursuant to Section 4.16 hereof.

MTBE” means methyl tertiary butyl ether.

MTBE Assets” means assets of the Company and its Subsidiaries consisting of (a) two dehydrogenation units and the MTBE processing unit associated therewith, all situated on real property in Houston, Harris County, Texas, (b) the MTBE processing unit situated on real property in Port Neches, Jefferson County, Texas, (c) the related structures, fixtures, buildings, equipment, easements, pipelines, piping, vehicles, rolling stock, trailers, MTBE product inventory and other tangible personal property reasonably related to such dehydrogenation or MTBE

 

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processing units and the manufacture, purchase, sale or transportation of MTBE, and (d) any Capital Stock in any Permitted MTBE Joint Venture, but excluding cash and Cash Equivalents and excluding any Capital Stock in an MTBE Subsidiary.

MTBE Subsidiaries” means (x) Port Neches Fuels, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company, and (y) any other Subsidiary of the Company that owns MTBE Assets, in each case so long as such Person owns no material assets other than MTBE Assets.

Net Cash Proceeds” means the aggregate cash proceeds received by the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries in respect of any Asset Sale or Casualty or Condemnation Event (including, without limitation, any cash received in respect of or upon the sale or other disposition of any Designated Non-cash Consideration received in any Asset Sale or Casualty or Condemnation Event and any cash payments received by way of deferred payment of principal pursuant to a note or installment receivable or otherwise, but only as and when received, but excluding: the assumption by the acquiring Person of Indebtedness relating to the disposed assets or other consideration received in any other non-cash form), net of:

(1)         the direct costs relating to such Asset Sale or Casualty or Condemnation Event and the sale or disposition of such Designated Non-cash Consideration (including, without limitation, legal, accounting and investment banking fees, brokerage and sales commissions and title and recording tax expenses), and any relocation expenses Incurred as a result thereof,

(2)         taxes paid or payable as a result thereof (after taking into account any available tax credits or deductions and any tax sharing arrangements related thereto),

(3)         amounts required to be applied to the repayment of principal, premium (if any) and interest on Indebtedness required (other than pursuant to Section 4.06(b)) to be paid as a result of such transaction,

(4)         distributions and other payments required to be made to minority interest holders in Restricted Subsidiaries or joint ventures as a result of such Asset Sale, and

(5)         any deduction of appropriate amounts to be provided by the Company as a reserve in accordance with GAAP or any amounts placed in escrow (it being agreed that amounts placed in escrow shall, upon their release to the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary from such escrow, constitute Net Cash Proceeds), in either case for adjustment in respect of the sale price of such properties or assets or against any liabilities associated with the asset disposed of in such transaction and retained by the Company after such sale or other disposition thereof, including, without limitation, pension and other post-employment benefit liabilities and liabilities related to environmental matters or against any indemnification obligations associated with such transaction.

Net Income” means, with respect to any Person, the net income (loss) of such Person, determined in accordance with GAAP and before any reduction in respect of Preferred Stock dividends.

 

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Note Liens” means all Liens in favor of the Collateral Agent on Collateral securing the Note Obligations, and any Permitted Additional Pari Passu Obligations.

Note Obligations” means the Indebtedness Incurred and Obligations under this Indenture and the Securities.

Notes Priority Collateral” has the meaning assigned to the defined term “Notes First Priority Collateral” in the Intercreditor Agreement.

Obligations” means any principal, interest, penalties, fees, indemnifications, reimbursements (including, without limitation, reimbursement obligations with respect to letters of credit and bankers’ acceptances), damages and other liabilities payable under the documentation governing any Indebtedness; provided that Obligations with respect to the Securities shall not include fees or indemnifications in favor of the Trustee and other third parties other than the holders of the Securities.

Offering Memorandum” means the offering memorandum relating to the offering of the Original Securities dated September 29, 2010.

Officer” means the Chairman of the Board, Chief Executive Officer, Chief Financial Officer, President, any Executive Vice President, Senior Vice President or Vice President, the Treasurer or the Secretary of the Company.

Officers’ Certificate” means a certificate signed on behalf of the Company by two Officers of the Company, one of whom must be the principal executive officer, the principal financial officer, the treasurer or the principal accounting officer of the Company that meets the requirements set forth in this Indenture.

Opinion of Counsel” means a written opinion from legal counsel who is acceptable to the Trustee and, if addressed to them, the Paying Agent, Authentication Agent, Registrar and Collateral Agent. The counsel may be an employee of or counsel to the Company, the Trustee, Paying Agent, Authentication Agent, Registrar and Collateral Agent, as applicable.

Parent” means TPC Group Inc., a Delaware corporation.

Parent Company” means Parent and any other Person that directly or indirectly owns all of the Capital Stock of the Company (other than directors’ qualifying shares to the extent applicable).

Pari Passu Indebtedness” means:

(1)         with respect to the Company, the Securities and any Indebtedness which ranks pari passu in right of payment to the Securities; and

(2)         with respect to any Guarantor, its Guarantee and any Indebtedness which ranks pari passu in right of payment to such Guarantor’s Guarantee.

 

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Permitted Additional Pari Passu Obligations” means (i) Indebtedness permitted to be incurred pursuant to Section 4.03(b)(xvii) (other than any such Indebtedness incurred under a Credit Facility) and (ii) obligations under any additional Indebtedness in an amount not to exceed an amount such that immediately after giving effect to the Incurrence of such additional Indebtedness and the receipt and application of the proceeds therefrom, the Company’s Senior Secured Leverage Ratio would not exceed 2.75 to 1.00, in each case secured by the Note Liens on the same or substantially similar intercreditor arrangements as those set forth in the Intercreditor Agreement; provided that (i) the representative of such Permitted Additional Pari Passu Obligation executes a joinder agreement to the applicable Security Documents in the form attached thereto agreeing to be bound thereby and (ii) the Company has designated such Indebtedness as “Permitted Additional Pari Passu Obligations” under the Security Agreement.

Permitted Asset Swap” means the concurrent purchase and sale or exchange of Related Business Assets or a combination of Related Business Assets and cash or Cash Equivalents between the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries and another Person; provided that any cash or Cash Equivalents received must be applied in accordance with (and to the extent required by) Section 4.06.

Permitted Investments” means:

(1)         any Investment in the Company (including the Securities) or any Restricted Subsidiary;

(2)         any Investment in Cash Equivalents or Investment Grade Securities;

(3)         any Investment by the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary in a Person that is primarily engaged in a Similar Business if as a result of such Investment (a) such Person becomes a Restricted Subsidiary of the Company, or (b) such Person, in one transaction or a series of related transactions, is merged, consolidated or amalgamated with or into, or transfers or conveys all or substantially all of its assets to, or is liquidated into, the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary;

(4)         any Investment in securities or other assets not constituting Cash Equivalents and received in connection with an Asset Sale made pursuant to Section 4.06 or any other disposition of assets not constituting an Asset Sale;

(5)         any Investment (x) existing on the Issue Date or made pursuant to binding commitments in effect on the Issue Date and (y) that replaces, refinances, refunds, renews or extends any Investment described under the immediately preceding clause (x), provided that any such Investment is in an amount that does not exceed the amount replaced, refinanced, refunded, renewed or extended;

(6)         loans or advances to officers, directors and employees not in excess of $3.0 million outstanding at any one time in the aggregate;

 

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(7)         any Investment acquired by the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries (a) in exchange for any other Investment or accounts receivable held by the Company or any such Restricted Subsidiary in connection with or as a result of a bankruptcy, workout, reorganization or recapitalization of the Company of such other Investment or accounts receivable, or (b) as a result of a foreclosure by the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries with respect to any secured Investment or other transfer of title with respect to any secured Investment in default;

(8)         Hedging Obligations permitted under Section 4.03(b)(x);

(9)         additional Investments by the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries having an aggregate Fair Market Value, taken together with all other Investments made pursuant to this clause (9) that are at the time outstanding, not to exceed the greater of (x) $35 million and (y) 5.0% of Consolidated Net Tangible Assets at the time of such Investment (with the Fair Market Value of each Investment being measured at the time made and without giving effect to subsequent changes in value), at any one time outstanding;

(10)       loans and advances to officers, directors and employees for business-related travel expenses, moving and relocation expenses and other similar expenses, in each case Incurred in the ordinary course of business;

(11)       Investments the payment for which consists of Equity Interests of the Company (other than Disqualified Stock) or any Parent Company; provided, however, that such Equity Interests will not increase the amount available for Restricted Payments under Section 4.04(a)(3);

(12)       any transaction to the extent it constitutes an Investment that is permitted by and made in accordance with Section 4.07(b) (except transactions described in clauses (ii), (iv) and (vi)(B) of such Section);

(13)       Investments consisting of the licensing or contribution of intellectual property pursuant to joint marketing arrangements with other Persons;

(14)       guarantees issued in accordance with Sections 4.03 and 4.11;

(15)       any Investment by Restricted Subsidiaries in other Restricted Subsidiaries and Investments by Subsidiaries that are not Restricted Subsidiaries in other Subsidiaries that are not Restricted Subsidiaries;

(16)       Investments consisting of purchases and acquisitions of inventory, supplies, materials and equipment or purchases of contract rights or licenses or leases of intellectual property, in each case in the ordinary course of business;

(17)       Investments of a Restricted Subsidiary acquired after the Issue Date or of an entity merged into or consolidated with a Restricted Subsidiary in a transaction that is

 

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not prohibited by Section 5.01 after the Issue Date to the extent that such Investments were not made in contemplation of such acquisition, merger or consolidation and were in existence on the date of such acquisition, merger or consolidation;

(18)       guarantees by the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries of operating leases (other than Capitalized Lease Obligations) or other obligations that do not constitute Indebtedness, in each case entered into by the Company or such Restricted Subsidiary in the ordinary course of business;

(19)       Investments in any Person to the extent such Investments consist of prepaid expenses, negotiable instruments held for collection and lease, utility and workers’ compensation, performance and other similar deposits made in the ordinary course of business by the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries;

(20)       Investments (including debt obligations) received by the Company or its Restricted Subsidiaries in connection with the bankruptcy or reorganization of suppliers and customers and in settlement of delinquent obligations of, and other disputes with, customers and suppliers in the ordinary course of business;

(21)       pledges or deposits made in the ordinary course of business; and

(22)       (i) Investments consisting of contributions or other dispositions to any Person (including any Unrestricted Subsidiary or Permitted MTBE Joint Venture) of any MTBE Assets or Capital Stock of any MTBE Subsidiary or Permitted MTBE Joint Venture and (ii) Investments in any MTBE Subsidiary that is a Restricted Subsidiary on the Issue Date but is designated as an Unrestricted Subsidiary after the Issue Date to the extent such Investments are in existence immediately prior to the time such MTBE Subsidiary is designated as an Unrestricted Subsidiary.

Permitted Liens” means with respect to any Person:

(1)         pledges or deposits by such Person under workers’ compensation laws, unemployment insurance laws or similar legislation, or in connection with bids, tenders, contracts (other than for the payment of Indebtedness) or leases to which such Person is a party, or deposits to secure public or statutory obligations of such Person or deposits of cash or U.S. government bonds to secure surety or appeal bonds to which such Person is a party, or deposits as security for contested taxes or import duties or for the payment of rent, in each case Incurred in the ordinary course of business;

(2)         landlords’, carriers’, warehousemen’s, mechanics’, materialmen’s, repairmen’s or similar Liens imposed by law or arising under contracts entered into in the ordinary course of business, in each case for sums not yet delinquent or being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings;

(3)         other Liens arising out of judgments or awards against such Person with respect to which such Person shall then be proceeding with an appeal or other proceedings

 

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for review (or which, if due and payable, are being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings and for which adequate reserves are being maintained, to the extent required by GAAP, and such proceedings have the effect of preventing the forfeiture or sale of the property or assets subject to any such Lien);

(4)         Liens for taxes, assessments or other governmental charges (i) which are not yet delinquent or (ii) which are being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings that have the effect of preventing the forfeiture or sale of the property or assets subject to any such Lien and for which adequate reserves are being maintained to the extent required by GAAP;

(5)         Liens in favor of Company of performance bonds, surety bonds, bid bonds or letters of credit or similar instruments issued pursuant to the request of and for the account of such Person in the ordinary course of its business or with respect to statutory, regulatory, contractual or warranty requirements;

(6)         (A) survey exceptions, encumbrances, easements or reservations of, or rights of others for, licenses, rights-of-way, sewers, electric lines, telegraph and telephone lines and other similar purposes, or zoning or other restrictions as to the use of real properties or Liens incidental to the conduct of the business of such Person or to the ownership of its properties which were not Incurred in connection with Indebtedness and which do not in the aggregate materially adversely affect the value of said properties or materially impair their use in the operation of the business of such Person and (B) access agreements, easements, leases, licenses, use agreements, utility agreements, service agreements, and other like encumbrances granted by the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary to an MTBE Subsidiary, Permitted MTBE Joint Venture or any other third party in connection with the disposition of the MTBE Assets to, or the use or ownership of the MTBE Assets by, such MTBE Subsidiary, Permitted MTBE Joint Venture or third party so long as, upon the Collateral Agent’s request, the Company provides an Officers’ Certificate certifying that the encumbrances granted pursuant to this clause (B) do not materially adversely affect or impair (i) the business operations of the Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries as a whole or (ii) the validity or priority of the Lien of the Security Documents on the balance of the Mortgaged Property;

(7)         (A) Liens incurred to secure Obligations in respect of Indebtedness permitted to be Incurred pursuant to clauses (i) or (iv) of Section 4.03(b); provided that (x) in the case of clause (i), such Liens are subject to the provisions of the Intercreditor Agreement (including with respect to the relative priority of the ABL Priority Collateral and Notes Priority Collateral) and (y) in the case of clause (iv), such Lien (1) extends only to the assets and/or Capital Stock, the acquisition, lease, design, construction, installation, repair, replacement or improvement of which is financed thereby and any proceeds or products thereof, accessions thereto, upgrades thereof and improvements thereto or (2) does not extend to any assets or property that constitute Collateral and (B) Liens on the Collateral granted under the Security Documents in favor of the Collateral Agent to

 

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secure the Securities, the Guarantees and any Permitted Additional Pari Passu Obligations;

(8)         Liens existing on the Issue Date;

(9)         Liens on assets, property or shares of stock of a Person at the time such Person becomes a Subsidiary; provided, however, that such Liens are not created or Incurred in connection with, or in contemplation of, such other Person becoming such a Subsidiary; provided, further, however, that such Liens may not extend to any other property owned by the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary;

(10)       Liens on assets or on property at the time the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary acquired the assets or property, including any acquisition by means of a merger or consolidation with or into the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary; provided, however, that such Liens are not created or Incurred in connection with, or in contemplation of, such acquisition; provided, further, however, that the Liens may not extend to any other assets or property owned by the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary;

(11)       Liens securing Indebtedness or other obligations of a Restricted Subsidiary owing to the Company or another Restricted Subsidiary permitted to be Incurred in accordance with Section 4.03;

(12)       Liens securing Hedging Obligations to the extent such Hedging Obligations are not prohibited by this Indenture;

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

(14)       leases and subleases of real property which do not materially interfere with the ordinary conduct of the business of the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries;

(15)       Liens arising from UCC financing statement filings regarding operating leases entered into by the Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries in the ordinary course of business;

(16)       Liens in favor of the Company or any Guarantor;

(17)       deposits made or Liens created in the ordinary course of business to secure liability to insurance carriers;

(18)       Liens on the Equity Interests of Unrestricted Subsidiaries or any joint venture to which the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary are a party;

 

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(19)       grants of software and other technology licenses in the ordinary course of business;

(20)       judgment and attachment Liens not giving rise to an Event of Default and notices of lis pendens and associated rights related to litigation being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings and for which adequate reserves have been made;

(21)       Liens arising out of conditional sale, title retention, consignment or similar arrangements for the sale of goods entered into in the ordinary course of business;

(22)       Liens incurred to secure cash management services (and other “bank products” under any ABL Obligations);

(23)       Liens on equipment of the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary granted in the ordinary course of business to the Company’s or such Restricted Subsidiary’s client at which such equipment is located;

(24)       any interest or title of a lessor to the property subject to an operating lease or a Capitalized Lease Obligation;

(25)       Liens arising under the indenture in favor of the Trustee for its own benefit and similar Liens in favor of other trustees, agents and representatives arising under instruments governing Indebtedness permitted to be incurred under the indenture, provided, however, that such Liens are solely for the benefit of the trustees, agents or representatives in their capacities as such and not for the benefit of the holders of such Indebtedness;

(26)       Liens arising from the deposit of funds or securities in trust for the purpose of decreasing or defeasing Indebtedness so long as such deposit of funds or securities and such decreasing or defeasing of Indebtedness are permitted under Section 4.04;

(27)       Liens to secure any refinancing, refunding, extension, renewal or replacement (or successive refinancings, refundings, extensions, renewals or replacements) as a whole, or in part, of any Indebtedness secured by any Lien referred to in the foregoing clauses (6), (7), (8), (9), (10), (11) and (15); provided, however, that (x) such new Lien shall be limited to all or part of the same property that secured the original Lien (plus improvements on such property), and (y) the Indebtedness secured by such Lien at such time is not increased to any amount greater than the sum of (A) the outstanding principal amount or, if greater, committed amount of the Indebtedness described under clauses (6), (7), (8), (9), (10), (11) and (15) at the time the original Lien became a Permitted Lien under this Indenture, and (B) an amount necessary to pay any fees and expenses, including premiums, related to such refinancing, refunding, extension, renewal or replacement;

(28)       other Liens securing obligations which do not exceed an amount equal to (x) $10 million plus (y) the amount of any Indebtedness permitted to be Incurred pursuant to Section 4.03(b)(xvii) and not otherwise designated by the Company as Permitted

 

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Additional Pari Passu Obligations, at any one time outstanding; provided that if such Liens extend to the Collateral, such Lien shall be subject to the Intercreditor Agreement; and

(29)       Liens to secure Indebtedness and any related guarantees on assets constituting Collateral that are junior in priority to the Liens on the Collateral securing the notes.

Permitted MTBE Joint Venture” means a Person (together with its Subsidiaries, if any) organized by the Company or an MTBE Subsidiary and one or more third parties for the purpose, among other things, of utilizing the MTBE Assets regardless of whether such Person is a joint venture or a minority-owned Person; provided that such Person shall not be a Subsidiary.

Permitted Parent Company Payments” means:

(1)         the payment of dividends, distributions or advances to any Parent Company (“Permitted Parent Tax Payments”) to be used by such Parent Company to pay (x) consolidated, combined or similar Federal, state and local income taxes payable by such Parent Company and directly attributable to the operations of the Company and its Subsidiaries and (y) franchise or similar taxes of such Parent Company required to maintain such Parent Company’s corporate existence; provided that the amount of such dividends, distributions or advances paid shall not exceed (A) the excess, if any, of the amount of income tax that would be due with respect to a hypothetical consolidated, combined or similar Federal, state or local tax return that included only the Company and its Subsidiaries over the income tax actually payable by the Company and its Subsidiaries directly to taxing authorities plus (B) the actual amount of such franchise or similar taxes of such Parent Company required to maintain such Parent Company’s corporate existence, each as applicable;

(2)         the payment of dividends, distributions or advances to any Parent Company in amounts required for such Parent Company to pay fees and expenses (including legal, audit and tax (including franchise tax), expenses) required to maintain its corporate existence, customary salary, bonus and other benefits payable to, and indemnities provided on behalf of, officers, directors and employees of such Parent Company and general corporate operating and overhead expenses of such Parent Company, in each case to the extent such fees and expenses are attributable to the ownership or operation of the Company and its Subsidiaries;

(3)         the payment of dividends, distributions or advances to any Parent Company in amounts required for such Parent Company to pay interest and/or principal on Indebtedness the proceeds of which have been contributed to the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries and that has been guaranteed by and treated as Indebtedness of the Company or its Restricted Subsidiaries, as applicable, Incurred in accordance with the Section 4.03 (it being agreed that (i) all interest expense with respect to such Indebtedness shall be included in the calculation of the Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio of the Company and (ii) no contribution of such proceeds may be included in the calculation of

 

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Restricted Payments capacity or in the amount of Indebtedness that may be Incurred based on contributions to the equity capital of the Company);

(4)         the payment of dividends, distributions or advances to any Parent Company in amounts required for such Parent Company to pay fees and expenses, other than to Affiliates of the Company, related to any unsuccessful equity or debt offering of such Parent Company that has been undertaken to finance the Company and its Subsidiaries; and

(5)         the payment of dividends, distributions or advances to any Parent Company in amounts required for such Parent Company to pay public company listing fees to a national securities exchange with respect to such Parent Company’s securities.

Permitted Parent Tax Payments” has the meaning ascribed thereto in the definition of “Permitted Parent Company Payments.”

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

Preferred Stock” means any Equity Interest with preferential right of payment of dividends or upon liquidation, dissolution or winding up.

Rating Agency” means (1) each of Moody’s and S&P and (2) if Moody’s or S&P ceases to rate the Securities for reasons outside of the Company’s control, a “nationally recognized statistical rating organization” within the meaning of Rule 15c3-1(c)(2)(vi)(F) under the Exchange Act selected by the Company or any parent of the Company as a replacement agency for Moody’s or S&P, as the case may be.

Related Business Assets” means assets (other than cash or Cash Equivalents) used or useful in a Similar Business; provided that any assets received by the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary in exchange for assets transferred by the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary will not be deemed to be Related Business Assets if they consist of securities of a Person, unless upon receipt of the securities of such Person, such Person would become a Restricted Subsidiary.

Restricted Investment” means an Investment other than a Permitted Investment.

Restricted Subsidiary” means, with respect to any Person, any Subsidiary of such Person other than an Unrestricted Subsidiary of such Person. Unless otherwise indicated in this Indenture, all references to Restricted Subsidiaries shall mean Restricted Subsidiaries of the Company.

Sale/Leaseback Transaction” means an arrangement relating to property now owned or hereafter acquired by the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary whereby the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary transfers such property to a Person and the Company or such

 

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Restricted Subsidiary leases it from such Person, other than leases between the Company and a Restricted Subsidiary or between Restricted Subsidiaries.

S&P” means Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services, a Standard & Poor’s Financial Services LLC business, or any successor to the rating agency business thereof.

SEC” means the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Secured Indebtedness” means any Indebtedness secured by a Lien.

Secured Obligations” has the meaning assigned to such term in the Security Agreement.

Secured Parties” has the meaning assigned to such term in the Security Agreement.

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

Security Agreement” means the security agreement to be dated as of the Issue Date among the Collateral Agent, the Company and the Guarantors in favor of the Collateral Agent for its benefit and for the benefit of the Trustee and the holders of the notes and the holders of any Permitted Additional Pari Passu Obligations, as amended, modified, restated, supplemented or replaced from time to time in accordance with its terms.

Security Documents” means the Security Agreement, any Mortgages, the Intercreditor Agreement and all of the security agreements, pledges, collateral assignments, mortgages, deeds of trust, trust deeds or other instruments evidencing or creating or purporting to create any security interests in favor of the Collateral Agent for its benefit and for the benefit of the Trustee and the holders of the notes and the holders of any Permitted Additional Pari Passu Obligations, in all or any portion of the Collateral, in each case as amended, modified, restated, supplemented or replaced from time to time.

Senior Secured Leverage Ratio” means, as of any date of determination, the ratio of (a) Secured Indebtedness of the Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries on the date of determination to (b) the aggregate amount of EBITDA for the then most recent four-quarter period, in each case with such pro forma adjustments to Indebtedness and EBITDA as are consistent with the pro forma adjustment provisions set forth in the definition of Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio.

Senior Secured Note Documents” means the indenture, the notes, the Guarantees and the Security Documents.

Significant Subsidiary” means any Restricted Subsidiary that would be a “Significant Subsidiary” of the Company within the meaning of Rule 1-02 under Regulation S-X promulgated by the SEC.

 

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Similar Business” means a business, the majority of whose revenues are derived from production of value-added products derived from petrochemical raw materials, or the activities of the Company and its Subsidiaries as of the Issue Date, or any business or activity that is reasonably similar thereto, or a reasonable extension, development or expansion thereof or ancillary thereto.

Stated Maturity” means, with respect to any security, the date specified in such security as the fixed date on which the final payment of principal of such security is due and payable, including pursuant to any mandatory redemption provision (but excluding any provision providing for the repurchase of such security at the option of the holder thereof upon the happening of any contingency beyond the control of the Company unless such contingency has occurred).

Subordinated Indebtedness” means (a) with respect to the Company, any Indebtedness of the Company which is by its terms subordinated in right of payment to the Securities, and (b) with respect to any Guarantor, any Indebtedness of such Guarantor which is by its terms subordinated in right of payment to its Guarantee.

Subsidiary” means, with respect to any Person (1) any corporation, association or other business entity (other than a partnership, joint venture or limited liability company) of which more than 50% of the total voting power of shares of Capital Stock entitled (without regard to the occurrence of any contingency) to vote in the election of directors, managers or trustees thereof is at the time of determination owned or controlled, directly or indirectly, by such Person or one or more of the other Subsidiaries of that Person or a combination thereof, and (2) any partnership, joint venture or limited liability company of which (x) more than 50% of the capital accounts, distribution rights, total equity and voting interests or general and limited partnership interests, as applicable, are owned or controlled, directly or indirectly, by such Person or one or more of the other Subsidiaries of that Person or a combination thereof, whether in the form of membership, general, special or limited partnership interests or otherwise, and (y) such Person or any Restricted Subsidiary of such Person is a controlling general partner or otherwise controls such entity. Unless otherwise specified, references to a “Subsidiary” or “Subsidiaries” shall refer to a Subsidiary or Subsidiaries of the Company.

TIA” means the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 (15 U.S.C. Sections 77aaa-77bbbb) as in effect on the Issue Date.

Total Assets” means the total consolidated assets of the Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries, as shown on the most recent consolidated balance sheet of the Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries.

Treasury Rate” means, as of the applicable redemption date, the yield to maturity as of such redemption date of United States Treasury securities with a constant maturity (as compiled and published in the most recent Federal Reserve Statistical Release H.15(519) that has become publicly available at least two Business Days prior to such redemption date (or, if such Statistical Release is no longer published, any publicly available source of similar market data)) most nearly equal to the period from such redemption date to October 1, 2013; provided, however,

 

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that if the period from such redemption date to October 1, 2013 is less than one year, the weekly average yield on actually traded United States Treasury securities adjusted to a constant maturity of one year will be used.

Trust Monies” means all cash and Cash Equivalents received by the Paying Agent or the Collateral Agent:

(1)         upon the release of Collateral from the Lien of this Indenture or the Security Documents, including all Net Cash Proceeds and all moneys received in respect of the principal of all purchase money, governmental and other obligations;

(2)         pursuant to the Security Documents;

(3)         as proceeds of any sale or other disposition of all or any part of the Collateral by or on behalf of the Trustee or the Collateral Agent or any collection, recovery, receipt, appropriation or other realization of or from all or any part of the Collateral, in each case, pursuant to the exercise or remedies under this Indenture or any of the Security Documents or otherwise; or

(4)         for application as provided in the relevant provisions of this Indenture or any Security Document or which disposition is not otherwise specifically provided for in this Indenture or in any Security Document;

provided, however, that Trust Monies shall in no event include any property deposited with the Paying Agent for any redemption, legal defeasance or covenant defeasance of Securities, for the satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture or to pay the purchase price of Securities pursuant to a Change of Control Offer or an Asset Sale Offer in accordance with the terms of this Indenture and shall not include any cash received or applicable by the Paying Agent in payment of the Trustee’s, Collateral Agent’s, Paying Agent’s fees and expenses (or, prior to the Discharge of ABL Obligations, any ABL Priority Collateral).

Trust Officer” means any officer within the corporate trust administration department of the Trustee with direct responsibility for performing the Trustee’s duties under this Indenture and also means, with respect to a particular corporate trust matter, any other officer of the Trustee to whom such matter is referred because of such person’s knowledge of and familiarity with the particular subject.

Trustee” means the party named as such in the preamble to this Indenture until a successor replaces it and, thereafter, means the successor.

UCC” means the Uniform Commercial Code as in effect from time to time in the State of New York; provided, however, that, at any time, if by reason of mandatory provisions of law, any or all of the perfection or priority of the Collateral Agent’s security interest in any item or portion of the Collateral is governed by the Uniform Commercial Code as in effect in a jurisdiction other than the State of New York, the term “UCC” shall mean the Uniform Commercial

 

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Code as in effect, at such time, in such other jurisdiction for purposes of the provisions hereof relating to such perfection or priority and for purposes of definitions relating to such provisions.

Unrestricted Subsidiary” means:

(1)         any MTBE Subsidiary designated by the Board of Directors of the Company as an Unrestricted Subsidiary;

(2)         any other Subsidiary of the Company that at the time of determination shall have been designated an Unrestricted Subsidiary by the Board of Directors of the Company in the manner provided below; and

(3)         any Subsidiary of an Unrestricted Subsidiary.

The Board of Directors of the Company may designate any Subsidiary of the Company (including any newly acquired or newly formed Subsidiary of the Company) to be an Unrestricted Subsidiary unless such Subsidiary or any of its Subsidiaries owns any Equity Interests or Indebtedness of, or owns or holds any Lien on any property of, the Company or any other Subsidiary of the Company that is not a Subsidiary of the Subsidiary to be so designated; provided, however, that the Subsidiary to be so designated and its Subsidiaries do not at the time of designation have and do not thereafter Incur any Indebtedness pursuant to which the lender has recourse to any of the assets of the Company or any of the Restricted Subsidiaries (other than as contemplated by clause (18) of the definition of “Permitted Liens”); provided, further, however, that either:

(a)         the Subsidiary to be so designated has total consolidated assets of $1,000 or less; or

(b)         if such Subsidiary has consolidated assets greater than $1,000, then such designation would be permitted under Section 4.04.

Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Board of Directors of the Company may designate any MTBE Subsidiary as an Unrestricted Subsidiary at any time and without limitation.

The Board of Directors of the Company may designate any Unrestricted Subsidiary to be a Restricted Subsidiary; provided, however, that immediately after giving effect to such designation:

(x)         the Company could Incur $1.00 of additional Indebtedness pursuant to Section 4.03(a); and

(y)         no Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing.

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Directors of the Company giving effect to such designation and an Officers’ Certificate certifying that such designation complied with the foregoing provisions.

U.S. Government Obligations” means securities that are:

(1)         direct obligations of the United States of America for the timely payment of which its full faith and credit is pledged, or

(2)         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 by the United States of America,

which, in each case, are not callable or redeemable at the option of the Company thereof, and shall also include a depository 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 depository 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 depository 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 depository receipt.

Voting Stock” of any Person as of any date means the Capital Stock of such Person that is at the time entitled to vote in the election of the Board of Directors of such Person.

Weighted Average Life to Maturity” means, when applied to any Indebtedness or Disqualified Stock, as the case may be, at any date, the quotient obtained by dividing (1) the sum of the products of the number of years from the date of determination to the date of each successive scheduled principal payment of such Indebtedness or redemption or similar payment with respect to such Disqualified Stock, multiplied by the amount of such payment, by (2) the sum of all such payments.

Wholly Owned Restricted Subsidiary” is any Wholly Owned Subsidiary that is a Restricted Subsidiary.

Wholly Owned Subsidiary” of any Person means a Subsidiary of such Person 100% of the outstanding Capital Stock or other ownership interests of which (other than directors’ qualifying shares or shares or interests required to be held by foreign nationals or other third parties to the extent required by applicable law) shall at the time be owned by such Person or by one or more Wholly Owned Subsidiaries of such Person or by such Person and one or more Wholly Owned Subsidiaries of such Person.

 

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SECTION 1.02.    Other Definitions.

 

Term

  

Defined in
  Section

Agent Members    Appendix A
Affiliate Transaction    4.07(a)
Asset Sale Offer    4.06(b)
Bankruptcy Law    6.01
Clearstream    Appendix A
Change of Control Offer    4.08(b)
covenant defeasance option    8.01
Custodian    6.01
Definitive Security    Appendix A
Depository    Appendix A
Euroclear    Appendix A
Event of Default    6.01
Excess Proceeds    4.06(b)
Exchange Securities    Preamble
Global Securities    Appendix A
Global Securities Legend    Appendix A
Guaranteed Obligations    10.01(a)
IAI    Appendix A
incorporated provision    13.01
Initial Purchasers    Appendix A
Initial Securities    Preamble
legal defeasance option    8.01
Notice of Default    6.01
Offer Period    4.06(d)
Original Securities    Preamble
Paying Agent    2.04(a)
Permitted Debt    4.03(b)
protected purchaser    2.08
Purchase Agreement    Appendix A
QIB    Appendix A
Refinancing Indebtedness    4.03(b)(xiv)
Refunding Capital Stock    4.04(b)(ii)(A)
Registration Rights Agreement    Appendix A
Registered Exchange Offer    Appendix A
Registrar    2.04(a)
Regulation S    Appendix A
Regulation S Global Securities    Appendix A
Regulation S Securities    Appendix A
Released Trust Monies    12.04
Replacement Assets    12.04

 

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Term

  

Defined in
  Section

Restricted Payment    4.04(a)
Restricted Period    Appendix A
Restricted Securities Legend    Appendix A
Retired Capital Stock    4.04(b)(ii)(A)
Rule 501    Appendix A
Rule 144A    Appendix A
Rule 144A Global Securities    Appendix A
Rule 144A Securities    Appendix A
Securities    Preamble
Securities Custodian    Appendix A
Shelf Registration Statement    Appendix A
Successor Company    5.01(a)(i)
Successor Guarantor    5.01(b)(i)
Transfer Restricted Definitive Securities    Appendix A
Transfer Restricted Global Securities    Appendix A
Unrestricted Definitive Security    Appendix A
Unrestricted Global Security    Appendix A

SECTION 1.03.    Incorporation by Reference of Trust Indenture Act.  This Indenture incorporates by reference certain provisions of the TIA. The following TIA terms have the following meanings:

Commission” means the SEC.

indenture securities” means the Securities and the Guarantees.

indenture security holder” means a Holder.

indenture to be qualified” means this Indenture.

indenture trustee” or “institutional trustee” means the Trustee.

obligor” on the indenture securities means the Company, the Guarantors and any other obligor on the Securities.

All other TIA terms used in this Indenture that are defined by the TIA, defined by TIA reference to another statute or defined by SEC rule have the meanings assigned to them by such definitions.

SECTION 1.04.    Rules of Construction.  Unless the context otherwise requires:

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

(c)       “or” is not exclusive;

(d)       “including” means including without limitation;

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

(f)        unsecured Indebtedness shall not be deemed to be subordinate or junior to Secured Indebtedness merely by virtue of its nature as unsecured Indebtedness;

(g)       unless otherwise specified herein, all accounting terms used herein shall be interpreted, all accounting determinations hereunder shall be made, and all financial statements required to be delivered hereunder shall be prepared in accordance with GAAP;

(h)       “$” and “U.S. Dollars” each refer to United States dollars, or such other money of the United States of America that at the time of payment is legal tender for payment of public and private debts;

(i)        whenever in this Indenture or in any Security there is mentioned, in any context, principal, interest or any other amount payable under or with respect to any Securities, such mention shall be deemed to include mention of the payment of Additional Interest, to the extent that, in such context, Additional Interest is, was or would be payable in respect thereof; and

(j)        for any periods or dates which the Company does not have historical financial statements available, it shall be entitled to use and rely on the financial statements of its predecessor or successor (as the case may be).

ARTICLE 2

THE SECURITIES

SECTION 2.01.    Amount of Securities; Issuable in Series.  The aggregate principal amount of Original Securities which may be authenticated and delivered under this Indenture on the Issue Date is $350,000,000. The Securities may be issued in one or more series. All Securities of any one series shall be substantially identical except as to denomination.

The Company may from time to time after the Issue Date issue Additional Securities under this Indenture in an unlimited principal amount, so long as (i) the Incurrence of the Indebtedness represented by such Additional Securities is at such time permitted by Section 4.03 and (ii) such Additional Securities are issued in compliance with the other applicable provisions of this Indenture. With respect to any Additional Securities issued after the Issue Date (except

 

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for Securities authenticated and delivered upon registration of transfer of, or in exchange for, or in lieu of, other Securities pursuant to Sections 2.07, 2.08, 2.09, 2.10, 3.08, 4.06(g), 4.08(c) or the Appendix), there shall be (a) established in or pursuant to a resolution of the Board of Directors of the Company and (b) (i) set forth or determined in the manner provided in an Officers’ Certificate or (ii) established in one or more indentures supplemental hereto, prior to the issuance of such Additional Securities:

(1)        whether such Additional Securities shall be issued as part of a new or existing series of Securities and the title of such Additional Securities (which shall distinguish the Additional Securities of the series from Securities of any other series);

(2)        the aggregate principal amount of such Additional Securities which may be authenticated and delivered under this Indenture;

(3)        the issue price and issuance date of such Additional Securities, including the date from which interest on such Additional Securities shall accrue;

(4)        if applicable, that such Additional Securities shall be issuable in whole or in part in the form of one or more Global Securities and, in such case, the respective depositaries for such Global Securities, the form of any legend or legends which shall be borne by such Global Securities in addition to or in lieu of those set forth in Exhibit A hereto and any circumstances in addition to or in lieu of those set forth in Section 2.2 of the Appendix in which any such Global Security may be exchanged in whole or in part for Additional Securities registered, or any transfer of such Global Security in whole or in part may be registered, in the name or names of Persons other than the depositary for such Global Security or a nominee thereof; and

(5)        if applicable, that such Additional Securities that are not Transfer Restricted Definitive Securities shall not be issued in the form of Initial Securities as set forth in Exhibit A, but shall be issued in the form of Exchange Securities as set forth in Exhibit B.

If any of the terms of any Additional Securities are established by action taken pursuant to a resolution of the Board of Directors of the Company, a copy of an appropriate record of such action shall be certified by the Secretary or any Assistant Secretary of the Company and delivered to the Registrar at or prior to the delivery of the Officers’ Certificate or the indenture supplemental hereto setting forth the terms of the Additional Securities.

SECTION 2.02.    Form and Dating.  Provisions relating to the Initial Securities and the Exchange Securities are set forth in the Appendix, which is hereby incorporated in and expressly made a part of this Indenture. The Initial Securities and the Authentication Agent’s certificate of authentication, and any Additional Securities (if issued as Transfer Restricted Definitive Securities) and the Authentication Agent’s certificate of authentication, shall each be substantially in the form of Exhibit A hereto, which is hereby incorporated in and expressly made a part of this Indenture. The Exchange Securities and the Authentication Agent’s certificate of authentication, and any Additional Securities issued other than as Transfer Restricted

 

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Definitive Securities and the Authentication Agent’s certificate of authentication, shall each be substantially in the form of Exhibit B hereto, which is hereby incorporated in and expressly made a part of this Indenture. The Securities may have notations, legends or endorsements required by law, stock exchange rule, agreements to which the Company or any Guarantor is subject, if any, or usage (provided that any such notation, legend or endorsement is in a form acceptable to the Company). Each Security shall be dated the date of its authentication. The Securities shall be issuable only in registered form without interest coupons and only in denominations of $2,000 and any integral multiples of $1,000 in excess thereof.

SECTION 2.03.    Execution and Authentication.  The Authentication Agent shall authenticate and make available for delivery upon a written order of the Company signed by one Officer (a) Original Securities for original issue on the date hereof in an aggregate principal amount of $350,000,000, (b) subject to the terms of this Indenture, Additional Securities in an aggregate principal amount to be determined at the time of issuance and specified therein and (c) the Exchange Securities for issue in a Registered Exchange Offer pursuant to the Registration Rights Agreement for a like principal amount of Initial Securities exchanged pursuant thereto or otherwise pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act. Such order shall specify the amount of the Securities to be authenticated, the date on which the original issue of Securities is to be authenticated and whether the Securities are to be Initial Securities or Exchange Securities. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the Indenture or the Appendix, any issuance of Additional Securities after the Issue Date shall be in a principal amount of at least $2,000 and any integral multiples of $1,000 in excess thereof, whether such Additional Securities are of the same or a different series than the Original Securities.

One Officer shall sign the Securities for the Company by manual or facsimile signature.

If an Officer whose signature is on a Security no longer holds that office at the time the Authentication Agent authenticates the Security, the Security shall be valid nevertheless.

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

The Authentication Agent may appoint one or more authenticating agents reasonably acceptable to the Company to authenticate the Securities. Any such appointment shall be evidenced by an instrument signed by a Trust Officer, a copy of which shall be furnished to the Company. Unless limited by the terms of such appointment, an authenticating agent may authenticate Securities whenever the Trustee may do so. Each reference in this Indenture to authentication by the Authentication Agent includes authentication by such agent. An authenticating agent has the same rights as any Registrar, Paying Agent or agent for service of notices and demands.

 

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SECTION 2.04.    Registrar and Paying Agent.

(a)        The Company shall maintain (i) an office or agency where Securities may be presented for registration of transfer or for exchange (the “Registrar”) and (ii) an office or agency in the United States where Securities may be presented for payment (the “Paying Agent”). The Registrar shall keep a register of the Securities and of their transfer and exchange. The Company may have one or more co-registrars and one or more additional paying agents. The term “Registrar” includes any co-registrars. The term “Paying Agent” includes the Paying Agent and any additional paying agents. The Company initially appoints Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas as (i) Registrar and Paying Agent in connection with the Securities and (ii) the Securities Custodian with respect to the Global Securities.

(b)        The Company shall enter into an appropriate agency agreement with any Registrar or Paying Agent not a party to this Indenture, which shall incorporate the terms of the TIA. The agreement shall implement the provisions of this Indenture that relate to such agent. The Company shall notify the Trustee 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 and shall be entitled to appropriate compensation therefor pursuant to Section 7.07. The Company or any of its domestically organized Subsidiaries may act as Paying Agent or Registrar.

(c)        The Company may remove any Registrar or Paying Agent upon written notice to such Registrar or Paying Agent and to the Trustee; provided, however, that no such removal shall become effective until (i) if applicable, acceptance of an appointment by a successor as evidenced by an appropriate agreement entered into by the Company and such successor Registrar or Paying Agent, as the case may be, and delivered to the Trustee or (ii) notification to the Trustee that the Trustee shall serve as Registrar or Paying Agent until the appointment of a successor in accordance with clause (i) above. The Registrar or Paying Agent may resign at any time upon written notice to the Company and the Trustee; provided, however, that the Trustee may resign as Paying Agent or Registrar only if the Trustee also resigns as Trustee in accordance with Section 7.08.

SECTION 2.05.    Paying Agent to Hold Money in Trust.  Prior to 10:00 a.m., New York City time, on each due date of the principal of and interest on any Security, the Company shall deposit with each Paying Agent (or if the Company or a Wholly Owned Subsidiary is acting as Paying Agent, segregate and hold in trust for the benefit of the Persons entitled thereto) a sum sufficient to pay such principal and interest when so becoming due. The Company shall require each Paying Agent (other than the Trustee) to agree in writing that a Paying Agent shall hold in trust for the benefit of Holders or the Trustee all money held by a Paying Agent for the payment of principal of and interest on the Securities, and shall notify the Trustee of any default by the Company in making any such payment. If the Company or a Wholly Owned Subsidiary of the Company acts as Paying Agent, it shall segregate the money held by it as Paying Agent and hold it in trust for the benefit of the Persons entitled thereto. 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 such Paying Agent. During the continuance of an Event of Default under this Indenture, the Trustee may require a Paying Agent to pay all money held by it to the Trustee.

 

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Upon any bankruptcy or reorganization proceedings relating to the Company, the Trustee will serve as Paying Agent. Upon complying with this Section 2.05, a Paying Agent shall have no further liability for the money delivered to the Trustee.

SECTION 2.06.    Holder Lists.  The Registrar 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 Paying Agent is not the same entity as the Registrar, the Company shall furnish, or cause the Registrar to furnish, to the Paying Agent, in writing at least five Business Days before each interest payment date and at such other times as the Paying Agent may request in writing, a list in such form and as of such date as the Paying Agent may reasonably require of the names and addresses of Holders.

SECTION 2.07.    Transfer and Exchange.  The Securities shall be issued in registered form and shall be transferable only upon the surrender of a Security for registration of transfer and in compliance with the Appendix. When a Security is presented to the Registrar with a request to register a transfer, the Registrar shall register the transfer as requested if the requirements of this Indenture and Section 8-401(a) of the Uniform Commercial Code are met. When Securities are presented to the Registrar with a request to exchange them for an equal principal amount of Securities of other denominations, the Registrar shall make the exchange as requested if the same requirements are met. To permit registration of transfers and exchanges, the Company shall execute and the Authentication Agent shall authenticate Securities at the Registrar’s request. The Company may require payment of a sum sufficient to pay all taxes, assessments or other governmental charges in connection with any transfer or exchange pursuant to this Section 2.07 (other than any such transfer taxes, assessments or similar governmental charge payable upon exchange or transfer pursuant to Section 3.08, 4.06, 4.08 or 9.05). The Company shall not be required to make, and the Registrar need not register, transfers or exchanges of Securities selected for redemption (except, in the case of Securities to be redeemed in part, the portion thereof not to be redeemed) or of any Securities for a period of 15 days before a selection of Securities to be redeemed.

Prior to the due presentation for registration of transfer of any Security, the Company, the Guarantors, the Trustee, each Paying Agent and the Registrar may deem and treat the Person in whose name a Security is registered as the absolute owner of such Security for the purpose of receiving payment of principal of and interest, if any, on such Security and for all other purposes whatsoever, whether or not such Security is overdue, and none of the Company, any Guarantor, the Trustee, a Paying Agent or the Registrar shall be affected by notice to the contrary.

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

 

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All Securities issued upon any transfer or exchange pursuant to the terms of this Indenture shall evidence the same debt and shall be entitled to the same benefits under this Indenture as the Securities surrendered upon such transfer or exchange.

SECTION 2.08.    Replacement Securities.  If a mutilated Security is surrendered to the Registrar or if the Holder of a Security claims that the Security has been mutilated, lost, destroyed or wrongfully taken, the Company shall issue and the Authentication Agent shall authenticate a replacement Security if the requirements of Section 8-405 of the Uniform Commercial Code are met, such that the Holder (a) notifies the Company or the Registrar within a reasonable time after such Holder has notice of such loss, destruction or wrongful taking and the Registrar does not register a transfer prior to receiving such notification, (b) makes such request to the Company or the Registrar prior to the Security being acquired by a protected purchaser as defined in Section 8-303 of the Uniform Commercial Code (a “protected purchaser”) and (c) satisfies any other reasonable requirements of the Registrar. If required by the Registrar, Trustee or the Company, such Holder shall furnish an indemnity bond sufficient in the judgment of (i) the Registrar or Trustee to protect the Registrar or Trustee or (ii) the Company, to protect the Company, the Trustee, the Paying Agent and the Registrar, from any loss that any of them may suffer if a Security is replaced. The Company, the Registrar and the Trustee may charge the Holder for their expenses in replacing a Security (including, without limitation, attorneys’ fees and disbursements in replacing such Security). In the event any such Security has become or is about to become due and payable, the Company in its discretion may direct the Registrar to pay the same without surrender thereof upon the Holder furnishing the Company and the Registrar with indemnity satisfactory to them and complying with such other reasonable regulations as the Company may prescribe and paying such reasonable expense as the Company and the Registrar may incur in connection therewith.

Every replacement Security is an additional obligation of the Company.

The provisions of this Section 2.08 are exclusive and shall preclude (to the extent lawful) all other rights and remedies with respect to the replacement or payment of mutilated, lost, destroyed or wrongfully taken Securities.

SECTION 2.09.    Outstanding Securities.  Securities outstanding at any time are all Securities authenticated by the Authentication Agent except for those canceled by it or the Registrar, those delivered to it for cancellation and those described in this Section 2.09 as not outstanding. Subject to Section 13.06, a Security does not cease to be outstanding because the Company or an Affiliate of the Company holds the Security.

If a Security is replaced pursuant to Section 2.08 (other than a mutilated Security surrendered for replacement), it ceases to be outstanding unless the Trustee, Registrar and the Company receive proof satisfactory to them that the replaced Security is held by a protected purchaser. A mutilated Security ceases to be outstanding upon surrender of such Security and replacement thereof pursuant to Section 2.08.

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on that date with respect to the Securities (or portions thereof) to be redeemed or maturing, as the case may be, and no Paying Agent is prohibited from paying such money to the Holders on that date pursuant to the terms of this Indenture, then on and after that date such Securities (or portions thereof) cease to be outstanding and interest on them ceases to accrue.

SECTION 2.10.    Temporary Securities.  In the event that Definitive Securities are to be issued under the terms of this Indenture, until such Definitive Securities are ready for delivery, the Company may prepare and the Authentication Agent shall authenticate temporary Securities. Temporary Securities shall be substantially in the form of Definitive Securities but may have variations that the Company considers appropriate for temporary Securities. Without unreasonable delay, the Company shall prepare and the Authentication Agent shall authenticate Definitive Securities and make them available for delivery in exchange for temporary Securities upon surrender of such temporary Securities at the office or agency of the Company, without charge to the Holder. Until such exchange, temporary Securities shall be entitled to the same rights, benefits and privileges as Definitive Securities.

SECTION 2.11.    Cancellation.  The Company at any time may deliver Securities to the Registrar for cancellation. Any person other than the Registrar shall forward to the Registrar any Securities surrendered to them for registration of transfer, exchange or payment. The Registrar and no one else shall cancel all Securities surrendered for registration of transfer, exchange, payment or cancellation and shall dispose of canceled Securities in accordance with its customary procedures (subject to the record retention requirements of the Exchange Act) or deliver copies of canceled Securities to the Company pursuant to written direction by an Officer of the Company. The Company may not issue new Securities to replace Securities it has redeemed, paid or delivered to the Registrar for cancellation. The Authentication Agent shall not authenticate Securities in place of canceled Securities other than pursuant to the terms of this Indenture.

SECTION 2.12.    Defaulted Interest.  If the Company defaults in a payment of interest on the Securities, the Company shall pay the defaulted interest then borne by the Securities (plus interest on such defaulted interest to the extent lawful), 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 payment date to the reasonable satisfaction of the Trustee and Registrar and shall promptly mail or cause to be mailed to each affected Holder a notice that states the special record date, the payment date and the amount of defaulted interest to be paid.

SECTION 2.13.    CUSIP Numbers, ISINs, etc.  The Company in issuing the Securities may use CUSIP numbers, ISINs and “Common Code” numbers (if then generally in use) and, if so, the Registrar shall use CUSIP numbers, ISINs and “Common Code” numbers in notices of redemption as a convenience to Holders; provided, however, that any such notice may state that no representation is made as to the correctness of such numbers, either as printed on the Securities or as contained in any notice of a redemption, that reliance may be placed only on the other identification numbers printed on the Securities and that any such redemption shall not be affected by any defect in or omission of such numbers. The Company shall advise the Trustee

 

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and Registrar in writing of any change in the CUSIP numbers, ISINs and “Common Code” numbers.

SECTION 2.14.    Calculation of Specified Percentage of Securities.  With respect to any matter requiring consent, waiver, approval or other action of the Holders of a specified percentage of the principal amount of all the Securities, such percentage shall be calculated, on the relevant date of determination, by dividing (a) the principal amount, as of such date of determination, of Securities, the Holders of which have so consented by (b) the aggregate principal amount, as of such date of determination, of the Securities then outstanding, in each case, as determined in accordance with the preceding sentence, Section 2.09 and Section 13.06 of this Indenture. Any such calculation made pursuant to this Section 2.14 shall be made by the Company and delivered to the Trustee and the Registrar pursuant to an Officers’ Certificate.

ARTICLE 3

REDEMPTION

SECTION 3.01.    Redemption.  Subject to the conditions and at the redemption prices set forth in Paragraph 5 of the form of Securities set forth in Exhibit A and Exhibit B hereto, which are hereby incorporated by reference and made a part of this Indenture, the Securities may be redeemed, in whole, or from time to time in part, together with accrued and unpaid interest to the redemption date.

SECTION 3.02.    Applicability of Article.  Redemption of Securities at the election of the Company or otherwise, as permitted or required by any provision of this Indenture, shall be made in accordance with such provision and this Article 3.

SECTION 3.03.    Notices to Trustee.  If the Company elects to redeem Securities pursuant to the optional redemption provisions of Paragraph 5 of the applicable Security, it shall notify the Trustee and Registrar in writing of (i) the Section of this Indenture pursuant to which the redemption shall occur, (ii) the redemption date, (iii) the principal amount of Securities to be redeemed and (iv) the redemption price. If the redemption is made pursuant to paragraph 5 of the applicable Security, the Company shall give notice to the Trustee and Registrar provided for in this paragraph at least 40 days but not more than 60 days before the date of such redemption unless a shorter period is acceptable to the Trustee and Registrar. Such notice shall be accompanied by an Officers’ Certificate and Opinion of Counsel from the Company to the effect that such redemption will comply with the conditions herein. If fewer than all the Securities are to be redeemed, the record date relating to such redemption shall be selected by the Company and given in writing to the Trustee and Registrar, which record date shall be not fewer than 15 days after the date of notice to the Trustee and Registrar. Any such notice may be canceled at any time prior to notice of such redemption being sent to any Holder and shall thereby be void and of no effect.

 

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SECTION 3.04.    Selection of Securities to Be Redeemed.  In the case of any partial redemption, selection of the Securities for redemption will be made by the Registrar in compliance with the requirements of the principal national securities exchange, if any, on which such Securities are listed, or if such Securities are not so listed, by lot or by such other method as the Registrar shall deem fair and appropriate (and in such manner as complies with applicable legal requirements); provided that, to the extent practicable, the Registrar shall not select Securities for redemption which would result in a Holder of Securities having a principal amount of Securities less than the minimum denomination. The Registrar shall make the selection from outstanding Securities not previously called for redemption. The Registrar may select for redemption portions of the principal of Securities that have denominations larger than $2,000. Securities and portions of them the Registrar selects shall be in amounts of $2,000 or a whole multiple of $1,000 in excess thereof. Provisions of this Indenture that apply to Securities called for redemption also apply to portions of Securities called for redemption. The Registrar shall notify the Company promptly of the Securities or portions of Securities to be redeemed.

SECTION 3.05.    Notice of Optional Redemption.

(a)       At least 30 days but not more than 60 days before the date of redemption of Securities pursuant to Paragraph 5 of the applicable Security, the Company shall mail or cause to be mailed by first-class mail a notice of redemption to the registered address of each Holder whose Securities are to be redeemed or otherwise in accordance with the procedures of the Depository.

Any such notice shall identify the Securities to be redeemed and shall state:

(i)        the redemption date;

(ii)       the redemption price and the amount of accrued and unpaid interest to the redemption date;

(iii)      the name and address of a Paying Agent;

(iv)      that Securities called for redemption must be surrendered to a Paying Agent to collect the redemption price, plus accrued and unpaid interest;

(v)       if fewer than all the outstanding Securities are to be redeemed, the certificate numbers and principal amounts of the particular Securities to be redeemed, the aggregate principal amount of Securities to be redeemed and the aggregate principal amount of Securities to be outstanding after such partial redemption;

(vi)      that, unless the Company defaults in making such redemption payment or any Paying Agent is prohibited from making such payment pursuant to the terms of this Indenture, interest on Securities (or portion thereof) called for redemption ceases to accrue on and after the redemption date;

 

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(vii)      the CUSIP number, ISIN and/or “Common Code” number, if any, printed on the Securities being redeemed; and

(viii)     that no representation is made as to the correctness or accuracy of the CUSIP number or ISIN and/or “Common Code” number, if any, listed in such notice or printed on the Securities.

In addition, if such redemption is subject to satisfaction of one or more conditions precedent, such notice of redemption shall describe each such condition, and if applicable, shall state that, in the Company’s discretion, the redemption date may be delayed until such time as any or all such conditions shall be satisfied, or such redemption may not occur and such notice may be rescinded in the event that any or all such conditions shall not have been satisfied by the stated redemption date, or by the redemption date as so delayed.

(b)       At the Company’s request, the Registrar shall give the notice of redemption in the Company’s name and at the Company’s expense; provided, however, that the Company has delivered to the Trustee and Registrar, at least 45 days (unless a shorter period is acceptable to the Trustee and Registrar) prior to the redemption date, an Officers’ Certificate requesting that the Registrar give such notice. In such event, the Company shall provide the Registrar in writing with the information required by this Section 3.05.

SECTION 3.06.    Effect of Notice of Redemption.  Once notice of redemption is mailed in accordance with Section 3.05, Securities called for redemption become due and payable on the redemption date and at the redemption price stated in the notice (except to the extent such redemption is conditional as set forth in Section 3.05). Upon surrender to any Paying Agent, such Securities shall be paid at the redemption price stated in the notice, plus accrued and unpaid interest to the redemption date; provided, however, that if the redemption date is after a regular record date and on or prior to the interest payment date, the accrued interest shall be payable to the Holder of the redeemed Securities registered on the relevant record date. Failure to give notice or any defect in the notice to any Holder shall not affect the validity of the notice to any other Holder or the validity of the redemption.

SECTION 3.07.    Deposit of Redemption Price.  Prior to 10:00 a.m., New York City time, on the redemption date, the Company shall deposit with the Paying Agent (or, if the Company or a Wholly Owned Subsidiary is a Paying Agent, shall segregate and hold in trust) money sufficient to pay the redemption price of and accrued interest on all Securities or portions thereof to be redeemed on that date other than Securities or portions of Securities called for redemption that have been delivered by the Company to the Registrar for cancellation. On and after the redemption date, interest shall cease to accrue on Securities or portions thereof called for redemption so long as the Company has deposited with the Paying Agent funds sufficient to pay the principal of, plus accrued and unpaid interest on, the Securities to be redeemed, unless a Paying Agent is prohibited from making such payment pursuant to the terms of this Indenture.

SECTION 3.08.    Securities Redeemed in Part.  Upon surrender of a Security that is redeemed in part, the Company shall execute and the Authentication Agent shall authenticate

 

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for the Holder (at the Company’s expense) a new Security equal in principal amount to the unredeemed portion of the Security surrendered.

ARTICLE 4

COVENANTS

SECTION 4.01.    Payment of Securities.  The Company shall promptly pay the principal of and interest, on the Securities on the dates and in the manner provided in the Securities and in this Indenture. An installment of principal of or interest shall be considered paid on the date due if on such date the Paying Agent holds in accordance with this Indenture money sufficient to pay all principal and interest then due and the Paying Agent is not prohibited from paying such money to the Holders on that date pursuant to the terms of this Indenture.

The Company shall pay interest on overdue principal at the rate specified therefor in the Securities, and it shall pay interest on overdue installments of interest at the same rate borne by the Securities to the extent lawful.

SECTION 4.02.    Reports and Other Information.  Notwithstanding that the Company may not be subject to the reporting requirements of Section 13 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act or otherwise report on an annual and quarterly basis on forms provided for such annual and quarterly reporting pursuant to rules and regulations promulgated by the SEC, the Company shall file with the SEC (and provide the Trustee and Holders with copies thereof, without cost to each Holder, within 15 days after it files them with the SEC),

(a)        within 90 days after the end of each fiscal year (or such longer period as may be permitted by the SEC if the Company were then subject to such SEC reporting requirements as a required filer, voluntary filer or otherwise), annual reports on Form 10-K (or any successor or comparable form) containing the information required to be contained therein (or required in such successor or comparable form),

(b)        within 45 days after the end of each of the first three fiscal quarters of each fiscal year (or such longer period as may be permitted by the SEC if the Company were then subject to such SEC reporting requirements as a required filer, voluntary filer or otherwise), quarterly reports on Form 10-Q (or any successor or comparable form),

(c)        promptly from time to time after the occurrence of an event required to be therein reported (and in any event within the time period specified for filing current reports on Form 8-K by the SEC), such other reports on Form 8-K (or any successor or comparable form), and

(d)        any other information, documents and other reports which the Company would be required to file with the SEC if it were subject to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act;

 

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provided, however, that the Company shall not be so obligated to file such reports with the SEC if the SEC does not permit such filing, in which event the Company shall put such information on its website, in addition to providing such information to the Trustee and the Holders, in each case within 15 days after the time the Company would be required to file such information with the SEC if it were subject to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act. For avoidance of doubt, the obligations of the Company under this Section 4.02 shall commence with respect to the Company’s first fiscal quarter that ends after the Issue Date.

In addition, to the extent not satisfied by the foregoing, the Company shall, for so long as any Securities are outstanding, furnish to the Holders and to securities analysts and prospective investors, upon their request, the information required to be delivered pursuant to Rule 144A(d)(4) under the Securities Act.

Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Company will be deemed to have furnished such reports referred to above to the Trustee and the Holders if it has filed such reports with the SEC via the EDGAR filing system (or any successor thereto) and such reports are publicly available.

Notwithstanding the foregoing, the requirement to provide the information and reports referred to in clauses (a) and (b) above shall be deemed satisfied prior to the commencement of the Registered Exchange Offer or the effectiveness of a Shelf Registration Statement relating to the registration of the Securities under the Securities Act by the filing (within the time periods specified for such filings in the registration rights agreement) with the SEC of a registration statement, and any amendments thereto, with such financial information that satisfies Regulation S-X under the Securities Act.

In the event that:

(i)        the rules and regulations of the SEC permit the Company and any direct or indirect parent company of the Company to report at such parent entity’s level on a consolidated basis and such parent entity of the Company is not engaged in any business in any material respect other than incidental to its ownership, directly or indirectly, of the capital stock of the Company, or

(ii)        any direct or indirect parent of the Company becomes a Guarantor of the Securities,

such consolidated reporting at such parent entity’s level in a manner consistent with that described in this Section 4.02 for the Company will satisfy this Section 4.02; provided that such financial information is accompanied by consolidating information that explains in reasonable detail the differences between the information relating to such direct or indirect parent and any of its Subsidiaries other than the Company and its Subsidiaries, on the one hand, and the information relating to the Company and its Subsidiaries on a stand alone basis, on the other hand.

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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 (subject to Article 7) on Officers’ Certificates).

SECTION 4.03.      Limitation on Incurrence of Indebtedness and Issuance of Disqualified Stock and Preferred Stock.

(a)      (i) The Company shall not, and shall not permit any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to, directly or indirectly, Incur any Indebtedness (including Acquired Indebtedness) or issue any shares of Disqualified Stock; and (ii) the Company shall not permit any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to issue any shares of Preferred Stock; provided, however, that the Company and any Restricted Subsidiary may Incur Indebtedness (including Acquired Indebtedness) or issue shares of Disqualified Stock and any Restricted Subsidiary may issue shares of Preferred Stock, in each case if the Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio of the Company for the most recently ended four full fiscal quarters for which internal financial statements are available immediately preceding the date on which such additional Indebtedness is Incurred or such Disqualified Stock or Preferred Stock is issued would have been at least 2.00 to 1.00 determined on a pro forma basis (including a pro forma application of the net proceeds therefrom), as if the additional Indebtedness had been Incurred, or the Disqualified Stock or Preferred Stock had been issued, as the case may be, and the application of proceeds therefrom had occurred at the beginning of such four-quarter period; provided, further, that Restricted Subsidiaries of the Company that are not Guarantors may not Incur Indebtedness or issue any shares of Disqualified Stock or Preferred Stock pursuant to this paragraph if, after giving pro forma effect to such Incurrence or issuance (including a pro forma application of the net proceeds therefrom), more than an aggregate of $10 million of Indebtedness, Disqualified Stock and Preferred Stock of Restricted Subsidiaries that are not Guarantors would be outstanding pursuant to this paragraph.

(b)      The limitations set forth in Section 4.03(a) shall not apply to (collectively, “Permitted Debt”):

(i)       the Incurrence by the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries of Indebtedness under one or more Credit Facilities and the issuance and creation of letters of credit and bankers’ acceptances thereunder (with letters of credit and bankers’ acceptances being deemed to have a principal amount equal to the maximum potential liability of the Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries thereunder) up to an aggregate principal amount at any one time outstanding not to exceed the greater of (x) $200 million and (y) the amount of the Borrowing Base, as of the date of such Incurrence;

(ii)      the Incurrence by the Company and the Guarantors of Indebtedness represented by the Original Securities and the Guarantees, as applicable (and any Exchange Securities and guarantees thereof);

(iii)     Indebtedness existing on the Issue Date (other than Indebtedness described in clauses (i) and (ii) of this Section 4.03(b)), including any Indebtedness being repaid with the proceeds of the offering as described in the Offering Memorandum;

 

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(iv)      Indebtedness (including Capitalized Lease Obligations) Incurred by the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to finance the purchase, lease, design, construction, installation, repair, replacement or improvement of property (real or personal) or equipment (whether through the direct purchase of assets or the Capital Stock of any Person owning such assets (but no other material assets)) and related financing costs in an aggregate principal amount which, when aggregated with the principal amount of all other Indebtedness then outstanding that was Incurred pursuant to this clause (iv), does not exceed $20 million at any one time outstanding;

(v)       Indebtedness Incurred by the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries constituting reimbursement obligations with respect to letters of credit and bank guarantees issued in the ordinary course of business, including, without limitation, letters of credit in respect of workers’ compensation claims, health, disability or other employee benefits (whether current or former) or property, casualty or liability insurance or self-insurance, or other Indebtedness with respect to reimbursement-type obligations regarding workers’ compensation claims; provided, however, that upon the drawing of such letters of credit, such obligations are reimbursed within 30 days following such drawing;

(vi)      Indebtedness arising from agreements of the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary providing for indemnification, adjustment of purchase price or similar obligations, in each case, Incurred in connection with the acquisition or the disposition of any business, assets or Subsidiary in accordance with the terms of this Indenture, other than guarantees of Indebtedness Incurred by any Person acquiring all or any portion of such business, assets or Subsidiary for the purpose of financing such acquisition;

(vii)     Indebtedness of the Company to a Restricted Subsidiary; provided that any subsequent issuance or transfer of any Capital Stock or any other event which results in any such Restricted Subsidiary ceasing to be a Restricted Subsidiary or any other subsequent transfer of any such Indebtedness (except to the Company or another Restricted Subsidiary) shall be deemed, in each case, to be an Incurrence of such Indebtedness;

(viii)     shares of Preferred Stock of a Restricted Subsidiary issued to the Company or another Restricted Subsidiary; provided that any subsequent issuance or transfer of any Capital Stock or any other event that results in any Restricted Subsidiary that holds such shares of Preferred Stock of another Restricted Subsidiary ceasing to be a Restricted Subsidiary or any other subsequent transfer of any such shares of Preferred Stock (except to the Company or another Restricted Subsidiary) shall be deemed, in each case, to be an issuance of shares of Preferred Stock;

(ix)       Indebtedness of a Restricted Subsidiary to the Company or another Restricted Subsidiary; provided that if a Guarantor incurs such Indebtedness to a Restricted Subsidiary that is not a Guarantor, such Indebtedness must be subordinated in right of payment to the Guarantee of such Guarantor; provided, further, that any subsequent issuance or transfer of any Capital Stock or any other event which results in any Restricted Subsidiary lending such Indebtedness ceasing to be a Restricted Subsidiary or any other subsequent transfer of any such Indebtedness (except to the Company or another

 

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Restricted Subsidiary) shall be deemed, in each case, to be an Incurrence of such Indebtedness;

(x)       Hedging Obligations that are Incurred in the ordinary course of business (and not for speculative purposes): (1) for the purpose of fixing or hedging interest rate risk with respect to any Indebtedness that is permitted by the terms of this Indenture to be outstanding; (2) for the purpose of fixing or hedging currency exchange rate risk with respect to any currency exchanges; or (3) for the purpose of fixing or hedging commodity price risk with respect to any commodity purchases;

(xi)      obligations (including reimbursement obligations with respect to letters of credit and bank guarantees) in respect of performance, bid, appeal and surety bonds and completion guarantees provided by the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary in the ordinary course of business;

(xii)      (A) any guarantee by the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary of Indebtedness or other obligations of the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries so long as the Incurrence of such Indebtedness or other obligations by the Company or such Restricted Subsidiary is permitted under the terms of this Indenture; provided that if such Indebtedness is by its express terms subordinated in right of payment to the Securities or the Guarantee of such Restricted Subsidiary, as applicable, any such guarantee of such Guarantor with respect to such Indebtedness shall be subordinated in right of payment to the Securities or such Guarantor’s Guarantee with respect to the Securities substantially to the same extent as such Indebtedness is subordinated to the Securities or the Guarantee of such Restricted Subsidiary, as applicable and (B) any “bad boy,” or springing recourse, guarantee by the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary that is the parent company of an MTBE Subsidiary or Permitted MTBE Joint Venture of Indebtedness of an MTBE Subsidiary or Permitted MTBE Joint Venture so long as such Indebtedness (x) is incurred by such MTBE Subsidiary or Permitted MTBE Joint Venture in connection with its ownership, development, use or operation of its MTBE Assets and (y) such Indebtedness is otherwise non-recourse to the Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries (other than any MTBE Subsidiary);

(xiii)      the Incurrence by the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries of Indebtedness or Disqualified Stock or the issuance by any Restricted Subsidiary of any Preferred Stock which serves to refinance, refund, renew, replace, defease, discharge or otherwise retire for value, in whole or in part, any Indebtedness, Disqualified Stock or Preferred Stock Incurred as permitted under Section 4.03(a) and clauses (ii), (iii), (iv) and (xiii) of this Section 4.03(b) or any Indebtedness, Disqualified Stock or Preferred Stock Incurred to so refinance, refund, renew, replace, defease, discharge or otherwise retire for value, such Indebtedness, Disqualified Stock or Preferred Stock, including any Indebtedness, Disqualified Stock or Preferred Stock Incurred to pay premiums, fees and expenses in connection therewith (subject to the following proviso, “Refinancing Indebtedness”) prior to its respective maturity; provided, however, that:

 

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(1)      such Refinancing Indebtedness has a Weighted Average Life to Maturity at the time such Refinancing Indebtedness is Incurred which is not less than the remaining Weighted Average Life to Maturity of the Indebtedness being refunded, refinanced, renewed, replaced, defeased, discharged or retired;

(2)      such Refinancing Indebtedness has a Stated Maturity which is no earlier than the Stated Maturity of the Indebtedness being refinanced, refunded, renewed, replaced, defeased, discharged or retired;

(3)      to the extent such Refinancing Indebtedness refinances, refunds, renews, replaces, defeases, discharges, or retires (x) Indebtedness junior to the Securities or the Guarantee of such Restricted Subsidiary, as applicable, such Refinancing Indebtedness is junior to the Securities or the Guarantee of such Restricted Subsidiary, as applicable or (y) Disqualified Stock or Preferred Stock, such Refinancing Indebtedness is Disqualified Stock or Preferred Stock;

(4)      the aggregate principal amount (or, in the case of Disqualified Stock, the amount thereof as determined in accordance with the definition of Disqualified Stock) of such Refinancing Indebtedness is equal to or less than the aggregate principal amount (or in the case of Disqualified Stock, the amount thereof as determined in accordance with the definition of Disqualified Stock) then outstanding of the Indebtedness or Disqualified Stock being refinanced, refunded, renewed, replaced, defeased, discharged or retired plus all accrued interest on the Indebtedness or accrued dividends on the Disqualified Stock, as the case may be, being refinanced, refunded, renewed, replaced, defeased, discharged or retired and all premiums, expenses and fees incurred in connection with such refinancing; and

(5)      such Refinancing Indebtedness shall not include (x) Indebtedness of a Restricted Subsidiary that is not a Guarantor that refinances Indebtedness of the Company or a Guarantor, or (y) Indebtedness of the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary that refinances Indebtedness of an Unrestricted Subsidiary;

(xiv)      Indebtedness arising from the honoring by a bank or other financial institution of a check, draft or similar instrument drawn against insufficient funds in the ordinary course of business; provided that such Indebtedness is extinguished within five Business Days of its Incurrence;

(xv)       Indebtedness of the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary supported by a letter of credit or bank guarantee issued pursuant to a Credit Facility, in a principal amount not in excess of the stated amount of such letter of credit or bank guarantee;

(xvi)      Indebtedness of the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary consisting of (x) the financing of insurance premiums or (y) take-or-pay obligations contained in supply arrangements, in each case, in the ordinary course of business; and

 

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(xvii)      Indebtedness or Disqualified Stock of the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary and Preferred Stock of any Restricted Subsidiary in an aggregate principal amount which, when aggregated with the principal amount or liquidation preference of all other Indebtedness, Disqualified Stock and Preferred Stock then outstanding and Incurred pursuant to this clause (xvii) does not exceed the greater of (x) $25.0 million and (y) 3.5% of Consolidated Net Tangible Assets at the time of Incurrence, at any one time outstanding (which Indebtedness may be incurred, in whole or in part, under a Credit Facility).

(c)         Notwithstanding the foregoing, neither the Company nor any Guarantor may Incur any Indebtedness pursuant to Section 4.03(b) if the proceeds thereof are used, directly or indirectly, to repay, prepay, redeem, defease, retire, refund or refinance any Subordinated Indebtedness unless such Indebtedness shall be subordinated to the Securities or such Guarantor’s Guarantee, as applicable, to at least the same extent as such Subordinated Indebtedness. For purposes of determining compliance with this Section 4.03, in the event that an item of Indebtedness, Disqualified Stock or Preferred Stock meets the criteria of more than one of the categories of Permitted Debt or is entitled to be Incurred pursuant to Section 4.03(a), the Company shall be permitted to divide or classify (or later divide, classify or reclassify), in whole or in part in its sole discretion, such item of Indebtedness, Disqualified Stock or Preferred Stock in any manner that complies with this Section 4.03 and such item of Indebtedness, Disqualified Stock or Preferred Stock shall be treated as having been Incurred pursuant to only one of the clauses in Section 4.03(b) or pursuant to Section 4.03(a); provided that all Indebtedness under the Credit Agreement outstanding on the Issue Date shall be deemed to have been Incurred pursuant to clause (i) of Section 4.03(b) and the Company shall not be permitted to reclassify all or any portion of such Indebtedness. Accrual of interest, the accretion of accreted value, the amortization of original issue discount, the payment of interest in the form of additional Indebtedness with the same terms, the payment of dividends on Preferred Stock in the form of additional shares of Preferred Stock of the same class, the accretion of liquidation preference and increases in the amount of Indebtedness outstanding solely as a result of fluctuations in the exchange rate of currencies shall not be deemed to be an Incurrence of Indebtedness for purposes of this Section 4.03. Guarantees of, or obligations in respect of letters of credit relating to, Indebtedness which are otherwise included in the determination of a particular amount of Indebtedness shall not be included in the determination of such amount of Indebtedness; provided that the Incurrence of the Indebtedness represented by such guarantee or letter of credit, as the case may be, was in compliance with this Section 4.03.

(d)          For purposes of determining compliance with any U.S. dollar-denominated restriction on the Incurrence of Indebtedness, the U.S. dollar-equivalent principal amount of Indebtedness denominated in a foreign currency shall be calculated based on the relevant currency exchange rate in effect on the date such Indebtedness was Incurred, in the case of term debt, or first committed or first Incurred (whichever yields the lower U.S. dollar equivalent), in the case of revolving credit debt; 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 of such

 

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refinancing Indebtedness does not exceed the principal amount of such Indebtedness being refinanced.

SECTION 4.04.        Limitation on Restricted Payments.

(a)      The Company shall not, and shall not permit any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to, directly or indirectly:

(i)      declare or pay any dividend or make any distribution on account of the Company’s or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries’ Equity Interests, including any payment made in connection with any merger or consolidation involving the Company (other than (A) dividends or distributions by the Company payable solely in Equity Interests (other than Disqualified Stock) of the Company; or (B) dividends or distributions by a Restricted Subsidiary so long as, in the case of any dividend or distribution payable on or in respect of any class or series of securities issued by a Restricted Subsidiary other than a Wholly Owned Restricted Subsidiary, the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary receives at least its pro rata share of such dividend or distribution in accordance with its Equity Interests in such class or series of securities);

(ii)      purchase or otherwise acquire or retire for value any Equity Interests of the Company or any Parent Company;

(iii)     make any principal payment on, or redeem, repurchase, defease or otherwise acquire or retire for value, in each case prior to any scheduled repayment or scheduled maturity, any Subordinated Indebtedness (other than the payment, redemption, repurchase, defeasance, acquisition or retirement of Subordinated Indebtedness in anticipation of satisfying a sinking fund obligation, principal installment or final maturity, in each case due within one year of the date of such payment, redemption, repurchase, defeasance, acquisition or retirement; or

(iv)      make any Restricted Investment

(all such payments and other actions set forth in clauses (i) through (iv) above being collectively referred to as “Restricted Payments”), unless, at the time of such Restricted Payment:

(1)      no Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing or would occur as a consequence thereof;

(2)      immediately after giving effect to such transaction on a pro forma basis, the Company could Incur $1.00 of additional Indebtedness under Section 4.03(a); and

(3)      such Restricted Payment, together with the aggregate amount of all other Restricted Payments made by the Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries after the Issue Date (including Restricted Payments permitted by clause (i) of Section 4.04(b), but excluding all other Restricted Payments permitted by Section 4.04(b)), is less than the sum of, without duplication,

 

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(A)      50% of the Consolidated Net Income of the Company for the period (taken as one accounting period) from October 1, 2010 to the end of the Company’s most recently ended fiscal quarter for which internal financial statements are available at the time of such Restricted Payment (or, in the case such Consolidated Net Income for such period is a deficit, minus 100% of such deficit), plus

(B)      100% of the aggregate net proceeds, including cash and the Fair Market Value (as determined in accordance with the next succeeding sentence) of property other than cash, received by the Company after the Issue Date from the issue or sale of Equity Interests of the Company (excluding (without duplication) Refunding Capital Stock, Designated Preferred Stock, Excluded Contributions and Disqualified Stock), including Equity Interests issued upon conversion of Indebtedness or upon exercise of warrants or options (other than an issuance or sale to a Subsidiary of the Company or an employee stock ownership plan or trust established by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries), plus

(C)      without duplication of any amount included in clause (B) above, 100% of the aggregate amount of contributions to the capital of the Company received in cash and the Fair Market Value (as determined in accordance with the next succeeding sentence) of all property other than cash received by the Company as a contribution to its capital after the Issue Date (other than Excluded Contributions, Refunding Capital Stock, Designated Preferred Stock and Disqualified Stock), plus

(D)      the principal amount of any Indebtedness, or the liquidation preference or maximum fixed repurchase price, as the case may be, of any Disqualified Stock, of the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary thereof issued after the Issue Date (other than Indebtedness or Disqualified Stock issued to a Restricted Subsidiary) which has been converted into or exchanged for Equity Interests in the Company or such Restricted Subsidiary (other than Disqualified Stock), plus

(E)      the amount equal to the net reduction in Investments (other than Permitted Investments) made by the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries in any Person resulting from, and without duplication, (I) repurchases or redemptions of such Investments by such Person, proceeds realized upon the sale of such Investment to an unaffiliated purchaser and repayments of loans or advances or other transfers of assets by such Person to the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary (including by way of dividend or distribution) or (II) the redesignation of Unrestricted Subsidiaries as Restricted Subsidiaries or the merger or consolidation of an Unrestricted Subsidiary with and into the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary (valued in each case as provided in the definition of “Investment”) not to exceed, in the case of any Unrestricted Subsidiary, the amount of Investments previously made by the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries in such

 

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Unrestricted Subsidiary, which amount was included in the calculation of Restricted Payments.

The Fair Market Value of property other than cash covered by clauses (3)(B), (C), (D) and (E) of this Section 4.04(a) shall be determined in good faith by the Company and in the event of property with a Fair Market Value in excess of $10 million, shall be set forth in a resolution approved by at least a majority of the Board of Directors of the Company.

(b)      The provisions of Section 4.04(a) shall not prohibit:

(i)      the payment of any dividend or distribution within 60 days after the date of declaration thereof, if at the date of declaration such payment would have complied with the provisions of this Indenture;

(ii)      (A) the redemption, repurchase, retirement or other acquisition of any Equity Interests (“Retired Capital Stock”) of the Company, any Parent Company or any Guarantor or any Subordinated Indebtedness of the Company, any Parent Company or any Guarantor in exchange for, or out of the proceeds of the substantially concurrent sale of, Equity Interests of the Company or any Parent Company or contributions to the equity capital of the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary (other than any Disqualified Stock or any Equity Interests sold to a Subsidiary of the Company or to an employee stock ownership plan or any trust established by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries) (collectively, including any such contributions, “Refunding Capital Stock”); and (B) the declaration and payment of accrued dividends on the Retired Capital Stock out of the proceeds of the substantially concurrent sale (other than to a Subsidiary of the Company or to an employee stock ownership plan or any trust established by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries) of Refunding Capital Stock;

(iii)      the redemption, repurchase, defeasance or other acquisition or retirement of Subordinated Indebtedness of the Company or any Guarantor made by exchange for, or out of the proceeds of the substantially concurrent issuance of, new Indebtedness of the Company or any Guarantor which is Incurred in accordance with Section 4.03 (with an Incurrence of such new Indebtedness being deemed substantially concurrent if such redemption, repurchase, defeasance, acquisition or retirement occurs not more than 60 days after such Incurrence), so long as:

(A)      the principal amount of such new Indebtedness does not exceed the principal amount of the Subordinated Indebtedness being so redeemed, repurchased, defeased, acquired or retired for value (plus all accrued and unpaid interest on such Subordinated Indebtedness and the amount of any premiums required to be paid under the terms of the instrument governing the Subordinated Indebtedness being so redeemed, repurchased, defeased, acquired or retired plus any fees and expenses incurred in connection therewith);

 

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(B)      such Indebtedness is subordinated to the Securities or the related Guarantee, as the case may be, at least to the same extent as such Subordinated Indebtedness so redeemed, repurchased, defeased, acquired or retired for value;

(C)      such Indebtedness has a final scheduled maturity date equal to or later than the earlier of: (A) the final scheduled maturity date of the Subordinated Indebtedness being so redeemed, repurchased, defeased, acquired or retired and (B) 91 days following the last maturity date of any notes then outstanding; and

(D)      such Indebtedness has a Weighted Average Life to Maturity equal to or greater than the shorter of: (A) the remaining Weighted Average Life to Maturity of the Subordinated Indebtedness being so redeemed, repurchased, defeased, acquired or retired and (B) the Weighted Average Life to Maturity that would result if all payments of principal on the Subordinated Indebtedness being redeemed, repurchased, defeased, acquired or retired that were due on or after the date that is 91 days following the last maturity date of any notes then outstanding were instead due on such date;

(iv)      the repurchase, retirement or other acquisition for value of Equity Interests of the Company or any Parent Company held by any future, present or former employee, director or consultant of the Company, any Parent Company or any Subsidiary of the Company, and any dividend payment or other distribution by the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary to any Parent Company the proceeds of which are utilized for the repurchase, retirement or other acquisition for value of Equity Interests such Parent Company held by any future, present or former employee, director or consultant of the Company, any Parent Company or any Subsidiary of the Company, in each case pursuant to any management equity plan or stock option plan or any other management or employee benefit plan or other agreement or arrangement; provided, however, that the aggregate amounts paid under this clause (iv) do not exceed $5 million in any calendar year (with unused amounts in any calendar year being permitted to be carried over for the next calendar year); provided further, however, that such amount in any calendar year may be increased by an amount not to exceed:

(A)      the cash proceeds received by the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries from the sale of Equity Interests (other than Disqualified Stock) of the Company and, to the extent contributed to the capital of the Company, the Equity Interests of any Parent Company, in each case to members of management, directors or consultants of the Company, any Parent Company or any Restricted Subsidiary after the Issue Date (provided that the amount of such cash proceeds utilized for any such repurchase, retirement, other acquisition or dividend shall not increase the amount available for Restricted Payments under Section 4.04(a)(3)); plus

(B)      the cash proceeds of key man life insurance policies received by the Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries after the Issue Date

 

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(provided that the Company may elect to apply all or any portion of the aggregate increase contemplated by clauses (A) and (B) above in any calendar year);

(v)      the declaration and payment of dividends or distributions to holders of any class or series of Disqualified Stock of the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries issued or incurred in accordance with Section 4.03;

(vi)      the declaration and payment of dividends or distributions to holders of any class or series of Designated Preferred Stock (other than Disqualified Stock) issued after the Issue Date; provided, however, that (A) for the most recently ended four full fiscal quarters for which internal financial statements are available immediately preceding the date of issuance of such Designated Preferred Stock, after giving effect to such issuance (and the payment of dividends or distributions) on a pro forma basis, the Company would have had a Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio of at least 2.00 to 1.00 and (B) the aggregate amount of dividends declared and paid pursuant to this clause (vi) does not exceed the net cash proceeds actually received by the Company from any such sale of Designated Preferred Stock (other than Disqualified Stock) issued after the Issue Date;

(vii)      Restricted Payments consisting of the funding of one or more dividends or distributions to any Parent Company for the purpose of funding one or more dividends or distributions to, repurchases of Capital Stock held by, or other transactions effecting a return of capital to, the holders of such Parent Company’s Capital Stock, in an aggregate amount not to exceed $131 million;

(viii)      Investments that are made with Excluded Contributions;

(ix)      the repurchase of Equity Interests deemed to occur upon the exercise of options, rights or warrants to the extent such Equity Interests represent a portion of the exercise price of those options, rights or warrants;

(x)      Permitted Parent Company Payments;

(xi)      other Restricted Payments in an aggregate amount not to exceed $30 million at the time of such Restricted Payment, at any one time outstanding;

(xii)      the payment of dividends or distributions to any Parent Company for the purpose of funding the payment of dividends or distributions on such Parent Company’s common equity capital of up to $1 million per annum; and

(xiii)      the payment, purchase, redemption, defeasance or other acquisition or retirement for value of Subordinated Indebtedness, Disqualified Stock or Preferred Stock of the Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries pursuant to provisions similar to those described under Section 4.06 and Section 4.08; provided that, prior to such payment, purchase, redemption, defeasance or other acquisition or retirement for value, the Company (or a third party to the extent permitted by this Indenture) has made a Change of Control Offer or Asset Sale Offer, as the case may be, with respect to the Securities as a result of

 

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such Change of Control or Asset Sale, as the case may be, and has repurchased all Securities validly tendered and not withdrawn in connection with such Change of Control Offer or Asset Sale Offer, as the case may be;

provided, however, that at the time of, and after giving effect to, any Restricted Payment permitted under clauses (xi), (xii) and (xiii) of this Section 4.04(b), no Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing or would occur as a consequence thereof.

(c)      As of the Issue Date, all of the Company’s Subsidiaries shall be Restricted Subsidiaries. The Company shall not permit any Unrestricted Subsidiary to become a Restricted Subsidiary except pursuant to the definition of “Unrestricted Subsidiary.” For purposes of designating any Restricted Subsidiary as an Unrestricted Subsidiary, all outstanding Investments by the Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries (except to the extent repaid) in the Subsidiary so designated shall be deemed to be Restricted Payments or Permitted Investments in an amount determined as set forth in the last sentence of the definition of “Investments.” Such designation shall only be permitted if a Restricted Payment or Permitted Investment in such amount would be permitted at such time and if such Subsidiary otherwise meets the definition of an Unrestricted Subsidiary.

SECTION 4.05.      Dividend and Other Payment Restrictions Affecting Subsidiaries. The Company shall not, and shall not permit any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to, directly or indirectly, create or otherwise cause or suffer to exist or become effective any consensual encumbrance or consensual restriction on the ability of any Restricted Subsidiary to:

(a)      (i) pay dividends or make any other distributions to the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries on its Capital Stock or (ii) pay any Indebtedness owed to the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries;

(b)      make loans or advances to the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries; or

(c)      sell, lease or transfer any of its properties or assets to the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries,

except in each case for such encumbrances or restrictions existing under or by reason of:

(1)      contractual encumbrances or restrictions in effect or entered into on the Issue Date, including pursuant to the Credit Agreement;

(2)      this Indenture, the Securities (and any Exchange Securities and guarantees thereof), the Guarantees and the Security Documents;

(3)      applicable law or any applicable rule, regulation, order, approval, license, permit or similar restriction;

 

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(4)      any agreement or other instrument of a Person acquired by the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary which was in existence at the time of such acquisition (but not created in contemplation thereof), which encumbrance or restriction is not applicable to any Person, or the properties or assets of any Person, other than the Person, or the property or assets of the Person, so acquired;

(5)      contracts or agreements for the sale of assets, including customary restrictions with respect to a Restricted Subsidiary imposed pursuant to an agreement entered into for the sale or disposition of all or substantially all the Capital Stock or assets of such Restricted Subsidiary;

(6)      Permitted Additional Pari Passu Obligations or any other Secured Indebtedness otherwise permitted to be Incurred pursuant to Sections 4.03 and 4.12 that limit the right of the debtor to dispose of the assets securing such Indebtedness;

(7)      restrictions on cash or other deposits or net worth imposed by customers under contracts entered into in the ordinary course of business;

(8)      customary provisions in joint venture agreements and other similar agreements entered into (x) in the ordinary course of business or (y) with the approval of the Company’s Board of Directors, which limitations are applicable only to the assets, property or Capital Stock that are the subject of such agreements;

(9)      purchase money obligations for property acquired, construction loans for property constructed and Capitalized Lease Obligations that impose restrictions of the type described in clause (c) above on the property so acquired, constructed or leased;

(10)      customary provisions contained in leases, licenses, contracts and other similar agreements entered into in the ordinary course of business that impose restrictions of the type described in clause (c) above on the property subject to such lease;

(11)      other Indebtedness, Disqualified Stock or Preferred Stock of any Restricted Subsidiary that is Incurred subsequent to the Issue Date pursuant to Section 4.03; provided that such encumbrances and restrictions contained in any agreement or instrument will not materially affect the Company’s ability to make anticipated principal or interest payment on the Securities (as determined by the Company in good faith);

(12)      any Restricted Investment not prohibited by Section 4.04 and any Permitted Investment;

(13)      customary provisions in agreements of the type described in the definition of “Hedging Obligations” permitted under this Indenture and entered into in the ordinary course of business;

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or in the aggregate, detract from the value of property or assets of the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary or the ability of the Company or such Restricted Subsidiary to realize such value, or to make any distributions relating to such property or assets in each case in any material respect; and

(15)      any encumbrances or restrictions of the type referred to in clauses (a), (b) and (c) above imposed by any amendments, modifications, restatements, renewals, increases, supplements, refundings, replacements or refinancings of the contracts, instruments or obligations referred to in clauses (1) through (14) above; provided that such amendments, modifications, restatements, renewals, increases, supplements, refundings, replacements or refinancings are, in the good faith judgment of the Company, not materially more restrictive as a whole with respect to such dividend and other payment restrictions than those contained in the dividend or other payment restrictions prior to such amendment, modification, restatement, renewal, increase, supplement, refunding, replacement or refinancing.

For purposes of determining compliance with this Section 4.05, (i) the priority of any Preferred Stock in receiving dividends or liquidating distributions prior to dividends or liquidating distributions being paid on ordinary shares shall not be deemed a restriction on the ability to make distributions on Capital Stock and (ii) the subordination of loans or advances made to the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary to other Indebtedness Incurred by the Company or any such Restricted Subsidiary shall not be deemed a restriction on the ability to make loans or advances.

SECTION 4.06.      Asset Sales.

(a)      The Company shall not, and shall not permit any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to consummate an Asset Sale, unless:

(1)      the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiary, as the case may be, receives consideration at the time of such Asset Sale at least equal to the Fair Market Value (as determined in good faith by the Company) of the assets sold or otherwise disposed of;

(2)      except in the case of a Permitted Asset Swap, at least 75% of the consideration therefor received by the Company or such Restricted Subsidiary, as the case may be, is in the form of cash or Cash Equivalents; provided that the amount of:

(i)      any liabilities (as shown on the Company’s or any Restricted Subsidiary’s most recent balance sheet or in the notes thereto) of the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary (other than liabilities that are by their terms subordinated to the Securities) that are assumed by the transferee of any such assets,

(ii)      any notes or other obligations or other securities or assets received by the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary from such transferee that are converted by the Company or such Restricted Subsidiary into cash or Cash Equivalents within 180 days of the receipt thereof (to the extent of the cash or Cash Equivalents received),

 

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(iii)      accounts receivable of a business retained by the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries, as the case may be, following the sale of such business, provided that such accounts receivable (i) are not past due more than 90 days and (ii) do not have a payment date greater than 120 days from the date of the invoices creating such accounts receivable; and

(iv)      any Designated Non-cash Consideration received by the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries in such Asset Sale having an aggregate Fair Market Value, taken together with all other Designated Non-cash Consideration received pursuant to this clause (iv) that is at that time outstanding, not to exceed the greater of (x) $15.0 million and (y) 2.5% of Consolidated Net Tangible Assets at the time of the receipt of such Designated Non-cash Consideration (with the Fair Market Value of each item of Designated Non-cash Consideration being measured at the time received and without giving effect to subsequent changes in value)

shall each be deemed to be Cash Equivalents for the purposes of this Section 4.06(a).

(3)      if such Asset Sale involves the disposition of Collateral, the Company or such Restricted Subsidiary has complied with the provisions of this Indenture and the Security Documents; and

(4)      if such Asset Sale involves the disposition of Notes Priority Collateral or, after the Discharge of ABL Obligations, the disposition of ABL Priority Collateral, the Net Cash Proceeds thereof shall be delivered to the Collateral Agent for deposit into the Collateral Account, and, if any property other than cash or Cash Equivalents is included in such Net Cash Proceeds, such property shall be made subject to the Note Liens.

(b)      Within 365 days after the Company’s or any Restricted Subsidiary’s receipt of the Net Cash Proceeds of any Asset Sale or Casualty or Condemnation Event, the Company or such Restricted Subsidiary may apply the Net Cash Proceeds from such Asset Sale or Casualty or Condemnation Event, at its option:

(i)      to the extent such Net Cash Proceeds constitute proceeds from the sale of ABL Priority Collateral, to repay Indebtedness under the Credit Agreement secured by such ABL Priority Collateral;

(ii)      to the extent such Net Cash Proceeds constitute proceeds from the sale of Notes Priority Collateral, to permanently repay, equally and ratably, the Securities and any Permitted Additional Pari Passu Obligations;

(iii)      to permanently reduce Obligations under other Secured Indebtedness (provided that if the Company or any Guarantor shall so reduce such Obligations, the Company shall equally and ratably reduce Obligations under the Securities and any Permitted Additional Pari Passu Obligations if the Securities and Permitted Additional Pari Passu Obligations are then prepayable or, if the Securities may not then be prepaid, by

 

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making an offer (in accordance with the procedures set forth below for an Asset Sale Offer) to all Holders to purchase at a purchase price equal to 100% of the principal amount thereof, plus accrued and unpaid interest, if any, the pro rata principal amount of Securities that would otherwise be prepaid) or Indebtedness of a Restricted Subsidiary that is not a Guarantor, in each case other than Indebtedness owed to the Company or an Affiliate of the Company;

(iv)      to make an investment in any one or more businesses, properties or assets (provided that if such investment is in the form of the acquisition of Capital Stock of a Person, such acquisition results in such Person becoming a Restricted Subsidiary of the Company), or to make capital expenditures, in each case used or useful in a Similar Business; and/or

(v)      to make an Investment in any one or more businesses, properties or assets (provided that if such investment is in the form of the acquisition of Capital Stock of a Person, such acquisition results in such Person becoming a Restricted Subsidiary of the Company), that replace the properties and assets that are the subject of such Asset Sale or Casualty or Condemnation Event; provided that with respect to the replacement or restoration of any property, equipment or assets of the Company that is the subject of a Casualty or Condemnation Event, if the Company or the applicable Guarantor commences replacement or restoration of such property, equipment or assets of the Company within 365 days after receipt of the Net Cash Proceeds from such Casualty or Condemnation Event, the 365 day period shall be extended for so long as the Company or the applicable Guarantor is diligently pursuing such replacement or restoration, subject to any force majeure event; provided, however, that if such Net Cash Proceeds are received in respect of Notes Priority Collateral, such assets constitute Notes Priority Collateral.

In the case of clauses (iv) and (v) above, a binding commitment shall be treated as a permitted application of the Net Cash Proceeds from the date of such commitment, provided that, in the event such binding commitment is later canceled or terminated for any reason before such Net Cash Proceeds are so applied, the Company or such Restricted Subsidiary enters into another binding commitment within 180 days of such cancellation or termination of the prior binding commitment.

Pending the final application of any such Net Cash Proceeds, the Company or the applicable Restricted Subsidiary may temporarily reduce Indebtedness under a revolving credit facility, if any, or otherwise invest such Net Cash Proceeds in Cash Equivalents or Investment Grade Securities. Any Net Cash Proceeds from any Asset Sale or Casualty or Condemnation Event that are not applied as provided and within the time period set forth in this Section 4.06(b) shall be deemed to constitute “Excess Proceeds.” When the aggregate amount of Excess Proceeds exceeds $10 million, the Company shall make an offer (an “Asset Sale Offer”) to all Holders of Securities and (x) in the case of Net Cash Proceeds from Notes Priority Collateral, to the holders of any other Permitted Additional Pari Passu Obligations containing provisions similar to those set forth in this Indenture with respect to Asset Sales or Casualty or Condemnation Event or (y) in the case of any other Net Cash Proceeds, to all holders of other Pari Passu Indebtedness

 

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containing provisions similar to those set forth in this Indenture with respect to Assets Sales or Casualty or Condemnation Event, to purchase the maximum principal amount of such Securities and Permitted Additional Pari Passu Obligations or Pari Passu Indebtedness, as appropriate, that may be purchased out of the Excess Proceeds at an offer price in cash in an amount equal to 100% of the principal amount thereof (or such lesser price, if any, as may be provided by the terms of such other Indebtedness), plus accrued and unpaid interest and Additional Interest, if any, to the date fixed for the closing of such offer, in accordance with the procedures set forth in this Section 4.06 and, in the case of Securities, is an integral multiple of $2,000. The Company shall commence an Asset Sale Offer with respect to Excess Proceeds within ten Business Days after the date that Excess Proceeds exceed $10 million by mailing the notice required pursuant to the terms of Section 4.06(f), with a copy to the Trustee and the Registrar. To the extent that the aggregate amount of Securities and such other Indebtedness tendered pursuant to an Asset Sale Offer is less than the Excess Proceeds, the Company may use any remaining Excess Proceeds for general corporate purposes. If the aggregate principal amount of Securities and Permitted Additional Pari Passu Obligations or Pari Passu Indebtedness, as appropriate, surrendered by holders thereof exceeds the amount of Excess Proceeds, the Registrar shall select the Securities and such other Indebtedness to be purchased in the manner described in Section 4.06(e). Upon completion of any such Asset Sale Offer, the amount of Excess Proceeds shall be reset at zero.

(c)      The Company shall comply with the requirements of Rule 14e-1 under the Exchange Act and any other securities laws and regulations to the extent such laws or regulations are applicable in connection with the repurchase of the Securities pursuant to an Asset Sale Offer. To the extent that the provisions of any securities laws or regulations conflict with the provisions of this Indenture, the Company shall comply with the applicable securities laws and regulations and shall not be deemed to have breached its obligations described in this Indenture by virtue thereof.

(d)      Not later than the date upon which written notice of an Asset Sale Offer is delivered to the Trustee and the Registrar as provided above, the Company shall deliver to the Trustee and the Registrar an Officers’ Certificate as to (i) the amount of the Excess Proceeds, (ii) the allocation of the Net Cash Proceeds from the Asset Sales or Casualty or Condemnation Event pursuant to which such Asset Sale Offer is being made and (iii) the compliance of such allocation with the provisions of Section 4.06(b). Upon the expiration of the period for which the Asset Sale Offer remains open (the “Offer Period”), the Company shall deliver to the Registrar for cancellation the Securities or portions thereof that have been properly tendered to and are to be accepted by the Company. The Paying Agent shall, on the date of purchase, mail or deliver payment to each tendering Holder in the amount of the purchase price. In the event that the Excess Proceeds delivered by the Company to the Paying Agent is greater than the purchase price of the Securities tendered, the Paying Agent shall deliver the excess to the Company immediately after the expiration of the Offer Period for application in accordance with Section 4.06.

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in the notice at least three Business Days prior to the purchase date. Holders shall be entitled to withdraw their election if the Registrar or the Company receives not later than two Business Days prior to the purchase date, a telegram, telex, facsimile transmission or letter setting forth the name of the Holder, the principal amount of the Security which was delivered by the Holder for purchase and a statement that such Holder is withdrawing his election to have such Security purchased. If at the end of the Offer Period more Securities are tendered pursuant to an Asset Sale Offer than the Company is required to purchase, selection of such Securities for purchase shall be made by the Registrar in compliance with the requirements of the principal national securities exchange, if any, on which such Securities are listed, or if such Securities are not listed by lot or such other method as the Registrar shall deem fair and appropriate (and in such manner as complies with applicable legal requirements); provided that, to the extent practicable, the Registrar shall not select Securities for purchase which would result in a Holder with a principal amount of Securities less than the minimum denomination.

(f)        Notices of an Asset Sale Offer shall be mailed by first class mail, postage prepaid, at least 30 but not more than 60 days before the purchase date to each Holder of Securities at such Holder’s registered address. If any Security is to be purchased in part only, any notice of purchase that relates to such Security shall state the portion of the principal amount thereof that has been or is to be purchased.

(g)        A new Security in principal amount equal to the unpurchased portion of any Security purchased in part shall be issued in the name of the Holder thereof upon cancellation of the original Security. On and after the purchase date, unless the Company defaults in payment of the purchase price, interest shall cease to accrue on Securities or portions thereof purchased.

SECTION 4.07.    Transactions with Affiliates.

(a)        The Company shall not, and shall not permit any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to, directly or indirectly, make any payment to, or sell, lease, transfer or otherwise dispose of any of its properties or assets to, or purchase any property or assets from, or enter into or make or amend any transaction or series of transactions, contract, agreement, understanding, loan, advance or guarantee with, or for the benefit of, any Affiliate of the Company (each of the foregoing, an “Affiliate Transaction”), unless:

(i)        such Affiliate Transaction is on terms that are not materially less favorable to the Company or the relevant Restricted Subsidiary than those that could have been obtained in a comparable transaction by the Company or such Restricted Subsidiary with an unrelated Person or, if in the good faith judgment of the Company’s Board of Directors, no comparable transaction is available with which to compare such Affiliate Transaction, such Affiliate Transaction is otherwise fair to the Company or the relevant Restricted Subsidiary from a financial point of view;

(ii)        with respect to any Affiliate Transaction or series of related Affiliate Transactions involving aggregate consideration in excess of $15 million, the Company delivers to the Trustee a resolution adopted in good faith by the majority of the Board of

 

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Directors of the Company approving such Affiliate Transaction and either attached to or set forth in an Officers’ Certificate certifying that such Affiliate Transaction complies with clause (i) above; and

(iii)      with respect to any Affiliate Transaction or series of related Affiliate Transactions involving aggregate consideration in excess of $30 million, the Company delivers to the Trustee (x) a resolution adopted in good faith by the majority of the Board of Directors of the Company, approving such Affiliate Transaction and either attached to or set forth in an Officers’ Certificate certifying that such Affiliate Transaction complies with clause (i) above and (y) a written opinion of an Independent Financial Advisor stating such Affiliate Transaction complies with clause (i) above.

(b)      The provisions of Section 4.07(a) shall not apply to the following:

(i)        transactions between or among the Company and/or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries;

(ii)       (x) Restricted Payments permitted by Section 4.04 and (y) Permitted Investments;

(iii)      the payment of customary compensation to, and the provision of customary indemnity and other benefits on behalf of, officers, directors, employees or consultants of the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary or any Parent Company;

(iv)      payments or loans (or cancellation of loans) to employees or consultants in the ordinary course of business not to exceed $3.0 million in the aggregate at any one time outstanding;

(v)      any agreement as in effect as of the Issue Date or any amendment thereto (so long as any such agreement together with all amendments thereto, taken as a whole, is not more disadvantageous to the Holders of the Securities in any material respect than the original agreement as in effect on the Issue Date) or any transaction contemplated thereby;

(vi)      (A) transactions with customers, clients, suppliers or purchasers or sellers of goods or services, or lessors or lessees of property, in each case in the ordinary course of business and otherwise in compliance with the terms of this Indenture, which are fair to the Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries in the reasonable determination of the Board of Directors or any executive officer of the Company, and are on terms at least as favorable as might reasonably have been obtained at such time from an unaffiliated party or (B) transactions with joint ventures or Unrestricted Subsidiaries entered into in the ordinary course of business;

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(viii)        the issuance of Equity Interests (other than Disqualified Stock) of the Company to any Person;

(ix)        the entering into of any tax sharing agreement or arrangement that complies with Section 4.04(b)(x);

(x)        transactions entered into by a Person prior to the time such Person becomes a Restricted Subsidiary or is merged or consolidated into the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary, so long as such transaction is not entered into in contemplation of such event;

(xi)        any transaction in which the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries, as the case may be, delivers to the Trustee a letter from an Independent Financial Advisor stating that such transaction is fair to the Company or such Restricted Subsidiary from a financial point of view or that such transaction meets the requirements of Section 4.07(a)(i);

(xii)        transactions permitted by, and complying with, the provisions of Section 5.01;

(xiii)        transactions between the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries and any Person, a director of which is also a director of the Company; provided, however, that such director abstains from voting as a director of the Company on any matter involving such other Person;

(xiv)        (a) guarantees by the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries of performance of obligations of any Unrestricted Subsidiary in the ordinary course of business, except for guarantees of Indebtedness in respect of borrowed money, (b) pledges of Equity Interests in Unrestricted Subsidiaries and (c) guarantees of the type referred to in Section 4.03(b)(xii)(B);

(xv)        advances to or reimbursements of employees for moving, entertainment and travel expenses, drawing accounts and similar expenditures in the ordinary course of business;

(xvi)        any employment agreements entered into by the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries in the ordinary course of business;

(xvii)        the issuances of securities or other payments, awards or grants in cash, securities or otherwise pursuant to, or the funding of, employment arrangements, stock option and stock ownership plans or similar employee benefit plans approved by the Board of Directors of the Company or of a Restricted Subsidiary, as appropriate, in good faith; and

(xviii)        Permitted Liens of the type described in clause (6)(B) of the definition thereof granted in favor of an MTBE Subsidiary or Permitted MTBE Joint Venture.

 

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SECTION 4.08.        Change of Control.

(a)        Upon a Change of Control, each Holder shall have the right to require the Company to repurchase all or any part of such Holder’s Securities at a purchase price in cash equal to 101% of the principal amount thereof, plus accrued and unpaid interest, if any, to the date of repurchase (subject to the right of the Holders of record on the relevant record date to receive interest due on the relevant interest payment date), in accordance with the terms contemplated in this Section 4.08; provided, however, that notwithstanding the occurrence of a Change of Control, the Company shall not be obligated to purchase any Securities pursuant to this Section 4.08 in the event that it has exercised its right to redeem such Securities in accordance with Article 3 of this Indenture.

In the event that at the time of any Change of Control the terms of the Credit Agreement restrict or prohibit the repurchase of Securities pursuant to this Section 4.08, then prior to the mailing of the notice to the Holders provided for in Section 4.08(b), but in any event within 30 days following such Change of Control, the Company shall (i) repay in full the Credit Agreement, or (ii) obtain the requisite consent, if required, under the Credit Agreement to permit the repurchase of the Securities as provided for in Section 4.08(b).

(b)        Within 30 days following any Change of Control, except to the extent that the Company has exercised its right to redeem the Securities in accordance with Article 3 of this Indenture, the Company shall mail a notice (a “Change of Control Offer”) to each Holder, with a copy to the Trustee and the Registrar, stating:

(i)        that a Change of Control has occurred and that such Holder has the right to require the Company to purchase all or a portion of such Holder’s Securities at a purchase price in cash equal to 101% of the principal amount thereof, plus accrued and unpaid interest and Additional Interest, if any, to the date of purchase (subject to the right of the Holders of record on a record date to receive interest on the relevant interest payment date);

(ii)        the circumstances and relevant facts and financial information regarding such Change of Control;

(iii)        the repurchase date (which shall be no earlier than 30 days nor later than 60 days from the date such notice is mailed); and

(iv)        the instructions determined by the Company, consistent with this Section 4.08, that a Holder must follow in order to have its Securities purchased.

(c)        Holders electing to have a Security purchased shall be required to surrender the Security, with an appropriate form duly completed, to the Company at the address specified in the notice at least three Business Days prior to the purchase date. The Holders shall be entitled to withdraw their election if the Registrar or the Company receives not later than two Business Days prior to the purchase date a telegram, telex, facsimile transmission or letter setting forth the name of the Holder, the principal amount of the Security which was delivered for

 

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purchase by the Holder and a statement that such Holder is withdrawing his election to have such Security purchased. Holders whose Securities are purchased only in part shall be issued new Securities equal in principal amount to the unpurchased portion of the Securities surrendered.

(d)        On the purchase date, all Securities purchased by the Company under this Section shall be delivered to the Registrar for cancellation, and the Company shall pay the purchase price plus accrued and unpaid interest to the Holders entitled thereto.

(e)        Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this Section 4.08, the Company shall not be required to make a Change of Control Offer upon a Change of Control if a third party makes the Change of Control Offer in the manner, at the times and otherwise in compliance with the requirements set forth in Section 4.08(b) applicable to a Change of Control Offer made by the Company and such third party purchases all Securities validly tendered and not withdrawn under such Change of Control Offer.

(f)        At the time the Company delivers Securities to the Registrar which are to be accepted for purchase, the Company shall also deliver an Officers’ Certificate stating that such Securities are to be accepted by the Company pursuant to and in accordance with the terms of this Section 4.08. A Security shall be deemed to have been accepted for purchase at the time the Paying Agent, directly or through an agent, mails or delivers payment therefor to the surrendering Holder.

(g)        Prior to any Change of Control Offer, the Company shall deliver to the Trustee and the Registrar an Officers’ Certificate stating that all conditions precedent contained herein to the right of the Company to make such offer have been complied with.

(h)        The Company shall comply, to the extent applicable, with the requirements of Section 14(e) of the Exchange Act and any other securities laws or regulations in connection with the repurchase of Securities pursuant to this Section 4.08. To the extent that the provisions of any securities laws or regulations conflict with provisions of this Section 4.08, the Company shall comply with the applicable securities laws and regulations and shall not be deemed to have breached its obligations under this Section 4.08 by virtue thereof.

(i)        A Change of Control Offer may be made in advance of a Change of Control, and conditioned upon such Change of Control, if a definitive agreement is in place for the Change of Control at the time of making the Change of Control Offer.

SECTION 4.09.        Compliance Certificate. The Company shall deliver to the Trustee within 120 days after the end of each fiscal year of the Company an Officers’ Certificate stating that in the course of the performance by the signers of their duties as Officers of the Company they would normally have knowledge of any Default and whether or not the signers know of any Default that occurred during such period. If they do, the certificate shall describe the Default, its status and what action the Company is taking or proposes to take with respect thereto. From the date on which this Indenture is qualified under the TIA, the Company also shall comply with Section 314(a)(4) of the TIA.

 

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SECTION 4.10.    Further Assurances, Instruments and Acts.

(a)        Upon request of the Trustee, the Company shall execute and deliver such further instruments and do such further acts as may be reasonably necessary or proper to carry out more effectively the purpose of this Indenture.

(b)        The Company shall, and shall cause each of its existing and future Material Domestic Subsidiaries to, execute and deliver such additional instruments, certificates or documents, and take all such actions as may be reasonably required from time to time in order to:

(1)        carry out more effectively the purposes of the Security Documents;

(2)        create, grant, perfect and maintain the validity, effectiveness and priority of any of the Security Documents and the Liens created, or intended to be created, by the Security Documents; and

(3)        ensure the protection and enforcement of any of the rights granted or intended to be granted to the Trustee under any other instrument executed in connection therewith.

SECTION 4.11.    Future Guarantors.    After the Issue Date, the Company shall cause each Restricted Subsidiary that is a Material Domestic Subsidiary (unless such Subsidiary is already a Guarantor) that guarantees any Indebtedness of the Company or any of its Domestic Subsidiaries (i) to execute and deliver to the Trustee a supplemental indenture pursuant to which such Subsidiary shall guarantee payment of the Securities and (ii) to become party to the Security Documents and comply with the provisions of Section 4.10(b) to the extent any such compliance is required by the terms of the Security Documents.

SECTION 4.12.    Liens.

(a)        The Company shall not, and shall not permit any Restricted Subsidiary to, directly or indirectly, create, Incur or suffer to exist any Lien (other than Permitted Liens) on any asset or property of the Company or such Restricted Subsidiary that secures any Indebtedness of the Company or such Restricted Subsidiary or any related guarantees, except that the Company and the Restricted Subsidiaries may Incur or suffer to exist Liens on assets not constituting Collateral, so long as the Company or such Restricted Subsidiary effectively provides that the Securities or the applicable Guarantee, as the case may be, shall be equally and ratably secured with (or on a senior basis to, in the case such Lien secures any Subordinated Indebtedness) the Indebtedness or related guarantees secured by such Lien.

(b)        Section 4.12(a) shall not require the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary to secure the Securities if the relevant Lien consists of a Permitted Lien. Any Lien which is granted to secure the Securities or such Guarantee under Section 4.12(a) shall be automatically released and discharged at the same time as the release of the Lien that gave rise to the obligation to secure the Securities or such Guarantee under Section 4.12(a).

 

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SECTION 4.13.    Maintenance of Office or Agency.

(a)        The Company shall maintain in the United States, an office or agency (which may be an office of the Trustee or an affiliate of the Trustee or Registrar) where Securities may be surrendered for registration of transfer or for exchange and where notices and demands to or upon the Company in respect of the Securities and this Indenture may be served. The Company shall give prompt written notice to the Trustee of the location, and any change in the location, of such office or agency. If at any time the Company shall fail to maintain any such required office or agency or shall fail to furnish the Trustee with the address thereof, such presentations, surrenders, notices and demands may be made or served at the corporate trust office of the Trustee as set forth in Section 13.02.

(b)        The Company may also from time to time designate one or more other offices or agencies where the Securities may be presented or surrendered for any or all such purposes and may from time to time rescind such designations. The Company shall give prompt written notice to the Trustee of any such designation or rescission and of any change in the location of any such other office or agency.

(c)        The Company hereby designates the corporate trust office of the Trustee or its agent, as such office or agency of the Company in accordance with Section 2.04.

SECTION 4.14.    Insurance.

(a)        The Company will at all times maintain and will cause its Subsidiaries to maintain, insurance with responsible carriers against such risks and in such amounts, and with such deductibles, retentions, self-insurance amounts and co-insurance provisions, as are, in the Company’s reasonable judgment, customarily carried by similar businesses of similar size, including liability, property and casualty loss, workers’ compensation and interruption of business insurance.

(b)        The Company and Guarantors will

(i)        cause any property and casualty insurance policies with respect to the Mortgaged Property to be endorsed or otherwise amended to include a lender’s loss payable endorsement and cause all property policies and casualty insurance policies to name the Collateral Agent as loss payee; and such other provisions as may be customary with companies in the same or similar businesses to protect their interests; deliver original or certified copies of all such policies or a certificate of an insurance broker to the Collateral Agent; cause each such policy to provide that it shall not be canceled or not renewed upon less than 30 days’ prior written notice thereof by the insurer to the Collateral Agent; deliver to the Collateral Agent, prior to the cancellation or nonrenewal of any such policy of insurance, a copy of a renewal or replacement policy (or other evidence of renewal of a policy previously delivered to the Collateral Agent), or insurance certificate with respect thereto, together with evidence of payment of the premium therefor;

 

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(ii)        if the area in which any Building (as defined in Section 339.2 of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Regulations and being codified to 12 CFR §339.2) is located on any Mortgaged Property is designated a “special flood hazard area” in any Flood Insurance Rate Map published by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (or any successor agency), as determined by a Federal Emergency Management Agency Standard Flood Hazard Determination, the Company or its applicable Subsidiary shall maintain flood insurance, as required in order to comply with the Flood Insurance Laws, with respect to such portion of the Mortgaged Property and naming the Collateral Agent for its benefit and the benefit of the Trustee and the Secured Creditors as mortgagee/loss payee;

(iii)        with respect to all Mortgaged Property, carry and maintain comprehensive liability insurance and coverage on a claims made basis against claims made for personal injury (including bodily injury, death and property damage) and umbrella liability insurance against any and all claims, in each case in amounts and against such risks as are customarily maintained by companies engaged in the same or similar industry operating in the same or similar locations naming the Collateral Agent as an additional insured; and

(iv)        notify the Collateral Agent promptly whenever any separate insurance concurrent in form or contributing in the event of loss with that required to be maintained under this Section 4.14 is taken out by Company or any of the Guarantors; and promptly deliver to the Collateral Agent a duplicate original copy of such policy or policies, or an insurance certificate with respect thereto.

(c)        In connection with the covenants set forth in this Section 4.14, it is understood and agreed that:

(i)        none of the Trustee, the Collateral Agent nor their respective agents or employees shall be liable for any loss or damage insured by the insurance policies required to be maintained under this Section 4.14, it being understood that (A) the Company and Guarantors shall look solely to their insurance companies or any other parties other than the aforesaid parties for the recovery of such loss or damage and (B) such insurance companies shall have no rights of subrogation against the Trustee, the Collateral Agent or their agents or employees. If, however, the insurance policies do not provide waiver of subrogation rights against such parties, as required above, then each of Company, and the Guarantors hereby agree, to the extent permitted by law, to waive, its right of recovery, if any, against the Trustee, the Collateral Agent and the Secured Parties and their agents and employees; and

(ii)        the acceptance of any form, type or amount of insurance coverage by the Trustee or Collateral Agent under this Section 4.14 shall in no event be deemed a representation, warranty or advice by the Trustee or Collateral Agent that such insurance is adequate for the purposes of the business of Company and the Guarantors or the protection of their properties.

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Company shall cause all material properties used in the conduct of its business or the business of any of the Guarantors to be maintained and kept in good operating condition and working order (ordinary wear and tear and casualty loss excepted) and supplied with all necessary equipment and shall cause to be made all necessary repairs, renewals, replacements, betterments and improvements thereto; provided that (i) the Company shall not be obligated to make such repairs, renewals, replacements, betterments and improvements if the failure to do so would not result (individually or in the aggregate) in a material adverse effect on the business of the Company and the Guarantors, (ii) subject to Section 4.06, nothing in this Section 4.15 shall prevent the Company from discontinuing the use, operation or maintenance of any of such properties, or disposing of any of them, if such discontinuance or disposal is, in the judgment of the Board of Directors of the Company desirable in the conduct of the business of the Company, and if such discontinuance or disposal is not adverse in any material respect to the Holders and (iii) subject to Section 4.06, nothing in this Section 4.15 shall prevent the Company from discontinuing or disposing of any properties to the extent otherwise permitted by this Indenture.

SECTION 4.16.    Real Property.  The Company shall notify the Collateral Agent within thirty (30) days after the acquisition of any real property owned by the Company or any Guarantor that has a fair market value in excess of $2,000,000 that is not subject to the existing Mortgages (the “After-Acquired Real Property”), and, within one hundred eighty (180) days after the acquisition of such owned real property, as such date may be extended by the Collateral Agent in its reasonable discretion, deliver to the Collateral Agent, with respect to such owned real property, each of the documents described in Section 4.17 hereof (but excluding the documents described in paragraph (i) thereof) and such other documents as may be reasonably requested by the Collateral Agent to evidence the Liens contemplated by this Indenture and the Mortgages; provided that, for so long as the Credit Agreement is in effect, the Company shall not be required to deliver the documents described in Section 4.17 hereof with respect to the After-Acquired Real Property in the event that the Company is not required to grant a Lien in such After-Acquired Real Property to the ABL Facility Collateral Agent pursuant to the Credit Agreement or the ABL Security Documents.

SECTION 4.17.    Post-Closing Collateral.  The Company or the applicable Guarantor shall deliver to the Collateral Agent within one hundred eighty (180) days after the date hereof, to the extent not previously provided, each of the following documents, which shall be reasonably satisfactory in form and substance to the Collateral Agent, the Trustee and each of their respective counsel, as appropriate:

(a)      Mortgages.  With respect to each Mortgaged Property, counterparts of a Mortgage, together with the assignments of leases and rents referred to therein, in proper form for recording in the appropriate recording office of the political subdivision where such Mortgaged Property is located, duly executed and acknowledged by the Company or the applicable Guarantor effective to create a valid and enforceable first-priority (with respect to Notes Priority Collateral) mortgage Lien, subject to no Liens other than Permitted Liens, on such Mortgaged Property in favor of the Collateral Agent for the benefit of the Secured Parties, securing the Secured Obligations, and such financing statements in respect of such Mortgage and any other instruments necessary to grant the interests purported to be granted by such Mortgage (and to

 

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record such Mortgage in the appropriate recording offices) under the laws of any applicable jurisdiction.

(b)        Title Insurance.  With respect to each Mortgage encumbering any Mortgaged Property, a policy or policies of title insurance in an amount equal to the lesser of (i) the then-outstanding principal amount of all Securities and any additional Permitted Additional Pari Passu Obligations (the “Maximum Title Policy Amount”) or (ii) the fair market value of such Mortgaged Property as reasonably determined, in good faith, by the Company (such policies collectively, the “Mortgage Policies”) issued by Chicago Title Insurance Company through its agent Charter Title Company or another title insurance company reasonably acceptable to the Collateral Agent (the “Title Company”), insuring that such Mortgage constitutes a valid and enforceable first-priority (with respect to Notes Priority Collateral) mortgage Lien on the respective Mortgaged Property, free and clear of all Liens other than Permitted Liens, which Mortgage Policies shall (A) be endorsed by the following endorsements (or other similar endorsement): T-14 First Loss Endorsement, T-16 Aggregation Endorsement and T-23 Access Endorsement, T-25 Contiguity Endorsement, T-33 Adjustable Mortgage Loan Endorsement, T-35 Revolving Endorsement, (B) not include an exception for mechanics’ liens and (C) provide for such affirmative insurance as is substantially similar to the coverage provided with respect to the Initial Mortgaged Properties and which is available in the applicable jurisdiction at commercially reasonable rates. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Collateral Agent acknowledges that (w) no T-19 Endorsement shall be required, and (x) a survey exception may be included in each Mortgage Policy, (y) in no event shall the Company be required to obtain Mortgage Policies in excess of the Maximum Title Policy Amount in the aggregate with respect to all Mortgaged Properties and (z) the amounts of the Mortgage Policies to be obtained with respect to the Initial Mortgaged Property in accordance with this Section 4.17(b) shall be the amounts set forth on Schedule 1 attached hereto.

(c)        Surveys.  With respect to each Mortgaged Property, the Company shall deliver a copy of the most recent survey in its possession.

(d)        Consents.  With respect to each Mortgaged Property, such consents, approvals, amendments, supplements, estoppels, tenant subordination agreements or other instruments as may be necessary in order for the Company or the applicable Guarantor to grant the Lien contemplated by the Mortgage with respect thereto.

(e)        Fixture Filings.  With respect to each Mortgaged Property, to the extent the Mortgages are not sufficient to qualify as a fixture filing under applicable laws of the jurisdiction or as reasonably requested by the Collateral Agent, a completed UCC-1 for filing in the jurisdiction in which such Mortgaged Property is located in order to perfect the Lien on and security interest in the fixtures encumbered by the applicable Mortgage in favor of the Collateral Agent for the benefit of the Secured Parties.

(f)        Flood Hazard Determinations and Insurance.  With respect to each Mortgaged Property, a “Life-of Loan” Federal Emergency Management Agency Standard Flood Hazard Determination, a notice with respect to special flood hazard area status, duly executed by

 

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the Company or the applicable Guarantor and, to the extent required pursuant to Section 4.14(b)(ii), evidence of flood insurance as required therein.

(g)        Title Insurance Documents.  With respect to each Mortgaged Property, such affidavits, certificates, information and instruments as shall be reasonably and customarily required to induce the Title Company to issue the Mortgage Policy (including to cover any gap period) and endorsements required pursuant to clause (b) above.

(h)        Collateral Fees and Expenses.  Evidence reasonably acceptable to the Collateral Agent of payment by the Company of all search and examination charges, escrow charges and related charges, filing, documentary, stamp, intangible and mortgage recording taxes, fees, charges, costs and expenses required for the recording of the Mortgages, fixture filings and issuance of the Mortgage Policies and endorsements required pursuant to clause (b) above.

(i)        Amendments to Existing Mortgages.  An amendment to or amendment and restatement of the existing deed of trust encumbering each Mortgaged Property and securing the Credit Agreement (each, an “Existing Mortgage”), effective to, among other things, (i) evidence the release of the lien of such Existing Mortgage to the extent such lien applies to the term loan refinanced with the proceeds of the Original Securities and (ii) subordinate the lien of such Existing Mortgage (as so amended or amended and restated) to the lien of the Mortgage.

(j)        Real Estate Opinion Letter.  An opinion, dated as of the date of the Mortgages and addressed to the Representative of the Initial Purchasers, the Trustee and the Collateral Agent, of Bracewell & Giuliani LLP, special collateral counsel for the Company, substantially in the form of Exhibit B to the Purchase Agreement, but only to the extent that such opinions contained in such form of opinion relate to the Mortgages.

SECTION 4.18.    Notification.  In the event that any Permitted Additional Pari Passu Obligations are incurred following the date hereof, the Company shall notify the Collateral Agent thereof in writing and take all such action as may be reasonably required to amend each then existing Mortgage and endorse each then existing Mortgage Policy (to the extent such endorsements are available in the applicable jurisdiction at commercially reasonable rates) in order to appropriately ensure that such Permitted Additional Pari Passu Obligations are secured equally and ratably with the Secured Obligations, including delivering such opinions of local counsel in each jurisdiction in which any Mortgaged Property is located as Collateral Agent reasonably requests substantially in the form of Exhibit B to the Purchase Agreement related to the Initial Securities, covering the mortgages as amended.

SECTION 4.19.    Payment of Charges.  Unless and to the extent contested by the Company (or the applicable Subsidiary) in accordance with the provisions of this Indenture and any Additional Pari Passu Agreement or to the extent it would constitute a Permitted Lien pursuant to clause (3) of the definition thereof, Company shall pay and discharge, or cause to be paid and discharged, from time to time prior to same becoming delinquent, all Charges. The Company shall, upon Collateral Agent’s request, deliver to Collateral Agent receipts evidencing the payment of all such Charges. “Charges” means any and all present and future real estate, property and other taxes, assessments and special assessments, levies, fees, all water and sewer

 

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rents and charges and all other governmental charges imposed upon or assessed against, and all claims (including, without limitation, claims for landlords’, carriers’, mechanics’, workmen’s, repairmen’s, laborer’s, materialmen’s, suppliers’ and warehousemen’s Liens and other claims arising by operation of law) judgments or demands against, all or any portion of any Mortgaged Property or other amounts of any nature which, if unpaid, might result in or permit the creation of, a Lien on such Mortgaged Property or which might result in foreclosure of all or any portion of such Mortgaged Property.

ARTICLE 5

SUCCESSOR COMPANY

SECTION 5.01.    When Company May Merge or Transfer Assets.

(a)        The Company shall not consolidate or merge with or into or wind up into (whether or not the Company is the surviving Person), or sell, assign, transfer, lease, convey or otherwise dispose of all or substantially all of its properties or assets in one or more related transactions to, any Person unless:

(i)        the Company is the surviving Person or the Person formed by or surviving any such consolidation or merger (if other than the Company) or to which such sale, assignment, transfer, lease, conveyance or other disposition shall have been made is a corporation, partnership or limited liability company organized or existing under the laws of the United States, any state thereof, the District of Columbia, or any territory thereof (the Company or such Person, as the case may be, being herein called the “Successor Company”);

(ii)        the Successor Company (if other than the Company) expressly assumes all the obligations of the Company under this Indenture and the Securities pursuant to a supplemental indenture or other documents or instruments in form reasonably satisfactory to the Trustee;

(iii)        immediately after giving effect to such transaction (and treating any Indebtedness which becomes an obligation of the Successor Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries as a result of such transaction as having been Incurred by the Successor Company or such Restricted Subsidiary at the time of such transaction), no Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing;

(iv)        immediately after giving pro forma effect to such transaction, as if such transaction had occurred at the beginning of the applicable four-quarter period, either

(A)        the Successor Company would be permitted to Incur at least $1.00 of additional Indebtedness pursuant to Section 4.03(a); or

 

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(B)        the Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio for the Successor Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries would be greater than such ratio for the Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries immediately prior to such transaction;

(v)        if the Successor Company is other than the Company, each Guarantor, unless it is the other party to the transactions described above, shall have by supplemental indenture confirmed that its Guarantee shall apply to such Person’s obligations under this Indenture and the Securities;

(vi)        the Successor Company (if other than the Company) shall have delivered or caused to be delivered to the Trustee an Officers’ Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel, each stating that such consolidation, merger, sale, assignment, transfer, lease, conveyance or disposition and such supplemental indenture (if any) comply with this Indenture;

(vii)        the Successor Company causes such amendments, supplements or other instruments to be executed, delivered, filed and recorded, as applicable, in such jurisdictions as may be required by applicable law to preserve and protect the Lien of the Security Documents on the Collateral owned by or transferred to the Successor Company;

(viii)        the Collateral owned by or transferred to the Successor Company shall (x) continue to constitute Collateral under this Indenture and the Security Documents, (y) be subject to the Lien in favor of the Collateral Agent for the benefit of the Trustee and the holders of the Securities, and (z) not be subject to any Lien other than Permitted Liens; and

(ix)        the property and assets of the Person which is merged or consolidated with or into the Successor Company, to the extent that they are property or assets of the types which would constitute Collateral under the Security Documents, shall be treated as after-acquired property and the Successor Company shall take such action as may be reasonably necessary to cause such property and assets to be made subject to the Lien of the Security Documents in the manner and to the extent required in this Indenture.

The Successor Company (if other than the Company) shall succeed to, and be substituted for, the Company under this Indenture and the Securities, and the Company shall automatically be released and discharged from its obligations under this Indenture and the Securities. Notwithstanding Section 5.01(a), (a) the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary may consolidate with, merge into or sell, assign, transfer, lease, convey or otherwise dispose of all or part of its properties and assets, to the Company or to another Restricted Subsidiary, (ii) the Company may merge or consolidate with an Affiliate incorporated or organized solely for the purpose of reincorporating or reorganizing the Company in another state of the United States, the District of Columbia or any territory of the United States so long as the amount of Indebtedness of the Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries is not increased thereby, and (iii) the Company may convert into a corporation, partnership, limited partnership, limited liability company or trust organized or existing under the laws of the jurisdiction of organization of such Company.

 

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(b)        Subject to the provisions of Section 10.02(b) (which govern the release of a Guarantee upon the sale or disposition of a Restricted Subsidiary of the Company that is a Guarantor), each Guarantor shall not, and the Company shall not permit any Guarantor to, consolidate or merge with or into or wind up into (whether or not such Guarantor is the surviving Person), or sell, assign, transfer, lease, convey or otherwise dispose of all or substantially all of its properties or assets in one or more related transactions to, any Person unless:

(i)        either (x) such Guarantor is the surviving Person or the Person formed by or surviving any such consolidation or merger (if other than such Guarantor) or to which such sale, assignment, transfer, lease, conveyance or other disposition shall have been made is a corporation, partnership or limited liability company organized or existing under the laws of the United States, any state thereof, the District of Columbia, or any territory thereof (such Guarantor or such Person, as the case may be, being herein called the “Successor Guarantor”) and the Successor Guarantor (if other than such Guarantor) expressly assumes all the obligations of such Guarantor under this Indenture and such Guarantor’s Guarantee pursuant to a supplemental indenture or other documents or instruments in form reasonably satisfactory to the Trustee or (y) such sale or disposition or consolidation or merger is not in violation of Section 4.06;

(ii)        immediately after giving effect to such transaction (and treating any Indebtedness which becomes an obligation of the Successor Guarantor or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries as a result of such transaction as having been Incurred by the Successor Guarantor or such Restricted Subsidiary at the time of such transaction) no Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing;

(iii)        the Successor Guarantor (if other than such Guarantor) shall have delivered or caused to be delivered to the Trustee an Officers’ Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel, each stating that such consolidation, merger, sale, assignment, transfer, lease, conveyance or disposition and such supplemental indenture (if any) comply with this Indenture;

(iv)        the Successor Guarantor causes such amendments, supplements or other instruments to be executed, delivered, filed and recorded, as applicable, in such jurisdictions as may be required by applicable law to preserve and protect the Lien of the Security Documents on the Collateral owned by or transferred to the Successor Guarantor;

(v)        the Collateral owned by or transferred to the Successor Guarantor shall (a) continue to constitute Collateral under this Indenture and the Security Documents, (b) be subject to the Lien in favor of the Collateral Agent for the benefit of the Trustee and the holders of the Securities, and (c) not be subject to any Lien other than Permitted Liens; and

(vi)        the property and assets of the Person which is merged or consolidated with or into the Successor Guarantor, to the extent that they are property or assets of the types which would constitute Collateral under the Security Documents, shall be treated as after-acquired property and the Successor Guarantor shall take such action as may be reasonably

 

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necessary to cause such property and assets to be made subject to the Lien of the Security Documents in the manner and to the extent required in this Indenture.

The Successor Guarantor (if other than such Guarantor) shall succeed to, and be substituted for, such Guarantor under this Indenture and such Guarantor’s Guarantee, and such Guarantor will automatically be released and discharged from its obligations under this Indenture and such Guarantor’s Guarantee. Notwithstanding the foregoing, (1) a Guarantor may merge or consolidate with an Affiliate incorporated or organized solely for the purpose of reincorporating or reorganizing such Guarantor in another state of the United States, the District of Columbia or any territory of the United States, so long as the amount of Indebtedness of the Guarantor is not increased thereby, (2) a Guarantor may merge or consolidate with, or sell, assign, transfer, lease, convey or otherwise dispose of all or substantially all or part of its properties or assets to, another Guarantor or the Company, and (3) a Guarantor may convert into a corporation, partnership, limited partnership, limited liability company or trust organized or existing under the laws of the jurisdiction of organization of such Guarantor.

ARTICLE 6

DEFAULTS AND REMEDIES

SECTION 6.01.        Events of Default.  An “Event of Default” occurs if:

(a)        the Company defaults in any payment of interest on any Security when the same becomes due and payable, and such default continues for a period of 30 days,

(b)        the Company defaults in the payment of principal or premium, if any, of any Security when due at its Stated Maturity, upon optional redemption, upon required repurchase, upon declaration or otherwise,

(c)        the Company fails to comply with its obligations under Section 5.01,

(d)        the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries fails to comply with any of its obligations under the covenants set forth in Sections 4.08 (other than a failure to purchase Securities when required under Section 4.08) and such failure continues for 30 days after receipt of a related Notice of Default as specified below,

(e)        the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries fails to comply with any of its covenants or agreements in the Securities or this Indenture (other than those referred to in (a), (b), (c), or (d) above) and such failure continues for 60 days after receipt of a related Notice of Default as specified below,

(f)        the Company or any Significant Subsidiary fails to pay any Indebtedness for money borrowed (other than Indebtedness owing to the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary of the Company) within any applicable grace period after final maturity or the acceleration of any such Indebtedness by the holders thereof because of a default, in each case, if the total amount of such Indebtedness unpaid or accelerated exceeds $15 million,

 

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

(i)        commences a voluntary case;

(ii)        consents to the entry of an order for relief against it in an involuntary case;

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

(iv)        makes a general assignment for the benefit of its creditors or takes any equivalent action under any foreign laws relating to insolvency,

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

(i)        is for relief against the Company or any Significant Subsidiary of the Company in an involuntary case;

(ii)        appoints a Custodian of the Company or any Significant Subsidiary of the Company or for all or substantially all of its property; or

(iii)        orders the winding up or liquidation of the Company or any Significant Subsidiary of the Company;

or any similar relief is granted under any foreign laws and any such order or decree described in this clause (h) remains unstayed and in effect for 90 days,

(i)        the Company or any Significant Subsidiary fails to pay final and non-appealable judgments aggregating in excess of $15 million or its foreign currency equivalent (net of any amounts which are covered by enforceable insurance policies issued by solvent carriers), which judgments are not discharged, waived or stayed for a period of 60 days following the entry thereof,

(j)        the Guarantee of a Significant Subsidiary ceases to be in full force and effect (except as contemplated by the terms thereof) or any Guarantor that is a Significant Subsidiary denies or disaffirms its obligations under this Indenture or any Guarantee and such Default continues for 10 days after receipt of a related Notice of Default as specified below, or

(k)        unless all of the Collateral has been released from the Note Liens in accordance with the provisions of the Security Documents, the Company or any Guarantor defaults in the performance of the Security Documents which adversely affects in any material respect the enforceability, validity, perfection or priority of the Note Liens on a material portion of the Collateral, the repudiation or disaffirmation by the Company or

 

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any Guarantor of its material obligations under the Security Documents or the determination in a judicial proceeding that the Security Documents are unenforceable or invalid against the Company or any Guarantor party thereto for any reason with respect to a material portion of the Collateral, which default, repudiation, disaffirmation or determination is not rescinded, stayed, or waived by the Persons having such authority pursuant to the Security Documents or otherwise cured within 60 days after receipt of a related Notice of Default as specified below.

The foregoing shall 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.

The term “Bankruptcy Law” means Title 11, United States Code, or any similar Federal or state law for the relief of debtors. The term “Custodian” means any receiver, trustee, assignee, liquidator, custodian or similar official under any Bankruptcy Law.

A Default under clause (c), (d), (e), (i) or (k) above shall not constitute an Event of Default until the Trustee notifies the Company in writing or the Holders of at least 25% in principal amount of the outstanding Securities notify the Company and the Trustee in writing of the Default and the Company does not cure such Default within the time specified in clauses (c), (d), (e), (i) or (k) above after receipt of such notice. Such notice must specify the Default, demand that it be remedied and state that such notice is a “Notice of Default.” The Company shall deliver to the Trustee, within thirty (30) days after the occurrence thereof, written notice of any event which is, or with the giving of notice or the lapse of time or both would become, an Event of Default, its status and what action the Company is taking or proposes to take with respect thereto.

SECTION 6.02.        Acceleration. If an Event of Default (other than an Event of Default specified in Section 6.01(g) or (h) with respect to the Company) occurs and is continuing, the Trustee by written notice to the Company or the Holders of at least 25% in principal amount of outstanding Securities by written notice to the Company and the Trustee, may declare the principal of, premium, if any, and accrued but unpaid interest on all the Securities to be due and payable. Upon such a declaration, such principal and interest shall be due and payable immediately. If an Event of Default specified in Section 6.01(g) or (h) with respect to the Company occurs, the principal of, premium, if any, and interest on all the Securities shall ipso facto become and be immediately due and payable without any declaration or other act on the part of the Trustee or any Holders. The Holders of a majority in principal amount of the Securities by notice to the Trustee may rescind an acceleration and its consequences if the rescission would not conflict with any judgment or decree and if all existing Events of Default have been cured or waived except nonpayment of principal or interest that has become due solely because of acceleration. No such rescission shall affect any subsequent Default or impair any right consequent thereto.

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without any action by the Trustee or the Holders of the Securities, if within 20 days after such Event of Default arose the Company delivers an Officers’ Certificate to the Trustee stating that (x) the Indebtedness or guarantee that is the basis for such Event of Default has been discharged or (y) the holders thereof have rescinded or waived the acceleration, notice or action (as the case may be) giving rise to such Event of Default or (z) the default that is the basis for such Event of Default has been cured, it being understood that in no event shall an acceleration of the principal amount of the Securities as described above be annulled, waived or rescinded upon the happening of any such events.

SECTION 6.03.        Other Remedies.  If an Event of Default occurs and is continuing, the Trustee may pursue any available remedy at law or in equity to collect the payment of principal of or interest on the Securities or to enforce the performance of any provision of the Securities, this Indenture or the Security Documents.

The Trustee may maintain a proceeding even if it does not possess any of the Securities or does not produce any of them in the proceeding. A delay or omission by the Trustee or any Holder in exercising any right or remedy accruing upon an Event of Default shall not impair the right or remedy or constitute a waiver of or acquiescence in the Event of Default. No remedy is exclusive of any other remedy. All available remedies are cumulative to the extent permitted by law.

SECTION 6.04.        Waiver of Past Defaults.  Provided the Securities are not then due and payable by reason of a declaration of acceleration, the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the Securities by notice to the Trustee may waive an existing Default or Event of Default and its consequences except (a) a Default or Event of Default in the payment of the principal of or interest on a Security or (b) a Default or Event of Default in respect of a provision that under Section 9.02 cannot be amended without the consent of each Holder affected. When a Default is waived, such Default shall cease to exist, and any Event of Default arising therefrom shall be deemed to have been cured for every purpose of this Indenture, but no such waiver shall extend to any subsequent or other Default or impair any consequent right.

SECTION 6.05.        Control by Majority.  Subject to the terms of the Security Documents, the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the Securities then outstanding may direct the time, method and place of conducting any proceeding for any remedy available to the Trustee or of exercising any trust or power conferred on the Trustee. However, the Trustee may refuse to follow any direction that conflicts with law or this Indenture or, subject to Section 7.01, that the Trustee determines is unduly prejudicial to the rights of any other Holder or that would involve the Trustee in personal liability; provided, however, that the Trustee may take any other action deemed proper by the Trustee that is not inconsistent with such direction. Prior to taking any action under this Indenture, the Trustee shall be entitled to indemnification satisfactory to it in its sole discretion against all losses and expenses caused by taking or not taking such action.

 

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SECTION 6.06.        Limitation on Suits.

(a)        Except to enforce the right to receive payment of principal, premium, if any, or interest when due, no Holder may pursue any remedy with respect to this Indenture or the Securities unless:

(i)        the Holder gives to the Trustee written notice stating that an Event of Default is continuing;

(ii)        the Holders of at least 25% in principal amount of the Securities then outstanding make a written request to the Trustee to pursue the remedy;

(iii)        such Holder or Holders offer to the Trustee security or indemnity reasonably satisfactory to it against any loss, liability or expense;

(iv)        the Trustee does not comply with the request within 60 days after receipt of the request and the offer of security or indemnity; and

(v)        the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the Securities do not give the Trustee a direction inconsistent with the request during such 60-day period.

(b)        A Holder may not use this Indenture to prejudice the rights of another Holder or to obtain a preference or priority over another Holder.

SECTION 6.07.        Rights of the Holders to Receive Payment.  Notwithstanding any other provision of this Indenture, the right of any Holder to receive payment of principal of and interest on the Securities held by such Holder, on or after the respective due dates expressed or provided for in the Securities, 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 Section 6.01(a) or (b) occurs and is continuing, the Trustee may recover judgment in its own name and as trustee of an express trust against the Company or any other obligor on the Securities for the whole amount then due and owing (together with interest on overdue principal and (to the extent lawful) on any unpaid interest at the rate provided for in the Securities) and the amounts provided for in Section 7.07.

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 (including any claim for reasonable compensation, expenses disbursements and advances of the Trustee (including counsel, accountants, experts or such other professionals as the Trustee deems reasonably necessary, advisable or appropriate)) and the Holders allowed in any judicial proceedings relative to the Company or any Guarantor, their creditors or their property, shall be entitled to participate as a member, voting or otherwise, of any official committee of creditors appointed in such matters and, unless prohibited by law or applicable regulations, may vote on behalf of the Holders in any election of a trustee in bankruptcy or other

 

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Person performing similar functions, and any Custodian in any such judicial proceeding is hereby authorized by each Holder to make payments to the Trustee and, in the event that the Trustee shall consent to the making of such payments directly to the Holders, to pay to the Trustee any amount due it for the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the Trustee, its agents and its counsel, and any other amounts due the Trustee under Section 7.07.

SECTION 6.10.        Priorities.  Subject to the terms of the Security Documents, 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, Collateral Agent, Paying Agent, Registrar and Authentication Agent for amounts due under Section 7.07;

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

THIRD: to the Company or, to the extent the Trustee collects any amount for any Guarantor, to such Guarantor.

The Trustee, upon prior written notice to the Company and the Guarantors, may fix a record date and payment date for any payment to the Holders pursuant to this Section 6.10. At least 15 days before such record date, the Trustee shall send to each Holder and the Company a notice that states the record date, the payment date and amount to be paid.

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 Securities then outstanding.

SECTION 6.12.        Waiver of Stay or Extension Laws.  Neither the Company nor any Guarantor (to the extent it may lawfully do so) shall at any time insist upon, or plead, or in any manner whatsoever claim or take the benefit or advantage of, any stay or extension law wherever enacted, now or at any time hereafter in force, which may affect the covenants or the performance of this Indenture; and the Company and each Guarantor (to the extent that it may lawfully do so) hereby expressly waive all benefit or advantage of any such law, and shall not hinder, delay or impede the execution of any power herein granted to the Trustee, but shall suffer and permit the execution of every such power as though no such law had been enacted.

 

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ARTICLE 7

TRUSTEE

SECTION 7.01.        Duties of Trustee.

(a)        If an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, the Trustee shall exercise the rights and powers vested in it by this Indenture and use the same degree of care and skill in their exercise as a prudent person would exercise or use under the circumstances in the conduct of such person’s own affairs.

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

(i)        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

(ii)        in the absence of bad faith on its part, the Trustee may conclusively rely, as to the truth of the statements and the correctness of the opinions expressed therein, upon certificates or opinions furnished to the Trustee and conforming to the requirements of this Indenture. However, in the case of certificates or opinions required by any provision hereof to be provided to it, the Trustee shall examine the certificates and opinions to determine whether or not they conform to the requirements of this Indenture.

(c)        The Trustee may not be relieved from liability for its own negligent action, its own negligent failure to act or its own willful misconduct, except that:

(i)        this paragraph does not limit the effect of paragraph (b) of this Section 7.01;

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

(iii)        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; and

(iv)        no provision of this Indenture shall require the Trustee to expend or risk its own funds or otherwise incur financial liability in the performance of any of its duties hereunder or in the exercise of any of its rights or powers.

(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.

 

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(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)        Every provision of this Indenture relating to the conduct or affecting the liability of or affording protection to the Trustee shall be subject to the provisions of this Section 7.01 and, from the date on which this Indenture is qualified under the TIA, to the provisions of the TIA.

SECTION 7.02.        Rights of Trustee.

(a)        The Trustee may conclusively rely 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 or both. The Trustee shall not be liable for any action it takes or omits to take in good faith in reliance on the 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 which it reasonably believes to be authorized or within its rights or powers; provided, however, that the Trustee’s conduct does not constitute willful misconduct or negligence.

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

(f)        The Trustee shall not be bound to make any investigation into the facts or matters stated in any resolution, certificate, statement, instrument, opinion, report, notice, request, consent, order, approval, bond, debenture, note or other paper or document unless requested in writing to do so by the Holders of not less than a majority in principal amount of the Securities at the time outstanding, but the Trustee, in its discretion, may make such further inquiry or investigation into such facts or matters as it may see fit, and, if the Trustee shall determine to make such further inquiry or investigation, it shall be entitled to examine the books, records and premises of the Company, personally or by agent or attorney, at the expense of the Company and shall incur no liability of any kind by reason of such inquiry or investigation.

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this Indenture, unless such Holders shall have offered to the Trustee security or indemnity satisfactory to the Trustee against the costs, expenses, losses and liabilities which might be incurred by it in compliance with such request or direction.

(h)        The rights, privileges, protections, immunities and benefits given to the Trustee, including its right to be indemnified, are extended to, and shall be enforceable by, Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas in each of its capacities hereunder, and each agent, custodian and other Person employed to act hereunder.

(i)        In the event the Company is required to pay Additional Interest, the Company will provide written notice to the Trustee of the Company’s obligation to pay Additional Interest no later than 15 days prior to the next interest payment date, which notice shall set forth the amount of the Additional Interest to be paid by the Company. The Trustee shall not at any time be under any duty or responsibility to any Holders to determine whether the Additional Interest is payable and the amount thereof.

SECTION 7.03.      Individual Rights of Trustee.  The Trustee in its individual or any other capacity may become the owner or pledgee of Securities 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 or Registrar may do the same with like rights. However, the Trustee must comply with Sections 7.10 and 7.11.

SECTION 7.04.      Trustee’s Disclaimer.  The Trustee shall not be responsible for and makes no representation as to the validity or adequacy of this Indenture, any Guarantee or the Securities, it shall not be accountable for the Company’s use of the proceeds from the Securities, and it shall not be responsible for any statement of the Company or any Guarantor in this Indenture or in any document issued in connection with the sale of the Securities or in the Securities other than the Trustee’s certificate of authentication. The Trustee shall not be charged with knowledge of any Default or Event of Default under Sections 6.01(c), (d), (e), (f), (i), (j) or (k) or of the identity of any Significant Subsidiary unless either (a) a Trust Officer shall have actual knowledge thereof or (b) the Trustee shall have received notice thereof in accordance with Section 13.02 from the Company, any Guarantor or any Holder.

SECTION 7.05.      Notice of Defaults.  If a Default occurs and is continuing and if it is actually known to a Trust Officer, the Trustee shall send to each Holder notice of the Default within the earlier of 90 days after it occurs or 30 days after it is actually known to a Trust Officer or written notice of it is received by the Trustee. Except in the case of a Default in the payment of principal of, premium (if any) or interest on any Security, the Trustee may withhold the notice if and so long as a committee of its Trust Officers in good faith determines that withholding the notice is in the interests of the Holders.

SECTION 7.06.      Reports by Trustee to the Holders.  From the date on which this Indenture is qualified under the TIA, as promptly as practicable after each June 30 beginning with the June 30 following the date of this Indenture, and in any event within 12 months of the last such report, the Trustee shall send to each Holder a brief report dated as of such June 30 that complies with Section 313(a) of the TIA if and to the extent required thereby. From the date on

 

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which this Indenture is qualified under the TIA, the Trustee shall also comply with Section 313(b)(2) of the TIA.

A copy of each report at the time of its delivery to the Holders shall be filed with the SEC and each stock exchange (if any) on which the Securities are listed. The Company agrees to notify promptly the Trustee whenever the Securities become listed on any stock exchange and of any delisting thereof.

SECTION 7.07.      Compensation and Indemnity. The Company shall pay to Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas, in each of its capacities, and through Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas to Trustee from time to time reasonable compensation for its and Trustee’s services (it being understood all amounts set forth in the fee letter dated September 24, 2010 between the Company and Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas shall be deemed reasonable). 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, Paying Agent, Registrar and Authentication Agent upon request for all reasonable out-of-pocket expenses incurred or made by it, including costs of collection, in the performance of services rendered under this Indenture, any Security Document and any related document to which it is a party, in addition to the compensation for its services. Such expenses shall include the reasonable compensation and expenses, disbursements and advances of the Trustee’s, Paying Agent’s, Registrar’s and Authentication Agent’s agents, counsel, accountants and experts. The Company and each Guarantor, jointly and severally shall indemnify the Trustee against any and all loss, liability, claim, damage or expense (including reasonable attorneys’ fees and expenses) incurred by or in connection with the acceptance or administration of this trust and the performance of its duties hereunder, including the costs and expenses of enforcing this Indenture or Guarantee against the Company or a Guarantor (including this Section 7.07) and defending itself against or investigating any claim (whether asserted by the Company, any Guarantor, any Holder or any other Person). The Trustee shall notify the Company of any claim for which it may seek indemnity promptly upon obtaining actual knowledge thereof; provided, however, that any failure so to notify the Company shall not relieve the Company or any Guarantor of its indemnity obligations hereunder. The Company shall defend the claim and the indemnified party shall provide reasonable cooperation at the Company’s expense in the defense. Such indemnified parties may have separate counsel and the Company and the Guarantors, as applicable shall pay the fees and expenses of such counsel; provided, however, that the Company shall not be required to pay such fees and expenses if it assumes such indemnified parties’ defense and, in such indemnified parties’ reasonable judgment, there is no conflict of interest between the Company and the Guarantors, as applicable, and such parties in connection with such defense. The Company need not reimburse any expense or indemnify against any loss, liability or expense incurred by an indemnified party through such party’s own willful misconduct, negligence or bad faith.

To secure the Company’s and the Guarantors’ payment obligations in this Section 7.07, the Trustee shall have a Lien prior to the Securities on all money or property held or collected by the Trustee other than money or property held in trust to pay principal of and interest on particular Securities.

 

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The Company’s and the Guarantors’ payment obligations pursuant to this Section 7.07 shall survive the satisfaction or discharge of this Indenture, any rejection or termination of this Indenture under any bankruptcy law or the resignation or removal of the Trustee. 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 Section 6.01(g) or (h) with respect to the Company, the expenses are intended to constitute expenses of administration under the Bankruptcy Law.

SECTION 7.08.      Replacement of Trustee.

(a)      The Trustee may resign at any time by so notifying the Company. The Holders of a majority in principal amount of the Securities may remove the Trustee by so notifying the Trustee and may appoint a successor Trustee. The Company may remove the Trustee if:

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

(ii)      the Trustee is adjudged bankrupt or insolvent;

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

(iv)     the Trustee otherwise becomes incapable of acting.

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

(b)      If the Trustee resigns, is removed by the Company or by the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the Securities and such Holders do not reasonably promptly appoint a successor Trustee, or if a vacancy exists in the office of Trustee for any reason (the Trustee in such event being referred to herein as the retiring Trustee), the Company shall promptly appoint a successor Trustee.

(c)      A successor Trustee shall deliver a written acceptance of its appointment to the retiring Trustee and to the Company. Thereupon 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 mail a notice of its succession to the Holders. The retiring Trustee shall promptly transfer all property held by it as Trustee to the successor Trustee, subject to the Lien provided for in Section 7.07.

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

 

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(e)      If the Trustee fails to comply with Section 7.10, unless the Trustee’s duty to resign is stayed as provided in Section 310(b) of the TIA, any Holder who has been a bona fide holder of a Security 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.

(f)      Notwithstanding the replacement of the Trustee pursuant to this Section, 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 or assets to, another corporation or banking association, the resulting, surviving or transferee corporation without any further act shall be the successor Trustee.

SECTION 7.10.      Eligibility; Disqualification.  The Trustee shall at all times satisfy the requirements of Section 310(a) of the TIA. The Trustee shall have a combined capital and surplus of at least $100,000,000 as set forth in its most recent published annual report of condition. The Trustee shall comply with Section 310(b) of the TIA, subject to its right to apply for a stay of its duty to resign under the penultimate paragraph of Section 310(b) of the TIA; provided, however, that there shall be excluded from the operation of Section 310(b)(1) of the TIA any series of securities issued under this Indenture and any indenture or indentures under which other securities or certificates of interest or participation in other securities of the Company are outstanding if the requirements for such exclusion set forth in Section 310(b)(1) of the TIA are met.

SECTION 7.11.      Preferential Collection of Claims Against Company.  The Trustee shall comply with Section 311(a) of the TIA, excluding any creditor relationship listed in Section 311(b) of the TIA. A Trustee who has resigned or been removed shall be subject to Section 311(a) of the TIA to the extent indicated.

ARTICLE 8

DISCHARGE OF INDENTURE; DEFEASANCE

SECTION 8.01.      Discharge of Liability on Securities; Defeasance.  This Indenture shall be discharged and shall cease to be of further effect (except as to surviving rights of registration or transfer or exchange of Securities, as expressly provided for in this Indenture) as to all outstanding Securities when:

(a)        (i) all the Securities theretofore authenticated and delivered (other than mutilated, lost, stolen or destroyed Securities which have been replaced or paid and Securities for whose payment money has theretofore been deposited in trust or segregated and held in trust by the Company and thereafter repaid to the Company or discharged from such trust) have been delivered to the Registrar for cancellation or (ii) all of the Securities (a) have become due and payable, (b) will become due and payable at their stated maturity within one year or (c) if redeemable at the option of the Company, are to be

 

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called for redemption within one year under arrangements satisfactory to the Registrar for the giving of notice of redemption by the Registrar in the name, and at the expense, of the Company, and the Company has irrevocably deposited or caused to be deposited with the Paying Agent funds in cash in U.S. Dollars, U.S. Government Obligations or a combination thereof in an amount sufficient in the written opinion of a investment banking firm, appraisal firm or firm of independent public accountants delivered to the Trustee and Registrar (which delivery shall only be required if U.S. Government Obligations have been so deposited) to pay and discharge the entire Indebtedness on the Securities not theretofore delivered to the Registrar for cancellation, for principal of, premium, if any, and interest on the Securities to the date of deposit together with irrevocable instructions from the Company directing the Paying Agent to apply such funds to the payment thereof at maturity or redemption, as the case may be;

(b)      the Company and/or the Guarantors have paid all other sums payable under this Indenture; and

(c)      the Company has delivered to the Trustee an Officers’ Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel stating that all conditions precedent under this Indenture relating to the satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture have been complied with.

Subject to Sections 8.01(c) and 8.02, the Company at any time may terminate (i) all of its obligations under the Securities and this Indenture (with respect to such Securities) (“legal defeasance option”) or (ii) its obligations under Sections 4.02, 4.03, 4.04, 4.05, 4.06, 4.07, 4.08, 4.10, 4.11, 4.12, 4.14 and 4.15 and the operation of Section 5.01 and Sections 6.01(c), 6.01(d), 6.01(e) (with respect to any Default under Sections 4.02, 4.03, 4.04, 4.05, 4.06, 4.07, 4.10, 4.11, 4.12, 4.14 and 4.15), 6.01(f), 6.01(g) (with respect to Significant Subsidiaries of the Company only), 6.01(h) (with respect to Significant Subsidiaries of the Company only), 6.01(i), 6.01(j) and 6.01(k) (“covenant defeasance option”). The Company may exercise its legal defeasance option notwithstanding its prior exercise of its covenant defeasance option. In the event that the Company terminates all of its obligations under the Securities and this Indenture (with respect to such Securities) by exercising its legal defeasance option or its covenant defeasance option, the obligations of each Guarantor under its Guarantee of such Securities shall be terminated simultaneously with the termination of such obligations.

If the Company exercises its legal defeasance option, payment of the Securities so defeased may not be accelerated because of an Event of Default. If the Company exercises its covenant defeasance option, payment of the Securities so defeased may not be accelerated because of an Event of Default specified in Section 6.01(c), 6.01(d), 6.01(e), 6.01(f), 6.01(g) (with respect to Significant Subsidiaries of the Company only), 6.01(h) (with respect to Significant Subsidiaries of the Company only), 6.01(i), 6.01(j) or 6.01(k) or because of the failure of the Company to comply with Section 5.01.

Upon satisfaction of the conditions set forth herein and upon request of the Company, the Trustee shall acknowledge in writing the discharge of those obligations that the Company terminates.

 

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(d)      Notwithstanding clauses (a) and (b) above, the Company’s obligations in Sections 2.04, 2.05, 2.06, 2.07, 2.08, 2.09, 7.07, 7.08, 11.07(e), 11.12 and in this Article 8 shall survive until the Securities have been paid in full. Thereafter, the Company’s obligations in Sections 7.07, 8.05, 8.06 and 11.12 shall survive such satisfaction and discharge.

SECTION 8.02.      Conditions to Defeasance.

(a)      The Company may exercise its legal defeasance option or its covenant defeasance option only if:

(i)       the Company irrevocably deposits in trust with the Paying Agent cash in U.S. Dollars, U.S. Government Obligations or a combination thereof in an amount sufficient, in the opinion of a nationally recognized investment banking firm, appraisal firm or firm of independent public accountants, to pay the principal of, and premium (if any) and interest on the applicable Securities when due at maturity or redemption, as the case may be, including interest thereon to maturity or such redemption date;

(ii)      91 days pass after the deposit is made and during the 91-day period no Default specified in Section 6.01(g) or (h) with respect to the Company occurs which is continuing at the end of the period;

(iii)      the deposit does not constitute a default under any other material agreement binding on the Company;

(iv)     the Company delivers to the Trustee an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that the trust resulting from the deposit does not constitute, or is qualified as, a regulated investment company under the Investment Company Act of 1940;

(v)      in the case of the legal defeasance option, the Company shall have delivered to the Trustee an Opinion of Counsel stating that (1) the Company has received from, or there has been published by, the Internal Revenue Service a ruling, or (2) since the date of this Indenture there has been a change in the applicable Federal income tax law, in either case to the effect that, and based thereon such Opinion of Counsel shall confirm that, the Holders will not recognize income, gain or loss for Federal income tax purposes as a result of such deposit and defeasance and will be subject to Federal income tax on the same amounts, in the same manner and at the same times as would have been the case if such deposit and defeasance had not occurred;

(vi)     in the case of the covenant defeasance option, the Company shall have delivered to the Trustee an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that the Holders will not recognize income, gain or loss for Federal income tax purposes as a result of such deposit and defeasance and will be subject to Federal income tax on the same amounts, in the same manner and at the same times as would have been the case if such deposit and defeasance had not occurred; and

 

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(vii)     the Company delivers to the Trustee an Officers’ Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel, each stating that all conditions precedent to the defeasance and discharge of the Securities to be so defeased and discharged as contemplated by this Article 8 have been complied with.

Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Opinion of Counsel required by the clause (vi) above need not be delivered if all Securities not theretofore delivered to the Registrar for cancellation (x) have become due and payable or (y) will become due and payable at their Stated Maturity 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.

(b)      Before or after a deposit, the Company may make arrangements satisfactory to the Trustee and Paying Agent for the redemption of such Securities at a future date in accordance with Article 3.

SECTION 8.03.      Application of Trust Money.  The Paying Agent shall hold in trust money or U.S. Government Obligations (including proceeds thereof) deposited with it pursuant to this Article 8. It shall apply the deposited money and the money from U.S. Government Obligations in accordance with this Indenture to the payment of principal of and interest on the Securities so discharged or defeased.

SECTION 8.04.      Repayment to Company.  Each of the Trustee and each Paying Agent shall promptly turn over to the Company upon request any money or U.S. Government Obligations held by it as provided in this Article 8 which are, in the opinion of a nationally recognized investment banking firm, appraisal firm or firm of independent public accountants, in excess of the amount thereof which would then be required to be deposited to effect an equivalent discharge or defeasance in accordance with this Article 8.

Subject to any applicable abandoned property law, the Paying Agent shall pay to the Company upon written request any money held by them for the payment of principal or interest that remains unclaimed for two years, and, thereafter, Holders entitled to the money must look to the Company for payment as general creditors, and the Paying Agent shall have no further liability with respect to such monies.

SECTION 8.05.      Indemnity for U.S. Government Obligations.  The Company shall pay and shall indemnify the Paying Agent against any tax, fee or other charge imposed on or assessed against deposited U.S. Government Obligations or the principal and interest received on such U.S. Government Obligations.

SECTION 8.06.      Reinstatement.  If the Paying Agent is unable to apply any money or U.S. Government Obligations in accordance with this Article 8 by reason of any legal proceeding or by reason of any order or judgment of any court or governmental authority enjoining, restraining or otherwise prohibiting such application, the Company’s obligations under this Indenture and the Securities so discharged or defeased shall be revived and reinstated as though no deposit had occurred pursuant to this Article 8 until such time as the Paying Agent is permitted to apply all such money or U.S. Government Obligations in accordance with this Article 8;

 

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provided, however, that, if the Company has made any payment of principal of or interest on, any such Securities because of the reinstatement of its obligations, the Company shall be subrogated to the rights of the Holders of such Securities to receive such payment from the money or U.S. Government Obligations held by the Paying Agent.

ARTICLE 9

AMENDMENTS AND WAIVERS

SECTION 9.01.      Without Consent of the Holders.  The Company and the Trustee, Collateral Agent, Paying Agent, Registrar and Authentication Agent may amend this Indenture, the Securities or the Security Documents without notice to or consent of any Holder:

    (i)      to cure any ambiguity, omission, defect or inconsistency;

   (ii)      to comply with Article 5;

   (iii)      to provide for uncertificated Securities in addition to or in place of certificated Securities; provided, however, that the uncertificated Securities are issued in registered form for purposes of Section 163(f) of the Code or in a manner such that the uncertificated Securities are described in Section 163(f)(2)(B) of the Code;

  (iv)      to add additional Guarantees with respect to the Securities or to secure the Securities or to evidence the release of any Guarantor from its Guarantee and under the Security Documents as provided in this Indenture;

   (v)      to further secure the Securities;

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

  (vii)      to make any change that does not adversely affect the rights of any Holder;

 (viii)      to comply with any requirement of the SEC in connection with qualifying or maintaining the qualification of, this Indenture under the TIA;

  (ix)      to evidence or provide for the acceptance of appointment under this Indenture of a successor trustee;

   (x)      to conform the text of this Indenture, the Securities or the Guarantees to any provision of the “Description of Notes” in the Offering Memorandum;

  (xi)      to provide for the issuance of the Exchange Securities or Additional Securities, which shall have terms substantially identical in all material respects to the Initial Securities, and which shall be treated, together with any outstanding Initial Securities, as a single issue of securities;

 

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  (xii)      to provide for the release of Collateral from the Liens of this Indenture and the Security Documents when permitted or required by the Security Documents, the Intercreditor Agreement or this Indenture; or

(xiii)      to secure any Permitted Additional Pari Passu Obligations under the Security Documents and to appropriately include the same in the Intercreditor Agreement.

Upon the request of the Company and the Guarantors accompanied by a resolution of the Board of Directors of each of the Company and the Guarantors authorizing the execution of any supplemental indenture entered into to effect any such amendment, supplement or waiver, and upon receipt by the Trustee of the documents described in Section 9.06, the Trustee, Collateral Agent, Paying Agent, Registrar and Authentication Agent shall join with the Company and the Guarantors in the execution of such supplemental indenture. After an amendment under this Section 9.01 becomes effective, the Company shall mail to Holders a notice briefly describing such amendment. The failure to give such notice to all Holders, or any defect therein, shall not impair or affect the validity of an amendment under this Section 9.01.

SECTION 9.02.      With Consent of the Holders.

(a)      The Company and the Trustee, Collateral Agent, Paying Agent, Registrar and Authentication Agent may amend this Indenture or the Securities with the written consent of the Holders of at least a majority in principal amount of the Securities then outstanding (including, without limitation, consents obtained in connection with a purchase of, or tender offer or exchange offer for Securities) and any past default or compliance with any provision of this Indenture, the Securities, the Guarantees or the Security Documents may be waived with the consent of the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the Securities then outstanding (including, without limitation, consents obtained in connection with a purchase of, or tender offer or exchange for, the Securities). However, without the consent of each Holder of an outstanding Security affected, an amendment may not:

  (i)      reduce the amount of Securities whose Holders must consent to an amendment;

 (ii)      reduce the rate of or extend the time for payment of interest on any Security;

(iii)      reduce the principal of or change the Stated Maturity of any Security;

(iv)      reduce the premium payable upon the redemption of any Security or change the time at which any Security may be redeemed in accordance with Article 3;

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

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suit for the enforcement of any payment on or with respect to such Holder’s Securities;

(vii)        make any change in Section 6.04 or 6.07 or the second sentence of this Section 9.02(a);

(viii)       expressly subordinate the Securities or any Guarantee or otherwise modify the ranking thereof to any other Indebtedness of the Company or any Guarantor;

(ix)        modify the Guarantees in any manner adverse to the Holders; or

(x)         make any change in the provisions in the Intercreditor Agreement or this Indenture dealing with the application of proceeds of Collateral that would adversely affect the Holder of the Securities.

It shall not be necessary for the consent of the Holders under this Section 9.02 to approve the particular form of any proposed amendment, but it shall be sufficient if such consent approves the substance thereof.

(b)         Notwithstanding the requirements of Sections 9.02(a) and (b), any amendment to, or waiver of, the provisions of this Indenture, any Security Document or any other indenture governing Permitted Additional Pari Passu Obligations that has the effect of releasing all or substantially all of the Collateral from the Liens securing the Securities or otherwise modifies the Intercreditor Agreement or other Security Documents in any manner adverse in any material respect to the Holders of the Securities will require the consent of the Holders of at least 66 2/3% in aggregate principal amount of the Securities and any Permitted Additional Pari Passu Obligations then outstanding.

(c)         After an amendment under this Section 9.02 becomes effective, the Company shall mail to the Holders a notice briefly describing such amendment. The failure to give such notice to all Holders, or any defect therein, shall not impair or affect the validity of an amendment under this Section 9.02.

SECTION 9.03.       Compliance with Trust Indenture Act.  From the date on which this Indenture is qualified under the TIA, every amendment, waiver or supplement to this Indenture or the Securities shall comply with the TIA as then in effect.

SECTION 9.04.       Revocation and Effect of Consents and Waivers.

(a)         A consent to an amendment or a waiver by a Holder of a Security shall bind the Holder and every subsequent Holder of that Security or portion of the Security that evidences the same debt as the consenting Holder’s Security, even if notation of the consent or waiver is not made on the Security. However, any such Holder or subsequent Holder may revoke the consent or waiver as to such Holder’s Security or portion of the Security if the Trustee receives the notice of revocation before the date on which the Trustee receives an Officers’ Certificate from the Company certifying that the requisite principal amount of Securities have consented.

 

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After an amendment or waiver becomes effective, it shall bind every Holder. An amendment or waiver becomes effective upon the (i) receipt by the Company or the Trustee of consents by the Holders of the requisite principal amount of securities, (ii) satisfaction of conditions to effectiveness as set forth in this Indenture and any indenture supplemental hereto containing such amendment or waiver and (iii) execution of such amendment or waiver (or supplemental indenture) by the Company and the Trustee.

(b)         The Company may, but shall not be obligated to, fix a record date for the purpose of determining the Holders entitled to give their consent or take any other action described above or required or permitted to be taken pursuant to this Indenture. If a record date is fixed, then notwithstanding the immediately preceding paragraph, those Persons who were Holders at such record date (or their duly designated proxies), and only those Persons, shall be entitled to give such consent or to revoke any consent previously given or to take any such action, whether or not such Persons continue to be Holders after such record date. No such consent shall be valid or effective for more than 120 days after such record date.

SECTION 9.05.       Notation on or Exchange of Securities.  If an amendment, supplement or waiver changes the terms of a Security, the Company may require the Holder of the Security to deliver it to the Registrar. The Registrar may place an appropriate notation on the Security regarding the changed terms and return it to the Holder. Alternatively, if the Company or the Registrar so determines, the Company in exchange for the Security shall issue and the Authentication Agent shall authenticate a new Security that reflects the changed terms. Failure to make the appropriate notation or to issue a new Security shall not affect the validity of such amendment, supplement or waiver.

SECTION 9.06.       Trustee to Sign Amendments.  The Trustee shall sign any amendment, supplement or waiver authorized pursuant to this Article 9 if the amendment does not adversely affect the rights, duties, liabilities or immunities of the Trustee. If it does, the Trustee may but need not sign it. In signing such amendment, the Trustee shall be entitled to receive indemnity reasonably satisfactory to it and shall be provided with, and (subject to Section 7.01) shall be fully protected in relying upon, an Officers’ Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel stating that such amendment, supplement or waiver is authorized or permitted by this Indenture and that such amendment, supplement or waiver is the legal, valid and binding obligation of the Company and the Guarantors, enforceable against them in accordance with its terms, subject to customary exceptions, and complies with the provisions hereof (including Section 9.03).

SECTION 9.07.       Payment for Consent.  Neither the Company nor any Affiliate of the Company shall, directly or indirectly, pay or cause to be paid any consideration, whether by way of interest, fee or otherwise, to any Holder for or as an inducement to any consent, waiver or amendment of any of the terms or provisions of this Indenture or the Securities unless such consideration is offered to be paid to all Holders that so consent, waive or agree to amend in the time frame set forth in solicitation documents relating to such consent, waiver or agreement.

SECTION 9.08.       Additional Voting Terms; Calculation of Principal Amount.  Except as provided in the proviso to the first sentence of Section 9.02(a), all Securities issued

 

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under this Indenture shall vote and consent together on all matters (as to which any of such Securities may vote) as one class and no series of Securities will have the right to vote or consent as a separate class on any matter. Determinations as to whether Holders of the requisite aggregate principal amount of Securities have concurred in any direction, waiver or consent shall be made in accordance with this Article 9 and Section 2.14.

ARTICLE 10

GUARANTEES

SECTION 10.01.        Guarantees.

(a)         Each Guarantor hereby jointly and severally, irrevocably and unconditionally guarantees, as a primary obligor and not merely as a surety, to each Holder and to the Trustee and its successors and assigns (i) the full and punctual payment when due, whether at Stated Maturity, by acceleration, by redemption or otherwise, of all obligations of the Company under this Indenture (including obligations to the Trustee, Collateral Agent, Paying Agent, Registrar and Authentication Agent) and the Securities, whether for payment of principal of, premium, if any, or interest on in respect of the Securities and all other monetary obligations of the Company under this Indenture and the Securities and (ii) the full and punctual performance within applicable grace periods of all other obligations of the Company whether for fees, expenses, indemnification or otherwise under this Indenture and the Securities (all the foregoing being hereinafter collectively called the “Guaranteed Obligations”). Each Guarantor further agrees that the Guaranteed Obligations may be extended or renewed, in whole or in part, without notice or further assent from each such Guarantor, and that each such Guarantor shall remain bound under this Article 10 notwithstanding any extension or renewal of any Guaranteed Obligation.

(b)         Each Guarantor waives presentation to, demand of payment from and protest to the Company of any of the Guaranteed Obligations and also waives notice of protest for nonpayment. Each Guarantor waives notice of any default under the Securities or the Guaranteed Obligations. The obligations of each Guarantor hereunder shall not be affected by (i) the failure of any Holder or the Trustee to assert any claim or demand or to enforce any right or remedy against the Company or any other Person under this Indenture, the Securities or any other agreement or otherwise; (ii) any extension or renewal of this Indenture, the Securities or any other agreement; (iii) any rescission, waiver, amendment or modification of any of the terms or provisions of this Indenture, the Securities or any other agreement; (iv) the release of any security held by any Holder or the Trustee for the Guaranteed Obligations or any Guarantor; (v) the failure of any Holder or Trustee to exercise any right or remedy against any other guarantor of the Guaranteed Obligations; or (vi) any change in the ownership of such Guarantor, except as provided in Section 10.02(b).

(c)         Each Guarantor hereby waives any right to which it may be entitled to have its obligations hereunder divided among the Guarantors, such that such Guarantor’s obligations would be less than the full amount claimed. Each Guarantor hereby waives any right to which it may be entitled to have the assets of the Company first be used and depleted as payment of the Company’s or such Guarantor’s obligations hereunder prior to any amounts being claimed

 

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from or paid by such Guarantor hereunder. Each Guarantor hereby waives any right to which it may be entitled to require that the Company be sued prior to an action being initiated against such Guarantor.

(d)         Each Guarantor further agrees that its Guarantee herein constitutes a guarantee of payment, performance and compliance when due (and not a guarantee of collection) and waives any right to require that any resort be had by any Holder or the Trustee to any security held for payment of the Guaranteed Obligations.

(e)         Except as expressly set forth in Sections 8.01(b), 10.02 and 10.06, the obligations of each Guarantor hereunder shall not be subject to any reduction, limitation, impairment or termination for any reason, including any claim of waiver, release, surrender, alteration or compromise, and shall not be subject to any defense of setoff, counterclaim, recoupment or termination whatsoever or by reason of the invalidity, illegality or unenforceability of the Guaranteed Obligations or otherwise. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the obligations of each Guarantor herein shall not be discharged or impaired or otherwise affected by the failure of any Holder or the Trustee to assert any claim or demand or to enforce any remedy under this Indenture, the Securities or any other agreement, by any waiver or modification of any thereof, by any default, failure or delay, willful or otherwise, in the performance of the obligations, or by any other act or thing or omission or delay to do any other act or thing which may or might in any manner or to any extent vary the risk of any Guarantor or would otherwise operate as a discharge of any Guarantor as a matter of law or equity.

(f)         Except as set forth in Sections 8.01 and 10.02, each Guarantor agrees that its Guarantee shall remain in full force and effect until payment in full of all the Guaranteed Obligations. Except as set forth in Sections 8.01 and 10.02, each Guarantor further agrees that its Guarantee herein shall continue to be effective or be reinstated, as the case may be, if at any time payment, or any part thereof, of principal of or interest on any Guaranteed Obligation is rescinded or must otherwise be restored by any Holder or the Trustee upon the bankruptcy or reorganization of the Company or otherwise.

(g)         In furtherance of the foregoing and not in limitation of any other right which any Holder or the Trustee has at law or in equity against any Guarantor by virtue hereof, upon the failure of the Company to pay the principal of or interest on any Guaranteed Obligation when and as the same shall become due, whether at maturity, by acceleration, by redemption or otherwise, or to perform or comply with any other Guaranteed Obligation, each Guarantor hereby promises to and shall, upon receipt of written demand by the Trustee, forthwith pay, or cause to be paid, in cash, to the Holders or the Trustee an amount equal to the sum of (i) the unpaid principal amount of such Guaranteed Obligations, (ii) accrued and unpaid interest on such Guaranteed Obligations (but only to the extent not prohibited by applicable law) and (iii) all other monetary obligations of the Company to the Holders and the Trustee in respect of the Guaranteed Obligations.

(h)         Each Guarantor agrees that it shall not be entitled to any right of subrogation in relation to the Holders in respect of any Guaranteed Obligations guaranteed hereby until payment in full of all Guaranteed Obligations. Each Guarantor further agrees that, as between it,

 

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on the one hand, and the Holders and the Trustee, on the other hand, (i) the maturity of the Guaranteed Obligations guaranteed hereby may be accelerated as provided in Article 6 for the purposes of any Guarantee herein, notwithstanding any stay, injunction or other prohibition preventing such acceleration in respect of the Guaranteed Obligations guaranteed hereby, and (ii) in the event of any declaration of acceleration of such Guaranteed Obligations as provided in Article 6, such Guaranteed Obligations (whether or not due and payable) shall forthwith become due and payable by such Guarantor for the purposes of this Section 10.01.

(i)         Each Guarantor also agrees to pay any and all costs and expenses (including reasonable attorneys’ fees and expenses) incurred by the Trustee or any Holder in enforcing any rights under this Section 10.01.

(j)         Upon request of the Trustee, each Guarantor shall execute and deliver such further instruments and do such further acts as may be reasonably necessary or proper to carry out more effectively the purpose of this Indenture.

(k)         Any Guarantee given by any direct or indirect parent of the Company may be released and discharged from all obligations under this Article 10 at any time upon written notice to the Trustee from such direct or indirect parent of the Company.

SECTION 10.02.     Limitation on Liability.

(a)         Any term or provision of this Indenture to the contrary notwithstanding, the maximum aggregate amount of the Guaranteed Obligations guaranteed hereunder by any Guarantor shall not exceed the maximum amount that can be hereby guaranteed without rendering this Indenture or the Guarantee, as each relates to such Guarantor, voidable under applicable law relating to fraudulent conveyance or fraudulent transfer or similar laws affecting the rights of creditors generally.

(b)         A Guarantee as to any Guarantor shall automatically terminate and be of no further force or effect and such Guarantor shall be deemed to be released and discharged from all obligations under this Article 10 upon:

(i)         the sale, disposition or other transfer (including through merger or consolidation) of all of the Capital Stock of such Guarantor, all or substantially all the assets of such Guarantor or a portion of the Capital Stock of such Guarantor if as a result thereof such Guarantor is no longer a Restricted Subsidiary, in each case if such sale, disposition or other transfer is made in compliance with this Indenture;

(ii)        the Company designating such Guarantor to be an Unrestricted Subsidiary in accordance with the provisions set forth in Section 4.04 and the definition of “Unrestricted Subsidiary”;

(iii)       in the case of any Restricted Subsidiary which after the Issue Date is required to guarantee the notes pursuant to Section 4.11, the release or discharge of the guarantee by such Restricted Subsidiary of the Indebtedness of the Company or its

 

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Domestic Subsidiary which resulted in the obligation to guarantee the Securities or the repayment of the Indebtedness of the Company or its Domestic Subsidiary which resulted in the obligation to guarantee the Securities;

(iv)        the Company’s exercise of its legal defeasance option or covenant defeasance option as described under Section 8.01 or if the Company’s obligations under this Indenture are discharged in accordance with the terms of this Indenture; or

(v)         upon the liquidation or dissolution of such Guarantor, provided no Default or Event of Default has occurred or is continuing.

(c)         A Guarantee also shall be automatically released upon the applicable Subsidiary ceasing to be a Subsidiary as a result of any foreclosure of any pledge or security interest securing Credit Agreement or other exercise of remedies in respect thereof.

SECTION 10.03.     Successors and Assigns.  This Article 10 shall be binding upon each Guarantor and its successors and assigns and shall inure to the benefit of the successors and assigns of the Trustee and the Holders and, in the event of any transfer or assignment of rights by any Holder or the Trustee, the rights and privileges conferred upon that party in this Indenture and in the Securities shall automatically extend to and be vested in such transferee or assignee, all subject to the terms and conditions of this Indenture.

SECTION 10.04.     No Waiver.  Neither a failure nor a delay on the part of either the Trustee or the Holders in exercising any right, power or privilege under this Article 10 shall operate as a waiver thereof, nor shall a single or partial exercise thereof preclude any other or further exercise of any right, power or privilege. The rights, remedies and benefits of the Trustee and the Holders herein expressly specified are cumulative and not exclusive of any other rights, remedies or benefits which either may have under this Article 10 at law, in equity, by statute or otherwise.

SECTION 10.05.     Modification.  No modification, amendment or waiver of any provision of this Article 10, nor the consent to any departure by any Guarantor therefrom, shall in any event be effective unless the same shall be in writing and signed by the Trustee, and then such waiver or consent shall be effective only in the specific instance and for the purpose for which given. No notice to or demand on any Guarantor in any case shall entitle such Guarantor to any other or further notice or demand in the same, similar or other circumstances.

SECTION 10.06.     Execution of Supplemental Indenture for Future Guarantors.  Each Subsidiary and other Person which is required to become a Guarantor pursuant to Section 4.11 shall promptly execute and deliver to the Trustee a supplemental indenture in the form of Exhibit D hereto pursuant to which such Subsidiary or other Person shall become a Guarantor under this Article 10 and shall guarantee the Guaranteed Obligations. Concurrently with the execution and delivery of such supplemental indenture, the Company shall deliver to the Trustee an Opinion of Counsel and an Officers’ Certificate to the effect that such supplemental indenture has been duly authorized, executed and delivered by such Subsidiary or other Person and that, subject to the application of bankruptcy, insolvency, moratorium, fraudulent conveyance or

 

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transfer and other similar laws relating to creditors’ rights generally and to the principles of equity, whether considered in a proceeding at law or in equity, the Guarantee of such Guarantor is a legal, valid and binding obligation of such Guarantor, enforceable against such Guarantor in accordance with its terms and/or to such other matters as the Trustee may reasonably request.

SECTION 10.07.     Non-Impairment.  The failure to endorse a Guarantee on any Security shall not affect or impair the validity thereof.

ARTICLE 11

SECURITY

SECTION 11.01.     Security Documents; Additional Collateral; Intercreditor Agreement.

(a)         Security Documents.  In order to secure the due and punctual payment of the Note Obligations and any Permitted Additional Pari Passu Obligations, the Company, the Guarantors, the Collateral Agent and the other parties thereto have simultaneously with the execution of this Indenture entered or, in accordance with the provisions of Section 4.10, Section 4.11, Section 4.17 and this Article 11, will enter into the Security Documents. In the event of a conflict or inconsistency between the terms of this Indenture and the Security Documents, the Security Documents shall control.

The Company shall, and shall cause each Restricted Subsidiary to, and each Restricted Subsidiaries shall, make all filings (including filings of continuation statements and amendments to UCC financing statements that may be necessary to continue the effectiveness of such UCC financing statements) and take all other actions as are reasonably necessary or required by the Security Documents to maintain (at the sole cost and expense of the Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries) the security interest created by the Security Documents in the Collateral (other than with respect to any Collateral the security interest in which is not required to be perfected under the Security Documents) as a perfected first priority security interest subject only to Permitted Liens.

(b)         Additional Collateral.  With respect to assets acquired after the Issue Date, the applicable Company or Guarantor will take the actions required by the Security Agreement or Section 4.16 of this Indenture.

(c)         Intercreditor Agreement.  The Security Documents, the Trustee, the Collateral Agent and the Holders are bound by the terms of the Intercreditor Agreement and each Holder of a Security, by accepting such Security, agrees to all the terms and provisions of the Intercreditor Agreement and the other Security Documents. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary, (i) the liens and security interests granted to the Collateral Agent pursuant to the Security Documents and all rights and obligations of the Trustee and Collateral Agent hereunder are expressly subject to the Intercreditor Agreement and (ii) the exercise of any right or remedy by the Trustee hereunder is subject to the limitation and provisions of the Intercreditor Agreement.

 

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In the event of any conflict or inconsistency between the terms of the Intercreditor Agreement and the terms of this Indenture, the terms of the Intercreditor Agreement, shall govern.

SECTION 11.02.     Recording, Registration and Opinions.  The Company and the Guarantors shall furnish to the Trustee and the Collateral Agent at least thirty (30) days prior to the anniversary of the Issue Date in each year an Opinion of Counsel, dated as of such date, either (i) stating that, in the opinion of such counsel, such action has been taken with respect to the recording, filing, re-recording, and refiling of this Indenture or the Security Documents, as applicable, as are necessary to maintain the perfected Liens of the applicable Security Documents securing the Note Obligations under applicable law to the extent required by the Security Documents other than any action as described therein to be taken and such opinion may refer to prior Opinions of Counsel and contain customary assumptions, qualifications and exceptions and may rely on an Officers’ Certificate of the Company or (ii) stating that, in the opinion of such counsel, no such action is necessary to maintain such Liens or security interests.

SECTION 11.03.     Releases of Collateral.  The Liens securing the Securities and the Guarantees will, automatically and without the need for any further action by any Person be released:

(1)         in whole or in part, as applicable, as to all or any the portion of property subject to such Liens which has been taken by eminent domain, condemnation or other similar circumstances in accordance with the terms of Section 4.06;

(2)         in whole upon:

(a)         payment in full of the principal of, together with accrued and unpaid interest (including Additional Interest, if any) on, the Securities and all other Obligations under this Indenture, the Guarantees and the Security Documents that are due and payable at or prior to the time such principal, together with accrued and unpaid interest (including Additional Interest, if any), are paid;

(b)         satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture as set forth under Article 8; or

(c)         a legal defeasance or covenant defeasance of this Indenture as set forth under Article 8;

(3)         in part, as to any property that (a) is sold, transferred or otherwise disposed of by the Company or any Guarantor (other than to the Company or another Guarantor) in a transaction not prohibited by this Indenture at the time of such transfer or disposition, including, without limitation, as a result of a transaction of the type permitted under Sections 4.06 and 5.01 or (b) is owned or at any time acquired by a Guarantor that has been released from its Guarantee, concurrently with the release of such Guarantee;

 

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(4)         as to property that constitutes all or substantially all of the Collateral securing the Securities, with the consent of each Holder of the Securities and each holder of any Permitted Additional Pari Passu Obligations outstanding;

(5)         as to property that constitutes less than all or substantially all of the Collateral securing the Securities, with the consent of the Holders of at least 66 2/3% of the aggregate principal amount of Securities and any Permitted Additional Pari Passu Obligations outstanding;

(6)         as to any MTBE Assets (including the Capital Stock of any Permitted MTBE Joint Venture) subject to a security interest granted under a mortgage, security agreement or other security interest in favor of the Collateral Agent, upon the earlier of (a) the Company’s written request and (b) the disposition of such MTBE Asset;

(7)         as to (A) any Capital Stock of an Unrestricted Subsidiary or any MTBE Subsidiary that is a Restricted Subsidiary or (B) the real property upon which the MTBE Assets are situated, upon (i) the release of such Capital Stock or real property, as applicable, from the security interest granted pursuant to the ABL Security Documents, in each case other than in connection with a Discharge of ABL Obligations and (ii) solely with respect to such real property, the Collateral Agent’s receipt from the Company of an Officers’ Certificate certifying that the release of such real property does not materially adversely affect or impair (1) the business operations of the Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries as a whole or (2) the validity or priority of the Lien of the Security Documents on the balance of the Mortgaged Property; and

(8)         in part or in whole, in accordance with the applicable provisions of the Security Documents and the Intercreditor Agreement.

In addition, to the extent necessary and for so long as required for such Guarantor not to be subject to any requirement pursuant to Rule 3-16 of Regulation S-X under the Securities Act to file separate financial statements with the SEC (or any other governmental agency), the Capital Stock and other securities of any Guarantor shall not be included in the Collateral with respect to the Securities (or any Permitted Additional Pari Passu Obligations outstanding) so affected and shall not be subject to the Liens securing such Securities and any Permitted Additional Pari Passu Obligations. Upon receipt of an Officers’ Certificate from the Company as described in Section 11.04 below, and any necessary or proper instruments of termination, satisfaction or release prepared by the Company, the Collateral Agent shall execute, deliver or acknowledge such instruments or releases to evidence the release of any Collateral permitted to be released pursuant to this Indenture or the Security Documents or the Intercreditor Agreement.

SECTION 11.04.     Form and Sufficiency of Release.  In the event that either the Company or any Guarantor has sold, exchanged, or otherwise disposed of or proposes to sell, exchange or otherwise dispose of any portion of the Collateral that, under the terms of this Indenture may be sold, exchanged or otherwise disposed of by the Company or any Guarantor, and the Company or such Guarantor requests the Trustee to furnish a written disclaimer, release or quitclaim of any interest in such property under this Indenture, the applicable Guarantee and the

 

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Security Documents, upon receipt of an Officers’ Certificate and Opinion of Counsel to the effect that such release complies with Section 11.03 and specifying the provision in Section 11.03 pursuant to which such release is being made (upon which the Trustee may exclusively and conclusively rely), the Trustee shall execute, acknowledge and deliver to the Company or such Guarantor (or instruct the Collateral Agent to do the same) such an instrument in the form provided by the Company, and providing for release without recourse and shall take such other action as the Company or such Guarantor may reasonably request and as necessary to effect such release.

SECTION 11.05.     Possession and Use of Collateral.  Subject to the provisions of the Security Documents, the Company and the Guarantors shall have the right to remain in possession and retain exclusive control of and to exercise all rights with respect to the Collateral (other than Trust Monies held by the Collateral Agent, other monies or U.S. Government Obligations deposited pursuant to Article 8, and other than as set forth in the Security Documents and this Indenture), to freely operate, manage, develop, lease, use, consume and enjoy the Collateral (other than Trust Monies held by the Collateral Agent, other monies and U.S. Government Obligations deposited pursuant to Article 8 and other than as set forth in the Security Documents and this Indenture), to alter or repair any Collateral so long as such alterations and repairs do not impair the Lien of the Security Documents thereon, and to collect, receive, use, invest and dispose of the reversions, remainders, interest, rents, lease payments, issues, profits, revenues, proceeds and other income thereof and to effect transactions permitted under Sections 4.06 and 5.01.

SECTION 11.06.     Reports and Certificates Relating to Collateral.

(a)         From the date on which this Indenture is qualified under the TIA, to the extent applicable, the Company shall cause Section 313(b)(1) of the TIA, relating to reports, and Section 314(d) of the TIA, relating to the release of property or securities subject to the Lien of the Security Documents, to be complied with.

(b)         Any release of Collateral permitted by Section 11.03 shall be deemed not to impair the Liens under this Indenture and the Security Agreement and the other Security Documents in contravention thereof. From the date on which this Indenture is qualified under the TIA, any certificate or opinion required under Section 314(d) of the TIA may be made by an officer or legal counsel, as applicable, of the Company except in cases where Section 314(d) of the TIA requires that such certificate or opinion be made by an independent Person, which Person shall be an independent engineer, appraiser or other expert selected by the Company.

(c)         From the date on which this Indenture is qualified under the TIA, notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Section 11.06, the Company and the Guarantors shall not be required to comply with all or any portion of Section 314(d) of the TIA if they reasonably determine that under the terms of Section 314(d) of the TIA or any interpretation or guidance as to the meaning thereof of the SEC and its staff, including “no action” letters or exemptive orders, all or any portion of Section 314(d) of the TIA is inapplicable to any release or series of releases of Collateral.

 

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SECTION 11.07.  Collateral Agent.

(a)        The Trustee and each of the Holders by acceptance of the Securities hereby acknowledge the Company’s appointment of the Collateral Agent as the Trustee’s collateral agent under this Indenture and the Security Documents and the Trustee and each of the Holders by acceptance of the Securities hereby irrevocably authorizes the Collateral Agent to take such action on its behalf under the provisions of this Indenture and the Security Documents and to exercise such powers and perform such duties as are expressly delegated to the Collateral Agent by the terms of this Indenture and the Security Documents, together with such powers as are reasonably incidental thereto. The Collateral Agent agrees to act as such on the express conditions contained in this Section 11.07. The provisions of this Section 11.07 are solely for the benefit of the Collateral Agent and none of the Trustee, any of the Holders nor the Company or any of the Guarantors shall have any rights as a third party beneficiary of any of the provisions contained herein other than as expressly provided in Section 11.03. Notwithstanding any provision to the contrary contained elsewhere in this Indenture and the Security Documents, the Collateral Agent shall not have any duties or responsibilities, except those expressly set forth herein or in the Security Documents, nor shall the Collateral Agent have or be deemed to have any fiduciary relationship with the Trustee, any Holder or the Company or any Guarantor, and no implied covenants, functions, responsibilities, duties, obligations or liabilities shall be read into this Indenture and the Security Documents or otherwise exist against the Collateral Agent. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing sentence, the use of the term “agent” in this Indenture with reference to the Collateral Agent shall not be construed to connote any fiduciary or other implied (or express) obligations arising under agency doctrine of any applicable law. Instead, such term is used merely as a matter of market custom, and is intended to create or reflect only an administrative relationship between independent contracting parties. Except as expressly otherwise provided in this Indenture and the Security Documents, the Collateral Agent shall have and may use its sole discretion with respect to exercising or refraining from exercising any discretionary rights or taking or refraining from taking any actions which the Collateral Agent is expressly entitled to take or assert under this Indenture and the Security Documents, including the exercise of remedies pursuant to Article Six, and any action so taken or not taken shall be deemed consented to by the Trustee and the Holders.

(b)        The Collateral Agent may execute any of its duties under this Indenture and the Security Documents by or through agents, employees or attorneys-in-fact and shall be entitled to advice of counsel concerning all matters pertaining to such duties. The Collateral Agent shall not be responsible for the negligence or misconduct of any agent, employee or attorney-in-fact that it selects as long as such selection was made without negligence or willful misconduct.

(c)        None of the Collateral Agent or any of its agents or employees shall (i) be liable for any action taken or omitted to be taken by any of them under or in connection with this Indenture or the transactions contemplated hereby (except for its own negligence or willful misconduct) or under or in connection with any Security Document or the transactions contemplated thereby (except for its own negligence or willful misconduct), or (ii) be responsible in any manner to the Trustee or any Holder for any recital, statement, representation, warranty, covenant or

 

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agreement made by the Company or any Guarantor, contained in this Indenture or any indenture, or in any certificate, report, statement or other document referred to or provided for in, or received by the Collateral Agent under or in connection with, this Indenture or any other indenture, the Security Documents, or the validity, effectiveness, genuineness, enforceability or sufficiency of this Indenture or any other indenture or the Security Documents, or for any failure of the Company or any Guarantor or any other party to this Indenture or the Security Documents to perform its obligations hereunder or thereunder. None of the Collateral Agent or any of its agents or employees shall be under any obligation to the Trustee or any Holder to ascertain or to inquire as to the observance or performance of any of the agreements contained in, or conditions of, this Indenture or any other indenture or the Security Documents or to inspect the properties, books or records of the Company or any Guarantor.

(d)        The Collateral Agent shall not be deemed to have knowledge or notice of the occurrence of any Default or Event of Default, unless the Collateral Agent shall have received written notice from the Trustee or the Company referring to this Indenture, describing such Default or Event of Default and stating that such notice is a “notice of default.” The Collateral Agent shall take such action with respect to such Default or Event of Default as may be requested by the Trustee in accordance with Article Six (subject to this Section 11.07); provided, however, that unless and until the Collateral Agent has received any such request, the Collateral Agent may (but shall not be obligated to) take such action, or refrain from taking such action, with respect to such Default or Event of Default as it shall deem advisable.

(e)        A resignation or removal of the Collateral Agent and appointment of a successor Collateral Agent shall become effective only upon the successor Collateral Agent’s acceptance of appointment as provided in this Section 11.07(e). The Collateral Agent may resign in writing at any time by so notifying the Company, the Trustee and each trustee, agent or representative of holders of Permitted Additional Pari Passu Obligations at least 30 days prior to the proposed date of resignation. The Company may remove the Collateral Agent if: (i) the Collateral Agent (x) fails to meet the requirements for being a Trustee under Section 7.10 (prior to the discharge or defeasance of this Indenture) and (y) following the discharge or defeasance of this Indenture, fails to meet the requirements for being the trustee, agent or representative of holders of any extant Permitted Additional Pari Passu Obligations; (ii) the Collateral Agent is adjudged a bankrupt or an insolvent or an order for relief is entered with respect to the Collateral Agent under any Bankruptcy Law; (iii) a custodian or public officer takes charge of the Collateral Agent or its property; or (iv) the Collateral Agent becomes incapable of acting. If the Collateral Agent resigns or is removed or if a vacancy exists in the office of Collateral Agent for any reason, the Company shall promptly appoint a successor Collateral Agent which complies with the eligibility requirements contained in this Indenture and each indenture, credit agreement or other agreements which any Permitted Additional Pari Passu Obligations (other than Additional Securities) are incurred. If a successor Collateral Agent does not take office within 10 days after the retiring Collateral Agent resigns or is removed, the retiring Collateral Agent, the Company or the holders of at least 10% in principal amount of the then outstanding principal amount of (x) the Securities (other than any Additional Securities except to the extent constituting Permitted Additional Pari Passu Obligations) and (y) Permitted Additional Pari Passu Obligations (to the extent the trustee, agent or representative of holders of such Permitted Additional Pari Passu

 

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Obligations executed a joinder to the Security Agreement) may petition any court of competent jurisdiction for the appointment of a successor Collateral Agent. A successor Collateral Agent shall deliver a written acceptance of its appointment to the retiring Collateral Agent and to the Company. Thereupon, the resignation or removal of the retiring Collateral Agent shall become effective, and the successor Collateral Agent shall have all the rights, powers and the duties of the Collateral Agent under this Indenture and the Security Documents. The successor Collateral Agent shall mail a notice of its succession to the Trustee and each trustee, agent or representative of holders of Permitted Additional Pari Passu Obligations. The retiring Collateral Agent shall promptly transfer all property held by it as Collateral Agent to the successor Collateral Agent, provided that all sums owing to the Collateral Agent hereunder have been paid. Notwithstanding replacement of the Collateral Agent pursuant to this Section 11.07(e), the Company’s obligations under this Section 11.07 and Section 11.12 shall continue for the benefit of the retiring Collateral Agent.

(f)        Except as otherwise explicitly provided herein or in the Security Documents, neither the Collateral Agent nor any of its officers, directors, employees or agents shall be liable for failure to demand, collect or realize upon any of the Collateral or for any delay in doing so or shall be under any obligation to sell or otherwise dispose of any Collateral upon the request of any other Person or to take any other action whatsoever with regard to the Collateral or any part thereof. The Collateral Agent shall be accountable only for amounts that it actually receives as a result of the exercise of such powers, and neither the Collateral Agent nor any of its officers, directors, employees or agents shall be responsible for any act or failure to act hereunder, except for its own willful misconduct, gross negligence or bad faith.

(g)        The Trustee is authorized and directed by the Holders and the Holders by acquiring the Securities and deemed to have authorized the Trustee, as applicable, to (i) enter into the Security Documents, (ii) bind the Holders on the terms as set forth in the Security Documents and (iii) perform and observe its obligations under the Security Documents. The Collateral Agent is authorize and directed by the Trustee and the Holders and the Holders by acquiring the Securities and deemed to have authorized the Collateral Agent to (i) enter into the Security Documents, (ii) bind the Trustee and the Holders on the terms as set forth in the Security Documents and (iii) perform and observe its obligations under the Security Documents.

(h)        The Collateral Agent shall have no obligation whatsoever to the Trustee or any of the Holders to assure that the Collateral exists or is owned by the Company and the Guarantors or is cared for, protected or insured or has been encumbered, or that the Collateral Agent’s Liens have been properly or sufficiently or lawfully created, perfected, protected, maintained or enforced or are entitled to any particular priority, or to determine whether all of the Grantor’s property constituting collateral intended to be subject to the Lien and security interest of the Security Documents has been properly and completely listed or delivered, as the case may be, or the genuineness, validity, marketability or sufficiency thereof or title thereto, or to exercise at all or in any particular manner or under any duty of care, disclosure or fidelity, or to continue exercising, any of the rights, authorities and powers granted or available to the Collateral Agent pursuant to this Indenture or any Security Document, it being understood and agreed that in respect of the Collateral, or any act, omission or event related thereto, the Collateral Agent may act

 

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in any manner it may deem appropriate, in its sole discretion given the Collateral Agent’s own interest in the Collateral, and that the Collateral Agent shall have no other duty or liability whatsoever to the Trustee or any Holder as to any of the foregoing.

(i)        The Collateral Agent (i) shall not be liable for any action it takes or omits to take in good faith which it reasonably believes to be authorized or within its rights or powers, or for any error of judgment made in good faith by an authorized officer, unless it is proved that the Collateral Agent was negligent in ascertaining the pertinent facts, (ii) shall not be liable for interest on any money received by it except as the Collateral Agent may agree in writing with the Company (and money held in trust by the Collateral Agent need not be segregated from other funds except to the extent required by law), and (iii) may consult with counsel of its selection and the advice or opinion of such counsel as to matters of law shall be full and complete authorization and protection from liability in respect of any action taken, omitted or suffered by it in good faith and in accordance with the advice or opinion of such counsel. The grant of permissive rights or powers to the Collateral Agent shall not be construed to impose duties to act.

(j)        Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Indenure (including this Article 11), in the event of a foreclosure on the Mortgaged Property and/or the exercise of its remedies under the Security Documents, the Trustee and Collateral Agent agree that they shall not take any action that results in the disturbance, extinguishment or termination of any Permitted Liens granted pursuant to clause 6(B) of the definition thereof. Upon the request of the Company, the Collateral Agent shall enter into (x) in the case of any such Permitted Lien that is a lease, a subordination non-disturbance and attornment agreement and (y) in the case of any such other Permitted Lien, a nondisturbance agreement, consent or such other agreement which, in each case, confirms that in the event of a foreclosure on the Mortgaged Property and/or exercise of remedies under the Security Documents, the Collateral Agent (and its successors and assigns) will not disturb, extinguish or terminate any such Permitted Liens (or the rights thereunder). Any request by the Company pursuant to the preceding sentence shall be evidenced by a certificate from an officer of the Company which certificate shall certify that (1) the Permitted Liens in question do not materially adversely affect or impair (A) the business operations of the Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries as a whole or (B) the validity or priority of the Lien of the Mortgages on the balance of the Mortgaged Property and (2) the applicable non-disturbance agreement, consent or other agreement provides that the Permitted Liens in question are subordinate to the Lien in favor of the Collateral Agent on the Mortgaged Property.

SECTION 11.08.    Purchaser Protected.  No purchaser or grantee of any property or rights purporting to be released shall be bound to ascertain the authority of the Collateral Agent or Trustee to execute the release or to inquire as to the existence of any conditions herein prescribed for the exercise of such authority so long as the conditions set forth in Section 11.04 have been satisfied.

SECTION 11.09.    Authorization of Actions to Be Taken by the Collateral Agent Under the Security Documents.  The Holders of Securities agree that the Collateral Agent shall be entitled to the rights, privileges, protections, immunities, indemnities and benefits provided to the Collateral Agent by the Security Documents. Furthermore, each holder of a Security, by

 

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accepting such Security, consents to the terms of and authorizes and directs the Trustee (in each of its capacities) and the Collateral Agent to enter into and perform the Security Documents in each of its capacities thereunder.

SECTION 11.10.    Authorization of Receipt of Funds by the Trustee Under the Security Agreement.  The Trustee is authorized to receive any funds for the benefit of Holders distributed under the Security Documents to the Trustee, to apply such funds as provided in Section 6.10.

SECTION 11.11.    Powers Exercisable by Receiver or Collateral Agent.  In case the Collateral shall be in the possession of a receiver or trustee, lawfully appointed, the powers conferred in this Article 11 upon the Company or any Guarantor, as applicable, with respect to the release, sale or other disposition of such property may be exercised by such receiver or trustee, and an instrument signed by such receiver or trustee shall be deemed the equivalent of any similar instrument of the Company or any Guarantor, as applicable, or of any officer or officers thereof required by the provisions of this Article 11.

SECTION 11.12.    Compensation and Indemnification.  The Collateral Agent shall be entitled to the compensation and indemnification set forth in Section 7.07 (with the references to the Trustee therein being deemed to refer to the Collateral Agent).

ARTICLE 12

APPLICATION OF TRUST MONIES

SECTION 12.01.    Collateral Account.  All Trust Monies received by the Paying Agent or the Collateral Agent shall be maintained with the Collateral Agent in the Collateral Account. The Collateral Account shall be established and maintained by the Collateral Agent at the office of the Collateral Agent or as a deposit account or securities account subject to a control agreement in favor of the Collateral Agent.

SECTION 12.02.    Withdrawal of Net Cash Proceeds to Fund an Asset Sale Offer.  To the extent that any Trust Monies consist of Net Cash Proceeds received by the Collateral Agent pursuant to the provisions of Section 4.06 and an Asset Sale Offer has been made in accordance therewith, such Trust Monies may be withdrawn by the Company and shall be paid by the Trustee to the Paying Agent for application in accordance with Section 4.06 upon written notice by the Company to the Trustee and upon receipt by the Trustee and the Collateral Agent of an Officers’ Certificate, dated not more than 10 days prior to the date of purchase, stating:

(1)        that no Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing;

(2)        (x) that such Trust Monies constitute Net Cash Proceeds or (y) that pursuant to and in accordance with Section 4.06, the Company has made an Asset Sale Offer and (z) the amount of Excess Proceeds to be applied to the repurchase of the Securities and Permitted Additional Pari Passu Obligations pursuant to the Asset Sale Offer;

 

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(3)         the date of purchase; and

(4)         that all conditions precedent and covenants herein provided for relating to such application of Trust Monies have been complied with.

Upon compliance with the foregoing provisions of this Section 12.02, the Paying Agent shall apply the Trust Monies as directed and specified by the Company.

SECTION 12.03.     Withdrawal of Trust Monies for Investment in Replacement Assets.  In the event the Company intends to reinvest Net Cash Proceeds of an Asset Sale or Casualty or Condemnation Event in assets in compliance with Section 4.06 (“Replacement Assets”), such Net Cash Proceeds constituting Trust Monies (the “Released Trust Monies”) may be withdrawn by the Company and shall be paid by the Collateral Agent to the Company upon receipt by the Trustee and the Collateral Agent of a notice from the Company (i) referring to this Section 12.03, (ii) describing with particularity the Released Trust Monies, (iii) describing the intended use of the Released Trust Monies and stating that such use shall comply with Section 4.06, (iv) stating that the release of the Released Trust Monies shall not result in a Event of Default hereunder and (v) stating that all conditions precedent herein to such release have been complied with. Upon compliance with the foregoing provisions, the Paying Agent shall apply the Released Trust Monies as directed and specified by the Company.

SECTION 12.04.     Investment of Trust Monies.  So long as no Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, all or any part of any Trust Monies held by (or held in account subject to the sole control of) the Collateral Agent shall from time to time be invested or reinvested by the Collateral Agent in any Cash Equivalents pursuant to a written request by the Company in the form of an Officers’ Certificate, which shall specify the Cash Equivalents in which such Trust Monies shall be invested and shall certify that such investments constitute Cash Equivalents; and the Collateral Agent shall sell any such Cash Equivalent only upon receipt of such a written request by the Company specifying the particular Cash Equivalent to be sold. So long as no Event of Default occurs and is continuing, any interest or dividends accrued, earned or paid on such Cash Equivalents (in excess of any accrued interest or dividends paid at the time of purchase) that may be received by the Collateral Agent shall be forthwith paid to the Company. Such Cash Equivalents shall be held by the Collateral Agent as a part of the Collateral, subject to the same provisions hereof as the cash used by it to purchase such Cash Equivalents.

The Trustee and Collateral Agent shall not be liable or responsible for any loss resulting from such investments or sales except only for its own negligent action, its own negligent failure to act or its own willful misconduct in complying with this Section 12.04.

SECTION 12.05.     Use of Trust Monies; Retirement of Securities.  The Paying Agent shall apply Trust Monies not reinvested pursuant to Section 12.04, not required to be applied to fund an Asset Sale Offer or required to be held pending application to the acquisition of Replacement Assets from time to time to the payment of the principal of, premium, and interest on, any Securities and any Permitted Additional Pari Passu Obligations by lot or by such other method as the Registrar shall deem to be fair and appropriate (in such manner as complies with applicable legal requirements and provided that the Registrar shall not select Securities or such

 

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other Permitted Additional Pari Passu Obligations for purchase which would result in a Holder with a principal amount of Securities or such other Permitted Additional Pari Passu Obligations less than the applicable minimum denomination to the extent practicable), on any redemption date or the maturity date or to the redemption thereof or the purchase thereof upon tender or in the open market or at private sale or upon any exchange or in any one or more of such ways, including, without limitation, pursuant to a Change of Control Offer or an Asset Sale Offer, as the Company shall request in writing, upon receipt by the Trustee and the Paying Agent of the following:

(a)         an Officers’ Certificate, dated not more than 10 days prior to the date of the relevant application, stating:

(1)         that no Event of Default exists unless such Event of Default would be cured thereby; and

(2)         that all conditions precedent and covenants herein provided for relating to such application of Trust Monies have been complied with; and

(b)         an Opinion of Counsel stating that all conditions precedent herein provided for relating to such application of Trust Monies have been complied with. Such Opinion of Counsel may rely on an Officers’ Certificate of the Company.

Upon compliance with the foregoing provisions of this Section 12.05, the Paying Agent shall apply Trust Monies as directed and specified by the Officers’ Certificate.

SECTION 12.06.     Disposition of Securities Retired.  All Securities received by the Trustee and for whose purchase Trust Monies are applied under Section 12.05, if not otherwise cancelled, shall be promptly delivered to the Registrar for cancellation and destruction in accordance with the Registrar’s customary procedures.

ARTICLE 13

MISCELLANEOUS

SECTION 13.01.     Trust Indenture Act Controls.  From the date on which this Indenture is qualified under the TIA, if and to the extent that any provision of this Indenture limits, qualifies or conflicts with the duties imposed by, or with another provision (an “incorporated provision”) included in this Indenture by operation of, Sections 310 to 318 of the TIA, inclusive, such imposed duties or incorporated provision shall control.

SECTION 13.02.     Notices.

(a)         Any notice or communication required or permitted hereunder shall be in writing and delivered in person, via facsimile or mailed by first-class mail addressed as follows:

 

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if to the Company or a Guarantor:

TPC Group LLC

5151 San Felipe, Suite 800

Houston, Texas 77056

Atn: Legal

Facsimile: (713)  ###-###-####

if to the Trustee:

Wilmington Trust Company

Rodney Square North

1100 N. Market Street

Wilmington, DE ###-###-####

Attn: Corporate Capital Markets

Facsimile: (302)  ###-###-####

If to the Paying Agent, Registrar or Collateral Agent

Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas

60 Wall Street, 27th Floor MS-NYC60-2710

New York, NY 10005

Facsimile: (732)  ###-###-####

The Company, Deutsche Bank in any of its capacities, or the Trustee by notice to the other parties hereto may designate additional or different addresses for subsequent notices or communications.

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

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

Notwithstanding any other provision of this Indenture or any Security, where this Indenture or any Security provides for notice of any event (including any notice of redemption) to a Holder of a Global Security (whether by mail or otherwise), such notice shall be sufficiently given if given to the Depository for such Security (or its designee), pursuant to the customary procedures of such Depository.

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to their rights under this Indenture or the Securities. The Company, the Trustee, the Registrar and other Persons shall have the protection of Section 312(c) of the TIA.

SECTION 13.04.     Certificate and Opinion as to Conditions Precedent.  Upon any request or application by the Company to the Trustee, the Registrar or the Paying Agent to take or refrain from taking any action under this Indenture, the Company shall furnish to the Trustee, Registrar or Paying Agent, as applicable, at the request of the such party:

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

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

SECTION 13.05.     Statements Required in Certificate or Opinion.  Each certificate or opinion with respect to compliance with a covenant or condition provided for in this Indenture (other than pursuant to Section 4.09) shall include:

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

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

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

(d)         a statement as to whether or not, in the opinion of such individual, such covenant or condition has been complied with; provided, however, that with respect to matters of fact an Opinion of Counsel may rely on an Officers’ Certificate or certificates of public officials.

SECTION 13.06.     When Securities Disregarded.  In determining whether the Holders of the required principal amount of Securities have concurred in any direction, waiver or consent, Securities owned by the Company, any Guarantor or by any Affiliate of the Company or any Guarantor shall be disregarded and deemed not to be outstanding, except that, for the purpose of determining whether the Trustee shall be protected in relying on any such direction, waiver or consent, only Securities which the Trustee knows are so owned shall be so disregarded. Subject to the foregoing, only Securities outstanding at the time shall be considered in any such determination.

 

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

SECTION 13.08.    Legal Holidays.  If a payment date is not a Business Day, payment shall be made on the next succeeding day that is a Business Day, and no interest shall accrue on any amount that would have been otherwise payable on such payment date if it were a Business Day for the intervening period. If a regular record date is not a Business Day, the record date shall not be affected.

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

SECTION 13.10.     No Recourse Against Others.  No past, present or future director, officer, partner, employee, incorporator, manager or holder of any equity interests in the Company or of any Guarantor or any direct or indirect parent corporation, as such, shall have any liability for any obligations of the Company or the Guarantors under the Securities or this Indenture or for any claim based on, in respect of, or by reason of, such obligations or their creation. Each Holder of Securities by accepting a Security waives and releases all such liability. The waiver and release contained in this Section 13.10 are part of the consideration for issuance of the Securities.

SECTION 13.11.     Successors.  All agreements of the Company and each Guarantor in this Indenture and the Securities shall bind its successors. All agreements of the Trustee, the Collateral Agent, Paying Agent, Registrar and Authentication Agent in this Indenture shall bind its successors.

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

SECTION 13.13.     Table of Contents; Headings.  The table of contents, cross-reference sheet and headings of the Articles and Sections of this Indenture have been inserted for convenience of reference only, are not intended to be considered a part hereof and shall not modify or restrict any of the terms or provisions hereof.

SECTION 13.14.     Indenture Controls.  If and to the extent that any provision of the Securities limits, qualifies or conflicts with a provision of this Indenture, such provision of this Indenture shall control.

SECTION 13.15.     Severability.  In case any provision in this Indenture shall be invalid, illegal or unenforceable, the validity, legality and enforceability of the remaining provisions shall not in any way be affected or impaired thereby and such provision shall be ineffective only to the extent of such invalidity, illegality or unenforceability.

 

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SECTION 13.16.     Waiver of Jury Trial.  EACH OF THE COMPANY, THE GUARANTORS, THE TRUSTEE, THE PAYING AGENT, THE REGISTRAR, THE TRANSFER AGENT AND THE COLLATERAL AGENT HEREBY IRREVOCABLY WAIVES, TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, ANY AND ALL RIGHT TO TRIAL BY JURY IN ANY LEGAL PROCEEDING ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THIS INDENTURE, THE SECURITIES OR THE TRANSACTIONS CONTEMPLATED HEREBY.

SECTION 13.17.     Patriot Act.  The parties hereto acknowledge that, in accordance with Section 326 of the USA Patriot Act (Title III of Pub. L. 107-56 (signed into law October 26, 2001)) (as amended, modified or supplemented from time to time, the “USA Patriot Act”), the Trustee, the Paying Agent, the Authentication Agent and the Registrar, like all financial institutions, are required to obtain, verify and record information that identifies each person or legal entity that opens an account. The parties to this Indenture agree that they will provide the Trustee, the Paying Agent, the Authentication Agent, and the Registrar with such information as the Trustee, the Paying Agent, the Authentication Agent and the Registrar may reasonably request in order for the Trustee, the Paying Agent, the Authentication Agent and the Registrar to satisfy the requirements of the USA Patriot Act.

 

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

 

TPC GROUP LLC
By:     

/s/ Christopher A. Artzer

     Name:      Christopher A. Artzer
     Title:      Vice President & General Counsel

 

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GUARANTORS:
TP CAPITAL CORP
By:   

/s/ Christopher A. Artzer

   Name:    Christopher A. Artzer
   Title:    Vice President & General Counsel
PORT NECHES FUELS, LLC
By:   

/s/ Christopher A. Artzer

   Name:    Christopher A. Artzer
   Title:    Vice President & General Counsel
TEXAS BUTYLENE CHEMICAL CORPORATION
By:   

/s/ Christopher A. Artzer

   Name:    Christopher A. Artzer
   Title:    Vice President & General Counsel

TEXAS OLEFINS DOMESTIC

INTERNATIONAL SALES CORPORATION

By:   

/s/ Christopher A. Artzer

   Name:    Christopher A. Artzer
   Title:    Vice President & General Counsel

 

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WILMINGTON TRUST COMPANY, as Trustee
By:  

/s/ Michael G. Oller, Jr.

  Name:   Michael G. Oller, Jr.
  Title:   Assistant Vice President

 

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DEUTSCHE BANK TRUST COMPANY AMERICAS, as Registrar, Paying Agent, Authentication Agent
By:   

/s/ Annie Jaghatspanyan

   Name:    Annie Jaghatspanyan
   Title:    Vice President
By:   

/s/ Carol Ng

   Name:    Carol Ng
   Title:    Vice President

 

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DEUTSCHE BANK TRUST COMPANY AMERICAS, as Collateral Agent
By:   

/s/ Annie Jaghatspanyan

   Name:    Annie Jaghatspanyan
   Title:    Vice President
By:   

/s/ Carol Ng

   Name:    Carol Ng
   Title:    Vice President

 

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APPENDIX A

PROVISIONS RELATING TO INITIAL SECURITIES, ADDITIONAL SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE SECURITIES

1.        Definitions.

1.1      Definitions.

For the purposes of this Appendix A the following terms shall have the meanings indicated below:

Clearstream” means Clearstream Banking, société anonyme, or any successor securities clearing agency.

Definitive Security” means a certificated Initial Security or Exchange Security (bearing the Restricted Securities Legend if the transfer of such Security is restricted by applicable law) that does not include the Global Securities Legend.

Depository” means, with respect to the Securities, The Depository Trust Company, its nominees and their respective successors.

Euroclear” means the Euroclear Clearance System or any successor securities clearing agency.

Global Securities Legend” means the legend set forth under that caption in the applicable Exhibit to this Indenture.

IAI” means an institutional “accredited investor” as described in Rule 501(a)(1), (2), (3) or (7) under the Securities Act.

Initial Purchasers” means Deutsche Bank Securities Inc., J.P. Morgan Securities LLC, Oppenheimer & Co. Inc., Macquarie Capital (USA) Inc. and such other initial purchasers party to the purchase agreement or future purchase agreements entered into in connection with an offer and sale of Securities.

Purchase Agreement” means (a) the Purchase Agreement dated September 29, 2010, among the Company, the Guarantors and the Initial Purchasers and (b) any other similar Purchase Agreement relating to Additional Securities.

QIB” means a “qualified institutional buyer” as defined in Rule 144A.

Registered Exchange Offer” means the offer by the Company, pursuant to the Registration Rights Agreement, to certain Holders of Initial Securities, to issue and deliver to such Holders, in exchange for their Initial Securities, a like aggregate principal amount of Exchange Securities registered under the Securities Act.


Registration Rights Agreement” means (a) the Registration Rights Agreement dated as of October 5, 2010 among the Company, the Guarantors and the Initial Purchasers relating to the Securities and (b) any other similar Registration Rights Agreement relating to Additional Securities.

Regulation S” means Regulation S under the Securities Act.

Regulation S Securities” means all Initial Securities offered and sold outside the United States in reliance on Regulation S.

Restricted Period,” with respect to any Securities, means the period of 40 consecutive days beginning on and including the later of (a) the day on which such Securities are first offered to persons other than distributors (as defined in Regulation S under the Securities Act) in reliance on Regulation S, notice of which day shall be promptly given by the Company to the Trustee and the Registrar, and (b) the Issue Date, and with respect to any Additional Securities that are Transfer Restricted Definitive Securities, it means the comparable period of 40 consecutive days.

Restricted Securities Legend” means the legend set forth in Section 2.2(f)(i) herein.

Rule 501” means Rule 501(a)(1), (2), (3) or (7) under the Securities Act.

Rule 144A” means Rule 144A under the Securities Act.

Rule 144A Securities” means all Initial Securities offered and sold to QIBs in reliance on Rule 144A.

Securities Custodian” means the custodian with respect to a Global Security (as appointed by the Depository) or any successor person thereto, who shall initially be the Registrar.

Shelf Registration Statement” means a registration statement filed by the Company in connection with the offer and sale of Initial Securities pursuant to the Registration Rights Agreement.

Transfer Restricted Definitive Securities” means Definitive Securities and any other Securities that bear or are required to bear or are subject to the Restricted Securities Legend.

Transfer Restricted Global Securities” means Global Securities bearing the Restricted Securities Legend.

Unrestricted Definitive Security” means Definitive Securities and any other Securities that are not required to bear, or are not subject to, the Restricted Securities Legend.

 

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Unrestricted Global Security” means a Global Security that does not bear the Restricted Securities Legend.

1.2      Other Definitions.

 

Term:    Defined in Section:

Agent Members

   2.1(b)

Global Securities

   2.1(b)

Regulation S Global Securities

   2.1(b)

Rule 144A Global Securities

   2.1(b)

2.        The Securities.

2.1      Form and Dating; Global Securities.

(a)       The Initial Securities issued on the date hereof will be (i) offered and sold by the Company pursuant to the Purchase Agreement and (ii) resold, initially only to (1) QIBs in reliance on Rule 144A and (2) Persons other than U.S. Persons (as defined in Regulation S) in reliance on Regulation S. Such Initial Securities may thereafter be transferred to, among others, QIBs, purchasers in reliance on Regulation S and, except as set forth below, IAIs in accordance with Rule 501. Additional Securities offered after the date hereof may be offered and sold by the Company from time to time pursuant to one or more Purchase Agreements in accordance with applicable law.

(b)       Global Securities. (i) Rule 144A Securities initially shall be represented by one or more Securities in fully registered, global form without interest coupons (collectively, the “Rule 144A Global Securities”). Regulation S Securities initially shall be represented by one or more Securities in fully registered, global form without interest coupons (collectively, the “Regulation S Global Securities”). The term “Global Securities” means, collectively, the Rule 144A Global Securities and the Regulation S Global Securities. The Global Securities shall bear the Global Security Legend. The Global Securities initially shall (i) be registered in the name of the Depository or the nominee of such Depository, in each case for credit to an account of an Agent Member, (ii) be delivered to the Registrar as custodian for such Depository and (iii) bear the Restricted Securities Legend.

Members of, or direct or indirect participants in, the Depository, Euroclear or Clearstream (“Agent Members”) shall have no rights under this Indenture with respect to any Global Security held on their behalf by the Depository or under the Global Securities. The Depository may be treated by the Company, the Trustee and any agent of the Company or the Trustee as the absolute owner of the Global Securities for all purposes whatsoever. Notwithstanding the foregoing, nothing herein shall prevent the Company, the Registrar or any agent of the Company or the Registrar from giving effect to any written certification, proxy or other authorization furnished by the Depository or impair, as between the Depository, Euroclear or Clearstream, as the case may be, and their respective Agent Members, the operation of customary practices governing the exercise of the rights of a Holder of any Security.

 

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(ii)       Transfers of Global Securities shall be limited to transfer in whole, but not in part, to the Depository, its successors or their respective nominees. Interests of beneficial owners in the Global Securities may be transferred or exchanged for Definitive Securities only in accordance with the applicable rules and procedures of the Depository, Euroclear or Clearstream, as the case may be, and the provisions of Section 2.2. In addition, a Global Security shall be exchangeable for Definitive Securities if (i) the Depository (x) notifies the Company that it is unwilling or unable to continue as depository for such Global Security and the Company thereupon fails to appoint a successor depository or (y) has ceased to be a clearing agency registered under the Exchange Act, or (ii) there shall have occurred and be continuing an Event of Default with respect to such Global Security. In all cases, Definitive Securities delivered in exchange for any Global Security or beneficial interests therein shall be registered in the names, and issued in any approved denominations, requested in writing by or on behalf of the Depository, in accordance with its customary procedures.

(iii)      In connection with the transfer of a Global Security as an entirety to beneficial owners pursuant to subsection (i) of this Section 2.1(b), such Global Security shall be deemed to be surrendered to the Registrar for cancellation, and the Company shall execute, and the Authentication Agent shall authenticate and make available for delivery, to each beneficial owner identified by the Depository in writing in exchange for its beneficial interest in such Global Security, an equal aggregate principal amount of Definitive Securities of authorized denominations.

(iv)      Any Transfer Restricted Definitive Security delivered in exchange for an interest in a Global Security pursuant to Section 2.2 shall, except as otherwise provided in Section 2.2, bear the Restricted Securities Legend.

(v)       Notwithstanding the foregoing, through the Restricted Period, a beneficial interest in such Regulation S Global Security may be held only through Euroclear or Clearstream unless delivery is made in accordance with the applicable provisions of Section 2.2.

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

2.2      Transfer and Exchange.

(a)       Transfer and Exchange of Global Securities.  A Global Security may not be transferred as a whole except as set forth in Section 2.1(b). Global Securities will not be exchanged by the Company for Definitive Securities except under the circumstances described in Section 2.1(b)(ii). Global Securities also may be exchanged or replaced, in whole or in part, as provided in Sections 2.08 and 2.10 of this Indenture. Beneficial interests in a Global Security may be transferred and exchanged as provided in Section 2.2(b) or 2.2(g).

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Depository, in accordance with the provisions of this Indenture and the applicable rules and procedures of the Depository. Beneficial interests in Transfer Restricted Global Securities shall be subject to restrictions on transfer comparable to those set forth herein to the extent required by the Securities Act. Transfers and exchanges of beneficial interests in the Global Securities also shall require compliance with either subparagraph (i) or (ii) below, as applicable, as well as one or more of the other following subparagraphs, as applicable:

(i)         Transfer of Beneficial Interests in the Same Global Security.  Beneficial interests in any Transfer Restricted Global Security may be transferred to Persons who take delivery thereof in the form of a beneficial interest in the same Transfer Restricted Global Security in accordance with the transfer restrictions set forth in the Restricted Securities Legend; provided, however, that prior to the expiration of the Restricted Period, transfers of beneficial interests in a Regulation S Global Security may not be made to a U.S. Person or for the account or benefit of a U.S. Person (other than an Initial Purchaser). A beneficial interest in an Unrestricted Global Security may be transferred to Persons who take delivery thereof in the form of a beneficial interest in an Unrestricted Global Security. No written orders or instructions shall be required to be delivered to the Registrar to effect the transfers described in this Section 2.2(b)(i).

(ii)         All Other Transfers and Exchanges of Beneficial Interests in Global Securities.  In connection with all transfers and exchanges of beneficial interests in any Global Security that is not subject to Section 2.2(b)(i), the transferor of such beneficial interest must deliver to the Registrar (1) a written order from an Agent Member given to the Depository in accordance with the applicable rules and procedures of the Depository directing the Depository to credit or cause to be credited a beneficial interest in another Global Security in an amount equal to the beneficial interest to be transferred or exchanged and (2) instructions given in accordance with the applicable rules and procedures of the Depository containing information regarding the Agent Member account to be credited with such increase; provided that in no event shall a beneficial interest in a Global Security be credited, or an Unrestricted Definitive Security be issued, to a Person who is an affiliate (as defined in Rule 144) of the Company. Upon satisfaction of all of the requirements for transfer or exchange of beneficial interests in Global Securities contained in this Indenture and the Securities or otherwise applicable under the Securities Act, the Registrar shall adjust the principal amount of the relevant Global Security pursuant to Section 2.2(g).

(iii)        Transfer of Beneficial Interests to Another Transfer Restricted Global Security.  A beneficial interest in a Transfer Restricted Global Security may be transferred to a Person who takes delivery thereof in the form of a beneficial interest in another Transfer Restricted Global Security if the transfer complies with the requirements of Section 2.2(b)(ii) above and the Registrar receives the following:

(A)        if the transferee will take delivery in the form of a beneficial interest in a Rule 144A Global Security, then the transferor must deliver a certificate in the form attached to the applicable Security; and

 

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(B)        if the transferee will take delivery in the form of a beneficial interest in a Regulation S Global Security, then the transferor must deliver a certificate in the form attached to the applicable Security.

(iv)       Transfer and Exchange of Beneficial Interests in a Transfer Restricted Global Security for Beneficial Interests in an Unrestricted Global Security.  A beneficial interest in a Transfer Restricted Global Security may be exchanged by any holder thereof for a beneficial interest in an Unrestricted Global Security or transferred to a Person who takes delivery thereof in the form of a beneficial interest in an Unrestricted Global Security if the exchange or transfer complies with the requirements of Section 2.2(b)(ii) above and the Registrar receives the following:

(A)        if the holder of such beneficial interest in a Transfer Restricted Global Security proposes to exchange such beneficial interest for a beneficial interest in an Unrestricted Global Security, a certificate from such holder in the form attached to the applicable Security; or

(B)        if the holder of such beneficial interest in a Transfer Restricted Global Security proposes to transfer such beneficial interest to a Person who shall take delivery thereof in the form of a beneficial interest in an Unrestricted Global Security, a certificate from such holder in the form attached to the applicable Security,

and, in each such case, if the Registrar so requests or if the applicable rules and procedures of the Depository, Euroclear or Clearstream, as applicable, so require, an Opinion of Counsel in form reasonably acceptable to the Registrar to the effect that such exchange or transfer is in compliance with the Securities Act and that the restrictions on transfer contained herein and in the Restricted Securities Legend are no longer required in order to maintain compliance with the Securities Act. If any such transfer or exchange is effected pursuant to this subparagraph (iv) at a time when an Unrestricted Global Security has not yet been issued, the Company shall issue and, upon receipt of an written order of the Company in the form of an Officers’ Certificate in accordance with Section 2.01, the Authentication Agent shall authenticate one or more Unrestricted Global Securities in an aggregate principal amount equal to the aggregate principal amount of beneficial interests transferred or exchanged pursuant to this subparagraph (iv).

(v)        Transfer and Exchange of Beneficial Interests in an Unrestricted Global Security for Beneficial Interests in a Transfer Restricted Global Security.  Beneficial interests in an Unrestricted Global Security cannot be exchanged for, or transferred to Persons who take delivery thereof in the form of, a beneficial interest in a Transfer Restricted Global Security.

(c)        Transfer and Exchange of Beneficial Interests in Global Securities for Definitive Securities.  A beneficial interest in a Global Security may not be exchanged for a Definitive Security except under the circumstances described in Section 2.1(b)(ii). A beneficial interest

 

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in a Global Security may not be transferred to a Person who takes delivery thereof in the form of a Definitive Security except under the circumstances described in Section 2.1(b)(ii).

(d)        Transfer and Exchange of Definitive Securities for Beneficial Interests in Global Securities.  Transfers and exchanges of beneficial interests in the Global Securities shall require compliance with either subparagraph (i), (ii) or (iii) below, as applicable:

(i)        Transfer Restricted Definitive Securities to Beneficial Interests in Transfer Restricted Global Securities.  If any Holder of a Transfer Restricted Definitive Security proposes to exchange such Transfer Restricted Definitive Security for a beneficial interest in a Transfer Restricted Global Security or to transfer such Transfer Restricted Definitive Security to a Person who takes delivery thereof in the form of a beneficial interest in a Transfer Restricted Global Security, then, upon receipt by the Registrar of the following documentation:

(A)        if the Holder of such Transfer Restricted Definitive Security proposes to exchange such Transfer Restricted Definitive Security for a beneficial interest in a Transfer Restricted Global Security, a certificate from such Holder in the form attached to the applicable Security;

(B)        if such Transfer Restricted Definitive Security is being transferred to a QIB in accordance with Rule 144A under the Securities Act, a certificate from such Holder in the form attached to the applicable Security;

(C)        if such Transfer Restricted Definitive Security is being transferred to a Non-U.S. Person in an offshore transaction in accordance with Rule 903 or Rule 904 under the Securities Act, a certificate from such Holder in the form attached to the applicable Security;

(D)        if such Transfer Restricted Definitive Security is being transferred pursuant to an exemption from the registration requirements of the Securities Act in accordance with Rule 144 under the Securities Act, a certificate from such Holder in the form attached to the applicable Security;

(E)        if such Transfer Restricted Definitive Security is being transferred to an IAI in reliance on an exemption from the registration requirements of the Securities Act other than those listed in subparagraphs (B) through (D) above, a certificate from such Holder in the form attached to the applicable Security, including the certifications, certificates and Opinion of Counsel, if applicable; or

(F)        if such Transfer Restricted Definitive Security is being transferred to the Company or a Subsidiary thereof, a certificate from such Holder in the form attached to the applicable Security;

 

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the Registrar shall cancel the Transfer Restricted Definitive Security, and increase or cause to be increased the aggregate principal amount of the appropriate Transfer Restricted Global Security.

(ii)        Transfer Restricted Definitive Securities to Beneficial Interests in Unrestricted Global Securities.  A Holder of a Transfer Restricted Definitive Security may exchange such Transfer Restricted Definitive Security for a beneficial interest in an Unrestricted Global Security or transfer such Transfer Restricted Definitive Security to a Person who takes delivery thereof in the form of a beneficial interest in an Unrestricted Global Security only if the Registrar receives the following:

(A)        if the Holder of such Transfer Restricted Definitive Security proposes to exchange such Transfer Restricted Definitive Security for a beneficial interest in an Unrestricted Global Security, a certificate from such Holder in the form attached to the applicable Security; or

(B)        if the Holder of such Transfer Restricted Definitive Securities proposes to transfer such Transfer Restricted Definitive Security to a Person who shall take delivery thereof in the form of a beneficial interest in an Unrestricted Global Security, a certificate from such Holder in the form attached to the applicable Security,

and, in each such case, if the Registrar so requests or if the applicable rules and procedures of the Depository, Euroclear or Clearstream, as applicable, so require, an Opinion of Counsel in form reasonably acceptable to the Registrar to the effect that such exchange or transfer is in compliance with the Securities Act and that the restrictions on transfer contained herein and in the Restricted Securities Legend are no longer required in order to maintain compliance with the Securities Act. Upon satisfaction of the conditions of this subparagraph (ii), the Registrar shall cancel the Transfer Restricted Definitive Securities and increase or cause to be increased the aggregate principal amount of the Unrestricted Global Security. If any such transfer or exchange is effected pursuant to this subparagraph (ii) at a time when an Unrestricted Global Security has not yet been issued, the Company shall issue and, upon receipt of an written order of the Company in the form of an Officers’ Certificate, the Authentication Agent shall authenticate one or more Unrestricted Global Securities in an aggregate principal amount equal to the aggregate principal amount of Transfer Restricted Definitive Securities transferred or exchanged pursuant to this subparagraph (ii).

(iii)        Unrestricted Definitive Securities to Beneficial Interests in Unrestricted Global Securities.  A Holder of an Unrestricted Definitive Security may exchange such Unrestricted Definitive Security for a beneficial interest in an Unrestricted Global Security or transfer such Unrestricted Definitive Security to a Person who takes delivery thereof in the form of a beneficial interest in an Unrestricted Global Security at any time. Upon receipt of a request for such an exchange or transfer, the Registrar shall cancel the applicable Unrestricted Definitive Security and increase or cause to be increased the aggregate principal amount of one of the Unrestricted Global Securities. If any such transfer or

 

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exchange is effected pursuant to this subparagraph (iii) at a time when an Unrestricted Global Security has not yet been issued, the Company shall issue and, upon receipt of an written order of the Company in the form of an Officers’ Certificate, the Authentication Agent shall authenticate one or more Unrestricted Global Securities in an aggregate principal amount equal to the aggregate principal amount of Unrestricted Definitive Securities transferred or exchanged pursuant to this subparagraph (iii).

(iv)        Unrestricted Definitive Securities to Beneficial Interests in Transfer Restricted Global Securities.  An Unrestricted Definitive Security cannot be exchanged for, or transferred to a Person who takes delivery thereof in the form of, a beneficial interest in a Transfer Restricted Global Security.

(e)        Transfer and Exchange of Definitive Securities for Definitive Securities.  Upon request by a Holder of Definitive Securities and such Holder’s compliance with the provisions of this Section 2.2(e), the Registrar shall register the transfer or exchange of Definitive Securities. Prior to such registration of transfer or exchange, the requesting Holder shall present or surrender to the Registrar the Definitive Securities duly endorsed or accompanied by a written instruction of transfer in form satisfactory to the Registrar duly executed by such Holder or by its attorney, duly authorized in writing. In addition, the requesting Holder shall provide any additional certifications, documents and information, as applicable, required pursuant to the following provisions of this Section 2.2(e).

(i)        Transfer Restricted Definitive Securities to Transfer Restricted Definitive Securities.  A Transfer Restricted Definitive Security may be transferred to and registered in the name of a Person who takes delivery thereof in the form of a Transfer Restricted Definitive Security if the Registrar receives the following:

(A)        if the transfer will be made pursuant to Rule 144A under the Securities Act, then the transferor must deliver a certificate in the form attached to the applicable Security;

(B)        if the transfer will be made pursuant to Rule 903 or Rule 904 under the Securities Act, then the transferor must deliver a certificate in the form attached to the applicable Security;

(C)        if the transfer will be made pursuant to an exemption from the registration requirements of the Securities Act in accordance with Rule 144 under the Securities Act, a certificate in the form attached to the applicable Security;

(D)        if the transfer will be made to an IAI in reliance on an exemption from the registration requirements of the Securities Act other than those listed in subparagraphs (A) through (D) above, a certificate in the form attached to the applicable Security; and

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(ii)        Transfer Restricted Definitive Securities to Unrestricted Definitive Securities.  Any Transfer Restricted Definitive Security may be exchanged by the Holder thereof for an Unrestricted Definitive Security or transferred to a Person who takes delivery thereof in the form of an Unrestricted Definitive Security if the Registrar receives the following:

(1)        if the Holder of such Transfer Restricted Definitive Security proposes to exchange such Transfer Restricted Definitive Security for an Unrestricted Definitive Security, a certificate from such Holder in the form attached to the applicable Security; or

(2)        if the Holder of such Transfer Restricted Definitive Security proposes to transfer such Securities to a Person who shall take delivery thereof in the form of an Unrestricted Definitive Security, a certificate from such Holder in the form attached to the applicable Security,

and, in each such case, if the Registrar so requests, an Opinion of Counsel in form reasonably acceptable to the Company to the effect that such exchange or transfer is in compliance with the Securities Act and that the restrictions on transfer contained herein and in the Restricted Securities Legend are no longer required in order to maintain compliance with the Securities Act.

(iii)        Unrestricted Definitive Securities to Unrestricted Definitive Securities.  A Holder of an Unrestricted Definitive Security may transfer such Unrestricted Definitive Securities to a Person who takes delivery thereof in the form of an Unrestricted Definitive Security at any time. Upon receipt of a request to register such a transfer, the Registrar shall register the Unrestricted Definitive Securities pursuant to the instructions from the Holder thereof.

(iv)        Unrestricted Definitive Securities to Transfer Restricted Definitive Securities.  An Unrestricted Definitive Security cannot be exchanged for, or transferred to a Person who takes delivery thereof in the form of, a Transfer Restricted Definitive Security.

At such time as all beneficial interests in a particular Global Security have been exchanged for Definitive Securities or a particular Global Security has been redeemed, repurchased or canceled in whole and not in part, each such Global Security shall be returned to or retained and canceled by the Registrar in accordance with Section 2.11. At any time prior to such cancellation, if any beneficial interest in a Global Security is exchanged for or transferred to a Person who will take delivery thereof in the form of a beneficial interest in another Global Security or for Definitive Securities, the principal amount of Securities represented by such Global Security shall be reduced accordingly and an endorsement shall be made on such Global Security by the Registrar or by the Depository, at the direction of the Registrar to reflect such reduction; and if the beneficial interest is being exchanged for or transferred to a Person who will take delivery thereof in the form of a beneficial interest in another Global Security, such other Global

 

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Security shall be increased accordingly and an endorsement shall be made on such Global Security by the Registrar or by the Depository, at the direction of the Registrar to reflect such increase.

(f)        Legend.

(i)        Except as permitted by the following paragraphs (ii), (iii) or (iv), each Security certificate evidencing the Global Securities and the Definitive Securities (and all Securities issued in exchange therefor or in substitution thereof) shall bear a legend in substantially the following form (each defined term in the legend being defined as such for purposes of the legend only):

  THIS SECURITY HAS NOT BEEN REGISTERED UNDER THE U.S. SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED (THE “SECURITIES ACT”), AND, ACCORDINGLY, MAY NOT BE OFFERED OR SOLD WITHIN THE UNITED STATES OR TO, OR FOR THE ACCOUNT OR BENEFIT OF, U.S. PERSONS EXCEPT AS SET FORTH BELOW. BY ITS ACQUISITION HEREOF, THE HOLDER (1) REPRESENTS THAT (A) IT IS A “QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER” (AS DEFINED IN RULE 144A UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT) OR (B) IT IS NOT A U.S. PERSON AND IS ACQUIRING THIS SECURITY IN AN OFFSHORE TRANSACTION IN COMPLIANCE WITH RULE 904 UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT, (2) AGREES THAT IT WILL NOT WITHIN ONE YEAR AFTER THE ORIGINAL ISSUANCE OF THIS SECURITY RESELL OR OTHERWISE TRANSFER THIS SECURITY EXCEPT (A) TO THE COMPANY OR ANY SUBSIDIARY THEREOF, (B) INSIDE THE UNITED STATES TO A QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER IN COMPLIANCE WITH RULE 144A UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT, (C) INSIDE THE UNITED STATES TO AN ACCREDITED INVESTOR (AS DEFINED IN RULE 501(a)(l), (2), (3), OR (7) UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT) (AN “ACCREDITED INVESTOR”) THAT, PRIOR TO SUCH TRANSFER, FURNISHES (OR HAS FURNISHED ON ITS BEHALF BY A U.S. BROKERDEALER) TO THE REGISTRAR A SIGNED LETTER CONTAINING CERTAIN REPRESENTATIONS AND AGREEMENTS RELATING TO THE RESTRICTIONS ON TRANSFER OF THIS SECURITY (THE FORM OF WHICH LETTER CAN BE OBTAINED FROM THE REGISTRAR FOR THIS SECURITY), (D) OUTSIDE THE UNITED STATES IN AN OFFSHORE TRANSACTION IN COMPLIANCE WITH RULE 904 UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT, (E) PURSUANT TO THE EXEMPTION FROM REGISTRATION PROVIDED BY RULE 144 UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT (IF AVAILABLE), (F) IN ACCORDANCE WITH ANOTHER EXEMPTION FROM THE REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS OF THE SECURITIES ACT (AND BASED UPON AN OPINION OF COUNSEL IF THE COMPANY SO REQUESTS) OR (G) PURSUANT TO AN EFFECTIVE REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT AND (3) AGREES THAT IT WILL GIVE TO EACH PERSON TO WHOM THIS SECURITY IS TRANSFERRED A NOTICE SUBSTANTIALLY TO THE EFFECT OF THIS LEGEND. IN CONNECTION WITH ANY TRANSFER OF THIS SECURITY WITHIN ONE YEAR AFTER THE ORIGINAL ISSUANCE OF THIS SECURITY, IF THE PROPOSED TRANSFEREE IS AN ACCREDITED INVESTOR, THE HOLDER MUST, PRIOR TO SUCH TRANSFER, FURNISH TO THE REGISTRAR

 

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AND THE COMPANY SUCH CERTIFICATIONS, LEGAL OPINIONS OR OTHER INFORMATION AS EITHER OF THEM MAY REASONABLY REQUIRE TO CONFIRM THAT SUCH TRANSFER IS BEING MADE PURSUANT TO AN EXEMPTION FROM, OR IN A TRANSACTION NOT SUBJECT TO, THE REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS OF THE SECURITIES ACT. AS USED HEREIN, THE TERMS “OFFSHORE TRANSACTION,” “UNITED STATES” AND “U.S. PERSON” HAVE THE MEANING GIVEN TO THEM BY REGULATION S UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT.

      Each Regulation S Security that is a Temporary Security issued pursuant to Section 2.10 shall bear a legend in substantially in the following form:

“THE RIGHTS ATTACHING TO THIS REGULATION S GLOBAL SECURITY THAT IS A TEMPORARY SECURITY, AND THE CONDITIONS AND PROCEDURES GOVERNING ITS EXCHANGE FOR DEFINITIVE SECURITY, ARE AS SPECIFIED IN THE INDENTURE (AS DEFINED HEREIN).”

Each Definitive Security shall bear the following additional legends:

“IN CONNECTION WITH ANY TRANSFER, THE HOLDER WILL DELIVER TO THE REGISTRAR AND TRANSFER AGENT SUCH CERTIFICATES AND OTHER INFORMATION AS SUCH TRANSFER AGENT MAY REASONABLY REQUIRE TO CONFIRM THAT THE TRANSFER COMPLIES WITH THE FOREGOING RESTRICTIONS.”

(ii)        Upon any sale or transfer of a Transfer Restricted Definitive Security that is a Definitive Security, the Registrar shall permit the Holder thereof to exchange such Transfer Restricted Definitive Security for a Definitive Security that does not bear the legends set forth above and rescind any restriction on the transfer of such Transfer Restricted Definitive Security if the Holder certifies in writing to the Registrar that its request for such exchange was made in reliance on Rule 144 (such certification to be in the form set forth on the reverse of the Initial Security).

(iii)        After a transfer of any Initial Securities during the period of the effectiveness of a Shelf Registration Statement with respect to such Initial Securities, all requirements pertaining to the Restricted Securities Legend on such Initial Securities shall cease to apply and the requirements that any such Initial Securities be issued in global form shall continue to apply.

(iv)        Upon the consummation of a Registered Exchange Offer with respect to the Initial Securities pursuant to which Holders of such Initial Securities are offered Exchange Securities in exchange for their Initial Securities, all requirements pertaining to Initial Securities that Initial Securities be issued in global form shall continue to apply, and Exchange Securities in global form without the Restricted Securities Legend shall be available to Holders that exchange such Initial Securities in such Registered Exchange Offer.

(v)        Upon a sale or transfer after the expiration of the Restricted Period of any Initial Security acquired pursuant to Regulation S, all requirements that such Initial Security bear

 

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the Restricted Securities Legend shall cease to apply and the requirements requiring any such Initial Security be issued in global form shall continue to apply.

(vi)        Any Additional Securities sold in a registered offering shall not be required to bear the Restricted Securities Legend.

(g)        Cancellation or Adjustment of Global Security.  At such time as all beneficial interests in a particular Global Security have been exchanged for Definitive Securities or a particular Global Security has been redeemed, repurchased or canceled in whole and not in part, each such Global Security shall be returned to or retained and canceled by the Registrar in accordance with Section 2.11 of this Indenture. At any time prior to such cancellation, if any beneficial interest in a Global Security is exchanged for or transferred to a Person who will take delivery thereof in the form of a beneficial interest in another Global Security or for Definitive Securities, the principal amount of Securities represented by such Global Security shall be reduced accordingly and an endorsement shall be made on such Global Security by the Registrar or by the Depository, at the direction of the Registrar to reflect such reduction; and if the beneficial interest is being exchanged for or transferred to a Person who will take delivery thereof in the form of a beneficial interest in another Global Security, such other Global Security shall be increased accordingly and an endorsement shall be made on such Global Security by the Registrar or by the Depository, at the direction of the Registrar to reflect such increase.

(h)        Obligations with Respect to Transfers and Exchanges of Securities.

(i)        To permit registrations of transfers and exchanges, the Company shall execute and the Authentication Agent shall authenticate, Definitive Securities and Global Securities at the Registrar’s request.

(ii)        No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange, but the Company may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any transfer tax, assessments, or similar governmental charge payable in connection therewith (other than any such transfer taxes, assessments or similar governmental charge payable upon exchanges pursuant to Sections 3.06, 4.06, 4.08 and 9.05 of this Indenture).

(iii)        Prior to the due presentation for registration of transfer of any Security, the Company, the Trustee, a Paying Agent or the Registrar may deem and treat the person in whose name a Security is registered as the absolute owner of such Security for the purpose of receiving payment of principal of and interest on such Security and for all other purposes whatsoever, whether or not such Security is overdue, and none of the Company, the Trustee, a Paying Agent or the Registrar shall be affected by notice to the contrary.

(iv)        All Securities issued upon any transfer or exchange pursuant to the terms of this Indenture shall evidence the same debt and shall be entitled to the same benefits under this Indenture as the Securities surrendered upon such transfer or exchange.

 

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(i)        No Obligation of the Trustee or the Registrar.

(i)        Neither the Trustee nor the Registrar shall have no responsibility or obligation to any beneficial owner of a Global Security, a member of, or a participant in the Depository or any other Person with respect to the accuracy of the records of the Depository or its nominee or of any participant or member thereof, with respect to any ownership interest in the Securities or with respect to the delivery to any participant, member, beneficial owner or other Person (other than the Depository) of any notice (including any notice of redemption or repurchase) or the payment of any amount, under or with respect to such Securities. All notices and communications to be given to the Holders and all payments to be made to the Holders under the Securities shall be given or made only to the registered Holders (which shall be the Depository or its nominee in the case of a Global Security). The rights of beneficial owners in any Global Security shall be exercised only through the Depository subject to the applicable rules and procedures of the Depository. The Trustee and the Registrar may rely and shall be fully protected in relying upon information furnished by the Depository with respect to its members, participants and any beneficial owners.

(ii)        Neither the Trustee nor the Registrar shall have no obligation or duty to monitor, determine or inquire as to compliance with any restrictions on transfer imposed under this Indenture or under applicable law with respect to any transfer of any interest in any Security (including any transfers between or among Depository participants, members or beneficial owners in any Global Security) other than to require delivery of such certificates and other documentation or evidence as are expressly required by, and to do so if and when expressly required by, the terms of this Indenture, and to examine the same to determine substantial compliance as to form with the express requirements hereof.

(j)        [INTENTIONALLY OMITTED].

(k)        Transfers of Securities Held by Affiliates.  Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Section 2.2 any certificate (i) evidencing a Security that has been transferred to an affiliate (as defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act) of the Company, as evidenced by a notation on the certificate of transfer or certificate of exchange for such transfer or in the representation letter delivered in respect thereof, or (ii) evidencing a Security that has been acquired from an affiliate (other than by an affiliate) in a transaction or a chain of transactions not involving any public offering, as evidenced by a notation on the certificate of transfer or certificate of exchange for such transfer or in the representation letter delivered in respect thereof, shall, until one year after the last date on which either the Company or any affiliate of the Company was an owner of such Security, in each case, be in the form of a permanent Definitive Security and bear the Restricted Securities Legend subject to the restrictions in this Section 2.2. The Registrar shall retain copies of all letters, notices and other written communications received pursuant to this Section 2.2(k). The Company, at its sole cost and expense, shall have the right to inspect and make copies of all such letters, notices or other written communications at any reasonable time upon the giving of reasonable advance written notice to the Registrar.

 

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EXHIBIT A

[FORM OF FACE OF INITIAL SECURITY]

[Global Securities Legend]

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

TRANSFERS OF THIS GLOBAL SECURITY SHALL BE LIMITED TO TRANSFERS IN WHOLE, BUT NOT IN PART, TO DTC, TO NOMINEES OF DTC OR TO A SUCCESSOR THEREOF OR SUCH SUCCESSOR’S NOMINEE AND TRANSFERS OF PORTIONS OF THIS GLOBAL SECURITY SHALL BE LIMITED TO TRANSFERS MADE IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE RESTRICTIONS SET FORTH IN THE INDENTURE REFERRED TO ON THE REVERSE HEREOF.

[Restricted Securities Legend]

THIS SECURITY HAS NOT BEEN REGISTERED UNDER THE U.S. SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED (THE “SECURITIES ACT”), AND, ACCORDINGLY, MAY NOT BE OFFERED OR SOLD WITHIN THE UNITED STATES OR TO, OR FOR THE ACCOUNT OR BENEFIT OF, U.S. PERSONS EXCEPT AS SET FORTH BELOW. BY ITS ACQUISITION HEREOF, THE HOLDER (1) REPRESENTS THAT (A) IT IS A “QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER” (AS DEFINED IN RULE 144A UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT) OR (B) IT IS NOT A U.S. PERSON AND IS ACQUIRING THIS SECURITY IN AN OFFSHORE TRANSACTION IN COMPLIANCE WITH RULE 904 UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT, (2) AGREES THAT IT WILL NOT WITHIN ONE YEAR AFTER THE ORIGINAL ISSUANCE OF THIS SECURITY RESELL OR OTHERWISE TRANSFER THIS SECURITY EXCEPT (A) TO THE COMPANY OR ANY SUBSIDIARY THEREOF, (B) INSIDE THE UNITED STATES TO A QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER IN COMPLIANCE WITH RULE 144A UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT, (C) INSIDE THE UNITED STATES TO AN ACCREDITED INVESTOR (AS DEFINED IN RULE 501(a)(l), (2), (3), OR (7) UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT) (AN “ACCREDITED INVESTOR”) THAT, PRIOR TO SUCH TRANSFER, FURNISHES (OR HAS FURNISHED ON ITS BEHALF BY A U.S. BROKERDEALER) TO THE REGISTRAR A SIGNED LETTER CONTAINING CERTAIN REPRESENTATIONS AND AGREEMENTS RELATING TO THE RESTRICTIONS ON TRANSFER


OF THIS SECURITY (THE FORM OF WHICH LETTER CAN BE OBTAINED FROM THE REGISTRAR FOR THIS SECURITY), (D) OUTSIDE THE UNITED STATES IN AN OFFSHORE TRANSACTION IN COMPLIANCE WITH RULE 904 UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT, (E) PURSUANT TO THE EXEMPTION FROM REGISTRATION PROVIDED BY RULE 144 UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT (IF AVAILABLE), (F) IN ACCORDANCE WITH ANOTHER EXEMPTION FROM THE REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS OF THE SECURITIES ACT (AND BASED UPON AN OPINION OF COUNSEL IF THE COMPANY SO REQUESTS) OR (G) PURSUANT TO AN EFFECTIVE REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT AND (3) AGREES THAT IT WILL GIVE TO EACH PERSON TO WHOM THIS SECURITY IS TRANSFERRED A NOTICE SUBSTANTIALLY TO THE EFFECT OF THIS LEGEND. IN CONNECTION WITH ANY TRANSFER OF THIS SECURITY WITHIN ONE YEAR AFTER THE ORIGINAL ISSUANCE OF THIS SECURITY, IF THE PROPOSED TRANSFEREE IS AN ACCREDITED INVESTOR, THE HOLDER MUST, PRIOR TO SUCH TRANSFER, FURNISH TO THE REGISTRAR AND THE COMPANY SUCH CERTIFICATIONS, LEGAL OPINIONS OR OTHER INFORMATION AS EITHER OF THEM MAY REASONABLY REQUIRE TO CONFIRM THAT SUCH TRANSFER IS BEING MADE PURSUANT TO AN EXEMPTION FROM, OR IN A TRANSACTION NOT SUBJECT TO, THE REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS OF THE SECURITIES ACT. AS USED HEREIN, THE TERMS “OFFSHORE TRANSACTION,” “UNITED STATES” AND “U.S. PERSON” HAVE THE MEANING GIVEN TO THEM BY REGULATION S UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT.

[Temporary Regulation S Security Legend]

THE RIGHTS ATTACHING TO THIS REGULATION S GLOBAL SECURITY THAT IS A TEMPORARY SECURITY, AND THE CONDITIONS AND PROCEDURES GOVERNING ITS EXCHANGE FOR DEFINITIVE SECURITY, ARE AS SPECIFIED IN THE INDENTURE (AS DEFINED HEREIN).

Each Definitive Security shall bear the following additional legend:

IN CONNECTION WITH ANY TRANSFER, THE HOLDER WILL DELIVER TO THE REGISTRAR AND TRANSFER AGENT SUCH CERTIFICATES AND OTHER INFORMATION AS SUCH TRANSFER AGENT MAY REASONABLY REQUIRE TO CONFIRM THAT THE TRANSFER COMPLIES WITH THE FOREGOING RESTRICTIONS.

 

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[FORM OF INITIAL SECURITY]

 

No.    $                        

8  1/4% Senior Secured Note due 2017

CUSIP No. [144A: 87263G AA1 / Reg S: U8925VAA1]

ISIN No. [144A: US87263GAA13/ Reg S: USU8925VAA18]

TPC GROUP LLC, a Texas limited liability company, promises to pay to [                    ], or registered assigns, the principal sum of [                    ] Dollars [or such greater or lesser amount as is indicated on the Schedule of Increases or Decreases in Global Security attached hereto]* on October 1, 2017.

Interest Payment Dates: April 1 and October 1.

Record Dates: March 15 and September 15.

Additional provisions of this Security are set forth on the other side of this Security.

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

 

TPC GROUP LLC
By:  

 

  Name:
  Title:

Dated:

AUTHENTICATION AGENT’S CERTIFICATE OF

  AUTHENTICATION

DEUTSCHE BANK TRUST COMPANY AMERICAS,

  as Authentication Agent, certifies that this is

  one of the Securities referred to

  in the Indenture.

 

By:  

 

  Authorized Signatory

 

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*/ If the Security is to be issued in global form, add the Global Securities Legend and the attachment from Exhibit A captioned “TO BE ATTACHED TO GLOBAL SECURITIES - SCHEDULE OF INCREASES OR DECREASES IN GLOBAL SECURITY.”

 

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[FORM OF REVERSE SIDE OF INITIAL SECURITY]

8  1/4% Senior Secured Note due 2017

 

1. Interest

(a)        TPC GROUP LLC, a Texas limited liability company (such corporation, and its successors and assigns under the Indenture hereinafter referred to, being herein called the “Company”), promises to pay interest on the principal amount of this Security at the rate per annum shown above. The Company shall pay interest semiannually on April 1 and October 1 of each year, commencing April 1, 2011. Interest on the Securities shall accrue from the most recent date to which interest has been paid or duly provided for or, if no interest has been paid or duly provided for, from October 5, 2010a until the principal hereof is due. Interest shall be computed on the basis of a 360-day year of twelve 30-day months. The Company shall pay interest on overdue principal at the rate borne by the Securities, and it shall pay interest on overdue installments of interest at the same rate to the extent lawful.

(b)        Registration Rights Agreement.  The Holder of this Security is entitled to the benefits of a Registration Rights Agreement, dated as of October 5, 2010, among the Company, the Guarantors and the Initial Purchasers.

 

2. Method of Payment

The Company shall pay interest on the Securities (except defaulted interest) to the Persons who are registered Holders at the close of business on the March 15 or September 15 next preceding the interest payment date even if Securities are canceled after the record date and on or before the interest payment date (whether or not a Business Day). The Holders must surrender Securities to a Paying Agent to collect principal payments. The Company shall pay principal, premium, if any, and interest in money of the United States of America that at the time of payment is legal tender for payment of public and private debts. Payments in respect of the Securities represented by a Global Security (including principal, premium, if any, and interest) shall be made by wire transfer of immediately available funds to the accounts specified by The Depository Trust Company or any successor depositary. The Company will make all payments in respect of a certificated Security (including principal, premium, if any, and interest), at the office of each Paying Agent, except that, at the option of the Company, payment of interest may be made by mailing a check to the registered address of each Holder thereof; provided, however, that payments on the Securities may also be made, in the case of a Holder of at least $1,000,000 aggregate principal amount of Securities, by wire transfer to a U.S. dollar account maintained by the payee with a bank in the United States if such Holder elects payment by wire transfer by giving written notice to the Paying Agent to such effect designating such account no later than

 

 

 

a

With respect to Securities issued on the Issue Date.

 

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30 days immediately preceding the relevant due date for payment (or such other date as the Paying Agent may accept in its discretion).

 

3. Paying Agent and Registrar

Initially, Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas will act as Paying Agent and Registrar. The Company may appoint and change any Paying Agent or Registrar without notice. The Company or any of its domestically incorporated Wholly Owned Subsidiaries may act as Paying Agent or Registrar.

 

4. Indenture

The Company issued the Securities under an Indenture dated as of October 5, 2010 (the “Indenture”), among the Company, the Guarantors, the Paying Agent and Wilmington Trust Company as the trustee (the “Trustee”). The terms of the Securities include those stated in the Indenture and those made part of the Indenture by reference to the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 (15 U.S.C. §§ 77aaa-77bbbb) as in effect on the date of the Indenture (the “TIA”). Terms defined in the Indenture and not defined herein have the meanings ascribed thereto in the Indenture. The Securities are subject to all terms and provisions of the Indenture, and the Holders are referred to the Indenture and the TIA for a statement of such terms and provisions. To the extent any provision of this Security conflicts with the express provisions of the Indenture, the provisions of the Indenture shall govern and be controlling.

The Securities are senior secured obligations of the Company. This Security is one of the Initial Securities referred to in the Indenture. The Securities include the Initial Securities and any Exchange Securities issued in exchange for Initial Securities pursuant to the Indenture. The Initial Securities and any Exchange Securities are treated as a single class of securities under the Indenture. The Indenture imposes certain limitations on the ability of the Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries to, among other things, make certain Investments and other Restricted Payments, pay dividends and other distributions, incur Indebtedness, enter into consensual restrictions upon the payment of certain dividends and distributions by such Restricted Subsidiaries, issue or sell shares of capital stock of the Company and such Restricted Subsidiaries, enter into or permit certain transactions with Affiliates, create or incur Liens and make asset sales. The Indenture also imposes limitations on the ability of the Company and each Guarantor to consolidate or merge with or into any other Person or convey, transfer or lease all or substantially all of its property.

To guarantee the due and punctual payment of the principal and interest, on the Securities and all other amounts payable by the Company under the Indenture and the Securities when and as the same shall be due and payable, whether at maturity, by acceleration or otherwise, according to the terms of the Securities and the Indenture, the Guarantors have, jointly and severally, unconditionally guaranteed the Guaranteed Obligations on a senior secured basis pursuant to the terms of the Indenture.

 

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5. Optional Redemption

Except as set forth in the following three paragraphs, the Securities shall not be redeemable at the option of the Company prior to October 1, 2013. Thereafter, the Securities shall be redeemable at the option of the Company, in whole at any time or in part from time to time, upon on not less than 30 nor more than 60 days’ prior notice, at the following redemption prices (expressed as a percentage of principal amount), plus accrued and unpaid interest and Additional Interest, if any, to the redemption date (subject to the right of the Holders of record on the relevant record date to receive interest due on the relevant interest payment date), if redeemed during the 12-month period commencing on October 1 of the years set forth below:

 

Year

   Redemption Price
  

2013

   106.188%

2014

   104.125%

2015

   102.063%

2016 and thereafter

   100.00%

In addition, at any time prior to October 1, 2013, the Company may redeem the Securities at its option, in whole at any time or in part from time to time, upon not less than 30 nor more than 60 days’ prior notice, at a redemption price equal to 100% of the principal amount of the Securities redeemed plus the Applicable Premium as of, and accrued and unpaid interest and Additional Interest, if any, to, the applicable redemption date (subject to the right of the Holders of record on the relevant record date to receive interest due on the relevant interest payment date).

In addition, at any time and from time to time prior to October 1, 2013, the Company may redeem in the aggregate up to 10.0% of the original aggregate principal amount of the Securities in any twelve-month period at a redemption price of 103%, plus accrued and unpaid interest and Additional Interest, if any, to the applicable redemption date (subject to the right of Holders of record on the relevant record date to receive interest due on the relevant interest payment date).

Notwithstanding the foregoing, at any time and from time to time on or prior to October 1, 2013, the Company may redeem in the aggregate up to 35% of the original aggregate principal amount of the Securities (calculated after giving effect to any issuance of Additional Securities) with the net cash proceeds of one or more Equity Offerings by the Company or a contribution to the capital of the Company from the net proceeds of one or more Equity Offerings by a Parent Company, at a redemption price (expressed as a percentage of the principal amount thereof) equal to 108.25% plus, accrued and unpaid interest and Additional Interest, if any, to the redemption date (subject to the right of the Holders of record on the relevant record date to receive interest due on the relevant interest payment date); provided, however, that at least 65% of the original aggregate principal amount of the Securities (calculated after giving effect to any issuance of Additional Securities) must remain outstanding after each such redemption; and provided, further, that such redemption shall occur within 120 days after the date on which any such

 

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Equity Offering is consummated upon not less than 30 nor more than 60 days’ notice mailed to each Holder of Securities being redeemed and otherwise in accordance with the procedures set forth in the Indenture.

In connection with any redemption of Securities (including with the net cash proceeds of an Equity Offering), any such redemption may, at the Company’s discretion, be subject to one or more conditions precedent, including any related Equity Offering.

In addition, if such redemption is subject to satisfaction of one or more conditions precedent, such notice of redemption shall describe each such condition, and if applicable, shall state that, in the Company’s discretion, the redemption date may be delayed until such time as any or all such conditions shall be satisfied, or such redemption may not occur and such notice may be rescinded in the event that any or all such conditions shall not have been satisfied by the stated redemption date, or by the redemption date as so delayed.

 

6. Sinking Fund

The Securities are not subject to any sinking fund.

 

7. Notice of Redemption

Notice of redemption will be mailed by first-class mail at least 30 days but not more than 60 days before the redemption date to each Holder of Securities to be redeemed at his, her or its registered address or otherwise in accordance with the procedures of The Depository Trust Company. Securities in denominations larger than $2,000 may be redeemed in part but only in whole multiples of $1,000 to the extent practicable. If money sufficient to pay the redemption price of and accrued and unpaid interest on all Securities (or portions thereof) to be redeemed on the redemption date is deposited with a Paying Agent on or before the redemption date and certain other conditions are satisfied, on and after such date, interest ceases to accrue on such Securities (or such portions thereof) called for redemption.

 

8. Repurchase of Securities at the Option of Holders upon Change of Control and Asset Sales

Upon the occurrence of a Change of Control, each Holder shall have the right, subject to certain conditions specified in the Indenture, to cause the Company to repurchase all or any part of such Holder’s Securities at a purchase price in cash equal to 101% of the principal amount thereof, plus accrued and unpaid interest, if any, to the date of repurchase (subject to the right of the Holders of record on the relevant record date to receive interest due on the relevant interest payment date), as provided in, and subject to the terms of, the Indenture.

In accordance with Section 4.06 of the Indenture, the Company will be required to offer to purchase Securities upon the occurrence of certain events.

 

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9. Denominations; Transfer; Exchange

The Securities are in registered form, without coupons, in denominations of $2,000 and any integral multiple of $1,000 in excess thereof. A Holder shall register the transfer of or exchange of Securities in accordance with the Indenture. Upon any registration of transfer or exchange, the Registrar and the Trustee may require a Holder, among other things, to furnish appropriate endorsements or transfer documents and to pay any taxes required by law or permitted by the Indenture. The Registrar need not register the transfer of or exchange any Securities selected for redemption (except, in the case of a Security to be redeemed in part, the portion of the Security not to be redeemed) or to transfer or exchange any Securities for a period of 15 days prior to a selection of Securities to be redeemed.

 

10. Persons Deemed Owners

The registered Holder of this Security shall be treated as the owner of it for all purposes.

 

11. Unclaimed Money

If money for the payment of principal or interest remains unclaimed for two years, the Paying Agent shall pay the money back to the Company at its written request unless an abandoned property law designates another Person. After any such payment, the Holders entitled to the money must look to the Company for payment as general creditors and the Paying Agent shall have no further liability with respect to such monies.

 

12. Discharge and Defeasance

Subject to certain conditions, the Company at any time may terminate some of or all its obligations under the Securities and the Indenture if the Company deposits with the Paying Agent money or U.S. Government Obligations for the payment of principal of, and interest on the Securities to redemption, or maturity, as the case may be.

 

13. Amendment, Waiver

Subject to certain exceptions set forth in the Indenture, (i) the Indenture or the Securities may be amended with the written consent of the Holders of at least a majority in aggregate principal amount of the outstanding Securities (voting as a single class) and (ii) any past default or compliance with any provisions may be waived with the written consent of the Holders of at least a majority in principal amount of the outstanding Securities. Subject to certain exceptions set forth in the Indenture, without the consent of any Holder, the Company and the Trustee may amend the Indenture or the Securities (i) to cure any ambiguity, omission, defect or inconsistency; (ii) to comply with Article 5 of the Indenture; (iii) to provide for uncertificated Securities in addition to or in place of certificated Securities; provided, however, that the uncertificated Securities are issued in registered form for purposes of Section 163(f) of the Code or in a manner such that the uncertificated Securities are described in Section 163(f)(2)(B) of the Code; (iv) to add additional Guarantees with respect to the Securities or to secure the Securities or to evidence

 

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the release of any Guarantor from its Guarantee and under the Security Documents as provided in the Indenture; (v) to further secure the Securities; (vi) to add to the covenants of the Company for the benefit of the Holders or to surrender any right or power conferred upon the Company in the Indenture; (vii) to comply with any requirement of the SEC in connection with qualifying, or maintaining the qualification of, the Indenture under the TIA; (viii) to evidence or provide for the acceptance of appointment under the Indenture of a successor trustee; (ix) to conform the text of the Indenture, the Securities or the Guarantees to any provision of the “Description of Notes” in the Offering Memorandum; (x) to provide for the issuance of the Exchange Securities or Additional Securities, which shall have terms substantially identical in all material respects to the Initial Securities, and which shall be treated, together with any outstanding Initial Securities, as a single issue of securities; (xi) to provide for the release of Collateral from the Liens of the Indenture and the Security Documents when permitted or required by the Security Documents, the Intercreditor Agreement or the Indenture; or (xii) to secure any Permitted Additional Pari Passu Obligations under the Security Documents and to appropriately include the same in the Intercreditor Agreement.

 

14. Defaults and Remedies

If an Event of Default occurs (other than an Event of Default of the Company under Section 6.01(g) or (h)) occurs and is continuing, the Trustee or the Holders of at least 25% in principal amount of the outstanding Securities, in each case, by notice to the Company, may declare the principal of, premium, if any, and accrued but unpaid interest on all the Securities to be due and payable. If an Event of Default relating to certain events of bankruptcy, insolvency or reorganization of the Company occurs, the principal of, premium, if any, and interest on all the Securities shall become immediately due and payable without any declaration or other act on the part of the Trustee or any Holders. Under certain circumstances, the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the outstanding Securities may rescind any such acceleration with respect to the Securities and its consequences.

If an Event of Default occurs and is continuing, the Trustee shall be under no obligation to exercise any of the rights or powers under the Indenture at the request or direction of any of the Holders unless such Holders have offered to the Trustee indemnity or security satisfactory to it against any loss, liability or expense and certain other conditions are complied with. Except to enforce the right to receive payment of principal, premium (if any) or interest when due, no Holder may pursue any remedy with respect to the Indenture or the Securities unless (i) such Holder has previously given the Trustee notice that an Event of Default is continuing, (ii) the Holders of at least 25% in principal amount of the outstanding Securities have requested the Trustee in writing to pursue the remedy, (iii) such Holders have offered the Trustee reasonable security or indemnity against any loss, liability or expense, (iv) the Trustee has not complied with such request within 60 days after the receipt of the request and the offer of security or indemnity and (v) the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the outstanding Securities have not given the Trustee a direction inconsistent with such request within such 60-day period. Subject to certain restrictions, the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the outstanding Securities are given the right to direct the time, method and place of conducting any proceeding for any remedy available to the Trustee or of exercising any trust or power conferred on the Trustee.

 

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The Trustee, however, may refuse to follow any direction that conflicts with law or the Indenture or that the Trustee determines is unduly prejudicial to the rights of any other Holder or that would involve the Trustee in personal liability. Prior to taking any action under the Indenture, the Trustee shall be entitled to indemnification satisfactory to it in its sole discretion against all losses and expenses caused by taking or not taking such action.

 

15. Security Documents and Intercreditor Agreement

The obligations of the Company and the Guarantors under the Indenture, the Securities and the Guarantees by the Guarantors are secured by a Lien on the Collateral pursuant to the Security Documents. The provisions of the Indenture and the Security Documents are subject to the Intercreditor Agreement.

 

16. Trustee Dealings with the Company

Subject to certain limitations imposed by the TIA, the Trustee under the Indenture, in its individual or any other capacity, may become the owner or pledgee of Securities and may otherwise deal with and collect obligations owed to it by the Company or its Affiliates and may otherwise deal with the Company or its Affiliates with the same rights it would have if it were not Trustee.

 

17. No Recourse Against Others

No director, officer, employee, incorporator or holder of any equity interests in the Company or any Guarantor, as such, shall have any liability for any obligations of the Company or any Guarantor under the Securities, the Indenture or the Guarantees, or for any claim based on, in respect of, or by reason of, such obligations or their creation. Each Holder of Securities by accepting a Security waives and releases all such liability.

 

18. Authentication

This Security shall not be valid until an authorized signatory of the Authentication Agent manually signs the certificate of authentication on the other side of this Security.

 

19. Abbreviations

Customary abbreviations may be used in the name of a Holder or an assignee, such as TEN COM (=tenants in common), TEN ENT (=tenants by the entireties), JT TEN (=joint tenants with rights of survivorship and not as tenants in common), CUST (=custodian), and U/G/M/A (=Uniform Gift to Minors Act).

 

20. Governing Law

THIS SECURITY SHALL BE GOVERNED BY, AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH, THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK.

 

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21. CUSIP Numbers, ISINs and Common Codes

The Company has caused CUSIP numbers and ISINs to be printed on the Securities and has directed the Registrar to use CUSIP numbers and ISINs. No representation is made as to the accuracy of such numbers either as printed on the Securities or as contained in any notice of redemption and reliance may be placed only on the other identification numbers placed thereon.

The Company will furnish to any Holder of Securities upon written request and without charge to the Holder a copy of the Indenture which has in it the text of this Security.

 

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ASSIGNMENT FORM

To assign this Security, fill in the form below:

I or we assign and transfer this Security to:

 

 

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

 

 

(Insert assignee’s soc. sec. or tax I.D. No.)

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

 

 

 

Date:  

 

      Your Signature:  

 

 

 

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

Signature Guarantee:

 

Date:   

 

     

 

  

Signature must be guaranteed by a

participant in a recognized signature

guaranty medallion program or other

signature guarantor program reasonably

acceptable to the Trustee

      Signature of Signature Guarantee

 

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CERTIFICATE TO BE DELIVERED UPON EXCHANGE OR

REGISTRATION OF TRANSFER RESTRICTED SECURITIES

This certificate relates to $                 principal amount of Securities held in (check applicable space)          book-entry or          definitive form by the undersigned.

The undersigned:

 

¨    has requested the Registrar by written order to deliver in exchange for its beneficial interest in the Global Security held by the Depository a Security or Securities in definitive, registered form of authorized denominations and an aggregate principal amount equal to its beneficial interest in such Global Security (or the portion thereof indicated above); and
        check the following, if applicable:
        ¨      is an affiliate of the Company as contemplated in Section 2.2(k) of Appendix A to the Indenture; or
        ¨      is exchanging this Security in connection with an expected transfer to an affiliate of the Company as contemplated in Section 2.2(k) of Appendix A to the Indenture.
¨    has requested the Registrar by written order to exchange or register the transfer of a Security or Securities; and
        check the following, if applicable:
        ¨      is an affiliate of the Company as contemplated in Section 2.2(k) of Appendix A to the Indenture; or
        ¨      the transferee is an affiliate of the Company as contemplated in Section 2.2(k) of Appendix A to the Indenture.
In connection with any transfer of any of the Securities evidenced by this certificate occurring prior to the expiration of the period referred to in Rule 144 under the Securities Act, the undersigned confirms that such Securities are being transferred in accordance with its terms:
CHECK ONE BOX BELOW
   (1)      ¨      to the Company; or
   (2)      ¨      to the Registrar for registration in the name of the Holder, without transfer; or
   (3)      ¨      pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act of 1933; or

 

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   (4)      ¨      inside the United States to a “qualified institutional buyer” (as defined in Rule 144A under the Securities Act of 1933) that purchases for its own account or for the account of a qualified institutional buyer to whom notice is given that such transfer is being made in reliance on Rule 144A, in each case pursuant to and in compliance with Rule 144A under the Securities Act of 1933; or
   (5)      ¨      outside the United States in an offshore transaction within the meaning of Regulation S under the Securities Act in compliance with Rule 904 under the Securities Act of 1933 and such Security shall be held immediately after the transfer through Euroclear or Clearstream until the expiration of the Restricted Period (as defined in the Indenture); or
   (6)      ¨      to an institutional “accredited investor” (as defined in Rule 501(a)(1), (2), (3) or (7) under the Securities Act of 1933) that has furnished to the Registrar a signed letter containing certain representations and agreements; or
   (7)      ¨      pursuant to another available exemption from registration provided by Rule 144 under the Securities Act of 1933.

Unless one of the boxes is checked, the Registrar will refuse to register any of the Securities evidenced by this certificate in the name of any Person other than the registered Holder thereof; provided, however, that if box (5), (6) or (7) is checked, the Registrar may require, prior to registering any such transfer of the Securities, such legal opinions, certifications and other information as the Company has reasonably requested to confirm that such transfer is being made pursuant to an exemption from, or in a transaction not subject to, the registration requirements of the Securities Act of 1933.

 

Date:      

 

    

 

       Your Signature

Signature Guarantee:

 

Date:  

 

    

 

  Signature must be guaranteed by a participant in a recognized signature guaranty medallion program or other signature guarantor program reasonably acceptable to the Trustee      Signature of Signature Guarantee

 

 

TO BE COMPLETED BY PURCHASER IF (4) ABOVE IS CHECKED.

 

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The undersigned represents and warrants that it is purchasing this Security for its own account or an account with respect to which it exercises sole investment discretion and that it and any such account is a “qualified institutional buyer” within the meaning of Rule 144A under the Securities Act of 1933, and is aware that the sale to it is being made in reliance on Rule 144A and acknowledges that it has received such information regarding the Company as the undersigned has requested pursuant to Rule 144A or has determined not to request such information and that it is aware that the transferor is relying upon the undersigned’s foregoing representations in order to claim the exemption from registration provided by Rule 144A.

 

Dated:  

 

    

 

      

NOTICE: To be executed by an executive

     officer

 

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[TO BE ATTACHED TO GLOBAL SECURITIES]

SCHEDULE OF INCREASES OR DECREASES IN GLOBAL SECURITY

The initial principal amount of this Global Security is set forth on the face hereof. The following increases or decreases in this Global Security have been made:

 

Date of

Exchange

 

Amount of decrease

in Principal Amount

of this Global

Security

 

Amount of increase in
Principal Amount of

this Global Security

  Principal amount of this
Global Security following
such decrease or increase
  Signature of authorized
signatory of Authentication
Agent or Securities
Custodian

 

 

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OPTION OF HOLDER TO ELECT PURCHASE

If you want to elect to have this Security purchased by the Company pursuant to Section 4.06 (Asset Sale) or 4.08 (Change of Control) of the Indenture, check the box:

 

  Asset Sale    ¨       Change of Control    ¨   

If you want to elect to have only part of this Security purchased by the Company pursuant to Section 4.06 (Asset Sale) or 4.08 (Change of Control) of the Indenture, state the amount ($1,000 or an integral multiple thereof):

$

 

Date:  

 

     Your Signature:   

 

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

 

Signature Guarantee:  

 

 

Signature must be guaranteed by a participant in a recognized signature guaranty medallion program or other signature guarantor program reasonably acceptable to the Trustee

 

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EXHIBIT B

[FORM OF FACE OF EXCHANGE SECURITY]

[Global Securities Legend]

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

TRANSFERS OF THIS GLOBAL SECURITY SHALL BE LIMITED TO TRANSFERS IN WHOLE, BUT NOT IN PART, TO DTC, TO NOMINEES OF DTC OR TO A SUCCESSOR THEREOF OR SUCH SUCCESSOR’S NOMINEE AND TRANSFERS OF PORTIONS OF THIS GLOBAL SECURITY SHALL BE LIMITED TO TRANSFERS MADE IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE RESTRICTIONS SET FORTH IN THE INDENTURE REFERRED TO ON THE REVERSE HEREOF.


No.    $                    

8  1/4% Senior Secured Note due 2017

CUSIP No.                    

ISIN No.                        

TPC GROUP LLC, a Texas limited liability company, promises to pay to [                    ], or registered assigns, the principal sum of [            ] Dollars [or such greater or lesser amount as is indicated on the Schedule of Increases or Decreases in Global Security attached hereto]* on October 1, 2017.

Interest Payment Dates: April 1 and October 1.

Record Dates: March 15 and September 15.

Additional provisions of this Security are set forth on the other side of this Security.

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

 

TPC GROUP LLC
By:  

 

  Name:
  Title:

Dated:

AUTHENTICATION AGENT’S CERTIFICATE OF

  AUTHENTICATION

DEUTSCHE BANK TRUST COMPANY AMERICAS,

  as Authentication Agent, certifies that this is

  one of the Securities referred to

  in the Indenture.

 

By:

 

 

      Authorized Signatory

 

 

 

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*/ If the Security is to be issued in global form, add the Global Securities Legend and the attachment from Exhibit A captioned “TO BE ATTACHED TO GLOBAL SECURITIES - SCHEDULE OF INCREASES OR DECREASES IN GLOBAL SECURITY.”

 

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[FORM OF REVERSE SIDE OF EXCHANGE SECURITY]

8  1/4% Senior Secured Note due 2017

 

1. Interest

TPC GROUP LLC, a Texas limited liability company (such corporation, and its successors and assigns under the Indenture hereinafter referred to, being herein called the “Company”), promises to pay interest on the principal amount of this Security at the rate per annum shown above. The Company shall pay interest semiannually on April 1 and October 1 of each year, commencing April 1, 2011. Interest on the Securities shall accrue from the most recent date to which interest has been paid or duly provided for or, if no interest has been paid or duly provided for, from October 5, 2010a until the principal hereof is due. Interest shall be computed on the basis of a 360-day year of twelve 30-day months. The Company shall pay interest on overdue principal at the rate borne by the Securities, and it shall pay interest on overdue installments of interest at the same rate to the extent lawful.

 

2. Method of Payment

The Company shall pay interest on the Securities (except defaulted interest) to the Persons who are registered Holders at the close of business on the March 15 or September 15 next preceding the interest payment date even if Securities are canceled after the record date and on or before the interest payment date (whether or not a Business Day). The Holders must surrender Securities to a Paying Agent to collect principal payments. The Company shall pay principal, premium, if any, and interest in money of the United States of America that at the time of payment is legal tender for payment of public and private debts. Payments in respect of the Securities represented by a Global Security (including principal, premium and interest) shall be made by wire transfer of immediately available funds to the accounts specified by The Depository Trust Company or any successor depositary. The Company will make all payments in respect of a certificated Security (including principal, premium, if any, and interest), at the office of a Paying Agent, except that, at the option of the Company, payment of interest may be made by mailing a check to the registered address of each Holder thereof; provided, however, that payments on the Securities may also be made, in the case of a Holder of at least $1,000,000 aggregate principal amount of Securities, by wire transfer to a U.S. dollar account maintained by the payee with a bank in the United States if such Holder elects payment by wire transfer by giving written notice to the Paying Agent to such effect designating such account no later than 30 days immediately preceding the relevant due date for payment (or such other date as the Paying Agent may accept in its discretion).

 

3. Paying Agent and Registrar

 

 

a

With respect to Securities issued on the Issue Date.

 

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Initially, Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas will act as Paying Agent and Registrar. The Company may appoint and change any Paying Agent or Registrar without notice. The Company or any of its domestically incorporated Wholly Owned Subsidiaries may act as Paying Agent or Registrar.

 

4. Indenture

The Company issued the Securities under an Indenture dated as of October 5, 2010 (the “Indenture”), among the Company, the Guarantors, the Paying Agent and Wilmington Trust Company, as trustee (the “Trustee”). The terms of the Securities include those stated in the Indenture and those made part of the Indenture by reference to the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 (15 U.S.C. §§ 77aaa-77bbbb) as in effect on the date of the Indenture (the “TIA”). Terms defined in the Indenture and not defined herein have the meanings ascribed thereto in the Indenture. The Securities are subject to all terms and provisions of the Indenture, and the Holders are referred to the Indenture and the TIA for a statement of such terms and provisions. To the extent any provision of this Security conflicts with the express provisions of the Indenture, the provisions of the Indenture shall govern and be controlling.

The Securities are senior secured obligations of the Company. This Security is one of the Exchange Securities referred to in the Indenture. The Securities include the Initial Securities, the Additional Securities and any Exchange Securities issued in exchange for the Initial Securities pursuant to the Indenture. The Initial Securities and Exchange Securities are treated as a single class of securities under the Indenture. The Indenture imposes certain limitations on the ability of the Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries to, among other things, make certain Investments and other Restricted Payments, pay dividends and other distributions, incur Indebtedness, enter into consensual restrictions upon the payment of certain dividends and distributions by such Restricted Subsidiaries, issue or sell shares of capital stock of the Company and such Restricted Subsidiaries, enter into or permit certain transactions with Affiliates, create or incur Liens and make Asset Sales. The Indenture also imposes limitations on the ability of the Company and each Guarantor to consolidate or merge with or into any other Person or convey, transfer or lease all or substantially all of its property.

To guarantee the due and punctual payment of the principal and interest, if any, on the Securities and all other amounts payable by the Company under the Indenture and the Securities when and as the same shall be due and payable, whether at maturity, by acceleration or otherwise, according to the terms of the Securities and the Indenture, the Guarantors have, jointly and severally, unconditionally guaranteed the Guaranteed Obligations on a senior secured basis pursuant to the terms of the Indenture.

 

5. Optional Redemption

Except as set forth in the following three paragraphs, the Securities shall not be redeemable at the option of the Company prior to October 1, 2013. Thereafter, the Securities shall be redeemable at the option of the Company, in whole at any time or in part from time to time, upon on not less than 30 nor more than 60 days’ prior notice, at the following redemption prices (expressed as a percentage of principal amount), plus accrued and unpaid interest and

 

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Additional Interest, if any, to the redemption date (subject to the right of the Holders of record on the relevant record date to receive interest due on the relevant interest payment date), if redeemed during the 12-month period commencing on October 1 of the years set forth below:

 

Year

   Redemption Price

2013

   106.188%

2014

   104.125%

2015

   102.063%

2016 and thereafter

   100.00%

In addition, at any time prior to October 1, 2013, the Company may redeem the Securities at its option, in whole at any time or in part from time to time, upon not less than 30 nor more than 60 days’ prior notice, at a redemption price equal to 100% of the principal amount of the Securities redeemed plus the Applicable Premium as of, and accrued and unpaid interest and Additional Interest, if any, to, the applicable redemption date (subject to the right of the Holders of record on the relevant record date to receive interest due on the relevant interest payment date).

In addition, at any time and from time to time prior to October 1, 2013, the Company may redeem in the aggregate up to 10.0% of the original aggregate principal amount of the Securities in any twelve-month period at a redemption price of 103%, plus accrued and unpaid interest and Additional Interest, if any, to the applicable redemption date (subject to the right of Holders of record on the relevant record date to receive interest due on the relevant interest payment date).

Notwithstanding the foregoing, at any time and from time to time on or prior to October 1, 2013, the Company may redeem in the aggregate up to 35% of the original aggregate principal amount of the Securities (calculated after giving effect to any issuance of Additional Securities) with the net cash proceeds of one or more Equity Offerings by the Company or a contribution to the capital of the Company from the net proceeds of one or more Equity Offerings by a Parent Company, at a redemption price (expressed as a percentage of the principal amount thereof) equal to 108.25% plus, accrued and unpaid interest and Additional Interest, if any, to the redemption date (subject to the right of the Holders of record on the relevant record date to receive interest due on the relevant interest payment date); provided, however, that at least 65% of the original aggregate principal amount of the Securities (calculated after giving effect to any issuance of Additional Securities) must remain outstanding after each such redemption; and provided, further, that such redemption shall occur within 120 days after the date on which any such Equity Offering is consummated upon not less than 30 nor more than 60 days’ notice mailed to each Holder of Securities being redeemed and otherwise in accordance with the procedures set forth in the Indenture.

In connection with any redemption of Securities (including with the net cash proceeds of an Equity Offering), any such redemption may, at the Company’s discretion, be subject to one or more conditions precedent, including any related Equity Offering.

 

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In addition, if such redemption is subject to satisfaction of one or more conditions precedent, such notice of redemption shall describe each such condition, and if applicable, shall state that, in the Company’s discretion, the redemption date may be delayed until such time as any or all such conditions shall be satisfied, or such redemption may not occur and such notice may be rescinded in the event that any or all such conditions shall not have been satisfied by the stated redemption date, or by the redemption date as so delayed.

 

6. Sinking Fund

The Securities are not subject to any sinking fund.

 

7. Notice of Redemption

Notice of redemption will be mailed by first-class mail at least 30 days but not more than 60 days before the redemption date to each Holder of Securities to be redeemed at his, her or its registered address or otherwise in accordance with the procedures of The Depository Trust Company. Securities in denominations larger than $2,000 may be redeemed in part but only in whole multiples of $1,000 to the extent practicable. If money sufficient to pay the redemption price of and accrued and unpaid interest on all Securities (or portions thereof) to be redeemed on the redemption date is deposited with a Paying Agent on or before the redemption date and certain other conditions are satisfied, on and after such date interest ceases to accrue on such Securities (or such portions thereof) called for redemption.

 

8. Repurchase of Securities at the Option of the Holders upon Change of Control and Asset Sales

Upon the occurrence of a Change of Control, each Holder shall have the right, subject to certain conditions specified in the Indenture, to cause the Company to repurchase all or any part of such Holder’s Securities at a purchase price in cash equal to 101% of the principal amount thereof, plus accrued and unpaid interest, if any, to the date of repurchase (subject to the right of the Holders of record on the relevant record date to receive interest due on the relevant interest payment date), as provided in, and subject to the terms of, the Indenture.

In accordance with Section 4.06 of the Indenture, the Company will be required to offer to purchase Securities upon the occurrence of certain events.

 

9. Denominations; Transfer; Exchange

The Securities are in registered form without coupons in denominations of $2,000 and any integral multiple of $1,000 in excess thereof. A Holder shall register the transfer of or exchange of Securities in accordance with the Indenture. Upon any registration of transfer or exchange, the Registrar and the Trustee may require a Holder, among other things, to furnish appropriate endorsements or transfer documents and to pay any taxes required by law or permitted by the Indenture. The Registrar need not register the transfer of or exchange any Securities selected for redemption (except, in the case of a Security to be redeemed in part, the portion of the

 

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Security not to be redeemed) or to transfer or exchange any Securities for a period of 15 days prior to a selection of Securities to be redeemed.

 

10. Persons Deemed Owners

The registered Holder of this Security shall be treated as the owner of it for all purposes.

 

11. Unclaimed Money

If money for the payment of principal or interest remains unclaimed for two years, the Paying Agent shall pay the money back to the Company at its written request unless an abandoned property law designates another Person. After any such payment, the Holders entitled to the money must look to the Company for payment as general creditors and the Paying Agent shall have no further liability with respect to such monies.

 

12. Discharge and Defeasance

Subject to certain conditions, the Company at any time may terminate some of or all its obligations under the Securities and the Indenture if the Company deposits with the Paying Agent money or U.S. Government Obligations for the payment of principal and interest on the Securities to redemption, or maturity, as the case may be.

 

13. Amendment, Waiver

Subject to certain exceptions set forth in the Indenture, (i) the Indenture or the Securities may be amended with the written consent of the Holders of at least a majority in aggregate principal amount of the outstanding Securities (voting as a single class) and (ii) any past default or compliance with any provisions may be waived with the written consent of the Holders of at least a majority in principal amount of the outstanding Securities. Subject to certain exceptions set forth in the Indenture, without the consent of any Holder, the Company and the Trustee may amend the Indenture or the Securities (i) to cure any ambiguity, omission, defect or inconsistency; (ii) to comply with Article 5 of the Indenture; (iii) to provide for uncertificated Securities in addition to or in place of certificated Securities; provided, however, that the uncertificated Securities are issued in registered form for purposes of Section 163(f) of the Code or in a manner such that the uncertificated Securities are described in Section 163(f)(2)(B) of the Code; (iv) to add additional Guarantees with respect to the Securities or to secure the Securities or to evidence the release of any Guarantor from its Guarantee and under the Security Documents as provided in the Indenture; (v) to further secure the Securities; (vi) to add to the covenants of the Company for the benefit of the Holders or to surrender any right or power conferred upon the Company in the Indenture; (vii) to comply with any requirement of the SEC in connection with qualifying, or maintaining the qualification of, the Indenture under the TIA; (viii) to evidence or provide for the acceptance of appointment under the Indenture of a successor trustee; (ix) to conform the text of the Indenture, the Securities or the Guarantees to any provision of the “Description of Notes” in the Offering Memorandum; (x) to provide for the issuance of the Exchange Securities or Additional Securities, which shall have terms substantially identical in all material respects to the

 

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Initial Securities, and which shall be treated, together with any outstanding Initial Securities, as a single issue of securities; (xi) to provide for the release of Collateral from the Liens of the Indenture and the Security Documents when permitted or required by the Security Documents, the Intercreditor Agreement or the Indenture; or (xii) to secure any Permitted Additional Pari Passu Obligations under the Security Documents and to appropriately include the same in the Intercreditor Agreement.

 

14. Defaults and Remedies

If an Event of Default occurs (other than an Event of Default of the Company under Section 6.01(g) or (h)) and is continuing, the Trustee or the Holders of at least 25% in principal amount of the outstanding Securities, in each case, by notice to the Company, may declare the principal of, premium, if any, and accrued but unpaid interest on all the Securities to be due and payable. If an Event of Default relating to certain events of bankruptcy, insolvency or reorganization of the Company occurs, the principal of, premium, if any, and interest on all the Securities shall become immediately due and payable without any declaration or other act on the part of the Trustee or any Holders. Under certain circumstances, the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the outstanding Securities may rescind any such acceleration with respect to the Securities and its consequences.

If an Event of Default occurs and is continuing, the Trustee shall be under no obligation to exercise any of the rights or powers under the Indenture at the request or direction of any of the Holders unless such Holders have offered to the Trustee indemnity or security satisfactory to it against any loss, liability or expense and certain other conditions are complied with. Except to enforce the right to receive payment of principal, premium (if any) or interest when due, no Holder may pursue any remedy with respect to the Indenture or the Securities unless (i) such Holder has previously given the Trustee notice that an Event of Default is continuing, (ii) the Holders of at least 25% in principal amount of the outstanding Securities have requested the Trustee in writing to pursue the remedy, (iii) such Holders have offered the Trustee reasonable security or indemnity against any loss, liability or expense, (iv) the Trustee has not complied with such request within 60 days after the receipt of the request and the offer of security or indemnity and (v) the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the outstanding Securities have not given the Trustee a direction inconsistent with such request within such 60-day period. Subject to certain restrictions, the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the outstanding Securities are given the right to direct the time, method and place of conducting any proceeding for any remedy available to the Trustee or of exercising any trust or power conferred on the Trustee. The Trustee, however, may refuse to follow any direction that conflicts with law or the Indenture or that the Trustee determines is unduly prejudicial to the rights of any other Holder or that would involve the Trustee in personal liability. Prior to taking any action under the Indenture, the Trustee shall be entitled to indemnification satisfactory to it in its sole discretion against all losses and expenses caused by taking or not taking such action.

 

15. Security Documents and Intercreditor Agreement

The obligations of the Company and the Guarantors under the Indenture, the Securities and the Guarantees by the Guarantors are secured by a Lien on the Collateral pursuant to

 

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the Security Documents. The provisions of the Indenture and the Security Documents are subject to the Intercreditor Agreement.

 

16. Trustee Dealings with the Company

Subject to certain limitations imposed by the TIA, the Trustee under the Indenture, in its individual or any other capacity, may become the owner or pledgee of Securities and may otherwise deal with and collect obligations owed to it by the Company or its Affiliates and may otherwise deal with the Company or its Affiliates with the same rights it would have if it were not Trustee.

 

17. No Recourse Against Others

No director, officer, employee, incorporator or holder of any equity interests in the Company or of any Guarantor or any direct or indirect parent corporation, as such, shall have any liability for any obligations of the Company or the Guarantors under the Securities, the Indenture or for any claim based on, in respect of, or by reason of, such obligations or their creation. Each Holder of Securities by accepting a Security waives and releases all such liability.

 

18. Authentication

This Security shall not be valid until an authorized signatory of the Authentication Agent (or an authenticating agent) manually signs the certificate of authentication on the other side of this Security.

 

19. Abbreviations

Customary abbreviations may be used in the name of a Holder or an assignee, such as TEN COM (=tenants in common), TEN ENT (=tenants by the entireties), JT TEN (=joint tenants with rights of survivorship and not as tenants in common), CUST (=custodian), and U/G/M/A (=Uniform Gift to Minors Act).

 

20. Governing Law

THIS SECURITY SHALL BE GOVERNED BY, AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH, THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK.

 

21. CUSIP Numbers, ISINs and Common Codes

The Company has caused CUSIP numbers and ISINs to be printed on the Securities and has directed the Registrar to use CUSIP numbers and ISINs. No representation is made as to the accuracy of such numbers either as printed on the Securities or as contained in any notice of redemption and reliance may be placed only on the other identification numbers placed thereon.

 

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The Company will furnish to any Holder of Securities upon written request and without charge to the Holder a copy of the Indenture which has in it the text of this Security.

 

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ASSIGNMENT FORM

To assign this Security, fill in the form below:

I or we assign and transfer this Security to:

 

 

 

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

 

 

 

(Insert assignee’s soc. sec. or tax I.D. No.)

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

 

 

 

 

Date:                                  Your Signature:  

 

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

 

Signature Guarantee:      
Date:  

 

     

 

Signature must be guaranteed by a participant in a recognized signature guaranty medallion program or other signature guarantor program reasonably acceptable to the Trustee       Signature of Signature Guarantee

 

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OPTION OF HOLDER TO ELECT PURCHASE

If you want to elect to have this Security purchased by the Company pursuant to Section 4.06 (Asset Sale) and 4.08 (Change of Control) of the Indenture, check the box:

Asset Sale  ¨              Change of Control  ¨

If you want to elect to have only part of this Security purchased by the Company pursuant to Section 4.06 (Asset Sale) and 4.08 (Change of Control) of the Indenture, state the amount ($1,000 or an integral multiple thereof):

$

 

Date:                                                Your Signature:  

 

     

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

 

Signature Guarantee:     

 

     Signature must be guaranteed by a participant in a recognized signature guaranty medallion program or other signature guarantor program reasonably acceptable to the Trustee.

 

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[TO BE ATTACHED TO GLOBAL SECURITIES]

SCHEDULE OF INCREASES OR DECREASES IN GLOBAL SECURITY

The initial principal amount of this Global Security is set forth on the face hereof. The following increases or decreases in this Global Security have been made:

 

Date of

Exchange

  

Amount of decrease

in Principal Amount

of this Global

Security

  

Amount of increase in Principal Amount of

this Global Security

   Principal amount of this Global Security following such decrease or increase    Signature of authorized signatory of Authentication Agent or Securities Custodian

 

 

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EXHIBIT C

Form of

Transferee Letter of Representation

TPC Group LLC

c/o Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas

60 Wall Street

New York, NY 10005

Ladies and Gentlemen:

This certificate is delivered to request a transfer of $[            ] principal amount of the 8 1/4% Senior Secured Notes due 2017 (the “Securities”) of TPC GROUP LLC (the “Company”).

Upon transfer, the Securities would be registered in the name of the new beneficial owner as follows:

Name:                                         

Address:                                     

Taxpayer ID Number:                

The undersigned represents and warrants to you that:

1.        We are an institutional “accredited investor” (as defined in Rule 501(a)(1), (2), (3) or (7) under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”)), purchasing for our own account or for the account of such an institutional “accredited investor” at least $250,000 principal amount of the Securities, and we are acquiring the Securities not with a view to, or for offer or sale in connection with, any distribution in violation of the Securities Act. We have such knowledge and experience in financial and business matters as to be capable of evaluating the merits and risks of our investment in the Securities, and we invest in or purchase securities similar to the Securities in the normal course of our business. We, and any accounts for which we are acting, are each able to bear the economic risk of our or its investment.

2.        We understand that the Securities have not been registered under the Securities Act and, unless so registered, may not be sold except as permitted in the following sentence. We agree on our own behalf and on behalf of any investor account for which we are purchasing Securities to offer, sell or otherwise transfer such Securities prior to the date that is one year after the later of the date of original issue and the last date on which the Company or any affiliate of the Company was the owner of such Securities (or any predecessor thereto) (the “Resale Restriction Termination Date”) only (a) to the Company, (b) pursuant to a registration statement that has been declared effective under the Securities Act, (c) in a transaction complying


with the requirements of Rule 144A under the Securities Act (“Rule 144A”), to a person we reasonably believe is a qualified institutional buyer under Rule 144A (a “QIB”) that is purchasing for its own account or for the account of a QIB and to whom notice is given that the transfer is being made in reliance on Rule 144A, (d) pursuant to offers and sales that occur outside the United States within the meaning of Regulation S under the Securities Act, (e) to an institutional “accredited investor” within the meaning of Rule 501(a)(1), (2), (3) or (7) under the Securities Act that is purchasing for its own account or for the account of such an institutional “accredited investor,” in each case in a minimum principal amount of Securities of $250,000, or (f) pursuant to any other available exemption from the registration requirements of the Securities Act, subject in each of the foregoing cases to any requirement of law that the disposition of our property or the property of such investor account or accounts be at all times within our or their control and in compliance with any applicable state securities laws. The foregoing restrictions on resale will not apply subsequent to the Resale Restriction Termination Date. If any resale or other transfer of the Securities is proposed to be made pursuant to clause (e) above prior to the Resale Restriction Termination Date, the transferor shall deliver a letter from the transferee substantially in the form of this letter to the Company, the Registrar and the Trustee, which shall provide, among other things, that the transferee is an institutional “accredited investor” within the meaning of Rule 501(a)(1), (2), (3) or (7) under the Securities Act and that it is acquiring such Securities for investment purposes and not for distribution in violation of the Securities Act. Each purchaser acknowledges that the Company, the Registrar and the Trustee reserve the right prior to the offer, sale or other transfer prior to the Resale Restriction Termination Date of the Securities pursuant to clause (d), (e) or (f) above to require the delivery of an opinion of counsel, certifications or other information satisfactory to the Company, the Registrar and the Trustee.

 

Dated:  

 

     TRANSFEREE:                                     ,
               by                                                                      

 

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EXHIBIT D

[FORM OF SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE]

SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE (this “Supplemental Indenture”) dated as of [            ], among [GUARANTOR] (the “New Guarantor”), a subsidiary of TPC GROUP LLC (or its successor), a Texas limited liability company (the “Company”), WILMINGTON TRUST COMPANY, as trustee under the indenture referred to below (the “Trustee”), and DEUTSCHE BANK TRUST COMPANY AMERICAS, as collateral agent (in such capacity, the “Collateral Agent”), paying agent, registrar and authentication agent.

W I T N E S S E T H :

WHEREAS the Company and the existing Guarantors have heretofore executed and delivered to the Trustee an Indenture (as amended, supplemented or otherwise modified, the “Indenture”) dated as of October 5, 2010, providing for the issuance of the Company’s 8 1/4% Senior Secured Notes due 2017 (the “Securities”), initially in the aggregate principal amount of $350,000,000;

WHEREAS Section 4.11 of the Indenture provides that under certain circumstances the Company is required to cause the New Guarantor to execute and deliver to the Trustee a supplemental indenture pursuant to which the New Guarantor shall unconditionally guarantee all the Company’s obligations under the Securities pursuant to a Guarantee on the terms and conditions set forth herein; and

WHEREAS pursuant to Section 9.01 of the Indenture, the Trustee, the Collateral Agent, Paying Agent, Registrar, Authentication Agent, the Company and the existing Guarantors are authorized to execute and deliver this Supplemental Indenture;

NOW THEREFORE, in consideration of the foregoing and for other good and valuable consideration, the receipt of which is hereby acknowledged, the New Guarantor, the Company, the Trustee, the Collateral Agent, Paying Agent, Registrar and Authentication Agent mutually covenant and agree for the equal and ratable benefit of the holders of the Securities as follows:

1.        Defined Terms.  As used in this Supplemental Indenture, terms defined in the Indenture or in the preamble or recital hereto are used herein as therein defined, except that the term “Holders” in this Guarantee shall refer to the term “Holders” as defined in the Indenture and the Trustee acting on behalf of and for the benefit of such Holders. The words “herein,” “hereof” and “hereby” and other words of similar import used in this Supplemental Indenture refer to this Supplemental Indenture as a whole and not to any particular section hereof.

2.        Agreement to Guarantee.  The New Guarantor hereby agrees, jointly and severally with all existing Guarantors (if any), to unconditionally guarantee the Company’s obligations under the Securities on the terms and subject to the conditions set forth in Article 10 of


the Indenture and to be bound by all other applicable provisions of the Indenture and the Securities and to perform all of the obligations and agreements of a Guarantor under the Indenture.

3.        Ratification of Indenture; Supplemental Indentures Part of Indenture.  Except as expressly amended hereby, the Indenture is in all respects ratified and confirmed and all the terms, conditions and provisions thereof shall remain in full force and effect. This Supplemental Indenture shall form a part of the Indenture for all purposes, and every holder of Securities heretofore or hereafter authenticated and delivered shall be bound hereby.

4.        Notices.  All notices or other communications to the New Guarantor shall be given as provided in Section 13.02 of the Indenture.

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

6.        Trustee Makes No Representation.  The Trustee makes no representation as to the validity or sufficiency of this Supplemental Indenture.

7.        Counterparts.  The parties may sign any number of copies of this Supplemental Indenture. Each signed copy shall be an original, but all of them together represent the same agreement.

8.        Effect of Headings.  The Section headings herein are for convenience only and shall not affect the construction thereof.

 

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

 

[NEW GUARANTOR]
By:  

 

  Name:
  Title:
TPC GROUP LLC
By:  

 

  Name:
  Title:

WILMINGTON TRUST COMPANY, AS

TRUSTEE

By:  

 

  Name:
  Title:

DEUTSCHE BANK TRUST COMPANY

AMERICAS, as Registrar, Paying Agent,

Authentication Agent

By:  

 

  Name:
  Title:
By:  

 

  Name:
  Title:

 

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DEUTSCHE BANK TRUST COMPANY

AMERICAS, as Collateral Agent

By:  

 

  Name:
  Title:
By:  

 

  Name:
  Title:

 

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Schedule 1

Title Insurance Coverage Amounts

 

Mortgage Policy

 

  

Title Insurance

Coverage Amount

 

Mortgage Policy with respect to the Deed of Trust, Assignment of Leases and Rents, Security Agreement and Fixture Filing dated as of October 5, 2010 by Company, as Grantor, in favor of James A. Johnson, as Trustee for the benefit of Collateral Agent to be recorded in the Official Public Records of Real Property, Harris County, Texas    $19,728,480
Mortgage Policy with respect to the Deed of Trust, Assignment of Leases and Rents, Security Agreement and Fixture Filing dated as of October 5, 2010 by Company, as Grantor, in favor of James A. Johnson, as Trustee for the benefit of Collateral Agent, to be recorded in the Official Public Records of Real Property, Jefferson County, Texas    $22,140,000