EXHIBIT 4.1

 

EXECUTION VERSION

 

JAMES RIVER COAL COMPANY

 

Company

 

BDCC HOLDING COMPANY, INC.

BELL COUNTY COAL CORPORATION

BLEDSOE COAL CORPORATION

BLEDSOE COAL LEASING COMPANY

BLUE DIAMOND COAL COMPANY

EOLIA RESOURCES, INC.

IRP GP HOLDCO LLC

IRP LP HOLDCO INC.

JAMES RIVER COAL SALES, INC.

JAMES RIVER COAL SERVICE COMPANY

JAMES RIVER ESCROW INC.

JELLICO MINING, LLC

JOHNS CREEK COAL COMPANY

JOHNS CREEK ELKHORN COAL CORPORATION

JOHNS CREEK PROCESSING COMPANY

LEECO, INC.

MCCOY ELKHORN COAL CORPORATION

SHAMROCK COAL COMPANY, INCORPORATED

TRIAD MINING, INC.

TRIAD UNDERGROUND MINING, LLC

INTERNATIONAL RESOURCE PARTNERS LP

INTERNATIONAL RESOURCES HOLDINGS I LLC

IRP WV CORP.

INTERNATIONAL RESOURCES HOLDINGS II LLC

INTERNATIONAL RESOURCES, LLC

HAMPDEN COAL COMPANY, LLC

ROCKHOUSE CREEK DEVELOPMENT, LLC

CHAFIN BRANCH COAL COMPANY, LLC

SNAP CREEK MINING, LLC

LOGAN & KANAWHA COAL CO., LLC

IRP KENTUCKY LLC

LAUREL MOUNTAIN RESOURCES LLC

BUCK BRANCH RESOURCES LLC

 

Subsidiary Guarantors

 

and

 

U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION

 

as Trustee 

 

 

INDENTURE

 

Dated as of May 22, 2013

 

 

10.00% CONVERTIBLE SENIOR NOTES DUE 2018

 

 

 

 

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Page(s)
ARTICLE I
Definitions and Incorporation by Reference
SECTION 1.01.	Definitions	1
SECTION 1.02.	Other Definitions	11
SECTION 1.03.	Trust Indenture Act	12
SECTION 1.04.	Rules of Construction	12
ARTICLE II
The Securities
SECTION 2.01.	Form and Dating	13
SECTION 2.02.	Execution and Authentication	13
SECTION 2.03.	Registrar, Paying Agent and Conversion Agent	14
SECTION 2.04.	Paying Agent to Hold Money in Trust	15
SECTION 2.05.	Securityholder Lists	15
SECTION 2.06.	Transfer And Exchange	15
SECTION 2.07.	Replacement Securities	16
SECTION 2.08.	Outstanding Securities	16
SECTION 2.09.	Securities Held by the Company or an Affiliate	17
SECTION 2.10.	Temporary Securities	17
SECTION 2.11.	Cancelation	17
SECTION 2.12.	Defaulted Interest	18
SECTION 2.13.	CUSIP Numbers	18
SECTION 2.14.	Deposit of Moneys	18
SECTION 2.15.	Book-Entry Provisions for Global Securities	18
SECTION 2.16.	Special Transfer Provisions	19
SECTION 2.17.	Restrictive Legends	21
SECTION 2.18.	Ranking	21
SECTION 2.19.	Sinking Fund	21
ARTICLE III
Redemption and Repurchase
SECTION 3.01.	No Redemption	21
SECTION 3.02.	Repurchase at Option of Holder Upon a Fundamental Change	21

 

 

 

ARTICLE IV
Covenants
SECTION 4.01.	Payment of Securities	26
SECTION 4.02.	Maintenance of Office or Agency	26
SECTION 4.03.	Rule 144A Information and Annual Reports	27
SECTION 4.04.	Compliance Certificate	28
SECTION 4.05.	Stay, Extension and Usury Laws	28
SECTION 4.06.	Corporate Existence	28
SECTION 4.07.	Notice of Default	28
SECTION 4.08.	Further Instruments and Acts	28
SECTION 4.09.	Additional Interest	28
SECTION 4.10.	Limitation on Issuance of Guarantees by Restricted Subsidiaries	30
ARTICLE V
Successors
SECTION 5.01.	When Company May Merge, etc.	31
SECTION 5.02.	Successor Substituted	32
SECTION 5.03.	When a Subsidiary Guarantor May Merge or Transfer Assets	32
ARTICLE VI
Defaults and Remedies
SECTION 6.01.	Events of Default	33
SECTION 6.02.	Acceleration	35
SECTION 6.03.	Other Remedies	36
SECTION 6.04.	Waiver of Past Defaults	36
SECTION 6.05.	Control by Majority	36
SECTION 6.06.	Limitation on Suits	36
SECTION 6.07.	Rights Of Holders To Receive Payment And To Convert Securities	37
SECTION 6.08.	Collection Suit by Trustee	37
SECTION 6.09.	Trustee May File Proofs of Claim	37
SECTION 6.10.	Priorities	37
SECTION 6.11.	Undertaking For Costs	38
ARTICLE VII
Trustee
SECTION 7.01.	Duties of Trustee	38
SECTION 7.02.	Rights of Trustee	39
SECTION 7.03.	Individual Rights of Trustee	41
SECTION 7.04.	Trustee’s Disclaimer	41

 

 

 

 

SECTION 7.05.	Notice of Defaults	41
SECTION 7.06.	Reports by Trustee to Holders	41
SECTION 7.07.	Compensation and Indemnity	41
SECTION 7.08.	Replacement of Trustee	42
SECTION 7.09.	Successor trustee by Merger, Etc.	43
SECTION 7.10.	Eligibility; Disqualification	43
SECTION 7.11.	Preferential Collection of Claims Against Company	43
ARTICLE VIII
Discharge of Indenture
SECTION 8.01.	Termination of The Obligations of The Company	44
SECTION 8.02.	Application of Trust Money	44
SECTION 8.03.	Repayment To Company	44
SECTION 8.04.	Reinstatement	45
ARTICLE IX
Amendments
SECTION 9.01.	Without Consent of Holders	45
SECTION 9.02.	With Consent of Holders	46
SECTION 9.03.	[Reserved]	47
SECTION 9.04.	Revocation and Effect of Consents	47
SECTION 9.05.	Notation on or Exchange of Securities	47
SECTION 9.06.	Trustee Protected	47
SECTION 9.07.	Effect of Supplemental Indentures	47
ARTICLE X
Conversion
SECTION 10.01.	Conversion Privilege	48
SECTION 10.02.	Conversion Procedure and Payment upon Conversion	48
SECTION 10.03.	Cash In Lieu of Fractional Shares	50
SECTION 10.04.	Taxes on Conversion	50
SECTION 10.05.	Company to Provide Common Stock	50
SECTION 10.06.	Adjustment of Conversion Rate	50
SECTION 10.07.	No Adjustment	58
SECTION 10.08.	Other Adjustments	59
SECTION 10.09.	Adjustments for Tax Purposes	59
SECTION 10.10.	Notice Of Adjustment	59
SECTION 10.11.	Notice Of Certain Transactions	59
SECTION 10.12.	Effect of Reclassifications, Consolidations, Mergers, Binding Share Exchanges or Sales on Conversion Privilege	59

 

 

 

SECTION 10.13.	Trustee’s Disclaimer	61
SECTION 10.14.	Rights Distributions Pursuant to Shareholders’ Rights Plans	61
SECTION 10.15.	Issuer’s Conversion Option	61
ARTICLE XI
Concerning The Holders
SECTION 11.01.	Action by Holders	64
SECTION 11.02.	Proof of Execution by Holders	65
SECTION 11.03.	Persons Deemed Absolute Owners	65
ARTICLE XII
Holders’ Meetings
SECTION 12.01.	Purpose of Meetings	65
SECTION 12.02.	Call of Meetings by Trustee	66
SECTION 12.03.	Call of Meetings by Company or Holders	66
SECTION 12.04.	Qualifications for Voting	66
SECTION 12.05.	Regulations	66
SECTION 12.06.	Voting	67
SECTION 12.07.	No Delay of Rights by Meeting	67
ARTICLE XIII
Subsidiary Guarantees
SECTION 13.01.	Subsidiary Guarantees	68
SECTION 13.02.	Contribution	69
SECTION 13.03.	Successors and Assigns	70
SECTION 13.04.	No Waiver	70
SECTION 13.05.	Modification	70
SECTION 13.06.	Execution of Supplemental Indenture for Future Subsidiary Guarantors	70
SECTION 13.07.	Effectiveness of Subsidiary Guarantees	70
ARTICLE XIV
Miscellaneous
SECTION 14.01.	[Reserved]	71
SECTION 14.02.	Notices	71
SECTION 14.03.	Communication by Holders With Other Holders	72
SECTION 14.04.	Certificate and Opinion as to Conditions Precedent	72
SECTION 14.05.	Statements Required in Certificate or Opinion	72
SECTION 14.06.	Rules by Trustee and Agents	73
SECTION 14.07.	Legal Holidays	73
SECTION 14.08.	Duplicate Originals	73
SECTION 14.09.	GOVERNING LAW	73

 

 

 

 

 

 

SECTION 14.10.	No Adverse Interpretation of Other Agreements	73
SECTION 14.11.	Successors	73
SECTION 14.12.	Separability	73
SECTION 14.13.	Table of Contents, Headings, Etc.	73
SECTION 14.14.	Calculations In Respect Of The Securities	74
SECTION 14.15.	No Personal Liability of Directors, Officers, Employees or Shareholders	74
SECTION 14.16.	Force Majeure	74

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

INDENTURE, dated as of May 22, 2013, between JAMES RIVER COAL COMPANY, a Virginia corporation (the “Company”), the Subsidiary Guarantors (as defined), and U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, a banking association organized under the laws of the United States, as trustee (the “Trustee”). Each party agrees as follows for the benefit of the other party and for the equal and ratable benefit of the Holders of the Company’s 10.00% Convertible Senior Notes due 2018 (the “Securities”).

 

ARTICLE I

 

Definitions and Incorporation by Reference

 

SECTION 1.01.        Definitions.

 

“2015 Notes” means the $172.5 million aggregate principal amount of the Company’s 4.5% Convertible Senior Notes due 2015 issued pursuant to the indenture (the “2015 Indenture”) dated as of November 20, 2009 between the Company and the Trustee.

 

“2018 Notes” means the $230.0 million aggregate principal amount of the Company’s 3.125% Convertible Senior Notes due 2018 issued pursuant to the indenture (the “2018 Indenture”) dated as of March 29, 2011 between the Company and the Trustee.

 

“2019 Notes” means the $275.0 million aggregate principal amount of the Company’s 7.875% Senior Notes due 2019 issued pursuant to the indenture (the “2019 Indenture”) dated as of March 29, 2011 between the Company and the Trustee

 

“Additional Interest” means all amounts, if any, payable pursuant to Sections 4.09(a), 4.09(b), 4.09(c) and 6.02(b), as applicable.

 

“Affiliate” means, with respect to a specified Person, any Person directly or indirectly controlling or controlled by or under direct or indirect common control with such specified Person. For this purpose, “control” shall mean the power to direct the management and policies of a Person through the ownership of securities, by contract or otherwise.

 

“Attributable Debt” in respect of a Sale and Leaseback Transaction means, at the time of determination, the present value of the obligation of the lessee for net rental payments during the remaining term of the lease included in such Sale and Leaseback Transaction, including any period for which such lease has been extended or may, at the option of the lessor, be extended. Such present value shall be calculated using a discount rate equal to the rate of interest implicit in such Sale and Leaseback Transaction, determined in accordance with GAAP.

 

“Board of Directors” means the Board of Directors of the Company or any committee thereof authorized to act for it hereunder.

 

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

 

“Capital Stock” of any Person means any and all shares, interests, participations or other equivalents (however designated) of capital stock of such Person and all warrants or options to acquire such capital stock.

 

“Capitalized Lease” means, as applied to any Person, any lease of any property (whether real, personal or mixed) of which the discounted present value of the rental obligations of such Person as lessee, in conformity with GAAP, is required to be capitalized on the balance sheet of such Person.

 

“Capitalized Lease Obligations” means the discounted present value of the rental obligations under a Capitalized Lease.

 

“Change in Control” shall be deemed to have occurred at such time as:

 

(a)                any “person” or “group” (as such terms are used in Sections 13(d) and 14(d) of the Exchange Act) is or becomes the “beneficial owner” (as such term is used in Rule 13d-3 under the Exchange Act), directly or indirectly, of fifty percent (50%) or more of the Company’s Voting Stock; or

 

(b)               there occurs a sale, transfer, lease, conveyance or other disposition of all or substantially all of the consolidated property or assets of the Company to any “person” or “group” (as such terms are used in Sections 13(d) and 14(d) of the Exchange Act), including any group acting for the purpose of acquiring, holding, voting or disposing of securities within the meaning of Rule 13d-5(b)(1) under the Exchange Act; or

 

(c)                the Company consolidates with, or merges with or into, another Person or any Person consolidates with, or merges with or into, the Company, unless either:

 

(i) the Persons that “beneficially owned” (as such term is used in Rule 13d-3 under the Exchange Act), directly or indirectly, the shares of the Company’s Voting Stock immediately prior to such consolidation or merger, “beneficially own,” directly or indirectly, immediately after such consolidation or merger, shares of the surviving or continuing corporation’s Voting Stock representing at least a majority of the total outstanding voting power of all outstanding classes of the Voting Stock of the surviving or continuing corporation in substantially the same proportion as such ownership immediately prior to such consolidation or merger; or

 

(ii) at least ninety percent (90%) of the consideration (other than cash payments for fractional shares or pursuant to statutory appraisal rights) in such consolidation or merger consists of common stock and any associated rights listed and traded on The New York Stock Exchange, The NASDAQ Global Select Market or The NASDAQ Global Market (or any of their respective successors) (or which will be so listed and traded when issued or exchanged in connection with such consolidation or merger), and, as a result of such consolidation or merger, the Securities become convertible solely into such consideration (such a consolidation or merger that satisfies the conditions set forth in this clause (2), a “Listed Stock Business Combination”); or

 

 

 

(d)               the Company is liquidated or dissolved or the holders of the Company’s Capital Stock approve any plan or proposal for the liquidation or dissolution of the Company.

 

“close of business” means 5:00 p.m., New York City time.

 

“Closing Sale Price” on any date means the per share price of the Common Stock on such date, determined (i) on the basis of the closing per share sale price (or if no closing per share sale price is reported, the average of the bid and ask prices or, if more than one in either case, the average of the average bid and the average ask prices) on such date on the principal U.S. national or regional securities exchange on which the shares of Common Stock are listed; or (ii) if the shares of Common Stock are not listed on a U.S. national or regional securities exchange, as reported by Pink OTC Markets Inc. or a similar organization; provided, however, that in the absence of any such report or quotation, the Closing Sale Price shall be the price determined by a nationally recognized independent investment banking firm retained by the Company for such purpose as most accurately reflecting the per share price that a fully informed buyer, acting on his own accord, would pay to a fully informed seller, acting on his own accord in an arms-length transaction, for a share of Common Stock.

 

“Commodity Agreement” means any forward contract, commodity swap agreement, commodity option agreement or other similar agreement or arrangement.

 

“Common Stock” means the common stock, par value $0.01 per share, of the Company at the date of this Indenture, subject to Section 10.12.

 

“Company” means the party named as such above until a successor replaces it pursuant to the applicable provision hereof and thereafter means the successor. The foregoing sentence shall likewise apply to any such successor or subsequent successor.

 

“Company Order” or “Company Request” means a written request or order signed on behalf of the Company by (i) its Chairman of the Board, its Chief Executive Officer, its President, its Chief Operating Officer, its Chief Accounting Officer or any Vice President and (ii) any such other officer designated in clause (i) of this definition or its Treasurer or an Assistant Treasurer or its Secretary or an Assistant Secretary, and delivered to the Trustee.

 

“Conversion Date” with respect to a Security means the date on which a Holder satisfies all the requirements for such conversion specified in Section 10.02(a).

 

“Conversion Notice” means the “Conversion Notice” attached to the Form of Security attached hereto as Exhibit A.

 

“Conversion Price” means, as of any date of determination, the dollar amount derived by dividing one thousand dollars ($1,000) by the Conversion Rate in effect on such date.

 

“Conversion Rate” shall initially be 200 shares of Common Stock per $1,000 principal amount of Securities, subject to adjustment as provided in Article X.

 

“Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee” means the principal office of the Trustee at which at any time its corporate trust business shall be administered, which office as of the date hereof is located at 100 Wall Street, Suite 1600, New York, NY 10015, Attention: Corporate Trust Services, or such other address as the Trustee may designate from time to time by notice to the Holders and the Company, or the principal corporate trust office of any successor Trustee (or such other address as such successor Trustee may designate from time to time by notice to the Holders and the Company).

 

“Currency Agreement” means any foreign exchange contract, currency swap agreement or other similar agreement or arrangement.

 

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

 

“Depositary” means The Depository Trust Company, its nominees and successors.

 

“Disqualified Stock” means any class or series of Capital Stock of any Person that by its terms or otherwise is (1) required to be redeemed prior to the date that is 91 days after the Maturity Date of the Securities, (2) redeemable at the option of the holder of such class or series of Capital Stock at any time prior to the date that is 91 days after the Maturity Date of the Securities or (3) convertible into or exchangeable for Capital Stock referred to in clause (1) or (2) above or Indebtedness having a scheduled maturity prior to the date that is 91 days after the Maturity Date of the Securities; provided that any Capital Stock that would not constitute Disqualified Stock but for provisions thereof giving holders thereof the right to require such Person to repurchase or redeem such Capital Stock upon the occurrence of an “asset sale” or “change of control” shall not constitute Disqualified Stock.

 

“Ex Date” means (i) when used with respect to any issuance or distribution, means the first date on which the shares of Common Stock trade the regular way on the relevant exchange or in the relevant market from which the Closing Sale Price was obtained without the right to receive such issuance or distribution from the Company or, if applicable, from the seller of Common Stock on such exchange or market (in the form of due bills or otherwise) as determined by such exchange or market, (ii) when used with respect to any subdivision or combination of Common Stock, means the first date on which the shares of Common Stock trade the regular way on such exchange or in such market after the time at which such subdivision or combination becomes effective and (iii) when used with respect to any tender offer or exchange offer means the first date on which the shares of Common Stock trade the regular way on such exchange or in such market after the expiration time of such tender offer or exchange offer (as it may be amended or extended). For purposes of determining the Ex Date with respect to an issuance or distribution under this Indenture, unless it has knowledge to the contrary, the Company may conclusively assume (and such assumption shall be binding upon the Holders) that purchases and sales of the relevant security with respect to which such issuance or distribution is being made will settle based on the customary settlement cycle for purchases or sales of such security.

 

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

 

“Exchange Agreements” means the Exchange Agreements dated as of the Issue Date among the Company, the Subsidiary Guarantors party thereto and the respective Holders named therein with respect to the Securities.

 

“Existing Notes” means, collectively, the 2015 Notes, the 2018 Notes and the 2019 Notes.

 

“Existing Revolving Credit Facility” means the revolving credit facility in the aggregate principal amount of up to $100.0 million made available to the Company pursuant to that certain Second Amended and Restated Revolving Credit Agreement dated as of June 30, 2011, among the Company, certain of its Subsidiaries, the lenders party thereto and General Electric Capital Corporation, as administrative agent and collateral agent, including any related notes, Guarantees, collateral documents, instruments and agreements executed in connection therewith, and, in each case, as amended, restated, modified, renewed, refunded, replaced (whether upon or after termination or otherwise) or refinanced (including by means of sales of debt securities to institutional investors) in whole or in part from time to time.

 

“Foreign Subsidiary” means any Subsidiary of the Company that is an entity which is a controlled foreign corporation under Section 957 of the Internal Revenue Code.

 

“Fundamental Change” shall be deemed to have occurred upon the occurrence of either a Change in Control or a Termination of Trading.

 

“GAAP” means generally accepted accounting principles in the United States of America as in effect as of the Closing Date as determined by the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board. All ratios and computations contained or referred to in this Indenture shall be computed in conformity with GAAP applied on a consistent basis, except that calculations made for purposes of determining compliance with the terms of the covenants and with other provisions of this Indenture shall be made without giving effect to (1) the amortization of any expenses incurred in connection with the offering of the Securities and (2) except as otherwise provided, any non-cash impairment charges required or permitted by Statement Nos. 141 and 142 of the Financial Accounting Standards Board or any successor standards.

 

“Guarantee” means any obligation, contingent or otherwise, of any Person directly or indirectly guaranteeing any Indebtedness of any other Person and, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, any obligation, direct or indirect, contingent or otherwise, of such Person (1) to purchase or pay (or advance or supply funds for the purchase or payment of) such Indebtedness of such other Person (whether arising by virtue of partnership arrangements, or by agreements to keep-well, to purchase assets, goods, securities or services (unless such purchase arrangements are on arm’s-length terms and are entered into in the normal course of business), to take-or-pay, or to maintain financial statement conditions or otherwise) or (2) entered into for purposes of assuring in any other manner the obligee of such Indebtedness of the payment thereof or to protect such obligee against loss in respect thereof (in whole or in part); provided that the term “Guarantee” shall not include endorsements for collection or deposit in the normal course of business. The term “Guarantee” used as a verb has a corresponding meaning.

 

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

 

“Indebtedness” means, with respect to any Person at any date of determination (without duplication):

 

(1) all indebtedness of such Person for borrowed money;

 

(2) all obligations of such Person evidenced by bonds, debentures, notes or other similar instruments;

 

(3) all obligations of such Person in respect of letters of credit or other similar instruments (including reimbursement obligations with respect thereto, but excluding obligations with respect to letters of credit (including trade letters of credit) securing obligations (other than obligations described in (1) or (2) above or (5), (6) or (7) below) entered into in the normal course of business of such Person to the extent such letters of credit are not drawn upon or, if drawn upon, to the extent such drawing is reimbursed no later than the third business day following receipt by such Person of a demand for reimbursement);

 

(4) all obligations of such Person to pay the deferred and unpaid purchase price of property or services, which purchase price is due more than six months after the date of placing such property in service or taking delivery and title thereto or the completion of such services, except Trade Payables;

 

(5) all Capitalized Lease Obligations and Attributable Debt;

 

(6) all Indebtedness of other Persons secured by a Lien on any asset of such Person, whether or not such Indebtedness is assumed by such Person; provided that the amount of such Indebtedness shall be the lesser of (A) the fair market value (as determined by the Board of Directors) of such asset at such date of determination and (B) the amount of such Indebtedness;

 

(7) all Indebtedness of other Persons Guaranteed by such Person to the extent such Indebtedness is Guaranteed by such Person;

 

(8) to the extent not otherwise included in this definition, obligations under Commodity Agreements, Currency Agreements and Interest Rate Agreements (other than Commodity Agreements, Currency Agreements and Interest Rate Agreements designed solely to protect the Company or its Restricted Subsidiaries against fluctuations in commodity prices, foreign currency exchange rates or interest rates and that do not increase the Indebtedness of the obligor outstanding at any time other than as a result of fluctuations in commodity prices, foreign currency exchange rates or interest rates or by reason of fees, indemnities and compensation payable thereunder); and

 

(9) all Disqualified Stock issued by such Person with the amount of Indebtedness represented by such Disqualified Stock being equal to the greater of its voluntary or involuntary liquidation preference and its maximum fixed repurchase price, but excluding accrued dividends, if any.

 

For the avoidance of doubt, Indebtedness shall not include:

 

(x) any liability for federal, state, local or other taxes,

 

(y) performance, surety or appeal bonds provided in the normal course of business, or

 

(z) agreements providing for indemnification, adjustment of purchase price or similar obligations, or Guarantees or letters of credit, surety bonds or performance bonds securing any obligations of the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries pursuant to such agreements, in any case, incurred in connection with the disposition of any business, assets or Restricted Subsidiary (other than Guarantees of Indebtedness incurred by any Person acquiring all or any portion of such business, assets or Restricted Subsidiary for the purpose of financing such acquisition), so long as the principal amount does not to exceed the gross proceeds actually received by the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary in connection with such disposition.

 

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

 

“Interest Payment Date” means June 1 and December 1 of each year, beginning on December 1, 2013.

 

“Interest Rate Agreement” means any interest rate protection agreement, interest rate future agreement, interest rate option agreement, interest rate swap agreement, interest rate cap agreement, interest rate collar agreement, interest rate hedge agreement, option or future contract or other similar agreement or arrangement.

 

“Issue Date” means May 22, 2013.

 

“Lien” means any mortgage, pledge, security interest, encumbrance, lien or charge of any kind (including, without limitation, any conditional sale or other title retention agreement or lease in the nature thereof or any agreement to give any security interest).

 

“Market Disruption Event” means (i) a failure by the primary United States national or regional securities exchange or market on which shares of Common Stock or the relevant securities are listed or admitted to trading to open for trading during its regular trading session or (ii) the occurrence or existence prior to 1:00 p.m., New York City time, on any Scheduled Trading Day for shares of Common Stock or the relevant securities for more than one half-hour period in the aggregate during regular trading hours of any suspension or limitation imposed on trading (by reason of movements in price exceeding limits permitted by the relevant stock exchange or otherwise) in shares of Common Stock (or the relevant securities) or in any options, contracts or future contracts relating to shares of Common Stock (or the relevant securities).

 

“Maturity Date” means June 1, 2018.

 

“Officer” means the Chairman of the Board, the Chief Executive Officer, the President, the Chief Operating Officer, the Chief Accounting Officer, any Vice President, the Treasurer, any Assistant Treasurer, the Secretary or any Assistant Secretary of the Company.

 

“Officer’s Certificate” means a certificate signed by one Officer of the Company.

 

“Opinion of Counsel” means a written opinion from legal counsel who may be an employee of or counsel for the Company, or other counsel reasonably acceptable to the Trustee.

 

“open of business” means 9:00 a.m., New York City time.

 

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

 

“Purchase Notice” means a Purchase Notice in the form set forth in the Securities.

 

“record date” means, unless the context requires otherwise, with respect to any dividend, distribution or other transaction or event in which the holders of Common Stock (or other security) have the right to receive any cash, securities or other property or in which Common Stock (or other applicable security) is exchanged for or converted into any combination of cash, securities or other property, the date fixed for determination of shareholders entitled to receive such cash, securities or other property (whether such date is fixed by the Board of Directors or by statute, contract or otherwise).

 

“Record Date” for interest payable in respect of any Security on any Interest Payment Date means May 15 or November 15 (whether or not a Business Day), as the case may be, immediately preceding such Interest Payment Date.

 

“Registration Statement” means a shelf registration statement pursuant to Rule 415 under the Securities Act registering the resale of all shares of Common Stock issued or issuable upon conversion of the Securities.

 

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

 

“Restricted Security” means a Security that constitutes a “restricted security” within the meaning of Rule 144(a)(3) under the Securities Act; provided, however, that the Trustee shall be entitled to request, and conclusively rely on, an Opinion of Counsel with respect to whether any Security constitutes a Restricted Security.

 

“Restricted Subsidiary” means any Subsidiary of the Company other than an Unrestricted Subsidiary.

 

“Rights Agreement” means that certain Rights Agreement between the Company and Computershare Trust Company, N.A., as rights agent (successor to SunTrust Bank), dated May 25, 2004, as amended on November 3, 2006, August 2, 2007 and November 3, 2009, and as the same may be further amended, supplemented or superseded.

 

“Rule 144A” means Rule 144A under the Securities Act.

 

“Sale and Leaseback Transaction” means a transaction whereby a Person sells or otherwise transfers assets or properties and then or thereafter leases such assets or properties or any part thereof or any other assets or properties which such Person intends to use for substantially the same purpose or purposes as the assets or properties sold or otherwise transferred.

 

“Scheduled Trading Day” means, with respect to shares of Common Stock or any other security, a day that is scheduled to be a Trading Day on the primary United States national securities exchange or market on which shares of Common Stock or the relevant securities are listed or admitted for trading. If shares of Common Stock or the relevant securities are not so listed or admitted for trading, “Scheduled Trading Day” shall mean any Business Day.

 

“SEC” means the Securities and Exchange Commission.

 

“Securities” means the 10.00% Convertible Senior Notes due 2018 issued by the Company pursuant to this Indenture.

 

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

 

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

 

“Significant Subsidiary” with respect to any Person means any “subsidiary” (as defined in Rule 1-02(x) of Regulation S-X under the Exchange Act) of such Person that constitutes a “significant subsidiary” within the meaning of Rule 1-02(w) of Regulation S-X under the Exchange Act.

 

“Subsidiary” means (i) a corporation a majority of whose Capital Stock with voting power, under ordinary circumstances, to elect directors is at the time, directly or indirectly, owned by the Company, by one or more subsidiaries of the Company or by the Company and one or more of its subsidiaries or (ii) any other Person (other than a corporation) in which the Company, one or more of its subsidiaries, or the Company and one or more of its subsidiaries, directly or indirectly, at the date of determination thereof, own at least a majority ownership interest.

 

“Subsidiary Guarantee” means any Guarantee of the obligations of the Company under this Indenture and the Securities by any Subsidiary Guarantor.

 

“Subsidiary Guarantor” means each Restricted Subsidiary (other than a Foreign Subsidiary) of the Company on the Issue Date, and any other Restricted Subsidiary of the Company which provides a Subsidiary Guarantee of the Company’s obligations under this Indenture and the Securities pursuant to Section 4.10 or otherwise.

 

“Termination of Trading” shall be deemed to occur if shares of Common Stock (or other common stock into which the Securities are then convertible) are not listed for trading on The New York Stock Exchange, The NASDAQ Global Select Market or The NASDAQ Global Market (or any of their respective successors).

 

“TIA” means the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 (15 U.S. Code §§ 77aaa-77bbbb) as amended and in effect from time to time.

 

“Trade Payables” means, with respect to any Person, any accounts payable or any other indebtedness or monetary obligation to trade creditors created, assumed or Guaranteed by such Person or any of its Subsidiaries arising in the ordinary course of business in connection with the acquisition of goods or services.

 

“Trading Day” means, with respect to shares of Common Stock or any other security, a day during which (i) trading in shares of Common Stock or such other security generally occurs, and (ii) a Market Disruption Event has not occurred; provided that if shares of Common Stock or such other security is not listed for trading or quotation on or by any exchange, bureau or other organization, “Trading Day” shall mean any Business Day.

 

“Trustee” means the party named as such in this Indenture until a successor replaces it in accordance with the provisions hereof and thereafter means the successor.

 

“Unrestricted Subsidiary” means (1) any Subsidiary of the Company that at the time of determination shall be designated an Unrestricted Subsidiary by the Board of Directors in the manner provided below and (2) any Subsidiary of an Unrestricted Subsidiary. The Board of Directors may designate any Restricted Subsidiary (including any newly acquired or newly formed Subsidiary of the Company) to be an Unrestricted Subsidiary unless (i) such Subsidiary owns any Capital Stock of, or owns or holds any Lien on any property of, the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary or (ii) such Subsidiary guarantees the 2019 Notes, the Existing Revolving Credit Facility or any refinancing of such Indebtedness after any such designation. The Board of Directors may designate any Unrestricted Subsidiary to be a Restricted Subsidiary. Any such designation by the Board of Directors shall be evidenced to the Trustee by promptly filing with the Trustee a copy of the Board Resolution giving effect to such designation.

 

“Volume-Weighted Average Price” per share of Common Stock on any Trading Day means such price as displayed on Bloomberg (or any successor service) page JRCC.UQ <equity> AQR in respect of the period from 9:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., New York City time, on such Trading Day, or, if such price is not available, the market value per share of Common Stock on such Trading Day as determined by a nationally recognized investment banking firm retained for this purpose by the Company.

 

“Voting Stock” of any Person means the total outstanding voting power of all classes of the Capital Stock of such Person entitled to vote generally in the election of directors of such Person.

 

 

 

SECTION 1.02.        Other Definitions.

 

Term	Defined in Section
“Additional Interest Notice”	4.09(e)
“Bankruptcy Law”	6.01
“Business Day”	14.07
“Claiming Guarantor”	13.02
“Clause A Distribution”	10.06(c)
“Clause B Distribution”	10.06(c)
“Clause C Distribution”	10.06(c)
“Common Stock Private Placement Legend”	2.17
“Contributing Party”	13.02
“Conversion Agent”	2.03
“Custodian”	6.01
“Distributed Property”	10.06(c)
“Event of Default”	6.01
“Equity Conditions”	10.5(c)
“Equity Conditions Measuring Period”	10.15(c)
“Fundamental Change Notice”	3.02(b)
“Fundamental Change Repurchase Date”	3.02(a)
“Fundamental Change Repurchase Price”	3.02(a)
“Fundamental Change Repurchase Right”	3.02(a)
“Guaranteed Indebtedness”	4.10
“Global Security”	2.01
“Issuer’s Conversion Date”	10.15(b)
“Issuer’s Conversion Notice”	10.15(b)
“Issuer’s Conversion Notice Date”	10.15(b)
“Issuer’s Conversion Option”	10.15(a)
“Issuer’s Conversion Price”	10.15(a)
“Legal Holiday”	14.07
“Listed Stock Business Combination”	1.01
“Maximum Share Limitation”	10.02(a)
“Merger Event”	10.12
“Notice of Default”	6.01
“Participants”	2.15(a)
“Paying Agent”	2.03
“Physical Securities”	2.01
“Reference Property”	10.12
“Registrar”	2.03
“Registration Default”	4.09(c)
“Registration Default Interest”	4.09(c)
“Repurchase Upon Fundamental Change”	3.02(a)

 

 

“Resale Restriction Termination Date”	2.17
“Security Private Placement Legend”	2.17
“Spin-Off”	10.06(c)
“Trigger Event”	10.06(c)

 

 

SECTION 1.03.        Trust Indenture Act.  (a) Whenever this Indenture refers to a provision of the TIA, that provision is incorporated by reference in and made a part of this Indenture. This Indenture shall also include those provisions of the TIA that would be required to be included herein by the provisions of the TIA.

 

(b)               The following TIA terms used in this Indenture have the following meanings:

 

“Commission” means the SEC;

“indenture securities” means the Securities;

“indenture security holder” means a Securityholder or a Holder;

“indenture to be qualified” means this Indenture;

“indenture trustee” or “institutional trustee” means the Trustee; and

“obligor” on the indenture securities means the Company or any successor.

 

(c)                All other terms used in this Indenture that are defined by the TIA, defined by the TIA by reference to another statute or defined by SEC rule under the TIA and not otherwise defined herein have the meanings so assigned to them.

 

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

 

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

 

(b)               an accounting term not otherwise defined has the meaning assigned to it in accordance with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles in effect from time to time;

 

(c)                “or” is not exclusive;

 

(d)               “including” means “including without limitation”;

 

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

 

(f)                provisions apply to successive events and transactions;

 

(g)               the term “interest” means any interest payable under the terms of the Securities, including Additional Interest, if any, payable pursuant to Sections 4.09(a), 4.09(b), 4.09(c) and 6.02(b), unless the context otherwise requires;

 

(h)               the term “principal” means the principal of any Security payable under the terms of such Securities, unless the context otherwise requires;

 

 

 

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

 

(j)                 references to currency shall mean the lawful currency of the United States of America, unless the context requires otherwise.

 

ARTICLE II

The Securities

 

SECTION 2.01.        Form and Dating. The Securities and the Trustee’s certificate of authentication shall be substantially in the form set forth in Exhibit A, which is incorporated in and forms a part of this Indenture. The Securities may have notations, legends or endorsements required by law, stock exchange rule or usage; provided that such notations, legends or endorsements are in a form reasonably acceptable to the Company. Each Security shall be dated the date of its authentication.

 

Securities offered and sold in reliance on Rule 144A shall be issued initially in the form of one or more Global Securities, substantially in the form set forth in Exhibit A (the “Global Security”), deposited with the Trustee, as custodian for the Depositary, registered in the name of the Depositary or a nominee thereof, duly executed by the Company and authenticated by the Trustee as hereinafter provided and bearing the legends set forth in Exhibits B-1A and B-2. The aggregate principal amount of the Global Security may from time to time be increased or decreased by adjustments made on the records of the Trustee, as custodian for the Depositary, as hereinafter provided; provided that except as set forth in Section 2.02, the aggregate principal amount of the Global Security or Securities shall not exceed $123,261,000.

 

Securities issued in exchange for interests in a Global Security pursuant to Section 2.15 may be issued in the form of permanent certificated Securities in registered form in substantially the form set forth in Exhibit A (the “Physical Securities”) and, if applicable, bearing any legends required by Section 2.17.

 

SECTION 2.02.        Execution and Authentication. One duly authorized Officer shall sign the Securities for the Company by manual or facsimile signature.

 

A Security’s validity shall not be affected by the failure of an Officer whose signature is on such Security to hold, at the time the Security is authenticated, the same office at the Company.

 

A Security shall not be valid until duly authenticated by the manual or facsimile signature of the Trustee. The signature shall be conclusive evidence that the Security has been authenticated under this Indenture.

 

Upon a written order of the Company signed by one Officer of the Company, the Trustee shall authenticate Securities for original issue in the aggregate principal amount of $123,261,000. The aggregate principal amount of Securities outstanding at any time may not exceed $123,261,000 except as provided in this Section 2.02.

 

The Company may, without the consent of Holders of the Securities, increase the aggregate principal amount of Securities by issuing additional Securities in the future on the same terms and conditions, except for any difference in (i) the issue date, (ii) the issue price, (iii) the initial date from which interest begins to accrue and (iv) if applicable, the existence of transfer restrictions pursuant to the Securities Act; provided that if such additional Securities have the same CUSIP number as the Securities initially issued hereunder, such additional Securities must constitute part of the same issue as the Securities initially issued hereunder for U.S. Federal income tax purposes. The Securities initially issued hereunder and any such additional Securities shall rank equally and ratably and shall be treated as a single series of debt securities for all purposes under this Indenture; and provided further, that the Company shall not issue such additional Securities if, after giving effect to such issuance, the number of shares of Common Stock required to settle conversion of all outstanding Securities would exceed the Maximum Share Limitation unless, prior to or concurrently with such issuance, the Company amends or supplements this Indenture (which amendment or supplement, for the avoidance of doubt, shall not require the consent of the Holders) to increase the Maximum Share Limitation to an amount sufficient to accommodate conversion of all outstanding Securities after giving effect to such issuance.

 

Upon a written order of the Company signed by two (2) Officers or by an Officer and an Assistant Treasurer of the Company, the Trustee shall authenticate Securities not bearing the Security Private Placement Legend to be issued to the transferees when sold pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act as set forth in Section 2.16(b).

 

The Trustee shall act as the initial authenticating agent. Thereafter, the Trustee may appoint an authenticating agent acceptable to the Company to authenticate Securities. An authenticating agent may authenticate Securities whenever the Trustee may do so. Each reference in this Indenture to authentication by the Trustee includes authentication by such authenticating agent. An authenticating agent so appointed has the same rights as a Securities Agent to deal with the Company and its Affiliates.

 

If a written order of the Company pursuant to this Section 2.02 has been, or simultaneously is, delivered, any instructions by the Company to the Trustee with respect to endorsement, delivery or redelivery of a Security issued in global form shall be in writing but need not comply with Section 14.04 hereof and need not be accompanied by an Opinion of Counsel.

 

The Securities shall be issuable only in registered form without interest coupons and only in denominations of $1,000 principal amount and any integral multiple thereof.

 

SECTION 2.03.        Registrar, Paying Agent and Conversion Agent. The Company shall maintain, or shall cause to be maintained, (i) an office or agency in The Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York, where Securities may be presented for registration of transfer or for exchange (“Registrar”), (ii) an office or agency in The Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York, where Securities may be presented for payment (“Paying Agent”) and (iii) an office or agency in The Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York, where Securities may be presented for conversion (“Conversion Agent”). The Registrar shall keep a register of the Securities and of their transfer and exchange. The Company may appoint or change one or more co-Registrars, one or more additional paying agents and one or more additional conversion agents without notice and may act in any such capacity on its own behalf. The term “Registrar” includes any co-Registrar; the term “Paying Agent” includes any additional paying agent; and the term “Conversion Agent” includes any additional conversion agent.

 

The Company shall enter into an appropriate agency agreement with any agent not a party to this Indenture. Such agency 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 agent not a party to this Indenture. If the Company fails to maintain a Registrar, Paying Agent or Conversion Agent, the Trustee shall act as such.

 

The Company initially appoints the Trustee as Paying Agent, Registrar and Conversion Agent.

 

SECTION 2.04.        Paying Agent to Hold Money in Trust. Each Paying Agent shall hold in trust for the benefit of the Securityholders or the Trustee all moneys held by the Paying Agent for the payment of the Securities, and shall notify the Trustee of any Default by the Company in making any such payment. While any such Default continues, the Trustee may require a Paying Agent to pay all money held by it to the Trustee. The Company at any time may require a Paying Agent to pay all money held by it to the Trustee and account for any funds so paid by it. Upon payment over to the Trustee, the Paying Agent shall have no further liability for such money. If the Company acts as Paying Agent, it shall segregate and hold as a separate trust fund all money held by it as Paying Agent.

 

SECTION 2.05.        Securityholder Lists. The Trustee shall preserve in as current a form as is reasonably practicable the most recent list available to it of the names and addresses of Securityholders. If the Trustee is not the Registrar, the Company shall furnish, or shall cause to be furnished, to the Trustee before each Interest Payment Date and at such other times as the Trustee may request in writing a list, in such form and as of such date as the Trustee may reasonably require, of the names and addresses of Securityholders appearing in the security register of the Registrar.

 

SECTION 2.06.        Transfer And Exchange. Subject to Sections 2.15 and 2.16 hereof, where Securities are presented to the Registrar with a request to register their transfer or to exchange them for an equal principal amount of Securities of other authorized denominations, the Registrar shall register the transfer or make the exchange if its requirements for such transaction are met. To permit registrations of transfer and exchanges, the Trustee shall authenticate Securities at the Registrar’s request or upon the Trustee’s receipt of a Company Order therefor. The Company, the Registrar or the Trustee, as the case may be, shall not be required to register the transfer of or exchange any Security for which a Purchase Notice has been delivered, and not withdrawn, in accordance with this Indenture, except to the unrepurchased portion of Securities being repurchased in part.

 

No service charge shall be made for any transfer, exchange or conversion of Securities, but the Company may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any transfer tax or similar governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any transfer, exchange or conversion of Securities, other than exchanges pursuant to Sections 2.10, 3.02, 9.05 or 10.02, not involving any transfer.

 

 

 

SECTION 2.07.        Replacement Securities. If the Holder of a Security claims that the Security has been mutilated, lost, destroyed or wrongfully taken, the Company shall issue and the Trustee shall authenticate, at the Holder’s expense, a replacement Security upon surrender to the Trustee of the mutilated Security, or upon delivery to the Trustee of evidence of the loss, destruction or theft of the Security satisfactory to the Trustee and the Company. In the case of a lost, destroyed or wrongfully taken Security, if required by the Trustee or the Company, indemnity (including in the form of a bond) must be provided by the Holder that is reasonably satisfactory to the Trustee and the Company to indemnify and hold harmless the Company, the Trustee or any Securities Agent from any loss which any of them may suffer if such Security is replaced.

 

In case any such mutilated, lost, destroyed or wrongfully taken Security has become or is about to become due and payable, the Company in its discretion may, instead of issuing a new Security, pay such Security when due.

 

Every replacement Security is an additional obligation of the Company only as provided in Section 2.08.

 

SECTION 2.08.        Outstanding Securities. Securities outstanding at any time are all the Securities authenticated by the Trustee except for those converted, those canceled by it, those delivered to it for cancelation and those described in this Section 2.08 as not outstanding. Except to the extent provided in Section 2.09, a Security does not cease to be outstanding because the Company or one of its Subsidiaries or Affiliates holds the Security.

 

If a Security is replaced pursuant to Section 2.07, it ceases to be outstanding unless the Trustee receives proof satisfactory to it, or a court holds, that the replaced Security is held by a protected purchaser.

 

If the Paying Agent (other than the Company) holds on a Fundamental Change Repurchase Date or Maturity Date, money sufficient to pay the aggregate Fundamental Change Repurchase Price or principal amount (plus accrued and unpaid interest, if any) as the case may be, with respect to all Securities to be purchased or paid on such Fundamental Change Repurchase Date or Maturity Date, as the case may be, in each case, payable as herein provided on such Fundamental Change Repurchase Date or Maturity Date, then (unless there shall be a Default in the payment of such aggregate Fundamental Change Repurchase Price or principal amount, or of such accrued and unpaid interest), except as otherwise provided herein, on and after such date such Securities shall be deemed to be no longer outstanding, interest on such Securities shall cease to accrue, and such Securities shall be deemed paid whether or not such Securities are delivered to the Paying Agent. Thereafter, all rights of the Holders of such Securities shall terminate with respect to such Securities, other than the right to receive the Fundamental Change Repurchase Price or principal amount, as the case may be, plus, if applicable, such accrued and unpaid interest, in accordance with this Indenture.

 

 

If a Security is converted in accordance with Article X then, from and after the time of such conversion on the Conversion Date, such Security shall cease to be outstanding, and interest, if any, shall cease to accrue on such Security unless there shall be a Default in the delivery of the consideration deliverable hereunder upon such conversion.

 

SECTION 2.09.        Securities Held by the Company or an Affiliate. In determining whether the Holders of the required aggregate principal amount of Securities have concurred in any direction, waiver or consent, Securities owned by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries or Affiliates shall be considered as though not outstanding, except that, for the purposes of determining whether the Trustee shall be protected in relying on any such direction, waiver or consent, only Securities which a Responsible Officer of the Trustee actually knows are so owned shall be so disregarded. Securities so owned which have been pledged in good faith may be considered to be outstanding for purposes of this Section 2.09 if the pledgee establishes, to the satisfaction of the Trustee, the pledgee’s right so to concur with respect to such Securities and that the pledgee is not, and is not acting at the direction or on behalf of, the Company, any other obligor on the Securities, an Affiliate of the Company or an Affiliate of any such other obligor. In case of a dispute as to whether the pledgee has established the foregoing, any decision by the Trustee taken upon the advice of counsel shall provide full protection to the Trustee. Upon request of the Trustee, the Company shall furnish to the Trustee promptly an Officer’s Certificate listing and identifying all Securities, if any, known by the Company to be owned or held by or for the account of any of the above described Persons; and, subject to Section 7.01 and Section 7.02, the Trustee shall be entitled to accept such Officer’s Certificate as conclusive evidence of the facts therein set forth and of the fact that all Securities not listed therein are outstanding for the purpose of any such determination.

 

SECTION 2.10.        Temporary Securities. Until definitive Securities are ready for delivery, the Company may prepare and the Trustee shall, upon receipt of a Company Order therefor, 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 Trustee, upon receipt of a Company Order therefor, shall authenticate definitive Securities in exchange for temporary Securities. Until so exchanged, each temporary Security shall in all respects be entitled to the same benefits under this Indenture as definitive Securities, and such temporary Security shall be exchangeable for definitive Securities in accordance with the terms of this Indenture.

 

SECTION 2.11.        Cancelation. The Company at any time may deliver Securities to the Trustee for cancelation. The Registrar, Paying Agent and Conversion Agent shall forward to the Trustee any Securities surrendered to them for transfer, exchange, payment or conversion. The Trustee shall promptly cancel all Securities surrendered for transfer, exchange, payment, conversion or cancelation in accordance with its customary procedures. The Company may not issue new Securities to replace Securities that it has paid or delivered to the Trustee for cancelation or that any Securityholder has converted pursuant to Article X. All canceled Securities held by the Trustee shall be disposed of in accordance with its customary procedure for the disposal of canceled securities, and certification of such disposal shall be delivered by the Trustee to the Company unless the Company shall, by a Company Order, direct that canceled Securities be returned to it.

 

  

SECTION 2.12.        Defaulted Interest. If and to the extent the Company defaults in a payment of interest on the Securities, the Company shall pay in cash the defaulted interest in any lawful manner plus, to the extent not prohibited by applicable statute or case law, interest on such defaulted interest at the rate provided in the Securities. The Company may pay the defaulted interest (plus interest on such defaulted interest) to the Persons who are Securityholders on a subsequent special record date. The Company shall fix such special record date and payment date. At least fifteen (15) calendar days before the special record date, the Company shall mail to Securityholders a notice that states the special record date, payment date and amount of interest to be paid. Upon the due payment in full, interest shall no longer accrue on such defaulted interest pursuant to this Section 2.12.

 

SECTION 2.13.        CUSIP Numbers. The Company in issuing the Securities may use one or more “CUSIP” numbers, and, if so, the Trustee shall use the CUSIP numbers in notices as a convenience to Holders; provided, however, that no representation is hereby deemed to be made by the Trustee as to the correctness or accuracy of the CUSIP numbers printed on the notice or on the Securities; provided further that reliance may be placed only on the other identification numbers printed on the Securities, and the effectiveness of any such notice shall not be affected by any defect in, or omission of, such CUSIP numbers. The Company shall promptly notify the Trustee of any change in the CUSIP numbers.

 

SECTION 2.14.        Deposit of Moneys. Prior to 11:00 A.M., New York City time, on each Interest Payment Date, the Maturity Date or any Fundamental Change Repurchase Date, the Company shall deposit with a Paying Agent (or, if the Company is acting as its own Paying Agent, segregate and hold in trust in accordance with Section 2.04) money, in funds immediately available on such date, sufficient to make cash payments, if any, due on such Interest Payment Date, the Maturity Date or such Fundamental Change Repurchase Date, as the case may be, in a timely manner which permits the Paying Agent to remit payment to the Holders on such Interest Payment Date, the Maturity Date or such Fundamental Change Repurchase Date, as the case may be.

 

If any Interest Payment Date, the Maturity Date or any Fundamental Change Repurchase Date falls on a date that is not a Business Day, the payment due on such Interest Payment Date, the Maturity Date or such Fundamental Change Repurchase Date, as the case may be, shall be postponed until the next succeeding Business Day, and no interest or other amount shall accrue as a result of such postponement.

 

SECTION 2.15.        Book-Entry Provisions for Global Securities. (a) The Global Securities initially shall (1) be registered in the name of the Depositary or the nominee of the Depositary, (2) be delivered to the Trustee as custodian for the Depositary and (3) bear legends as set forth in Section 2.17.

 

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

 

(b)               Transfers of Global Securities shall be limited to transfers in whole, but not in part, to the Depositary, its successors or their respective nominees. In addition, one or more Physical Securities shall be transferred to beneficial owners, as identified by the Depositary, in exchange for their beneficial interests in Global Securities only if (4) the Depositary notifies the Company that the Depositary is unwilling or unable to continue as depositary for any Global Security, or the Depositary ceases to be a “clearing agency” registered under Section 17A of the Exchange Act, and, in either case, a successor Depositary is not appointed by the Company within ninety (90) days of such notice or cessation or (5) an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing and the Registrar has received a written request from the beneficial owner of the relevant Securities to issue Physical Securities.

 

(c)                In connection with the transfer of a Global Security in its entirety to beneficial owners pursuant to Section 2.15(b), such Global Security shall be deemed to be surrendered to the Trustee for cancelation, and the Company shall execute, and the Trustee shall upon written instructions from the Company authenticate and deliver, to each beneficial owner identified by the Depositary in exchange for its beneficial interest in such Global Security, an equal aggregate principal amount of Physical Securities of authorized denominations.

 

(d)               Any Physical Security delivered in exchange for an interest in a Global Security that bears the Security Private Placement Legend pursuant to Section 2.15(b) shall, except as otherwise provided by Section 2.16, bear the Security Private Placement Legend.

 

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

 

(f)                The Trustee shall have no obligation or duty to monitor, determine or inquire as to compliance with any restrictions on the transfer of any interest in any Securities imposed under this Indenture or under applicable law (including any transfers between or among Participants or beneficial owners of interests 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.

 

(g)               Neither the Trustee nor any Securities Agent shall have any responsibility for any actions taken or not taken by the Depositary.

 

SECTION 2.16.        Special Transfer Provisions. (a) Restrictions on Transfer and Exchange of Global Securities. Notwithstanding any other provisions of this Indenture, but except as provided in Section 2.15(b), a Global Security may not be transferred except as a whole by the Depositary to a nominee of the Depositary or by a nominee of the Depositary to the Depositary or another nominee of the Depositary or by the Depositary or any such nominee to a successor Depositary or a nominee of such successor Depositary.

 

 

 

(b)               Security Private Placement Legend. Upon the transfer, exchange or replacement of Securities not bearing the Security Private Placement Legend, the Registrar or co-Registrar shall deliver Securities that do not bear the Security Private Placement Legend. Upon the transfer, exchange or replacement of Securities bearing the Security Private Placement Legend, the Registrar or co-Registrar shall deliver only Securities that bear the Security Private Placement Legend unless (1) the requested transfer is after the Resale Restriction Termination Date, (2) there is delivered to the Trustee and the Company an opinion of counsel reasonably satisfactory to the Company and addressed to the Company to the effect that neither such legend nor the related restrictions on transfer are required in order to maintain compliance with the provisions of the Securities Act or (3) such Security has been sold pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act and the Holder selling such Securities has delivered to the Registrar or co-Registrar a notice in the form of Exhibit C hereto. Upon any sale or transfer of a beneficial interest in the Securities in connection with which the Security Private Placement Legend will be removed in accordance with this Indenture, the Trustee shall increase the principal amount of the Global Security that does not constitute a Restricted Security by the principal amount of such sale or transfer and likewise reduce the principal amount of the Global Security that does constitute a Restricted Security.

 

(c)                General. By its acceptance of any Security or share of Common Stock bearing the Security Private Placement Legend or the Common Stock Private Placement Legend, each holder thereof acknowledges the restrictions on transfer of such security set forth in this Indenture and in the Security Private Placement Legend or Common Stock Private Placement Legend, as applicable, and agrees that it will transfer such security only as provided in this Indenture and as permitted by applicable law.

 

The Registrar shall retain copies of all letters, notices and other written communications received pursuant to Section 2.15 or this Section 2.16. The Company shall have the right to inspect and make copies of all such letters, notices or other written communications at any reasonable time upon the giving of reasonable written notice to the Registrar.

 

(d)               Transfers of Securities Held by the Company or its Affiliates. Any Securities or shares of Common Stock issued upon the conversion of Securities that are purchased or owned by the Company or any Affiliate thereof may not be resold by the Company or such Affiliate unless registered under the Securities Act or resold pursuant to an exemption from the registration requirements of the Securities Act in a transaction that results in such Securities or shares of Common Stock, as the case may be, no longer being Restricted Securities.

 

(e)                Repurchases. The Company may, to the extent permitted by law, repurchase the Securities in the open market or by tender offer at any price or by private agreement without giving prior notice to Holders. Securities surrendered to the Trustee for cancelation may not be reissued or resold and shall be promptly canceled pursuant to Section 2.11.

 

         

SECTION 2.17.        Restrictive Legends. Each Global Security and Physical Security that constitutes a Restricted Security shall bear the legend (the “Security Private Placement Legend”) as set forth in Exhibit B-1A on the face thereof until the later of (i) the date that is one year after the last date of original issuance of such Securities, or such other period of time as permitted by Rule 144 under the Securities Act or any successor provision thereto, and (ii) such later date, if any, as may be required by applicable law (such date, the “Resale Restriction Termination Date”). Each certificate representing shares of Common Stock issued upon conversion of any Security, shall, if such shares constitute Restricted Securities, bear the legend (the “Common Stock Private Placement Legend”) as set forth in Exhibit B-1B on the face thereof until (1) the Resale Restriction Termination Date, (2) if requested by the Company, there is delivered to the Company an opinion of counsel reasonably acceptable to the Company and addressed to the Company to the effect that neither such legend nor the related restrictions on transfer are required in order to maintain compliance with provision of the Securities Act or (3) there is an effective registration statement under the Securities Act in respect of such shares of Common Stock.

 

Each Global Security shall also bear the legend as set forth in Exhibit B-2.

 

SECTION 2.18.        Ranking. The indebtedness of the Company arising under or in connection with this Indenture and every outstanding Security issued under this Indenture from time to time constitutes and will constitute a senior unsecured obligation of the Company, ranking equally with other existing and future senior unsecured indebtedness of the Company and ranking senior to any existing or future subordinated indebtedness of the Company.

 

SECTION 2.19.        Sinking Fund. No sinking fund is provided for the Securities.

 

ARTICLE III

Redemption and Repurchase

 

SECTION 3.01.        No Redemption. The Securities shall not be redeemable at the option of the Company prior to the Maturity Date, and no sinking fund is provided for the Securities.

 

SECTION 3.02.        Repurchase at Option of Holder Upon a Fundamental Change.   (a) If a Fundamental Change occurs, each Holder of Securities shall have the right (the “Fundamental Change Repurchase Right”), at such Holder’s option, to require the Company to repurchase (a “Repurchase Upon Fundamental Change”) all of such Holder’s Securities (or portions thereof that are integral multiples of $1,000 in principal amount), on a date selected by the Company (the “Fundamental Change Repurchase Date”), which shall be no later than thirty five (35) days, nor earlier than twenty (20) days, after the date the Fundamental Change Notice is mailed in accordance with Section 3.02(b), at a price, payable in cash, equal to one hundred percent (100%) of the principal amount of the Securities (or portions thereof) to be so repurchased, plus accrued and unpaid interest, if any, to, but excluding, the Fundamental Change Repurchase Date (the “Fundamental Change Repurchase Price”), upon:

 

 

 

(i) delivery to the Company (if it is acting as its own Paying Agent), or to a Paying Agent designated by the Company for such purpose in the Fundamental Change Notice, no later than the close of business on the Business Day immediately preceding the Fundamental Change Repurchase Date, of a Purchase Notice, in the form set forth in the Securities or any other form of written notice substantially similar thereto, in each case, duly completed and signed, with appropriate signature guarantee, stating:

 

(1) the certificate number(s) of the Securities which the Holder will deliver to be repurchased, if such Securities are Physical Securities;

 

(2) the principal amount of Securities to be repurchased, which must be $1,000 or an integral multiple thereof; and

 

(3) that such principal amount of Securities are to be repurchased pursuant to the terms and conditions specified in this Section 3.02; and

 

(ii) delivery to the Company (if it is acting as its own Paying Agent), or to a Paying Agent designated by the Company for such purpose in the Fundamental Change Notice, at any time after the delivery of such Purchase Notice, of such Securities (together with all necessary endorsements) with respect to which the Fundamental Change Repurchase Right is being exercised;

 

provided, however, that if such Fundamental Change Repurchase Date is after a Record Date for the payment of an installment of interest and on or before the related Interest Payment Date, then the full amount of accrued and unpaid interest, if any, to, but excluding, such Interest Payment Date shall be paid on such Interest Payment Date to the Holder of record of such Securities at the close of business on such Record Date (without any surrender of such Securities by such Holder), and the Fundamental Change Repurchase Price shall not include any accrued but unpaid interest.

 

If such Securities are held in book-entry form through the Depositary, the delivery of any Purchase Notice, Fundamental Change Notice or notice of withdrawal pursuant to Section 3.02(b)(x) shall comply with applicable procedures of the Depositary.

 

Upon such delivery of Securities to the Company (if it is acting as its own Paying Agent) or such Paying Agent, such Holder shall be entitled to receive, upon request, from the Company or such Paying Agent, as the case may be, a nontransferable receipt of deposit evidencing such delivery.

 

Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, any Holder that has delivered the Purchase Notice contemplated by this Section 3.02(a) to the Company (if it is acting as its own Paying Agent) or to a Paying Agent designated by the Company for such purpose in the Fundamental Change Notice shall have the right to withdraw such Purchase Notice by delivery, at any time prior to the close of business on the Business Day immediately preceding the Fundamental Change Repurchase Date (or, if there shall be a Default in the payment of the Fundamental Change Repurchase, at any time during which such Default is continuing), of a written notice of withdrawal to the Company (if acting as its own Paying Agent) or the Paying Agent, which notice shall contain the information specified in Section 3.02(b)(x).

 

 

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

 

(b)               Within twenty (20) Business Days after the occurrence of a Fundamental Change, the Company shall mail, or cause to be mailed, to all Holders of the Securities at their addresses shown in the register of the Registrar, and to beneficial owners as required by applicable law, a notice (the “Fundamental Change Notice”) of the occurrence of such Fundamental Change and the Fundamental Change Repurchase Right arising as a result thereof. The Company shall deliver a copy of the Fundamental Change Notice to the Trustee and shall publicly release, through a reputable national newswire service, such Fundamental Change Notice. Each Fundamental Change Notice shall state:

 

(i) the events causing the Fundamental Change;

 

(ii) the date of such Fundamental Change;

 

(iii) the Fundamental Change Repurchase Date;

 

(iv) the last date on which the Fundamental Change Repurchase Right may be exercised, which shall be the Business Day immediately preceding the Fundamental Change Repurchase Date;

 

(v) the Fundamental Change Repurchase Price;

 

(vi) the names and addresses of the Paying Agent and the Conversion Agent;

 

(vii) the procedures which a Holder must follow to exercise the Fundamental Change Repurchase Right;

 

(viii) that the Fundamental Change Repurchase Price for any Security as to which a Purchase Notice has been given and not withdrawn will be paid as promptly as practicable, but in no event after the later of such Fundamental Change Repurchase Date and the time of book-entry transfer or delivery of the Security (together with all necessary endorsements); provided, however, that if such Fundamental Change Repurchase Date is after a Record Date for the payment of an installment of interest and on or before the related Interest Payment Date, then the accrued and unpaid interest, if any, to, but excluding, such Interest Payment Date will be paid on such Interest Payment Date to the Holder of record of such Security at the close of business on such Record Date (without any surrender of such Securities by such Holder) and the Fundamental Change Repurchase Price shall not include any accrued and unpaid interest;

 

(ix) that, except as otherwise provided herein with respect to a Fundamental Change Repurchase Date that is after a Record Date for the payment of an installment of interest and on or before the related Interest Payment Date, on and after such Fundamental Change Repurchase Date (unless there shall be a Default in the payment of the Fundamental Change Repurchase Price), interest on Securities subject to Repurchase Upon Fundamental Change will cease to accrue, and all rights of the Holders of such Securities shall terminate, other than the right to receive, in accordance herewith, the Fundamental Change Repurchase Price;

 

 

 

(x) that a Holder will be entitled to withdraw its election in the Purchase Notice prior to the close of business on the Business Day immediately preceding the Fundamental Change Repurchase Date, or such longer period as may be required by law, by means of a letter or telegram, telex or facsimile transmission (receipt of which is confirmed and promptly followed by a letter) setting forth (I) the name of such Holder, (II) a statement that such Holder is withdrawing its election to have Securities purchased by the Company on such Fundamental Change Repurchase Date pursuant to a Repurchase Upon Fundamental Change, (III) the certificate number(s) of such Securities to be so withdrawn, if such Securities are Physical Securities, (IV) the principal amount of the Securities of such Holder to be so withdrawn, which amount must be $1,000 or an integral multiple thereof and (V) the principal amount, if any, of the Securities of such Holder that remain subject to the Purchase Notice delivered by such Holder in accordance with this Section 3.02, which amount must be $1,000 or an integral multiple thereof; provided, however, that if there shall be a Default in the payment of the Fundamental Change Repurchase Price, a Holder shall be entitled to withdraw its election in the Purchase Notice at any time during which such Default is continuing;

 

(xi) the Conversion Rate and any adjustments to the Conversion Rate that will result from such Fundamental Change;

 

(xii) that Securities with respect to which a Purchase Notice is given by a Holder may be converted pursuant to Article X only if such Purchase Notice has been withdrawn in accordance with this Section 3.02; and

 

(xiii) the CUSIP number or numbers, as the case may be, of the Securities.

 

At the Company’s request, upon prior notice reasonably acceptable to the Trustee, the Trustee shall mail such Fundamental Change Notice in the Company’s name and at the Company’s expense; provided, however, that the form and content of such Fundamental Change Notice shall be prepared by the Company.

 

No failure of the Company to give a Fundamental Change Notice shall limit any Holder’s right pursuant hereto to exercise a Fundamental Change Repurchase Right.

 

(c)                Subject to the provisions of this Section 3.02, the Company shall pay, or cause to be paid, the Fundamental Change Repurchase Price with respect to each Security as to which the Fundamental Change Repurchase Right shall have been exercised to the Holder thereof as promptly as practicable, but in no event later than the later of the Fundamental Change Repurchase Date and the time of book-entry transfer or when such Security is surrendered to the Paying Agent; provided, however, that if such Fundamental Change Repurchase Date is after a Record Date for the payment of an installment of interest and on or before the related Interest Payment Date, then the accrued and unpaid interest, if any, to, but excluding, such Interest Payment Date will be paid on such Interest Payment Date to the Holder of record of such Security at the close of business on such Record Date and the Fundamental Change Repurchase Price shall not include any accrued and unpaid interest.

 

 

 

(d)               The Company shall, in accordance with Section 2.14, deposit with a Paying Agent (or, if the Company is acting as its own Paying Agent, segregate and hold in trust in accordance with Section 2.04) money, in funds immediately available on the Fundamental Change Repurchase Date, sufficient to pay the Fundamental Change Repurchase Price upon Repurchase Upon Fundamental Change for all of the Securities that are to be repurchased by the Company on such Fundamental Change Repurchase Date pursuant to a Repurchase Upon Fundamental Change. The Paying Agent shall return to the Company, as soon as practicable, any money not required for that purpose.

 

(e)                Once the Fundamental Change Notice and the Purchase Notice have been duly given in accordance with this Section 3.02, the Securities to be repurchased pursuant to a Repurchase Upon Fundamental Change shall, on the Fundamental Change Repurchase Date, become due and payable in accordance herewith, and, on and after such date (unless there shall be a Default in the payment of the Fundamental Change Repurchase Price), except as otherwise provided herein with respect to a Fundamental Change Repurchase Date that is after a Record Date for the payment of an installment of interest and on or before the related Interest Payment Date, such Securities shall cease to bear interest (whether or not book-entry transfer of the Securities has been made or the Securities have been delivered to the Paying Agent), and all rights of the relevant Holders of such Securities shall terminate, other than the right to receive, in accordance herewith, such consideration and any other applicable rights under those sections set forth in the proviso in Section 8.01.

 

(f)                Securities with respect to which a Purchase Notice has been duly delivered in accordance with this Section 3.02 may be converted pursuant to Article X only if such Purchase Notice has been withdrawn in accordance with this Section 3.02.

 

(g)               If any Security shall not be paid upon book-entry transfer or surrender thereof for Repurchase Upon Fundamental Change, the principal of, and accrued and unpaid interest on, such Security shall, until paid, bear interest, payable in cash, at the rate borne by such Security on the principal amount of such Security, and such Security shall be convertible pursuant to Article X if any Purchase Notice with respect to such Security is withdrawn pursuant to this Section 3.02.

 

(h)               Any Security which is to be submitted for Repurchase Upon Fundamental Change only in part shall be delivered pursuant to this Section 3.02 (with, if the Company or the Trustee so requires, due endorsement by, or a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Company and the Trustee duly executed by, the Holder thereof or its attorney duly authorized in writing, with a medallion guarantee), and the Company shall promptly execute, and the Trustee shall promptly authenticate and make available for delivery to the Holder of such Security without service charge, a new Security or Securities, of any authorized denomination as requested by such Holder, of the same tenor and in aggregate principal amount equal to the portion of such Security not duly submitted for Repurchase Upon Fundamental Change.

 

 

 

(i)                 Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, except in the case of an acceleration resulting from a Default by the Company in the payment of the Fundamental Change Repurchase Price, there shall be no purchase of any Securities pursuant to this Section 3.02 on a Fundamental Change Repurchase Date if, on such date, the principal amount of the Securities shall have been accelerated in accordance with this Indenture and such acceleration shall not have been rescinded on or prior to such date in accordance with this Indenture. The Paying Agent will promptly return to the respective Holders thereof any Securities held by it during the continuance of such an acceleration.

 

(j)                 In connection with any Repurchase Upon Fundamental Change, the Company shall, to the extent applicable (i) comply with all applicable tender offer rules under the Exchange Act, including Rule 13e-4 and Regulation 14E thereunder, and with all other applicable laws; (ii) file a Schedule TO or any other schedules required under the Exchange Act or any other applicable laws; and (iii) otherwise comply with all applicable United States Federal and state securities laws in connection with any offer by the Company to purchase the Securities.

 

ARTICLE IV

Covenants

 

SECTION 4.01.        Payment of Securities. The Company shall pay all amounts due with respect to the Securities on the dates and in the manner provided in the Securities and this Indenture. All such amounts shall be considered paid on the date due if the Paying Agent holds (or, if the Company is acting as Paying Agent, the Company has segregated and holds in trust in accordance with Section 2.04) on that date money sufficient to pay the amount then due with respect to the Securities (unless there shall be a Default in the payment of such amounts to the respective Holder(s)). The Company will pay, in money of the United States that at the time of payment is legal tender for payment of public and private debts, all amounts due in cash with respect to the Securities, which amounts shall be paid (i) in the case of a Global Security, by wire transfer of immediately available funds to the account designated by the Depositary or its nominee; (ii) in the case of a Physical Security by a Holder of more than five million dollars ($5,000,000) in aggregate principal amount of Securities, by wire transfer of immediately available funds to the account specified by such Holder or, if such Holder does not specify an account, by mailing a check to the address of such Holder set forth in the register of the Registrar; and iii) in the case of a Physical Security that is held by a Holder of five million dollars ($5,000,000) or less in aggregate principal amount of Securities, by mailing a check to the address of such Holder set forth in the register of the Registrar.

 

The Company shall pay, in cash, interest on any overdue amount (including, to the extent permitted by applicable law, overdue interest) at the rate borne by the Securities.

 

SECTION 4.02.        Maintenance of Office or Agency. The Company will maintain, or cause to be maintained, in The Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York, an office or agency (which may be an office of the Trustee or an Affiliate of the Trustee, Registrar or co-Registrar) where Securities may be surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange, payment or conversion. The Company will 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, or fail to cause to maintain, any such required office or agency or shall fail to furnish the Trustee with the address thereof, such presentations and surrenders may be made or served at the Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee. The Company will maintain, or cause to be maintained, in The Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York, an office or agency where notices and demands to or upon the Company in respect of the Securities and this Indenture may be served, provided that such office or agency may instead be at the principal office of the Company located in the United States.

 

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; provided, however, that no such designation or rescission shall in any manner relieve the Company of its obligation to maintain an office or agency in The Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York for such purposes. The Company will 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.

 

The Company hereby designates the Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee as an agency of the Company in accordance with Section 2.03.

 

SECTION 4.03.        Rule 144A Information and Annual Reports. (a) At any time when the Company is not subject to the reporting requirements of the Exchange Act, the Company shall promptly provide to the Trustee and shall, upon request, provide to any Holder, beneficial owner or prospective purchaser of Securities or shares of Common Stock issued upon conversion of any Securities, the information required to be delivered pursuant to Rule 144A(d)(4) under the Securities Act to facilitate the resale of such Securities or shares of Common Stock pursuant to Rule 144A. The Company shall take such further action as any Holder or beneficial holder of such Securities or shares of Common Stock may reasonably request in writing to the extent required from time to time to enable such Holder or beneficial holder to sell its Securities or shares of Common Stock in accordance with Rule 144A, as such rule may be amended from time to time.

 

(b)               The Company shall deliver to the Trustee, no later than the time such report is required to be filed with the SEC pursuant to the Exchange Act, a copy of each report the Company is required to file with the SEC pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act (after giving effect to any grace period provided by Rule 12b-25 under the Exchange Act), and shall otherwise comply with the requirements of TIA § 314(a); provided, however, that each such report will be deemed to be so delivered to the Trustee if the Company files such report with the SEC through the SEC’s EDGAR database no later than the time such report is required to be filed with the SEC pursuant to the Exchange Act (taking into account any applicable grace periods provided thereunder).

 

(c)                The Company shall promptly furnish to the Trustee copies of its annual report to shareholders, containing audited financial statements, and any other financial reports which it furnishes to its shareholders.

 

(d)               Delivery of such reports, information and documents to the Trustee pursuant to this Section 4.03 is for informational purposes only, and the Trustee’s receipt of such shall not constitute constructive notice of any information contained therein or determinable from information contained therein, including the Company’s compliance with any of its covenants hereunder (as to which the Trustee is entitled to rely exclusively on an Officer’s Certificate).

 

 

 

SECTION 4.04.        Compliance Certificate. The Company shall deliver to the Trustee, within one hundred and twenty (120) calendar days after the end of each fiscal year of the Company, a certificate of two (2) or more Officers stating whether or not the signatories to such Officer’s Certificate have actual knowledge of any Default or Event of Default by the Company in performing any of its obligations under this Indenture or the Securities. If such signatories do know of any such Default or Event of Default, then such certificate shall describe the Default or Event of Default and its status.

 

SECTION 4.05.        Stay, Extension and Usury Laws. The Company covenants (to the extent that it may lawfully do so) that it will not at any time insist upon, plead, or in any manner whatsoever claim or take the benefit or advantage of, any stay, extension or usury law wherever enacted, now or at any time hereafter in force, which may affect the covenants or the performance of this Indenture or the Securities; and the Company (in each case, to the extent that it may lawfully do so) hereby expressly waives all benefit or advantage of any such law, and covenants that it will not, by resort to any such law, hinder, delay or impede the execution of any power herein granted to the Trustee, but will suffer and permit the execution of every such power as though no such law has been enacted.

 

SECTION 4.06.        Corporate Existence. Subject to Article V, the Company will do or cause to be done all things necessary to preserve and keep in full force and effect its corporate existence, in accordance with its organizational documents, and the rights (charter and statutory), licenses and franchises of the Company; provided, however, that the Company shall not be required to preserve any such right, license or franchise if in the judgment of the Board of Directors such preservation or existence is not material to the conduct of business of the Company.

 

SECTION 4.07.        Notice of Default. Upon the Company becoming aware of the occurrence of any Default or Event of Default, the Company shall give prompt written notice of such Default or Event of Default, and any remedial action proposed to be taken, to the Trustee.

 

SECTION 4.08.        Further Instruments and Acts. 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 purposes of this Indenture.

 

SECTION 4.09.        Additional Interest. (a) If, at any time during the six-month period beginning on, and including, the date which is six months after the last date of original issuance of the Securities, the Company fails to timely file any document or report that the Company is required to file with the SEC pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act, as applicable (after giving effect to all applicable grace periods thereunder and other than current reports on Form 8-K), or the Securities are not otherwise freely tradable by Holders, other than the Company’s Affiliates (as a result of restrictions pursuant to U.S. securities law or the terms of this Indenture or the Securities), the Company shall pay Additional Interest on the Securities at a rate of 0.50% per annum of the principal amount of Securities outstanding for each day during such period for which the Company’s failure to file has occurred and is continuing or the Securities are not otherwise freely tradable by Holders, other than the Company’s Affiliates.

 

 

 

(b)               If, and for so long as, the Securities are not freely tradable by Holders other than the Company’s Affiliates (without restrictions pursuant to U.S. securities laws or the terms of this Indenture or the Securities), as of the 365th day after the last date of original issuance of the Securities, the Company shall pay Additional Interest on the Securities at a rate of 0.50% per annum of the principal amount of Securities outstanding for each day after the 365th day after the last date of original issuance of the Securities until the Securities are freely tradable by Holders other than the Company’s Affiliates (without restrictions pursuant to U.S. securities law or the terms of this Indenture or the Securities).

 

(c)                If any of the following events shall occur (each such event, a “Registration Default”), then the Company shall pay Additional Interest to the Holders of Securities (“Registration Default Interest”) in respect of the Securities as follows:

 

(i) If the Registration Statement is not filed within 10 Business Days after the Issue Date, Registration Default Interest shall accrue on the Securities at a rate of 1.00% per annum on the principal amount of such Securities for the first 20 days from and including such specified date, and increasing to 2.50% per annum thereafter; provided that such Registration Default Interest shall cease to accrue on the earlier of (a) the date on which the Registration Statement is filed and (b) the first anniversary of the Issue Date;

 

(ii) If the Registration Statement is not declared effective within 180 days after the Issue Date, Registration Default Interest shall accrue on the Securities at a rate of 2.50% per annum on the principal amount of such Securities (in addition to any amounts accruing pursuant to clause (i) above, if applicable); provided that such Registration Default Interest shall cease to accrue on the earlier of (a) the date on which the Registration Statement is declared effective and (b) the first anniversary of the Issue Date; and

 

(iii) If the Registration Statement has been declared effective but thereafter ceases to be effective or available for the resale of all shares of Common Stock issued or issuable upon conversion of the Securities at any time prior to the first anniversary of the Issue Date and such failure exists for more than 30 consecutive days or more than 60 days (whether or not consecutive) during the period prior to the first anniversary of the Issue Date, then commencing on the 31^st day or 61^st day, as applicable, following the date on which such Registration Statement ceases to be effective, Registration Default Interest shall accrue on the Securities at a rate of 2.50% per annum of the principal amount of such Securities from and including such 31^st day or 61^st day, as applicable; provided that such Registration Default Interest shall cease to accrue on the earlier of (a) the date on which the Registration Statement is available for the resale of all shares of Common Stock issued or issuable upon conversion of the Securities and (b) the first anniversary of the Issue Date. The provisions of this clause (iii) shall apply to successive failures (as described in the immediately preceding sentence) to maintain effectiveness of the Registration Statement.

 

 

 

(d)               Additional Interest payable in accordance with Sections 4.09(a), 4.09(b) and 4.09(c) shall be payable in arrears on each Interest Payment Date for the Securities following accrual in the same manner as regular interest on the Securities and shall be in addition to, not in lieu of, any Additional Interest that may accrue under Section 6.02(b) as the sole remedy relating to the Company’s failure to comply with Section 4.03(b).

 

(e)                In the event that the Company is required to pay Additional Interest to Holders of Securities (whether pursuant to this Section 4.09 or Section 6.02(b)), the Company shall provide written notice (“Additional Interest Notice”) to the Trustee of its obligation to pay Additional Interest no later than fifteen (15) calendar days prior to the proposed payment date for the Additional Interest. Each Additional Interest Notice shall set forth the amount of Additional Interest to be paid by the Company on such payment date. The Trustee shall not at any time be under any duty or responsibility to any Holder to determine the amount of Additional Interest, or with respect to the nature, extent or calculation of the amount of Additional Interest owed, or with respect to the method employed in such calculation of the Additional Interest. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Indenture, the sole remedy for failure of the Registration Statement to be filed or to be declared or kept effective shall be the payment of Registration Default Interest.

 

SECTION 4.10.        Limitation on Issuance of Guarantees by Restricted Subsidiaries. The Company will cause each Restricted Subsidiary other than a Foreign Subsidiary to execute and deliver a supplemental indenture to this Indenture providing for a Subsidiary Guarantee of payment of the Securities by such Restricted Subsidiary.

 

The Company will not permit any Restricted Subsidiary which is not a Subsidiary Guarantor (other than a Foreign Subsidiary), directly or indirectly, to Guarantee any Indebtedness (“Guaranteed Indebtedness”) of the Company or any other Restricted Subsidiary, unless (a) such Restricted Subsidiary simultaneously executes and delivers a supplemental indenture to this Indenture providing for a Subsidiary Guarantee of payment of the Securities by such Restricted Subsidiary and (b) such Restricted Subsidiary waives and will not in any manner whatsoever claim or take the benefit or advantage of, any rights of reimbursement, indemnity or subrogation or any other rights against the Company or any other Restricted Subsidiary as a result of any payment by such Restricted Subsidiary under its Subsidiary Guarantee until the Securities have been paid in full.

 

If the Guaranteed Indebtedness is (A) pari passu in right of payment with the Securities or any Subsidiary Guarantee, then the Guarantee of such Guaranteed Indebtedness shall be pari passu in right of payment with, or subordinated to, the Subsidiary Guarantee or (B) subordinated in right of payment to the Securities or any Subsidiary Guarantee, then the Guarantee of such Guaranteed Indebtedness shall be subordinated in right of payment to the Subsidiary Guarantee at least to the extent that the Guaranteed Indebtedness is subordinated to the Securities or the Subsidiary Guarantee. For the avoidance of doubt, Subsidiary Guarantees of the Securities are pari passu with guarantees under the Existing Revolving Credit Facility and the 2019 Notes.

 

Notwithstanding the foregoing, any Subsidiary Guarantee by a Restricted Subsidiary may provide by its terms that it shall be automatically and unconditionally released and discharged upon:

 

(a)                any sale, exchange or transfer, to any Person not an Affiliate of the Company, of all of the Company’s and each Restricted Subsidiary’s Capital Stock in, or all or substantially all the assets of, such Restricted Subsidiary (which sale, exchange or transfer is not prohibited by this Indenture) or upon the designation of such Restricted Subsidiary as an Unrestricted Subsidiary in accordance with the terms of this Indenture; or

 

(b)               the release or discharge of the Guarantee which resulted in the creation of such Subsidiary Guarantee, except a discharge or release by or as a result of payment under such Guarantee.

 

ARTICLE V

Successors

 

SECTION 5.01.        When Company May Merge, etc. The Company shall not consolidate with, or merge with or into, or sell, transfer, lease, convey or otherwise dispose of all or substantially all of the consolidated property or assets of the Company to another Person, whether in a single transaction or series of related transactions, unless (i) the Company is the continuing corporation or such other Person is a corporation organized and existing under the laws of the United States of America, any state of the United States of America or the District of Columbia, and such other Person assumes by supplemental indenture all the obligations of the Company under the Securities and this Indenture and (ii) immediately after giving effect to such transaction or series of transactions, no Default or Event of Default shall exist.

 

For purposes of this Section 5.01, the sale, transfer, lease, conveyance or disposition of all or substantially all of the properties or assets of one or more Subsidiaries of the Company to another Person, which properties or assets, if held by the Company instead of such Subsidiaries, would constitute all or substantially all of the properties or assets of the Company on a consolidated basis, shall be deemed to be the sale, transfer, lease, conveyance or disposition of all or substantially all of the consolidated properties or assets of the Company to another Person.

 

The Company shall deliver to the Trustee prior to the consummation of the proposed transaction an Officer’s Certificate to the foregoing effect and an Opinion of Counsel (which may rely upon such Officer’s Certificate as to the absence of Defaults and Events of Default) stating that the proposed transaction and such supplemental indenture will, upon consummation of the proposed transaction, comply with this Indenture.

 

 

 

SECTION 5.02.        Successor Substituted. In case of any such consolidation, merger or any sale, transfer, lease, conveyance or other disposition of all or substantially all of the consolidated property or assets of the Company and upon the assumption by the successor Person, by supplemental indenture, executed and delivered to the Trustee and satisfactory in form to the Trustee, of the due and punctual payment of the principal of and accrued and unpaid interest on all of the Securities, the due and punctual payment of the Fundamental Change Repurchase Price with respect to all Securities repurchased on each Fundamental Change Repurchase Date, the due and punctual delivery or payment, as the case may be, of any consideration due upon conversion of the Securities and the due and punctual performance of all of the covenants and conditions of this Indenture and the Securities to be performed by the Company, such successor Person shall succeed to and be substituted for the Company, with the same effect as if it had been named herein as the party of the first part, except in the case of a lease of all or substantially all of the Company’s consolidated properties or assets. Such successor Person thereupon may cause to be signed, and may issue either in its own name or in the name of the Company any or all of the Securities issuable hereunder which theretofore shall not have been signed by the Company and delivered to the Trustee; and, upon the order of such successor Person instead of the Company and subject to all the terms, conditions and limitations in this Indenture prescribed, the Trustee shall authenticate and shall deliver, or cause to be authenticated and delivered, any Securities that previously shall have been signed and delivered by the Officers of the Company to the Trustee for authentication, and any Securities that such successor Person thereafter shall cause to be signed and delivered to the Trustee for that purpose. All the Securities so issued shall in all respects have the same legal rank and benefit under this Indenture as the Securities theretofore or thereafter issued in accordance with the terms of this Indenture as though all of such Securities had been issued at the date of the execution hereof. In the event of any such consolidation, merger or any sale, transfer, conveyance or other disposition (but not in the case of a lease), upon compliance with this Article V the Person named as the “Company” in the first paragraph of this Indenture or any successor that shall thereafter have become such in the manner prescribed in this Article V may be dissolved, wound up and liquidated at any time thereafter and, except in the case of a lease, such Person shall be released from its liabilities as obligor and maker of the Securities and its obligations under this Indenture shall terminate.

 

In case of any such consolidation, merger or any sale, transfer, lease, conveyance or other disposition, such changes in phraseology and form (but not in substance) may be made in the Securities thereafter to be issued as may be appropriate.

 

SECTION 5.03.        When a Subsidiary Guarantor May Merge or Transfer Assets. No Subsidiary Guarantor will consolidate with, merge with or into, or sell, convey, transfer, lease or otherwise dispose of all or substantially all of its property and assets) as an entirety or substantially an entirety in one transaction or a series of related transactions) to, any Person or permit any Person to merge with or into it unless (i) it shall be the continuing Person, or such other Person is a corporation organized and existing under the laws of the United States of America, any state of the United States of America or the District of Columbia, and such other Person assumes by supplemental indenture all of such Subsidiary Guarantor’s obligations under its Subsidiary Guarantee; and (ii) immediately after giving effect to such transaction or series of transactions, no Default or Event of Default shall exist

 

The foregoing requirements of this Section 5.03 shall not apply to a consolidation or merger of any Subsidiary Guarantor with and into the Company or any other Subsidiary Guarantor, so long as the Company or such Subsidiary Guarantor survives such consolidation or merger.

 

 

 

ARTICLE VI

Defaults and Remedies

 

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

 

(a)                the Company fails to pay the principal or the Fundamental Change Repurchase Price of any Security when the same becomes due and payable, whether on the Maturity Date, on a Fundamental Change Repurchase Date, upon acceleration or otherwise;

 

(b)               the Company fails to pay an installment of interest on any Security when due, if such failure continues for thirty (30) days after the date when due;

 

(c)                the Company fails to satisfy its conversion obligations upon exercise of a Holder’s conversion rights pursuant hereto;

 

(d)               the Company fails to timely provide pursuant to Section 3.02(b) a Fundamental Change Notice, as required by the provisions of this Indenture;

 

(e)                the Company fails to comply with its obligations under Article V;

 

(f)                the Company fails to comply with any other term, covenant or agreement set forth in the Securities or this Indenture and such failure continues for the period, and after the notice, specified in the last paragraph of this Section 6.01;

 

(g)               the Company or any of its Subsidiaries defaults in the payment when due, after the expiration of any applicable grace period, of principal of, or premium, if any, or interest on, indebtedness for money borrowed, in the aggregate principal amount then outstanding of twenty million dollars ($20,000,000) or more, or the acceleration of indebtedness of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries for money borrowed in such aggregate principal amount or more so that it becomes due and payable before the date on which it would otherwise become due and payable and such default is not cured or waived, or such acceleration is not rescinded for the period, and after the notice, specified in the last paragraph of this Section 6.01;

 

(h)               the Company or any of its Subsidiaries fails, within thirty (30) days, to pay, bond or otherwise discharge any final, non-appealable judgments or orders for the payment of money the total uninsured amount of which for the Company or any of its Subsidiaries exceeds twenty million dollars ($20,000,000), which are not stayed on appeal;

 

(i)                 the Company or any of its Significant Subsidiaries or any group of Subsidiaries that in the aggregate would constitute a Significant Subsidiary of the Company, pursuant to, or within the meaning of, any Bankruptcy Law, insolvency law, or other similar law now or hereafter in effect or otherwise, either:

 

(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 all or substantially all of its property, or

 

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

 

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

 

(i) is for relief against the Company or any of its Significant Subsidiaries or any group of Subsidiaries that in the aggregate would constitute a Significant Subsidiary of the Company in an involuntary case or proceeding, or adjudicates the Company or any of its Significant Subsidiaries or any group of Subsidiaries that in the aggregate would constitute a Significant Subsidiary of the Company insolvent or bankrupt,

 

(ii) appoints a Custodian of the Company or any of its Significant Subsidiaries or any group of Subsidiaries that in the aggregate would constitute a Significant Subsidiary of the Company for all or substantially all of the consolidated property of the Company or any such Significant Subsidiary or any group of Subsidiaries that in the aggregate would constitute a Significant Subsidiary of the Company, as the case may be, or

 

(iii) orders the winding up or liquidation of the Company or any of its Significant Subsidiaries or any group of Subsidiaries that in the aggregate would constitute a Significant Subsidiary of the Company,

 

and, in the case of each of the foregoing clauses (i), (ii) and (iii) of this Section 6.01(j), the order or decree remains unstayed and in effect for at least thirty (30) consecutive days; or

 

(k)               any Subsidiary Guarantor repudiates its obligations under its Subsidiary Guarantee or, except as permitted by this Indenture, any Subsidiary Guarantee is determined to be unenforceable or invalid or shall for any reason cease to be in full force and effect and such default continues for 10 days.

 

The term “Bankruptcy Law” means Title 11, U.S. Code or any similar U.S. Federal or State law for the relief of debtors, or any analogous foreign law applicable to the Company or its Subsidiaries, as the case may be. The term “Custodian” means any receiver, trustee, assignee, liquidator or similar official under any Bankruptcy Law.

 

A Default under clause (f) or (g) above shall not be an Event of Default until (I) the Trustee notifies the Company, or the Holders of at least twenty five percent (25%) in aggregate principal amount of the Securities then outstanding notify the Company and the Trustee in writing, of the Default and (II) the Default is not cured within ninety (90) days in the case of clause (f), or within thirty (30) days in the case of clause (g), after receipt of such notice. Such notice must specify the Default, demand that it be remedied and state that the notice is a “Notice of Default.” If the Holders of at least twenty five percent (25%) in aggregate principal amount of the outstanding Securities request the Trustee to give such notice on their behalf, the Trustee shall do so. When a Default is cured, it ceases to exist for all purposes under this Indenture.

 

 

 

SECTION 6.02.        Acceleration.   (a) If an Event of Default (excluding an Event of Default specified in Section 6.01(i) or (j) with respect to the Company, but including an Event of Default specified in Section 6.01(i) or (j) solely with respect to a Significant Subsidiary of the Company or any group of Subsidiaries that in the aggregate would constitute a Significant Subsidiary of the Company) occurs and is continuing, the Trustee by notice to the Company, or the Holders of at least twenty five percent (25%) in aggregate principal amount of the Securities then outstanding by notice to the Company and the Trustee, may declare the Securities to be immediately due and payable in full. Upon such declaration, the principal of, and any accrued and unpaid interest on, all Securities shall be due and payable immediately. If an Event of Default specified in Section 6.01(i) or (j) with respect to the Company (excluding, for purposes of this sentence, an Event of Default specified in Section 6.01(i) or (j) solely with respect to a Significant Subsidiary of the Company or any group of Subsidiaries that in the aggregate would constitute a Significant Subsidiary of the Company) occurs, the principal of, and accrued and unpaid 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 Holder. The Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Securities then outstanding by written notice to the Trustee may rescind or annul an acceleration and its consequences if (A) the rescission would not conflict with any order or decree, (B) all existing Events of Default, except the nonpayment of principal or interest that has become due solely because of the acceleration, have been cured or waived and (C) all amounts due to the Trustee under Section 7.07 have been paid.

 

(b)               Notwithstanding the foregoing, the sole remedy for an Event of Default relating to failure to comply with Section 4.03(b) shall, for the first 180 days immediately following the occurrence of such an Event of Default, consist exclusively of the right to receive Additional Interest on the Securities at a rate per year equal to (i) 0.25% of the outstanding principal amount of Securities for the first 90 days following the occurrence of such Event of Default and (ii) 0.50% of the outstanding principal amount of Securities for the next 90 days after the first 90 days following the occurrence of such Event of Default, in each case, payable in the same manner and at the same time as the stated interest payable on the Securities. Such Additional Interest shall accrue on all outstanding Securities from, and including, the date on which such Event of Default first occurs to, and including, the 180th day thereafter (or such earlier date on which such Event of Default shall have been cured or waived). Additional Interest payable pursuant to this Section 6.02(b) shall be in addition to, not in lieu of, any Additional Interest payable pursuant to Section 4.09(a), Section 4.09(b) and Section 4.09(c). In addition to the accrual of Additional Interest pursuant to this Section 6.02(b), on and after the 181st day immediately following an Event of Default relating to a failure to comply with Section 4.03(b), such Additional Interest will cease to accrue and, if such Event of Default has not been cured or waived prior to such 181st day, the Securities will be subject to acceleration as provided above. The provisions of this Section 6.02(b) shall not affect the rights of Holders in the event of the occurrence of any other Event of Default. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Indenture, the sole remedy for failure of the Registration Statement to be filed or to be declared or kept effective shall be the payment of Registration Default Interest.

 

 

 

SECTION 6.03.        Other Remedies. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Indenture, if an Event of Default occurs and is continuing, the Trustee may pursue any available remedy by proceeding at law or in equity to collect the payment of amounts due with respect to the Securities or to enforce the performance of any provision of the Securities or this Indenture.

 

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. All remedies are cumulative.

 

SECTION 6.04.        Waiver of Past Defaults. Subject to Sections 6.07 and 9.02, the Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Securities then outstanding may, by notice to the Trustee, waive any past Default or Event of Default and its consequences, other than (i) a Default or Event of Default in the payment of the principal of, or interest on, any Security, or in the payment of the Fundamental Change Repurchase Price, (ii) a Default or Event of Default arising from a failure by the Company to convert any Securities in accordance with this Indenture or (iii) any Default or Event of Default in respect of any provision of this Indenture or the Securities which, under Section 9.02, cannot be modified or amended without the consent of the Holder of each outstanding Security affected. When a Default or an Event of Default is waived, it is cured and ceases to exist for all purposes under this Indenture.

 

SECTION 6.05.        Control by Majority. The Holders of a majority in aggregate 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 exercising any trust or power conferred on it. However, the Trustee may refuse to follow any direction that conflicts with law or this Indenture, is unduly prejudicial to the rights of other Holders or would involve the Trustee in personal liability unless the Trustee is offered indemnity reasonably satisfactory to it; provided that the Trustee may take any other action deemed proper by the Trustee which is not inconsistent with such direction.

 

SECTION 6.06.        Limitation on Suits. Except with respect to any proceeding instituted in accordance with Section 6.07, a Securityholder shall not have any right to institute any proceeding under this Indenture, or for the appointment of a receiver or a trustee, or for any other remedy under this Indenture unless:

 

(a)                the Holder gives to the Trustee written notice of a continuing Event of Default;

 

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

 

(c)                such Holder or Holders offer and, if requested, provide to the Trustee indemnity reasonably satisfactory to the Trustee against any loss, liability or expense to or of the Trustee in connection with pursuing such remedy; and

 

 

 

(d)               the Trustee does not comply with the request within sixty (60) days after receipt of such notice, request and offer of indemnity, and during such sixty (60) day period, the Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Securities then outstanding do not give the Trustee a direction inconsistent with the request.

 

A Securityholder may not use this Indenture to prejudice the rights of another Securityholder or to obtain a preference or priority over another Securityholder.

 

SECTION 6.07.        Rights Of Holders To Receive Payment And To Convert Securities. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Indenture, the right of any Holder to receive payment of all amounts (including any principal, interest or the Fundamental Change Repurchase Price) due with respect to the Securities, on or after the respective due dates as provided herein, 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 the Holder.

 

In addition, notwithstanding any other provision of this Indenture, the right of any Holder to convert the Security in accordance with this Indenture, or to bring suit for the enforcement of such right, shall not be impaired or affected without the consent of the 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 for the whole amount due with respect to the Securities, including any unpaid and accrued interest.

 

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, any predecessor Trustee and the Securityholders allowed in any judicial proceedings relative to the Company or its creditors or properties.

 

The Trustee may collect and receive any moneys or other property payable or deliverable on any such claims and to distribute the same, and any custodian, receiver, assignee, trustee, liquidator, sequestrator or similar official in any judicial proceeding is hereby authorized by each Holder to make such payments to the Trustee and, in the event that the Trustee shall consent to the making of such payments directly to the Holders, to pay the Trustee any amount due it for the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the Trustee, its agents and counsel, and any other amounts due the Trustee under Section 7.07.

 

Nothing herein contained shall be deemed to authorize the Trustee to authorize or consent to or accept or adopt on behalf of any Holder any plan of reorganization, arrangement, adjustment or composition affecting the Securities or the rights of any Holder thereof, or to authorize the Trustee to vote in respect of the claim of any Holder in any such proceeding.

 

SECTION 6.10.        Priorities. If the Trustee collects any money pursuant to this Article VI, it shall pay out the money in the following order:

 

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

 

Second: to Securityholders for all amounts due and unpaid on the Securities, without preference or priority of any kind, according to the amounts due and payable on the Securities; and

 

Third: the balance, if any, to the Company.

 

The Trustee, upon prior written notice to the Company, may fix a record date and payment date for any payment by it to Securityholders pursuant to this Section 6.10. At least fifteen (15) days before each such record date, the Trustee shall mail to each Holder and the Company a written notice that states such record date and payment date and the amount of such payment.

 

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 other than the Trustee of an undertaking to pay the costs of the suit, and the court in its discretion may assess reasonable costs, including reasonable attorneys’ fees, 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 ten percent (10%) in aggregate principal amount of the outstanding Securities.

 

ARTICLE VII

Trustee

 

SECTION 7.01.        Duties of Trustee. (a) If an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, the Trustee shall exercise such of the rights and powers vested in it by this Indenture, and use the same degree of care and skill in their exercise, as a prudent Person would exercise or use under the circumstances in the conduct of his or her own affairs.

 

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

 

(i) the Trustee need perform only those duties that 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, willful misconduct or negligence on its part, the Trustee may conclusively rely, as to the truth of the statements and the correctness of the opinions expressed therein, upon certificates or opinions furnished to the Trustee and conforming to the requirements of this Indenture; but in the case of any such certificates or opinions which by any provision hereof are specifically required to be furnished to the Trustee, the Trustee shall examine the certificates and opinions to determine whether or not they conform to the requirements of this Indenture (but need not confirm or investigate the accuracy of mathematical calculations or other facts stated therein).

 

 

 

(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;

 

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

 

(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.

 

(d)               Every provision of this Indenture that in any way relates to the Trustee is subject to the provisions of this Section 7.01.

 

(e)                The Trustee shall not be liable for interest on any money received by it except as the Trustee may agree in writing with the Company. Money held in trust by the Trustee shall be segregated from other funds as directed in writing by the Company or as required by law and shall be invested by the Trustee pursuant to the written instructions of the Company reasonably satisfactory to the Trustee.

 

(f)                No provision of this Indenture shall require the Trustee to expend or risk its own funds or otherwise incur any financial liability in the performance of any of its duties hereunder or in the exercise of any of its rights or powers, or to take or omit to take any action hereunder or to take any action at the request or direction of Securityholders, if it shall have reasonable grounds for believing that repayment of such funds or adequate indemnity against such risk or liability is not reasonably assured to it.

 

(g)               The provisions of this Article VII shall apply to the Trustee in its role as Registrar, Paying Agent and custodian for the Depositary.

 

(h)               The Trustee shall not be deemed to have notice of a Default or an Event of Default unless (a) the Trustee has received written notice thereof from the Company or any Holder or (b) a Responsible Officer shall have actual knowledge thereof.

 

(i)                 In the absence of bad faith, negligence or willful misconduct on the part of the Trustee, the Trustee shall not be responsible for the application of any money by any Paying Agent other than the Trustee.

 

SECTION 7.02.        Rights of Trustee. (a) Subject to Section 7.01, 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; if, however, the Trustee shall determine to make such further inquiry or investigation, it shall be entitled during normal business hours to examine the relevant books, records and premises of the Company, personally or by agent or attorney upon reasonable prior notice, at the sole cost of the Company, and shall incur no liability or additional liability of any kind by reason of such inquiry or investigation.

 

 

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

(f)                The Trustee shall not be liable for any action it takes or omits to take in good faith which it believes to be authorized or within its discretion, rights or powers conferred upon it by this Indenture; provided, that the Trustee’s action does not constitute willful misconduct or negligence.

 

(g)               Except with respect to Section 4.01, the Trustee shall have no duty to inquire as to the performance of the Company with respect to the covenants contained in Article IV. In addition, the Trustee shall not be deemed to have knowledge of an Event of Default except (1) any Default or Event of Default occurring pursuant to Sections 6.01(i) or (ii) or (2) any Default or Event of Default of which a Responsible Officer of the Trustee who shall have direct responsibility for the administration of this Indenture shall have received written notification or obtained actual knowledge. Delivery of reports, information and documents to the Trustee under Article IV (other than Sections 4.04 and 4.07) is for informational purposes only and the Trustee’s receipt of the foregoing shall not constitute constructive notice of any information contained therein or determinable from information contained therein, including the Company’s compliance with any of its covenants hereunder (as to which the Trustee is entitled to rely on Officer’s Certificates).

 

(h)               Subject to Section 7.01(a), the Trustee shall be under no obligation to exercise any of the rights or powers vested by this Indenture at the request or direction of any of the Holders pursuant to this Indenture unless such Holders shall have offered to the Trustee security or indemnity reasonably satisfactory to the Trustee against the costs, expenses and liabilities which might be incurred by it in compliance with such request or direction.

 

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

 

(j)                 The Trustee may request that the Company deliver an Officer’s Certificate setting forth the names of individuals and/or titles of officers authorized at such time to take specified actions pursuant to this Indenture, which Officer’s Certificate may be signed by any Person authorized to sign an Officer’s Certificate, including any Person specified as so authorized in any such certificate previously delivered and not superseded.

 

 

 

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

 

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 any of its Affiliates with the same rights the Trustee would have if it were not Trustee. Any Securities Agent may do the same with like rights. The Trustee, however, must comply with Sections 7.10 and 7.11.

 

SECTION 7.04.        Trustee’s Disclaimer. The Trustee makes no representation as to the validity or adequacy of this Indenture or the Securities; the Trustee shall not be accountable for the Company’s use of the proceeds from the Securities; and the Trustee shall not be responsible for any statement in the Securities other than its certificate of authentication.

 

SECTION 7.05.        Notice of Defaults. If a Default or Event of Default occurs and is continuing as to which the Trustee has received notice pursuant to the provisions of this Indenture, or as to which a Responsible Officer of the Trustee who shall have direct responsibility for the administration of this Indenture shall have actual knowledge, then the Trustee shall mail to each Holder a notice of the Default or Event of Default within thirty (30) days after receipt of such notice or after acquiring such knowledge, as applicable, unless such Default or Event of Default has been cured or waived; provided, however, that, except in the case of a Default or Event of Default in payment or delivery of any amounts due (including principal, interest, the Fundamental Change Repurchase Price or the consideration due upon conversion with respect to any Security, the Trustee may withhold such notice if, and so long as it in good faith determines that, withholding such notice is in the best interests of Holders.

 

SECTION 7.06.        Reports by Trustee to Holders. Within sixty (60) days after each January 1, beginning with January 1, 2014, the Trustee shall mail to each Securityholder if required by TIA § 313(a) a brief report dated as of such January 1 that complies with TIA § 313(a). In such event, the Trustee also shall comply with TIA § 313(b).

 

A copy of each report at the time of its mailing to Securityholders shall be mailed by first class mail to the Company and filed by the Trustee with the SEC and each stock exchange, if any, on which the Securities are listed. The Company shall promptly notify the Trustee of the listing or delisting of the Securities on or from any stock exchange.

 

SECTION 7.07.        Compensation and Indemnity. The Company shall pay to the Trustee from time to time such compensation for its services as shall be agreed upon in writing. The Trustee’s compensation shall not be limited by any law on compensation of a trustee of an express trust. The Company shall reimburse the Trustee upon request for all reasonable out-of-pocket expenses incurred by it pursuant to, and in accordance with, any provision hereof, except for any such expenses as shall have been caused by the Trustee’s own negligence, bad faith or willful misconduct. Such expenses shall include the reasonable compensation and out-of-pocket expenses of the Trustee’s agents and counsel. The Trustee shall provide the Company with reasonable notice of any expense not in the ordinary course of business.

 

The Company shall indemnify each of the Trustee, each predecessor Trustee and their respective agents for, and hold each of them harmless against, any and all loss, liability, damage, claim or expense (including the reasonable fees and expenses of counsel and taxes other than those based upon the income of the Trustee) incurred by it in connection with the acceptance or administration of this Indenture and the performance of its duties hereunder or in connection with enforcing the provisions of this Section 7.07, including the reasonable costs and expenses of defending itself against any claim (whether asserted by the Company, any Holder or any other Person) or liability in connection with the exercise or performance of any of its powers and duties hereunder. The Company need not pay for any settlement made without its consent. The Trustee shall notify the Company promptly of any claim for which it may seek indemnification. The Company need not reimburse any expense or indemnify against any loss or liability incurred by the Trustee through the Trustee’s negligence, bad faith or wilful misconduct.

 

To secure the Company’s 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, except that held in trust to pay amounts due on particular Securities.

 

The indemnity obligations of the Company with respect to the Trustee provided for in this Section 7.07 shall survive any resignation or removal of the Trustee.

 

When the Trustee incurs expenses or renders services after an Event of Default specified in Section 6.01(i) or (j) occurs, the expenses and the compensation for the services are intended to constitute expenses of administration under any Bankruptcy Law.

 

SECTION 7.08.        Replacement of Trustee. A resignation or removal of the Trustee and appointment of a successor Trustee shall become effective only upon the successor Trustee’s acceptance of appointment as provided in this Section 7.08.

 

The Trustee may resign by so notifying the Company in writing thirty (30) days prior to such resignation. The Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Securities then outstanding may remove the Trustee by so notifying the Trustee and the Company in writing and may appoint a successor Trustee with the Company’s consent. The Company may remove the Trustee if:

 

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

 

(b)               the Trustee is adjudged a bankrupt or an insolvent;

 

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

 

(d)               the Trustee becomes incapable of acting.

 

If the Trustee resigns or is removed or if a vacancy exists in the office of Trustee for any reason, the Company shall promptly appoint a successor Trustee.

 

If a successor Trustee does not take office within thirty (30) days after the retiring Trustee resigns or is removed, the retiring Trustee (at the Company’s expense), the Company or the Holders of at least ten percent (10%) in aggregate principal amount of the outstanding Securities may petition any court of competent jurisdiction for the appointment of a successor Trustee.

 

If the Trustee fails to comply with Section 7.10, the Company or any Holder may petition any court of competent jurisdiction for the removal of the Trustee and the appointment of a successor Trustee.

 

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 Securityholders. 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.

 

SECTION 7.09.        Successor trustee by Merger, Etc. If the Trustee consolidates with, merges or converts into, or transfers all or substantially all of its corporate trust business to, another corporation, the successor corporation without any further act shall be the successor Trustee, if such successor corporation is otherwise eligible (i) hereunder and (ii) under the TIA.

 

SECTION 7.10.        Eligibility; Disqualification. There shall at all times be a Trustee hereunder which (a) is an entity organized and doing business under the laws of the United States of America or of any state thereof or the District of Columbia, (b) is authorized under such laws to exercise corporate trustee power, (c) is subject to supervision or examination by Federal or state authorities and (d) has a combined capital and surplus of at least $50 million as set forth in its most recent published annual report of condition. The Trustee shall comply with TIA § 310(b). Nothing in this Indenture shall prevent the Trustee from filing with the SEC the application referred to in the penultimate paragraph of TIA § 310(b).

 

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

 

 

 

ARTICLE VIII

Discharge of Indenture

 

SECTION 8.01.        Termination of The Obligations of The Company. This Indenture shall cease to be of further effect, and the Trustee shall execute proper instruments acknowledging satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture, if (a) either (i) all outstanding Securities (other than Securities replaced pursuant to Section 2.07 hereof) have been delivered to the Trustee for cancelation or (ii) all outstanding Securities have become due and payable at their scheduled maturity, upon conversion, upon Repurchase Upon Fundamental Change, and in either case the Company irrevocably deposits, prior to the applicable due date, with the Trustee or the Paying Agent (if the Paying Agent is not the Company or any of its Affiliates) cash or, in the case of conversion, shares of Common Stock sufficient to pay all amounts due and owing on all outstanding Securities (other than Securities replaced pursuant to Section 2.07 hereof) on the Maturity Date, the relevant settlement date of any conversion or the Fundamental Change Repurchase Date, as the case may be; (b) the Company pays to the Trustee all other sums payable hereunder by the Company; (c) no Default or Event of Default with respect to the Securities shall exist on the date of such deposit under clause (a)(ii) above; (d) such deposit under clause (a)(ii) above shall not result in a breach or violation of, or constitute a Default or Event of Default under, this Indenture; and (e) the Company has delivered to the Trustee an Officer’s Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel, each stating that all conditions precedent provided for herein relating to the satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture have been complied with; provided, however, that Sections 2.02, 2.03, 2.04, 2.05, 2.06, 2.07, 2.08, 2.09, 2.15, 2.16, 2.17, 3.02, 4.01, 4.02, 4.05, 4.09, 7.07, 7.08, 7.10, 7.11, 13.02, 13.09 and 13.14 and Article VIII, X, XI and XII shall survive any discharge of this Indenture until such time as the Securities have been paid in full and there are no Securities outstanding.

 

SECTION 8.02.        Application of Trust Money. The Trustee shall hold in trust all money deposited with it pursuant to Section 8.01 and shall apply such deposited money through the Paying Agent and in accordance with this Indenture to the payment of amounts due on the Securities.

 

SECTION 8.03.        Repayment To Company. The Trustee and the Paying Agent shall promptly notify the Company of, and pay to the Company upon the request of the Company, any excess money held by them at any time. The Trustee or the Paying Agent, as the case may be, shall provide written notice to the Company of any money that has been held by it and has, for a period of two (2) years, remained unclaimed for the payment of the principal of, or any accrued and unpaid interest on, the Securities. The Trustee and the Paying Agent shall pay to the Company upon the written request of the Company any money held by them for the payment of the principal of, or any accrued and unpaid interest on, the Securities that remains unclaimed for two (2) years; provided, however, that the Trustee or such Paying Agent, before being required to make any such repayment, may, at the expense of the Company, cause to be published (in no event later than five (5) days after the Company requests repayment) once in a newspaper of general circulation in the City of New York or cause to be mailed to each Holder, notice stating that such money remains unclaimed and that, after a date specified therein, which shall not be less than thirty (30) days from the date of such publication or mailing, any unclaimed balance of such money then remaining will be repaid to the Company. After payment to the Company, Securityholders entitled to the money must look to the Company for payment as general creditors, subject to applicable law, and all liability of the Trustee and the Paying Agent with respect to such money and payment shall, subject to applicable law, cease.

 

 

 

SECTION 8.04.        Reinstatement. If the Trustee or Paying Agent is unable to apply any money in accordance with Sections 8.01 and 8.02 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 obligations of the Company under this Indenture and the Securities shall be revived and reinstated as though no deposit had occurred pursuant to Sections 8.01 and 8.02 until such time as the Trustee or Paying Agent is permitted to apply all such money in accordance with Sections 8.01 and 8.02; provided, however, that if the Company has made any payment of amounts due with respect to any Securities because of the reinstatement of its obligations, then the Company shall be subrogated to the rights of the Holders of such Securities to receive such payment from the money held by the Trustee or Paying Agent.

 

ARTICLE IX

Amendments

 

SECTION 9.01.        Without Consent of Holders. The Company, with the consent of the Trustee, may amend or supplement this Indenture or the Securities without notice to or the consent of any Securityholder:

 

(a)                to comply with Section 5.01 or Section 10.12;

 

(b)               to secure the obligations of the Company in respect of the Securities;

 

(c)                to evidence and provide for the appointment of a successor Trustee in accordance with Section 7.08;

 

(d)               to comply with the provisions of any clearing agency, clearing corporation or clearing system, or the requirements of the Trustee or the Registrar, relating to transfers and exchanges of the Securities pursuant to this Indenture;

 

(e)                to add to the covenants of the Company described in this Indenture for the benefit of Securityholders or to surrender any right or power conferred upon the Company;

 

(f)                to make provision with respect to adjustments to the Conversion Rate as required by this Indenture or to increase the Conversion Rate in accordance with this Indenture;

 

(g)               to add or remove a Subsidiary Guarantor in accordance with Section 4.10; or

 

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

 

In addition, the Company and the Trustee may enter into a supplemental indenture without the consent of Holders of the Securities to cure any ambiguity, defect, omission or inconsistency in this Indenture in a manner that does not, individually or in the aggregate with all other changes, materially and adversely affect the rights of any Holder in any respect.

 

 

 

SECTION 9.02.        With Consent of Holders. The Company may amend or supplement this Indenture or the Securities with the written consent of the Trustee and the Holders of at least a majority in aggregate principal amount of the outstanding Securities (including, without limitation, consents obtained from Holders in connection with a purchase of, or tender or exchange offer for, Securities). Subject to Sections 6.04 and 6.07, the Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the outstanding Securities may, by notice to the Trustee, waive by consent (including, without limitation, consents obtained from Holders in connection with a purchase of, or tender or exchange offer for, Securities) compliance by the Company with any provision of this Indenture or the Securities without notice to any other Securityholder. Notwithstanding the foregoing or anything herein to the contrary, without the consent of the Holder of each outstanding Security affected, an amendment, supplement or waiver, including a waiver pursuant to Section 6.04, may not:

 

(a)                change the stated maturity of the principal of, or the payment date of any installment of interest on, any Security;

 

(b)               reduce the principal amount of, or any interest on, any Security;

 

(c)                change the place, manner or currency of payment of principal of, or any interest on, any Security;

 

(d)               impair the right to institute suit for the enforcement of any delivery or payment on, or with respect to, or due upon the conversion of, any Security;

 

(e)                modify, in a manner adverse to Holders, the provisions with respect to the right of Holders pursuant to Section 3.02 to require the Company to repurchase Securities upon the occurrence of a Fundamental Change;

 

(f)                modify the provisions of Section 2.18 in a manner adverse to Holders;

 

(g)               adversely affect the right of Holders to convert Securities in accordance with Article X;

 

(h)               reduce the percentage in aggregate principal amount of outstanding Securities whose Holders must consent to a modification to or amendment of any provision of this Indenture or the Securities;

 

(i)                 reduce the percentage in aggregate principal amount of outstanding Securities whose Holders must consent to a waiver of compliance with any provision of this Indenture or the Securities or a waiver of any Default or Event of Default; or

 

(j)                 modify the provisions of this Indenture with respect to modification and waiver (including waiver of a Default or an Event of Default), except to increase the percentage required for modification or waiver or to provide for the consent of each affected Holder.

 

Promptly after an amendment, supplement or waiver under Section 9.01 or this Section 9.02 becomes effective, the Company shall mail, or cause to be mailed, to Securityholders a notice briefly describing such amendment, supplement or waiver. Any failure of the Company to mail such notice shall not in any way impair or affect the validity of such amendment, supplement or waiver.

 

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, supplement or waiver, but it shall be sufficient if such consent approves the substance thereof.

 

SECTION 9.03.        [Reserved].

 

SECTION 9.04.        Revocation and Effect of Consents. Until an amendment, supplement or waiver becomes effective, a consent to it by a Holder is a continuing consent by the Holder and every subsequent Holder of a Security or portion of a Security that evidences the same debt as the consenting Holder’s Security, even if notation of the consent is not made on any Security. However, any such Holder or subsequent Holder may revoke the consent as to its Security or portion of a Security if the Trustee receives the notice of revocation before the date the amendment, supplement or waiver becomes effective.

 

After an amendment, supplement or waiver becomes effective with respect to the Securities, it shall bind every Holder unless such amendment, supplement or waiver makes a change that requires, pursuant to Section 9.02, the consent of each Holder affected. In that case, the amendment, supplement or waiver shall bind each Holder of a Security who has consented to it and, provided that notice of such amendment, supplement or waiver is reflected on a Security that evidences the same debt as the consenting Holder’s Security, every subsequent Holder of a Security or portion of a Security that evidences the same debt as the consenting Holder’s Security.

 

Nothing in this Section 9.04 shall impair the Company’s rights pursuant to Section 9.01 to amend this Indenture or the Securities without the consent of any Securityholder in the manner set forth in, and permitted by, such Section 9.01.

 

SECTION 9.05.        Notation on or Exchange of Securities. If an amendment, supplement or waiver changes the terms of a Security, the Trustee may require the Holder of the Security to deliver it to the Trustee. The Trustee may place an appropriate notation on the Security as directed and prepared by the Company about the changed terms and return it to the Holder. Alternatively, if the Company so determines, the Company in exchange for the Security shall issue and the Trustee shall authenticate a new Security that reflects the changed terms.

 

SECTION 9.06.        Trustee Protected. The Trustee shall sign any amendment, supplemental indenture or waiver authorized pursuant to this Article IX; provided, however, that the Trustee need not sign any amendment, supplement or waiver authorized pursuant to this Article IX that adversely affects the Trustee’s rights, duties, liabilities or immunities. The Trustee shall be entitled to receive and conclusively rely upon an Opinion of Counsel as to legal matters and an Officer’s Certificate as to factual matters that any supplemental indenture, amendment or waiver is permitted or authorized pursuant to this Indenture.

 

SECTION 9.07.        Effect of Supplemental Indentures. Upon the due execution and delivery of any supplemental indenture in accordance with this Article IX, this Indenture shall be modified in accordance therewith, and such supplemental indenture shall form a part of this Indenture for all purposes, and, except as set forth in Sections 9.02 and 9.04, every Holder of Securities shall be bound thereby.

 

 

 

ARTICLE X

Conversion

 

SECTION 10.01.    Conversion Privilege. (a) Subject to the provisions of Section 3.01, Section 3.02 and Section 10.02, the Securities shall be convertible at any time prior to the close of business on the Business Day immediately preceding the Maturity Date into shares of Common Stock, as described in Section 10.02, in accordance with this Article X.

 

(b)               The initial Conversion Rate shall be 200 shares of Common Stock per $1,000 principal amount of Securities. The Conversion Rate shall be subject to adjustment in accordance with Sections 10.06 through 10.14.

 

(c)                A Holder may convert a portion of the principal amount of a Security if such portion is $1,000 principal amount or an integral multiple of $1,000 principal amount. Provisions of this Indenture that apply to conversion of all of a Security also apply to conversion of a portion of such Security.

 

SECTION 10.02.    Conversion Procedure and Payment upon Conversion. (a) To convert a Security, a Holder must (1) complete and manually sign the Conversion Notice, with appropriate signature guarantee, or facsimile of the Conversion Notice and deliver the completed Conversion Notice to the Conversion Agent, (2) surrender the Security to the Conversion Agent, (3) furnish appropriate endorsements and transfer documents if required by the Registrar or Conversion Agent, (4) pay the amount of interest, if any, required by Section 10.02(c) and (5) pay any tax or duty if required pursuant to Section 10.04. If a Holder holds a beneficial interest in a Global Security, to convert such Security, the Holder must comply with clauses (4) and (5) above and the Depositary’s procedures for converting a beneficial interest in a Global Security.

 

Upon conversion of a Holder’s Security, the Company shall deliver, through the Conversion Agent, shares of Common Stock (together with cash in lieu of any fractional share and any accrued and unpaid interest to, but excluding, the Conversion Date) within three Business Days of the relevant Conversion Date, unless such Conversion Date occurs immediately following the regular Record Date immediately preceding the Maturity Date, in which case the Company shall make such delivery (and payment, if applicable) on the Maturity Date.

 

Notwithstanding any other provision of this Indenture or the Securities, if necessary to comply with the listing requirements of The NASDAQ Global Select Market, the Company shall not issue more than 40,000,000 shares in the aggregate of its outstanding Common Stock (as adjusted pursuant to Section 10.06(a) in the event of any share split or share combination) to settle any conversion of Securities hereunder (the “Maximum Share Limitation”). Any principal that is not permitted to be converted as the result of the Maximum Share Limitation will be deemed satisfied in full upon conversion. Such principal not permitted to be converted, if any, shall be deemed to be paid in full rather than canceled, extinguished or forfeited. In the event of a conversion that would cause in excess of 40,000,000 shares to be issued, the Company will promptly notify such converting Holder, and such Holder will be permitted to withdraw or modify its request to convert its Securities within three Business Days after receiving such notice from the Company. If any such converting Holder does not withdraw or amend its request to convert its Securities within such three Business Day period, such Holder’s original request to convert will be fulfilled, with any principal not permitted to be converted as a result of the Maximum Share Limitation deemed satisfied in full in accordance with the fourth sentence of this paragraph. The Company shall also promptly give notice to the Trustee and the other Holders at any time additional conversions of the Securities will not be permitted as a result of the Maximum Share Limitation.

 

The number of shares of Common Stock due upon conversion of Securities shall be determined as follows: the Company shall deliver to each converting Holder a number of shares of Common Stock equal to (i) (A) the aggregate principal amount of Securities to be converted, divided by (B) $1,000 multiplied by (ii) the Conversion Rate in effect on the relevant Conversion Date (provided that the Company shall deliver cash in lieu of fractional shares as described in Section 10.03).

 

(b)               A Holder receiving shares of Common Stock upon conversion shall not be entitled to any rights as a holder of Common Stock, including, among other things, the right to vote and receive dividends and notices of shareholder meetings, until the close of business on the Conversion Date. On and after the Conversion Date with respect to a conversion of a Security pursuant hereto, all rights of the Holder of such Security shall terminate, other than the right to receive the consideration deliverable upon conversion of such Security as provided herein.

 

(c)                Upon conversion, the Company shall pay to the Holder, in cash, accrued and unpaid interest to, but excluding, the Conversion Date, on the Securities being converted.

 

(d)               If a Holder converts more than one Security at the same time, the number of full shares of Common Stock issuable upon such conversion shall be based on the total principal amount of all Securities converted.

 

(e)                Upon surrender of a Security that is converted in part, the Trustee shall authenticate for the Holder a new Security equal in principal amount to the unconverted portion of the Security surrendered.

 

(f)                If the last day on which a Security may be converted is a Legal Holiday in a place where a Conversion Agent is located, the Security may be surrendered to that Conversion Agent on the next succeeding day that is not a Legal Holiday.

 

(g)               Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Indenture, (i) any Security for which a Holder has delivered an appropriate instruction form for conversion to the Depositary or a Conversion Notice pursuant to Section 10.02 on or after the date of mailing of an Issuer’s Conversion Notice will be converted pursuant to Section 10.15 and will not be voluntarily converted pursuant to Sections 10.01 and 10.02 and (ii) any Security for which a Holder has delivered an appropriate instruction form for conversion to the Depositary or a Conversion Notice pursuant to Section 10.02 prior to the date of mailing of an Issuer’s Conversion Notice will not be converted pursuant to Section 10.15 and will be voluntarily converted pursuant to Sections 10.01 and 10.02.

 

 

 

SECTION 10.03.    Cash In Lieu of Fractional Shares. The Company will not issue a fractional share of Common Stock upon conversion of a Security. Instead, the Company shall pay cash in lieu of fractional shares based on the Closing Sale Price of Common Stock on the Conversion Date.

 

SECTION 10.04.    Taxes on Conversion. If a Holder converts its Security, the Company shall pay any documentary, stamp or similar issue or transfer tax or duty due on the issue of Common Stock upon the conversion. However, such Holder shall pay any such tax or duty which is due because such shares are issued in a name other than such Holder’s name. The Conversion Agent may refuse to deliver a certificate representing the Common Stock to be issued in a name other than such Holder’s name until the Conversion Agent receives a sum sufficient to pay any tax or duty which will be due because such shares are to be issued in a name other than such Holder’s name.

 

SECTION 10.05.    Company to Provide Common Stock. The Company shall at all times reserve out of its authorized but unissued Common Stock or Common Stock held in its treasury enough shares of Common Stock to permit the conversion, in accordance herewith, of all of the Securities. The shares of Common Stock due upon conversion of a Global Security shall be delivered by the Company in accordance with the Depositary’s customary practices.

 

All shares of Common Stock which may be issued upon conversion of the Securities shall be validly issued, fully paid and non-assessable and shall be free of preemptive or similar rights and free of any lien or adverse claim.

 

The Company shall comply with all securities laws regulating the offer and delivery of shares of Common Stock upon conversion of Securities and shall list such shares on each national securities exchange or automated quotation system on which the shares of Common Stock are listed.

 

SECTION 10.06.    Adjustment of Conversion Rate. The Conversion Rate shall be subject to adjustment from time to time, without duplication, upon the occurrence of any of the following events:

 

(a)                If the Company issues shares of Common Stock as a dividend or distribution on the shares of Common Stock, or if the Company effects a share split or share combination, the Conversion Rate shall be adjusted based on the following formula:

 

 

where

 

CR0   =

the Conversion Rate in effect immediately prior to the close of business on the record date for such dividend or distribution, or the open of business on the effective date of such share split or share combination, as the case may be;

 

 

CR’   =

the Conversion Rate in effect immediately after the close of business on the record date for such dividend or distribution, or the open of business on the effective date of such share split or share combination, as the case may be;

 

OS0   =

the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding immediately prior to the close of business on the record date for such dividend or distribution, or the open of business on the effective date of such share split or share combination, as the case may be; and

 

OS´   =

the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding immediately after such dividend or distribution, or such share split or share combination, as the case may be.

 

Any adjustment made under this Section 10.06(a) shall become effective immediately after the close of business on the record date for such dividend or distribution, or immediately after the open of business on the effective date for such share split or share combination, as the case may be. If any dividend or distribution of the type described in this Section 10.06(a) is declared but not so paid or made, or any share split or combination of the type described in this Section 10.06(a) is announced but the outstanding shares of Common Stock are not split or combined, as the case may be, the Conversion Rate shall be immediately readjusted, effective as of the date the Board of Directors determines not to pay such dividend or distribution, or not to split or combine the outstanding shares of Common Stock, as the case may be, to the Conversion Rate that would then be in effect if such dividend, distribution, share split or share combination had not been declared or announced.

 

(b)               If the Company distributes to all or substantially all holders of the Common Stock any rights, options or warrants entitling them, for a period expiring not more than sixty (60) days immediately following the record date of such distribution, to purchase or subscribe for shares of Common Stock, at a price per share less than the average of the Closing Sale Prices of the Common Stock over the ten (10) consecutive Trading Day period ending on the Trading Day immediately preceding the Ex Date for such distribution, the Conversion Rate shall be increased based on the following formula:

 

 

where

 

CR0

=

the Conversion Rate in effect immediately prior to the close of business on the record date for such distribution;

 

CR’

=

the Conversion Rate in effect immediately after the close of business on the record date for such distribution;

 

OS0

=

the number of shares of Common Stock that are outstanding immediately prior to the close of business on the record date for such distribution;

 

X

=

the total number of shares of Common Stock issuable pursuant to such rights, options or warrants; and

 

Y

=

the number of shares of Common Stock equal to the aggregate price payable to exercise such rights, options or warrants, divided by the average of the Closing Sale Prices of the Common Stock over the ten (10) consecutive Trading Day period ending on the Trading Day immediately preceding the announcement date for such distribution.

 

Any increase made under this Section 10.06(b) shall be made successively whenever any such rights, options or warrants are distributed and shall become effective immediately after the close of business on the record date for such distribution. The Company shall not issue any such rights, options, or warrants in respect of Common Stock held in treasury by the Company. To the extent that shares of Common Stock are not delivered after the expiration of such rights, options or warrants, the Conversion Rate shall be readjusted to the Conversion Rate that would then be in effect had the increase with respect to the distribution of such rights, options or warrants been made on the basis of delivery of only the number of shares of Common Stock actually delivered. If such rights, options or warrants are not so distributed, the Conversion Rate shall be decreased to be the Conversion Rate that would then be in effect if such record date for such distribution had not occurred.

 

In determining whether any rights, options or warrants entitle the holders to subscribe for or purchase shares of Common Stock at less than such average of the Closing Sale Prices for the ten (10) consecutive Trading Day period ending on the Trading Day immediately preceding the Ex Date for such distribution, and in determining the aggregate offering price of such shares of Common Stock, there shall be taken into account any consideration received by the Company for such rights, options or warrants and any amount payable on exercise or conversion thereof, the value of such consideration, if other than cash, to be determined by the Board of Directors. In no event shall the Conversion Rate be decreased pursuant to this Section 10.06(b).

 

(c)                If the Company distributes shares of its Capital Stock, evidences of its indebtedness or other of its assets, securities or property, but excluding (i) dividends or distributions covered by Sections 10.06(a) and 10.06(b), (ii) dividends or distributions paid exclusively in cash covered by Section 10.06(d), and (iii) Spin-Offs to which the provisions set forth in the latter portion of this Section 10.06(c) shall apply (any of such shares of Capital Stock, indebtedness or other assets, securities or property, the “Distributed Property”), to all or substantially all holders of Common Stock, then, in each such case the Conversion Rate shall be increased based on the following formula:

 

 

where

 

 

 

 

 

CR0	=	the Conversion Rate in effect immediately prior to the close of business on the record date for such distribution;
CR’	=	the Conversion Rate in effect immediately after the close of business on the record date for such distribution;
SP0	=	the average of the Closing Sale Prices of the Common Stock over the ten (10) consecutive Trading Day period ending on the Trading Day immediately preceding the Ex Date for such distribution; and
FMV	=	the fair market value (as determined by the Board of Directors) of the shares of Capital Stock, evidences of indebtedness, assets, securities or property distributable with respect to each outstanding share of Common Stock as of the open of business on the Ex Date for such distribution.

 

 

If the Board of Directors determines “FMV” for purposes of this Section 10.06(c) by reference to the actual or when issued trading market for any securities, it must in doing so consider the prices in such market over the same period used in computing the Closing Sale Prices of the Common Stock over the ten (10) consecutive Trading Day period ending on the Trading Day immediately preceding the Ex Date for such distribution.

 

Notwithstanding the foregoing, if “FMV” (as defined above) is equal to or greater than the “SP₀” (as defined above), in lieu of the foregoing increase, each Holder of a Security shall receive, for each $1,000 principal amount of Securities, at the same time and upon the same terms as the holders of the Common Stock, the amount and kind of Distributed Property that such Holder would have received as if such Holder owned a number of shares of Common Stock equal to the Conversion Rate in effect on the Ex Date for such distribution.

 

Any increase made under the portion of this Section 10.06(c) above shall become effective immediately after the close of business on the record date for such distribution. If such distribution is not so paid or made, the Conversion Rate shall be decreased to be the Conversion Rate that would then be in effect if such dividend or distribution had not been declared.

 

With respect to an adjustment pursuant to this Section 10.06(c) where there has been a payment of a dividend or other distribution on the Common Stock of shares of Capital Stock of any class or series, or similar equity interest, of or relating to a Subsidiary or other business unit of the Company, where such Capital Stock or similar equity interest is listed or quoted (or will be listed or quoted upon consummation of the Spin-Off) on a U.S. national securities exchange (a “Spin-Off”), the Conversion Rate in effect immediately before the close of business on the tenth (10th) Trading Day immediately following, and including, the Ex Date of the Spin-Off shall be increased based on the following formula:

 

 

where

 

 

 

 

 

CR0	=	the Conversion Rate in effect immediately prior to the close of business on the tenth (10th) Trading Day immediately following, and including, the Ex Date for the Spin-Off;
CR’	=	the Conversion Rate in effect immediately after the close of business on the tenth (10th) Trading Day immediately following, and including, the Ex Date for the Spin-Off;
FMV0	=	the average of the Closing Sale Prices of the Capital Stock or similar equity interest distributed to holders of the Common Stock applicable to one share of Common Stock over the first ten (10) consecutive Trading Day period immediately following, and including, the Ex Date for the Spin-Off; and
MP0	=	the average of the Closing Sale Prices of the Common Stock over the first ten (10) consecutive Trading Day period immediately following, and including, the Ex Date for the Spin-Off.

 

 

The increase to the Conversion Rate under the preceding paragraph shall become effective at the close of business on the tenth (10th) Trading Day immediately following, and including, the Ex Date for the Spin-Off; provided that, for purposes of determining the Conversion Rate, in respect of any conversion during the ten (10) Trading Days immediately following and including, the Ex Date of any Spin-Off, references in the portion of this Section 10.06(c) related to Spin-Offs to ten (10) consecutive Trading Days shall be deemed replaced with such lesser number of consecutive Trading Days as have elapsed between the Ex Date of such Spin-Off and the Conversion Date for such conversion.

 

Subject in all respects to Section 10.14, rights, options or warrants distributed by the Company to all holders of its Common Stock entitling the holders thereof to subscribe for or purchase shares of the Company’s Capital Stock, including Common Stock (either initially or under certain circumstances), which rights, options or warrants, until the occurrence of a specified event or events (“Trigger Event”): (i) are deemed to be transferred with such Common Stock; (ii) are not exercisable; and (iii) are also issued in respect of future issuances of the Common Stock, shall be deemed not to have been distributed for purposes of this Section 10.06(c) (and no adjustment to the Conversion Rate under this Section 10.06(c) will be required) until the occurrence of the earliest Trigger Event, whereupon such rights, options or warrants shall be deemed to have been distributed and an appropriate adjustment (if any is required) to the Conversion Rate shall be made under this Section 10.06(c). If any such right, option or warrant, including any such existing rights, options or warrants distributed prior to the date of this Indenture, are subject to events, upon the occurrence of which such rights, options or warrants become exercisable to purchase different securities, evidences of indebtedness or other assets, then the date of the occurrence of any and each such event shall be deemed to be the date of distribution and record date with respect to new rights, options or warrants with such rights (and a termination or expiration of the existing rights, options or warrants without exercise by any of the holders thereof). In addition, in the event of any distribution (or deemed distribution) of rights, options or warrants, or any Trigger Event or other event (of the type described in the preceding sentence) with respect thereto that was counted for purposes of calculating a distribution amount for which an adjustment to the Conversion Rate under this Section 10.06(c) was made, (1) in the case of any such rights, options or warrants that shall all have been redeemed or repurchased without exercise by any holders thereof, the Conversion Rate shall be readjusted upon such final redemption or repurchase to give effect to such distribution or Trigger Event, as the case may be, as though it were a cash distribution, equal to the per share redemption or repurchase price received by a holder or holders of Common Stock with respect to such rights, options or warrants (assuming such holder had retained such rights, options or warrants), made to all holders of Common Stock as of the date of such redemption or repurchase, and (2) in the case of such rights, options or warrants that shall have expired or been terminated without exercise by any holders thereof, the Conversion Rate shall be readjusted as if such rights, options or warrants had not been issued.

 

For purposes of Section 10.06(a), Section 10.06(b) and this Section 10.06(c), any dividend or distribution to which this Section 10.06(c) is applicable that also includes one or both of:

 

(i) a dividend or distribution of shares of Common Stock to which Section 10.06(a) is applicable (the “Clause A Distribution”); or

 

(ii) a dividend or distribution of rights, options or warrants to which Section 10.06(b) is applicable (the “Clause B Distribution”), then (1) such dividend or distribution, other than the Clause A Distribution and Clause B Distribution, shall be deemed to be a dividend or distribution to which this Section 10.06(c) is applicable (the “Clause C Distribution”) and any Conversion Rate adjustment required by this Section 10.06(c) with respect to such Clause C Distribution shall then be made and (2) the Clause A Distribution and Clause B Distribution shall be deemed to immediately follow the Clause C Distribution and any Conversion Rate adjustment required by Section 10.06(a) and Section 10.06(b) with respect thereto shall then be made, except that, if determined by the Board of Directors (I) the record date of the Clause A Distribution and the Clause B Distribution shall be deemed to be the record date of the Clause C Distribution and (II) any shares of Common Stock included in the Clause A Distribution or Clause B Distribution shall be deemed not to be “outstanding immediately prior to the close of business on the record date for such dividend or distribution, or the open of business on the effective date of such share split or share combination, as the case may be” within the meaning of Section 10.06(a) or “outstanding immediately prior to the close of business on the record date for such distribution” within the meaning of Section 10.06(b).

 

In no event shall the Conversion Rate be decreased pursuant to this Section 10.06(c).

 

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

 

 

where

 

CR0	=	the Conversion Rate in effect immediately prior to the close of business on the record date for such dividend or distribution;
CR’	=	the Conversion Rate in effect immediately after the close of business on the record date for such dividend or distribution;
SP0	=	the average of the Closing Sale Prices of the Common Stock over the ten (10) consecutive Trading Day period immediately preceding the Ex Date for such dividend or distribution; and
C	=	the amount in cash per share of Common Stock the Company distributes to holders of its Common Stock.

 

Such increase shall become effective immediately after the close of business on the record date for such dividend or distribution. If such dividend or distribution is not so paid, the Conversion Rate shall be decreased to be the Conversion Rate that would then be in effect if such dividend or distribution had not been declared.

 

Notwithstanding the foregoing, if “C” (as defined above) is equal to or greater than “SP₀” (as defined above), in lieu of the foregoing increase, each Holder of a Security shall receive, for each $1,000 principal amount of Securities, at the same time and upon the same terms as holders of the Common Stock, the amount of cash such Holder would have received as if such Holder owned a number of shares of Common Stock equal to the Conversion Rate on the Ex Date for such dividend or distribution.

 

In no event shall the Conversion Rate be decreased pursuant to this Section 10.06(d).

 

(e)                If the Company or any of its Subsidiaries makes a payment in respect of a tender offer or exchange offer for the Common Stock, if the cash and value of any other consideration included in the payment per share of Common Stock exceeds the average of the Closing Sale Prices of the Common Stock over the ten (10) consecutive Trading-Day period commencing on, and including, the Trading Day next succeeding the last date on which tenders or exchanges may be made pursuant to such tender or exchange offer, the Conversion Rate shall be increased based on the following formula:

 

 

where

 

 

CR0

=

the Conversion Rate in effect immediately prior to the close of business on the last Trading Day of the ten (10) consecutive Trading Day period commencing on, and including, the Trading Day next succeeding the date such tender or exchange offer expires;

 

 

CR’	=	the Conversion Rate in effect immediately after the close of business on the last Trading Day of the ten (10) consecutive Trading Day period commencing on, and including, the Trading Day next succeeding the date such tender or exchange offer expires;
AC	=	the aggregate value of all cash and any other consideration (as determined by the Board of Directors) paid or payable for shares of Common Stock purchased in such tender or exchange offer;
OS0	=	the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding immediately prior to the date such tender or exchange offer expires (prior to giving effect to such tender offer or exchange offer);
OS’	=	the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding immediately after the date such tender or exchange offer expires (after giving effect to such tender offer or exchange offer); and
SP’	=	the average of the Closing Sale Prices of the Common Stock over the ten (10) consecutive Trading Day period commencing on, and including, the Trading Day next succeeding the date such tender or exchange offer expires.

 

 

The increase to the Conversion Rate under this Section 10.06(e) shall occur at the close of business on the tenth (10th) Trading Day immediately following, but excluding, the date such tender or exchange offer expires; provided that, for purposes of determining the Conversion Rate, in respect of any conversion during the ten (10) Trading Days immediately following, but excluding, the date that any such tender or exchange offer expires, references in this Section 10.06(e) to ten (10) Trading Days shall be deemed replaced with such lesser number of Trading Days as have elapsed between the date that such tender or exchange offer expires and the Conversion Date for such conversion.

 

(f)                In addition to the foregoing adjustments in subsections (a), (b), (c), (d) and (e) above, the Company may, from time to time and to the extent permitted by law and the continued listing requirements of The NASDAQ Global Select Market, increase the Conversion Rate by any amount for a period of at least twenty (20) Business Days or any longer period as may be permitted or required by law, if the Board of Directors has made a determination, which determination shall be conclusive, that such increase would be in the best interests of the Company. Such Conversion Rate increase shall be irrevocable during such period. The Company shall give notice to the Trustee and cause notice of such increase to be mailed to each Holder of Securities at such Holder’s address as the same appears on the registry books of the Registrar, at least fifteen (15) days prior to the date on which such increase commences.

 

(g)               All calculations under this Article X shall be made to the nearest cent or to the nearest one-millionth of a share, as the case may be. Adjustments to the Conversion Rate will be calculated to the nearest 1/10,000th.

 

 

 

SECTION 10.07.    No Adjustment. Notwithstanding anything herein or in the Securities to the contrary, in no event shall the Conversion Rate be adjusted:

 

(i) upon the issuance of any shares of Common Stock pursuant to any present or future plan providing for the reinvestment of dividends or interest payable on the Company’s securities;

 

(ii) upon the issuance of any shares of Common Stock or restricted stock, restricted stock units, non-qualified stock options, incentive stock options or any other options or rights (including stock appreciation rights) to purchase shares of Common Stock pursuant to any present or future employee, director or consultant benefit plan or program of, or assumed by, the Company or any of its Subsidiaries;

 

(iii) upon the issuance of any shares of Common Stock pursuant to any option, warrant, right or exercisable, exchangeable or convertible security not described in clause (ii) above and outstanding as of the date the Securities were first issued;

 

(iv) for accrued and unpaid interest, if any, including Additional Interest, if any;

 

(v) upon the repurchase of any shares of Common Stock pursuant to an open-market share repurchase program or other buy-back transaction that is not a tender offer or exchange offer of the nature described in Section 10.06; or

 

(vi) for a change in the par value of shares of Common Stock.

 

No adjustment in the Conversion Rate pursuant to Section 10.06 shall be required until cumulative adjustments amount to one percent (1%) or more of the Conversion Rate as last adjusted (or, if never adjusted, the initial Conversion Rate); provided, however, that any adjustments to the Conversion Rate which by reason of this paragraph are not required to be made shall be carried forward and taken into account in any subsequent adjustment to the Conversion Rate; provided further that (i) on December 31 of each year and (ii) if the Securities have been converted pursuant to Section 10.01, then, in each case, any adjustments to the Conversion Rate that have been, and at such time remain, deferred pursuant to this Section 10.07 shall be given effect, and such adjustments, if any, shall no longer be carried forward and taken into account in any subsequent adjustment to the Conversion Rate.

 

No adjustment to the Conversion Rate need be made pursuant to Section 10.06 for a transaction (other than for share splits or share combinations pursuant to Section 10.06(a)) if the Company provides for each Holder to participate in the transaction, at the same time that holders of Common Stock participate in such transaction, without conversion, as if such Holder held a number of shares of Common Stock equal to a fraction whose numerator is the product of the Conversion Rate in effect on the Ex Date or effective date, as applicable, of the transaction (without giving effect to any adjustment pursuant to Section 10.06 on account of such transaction) and the aggregate principal amount of Securities held by such Holder and whose denominator is one thousand dollars ($1,000).

 

 

 

SECTION 10.08.    Other Adjustments. In the event that, as a result of an adjustment made pursuant to Section 10.06 hereof, the Holder of any Security thereafter surrendered for conversion shall become entitled to receive any shares of Capital Stock other than Common Stock, thereafter the Conversion Rate of such other shares so receivable upon conversion of any Security shall be subject to adjustment from time to time in a manner and on terms as nearly equivalent as practicable to the provisions with respect to Common Stock contained in this Article X.

 

SECTION 10.09.    Adjustments for Tax Purposes. Except as prohibited by law and the continued listing requirements of The NASDAQ Global Select Market the Company may (but is not obligated to) increase the Conversion Rate, in addition to those required by Section 10.06 hereof, as it determines to be advisable in order that any stock dividend, subdivision of shares, distribution of rights to purchase stock or securities or distribution of securities convertible into or exchangeable for stock made by the Company or to its shareholders will not be taxable to the recipients thereof or in order to avoid or diminish any such taxation.

 

SECTION 10.10.    Notice Of Adjustment. Whenever the Conversion Rate is adjusted, the Company shall promptly mail to Holders at the addresses appearing on the Registrar’s books a notice of the adjustment and file with the Trustee an Officer’s Certificate briefly stating the facts requiring the adjustment and the manner of computing it. The certificate shall be conclusive evidence of the correctness of such adjustment.

 

SECTION 10.11.    Notice Of Certain Transactions.

 

In the event that:

 

(a)                the Company takes any action, or becomes aware of any event, which would require an adjustment in the Conversion Rate,

 

(b)               the Company takes any action that would require a supplemental indenture pursuant to Section 10.12, or

 

(c)                there is a dissolution or liquidation of the Company,

 

the Company shall mail to Holders at the addresses appearing on the Registrar’s books and the Trustee a written notice stating the proposed record, effective or expiration date, as the case may be, of any transaction referred to in clause (a), (b) or (c) of this Section 10.11. The Company shall mail such notice at least twenty (20) calendar days (or, in the case of any event that would require an adjustment in the Conversion Rate pursuant to Section 10.06(b), 10.06(c), 10.06(d) or 10.06(e), thirty (30) Business Days) before such date; however, failure to mail such notice or any defect therein shall not affect the validity of any transaction referred to in clause (a), (b) or (c) of this Section 10.11.

 

SECTION 10.12.    Effect of Reclassifications, Consolidations, Mergers, Binding Share Exchanges or Sales on Conversion Privilege.

 

If the Company:

 

(a)                reclassifies the Common Stock (other than a change only in par value, or from par value to no par value, or from no par value to par value, or as a result of a subdivision or combination of Common Stock to which Section 10.06 applies);

 

(b)               is a party to a consolidation, merger or binding share exchange; or

 

(c)                sells, transfers, leases, conveys or otherwise disposes of all or substantially all of the consolidated property or assets of the Company,

 

in each case pursuant to which the Common Stock would be converted into or exchanged for, or would constitute solely the right to receive, cash, securities or other property (any such event, a “Merger Event”) then, if a Holder converts its Securities on or after the effective date of any such transaction, the Securities will be convertible into the same type (and same proportions) of consideration received by holders of Common Stock in such transaction (“Reference Property”) and, prior to or at the effective time of such Merger Event, the Company or the successor or purchasing Person, as the case may be, shall execute with the Trustee a supplemental indenture permitted under Section 9.01(a) providing for such change in the right to convert the Securities; provided, however, that at and after the effective time of the Merger Event, the number of shares of Common Stock otherwise deliverable upon conversion of the Securities in accordance with Section 10.02 shall instead be deliverable in the amount and type of Reference Property that a holder of that number of shares of Common Stock would have received in such Merger Event.

 

If the Merger Event causes the Common Stock to be converted into, or exchanged for, the right to receive more than a single type of consideration (determined based in part upon any form of shareholder election), then (i) the Reference Property into which the Securities will be convertible shall be deemed to be the weighted average of the types and amounts of consideration received by the holders of Common Stock that affirmatively make such an election and (ii) the unit of Reference Property for purposes of the immediately preceding paragraph shall refer to the consideration referred to in clause (i) attributable to one share of Common Stock. The Company shall notify Holders, the Trustee and the Conversion Agent (if other than the Trustee) of such weighted average as soon as practicable after such determination is made.

 

The supplemental indenture referred to in the first sentence of this Section 10.12 shall provide for adjustments of the Conversion Rate which shall be as nearly equivalent as may be practicable to the adjustments of the Conversion Rate provided for in this Article X. If, in the case of any such consolidation, merger, binding share exchange, sale, transfer, lease, conveyance or disposition, the stock or other securities and property (including cash) receivable thereupon by a holder of Common Stock includes shares of stock or other securities and property of a Person other than the successor or purchasing Person, as the case may be, in such consolidation, merger, binding share exchange, sale, transfer, lease, conveyance or disposition, then such supplemental indenture shall also be executed by such other Person and shall contain such additional provisions to protect the interests of the Holders of the Securities as the Board of Directors in good faith shall reasonably determine necessary by reason of the foregoing (which determination shall be described in a Board Resolution). The provisions of this Section 10.12 shall similarly apply to successive consolidations, mergers, binding share exchanges, sales, transfers, leases, conveyances or dispositions.

 

The Company shall not become a party to any Merger Event unless its terms are consistent with this Section 10.12.

 

None of the foregoing provisions shall affect the right of a Holder to convert its Securities into shares of Common Stock as set forth in Section 10.01 and Section 10.02 prior to the effective date of such Merger Event.

 

In the event the Company shall execute a supplemental indenture pursuant to this Section 10.12, the Company shall promptly file with the Trustee an Officer’s Certificate briefly stating the reasons therefor, the kind or amount of shares of stock or securities or property (including cash) receivable by Holders of the Securities upon the conversion of their Securities after any such Merger Event and any adjustment to be made with respect thereto.

 

SECTION 10.13.    Trustee’s Disclaimer. The Trustee has no duty to determine when an adjustment under this Article X should be made, how it should be made or what such adjustment should be, but may accept as conclusive evidence of the correctness of any such adjustment, and shall be protected in relying upon, the Officer’s Certificate with respect thereto which the Company is obligated to file with the Trustee pursuant to Section 10.10 hereof. The Trustee makes no representation as to the validity or value of any securities or assets issued upon conversion of Securities, and the Trustee shall not be responsible for the failure by the Company to comply with any provisions of this Article X.

 

The Trustee shall not be under any responsibility to determine the correctness of any provisions contained in any supplemental indenture executed pursuant to Section 10.12, but may accept as conclusive evidence of the correctness thereof, and shall be protected in relying upon, the Officer’s Certificate with respect thereto which the Company is obligated to file with the Trustee pursuant to Section 10.12 hereof.

 

SECTION 10.14.    Rights Distributions Pursuant to Shareholders’ Rights Plans. Upon conversion of any Security or a portion thereof, the Company shall make provision such that the Holder thereof shall receive, in addition to, and concurrently with the delivery of, shares of Common Stock upon conversion, the rights described in the Rights Agreement and any future shareholders’ rights plan(s) of the Company then in effect, unless the rights have separated from the Common Stock prior to the time of conversion, in which case the Conversion Rate shall be adjusted at the time of separation as if the Company distributed to all holders of Common Stock, Distributed Property as described in Section 10.06(c), subject to readjustment in the event of the expiration, termination or redemption of such rights.

 

SECTION 10.15.    Issuer’s Conversion Option.

 

(a)                The Company may, at its option, elect to convert the Securities in whole or in part (an “Issuer’s Conversion Option”) at any time if the Volume-Weighted Average Price of the Common Stock has equaled or exceeded 150% of the Conversion Price then in effect for at least 20 Trading Days in any 30 Trading Day period, ending within five Trading Days prior to the date of the Issuer’s Conversion Notice (the “Issuer’s Conversion Price”).

 

 

 

(b)               If the Company elects to exercise its Issuer’s Conversion Option pursuant to Section 10.15(a), the Company or, at the written request and expense of the Company, the Trustee, shall mail or cause to be delivered to each Holder subject to such Issuer’s Conversion Option a notice (an “Issuer’s Conversion Notice”) of an Issuer’s Conversion Option not more than 30 Trading Days but not less than 10 Trading Days prior to the Issuer’s Conversion Date. If the Company gives such notice, it shall also deliver a copy of such Issuer’s Conversion Notice to the Trustee. If such notice is to be given by the Trustee, the Company shall prepare and provide the form and content of such Issuer’s Conversion Notice to the Trustee. Such mailing shall be by first class mail or delivered electronically pursuant to the applicable procedures of the Depositary. The notice, if mailed in the manner herein provided, shall be conclusively presumed to have been duly given, whether or not any Holder receives such notice. The Issuer’s Conversion Option will occur on a date (the “Issuer’s Conversion Date”) selected by the Company that is not less than 10 Trading Days or more than 30 Trading Days after the date (the “Issuer’s Conversion Notice Date”) on which such Issuer’s Conversion Notice is mailed to such Holders in the manner herein provided.

 

Each Issuer’s Conversion Notice shall state:

 

(i) the Issuer’s Conversion Notice Date;

 

(ii) the aggregate principal amount of Securities to be converted;

 

(iii) the CUSIP or similar number or numbers of the Securities being converted;

 

(iv) the Issuer’s Conversion Date;

 

(v) that on and after the Issuer’s Conversion Date interest on the Securities to be converted will cease to accrue;

 

(vi) the name and address of each Paying Agent and Conversion Agent and the place or places where such Securities are to be surrendered for conversion; and

 

(vii) the Conversion Price then in effect.

 

(c)                Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Company may only exercise its Issuer’s Conversion Option pursuant to Section 10.15(a) if, as evidenced by an Officers’ Certificate, all of the conditions listed below (the “Equity Conditions”) are satisfied on each day during the period (x) commencing ten days prior to the date an Issuer’s Conversion Notice is mailed to Holders and (y) ending on the Issuer’s Conversion Date (the “Equity Conditions Measuring Period”). The Equity Conditions are as follows:

 

(i) either (1) all shares of Common Stock issuable upon conversion of the Securities and held by a non-Affiliate of the Company shall be eligible for sale without the need for registration under any applicable federal or state securities laws or (2) a shelf registration statement registering the resale of the shares of Common Stock issuable upon conversion of the Securities has been filed by the Company and been declared effective by the SEC or is automatically effective and is available for use, and the Company expects such shelf registration statement to remain effective and available for use from the Issuer’s Conversion Notice Date until thirty (30) days following the Issuer’s Conversion Date;

 

 

 

(ii) during the Equity Conditions Measuring Period, the Common Stock is listed or traded on The New York Stock Exchange, The NASDAQ Global Select Market or The NASDAQ Global Market (or any of their respective successors) and shall not have been suspended from trading on such exchange or market (other than suspensions of not more than two Trading Days and occurring prior to the applicable date of determination due to business announcements by the Company) nor shall delisting or suspension by such exchange or market been threatened or pending either (A) in writing by such exchange or market or (B) by falling below the then effective minimum listing maintenance requirements of such exchange or market;

 

(iii) prior to the date of mailing of an Issuer’s Conversion Option, to the extent any Securities have been delivered to the Company for conversion in accordance with the terms of the Securities, the Company shall have delivered shares of Common Stock upon conversion of the Securities to the Holders in accordance with Section 10.02;

 

(iv) any applicable shares of Common Stock to be issued upon conversion may be issued in full without violating the rules or regulations of The New York Stock Exchange, The NASDAQ Global Select Market or The NASDAQ Global Market (or any of their respective successors) on which the Common Stock delivered upon conversion is then listed or trading; and

 

(v) no Default or Event of Default under this Indenture shall have occurred and be continuing.

 

(d)               If fewer than all of the Securities are to be converted at the option of the Company, the Issuer’s Conversion Notice shall identify the Securities to be converted (including the CUSIP or similar number or numbers, if any). In case any Security is to be converted in part only, the Issuer’s Conversion Notice shall state the portion of the principal amount thereof to be converted and shall state that, on and after the Issuer’s Conversion Date, upon surrender of such Security, a new Security or Securities in principal amount equal to the unconverted portion thereof will be issued.

 

(e)                If the Company opts to convert less than all of the outstanding Securities, the Trustee shall (subject, in the case of conversion of any Global Security, to the applicable procedures of the Depositary) select or cause to be selected the Securities or portions thereof of the Global Securities or the Securities in certificated form to be converted (in principal amounts of $1,000 or an integral multiple thereof) by lot, on a pro rata basis or by another method the Trustee deems fair and appropriate. To the extent any Security or part thereof selected for Issuer’s Conversion Option is submitted for a voluntary conversion to be given effect pursuant to Section 10.02(g), the portion of such Security submitted for a voluntary conversion shall be deemed (so far as may be possible) to be from the portion selected for Issuer’s Conversion Option for all purposes hereof; provided, however that any such Security submitted for a voluntary conversion to be given effect pursuant to Section 10.02(g) shall be voluntarily converted pursuant to Sections 10.01 and 10.02 hereof.

 

 

 

(f)                Each Holder of a Security, by the Holder’s acceptance thereof, agrees to take the following actions prior to the Issuer’s Conversion Date in respect of the portion of its Securities subject to an Issuer’s Conversion Option: (i) surrendering the converted Security, or portion thereof, to the Conversion Agent, (ii) furnishing appropriate endorsements and transfer documents if required by the Security Registrar or the Conversion Agent, (iii) if the Security is held in book-entry form, completing and delivering to the Depositary appropriate instructions pursuant to the Depositary’s book-entry conversion programs, and (iv) paying the funds, if any, required by Section 10.02(c) and, if required, all taxes or duties. In the event that a Holder does not take any of the actions set forth in the immediately preceding sentence prior to the Issuer’s Conversion Date, each Holder of a Security, by the Holder’s acceptance thereof, authorizes and directs the Company to take any action on the Holder’s behalf to effect the Issuer’s Conversion Option and appoints the Company such Holder’s attorney-in-fact for any and all such purposes. Such appointment as attorney-in-fact is coupled with an interest and is irrevocable so long as any Security is outstanding.

 

Upon presentation of any Security converted in part only, the Company shall execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and make available for delivery to the Holder thereof, at the expense of the Company, a new Security or Securities, of authorized denominations, in principal amount equal to the unconverted portion of the Security or Securities so presented (subject to the applicable procedures of the Depositary in the case of Global Securities).

 

(g)               Upon conversion, interest on the Security or portion of Securities so called for Issuer’s Conversion Option shall cease to accrue, and such Securities shall cease to be entitled to any benefit under the Indenture, and the Holders thereof shall have no right in respect of such Securities except the right to receive the shares of Common Stock and cash, if any, to which they are entitled pursuant to Section 10.02 (other than Section 10.02(c)) and this Section 10.15.

 

(h)               The Trustee has no duty to verify whether the Equity Conditions have been satisfied and may conclusively rely on the Officers’ Certificate delivered in connection therewith.

 

(i)                 If any of the provisions of this Section 10.15 are inconsistent with applicable law at the time of such Issuer’s Conversion Option, such law shall govern.

 

ARTICLE XI

Concerning The Holders

 

SECTION 11.01.    Action by Holders. Whenever in this Indenture it is provided that the Holders of a specified percentage in aggregate principal amount of the Securities may take any action (including the making of any demand or request, the giving of any notice, consent or waiver or the taking of any other action), the fact that at the time of taking any such action, the Holders of such specified percentage have joined therein may be evidenced (i) by any instrument or any number of instruments of similar tenor executed by Holders in person or by agent or proxy appointed in writing, (ii) by the record of the Holders voting in favor thereof at any meeting of Holders duly called and held in accordance with the provisions of Article XII or (iii) by a combination of such instrument or instruments and any such record of such a meeting of Holders. Whenever the Company or the Trustee solicits the taking of any action by the Holders of the Securities, the Company or the Trustee may fix, but shall not be required to, in advance of such solicitation, a date as the record date for determining Holders entitled to take such action. The record date if one is selected shall be not more than fifteen (15) days prior to the date of commencement of solicitation of such action.

 

 

 

SECTION 11.02.    Proof of Execution by Holders. Subject to the provisions of Section 7.01, Section 7.02 and Section 12.05, proof of the execution of any instrument by a Holder or its agent or proxy shall be sufficient if made in accordance with such reasonable rules and regulations as may be prescribed by the Trustee or in such manner as shall be satisfactory to the Trustee. The holding of Securities shall be proved by the security register of the Registrar or by a certificate of the Registrar. The record of any Holders’ meeting shall be proved in the manner provided in Section 12.06.

 

SECTION 11.03.    Persons Deemed Absolute Owners. The Company, the Trustee, any authenticating agent, any Paying Agent, any Conversion Agent and any Registrar may deem the Person in whose name a Security shall be registered upon the security register of the Registrar to be, and may treat it as, the absolute owner of such Security (whether or not such Security shall be overdue and notwithstanding any notation of ownership or other writing thereon made by any Person other than the Company or any Registrar) for the purpose of receiving payment of or on account of the principal of and (subject to Section 2.12 and Section 4.01) accrued and unpaid interest on such Security, for conversion of such Security and for all other purposes; and neither the Company nor the Trustee nor any authenticating agent nor any Paying Agent nor any Conversion Agent nor any Registrar shall be affected by any notice to the contrary. All such payments so made to any Holder for the time being, or upon its order, shall be valid, and, to the extent of the sum or sums so paid, effectual to satisfy and discharge the liability for monies payable upon any such Security. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Indenture or the Securities following an Event of Default, any Holder of a beneficial interest in a Global Security may directly enforce against the Company, without the consent, solicitation, proxy, authorization or any other action of the Depositary or any other Person, such Holder’s right to exchange such beneficial interest for a Physical Security in accordance with the provisions of this Indenture.

 

ARTICLE XII

Holders’ Meetings

 

SECTION 12.01.    Purpose of Meetings. A meeting of Holders may be called at any time and from time to time pursuant to the provisions of this Article XII for any of the following purposes:

 

(a)                to give any notice to the Company or to the Trustee or to give any directions to the Trustee permitted under this Indenture, or to consent to the waiving of any Default or Event of Default hereunder and its consequences, or to take any other action authorized to be taken by Holders pursuant to any of the provisions of Article VI;

 

 

 

(b)               to remove the Trustee and nominate a successor trustee pursuant to the provisions of Article VII;

 

(c)                to consent to the execution of an indenture or indentures supplemental hereto pursuant to the provisions of Section 9.02; or

 

(d)               to take any other action authorized to be taken by or on behalf of the Holders of any specified aggregate principal amount of the Securities under any other provision of this Indenture or under applicable law.

 

SECTION 12.02.    Call of Meetings by Trustee. The Trustee may at any time call a meeting of Holders to take any action specified in Section 12.01, to be held at such time and at such place as the Trustee shall determine. Notice of every meeting of the Holders, setting forth the time and the place of such meeting and in general terms the action proposed to be taken at such meeting and the establishment of any record date pursuant to Section 11.01, shall be mailed to Holders of such Securities at their addresses as they shall appear on the security register of the Registrar. Such notice shall also be mailed to the Company. Such notices shall be mailed not less than twenty (20) nor more than ninety (90) days prior to the date fixed for the meeting.

 

Any meeting of Holders shall be valid without notice if the Holders of all Securities then outstanding are present in person or by proxy or if notice is waived before or after the meeting by the Holders of all Securities outstanding, and if the Company and the Trustee are either present by duly authorized representatives or have, before or after the meeting, waived notice.

 

SECTION 12.03.    Call of Meetings by Company or Holders. In case at any time the Company, pursuant to a Board Resolution, or the Holders of at least 10% in aggregate principal amount of the Securities then outstanding, shall have requested the Trustee to call a meeting of Holders, by written request setting forth in reasonable detail the action proposed to be taken at the meeting, and the Trustee shall not have mailed the notice of such meeting within twenty (20) days after receipt of such request, then the Company or such Holders may determine the time and the place for such meeting and may call such meeting to take any action authorized in Section 12.01, by mailing notice thereof as provided in Section 12.02.

 

SECTION 12.04.    Qualifications for Voting. To be entitled to vote at any meeting of Holders a Person shall (a) be a Holder of one or more Securities on the record date pertaining to such meeting or (b) be a Person appointed by an instrument in writing as proxy by a Holder of one or more Securities on the record date pertaining to such meeting. The only Persons who shall be entitled to be present or to speak at any meeting of Holders shall be the Persons entitled to vote at such meeting and their counsel and any representatives of the Trustee and its counsel and any representatives of the Company and its counsel.

 

SECTION 12.05.    Regulations. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Indenture, the Trustee may make such reasonable regulations as it may deem advisable for any meeting of Holders, in regard to proof of the holding of Securities and of the appointment of proxies, and in regard to the appointment and duties of inspectors of votes, the submission and examination of proxies, certificates and other evidence of the right to vote, and such other matters concerning the conduct of the meeting as it shall think fit.

 

The Trustee shall, by an instrument in writing, appoint a temporary chairman of the meeting, unless the meeting shall have been called by the Company or by Holders as provided in Section 12.03, in which case the Company or the Holders calling the meeting, as the case may be, shall in like manner appoint a temporary chairman. A permanent chairman and a permanent secretary of the meeting shall be elected by vote of the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the Securities represented at the meeting and entitled to vote at the meeting.

 

Subject to the provisions of Section 2.09, at any meeting of Holders each Holder or proxyholder shall be entitled to one vote for each $1,000 principal amount of Securities held or represented by such Holder or proxyholder, as the case may be; provided, however, that no vote shall be cast or counted at any meeting in respect of any Security challenged as not outstanding and ruled by the chairman of the meeting to be not outstanding. The chairman of the meeting shall have no right to vote other than by virtue of Securities held by it or instruments in writing as aforesaid duly designating it as the proxy to vote on behalf of other Holders. Any meeting of Holders duly called pursuant to the provisions of Section 12.02 or Section 12.03 may be adjourned from time to time by the Holders of a majority of the aggregate principal amount of Securities represented at the meeting, whether or not constituting a quorum, and the meeting may be held as so adjourned without further notice.

 

SECTION 12.06.    Voting. The vote upon any resolution submitted to any meeting of Holders shall be by written ballot on which shall be subscribed the signatures of the Holders or of their representatives by proxy and the outstanding principal amount of the Securities held or represented by them. The permanent chairman of the meeting shall appoint two inspectors of votes who shall count all votes cast at the meeting for or against any resolution and who shall make and file with the secretary of the meeting their verified written reports in duplicate of all votes cast at the meeting. A record in duplicate of the proceedings of each meeting of Holders shall be prepared by the secretary of the meeting and there shall be attached to said record the original reports of the inspectors of votes on any vote by ballot taken thereat and affidavits by one or more Persons having knowledge of the facts setting forth a copy of the notice of the meeting and showing that said notice was mailed as provided in Section 12.02. The record shall show the principal amount of the Securities voting in favor of or against any resolution. The record shall be signed and verified by the affidavits of the permanent chairman and secretary of the meeting and one of the duplicates shall be delivered to the Company and the other to the Trustee to be preserved by the Trustee, the latter to have attached thereto the ballots voted at the meeting.

 

Any record so signed and verified shall be conclusive evidence of the matters therein stated.

 

SECTION 12.07.    No Delay of Rights by Meeting. Nothing contained in this Article XII shall be deemed or construed to authorize or permit, by reason of any call of a meeting of Holders or any rights expressly or impliedly conferred hereunder to make such call, any hindrance or delay in the exercise of any right or rights conferred upon or reserved to the Trustee or to the Holders under any of the provisions of this Indenture or of the Securities.

 

 

 

ARTICLE XIII

 

Subsidiary Guarantees

 

SECTION 13.01.    Subsidiary Guarantees. Each Subsidiary Guarantor hereby unconditionally guarantees, jointly and severally, to each Holder and to the Trustee and its successors and assigns (a) the full and punctual payment of principal of, premium, if any, and interest on the Securities when due, whether at maturity, by acceleration, by redemption or otherwise, and all other monetary obligations of the Company under this Indenture and the Securities and (b) the full and punctual performance within applicable grace periods of all other obligations of the Company under this Indenture and the Securities (all the foregoing being hereinafter collectively called the “Obligations”). Each Subsidiary Guarantor further agrees that the Obligations may be extended or renewed, in whole or in part, without notice or further assent from such Subsidiary Guarantor, and that such Subsidiary Guarantor will remain bound under this Article XIII notwithstanding any extension or renewal of any Obligation.

 

Each Subsidiary Guarantor waives presentation to, demand of, payment from and protest to the Company of any of the Obligations and also waives notice of protest for nonpayment. Each Subsidiary Guarantor waives notice of any default under the Securities or the Obligations. The obligations of each Subsidiary Guarantor hereunder shall not be affected by (a) 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; (b) any extension or renewal of any thereof; (c) any rescission, waiver, amendment or modification of any of the terms or provisions of this Indenture, the Securities or any other agreement; (d) the release of any security held by any Holder or the Trustee for the Obligations or any of them; (e) the failure of any Holder or the Trustee to exercise any right or remedy against any other guarantor of the Obligations; or (f) any change in the ownership of such Subsidiary Guarantor.

 

Each Subsidiary Guarantor further agrees that its Subsidiary 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 Obligations.

 

Except as expressly set forth in Section 5.03, the obligations of each Subsidiary 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 Obligations or otherwise. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the obligations of each Subsidiary 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 such Subsidiary Guarantor or would otherwise operate as a discharge of such Subsidiary Guarantor as a matter of law or equity.

 

Each Subsidiary Guarantor further agrees that its Subsidiary 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 Obligation is rescinded or must otherwise be restored by any Holder or the Trustee upon the bankruptcy or reorganization of the Company or otherwise.

 

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 Subsidiary Guarantor by virtue hereof, upon the failure of the Company to pay the principal of or interest on any 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 Obligation, each Subsidiary Guarantor hereby promises to and will, 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 amount of such Obligations, (ii) accrued and unpaid interest on such Obligations (but only to the extent not prohibited by law) and (iii) all other monetary Obligations of the Company to the Holders and the Trustee.

 

Each Subsidiary Guarantor agrees that it shall not be entitled to any right of subrogation in respect of any Obligations guaranteed hereby until payment in full in cash of all Obligations. Each Subsidiary Guarantor further agrees that, as between it, on the one hand, and the Holders and the Trustee, on the other hand, (x) the maturity of the Obligations guaranteed hereby may be accelerated as provided in Article VI for the purposes of such Subsidiary Guarantor’s Subsidiary Guarantee herein, notwithstanding any stay, injunction or other prohibition preventing such acceleration in respect of the Obligations guaranteed hereby, and (y) in the event of any declaration of acceleration of such Obligations as provided in Article VI, such Obligations (whether or not due and payable) shall forthwith become due and payable by such Subsidiary Guarantor for the purposes of this Section.

 

Each Subsidiary Guarantor also agrees to pay any and all costs and expenses (including reasonable attorneys’ fees) incurred by the Trustee or any Holder in enforcing any rights under this Section 13.01.

 

The Subsidiary Guarantee issued by any Subsidiary Guarantor will be automatically and unconditionally released and discharged upon (1) any sale, exchange or transfer to any Person (other than an Affiliate of the Company) of all of the Capital Stock of such Subsidiary Guarantor or (2) the designation of such Subsidiary Guarantor as an Unrestricted Subsidiary, in each case, in compliance with the terms of this Indenture.

 

SECTION 13.02.    Contribution. Each of the Company and any Subsidiary Guarantor (a “Contributing Party”) agrees that, in the event a payment shall be made by any other Subsidiary Guarantor under any Subsidiary Guarantee (the “Claiming Guarantor”), the Contributing Party shall indemnify the Claiming Guarantor in an amount equal to the amount of such payment multiplied by a fraction, the numerator of which shall be the net worth of the Contributing Party on the date hereof and the denominator of which shall be the aggregate net worth of the Company and all the Subsidiary Guarantors on the date hereof (or, in the case of any Subsidiary Guarantor becoming a party hereto pursuant to Section 9.01, the date of the supplemental indenture executed and delivered by such Subsidiary Guarantor).

 

 

 

SECTION 13.03.    Successors and Assigns. This Article XIII shall be binding upon each Subsidiary 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 13.04.    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 XIII 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 XIII at law, in equity, by statute or otherwise.

 

SECTION 13.05.    Modification. No modification, amendment or waiver of any provision of this Article XIII, nor the consent to any departure by any Subsidiary 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 Subsidiary Guarantor in any case shall entitle such Subsidiary Guarantor to any other or further notice or demand in the same, similar or other circumstances.

 

SECTION 13.06.    Execution of Supplemental Indenture for Future Subsidiary Guarantors. Each Subsidiary which is required to become a Subsidiary Guarantor pursuant to Section 4.10 shall promptly execute and deliver to the Trustee a supplemental indenture in the form of Exhibit D hereto pursuant to which such Subsidiary shall become a Subsidiary Guarantor under this Article XIII and shall guarantee the Obligations. Concurrently with the execution and delivery of such supplemental indenture, the Company shall deliver to the Trustee an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that such supplemental indenture has been duly authorized, executed and delivered by such Subsidiary and that, subject to the application of bankruptcy, insolvency, moratorium, fraudulent conveyance or 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 Subsidiary Guarantee of such Subsidiary Guarantor is a legal, valid and binding obligation of such Subsidiary Guarantor, enforceable against such Subsidiary Guarantor in accordance with its terms.

 

SECTION 13.07.    Effectiveness of Subsidiary Guarantees. This Article XIII shall only become effective upon the execution of the supplemental indenture included as Exhibit D by the initial Subsidiary Guarantors on the Issue Date.

 

 

 

ARTICLE XIV

Miscellaneous

 

SECTION 14.01.    [Reserved].

 

SECTION 14.02.    Notices. Any notice or communication by the Company or the Trustee to the other shall be deemed to be duly given if made in writing and delivered:

 

(a)                by hand (in which case such notice shall be effective upon delivery);

 

(b)               by facsimile (in which case such notice shall be effective upon receipt of confirmation of good transmission thereof); or

 

(c)                by overnight delivery by a nationally recognized courier service (in which case such notice shall be effective on the Business Day immediately after being deposited with such courier service), in each case to the recipient party’s address or facsimile number, as applicable, set forth in this Section 14.02. The Company or the Trustee by notice to the other may designate additional or different addresses or facsimile numbers for subsequent notices or communications.

 

Any notice or communication to a Holder shall be mailed to its address shown on the register kept by the Registrar. 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.

 

If the Company mails a notice or communication to Holders, it shall mail a copy to the Trustee and each Securities Agent at the same time. If the Trustee or the Securities Agent is required, pursuant to the express terms of this Indenture or the Securities, to mail a notice or communication to Holders, the Trustee or the Securities Agent, as the case may be, shall also mail a copy of such notice or communication to the Company.

 

All notices or communications shall be in writing.

 

The Company’s address is:

 

James River Coal Company
901 E. Byrd Street, Suite 1600
Richmond, Virginia 23219
Attention of Chief Accounting Officer
Facsimile: (804) 780-0643

 

with a copy to:

 

Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP
Suite 2800
1100 Peachtree Street
Atlanta, Georgia 30309
Attention of David A. Stockton
Facsimile: (404) 541-3402

 

The Trustee’s address is:

 

U.S. Bank National Association
1349 West Peachtree Street, Suite 1050
Atlanta, GA 30309
Attention of Corporate Trust Services
Facsimile: (404) 898-8844

 

SECTION 14.03.    Communication by Holders With Other Holders. Holders may communicate pursuant to TIA § 312(b) with other Holders with respect to their rights under this Indenture or the Securities. The Company, the Trustee, the Registrar and anyone else shall have the protection of TIA § 312(c).

 

SECTION 14.04.    Certificate and Opinion as to Conditions Precedent. Upon any request or application by the Company to the Trustee to take any action under this Indenture, the Company shall furnish to the Trustee:

 

(a)                an Officer’s Certificate stating that, in the opinion of the signatories to such Officer’s Certificate, 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 stating that, in the opinion of such counsel, all such conditions precedent have been complied with.

 

Each signatory to an Officer’s Certificate or an Opinion of Counsel may (if so stated) rely, effectively, upon an Opinion of Counsel as to legal matters and an Officer’s Certificate or certificates of public officials as to factual matters if such signatory reasonably and in good faith believes in the accuracy of the document relied upon.

 

SECTION 14.05.    Statements Required in Certificate or Opinion. Each Officer’s Certificate or Opinion of Counsel with respect to compliance with a condition or covenant provided for in this Indenture shall include:

 

(a)                a statement that the Person 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 Person, he or she has made such examination or investigation as is necessary to enable him or her 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 Person, such condition or covenant has been complied with.

 

SECTION 14.06.    Rules by Trustee and Agents. The Registrar, Paying Agent or Conversion Agent may make reasonable rules and set reasonable requirements for their respective functions.

 

SECTION 14.07.    Legal Holidays.

 

A “Legal Holiday” is a Saturday, a Sunday or a day on which banking institutions are not required to be open in the City of New York, in the State of New York. If a payment date is a Legal Holiday, payment may be made on the next succeeding day that is not a Legal Holiday, and no interest shall accrue on that payment for the intervening period.

 

A “Business Day” is a day other than a Legal Holiday.

 

SECTION 14.08.    Duplicate 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. Delivery of an executed counterpart by facsimile shall be effective as delivery of a manually executed counterpart thereof.

 

SECTION 14.09.    GOVERNING LAW. THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, WITHOUT REGARD TO PRINCIPLES OF CONFLICTS OF LAW, SHALL GOVERN THIS INDENTURE AND THE SECURITIES AND ANY CLAIM, CONTROVERSY OR DISPUTE ARISING UNDER, OR RELATING TO, THIS INDENTURE OR THE SECURITIES.

 

SECTION 14.10.    No Adverse Interpretation of Other Agreements. This Indenture may not be used to interpret another indenture, loan or debt agreement of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries. Any such indenture, loan or debt agreement may not be used to interpret this Indenture.

 

SECTION 14.11.    Successors. All agreements of the Company in this Indenture and the Securities shall bind its successors and assigns. All agreements of the Trustee in this Indenture shall bind its successors.

 

SECTION 14.12.    Separability. In case any provision in this Indenture or in the Securities shall be invalid, illegal or unenforceable, the validity, legality and enforceability of the remaining provisions shall not in any way be affected or impaired thereby and a Holder shall have no claim therefor against any party hereto.

 

SECTION 14.13.    Table of Contents, Headings, Etc. The Table of Contents, Cross-Reference Table and headings of the Articles and Sections of this Indenture have been inserted for convenience of reference only, are not to be considered a part hereof and shall in no way modify or restrict any of the terms or provisions hereof.

 

 

 

SECTION 14.14.    Calculations In Respect Of The Securities. The Company and its agents shall make all calculations under this Indenture and the Securities. These calculations include, but are not limited to, determinations of the Volume-Weighted Average Price and the Closing Sale Price of the Common Stock, the number of shares deliverable upon conversion of the Securities and amounts of interest (including Additional Interest) payable on the Securities. The Company and its agents shall make all of these calculations in good faith, and, absent manifest error, such calculations shall be final and binding on all Holders. The Company shall provide a copy of such calculations to the Trustee as required hereunder, and, absent such manifest error, the Trustee shall be entitled to conclusively rely on the accuracy of any such calculation without independent verification.

 

SECTION 14.15.    No Personal Liability of Directors, Officers, Employees or Shareholders. None of the Company’s past, present or future directors, officers, employees or shareholders, as such, shall have any liability for any of the Company’s obligations under this Indenture or the Securities or for any claim based on, or in respect or by reason of, such obligations or their creation. By accepting a Security, each holder waives and releases all such liability. This waiver and release is part of the consideration for the issue of the Securities.

 

SECTION 14.16.    Force Majeure. In no event shall the Trustee be responsible or liable for any failure or delay in the performance of its obligations hereunder arising out of or caused by, directly or indirectly, forces beyond its control, including, without limitation, strikes, work stoppages, accidents, acts of war or terrorism, civil or military disturbances, nuclear or natural catastrophes or acts of God and interruptions, loss or malfunctions of utilities, communications or computer (software and hardware) services; it being understood that the Trustee shall use reasonable efforts which are consistent with accepted practices in the banking industry to resume performance as soon as practicable under the circumstances.

 

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

JAMES RIVER COAL COMPANY,
by	/s/Samuel M. Hopkins II
	Name:  Samuel M. Hopkins II
	Title:  Vice President

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Signature page to Indenture]

 

 

 

 

SUBSIDIARY GUARANTORS: BDCC HOLDING COMPANY, INC. BELL COUNTY COAL CORPORATION BLEDSOE COAL CORPORATION BLEDSOE COAL LEASING COMPANY BLUE DIAMOND COAL COMPANY EOLIA RESOURCES, INC. IRP GP HOLDCO LLC IRP LP HOLDCO INC. JAMES RIVER COAL SALES, INC. JAMES RIVER COAL SERVICE COMPANY JAMES RIVER ESCROW INC. JELLICO MINING, LLC JOHNS CREEK COAL COMPANY JOHNS CREEK ELKHORN COAL CORPORATION JOHNS CREEK PROCESSING COMPANY LEECO, INC. MCCOY ELKHORN COAL CORPORATION SHAMROCK COAL COMPANY, INCORPORATED TRIAD MINING, INC. TRIAD UNDERGROUND MINING, LLC INTERNATIONAL RESOURCE PARTNERS LP INTERNATIONAL RESOURCES HOLDINGS I LLC IRP WV CORP. INTERNATIONAL RESOURCES HOLDINGS II LLC INTERNATIONAL RESOURCES, LLC HAMPDEN COAL COMPANY, LLC ROCKHOUSE CREEK DEVELOPMENT, LLC CHAFIN BRANCH COAL COMPANY, LLC SNAP CREEK MINING, LLC LOGAN & KANAWHA COAL CO., LLC IRP KENTUCKY LLC LAUREL MOUNTAIN RESOURCES LLC BUCK BRANCH RESOURCES LLC On behalf of each of the above named entities
by	/s/Samuel M. Hopkins II
	Name:  Samuel M. Hopkins II
	Title:  Vice President

 

 

 

 

[Signature page to Indenture]

 

 

 

U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, as Trustee,
by	/s/Muriel Shaw
	Name:  Muriel Shaw
	Title:    Assistant Vice President

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Signature page to Indenture]

 

 

 

 

 

 

EXHIBIT A

 

[Face of Security]

 

JAMES RIVER COAL COMPANY

 

Certificate No. _______

 

[INSERT SECURITY PRIVATE PLACEMENT LEGEND (SECURITIES) AND GLOBAL SECURITY LEGEND AS REQUIRED]

 

10.00% Convertible Senior Notes due 2018 (the “Securities”)

 

CUSIP No. [●]

 

James River Coal Company, a Virginia corporation (the “Company,” which term includes any successor corporation or other entity under the Indenture referred to on the reverse hereof), for value received, hereby promises to pay to Cede & Co., or its registered assigns, the principal sum [of [___________] dollars ($[___________])]¹ [as set forth in the “Schedule of Exchanges of Interests in the Global Security” attached hereto, which amount, taken together with the principal amounts of all other outstanding Securities, shall not, unless permitted by the Indenture, exceed [___________] dollars ($[___________]) in aggregate at any time, in accordance with the rules and procedures of the Depositary]², on June 1, 2018, and to pay interest thereon, as provided on the reverse hereof, until the principal and any unpaid and accrued interest are paid or duly provided for.

 

Interest Payment Dates: June 1 and December 1, with the first payment to be made on December 1, 2013.

 

Record Dates: May 15 and November 15.

 

The provisions on the back of this certificate are incorporated as if set forth on the face hereof.

 

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¹ This is included for Physical Securities.

 

² This is included for Global Securities.

 

 

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, James River Coal Company has caused this instrument to be duly signed.

 

JAMES RIVER COAL COMPANY
by
	Name: Samuel M. Hopkins II
	Title: Vice President

 

 

 

 

Dated: ________________

 

 

 

TRUSTEE’S CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION

 

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

 

U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, as Trustee
by
	Authorized Signatory

 

 

Dated: __________________

 

 

 

 

[Signature Page to Global Note]

 

 

[REVERSE OF SECURITY]

 

JAMES RIVER COAL COMPANY

 

10.00% Convertible Senior Notes due 2018

 

1.      Interest. James River Coal Company, a Virginia corporation (the “Company”), promises to pay interest on the principal amount of this Security at the rate per annum shown above. The Company will pay interest, payable semi-annually in arrears, on June 1 and December 1 of each year, with the first payment to be made on December 1, 2013. Interest on the Securities will accrue on the principal amount from, and including, the most recent date to which interest has been paid or provided for or, if no interest has been paid, from, and including, May 22, 2013, in each case to, but excluding, the next Interest Payment Date or Maturity Date, as the case may be. Interest will be computed on the basis of a 360-day year of twelve 30-day months. The Company shall pay, in cash, interest on any overdue amount (including, to the extent permitted by applicable law, overdue interest) at the rate borne by the Securities. In certain circumstances, Additional Interest will be payable in accordance with Section 4.09(a), Section 4.09(b), Section 4.09(c) and Section 6.02(b) of the Indenture and any reference to “interest” shall be deemed to include any such Additional Interest.

 

2.      Maturity. The Securities will mature on June 1, 2018.

 

3.      Method of Payment. Except as provided in the Indenture (as defined below), the Company will pay interest on the Securities to the Persons who are Holders of record of Securities at the close of business on the Record Date set forth on the face of this Security immediately preceding the applicable Interest Payment Date. Holders must surrender Securities to a Paying Agent to collect the principal amount plus, if applicable, accrued and unpaid interest, if any, or the Fundamental Change Repurchase Price, payable as herein provided on the Maturity Date or Fundamental Change Repurchase Date, as applicable. The Company will pay, in money of the United States that at the time of payment is legal tender for payment of public and private debts, all amounts due in cash with respect to the Securities, which amounts shall be paid (A) in the case this Security is a Global Security, by wire transfer of immediately available funds to the account designated by the Depositary or its nominee; (B) in the case this Security is a Physical Security held by a Holder of more than five million dollars ($5,000,000) in aggregate principal amount of Securities, by wire transfer of immediately available funds to the account specified by such Holder or, if such Holder does not specify an account, by mailing a check to the address of such Holder set forth in the register of the Registrar; and (C) in the case this Security is a Physical Security held by a Holder of five million dollars ($5,000,000) or less in aggregate principal amount of Securities, by mailing a check to the address of such Holder set forth in the register of the Registrar.

 

4.      Paying Agent, Registrar, Conversion Agent. Initially, U.S. Bank National Association (the “Trustee”) will act as Paying Agent, Registrar and Conversion Agent. The Company may change any Paying Agent, Registrar or Conversion Agent without prior notice.

 

5.      Indenture. The Company issued the Securities under an Indenture dated as of May 22, 2013 (the “Indenture”) between the Company and the Trustee. The terms of the Securities include those stated in the Indenture and those required to be made part of the Indenture by reference to the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 (15 U.S. Code §§ 77aaa-77bbbb) (the “TIA”) as amended and in effect from time to time. The Securities are subject to all such terms, and Holders are referred to the Indenture and the TIA for a statement of such terms. The Securities are general unsecured senior obligations of the Company limited to $123,261,000 aggregate principal amount, except as otherwise provided in the Indenture (except for Securities issued in substitution for destroyed, mutilated, lost or stolen Securities). Terms used herein without definition and which are defined in the Indenture have the meanings assigned to them in the Indenture. In the event of any inconsistency between the terms of this Security and the terms of the Indenture, the terms of the Indenture shall control.

 

 

 

 

 

6.      Redemption. The Securities are not redeemable at the option of the Company prior to the Maturity Date, and no sinking fund is provided for the Securities.

 

7.      Repurchase at Option of Holder Upon a Fundamental Change. Subject to the terms and conditions of the Indenture, in the event of a Fundamental Change, each Holder of the Securities shall have the right, at the Holder’s option, to require the Company to repurchase such Holder’s Securities including any portion thereof which is $1,000 in principal amount or any integral multiple thereof on a date selected by the Company (the “Fundamental Change Repurchase Date”), which date is no later than thirty five (35) days, nor earlier than twenty (20) days, after the date on which notice of such Fundamental Change is mailed in accordance with the Indenture, at a price payable in cash equal to one hundred percent (100%) of the principal amount of such Security, plus accrued and unpaid interest to, but excluding, the Fundamental Change Repurchase Date (the “Fundamental Change Repurchase Price”); provided, however, that if such Fundamental Change Repurchase Date is after a Record Date for the payment of an installment of interest and on or before the related Interest Payment Date, then the full amount of accrued and unpaid interest, if any, to, but excluding, such Interest Payment Date will be paid on such Interest Payment Date to the Holder of record of such Securities at the close of business on such Record Date (without any surrender of such Securities by such Holder), and the Fundamental Change Repurchase Price shall not include any accrued but unpaid interest.

 

8.      Conversion. Subject to the provisions of the Indenture, the Securities shall be convertible into shares of Common Stock in accordance with Article X of the Indenture. To convert a Security, a Holder must satisfy the requirements of Section 10.02(a) of the Indenture. A Holder may convert a portion of a Security if the portion is $1,000 principal amount or an integral multiple of $1,000 principal amount.

 

Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, no Security may be converted after the close of business on the Business Day immediately preceding the Maturity Date.

 

Upon conversion of a Security, the Holder thereof shall be entitled to receive the shares of Common Stock issuable upon conversion in accordance with Article X of the Indenture, plus accrued and unpaid interest to the Conversion Date.

 

The initial Conversion Rate is 200 shares of Common Stock per $1,000 principal amount of Securities (which results in an effective initial Conversion Price of approximately $5.00 per share) subject to adjustment in the event of certain circumstances as specified in the Indenture. The Company will deliver cash in lieu of any fractional share.

 

 

 

The Company may elect to optionally convert the Securities in whole or in part at any time if the Volume-Weighted Average Price of the Common Stock has equaled or exceeded 150% of the Conversion Price then in effect for at least 20 Trading Days in any 30 Trading Day period, ending within five Trading Days prior to the date of the Issuer’s Conversion Notice, upon the terms and conditions set forth in Section 10.15 of the Indenture.

 

9.      Denominations, Transfer, Exchange. The Securities are in registered form, without coupons, in denominations of $1,000 principal amount and integral multiples of $1,000 principal amount. The transfer of Securities may be registered and Securities may be exchanged as provided in the Indenture. The Registrar may require a Holder, among other things, to furnish appropriate endorsements and transfer documents. No service charge shall be made for any such registration of transfer or exchange, but the Company may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any transfer tax or similar governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with certain transfers or exchanges as set forth in the Indenture. The Company or the Trustee, as the case may be, shall not be required to register the transfer of or exchange any Security for which a Purchase Notice has been delivered, and not withdrawn, in accordance with the Indenture, except the unrepurchased portion of Securities being repurchased in part.

 

10.      Persons Deemed Owners. The registered Holder of a Security may be treated as the owner of such Security for all purposes.

 

11.      Merger or Consolidation. The Company shall not consolidate with, or merge with or into, or sell, transfer, lease, convey or otherwise dispose of all or substantially all of the consolidated property or assets of the Company to, another Person, whether in a single transaction or series of related transactions, unless (i) the Company is the continuing corporation or such other Person is a corporation organized and existing under the laws of the United States of America, any State thereof or the District of Columbia and such other Person assumes by supplemental indenture all the obligations of the Company under the Securities and the Indenture and (ii) immediately after giving effect to the transaction or series of transactions, no Default or Event of Default shall exist, as set forth in Article V of the Indenture.

 

12.      Amendments, Supplements and Waivers. Subject to certain exceptions, the Indenture or the Securities may be amended or supplemented with the consent of the Holders of at least a majority in aggregate principal amount of the outstanding Securities, and certain existing Defaults or Events of Default may be waived with the consent of the Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Securities then outstanding. In accordance with the terms of the Indenture, the Company, with the consent of the Trustee, may amend or supplement this Indenture or the Securities without notice to or the consent of any Securityholder: (i) to comply with Section 5.01 or Section 10.12 of the Indenture; (ii) to secure the obligations of the Company in respect of the Securities; (iii) to evidence and provide for the appointment of a successor Trustee in accordance with Section 7.08 of the Indenture; (iv) to comply with the provisions of any clearing agency, clearing corporation or clearing system, or the requirements of the Trustee or the Registrar, relating to transfers and exchanges of the Securities pursuant to the Indenture; (v) to add to the covenants of the Company described in the Indenture for the benefit of Securityholders or to surrender any right or power conferred upon the Company; (vi) to make provisions with respect to adjustments to the Conversion Rate as required by the Indenture or to increase the Conversion Rate in accordance with the Indenture, (vii) to add or remove a Subsidiary Guarantor in accordance with Section 4.10 of the Indenture and (viii) to add or modify any other provision of the Indenture with respect to matters or questions arising hereunder which the Company may deem necessary or desirable and which does not materially and adversely affect the rights of any Holder. In addition, the Company and the Trustee may enter into a supplemental indenture without the consent of Holders of the Securities to cure any ambiguity, defect, omission or inconsistency in the Indenture in a manner that does not, individually or in the aggregate with all other changes, adversely affect the rights of any Holder in any respect.

 

 

 

13.      Defaults and Remedies. If an Event of Default (excluding an Event of Default specified in Section 6.01(i) or (j) of the Indenture with respect to the Company (but including an Event of Default specified in Section 6.01(i) or (j) of the Indenture solely with respect to a Significant Subsidiary of the Company or any group of Subsidiaries that in the aggregate would constitute a Significant Subsidiary of the Company)) occurs and is continuing, the Trustee by notice to the Company or the Holders of at least twenty five percent (25%) in principal amount of the Securities then outstanding by notice to the Company and the Trustee may declare the Securities to be due and payable. Upon such declaration, the principal of, and any accrued and unpaid interest on, all Securities shall be due and payable immediately. If an Event of Default specified in Section 6.01(i) or (j) of the Indenture with respect to the Company (excluding, for purposes of this sentence, an Event of Default specified in Section 6.01(i) or (j) of the Indenture solely with respect to a Significant Subsidiary of the Company or any group of Subsidiaries that in the aggregate would constitute a Significant Subsidiary of the Company) occurs, the principal of, and accrued and unpaid 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 Holder. Subject to certain exceptions, the Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Securities then outstanding by written notice to the Trustee may rescind or annul an acceleration and its consequences if (A) the rescission would not conflict with any order or decree, (B) all existing Events of Default, except the nonpayment of principal or interest that has become due solely because of the acceleration, have been cured or waived and (C) all amounts due to the Trustee under Section 7.07 of the Indenture have been paid.

 

If a Default or Event of Default occurs and is continuing as to which the Trustee has received written notice pursuant to the provisions of the Indenture, or as to which a Responsible Officer of the Trustee shall have actual knowledge, the Trustee shall mail to each Holder a notice of the Default or Event of Default within thirty (30) days after it occurs unless such Default or Event of Default has been cured or waived. Except in the case of a Default or Event of Default in payment or delivery of any amounts due (including principal, interest, the Fundamental Change Repurchase Price or the consideration due upon conversion) with respect to any Security, the Trustee may withhold the notice if, and so long as it in good faith determines that, withholding the notice is in the best interests of Holders. The Company must deliver to the Trustee an annual compliance certificate.

 

 

 

14.      Registration Rights. The Holders are entitled to the benefits of the Exchange Agreements. In the event of a Registration Default, the Holder shall be entitled to Additional Interest as specified in Section 4.09(c) until the Registration Default is cured.

 

15.  Trustee Dealings with the Company. The Trustee under the Indenture, or any banking institution serving as successor Trustee thereunder, in its individual or any other capacity, may make loans to, accept deposits from, and perform services for, the Company or its Affiliates, and may otherwise deal with the Company or its Affiliates, as if it were not Trustee.

 

16.  Authentication. This Security shall not be valid until authenticated by the manual or facsimile signature of the Trustee or an authenticating agent in accordance with the Indenture.

 

17.  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 entirety), JT TEN (= joint tenants with right of survivorship and not as tenants in common), CUST (= Custodian), and U/G/M/A (Uniform Gifts to Minors Act).

 

THE COMPANY WILL FURNISH TO ANY HOLDER UPON WRITTEN REQUEST AND WITHOUT CHARGE A COPY OF THE INDENTURE. REQUESTS MAY BE MADE TO:

 

James River Coal Company
901 E. Byrd Street, Suite 1600
Richmond, Virginia 23219
Attn: Chief Accounting Officer

 

 

 

FORM OF ASSIGNMENT

I or we assign to
PLEASE INSERT SOCIAL SECURITY OR OTHER IDENTIFYING NUMBER
(please print or type name and address)
the within Security and all rights thereunder, and hereby irrevocably constitute and appoint
Attorney to transfer the Security on the books of the Company with full power of substitution in the premises.
Dated:	NOTICE: The signature on this assignment must correspond with the name as it appears upon the face of the within Security in every particular without alteration or enlargement or any change whatsoever and be guaranteed by a guarantor institution participating in the Securities Transfer Agents Medallion Program or in such other guarantee program acceptable to the Registrar.
Signature Guarantee:

 

 

In connection with any transfer of this Security occurring prior to the Resale Restriction Termination Date, the undersigned confirms that it is making, and it has not utilized any general solicitation or general advertising in connection with, the transfer:

 

[Check One]

 

(1)	____	to James River Coal Company or any Subsidiary thereof; or
(2)	____	pursuant to a registration statement which has become effective under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”); or
(3)	____	to a Qualified Institutional Buyer in compliance with Rule 144A under the Securities Act; or
(4)	____	pursuant to an exemption from registration provided by Rule 144 under the Securities Act (if available) or any other available exemption from the registration requirements of the Securities Act.

 

Unless one of the items (1) through (4) 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 item (4) is checked, the Company, the transfer agent or the Registrar may require, prior to registering any such transfer of the Securities, in their sole discretion, such written legal opinions, certifications and other evidence as the Registrar or the Company have 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, as amended. If item (3) is checked, the purchaser must complete the certification below.

 

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

 

Dated: ____________________	Signed:
		(Sign exactly as name appears on the other side of this Security)
Signature Guarantee:

 

 

 

 

 

TO BE COMPLETED BY PURCHASER IF (3) ABOVE IS CHECKED

 

The undersigned represents and warrants that it is purchasing this Security for its own account or an account with respect to which it exercises sole investment discretion and that it and any such account is a “qualified institutional buyer” within the meaning of Rule 144A under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, 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 and acknowledges 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

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

CONVERSION NOTICE

 

To convert this Security in accordance with the Indenture, check the box: ¨

 

To convert only part of this Security, state the principal amount to be converted (must be in multiples of $1,000):

 

$__________________

 

If you want the stock certificate representing the Common Stock issuable upon conversion made out in another person’s name, fill in the form below:  

 

(Insert other person’s soc. sec. or tax I.D. no.)  

 

 

 

  

  

 

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

 

Date:____________

Signature(s):

_______________________________________________

 

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

 

Signature(s) guaranteed by:
	(All signatures must be guaranteed by a guarantor institution participating in the Securities Transfer Agents Medallion Program or in such other guarantee program acceptable to the Trustee.)

 

 

 

 

 

PURCHASE NOTICE

 

Certificate No. of Security: ___________

 

If you want to elect to have this Security purchased by the Company pursuant to Section 3.02 of the Indenture, check the box:

 

If you want to elect to have only part of this Security purchased by the Company pursuant to Section 3.02 of the Indenture, state the principal amount to be so purchased by the Company:

 

$ __________________________________

(in an integral multiple of $1,000)

 

Date:__________________	Signature(s):
	(Sign exactly as your name(s) appear(s) on the other side of this Security)
Signature(s) guaranteed by:
	(All signatures must be guaranteed by a guarantor institution participating in the Securities Transfer Agents Medallion Program or in such other guarantee program acceptable to the Trustee.)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

SCHEDULE A³

SCHEDULE OF EXCHANGES OF INTERESTS IN THE GLOBAL SECURITY

James River Coal Company

10.00% Convertible Senior Notes due 2018

The initial principal amount of this Global Security is _______ DOLLARS ($[_________]). 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 Trustee or Custodian

 

__________

³ This is included for Global Securities.

 

EXHIBIT B-1A

 

FORM OF PRIVATE PLACEMENT LEGEND (SECURITIES)

 

THIS SECURITY AND ANY SHARES OF COMMON STOCK ISSUABLE UPON CONVERSION OF THIS SECURITY HAVE NOT BEEN REGISTERED UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED (THE “SECURITIES ACT”), OR ANY STATE SECURITIES LAWS. NEITHER THIS SECURITY, ANY SHARES OF COMMON STOCK ISSUABLE UPON CONVERSION OF THIS SECURITY NOR ANY INTEREST OR PARTICIPATION HEREIN OR THEREIN MAY BE REOFFERED, SOLD, ASSIGNED, TRANSFERRED, PLEDGED, ENCUMBERED OR OTHERWISE DISPOSED OF IN THE ABSENCE OF SUCH REGISTRATION OR UNLESS SUCH TRANSACTION IS EXEMPT FROM, OR NOT SUBJECT TO, REGISTRATION.

 

BY ITS ACQUISITION HEREOF OR OF A BENEFICIAL INTEREST HEREIN, THE ACQUIRER AGREES FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE COMPANY THAT IT WILL NOT OFFER, SELL, PLEDGE OR OTHERWISE TRANSFER THIS SECURITY OR ANY BENEFICIAL INTEREST HEREIN PRIOR TO THE DATE THAT IS THE LATER OF (X) ONE YEAR AFTER THE LAST ORIGINAL ISSUE DATE HEREOF OR SUCH SHORTER PERIOD OF TIME AS PERMITTED BY RULE 144 UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OR ANY SUCCESSOR PROVISION THEREUNDER, AND (Y) SUCH LATER DATE, IF ANY, AS MAY BE REQUIRED BY APPLICABLE LAW, EXCEPT ONLY:

 

	(A)	TO THE JAMES RIVER COAL COMPANY OR ANY SUBSIDIARY THEREOF; OR
	(B)	PURSUANT TO A REGISTRATION STATEMENT WHICH HAS BECOME EFFECTIVE UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT; OR
	(C)	TO A QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER IN COMPLIANCE WITH RULE 144A UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT; OR
	(D)	PURSUANT TO AN EXEMPTION FROM REGISTRATION PROVIDED BY RULE 144 UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT (IF AVAILABLE) OR ANY OTHER AVAILABLE EXEMPTION FROM THE REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS OF THE SECURITIES ACT.

 

 

PRIOR TO THE REGISTRATION OF ANY TRANSFER IN ACCORDANCE WITH CLAUSE (D) ABOVE, THE COMPANY, THE TRUSTEE AND THE TRANSFER AGENT RESERVE THE RIGHT TO REQUIRE THE DELIVERY OF SUCH LEGAL OPINIONS, CERTIFICATIONS OR OTHER EVIDENCE AS MAY REASONABLY BE REQUIRED IN ORDER TO DETERMINE THAT THE PROPOSED TRANSFER IS BEING MADE IN COMPLIANCE WITH THE SECURITIES ACT AND APPLICABLE STATE SECURITIES LAWS. NO REPRESENTATION IS MADE AS TO THE AVAILABILITY OF ANY EXEMPTION FROM THE REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS OF THE SECURITIES ACT.

 

EXHIBIT B-1B

 

FORM OF PRIVATE PLACEMENT LEGEND (COMMON STOCK)

 

THIS SECURITY HAS NOT BEEN REGISTERED UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED (THE “SECURITIES ACT”), OR ANY STATE SECURITIES LAWS. NEITHER THIS SECURITY NOR ANY INTEREST OR PARTICIPATION HEREIN OR THEREIN MAY BE REOFFERED, SOLD, ASSIGNED, TRANSFERRED, PLEDGED, ENCUMBERED OR OTHERWISE DISPOSED OF IN THE ABSENCE OF SUCH REGISTRATION OR UNLESS SUCH TRANSACTION IS EXEMPT FROM, OR NOT SUBJECT TO, REGISTRATION.

 

BY ITS ACQUISITION HEREOF OR OF A BENEFICIAL INTEREST HEREIN, THE ACQUIRER AGREES FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE COMPANY THAT IT WILL NOT OFFER, SELL, PLEDGE OR OTHERWISE TRANSFER THIS SECURITY OR ANY BENEFICIAL INTEREST HEREIN PRIOR TO THE DATE THAT IS THE LATER OF (X) ONE YEAR AFTER THE LAST ORIGINAL ISSUE DATE HEREOF OR SUCH SHORTER PERIOD OF TIME AS PERMITTED BY RULE 144 UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OR ANY SUCCESSOR PROVISION THEREUNDER, AND (Y) SUCH LATER DATE, IF ANY, AS MAY BE REQUIRED BY APPLICABLE LAW, EXCEPT ONLY:

 

	(A)	TO THE JAMES RIVER COAL COMPANY OR ANY SUBSIDIARY THEREOF; OR
	(B)	PURSUANT TO A REGISTRATION STATEMENT WHICH HAS BECOME EFFECTIVE UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT; OR
	(C)	TO A QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER IN COMPLIANCE WITH RULE 144A UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT; OR
	(D)	PURSUANT TO AN EXEMPTION FROM REGISTRATION PROVIDED BY RULE 144 UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT (IF AVAILABLE) OR ANY OTHER AVAILABLE EXEMPTION FROM THE REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS OF THE SECURITIES ACT.

 

 

PRIOR TO THE REGISTRATION OF ANY TRANSFER IN ACCORDANCE WITH CLAUSE (D) ABOVE, THE COMPANY, THE TRUSTEE AND THE TRANSFER AGENT RESERVE THE RIGHT TO REQUIRE THE DELIVERY OF SUCH LEGAL OPINIONS, CERTIFICATIONS OR OTHER EVIDENCE AS MAY REASONABLY BE REQUIRED IN ORDER TO DETERMINE THAT THE PROPOSED TRANSFER IS BEING MADE IN COMPLIANCE WITH THE SECURITIES ACT AND APPLICABLE STATE SECURITIES LAWS. NO REPRESENTATION IS MADE AS TO THE AVAILABILITY OF ANY EXEMPTION FROM THE REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS OF THE SECURITIES ACT.

 

 

 

EXHIBIT B-2

 

FORM OF LEGEND FOR GLOBAL SECURITY

 

Any Global Security authenticated and delivered hereunder shall bear a legend (which would be in addition to any other legends required in the case of a Restricted Security) in substantially the following form:

 

THIS SECURITY IS A GLOBAL SECURITY WITHIN THE MEANING OF THE INDENTURE HEREINAFTER REFERRED TO AND IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF A DEPOSITARY OR A NOMINEE OF A DEPOSITARY OR A SUCCESSOR DEPOSITARY. THIS SECURITY IS NOT EXCHANGEABLE FOR SECURITIES REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF A PERSON OTHER THAN THE DEPOSITARY OR ITS NOMINEE EXCEPT IN THE LIMITED CIRCUMSTANCES DESCRIBED IN THE INDENTURE, AND NO TRANSFER OF THIS SECURITY (OTHER THAN A TRANSFER OF THIS SECURITY AS A WHOLE BY THE DEPOSITARY TO A NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITARY OR BY A NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITARY TO THE DEPOSITARY OR ANOTHER NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITARY) MAY BE REGISTERED EXCEPT IN THE LIMITED CIRCUMSTANCES DESCRIBED IN THE INDENTURE.

 

UNLESS THIS CERTIFICATE IS PRESENTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF THE DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY, A NEW YORK CORPORATION (“DTC”), TO THE COMPANY OR ITS AGENT FOR REGISTRATION OF TRANSFER, EXCHANGE, OR PAYMENT, AND ANY CERTIFICATE ISSUED IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF CEDE & CO. OR IN SUCH OTHER NAME AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC (AND ANY PAYMENT IS MADE TO CEDE & CO. OR TO SUCH OTHER ENTITY AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC), ANY TRANSFER, PLEDGE OR OTHER 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 NOMINEES OF CEDE & CO. 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 SECTION 2.16 OF THE INDENTURE.

 

 

 

 

 

EXHIBIT C

 

Form of Notice of Transfer Pursuant to Registration Statement

 

James River Coal Company
901 E. Byrd Street, Suite 1600
Richmond, Virginia 23219
Attention: Chief Accounting Officer

 

U.S. Bank National Association
100 Wall Street, Suite 1600
New York, NY 10005
Attention: Corporate Trust Services
Facsimile: (212) 809-4993

 

Re:

James River Coal Company (the “Company”) 10.00% Convertible Senior Notes due 2018 (the “ Securities”)

 

Ladies and Gentlemen:

 

Please be advised that _____________ has transferred $___________ aggregate principal amount of the Securities and ________ shares of Common Stock, par value $0.01 per share, of the Company issued on conversion of the Securities (“Common Stock”) pursuant to an effective Shelf Registration Statement on Form S-3 (File No. 333-________).

 

We hereby certify that the prospectus delivery requirements, if any, of the Securities Act of 1933 as amended, have been satisfied with respect to the transfer described above and that the above-named beneficial owner of the Securities or Common Stock is named as a “Selling Security Holder” in the Prospectus dated _________, or in amendments or supplements thereto (the “Prospectus”), and that the aggregate principal amount of the Securities and the number of shares of Common Stock transferred are [a portion of] the Securities and Common Stock listed in such Prospectus, as amended or supplemented, opposite such owner’s name.

 

Very truly yours,   _________________________ (Name)

 

 

EXHIBIT D

 

 

 

Form of Additional Guarantor Supplemental Indenture

 

SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE (this “Supplemental Indenture”) dated as of ,  , among [GUARANTOR] (the “New Subsidiary Guarantor”), a subsidiary of JAMES RIVER COAL COMPANY (or its successor), a Virginia corporation (the “Company”), JAMES RIVER COAL COMPANY, on behalf of itself and the Subsidiary Guarantors (the “Existing Subsidiary Guarantors”) under the indenture referred to below, and U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, a banking association, as trustee under the indenture referred to below (the “Trustee”).

 

W I T N E S S E T H :

 

WHEREAS the Company and the Existing Subsidiary Guarantors have heretofore executed and delivered to the Trustee an Indenture (the “Indenture”) dated as of May 22, 2013, providing for the issuance of an unlimited amount of 10.00% Convertible Senior Notes Due 2018 (the “Securities”);

 

WHEREAS Section 4.10 of the Indenture provides that under certain circumstances the Company is required to cause the New Subsidiary Guarantor to execute and deliver to the Trustee a supplemental indenture pursuant to which the New Subsidiary Guarantor shall unconditionally guarantee all the Company’s obligations under the Securities pursuant to a Subsidiary Guarantee on the terms and conditions set forth herein; and

 

WHEREAS pursuant to Section 9.01 of the Indenture, the Trustee, the Company and the Existing Subsidiary 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 Subsidiary Guarantor, the Company, the Existing Subsidiary Guarantors and the Trustee mutually covenant and agree for the equal and ratable benefit of the holders of the Securities as follows:

 

1. Agreement to Guarantee. The New Subsidiary Guarantor hereby agrees, jointly and severally with all other Subsidiary Guarantors, to unconditionally guarantee the Company’s obligations under the Securities on the terms and subject to the conditions set forth in Article XIII of the Indenture and to be bound by all other applicable provisions of the Indenture.

 

2. 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.

 

 

 

3. Governing Law. THIS SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE SHALL BE GOVERNED BY, AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH, THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK BUT WITHOUT GIVING EFFECT TO APPLICABLE PRINCIPLES OF CONFLICTS OF LAW TO THE EXTENT THAT THE APPLICATION OF THE LAWS OF ANOTHER JURISDICTION WOULD BE REQUIRED THEREBY.

 

4. Trustee Makes No Representation. The Trustee makes no representation as to the validity or sufficiency of this Supplemental Indenture.

 

5. 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.

 

6. Effect of Headings. The Section headings herein are for convenience only and shall not effect the construction thereof.

 

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

 

 

[NEW SUBSIDIARY GUARANTOR],
by
	Name:
	Title:

 

JAMES RIVER COAL COMPANY,
by
	Name:
	Title:

 

[EXISTING SUBSIDIARY GUARANTORS],
By
	Name:
	Title: