On behalf of the Board of Directors of Gannett Co., Inc. (“Gannett” or the “Company”), I cordially invite you to attend a Special Meeting of Stockholders of Gannett Co., Inc. (the “Special Meeting”) to be held on February 26, 2021, at 8:00 a.m., Eastern Time, solely over the Internet in a virtual-only format at www.virtualshareholdermeeting.com/GCI2021SM.

The Special Meeting is being held in connection with the Company’s previously announced refinancing of its 11.5% term loan, on November 17, 2020, through the issuance of approximately $500 million in aggregate principal amount of 6% Senior Secured Convertible Notes due 2027 (the “Notes”). The refinancing has three key benefits for the Company: first, it generates significant savings, reducing the Company’s annual interest expense by approximately $28 million per year; second, by reducing the outstanding balance of the term loan, the refinancing paves the way for a further refinancing of the remaining term loan; third, the refinancing extends the maturity of approximately $500 million of debt by three years.

The Notes may be converted at any time by the holders into cash, shares of the Company’s common stock, par value $0.01 per share (“Common Stock”), or any combination of cash and Common Stock, at the Company’s election. However, the issuance of Common Stock representing more than 19.9% of the outstanding Common Stock requires stockholder approval pursuant to Rule 312 of the Listed Company Manual of the New York Stock Exchange. Accordingly, the Company is seeking stockholder approval of the issuance of the maximum number of shares of Common Stock issuable in the event of conversion. Failure to obtain such approval by the one-year anniversary of the issuance date will result in an increase in the coupon on the Notes, if the term loan is still outstanding. Additional detail about these matters is described in the accompanying materials. The Board of Directors unanimously recommends a vote “FOR” approval of this proposal.

It is important that you use this opportunity to take part in the affairs of the Company by voting on the business to come before this meeting. WHETHER OR NOT YOU EXPECT TO ATTEND THE SPECIAL MEETING, PLEASE COMPLETE THE PROXY ELECTRONICALLY OR BY PHONE AS DESCRIBED ON YOUR PROXY CARD AND UNDER “HOW TO VOTE” IN THIS PROXY STATEMENT SO THAT YOUR SHARES MAY BE REPRESENTED AT THE SPECIAL MEETING. IF YOU HAVE RECEIVED THIS PROXY STATEMENT BY MAIL, YOU MAY ALSO VOTE BY COMPLETING, DATING, SIGNING AND PROMPTLY RETURNING THE PROXY CARD IN THE ENCLOSED POSTAGE-PAID ENVELOPE. Returning or completing the proxy does not deprive you of your right to attend the Special Meeting and to vote your shares.

PLEASE NOTE THAT YOU MUST FOLLOW THESE INSTRUCTIONS IN ORDER TO ATTEND AND BE ABLE TO VOTE AT THE SPECIAL MEETING: All stockholders may vote at the Special Meeting. Stockholders as of the close of business on December 29, 2020, the record date, can attend the Special Meeting by accessing www.virtualshareholdermeeting.com/GCI2021SM and entering the 16-digit unique control number found on the proxy card or voting instruction form included with the proxy materials. We encourage stockholders to allow sufficient time to log in prior to the start of the Special Meeting. During the Special Meeting, stockholders who have entered their 16-digit unique control number will have the opportunity to vote and ask questions. Stockholders who have not voted their shares prior to the Special Meeting or who wish to change their vote will be able to vote their shares electronically at the Special Meeting while the polls are open. In addition, any stockholder may also be represented by another person at the Special Meeting by executing a proper proxy designating that person as the proxy with power to vote your shares on your behalf.

A special meeting of stockholders of Gannett Co., Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), will be held on February 26, 2021, at 8:00 a.m., Eastern Time, solely over the Internet in a virtual-only format at www.virtualshareholdermeeting.com/GCI2021SM (the “Special Meeting”).

The matters to be considered and acted upon by the stockholders of the Company’s common stock, par value $0.01 per share (the “Common Stock”) at the Special Meeting, which are described in detail in the accompanying materials, are:

INDENTURE, dated as of November 17, 2020, among GANNETT CO., INC., a Delaware corporation, as issuer (the “Company,” as more fully set forth in Section 1.01), the Subsidiary Guarantors (as defined below) party hereto from time to time and U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, a national banking association organized and existing under the laws of the United States, as trustee (the “Trustee,” as more fully set forth in Section 1.01).

WHEREAS, for its lawful corporate purposes, the Company has duly authorized the issuance of its 6.000% Convertible Senior Secured Notes due 2027 (the “Notes”), initially in an aggregate principal amount not to exceed $497,094,000, and in order to provide the terms and conditions upon which the Notes are to be authenticated, issued and delivered, the Company has duly authorized the execution and delivery of this Indenture; and

WHEREAS, the Form of Note, the certificate of authentication to be borne by each Note, the Form of Notice of Conversion, the Form of Repurchase Event Repurchase Notice, the Form of Assignment and Transfer and Form of Repurchase Notice to be borne by the Notes are to be substantially in the forms hereinafter provided; and

WHEREAS, all acts and things necessary to make the Notes, when executed by the Company and authenticated and delivered by the Trustee or a duly authorized authenticating agent, as in this Indenture provided, the valid, binding and legal obligations of the Company, and this Indenture a valid agreement according to its terms, have been done and performed, and the execution of this Indenture and the issuance hereunder of the Notes have in all respects been duly authorized.

That in order to declare the terms and conditions upon which the Notes are, and are to be, authenticated, issued and delivered, and in consideration of the premises and of the purchase and acceptance of the Notes by the Holders thereof, the Company covenants and agrees with the Trustee for the equal and proportionate benefit of the respective Holders from time to time of the Notes (except as otherwise provided below), as follows:

Section 1.01 Definitions. The terms defined in this Section 1.01 (except as herein otherwise expressly provided or unless the context otherwise requires) for all purposes of this Indenture and of any indenture supplemental hereto shall have the respective meanings specified in this Section 1.01.

“10% Exercise Notice” shall have the meaning specified in Section 14.05(a)(ii).

“Account” has the meaning specified for such term in § 9.102 of the UCC.

“Account Debtor” means, with respect to any Person, each debtor, customer or obligor in any way obligated on or in connection with any Account of such Person.

“Acquisition” means the acquisition (whether by means of a merger, consolidation or otherwise) of all of the Equity Interests of any Person or all or substantially all of the assets of (or any division or business line of) any Person.

“Additional Interest” means all amounts, if any, payable pursuant to Section 4.10(a).

“Additional Refinancing Facilities” means any Indebtedness of the Company or its Subsidiaries that satisfies the requirements of clauses (c) through (h) of the definition of “Refinancing Facilities,” the net proceeds of which are used to repurchase Notes that the Company is required to repurchase pursuant to Section 14.05(a); provided that such Additional Refinancing Facilities shall have the same terms as the Refinancing Facilities in respect of the Remaining Term Loan.

“Additional Shares” shall have the meaning specified in Section 13.03(a).

“Affiliate” means, with respect to any Person, any other Person that directly or indirectly through one or more intermediaries, controls, is controlled by, or is under common control with, such Person. For purposes of this definition, “control” of a Person means the power, directly or indirectly, either to (a) vote 10% or more of the Equity Interests having ordinary voting power for the election of members of the Board of Directors of such Person or (b) direct or cause the direction of the management and policies of such Person whether by contract or otherwise.

“After-Acquired Property” means any property or assets (other than Excluded Property) of the Company or any Subsidiary Guarantor that secures any Notes Obligations that is not already subject to the Lien under the Security Documents.

“All-in Yield” shall mean, as to any loans or notes, the yield thereon payable to all holders thereof, whether in the form of interest rate, margin, original issue discount, upfront fees, rate floors or otherwise; and provided, further, that “All-in Yield” shall not include arrangement, commitment, underwriting, structuring, ticking or similar fees and customary consent fees for an amendment paid generally to consenting lenders.

“Anti-Corruption Laws” means the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977, as amended, and the anti-bribery and anti-corruption laws, rules and regulations of any jurisdictions applicable to the Notes Parties or their Subsidiaries from time to time (collectively, the “Anti-Corruption Laws”).

“Anti-Money Laundering and Anti-Terrorism Laws” means any Requirement of Law relating to terrorism, economic sanctions or money laundering, including, without limitation, (a) the Money Laundering Control Act of 1986 (i.e., 18 U.S.C. §§ 1956 and 1957), (b) the Bank Secrecy Act of 1970 (31 U.S.C. §§ 5311-5330 and 12 U.S.C. §§ 1818(s), 1820(b) and 1951-1959), and the implementing regulations promulgated thereunder, (c) the USA PATRIOT Act and the implementing regulations promulgated thereunder, (d) the laws, regulations and Executive Orders administered under any Sanctions Programs, (e) any law prohibiting or directed against terrorist activities or the financing or support of terrorist activities (e.g., 18 U.S.C. §§ 2339A and 2339B), and (f) any similar laws enacted in the United States or any other jurisdictions in which the parties to this Indenture operate, as any of the foregoing laws have been, or shall hereafter be, amended, renewed, extended, or replaced and all other present and future legal requirements of any Governmental Authority governing, addressing, relating to, or attempting to eliminate, terrorist acts and acts of war and any regulations promulgated pursuant thereto, in each case applicable to the Company or any Subsidiary.

“Asset Sale Repurchase Event” shall mean following the occurrence of an Event of Default and so long as such Event of Default is continuing, the occurrence of a Sale and Leaseback Transaction or any Disposition (excluding Dispositions which qualify as Permitted Dispositions under clauses (a), (b), (c), (d), (e), (f), (g), (h), (i) (but only to the extent the fair market value of such property does not exceed $100,000 per Disposition or series of related Dispositions) or (j) of the definition of Permitted Disposition) by any Notes Party or its Subsidiaries.

“Asset Sale Repurchase Event Amount” shall mean the Net Cash Proceeds from the Disposition or Sale and Leaseback Transaction triggering the related Asset Sale Repurchase Event.

“Asset Sale Repurchase Event Price” shall mean with respect to any Notes to be repurchased in connection with an Asset Sale Repurchase Event, 100% of the principal amount thereof.

“Australian Subsidiary” means a Subsidiary incorporated, organized or established under the laws of Australia.

“Blocked Person” means any Person:

(a) that (i) is identified on the list of “Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons” published by OFAC; (ii) resides, is organized or chartered in a country, region or territory that is the target of comprehensive sanctions under any Sanctions Program; or (iii) a Person listed in any economic or financial sanctions-related or trade embargoes-related list of designated Persons maintained under any of the Anti-Money Laundering and Anti-Terrorism Laws; and

(b) that is owned or controlled by or that is acting for or on behalf of, any Person described in clause (a) above.

“Board of Directors” means with respect to (a) a corporation, the board of directors of the corporation or a committee of such board duly authorized to act for it hereunder, (b) a partnership, the board of directors of the general partner of the partnership, (c) a limited liability company, the managing member or members or any controlling committee or board of directors of such company or the sole member or the managing member thereof, and (d) any other Person, the board or committee of such Person serving a similar function.

“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 of the Company, and to be in full force and effect on the date of such certification, and delivered to the Trustee.

“BridgeTower Asset Purchase Agreement” means that certain asset purchase agreement, dated as of October 30, 2020, by and among BridgeTower Media, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company, as seller, the other sellers party thereto, BridgeTower OpCo, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company, as purchaser and BridgeTower Media, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company, solely in its capacity as the representative for the sellers party thereto.

“Business Day” means, with respect to any Note, any day other than a Saturday, a Sunday or a day on which the Federal Reserve Bank of New York is authorized or required by law or executive order to close or be closed.

“Canadian Notes Party” means a Notes Party incorporated, organized or established under the laws of Canada.

“Canadian PPSA” means the Personal Property Security Act, as amended, of the applicable province of Canada.

“Capital Expenditures” means, with respect to any Person for any period, the sum of the aggregate of all expenditures by such Person and its Subsidiaries during such period that in accordance with GAAP are or should be included in “property, plant and equipment”, “intangible assets” or in a similar fixed asset account on its balance sheet, whether such expenditures are paid in cash or financed, including all Capitalized Lease Obligations, obligations under synthetic leases and capitalized software costs that are paid or due and payable during such period.

“Capitalized Lease” means, with respect to any Person, any lease of (or other arrangement conveying the right to use) real or personal property by such Person as lessee that is required under GAAP to be classified and accounted for as a finance lease on the balance sheet of such Person under Financial Accounting Standards Board Accounting Standards Update No. 2016-02 , Leases (Topic 842).

“Capitalized Lease Obligations” means, with respect to any Person, obligations of such Person and its Subsidiaries under Capitalized Leases, and, for purposes hereof, the amount of any such obligation shall be the capitalized amount thereof determined in accordance with GAAP.

“Cash Equivalents” means (a) marketable direct obligations issued or unconditionally guaranteed by the United States Government or issued by any agency thereof and backed by the full faith and credit of the United States, in each case, maturing within six months from the date of acquisition thereof; (b) commercial paper, maturing not more than 270 days after the date of issue rated P-1 by Moody’s or A-1 by Standard & Poor’s; (c) certificates of deposit maturing not more than 270 days after the date of issue, issued by commercial banking institutions and money market or demand deposit accounts maintained at commercial banking institutions, each of which is a member of the Federal Reserve System and has a combined capital and surplus and undivided profits of not less than $500,000,000; (d) repurchase agreements having maturities of not more than 90 days from the date of acquisition which are entered into with major money center banks included in the commercial banking institutions described in clause (c) above and which are secured by readily marketable direct obligations of the United States Government or any agency thereof; (e) money market accounts maintained with mutual funds having assets in excess of $2,500,000,000, which assets are primarily comprised of Cash Equivalents described in another clause of this definition; (f) marketable tax exempt securities rated A or higher by Moody’s or A+ or higher by Standard & Poor’s, in each case, maturing within 270 days from the date of acquisition thereof; and (g) in the case of any Foreign Subsidiary, other short-term investments that are analogous to the foregoing, are of comparable credit quality and are customarily used by companies in the jurisdiction of such Foreign Subsidiary for cash management purposes.

“Cash Settlement” shall have the meaning specified in Section 13.02(a).

The term “close of business” means 5:00 p.m. (New York City time).

“Collateral” means all of the property and assets and all interests therein and proceeds thereof now owned or hereafter acquired by any Person upon which a Lien is granted or purported to be granted by such Person as security for all or any part of the Notes Obligations.

“Combination Settlement” shall have the meaning specified in Section 13.02(a).

“Commission” means the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

“Common Equity” of any Person means Equity Interests of such Person that is generally entitled (a) to vote in the election of directors of such Person or (b) if such Person is not a corporation, to vote or otherwise participate in the selection of the governing body, partners, managers or others that will control the management or policies of such Person, but, for the avoidance of doubt, excluding any debt securities convertible into or exchangeable for any securities otherwise constituting Common Equity pursuant to this definition.

“Common Stock” means the common stock of the Company, par value $0.01 per share, at the date of this Indenture, subject to Section 13.07.

“Company” shall have the meaning specified in the first paragraph of this Indenture, and subject to the provisions of Article 11, shall include its successors and assigns.

“Company Order” means a written order of the Company, signed by one of its Officers, and delivered to the Trustee.

“Company Permitted Refinancing Notice” shall have the meaning specified in Section 14.05(a)(i).

“Consolidated EBITDA” means, with respect to any Person for any period:

(a) the Consolidated Net Income of such Person for such period,

(b) without duplication, the sum of the following amounts for such period to the extent deducted in the calculation of Consolidated Net Income for such period:

(i) any provision for United States federal income taxes or other taxes measured by net income,

(ii) Consolidated Net Interest Expense (but excluding interest expense related to operating leases that are not Capitalized Leases),

(iii) any depreciation and amortization expense (but excluding depreciation and amortization related to operating leases that are not Capitalized Leases),

(iv) any aggregate net loss on the Disposition of property (other than accounts and Inventory) outside the ordinary course of business,

(v) any other non-cash expenditure, charge or loss for such period (other than any non-cash expenditure, charge or loss relating to write-offs, write-downs or reserves with respect to accounts and Inventory),

(vi) (A) any restructuring and integration costs associated with the Transactions and (B) any other extraordinary, non-recurring or unusual charges and expenses or deductions (clauses (A) and (B), collectively, “Extraordinary Expenses”); provided that, for any period of four consecutive Fiscal Quarters, the aggregate amount of cash Extraordinary Expenses that are incurred following the Issue Date that are added back pursuant to this clause (vi) in calculating Consolidated EBITDA shall not exceed, (x) for any period of four consecutive Fiscal Quarters ending after the third Fiscal Quarter of 2020, but on or prior to the last day of Fiscal Year 2021, 12.5% of Consolidated EBITDA of such Person and (y) for any period of four consecutive Fiscal Quarters ending after the last day of Fiscal Year 2021, 7.0% of Consolidated EBITDA of such Person (which percentages, in the case of clauses (x) and (y), shall be calculated prior to giving effect to the addition of Extraordinary Expenses),

(vii) deferred financing costs,

(viii) management fee incentive expense incurred and paid using common Equity Interests,

(ix) fees, costs and expenses in connection with the Transactions, and

(x) fees, costs and expenses relating to any contemplated or completed acquisitions or dispositions or to any contemplated or completed offering of securities or other Indebtedness,

(c) without duplication, the sum of the following amounts for such period to the extent included in the calculation of such Consolidated Net Income for such period:

(i) any credit for United States federal income taxes or other taxes measured by net income,

(ii) any gain from extraordinary items,

(iii) any aggregate net gain from the Disposition of property (other than accounts and Inventory) outside the ordinary course of business; and

(iv) any other non-cash gain, including any reversal of a charge referred to in clause (b)(v) above by reason of a decrease in the value of any Equity Interest, but excluding any such non-cash gains (A) in respect of which cash was received in a prior period or will be received in a future period and (B) that represent the reversal of any accrual in a prior period for, or the reversal of any cash reserves established in a prior period for, anticipated cash charges.

“Consolidated Net Income” means, with respect to any Person, for any period, the consolidated net income (or loss) of such Person and its Subsidiaries for such period; provided, however, that the following shall be excluded: (a) the net income of any other Person in which such Person or one of its Subsidiaries has a joint interest with a third-party (which interest does not cause the net income of such other Person to be consolidated into the net income of such Person), except to the extent of the amount of dividends or distributions paid to such Person or Subsidiary, (b) the net income of any Subsidiary (other than a Notes Party) of such Person that is, on the last day of such period, subject to any restriction or limitation on the payment of dividends or the making of other distributions, to the extent of such restriction or limitation, and (c) the net income of any other Person arising prior to such other Person becoming a Subsidiary of such Person or merging or consolidating into such Person or its Subsidiaries.

“Consolidated Net Interest Expense” means, with respect to any Person for any period, (a) gross interest expense of such Person and its Subsidiaries for such period determined on a consolidated basis and in accordance with GAAP, less (b) the sum of (i) interest income for such period and (ii) gains for such period on Hedging Agreements (to the extent not included in interest income above and to the extent not deducted in the calculation of gross interest expense), plus (c) the sum of (i) losses for such period on Hedging Agreements (to the extent not included in gross interest expense), (ii) the upfront costs or fees for such period associated with Hedging Agreements (to the extent not included in gross interest expense) and (iii) amortization of original issue discount resulting from the issuance of Indebtedness at less than par or debt discount associated with the Notes, in each case, determined on a consolidated basis and in accordance with GAAP.

“Contingent Indemnity Obligations” means any Obligation constituting a contingent, unliquidated indemnification obligation of any Notes Party, in each case, to the extent (a) such obligation has not accrued and is not yet due and payable and (b) no claim has been made or is reasonably anticipated to be made with respect thereto.

“Contingent Obligation” means, with respect to any Person, any obligation of such Person guaranteeing any Indebtedness (“primary obligations”) of any other Person (the “primary obligor”) in any manner, whether directly or indirectly, including, without limitation, (a) the direct or indirect guaranty, endorsement (other than for collection or deposit in the ordinary course of business), co-making, discounting with recourse or sale with recourse by such Person of the obligation of a primary obligor, (b) the obligation to make take-or-pay or similar payments, if required, regardless of nonperformance by any other party or parties to an agreement, (c) any obligation of such Person, whether or not contingent, (i) to purchase any such primary obligation or any property constituting direct or indirect security therefor, (ii) to advance or supply funds (A) for the purchase or payment of any such primary obligation or (B) to maintain working capital or equity capital of the primary obligor or otherwise to maintain the net worth or solvency of the primary obligor, (iii) to purchase property, assets, securities or services primarily for the purpose of assuring the owner of any such primary obligation of the ability of the primary obligor to make payment of such primary obligation or (iv) otherwise to assure or hold harmless the holder of such primary obligation against loss in respect thereof; provided, however, that the term “Contingent Obligation” shall not include any product warranties extended in the ordinary course of business. The amount of any Contingent Obligation shall be deemed to be an amount equal to the stated or determinable amount of the primary obligation with respect to which such Contingent Obligation is made (or, if less, the maximum amount of such primary obligation for which such Person may be liable pursuant to the terms of the instrument evidencing such Contingent Obligation) or, if not stated or determinable, the maximum reasonably anticipated liability with respect thereto (assuming such Person is required to perform thereunder), as determined by such Person in good faith.

“Contractual Obligation” means, as to any Person, any provision of any security issued by such Person or of any agreement, instrument or other undertaking to which such Person is a party or by which it or any of its property is bound.

“Control Agreement” means, with respect to any deposit account, any securities account, any commodity account, any securities entitlement or any commodity contract, an agreement among, among others, the Notes

Collateral Agent, the financial institution or other Person at which such account is maintained or with which such entitlement or contract is carried and the Notes Party maintaining such account or entitlement or contract, effective to grant “control” (as defined under the applicable UCC) over such account, entitlement or contract to the Notes Collateral Agent.

“Conversion Agent” shall have the meaning specified in Section 4.02.

“Conversion Date” shall have the meaning specified in Section 13.02(c).

“Conversion Obligation” shall have the meaning specified in Section 13.01(a).

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

“Conversion Rate” shall have the meaning specified in Section 13.01(a).

“Corporate Trust Office” means the designated office of the Trustee at which at any time its corporate trust business shall be administered, which office at the date hereof is located at 425 Walnut Street, 6th Floor, Mail Drop CN-OH-W6CT, Cincinnati, Ohio 45202, Attention: Corporate Trust Services—Administrator for Gannett Co., Inc., or such other address as the Trustee may designate from time to time by notice to the Holders and the Company, or the designated 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).

“Corporations Act” means the Corporations Act 2011 (Commonwealth of Australia).

“Custodian” means the Trustee, as custodian for The Depository Trust Company, with respect to the Global Notes, or any successor entity thereto.

“Daily Conversion Value” means, for each of the 40 consecutive Trading Days during the Observation Period, 1/40th of the product of (a) the Conversion Rate on such Trading Day and (b) the Daily VWAP for such Trading Day.

“Daily Measurement Value” means the Specified Dollar Amount (if any), divided by 40.

“Daily Settlement Amount,” for each of the 40 consecutive Trading Days during the Observation Period, shall consist of:

(a) cash in an amount equal to the lesser of (i) the Daily Measurement Value and (ii) the Daily Conversion Value on such Trading Day; and

(b) if the Daily Conversion Value on such Trading Day exceeds the Daily Measurement Value, a number of shares of Common Stock equal to (i) the difference between the Daily Conversion Value and the Daily Measurement Value, divided by (ii) the Daily VWAP for such Trading Day.

“Daily VWAP” means, for each of the 40 consecutive Trading Days during the relevant Observation Period, the per share volume-weighted average price as displayed under the heading “Bloomberg VWAP” on Bloomberg page “GCI <equity> AQR” (or its equivalent successor if such page is not available) in respect of the period from the scheduled open of trading until the scheduled close of trading of the primary trading session on such Trading Day (or if such volume-weighted average price is unavailable, the market value of one share of the Common Stock on such Trading Day determined, using a volume-weighted average method, by a nationally recognized independent investment banking firm retained for this purpose by the Company). The “Daily VWAP” shall be determined without regard to after-hours trading or any other trading outside of the regular trading session trading hours.

“Debtor Relief Law” means the Bankruptcy Code and any other liquidation, conservatorship, bankruptcy, assignment for the benefit of creditors, moratorium, rearrangement, receivership, insolvency, reorganization, or similar debtor relief law of the United States or other applicable jurisdiction from time to time in effect.

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

“Defaulted Amounts” means any amounts on any Note (including, without limitation, the Redemption Price, the Repurchase Event Repurchase Price, principal and interest) that are payable but are not punctually paid or duly provided for.

“Depositary” means, with respect to each Global Note, the Person specified in Section 2.05(c) as the Depositary with respect to such Notes, until a successor shall have been appointed and become such pursuant to the applicable provisions of this Indenture, and thereafter, “Depositary” shall mean or include such successor.

“Discharge” means, with respect to any Obligations, except to the extent otherwise provided herein with respect to the reinstatement or continuation of any such Obligations, the payment in full in cash (except for contingent indemnities and cost and reimbursement obligations to the extent no claim has been made) of all such Obligations then outstanding, if any, and, with respect to letters of credit or letter of credit guaranties outstanding under the agreements or instruments (collectively, the “Relevant Instruments”) governing such Obligations, delivery of cash collateral, backstop letters of credit or other accommodations in respect thereof in a manner consistent with such agreement or instrument, in each case after or concurrently with the termination of all commitments to extend credit thereunder, and the termination of all commitments of “secured parties” under the Relevant Instruments; provided that the Discharge of First-Priority Obligations shall not be deemed to have occurred if such payments are made with the proceeds of other First-Priority Obligations that constitute an exchange or replacement for or a refinancing of such First-Priority Obligations. In the event any Obligations are modified and such Obligations are paid over time or otherwise modified, in each case, pursuant to Section 1129 of the Bankruptcy Code, such Obligations shall be deemed to be discharged when the final payment is made, in cash, in respect of such indebtedness and any obligations pursuant to such new or modified indebtedness shall have been satisfied. The term “Discharged” shall have a corresponding meaning.

“Disposition” means any transaction, or series of related transactions, pursuant to which any Person or any of its Subsidiaries sells, assigns, transfers, leases, licenses (as licensor) or otherwise disposes of any property or assets (whether now owned or hereafter acquired) to any other Person, in each case, whether or not the consideration therefor consists of cash, securities or other assets owned by the acquiring Person. For purposes of clarification, “Disposition” shall include (a) the sale or other disposition for value of any contracts, (b) the early termination or modification of any contract resulting in the receipt by any Notes Party of a cash payment or other consideration in exchange for such event (other than payments in the ordinary course for accrued and unpaid amounts due through the date of termination or modification), (c) any sale of merchant accounts (or any rights thereto (including, without limitation, any rights to any residual payment stream with respect thereto)) by any Notes Party or (d) any disposition of property through a “plan of division” under the Delaware Limited Liability Company Act or any comparable transaction under any similar law.

“Disqualified Equity Interests” means any Equity Interest that, by its terms (or by the terms of any security or other Equity Interest into which it is convertible or for which it is exchangeable), or upon the happening of any event or condition, (a) matures or is mandatorily redeemable, pursuant to a sinking fund obligation or otherwise (except as a result of (i) the payment in full of the Obligations (other than Contingent Indemnity Obligations) and (ii) a change of control or asset sale so long as any rights of the holders thereof upon the occurrence of a change of control or asset sale event shall be subject to the prior repayment in full of the Notes and all other Obligations (other than Contingent Indemnity Obligations)), (b) is redeemable at the option of the holder thereof, in whole or in part, (c) provides for the scheduled payments of dividends or distributions in cash, or (d) is convertible into or exchangeable for (i) Indebtedness or (ii) any other Equity Interests that would constitute Disqualified Equity Interests, in each case of clauses (a) through (d), prior to the date that is six months after the Maturity Date. Notwithstanding the foregoing, for all purposes of this Indenture and the Security Documents, Equity Interests (including, for the avoidance of doubt, rights to purchase Equity Interests) issued by the Company pursuant to or in accordance with the Permitted Rights Agreement shall not constitute Disqualified Equity Interests as a result of providing for the scheduled payments of dividends or distributions in cash (but, for the avoidance of doubt, the Equity Interests issued pursuant to or in accordance with the Permitted Rights Agreement shall constitute Disqualified Equity Interests to the extent they have any of the characteristics described in the foregoing clauses (a), (b) or (d) (other than, in the case of clause (d), Equity Interests convertible into or exchangeable for other Equity Interests that would constitute Disqualified Equity Interests solely as a result of the application of clause (c) above)).

“Distributed Property” shall have the meaning specified in Section 13.04(c).

“Dividend Repurchase Event” shall mean the Board of Directors of the Company approving the declaration of a dividend or distribution (other than a dividend or distribution consisting solely of Common Stock of the Company) on account of the Company’s Equity Interests if the Total Gross Leverage Ratio of the Company for the most recent four Fiscal Quarter period for which financial statements are available is greater than 1.50 to 1.00 on a pro forma basis after giving effect to such dividend or distribution.

“Dividend Repurchase Event Amount” shall mean the Company’s proposed amount of dividend or distribution in connection with the related Dividend Repurchase Event; in the case of a dividend or distribution of non-cash property, the value of such dividend or distribution shall be determined in good faith by the Board of Directors of the Company.

“Dividend Repurchase Event Price” shall mean with respect to any Notes, 100% of the principal amount thereof.

“Dividend Threshold” shall have the meaning specified in Section 13.04(d).

“Dollar,” “Dollars” and the symbol “$” each means lawful money of the United States of America.

“Domestic Notes Party” means (a) the Company and (b) each Subsidiary Guarantor that is a Domestic Subsidiary.

“Domestic Subsidiaries” means all Subsidiaries incorporated or organized under the laws of the United States of America, any State thereof or the District of Columbia.

“ECF Repurchase Event” shall mean following the occurrence of an Event of Default and so long as such Event of Default is continuing, each date that the Company delivers to the Trustee or files with the Commission, as applicable, the financial statements required to be delivered pursuant to Section 4.11(a)(ii) or Section 4.11(a)(iii), as applicable, or, if such financial statements are not delivered to the Trustee or filed with the Commission on or prior to the date such statements are required to be delivered pursuant to Section 4.11(a)(ii) or Section 4.11(a)(iii), as applicable, on the date such statements are required to be delivered to the Trustee pursuant to Section 4.11(a)(ii) or Section 4.11(a)(iii), as applicable, if the Excess Cash Flow for the Company and its Subsidiaries for such Fiscal Quarter is greater than zero.

“ECF Repurchase Event Amount” shall mean, (i) if the Total Gross Leverage Ratio for the four Fiscal Quarter period ending on the last day of such Fiscal Quarter is 1.00 to 1.00 or greater, 90% of Excess Cash Flow for the Company and its Subsidiaries for such Fiscal Quarter and (ii) if the Total Gross Leverage Ratio for the four Fiscal Quarter period ending on the last day of such Fiscal Quarter is less than 1.00 to 1.00, 50% of Excess Cash Flow for the Company and its Subsidiaries for such Fiscal Quarter.

“ECF Repurchase Event Price” shall mean with respect to any Notes to be repurchased in connection with an ECF Repurchase Event, 100% of the principal amount thereof.

“Effective Date” shall have the meaning specified in Section 13.03(c), except that, as used in Section 13.04 and Section 13.05, shall mean the first date on which shares of the Common Stock trade on the applicable exchange or in the applicable market, regular way, reflecting the relevant share split or share combination, as applicable.

“Employee Plan” means an employee benefit plan (other than a Multiemployer Plan) covered by Title IV of ERISA that is maintained by any Notes Party or with respect to which any Notes Party has any liability (including on account of any of its ERISA Affiliates).

“Environmental Actions” means any complaint, summons, citation, written notice or directive, order, claim, litigation, investigation, judicial or administrative proceeding or judgment by or before any Governmental Authority or a consent, approval, satisfaction, determination, judgment, acceptance or similar action by any Person involving violations of Environmental Laws or Releases of or exposure of any Person to Hazardous Materials (a) from any assets, properties or businesses owned or operated by any Notes Party or any of its Subsidiaries or any legal predecessor in interest; (b) from adjoining properties or businesses onto or otherwise impacting any assets or properties owned or operated by any Notes Party or any of its Subsidiaries; or (c) onto any facilities which received Hazardous Materials generated by any Notes Party or any of its Subsidiaries or any predecessor in interest.

“Environmental Laws” means, as applicable, the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act (42 U.S.C. § 9601, et seq.), the Hazardous Materials Transportation Act (49 U.S.C. § 1801, et seq.), the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (42 U.S.C. § 6901, et seq.), the Federal Clean Water Act (33 U.S.C. § 1251 et seq.), the Clean Air Act (42 U.S.C. § 7401 et seq.), the Toxic Substances Control Act (15 U.S.C. § 2601 et seq.) and, as it relates to exposure to hazardous or toxic materials, the Occupational Safety and Health Act (29 U.S.C. § 651 et seq.), as such laws may be amended or otherwise modified from time to time, and any other Requirement of Law, permit, license or other binding determination of any Governmental Authority imposing liability or establishing standards of conduct for protection of the environment or other binding government restrictions relating to the

protection of the environment or the generation, storage, use, labelling, transport, distribution, Release, deposit or migration of, or exposure of any Person to, any hazardous or toxic materials or materials listed, defined, or regulated as “hazardous”, “toxic”, a “pollutant”, or a “contaminant” or words of similar meaning under applicable Laws into the environment.

“Environmental Liabilities and Costs” means all liabilities, monetary obligations, Remedial Actions, losses, damages, punitive damages, consequential damages, treble damages, costs and expenses (including all reasonable fees, disbursements and expenses of counsel, experts and consultants and costs of investigations and feasibility studies), fines, penalties, sanctions and interest incurred as a result of any claim or demand by any Governmental Authority or any third party, and which, in each case, relate to any Notes Party’s noncompliance with Environmental Laws, any environmental condition or a Release of Hazardous Materials from or onto (a) any property presently or formerly owned by any Notes Party or any of its Subsidiaries or (b) any facility which received Hazardous Materials generated by any Notes Party or any of its Subsidiaries.

“Environmental Lien” means any Lien in favor of any Governmental Authority for Environmental Liabilities and Costs.

“Equity Interests” means (a) all shares of capital stock (whether denominated as common stock or preferred stock), equity interests, beneficial, partnership or membership interests, joint venture interests, participations or other ownership or profit interests in or equivalents (regardless of how designated) of or in a Person (other than an individual), whether voting or non-voting and (b) all securities convertible into or exchangeable for any of the foregoing and all warrants, options or other rights to purchase, subscribe for or otherwise acquire any of the foregoing, whether or not presently convertible, exchangeable or exercisable.

“Equity Issuance” means either (a) the sale or issuance by any Notes Party or any of its Subsidiaries of any shares of its Equity Interests or (b) the receipt by the Company of any cash capital contributions.

“ERISA” means the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended, and any successor statute of similar import, and regulations thereunder, in each case, as in effect from time to time. References to sections of ERISA shall be construed also to refer to any successor sections.

“ERISA Affiliate” means, with respect to any Person, any trade or business (whether or not incorporated) which is a member of a group of which such Person is a member and which would be deemed to be a “controlled group” within the meaning of Sections 414(b), (c), (m) and (o) of the Internal Revenue Code.

“Event of Default” shall have the meaning specified in Section 6.01.

“Ex-Dividend Date” means the first date on which shares of the Common Stock trade on the applicable exchange or in the applicable market, regular way, without the right to receive the issuance, dividend or distribution in question, 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.

“Excess Cash Flow” means, with respect to any Person for any period,

(a)  Consolidated EBITDA of such Person and its Subsidiaries for such period, less

(b) the sum of, without duplication,

(i) the cash portion of Consolidated Net Interest Expense paid during such period,

(ii) income taxes paid in cash by such Person and its Subsidiaries for such period,

(iii) all cash principal payments made on the Notes and on the Remaining Term Loan (or any Permitted Refinancing in respect thereof), in each case to the extent not funded with an incurrence of Indebtedness, during such period,

(iv) all Notes purchased by the Company in connection with an Unrestricted Cash Repurchase Event during such period pursuant to Article 14,

(v) the cash portion of Capital Expenditures made during such period (i) to the extent not funded with (x) an incurrence of Indebtedness or (y) proceeds from the issuance of Equity Interests and (ii) subject to a cap equal to $40,000,000 for each such period,

(vi) the excess, if any, of Working Capital at the end of such period over Working Capital at the beginning of such period (or, if the difference results in an amount less than zero, minus the excess, if any, of Working Capital at the beginning of such period over Working Capital at the end of such period),

(vii) all cash expenses, fees, charges and amounts to the extent added back to Consolidated EBITDA (or its component definitions) for such period,

(viii) cash payments to fund pension obligations made during such period,

(ix) the cash portion of the purchase price paid in connection with Permitted Acquisitions made by such Person and its Subsidiaries during such period (excluding any Permitted Acquisitions to the extent financed with the proceeds of an Equity Issuance),

(x) any cash actually paid during such period in respect of any non-cash losses or charges recorded in a prior period; and

(xi) the amount of Restricted Payments made during such period pursuant to clause (c) of “Permitted Restricted Payments”.

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

“Exchange Election” shall have the meaning specified in Section 13.12.

“Excluded Property” means (i) the property and other assets of the Company and the Subsidiary Guarantors that is excluded from the grant of security interest in favor of the Notes Collateral Agent, on behalf of the Holders, pursuant to the terms of this Indenture and the Security Documents or (ii) any property or assets of the Company or any Subsidiary Guarantor for which neither Company nor any Subsidiary Guarantor is required pursuant to the Remaining Term Loan or any Refinancing Facilities to be used to secure the Obligations under the Remaining Term Loan or any Refinancing Facilities.

“Excluded Securities” means (i) Equity Interests of the Company issued to directors, officers, employees or consultants of the Company in connection with their service, employment or retention by the Company pursuant to an equity incentive or similar plan approved by the Board of Directors of the Company and (ii) shares of Common Stock issued upon the conversion or exercise of options, warrants, rights or other convertible securities of the Company that are outstanding as of the Issue Date.

“Excluded Subsidiary” means Newsquest Media Group Limited and each of its Subsidiaries, unless (i) the Company elects to satisfy the requirements of Section 4.11(b) with respect to such Excluded Subsidiary, (ii) such Excluded Subsidiary is no longer a Foreign Subsidiary or (iii) as a result of such Excluded Subsidiary’s providing a Subsidiary Guarantee, such Excluded Subsidiary would not have any liability to contribute to an occupational pension scheme (as defined in section 1 of the Pension Schemes Act 1993 (United Kingdom)) in the United Kingdom other than an occupational pension scheme all the benefits under which are money purchase benefits (as defined in section 181 of the Pension Schemes Act 1993 (United Kingdom)).

“Existing Convertible Notes” means the notes issued pursuant to the Indenture, dated as of April 9, 2018, between the Company, as issuer, and U.S. Bank National Association, as trustee.

“Extraordinary Receipts” means any cash received by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries from casualty or condemnation awards (and payments in lieu thereof).

“FASB ASC” means the Accounting Standards Codification of the Financial Accounting Standards Board.

“First Lien Intercreditor Agreement” means the first lien/first lien intercreditor agreement among the Notes Collateral Agent, the Trustee, the Term Loan Administrative Agent, the Term Loan Collateral Agent, and the other parties from time to time party thereto, entered into on the Issue Date, as it may be amended, restated, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time in accordance with this Indenture.

“First-Priority Obligations” means (x) prior to the consummation of a Permitted Refinancing, (i) the Remaining Term Loan and (ii) all Notes Obligations and (y) after the consummation of a Permitted Refinancing, the Refinancing Facilities.

“Fiscal Quarter” means a fiscal quarter of the Company and its Subsidiaries; provided that, for purposes of determining the availability under any exception to the covenants in Section 4.12 (including any related defined terms), “Fiscal Quarter” shall at all times refer to the fiscal quarter of the Company.

“Fiscal Year” means the fiscal year of the Company.

“Foreign Official” means any employee, official, or other person acting on behalf of any foreign (i.e., non-U.S.) Governmental Authority, or of any public international organization, or any foreign political party or official thereof, or candidate for foreign political office.

“Foreign Pledge Agreement” means a pledge or charge agreement granting a Lien on Equity Interests issued by a Foreign Subsidiary in order to secure the Notes Obligations and, in each case, governed by the law of the jurisdiction of organization of such Foreign Subsidiary and in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Notes Collateral Agent and the Company.

“Foreign Security Agreement” means an agreement granting a Lien on assets owned by any Foreign Subsidiary consisting of assets comprising the Collateral (but, with respect to any category of assets, only to the extent that a Lien on such category of assets is customarily granted in the applicable jurisdiction) to secure the Notes Obligations and governed by the law of the jurisdiction of organization of such Foreign Subsidiary and, in each case, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Notes Collateral Agent and the Company.

“Foreign Subsidiary” means any Subsidiary that is not a Domestic Subsidiary.

“Form of Assignment and Transfer” means the “Form of Assignment and Transfer” attached as Attachment 3 to the Form of Note attached hereto as Exhibit A.

“Form of Note” means the “Form of Note” attached hereto as Exhibit A.

“Form of Notice of Conversion” means the “Form of Notice of Conversion” attached as Attachment 1 to the Form of Note attached hereto as Exhibit A.

“Form of Repurchase Event Repurchase Notice” means the “Form of Repurchase Event Repurchase Notice” attached as Attachment 2 to the Form of Note attached hereto as Exhibit A.

“Form of Repurchase Notice” means the “Form of Repurchase Notice” attached as Attachment 4 to the Form of Note attached hereto as Exhibit A.

“Full Conversion Approval” shall have the meaning specified in Section 4.10(a).

“Fundamental Change” shall be deemed to have occurred at the time after the Notes are originally issued if any of the following occurs:

(a) a “person” or “group” within the meaning of Section 13(d) of the Exchange Act, other than the Company, its direct or indirect Wholly Owned Subsidiaries and the employee benefit plans of the Company and its direct or indirect Wholly Owned Subsidiaries, files a Schedule TO or any schedule, form or report under the Exchange Act disclosing that such person or group has become the direct or indirect “beneficial owner,” as defined in Rule 13d-3 under the Exchange Act, of the Company’s Common Equity representing more than 50% of the voting power of the Company’s Common Equity;

(b) the consummation of (A) any recapitalization, reclassification or change of the Common Stock (other than changes resulting from a subdivision or combination) as a result of which the Common Stock would be converted into, or exchanged for, stock, other securities, other property or assets; (B) any share exchange, consolidation or merger of the Company pursuant to which the Common Stock will be converted into cash, securities or other property or assets; or (C) any sale, lease or other transfer in one transaction or a series of transactions of all or substantially all of the consolidated assets of the Company and its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, to any Person other than one or more of the Company’s direct or indirect Wholly Owned Subsidiaries; provided, however, that a transaction described in clause (A) or clause (B) in which the holders of all classes of the Company’s Common Equity immediately prior to such transaction own, directly or indirectly, more than 50% of all classes of Common Equity of the continuing or surviving corporation or transferee or the parent thereof immediately after such transaction in substantially the same proportions (relative to each other) as such ownership immediately prior to such transaction shall not be a Fundamental Change pursuant to this clause (b);

(c) the stockholders of the Company approve any plan or proposal for the liquidation or dissolution of the Company;

(d) the Common Stock (or other common stock underlying the Notes) ceases to be listed or quoted on any of The New York Stock Exchange, The NASDAQ Global Select Market or The NASDAQ Global Market (or any of their respective successors); provided, however, that a transaction or transactions described in clause (a) or clause (b) above shall not constitute a Fundamental Change, if at least 90% of the consideration received or to be received by the holders of the Common Stock, excluding cash payments for fractional shares and cash payments made pursuant to dissenters’ appraisal rights, in connection with such transaction or transactions consists of shares of common stock that are listed or quoted on any of The New York Stock Exchange, The NASDAQ Global Select Market or The NASDAQ Global Market (or any of their respective successors) or will be so listed or quoted when issued or exchanged in connection with such transaction or transactions and as a result of such transaction or transactions the Notes become convertible into such consideration, excluding cash payments for fractional shares and cash payments made pursuant to dissenters’ appraisal rights (subject to the provisions of Section 13.02(a)). If any transaction in which the Common Stock is replaced by the common stock of another entity occurs, following completion of any related Make-Whole Fundamental Change Period (or, in the case of a transaction that would have been a Fundamental Change or a Make-Whole Fundamental Change but for the proviso immediately following clause (d) of the definition thereof, following the effective date of such transaction) references to the Company in this definition shall instead be references to such other entity; or

(e) a “Change of Control” under the Remaining Term Loan or the Refinancing Facilities.

Any transaction that constitutes a Fundamental Change pursuant to both clause (a) and clause (b) of this definition shall be deemed a Fundamental Change solely under clause (b) of this definition.

“Fundamental Change Repurchase Amount” shall mean all of the outstanding Notes.

“Fundamental Change Repurchase Price” shall mean with respect to any Notes to be repurchased in connection with a Fundamental Change, 110% of the principal amount thereof.

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

The term “given” with respect to any notice to be given to a Holder pursuant to this Indenture, shall mean notice (x) given to the Depositary (or its designee) pursuant to the standing instructions from the Depositary or its designee, including by electronic mail in accordance with accepted practices or procedures at the Depositary (in the case of a Global Note) or (y) mailed to such Holder by first class mail, postage prepaid, at its address as it appears on the Note Register, in each case in accordance with Section 19.03. Notice so “given” shall be deemed to include any notice to be “mailed” or “delivered,” as applicable, under this Indenture.

“Global Note” shall have the meaning specified in Section 2.05(b).

“Governing Documents” means, (a) with respect to any corporation, the certificate or articles of incorporation and the bylaws (or equivalent or comparable constitutive documents with respect to any non-U.S. jurisdiction); (b) with respect to any limited liability company, the certificate or articles of formation or organization, and the operating agreement; (c) with respect to any partnership, joint venture, trust or other form of business entity, the partnership, joint venture, declaration or other applicable agreement or documentation evidencing or otherwise relating to its formation or organization, governance and capitalization; and (d) with respect to any of the entities described above, any other agreement, instrument, filing or notice with respect thereto filed in connection with its formation or organization with the applicable Governmental Authority in the jurisdiction of its formation or organization.

“Governmental Authority” means any nation or government, any Federal, state, province, city, town, municipality, county, local or other political subdivision thereof or thereto and any department, commission, board, bureau, instrumentality, agency or other entity exercising executive, legislative, judicial, taxing, regulatory or administrative powers or functions of or pertaining to government (including any supra-national bodies such as the European Union or the European Central Bank).

“Hazardous Material” means (a) any element, compound or chemical that is defined, listed or otherwise classified as a contaminant, pollutant, toxic pollutant, toxic or hazardous substance, extremely hazardous substance or chemical, hazardous waste, special waste, or solid waste under Environmental Laws or that is likely to cause immediately, or at some future time, harm to or have an adverse effect on, the environment or human health or safety, including, without limitation, any pollutant, contaminant, waste, hazardous waste, toxic substance or dangerous good which is defined or identified in any Environmental Law and which is present in the environment in such quantity or state that it contravenes any Environmental Law; (b) petroleum and its refined products; (c) polychlorinated biphenyls; (d) any substance exhibiting a hazardous waste characteristic, including, without limitation, corrosivity, ignitability, toxicity or reactivity, that subjects it to regulation under Environmental Law, as well as any radioactive or explosive materials; and (e) any raw materials, building components (including, without limitation, asbestos-containing materials) and manufactured products containing hazardous substances listed or classified as such under Environmental Laws.

“Hedging Agreement” means any interest rate, foreign currency, commodity or equity swap, collar, cap, floor or forward rate agreement, or other agreement or arrangement designed to protect against fluctuations in interest rates or currency, commodity or equity values (including, without limitation, any option with respect to any of the foregoing and any combination of the foregoing agreements or arrangements), and any confirmation executed in connection with any such agreement or arrangement.

“Holder,” as applied to any Note, or other similar terms (but excluding the term “beneficial holder” or “beneficial owner” or similar terms), means any Person in whose name at the time a particular Note is registered on the Note Register.

“Indebtedness” means, with respect to any Person, without duplication, (a) all indebtedness of such Person for borrowed money; (b) all obligations of such Person for the deferred purchase price of property or services (other than trade payables or other accounts payable incurred in the ordinary course of such Person’s business and any earn-out, purchase price adjustment or similar obligation until such obligation appears in the liabilities section of the balance sheet of such Person and is no longer contingent); (c) all obligations of such Person evidenced by bonds, debentures, notes or other similar instruments; (d) all reimbursement, payment or other obligations and liabilities of such Person created or arising under any conditional sales or other title retention agreement with respect to property used and/or acquired by such Person, even though the rights and remedies of the lessor, seller and/or lender thereunder may be limited to repossession or sale of such property; (e) all Capitalized Lease Obligations of such Person; (f) all obligations and liabilities, contingent or otherwise, of such Person, in respect of letters of credit, acceptances and similar facilities other than obligations that are cash collateralized; (g) all net obligations and liabilities, calculated in good faith by the Company and in accordance with accepted practice, of such Person under Hedging Agreements; (h) all monetary obligations under any receivables factoring, receivable sales or similar transactions and all monetary obligations under any synthetic lease, tax ownership/operating lease, off-balance sheet financing or similar financing; (i) all Contingent Obligations in respect of obligations referred to in clauses (a) through (h) and (j) of this definition of another Person; (j) all Disqualified Equity Interests; and (k) all obligations referred to in clauses (a) through (j) of this definition of another Person secured by (or for which the holder of such Indebtedness has an existing right, contingent or otherwise, to be secured by) a Lien upon property owned by such Person, even though such Person has not assumed or become liable for the payment of such Indebtedness. The Indebtedness of any Person shall include the Indebtedness of any partnership of or joint venture in which such Person is a general partner or a joint venturer so long as, in the case of a joint venture, such Indebtedness is recourse to any Notes Party.

“Indenture” means this instrument as originally executed or, if amended or supplemented as herein provided, as so amended or supplemented.

“Insolvency Proceeding” means any proceeding commenced by or against any Person under any provision of any Debtor Relief Law.

“Intellectual Property” has the meaning specified therefor in the Security Agreement.

“Intercompany Subordination Agreement” means an Intercompany Subordination Agreement made by the Company and its Subsidiaries in favor of the Notes Collateral Agent for the benefit of the Trustee, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Notes Collateral Agent.

“Intercreditor Agreements” means the First Lien Intercreditor Agreement and, after any Permitted Refinancing, the Senior Lien Intercreditor Agreement.

“Interest Payment Date” means each June 1 and December 1 of each year, beginning on June 1, 2021 (or such other date as may be specified in the certificate representing the relevant Note).

“Internal Revenue Code” means the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (or any successor statute thereto) and the regulations thereunder.

“Inventory” means, with respect to any Person, all goods and merchandise of such Person leased or held for sale or lease by such Person, including, without limitation, all raw materials, work-in-process and finished goods, and all packaging, supplies and materials of every nature used or usable in connection with the shipping, storing, advertising or sale of such goods and merchandise, whether now owned or hereafter acquired, and all such other property the sale or other disposition of which would give rise to an Account or cash.

“Investment” means, with respect to any Person, (a) any investment by such Person in any other Person (including Affiliates) in the form of loans, guarantees, advances or other extensions of credit (excluding Accounts arising in the ordinary course of business), capital contributions or acquisitions of Indebtedness (including, any bonds, notes, debentures or other debt securities), Equity Interests, or all or substantially all of the assets of such other Person (or of any division or business line of such other Person), (b) the purchase or ownership of any futures contract or liability for the purchase or sale of currency or other commodities at a future date in the nature of a futures contract, or (c) any investment in any other items that are or would be classified as investments on a balance sheet of such Person prepared in accordance with GAAP.

“Investor Agreement” means the Investor Agreement, effective as of the Issue Date, among the Company and the investors party thereto.

“Issue Date” means November 17, 2020.

“Last Reported Sale Price” of the Common Stock on any date means the closing sale price (or if no closing sale price is reported, the average of the bid and ask prices or, if more than one in either case, the average of the average bid and the average ask prices) per share on that date as reported in composite transactions for the principal U.S. national or regional securities exchange on which the Common Stock is traded. If the Common Stock is not listed for trading on a U.S. national or regional securities exchange on the relevant date, the “Last Reported Sale Price” shall be the last quoted bid price per share for the Common Stock in the over-the-counter market on the relevant date as reported by OTC Markets Group Inc. or a similar organization. If the Common Stock is not so quoted, the “Last Reported Sale Price” shall be the average of the mid-point of the last bid and ask prices per share for the Common Stock on the relevant date from each of at least three nationally recognized independent investment banking firms selected by the Company for this purpose.

“Lease” means any lease of real property to which any Notes Party or any of its Subsidiaries is a party as lessor or lessee.

“Lien” means any mortgage, deed of trust, pledge, lien (statutory or otherwise), security interest, charge or other encumbrance or security or preferential arrangement of any nature, including, without limitation, any conditional sale or title retention arrangement, any Capitalized Lease and any assignment, deposit arrangement or financing lease intended as, or having the effect of, security, but not including the interest of a lessor under a lease that is an operating lease.

“Make-Whole Fundamental Change” means any transaction or event that constitutes a Fundamental Change (as defined above and determined after giving effect to any exceptions to or exclusions from such definition, but without regard to the proviso in clause (b) of the definition thereof).

“Make-Whole Fundamental Change Period” shall have the meaning specified in Section 13.03(a).

“Management Agreement” means the Amended and Restated Management and Advisory Agreement, dated as of August 5, 2019 and effective as of November 19, 2019, between the Company and FIG LLC.

“Market Disruption Event” means, for the purposes of determining amounts due upon conversion (a) a failure by the primary U.S. national or regional securities exchange or market on which the Common Stock is listed or admitted for trading to open for trading during its regular trading session or (b) the occurrence or existence prior to 1:00 p.m., New York City time, on any Scheduled Trading Day for the Common Stock 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 the Common Stock or in any options contracts or futures contracts relating to the Common Stock.

“Material Adverse Effect” means a material adverse effect on any of (a) the operations, assets, liabilities, or financial condition of the Notes Parties taken as a whole, (b) the ability of the Notes Parties taken as a whole to perform any of their obligations under this Indenture or any Security Document or (c) the rights and remedies of the Trustee or Notes Collateral Agent under this Indenture or any Security Document.

“Material Contract” means, with respect to any Person, (a) each contract or agreement to which such Person or any of its Subsidiaries is a party involving aggregate consideration payable to or by such Person or such Subsidiary of $5,000,000 or more in any Fiscal Year (other than purchase orders in the ordinary course of the business of such Person or such Subsidiary and other than contracts that by their terms may be terminated by such Person or Subsidiary upon less than 60 days’ notice without penalty or premium) and (b) all other contracts or agreements as to which the breach, nonperformance, cancellation or failure to renew by any party thereto would reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.

“Material Real Property” means any fee interest in any real property (wherever located) with an appraisal or current value in a Notes Party’s good-faith estimate in excess of $2,500,000.

“Maturity Date” means December 1, 2027.

“Merger Event” shall have the meaning specified in Section 13.07(a).

“Moody’s” means Moody’s Investors Service, Inc. and any successor thereto.

“Multiemployer Plan” means a “multiemployer plan” as defined in Section 4001(a)(3) of ERISA to which any Notes Party or any of its ERISA Affiliates contributes or is obligated to contribute.

“Net Cash Proceeds” means, with respect to any issuance or incurrence of any Indebtedness, any Equity Issuance, any Disposition (including, for the avoidance of doubt, any Sale and Leaseback Transaction) or the receipt of any Extraordinary Receipts by any Person or any of its Subsidiaries, the aggregate amount of cash received (directly or indirectly) from time to time (whether as initial consideration or through the payment or disposition of deferred consideration) by or on behalf of such Person or such Subsidiary, in connection therewith after deducting therefrom only (a) in the case of any Disposition or the receipt of any Extraordinary Receipts consisting of insurance proceeds or condemnation awards, the amount of any Indebtedness secured by any Permitted Lien on any asset (other than Indebtedness assumed by the purchaser of such asset) which is required to be, and is, repaid in connection therewith (other than Indebtedness under this Indenture), (b) all expenses related thereto incurred by such Person or such Subsidiary in good faith in connection therewith (including, with respect to any Permitted Disposition or Sale and Leaseback Transaction permitted under Section 4.12(f), expenditures in respect of moving and build-out costs), (c) transfer taxes paid or reasonably estimated to be payable to any taxing authorities by such Person or such Subsidiary in connection therewith, and (d) net income taxes to be paid in connection therewith (after taking into account any tax credits or deductions and any tax sharing arrangements), in each case, to the extent, but only to the extent, that the amounts so deducted are (i) actually paid (or reasonably estimated to be payable) to a Person that, except in the case of out-of-pocket expenses and tax payments, is not an Affiliate of such Person or any of its Subsidiaries and (ii) properly attributable to such transaction or to the asset that is the subject thereof.

“Note” or “Notes” shall have the meaning specified in the first paragraph of the recitals of this Indenture.

“Note Register” shall have the meaning specified in Section 2.05(a).

“Note Registrar” shall have the meaning specified in Section 2.05(a).

“Notes Collateral Agent” means Alter Domus Products Corp. in its capacity as collateral agent for the holders of the Notes and the Trustee, together with its successors and permitted assigns.

“Notes Obligations” means all present and future indebtedness, obligations, and liabilities of each Notes Party to the Trustee or the Notes Collateral Agent arising under or in connection with this Indenture or any Security Document, whether or not the right of payment in respect of such claim is reduced to judgment, liquidated, unliquidated, fixed, contingent, matured, disputed, undisputed, legal, equitable, secured or unsecured, and whether or not such claim is discharged, stayed or otherwise affected by any proceeding referred to in Section 6.01. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the Obligations of each Notes Party under this Indenture and the Security

Documents include (a) the obligation (irrespective of whether a claim therefor is allowed in an Insolvency Proceeding) to pay principal, interest, charges, expenses, fees, premiums, attorneys’ fees and disbursements, indemnities and other amounts payable by such Person under the this Indenture and the Security Documents, and (b) the obligation of such Person to reimburse any amount in respect of any of the foregoing that any Person (in its sole discretion) may elect to pay or advance on behalf of such Person.

“Notes Party” means the Company and any Subsidiary Guarantor.

“Notice of Conversion” shall have the meaning specified in Section 13.02(b).

“Notice of Repurchase” shall have the meaning specified in Section 14.05(b).

“Obligations” means any principal, interest, penalties, fees, indemnifications, reimbursements (including, without limitation, reimbursement obligations with respect to letters of credit and bankers’ acceptances), damages and other liabilities payable under the documentation governing any Indebtedness (including interest, fees, expenses, indemnity claims and other monetary obligations accrued during the pendency of an insolvency proceeding, whether or not constituting an allowed claim in such proceeding); provided that Obligations with respect to the Notes shall not include fees or indemnifications in favor of third parties other than the Trustee and the Notes Collateral Agent.

“Observation Period” with respect to any Note surrendered for conversion means: (i) subject to clause (iii), if the relevant Conversion Date occurs prior to September 1, 2027, the 40 consecutive Trading Day period beginning on, and including, the second Trading Day immediately succeeding such Conversion Date; (ii) if the relevant Conversion Date occurs on or after September 1, 2027, the 40 consecutive Trading Days beginning on, and including, the 41st Scheduled Trading Day immediately preceding the Maturity Date; and (iii) if the relevant Conversion Date occurs on or after the date the Company has delivered a Redemption Notice pursuant to Section 15.02 (but prior to the close of business on the second Scheduled Trading Day immediately preceding the relevant Redemption Date), the 40 consecutive Trading Days beginning on, and including, the 41st Scheduled Trading Day immediately preceding the relevant Redemption Date.

“Officer” means, with respect to the Company, the President, the Chief Executive Officer, the Chief Financial Officer, the General Counsel, the Treasurer, the Secretary, any Managing Director, Executive or Senior Vice President or any Vice President (whether or not designated by a number or numbers or word or words added before or after the title “Vice President”).

“Officer’s Certificate,” when used with respect to the Company, means a certificate that is delivered to the Trustee and that is signed by an Officer of the Company. Each such certificate shall include the statements provided for in Section 19.05 if and to the extent required by the provisions of such Section. The Officer giving an Officer’s Certificate pursuant to Section 4.08 shall be the principal executive, financial or accounting officer of the Company.

The term “open of business” means 9:00 a.m. (New York City time).

“Opinion of Counsel” means an opinion in writing signed by legal counsel, who may be an employee of or counsel to the Company, or other counsel acceptable to the Trustee, that is delivered to the Trustee, which opinion may contain customary exceptions and qualifications as to the matters set forth therein. Each such opinion shall include the statements provided for in Section 19.05 if and to the extent required by the provisions of such Section 19.05.

“Option Awards Agreement” means the Nonqualified Stock Option Agreement, dated as of August 5, 2019, and effective as of November 19, 2019, between Fortress Operating Entity I LP and the Company.

“Optional Redemption” shall have the meaning specified in Section 15.01.

The term “outstanding,” when used with reference to Notes, shall, subject to the provisions of Section 8.04, mean, as of any particular time, all Notes authenticated and delivered by the Trustee under this Indenture, except:

(a) Notes theretofore canceled by the Trustee or accepted by the Trustee for cancellation;

(b) Notes, or portions thereof, that have become due and payable and in respect of which monies in the necessary amount shall have been deposited in trust with the Trustee or with any Paying Agent (other than the Company) or shall have been set aside and segregated in trust by the Company (if the Company shall act as its own Paying Agent);

(c) Notes that have been paid pursuant to Section 2.06 or Notes in lieu of which, or in substitution for which, other Notes shall have been authenticated and delivered pursuant to the terms of Section 2.06 unless proof satisfactory to the Trustee is presented that any such Notes are held by protected purchasers in due course;

(d) Notes converted pursuant to Article 13 and required to be cancelled pursuant to Section 2.08;

(e) Notes redeemed pursuant to Article 15; and

(f) Notes repurchased by the Company pursuant to the penultimate sentence of Section 2.10 or pursuant to Sections 14.01(a) or 14.05(a).

“Par Repurchase Event” shall mean the occurrence of the date that is (a) the four-year anniversary of the Issue Date if the Remaining Term Loan remains outstanding as of such date, provided that there shall be no more than one Par Repurchase Event pursuant to this clause (a), or (b) 91 days after the Stated Maturity date of any outstanding Permitted Refinancing of the Remaining Term Loan, provided that there shall be no more than one Par Repurchase Event pursuant to this clause (b).

“Par Repurchase Event Amount” shall mean $99,419,000 aggregate principal amount of the Notes; provided that such amount shall be reduced by the principal amount of Notes repurchased by the Company as a result of any prior Par Repurchase Event or pursuant to Section 14.05(a).

“Par Repurchase Event Price” shall mean with respect to any Notes to be repurchased in connection with a Par Repurchase Event, 100% of the principal amount thereof.

“Pari Passu Indebtedness” means: (a) with respect to the Company, the Notes and any Indebtedness which ranks pari passu in right of payment to the Notes; and (b) with respect to any Subsidiary Guarantor, its Subsidiary Guarantee and any Indebtedness which ranks pari passu in right of payment to such Subsidiary Guarantor’s Subsidiary Guarantee.

“Paying Agent” shall have the meaning specified in Section 4.02.

“PBGC” means the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation or any successor thereto.

“Permitted Acquisition” means any Acquisition by a Notes Party or any wholly-owned Subsidiary of a Notes Party to the extent that each of the following conditions shall have been satisfied:

(a) no Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing or would result from the consummation of the proposed Acquisition;

(b) the Company shall have furnished to the Trustee at least 10 Business Days prior to the consummation of such Acquisition a certificate of the chief financial officer of the Company, demonstrating on a pro forma basis compliance, as at the end of the most recently ended Fiscal Quarter for which internally prepared financial statements are available, with the covenant set forth in Section 4.13 hereof after the consummation of such Acquisition;

(c) the agreements, instruments and other documents pursuant to which the Acquisition is to be consummated shall provide that (i) neither the Notes Parties nor any of their Subsidiaries shall, in connection with such Acquisition, assume or remain liable in respect of any Indebtedness of the applicable Seller or Sellers, or other obligation of the applicable Seller or Sellers (except for obligations incurred in the ordinary course of business in operating the property so acquired and necessary or desirable to the continued operation of such property and except for Permitted Indebtedness), and (ii) all property to be so acquired in connection with such Acquisition shall be free and clear of any and all Liens, except for Permitted Liens (and if any such property is subject to any Lien not permitted by this clause (ii) then concurrently with such Acquisition such Lien shall be released);

(d) such Acquisition shall be effected in such a manner so that the acquired assets or Equity Interests are owned by a Notes Party and, if effected by merger or consolidation involving a Notes Party, such Notes Party shall be the continuing or surviving Person (or the continuing or surviving Person shall become a Notes Party);

(e) except as permitted under clause (c) above, no Indebtedness or earn-out shall be incurred or assumed in connection with any such Acquisition;

(f) the assets being acquired or the Person whose Equity Interests are being acquired did not have negative Consolidated EBITDA (calculated excluding corporate overhead costs) during the 12 consecutive month period most recently concluded prior to the date of the proposed Acquisition;

(g) the assets being acquired (other than a de minimis amount of assets in relation to the Notes Parties’ and their Subsidiaries’ total assets), or the Person whose Equity Interests are being acquired, are useful in or engaged in, as applicable, the business of the Notes Parties and their Subsidiaries or a business reasonably related thereto;

(h) [reserved];

(i) any such Subsidiary (and its equityholders) shall execute and deliver the agreements, instruments and other documents required by Section 4.11(b) on or prior to the date of the consummation of such Acquisition (or arrangements for the taking of such actions within the grace periods provided in Section 4.11(b) for a newly-formed or acquired Subsidiary shall have been made);

(j) the consideration for any such Acquisition shall consist solely of (x) Equity Interests of the Company or cash generated by the issuance of Equity Interests of the Company or (y) unrestricted cash on the balance sheet; and

(k) before and after giving effect to any such Acquisition, the Company shall be permitted to make at least $1.00 of Restricted Payments pursuant to clause (c) of “Permitted Restricted Payments”.

(a) sale of Inventory in the ordinary course of business;

(b) licensing or sub-licensing, on a non-exclusive basis, Intellectual Property rights in the ordinary course of business;

(c) leasing or subleasing assets (including ground leases) in the ordinary course of business;

(d) (i) the lapse of Registered Intellectual Property of the Company and its Subsidiaries to the extent not economically desirable in the conduct of their business or (ii) the abandonment of Intellectual Property rights in the ordinary course of business so long as (in each case under clauses (i) and (ii)), (A) with respect to copyrights, such copyrights are not material revenue generating copyrights, and (B) such lapse is not materially adverse to the interests of the Holders;

(e) any involuntary loss, damage or destruction of property;

(f) any condemnation, seizure or taking, by exercise of the power of eminent domain or otherwise, or confiscation or requisition of use of property;

(g) so long as no Event of Default has occurred and is continuing or would result therefrom, transfers of assets (i) from the Company or any of its Subsidiaries to a Notes Party, and (ii) from any Subsidiary of the Company that is not a Notes Party to any other Subsidiary of the Company;

(h) the granting of Permitted Liens;

(i) (x) Disposition of obsolete or worn-out equipment or equipment that is no longer used or useful in the business of the Company and its Subsidiaries, in each case in the ordinary course of business and (y) Dispositions of equipment to the extent such equipment is exchanged for credit against the purchase price of similar replacement property;

(j) Dispositions of accounts receivable in connection with a compromise, write-down or collection thereof in the ordinary course of business or in connection with the bankruptcy or reorganization of the applicable counterparty and Dispositions of any securities received in any such bankruptcy or reorganization; and

(k) Dispositions of property or assets not otherwise permitted in clauses (a) through (j) above as long as (i) the aggregate amount of consideration received is not less than the fair market value of such property or assets and (ii) 100% of the purchase price is payable in cash or Cash Equivalents.

“Permitted Indebtedness” means:

(a) any Indebtedness represented by the Notes and the Subsidiary Guarantees or Permitted Second Lien Refinancing Indebtedness;

(b) Indebtedness existing on the Issue Date (other than Indebtedness described in clauses (a) and (c)), and any Permitted Refinancing Indebtedness in respect of such Indebtedness;

(c) (i) the Remaining Term Loan and any Refinancing Facilities or (ii) any Indebtedness of the Company or its Subsidiaries that constitutes Additional Refinancing Facilities;

(d) Permitted Intercompany Investments;

(e) Indebtedness incurred in the ordinary course of business under performance, surety, statutory, and appeal bonds and similar obligations (other than in respect of other Indebtedness);

(f) Indebtedness owed to any Person (including obligations in respect of letters of credit, bank guarantees and similar instruments for the benefit of such Person) providing property, casualty, liability, or other insurance to the Notes Parties, so long as the amount of such Indebtedness is not in excess of the amount of the unpaid cost of, and shall be incurred only to defer the cost of, such insurance for the period in which such Indebtedness is incurred and such Indebtedness is outstanding only during such period;

(g) the incurrence by any Notes Party of Indebtedness under Hedging Agreements that are incurred for the bona fide purpose of hedging the interest rate, commodity, or foreign currency risks associated with such Notes Party’s operations and not for speculative purposes;

(h) Indebtedness incurred in respect of credit cards, credit card processing services, debit cards, stored value cards, purchase cards (including so-called “procurement cards” or “P-cards”) or other similar cash management services, in each case, incurred in the ordinary course of business;

(i) contingent liabilities in respect of any indemnification obligation, adjustment of purchase price, non-compete, or similar obligation of any Notes Party incurred in connection with the consummation of one or more Permitted Acquisitions;

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

(k) Indebtedness consisting of the financing of insurance premiums to the extent non-recourse (other than to the insurance premiums) incurred in the ordinary course of business;

(l) customer deposits and advance payments received in the ordinary course of business from customers for goods purchased in the ordinary course of business;

(m) Indebtedness in respect of Contingent Obligations of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries in respect of Indebtedness of the Company or any other Subsidiary permitted hereunder; provided that, in the case of a Contingent Obligation of a Notes Party in respect of Indebtedness of a Subsidiary that is not a Notes Party, such Contingent Obligation is permitted under Section 4.12(e);

(n) other unsecured Indebtedness in an aggregate principal amount not exceeding $5,000,000 at any time outstanding;

(o) the Existing Convertible Notes; and

(p) Capitalized Lease Obligations arising from Sale and Leaseback Transactions permitted pursuant to Section 4.12(f) and in an aggregate amount not to exceed $5,000,000 at any time outstanding.

“Permitted Intercompany Investments” means Investments made by (a) a Notes Party to or in another Notes Party, (b) a Subsidiary that is not a Notes Party to or in another Subsidiary that is not a Notes Party and (c) a Subsidiary that is not a Notes Party to or in a Notes Party, so long as, in the case of a loan or advance made pursuant to this clause (c), the parties thereto are party to the Intercompany Subordination Agreement.

“Permitted Investments” means:

(a) Investments in cash and Cash Equivalents;

(b) Investments in negotiable instruments deposited or to be deposited for collection in the ordinary course of business;

(c) advances made in connection with purchases of goods or services in the ordinary course of business;

(d) Investments received in settlement of amounts due to any Notes Party or any of its Subsidiaries effected in the ordinary course of business or owing to any Notes Party or any of its Subsidiaries as a result of Insolvency Proceedings involving an Account Debtor or upon the foreclosure or enforcement of any Lien in favor of a Notes Party or its Subsidiaries;

(e) Investments existing on the Issue Date, but not any increase in the amount thereof as set forth in such Schedule or any other modification of the terms thereof;

(f) Permitted Intercompany Investments;

(g) Permitted Acquisitions and any Investments held by any Person acquired in connection with (but not made in contemplation of) any Permitted Acquisition as of the date of consummation of such acquisition;

(h) earn-outs that become due and payable to any Notes Party or its Subsidiaries pursuant to the terms of Section 1.8 of the BridgeTower Asset Purchase Agreement;

(i) Investments received in connection with the bankruptcy or reorganization of, or settlement of delinquent accounts and disputes with, customers and suppliers, in each case in the ordinary course of business;

(j) Investments in Hedging Agreements permitted under Section 4.12(b);

(k) extensions of trade credit in the ordinary course of business, and investments received in satisfaction or partial satisfaction thereof from financially troubled Account Debtors in the ordinary course of business;

(l) Investments in the ordinary course of business consisting of endorsements for collection or deposit and customary trade arrangements with customers consistent with past practices;

(m) Investments consisting of the purchase of outstanding minority interests in non-wholly owned subsidiaries of the Notes Parties pursuant to obligations existing as of the date of this Indenture and set forth on Schedule 4.12(e); and

(n) Investments in the form of guarantees of third-party lease obligations arising in connection with Permitted Dispositions.

“Permitted Jurisdiction” shall have the meaning specified in Section 11.01(a).

“Permitted Liens” means:

(a) Liens securing the Notes Obligations or Permitted Second Lien Refinancing Indebtedness;

(b) Liens for taxes, assessments and governmental charges the payment of which is not required under Section 4.11(c)(ii);

(c) Liens imposed by law, such as carriers’, warehousemen’s, mechanics’, materialmen’s and other similar Liens arising in the ordinary course of business and securing obligations (other than Indebtedness for borrowed money) that are not overdue by more than 30 days or are being contested in good faith and by appropriate proceedings initiated as promptly as practicable and diligently conducted, and a reserve or other appropriate provision, if any, as shall be required by GAAP shall have been made therefor;

(d) Liens existing on the Issue Date (other than Liens in favor of the holders of the Remaining Term Loan and the Notes), provided that any such Lien shall only secure the Indebtedness that it secures on the Issue Date and any Permitted Refinancing Indebtedness in respect thereof;

(e) (i) Liens in favor of the holders of the Remaining Term Loan or (ii) Liens in respect of the Refinancing Facilities or any Additional Refinancing Facilities and subject to a Senior Lien Intercreditor Agreement;

(f) deposits and pledges of cash securing (i) obligations incurred in respect of workers’ compensation, unemployment insurance or other forms of governmental insurance or benefits, (ii) the performance of bids, tenders, leases, contracts (other than for the payment of money) and statutory obligations or (iii) obligations on surety or appeal bonds (and, in the case of each of the foregoing, deposits and pledges of cash in respect of letters of credit, bank guarantees or similar instruments issued for the account of the Company or any Subsidiary in support of any such obligations), but only to the extent such deposits or pledges are made or otherwise arise in the ordinary course of business and secure obligations not past due;

(g) with respect to any fee interest in any real property, covenants, easements, zoning restrictions and similar encumbrances on real property and minor irregularities in the title thereto that do not (i) secure obligations for the payment of money (other than Indebtedness otherwise permitted hereunder) or (ii) materially impair the value of such property or its use by any Notes Party or any of its Subsidiaries in the normal conduct of such Person’s business;

(h) Liens of landlords and mortgagees of landlords securing unpaid rents (i) arising by statute or under any lease or related Contractual Obligation entered into in the ordinary course of business, (ii) on fixtures and movable tangible property located on the real property leased or subleased from such landlord, or (iii) for amounts not yet due or that are being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings diligently conducted and for which adequate reserves or other appropriate provisions are maintained on the books of such Person in accordance with GAAP;

(i) the title and interest of a lessor or sublessor, or of a licensor or a sublicensor, in and to personal property leased or subleased (other than through a Capitalized Lease), or licensed or sublicensed, in each case extending only to such personal property;

(j) non-exclusive licenses of Intellectual Property granted in the ordinary course of business;

(k) judgment liens securing judgments and other proceedings not constituting an Event of Default under Section 6.01(h);

(l) rights of set-off, bankers’ liens or similar rights and remedies upon deposits of cash in favor of banks or other depository institutions, solely to the extent incurred in connection with the maintenance of such deposit accounts in the ordinary course of business;

(m) Liens granted in the ordinary course of business on the unearned portion of insurance premiums securing the financing of insurance premiums to the extent the financing is permitted under the definition of Permitted Indebtedness;

(n) Liens solely on any cash earnest money deposits made by any Notes Party in connection with any letter of intent or purchase agreement with respect to a Permitted Acquisition;

(o) Liens in favor of customs and revenue authorities arising as a matter of law to secure payment of customs duties in connection with the importation of goods in the ordinary course of business;

(p) Liens (i) of a collection bank arising under Section 4-210 of the Uniform Commercial Code (or any comparable or successor provision) on items in the course of collection, and (ii) attaching to commodity trading accounts or other commodity brokerage accounts incurred in the ordinary course of business;

(q) Liens that are contractual rights of set-off relating to purchase orders and other agreements entered into by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries in the ordinary course of business;

(r) Liens arising out of conditional sale, title retention, consignment or similar arrangements for the sale of goods entered into by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries in the ordinary course of business;

(s) leases, subleases, licenses or sublicenses granted to others in the ordinary course of business which do not materially interfere with the ordinary conduct of the business of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries and do not secure any Indebtedness;

(t) Liens arising from UCC or other applicable personal property financing statement filings regarding operating leases entered into by the Company and its Subsidiaries in the ordinary course of business;

(u) Liens to secure Capitalized Lease Obligations resulting from Sale and Leaseback Transactions that are permitted pursuant to Section 4.12(f) so long as any such Lien does not apply to any property or assets of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries other than the property or assets leased pursuant to the Capitalized Leases; and

(v) Liens arising from Cash Equivalents described in clause (d) of the definition of the term “Cash Equivalents”.

“Permitted Refinancing” means the refunding, refinancing, replacement or exchange of all remaining Indebtedness under the Remaining Term Loan with the Refinancing Facilities (or any Refinancing Facilities in respect thereof).

“Permitted Refinancing Indebtedness” means the extension of maturity, refinancing or modification of the terms of Indebtedness so long as:

(a) after giving effect to such extension, refinancing or modification, the aggregate principal amount of such Indebtedness is not greater than the aggregate principal amount of Indebtedness and unused commitments outstanding immediately prior to such extension, refinancing or modification (other than by the amount of accrued and unpaid interest with respect thereto and premiums paid thereon and the fees and expenses incurred in connection therewith and by the amount of unfunded commitments with respect thereto);

(b)  such extension, refinancing or modification does not result in (i) the average weighted maturity (measured as of the extension, refinancing or modification) of the Indebtedness so extended, refinanced or modified being shorter than the shorter of (x) the remaining average weighted maturity of the Notes and (y) the remaining average weighted maturity of such Indebtedness prior to giving effect to such extension, refinancing or modification or (ii) the maturity date of the Indebtedness so extended, refinanced or modified being earlier than the earlier of (x) the Maturity Date and (y) the maturity date of such Indebtedness prior to giving effect to such extension, refinancing or modification;

(c) such extension, refinancing or modification is pursuant to terms (including, without limitation, terms relating to the payment of cash interest (which cannot exceed the amount of cash interest payable on such Indebtedness as of the Issue Date)) that are not less favorable, when taken as a whole, to the Notes Parties and the Holders than the terms of the Indebtedness being extended, refinanced or modified;

(d)  the Indebtedness that is extended, refinanced or modified is not recourse to any Notes Party or any of its Subsidiaries that is liable on account of the obligations other than those Persons which were obligated with respect to the Indebtedness that was refinanced, renewed, or extended;

(e)  if the Indebtedness that is extended, refinanced or modified is subordinated to the Notes Obligations, then such extension, refinancing or modification shall also be subordinated to the Notes Obligations on terms not less favorable in any material respect to the Holders; and

(f)  such extension, refinancing or modification shall not be secured by any Lien on any asset other than the assets that secured such Indebtedness (or would have been required to secure such Indebtedness pursuant to the terms thereof).

“Permitted Refinancing Repurchase Amount” shall have the meaning specified in Section 14.05(a)(i).

“Permitted Refinancing Repurchase Price” shall mean with respect to any Notes to be repurchased pursuant to Section 14.05(a)(i), 101.5% (increased by an additional 1.50% on each three-month anniversary of the Issue Date) of the principal amount thereof.

“Permitted Restricted Payments” means any of the following Restricted Payments made by:

(a) any Subsidiary of the Company to the Company or any other Subsidiary; provided that, if the Subsidiary making such Restricted Payment is a Notes Party, then the recipient of such Restricted Payment shall also be a Notes Party,

(b) the Company to make Restricted Payments in the form of common Equity Interests,

(c) so long as (i) no Default or Event of Default has occurred and is continuing or would result therefrom and (ii) an Officer’s Certificate of the Company is received by the Trustee calculating the Total Gross Leverage Ratio for the Fiscal Quarter most recently ended prior to the Fiscal Quarter in which such Restricted Payment is made for purposes of determining the RP Threshold, the Company to make Restricted Payments in an aggregate amount not to exceed the RP Cap,

(d) the Company to make cash payments in lieu of issuing fractional shares in connection with the exercise of warrants, options or other securities convertible into or exchange for Equity Interests in the Company,

(e) the Company to repurchase Equity Interests upon the exercise of stock options if such Equity Interests represent a portion of the exercise price of such stock options, and

(f) Detroit Newspaper Partnership, L.P., a Michigan limited partnership, to Detroit News, Inc., a Michigan corporation and a wholly owned subsidiary of Media News Group, Inc. (“Detroit News”), as required pursuant to the Amended and Restated Joint Operating Agreement dated as of August 3, 2005 (as amended as of February 6, 2009), by and between Detroit Free Press, Incorporated, a Michigan corporation, and Detroit News, as such agreement is in effect as of the Issue Date, and in an amount not to exceed $2,000,000 in any Fiscal Year.

“Permitted Rights Agreement” means that certain Section 382 Rights Agreement, dated April 6, 2020 (as the same may be amended, restated, supplemented or otherwise modified in a manner that is not adverse to the interests of the Holders), entered into by the Company and American Stock Transfer & Trust Company LLC, as Rights Agent. The Permitted Rights Agreement is a “stockholder rights plan” for purposes of this Indenture.

“Permitted Second Lien Refinancing Indebtedness” means Indebtedness incurred by the Company in the form of one or more series of second lien secured notes, loans or similar instruments the proceeds of which are used to fund (i) a Permitted Refinancing or the related aggregate Permitted Refinancing Repurchase Amount for Holders delivering a Put Notice, (ii) the aggregate Par Repurchase Event Amount for Holders that deliver a Repurchase Event Repurchase Notice for a Par Repurchase Event or (iii) the aggregate Redemption Price for Notes subject to an Optional Redemption, in each case, so long as:

(a) such extension, refinancing or modification is pursuant to terms that (I) are not less favorable, when taken as a whole, to the Notes Parties than the terms of the Notes and (II) meet all the requirements of a Refinancing Facility (other than clauses (a) and (b) of the definition thereof);

(b) the principal amount (or accreted value, if applicable) of such Permitted Second Lien Refinancing Indebtedness does not exceed the aggregate amount of funds required for purposes permitted by clause (i), (ii) or (iii) above, as applicable, plus any fees, premiums, original issue discount and accrued interest associated therewith, and costs and expenses related thereto; and

(c) such extension, refinancing or modification shall be secured by the Collateral of the Notes Parties on a second lien or other junior lien basis to the First-Priority Obligations and shall not be secured by any Lien on any asset other than the assets that secured the Notes.

“Permitted Tax Distribution” means, for any taxable period during which (i) the Company and its Subsidiaries are part of a consolidated, combined, unitary or similar group for U.S. federal and/or applicable, state, local or foreign Tax purposes (a “Consolidated Group”) or (ii) the Company is a disregarded entity for U.S. federal income tax purposes that is wholly owned (directly or indirectly) by a Person that is a member of a Consolidated Group, distributions to discharge the income Tax liabilities of such Consolidated Group, when and as due, in an amount not to exceed the amount that the Company would be required to pay in respect of income Taxes for such taxable period if the Company were the parent of a separate Consolidated Group consisting of the Company and its Subsidiaries (computed at the highest marginal tax rate applicable to a corporation residing in New York, New York and in effect for such taxable period, and taking into account the character and type of income earned and any actual carryovers and carrybacks of Tax attributes (such as net operating losses) of the Company and its Subsidiaries from other taxable years).

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

“Physical Notes” means permanent certificated Notes in registered form issued in denominations of $1,000 principal amount and integral multiples thereof.

“Physical Settlement” shall have the meaning specified in Section 13.02(a).

“Plan” means any Employee Plan or Multiemployer Plan.

“PPSA” means the Personal Property Securities Act 2009 (Commonwealth of Australia).

“Predecessor Note” of any particular Note means every previous Note evidencing all or a portion of the same debt as that evidenced by such particular Note; and, for the purposes of this definition, any Note authenticated and delivered under Section 2.06 in lieu of or in exchange for a mutilated, lost, destroyed or stolen Note shall be deemed to evidence the same debt as the mutilated, lost, destroyed or stolen Note that it replaces.

“Projected Pension Obligation” means, with respect to any Fiscal Quarter, the portion of the following annual amounts that are expected to be paid in such Fiscal Quarter in respect of pension contributions, as set forth in a projection of quarterly payments prepared by the Company and delivered to the Trustee prior to the start of the applicable Fiscal Year in which such Fiscal Quarter will occur: (i) for Fiscal Year 2020, $83,000,000; (ii) for Fiscal Year 2021, $53,000,000; (iii) for Fiscal Year 2022, $54,000,000; (iv) for Fiscal Year 2023, $34,000,000; and (v) for Fiscal Year 2024, $28,000,000.

“Put Notice” shall have the meaning specified in Section 14.05(a)(i).

“Qualified Cash” means, as of any date of determination, the aggregate amount of unrestricted cash on-hand of (x) the Notes Parties maintained in deposit accounts in the name of a Notes Party in the United States as of such date, which deposit accounts are, on and after the date that is 60 days after the Issue Date, subject to Control Agreements and (y) the Excluded Subsidiaries.

“Qualified Equity Interests” means, with respect to any Person, all Equity Interests of such Person that are not Disqualified Equity Interests.

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

“Redemption Amount” means $99,419,000 aggregate principal amount of the Notes; provided, that such amount shall be reduced by 20% of the principal amount of Notes that have been converted by Holders or purchased by the Company prior to the date of the Redemption Notice; provided, further, that the Redemption Amount shall never be less than zero.

“Redemption Date” shall have the meaning specified in Section 15.02(a).

“Redemption Notice” shall have the meaning specified in Section 15.02(a).

“Redemption Price” means, for any Notes to be redeemed pursuant to Section 15.01, 130% of the principal amount of such Notes, plus accrued and unpaid interest, if any, to, but excluding, the Redemption Date (unless the Redemption Date falls after a Regular Record Date but on or prior to the immediately succeeding Interest Payment Date, in which case interest accrued to the Interest Payment Date will be paid to Holders of record of such Notes on such Regular Record Date, and the “Redemption Price” will be equal to 130% of the principal amount of such Notes).

“Reference Property” shall have the meaning specified in Section 13.07(a).

“Refinancing Facilities” means, collectively, any notes or loans issued or guaranteed by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries (whether under an indenture, a credit agreement or otherwise) and, in each case, the Indebtedness represented thereby; provided, that (a) 100% of the Net Cash Proceeds of such Refinancing Facilities are used to permanently redeem all (but not a portion) of the Remaining Term Loan on a dollar-for-dollar basis substantially simultaneously with the incurrence or issuance thereof; (b) the principal amount (or accreted value, if applicable) of such Refinancing Facilities does not exceed the principal amount (or accreted value, if applicable) of the aggregate principal amount of the Remaining Term Loan plus any fees, premiums, original issue discount and accrued interest

associated therewith, and costs and expenses related thereto; (c) the final maturity date of such Refinancing Facilities is on or after the maturity date of the Remaining Term Loan; (d) the All-in Yield on such Refinancing Facilities is no greater than 9.50% per annum; (e) prepayments of such Refinancing Facilities may be made without fee or premium (other than customary “soft” call protection); (f) there shall be no assets securing such Refinancing Facilities that are not also Collateral; (g) there shall be no obligor in respect of such Refinancing Facilities that is not a Notes Party; and (h) the other terms of such Refinancing Facilities are not otherwise adverse to the interests of the Holders, except for any immaterial adverse terms.

“Registered Intellectual Property” means Intellectual Property that is issued, registered, renewed or the subject of a pending application with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office or the U.S. Copyright Office, or any equivalent office or agency in any other country throughout the world.

“Registration Rights Agreement” means the Registration Rights Agreement, dated and effective as of November 19, 2019, between the Company and FIG LLC.

“Regular Record Date,” with respect to any Interest Payment Date, means the May 15 or November 15 (whether or not such day is a Business Day) immediately preceding the applicable June 1 or December 1 Interest Payment Date, respectively.

“Release” means any spilling, leaking, pumping, pouring, emitting, emptying, discharging, injecting, escaping, leaching, seeping, migrating, dumping or disposing of any Hazardous Material (including the abandonment or discarding of barrels, containers and other closed receptacles containing any Hazardous Material) into the indoor or outdoor environment, including, without limitation, the movement of Hazardous Materials through or in the ambient air, soil, surface or ground water, or property.

“Remaining Term Loan” means that certain Credit Agreement, dated as of November 19, 2019, among the Company, Gannett Holdings LLC, each guarantor party thereto, the lenders from time to time party thereto, Alter Domus Products Corp. (f/k/a Cortland Products Corp.), as collateral agent for the lenders, and Alter Domus Products Corp. (f/k/a Cortland Products Corp.), as administrative agent for the lenders, as amended, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time.

“Remedial Action” means all actions taken to (a) clean up, remove, remediate, contain, treat, monitor, assess, evaluate or in any other way address Hazardous Materials in the indoor or outdoor environment; (b) prevent or minimize a Release or threatened Release of Hazardous Materials so they do not migrate or endanger or threaten to endanger public health or welfare or the indoor or outdoor environment; (c) perform pre-remedial studies and investigations and post-remedial operation and maintenance activities; or (d) perform any other actions authorized by 42 U.S.C. § 9601.

“Reportable Event” means an event described in Section 4043 of ERISA (other than an event not subject to the provision for 30-day notice to the PBGC under the regulations promulgated under such Section).

“Repurchase Date” means the date that the Holder has complied with the requirements set forth in Section 14.05(b).

“Repurchase Event” shall mean, as applicable, an Asset Sale Repurchase Event, a Fundamental Change, a Par Repurchase Event, an ECF Repurchase Event, an Unrestricted Cash Repurchase Event or a Dividend Repurchase Event.

“Repurchase Event Amount” shall mean, as applicable, the Asset Sale Repurchase Event Amount, the Fundamental Change Repurchase Amount, the Par Repurchase Event Amount, the ECF Repurchase Event Amount, the Unrestricted Cash Repurchase Event Amount or the Dividend Repurchase Event Amount.

“Repurchase Event Company Notice” shall have the meaning specified in Section 14.01(c).

“Repurchase Event Repurchase Date” shall have the meaning specified in Section 14.01(a).

“Repurchase Event Repurchase Notice” shall have the meaning specified in Section 14.01(b)(i).

“Repurchase Event Repurchase Price” shall mean, as applicable, the Asset Sale Repurchase Event Price, the Fundamental Change Repurchase Price, the Par Repurchase Event Price, the ECF Repurchase Event Price, the Unrestricted Cash Repurchase Event Price or the Dividend Repurchase Event Price.

“Requirements of Law” means, with respect to any Person, collectively, the common law and all Federal, state, provincial, local, foreign, multinational or international laws, statutes, codes, treaties, standards, rules and regulations, guidelines, ordinances, orders, judgments, writs, injunctions, decrees (including administrative or judicial precedents or authorities) and the interpretation or administration thereof by, and other determinations, directives, requirements or requests of, any Governmental Authority, in each case that are applicable to or binding upon such Person or any of its property or to which such Person or any of its property is subject.

“Resale Restriction Termination Date” shall have the meaning specified in Section 2.05(c).

“Responsible Officer” means, when used with respect to the Trustee, any officer within the corporate trust department of the Trustee, including any vice president, assistant vice president, trust officer or any other officer of the Trustee who customarily performs functions similar to those performed by the Persons who at the time shall be such officers, respectively, or to whom any corporate trust matter is referred because of such person’s knowledge of and familiarity with the particular subject and, in each case, who shall have direct responsibility for the administration of this Indenture.

“Restricted Payment” means (a) the declaration or payment of any dividend or other distribution, direct or indirect, on account of any Equity Interests of any Notes Party or any of its Subsidiaries, now or hereafter outstanding, (b) the making of any repurchase, redemption, retirement, defeasance, sinking fund or similar payment, purchase or other acquisition for value, direct or indirect, of any Equity Interests of any Notes Party or any direct or indirect parent of any Notes Party, now or hereafter outstanding or (c) the making of any payment to retire, or to obtain the surrender of, any outstanding warrants, options or other rights for the purchase or acquisition of shares of any class of Equity Interests of any Notes Party, now or hereafter outstanding.

“Restricted Securities” shall have the meaning specified in Section 2.05(c).

“RP Cap” means, (w) $30,000,000, plus (x) Cash Interest Savings (as defined in the Remaining Term Loan), less (y) the amount of cash consideration paid in respect of Permitted Acquisitions in such Fiscal Quarter and less (z) any increased pension obligations incurred in such Fiscal Quarter that have, since the Fiscal Quarter ended June 30, 2020, been satisfied with cash of the Company or its Subsidiaries to the extent such amounts satisfied with cash exceed 105% of the Projected Pension Obligation for such Fiscal Quarter; provided that in the event clause (y) causes the RP Cap for the applicable Fiscal Quarter to be less than $0, then the amount by which such RP Cap is less than $0 shall be carried over to any succeeding Fiscal Quarter and reduce the RP Cap for such succeeding Fiscal Quarter (or any future succeeding Fiscal Quarter, as applicable); provided, further, that (A) unused amounts in any such Fiscal Quarter may be carried over to any succeeding Fiscal Quarter within the Fiscal Year of such Fiscal Quarter and (B) unused amounts not to exceed $40,000,000 in any Fiscal Year may be carried over to any succeeding Fiscal Year; provided, further, that the RP Cap for any Fiscal Quarter may not exceed $60,000,000 after giving effect to any permitted carry overs. Notwithstanding the foregoing, Restricted Payments will not be permitted during any Fiscal Quarter if the Total Gross Leverage Ratio as of the last day of the immediately preceding Fiscal Quarter exceeds the corresponding RP Threshold on a pro forma basis.

“RP Threshold” means, with respect to any Fiscal Quarter, the Total Gross Leverage Ratio set forth below opposite such Fiscal Quarter:

“Rule 144” means Rule 144 as promulgated under the Securities Act.

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

“Sale and Leaseback Transaction” means, with respect to the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, any arrangement, directly or indirectly, with any Person whereby the Company or any of its Subsidiaries shall sell or transfer any property used or useful in its business, whether now owned or hereafter acquired, and thereafter rent or lease such property (or any portion thereof) or other property that it intends to use for substantially the same purpose or purposes as the property being sold or transferred.

“Sanctions Programs” means any of the sanctions programs and related Requirements of Law administered by (a) the U.S. government, including those administered by the Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control or the U.S. Department of State, or (b) the United Nations Security Council, the European Union, the Government of Canada or Her Majesty’s Treasury of the United Kingdom, in each case, as renewed, extended, amended, or replaced.

“Scheduled Trading Day” means a day that is scheduled to be a Trading Day on the principal U.S. national or regional securities exchange or market on which the Common Stock is listed or admitted for trading. If the Common Stock is not so listed or admitted for trading, “Scheduled Trading Day” means a Business Day.

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

“Security Agreement” means the Pledge and Security Agreement dated as of the Issue Date made by the Domestic Notes Parties in favor of the Notes Collateral Agent for the benefit of the Holders securing the Notes Obligations.

“Security Documents” means, collectively, the Security Agreement, the Foreign Pledge Agreements, the Foreign Security Agreements and each other security agreement or other instrument, mortgage or document executed and delivered pursuant to any of the foregoing or pursuant to Article 17 to secure any of the Notes Obligations.

“Seller” means any Person that sells Equity Interests or other property or assets to a Notes Party or a Subsidiary of a Notes Party in a Permitted Acquisition.

“Senior Lien Intercreditor Agreement” means a first lien/second lien intercreditor agreement, substantially in the form agreed in writing by the Trustee, the Notes Collateral Agent and the Company prior to the Issue Date and attached hereto as Exhibit C, among the administrative agent, trustee or other representative of the lenders or other holders under the Refinancing Facilities (and the Additional Refinancing Facilities, if any), as First Lien Agreement Agent (as defined therein), the collateral agent under the Refinancing Facilities, as First-Priority Collateral Agent (as defined therein), the Trustee, as Initial Second-Priority Agent (as defined therein), the Notes Collateral Agent, as Initial Second-Priority Collateral Agent (as defined therein), and the Notes Parties, as the same may be amended, restated, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time in accordance with this Indenture.

“Settlement Amount” has the meaning specified in Section 13.02(a)(iv).

“Settlement Method” means, with respect to any conversion of Notes, Physical Settlement, Cash Settlement or Combination Settlement, as elected (or deemed to have been elected) by the Company.

“Settlement Notice” has the meaning specified in Section 13.02(a)(iii).

“Significant Subsidiary” means a Subsidiary of the Company that meets the definition of “significant subsidiary” in Article 1, Rule 1-02 of Regulation S-X under the Exchange Act.

“Specified Dollar Amount” means the maximum cash amount (excluding cash in lieu of any fractional share) per $1,000 principal amount of Notes to be received upon conversion as specified in the Settlement Notice related to any converted Notes or as otherwise deemed to have been elected.

“Specified Refinancing” shall have the meaning specified in Section 14.05(a)(i).

“Spin-Off” shall have the meaning specified in Section 13.04(c).

“Standard & Poor’s” means S&P Global Ratings and any successor thereto.

“Stated Maturity” means, with respect to any security or loan, the date specified in such security or loan as the fixed date on which the final payment of principal of such security or loan is due and payable.

“Stock Price” shall have the meaning specified in Section 13.03(c).

“Subordinated Indebtedness” means Indebtedness of any Notes Party which has been expressly subordinated in right of payment to all Indebtedness of such Notes Party under this Indenture and the Security Documents by the execution and delivery of a subordination agreement, in form and substance satisfactory to the Trustee.

“Subsidiary” means, with respect to any Person, any corporation, association, partnership or other business entity of which more than 50% of the total voting power of shares of Equity Interests or other interests (including partnership interests) entitled (without regard to the occurrence of any contingency) to vote in the election of directors, managers, general partners or trustees thereof is at the time owned or controlled, directly or indirectly, by (i) such Person; (ii) such Person and one or more Subsidiaries of such Person; or (iii) one or more Subsidiaries of such Person. References to a Subsidiary shall mean a Subsidiary of the Company unless the context expressly provides otherwise.

“Subsidiary Guarantee” means any guarantee of the obligations of the Company under this Indenture and the Notes by any Subsidiary Guarantor in accordance with the provisions of this Indenture.

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

“Successor Company” shall have the meaning specified in Section 11.01(a).

“Taxes” means all present or future taxes, levies, imposts, duties, deductions, withholdings (including backup withholding), assessments, fees or other charges imposed by any Governmental Authority, including any interest, additions to tax or penalties applicable thereto.

“Term Loan Administrative Agent” means Alter Domus Products Corp., and its successors as administrative agent under the Remaining Term Loan.

“Term Loan Collateral Agent” means Alter Domus Products Corp., and its successors as collateral agent under the Remaining Term Loan.

“Termination Event” means (a) a Reportable Event with respect to any Employee Plan, (b) any event that causes any Notes Party or any of its ERISA Affiliates to incur liability under Section 409, 502(i), 502(l), 515, 4062, 4063, 4064, 4069, 4201, 4204 or 4212 of ERISA or Section 4971 or 4975 of the Internal Revenue Code, (c) the filing of a notice of intent to terminate an Employee Plan or the treatment of an Employee Plan amendment as a termination under Section 4041 of ERISA, (d) the institution of proceedings by the PBGC to terminate an Employee Plan, or (e) any other event or condition that would reasonably be expected to constitute grounds under Section 4042 of ERISA for the termination of, or the appointment of a trustee to administer, any Employee Plan.

“Total Gross Leverage Ratio” means, with respect to any Person and its Subsidiaries for any period, the ratio of (a) all Indebtedness in respect of the Notes, the Remaining Term Loan and any other Indebtedness (excluding, for the avoidance of doubt, pension liabilities and any Indebtedness listed on Schedule 4.12(b) (other than any Permitted Refinancing Indebtedness in respect thereof)), in each case of such Person and its Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis outstanding as of the end of such period to (b) Consolidated EBITDA of such Person and its Subsidiaries for the period of four consecutive Fiscal Quarters then last ended for which financial statements have been (or were required to be) delivered pursuant to Section 4.11(a)(ii) or Section 4.11(a)(iii), as applicable. Unless otherwise specified, references to the “Total Gross Leverage Ratio” herein shall mean the Total Gross Leverage Ratio of the Company and its Subsidiaries.

“Trading Day” means a day on which (i) trading in the Common Stock (or other security for which a closing sale price must be determined) generally occurs on The New York Stock Exchange or, if the Common Stock (or such other security) is not then listed on The New York Stock Exchange, on the principal other U.S. national or regional securities exchange on which the Common Stock (or such other security) is then listed or, if the Common Stock (or such other security) is not then listed on a U.S. national or regional securities exchange, on the principal other market on which the Common Stock (or such other security) is then traded and (ii) a Last Reported Sale Price for the Common Stock (or closing sale price for such other security) is available on such securities exchange or market; provided, however, that if the Common Stock (or such other security) is not so listed or traded, “Trading Day” means a Business Day; and provided, further, that for purposes of determining amounts due upon conversion only, “Trading Day” means a day on which (x) there is no Market Disruption Event and (y) trading in the Common Stock generally occurs on The New York Stock Exchange or, if the Common Stock is not then listed on The New York Stock

Exchange, on the principal other U.S. national or regional securities exchange on which the Common Stock is then listed or, if the Common Stock is not then listed on a U.S. national or regional securities exchange, on the principal other market on which the Common Stock is then listed or admitted for trading, except that if the Common Stock is not so listed or admitted for trading, “Trading Day” means a Business Day.

“Transactions” means, collectively, (i) the execution, delivery and performance of the Indenture, the Notes and the Security Documents and (ii) the payment of all fees and expenses to be paid and owing in connection with the foregoing.

The term “transfer” shall have the meaning specified in Section 2.05(c).

“Trigger Event” shall have the meaning specified in Section 13.04(c).

“Triggering Dilutive Issuance” shall have the meaning specified in Section 13.04(g).

“Trust Indenture Act” means the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, as amended, as it was in force at the date of execution of this Indenture; provided, however, that in the event the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 is amended after the date hereof, the term “Trust Indenture Act” shall mean, to the extent required by such amendment, the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, as so amended.

“Trustee” means the Person named as the “Trustee” in the first paragraph of this Indenture until a successor trustee shall have become such pursuant to the applicable provisions of this Indenture, and thereafter “Trustee” shall mean or include each Person who is then a Trustee hereunder.

“Uniform Commercial Code” or “UCC” has the meaning specified therefor in Section 1.05.

The term “unit of Reference Property” shall have the meaning specified in Section 13.07(a).

“Unrestricted Cash Repurchase Event” shall mean following the occurrence of an Event of Default and so long as such Event of Default is continuing, each date that the Company delivers to the Trustee or files with the Commission, as applicable, the annual financial statements required to be delivered pursuant to Section 4.11(a)(iii) for the Fiscal Years ending in 2020 and 2021, or, if such financial statements are not delivered to the Trustee or filed with the Commission on or prior to the date such statements are required to be delivered pursuant to Section 4.11(a)(iii), on the date such statements are required to be delivered to the Trustee pursuant to Section 4.11(a)(iii), if the aggregate amount of unrestricted cash and Cash Equivalents of the Company and its Subsidiaries as of the last day of the applicable Fiscal Year exceeds $40,000,000 (or, with respect to the 2020 Fiscal Year, $70,000,000).

“Unrestricted Cash Repurchase Event Amount” shall mean the amount by which the aggregate amount of unrestricted cash and Cash Equivalents of the Company and its Subsidiaries as of the last day of the applicable Fiscal Year exceeds $40,000,000 (or, with respect to the 2020 Fiscal Year, $70,000,000), provided that the Unrestricted Cash Repurchase Event Remaining Amount shall never be less than zero.

“Unrestricted Cash Repurchase Event Price” shall mean with respect to any Notes to be repurchased in connection with an Unrestricted Cash Repurchase Event, 100% of the principal amount thereof.

“USA PATRIOT Act” means the Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism (PATRIOT) Act of 2001 (Title III of Pub. L. 107-56, Oct. 26, 2001) as amended by the USA Patriot Improvement and Reauthorization Act of 2005 (Pub. L. 109-177, March 9, 2006) and as the same may have been or may be further renewed, extended, amended, or replaced.

“Valuation Period” shall have the meaning specified in Section 13.04(c).

“Wholly Owned Subsidiary” means, with respect to any Person, any Subsidiary of such Person, except that, solely for purposes of this definition, the reference to “more than 50%” in the definition of “Subsidiary” shall be deemed replaced by a reference to “100%,” the calculation of which shall exclude nominal amounts of the voting power of shares of Equity Interests or other interests in the relevant Subsidiary as may be required to satisfy local minority interest requirements outside of the United States.

“Working Capital” means, at any date of determination thereof, (a) the sum, for any Person and its Subsidiaries, of (i) the unpaid face amount of all Accounts of such Person and its Subsidiaries as at such date of determination, plus (ii) the aggregate amount of prepaid expenses and other current assets of such Person and its Subsidiaries as at such date of determination (other than cash, Cash Equivalents and any Indebtedness owing to such Person or any of its Subsidiaries by Affiliates of such Person), minus (b) the sum, for such Person and its Subsidiaries, of (i) the unpaid

amount of all accounts payable of such Person and its Subsidiaries as at such date of determination, plus (ii) the aggregate amount of all accrued expenses of such Person and its Subsidiaries as at such date of determination (other than the current portion of long-term debt and lease liabilities and all accrued interest and taxes).

Section 1.02 References to Interest. Unless the context otherwise requires, any reference to interest on, or in respect of, any Note in this Indenture shall be deemed to include Additional Interest if, in such context, Additional Interest is, was or would be payable pursuant to Section 4.10(a). Unless the context otherwise requires, any express mention of Additional Interest in any provision hereof shall not be construed as excluding Additional Interest in those provisions hereof where such express mention is not made.

Section 1.03 Terms Generally. The definitions of terms herein shall apply equally to the singular and plural forms of the terms defined. Whenever the context may require, any pronoun shall include the corresponding masculine, feminine and neuter forms. The words “include”, “includes” and “including” shall be deemed to be followed by the phrase “without limitation”. The word “will” shall be construed to have the same meaning and effect as the word “shall”. Unless the context requires otherwise, (a) any definition of or reference to any agreement, instrument or other document herein shall be construed as referring to such agreement, instrument or other document as from time to time amended, supplemented or otherwise modified (subject to any restrictions on such amendments, supplements or modifications set forth herein), (b) any reference herein to any Person shall be construed to include such Person’s successors and assigns, (c) the words “herein”, “hereof” and “hereunder”, and words of similar import, shall be construed to refer to this Indenture in its entirety and not to any particular Article, Section or other subdivision, (d) all references herein to Articles, Sections, Exhibits and Schedules shall be construed to refer to Articles and Sections of, and Exhibits and Schedules to, this Indenture and (e) the words “asset” and “property” shall be construed to have the same meaning and effect and to refer to any right or interest in or to assets and properties of any kind whatsoever, whether real, personal or mixed and whether tangible or intangible.

Section 1.04 Certain Matters of Construction. A Default or Event of Default shall be deemed to exist at all times during the period commencing on the date that such Default or Event of Default occurs to the date on which such Default or Event of Default is waived in writing pursuant to this Indenture or, in the case of a Default, is cured within any period of cure expressly provided for in this Indenture; and an Event of Default shall “continue” or be “continuing” until such Event of Default has been waived pursuant to Section 6.09. Any Lien referred to in this Indenture or any Security Document as having been created in favor of the Trustee or Notes Collateral Agent, any agreement entered into by the Trustee pursuant to this Indenture or any Security Document, any payment made by or to or funds received by the Trustee or Notes Collateral Agent pursuant to or as contemplated by this Indenture or any Security Document, or any act taken or omitted to be taken by the Trustee or Notes Collateral Agent, shall, unless otherwise expressly provided, be created, entered into, made or received, or taken or omitted, for the benefit or account of the Trustee. Wherever the phrase “to the knowledge of any Notes Party” or words of similar import relating to the knowledge or the awareness of any Notes Party are used in this Indenture or any Security Document, such phrase shall mean and refer to (i) the actual knowledge of a senior officer of any Notes Party or (ii) the knowledge that a senior officer would have obtained if such officer had engaged in good faith and diligent performance of such officer’s duties, including the making of such reasonably specific inquiries as may be necessary of the employees or agents of such Notes Party and a good faith attempt to ascertain the existence or accuracy of the matter to which such phrase relates. All covenants hereunder shall be given independent effect so that if a particular action or condition is not permitted by any of such covenants, the fact that it would be permitted by an exception to, or otherwise within the limitations of, another covenant shall not avoid the occurrence of a default if such action is taken or condition exists.

Section 1.05 Pro Forma Calculations.

(a) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, financial ratios and tests (including the Total Gross Leverage Ratio) pursuant to this Indenture shall be calculated in the manner prescribed by this Section 1.05.

(b) In the event that the Company or any of its Subsidiaries redeems, repays, retires or extinguishes any Indebtedness (other than Indebtedness repaid under any revolving credit facility unless such Indebtedness has been permanently repaid and has not been replaced) subsequent to the end of the applicable period for which such financial ratio or test is being calculated but prior to or simultaneously with the event for which such

calculation is being made, then such financial ratio or test shall, except to the extent relating to the RP Threshold, be calculated giving pro forma effect to such redemption, repayment, retirement or extinguishment of Indebtedness, as if the same had occurred on the last day of the applicable period.

Section 1.06 Accounting and Other Terms.

(a) Unless otherwise expressly provided herein, each accounting term used herein shall have the meaning given it under GAAP. For purposes of determining compliance with any incurrence or expenditure tests set forth in Section 4.11 and Section 4.12, any amounts so incurred or expended (to the extent incurred or expended in a currency other than Dollars) shall be converted into Dollars on the basis of the exchange rates (as shown on the Bloomberg currency page for such currency or, if the same does not provide such exchange rate, by reference to such other publicly available service for displaying exchange rates as may be reasonably selected by the Company or, in the event no such service is selected, on such other basis as is reasonably satisfactory to the Trustee (acting at the written direction of the Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Notes then outstanding) as in effect on the date of such incurrence or expenditure under any provision of any such Section that has an aggregate Dollar limitation provided for therein (and to the extent the respective incurrence or expenditure test regulates the aggregate amount outstanding at any time and it is expressed in terms of Dollars, all outstanding amounts originally incurred or spent in currencies other than Dollars shall be converted into Dollars on the basis of the exchange rates (as shown on the Bloomberg currency page for such currency or, if the same does not provide such exchange rate, by reference to such other publicly available service for displaying exchange rates as may be reasonably selected by the Company or, in the event no such service is selected, on such other basis as is reasonably satisfactory to the Trustee (acting at the written direction of the Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Notes then outstanding)) as in effect on the date of any new incurrence or expenditures made under any provision of any such Section that regulates the Dollar amount outstanding at any time). Notwithstanding the foregoing, for purposes of determining compliance with any covenant (including the computation of any financial covenant) contained herein, Indebtedness of the Company and its Subsidiaries shall be deemed to be carried at 100% of the outstanding principal amount thereof, and the effects of FASB ASC 825 and FASB ASC 470-20 on financial liabilities shall be disregarded.

(b) All terms used in this Indenture which are defined in Article 8 or Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code as in effect from time to time in the State of New York (the “Uniform Commercial Code” or the “UCC”) and which are not otherwise defined herein shall have the same meanings herein as set forth therein, provided that terms used herein which are defined in the Uniform Commercial Code as in effect in the State of New York on the date hereof shall continue to have the same meaning notwithstanding any replacement or amendment of such statute except as the Trustee (acting at the written direction of the Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Notes then outstanding) may otherwise determine.

Section 1.07 Time References. Unless otherwise indicated herein, all references to time of day refer to Eastern Standard Time or Eastern daylight saving time, as in effect in New York City on such day. For purposes of the computation of a period of time from a specified date to a later specified date, the word “from” means “from and including” and the words “to” and “until” each means “to but excluding”; provided, however, that with respect to a computation of fees or interest payable to any Holder, such period shall in any event consist of at least one full day.

Section 1.08 Australian Terms. (a) Unless the context requires otherwise, a reference to “Australia” shall include the Commonwealth of Australia and each State or Territory of the Commonwealth of Australia (and “Australian” shall have a corresponding meaning).

(b) In relation to any Australian Person or where the PPSA otherwise applies, a reference to a Lien or other security interest includes any “security interest” as defined in sections 12(1) or (2) of the PPSA.

(c) Where it relates to any Australian Person, a reference to: (i) bankruptcy includes administration; (ii) liquidation includes winding up; (iii) a receiver includes a controller and a managing controller, each as defined in the Corporations Act (and a reference to receivership has a corresponding meaning); (iv) Insolvency Proceeding includes any corporate action, legal proceedings or other formal procedure, filing or step under the Bankruptcy Act 1966 (Commonwealth of Australia) and Chapter 5 and Part 5C.9 of the Corporations Act in relation to the suspension of payments, a moratorium of any indebtedness, winding-up, dissolution,

administration or reorganisation or the appointment of a liquidator, receiver, administrator, compulsory manager or other similar officer; or (v) such Australian Person being insolvent or unable, or admitting inability, to pay its debts as they become due includes such Australian Person being, or being presumed or deemed under applicable law to be, insolvent.

(d) A reference to any consent or approval of, registration or filing with, or any other action by, any Governmental Authority includes, in relation to anything which will be fully or partly prohibited or restricted by Australian law if a Governmental Authority in or of Australia intervenes or acts in any way within a specified period after lodgment, filing, registration or notification, the expiry of that period without intervention or action.

Section 1.09 Canadian Terms. (a) Unless the context requires otherwise, a reference to “Canada” shall include the country of Canada and each Province or Territory of Canada (and “Canadian” shall have a corresponding meaning).

(b) In relation to any Canadian Person or where the Canadian PPSA otherwise applies, a reference to a Lien or other security interest includes any “security interest” as defined in the applicable Canadian PPSA.

(c) Where it relates to any Canadian Person, a reference to: (i) bankruptcy includes administration, (ii) liquidation includes winding up; (iii) a receiver includes a receiver and manager (and a reference to receivership has a corresponding meaning); (iv) Insolvency Proceeding includes a proceeding is taken with respect to a reorganization, liquidation, winding up, proposal, compromise or arrangement with creditors, or to any Canadian Person being declared bankrupt, (including, without limitation, any proceeding commenced by or in respect of any Canadian Person under the Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act, (Canada) R.S.C. 1985, c. B-3 as amended or the Companies’ Creditors Arrangement Act (Canada), R.S.C. 1985, c. C-36 as amended) or a proceeding is taken to have a receiver, interim receiver, receiver and manager or agent appointed over all or any part of the property and assets of a Canadian Person (including, without limitation, the private appointment of any such receiver, receiver and manager or agent) or any encumbrancer taking possession of all or any part of the property and assets of a Canadian Person, or any execution, writ of seizure and sale, sequestration or extent or any other process of any court becomes enforceable against a Canadian Person or a distress or analogous process is levied upon a material portion of the properties and assets of a Canadian Person; (v) such Canadian Person being insolvent or unable, or admitting inability, to pay its debts as they become due includes such Canadian Person being, or being presumed or deemed under applicable law to be, insolvent.

(d) A reference to any consent or approval of, registration or filing with, or any other action by, any Governmental Authority includes, in relation to anything which will be fully or partly prohibited or restricted by Canadian law if a Governmental Authority in or of Canada intervenes or acts in any way within a specified period after lodgment, filing, registration or notification, the expiry of that period without intervention or action.

(e) No Canadian Notes Party nor any of its Affiliates is or has at any time been an employer participating in a “registered pension plan” as defined in subsection 248(1) of the Income Tax Act (Canada) (a “Canadian Pension Plan”) and no Canadian Notes Party shall establish a Canadian Pension Plan without the express prior written consent of the Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Notes then outstanding.

(f) For any Canadian Notes Party, (i) for the purposes of the Interest Act (Canada) and disclosure thereunder, whenever any interest or any fee to be paid hereunder or in connection herewith is to be calculated on the basis of a 360-day or 365-day year, the yearly rate of interest to which the rate used in such calculation is equivalent is the rate so used multiplied by the actual number of days in the calendar year in which the same is to be ascertained and divided by 360 or 365, as applicable; (ii) the rates of interest under this Indenture are nominal rates, and not effective rates or yields; and (iii) the principle of deemed reinvestment does not apply to any interest calculation under this Indenture.

(g) Each Canadian Notes Party confirms that they fully understand and are able to calculate the rate of interest applicable and based on the methodology for calculating per annum rates provided for in this Agreement and each Canadian Notes Party hereby irrevocably agrees not to plead or assert, whether by way of defense or otherwise, in any proceeding relating to this Indenture or to any other documents, that the interest payable under this Indenture and the calculation thereof has not been adequately disclosed to the Canadian Notes Party as required pursuant to Section 4 of the Interest Act (Canada).

Section 2.01 Designation and Amount. The Notes shall be designated as the “6.000% Convertible Senior Secured Notes due 2027.” The aggregate principal amount of Notes that may be authenticated and delivered under this Indenture is initially limited to $497,094,000, subject to Section 2.10 and except for Notes authenticated and delivered upon registration or transfer of, or in exchange for, or in lieu of other Notes to the extent expressly permitted hereunder.

Section 2.02 Form of Notes. The Notes and the Trustee’s certificate of authentication to be borne by such Notes shall be substantially in the respective forms set forth in Exhibit A, the terms and provisions of which shall constitute, and are hereby expressly incorporated in and made a part of this Indenture. To the extent applicable, the Company and the Trustee, by their execution and delivery of this Indenture, expressly agree to such terms and provisions and to be bound thereby.

Any Global Note may be endorsed with or have incorporated in the text thereof such legends or recitals or changes not inconsistent with the provisions of this Indenture as may be required by the Custodian or the Depositary, or as may be required to comply with any applicable law or any regulation thereunder or with the rules and regulations of any securities exchange or automated quotation system upon which the Notes may be listed or traded or designated for issuance or to conform with any usage with respect thereto, or to indicate any special limitations or restrictions to which any particular Notes are subject.

Any of the Notes may have such letters, numbers or other marks of identification and such notations, legends or endorsements as the Officer executing the same may approve (execution thereof to be conclusive evidence of such approval) and as are not inconsistent with the provisions of this Indenture, or as may be required to comply with any law or with any rule or regulation made pursuant thereto or with any rule or regulation of any securities exchange or automated quotation system on which the Notes may be listed or designated for issuance, or to conform to usage or to indicate any special limitations or restrictions to which any particular Notes are subject.

Each Global Note shall represent such principal amount of the outstanding Notes as shall be specified therein and shall provide that it shall represent the aggregate principal amount of outstanding Notes from time to time endorsed thereon and that the aggregate principal amount of outstanding Notes represented thereby may from time to time be increased or reduced to reflect redemptions, repurchases, cancellations, conversions, transfers, exchanges or issuances of additional Notes (to the extent that such issuances are fungible with the Notes represented by such Global Note for U.S. federal income tax and securities law purposes) permitted hereby. Any endorsement of a Global Note to reflect the amount of any increase or decrease in the amount of outstanding Notes represented thereby shall be made by the Trustee or the Custodian, at the direction of the Trustee, in such manner and upon instructions given by the Holder of such Notes in accordance with this Indenture. Payment of principal (including the Redemption Price and the Repurchase Event Repurchase Price, if applicable) of, and accrued and unpaid interest on, a Global Note shall be made to the Holder of such Note on the date of payment, unless a record date or other means of determining Holders eligible to receive payment is provided for herein.

Section 2.03 Date and Denomination of Notes; Payments of Interest and Defaulted Amounts.

(a) The Notes shall be issuable in registered form without coupons in denominations of $1,000 principal amount and integral multiples thereof. Each Note shall be dated the date of its authentication and shall bear interest from the date specified on the face of such Note. Accrued interest on the Notes shall be computed on the basis of a 360-day year composed of twelve 30-day months and, for partial months, on the basis of the number of days actually elapsed in a 30-day month.

(b) The Person in whose name any Note (or its Predecessor Note) is registered on the Note Register at the close of business on any Regular Record Date with respect to any Interest Payment Date shall be entitled to receive the interest payable on such Interest Payment Date. The principal amount of any Note (x) in the case of any Physical Note, shall be payable at the office or agency of the Company maintained by the Company for such purposes in the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York, which shall initially be the Corporate Trust Office and (y) in the case of any Global Note, shall be payable by wire transfer of immediately available funds to the account of the Depositary or its nominee. The Company shall pay, or cause the Paying Agent to pay, interest (i) on any Physical Notes (A) to Holders holding Physical Notes having an aggregate principal amount of $5,000,000 or less, by check mailed to the Holders of these Notes at their address as it appears in the Note

Register and (B) to Holders holding Physical Notes having an aggregate principal amount of more than $5,000,000, either by check mailed to each Holder or, upon application by such a Holder to the Note Registrar not later than the relevant Regular Record Date, by wire transfer in immediately available funds to that Holder’s account within the United States, which application shall remain in effect until the Holder notifies, in writing, the Note Registrar to the contrary or (ii) on any Global Note by wire transfer of immediately available funds to the account of the Depositary or its nominee.

(c) Any Defaulted Amounts shall forthwith cease to be payable to the Holder on the relevant payment date but shall accrue interest per annum at the rate borne by the Notes, subject to the enforceability thereof under applicable law, from, and including, such relevant payment date, and such Defaulted Amounts together with such interest thereon shall be paid by the Company, at its election in each case, as provided in clause (i) or (ii) below:

(i) The Company may elect to make payment of or cause the Paying Agent to make payment of any Defaulted Amounts to the Persons in whose names the Notes (or their respective Predecessor Notes) are registered at the close of business on a special record date for the payment of such Defaulted Amounts, which shall be fixed in the following manner. The Company shall notify the Trustee in writing of the amount of the Defaulted Amounts proposed to be paid on each Note and the date of the proposed payment (which shall be not less than 25 days after the receipt by the Trustee of such notice, unless the Trustee shall consent to an earlier date), and at the same time the Company shall deposit with the Trustee an amount of money equal to the aggregate amount to be paid in respect of such Defaulted Amounts or shall make arrangements satisfactory to the Trustee for such deposit on or prior to the date of the proposed payment, such money when deposited to be held in trust for the benefit of the Persons entitled to such Defaulted Amounts as in this clause provided. Thereupon the Company shall fix a special record date for the payment of such Defaulted Amounts which shall be not more than 15 days and not less than 10 days prior to the date of the proposed payment, and not less than 10 days after the receipt by the Trustee of the notice of the proposed payment (unless the Trustee shall consent to an earlier date). The Company shall promptly notify the Trustee of such special record date and the Trustee, in the name and at the expense of the Company, shall cause notice of the proposed payment of such Defaulted Amounts and the special record date therefor to be given, to each Holder at its address as it appears in the Note Register, or by electronic means to the Depositary in the case of Global Notes, not less than 10 days prior to such special record date. Notice of the proposed payment of such Defaulted Amounts and the special record date therefor having been so mailed, such Defaulted Amounts shall be paid to the Persons in whose names the Notes (or their respective Predecessor Notes) are registered at the close of business on such special record date and shall no longer be payable pursuant to the following clause (ii) of this Section 2.03(c).

(ii) The Company may make payment of or cause the Paying Agent to make payment any Defaulted Amounts in any other lawful manner not inconsistent with the requirements of any securities exchange or automated quotation system on which the Notes may be listed or designated for issuance, and upon such notice as may be required by such exchange or automated quotation system, if, after notice given by the Company to the Trustee of the proposed payment pursuant to this clause, such manner of payment shall be deemed practicable by the Trustee.

Section 2.04 Execution, Authentication and Delivery of Notes. The Notes shall be signed in the name and on behalf of the Company by the manual or facsimile signature of its Chief Executive Officer, President, Chief Financial Officer, Treasurer, Secretary or any of its Executive or Senior Vice Presidents.

At any time and from time to time after the execution and delivery of this Indenture, the Company may deliver Notes executed by the Company to the Trustee for authentication, together with a Company Order for the authentication and delivery of such Notes, and the Trustee in accordance with such Company Order shall authenticate and deliver such Notes, without any further action by the Company hereunder.

Only such Notes as shall bear thereon a certificate of authentication substantially in the form set forth on the form of Note attached as Exhibit A hereto, executed manually by an authorized signatory of the Trustee (or an authenticating agent appointed by the Trustee as provided by Section 19.10), shall be entitled to the benefits of this Indenture or be valid or obligatory for any purpose. Such certificate by the Trustee (or such an authenticating agent) upon any Note executed by the Company shall be conclusive evidence that the Note so authenticated has been duly authenticated and delivered hereunder and that the Holder is entitled to the benefits of this Indenture.

In case any Officer of the Company who shall have signed any of the Notes shall cease to be such Officer before the Notes so signed shall have been authenticated and delivered by the Trustee, or disposed of by the Company, such Notes nevertheless may be authenticated and delivered or disposed of as though the person who signed such Notes had not ceased to be such Officer of the Company; and any Note may be signed on behalf of the Company by such persons as, at the actual date of the execution of such Note, shall be the Officers of the Company, although at the date of the execution of this Indenture any such person was not such an Officer.

Section 2.05 Exchange and Registration of Transfer of Notes; Restrictions on Transfer; Depositary.

(a) The Company shall cause to be kept at the Corporate Trust Office a register (the register maintained in such office or in any other office or agency of the Company designated pursuant to Section 4.02, the “Note Register”) in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, the Company shall provide for the registration of Notes and of transfers of Notes. Such register shall be in written form or in any form capable of being converted into written form within a reasonable period of time. The Trustee is hereby initially appointed the “Note Registrar” for the purpose of registering Notes and transfers of Notes as herein provided. The Company may appoint one or more co-Note Registrars in accordance with Section 4.02.

Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Note to the Note Registrar or any co-Note Registrar, and satisfaction of the requirements for such transfer set forth in this Section 2.05, the Company shall execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Notes of any authorized denominations and of a like aggregate principal amount and bearing such restrictive legends as may be required by this Indenture.

Notes may be exchanged for other Notes of any authorized denominations and of a like aggregate principal amount, upon surrender of the Notes to be exchanged at any such office or agency maintained by the Company pursuant to Section 4.02. Whenever any Notes are so surrendered for exchange, the Company shall execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, the Notes that the Holder making the exchange is entitled to receive, bearing registration numbers not contemporaneously outstanding.

All Notes presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or for exchange, repurchase or conversion shall (if so required by the Company, the Trustee, the Note Registrar or any co-Note Registrar) be duly endorsed, or be accompanied by a written instrument or instruments of transfer in form satisfactory to the Company and duly executed, by the Holder thereof or its attorney-in-fact duly authorized in writing.

No service charge shall be imposed by the Company, the Trustee, the Note Registrar, any co-Note Registrar or the Paying Agent for any exchange or registration of transfer of Notes, but the Company may require a Holder to pay a sum sufficient to cover any documentary, stamp or similar issue or transfer tax required in connection therewith as a result of the name of the Holder of new Notes issued upon such exchange or registration of transfer being different from the name of the Holder of the old Notes surrendered for exchange or registration of transfer.

None of the Company, the Subsidiary Guarantors, the Trustee, the Note Registrar and any co-Note Registrar shall be required to exchange or register a transfer of (i) any Notes surrendered for conversion or, if a portion of any Note is surrendered for conversion, such portion thereof surrendered for conversion, (ii) any Notes, or a portion of any Note, surrendered for repurchase (and not withdrawn) in accordance with Article 14 or (iii) any Notes selected for redemption in accordance with Article 15, except the unredeemed portion of any Note being redeemed in part.

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

(b) So long as the Notes are eligible for book-entry settlement with the Depositary, unless otherwise required by law, subject to the fourth paragraph from the end of Section 2.05(c) all Notes shall be represented by one or more Notes in global form (each, a “Global Note”) registered in the name of the Depositary or the nominee of the Depositary. Each Global Note shall bear the legend required on a Global Note set forth in Exhibit A hereto. The transfer and exchange of beneficial interests in a Global Note that does not involve the issuance of a Physical Note shall be effected through the Depositary (but not the Trustee or the Custodian) in accordance with this Indenture (including the restrictions on transfer set forth herein) and the procedures of the Depositary therefor.

(c) Every Note that bears or is required under this Section 2.05(c) to bear the legend set forth in this Section 2.05(c) (together with any Common Stock issued upon conversion of the Notes that is required to bear the legend set forth in Section 2.05(d), collectively, the “Restricted Securities”) shall be subject to the restrictions on transfer set forth in this Section 2.05(c) (including those contained in the legend set forth below), unless such restrictions on transfer shall be eliminated or otherwise waived by written consent of the Company, and the Holder of each such Restricted Security, by such Holder’s acceptance thereof, agrees to be bound by all such restrictions on transfer. As used in this Section 2.05(c) and Section 2.05(d), the term “transfer” encompasses any sale, pledge, transfer or other disposition whatsoever of any Restricted Security.

Until the date (the “Resale Restriction Termination Date”) that is the later of (1) the date that is one year after the Issue Date, or such shorter period of time as permitted by Rule 144 or any successor provision thereto, and (2) such later date, if any, as may be required by applicable law, any certificate evidencing such Note (and all securities issued in exchange therefor or substitution thereof, other than Common Stock, if any, issued upon conversion thereof, which shall bear the legend set forth in Section 2.05(d), if applicable) shall bear a legend in substantially the following form (unless such Notes have been transferred pursuant to a registration statement that has become or been declared effective under the Securities Act and that continues to be effective at the time of such transfer, or sold pursuant to the exemption from registration provided by Rule 144 or any similar provision then in force under the Securities Act, or unless otherwise agreed by the Company in writing, with notice thereof to the Trustee):

(1) IF THE ACQUIRER IS NOT AN INITIAL HOLDER, REPRESENTS THAT IT AND ANY ACCOUNT FOR WHICH IT IS ACTING IS A “QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER” (WITHIN THE MEANING OF RULE 144A UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT) AND THAT IT EXERCISES SOLE INVESTMENT DISCRETION WITH RESPECT TO EACH SUCH ACCOUNT, AND

(2) AGREES FOR THE BENEFIT OF GANNETT CO., INC. (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 THERETO AND (Y) SUCH LATER DATE, IF ANY, AS MAY BE REQUIRED BY APPLICABLE LAW, EXCEPT:

(A) TO THE 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 OR ANY OTHER AVAILABLE EXEMPTION FROM THE REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS OF THE SECURITIES ACT.

No transfer of any Note prior to the Resale Restriction Termination Date will be registered by the Note Registrar unless the applicable box on the Form of Assignment and Transfer has been checked.

Any Note (or security issued in exchange or substitution therefor) (i) as to which such restrictions on transfer shall have expired in accordance with their terms, (ii) that has been transferred pursuant to a registration statement that has become effective or been declared effective under the Securities Act and that continues to be effective at the time of such transfer or (iii) that has been sold pursuant to the exemption from registration provided by Rule 144 or any similar provision then in force under the Securities Act, may, upon surrender of such Note for exchange to the Note Registrar in accordance with the provisions of this Section 2.05, be exchanged for a new Note or Notes, of like tenor and aggregate principal amount, which shall not bear the restrictive legend required by this Section 2.05(c) and shall not be assigned a restricted CUSIP number. The Company shall be entitled to instruct the Custodian in writing to so surrender any Global Note as to which any of the conditions set forth in clause (i) through (iii) of the immediately preceding sentence have been satisfied, and, upon such instruction, the Custodian shall so surrender such Global Note for exchange; and any new Global Note so exchanged therefor shall not bear the restrictive legend specified in this Section 2.05(c) and shall not be assigned a restricted CUSIP number. In addition, the Company shall be entitled to issue and instruct the Trustee to authenticate an unrestricted Global Note for the purpose of permitting the transfer of beneficial interests in a Global Note bearing the restrictive legend, as to which the conditions set forth in clauses (i) through (iii) of the immediately preceding sentence have been satisfied with respect to such unrestricted Global Note. The Company shall promptly notify the Trustee upon the occurrence of the Resale Restriction Termination Date and promptly after a registration statement, if any, with respect to the Notes or any Common Stock issued upon conversion of the Notes has been declared effective under the Securities Act.

Notwithstanding any other provisions of this Indenture (other than the provisions set forth in this Section 2.05(c)), a Global Note may not be transferred as a whole or in part except (i) 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 and (ii) for exchange of a Global Note or a portion thereof for one or more Physical Notes in accordance with the second immediately succeeding paragraph.

The Depositary shall be a clearing agency registered under the Exchange Act. The Company initially appoints The Depository Trust Company to act as Depositary with respect to each Global Note. Initially, each Global Note shall be issued to the Depositary, registered in the name of Cede & Co., as the nominee of the Depositary, and deposited with the Trustee as custodian for Cede & Co.

If (i) the Depositary notifies the Company at any time that the Depositary is unwilling or unable to continue as depositary for the Global Notes and a successor depositary is not appointed within 90 days, (ii) the Depositary ceases to be registered as a clearing agency under the Exchange Act and a successor depositary is not appointed within 90 days or (iii) an Event of Default with respect to the Notes has occurred and is continuing and a beneficial owner of any Note requests that its beneficial interest therein be issued as a Physical Note, the Company shall execute, and the Trustee, upon receipt of an Officer’s Certificate and a Company Order for the authentication and delivery of Notes, shall authenticate and deliver (x) in the case of clause (iii), a Physical Note to such beneficial owner in a principal amount equal to the principal amount of such Note corresponding to such beneficial owner’s beneficial interest and (y) in the case of clause (i) or (ii), Physical Notes to each beneficial owner of the related Global Notes (or a portion thereof) in an aggregate principal amount equal to the aggregate principal amount of such Global Notes in exchange for such Global Notes, and upon delivery of the Global Notes to the Trustee such Global Notes shall be canceled.

Physical Notes issued in exchange for all or a part of the Global Note pursuant to this Section 2.05(c) shall be registered in such names and in such authorized denominations as the Depositary, pursuant to instructions from its direct or indirect participants or otherwise, or, in the case of clause (iii) of the immediately preceding paragraph, the relevant beneficial owner, shall instruct the Trustee. Upon execution and authentication, the Trustee shall deliver such Physical Notes to the Persons in whose names such Physical Notes are so registered.

At such time as all interests in a Global Note have been converted, canceled, repurchased, redeemed or transferred, such Global Note shall be, upon receipt thereof, canceled by the Trustee in accordance with standing procedures and existing instructions between the Depositary and the Custodian. At any time prior to such cancellation, if any interest in a Global Note is exchanged for Physical Notes, converted, canceled, repurchased, redeemed or transferred to a transferee who receives Physical Notes therefor or any Physical Note is exchanged or

transferred for part of such Global Note, the principal amount of such Global Note shall, in accordance with the standing procedures and instructions existing between the Depositary and the Custodian, be appropriately reduced or increased, as the case may be, and an endorsement shall be made on such Global Note, by the Trustee or the Custodian, at the direction of the Trustee, to reflect such reduction or increase.

None of the Company, the Trustee and any agent of the Company or the Trustee shall have any responsibility or liability for any aspect of the records relating to or payments made on account of beneficial ownership interests of a Global Note or maintaining, supervising or reviewing any records relating to such beneficial ownership interests.

(d) Until the Resale Restriction Termination Date, any stock certificate representing Common Stock issued upon conversion of a Note shall bear a legend in substantially the following form (unless the Note or such Common Stock has been transferred pursuant to a registration statement that has become or been declared effective under the Securities Act and that continues to be effective at the time of such transfer, or pursuant to the exemption from registration provided by Rule 144 or any similar provision then in force under the Securities Act, or such Common Stock has been issued upon conversion of a Note that has transferred pursuant to a registration statement that has become or been declared effective under the Securities Act and that continues to be effective at the time of such transfer, or pursuant to the exemption from registration provided by Rule 144 or any similar provision then in force under the Securities Act, or unless otherwise agreed by the Company with written notice thereof to the Trustee and any transfer agent for the Common Stock):

(1) REPRESENTS THAT IT AND ANY ACCOUNT FOR WHICH IT IS ACTING IS A “QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER” (WITHIN THE MEANING OF RULE 144A UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT) AND THAT IT EXERCISES SOLE INVESTMENT DISCRETION WITH RESPECT TO EACH SUCH ACCOUNT, AND

(2) AGREES FOR THE BENEFIT OF GANNETT CO., INC. (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 OF THE SERIES OF NOTES UPON THE CONVERSION OF WHICH THIS SECURITY WAS ISSUED OR SUCH SHORTER PERIOD OF TIME AS PERMITTED BY RULE 144 UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OR ANY SUCCESSOR PROVISION THERETO AND (Y) SUCH LATER DATE, IF ANY, AS MAY BE REQUIRED BY APPLICABLE LAW, EXCEPT:

(A) TO THE 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 OR ANY OTHER AVAILABLE EXEMPTION FROM THE REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS OF THE SECURITIES ACT.

Any such Common Stock (i) as to which such restrictions on transfer shall have expired in accordance with their terms, (ii) that has been transferred pursuant to a registration statement that has become or been declared effective under the Securities Act and that continues to be effective at the time of such transfer or (iii) that has been sold pursuant to the exemption from registration provided by Rule 144 or any similar provision then in force under the Securities Act, may, upon surrender of the certificates representing such shares of Common Stock for exchange in accordance with the procedures of the transfer agent for the Common Stock, be exchanged for a new certificate or certificates for a like aggregate number of shares of Common Stock, which shall not bear the restrictive legend required by this Section 2.05(d).

(e) Any Note or Common Stock issued upon the conversion or exchange of a Note that is repurchased or owned by any Affiliate of the Company (or any Person who was an Affiliate of the Company at any time during the three months preceding) may not be resold by such Affiliate (or such Person, as the case may be) 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 Note or Common Stock, as the case may be, no longer being a “restricted security” (as defined under Rule 144). The Company shall cause any Note that is repurchased or owned by it to be surrendered to the Trustee for cancellation in accordance with Section 2.08.

(f) Each Holder of Notes, including any transferee, acknowledges that the Notes are subject to the Investor Agreement and each Holder agrees to be bound by the terms and conditions thereof to the extent applicable to such Holder. Without limiting the foregoing, each transferee of the Notes (including through beneficial interest in a Global Note) agrees that by accepting such Notes (or beneficial interest in a Global Note) they will be deemed to be a party to the Investor Agreement as a “Holder” and subject to the terms thereof to the extent applicable to such Holder.

Section 2.06 Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost or Stolen Notes. In case any Note shall become mutilated or be destroyed, lost or stolen, the Company in its discretion may execute, and upon its written request the Trustee or an authenticating agent appointed by the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, a new Note, bearing a registration number not contemporaneously outstanding, in exchange and substitution for the mutilated Note, or in lieu of and in substitution for the Note so destroyed, lost or stolen. In every case the applicant for a substituted Note shall furnish to the Company, to the Trustee and, if applicable, to such authenticating agent such security or indemnity as may be required by them to save each of them harmless from any loss, liability, cost or expense caused by or connected with such substitution, and, in every case of destruction, loss or theft, the applicant shall also furnish to the Company, to the Trustee and, if applicable, to such authenticating agent evidence to their satisfaction of the destruction, loss or theft of such Note and of the ownership thereof.

The Trustee or such authenticating agent may authenticate any such substituted Note and deliver the same upon the receipt of such security or indemnity as the Trustee, the Company and, if applicable, such authenticating agent may require. No service charge shall be imposed by the Company, the Trustee, the Note Registrar, any co-Note Registrar or the Paying Agent upon the issuance of any substitute Note, but the Company may require a Holder to pay a sum sufficient to cover any documentary, stamp or similar issue or transfer tax required in connection therewith as a result of the name of the Holder of the new substitute Note being different from the name of the Holder of the old Note that became mutilated or was destroyed, lost or stolen. In case any Note that has matured or is about to mature or has been surrendered for required repurchase or is about to be converted in accordance with Article 13 shall become mutilated or be destroyed, lost or stolen, the Company may, in its sole discretion, instead of issuing a substitute Note, pay or authorize the payment of or convert or authorize the conversion of the same (without surrender thereof except in the case of a mutilated Note), as the case may be, if the applicant for such payment or conversion shall furnish to the Company, to the Trustee and, if applicable, to such authenticating agent such security or indemnity as may be required by them to save each of them harmless for any loss, liability, cost or expense caused by or connected with such substitution, and, in every case of destruction, loss or theft, evidence satisfactory to the Company, the Trustee and, if applicable, any Paying Agent or Conversion Agent evidence of their satisfaction of the destruction, loss or theft of such Note and of the ownership thereof.

Every substitute Note issued pursuant to the provisions of this Section 2.06 by virtue of the fact that any Note is destroyed, lost or stolen shall constitute an additional contractual obligation of the Company, whether or not the destroyed, lost or stolen Note shall be found at any time, and shall be entitled to all the benefits of (but shall be subject to all the limitations set forth in) this Indenture equally and proportionately with any and all other Notes duly issued hereunder. To the extent permitted by law, all Notes shall be held and owned upon the express condition that the foregoing provisions are exclusive with respect to the replacement, payment, redemption, conversion or repurchase

of mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Notes and shall preclude any and all other rights or remedies notwithstanding any law or statute existing or hereafter enacted to the contrary with respect to the replacement, payment, redemption, conversion or repurchase of negotiable instruments or other securities without their surrender.

Section 2.07 Temporary Notes. Pending the preparation of Physical Notes, the Company may execute and the Trustee or an authenticating agent appointed by the Trustee shall, upon written request of the Company, authenticate and deliver temporary Notes (printed or lithographed). Temporary Notes shall be issuable in any authorized denomination, and substantially in the form of the Physical Notes but with such omissions, insertions and variations as may be appropriate for temporary Notes, all as may be determined by the Company. Every such temporary Note shall be executed by the Company and authenticated by the Trustee or such authenticating agent upon the same conditions and in substantially the same manner, and with the same effect, as the Physical Notes. Without unreasonable delay, the Company shall execute and deliver to the Trustee or such authenticating agent Physical Notes (other than any Global Note) and thereupon any or all temporary Notes (other than any Global Note) may be surrendered in exchange therefor, at each office or agency maintained by the Company pursuant to Section 4.02 and the Trustee or such authenticating agent shall authenticate and deliver in exchange for such temporary Notes an equal aggregate principal amount of Physical Notes. Such exchange shall be made by the Company at its own expense and without any charge therefor. Until so exchanged, the temporary Notes shall in all respects be entitled to the same benefits and subject to the same limitations under this Indenture as Physical Notes authenticated and delivered hereunder.

Section 2.08 Cancellation of Notes Paid, Converted, Etc. The Company shall cause all Notes surrendered for the purpose of payment, repurchase, redemption, registration of transfer or exchange or conversion, if surrendered to any Person other than the Trustee (including any of the Company’s agents, Subsidiaries or Affiliates), to be surrendered to the Trustee for cancellation. All Notes delivered to the Trustee shall be canceled by it, and no Notes shall be authenticated in exchange thereof except as expressly permitted by any of the provisions of this Indenture. The Trustee shall dispose of canceled Notes in accordance with its customary procedures and, after such disposition, shall deliver a certificate of such disposition to the Company, at the Company’s written request in a Company Order. If the Company shall acquire any of the Notes, such acquisition shall not operate as a redemption, repurchase or satisfaction of the indebtedness represented by such Notes unless and until the same are delivered to the Trustee for cancellation.

Section 2.09 CUSIP Numbers. The Company in issuing the Notes may use “CUSIP” numbers (if then generally in use), and, if so, the Trustee shall use “CUSIP” numbers in all notices issued to Holders as a convenience to such Holders; provided, however, that any such notice may state that no representation is made as to the correctness of such numbers either as printed on the Notes or on such notice and that reliance may be placed only on the other identification numbers printed on the Notes. The Company shall promptly notify the Trustee in writing of any change in the “CUSIP” numbers.

Section 2.10 Additional Notes; Repurchases. The Company may, without the consent of the Holders and notwithstanding Section 2.01, reopen this Indenture and issue additional Notes hereunder with the same terms as the Notes initially issued hereunder (other than differences in the issue price and interest accrued prior to the issue date of such additional Notes) in an unlimited aggregate principal amount; provided, however, that if any such additional Notes are not fungible with the Notes initially issued hereunder for U.S. federal income tax purposes or securities law purposes, such additional Notes shall have one or more separate CUSIP numbers. Prior to the issuance of any such additional Notes, the Company shall deliver to the Trustee a Company Order, an Officer’s Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel, such Officer’s Certificate and Opinion of Counsel to cover such matters, in addition to those required by Section 19.05, as the Trustee shall reasonably request. In addition, the Company may, to the extent permitted by law, and directly or indirectly (regardless of whether such Notes are surrendered to the Company), repurchase Notes in the open market or otherwise, whether by the Company or its Subsidiaries or through a private or public tender or exchange offer or through counterparties to private agreements, including by cash-settled swaps or other derivatives. The Company shall cause any Notes so repurchased (other than Notes repurchased pursuant to cash-settled swaps or other derivatives) to be surrendered to the Trustee for cancellation in accordance with Section 2.08 and such Notes shall no longer be considered outstanding under this Indenture upon their repurchase.

Section 3.01 Satisfaction and Discharge. This Indenture shall cease to be of further effect, and the Trustee, upon request of the Company contained in an Officer’s Certificate and at the expense of the Company, shall execute proper instruments acknowledging satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture, when (a) (i) all Notes theretofore authenticated and delivered (other than Notes which have been destroyed, lost or stolen and which have been replaced, paid or converted as provided in Section 2.06) have been delivered to the Trustee for cancellation; or (ii) the Company has deposited with the Trustee or delivered to Holders, as applicable, after the Notes have become due and payable, whether on the Maturity Date, any Redemption Date, any Repurchase Event Repurchase Date, upon conversion or otherwise, cash, shares of Common Stock or a combination thereof, as applicable, solely to satisfy the Company’s Conversion Obligation, sufficient to pay all of the outstanding Notes (Notes which have been destroyed, lost or stolen and which have been replaced, paid or converted as provided in Section 2.06) and all other sums due and payable under this Indenture by the Company; and (b) the Company has delivered to the Trustee an Officer’s Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel, each stating that all conditions precedent herein provided for relating to the satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture have been complied with. Notwithstanding the satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture, the obligations of the Company to the Trustee under Section 7.06 shall survive.

Section 4.01 Payment of Principal and Interest. The Company covenants and agrees that it will pay or cause to be paid the principal (including the Redemption Price and the Repurchase Event Repurchase Price, if applicable) of, and accrued and unpaid interest on, each of the Notes at the places, at the respective times and in the manner pr