UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
WASHINGTON, DC 20549
FORM 8-K
CURRENT REPORT
CURRENT
REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d)
OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934
Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported): January 7, 2015
Resource Capital Corp.
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its chapter)
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(IRS Employer
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| 712 Fifth Avenue, 12th Floor
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Registrant’s telephone number, including area code: 212-506-3899
(Former name or former address, if changed since last report)
Check the appropriate box below if the Form 8-K filing is intended to simultaneously satisfy the filing obligation of the registrant under any of the
following provisions:
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Written communications pursuant to Rule 425 under the Securities Act (17 CFR 230.425) |
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Soliciting material pursuant to Rule 14a-12 under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.14a-12) |
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Pre-commencement communications pursuant to Rule 14d-2(b) under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.14d-2(b)) |
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Pre-commencement communications pursuant to Rule 13e-4(c) under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.13e-4(c)) |
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Entry Into a Material Definitive Agreement. |
Underwriting Agreement
On January 7, 2015, Resource Capital Corp. (the “Company”) and Resource Capital Manager, Inc. entered into an underwriting
agreement (the “Underwriting Agreement”) with Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC and J.P. Morgan Securities LLC, as representatives of the several underwriters named therein (collectively, the “Underwriters”). Pursuant to the
Underwriting Agreement, the Company agreed to sell to the Underwriters $100.0 million aggregate principal amount of the Company’s 8.00% convertible senior notes due 2020 (the “Notes”). The Company also granted the Underwriters a
30-day option to purchase up to an additional $15.0 million aggregate principal amount of the Notes in connection with the Offering (as defined below) solely to cover over-allotments. The Underwriting Agreement contains customary representations and
warranties, indemnification provisions and closing conditions.
The foregoing description of the Underwriting Agreement is qualified in
its entirety by reference to the agreement, a copy of which is filed as Exhibit 1.1 to this report and incorporated herein by this reference.
Completion of Public Offering of Convertible Senior Notes
On January 13, 2015, the Company completed its registered underwritten public offering of $100.0 million aggregate principal amount of the
Notes pursuant to the Underwriting Agreement (the “Offering”).
The Notes (and the shares of the Company’s common stock
(“Common Stock”) issuable upon conversion of the Notes) were registered under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, pursuant to the Registration Statement on Form S-3 (Registration Statement No. 333-195844) (the “Registration
Statement”), which was filed and deemed automatically effective on May 9, 2014. The Offering was made pursuant to the prospectus supplement dated January 7, 2015 (the “Prospectus Supplement”), and the accompanying prospectus
dated May 9, 2014, constituting a part of the Registration Statement.
The aggregate net proceeds to the Company from the Offering
were approximately $96.7 million, after deducting underwriting discounts and commissions and estimated expenses payable by the Company. The Company intends to use the net proceeds from the Offering for general corporate purposes, including
acquisition of investments, and originations of loans, as well as for working capital.
Supplemental Indenture
In connection with the Offering, the Company entered into a second supplemental indenture (the “Supplemental Indenture”) between the
Company and Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, as trustee (the “Trustee”), to the base indenture dated as of October 21, 2013 (the “Base Indenture” and, together with the Supplemental Indenture, the
“Indenture”), with respect to the Notes, pursuant to which the Notes were issued.
Interest on the Notes is payable semiannually
in arrears on January 15 and July 15 of each year, beginning on July 15, 2015. The Notes will mature on January 15, 2020 unless earlier repurchased or converted. Upon conversion, holders of the Notes will receive shares of Common
Stock, cash or a combination of cash and shares, at the Company’s election. If the Company undergoes a “fundamental change” (as defined in the Indenture), subject to certain conditions, holders of the Notes may require the Company to
repurchase for cash all or part of such holders’ Notes. The fundamental change repurchase
price for the Notes will be 100% of the principal amount of the Notes to be repurchased, plus accrued and unpaid interest, if any, up to, but excluding, the fundamental change repurchase date.
At any time prior to the close of business on the business day immediately preceding the maturity date, holders may convert any or all of
their Notes into shares of Common Stock at the applicable conversion rate.
Any conversion of Notes into shares of Common Stock will be
subject to certain ownership limitations (as more fully described in the Indenture). The initial conversion rate for each $1,000 aggregate principal amount of the Notes is 187.4414 shares of Common Stock, equivalent to an initial conversion price of
approximately $5.34 per share of Common Stock, which is an approximate 10.0% premium to the closing price of the Common Stock on January 7, 2015. The conversion rate is subject to adjustment in certain circumstances. The Company may not redeem
the Notes prior to the maturity date.
The foregoing description of the Indenture is qualified in its entirety by reference to the
previously filed Base Indenture and the Supplemental Indenture, a copy of which is filed as Exhibit 4.1 to this report and incorporated herein by this reference.
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Creation of a Direct Financial Obligation or an Obligation Under an Off-Balance Sheet Arrangement of a Registrant. |
The information required by this Item 2.03 relating to the Notes and the Indenture is contained in Item 1.01 above and is
incorporated herein by reference.
Attached as Exhibit 5.1 to this Current Report is a copy of the
opinion of Foley & Lardner LLP relating to the validity of the Notes sold in the Offering and the validity of the shares of Common Stock to be issued upon conversion of the Notes. Attached as Exhibit 8.1 to this Current Report is a copy of
the opinion of Ledgewood P.C. relating to certain tax matters. Exhibits 5.1 and 8.1 attached to this report are incorporated by reference in their entirety into the Registration Statement.
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Financial Statements and Exhibits. |
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Description |
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Underwriting Agreement, dated January 7, 2015, by and among Resource Capital Corp., Resource Capital Manager, Inc. and the underwriters named therein. |
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Second Supplemental Indenture, dated January 13, 2015, between Resource Capital Corp. and Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, as Trustee (including the form of 8.00% Convertible Senior Note due 2020). |
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Opinion of Foley & Lardner LLP. |
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| 8.1 |
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Opinion of Ledgewood P.C. |
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Consent of Foley & Lardner LLP (included in Exhibit 5.1). |
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Consent of Ledgewood P.C. (included in Exhibit 8.1). |
SIGNATURE(S)
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned
hereunto duly authorized.
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Resource Capital Corp. |
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/s/ David J. Bryant |
| January 13, 2015 |
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David J. Bryant |
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Chief Financial Officer |
Exhibit Index
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Description |
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Underwriting Agreement, dated January 7, 2015, by and among Resource Capital Corp., Resource Capital Manager, Inc. and the underwriters named therein. |
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Second Supplemental Indenture, dated January 13, 2015, between Resource Capital Corp. and Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, as Trustee (including the form of 8.00% Convertible Senior Note due 2020). |
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Opinion of Foley & Lardner LLP. |
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Opinion of Ledgewood P.C. |
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Consent of Foley & Lardner LLP (included in Exhibit 5.1). |
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Consent of Ledgewood P.C. (included in Exhibit 8.1). |
Exhibit 1.1
EXECUTION VERSION
RESOURCE CAPITAL CORP.
(a Maryland corporation)
8.00% Convertible Senior Notes due 2020
UNDERWRITING AGREEMENT
January 7, 2015
Morgan Stanley &
Co. LLC
J.P. Morgan Securities LLC
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Representatives of the Several Underwriters
Listed in Schedule I hereto
c/o Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC
1585 Broadway
New York, New York 10036
c/o J.P. Morgan Securities LLC
383 Madison Avenue, 28th Floor
New York, New York 10179
Ladies and Gentlemen:
1. Introductory. Resource Capital Corp., a Maryland corporation (the “Company”), proposes to issue and sell to the
several Underwriters named on Schedule I hereto (collectively, the “Underwriters”), for whom Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC and J.P. Morgan Securities LLC are acting as Representatives (in such capacity, the
“Representatives”), $100,000,000 principal amount of the Company’s 8.00% Convertible Senior Notes due 2020 (the “Firm Securities”) and, at the option of the Underwriters, solely to cover over-allotments, if
any, up to an additional $15,000,000 principal amount of the Company’s 8.00% Convertible Senior Notes due 2020 (the “Option Securities”). The Firm Securities and the Option Securities are herein referred to, collectively, as
the “Offered Securities.” The Offered Securities will be convertible into shares (the “Underlying Securities”) of the Company’s common stock, par value $0.001 per share (the “Common Stock”).
The Offered Securities will be issued pursuant to an Indenture, dated as of October 21, 2013 (the “Base Indenture”), between the Company and Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, as trustee (the “Trustee”),
as supplemented by a first supplemental indenture, dated as of October 21, 2013 (the “First Supplemental Indenture”), between the Company and the Trustee, and a second supplemental indenture, to be dated as of January 13,
2015, between the Company and the Trustee (together with the Base Indenture and the First Supplemental Indenture, the “Indenture”), between the Company and the Trustee. The Company and Resource Capital Manager, Inc., a Delaware
corporation and the Company’s external manager (the “Manager”), hereby confirm their agreement (this “Agreement”) with the several Underwriters concerning the purchase and sale of the Offered Securities, as
follows:
2. Representations and Warranties of the Company and the Manager.
(a) The Company represents and warrants to, and agrees with, each Underwriter that:
(i) The Company has filed an automatic shelf registration statement on Form S-3 (No. 333-195844), including a prospectus, with
the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”) for the registration of the Offered Securities under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), and the rules and regulations thereunder
(the “Securities Act Regulations”), which registration statement became effective upon filing under Rule 462(e) of the Securities Act Regulations (“Rule 462(e)”). Such registration statement, at any given time,
including the amendments thereto to such time, the exhibits and any schedules thereto at such time, the documents incorporated or deemed to be incorporated by reference therein pursuant to Item 12 of Form S-3 under the Securities Act at such
time and any prospectus supplement relating to the Offered Securities and the offering thereof that is filed with the Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b) of the Securities Act Regulations (“Rule 424(b)”) and deemed by virtue of Rule
430B of the Securities Act Regulations to be a part of such registration statement, is hereinafter called the “Registration Statement.” The Registration Statement at the time it originally became effective is hereinafter called the
“Original Registration Statement.” Each preliminary prospectus (including the Base Prospectus (as defined below) and each preliminary prospectus supplement) relating to the Offered Securities filed with the Commission pursuant to
Rule 424(b) is hereinafter called a “Preliminary Prospectus.” The term “Base Prospectus” means the prospectus, dated May 9, 2014, included in the Registration Statement. The term “Prospectus”
means the Base Prospectus, as supplemented by the final prospectus supplement relating to the Offered Securities and the offering thereof in the form first used to confirm sales of the Offered Securities (or in the form first made available to the
Underwriters by the Company to meet requests of purchasers pursuant to Rule 173 under the Securities Act Regulations (“Rule 173”)). The Commission has not issued any order preventing or suspending the use of any Preliminary
Prospectus. Any reference herein to the Registration Statement, the Prospectus or any Preliminary Prospectus shall be deemed to refer to and include the documents incorporated by reference therein pursuant to Item 12 of Form S-3 under the
Securities Act that were filed under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), and the rules and regulations thereunder (the “Exchange Act Regulations”). All references in this Agreement to
financial statements and schedules and other information which is “contained,” “included,” “described” or “stated” in the Registration Statement, any Preliminary Prospectus or the Prospectus (and all other
references of like import) shall be deemed to mean and include all such financial statements and schedules and other information which is or is deemed to be incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement, any Preliminary Prospectus or
Prospectus, as the case may be. As used herein, the terms “Registration Statement,” “Base Prospectus,” “Preliminary Prospectus” and “Prospectus” (including, for the avoidance of
doubt, references to “as described in,” “set forth in” or “included in” (or similar references) the applicable document) shall include the documents, if any, incorporated by reference therein as of the date hereof. The
terms “supplement,” “amendment,” and “amend” as used herein with respect to the Registration Statement, the Base Prospectus, any Preliminary Prospectus or the Prospectus shall include all documents subsequently filed by
the Company with the Commission pursuant to the Exchange Act and the Exchange Act Regulations. The term “General Disclosure Package” means (i) the Preliminary Prospectus, as most recently amended or supplemented immediately
prior to the Initial Sale Time (as defined herein), (ii) the Issuer Free Writing Prospectuses (as
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defined below) identified on Schedule III hereto and (iii) any other Free Writing Prospectus (as defined herein) that the parties hereto shall hereafter expressly agree to treat as part of
the General Disclosure Package. The term “Issuer Free Writing Prospectus” means any issuer free writing prospectus, as defined in Rule 433 of the Securities Act Regulations (“Rule 433”), including any “road
show that is a written communication” within the meaning of Rule 433(d)(8)(i), whether or not required to be filed with the Commission. The term “Free Writing Prospectus” means any free writing prospectus, as defined in Rule 405 of
the Securities Act Regulations (“Rule 405”).
(ii) (A) At the time of filing the Original Registration
Statement, (B) at the time of the most recent amendment to the Registration Statement for the purposes of complying with Section 10(a)(3) of the Securities Act and (C) at any time the Company or any person acting on its behalf (within
the meaning, for this clause only, of Rule 163(c) of the Securities Act Regulations) made any offer relating to the Offered Securities in reliance on the exemption of Rule 163 of the Securities Act Regulations (“Rule 163”), the
Company was and is a “well-known seasoned issuer” as defined in Rule 405, including not having been and not being an “ineligible issuer” as defined in Rule 405; the Registration Statement is an “automatic shelf registration
statement,” as defined in Rule 405 and the Offered Securities, since their registration on the Registration Statement, have been and remain eligible for registration by the Company on a Rule 405 “automatic shelf registration
statement”; and the Company has not received from the Commission any notice pursuant to Rule 401(g)(2) of the Securities Act Regulations objecting to the use of the automatic shelf registration statement form.
(iii) The Original Registration Statement became effective upon filing under Rule 462(e) on May 9, 2014, and any
post-effective amendment thereto also became effective upon filing under Rule 462(e); no stop order suspending the effectiveness or the use of the Registration Statement has been issued under the Securities Act and no proceedings for that purpose
have been instituted or are pending or, to the knowledge of the Company, are threatened by the Commission, and any request on the part of the Commission for additional information has been complied with.
(iv) Any offer that is a written communication relating to the Offered Securities made by the Company or any person acting on
its behalf (within the meaning, for this sentence only, of Rule 163(c)) prior to the filing of the Original Registration Statement has been filed with the Commission in accordance with Rule 163 and otherwise complied with the requirements of Rule
163, including, without limitation, the legending requirement, to qualify such offer for the exemption from Section 5(c) of the Securities Act provided by Rule 163.
(v) At the respective times the Original Registration Statement became effective and each amendment thereto became effective,
at each deemed effective date with respect to the Underwriters pursuant to Rule 430B(f)(2) of the Securities Act Regulations and as of the date hereof, the Registration Statement and any amendments thereto complied in all material respects with the
requirements of the Securities Act and the Securities Act Regulations, and did not contain an untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not
misleading; provided, however, that the Company makes no warranty or representation with respect to (i) any statement contained in the Registration Statement or any amendment thereto in reliance upon and in conformity with the
information concerning any Underwriter and furnished in writing by or on behalf of any
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Underwriter through the Representatives to the Company expressly for use therein (such information being limited to that described in the last sentence of Section 8(b) hereof), and
(ii) that part of the Registration Statement that constitutes the Statement of Eligibility Under the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, as amended (the “Trust Indenture Act”), on Form T-1 of
the Trustee.
(vi) Each Preliminary Prospectus, as of its date and as of the date hereof, complied or complies, and the
Prospectus, as of its date, and any further amendments or supplements to any Preliminary Prospectus or the Prospectus, as of their respective dates, will comply, in all material respects, with the requirements of the Securities Act and the
Securities Act Regulations; each Preliminary Prospectus, as of its date, did not contain, and the Prospectus or any amendment or supplement thereto, as of their respective dates, the date hereof, the First Closing Date and on each Option Closing
Date, if any, do not and will not contain an untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were
made, not misleading; provided, however, that the Company makes no warranty or representation with respect to any statement contained in any Preliminary Prospectus or the Prospectus or any amendment or supplement thereto in reliance upon and
in conformity with the information concerning any Underwriter and furnished in writing by or on behalf of any Underwriter through the Representatives to the Company expressly for use therein (the information being limited to that described in the
last sentence of Section 8(b) hereof).
(vii) Each document incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement,
the Prospectus and the General Disclosure Package, when it became effective or was filed with the Commission, as applicable, conformed in all material respects to the requirements of the Securities Act and the Securities Act Regulations, or the
Exchange Act and the Exchange Act Regulations, as applicable, and none of such documents contained an untrue statement of a material fact or omitted to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary in order to make the statements
therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading; and any further documents so filed and incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement, Prospectus and the General Disclosure Package or any further
amendment or supplement thereto, when such documents become effective or are filed with the Commission, as applicable, will conform in all material respects to the requirements of the Securities Act and the Securities Act Regulations, or the
Exchange Act and the Exchange Act Regulations, as applicable, and will not include an untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the
light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading.
(viii) As of [—] p.m. (New York City time) on January 7, 2015 (the “Initial Sale Time”), the General Disclosure Package did not, and at the time of each sale of Offered Securities and at the
First Closing Date and each Option Closing Date, if any, the General Disclosure Package will not, contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of
the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading; as of its issue date or date of first use and at all subsequent times through the Initial Sale Time, each Issuer Free Writing Prospectus did not, and at the time of each sale of Offered
Securities and at the First Closing Date and each Option Closing Date, each such Issuer Free Writing Prospectus will not, contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to
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state any material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading; provided, however, that the Company
makes no representation or warranty with respect to any statement contained in or omitted from the General Disclosure Package in reliance upon and in conformity with the information concerning any Underwriter and furnished in writing by or on behalf
of any Underwriter through the Representatives to the Company expressly for use therein (that information being limited to that described in the last sentence of Section 8(b) hereof).
(ix) Each Issuer Free Writing Prospectus identified on Schedule III hereto, as of its issue date and at all subsequent
times through the completion of the public offer and sale of the Offered Securities or until any earlier date that the Company notified or notifies the Representatives as described in the next sentence, did not, does not and will not include any
information that conflicted, conflicts or will conflict with the information then contained in the Registration Statement, including any document incorporated by reference therein that has not been superseded or modified. If at any time following
issuance of an Issuer Free Writing Prospectus there occurred or occurs an event or development as a result of which such Issuer Free Writing Prospectus conflicted or would conflict with the information then contained in the Registration Statement,
including any document incorporated by reference therein that has not been superseded or modified, or included or would include an untrue statement of a material fact or omitted or would omit to state a material fact necessary in order to make the
statements therein, in light of the circumstances prevailing at that subsequent time, not misleading, (i) the Company has promptly notified or will promptly notify the Representatives and (ii) the Company has promptly amended or will
promptly amend or supplement such Issuer Free Writing Prospectus to eliminate or correct such conflict, untrue statement or omission. The foregoing two sentences do not apply to statements in or omissions from any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus in
reliance upon and in conformity with written information furnished to the Company by or on behalf of any Underwriter through the Representatives specifically for use therein, it being understood and agreed that the only such information furnished by
any Underwriter consists of the information described in the last sentence of Section 8(b) hereof.
(x) The Company
is a corporation duly organized and validly existing and in good standing under the laws of the State of Maryland with full power and authority to own, lease or operate its assets and to conduct its business as described in the General Disclosure
Package and the Prospectus and to execute and deliver this Agreement and to consummate the transactions contemplated hereby (including the issuance, sale and delivery of the Offered Securities) and thereby.
(xi) Each subsidiary of the Company that is material to the Company is set forth on Schedule II attached hereto (such
subsidiaries are collectively referred to herein as the “Subsidiaries”) has been duly incorporated or formed and is an existing corporation or limited liability company in good standing under the laws of the jurisdiction of its
incorporation or formation, with power and authority (corporate and other) to own, lease or operate its assets and conduct its business as described in the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus; all of the issued and outstanding capital
stock or membership interests, as applicable, of each Subsidiary has been duly authorized and validly issued and is fully paid and non-assessable; and except as disclosed in the General Disclosure Package and
the Prospectus, the capital stock or membership interests, as applicable, of each Subsidiary is owned entirely by the Company, directly or
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through subsidiaries, and is free from liens, encumbrances and defects. Except as disclosed in the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package or the Prospectus, the Company does not
own any capital stock of or other equity interest in any other corporation, limited liability company, partnership, joint venture, trust or other entity or association. Each “significant subsidiary” of the Company (as such term is defined
in Rule 1-02(w) of Regulation S-X) is set forth on Exhibit 21.1 to the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2013.
(xii) The Company had, as of September 30, 2014, the duly authorized and outstanding capitalization as set forth in the
General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, in each case, under the heading “Capitalization.” All issuances and repurchases of capital stock that have occurred since September 30, 2014, are reflected in or incorporated by reference
into the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus. All of the issued and outstanding shares of capital stock of the Company have been duly and validly authorized and issued and are fully paid and non-assessable and have been issued in
compliance with all federal and state securities laws and, except as disclosed in the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, free of preemptive rights and other rights to subscribe for or purchase securities; except as disclosed in the
General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, there are no outstanding (i) securities or obligations of the Company or the Subsidiaries convertible into or exchangeable for any capital stock of the Company or the Subsidiaries,
(ii) warrants, rights or options to subscribe for or purchase from the Company or the Subsidiaries any such capital stock or any such convertible or exchangeable securities or obligations or (iii) obligations of the Company or the
Subsidiaries to issue or sell any shares of capital stock, partnership interests or membership interests, as applicable, any such convertible or exchangeable securities or obligation, or any such warrants, rights or options.
(xiii) The Company has the corporate power and authority to execute and deliver this Agreement, the Indenture and the Offered
Securities (collectively, the “Transaction Documents”) and to perform its obligations hereunder and thereunder; all action required to be taken for the due and proper authorization, execution and delivery by it of each of the
Transaction Documents and the consummation by it of the transactions contemplated hereby and thereby has been duly and validly taken; and each Transaction Document has been duly authorized, executed and delivered by the Company.
(xiv) The Indenture has been duly qualified under the Trust Indenture Act, and, assuming the due authorization, execution and
delivery by each of the parties thereto (other than the Company), constitutes a valid and binding agreement enforceable against the Company in accordance with its terms, except as enforceability may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency,
reorganization or other similar legal requirements affecting the enforcement of creditors’ rights generally and by general principles of equity (the “Enforceability Exceptions”).
(xv) The Offered Securities have been duly authorized by the Company and, when duly executed, authenticated, issued and
delivered in the manner provided for in the Indenture and sold and paid for as provided in this Agreement, the Offered Securities will be duly issued and outstanding and will constitute valid and legally binding obligations of the Company,
enforceable against the Company in accordance with their terms, subject to the Enforceability Exceptions and will be entitled to the benefits of the Indenture.
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(xvi) Upon issuance and delivery of the Offered Securities in accordance with
this Agreement and the Indenture, the Offered Securities will be convertible at the option of the holder thereof into the Underlying Securities in accordance with the terms of the Indenture and the Offered Securities; and the Underlying Securities
reserved for issuance upon conversion of the Offered Securities have been duly authorized and reserved by the Company and, when issued upon conversion of the Offered Securities in accordance with the terms of the Indenture and the Offered
Securities, will be duly and validly issued, will be fully paid and non-assessable and will conform to the descriptions thereof in the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, and the issuance of the Underlying
Securities will not be subject to any preemptive or similar rights.
(xvii) Each Transaction Document conforms in all
material respects to the description thereof contained in the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus.
(xviii) Each of the Company and the Subsidiaries is duly qualified or licensed by, and is in good standing in, each
jurisdiction in which it currently conducts its business or in which it owns or leases property or maintains an office and in which such qualification or licensing is necessary and in which the failure, individually or in the aggregate, to be so
qualified or licensed could have, individually or in the aggregate, a material adverse effect on the condition (financial or other), business, earnings, management, properties, results of operations (as described in the General Disclosure Package
and the Prospectus), assets or prospects of the Company, the Manager and the Subsidiaries taken as a whole (a “Material Adverse Effect”).
(xix) Each of the Company and the Subsidiaries has good and marketable title in fee simple to all real property and good title
to all personal property owned by it, in each case free and clear of all liens, security interests, pledges, charges, encumbrances, mortgages and defects, except such as are disclosed in the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus or such as
would not reasonably be expected to materially and adversely affect the value of such property or interfere with the use made or proposed to be made of such property by the Company; any real property or personal property held under lease by the
Company is held under a lease which is valid, binding and enforceable against the Company and, to the Company’s knowledge, the other party thereto, except as may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium or similar laws
affecting creditors’ rights generally, and by general principles of equity, or as otherwise disclosed in the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus or exceptions that are not, individually or in the aggregate, material to the Company and
would not reasonably be expected to interfere with the use made or proposed to be made of such property by the Company.
(xx) Each of the Company and the Subsidiaries is in compliance with all applicable federal, state, local and foreign laws,
rules, regulations, orders, decrees and judgments, including those relating to transactions with affiliates except where the failure to so comply could not reasonably be expected to have, individually or in the aggregate, a Material Adverse Effect.
(xxi) Neither the Company nor any of the Subsidiaries has any employees.
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(xxii) Except as otherwise disclosed in the General Disclosure Package and the
Prospectus, there are no outstanding loans or advances or guarantees of indebtedness by the Company to or for the benefit of any of the officers, directors, affiliates or representatives of the Company or any of the members of the families of any of
them.
(xxiii) Except for the Underwriters’ discount and any other compensation payable by the Company to the
Underwriters in connection with the transactions contemplated herein or as otherwise disclosed in the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, the Company has not incurred any liability for any brokerage commissions, finder’s fees or
similar payments in connection with the transactions herein contemplated.
(xxiv) Each of the Company and the Subsidiaries
is not (a) in breach of, or in default under (nor has any event occurred which with notice, lapse of time, or both would constitute a breach of, or default under), its articles of incorporation, by-laws, certificate of formation, operating
agreement or similar organizational documents, as applicable (collectively, the “Company Charter Documents”) or (b) in breach or default (nor has any event occurred which with notice, lapse of time or both would constitute a
breach or default) in the performance or observance of any of its obligations, agreements, covenants or conditions contained in any license, indenture, mortgage, deed of trust, bank loan or credit agreement or other agreement or instrument to which
the Company or any Subsidiary is a party or by which it or its assets may be bound or affected except, in the case of clause (b) only, for breaches or defaults that could not reasonably be expected to have, individually or in the aggregate, a
Material Adverse Effect; the execution, delivery and performance of the Transaction Documents, the issuance, sale and delivery of the Offered Securities by the Company (and the issuance of the Underlying Securities upon the conversion thereof), the
consummation by the Company of the transactions contemplated hereby and in the Transaction Documents and compliance by the parties thereto (other than the Underwriters) with the terms and provisions hereunder will not conflict with, or result in any
breach of or constitute a default under (nor constitute any event which with notice, lapse of time, or both would constitute a breach of, or default under), (A) any provision of the Company Charter Documents, (B) any of the Company’s
and the Subsidiaries’ and any of their respective affiliates’ obligations under any provision of any license, indenture, mortgage, deed of trust, bank loan or credit agreement or other agreement or instrument to which any such party is a
party or by which it or its assets may be bound or affected or (C) under any federal, state, local or foreign law, regulation or rule or any decree, judgment, permit or order applicable to the Company or the Subsidiaries except, in the case of
clauses (B) and (C) only, for such conflicts, breaches or defaults that could not reasonably be expected to have, individually or in the aggregate, a Material Adverse Effect.
(xxv) This Agreement has been duly authorized, executed and delivered by the Company, and assuming the due authorization,
execution and delivery of this Agreement by the Representatives is a legal, valid and binding agreement of the Company, enforceable against the Company in accordance with its terms, except as may be limited by the Enforceability Exceptions, and
except to the extent that the indemnification provisions hereof may be limited by federal or state securities laws and public policy considerations in respect thereof; the Second Amended and Restated Management Agreement, dated as of June 14,
2012, as amended as of the date of this Agreement, by and among the Company, the Manager and Resource America, Inc. (“Resource America”) (the “Management Agreement”), has been duly authorized, executed and delivered
by the Company, and is a legal, valid and binding agreement of the Company,
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enforceable against the Company in accordance with its terms, except as may be limited by the Enforceability Exceptions, and except to the extent that the indemnification provisions thereof may
be limited by federal or state securities laws and public policy considerations in respect thereof.
(xxvi) The capital
stock of the Company, including the Underlying Securities, conforms in all material respects to the descriptions thereof contained in the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus; the form of certificates used to
evidence the Common Stock complies in all material respects with all applicable statutory requirements and any requirements of the New York Stock Exchange (the “NYSE”) and with any applicable requirements of the Company Charter
Documents and has been duly authorized and approved by the directors of the Company.
(xxvii) Except for the Management
Agreement or as disclosed in the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, there are no contracts, agreements or understandings between the Company and any person granting such person the right to require the Company to file a registration
statement under the Securities Act with respect to any securities of the Company owned or to be owned by such person or to require the Company to include such securities in the securities registered pursuant to a registration statement or in any
securities being registered pursuant to any other registration statement filed by the Company under the Securities Act.
(xxviii) The Company has applied to list the Underlying Securities on the NYSE, subject only to official notice of issuance.
(xxix) No approval, authorization, consent or order of or filing with any federal, state, local or foreign governmental
or regulatory commission, board, body, authority or agency is required for the execution, delivery and performance by the Company of the Transaction Documents, the consummation by the Company of the transactions contemplated by the Transaction
Documents, or the issuance, sale and delivery of the Offered Securities (or the issuance of the Underlying Securities upon conversion thereof) as contemplated by the Transaction Documents, except such as have been obtained and made, or as may be
required, under the Securities Act and the Exchange Act, under the listing requirements of the NYSE, under the rules and regulations of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (“FINRA”), and such as may be required under state
or foreign securities laws.
(xxx) Each of the Company and the Subsidiaries has all necessary licenses, authorizations,
consents and approvals and has made all necessary filings required under any federal, state, local or foreign law, regulation or rule, and has obtained all necessary licenses, authorizations, consents and approvals from other persons, required in
order to conduct its business as it is being conducted at this time, and will obtain all necessary licenses, authorizations, consents and approvals and make all necessary filings required under any federal, state, local or foreign law, regulation or
rule, and will obtain all necessary licenses, authorizations, consents and approvals from other persons, required in order to conduct its business as it is proposed to be conducted as described in the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus
except, in each case, where the failure to obtain any such license, authorization, consent or approval could not reasonably be expected to have, individually or in the aggregate, a Material Adverse Effect; each of the Company and the Subsidiaries is
not in violation of, or in default under, any of its obligations under any such license, authorization, consent or approval of any federal, state, local or foreign
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law, regulation or rule or any decree, order or judgment applicable to the Company and the Subsidiaries except where such violation or default could not reasonably be expected to have,
individually or in the aggregate, a Material Adverse Effect.
(xxxi) The Company and the Subsidiaries own, possess or can
acquire on reasonable terms, adequate trademarks, trade names and other rights to inventions, know-how, patents, copyrights, confidential information and other intellectual property (collectively, “intellectual property rights”)
necessary to conduct the business now operated by them, or presently employed by them, and have not received any notice of infringement of or conflict with asserted rights of others with respect to any intellectual property rights that, if
determined adversely to the Company or any of the Subsidiaries, would individually or in the aggregate have a Material Adverse Effect.
(xxxii) The descriptions in each of the Registration Statement, the Prospectus and the General Disclosure Package of the legal
or governmental proceedings, contracts, leases and other legal documents therein described present fairly the information required to be shown, and there are no legal or governmental proceedings, contracts, leases, or other documents of a character
required to be described in the Registration Statement, the Prospectus or the General Disclosure Package or to be filed as exhibits to the Registration Statement which are not described or filed as required; all agreements between the Company or any
of the Subsidiaries and third parties expressly referenced in both the Prospectus and the General Disclosure Package are legal, valid and binding obligations of the Company or one or more of the Subsidiaries, enforceable in accordance with their
respective terms, except to the extent enforceability may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium or similar laws affecting creditors’ rights generally and by general equitable principles.
(xxxiii) The Offered Securities conform in all material respects to the description thereof contained in the Registration
Statement, the Prospectus and the General Disclosure Package.
(xxxiv) There are no actions, suits, proceedings, inquiries
or investigations pending or, to the knowledge of the Company, threatened against the Company or the Subsidiaries, or any of their respective assets, and to the knowledge of the Company, its respective directors, officers or employees at law or in
equity, or before or by any federal, state, local or foreign governmental or regulatory commission, board, body, arbitration panel, authority or agency the adverse outcome of which could reasonably be expected to have, individually or in the
aggregate, a Material Adverse Effect.
(xxxv) Since the date of each of the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus,
except as disclosed therein, there has not been (a) any event, circumstance or change that could reasonably be expected to have, individually or in the aggregate, a Material Adverse Effect, (b) any transaction, other than in the ordinary
course of business, which is material to the Company contemplated or entered into by or on behalf of the Company or the Subsidiaries, (c) any liability or obligation, contingent or otherwise, directly or indirectly incurred by the Company or
the Subsidiaries, other than liabilities and obligations incurred in the ordinary course of business, (d) any dividend or distribution of any kind declared, paid or made by the Company on any class of its capital stock, (e) any purchase or
pledge by the Company or the Subsidiaries of any of the Company’s or the Subsidiaries’ outstanding capital stock or (f) any change in the capital
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stock, long-term debt (including off-balance sheet activities or transactions) or, outside the ordinary course of business, short-term debt of the Company or the Subsidiaries.
(xxxvi) The Company is not, and after giving effect to the issuance and the sale of the Offered Securities as herein
contemplated and the receipt of the net proceeds therefrom will not cause the Company to become, an “investment company” or an entity “controlled” by an “investment company” as such terms are defined in the Investment
Company Act of 1940, as amended (the “1940 Act”).
(xxxvii) Neither the Company nor any of its directors,
officers, representatives or affiliates has taken, directly or indirectly, any action intended, or which might reasonably be expected, to cause or result in, or which has constituted, any unlawful stabilization or manipulation of the price of any
security of the Company to facilitate the sale or resale of the Offered Securities; and the Company acknowledges that the Underwriters may engage in passive market making transactions in the Offered Securities on the NYSE in accordance with
Regulation M under the Exchange Act.
(xxxviii) Grant Thornton LLP, whose reports on the consolidated audited financial
statements of the Company and its subsidiaries constitute part of each of the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus is, and was during the periods covered by its reports, an independent registered public
accounting firm with respect to the Company within the meaning of the Securities Act and the applicable Securities Act Regulations, and the rules and regulations of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (“PCAOB”) of the
United States.
(xxxix) Other than as will be paid in full by the Company upon the issuance and sale of the Offered
Securities, there are no transfer taxes or other similar fees or charges under federal law required to be paid in connection with the execution and delivery of the Transaction Documents or the issuance by the Company or sale by the Company of the
Offered Securities (or the issuance of the Underlying Securities upon the conversion thereof).
(xl) The Company has not
taken any action, nor have any other steps been taken nor have any legal proceedings been commenced, nor to the knowledge of the Company, threatened, against the Company, for the winding up, liquidation or dissolution of the Company.
(xli) Each of the independent directors named in the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus satisfies the independence
standards established by the Commission and the NYSE.
(xlii) The Company’s investment guidelines and operating
policies described in the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus accurately reflect the current intentions of the Company and the Manager with respect to the operation of the Company’s business, and no material deviation from such
guidelines or policies is contemplated.
(xliii) The Company has not authorized anyone to make any representations
regarding the offer and sale of the Offered Securities, or regarding the Company in connection therewith, except as set forth in the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus or any related marketing materials developed jointly and approved by
the
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Company and the Representatives; the Company has not received notice of any stop order or other similar order or decree preventing the use of any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus or the Prospectus
or any amendment or supplement thereto, and no proceeding for that purpose has commenced or is pending or, to the Company’s knowledge, is contemplated; and the Company has complied to the Commission’s satisfaction with any request on the
part of the Commission for additional information.
(xliv) The Company has made a timely election to be subject to tax as
a real estate investment trust (a “REIT”) pursuant to Sections 856 through 860 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the “Code”), for its taxable year ended December 31, 2005 and, commencing with
its initial taxable year ended December 31, 2005, the Company has been organized and operated in conformity with the requirements for qualification and taxation as a REIT under the Code, and the Company’s current and proposed method of
operation will enable it to continue to meet the requirements for qualification and taxation as a REIT under the Code; and all statements regarding the Company’s qualification and taxation as a REIT and descriptions of the Company’s
organization and current and proposed method of operation set forth in the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus are true, complete and correct in all material respects.
(xlv) The Company and each of the Subsidiaries have properly filed on a timely basis (including extensions) all federal,
state, local and foreign income and franchise tax returns, if any such returns were required to be filed, through the date hereof, any such returns are correct and complete, and the Company has paid all taxes shown as due thereon; and no tax
deficiency has been asserted against the Company or any of the Subsidiaries, nor does the Company or any of the Subsidiaries know of any tax deficiency which could reasonably be expected to be asserted against it; all tax liabilities, if any, are
adequately provided for on the consolidated books of the Company.
(xlvi) The Company and the Subsidiaries, in the
aggregate, carry, or are covered by, insurance (issued by insurers of recognized financial responsibility to the best knowledge of the Company and the Manager) against such losses and risks and in such amounts as are generally deemed adequate for
the respective businesses in which they are engaged; neither the Company nor any of the Subsidiaries has been refused any insurance coverage sought or applied for; and neither the Company nor any of the Subsidiaries has any reason to believe that
the Company or the Subsidiaries would not be able to renew its existing insurance coverage as and when such coverage expires or to obtain similar coverage from similar insurers as may be necessary to continue its business at a cost that would not,
individually or in the aggregate, have a Material Adverse Effect, except as described in or contemplated by the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus. All such insurance is fully in force on the date hereof and will be fully in force at the
First Closing Date and any Option Closing Date.
(xlvii) The Company and each of the Subsidiaries are in compliance in all
material respects with all presently applicable provisions of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended, including the regulations and published interpretations thereunder (“ERISA”), and the employee benefits
provisions of the Code with which compliance is intended; no “reportable event” (as defined in ERISA) has occurred with respect to any “pension plan” (as defined in ERISA) for which the Company or any of the Subsidiaries have or
would reasonably be expected to have any liability; the Company and the Subsidiaries have not incurred and do not expect to incur
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liability under (x) Title IV of ERISA with respect to termination of, or withdrawal from, any “pension plan” or (y) Sections 412 or 4971 of the Code; and each “pension
plan” for which the Company would have any liability that is intended to be qualified under Section 401(a) of the Code has received a determination letter from the Internal Revenue Service to the effect that it is so qualified in all
material respects and nothing has occurred, whether by action or by failure to act, which would cause the plan to not be adversely affected by such determination.
(xlviii) Except as set forth in the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, (a) no person has any preemptive
rights, co-sale rights, registration rights, resale rights, rights of first refusal or other similar rights arising by operation of law to purchase any shares of common or preferred stock of the Company or shares of any other capital stock or other
equity interests of the Company or the Subsidiaries, and (b) no person has the right to act as an underwriter or as a financial advisor to the Company or the Subsidiaries in connection with the offer and sale of the Offered Securities or
capital stock or other equity interests of the Subsidiaries.
(xlix) Each of the Company and the Subsidiaries is in
compliance, in all material respects, with applicable Environmental Laws (as defined below) and each is in compliance, in all material respects, with the material terms of any required permits, licenses, authorizations and approvals required under,
applicable Environmental Laws, except to the extent that failure to so comply or to hold such permits, authorizations or approvals would not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect; there are no past or present or, to the
Company’s knowledge, reasonably anticipated material future events, conditions, circumstances, activities, practices, actions, omissions or plans that could reasonably be expected to give rise to any material costs or liabilities to the Company
or the Subsidiaries under, or to interfere with or prevent compliance by the Company or the Subsidiaries with, applicable Environmental Laws; except as would not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect, and except that no
representation is made with respect to any property underlying loans originated or held by the Company or any of the Subsidiaries, other than properties on which the Company or any Subsidiary has foreclosed and currently holds as an asset, neither
the Company nor any of the Subsidiaries (a) is the subject of any investigation, (b) has received any notice or claim, (c) is a party to or affected by any pending or threatened action, suit or proceeding, (d) is bound by any
judgment, decree or order or (e) has entered into any agreement, in each case relating to any alleged violation of any applicable Environmental Law or any actual or alleged release or, to the knowledge of the Company, threatened release or
cleanup at any location of any Hazardous Materials (as defined below) (as used herein, “Environmental Law” means any federal, state, local or foreign law, statute, ordinance, rule, regulation, order, decree, judgment, injunction, or
other binding requirement, or common law, relating to health, safety or the protection, cleanup or restoration of the environment or natural resources, including those relating to the distribution, processing, generation, treatment, storage,
disposal, transportation, other handling or release or threatened release of Hazardous Materials, and “Hazardous Materials” means any material (including, without limitation, pollutants, contaminants, hazardous or toxic substances
or wastes) that is regulated by or may give rise to liability under any Environmental Law).
(l) The assets of the Company
and the Subsidiaries do not constitute “plan assets” (as defined in ERISA) of an ERISA regulated employee benefit plan.
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(li) The financial statements, including the related notes and schedules thereto,
included in (or incorporated by reference into) each of the Registration Statement, the Prospectus and the General Disclosure Package present fairly the consolidated financial position of the entities to which such financial statements relate (the
“Covered Entities”) as of the dates indicated and the consolidated results of operations and changes in financial position and cash flows of the Covered Entities for the periods specified; such financial statements have been
prepared in conformity with generally accepted accounting principles as applied in the United States (“GAAP”) and on a consistent basis during the periods involved and in accordance with Regulation S-X promulgated by the Commission;
the financial statement schedules included in (or incorporated by reference into) the Registration Statement, the Prospectus and the General Disclosure Package fairly present the information shown therein and have been compiled on a basis consistent
with the financial statements included in each of the Registration Statement, the Prospectus and the General Disclosure Package; no financial statements or supporting schedules are required to be included in the Registration Statement, the
Prospectus or the General Disclosure Package other than those included (or incorporated by reference therein); and the interactive data in eXtensible Business Reporting Language (“XBRL”) incorporated by reference in the Registration
Statement, the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus fairly present the information called for in all material respects and have been prepared in accordance with the Commission’s rules and guidelines applicable thereto.
(lii) The Company has been subject to the reporting requirements of either Section 13 or Section 15(d) of the
Exchange Act, and has timely filed all reports with the Commission on the Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis, and Retrieval (“EDGAR”) system during the last 12 calendar months prior to the date of this Agreement. At the time such
reports were filed, they complied in all material respects with the requirements of the Securities Act and the Exchange Act and the Securities Act Regulations and the Exchange Act Regulations, as applicable, and did not contain any untrue statement
of material fact or omit to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein, in light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading.
(liii) The Company is eligible to use Free Writing Prospectuses in connection with this offering pursuant to Rules 164 and 433
of the Securities Act Regulations; any Free Writing Prospectus that the Company is required to file pursuant to Rule 433(d) under the Securities Act Regulations has been, or will be, filed with the Commission in accordance with the requirements of
the Securities Act and the Securities Act Regulations; and each Free Writing Prospectus that the Company has filed, or is required to file, pursuant to Rule 433(d) under the Securities Act Regulations or that was prepared by or on behalf of or used
by the Company complies or will comply in all material respects with the requirements of the Securities Act and the Securities Act Regulations.
(liv) The Company has not prepared, used or referred to, and will not, without the prior consent of the Representatives,
prepare, use or refer to, any Free Writing Prospectus.
(lv) The Preliminary Prospectus, if any, the Prospectus and any
Issuer Free Writing Prospectuses (to the extent any such Issuer Free Writing Prospectus was required to be filed with the Commission) delivered to the Underwriters for use in connection with
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the public offering of the Offered Securities contemplated herein have been and will be identical to the versions of such documents transmitted to the Commission for filing via EDGAR, except to
the extent permitted by Regulation S-T.
(lvi) To the Company’s or any of the Subsidiaries’ knowledge, except
for Resource Securities, Inc. and Anthem, Inc., there are no affiliations or associations between any member of FINRA and any of the Company’s or any of the Subsidiaries’ officers, directors or 5% or greater securityholders, except as set
forth in the General Disclosure Package or the Prospectus.
(lvii) As of the date of this Agreement, the aggregate market
value of publicly held shares of the Common Stock is at least $150 million, and the Company has been a reporting company subject to the requirements of Section 13 or 15(d) for a period of at least thirty-six calendar months immediately
preceding the date of the filing of the Registration Statement.
(lviii) Each of the Company and the Subsidiaries
(i) makes and keeps accurate books and records in all material respects and (ii) maintains internal accounting controls which provide reasonable assurance that (A) transactions are executed in accordance with management’s
authorization, (B) transactions are recorded as necessary to permit preparation of its and the Subsidiaries’ financial statements in conformity with GAAP and to maintain accountability for its and the Subsidiaries’ assets,
(C) access to its assets is permitted only in accordance with management’s authorization, (D) the reported accountability for its and the Subsidiaries’ assets is compared with existing assets at reasonable intervals and
appropriate action is taken with respect to any differences; (E) management is made aware of all material transactions concerning the Company and the Subsidiaries and their respective properties; and (F) the interactive data in XBRL
incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus fairly present the information called for in all material respects and are prepared in accordance with the Commission’s rules and
guidelines applicable thereto; the Company and the Subsidiaries’ internal controls over financial reporting are effective and the Company and the Subsidiaries are not aware of any material weakness in their internal controls over financial
reporting.
(lix) The Company has established and maintains disclosure controls and procedures (as such term is defined in
Rule 13a-15(e) under the Exchange Act), which (i) are designed to ensure that material information relating to the Company, including the Subsidiaries, is made known to each of the Company’s principal executive officer and principal
financial officer by others within those entities, particularly during the preparation of the Registration Statement and the Prospectus; (ii) have been evaluated by the Company for effectiveness as of the date of the filing of the Registration
Statement and the Prospectus with the Commission; and (iii) are effective in all material respects to perform the functions for which they were established.
(lx) No relationship, direct or indirect, exists between or among the Company or any of the Subsidiaries on the one hand, and
the directors, officers, stockholders, customers or suppliers of the Company or any of the Subsidiaries on the other hand, which is required by the Securities Act and the Securities Act Regulations to be described in the Registration Statement, the
Prospectus or the General Disclosure Package, which is not so described.
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(lxi) Neither the Company nor any of the Subsidiaries nor, to the knowledge of
the Company, any officer or director purporting to act on behalf of the Company or any of the Subsidiaries has at any time (i) made any contributions to any candidate for political office, or failed to disclose fully any such contributions, in
violation of law, (ii) made any payment to any state, federal or foreign governmental officer or official, or other person charged with similar public or quasi-public duties, other than payments required or allowed by applicable law,
(iii) made any payment outside the ordinary course of business to any investment officer or loan broker or person charged with similar duties of any entity to which the Company or any of the Subsidiaries sells or from which the Company or any
of the Subsidiaries buys loans or servicing arrangements for the purpose of influencing such agent, officer, broker or person to buy loans or servicing arrangements from or sell loans to the Company or any of the Subsidiaries, or (iv) engaged
in any transactions, maintained any bank account or used any corporate funds except for transactions, bank accounts and funds which have been and are reflected in the normally maintained books and records of the Company and the Subsidiaries.
(lxii) Neither the Company nor the Subsidiaries, nor, to the knowledge of the Company and the Manager, any director, officer,
agent, employee or other person associated with or acting on behalf of the Company or the Subsidiaries has (i) used any corporate funds for any unlawful contribution, gift, entertainment or other unlawful expense relating to political activity;
(ii) made any direct or indirect unlawful payment to any foreign or domestic government official or employee, or other person charged with similar public or quasi-public duties from corporate funds; (iii) violated or is in violation of any
provision of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977, as amended, and the rules and regulations thereunder (the “FCPA”); (iv) violated or is in violation of any provision of the Bribery Act of 2010 of the United Kingdom; or
(v) made any bribe, rebate, payoff, influence payment, kickback or other unlawful payment; and the Company, the Subsidiaries and, to the knowledge of the Company, its affiliates have conducted their businesses in compliance in all material
respects with the FCPA and have instituted and maintain policies and procedures designed to ensure, and which are reasonably expected to continue to ensure, continued compliance therewith.
(lxiii) The operations of the Company and the Subsidiaries are and have been conducted at all times in compliance with
applicable financial record keeping and reporting requirements and the money laundering statues and the rules and regulations thereunder and any related or similar rules, regulations or guidelines, issued, administered or enforced by any
governmental agency (collectively, the “Money Laundering Laws”) and no action, suit or proceeding by or before any court or governmental agency, authority or body or any arbitrator involving the Company or any of the Subsidiaries
with respect to the Money Laundering Laws is pending, or to the best knowledge of the Company, threatened.
(lxiv) Neither
the Company nor any of the Subsidiaries nor, to the knowledge of the Company, any director, officer, agent, employee or affiliate of the Company or any of the Subsidiaries is currently subject to any sanctions administered by the Office of Foreign
Asset Control of the U.S. Treasury Department (“OFAC”), the United Nations Security Council, the European Union, Her Majesty’s Treasury or other relevant sanctions authority (collectively, “Sanctions”), nor is
the Company or any of its Subsidiaries located, organized or resident in a country or territory that is the subject of Sanctions; and the Company will not directly or indirectly use the proceeds of the offering, or lend, contribute or otherwise make
available such proceeds to any Subsidiary,
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joint venture partner or other person or entity, for the purpose of financing the activities of any person currently the subject of Sanctions or in any other manner that will result in violation
by any person (including any person participating in the transaction whether as initial purchaser, advisor, investor or otherwise) of Sanctions.
(lxv) To the knowledge of the Company, neither it nor any of the Subsidiaries nor any of its or the Subsidiaries’
properties or assets has any immunity from the jurisdiction of any court or from any legal process (whether through service or notice, attachment prior to judgment, attachment in aid of execution or otherwise) under the laws of New York.
(lxvi) No Subsidiary of the Company is currently prohibited, directly or indirectly, from paying any dividends to the Company,
from making any other distribution on such Subsidiary’s capital stock, from repaying to the Company any loans or advances to such Subsidiary from the Company or from transferring any of such Subsidiary’s property or assets to the Company
or any other Subsidiary of the Company, except as described in or contemplated by the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus.
(lxvii) There is and has been no failure on the part of the Company, the Subsidiaries and any of the directors or officers of
the Company and the Subsidiaries, in their capacities as such, to comply in all material respects with any applicable provision of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 and the rules and regulations promulgated in connection therewith (the
“Sarbanes-Oxley Act”), including Section 402 related to loans and Sections 302 and 906 related to certifications.
(lxviii) Any industry, statistical and market-related data included in the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure
Package and the Prospectus are based on or derived from sources that the Company believes to be reliable and accurate, and the Company has obtained the written consent to the use of such data from such sources to the extent required.
(lxix) Except as described in the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, with respect to stock options or other equity
incentive grants granted subsequent to the adoption of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act pursuant to the equity-based compensation plans of either of the Company or the Subsidiaries (the “Equity Plans”), (i) no stock options have been
granted with an exercise price based upon a price of the common stock of the Company on a date occurring prior to the date of approval of such grant, (ii) each such grant was made in accordance with the material terms of the Equity Plans, the
Exchange Act and all other applicable laws and regulatory rules or requirements, and (iii) each such grant has been properly accounted for in accordance with GAAP in the financial statements (including the related notes) of the Company and
disclosed in the Company’s filings with the Commission.
(lxx) Accompanied by delivery of the Prospectus, any
advertising, sales literature or other promotional material (including “prospectus wrappers,” “broker kits,” “road show slides” and “road show scripts” and “electronic road show presentations”)
authorized in writing by or prepared by the Company and used in connection with the public offering of the Offered Securities (collectively, “sales material”) does not contain an untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state
a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading. Moreover,
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accompanied by delivery of the Prospectus, all sales material complied and will comply in all material respects with the applicable requirements of the Securities Act and the rules and
interpretations of FINRA.
(lxxi) Any certificate signed by any officer of the Company or any of the Subsidiaries
delivered pursuant to this Agreement to the Underwriters or to counsel for the Underwriters shall be deemed a representation and warranty by the Company to the Underwriters as to the matters covered thereby.
(lxxii) The issuance, sale and delivery of the Offered Securities in accordance with the provisions of the Transaction
Documents will not result in a violation of Regulations T, U or X of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System or any other regulation of such Board of Governors.
(b) The Manager represents and warrants to, and agrees with, each Underwriter that:
(i) The Manager is a corporation duly organized and validly existing and in good standing under the laws of the State of
Delaware with full power and authority to own, lease or operate its assets and to conduct its business as described in the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus and to execute and deliver this Agreement and to consummate the transactions
contemplated hereby and thereby.
(ii) The Manager is duly qualified or licensed by, and is in good standing in, each
jurisdiction in which it currently conducts its business or in which it owns or leases property or maintains an office and in which such qualification or licensing is necessary and in which the failure, individually or in the aggregate, to be so
qualified or licensed could have, individually or in the aggregate, a Material Adverse Effect.
(iii) The Manager is in
compliance with all applicable federal, state, local and foreign laws, rules, regulations, orders, decrees and judgments, including those relating to transactions with affiliates, except where the failure to so comply could not reasonably be
expected to have, individually or in the aggregate, a Material Adverse Effect.
(iv) The Manager is not (a) in breach
of, or in default under (nor has any event occurred which with notice, lapse of time, or both would constitute a breach of, or default under), its articles of incorporation or by-laws (collectively, the “Manager Charter Documents”)
or (b) in breach or default (nor has any event occurred which with notice, lapse of time or both would constitute a breach or default) in the performance or observance of any of its obligations, agreements, covenants or conditions
contained in any license, indenture, mortgage, deed of trust, bank loan or credit agreement or other agreement or instrument to which the Manager is a party or by which it or its assets may be bound or affected except, in the case of clause (b)
only, for breaches or defaults that could not reasonably be expected to have, individually or in the aggregate, a Material Adverse Effect; the execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement, the consummation by the Manager of the transactions
contemplated hereby and compliance by the parties thereto (other than the Underwriters) with the terms and provisions hereunder will not conflict with, or result in any breach of or constitute a default under (nor constitute any event which with
notice, lapse of time, or both would constitute a breach of, or default under) (A) any provision of the Manager Charter Documents, (B) any of the Manager’s and any of its respective affiliates’ obligations under any provision of
any license, indenture, mortgage, deed of trust, bank loan or credit
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agreement or other agreement or instrument to which any such party is a party or by which it or its assets may be bound or affected or (C) under any federal, state, local or foreign law,
regulation or rule or any decree, judgment, permit or order applicable to the Manager except, in the case of clauses (B) and (C) only, for such conflicts, breaches or defaults that could not reasonably be expected to have, individually or
in the aggregate, a Material Adverse Effect.
(v) No approval, authorization, consent or order of or filing with any
federal, state, local or foreign governmental or regulatory commission, board, body, authority or agency is required for the execution, delivery and performance by the Manager of this Agreement, the consummation by the Manager of the transactions
contemplated hereby, or the issuance, sale and delivery of the Offered Securities by the Company as contemplated hereby, except such as have been obtained and made, or as may be required, under the Securities Act and the Exchange Act, under the
rules and regulations of FINRA, and such as may be required under state or foreign securities laws.
(vi) The Manager has
all necessary licenses, authorizations, consents and approvals and has made all necessary filings required under any federal, state, local or foreign law, regulation or rule, and has obtained all necessary licenses, authorizations, consents and
approvals from other persons, required in order to conduct its business as it is being conducted at this time, and will obtain all necessary licenses, authorizations, consents and approvals and make all necessary filings required under any federal,
state, local or foreign law, regulation or rule, and will obtain all necessary licenses, authorizations, consents and approvals from other persons, required in order to conduct its business as it is proposed to be conducted as described in the
General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus except, in each case, where the failure to obtain any such license, authorization, consent or approval could not reasonably be expected to have, individually or in the aggregate, a Material Adverse
Effect; the Manager is not in violation of, or in default under, any of its obligations under any such license, authorization, consent or approval of any federal, state, local or foreign law, regulation or rule or any decree, order or judgment
applicable to the Manager except where such violation or default could not reasonably be expected to have, individually or in the aggregate, a Material Adverse Effect.
(vii) No labor dispute with the employees of the Manager exists or, to the knowledge of the Manager, is imminent and the
Manager is not aware of any existing or imminent labor disturbance by the employees of any of its principal suppliers, contractors or customers that, in any such case, might have a Material Adverse Effect.
(viii) There are no actions, suits, proceedings, inquiries or investigations pending or, to the knowledge of the Manager,
threatened against the Manager or any of its respective assets, and to the knowledge of the Manager, its respective directors, officers or employees, at law or in equity, or before or by any federal, state, local or foreign governmental or
regulatory commission, board, body, arbitration panel, authority or agency the adverse outcome of which could reasonably be expected to have, individually or in the aggregate, a Material Adverse Effect.
(ix) Since the date of each of the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, there has not been any event, circumstance
or change to the Manager that could reasonably be expected to have, individually or in the aggregate, a Material Adverse Effect.
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(x) The Manager and its subsidiaries, in the aggregate, carry or are covered by
insurance (issued by insurers of recognized financial responsibility to the best knowledge of the Manager) against such losses and risks and in such amounts as are generally deemed adequate for the respective businesses in which they are engaged;
neither the Manager nor any of its subsidiaries has been refused any insurance coverage sought or applied for; and neither the Manager nor any of its subsidiaries has any reason to believe that the Manager or its subsidiaries would not be able to
renew its existing insurance coverage as and when such coverage expires or to obtain similar coverage from similar insurers as may be necessary to continue its business at a cost that would not, individually or in the aggregate have a Material
Adverse Effect, except as described in or contemplated by the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus. All such insurance is fully in force on the date hereof and will be fully in force at the First Closing Date and any Option Closing Date.
(xi) Neither the Manager, nor, to the knowledge of the Manager, any director, officer, agent, employee or other person
associated with or acting on behalf of the Manager has (i) used any corporate funds for any unlawful contribution, gift, entertainment or other unlawful expense relating to political activity; (ii) made any direct or indirect unlawful
payment to any foreign or domestic government official or employee, or other person charged with similar public or quasi-public duties from corporate funds; (iii) violated or is in violation of any provision of the FCPA; (iv) violated or
is in violation of any provision of the Bribery Act of 2010 of the United Kingdom; or (v) made any bribe, rebate, payoff, influence payment, kickback or other unlawful payment; and the Manager and, to the knowledge of the Manager, its
affiliates have conducted their businesses in compliance in all material respects with the FCPA and have instituted and maintain policies and procedures designed to ensure, and which are reasonably expected to continue to ensure, continued
compliance therewith.
(xii) The operations of the Manager are and have been conducted at all times in compliance with the
Money Laundering Laws and no action, suit or proceeding by or before any court or governmental agency, authority or body or any arbitrator involving the Manager or any of its affiliates with respect to the Money Laundering Laws is pending, or to the
best knowledge of the Manager, threatened.
(xiii) Neither the Manager nor, to the knowledge of the Manager, any director,
officer, agent, employee or affiliate of the Manager is currently subject to any Sanctions, nor is the Manager or any of its subsidiaries located, organized or resident in a country or territory that is the subject of Sanctions; and the Manager will
not directly or indirectly use the proceeds of the offering, or lend, contribute or otherwise make available such proceeds to any Subsidiary, joint venture partner or other person or entity, for the purpose of financing the activities of any person
currently the subject of Sanctions or (ii) in any other manner that will result in violation by any person (including any person participating in the transaction whether as initial purchaser, advisor, investor or otherwise) of Sanctions.
(xiv) The Manager has the corporate power and authority to execute and deliver this Agreement and to perform its obligations
hereunder, and all action required to be taken for the due and proper authorization, execution and delivery by it of this Agreement and the consummation by it of the transactions contemplated hereby has been duly and validly taken; this Agreement
has been duly authorized, executed and delivered by the Manager and, assuming due authorization, execution and delivery of this
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Agreement by the Underwriters, is a legal, valid and binding agreement of the Manager, enforceable in accordance with its terms, except as may be limited by the Enforceability Exceptions, and
except to the extent that the indemnification provisions hereof may be limited by federal or state securities laws and public policy considerations in respect thereof; the Management Agreement has been duly authorized, executed and delivered by the
Manager and, assuming due authorization, execution and delivery by such other parties, constitutes a legal, valid and binding agreement of the Manager enforceable against the Manager in accordance with its terms, except as may be limited by the
Enforceability Exceptions, and except to the extent that the indemnification provisions thereof may be limited by federal or state securities laws and public policy considerations in respect thereof.
(xv) The Manager is not prohibited by the Investment Advisers Act of 1940, as amended, or the rules and regulations
thereunder, from performing its obligations under the Management Agreement as described in the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus.
(xvi) Any certificate signed by an officer of the Manager and delivered to the Underwriters or to counsel for the Underwriters
pursuant to or in connection with this Agreement shall be deemed to be a representation and warranty by the Manager to the Underwriters as to the matters set forth therein.
3. Purchase, Sale and Delivery of Offered Securities.
(a) On the basis of the representations, warranties and agreements herein contained and subject to the terms and conditions herein set forth,
the Company agrees to issue and sell to each Underwriter, severally and not jointly, and each Underwriter, severally and not jointly, agrees to purchase from the Company the respective principal amount of Firm Securities set forth opposite such
Underwriter’s name in Schedule I hereto (or such amount increased as set forth in Section 11 hereof) at a price equal to 97.0% of the principal amount thereof (the “Purchase Price”).
In addition, the Company agrees to issue and sell the Option Securities to the several Underwriters as provided in this Agreement, and the
Underwriters, on the basis of the representations, warranties and agreements set forth herein and subject to the conditions set forth herein, shall have the option to purchase, severally and not jointly, from the Company the Option Securities at the
Purchase Price.
If any Option Securities are to be purchased, the amount of Option Securities to be purchased by each Underwriter shall
be the amount of Option Securities which bears the same ratio to the aggregate amount of Option Securities being purchased as the amount of Firm Securities set forth opposite the name of such Underwriter in Schedule I hereto (or such amount
increased as set forth in Section 11 hereof) bears to the aggregate amount of Firm Securities being purchased from the Company by the several Underwriters, subject, however, to such adjustments to eliminate any Option Securities in
denominations other than $1,000 as the Representatives in their sole discretion shall make.
The Underwriters may exercise the option to
purchase the Option Securities at any time in whole, or from time to time in part, on or before the thirtieth day following the date of this Agreement, by written notice from the Representatives to the Company. Such notice shall set forth the
aggregate amount of Option Securities as to which the option is being exercised and the date and time when the Option Securities are to be delivered and paid for which may be the same date and time as the First Closing Date but shall not be earlier
than the First Closing Date nor later than the tenth full business day (as hereinafter
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defined) after the date of such notice (unless such time and date are postponed in accordance with the provisions of Section 11 hereof). Any such notice shall be given at least two business
days prior to the date and time of delivery specified therein. Option Securities may be purchased by the Underwriters for the purposes set forth under the caption “Underwriting” in the Prospectus.
(b) Payment for the Offered Securities shall be made by wire transfer in immediately available funds to the account specified by the Company
to the Representatives in the case of the Firm Securities, at the offices of Hunton & Williams LLP, 200 Park Avenue, New York, New York 10166 at 10:00 A.M. New York City time on January 13, 2015, or at such other time or place on the
same or such other date, not later than the fifth business day thereafter, as the Representatives and the Company may agree upon in writing or, in the case of the Option Securities, on the date and at the time and place specified by the
Representatives in the written notice of the Underwriters’ election to purchase such Option Securities. The time and date of such payment for the Firm Securities is referred to herein as the “First Closing Date” and the time
and date for such payment for the Option Securities, if other than the First Closing Date, is herein referred to as an “Option Closing Date.” The First Closing Date and each Option Closing Date is herein referred to as a
“Closing Date.”
Payment for the Offered Securities to be purchased on the First Closing Date or any Option Closing Date,
as the case may be, shall be made against delivery to the nominee of The Depository Trust Company (the “DTC”), for the respective accounts of the several Underwriters of the Offered Securities to be purchased on such date, of one or
more global notes representing the Offered Securities (collectively, the “Global Note”), with any transfer taxes payable in connection with the sale of such Offered Securities duly paid by the Company. The Global Note will be made
available for inspection by the Representatives at the offices of Hunton & Williams LLP, 200 Park Avenue, New York, New York 10166 not later than 1:00 P.M., New York City time, on the business day prior to the First Closing Date or the
Option Closing Date, as the case may be.
4. Offering by the Underwriters. The Company understands that the Underwriters intend to
make a public offering of the Offered Securities as soon after the effectiveness of this Agreement as in the judgment of the Representatives is advisable, and initially to offer the Offered Securities on the terms set forth in the Prospectus. The
Company acknowledges and agrees that the Underwriters may offer and sell the Offered Securities to or through any affiliate of an Underwriter and that any such affiliate may offer and sell the Offered Securities purchased by it to or through any
Underwriter.
5. Certain Agreements of the Company and the Manager. The Company and the Manager, for so long as the Manager is the
manager under the Management Agreement, hereby jointly and severally agree with each Underwriter that:
(a) The Company will furnish such
information as may be required and otherwise to cooperate in qualifying the Offered Securities for offering and sale under the securities or blue sky laws of such jurisdictions (both domestic and foreign) as the Representatives may designate and to
maintain such qualifications in effect as long as requested by the Representatives for the distribution of the Offered Securities; provided, however, that the Company shall not be required to qualify as a foreign corporation or to consent to the
service of process under the laws of any such jurisdiction (except service of process with respect to the offering and sale of the Offered Securities).
(b) If, at the time this Agreement is executed and delivered, it is necessary for a post-effective amendment to the Registration Statement to
be declared effective before the offering of the Offered Securities may commence, the Company will endeavor to cause such post-effective amendment to become effective as soon as possible and will advise the Underwriters promptly and, if requested by
the
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Representatives, will confirm such advice in writing, when such post-effective amendment has become effective.
(c) The Company will prepare the Prospectus in a form approved by the Underwriters (which such approval shall not be unreasonably withheld or
delayed) and file such Prospectus with the Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b) under the Securities Act not later than 10:00 A.M. (New York City time), on the day following the execution and delivery of this Agreement or on such other day as the
parties may mutually agree and to furnish promptly (and with respect to the initial delivery of such Prospectus, not later than 10:00 A.M. (New York City time) on the day following the execution and delivery of this Agreement or on such other day as
the parties may mutually agree to the Underwriters copies of the Prospectus (or of the Prospectus as amended or supplemented) in such quantities and at such locations as the Representatives may reasonably request for the purposes contemplated by the
Securities Act Regulations, which Prospectus and any amendments or supplements thereto furnished to the Underwriters will be identical to the version transmitted to the Commission for filing via EDGAR, except to the extent permitted by Regulation
S-T.
(d) The Company will furnish a copy of each proposed Free Writing Prospectus to the Underwriters and counsel for the Underwriters
and obtain the consent of the Representatives (which such consent shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed) prior to referring to, using or filing with the Commission any Free Writing Prospectus pursuant to Rule 433(d) under the Securities Act.
(e) The Company will comply with the requirements of Rules 164 and 433 of the Securities Act Regulations applicable to any Issuer Free
Writing Prospectus, including (subject to obtaining the consent of the Representatives as set forth in Section 5(d)) timely filing with the Commission, legending and record keeping, as applicable.
(f) The Company will advise the Representatives immediately, confirming such advice in writing, of (i) the receipt of any comments from,
or any request by, the Commission for amendments or supplements to the Registration Statement, the Preliminary Prospectus, if any, the Prospectus or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, or for additional information with respect thereto,
(ii) the issuance by the Commission of any stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or of any order preventing or suspending the use of the Preliminary Prospectus, if any, the Prospectus or any Issuer Free Writing
Prospectus, or of the suspension of the qualification of the Offered Securities for offering or sale in any jurisdiction, or of the initiation or threatening of any proceedings for any of such purposes and, if the Commission or any other government
agency or authority should issue any such order, to make every reasonable effort to obtain the lifting or removal of such order as soon as possible, (iii) any examination pursuant to Section 8(e) of the Securities Act concerning the
Registration Statement, or (iv) if the Company becomes subject to a proceeding under Section 8A of the Securities Act in connection with the public offering of Offered Securities contemplated herein, to advise the Representatives promptly
of any proposal to amend or supplement the Registration Statement, the Preliminary Prospectus, if any, the Prospectus or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus and to file no such amendment or supplement to which the Representatives shall reasonably
object in writing.
(g) The Company will pay the required Commission filing fees relating to the Offered Securities within the time
required by Rule 456(b)(1)(i) of the Securities Act Regulations and otherwise in accordance with Rules 456(b) and 457(r) of the Securities Act Regulations, except to the extent such filings fees have been paid prior to the date hereof.
(h) The Company will arrange for the qualification of the Offered Securities for sale under the laws of such jurisdictions as the
Representatives designate and will continue such qualifications in effect so long as required for the distribution.
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(i) The Company will not offer, sell, contract to sell, pledge or otherwise dispose of (or enter
into any transaction which is designed to, or might reasonably be expected to, result in the disposition (whether by actual disposition or effective economic disposition due to cash settlement or otherwise) by the Company or any of its affiliates or
any person in privity with the Company), directly or indirectly, including the filing (or participation in the filing) of a registration statement with the Commission in respect of, or establish or increase a put equivalent position or liquidate or
decrease a call equivalent position within the meaning of Section 16 of the Exchange Act, any shares of Common Stock, or any securities convertible into, or exercisable, or exchangeable for Common Stock, or publicly announce an intention to
effect such transaction, without the prior written consent of the Representatives, for a period of 60 days after the date of this Agreement (the “Lock-Up Period”); provided, however, that the Company may issue and sell
(i) the Offered Securities to be sold hereunder and the Underlying Securities, (ii) shares of Common Stock pursuant to any employee stock option plan, stock ownership plan or dividend reinvestment plan of the Company in effect as of the
date of this Agreement and the Company may issue shares of Common Stock upon the conversion of securities or the exercise of warrants or options outstanding as of the date of this Agreement, or (iii) additional shares of the Company’s
8.50% Series A Cumulative Redeemable Preferred Stock, additional shares of the Company’s 8.25% Series B Cumulative Redeemable Preferred Stock or additional shares of the Company’s 8.625% Fixed-to-Floating Series C Cumulative Redeemable
Preferred Stock, in each case, pursuant to an existing “at-the-market” program. Notwithstanding the foregoing, if (1) during the last 17 days of the Lock-Up Period, the Company issues earnings results or material news or a material
event relating to the Company occurs or (2) prior to the expiration of the Lock-Up Period, the Company announces that it will release earnings results during the 16-day period beginning on the last day of the Lock-Up Period, the restrictions
imposed in this subsection (i) shall continue to apply until the expiration of the 18-day period beginning on the issuance of the earnings results or the occurrence of the material news or material event. The Company will provide the
Representatives and each individual subject to the Lock-Up Period with prior notice of any such announcement that gives rise to an extension of the Lock-Up Period.
(j) The Company will reserve and keep available at all times, free of preemptive rights, shares of Common Stock for the purpose of enabling
the Company to satisfy its obligations to issue the Underlying Securities.
(k) The Company agrees with the Underwriters that the Company
will pay all expenses incident to the performance of the Company’s obligations under this Agreement, for any filing fees, taxes and other expenses (including fees and disbursements of its counsel) in connection with (i) the preparation of
the Preliminary Prospectus, if any, the Prospectus, and any amendments or supplements thereto, and the printing and furnishing of copies of each thereof to the Underwriters (including costs of mailing and shipment), (ii) the preparation,
issuance, sale and delivery of the Offered Securities, including any stock or other transfer taxes or duties payable upon the sale of the Offered Securities to the Underwriters, (iii) the qualification of the Offered Securities for offering and
sale under state laws and the determination of their eligibility for investment under state law as aforesaid (including any filing fees and the reasonable legal fees and filing fees and other disbursements of counsel for the Underwriters solely with
respect to blue sky matters) and the printing and furnishing of copies of any blue sky surveys or legal investment surveys to the Underwriters and to dealers, (iv) the fees and expenses of any transfer agent or registrar for the Offered
Securities, (v) any travel expenses of the Company’s officers and employees and any other expenses of the Company in connection with attending or hosting meetings with prospective purchasers of the Offered Securities, including the cost of
any aircraft chartered in connection with attending or hosting such meetings, (vi) expenses incurred for preparing, printing and distributing any Issuer Free Writing Prospectuses to investors or prospective investors; (vii) the fees and
expenses of the Company’s accountants and the fees and expenses of counsel (including local and special counsel) for the Company; (viii) the costs, expenses, fees and taxes incident to the authorization, preparation, issuance, execution,
authentication and delivery of the Offered Securities and the Indenture, including any expenses
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of the Trustee and any paying agent or conversion agent (including related fees and expenses of any outside counsel to such parties); and (ix) all other costs and expenses incident to the
performance by the Company of its obligations hereunder.
(l) The Company agrees to furnish to the Underwriters for a period of five years
from the First Closing Date (if such reports are not available to the public electronically on the Commission’s website) (i) copies of all annual, quarterly and current reports of the Company and (ii) such other material reports and
documents of the Company as the Representatives may reasonably request; provided, however, that the Company shall have no obligation under clause (ii) for so long as the Company is subject to Sections 13 or 15(d) of the
Exchange Act.
(m) The Company’s board of directors shall be comprised of a majority of independent directors, as such term is
defined under the rules and regulations of the NYSE and the Commission, at the First Closing Date.
(n) The Company and the Manager agree
to make all necessary filings required under any federal, state, local or foreign law, regulation or rule, and obtain and maintain all necessary licenses, authorizations, consents and approvals from other persons, required in order to conduct its
business as described in the Prospectus, except when the failure to make a necessary filing or to maintain a license, authorization, consent or approval could not reasonably be expected, individually or in the aggregate, to have a Material Adverse
Effect.
(o) The Company will advise the Representatives promptly of the happening of any event or development known to the Company within
the time during which a Prospectus relating to the Securities (or in lieu thereof the notice referred to in Rule 173(a) under the Securities Act Regulations) is required to be delivered under the Securities Act Regulations which, in the judgment of
the Company or in the reasonable opinion of the Representatives or counsel for the Underwriters, (i) would require the making of any change in the Prospectus or the General Disclosure Package so that the Prospectus or the General Disclosure
Package would not include an untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not
misleading, (ii) as a result of which any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus conflicted or would conflict with the information contained in the Registration Statement relating to the Offered Securities or (iii) if it is necessary at any time
to amend or supplement the Prospectus or the General Disclosure Package to comply with any law and, during such time, to promptly prepare and furnish to the Underwriters copies of the proposed amendment or supplement before filing any such amendment
or supplement with the Commission and thereafter promptly furnish at the Company’s own expense to the Underwriters and to dealers, copies in such quantities and at such locations as the Representatives may from time to time reasonably request
of an appropriate amendment or supplement to the Prospectus or the General Disclosure Package so that the Prospectus or the General Disclosure Package as so amended or supplemented will not, in the light of the circumstances when it (or in lieu
thereof the notice referred to in Rule 173(a) under the Securities Act Regulations) is so delivered, be misleading or, in the case of any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, conflict with the information contained in the Registration Statement, or so
that the Prospectus or the General Disclosure Package will comply with the law.
(p) The Company will file promptly with the Commission
any amendment or supplement to the Registration Statement, any Preliminary Prospectus, if any, the Prospectus or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus that may, in the judgment of the Company or the Representatives, be required by the Securities Act
and the Securities Act Regulations or requested by the Commission.
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(q) Prior to filing with the Commission any amendment or supplement to the Registration
Statement, any Preliminary Prospectus, if any, the Prospectus or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, the Company will furnish a copy thereof to the Underwriters and counsel for the Underwriters and obtain the consent of the Representatives to the
filing.
(r) The Company will furnish promptly to the Representatives a signed copy of the Registration Statement, as initially filed with
the Commission, and of all amendments or supplements thereto (including all exhibits filed therewith or incorporated by reference therein) and such number of conformed copies of the foregoing as the Representatives may reasonably request.
(s) The Company will furnish to the Underwriters, not less than two business days before filing with the Commission, during the period
referred to in paragraph (n) above, a copy of any document proposed to be filed with the Commission pursuant to Section 13, 14, or 15(d) of the Exchange Act and during the period of five years hereafter to file all such documents in the
manner and within the time periods required by the Exchange Act and the Exchange Act Regulations.
(t) The Company will make generally
available to its security holders and to deliver to the Underwriters as soon as practicable, but in any event not later than the end of the fiscal quarter first occurring after the first anniversary of the effective date of the Registration
Statement, an earnings statement complying with the provisions of Section 11(a) of the Securities Act (in form, at the option of the Company, complying with the provisions of Rule 158 of the Securities Act Regulations), covering a period of 12
months beginning after the effective date of the Registration Statement.
(u) If, at any time during the 60-day period after the date of
the Prospectus, any rumor, publication or event relating to or affecting the Company shall occur as a result of which, in the reasonable opinion of the Representatives, the market price of the Common Stock has been or is likely to be materially
affected (regardless of whether such rumor, publication or event necessitates a supplement to or amendment of the Prospectus) and after written notice from the Representatives advising the Company to the effect set forth above, to forthwith prepare,
consult with the Representatives concerning the substance of, and disseminate a press release or other public statement, reasonably satisfactory to the Representatives, responding to or commenting on such rumor, publication or event.
(v) The Company will comply with all of the provisions of any undertakings in the Registration Statement.
(w) The Company will use its best efforts to meet the requirements for qualification as a REIT under the Code for each of its taxable years so
long as the board of directors of the Company deems it in the best interest of the Company to remain so qualified.
(x) The Company will
use its best efforts to effect the listing of the Underlying Securities on the NYSE.
(y) The Company will apply the net proceeds from the
sale of the Offered Securities in the manner set forth under the caption “Use of Proceeds” in the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus and the Company does not intend to use any of the proceeds from the sale of the Offered
Securities hereunder to repay any outstanding debt owed to any affiliate of any Underwriter.
(z) The Company will use its commercially
reasonable efforts in cooperation with the Representatives to obtain permission for the Offered Securities to be eligible for clearance and settlement through DTC.
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(aa) The Company will use its best efforts to conduct its affairs in such a manner so as not to
become required to register as an investment company under the 1940 Act.
(bb) The Company will not take, directly or indirectly, any
action prohibited by Rule 102 of Regulation M under the Securities Act in connection with the distribution of the Offered Securities contemplated hereby.
(cc) The Company has and will maintain a transfer agent and registrar for the Common Stock.
(dd) The Company will prepare a final term sheet, containing a description of final terms of the Offered Securities and the offering thereof,
substantially in the form of Appendix A to Schedule III attached hereto and approved by the Representatives (which such approval shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed), and the Company will file such term sheet as an Issuer Free Writing
Prospectus pursuant to Rule 433(d) within the time required by such Rule.
(ee) The Company will furnish copies of the Preliminary
Prospectus, the Prospectus and each Issuer Free Writing Prospectus (to the extent not previously delivered) to the Underwriters in New York City as soon as reasonably practicable, but in no event later than 10:00 A.M., New York City time, on the
second business day succeeding the date of this Agreement in such quantities as the Representatives may reasonably request.
6. Free
Writing Prospectuses. (a) The Company represents and agrees that, unless it obtains the prior consent of the Representatives (which such approval shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed), and the Underwriters represent and agree that,
unless they obtain the prior consent of the Company and the Representatives (which such approval shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed), they have not made and will not make any offer relating to the Offered Securities that would constitute
an Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, or that would otherwise constitute a “free writing prospectus,” as defined in Rule 405, required to be filed with the Commission. Any such free writing prospectus consented to by the Company and the
Representatives is hereinafter referred to as a “Permitted Free Writing Prospectus.” The Company represents that it has treated and agrees that it will treat each Permitted Free Writing Prospectus as an “issuer free writing
prospectus,” as defined in Rule 433, and has complied and will comply with the requirements of Rules 164 and 433 applicable to any Permitted Free Writing Prospectus, including timely filing with the Commission where required, legending and
record keeping. The Company represents that it has satisfied and agrees that it will satisfy the conditions in Rule 433 to avoid a requirement to file with the Commission any electronic road show.
7. Conditions of the Obligations of the Underwriters. The obligations of the Underwriters to purchase and pay for the Firm Securities
on the First Closing Date and the Option Securities to be purchased on each Option Closing Date will be subject to the accuracy of the representations and warranties of the Company and the Manager herein on the date hereof and as of each Closing
Date, to the accuracy of the statements of Company officers made pursuant to the provisions hereof, to the performance by the Company and the Manager of their obligations hereunder and to the following additional conditions precedent:
(a) The Underwriters shall have received a letter, dated as of the date of this Agreement, of Grant Thornton LLP, in form and substance
reasonably satisfactory to the Representatives, confirming that they are an independent registered public accounting firm within the meaning of the Securities Act and the applicable Securities Act Regulations and the rules and regulations of the
PCAOB and containing statements and information of the type ordinarily included in accountants’ “comfort letters” to underwriters with respect to the financial statements and certain financial information
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contained in the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package, the Prospectus and each Issuer Free Writing Prospectus (other than any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus that is an
“electronic road show,” as defined in Rule 433(h)).
(b) The Prospectus shall have been filed with the Commission in accordance
with the Securities Act Regulations and Section 5(c) of this Agreement.
(c) The Company shall have appointed the Trustee, or an
agent or agents satisfactory to the Trustee, to act as registrar, conversion agent and paying agent under the Indenture.
(d) Prior to
such Closing Date (i) no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or any order preventing or suspending the use of the Prospectus or any document in the General Disclosure Package shall have been issued and no
proceedings for that purpose shall have been instituted or, to the knowledge of the Company or the Representatives, shall be contemplated by the Commission nor shall there be any suspension of the qualification of the Offered Securities for sale in
any jurisdiction or institution or threatening of any proceeding for such purpose and (ii) all requests for additional information on the part of the Commission shall have been complied with to the reasonable satisfaction of the
Representatives.
(e) Subsequent to the execution and delivery of this Agreement there shall not have occurred (i) any change, or any
development or event involving a prospective change, in the condition (financial or other), business, earnings, properties, results of operations (as described in the Prospectus), assets or prospects of the Company and the Subsidiaries taken as one
enterprise which, in the judgment of the Representatives, is material and adverse and makes it impractical or inadvisable to proceed with completion of the public offering or the sale of and payment for the Offered Securities; (ii) any
downgrading in the rating of any debt securities or preferred stock of the Company by any “nationally recognized statistical rating organization” (as defined under Section 3(a)(62) promulgated under the Exchange Act), or any public
announcement that any such organization has under surveillance or review its rating of any debt securities or preferred stock of the Company (other than an announcement with positive implications of a possible upgrading, and no implication of a
possible downgrading, of such rating); (iii) any change in U.S. or international financial, political or economic conditions or currency exchange rates or exchange controls as would, in the judgment of the Representatives, be likely to
prejudice materially the success of the proposed issue, sale or distribution of the Offered Securities, whether in the primary market or in respect of dealings in the secondary market; (iv) any material suspension or material limitation of
trading in securities generally on the NYSE or The Nasdaq Global Select Market, or any setting of minimum prices for trading on such exchange; (v) any suspension of trading of any securities of the Company on any exchange or in the
over-the-counter market; (vi) any banking moratorium declared by U.S. Federal or New York authorities; (vii) any major disruption of settlements of securities or clearance services in the United States or (viii) any attack on,
outbreak or escalation of hostilities or act of terrorism involving the United States, any declaration of war by Congress or any other national or international calamity or emergency if, in the judgment of the Representatives, the effect of any such
attack, outbreak, escalation, act, declaration, calamity or emergency makes it impractical or inadvisable to proceed with completion of the public offering or the sale of and payment for the Offered Securities.
(f) The Underwriters shall have received an opinion and negative assurance letter, dated the Closing Date, of Ledgewood, counsel for the
Company, substantially in the form attached hereto as Exhibit A hereto. In rendering such opinion, Ledgewood may rely (i) as to the incorporation of the Company and all other matters governed by Maryland law upon the opinion of
Foley & Lardner LLP, special Maryland counsel to the Company and (ii) as to the incorporation or formation of the Subsidiaries organized under the laws of the Cayman Islands and all other matters governed by the laws of the
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Cayman Islands upon the opinions of Maples and Calder, special Cayman Islands counsel for the Company.
(g) The Underwriters shall have received an opinion, dated such Closing Date, of Foley & Lardner LLP, special Maryland counsel for
the Company, substantially in the form attached hereto as Exhibit B hereto.
(h) The Underwriters shall have received a tax opinion,
dated such Closing Date, of Ledgewood, counsel for the Company, substantially in the form attached hereto as Exhibit C hereto.
(i)
With respect to each Subsidiary incorporated or formed under the laws of the Cayman Islands, the Underwriters shall have received the opinions, dated such Closing Date, of Maples and Calder, special Cayman Islands counsel for the Company,
substantially in the forms attached as Exhibit D hereto.
(j) [Reserved].
(k) The Underwriters shall have received an opinion and negative assurance letter, dated the Closing Date, of Hunton & Williams LLP,
counsel for the Underwriters, with respect to the incorporation of the Company, the validity of the Offered Securities delivered on such Closing Date, the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus and other related
matters as the Underwriters may require, and the Company shall have furnished to such counsel such documents as they request for the purpose of enabling them to pass upon such matters. In rendering such opinion, Hunton & Williams LLP may
rely as to the incorporation of the Company and all other matters governed by Maryland law upon the opinion of Foley & Lardner LLP referred to above.
(l) The Underwriters shall have received a certificate, dated such Closing Date, of the Chief Executive Officer or President and a principal
financial or accounting officer of the Company in which such officers, to the best of their knowledge after reasonable investigation, shall state that (i) the representations and warranties of the Company and the Manager in this Agreement are
true and correct; (ii) the Company and the Manager have complied with all agreements and satisfied all conditions on their part to be performed or satisfied hereunder at or prior to such Closing Date; (iii) no stop order suspending the
effectiveness of the Registration Statement or any post-effective amendment thereto and no order directed at any document incorporated by reference therein has been issued and no proceedings for that purpose have been instituted or are contemplated
by the Commission and (iv) subsequent to the respective dates of the most recent financial statements in the General Disclosure Package, there has been no Material Adverse Effect except as set forth in the General Disclosure Package and the
Prospectus or as described in such certificate. In addition to the matters set forth in this subsection (l), the certificate shall also address certain matters, representations, warranties, covenants agreements and conditions addressed in this
Agreement or as may be reasonably requested.
(m) The Underwriters shall have received a letter, dated such Closing Date, of Grant
Thornton LLP which meets the requirements of subsection (a) of this Section, except that the specified date referred to in such subsection will be a date not more than three days prior to such Closing Date for the purposes of this subsection.
(n) On or prior to the date of this Agreement, the Underwriters shall have received lock-up letters in substantially the form attached
hereto as Exhibit E (the “Lock-Up Agreements”) from each of the executive officers and directors of the Company, members of the Company’s investment committee, the Manager, and Resource America.
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(o) The Underlying Securities shall have been approved for listing on the NYSE, subject only to
official notice of issuance.
(p) The Company shall have furnished to the Underwriters at the First Closing Date and each Option Closing
Date (if any) such further customary information, opinions, certificates, letters and documents as the Representatives may reasonably request.
The Company will furnish the Underwriters with such conformed copies of such opinions, certificates, letters and documents as the
Representatives reasonably request. The Representatives may in their sole discretion waive compliance with any conditions to the obligations of the Underwriters hereunder, whether in respect of an Option Closing Date or otherwise.
If any of the conditions specified in this Section 7 shall not have been fulfilled when and as provided in this Agreement, or if any of
the opinions and certificates mentioned in this Section 7 or elsewhere in this Agreement shall not be reasonably satisfactory in form and substance to the Representatives and counsel for the Underwriters, this Agreement and all obligations of
the Underwriters hereunder may be canceled at, or any time prior to, the Closing Date by the Representatives. Notice of such cancellation shall be given to the Company in writing or by telephone or facsimile confirmed in writing.
8. Indemnification and Contribution. (a) The Company and the Manager, jointly and severally, will indemnify and hold harmless each
Underwriter, its partners, members, directors, officers and its affiliates and each person, if any who controls any Underwriter within the meaning of Section 15 of the Securities Act or Section 20 of the Exchange Act, against any losses,
claims, damages or liabilities, joint or several, to which any such Underwriter may become subject, under the Securities Act or otherwise, insofar as such losses, claims, damages or liabilities (or actions in respect thereof) arise out of or are
based upon any breach of any of the representations and warranties of the Company or the Manager contained herein or any untrue statement or alleged untrue statement of any material fact contained in the Registration Statement (or any amendment or
part thereof), any Preliminary Prospectus, the Prospectus, any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, or any amendment or supplement thereto, or arise out of or are based upon the omission or alleged omission to state therein a material fact required to be
stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein (with respect to the Prospectus only, in light of the circumstances under which they were made) not misleading, and will reimburse each Underwriter for any legal or other expenses reasonably
incurred by any such Underwriter in connection with investigating or defending any such loss, claim, damage, liability or action as such expenses are incurred; provided, however, that the Company and the Manager will not be liable in any such case
to the extent that any such loss, claim, damage or liability arises out of or is based upon an untrue statement or alleged untrue statement in or omission or alleged omission from any of such documents in reliance upon and in conformity with written
information furnished to the Company by any Underwriter through the Representatives specifically for use therein, it being understood and agreed that the only such information furnished by any such Underwriter consists of the information described
as such in subsection (b) below.
(b) Each Underwriter will severally, but not jointly, indemnify and hold harmless the Company and the
Manager, and their directors and officers and each person, if any, who controls the Company and the Manager within the meaning of Section 15 of the Securities Act or Section 20 of the Exchange Act, against any losses, claims, damages or
liabilities to which the Company or the Manager may become subject, under the Securities Act or otherwise, insofar as such losses, claims, damages or liabilities (or actions in respect thereof) arise out of or are based upon any untrue statement or
alleged untrue statement of any material fact contained in any Registration Statement (or any amendment or part thereof), any Preliminary Prospectus, the Prospectus, any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, or any amendment or supplement thereto, or
arise out of or are based upon the omission or the alleged omission
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to state therein a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading, in each
case to the extent, but only to the extent, that such untrue statement or alleged untrue statement or omission or alleged omission was made in reliance upon and in conformity with written information furnished to the Company by or on behalf of any
Underwriter through the Representatives specifically for use therein, and will reimburse any legal or other expenses reasonably incurred by the Company and the Manager in connection with investigating or defending any such loss, claim, damage,
liability or action as such expenses are incurred, it being understood and agreed that the only such information furnished by any such Underwriter consists of the statements contained in the third sentence of the twelfth paragraph under the caption
“Underwriting” in the Preliminary Prospectus and the Prospectus.
(c) Promptly after receipt by an indemnified party under this
Section of notice of the commencement of any action, such indemnified party will, if a claim in respect thereof is to be made against an indemnifying party under subsection (a) or (b) above, notify the indemnifying party of the
commencement thereof; but the failure to notify the indemnifying party shall not relieve it from any liability that it may have under subsection (a) or (b) above except to the extent that it has been materially prejudiced by such failure;
and provided further that the failure to notify the indemnifying party shall not relieve it from any liability that it may have to an indemnified party otherwise than under subsection (a) or (b) above. In case any such action is brought
against any indemnified party and it notifies an indemnifying party of the commencement thereof, the indemnifying party will be entitled to participate therein and, to the extent that it may wish, jointly with any other indemnifying party similarly
notified, to assume the defense thereof, with counsel satisfactory to such indemnified party, and after notice from the indemnifying party to such indemnified party of its election so to assume the defense thereof, the indemnifying party will not be
liable to such indemnified party under this Section, as the case may be, for any legal or other expenses subsequently incurred by such indemnified party in connection with the defense thereof other than reasonable costs of investigation unless
(i) the indemnifying party and the indemnified party shall have mutually agreed to the contrary; (ii) the indemnifying party has failed within a reasonable time to retain counsel reasonably satisfactory to the indemnified party;
(iii) the indemnified party shall have reasonably concluded that there may be legal defenses available to it that are different from or in addition to those available to the indemnifying party; or (iv) the named parties in any such
proceeding (including any impleaded parties) include both the indemnifying party and the indemnified party and the representation of both parties by the same counsel would be inappropriate due to actual or potential differing interests between them.
No indemnifying party shall, without the prior written consent of the indemnified party, effect any settlement of any pending or threatened action in respect of which any indemnified party is or could have been a party and indemnity could have been
sought hereunder by such indemnified party unless such settlement (i) includes an unconditional release of such indemnified party from all liability on any claims that are the subject matter of such action and (ii) does not include a
statement as to, or an admission of, fault, culpability or a failure to act by or on behalf of an indemnified party.
(d) If the
indemnification provided for in this Section is unavailable or insufficient to hold harmless an indemnified party under subsection (a) or (b) above, then each indemnifying party shall contribute to the amount paid or payable by such
indemnified party as a result of the losses, claims, damages or liabilities referred to in subsection (a) or (b) above (i) in such proportion as is appropriate to reflect the relative benefits received by the Company on the one hand
and the Underwriters on the other from the offering of the Offered Securities or (ii) if the allocation provided by clause (i) above is not permitted by applicable law, in such proportion as is appropriate to reflect not only the relative
benefits referred to in clause (i) above but also the relative fault of the Company on the one hand and the Underwriters on the other hand in connection with the statements or omissions which resulted in such losses, claims, damages or
liabilities as well as any other relevant equitable considerations. The relative benefits received by the Company on the one hand and the Underwriters on the other hand shall be
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deemed to be in the same proportion as the total net proceeds from the offering (before deducting expenses) received by the Company bear to the total underwriting discount and commissions
received by the Underwriters. The relative fault shall be determined by reference to, among other things, whether the untrue or alleged untrue statement of a material fact or the omission or alleged omission to state a material fact relates to
information supplied by the Company or any Underwriter, and the parties’ relative intent, knowledge, access to information and opportunity to correct or prevent such untrue statement or omission. The Company and the Underwriters agree that it
would not be just and equitable if contribution pursuant to this Section 8 were determined by pro rata allocation (even if the Underwriters were treated as one entity for such purpose) or by any other method of allocation that does not take
account of the equitable considerations referred to in this paragraph (d). The amount paid by an indemnified party as a result of the losses, claims, damages or liabilities referred to in the first sentence of this subsection (d) shall be
deemed to include any legal or other expenses reasonably incurred by such indemnified party in connection with investigating or defending any action or claim which is the subject of this subsection (d). Notwithstanding the provisions of this
subsection (d), no Underwriter shall be required to contribute any amount in excess of the amount by which the total price at which the Offered Securities underwritten by it and distributed to the public were offered to the public exceeds the amount
of any damages which such Underwriter has otherwise been required to pay by reason of such untrue or alleged untrue statement or omission or alleged omission. No person guilty of fraudulent misrepresentation (within the meaning of Section 11(f)
of the Securities Act) shall be entitled to contribution from any person who was not guilty of such fraudulent misrepresentation. The Underwriters’ obligations to contribute pursuant to this Section 8 are several in proportion to their
respective purchase obligations and not joint.
(e) The obligations of the Company and the Manager under this Section shall be in
addition to any liability which the Company and the Manager may otherwise have and shall extend, upon the same terms and conditions, to each person, if any, who controls any Underwriter within the meaning of the Securities Act; and the obligations
of each Underwriter under this Section shall be in addition to any liability which any such Underwriter may otherwise have and shall extend, upon the same terms and conditions, to each director of the Company, to each officer of the Company who
has signed a Registration Statement and to each person, if any, who controls the Company within the meaning of the Securities Act or the Exchange Act.
9. [Reserved].
10.
Survival of Certain Representations and Obligations. The respective indemnities, rights of contribution, agreements, representations, warranties and other statements of the Company or its officers, of the Manager and of the Underwriters set
forth in or made pursuant to this Agreement will remain in full force and effect, regardless of any investigation or statement as to the results thereof, made by or on behalf of any Underwriter, the Company, the Manager or any of their respective
representatives, officers or directors or any controlling person, and will survive delivery of and payment for the Offered Securities. If this Agreement is terminated pursuant to Section 7(e) or if for any reason the purchase of the Offered
Securities by the Underwriters is not consummated, the Company shall remain responsible for the expenses to be paid or reimbursed by it pursuant to Section 5(k) and the respective obligations of the Company and the Underwriters pursuant to
Section 8 shall remain in effect, and if any Offered Securities have been purchased hereunder the representations and warranties in Section 2 and all obligations under Section 5 shall also remain in effect. If the purchase of the
Offered Securities by the Underwriters is not consummated as a result of the failure of any condition specified in Section 7 hereof, the Company will reimburse the Underwriters for all out-of-pocket expenses (including fees and disbursements of
counsel) reasonably incurred by them in connection with the offering of the Offered Securities.
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11. Defaulting Underwriters.
(a) If, on the First Closing Date or the Option Closing Date, as the case may be, any Underwriter defaults on its obligation to purchase the
Offered Securities that it has agreed to purchase hereunder on such date, the non-defaulting Underwriters may in their discretion arrange for the purchase of such Offered Securities by other persons satisfactory to the Company on the terms contained
in this Agreement. If, within 36 hours after any such default by any Underwriter, the non-defaulting Underwriters do not arrange for the purchase of such Offered Securities, then the Company shall be entitled to a further period of 36 hours within
which to procure other persons satisfactory to the non-defaulting Underwriters to purchase such Offered Securities on such terms. If other persons become obligated or agree to purchase the Offered Securities of a defaulting Underwriter, either the
non-defaulting Underwriters or the Company may postpone the First Closing Date or the Option Closing Date, as the case may be, for up to five full business days in order to effect any changes that in the opinion of counsel for the Company or counsel
for the Underwriters may be necessary in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus or in any other document or arrangement, and the Company agrees to promptly prepare any amendment or supplement to the Registration Statement and the Prospectus
that effects any such changes. As used in this Agreement, the term “Underwriter” includes, for all purposes of this Agreement unless the context otherwise requires, any person not listed in Schedule I hereto that, pursuant to this
Section 11, purchases Offered Securities that a defaulting Underwriter agreed but failed to purchase.
(b) If, after giving effect to
any arrangements for the purchase of the Offered Securities of a defaulting Underwriter or Underwriters by the non-defaulting Underwriters and the Company as provided in paragraph (a) above, the aggregate amount of Offered Securities that
remain unpurchased on the First Closing Date or the Option Closing Date, as the case may be, does not exceed one-eleventh of the aggregate amount of Offered Securities to be purchased on such date, then the Company shall have the right to require
each non-defaulting Underwriter to purchase the amount of Offered Securities that such Underwriter agreed to purchase hereunder on such date plus such Underwriter’s pro rata share (based on the amount of Offered Securities that such Underwriter
agreed to purchase on such date) of the Offered Securities of such defaulting Underwriter or Underwriters for which such arrangements have not been made.
(c) If, after giving effect to any arrangements for the purchase of the Offered Securities of a defaulting Underwriter or Underwriters by the
non-defaulting Underwriters and the Company as provided in paragraph (a) above, the aggregate amount of Offered Securities that remain unpurchased on the First Closing Date or the Option Closing Date, as the case may be, exceeds one-eleventh of
the aggregate amount of Offered Securities to be purchased on such date, or if the Company shall not exercise the right described in paragraph (b) above, then this Agreement or, with respect to any Option Closing Date, the obligation of the
Underwriters to purchase Option Securities on the Option Closing Date, as the case may be, shall terminate without liability on the part of the non-defaulting Underwriters. Any termination of this Agreement pursuant to this Section 11 shall be
without liability on the part of the Company, except that the Company will continue to be liable for the payment of expenses as set forth in Section 5(k) hereof and except that the provisions of Section 8 hereof shall not terminate and
shall remain in effect.
(d) Nothing contained herein shall relieve a defaulting Underwriter of any liability it may have to the Company
or any non-defaulting Underwriter for damages caused by its default.
12. Notices. All communications hereunder will be in writing
and, if sent to the Underwriters, shall be sufficient in all respects if mailed, delivered or telegraphed and confirmed to the Representatives at Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC, 1585 Broadway, New York, New York 10036, Attention: Equity
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Syndicate Desk, with a copy to the Legal Department and J.P. Morgan Securities LLC, 383 Madison Avenue, New York, New York 10179, or, if sent to the Company, will be mailed, delivered or
telegraphed and confirmed to Michael S. Yecies (fax no.: (215) 761-0456) and confirmed to it at 2005 Market Street, 15th Floor, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19103, Attention:
Michael S. Yecies.
13. Successors. This Agreement will inure to the benefit of and be binding upon the parties hereto and
their respective successors and the officers, directors, employees, agents and controlling persons referred to in Section 8 hereof, and no other person will have any right or obligation hereunder.
14. Absence of Fiduciary Relationship. The Company acknowledges and agrees that:
(a) each Underwriter has been retained solely to act as underwriter in connection with the sale of the Offered Securities and that no
fiduciary, advisory or agency relationship between the Company and any Underwriter has been created in respect of any of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement or the Prospectus, irrespective of whether any such Underwriter has advised or
is advising the Company on other matters;
(b) the price of the Offered Securities set forth in this Agreement was established by the
Company following discussions and arms-length negotiations with the Underwriters and the Company is capable of evaluating and understanding and understands and accepts the terms, risks and conditions of the transactions contemplated by this
Agreement;
(c) the Company has been advised that the Underwriters and their affiliates are engaged in a broad range of transactions which
may involve interests that differ from those of the Company and that the Underwriters have no obligation to disclose such interests and transactions to the Company by virtue of any fiduciary, advisory or agency relationship; and
(d) the Company waives, to the fullest extent permitted by law, any claims the Company may have against the Underwriters, for breach of
fiduciary duty or alleged breach of fiduciary duty and agree that the Underwriters shall have no liability (whether direct or indirect) to the Company in respect of such a fiduciary duty claim or to any person asserting a fiduciary duty claim on
behalf of or in right of the Company, including stockholders, employees or creditors of the Company.
15. Counterparts. This
Agreement may be executed in any number of counterparts, each of which shall be deemed to be an original, but all such counterparts shall together constitute one and the same Agreement.
16. Applicable Law; Jurisdiction. This Agreement and any claim, controversy or dispute relating to or arising out of this
Agreement, shall be governed by, and construed in accordance with, the laws of the State of New York, without regard to principles of conflicts of laws (other than Section 5-1401 of the New York General Obligations Law).
The Company and the Manager hereby submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the Federal and state courts in the Borough of Manhattan in The
City of New York in any suit or proceeding arising out of or relating to this Agreement or the transactions contemplated hereby.
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If the foregoing is in accordance with the Underwriters’ understanding of our agreement,
kindly sign and return to the Company and the Manager, one of the counterparts hereof, whereupon it will become a binding agreement among the Company and the Underwriters in accordance with its terms.
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| RESOURCE CAPITAL CORP. |
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/s/ David J. Bryant |
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Name: |
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David J. Bryant |
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Title: |
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Chief Financial Officer |
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| RESOURCE CAPITAL MANAGER, INC. |
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/s/ Michael S. Yecies |
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Name: |
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Michael S. Yecies |
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Title: |
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SVP, Chief Legal Officer and Secretary |
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| The foregoing Underwriting Agreement is hereby confirmed and accepted as of the date first above written.
MORGAN STANLEY & CO. LLC, for itself and
as a Representative of the several Underwriters named on Schedule I hereto |
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By: |
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/s/ Serkan Savasoglu |
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Name: Serkan Savasoglu |
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Title: Managing Director |
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| J.P. MORGAN SECURITIES LLC, for itself and
as a Representative of the several Underwriters named on Schedule I hereto |
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By: |
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/s/ Santosh Sreenivasan |
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Name: Santosh Sreenivasan |
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Title: Managing Director |
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SCHEDULE I
Names of Underwriters
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Aggregate
Principal |
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Amount of Firm
Securities |
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| Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC |
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$ |
47,500,000 |
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| J.P. Morgan Securities LLC |
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$ |
37,500,000 |
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| Keefe, Bruyette & Woods, Inc. |
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$ |
5,000,000 |
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| JMP Securities LLC |
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$ |
5,000,000 |
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| MLV & Co. LLC |
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$ |
5,000,000 |
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| Total |
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$ |
100,000,000 |
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SCHEDULE II
Significant Subsidiaries
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Jurisdiction in which Qualified |
| Resource Capital Corp. |
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MD, NY |
| RCC Real Estate, Inc. |
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DE, NY |
| RCC Commercial, Inc. |
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DE, NY |
| RCC Commercial II, Inc. |
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DE |
| Resource TRS, Inc. |
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DE, NY |
| Resource TRS II, Inc. |
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DE, NY, PA |
| Resource TRS III, Inc. |
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DE |
| Resource TRS, LLC |
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DE |
| Resource Capital Asset Management LLC |
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DE |
| Apidos Cinco CDO, Ltd. |
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Cayman Islands |
| Apidos CDO I, Ltd. |
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Cayman Islands |
| Apidos CDO III, Ltd. |
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Cayman Islands |
| Resource Real Estate Funding 2006–1 CDO Investor, LLC |
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DE |
| Resource Real Estate Funding 2007–1 CDO Investor, LLC |
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DE |
| Resource Real Estate Funding CDO 2006–1, Ltd. |
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Cayman Islands |
| Resource Real Estate Funding CDO 2007–1, Ltd. |
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Cayman Islands |
| Resource Real Estate Funding CDO 2006–1, LLC |
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DE |
| Resource Real Estate Funding CDO 2007–1, LLC |
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DE |
| Resource Real Estate Funding 2013 Notes Investor, LLC |
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DE |
| Resource Capital Corp. CRE Notes 2013, Ltd. |
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Cayman Islands |
| Resource Capital Corp. CRE Notes 2013, LLC |
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DE |
| Resource Real Estate Funding 2014-CRE2 Investor, LLC |
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DE |
| Resource Capital Corp. 2014-CRE2, Ltd. |
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Cayman Islands |
| Resource Capital Corp. 2014-CRE2, LLC |
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DE |
| Northport TRS, LLC |
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DE |
SCHEDULE III
Issuer Free Writing Prospectuses
| 1. |
Term sheet containing the terms of the Offered Securities, substantially in the form of Appendix A attached hereto. |
APPENDIX A
Pricing Term Sheet
[Attached]
Exhibit 4.1
EXECUTION DRAFT
RESOURCE CAPITAL CORP.
and
WELLS FARGO BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION
as Trustee
SECOND SUPPLEMENTAL
INDENTURE
Dated as of January 13, 2015
to
INDENTURE
Dated as of October 21, 2013
8.00% Convertible Senior Notes due 2020
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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| ARTICLE I Definitions |
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| Section 1.01 |
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Definitions |
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| Section 1.02 |
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References to Interest |
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| ARTICLE II ISSUE, DESCRIPTION, EXECUTION, REGISTRATION AND EXCHANGE OF NOTES |
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Designation and Amount |
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Form of Notes |
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Date and Denomination of Notes; Payments of Interest and Defaulted Amounts |
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Execution, Authentication and Delivery of Notes |
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Exchange and Registration of Transfer of Notes; Restrictions on Transfer; Depositary |
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Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost or Stolen Notes |
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Temporary Notes |
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Cancellation of Notes Paid, Converted, Etc |
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CUSIP Numbers |
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Additional Notes; Repurchases |
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| ARTICLE III Satisfaction and Discharge |
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| Section 3.01 |
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Satisfaction and Discharge |
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| ARTICLE IV Particular Covenants of the Company |
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Payment of Principal and Interest |
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Maintenance of Office or Agency |
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Provisions as to Paying Agent |
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Existence |
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21 |
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Annual Reports |
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Stay, Extension and Usury Laws |
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Compliance Certificate; Statements as to Defaults |
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Further Instruments and Acts |
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| ARTICLE V Lists of Holders and reports By the Company and the Trustee |
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Lists of Holders |
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Preservation and Disclosure of Lists |
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| ARTICLE VI Defaults and Remedies |
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Events of Default |
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| Section 6.02 |
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Acceleration; Rescission and Annulment |
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Additional Interest in Lieu of Reporting Default |
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| Section 6.04 |
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Payments of Notes on Default; Suit Therefor |
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| Section 6.05 |
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Application of Monies Collected by Trustee |
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| Section 6.06 |
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Proceedings by Holders |
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| Section 6.07 |
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Proceedings by Trustee |
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| Section 6.08 |
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Remedies Cumulative and Continuing |
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| Section 6.09 |
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Direction of Proceedings and Waiver of Defaults by Majority of Holders |
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| Section 6.10 |
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Notice of Defaults |
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| Section 6.11 |
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Undertaking to Pay Costs |
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| Section 6.12 |
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Trustee May File Proofs of Claim |
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| ARTICLE VII Concerning the Trustee |
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| Section 7.01 |
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Duties and Responsibilities of Trustee |
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| Section 7.02 |
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Reliance on Documents, Opinions, Etc |
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| Section 7.03 |
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No Responsibility for Recitals, Etc |
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| Section 7.04 |
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Trustee, Paying Agents, Conversion Agents or Note Registrar May Own Notes |
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| Section 7.05 |
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Monies and Shares of Common Stock to Be Held in Trust |
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| Section 7.06 |
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Compensation and Expenses of Trustee |
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| Section 7.07 |
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Officer’s Certificate as Evidence |
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| Section 7.08 |
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Eligibility of Trustee |
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Resignation or Removal of Trustee |
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| Section 7.10 |
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Acceptance by Successor Trustee |
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| Section 7.11 |
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Succession by Merger, Etc |
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| Section 7.12 |
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Trustee’s Application for Instructions from the Company |
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| ARTICLE VIII Concerning the Holders |
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| Section 8.01 |
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Action by Holders |
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| Section 8.02 |
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Proof of Execution by Holders |
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| Section 8.03 |
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Who Are Deemed Absolute Owners |
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| Section 8.04 |
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Company-Owned Notes Disregarded |
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39 |
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| Section 8.05 |
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Revocation of Consents; Future Holders Bound |
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| ARTICLE IX Holders’ Meetings |
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40 |
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| Section 9.01 |
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Purpose of Meetings |
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40 |
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| Section 9.02 |
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Call of Meetings by Trustee |
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40 |
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| Section 9.03 |
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Call of Meetings by Company or Holders |
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Qualifications for Voting |
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| Section 9.05 |
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Regulations |
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41 |
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| Section 9.06 |
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Voting |
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| Section 9.07 |
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No Delay of Rights by Meeting |
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| ARTICLE X Supplemental Indentures |
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| Section 10.01 |
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Supplemental Indentures Without Consent of Holders |
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| Section 10.02 |
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Supplemental Indentures with Consent of Holders |
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| Section 10.03 |
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Effect of Supplemental Indentures |
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| Section 10.04 |
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Evidence of Compliance of Supplemental Indenture to Be Furnished Trustee |
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| ARTICLE XI Consolidation, Merger, Sale, Conveyance and Lease |
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Company May Consolidate, Etc |
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| Section 11.02 |
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Successor Corporation to Be Substituted |
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Evidence to Be Given to Trustee |
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| ARTICLE XII Immunity of Incorporators, Stockholders, Officers and Directors |
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| Section 12.01 |
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Indenture and Notes Solely Corporate Obligations |
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46 |
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| ARTICLE XIII Conversion of Notes |
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46 |
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Conversion Privilege |
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46 |
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| Section 13.02 |
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Conversion Procedure; Settlement Upon Conversion |
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46 |
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| Section 13.03 |
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Increased Conversion Rate Applicable to Certain Notes Surrendered in Connection with Make-Whole Fundamental Changes |
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| Section 13.04 |
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Adjustment of Conversion Rate |
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52 |
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| Section 13.05 |
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Adjustments of Prices |
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60 |
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| Section 13.06 |
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Shares to Be Fully Paid |
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60 |
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| Section 13.07 |
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Effect of Recapitalizations, Reclassifications and Changes of the Common Stock |
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60 |
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| Section 13.08 |
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Certain Covenants |
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62 |
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| Section 13.09 |
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Responsibility of Trustee |
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63 |
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| Section 13.10 |
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Stockholder Rights Plans |
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63 |
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| Section 13.11 |
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Ownership Limit; Withholding |
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| ARTICLE XIV Repurchase of Notes at Option of Holders |
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64 |
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| Section 14.01 |
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Repurchase at Option of Holders Upon a Fundamental Change |
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64 |
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| Section 14.02 |
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Withdrawal of Fundamental Change Repurchase Notice |
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66 |
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| Section 14.03 |
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Deposit of Fundamental Change Repurchase Price |
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Covenant to Comply with Applicable Laws Upon Repurchase of Notes |
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68 |
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| ARTICLE XV No Optional Redemption |
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68 |
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| Section 15.01 |
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No Optional Redemption |
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68 |
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| ARTICLE XVI Miscellaneous Provisions |
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68 |
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| Section 16.01 |
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Provisions Binding on Company’s Successors |
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68 |
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| Section 16.02 |
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Official Acts by Successor Corporation |
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68 |
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| Section 16.03 |
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Addresses for Notices, Etc |
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68 |
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| Section 16.04 |
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Governing Law |
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69 |
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| Section 16.05 |
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Evidence of Compliance with Conditions Precedent; Certificates and Opinions of Counsel to Trustee |
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69 |
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| Section 16.06 |
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Legal Holidays |
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70 |
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| Section 16.07 |
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No Security Interest Created |
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70 |
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| Section 16.08 |
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Benefits of Indenture |
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70 |
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| Section 16.09 |
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Table of Contents, Headings, Etc |
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70 |
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| Section 16.10 |
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Authenticating Agent |
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70 |
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| Section 16.11 |
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Execution in Counterparts |
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71 |
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| Section 16.12 |
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Severability |
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72 |
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| Section 16.13 |
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Waiver of Jury Trial |
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72 |
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| Section 16.14 |
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Force Majeure |
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72 |
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| Section 16.15 |
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Calculations |
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72 |
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| Section 16.16 |
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USA PATRIOT Act |
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This SECOND SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE, dated as of January 13, 2015, to the Indenture, dated as
of October 21, 2013, as supplemented by the First Supplemental Indenture thereto, dated as of October 21, 2013 (as amended, modified or supplemented from time to time in accordance therewith, the “Base Indenture” and, as
amended, modified and supplemented by this Supplemental Indenture, the “Indenture”), between RESOURCE CAPITAL CORP., a Maryland corporation, as issuer (the “Company,” as more fully set forth in Section 1.01),
and Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, a national banking association, as trustee (the “Trustee,” as more fully set forth in Section 1.01).
W I T N E S S E T H:
WHEREAS,
the Company executed and delivered the Base Indenture to the Trustee to provide, among other things, for the issuance, from time to time, of the Company’s Debt Securities (as defined in the Base Indenture), in an unlimited aggregate principal
amount, in one or more series to be established by the Company under, and authenticated and delivered as provided in, the Base Indenture; and
WHEREAS, Section 9.01(k) of the Base Indenture provides for the Company and the Trustee to enter into an indenture supplemental to the
Base Indenture to establish the form and terms of Debt Securities of any series as contemplated by Section 2.01 and Section 2.03 of the Base Indenture without the consent of Holders of any Debt Securities; and
WHEREAS, for its lawful corporate purposes, the Company has duly authorized the issuance of a single series of Debt Securities designated as
its 8.00% Convertible Senior Notes due 2020 (the “Notes”), initially in an aggregate principal amount not to exceed $115,000,000, 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 Supplemental Indenture; and
WHEREAS, the Form of Note,
the Form of Notice of Conversion, the Form of Fundamental Change Repurchase Notice and the Form of Assignment and Transfer to be borne by the Notes are to be substantially in the forms hereinafter provided; and
WHEREAS, the conditions set forth in the Base Indenture for the execution and delivery of this Supplemental Indenture have been complied with;
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 Supplemental Indenture provided, the valid, binding and legal obligations of the Company, and this Supplemental Indenture a valid agreement according to its terms, have been done and performed,
and the execution of this Supplemental Indenture and the issue hereunder of the Notes have in all respects been duly authorized.
NOW,
THEREFORE, THIS INDENTURE WITNESSETH:
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
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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:
ARTICLE I
DEFINITIONS
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. Terms defined herein and in the Base Indenture shall have the meaning set
forth in this Section 1.01. The words “herein,” “hereof,” “hereunder,” and words of similar import refer to this Indenture as a whole and not to any particular Article, Section or other subdivision. The terms
defined in this Article include the plural as well as the singular.
“Additional Interest” means all amounts, if any, payable pursuant to
Section 6.03.
“Additional Shares” shall have the meaning specified in Section 13.03(a).
“Affiliate” of any specified Person means any other Person directly or indirectly controlling or controlled by or under direct or indirect
common control with such specified Person. For the purposes of this definition, “control,” when used with respect to any specified Person means the power to direct or cause the direction of the management and policies of such Person,
directly or indirectly, whether through the ownership of voting securities, by contract or otherwise; and the terms “controlling” and “controlled” have meanings correlative to the foregoing.
“Applicable Procedures” means, with respect to any payment, tender, redemption, transfer or exchange of or for beneficial interests in any
Global Note, the rules and procedures of the Depositary that apply to such payment, tender, redemption, transfer or exchange.
“Board of
Directors” means the board of directors of the Company or a committee of such board duly authorized to act for it hereunder.
“Board
Resolution” means a copy of a resolution certified by the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary of the Company to have been duly adopted by the Board of Directors, and to be in full force and effect on the date of such certification, and
delivered to the Trustee.
“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.
“Capital Stock” means, for
any entity, any and all shares, interests, rights to purchase, warrants, options, participations or other equivalents of or interests in (however designated) stock issued by that entity.
“Cash Settlement” shall have the meaning specified in Section 13.02(a).
“Charter” means the Company’s articles of incorporation, as amended and supplemented.
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“CLO subsidiary” means any subsidiary of the Company that is an issuer of collateralized debt
obligations or collateralized loan obligations.
“Close of Business” means 5:00 p.m. (New York City time).
“Code” means the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended.
“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 Capital Stock 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.
“Common Stock” means the common stock of the Company, par value $0.001 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 XI, shall include its successors and assigns.
“Company Order” means a written order of the Company, signed by the
Company’s Chief Executive Officer, Chief Financial Officer, President, 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”) and delivered to the Trustee.
“Consolidated Net Assets” means the excess of consolidated assets over consolidated
liabilities.
“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 date, $1,000 divided by the Conversion Rate as of such date.
“Conversion Rate” shall have the meaning specified in Section 13.01(a).
“Corporate Trust Office” the office of the Trustee at which at any time its corporate trust business in relation to this Indenture shall be
administered, which at the date hereof (i) for purposes of transfers, exchanges or surrender of the Notes or for presentment of Notes for final payment thereon, is at Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, as Trustee and Registrar – DAPS
Reorg, MAC N9303-121, 608 2nd Avenue South, Minneapolis, MN, 55479, Telephone No.: (877) 872-4605, Fax No.: (866) 969-1290, Email: DAPSReorg@wellsfargo.com and (ii) for all other purposes, is at Wells Fargo Bank, National Association,
Corporate Trust Services, 150 East 42nd Street, 40th Floor, New York, New York, 10017, Fax (917) 260-1593, Attention: Corporate Trust Services Administration – Resources Capital Corp.
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“Custodian” means the Trustee, as custodian for DTC, with respect to the Global Notes, or any
successor entity thereto.
“Daily Conversion Value” means, for each of the 25 consecutive Trading Days during the Observation Period,
one-25th of the product of (a) the Conversion Rate on such Trading Day and (b) the Daily VWAP on such Trading Day.
“Daily Measurement
Value” means the Specified Dollar Amount (if any), divided by 25.
“Daily Settlement Amount,” for each of the 25
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 subject to Section 13.02(j) and Section 13.07, for each of the 25 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 “RSO UN <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.
“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 Fundamental Change 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 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.
“Distributed Property” shall have the meaning specified in Section 13.04(c).
“Dividend Threshold” shall have the meaning specified in Section 13.04(d).
“DTC” means The Depository Trust Company.
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“Effective Date” shall have the meaning specified in Section 13.03(c); provided
that, solely for purposes of Section 13.05, “Effective Date” means the first date on which shares of Common Stock trade on the applicable exchange or in the applicable market, regular way, reflecting the relevant share split or
share combination, as applicable.
“Events 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.
“Exchange Act” means the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and the rules and regulations promulgated
thereunder.
“Form of Assignment and Transfer” means the “Form of Assignment and Transfer” in substantially the form attached
as Attachment 3 to the Form of Note attached hereto as Exhibit A.
“Form of Fundamental Change Repurchase Notice” means the “Form of
Fundamental Change Repurchase Notice” in substantially the form attached as Attachment 2 to the form of Note attached hereto as Exhibit A.
“Form of Note” shall mean the “Form of Note” attached hereto as Exhibit A.
“Form of Notice of Conversion” means the “Form of Notice of Conversion” in substantially the form attached as Attachment 1 to the
Form of Note attached hereto as Exhibit 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 Subsidiaries, the employee benefit plans of the Company and its Subsidiaries or the Permitted Holders, 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 of
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the Company’s Subsidiaries; provided, however, that neither (i) a transaction described in clause (A) or (B) in which the holders of all classes of the
Company’s Common Equity immediately prior to such transaction “beneficially 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 as such ownership immediately prior to such transaction nor (ii) any merger of the Company solely for the purpose of changing the Company’s jurisdiction of
incorporation, that results in a reclassification, conversion or exchange of outstanding shares of the Common Stock solely into shares of common stock of the surviving entity shall be a Fundamental Change pursuant to this clause (b);
(c) the Company’s stockholders approve any plan or proposal for the liquidation or dissolution of the Company; or
(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 (b) above shall not constitute a
Fundamental Change if at least 90% of the consideration received or to be received by the common stockholders of the Company, excluding cash payments for fractional shares, 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 in accordance with Section 13.08.
“Fundamental Change Company Notice” shall have the meaning specified in Section 14.01(c).
“Fundamental Change Repurchase Date” shall have the meaning specified in Section 14.01(a).
“Fundamental Change Repurchase Notice” shall have the meaning specified in Section 14.01(b)(i).
“Fundamental Change Repurchase Price” shall have the meaning specified in Section 14.01(a).
“Global Note” shall have the meaning specified in Section 2.05(b).
“Holder,” as applied to any Note, or other similar terms (but excluding the term “beneficial holder,” “beneficial owner”
or “owner of a beneficial interest” or terms of similar import), means any Person in whose name at the time a particular Note is registered on the Note Register.
“Indenture” has the meaning specified in the first paragraph of this Supplemental Indenture.
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“Interest Payment Date” means each January 15 and July 15 of each year, beginning on
July 15, 2015.
“Last Reported Sale Price” means, on any date, the closing sale price per share (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) on that date as reported in composite transactions for the principal U.S. national or regional securities
exchange on which shares of Common Stock are traded. If shares of Common Stock are not listed for trading on a U.S. national or regional securities exchange on the relevant date, the “last reported sale price” will be the last quoted bid
price per share for Common Stock in the over-the-counter market on the relevant date as reported by OTC Markets Group Inc. or a similar organization. If shares of Common Stock are not so quoted, the “last reported sale price” will be the
average of the mid-point of the last bid and ask prices per share for 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. The “last
reported sale price” shall be determined without regard to after-hours trading or any other trading outside of regular trading session hours.
“Make-Whole Fundamental Change” means any transaction or event that constitutes a Fundamental Change in clause (a) or (b) of that
definition (as defined above and determined after giving effect to any exceptions to or exclusions from such definition, but without regard to subclause (i) of the proviso in clause (b) of the definition thereof).
“Market Disruption Event” means (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 future contracts relating to the Common Stock.
“Maturity Date” means January 15, 2020.
“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).
“Notice of Conversion” shall have the meaning specified in Section 13.02(b).
“Observation Period,” with respect to any Note surrendered for conversion, means: (i) if the relevant Conversion Date occurs prior to
October 15, 2019, the 25 consecutive Trading Day period beginning on, and including, the second Trading Day immediately succeeding such Conversion Date; and (ii) if the relevant Conversion Date occurs on or after October 15, 2019, the
25 consecutive Trading Days beginning on, and including, the 27th Scheduled Trading Day immediately preceding the Maturity Date.
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“Officer” means, with respect to the Company, the Chairman of the Board, President, Chief
Executive Officer, Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer, Chief Accounting Officer and Treasurer.
“Officer’s Certificate,”
when used with respect to the Company, means a certificate that is delivered to the Trustee and that is signed an Officer of the Company. Each such certificate shall include the statements provided for in Section 16.05 if and to the extent
required by the provisions of such Section. The Officer giving an Officer’s Certificate pursuant to Section 4.07 shall be one of the principal executive, financial or accounting officer of the Company.
“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 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 16.05 if and to the extent required by the
provisions of such Section 16.05.
“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 XIII and required to be cancelled pursuant to Section 2.08; and
(e) Notes repurchased pursuant to the penultimate sentence of Section 2.10.
“Paying Agent” shall have the meaning specified in Section 4.02.
“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 multiples thereof.
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“Physical Settlement” shall have the meaning specified in Section 13.02(a).
“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.
“Prospectus Supplement” means the preliminary prospectus supplement dated
January 6, 2015, as supplemented by the pricing term sheet dated January 7, 2015, relating to the offering and sale of the Notes.
“Reference Property” shall have the meaning specified in Section 13.07(a).
“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, by statute, by contract or otherwise).
“Regular Record Date,” with respect to any Interest Payment Date, means the January 1 or July 1 (whether or not such day is a
Business Day) immediately preceding the applicable January 15 or July 15 Interest Payment Date, respectively.
“Responsible
Officer” means, when used with respect to the Trustee, any officer within the corporate trust department of the Trustee, including any vice president, any assistant vice president 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.
“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.
“Settlement Amount” has the meaning specified in Section 13.02(a)(iii).
“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.
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“Settlement Notice” has the meaning specified in Section 13.02(a)(ii).
“Share Exchange Event” shall have the meaning specified in Section 13.07(a).
“Significant Subsidiary” means a Subsidiary of the Company that meets the definition of “significant subsidiary” in Article 1, Rule
1-02(w) of Regulation S-X under the Exchange Act; provided that, the term “Significant Subsidiary’s shall not include any entity consolidated by the Company where the Company, either directly or through a subsidiary, hold 50% or less of
the voting power of such entity.
“Specified Dollar Amount” means the maximum cash amount per $1,000 principal amount of Notes to be
received upon conversion as specified in the Settlement Notice related to any converted Notes.
“Spin-Off” shall have the meaning
specified in Section 13.04(c).
“Stock Price” shall have the meaning specified in Section 13.03(c).
“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 Capital Stock 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.
“Successor Company” shall have the meaning specified in Section 11.01(a).
“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 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 listed or admitted for
trading 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 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.
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“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.
“Unit of Reference Property” shall have the meaning specified in Section 13.07(a).
“Valuation Period” shall have the meaning specified in Section 13.04(c).
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 6.03. 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.
ARTICLE II
ISSUE, DESCRIPTION,
EXECUTION, REGISTRATION AND EXCHANGE OF NOTES
Section 2.01 Designation and Amount. The Notes shall be designated as the
“8.00% Convertible Senior Notes due 2020.” The aggregate principal amount of Notes that may be authenticated and delivered under this Indenture is initially limited to $115,000,000, 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 pursuant to Section 2.05, Section 2.06, Section 2.07, Section 10.04, Section 13.02 and Section 14.03.
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
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(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 repurchases, cancellations, conversions, transfers or exchanges 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
Fundamental Change 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 multiples thereof. Each Note shall be dated the date of its authentication and shall bear interest from the date specified on the
face of the form 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 actual days elapsed over 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. Interest shall be payable at the office or agency of the Company maintained by the Company for such purposes in
Minneapolis, Minnesota, which shall initially be the Corporate Trust Office, or any other office or agency located in the United States of America so designated by the Trustee. The Company shall 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 such Holders or, upon written 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 in accordance with Applicable Procedures.
(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
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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 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. The Company shall promptly notify the
Trustee in writing 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 sent to each Holder at its
address as it appears in the Note Register, 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 sent, 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 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 written 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.
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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 16.10), 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 by the Trustee, or disposed of by the Company, such Notes nevertheless may be authenticated (upon receipt of a Company Order) 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 procedures 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 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, upon receipt of a Company Order, 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, upon receipt of a Company Order, 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.
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No service charge shall be imposed by the Company, the Trustee, the Note Registrar, any co-Note
Registrar or any 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 or other similar governmental charge
required by law or permitted pursuant to Section 13.02(d) or Section 13.02(e).
None of the Company, the Trustee, the Note
Registrar or 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 or
(ii) any Notes, or a portion of any Note, surrendered for repurchase (and not withdrawn) in accordance with Article XIV.
All Notes
issued upon any registration of transfer or exchange of Notes in accordance with this Indenture shall be the valid and binding obligations of the Company, evidencing the same debt, and entitled to the same benefits under this Indenture as the Notes
surrendered upon such registration of transfer or exchange.
(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 this Section 2.05(b) 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 a nominee of the Depositary. 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 and the procedures of the Depositary therefor.
Notwithstanding any other provisions of this
Indenture, 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 transfers of portions of a Global Note in certificated form made upon request of a member of, or a participant in, the Depositary (for itself or
on behalf of a beneficial owner) by written notice given to the Trustee by or on behalf of the Depositary in accordance with customary procedures of the Depositary and in compliance with this Section 2.05(b).
The Depositary shall be a clearing agency registered under the Exchange Act. The Company initially appoints DTC 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. Neither
the Trustee nor any agent shall have any responsibility or liability for any actions taken or not taken by the Depositary.
Transfers and
exchanges of the Notes will be effected through DTC in accordance with the Applicable Procedures.
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
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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 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(b) 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, 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 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 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 standing procedures and existing instructions between the Depositary and the Custodian, be appropriately reduced or increased, as the case may be, and an endorsement
shall be made on the Schedule of Exchanges of 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 nor 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.
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 by Company Order, the Trustee or an authenticating agent appointed by the Trustee shall, upon receipt of a Company Order, 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.
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The Trustee or such authenticating agent may authenticate upon receipt of a Company Order 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 XIII 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 or payment or 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 or payment or conversion 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 by Company Order, 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
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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, registration of transfer or exchange or conversion, if surrendered to any Person other than the Trustee
(including the Company or the Company’s agents, Subsidiaries or Affiliates), to be surrendered to the Trustee for cancellation. All Notes delivered to the Trustee shall be canceled in accordance with its customary procedures, 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 or any of its Subsidiaries 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. Any Notes surrendered for cancellation shall not be reissued or resold and shall be promptly cancelled.
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 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 and the same CUSIP number 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; so long as such additional Notes are fungible with the Notes initially issued hereunder for U.S. federal income tax purposes. 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 required by Section 16.05 and that the form
and terms of such Notes has been established in conformity with the provisions of this Indenture and that such Notes, when authenticated and delivered by the Trustee and issued by the Company in the manner and subject to any conditions specified in
such Opinion of Counsel, will constitute valid and binding obligations of the Company, enforceable in accordance with their terms, subject to bankruptcy, insolvency, fraudulent transfer, reorganization, moratorium and other similar laws of general
application affecting the rights and remedies of creditors and to general principles of equity (including, without limitation, concepts of materiality, reasonableness, good faith, fair dealing and unconscionability), regardless of whether considered
in a proceeding in equity or law. 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
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through a private or public tender or exchange offer or through counterparties to private agreements, including by cash-settled swaps or other derivatives, in each case without prior note to the
Holders. Any Notes repurchased by the Company may, at the Company’s option, be surrendered to the Trustee for cancellation in accordance with Section 2.08, but shall not be reissued or resold by the Company.
ARTICLE III
SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE
Section 3.01 Satisfaction and Discharge. This Indenture shall upon request of the Company contained in an Officer’s
Certificate cease to be of further effect, and the Trustee, at the expense and written request 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 (x) Notes which have been destroyed, lost or stolen and which have been replaced or paid as provided in Section 2.06 and (y) Notes for whose payment money has theretofore been deposited in trust
or segregated and held in trust by the Company and thereafter repaid to the Company or discharged from such trust, as provided in Section 4.03(d)) 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 Fundamental Change Repurchase Date, upon conversion or otherwise, cash or 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 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.
ARTICLE IV
PARTICULAR COVENANTS OF THE COMPANY
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 Fundamental Change 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 provided herein and in the Notes.
Section 4.02 Maintenance of Office or Agency. The Company will maintain an office or agency in New York, New York, or any other
office or agency in the United States of America so designated by the Trustee, where the Notes may be surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange or for presentation for payment or repurchase (“Paying Agent”) or for
conversion (“Conversion Agent”) and where notices and demands to or upon the Company in respect of the Notes and this Indenture may be served. The Company will give prompt written notice to the Trustee of the location, and any
change in the location, of such office or agency. If at any time the Company shall fail to maintain any such required office or agency or shall fail to furnish the Trustee with the address thereof, such presentations, surrenders, notices and demands
may be made or served at the Corporate Trust Office or the office or agency of the Trustee in Minneapolis, Minnesota, or any other office or agency in the United States of America so
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designated by the Trustee as a place where Notes may be presented for payment or for registration of transfer.
The Company may also from time to time designate as co-Note Registrars one or more other offices or agencies where the Notes may be presented
or surrendered for any or all such purposes and may from time to time rescind such designations; provided that no such designation or rescission shall in any manner relieve the Company of its obligation to maintain an office in Minneapolis,
Minnesota, or any other office or agency in the United States of America so designated by the Trustee as a place for such purposes. The Company will give prompt written notice to the Trustee of any such designation or rescission and of any change in
the location of any such other office or agency. The terms “Paying Agent” and “Conversion Agent” include any such additional or other offices or agencies, as applicable.
The Company hereby initially designates the Trustee as the Paying Agent, Note Registrar, Custodian and Conversion Agent and the Corporate
Trust Office and the office of the Trustee in Minneapolis, Minnesota, or any other office or agency in the United States of America so designated by the Trustee, each shall be considered as one such office or agency of the Company for each of the
aforesaid purposes.
Section 4.03 Provisions as to Paying Agent. (a) If the Company shall appoint a Paying Agent other
than the Trustee, the Company will cause such Paying Agent to execute and deliver to the Trustee an instrument in which such agent shall agree with the Trustee, subject to the provisions of this Section 4.03:
(i) that it will hold all sums held by it as such agent for the payment of the principal (including the Fundamental Change
Repurchase Price, if applicable) of, and accrued and unpaid interest on, the Notes in trust for the benefit of the Holders of the Notes;
(ii) that it will give the Trustee prompt written notice of any failure by the Company to make any payment of the principal
(including the Fundamental Change Repurchase Price, if applicable) of, and accrued and unpaid interest on, the Notes when the same shall be due and payable; and
(iii) that at any time during the continuance of an Event of Default, upon request of the Trustee, it will forthwith pay to the
Trustee all sums so held in trust.
The Company shall, on or before each due date of the principal (including the Fundamental
Change Repurchase Price, if applicable) of, or accrued and unpaid interest on, the Notes, deposit with the Paying Agent a sum sufficient to pay such principal (including the Fundamental Change Repurchase Price, if applicable) or accrued and unpaid
interest, and (unless such Paying Agent is the Trustee) the Company will promptly notify the Trustee in writing of any failure to take such action; provided that if such deposit is made on the due date, such deposit must be received by the
Paying Agent by 11:00 a.m., New York City time, on such date.
(b) If the Company shall act as its own Paying Agent, it will, on
or before each due date of the principal (including the Fundamental Change Repurchase Price, if applicable) of, and accrued and unpaid interest on, the Notes, set aside, segregate and hold in trust for the benefit of
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the Holders of the Notes a sum sufficient to pay such principal (including the Fundamental Change Repurchase Price, if applicable) and accrued and unpaid interest so becoming due and will
promptly notify the Trustee in writing of any failure to take such action and of any failure by the Company to make any payment of the principal (including the Fundamental Change Repurchase Price, if applicable) of, or accrued and unpaid interest
on, the Notes when the same shall become due and payable.
(c) Anything in this Section 4.03 to the contrary notwithstanding, the
Company may, at any time, for the purpose of obtaining a satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture, or for any other reason, pay, cause to be paid or deliver to the Trustee all sums or amounts held in trust by the Company or any Paying Agent
hereunder as required by this Section 4.03, such sums or amounts to be held by the Trustee upon the trusts herein contained and upon such payment or delivery by the Company or any Paying Agent to the Trustee, the Company or such Paying Agent
shall be released from all further liability but only with respect to such sums or amounts.
(d) Any money and shares of Common Stock
deposited with the Trustee or any Paying Agent, or then held by the Company, in trust for the payment of the principal (including the Fundamental Change Repurchase Price, if applicable) of, accrued and unpaid interest on and the consideration due
upon conversion of, any Note and remaining unclaimed for two years after such principal (including the Fundamental Change Repurchase Price, if applicable) or interest has become due and payable shall be paid to the Company on request of the Company
contained in an Officer’s Certificate, or (if then held by the Company) shall be discharged from such trust; and the Holder of such Note shall thereafter, as an unsecured general creditor, look only to the Company for payment thereof, and all
liability of the Trustee or such Paying Agent with respect to such trust money and shares of Common Stock, and all liability of the Company as trustee thereof, shall thereupon cease.
(e) The Company shall be responsible for making calculations called for under the Notes, including but not limited to determination of
redemption price, premium, if any, and any additional amounts or other amounts payable on the Notes. The Company will make the calculations in good faith and, absent manifest error, its calculations will be final and binding on the Holders. The
Company will provide a schedule of its calculations to the Trustee when requested by the Trustee, and the Trustee is entitled to rely conclusively on the accuracy of the Company’s calculations without independent verification. The Trustee shall
forward the Company’s calculations to any Holder of the Notes upon the written request of such Holder.
Section 4.04
Existence. Subject to Article XI, the Company shall do or cause to be done all things necessary to preserve and keep in full force and effect its corporate existence.
Section 4.05 Annual Reports. (a) The Company shall provide to the Trustee, and, upon request, to Holders, within 15 days
after the same are required to be filed with the Commission (giving effect to any grace period provided by Rule 12b-25 under the Exchange Act), copies of any documents or reports that the Company is required to file with the Commission pursuant to
Section 13 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act (excluding any such information, documents or reports, or portions thereof, subject to confidential treatment and any correspondence with the Commission). Any such document or report that the Company
files with the Commission via the Commission’s EDGAR system shall be deemed to be filed with the Trustee for purposes of this
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Section 4.05(a) at the time such documents are filed via the EDGAR system, it being understood that the Trustee shall not be responsible for determining whether such filings have been made.
(b) Delivery of the reports and documents described in subsection (a) above to the Trustee is for informational purposes only, and
the Trustee’s receipt of such shall not constitute constructive notice of any information contained therein or determinable from information contained therein, including the Company’s compliance with any of its covenants hereunder (as to
which the Trustee is entitled to conclusively rely on an Officer’s Certificate). The Trustee is under no duty to examine such reports, information or documents to ensure compliance with the provision of the Indenture or to ascertain the
correctness or otherwise of the information or the statements contained therein. The Trustee shall no responsibility or duty whatsoever to ascertain or determine whether the above referenced filings with the Commission on EDGAR (or any successor
system) has occurred.
Section 4.06 Stay, Extension and Usury Laws. The Company covenants (to the extent that it may lawfully
do so) that it shall not at any time insist upon, plead, or in any manner whatsoever claim or take the benefit or advantage of, any stay, extension or usury law or other law that would prohibit or forgive the Company from paying all or any portion
of the principal of or interest on the Notes as contemplated herein, wherever enacted, now or at any time hereafter in force, or that may affect the covenants or the performance of this Indenture; and the Company (to the extent it may lawfully do
so) hereby expressly waives all benefit or advantage of any such law, and covenants that it will not, by resort to any such law, hinder, delay or impede the execution of any power herein granted to the Trustee, but will suffer and permit the
execution of every such power as though no such law had been enacted.
Section 4.07 Compliance Certificate; Statements as to
Defaults. The Company shall deliver to the Trustee within 120 days after the end of each fiscal year of the Company an Officer’s Certificate stating whether or not the signers thereof have knowledge of any failure by the Company to comply
with all conditions and covenants then required to be performed under this Indenture and, if so, specifying each such failure and the nature thereof.
In addition, the Company shall deliver to the Trustee, as soon as possible, and in any event within 30 days after the Company becomes aware of
the occurrence of any Event of Default or Default, an Officer’s Certificate setting forth the details of such Event of Default or Default, its status and the action that the Company is taking or proposing to take in respect thereof.
Section 4.08 Further Instruments and Acts. Upon request of the Trustee, the Company will execute and deliver such further
instruments and do such further acts as may be reasonably necessary or proper to carry out more effectively the purposes of this Indenture.
ARTICLE V
LISTS
OF HOLDERS AND REPORTS BY THE COMPANY AND THE TRUSTEE
Section 5.01 Lists of Holders. For so long as there are any Physical Notes, the Company covenants and agrees that it will furnish
or cause to be furnished to the Trustee, semi-annually, not more than 15 days after each July 15 and January 15 in each year beginning with July 15, 2015, and at such other times as the Trustee may request in writing, within 30 days
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by the Company of any such request (or such lesser time as the Trustee may reasonably request in order to enable it to timely provide any notice to be provided by it hereunder), a list in such
form as the Trustee may reasonably require of the names and addresses of the Holders as of a date not more than 15 days (or such other date as the Trustee may reasonably request in order to so provide any such notices) prior to the time such
information is furnished, except that no such list need be furnished so long as the Trustee is acting as Note Registrar.
Section 5.02 Preservation and Disclosure of Lists. The Trustee shall preserve, in as current a form as is reasonably practicable,
all information as to the names and addresses of the Holders contained in the most recent list furnished to it as provided in Section 5.01 or maintained by the Trustee in its capacity as Note Registrar, if so acting. The Trustee may destroy any
list furnished to it as provided in Section 5.01 upon receipt of a new list so furnished.
ARTICLE VI
DEFAULTS AND REMEDIES
Section 6.01 Events of Default. Each of the following events shall be “Events of Default” with respect to the
Notes:
(a) default in any payment of interest on any Note when due and payable, and the default continues for a period of 30 days;
(b) default in the payment of principal of any Note when due and payable on the Maturity Date, upon any required repurchase, upon declaration
of acceleration or otherwise;
(c) failure by the Company to comply with its obligation to convert the Notes in accordance with this
Indenture upon exercise of a Holder’s conversion right and such failure continues for a period of five Business Days;
(d) failure by
the Company to issue a Fundamental Change Company Notice in accordance with Section 14.01(c) when due, which default continues for five days;
(e) failure by the Company to comply with its obligations under Article XI;
(f) failure by the Company for 60 days after written notice from the Trustee or the Holders of at least 25% in principal amount of the Notes
then outstanding (with a copy to the Trustee) has been received by the Company to comply with any of its other agreements contained in the Notes or this Indenture;
(g) default by the Company or any subsidiary of the Company with respect to any mortgage, agreement or other instrument under which there may
be outstanding, or by which there may be secured or evidenced, any indebtedness for money borrowed (other than non-recourse debt of a subsidiary) in excess of $25,000,000 (or its foreign currency equivalent) in the aggregate of the Company and/or
any such Subsidiary, whether such indebtedness now exists or shall hereafter be created (i) resulting in such indebtedness becoming or being declared due and payable or (ii) constituting a failure to pay the principal or interest of any
such debt when due and payable at its stated maturity, upon required repurchase, upon declaration of acceleration or otherwise, and such acceleration shall not have been rescinded or annulled or such failure to pay
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shall not have been cured, as the case may be, within 30 days after written notice to the Company by the Trustee or to the Company and the Trustee by the Holders of at least 25% in principal
amount of the Notes then outstanding in accordance in with this Indenture has been received;
(h) a final judgment for the payment of
$25,000,000 (or its foreign currency equivalent) or more (excluding any amounts covered by insurance) rendered against the Company or any Subsidiary of the Company, which judgment is not discharged or stayed within 60 days after (i) the date on
which the right to appeal thereof has expired if no such appeal has commenced, or (ii) the date on which all rights to appeal have been extinguished;
(i) the Company or any Significant Subsidiary (other than any CLO Subsidiary) (A) shall commence a voluntary case or other proceeding
seeking liquidation, reorganization or other relief with respect to the Company or any such Significant Subsidiary or its debts under any bankruptcy, insolvency or other similar law now or hereafter in effect or seeking the appointment of a trustee,
receiver, liquidator, custodian or other similar official of the Company or any such Significant Subsidiary or any substantial part of its property; (B) shall consent to any such relief or to the appointment of or taking possession by any such
official in an involuntary case or other proceeding commenced against it, or (C) shall make a general assignment for the benefit of creditors, or (ii) the Company or any Significant Subsidiary shall admit in writing of the inability of the
Company or any Significant Subsidiary to pay its debts generally as they become due;
(j) an involuntary case or other proceeding shall be
commenced against the Company or any Significant Subsidiary (other than any CLO Subsidiary) seeking liquidation, reorganization or other relief with respect to the Company or such Significant Subsidiary or its debts under any bankruptcy, insolvency
or other similar law now or hereafter in effect or seeking the appointment of a trustee, receiver, liquidator, custodian or other similar official of the Company or such Significant Subsidiary or any substantial part of its property, and such
involuntary case or other proceeding shall remain undismissed and unstayed for a period of 60 consecutive days; or
(k) a CLO Subsidiary
files for bankruptcy or other events of bankruptcy, insolvency or reorganization occur relating to a CLO subsidiary (such bankruptcy filing or event, a “reference event”) and the potential loss in the case of a complete loss of the
Company’s capital at risk in such CLO subsidiary, together with such potential losses from any other CLO subsidiaries that have filed for bankruptcy or commenced such other events within a period of 90 days prior to a reference event, exceeds
10% of the Company’s consolidated net assets as of the fiscal quarter immediately prior to the date of the reference event.
Section 6.02 Acceleration; Rescission and Annulment. If one or more Events of Default shall have occurred and be continuing
(whatever the reason for such Event of Default and whether it shall be voluntary or involuntary or be effected by operation of law or pursuant to any judgment, decree or order of any court or any order, rule or regulation of any administrative or
governmental body), then, and in each and every such case (other than an Event of Default specified in Section 6.01(i) or Section 6.01(j) with respect to the Company), unless the principal of all of the Notes shall have already become due
and payable, either the Trustee or the Holders of at least 25% in aggregate principal amount of the Notes then outstanding determined in accordance with Section 8.04, by written notice to the Company (and to the Trustee if given by
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Holders), may, and the Trustee, at the written request of such Holders, shall, declare 100% of the principal of, and accrued and unpaid interest on, all the Notes to be due and payable
immediately, and upon any such declaration the same shall become and shall automatically be immediately due and payable, anything contained in this Indenture or in the Notes to the contrary notwithstanding. If an Event of Default specified in
Section 6.01(i) or Section 6.01(j) with respect to the Company occurs and is continuing, 100% of the principal of, and accrued and unpaid interest, if any, on, all Notes shall become and shall automatically be immediately due and payable.
The immediately preceding paragraph, however, is subject to the conditions that if, at any time after the principal of the Notes shall
have been so declared due and payable, and before any judgment or decree for the payment of the monies due shall have been obtained or entered as hereinafter provided, the Company shall pay or shall deposit with the Trustee a sum sufficient to pay
installments of accrued and unpaid interest upon all Notes and the principal of any and all Notes that shall have become due otherwise than by acceleration (with interest on overdue installments of accrued and unpaid interest to the extent that
payment of such interest is enforceable under applicable law, and on such principal at the rate borne by the Notes) and amounts due to the Trustee pursuant to Section 7.06, and if (1) rescission would not conflict with any judgment or
decree of a court of competent jurisdiction and (2) any and all existing Events of Default under this Indenture, other than the nonpayment of the principal of and accrued and unpaid interest, if any, on Notes that shall have become due solely
by such acceleration, shall have been cured or waived pursuant to Section 6.09, then and in every such case (except as provided in the immediately succeeding sentence) the Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Notes then
outstanding, by written notice to the Company and to the Trustee, may waive all Defaults or Events of Default with respect to the Notes and rescind and annul such declaration and its consequences and such Default shall cease to exist, and any Event
of Default arising therefrom shall be deemed to have been cured for every purpose of this Indenture; but no such waiver or rescission and annulment shall extend to or shall affect any subsequent Default or Event of Default, or shall impair any right
consequent thereon. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, no such waiver or rescission and annulment shall extend to or shall affect any Default or Event of Default resulting from (i) the nonpayment of the principal of, or accrued
and unpaid interest on, any Notes, (ii) a failure to repurchase Notes when required, (iii) a failure to pay or deliver, as the case may be, the consideration due upon conversion of the Notes or (iv) any other provision that requires
the consent of each affected Holder to amend.
Section 6.03 Additional Interest in Lieu of Reporting Default. Notwithstanding
anything in this Indenture or in the Notes to the contrary, to the extent the Company elects, the sole remedy for an Event of Default relating to the Company’s failure to comply with its obligations as set forth in Section 4.05(a) shall
after the occurrence of such an Event of Default consist exclusively of the right to receive Additional Interest on the Notes at a rate equal to (i) 0.25% per annum of the principal amount of the Notes outstanding for each day during the
first 180 days after the occurrence of such Event of Default and (ii) 0.50% per annum of the principal amount of the Notes outstanding from the 181st day until the 270th day following the occurrence of such Event of Default, during which such Event of Default is continuing beginning on, and including, the date on which such an Event of Default first occurs. If the
Company so elects, such Additional Interest shall be payable in the same manner and on the same dates as regular interest
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on the Notes. On the 271st day after such Event of Default (if the Event of Default relating to the Company’s failure to comply with its
obligations as set forth in Section 4.05(a) is not cured or waived prior to such 271st day), the Notes will be subject to acceleration as provided in Section 6.02. In the event the
Company does not elect to pay Additional Interest following an Event of Default in accordance with this Section 6.03 or the Company elected to make such payment but does not pay the Additional Interest when due, the Notes shall be subject to
acceleration as provided in Section 6.02.
In order to elect to pay Additional Interest as the sole remedy during the first 270 days
after the occurrence of any Event of Default described in the immediately preceding paragraph, the Company must notify in writing all Holders of the Notes, the Trustee and the Paying Agent of such election prior to the beginning of such 180-day
period. Upon the failure to timely give such notice, the Notes shall be immediately subject to acceleration as provided in Section 6.02.
Section 6.04 Payments of Notes on Default; Suit Therefor. If an Event of Default described in clause (a) or
(b) of Section 6.01 shall have occurred, the Company shall pay to the Trustee, for the benefit of the Holders of the Notes, the whole amount then due and payable on the Notes for principal and interest, if any, with interest on any overdue
principal and interest, if any, at the rate borne by the Notes at such time, and, in addition thereto, such further amount as shall be sufficient to cover any amounts due to the Trustee under Section 7.06. If the Company shall fail to pay such
amounts forthwith upon such demand, the Trustee, in its own name and as trustee of an express trust, may institute a judicial proceeding for the collection of the sums so due and unpaid, may prosecute such proceeding to judgment or final decree and
may enforce the same against the Company or any other obligor upon the Notes and collect the moneys adjudged or decreed to be payable in the manner provided by law out of the property of the Company or any other obligor upon the Notes, wherever
situated.
In the event there shall be pending proceedings for the bankruptcy or for the reorganization of the Company or any
other obligor on the Notes under Title 11 of the United States Code, or any other applicable law, or in case a receiver, assignee or trustee in bankruptcy or reorganization, liquidator, sequestrator or similar official shall have been appointed for
or taken possession of the Company or such other obligor, the property of the Company or such other obligor, or in the event of any other judicial proceedings relative to the Company or such other obligor upon the Notes, or to the creditors or
property of the Company or such other obligor, the Trustee, irrespective of whether the principal of the Notes shall then be due and payable as therein expressed or by declaration or otherwise and irrespective of whether the Trustee shall have made
any demand pursuant to the provisions of this Section 6.04, shall be entitled and empowered, by intervention in such proceedings or otherwise, to file and prove a claim or claims for the whole amount of principal and accrued and unpaid
interest, if any, in respect of the Notes, and, in case of any judicial proceedings, to file such proofs of claim and other papers or documents and to take such other actions as it may deem necessary or advisable in order to have the claims of the
Trustee (including any claim for the compensation and reasonable expenses, disbursements and advances of the Trustee, its agents and counsel) and of the Holders allowed in such judicial proceedings relative to the Company or any other obligor on the
Notes, its or their creditors, or its or their property, and to collect and receive any monies or other property payable or deliverable on any such claims, and to distribute the same after the deduction of any amounts due to the Trustee under
Section 7.06; and any receiver, assignee or
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trustee in bankruptcy or reorganization, liquidator, custodian or similar official is hereby authorized by each of the Holders to make such payments to the Trustee, as administrative expenses,
and, in the event that the Trustee shall consent to the making of such payments directly to the Holders, to pay to the Trustee any amount due it for compensation and reasonable expenses, advances and disbursements, including agents and counsel fees
and expenses, and including any other amounts due to the Trustee under Section 7.06, incurred by it up to the date of such distribution. To the extent that such payment of compensation and reasonable expenses, advances and disbursements out of
the estate in any such proceedings shall be denied for any reason, payment of the same shall be secured by a lien on, and shall be paid out of, any and all distributions, dividends, monies, securities and other property that the Holders of the Notes
may be entitled to receive in such proceedings, whether in liquidation or under any plan of reorganization or arrangement or otherwise.
Nothing herein contained shall be deemed to authorize the Trustee to authorize or consent to or accept or adopt on behalf of any Holder any
plan of reorganization, arrangement, adjustment or composition affecting such Holder or the rights of any Holder thereof, or to authorize the Trustee to vote in respect of the claim of any Holder in any such proceeding.
All rights of action and of asserting claims under this Indenture, or under any of the Notes, may be enforced by the Trustee without the
possession of any of the Notes, or the production thereof at any trial or other proceeding relative thereto, and any such suit or proceeding instituted by the Trustee shall be brought in its own name as trustee of an express trust, and any recovery
of judgment shall, after provision for the payment of the compensation and reasonable expenses, disbursements and advances of the Trustee, its agents and counsel, be for the ratable benefit of the Holders of the Notes.
In any proceedings brought by the Trustee (and in any proceedings involving the interpretation of any provision of this Indenture to which the
Trustee shall be a party), the Trustee shall be held to represent all the Holders of the Notes, and it shall not be necessary to make any Holders of the Notes parties to any such proceedings.
In case the Trustee shall have proceeded to enforce any right under this Indenture and such proceedings shall have been discontinued or
abandoned because of any waiver pursuant to Section 6.09 or any rescission and annulment pursuant to Section 6.02 or for any other reason or shall have been determined adversely to the Trustee, then and in every such case the Company, the
Holders, and the Trustee shall, subject to any determination in such proceeding, be restored respectively to their several positions and rights hereunder, and all rights, remedies and powers of the Company, the Holders, and the Trustee shall
continue as though no such proceeding had been instituted.
Section 6.05 Application of Monies Collected by Trustee.
Any monies collected by the Trustee pursuant to this Article VI with respect to the Notes shall be applied in the following order, at the date or dates fixed by the Trustee for the distribution of such monies, upon presentation of the several Notes,
and stamping thereon the payment, if only partially paid, and upon surrender thereof, if fully paid:
First, to the payment of all
amounts due the Trustee under Section 7.06;
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Second, in case the principal of the outstanding Notes shall not have become due and be unpaid,
to the payment of interest on, and any cash due upon conversion of, the Notes in default in the order of the date due of the payments of such interest and cash due upon conversion, as the case may be, with interest (to the extent that such interest
has been collected by the Trustee) upon such overdue payments at the rate borne by the Notes at such time, such payments to be made ratably to the Persons entitled thereto;
Third, in case the principal of the outstanding Notes shall have become due, by declaration or otherwise, and be unpaid to the payment of the
whole amount (including, if applicable, the payment of the Fundamental Change Repurchase Price and any cash due upon conversion) then owing and unpaid upon the Notes for principal and interest, if any, with interest on the overdue principal and, to
the extent that such interest has been collected by the Trustee, upon overdue installments of interest at the rate borne by the Notes at such time, and in case such monies shall be insufficient to pay in full the whole amounts so due and unpaid upon
the Notes, then to the payment of such principal (including, if applicable, the Fundamental Change Repurchase Price and the cash due upon conversion) and interest without preference or priority of principal over interest, or of interest over
principal or of any installment of interest over any other installment of interest, or of any Note over any other Note, ratably to the aggregate of such principal (including, if applicable, the Fundamental Change Repurchase Price and any cash due
upon conversion) and accrued and unpaid interest; and
Fourth, to the payment of the remainder, if any, to the Company.
Section 6.06 Proceedings by Holders. Except to enforce the right to receive payment of principal (including, if applicable,
the Fundamental Change Repurchase Price) or interest when due, or the right to receive payment or delivery of the consideration due upon conversion, no Holder of any Note shall have any right by virtue of or by availing of any provision of this
Indenture to institute any suit, action or proceeding in equity or at law upon or under or with respect to this Indenture, or for the appointment of a receiver, trustee, liquidator, custodian or other similar official, or for any other remedy
hereunder, unless:
(a) such Holder previously shall have given to the Trustee written notice of an Event of Default and of the
continuance thereof, as herein provided;
(b) Holders of at least 25% in aggregate principal amount of the Notes then outstanding shall
have made a written request to the Trustee to pursue such remedy hereunder;
(c) such Holders shall have offered to the Trustee such
security or indemnity satisfactory to it against any loss, liability or expense to be incurred therein or thereby;
(d) the Trustee for 60
days after its receipt of the request and offer of security or indemnity, shall not complied with such request; and
(e) no direction
that, in the opinion of the Trustee, is inconsistent with such written request shall have been given to the Trustee by the Holders of a majority of the aggregate principal amount of the Notes then outstanding within such 60-day period pursuant to
Section 6.09, it being understood and intended, and being expressly covenanted by the taker and Holder of every Note with every other taker and Holder and the Trustee that no one or more Holders
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shall have any right in any manner whatever by virtue of or by availing of any provision of this Indenture to affect, disturb or prejudice the rights of any other Holder (it being understood that
the Trustee does not have an affirmative duty to ascertain whether or not such actions or forbearances are unduly prejudicial to such Holders), or to obtain or seek to obtain priority over or preference to any other such Holder, or to enforce any
right under this Indenture, except in the manner herein provided and for the equal, ratable and common benefit of all Holders (except as otherwise provided herein). For the protection and enforcement of this Section 6.06, each and every Holder
and the Trustee shall be entitled to such relief as can be given either at law or in equity.
Notwithstanding any other provision of this
Indenture and any provision of any Note, the right of any Holder to receive payment or delivery, as the case may be, of (x) the principal (including the Fundamental Change Repurchase Price, if applicable) of, (y) accrued and unpaid
interest, if any, on, and (z) the consideration due upon conversion of, such Note, on or after the respective due dates expressed or provided for in such Note or in this Indenture, or to institute suit for the enforcement of any such payment or
delivery, as the case may be, on or after such respective dates against the Company shall not be impaired or affected without the consent of such Holder.
Section 6.07 Proceedings by Trustee. In case of an Event of Default the Trustee may in its discretion proceed to protect
and enforce the rights vested in it by this Indenture by such appropriate judicial proceedings as are necessary to protect and enforce any of such rights, either by suit in equity or by action at law or by proceeding in bankruptcy or otherwise,
whether for the specific enforcement of any covenant or agreement contained in this Indenture or in aid of the exercise of any power granted in this Indenture, or to enforce any other legal or equitable right vested in the Trustee by this Indenture
or by law.
Section 6.08 Remedies Cumulative and Continuing. Except as provided in the last paragraph of
Section 2.05, all powers and remedies given by this Article VI to the Trustee or to the Holders shall, to the extent permitted by law, be deemed cumulative and not exclusive of any thereof or of any other powers and remedies available to the
Trustee or the Holders of the Notes, by judicial proceedings or otherwise, to enforce the performance or observance of the covenants and agreements contained in this Indenture, and no delay or omission of the Trustee or of any Holder of any of the
Notes to exercise any right or power accruing upon any Default or Event of Default shall impair any such right or power, or shall be construed to be a waiver of any such Default or Event of Default or any acquiescence therein; and, subject to the
provisions of Section 6.06, every power and remedy given by this Article VI or by law to the Trustee or to the Holders may be exercised from time to time, and as often as shall be deemed expedient, by the Trustee or by the Holders.
Section 6.09 Direction of Proceedings and Waiver of Defaults by Majority of Holders. The Holders of a majority of the aggregate
principal amount of the Notes at the time outstanding determined in accordance with Section 8.04 shall have the right to direct the time, method and place of conducting any proceeding for any remedy available to the Trustee or exercising any
trust or power conferred on the Trustee with respect to Notes; provided, however, that such direction shall not be in conflict with any rule of law or with this Indenture, and the Trustee may take any other action deemed proper by the
Trustee that is not inconsistent with such direction. The Trustee may refuse to follow any direction that it determines is unduly prejudicial to the
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rights of any other Holder or that would involve the Trustee in personal liability. The Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Notes at the time outstanding determined in
accordance with Section 8.04 may on behalf of the Holders of all of the Notes waive any past Default or Event of Default hereunder and its consequences except (i) a default in the payment of accrued and unpaid interest, if any, on, or the
principal (including any Fundamental Change Repurchase Price) of, the Notes when due that has not been cured pursuant to the provisions of Section 6.01, (ii) a failure by the Company to pay or deliver, as the case may be, the consideration
due upon conversion of the Notes or (iii) a default in respect of a covenant or provision hereof which under Article X cannot be modified or amended without the consent of each Holder of an outstanding Note affected. Upon any such waiver the
Company, the Trustee and the Holders of the Notes shall be restored to their former positions and rights hereunder; but no such waiver shall extend to any subsequent or other Default or Event of Default or impair any right consequent thereon.
Whenever any Default or Event of Default hereunder shall have been waived as permitted by this Section 6.09, said Default or Event of Default shall for all purposes of the Notes and this Indenture be deemed to have been cured and to be not
continuing; but no such waiver shall extend to any subsequent or other Default or Event of Default or impair any right consequent thereon.
Section 6.10 Notice of Defaults. The Trustee shall, within 90 days after it receives notice of the occurrence and
continuance of a Default of which a Responsible Officer of the Trustee has actual knowledge, send to all Holders as the names and addresses of such Holders appear upon the Note Register, notice of all such Defaults, unless such Defaults shall have
been cured or waived before the giving of such notice; provided that, except in the case of a Default in the payment of the principal of (including the Fundamental Change Repurchase Price, if applicable), or accrued and unpaid interest on,
any of the Notes or a Default in the payment or delivery of the consideration due upon conversion, the Trustee shall be protected in withholding such notice if and so long as it in good faith determines that the withholding of such notice is in the
interests of the Holders.
Section 6.11 Undertaking to Pay Costs. All parties to this Indenture agree, and each
Holder of any Note by its acceptance thereof shall be deemed to have agreed, that any court may, in its discretion, require, in any suit for the enforcement of any right or remedy under this Indenture, or in any suit against the Trustee for any
action taken or omitted by it as Trustee, the filing by any party litigant in such suit of an undertaking to pay the costs of such suit and that such court may in its discretion assess reasonable costs, including reasonable attorneys’ fees and
expenses, against any party litigant in such suit, having due regard to the merits and good faith of the claims or defenses made by such party litigant; provided that the provisions of this Section 6.11 (to the extent permitted by law)
shall not apply to any suit instituted by the Trustee, or to any suit instituted by any Holder for the enforcement of the payment of the principal of or accrued and unpaid interest, if any, on any Note (including, but not limited to, the Fundamental
Change Repurchase Price with respect to the Notes being repurchased as provided in this Indenture) on or after the due date expressed or provided for in such Note or to any suit for the enforcement of the right to convert any Note in accordance with
the provisions of Article XIII.
Section 6.12 Trustee May File Proofs of Claim. The Trustee is authorized to file such
proofs of claim and other papers or documents as may be necessary or advisable in order to have the claims of the Trustee (including any claim for the reasonable compensation, expenses,
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disbursements and advances of the Trustee, its agents and counsel) and the Holders of the Notes allowed in any judicial proceedings relative to the Company or any Guarantor (or any other obligor
upon the Notes), its creditors or its property and shall be entitled and empowered to collect, receive and distribute any money or other property payable or deliverable on any such claims and any custodian in any such judicial proceeding is hereby
authorized by each Holder to make such payments to the Trustee, and in the event that the Trustee shall consent to the making of such payments directly to the Holders, to pay to the Trustee any amount due to it for the reasonable compensation,
expenses, disbursements and advances of the Trustee, its agents and counsel, and any other amounts due the Trustee under Section 7.06 hereof. To the extent that the payment of any such compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the
Trustee, its agents and counsel, and any other amounts due the Trustee under Section 7.06 hereof out of the estate in any such proceeding, shall be denied for any reason, payment of the same shall be secured by a Lien on, and shall be paid out
of, any and all distributions, dividends, money, securities and other properties that the Holders may be entitled to receive in such proceeding whether in liquidation or under any plan of reorganization or arrangement or otherwise. Nothing herein
contained shall be deemed to authorize the Trustee to authorize or consent to or accept or adopt on behalf of any Holder any plan of reorganization, arrangement, adjustment or composition affecting the Notes or the rights of any Holder, or to
authorize the Trustee to vote in respect of the claim of any Holder in any such proceeding. The Trustee may, on behalf of the Holders, vote for the election of a trustee in bankruptcy or similar official and be a member of a creditors’
committee or other similar committee
ARTICLE VII
CONCERNING THE TRUSTEE
Section 7.01 Duties and Responsibilities of Trustee. The Trustee, prior to the occurrence of an Event of Default and after
the curing or waiver of all Events of Default that may have occurred, undertakes to perform such duties and only such duties as are specifically set forth in this Indenture. In case an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing that is known by
a Responsible Officer, the Trustee shall exercise such of the rights and powers vested in it by this Indenture, and use the same degree of care and skill in their exercise, as a prudent person would exercise or use under the circumstances in the
conduct of such person’s own affairs; provided that if an Event of Default occurs and is continuing, the Trustee will be under no obligation to exercise any of the rights or powers under this Indenture at the request or direction of any
of the Holders unless such Holders have offered to the Trustee indemnity or security satisfactory to the Trustee against any loss, liability or expense that might be incurred by it in compliance with such request or direction.
No provision of this Indenture shall be construed to relieve the Trustee from liability for its own grossly negligent action, its own grossly
negligent failure to act or its own willful misconduct, except that:
(a) prior to the occurrence of an Event of Default and after the
curing or waiving of all Events of Default that may have occurred:
(i) the duties and obligations of the Trustee shall be
determined solely by the express provisions of this Indenture, and the Trustee shall not be liable except for the performance of such duties and obligations as are specifically set forth in this Indenture
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and no implied covenants or obligations shall be read into this Indenture against the Trustee; and
(ii) in the absence of bad faith on the part of the Trustee, the Trustee may conclusively rely, as to the truth of the
statements and the correctness of the opinions expressed therein, upon any certificates or opinions furnished to the Trustee and conforming to the requirements of this Indenture; but, in the case of any such certificates or opinions that by any
provisions hereof are specifically required to be furnished to the Trustee, the Trustee shall be under a duty to examine the same to determine whether or not they conform to the requirements of this Indenture (but need not confirm or investigate the
accuracy of any mathematical calculations or other facts stated therein);
(b) the Trustee shall not be liable for any error of judgment
made in good faith by a Responsible Officer or Officers of the Trustee, unless it shall be proved that the Trustee was grossly negligent in ascertaining the pertinent facts;
(c) the Trustee shall not be liable with respect to any action taken or omitted to be taken by it in good faith in accordance with the
direction of the Holders of not less than a majority of the aggregate principal amount of the Notes at the time outstanding determined as provided in Section 8.04 relating to the time, method and place of conducting any proceeding for any
remedy available to the Trustee, or exercising any trust or power conferred upon the Trustee, under this Indenture;
(d) whether or not
therein provided, every provision of this Indenture relating to the conduct or affecting the liability of, or affording protection to, the Trustee shall be subject to the provisions of this Section;
(e) the Trustee shall not be liable in respect of any payment (as to the correctness of amount, entitlement to receive or any other matters
relating to payment) or notice effected by the Company or any Paying Agent or any records maintained by any co-Note Registrar with respect to the Notes;
(f) if any party fails to deliver a notice relating to an event the fact of which, pursuant to this Indenture, requires notice to be sent to
the Trustee, the Trustee may conclusively rely on its failure to receive such notice as reason to act as if no such event occurred, unless a Responsible Officer of the Trustee had actual knowledge of such event;
(g) in the absence of written investment direction from the Company, all cash received by the Trustee shall be placed in a non-interest
bearing trust account, and in no event shall the Trustee be liable for the selection of investments or for investment losses incurred thereon or for losses incurred as a result of the liquidation of any such investment prior to its maturity date or
the failure of the party directing such investments prior to its maturity date or the failure of the party directing such investment to provide timely written investment direction, and the Trustee shall have no obligation to invest or reinvest any
amounts held hereunder in the absence of such written investment direction from the Company; and
(h) in the event that the Trustee is
also acting as Custodian, Note Registrar, Paying Agent, Conversion Agent, transfer agent or any other capacity hereunder, the rights and
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protections afforded to the Trustee pursuant to this Article VII, including without limitation the right to be indemnified, shall also be afforded to such Custodian, Note Registrar, Paying Agent,
Conversion Agent or transfer agent.
None of the provisions contained in this Indenture shall require the Trustee to expend or risk its
own funds or otherwise incur personal financial liability in the performance of any of its duties or in the exercise of any of its rights or powers.
Section 7.02 Reliance on Documents, Opinions, Etc. Except as otherwise provided in Section 7.01:
(a) the Trustee may conclusively rely and shall be fully protected in acting upon any resolution, certificate, statement, instrument, opinion,
report, notice, request, consent, order, bond, Note, coupon or other paper or document believed by it in good faith to be genuine and to have been signed or presented by the proper party or parties;
(b) any request, direction, order or demand of the Company mentioned herein shall be sufficiently evidenced by an Officer’s Certificate
and Opinion of Counsel (unless other evidence in respect thereof be herein specifically prescribed); and any Board Resolution may be evidenced to the Trustee by a copy thereof certified by the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary of the Company;
(c) the Trustee may consult with counsel of its selection and require an Opinion of Counsel and any advice of such counsel or Opinion of
Counsel shall be full and complete authorization and protection in respect of any action taken or omitted by it hereunder in good faith and in accordance with such advice or Opinion of Counsel;
(d) the Trustee shall not be bound to make any investigation into the facts or matters stated in any resolution, certificate, statement,
instrument, opinion, report, notice, request, direction, consent, order, bond, debenture or other paper or document, but the Trustee, in its discretion, may make such further inquiry or investigation into such facts or matters as it may see fit,
and, if the Trustee shall determine to make such further inquiry or investigation, it shall be entitled to examine the books, records and premises of the Company, personally or by agent or attorney at the expense of the Company and shall incur no
liability of any kind by reason of such inquiry or investigation;
(e) the Trustee may execute any of the trusts or powers hereunder or
perform any duties hereunder either directly or by or through agents, custodians, nominees or attorneys and the Trustee shall not be responsible for any misconduct or negligence on the part of any agent, custodian, nominee or attorney appointed by
it with due care hereunder;
(f) the permissive rights of the Trustee enumerated herein shall not be construed as duties;
(g) the Trustee shall not be required to give any bond or surety in respect of the performance of its powers and duties hereunder;
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(h) the Trustee may request that the Company deliver a certificate setting forth the names of
individuals and/or titles of officers authorized at such time to take specified actions pursuant to this Indenture; and
(i) the Trustee
shall not be liable for any action taken, suffered, or omitted to be taken by it in good faith and reasonably believed by it to be authorized or within the discretion or rights or powers conferred upon it by this Indenture, provided that the
Trustee’s conduct does not constitute negligence or willful misconduct.
In no event shall the Trustee be liable for any special,
indirect, punitive or consequential loss or damage of any kind whatsoever (including, but not limited to, lost profits), even if the Trustee has been advised of the likelihood of such loss or damage and regardless of the form of action other than
any such loss or damage caused by the Trustee’s willful misconduct or negligence. The Trustee shall not be charged with knowledge of any Default or Event of Default with respect to the Notes, unless either (1) a Responsible Officer shall
have actual knowledge of such Default or Event of Default or (2) written notice of such Default or Event of Default shall have been given to the Trustee by the Company or by any Holder of the Notes at the Corporate Trust Office and such notice
references the Notes and this Indenture.
Section 7.03 No Responsibility for Recitals, Etc. The recitals contained
herein and in the Notes (except in the Trustee’s certificate of authentication) shall be taken as the statements of the Company, and the Trustee assumes no responsibility for the correctness of the same. The Trustee makes no representations as
to the validity or sufficiency of this Indenture or of the Notes. The Trustee shall not be accountable for the use or application by the Company of any Notes or the proceeds of any Notes authenticated and delivered by the Trustee in conformity with
the provisions of this Indenture.
Section 7.04 Trustee, Paying Agents, Conversion Agents or Note Registrar May Own
Notes. The Trustee, any Paying Agent, any Conversion Agent or Note Registrar, in its individual or any other capacity, may become the owner or pledgee of Notes with the same rights it would have if it were not the Trustee, Paying Agent,
Conversion Agent or Note Registrar.
Section 7.05 Monies and Shares of Common Stock to Be Held in Trust. All
monies and any shares of Common Stock received by the Trustee shall, until used or applied as herein provided, be held in trust for the purposes for which they were received. Money and any shares of Common Stock held by the Trustee in trust
hereunder need not be segregated from other funds or property except to the extent required by law. The Trustee shall be under no liability for interest on any money or any shares of Common Stock received by it hereunder except as may be agreed from
time to time by the Company and the Trustee.
Section 7.06 Compensation and Expenses of Trustee. The Company covenants
and agrees to pay to the Trustee from time to time, and the Trustee shall be entitled to, compensation for all services rendered by it hereunder in any capacity (which shall not be limited by any provision of law in regard to the compensation of a
trustee of an express trust) as mutually agreed to in writing between the Trustee and the Company, and the Company will pay or reimburse the Trustee for all reasonable expenses, disbursements and advances reasonably incurred or made by the Trustee
in accordance with any of the provisions of this Indenture in any capacity thereunder (including the reasonable compensation and the expenses and disbursements
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of its agents and counsel and of all Persons not regularly in its employ) except any such expense, disbursement or advance as shall have been caused by its negligence or willful misconduct. The
Company also covenants to indemnify the Trustee in any capacity under this Indenture and any other document or transaction entered into in connection herewith and its agents and any authenticating agent for, and to hold them harmless against, any
loss, claim, damage, liability or expense incurred without negligence or willful misconduct on the part of the Trustee, its officers, directors, agents or employees, or such agent or authenticating agent, as the case may be, and arising out of or in
connection with the acceptance or administration of this Indenture or in any other capacity hereunder, including the costs and expenses of defending themselves against any claim of liability in the premises. The obligations of the Company under this
Section 7.06 to compensate or indemnify the Trustee and to pay or reimburse the Trustee for expenses, disbursements and advances shall be secured by a senior claim to which the Notes are hereby made subordinate on all money or property held or
collected by the Trustee, except, subject to the effect of Section 6.05, funds held in trust herewith for the benefit of the Holders of particular Notes. The Trustee’s right to receive payment of any amounts due under this
Section 7.06 shall not be subordinate to any other liability or indebtedness of the Company. The obligation of the Company under this Section 7.06 shall survive the satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture and the earlier resignation
or removal of the Trustee. The Company need not pay for any settlement made without its consent, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld. The indemnification provided in this Section 7.06 shall extend to the officers, directors, agents
and employees of the Trustee.
Without prejudice to any other rights available to the Trustee under applicable law, when the Trustee and
its agents and any authenticating agent incur expenses or render services after an Event of Default specified in Section 6.01(i) or Section 6.01(j) occurs, the expenses and the compensation for the services are intended to constitute
expenses of administration under any bankruptcy, insolvency or similar laws.
Section 7.07 Officer’s Certificate as
Evidence. Subject to the provisions of Section 7.01, whenever in the administration of the provisions of this Indenture the Trustee shall deem it necessary or desirable that a matter be proved or established prior to taking or omitting any
action hereunder, such matter (unless other evidence in respect thereof be herein specifically prescribed) may, in the absence of negligence and willful misconduct on the part of the Trustee, be deemed to be conclusively proved and established by an
Officer’s Certificate delivered to the Trustee, and such Officer’s Certificate, in the absence of negligence and willful misconduct on the part of the Trustee, shall be full warrant to the Trustee for any action taken or omitted by it
under the provisions of this Indenture upon the faith thereof.
Section 7.08 Eligibility of Trustee. There
shall at all times be a Trustee hereunder which shall be a Person that is eligible pursuant to the Trust Indenture Act to act as such and has a combined capital and surplus of at least $50,000,000. If such Person publishes reports of condition at
least annually, pursuant to law or to the requirements of any supervising or examining authority, then for the purposes of this Section, the combined capital and surplus of such Person shall be deemed to be its combined capital and surplus as set
forth in its most recent report of condition so published. If at any time the Trustee shall cease to be eligible in accordance with the provisions of this Section, it shall resign immediately in the manner and with the effect hereinafter specified
in this Article.
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Section 7.09 Resignation or Removal of Trustee. (a) The Trustee may at
any time resign by giving written notice of such resignation to the Company and by mailing notice thereof to the Holders at their addresses as they shall appear on the Note Register. Upon receiving such notice of resignation, the Company shall
promptly appoint a successor trustee by written instrument, in duplicate, executed by order of the Board of Directors, one copy of which instrument shall be delivered to the resigning Trustee and one copy to the successor trustee. If no successor
trustee shall have been so appointed and have accepted appointment within 60 days after the mailing of such notice of resignation to the Holders, the resigning Trustee may, upon ten Business Days’ notice to the Company and the Holders, petition
any court of competent jurisdiction at the expense of the Company for the appointment of a successor trustee, or any Holder who has been a bona fide holder of a Note or Notes for at least six months may, subject to the provisions of
Section 6.11, on behalf of himself or herself and all others similarly situated, at the expense of the Company, petition any such court for the appointment of a successor trustee. Such court may thereupon, after such notice, if any, as it may
deem proper and prescribe, appoint a successor trustee.
(b) In case at any time any of the following shall occur:
(i) the Trustee shall cease to be eligible in accordance with the provisions of Section 7.08 and shall fail to resign
after written request therefor by the Company or by any such Holder, or
(ii) the Trustee shall become incapable of acting,
or shall be adjudged a bankrupt or insolvent, or a receiver of the Trustee or of its property shall be appointed, or any public officer shall take charge or control of the Trustee or of its property or affairs for the purpose of rehabilitation,
conservation or liquidation,
then, in either case, the Company may by a Board Resolution remove the Trustee and appoint a successor
trustee by written instrument, in duplicate, executed by order of the Board of Directors, one copy of which instrument shall be delivered to the Trustee so removed and one copy to the successor trustee, or, subject to the provisions of
Section 6.11, any Holder who has been a bona fide holder of a Note or Notes for at least six months may, on behalf of himself or herself and all others similarly situated, petition any court of competent jurisdiction for the removal of the
Trustee and the appointment of a successor trustee. Such court may thereupon, after such notice, if any, as it may deem proper and prescribe, remove the Trustee and appoint a successor trustee.
(c) The Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Notes at the time outstanding, as determined in accordance with
Section 8.04, may at any time remove the Trustee and nominate a successor trustee that shall be deemed appointed as successor trustee unless within ten days after notice to the Company of such nomination the Company objects thereto, in which
case the Trustee so removed or any Holder, upon the terms and conditions and otherwise as in Section 7.09(a) provided, may petition any court of competent jurisdiction at the expense of the Company for an appointment of a successor trustee.
(d) Any resignation or removal of the Trustee and appointment of a successor trustee pursuant to any of the provisions of this
Section 7.09 shall become effective upon acceptance of appointment by the successor trustee as provided in Section 7.10.
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Section 7.10 Acceptance by Successor Trustee. Any successor trustee appointed
as provided in Section 7.09 shall execute, acknowledge and deliver to the Company and to its predecessor trustee an instrument accepting such appointment hereunder, and thereupon the resignation or removal of the predecessor trustee shall
become effective and such successor trustee, without any further act, deed or conveyance, shall become vested with all the rights, powers, duties and obligations of its predecessor hereunder, with like effect as if originally named as Trustee
herein; but, nevertheless, on the written request of the Company or of the successor trustee, the trustee ceasing to act shall, upon payment of any amounts then due it pursuant to the provisions of Section 7.06, execute and deliver an
instrument transferring to such successor trustee all the rights and powers of the trustee so ceasing to act. Upon request of any such successor trustee, the Company shall execute any and all instruments in writing for more fully and certainly
vesting in and confirming to such successor trustee all such rights and powers. Any trustee ceasing to act shall, nevertheless, retain a senior claim to which the Notes are hereby made subordinate on all money or property held or collected by such
trustee as such, except for funds held in trust for the benefit of Holders of particular Notes, to secure any amounts then due it pursuant to the provisions of Section 7.06.
No successor trustee shall accept appointment as provided in this Section 7.10 unless at the time of such acceptance such successor
trustee shall be eligible under the provisions of Section 7.08.
Upon acceptance of appointment by a successor trustee as provided in
this Section 7.10, each of the Company and the successor trustee, at the written direction and at the expense of the Company shall mail or cause to be mailed notice of the succession of such trustee hereunder to the Holders at their addresses
as they shall appear on the Note Register. If the Company fails to mail such notice within ten days after acceptance of appointment by the successor trustee, the successor trustee shall cause such notice to be mailed at the expense of the Company.
Section 7.11 Succession by Merger, Etc. Any corporation or other entity into which the Trustee may be merged or
converted or with which it may be consolidated, or any corporation or other entity resulting from any merger, conversion or consolidation to which the Trustee shall be a party, or any corporation or other entity succeeding to all or substantially
all of the corporate trust business of the Trustee (including the administration of this Indenture), shall be the successor to the Trustee hereunder without the execution or filing of any paper or any further act on the part of any of the parties
hereto; provided that in the case of any corporation or other entity succeeding to all or substantially all of the corporate trust business of the Trustee such corporation or other entity shall be eligible under the provisions of
Section 7.08.
In case at the time such successor to the Trustee shall succeed to the trusts created by this Indenture, any
of the Notes shall have been authenticated but not delivered, any such successor to the Trustee may adopt the certificate of authentication of any predecessor trustee or authenticating agent appointed by such predecessor trustee, and deliver such
Notes so authenticated; and in case at that time any of the Notes shall not have been authenticated, any successor to the Trustee or an authenticating agent appointed by such successor trustee may authenticate such Notes either in the name of any
predecessor trustee hereunder or in the name of the successor trustee; and in all such cases such certificates shall have the full force which it is anywhere in the Notes or in this Indenture provided that the certificate of the Trustee shall have;
provided, however, that the right to adopt the certificate of authentication of any predecessor
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trustee or to authenticate Notes in the name of any predecessor trustee shall apply only to its successor or successors by merger, conversion or consolidation.
Section 7.12 Trustee’s Application for Instructions from the Company. Any application by the Trustee for written
instructions from the Company (other than with regard to any action proposed to be taken or omitted to be taken by the Trustee that affects the rights of the Holders of the Notes under this Indenture) may, at the option of the Trustee, set forth in
writing any action proposed to be taken or omitted by the Trustee under this Indenture and the date on and/or after which such action shall be taken or such omission shall be effective. The Trustee shall not be liable for any action taken by, or
omission of, the Trustee in accordance with a proposal included in such application on or after the date specified in such application (which date shall not be less than three Business Days after the date any officer that the Company has indicated
to the Trustee should receive such application actually receives such application, unless any such officer shall have consented in writing to any earlier date), unless, prior to taking any such action (or the effective date in the case of any
omission), the Trustee shall have received written instructions in accordance with this Indenture in response to such application specifying the action to be taken or omitted.
ARTICLE VIII
CONCERNING THE HOLDERS
Section 8.01 Action by Holders. Whenever in this Indenture it is provided that the Holders of a specified percentage of the
aggregate principal amount of the Notes may take any action (including the making of any demand or request, the giving of any notice, consent or waiver or the taking of any other action), the fact that at the time of taking any such action, the
Holders of such specified percentage have joined therein may be evidenced (a) by any instrument or any number of instruments of similar tenor executed by Holders in person or by agent or proxy appointed in writing, or (b) by the record of
the Holders voting in favor thereof at any meeting of Holders duly called and held in accordance with the provisions of Article IX, or (c) by a combination of such instrument or instruments and any such record of such a meeting of Holders.
Whenever the Company or the Trustee solicits the taking of any action by the Holders of the Notes, the Company or the Trustee may, but shall not be required to, fix in advance of such solicitation, a date as the record date for determining Holders
entitled to take such action. The record date if one is selected shall be not more than fifteen days prior to the date of commencement of solicitation of such action.
Section 8.02 Proof of Execution by Holders. Subject to the provisions of Section 7.01, Section 7.02 and
Section 9.05, proof of the execution of any instrument by a Holder or its agent or proxy shall be sufficient if made in accordance with such reasonable rules and regulations as may be prescribed by the Trustee or in such manner as shall be
satisfactory to the Trustee. The record of any Holders’ meeting shall be proved in the manner provided in Section 9.06.
Section 8.03 Who Are Deemed Absolute Owners. The Company, the Trustee, any authenticating agent, any Paying Agent, any Conversion
Agent and any Note Registrar may deem the Person in whose name a Note shall be registered upon the Note Register to be, and may treat it as, the absolute owner of such Note (whether or not such Note shall be overdue and notwithstanding any notation
of ownership or other writing thereon made by any Person other than the Company or any Note Registrar) for the purpose of receiving payment of or on account
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of the principal of and (subject to Section 2.03) accrued and unpaid interest on such Note, for conversion of such Note and for all other purposes under this Indenture; and neither the
Company nor the Trustee nor any Paying Agent nor any Conversion Agent nor any Note Registrar shall be affected by any notice to the contrary. All such payments or deliveries so made to any Holder for the time being, or upon its order, shall be
valid, and, to the extent of the sums or shares of Common Stock so paid or delivered, effectual to satisfy and discharge the liability for monies payable or shares deliverable upon any such Note. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this
Indenture or the Notes following an Event of Default, any Holder of a beneficial interest in a Global Note may directly enforce against the Company, without the consent, solicitation, proxy, authorization or any other action of the Depositary or any
other Person, such Holder’s right to exchange such beneficial interest for a Note in certificated form in accordance with the provisions of this Indenture.
Section 8.04 Company-Owned Notes Disregarded. In determining whether the Holders of the requisite aggregate principal
amount of Notes have concurred in any direction, consent, waiver or other action under this Indenture, Notes that are owned by the Company, by any Subsidiary thereof or by any Person directly or indirectly controlling or controlled by or under
direct or indirect common control with the Company or any Subsidiary thereof shall be disregarded and deemed not to be outstanding for the purpose of any such determination; provided that for the purposes of determining whether the Trustee
shall be protected in relying on any such direction, consent, waiver or other action only Notes that a Responsible Officer actually knows are so owned shall be so disregarded. Notes so owned that have been pledged in good faith may be regarded as
outstanding for the purposes of this Section 8.04 if the pledgee shall establish to the satisfaction of the Trustee the pledgee’s right to so act with respect to such Notes and that the pledgee is not the Company, a Subsidiary thereof or a
Person directly or indirectly controlling or controlled by or under direct or indirect common control with the Company or a Subsidiary thereof. In the case of a dispute as to such right, any decision by the Trustee taken upon the advice of counsel
shall be full protection to the Trustee. Upon reasonable request of the Trustee, the Company shall furnish to the Trustee promptly an Officer’s Certificate listing and identifying all Notes, if any, known by the Company to be owned or held by
or for the account of any of the above described Persons; and, subject to Section 7.01, the Trustee shall be entitled to accept such Officer’s Certificate as conclusive evidence of the facts therein set forth and of the fact that all Notes
not listed therein are outstanding for the purpose of any such determination.
Section 8.05 Revocation of Consents;
Future Holders Bound. At any time prior to (but not after) the evidencing to the Trustee, as provided in Section 8.01, of the taking of any action by the Holders of the percentage of the aggregate principal amount of the Notes specified in
this Indenture in connection with such action, any Holder of a Note that is shown by the evidence to be included in the Notes the Holders of which have consented to such action may, by filing written notice with the Trustee at its Corporate Trust
Office in New York, New York, and upon proof of holding as provided in Section 8.02, revoke such action so far as concerns such Note. Except as aforesaid, any such action taken by the Holder of any Note shall be conclusive and binding upon such
Holder and upon all future Holders and owners of such Note and of any Notes issued in exchange or substitution therefor or upon registration of transfer thereof, irrespective of whether any notation in regard thereto is made upon such Note or any
Note issued in exchange or substitution therefor or upon registration of transfer thereof.
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ARTICLE IX
HOLDERS’ MEETINGS
Section 9.01 Purpose of Meetings. A meeting of Holders may be called at any time and from time to time pursuant to the
provisions of this Article IX for any of the following purposes:
(a) to give any notice to the Company or to the Trustee or to
give any directions to the Trustee permitted under this Indenture, or to consent to the waiving of any Default or Event of Default hereunder (in each case, as permitted under this Indenture) and its consequences, or to take any other action
authorized to be taken by Holders pursuant to any of the provisions of Article VI;
(b) to remove the Trustee and nominate a successor
trustee pursuant to the provisions of Article VII;
(c) to consent to the execution of an indenture or indentures supplemental hereto
pursuant to the provisions of Section 10.02; or
(d) to take any other action authorized to be taken by or on behalf of the Holders
of any specified aggregate principal amount of the Notes under any other provision of this Indenture or under applicable law.
Section 9.02 Call of Meetings by Trustee. The Trustee may at any time call a meeting of Holders to take any action
specified in Section 9.01, to be held at such time and at such place as the Trustee shall determine. Notice of every meeting of the Holders, setting forth the time and the place of such meeting and in general terms the action proposed to be
taken at such meeting and the establishment of any record date pursuant to Section 8.01, shall be sent to Holders of such Notes at their addresses as they shall appear on the Note Register. Such notice shall also be sent to the Company. Such
notices shall be sent not less than 20 nor more than 90 days prior to the date fixed for the meeting.
Any meeting of Holders
shall be valid without notice if the Holders of all Notes then outstanding are present in person or by proxy or if notice is waived in writing before or after the meeting by the Holders of all Notes then outstanding, and if the Company and the
Trustee are either present by duly authorized representatives or have, before or after the meeting, waived notice.
Section 9.03 Call of Meetings by Company or Holders. In case at any time the Company, pursuant to a Board Resolution, or
the Holders of at least 25% of the aggregate principal amount of the Notes then outstanding, shall have requested the Trustee to call a meeting of Holders, by written request setting forth in reasonable detail the action proposed to be taken at the
meeting, and the Trustee shall not have sent the notice of such meeting within 20 days after receipt of such request, then the Company or such Holders may determine the time and the place for such meeting and may call such meeting to take any action
authorized in Section 9.01, by sending notice thereof as provided in Section 9.02.
Section 9.04 Qualifications
for Voting. To be entitled to vote at any meeting of Holders a Person shall (a) be a Holder of one or more Notes on the record date pertaining to such meeting
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or (b) be a Person appointed by an instrument in writing as proxy by a Holder of one or more Notes on the record date pertaining to such meeting. The only Persons who shall be entitled to be
present or to speak at any meeting of Holders shall be the Persons entitled to vote at such meeting and their counsel and any representatives of the Trustee and its counsel and any representatives of the Company and its counsel.
Section 9.05 Regulations. Notwithstanding any other provisions of this Indenture, the Trustee may make such reasonable
regulations as it may deem advisable for any meeting of Holders, in regard to proof of the holding of Notes and of the appointment of proxies, and in regard to the appointment and duties of inspectors of votes, the submission and examination of
proxies, certificates and other evidence of the right to vote, and such other matters concerning the conduct of the meeting as it shall think fit.
The Trustee shall, by an instrument in writing, appoint a temporary chairman of the meeting, unless the meeting shall have been called by the
Company or by Holders as provided in Section 9.03, in which case the Company or the Holders calling the meeting, as the case may be, shall in like manner appoint a temporary chairman. A permanent chairman and a permanent secretary of the
meeting shall be elected by vote of the Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Notes represented at the meeting and entitled to vote at the meeting.
Subject to the provisions of Section 8.04, at any meeting of Holders each Holder or proxyholder shall be entitled to one vote for
each $1,000 principal amount of Notes held or represented by him or her; provided, however, that no vote shall be cast or counted at any meeting in respect of any Note challenged as not outstanding and ruled by the chairman of the
meeting to be not outstanding. The chairman of the meeting shall have no right to vote other than by virtue of Notes held by him or her or instruments in writing as aforesaid duly designating it as the proxy to vote on behalf of other Holders. Any
meeting of Holders duly called pursuant to the provisions of Section 9.02 or Section 9.03 may be adjourned from time to time by the Holders of a majority of the aggregate principal amount of Notes represented at the meeting, whether or not
constituting a quorum, and the meeting may be held as so adjourned without further notice.
Section 9.06 Voting. The
vote upon any resolution submitted to any meeting of Holders shall be by written ballot on which shall be subscribed the signatures of the Holders or of their representatives by proxy and the outstanding aggregate principal amount of the Notes held
or represented by them. The permanent chairman of the meeting shall appoint two inspectors of votes who shall count all votes cast at the meeting for or against any resolution and who shall make and file with the secretary of the meeting their
verified written reports in duplicate of all votes cast at the meeting. A record in duplicate of the proceedings of each meeting of Holders shall be prepared by the secretary of the meeting and there shall be attached to said record the original
reports of the inspectors of votes on any vote by ballot taken thereat and affidavits by one or more Persons having knowledge of the facts setting forth a copy of the notice of the meeting and showing that said notice was sent as provided in
Section 9.02. The record shall show the aggregate principal amount of the Notes voting in favor of or against any resolution. The record shall be signed and verified by the affidavits of the permanent chairman and secretary of the meeting and
one of the duplicates shall be delivered to the Company and the other to the Trustee to be preserved by the Trustee, the latter to have attached thereto the ballots voted at the meeting.
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Any record so signed and verified shall be conclusive evidence of the matters therein stated.
Section 9.07 No Delay of Rights by Meeting. Nothing contained in this Article IX shall be deemed or construed to
authorize or permit, by reason of any call of a meeting of Holders or any rights expressly or impliedly conferred hereunder to make such call, any hindrance or delay in the exercise of any right or rights conferred upon or reserved to the Trustee or
to the Holders under any of the provisions of this Indenture or of the Notes.
ARTICLE X
SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES
Section 10.01 Supplemental Indentures Without Consent of Holders. The Company, when authorized by the resolutions of the
Board of Directors and the Trustee, at the Company’s expense, may from time to time and at any time enter into indentures supplemental hereto for one or more of the following purposes:
(a) to cure any ambiguity, omission, defect or inconsistency that does not adversely affect the Holders (the Trustee shall not be responsible
for making a determination as to whether or not such change adversely affects any holder as determined in good faith by the Company);
(b)
to provide for the assumption by a Successor Company of the obligations of the Company under the Notes and this Indenture pursuant to Article XI;
(c) to add guarantees with respect to the Notes;
(d) to secure the Notes;
(e)
to add to the covenants or Events of Default of the Company for the benefit of the Holders or surrender any right or power conferred upon the Company;
(f) to make any change that does not adversely affect the rights hereunder of any Holder (provided that the Trustee shall not make the
determination as to whether such adversely affects the rights of any Holder);
(g) to increase the Conversion Rate as provided in this
Indenture;
(h) to provide for the issuance of additional Notes solely in accordance with the limitations set forth in this Indenture;
(i) to comply with requirements of the Commission in order to effect or maintain the qualification of this Indenture under the Trust
Indenture Act;
(j) to provide for the acceptance of appointment by a successor trustee pursuant to Section 7.10 or to facilitate the
administration of the trusts by more than one trustee; or
(k) to conform the provisions of this Indenture or the Notes to the
“Description of Notes” in the Prospectus Supplement, related to the offering of the Notes, as determined in good faith by the Company and as evidenced by an Officer’s Certificate.
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Upon the written request of the Company, accompanied by (i) a certified copy of resolutions
of the Board of Directors authorizing the execution of any such supplemental Indenture; (ii) an Officers’ Certificate, (iii) an Opinion of Counsel stating that the execution of such amended or supplemental indenture is authorized or
permitted by this Indenture, and an Opinion of Counsel in accordance with Section 16.05 and stating that such amended or supplemental indenture will be the legal, valid and binding obligation of the Company and Guarantors in accordance with its
terms , and (iv) upon the filing with the Trustee of evidence of the consent of Holders as aforesaid, the Trustee shall join with the Company in the execution of such supplemental Indenture unless such supplemental Indenture affects the
Trustee’s own rights, duties or immunities under this Indenture or otherwise, in which case the Trustee may in its discretion but shall not be obligated to enter into such supplemental Indenture.
Any supplemental indenture authorized by the provisions of this Section 10.01 may be executed by the Company and the Trustee without the
consent of the Holders of any of the Notes at the time outstanding, notwithstanding any of the provisions of Section 10.02.
Section 10.02 Supplemental Indentures with Consent of Holders. With the consent (evidenced as provided in Article VIII) of
the Holders of at least a majority of the aggregate principal amount of Notes then outstanding (determined in accordance with Article VIII and including, without limitation, consents obtained in connection with a repurchase of, or tender or exchange
offer for, Notes), the Company, when authorized by the resolutions of the Board of Directors and the Trustee, at the Company’s expense, may from time to time and at any time enter into an indenture or indentures supplemental hereto for the
purpose of adding any provisions to or changing in any manner or eliminating any of the provisions of this Indenture or any supplemental indenture or of modifying in any manner the rights of the Holders; provided, however, that,
without the consent of each Holder of an outstanding Note affected, no such supplemental indenture shall:
(a) reduce the amount
of Notes whose Holders must consent to an amendment;
(b) reduce the rate of or extend the stated time for payment of interest on any
Note;
(c) reduce the principal of or extend the Maturity Date of any Note;
(d) make any change that adversely affects the conversion rights of any Notes;
(e) reduce the Fundamental Change Repurchase Price of any Note or amend or modify in any manner adverse to the Holders the Company’s
obligation to make such payments, whether through an amendment or waiver of provisions in the covenants, definitions or otherwise;
(f)
make any Note payable in money, or at a place of payment, other than that stated in the Note;
(g) change the ranking of the Notes;
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(h) impair the right of any Holder to receive payment of principal and interest on such
Holder’s Notes on or after the due dates therefor or to institute suit for the enforcement of any payment on or with respect to such Holder’s Note; or
(i) make any change in this Article X that requires each Holder’s consent or in the waiver provisions in Section 6.02 or
Section 6.09.
Upon the written request of the Company, and upon the filing with the Trustee of evidence of the consent of Holders as
aforesaid and subject to Section 10.04, the Trustee shall join with the Company in the execution of such supplemental indenture unless such supplemental indenture affects the Trustee’s own rights, duties or immunities under this Indenture
or otherwise, in which case the Trustee may in its discretion, but shall not be obligated to, enter into such supplemental indenture.
Holders do not need, under this Section 10.02, to approve the particular form of any proposed supplemental indenture. It shall be
sufficient if such Holders approve the substance thereof. After any such supplemental indenture becomes effective, the Company shall mail to the Holders a notice briefly describing such supplemental indenture. However, the failure to give such
notice to all the Holders, or any defect in the notice, will not impair or affect the validity of the supplemental indenture.
Section 10.03 Effect of Supplemental Indentures. Upon the execution of any supplemental indenture pursuant to the
provisions of this Article X, this Indenture shall be and be deemed to be modified and amended in accordance therewith and the respective rights, limitation of rights, obligations, duties and immunities under this Indenture of the Trustee, the
Company and the Holders shall thereafter be determined, exercised and enforced hereunder subject in all respects to such modifications and amendments and all the terms and conditions of any such supplemental indenture shall be and be deemed to be
part of the terms and conditions of this Indenture for any and all purposes.
Section 10.04 Evidence of Compliance
of Supplemental Indenture to Be Furnished Trustee. In addition to the documents required by Section 16.05, the Trustee shall receive an Officer’s Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel stating that the execution of such amended or
supplemental indenture is authorized or permitted by this Indenture, and an Opinion of Counsel in accordance with Section 16.05 and stating that such amended or supplemental indenture will be the legal, valid and binding obligation of the
Company and Guarantors in accordance with its terms as conclusive evidence that any supplemental indenture executed pursuant hereto complies with the requirements of this Article X and is permitted or authorized by this Indenture. Such Opinion of
Counsel will also state that such supplemental indenture is a valid and binding obligation of the Company, enforceable against the Company in accordance with its terms, subject to bankruptcy, insolvency, fraudulent transfer, reorganization,
moratorium and other similar laws of general application affecting the rights and remedies of creditors and to general principles of equity (including, without limitation, concepts of materiality, reasonableness, good faith, fair dealing and
unconscionability), regardless of whether considered in a proceeding in equity or law.
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ARTICLE XI
CONSOLIDATION, MERGER, SALE, CONVEYANCE AND LEASE
Section 11.01 Company May Consolidate, Etc. on Certain Terms. Subject to the provisions of Section 11.02, the Company
shall not consolidate with, merge with or into, or sell, convey, transfer or lease all or substantially all of its properties and assets to another Person, unless:
(a) the resulting, surviving or transferee Person (the “Successor Company”), if not the Company, shall be a
corporation organized and existing under the laws of the United States of America, any State thereof or the District of Columbia, and the Successor Company (if not the Company) shall expressly assume, by supplemental indenture, all of the
obligations of the Company under the Notes and this Indenture; and
(b) immediately after giving effect to such transaction, no
Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing under this Indenture.
For purposes of this Section 11.01, the
sale, conveyance, transfer or lease of all or substantially all of the properties and assets of one or more Subsidiaries of the Company to another Person, which properties and assets, if held by the Company instead of such Subsidiaries, would
constitute all or substantially all of the properties and assets of the Company on a consolidated basis, shall be deemed to be the sale, conveyance, transfer or lease of all or substantially all of the properties and assets of the Company to another
Person
Section 11.02 Successor Corporation to Be Substituted. In case of any such consolidation, merger, sale, conveyance,
transfer or lease and upon the assumption by the Successor Company, by supplemental indenture, executed and delivered to the Trustee and satisfactory in form to the Trustee, of the due and punctual payment of the principal of and accrued and unpaid
interest on all of the Notes, the due and punctual delivery or payment, as the case may be, of any consideration due upon conversion of the Notes and the due and punctual performance of all of the covenants and conditions of this Indenture to be
performed by the Company, such Successor Company (if not the Company) shall succeed to and, except in the case of a lease of all or substantially all of the Company’s properties and assets, shall be substituted for the Company, with the same
effect as if it had been named herein as the party of the first part. Such Successor Company thereupon may cause to be signed, and may issue either in its own name or in the name of the Company any or all of the Notes issuable hereunder which
theretofore shall not have been signed by the Company and delivered to the Trustee; and, upon the order of such Successor Company instead of the Company and subject to all the terms, conditions and limitations in this Indenture prescribed, the
Trustee shall authenticate and shall deliver, or cause to be authenticated and delivered, any Notes that previously shall have been signed and delivered by the Officers of the Company to the Trustee for authentication, and any Notes that such
Successor Company thereafter shall cause to be signed and delivered to the Trustee for that purpose. All the Notes so issued shall in all respects have the same legal rank and benefit under this Indenture as the Notes theretofore or thereafter
issued in accordance with the terms of this Indenture as though all of such Notes had been issued at the date of the execution hereof. In the event of any such consolidation, merger, sale, conveyance or transfer (but not in the case of a lease),
upon compliance with this Article XI the Person named as the “Company” in the first paragraph of this Indenture (or any successor that shall thereafter have
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become such in the manner prescribed in this Article XI) may be dissolved, wound up and liquidated at any time thereafter and, except in the case of a lease, such Person shall be released from
its liabilities as obligor and maker of the Notes and from its obligations under this Indenture and the Notes.
In case of any such
consolidation, merger, sale, conveyance, transfer or lease, such changes in phraseology and form (but not in substance) may be made in the Notes thereafter to be issued as may be appropriate.
Section 11.03 Evidence to Be Given to Trustee. No consolidation, merger, sale, conveyance, transfer or lease shall be
effective unless the Trustee shall receive an Officer’s Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel as conclusive evidence that any such consolidation, merger, sale, conveyance, transfer or lease and any such assumption and, if a supplemental
indenture is required in connection with such transaction, such supplemental indenture, complies with the provisions of this Article XI.
ARTICLE XII
IMMUNITY OF INCORPORATORS, STOCKHOLDERS, OFFICERS AND
DIRECTORS
Section 12.01 Indenture and Notes Solely Corporate Obligations. No recourse for the payment
of the principal of or accrued and unpaid interest on any Note, nor for any claim based thereon or otherwise in respect thereof, and no recourse under or upon any obligation, covenant or agreement of the Company in this Indenture or in any
supplemental indenture or in any Note, nor because of the creation of any indebtedness represented thereby, shall be had against any incorporator, stockholder, employee, agent, Officer or director or Subsidiary, as such, past, present or future, of
the Company or of any successor corporation, either directly or through the Company or any successor corporation, whether by virtue of any constitution, statute or rule of law, or by the enforcement of any assessment or penalty or otherwise; it
being expressly understood that all such liability is hereby expressly waived and released as a condition of, and as a consideration for, the execution of this Indenture and the issue of the Notes.
ARTICLE XIII
CONVERSION OF NOTES
Section 13.01 Conversion Privilege. (a) Subject to and upon compliance with the provisions of this
Article XIII, each Holder of a Note shall have the right, at such Holder’s option, to convert all or any portion (if the portion to be converted is $1,000 principal amount or a multiple thereof) of such Note, at any time prior to the close of
business on the Business Day immediately preceding the Maturity Date, at an initial conversion rate of 187.4414 shares of Common Stock (subject to adjustment as provided in Section 13.04, the “Conversion Rate”) per $1,000
principal amount of Notes (subject to the settlement provisions of Section 13.02, the “Conversion Obligation”).
(b) [Reserved].
Section 13.02 Conversion Procedure; Settlement Upon Conversion.
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(a) Subject to this Section 13.02, Section 13.04(b) and Section 13.08(a),
upon conversion of any Note, the Company shall pay or deliver, as the case may be, to the converting Holder, in respect of each $1,000 principal amount of Notes being converted, cash (“Cash Settlement”), shares of Common Stock,
together with cash, if applicable, in lieu of delivering any fractional share of Common Stock in accordance with subsection (j) of this Section 13.02 (“Physical Settlement”) or a combination of cash and shares of Common
Stock, together with cash, if applicable, in lieu of delivering any fractional share of Common Stock in accordance with subsection (j) of this Section 13.02 (“Combination Settlement”), at the Company’s election, as
set forth in this Section 13.02.
(i) Subject to the limitations on conversions pursuant to
Section 13.11, the Company shall use the same Settlement Method for all conversions occurring on the same Conversion Date, but the Company shall not have any obligation to use the same Settlement Method with respect to conversions that occur on
different Conversion Days.
(ii) If, in respect of any Conversion Date, the Company elects to deliver a notice (the
“Settlement Notice”) of the relevant Settlement Method in respect of such Conversion Date (or such period, as the case may be), the Company, through the Company Agent and the Trustee, shall deliver such Settlement Notice to
converting Holders no later than the close of business on the Trading Day immediately following the relevant Conversion Date. If the Company does not elect a Settlement Method prior to the deadline set forth in the immediately preceding sentence,
the Company shall no longer have the right to elect Cash Settlement or Physical Settlement and the Company shall be deemed to have elected Combination Settlement in respect of its Conversion Obligation, and the Specified Dollar Amount per $1,000
principal amount of Notes shall be equal to $1,000. Such Settlement Notice shall specify the relevant Settlement Method and in the case of an election of Combination Settlement, the relevant Settlement Notice shall indicate the Specified Dollar
Amount per $1,000 principal amount of Notes. If the Company delivers a Settlement Notice electing Combination Settlement in respect of its Conversion Obligation but does not indicate a Specified Dollar Amount per $1,000 principal amount of Notes in
such Settlement Notice, the Specified Dollar Amount per $1,000 principal amount of Notes shall be deemed to be $1,000.
(iii) The cash, shares of Common Stock or combination of cash and shares of Common Stock in respect of any conversion of Notes
(the “Settlement Amount”) shall be computed as follows:
(A) if the Company elects to satisfy its
Conversion Obligation in respect of such conversion by Physical Settlement, the Company shall deliver to the converting Holder in respect of each $1,000 principal amount of Notes being converted a number of shares of Common Stock equal to the
Conversion Rate in effect on the Conversion Date;
(B) if the Company elects to satisfy its Conversion Obligation in
respect of such conversion by Cash Settlement, the Company shall pay to the converting Holder in respect of each $1,000 principal amount of Notes being converted cash in an amount equal to the sum of the Daily Conversion Values for each of the 25
consecutive Trading Days during the related Observation Period; and
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(C) if the Company elects (or is deemed to have elected) to satisfy its
Conversion Obligation in respect of such conversion by Combination Settlement, the Company shall pay or deliver, as the case may be, in respect of each $1,000 principal amount of Notes being converted, a Settlement Amount equal to the sum of the
Daily Settlement Amounts for each of the 25 consecutive Trading Days during the related Observation Period.
(iv) The Daily
Settlement Amounts (if applicable) and the Daily Conversion Values (if applicable) shall be determined by the Company promptly following the last day of the Observation Period. Promptly after such determination of the Daily Settlement Amounts or the
Daily Conversion Values, as the case may be, and the amount of cash payable in lieu of delivering any fractional share of Common Stock, the Company shall notify the Trustee and the Conversion Agent (if other than the Trustee) in writing of the Daily
Settlement Amounts or the Daily Conversion Values, as the case may be, and the amount of cash payable in lieu of delivering fractional shares of Common Stock. The Trustee and the Conversion Agent (if other than the Trustee) shall have no
responsibility for any such determination.
(b) Subject to Section 13.02(e), before any Holder of a Note shall be entitled to
convert a Note as set forth above, such Holder shall (i) in the case of a Global Note, comply with the procedures of the Depositary in effect at that time (any instruction to convert transmitted to the Depositary shall be irrevocable) and, if
required, pay funds equal to interest payable on the next Interest Payment Date to which such Holder is not entitled as set forth in Section 13.02(h) and (ii) in the case of a Physical Note (1) complete, manually sign and deliver an
irrevocable notice to the Conversion Agent as set forth in the Form of Notice of Conversion (or a facsimile thereof) (a “Notice of Conversion”) at the office of the Conversion Agent and state in writing therein the principal amount
of Notes to be converted and the name or names (with addresses) in which such Holder wishes the certificate or certificates for any shares of Common Stock to be delivered upon settlement of the Conversion Obligation to be registered,
(2) surrender such Notes, duly endorsed to the Company or in blank (and accompanied by appropriate endorsement and transfer documents), at the office of the Conversion Agent, (3) if required, furnish appropriate endorsements and transfer
documents, (4) if required, pay funds equal to interest payable on the next Interest Payment Date to which such Holder is not entitled as set forth in Section 13.02(h). The Trustee (and, if different, the Conversion Agent) shall notify the
Company of any conversion pursuant to this Article XIII on the Conversion Date for such conversion. No Notice of Conversion with respect to any Notes may be surrendered by a Holder thereof if such Holder has also delivered a Fundamental Change
Repurchase Notice to the Company in respect of such Notes and not validly withdrawn such Fundamental Change Repurchase Notice in accordance with Section 14.02.
If more than one Note shall be surrendered for conversion at one time by the same Holder, the Conversion Obligation with respect to such Notes
shall be computed on the basis of the aggregate principal amount of the Notes (or specified portions thereof to the extent permitted thereby) so surrendered.
(c) A Note shall be deemed to have been converted immediately prior to the close of business on the date (the “Conversion
Date”) that the Holder has complied with the requirements set forth in subsection (b) above. The Company shall pay or deliver, as the case
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may be, the consideration due in respect of the Conversion Obligation on the third Business Day immediately following the relevant Conversion Date, if the Company elects Physical Settlement
(provided that, with respect to any Conversion Date occurring on or after October 15, 2019, settlement will occur on the Maturity Date) or on the third Business Day immediately following the last Trading Day of the relevant Observation
Period, in the case of any other Settlement Method. If any shares of Common Stock are due to converting Holders, the Company shall issue or cause to be issued, and deliver to the Conversion Agent or to such Holder, or such Holder’s nominee or
nominees, certificates or a book-entry transfer through the Depositary for the full number of shares of Common Stock to which such Holder shall be entitled in satisfaction of the Company’s Conversion Obligation.
(d) In case any Note shall be surrendered for partial conversion, the Company shall execute and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver to
or upon the written order of the Holder of the Note so surrendered a new Note or Notes in authorized denominations in an aggregate principal amount equal to the unconverted portion of the surrendered Note, without payment of any service charge by
the converting Holder but, if required by the Company or the Trustee, with payment of a sum sufficient to cover any documentary, stamp or similar issue or transfer tax or similar governmental charge required by law or that may be imposed in
connection therewith as a result of the name of the Holder of the new Notes issued upon such conversion being different from the name of the Holder of the old Notes surrendered for such conversion.
(e) If a Holder submits a Note for conversion, the Company shall pay any documentary, stamp or similar issue or transfer tax due on the issue
of any shares of Common Stock upon conversion, unless the tax is due because the Holder requests such shares to be issued in a name other than the Holder’s name, in which case the Holder shall pay that tax. The Conversion Agent may refuse to
deliver the certificates representing the shares of Common Stock being issued in a name other than the Holder’s name until the Trustee receives a sum sufficient to pay any tax that is due by such Holder in accordance with the immediately
preceding sentence.
(f) Except as provided in Section 13.04, no adjustment shall be made for dividends on any shares of Common Stock
issued upon the conversion of any Note as provided in this Article XIII.
(g) Upon the conversion of an interest in a Global Note, the
Trustee, or the Custodian at the direction of the Trustee, shall make a notation on such Global Note as to the reduction in the principal amount represented thereby. The Company shall notify the Trustee in writing of any conversion of Notes effected
through any Conversion Agent other than the Trustee.
(h) Upon conversion, a Holder shall not receive any separate cash payment for
accrued and unpaid interest, if any, except as set forth below. The Company’s settlement of the full Conversion Obligation shall be deemed to satisfy in full its obligation to pay the principal amount of the Note and accrued and unpaid
interest, if any, to, but not including, the relevant Conversion Date. As a result, accrued and unpaid interest, if any, to, but not including, the relevant Conversion Date shall be deemed to be paid in full rather than cancelled, extinguished or
forfeited. Upon a conversion of Notes into a combination of cash and shares of Common Stock, accrued and unpaid interest will be deemed to be paid first out of the cash paid upon such conversion. Notwithstanding the foregoing, if Notes are converted
after the close of business on
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a Regular Record Date, Holders of such Notes as of the close of business on such Regular Record Date will receive the full amount of interest payable on such Notes on the corresponding Interest
Payment Date notwithstanding the conversion. Notes surrendered for conversion during the period from the close of business on any Regular Record Date to the open of business on the immediately following Interest Payment Date must be accompanied by
funds equal to the amount of interest payable on the Notes so converted; provided that no such payment shall be required (1) for conversions following the Regular Record Date immediately preceding the Maturity Date; (2) if the
Company has specified a Fundamental Change Repurchase Date that is after a Regular Record Date and on or prior to the corresponding Interest Payment Date; or (3) to the extent of any Defaulted Amounts, if any Defaulted Amounts exists at the
time of conversion with respect to such Note. Therefore, for the avoidance of doubt, all Holders of record on the Regular Record Date immediately preceding the Maturity Date shall receive the full interest payment due on the Maturity Date regardless
of whether their Notes have been converted following such Regular Record Date.
(i) The Person in whose name the certificate for any
shares of Common Stock delivered upon conversion is registered shall be treated as a stockholder of record as of the close of business on the relevant Conversion Date (if the Company elects to satisfy the related Conversion Obligation by Physical
Settlement) or the last Trading Day of the relevant Observation Period (if the Company elects to satisfy the related Conversion Obligation by Combination Settlement), as the case may be. Upon a conversion of Notes, such Person shall no longer be a
Holder of such Notes surrendered for conversion.
(j) The Company shall not issue any fractional share of Common Stock upon
conversion of the Notes and shall instead pay cash in lieu of delivering any fractional share of Common Stock issuable upon conversion based on the Daily VWAP on the last Trading Day of the relevant Observation Period; provided that if the
Company elects Physical Settlement, the Company shall pay cash in lieu of delivering any fractional share of Common Stock issuable upon conversion based on the Daily VWAP on the relevant Conversion Date as if such Conversion Date were the last
Trading Day of an Observation Period upon Combination Settlement. For each Note surrendered for conversion, if the Company has elected (or is deemed to have elected) Combination Settlement, the full number of shares that shall be issued upon
conversion thereof shall be computed on the basis of the aggregate Daily Settlement Amounts for the relevant Observation Period, and any fractional shares remaining after such computation shall be paid in cash.
Section 13.03 Increased Conversion Rate Applicable to Certain Notes Surrendered in Connection with Make-Whole Fundamental
Changes. (a) If a Make-Whole Fundamental Change occurs or becomes effective prior to the Maturity Date and a Holder elects to convert its Notes in connection with such Make-Whole Fundamental Change, the Company shall, under the
circumstances described below, increase the Conversion Rate for the Notes so surrendered for conversion by a number of additional shares of Common Stock (the “Additional Shares”), as described below. A conversion of
Notes shall be deemed for these purposes to be “in connection with” such Make-Whole Fundamental Change if the relevant Notice of Conversion is received by the Conversion Agent from, and including, the Effective Date of the Make-Whole
Fundamental Change up to, and including, the Business Day immediately prior to the related Fundamental Change Repurchase Date (or, in the case of a Make-Whole Fundamental Change
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that would have been a Fundamental Change but for subclause (i) of the proviso in clause (b) of the definition thereof, the 35th Trading Day immediately following the
Effective Date of such Make-Whole Fundamental Change)
(b) Upon surrender of Notes for conversion in connection with a
Make-Whole Fundamental Change pursuant to Section 13.03, the Company shall, at its option, satisfy the related Conversion Obligation by Physical Settlement, Cash Settlement or Combination Settlement in accordance with Section 13.02 based
on the Conversion Rate as increased to reflect the Additional Shares pursuant to the table below; provided, however, that if, at the effective time of a Make-Whole Fundamental Change described in clause (b) of the definition of
Fundamental Change, the Reference Property following such Make-Whole Fundamental Change is composed entirely of cash, for any conversion of Notes following the Effective Date of such Make-Whole Fundamental Change, the Conversion Obligation shall be
calculated based solely on the Stock Price for the transaction and shall be deemed to be an amount of cash per $1,000 principal amount of converted Notes equal to the Conversion Rate (including any adjustment for Additional Shares), multiplied
by such Stock Price. In such event, the Conversion Obligation will be determined and shall be paid to Holders in cash on the third Business Day following the Conversion Date. The Company shall notify the Holders of Notes of the Effective Date of
any Make-Whole Fundamental Change no later than five Business Days after such Effective Date.
(c) The number of Additional
Shares, if any, by which the Conversion Rate shall be increased shall be determined by reference to the table below, based on the date on which the Make-Whole Fundamental Change occurs or becomes effective (the “Effective Date”) and
the price (the “Stock Price”) paid (or deemed to be paid) per share of the Common Stock in the Make-Whole Fundamental Change. If the holders of the Common Stock receive in exchange for their Common Stock only cash in a Make-Whole
Fundamental Change described in clause (b) of the definition of Fundamental Change, the Stock Price shall be the cash amount paid per share. Otherwise, the Stock Price shall be the average of the Last Reported Sale Prices of the Common Stock
over the five Trading Day period ending on, and including, the Trading Day immediately preceding the Effective Date of the Make-Whole Fundamental Change. The Board of Directors shall make appropriate adjustments to the Stock Price, in its good faith
determination, to account for any adjustment to the Conversion Rate that becomes effective, or any event requiring an adjustment to the Conversion Rate where the Ex-Dividend Date of the event occurs, during such five consecutive Trading Day period.
(d) The Stock Prices set forth in the column headings of the table below shall be adjusted as of any date on which the
Conversion Rate of the Notes is otherwise adjusted. The adjusted Stock Prices shall equal the Stock Prices applicable immediately prior to such adjustment, multiplied by a fraction, the numerator of which is the Conversion Rate immediately
prior to such adjustment giving rise to the Stock Price adjustment and the denominator of which is the Conversion Rate as so adjusted. The number of Additional Shares set forth in the table below shall be adjusted in the same manner and at the same
time as the Conversion Rate as set forth in Section 13.04.
(e) The following table sets forth the number of Additional
Shares of Common Stock by which the Conversion Rate shall be increased per $1,000 principal amount of Notes pursuant to this Section 13.03 for each Stock Price and Effective Date set forth below:
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18.7441 |
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8.6305 |
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7.2603 |
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5.1855 |
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2.7948 |
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0.5200 |
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13.0500 |
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8.4610 |
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7.1142 |
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5.0818 |
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2.7443 |
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1.2817 |
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0.5088 |
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0.1723 |
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18.7441 |
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18.7441 |
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14.5240 |
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9.4152 |
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7.9176 |
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5.6618 |
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9.2571 |
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7.6386 |
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5.2545 |
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2.6487 |
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1.1483 |
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0.4304 |
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0.1354 |
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0.0000 |
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The exact Stock Prices and Effective Dates may not be set forth in the table above, in which case:
(i) if the Stock Price is between two Stock Prices in the table above or the Effective Date is between two Effective Dates in
the table above, the number of Additional Shares by which the Conversion Rate will be increased shall be determined by a straight-line interpolation between the number of Additional Shares set forth for the higher and lower Stock Prices and the
earlier and later Effective Dates, as applicable, based on a 365-day year;
(ii) if the Stock Price is greater than $7.50
per share (subject to adjustment in the same manner as the Stock Prices set forth in the column headings of the table above pursuant to subsection (d) above), no Additional Shares shall be added to the Conversion Rate; and
(iii) if the Stock Price is less than $4.85 per share (subject to adjustment in the same manner as the Stock Prices set forth
in the column headings of the table above pursuant to subsection (d) above), no Additional Shares shall be added to the Conversion Rate.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, in no event shall the Conversion Rate per $1,000 principal amount of Notes exceed 206.1855 shares of Common Stock, subject to
adjustment in the same manner as the Conversion Rate pursuant to Section 13.04.
(f) Nothing in this Section 13.03 shall prevent
an adjustment to the Conversion Rate pursuant to Section 13.05 in respect of a Make-Whole Fundamental Change.
Section 13.04 Adjustment of Conversion Rate. The Conversion Rate shall be adjusted from time to time by the Company if any
of the following events occurs, except that the Company shall not make any adjustments to the Conversion Rate if Holders of the Notes participate (other than in the case of a share split or share combination), at the same time and upon the same
terms as holders of the Common Stock and solely as a result of holding the Notes, in any of the transactions described in this Section 13.04, without having to convert their Notes,
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as if they held a number of shares of Common Stock equal to the Conversion Rate, multiplied by the principal amount (expressed in thousands) of Notes held by such Holder.
(a) If the Company exclusively issues shares of Common Stock as a dividend or distribution on shares of the Common Stock, or if the
Company effects a share split or share combination, the Conversion Rate shall be adjusted based on the following formula:
where,
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the Conversion Rate in effect immediately prior to the open of business on the Ex-Dividend Date of such dividend or distribution, or immediately prior to the open of business on the Effective Date of such share split or share
combination, as applicable; |
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the Conversion Rate in effect immediately after the open of business on such Ex-Dividend Date or Effective Date; |
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the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding immediately prior to the open of business on such Ex-Dividend Date or Effective Date; and |
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the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding immediately after giving effect to such dividend, distribution, share split or share combination. |
Any adjustment made under this Section 13.04(a) shall become effective immediately after the open of business on the
Ex-Dividend Date for such dividend or distribution, or immediately after the open of business on the Effective Date for such share split or share combination, as applicable. If any dividend or distribution of the type described in this
Section 13.04(a) is declared but not so paid or made, the Conversion Rate shall be immediately readjusted, effective as of the date the Board of Directors determines not to pay such dividend or distribution, to the Conversion Rate that would
then be in effect if such dividend or distribution had not been declared.
(b) If the Company issues to all or substantially all holders
of the Common Stock any rights, options or warrants entitling them, for a period of not more than 45 calendar days after the announcement date of such issuance, to subscribe for or purchase shares of the Common Stock at a price per share that is
less than the average of the Last Reported Sale Prices of the Common Stock for the 10 consecutive Trading Day period ending on, and including, the Trading Day immediately preceding the date of announcement of such issuance, the Conversion Rate shall
be increased based on the following formula:
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where,
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the Conversion Rate in effect immediately prior to the open of business on the Ex-Dividend Date for such issuance; |
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the Conversion Rate in effect immediately after the open of business on such Ex-Dividend Date; |
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the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding immediately prior to the open of business on such Ex-Dividend Date; |
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the total number of shares of Common Stock issuable pursuant to such rights, options or warrants; and |
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the number of shares of Common Stock equal to the aggregate price payable to exercise such rights, options or warrants, divided by the average of the Last Reported Sale Prices of the Common Stock over the 10 consecutive
Trading Day period ending on, and including, the Trading Day immediately preceding the date of announcement of the issuance of such rights, options or warrants. |
Any increase made under this Section 13.04(b) shall be made successively whenever any such rights, options or warrants
are issued and shall become effective immediately after the open of business on the Ex-Dividend Date for such issuance. To the extent that shares of the Common Stock are not delivered after the expiration of such rights, options or warrants, the
Conversion Rate shall be decreased to the Conversion Rate that would then be in effect had the increase with respect to the issuance of such rights, options or warrants been made on the basis of delivery of only the number of shares of Common Stock
actually delivered. If such rights, options or warrants are not so issued, the Conversion Rate shall be decreased to the Conversion Rate that would then be in effect if such Ex-Dividend Date for such issuance had not occurred.
For purposes of this Section 13.04(b), in determining whether any rights, options or warrants entitle the holders to subscribe for or
purchase shares of the Common Stock at less than such average of the Last Reported Sale Prices of the Common Stock for the 10 consecutive Trading Day period ending on, and including, the Trading Day immediately preceding the date of announcement for
such issuance, and in determining the aggregate offering price of such shares of Common Stock, there shall be taken into account any consideration received by the Company for such rights, options or warrants and any amount payable on exercise or
conversion thereof, the value of such consideration, if other than cash, to be determined by the Board of Directors.
(c) If the Company
distributes shares of its Capital Stock, evidences of its indebtedness, other assets or property of the Company or rights, options or warrants to acquire its Capital Stock or other securities, to all or substantially all holders of the Common Stock,
excluding (i) dividends, distributions or issuances as to which an adjustment was effected pursuant to Section 13.04(a) or Section 13.04(b), (ii) dividends or distributions paid exclusively
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in cash as to which an adjustment was effected pursuant to Section 13.04(d), and (iii) Spin-Offs as to which the provisions set forth below in this Section 13.04(c) shall apply
(any of such shares of Capital Stock, evidences of indebtedness, other assets or property or rights, options or warrants to acquire Capital Stock or other securities of the Company, the “Distributed Property”), then the Conversion
Rate shall be increased based on the following formula:
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the Conversion Rate in effect immediately prior to the open of business on the Ex-Dividend Date for such distribution; |
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the Conversion Rate in effect immediately after the open of business on such Ex-Dividend Date; |
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the average of the Last Reported Sale Prices of the Common Stock over the 10 consecutive Trading Day period ending on, and including, the Trading Day immediately preceding the Ex-Dividend Date for such distribution; and |
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the fair market value (as determined by the Board of Directors) of the Distributed Property with respect to each outstanding share of the Common Stock on the Ex-Dividend Date for such distribution. |
Any increase made under the portion of this Section 13.04(c) above shall become effective immediately after the open of
business on the Ex-Dividend Date for such distribution. If any distribution of the type described in this portion of Section 13.04(c) is declared but not so paid or made, the Conversion Rate shall be decreased to the Conversion Rate that would
then be in effect if such distribution had not been declared.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, if “FMV” (as defined above) is equal to or greater
than “SP0” (as defined above), in lieu of the foregoing increase, each Holder of a Note shall receive, in respect of each $1,000 principal amount thereof, at the same time and upon
the same terms as holders of the Common Stock receive the Distributed Property, the amount and kind of Distributed Property such Holder would have received if such Holder owned a number of shares of Common Stock equal to the Conversion Rate in
effect on the Ex-Dividend Date for the distribution. If the Board of Directors determines the “FMV” (as defined above) of any distribution for purposes of this Section 13.04(c) by reference to the actual or when-issued trading market
for any securities, it shall in doing so consider the prices in such market over the same period used in computing the Last Reported Sale Prices of the Common Stock over the 10 consecutive Trading Day period ending on, and including, the Trading Day
immediately preceding the Ex-Dividend Date for such distribution.
With respect to an adjustment pursuant to this Section 13.04(c) where there has
been a payment of a dividend or other distribution on the Common Stock of shares of Capital Stock of any class
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or series, or similar equity interest, of or relating to a Subsidiary or other business unit of the Company, that are, or, when issued, will be, listed or admitted for trading on a U.S.
national securities exchange (a “Spin-Off”), the Conversion Rate shall be increased based on the following formula:
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the average of the Last Reported Sale Prices of the Capital Stock or similar equity interest distributed to holders of the Common Stock applicable to one share of the Common Stock (determined by reference to the definition of Last
Reported Sale Price as set forth in Section 1.01 as if references therein to Common Stock were to such Capital Stock or similar equity interest) over the first 10 consecutive Trading Day period after, and including, the Ex-Dividend Date of the
Spin-Off (the “Valuation Period”); and |
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the average of the Last Reported Sale Prices of the Common Stock over the Valuation Period. |
The adjustment to the Conversion Rate under the preceding paragraph shall occur on the last Trading Day
of the Valuation Period; provided that in respect of any conversion of Notes during the Valuation Period, references in the portion of this Section 13.04(c) related to Spin-Offs with respect to 10 Trading Days shall be deemed to be
replaced with such lesser number of Trading Days as have elapsed between the Ex-Dividend Date of such Spin-Off and the Conversion Date in determining the Conversion Rate. If the Ex-Dividend Date of the Spin-Off is after the 10th Trading Day
immediately preceding, and including, the end of any Observation Period in respect of a conversion of Notes, references in the preceding paragraph to 10 Trading Days will be deemed to be replaced, solely in respect of that conversion of Notes, with
such lesser number of Trading Days as have elapsed from, and including, the Ex-Dividend Date for the Spin-Off to, and including, the last Trading Day of such Observation Period.
(d) If the Company pays any cash dividend or distribution to all or substantially all holders of the Common Stock other than a regular
cash dividend that does not exceed $0.16 per share (the “Dividend Threshold”), subject to adjustment as provided in this Section 13.04(d), the Conversion Rate shall be adjusted based on the following formula:
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where,
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the Conversion Rate in effect immediately prior to the open of business on the Ex-Dividend Date for such dividend or distribution; |
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the Conversion Rate in effect immediately after the open of business on the Ex-Dividend Date for such dividend or distribution; |
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the Last Reported Sale Price of the Common Stock on the Trading Day immediately preceding the Ex-Dividend Date for such dividend or distribution; and |
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the Dividend Threshold, provided that if the dividend or distribution is not a regular quarterly cash dividend, the Dividend Threshold shall be deemed to be zero (0) with respect to such dividend or distribution; and |
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the amount in cash per share the Company distributes to all or substantially all holders of the Common Stock in the relevant dividend period. |
The Dividend Threshold is subject to adjustment in a manner inversely proportional to adjustments to the Conversion Rate made
pursuant to the provisions under this Section 13.04; provided that no adjustment will be made to the Dividend Threshold for any adjustment to the Conversion Rate pursuant to this Section 13.04(d).
Any increase to the Conversion Rate pursuant to this Section 13.04(d) shall become effective immediately after the open of business on the Ex-Dividend
Date for such dividend or distribution. If such dividend or distribution is not so paid, the Conversion Rate shall be decreased, effective as of the date the Board of Directors determines not to make or pay such dividend or distribution, to be the
Conversion Rate that would then be in effect if such dividend or distribution had not been declared.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, if “C” (as
defined above) is equal to or greater than “SP0” (as defined above), in lieu of the foregoing increase, each Holder of a Note shall receive, in respect of each $1,000 principal amount
of Notes, at the same time and upon the same terms as holders of shares of the Common Stock, the amount of cash that such Holder would have received if such Holder owned a number of shares of Common Stock equal to the Conversion Rate on the
Ex-Dividend Date for such cash dividend or distribution.
(e) If the Company or any of its Subsidiaries make a payment in respect of a
tender or exchange offer for the Common Stock (that is subject to the tender offer rules of the Exchange Act that are then applicable), other than odd lot tender offers, to the extent that the cash and value of any other consideration included in
the payment per share of the Common Stock exceeds the average of the Last Reported Sale Prices of the Common Stock over the 10 consecutive Trading Day period commencing on, and including, the Trading Day next succeeding the last date on which
tenders or exchanges may be made pursuant to such tender or exchange offer, the Conversion Rate shall be increased based on the following formula:
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where,
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the Conversion Rate in effect immediately prior to the close of business on the 10th Trading Day immediately following, and including, the Trading Day next succeeding the date such tender or exchange offer expires; |
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the Conversion Rate in effect immediately after the close of business on the 10th Trading Day immediately following, and including, the Trading Day next succeeding the date such tender or exchange offer expires; |
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the aggregate value of all cash and any other consideration (as determined by the Board of Directors) paid or payable for shares of Common Stock purchased or exchanged in such tender or exchange offer; |
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the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding immediately prior to the date such tender or exchange offer expires (prior to giving effect to the purchase or exchange of all shares of Common Stock accepted for purchase or exchange
in such tender or exchange offer); |
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the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding immediately after the date such tender or exchange offer expires (after giving effect to the purchase or exchange of all shares of Common Stock accepted for purchase or exchange in
such tender or exchange offer); and |
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the average of the Last Reported Sale Prices of the Common Stock over the 10 consecutive Trading Day period commencing on, and including, the Trading Day next succeeding the date such tender or exchange offer expires. |
The adjustment to the Conversion Rate under this Section 13.04(e) shall occur at the close of business on the 10th
Trading Day immediately following, and including, the Trading Day next succeeding the date such tender or exchange offer expires; provided that in respect of any conversion of Notes within the 10 Trading Days immediately following, and including,
the expiration date of any tender or exchange offer, references in this Section 13.04(e) with respect to 10 Trading Days shall be deemed replaced with such lesser number of Trading Days as have elapsed between the date that such tender or
exchange offer expires and the Conversion Date in determining the Conversion Rate. In addition, if the Trading Day next succeeding the date such tender or exchange offer expires is after the 10th Trading Day immediately preceding, and including, the
end of any Observation Period in respect of a conversion of Notes, references in the preceding paragraph to 10 Trading Days shall be deemed to be replaced, solely in respect of that conversion of Notes, with such lesser number of Trading Days as
have elapsed from, and including, the Trading Day next succeeding the date such tender or exchange offer expires to, and including, the last Trading Day of such Observation Period.
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(f) Notwithstanding this Section 13.04 or any other provision of this Indenture or the Notes
if a Conversion Rate adjustment becomes effective on any Ex-Dividend Date, and a Holder that has converted its Notes on or after such Ex-Dividend Date and on or prior to the related Record Date would be treated as the record holder of the shares of
Common Stock as of the related Conversion Date as described under Section 13.02(i) based on an adjusted Conversion Rate for such Ex-Dividend Date, then, notwithstanding the Conversion Rate adjustment provisions in this Section 13.04, the
Conversion Rate adjustment relating to such Ex-Dividend Date shall not be made for such converting Holder. Instead, such Holder shall be treated as if such Holder were the record owner of the shares of Common Stock on an unadjusted basis and
participate in the related dividend, distribution or other event giving rise to such adjustment.
(g) Except as stated herein, the Company
shall not adjust the Conversion Rate for the issuance of shares of Common Stock or any securities convertible into or exchangeable for shares of Common Stock or the right to purchase shares of Common Stock or such convertible or exchangeable
securities (including as consideration for a merger, purchase or similar transaction).
(h) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in
this Article XIII, the Conversion Rate shall not be adjusted:
(i) upon the issuance of any shares of Common Stock pursuant
to any present or future plan providing for the reinvestment of dividends or interest payable on the Company’s securities and the investment of additional optional amounts in shares of Common Stock under any plan;
(ii) upon the issuance of any shares of Common Stock or options or rights to purchase those shares pursuant to any present or
future employee, director or consultant benefit plan or program of or assumed by the Company or any of the Company’s Subsidiaries;
(iii) upon the issuance of any shares of the Common Stock pursuant to any option, warrant, right or exercisable, exchangeable
or convertible security not described in clause (ii) of this subsection and outstanding as of the date the Notes were first issued;
(iv) upon the repurchase of any shares of Common Stock pursuant to an open-market share repurchase program or other buy-back
transaction that is not a tender offer or exchange offer of the nature described under Section 13.04(e)
(v) solely
for a change in the par value of the Common Stock; or
(vi) for accrued and unpaid interest, if any.
All calculations and other determinations under this Article XIII shall be made by the Company and shall be made to the nearest one-ten
thousandth (1/10,000) of a share.
The Company shall not be required to make an adjustment pursuant to clauses (a), (b), (c),
(d) or (e) of this Section 13.04 unless such adjustment would result in a change of at least 1% of the then effective Conversion Rate. However, the Company shall carry forward any
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adjustment that the Company would otherwise have to make and take that adjustment into account in any subsequent adjustment. Notwithstanding the foregoing, all such carried-forward adjustments
shall be made with respect to the Notes (i) annually on January 15 of each year, (ii) in connection with any subsequent adjustment to the Conversion Rate of at least 1% of the Conversion Rate (when such carried-forward adjustments are
taken into account) and (iii) (x) on the Conversion Date for any Notes (in the case of Physical Settlement) and (y) on each Trading Day of any Observation Period (in the case of Cash Settlement or Combination Settlement).
(i) Whenever the Conversion Rate is adjusted as herein provided, the Company shall promptly file with the Trustee (and the Conversion Agent if
not the Trustee) an Officer’s Certificate setting forth the Conversion Rate after such adjustment and setting forth a brief statement of the facts requiring such adjustment. Unless and until a Responsible Officer of the Trustee shall have
received such Officer’s Certificate, the Trustee shall not be deemed to have knowledge of any adjustment of the Conversion Rate and may assume without inquiry that the last Conversion Rate of which it has knowledge is still in effect. Promptly
after delivery of such certificate, the Company shall prepare a notice of such adjustment of the Conversion Rate setting forth the adjusted Conversion Rate and the date on which each adjustment becomes effective and shall mail such notice of such
adjustment of the Conversion Rate to each Holder at its last address appearing on the Note Register of this Indenture. Failure to deliver such notice shall not affect the legality or validity of any such adjustment.
(j) For purposes of this Section 13.04, the number of shares of Common Stock at any time outstanding shall not include shares of Common
Stock held in the treasury of the Company so long as the Company does not pay any dividend or make any distribution on shares of Common Stock held in the treasury of the Company, but shall include shares of Common Stock issuable in respect of scrip
certificates issued in lieu of fractions of shares of Common Stock.
Section 13.05 Adjustments of Prices. Whenever any
provision of this Indenture requires the Company to calculate the Last Reported Sale Prices, the Daily VWAPs, the Daily Conversion Values or the Daily Settlement Amounts over a span of multiple days (including an Observation Period and the period
for determining the Stock Price for purposes of a Make-Whole Fundamental Change), the Board of Directors shall make appropriate adjustments (to the extent no corresponding adjustment is otherwise made pursuant to Section 13.04) to each to
account for any adjustment to the Conversion Rate that becomes effective, or any event requiring an adjustment to the Conversion Rate where the Ex-Dividend Date of the event occurs, at any time during the period when such Last Reported Sale Prices,
Daily VWAPs, Daily Conversion Values or Daily Settlement Amounts are to be calculated.
Section 13.06 Shares to Be Fully Paid.
The Company shall provide, free from preemptive rights, out of its authorized but unissued shares or shares held in treasury, sufficient shares of Common Stock to provide for conversion of the Notes from time to time as such Notes are presented for
conversion (assuming that at the time of computation of such number of shares, all such Notes would be converted by a single Holder and that Physical Settlement is applicable).
Section 13.07 Effect of Recapitalizations, Reclassifications and Changes of the Common Stock.
(a) In the case of:
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(i) any recapitalization, reclassification or change of the Common Stock (other
than changes resulting from a subdivision or combination),
(ii) any consolidation, merger or combination involving the
Company,
(iii) any sale, lease or other transfer to a third party of the consolidated assets of the Company and the
Company’s Subsidiaries substantially as an entirety or
(iv) any statutory share exchange,
in each case, as a result of which the Common Stock would be converted into, or exchanged for, stock, other securities, other property or assets
(including cash or any combination thereof) (any such event, a “Share Exchange Event”), then, at and after the effective time of such Share Exchange Event, the right to convert each $1,000 principal amount of Notes shall be changed
into a right to convert such principal amount of Notes into the kind and amount of shares of stock, other securities or other property or assets (including cash or any combination thereof) that a holder of a number of shares of Common Stock equal to
the Conversion Rate immediately prior to such Share Exchange Event would have owned or been entitled to receive (the “Reference Property,” with each “Unit of Reference Property” meaning the kind and amount of
Reference Property that a holder of one share of Common Stock is entitled to receive) upon such Share Exchange Event and, prior to or at the effective time of such Share Exchange Event, the Company or the successor or purchasing Person, as the case
may be, shall execute with the Trustee a supplemental indenture permitted under Section 10.01(f) providing for such change in the right to convert each $1,000 principal amount of Notes; provided,
however, that at and after the effective time of the Share Exchange Event (A) the Company shall continue to have the right to determine the form of consideration to be paid or delivered, as the case may be, upon conversion
of Notes in accordance with Section 13.02 and (B) (I) any amount payable in cash upon conversion of the Notes in accordance with Section 13.02 shall continue to be payable in cash, (II) any shares of Common Stock that the Company
would have been required to deliver upon conversion of the Notes in accordance with Section 13.02 shall instead be deliverable in the amount and type of Reference Property that a holder of that number of shares of Common Stock would have been
entitled to receive in such Share Exchange Event and (III) the Daily VWAP and the Last Reported Sale Price, to the extent possible, shall be calculated based on the value of a unit of Reference Property.
If the Share Exchange Event causes the Common Stock to be converted into, or exchanged for, the right to receive more than a single type of
consideration (determined based in part upon any form of stockholder election), then (i) the Reference Property into which the Notes will be convertible shall be deemed to be (x) the weighted average of the types and amounts of
consideration received by the holders of Common Stock that affirmatively make such an election or (y) if no holders of Common Stock affirmatively make such an election, the types and amounts of consideration actually received by the holders of
Common Stock, and (ii) the unit of Reference Property for purposes of the immediately preceding paragraph shall refer to the consideration referred to in clause (i) attributable to one share of Common Stock. If the holders receive only
cash in such Share Exchange Event, then for all conversions that occur after the effective date of such Share Exchange Event (A) the consideration due upon conversion of each $1,000 principal amount of Notes shall be solely cash in an amount
equal to the Conversion Rate in effect on the Conversion Date (as may be increased by any Additional Shares pursuant to
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Section 13.03), multiplied by the price paid per share of Common Stock in such Share Exchange Event and (B) the Company shall satisfy the Conversion Obligation by paying cash to
converting Holders on the third Business Day immediately following the relevant Conversion Date. The Company shall notify Holders, the Trustee and the Conversion Agent (if other than the Trustee) in writing of such weighted average as soon as
practicable after such determination is made.
Such supplemental indenture described in the second immediately preceding paragraph shall
provide for adjustments that shall be as nearly equivalent as is possible to the adjustments provided for in this Article XIII. If, in the case of any Share Exchange Event, the Reference Property includes shares of stock, securities or other
property or assets (including cash or any combination thereof) of a Person other than the successor or purchasing corporation, as the case may be, in such Share Exchange Event, then such supplemental indenture shall also be executed by such other
Person and shall contain such additional provisions to protect the interests of the Holders of the Notes as the Board of Directors shall reasonably consider necessary by reason of the foregoing, including the provisions providing for the purchase
rights set forth in Article XIV.
(b) In the event the Company shall execute a supplemental indenture pursuant to subsection (a) of
this Section 13.07, the Company shall promptly file with the Trustee an Officer’s Certificate briefly stating the reasons therefor, the kind or amount of cash, securities or property or asset that will comprise a unit of Reference Property
after any such Share Exchange Event, any adjustment to be made with respect thereto and that all conditions precedent have been complied with, and shall promptly mail notice thereof to all Holders. The Company shall cause notice of the execution of
such supplemental indenture to be sent to each Holder, at its address appearing on the Note Register provided for in this Indenture, within 20 days after execution thereof. Failure to deliver such notice shall not affect the legality or validity of
such supplemental indenture.
(c) The Company shall not become a party to any Share Exchange Event unless its terms are consistent with
this Section 13.08. None of the foregoing provisions shall affect the right of a holder of Notes to convert its Notes into cash, shares of Common Stock or a combination of cash and shares of Common Stock, as applicable, as set forth in
Section 13.01 and Section 13.02 prior to the effective date of such Share Exchange Event.
(d) The above provisions of this
Section shall similarly apply to successive Share Exchange Events.
Section 13.08 Certain Covenants. (a) The Company
covenants that any shares of Common Stock issued upon conversion of Notes will be validly issued, fully paid and non-assessable by the Company and free from all taxes, liens and charges with respect to the issue thereof.
(b) The Company covenants that, if any shares of Common Stock to be provided for the purpose of conversion of Notes hereunder require
registration with or approval of any governmental authority under any federal or state law before such shares of Common Stock may be validly issued upon conversion, the Company will, to the extent then permitted by the rules and interpretations of
the Commission, secure such registration or approval, as the case may be.
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(c) The Company further covenants that if at any time the Common Stock shall be listed on any
national securities exchange or automated quotation system, the Company will list and keep listed, so long as the Common Stock shall be so listed on such exchange or automated quotation system, any Common Stock issuable upon conversion of the Notes.
Section 13.09 Responsibility of Trustee. The Trustee and any other Conversion Agent shall not at any time be under any
duty or responsibility to any Holder to determine the Conversion Rate (or any adjustment thereto) or whether any facts exist that may require any adjustment (including any increase) of the Conversion Rate, or with respect to the nature or extent or
calculation of any such adjustment when made, or with respect to the method employed, or herein or in any supplemental indenture provided to be employed, in making the same. The Trustee and any other Conversion Agent shall not be accountable with
respect to the validity or value (or the kind or amount) of any shares of Common Stock, or of any securities, property or cash that may at any time be issued or delivered upon the conversion of any Note; and the Trustee and any other Conversion
Agent make no representations with respect thereto. Neither the Trustee nor any Conversion Agent shall be responsible for any failure of the Company to issue, transfer or deliver any shares of Common Stock or stock certificates or other securities
or property or cash upon the surrender of any Note for the purpose of conversion or to comply with any of the duties, responsibilities or covenants of the Company contained in this Article. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, neither
the Trustee nor any Conversion Agent shall be under any responsibility to determine the correctness of any provisions contained in any supplemental indenture entered into pursuant to Section 13.07 relating either to the kind or amount of shares
of stock or securities or property (including cash) receivable by Holders upon the conversion of their Notes after any event referred to in such Section 13.07 or to any adjustment to be made with respect thereto, but, subject to the provisions
of Section 7.01, may accept (without any independent investigation) as conclusive evidence of the correctness of any such provisions, and shall be protected in relying upon, the Officer’s Certificate (which the Company shall be obligated
to file with the Trustee prior to the execution of any such supplemental indenture) with respect thereto. The Conversion Agent (if other than the Company or an Affiliate of the Company) shall have the same protection under this Section 13.09 as
the Trustee.
Section 13.10 Stockholder Rights Plans. If the Company has a stockholder rights plan in effect
upon conversion of the Notes, each share of Common Stock, if any, issued upon such conversion shall be entitled to receive the appropriate number of rights, if any, and the certificates representing the Common Stock issued upon such conversion shall
bear such legends, if any, in each case as may be provided by the terms of any such stockholder rights plan, as the same may be amended from time to time. However, if prior to any conversion of Notes, the rights have separated from the shares of
Common Stock in accordance with the provisions of the applicable stockholder rights plan so that the Holders would not be entitled to receive any rights in respect of Common Stock, if any, issuable upon conversion of the Notes, the Conversion Rate
shall be adjusted at the time of separation as if the Company distributed to all or substantially all holders of the Common Stock Distributed Property as provided in Section 13.04(c), subject to readjustment in the event of the expiration,
termination or redemption of such rights.
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Section 13.11 Ownership Limit; Withholding. Notwithstanding any other
provision of the Notes or the instructions contained herein, no Person may beneficially own or constructively own more than 9.8%, in value or in number of shares, whichever is more restrictive, of the outstanding shares of any class or series of the
Company’s capital stock, including the Common Stock. The Board of Directors may waive or modify this ownership limit. Notwithstanding any other provision of the Notes or the instructions contained herein, no Holder of Notes shall be entitled to
convert such Notes for shares of Common Stock to the extent (but only to the extent) that receipt of such shares would cause such Holder (together with such Holder’s affiliates) to exceed the ownership limit contained in the Charter of the
Company as in effect from time to time.
On the Maturity Date or on such other date upon which the principal of the Notes is paid,
and as otherwise required by law, the Company may deduct and withhold from the amount of consideration otherwise deliverable to such Holder the amount required to be deducted and withheld under applicable law.
ARTICLE XIV
REPURCHASE OF NOTES AT OPTION OF
HOLDERS
Section 14.01 Repurchase at Option of Holders Upon a Fundamental Change. (a) If a
Fundamental Change occurs at any time prior to the Maturity Date, each Holder shall have the right, at such Holder’s option, to require the Company to repurchase for cash all of such Holder’s Notes, or any portion of the principal amount
thereof that is equal to $1,000 or an integral multiple of $1,000, on the date (the “Fundamental Change Repurchase Date”) specified by the Company that is not less than 20 calendar days or more than 35 calendar days
following the date of the Fundamental Change Company Notice (or, if the Company fails to specify a Fundamental Change Repurchase Date, the 35th calendar day following the date of the Fundamental
Change Company Notice) at a repurchase price equal to 100% of the principal amount thereof, plus accrued and unpaid interest thereon to, but excluding, the Fundamental Change Repurchase Date (the “Fundamental Change Repurchase
Price”), unless the Fundamental Change Repurchase Date falls after a Regular Record Date but on or prior to the Interest Payment Date to which such Regular Record Date relates, in which case the Company shall instead pay the full
amount of accrued and unpaid interest to Holders of record as of such Regular Record Date, and the Fundamental Change Repurchase Price shall be equal to 100% of the principal amount of Notes to be repurchased pursuant to this Article XIV.
(b) Repurchases of Notes under this Section 14.01 shall be made, at the option of the Holder thereof, upon:
(i) delivery to the Paying Agent by a Holder of a duly completed notice (the “Fundamental Change Repurchase
Notice”) substantially in the form set forth in Attachment 2 to the Form of Note attached hereto as Exhibit A, if the Notes are Physical Notes, or in compliance with the Depositary’s procedures for surrendering interests in Global
Notes, if the Notes are Global Notes, in each case on or before the close of business on the Business Day immediately preceding the Fundamental Change Repurchase Date; and
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(ii) delivery of the Notes, if the Notes are Physical Notes, to the Paying Agent
at any time after delivery of the Fundamental Change Repurchase Notice (together with all necessary endorsements for transfer) at the Corporate Trust Office of the Paying Agent, or book-entry transfer of the Notes, if the Notes are Global Notes, in
compliance with the procedures of the Depositary, in each case such delivery being a condition to receipt by the Holder of the Fundamental Change Repurchase Price therefor.
The Fundamental Change Repurchase Notice in respect of any Notes to be repurchased shall state:
(iii) in the case of Physical Notes, the certificate numbers of the Notes to be delivered for repurchase;
(iv) the portion of the principal amount of Notes to be repurchased, which must be $1,000 or an integral multiple thereof; and
(v) that the Notes are to be repurchased by the Company pursuant to the applicable provisions of the Notes and this
Indenture; provided, however, that if the Notes are Global Notes, the Fundamental Change Repurchase Notice must comply with appropriate Depositary procedures.
Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, any Holder delivering to the Paying Agent the Fundamental Change Repurchase Notice
contemplated by this Section 14.01 shall have the right to withdraw, in whole or in part, such Fundamental Change Repurchase Notice at any time prior to the close of business on the Business Day immediately preceding the Fundamental Change
Repurchase Date by delivery of a written notice of withdrawal to the Paying Agent in accordance with Section 14.02.
The Paying Agent
shall promptly notify the Company of the receipt by it of any Fundamental Change Repurchase Notice or written notice of withdrawal thereof.
(c) On or before the 20th calendar day after the occurrence of a Fundamental Change, the Company shall provide to all Holders of Notes,
the Conversion Agent, the Trustee and the Paying Agent (in the case of a Paying Agent other than the Trustee) a written notice (the “Fundamental Change Company Notice”) of the occurrence of the Fundamental Change and of the
repurchase right at the option of the Holders arising as a result thereof. In the case of Physical Notes, such notice shall be by first class mail or, in the case of Global Notes, such notice shall be delivered in accordance with the Applicable
Procedures of the Depositary. Each Fundamental Change Company Notice shall specify:
(i) the events causing the
Fundamental Change;
(ii) the effective date of the Fundamental Change;
(iii) the last date on which a Holder may exercise the repurchase right pursuant to this Article XIV;
(iv) the Fundamental Change Repurchase Price;
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(v) the Fundamental Change Repurchase Date;
(vi) the name and address of the Paying Agent and the Conversion Agent, if applicable;
(vii) if applicable, the Conversion Rate and any adjustments to the Conversion Rate;
(viii) that the Notes with respect to which a Fundamental Change Repurchase Notice has been delivered by a Holder may be
converted only if the Holder withdraws the Fundamental Change Repurchase Notice in accordance with the terms of this Indenture;
(ix) the procedures that Holders must follow to require the Company to repurchase their Notes.
No failure of the Company to give the foregoing notices and no defect therein shall limit the Holders’ repurchase rights or affect the
validity of the proceedings for the repurchase of the Notes pursuant to this Section 14.01.
At the Company’s written
request, the Trustee shall give such notice in the Company’s name and at the Company’s expense; provided, however, that, in all cases, the text of such Fundamental Change Company Notice shall be prepared by the Company.
(d) Notwithstanding the foregoing, no Notes may be repurchased by the Company on any date at the option of the Holders upon a
Fundamental Change if the principal amount of the Notes has been accelerated, and such acceleration has not been rescinded, on or prior to such date (except in the case of an acceleration resulting from a Default by the Company in the payment of the
Fundamental Change Repurchase Price with respect to such Notes). The Paying Agent will promptly return to the respective Holders thereof any Physical Notes held by it during the acceleration of the Notes (except in the case of an acceleration
resulting from a Default by the Company in the payment of the Fundamental Change Repurchase Price with respect to such Notes), or any instructions for book-entry transfer of the Notes in compliance with the procedures of the Depositary shall be
deemed to have been cancelled, and, upon such return or cancellation, as the case may be, the Fundamental Change Repurchase Notice with respect thereto shall be deemed to have been withdrawn.
(e) Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Company will not be required to make an offer to repurchase Notes pursuant to this Article XIV if a
Person other than the Company makes an offer in the manner, at the times and otherwise in compliance with the requirements for an offer to repurchase Notes pursuant to this Article XIV made by the Company and such Person purchases all Notes properly
tendered and not validly withdrawn under its offer.
Section 14.02 Withdrawal of Fundamental Change Repurchase Notice.
(a) A Fundamental Change Repurchase Notice may be withdrawn (in whole or in part) by means of a written notice of withdrawal delivered to the Paying Agent in accordance with this Section 14.02 at any time prior to the close of business on
the Business Day immediately preceding the Fundamental Change Repurchase Date, specifying:
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(i) the principal amount of the Notes with respect to which such notice of
withdrawal is being submitted, which must be in principal amounts of $1,000 or an integral multiple thereof;
(ii) if
Physical Notes have been issued, the certificate number of the Note in respect of which such notice of withdrawal is being submitted, and
(iii) the principal amount, if any, of such Note that remains subject to the original Fundamental Change Repurchase Notice,
which must be in principal amounts of $1,000 or an integral multiple thereof; provided, however, that if the Notes are Global Notes, the notice must comply with appropriate procedures of the Depositary.
Section 14.03 Deposit of Fundamental Change Repurchase Price. (a) The Company will deposit with the Trustee (or other
Paying Agent appointed by the Company, or if the Company is acting as its own Paying Agent, set aside, segregate and hold in trust as provided in Section 4.03) on or prior to 11:00 a.m., New York City time, on the Fundamental Change Repurchase
Date an amount of money sufficient to repurchase all of the Notes to be repurchased at the appropriate Fundamental Change Repurchase Price. Subject to receipt of funds and/or Notes by the Trustee (or other Paying Agent appointed by the Company),
payment for Notes surrendered for repurchase (and not withdrawn prior to the close of business on the Business Day immediately preceding the Fundamental Change Repurchase Date) will be made on the later of (i) the Fundamental Change Repurchase
Date with respect to such Note (provided the Holder has satisfied the conditions in Section 14.01) and (ii) the time of book-entry transfer or the delivery of such Note to the Trustee (or other Paying Agent appointed by the Company)
by the Holder thereof in the manner required by Section 14.01 by mailing checks for the amount payable to the Holders of such Notes entitled thereto as they shall appear in the Note Register; provided, however, that payments to
the Depositary shall be made by wire transfer of immediately available funds to the account of the Depositary or its nominee. The Trustee shall, promptly after such payment and upon written demand by the Company, return to the Company any funds in
excess of the Fundamental Change Repurchase Price.
(b) If by 11:00 a.m. New York City time, on the Fundamental Change Repurchase
Date, the Trustee (or other Paying Agent appointed by the Company) holds money sufficient to make payment on all the Notes or portions thereof that are to be repurchased on such Fundamental Change Repurchase Date, then, with respect to Notes that
have been properly surrendered for repurchase and have not been validly withdrawn in accordance with the provisions of this Indenture, (i) such Notes will cease to be outstanding, (ii) interest will cease to accrue on such Notes (whether
or not book-entry transfer of the Notes has been made or the Notes have been delivered to the Trustee or Paying Agent) and (iii) all other rights of the Holders of such Notes will terminate (other than the right to receive the Fundamental
Change Repurchase Price).
(c) Upon surrender of a Note that is to be repurchased in part pursuant to Section 14.01, the Company
shall execute and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver to the Holder a new Note in an authorized denomination equal in principal amount to the unrepurchased portion of the Note surrendered.
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Section 14.04 Covenant to Comply with Applicable Laws Upon Repurchase of
Notes. In connection with any repurchase offer, the Company will, if required:
(a) comply with the provisions of Rule 13e-4,
Rule 14e-1 and any other tender offer rules under the Exchange Act;
(b) file a Schedule TO or any other required schedule under the
Exchange Act; and
(c) otherwise comply with all federal and state securities laws in connection with any offer by the Company to
repurchase the Notes; in each case, so as to permit the rights and obligations under this Article XIV to be exercised in the time and in the manner specified in this Article XIV.
To the extent that the provisions of any securities laws or regulations conflict with the provisions of this Indenture relating to the
Company’s obligations to purchase the notes upon a Fundamental Change, the Company shall comply with the applicable securities laws and regulations and will not be deemed to have breached its obligations under Article XIV by virtue of such
conflict.
ARTICLE XV
NO OPTIONAL REDEMPTION
Section 15.01 No Optional Redemption. The Notes shall not be redeemable by the Company prior to the Maturity Date, and no
sinking fund is provided for the Notes.
ARTICLE XVI
MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS
Section 16.01 Provisions Binding on Company’s Successors. All the covenants, stipulations, promises and agreements of
the Company contained in this Indenture shall bind its successors and assigns whether so expressed or not.
Section 16.02 Official Acts by Successor Corporation. Any act or proceeding by any provision of this Indenture authorized
or required to be done or performed by any board, committee or Officer of the Company shall and may be done and performed with like force and effect by the like board, committee or officer of any corporation or other entity that shall at the time be
the lawful sole successor of the Company.
Section 16.03 Addresses for Notices, Etc. Any notice or demand that
by any provision of this Indenture is required or permitted to be given or served by the Trustee or by the Holders on the Company shall be deemed to have been sufficiently given or made, for all purposes if given or served by being deposited postage
prepaid by registered or certified mail in a post office letter box addressed (until another address is filed by the Company with the Trustee) to Resource Capital Corp., 712 Fifth Avenue, 10th
Floor, New York, New York 10019, Attention: General Counsel. Any notice, direction, request or demand hereunder to or upon the Trustee shall be deemed to have been sufficiently given or made, for all purposes, if it is in writing and if given or
served by being deposited postage prepaid by registered or certified mail in a post office letter box addressed to the Corporate Trust Office or sent electronically in PDF format.
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The Trustee, by notice to the Company, may designate additional or different addresses for
subsequent notices or communications.
Any notice or communication mailed to a Holder shall be mailed to it by first class mail,
postage prepaid, at its address as it appears on the Note Register and shall be sufficiently given to it if so mailed within the time prescribed; provided that notices given to Holders holding Notes in book-entry form may be given through the
facilities of the Depository.
Failure to mail a notice or communication to a Holder or any defect in it shall not affect its
sufficiency with respect to other Holders. If a notice or communication is mailed in the manner provided above, it is duly given, whether or not the addressee receives it.
In case by reason of the suspension of regular mail service or by reason of any other cause it shall be impracticable to give such notice to
Holders by mail, then such notification as shall be made with the approval of the Trustee shall constitute a sufficient notification for every purpose hereunder.
Section 16.04 Governing Law. THIS INDENTURE AND EACH NOTE, AND ANY CLAIM, CONTROVERSY OR DISPUTE ARISING UNDER OR RELATED
TO THIS INDENTURE AND EACH NOTE, SHALL BE GOVERNED BY, AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH, THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK (WITHOUT REGARD TO THE CONFLICTS OF LAWS PROVISIONS THEREOF OTHER THAN SECTION 5-1401 OF THE GENERAL OBLIGATIONS LAW).
The Company irrevocably consents and agrees, for the benefit of the Holders from time to time of the Notes and the Trustee, that any
legal action, suit or proceeding against it with respect to obligations, liabilities or any other matter arising out of or in connection with this Indenture or the Notes may be brought in the courts of the State of New York or the courts of the
United States located in New York, New York and, until amounts due and to become due in respect of the Notes have been paid, hereby irrevocably consents and submits to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of each such court in personam, generally and
unconditionally with respect to any action, suit or proceeding for itself in respect of its properties, assets and revenues.
The Company
irrevocably and unconditionally waives, to the fullest extent permitted by law, any objection which it may now or hereafter have to the laying of venue of any of the aforesaid actions, suits or proceedings arising out of or in connection with this
Indenture brought in the courts of the State of New York or the courts of the United States located in the Borough of Manhattan, New York City, New York and hereby further irrevocably and unconditionally waives and agrees not to plead or claim in
any such court that any such action, suit or proceeding brought in any such court has been brought in an inconvenient forum.
Section 16.05 Evidence of Compliance with Conditions Precedent; Certificates and Opinions of Counsel to Trustee. Upon any
application or demand by the Company to the Trustee to take any action under any of the provisions of this Indenture, the Company shall furnish to the Trustee an Officer’s Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel stating that such action is
permitted by the terms of this Indenture.
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Each Officer’s Certificate provided for, by or on behalf of the Company in this Indenture
and delivered to the Trustee with respect to compliance with this Indenture (other than the Officer’s Certificates provided for in Section 4.07) shall include (a) a statement that the persons signing such certificate are familiar with
the requested action and this Indenture; (b) a brief statement as to the nature and scope of the examination or investigation upon which the statement contained in such certificate is based; (c) a statement that, in the judgment of each
such person, he or she has made such examination or investigation as is necessary to enable him or her to express an informed judgment as to whether or not such action is permitted by this Indenture; and (d) a statement as to whether or not, in
the judgment of each such person, such action is permitted by this Indenture.
Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this
Section 16.05, if any provision in this Indenture specifically provides that the Trustee shall or may receive an Opinion of Counsel in connection with any action to be taken by the Trustee or the Company hereunder, the Trustee shall be entitled
to, or entitled to request, such Opinion of Counsel.
Section 16.06 Legal Holidays. In any case where any Interest
Payment Date, Fundamental Change Repurchase Date, Conversion Date or Maturity Date is not a Business Day, then any action to be taken on such date need not be taken on such date, but may be taken on the next succeeding Business Day with the same
force and effect as if taken on such date, and no interest shall accrue or be paid in respect of the delay.
Section 16.07 No Security Interest Created. Nothing in this Indenture or in the Notes, expressed or implied, shall be
construed to constitute a security interest under the Uniform Commercial Code or similar legislation, as now or hereafter enacted and in effect, in any jurisdiction.
Section 16.08 Benefits of Indenture. Nothing in this Indenture or in the Notes, expressed or implied, shall give to any
Person, other than the Holders, the parties hereto, any Paying Agent, any Conversion Agent, any authenticating agent, any Note Registrar and their successors hereunder, any benefit or any legal or equitable right, remedy or claim under this
Indenture.
Section 16.09 Table of Contents, Headings, Etc. The table of contents and the titles and headings
of the articles and sections of this Indenture have been inserted for convenience of reference only, are not to be considered a part hereof, and shall in no way modify or restrict any of the terms or provisions hereof.
Section 16.10 Authenticating Agent. The Trustee may appoint an authenticating agent that shall be authorized to act on its
behalf and subject to its direction in the authentication and delivery of Notes in connection with the original issuance thereof and transfers and exchanges of Notes hereunder, including under Section 2.04, Section 2.05, Section 2.06,
Section 2.07, Section 10.04 and Section 14.03 as fully to all intents and purposes as though the authenticating agent had been expressly authorized by this Indenture and those Sections to authenticate and deliver Notes. For all
purposes of this Indenture, the authentication and delivery of Notes by the authenticating agent shall be deemed to be authentication and delivery of such Notes “by the Trustee” and a certificate of authentication executed on behalf of the
Trustee by an authenticating agent shall be deemed to satisfy any requirement hereunder or in the Notes for the
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Trustee’s certificate of authentication. Such authenticating agent shall at all times be a Person eligible to serve as trustee hereunder pursuant to Section 7.08.
Any corporation or other entity into which any authenticating agent may be merged or converted or with which it may be consolidated, or any
corporation or other entity resulting from any merger, consolidation or conversion to which any authenticating agent shall be a party, or any corporation or other entity succeeding to the corporate trust business of any authenticating agent, shall
be the successor of the authenticating agent hereunder, if such successor corporation or other entity is otherwise eligible under this Section, without the execution or filing of any paper or any further act on the part of the parties hereto or the
authenticating agent or such successor corporation or other entity.
Any authenticating agent may at any time resign by giving written
notice of resignation to the Trustee and to the Company. The Trustee may at any time terminate the agency of any authenticating agent by giving written notice of termination to such authenticating agent and to the Company. Upon receiving such a
notice of resignation or upon such a termination, or in case at any time any authenticating agent shall cease to be eligible under this Section, the Trustee may appoint a successor authenticating agent (which may be the Trustee), shall give written
notice of such appointment to the Company and shall mail notice of such appointment to all Holders as the names and addresses of such Holders appear on the Note Register.
The Company agrees to pay to the authenticating agent from time to time reasonable compensation for its services although the Company may
terminate the authenticating agent (if other than the Trustee), if it determines such authenticating agent’s fees to be unreasonable.
The provisions of Section 7.02, Section 7.03, Section 7.04, Section 8.03 and this Section 16.10 shall be applicable
to any authenticating agent.
If an authenticating agent is appointed pursuant to this Section 16.10, the Notes may have endorsed
thereon, in addition to the Trustee’s certificate of authentication, an alternative certificate of authentication in the following form:
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Section 16.11 Execution in Counterparts. This Indenture may be executed in any number of
counterparts, each of which shall be an original, but such counterparts shall together constitute but one and the same instrument. The exchange of copies of this Indenture and of signature pages by facsimile or PDF transmission shall constitute
effective execution and delivery of this Indenture as to the parties hereto and may be used in lieu of the original Indenture for all
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purposes. Signatures of the parties hereto transmitted by facsimile or PDF shall be deemed to be their original signatures for all purposes.
Section 16.12 Severability. In the event any provision of this Indenture or in the Notes shall be invalid, illegal or
unenforceable, then (to the extent permitted by law) the validity, legality or enforceability of the remaining provisions shall not in any way be affected or impaired.
Section 16.13 Waiver of Jury Trial. EACH OF THE COMPANY AND THE TRUSTEE HEREBY IRREVOCABLY WAIVES, TO THE FULLEST EXTENT
PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, ANY AND ALL RIGHT TO TRIAL BY JURY IN ANY LEGAL PROCEEDING ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THIS INDENTURE, THE NOTES OR THE TRANSACTIONS CONTEMPLATED HEREBY.
Section 16.14 Force Majeure. In no event shall the Trustee be responsible or liable for any failure or delay in the
performance of its obligations hereunder arising out of or caused by, directly or indirectly, forces beyond its control, including, without limitation, strikes, work stoppages, executive order, accidents, acts of war or terrorism, civil or military
disturbances, nuclear or natural catastrophes or acts of God, and interruptions, loss or malfunctions of utilities, communications or computer (software and hardware) services; it being understood that the Trustee shall use reasonable efforts that
are consistent with accepted practices in the banking industry to resume performance as soon as practicable under the circumstances.
Section 16.15 Calculations. Except as otherwise provided herein, the Company shall be responsible for making all
calculations called for under the Notes. These calculations include, but are not limited to, determinations of the Last Reported Sale Prices of the Common Stock, the Daily VWAPs, Daily Settlement Amounts, the Daily Conversion Values, accrued
interest payable on the Notes and the Conversion Rate of the Notes. The Company shall make all these calculations in good faith and, absent manifest error, the Company’s calculations shall be final and binding on Holders. The Company shall
provide a schedule of its calculations to each of the Trustee and the Conversion Agent upon request, and each of the Trustee and Conversion Agent is entitled to rely conclusively upon the accuracy of the Company’s calculations without
independent verification. The Trustee will forward the Company’s calculations to any Holder upon the request of that Holder at the sole cost and expense of the Company.
Section 16.16 USA PATRIOT Act. The parties hereto acknowledge that in accordance with Section 326 of the USA PATRIOT
Act, the Trustee, like all financial institutions and in order to help fight the funding of terrorism and money laundering, is required to obtain, verify and record information that identifies each person or legal entity that establishes a
relationship or opens an account with the Trustee. The parties to this Indenture agree that they will provide the Trustee with such information as it may request in order for the Trustee to satisfy the requirements of the USA PATRIOT Act.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Indenture to be duly executed as of the
date first written above.
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EXHIBIT A
[FORM OF FACE OF NOTE]
[INCLUDE
FOLLOWING LEGEND IF A GLOBAL NOTE]
[UNLESS THIS CERTIFICATE IS PRESENTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF THE DEPOSITORY TRUST
COMPANY, A NEW YORK CORPORATION (“DTC”), TO THE COMPANY OR ITS AGENT FOR REGISTRATION OF TRANSFER, EXCHANGE, OR PAYMENT, AND ANY CERTIFICATE ISSUED IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF CEDE & CO. OR IN SUCH OTHER NAME AS IS
REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC (AND ANY PAYMENT HEREUNDER IS MADE TO CEDE & CO. OR TO SUCH OTHER ENTITY AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC), ANY TRANSFER, PLEDGE, OR OTHER USE HEREOF FOR VALUE OR
OTHERWISE BY OR TO ANY PERSON IS WRONGFUL INASMUCH AS THE REGISTERED OWNER HEREOF, CEDE & CO., HAS AN INTEREST HEREIN.]
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Resource Capital Corp.
8.00% Convertible Senior Note due 2020
CUSIP No. 76120W AB0
RESOURCE CAPITAL CORP., a corporation duly organized and validly existing under the laws of the State of Maryland (the
“Company,” which term includes any successor corporation or other entity under the Indenture referred to on the reverse hereof), for value received hereby promises to pay to CEDE & CO., or registered assigns, the principal
sum [as set forth in the “Schedule of Exchanges of Notes” attached hereto]1 [of $ ( DOLLARS)]2, which amount, taken together with the
principal amounts of all other outstanding Notes, shall not, unless permitted by the Indenture, exceed $[115,000,000] in aggregate at any time, in accordance with the rules and procedures of the Depositary, on the Maturity Date, and interest thereon
as set forth below.
This Note shall accrue interest at the rate of 8.00% per year from January 13, 2015, or from the
most recent date for which interest has been paid or provided for to, but excluding, the next scheduled Interest Payment Date. Accrued interest on this Note 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 actual days elapsed over a 30-day month. Interest is payable semi-annually in arrears on each January 15 and July 15, commencing on July 15, 2015, to Holders of record at the close of business on the
preceding January 1 and July 1 (whether or not such day is a Business Day), respectively. Additional Interest will be payable as set forth in Section 6.03 of the within-mentioned Indenture, and any reference to interest on, or in
respect of, any Note therein shall be deemed to include Additional Interest if, in such context, Additional Interest is, was or would be payable pursuant to Section 6.03 and any express mention of the payment of Additional Interest in any
provision therein shall not be construed as excluding Additional Interest in those provisions thereof where such express mention is not made.
Any Defaulted Amounts shall accrue interest per annum at the rate borne by the Notes, subject to the enforceability thereof under applicable
law, from, and including, the relevant payment date to, but excluding, the date on which such Defaulted Amounts shall have been paid by the Company, at its election, in accordance with Section 2.03(c) of the Indenture.
The Company shall pay the principal of and interest on this Note, if and so long as such Note is a Global Note, in immediately available funds
in lawful money of the United States at the time to the Depositary or its nominee, as the case may be, as the registered Holder of such Note. As provided in and subject to the provisions of the Indenture, the Company shall pay the principal of any
Notes (other than Notes that are Global Notes) at the office or agency designated by the Company for that purpose. The Company has initially designated the Trustee as its Paying Agent and Note Registrar in respect of the Notes and its agency in
Minneapolis, Minnesota, as a place where Notes may be presented for payment or for registration of transfer and exchange.
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Reference is made to the further provisions of this Note set forth on the reverse hereof,
including, without limitation, provisions giving the Holder of this Note the right to convert this Note into cash, shares of Common Stock or a combination of cash and shares of Common Stock, as applicable, on the terms and subject to the limitations
set forth in the Indenture. Such further provisions shall for all purposes have the same effect as though fully set forth at this place.
This Note, and any claim, controversy or dispute arising under or related to this Note, shall be construed in accordance with and governed
by the laws of the State of New York (without regard to the conflicts of laws provisions thereof other than Section 5-1401 of the General Obligations Law).
In the case of any conflict between this Note and the Indenture, the provisions of the Indenture shall control and govern.
This Note shall not be valid or become obligatory for any purpose until the certificate of authentication hereon shall have been signed
manually upon receipt of a Company Order or by facsimile by the Trustee or a duly authorized authenticating agent under the Indenture.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Company has caused this Note to be duly executed.
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[FORM OF REVERSE OF NOTE]
Resource Capital Corp.
8.00%
Convertible Senior Note due 2020
This Note is one of a duly authorized issue of Notes of the Company, designated as its 8.00%
Convertible Senior Notes due 2020 (the “Notes”), initially limited to the aggregate principal amount of $115,000,000, all issued or to be issued under and pursuant to an Indenture dated as of October 21, 2013, as supplemented
by the First Supplemental Indenture thereto, dated as of October 21, 2013, as further supplemented by the Second Supplemental Indenture thereto, dated as of January 13, 2015 (the “Indenture”), between the Company and Wells
Fargo Bank, National Association (the “Trustee”), to which Indenture and all indentures supplemental thereto reference is hereby made for a description of the rights, limitations of rights, obligations, duties and immunities
thereunder of the Trustee, the Company and the Holders of the Notes. Additional Notes may be issued in an unlimited aggregate principal amount, subject to certain conditions specified in the Indenture. Capitalized terms used in this Note and not
defined in this Note shall have the respective meanings set forth in the Indenture.
In the event of certain Events of Default
(other than an Event of Default specified in Section 6.01(i) or Section 6.01(j) of the Indenture with respect to the Company) shall have occurred and be continuing, the principal of, and interest on, all Notes may be declared, by either
the Trustee or Holders of at least 25% in aggregate principal amount of the Notes then outstanding, and upon said declaration shall become, due and payable, in the manner, with the effect and subject to the conditions and certain exceptions set
forth in the Indenture.
Subject to the terms and conditions of the Indenture, the Company will make all payments and deliveries in
respect of the Fundamental Change Repurchase Price on the Fundamental Change Repurchase Date and the principal amount on the Maturity Date, as the case may be, to the Holder who surrenders a Note to a Paying Agent to collect such payments in respect
of the Note. The Company will pay cash amounts in money of the United States that at the time of payment is legal tender for payment of public and private debts.
The Indenture contains provisions permitting the Company and the Trustee in certain circumstances, without the consent of the Holders of the
Notes, and in certain other circumstances, with the consent of the Holders of not less than a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Notes at the time outstanding, evidenced as in the Indenture provided, to execute supplemental indentures
modifying the terms of the Indenture and the Notes as described therein. It is also provided in the Indenture that, subject to certain exceptions, the Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Notes at the time outstanding may on
behalf of the Holders of all of the Notes waive any past Default or Event of Default under the Indenture and its consequences.
No
reference herein to the Indenture and no provision of this Note or of the Indenture shall alter or impair the obligation of the Company, which is absolute and unconditional, to pay or deliver, as the case may be, the principal (including the
Fundamental Change Repurchase Price, if applicable) of, accrued and unpaid interest on, and the consideration due upon
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conversion of, this Note at the place, at the respective times, at the rate and in the lawful money herein prescribed.
The Notes are issuable in registered form without coupons in denominations of $1,000 principal amount and multiples thereof. At the office or
agency of the Company referred to on the face hereof, and in the manner and subject to the limitations provided in the Indenture, Notes may be exchanged for a like aggregate principal amount of Notes of other authorized denominations, without
payment of any service charge but, if required by the Company or Trustee, with payment of a sum sufficient to cover any transfer or similar tax that may be imposed in connection therewith as a result of the name of the Holder of the new Notes issued
upon such exchange of Notes being different from the name of the Holder of the old Notes surrendered for such exchange.
The Notes are not
subject to redemption through the operation of any sinking fund or otherwise.
Upon the occurrence of a Fundamental Change, the Holder has
the right, at such Holder’s option, to require the Company to repurchase for cash all of such Holder’s Notes or any portion thereof (in principal amounts of $1,000 or multiples thereof) on the Fundamental Change Repurchase Date at a price
equal to the Fundamental Change Repurchase Price.
Subject to the provisions of the Indenture, the Holder hereof has the right, at its
option, subject to conditions specified in the Indenture, prior to the close of business on the Business Day immediately preceding the Maturity Date, to convert any Notes or portion thereof that is $1,000 or a multiple thereof, into cash, shares of
Common Stock or a combination of cash and shares of Common Stock, as applicable, at the Conversion Rate specified in the Indenture, as adjusted from time to time as provided in the Indenture.
Terms used in this Note and defined in the Indenture are used herein as therein defined.
ABBREVIATIONS
The following
abbreviations, when used in the inscription of the face of this Note, shall be construed as though they were written out in full according to applicable laws or regulations:
TEN COM = as tenants in common
UNIF GIFT MIN ACT = Uniform
Gifts to Minors Act
CUST = Custodian
TEN ENT = as tenants
by the entireties
JT TEN = joint tenants with right of survivorship and not as tenants in common
Additional abbreviations may also be used though not in the above list.
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SCHEDULE A
SCHEDULE OF EXCHANGES OF NOTES
Resource Capital Corp.
8.00%
Convertible Senior Notes due 2020
The initial principal amount of this Global Note is [ ] DOLLARS
($[ ]). The following increases or decreases in this Global Note have been made:
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ATTACHMENT 1
[FORM OF NOTICE OF CONVERSION]
To: Resource
Capital Corp.
To: Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, 150 East 42nd Street, 40th Floor, New York, New York 10017, Attention: Corporate Trust Services – Administrator for Resource Capital Corp.
The undersigned registered owner of this Note hereby exercises the option to convert this Note, or the portion hereof (that is $1,000
principal amount or a multiple thereof) below designated, into cash, shares of Common Stock or a combination of cash and shares of Common Stock, as applicable, in accordance with the terms of the Indenture referred to in this Note, and directs that
any cash payable and any shares of Common Stock issuable and deliverable upon such conversion, together with any cash for any fractional share, and any Notes representing any unconverted principal amount hereof, be issued and delivered to the
registered Holder hereof unless a different name has been indicated below. If any shares of Common Stock or any portion of this Note not converted are to be issued in the name of a Person other than the undersigned, the undersigned will pay all
documentary, stamp or similar issue or transfer taxes, if any in accordance with Section 13.02(d) and Section 13.02(e) of the Indenture. Any amount required to be paid to the undersigned on account of interest accompanies this Note.
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[FORM OF FUNDAMENTAL CHANGE REPURCHASE NOTICE]
To: Resource Capital Corp.
To: Wells Fargo Bank, National
Association, 150 East 42nd Street, 40th Floor, New York, New York 10017, Attention: Corporate Trust Services – Administrator for Resource
Capital Corp.
The undersigned registered owner of this Note hereby acknowledges receipt of a notice from Resource Capital Corp.
(the “Company”) as to the occurrence of a Fundamental Change with respect to the Company and specifying the Fundamental Change Repurchase Date and requests and instructs the Company to pay to the registered holder hereof in
accordance with Section 14.01 of the Indenture referred to in this Note (1) the entire principal amount of this Note, or the portion thereof (that is $1,000 principal amount or a multiple thereof) below designated, and (2) if such
Fundamental Change Repurchase Date does not fall during the period after a Regular Record Date and on or prior to the Business Day immediately following the corresponding Interest Payment Date, accrued and unpaid interest, if any, thereon to, but
excluding, such Fundamental Change Repurchase Date.
In the case of Physical Notes, the certificate numbers of the Notes to be
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[FORM OF ASSIGNMENT AND TRANSFER]
Wells Fargo
Bank, National Association
as Trustee and Registrar
150
East 42nd Street, 40th Floor
New York, New York
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Attention: Corporate Trust Services – Administrator for Resource Capital Corp.
For value received hereby sell(s),
assign(s) and transfer(s) unto (Please insert social security or Taxpayer Identification Number of assignee) the within Note, and
hereby irrevocably constitutes and appoints attorney to transfer the said Note on the books of the Company, with full power of substitution in the premises.
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January 13, 2015
RESOURCE CAPITAL CORP.
712 Fifth Avenue, 12th Floor
New York, New York 10019
Re: Current Report
on Form 8-K
Ladies and Gentlemen:
We
serve as special Maryland counsel to Resource Capital Corp., a Maryland corporation (the “Company”), in connection with the offering by the Company of up to 23,711,333 shares (the “Conversion Shares”) of Common
Stock, $0.001 par value per share, of the Company (“Common Stock”) issuable upon conversion of $100,000,000 principal amount of the Company’s 8.00% Convertible Senior Notes due 2020 (the “Firm Notes”), and up
to an additional $15,000,000 principal amount of the Company’s 8.00% Convertible Senior Notes due 2020 (the “Option Notes” and, together with the Firm Notes, the “Notes”), pursuant to the Underwriting
Agreement, dated January 7, 2015 (the “Underwriting Agreement”), by and among the Company and Resource Capital Manager, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Manager”), on one side, and Morgan Stanley &
Co. LLC and J.P. Morgan Securities LLC, as Representatives of the several Underwriters named in Schedule I thereto (collectively, the “Underwriters”), on the other side. The Notes will be issued pursuant to a base indenture, dated
as of October 21, 2013, by and between the Company and Wells Fargo, National Association, as trustee (the “Trustee”), as supplemented by a first supplemental indenture, dated as of October 21, 2013, and by a second
supplemental indenture, dated as of January 13, 2015 (as so supplemented, the “Indenture”), by and between the Company and the Trustee. This opinion is being provided at your request in connection with the filing of the Current
Report on Form 8-K (the “Form 8-K”).
In connection with our representation of the Company, and as a basis for the
opinion hereinafter set forth, we have examined originals, or copies certified or otherwise identified to our satisfaction, of the following documents (collectively, the “Documents”):
1. The Registration Statement on Form S-3 (No. 333-195844) relating to the Notes, effective upon filing with the Securities and Exchange
Commission (the “Commission”) under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Act”), on May 9, 2014 (the “Registration Statement”), in the form in which it was filed with the Commission by
the Company;
2. The charter of the Company (the “Charter”), certified as of a recent date by the State Department of
Assessments and Taxation of Maryland;
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3. The Bylaws of the Company (the “Bylaws”), certified as of the date hereof
by the Secretary of the Company;
4. Resolutions adopted by the Board of Directors of the Company, or a duly authorized committee thereof
(the “Board”), relating to the registration, sale and issuance of the Conversion Shares, certified as of the date hereof by the Secretary of the Company;
5. A certificate of the SDAT as to the good standing of the Company, dated as of the date hereof; and
6. A certificate executed by Michael S. Yecies, Secretary of the Company, dated as of the date hereof.
In expressing the opinion set forth below, we have assumed the following:
1. Each individual executing any of the Documents, whether on behalf of such individual or another person, is legally competent to do so.
2. Each individual executing any of the Documents on behalf of a party (other than the Company) is duly authorized to do so.
3. Each of the parties (other than the Company) executing any of the Documents has duly and validly executed and delivered each of the
Documents to which such party is a signatory, and such party’s obligations (including the Company’s) set forth therein are legal, valid and binding.
4. All Documents submitted to us as originals are authentic. All Documents submitted to us as certified or photostatic copies conform to the
original documents. All signatures on all such Documents are genuine. All public records reviewed or relied upon by us or on our behalf are true and complete. All statements and information contained in the Documents are true and complete. There has
been no oral or written modification or amendment to the Documents, or waiver of any provision of the Documents, by action or omission of the parties or otherwise.
5. The Conversion Shares will not be issued or transferred in violation of any restriction or limitation on transfer or ownership of Capital
Stock (as defined in the Charter) contained in Article VII of the Charter.
6. The Company will issue the Conversion Shares in accordance
with the terms of the Notes and the resolutions of the Board authorizing their issuance and, prior to the issuance of any shares of Common Stock, the Company will have available for
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issuance, under the Charter, the requisite number of authorized but unissued shares of Common Stock.
7. The Underwriting Agreement is a valid and legally binding contract that conforms to the description thereof set forth in the Registration
Statement.
8. The Indenture is a valid and legally binding contract that conforms to the description thereof set forth in the
Registration Statement.
Based upon the foregoing, and subject to the assumptions, limitations and qualifications stated herein, it is our
opinion that:
1. The Conversion Shares have been authorized by all necessary corporate action of the Company and that, upon issuance and
delivery of the Conversion Shares as contemplated by the terms of the Notes and the resolutions of the Board, the Conversion Shares will be duly authorized, validly issued, fully paid and non-assessable.
2. When the Notes shall have been duly executed by the Company and authenticated by the Trustee as provided in the Indenture and the
resolutions of the Board and shall have been duly delivered to the purchasers thereof against payment of the agreed consideration therefor as provided in the Underwriting Agreement, the Notes will be duly authorized, executed and delivered.
The foregoing opinion is limited to the substantive laws of the State of Maryland and we do not express any opinion herein concerning any
other law. We express no opinion as to compliance with the securities (or “blue sky”) laws of the State of Maryland. The opinion expressed herein is subject to the effect of judicial decisions which may permit the introduction of parol
evidence to modify the terms or the interpretation of agreements.
We assume no obligation to supplement this opinion if any applicable
law changes after the date hereof or if we become aware of any fact that might change the opinion expressed herein after the date hereof.
This opinion is being furnished to you for submission to the Commission as an exhibit to the Form 8-K.
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We hereby consent to the filing of this opinion as an exhibit to the Form 8-K. In giving this
consent, we do not admit that we are within the category of persons whose consent is required by Section 7 of the Act.
Very truly yours,
FOLEY & LARDNER LLP
/Foley & Lardner LLP/
Exhibit 8.1
January 13, 2015
Resource Capital Corp.
712 Fifth Avenue, 12th Floor
New York, NY 10019
Ladies and Gentlemen:
We have acted as counsel to Resource Capital Corp. (the “Company”) in connection with its offer and sale of $100,000,000
aggregate principal amount of the Company’s 8.00% convertible senior notes due 2020 (“Senior Notes”), plus up to $15,000,000 aggregate principal amount of Senior Notes (collectively, the “Offered Securities”),
to be issued pursuant to the Company’s prospectus supplement dated January 7, 2015 (the “Prospectus Supplement”) and the base prospectus dated May 9, 2014 (collectively, the “Prospectus”), forming
part of the Registration Statement on Form S-3 (Registration No. 333-195844) (collectively, the “Registration Statement”). You have requested our opinion regarding certain U.S. federal income tax matters. Capitalized terms not
otherwise defined herein shall have the meaning set forth in that certain Underwriting Agreement dated January 7, 2015 by and among you and Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC and J.P. Morgan Securities LLC, as representatives of the several
underwriters.
We are opining herein as to the effect on the subject transaction only of the federal income tax laws of the United States,
and we express no opinion with respect to the applicability thereto, or the effect thereon, of other federal laws, foreign laws, the laws of any state or any other jurisdiction or as to any matters of municipal law or the laws of any other local
agencies within any state. We hereby confirm that all statements of legal conclusions contained in, or incorporated by reference into, the discussion in the Prospectus under the caption “Tax Considerations,” as supplemented by the
discussion in the Prospectus Supplement under the caption “Additional Material U.S. Federal Income Tax Considerations,” constitute the opinion of Ledgewood, P.C. with respect to the matters set forth therein as of the effective date of the
Registration Statement, subject to the assumptions, qualifications, and limitations set forth therein. No opinion is expressed as to any matter not discussed therein.
This opinion is rendered to you as of the effective date of the Registration Statement, and we undertake no obligation to update this opinion
subsequent to the date hereof. This opinion is based on various statutory provisions, regulations promulgated thereunder and interpretations thereof by the Internal Revenue Service and the courts having jurisdiction over such matters, all of which
are subject to change either prospectively or retroactively. Also, any variation or difference in the facts from those set forth in the representations described above, including in the Registration Statement, may affect the conclusions stated
herein.
This opinion is furnished to you, and is for your use in connection with the transactions set forth in the Registration
Statement. This opinion may not be relied upon by you for any other purpose or furnished to, assigned to, quoted to or relied upon by any other person, firm or other entity, for any purpose, without our prior written consent.
We hereby consent to the filing of this opinion of counsel as Exhibit 8.1 to the Current
Report on Form 8-K of the Company dated on or about the date hereof, to the incorporation by reference of this opinion of counsel into the Registration Statement and to the reference to our firm in the Prospectus and the Prospectus Supplement.
In giving such consent, we do not admit that we are within the category of persons whose consent is required under Section 7 of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.
Very truly yours,
/s/ Ledgewood
Ledgewood
a professional corporation
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