Exhibit 4.2 





 






 


MFA FINANCIAL, INC., as Company,


 


-and-


 


WILMINGTON TRUST, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION,
as Trustee


 





 



  


FIRST SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE


 


Dated as of April 11, 2012


 


to


 


INDENTURE


 


Dated as of April 11, 2012


 





 



  


8.00% Senior Notes due 2042


 





 



  


 









 



    	 



    	 



    

 


TABLE OF CONTENTS


 


	 	 	PAGE
	 	 	 
	Article 1
	DEFINITIONS
	 	 	 
	Section 1.01	Scope of Supplemental Indenture	2
	Section 1.02	Definitions	2
	 
	Article 2
	ISSUE, DESCRIPTION, EXECUTION, REGISTRATION AND EXCHANGE OF
    NOTES
	 	 	 
	Section 2.01	Title and Terms; Payments	6
	Section 2.02	Book-Entry Provisions for Global Notes	7
	 
	Article 3
	REDEMPTION OF NOTES
	 	 	 
	Section 3.01	Optional Redemption of Notes	8
	Section 3.02	Notice of Optional Redemption; Selection of Notes	8
	Section 3.03	Payment of Notes Called for Redemption by the Company	9
	Section 3.04	Sinking Fund	10
	 
	Article 4
	DEFAULT AND REMEDIES
	 	 	 
	Section 4.01	Events of Default	10
	Section 4.02	Payments of Notes on Default; Suit Therefor	12
	Section 4.03	Application of Monies Collected by Trustee	14
	Section 4.04	Proceedings by Noteholder	15
	Section 4.05	Proceedings by Trustee	15
	Section 4.06	Remedies Cumulative and Continuing	15
	Section 4.07	Direction of Proceedings and Waiver of Defaults by Majority of Noteholders	16
	Section 4.08	Notice of Defaults	16
	Section 4.09	Undertaking to Pay Costs	17
	 
	Article 5
	SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES
	 	 	 
	Section 5.01	Supplemental Indentures Without Consent of Noteholders	17
	Section 5.02	Supplemental Indenture With Consent of Noteholders	18
	Section 5.03	Effect of Supplemental Indenture	19
	Section 5.04	Notation on Notes	20
	Section 5.05	Evidence of Compliance of Supplemental Indenture to be Furnished to Trustee	20


 



    	 



    	 



    

 


	Article 6
	CONSOLIDATION, MERGER, SALE, CONVEYANCE AND LEASE
	 	 	 
	Section 6.01	Company May Consolidate on Certain Terms	20
	Section 6.02	Successor Party to be Substituted	21
	 
	Article 7
	SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE
	 	 	 
	Section 7.01	Satisfaction and Discharge of Indenture	21
	Section 7.02	Covenant Defeasance	21
	 
	Article 8
	REPURCHASE OF NOTES
	 	 	 
	Section 8.01	Obligation to Offer to Repurchase Upon a Change of Control Repurchase Event	21
	 
	Article 9
	INFORMATION RIGHTS
	 	 	 
	Section 9.01	 	23
	 
	Article 10
	MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS
	 	 	 
	Section 10.01	Addresses for Notices, etc.	24
	Section 10.02	Governing Law	25
	Section 10.03	Trust Indenture Act	25
	Section 10.04	No Security Interest Created	25
	Section 10.05	Execution in Counterparts	25
	Section 10.06	Severability	25
	Section 10.07	Appointment of Paying Agent, Security Registrar and Authenticating Agent.	25
	Section 10.08	Ratification of Original Indenture	25
	 	 	 
	EXHIBIT
	 	 	 
	Exhibit A	Form of Note	A-1


  



    	 



    	 



    

 


FIRST SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE, dated as of
April 11, 2012 (the “Supplemental Indenture”), between MFA Financial, Inc., a Maryland corporation (the “Company”),
having its principal executive office located at 350 Park Avenue, 20th Floor, New York, New York 10022, and Wilmington Trust, National
Association, a national banking association duly organized and existing under the laws of the United States of America, as trustee
(the “Trustee”), to the indenture, dated as of April 11, 2012, between the Company and the Trustee (as amended or supplemented
from time to time in accordance with the terms thereof, the “Original Indenture”).


 


RECITALS OF THE COMPANY


 


WHEREAS, the Company executed and delivered
the Original Indenture to the Trustee to provide, among other things, for the issuance, from time to time, of the Company’s
Securities, unlimited as to principal amount, in one or more series to be established by the Company under, and authenticated and
delivered as provided in, the Original Indenture;


 


WHEREAS, Section 901(4) of the Original
Indenture provides for the Company and the Trustee to enter into an indenture supplemental to the Original Indenture to establish
the form and terms of Securities of any series as contemplated by Sections 201 and 301 of the Original Indenture;


 


WHEREAS, the Board of Directors has duly
adopted resolutions authorizing the Company to execute and deliver this Supplemental Indenture;


 


WHEREAS, pursuant to the terms of the Original
Indenture, the Company desires to establish a new series of its Securities to be known as its “8.00% Senior Notes due 2042”
(the “Notes”), the form and substance of such Notes and the terms, provisions and conditions thereof to be set forth
as provided in the Original Indenture and this Supplemental Indenture;


 


WHEREAS, the Form of Note, the certificate
of authentication to be borne by each Note and the Form of Assignment and Transfer contemplated under the terms of the Notes are
to be substantially in the forms hereinafter provided; and


 


WHEREAS, the Company has requested that
the Trustee execute and deliver this Supplemental Indenture, and all requirements necessary to make (i) this Supplemental Indenture
a valid, binding and enforceable instrument in accordance with its terms, and (ii) the Notes, when executed by the Company and
authenticated and delivered by the Authenticating Agent, the valid, binding and enforceable obligations of the Company, in each
case, have been performed, and the execution and delivery of this Supplemental Indenture has been duly authorized in all respects.


 


NOW, THEREFORE, THIS SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE
WITNESSETH, for and in consideration of the premises and the purchases of the Notes by the Holders thereof, it is mutually agreed,
for the benefit of the Company and the equal and proportionate benefit of all Holders of the Notes, as follows:


 



    	 



    	 



    

  


Article
1

DEFINITIONS


 


Section
1.01          Scope of Supplemental Indenture. The changes, modifications and supplements to
the Original Indenture effected by this Supplemental Indenture shall be applicable only with respect to, and shall only govern
the terms of, the Notes, which may be issued from time to time, and shall not apply to any other Securities that may be issued
under the Original Indenture unless a supplemental indenture with respect to such other Securities specifically incorporates such
changes, modifications and supplements. The provisions of this Supplemental Indenture shall supersede any corresponding or conflicting
provisions in the Original Indenture.


 


Section
1.02          Definitions. For all purposes of the Indenture, except as otherwise expressly
provided or unless the context otherwise requires:


 


(i)     the terms defined in this
Article 1 shall have the meanings assigned to them in this Article 1 and include the plural as well as the singular;


 


(ii)    all words, terms and phrases
defined in the Original Indenture (but not otherwise defined herein) shall have the same meanings as in the Original Indenture;


 


(iii)   all other terms used
herein that are defined in the Trust Indenture Act, either directly or by reference therein, shall have the meanings assigned to
them in the Trust Indenture Act;


 


(iv)   all accounting terms not
otherwise defined herein shall have the meanings assigned to them in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles,
and, except as otherwise herein expressly provided, the term “generally accepted accounting principles” with respect
to any computation required or permitted hereunder shall mean such accounting principles as are generally accepted at the date
of this instrument; and


 


(v)    the words “herein,”
“hereof” and “hereunder” and other words of similar import refer to this Supplemental Indenture as a whole
and not to any particular Article, Section or other subdivision.


 


“Additional Notes” has the meaning
specified in Section 2.01.


 


“Agent” has the meaning specified
in Section 10.07.


 


“Change of Control” means the
occurrence of the following:


 


(1) the acquisition of ownership, directly
or indirectly, beneficially or of record, by any Person or group (within the meaning of the Exchange Act and the rules of the Commission
thereunder as in effect on the Issue Date), of Equity Interests representing more than 50% of the aggregate Ordinary Voting Power
of the Company’s issued and outstanding Equity Interests;


 



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(2) occupation of a majority of the seats
(other than vacant seats) on the Company’s Board of Directors by Persons who were neither (i) nominated by the Company’s
Board of Directors nor (ii) appointed by directors so nominated; or


 


(3) the acquisition of direct or indirect
Control of the Company by any Person or group (within the meaning of the Exchange Act and the rules of the Commission thereunder
as in effect on the Issue Date) not in Control of the Company on the Issue Date;


 


provided that, for the purposes of this definition, no
Change of Control shall be deemed to occur by reason of the Company becoming a wholly owned Subsidiary of a Successor Parent.


 


“Change of Control Offer” has
the meaning set forth in Section 8.01 of this Supplemental Indenture.


 


“Change of Control Repurchase Event”
means the occurrence of a Change of Control.


 


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


 


“Company” has the meaning set
forth in the first paragraph of this Supplemental Indenture.


 


“Control” means the possession,
directly or indirectly, of the power to direct or cause the direction of the management or policies of a Person, whether through
the ability to exercise voting power, by contract or otherwise.


 


“Custodian” means Wilmington
Trust, National Association, as custodian with respect to the Notes in global form, or any successor entity thereto.


 


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


 


“Depositary” means The Depository
Trust Company, a New York corporation, or any successor thereto.


 


“Event of Default” means any
event specified in Section 4.01 as an Event of Default.


 


“Form of Assignment and Transfer”
shall mean the “Form of Assignment and Transfer” attached to the Form of Note attached hereto as Exhibit A.


 


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


 


“Global Note” means any Note
that is a global Security, as specified under Section 203 of the Original Indenture, and that bears the legend set forth in Exhibit
A hereto.


 


“Indenture” means the Original
Indenture, as originally executed and as supplemented from time to time by one or more indentures supplemental thereto, including
this Supplemental Indenture, entered into pursuant to the applicable provisions of the Indenture, including, for all purposes of
this instrument and any such supplemental indenture, the provisions of the Trust Indenture Act that are deemed to be a part of
and govern the Original Indenture and this Supplemental Indenture.


 



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“Initial Notes” has the meaning
specified in Section 2.01.


 


“interest” means, when used
with reference to the Notes, any interest payable under the terms of the Notes.


 


“Interest Payment Date” means
January 15, April 15, July 15 and October 15 of each year, beginning on July 15, 2012.


 


“Issue Date” means the first
date the Notes are originally issued as set forth on the face of such Note under this Supplemental Indenture.


 


“Issuer Free Writing Prospectus”
means the issuer free writing prospectus filed with the Commission by the Company and dated April 3, 2012, relating to the Preliminary
Prospectus Supplement.


 


“Legal Holiday” means a Saturday,
a Sunday or a day on which banking institutions in The City of New York or at the Place of Payment are not required to be open.


 


“MFA Group” means the Company
and the Company’s direct and indirect Subsidiaries (to the extent of the Company’s economic ownership interest in such
Subsidiaries) taken as a whole.


 


“Non-Recourse Indebtedness”
means an obligation for indebtedness that can only be satisfied out of the collateral securing the obligation and not out of the
debtor’s other assets.


 


“Note” or “Notes”
has the meaning specified in the fourth paragraph of the recitals of this Supplemental Indenture, and shall include any Additional
Notes issued pursuant to Section 2.01.


 


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


 


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


 


“Ordinary Voting Power” means,
with respect to any Person, the power to elect the directors (or functional equivalent) of such Person.


 


“Original Indenture” has the
meaning specified in the first paragraph of this Supplemental Indenture.


 


“Preliminary Prospectus Supplement”
means the Company’s preliminary prospectus supplement dated April 2, 2012, relating to the Notes.


 



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“Redemption Date” means the
date fixed by the Company for redemption of all or any portion of the Notes in accordance with the provisions of Section 3.02 hereof.


 


“Redemption Price” means the
price at which the Notes may be redeemed, as set forth in Section 3.01.


 


“Regular Record Date” for the
interest payable on any Interest Payment Date while the Notes remain in the form of a Global Note means one Business Day prior
to the relevant Interest Payment Date and otherwise, the fifteenth day prior to such Interest Payment Date (whether or not a Business
Day).


 


“Repurchase Price” has the meaning
set forth in Section 8.01 of this Supplemental Indenture.


 


“Repurchase Price Payment Date”
has the meaning set forth in Section 8.01 of this Supplemental Indenture.


 


“Responsible Officer” means,
with respect to any Agent, any officer of such Agent in its Corporate Trust Office having direct responsibility for matters pertaining
to the Indenture and also means, with respect to a particular corporate trust matter, any other officer or employee of such Agent
to whom such matter is referred because of his or her knowledge of and familiarity with the particular subject.


 


“Stated Maturity” means April
15, 2042.


 


“Structured Finance Subsidiary”
means a Subsidiary the primary function of which is to act as an issuer, depositor or special purpose entity in connection with
issuances of obligations collateralized by loans, bonds, mortgages or other debt obligations issued by third parties.


 


“Subsidiary” of any Person means
(a) any corporation, association or other business entity (other than a partnership, joint venture, limited liability company or
similar entity) of which more than 50% of the aggregate Ordinary Voting Power represented by the issued and outstanding Equity
Interests or (b) any partnership, joint venture, limited liability company or similar entity of which more than 50% of the capital
accounts, distribution rights, total equity and voting interests or general or limited partnership interests, as applicable, is,
in the case of clauses (a) and (b), at the time owned or controlled, directly or indirectly, by (1) such Person, (2) such Person
and one or more Subsidiaries of such Person or (3) one or more Subsidiaries of such Person.


 


“Substantially All Merger” means
a merger or consolidation of the Company with or into another Person that would, in one or a series of related transactions, result
in the transfer or other disposition, directly or indirectly, of all or substantially all of the combined assets of the MFA Group
taken as a whole to a Person that is not within the MFA Group immediately prior to such transaction or series of related transactions.


 


“Substantially All Sale” means
a sale, assignment, transfer, lease or conveyance to any other Person, in one or a series of related transactions, directly or
indirectly, of all or substantially all of the combined assets of the MFA Group taken as a whole to a Person that is not within
the MFA Group immediately prior to such transaction or series of related transactions.


 



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“Successor Parent” means any
Person for which Equity Interests of such Person representing more than 50% of the aggregate Ordinary Voting Power of the issued
and outstanding Equity Interests of such Person immediately after the time the Company becomes a wholly owned Subsidiary of such
Person, are beneficially owned (within the meaning of the Exchange Act and the rules of the Commission thereunder as in effect
on the Issue Date) by one or more Persons that beneficially owned Equity Interests representing more than 50% of the aggregate
Ordinary Voting Power of the Company’s issued and outstanding Equity Interests immediately prior to the Company becoming
a wholly owned Subsidiary of such Person and in substantially the same proportion as immediately prior to the Company becoming
a wholly owned Subsidiary of such Person.


 


“Successor Party” has the meaning
set forth in Section 6.01 of this Supplemental Indenture.


 


“Supplemental Indenture” has
the meaning specified in the first paragraph hereof.


 


Article
2

ISSUE, DESCRIPTION, EXECUTION, REGISTRATION AND EXCHANGE OF NOTES


 


Section
2.01         Title and Terms; Payments. There is hereby established a series of Securities
designated the “8.00% Senior Notes due 2042” initially limited in aggregate principal amount to $100 million (or up
to $115 million if the over-allotment option described in the Preliminary Prospectus Supplement and Issuer Free Writing Prospectus
is exercised), which amount shall be as set forth in a Company Order for the authentication and delivery of Notes pursuant to
Section 303 of the Original Indenture. The Notes shall be issued only in fully registered form, in denominations of $25 and integral
multiples of $25 in excess thereof.


 


The principal amount of Notes then Outstanding
shall be payable at the Stated Maturity. Interest on the Notes shall accrue at a rate of 8.00% per annum, from and including April
11, 2012 or from and including the most recent date on which interest has been paid or duly provided for, to, but excluding, the
next Interest Payment Date, until the principal thereof is paid or made available for payment. Interest shall be payable in arrears
on each Interest Payment Date, beginning on July 15, 2012, to the Person in whose name a Note is registered on the Security Register
at the close of business on the Regular Record Date immediately preceding the applicable Interest Payment Date. If any Interest
Payment Date, the Stated Maturity or any Redemption Date or Repurchase Price Payment Date is a Legal Holiday, the required payment
will be made on the next succeeding day that is not a Legal Holiday as if it were made on the date such payment was due and no
interest will accrue on the amount so payable for the period from and after such Interest Payment Date to such next succeeding
day. Interest will be computed on the basis of twelve 30-day months and a 360-day year. The amount of interest payable for any
period shorter than a full quarterly interest period will be computed on the basis of the number of days elapsed in a 90-day quarter
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The Company may, without the consent of
the Holders of the Notes, hereafter issue additional Notes (“Additional Notes”) under the Indenture with the same terms
and conditions, except for any difference in the issue price, issue date and interest accrued prior to the issue date of the Additional
Notes, as the Notes issued on the date of this Supplemental Indenture (the “Initial Notes”) in an unlimited aggregate
principal amount. Any such Additional Notes shall constitute a single series together with the Initial Notes for all purposes hereunder,
including, without limitation, for purposes of any waivers, supplements or amendments to the Indenture requiring the approval of
Holders of the Notes and any offers to purchase the Notes.


 


The Form of Note shall be substantially
as set forth in Exhibit A and the Form of Assignment and Transfer shall be substantially as set forth in Attachment 1 to Exhibit
A, each of which is incorporated into and shall be deemed a part of this Supplemental Indenture, and in each case with such appropriate
insertions, omissions, substitutions and other variations as are required or permitted by the Indenture, and may have such letters,
numbers or other marks of identification and such legends or endorsements placed thereon as may be required to comply with the
rules of any securities exchange or as may, consistently herewith, be determined to be necessary or appropriate by the Officers
of the Company executing such Notes, as evidenced by their execution of the Notes.


 


The Company shall pay the principal of and
interest on any Global Note in immediately available funds to the Depositary or its nominee, as the case may be, as the registered
Holder of such Global Note. Holders of certificated Notes, if any, must surrender such certificated Notes to the Paying Agent to
collect principal and interest payments at the Stated Maturity. The Company shall pay the principal of and interest on any certificated
Notes by wire transfer of immediately available funds to the accounts specified by the Holders thereof or, if no such account is
specified the Company shall pay the principal of and interest on those Notes at the office or agency designated by the Company
for that purpose by check mailed to the Holders of those Notes. All payments on the Notes will be made in US. Dollars or in such
other coin or currency of the United States of America, as of the time of payment, is legal tender for the payment of public and
private debts.


 


Section
2.02         Book-Entry Provisions for Global Notes. The Notes initially shall be issued in
the form of one or more Global Notes without interest coupons (i) registered in the name of Cede & Co., as nominee of the
Depositary and (ii) delivered to the Paying Agent as Custodian for the Depositary. Solely for purposes of the Notes, the Global
Notes shall be exchangeable for definitive certificated Notes only if (i) the Depositary notifies the Company that it is unwilling
or unable to continue as a Depositary for the Global Notes or at any time the Depositary for the Global Notes ceases to be a clearing
agency registered as such or in good standing under the Exchange Act or other applicable law, statute or regulation, and no successor
Depositary for the Global Notes shall have been appointed within 90 days of such notification or of the Company becoming aware
of the Depositary’s ceasing to be so registered, as the case may be, or (ii) the Company, in its sole discretion, determines
that the Notes shall no longer be represented by one or more Global Notes and executes and delivers to the Trustee and Security
Registrar a Company Order to the effect that the Global Notes shall be so exchangeable.


 



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Article
3

REDEMPTION OF NOTES


 


Solely for the purposes of the Notes, Article
Eleven of the Original Indenture shall be deleted and shall be replaced in the entirety by this Article 3. Any reference in the
Original Indenture to Article Eleven shall, with respect to the Notes, be deemed to be a reference to Article 3 of this Supplemental
Indenture, and reference in the Original Indenture to Sections 1103, 1104, 1106 and 1107 shall, with respect to the Notes, be deemed
replaced with references to Sections 3.02, 3.02, 3.03 and 3.02, respectively, in this Supplemental Indenture.


 


Section
3.01         Optional Redemption of Notes. The Company shall have the
right to redeem the Notes on the terms set forth in this Section 3.01. At any time on or after April 15, 2017, the Company may,
upon the notice set forth in Section 3.02, redeem the Notes for cash, in whole or in part, at a redemption price equal to 100%
of the principal amount of the Notes to be redeemed plus unpaid interest, if any, accrued thereon to, but excluding, the Redemption
Date (the “Redemption Price”);


 


Section
3.02         Notice of Optional Redemption; Selection of Notes. In
case the Company shall desire to exercise the right to redeem all or, as the case may be, any part of the Notes pursuant to Section
3.01, it shall fix a date for redemption and it or, at its written request received by the Trustee and the Paying Agent not fewer
than five (5) Business Days prior (or such shorter period of time as may be acceptable to the Paying Agent) to the date the notice
of redemption is to be delivered, the Paying Agent in the name of and at the expense of the Company, shall deliver or cause to
be delivered a notice of such redemption not fewer than fifteen (15) calendar days nor more than sixty (60) calendar days prior
to the Redemption Date to each Holder of Notes so to be redeemed in whole or in part at its last address as the same appears on
the Security Register, so long as the information required by this Section 3.02 is provided to the Paying Agent at the
time the Paying Agent is given the notice pursuant to this Section 3.02; provided that if the Company makes such request of the
Paying Agent, the text of the notice shall be prepared by the Company. Such delivery shall be effected by first class mail or,
in the case of Global Notes, in accordance with the applicable procedures of the Depositary. The notice, if delivered in the manner
herein provided, shall be conclusively presumed to have been duly given, whether or not the Holder receives such notice. In any
case, failure to deliver such notice or any defect in the notice to the Holder of any Note designated for redemption as
a whole or in part shall not affect the validity of the proceedings for the redemption of any other Note. Concurrently with the
delivery of any such notice of redemption, the Company shall issue a press release through Dow Jones & Company, Inc., Bloomberg
Business News or PR Newswire or a substantially equivalent financial news organization announcing such redemption, the form and
content of which press release shall be determined by the Company in its sole discretion. The Company shall also publish that
information in a newspaper of general circulation in The City of New York, or on its web site, or through such other public medium
as it deems appropriate at that time. The failure to issue any such press release to publish such information or any defect therein
shall not affect the validity of the redemption notice or any of the proceedings for the redemption of any Note called for redemption.


 



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Each such notice of redemption shall specify:
(i) the aggregate principal amount of Notes to be redeemed, (ii) the CUSIP number or numbers of the Notes being redeemed, (iii)
the Redemption Date, (iv) the Redemption Price at which Notes are to be redeemed, (v) the place or places of payment and that payment
will be made upon presentation and surrender of such Notes, and (vi) that interest accrued and unpaid to, but not including, the
Redemption Date will be paid as specified in said notice, and that on and after said date interest thereon or on the portion thereof
to be redeemed will cease to accrue, as provided in Section 3.03. If fewer than all the Notes are to be redeemed, the notice of
redemption shall identify the Notes to be redeemed (including CUSIP numbers, if any). In case any Note is to be redeemed in part
only, the notice of redemption shall state the portion of the principal amount thereof to be redeemed and shall state that, on
and after the Redemption Date, upon surrender of such Note, a new Note or Notes in principal amount equal to the unredeemed portion
thereof will be issued.


 


Whenever any Notes are to be redeemed, the
Company shall give the Trustee and the Paying Agent written notice of the Redemption Date, together with an Officers’ Certificate
as to the aggregate principal amount of Notes to be redeemed, not fewer than fifteen (15) calendar days prior to the Redemption
Date.


 


On or prior to the Redemption Date specified
in the notice of redemption given as provided in this Section 3.02, the Company shall deposit with the Paying Agent (or, if the
Company is acting as its own Paying Agent, set aside, segregate and hold in trust as provided in Section 4.04) an amount of money
in immediately available funds sufficient to redeem on the Redemption Date all the Notes (or portions thereof) so called for redemption
(other than those theretofore surrendered for exchange) at the appropriate Redemption Price, together with accrued interest to
the Redemption Date; provided that if such payment is made on the Redemption Date, it must be received by the Paying Agent,
by 10:00 a.m., New York City time, on such date. The Company shall be entitled to retain any interest, yield or gain on amounts
deposited with the Paying Agent pursuant to this Section 3.02 in excess of amounts required hereunder to pay the Redemption Price;
provided, however, that neither the Trustee nor the Paying Agent shall be under any liability for interest on any
money received by it hereunder except as otherwise agreed to with the Company in writing.


 


If less than all of the Outstanding Notes
are to be redeemed, the Trustee shall select the Notes or portions thereof of the Global Note or the Notes in certificated form
to be redeemed (in principal amounts of $25 or integral multiples of $25 in excess thereof) (a) if the Notes are listed on any
national securities exchange, in compliance with the requirements of the principal national securities exchange on which the Notes
are listed, (b) if the Notes are Global Notes but are not listed on any national securities exchange, by lot or by such other similar
method in accordance with the procedures of the Depositary and (c) if the Notes are not listed on any national securities exchange
and are not Global Notes, on a pro rata basis (to the extent practicable).


 


Section
3.03         Payment of Notes Called for Redemption by the Company. If notice of redemption has been given as provided
in Section 3.02, the Notes or portion of Notes with respect to which such notice has been given shall become due and payable on
the Redemption Date at the place or places stated in such notice at the Redemption Price, and unless the Company shall default
in the payment of the amounts owing on the Notes upon such redemption, interest on the Notes or portion of Notes so called for
redemption shall cease to accrue on and after such date and the Notes shall cease to be entitled to any benefit or security under
this Supplemental Indenture, and the Holders thereof shall have no right in respect of such Notes except the right to receive
the Redemption Price thereof. On presentation and surrender of such Notes at a Place of Payment in said notice specified, the
said Notes or the specified portions thereof shall be paid and redeemed by the Company at the Redemption Price.


 



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Upon presentation of any Note redeemed in
part only, the Company shall execute and the Authenticating Agent, upon receipt of a Company Request, shall authenticate and make
available for delivery to the Holder thereof, at the expense of the Company, a new Note or Notes, of authorized denominations,
in principal amount equal to the unredeemed portion of the Notes so presented.


 


Section
3.04         Sinking Fund. There shall be no sinking fund provided for the Notes and the provisions
of Article Twelve of the Original Indenture shall not apply to the Notes.


 


Article
4

DEFAULT AND REMEDIES


 


Solely for the purposes of the Notes, Article
Five of the Original Indenture shall be deleted and replaced in its entirety by this Article 4. Any reference in the Original Indenture
to Article Five shall, with respect to the Notes, be deemed to be a reference to Article 4 of this Supplemental Indenture, and
reference in the Original Indenture to Sections 501, 502, 501(5), 501(8), 501(9) and 501(10) shall, with respect to the Notes,
be deemed replaced with references to Sections 4.01, 4.01, 4.01(d), 4.01(f), 4.01(g) and 4.01(h), respectively, in this Supplemental
Indenture.


 


Section
4.01         Events of Default. “Event of Default,” wherever used herein, means any one of the following events
(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):


 


(a)           default in the payment
of interest under the Notes as and when the same shall be due and payable, and continuance of such default for a period of thirty
(30) days; or


 


(b)           default in the payment
of the principal of the Notes when the same becomes due and payable, regardless of whether such payment became due and payable
at its Stated Maturity, upon redemption or otherwise; or


 


(c)           failure to pay the
Repurchase Price when due in connection with a Change of Control Repurchase Event; or


 


(d)           failure on the part
of the Company to comply with any term, covenant or agreement in the Notes or in the Indenture (other than a covenant or agreement
a default in the performance or breach of which is elsewhere in this Section 4.01 specifically dealt with) and such failure continues
for a period of ninety (90) calendar days after the date on which written notice of such failure, requiring the Company to remedy
the same, shall have been given to the Company by the Trustee, or to the Company and a Responsible Officer of the Trustee by the
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(e)           default after the
expiration of any applicable grace period in the payment of principal when due, or resulting in acceleration of, other indebtedness
for borrowed money other than Non-Recourse Indebtedness of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries or indebtedness of any Structured
Finance Subsidiary, where the aggregate principal amount with respect to which the default or acceleration has occurred exceeds
$100.0 million and such indebtedness has not been discharged, or such default in payment or acceleration has not been cured or
rescinded, prior to written notice of acceleration of the Notes; or


 


(f)           the Company pursuant
to or under or within the meaning of any Bankruptcy Law:


 


(i)           commences a voluntary
case or proceeding seeking liquidation, reorganization or other relief with respect to it or its debts or seeking the appointment
of a trustee, receiver, liquidator, custodian or other similar official of it or any substantial part of its property; or


 


(ii)          consents 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


 


(iii)         consents to the
appointment of a custodian of it or for all or substantially all of its property; or


 


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


 


(g)          an involuntary case
or other proceeding shall be commenced against the Company, seeking liquidation, reorganization or other relief with respect to
it 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 it or any substantial part of its property, and such involuntary
case or other proceeding shall remain undismissed and unstayed for a period of sixty (60) consecutive calendar days; or


 


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


 


(i)           is for relief against
the Company in an involuntary case or proceeding; or


 


(ii)          appoints a trustee,
receiver, liquidator, custodian or other similar official of the Company, or any substantial part of its properties; or


 


(iii)         orders the liquidation
of the Company;


 


and, in each case in this clause (h), the order or
decree remains unstayed and in effect for sixty (60) calendar days.


 



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If an Event of Default shall occur and be
continuing, unless the principal of all of the Notes shall have already become due and payable, either the Trustee or the Holders
of at least twenty-five percent (25%) in aggregate principal amount of the Notes then Outstanding, by notice in writing to the
Company (and to the Trustee if given by Noteholders), may declare the principal of, and interest accrued and unpaid on, all the
Notes to be immediately due and payable, and upon any such declaration the same shall be immediately due and payable.


 


If, at any time after the principal of and
interest on 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, Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Notes
then Outstanding on behalf of the Holders of all of the Notes then Outstanding, by written notice to the Company and to the Trustee,
may waive all defaults or Events of Default and rescind and annul such declaration and its consequences subject to Section 4.07
if: (a) such rescission would not conflict with any final judgment or decree of a court of competent jurisdiction; (b) interest
on overdue installments of interest (to the extent that payment of such interest is lawful) and on overdue principal, which has
become due otherwise than by such declaration of acceleration, has been paid; (c) the Company has paid the Trustee and the Agents
their compensation and reimbursed the Trustee and the Agents for their expenses, disbursements and advances (including, without
limitation, the compensation and the expenses and disbursements of their respective agents and counsel) pursuant to Section 606
of the Original Indenture; and (d) all Events of Default, other than the nonpayment of the principal amount and any accrued and
unpaid interest that has become due solely because of such acceleration, have been cured or waived. No such rescission and annulment
shall extend to or shall affect any subsequent default or Event of Default, or shall impair any right consequent thereon. Within
120 calendar days after the end of each fiscal year, the principal executive officer, principal financial officer or principal
accounting officer of the Company shall notify in writing a Responsible Officer of the Trustee whether or not, to the best of his
or her knowledge, any Event of Default has occurred, as provided in Section 1007 of the Original Indenture.


 


In case the Trustee shall have proceeded
to enforce any right under this Supplemental Indenture and such proceedings shall have been discontinued or abandoned because of
such waiver or rescission and annulment or for any other reason or shall have been determined adversely to the Trustee, then and
in every such case the Company, the Holders of Notes, the Agents and the Trustee shall be restored respectively to their several
positions and rights hereunder, and all rights, remedies and powers of the Company, the Holders of Notes, the Agents and the Trustee
shall continue as though no such proceeding had been taken.


 


Section
4.02           Payments of Notes on Default; Suit Therefor.
The Company covenants that in the case of an Event of Default pursuant to Section 4.01(a), 4.01(b) or 4.01(c), upon demand of
the Trustee, the Company will pay to the Trustee (or the Paying Agent on its behalf), for the benefit of the Holders of the Notes,
(i) the whole amount that then shall be due and payable on all such Notes for principal or interest, as the case may be, with
interest upon the overdue principal and premium, if any, and (to the extent that payment of such interest is enforceable under
applicable law) upon the overdue installments of accrued and unpaid interest at the rate borne by the Notes from the required
payment date and, (ii) in addition thereto, any amounts due the Trustee and the Agents under Section 606 of the Original Indenture.
Until such demand by the Trustee, the Company may pay the principal of and interest on the Notes to the registered Holders, whether
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In case the Company shall fail forthwith
to pay such amounts upon such demand, the Trustee, in its own name and as trustee of an express trust, shall be entitled and empowered
to institute any actions or proceedings at law or in equity for the collection of the sums so due and unpaid, and may prosecute
any such action or proceeding to judgment or final decree, and may enforce any such judgment or final decree against the Company
or any other obligor on the Notes and collect in the manner provided by law out of the property of the Company or any other obligor
on the Notes wherever situated the monies adjudged or decreed to be payable.


 


In case there shall be pending proceedings
for the bankruptcy or for the reorganization of the Company or any other obligor on the Notes under any Bankruptcy Law, 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 case 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 4.02, 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
in respect of the Notes, and, in case of any judicial proceedings, 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, the Agents and of the Noteholders 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 the Trustee and the Agents under Section 606 of the Original Indenture, and to take any other action
with respect to such claims, including participating as a member of any official committee of creditors, as it deems necessary
or advisable, unless prohibited by law or applicable regulations, and any receiver, assignee or trustee in bankruptcy or reorganization,
liquidator, custodian or similar official is hereby authorized by each of the Noteholders 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 Noteholders, to pay to the Trustee
and the Agents any amount due them for  compensation, expenses, advances and disbursements, including counsel fees and
expenses incurred by it up to the date of such distribution. To the extent that such payment of  compensation, 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
which 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.


 


All rights of action and of asserting claims
under this Supplemental 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 reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the Trustee, the Agents and their respective
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In any proceedings brought by the Trustee
(and in any proceedings involving the interpretation of any provision of this Supplemental 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.


 


Section
4.03           Application of Monies Collected by Trustee. Any monies or property collected by the Trustee pursuant to this
Article 4, shall be applied, in the following order, at the date or dates fixed by the Trustee or the Paying Agent on its behalf
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, the Agents and any predecessors under Section 606 of the Original Indenture;


 


SECOND: In case the principal of the Outstanding
Notes shall not have become due and be unpaid, to the payment of accrued and unpaid interest, if any, on the Notes in default in
the order of the maturity of the installments of such interest, with interest (to the extent that such interest has been collected
by the Trustee) as provided in Section 4.02 upon the overdue installments of interest at the annual rate borne by the Notes, 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 as to the payment of the whole amount then owing and unpaid
upon the Notes for principal and interest, with interest on the overdue principal and (to the extent that such interest has been
collected by the Trustee) upon overdue installments of accrued and unpaid interest, as provided in Section 4.02, 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
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
and accrued and unpaid interest; and


 


FOURTH: To the payment of the remainder,
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Section
4.04           Proceedings by Noteholder. No Holder of any
Note shall have any right by virtue of or by reference to any provision of the Indenture to institute any suit, action or proceeding
in equity or at law upon or under or with respect to the Indenture, or for the appointment of a receiver, trustee, liquidator,
custodian or other similar official, or for any other remedy hereunder, except in the case of a default in the payment of principal
of, or interest on, the Notes, including as a result of acceleration, unless (a) such Holder previously shall have given to the
Trustee written notice of an Event of Default and of the continuance thereof, as hereinbefore provided, (b) the Holders of at
least twenty-five percent (25%) in aggregate principal amount of the Notes then Outstanding shall have made written request upon
the Trustee to institute such action, suit or proceeding in its own name as Trustee hereunder and shall have offered to the Trustee
such security or indemnity satisfactory to it as it may require against the costs, liabilities or expenses to be incurred therein
or thereby, (c) the Trustee for sixty (60) calendar days after its receipt of such notice, request and offer of indemnity, shall
have neglected or refused to institute any such action, suit or proceeding and (d) no direction inconsistent with such written
request shall have been given to the Trustee pursuant to Section 4.07; 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 of Notes
shall have any right in any manner whatever by virtue of or by reference to any provision of this Supplemental Indenture to affect,
disturb or prejudice the rights of any other Holder of Notes, or to obtain or seek to obtain priority over or preference to any
other such Holder, or to enforce any right under this Supplemental Indenture, except in the manner herein provided and for the
equal, ratable and common benefit of all Holders of Notes (except as otherwise provided herein). For the protection and enforcement
of this Section 4.04, each and every Noteholder and the Trustee shall be entitled to such relief as can be given either at law
or in equity.


 


Notwithstanding any other provision of the
Indenture and any provision of any Note, the right of any Holder of any Note to receive payment of the principal of (including
the Redemption Price or Repurchase Price upon redemption or repurchase pursuant to Article 3 or Article 8, respectively) and accrued
interest on such Note, on or after the respective due dates expressed in such Note or in the event of redemption or repurchase,
or to institute suit for the enforcement of any such payment on or after such respective dates against the Company shall not be
impaired or affected without the consent of such Holder.


 


Section
4.05           Proceedings by Trustee. In case of an Event
of Default, the Trustee may, but shall not be obligated to, proceed to protect and enforce the rights vested in it by this Supplemental
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 Supplemental Indenture or in aid of the exercise of any power granted in this Supplemental Indenture,
or to enforce any other legal or equitable right vested in the Trustee by this Supplemental Indenture or by law.


 


Section
4.06           Remedies Cumulative and Continuing. All powers
and remedies given by this Article 4 to the Trustee or to the Noteholders 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
Supplemental 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 occurring and continuing as aforesaid shall impair any such right or power,
or shall be construed to be a waiver of any such default or any acquiescence therein, and, subject to the provisions of Section
4.05, every power and remedy given by this Article 4 or by law to the Trustee or to the Noteholders may be exercised from time
to time, and as often as shall be deemed expedient, by the Trustee or by the Noteholders.


 



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Section
4.07           Direction of Proceedings and Waiver of Defaults
by Majority of Noteholders. The Holders of not less than a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Notes then
Outstanding 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; provided that (a) such direction shall not be in conflict
with any rule of law or with this Supplemental Indenture, (b) the Trustee may take any other action which is not inconsistent
with such direction, (c) the Trustee may decline to take any action that would benefit some Noteholder to the detriment of other
Noteholders and (d) the Trustee may decline to take any action that would involve the Trustee in personal liability. 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 hereunder and its consequences except (i) a default in the payment of the principal
of, or interest on, the Notes when due, (ii) a default in the payment of the Redemption Price on the Redemption Date pursuant
to Article 3, (iii) a default in the payment of the Repurchase Price on the Repurchase Price Payment Date pursuant to Article
8 or (iv) a default in respect of a covenant or provisions hereof which under Article 5 cannot be modified or amended without
the consent of the Holders of each Outstanding Note affected thereby.


 


Upon any such waiver, the Company, the Trustee,
the Agents 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 4.07, said default or Event of Default shall for all purposes
of the Notes and this Supplemental 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
4.08           Notice of Defaults. The Trustee shall,
within ninety (90) calendar days after a Responsible Officer of the Trustee has actual knowledge or receives notice from the
Company or the Holders of the occurrence of a default, mail to all Noteholders, as the names and addresses of such
Holders appear upon the Security Register (as provided to one Trustee by the Security Register), notice of all defaults
actually known to a Responsible Officer, unless such defaults shall have been cured or waived before the giving of such
notice; provided that except in the case of (i) a default in the payment of the principal of, or interest on, the Notes when
due, (ii) a default in the payment of the Redemption Price on the Redemption Date pursuant to Article 3, and (iii) a default
in the payment of the Repurchase Price on the Repurchase Price Payment Date pursuant to Article 8, the Trustee shall
be protected in withholding such notice if and so long as a trust committee of directors and/or Responsible Officers of
the Trustee in good faith determines that the withholding of such notice is in the interest of the Noteholders. For the
purpose of this Section, the term “default” means any event which is, or after notice or lapse of time or both
would become, an Event of Default with respect to the Notes. Solely for purposes of the Notes, this Section 4.08 supercedes
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Section
4.09           Undertaking to Pay Costs. All parties to this
Supplemental 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 Supplemental 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 4.09 (to the extent permitted
by law) shall not apply to any suit instituted by the Trustee, to any suit instituted by any Noteholder, or group of Noteholders,
holding in the aggregate more than ten percent in principal amount of the Notes at the time Outstanding determined in accordance
with Section 104 of the Original Indenture, or to any suit instituted by any Noteholder for the enforcement of the payment of
the principal of, or interest on, any Note on or after the due date expressed in such Note.


 


Article
5

SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES


 


Solely for purposes of the Notes, Article
Nine of the Original Indenture shall be deleted and replaced in its entirety by this Article 5. Any reference in the Original Indenture
to Article Nine shall, with respect to the Notes, be deemed to be a reference to Article 5 of this Supplemental Indenture, and
references to Sections 902 and 905 of the Original Indenture shall, with respect to the Notes, be deemed to be references to Sections
5.02 and 5.04, respectively, of this Supplemental Indenture.


 


Section
5.01           Supplemental Indentures Without Consent of Noteholders.
The Company, when authorized by the resolutions of the Board of Directors and the Trustee may, from time to time, and at any time
enter into an indenture or indentures supplemental without the consent of the Holders of the Notes hereto for one or more of the
following purposes:


 


(a)           cure any ambiguity,
defect or inconsistency in the Indenture, this Supplemental Indenture or the Notes, including to eliminate any conflict or inconsistency
with the Trust Indenture Act, that does not adversely affect the rights of the Holders of the Notes; or


 


(b)           provide for the
assumption of all of the Company’s obligations under the Notes and the Indenture by a Person in connection with a Substantially
All Merger or Substantially All Sale in which the Company is not the surviving Person pursuant to Section 6.02; or


 


(c)           provide for uncertificated
Notes in addition to or instead of certificated Notes; or


 


(d)           add to the covenants
made by the Company for the benefit of the holders of any series of debt securities, including the Holders of the Notes (and if
such covenants are to be for the benefit of less than all series of debt securities, stating that such covenants are included solely
for the benefit of such series) or to surrender any right or power conferred upon the Company; or


 


(e)           add to, delete from,
or revise the conditions, limitations, and restrictions on the authorized amount, terms, or purposes of issue, authentication and
delivery of the Notes, as set forth in the Indenture; or




 






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(f)     secure
any Notes; or


 


(g)     provide
for the issuance of and establish the form and terms and conditions of a series of debt securities or to establish the form of
any certifications required to be furnished pursuant to the terms of the Indenture or the Notes or to add to the rights of the
holders of the Notes; or


 


(h)     to
modify any provision of the Indenture, this Supplemental Indenture or the Notes to conform the provisions to the descriptions thereof
set forth in the Preliminary Prospectus Supplement, as supplemented by the Issuer Free Writing Prospectus; or


 


(i)      to
modify any provision of the Notes or the Indenture that does not adversely affect the rights of any Holder of the Notes in any
material respect.


 


Upon the written request of the Company,
accompanied by a copy of the resolutions of the Board of Directors certified by the Company’s Secretary or Assistant Secretary
authorizing the execution of any supplemental indenture, the Trustee is hereby authorized to join with the Company in the execution
of any such supplemental indenture, to make any further appropriate agreements and stipulations that may be therein contained and
to accept the conveyance, transfer and assignment of any property thereunder, but the Trustee shall not be obligated to, but may
in its discretion, enter into any supplemental indenture that affects the Trustee’s or any Agent’s own rights, duties,
liabilities or immunities under this Supplemental Indenture or otherwise.


 


Any supplemental indenture authorized by
the provisions of this Section 5.01 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 5.02.


 


Section
5.02     Supplemental Indenture With Consent of Noteholders. With the consent (evidenced
as provided in Section 104 of the Original Indenture) of the Holders of not less than a majority in aggregate principal amount
of the Notes at the time Outstanding, the Company, when authorized by the resolutions of the Board of Directors and the Trustee
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 Supplemental Indenture or any supplemental
indenture or modifying in any manner the rights of the Holders of the Notes; provided that no such supplemental indenture shall,
without the consent of the Holder of each Note so affected:


 


(a)      reduce
the percentage in aggregate principal amount of Outstanding Notes required to modify or amend the Notes or the Indenture; or


 


(b)      change
the manner of calculation or rate of accrual of interest on the Notes or change the time of payment thereof; or


 


(c)      change
the principal amount of, or the Redemption Price specified in Article 3 hereof or Repurchase Price specified in Article 8 hereof
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(d)     change
the Stated Maturity of the Notes; or


 


(e)     waive
a default in the payment of the principal of, or interest on, the Notes when due; or


 


(f)     waive
a default in the payment of the Redemption Price on the Redemption Date pursuant to Article 3 or the payment of the Repurchase
Price on the Repurchase Price Payment Date pursuant to Article 8; or


 


(g)    make
the Notes payable in money or securities other than that stated in the Notes; or


 


(h)    make
any change in the provisions of the Indenture concerning rights of Holders of the Notes to receive payment; or


 


(i)    modify
Section 4.07, Section 5.01 or this Section 5.02.


 


Upon the written request of the Company,
accompanied by a copy of the resolutions of the Board of Directors certified by the Company’s Secretary or Assistant Secretary
authorizing the execution of any such supplemental indenture, and upon the filing with the Trustee of evidence of the consent of
Noteholders as aforesaid, the Trustee shall join with the Company in the execution of such supplemental indenture unless such supplemental
indenture affects the Trustee’s or an Agent’s own rights, duties, liabilities or immunities under this Supplemental
Indenture or otherwise, in which case the Trustee may in its discretion, but shall not be obligated to, enter into such supplemental
indenture.


 


It shall not be necessary for the consent
of the Noteholders under this Section 5.02 to approve the particular form of any proposed supplemental indenture, but it shall
be sufficient if such consent shall approve the substance thereof.


 


Section
5.03     Effect of Supplemental Indenture. Any supplemental indenture executed pursuant
to the provisions of this Article 5 shall comply with the Trust Indenture Act, as then in effect, provided that this Section 5.03
shall not require such supplemental indenture or the Trustee to be qualified under the Trust Indenture Act prior to the time,
if ever, such qualification is in fact required under the terms of the Trust Indenture Act or the Indenture has been qualified
under the Trust Indenture Act, nor shall it constitute any admission or acknowledgment by any party to such supplemental indenture
that any such qualification is required prior to the time, if ever, such qualification is in fact required under the terms of
the Trust Indenture Act or the Indenture has been qualified under the Trust Indenture Act. Upon the execution of any supplemental
indenture pursuant to the provisions of this Article 5, this Supplemental 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
Supplemental Indenture of the Trustee, the Agents, the Company and the Holders of Notes 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 Supplemental Indenture for any
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Section
5.04     Notation on Notes. Notes issued, authenticated and delivered after the execution
of any supplemental indenture pursuant to the provisions of this Article 5 may bear a notation in form acceptable to the Authentication
Agent as to any matter provided for in such supplemental indenture. If the Company or the Authentication Agent shall so determine,
new Notes so modified as to conform, in the opinion of the Authentication Agent and the Board of Directors, to any modification
of this Supplemental Indenture contained in any such supplemental indenture may, at the Company’s expense, be prepared and
executed by the Company, authenticated by the Authentication Agent (or another authenticating agent duly appointed by the Trustee
pursuant to Section 611 of the Original Indenture) and delivered in exchange for the Notes then Outstanding, upon surrender of
such Notes then Outstanding.


 


Section
5.05     Evidence of Compliance of Supplemental Indenture to be Furnished to Trustee.
Prior to entering into any supplemental indenture pursuant to this Article 5, the Trustee and the Agents shall be provided
with an Officers’ Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel as conclusive evidence that any supplemental indenture executed
pursuant hereto complies with the requirements of this Article 5 and is otherwise authorized or permitted by this
Supplemental Indenture and other matters as reasonably requested by the Trustee and the Agents.


 


Article
6

CONSOLIDATION, MERGER, SALE, CONVEYANCE AND LEASE


 


Solely for the purposes of the Notes, Article
Eight of the Original Indenture shall be deleted and replaced in its entirety by this Article 6. Any reference in the Original
Indenture to Article Eight shall, with respect to the Notes, be deemed to be a reference to Article 6 of this Supplemental Indenture.


 


Section
6.01     Company May Consolidate on Certain Terms. Subject to the provisions of Section
6.02, the Company shall not be a party to a Substantially All Merger or participate in a Substantially All Sale, unless:


 


(a)      the
Company is the surviving Person, or the Person formed by or surviving such Substantially All Merger or to which such Substantially
All Sale has been made (the “Successor Party”) is an entity organized and existing under the laws of the United States
of America, any state thereof or the District of Columbia, and has expressly assumed by supplemental indenture all of the obligations
of the Company under the Notes and the Indenture;


 


(b)      immediately
after giving effect to such transaction, no Event of Default, and no event which, after notice or the lapse of time, or both, would
become an Event of Default, shall have occurred and be continuing; and


 


(c)      the
Company delivers to the Trustee and the Paying Agent an Officers’ Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel, each stating that
such transaction and any supplemental indenture relating thereto comply with this Indenture and that all conditions precedent provided
for in this Indenture relating to such transaction have been complied with.


 






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Section
6.02     Successor Party to be Substituted. In case of any such consolidation, sale, lease,
conveyance, assignment, transfer or merger in which the Company is not the continuing entity and upon the assumption by the Successor
Party, by supplemental indenture, executed and delivered to the Trustee and the Paying Agent and reasonably satisfactory in form
to the Trustee and the Paying Agent, of the due and punctual payment of the principal of, and interest on, all of the Notes, and
the due and punctual performance and observance of all of the covenants and conditions of the Indenture to be performed or satisfied
by the Company, such Successor Party shall succeed to and be substituted for, and may exercise every right and power of, the Company,
with the same effect as if it had been named herein as the party of this first part, and the Company shall be discharged from
its obligations under the Notes and the Indenture.


 


Such Successor Party 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 that
theretofore shall not have been signed by the Company and delivered to the Trustee and the Paying Agent; and, upon the order of
such Successor Party instead of the Company and subject to all the terms, conditions and limitations in this Supplemental Indenture
prescribed, the Authenticating Agent 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 Authenticating Agent for authentication,
and any Notes that such Successor Party thereafter shall cause to be signed and delivered to the Authenticating Agent for that
purpose. All the Notes so issued shall in all respects have the same legal rank and benefit under this Supplemental Indenture as
the Notes theretofore or thereafter issued in accordance with the terms of this Supplemental 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, assignment, conveyance
or transfer upon compliance with this Article 6 the Person named as the “Company” in the first paragraph of this Supplemental
Indenture or any successor that shall thereafter have become such in the manner prescribed in this Article 6 may be dissolved,
wound up and liquidated at any time thereafter and such Person shall be discharged from its liabilities as obligor and maker of
the Notes and from its obligations under this Supplemental Indenture.


 


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


 


Article
7

SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE


 


Section
7.01     Satisfaction and Discharge of Indenture. The provisions of Section 401 of the
Original Indenture shall not apply to the Notes.


 


Section
7.02     Covenant Defeasance. The provisions of Section 402(3) of the Original Indenture
shall not apply to the Notes.


 


Article
8

REPURCHASE OF NOTES


 


Section
8.01     Obligation to Offer to Repurchase Upon a Change of Control Repurchase Event.





 



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(a)
         If
a Change of Control Repurchase Event occurs, unless the Company has exercised its option to redeem the Notes pursuant to Article
3, the Company shall make an offer to each Holder of Notes to repurchase all or any part of that Holder’s Notes (the “Change
of Control Offer”) (in a principal amount of $25 and integral multiples of $25 in excess thereof) at a repurchase price in
cash equal to 101% of the aggregate principal amount of Notes repurchased plus any accrued and unpaid interest on the Notes repurchased
to, but excluding, the Repurchase Price Payment Date (the “Repurchase Price”).


 


(b)
         Within 30 days following any Change of Control Repurchase Event or, at the Company’s
option, prior to any Change of Control, but after the public announcement of the Change of Control, the Company shall give
notice to each Holder of Notes, with a written copy to the Trustee and the Paying Agent. Such notice shall state:


 


(i)      a
description of the transaction or transactions that constitute or may constitute the Change of Control Repurchase Event;


 


(ii)      that
the Change of Control Offer is being made pursuant to this Article 8;


 


(iii)      the
Repurchase Price and the date on which the Repurchase Price will be paid, which date shall be a Business Day that is no earlier
than 30 days and no later than 60 days from the date such notice is mailed, other than as may be required by law (the “Repurchase
Price Payment Date”); and


 


(iv)      if
the notice is given prior to the date of consummation of the Change of Control, a statement that the offer to purchase is conditioned
on the Change of Control Repurchase Event occurring on or prior to the Repurchase Price Payment Date.


 


At the Company’s request, upon reasonable
prior notice, the Security Registrar shall mail such notice in the Company’s name and at the Company’s expense; provided,
however, that the form and content of such notice shall be prepared by the Company.


 


(c)
         The
Company shall comply with the requirements of Rule 14e-1 under the Exchange Act of and any other securities laws and regulations
thereunder to the extent those laws and regulations are applicable in connection with the repurchase of the Notes as a result of
a Change of Control Repurchase Event. To the extent that the provisions of any securities laws or regulations conflict with the
Change of Control Repurchase Event provisions of the Notes, the Company shall comply with the applicable securities laws and regulations
and shall not be deemed to have breached its obligations under the Change of Control Repurchase Event provisions of the Notes by
virtue of such conflict.


 


(d)
         On
the Repurchase Price Payment Date, the Company shall, to the extent lawful:


 


(i)      accept
for payment all Notes or portions of Notes properly tendered pursuant to the Change of Control Offer;


  



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(ii)      deposit
prior to 10:00 a.m., New York City time, on such date with the Paying Agent an amount equal to the Repurchase Price in respect
of all Notes or portions of Notes properly tendered; and


 


(iii)      deliver
or cause to be delivered to the Paying Agent the Notes properly accepted together with an Officers’ Certificate stating the
aggregate principal amount of Notes or portions of Notes being purchased.


 


The Paying Agent shall promptly mail to
each Holder of Notes properly tendered the Repurchase Price for such Notes, and the Authenticating Agent shall promptly authenticate
and mail (or cause to be transferred by book-entry) to each Holder of Notes properly tendered a new Note equal in principal amount
to any unpurchased portion of any Notes surrendered; provided that each new Note will be in a principal amount of $25 and
integral multiple of $25 in excess thereof.


 


(e)
         Notwithstanding
the foregoing, the Company shall not be required to make an offer to repurchase the Notes upon a Change of Control Repurchase Event
if (i) the Company or such Successor Party has given written notice of a redemption as provided under Section 3.02 prior to the
occurrence of the Change of Control Repurchase Event; provided that the Company has not failed to pay the Redemption Price on the
Redemption Date or (ii) a third party makes such an offer in respect of the Notes in the manner, at the times and otherwise in
compliance with the requirements for an offer made by the Company and such third party purchases all the Notes properly tendered
and not withdrawn under its offer.


 


Article
9

INFORMATION RIGHTS


 


Section
9.01     


 


During any period in which the Company is
not subject to the reporting requirements of Section 13 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act and any Notes remain Outstanding, the Company
will (i) transmit by mail or other permissible means under the Exchange Act to all Holders, as their names and addresses appear
in the Security Register and without cost to such Holders, copies of the annual reports and quarterly reports containing information
that is substantially similar to the information that is required to be contained in such reports that the Company would have been
required to file with the Commission, pursuant to Section 13 or Section 15(d) of the Exchange Act if the Company were subject thereto
(other than any exhibits or any information required by Items 402 and 404 of Regulation S-K pursuant to the Securities Act that
would have been required), and (ii) promptly following written request, supply copies of such reports to any prospective Holder
of Notes. The Company will mail (or otherwise provide) the information to the Holders within 15 days after the respective dates
by which the Company would have been required to file such reports with the Commission if it were subject to Section 13 or 15(d)
of the Exchange Act as a non-accelerated filer as such term is defined in Rule 12b-2 under the Exchange Act.





 



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The delivery of such reports, information
and documents to the Trustee and any Agent pursuant to this Article 9 is for informational purposes only and the Trustee’s
and such Agent’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 and any Agent is entitled to rely exclusively on an Officers’ Certificate).


 


Article
10

MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS


 


Section
10.01     Addresses for Notices, etc. Any notice or demand which by any provision
of this Supplemental Indenture is required or permitted to be given or served by the Trustee, by an Agent or by the Holders of
Notes on the Company shall be in writing and 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, or sent by overnight
courier, or sent by telecopier transmission addressed as follows:


 


MFA Financial, Inc.


350 Park Avenue


20th Floor


New York, New York 10022


Telecopier No.: 212-207-6420

Attention: General Counsel


 


Any notice, direction, request or demand
hereunder to or upon the Trustee, Paying Agent, Security Registrar or Authenticating Agent 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, or sent by overnight courier, or sent by telecopier transmission, addressed as follows: Wilmington Trust, National
Association, Corporate Capital Markets, 50 South Sixth Street, Suite 1290, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55402, Attn: MFA Financial, Inc.
Administrator, Telecopier No. 612-217-5651; provided that if Wilmington Trust, National Association is no longer serving in any
such capacity, then notice shall be sent as required to any duly appointed successor thereof.


 


The Trustee, by notice to the Company, may
designate additional or different addresses for subsequent notices or communications.


 


The Paying Agent, Security Registrar and
Authenticating Agent, by notice to the Company, may designate additional or different addresses for subsequent notices or communications.


 


Any notice or communication mailed to a
Noteholder shall be mailed by first class mail, postage prepaid, at such Noteholder’s address as it appears on the Security
Register and shall be sufficiently given to such Noteholder if so mailed within the time prescribed.


 


Failure to mail a notice or communication
to a Noteholder or any defect in it shall not affect its sufficiency with respect to other Noteholders. If a notice or communication
is mailed in the manner provided above, it is duly given, whether or not the addressee receives it.


 






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Section
10.02     Governing Law. This Supplemental Indenture and the Notes shall be governed by,
and construed in accordance with, the laws of the State of New York.


 


Section
10.03     Trust Indenture Act. This Supplemental Indenture will be subject to, and governed
by, the provisions of the Trust Indenture Act that are required to be part of this Supplemental Indenture and shall, to the extent
applicable, be governed by such provisions.


 


Section
10.04     No Security Interest Created. Nothing in this Supplemental 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 in which property of the Company or its subsidiaries
is located.


 


Section
10.05     Execution in Counterparts. This Supplemental 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.


 


Section
10.06     Severability. In case any provision in this Supplemental Indenture or in the
Notes shall be invalid, illegal or unenforceable, then (to the extent permitted by law) the validity, legality and enforceability
of the remaining provisions shall not in any way be affected or impaired thereby.


 


Section
10.07     Appointment of Paying Agent, Security Registrar and Authenticating Agent. Wilmington
Trust, National Association is hereby appointed to act as Paying Agent, Security Registrar and Authenticating Agent (each an “Agent”,
and collectively, the “Agents”) subject to and in accordance with the terms and conditions set forth herein and in
the Original Indenture and shall have all of the rights, benefits and immunities of a Paying Agent, Security Registrar and Authenticating
Agent as set forth herein and therein. The Corporate Trust Office of the Paying Agent and Authenticating Agent is the office at
which corporate trust business shall be administered, and where the Notes may be presented for payment or for registration or transfer,
which office at the date of execution of this supplemental indenture is located at 50 South Sixth Street, Suite 1290, Minneapolis,
Minnesota 55402, Attn: MFA Financial, Inc. Administrator, or any other address that the Paying Agent or Authenticating Agent may
designate with respect to itself from time to time by notice to the Company and the Holders. The Company may, however, change the
Paying Agent or Security Registrar without prior notice to the Holders thereof, and the Company may act as Paying Agent or Security
Registrar. When used with respect to the Authenticating Agent, Paying Agent and Security Registrar, the term Responsible Officer
has the meaning set forth in Section 1.02.


 


Section
10.08     Ratification of Original Indenture. The Original Indenture, as supplemented by
this Supplemental Indenture, is in all respects ratified and confirmed, and this Supplemental Indenture shall be deemed part of
the Original Indenture in the manner and to the extent herein and therein provided. For the avoidance of doubt, each of the Company
and each Holder of the Notes, by its acceptance of such Notes, acknowledges and agrees that all of the rights, privileges, protections,
immunities and benefits afforded to the Trustee and the Agents under the Original Indenture are deemed to be incorporated herein,
and shall be enforceable by the Trustee and the Agents hereunder, as if set forth herein in full.





 



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Wilmington Trust, National Association hereby
accepts the trusts in this Supplemental Indenture declared and provided, upon the terms and conditions herein above set forth.


 


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


 


	 	MFA FINANCIAL, INC.
	 	 	 
	 	By:	/s/ Stewart Zimmerman
	 	 	Name: Stewart Zimmerman
	 	 	Title: Chief Executive Officer
	 	 	 
	 	
        WILMINGTON TRUST, NATIONAL

        ASSOCIATION, as Trustee

	 	 	 
	 	By:	/s/ Jane Y. Schweiger
	 	 	Name:  Jane Y. Schweiger
	 	 	Title: Vice President 


 






    	 



    	 



    



  


EXHIBIT A


 


 


[Include only for Global Notes]


 


UNLESS THIS CERTIFICATE IS PRESENTED BY
AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF THE DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY (55 WATER STREET, NEW YORK, NEW YORK) (THE “DEPOSITARY,”
WHICH TERM INCLUDES ANY SUCCESSOR DEPOSITORY FOR THE CERTIFICATES) 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 REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED
REPRESENTATIVE OF THE DEPOSITARY (AND ANY PAYMENT HEREIN IS MADE TO CEDE & CO. OR TO SUCH OTHER ENTITY AS IS REQUESTED BY AN
AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF THE DEPOSITARY), 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.


 






    	 



    	 



    
 


MFA FINANCIAL, INC.

8.00% SENIOR NOTES DUE 2042


 


	 	 	CUSIP: 55272X 300
	 	 	ISIN: US55272X3008
	 	 	 
	No. [  ]	 	$[   ]


 


MFA Financial, Inc., a Maryland corporation
(herein called the “Company,” which term includes any successor Person under the Indenture referred to on the reverse
hereof), for value received hereby promises to pay to [ ] or its registered assigns, the principal sum of [ ] [or such other principal
amount as shall be set forth on Schedule I hereto](1) on April 15, 2042 at the office or agency of the Company maintained
for that purpose in accordance with the terms of the Indenture, in such coin or currency of the United States of America as at
the time of payment shall be legal tender for the payment of public and private debts, and to pay interest, quarterly, on January
15, April 15, July 15 and October 15 of each year (each, an “Interest Payment Date”), commencing July 15, 2012, on
said principal sum at said office or agency, in like coin or currency, at the rate per annum of 8.00%, from and including the most
recent Interest Payment Date in respect of which interest has been paid (or commencing April 11, 2012 if no interest has been paid
hereon). If any Interest Payment Date, the Stated Maturity or any Redemption Date or Repurchase Price Payment Date is a Legal Holiday,
the required payment will be made on the next succeeding day that is not a Legal Holiday as if it were made on the date such payment
was due and no interest will accrue on the amount so payable for the period from and after such Interest Payment Date to such next
succeeding day. Interest will be computed on the basis of twelve 30-day months and a 360-day year. The amount of interest payable
for any period shorter than a full quarterly interest period will be computed on the basis of the number of days elapsed in a 90-day
quarter of three 30-day months.


 


Reference is made to the further provisions
of this Note set forth on the reverse hereof. Such further provisions shall for all purposes have the same effect as though fully
set forth at this place.


 


This Note shall not be valid or become obligatory
for any purpose until the certificate of authentication hereon shall have been manually signed by the Trustee or a duly authorized
authenticating agent under the Indenture.


 





 









 


(1) For Global Notes only.


 






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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Company has caused
this Note to be duly executed.


 


Dated: [ ]


 


	 	MFA FINANCIAL, INC.
	 	 
	 	By:	 
	 	 	Name:
	 	 	Title:
	 	 
	 	By:	 
	 	 	Name:
	 	 	Title:


 


	ATTEST:	 
	 	 
	By	 	 
	 	Name:	 
	 	Title:	 


 






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AUTHENTICATING AGENT’S CERTIFICATE
OF AUTHENTICATION


 


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


 


WILMINGTON TRUST, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION

as Authenticating Agent


 


	By:	 	 
	 	Authorized Signatory	 


 






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FORM OF REVERSE OF NOTE

MFA FINANCIAL, INC.

8.00% SENIOR NOTES DUE 2042


 


This note is one of a duly authorized issue
of notes of the Company, designated as its “8.00% Senior Notes due 2042” (herein called the “Notes”), issued
under and pursuant to an Indenture, dated as of April 11, 2012 (the “Original Indenture”), between the Company and
Wilmington Trust, National Association, as trustee (herein called the “Trustee”), as supplemented with respect to the
Notes by the First Supplemental Indenture, dated as of April 11, 2012 (the “Supplemental Indenture,” and together with
the Original Indenture, the “Indenture”), between the Company and the Trustee, as trustee, and as the authenticating
agent, paying agent and security registrar (herein called the “Authenticating Agent, Paying Agent and Security Registrar”),
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, Authenticating Agent, Paying Agent, Security Registrar,
the Company and the Holders of the Notes. Capitalized terms used but not otherwise defined in this Note shall have the respective
meanings ascribed thereto in the Indenture.


 


At any time on or after April 15, 2017,
the Company may, in accordance with the provisions of Article 3 of the Supplemental Indenture, redeem the Notes for cash, in whole
or in part, at a redemption price equal to 100% of the principal amount of the Notes to be redeemed plus unpaid interest, if any,
accrued thereon to, but excluding, the Redemption Date.


 


If a Change of Control Repurchase Event
occurs, unless the Company has exercised its option to redeem the Notes pursuant to Article 3 of the Supplemental Indenture prior
to the occurrence of the Change of Control Repurchase Event, the Company shall make an offer to each Holder of Notes to repurchase
all or any part of that Holder’s Notes at a repurchase price in cash equal to 101% of the aggregate principal amount of Notes
repurchased plus any accrued and unpaid interest on the Notes repurchased to, but excluding, the Repurchase Price Payment Date.


 


If an Event of Default with respect to the
Company shall occur and be continuing, the principal of, and accrued and unpaid interest on, the Notes may be declared to be due
and payable in the manner specified in the Indenture.


 


Subject to the provisions of the Indenture,
the Holders of not less than 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, subject to exceptions set forth in the Indenture. Upon
any such waiver, said default shall for all purposes of this Note and the Indenture be deemed to have been cured and not to be
continuing, but no such waiver shall extend to any subsequent or other default or impair any right consequent thereon.


 


The Indenture contains provisions permitting
the Company and the Trustee, with the consent of the Holders of not less than a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Notes
at the time Outstanding, to execute supplemental indentures to modify provisions of the Indenture, subject to exceptions permitting
the modification of the Indenture without the consent of any Holder of Notes or requiring the consent of each Holder of a Note
affected by such modification all as set forth in Article 5 of the Supplemental Indenture.


 






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The Notes are issuable in fully registered
form, without coupons, in denominations of $25 principal amount and any multiple of $25 in excess 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, without
payment of any service charge but with payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax, assessment or other governmental charge that
may be imposed in connection with any registration or exchange of Notes, Notes may be exchanged for a like aggregate principal
amount of Notes of any other authorized denominations. Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Note to the Security
Registrar or any co-registrar, and satisfaction of the requirements for such transfer set forth in the Indenture, the Company shall
execute, and the Authenticating Agent shall authenticate and deliver, in the name of the designated transferee or transferees,
one or more new Notes of any authorized denominations and of a like aggregate principal amount. No service charge shall be made
to any Holder for any registration of transfer or exchange of Notes, but the Company may require payment by the Holder of a sum
sufficient to cover any tax, assessment or other governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any registration of
transfer or exchange of Notes.


 


The Company, the Trustee, Authenticating
Agent, Paying Agent and Security Registrar may deem the Person in whose name this Note shall be registered upon the Security Register
to be, and may treat it as, the absolute owner of this Note (whether or not this Note shall be overdue and notwithstanding any
notation of ownership or other writing thereon made by any Person other than the Company or any Security Registrar) for the purpose
of receiving payment of or on account of the principal of, and interest on this Note and for all other purposes; and neither the
Company or the Trustee nor any Authenticating Agent, Paying Agent or any Security Registrar shall be affected by any notice to
the contrary. All such payments so made to any Holder for the time being, or upon its order, shall be valid, and, to the extent
of the sum or sums so paid, effectual to satisfy and discharge the liability for monies payable upon this Note.


 


No recourse for the payment of the principal
of or interest on this Note, or for any claim based hereon or otherwise in respect hereof, and no recourse under or upon any obligation,
covenant or agreement of the Company in the Indenture or any supplemental indenture or in any Note, or because of the creation
of any indebtedness represented hereby, shall be had against any incorporator, stockholder, partner, member, manager, employee,
agent, officer, director or subsidiary, as such, past, present or future, of the Company or any of the Company’s Subsidiaries
or of any successor thereto, either directly or through the Company or any of the Company’s Subsidiaries or of any successor
thereto, 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 consideration
for, the execution of the Indenture and the issue of this Note.


 


In the case of any conflict between the
provisions of this Note and the Indenture, the provisions of the Indenture shall control. The Indenture and this Note shall be
governed by, and construed in accordance with, the laws of the State of New York.


 






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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 -      
	 	 	 	Custodian      
	TEN-ENT -	as tenant by the entireties	 	(Cust) (Minor)
	JT-TEN -	as joint tenants with right of survivorship and not as tenants in common		under Uniform Gifts to Minors Act



(State)
	 
	


 


Additional abbreviations may also be used
though not in the above list.


 


 



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Attachment 1

to Exhibit A 


 


ASSIGNMENT


 


For value received                                             hereby sell(s)
assign(s) and transfer(s) unto                                        (Please insert social security or other Taxpayer Identification Number of assignee) the within
Note, and hereby irrevocably constitutes and appoints                         attorney to transfer said Note on the books of the Company, with full
power of substitution in the premises.


 


	 	 
	 	 
	 	 
	 	Signature(s)
	 	 
	 	Signature(s) must be guaranteed by an “eligible guarantor institution” meeting the requirements of the Security Registrar, which requirements include membership or participation in the Security Transfer Agent Medallion Program (“STAMP”) or such other “signature guarantee program” as may be determined by the Security Registrar in addition to, or in substitution for, STAMP, all in accordance with the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.
	 	 
	 	 
	 	Signature Guarantee


 


NOTICE: The signature on this Assignment
must correspond with the name as written upon the face of the Note in every particular without alteration or enlargement or any
change whatever.


 






    	 



    	 



    
 


Schedule I





 


MFA FINANCIAL, INC.

8.00% SENIOR NOTES DUE 2042


 


	
        Date
	
        Principal
        Amount
	
        Notation
        Explaining

        Principal Amount

        Recorded
	
        Authorized
        Signature

        of Trustee or

        Custodian