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Exhibit 4.2




Form of Initial Note1


 


[AE ESCROW CORPORATION]


 


[AVIS BUDGET CAR RENTAL, LLC


AVIS BUDGET FINANCE, INC.]2


 


9.75% Senior Notes due 2020


 


CUSIP No. _______________ 


No. ___


$______________


 


[AE Escrow Corporation, a corporation duly organized and existing under the laws of the State of Delaware (the “Company,” which term includes its successors and assigns)] [Avis Budget Car Rental, LLC, a limited liability company duly organized and existing under the laws of the State of Delaware (successor to AE Escrow Corporation), and Avis Budget Finance, Inc., a corporation duly organized and existing under the laws of the State of Delaware (together, “the Company,” which term includes their successors and assigns)], promise to pay to CEDE & CO., or registered assigns, the principal sum of $________________
([                                  ] United States Dollars) [(or such lesser or greater amount as shall be outstanding hereunder from time to time in accordance with Sections 312 and 313 of the Indenture referred to herein)]3 (the “Principal Amount”) on March 15, 2020.  The Company promises to pay interest semi-annually in cash on September 15 and March 15 of each year, commencing March 15, 2012, at the rate of 9.75% per annum (subject to adjustment as provided
below)4 until the Principal Amount is paid or made available for payment.  [Interest on this Note will accrue from the most recent date to which interest on this Note or any of its Predecessor Notes has been paid or duly provided for or, if no interest has been paid, from the Issue Date.]5  [Interest on this Note will accrue (or will be deemed to have accrued) from the most recent date to which interest on this Note or any of its Predecessor Notes has been paid or duly provided for or, if no such interest has been paid, from ______,
______6.]7  Interest on the Notes shall be computed on the basis of a 360-day year consisting of twelve 30-day months.  The interest so payable, and punctually paid or duly provided for, on any Interest Payment Date will, as provided in such Indenture, be paid to the Person in whose name this Note (or one or more Predecessor Notes) is registered at the close of business on the Regular Record Date for such interest, which shall be the September 1 or 


 









 




	
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Insert AE Escrow Corporation for Notes executed and delivered prior to the Completion Date and Avis Budget Car Rental, LLC and Avis Budget Finance, Inc. for Notes executed and delivered on and after the Completion Date.







 




  


	
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Insert the Interest Payment Date immediately preceding the date of issuance of the applicable Additional Notes, or if the date of issuance of such Additional Notes is an Interest Payment Date, such date of issuance.







 




  


	
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March 1 (whether or not a Business Day), as the case may be, next preceding such Interest Payment Date.  Any such interest not so punctually paid or duly provided for will forthwith cease to be payable to the Holder on such Regular Record Date and may either be paid to the Person in whose name this Note (or one or more Predecessor Notes) is registered at the close of business on a Special Record Date for the payment of such Defaulted Interest to be fixed by the Trustee, notice whereof shall be given to Holders of Notes not more than 15 days nor less than 10 days prior to such Special Record Date, or be paid at any time in any other lawful manner not inconsistent with the requirements of any securities
exchange on which the Notes may be listed, and upon such notice as may be required by such exchange, all as more fully provided in said Indenture.


 


[The Holder of this Note is entitled to the benefits of the Registration Rights Agreement, dated October 3, 2011, among AE Escrow Corporation, Indirect Parent, the initial purchasers named therein and the other parties named on the signature pages thereof and from time to time party thereto (as amended and supplemented, the “Registration Rights Agreement”).  Until (i) this Note has been exchanged for an Exchange Security (as defined in the Registration Rights Agreement) in an Exchange Offer (as defined in the Registration Rights Agreement); (ii) a Shelf Registration Statement (as defined in the Registration Rights Agreement)
registering this Note under the Securities Act has been declared or becomes effective and this Note has been sold or otherwise transferred by the Holder thereof pursuant to and in a manner contemplated by such effective Shelf Registration Statement; (iii) this Note is sold under circumstances in which any legend borne by this Note relating to restrictions on transferability thereof, under the Securities Act or otherwise, is removed by the Company or pursuant to the Indenture referred to herein; or (iv) this Note is eligible to be sold pursuant to Rule 144 under the Securities Act by a Person that is not an “affiliate” (within the meaning of Rule 405 under the Securities Act) of the Company or any Guarantor, this Note shall be entitled to Additional Interest as follows: In the event that either the Exchange Offer is not completed or the Shelf Registration Statement, if
required pursuant to the Registration Rights Agreement, has not become effective on or prior to the Final Registration Date, the interest rate on the Notes will be increased by (i) 0.25% per annum for the first 90-day period immediately following the Final Registration Date (as defined in the Registration Rights Agreement) and (ii) an additional 0.25% per annum with respect to each subsequent 90-day period, in each case until the Exchange Offer is completed or the Shelf Registration Statement, if required hereby, becomes effective or the Notes become freely tradable under the Securities Act, up to a maximum total increase of 0.50% per annum.  In the event that the Company receives a Shelf Request (as defined in the Registration Rights Agreement), and the Shelf Registration Statement required to be filed thereby has not become effective by the later of (x) the Final
Registration Date or (y) 90 days after delivery of such Shelf Request (such later date, the “Shelf Additional Interest Date”), then the interest rate on the Notes will be increased by (i) 0.25% per annum for the first 90-day period payable commencing from one day after the Shelf Additional Interest Date and (ii) an additional 0.25% per annum with respect to each subsequent 90-day period, in each case until the Shelf Registration Statement becomes effective or the Notes become freely tradable under the Securities Act, up to a maximum total increase of 0.50% per annum.  If the Shelf Registration Statement, if required pursuant to the Registration Rights Agreement, has become effective and thereafter either ceases to be effective or the Prospectus (as defined in the Registration Rights Agreement)
contained therein ceases to be usable, in each case whether or not permitted by the Registration Rights Agreement, at any time during the Shelf Effectiveness Period (as defined in the Registration 


 




  





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Rights Agreement), and such failure to remain effective or usable exists for more than 75 days (whether or not consecutive) in any 12-month period, then the interest rate on the Notes will be increased commencing on the 75th day in such 12-month period by (i) 0.25% per annum for the first 90-day period immediately following such 75th day, and (ii) an additional 0.25% per annum with respect to each subsequent 90-day period, up to a maximum total increase of 0.50% per annum, and ending on such date that the Shelf Registration Statement has again become effective or the Prospectus again becomes
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Payment of the principal of (and premium, if any) and interest on this Note will be made at the office of the applicable Paying Agent, or such other office or agency of the Company maintained for that purpose; provided, however, that at the option of the Company payment of interest may be made by check mailed to the address of the Person entitled thereto as such address shall appear in the Note Register.


 


Reference is hereby made to the further provisions of this Note set forth on the attached Additional Terms of the Notes, which further provisions shall for all purposes have the same effect as if set forth at this place.


 


Unless the certificate of authentication hereon has been executed by the Trustee referred to herein by manual signature, this Note shall not be entitled to any benefit under the Indenture or be valid or obligatory for any purpose.


 


 


 


 













  


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


 


AE ESCROW CORPORATION







By:  __________________________



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


 


THE BANK OF NOVA SCOTIA TRUST COMPANY OF NEW YORK,


as Trustee







By:  __________________________



	
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Additional Terms of the Notes


 


This Note is one of the duly authorized issue of 9.75% Senior Notes due 2020 of the Company (herein called the “Notes”), issued under an Indenture, dated as of October 3, 2011 (herein called the “Indenture,” which term shall have the meanings assigned to it in such instrument), between AE Escrow Corporation (to be assumed by Avis Budget Car Rental LLC and Avis Budget Finance, Inc. and to which the guarantors from time to time will become parties thereto) and The Bank of Nova Scotia Trust Company of New York, as Trustee (herein called the
“Trustee,” which term includes any successor trustee under the Indenture), and reference is hereby made to the Indenture for a statement of the respective rights, limitations of rights, duties and immunities thereunder of the Company, any other obligor upon this Note, the Trustee and the Holders of the Notes and of the terms upon which the Notes are, and are to be, authenticated and delivered.  The terms of the Notes include those stated in the Indenture and those made a part of the Indenture by reference to the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, as amended, as in effect from time to time (the “TIA”).  The Notes are subject to all such terms, and Holders are referred to the Indenture and the TIA for a statement of such
terms.  Additional Notes may be issued under the Indenture which will vote as a class with the Notes and otherwise be treated as Notes for purposes of the Indenture.


 


All terms used in this Note that are defined in the Indenture shall have the meanings assigned to them in the Indenture.


 


This Note may hereafter be entitled to certain Guarantees made for the benefit of the Holders.  Reference is made to Article XIII of the Indenture for terms relating to such Guarantees, including the release, termination and discharge thereof.  Neither the Company nor any Guarantor shall be required to make any notation on this Note to reflect any Guarantee or any such release, termination or discharge.


 


The Notes will be redeemable, at the Company’s option, in whole or in part, at any time and from time to time on or after September 15, 2015, and prior to maturity at the applicable redemption price set forth below.  Such redemption may be made upon notice mailed by first-class mail to each Holder’s registered address in accordance with the Indenture.  The Company may provide in such notice that payment of the redemption price and the performance of the Company’s obligations with respect to such redemption may be performed by another Person.  Any such redemption and notice may, in the Company’s discretion, be subject to the satisfaction of one or more conditions
precedent, including but not limited to the occurrence of a Change of Control.  The Notes will be so redeemable at the following redemption prices (expressed as a percentage of principal amount), plus accrued and unpaid interest, if any, to the relevant Redemption Date (subject to the right of Holders of record on the relevant Regular Record Date to receive interest due on the relevant Interest Payment Date), if redeemed during the 12-month period commencing on September 15 of each of the years set forth below:


 



	 	
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Redemption Price

	 
	 	
2014                                                                                            

	
104.875%

	 
	 	
2015                                                                                            

	
102.438%

	 
	 	
2016 and thereafter                                                                                            

	
100.000%

	 





 


 




  





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In addition, at any time and from time to time on or prior to September 15, 2014, the Company at its option may redeem Notes in an aggregate principal amount equal to up to 35% of the original aggregate principal amount of Notes (including the principal amount of any Additional Notes), with funds in an aggregate amount not exceeding the aggregate proceeds of one or more Equity Offerings, at a redemption price (expressed as a percentage of principal amount thereof) of 109.750%, plus accrued and unpaid interest, if any, to, but not including, the Redemption Date (subject to the right of Holders of record on the relevant Record Date to receive interest due on the relevant Interest Payment Date);
provided, however, that an aggregate principal amount of Notes equal to at least 65% of the original aggregate principal amount of Notes (including the principal amount of any Additional Notes) must remain outstanding after each such redemption.  The Company may make such redemption upon notice mailed by first-class mail to each Holder’s registered address in accordance with the Indenture (but in no event more than 180 days after the completion of the related Equity Offering).  The Company may provide in such notice that payment of the redemption price and performance of the Company’s obligations with respect to such redemption may be performed by another Person.  Any such notice may be given prior to the completion of the related
Equity Offering, and any such redemption or notice may, at the Company’s discretion, be subject to the satisfaction of one or more conditions precedent, including the completion of the related Equity Offering.


 


At any time prior to September 15, 2015, Notes may also be redeemed or purchased (by the Company or any other Person) in whole or in part, at the Company’s option, at a price equal to 100% of the principal amount thereof plus the Applicable Premium as of, and accrued but unpaid interest, if any, to, but not including, the Redemption Date (subject to the right of Holders of record on the relevant Record Date to receive interest due on the relevant Interest Payment Date).  Such redemption or purchase may be made upon notice mailed by first-class mail to each Holder’s registered address in accordance with the Indenture.  The Company may provide in such notice that payment of the
Redemption Price and performance of the Company’s obligations with respect to such redemption or purchase may be performed by another Person.  Any such redemption, purchase or notice may, at the Company’s discretion, be subject to the satisfaction of one or more conditions precedent, including but not limited to the occurrence of a Change of Control.


 


[The Notes will be subject to a Special Mandatory Redemption at 100% of the principal amount of the Notes plus accrued and unpaid interest on the principal amount of the Notes to, but not including, the date of the Special Mandatory Redemption in accordance with the applicable provisions of the Indenture].10


 


The Indenture provides that, upon the occurrence after the Issue Date of a Change of Control, each Holder will have the right to require that the Company repurchase all or any part of such Holder’s Notes at a purchase price in cash equal to 101% of the principal amount thereof plus accrued and unpaid interest, if any, to, but not including, the date of such repurchase (subject to the right of Holders of record on the relevant Record Date to receive interest due on the relevant Interest Payment Date); provided, however, that the Company shall not be obligated to repurchase Notes in the event it has
exercised its right to redeem all the Notes as described above.


 



 









  


	
  

	
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The Notes will not be entitled to the benefit of a sinking fund.


 


The Indenture contains provisions for defeasance at any time of the entire indebtedness of this Note or certain restrictive covenants and certain Events of Default with respect to this Note, in each case upon compliance with certain conditions set forth in the Indenture.


 


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


 


The Indenture permits, with certain exceptions as therein provided, the amendment thereof and the modification of the rights and obligations of the Company and the rights of the Holders of the Notes to be effected under the Indenture at any time by the Company and the Trustee with the consent of the Holders of at least a majority in principal amount of the Notes at the time Outstanding to be affected.  The Indenture also contains provisions permitting the Holders of specified percentages in principal amount of the Notes at the time Outstanding, on behalf of the Holders of all Notes, to waive compliance by the Company with certain provisions of the Indenture and certain past defaults under the Indenture and
their consequences.  Any such consent or waiver by the Holder of this Note shall be conclusive and binding upon such Holder and upon all future Holders of this Note and of any Note issued upon the registration of transfer hereof or in exchange herefor or in lieu hereof, whether or not notation of such consent or waiver is made upon this Note.


 


As provided in and subject to the provisions of the Indenture, the Holder of this Note shall not have the right to institute any proceeding with respect to the Indenture or for the appointment of a receiver or trustee or for any other remedy thereunder, unless such Holder shall have previously given the Trustee written notice of a continuing Event of Default with respect to the Notes, the Holders of not less than 30% in principal amount of the Notes at the time Outstanding shall have made written request to the Trustee to pursue such remedy in respect of such Event of Default as Trustee and offered the Trustee reasonable security or indemnity against any loss, liability or expense, and the Trustee shall not have
received from the Holders of a majority in principal amount of Notes at the time Outstanding a direction inconsistent with such request, and shall have failed to institute any such proceeding, for 60 days after receipt of such notice, request and offer of security or indemnity.  The foregoing shall not apply to any suit instituted by the Holder of this Note for the enforcement of any payment of principal hereof or any premium or interest hereon on or after the respective due dates expressed herein.


 


No reference herein to the Indenture and no provision of this Note or of the Indenture shall alter or impair the obligation of the Company, which is absolute and unconditional, to pay the principal of and any premium and interest on this Note at the times, place and rate, and in the coin or currency, herein prescribed.


 




  





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As provided in the Indenture and subject to certain limitations therein set forth, the transfer of this Note is registrable in the Note Register, upon surrender of this Note for registration of transfer at the office or agency of the Company in a Place of Payment, duly endorsed by, or accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Company and the Note Registrar duly executed by, the Holder hereof or such Holder’s attorney duly authorized in writing, and thereupon one or more new Notes of like tenor, of authorized denominations and for the same aggregate principal amount, will be issued to the designated transferee or transferees.


 


The Notes are issuable only in fully registered form without coupons in minimum denominations of $2,000 and any integral multiple of $l,000 in excess thereof.  As provided in the Indenture and subject to certain limitations therein set forth, the Notes are exchangeable for a like aggregate principal amount of Notes of like tenor of a different authorized denomination, as requested by the Holder surrendering the same.


 


No service charge shall be made for any such registration, transfer or exchange, but the Company may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any transfer tax or other governmental charge payable in connection therewith.


 


Prior to due presentment of this Note for registration or transfer, the Company, any other obligor in respect of this Note, the Trustee and any agent of the Company, such other obligor or the Trustee may treat the Person in whose name this Note is registered as the owner hereof for all purposes, whether or not this Note be overdue, and none of the Company, any other obligor upon this Note, the Trustee nor any such agent shall be affected by notice to the contrary.


 


No director, officer, employee, incorporator, equity holder, member or stockholder, as such, of the Company, any Guarantor or any Subsidiary of any thereof shall have any liability for any obligation of the Company or any Guarantor under the Indenture, the Notes or any Guarantee, or for any claim based on, in respect of, or by reason of, any such obligation or its creation.  Each Holder, by accepting this Note, hereby waives and releases all such liability.  The waiver and release are part of the consideration for issuance of the Notes.


 


THE INDENTURE AND THE NOTES SHALL BE GOVERNED BY AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK.  THE TRUSTEE, THE COMPANY, ANY OTHER OBLIGOR IN RESPECT OF THE NOTES AND (BY THEIR ACCEPTANCE OF THE NOTES) THE HOLDERS, AGREE TO SUBMIT TO THE JURISDICTION OF ANY UNITED STATES FEDERAL OR STATE COURT LOCATED IN THE BOROUGH OF MANHATTAN, IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK IN ANY ACTION OR PROCEEDING ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THE INDENTURE, THE NOTES OR THE GUARANTEES.


 






  





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GUARANTEE11


 


For value received, the undersigned hereby unconditionally guarantees, as principal obligor and not only as a surety, to the Holder of this Note the cash payments in United States dollars of principal of, premium, if any, and interest on this Note (and including Additional Interest payable thereon) in the amounts and at the times when due and interest on the overdue principal, premium, if any, and interest, if any, of this Note, if lawful, and the payment or performance of all other Obligations of the Company under the Indenture (as defined below) or the Note, to the Holder of this Note and the Trustee, all in accordance with and subject to the terms and limitations of this Note, Article XIII of the Indenture and
this Guarantee. This Guarantee will become effective in accordance with Article XIII of the Indenture and its terms shall be evidenced therein. The validity and enforceability of this Guarantee shall not be affected by the fact that it is not affixed to any particular Note.


 


Capitalized terms used but not defined herein shall have the meanings ascribed to them in the Indenture, dated as of October 3, 2011, between AE Escrow Corporation, a corporation organized under the laws of the State of Delaware (to be assumed by Avis Budget Car Rental, LLC and Avis Finance, Inc.) and to which the guarantors from time to time will become parties thereto and The Bank of Nova Scotia Trust Company of New York, as Trustee (as amended, supplemented or otherwise modified the “Indenture”).


 


THIS GUARANTEE SHALL BE GOVERNED BY AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK.  EACH GUARANTOR HEREBY AGREES TO SUBMIT TO THE JURISDICTION OF ANY UNITED STATES FEDERAL OR STATE COURT LOCATED IN THE BOROUGH OF MANHATTAN, IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK IN ANY ACTION OR PROCEEDING ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THIS GUARANTEE.


 


This Guarantee is subject to release upon the terms set forth  in the Indenture.


 


 









 





	
  

	
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AVIS BUDGET GROUP, INC.


 



By:  __________________________




	 	
Name:

	  
	 	
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AVIS BUDGET HOLDINGS, LLC


 



By:  __________________________




	 	
Name:

	  
	 	
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AB CAR RENTAL SERVICES, INC.


ARACS LLC


AVIS ASIA AND PACIFIC, LLC


AVIS CAR RENTAL GROUP, LLC


AVIS CARIBBEAN, LIMITED


AVIS ENTERPRISES, INC.


AVIS GROUP HOLDINGS, LLC


AVIS INTERNATIONAL, LTD.


AVIS OPERATIONS, LLC


AVIS RENT A CAR SYSTEM, LLC


PF CLAIMS MANAGEMENT, LTD.


PR HOLDCO, INC.


WIZARD CO., INC.


WIZARD SERVICES, INC.


 



By:  __________________________




	 	
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Title:

	  











  





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BGI LEASING, INC.


BUDGET RENT A CAR SYSTEM, INC.


BUDGET RENT A CAR LICENSOR, LLC


BUDGET TRUCK RENTAL LLC


RUNABOUT, LLC


 



By:  __________________________




	 	
Name:

	  
	 	
Title:

	  











  





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