Document:

EX-4.3

 

Exhibit 4.3

 

AMENDED AND RESTATED

TRUST AGREEMENT

among

M&T BANK CORPORATION,

as Depositor

THE BANK OF NEW YORK,

as Property Trustee

and

BNYM (DELAWARE),

as Delaware Trustee

 

Dated as of January 31, 2008

 

M&T CAPITAL TRUST IV

 

 

 

Certain Sections of this Trust Agreement relating to

Sections 310 through 318 of the

Trust Indenture Act of 1939:

	 	 	 	 	 
	Trust Indenture	 	 	 	Trust Agreement
	   Act Section	 	 	Section
	Section 310
	 	(a)(1)	 	8.7
	 
	 	(a)(2)	 	8.7
	 
	 	(a)(3)	 	8.9
	 
	 	(a)(4)	 	2.7(a)(ii)
	 
	 	(b)	 	8.8, 10.10(b)
	Section 311
	 	(a)	 	13, 10.10(b)
	Section 312
	 	(a)	 	10.10(b)
	 
	 	(b)	 	10.10(b), (f)
	 
	 	(c)	 	5.7
	Section 313
	 	(a)	 	8.15(a)
	 
	 	(a)(4)	 	10.10(c)
	 
	 	(b)	 	8.15(c), 10.10(c)
	 
	 	(c)	 	10.8, 10.10(c)
	 
	 	(d)	 	10.10(c)
	Section 314
	 	(a)	 	8.16, 10.10(d)
	 
	 	(b)	 	Not Applicable
	 
	 	(c)(1)	 	8.17, 10.10(d), (e)
	 
	 	(c)(2)	 	8.17, 10.10(d), (e)
	 
	 	(c)(3)	 	8.17, 10.10(d), (e)
	 
	 	(e)	 	8.17, 10.10(e)
	Section 315
	 	(a)	 	8.1(d)
	 
	 	(b)	 	8.2
	 
	 	(c)	 	8.1(c)
	 
	 	(d)	 	8.1(d)
	 
	 	(e)	 	Not Applicable
	Section 316
	 	(a)	 	Not Applicable
	 
	 	(a)(1)(A)	 	Not Applicable
	 
	 	(a)(1)(B)	 	Not Applicable
	 
	 	(a)(2)	 	Not Applicable
	 
	 	(b)	 	5.13
	 
	 	(c)	 	6.7
	Section 317
	 	(a)(1)	 	Not Applicable
	 
	 	(a)(2)	 	8.14
	 
	 	(b)	 	5.10
	Section 318
	 	(a)	 	10.10(a)

	Note: This reconciliation and tie shall not, for any purpose, be deemed to be a part of the Trust
Agreement.

 

 

TABLE OF CONTENTS

	 	 	 	 	 
	 	 	Page	 
	ARTICLE I
	 	 	 	 
	 
	 	 	 	 
	DEFINED TERMS
	 	 	 	 
	 
	 	 	 	 
	Section 1.1. Definitions 
	 	 	1	 
	 
	 	 	 	 
	ARTICLE II
	 	 	 	 
	 
	 	 	 	 
	CONTINUATION OF THE ISSUER TRUST
	 	 	 	 
	 
	 	 	 	 
	Section 2.1. Name
	 	 	11	 
	Section 2.2. Office of the Delaware Trustee; Principal Place of Business
	 	 	12	 
	Section 2.3. Initial Contribution of Trust Property; Organizational Expenses
	 	 	12	 
	Section 2.4. Issuance of the Capital Securities
	 	 	12	 
	Section 2.5. Issuance of the Common Securities; Subscription and Purchase of Junior
Subordinated Debentures
	 	 	12	 
	Section 2.6. Declaration of Trust
	 	 	13	 
	Section 2.7. Authorization to Enter into Certain Transactions
	 	 	13	 
	Section 2.8. Assets of Trust
	 	 	17	 
	Section 2.9. Title to Trust Property
	 	 	17	 
	 
	 	 	 	 
	ARTICLE III
	 	 	 	 
	 
	 	 	 	 
	PAYMENT ACCOUNT
	 	 	 	 
	 
	 	 	 	 
	Section 3.1. Payment Account
	 	 	17	 
	 
	ARTICLE IV
	 	 	17	 
	 
	 	 	 	 
	DISTRIBUTIONS; REDEMPTION
	 	 	 	 
	 
	Section 4.1. Distributions
	 	 	17	 
	Section 4.2. Redemption
	 	 	18	 
	Section 4.3. Subordination of Common Securities
	 	 	20	 
	Section 4.4. Payment Procedures
	 	 	21	 
	Section 4.5. Tax Returns and Reports
	 	 	21	 
	Section 4.6. Payment of Taxes; Duties, Etc. of the Issuer Trust
	 	 	22	 
	Section 4.7. Payments under Indenture or Pursuant to Direct Actions
	 	 	22	 
	Section 4.8. Liability of the Holder of Common Securities
	 	 	22	 
	 
	 	 	 	 
	ARTICLE V
	 	 	 	 
	 
	 	 	 	 
	TRUST SECURITIES CERTIFICATES
	 	 	 	 
	 
	 	 	 	 
	Section 5.1. Initial Ownership
	 	 	22	 
	Section 5.2. The Trust Securities Certificates
	 	 	22	 

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	Section 5.3. Execution and Delivery of Trust Securities Certificates
	 	 	23	 
	Section 5.4. Global Capital Security
	 	 	23	 
	Section 5.5. Registration of Transfer and Exchange Generally; Certain Transfers and
Exchanges; Capital Securities Certificates
	 	 	24	 
	Section 5.6. Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost or Stolen Trust Securities Certificates
	 	 	26	 
	Section 5.7. Persons Deemed Holders
	 	 	26	 
	Section 5.8. Access to List of Holders’ Names and Addresses
	 	 	26	 
	Section 5.9. Maintenance of Office or Agency
	 	 	26	 
	Section 5.10. Appointment of Paying Agent
	 	 	27	 
	Section 5.11. Ownership of Common Securities by Depositor
	 	 	27	 
	Section 5.12. Notices to Clearing Agency
	 	 	27	 
	Section 5.13. Rights of Holders
	 	 	28	 
	 
	 	 	 	 
	ARTICLE VI
	 	 	 	 
	 
	 	 	 	 
	ACTS OF HOLDERS; MEETINGS; VOTING
	 	 	 	 
	 
	 	 	 	 
	Section 6.1. Limitations on Holder’s Voting Rights
	 	 	30	 
	Section 6.2. Notice of Meetings
	 	 	31	 
	Section 6.3. Meetings of Holders
	 	 	31	 
	Section 6.4. Voting Rights
	 	 	31	 
	Section 6.5. Proxies, etc
	 	 	31	 
	Section 6.6. Holder Action by Written Consent
	 	 	32	 
	Section 6.7. Record Date for Voting and Other Purposes
	 	 	32	 
	Section 6.8. Acts of Holders
	 	 	32	 
	Section 6.9. Inspection of Records
	 	 	33	 
	 
	 	 	 	 
	ARTICLE VII
	 	 	 	 
	 
	 	 	 	 
	REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES
	 	 	 	 
	 
	 	 	 	 
	Section 7.1. Representations and Warranties of the Property Trustee
and the Delaware Trustee
	 	 	33	 
	Section 7.2. Representations and Warranties of the Depositor
	 	 	34	 
	 
	 	 	 	 
	ARTICLE VIII
	 	 	 	 
	 
	 	 	 	 
	THE ISSUER TRUSTEES; THE ADMINISTRATORS
	 	 	 	 
	 
	 	 	 	 
	Section 8.1. Certain Duties and Responsibilities
	 	 	35	 
	Section 8.2. Certain Notices
	 	 	37	 
	Section 8.3. Certain Rights of Property Trustee
	 	 	37	 
	Section 8.4. Not Responsible for Recitals or Issuance of Securities
	 	 	39	 
	Section 8.5. May Hold Securities
	 	 	39	 
	Section 8.6. Compensation; Indemnity; Fees
	 	 	39	 

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	Section 8.7. Corporate Property Trustee Required; Eligibility of Trustees and
Administrators
	 	 	40	 
	Section 8.8. Conflicting Interests
	 	 	41	 
	Section 8.9. Co–Trustees and Separate Trustee
	 	 	41	 
	Section 8.10. Resignation and Removal; Appointment of Successor
	 	 	42	 
	Section 8.11. Acceptance of Appointment by Successor
	 	 	43	 
	Section 8.12. Merger, Conversion, Consolidation or Succession to Business
	 	 	44	 
	Section 8.13. Preferential Collection of Claims Against Depositor or Issuer Trust
	 	 	44	 
	Section 8.14. Trustee May File Proofs of Claim
	 	 	44	 
	Section 8.15. Reports by Property Trustee
	 	 	45	 
	Section 8.16. Reports to the Property Trustee
	 	 	46	 
	Section 8.17. Evidence of Compliance with Conditions Precedent
	 	 	46	 
	Section 8.18. Number of Issuer Trustees
	 	 	46	 
	Section 8.19. Delegation of Power
	 	 	46	 
	Section 8.20. Appointment of Administrators
	 	 	47	 
	 
	 	 	 	 
	ARTICLE IX
	 	 	 	 
	 
	 	 	 	 
	DISSOLUTION, LIQUIDATION AND MERGER
	 	 	 	 
	 
	 	 	 	 
	Section 9.1. Dissolution Upon Expiration Date
	 	 	47	 
	Section 9.2. Early Dissolution
	 	 	47	 
	Section 9.3. Termination
	 	 	48	 
	Section 9.4. Liquidation
	 	 	48	 
	Section 9.5. Mergers, Consolidations, Amalgamations or Replacements of the Issuer Trust
	 	 	50	 
	 
	 	 	 	 
	ARTICLE X
	 	 	 	 
	 
	 	 	 	 
	MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS
	 	 	 	 
	 
	 	 	 	 
	Section 10.1. Limitation of Rights of Holders
	 	 	51	 
	Section 10.2. Amendment
	 	 	51	 
	Section 10.3. Separability
	 	 	52	 
	Section 10.4. Governing Law
	 	 	52	 
	Section 10.5. Payments Due on Non–Business Day
	 	 	53	 
	Section 10.6. Successors
	 	 	53	 
	Section 10.7. Headings
	 	 	53	 
	Section 10.8. Reports, Notices and Demands
	 	 	53	 
	Section 10.9. Tax Treatment of the Junior Subordinated Debentures
	 	 	54	 
	Section 10.10. Agreement Not to Petition
	 	 	54	 
	Section 10.11. Trust Indenture Act; Conflict with Trust Indenture Act
	 	 	54	 
	Section 10.12. Acceptance of Terms of Trust Agreement, Guarantee and Indenture
	 	 	55	 
	Section 10.13. Waiver of Jury Trial
	 	 	56	 
	Section 10.14. Force Majeure
	 	 	56	 

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	Exhibit A            Certificate of Trust
	 	 	 	 
	Exhibit B            Form of Capital Securities Certificate
	 	 	 	 
	Exhibit C            Form of Common Securities Certificate
	 	 	 	 
	Exhibit D            Form of Expense Agreement
	 	 	 	 

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AGREEMENT

     Amended And Restated Trust Agreement, dated as of January 31, 2008, among (a) M&T
Bank Corporation, a New York corporation (including any successors or assigns, the
“Depositor”), (b) The Bank of New York, a New York banking corporation, as property
trustee (in such capacity, the “Property Trustee” and, in its separate corporate capacity and not
in its capacity as Property Trustee, the “Bank”), (c) BNYM (Delaware), a Delaware banking
corporation, as Delaware trustee (the “Delaware Trustee”) (the Property Trustee and the Delaware
Trustee are referred to collectively herein as the “Issuer Trustees”) and (d) the several Holders,
as hereinafter defined.

WITNESSETH:

     WHEREAS, the Depositor and the Delaware Trustee have heretofore duly declared and established
a statutory trust pursuant to the Delaware Statutory Trust Act by the entering into a certain Trust
Agreement, dated as of July 7, 2003 (the “Original Trust Agreement”), and by the execution and
filing by the Delaware Trustee with the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware of the
Certificate of Trust, filed on July 7, 2003 (the “Certificate of Trust”), a copy of which is
attached hereto as Exhibit A; and

     WHEREAS, the Depositor and the Delaware Trustee desire to amend and restate the Original Trust
Agreement in its entirety as set forth herein to provide for, among other things, (a) the issuance
of the Common Securities by the Issuer Trust to the Depositor, (b) the issuance and sale of the
Capital Securities by the Issuer Trust pursuant to the Underwriting Agreement, (c) the acquisition
by the Issuer Trust from the Depositor of all of the right, title and interest in the Junior
Subordinated Debentures and (d) the appointment of the Administrators and the Property Trustee.

     NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the agreements and obligations set forth herein and for
other good and valuable consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which are hereby
acknowledged, each party, for the benefit of the other parties and for the benefit of the Holders,
hereby amends and restates the Original Trust Agreement in its entirety and agrees, intending to be
legally bound, as follows:

ARTICLE I

DEFINED TERMS

Section 1.1. Definitions

     For all purposes of this Trust Agreement, except as otherwise expressly provided or unless the
context otherwise requires:

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

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

     (c) the words “include,” “includes” and “including” shall be deemed to be followed by the
phrase “without limitation”;

     (d) all accounting terms used but not defined herein have the meanings assigned to them in
accordance with United States generally accepted accounting principles as in effect at the time of
computation;

     (e) unless the context otherwise requires, any reference to an “Article”, a “Section” or an
“Exhibit” refers to an Article or a Section or an Exhibit, as the case may be, of this Trust
Agreement; and

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

     “Act” has the meaning specified in Section 6.8.

     “Additional Amount” means, with respect to Trust Securities of a given Liquidation Amount
and/or for a given period, the amount of Additional Interest (as defined in the Indenture) paid by
the Depositor on a Like Amount of Junior Subordinated Debentures for such period.

     “Additional Sums” has the meaning specified in Section 10.6 of the Indenture.

     “Administrators” means each Person appointed in accordance with Section 8.20 solely in such
Person’s capacity as Administrator of the Issuer Trust heretofore formed and continued hereunder
and not in such Person’s individual capacity, or any successor Administrator appointed as herein
provided; with the initial Administrators being Randall A. Krolewicz and Brian R. Yoshida.

     “Affiliate” of any specified Person means any other Person directly or indirectly controlling
or controlled by or under direct or indirect common control with such specified Person. For the
purposes of this definition, “control” when used with respect to any specified Person means the
power to direct the management and policies of such Person, directly or indirectly, whether through
the ownership of voting securities, by contract or otherwise; and the terms “controlling” and
“controlled” have meanings correlative to the foregoing.

     “Applicable Procedures” means, with respect to any transfer or transaction involving a Global
Capital Security or beneficial interest therein, the rules and procedures of the Clearing Agency
for such Global Capital Security, in each case to the extent applicable to such transaction and as
in effect from time to time.

     “Bank” has the meaning specified in the preamble to this Trust Agreement.

     “Bankruptcy Event” means, with respect to any Person:

     (a) the entry of a decree or order by a court having jurisdiction in the premises judging such
Person a bankrupt or insolvent, or approving as properly filed a petition seeking 

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reorganization,
arrangement, adjudication or composition of or in respect of such Person under any applicable
federal or state bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or other similar law, or appointing a
receiver, liquidator, assignee, trustee, sequestrator (or other similar official) of such
Person or of any substantial part of its property or ordering the winding up or liquidation of
its affairs, and the continuance of any such decree or order unstayed and in effect for a period
of 60 consecutive days; or

     (b) the institution by such Person of proceedings to be adjudicated a bankrupt or insolvent,
or the consent by it to the institution of bankruptcy or insolvency proceedings against it, or the
filing by it of a petition or answer or consent seeking reorganization or relief under any
applicable federal or State bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or other similar law, or the
consent by it to the filing of any such petition or to the appointment of a receiver, liquidator,
assignee, trustee, sequestrator (or similar official) of such Person or of any substantial part of
its property or the making by it of an assignment for the benefit of creditors, or the admission by
it in writing of its inability to pay its debts generally as they become due and its willingness to
be adjudicated a bankrupt, or the taking of corporate action by such Person in furtherance of any
such action.

     “Bankruptcy Laws” has the meaning specified in Section 10.9.

     “Board of Directors” means the board of directors of the Depositor or the Executive Committee
of the board of directors of the Depositor (or any other committee of the board of directors of the
Depositor performing similar functions) or, for purposes of this Trust Agreement a committee
designated by the board of directors of the Depositor (or any such committee), comprised of two or
more members of the board of directors of the Depositor or officers of the Depositor, or both.

     “Board Resolution” means a copy of a resolution certified by the Secretary or an Assistant
Secretary of the Depositor to have been duly adopted by the Depositor’s Board of Directors, or such
committee of the Board of Directors or officers of the Depositor to which authority to act on
behalf of the Board of Directors has been delegated, and to be in full force and effect on the date
of such certification, and delivered to the Issuer Trustees.

     “Business Day” means a day other than (a) a Saturday or Sunday, (b) a day on which banking
institutions in the City of Buffalo, New York or in the City of New York, are authorized or
required by law or executive order to remain closed or (c) a day on which the Property Trustee’s
Corporate Trust Office or the Delaware Trustee’s Corporate Trust Office or the Corporate Trust
Office of the Debenture Trustee is closed for business.

     “Capital Securities Certificate” means a certificate evidencing ownership of Capital
Securities, substantially in the form attached hereto as Exhibit B.

     “Capital Security” means a preferred undivided beneficial interest in the assets of the Issuer
Trust, having a Liquidation Amount of $25 and having the rights provided therefor in this Trust
Agreement, including the right to receive Distributions and a Liquidation Distribution as provided
herein.

     “Capital Treatment Event” means, in respect of the Issuer Trust, the reasonable determination
by the Depositor that, as a result of the occurrence of any amendment to, or change

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(including any announced prospective change) in, the laws (or any rules or regulations thereunder) of the United
States or any political subdivision thereof or therein, or as a result of any official or
administrative pronouncement or action or judicial decision interpreting or
applying such laws or regulations, which amendment or change is effective or such
pronouncement, action or decision is announced on or after the date of the issuance of the Capital
Securities of the Issuer Trust, there is more than an insubstantial risk that the Depositor will
not be entitled to treat an amount equal to the Liquidation Amount of such Capital Securities as
“Tier 1 Capital” (or the then equivalent thereof), for purposes of the risk–based capital adequacy
guidelines of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System or the New York State Banking
Department, as then in effect and applicable to the Depositor.

     “Cede” means Cede & Co.

     “Certificate Depositary Agreement” means the Issuer Letter of Representations between the
Issuer Trust, the Depositor and the Depositary, as the initial Clearing Agency, dated as of the
Closing Date.

     “Certificate of Trust” has the meaning specified in the preamble to this Trust Agreement.

     “Clearing Agency” means an organization registered as a “clearing agency” pursuant to
Section 17A of the Exchange Act. The Depositary shall be the initial Clearing Agency.

     “Clearing Agency Participant” means a broker, dealer, bank, other financial institution or
other Person for whom from time to time a Clearing Agency effects book–entry transfers and pledges
of securities deposited with the Clearing Agency.

     “Closing Date” means the Time of Delivery, which date is also the date of execution and
delivery of this Trust Agreement.

     “Code” means the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended or any successor statute, in each
case as amended from time to time.

     “Commission” means the Securities and Exchange Commission, as from time to time constituted,
created under the Exchange Act or, if at any time after the execution of this instrument such
Commission is not existing and performing the duties now assigned to it under the Trust Indenture
Act, then the body performing such duties at such time.

     “Common Securities Certificate” means a certificate evidencing ownership of Common Securities,
substantially in the form attached hereto as Exhibit C.

     “Common Security” means an undivided beneficial interest in the assets of the Issuer Trust,
having a Liquidation Amount of $25 and having the rights provided therefor in this Trust Agreement,
including the right to receive Distributions and a Liquidation Distribution as provided herein.

     “Corporate Trust Office” means (i) with respect to the Property Trustee or the Debenture
Trustee, the principal office of the Property Trustee located in the City of New York, New York,
which at the time of the execution of this Trust Agreement is located at The Bank of New York, 101
Barclay Street, New York, New York 10286, Attention: Corporate Trust Administration; and (ii) with
respect to the Delaware Trustee, the principal office of the Delaware Trustee located in

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Newark, Delaware, which at the time of the execution of this Trust Agreement is located at 100 White Clay
Center Drive, Route 273, P.O. Box 6995, Newark, Delaware 19711; Attention: Corporate Trust
Administration.

     “Debenture Event of Default” means an “Event of Default” as defined in the Indenture.

     “Debenture Redemption Date” means, with respect to any Junior Subordinated Debentures to be
redeemed under the Indenture, the date fixed for redemption of such Junior Subordinated Debentures
under the Indenture.

     “Debenture Trustee” means The Bank of New York, a New York banking corporation and any
successor, as trustee under the Indenture.

     “Delaware Statutory Trust Act” means Chapter 38 of Title 12 of the Delaware Code, 12 Del. C.
3801, et seq., as it may be amended from time to time.

     “Delaware Trustee” means the corporation identified as the “Delaware Trustee” in the preamble
to this Trust Agreement solely in its capacity as Delaware Trustee of the Issuer Trust continued
hereunder and not in its individual capacity, or its successor in interest in such capacity, or any
successor trustee appointed as herein provided.

     “Depositary” means The Depository Trust Company or any successor thereto.

     “Depositor” has the meaning specified in the preamble to this Trust Agreement.

     “Direct Action” has the meaning specified in Section 5.13(c).

     “Distribution Date” has the meaning specified in Section 4.1(a).

     “Distribution Period” means the period beginning on and including January 31, 2008 and ending
on but excluding the first Distribution Date, and each period after that period beginning on and
including a Distribution Date and ending on but excluding the next Distribution Date.

     “Distributions” means amounts payable in respect of the Trust Securities as provided in
Section 4.1.

     “Early Dissolution Event” has the meaning specified in Section 9.2.

     “Event of Default” 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) the occurrence of a Debenture Event of Default;

     (b) default by the Issuer Trust in the payment of any Distribution when it becomes due and
payable, and continuation of such default for a period of 30 days;

     (c) default by the Issuer Trust in the payment of any Redemption Price of any Trust Security
when it becomes due and payable;

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     (d) default in the performance, or breach, in any material respect, of any covenant or
warranty of the Issuer Trustees in this Trust Agreement (other than a covenant or warranty a
default in the performance of which or the breach of which is dealt with in clause (b) or (c)
above) and continuation of such default or breach for a period of 60 days after there has been
given, by registered or certified mail, to the Issuer Trustees and the Depositor by the Holders of
at least 25% in aggregate Liquidation Amount of the Outstanding Capital Securities, a written
notice specifying such default or breach and requiring it to be remedied and stating that such
notice is a “Notice of Default” hereunder; or

     (e) the occurrence of any Bankruptcy Event with respect to the Property Trustee of all or
substantially all of its property if a successor Property Trustee has not been appointed within a
period of 60 days thereof.

     “Exchange Act” shall mean the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and any successor
statute thereto, in each case as amended from time to time.

     “Expense Agreement” means the Agreement as to Expenses and Liabilities, dated as of the date
hereof, between the Depositor and the Issuer Trust, substantially in the form Attached as Exhibit
D.

     “Expiration Date” has the meaning specified in Section 9.1.

     “Federal Reserve Board” means the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, together
with the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, New York, or any successor federal bank regulatory
agency having primary jurisdiction over the Company.

     “Global Capital Securities Certificate” means a Capital Securities Certificate evidencing
ownership of Global Capital Securities.

     “Global Capital Security” means a Capital Security, the ownership and transfers of which shall
be made through book entries by a Clearing Agency as described in Section 5.4.

     “Guarantee Agreement” means the Guarantee Agreement executed and delivered by the Depositor
and The Bank of New York, as guarantee trustee, contemporaneously with the execution and delivery
of this Trust Agreement, for the benefit of the Holders of the Capital Securities, as amended from
time to time.

     “Holder” means a Person in whose name a Trust Security or Trust Securities are registered in
the Securities Register; any such Person shall be deemed to be a beneficial owner within the
meaning of the Delaware Statutory Trust Act.

     “Indemnified Person” has the meaning specified in Section 8.6(c).

     “Indenture” means the Junior Subordinated Indenture, dated as of January 31, 2008 between the
Depositor and the Debenture Trustee (as amended or supplemented from time to time) relating to the
issuance of the Junior Subordinated Debentures.

     “Investment Company Act” means the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended or any successor
statute, in each case as amended from time to time.

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     “Investment Company Event” means the receipt by the Issuer Trust of an Opinion of Counsel
experienced in such matters to the effect that, as a result of the occurrence of a change in law or
regulation or a written change (including any announced prospective change) in
interpretation or application of law or regulation by any legislative body, court,
governmental agency or regulatory authority, there is more than an insubstantial risk that the
Issuer Trust is or will be considered an “investment company” that is required to be registered
under the Investment Company Act, which change or prospective change becomes effective or would
become effective, as the case may be, on or after the date of the issuance of the Capital
Securities.

     “Issuer Trust” means M&T Capital Trust IV, a Delaware statutory trust.

     “Issuer Trustees” means, collectively, the Property Trustee and the Delaware Trustee.

     “Junior Subordinated Debentures” means the aggregate principal amount of the Depositor’s
junior subordinated deferrable interest debentures, due January 31, 2068.

     “Lien” means any lien, pledge, charge, encumbrance, mortgage, deed of trust, adverse ownership
interest, hypothecation, assignment, security interest or preference, priority or other security
agreement or preferential arrangement of any kind or nature whatsoever.

     “Like Amount” means (a) with respect to a redemption of Trust Securities, Trust Securities
having a Liquidation Amount equal to that portion of the principal amount of Junior Subordinated
Debentures to be contemporaneously redeemed in accordance with the Indenture, allocated to the
Common Securities and to the Capital Securities based upon the relative Liquidation Amounts of such
classes and (b) with respect to a distribution of Junior Subordinated Debentures to Holders of
Trust Securities in connection with a dissolution or liquidation of the Issuer Trust, Junior
Subordinated Debentures having a principal amount equal to the Liquidation Amount of the Trust
Securities of the Holder to whom such Junior Subordinated Debentures are distributed.

     “Liquidation Amount” means the stated amount of $25 per Trust Security.

     “Liquidation Date” means the date on which Junior Subordinated Debentures or the Liquidation
Distributions are to be distributed to Holders of Trust Securities in connection with a dissolution
and liquidation of the Issuer Trust pursuant to Section 9.4.

     “Liquidation Distribution” has the meaning specified in Section 9.4(d).

     “Majority in Liquidation Amount of the Capital Securities” or “Majority in Liquidation Amount
of the Common Securities” means, except as provided by the Trust Indenture Act, Capital Securities
or Common Securities, as the case may be, representing more than 50% of the aggregate Liquidation
Amount of all then Outstanding Capital Securities or Common Securities, as the case may be.

     “Officers’ Certificate” means a certificate signed by the Chairman of the Board, Chief
Executive Officer, President or a Vice President and by the Chief Financial Officer, Treasurer, an
Associate Treasurer, an Assistant Treasurer, the Secretary, or an Assistant Secretary, of the
Depositor, and delivered to the Issuer Trustees. Any Officers’ Certificate delivered with respect
to compliance with a condition or covenant provided for in this Trust Agreement shall include:

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     (a) a statement by each officer signing the Officers’ Certificate that such officer has read
the covenant or condition and the definitions relating thereto;

     (b) a brief statement of the nature and scope of the examination or investigation undertaken
by such officer in rendering the Officers’ Certificate;

     (c) a statement that such officer has made such examination or investigation as, in such
officer’s opinion, is necessary to enable such officer to express an informed opinion as to whether
or not such covenant or condition has been complied with; and

     (d) a statement as to whether, in the opinion of each such officer, such condition or covenant
has been complied with.

     “Opinion of Counsel” means a written opinion of counsel, who may be counsel for or an employee
of the Depositor or an Affiliate of the Depositor.

     “Original Trust Agreement” has the meaning specified in the preamble to this Trust Agreement.

     “Outstanding,” with respect to Trust Securities, means, as of the date of determination, all
Trust Securities theretofore executed and delivered under this Trust Agreement, except:

     (a) Trust Securities theretofore canceled by the Property Trustee or delivered to the Property
Trustee for cancellation;

     (b) Trust Securities for whose payment or redemption money in the necessary amount has been
theretofore deposited with the Property Trustee or any Paying Agent for the Holders of such Capital
Securities, provided that if such Trust Securities are to be redeemed, notice of such redemption
has been duly given pursuant to this Trust Agreement; and

     (c) Trust Securities which have been paid or in exchange for or in lieu of which other Trust
Securities have been executed and delivered pursuant to Sections 5.4, 5.5 and 5.6; provided,
however, that in determining whether the Holders of the requisite Liquidation Amount of the
Outstanding Capital Securities have given any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice,
consent or waiver hereunder, Capital Securities owned by the Depositor, any Issuer Trustee, any
Administrator or any Affiliate of the Depositor shall be disregarded and deemed not to be
Outstanding, except that (i) in determining whether any Issuer Trustee shall be protected in
relying upon any such request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent or waiver, only
Capital Securities that a Responsible Officer of such Issuer Trustee or such Administrator, as the
case may be, actually knows to be so owned shall be so disregarded and (ii) the foregoing shall not
apply at any time when all of the outstanding Capital Securities are owned by the Depositor, one or
more of the Issuer Trustees, one or more of the Administrators and/or any such Affiliate. Capital
Securities so owned which have been pledged in good faith may be regarded as Outstanding if the
pledgee establishes to the satisfaction of the Administrators the pledgee’s right so to act with
respect to such Capital Securities and that the pledgee is not the Depositor or any Affiliate of
the Depositor.

     “Owner” means each Person who is the beneficial owner of Global Capital Securities as
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Owner, then as reflected in the records of a Person maintaining an account with such Clearing
Agency, directly or indirectly, in accordance with the rules of such Clearing Agency.

     “Paying Agent” means any paying agent or co–paying agent appointed pursuant to Section 5.10
and shall initially be the Property Trustee.

     “Payment Account” means a segregated non–interest–bearing corporate trust account maintained
by the Property Trustee in its trust department for the benefit of the Holders in which all amounts
paid in respect of the Junior Subordinated Debentures will be held and from which the Property
Trustee, through the Paying Agent, shall make payments to the Holders in accordance with
Sections 4.1 and 4.2.

     “Person” means a legal person, including any individual, corporation, estate, partnership,
joint venture, association, joint stock company, company, limited liability company, trust,
unincorporated organization or government or any agency or political subdivision thereof, or any
other entity of whatever nature.

     “Property Trustee” means the Person identified as the “Property Trustee” in the preamble to
this Trust Agreement solely in its capacity as Property Trustee of the Issuer Trust continued
hereunder and not in its individual capacity, or its successor in interest in such capacity, or any
successor property trustee appointed as herein provided.

     “Prospectus” means the final prospectus covering the Capital Securities, the Junior
Subordinated Debentures and the guarantee of the Depositor set forth in the Guarantee Agreement.

     “Redemption Date” means, with respect to any Trust Security to be redeemed, the date fixed for
such redemption by or pursuant to this Trust Agreement; provided that each Debenture Redemption
Date and the stated maturity of the Junior Subordinated Debentures shall be a Redemption Date for a
Like Amount of Trust Securities, including but not limited to any date of redemption pursuant to
the occurrence of any Special Event.

     “Redemption Price” means with respect to a redemption of any Trust Security, the Liquidation
Amount of such Trust Security, together with accumulated but unpaid Distributions to but excluding
the date fixed for redemption, plus the related amount of the premium, if any, paid by the
Depositor upon the concurrent redemption of a Like Amount of Junior Subordinated Debentures.

     “Relevant Trustee” has the meaning specified in Section 8.10.

     “Responsible Officer” when used with respect to the Property Trustee means any officer
assigned to the Corporate Trust Office, including any managing director, principal, vice president,
assistant vice president, assistant treasurer, assistant secretary or any other officer of the
Property Trustee customarily performing functions similar to those performed by any of the above
designated officers and having direct responsibility for the administration of this Trust
Agreement, and also, with respect to a particular matter, any other officer to whom such matter is
referred because of such officer’s knowledge of and familiarity with the particular subject.

     “Securities Act” means the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and any successor statute
thereto, in each case as amended from time to time.

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     “Securities Register” and “Securities Registrar” have the respective meanings specified in
Section 5.5.

     “Senior Indebtedness” has the meaning specified in the Indenture.

     “Special Event” means any Tax Event, Capital Treatment Event or Investment Company Event.

     “Successor Capital Securities Certificate” of any particular Capital Securities Certificate
means every Capital Securities Certificate issued after, and evidencing all or a portion of the
same beneficial interest in the Issuer Trust as that evidenced by, such particular Capital
Securities Certificate; and, for the purposes of this definition, any Capital Securities
Certificate executed and delivered under Section 5.6 in exchange for or in lieu of a mutilated,
destroyed, lost or stolen Capital Securities Certificate shall be deemed to evidence the same
beneficial interest in the Issuer Trust as the mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Capital
Securities Certificate.

     “Successor Capital Security” has the meaning specified in Section 9.5.

     “Tax Event” means the receipt by the Issuer Trust of an Opinion of Counsel experienced in such
matters, to the following effect, that as a result of any amendment to or change, including any
announced prospective change, in the laws or any regulations under the laws of the United States or
any political subdivision or taxing authority of or in the United States, if the amendment or
change is enacted, promulgated or announced on or after the date the Capital Securities are issued,
or as a result of any official administrative pronouncement, including any private letter ruling,
technical advice memorandum, field service advice, regulatory procedure, notice or announcement,
including any notice or announcement of intent to adopt any procedures or regulations, or any
judicial decision interpreting or applying such laws or regulations, whether or not the
pronouncement or decision is issued to or in connection with a proceeding involving the Depositor
or the Issuer Trust or is subject to review or appeal, if the pronouncement or decision is enacted,
promulgated or announced on or after the date of issuance of the Capital Securities, there is more
than an insubstantial risk that (a) the Issuer Trust is, or will be within 90 days of the delivery
of such Opinion of Counsel, subject to United States federal income tax with respect to income
received or accrued on the Junior Subordinated Debentures, (b) interest payable by the Depositor on
the Junior Subordinated Debentures is not, or within 90 days of the delivery of such Opinion of
Counsel will not be, deductible by the Depositor, in whole or in part, for United States federal
income tax purposes, or (c) the Issuer Trust is, or will be within 90 days of the delivery of such
Opinion of Counsel, subject to more than a de minimis amount of other taxes, duties or other
governmental charges.

     “Time of Delivery” has the meaning specified in the Underwriting Agreement.

     “Treasury Rate” means (i) the yield, under the heading which represents the average for the
week immediately prior to the calculation date, appearing in the most recently published
statistical release designated “H.15 (519)” or any successor publication which is published weekly
by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and which establishes yields on actively
traded United States Treasury securities adjusted to constant maturity under the caption “Treasury
Constant Maturities,” for the maturity corresponding to the Remaining Life (if no maturity is
within three months before or after the Remaining Life, yields for the two published maturities
most closely corresponding to the Remaining Life shall be determined and the

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Treasury Rate shall be interpolated or extrapolated from such yields on a straight-line basis, rounding to the nearest
month) or (ii) if such release (or any successor release) is not published during the week
preceding the calculation date or does not contain such yields, the rate per annum
equal to the semi-annual equivalent yield to maturity of the Comparable Treasury Issue,
calculated using a price for the Comparable Treasury Issue (expressed as a percentage of its
principal amount) equal to the Comparable Treasury Price for such Redemption Date. The Treasury
Rate shall be calculated on the third Business Day preceding the Redemption Date.

     “Trust Agreement” means this Amended and Restated Trust Agreement, as the same may be
modified, amended or supplemented in accordance with the applicable provisions hereof, including
(a) all Exhibits hereto, and (b) for all purposes of this Amended and Restated Trust Agreement and
any such modification, amendment or supplement, the provisions of the Trust Indenture Act that are
deemed to be a part of and govern this Amended and Restated Trust Agreement and any modification,
amendment or supplement, respectively.

     “Trust Indenture Act” means the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, as amended by the Trust Indenture
Reform Act of 1990, or any successor statute, in each case as amended from time to time.

     “Trust Property” means (a) the Junior Subordinated Debentures, (b) any cash on deposit in, or
owing to, the Payment Account, and (c) all proceeds and rights in respect of the foregoing and any
other property and assets for the time being held or deemed to be held by the Property Trustee
pursuant to the trusts of this Trust Agreement.

     “Trust Securities Certificate” means any one of the Common Securities Certificates or the
Capital Securities Certificates.

     “Trust Security” means any one of the Common Securities or the Capital Securities.

     “Underwriters” has the meaning specified in the Underwriting Agreement.

     “Underwriting Agreement” means the Underwriting Agreement, dated as of January 24, 2008, among
the Issuer Trust, the Depositor and the Underwriters, as the same may be amended from time to time.

     “U.S. Person” means a United States person as defined in Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code.

ARTICLE II

CONTINUATION OF THE ISSUER TRUST

Section 2.1. Name.

     The Issuer Trust continued hereby shall be known as “M&T Capital Trust IV,” as such name may
be modified from time to time by the Administrators following written notice to the Holders of
Trust Securities and the Issuer Trustees, in which name the Administrators and the Issuer Trustees
may engage in the transactions contemplated hereby, make and execute contracts and other
instruments on behalf of the Issuer Trust and sue and be sued.

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Section 2.2. Office of the Delaware Trustee; Principal Place of Business.

     The address of the Delaware Trustee in the State of Delaware 100 White Clay Center Dr, Newark,
Delaware 19711, Attention: Corporate Trust Administration, or such other address in the State of
Delaware as the Delaware Trustee may designate by written notice to the Holders and the Depositor.
The principal executive office of the Issuer Trust is in care of M&T Bank Corporation, One M&T
Plaza, Buffalo, New York 14203, Attention: Office of the Secretary.

Section 2.3. Initial Contribution of Trust Property; Organizational Expenses.

     The Property Trustee acknowledges receipt in trust from the Depositor in connection with this
Trust Agreement of the sum of $10, which constitutes the initial Trust Property. The Depositor
shall pay all organizational expenses of the Issuer Trust as they arise or shall, upon request of
any Issuer Trustee, promptly reimburse such Issuer Trustee for any such reasonable expenses paid by
such Issuer Trustee. The Depositor shall make no claim upon the Trust Property for the payment of
such expenses.

Section 2.4. Issuance of the Capital Securities.

     On January 24, 2008, the Depositor, both on its own behalf and on behalf of the Issuer Trust
pursuant to the Original Trust Agreement, executed and delivered the Underwriting Agreement.
Contemporaneously with the execution and delivery of this Trust Agreement, an Administrator, on
behalf of the Issuer Trust, shall execute in accordance with Section 5.3 and the Property Trustee
shall authenticate in accordance with Section 5.3 and deliver to the Underwriters, one Capital
Securities Certificate, registered in the name of the nominee of the initial Clearing Agency, in an
aggregate amount of Capital Securities having an aggregate Liquidation Amount of $350,000,000,
against receipt by the Property Trustee of the aggregate purchase price of such Capital Securities
of $350,000,000. On any one or more dates after the execution and delivery of this Trust Agreement
additional Capital Securities Certificates representing Capital Securities may be issued in
accordance with Section 5.3, registered in the name of the nominee of the initial Clearing Agency,
against receipt by the Property Trustee of the purchase price that is determined by the Depositor.

	Section 2.5. Issuance of the Common Securities; Subscription and Purchase of Junior Subordinated
Debentures.

     Contemporaneously with the execution and delivery of this Trust Agreement, an Administrator,
on behalf of the Issuer Trust, shall execute in accordance with Section 5.3 and the Property
Trustee shall authenticate in accordance with Section 5.3 and deliver to the Depositor, Common
Securities Certificates, registered in the name of the Depositor, in an aggregate amount of 400
Common Securities having an aggregate Liquidation Amount of $10,000 against receipt by the Property
Trustee of the aggregate purchase price of such Common Securities of $10,000. Contemporaneously
with the executions, and deliveries of Common Securities Certificates and any Capital Securities
Certificates, the Issuer Trust, shall subscribe for and purchase from the Depositor, corresponding
amounts of Junior Subordinated Debentures, registered in the name of the Issuer Trust and having an
aggregate principal amount equal to $350,010,000; and, in satisfaction of the purchase price for
such Junior Subordinated Debentures, the Property Trustee, on behalf of the Issuer Trust, shall
deliver to the Depositor the sum of $350,010,000 (being the sum of the amounts delivered to the
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Section 2.4 and (ii) the first sentence of this Section 2.5). In connection with any
subsequent issuance of Capital Securities as set forth in the last sentence of Section 2.4, an
Administrator, on behalf of the Issuer Trust, shall contemporaneously with any such additional
issuance, subscribe to and purchase from the Depositor Junior Subordinated Debentures, registered
in the name of the Issuer Trust, having an aggregate principal amount equal to the aggregate
Liquidation Amount of Capital Securities being issued by the Issuer Trust pursuant to the last
sentence of Section 2.4 against payment of a purchase price equal to the aggregate purchase prices
of the Capital Securities being so issued. The terms, other than the issuance price and date, of
any such additional purchased Junior Subordinated Debentures must be identical with the terms of
the original Junior Subordinated Debentures purchased from the Depositor pursuant to this Trust
Agreement.

Section 2.6. Declaration of Trust.

     The exclusive purposes and functions of the Issuer Trust are to (a) issue and sell Trust
Securities and use the proceeds from such sale to acquire the Junior Subordinated Debentures,
and (b) engage in only those other activities necessary, convenient or incidental thereto. The
Depositor hereby appoints the Issuer Trustees as trustees of the Issuer Trust, to have all the
rights, powers and duties to the extent set forth herein, and the Issuer Trustees hereby accept
such appointment. The Property Trustee hereby declares that it will hold the Trust Property in
trust upon and subject to the conditions set forth herein for the benefit of the Issuer Trust and
the Holders. The Depositor hereby appoints the Administrators (as agents of the Issuer Trust),
with such Administrators having all rights, powers and duties set forth herein with respect to
accomplishing the purposes of the Issuer Trust, and the Administrators hereby accept such
appointment, provided, however, that it is the intent of the parties hereto that such
Administrators shall not be trustees or, to the fullest extent permitted by law, fiduciaries with
respect to the Issuer Trust and this Trust Agreement shall be construed in a manner consistent with
such intent. Pursuant to Section 3806(b)(7) of the Delaware Statutory Trust Act, each
Administrator shall be an agent of the Issuer Trust and, to the extent of their powers set forth in
this Agreement or otherwise vested in them by the Holders not inconsistent with this Agreement,
shall be an agent of the Issuer Trust for the purpose of the Issuer Trust’s business and the
actions of the Administrators taken in accordance with such powers shall bind the Issuer Trust. The
Administrators of the Issuer Trust shall be supervised by the Depositor. The Issuer Trustees shall
not be responsible for supervising the Administrators. The Property Trustee shall have the right
and power to perform those duties assigned to the Administrators. The Delaware Trustee shall not
be entitled to exercise any powers, nor shall the Delaware Trustee have any of the duties and
responsibilities, of the Property Trustee or the Administrators set forth herein. The Delaware
Trustee shall be one of the trustees of the Issuer Trust for the sole and limited purpose of
fulfilling the requirements of Section 3807 of the Delaware Statutory Trust Act and for taking such
actions as are required to be taken by a Delaware trustee under the Delaware Statutory Trust Act.

Section 2.7. Authorization to Enter into Certain Transactions.

     (a) The Issuer Trustees and the Administrators shall conduct the affairs of the Issuer Trust
in accordance with the terms of this Trust Agreement. Subject to the limitations set forth in
paragraph (b) of this Section and in accordance with the following provisions (i) and (ii), the
Issuer Trustees and the Administrators shall act as follows:

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     (i) Each Administrator shall have the power and authority to act on behalf of the
Issuer Trust with respect to the following:

     (A) the compliance with the Underwriting Agreement regarding the issuance and
sale of the Trust Securities and the execution and delivery of Trust Securities
Certificates representing such Trust Securities;

     (B) the compliance with the Securities Act, applicable state securities or
blue sky laws, and the Trust Indenture Act and the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (and
any regulations relating thereto), including, without limitation, the execution of
any documents, reports or certifications required thereunder from time to time;

     (C) the listing of the Capital Securities upon such securities exchange or
exchanges as shall be determined by the Depositor, with the registration of the
Capital Securities under the Exchange Act, and the preparation and filing of all
periodic and other reports and other documents pursuant to the foregoing, if
required;

     (D) the application for a taxpayer identification number for the Issuer Trust;

     (E) the preparation of a registration statement and a prospectus in relation
to the Capital Securities, including any amendments thereto and the taking of any
action necessary or desirable to sell the Capital Securities in a transaction or
series of transactions subject to the registration requirements of the Securities
Act; and

     (F) any action incidental to the foregoing as necessary or advisable to give
effect to the terms of this Trust Agreement.

     (ii) The Property Trustee shall have the power and authority to act on behalf of the
Issuer Trust with respect to the following matters:

     (A) the establishment of the Payment Account;

     (B) the receipt of the Junior Subordinated Debentures;

     (C) the receipt and collection of interest, principal and any other payments
made in respect of the Junior Subordinated Debentures in the Payment Account;

     (D) the distribution of amounts owed to the Holders in respect of the Trust
Securities;

     (E) the exercise of all of the rights, powers and privileges of a holder of
the Junior Subordinated Debentures;

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     (F) the sending of notices of default and other information regarding the
Trust Securities and the Junior Subordinated Debentures to the Holders in
accordance with this Trust Agreement;

     (G) the distribution of the Trust Property in accordance with the terms of
this Trust Agreement;

     (H) to the extent provided in this Trust Agreement, the winding up of the
affairs of and liquidation of the Issuer Trust and the preparation, execution and
filing of the certificate of cancellation with the Secretary of State of the State
of Delaware;

     (I) after an Event of Default (other than under paragraph (b), (c) or (d) of
the definition of such term if such Event of Default is by or with respect to the
Property Trustee), comply with the provisions of this Trust Agreement and take any
action to give effect to the terms of this Trust Agreement and protect and conserve
the Trust Property for the benefit of the Holders (without consideration of the
effect of any such action on any particular Holder); provided, however, that
nothing in this Section 2.7(a)(ii) shall require the Property Trustee to take any
action that is not otherwise required in this Trust Agreement; and

     (J) the execution, on behalf of the Issuer Trust, of the Certificate
Depositary Agreement and the Expense Agreement.

     (b) So long as this Trust Agreement remains in effect, the Issuer Trust (or the Issuer
Trustees or Administrators acting on behalf of the Issuer Trust) shall not undertake any business,
activities or transaction except as expressly provided herein or contemplated hereby. In
particular, neither the Issuer Trustees nor the Administrators (in each case acting on behalf of
the Issuer Trust) shall (i) acquire any investments or engage in any activities not authorized by
this Trust Agreement, (ii) sell, assign, transfer, exchange, mortgage, pledge, set–off or otherwise
dispose of any of the Trust Property or interests therein, including to Holders, except as
expressly provided herein, (iii) take any action that would reasonably be expected to cause the
Issuer Trust to become taxable as a corporation or classified as other than a grantor trust for
United States federal income tax purposes, (iv) incur any indebtedness for borrowed money or issue
any other debt, or (v) take or consent to any action that would result in the placement of a Lien
on any of the Trust Property, (vi) apply any of the Trust Property or its proceeds other than as
provided herein, (vii) acquire any assets other than the Trust Property, (viii) possess any power
or otherwise act in such a way as to vary the Trust Property, except as expressly provided herein,
(ix) possess any power or otherwise act in such a way as to vary the terms of the Trust Securities
in any way whatsoever (except to the extent expressly authorized in this Trust Agreement or by the
terms of the Trust Securities) or (x) issue any securities or other evidences of beneficial
ownership of, or beneficial interest in, the Issuer Trust other than the Trust Securities. The
Property Trustee shall defend all claims and demands of all Persons at any time claiming any Lien
on any of the Trust Property adverse to the interest of the Issuer Trust or the Holders in their
capacity as Holders.

     (c) In connection with the issue and sale of the Capital Securities, the Depositor shall have
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behalf of the Issuer Trust, the following (and any actions taken by the Depositor in
furtherance of the following prior to the date of this Trust Agreement are hereby ratified and
confirmed in all respects):

     (i) the preparation by the Issuer Trust of, and the execution and delivery of, a
registration statement, and a prospectus in relation to the Capital Securities, including
any amendments thereto and the taking of any action necessary or desirable to sell the
Capital Securities in a transaction or a series of transactions subject to the registration
requirements of the Securities Act;

     (ii) the determination of the States in which to take appropriate action to qualify or
register for sale all or part of the Capital Securities and the determination of any and
all such acts, other than actions that must be taken by or on behalf of the Issuer Trust,
and the advice to the Issuer Trustees of actions they must take on behalf of the Issuer
Trust, and the preparation for execution and filing of any documents to be executed and
filed by the Issuer Trust or on behalf of the Issuer Trust, as the Depositor deems
necessary or advisable in order to comply with the applicable laws of any such States in
connection with the sale of the Capital Securities;

     (iii) the negotiation of the terms of, and the execution and delivery of, the
Underwriting Agreement providing for the sale of the Capital Securities;

     (iv) the taking of any other actions necessary or desirable to carry out any of the
foregoing activities; and

     (v) compliance with the listing requirements of the Capital Securities upon such
securities exchange or exchanges as shall be determined by the Depositor, the registration
of the Capital Securities under the Exchange Act, and the preparation and filing of all
periodic and other reports and other documents pursuant to the foregoing, if required.

     (d) Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, the Administrators and the Property
Trustee are authorized and directed to conduct the affairs of the Issuer Trust and to operate the
Issuer Trust so that the Issuer Trust will not be deemed to be an “investment company” required to
be registered under the Investment Company Act, and will not be taxable as a corporation or
classified as other than a grantor trust for the United States federal income tax purposes and so
that the Junior Subordinated Debentures will be treated as indebtedness of the Depositor for United
States federal income tax purposes. In this connection, the Property Trustee, the Administrators
and the Holders of Common Securities are authorized to take any action, not inconsistent with
applicable law, the Certificate of Trust or this Trust Agreement, that the Property Trustee, the
Administrators and Holders of Common Securities determine in their discretion to be necessary or
desirable for such purposes, as long as such action does not adversely affect in any material
respect the interests of the Holders of the Outstanding Capital Securities. In no event shall the
Administrators or the Issuer Trustees be liable to the Issuer Trust or the Holders for any failure
to comply with this section that results from a change in law or regulations or in the
interpretation thereof.

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Section 2.8. Assets of Trust.

     The assets of the Issuer Trust shall consist solely of the Trust Property.

Section 2.9. Title to Trust Property.

     Legal title to all Trust Property shall be vested at all times in the Issuer Trust and shall
be held and administered by the Property Trustee (in its capacity as such) for the benefit of the
Issuer Trust and the Holders in accordance with this Trust Agreement.

ARTICLE III

PAYMENT ACCOUNT

Section 3.1. Payment Account.

     (a) On or prior to the Closing Date, the Property Trustee shall establish the Payment Account.
The Property Trustee and its agents shall have exclusive control and sole right of withdrawal with
respect to the Payment Account for the purpose of making deposits in and withdrawals from the
Payment Account in accordance with this Trust Agreement. All monies and other property deposited
or held from time to time in the Payment Account shall be held by the Property Trustee in the
Payment Account for the exclusive benefit of the Holders and for distribution as herein provided,
including (and subject to) any priority of payments provided for herein.

     (b) The Property Trustee shall deposit in the Payment Account, promptly upon receipt, all
payments of principal of or interest on, and any other payments or proceeds with respect to, the
Junior Subordinated Debentures. Amounts held in the Payment Account shall not be invested by the
Property Trustee pending distribution thereof.

ARTICLE IV

DISTRIBUTIONS; REDEMPTION

Section 4.1. Distributions.

     (a) The Trust Securities represent undivided beneficial interests in the Trust Property, and
Distributions (including Distributions of Additional Amounts) will be made on the Trust Securities
at the rate and on the dates that payments of interest (including payments of Additional Interest,
as defined in the Indenture) are made on the Junior Subordinated Debentures. Accordingly:

     (i) Distributions on the Trust Securities shall be cumulative and will accumulate
whether or not there are funds of the Issuer Trust available for the payment of
Distributions. Distributions shall accumulate from January 31, 2008, and, except in the
event (and to the extent) that the Depositor exercises its right to defer the payment of
interest on the Junior Subordinated Debentures pursuant to the Indenture, shall be payable
quarterly in arrears on March 15, June 15, September 15 and December 15 of each year,
commencing March 15, 2008. If any date on which a Distribution is otherwise payable on the
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Distribution shall be made on the next succeeding day that is a Business Day (without
any interest or other payment in respect of any such delay), with the same force and effect
as if made on the date on which such payment was originally payable.

     (ii) In the event (and to the extent) that the Depositor exercises its right under the
Indenture and the Supplemental Indenture to defer the payment of interest on the
Debentures, Distributions on the Trust Securities shall be deferred but shall continue to
accumulate. Distributions on the Trust Securities shall be payable on the Liquidation
Amount of the Trust Securities at the rate per annum equal to the rate of interest on the
Debentures. The amount of Distributions payable shall be computed on the basis of a
360-day year comprised of twelve 30-day months. The amount of Distributions payable for
any period shall include any Additional Amounts in respect of such period.

     (iii) Distributions on the Trust Securities shall be made by the Property Trustee from
the Payment Account and shall be payable on each Distribution Date only to the extent that
the Issuer Trust has funds then on hand and available in the Payment Account for the
payment of such Distributions.

     (b) Distributions on the Trust Securities with respect to a Distribution Date shall be payable
to the Holders thereof as they appear on the Securities Register for the Trust Securities at the
close of business on the relevant record date, which shall be the Business Day prior to the
relevant Distribution Date; provided that if the Trust Securities are not in Global form, the
relevant record date shall be the date 15 days prior to the relevant Distribution Date.
Distributions payable on any Trust Securities that are not punctually paid on an applicable
Distribution Date will cease to be payable to the Person in whose name such Trust Securities are
registered on the relevant record date, and such deferred or defaulted Distribution will instead be
payable to the Person in whose name such Trust Securities are registered on the special record date
or other specified date for determining Holders entitled to such deferred or defaulted
Distributions.

Section 4.2. Redemption.

     (a) On each Debenture Redemption Date, the Issuer Trust will be required to redeem a Like
Amount of Trust Securities at the Redemption Price.

     (b) Notice of redemption shall be given by the Property Trustee by first-class mail, postage
prepaid, mailed not less than 30 nor more than 60 days prior to the Redemption Date to each Holder
of Trust Securities to be redeemed, at such Holder’s address appearing in the Security Register;
provided that the Depositor shall give the Property Trustee at least 15 days prior notice of such
mailing. All notices of redemption shall state:

     (i) the Redemption Date;

     (ii) the Redemption Price, or if the Redemption Price cannot be calculated prior to
the time the notice is required to be sent, the estimate of the Redemption Price provided
pursuant to the Indenture together with a statement that it is an estimate and that the
actual Redemption Price will be calculated on the third Business Day prior to the
Redemption Date (and if an estimate is provided, a further notice shall be

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sent of the actual Redemption Price on the date, or as soon as practicable thereafter,
that notice of such actual Redemption Price is received pursuant to the Indenture);

     (iii) the CUSIP number or CUSIP numbers of the Capital Securities affected;

     (iv) if less than all the Outstanding Trust Securities are to be redeemed, the
identification and the total Liquidation Amount of the particular Trust Securities to be
redeemed;

     (v) that on the Redemption Date the Redemption Price will become due and payable upon
each such Trust Security to be redeemed and that Distributions thereon will cease to
accumulate on and after said date, except as provided in Section 4.2(d) below; and

     (vi) the place or places where Trust Securities are to be surrendered for the payment
of the Redemption Price..

     The Issuer Trust in issuing the Trust Securities shall use “CUSIP” numbers, and the Property
Trustee shall indicate the “CUSIP” numbers of the Trust Securities in notices of redemption and
related materials as a convenience to Holders; provided that any such notice may state that no
representation is made as to the correctness of such numbers either as printed on the Trust
Securities or as contained in any notice of redemption and related material.

     (c) The Trust Securities redeemed on each Redemption Date shall be redeemed at the Redemption
Price with the applicable proceeds from the contemporaneous redemption of Junior Subordinated
Debentures. Redemptions of the Trust Securities shall be made and the Redemption Price shall be
payable on each Redemption Date only to the extent that the Issuer Trust has funds then on hand and
available in the Payment Account for the payment of such Redemption Price.

     (d) If the Property Trustee gives a notice of redemption in respect of any Capital Securities,
then, by 12:00 noon, New York City time, on the Redemption Date, subject to Section 4.2(c), the
Property Trustee will, with respect to Capital Securities held in global form, irrevocably deposit
with the Clearing Agency for such Capital Securities, to the extent available therefor, funds
sufficient to pay the applicable Redemption Price and will give such Clearing Agency irrevocable
instructions and authority to pay the Redemption Price to the Holders of the Capital Securities.
With respect to Capital Securities that are not held in global form, the Property Trustee, subject
to Section 4.2(c), will irrevocably deposit with the Paying Agent, to the extent available
therefor, funds sufficient to pay the applicable Redemption Price and will give the Paying Agent
irrevocable instructions and authority to pay the Redemption Price to the Holders of the Capital
Securities upon surrender of their Capital Securities Certificates. Notwithstanding the foregoing,
Distributions payable on or prior to the Redemption Date for any Trust Securities called for
redemption shall be payable to the Holders of such Trust Securities as they appear on the
Securities Register for the Trust Securities on the relevant record dates for the related
Distribution Dates. If notice of redemption shall have been given and funds deposited as required,
then, upon the date of such deposit, all rights of Holders holding Trust Securities so called for
redemption will cease, except the right of such Holders to receive the Redemption Price and any
Distributions payable in respect of the Trust Securities on or prior to the Redemption

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Date, but without interest, and such Trust Securities will cease to be Outstanding. In the
event that any date on which any applicable Redemption Price is payable is not a Business Day, then
payment of the applicable Redemption Price payable on such date will be made on the next succeeding
day that is a Business Day (and without any interest or other payment in respect of any such
delay), with the same force and effect as if made on such date. In the event that payment of the
Redemption Price in respect of any Trust Securities called for redemption is improperly withheld or
refused and not paid either by the Issuer Trust or by the Depositor pursuant to the Guarantee
Agreement, Distributions on such Trust Securities will continue to accumulate, as set forth in
Section 4.1, from the Redemption Date originally established by the Issuer Trust for such Trust
Securities to the date such applicable Redemption Price is actually paid, in which case the actual
payment date will be the date fixed for redemption for purposes of calculating the applicable
Redemption Price.

     (e) Subject to Section 4.3(a), if less than all the Outstanding Trust Securities are to be
redeemed on a Redemption Date, the Property Trustee will select the particular Trust Securities to
be redeemed on a pro rata basis not more than 60 days prior to the Redemption Date from the
Outstanding Capital Securities not previously called for redemption by any method the Property
Trustee deems fair and appropriate.

Section 4.3. Subordination of Common Securities.

     (a) Payment of Distributions (including Additional Amounts, if applicable) on, the Redemption
Price of, and the Liquidation Distribution in respect of, the Trust Securities, as applicable,
shall be made, subject to Section 4.2(e), pro rata among the Common Securities and the Capital
Securities based on the Liquidation Amount of such Trust Securities; provided, however, that if on
any Distribution Date, Redemption Date or Liquidation Date any Event of Default resulting from a
Debenture Event of Default specified in Section 2.9(a) of the Supplemental Indenture shall have
occurred and be continuing, no payment of any Distribution (including any Additional Amounts) on,
Redemption Price of, or Liquidation Distribution in respect of, any Common Security, and no other
payment on account of the redemption, liquidation or other acquisition of Common Securities, shall
be made unless payment in full in cash of all accumulated and unpaid Distributions (including any
Additional Amounts) on all Outstanding Capital Securities for all Distribution Periods terminating
on or prior thereto, or, in the case of payment of the Redemption Price, the full amount of such
Redemption Price on all Outstanding Capital Securities then called for redemption, or in the case
of payment of the Liquidation Distribution the full amount of such Liquidation Distribution on all
Outstanding Capital Securities, shall have been made or provided for, and all funds immediately
available to the Property Trustee shall first be applied to the payment in full in cash of all
Distributions (including any Additional Amounts) on, or the Redemption Price of, or Liquidation
Distribution in respect of, Capital Securities then due and payable. The existence of an Event of
Default does not entitle the Holders of Capital Securities to accelerate the maturity thereof.

     (b) In the case of the occurrence of any Event of Default resulting from any Debenture Event
of Default, the Holder of the Common Securities shall be deemed to have waived any right to act
with respect to any such Event of Default under this Trust Agreement until the effects of all such
Events of Default with respect to the Capital Securities have been cured, waived or otherwise
eliminated. Until all such Events of Default under this Trust Agreement with respect to the
Capital Securities have been so cured, waived or otherwise eliminated, the Property Trustee shall
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and not on behalf of the Holder of the Common Securities, and only the Holders of the Capital
Securities will have the right to direct the Property Trustee to act on their behalf.

Section 4.4. Payment Procedures.

     Payments of Distributions (including any Additional Amounts) in respect of the Capital
Securities shall be made by check mailed to the address of the Person entitled thereto as such
address shall appear on the Securities Register or, if the Capital Securities are held by a
Clearing Agency, such Distributions shall be made to the Clearing Agency in immediately available
funds, which will credit the relevant accounts on the applicable Distribution Dates. Payments of
Distributions to Holders of $1,000,000 or more in aggregate Liquidation Amount of Capital
Securities may be made by wire transfer of immediately available funds upon written request of such
Holder of Capital Securities to the Securities Registrar not later than 15 calendar days prior to
the date on which the Distribution is payable. Payments in respect of the Common Securities shall
be made in such manner as shall be mutually agreed between the Property Trustee and the Holder of
the Common Securities.

Section 4.5. Tax Returns and Reports.

     (a) The Administrators shall prepare and file (or cause to be prepared and filed), at the
Depositor’s expense, all United States federal, state and local tax and information returns and
reports required to be filed by or in respect of the Issuer Trust. In this regard, the
Administrators shall (i) prepare and file (or cause to be prepared and filed) all Internal Revenue
Service forms required to be filed in respect of the Issuer Trust in each taxable year of the
Issuer Trust and (ii) prepare and furnish (or cause to be prepared and furnished) to each Holder
all Internal Revenue Service forms required to be provided by the Issuer Trust. The Administrators
shall provide the Depositor and the Property Trustee with a copy of all such returns and reports
promptly after such filing or furnishing. The Issuer Trustees and the Administrators shall comply
with United States federal withholding and backup withholding tax laws and information reporting
requirements with respect to any payments to Holders under the Trust Securities. Such withholding
or backup withholding (if any) shall be deducted from any payment and shall be considered as duly
paid under the terms of the Trust Agreement and the Trust Securities.

     (b) On or before December 15 of each year during which any Capital Securities are Outstanding,
the Administrators shall furnish to the Property Trustee (or, if the Property Trustee is no longer
acting as the Paying Agent, the Paying Agent) such information as may be reasonably requested by
the Property Trustee (or, as appropriate, the Paying Agent) in order that the Property Trustee (or,
as appropriate, the Paying Agent) may prepare the information which it is required to report for
such year on Internal Revenue Service Forms 1096 and 1099 pursuant to Section 6049 of the Code, or
is required to report for such year under Treasury regulation section 1.671-5 (relating to widely
held fixed investment trusts), or any successor thereto. The Property Trustee agrees to comply
with its reporting obligations under these provisions, and to cooperate with the Administrators in
carrying out their responsibilities under Section 4.5(a) hereof. Such information shall include
the amount of original issue discount includible in income for each outstanding Capital Security
during such year.

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Section 4.6. Payment of Taxes; Duties, Etc. of the Issuer Trust.

     Upon receipt under the Junior Subordinated Debentures of Additional Sums, the Property Trustee
shall promptly pay any taxes, duties or governmental charges of whatsoever nature (other than
withholding taxes) imposed on the Issuer Trust by the United States or any other taxing authority.

Section 4.7. Payments under Indenture or Pursuant to Direct Actions.

     Any amount payable hereunder to any Holder of Capital Securities shall be reduced by the
amount of any corresponding payment such Holder (or any Owner related thereto) has directly
received pursuant to Section 5.8 of the Indenture or Section 5.13 of this Trust Agreement.

Section 4.8. Liability of the Holder of Common Securities.

     The Holder of Common Securities shall be liable for the debts and obligations of the Issuer
Trust as set forth in Section 6.7(c) of the Indenture regarding allocation of expenses.

ARTICLE V

TRUST SECURITIES CERTIFICATES

Section 5.1. Initial Ownership.

     Upon the creation of the Issuer Trust and the contribution by the Depositor pursuant to
Section 2.3 and until the issuance of the Trust Securities, and at any time during which no Trust
Securities are Outstanding, the Depositor shall be the sole beneficial owner of the Issuer Trust.

Section 5.2. The Trust Securities Certificates.

     (a) The Trust Securities Certificates shall be executed on behalf of the Issuer Trust by
manual or facsimile signature of at least one Administrator. Trust Securities Certificates bearing
the manual or facsimile signatures of individuals who were, at the time when such signatures shall
have been affixed, authorized to sign on behalf of the Issuer Trust, shall be validly issued and
entitled to the benefits of this Trust Agreement, notwithstanding that such individuals or any of
them shall have ceased to be so authorized prior to the delivery of such Trust Securities
Certificates or did not hold such offices at the date of delivery of such Trust Securities
Certificates. A transferee of a Trust Securities Certificate shall become a Holder, and shall be
entitled to the rights and subject to the obligations of a Holder hereunder, upon due registration
of such Trust Securities Certificate in such transferee’s name pursuant to Section 5.5.

     (b) Upon their original issuance, Capital Securities Certificates shall be issued in the form
of one or more fully registered Global Capital Securities Certificates which will be deposited with
or on behalf of Cede as the Depositary’s nominee and registered in the name of Cede as the
Depositary’s nominee. Unless and until it is exchangeable in whole or in part for the Capital
Securities in definitive form, a global security may not be transferred except as a whole by the
Depositary to a nominee of the Depositary or by a nominee of the Depositary to the Depositary or
another nominee of the Depositary or by the Depositary or any such nominee to a successor of such
Depositary or a nominee of such successor.

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     (c) A single Common Securities Certificate representing the Common Securities shall be issued
to the Depositor in the form of a definitive Common Securities Certificate.

Section 5.3. Execution and Delivery of Trust Securities Certificates.

     At the Time of Delivery, an Administrator shall cause Trust Securities Certificates, in an
aggregate Liquidation Amount as provided in Sections 2.4 and 2.5, to be executed on behalf of the
Issuer Trust and delivered to the Property Trustee and upon such delivery the Property Trustee
shall authenticate such Trust Securities Certificates and deliver such Trust Securities
Certificates upon the written order of the Trust, executed by an Administrator thereof, without
further corporate action by the Trust, in authorized denominations. After the Time of Delivery,
subject to the next sentence, the Administrators may cause additional Capital Securities to be
executed on behalf of the Issuer Trust and delivered to or upon the written order of the Depositor,
such written order executed by one authorized officer thereof, without further corporate action by
the Depositor, in authorized denominations; provided, however, that no such additional Capital
Securities shall be issued unless the Administrators shall have receive an Opinion of Counsel
experienced in such matters to the effect that such issuance will not cause the Issuer Trust to be
taxable as a corporation for U.S. federal income tax purposes or affect the Issuer Trust’s
exemption from status as an “investment company” under the Investment Company Act or affect the
treatment of the Junior Subordinated Debentures as indebtedness of the Depositor for United States
federal income tax purposes At no time will the aggregate Liquidation Amount of all Outstanding
Capital Securities (including additional Capital Securities) exceed $500,000,000.

Section 5.4. Global Capital Security.

     (a) Any Global Capital Security issued under this Trust Agreement shall be registered in the
name of the nominee of the Clearing Agency and delivered to such custodian therefor, and such
Global Capital Security shall constitute a single Capital Security for all purposes of this Trust
Agreement.

     (b) Notwithstanding any other provision in this Trust Agreement, a Global Capital Security may
not be exchanged in whole or in part for Capital Securities registered, and no transfer of the
Global Capital Security in whole or in part may be registered, in the name of any Person other than
the Clearing Agency for such Global Capital Security, Cede or other nominee thereof unless (i) such
Clearing Agency advises the Depositor and the Issuer Trustees in writing that such Clearing Agency
is no longer willing or able to properly discharge its responsibilities as Clearing Agency with
respect to such Global Capital Security, and the Depositor is unable to locate a qualified
successor within 90 days of receipt of such notice from the Depositary, (ii) the Depositor at its
option advises the Depositary in writing that it elects to terminate the book-entry system through
the Clearing Agency, or (iii) there shall have occurred and be continuing an Event of Default.

     (c) If a Capital Security is to be exchanged in whole or in part for a beneficial interest in
a Global Capital Security, then either (i) such Global Capital Security shall be so surrendered for
exchange as provided in this Article V or (ii) the Liquidation Amount thereof shall be reduced or
increased by an amount equal to the portion thereof to be so exchanged, or equal to the Liquidation
Amount of such other Capital Security to be so exchanged for a beneficial interest therein, as the
case may be, by means of an appropriate adjustment made

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on the records of the Security Registrar, whereupon the Property Trustee, in accordance with
the Applicable Procedures, shall instruct the Clearing Agency or its authorized representative to
make a corresponding adjustment to its records. Upon any such adjustment of a Global Capital
Security by the Clearing Agency, accompanied by registration instructions, the Property Trustee
shall, subject to Section 5.4(b) and as otherwise provided in this Article V, authenticate and
deliver and an Administrator shall execute any Capital Securities issuable in exchange for such
Global Capital Security (or any portion thereof) in accordance with the instructions of the
Clearing Agency. The Property Trustee shall not be liable for any delay in delivery of such
instructions and may conclusively rely on, and shall be fully protected in relying on, such
instructions.

     (d) Every Capital Security Certificate executed, authenticated and delivered upon registration
of transfer of, or in exchange for or in lieu of, a Global Capital Security or any portion thereof,
whether pursuant to this Article V or Article IV or otherwise, shall be executed, authenticated and
delivered in the form of, and shall be, a Global Capital Security Certificate, unless such Global
Capital Security is registered in the name of a Person other than the Clearing Agency for such
Global Capital Security or a nominee thereof.

     (e) The Clearing Agency or its nominee, as the registered owner of a Global Capital Security,
shall be considered the Holder of the Capital Securities represented by such Global Capital
Security for all purposes under this Trust Agreement and the Capital Securities, and Owners of
beneficial interests in such Global Capital Security shall hold such interests pursuant to the
Applicable Procedures and, except as otherwise provided herein, shall not be entitled to receive
physical delivery of any such Capital Securities in definitive form and shall not be considered the
Holders thereof under this Trust Agreement. Accordingly, any such Owner’s beneficial interest in
the Global Capital Security shall be shown only on, and the transfer of such interest shall be
effected only through, records maintained by the Clearing Agency or its nominee. Neither the
Property Trustee, the Securities Registrar nor the Depositor shall have any liability in respect of
any transfers effected by the Clearing Agency.

     (f) The rights of Owners of beneficial interests in a Global Capital Security shall be
exercised only through the Clearing Agency and shall be limited to those established by law and
agreements between such Owners and the Clearing Agency.

	Section 5.5. Registration of Transfer and Exchange Generally; Certain Transfers and Exchanges;
Capital Securities Certificates.

     (a) The Property Trustee shall keep or cause to be kept at its Corporate Trust Office a
register or registers for the purpose of registering Trust Securities and transfers and exchanges
of Capital Securities in which the registrar and transfer agent with respect to the Capital
Securities (the “Securities Registrar”), subject to such reasonable regulations as it may
prescribe, shall provide for the registration of Capital Securities and Common Securities (subject
to Section 5.11 in the case of Common Securities) and registration of transfers and exchanges of
Capital Securities as herein provided. Such register is herein sometimes referred to as the
“Securities Register.” The Property Trustee is hereby appointed “Securities Registrar” for the
purpose of registering Capital Securities and transfers of Capital Securities as herein provided.

     Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Capital Security at the offices or agencies
of the Property Trustee designated for that purpose, an Administrator shall execute and

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the Property Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Capital Securities Certificates representing Capital Securities of the same series of any authorized denominations of like tenor and aggregate Liquidation Amount and bearing such legends as may be required by this Trust Agreement.

     At the option of the Holder, Capital Securities may be exchanged for other Capital Securities of any authorized denominations, of like tenor and aggregate Liquidation Amount and bearing such legends as may be required by this Trust Agreement, upon surrender of the Capital Securities to be exchanged at such office or agency. Whenever any Capital Securities are so surrendered for exchange, the Administrator shall execute
and the Property Trustee shall authenticate and deliver a Capital Securities Certificate representing the Capital Securities that the Holder making the exchange is entitled to receive.

     All Capital Securities issued upon any transfer or exchange of Capital Securities shall be the valid obligations of the Issuer Trust, evidencing the same interest, and entitled to the same benefits under this Trust Agreement, as the Capital Securities surrendered upon such transfer or exchange.

     Every Capital Security presented or surrendered for transfer or exchange shall (if so required by the Property Trustee) be duly endorsed, or be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Property Trustee and the Securities Registrar, duly executed by the Holder thereof or such Holder’s attorney duly authorized in writing.

     No service charge shall be made to a Holder for any transfer or exchange of Capital Securities, but the Property Trustee may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any transfer or exchange of Capital Securities.

     Neither the Issuer Trust nor the Property Trustee shall be required, pursuant to the provisions of this Section, (i) to issue, register the transfer of, or exchange any Capital Security during a period beginning at the opening of business 15 days before the day of selection for redemption of Capital Securities pursuant to Article IV and ending at the close of
business on the day of mailing of the notice of redemption, or (ii) to register the transfer of or exchange any Capital Security so selected for redemption in whole or in part, except, in the case of any such Capital Security to be redeemed in part, any portion thereof not to be redeemed.

     (b)Certain Transfers and Exchanges. Trust Securities may only be transferred, in whole or in part, in accordance with the terms and conditions set forth in this Trust Agreement. Any transfer or purported transfer of any Trust Security not made in accordance with this Trust Agreement shall be null and void.

     (i) Non-Global Capital Security to Non-Global Capital Security. A Trust Security that is not a Global Capital Security may be transferred, in whole or in part, to a Person who takes delivery in the form of another Trust Security that is not a Global Capital Security as provided in Section 5.5(a).

     (ii) Free Transferability. Subject to this Section 5.5, Capital Securities shall be freely transferable.

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     (iii) Exchanges Between Global Capital Security and Non–Global Capital Security. A
beneficial interest in a Global Capital Security may be exchanged for a Capital Security
that is not a Global Capital Security as provided in Section 5.4(b).

Section 5.6. Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost or Stolen Trust Securities Certificates.

     If (a) any mutilated Trust Securities Certificate shall be surrendered to the Securities
Registrar, or if the Securities Registrar shall receive evidence to its satisfaction of the
destruction, loss or theft of any Trust Securities Certificate and (b) there shall be delivered to
the Securities Registrar and the Administrators such security or indemnity as may be required by
them to save each of them harmless, then in the absence of notice that such Trust Securities
Certificate shall have been acquired by a bona fide purchaser or a protected purchaser, the
Administrators, or any one of them, on behalf of the Issuer Trust shall execute and make available
for delivery, and the Property Trustee shall authenticate, in exchange for or in lieu of any such
mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Trust Securities Certificate, a new Trust Securities
Certificate of like class, tenor and denomination. In connection with the issuance of any new
Trust Securities Certificate under this Section, the Administrators or the Securities Registrar may
require the payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental charge that may be
imposed in connection therewith. Any duplicate Trust Securities Certificate issued pursuant to
this Section shall constitute conclusive evidence of an undivided beneficial interest in the assets
of the Issuer Trust corresponding to that evidenced by the lost, stolen or destroyed Trust
Securities Certificate, as if originally issued, whether or not the lost, stolen or destroyed Trust
Securities Certificate shall be found at any time.

Section 5.7. Persons Deemed Holders.

     The Issuer Trustees, the Administrators, the Securities Registrar or the Depositor shall treat
the Person in whose name any Trust Securities are registered in the Securities Register as the
owner of such Trust Securities for the purpose of receiving Distributions and for all other
purposes whatsoever, and none of the Issuer Trustees, the Administrators, the Securities Registrar
nor the Depositor shall be bound by any notice to the contrary.

Section 5.8. Access to List of Holders’ Names and Addresses.

     Each Holder and each Owner shall be deemed to have agreed not to hold the Depositor, the
Property Trustee, or the Administrators accountable by reason of the disclosure of its name and
address, regardless of the source from which such information was derived.

Section 5.9. Maintenance of Office or Agency.

     The Property Trustee shall designate, with the consent of the Administrators, which consent
shall not be unreasonably withheld, an office or offices or agency or agencies where Capital
Securities Certificates may be surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange and where
notices and demands to or upon the Issuer Trustees in respect of the Trust Securities Certificates
may be served. The Property Trustee initially designates its Corporate Trust Office, at 101
Barclay Street, New York, New York 10286, as its corporate trust office for such purposes. The
Property Trustee shall give prompt written notice to the Depositor, the Administrators and the
Holders of any change in the location of the Securities Register or any such office or agency.

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Section 5.10. Appointment of Paying Agent.

     The Paying Agent shall make Distributions to Holders from the Payment Account and shall report
the amounts of such Distributions to the Property Trustee and the Administrators. Any Paying Agent
shall have the revocable power to withdraw funds from the Payment Account solely for the purpose of
making the Distributions referred to above. The Property Trustee may revoke such power and remove
any Paying Agent in its sole discretion. The Paying Agent shall initially be the Property Trustee.
Any Person acting as Paying Agent shall be permitted to resign as Paying Agent upon 30 days’
written notice to the Administrators and the Property Trustee. In the event that the Property
Trustee shall no longer be the Paying Agent or a successor Paying Agent shall resign or its
authority to act be revoked, the Property Trustee shall appoint a successor (which shall be a bank
or trust company) that is reasonably acceptable to the Administrators to act as Paying Agent. Such
successor Paying Agent appointed by the Property Trustee, or any additional Paying Agent appointed
by the Administrators, shall execute and deliver to the Issuer Trustees an instrument in which such
successor Paying Agent or additional Paying Agent shall agree with the Issuer Trustees that as
Paying Agent, such successor Paying Agent or additional Paying Agent will hold all sums, if any,
held by it for payment to the Holders in trust for the benefit of the Holders entitled thereto
until such sums shall be paid to such Holders. The Paying Agent shall return all unclaimed funds
to the Property Trustee and upon removal of a Paying Agent such Paying Agent shall also return all
funds in its possession to the Property Trustee. The provisions of Sections 8.1, 8.3 and 8.6
herein shall apply to the Bank also in its role as Paying Agent, for so long as the Bank shall act
as Paying Agent and, to the extent applicable, to any other paying agent appointed hereunder. Any
reference in this Trust Agreement to the Paying Agent shall include any co-paying agent chosen by
the Property Trustee unless the context requires otherwise.

Section 5.11. Ownership of Common Securities by Depositor.

     At each Time of Delivery, the Depositor shall acquire and retain beneficial and record
ownership of the Common Securities except (a) in connection with a consolidation or merger of the
Depositor into another corporation or any conveyance, transfer or lease by the Depositor of its
properties and assets substantially as an entirety to any Person, pursuant to Section 8.1 of the
Indenture, or (b) a transfer to an Affiliate of the Depositor in compliance with applicable law
(including the Securities Act and applicable state securities and blue sky laws). To the fullest
extent permitted by law, any other attempted transfer of the Common Securities shall be void. The
Administrators shall cause each Common Securities Certificate issued to the Depositor to contain a
legend stating “THIS CERTIFICATE IS NOT TRANSFERABLE EXCEPT TO A SUCCESSOR IN INTEREST TO THE
DEPOSITOR OR AN AFFILIATE OF THE DEPOSITOR IN COMPLIANCE WITH APPLICABLE LAW AND SECTION 5.11 OF
THE TRUST AGREEMENT.”

Section 5.12. Notices to Clearing Agency.

     To the extent that a notice or other communication to the Holders is required under this Trust
Agreement, for so long as Capital Securities are represented by a Global Capital Securities
Certificate, the Administrators and the Issuer Trustees shall give all such notices and
communications specified herein to be given to the Clearing Agency, and shall have no obligations
to the Owners.

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Section 5.13. Rights of Holders.

     (a) The legal title to the Trust Property is vested exclusively in the Issuer Trust and shall
be held and administered by the Property Trustee (in its capacity as such) in accordance with
Section 2.9, and the Holders shall not have any right or title therein other than the undivided
beneficial interest in the assets of the Issuer Trust conferred by their Trust Securities and they
shall have no right to call for any partition or division of property, profits or rights of the
Issuer Trust except as described below. The Trust Securities shall be personal property giving
only the rights specifically set forth therein and in this Trust Agreement. The Trust Securities
shall have no preemptive or similar rights and when issued and delivered to Holders against payment
of the purchase price therefor will be fully paid and nonassessable by the Issuer Trust. Subject
to Section 4.8 hereof, the Holders of the Trust Securities, in their capacities as such, shall be
entitled to the same limitation of personal liability extended to stockholders of private
corporations for profit organized under the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware.

     (b) For so long as any Capital Securities remain Outstanding, if, upon a Debenture Event of
Default, the Debenture Trustee fails, or the holders of not less than 25% in principal amount of
the outstanding Junior Subordinated Debentures fail, to declare the principal of all of the Junior
Subordinated Debentures to be immediately due and payable, the Holders of at least 25% in
Liquidation Amount of the Capital Securities then Outstanding shall have such right to make such
declaration by a notice in writing to the Property Trustee, the Depositor and the Debenture
Trustee.

     At any time after such a declaration of acceleration with respect to the Junior Subordinated
Debentures has been made and before a judgment or decree for payment of the money due has been
obtained by the Debenture Trustee as provided in the Indenture, the Holders of a Majority in
Liquidation Amount of the Capital Securities, by written notice to the Property Trustee, the
Depositor and the Debenture Trustee, may rescind and annul such declaration and its consequences
if:

     (i) the Depositor has paid or deposited with the Debenture Trustee a sum sufficient to
pay:

     (A) all overdue installments of interest on all of the Junior Subordinated
Debentures,

     (B) any accrued Additional Interest on all of the Junior Subordinated
Debentures,

     (C) the principal of (and premium, if any, on) any Junior Subordinated
Debentures which have become due otherwise than by such declaration of acceleration
and interest and Additional Interest thereon at the rate borne by the Junior
Subordinated Debentures, and

     (D) all sums paid or advanced by the Debenture Trustee under the Indenture and
the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the Debenture
Trustee and the Property Trustee, their agents and counsel; and

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     (ii) all Events of Default with respect to the Junior Subordinated Debentures, other
than the non-payment of the principal of the Junior Subordinated Debentures which has
become due solely by such acceleration, have been cured or waived as provided in
Section 5.13 of the Indenture.

     The Holders of at least a Majority in Liquidation Amount of the Capital Securities may, on
behalf of the Holders of all the Capital Securities, waive any past default under the Indenture,
except a default in the payment of principal or interest (unless such default has been cured and a
sum sufficient to pay all matured installments of interest and principal due otherwise than by
acceleration has been deposited with the Debenture Trustee) or a default in respect of a covenant
or provision which under the Indenture cannot be modified or amended without the consent of the
holder of each outstanding Junior Subordinated Debentures affected thereby. No such rescission
shall affect any subsequent default or impair any right consequent thereon.

     Upon receipt by the Property Trustee of written notice declaring such an acceleration, or
rescission and annulment thereof, by Holders of the Capital Securities all or part of which is
represented by Global Capital Securities, a record date shall be established for determining
Holders of Outstanding Capital Securities entitled to join in such notice, which record date shall
be at the close of business on the day the Property Trustee receives such notice. The Holders on
such record date, or their duly designated proxies, and only such Persons, shall be entitled to
join in such notice, whether or not such Holders remain Holders after such record date; provided,
that, unless such declaration of acceleration, or rescission and annulment, as the case may be,
shall have become effective by virtue of the requisite percentage having joined in such notice
prior to the day which is 90 days after such record date, such notice of declaration of
acceleration, or rescission and annulment, as the case may be, shall automatically and without
further action by any Holder be canceled and of no further effect. Nothing in this paragraph shall
prevent a Holder, or a proxy of a Holder, from giving, after expiration of such 90–day period, a
new written notice of declaration of acceleration, or rescission and annulment thereof, as the case
may be, that is identical to a written notice which has been canceled pursuant to the proviso to
the preceding sentence, in which event a new record date shall be established pursuant to the
provisions of this Section 5.13(b).

     (c) For so long as any Capital Securities remain Outstanding, to the fullest extent permitted
by law and subject to the terms of this Trust Agreement and the Indenture, upon (i) the breach by
the Depositor of its obligations under Section 2.7(a) of the Supplemental Indenture to issue
Qualifying APM Securities (as defined therein) or (ii) upon a Debenture Event of Default specified
in Section 2.9(a) of the Supplemental Indenture, any Holder of Capital Securities shall have the
right to institute a proceeding directly against the Depositor, pursuant to Section 2.12 of the
Supplemental Indenture, for enforcement of payment to such Holder of the principal amount of or
interest on Junior Subordinated Debentures having an aggregate principal amount equal to the
aggregate Liquidation Amount of the Capital Securities of such Holder (a“Direct Action”). Except
as set forth in Sections 5.13(b) and 5.13(c) of this Trust Agreement, the Holders of Capital
Securities shall have no right to exercise directly any right or remedy available to the holders
of, or in respect of, the Junior Subordinated Debentures.

     (d) Except as otherwise provided in Sections 5.13(a), (b) and (c), the Holders of at least a
Majority in Liquidation Amount of the Capital Securities may, on behalf of the Holders of all the
Capital Securities, waive any past default or Event of Default and its consequences. Upon such
waiver, any such default or Event of Default shall cease to exist, and

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any default or Event of Default arising therefrom shall be deemed to have been cured, for
every purpose of this Trust Agreement, but no such waiver shall extend to any subsequent or other
default or Event of Default or impair any right consequent thereon.

ARTICLE VI

ACTS OF HOLDERS; MEETINGS; VOTING

Section 6.1. Limitations on Holder’s Voting Rights.

     (a) Except as provided in this Trust Agreement and in the Indenture and as otherwise required
by law, no Holder of Capital Securities shall have any right to vote or in any manner otherwise
control the administration, operation and management of the Issuer Trust or the obligations of the
parties hereto, nor shall anything herein set forth or contained in the terms of the Trust
Securities Certificates be construed so as to constitute the Holders from time to time as members
of an association.

     (b) So long as any Junior Subordinated Debentures are held by the Property Trustee on behalf
of the Issuer Trust, the Property Trustee shall not (i) direct the time, method and place of
conducting any proceeding for any remedy available to the Property Trustee, or executing any trust
or power conferred on the Debenture Trustee with respect to such Junior Subordinated Debentures,
(ii) waive any past default that may be waived under Section 5.13 of the Indenture, (iii) exercise
any right to rescind or annul a declaration that the principal of all the Junior Subordinated
Debentures shall be due and payable, or (iv) consent to any amendment, modification or termination
of the Indenture or the Junior Subordinated Debentures, where such consent shall be required,
without, in each case, obtaining the prior approval of the Holders of at least a Majority in
Liquidation Amount of the Capital Securities, provided, however, that where a consent under the
Indenture would require the consent of each holder of Junior Subordinated Debentures affected
thereby, no such consent shall be given by the Property Trustee without the prior written consent
of each Holder of Capital Securities. The Property Trustee shall not revoke any action previously
authorized or approved by a vote of the Holders of Capital Securities, except by a subsequent vote
of the Holders of Capital Securities. The Property Trustee shall notify all Holders of the Capital
Securities of any notice of default received with respect to the Junior Subordinated Debentures.
In addition to obtaining the foregoing approvals of the Holders of the Capital Securities, prior to
taking any of the foregoing actions, the Property Trustees shall, at the expense of the Depositor,
obtain an Opinion of Counsel experienced in such matters to the effect that such action will not
cause the Issuer Trust to be taxable as a corporation or classified as other than a grantor trust
for United States federal income tax purposes.

     (c) If any proposed amendment to the Trust Agreement provides for, or the Issuer Trust
otherwise proposes to effect, (i) any action that would adversely affect in any material respect
the interests, powers, preferences or special rights of the Capital Securities, whether by way of
amendment to the Trust Agreement or otherwise, or (ii) the dissolution of the Issuer Trust, other
than pursuant to the terms of this Trust Agreement, then the Holders of Outstanding Trust
Securities as a class will be entitled to vote on such amendment or proposal and such amendment or
proposal shall not be effective except with the approval of the Holders of at least a Majority in
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provision of this Trust Agreement, no amendment to this Trust Agreement may be made if, as a
result of such amendment, it would cause the Issuer Trust to be taxable as a corporation or
classified as other than a grantor trust for United States federal income tax purposes.

Section 6.2. Notice of Meetings.

     Notice of all meetings of the Holders, stating the time, place and purpose of the meeting,
shall be given by the Property Trustee pursuant to Section 10.8 to each Holder of record, at his
registered address, at least 15 days and not more than 90 days before the meeting. At any such
meeting, any business properly before the meeting may be so considered whether or not stated in the
notice of the meeting. Any adjourned meeting may be held as adjourned without further notice.

Section 6.3. Meetings of Holders.

     (a) No annual meeting of Holders is required to be held. The Property Trustee, however, shall
call a meeting of Holders to vote on any matter upon the written request of the Holders of record
of 25% of the aggregate Liquidation Amount of the Capital Securities and the Administrators or the
Property Trustee may, at any time in their discretion, call a meeting of Holders of Capital
Securities to vote on any matters as to which Holders are entitled to vote.

     (b) Holders of at least a Majority in Liquidation Amount of the Capital Securities, present in
person or represented by proxy, shall constitute a quorum at any meeting of Holders of Capital
Securities.

     (c) If a quorum is present at a meeting, an affirmative vote by the Holders of record present,
in person or by proxy, holding Capital Securities representing at least a Majority in Liquidation
Amount of the Capital Securities held by the Holders present, either in person or by proxy, at such
meeting shall constitute the action of the Holders of Capital Securities, unless this Trust
Agreement requires a greater number of affirmative votes.

Section 6.4. Voting Rights.

     Holders shall be entitled to one vote for each $25 of Liquidation Amount represented by their
Outstanding Trust Securities in respect of any matter as to which such Holders are entitled to
vote.

Section 6.5. Proxies, etc.

     At any meeting of Holders, any Holder entitled to vote thereat may vote by proxy, provided
that no proxy shall be voted at any meeting unless it shall have been placed on file with the
Property Trustee, or with such other officer or agent of the Issuer Trust as the Property Trustee
may direct, for verification prior to the time at which such vote shall be taken. Pursuant to a
resolution of the Property Trustee, proxies may be solicited in the name of the Property Trustee or
one or more officers of the Property Trustee. Only Holders of record shall be entitled to vote.
When Trust Securities are held jointly by several persons, any one of them may vote at any meeting
in person or by proxy in respect of such Trust Securities, but if more than one of them shall be
present at such meeting in person or by proxy, and such joint owners or their proxies so present
disagree as to any vote to be cast, such vote shall not be received in respect of such Trust
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deemed valid unless challenged at or prior to its exercise, and the burden of proving
invalidity shall rest on the challenger. No proxy shall be valid more than three years after its
date of execution.

Section 6.6. Holder Action by Written Consent.

     Any action which may be taken by Holders at a meeting may be taken without a meeting if
Holders holding at least a Majority in Liquidation Amount of all Trust Securities entitled to vote
in respect of such action (or such larger proportion thereof as shall be required by any other
provision of this Trust Agreement) shall consent to the action in writing.

Section 6.7. Record Date for Voting and Other Purposes.

     For the purposes of determining the Holders who are entitled to notice of and to vote at any
meeting or by written consent, or to participate in any Distribution on the Trust Securities in
respect of which a record date is not otherwise provided for in this Trust Agreement, or for the
purpose of any other action, the Administrators or the Property Trustee may from time to time fix a
date, not more than 90 days prior to the date of any meeting of Holders or the payment of a
Distribution or other action, as the case may be, as a record date for the determination of the
identity of the Holders of record for such purposes.

Section 6.8. Acts of Holders.

     (a) Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other action
provided or permitted by this Trust Agreement to be given, made or taken by Holders may be embodied
in and evidenced by one or more instruments of substantially similar tenor signed by such Holders
in person or by an agent duly appointed in writing; and, except as otherwise expressly provided
herein, such action shall become effective when such instrument or instruments are delivered to the
Property Trustee. Such instrument or instruments (and the action embodied therein and evidenced
thereby) are herein sometimes referred to as the “Act” of the Holders signing such instrument or
instruments. Proof of execution of any such instrument or of a writing appointing any such agent
shall be sufficient for any purpose of this Trust Agreement and (subject to Section 8.1) conclusive
in favor of the Issuer Trustees, if made in the manner provided in this Section.

     (b) The fact and date of the execution by any Person of any such instrument or writing may be
proved by the affidavit of a witness of such execution or by a certificate of a notary public or
other officer authorized by law to take acknowledgments of deeds, certifying that the individual
signing such instrument or writing acknowledged to him the execution thereof. Where such execution
is by a signer acting in a capacity other than his individual capacity, such certificate or
affidavit shall also constitute sufficient proof of his authority. The fact and date of the
execution of any such instrument or writing, or the authority of the Person executing the same, may
also be proved in any other manner which any Issuer Trustee or Administrator receiving the same
deems sufficient.

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     (d) Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other Act of the
Holder of any Trust Security shall bind every future Holder of the same Trust Security and the
Holder of every Trust Security issued upon the registration of transfer thereof or in exchange
therefor or in lieu thereof in respect of anything done, omitted or suffered to be done by the
Issuer Trustees, the Administrators or the Issuer Trust in reliance thereon, whether or not
notation of such action is made upon such Trust Security.

     (e) Without limiting the foregoing, a Holder entitled hereunder to take any action hereunder
with regard to any particular Trust Security may do so with regard to all or any part of the
Liquidation Amount of such Trust Security or by one or more duly appointed agents each of which may
do so pursuant to such appointment with regard to all or any part of such Liquidation Amount.

     (f) If any dispute shall arise among the Holders, the Administrators or the Issuer Trustees
with respect to the authenticity, validity or binding nature of any request, demand, authorization,
direction, consent, waiver or other Act of such Holder or Issuer Trustee under this Article VI,
then the determination of such matter by the Property Trustee shall be conclusive with respect to
such matter.

Section 6.9. Inspection of Records.

     Upon reasonable notice to the Administrators and the Property Trustee, the records of the
Issuer Trust shall be open to inspection by Holders during normal business hours for any purpose
reasonably related to such Holder’s interest as a Holder.

ARTICLE VII

REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES

			
	Section 7.1.	 	Representations and Warranties of the Property Trustee and the Delaware Trustee.

     (a) The Property Trustee, hereby represents and warrants for the benefit of the Depositor and
the Holders that:

     (1) The Property Trustee is a banking corporation with trust powers, duly organized, validly
existing and in good standing under the laws of New York, with trust power and authority to execute
and deliver, and to carry out and perform its obligations under the terms of this Trust Agreement.

     (2) The execution, delivery and performance by of this Trust Agreement has been duly
authorized by all necessary corporate action on the part of the Property Trustee; and this Trust
Agreement has been duly executed and delivered by the Property Trustee, and constitutes a legal,
valid and binding obligation of the Property Trustee, enforceable against it in accordance with its
terms, subject to applicable bankruptcy, reorganization, moratorium, insolvency, and other similar
laws affecting creditors’ rights generally and to general principles of equity and the discretion
of the court (regardless of whether the enforcement of such remedies is considered in a proceeding
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     (3) The execution, delivery and performance of this Trust Agreement by the Property Trustee
does not conflict with or constitute a breach of the certificate of incorporation or by–laws of the
Property Trustee.

     (4) At the Time of Delivery, the Property Trustee has not knowingly created any Liens or
encumbrances on the Trust Securities.

     (5) No consent, approval or authorization of, or registration with or notice to, any New York
State or federal banking authority is required for the execution, delivery or performance by the
Property Trustee, of this Trust Agreement.

     (b) The Delaware Trustee hereby represents and warrants for the benefit of the Depositor and
the Holders that:

     (1) The Delaware Trustee is duly organized, validly existing and in good standing under the
laws of the State of Delaware, with trust power and authority to execute and deliver, and to carry
out and perform its obligations under the terms of, the Trust Agreement.

     (2) The execution, delivery and performance by the Delaware Trustee of this Trust Agreement
has been duly authorized by all necessary corporate action on the part of the Delaware Trustee; and
this Trust Agreement has been duly executed and delivered by the Delaware Trustee, and constitutes
a legal, valid and binding obligation of the Delaware Trustee, enforceable against it in accordance
with its terms, subject to applicable bankruptcy, reorganization, moratorium, insolvency, and other
similar laws affecting creditors’ right generally and to general principles of equity and the
discretion of the court (regardless of whether the enforcement of such remedies is considered in a
proceeding in equity or at law).

     (3) The execution, delivery and performance of this Trust Agreement by the Delaware Trustee
does not conflict with or constitute a breach of the articles of association or by–laws of the
Delaware Trustee.

     (4) No consent, approval or authorization of, or registration with or notice to any state or
Federal banking authority is required for the execution, delivery or performance by the Delaware
Trustee, of this Trust Agreement.

     (5) The Delaware Trustee is an entity which has its principal place of business in the State
of Delaware.

Section 7.2. Representations and Warranties of the Depositor.

     The Depositor hereby represents and warrants for the benefit of the Holders that:

     (a) the Trust Securities Certificates issued at the Time of Delivery on behalf of the Issuer
Trust have been duly authorized and will have been duly and validly executed, and, subject to
payment therefor, issued and delivered by the Issuer Trustees pursuant to the terms and provisions
of, and in accordance with the requirements of, this Trust Agreement, and the Holders will be, as
of each such date, entitled to the benefits of this Trust Agreement; and

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     (b) there are no taxes, fees or other governmental charges payable by the Issuer Trust (or the
Issuer Trustees on behalf of the Issuer Trust) under the laws of the State of Delaware or any
political subdivision thereof in connection with the execution, delivery and performance by either
the Property Trustee or the Delaware Trustee, as the case may be, of this Trust Agreement.

ARTICLE VIII

THE ISSUER TRUSTEES; THE ADMINISTRATORS

Section 8.1. Certain Duties and Responsibilities.

     (a) The duties and responsibilities of the Issuer Trustees and the Administrators shall be as
provided by this Trust Agreement and, in the case of the Property Trustee, by the Trust Indenture
Act. Notwithstanding the foregoing, no provision of this Trust Agreement shall require the Issuer
Trustees or the Administrators to expend or risk their own funds or otherwise incur any financial
liability in the performance of any of their duties hereunder, or in the exercise of any of their
rights or powers, if they shall have reasonable grounds for believing that repayment of such funds
or adequate indemnity against such risk or liability is not reasonably assured to it or them.
Whether or not therein expressly so provided, every provision of this Trust Agreement relating to
the conduct or affecting the liability of or affording protection to the Issuer Trustees or the
Administrators shall be subject to the provisions of this Section. Nothing in this Trust Agreement
shall be construed to release an Administrator or the Issuer Trustees from liability for his or its
own negligent action, his or its own negligent failure to act, or his or its own willful
misconduct. To the extent that, at law or in equity, an Issuer Trustee or Administrator has duties
and liabilities relating to the Issuer Trust or to the Holders, such Issuer Trustee or
Administrator shall not be liable to the Issuer Trust or to any Holder for such Issuer Trustee’s or
Administrator’s good faith reliance on the provisions of this Trust Agreement. The provisions of
this Trust Agreement, to the extent that they restrict the duties and liabilities of the Issuer
Trustees and Administrators otherwise existing at law or in equity, are agreed by the Depositor and
the Holders to replace such other duties and liabilities of the Issuer Trustees and Administrators.

     (b) All payments made by the Property Trustee or a Paying Agent in respect of the Trust
Securities shall be made only from the revenue and proceeds from the Trust Property and only to the
extent that there shall be sufficient revenue or proceeds from the Trust Property to enable the
Property Trustee or a Paying Agent to make payments in accordance with the terms hereof. Each
Holder, by his or its acceptance of a Trust Security, agrees that he or it will look solely to the
revenue and proceeds from the Trust Property to the extent legally available for distribution to it
or him as herein provided and that neither the Issuer Trustees nor the Administrators are
personally liable to it or him for any amount distributable in respect of any Trust Security or for
any other liability in respect of any Trust Security. This Section 8.1(b) does not limit the
liability of the Issuer Trustees expressly set forth elsewhere in this Trust Agreement or, in the
case of the Property Trustee, in the Trust Indenture Act.

     (c) The Property Trustee, before the occurrence of any Event of Default and after the curing
of all Events of Default that may have occurred, shall undertake to perform only such duties as are
specifically set forth in this Trust Agreement (including pursuant to Section 10.10), and no
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Property Trustee. If an Event of Default has occurred (that has not been cured or waived
pursuant to Section 5.13 of the Indenture), the Property Trustee shall enforce this Trust Agreement
for the benefit of the Holders and shall exercise such of the rights and powers vested in it by
this Trust Agreement, and use the same degree of care and skill in its exercise thereof, as a
prudent person would exercise or use under the circumstances in the conduct of his or her own
affairs.

     (d) No provision of this Trust Agreement shall be construed to relieve the Property Trustee
from liability for its own negligent action, its own negligent failure to act, or its own willful
misconduct, except that:

     (i) prior to the occurrence of any Event of Default and after the curing or waiving of
all such Events of Default that may have occurred:

     (A) the duties and obligations of the Property Trustee shall be determined
solely by the express provisions of this Trust Agreement (including pursuant to
Section 10.10), and the Property Trustee shall not be liable except for the
performance of such duties and obligations as are specifically set forth in this
Trust Agreement (including pursuant to Section 10.10); and

     (B) in the absence of bad faith on the part of the Property Trustee, the
Property Trustee may conclusively rely, as to the truth of the statements and the
correctness of the opinions expressed therein, upon any certificates or opinions
furnished to the Property Trustee and conforming to the requirements of this Trust
Agreement; but in the case of any such certificates or opinions that by any
provision hereof or of the Trust Indenture Act are specifically required to be
furnished to the Property Trustee, the Property Trustee shall be under a duty to
examine the same to determine whether or not they conform to the requirements of
this Trust Agreement;

     (ii) the Property Trustee shall not be liable for any error of judgment made in good
faith by an authorized officer of the Property Trustee, unless it shall be proved that the
Property Trustee was negligent in ascertaining the pertinent facts;

     (iii) the Property Trustee shall not be liable with respect to any action taken or
omitted to be taken by it in good faith in accordance with the direction of the Holders of
at least a Majority in Liquidation Amount of the Capital Securities relating to the time,
method and place of conducting any proceeding for any remedy available to the Property
Trustee, or exercising any trust or power conferred upon the Property Trustee under this
Trust Agreement;

     (iv) the Property Trustee’s sole duty with respect to the custody, safe keeping and
physical preservation of the Junior Subordinated Debentures and the Payment Account shall
be to deal with such property in a similar manner as the Property Trustee deals with
similar property for its own account, subject to the protections and limitations on
liability afforded to the Property Trustee under this Trust Agreement and the Trust
Indenture Act;

     (v) the Property Trustee shall not be liable for any interest on any money received by
it except as it may otherwise agree with the Depositor; and money

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held by the Property Trustee need not be segregated from other funds held by it except
in relation to the Payment Account maintained by the Property Trustee pursuant to
Section 3.1 and except to the extent otherwise required by law;

     (vi) the Property Trustee shall not be responsible for monitoring the compliance by
the Administrators or the Depositor with their respective duties under this Trust
Agreement, nor shall the Property Trustee be liable for the default or misconduct of any
other Issuer Trustee, the Administrators or the Depositor; and

     (vii) no provision of this Trust Agreement shall require the Property Trustee to
expend or risk its own funds or otherwise incur personal financial liability in the
performance of any of its duties or in the exercise of any of its rights or powers, if the
Property Trustee shall have reasonable grounds for believing that the repayment of such
funds or liability is not reasonably assured to it under the terms of this Trust Agreement
or adequate indemnity against such risk or liability is not reasonably assured to it.

     (e) The Administrators shall not be responsible for monitoring the compliance by the Issuer
Trustees or the Depositor with their respective duties under this Trust Agreement, nor shall either
Administrator be liable for the default or misconduct of any other Administrator, the Issuer
Trustees or the Depositor.

Section 8.2. Certain Notices.

     (a) Within five Business Days after the occurrence of any Event of Default actually known to a
Responsible Officer of the Property Trustee, the Property Trustee shall transmit, in the manner and
to the extent provided in Section 10.8, notice of such Event of Default to the Holders and the
Administrators, unless such Event of Default shall have been cured or waived.

     (b) Within five Business Days after the receipt of notice of the Depositor’s exercise of its
right to defer the payment of interest on the Junior Subordinated Debentures pursuant to the
Indenture, the Property Trustee shall transmit, in the manner and to the extent provided in
Section 10.8, notice of such exercise to the Holders and the Administrators, unless such exercise
shall have been revoked.

Section 8.3. Certain Rights of Property Trustee.

     Subject to the provisions of Section 8.1:

     (a) the Property Trustee may conclusively rely and shall be fully protected in acting or
refraining from acting in good faith upon any resolution, Opinion of Counsel, certificate, written
representation of a Holder or transferee, certificate of auditors or any other certificate,
statement, instrument, opinion, report, notice, request, consent, order, appraisal, bond,
debenture, note, other evidence of indebtedness or other paper or document believed by it to be
genuine and to have been signed or presented by the proper party or parties;

     (b) any direction or act of the Depositor contemplated by this Trust Agreement shall be
sufficiently evidenced by an Officers’ Certificate;

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     (c) the Property Trustee shall have no duty to see to any recording, filing or registration of
any instrument (including any financing or continuation statement or any filing under tax or
securities laws) or any re-recording, refiling or reregistration thereof;

     (d) the Property Trustee may consult with counsel of its own choosing (which counsel may be
counsel to the Depositor or any of its Affiliates, and may include any of its employees) and the
advice of such counsel shall be full and complete authorization and protection in respect of any
action taken suffered or omitted by it hereunder in good faith and in reliance thereon and in
accordance with such advice, such counsel may be counsel to the Depositor or any of its Affiliates,
and may include any of its employees;the Property Trustee shall have the right at any time to seek
instructions concerning the administration of this Trust Agreement from any court of competent
jurisdiction;

     (e) the Property Trustee shall be under no obligation to exercise any of the rights or powers
vested in it by this Trust Agreement at the request or direction of any of the Holders pursuant to
this Trust Agreement, unless such Holders shall have offered to the Property Trustee security or
indemnity satisfactory to it against the costs, expenses and liabilities which might be incurred by
it in compliance with such request or direction; provided that, nothing contained in this
Section 8.3(e) shall be taken to relieve the Property Trustee, upon the occurrence of an Event of
Default, of its obligation to exercise the rights and powers vested in it by this Trust Agreement;

     (f) the Property Trustee shall not be bound to make any investigation into the facts or
matters stated in any resolution, certificate, statement, instrument, opinion, report, notice,
request, consent, order, approval, bond, debenture, note or other evidence of indebtedness or other
paper or document, unless requested in writing to do so by one or more Holders, but the Property
Trustee may make such further inquiry or investigation into such facts or matters as it may see
fit;

     (g) the Property Trustee may execute any of the trusts or powers hereunder or perform any of
its duties hereunder either directly or by or through its agents or attorneys, provided that the
Property Trustee shall not be responsible for any misconduct or negligence on the part of any agent
or attorney appointed with due care by it hereunder;

     (h) whenever in the administration of this Trust Agreement the Property Trustee shall deem it
desirable to receive instructions with respect to enforcing any remedy or right or taking any other
action hereunder, the Property Trustee (i) may request instructions from the Holders (which
instructions may only be given by the Holders of the same proportion in Liquidation Amount of the
Trust Securities as would be entitled to direct the Property Trustee under the terms of the Trust
Securities in respect of such remedy, right or action), (ii) may refrain from enforcing such remedy
or right or taking such other action until such instructions are received, and (iii) shall be fully
protected in acting in accordance with such instructions;

     (i) except as otherwise expressly provided by this Trust Agreement, the Property Trustee shall
not be under any obligation to take any action that is discretionary under the provisions of this
Trust Agreement;

     (j) in no event shall the Property Trustee be responsible or liable for special, indirect, or
consequential loss or damage of any kind whatsoever (including, but not limited to,

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loss of profit) irrespective of whether the Property Trustee has been advised of the
likelihood of such loss or damage and regardless of the form of action; and

     (k) the Property Trustee shall not be deemed to have notice of any Default or Event of Default
unless a Responsible Officer of the Property Trustee has actual knowledge thereof or unless written
notice of any event which is in fact such a default is received by the Property Trustee at the
Corporate Trust Office of the Property Trustee, and such notice references the Securities and this
Trust Agreement.

     No provision of this Trust Agreement shall be deemed to impose any duty or obligation on any
Issuer Trustee or Administrator to perform any act or acts or exercise any right, power, duty or
obligation conferred or imposed on it, in any jurisdiction in which it shall be illegal, or in
which the Property Trustee shall be unqualified or incompetent in accordance with applicable law,
to perform any such act or acts, or to exercise any such right, power, duty or obligation. No
permissive power or authority available to any Issuer Trustee or Administrator shall be construed
to be a duty.

Section 8.4. Not Responsible for Recitals or Issuance of Securities.

     The recitals contained herein and in the Trust Securities Certificates shall be taken as the
statements of the Issuer Trust, and the Issuer Trustees and the Administrators do not assume any
responsibility for their correctness. The Issuer Trustees and the Administrators shall not be
accountable for the use or application by the Depositor of the proceeds of the Junior Subordinated
Debentures.

Section 8.5. May Hold Securities.

     Except as provided in the definition of the term “Outstanding” in Article I, the
Administrators, any Issuer Trustee or any other agent of any Issuer Trustee or the Issuer Trust, in
its individual or any other capacity, may become the owner or pledgee of Trust Securities and,
subject to Sections 8.8 and 8.13, may otherwise deal with the Issuer Trust with the same rights it
would have if it were not an Administrator, Issuer Trustee or such other agent.

Section 8.6. Compensation; Indemnity; Fees.

     The Depositor agrees:

     (a) to pay to the Issuer Trustees from time to time reasonable compensation for all services
rendered by them hereunder (which compensation shall not be limited by any provision of law in
regard to the compensation of a trustee of an express trust);

     (b) to reimburse the Issuer Trustees and the Administrators upon request for all reasonable
expenses, disbursements and advances incurred or made by the Issuer Trustees in accordance with any
provision of this Trust Agreement (including the reasonable compensation, expenses and
disbursements of its agents and counsel), except any such expense, disbursement or advance as shall
be determined to have been caused by their own negligence or willful misconduct; and

     (c) to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, to indemnify and hold harmless (i) each
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(iv) any officer, director, shareholder, employee, representative or agent of any Issuer
Trustee, and (v) any employee or agent of the Issuer Trust, (referred to herein as an “Indemnified
Person”) from and against any loss, damage, liability, tax (excluding income taxes, other than
taxes referred to in Sections 4.5 and 4.6 hereunder), penalty, expense or claim of any kind or
nature whatsoever incurred by such Indemnified Person arising out of or in connection with the
creation, operation or dissolution of the Issuer Trust or any act or omission performed or omitted
by such Indemnified Person in good faith on behalf of the Issuer Trust and in a manner such
Indemnified Person reasonably believed to be within the scope of authority conferred on such
Indemnified Person by this Trust Agreement, except that no Indemnified Person shall be entitled to
be indemnified in respect of any loss, damage or claim incurred by such Indemnified Person by
reason of their own negligence or willful misconduct with respect to such acts or omissions.

     The provisions of this Section 8.6 shall survive the termination of this Trust Agreement and
resignation or removal of any Issuer Trustee.

     No Issuer Trustee may claim any lien or charge on any Trust Property as a result of any amount
due pursuant to this Section 8.6.

     The Depositor, any Administrator and any Issuer Trustee may engage in or possess an interest
in other business ventures of any nature or description, independently or with others, similar or
dissimilar to the business of the Issuer Trust, and the Issuer Trust and the Holders of Trust
Securities shall have no rights by virtue of this Trust Agreement in and to such independent
ventures or the income or profits derived therefrom, and the pursuit of any such venture, even if
competitive with the business of the Issuer Trust, shall not be deemed wrongful or improper.
Neither the Depositor, any Administrator, nor any Issuer Trustee shall be obligated to present any
particular investment or other opportunity to the Issuer Trust even if such opportunity is of a
character that, if presented to the Issuer Trust, could be taken by the Issuer Trust, and the
Depositor, any Administrator or any Issuer Trustee shall have the right to take for its own account
(individually or as a partner or fiduciary) or to recommend to others any such particular
investment or other opportunity. Any Issuer Trustee may engage or be interested in any financial
or other transaction with the Depositor or any Affiliate of the Depositor, or may act as depository
for, trustee or agent for, or act on any committee or body of holders of, securities or other
obligations of the Depositor or its Affiliates.

Section 8.7. Corporate Property Trustee Required; Eligibility of Trustees and Administrators.

     (a) There shall at all times be a Property Trustee hereunder with respect to the Trust
Securities. The Property Trustee shall be a Person that is a national or state chartered bank and
eligible pursuant to the Trust Indenture Act to act as such and has a combined capital and surplus
of at least $50,000,000. If any such Person publishes reports of condition at least annually,
pursuant to law or to the requirements of its supervising or examining authority, then for the
purposes of this Section, the combined capital and surplus of such Person shall be deemed to be its
combined capital and surplus as set forth in its most recent report of condition so published. If
at any time the Property Trustee with respect to the Trust Securities shall cease to be eligible in
accordance with the provisions of this Section, it shall resign immediately in the manner and with
the effect hereinafter specified in this Article. At the time of appointment, the Property Trustee
must have securities rated in one of the three highest rating categories by a nationally recognized
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     (b) There shall at all times be one or more Administrators hereunder. Each Administrator
shall be either a natural person who is at least 21 years of age or a legal entity that shall act
through one or more persons authorized to bind that entity. An employee, officer or Affiliate of
the Depositor may serve as an Administrator.

     (c) There shall at all times be a Delaware Trustee. The Delaware Trustee shall either be
(i) a natural person who is at least 21 years of age and a resident of the State of Delaware or
(ii) a legal entity with its principal place of business in the State of Delaware and that
otherwise meets the requirements of applicable Delaware law that shall act through one or more
persons authorized to bind such entity.

     (d) All Trustees shall be United States persons, within the meaning of section 7701(a)(30) of
the Code, and the Property Trustee shall be a bank, as defined in section 581 of the Code, or a
United States government-owned agency or United States government-sponsored enterprise.

Section 8.8. Conflicting Interests.

     (a) If the Property Trustee has or shall acquire a conflicting interest within the meaning of
the Trust Indenture Act, the Property Trustee shall either eliminate such interest or resign, to
the extent and in the manner provided by, and subject to the provisions of, the Trust Indenture Act
and this Trust Agreement.

     (b) The Guarantee Agreement and the Indenture shall be deemed to be specifically described in
this Trust Agreement for the purposes of clause (i) of the first proviso contained in Section
310(b) of the Trust Indenture Act.

Section 8.9. Co–Trustees and Separate Trustee.

     Unless an Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, at any time or times, for
the purpose of meeting the legal requirements of the Trust Indenture Act or of any jurisdiction in
which any part of the Trust Property may at the time be located, the Property Trustee shall have
power to appoint, and upon the written request of the Property Trustee, the Depositor and the
Administrators shall for such purpose join with the Property Trustee in the execution, delivery,
and performance of all instruments and agreements necessary or proper to appoint, one or more
Persons approved by the Property Trustee either to act as co–trustee, jointly with the Property
Trustee, of all or any part of such Trust Property, or to the extent required by law to act as
separate trustee of any such property, in either case with such powers as may be provided in the
instrument of appointment, and to vest in such Person or Persons in the capacity aforesaid, any
property, title, right or power deemed necessary or desirable, subject to the other provisions of
this Section. Any co–trustee or separate trustee appointed pursuant to this Section shall either
be (i) a natural person who is at least 21 years of age and a resident of the United States or
(ii) a legal entity with its principal place of business in the United States that shall act
through one or more persons authorized to bind such entity, and, in either case, shall be a U.S.
Person. In case a Debenture Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, the Property
Trustee alone shall have the power to make such appointment and, upon the written request of the
Property Trustee, the Depositor and the Administrators shall for such purpose join with the
Property Trustee in the execution, delivery, and performance of all instruments and agreements
necessary or proper to appoint, such co-trustee or separate trustee.

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     Should any written instrument from the Depositor be required by any co–trustee or separate
trustee so appointed for more fully confirming to such co–trustee or separate trustee such
property, title, right, or power, any and all such instruments shall, on request, be executed,
acknowledged and delivered by the Depositor.

     Every co–trustee or separate trustee shall, to the extent permitted by law, but to such extent
only, be appointed subject to the following terms, namely:

     (a) The Trust Securities shall be executed by one or more Administrators, and the Trust
Securities shall be executed and delivered and all rights, powers, duties, and obligations
hereunder in respect of the custody of securities, cash and other personal property held by, or
required to be deposited or pledged with, the Property Trustees specified hereunder, shall be
exercised, solely by the Property Trustee and not by such co-trustee or separate trustee.

     (b) The rights, powers, duties, and obligations hereby conferred or imposed upon the Property
Trustee in respect of any property covered by such appointment shall be conferred or imposed upon
and exercised or performed by the Property Trustee and such co-trustee or separate trustee jointly,
as shall be provided in the instrument appointing such co-trustee or separate trustee, except to
the extent that under any law of any jurisdiction in which any particular act is to be performed,
the Property Trustee shall be incompetent or unqualified to perform such act, in which event such
rights, powers, duties and obligations shall be exercised and performed by such co-trustee or
separate trustee.

     (c) The Property Trustee at any time, by an instrument in writing executed by it, with the
written concurrence of the Depositor, may accept the resignation of or remove any co-trustee or
separate trustee appointed under this Section, and, in case a Debenture Event of Default has
occurred and is continuing, the Property Trustee shall have power to accept the resignation of, or
remove, any such co-trustee or separate trustee without the concurrence of the Depositor. Upon the
written request of the Property Trustee, the Depositor shall join with the Property Trustee in the
execution, delivery and performance of all instruments and agreements necessary or proper to
effectuate such resignation or removal. A successor to any co-trustee or separate trustee so
resigned or removed may be appointed in the manner provided in this Section.

     (d) No co-trustee or separate trustee hereunder shall be personally liable by reason of any
act or omission of the Property Trustee or any other trustee hereunder.

     (e) The Property Trustee shall not be liable by reason of any act of a co–trustee or separate
trustee.

     (f) Any Act of Holders delivered to the Property Trustee shall be deemed to have been
delivered to each such co-trustee and separate trustee.

Section 8.10. Resignation and Removal; Appointment of Successor.

     (a) No resignation or removal of any Issuer Trustee (the “Relevant Trustee”) and no
appointment of a successor Trustee pursuant to this Article shall become effective until the
acceptance of appointment by the successor Issuer Trustee in accordance with the applicable
requirements of Section 8.11.

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     (b) Subject to the immediately preceding paragraph, a Relevant Trustee may resign at any time
by giving written notice thereof to the Holders. The Relevant Trustee shall appoint a successor by
requesting from at least three Persons meeting the eligibility requirements its expenses and
charges to serve as the successor Issuer Trustee on a form provided by the Administrators, and
selecting the Person who agrees to the lowest expenses and charges, subject to the prior consent of
the Depositor which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld. If the instrument of acceptance by
the successor Issuer Trustee required by Section 8.11 shall not have been delivered to the Relevant
Trustee within 60 days after the giving of such notice of resignation, the Relevant Trustee may
petition, at the expense of the Issuer Trust, any court of competent jurisdiction for the
appointment of a successor Issuer Trustee.

     (c) The Property Trustee or the Delaware Trustee may be removed at any time by Act of the
Holders of at least a Majority in Liquidation Amount of the Capital Securities, delivered to the
Relevant Trustee (in its individual capacity and on behalf of the Issuer Trust) (i) for cause or
(ii) if a Debenture Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing. Unless and until a
Debenture Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, the Property Trustee or the
Delaware Trustee, or both of them, may be removed at any time by Act of the Holders of the Common
Securities.

     (d) If a resigning Relevant Trustee shall fail to appoint a successor, or if a Relevant
Trustee shall be removed or become incapable of acting as Issuer Trustee, or if any vacancy shall
occur in the office of any Issuer Trustee for any cause, the Holders of the Capital Securities, by
Act of the Holders of record of not less than 25% aggregate Liquidation Amount of the Capital
Securities then Outstanding delivered to such Relevant Trustee, shall promptly appoint a successor
Issuer Trustee or Trustees, and such successor Issuer Trustee shall comply with the applicable
requirements of Section 8.11. If no successor Issuer Trustee shall have been so appointed by the
Holders of the Capital Securities and accepted appointment in the manner required by Section 8.11,
any Holder, on behalf of himself and all others similarly situated, or any other Issuer Trustee,
may petition any court in the State of Delaware for the appointment of a successor Issuer Trustee.

     (e) The Property Trustee shall give notice of each resignation and each removal of a Relevant
Trustee and each appointment of a successor Issuer Trustee to all Holders in the manner provided in
Section 10.8 and shall give notice to the Depositor and to the Administrators. Each notice shall
include the name of the Relevant Trustee and the address of its Corporate Trust Office if it is the
Property Trustee.

     (f) Notwithstanding the foregoing or any other provision of this Trust Agreement, in the event
any Delaware Trustee who is a natural person dies or becomes, in the opinion of the Holders of the
Common Securities, incompetent or incapacitated, the vacancy created by such death, incompetence or
incapacity may be filled by the Property Trustee following the procedures regarding expenses and
charges set forth above (with the successor in each case being a Person who satisfies the
eligibility requirement for Delaware Trustee set forth in Section 8.7).

Section 8.11. Acceptance of Appointment by Successor.

     (a) In case of the appointment hereunder of a successor Issuer Trustee, the retiring Relevant
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Securities shall execute, acknowledge and deliver an instrument wherein each successor Issuer
Trustee shall accept such appointment and which shall contain such provisions as shall be necessary
or desirable to transfer and confirm to, and to vest in, each successor Issuer Trustee all the
rights, powers, trusts and duties of the retiring Trustee with respect to the Trust Securities and
the Issuer Trust, and upon the execution and delivery of such instrument the resignation or removal
of the retiring Relevant Trustee shall become effective to the extent provided therein and each
such successor Issuer Trustee, without any further act, deed or conveyance, shall become vested
with all the rights, powers, trusts and duties of the Relevant Trustee; but, on request of the
Issuer Trust or any successor Trustee such Relevant Trustee shall, upon payment of its charges
hereunder, duly assign, transfer and deliver to such successor Issuer Trustee all Trust Property,
all proceeds thereof and money held by such Relevant Trustee hereunder with respect to the Trust
Securities and the Issuer Trust.

     (b) Upon request of any such successor Issuer Trustee, the Issuer Trust shall execute any and
all instruments for more fully and certainly vesting in and confirming to such successor Trustee
all such rights, powers and trusts referred to in the first or second preceding paragraph, as the
case may be.

     (c) No successor Issuer Trustee shall accept its appointment unless at the time of such
acceptance such successor Issuer Trustee shall be qualified and eligible under this Article.

Section 8.12. Merger, Conversion, Consolidation or Succession to Business.

     Any Person into which the Property Trustee or the Delaware Trustee may be merged or converted
or with which it may be consolidated, or any Person resulting from any merger, conversion or
consolidation to which such Relevant Trustee shall be a party, or any Person succeeding to all or
substantially all the corporate trust business of such Relevant Trustee, shall be the successor of
such Relevant Trustee hereunder, provided that such Person shall be otherwise qualified and
eligible under this Article, without the execution or filing of any paper or any further act on the
part of any of the parties hereto.

Section 8.13. Preferential Collection of Claims Against Depositor or Issuer Trust.

     If and when the Property Trustee shall be or become a creditor of the Depositor (or any other
obligor upon the Trust Securities), the Property Trustee shall be subject to the provisions of the
Trust Indenture Act regarding the collection of claims against the Depositor (or any such other
obligor) as is required by the Trust Indenture Act.

Section 8.14. Trustee May File Proofs of Claim.

     In case of any receivership, insolvency, liquidation, bankruptcy, reorganization, arrangement,
adjustment, composition or other similar judicial proceeding relative to the Issuer Trust or any
other obligor upon the Trust Securities or the property of the Issuer Trust or of such other
obligor, the Property Trustee (irrespective of whether any Distributions on the Trust Securities
shall then be due and payable and irrespective of whether the Property Trustee shall have made any
demand on the Issuer Trust for the payment of any past due Distributions) shall be entitled and
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     (a) to file and prove a claim for the whole amount of any Distributions owing and unpaid in
respect of the Trust Securities and to file such other papers or documents as may be necessary or
advisable in order to have the claims of the Property Trustee (including any claim for the
reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the Property Trustee, its agents
and counsel) and of the Holders allowed in such judicial proceeding, and

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

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

Section 8.15. Reports by Property Trustee.

     (a) Within 60 days of May 15 of each year commencing with May 15, 2008, the Property Trustee
shall transmit to all Holders in accordance with Section 10.8, and to the Depositor, a brief report
dated as of the immediately preceding May 15 with respect to:

     (i) its eligibility under Section 8.7 or, in lieu thereof, if to the best of its
knowledge it has continued to be eligible under said Section, a written statement to such
effect; and

     (ii) any change in the property and funds in its possession as Property Trustee since
the date of its last report and any action taken by the Property Trustee in the performance
of its duties hereunder which it has not previously reported and which in its opinion
materially affects the Trust Securities, if any.

     (b) In addition, the Property Trustee shall transmit to Holders such reports concerning the
Property Trustee and its actions under this Trust Agreement as may be required pursuant to the
Trust Indenture Act at the times and in the manner provided pursuant thereto as set forth in
Section 10.10 of this Trust Agreement.

     (c) A copy of each such report shall, at the time of such transmission to Holders, be filed by
the Property Trustee with each national stock exchange or interdealer quotation system or self
regulatory organization upon which the Capital Securities are listed or quoted, if any, and with
the Commission, the Depositor and the relevant stock exchange or self regulatory organization.

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Section 8.16. Reports to the Property Trustee.

     The Depositor and the Administrators on behalf of the Issuer Trust shall provide to the
Property Trustee such documents, reports and information as required by Section 314 of the Trust
Indenture Act and the compliance certificate required by Section 314(a) of the Trust Indenture Act
in the form, in the manner and at the times required by Section 314 of the Trust Indenture Act, as
set forth in Section 10.10 of this Trust Agreement. The Depositor and the Administrators shall
annually file with the Property Trustee a certificate specifying whether such Person is in
compliance with all the terms and covenants applicable to such Person hereunder.

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

Section 8.17. Evidence of Compliance with Conditions Precedent.

     Each of the Depositor and the Administrators on behalf of the Issuer Trust shall provide to
the Property Trustee such evidence of compliance with any conditions precedent, if any, provided
for in this Trust Agreement that relate to any of the matters set forth in Section 314(c) of the
Trust Indenture Act as set forth in Section 10.10 of this Trust Agreement. Any certificate or
opinion required to be given by an officer pursuant to Section 314(c)(1) of the Trust Indenture Act
shall be given in the form of an Officers’ Certificate.

Section 8.18. Number of Issuer Trustees.

     (a) The number of Issuer Trustees shall be two. The Property Trustee and the Delaware Trustee
may be the same Person, in which event the number of Issuer Trustees shall be one.

     (b) If an Issuer Trustee ceases to hold office for any reason, a vacancy shall occur. The
vacancy shall be filled with an Issuer Trustee appointed in accordance with Section 8.10.

     (c) The death, resignation, retirement, removal, bankruptcy, incompetence or incapacity to
perform the duties of an Issuer Trustee shall not operate to dissolve, terminate or annul the
Issuer Trust or terminate this Trust Agreement.

Section 8.19. Delegation of Power.

     (a) Any Administrator may, by power of attorney consistent with applicable law, delegate to
any other natural person over the age of 21 (provided that such person is a U.S. Person) his or her
power for the purpose of executing any documents contemplated in Section 2.7(a) or making any
governmental filing.

     (b) The Administrators shall have power to delegate from time to time to such of their number
(provided that each person is a U.S. Person) the doing of such things and the execution of such
instruments either in the name of the Issuer Trust or the names of the Administrators or otherwise
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delegation is not prohibited by applicable law or contrary to the provisions of this Trust
Agreement.

Section 8.20. Appointment of Administrators.

     (a) Except as otherwise provided in this Section 8.20(a), the Administrators (other than the
initial Administrators) shall be appointed by the Holders of a Majority in Liquidation Amount of
the Common Securities and all Administrators (including the initial Administrators) may be removed
by the Holders of a Majority in Liquidation Amount of the Common Securities or may resign at any
time. The Holders, by acceptance of a Trust Securities Certificate, shall be deemed to agree to the
appointment of the initial Administrators. Each Administrator shall sign an agreement agreeing to
comply with the terms of this Trust Agreement. If at any time there is no Administrator, the
Property Trustee or any Holder who has been a Holder of Trust Securities for at least six months
may petition any court of competent jurisdiction for the appointment of one or more Administrators.

     (b) Whenever a vacancy in the number of Administrators shall occur, until such vacancy is
filled by the appointment of an Administrator in accordance with this Section 8.20, the
Administrators in office, regardless of their number (and notwithstanding any other provision of
this Trust Agreement), shall have all the powers granted to the Administrators and shall discharge
all the duties imposed upon the Administrators by this Trust Agreement.

     (c) Notwithstanding the foregoing or any other provision of this Trust Agreement, in the event
any Administrator or a Delaware Trustee who is a natural person dies or becomes, in the opinion of
the Holders of a Majority in Liquidation Amount of the Common Securities, incompetent, or
incapacitated, the vacancy created by such death, incompetence or incapacity may be filled by the
remaining Administrators, if there were at least two of them prior to such vacancy and by the
Depositor, if there were not two such Administrators immediately prior to such vacancy (with the
successor in each case being a Person who satisfies the eligibility requirement for Administrators
or Delaware Trustee, as the case may be, set forth in Section 8.7).

     (d) Except as otherwise provided in this Trust Agreement or by applicable law, any one
Administrator may execute any document or otherwise take any action which the Administrators are
authorized to take under this Trust Agreement.

ARTICLE IX

DISSOLUTION, LIQUIDATION AND MERGER

Section 9.1. Dissolution Upon Expiration Date.

     Unless earlier dissolved, the Issuer Trust shall automatically dissolve on January 31, 2068
(the “Expiration Date”), following the distribution of property in accordance with Section 9.4.

Section 9.2. Early Dissolution.

     The first to occur of any of the following events is an “Early Dissolution Event”, upon the
occurrence of which the Issuer Trust shall dissolve:

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     (a) the occurrence of the appointment of a receiver or other similar official in any
liquidation, insolvency or similar proceeding with respect to the Depositor or all or substantially
all of its property, or a court or other governmental agency shall enter a decree or order and such
decree or order shall remain unstayed and undischarged for a period of 60 days, unless the
Depositor shall transfer the Common Securities as provided by Section 5.11, in which case this
provision shall refer instead to any such successor Holder of the Common Securities;

     (b) the written direction to the Property Trustee from the Holder of the Common Securities at
any time to dissolve the Issuer Trust and, after satisfaction of liabilities to creditors of the
Issuer Trust as provided by applicable law, to distribute the Junior Subordinated Debentures to
Holders in exchange for the Capital Securities (which direction, subject to Section 9.4(a), is
optional and wholly within the discretion of the Holder of the Common Securities);

     (c) the redemption of all of the Capital Securities in connection with the redemption of all
the Junior Subordinated Debentures; and

     (d) the entry of an order for dissolution of the Issuer Trust by a court of competent
jurisdiction.

Section 9.3. Termination.

     The respective obligations and responsibilities of the Issuer Trustees, the Administrators and
the Issuer Trust created and continued hereby shall terminate upon the latest to occur of the
following: (a) the distribution by the Property Trustee to Holders of all amounts required to be
distributed hereunder upon the liquidation of the Issuer Trust pursuant to Section 9.4, or upon the
redemption of all of the Trust Securities pursuant to Section 4.2, (b) the payment of any
liabilities or other amounts owed by the Issuer Trust, including pursuant to Section 3808(e) of the
Delaware Statutory Trust Act or other applicable law, (c) the discharge of all administrative
duties of the Administrators, including the performance of any tax reporting obligations with
respect to the Issuer Trust or the Holders, and (d) the filing of a certificate of cancellation
with the Delaware Secretary of State pursuant to Section 3810 of the Delaware Statutory Trust Act.

Section 9.4. Liquidation.

     (a) If an Early Dissolution Event specified in clause (a), (b) or (d) of Section 9.2 occurs or
upon the Expiration Date, the Issuer Trust shall be liquidated by the Property Trustee as
expeditiously as the Property Trustee determines to be possible by distributing, after satisfaction
of liabilities to creditors of the Issuer Trust as provided by applicable law, to each Holder a
Like Amount of Junior Subordinated Debentures, subject to Section 9.4(d). Notice of liquidation
shall be given by the Property Trustee by first-class mail, postage prepaid, mailed not later
than 15 nor more than 45 days prior to the Liquidation Date to each Holder of Trust Securities at
such Holder’s address appearing in the Securities Register. All notices of liquidation shall:

     (i) state the Liquidation Date;

     (ii) state that, from and after the Liquidation Date, the Trust Securities will no
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Certificates not surrendered for exchange will be deemed to represent a Like Amount of
Junior Subordinated Debentures; and

     (iii) provide such information with respect to the mechanics by which Holders may
exchange Trust Securities Certificates for Junior Subordinated Debentures, or if
Section 9.4(d) applies receive a Liquidation Distribution, as the Administrators or the
Property Trustee shall deem appropriate.

     (b) Except where Section 9.2(c) or 9.4(d) applies, in order to effect the liquidation of the
Issuer Trust and distribution of the Junior Subordinated Debentures to Holders, the Property
Trustee shall establish a record date for such distribution (which shall be not more than 30 days
prior to the Liquidation Date) and, either itself acting as exchange agent or through the
appointment of a separate exchange agent, shall establish such procedures as it shall deem
appropriate to effect the distribution of Junior Subordinated Debentures in exchange for the
Outstanding Trust Securities Certificates.

     (c) Except where Section 9.2(c) or 9.4(d) applies, after the Liquidation Date, (i) the Trust
Securities will no longer be deemed to be Outstanding, (ii) the Clearing Agency for the Capital
Securities or its nominee, as the registered Holder of the Global Capital Securities Certificate,
shall receive a registered global certificate or certificates representing the Junior Subordinated
Debentures to be delivered upon such distribution with respect to Capital Securities held by the
Clearing Agency or its nominee, and (iii) any Trust Securities Certificates not held by the
Clearing Agency for the Capital Securities or its nominee as specified in clause (ii) above will be
deemed to represent Junior Subordinated Debentures having a principal amount equal to the stated
Liquidation Amount of the Trust Securities represented thereby and bearing accrued and unpaid
interest in an amount equal to the accumulated and unpaid Distributions on such Trust Securities
until such certificates are presented to the Securities Registrar for transfer or reissuance.

     (d) If, notwithstanding the other provisions of this Section 9.4, whether because of an order
for dissolution entered by a court of competent jurisdiction or otherwise, distribution of the
Junior Subordinated Debentures is not practical, or if any Early Dissolution Event specified in
clause (c) of Section 9.2 occurs, the Trust Property shall be liquidated, and the Issuer Trust
shall be liquidated by the Property Trustee in such manner as the Property Trustee determines in
accordance with the instruction of a Majority in Liquidation Amount of the Capital Securities. In
such event, on the date of the dissolution of the Issuer Trust, Holders will be entitled to receive
out of the assets of the Issuer Trust available for distribution to Holders, after satisfaction of
liabilities to creditors of the Issuer Trust as provided by applicable law, an amount equal to the
aggregate of the Liquidation Amount per Trust Security plus accumulated and unpaid Distributions
thereon to the date of payment (such amount being the “Liquidation Distribution”). If, upon any
such dissolution, the Liquidation Distribution can be paid only in part because the Issuer Trust
has insufficient assets available to pay in full the aggregate Liquidation Distribution, then,
subject to the next succeeding sentence, the amounts payable by the Issuer Trust on the Trust
Securities shall be paid on a pro rata basis (based upon Liquidation Amounts). The Holders of the
Common Securities will be entitled to receive Liquidation Distributions upon any such liquidation
pro rata (determined as aforesaid) with Holders of Capital Securities, except that, if a Debenture
Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, the Capital Securities shall have a priority over
the Common Securities as provided in Section 4.3.

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     (e) Following the dissolution of the Issuer Trust and after the completion of the winding up
of the affairs of the Issuer Trust, the Property Trustee shall file a certificate of cancellation
with the Delaware Secretary of State.

Section 9.5. Mergers, Consolidations, Amalgamations or Replacements of the Issuer Trust.

     The Issuer Trust may not merge with or into, consolidate, amalgamate, or be replaced by, or
convey, transfer or lease its properties and assets substantially as an entirety to, any entity,
except pursuant to this Section 9.5 and Section 9.4. At the request of the Holders of the Common
Securities, and with the consent of the Holders of at least a Majority in Liquidation Amount of the
Capital Securities but without the consent of the Delaware Trustee or the Property Trustee, the
Issuer Trust may merge with or into, consolidate, amalgamate, or be replaced by or convey, transfer
or lease its properties and assets substantially as an entirety to a trust organized as such under
the laws of any State; provided, however, that (a) such successor entity either (i) expressly
assumes all of the obligations of the Issuer Trust with respect to the Capital Securities or
(ii) substitutes for the Capital Securities other securities having substantially the same terms as
the Capital Securities (the “Successor Capital Securities”) so long as the Successor Capital
Securities have the same priority as the Capital Securities with respect to distributions and
payments upon liquidation, redemption and otherwise, (b) a trustee of such successor entity
possessing the same powers and duties as the Property Trustee is appointed to hold the Junior
Subordinated Debentures, (c) such merger, consolidation, amalgamation, replacement, conveyance,
transfer or lease does not cause the Capital Securities (including any Successor Capital
Securities) to be downgraded by any nationally recognized statistical rating organization if the
Capital Securities were rated by any nationally recognized statistical rating organization
immediately prior to such merger, consolidation, amalgamation, replacement, conveyance, transfer or
lease, (d) such merger, consolidation, amalgamation, replacement, conveyance, transfer or lease
does not adversely affect the rights, preferences and privileges of the holders of the Capital
Securities (including any Successor Capital Securities) in any material respect, (e) such successor
entity has a purpose substantially identical to that of the Issuer Trust, (f) prior to such merger,
consolidation, amalgamation, replacement, conveyance, transfer or lease, the Issuer Trustee has
received an Opinion of Counsel from independent counsel experienced in such matters to the effect
that (i) such merger, consolidation, amalgamation, replacement, conveyance, transfer or lease does
not adversely affect the rights preferences and privileges of the holders of the Capital Securities
(including any Successor Capital Securities) in any material respect, and (ii) following such
merger, consolidation, amalgamation, replacement, conveyance, transfer or lease, neither the Issuer
Trust nor such successor entity will be required to register as an “investment company” under the
Investment Company Act, and (g) the Depositor or any permitted transferee to whom it has
transferred the Common Securities hereunder owns all of the common securities of such successor
entity and guarantees the obligations of such successor entity under the Successor Securities at
least to the extent provided by the Guarantee Agreement. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Issuer
Trust shall not, except with the consent of Holders of 100% in Liquidation Amount of the Capital
Securities, consolidate, amalgamate, merge with or into, or be replaced by or convey, transfer or
lease its properties and assets substantially as an entirety to any other entity or permit any
other entity to consolidate, amalgamate, merge with or into, or replace it if such consolidation,
amalgamation, merger, replacement, conveyance, transfer or lease would cause the Issuer Trust or
the successor entity to be taxable as a corporation or as other than a grantor trust for United
States federal income tax purposes. Any merger or similar agreement shall be executed by the
Administrators on behalf of the Issuer Trust.

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ARTICLE X

MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS

Section 10.1. Limitation of Rights of Holders.

     Except as set forth in Section 9.2, the bankruptcy, dissolution, termination, death or
incapacity of any Person having an interest, beneficial or otherwise, in Trust Securities shall not
operate to terminate this Trust Agreement or dissolve, terminate or annul the Issuer Trust, nor
entitle the legal representatives or heirs of such Person or any Holder for such Person, to claim
an accounting, take any action or bring any proceeding in any court for a partition or winding-up
of the arrangements contemplated hereby, nor otherwise affect the rights, obligations and
liabilities of the parties hereto or any of them.

Section 10.2. Amendment.

     (a) This Trust Agreement may be amended from time to time by the Property Trustee and the
Holders of a Majority in Liquidation Amount of the Common Securities, without the consent of any
Holder of the Capital Securities, (i) to cure any ambiguity, correct or supplement any provision
herein which may be inconsistent with any other provision herein, or to make any other provisions
with respect to matters or questions arising under this Trust Agreement, which shall not be
inconsistent with the other provisions of this Trust Agreement, (ii) to modify, eliminate or add to
any provisions of this Trust Agreement to such extent as shall be necessary to ensure that the
Issuer Trust will not be taxable as a corporation or classified as other than a grantor trust for
United States federal income tax purposes at any time that any Trust Securities are Outstanding or
to ensure that the Issuer Trust will not be required to register as an “investment company” under
the Investment Company Act or to ensure the treatment of the Capital Securities as Tier 1
regulatory capital under the prevailing Federal Reserve Board rules and regulations, (iii) to
require that Holders that are not U.S. persons for U.S. federal income tax purposes irrevocably
appoint a U.S. person to exercise any voting rights to ensure that the Issuer Trust will not be
treated as a foreign trust for U.S. federal income tax purposes, or (iv) to conform the terms of
this Trust Agreement to the description of this Trust Agreement and the Trust Securities in the
Prospectus; provided, however, that in the case of either clause (i) or (ii), such action shall not
adversely affect in any material respect the interests of any Holder, the Property Trustee or the
Delaware Trustee, or impose any additional duty or obligation on the Property Trustee or the
Delaware Trustee; provided, further, that in the case of clause (iv), the Depositor shall deliver
to the Property Trustee an Officers’ Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel (who may be counsel to
the Depositor or the Issuer Trust), in each case confirming that such amendment has the effect of
conforming the terms of this Amended Trust Agreement to the descriptions of this Amended Trust
Agreement and the Trust Securities in the Prospectus. Any such amendment shall become effective
when notice is given to the Property Trustee, the Delaware Trustee and the Holders of the Capital
Securities.

     (b) Except as provided in Section 10.2(c) hereof, any provision of this Trust Agreement may be
amended by the Property Trustee and the Holders of a Majority in Liquidation Amount of the Common
Securities with (i) the consent of Holders of at least a Majority in Liquidation Amount of the
Capital Securities and (ii) receipt by the Issuer Trustees of an Opinion of Counsel to the effect
that such amendment or the exercise of any power granted to the Issuer Trustees in accordance with
such amendment will not cause the Issuer Trust to be taxable as a

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corporation or as other than a grantor trust for United States federal income tax purposes or
affect the Issuer Trust’s exemption from status of an “investment company” under the Investment
Company Act.

     (c) In addition to and notwithstanding any other provision in this Trust Agreement, without
the consent of each affected Holder (such consent being obtained in accordance with Section 6.3
or 6.6 hereof), this Trust Agreement may not be amended to (i) change the amount or timing of any
Distribution on the Trust Securities or otherwise adversely affect the amount of any Distribution
required to be made in respect of the Trust Securities as of a specified date or (ii) restrict the
right of a Holder to institute suit for the enforcement of any such payment on or after such date.

     (d) Notwithstanding any other provisions of this Trust Agreement, no Issuer Trustee shall
enter into or consent to any amendment to this Trust Agreement which would cause the Issuer Trust
to fail or cease to qualify for the exemption from status as an “investment company” under the
Investment Company Act or be taxable as a corporation or be classified as other than a grantor
trust for United States federal income tax purposes.

     (e) Notwithstanding anything in this Trust Agreement to the contrary, without the consent of
the Depositor , the Delaware Trustee and the Administrators, this Trust Agreement may not be
amended in a manner which imposes any additional obligation on the Depositor, the Delaware Trustee
or the Administrators.

     (f) In the event that any amendment to this Trust Agreement is made, the Administrators or the
Property Trustee shall promptly provide to the Depositor a copy of such amendment.

     (g) Neither the Property Trustee nor the Delaware Trustee shall be required to enter into any
amendment to this Trust Agreement which affects its own rights, duties or immunities under this
Trust Agreement. The Property Trustee shall be provided with an Opinion of Counsel and an
Officers’ Certificate stating that any amendment to this Trust Agreement is in compliance with this
Trust Agreement.

     (h) Any amendments to this Trust Agreement shall become effective when notice of such
amendment is given to the Holders of the Trust Securities.

Section 10.3. Separability.

     In case any provision in this Trust Agreement or in the Trust Securities Certificates shall be
invalid, illegal or unenforceable, the validity, legality and enforceability of the remaining
provisions shall not in any way be affected or impaired thereby.

Section 10.4. Governing Law.

     THIS TRUST AGREEMENT AND THE RIGHTS AND OBLIGATIONS OF EACH OF THE HOLDERS, THE ISSUER TRUST,
THE DEPOSITOR, THE ISSUER TRUSTEES AND THE ADMINISTRATORS WITH RESPECT TO THIS TRUST AGREEMENT AND
THE TRUST SECURITIES SHALL BE CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH AND GOVERNED BY THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF
DELAWARE.

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Section 10.5. Payments Due on Non–Business Day.

     If the date fixed for any payment on any Trust Security shall be a day that is not a Business
Day, then such payment need not be made on such date but may be made on the next succeeding day
that is a Business Day, with the same force and effect as though made on the date fixed for such
payment, and no Distributions shall accumulate on such unpaid amount for the period after such
date.

Section 10.6. Successors.

     This Trust Agreement shall be binding upon and shall inure to the benefit of any successor to
the Depositor, the Issuer Trust, the Administrators and any Issuer Trustee, including any successor
by operation of law. Except in connection with a consolidation, merger or sale involving the
Depositor that is permitted under Article VIII of the Indenture and pursuant to which the assignee
agrees in writing to perform the Depositor’s obligations hereunder, the Depositor shall not assign
its obligations hereunder.

Section 10.7. Headings.

     The Article and Section headings are for convenience only and shall not affect the
construction of this Trust Agreement.

Section 10.8. Reports, Notices and Demands.

     (a) Any report, notice, demand or other communication that by any provision of this Trust
Agreement is required or permitted to be given or served to or upon any Holder or the Depositor may
be given or served in writing by deposit thereof, first class postage prepaid, in the United States
mail, hand delivery or facsimile transmission, in each case, addressed, (i) in the case of a Holder
of Capital Securities, to such Holder as such Holder’s name and address may appear on the
Securities Register; and (ii) in the case of the Holder of Common Securities or the Depositor, to
M&T Bank Corporation, One M&T Plaza, Buffalo, New York 14203, Attention: Corporate Finance,
facsimile no.: (716) 842-5177 or to such other address as may be specified in a written notice by
the Depositor to the Property Trustee. Such notice, demand or other communication to or upon a
Holder shall be deemed to have been sufficiently given or made, for all purposes, upon hand
delivery, mailing or transmission. Such notice, demand or other communication to or upon the
Depositor shall be deemed to have been sufficiently given or made only upon actual receipt of the
writing by the Depositor.

     (b) Any notice, demand or other communication which by any provision of this Trust Agreement
is required or permitted to be given or served to or upon, the Property Trustee, the Delaware
Trustee, the Administrators, or the Issuer Trust shall be given in writing addressed (until another
address is published by the Issuer Trust) as follows: (i) with respect to the Property Trustee to
The Bank of New York, 101 Barclay Street, New York, New York 10286, Attention: Corporate Trust
Administration; (ii) with respect to the Delaware Trustee to BNYM (Delaware), 100 White Clay Center
Drive, P.O. Box 6995, Newark, Delaware 19711, Attention: Corporate Trust Administration;
(iii) with respect to the Administrators, to them at the address above for notices to the
Depositor, marked “Attention: Office of the Secretary;” and (iv) with respect to the Issuer Trust,
to the Administrators and the Property Trustee at their respective addresses above. Such notice,
demand or other communication to or upon the Issuer Trust or the

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Property Trustee shall be deemed to have been sufficiently given or made only upon actual
receipt of the writing by the Issuer Trust, the Property Trustee, or such Administrator.

Section 10.9. Tax Treatment of the Junior Subordinated Debentures

     The parties hereto and, by its acceptance or acquisition of a Capital Security or a beneficial
interest therein the Holder of, and any Person that acquires a beneficial interest in, such Capital
Security intend and agree to treat the Junior Subordinated Debentures as indebtedness of the
Depositor for United States federal income tax purposes. To the extent that any of the parties
hereto or any Holder is required to report any item of income, gain, loss, deduction or credit
relating to the Trust Securities for United States federal income tax purposes, that person shall
report such item in a manner consistent with the characterization intended by this Section 10.9 and
shall not take any contrary position on any tax return or report or take any other action that is
inconsistent with such characterization, except as required by law.

Section 10.10. Agreement Not to Petition.

     To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, each of the Issuer Trustees (in their
individual capacities), the Administrators and the Depositor agree for the benefit of the Holders
that, until at least one year and one day after the Issuer Trust has been terminated in accordance
with Article IX, they shall not file, or join in the filing of, a petition against the Issuer Trust
under any bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or other similar law (including, without
limitation, the United States Bankruptcy Code) (collectively, “Bankruptcy Laws”) or otherwise join
in the commencement of any proceeding against the Issuer Trust under any Bankruptcy Law. In the
event the Depositor takes action in violation of this Section 10.9, the Property Trustee agrees,
for the benefit of Holders, that at the expense of the Depositor, it shall file an answer with the
bankruptcy court or otherwise properly contest the filing of such petition by the Depositor against
the Issuer Trust or the commencement of such action and raise the defense that the Depositor has
agreed in writing not to take such action and should be estopped and precluded therefrom and such
other defenses, if any, as counsel for the Issuer Trustee or the Issuer Trust may assert. If any
Issuer Trustee or Administrator takes action in violation of this Section 10.9, the Depositor
agrees, for the benefit of the Holders, that at the expense of the Depositor, it shall file an
answer with the bankruptcy court or otherwise properly contest the filing of such petition by such
Person against the Depositor or the commencement of such action and raise the defense that such
Person has agreed in writing not to take such action and should be estopped and precluded therefrom
and such other defenses, if any, as counsel for the Depositor or the Issuer Trust may assert. The
provisions of this Section 10.9 shall survive the termination of this Trust Agreement.

Section 10.11. Trust Indenture Act; Conflict with Trust Indenture Act.

     (a) Trust Indenture Act; Application. (i) This Trust Agreement is subject to the provisions of
the Trust Indenture Act that are required to be a part of this Trust Agreement and shall, to the
extent applicable, be governed by such provisions; (ii) if and to the extent that any provision of
this Trust Agreement limits, qualifies or conflicts with the duties imposed by Sections 310 to 317,
inclusive, of the Trust Indenture Act, such imposed duties shall control; (iii) for purposes of
this Trust Agreement, the Property Trustee, to the extent permitted by applicable law and/or the
rules and regulations of the Commission, shall be the only Issuer Trustee which is a trustee for
the purposes of the Trust Indenture Act; and (iv) the application of the Trust Indenture Act to
this Trust Agreement shall not affect the nature of the Capital

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Securities and the Common Securities as equity securities representing undivided beneficial
interests in the assets of the Issuer Trust.

     (b) Lists of Holders of Capital Securities. (i) Each of the Depositor and the Administrators
on behalf of the Issuer Trust shall provide the Property Trustee with such information as is
required under Section 312(a) of the Trust Indenture Act at the times and in the manner provided in
Section 312(a) and (ii) the Property Trustee shall comply with its obligations under
Sections 310(b), 311 and 312(b) of the Trust Indenture Act.

     (c) Reports by the Property Trustee. Within 60 days after May 15 of each year, the Property
Trustee shall provide to the Holders of the Trust Securities such reports as are required by
Section 313 of the Trust Indenture Act, if any, in the form, in the manner and at the times
provided by Section 313 of the Trust Indenture Act. The Property Trustee shall also comply with
the requirements of Section 313(d) of the Trust Indenture Act.

     (d) Periodic Reports to Property Trustee. Each of the Depositor and the Administrators on
behalf of the Issuer Trust shall provide to the Property Trustee, the Commission and the Holders of
the Trust Securities, as applicable, such documents, reports and information as required by
Section 314(a)(1)–(3) (if any) of the Trust Indenture Act and the compliance certificates required
by Section 314(a)(4) and (c) of the Trust Indenture Act (provided that any certificate to be
provided pursuant to Section 314(a)(4) of the Trust Indenture Act shall be provided within 120 days
of the end of each fiscal year of the Issuer Trust).

     (e) Evidence of Compliance with Conditions Precedent. Each of the Depositor and the
Administrators on behalf of the Issuer Trust shall provide to the Property Trustee such evidence of
compliance with any conditions precedent, if any, provided for in this Trust Agreement which relate
to any of the matters set forth in Section 314(c) of the Trust Indenture Act. Any certificate or
opinion required to be given pursuant to Section 314(c) shall comply with Section 314(e) of the
Trust Indenture Act.

     (f) Disclosure of Information. The disclosure of information as to the names and addresses of
the Holders of Trust Securities in accordance with Section 312 of the Trust Indenture Act,
regardless of the source from which such information was derived, shall not be deemed to be a
violation of any existing law or any law hereafter enacted which does not specifically refer to
Section 312 of the Trust Indenture Act, nor shall the Property Trustee be held accountable by
reason of mailing any material pursuant to a request made under Section 312(b) of the Trust
Indenture Act.

Section 10.12. Acceptance of Terms of Trust Agreement, Guarantee and Indenture.

     THE RECEIPT AND ACCEPTANCE OF A TRUST SECURITY OR ANY INTEREST THEREIN BY OR ON BEHALF OF A
HOLDER OR ANY BENEFICIAL OWNER, WITHOUT ANY SIGNATURE OR FURTHER MANIFESTATION OF ASSENT, SHALL
CONSTITUTE THE UNCONDITIONAL ACCEPTANCE BY THE HOLDER AND ALL OTHERS HAVING A BENEFICIAL INTEREST
IN SUCH TRUST SECURITY OF ALL THE TERMS AND PROVISIONS OF THIS TRUST AGREEMENT, THE GUARANTEE
AGREEMENT AND THE INDENTURE, AND THE AGREEMENT TO THE SUBORDINATION PROVISIONS AND OTHER TERMS OF
THE GUARANTEE AGREEMENT AND THE INDENTURE, AND SHALL CONSTITUTE THE AGREEMENT

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OF THE ISSUER TRUST, SUCH HOLDER AND SUCH OTHERS THAT THE TERMS AND PROVISIONS OF THIS TRUST
AGREEMENT SHALL BE BINDING, OPERATIVE AND EFFECTIVE AS BETWEEN THE ISSUER TRUST AND SUCH HOLDER AND
SUCH OTHERS.

Section 10.13. Waiver of Jury Trial.

     EACH OF THE COMPANY AND THE PROPERTY TRUSTEE HEREBY IRREVOCABLY WAIVES, TO THE FULLEST EXTENT
PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, ANY AND ALL RIGHT TO TRIAL BY JURY IN ANY LEGAL PROCEEDING ARISING OUT
OF OR RELATING TO THIS INDENTURE, THE NOTES OR THE TRANSACTION CONTEMPLATED HEREBY.

Section 10.14. Force Majeure.

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

[SIGNATURES APPEAR ON THE FOLLOWING PAGE]

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     IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties have caused this Amended and Restated Trust Agreement to be
duly executed as of the day and year first above written.

	 	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 	 	M&T BANK CORPORATION,	 	 
	 	 	    as Depositor	 	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	By:
	 	/s/ Ayan Das Gupta
 

Name: Ayan D. Gupta
	 	 
	 

	 	 	 	Title: Group Vice President	 	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 	 	THE BANK OF NEW YORK,	 	 
	 	 	    as Property Trustee	 	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	By:
	 	/s/ Scott I. Klein
 

Name: Scott I. Klein
	 	 
	 

	 	 	 	Title: Assistant Treasurer	 	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 	 	BNYM (DELAWARE),	 	 
	 	 	    as Delaware Trustee	 	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	By:
	 	/s/ Kris K. Gullo
 

Name: Kristine K. Gullo
	 	 
	 

	 	 	 	Title: Vice President	 	 

	 	 	 
	Subscribed to and Accepted by,
	 	 
	as the Initial Administrators:
	 	 
	 
	 	 
	  /s/ Randall A. Krolewicz
 

	 	 
	 
	 	 
	  /s/ Brian R. Yoshida
 

	 	 

 

 

EXHIBIT B

     [IF THE CAPITAL SECURITIES CERTIFICATE IS TO BE A GLOBAL CAPITAL SECURITIES CERTIFICATE,
INSERT – This Capital Securities Certificate is a Global Capital Securities Certificate within the
meaning of the Trust Agreement hereinafter referred to and is registered in the name of a
Depositary or a nominee of a Depositary. This Capital Securities Certificate is exchangeable for
Capital Securities Certificates registered in the name of a person other than the Depositary or its
nominee only in the limited circumstances described in the Trust Agreement and may not be
transferred except as a whole by the Depositary to a nominee of the Depositary or by a nominee of
the Depositary to the Depositary or another nominee of the Depositary, except in the limited
circumstances described in the Trust Agreement.

     Unless this Capital Securities Certificate is presented by an authorized representative of The
Depository Trust Company, a New York Corporation (“DTC”), to M&T Capital Trust IV or its agent for
registration of transfer, exchange or payment, and any Capital Securities Certificate issued is
registered in the name of such nominee as is requested by an authorized representative of DTC (and
any payment is made to such entity as is requested by an authorized representative of DTC), ANY
TRANSFER, PLEDGE OR OTHER USE HEREOF FOR VALUE OR OTHERWISE BY OR TO A PERSON IS WRONGFUL inasmuch
as the registered owner hereof, has an interest herein.]

 

 

			
	CERTIFICATE NUMBER
	 	NUMBER OF PREFERRED SECURITIES
	 	 	 
	P-[ ]	 	 

CUSIP NO.

CERTIFICATE EVIDENCING CAPITAL SECURITIES

OF

M&T CAPITAL TRUST IV

CAPITAL SECURITIES

(LIQUIDATION AMOUNT $25 PER CAPITAL SECURITY)

     M&T Capital Trust IV, a statutory trust created under the laws of the State of Delaware (the
“Issuer Trust”), hereby certifies that Cede & Co. (the “Holder”) is the registered owner of
•,000,000 Capital Securities of the Issuer Trust representing a preferred undivided beneficial
interest in the assets of the Issuer Trust and designated the M&T Capital Trust IV Capital
Securities (liquidation amount $25 per Capital Security) (the “Capital Securities”). The Capital
Securities are transferable on the books and records of the Issuer Trust, in person or by a duly
authorized attorney, upon surrender of this certificate duly endorsed and in proper form for
transfer as provided in Section 5.5 of the Trust Agreement (as defined below). The designations,
rights, privileges, restrictions, preferences and other terms and provisions of the Capital
Securities are set forth in, and this certificate and the Capital Securities represented hereby are
issued and shall in all respects be subject to the terms and provisions of, the Amended and
Restated Trust Agreement of the Issuer Trust, dated as of January 31, 2008, as the same may be
amended from time to time (the “Trust Agreement”), among M&T Bank Corporation as Depositor, The
Bank of New York, as Property Trustee, BNYM (Delaware), as Delaware Trustee, and the Holders of
Trust Securities, including the designation of the terms of the Capital Securities as set forth
therein. The Holder is entitled to the benefits of the Guarantee Agreement entered into by M&T
Bank Corporation, a New York corporation, and The Bank of New York, as guarantee trustee, dated as
of January 31, 2008 (the “Guarantee Agreement”), to the extent provided therein. The Issuer Trust
will furnish a copy of the Trust Agreement and the Guarantee Agreement to the Holder without charge
upon written request to the Issuer Trust at its principal place of business.

     Upon receipt of this certificate, the Holder is bound by the Trust Agreement and is entitled
to the benefits thereunder.

 

 

     IN WITNESS WHEREOF, one of the Administrators of the Issuer Trust has executed this
certificate this                      day of January, 2008.

	 	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 	 	M&T CAPITAL TRUST IV	 	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	By:	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	 	 	Name:

	 	 
	 

	 	 	 	Administrator	 	 

AUTHENTICATION

This certificate is a Capital Securities Certificate described in the Trust Agreement.

The Bank of New York, as Property Trustee

	 	 	 	 	 
	By:
	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	 

Name:
	 	 
	 

	 	Title:	 	 

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ASSIGNMENT

     FOR VALUE RECEIVED, the undersigned assigns and transfers this Capital Securities Certificate
to:

 

(Insert assignee’s social security or

tax identification number)

 

(Insert address and zip code of assignee)

and irrevocably appoints

 

 

 

agent to transfer this Capital Securities Certificate on the books of the
Issuer Trust. The agent may substitute another to act for him or her.

Date:                                          

	 	 	 	 	 
	Signature:
	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	 

(Sign exactly as your name appears on

the other side of this Capital Securities

Certificate)
	 	 

The signature(s) should be guaranteed by an eligible guarantor institution (banks, stockbrokers,
savings and loan associations and credit unions with membership in an approved signature guarantee
medallion program), pursuant to S.E.C. Rule 17Ad-15.EX-4.4

 

Exhibit 4.4

 

GUARANTEE AGREEMENT

Between

M&T BANK CORPORATION

(as Guarantor)

and

THE BANK OF NEW YORK

(as Guarantee Trustee)

dated as of

January 31, 2008

 

 

 

Certain Sections of this Guarantee Agreement relating to

Sections 310 through 318 of the

Trust Indenture Act of 1939:

	 	 	 	 	 
	Trust Indenture	 	 	 	Guarantee Agreement
	Act Section	 	 	 	Section
	Section 310
	 	(a) (1)	 	4.1 (a)
	 
	 	(a) (2)	 	4.1 (a)
	 
	 	(a) (3)	 	Not Applicable
	 
	 	(a) (4)	 	Not Applicable
	 
	 	(b)	 	2.8, 4.1 (c)
	Section 311
	 	(a)	 	2.2(b)
	 
	 	(b)	 	2.2(b)
	Section 312
	 	(a)	 	2.2 (a)
	 
	 	(b)	 	2.2 (b)
	 
	 	(c)	 	Not Applicable
	Section 313
	 	(a)	 	2.3
	 
	 	(a) (4)	 	2.3
	 
	 	(b)	 	2.3
	 
	 	(c)	 	2.3
	 
	 	(d)	 	2.3
	Section 314
	 	(a)	 	2.4
	 
	 	(b)	 	Not Applicable
	 
	 	(c) (1)	 	2.5
	 
	 	(c) (2)	 	2.5
	 
	 	(c) (3)	 	2.5
	 
	 	(e)	 	1.1, 2.5, 3.2
	 
	 	(f)	 	2.1, 3.2
	Section 315
	 	(a)	 	3.1 (d)
	 
	 	(b)	 	2.7
	 
	 	(c)	 	3.1 (c)
	 
	 	(d)	 	3.1 (d)
	 
	 	(e)	 	Not Applicable
	Section 316
	 	(a)	 	1.1, 2.6, 5.4
	 
	 	(a) (1) (A)	 	5.4
	 
	 	(a) (1) (B)	 	5.4
	 
	 	(a) (2)	 	Not Applicable
	 
	 	(b)	 	5.3
	 
	 	(c)	 	8.2
	Section 317
	 	(a) (1)	 	Not Applicable
	 
	 	(a) (2)	 	Not Applicable
	 
	 	(b)	 	Not Applicable
	Section 318
	 	(a)	 	2.1

Note: This reconciliation and tie shall not, for any purpose, be deemed to be a part of the
Guarantee Agreement.

 

 

TABLE OF CONTENTS

	 	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 	 	 	 	Page	 
	 
	 	ARTICLE I	 	 	 	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 
	 	DEFINITIONS	 	 	 	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	Section 1.1.
	 	Definitions	 	 	2	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 
	 	ARTICLE II	 	 	 	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 
	 	TRUST INDENTURE ACT	 	 	 	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	Section 2.1.
	 	Trust Indenture Act; Application	 	 	5	 
	Section 2.2.
	 	List of Holders	 	 	6	 
	Section 2.3.
	 	Reports by the Guarantee Trustee	 	 	6	 
	Section 2.4.
	 	Periodic Reports to the Guarantee Trustee	 	 	6	 
	Section 2.5.
	 	Evidence of Compliance with Conditions Precedent	 	 	6	 
	Section 2.6.
	 	Events of Default; Waiver	 	 	6	 
	Section 2.7.
	 	Event of Default; Notice	 	 	7	 
	Section 2.8.
	 	Conflicting Interests	 	 	7	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 
	 	ARTICLE III	 	 	 	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 
	 	POWERS, DUTIES AND RIGHTS  OF THE GUARANTEE TRUSTEE	 	 	 	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	Section 3.1.
	 	Powers and Duties of the Guarantee Trustee	 	 	7	 
	Section 3.2.
	 	Certain Rights of Guarantee Trustee	 	 	9	 
	Section 3.3.
	 	Indemnity	 	 	10	 
	Section 3.4.
	 	Expenses	 	 	11	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 
	 	ARTICLE IV	 	 	 	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 
	 	GUARANTEE TRUSTEE	 	 	 	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	Section 4.1.
	 	Guarantee Trustee; Eligibility	 	 	11	 
	Section 4.2.
	 	Appointment, Removal and Resignation of the Guarantee Trustee	 	 	11	 

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	 	ARTICLE V	 	 	 	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 
	 	GUARANTEE	 	 	 	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	Section 5.1.
	 	Guarantee	 	 	12	 
	Section 5.2.
	 	Waiver of Notice and Demand	 	 	12	 
	Section 5.3.
	 	Obligations Not Affected	 	 	13	 
	Section 5.4.
	 	Rights of Holders	 	 	14	 
	Section 5.5.
	 	Guarantee of Payment	 	 	14	 
	Section 5.6.
	 	Subrogation	 	 	14	 
	Section 5.7.
	 	Independent Obligations	 	 	14	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 
	 	ARTICLE VI	 	 	 	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 
	 	COVENANTS AND SUBORDINATION	 	 	 	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	Section 6.1.
	 	Subordination	 	 	15	 
	Section 6.2.
	 	Pari Passu Guarantees	 	 	15	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 
	 	ARTICLE VII	 	 	 	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 
	 	TERMINATION	 	 	 	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	Section 7.1.
	 	Termination	 	 	15	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 
	 	ARTICLE VIII	 	 	 	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 
	 	MISCELLANEOUS	 	 	 	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	Section 8.1.
	 	Successors and Assigns	 	 	15	 
	Section 8.2.
	 	Amendments	 	 	16	 
	Section 8.3.
	 	Notices	 	 	16	 
	Section 8.4.
	 	Benefit	 	 	17	 
	Section 8.5.
	 	Interpretation	 	 	17	 
	Section 8.6.
	 	Governing Law	 	 	18	 
	Section 8.7.
	 	Counterparts	 	 	18	 
	Section 8.8.
	 	Waiver of Jury Trial	 	 	18	 
	Section 8.9.
	 	Force Majeure	 	 	18	 

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GUARANTEE AGREEMENT

     This GUARANTEE AGREEMENT, dated as of January 31, 2008 is executed and delivered by M&T BANK
CORPORATION, a New York corporation (the “Guarantor”), having its principal office at One M&T
Plaza, Buffalo, New York 14203 and THE BANK OF NEW YORK, a New York banking corporation, as
trustee (the “Guarantee Trustee”), for the benefit of the Holders (as defined herein) from time to
time of the Capital Securities (as defined herein) of M&T Capital Trust IV, a Delaware statutory
trust (the “Issuer Trust”).

     WHEREAS, pursuant to an Amended and Restated Trust Agreement (the “Trust Agreement”), dated as
of January 31, 2008, among the Guarantor, as Depositor, The Bank of New York, as Property Trustee
(the “Property Trustee”), BNYM (Delaware), as Delaware Trustee (the “Delaware Trustee”)
(collectively, the “Issuer Trustees”) and the Holders from time to time of preferred undivided
beneficial interests in the assets of the Issuer Trust, the Issuer Trust is issuing up to
$350,000,000 aggregate Liquidation Amount (as defined herein) of its 8.500% Enhanced Trust
Preferred Securities (Liquidation Amount $25 per Capital Security) (the “Initial Capital
Securities”) and after the date hereof, the Issuer Trust may issue pursuant to the Trust Agreement
additional Enhanced Trust Preferred Securities ( the “Additional Capital Securities, and together
with the “Initial Capital Securities”, the “Capital Securities”), representing preferred undivided
beneficial interests in the assets of the Issuer Trust and having the terms set forth in the Trust
Agreement;

     WHEREAS, the Capital Securities will be issued by the Issuer Trust and the proceeds thereof,
together with the proceeds from the issuance of the Issuer Trust’s Common Securities (as defined
herein), will be used to purchase the Junior Subordinated Debentures due January 31, 2068 (as
defined in the Trust Agreement) (the “Junior Subordinated Debentures”) of the Guarantor which will
be deposited with The Bank of New York, as Property Trustee under the Trust Agreement, as trust
assets; and

     WHEREAS, as incentive for the Holders to purchase Capital Securities, the Guarantor desires
irrevocably and unconditionally to agree, to the extent set forth herein, to pay to the Holders of
the Capital Securities the Guarantee Payments (as defined herein) and to make certain other
payments on the terms and conditions set forth herein.

     NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the purchase of Capital Securities by each Holder, which
purchase the Guarantor hereby acknowledges shall benefit the Guarantor, and intending to be legally
bound hereby, the Guarantor executes and delivers this Guarantee Agreement for the benefit of the
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ARTICLE I

DEFINITIONS

Section 1.1. Definitions.

     As used in this Guarantee Agreement, the terms set forth below shall, unless the context
otherwise requires, have the following meanings. Capitalized terms used but not otherwise defined
herein shall have the meanings assigned to such terms in the Trust Agreement or, if not defined
therein, in the Indenture as in effect on the date hereof.

     “Additional Amount” has the meaning specified in the Trust Agreement.

     “Additional Capital Securities” shall have the meaning specified in the first recital of this
Guarantee Agreement.

     “Affiliate” of any specified Person means any other Person directly or indirectly controlling
or controlled by or under direct or indirect common control with such specified Person. For the
purposes of this definition, “control” when used with respect to any specified Person means the
power to direct the management and policies of such Person, directly or indirectly, whether through
the ownership of voting securities, by contract or otherwise; and the terms “controlling” and
“controlled” have meanings correlative to the foregoing.

     “Capital Securities” shall have the meaning specified in the first recital of this Guarantee
Agreement.

     “Common Securities” means the securities representing common undivided beneficial interests in
the assets of the Issuer Trust.

     “Delaware Trustee” shall have the meaning specified in the first recital of this Guarantee
Agreement.

     “Distributions” means preferential cumulative cash distributions accumulating from January 31,
2008 and payable quarterly in arrears on March 15, June 15, September 15, and December 15 of each
year, commencing March 15, 2008 at the annual rate of 8.500% of the Liquidation Amount.

     “Event of Default” means (a) a default by the Guarantor in any of its payment obligations
under this Guarantee Agreement, or (b) a default by the Guarantor in any other obligation hereunder
that remains unremedied for 30 days.

     “Guarantee Agreement” means this Guarantee Agreement, as modified, amended or supplemented
from time to time.

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     “Guarantee Payments” means the following payments or distributions, without duplication, with
respect to the Capital Securities, to the extent not paid or made by or on behalf of the Issuer
Trust: (a) any accumulated and unpaid Distributions (as defined in the Trust Agreement) required to
be paid on the Capital Securities, to the extent the Issuer Trust shall have funds on hand
available therefor at such time, (b) the Redemption Price, with respect to the Capital Securities
called for redemption by the Issuer Trust to the extent that the Issuer Trust shall have funds on
hand available therefor at such time, and (c) upon a voluntary or involuntary termination,
winding-up or liquidation of the Issuer Trust, unless Junior Subordinated Debentures are
distributed to the Holders, the lesser of (i) the Liquidation Amount and all accumulated and unpaid
Distributions to the date of payment to the extent the Issuer Trust shall have funds on hand
available to make such payment at such time and (ii) the amount of assets of the Issuer Trust
remaining available for distribution to Holders in liquidation of the Issuer Trust (in either case,
the “Liquidation Distribution”).

     “Guarantee Trustee” means The Bank of New York, until a Successor Guarantee Trustee has been
appointed and has accepted such appointment pursuant to the terms of this Guarantee Agreement and
thereafter means each such Successor Guarantee Trustee.

     “Guarantor” shall have the meaning specified in the first paragraph of this Guarantee
Agreement.

     “Holder” means any holder, as registered on the books and records of the Issuer Trust, of any
Capital Securities; provided, however, that, in determining whether the holders of the requisite
percentage of Capital Securities have given any request, notice, consent or waiver hereunder,
“Holder” shall not include the Guarantor, the Guarantee Trustee, or any Affiliate of the Guarantor
or the Guarantee Trustee.

     “Indenture” means the Junior Subordinated Indenture dated as of January 31, 2008 between M&T
Bank Corporation and The Bank of New York, as trustee, as amended and supplemented by the First
Supplemental Indenture thereto, dated as of January 31, 2008, as the same may be modified, amended
or supplemented from time to time.

     “Initial Capital Securities” shall have the meaning specified in the first recital of this
Guarantee Agreement.

     “Issuer Trust” shall have the meaning specified in the first paragraph of this Guarantee
Agreement.

     “Issuer Trustees” shall have the meaning specified in the first recital of this Guarantee
Agreement.

     “Junior Subordinated Debentures” shall have the meaning specified in the first recital of this
Guarantee Agreement.

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     “Like Amount” means (a) with respect to a redemption of Capital Securities, Capital Securities
having a Liquidation Amount equal to the principal amount of Junior Subordinated Debentures to be
contemporaneously redeemed in accordance with the Indenture, the proceeds of which will be used to
pay the Redemption Price of such Capital Securities, (b) with respect to a distribution of Junior
Subordinated Debentures to Holders of Capital Securities in connection with a dissolution or
liquidation of the Issuer Trust, Junior Subordinated Debentures having a principal amount equal to
the Liquidation Amount of the Capital Securities of the Holder to whom such Junior Subordinated
Debentures are distributed, and (c) with respect to any distribution of an Additional Amount to
Holders of Capital Securities, Junior Subordinated Debentures having a principal amount equal to
the Liquidation Amount of the Capital Securities in respect of which such distribution is made.

     “Liquidation Amount” means the stated amount of $25 per Capital Security.

     “Majority in Liquidation Amount of the Capital Securities” means, except as provided by the
Trust Indenture Act, Capital Securities representing more than 50% of the aggregate Liquidation
Amount of all then outstanding Capital Securities issued by the Issuer Trust.

     “Officers’ Certificate” means, with respect to any Person, a certificate signed by the
Chairman of the Board, Chief Executive Officer, President or a Vice President, and by the Chief
Financial Officer, Treasurer, an Associate Treasurer, an Assistant Treasurer, the Secretary or an
Assistant Secretary of such Person, and delivered to the Guarantee Trustee. Any Officers’
Certificate delivered with respect to compliance with a condition or covenant provided for in this
Guarantee Agreement shall include:

          (a) a statement by each officer signing the Officers’ Certificate that such officer has read
the covenant or condition and the definitions relating thereto;

          (b) a brief statement of the nature and scope of the examination or investigation undertaken
by such officer in rendering the Officers’ Certificate;

          (c) a statement that such officer has made such examination or investigation as, in such
officer’s opinion, is necessary to enable such officer to express an informed opinion as to whether
or not such covenant or condition has been complied with; and

          (d) a statement as to whether, in the opinion of such officer, such condition or covenant has
been complied with.

     “Person” means a legal person, including any individual, corporation, estate, partnership,
joint venture, association, joint stock company, limited liability company, trust, unincorporated
association, or government or any agency or political subdivision thereof, or any other entity of
whatever nature.

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     “Property Trustee” shall have the meaning specified in the first recital of this Guarantee
Agreement.

     “Redemption Date” means, with respect to any Capital Security to be redeemed, the date fixed
for such redemption by or pursuant to the Trust Agreement; provided that each Junior Subordinated
Debenture Redemption Date (as such term is defined in the Indenture) and the stated maturity of the
Junior Subordinated Debentures shall be a Redemption Date for a Like Amount of Capital Securities.

     “Redemption Price” shall have the meaning specified in the Trust Agreement.

     “Responsible Officer” means, when used with respect to the Guarantee Trustee, any officer
assigned to the Corporate Trust Office, including any managing director, principal, vice president,
assistant vice president, assistant treasurer, assistant secretary or any other officer of the
Guarantee Trustee customarily performing functions similar to those performed by any of the above
designated officers and having direct responsibility for the administration of this Guarantee
Agreement, and also, with respect to a particular matter, any other officer to whom such matter is
referred because of such officer’s knowledge of and familiarity with the particular subject.

     “Senior Indebtedness” shall have the meaning specified in the Indenture.

     “Successor Guarantee Trustee” means a successor Guarantee Trustee possessing the
qualifications to act as Guarantee Trustee under Section 4.1.

     “Trust Agreement” means the Amended and Restated Trust Agreement, dated January 31, 2008,
executed by M&T Bank Corporation, as Depositor, BNYM (Delaware), as Delaware Trustee, and The Bank
of New York, as Property Trustee and subscribed to and accepted by the Administrators.

     “Trust Indenture Act” means the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, as amended by the Trust Indenture
Reform Act of 1990, or any successor statute, in each case as amended from time to time.

ARTICLE II

TRUST INDENTURE ACT

Section 2.1. Trust Indenture Act; Application.

     If any provision hereof limits, qualifies or conflicts with a provision of the Trust Indenture
Act that is required under such Act to be a part of and govern this Guarantee Agreement, the
provision of the Trust Indenture Act shall control. If any provision of this Guarantee Agreement
modifies or excludes any provision of the Trust Indenture Act that may be so modified or excluded,
the latter provision shall be deemed to apply to this Guarantee Agreement as so modified or
excluded, as the case may be.

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Section 2.2. List of Holders.

     (a) In the event that the Guarantee Trustee is not also acting as the Securities Registrar,
the Guarantor will furnish or cause to be furnished to the Guarantee Trustee:

               (i) not less than one day nor more than 15 days prior to every Interest Payment Date,
a list, in such form as the Guarantee Trustee may reasonably require, of the names and
addresses of the Holders as of such date; and

               (ii) at such other times as the Guarantee Trustee may request in writing, within 30
days after the receipt by the Guarantor of any such request, a list of similar form and
content as of a date not more than 15 days prior to the time such list is furnished.

     (b) The Guarantee Trustee shall comply with the requirements of Section 312(b) of the Trust
Indenture Act.

Section 2.3. Reports by the Guarantee Trustee.

     Within 60 days of May 15 of each year commencing May 15, 2008, the Guarantee Trustee shall
provide to the Holders such reports, if any, as are required by Section 313 of the Trust Indenture
Act in the form and in the manner provided by Section 313 of the Trust Indenture Act. The
Guarantee Trustee shall also comply with the requirements of Section 313(d) of the Trust Indenture
Act.

Section 2.4. Periodic Reports to the Guarantee Trustee.

     The Guarantor shall provide to the Guarantee Trustee and the Holders such documents, reports
and information, if any, as required by Section 314 of the Trust Indenture Act and the compliance
certificate required by Section 314 of the Trust Indenture Act, in the form, in the manner and at
the times required by Section 314 of the Trust Indenture Act.

Section 2.5. Evidence of Compliance with Conditions Precedent.

     The Guarantor shall provide to the Guarantee Trustee such evidence of compliance with such
conditions precedent, if any, provided for in this Guarantee Agreement that relate to any of the
matters set forth in Section 314(c) of the Trust Indenture Act. Any certificate or opinion
required to be given by an officer pursuant to Section 314(c)(1) may be given in the form of an
Officers’ Certificate.

Section 2.6. Events of Default; Waiver.

     The Holders of a Majority in Liquidation Amount of the Capital Securities may, by vote, on
behalf of the Holders, waive any past Event of Default and its consequences. Upon such waiver, any
such Event of Default shall cease to exist, and any Event of Default arising therefrom shall be
deemed to have been cured, for every purpose of this

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Guarantee Agreement, but no such waiver shall extend to any subsequent or other default or
Event of Default or impair any right consequent therefrom.

Section 2.7. Event of Default; Notice.

     (a) The Guarantee Trustee shall, within 90 days after the occurrence of an Event of Default,
transmit by mail, first class postage prepaid, to the Holders, notices of all Events of Default
known to the Guarantee Trustee, unless such Events of Default have been cured before the giving of
such notice; provided that, except in the case of a default in the payment of a Guarantee Payment,
the Guarantee Trustee shall be protected in withholding such notice if and so long as the Board of
Directors, the executive committee or a trust committee of directors and/or Responsible Officers of
the Guarantee Trustee in good faith determines that the withholding of such notice is in the
interests of the Holders.

     (b) The Guarantee Trustee shall not be deemed to have knowledge of any Event of Default unless
a Responsible Officer charged with the administration of this Guarantee Agreement shall have
received written notice of such Event of Default.

Section 2.8. Conflicting Interests.

     The Trust Agreement shall be deemed to be specifically described in this Guarantee Agreement
for the purposes of clause (i) of the first proviso contained in Section 310(b) of the Trust
Indenture Act.

ARTICLE III

POWERS, DUTIES AND RIGHTS

OF THE GUARANTEE TRUSTEE

Section 3.1. Powers and Duties of the Guarantee Trustee.

     (a) This Guarantee Agreement shall be held by the Guarantee Trustee for the benefit of the
Holders, and the Guarantee Trustee shall not transfer this Guarantee Agreement to any Person except
to a Holder exercising his or her rights pursuant to Section 5.4(d) or to a Successor Guarantee
Trustee on acceptance by such Successor Guarantee Trustee of its appointment to act as Successor
Guarantee Trustee hereunder. The right, title and interest of the Guarantee Trustee, as such,
hereunder shall automatically vest in any Successor Guarantee Trustee, upon acceptance by such
Successor Guarantee Trustee of its appointment hereunder, and such vesting and cessation of title
shall be effective whether or not conveyancing documents have been executed and delivered pursuant
to the appointment of such Successor Guarantee Trustee.

     (b) If an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, the Guarantee Trustee shall enforce
this Guarantee Agreement for the benefit of the Holders.

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     (c) The Guarantee Trustee, before the occurrence of any Event of Default and after the curing
of all Events of Default that may have occurred, shall be obligated to perform only such duties as
are specifically set forth in this Guarantee Agreement (including pursuant to Section 2.1), and no
implied covenants shall be read into this Guarantee Agreement against the Guarantee Trustee. If an
Event of Default has occurred (that has not been cured or waived pursuant to Section 2.6), the
Guarantee Trustee shall exercise such of the rights and powers vested in it by this Guarantee
Agreement, and use the same degree of care and skill in its exercise thereof, as a prudent person
would exercise or use under the circumstances in the conduct of his or her own affairs.

     (d) No provision of this Guarantee Agreement shall be construed to relieve the Guarantee
Trustee from liability for its own negligent action, its own negligent failure to act or its own
willful misconduct, except that:

          (i) prior to the occurrence of any Event of Default and after the curing or waiving of
all such Events of Default that may have occurred:

                    (A) the duties and obligations of the Guarantee Trustee shall be determined
solely by the express provisions of this Guarantee Agreement (including pursuant to
Section 2.1), and the Guarantee Trustee shall not be liable except for the
performance of such duties and obligations as are specifically set forth in this
Guarantee Agreement (including pursuant to Section 2.1), and no implied covenants
or obligations, shall be read into this Guarantee Agreement against the Guarantee
Trustee; and

                    (B) in the absence of bad faith on the part of the Guarantee Trustee, the
Guarantee Trustee may conclusively rely, as to the truth of the statements and the
correctness of the opinions expressed therein, upon any certificates or opinions
furnished to the Guarantee Trustee and conforming to the requirements of this
Guarantee Agreement; but in the case of any such certificates or opinions that by
any provision hereof or of the Trust Indenture Act are specifically required to be
furnished to the Guarantee Trustee, the Guarantee Trustee shall be under a duty to
examine the same to determine whether or not they conform to the requirements of
this Guarantee Agreement;

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

          (iii) the Guarantee Trustee shall not be liable with respect to any action taken or
omitted to be taken by it in good faith in accordance with the direction of the Holders of
not less than a Majority in Liquidation Amount of the Capital Securities relating to the
time, method and place of conducting any proceeding for

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any remedy available to the Guarantee Trustee, or exercising any trust or power
conferred upon the Guarantee Trustee under this Guarantee Agreement; and

          (iv) no provision of this Guarantee Agreement shall require the Guarantee Trustee to
expend or risk its own funds or otherwise incur personal financial liability in the
performance of any of its duties or in the exercise of any of its rights or powers if the
Guarantee Trustee shall have reasonable grounds for believing that the repayment of such
funds or liability is not assured to it under the terms of this Guarantee Agreement or
adequate indemnity against such risk or liability is not reasonably assured to it.

Section 3.2. Certain Rights of Guarantee Trustee.

     (a) Subject to the provisions of Section 3.1:

          (i) the Guarantee Trustee may conclusively rely and shall be fully protected in acting
or refraining from acting upon any resolution, certificate, statement, instrument, opinion,
report, notice, request, direction, consent, order, bond, debenture, note, other evidence
of indebtedness or other paper or document reasonably believed by it to be genuine and to
have been signed, sent or presented by the proper party or parties;

          (ii) any direction or act of the Guarantor contemplated by this Guarantee Agreement
shall be sufficiently evidenced by an Officers’ Certificate unless otherwise prescribed
herein;

          (iii) whenever, in the administration of this Guarantee Agreement, the Guarantee
Trustee shall deem it desirable that a matter be proved or established before taking,
suffering or omitting to take any action hereunder, the Guarantee Trustee (unless other
evidence is herein specifically prescribed) may, in the absence of bad faith on its part,
request and conclusively rely upon an Officers’ Certificate which, upon receipt of such
request from the Guarantee Trustee, shall be promptly delivered by the Guarantor;

          (iv) the Guarantee Trustee may consult with legal counsel, and the advice or opinion
of such legal counsel with respect to legal matters shall be full and complete
authorization and protection in respect of any action taken, suffered or omitted to be
taken by it hereunder in good faith and in accordance with such advice or opinion. Such
legal counsel may be legal counsel to the Guarantor or any of its Affiliates and may be one
of its employees. The Guarantee Trustee shall have the right at any time to seek
instructions concerning the administration of this Guarantee Agreement from any court of
competent jurisdiction;

          (v) the Guarantee Trustee shall be under no obligation to exercise any of the rights
or powers vested in it by this Guarantee Agreement at the request or direction of any
Holder, unless such Holder shall have provided to the Guarantee

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Trustee such security and indemnity satisfactory to it, against the costs, expenses
(including attorneys’ fees and expenses) and liabilities that might be incurred by it in
complying with such request or direction, including such reasonable advances as may be
requested by the Guarantee Trustee;

          (vi) the Guarantee Trustee shall not be bound to make any investigation into the facts
or matters stated in any resolution, certificate, statement, instrument, opinion, report,
notice, request, direction, consent, order, bond, debenture, note, other evidence of
indebtedness or other paper or document, but the Guarantee Trustee, in its discretion, may
make such further inquiry or investigation into such facts or matters as it may see fit;

          (vii) the Guarantee Trustee may execute any of the trusts or powers hereunder or
perform any duties hereunder either directly or by or through its agents or attorneys, and
the Guarantee Trustee shall not be responsible for any negligence or willful misconduct on
the part of any such agent or attorney appointed with due care by it hereunder. Nothing
herein shall be construed as limiting or restricting the right of the Guarantor to bring
any action directly against any agent or attorney appointed by the Guarantee Trustee for
any negligence or willful misconduct on the part of such agent or attorney; and

          (viii) whenever in the administration of this Guarantee Agreement the Guarantee
Trustee shall deem it desirable to receive instructions with respect to enforcing any
remedy or right or taking any other action hereunder, the Guarantee Trustee (A) may request
instructions from the Holders, (B) may refrain from enforcing such remedy or right or
taking such other action until such instructions are received and (C) shall be fully
protected in relying upon or acting in accordance with such instructions.

     (b) No provision of this Guarantee Agreement shall be deemed to impose any duty or obligation
on the Guarantee Trustee to perform any act or acts or exercise any right, power, duty or
obligation conferred or imposed on it in any jurisdiction in which it shall be illegal, or in which
the Guarantee Trustee shall be unqualified or incompetent in accordance with applicable law, to
perform any such act or acts or to exercise any such right, power, duty or obligation. No
permissive power or authority available to the Guarantee Trustee shall be construed to be a duty to
act in accordance with such power and authority.

Section 3.3. Indemnity.

     The Guarantor agrees to indemnify the Guarantee Trustee, its directors, officers, employees
and agents for, and to hold them harmless against, any loss, liability, claim, damage or expense
incurred without negligence, willful misconduct or bad faith on the part of the Guarantee Trustee,
its directors, officers, employees and agents, arising out of or in connection with the acceptance
or administration of this Guarantee Agreement, including the costs and expenses of defending
against any claim or liability in connection

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with the exercise or performance of any of its powers or duties hereunder. The Guarantee
Trustee will not claim or exact any lien or charge on any Guarantee Payments as a result of any
amount due to it under this Guarantee Agreement. The obligation to indemnify as set forth in this
Section 3.3 shall survive the termination of this Guarantee Agreement and the resignation or
removal of the Guarantee Trustee.

Section 3.4. Expenses.

     The Guarantor shall from time to time reimburse the Guarantee Trustee for its reasonable
expenses and costs (including reasonable attorneys’ or agents’ fees) incurred in connection with
the performance of its duties hereunder.

ARTICLE IV

GUARANTEE TRUSTEE

Section 4.1. Guarantee Trustee; Eligibility.

     (a) There shall at all times be a Guarantee Trustee which shall:

          (i) not be an Affiliate of the Guarantor; and

          (ii) be a Person that is eligible pursuant to the Trust Indenture Act to act as such
and has a combined capital and surplus of at least $50,000,000, and shall be a corporation
meeting the requirements of Section 310(a) of the Trust Indenture Act. If such corporation
publishes reports of condition at least annually, pursuant to law or to the requirements of
the supervising or examining authority, then, for the purposes of this Section and to the
extent permitted by the Trust Indenture Act, the combined capital and surplus of such
corporation shall be deemed to be its combined capital and surplus as set forth in its most
recent report of condition so published.

     (b) If at any time the Guarantee Trustee shall cease to be eligible to so act under Section
4.1(a), the Guarantee Trustee shall immediately resign in the manner and with the effect set out in
Section 4.2(b).

     (c) If the Guarantee Trustee has or shall acquire any “conflicting interest” within the
meaning of Section 310(b) of the Trust Indenture Act, the Guarantee Trustee and Guarantor shall in
all respects comply with the provisions of Section 310(b) of the Trust Indenture Act.

Section 4.2. Appointment, Removal and Resignation of the Guarantee Trustee.

     (a) No resignation or removal of the Guarantee Trustee and no appointment of a Successor
Guarantee Trustee pursuant to this Article shall become effective until the acceptance of
appointment by the Successor Guarantee Trustee by written instrument

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executed by the Successor Guarantee Trustee and delivered to the Holders and the Guarantee
Trustee.

     (b) Subject to the immediately preceding paragraph, a Guarantee Trustee may resign at any time
by giving written notice thereof to the Holders. The Guarantor shall appoint a successor. If the
instrument of acceptance by the Successor Guarantee Trustee shall not have been delivered to the
Guarantee Trustee within 60 days after the giving of such notice of resignation, the Guarantee
Trustee may petition, at the expense of the Guarantor, any court of competent jurisdiction for the
appointment of a Successor Guarantee Trustee.

     (c) The Guarantee Trustee may be removed for cause at any time by Act (within the meaning of
Section 6.8 of the Trust Agreement) of the Holders of at least a Majority in Liquidation Amount of
the Capital Securities, delivered to the Guarantee Trustee.

     (d) If the Guarantor shall fail to appoint a successor, or if a Guarantee Trustee shall be
removed or become incapable of acting as Guarantee Trustee, or if any vacancy shall occur in the
office of any Guarantee Trustee for any cause, the Holders of the Capital Securities, by Act of the
Holders of record of not less than 25% in aggregate Liquidation Amount of the Capital Securities
then outstanding delivered to such Guarantee Trustee, shall promptly appoint a successor Guarantee
Trustee. If no Successor Guarantee Trustee shall have been so appointed by the Holders of the
Capital Securities and such appointment accepted by the Successor Guarantee Trustee, any Holder, on
behalf of himself and all others similarly situated, may petition any court of competent
jurisdiction for the appointment of a Successor Guarantee Trustee.

ARTICLE V

GUARANTEE

Section 5.1. Guarantee.

     The Guarantor irrevocably and unconditionally agrees to pay in full on a subordinated basis as
set forth in Section 6.1 hereof to the Holders the Guarantee Payments (without duplication of
amounts theretofore paid by or on behalf of the Issuer Trust), as and when due, regardless of any
defense, right of set—off or counterclaim which the Issuer Trust may have or assert, except the
defense of payment. The Guarantor’s obligation to make a Guarantee Payment may be satisfied by
direct payment of the required amounts by the Guarantor to the Holders or by causing the Issuer
Trust to pay such amounts to the Holders. The Guarantor shall give prompt written notice to the
Guarantee Trustee in the event it makes any direct payment hereunder.

Section 5.2. Waiver of Notice and Demand.

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     The Guarantor hereby waives notice of acceptance of the Guarantee Agreement and of any
liability to which it applies or may apply, presentment, demand for payment, any right to require a
proceeding first against the Guarantee Trustee, the Issuer Trust or any other Person before
proceeding against the Guarantor, protest, notice of nonpayment, notice of dishonor, notice of
redemption and all other notices and demands.

Section 5.3. Obligations Not Affected.

     The obligations, covenants, agreements and duties of the Guarantor under this Guarantee
Agreement shall in no way be affected or impaired by reason of the happening from time to time of
any of the following:

     (a) the release or waiver, by operation of law or otherwise, of the performance or observance
by the Issuer Trust of any express or implied agreement, covenant, term or condition relating to
the Capital Securities to be performed or observed by the Issuer Trust;

     (b) the extension of time for the payment by the Issuer Trust of all or any portion of the
Distributions (other than an extension of time for payment of Distributions that results from the
extension of any interest payment period on the Junior Subordinated Debentures as so provided in
the Indenture), Redemption Price, Liquidation Distribution or any other sums payable under the
terms of the Capital Securities or the extension of time for the performance of any other
obligation under, arising out of, or in connection with, the Capital Securities;

     (c) any failure, omission, delay or lack of diligence on the part of the Holders to enforce,
assert or exercise any right, privilege, power or remedy conferred on the Holders pursuant to the
terms of the Capital Securities, or any action on the part of the Issuer Trust granting indulgence
or extension of any kind;

     (d) the voluntary or involuntary liquidation, dissolution, sale of any collateral,
receivership, insolvency, bankruptcy, assignment for the benefit of creditors, reorganization,
arrangement, composition or readjustment of debt of, or other similar proceedings affecting, the
Issuer Trust or any of the assets of the Issuer Trust;

     (e) any invalidity of, or defect or deficiency in, the Capital Securities;

     (f) the settlement or compromise of any obligation guaranteed hereby or hereby incurred; or

     (g) any other circumstance whatsoever that might otherwise constitute a legal or equitable
discharge or defense of a guarantor (other than payment of the underlying obligation), it being the
intent of this Section 5.3 that the obligations of the Guarantor hereunder shall be absolute and
unconditional under any and all circumstances.

     There shall be no obligation of the Holders to give notice to, or obtain the consent of, the
Guarantor with respect to the happening of any of the foregoing.

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Section 5.4. Rights of Holders.

     The Guarantor expressly acknowledges that: (a) this Guarantee Agreement will be deposited with
the Guarantee Trustee to be held for the benefit of the Holders; (b) the Guarantee Trustee has the
right to enforce this Guarantee Agreement on behalf of the Holders; (c) the Holders of a Majority
in Liquidation Amount of the Capital Securities have the right to direct the time, method and place
of conducting any proceeding for any remedy available to the Guarantee Trustee in respect of this
Guarantee Agreement or exercising any trust or power conferred upon the Guarantee Trustee under
this Guarantee Agreement; and (d) any Holder may institute a legal proceeding directly against the
Guarantor to enforce its rights under this Guarantee Agreement, without first instituting a legal
proceeding against the Guarantee Trustee, the Issuer Trust or any other Person.

Section 5.5. Guarantee of Payment.

     This Guarantee Agreement creates a guarantee of payment and not of collection. This Guarantee
Agreement will not be discharged except by payment of the Guarantee Payments in full (without
duplication of amounts theretofore paid by the Issuer Trust) or upon the distribution of Junior
Subordinated Debentures to Holders as provided in the Trust Agreement.

Section 5.6. Subrogation.

     The Guarantor shall be subrogated to all rights (if any) of the Holders against the Issuer
Trust in respect of any amounts paid to the Holders by the Guarantor under this Guarantee
Agreement; provided, however, that the Guarantor shall not (except to the extent required by
mandatory provisions of law) be entitled to enforce or exercise any rights which it may acquire by
way of subrogation or any indemnity, reimbursement or other agreement, in all cases as a result of
payment under this Guarantee Agreement, if at the time of any such payment, any amounts are due and
unpaid under this Guarantee Agreement. If any amount shall be paid to the Guarantor in violation
of the preceding sentence, the Guarantor agrees to hold such amount in trust for the Holders and to
pay over such amount to the Holders.

Section 5.7. Independent Obligations.

     The Guarantor acknowledges that its obligations hereunder are independent of the obligations
of the Issuer Trust with respect to the Capital Securities and that the Guarantor shall be liable
as principal and as debtor hereunder to make Guarantee Payments pursuant to the terms of this
Guarantee Agreement notwithstanding the occurrence of any event referred to in subsections (a)
through (g), inclusive, of Section 5.3 hereof.

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ARTICLE VI

COVENANTS AND SUBORDINATION

Section 6.1. Subordination.

     This Guarantee Agreement will constitute an unsecured obligation of the Guarantor and will
rank subordinate and junior in right of payment to all Senior Indebtedness of the Guarantor to the
extent and in the manner set forth in the Indenture with respect to the Junior Subordinated
Debentures, and the provisions of Article XIII of the Indenture will apply, mutatis mutandis, to
the obligations of the Guarantor hereunder. The obligations of the Guarantor hereunder do not
constitute Senior Indebtedness of the Guarantor.

Section 6.2. Pari Passu Guarantees.

     The obligations of the Guarantor under this Guarantee Agreement shall rank pari passu with any
similar guarantee agreements issued by the Guarantor on behalf of the holders of preferred or
capital securities issued by the Issuer Trust and with any other security, guarantee or other
obligation that is expressly stated to rank pari passu with the obligations of the Guarantor under
this Guarantee Agreement.

ARTICLE VII

TERMINATION

Section 7.1. Termination.

     This Guarantee Agreement shall terminate and be of no further force and effect upon (a) full
payment of the Redemption Price of all Capital Securities, (b) the distribution of Junior
Subordinated Debentures to the Holders in exchange for all of the Capital Securities or (c) full
payment of the amounts payable in accordance with Article IX of the Trust Agreement upon
liquidation of the Issuer Trust. Notwithstanding the foregoing, this Guarantee Agreement will
continue to be effective or will be reinstated, as the case may be, if at any time any Holder is
required to repay any sums paid with respect to the Capital Securities or this Guarantee Agreement.

ARTICLE VIII

MISCELLANEOUS

Section 8.1. Successors and Assigns.

     All guarantees and agreements contained in this Guarantee Agreement shall bind the successors,
assigns, receivers, trustees and representatives of the Guarantor and shall inure to the benefit of
the Holders of the Capital Securities then outstanding. Except in connection with a consolidation,
merger or sale involving the Guarantor that is permitted under Article VIII of the Indenture and
pursuant to which the assignee agrees in writing to perform the Guarantor’s obligations hereunder,
the Guarantor shall not assign its

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obligations hereunder, and any purported assignment that is not in accordance with these
provisions shall be void.

Section 8.2. Amendments.

     Except with respect to any changes that do not materially adversely affect the rights of the
Holders (in which case no consent of the Holders will be required), this Guarantee Agreement may
only be amended with the prior approval of the Holders of not less than a Majority in Liquidation
Amount of the Capital Securities. The provisions of Article VI of the Trust Agreement concerning
meetings of the Holders shall apply to the giving of such approval.

Section 8.3. Notices.

     Any notice, request or other communication required or permitted to be given hereunder shall
be in writing, duly signed by the party giving such notice, and delivered, telecopied (confirmed by
delivery of the original) or mailed by first class mail as follows:

     (a) if given to the Guarantor, to the address or facsimile number set forth below or such
other address or facsimile number or to the attention of such other Person as the Guarantor may
give notice to the Holders:

M&T Bank Corporation

One M&T Plaza

Buffalo, NY 14203

Facsimile No.: (716) 842—5177

Attention: Randall A. Krolewicz

     (b) if given to the Issuer Trust, in care of the Guarantee Trustee, at the Issuer Trust’s (and
the Guarantee Trustee’s) address set forth below or such other address or telecopy number or to the
attention of such other Person as the Guarantee Trustee on behalf of the Issuer Trust may give
notice to the Holders:

M&T Capital Trust IV

c/o M&T Bank Corporation

One M&T Plaza

Buffalo, NY 14203

Facsimile No.: (716) 842—5177

Attention: Randall A. Krolewicz

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     (c) if given to the Guarantee Trustee:

The Bank of New York

101 Barclay Street,

New York, New York 10286

Facsimile No.: (212) 815-5707

Attention: Corporate Trust Administration

     (d) if given to any Holder, at the address set forth on the books and records of the Issuer
Trust.

     All notices hereunder shall be deemed to have been given when received in person, telecopied
with receipt confirmed, or mailed by first class mail, postage prepaid, except that if a notice or
other document is refused delivery or cannot be delivered because of a changed address of which no
notice was given, such notice or other document shall be deemed to have been delivered on the date
of such refusal or inability to deliver.

Section 8.4. Benefit.

     This Guarantee Agreement is solely for the benefit of the Holders and is not separately
transferable from the Capital Securities.

Section 8.5. Interpretation.

     In this Guarantee Agreement, unless the context otherwise requires:

     (a) capitalized terms used in this Guarantee Agreement but not defined in the preamble hereto
have the respective meanings assigned to them in Section 1.1;

     (b) a term defined anywhere in this Guarantee Agreement has the same meaning throughout;

     (c) all references to “the Guarantee Agreement” or “this Guarantee Agreement” are to this
Guarantee Agreement as modified, supplemented or amended from time to time;

     (d) all references in this Guarantee Agreement to Articles and Sections are to Articles and
Sections of this Guarantee Agreement unless otherwise specified;

     (e) a term defined in the Trust Indenture Act has the same meaning when used in this Guarantee
Agreement unless otherwise defined in this Guarantee Agreement or unless the context otherwise
requires;

     (f) a reference to the singular includes the plural and vice versa; and

     (g) the masculine, feminine or neuter genders used herein shall include the masculine,
feminine and neuter genders.

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Section 8.6. Governing Law.

     THIS GUARANTEE AGREEMENT SHALL BE GOVERNED BY AND CONSTRUED AND INTERPRETED IN ACCORDANCE WITH
THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK WITHOUT REGARD TO THE CONFLICT OF LAW PRINCIPLES THEREOF.

Section 8.7. Counterparts.

     This instrument may be executed in any number of counterparts, each of which so executed shall
be deemed to be an original, but all such counterparts shall together constitute but one and the
same instrument.

Section 8.8. Waiver of Jury Trial.

     EACH OF THE COMPANY AND THE GUARANTEE TRUSTEE HEREBY IRREVOCABLY WAIVES, TO THE FULLEST EXTENT
PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, ANY AND ALL RIGHT TO TRIAL BY JURY IN ANY LEGAL PROCEEDING ARISING OUT
OF OR RELATING TO THIS INDENTURE, THE NOTES OR THE TRANSACTION CONTEMPLATED HEREBY.

Section 8.9. Force Majeure.

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

[SIGNATURES APPEAR ON THE FOLLOWING PAGE]

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     THIS GUARANTEE AGREEMENT is executed as of the day and year first above written.

	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 	 	M&T BANK CORPORATION

as Guarantor	 	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	 	 	By:
	 	/s/ Ayan Das Gupta	 	 
	 

	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	 	 	 	 	Name: Ayan D. Gupta	 	 
	 

	 	 	 	 	 	Title: Group Vice President
	 	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 	 	THE BANK OF NEW YORK

as Guarantee Trustee
and not in its individual capacity	 	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	 	 	By:
	 	/s/ Scott I. Klein	 	 
	 

	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	 	 	 	 	Name: Scott I. Klein	 	 
	 

	 	 	 	 	 	Title: Assistant Treasurer

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