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INDENTURE

 EXHIBIT 4.1 

 INDENTURE 
  
 Among 
  
 APOGENT TECHNOLOGIES INC., 
  
 THE SUBSIDIARY
GUARANTORS PARTIES HERETO 
  
 and 
  
 THE BANK OF NEW YORK, as Trustee 
  
 FLOATING RATE SENIOR CONVERTIBLE 
 CONTINGENT DEBT SECURITIES (CODES) DUE 2033 
  
 Dated as of December 17, 2003 
  

 CROSS-REFERENCE TABLE* 
  

			
	 Trust Indenture
 Act
Section

	  	Indenture
Section

	 310(a)(1)
	  	5.11
	       (a)(2)
	  	5.11
	       (a)(3)
	  	n/a
	       (a)(4)
	  	n/a
	       (a)(5)
	  	5.11
	       (b)
	  	5.3; 5.11
	       (c)
	  	n/a
		
	 311(a)
	  	5.12
	       (b)
	  	5.12
	       (c)
	  	n/a
		
	 312(a)
	  	2.10
	       (b)
	  	14.3
	       (c)
	  	14.3
		
	 313(a)
	  	5.7
	       (b)
	  	n/a
	       (c)
	  	n/a
	       (d)
	  	n/a
		
	 314(a)
	  	9.4
	       (b)
	  	n/a
	       (c)
	  	n/a
	       (d)
	  	n/a
	       (e)
	  	n/a
	       (f)
	  	n/a
		
	 315(a)
	  	5.2
	       (b)
	  	5.2; 5.6
	       (c)
	  	5.2
	       (d)
	  	5.2
	       (e)
	  	4.14

  
 “n/a” means not applicable. 

	*	This Cross-Reference Table shall not, for any purpose, be deemed to be a part of the Indenture. 

  

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 Table of Contents 
  

					
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	ARTICLE 1 DEFINITIONS AND INCORPORATION BY REFERENCE	  	 
			
	 Section 1.1.
	  	 Definitions
	  	1
	 Section 1.2.
	  	 Incorporation by Reference of Trust Indenture Act
	  	14
	 Section 1.3.
	  	 Rules of Construction
	  	14
		
	ARTICLE 2 THE SECURITIES	  	 
			
	 Section 2.1.
	  	 Title and Terms
	  	15
	 Section 2.2.
	  	 Form of Securities
	  	17
	 Section 2.3.
	  	 Legends
	  	18
	 Section 2.4.
	  	 Execution, Authentication, Delivery and Dating of the Securities
	  	24
	 Section 2.5.
	  	 Registrar and Paying Agent
	  	24
	 Section 2.6.
	  	 Paying Agent to Hold Assets in Trust
	  	25
	 Section 2.7.
	  	 General Provisions Relating to Registration, Transfer and Exchange
	  	26
	 Section 2.8.
	  	 Book-Entry Provisions for the Global Securities
	  	27
	 Section 2.9.
	  	 Transfer Provisions
	  	28
	 Section 2.10.
	  	 Holder Lists
	  	31
	 Section 2.11.
	  	 Persons Deemed Owners
	  	31
	 Section 2.12.
	  	 Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost or Stolen Securities
	  	31
	 Section 2.13.
	  	 Treasury Securities
	  	32
	 Section 2.14.
	  	 Temporary Securities
	  	32
	 Section 2.15.
	  	 Cancellation
	  	33
	 Section 2.16.
	  	 CUSIP Numbers
	  	33
	 Section 2.17.
	  	 Defaulted Interest
	  	33
		
	ARTICLE 3 DISCHARGE OF INDENTURE	  	 
			
	 Section 3.1.
	  	 Discharge of Liability on Securities
	  	34
	 Section 3.2.
	  	 Repayment to the Company
	  	34
		
	ARTICLE 4 DEFAULTS AND REMEDIES	  	 
			
	 Section 4.1.
	  	 Events of Default
	  	34
	 Section 4.2.
	  	 Acceleration of Maturity; Rescission and Annulment
	  	36
	 Section 4.3.
	  	 Other Remedies
	  	36
	 Section 4.4.
	  	 Waiver of Past Defaults
	  	37
	 Section 4.5.
	  	 Control by Majority
	  	37
	 Section 4.6.
	  	 Limitation on Suit
	  	38
	 Section 4.7.
	  	 Unconditional Rights of Holders to Receive Payment and to Convert
	  	38
	 Section 4.8.
	  	 Collection of Indebtedness and Suits for Enforcement by the Trustee
	  	39
	 Section 4.9.
	  	 Trustee May File Proofs of Claim
	  	39

  

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	 Section 4.10.
	  	 Restoration of Rights and Remedies
	  	40
	 Section 4.11.
	  	 Rights and Remedies Cumulative
	  	40
	 Section 4.12.
	  	 Delay or Omission Not Waiver
	  	41
	 Section 4.13.
	  	 Priorities
	  	41
	 Section 4.14.
	  	 Undertaking for Costs
	  	41
	 Section 4.15.
	  	 Waiver of Stay or Extension Laws
	  	41
		
	ARTICLE 5 THE TRUSTEE	  	 
			
	 Section 5.1.
	  	 Certain Duties and Responsibilities
	  	42
	 Section 5.2.
	  	 Certain Rights of Trustee
	  	44
	 Section 5.3.
	  	 Individual Rights of Trustee
	  	44
	 Section 5.4.
	  	 Money Held in Trust
	  	45
	 Section 5.5.
	  	 Trustee’s Disclaimer
	  	45
	 Section 5.6.
	  	 Notice of Defaults
	  	45
	 Section 5.7.
	  	 Reports by Trustee to Holders
	  	45
	 Section 5.8.
	  	 Compensation and Indemnification
	  	45
	 Section 5.9.
	  	 Replacement of Trustee
	  	46
	 Section 5.10.
	  	 Successor Trustee by Merger, Etc
	  	47
	 Section 5.11.
	  	 Corporate Trustee Required; Eligibility
	  	47
	 Section 5.12.
	  	 Collection of Claims Against the Company
	  	47
		
	ARTICLE 6 CONSOLIDATION, MERGER, CONVEYANCE, TRANSFER OR LEASE	  	 
			
	 Section 6.1.
	  	 Company May Consolidate, Etc., Only on Certain Terms
	  	48
	 Section 6.2.
	  	 Successor Corporation Substituted
	  	48
		
	ARTICLE 7 AMENDMENTS, SUPPLEMENTS AND WAIVERS	  	 
			
	 Section 7.1.
	  	 Without Consent of Holders of CODES
	  	49
	 Section 7.2.
	  	 With Consent of Holders of CODES
	  	50
	 Section 7.3.
	  	 Compliance with Trust Indenture Act
	  	51
	 Section 7.4.
	  	 Revocation of Consents and Effect of Consents or Votes
	  	51
	 Section 7.5.
	  	 Notation on or Exchange of CODES
	  	52
	 Section 7.6.
	  	 Trustee to Sign Amendment, Etc.
	  	52
		
	ARTICLE 8 MEETING OF HOLDERS OF CODES	  	 
			
	 Section 8.1.
	  	 Purposes for Which Meetings May Be Called
	  	52
	 Section 8.2.
	  	 Call Notice and Place of Meetings
	  	52
	 Section 8.3.
	  	 Persons Entitled to Vote at Meetings
	  	53
	 Section 8.4.
	  	 Quorum; Action
	  	53
	 Section 8.5.
	  	 Determination of Voting Rights; Conduct and Adjournment of Meetings
	  	54
	 Section 8.6.
	  	 Counting Votes and Recording Action of Meetings
	  	54
		
	ARTICLE 9 COVENANTS	  	 
			
	 Section 9.1.
	  	 Payment of Principal, Redemption Price, Repurchase Price and Interest
	  	56

  

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	 Section 9.2.
	  	 Maintenance of Offices or Agencies
	  	56
	 Section 9.3.
	  	 Corporate Existence
	  	57
	 Section 9.4.
	  	 Reports
	  	57
	 Section 9.5.
	  	 Compliance Certificate
	  	57
	 Section 9.6.
	  	 Resale of Certain CODES
	  	58
	 Section 9.7.
	  	 Tax Treatment of CODES
	  	58
	 Section 9.8.
	  	 Shelf Registration Statement
	  	58
		
	ARTICLE 10 REDEMPTION OF CODES	  	 
			
	 Section 10.1.
	  	 Optional Redemption
	  	58
	 Section 10.2.
	  	 Notice to Trustee
	  	59
	 Section 10.3.
	  	 Selection of CODES to Be Redeemed
	  	59
	 Section 10.4.
	  	 Notice of Redemption
	  	60
	 Section 10.5.
	  	 Effect of Notice of Redemption
	  	61
	 Section 10.6.
	  	 Deposit and Payment of Redemption Price
	  	61
	 Section 10.7.
	  	 CODES Redeemed in Part
	  	61
		
	ARTICLE 11 REPURCHASE AT THE OPTION OF HOLDERS	  	 
			
	 Section 11.1.
	  	 Repurchase Rights
	  	62
	 Section 11.2.
	  	 Company Notice
	  	63
	 Section 11.3.
	  	 Delivery of Repurchase Notice; Forms of Repurchase Notice; Withdrawal of Repurchase Notice
	  	63
	 Section 11.4.
	  	 Exercise of Repurchase Rights
	  	65
	 Section 11.5.
	  	 Deposit and Payment of the Applicable Repurchase Price
	  	66
	 Section 11.6.
	  	 Effect of Delivery of Repurchase Notice and Purchase
	  	66
	 Section 11.7.
	  	 Physical Securities Purchased in Part
	  	67
	 Section 11.8.
	  	 Covenant to Comply With Securities Laws Upon Repurchase of Securities
	  	67
	 Section 11.9.
	  	 Repayment to the Company
	  	67
		
	ARTICLE 12 CONVERSION OF SECURITIES	  	 
			
	 Section 12.1.
	  	 Conversion Privilege
	  	68
	 Section 12.2.
	  	 Conversion Procedure; Conversion Price; Fractional Shares
	  	70
	 Section 12.3.
	  	 Adjustments of Conversion Price for Common Stock.
	  	71
	 Section 12.4.
	  	 Consolidation or Merger of the Company
	  	80
	 Section 12.5.
	  	 Notice of Adjustment
	  	81
	 Section 12.6.
	  	 Notice in Certain Events
	  	82
	 Section 12.7.
	  	 Company to Reserve Stock; Registration; Listing
	  	82
	 Section 12.8.
	  	 Taxes on Conversion
	  	83
	 Section 12.9.
	  	 Conversion After Record Date
	  	83
	 Section 12.10.
	  	 Company Determination Final
	  	84
	 Section 12.11.
	  	 Responsibility of Trustee for Conversion Provisions
	  	84
	 Section 12.12.
	  	 Unconditional Right of Holders to Convert
	  	84

  

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	ARTICLE 13 SUBSIDIARY GUARANTEES	  	 
			
	 Section 13.1.
	  	 Agreement to Guarantee
	  	84
	 Section 13.2.
	  	 Execution and Delivery of Guarantees
	  	85
	 Section 13.3.
	  	 Releases
	  	86
	 Section 13.4.
	  	 No Recourse Against Others
	  	87
	 Section 13.5.
	  	 Future Subsidiary Guarantees
	  	87
		
	ARTICLE 14 OTHER PROVISIONS OF GENERAL APPLICATION	  	 
			
	 Section 14.1.
	  	 Trust Indenture Act Controls
	  	88
	 Section 14.2.
	  	 Notices
	  	88
	 Section 14.3.
	  	 Communication by Holders with Other Holders
	  	89
	 Section 14.4.
	  	 Acts of Holders of CODES
	  	89
	 Section 14.5.
	  	 Certificate and Opinion as to Conditions Precedent
	  	90
	 Section 14.6.
	  	 Statements Required in Certificate or Opinion
	  	91
	 Section 14.7.
	  	 Effect of Headings and Table of Contents
	  	91
	 Section 14.8.
	  	 Successors and Assigns
	  	91
	 Section 14.9.
	  	 Separability Clause
	  	91
	 Section 14.10.
	  	 Benefits of Indenture
	  	92
	 Section 14.11.
	  	 Governing Law
	  	92
	 Section 14.12.
	  	 Counterparts
	  	92
	 Section 14.13.
	  	 Legal Holidays
	  	92
	 Section 14.14.
	  	 Recourse Against Others
	  	92

  
 EXHIBITS 
  

					
	 EXHIBIT A:
	  	 Form of Security
	  	A-1
	 EXHIBIT B:
	  	 Assignment Form
	  	B-1
	 EXHIBIT C:
	  	 Form of Repurchase Notice for Optional Repurchase Rights
	  	C-1
	 EXHIBIT D:
	  	 Form of Repurchase Notice for Change of Control Repurchase Rights
	  	D-1
	 EXHIBIT E:
	  	 Conversion Notice
	  	E-1
	 EXHIBIT F:
	  	 Rule 144A Certificate
	  	F-1
	 EXHIBIT G:
	  	 Form of Supplemental Indenture
	  	G-1

  

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 INDENTURE, dated as of December 17, 2003, among Apogent Technologies Inc., a Wisconsin corporation,
having its principal office at 30 Penahallow Street, Portsmouth, New Hampshire 03801 (the “Company”), and the guarantors from time to time parties hereto and described below (collectively, the “Guarantors”) and The
Bank of New York, a New York banking corporation, as Trustee (the “Trustee”), having its principal corporate trust office at 101 Barclay Street, Floor 8 West, New York, New York 10286. 
  
 RECITALS OF THE COMPANY 
  
 The Company has duly authorized the creation of an issue of its Floating Rate
Senior Convertible Contingent Debt Securities (the “CODES”) due 2033, together with the several guarantees forming a part thereof of the Guarantors (the “Guarantees” and, together with the CODES, the
“Securities”) having the terms, tenor, amount and other provisions hereinafter set forth, and, to provide therefor, the Company has duly authorized the execution and delivery of this Indenture. 
  
 All things necessary to make the Securities, when the Securities are duly
executed by the Company and the Guarantors and authenticated and delivered hereunder and duly issued by the Company and the Guarantors, the valid obligations of the Company and the Guarantors, and to make this Indenture a valid and binding agreement
of the Company and the Guarantors, in accordance with their and its terms, have been done. 
  
 NOW, THEREFORE, THIS INDENTURE WITNESSETH: 
  
 For and in consideration of the premises and the purchase of the Securities by the Holders thereof, it is mutually covenanted and agreed, for the equal and proportionate benefit of all Holders of the Securities, as
follows: 
  
 ARTICLE 1 
  
 DEFINITIONS AND INCORPORATION BY REFERENCE 
  
 Section 1.1. Definitions. 
  
 For all purposes of this Indenture and the Securities, the following terms
are defined as follows: 
  
 “Act”, when used with respect to any Holder of a Security, has the meaning specified in Section 14.4(a). 
  
 “Additional Amounts” means the additional amounts that the Company and the Guarantors agree to pay if the Company and the
Guarantors default in the registration of any Shelf Registration Statement, as specified in the Registration Rights Agreement. 
  
 “Adjusted Spread” means, with respect to any Reset Transaction, the arithmetic average of the spreads, expressed as a
percentage, from 3-month LIBOR quoted by two Reference Dealers as the spread from 3-month LIBOR which should be used in calculating the rate at which the Interest Rate on the CODES should accrue so that the Fair Market Value, expressed in dollars,
of a CODES immediately after the later of: 
  
 (a) the public announcement of the Reset Transaction; or 

 (b) the public announcement of a change in dividend policy in connection with the Reset
Transaction, 
  
 will equal the average Trading Price of the
CODES for the 20 Trading Days preceding the date of public announcement of the Reset Transaction; provided that, in no event will the Interest Rate borne by the CODES (without giving effect to any Contingent Interest) at any time after the first
Interest Payment Date be less than the greater of (a) zero and (b) 3-month LIBOR, determined by the Calculation Agent in accordance with the Security attached as Annex A hereto, minus 125 basis points. 
  
 “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. 
  
 “Agent Member” has the meaning specified in Section 2.8. 
  
 “Bankruptcy Law” means Title 11 of the U.S. Code or any similar federal or state law for the relief of debtors.

  
 “Board of Directors” means
either the board of directors of the Company or any committee of that board empowered to act for it with respect to this Indenture. 
  
 “Board Resolution” means a resolution duly adopted by the Board of Directors, a copy of which, certified by the Secretary
or an Assistant Secretary of the Company to be in full force and effect on the date of such certification, shall have been delivered to the Trustee. 
  
 “Business Day” means any day, other than a Saturday or Sunday, that is neither a legal holiday nor a day on which
commercial banks are authorized or required by law, regulation or executive order to close in The City of New York. 
  
 “Calculation Agent” means any Person authorized by the Company to perform the calculations required by this Indenture and
the Security attached as Annex A hereto. Initially, the Calculation Agent shall be The Bank of New York. 
  
 “Capital Stock” means, with respect to any Person, any and all shares, interests, rights to purchase, warrants, options,
participations or other equivalents of or interests (however designated) in equity of such Person, whether now outstanding or issued after the date of this Indenture, including, without limitation, all common stock and preferred stock. 

 

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 “Change of Control” means the occurrence of any of the following after
the original issuance of the Securities when any of the following has occurred:  
  
 (1) the acquisition by any “person”, including any syndicate or group deemed to be a “person” under Section 13(d)(3)
of the Exchange Act, as amended, of beneficial ownership, directly or indirectly, through a purchase, merger or other acquisition transaction or series of purchase, merger or other acquisition transactions of shares of the Company’s Capital
Stock entitling such person to exercise 50% or more of the total voting power of all shares of the Company’s Capital Stock entitled to vote generally in elections of directors, other than any acquisition by the Company, any of its Subsidiaries
or any of its employee benefit plans (except that such person shall be deemed to have beneficial ownership of all securities that such person has the right to acquire, whether such right is currently exercisable or is exercisable only upon the
occurrence of a subsequent condition); 
  
 (2)
the first day on which a majority of the members of the Board of Directors of the Company are not Continuing Directors; or 
  
 (3) any consolidation or merger of the Company with or into any other person (which for purposes of this definition has the meaning set
forth in Section 13(d)(3) of the Exchange Act), any merger of another person into the Company, or any conveyance, transfer, sale, lease or other disposition of all or substantially all of the properties and assets of the Company to another person,
other than, in each case, (x) any transaction (i) that does not result in any reclassification, conversion, exchange or cancellation of outstanding shares of Capital Stock of the Company and (ii) pursuant to which holders of Capital Stock of the
Company immediately prior to such transaction have the entitlement to exercise, directly or indirectly, 50% or more of the total voting power of all shares of Capital Stock entitled to vote generally in the election of directors of the continuing or
surviving person immediately after such transaction or (y) any such merger solely for the purpose of changing the jurisdiction of incorporation of the Company and resulting in a reclassification, conversion or exchange of outstanding Common Stock
solely into shares of the common stock of the surviving entity; 
  
 provided, however, that a Change of Control shall not be deemed to have occurred if the Sale Price per share of the Common Stock for any five Trading Days within the period of 10 consecutive Trading Days ending immediately after the
later of the Change of Control or the public announcement of the Change of Control, in the case of a Change of Control under clause (1) above, or the period of 10 consecutive Trading Days ending immediately before the Change of Control, in the case
of a Change of Control under clause (2) above, shall equal or exceed 110% of the Conversion Price of the CODES in effect on each such Trading Day or at least 90% of the consideration in the transaction or transactions constituting a Change of
Control consists of shares of Common Stock traded or to be 

  

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traded immediately following such Change of Control on a national securities exchange or the Nasdaq National Market and, as a result of the transaction or
transactions, the CODES become convertible solely into such Common Stock (and any rights attached thereto). 
  
 For the purposes of this definition, “beneficial ownership” shall be determined in accordance with Rule 13d-3 under the Exchange Act.

  
 “Change of Control Repurchase
Date” has the meaning specified in Section 11.1(b) hereof. 
  
 “Change of Control Repurchase Price” has the meaning specified in Section 11.1(b) hereof. 
  
 “Change of Control Repurchase Right” has the meaning specified in Section 11.1(b) hereof. 
  
 “Clearstream” means Clearstream Banking,
société anonyme (or any successor securities clearing agency). 
  
 “Closing Date” means December 17, 2003 or such later date on which the Securities may be delivered pursuant to the Purchase Agreement. 
  
 “CODES” has the meaning ascribed to it in the first paragraph under the caption
“Recitals of the Company”. 
  
 “Commission” means the Securities and Exchange Commission or any successor agency. 
  
 “Common Stock” means any stock of any class of the Company which has no preference in respect of dividends or of amounts
payable in the event of any voluntary or involuntary liquidation, dissolution or winding up of the Company and which is not subject to redemption by the Company. However, subject to the provisions of Section 12.2 hereof, shares issuable on
conversion of the CODES shall include only shares of the class designated as Common Stock, par value $0.01 per share, of the Company at the date of execution of this Indenture or shares of any class or classes resulting from any reclassification or
reclassifications thereof and which have no preference in respect of dividends or of amounts payable in the event of any voluntary or involuntary liquidation, dissolution or winding up of the Company and which are not subject to redemption by the
Company, provided that if at any time there shall be more than one such resulting class, the shares of each such class then so issuable shall be substantially in the proportion which the total number of shares of such class resulting from all
such reclassifications bears to the total number of shares of all such classes resulting from all such reclassifications. 
  
 “Company” means the corporation named as the “Company” in the first paragraph of this instrument until a
successor Person shall have become such pursuant to the applicable provisions of this Indenture, and thereafter “Company” shall mean such successor Person. 
  

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 “Company Notice” has the meaning specified in Section 11.2(a).

  
 “Company Order” means a
written order signed in the name of the Company by any Officer. 
  
 “Contingent Interest” has the meaning specified in Section 2.1(d) hereof. 
  
 “Contingent Payment Regulations” has the meaning specified in Section 9.7 hereof. 
  
 “Continuing Directors” means, as of any
date of determination, any member of the Board of Directors of the Company who (i) was a member of the Board of Directors on December 12, 2003 or (ii) was nominated for election or elected to the Board of Directors with the approval of two-thirds of
the Continuing Directors who were members of the Board of Directors at the time of a new director’s nomination or election. 
  
 “Conversion Agent” means any Person authorized by the Company to convert CODES in accordance with Article 12. Initially,
the Conversion Agent shall be The Bank of New York. 
  
 “Conversion Date” means, with respect to any Holder, the date on which such Holder has satisfied all the requirements to convert its CODES. 
  
 “Conversion Price” means the principal amount of CODES that can be exchanged for one share
of Common Stock (initially $33.09), subject to adjustments set forth herein. 
  
 “Conversion Rate” means the number of shares of Common Stock into which each $1,000 principal amount of CODES is convertible, which is initially approximately 30.22, subject to adjustments as set
forth herein. 
  
 “Conversion
Value” means, on any day, the product of the Sale Price for the Common Stock on such day multiplied by the then-applicable Conversion Rate. 
  
 “Corporate Trust Office” means for purposes of presentation or surrender of CODES for payment, registration, transfer,
exchange or conversion or for service of notices or demands upon the Company or for any other purpose of this Indenture, the office of the Trustee located in New York, New York at which at any particular time its corporate trust business shall be
administered (which at the date of this Indenture is located at 101 Barclay Street, Floor 8 West, New York, New York 10286). 
  
 “corporation” means any corporation, association, limited liability company, company and business trust. 
  

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 “Credit Agreement” means the bank credit agreement dated as of July 29,
2003, among the Company, the Guarantors and the several lenders parties thereto, as such Credit Agreement is amended, modified or supplemented from time to time in accordance with the terms thereof. 
  
 “Current Market Price” has the meaning set
forth in Section 12.3(g). 
  
 “Custodian” means any receiver, trustee, assignee, liquidator, sequestrator or similar official under any Bankruptcy Law. 
  
 “Default” means an event which is, or after notice or lapse of time or both would be, an Event of Default. 
  
 “Defaulted Payment” has the meaning
specified in Section 4.1(b). 
  
 “Defaulted Interest” has the meaning specified in Section 2.17. 
  
 “Depositary” means The Depository Trust Company, its nominees and their respective successors. 
  
 “Dividend Yield” on any security for any
period means the dividends paid or proposed to be paid pursuant to an announced dividend policy on such security for such period, divided by, if with respect to dividends paid on such security, the average Trading Price of such security during such
period and, if with respect to dividends proposed to be paid on such security, the Trading Price of such security on the effective date of the related Reset Transaction. 
  
 “Dollar” or “$” means a U.S. dollar or other equivalent unit in such coin
or currency of the United States as at the time shall be legal tender for the payment of public and private debts. 
  
 “Euroclear” means Euroclear Bank. S.A./N.V., as operator of the Euroclear System (or any successor securities clearing
agency). 
  
 “Event of Default”
has the meaning specified in Section 4.1. 
  
 “Exchange Act” means the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended and the rules and regulations of the Commission thereunder. 
  
 “Excluded Subsidiary” means any Subsidiary of the Company that is not or has ceased to be a guarantor of the
Company’s indebtedness under the Credit Agreement and is not a “Borrower” under the Credit Agreement (as defined therein). 
  
 “Expiration Time” has the meaning specified in Section 12.3(f). 
  
 “Excess Amount” has the meaning specified
in Section 12.3(f). 
  

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 “Ex-Dividend Time” means, with respect to any issuance or distribution
on shares of Common Stock, the first date on which the shares of Common Stock trade regular way on the principal securities market on which the shares of Common Stock are then traded without the right to receive such issuance or distribution.

  
 “Fair Market Value” has the
meaning set forth in Section 12.3(g). 
  
 “GAAP” has the meaning set forth in Section 1.3. 
  
 “Global Security” has the meaning specified in Section 2.2. 
  
 “Guarantee” means the obligations of the Guarantors described herein. 
  
 “Guarantors” means (i) each Subsidiary
listed as a signatory to this Indenture and (ii) each Person who becomes a Guarantor pursuant to Section 13.5 of this Indenture; provided that, pursuant to Section 13.3 of this Indenture, a Subsidiary shall no longer be deemed a Guarantor if
it is no longer a guarantor under the Credit Agreement. 
  
 “Holder”, when used with respect to any Security, including any Global Security, means the Person in whose name the Security is registered in the Register. 
  
 “Indenture” means this instrument as
originally executed or as it may from time to time be supplemented or amended by one or more indentures supplemental hereto entered into pursuant to the applicable provisions hereof. 
  
 “Initial Purchasers” means Lehman Brothers Inc., Banc of America Securities LLC, J.P.
Morgan Securities Inc., Credit Suisse First Boston LLC, ABN AMRO Rothschild LLC, Fleet Securities, Inc., Scotia Capital (USA) Inc., SunTrust Capital Markets, Inc., The Royal Bank of Scotland plc and HSBC Securities (USA) Inc., as initial purchasers
under the Purchase Agreement. 
  
 “Institutional Accredited Investor” means an institution that is an “accredited investor” as that term is defined in Rule 501(a) (1), (2), (3) or (7) under the Securities Act. 
  
 “Interest” means, with respect to any
CODES, the interest payable on such CODES based upon the applicable Interest Rate. 
  
 “Interest Adjustment Date” shall have the meaning set forth in the Security attached as Annex A hereto. 
  
 “Interest Determination Date” shall have
the meaning set forth in the Security attached as Annex A hereto. 
  
 “Interest Payment Date” means each of March 15, June 15, September 15 and December 15, unless any such Interest Payment Date (other than an Interest Payment Date at maturity) would otherwise be a day
that is not a Business Day, in which case the Interest Payment Date will be postponed to the next succeeding Business Day (except if 

  

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that Business Day falls in the next succeeding calendar month, that Interest Payment Date will be the immediately preceding Business Day). If the maturity
date of the CODES is a day that is not a Business Day, all payments to be made on such day will be made on the next succeeding Business Day, with the same force and effect as if made on the maturity date, and no additional interest will be payable
as a result of such a delay in payment. 
  
 “Interest Rate” has the meaning specified in Section 2.1(c). 
  
 “London banking day” shall have the meaning set forth in the Security attached as Annex A hereto. 
  
 “Maturity” means the date on which the
Outstanding principal amount, Redemption Price or Repurchase Price with respect to such CODES becomes due and payable as therein or herein provided, whether at the Stated Maturity or by acceleration, conversion, call for redemption, exercise of a
repurchase right or otherwise. 
  
 “Moneyline Telerate Page 3750” shall have the meaning set forth in the Security attached as Annex A hereto. 
  
 “Nasdaq National Market” means the National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotation National Market or any
successor national securities exchange or automated over-the-counter trading market in the United States. 
  
 “Non-Electing Share” has the meaning specified in Section 12.4. 
  
 “Obligations” means any principal, interest
accruing on or after the filing of any petition of bankruptcy or for reorganization, whether or not a claim for post-filing interest is allowed in such proceeding), penalties, fees, charges, expenses, indemnifications, reimbursement obligations,
additional amounts, guarantees and other liabilities or amounts payable under the documentation governing any indebtedness or in respect thereto. 
  
 “Officer” of the Company means the Chairman of the Board, the Chief Executive Officer, the President, the Chief Financial
Officer, the Treasurer, any Assistant Treasurer, any Vice President or the Secretary or any Assistant Secretary of the Company. 
  
 “Officers’ Certificate” means, with respect to the Company, a certificate signed by both (1) the Chairman of the
Board, the Chief Executive Officer, the President or a Vice President and (2) so long as not the same as the officer signing pursuant to clause (1), the Chief Financial Officer, the Treasurer, any Assistant Treasurer, the Secretary or any Assistant
Secretary of the Company and delivered to the Trustee. 
  
 “Opinion of Counsel” means a written opinion of counsel, who may be counsel to the Company (and may include directors or employees of the Company) and in form and substance acceptable to the Trustee. 
  
 “Optional Repurchase Date” has the meaning
specified in Section 11.1(a) hereof. 
  

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 “Optional Repurchase Price” has the meaning specified in Section 11.1(a)
hereof. 
  
 “Optional Repurchase
Right” has the meaning specified in Section 11.1(a) hereof. 
  
 “Outstanding”, when used with respect to CODES, means, as of the date of determination, all CODES theretofore authenticated and delivered under this Indenture, except CODES: 
  
 (1) previously canceled by the Trustee or delivered to the
Trustee for cancellation; 
  
 (2) for the payment
or redemption of which money in the necessary amount has been previously deposited with the Trustee or any Paying Agent (other than the Company) in trust or set aside and segregated in trust by the Company (if the Company shall act as its own Paying
Agent) for the Holders of such CODES; provided, however, that if such CODES are to be redeemed, notice of such redemption has been duly given pursuant to this Indenture; and 
  
 (3) which have been paid in exchange for or in lieu of other Securities which have been authenticated and
delivered pursuant to this Indenture, other than any such Security in respect of which there shall have been presented to the Trustee proof satisfactory to it that such Securities are held by a bona fide purchaser in whose hands such
Securities are valid obligations of the Company; 
  
 provided,
however, that in determining whether the Holders of the requisite principal amount of Outstanding CODES are present at a meeting of Holders of CODES for quorum purposes or have consented to or voted in favor of any request, demand,
authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver, amendment or modification hereunder, CODES held for the account of the Company or of any of its Affiliates shall be disregarded and deemed not to be Outstanding, except that in determining whether
the Trustee shall be protected in making such a determination or relying upon any such quorum, consent or vote, only CODES which a Responsible Officer of the Trustee actually knows to be so owned shall be so disregarded. 
  
 “Paying Agent” has the meaning specified in
Section 2.5. 
  
 “Person” means
any individual, corporation, limited liability company, partnership, joint venture, association, joint-stock company, trust, estate, unincorporated organization or government or any agency or political subdivision thereof. 
  
 “Physical Securities” means Securities
issued in definitive, fully registered form without interest coupons, substantially in the form of Exhibit A hereto, that are not Global Securities. 
  
 “Place of Conversion” means any city in which any Conversion Agent is located. 
  

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 “Place of Payment” means any city in which any Paying Agent is located.

  
 “Predecessor Security” of
any particular Security, means every previous Security evidencing all or a portion of the same debt as that evidenced by such particular Security; and, for the purposes of this definition, any Security authenticated and delivered under Section 2.12
in exchange for or in lieu of a mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Security shall be deemed to evidence the same debt as the mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Security. 
  
 “Purchase Agreement” means the Purchase Agreement, dated December 12, 2003, among the
Company, the Guarantors and the Initial Purchasers relating to the offering and sale of the Securities. 
  
 “QIB” means a “qualified institutional buyer” as defined in Rule 144A. 
  
 “Record Date” has the meaning assigned to
it in Section 12.3(g). 
  
 “Redemption
Date”, when used with respect to any CODES to be redeemed, means the date fixed for such redemption by or pursuant to this Indenture. 
  
 “Redemption Price”, when used with respect to any CODES to be redeemed, means 100% of the principal amount of the CODES.

  
 “Reference Dealer” means a
dealer engaged in the trading of convertible securities selected by the Company (or its successor) for the purpose for which such dealers are quoted or otherwise to which they are referred herein. 
  
 “Reference Period” has the meaning set
forth in Section 12.3(d). 
  
 “Register” has the meaning specified in Section 2.5. 
  
 “Registrar” has the meaning specified in Section 2.5. 
  
 “Registration Rights Agreement” means the Resale Registration Rights Agreement dated as of
December 17, 2003 among the Company, the Guarantors and the Initial Purchasers. 
  
 “Regular Record Date” for the Interest (including Contingent Interest) payable on the CODES means March 1, June 1,
September 1 and December 1 (whether or not a Business Day), as applicable, next preceding the corresponding Interest Payment Date. 
  
 “Repurchase Date” has the meaning specified in Section 11.1(b) hereof. 
  
 “Repurchase Notice” has the meaning
specified in Section 11.2(a) hereof. 
  
 “Repurchase Price” has the meaning specified in Section 11.1(b) hereof. 
  
 “Repurchase Right” has the meaning specified in Section 11.1(b) hereof. 
  

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 “Reset Transaction” means any of (1) a merger, consolidation or
statutory share exchange to which the entity that is the issuer of the shares of the common stock into which the CODES are then convertible is a party, (2) a sale of all or substantially all the assets of that entity, (3) a recapitalization of the
common stock of that entity or (4) a distribution contemplated by Section 12.3(d), in any case, after the effective date of which transaction or distribution the CODES would be convertible into either: 
  
 (a) shares of an entity, the common stock of which had a
Dividend Yield for the four fiscal quarters of such entity immediately preceding the public announcement of such transaction or distribution that was more than 2.5 percentage points higher than the Dividend Yield on the Common Stock (or other common
stock then issuable upon a conversion of the CODES) for the four fiscal quarters preceding the public announcement of such transaction or distribution; or 
  
 (b) shares of an entity that announces a dividend policy prior to the effective date of such transaction or distribution which policy, if
implemented, would result in a Dividend Yield on such entity’s common stock for the next four fiscal quarters that would be more than 2.5 percentage points higher than the Dividend Yield on the Company’s Common Stock (or other common stock
then issuable upon conversion of the CODES) for the four fiscal quarters preceding the public announcement of the transaction or distribution. 
  
 “Responsible Officer”, when used with respect to the Trustee, means any officer of the Trustee, including any vice
president, assistant vice president, any assistant treasurer, or any other officer of the Trustee customarily performing functions similar to those performed by any of the above designated officers and also means, with respect to a particular
corporate trust matter, any other officer to whom such matter is referred because of such officer’s knowledge of and familiarity with the particular subject. 
  
 “Restricted Securities” means the Securities defined as such in Section 2.3. 
  
 “Restricted Securities Legend” has the
meaning set forth in Section 2.3(a). 
  
 “Roll-up Date” means December 31, 2004 and the last day of any calendar month in which the consolidated net sales or consolidated total assets of the companies which are then Guarantors of the CODES becomes less than 90% of
the consolidated net sales or consolidated total assets, as the case may be, of the entities which then guarantee the Company’s obligations, or are subsidiary borrowers, under the Credit Agreement. 
  
 “Rule 144” means Rule 144 as promulgated
under the Securities Act (including any successor rule thereof), as the same may be amended from time to time. 
  
 “Rule 144A” means Rule 144A as promulgated under the Securities Act (including any successor rule thereof), as the same
may be amended from time to time. 
  
 “Sale Price” of a security on any date of determination means: 
  
 (1) the closing sale price (or, if no closing sale price is reported, the last reported sale price) of a security (regular way) on the New
York Stock Exchange on that date; 
  

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 (2) if that security is not listed on the New York Stock Exchange on that date, the
closing sale price as reported in the composite transactions for the principal U.S. securities exchange on which that security is listed; 
  
 (3) if that security is not so listed on a U.S. national or regional securities exchange, the closing sale price as reported by the Nasdaq
National Market; 
  
 (4) if that security is not
so reported, the last price quoted by Interactive Data Corporation for that security or, if Interactive Data Corporation is not quoting such price, a similar quotation service selected by the Company; or 
  
 (5) if that security is not so quoted, the average of the
mid-point of the last bid and ask prices for that security from at least two dealers recognized as market-makers for that security. 
  
 “Securities” has the meaning ascribed to it in the first paragraph under the caption “Recitals of the Company”.

  
 “Securities Act” means the
Securities Act of 1933, as amended and the rules and regulations of the Commission thereunder. 
  
 “Significant Subsidiary” has the meaning assigned to it under Rule 405 of the Securities Act. 
  
 “Shelf Registration Statement” means any
registration statement to be filed by the Company and the Guarantors covering resales by Holders of the Securities and the Common Stock issuable upon conversion of the CODES, as specified in the Registration Rights Agreement. 
  
 “Spin-off” has the meaning assigned to it
in Section 12.3(d). 
  
 “Stated
Maturity” has the meaning assigned to it in Section 2.1(b). 
  
 “Subsidiary” means a corporation more than 50% of the outstanding Voting Stock of which is owned, directly or indirectly, by the Company or by one or more other Subsidiaries, or by the Company and one
or more other Subsidiaries. 
  
 “3-month
LIBOR” shall have the meaning set forth in the Security attached as Annex A hereto. 
  
 “TIA” means the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, as amended (15 U.S. Code Section 77aaa-77bbbb), as in effect on the date of
this Indenture; provided, however, that in the event the TIA is amended after such date, “TIA” means, to the extent required by such amendment, the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, as so amended, or any successor statute. 
  

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 “Trading Day” means: 
  
 (1) if the applicable security is listed or admitted for
trading on the New York Stock Exchange, a day on which the New York Stock Exchange is open for business; 
  
 (2) if that security is not listed on the New York Stock Exchange, a day on which trades may be made on the Nasdaq National Market;

  
 (3) if that security is not so listed on the
New York Stock Exchange and not quoted on the Nasdaq National Market, a day on which the principal U.S. securities exchange on which the securities are listed is open for business; or 
  
 (4) if the applicable security is not so listed, admitted for trading or quoted, any day other than a
Saturday or a Sunday or a day on which banking institutions in the State of New York are authorized or obligated by law or executive order to close.  
  
 “Trading Price” of a CODES on any date of determination means: 
  
 (1) the average of the secondary market bid quotations per
CODES obtained by the Company or the Conversion Agent for $10,000,000 principal amount of the CODES at approximately 3:30 p.m., New York City time, on such determination date from three independent nationally recognized securities dealers selected
by the Company; 
  
 (2) if at least three such
bids cannot reasonably be obtained by the Company or the Conversion Agent, but two such bids are obtained, then the average of the two bids shall be used; 
  
 (3) if only one such bid can reasonably be obtained by the Company or the Conversion Agent, this one bid
shall be used; or 
  
 (4) if the Company or the
Conversion Agent cannot reasonably obtain at least one bid for $10,000,000 principal amount of the CODES from a nationally recognized securities dealer or in the Company’s reasonable judgment, the bid quotations are not indicative of the
secondary market value of the CODES, then the trading price of the CODES will equal (i) the then-applicable Conversion Rate of the CODES multiplied by (ii) the Sale Price of the Company’s Common Stock on such determination date. 
  
 “Transfer Agent” means Equiserve Trust
Company (or any successor thereto). 
  
 “Trigger Event” has the meaning specified in Section 12.3(d). 
  
 “Trustee” means the Person named as the “Trustee” in the first paragraph of this instrument until a successor
Trustee shall have become such pursuant to the applicable provisions of this Indenture, and thereafter “Trustee” shall mean such successor Trustee. 
  

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 “Vice President”, when used with respect to the Company, means any vice
president, whether or not designated by a number or a word or words added before or after the title “vice president”. 
  
 “Voting Stock” means with respect to any Person, Capital Stock of any class or kind ordinarily having the power to vote
for the election of directors, managers or other voting members of the governing body of such Person. 
  
 Section 1.2. Incorporation by Reference of Trust Indenture Act. 
  
 Whenever this Indenture refers to a provision of the TIA, the provision is incorporated by reference in and made a part of
this Indenture. 
  
 The following TIA terms used in this Indenture
have the following meanings: 
  
 “indenture
securities” means the Securities; 
  
 “indenture
security holder” means a Holder; 
  
 “indenture
to be qualified” means this Indenture; 
  
 “indenture trustee” or “institutional trustee” means the Trustee; and 
  
 “obligor” on the Securities means the Company and any other obligor on the indenture securities. 
  
 All other TIA terms used in this Indenture that are defined by the TIA,
defined by TIA reference to another statute or defined by Commission rule have the meanings assigned to them by such definitions. 
  
 Section 1.3. Rules of Construction. 
  
 For all purposes of this Indenture, except as otherwise expressly provided or unless the context otherwise requires: 
  
 (1) the terms defined in this Article have the meanings
assigned to them in this Article and include the plural as well as the singular; 
  
 (2) all accounting terms not otherwise defined herein have the meanings assigned to them in accordance with generally accepted accounting
principles in the United States prevailing at the time of any relevant computation hereunder (“GAAP”); 
  
 (3) the words “herein”, “hereof” and “hereunder” and other words of similar import refer to this Indenture
as a whole and not to any particular Article, Section or other subdivision; 
  
 (4) all references to section and article numbers in this Indenture shall refer to sections and articles hereof, unless otherwise specified. 
  

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 ARTICLE 2 
  

THE SECURITIES 
  
 Section 2.1. Title and Terms. 
  
 (a) The CODES shall be designated as the “Floating Rate Senior Convertible Contingent Debt Securities due 2033” of the Company. The aggregate
principal amount of CODES which may be authenticated and delivered under this Indenture is limited to $300 million (or up to $345 million if the option set forth in Section 2 of the Purchase Agreement is exercised in full), except for CODES
authenticated and delivered upon registration of, transfer of, or in exchange for, or in lieu of other CODES pursuant to Sections 2.7, 2.8, 2.12, 7.5 or 10.7, hereof. The CODES shall be issuable in denominations of $1,000 or integral multiples
thereof. 
  
 (b) The CODES shall mature on December 15, 2033 (the
“Stated Maturity”). 
  
 (c) The CODES shall bear
Interest from December 17, 2003 until the principal amount thereof is paid or made available for payment, or until such date on which the CODES are converted, redeemed or purchased as provided herein at a per annum rate which will equal 3-month
LIBOR, adjusted quarterly by the Calculation Agent in accordance with the Security attached as Annex A hereto, minus a spread of 125 basis points, which spread may be reset upon the occurrence of a Reset Transaction, to, but not including, the
effective date of any succeeding Reset Transaction (as adjusted as provided herein and the CODES, the “Interest Rate”). The Interest Rate for the initial interest period commencing on the Closing Date shall be 0.0 (zero).
Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein or in the form of Security, the Interest Rate will never be less than zero. Interest shall be payable quarterly in arrears on each Interest Payment Date, commencing March 15, 2004, with
interest payable in Dollars to Holders in whose names the CODES are registered at the close of business on the preceding Regular Record Date, except as otherwise provided herein and in the CODES. 
  
 (d) In addition, interest (the “Contingent Interest”) will
accrue on each CODES during any quarterly interest period commencing with the quarterly interest period beginning December 15, 2009, if the average Trading Prices of a CODES for the five Trading Days ending on the second Trading Day immediately
preceding the beginning of the relevant quarterly interest period equals 120% or more of the principal amount of such CODES. The amount of Contingent Interest payable in respect of any quarterly period will equal 0.0625% of the average Trading Price
of the CODES over the measuring period triggering the Contingent Interest payment. Upon determination that Holders of CODES will be entitled to receive Contingent Interest during any relevant quarterly interest period, on or prior to the start of
the relevant quarterly interest period, the Company shall issue a press release and publish information with respect to any Contingent Interest on its web site. The Company shall pay Contingent Interest, if any, in the same manner as it shall pay
Interest pursuant to Section 2.1(c) hereof and the obligations of Holders in respect of the payment of Contingent Interest in connection with the conversion of any CODES will also be the same as described in Section 2.1(f) hereof. 
  

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 (e) Interest (including Contingent Interest) on the CODES shall be computed on the basis of the actual
number of days for which Interest is payable in the relevant interest period, divided by 360. For purposes of determining the Interest Rate, the Trustee may assume that a Reset Transaction has not occurred unless the Trustee has received an
Officers’ Certificate stating that a Reset Transaction has occurred and specifying the Adjusted Spread then in effect. 
  
 (f) Interest (including Contingent Interest) shall be due and payable on a CODES as follows: 
  
 (1) A registered Holder of any CODES as of the close of
business on a Regular Record Date shall be entitled (except as otherwise indicated in this Section 2.1(f)) to receive and shall receive, as the registered Holder as of such Regular Record Date, Interest (including Contingent Interest) on such CODES
on the corresponding Interest Payment Date (other than any CODES whose Stated Maturity is prior to such Interest Payment Date). 
  
 (2) In the event that a CODES becomes subject to redemption pursuant to Article 10 and the Redemption Date occurs after a Regular Record
Date, the Person whose CODES become subject to redemption (and only such Person rather than the Holder as of such Regular Record Date) shall be entitled to receive and shall receive accrued and unpaid Interest (including Contingent Interest) from
the preceding Interest Payment Date (or such earlier date on which Interest, including Contingent Interest, if any, was last paid) to but not including the Redemption Date on such CODES, even if such Person is not the Holder of such CODES.

  
 (3) In the event that a CODES becomes subject
to purchase pursuant to Article 11, a Holder of any CODES who exercises a repurchase right with respect to such CODES shall be entitled to receive and shall receive Interest (including Contingent Interest) to but not including the applicable
purchase date for such CODES, which amount shall be included in the applicable purchase price thereof. 
  
 (4) In the event that a CODES is converted pursuant to Article 12, the Holder who converts such CODES on any date other than an Interest
Payment Date shall not be entitled to accrued and unpaid Interest (including Contingent Interest) from the preceding Interest Payment Date until the Conversion Date, or otherwise, on such CODES, such amounts being deemed to have been paid by receipt
of shares of Common Stock in full rather than canceled, extinguished or forfeited; and, accordingly, a Holder which converts a CODES after a Regular Record Date but prior to the corresponding Interest Payment Date will receive accrued and unpaid
Interest (including Contingent Interest) for such period on such Interest Payment Date but will be required to remit to the Company an amount equal to that Interest (including Contingent Interest) at the time such Holder surrenders the CODES for
conversion The preceding sentence does not apply, however, to a Holder that converts, after a Regular Record Date for an interest payment date but prior to the corresponding Interest Payment Date, CODES that the Company calls for redemption prior to
such conversion on a Redemption Date that is on or prior to the third Business Day after such Interest Payment Date. 
  

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 (g) Payment of any principal, Redemption Price, Repurchase Price and Interest and Contingent Interest, if
any, on, Global Securities shall be payable by the Company to the Depositary in immediately available funds. 
  
 (h) Payment of any principal on Physical Securities shall be made at the office or agency of the Company maintained for such purpose, initially the
Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee. Interest, including Contingent Interest, if any, on Physical Securities will be payable by (i) U.S. Dollar check drawn on a bank in The City of New York mailed to the address of the Person entitled thereto as
such address shall appear in the Register, or (ii) upon written application to the Registrar not later than the relevant Regular Record Date by a Holder of a principal amount of Securities in excess of $5,000,000, wire transfer in immediately
available funds, which application shall remain in effect until the Holder notifies, in writing, the Registrar to the contrary. 
  
 (i) The CODES are redeemable at the option of the Company as provided in and subject to Article 10. 
  
 (j) The CODES shall be purchased by the Company at the option of Holders as
provided in and subject to Article 11. 
  
 (k) The CODES shall be
convertible at the option of the Holders as provided in and subject to Article 12. 
  
 (l) The CODES shall be jointly and severally guaranteed by the Guarantors as provided in Article 13 hereof. 
  
 Section 2.2. Form of Securities. 
  
 (a) Except as otherwise provided pursuant to this Section 2.2, the Securities are issuable in fully registered form without coupons, in substantially the
form of Exhibit A hereto, with such applicable legends as are provided for in Section 2.3. The Securities are not issuable in bearer form. The terms and provisions contained in the form of Security shall constitute, and are hereby expressly made, a
part of this Indenture and to the extent applicable, the Company, and the Trustee, by their execution and delivery of this Indenture, expressly agree to such terms and provisions and to be bound thereby. 
  
 (b) The Securities are being offered and sold by the Company pursuant to the
Purchase Agreement. Securities offered and sold to QIBs in accordance with Rule 144A as provided in the Purchase Agreement, shall be issued initially in the form of one or more permanent global Securities in fully registered form without interest
coupons, substantially in the form of Exhibit A hereto, with the applicable legends as provided in Section 2.3 (each a “Global Security” and collectively the “Global Securities”). Each Global Security shall be duly
executed by the Company and authenticated and delivered by the Trustee, and shall be registered in the name of the Depositary or its nominee and retained by the Trustee, as Custodian, at its Corporate Trust Office. The aggregate principal amount of
the Global Securities may from time to time be increased or decreased by adjustments made on the records of the Trustee, as Custodian, and of the Depositary or its nominee, as hereinafter provided. 
  

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 (c) Physical Securities may be exchanged for interests in Global Securities pursuant to Sections 2.8(d)
and 2.9(a) only. Physical Securities shall be duly executed by the Company and authenticated and delivered by the Trustee shall be registered, in the case of Physical Securities issued pursuant to Section 2.8(d), in such names as the Depositary
shall identify in writing as the beneficial owners of the Securities represented by the Global Security or Global Securities (or any nominee thereof) being exchanged, and, in the case of Physical Securities issued pursuant to Section 2.9(a), in the
in the name of the Institutional Accredited Investor purchasing such Security pursuant to Section 2.9(a). 
  
 Section 2.3. Legends. 
  
 (a) Restricted Securities Legends. 
  
 Each Security issued hereunder shall, upon issuance, bear the legend set forth in Section 2.3(a)(i), and each share of Common Stock issued upon conversion
of any Security issued hereunder, shall, upon issuance, bear the legend set forth in Section 2.3(a)(ii) (each such legend, a “Restricted Securities Legend”), and such legend shall not be removed except as provided in Section
2.3(a)(iii). Each Security that bears or is required to bear the Restricted Securities Legend set forth in Section 2.3(a)(i) (together with each share of Common Stock issued upon conversion of such Security that bears or is required to bear the
Restricted Securities Legend set forth in Section 2.3(a)(ii), collectively, the “Restricted Securities”) shall be subject to the restrictions on transfer set forth in this Section 2.3(a) (including the Restricted Securities Legend
set forth below), and the Holder of each such Restricted Security, by such Holder’s acceptance thereof, shall be deemed to have agreed to be bound by the restrictions on transfer set forth herein. 
  
 As used in Section 2.3(a), the term “transfer” encompasses any
sale, pledge, transfer or other disposition whatsoever of any Restricted Security. 
  
 (i) Restricted Securities Legend for Securities. 
  
 Except as provided in Section 2.3(a)(iii), until two years after the original issuance date of any Security, any certificate evidencing such Security (and all Securities issued in exchange therefor or substitution
thereof, other than share of Common Stock, if any, issued upon conversion thereof which shall bear the legend set forth in Section 2.3(a)(ii), if applicable) shall bear a Restricted Securities Legend in substantially the following form:

  
 THE SECURITY EVIDENCED BY THIS CERTIFICATE HAS NOT BEEN
REGISTERED UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED (THE “SECURITIES ACT”), OR ANY STATE SECURITIES LAWS, AND MAY NOT BE OFFERED OR SOLD WITHIN THE UNITED STATES OR TO OR FOR THE ACCOUNT OR BENEFIT OF, U.S. PERSONS EXCEPT AS SET FORTH
IN THE FOLLOWING SENTENCE. BY ACQUISITION HEREOF, THE HOLDER: 
  
 (1) REPRESENTS THAT (A) IT IS A “QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER” AS DEFINED IN RULE 144A UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OR (B) IT IS AN INSTITUTIONAL “ACCREDITED INVESTOR” AS DEFINED IN RULE 501(A)(1), (2), (3) OR (7) UNDER THE
SECURITIES ACT (AN “INSTITUTIONAL ACCREDITED INVESTOR”) THAT IS PURCHASING AT LEAST $100,000 IN AGGREGATE PRINCIPAL AMOUNT OF CODES; 
  

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 (2) AGREES THAT IT WILL NOT WITHIN TWO YEARS AFTER THE ORIGINAL ISSUANCE OF THIS SECURITY RESELL OR
OTHERWISE TRANSFER THE SECURITY EVIDENCED HEREBY OR THE COMMON STOCK UPON CONVERSION OF SUCH SECURITY EXCEPT (A) TO THE COMPANY OR ANY SUBSIDIARY THEREOF, (B) TO A QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER IN COMPLIANCE WITH RULE 144A UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT,
(C) PURSUANT TO AN EXEMPTION FROM REGISTRATION UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT TO AN INSTITUTIONAL ACCREDITED INVESTOR THAT IS PURCHASING CODES IN AN AGGREGATE PRINCIPAL AMOUNT OF AT LEAST $100,000, AND THAT PRIOR TO SUCH TRANSFER, FURNISHES TO THE BANK OF
NEW YORK, AS TRUSTEE (OR ANY SUCCESSOR TRUSTEE, AS APPLICABLE), A SIGNED LETTER CONTAINING CERTAIN REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES RELATING TO THE RESTRICTIONS ON TRANSFER OF THE SECURITY EVIDENCED HEREBY (THE FORM OF LETTER CAN BE OBTAINED FROM SUCH
TRUSTEE), (D) PURSUANT TO THE EXEMPTION FROM REGISTRATION PROVIDED BY RULE 144 UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT (IF AVAILABLE) OR (E) PURSUANT TO A REGISTRATION STATEMENT WHICH HAS BEEN DECLARED EFFECTIVE UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT AND WHICH CONTINUES TO BE
EFFECTIVE AT THE TIME OF SUCH TRANSFER; AND 
  
 (3) AGREES THAT
IT WILL DELIVER TO EACH PERSON TO WHOM THE SECURITY EVIDENCED HEREBY IS TRANSFERRED (OTHER THAN A TRANSFER PURSUANT TO CLAUSE 2(E) ABOVE) A NOTICE SUBSTANTIALLY TO THE EFFECT OF THIS LEGEND. 
  
 IN CONNECTION WITH ANY TRANSFER OF THE SECURITY EVIDENCED HEREBY WITHIN TWO
YEARS AFTER THE ORIGINAL ISSUANCE OF SUCH SECURITY (OTHER THAN A TRANSFER PURSUANT TO CLAUSE (2)(E) ABOVE), THE HOLDER MUST CHECK THE APPROPRIATE BOX SET FORTH ON THE REVERSE HEREOF RELATING TO THE MANNER OF SUCH TRANSFER AND SUBMIT THIS CERTIFICATE
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CLAUSE (2)(D) ABOVE, THE HOLDER MUST, PRIOR TO SUCH TRANSFER, FURNISH TO THE TRUSTEE (OR ANY SUCCESSOR TRUSTEE, AS APPLICABLE), SUCH CERTIFICATIONS, LEGAL
OPINIONS OR OTHER INFORMATION AS THE COMPANY MAY REASONABLY REQUIRE TO CONFIRM THAT SUCH TRANSFER IS BEING MADE PURSUANT TO AN EXEMPTION FROM, OR IN A TRANSACTION NOT SUBJECT TO, THE REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS OF THE SECURITIES ACT. THIS LEGEND WILL
BE REMOVED UPON THE EARLIER OF THE TRANSFER OF THE SECURITY EVIDENCED HEREBY PURSUANT TO CLAUSE (2)(D) OR CLAUSE (2)(E) ABOVE OR THE EXPIRATION OF TWO YEARS FROM THE ORIGINAL ISSUANCE OF THE SECURITY EVIDENCED HEREBY. 
  
 (ii) Restricted Securities Legend for Common Stock Issued Upon Conversion of
the Securities. 
  
 Until two years after the original issuance
date of any Security, any stock certificate representing Common Stock issued upon conversion of such Security shall bear a Restricted Securities Legend in substantially the following form: 
  
 THE SECURITY EVIDENCED HEREBY HAS NOT BEEN REGISTERED UNDER THE SECURITIES
ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED (THE “SECURITIES ACT”), OR ANY STATE SECURITIES LAWS, AND MAY NOT BE OFFERED OR SOLD WITHIN THE UNITED STATES OR TO, OR FOR THE ACCOUNT OR BENEFIT OF, U.S. PERSONS EXCEPT AS SET FORTH IN THE FOLLOWING SENTENCE. THE
HOLDER HEREOF AGREES THAT UNTIL THE EXPIRATION OF TWO YEARS AFTER THE ORIGINAL ISSUANCE OF THE SECURITY UPON THE CONVERSION OF WHICH THE COMMON STOCK EVIDENCED HEREBY WAS ISSUED, 
  
 (1) IT WILL NOT RESELL OR OTHERWISE TRANSFER THE SECURITY EXCEPT (A) TO THE COMPANY OR ANY SUBSIDIARY THEREOF, (B) TO A
QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER IN COMPLIANCE WITH 144A UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT, (C) PURSUANT TO AN EXEMPTION FROM REGISTRATION UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT TO AN INSTITUTIONAL ACCREDITED INVESTOR THAT IS PURCHASING COMMON STOCK WITH A VALUE OF AT LEAST
$100,000 AND THAT PRIOR TO SUCH TRANSFER, FURNISHES TO EQUISERVE TRUST COMPANY, AS TRANSFER AGENT (OR ANY SUCCESSOR TRANSFER AGENT, AS APPLICABLE), A SIGNED LETTER CONTAINING CERTAIN REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES RELATING TO THE RESTRICTIONS ON
TRANSFER OF THE COMMON STOCK EVIDENCED HEREBY (THE FORM OF WHICH LETTER CAN BE OBTAINED FROM THE COMPANY), (D) PURSUANT TO THE EXEMPTION FROM REGISTRATION PROVIDED BY RULE 144 UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT (IF AVAILABLE) OR (E) PURSUANT TO A REGISTRATION

  

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STATEMENT WHICH HAS BEEN DECLARED EFFECTIVE UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT AND WHICH CONTINUES TO BE EFFECTIVE AT THE TIME OF SUCH TRANSFER; 
  
 (2) PRIOR TO ANY SUCH TRANSFER OTHER THAN A TRANSFER PURSUANT TO CLAUSE
(1)(E) ABOVE, IT WILL FURNISH TO EQUISERVE TRUST COMPANY (OR ANY SUCCESSOR TRANSFER AGENT, AS APPLICABLE), SUCH CERTIFICATIONS, LEGAL OPINIONS OR OTHER INFORMATION AS THE COMPANY MAY REASONABLY REQUIRE TO CONFIRM THAT SUCH TRANSFER IS BEING MADE
PURSUANT TO AN EXEMPTION FROM, OR IN A TRANSACTION NOT SUBJECT TO, THE REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS OF THE SECURITIES ACT; AND 
  
 (3) IT WILL DELIVER TO EACH PERSON TO WHOM THE COMMON STOCK EVIDENCED HEREBY IS TRANSFERRED (OTHER THAN A TRANSFER PURSUANT TO CLAUSE (1)(E) ABOVE) A
NOTICE SUBSTANTIALLY TO THE EFFECT OF THIS LEGEND. 
  
 THIS
LEGEND WILL BE REMOVED UPON THE EARLIER OF THE TRANSFER OF THE COMMON STOCK EVIDENCED HEREBY PURSUANT TO CLAUSE (1)(D) OR CLAUSE (1)(E) ABOVE OR THE EXPIRATION OF TWO YEARS FROM THE ORIGINAL ISSUANCE OF THE SECURITY UPON THE CONVERSION OF WHICH THE
COMMON STOCK EVIDENCED HEREBY WAS ISSUED. 
  
 (iii) Removal
of the Restricted Securities Legends. 
  
 Each Security or share
of Common Stock issued upon conversion of any CODES (other than shares of Common Stock issued upon conversion of a CODES that previously were sold pursuant to Rule 144, if available, or pursuant to a registration statement that has been declared
effective under the Securities Act and which continues to be effective at the time of such sale) shall bear the applicable Restricted Securities Legend set forth in Section 2.3(a)(i) or 2.3(a)(ii), as applicable, until the earlier of: 
  
 (1) the date which is two years after the original issuance
date of such Security; and 
  
 (2) the date such
Security has, or such shares of Common Stock have been sold pursuant to Rule 144, if available, or pursuant to a registration statement that has been declared effective under the Securities Act (and which continues to be effective at the time of
such sale). 
  
 The Holder must give notice thereof to the Trustee, as applicable.

  
 In the event Rule 144(k) as promulgated under the Securities
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forth above to “TWO YEARS”, and in the corresponding transfer restrictions described above, the Securities and the shares of Common Stock will be
deemed to refer to such shorter period, from and after receipt by the Trustee of an Officers’ Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel to that effect. As soon as practicable after the Company knows of the effectiveness of any such amendment to
shorten the two-year period under Rule 144(k), unless such changes would otherwise be prohibited by, or would cause a violation of, the U.S. federal securities laws applicable at the time, the Company will provide to the Trustee an Officers’
Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel as to the effectiveness of such amendment and the effectiveness of such change to the restrictive legends and transfer restrictions. 
  
 Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Restricted Securities Legend may be removed if there is delivered to the Company such
satisfactory evidence, which may include an opinion of independent counsel, as may be reasonably required by the Company that neither such legend nor the restrictions on transfer set forth therein are required to ensure that transfers of such
Securities or Common Stock will not violate the registration requirements of the Securities Act. Upon provision of such satisfactory evidence, the Trustee, at the written direction of the Company, shall authenticate and deliver in exchange for such
Securities another Security or Securities having an equal aggregate principal amount that does not bear such legend. If the Restricted Securities Legend has been removed from a Securities as provided above, no other Security issued in exchange for
all or any part of such Security shall bear such legend, unless the Company has reasonable cause to believe that such other Security is a “restricted security” within the meaning of Rule 144 and instructs the Trustee in writing to cause a
Restricted Securities Legend to appear thereon. 
  
 Any Security
(or security issued in exchange or substitution thereof) as to which such restrictions on transfer shall have expired in accordance with their terms or as to which the conditions for removal of the Restricted Securities Legend set forth therein or
in Section 2.3(a)(iii) have been satisfied may, upon surrender of such Security for exchange to the Registrar in accordance with the provisions of Section 2.7 hereof, be exchanged for a new Security or Securities, of like tenor and aggregate
principal amount which shall not bear the Restricted Securities Legend required by Section 2.3(a)(i). 
  
 Any such Common Stock as to which such restrictions on transfer shall have expired in accordance with their terms or as to which the conditions for
removal of the Restricted Securities Legend set forth therein or in Section 2.3(a)(iii) have been satisfied may, upon surrender of the certificates representing such shares of Common Stock for exchange in accordance with the procedures of the
Transfer Agent, be exchanged for a new certificate or certificates for a like aggregate number of shares of Common Stock, which shall not bear the Restricted Securities Legend required by Section 2.3(a)(ii). 
  
 (b) Global Security Legend. 
  
 Each Global Security shall also bear the following legend on the face
thereof: 
  
 UNLESS THIS CERTIFICATE IS PRESENTED BY AN
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REGISTRATION OF TRANSFER, EXCHANGE OR PAYMENT, AND ANY CERTIFICATE ISSUED IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF CEDE & CO. OR IN SUCH OTHER NAME AS IS REQUESTED
BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF THE DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY (AND ANY PAYMENT HEREON IS MADE TO CEDE & CO. OR TO SUCH OTHER ENTITY AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF THE DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY), ANY TRANSFER, PLEDGE OR OTHER
USE HEREOF FOR VALUE OR OTHERWISE BY OR TO ANY PERSON IS WRONGFUL SINCE THE REGISTERED OWNER HEREOF, CEDE & CO., HAS AN INTEREST HEREIN. TRANSFERS OF THIS GLOBAL SECURITY SHALL BE LIMITED TO TRANSFERS TO NOMINEES OF THE DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY
OR TO A SUCCESSOR THEREOF OR SUCH SUCCESSOR’S NOMINEE AND TRANSFERS OF PORTIONS OF THIS GLOBAL SECURITY SHALL BE LIMITED TO TRANSFERS MADE IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE RESTRICTIONS SET FORTH IN ARTICLE 2 OF THE INDENTURE REFERRED TO ON THE REVERSE
HEREOF. 
  
 (c) Legend for Physical Securities. 
  
 Physical Securities, in addition to the legend set forth in Section
2.3(a)(i), if then applicable, will also bear a legend substantially in the following form: 
  
 THIS SECURITY WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED IN EXCHANGE FOR A BENEFICIAL INTEREST IN A GLOBAL SECURITY UNLESS THE HOLDER OF THIS SECURITY, SUBSEQUENT TO SUCH EXCHANGE, WILL HOLD EITHER NO SECURITIES OR A MINIMUM AGGREGATE
BENEFICIAL INTEREST IN THE SECURITIES OF AT LEAST ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS ($100,000). 
  
 (d) Tax Legend. 
  
 All
Securities, in addition to any other legends required by this Section 2.3, will also bear a legend substantially in the following form: 
  
 THIS SECURITY IS ISSUED WITH ORIGINAL ISSUE DISCOUNT AND IS SUBJECT TO THE RULES FOR DEBT INSTRUMENTS WITH CONTINGENT PAYMENTS UNDER TREASURY REGULATION
§ 1.1275-4(b). FOR INFORMATION REGARDING THE ISSUE PRICE, THE AMOUNT OF ORIGINAL ISSUE DISCOUNT, ISSUE DATE, THE YIELD TO MATURITY, THE COMPARABLE YIELD 

  

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AND PROJECTED PAYMENT SCHEDULE FOR THIS SECURITY, YOU SHOULD SUBMIT A WRITTEN REQUEST FOR IT TO THE COMPANY AT THE COMPANY’S ADDRESS SPECIFIED IN
SECTION 9.7 OF THE INDENTURE. 
  
 Section 2.4. Execution,
Authentication, Delivery and Dating of the Securities. 
  
 (a)
Two Officers shall execute the Securities on behalf of the Company by manual or facsimile signature. Securities bearing the manual or facsimile signatures of individuals who were at the time of the execution of the Securities the proper Officers of
the Company shall bind the Company, notwithstanding that such individuals or any of them have ceased to hold such offices prior to the authentication and delivery of such Securities or did not hold such offices at the date of authentication of such
Securities. 
  
 (b) At any time and from time to time after the
execution and delivery of this Indenture, the Company may deliver Securities executed by the Company to the Trustee for authentication, together with a Company Order for the authentication and delivery of such Securities, and the Trustee in
accordance with such Company Order shall authenticate and deliver such Securities as in this Indenture provided and not otherwise. No Security shall be entitled to any benefit under this Indenture, or be valid or obligatory for any purpose, unless
there appears on such Security a certificate of authentication substantially in the form provided for herein executed by or on behalf of the Trustee by manual signature, and such certificate upon any Security shall be conclusive evidence, and the
only evidence, that such Security has been duly authenticated and delivered hereunder. The Trustee may appoint an authenticating agent or agents reasonably acceptable to the Company with respect to the Securities. Unless limited by the terms of such
appointment, an authenticating agent may authenticate Securities whenever the Trustee may do so. Each reference in this Indenture to authentication by the Trustee includes authentication by such agent. 
  
 (c) Each Security shall be dated the date of its authentication. The Trustee
shall authenticate and deliver Securities for original issue upon one or more Company Orders without any further action by the Company. The aggregate principal amount of Securities Outstanding at any time may not exceed $300 million (or up to $345
million if the Initial Purchasers’ option set forth in Section 2 of the Purchase Agreement is exercised in full). In the event that the Initial Purchasers exercise their option subsequent to the Closing Date, the Company may deliver to the
Trustee a Company Order authorizing the Trustee to increase the aggregate principal amount of Securities Outstanding evidenced by a global Security, whereupon the Trustee shall make appropriate notation on the Schedule of Increases or Decreases in
Global CODES evidencing the issuance by the Company of the additional principal amount of Securities that are the subject of the exercise by the Initial Purchasers of their option. 
  
 Section 2.5. Registrar, Paying Agent and Calculation Agent. 
  
 The Company shall maintain an office or agency where Securities may be
presented for registration of transfer or for exchange (the “Registrar”) and an office or agency where Securities may be presented for payment (the “Paying Agent”). The Registrar shall keep a register of the
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may appoint one or more co-Registrars and one or more additional Paying Agents for the Securities. The term “Paying Agent” includes any additional
paying agent and the term “Registrar” includes any additional registrar. The Company may change any Paying Agent or Registrar without prior notice to any Holder. 
  
 The Company shall also appoint a Calculation Agent to perform the calculations required pursuant to this Indenture and the
Securities. 
  
 The Company will cause each Paying Agent (other
than The Bank of New York) to execute and deliver to the Trustee an instrument in which such Paying Agent shall agree with the Trustee, subject to the provisions of this Section, that such Paying Agent will: 
  
 (1) hold all sums of money or Common Stock held by it for
the payment of any amounts due and payable in respect of the Securities in trust for the benefit of the Persons entitled thereto until such sums shall be paid to such Persons or otherwise disposed of as provided in this Indenture; 
  
 (2) give the Trustee notice of any Default by the Company in
the making of any such payment; and 
  
 (3) at
any time during the continuance of any such Default, upon the written request of the Trustee, forthwith pay to the Trustee all sums so held in trust by such Paying Agent. 
  
 The Company shall give prompt written notice to the Trustee of the name and address of any Agent who is not a party to this
Indenture. If the Company fails to appoint or maintain another entity as Registrar, Paying Agent, or Calculation Agent, the Trustee shall act as such. The Company or any Affiliate of the Company may act as Paying Agent or Registrar; provided,
however, that none of the Company, its subsidiaries or the Affiliates of the foregoing shall act: 
  
 (1) as Paying Agent in connection with redemptions, offers to purchase and discharges, except as otherwise specified in this Indenture,
and 
  
 (2) as Paying Agent or Registrar if a
Default or Event of Default has occurred and is continuing. 
  
 The Company hereby initially appoints The Bank of New York as Registrar, Paying Agent and Calculation Agent. 
  
 Section 2.6. Paying Agent to Hold Assets in Trust. 
  
 Not later than 10:00 a.m. (New York City time) on or prior to each due date of payments in respect of any Security, the Company shall deposit with one or
more Paying Agents a sum of money in immediately available funds sufficient to make such payments when so becoming due. The Company at any time may require a Paying Agent to pay all money held by it to the Trustee. Upon payment over to the Trustee,
the Paying Agent (if other than the Company) shall have no further liability for the money so paid over to the Trustee. 
  

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 The Company shall require each Paying Agent (other than the Trustee) to agree in writing that the Paying
Agent shall hold in trust for the benefit of Holders or the Trustee all money held by the Paying Agent for the making of payments in respect of the Securities and shall notify the Trustee of any Default by the Company in making any such payment. At
any time during the continuance of any such Default, the Paying Agent shall, upon the written request of the Trustee, forthwith pay to the Trustee all money so held in trust. 
  
 If the Company shall act as a Paying Agent, it shall, prior to or on each such due date, segregate and hold in trust for the
benefit of the Holders a sum sufficient with monies held by all other Paying Agents, to pay such amounts so becoming due until such sums shall be paid to such Persons or otherwise disposed of as provided in this Indenture, and shall promptly notify
the Trustee of its action or failure to act. 
  
 Section 2.7.
General Provisions Relating to Registration, Transfer and Exchange. 
  
 The Securities are issuable only in registered form. A Holder may transfer a Security only by written application to the Registrar stating the name of the proposed transferee and otherwise complying with the terms of this Indenture. No such
transfer shall be effected until, and such transferee shall succeed to the rights of a Holder only upon, final acceptance and registration of the transfer by the Registrar in the Register. Furthermore, any Holder of a Global Security shall, by
acceptance of such Global Security, agree that transfers of beneficial interests in such Global Security may be effected only through a book-entry system maintained by the Holder of such Global Security (or its agent) and that ownership of a
beneficial interest in the Global Security shall be required to be reflected in a book-entry. Notwithstanding the foregoing, in the case of a Restricted Security, a beneficial interest in a Global Security that is transferred in reliance on an
exemption from the registration requirements of the Securities Act other than in accordance with Rule 144 or Rule 144A may only be transferred for a Physical Security unless the transferee is the Company or a Subsidiary of the Company. 

 
 When Securities are presented to the Registrar with a request to register
the transfer or to exchange them for an equal principal amount of Securities of other authorized denominations, the Registrar shall register the transfer or make the exchange as requested if the requirements hereunder for such transactions are met
(including that such Securities are duly endorsed or accompanied by a written instrument of transfer duly executed by the Holder thereof or by an attorney who is authorized in writing to act on behalf of the Holder). Subject to Section 2.4, to
permit registrations of transfers and exchanges, the Company shall execute and the Trustee shall authenticate Securities at the Registrar’s request. No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange or redemption of
the Securities, but the Company may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any transfer tax or similar governmental charge payable in connection therewith (other than any such transfer taxes or other similar governmental charge payable upon
issuances pursuant to Section 2.12 and exchanges pursuant to Sections 2.14, 7.5 or 10.7). 
  
 Neither the Company nor the Registrar shall be required to exchange or register a transfer of any Securities: 
  
 (1) for a period of 15 days prior to the day of mailing of notice of redemption of Securities under Article 10 hereof; 
  

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 (2) so selected for redemption or, if a portion of any Security is selected for
redemption, such portion thereof selected for redemption; or 
  
 (3) surrendered for conversion or, if a portion of any Security is surrendered for conversion, such portion thereof surrendered for conversion. 
  
 The Trustee shall have no obligation or duty to monitor, determine or inquire as to compliance with any restrictions on
transfer imposed under this Indenture or under applicable law with respect to any transfer of any interest in any Security (including any transfers between or among Agent Members or beneficial owners of interests in any Global Security) other than
to require delivery of such certificates and other documentation or evidence as are expressly required by, and to do so if and when expressly required by the terms of, this Indenture, and to examine the same to determine substantial compliance as to
form with the express requirements hereof. 
  
 Section
2.8. Book-Entry Provisions for the Global Securities. 
  
 (a)
The Global Securities initially shall: 
  
 (1) be
registered in the name of the Depositary; 
  
 (2)
be delivered to the Trustee as custodian for such Depositary, for credit to the accounts of the members of, participants in, the Depositary (the “Agent Members”) holding the Securities evidenced thereby, registered with the
Depositary for credit to the accounts of the Agent Members then holding such Securities on behalf of Euroclear or Clearstream, as applicable); 
  
 (3) bear the Restricted Securities Legend set forth in Section 2.3(a)(i). 
  
 Agent Members shall have no rights under this Indenture with respect to any Global Security held on their behalf by the
Depositary, or the Trustee as its custodian, or under such Global Security, and the Depositary may be treated by the Company, the Trustee and any agent of the Company or the Trustee as the absolute owner of such Global Security for all purposes
whatsoever. Notwithstanding the foregoing, nothing contained herein shall prevent the Company, the Trustee or any agent of the Company or Trustee from giving effect to any written certification, proxy or other authorization furnished by the
Depositary or impair, as between the Depositary and the Agent Members, the operation of customary practices governing the exercise of the rights of a Holder of any Security. With respect to any Global Security deposited on behalf of the subscribers
for the Securities represented thereby with the Trustee as custodian for the Depositary for credit to their respective accounts (or to such other accounts as they may direct) at Euroclear or Clearstream, the provisions of the “Operating
Procedures of the Euroclear System” and the “Terms and Conditions Governing Use of Euroclear” and the “Management Regulations” and “Instructions to Participants” of Clearstream, respectively, shall be applicable to
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 (b) The registered Holder of a Global Security may grant proxies and otherwise authorize any Person,
including Agent Members and Persons that may hold interests through Agent Members, to take any action which a Holder is entitled to take under this Indenture or the Securities. 
  
 (c) A Global Security may not be transferred, in whole or in part, to any Person other than the Depositary, and no such
transfer to any such other Person may be registered. Beneficial interests in a Global Security may be transferred in accordance with the rules and procedures of the Depositary and the provisions of Section 2.9 hereof. 
  
 (d) If at any time: 
  
 (1) the Depositary notifies the Company in writing that it
is no longer willing or able to continue to act as Depositary for the Global Securities, or the Depositary ceases to be a “clearing agency” registered under the Exchange Act and a successor depositary for the Global Securities is not
appointed by the Company within 90 days of such notice or cessation; 
  
 (2) the Company, at its option, notifies the Trustee in writing that it elects to cause the issuance of the Physical Securities under this Indenture in exchange for all or any part of the Securities represented by a
Global Security or Global Securities; or 
  
 (3)
an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing and the Registrar has received a request from the Depositary for the issuance of Physical Securities in exchange for such Global Security or Global Securities, 
  
 then the Depositary shall surrender such Global Security or Global Securities to the Trustee
for cancellation and the Company shall execute, and the Trustee, upon receipt of an Officers’ Certificate and Company Order for the authentication and delivery of Securities (which certificate and order the Company shall promptly deliver to the
Trustee), shall authenticate and deliver in exchange for such Global Security or Global Securities, Physical Securities in an aggregate principal amount equal to the aggregate principal amount of such Global Security or Global Securities. Such
Physical Securities shall be registered in such names as the Depositary shall identify in writing as the beneficial owners of the Securities represented by such Global Security or Global Securities (or any nominee thereof). 
  
 (e) In connection with any transfer of beneficial interests in a Global
Security to the beneficial owners thereof pursuant to Section 2.8(d) hereof, the Registrar shall reflect on its books and records the date and a decrease in the aggregate principal amount of such Global Security in an amount equal to the aggregate
principal amount of the beneficial interest in such Global Security to be transferred in the form of Physical Securities. 
  
 Section 2.9. Transfer Provisions. 
  
 Unless a Security is (i) transferred after the time period referred to in Rule 144(k) under the Securities Act or (ii) sold pursuant to a registration
statement that has been declared effective under the Securities Act (and which continues to be effective at the time of such sale), the following provisions shall apply to any sale, pledge or other transfer of Securities: 
  
 (a) Transfers of securities to an Institutional Accredited Investor that is
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 The following provisions shall apply with respect to the registration of any proposed transfer of
Securities to an Institutional Accredited Investor that is not a QIB: 
  
 (i) The Registrar shall register the transfer if the proposed transferee has delivered to the Trustee (A) a certificate substantially in the form of Exhibit F annexed hereto and (B) such opinion of counsel and other evidence satisfactory to
the Company that such transfer is in compliance with the Securities Act, as requested by the Company. 
  
 (ii) If the proposed transferor is an Agent Member holding a beneficial interest in Global Securities, upon receipt by the Registrar of the documents
required by clause (i) of this Section 2.9(a) and instructions given in accordance with the procedures of Euroclear or Clearstream, if applicable, the Depositary and the Registrar, the Registrar shall reflect on its books and records, and Euroclear
or Clearstream, if applicable, or the Registrar shall instruct the Depositary to note or cause to be noted on such Global Securities, the date and a decrease in the principal amount of the Global Securities in an amount equal to the principal amount
of the beneficial interest in the Global Securities to be transferred, and the Company shall execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, one or more Physical Securities of like tenor and amount registered in the name of the transferee.

  
 (iii) If the Securities to be transferred consist of Physical
Securities, upon receipt by the Registrar of the documents required by clause (i) of this Section 2.9(a), the Company shall execute and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, new Physical Securities registered in the name of the transferee and
the Trustee shall cancel the Physical Securities presented for transfer. 
  
 (b) Transfer of Securities to a QIB. 
  
 The following provisions shall apply with respect to the registration of any proposed transfer of Securities to a QIB: 
  
 (i) If the Securities to be transferred consist of a beneficial interest in the Global Securities, the transfer of such interest may be effected only
through the book-entry systems maintained by Euroclear and Clearstream, if applicable, and the Depositary. 
  
 (ii) If the Securities to be transferred consist of Physical Securities, the Registrar shall register the transfer if such transfer is being made by a
proposed transferor who has checked the box provided for on the form of Security stating (or has otherwise advised the Company and the Registrar in writing) that the sale has been made: 
  
 in compliance with the provisions of Rule 144A to a transferee who has signed the certification provided for on the form of Security stating
or has otherwise advised the Company and the Registrar in writing that: 
  
 (1) it is purchasing the Securities for its own account or an account with respect to which it exercises sole investment discretion, in each case for investment and not with a view to distribution; 
  

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 (2) it and any such account is a QIB within the meaning of Rule 144A; 
  
 (3) it is aware that the sale to it is being made in
reliance on Rule 144A; 
  
 (4) it acknowledges
that it has received such information regarding the Company as it has requested pursuant to Rule 144A or has determined not to request such information; and 
  
 (5) it is aware that the transferor is relying upon its foregoing representations in order to claim the exemption from registration
provided by Rule 144A. 
  
 In addition, the Registrar shall
reflect on its books and records the date and an increase in the principal amount of the Global Securities in an amount equal to the aggregate principal amount of the Physical Securities to be transferred, and the Trustee shall cancel the Physical
Securities so transferred. 
  
 (c) Other Exchanges. 
  
 In the event that Global Securities are exchanged for
Securities in definitive registered form pursuant to Section 2.8 prior to the effectiveness of a Shelf Registration Statement with respect to such Securities, such Securities may be exchanged only in accordance with the provisions of clauses (a) and
(b) above (including the certification requirements intended to ensure that such transfers comply with Rule 144A) and such other procedures as may from time to time be adopted by the Company consistent with the provisions of Section 2.3 and the
legends set forth therein. 
  
 (d) General. 
  
 By its acceptance of any Security or shares of Common Stock
issuable upon conversion of the Securities bearing the Restricted Securities Legend, each Holder of such Security or shares of Common Stock acknowledges the restrictions on transfer of such Security or shares of Common Stock set forth in this
Indenture and agrees that it will transfer such Security and such Common Stock only as provided in this Indenture. The Registrar shall not register a transfer of any Security unless such transfer complies with the restrictions on transfer of such
Security set forth in this Indenture. The Registrar shall be entitled to receive and conclusively rely on written instructions from the Company verifying that such transfer complies with such restrictions on transfer. In connection with any transfer
of Securities, each Holder agrees by its acceptance of the Securities to furnish the Registrar or the Company such certifications, legal opinions or other information as either of them may reasonably require to confirm that such transfer is being
made pursuant to an exemption from, or a transaction not subject to, the registration requirements of the Securities Act; provided that the Registrar shall not be required to determine (but may conclusively rely on a determination made by the
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 The Registrar shall retain copies of all certifications, letters, notices and other written
communications received pursuant to Section 2.8 hereof or this Section 2.9 in accordance with its customary procedures for the retention of records relating to the transfer of securities. The Company shall have the right to inspect and make copies
of all such letters, notices or other written communications at any reasonable time upon the giving of reasonable written notice to the Registrar. 
  
 Section 2.10. Holder Lists. 
  
 The Trustee shall preserve in as current a form as is reasonably practicable the most recent list available to it of the names and addresses of Holders
and shall otherwise comply with Section 312(a) of the TIA. If the Trustee is not the Registrar, the Company shall furnish to the Trustee prior to or on each Interest Payment Date and at such other times as the Trustee may request in writing a list
in such form and as of such date as the Trustee may reasonably require of the names and addresses of Holders relating to such Interest Payment Date or request, as applicable. 
  
 Section 2.11. Persons Deemed Owners. 
  
 Prior to due presentment of a Security for registration of transfer, the Company, the Trustee and any agent of the Company
or the Trustee may treat the Person in whose name such Security is registered as the owner of such Security for the purpose of receiving payment of principal of the Security or the payment of any Redemption Price or Repurchase Price in respect
thereof and Interest (including Contingent Interest) thereon, if any, for any purpose under this Indenture, whether or not such Security be overdue, and neither the Company, the Trustee nor any agent of the Company or the Trustee shall be affected
by notice to the contrary. 
  
 Section 2.12. Mutilated,
Destroyed, Lost or Stolen Securities. 
  
 If any mutilated
Security is surrendered to the Trustee, the Company shall execute and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver in exchange therefor a new Security of like tenor and aggregate principal amount and bearing a number not contemporaneously outstanding.

  
 If there is delivered to the Company and the Trustee

  
 (1) evidence to their satisfaction of the
destruction, loss or theft of any Security, and 
  
 (2) such security or indemnity as may be required by them to save each of them and any agent of either of them harmless, then, in the absence of actual notice to the Company or the Trustee that such Security has been acquired by a bona
fide purchaser, the Company shall execute and, upon request, the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, in lieu of any such destroyed, lost or stolen Security, a new Security of like tenor and principal amount, and bearing a number not
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 In case any such mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Security has become or is about to become due and
payable, the Company in its discretion, but subject to any conversion rights, may, instead of issuing a new Security, pay such Security, upon satisfaction of the condition set forth in the preceding paragraph. 
  
 Upon the issuance of any new Security under this Section, the Company may
require the payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental charge that may be imposed in relation thereto and any other expenses (including the fees and expenses of the Trustee) connected therewith. 
  
 Every new Security issued pursuant to this Section 2.12 in lieu of any
destroyed, lost or stolen Security shall constitute an original contractual obligation of the Company, whether or not the destroyed, lost or stolen Security shall be at any time enforceable by anyone, and such new Security shall be entitled to all
the benefits of this Indenture equally and proportionately with any and all other Securities duly issued hereunder. 
  
 The provisions of this Section 2.12 are exclusive and shall preclude (to the extent lawful) all other rights and remedies with respect to the replacement
or payment of mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Securities. 
  
 Section 2.13. Treasury Securities. 
  
 In
determining whether the Holders of the requisite principal amount of Outstanding Securities are present at a meeting of Holders for quorum purposes or have given any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent or waiver hereunder,
Securities owned by the Company or any Affiliate of the Company shall be disregarded and deemed not to be Outstanding, except that, in determining whether the Trustee shall be protected in relying upon any such determination as to the presence of a
quorum or upon any such request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent or waiver, only such Securities of which a Responsible Officer of the Trustee has received written notice and are so owned shall be so disregarded. 
  
 Section 2.14. Temporary Securities. 
  
 Pending the preparation of Securities in definitive form, the Company may
execute and the Trustee shall, upon written request of the Company, authenticate and deliver temporary Securities (printed or lithographed). Temporary Securities shall be issuable in any authorized denomination, and substantially in the form of the
Securities in definitive form but with such omissions, insertions and variations as may be appropriate for temporary Securities, all as may be determined by the Company. Every such temporary Security shall be executed by the Company and
authenticated by the Trustee upon the same conditions and in substantially the same manner, and with the same effect, as the Securities in definitive form. Without unreasonable delay, the Company will execute and deliver to the Trustee Securities in
definitive form (other than in the case of Securities in global form) and thereupon any or all temporary Securities (other than any such Securities in global form) may be surrendered in exchange therefor, at each office or agency maintained by the
Company pursuant to Section 9.2 and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver in exchange for such temporary Securities an equal principal amount of Securities in definitive form. Such exchange shall be made by the Company 

  

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at its own expense and without any charge therefor. Until so exchanged, the temporary Securities shall in all respects be entitled to the same benefits and
subject to the same limitations under this Indenture as Securities in definitive form authenticated and delivered hereunder. 
  
 Section 2.15. Cancellation. 
  
 All Securities surrendered for payment, redemption, purchase, conversion, registration of transfer or exchange shall, if surrendered to any Person other
than the Trustee, be delivered to the Trustee. All Securities so delivered shall be canceled promptly by the Trustee, and no Securities shall be issued in lieu thereof except as expressly permitted by any of the provisions of this Indenture. Upon
written instructions of the Company, the Trustee shall dispose of canceled Securities in accordance with its procedures for the disposition of cancelled securities in effect as of the date of such disposition. If the Company shall acquire any of the
Securities, such acquisition shall not operate as a redemption or satisfaction of the indebtedness represented by such Securities unless the same are delivered to the Trustee for cancellation. 
  
 Section 2.16. CUSIP Numbers. 
  
 The Company in issuing the Securities may use “CUSIP” numbers (if
then generally in use), and the Trustee shall use CUSIP numbers in notices of redemption or exchange as a convenience to Holders; provided that any such notice shall state that no representation is made as to the correctness of such numbers
either as printed on the Securities or as contained in any such notice and that reliance may be placed only on the other identification numbers printed on the Securities, and any such redemption shall not be affected by any defect in or omission of
such numbers. The Company shall promptly notify the Trustee of any change in the CUSIP numbers. 
  
 Section 2.17. Defaulted Interest. 
  
 If the Company fails to make a payment of principal, Redemption Price, Repurchase Price or Interest (including Contingent Interest) on any CODES when due
and payable, it shall pay Interest (including Contingent Interest) on such amounts (to the extent lawful), which shall be calculated using the applicable Interest Rate (such amounts, the “Defaulted Interest”). The Company may elect
to pay such Defaulted Interest, plus any other Interest (including Contingent Interest) payable on it, to the Persons who are Holders on which the Interest (including Contingent Interest) is due on a subsequent special record date. The Company shall
notify the Trustee in writing of the amount of Defaulted Interest proposed to be paid on each such CODES. The Company shall fix any such special record date and payment date for such payment. At least 15 days before any such special record date, the
Company shall mail to Holders affected thereby a notice that states the special record date, the Interest Payment Date and amount to be paid. 
  

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 ARTICLE 3 
  

DISCHARGE OF INDENTURE 
  
 Section 3.1. Discharge of Liability on Securities. When (i) the Company delivers to the Trustee all outstanding Securities (other than Securities
replaced pursuant to Section 2.12) for cancellation or (ii) all outstanding Securities have become due and payable at their Stated Maturity or all outstanding Securities have been redeemed and the Company has deposited with the Trustee cash or, in
the event of conversions pursuant to Article 12, Common Stock, sufficient to pay all amounts and deliver all Common Stock due and owing on all outstanding Securities (other than Securities replaced pursuant to Section 2.12) on the date of their
Stated Maturity or the Redemption Date, as the case may be, and if in either case the Company pays all other sums payable hereunder by the Company, then this Indenture shall, subject to Section 5.8, cease to be of further effect. The Trustee shall
join in the execution of a document prepared by the Company acknowledging satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture on demand of the Company accompanied by an Officers’ Certificate and Opinion of Counsel and at the cost and expense of the
Company. 
  
 Section 3.2. Repayment to the Company.

  
 The Trustee and the Paying Agent shall return to the Company
upon written request any money or securities held by them for the payment of any amount with respect to the Securities that remains unclaimed for two years, subject to applicable unclaimed property law. After return to the Company, Holders entitled
to the money or securities must look to the Company for payment as general creditors unless an applicable abandoned property law designates another person and the Trustee and the Paying Agent shall have no further liability to the Holders with
respect to such money or securities for that period commencing after the return thereof. 
  
 ARTICLE 4 
  
 DEFAULTS
AND REMEDIES 
  
 Section 4.1. Events of Default.

  
 An “Event of Default”, wherever used herein,
means any one of the following events (whatever the reason for such Event of Default and whether it shall be voluntary or involuntary or be effected by operation of law or pursuant to any judgment, decree or order of any court or any order, rule or
regulation of any administrative or governmental body): 
  
 (a)
the Company defaults in converting the CODES into shares of Common Stock upon exercise of a Holder’s conversion right; 
  
 (b) the Company defaults in the payment of the principal amount, Redemption Price or Repurchase Price (each, a “Defaulted Payment”) on
any Outstanding CODES when the same becomes due and payable at its Stated Maturity, upon redemption, repurchase, upon declaration, when due for purchase by the Company or otherwise; 
  
 (c) the Company defaults in the payment of an installment of Interest (including Contingent Interest) on any CODES when it
becomes due and payable and such default continues for a period of 30 days; 
  
 (d) the Company fails to pay Additional Amounts, if any, with respect to any of the CODES for 30 days after the date when due; 
  

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 (e) the Company fails to perform or observe any other term, covenant or agreement contained in the
Securities or this Indenture and the default continues for a period of 60 days after written notice of such failure, requiring the Company to remedy the same, shall have been given to the Company by the Trustee or to the Company and the Trustee by
the Holders of at least 25% in aggregate principal amount of the Outstanding CODES; 
  
 (f) the Company defaults under any indebtedness for money borrowed by the Company, any Guarantor or any of its Subsidiaries that is a Significant Subsidiary or any group of two or more Subsidiaries that, taken as a
whole, would constitute a Significant Subsidiary, the aggregate outstanding principal amount of which is in an amount in excess of $25.0 million, for a period of 30 days after written notice to the Company by the Trustee or to the Company and the
Trustee by Holders of at least 25% in aggregate principal amount of the Outstanding CODES, which default (i) is caused the Company’s failure to pay when due principal or interest on such indebtedness by the end of the applicable grace period,
if any, unless such indebtedness is discharged or (ii) results in the acceleration of such indebtedness, unless such acceleration is waived, cured, rescinded or annulled; and 
  
 (g) the entry by a court having jurisdiction in the premises of (i) a decree or order for relief in respect of the Company,
in an involuntary case or proceeding under any applicable U.S. federal or state bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or other similar law or (ii) a decree or order adjudging the Company a bankrupt or insolvent, or approving as properly filed a
petition seeking reorganization, arrangement, adjustment or composition of or in respect of the Company, under any applicable U.S. federal or state law, or appointing a custodian, receiver, liquidator, assignee, trustee, sequestrator or other
similar official of the Company 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 for relief or any such other decree or order unstayed and in effect
for a period of 60 consecutive days; 
  
 (h) the commencement by
the Company of a voluntary case or proceeding under any applicable U.S. federal or state bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or other similar law or of any other case or proceeding to be adjudicated a bankrupt or insolvent, or the consent by the
Company or any of its Subsidiaries that is a Significant Subsidiary or any group of two or more Subsidiaries that, taken as a whole, would constitute a Significant Subsidiary, to the entry of a decree or order for relief in respect of the Company or
any of its Subsidiaries that is a Significant Subsidiary or any group of two or more Subsidiaries that, taken as a whole, would constitute a Significant Subsidiary, in an involuntary case or proceeding under any applicable U.S. federal or state
bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or other similar law or to the commencement of any bankruptcy or insolvency case or proceeding against the Company, or the filing by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries that is a Significant Subsidiary or
any group of two or more Subsidiaries that, taken as a whole, would constitute a Significant Subsidiary, of a petition or answer or consent seeking reorganization or relief under any applicable U.S. federal or state law, or the consent by the
Company to the filing of such petition or to the appointment of or the taking possession by a custodian, receiver, liquidator, assignee, trustee, sequestrator or other similar official of the Company or of any substantial part of its property, or
the making by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries that is a Significant Subsidiary or any group of two or more Subsidiaries that, taken as a whole, would constitute a Significant Subsidiary, of an assignment for the benefit of creditors, or the
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Subsidiaries that is a Significant Subsidiary or any group of two or more Subsidiaries that, taken as a whole, would constitute a Significant Subsidiary, in
writing of its inability to pay its debts generally as they become due, or the taking of corporate action by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries that is a Significant Subsidiary or any group of two or more Subsidiaries that, taken as a whole,
would constitute a Significant Subsidiary, expressly in furtherance of any such action; and 
  
 (i) except in accordance with Section 13.3 hereof, any Guarantee shall be held in any judicial proceeding to be unenforceable or invalid. 
  
 A Default under clause (e) or (f) above is not an Event of Default until the Trustee notifies the Company, or the Holders of
at least 25% of the principal amount of the CODES at the time outstanding notify the Company and the Trustee, of the Default and the Company does not cure such Default (and such Default is not waived) within the time specified in clause (e) or (f)
above after actual receipt of such notice. Any such notice must specify the Default, demand that it be remedied and state that such notice is a “Notice of Default.” 
  
 The Trustee shall, within 90 days of the occurrence of a Default, give to the Holders of the Securities notice of all
uncured Defaults known to it and written notice of any event which with the giving of notice or the lapse of time, or both, would become an Event of Default; provided, however, the Trustee shall be protected in withholding such notice if it,
in good faith, determines that the withholding of such notice is in the best interest of such Holders, except in the case of a Default in the payment of the Principal of or Interest (including Contingent Interest) on, any of the Securities when due
or in the payment of any redemption or Repurchase Right. 
  
 Section 4.2. Acceleration of Maturity; Rescission and Annulment. 
  
 If an Event of Default with respect to Outstanding CODES (other than an Event of Default specified in Section 4.1(g) or 4.1(h) hereof) occurs and is continuing, the Trustee or the Holders of at least 25% in aggregate
principal amount of the Outstanding CODES, by written notice to the Company, may declare due and payable 100% of the principal amount of all Outstanding CODES, plus any accrued and unpaid Interest (including Contingent Interest), to the date of
payment. Upon a declaration of acceleration, such principal amount, and accrued and unpaid Interest (including Contingent Interest) to the date of payment shall be immediately due and payable. If an Event of Default specified in Section 4.1(g) and
4.1(h) occurs, the principal, and accrued and unpaid Interest (including Contingent Interest) on the Outstanding CODES shall become and be immediately due and payable. Once the principal and accrued and unpaid Interest (including Contingent
Interest) on the Outstanding CODES shall become and be immediately due and payable, the Trustee may, at its discretion, proceed to protect and enforce the rights of the Holders at appropriate judicial proceedings. 
  
 Section 4.3. Other Remedies. 
  
 If an Event of Default with respect to Outstanding CODES occurs and is
continuing, the Trustee may pursue any available remedy by proceeding at law or in equity to collect the Defaulted Payment or Interest (including Contingent Interest) due and payable on the CODES or to enforce the performance of any provision of the
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 The Trustee may maintain a proceeding in which it may prosecute and enforce all rights of action and
claims under this Indenture or the Securities, even if it does not possess any of the Securities or does not produce any of them in the proceeding. 
  
 Section 4.4. Waiver of Past Defaults. 
  
 The Holders, either (a) through the written consent of not less than a majority of the principal amount of the Outstanding CODES, or (b) by the adoption
of a resolution, at a meeting of Holders of the Outstanding CODES at which a quorum is present, by the Holders of at least a majority of the principal amount of the Outstanding CODES represented at such meeting, may, on behalf of the Holders of all
of the CODES, waive an existing Default or Event of Default, except a Default or Event of Default: 
  
 (1) set forth in Sections 4.1(a), (b) and (c), provided, however, that subject to Section 4.7, the Holders of a majority of the
principal amount of the Outstanding CODES may rescind an acceleration and its consequences, including any related payment default that resulted from such acceleration; or 
  
 (2) in respect of a covenant or provision hereof which, under Section 7.2 hereof, cannot be modified or
amended without the consent of the Holders of each Outstanding CODES affected; 
  
 provided that any such waiver or rescission would not conflict with any judgment or decree of a court of competent jurisdiction. 
  
 Upon any such waiver, such Default shall cease to exist, and any Event of Default arising therefrom shall be deemed to have been cured, for every purpose
of this Indenture; provided, however, that in the event such declaration of acceleration has been made based on the existence of an Event of Default under Section 4.1(f) and the default with respect to Indebtedness for money borrowed which
gave rise to such Event of Default has been remedied, cured or waived, then, without any further action by the Holders, such declaration of acceleration shall be rescinded automatically and the consequences of such declaration shall be annulled. No
such rescission or annulment shall affect any subsequent Default or impair any right consequent thereon; and provided, further, that no such waiver shall extend to any subsequent or other Default or impair any right consequent thereon.

  
 Section 4.5. Control by Majority. 
  
 The Holders of a majority of the principal amount of the Outstanding CODES
(or such lesser amount as shall have acted at a meeting pursuant to the provisions of this Indenture) shall have the right to direct the time, method and place of conducting any proceeding for any remedy available to the Trustee or exercising any
trust or power conferred on the Trustee. However, the Trustee may refuse to follow any direction that: 
  
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 (2) the Trustee determines may be unduly prejudicial to the rights of the Holders not
joining therein; or 
  
 (3) may expose the
Trustee to personal liability. 
  
 The Trustee may take any other action deemed
proper by the Trustee which is not inconsistent with such direction. 
  
 Section 4.6. Limitation on Suit. 
  
 No Holder of
any Security shall have any right to pursue any remedy with respect to this Indenture or the Securities (including, instituting any proceeding, judicial or otherwise, with respect to this Indenture or for the appointment of a receiver or trustee)
unless: 
  
 (1) such Holder has previously given
written notice to the Trustee of an Event of Default that is continuing; 
  
 (2) the Holders of at least 25% of the principal amount of the Outstanding CODES shall have made written request to the Trustee to pursue the remedy; 
  
 (3) such Holder or Holders have offered to the Trustee indemnity satisfactory to it against any costs,
expenses and liabilities incurred in complying with such request; 
  
 (4) the Trustee has failed to comply with the request for 60 days after its receipt of such notice, request and offer of indemnity; and 
  
 (5) during such 60-day period, no direction inconsistent with such written request has been given to the
Trustee by the Holders of a majority of the principal amount of the Outstanding CODES (or such amount as shall have acted at a meeting pursuant to the provisions of this Indenture); 
  
 provided, however, that no one or more of such Holders may use this Indenture to prejudice the rights of another Holder or to obtain
preference or priority over another Holder. 
  
 Section 4.7.
Unconditional Rights of Holders to Receive Payment and to Convert. 
  
 Notwithstanding any other provision in this Indenture, the Holder of any CODES shall have the right, which is absolute and unconditional, to receive payment of the principal amount, Redemption Price or Repurchase Price, and Interest
(including Contingent Interest) in respect of the CODES held by such Holder, on or after the respective due dates expressed in the CODES or any Redemption Date or Repurchase Date, and to convert the CODES in accordance with Article 12, or to bring
suit for the enforcement of any such payment on or after such respective dates or the right to convert, and such rights shall not be impaired or affected adversely without the consent of such Holder. 
  

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 Section 4.8. Collection of Indebtedness and Suits for Enforcement by the Trustee. 
  
 The Company covenants that if: 
  
 (1) a Default or Event of Default is made in the payment of
Interest (including Contingent Interest) on any CODES when such Interest (including Contingent Interest) becomes due and payable and such Default or Event of Default continues for a period of 30 days; or 
  
 (2) a Default or Event of Default is made in the payment of
the principal amount, Redemption Price or Repurchase Price on any CODES when the same becomes due and payable at its Stated Maturity, upon redemption, upon declaration when due for purchase by the Company or otherwise, 
  
 then the Company will, upon demand of the Trustee, pay to it, for the benefit of the Holders
of such CODES, the entire principal then due and payable (as expressed therein or as a result of any acceleration effected pursuant to Section 4.2 hereof) on such CODES for any such amounts and, to the extent legally enforceable, Interest (including
Contingent Interest) on such CODES, and, in addition thereto, such further amount as shall be sufficient to cover the costs and expenses of collection, including the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the Trustee, its
agents and counsel. 
  
 If the Company fails to pay such
amounts forthwith upon such demand, the Trustee, in its own name and as trustee of an express trust, may institute a judicial proceeding for the collection of the sums so due and unpaid, may prosecute such proceeding to judgment or final decree and
may enforce the same against the Company and collect the monies adjudged or decreed to be payable in the manner provided by law out of the property of the Company, wherever situated. 
  
 If an Event of Default occurs and is continuing, the Trustee may in its discretion proceed to protect and enforce its rights
and the rights of the Holders of Securities by such appropriate judicial proceedings as the Trustee shall deem most effectual to protect and enforce any such rights, whether for the specific enforcement of any covenant or agreement in this Indenture
or in aid of the exercise of any power granted herein, or to enforce any other proper remedy. 
  
 Section 4.9. Trustee May File Proofs of Claim. 
  
 In case of the pendency of any receivership, insolvency, liquidation, bankruptcy, reorganization, arrangement, adjustment, composition or other judicial proceeding relative to the Company or the property of the
Company or its creditors, the Trustee (irrespective of whether the principal amount, Redemption Price, Repurchase Price or Interest (including Contingent Interest) in respect of the CODES shall then be due and payable as therein expressed or by
declaration or otherwise and irrespective of whether the Trustee shall have made any demand on the Company for the payment of any such amount) shall be entitled and empowered, by intervention in such proceeding or otherwise: 
  
 (1) to file and prove a claim for the whole amount of the
principal amount, Redemption Price, Repurchase Price or Interest (including Contingent Interest) owing and unpaid in respect of the CODES and to file such other papers or documents as may be necessary or advisable in order to have the claims of the
Trustee (including any claim for the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the Trustee, its agents and counsel) and of the Holders of CODES allowed in such judicial proceeding and 
  

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 (2) to collect and receive any monies, Common Stock or other property payable or
deliverable on any such claim and to distribute the same, 
  
 and any custodian,
receiver, assignee, trustee, liquidator, sequestrator or other similar official in any such judicial proceedings is hereby authorized by each Holder of CODES to make such payments to the Trustee and, in the event that the Trustee shall consent to
the making of such payments directly to the Holders of CODES, to pay to the Trustee any amount due to it for the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the Trustee, its agents and counsel and any other amounts due the
Trustee under Section 5.8. 
  
 Nothing contained herein shall be
deemed to authorize the Trustee to authorize or consent to or accept, or adopt on behalf of any Holder of a CODES, any plan of reorganization, arrangement, adjustment or composition affecting the CODES or the rights of any Holder thereof or to
authorize the Trustee to vote in respect of the claim of any Holder of a CODES in any such proceeding. 
  
 Section 4.10. Restoration of Rights and Remedies. 
  
 If the Trustee or any Holder of a CODES has instituted any proceeding to enforce any right or remedy under this Indenture and such proceeding has been
discontinued or abandoned for any reason, or has been determined adversely to the Trustee or to such Holder, then and in every such case, subject to any determination in such proceeding, the Company, the Trustee and the Holders of CODES shall be
restored severally and respectively to their former positions hereunder and thereafter all rights and remedies of the Trustee and the Holders shall continue as though no such proceeding had been instituted. 
  
 Section 4.11. Rights and Remedies Cumulative. 
  
 Except as otherwise provided with respect to the replacement or payment of
mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Securities in the last paragraph of Section 2.12, no right or remedy conferred in this Indenture upon or reserved to the Trustee or to the Holders of Securities is intended to be exclusive of any other right or
remedy, and every right and remedy shall, to the extent permitted by law, be cumulative and in addition to every other right and remedy given hereunder or hereafter existing at law or in equity or otherwise. The assertion or employment of any right
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 Section 4.12. Delay or Omission Not Waiver. 
  
 No delay or omission of the Trustee or of any Holder of any Security to
exercise any right or remedy accruing upon any Event of Default shall impair any such right or remedy or constitute a waiver of any such Event of Default or any acquiescence therein. Every right and remedy given by this Article or by law to the
Trustee or to the Holders of Securities may be exercised from time to time, and as often as may be deemed expedient, by the Trustee or by the Holders of Securities, as applicable. 
  
 Section 4.13. Priorities. 
  
 Any money collected by the Trustee pursuant to this Article shall be applied in the following order, at the date or dates fixed by the Trustee:

  
 FIRST: to the payment of all amounts due to
the Trustee under Section 5.8; 
  
 SECOND: to
Holders for amounts due and unpaid on the Securities for the principal amount, Redemption Price, Repurchase Price or Interest (including Contingent Interest) as applicable, ratably, without preference or priority of any kind, according to such
amounts due and payable on the CODES; and 
  
 THIRD: any remaining amounts shall be repaid to the Company. 
  
 The Trustee may fix a special record date and payment date for any payment to Holders pursuant to this Section 4.13. At least 15 days before such special record date, the Trustee shall mail to each Holder and the Company a notice that
states the special record date, the payment date and the amount to be paid. 
  
 Section 4.14. Undertaking for Costs. 
  
 All parties to this Indenture agree, and each Holder of any CODES by such Holder’s acceptance thereof shall be deemed to have agreed, that any court may in its discretion require, in any suit for the enforcement
of any right or remedy under this Indenture, or in any suit against the Trustee for any action taken, suffered or omitted by it as Trustee, the filing by any party litigant in such suit of an undertaking to pay the costs of such suit, and that such
court may in its discretion assess reasonable costs, including reasonable attorneys’ fees, against any party litigant in such suit, having due regard to the merits and good faith of the claims or defenses made by such party litigant; but the
provisions of this Section shall not apply to any suit instituted by the Trustee, to any suit instituted by any Holder, or group of Holders, holding in the aggregate more than 10% of the principal amount of the Outstanding CODES, or to any suit
instituted by any Holder of any CODES for the enforcement of (i) payments pursuant to Section 4.7 repurchase rights in accordance with Article 11 or (ii) conversion rights in accordance with Article 12. This Section 4.14 shall be in lieu of Section
315(e) of the TIA and such Section 315(e) is hereby expressly excluded from this Indenture, as permitted by the TIA. 
  
 Section 4.15. Waiver of Stay or Extension Laws. 
  
 The Company covenants (to the extent that it may lawfully do so) that it will not at any time insist upon, or plead, or in any manner whatsoever claim to
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which may affect the covenants or the performance of this Indenture; and the Company (to the extent that it may lawfully do so) hereby expressly waives all
benefit or advantage of any such law and covenants that it will not hinder, delay or impede the execution of any power herein granted to the Trustee, but will suffer and permit the execution of every such power as though no such law had been
enacted. 
  
 ARTICLE 5 
  
 THE TRUSTEE 
  
 Section 5.1. Certain Duties and Responsibilities. 
  
 (a) Except during the continuance of an Event of Default, 
  
 (1) The Trustee undertakes to perform such duties and only
such duties as are specifically set forth in this Indenture or the TIA, and no implied covenants or obligations shall be read into this Indenture against the Trustee; and 
  
 (2) In the absence of bad faith on its part, the Trustee may conclusively rely, as to the truth of the
statements and the correctness of the opinions expressed therein, upon certificates or opinions furnished to the Trustee and conforming to the requirements of this Indenture; provided, however, that in the case of any such certificates or
opinions which by any provision hereof are specifically required to be furnished to the Trustee, the Trustee shall examine the certificates or opinions to determine whether or not, on their face, they conform to the requirements to this Indenture
(but need not investigate or confirm the accuracy of any facts stated therein). 
  
 (b) In case an Event of Default actually known to a Responsible Officer of the Trustee has occurred and is continuing, the Trustee shall exercise such of the rights and powers vested in it by this Indenture, and use
the same degree of care and skill in their exercise, as a prudent person would exercise or use under the circumstances in the conduct of such person’s own affairs. 
  
 (c) No provision of this Indenture shall be construed to relieve the Trustee from liability for its own negligent action,
its own negligent failure to act, or its own willful misconduct, except that: 
  
 (1) This paragraph (c) shall not be construed to limit the effect of paragraph (a) of this Section 5.1; 
  
 (2) The Trustee shall not be liable for any error of judgment made in good faith by a Responsible Officer, unless it shall be proved that
the Trustee was negligent in ascertaining the pertinent facts; and 
  
 (3) The Trustee shall not be liable with respect to any action taken or omitted to be taken by it in good faith in accordance with a direction received by it of the Holders of a majority of the principal amount of the
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Securities (or such lesser amount as shall have acted at a meeting pursuant to the provisions of this Indenture) relating to the time, method and place of
conducting any proceeding for any remedy available to the Trustee, or exercising any trust or power conferred upon the Trustee, under this Indenture. 
  
 (d) Whether or not herein expressly so provided, every provision of this Indenture relating to the conduct or affecting the liability of or affording
protection to the Trustee shall be subject to the provisions of this Section 5.1. 
  
 (e) No provision of this Indenture shall require the Trustee to expend or risk its own funds or otherwise incur any liability in the performance of any of its duties hereunder, or in the exercise of any of its rights
or powers. The Trustee may refuse to perform any duty or exercise any right or power unless it receives indemnity reasonably satisfactory to it against any loss, liability, cost or expense (including, without limitation, reasonable fees and expenses
of counsel). 
  
 (f) The Trustee shall not be obligated to pay
interest on any money or other assets received by it unless otherwise agreed in writing with the Company. Assets held in trust by the Trustee need not be segregated from other funds except to the extent required by law. 
  
 (g) The Trustee shall not be bound to make any investigation into the facts
or matters stated in any resolution, certificate, statement, instrument, opinion, report, notice, request, direction, consent, order, bond, debenture, note, coupon, other evidence of indebtedness or other paper or document, but the Trustee, in its
discretion, may make such further inquiry or investigation into such facts or matters as it may see fit, and, if the Trustee shall determine to make such further inquiry or investigation, it shall be entitled to examine the books, records and
premises of the Company, personally or by agent or attorney at the sole cost of the Company and shall incur no liability or additional liability of any kind by reason of such inquiry or investigation. 
  
 (h) The Trustee shall not be deemed to have notice or actual knowledge of any
Event of Default unless a Responsible Officer of the Trustee has actual knowledge thereof or unless written notice of any event which is in fact a Default is received by the Trustee pursuant to Section 14.2 hereof, and such notice references the
Securities and this Indenture. 
  
 (i) The rights, privileges,
protections, immunities and benefits given to the Trustee hereunder, including, without limitation, its right to be indemnified, are extended to, and shall be enforceable by, the Trustee in each of its capacities hereunder, and each Paying Agent,
authenticating agent, Calculation Agent, Conversion Agent or Registrar acting hereunder. 
  
 (j) The Trustee may request that the Company deliver an Officers’ Certificate setting forth the names of individuals and/or titles of officers authorized at such time to take specified actions pursuant to this
Indenture, which Officers’ Certificate may be signed by any person authorized to sign an Officers’ Certificate, including any person specified as so authorized in any such certificate previously delivered and not superseded. 
  

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 Section 5.2. Certain Rights of Trustee. 
  
 Subject to the provisions of Section 5.1 hereof and subject to Section 315(a)
through (d) of the TIA: 
  
 (1) The Trustee may
conclusively rely on any document believed by it to be genuine and to have been signed or presented by the proper person. The Trustee need not investigate any fact or matter stated in the document. 
  
 (2) Before the Trustee acts or refrains from acting, it may
require an Officers’ Certificate or an Opinion of Counsel, or both. The Trustee shall not be liable for any action it takes or omits to take in good faith in reliance on the Officers’ Certificate or Opinion of Counsel. 
  
 (3) The Trustee may act through attorneys and agents and
shall be responsible for the misconduct or negligence of any attorney or agent appointed with due care. 
  
 (4) The Trustee shall not be liable for any action taken or omitted to be taken by it in good faith that it believed to be authorized or
within the discretion or rights or powers conferred upon it by this Indenture, unless the Trustee’s conduct constitutes negligence. 
  
 (5) The Trustee may consult with counsel of its selection and the advice of such counsel as to matters of law or legal interpretation
shall be full and complete authorization and protection in respect of any action taken, omitted or suffered by it hereunder in good faith and in accordance with the advice or opinion of such counsel. 
  
 (6) Unless otherwise specifically provided in this
Indenture, any demand, request, direction or notice from the Company shall be sufficient if signed by an Officer of the Company. 
  
 (7) The permissive rights of the Trustee to do things enumerated in this Indenture shall not be construed as a duty unless so specified
herein. 
  
 Section 5.3. Individual Rights of Trustee.

  
 The Trustee in its individual or any other capacity may become
the owner or pledgee of Securities and may otherwise deal with the Company or any Affiliate of the Company with the same rights it would have if it were not Trustee. However, in the event that the Trustee acquires any conflicting interest (as such
term is defined in Section 310(b) of the TIA), it must eliminate such conflict within 90 days, apply to the Commission for permission to continue as trustee (to the extent permitted under Section 310(b) of the TIA) or resign. Any agent may do the
same with like rights and duties. The Trustee is also subject to Sections 5.11 and 5.12 hereof. 
  

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 Section 5.4. Money Held in Trust. 
  
 Money held by the Trustee in trust hereunder shall not be segregated from other funds except to the extent required by law.
The Trustee shall be under no liability for interest on any money received by it hereunder except as otherwise expressly agreed in writing with the Company. 
  
 Section 5.5. Trustee’s Disclaimer. 
  
 The recitals contained herein and in the Securities (except for those in the certificate of authentication) shall be taken as the statements of the
Company, and the Trustee assumes no responsibility for their correctness. The Trustee makes no representations as to the validity, sufficiency or priority of this Indenture or of the Securities. The Trustee shall not be accountable for the use or
application by the Company of Securities or the proceeds thereof. 
  
 Section 5.6. Notice of Defaults. 
  
 Within 90
days after the occurrence of any Default or Event of Default hereunder of which the Trustee has received written notice, the Trustee shall give notice to Holders, unless such Default or Event of Default shall have been cured or waived; provided,
however, that, except in the case of a Default or Event of Default described in Sections 4.1(a) or (b), the Trustee shall be protected in withholding such notice if and so long as Responsible Officers of the Trustee in good faith determine that
the withholding of such notice is in the interest of the Holders. The second sentence of this Section 5.6 shall be in lieu of the proviso to Section 315(b) of the TIA and such proviso is hereby expressly excluded from this Indenture, as permitted by
the TIA. The Trustee shall not be deemed to have knowledge of a Default unless a Responsible Officer of the Trustee has received written notice of such Default. 
  

Section 5.7. Reports by Trustee to Holders. 
  
 The Trustee shall transmit to Holders such reports concerning the Trustee and its actions under this Indenture as may be required by Section 313 of the
TIA at the times and in the manner provided by the TIA. If required by Section 313(a) of the TIA, the Trustee shall, within 60 days after each September 15 following the date of this Indenture deliver to Holders a brief report, dated as of such
September 15, which complies with the provisions of such Section 313(a). 
  
 A copy of each report at the time of its mailing to Holders shall be filed with the Commission, if required, and each stock exchange, if any, on which the Securities and the Common Stock are listed. The Company shall
promptly notify the Trustee when the Securities or the Common Stock become listed on any stock exchange and of any delisting thereof. 
  
 Section 5.8. Compensation and Indemnification. 
  
 The Company covenants and agrees to pay to the Trustee from time to time, and the Trustee shall be entitled to, such compensation as agreed to in writing
by the Trustee and the Company (which shall not be limited by any provision of law in regard to the compensation of a trustee of an express trust) and the Company covenants and agrees to pay or reimburse the Trustee upon its request for all
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the reasonable compensation and the expenses and disbursements of its counsel and of all agents and other persons not regularly in its employ), except to the
extent that any such expense, disbursement or advance is due to its negligence or bad faith. When the Trustee incurs expenses or renders services in connection with an Event of Default specified in Section 4.1, the expenses (including the reasonable
charges and expenses of its counsel) and the compensation for the services are intended to constitute expenses of administration under any bankruptcy law. The Company also covenants to indemnify the Trustee and its officers, directors, employees and
agents for, and to hold such Persons harmless against, any loss, liability or expense incurred by them, arising out of or in connection with the acceptance or administration of this Indenture or the trusts hereunder or the performance of their
duties hereunder, including the costs and expenses of defending themselves against or investigating any claim (whether asserted by the Company, a Guarantor, a Holder or any other Person) of liability in the premises, except to the extent that any
such loss, liability or expense was due to the negligence or willful misconduct of such Persons. The obligations of the Company under this Section 5.8 to compensate and indemnify the Trustee and its officers, directors, employees and agents and to
pay or reimburse such Persons for expenses, disbursements and advances shall constitute additional indebtedness hereunder and shall survive the satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture or the earlier resignation or removal of the Trustee. Such
additional indebtedness shall be a lien prior to that of the Securities upon all property and funds held or collected by the Trustee as such, except funds held in trust for the benefit of the Holders of particular Securities, and the Securities are
hereby subordinated to such senior claim. “Trustee” for purposes of this Section 5.8 shall include any predecessor Trustee, but the negligence or willful misconduct of any Trustee shall not affect the indemnification of any other Trustee.

  
 Section 5.9. Replacement of Trustee. 
  
 A resignation or removal of the Trustee and appointment of a successor
Trustee shall become effective only upon the successor Trustee’s acceptance of appointment as provided in this Section 5.9. 
  
 The Trustee may resign and be discharged from the trust hereby created by so notifying the Company in writing. The Holders of at least a majority of the
principal amount of Outstanding CODES may remove the Trustee by so notifying the Trustee and the Company in writing. The Company must remove the Trustee if: 
  
 (i) the Trustee fails to comply with Section 5.11 hereof or Section 310 of the TIA; 
  
 (ii) the Trustee becomes incapable of acting; 
  
 (iii) the Trustee is adjudged a bankrupt or an insolvent or an order for relief is entered with respect to the Trustee under
any Bankruptcy Law; or 
  
 (iv) a Custodian or public officer
takes charge of the Trustee or its property. 
  
 If the Trustee
resigns or is removed or if a vacancy exists in the office of the Trustee for any reason, the Company shall promptly appoint a successor Trustee. The Trustee shall be entitled to payment of its fees and reimbursement of its expenses while acting as

  

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Trustee. Within one year after the successor Trustee takes office, the Holders of at least a majority of the principal amount of Outstanding CODES may
appoint a successor Trustee to replace the successor Trustee appointed by the Company. 
  
 Any Holder may petition any court of competent jurisdiction for the removal of the Trustee and the appointment of a successor Trustee if the Trustee fails to comply with Section 5.11. 
  
 If an instrument of acceptance by a successor Trustee shall not have been
delivered to the Trustee within 30 days after the giving of such notice of resignation or removal, the resigning or removed Trustee, as applicable, may petition, at the expense of the Company, any court of competent jurisdiction for the appointment
of a successor Trustee. 
  
 A successor Trustee shall deliver a
written acceptance of its appointment to the retiring Trustee and to the Company. Thereupon the resignation or removal of the retiring Trustee shall become effective, and the successor Trustee shall have all the rights, powers and duties of the
Trustee under this Indenture. The Company shall issue a notice of the successor Trustee’s succession to the Holders. Upon payment of its charges, the retiring Trustee shall promptly transfer all property held by it as Trustee to the successor
Trustee, subject nevertheless to its lien, if any, provided for in Section 5.8 hereof. Notwithstanding replacement of the Trustee pursuant to this Section 5.9 hereof, the Company’s obligations under Section 5.8 hereof shall continue for the
benefit of the retiring Trustee with respect to expenses, losses and liabilities incurred by it prior to such replacement. 
  
 Section 5.10. Successor Trustee by Merger, Etc. 
  
 Subject to Section 5.11 hereof, if the Trustee consolidates with, merges or converts into, or transfers all or substantially all of its corporate trust
business to, another corporation or national banking association, the successor entity without any further act shall be the successor Trustee as to the Securities. 
  
 Section 5.11. Corporate Trustee Required; Eligibility. 
  
 The Trustee shall at all times satisfy the requirements of Section 310(a)(1), (2) and (5) of the TIA. The Trustee shall at
all times have (or, in the case of a corporation included in a bank holding company system, the related bank holding company shall at all times have), a combined capital and surplus of at least $50 million as set forth in its (or its related bank
holding company’s) most recent published annual report of condition. The Trustee is subject to Section 310(b) of the TIA. 
  
 Section 5.12. Collection of Claims Against the Company. 
  
 The Trustee is subject to Section 311(a) of the TIA, excluding any creditor relationship listed in Section 311(b) of the TIA. A Trustee who has resigned
or been removed shall be subject to Section 311(a) of the TIA to the extent indicated therein. 
  

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 ARTICLE 6 
  

CONSOLIDATION, MERGER, CONVEYANCE, TRANSFER OR LEASE 
  
 Section 6.1. Company May Consolidate, Etc., Only on Certain Terms. 
  
 The Company shall not consolidate with or merge into any other Person or convey, transfer or lease its properties and assets
substantially as an entirety to any Person, and the Company shall not permit any Person to consolidate with or merge into the Company or convey, transfer or lease its properties and assets substantially as an entirety to the Company, unless:

  
 (1) in the event that the Company shall
consolidate with or merge into another Person or convey, transfer or lease its properties and assets substantially as an entirety to any Person, the Person formed by such consolidation or into which the Company is merged or the Person which acquires
by conveyance or transfer, or which leases, the properties and assets of the Company substantially as an entirety shall be a corporation organized and validly existing under the laws of the United States of America, any State thereof or the District
of Columbia; 
  
 (2) in the event that the
Company shall consolidate with or merge into another Person or convey, transfer or lease its properties and assets substantially as an entirety to any Person, and the entity surviving such transaction or transferee entity is not the Company, then
such surviving or transferee entity shall expressly assume, by an indenture supplemental hereto, executed and delivered to the Trustee, in form reasonably satisfactory to the Trustee, the due and punctual payment of all and any amounts when due on
all the CODES and the performance of every covenant of this Indenture and the CODES on the part of the Company to be performed or observed and shall have provided for conversion rights provided in Article 12; 
  
 (3) immediately after giving effect to such transaction, no
Event of Default, and no event which, after notice or lapse of time or both, would become an Event of Default, shall have occurred and be continuing; and 
  
 (4) the Company shall have delivered to the Trustee an Officers’ Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel, each stating that such
consolidation, merger, conveyance, transfer or lease and, if a supplemental indenture is required in connection with such transaction, such supplemental indenture, comply with this Article and that all conditions precedent herein provided for
relating to such transaction have been complied with. 
  
 Section 6.2. Successor Corporation Substituted. 
  
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substantially as an entirety to any Person, in accordance with Section 6.1 hereof, the successor corporation formed by such consolidation or into which the
Company is merged or to which such conveyance, transfer or lease is made shall succeed to, and be substituted for, and may exercise every right and power of, the Company under this Indenture with the same effect as if such successor corporation had
been named as the Company herein. In the event of any such conveyance or transfer, the Company (which term shall for this purpose mean the Person named as the “Company” in the first paragraph of this Indenture or any successor Person which
shall theretofore become such in the manner described in Section 6.1 hereof), except in the case of a lease to another Person, the predecessor corporation shall be relieved of all obligations and covenants under this Indenture and the Securities and
may be dissolved and liquidated. 
  
 ARTICLE 7 

 
 AMENDMENTS, SUPPLEMENTS AND WAIVERS 
  
 Section 7.1. Without Consent of Holders of CODES. 
  
 Without the consent of any Holders of Securities, the Company, when
authorized by a Board Resolution, and the Trustee, at any time and from time to time, may amend this Indenture and the Securities to: 
  
 (a) add to the covenants of the Company and the Guarantors for the benefit of the Holders of CODES; 
  
 (b) surrender any right or power herein conferred upon the Company or the
Guarantors, as the case may be; 
  
 (c) provide for conversion
rights of Holders of CODES if any reclassification or change of the Company’s Common Stock or any consolidation, merger or sale of all or substantially all of the Company’s assets occurs; 
  
 (d) provide for the assumption of the Company’s obligations to the
Holders of CODES in the case of a merger, consolidation, conveyance, transfer or lease pursuant to Article 6 hereof; 
  
 (e) reduce the Conversion Price; provided, however, that such reduction in the Conversion Price shall not adversely affect the interests of the
Holders of CODES (after taking into account tax and other consequences of such reduction); 
  
 (f) comply with the requirements of the Commission in order to effect or maintain the qualification of this Indenture under the TIA; 
  
 (g) make any changes or modifications to this Indenture necessary in connection with the registration of any Securities
under the Securities Act as contemplated in the Registration Rights Agreement; provided, however, that such action pursuant to this clause (g) does not, in the good faith opinion of the Board of Directors of the Company (as evidenced by a
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 (h) cure any ambiguity, to correct or supplement any provision herein which may be inconsistent with any
other provision herein or which is otherwise defective, or to make any other provisions with respect to matters or questions arising under this Indenture which the Company may deem necessary or desirable and which shall not be inconsistent with the
provisions of this Indenture; provided, however, that such action pursuant to this clause (h) does not, in the good faith opinion of the Board of Directors of the Company (as evidenced by a Board Resolution) and the Trustee, adversely affect
the interests of the Holders of Securities in any material respect; 
  
 (i) add Guarantees with respect to the CODES; and 
  
 (j)
add or modify any other provisions herein with respect to matters or questions arising hereunder which the Company and the Trustee may deem necessary or desirable and which will not adversely affect the interests of the Holders of CODES. 

 
 Section 7.2. With Consent of Holders of CODES. 
  
 Except as provided below in this Section 7.2, this Indenture or the
Securities may be amended, modified or supplemented, and noncompliance in any particular instance with any provision of this Indenture or the Securities may be waived, in each case (i) with the written consent of the Holders of at least a majority
of the principal amount of the Outstanding CODES or (ii) by the adoption of a resolution, at a meeting of Holders of the Outstanding CODES at which a quorum is present, by the Holders of a majority of the principal amount of the Outstanding CODES
represented at such meeting. 
  
 Without the written consent or
the affirmative vote of each Holder of CODES affected thereby, an amendment or waiver under this Section 7.2 may not: 
  
 (a) change the Stated Maturity of the principal amount of, or any installment of Interest (including Contingent Interest) on, any Security; 
  
 (b) reduce the principal amount, Redemption Price or Repurchase Price of, or
accrued Interest (including accrued Contingent Interest and Additional Amounts) on, any CODES; 
  
 (c) impair or adversely affect the conversion rights as provided in Article 12 of any Holders of CODES; 
  
 (d) impair or adversely affect the rights of any Holder of the CODES with respect to the Guarantees; 
  
 (e) change the currency of any amount owed or owing under the CODES or any
interest thereon from U.S. Dollars; 
  
 (f) alter or otherwise
modify the manner of calculation the Interest Rate on any CODES, or extend time for payment of any amounts due and payable (including Contingent Interest) to the Holders of the CODES; 
  

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 (g) impair or adversely affect the right of any Holder to institute suit for the enforcement of any
payment in or with respect to any CODES; 
  
 (h) modify the
obligation of the Company to maintain an office or agency in The City of New York pursuant to Section 9.2; 
  
 (i) impair or adversely affect the repurchase right of the Holders of the CODES as provided in Article 11 or the right of the Holders of the CODES to
convert any CODES as provided in Article 12; 
  
 (j) modify the
provisions of Article 10 in a manner adverse to the Holders of the CODES; 
  
 (k) modify any of the provisions of this Section, or reduce the percentage of voting interests required to waive a default, except to provide that certain other provisions of this Indenture cannot be modified or
waived without the consent of the Holder of each Outstanding CODES affected thereby; or 
  
 (l) reduce the requirements of Section 8.4 hereof for quorum or voting, or reduce the percentage of the principal amount of the Outstanding CODES the consent of whose Holders is required for any such supplemental
indenture or the consent of whose Holders is required for any waiver provided for in this Indenture. 
  
 It shall not be necessary for any Act of Holders of CODES under this Section 7.2 to approve the particular form of any proposed supplemental indenture,
but it shall be sufficient if such Act shall approve the substance thereof. 
  
 Section 7.3. Compliance with Trust Indenture Act. 
  
 Every amendment to this Indenture or the Securities shall be set forth in a supplemental indenture that complies with the TIA as then in effect. 
  
 Section 7.4. Revocation of Consents and Effect of Consents or Votes. 
  
 Until an amendment, supplement or waiver becomes effective, a written consent
to it by a Holder is a continuing consent by the Holder and every subsequent Holder of a CODES or portion of a CODES that evidences the same debt as the consenting Holder’s CODES, even if notation of the consent is not made on any CODES;
provided, however, that unless a record date shall have been established, any such Holder or subsequent Holder may revoke the consent as to its CODES or portion of a CODES if the Trustee receives written notice of revocation before the date
the amendment, supplement or waiver becomes effective. 
  
 An
amendment, supplement or waiver becomes effective on receipt by the Trustee of written consents from or affirmative votes by, as applicable, the Holders of the requisite percentage of the principal amount of the Outstanding CODES, and thereafter
shall bind every Holder of CODES; provided, however, if the amendment, supplement or waiver makes a change described in any of the clauses (a) through (l) of Section 7.2, the amendment, supplement or waiver shall bind only each Holder of a
CODES which has consented to it or voted for it, as applicable, and every subsequent Holder of a CODES or portion of a CODES that evidences the same indebtedness as the CODES of the consenting or affirmatively voting Holder, as applicable.

  

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 Section 7.5. Notation on or Exchange of CODES. 
  
 If an amendment, supplement or waiver changes the terms of a CODES:

  
 (a) the Trustee may require the Holder of a CODES to deliver
such CODES to the Trustee, the Trustee may place an appropriate notation on the CODES about the changed terms and return it to the Holder and the Trustee may place an appropriate notation on any CODES thereafter authenticated; or 
  
 (b) if the Company or the Trustee so determines, the Company in exchange for
the CODES shall issue and the Trustee shall authenticate a new CODES that reflects the changed terms. 
  
 Failure to make the appropriate notation or issue a new CODES shall not affect the validity and effect of such amendment, supplement or waiver.

  
 Section 7.6. Trustee to Sign Amendment, Etc.

  
 The Trustee shall sign any amendment authorized pursuant to
this Article 7 if the Trustee reasonably determines the amendment does not adversely affect the rights, duties, liabilities or immunities of the Trustee. If the Trustee reasonably determines the amendment does adversely affect the rights, duties,
liabilities or immunities of the Trustee, the Trustee may but need not sign it. In signing or refusing to sign any amendment hereunder, the Trustee shall be entitled to receive and shall be fully protected in relying upon an Officers’
Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel as conclusive evidence that such amendment is authorized or permitted by this Indenture and that all conditions precedent relating thereto have been complied with. 
  
 ARTICLE 8 
  
 MEETING OF HOLDERS OF CODES 
  

Section 8.1. Purposes for Which Meetings May Be Called. 
  

A meeting of Holders of CODES may be called at any time and from time to time pursuant to this Article to make, give or take any request, demand,
authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other action provided by this Indenture to be made, given or taken by Holders of CODES. 
  
 Section 8.2. Call Notice and Place of Meetings. 
  
 (a) The Trustee may at any time call a meeting of Holders of CODES for any purpose specified in Section 8.1, to be held at such time and at such place in
The City of New York as the Trustee may determine. Notice of every meeting of Holders of CODES, setting forth the time and the place of such meeting and in general terms the action proposed to be taken at such meeting, shall be given, in the manner
provided in Section 14.2, not less than 21 nor more than 180 days prior to the date fixed for the meeting. 
  

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 (b) In case at any time the Company, pursuant to a Board Resolution, or the Holders of at least 10% of
the principal amount of the Outstanding CODES shall have requested the Trustee to call a meeting of the Holders of CODES for any purpose specified in Section 8.1 hereof, by written request setting forth in reasonable detail the action proposed to be
taken at the meeting, and the Trustee shall not have made the first publication of the notice of such meeting within 21 days after receipt of such request or shall not thereafter proceed to cause the meeting to be held as provided herein, then the
Company or the Holders of CODES in the amount specified, as applicable, may determine the time and the place in The City of New York for such meeting and may call such meeting for such purposes by giving notice thereof as provided in paragraph (a)
of this Section 8.2. 
  
 Section 8.3. Persons Entitled to Vote
at Meetings. 
  
 To be entitled to vote at any meeting of
Holders of CODES, a Person shall be (a) a Holder of one or more Outstanding CODES, or (b) a Person appointed by an instrument in writing as proxy for a Holder or Holders of one or more Outstanding CODES by such Holder or Holders. The only Persons
who shall be entitled to be present or to speak at any meeting of Holders shall be the Persons entitled to vote at such meeting and their counsel, any representatives of the Trustee and its counsel and any representatives of the Company and its
counsel. 
  
 Section 8.4. Quorum; Action. 
  
 The Persons entitled to vote a majority of the principal amount of the
Outstanding CODES shall constitute a quorum. In the absence of a quorum within 30 minutes of the time appointed for any such meeting, the meeting shall, if convened at the request of Holders of CODES, be dissolved. In any other case, the meeting may
be adjourned for a period of not less than 10 days as determined by the chairman of the meeting prior to the adjournment of such meeting. In the absence of a quorum at any such adjourned meeting, such adjourned meeting may be further adjourned for a
period of not less than 10 days as determined by the chairman of the meeting prior to the adjournment of such adjourned meeting. Notice of the reconvening of any adjourned meeting shall be given as provided in Section 8.2(a), except that such notice
need be given only once and not less than five days prior to the date on which the meeting is scheduled to be reconvened. Notice of the reconvening of an adjourned meeting shall state expressly the percentage of the principal amount of the
Outstanding CODES which shall constitute a quorum. 
  
 Subject to
the foregoing, at the reconvening of any meeting adjourned for a lack of a quorum, the Persons entitled to vote 25% of the principal amount of the Outstanding CODES at the time shall constitute a quorum for the taking of any action set forth in the
notice of the original meeting. 
  
 At a meeting or an adjourned
meeting duly reconvened and at which a quorum is present as aforesaid, any resolution and all matters (except as limited by Section 7.2) shall be effectively passed and decided if passed or decided by the Persons entitled to vote not less than a
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 Any resolution passed or decisions taken at any meeting of Holders of CODES duly held in accordance with
this Section shall be binding on all the Holders of CODES, whether or not present or represented at the meeting. 
  
 Section 8.5. Determination of Voting Rights; Conduct and Adjournment of Meetings. 
  
 (a) Notwithstanding any other provisions of this Indenture, the Trustee may make such reasonable regulations as it may deem
advisable for any meeting of Holders of CODES in regard to proof of the holding of CODES and of the appointment of proxies and in regard to the appointment and duties of inspectors of votes, the submission and examination of proxies, certificates
and other evidence of the right to vote, and such other matters concerning the conduct of the meeting as it shall deem appropriate. Except as otherwise permitted or required by any such regulations, the holding of CODES shall be proved in the manner
specified in Section 14.4 hereof and the appointment of any proxy shall be proved in the manner specified in Section 14.4 hereof. Such regulations may provide that written instruments appointing proxies, regular on their face, may be presumed valid
and genuine without the proof specified in Section 14.4 hereof or other proof. 
  
 (b) The Trustee shall, by an instrument in writing, appoint a temporary chairman (which may be the Trustee) of the meeting, unless the meeting shall have been called by the Company or by Holders of CODES as provided
in Section 8.2(b), in which case the Company or the Holders of CODES calling the meeting, as applicable, shall in like manner appoint a temporary chairman. A permanent chairman and a permanent secretary of the meeting shall be elected by vote of the
Persons entitled to vote a majority of the principal amount of the Outstanding CODES represented at the meeting. 
  
 (c) At any meeting, each Holder of a CODES or proxy shall be entitled to one vote for each $1,000 principal amount of CODES held or represented by him;
provided, however, that no vote shall be cast or counted at any meeting in respect of any CODES challenged as not Outstanding and ruled by the chairman of the meeting to be not Outstanding. The chairman of the meeting shall have no right to
vote, except as a Holder of a CODES or proxy. 
  
 (d) Any meeting
of Holders of CODES duly called pursuant to Section 8.2 at which a quorum is present may be adjourned from time to time by Persons entitled to vote a majority of the principal amount of the Outstanding CODES represented at the meeting, and the
meeting may be held as so adjourned without further notice. 
  
 Section 8.6. Counting Votes and Recording Action of Meetings. 
  
 The vote upon any resolution submitted to any meeting of Holders of CODES shall be by written ballots on which shall be subscribed the signatures of the Holders of CODES or of their representatives by proxy and the
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appoint two inspectors of votes who shall count all votes cast at the meeting for or against any resolution and who shall make and file with the secretary of
the meeting their verified written reports in duplicate of all votes cast at the meeting. A record, at least in duplicate, of the proceedings of each meeting of Holders of CODES shall be prepared by the secretary of the meeting and there shall be
attached to said record the original reports of the inspectors of votes on any vote by ballot taken thereat and affidavits by one or more Persons having knowledge of the facts setting forth a copy of the notice of the meeting and showing that said
notice was given as provided in Section 8.2 and, if applicable, Section 8.4. Each copy shall be signed and verified by the affidavits of the permanent chairman and secretary of the meeting and one such copy shall be delivered to the Company and
another to the Trustee to be preserved by the Trustee, the latter to have attached thereto the ballots voted at the meeting. Any record so signed and verified shall be conclusive evidence of the matters therein stated. 
  

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 ARTICLE 9 
  

COVENANTS 
  
 Section 9.1. Payment of Principal, Redemption Price, Repurchase Price and Interest. 
  
 The Company will duly and punctually pay the principal amount, Redemption Price, Repurchase Price or Interest (including
Contingent Interest and Additional Amounts) on the CODES when and if at any time any such foregoing amounts are due and payable in accordance with the terms of the CODES and this Indenture. The Company will deposit or cause to be deposited with the
Trustee as directed by the Trustee the amount payable in immediately available funds, no later than the day of the Stated Maturity of any CODES, the date of any installment of Interest (including Contingent Interest) or any other date such payment
is otherwise due. 
  
 Section 9.2. Maintenance of Offices or
Agencies. 
  
 The Company hereby appoints the Trustee’s
Corporate Trust Office as its office in the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York, where CODES may be: 
  
 (i) presented or surrendered for payment; 
  
 (ii) surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange; 
  
 (iii) surrendered for conversion; 
  
 and where notices and demands to or upon the Company in respect of the CODES and this Indenture may be served. 
  
 The Company will maintain in The City of New York, an office or agency where
CODES may be presented or surrendered for payment, where CODES may be surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange, where CODES may be surrendered for conversion and where notices and demands to or upon the Company in respect of the CODES
and this Indenture may be served. The Company will give prompt written notice to the Trustee, and notice to the Holders in accordance with Section 14.2 hereof, of the appointment or termination of any such agents and of the location and any change
in the location of any such office or agency. 
  
 If at any time
the Company shall fail to maintain any such required office or agency in The City of New York, or shall fail to furnish the Trustee with the address thereof, presentations and surrenders may be made at, and notices and demands may be served on, the
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 Section 9.3. Corporate Existence. 
  
 Subject to Article 6 hereof, the Company will do or cause to be done all things necessary to preserve and keep in full force
and effect its corporate existence, rights (charter and statutory) and franchises of the Company and each Subsidiary; provided, however, that the Company shall not be required to preserve any such right or franchise if the Board of Directors
shall determine in good faith that the preservation thereof is no longer desirable in the conduct of the business of the Company and its Subsidiaries as a whole and that the loss thereof is not disadvantageous in any material respect to the Holders.

  
 Section 9.4. Reports. 
  
 (a) The Company, shall deliver to the Trustee within 15 days after it files
them with the Commission copies of the annual reports and of the information, documents and other reports (or copies of such portions of any of the foregoing as the Commission may by rules and regulations prescribe) which the Company is required to
file with the Commission pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act; provided, however, the Company shall not be required to deliver to the Trustee any materials for which the Company has sought and received confidential treatment by
the Commission. The Company also shall comply with the other provisions of Section 314(a) of the TIA. Delivery of such reports, information and documents to the Trustee is for informational purposes only and the Trustee’s receipt of such shall
not constitute constructive notice of any information contained therein or determinable from information contained herein, including the Company’s compliance with any of its covenants hereunder (as to which the Trustee is entitled to rely
exclusively on Officers’ Certificates). 
  
 (b) If at any
time the Company is not subject to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act, upon the request of a Holder of a CODES, the Company, will promptly furnish or cause to be furnished to such Holder or to a prospective purchaser of such CODES designated by
such Holder, as applicable, the information, if any, required to be delivered by it pursuant to Rule 144A(d)(4) under the Securities Act to permit compliance with Rule 144A in connection with the resale of such CODES; provided, however, that
the Company shall not be required to furnish such information in connection with any request made on or after the date which is two years from the later of the date such security was last acquired from the Company or an “affiliate” (as
defined under Rule 144 under the Securities Act) of the Company. 
  
 Section 9.5. Compliance Certificate. 
  
 The
Company shall deliver to the Trustee, within 90 days after the end of each fiscal year of the Company, an Officers’ Certificate, one of the signatories of which shall be the principal executive officer, principal financial officer or principal
accounting officer of the Company, stating that in the course of the performance by the signers of their duties as Officers of the Company, they would normally have knowledge of any failure by the Company to comply with all conditions, or Default by
the Company with respect to any covenants, under this Indenture, and further stating whether or not they have knowledge of any such failure or Default and, if so, specifying each such failure or Default and the nature thereof. In the event an
Officer of the Company comes to have actual knowledge of a Default, regardless of the date, the Company shall deliver an Officers’ Certificate to the Trustee within five Business Days of obtaining such actual knowledge specifying such Default,
its status and what action the Company is taking or proposes to take with respect thereto. 
  

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 Section 9.6. Resale of Certain CODES. 
  
 During the period of two years after the last date of original issuance of
any CODES, the Company shall not, and shall not permit any of its “affiliates” (as defined under Rule 144 under the Securities Act) to, resell any CODES, or shares of Common Stock issuable upon conversion of the CODES, which constitute
“restricted securities” under Rule 144, that are acquired by any of them within the United States or to “U.S. persons” (as defined in Regulation S) except pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act
or an applicable exemption therefrom. The Trustee shall have no responsibility or liability in respect of the Company’s performance of its agreement in the preceding sentence. 
  
 Section 9.7. Tax Treatment of CODES.  
  
 The Company agrees, and by acceptance of beneficial ownership interest in the CODES each beneficial holder of CODES will be
deemed to have agreed, for United States federal income tax purposes (1) to treat the CODES as indebtedness that is subject to Treas. Reg. Sec. 1.1275-4 (the “Contingent Payment Regulations”) and, for purposes of the Contingent
Payment Regulations, to treat the fair market value of any stock beneficially received by a beneficial holder upon any conversion of the CODES as a contingent payment and (2) to be bound by the Company’s determination of the “comparable
yield” and “projected payment schedule,” within the meaning of the Contingent Payment Regulations, with respect to the CODES. A Holder of CODES may obtain the amount of original issue discount, issue date, yield to maturity,
comparable yield and projected payment schedule by submitting a written request for it to the Company at the following address: Apogent Technologies Inc., 30 Penahallow Street, Portsmouth, New Hampshire 03801, Attention: Investor Relations.

  
 Section 9.8. Shelf Registration Statement.  

 
 After the date of this Indenture and prior to the date upon which the
Company is no longer required to keep the Shelf Registration Statement effective under the Registration Rights Agreement, on or before every Roll-up Date, the Company and the Guarantors shall file a new Shelf Registration Statement, as specified in
the Registration Rights Agreement. 
  
 ARTICLE 10

  
 REDEMPTION OF CODES 
  
 Section 10.1. Optional Redemption. 
  
 (a) At any time on or after March 15, 2010, except for CODES that it is
required to purchase pursuant to Section 11.1 or required to convert pursuant to Section 12.1, the Company may, at its option, redeem the CODES in whole at any time or in part from time to time, on any date prior to the Stated Maturity of such
CODES, upon notice as set forth in Section 10.4, at the Redemption Price. 
  

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 (b) If the Company exercises its option to redeem the CODES pursuant to this Section 10.1, a Holder may
nevertheless exercise its right to have its CODES purchased pursuant to Section 11.1, if applicable, or to convert such CODES pursuant to Article 12, in each case, until the close of business two Business Days immediately preceding Redemption Date.

  
 (c) The Company shall pay to the Holder of the CODES called
for redemption (including those CODES which are converted into Common Stock after the date the notice of the redemption is mailed and prior to the Redemption Date) any Interest (including Contingent Interest) accrued but not paid to, but excluding,
the Redemption Date pursuant to Section 2.1(f); provided, however, that if the Redemption Date is an Interest Payment Date, the Company shall pay the Interest (including Contingent Interest) to the Holder of the CODES on the relevant Regular
Record Date. 
  
 Section 10.2. Notice to Trustee.

  
 If the Company elects to redeem CODES pursuant to the
provisions of Section 10.1 hereof (such election to be ordered by a Board Resolution), it shall notify the Trustee at least 60 days prior to the intended Redemption Date (unless a shorter notice shall be satisfactory to the Trustee) of (i) such
intended Redemption Date, (ii) the principal amount of CODES to be redeemed and (iii) the CUSIP numbers of the CODES to be redeemed. 
  
 Section 10.3. Selection of CODES to Be Redeemed. 
  
 If fewer than all the CODES are to be redeemed, the Trustee shall select the particular CODES to be redeemed from the Outstanding CODES by a method that
complies with the requirements of any exchange on which the CODES are listed, or, if the CODES are not listed on an exchange, on a pro rata basis or by lot or in accordance with any other method the Trustee considers fair and appropriate. The
Trustee may select for redemption portions of the principal amount of CODES that have denominations larger than $1,000. 
  
 CODES and portions thereof that the Trustee selects shall be in principal amounts in integral multiples of $1,000. Provisions of this Indenture that apply
to CODES called for redemption also apply to portions of CODES called for redemption. The Trustee shall notify the Company promptly of the CODES or portions of CODES to be redeemed. 
  
 The Trustee shall promptly notify the Company and the Registrar in writing of the CODES selected for redemption and, in the
case of any CODES selected for partial redemption, the principal amount thereof to be redeemed. 
  
 If any CODES selected for partial redemption is converted or elected to be purchased in part before termination of the conversion right or repurchase
right with respect to the portion of the CODES so selected, the converted or purchased portion of such CODES shall be deemed to be the portion selected for redemption; provided, however, that the Holder of such CODES so converted or purchased
and deemed redeemed shall not be entitled to any additional interest payment as a result of such deemed redemption than such Holder would have otherwise been entitled to receive upon conversion or purchase of such CODES subject to Section 2.1(f).
CODES which have been converted or purchased during a selection of CODES to be redeemed may be treated by the Trustee as Outstanding for the purpose of such selection. 
  

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 For all purposes of this Indenture, unless the context otherwise requires, all provisions relating to the
redemption of CODES shall relate, in the case of any CODES redeemed or to be redeemed only in part, to the portion of the principal amount of such CODES which has been or is to be redeemed. 
  
 Section 10.4. Notice of Redemption. 
  
 Notice of redemption shall be given in the manner provided in Section 14.2 to
the Holders of CODES to be redeemed. Such notice shall be given not less than 20 nor more than 60 days’ prior to the intended Redemption Date. 
  
 All notices of redemption shall state: 
  
 (1) such intended Redemption Date; 
  
 (2) the Redemption Price and Interest (including Contingent Interest) accrued and unpaid to, but excluding, the Redemption Date, if any;

  
 (3) if fewer than all the Outstanding CODES
are to be redeemed, the principal amount of CODES to be redeemed and the principal amount of CODES which will be Outstanding after such partial redemption; 
  
 (4) that on the Redemption Date, the Redemption Price and Interest (including Contingent Interest) accrued and unpaid to, but excluding,
the Redemption Date, if any, will become due and payable, and will cease to accrue, upon each such CODES to be redeemed; 
  
 (5) the Conversion Price, the date on which the right to convert the principal of the CODES to be redeemed will terminate and the places
where such CODES may be surrendered for conversion; 
  
 (6) the place or places where such CODES are to be surrendered for payment of the Redemption Price and accrued and unpaid Interest (including Contingent Interest); and 
  
 (7) the CUSIP number of the CODES. 
  
 The notice given shall specify the last date on which exchanges or transfers of CODES may be made pursuant to Section 2.7,
and shall specify the serial numbers of CODES and the portions thereof called for redemption. 
  
 Notice of redemption of CODES to be redeemed at the election of the Company shall be given by the Company or, at the Company’s written request delivered at least 20 days prior to the date of the mailing of such
Notice (unless a shorter period shall be acceptable to the Trustee), by the Trustee in the name of and at the expense of the Company. 
  

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 Section 10.5. Effect of Notice of Redemption. 
  
 Notice of redemption having been given as provided in Section 10.4 hereof,
the CODES so to be redeemed shall, on the Redemption Date, become due and payable at the Redemption Price and from and after such date (unless the Company shall default in the payment of the Redemption Price and accrued and unpaid Interest
(including Contingent Interest)) such CODES shall cease to bear Interest (including Contingent Interest). Upon surrender of any such CODES for redemption in accordance with such notice, such CODES shall be paid by the Company at the Redemption
Price; provided, however, the installments of Interest (including Contingent Interest) on CODES whose Stated Maturity is prior to or on the Redemption Date shall be payable to the Holders of such CODES, or one or more Predecessor Securities,
registered as such on the relevant Regular Record Date. 
  
 If any
CODES called for redemption shall not be so paid upon surrender thereof for redemption, the principal shall, until paid, bear Interest (including Contingent Interest) from the Redemption Date at the Interest Rate. 
  
 Section 10.6. Deposit and Payment of Redemption Price. 
  
 Prior to or by 10:00 a.m. (New York City time) on any Redemption Date, the
Company shall deposit with the Trustee or with a Paying Agent (or, if the Company or a Subsidiary or an Affiliate of either of them is acting as the Paying Agent, shall segregate and hold in trust as provided in Section 2.6) an amount of money in
immediately available funds sufficient to pay the Redemption Price, and accrued and unpaid Interest (including Contingent Interest) in respect of all the CODES to be redeemed on that Redemption Date from the last Interest Payment Date to but not
including the Redemption Date, other than any CODES called for redemption on that date which have been converted prior to the date of such deposit, and accrued and unpaid Interest (including Contingent Interest) on such CODES. The Trustee and Paying
Agent shall then cause such funds to be paid to the Holders of the CODES being redeemed in accordance with this Article. 
  
 If any CODES delivered for redemption shall not be so redeemed by payment to the Holders thereof on the Redemption Date, the principal amount of such
CODES shall, until it is redeemed, bear Interest (including Contingent Interest) on the Redemption Date to but not including the actual date of redemption at the applicable Interest Rate, and each such CODES shall remain convertible into shares of
Common Stock pursuant to Article 12 until such CODES shall have been so redeemed. 
  
 If any CODES called for redemption is converted, any money deposited with the Trustee or with a Paying Agent or so segregated and held in trust for the redemption of such CODES shall (subject to any right of the
Holder of such CODES or any Predecessor Security to receive Interest (including Contingent Interest) as provided in Section 2.1(f)) be paid to the Company upon request by the Company or, if then held by the Company, shall be discharged from such
trust. 
  
 Section 10.7. CODES Redeemed in Part.

  
 Any CODES which is to be redeemed only in part shall be
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(with, if the Company or the Trustee so requires, due endorsement by, or a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Company and the Trustee
duly executed by, the Holder thereof or the Holder’s attorney duly authorized in writing), and the Company shall execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver to the Holder of such CODES without service charge, a new CODES of any
authorized denomination as requested by such Holder in principal amount equal to and in exchange for the unredeemed portion of the CODES so surrendered. 
  
 ARTICLE 11 
  
 REPURCHASE AT THE OPTION OF HOLDERS 
  
 Section 11.1. Repurchase Rights. 
  
 (a) Optional Put. 
  
 On December 15, 2008, March 15, 2010, December 15, 2014, December 15, 2019, December 15, 2024 and December 15, 2029 (each, an “Optional Repurchase
Date”), each Holder shall have the right (each, an “Optional Repurchase Right”), at the Holder’s option, to require the Company to repurchase, and upon the exercise of such right the Company shall repurchase, all of
such Holder’s CODES not theretofore called for redemption, or any portion of the principal amount thereof that is equal to $1,000 or an integral multiple thereof as directed by such Holder pursuant to Section 11.3 (provided that no single CODES
may be repurchased in part unless the portion of the principal amount of such CODES to be Outstanding after such repurchase is equal to $1,000 or an integral multiple thereof), at a purchase price in cash equal to 100% of the principal amount of the
CODES to be repurchased plus accrued and unpaid Interest, including Contingent Interest, if any, on such Optional Repurchase Date (the “Optional Repurchase Price”). 
  
 (b) Change of Control Put. 
  
 In the event that a Change in Control shall occur, each Holder shall have the right (each, a “Change of Control Repurchase Right” and,
together with the Optional Repurchase Right, each a “Repurchase Right”), at the Holder’s option, but subject to the provisions of Section 11.2 hereof, to require the Company to repurchase, and upon the exercise of such right
the Company shall repurchase, all of such Holder’s CODES not theretofore called for redemption, or any portion of the principal amount thereof that is equal to $1,000 or an integral multiple thereof as directed by such Holder pursuant to
Section 11.3 (provided that no single CODES may be repurchased in part unless the portion of the principal amount of such CODES to be Outstanding after such repurchase is equal to $1,000 or an integral multiple thereof), on the date (the
“Change of Control Repurchase Date” and, together with the Optional Repurchase Date, each a “Repurchase Date”) that is a Business Day 30 days after the date of the Company Notice at a purchase price in cash equal to
100% of the principal amount of the CODES to be repurchased (the “Change of Control Repurchase Price” and, together with the Optional Repurchase Price, each a “Repurchase Price”), plus accrued and unpaid Interest
(including Contingent Interest) to, but excluding, the Change of Control Repurchase Date; provided, however, that installments of Interest (including Contingent Interest) on CODES whose Stated Maturity is prior to or on the Change of Control
Repurchase Date shall be payable to the Holders of such CODES, or one or more Predecessor Securities, registered as such on the relevant Regular Record Date according to terms and the provisions of Section 2.1 hereof. 
  

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 Section 11.2. Company Notice.  
  
 In the case of an Optional Repurchase Right, no later than 20 Business Days prior to each Optional Repurchase Date and in
the case of a Change of Control Repurchase Right, no later than 30 days after the occurrence of a Change of Control, the Company shall mail a written notice (the “Company Notice”) by first-class mail to the Trustee and to each
Holder (and to beneficial owners as required by applicable law) pursuant to Section 14.2. The Company Notice shall include a form of notice (the “Repurchase Notice”) to be completed by the Holder and delivered to the Paying Agent
pursuant to Section 11.3(b), and shall state the following: 
  
 (i) that it is a Company Notice pursuant to this Section; 
  
 (ii) in the case of a Change of Control Repurchase Right, the events causing a Change of Control and the date of such Change of Control;

  
 (iii) the procedures with which such Holder
must comply to exercise its right to have its CODES purchased pursuant to Section 11.1(a) or 11.1(b), including the date by which the completed Repurchase Notice pursuant to Section 11.3(b) and the CODES the Holder elects to have repurchased
pursuant to Section 11.1(a) or 11.1(b) must be delivered to Paying Agent in order to have such CODES purchased by the Company pursuant to Section 11.1(a) or 11.1(b), as the case may be, the name and address of the Paying Agent and that the CODES as
to which a Repurchase Notice has been given may be converted, if they are otherwise convertible pursuant to Article 12, only if the completed and delivered Repurchase Notice has been withdrawn in accordance with the terms of the Indenture, the
Holder’s conversion rights pursuant to Article 12, and the Conversion Rate then in effect and any adjustments thereto; 
  
 (iv) the Repurchase Date and the Repurchase Price; 
  
 (v) that, unless the Company defaults in making payment of such Repurchase Price, Interest (including
Contingent Interest) on the CODES surrendered for purchase by the Company will cease to accrue on and after Repurchase Date; and 
  
 (vi) the CUSIP number of the CODES. 
  
 No failure by the Company to give the foregoing Company Notice shall limit any Holder’s right to exercise its rights pursuant to Section 11.1(a) or
11.1(b) or affect the validity of the proceedings for the purchase of its CODES hereunder. 
  
 Section 11.3. Delivery of Repurchase Notice; Forms of Repurchase Notice; Withdrawal of Repurchase Notice. 
  
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 The Company shall deliver to all Holders (and beneficial holders of the CODES) a form of Repurchase
Notice, which with respect to Holders repurchase rights set forth in Section 11.1(a) or 11.1(b), as the case may be, shall be delivered to such Holders at least 20 Business Days prior to the Repurchase Date and, as set forth in Section 11.2 shall be
included in the Company Notice; provided that the delivery of such form of Repurchase Notice to the Holders shall be made in the Company’s name and at the Company’s expense and the text of such form of Repurchase Notice, shall be
prepared by the Company pursuant to Section 11.2. 
  
 (b) Form of
Repurchase Notice. 
  
 The form of Repurchase
Notice shall provide instructions regarding procedures with which holders must comply to exercise their rights pursuant to Section 11.1 and the completion of the Repurchase Notice and also shall state: 
  
 (1) that it is the Repurchase Notice pursuant to Sections
11.2 and 11.3 of the Indenture and must be completed by the Holder and delivered to the Paying Agent (and any beneficial holder of securities), together with the delivery of the Holder’s CODES for which the Holder will exercise its repurchase
rights pursuant to Section 11.1, for such holder to receive the Repurchase Price; 
  
 (2) the name and address of the Paying Agent to, and the date by, which the completed Repurchase Notice and CODES must be delivered in
order for the holder to receive the applicable Repurchase Price; 
  
 (3) the portion of the principal amount of the CODES which the Holder will deliver to be repurchased, which portion must be in principal amounts of $1,000 or an integral multiple thereof; 
  
 (4) any other procedures then applicable that the Holder
must follow to exercise rights under Article 11 and a brief description of those rights; 
  
 (5) the Repurchase Date and the Repurchase Price; 
  
 (6) the procedures with which such Holder must comply to exercise its right to have its CODES purchased
pursuant to Section 11.1, including the date by which the completed Repurchase Notice pursuant to Section 11.3 and the CODES the Holder elects to have purchased pursuant to Section 11.1 must be delivered to Paying Agent in order to have such CODES
purchased by the Company pursuant to Section 11.1, the name and address of the Paying Agent and that the CODES as to which a Repurchase Notice has been given may be converted, if they are otherwise convertible pursuant to Article 12, only if the
completed and delivered Repurchase Notice has been withdrawn in accordance with the terms of the Indenture, the Holder’s conversion rights pursuant to Article 12, the Conversion Rate then in effect and any adjustments thereto; 
  
 (7) the Holder’s right to withdraw a completed and
delivered Repurchase Notice, the procedures for withdrawing a Repurchase Notice, pursuant to clause (c) below and that CODES as to which a completed and delivered Repurchase Notice may be converted, if they are convertible only in accordance with
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 (8) that, unless the Company defaults in making payment on CODES for which a Repurchase
Notice has been submitted, Interest (including Contingent Interest) on such CODES will cease to accrue on the Repurchase Date; and 
  
 (9) the CUSIP number of the CODES. 
  
 (c) Withdrawal of Repurchase Notice. 
  
 Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, any Holder which has delivered a completed Repurchase Notice to the Paying Agent shall have the right to
withdraw such Repurchase Notice, as applicable, by delivery of a written notice of withdrawal delivered to the office of the Paying Agent in accordance with the Repurchase Notice at any time prior to the close of business on the day immediately
preceding the Repurchase Date specifying: 
  
 (1)
the certificate number, if any, of the CODES in respect of which such notice of withdrawal is being submitted; 
  
 (2) the principal amount of the CODES with respect to which such notice of withdrawal is being submitted; and 
  
 (3) the principal amount, if any, of such CODES which
remains subject to the original Repurchase Notice and which has been or will be delivered for purchase by the Company. 
  
 (d) The Paying Agent shall promptly notify the Company of the receipt by it of any Repurchase Notice or written notice of withdrawal thereof. 

 
 Section 11.4. Exercise of Repurchase Rights. 
  
 (a) To exercise an Optional Repurchase Right pursuant to Section 11.1(a), a
Holder must deliver to the Trustee at its offices no later than the close of business on the third Business Day prior to the Optional Repurchase Date the following: 
  
 (i) a completed Repurchase Notice for Optional Repurchase Rights, the form of which is contained in Exhibit
C hereto; and 
  
 (ii) the CODES or cause such
CODES to be delivered through the facilities of the Depositary, as applicable, with respect to which the repurchase right is being exercised, with, if the Company or the Trustee so requires, due endorsement by, or a written instrument of transfer,
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 (b) To exercise a Change of Control Repurchase Right pursuant to Section 11.1(b), a Holder must deliver
to the Trustee at its offices on or prior to the close of business on the Business Day prior to the Change of Control Repurchase Date the following: 
  
 (i) a completed Repurchase Notice for Change of Control Repurchase Rights, the form of which is contained in Exhibit D hereto; and

  
 (ii) the CODES or cause such CODES to be
delivered through the facilities of the Depositary, as applicable, with respect to which the repurchase right is being exercised, with, if the Company or the Trustee so requires, due endorsement by, or a written instrument of transfer, in form
satisfactory to the Company and the Trustee duly executed by, the Holder thereof or such Holder’s attorney duly authorized in writing. 
  
 Section 11.5. Deposit and Payment of the Applicable Repurchase Price. 
  
 (a) If a Holder has exercised its rights pursuant to Section 11.1(a) or 11.1(b) and has satisfied the conditions for the
exercise of such rights in accordance with Section 11.4(a) or 11.4(b), as the case may be, then the Company shall, prior to 10:00 a.m. (New York City time) on the applicable Repurchase Date deposit with the Trustee or with the Paying Agent (or, if
the Company or a Subsidiary or an Affiliate of either of them is acting as the Paying Agent, shall segregate and hold in trust as provided in Section 2.5) an amount of money in immediately available funds if deposited on such Business Day sufficient
to pay the aggregate Repurchase Price of all the CODES or portions thereof which are to be purchased on such applicable Repurchase Date, and the Trustee or Paying Agent, as applicable shall pay the Holder the Repurchase Price multiplied by the
principal amount of CODES for which such rights were exercised on the applicable Repurchase Date. 
  
 (b) There shall be no purchase of any CODES pursuant to Section 11.1(a) or 11.1(b) if there has occurred (prior to, on or after, as applicable, the
giving, by the Holders of such CODES, of the required Repurchase Notice) and is continuing an Event of Default (other than a default in the payment of the Repurchase Price with respect to such CODES). The Paying Agent will promptly return to the
respective Holders thereof any CODES (x) with respect to which a Repurchase Notice has been withdrawn in compliance with this Indenture, or (y) held by it during the continuance of an Event of Default (other than a default in the payment of the
Repurchase Price with respect to such Securities) in which case, upon such return, the Repurchase Notice with respect thereto shall be deemed to have been withdrawn. 
  
 (c) If any CODES delivered for purchase pursuant to Section 11.1(a) or 11.1(b) shall not be so paid on the Repurchase Date,
the principal amount of such CODES shall, until it is paid, bear Interest (including Contingent Interest) from the purchase date to but not including the date of actual payment hereunder at the applicable Interest Rate, and each such CODES shall
remain convertible into shares of Common Stock pursuant to Article 12 until such CODES shall have been paid. 
  
 Section 11.6. Effect of Delivery of Repurchase Notice and Purchase. 
  
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Repurchase Notice is withdrawn pursuant to Section 11.3(c)) thereafter be entitled to receive solely the Repurchase Price with respect to such CODES, and, if
applicable, any accrued and unpaid Interest (including Contingent Interest) pursuant to Section 2.1(f). CODES in respect of which a Repurchase Notice has been delivered by the Holder thereof may not be converted pursuant to Article 12 on or after
the date of the delivery of such Repurchase Notice unless such Repurchase Notice which has been completed and delivered to the Paying Agent has first been validly withdrawn pursuant to Section 11.3(c). 
  
 (b) All CODES delivered for purchase shall be canceled by the Trustee or
Paying Agent, as applicable. 
  
 Section 11.7. Physical
Securities Purchased in Part. 
  
 Any Physical Security which
is to be purchased only in part shall be surrendered at the office of the Paying Agent (with, if the Company or the Trustee so requires, due endorsement by, or a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Company and the Trustee duly
executed by, the Holder thereof or such Holder’s attorney duly authorized in writing) and the Company shall execute and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver to the Holder of such CODES, without service charge, new CODES, of any authorized
denomination as requested by such Holder in principal amount equal to, and in exchange for, the portion of the principal amount of the CODES so surrendered which is not purchased. 
  
 Section 11.8. Covenant to Comply With Securities Laws Upon Repurchase of Securities. 
  
 When complying with the provisions of this Article 11 (if such offer or
purchase constitutes an “issuer tender offer” for purposes of Rule 13e-4 (which term, as used herein, includes any successor provision thereto) under the Exchange Act at the time of such offer or purchase), the Company shall (a) comply
with Rule 13e-4 and Rule 14e-1 under the Exchange Act, (b) file the related Schedule TO (or any successor schedule, form or report) under the Exchange Act and (c) otherwise comply with all federal and state securities laws so as to permit the rights
and obligations under this Article 11 to be exercised in the time and in the manner specified in this Article 11. 
  
 Section 11.9. Repayment to the Company.  
  
 The Trustee and the Paying Agent shall return to the Company upon written request any cash that remains unclaimed, together with interest or dividends, if
any, thereon (subject to the provisions of Section 5.4), held by them for the payment of the Repurchase Price; provided, however, that to the extent that the aggregate amount of cash deposited by the Company pursuant to Section 11.5
exceeds the aggregate Repurchase Price of the CODES or portions thereof which the Company is obligated to purchase on the purchase date then, unless otherwise agreed in writing with the Company, promptly after the Business Day following such
purchase date, the Trustee or Paying Agent, as applicable, shall return any such excess to the Company together with interest or dividends, if any, thereon, subject to the provisions of Section 5.4. 
  

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 ARTICLE 12 
  

CONVERSION OF SECURITIES 
  
 Section 12.1. Conversion Privilege.  
  
 (a) Subject to and upon compliance with the provisions of this Article, at the option of the Holder, any CODES or any portion of the principal amount
thereof which is an integral multiple of $1,000 may be converted at the principal amount thereof, or of such portion thereof, into duly authorized, fully paid and nonassessable shares of Common Stock, at the Conversion Price, determined as
hereinafter provided, in effect at the time of conversion: 
  
 (1) during any fiscal quarter, if the Sale Price of the Common Stock for at least 20 Trading Days in the 30 consecutive Trading-Day period ending on the last day of the preceding fiscal quarter was more than 130% of
the Conversion Price on that thirtieth Trading Day; 
  
 (2) on or before December 15, 2028, during the five Business Day period following any 10 consecutive Trading-Day period in which the average of the Trading Prices for the CODES, as determined following a written request by a Holder of CODES
delivered to the Company in accordance with Section 14.2, to make a determination, for that 10 Trading-Day period was less than 98% of the average Conversion Value for the CODES during such period; 
  
 (3) during any period, following the date the CODES are
rated by both Moody’s and by Standard and Poor’s, (1) when the credit ratings assigned to the CODES by Moody’s is lower than “Ba3” or by Standard & Poor’s is lower than “BB”, (2) in which the credit rating
assigned to the CODES is suspended or withdrawn by either rating agency, or (3) in which neither agency continues to rate the CODES or provide ratings services or coverage to the Company; 
  
 (4) if the Company has called the CODES for redemption; or

  
 (5) upon the occurrence of the corporate
transactions specified in clause (b) of this Section 12.1. 
  
 The
Company shall determine on a daily basis whether the CODES shall be convertible as a result of the occurrence of an event specified in clause (1) or, following a request by a Holder of CODES delivered to the Company, clause (2) above and, if the
CODES shall be so convertible, the Company shall promptly deliver to the Trustee written notice thereof. Whenever the CODES shall become convertible pursuant to Section 12.1, the Company or, at the Company’s written request, the Trustee in the
name and at the expense of the Company, shall notify the Holders of the event triggering such convertibility in the manner provided in Section 14.2, and the Company shall also publicly announce such information and publish it on the Company’s
web site. Any notice so given shall be conclusively presumed to have been duly given, whether or not the Holder receives such notice. 
  

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 Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, the Conversion Agent shall have no obligation
to determine the Trading Price of the CODES pursuant to clause (2) above, unless the Company shall have requested that it make such determination; and the Company shall have no obligation to make such request unless so requested by a Holder. At such
time as a written request is made by a Holder, the Company shall instruct the Conversion Agent to determine the Trading Price per CODES beginning on the next trading day and on each successive Trading Day until the Trading Price per CODES is greater
than or equal to 98% of the average Conversion Value for 10 consecutive days. 
  
 (b) In addition, in the event that: 
  
 (1) (A) the Company distributes to all or substantially all holders of its shares of Common Stock rights or warrants entitling them (for a period expiring within 60 days of the Record Date for such distribution) to
subscribe for or purchase shares of Common Stock, at a price per share less than the Trading Price of the Common Stock on the Business Day immediately preceding the announcement of such distribution, (B) the Company distributes to all or
substantially all holders of its shares of Common Stock, cash or other assets, debt securities or rights or warrants to purchase its securities, where the Fair Market Value (as determined by the Board of Directors) of such distribution per share of
Common Stock exceeds 5% of the Trading Price of a share of Common Stock on the Business Day immediately preceding the date of declaration of such distribution, or (C) a Change of Control occurs but Holders of CODES do not have the right to require
the Company to purchase their CODES as a result of such Change of Control because either (i) the Trading Price of the Common Stock for specified periods (as described in the definition of Change of Control) exceeds specified levels (as described in
the definition of Change of Control) or (ii) the consideration received in such Change of Control consists of Capital Stock that is freely tradeable and the CODES become convertible into that Capital Stock as specified in the definition of Change of
Control, then, in each case, the CODES may be surrendered for conversion at any time on and after the date that the Company gives notice to the Holders of such right, which shall be not less than 20 days prior to the Ex-Dividend Time for such
distribution, in the case of (A) or (B), or within 30 days after the occurrence of the Change of Control, in the case of (C), until the earlier of the close of business on the Business Day immediately preceding the Ex-Dividend Time or the date the
Company announces that such distribution will not take place, in the case of (A) or (B), or the earlier of 30 days after the Company’s delivery of the Repurchase Notice for Change of Control Repurchase Rights or the date the Company announces
that the Change of Control will not take place, in the case of (C), or 
  
 (2) the Company consolidates with or merges into another corporation, or is a party to a binding share exchange pursuant to which the shares of Common Stock would be converted into cash, securities or other property
as set forth in Section 12.4 hereof, then the CODES may be surrendered for conversion at any time from and after the date which is 15 days prior to the date announced by the Company as the anticipated effective time of such transaction until 15 days
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 The Conversion Rate, at any time, shall equal (A) $1,000 divided by the Conversion Price at
such time, rounded to three decimal places (rounded up if the fourth decimal place thereof is 5 or more and otherwise rounded down). 
  
 Section 12.2. Conversion Procedure; Conversion Price; Fractional Shares.  
  
 (a) Each CODES shall be convertible at the office of the Conversion Agent into fully paid and nonassessable shares
(calculated to the nearest 1/100th of a share) of Common Stock. The CODES will be converted into shares of Common Stock at the Conversion Price therefor. No payment or adjustment shall be made in respect of dividends on the Common Stock or accrued
interest on a converted CODES, except as described in Section 12.9 hereof. The Company shall not issue any fraction of a share of Common Stock in connection with any conversion of CODES, but instead shall, subject to Section 12.3(h) hereof, make a
cash payment (calculated to the nearest cent) equal to such fraction multiplied by the Sale Price of the Common Stock on the last Trading Day prior to the date of conversion. Notwithstanding the foregoing, a CODES in respect of which a Holder has
delivered a Repurchase Notice exercising such Holder’s option to require the Company to repurchase such CODES may be converted only if such notice of exercise is withdrawn in accordance with Section 11.3 hereof. 
  
 (b) Before any Holder of a CODES shall be entitled to convert the same into
Common Stock, such Holder shall, in the case of CODES issued in global form, comply with the procedures of the Depositary in effect at that time, and in the case of Physical Securities, surrender such CODES, duly endorsed to the Company or in blank,
at the office of the Conversion Agent, and shall give written notice to the Company at said office or place that such Holder elects to convert the same and shall state in writing therein the principal amount of CODES to be converted and the name or
names (with addresses) in which such Holder wishes the certificate or certificates for Common Stock to be issued. 
  
 Before any such conversion, a Holder also shall pay all funds required, if any, relating to interest on the CODES, as provided in Section 12.9, and all
taxes or duties, if any, as provided in Section 12.8. 
  
 If more
than one CODES shall be surrendered for conversion at one time by the same Holder, the number of full shares of Common Stock which shall be deliverable upon conversion shall be computed on the basis of the aggregate principal amount of the CODES (or
specified portions thereof to the extent permitted thereby) so surrendered. Subject to the next succeeding sentence, the Company will, as soon as practicable thereafter, issue and deliver at said office or place to such Holder of a CODES, or to such
Holder’s nominee or nominees, certificates for the number of full shares of Common Stock to which such Holder shall be entitled as aforesaid, together, subject to the last sentence of Section 12.2(a) above, with cash in lieu of any fraction of
a share to which such Holder would otherwise be entitled. The Company shall not be required to deliver certificates for shares of Common Stock while the stock transfer books for such stock or the security register are duly closed for any purpose,
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 (c) A CODES shall be deemed to have been converted as of the close of business on the date of the
surrender of such CODES for conversion as provided above and the satisfaction of the other requirements for conversion, and the person or persons entitled to receive the Common Stock issuable upon such conversion shall be treated for all purposes as
the record Holder or Holders of such Common Stock as of the close of business on such date. 
  
 (d) In case any CODES shall be surrendered for partial conversion, the Company shall execute and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver to or upon the written order of the Holder of the CODES so surrendered,
without charge to such Holder (subject to the provisions of Section 12.8 hereof), new CODES in authorized denominations in an aggregate principal amount equal to the unconverted portion of the surrendered CODES. 
  
 Section 12.3. Adjustments of Conversion Price for Common Stock.

  
 The Conversion Price shall be adjusted from time to time as
follows: 
  
 (a) In case the Company shall, at any time or from
time to time while any of the CODES are outstanding, pay a dividend or make a distribution in shares of Common Stock to all holders of its outstanding shares of Common Stock, then the Conversion Price in effect at the opening of business on the date
following the record date fixed for the determination of stockholders entitled to receive such dividend or other distribution shall be reduced by multiplying such Conversion Price by a fraction: 
  
 (1) the numerator of which shall be the number of shares of
Common Stock outstanding at the close of business on the Record Date fixed for such determination; and 
  
 (2) the denominator of which shall be the sum of such number of shares and the total number of shares constituting such dividend or other
distribution. 
  
 Such reduction shall become effective
immediately after the opening of business on the day following the Record Date fixed for such determination. If any dividend or distribution of the type described in this Section 12.3(a) is declared but not so paid or made, the Conversion Price
shall again be adjusted to the Conversion Price which would then be in effect if such dividend or distribution had not been declared. 
  
 (b) In case the Company shall, at any time or from time to time while any of the CODES are outstanding, subdivide its outstanding shares of Common Stock
into a greater number of shares of Common Stock, then the Conversion Price in effect at the opening of business on the day following the day upon which such subdivision becomes effective shall be proportionately reduced, and conversely, in case the
Company shall, at any time or from time to time while any of the CODES are outstanding, combine its outstanding shares of Common Stock into a smaller number of shares of Common Stock, then the Conversion Price in effect at the opening of business on
the day following the day upon which such combination becomes effective shall be proportionately increased. 
  
 Such reduction or increase, as the case may be, shall become effective immediately after the opening of business on the day following the day upon which
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 (c) In case the Company shall, at any time or from time to time while any of the CODES are outstanding,
issue rights or warrants (other than any rights or warrants referred to in Section 12.3(d)) to all or substantially all holders of its shares of Common Stock entitling them to subscribe for or purchase shares of Common Stock (or securities
convertible into shares of Common Stock) at a price per share (or having a conversion price per share) less than the Sale Price on the Business Day immediately preceding the date of the announcement of such issuance (treating the conversion price
per share of the securities convertible into Common Stock as equal to (x) the sum of (i) the price for a unit of the security convertible into Common Stock and (ii) any additional consideration initially payable upon the conversion of such security
into Common Stock divided by (y) the number of shares of Common Stock initially underlying such convertible security), then the Conversion Price shall be adjusted so that the same shall equal the price determined by multiplying the Conversion Price
in effect at the opening of business on the date after such date of announcement by a fraction: 
  
 (1) the numerator of which shall be the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding on the close of business on the date of announcement,
plus the number of shares or securities which the aggregate offering price of the total number of shares or securities so offered for subscription or purchase (or the aggregate conversion price of the convertible securities so offered) would
purchase at such Sale Price of the Common Stock; and 
  
 (2) the denominator of which shall be the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding at the close of business on the date of announcement, plus the total number of additional shares of Common Stock so offered for subscription or purchase
(or into which the convertible securities so offered are convertible). 
  
 Such adjustment shall become effective immediately after the opening of business on the day following the date of announcement of such issuance. To the extent that shares of Common Stock (or securities convertible into shares of Common
Stock) are not delivered pursuant to such rights or warrants, upon the expiration or termination of such rights or warrants, the Conversion Price shall be readjusted to the Conversion Price which would then be in effect had the adjustments made upon
the issuance of such rights or warrants been made on the basis of the delivery of only the number of shares of Common Stock (or securities convertible into shares of Common Stock) actually delivered. In the event that such rights or warrants are not
so issued, the Conversion Price shall again be adjusted to be the Conversion Price which would then be in effect if the date fixed for the determination of stockholders entitled to receive such rights or warrants had not been fixed. In determining
whether any rights or warrants entitle the holders to subscribe for or purchase shares of Common Stock at less than such Sale Price, and in determining the aggregate offering price of such shares of Common Stock, there shall be taken into account
any consideration received for such rights or warrants, the value of such consideration if other than cash, to be determined by the Board of Directors. 
  
 (d) In case the Company shall, at any time or from time to time while any of the CODES are outstanding, by dividend or otherwise, distribute to all or
substantially all holders of its shares of Common Stock (including any such distribution made in connection with a consolidation or merger in which the Company is the continuing corporation and the Common Stock is not changed or exchanged), cash,
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distributions to which Section 12.3(a) applies), evidences of its Indebtedness or other assets, including securities, but excluding (i) any rights or
warrants referred to in Section 12.3(c), (ii) dividends or distributions of stock, securities or other property or assets (including cash) in connection with a reclassification, change, merger, consolidation, statutory share exchange, combination,
sale or conveyance to which Section 12.4 applies and (iii) dividends and distributions paid exclusively in cash (such capital stock, evidence of its indebtedness, cash, other assets or securities being distributed hereinafter in this Section 12.3(d)
called the “distributed assets”), then, in each such case, subject to the third and fourth succeeding paragraphs and the last Section of this Section 12.3(d), the Conversion Price shall be reduced so that the same shall be equal to
the price determined by multiplying the Conversion Price in effect immediately prior to the close of business on the Record Date with respect to such distribution by a fraction: 
  
 (1) the numerator of which shall be the Current Market Price of the Common Stock, less the Fair Market Value
on such date of the portion of the distributed assets so distributed applicable to one share of Common Stock (determined on the basis of the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding on the Record Date) (determined as provided in Section 12.3(g))
on such date; and 
  
 (2) the denominator of
which shall be such Current Market Price. 
  
 Such reduction shall become
effective immediately prior to the opening of business on the day following the Record Date for such distribution. In the event that such dividend or distribution is not so paid or made, the Conversion Price shall again be adjusted to be the
Conversion Price which would then be in effect if such dividend or distribution had not been declared. 
  
 If the Board of Directors determines the Fair Market Value of any distribution for purposes of this Section 12.3(d) by reference to the actual or when
issued trading market for any distributed assets comprising all or part of such distribution, it must in doing so consider the prices in such market over the same period (the “Reference Period”) used in computing the Current Market
Price pursuant to Section 12.3(g) to the extent possible, unless the Board of Directors determines in good faith that determining the Fair Market Value during the Reference Period would not be in the best interest of the Holders. 
  
 In the event any such distribution consists of shares of capital stock of, or
similar equity interests in, one or more of the Company’s Subsidiaries (a “Spin-Off”), the Fair Market Value of the securities to be distributed shall equal the average of the closing sale prices of such securities on the
principal securities market on which such securities are traded for the five consecutive Trading Days commencing on and including the sixth day of trading of those securities after the effectiveness of the Spin-Off, and the Current Market Price
shall be measured for the same period. In the event, however, that an underwritten initial public offering of the securities in the Spin-Off occurs simultaneously with the Spin-Off, Fair Market Value of the securities distributed in the Spin-Off
shall mean the initial public offering price of such securities and the Current Market Price shall mean the Sale Price for the Common Stock on the same Trading Day. 
  

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 Rights or warrants distributed by the Company to all holders of its shares of Common Stock entitling them
to subscribe for or purchase shares of the Company’s capital stock (either initially or under certain circumstances), which rights or warrants, until the occurrence of a specified event or events (“Trigger Event”), (i) are
deemed to be transferred with such shares of Common Stock, (ii) are not exercisable and (iii) are also issued in respect of future issuances of shares of Common Stock shall be deemed not to have been distributed for purposes of this Section 12.3(d)
(and no adjustment to the Conversion Price under this Section 12.3(d) will be required) until the occurrence of the earliest Trigger Event. If such right or warrant is subject to subsequent events, upon the occurrence of which such right or warrant
shall become exercisable to purchase different distributed assets, evidences of indebtedness or other assets, or entitle the holder to purchase a different number or amount of the foregoing or to purchase any of the foregoing at a different purchase
price, then the occurrence of each such event shall be deemed to be the date of issuance and record date with respect to a new right or warrant (and a termination or expiration of the existing right or warrant without exercise by the holder
thereof). In addition, in the event of any distribution (or deemed distribution) of rights or warrants, or any Trigger Event or other event (of the type described in the preceding sentence) with respect thereto, that resulted in an adjustment to the
Conversion Price under this Section 12.3(d): 
  
 (1) in the case of any such rights or warrants which shall all have been redeemed or repurchased without exercise by any holders thereof, the Conversion Price shall be readjusted upon such final redemption or repurchase to give effect to
such distribution or Trigger Event, as the case may be, as though it were a cash distribution, equal to the per share redemption or repurchase price received by a holder of shares of Common Stock with respect to such rights or warrants (assuming
such holder had retained such rights or warrants), made to all holders of shares of Common Stock as of the date of such redemption or repurchase; and 
  
 (2) in the case of such rights or warrants which shall have expired or been terminated without exercise, the Conversion Price shall be
readjusted as if such rights and warrants had never been issued. 
  
 For purposes of this Section 12.3(d) and Sections 12.3(a), 12.3(b) and 12.3(c), any dividend or distribution to which this Section 12.3(d) is applicable that also includes (i) shares of Common Stock, (ii) a subdivision or combination of
shares of Common Stock to which Section 12.3(b) applies or (iii) rights or warrants to subscribe for or purchase shares of Common Stock to which Section 12.3(c) applies (or any combination thereof), shall be deemed instead to be: 
  
 (1) a dividend or distribution of the evidences of
indebtedness, assets, shares of capital stock, rights or warrants, other than such shares of Common Stock, such subdivision or combination or such rights or warrants to which Sections 12.3(a), 12.3(b) and 12.3(c) apply, respectively (and any
Conversion Price reduction required by this Section 12.3(d) with respect to such dividend or distribution shall then be made), immediately followed by 
  

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 (2) a dividend or distribution of such shares of Common Stock, such subdivision or
combination or such rights or warrants (and any further Conversion Price reduction required by Sections 12.3(a), 12.3(b) and 12.3(c) with respect to such dividend or distribution shall then be made), except: 
  
 (A) the Record Date of such dividend or distribution shall
be substituted as (i) “the date fixed for the determination of stockholders entitled to receive such dividend or other distribution,” “Record Date fixed for such determinations” and “Record Date” within the meaning of
Section 12.3(a), (ii) “the day upon which such subdivision becomes effective” and “the day upon which such combination becomes effective” within the meaning of Section 12.3(b), and (iii) as “the date fixed for the
determination of stockholders entitled to receive such rights or warrants,” “the Record Date fixed for the determination of the stockholders entitled to receive such rights or warrants” and such “Record Date” within the
meaning of Section 12.3(c); and 
  
 (B) any
shares of Common Stock included in such dividend or distribution shall not be deemed “outstanding at the close of business on the date fixed for such determination” within the meaning of Section 12.3(a) and any reduction or increase in the
number of shares of Common Stock resulting from such subdivision or combination shall be disregarded in connection with such dividend or distribution. 
  
 In the event of any distribution referred to in this Section 12.3(d) in which (1) the Fair Market Value (as determined by the Board of Directors) of such
distribution applicable to one share of Common Stock (determined as provided above) equals or exceeds the average of the Sale Prices of the Common Stock over the ten consecutive Trading Day period ending on the Record Date for such distribution or
(2) the average of the Sale Prices of the Common Stock over the ten consecutive Trading Day period ending on the Record Date for such distribution exceeds the Fair Market Value of such distribution by less than $1.00, then, in each such case, in
lieu of an adjustment to the Conversion Price, adequate provision shall be made so that each Holder shall have the right to receive upon conversion of a CODES, in addition to shares of Common Stock, the kind and amount of such distribution such
Holder would have received had such Holder converted such CODES immediately prior to the Record Date for determining the shareholders entitled to receive the distribution. 
  
 In the event of any distribution referred to in Section 12.3(c) or 12.3(d), where, in the case of a distribution described
in Section 12.3(d), the Fair Market Value of such distribution per share of Common Stock (as determined by the Board of Directors) exceeds 5% of the Sale Price of a share of Common Stock on the Business Day immediately preceding the declaration date
for such distribution, then, if such distribution would also trigger a conversion right under Section 12.1(b) or the CODES are otherwise convertible pursuant to this Article 12, the Company will be required to give notice to the Holders of CODES at
least 20 days prior to the Ex-Dividend Time for the distribution and, upon the giving of notice, the CODES may be surrendered for conversion at any time on and after the date that the Company gives notice to the Holders of such conversion right,
until the close of business on the Business Day prior to the Ex-Dividend Time or the Company announces that such distribution will not take place. No adjustment to the Conversion Price or the ability of a Holder of a CODES to convert will be made if
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 (e) In case the Company shall, at any time or from time to time while any of the CODES are outstanding,
by dividend or otherwise, distribute to all or substantially all holders of shares of its Common Stock cash (excluding any dividend or distribution in connection with the liquidation, dissolution or winding up of the Company, whether voluntary or
involuntary), then, in such case, the Conversion Price shall be reduced so that the same shall equal the rate determined by multiplying the Conversion Price in effect on the applicable record date by a fraction, 
  
 (1) the numerator of which shall be the Current Market Price
on such record date less the full amount of cash so distributed as applicable to one share of Common Stock; and 
  
 (2) the denominator of which shall be the Current Market Price on such record date, 
  
 such adjustment to be effective immediately prior to the opening of business on the day
following the Record Date; provided that if the portion of the cash so distributed applicable to one share of Common Stock is equal to or greater than the Current Market Price on the Record Date, in lieu of the foregoing adjustment, adequate
provision shall be made so that each Holder shall have the right to receive upon conversion the amount of cash such holder would have received had such Holder converted each Security on the Record Date. If such dividend or distribution is not so
paid or made, the Conversion Price shall again be adjusted to be the Conversion Price that would then be in effect if such dividend or distribution had not been declared. 
  
 (f) In case a tender offer made by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries for all or any portion of the shares of Common
Stock shall expire and such tender offer (as amended upon the expiration thereof) shall require the payment to stockholders (based on the acceptance (up to any maximum specified in the terms of the tender offer) of shares tendered) of an aggregate
consideration having a Fair Market Value (as determined by the Board of Directors) that combined together with: 
  
 (1) the aggregate amount of the cash, plus the Fair Market Value (as determined by the Board of Directors), as of the expiration of such
tender offer, of consideration payable in respect of any other tender offers, by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries for all or any portion of the shares of Common Stock expiring within the 12 months preceding the expiration of such tender offer
and in respect of which no adjustment pursuant to this Section 12.3(f) has been made; and 
  
 (2) the aggregate amount of any distributions to all holders of shares of Common Stock made exclusively in cash within 12 months preceding
the expiration of such tender offer and in respect of which no adjustment pursuant to Section 12.3(e) has been made; 
  
 exceeds 10% of the product of the Current Market Price of the Common Stock as of the last time (the “Expiration Time”) tenders could have been made
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shares) on the Expiration Time (such excess, the “Excess Amount”), then, and in each such case, immediately prior to the opening of business
on the day after the date of the Expiration Time, the Conversion Price shall be adjusted so that the same shall equal the price determined by multiplying the Conversion Price in effect immediately prior to the close of business on the date of the
Expiration Time by a fraction: 
  
 (1) the
numerator of which shall be the (x) the product of (i) the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding (including any tendered shares) at the Expiration Time and (ii) the Current Market Price of the Common Stock at the Expiration Time, less (y) the
Excess Amount; and 
  
 (2) the denominator shall
be the product of the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding (including any tendered shares) at the Expiration Time and the Current Market Price of the Common Stock at the Expiration Time. 
  
 Such reduction (if any) shall become effective immediately prior to the
opening of business on the day following the Expiration Time. In the event that the Company is obligated to purchase shares pursuant to any such tender offer, but the Company is permanently prevented by applicable law from effecting any such
purchases or all or a portion of such purchases are rescinded, the Conversion Price shall again be adjusted to be the Conversion Price which would then be in effect if such (or such portion of the) tender offer had not been made. If the application
of this Section 12.3(f) to any tender offer would result in an increase in the Conversion Price, no adjustment shall be made for such tender offer under this Section 12.3(f). 
  
 Pursuant to rights issued under the Company’s preferred share purchase rights plan, if holders of the CODES exercising
the right of conversion attaching after the date the rights separate from the underlying Common Stock are not entitled to receive the rights that would otherwise be attributable to the shares of Common Stock received upon conversion, the Conversion
Price will be adjusted as though the rights were being distributed to holders of Common Stock on the date of such separation. If such an adjustment is made and the rights are later redeemed, invalidated or terminated, then a corresponding reversing
adjustment will be made to the conversion price on an equitable basis. 
  
 (g) For purposes of this Article 12, the following terms shall have the meanings indicated: 
  
 “Current Market Price” on any date means the average of the daily Sale Prices per share of Common Stock for the ten consecutive Trading
Days immediately prior to such date; provided, however, that if: 
  
 (1) the “ex” date (as hereinafter defined) for any event (other than the issuance or distribution requiring such computation)
that requires an adjustment to the Conversion Price pursuant to Section 12.3(a), (b), (c), (d), (e) or (f) occurs during such ten consecutive Trading Days, the Sale Price for each Trading Day prior to the “ex” date for such other event
shall be adjusted by dividing such Sale Price by the same fraction by which the Conversion Price is so required to be adjusted as a result of such other event; 
  

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 (2) the “ex” date for any event (other than the issuance or distribution
requiring such computation) that requires an adjustment to the Conversion Price pursuant to Section 12.3(a), (b), (c), (d), (e) or (f) occurs on or after the “ex” date for the issuance or distribution requiring such computation and prior
to the day in question, the Sale Price for each Trading Day on and after the “ex” date for such other event shall be adjusted by dividing such Sale Price by the reciprocal of the fraction by which the Conversion Price is so required to be
adjusted as a result of such other event; and 
  
 (3) the “ex” date for the issuance or distribution requiring such computation is prior to the day in question, after taking into account any adjustment required pursuant to clause (1) or (2) of this proviso, the Sale Price for
each Trading Day on or after such “ex” date shall be adjusted by adding thereto the amount of any cash and the Fair Market Value (as determined by the Board of Directors in a manner consistent with any determination of such value for
purposes of Section 12.3(d), (e) or (f)) of the evidences of Indebtedness, shares of capital stock or assets being distributed applicable to one share of Common Stock as of the close of business on the day before such “ex” date.

  
 For purposes of any computation under Section 12.3(f), if the “ex”
date for any event (other than the tender offer requiring such computation) that requires an adjustment to the Conversion Price pursuant to Section 12.3(a), (b), (c), (d), (e) or (f) occurs on or after the Expiration Time for the tender or exchange
offer requiring such computation and prior to the day in question, the Sale Price for each Trading Day on and after the “ex” date for such other event shall be adjusted by dividing such Sale Price by the reciprocal of the fraction by which
the Conversion Price is so required to be adjusted as a result of such other event. For purposes of this paragraph, the term “ex” date, when used: 
  
 (1) with respect to any issuance or distribution, means the first date on which the shares of Common Stock trade regular way on the
relevant exchange or in the relevant market from which the Sale Price was obtained without the right to receive such issuance or distribution; 
  
 (2) with respect to any subdivision or combination of shares of Common Stock, means the first date on which the shares of Common Stock
trade regular way on such exchange or in such market after the time at which such subdivision or combination becomes effective; and 
  
 (3) with respect to any tender or exchange offer, means the first date on which the shares of Common Stock trade regular way on such
exchange or in such market after the Expiration Time of such offer. 
  
 Notwithstanding the foregoing, whenever successive adjustments to the Conversion Price are called for pursuant to this Section 12.3, such adjustments shall be made to the Current Market Price as may be necessary or appropriate to effectuate
the intent of this Section 12.3 and to avoid unjust or inequitable results as determined in good faith by the Board of Directors. 
  

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 “Fair Market Value” shall mean the amount which a willing buyer would pay a willing
seller in an arm’s length transaction (as determined by the Board of Directors, whose determination shall be conclusive). 
  
 “Record Date” shall mean, with respect to any dividend, distribution or other transaction or event in which the holders of shares of
Common Stock have the right to receive any cash, securities or other property or in which the shares of Common Stock (or other applicable security) is exchanged for or converted into any combination of cash, securities or other property, the date
fixed for determination of stockholders entitled to receive such cash, securities or other property (whether such date is fixed by the Board of Directors or by statute, contract or otherwise). 
  
 (h) The Company shall be entitled to make such additional reductions in the
Conversion Price, in addition to those required by Sections 12.3(a), (b), (c), (d), (e) and (f), as shall be necessary in order that any dividend or distribution of Common Stock, any subdivision, reclassification or combination of shares of Common
Stock or any issuance of rights or warrants referred to above shall not be taxable to the holders of Common Stock for United States federal income tax purposes. 
  

(i) To the extent permitted by applicable law, the Company may, from time to time, reduce the Conversion Price by any amount for any period of time, if
such period is at least 20 days and the reduction is irrevocable during the period. Whenever the Conversion Price is reduced pursuant to the preceding sentence, the Company shall mail to the Trustee and each Holder at the address of such Holder as
it appears in the register of the CODES maintained by the Registrar, at least 15 days prior to the date the reduced Conversion Price takes effect, a notice of the reduction stating the reduced Conversion Price and the period during which it will be
in effect. 
  
 (j) In any case in which this Section 12.3 shall
require that any adjustment be made effective as of or retroactively immediately following a Record Date, the Company may elect to defer (but only for five Trading Days following the filing of the statement referred to in Section 12.5) issuing to
the Holder of any CODES converted after such Record Date the shares of Common Stock issuable upon such conversion over and above the shares of Common Stock issuable upon such conversion on the basis of the Conversion Price prior to adjustment;
provided, however, that the Company shall deliver to such Holder a due bill or other appropriate instrument evidencing such Holder’s right to receive such additional shares upon the occurrence of the event requiring such
adjustment. 
  
 (k) All calculations under this Section 12.3 shall
be made to the nearest cent or one-hundredth of a share, with one-half cent and 0.005 of a share, respectively, being rounded upward. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Section 12.3, the Company shall not be required to make any adjustment
of the Conversion Price unless such adjustment would require an increase or decrease of at least 1% of such price; provided that the Company must carry forward any adjustments that are less than 1% of the Conversion Price and make such carried
forward adjustments, regardless of whether the aggregate adjustment is less than 1%, within one year of the first such adjustment carried forward. Any adjustments under this Section 12.3 shall be made successively whenever an event requiring such an
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 (l) In the event that at any time, as a result of an adjustment made pursuant to this Section 12.3, the
Holder of any CODES thereafter surrendered for conversion shall become entitled to receive any shares of stock of the Company other than shares of Common Stock into which the CODES originally were convertible, the Conversion Price of such other
shares so receivable upon conversion of any such CODES shall be subject to adjustment from time to time in a manner and on terms as nearly equivalent as practicable to the provisions with respect to Common Stock contained in subparagraphs (a)
through (k) of this Section 12.3, and the provisions of Sections 12.1, 12.2 and 12.4 through 12.9 with respect to the Common Stock shall apply on like or similar terms to any such other shares and the determination of the Board of Directors as to
any such adjustment shall be conclusive. 
  
 (m) No adjustment
shall be made pursuant to this Section 12.3 (i) if the effect thereof would be to reduce the Conversion Price below the par value (if any) of the Common Stock or (ii) if the Holders of the CODES may participate in the transaction that would
otherwise give rise to an adjustment pursuant to this Section 12.3. 
  
 Section 12.4. Consolidation or Merger of the Company. 
  
 If any of the following events occurs, namely: 
  
 (1) any reclassification or change of the outstanding Common Stock (other than a change in par value, or from par value to no par value, or from no par value to par value, or as a result of a subdivision or
combination); 
  
 (2) any merger, consolidation,
statutory share exchange or combination of the Company with another corporation as a result of which holders of Common Stock shall be entitled to receive stock, securities or other property or assets (including cash) with respect to or in exchange
for such Common Stock; or 
  
 (3) any sale or
conveyance of the properties and assets of the Company as, or substantially as, an entirety to any other corporation as a result of which holders of Common Stock shall be entitled to receive stock, securities or other property or assets (including
cash) with respect to or in exchange for such Common Stock; 
  
 the Company or the
successor or purchasing corporation, as the case may be, shall execute with the Trustee a supplemental indenture (which shall comply with the Trust Indenture Act as in force at the date of execution of such supplemental indenture, if such
supplemental indenture is then required to so comply) providing that such CODES shall be convertible into the kind and amount of shares of stock and other securities or property or assets (including cash) which such Holder would have been entitled
to receive upon such reclassification, change, merger, consolidation, statutory share exchange, combination, sale or conveyance had such CODES been converted into Common Stock immediately prior to such reclassification, change, merger,
consolidation, statutory share exchange, combination, sale or conveyance assuming such holder of Common Stock did not exercise its rights of election, if any, as to the kind or amount of securities, cash or other property receivable upon such
merger, consolidation, statutory share exchange, sale or conveyance (provided, that if the kind or amount of securities, cash or other property receivable upon such merger, consolidation, statutory share exchange, sale or 

  

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conveyance is not the same for each share of Common Stock in respect of which such rights of election shall not have been exercised (“Non-Electing
Share”), then for the purposes of this Section 12.4, the kind and amount of securities, cash or other property receivable upon such merger, consolidation, statutory share exchange, sale or conveyance for each Non-Electing Share shall be
deemed to be the kind and amount so receivable per share by a plurality of the Non-Electing Shares). Such supplemental indenture shall provide for adjustments that shall be as nearly equivalent as may be practicable to the adjustments provided for
in this Article 12. If, in the case of any such reclassification, change, merger, consolidation, statutory share exchange, combination, sale or conveyance, the stock or other securities and assets receivable thereupon by a holder of Common Stock
includes shares of stock or other securities and assets of a corporation other than the successor or purchasing corporation, as the case may be, in such reclassification, change, merger, consolidation, statutory share exchange, combination, sale or
conveyance, then such supplemental indenture shall also be executed by such other corporation and shall contain such additional provisions to protect the interests of the Holders of the CODES as the Board of Directors shall reasonably consider
necessary by reason of the foregoing, including to the extent practicable the provisions providing for the repurchase rights set forth in Article 12 hereof. 
  
 The Company shall cause notice of the execution of such supplemental indenture to be mailed to each Holder, at the address of such Holder as it appears on
the register of the CODES maintained by the Registrar, within 20 days after execution thereof. Failure to deliver such notice shall not affect the legality or validity of such supplemental indenture. 
  
 The above provisions of this Section 12.4 shall similarly apply to successive
reclassifications, mergers, consolidations, statutory share exchanges, combinations, sales and conveyances. 
  
 If this Section 12.4 applies to any event or occurrence, Section 12.3 shall not apply. 
  
 The Company shall not enter into a transaction of the type described in this Section 12.4 unless the terms of this Section
12.4 are complied with in full. 
  
 Section 12.5. Notice of
Adjustment. 
  
 Whenever an adjustment in the Conversion Price
with respect to the CODES is required: 
  
 (1)
the Company shall forthwith place on file with the Trustee and any Conversion Agent for such securities a certificate of the Treasurer of the Company, stating the adjusted Conversion Price determined as provided herein and setting forth in
reasonable detail such facts as shall be necessary to show the reason for and the manner of computing such adjustment; and 
  
 (2) a notice stating that the Conversion Price has been adjusted and setting forth the adjusted Conversion Price shall forthwith be given
by the Company or, at the Company’s written request, by the Trustee in the name and at the expense of the Company, to each Holder in the manner provided in Section 14.2. Any notice so given shall be conclusively presumed to have been duly
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 Section 12.6. Notice in Certain Events. 
  
 In case: 
  
 (1) of a consolidation or merger to which the Company is a party and for which approval of any stockholders
of the Company is required, or of the sale or conveyance to another Person or entity or group of Persons or entities acting in concert as a partnership, limited partnership, syndicate or other group (within the meaning of Rule 13d-3 under the
Exchange Act) of all or substantially all of the property and assets of the Company; or 
  
 (2) of the voluntary or involuntary dissolution, liquidation or winding up of the Company; or 
  
 (3) of any action triggering an adjustment of the Conversion
Price referred to in clauses (x) or (y) below; 
  
 then, in each case, the Company
shall cause to be filed with the Trustee and the Conversion Agent, and shall cause to be given, to the Holders of the CODES in the manner provided in Section 14.2, at least 15 days prior to the applicable date hereinafter specified, a notice stating
(x) the date on which a record is to be taken for the purpose of any distribution or grant of rights or warrants triggering an adjustment to the Conversion Price pursuant to this Article 12, or, if a record is not to be taken, the date as of which
the holders of record of Common Stock entitled to such distribution, rights or warrants are to be determined, or (y) the date on which any reclassification, consolidation, merger, sale, conveyance, dissolution, liquidation or winding up triggering
an adjustment to the Conversion Price pursuant to this Article 12 is expected to become effective, and the date as of which it is expected that holders of Common Stock of record shall be entitled to exchange their Common Stock for securities or
other property deliverable upon such reclassification, consolidation, merger sale, conveyance, dissolution, liquidation or winding up. 
  
 Failure to give such notice or any defect therein shall not affect the legality or validity of the proceedings described in clause (1), (2) or (3) of this
Section 12.6. 
  
 Section 12.7. Company to Reserve Stock;
Registration; Listing.  
  
 (a) The Company shall, in
accordance with the laws of the State of Wisconsin, at all times reserve and keep available, free from preemptive rights, out of its authorized but unissued shares of Common Stock, for the purpose of effecting the conversion of the CODES, such
number of its duly authorized shares of Common Stock as shall from time to time be sufficient to effect the conversion of all CODES then Outstanding into such Common Stock at any time (assuming that, at the time of the computation of such number of
shares or securities, all such CODES would be held by a single Holder); provided, however, that nothing contained herein shall preclude the Company from satisfying its obligations in respect of the conversion of the CODES by delivery
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treasury of the Company. The Company covenants that all shares of Common Stock that may be issued upon conversion of CODES will upon issue be fully paid and
nonassessable and free from all liens and charges and, except as provided in Section 12.8, taxes with respect to the issue thereof. 
  
 (b) If any shares of Common Stock which would be issuable upon conversion of CODES hereunder require registration with or approval of any governmental
authority before such shares or securities may be issued upon such conversion, the Company will in good faith and as expeditiously as possible endeavor to cause such shares or securities to be duly registered or approved, as the case may be. The
Company further covenants that so long as the Common Stock shall be listed on the New York Stock Exchange, the Company will, if permitted by the rules of such exchange, list and keep listed all Common Stock issuable upon conversion of the CODES, and
the Company will endeavor to list the shares of Common Stock required to be delivered upon conversion of the CODES prior to such delivery upon any other national securities exchange upon which the outstanding Common Stock is listed at the time of
such delivery. 
  
 Section 12.8. Taxes on Conversion.

  
 The issue of stock certificates on conversion of CODES shall
be made without charge to the converting Holder for any documentary, stamp or similar issue or transfer taxes in respect of the issue thereof, and the Company shall pay any and all documentary, stamp or similar issue or transfer taxes that may be
payable in respect of the issue or delivery of shares of Common Stock on conversion of CODES pursuant hereto. The Company shall not, however, be required to pay any such tax which may be payable in respect of any transfer involved in the issue or
delivery of shares of Common Stock or the portion, if any, of the CODES which are not so converted in a name other than that in which the CODES so converted were registered, and no such issue or delivery shall be made unless and until the Person
requesting such issue has paid to the Company the amount of such tax or has established to the satisfaction of the Company that such tax has been paid. 
  
 Section 12.9. Conversion After Record Date. 
  
 Except as provided below, if any CODES are surrendered for conversion on any day other than an Interest Payment Date, the Holder of such CODES shall not
be entitled to receive any Interest (including Contingent Interest) that has accrued on such CODES since the prior Interest Payment Date. By delivery to the Holder of the number of shares of Common Stock or other consideration issuable upon
conversion in accordance with this Article 12, any accrued and unpaid Interest (including Contingent Interest) on such CODES will be deemed to have been paid in full. 
  
 If any CODES are surrendered for conversion subsequent to the Record Date preceding an Interest Payment Date but on or prior
to such Interest Payment Date, the Holder of such CODES at the close of business on such Record Date shall receive the Interest (including Contingent Interest) payable on such CODES on such Interest Payment Date notwithstanding the conversion
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such Interest Payment Date shall (except in the case of CODES which have been called for redemption on a Redemption Date within such period) be accompanied
by payment by Holders, for the account of the Company, in New York Clearing House funds or other funds of an amount equal to the Interest (including Contingent Interest) payable on such Interest Payment Date on the CODES being surrendered for
conversion. Except as provided in this Section 12.9, no adjustments in respect of payments of Interest (including Contingent Interest) on CODES surrendered for conversion or any dividends or distributions or interest on the Common Stock issued upon
conversion shall be made upon the conversion of any CODES. 
  
 Section 12.10. Company Determination Final. 
  
 Any determination that the Company or the Board of Directors must make pursuant to this Article 12 shall be conclusive if made in good faith and in accordance with the provisions of this Article 12, absent manifest error, and set forth in a
Board Resolution. 
  
 Section 12.11. Responsibility of Trustee
for Conversion Provisions. 
  
 The Trustee has no duty to
determine when an adjustment under this Article 12 should be made, how it should be made or what it should be. The Trustee makes no representation as to the validity or value of any securities or assets issued upon conversion of CODES. The Trustee
shall not be responsible for any failure of the Company to comply with this Article 12. Each Conversion Agent other than the Company shall have the same protection under this Section 12.11 as the Trustee. 
  
 The rights, privileges, protections, immunities and benefits given to the
Trustee under this Indenture including, without limitation, its rights to be indemnified, are extended to, and shall be enforceable by, the Trustee in each of its capacities hereunder, and each Paying Agent or Conversion Agent acting hereunder.

  
 Section 12.12. Unconditional Right of Holders to
Convert. 
  
 Notwithstanding any other provision in this
Indenture, the Holder of any CODES shall have the right, which is absolute and unconditional, to convert its CODES in accordance with this Article 12 and to bring an action for the enforcement of any such right to convert, and such rights shall not
be impaired or affected without the consent of such Holder. 
  
 ARTICLE 13 
  
 SUBSIDIARY GUARANTEES

  
 Section 13.1. Agreement to Guarantee. 

 
 The Guarantors, jointly and severally, hereby agree as follows:

  
 (a) The Guarantors unconditionally guarantee to each Holder
of a CODES authenticated and delivered by the Trustee and to the Trustee and its successors and assigns, regardless of the validity and enforceability of the Indenture, the Securities or the Obligations of the Company under this Indenture or the
Securities, that: 
  
 (1) the principal of,
Interest (including Contingent Interest) on the CODES will be promptly paid in full when due, whether at maturity, by acceleration, redemption or otherwise, and interest on the overdue principal of, Interest (including Contingent Interest) and
Additional Amounts, if any, on the CODES, to the extent lawful, and all other Obligations of the Company to the Holders or the Trustee thereunder or under this Indenture will be promptly paid in full, all in accordance with the terms thereof; and

  

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 (2) in case of any extension of time for payment or renewal of any CODES or any of such
other Obligations, that the same will be promptly paid in full when due in accordance with the terms of the extension or renewal, whether at stated maturity, by acceleration or otherwise. 
  
 (b) Notwithstanding the foregoing, in the event that the Guarantees would constitute or result in a violation of any
applicable fraudulent conveyance or similar law of any relevant jurisdiction, the liability of the Guarantors under this Indenture shall be reduced to the maximum amount permissible under such fraudulent conveyance or similar law. 
  
 Section 13.2. Execution and Delivery of Guarantees. 
  
 (a) To evidence the Guarantees set forth in this Indenture, the Guarantors
hereby agree that a notation of such Guarantees shall be endorsed by an officer of each of the Guarantors on each CODES authenticated and delivered by the Trustee after the date hereof. 
  
 (b) Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Guarantors hereby agree that the Guarantees set forth herein shall remain in full
force and effect notwithstanding any failure to endorse on each CODES a notation of such Guarantees. 
  
 (c) If an Officer whose signature is on this Indenture no longer holds that office at the time the Trustee authenticates the CODES on which the Guarantees
are endorsed, the Guarantees shall be valid nevertheless. 
  
 (d)
The delivery of any CODES by the Trustee, after the authentication thereof under the Indenture, shall constitute due delivery of the Guarantees set forth in this Indenture on behalf of the Guarantors. 
  
 (e) The Guarantors hereby, jointly and severally, agree that their
obligations hereunder shall be unconditional, regardless of the validity, regularity or enforceability of the Securities or the Indenture, the absence of any action to enforce the same, any waiver or consent by any Holder of the CODES with respect
to any provisions of the Securities or the Indenture, the recovery of any judgment against the Company, any action to enforce the same or any other circumstance which might otherwise constitute a legal or equitable discharge or defense of a
guarantor. 
  
 (f) The Guarantors hereby waive diligence,
presentment, demand of payment, filing of claims with a court in the event of insolvency or bankruptcy of the Company, any right to require a proceeding first against the Company, protest, notice and all demands whatsoever and covenants that the
Guarantees made pursuant to this Indenture will not be discharged except by complete performance of the obligations contained in the Securities and the Indenture. 
  

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 (g) If any Holder or the Trustee is required by any court or otherwise to return to the Company or the
Guarantors, or any Custodian, Trustee, liquidator or other similar official acting in relation to either the Company or the Guarantors, any amount paid by either to the Trustee or such Holder, the Guarantees made pursuant to this Indenture, to the
extent theretofore discharged, shall be reinstated in full force and effect. 
  
 (h) The Guarantors agree that they shall not be entitled to any right of subrogation in relation to the Holders in respect of any obligations guaranteed hereby until payment in full of all obligations guaranteed
hereby. The Guarantors further agree that, as between the Guarantors, on the one hand, and the Holders and the Trustee, on the other hand: 
  
 (1) the maturity of the Obligations guaranteed hereby may be accelerated as provided in Article 4 of the Indenture for the purposes of the
Guarantees made pursuant to this Indenture, notwithstanding any stay, injunction or other prohibition preventing such acceleration in respect of the obligations guaranteed hereby; and 
  
 (2) in the event of any declaration of acceleration of such obligations as provided in Article 4 of the
Indenture, such Obligations (whether or not due and payable) shall forthwith become due and payable by the Guarantors for the purpose of the Guarantees made pursuant to this Indenture. 
  
 (3) The Guarantors shall have the right to seek contribution from any other non-paying Guarantor so long as
the exercise of such right does not impair the rights of the Holders or the Trustee under the Guarantees made pursuant to this Indenture. 
  
 Section 13.3. Releases. 
  
 (a) Concurrently with any sale of assets (including, if applicable, all of the Capital Stock of the Guarantors), all Liens, if any, in favor of the
Trustee in the assets sold thereby shall be released. If the assets sold in such sale or other disposition include all or substantially all of the assets of the Guarantors or all of the Capital Stock of the Guarantors, then the Guarantors (in the
event of a sale or other disposition of all of the Capital Stock of any of the Guarantors) or the Person acquiring the property (in the event of a sale or other disposition of all or substantially all of the assets of any of the Guarantors) shall be
released from and relieved of their obligations under this Indenture and their Guarantees made pursuant hereto. Upon delivery by the Company to the Trustee of an Officers’ Certificate to the effect that such sale or other disposition was made
by the Company or the Guarantors, as the case may be, in accordance with the provisions of this Indenture, the Trustee shall execute any documents reasonably required in order to evidence the release of the Guarantors from their obligations under
this Indenture and the Guarantees made pursuant hereto. If the Guarantors are not released from their obligations under the Guarantees, they shall remain liable for the full amount of principal of and Interest (including Contingent Interest) on the
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 (b) Upon the designation of any of the Guarantors as an Excluded Subsidiary in accordance with the terms
of the Indenture, such Guarantor shall be released and relieved of the obligations under this Indenture. Upon delivery by the Company to the Trustee of an Officers’ Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that such designation of
such Guarantor as an Excluded Subsidiary was made by the Company in accordance with the provisions of this Indenture, the Trustee shall execute any documents reasonably required in order to evidence the release of such Guarantor from its obligations
under its Guarantee. The Guarantors not released from their obligations under the Guarantees shall remain liable for the full amount of principal of and Interest (including Contingent Interest) on the CODES and for the other obligations of any of
the Guarantors under this Indenture. 
  
 Section 13.4. No
Recourse Against Others. 
  
 No past, present or future
director, officer, employee, incorporator, stockholder or agent of the Guarantors, as such, shall have any liability for any obligations of the Company or any Guarantor under the CODES, any Guarantees, this Indenture or for any claim based on, in
respect of, or by reason of, such obligations or their creation. Each Holder of the CODES by accepting a CODES waives and releases all such liability. The waiver and release are part of the consideration for issuance of the CODES. Such waiver may
not be effective to waive liabilities under the federal securities laws and it is the view of the Commission that such a waiver is against public policy. 
  
 Section 13.5. Future Subsidiary Guarantees. 
  
 (a) The CODES shall be initially guaranteed by all of the Company’s U.S. Subsidiaries that are Subsidiaries on the date of this Indenture, other than
Subsidiaries that are inactive, in the process of liquidation or own less than $1,000,000 in assets. 
  
 (b) (1) After the date of this Indenture and prior to the date upon which an initial Shelf Registration Statement is first declared effective by the
Commission and after the date upon which the Company is no longer required to keep a Shelf Registration Statement effective under the Registration Rights Agreement, the Company shall cause each newly created or acquired Subsidiary which becomes a
guarantor or borrower under the Credit Agreement to promptly execute and deliver to (A) the Trustee a Guarantee substantially in the form of the Supplemental Indenture attached as Exhibit G hereto pursuant to which such Subsidiary shall
unconditionally guarantee, on a joint and several basis, the full and prompt payment of the principal, Interest (including Contingent Interest), if any, and Additional Amounts with respect to the CODES and (B) the Holders an acknowledgement that
such Subsidiary shall become a party to the Registration Rights Agreement if the Registration Rights Agreement has any continuing force and effect. 
  
 (2) During the period following the effective date of the Shelf Registration Statement and prior to the date upon which the Company is no longer required
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cause each Subsidiary created or acquired by it and which becomes a guarantor or borrower under the Credit Agreement to execute and deliver to (A) the
Trustee on or before the next following Roll-up Date a similar Guarantee substantially in the form of the Supplemental Indenture attached as Exhibit G hereto and (B) the Holders an acknowledgement that such Subsidiary shall become a party to the
Registration Rights Agreement. 
  
 ARTICLE 14 
  
 OTHER PROVISIONS OF GENERAL APPLICATION 
  
 Section 14.1. Trust Indenture Act Controls. 
  
 This Indenture is subject to the provisions of the TIA which are required to
be part of this Indenture, and shall, to the extent applicable, be governed by such provisions. 
  
 Section 14.2. Notices. 
  
 Any notice or communication to the Company or the Trustee is duly given if in writing (which may be by facsimile with the original to follow) and
delivered in person or mailed by first-class mail to the address set forth below: 
  
 (a) if to the Company or to any Guarantor: 
  
 Apogent Technologies Inc. 
 30 Penahallow Street 
 Portsmouth, New Hampshire 03801 
 Attn: Investor Relations 
 Fax: (603)-431-0860 
 Telephone: (603) 433-6131 
  
 With a copy to: 
  
 Quarles & Brady LLP 
 411 East Wisconsin Avenue 
 Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53202 
  
 Attn.: Joe Masterson, Esq. 
 Fax: (414) 271-3552 
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 (b) if to the Trustee: 
  
 The Bank of New York 
 101 Barclay Street, Floor 8 West 
 New York, New York 10286 
 Attn: Corporate Trust Administration 
 Fax: (212) 815-5704/5707 
 Telephone: (212) 815-4779 
  
 The
Company or the Trustee by notice to the other may designate additional or different addresses for subsequent notices or communications. 
  
 Any notice or communication to a Holder shall be mailed by first class mail to its address shown on the Register kept by the Registrar. Failure to mail a
notice or communication to a Holder or any defect in such notice or communication shall not affect its sufficiency with respect to other Holders. If the company mails a notice or communication to Holders, it shall mail a copy to the Trustee at the
same time 
  
 If a notice or communication is mailed or sent in
the manner provided above within the time prescribed it is duly given as of the date it is mailed, whether or not the addressee receives it, except that notice to the Trustee shall only be effective upon receipt thereof by the Trustee. 

 
 Section 14.3. Communication by Holders with Other Holders.

  
 Holders may communicate pursuant to Section 312(b) of the TIA
with other Holders with respect to their rights under the Securities or this Indenture. The Company, the Trustee, the Registrar and anyone else shall have the protection of Section 312(c) of the TIA. 
  
 Section 14.4. Acts of Holders of CODES. 
  
 (a) Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or
other action provided by this Indenture to be given or taken by Holders of CODES may be embodied in and evidenced by: 
  
 (1) one or more instruments of substantially similar tenor signed by such Holders in person or by agent or proxy duly appointed in
writing; 
  
 (2) the record of Holders of CODES
voting in favor thereof, either in person or by proxies duly appointed in writing, at any meeting of Holders of CODES duly called and held in accordance with the provisions of Article 8; or 
  
 (3) a combination of such instruments and any such record.

  
 Except as herein otherwise expressly provided, such action shall become
effective when such instrument or instruments or record or both are delivered to the Trustee and, where it is hereby expressly required, to the Company. Such instrument or instruments and record (and the action embodied therein and evidenced
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Holders of CODES signing such instrument or instruments and so voting at such meeting. Proof of execution of any such instrument or of a writing appointing
any such agent or proxy, or of the holding by any Person of a Security, shall be sufficient for any purpose of this Indenture and (subject to Section 5.1) conclusive in favor of the Trustee, and the Company if made in the manner provided in this
Section. The record of any meeting of Holders of Securities shall be proved in the manner provided in Section 8.6. 
  
 (b) The fact and date of the execution by any Person of any such instrument or writing may be provided in any manner which the Trustee reasonably deems
sufficient. 
  
 (c) The principal amount and serial numbers of
Securities held by any Person, and the date of such Person holding the same, shall be proved by the Register. 
  
 (d) Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, election, waiver or other Act of the Holders of any CODES shall bind every future
Holder of the same CODES and the Holder of every CODES 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 Trustee, the Company in reliance
thereon, whether or not notation of such action is made upon such CODES. 
  
 Section 14.5. Certificate and Opinion as to Conditions Precedent. 
  
 In any case where several matters are required to be certified by, or covered by an opinion of, any specified Person, it is not necessary that all such
matters be certified by, or covered by the opinion of, only one such Person, or that they be so certified or covered by only one document, but one such Person may certify or give an opinion with respect to some matters and one or more other such
Persons as to other matters, and any such Person may certify or give an opinion as to such matters in one or several documents. 
  
 Any certificate or opinion of an officer of the Company may be based, insofar as it relates to legal matters, upon an Opinion of Counsel, unless such
officer knows, or in the exercise of reasonable care should know, that the Opinion of Counsel with respect to the matters upon which such certificate or opinion is based is erroneous. Any such Opinion of Counsel may be based, insofar as it relates
to factual matters, upon a certificate or representations by, an officer or officers of the Company stating that the information with respect to such factual matters is in the possession of the Company unless such counsel knows, or in the exercise
of reasonable care should know, that the certificate or representations with respect to such matters are erroneous. 
  
 Where any Person is required to make, give or execute two or more applications, requests, consents, certificates, statements, opinions or other
instruments under this Indenture, they may, but need not, be consolidated and form one instrument. 
  
 Upon any application or request by the Company to the Trustee to take any action under any provision of this Indenture, the Company shall furnish to the
Trustee an Officers’ Certificate stating that all conditions precedent, if any, provided for in this Indenture relating to the proposed action have been complied with and an Opinion of Counsel stating that in the opinion of such Counsel all
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that in the case of any such application or request as to which the furnishing of such documents is specifically required by any provision of this Indenture
relating to such particular application or request, no additional certificate or opinion need be furnished; provided however, that, at any time that an Opinion of Counsel is required to be delivered hereunder, the opining counsel may, with the
consent of the Trustee, deliver the Opinion of Counsel in question addressed to a party other than the Trustee with text to the effect that the Trustee may rely on such opinion rather than by delivering a separate Opinion of Counsel to the Trustee
directly. 
  
 Section 14.6. Statements Required in Certificate
or Opinion. 
  
 Each certificate or opinion with respect to
compliance with a condition or covenant provided for in this Indenture shall include: 
  
 (1) a statement that each individual signing such certificate or opinion on behalf of the Company, has read such covenant or condition and
the definitions herein relating thereto; 
  
 (2)
a brief statement as to the nature and scope of the examination or investigation upon which the statements or opinions contained in such certificate or opinion are based; 
  
 (3) a statement that, in the opinion of each such individual, he has made such examination or investigation
as is necessary to enable him to express an informed opinion as to whether or not such covenant or condition has been complied with; and 
  
 (4) a statement as to whether, in the opinion of each such individual, such condition or covenant has been complied with. 
  
 Section 14.7. Effect of Headings and Table of Contents. 
  
 The Article and Section headings herein and the Table of Contents are for
convenience only and shall not affect the construction hereof. 
  
 Section 14.8. Successors and Assigns. 
  
 All
covenants and agreements in this Indenture by the Company shall bind its successors and assigns, whether so expressed or not. 
  
 Section 14.9. Separability Clause. 
  
 In case any provision in this Indenture or the Securities 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. 
  

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 Section 14.10. Benefits of Indenture. 
  
 Nothing contained in this Indenture or in the Securities, express or
implied, shall give to any Person, other than the parties hereto and their successors hereunder and the Holders of Securities, any benefit or legal or equitable right, remedy or claim under this Indenture. 
  
 Section 14.11. Governing Law. 
  
 THIS INDENTURE AND THE SECURITIES SHALL BE GOVERNED BY, AND CONSTRUED IN
ACCORDANCE WITH, THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK. 
  
 Section 14.12. Counterparts. 
  
 This instrument
may be executed in any number of counterparts, each of which when so executed shall be deemed to be an original but all such counterparts shall together constitute but one and the same instrument. 
  
 Section 14.13. Legal Holidays. 
  
 In any case where any Interest Payment Date, Redemption Date, Repurchase Date
or Stated Maturity of any CODES or the last day on which a Holder of a CODES has a right to convert such CODES shall not be a Business Day at any Place of Payment or Place of Conversion, then (notwithstanding any other provision of this Indenture or
of the CODES) payment of interest, if any, or principal or conversion of the CODES, need not be made at such Place of Payment or Place of Conversion on such day, but may be made on the next succeeding Business Day at such Place of Payment or Place
of Conversion with the same force and effect as if made on the Interest Payment Date, Redemption Date, Repurchase Date or at the Stated Maturity or on such last day for conversion; provided, however, that in the case that payment is made on
such succeeding Business Day, no interest shall accrue on the amount so payable for the period from and after such Interest Payment Date, Redemption Date, Repurchase Date or Stated Maturity, as applicable. 
  
 Section 14.14. Recourse Against Others. 
  
 No recourse for the payment of the principal or interest, if any, on any
CODES, or for any claim based thereon or otherwise in respect thereof, shall be had against any incorporator, shareholder, officer or director or manager, as such, past, present or future, of the Company of any successor entity to either the
Company, whether by virtue of any constitution, statute or rule of law or by the enforcement of any assessment or penalty or otherwise, all such liability being, by the acceptance thereof and as part of the consideration for the issue thereof,
expressly waived and released. 
  

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

			
	 APOGENT TECHNOLOGIES INC.

		
	 By:
	 	 /s/ Frank H. Jellinek, Jr.

	 	 	 Frank H. Jellinek, Jr.

	 	 	 Chief Executive Officer and President

  

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	 ABGENE INC.

	 APOGENT FINANCE COMPANY

	 APOGENT TRANSITION CORP.

	 BARNSTEAD THERMOLYNE CORPORATION

	 BT CANADA HOLDINGS INC.

	 CAPITOL VIAL, INC.

	 CHASE SCIENTIFIC GLASS, INC.

	 CONSOLIDATED TECHNOLOGIES, INC.

	 ERIE SCIENTIFIC COMPANY

	 ERIE SCIENTIFIC COMPANY OF PUERTO RICO

	 ERIE UK HOLDING COMPANY

	 EVER READY THERMOMETER CO., INC.

	 GENEVAC INC.

	 G&P LABWARE HOLDINGS INC.

	 LAB-LINE INSTRUMENTS, INC.

	 LAB VISION CORPORATION

	 MATRIX TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION

	 MICROGENICS CORPORATION

	 MOLECULAR BIOPRODUCTS, INC.

	 NALGE NUNC INTERNATIONAL

	 CORPORATION

	 NATIONAL SCIENTIFIC COMPANY

	 THE NAUGATUCK GLASS COMPANY

	 NEOMARKERS, INC.

	 NERL DIAGNOSTICS CORPORATION

	 OWL SEPARATION SYSTEMS, INC.

	 QUALITY SCIENTIFIC PLASTICS, INC.

	 REMEL INC.

	 RICHARD-ALLAN SCIENTIFIC COMPANY

	 ROBBINS SCIENTIFIC CORPORATION

	 SAMCO SCIENTIFIC CORPORATION

	 SEPARATION TECHNOLOGY, INC.

	 SERADYN INC.

		
	 By
	 	 /s/ Michael K. Bresson

	 	 	 Michael K. Bresson

	 	 	 Vice President and Secretary

  

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	 APOGENT HOLDING COMPANY

	 APOGENT SERVICE CORPORATION

		
	 By
	 	 /s/ Michael K. Bresson

	 	 	     Michael K. Bresson

	 	 	     President and Secretary

	
	 METAVAC LLC

		
	 By:
	 	 The Naugatuck Glass Company

	 	 	 Sole Member and Manager

		
	 By
	 	 /s/ Michael K. Bresson

	 	 	     Michael K. Bresson

	 	 	     Vice President

  

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	THE BANK OF NEW YORK, AS TRUSTEE AND NOT IN ITS INDIVIDUAL CAPACITY
		
	 By:
	 	 /s/ Dorothy Miller

	 	 	 Dorothy Miller

	 	 	 Vice President

  

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 EXHIBIT A 
  

[Face of CODES] 
  
 APOGENT TECHNOLOGIES INC. 
  
 Floating Rate Senior Convertible Contingent Debt Securities (CODESSM) due 2033

  
 CUSIP No. 03760AAJ0 
  

			
	 Registered No.         
	 	 Principal Amount:
$                    

  
 APOGENT TECHNOLOGIES
INC., a corporation duly organized and existing under the laws of Wisconsin (herein called the “Company,” which term includes any successor corporation under the Indenture referred to on the reverse hereof), for value received, hereby
promises to pay to CEDE & CO. or registered assigns, the principal sum of $             (             Dollars)
[insert in global CODES: , as revised by the Schedule of Increases and Decreases in Global CODES attached hereto], on December 15, 2033, and to pay Interest (including Contingent Interest) thereon from and including December 17, 2003 or from and
including the most recent Interest Payment Date to which Interest (including Contingent Interest) has been paid or duly provided for, as the case may be, at the rate calculated in accordance with the Indenture. 
  
 Interest (including any Contingent Interest) will be paid quarterly in
arrears on March 15, June 15, September 15 and December 15 of each year, beginning March 15, 2004, unless any such Interest Payment Date (other than an Interest Payment Date at maturity) would otherwise be a day that is not a Business Day, in which
case the Interest Payment Date will be postponed to the next succeeding Business Day (except if that Business Day falls in the next succeeding calendar month, that Interest Payment Date will be the immediately preceding Business Day). The Interest
(including Contingent Interest) so payable and punctually paid or duly provided for on any Interest Payment Date will, as provided in the Indenture, be paid to the Person in whose name this CODES (or one or more predecessor CODES) is registered in
the Register at the close of business on the Regular Record Date for such Interest (including Contingent Interest), which shall be the March 1, June 1, September 1 and December 1 preceding the relevant Interest Payment Date. Except as otherwise
provided in the Indenture, any such Interest (including Contingent Interest) not so punctually paid or duly provided for will forthwith cease to be payable to the Holder on such Regular Record Date and may either be paid to the Person in whose name
this CODES (or one or more predecessor CODES) is registered at the close of business on a Special Record Date for the payment of such Defaulted Interest to be fixed by the Trustee, notice whereof is to be given to Holders of CODES not less than 10
calendar days prior to such Special Record Date, or be paid at any time in any other lawful manner not inconsistent with the requirements of any securities exchange on which the CODES may be listed, and upon such notice as may be required by such
exchange, all as more fully provided in said Indenture. 
  
 While
this CODES is represented by one or more Global Securities registered in the name of the Depositary or its nominee, the Company will cause payments of principal and Interest (including Contingent Interest) on such Global Securities to be made to the
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its nominee, as the case may be, by wire transfer to the extent, in the funds and in the manner required by agreements with, or regulations or procedures
prescribed from time to time by, the Depositary or its nominee, and otherwise in accordance with such agreements, regulations and procedures. 
  
 REFERENCE IS HEREBY MADE TO THE FURTHER PROVISIONS OF THIS CODES SET FORTH ON THE REVERSE HEREOF, WHICH FURTHER PROVISIONS SHALL FOR ALL PURPOSES HAVE THE
SAME EFFECT AS IF SET FORTH AT THIS PLACE. 
  
 Unless the
certificate of authentication hereon has been executed by the Trustee referred to on the reverse hereof, or its successor as Trustee, or its Authenticating Agent, by manual signature of an authorized signatory, this CODES will not be entitled to any
benefit under the Indenture or be valid or obligatory for any purpose. 
  

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

			
	 APOGENT TECHNOLOGIES INC.

		
	 By:
	 	  

	 Name:
	 	 
	 Title:
	 	 
		
	 By:
	 	  

	 Name:
	 	 
	 Title:
	 	 

  

			
	TRUSTEE’S CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION
	
	This is one of the debt securities issued under the within-mentioned Indenture.
	
	 THE BANK OF NEW YORK,

	 as Trustee

		
	 By:
	 	  

	 	 	 Authorized Signatory

  

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 [Reverse of CODES] 
  
 APOGENT TECHNOLOGIES INC. 
  
 Floating Rate Senior Convertible Contingent Debt Securities (CODESSM) due 2033 
  
 SECTION 1. General. This CODES is one of a duly authorized issue of debt securities of the Company (herein called the “CODES”), issued under an Indenture, dated as of December 17, 2003 (the “Indenture”),
among the Company, the Guarantors parties thereto and The Bank of New York, as Trustee (herein called the “Trustee,” which term includes any successor trustee under the Indenture), to which Indenture reference is hereby made for a
statement of the respective rights, limitations of rights, duties and immunities thereunder of the Company, the Guarantors, the Trustee and the Holders of the CODES and of the terms upon which the CODES are, and are to be, authenticated and
delivered. The terms, conditions and provisions of the CODES are those stated in the Indenture, those made a part of the Indenture by reference to the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, as amended, and those set forth in this CODES. To the extent that the
terms, conditions and other provisions of this CODES modify, supplement or are inconsistent with those of the Indenture, then the terms, conditions and other provisions of the Indenture shall govern. All terms used in this CODES that are defined in
the Indenture shall have the meanings assigned to them in the Indenture. 
  
 SECTION 2. Interest and Payments. This CODES will bear interest from December 17, 2003 or from and including the most recent Interest Payment Date to which Interest (including Contingent Interest) has been paid
or duly provided for, as the case may be, at a per annum rate which will equal 3-month LIBOR, adjusted quarterly on each Interest Adjustment Date, as defined below, minus a spread of 125 basis points, which spread may be reset upon the occurrence of
a Reset Transaction as described in the Indenture. Notwithstanding foregoing, Interest for the initial interest period commencing December 17, 2003 shall accrue at the rate of 0.0% (zero) per annum. In no event shall any quarterly adjustments of the
interest rate or resetting of the spread result in the interest rate borne by the CODES being less than zero. 
  
 We will pay interest quarterly in arrears on March 15, June 15, September 15 and December 15 of each year, beginning March 15, 2004, unless any such
Interest Payment Date (other than an Interest Payment Date at maturity) would otherwise be a day that is not a business day, in which case the interest payment date will be postponed to the next succeeding business day (except if that business day
falls in the next succeeding calendar month, that interest payment date will be the immediately preceding business day). If the maturity date of the CODES is a day that is not a business day, all payments to be made on such day will be made on the
next succeeding business day, with the same force and effect as if made on the due date, and no additional interest will be payable as a result of such a delay in payment. 
  
 On each Interest Determination Date for the CODES, or as soon thereafter as practicable, the Calculation Agent shall
determine the applicable Interest Rates as provided for and contemplated by the CODES. The Calculation Agent shall notify the Company and the Trustee of such Interest Rates as soon as reasonably practicable after the determination thereof. The
Calculation Agent shall perform such other actions and undertake such other duties of the Calculation Agent as are described in the Indenture to be performed or undertaken by the Calculation Agent. The Calculation Agent shall not be responsible for
calculating Contingent Interest. 
  

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 The term “3-month LIBOR” as determined by the Calculation Agent means, with respect to
any Interest Determination Date: 
  
 (1) the rate
for 3-month deposits in United States dollars commencing on the related Interest Adjustment Date, that appears on the Moneyline Telerate Page 3750 (as described below) as of 11:00 A.M., London time, on the Interest Determination Date, unless fewer
than two such offered rates so appear; or 
  
 (2)
if fewer than two offered rates appear, or no rate appears, as the case may be, on the particular Interest Determination Date on the Moneyline Telerate Page 3750, the rate calculated by the Calculation Agent of at least two offered quotations
obtained by the calculation agent after requesting the principal London offices of each of four major reference banks in the London interbank market to provide the Calculation Agent with its offered quotation for deposits in United States dollars
for the period of three months, commencing on the related interest adjustment date, to prime banks in the London interbank markets at approximately 11:00 A.M., London time, on that Interest Determination Date and in a principal amount that is
representative for a single transaction in United States dollars in that market at that time; or 
  
 (3) if fewer than two offered quotations referred to in clause (2) are provided as requested, the rate calculated by the Calculation Agent
as the arithmetic mean of the rates quoted at approximately 11:00 A.M., New York time, on the particular interest determination date by three major banks (which will not include our affiliates) in the City of New York selected by the Calculation
Agent for loans in United States dollars to leading European banks for a period of three months and in a principal amount that is representative for a single transaction in United States dollars in that markets at that time; or 
  
 (4) if the banks so selected by the Calculation Agent are
not quoting as mentioned in clause (3), 3-month LIBOR in effect immediately prior to the particular Interest Determination Date. 
  
 The term “Interest Determination Date” means the second London banking day preceding the related Interest Adjustment Date. 
  
 The term “Interest Adjustment Date” means March 15, June 15,
September 15 and December 15 of each year; provided that, if any Interest Adjustment Date would otherwise be a day that is not a Business Day, such Interest Adjustment Date shall be postponed to the next succeeding Business Day, except if such
Business Day falls in the next succeeding calendar month, such Interest Adjustment Date will be the immediately preceding Business Day. 
  
 The term “London banking day” means a day on which commercial banks are open for business, including dealings in United States dollars,
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 The term “Moneyline Telerate Page 3750” means the display on Moneyline Telerate (or any
successor service) on such page (or any other page as may replace such page on such service) for the purpose of displaying the London interbank rates of major banks for United States dollars. 
  
 In addition, Contingent Interest will accrue on this CODES during any
quarterly interest period, commencing with the quarterly interest period beginning December 15, 2009, under the conditions specified in the Indenture at an amount equal to 0.0625% of the average trading price of the CODES over the measuring period
triggering the contingent interest payment. 
  
 Interest on this
CODES, including Contingent Interest, will be payable on the Interest Payment Date or Interest Payment Dates as specified on the face hereof and, in either case, at Maturity. Except as provided below, Interest (including Contingent Interest) will be
paid (i) if this CODES is represented by one or more Global Securities, to DTC in immediately available funds, (ii) if this CODES is represented by one or more certificated CODES by check mailed to the Holders of such CODES unless, in the case of
Holders of certificated CODES having a principal amount of more than $5,000,000, such Holders shall have made written application to the Registrar not later than the relevant Regular Record Date requesting payment by wire transfer, in which case
payment shall be made by wire transfer in immediately available funds. Principal will be paid (i) if this CODES is represented by one or more Book-Entry Notes, to DTC in immediately available funds or (ii) if this CODES is represented by one or more
certificated CODES, at our office or agency in New York City, which initially will be the office or agency of the trustee in New York City. 
  
 Payments on this CODES with respect to any Interest Payment Date or Maturity will include Interest (including Contingent Interest) accrued from and
including the original date of issuance, or from and including the most recent Interest Payment Date to which interest has been paid or duly provided for, to but excluding such Interest Payment Date or Maturity, except as may otherwise be provided
in the Indenture. Interest (including Contingent Interest) on the CODES shall be computed on the basis of the actual number of days for which Interest is payable in the relevant interest period, divided by 360. 
  
 Except as provided below, if any CODES is surrendered for conversion on any
day other than an Interest Payment Date, the Holder of such CODES shall not be entitled to receive any Interest (including Contingent Interest) that has accrued on such CODES since the prior Interest Payment Date. By delivery to the Holder of the
number of shares of Common Stock or other consideration issuable upon conversion in accordance with Indenture, any accrued and unpaid Interest (including Contingent Interest) on such CODES shall be deemed to have been paid in full. 
  
 If any CODES is surrendered for conversion subsequent to the Regular Record
Date preceding an Interest Payment Date but on or prior to such Interest Payment Date (except CODES called for redemption on a Redemption Date between such Regular Record Date and Interest Payment Date), the Holder of such CODES at the close of
business on such Regular Record Date shall be entitled to receive the Interest (including Contingent Interest) payable on such CODES on such Interest Payment Date notwithstanding the conversion thereof. Any CODES surrendered for conversion during
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Record Date next preceding any Interest Payment Date to the opening of business on such Interest Payment Date shall (except in the case of CODES which have
been called for redemption on a Redemption Date within such period) be accompanied by payment in New York Clearing House funds or other funds of an amount equal to the Interest (including Contingent Interest) payable on such Interest Payment Date on
the CODES being surrendered for conversion. Except as provided in this Section 2 or in Indenture, no adjustments in respect of payments of Interest (including Contingent Interest) on any CODES surrendered for conversion or any dividends or
distributions or Interest (including Contingent Interest) on the Common Stock issued upon conversion shall be made upon the conversion of any CODES. 
  
 All percentages resulting from any calculation with respect Interest (including Contingent Interest) will be rounded, if necessary, to the nearest one
hundred-thousandth of a percentage point (with five one-millionths of a percentage point being rounded upward) and all dollar amounts used in or resulting from any such calculation with respect to this CODES will be rounded to the nearest cent (with
one-half cent being rounded upward). 
  
 If an Interest Payment
Date or Maturity for this CODES falls on a day that is not a Business Day, payment of principal and Interest (including Contingent Interest) to be made on such day with respect to this CODES will be made on the next succeeding day that is a Business
Day (except if that Business Day falls in the next succeeding calendar month, that Interest Payment Date will be the immediately preceding Business Day) and if the date of Maturity is a day that is not a Business Day, all payments to be made on such
day will be made on the next succeeding Business Day, with the same force and effect as if made on the due date, and no additional interest will be payable as a result of such a delay in payment. 
  
 SECTION 3. Redemption. This CODES is subject to redemption at the
option of the Company, at any time on or after March 15, 2010, in whole or from time to time in part in increments of $1,000 or an integral multiple of $1,000 (provided that any remaining principal amount hereof shall be an authorized denomination),
at a Redemption Price equal to 100% of the principal amount, plus accrued and unpaid Interest, including Contingent Interest, to, but excluding, the Redemption Date. However, payments due with respect to this CODES on or prior to the Redemption Date
will be payable to the Holder of this CODES of record at the close of business on the relevant Regular Record Date specified on the face hereof, all as provided in the Indenture. The Company may exercise such option by causing the Trustee to mail a
notice of such redemption, at least 20 but not more than 60 calendar days prior to the date of redemption, in accordance with the provisions of the Indenture. In the event of redemption of this CODES in part only, this CODES will be cancelled and
new CODES representing the unredeemed portion hereof will be issued in the name of the Holder hereof. 
  
 SECTION 4. Conversion. Subject to and in compliance with the provisions of the Indenture, a Holder is entitled, at such Holder’s option, to
convert the Holder’s CODES (or any portion of the principal amount thereof that is $1,000 or an integral multiple $1,000), into fully paid and nonassessable shares of Common Stock at the Conversion Price in effect at the time of conversion,
under certain circumstances set forth in the Indenture. 
  

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 A CODES in respect of which a Holder has delivered a Repurchase Notice exercising the option of such
Holder to require the Company to repurchase such CODES may be converted only if such notice of exercise is withdrawn in accordance with the terms of the Indenture. 
  
 The initial Conversion Price is $33.09 per share of Common Stock (a Conversion Rate of approximately 30.22 shares of Common
Stock per $1,000 principal amount of CODES ), subject to adjustment in certain events described in the Indenture. A Holder that surrenders CODES for conversion will receive cash or a check in lieu of any fractional share of Common Stock. The Company
from time to time may voluntarily reduce the Conversion Price. 
  
 To surrender a CODES for conversion, a Holder must (1) complete and manually sign the conversion notice below (or complete and manually sign a facsimile of such notice) and deliver such notice to the Conversion Agent, (2) surrender the
CODES to the Conversion Agent, (3) furnish appropriate endorsements and transfer documents and (4) pay any transfer or similar tax, if required. 
  
 No fractional shares of Common Stock shall be issued upon conversion of any CODES. Instead of any fractional share of Common Stock that would otherwise be
issued upon conversion of such CODES, the Company shall pay a cash adjustment as provided in the Indenture. 
  
 No payment or adjustment will be made for dividends on the shares of Common Stock, except as provided in the Indenture. 
  
 If the Company (i) is a party to a consolidation, merger or binding share
exchange (ii) reclassifies the Common Stock or (iii) conveys, transfers or leases its properties and assets substantially as an entirety to any Person, the right to convert a CODES into shares of Common Stock may be changed into a right to convert
it into securities, cash or other assets of the Company or such other Person. 
  
 SECTION 5. Repurchase By the Company at the Option of the Holder. Subject to the terms and conditions of the Indenture and at the option of the Holder, on December 15, 2008, March 15, 2010, December 15, 2014,
December 15, 2019, December 15, 2024 and December 15, 2029, the Company shall become obligated to purchase all of such Holder’s CODES, or any portion of the principal amount thereof that is equal to any integral multiple of $1,000, at a
repurchase price equal to 100% of the principal amount of the CODES to be repurchased, plus accrued and unpaid Interest (including Contingent Interest) to, but excluding, the Repurchase Date. In addition, subject to the terms and conditions of the
Indenture and at the option of the Holder, following the occurrence of a Change of Control, the Company shall become obligated to purchase all of such Holder’s CODES, or any portion of the principal amount thereof that is equal to any integral
multiple of $1,000, on the date that is 30 days after the date of the Company Notice given in connection with such Change of Control at a repurchase price equal to 100% of the principal amount of the CODES to be repurchased, plus accrued and unpaid
Interest (including Contingent Interest) to, but excluding, the Change of Control Repurchase Date. 
  
 To exercise an Optional Repurchase Right to have CODES repurchased on December 15, 2008, March 15, 2010, December 15, 2014, December 15, 2019, December
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December 15, 2029, a Holder must deliver to the Trustee at its offices no later than the close of business on the third Business Day prior to the Optional
Repurchase Date the following: a completed Repurchase Notice for Optional Repurchase Rights, the form of which is contained in Exhibit C hereto; and the CODES or cause such CODES to be delivered through the facilities of the Depositary, as
applicable, with respect to which the repurchase right is being exercised, with, if the Company or the Trustee so requires, due endorsement by, or a written instrument of transfer, in form satisfactory to the Company and the Trustee duly executed
by, the Holder thereof or such Holder’s attorney duly authorized in writing. 
  
 To exercise a Change of Control Repurchase Right, a Holder must deliver to the Trustee at its offices on or prior to the close of business on the Business Day prior to the Change of Control Repurchase Date the
following: a completed Repurchase Notice for Change of Control Repurchase Rights, the form of which is contained in Exhibit D hereto; and the CODES or cause such CODES to be delivered through the facilities of the Depositary, as applicable, with
respect to which the repurchase right is being exercised, with, if the Company or the Trustee so requires, due endorsement by, or a written instrument of transfer, in form satisfactory to the Company and the Trustee duly executed by, the Holder
thereof or such Holder’s attorney duly authorized in writing. 
  
 Holders have the right to withdraw any Repurchase Notice by delivering to the Paying Agent a written notice of withdrawal in accordance with the provisions of the Indenture. 
  
 If cash sufficient to pay the Repurchase Price of all CODES or portions thereof to be purchased as of the Repurchase Date is
deposited with the Paying Agent on the Business Day following the applicable Repurchase Date, Interest (including Contingent Interest) ceases to accrue on such CODES (or portions thereof) immediately after such applicable repurchase date, and the
Holder thereof shall have no other rights as such other than the right to receive the Repurchase Price upon surrender of such CODES. 
  
 SECTION 6. Tax Treatment . The Company agrees, and by acceptance of a beneficial ownership interest in the CODES each beneficial holder of CODES
will be deemed to have agreed, for United States federal income tax purposes (1) to treat the CODES as indebtedness that is subject to Treas. Reg. Sec. 1.1275-4 (the “Contingent Payment Regulations”) and, for purposes of the
Contingent Payment Regulations, to treat the fair market value of any stock beneficially received by a beneficial holder upon any conversion of the CODES as a contingent payment and (2) to be bound by the Company’s determination of the
“comparable yield” and “projected payment schedule,” within the meaning of the Contingent Payment Regulations, with respect to the CODES. A Holder of CODES may obtain the amount of original issue discount, issue date, yield to
maturity, comparable yield and projected payment schedule by submitting a written request for it to the Company at the following address: Apogent Technologies Inc., 30 Penahallow Street, Portsmouth, New Hampshire 03801, Attention: Investor
Relations. 
  
 SECTION 7. Paying Agent, Calculation Agent,
Conversion Agent and Registrar. The Bank of New York will act as Paying Agent, Calculation Agent, Conversion Agent and Security Registrar. The Company may appoint and change any Paying Agent, Calculation Agent, Conversion Agent or Security
Registrar without notice, other than notice to the Trustee; provided, that the Company will maintain at least one Paying Agent in the State of New York, 

  

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City of New York, Borough of Manhattan, which shall initially be an office or agency of the Trustee. The Company or any of its Subsidiaries or any of their
Affiliates may act as Paying Agent, Conversion Agent or Registrar. 
  
 SECTION 8. Sinking Fund. This CODES is not subject to a sinking fund. 
  
 SECTION 9. Events of Default. If any Event of Default with respect to CODES shall occur and be continuing, the principal of all the CODES may be declared due and payable in the manner and with the effect
provided in the Indenture. 
  
 SECTION 10. Modification or
Waiver; Obligation of the Company Absolute. The Indenture permits, with certain exceptions as therein provided, the amendment thereof and the modification of the rights and obligations of the Company and the rights of the Holders of the CODES at
any time by the Company and the Trustee with the consent of the Holders of not less than a majority in principal amount of the Outstanding CODES. The Indenture also contains provisions permitting the Holders of specified percentages in principal
amount of the Outstanding CODES, on behalf of the Holders of all CODES, to waive, with respect to the CODES, compliance by the Company with certain provisions of the Indenture and certain past defaults under the Indenture and their consequences. Any
such consent or waiver by the Holder of this CODES will be conclusive and binding upon such Holder and upon all future Holders of this CODES and of any CODES issued upon the registration of transfer hereof or in exchange herefor or in lieu hereof,
whether or not notation of such consent or waiver is made upon this CODES. 
  
 No reference herein to the Indenture and no provision of this CODES or of the Indenture will alter or impair the obligations of the Company, which are absolute and unconditional, to pay the principal of, and Interest
(including Contingent Interest) on this CODES at the times, places and rates herein prescribed and to convert this CODES in accordance with the Indenture. 
  
 SECTION 11. Satisfaction and Discharge. Provisions contained in the Indenture provide that the Company may satisfy and discharge its obligations
under the Indenture while CODES remain outstanding, subject to certain conditions, if all outstanding CODES have become due and payable at their scheduled maturity or all outstanding CODES have been redeemed. 
  
 SECTION 12. Authorized Denominations. The CODES are issuable only in
global or certificated registered form, without coupons, in denominations of $1,000 and integral multiples of $1,000 in excess thereof. As provided in the Indenture and subject to certain limitations therein specified and to the limitations
described below, if applicable, the CODES are exchangeable for a like aggregate principal amount of CODES with a like Stated Maturity and with like terms and conditions of a different authorized denomination, as requested by the Holder surrendering
the same. 
  
 SECTION 13. Registration of Transfer. As
provided in the Indenture and subject to certain limitations therein specified and to the limitations described below, if applicable, the transfer of this CODES is registerable in the Register upon surrender of this CODES for registration of
transfer at the office or agency of the Company maintained for that purpose duly endorsed by, or accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the 

  

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Company and the Registrar (which will initially be the Trustee at its principal corporate trust office located in the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New
York), duly executed by the Holder hereof or its attorney duly authorized in writing, and thereupon one or more new CODES of authorized denominations and for the same Stated Maturity and aggregate principal amount, will be issued to the designated
transferee or transferees. 
  
 This CODES is exchangeable for
certificated CODES only upon the terms and conditions provided in the Indenture. Except as provided in the Indenture, owners of beneficial interests in a Global Security will not be entitled to receive physical delivery of CODES in certificated
registered form and will not be considered the Holders thereof for any purpose under the Indenture. 
  
 No service charge will be made for any such registration of transfer or exchange, but the Company may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax
or other governmental charge payable in connection therewith. 
  
 SECTION 14. Owners. Prior to due presentment of this CODES for registration of transfer, the Company, the Trustee and any agent of the Company or the Trustee may treat the Person in whose name this CODES is registered as the owner
hereof for all purposes, whether or not this CODES be overdue and notwithstanding any notation of ownership or other writing hereon, and none of the Company, the Trustee or any such agent will be affected by notice to the contrary. 
  
 SECTION 15. Governing Law. The Indenture and the CODES will be
governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of New York. 
  
 SECTION 16. Defined Terms. All terms used in this CODES that are defined in the Indenture will have the meanings assigned to them in the Indenture unless otherwise defined herein. 
  

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 [TO BE ATTACHED TO GLOBAL CODES] 
  
 SCHEDULE OF INCREASES OR DECREASES IN GLOBAL CODES 
  
 The following increases or decreases in this Global CODES have been made: 
  

									
	 Date

	 	 Amount of decrease in Principal
Amount of this Global CODES

	 	 Amount of increase in Principal
Amount of this Global CODES

	  	Principal Amount of this Global
CODES following such
decrease or increase

	  	Signature of authorized
signatory of Trustee or
Securities Custodian

  

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 ABBREVIATIONS 
  
 The following abbreviations, when used in the inscription on the face of this instrument, will be construed as though they
were written out in full according to applicable laws or regulations: 
  
  TEN COM - as tenants in common 
  TEN ENT - as tenants by the entireties

  JT TEN - as joint tenants with right of survivorship and not as tenants in common 
  

					
	 UNIF GIFT MIN ACT
	  	 Custodian

	 	  	     (Cust)
	  	(Minor)        
	 	  	 Under Uniform Gifts to Minors Act

	 	  	(State)

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

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 The Guarantors (as defined in the Indenture referred to in the CODES upon which this notation is endorsed
and each hereinafter referred to as a “Guarantor,” which term includes any successor person under the Indenture) have unconditionally guaranteed on a senior unsecured basis (such guarantee by each Guarantor being referred to herein as the
“Guarantee”) (i) the due and punctual payment of the principal of and Interest (including Contingent Interest) on the CODES, whether at maturity, by acceleration or otherwise, the due and punctual payment of interest on the overdue
principal and interest, if any, on the CODES, to the extent lawful, and the due and punctual performance of all other obligations of the Company to the Holders or the Trustee all in accordance with the terms set forth in Article 13 of the Indenture
and (ii) in case of any extension of time of payment or renewal of any CODES or any of such other obligations, that the same will be promptly paid in full when due or performed in accordance with the terms of the extension or renewal, whether at
stated maturity, by acceleration or otherwise. 
  
 No stockholder,
officer, director, employee or incorporator, as such, past, present or future, of any Guarantor shall have any liability under the Guarantee by reason of his, her or its status as such stockholder, officer, director, employee or incorporator.

  
 The Guarantee shall not be valid or obligatory for any purpose
until the certificate of authentication on the CODES upon which the Guarantee is noted shall have been executed by the Trustee under the Indenture by the manual signature of one of its authorized signatories. 
  

	
	 ABGENE INC.

	 APOGENT FINANCE COMPANY

	 APOGENT HOLDING COMPANY

	 APOGENT SERVICE CORPORATION

	 APOGENT TRANSITION CORP.

	 BARNSTEAD THERMOLYNE CORPORATION

	 BT CANADA HOLDINGS INC.

	 CAPITOL VIAL, INC.

	 CHASE SCIENTIFIC GLASS, INC.

	 CONSOLIDATED TECHNOLOGIES, INC.

	 ERIE SCIENTIFIC COMPANY

	 ERIE SCIENTIFIC COMPANY OF PUERTO RICO

	 ERIE UK HOLDING COMPANY

	 EVER READY THERMOMETER CO., INC.

	 GENEVAC INC.

	 G&P LABWARE HOLDINGS INC.

	 LAB-LINE INSTRUMENTS, INC.

	 LAB VISION CORPORATION

	 MATRIX TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION

	 MICROGENICS CORPORATION

	 MOLECULAR BIOPRODUCTS, INC.

	 NALGE NUNC INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION

  

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	 NATIONAL SCIENTIFIC COMPANY

	 THE NAUGATUCK GLASS COMPANY

	 NEOMARKERS, INC.

	 NERL DIAGNOSTICS CORPORATION

	 OWL SEPARATION SYSTEMS, INC.

	 QUALITY SCIENTIFIC PLASTICS, INC.

	 REMEL INC.

	 RICHARD-ALLAN SCIENTIFIC COMPANY

	 ROBBINS SCIENTIFIC CORPORATION

	 SAMCO SCIENTIFIC CORPORATION

	 SEPARATION TECHNOLOGY, INC.

	 SERADYN INC.

  

			
	 By:

	 Name:
	 	 
	 Title:
	 	 
	
	 METAVAC LLC

	
	 By: The Naugatuck Glass Company

	        Sole Member and Manager

	
	 By

	 Name:
	 	 
	 Title:
	 	 

  

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 EXHIBIT B 
  

ASSIGNMENT FORM 
  
 To assign this Security, fill in the form below and have your signature guaranteed: (I) or (we) assign and transfer this Security to: 

 
                                       
                                        
                                        
                                        
                                        
                    
 (Insert
assignee’s social security or tax I.D. number) 
  
                                       
                                        
                                        
                                        
                                        
                    
 (Print or type
assignee’s name, address and zip code) 
  
 and irrevocably appoint
                     to transfer this Security on the books of the Company. The agent may substitute another to act for him. 
  

	
	                             Your
Name:                                       
                                        
                                        
   

	
	                                       (Print
your name exactly as it appears on the face of this Security)

	
	                             Dated:
                                        
                                        
                                        
            

	
	                 Your Signature:
                                        
                                        
                                        
        

	
	                                        
         (Sign exactly as your name appears on the face of this Security)

	
	 Signature
Guarantee*:                                      
                                        
                                        
                  

	*	Participant in a recognized Signature Guarantee Medallation Program (or other signature guarantor acceptable to the Trustee). 

  

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 In connection with any transfer of this Security occurring prior to the date which is the end of the
period referred to in Rule 144(k) under the Securities Act (other than a transfer pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act), the undersigned confirms that without utilizing any general solicitation or general
advertising that: 
  
 [Check One] 
  
  ̈ (a) this Security is being transferred
to the Company or one of its Subsidiaries. 
  
 or 
  
  ̈ (b) this Security is being transferred
in compliance with the exemption from registration under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, provided by Rule 144A thereunder. 
  
 or 
  
  ̈ (c) this Security is being transferred other than in accordance with (a) or (b) above and documents are being
furnished which comply with the conditions of transfer set forth in this Security and the Indenture. 
  
 If none of the foregoing boxes is checked, the Trustee or other Registrar shall not be obligated to register this Security in the name of any Person other than the Holder hereof unless the conditions to any such
transfer of registration set forth herein and in Sections 2.7, 2.8 and 2.9 of the Indenture shall have been satisfied. 
  
 TO BE COMPLETED BY PURCHASER IF (b) ABOVE IS CHECKED. 
  
 The undersigned represents and warrants that it is purchasing this Security for its own account or an account with respect to which it exercises sole
investment discretion, in each case for investment and not with a view to distribution, and that it and any such account is a “Qualified Institutional Buyer” within the meaning of Rule 144A under the Securities Act of 1933 and is aware
that the sale to it is being made in reliance on Rule 144A and acknowledges that it has received such information regarding the Company as the undersigned has requested pursuant to Rule 144A or has determined not to request such information and that
it is aware that the transferor is relying upon the undersigned’s foregoing representations in order to claim the exemption from registration provided by Rule 144A. 
  

					
	 Dated:
	 	  

	 	

			
	 	 	 	 	 NOTICE: To be executed by an executive officer.

  

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 EXHIBIT C 
  

REPURCHASE NOTICE FOR OPTIONAL REPURCHASE RIGHTS 
  
 (1) We refer to the Indenture dated as of December 17, 2003 (the “Indenture”) among Apogent Technologies Inc., as issuer (the
“Company”), the subsidiary guarantors parties thereto and The Bank of New York, as Trustee. Pursuant to Article 11 of the Indenture, the undersigned hereby requests and instructs the Company to repurchase this CODES, or any portion of the
principal amount hereof (which is $1,000 in principal amount or an integral multiple of $1,000), below designated, in accordance with the terms and conditions specified in such Article 11. 
  
 (2) The undersigned hereby directs the Trustee or the Company to pay the
undersigned an amount in cash equal to 100% of the principal amount to be repurchased (as set forth below), plus accrued and unpaid Interest, including Contingent Interest, to the Optional Repurchase Date (the “Optional Repurchase Price”),
as provided in the Indenture. 
  
 (3) The undersigned elects
(check one): 
  

	 	 ̈	to receive the Optional Repurchase Price with respect to the following portions of the following CODES: 

  

	 	    	CODES certificate number:                      

 

	 	    	Principal amount to be repurchased (if less than all): $             

  

	 	    	Remaining principal amount after repurchase: $             

  

	 	 ̈	to receive the Optional Repurchase Price with respect to the full principal amount of all of the CODES that are subject to this notice. 

  
 Notice: If the Holder fails to make an election, the Holder shall be deemed to have
elected to receive the Optional Repurchase Price for the full principal amount of all of the CODES subject to this notice. 
  

					
	 Dated:
	 	
	  	  

			
	 	 	 	  	  

	 	 	 	  	 Signature(s)

  

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	Signature(s) must be guaranteed by an Eligible Guarantor Institution with membership in an approved signature guarantee program pursuant to Rule 17Ad-15 under the Securities Exchange Act of
1934.
	
	

	[Signature Guaranteed]
	
	If only a portion of this CODES is to be repurchased, please indicate:
	
	 1. Principal amount to be repurchased:

	$                    
	
	 2. Remaining principal amount after repurchase:

	$                    
	
	

	 Social Security or Other Taxpayer
 Identification
Number

  
  

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 EXHIBIT D 
  

REPURCHASE NOTICE FOR CHANGE OF CONTROL REPURCHASE RIGHTS 
  

			
	 TO:
	  	 Apogent Technologies Inc.

	 	  	 30 Penahallow Street

	 	  	 Portsmouth, New Hampshire 03801

  
 Pursuant to the
Indenture dated as of December 17, 2003 (the “Indenture”), among Apogent Technologies Inc., as issuer (the “Company”), the subsidiary guarantors parties thereto and The Bank of New York, as Trustee, the undersigned
registered owner of this Security hereby irrevocably acknowledges receipt of a notice from the Company as to the occurrence of a Change of Control (as defined in the Indenture) with respect to the Company and requests and instructs the Company to
repay the entire principal amount of this Security, or the portion thereof (which is $1,000 principal amount or an integral multiple thereof) below designated, in accordance with the terms of the Indenture referred to in this Security, together with
Interest (including Contingent Interest) accrued and unpaid to, but excluding, such date, to the registered holder hereof. 
  

	
	 Your Name:
                                        
                                        
                                        
                                  

	                     (Print your name
exactly as it appears on the face of this Security)

	
	 Dated:
                                        
                                        
                                        
                                        
     

	
	 Your Signature:
                                        
                                        
                                        
                           

	                              (Sign exactly as your name appears on the face of this
Security)

	
	 Social Security or other Taxpayer Identification Number:
                                        
                            

	
	 Principal amount to be repurchased (if less than all):
$                                        
                    

  
 Signature Guarantee*:
                                        
                     

	*	Participant in a recognized Signature Guarantee Medallion Program (or other signature guarantor acceptable to the Trustee). 

  

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 EXHIBIT E 
  

FORM OF CONVERSION NOTICE 
  

			
	TO:	  	Apogent Technologies Inc.
	 	  	30 Penahallow Street
	 	  	Portsmouth, New Hampshire 03801

  
 Pursuant to the
Indenture dated as of December 17, 2003 (the “Indenture”), among Apogent Technologies Inc., as issuer (the “Company”), the subsidiary guarantors parties thereto and The Bank of New York, as Trustee, the undersigned
registered owner of this Security hereby irrevocably exercises the option to convert this Security, or the portion hereof (which is $1,000 principal amount or an integral multiple thereof) below designated, into shares of Common Stock in accordance
with the terms of the Indenture referred to in this Security, and directs that the shares issuable and deliverable upon such conversion, together with any check in payment for fractional shares and any Securities representing any unconverted
principal amount hereof, be issued and delivered to the registered holder hereof unless a different name has been indicated below. If shares or any portion of this Security not converted are to be issued in the name of a person other than the
undersigned, the undersigned will pay all transfer taxes payable with respect thereto. To the extent provided in the Indenture, any amount required to be paid to the undersigned on account of Interest (including Contingent Interest) accompanies this
Security. 
  

	
	 Your Name:
                                        
                                        
                                        
                                  

	(Print your name exactly as it appears on the face of this Security)
	
	 Dated:
                                        
                                        
                                        
                                        
     

	
	 Your
Signature:                                      
                                        
                                        
                              

	 (Sign exactly as your name appears on the face of this Security)

	
	 Social Security or other Taxpayer Identification
Number:                                       
                               

	
	 Principal amount to be converted (if less than all):
$                                        
                                       
 

	
	 Signature Guarantee*:
                                        
                                        
                                        
               

  
 Fill in for
registration of shares (if to be issued) and Securities (if to be delivered) other than to and in the name of the registered holder: 
  
                                       
                                        
                                        
                                        
                                        
                    
 (Name)

  
                                       
                                        
                                        
                                        
                                        
                    
  

	
	(Street Address)
	
	                                       
                                        
                                        
                                        
                                        
                   

	(City, State and Zip Code)

	*	Participant in a recognized Signature Guarantee Medallion Program (or other signature guarantor acceptable to the Trustee). 

  

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 EXHIBIT F 
  

FORM OF CERTIFICATE FROM 
 ACQUIRING
INSTITUTIONAL ACCREDITED INVESTOR 
  
 Apogent Technologies Inc. 
 30 Penhallow Street 
 Portsmouth, New Hampshire 03801 
  
 The Bank of New York 
 101 Barclay Street, Floor 8 West 
 New York, New York 10286 
 Attn: Corporate Trust Administration 
  

	 	Re:	Floating Rate Senior Convertible Contingent Debt Securities (CODES) due 2033 (the “Securities”) 

  
 Reference is hereby made to the Indenture, dated as of December 17, 2003 (the
“Indenture”), among Apogent Technologies Inc., as issuer (the “Company”), the subsidiary guarantors parties thereto and The Bank of New York, as trustee. Capitalized terms used but not defined herein shall have the
meanings given to them in the Indenture. 
  
 In connection with
our proposed purchase of $             aggregate principal amount of Securities, we confirm that: 
  
 1. We understand that any subsequent transfer of the Securities or any interest therein is subject to certain restrictions
and conditions set forth in the Indenture and the undersigned agrees to be bound by, and not to resell, pledge or otherwise transfer the Securities or any interest therein except in compliance with, such restrictions and conditions and the
Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”). 
  
 2. We understand that the offer and sale of the Securities have not been registered under the Securities Act, and that the Securities and any interest therein may not be offered or sold except as permitted in the
following sentence. We agree, on our own behalf and on behalf of any accounts for which we are acting as hereinafter stated, that if we should sell the Securities or any interest therein, we will do so only (A) to the Company or any subsidiary
thereof, (B) in accordance with Rule 144A under the Securities Act to a “qualified institutional buyer” (as defined therein), (C) to an institutional “accredited investor” (as defined below) that, prior to such transfer,
furnishes (or has furnished on its behalf by a U.S. broker-dealer) to you and to the Company a signed letter substantially in the form of this letter and an Opinion of Counsel in form reasonably acceptable to the Company to the effect that such
transfer is in compliance with the Securities Act, (D) pursuant to the provisions of Rule 144(k) under the Securities Act or (E) pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act, and we further agree to provide to any Person
purchasing the Physical Security or beneficial interest in a Global Security from us in a transaction meeting the requirements of clause (C) of this paragraph a notice advising such purchaser that resales thereof are restricted as stated herein.

  

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 3. We understand that, on any proposed resale of the Securities or beneficial interest therein, we will
be required to furnish to you and the Company such certifications, legal opinions and other information as you and the Company may reasonably require to confirm that the proposed sale complies with the foregoing restrictions. We further understand
that the Securities purchased by us will bear a legend to the foregoing effect. 
  
 4. We are an institutional “accredited investor” (as defined in Rule 501(a)(1), (2), (3) or (7) of Regulation D under the Securities Act) and have such knowledge and experience in financial and
business matters as to be capable of evaluating the merits and risks of our investment in the Securities, and we and any accounts for which we are acting are each able to bear the economic risk of our or its investment. 
  
 5. We are acquiring the Securities or beneficial interest therein purchased
by us for our own account or for one or more accounts (each of which is an institutional “accredited investor”) as to each of which we exercise sole investment discretion. 
  
 You and the Company are entitled to rely upon this letter and are irrevocably authorized to produce this letter or a copy
hereof to any interested party in any administrative or legal proceedings or official inquiry with respect to the matters covered hereby. 
  

							
	 	 	 	 	 	 	

	 	 	 	 	 	 	             [Insert Name of Accredited Investor]

				
	 	 	 	 	 By:
	 	  

	 	 	 	 	     Name:

	 	 	 	 	     Title:

	 Dated:
	 	  

	 	 	 	 

  

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 EXHIBIT G 
  

FORM OF SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE TO ADD GUARANTORS 
  
 This Supplemental Indenture, dated as of
[                    ] (this “Supplemental Indenture” or “Guarantee”), among [name of future Guarantor] (the
“New Guarantor”), Apogent Technologies Inc. (together with its successors and assigns, the “Company”), each other then existing Guarantor under the Indenture referred to below, and The Bank of New York, as
Trustee under the Indenture referred to below. 
  
 W I T N E S S E
T H: 
  
 WHEREAS, the Company, the Guarantors and the Trustee
have heretofore executed and delivered an Indenture, dated as of December 17, 2003 (as amended, supplemented, waived or otherwise modified, the “Indenture”), providing for the issuance of an aggregate principal amount of $300
million (up to $345 million if the Initial Purchasers’ option pursuant to the Purchase Agreement is exercised in full) of Floating Rate Senior Convertible Contingent Debt Securities (CODES) due 2033 of the Company (the
“Securities”); 
  
 WHEREAS, Section 13.5 of the
Indenture provides that the Company is required to cause each Subsidiary created or acquired by the Company and which becomes a guarantor under the Credit Agreement to execute and deliver to the Trustee a Supplemental Indenture pursuant to which
such Subsidiary will unconditionally guarantee, on a joint and several basis with the other Guarantors, the full and prompt payment of the principal of, Interest (including Contingent Interest) and Additional Amounts, if any, on the Securities on a
senior basis; and 
  
 WHEREAS, pursuant to Section 7.1 of the
Indenture, the Trustee and the Company are authorized to execute and deliver this Supplemental Indenture to amend the Indenture, without the consent of any Holder; 
  
 NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the foregoing and for other good and valuable consideration, the receipt of which is
hereby acknowledged, the New Guarantor, the Company, the other Guarantors and the Trustee mutually covenant and agree for the equal and ratable benefit of the Holders of the Securities as follows: 
  
 ARTICLE I  
  
 Definitions 
  
 SECTION 1.1. Defined Terms. As used in this Supplemental Indenture,
terms defined in the Indenture or in the preamble or recital hereto are used herein as therein defined, except that the term “Holders” in this Guarantee shall refer to the term “Holders” as defined in the Indenture and the
Trustee acting on behalf or for the benefit of such holders. The words “herein,” “hereof” and “hereby” and other words of similar import used in this Supplemental Indenture refer to this Supplemental Indenture as a
whole and not to any particular section hereof. 
  

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 ARTICLE II  
  
 Agreement to be Bound; Guarantee 
  
 SECTION 2.1. Agreement to be Bound. The New Guarantor hereby becomes a party to the Indenture as a Guarantor and as
such will have all of the rights and be subject to all of the obligations and agreements of a Guarantor under the Indenture. The New Guarantor agrees to be bound by all of the provisions of the Indenture applicable to a Guarantor and to perform all
of the obligations and agreements of a Guarantor under the Indenture. 
  
 SECTION 2.2. Guarantee. The New Guarantor hereby fully, unconditionally and irrevocably guarantees, as primary obligor and not merely as surety, jointly and severally with each other Guarantor, to each Holder of the Securities and
the Trustee, the full and punctual payment when due, whether at maturity, upon redemption or repurchase, by declaration of acceleration or otherwise, of the Obligations pursuant to Article 13 of the Indenture on a senior basis and subject to the
terms and conditions of the Indenture. 
  
 ARTICLE III 

  
 Miscellaneous 
  
 SECTION 3.1. Notices. All notices and other communications to the New
Guarantor shall be given as provided in the Indenture to the New Guarantor, at its address set forth below, with a copy to the Company as provided in the Indenture for notices to the Company. 
  
 SECTION 3.2. Parties. Nothing expressed or mentioned herein is
intended or shall be construed to give any Person, firm or corporation, other than the Holders and the Trustee, any legal or equitable right, remedy or claim under or in respect of this Supplemental Indenture or the Indenture or any provision herein
or therein contained. 
  
 SECTION 3.3. Governing Law. This
Supplemental Indenture shall be governed by the laws of the State of New York. 
  
 SECTION 3.4. Severability Clause. In case any provision in this Supplemental Indenture 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 and such provision shall be ineffective only to the extent of such invalidity, illegality or unenforceability. 
  
 SECTION 3.5. Ratification of Indenture; Supplemental Indentures Part of Indenture; Trustee’s Disclaimer. Except as expressly amended hereby,
the Indenture is in all respects ratified and confirmed and all the terms, conditions and provisions thereof shall remain in full force and effect. This Supplemental Indenture shall form a part of the Indenture for all purposes, and every Holder of
Securities heretofore or hereafter authenticated and delivered shall be bound hereby. The Trustee makes no representation or warranty as to the validity or sufficiency of this Supplemental Indenture. 
  

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 SECTION 3.6. Counterparts. The parties hereto may sign one or more copies of this Supplemental
Indenture in counterparts, all of which together shall constitute one and the same agreement. 
  
 SECTION 3.7. Headings. The headings of the Articles and the sections in this Guarantee are for convenience of reference only and shall not be deemed to alter or affect the meaning or interpretation of any
provisions hereof. 
  

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

			
	 [NEW GUARANTOR],

	
	 as a Guarantor

		
	 By:
	 	  

	 	 	 Name:

	 	 	 Title:

	
	 THE BANK OF NEW YORK, as Trustee

		
	 By:
	 	  

	 	 	 Name:

	 	 	 Title:

	
	 APOGENT TECHNOLOGIES INC.

		
	 By:
	 	  

	 	 	 Name:

	 	 	 Title:

	
	 [GUARANTORS]

		
	 By:
	 	  

	 	 	 Name:

	 	 	 Title:

  

 G-4RESALE REGISTRATION RIGHTS AGREEMENT

 EXHIBIT 4.2 
  

RESALE REGISTRATION RIGHTS AGREEMENT 
  
 among 
  
 APOGENT TECHNOLOGIES INC., 
 AS ISSUER 
  
 and 
  
 THE SEVERAL SUBSIDIARY GUARANTORS 
 FROM TIME TO TIME PARTIES HERETO, 
 AS GUARANTORS 
  
 and 
  
 LEHMAN BROTHERS INC. 
 BANC OF AMERICA SECURITIES LLC 
 J.P. MORGAN SECURITIES INC. 
 CREDIT SUISSE FIRST BOSTON LLC 
 ABN
AMRO ROTHSCHILD LLC 
 FLEET SECURITIES, INC. 
 SCOTIA CAPITAL (USA) INC. 
 SUNTRUST CAPITAL (USA) INC. 
 THE ROYAL BANK OF SCOTLAND PLC 
 HSBC
SECURITIES (USA) INC. 
  
 DATED
AS OF DECEMBER 17, 2003 

 TABLE OF CONTENTS 
  

					
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	1.	  	Definitions	  	1
			
	2.	  	Shelf Registration.	  	4
			
	3.	  	Additional Amounts.	  	6
			
	4.	  	Registration Procedures.	  	7
			
	5.	  	Registration Expenses.	  	13
			
	6.	  	Indemnification and Contribution	  	14
			
	7.	  	Rule 144A.	  	17
			
	8.	  	Participation in Underwritten Registrations.	  	17
			
	9.	  	Selection of Underwriters.	  	17
			
	10.	  	Miscellaneous.	  	18

 RESALE REGISTRATION RIGHTS
AGREEMENT, dated as of December 17, 2003, among Apogent Technologies Inc., a Wisconsin corporation (together with any successor entity, herein referred to as the “Issuer”), and the several
subsidiary guarantors from time to time parties hereto (collectively, the “Guarantors”) and Lehman Brothers Inc., Banc of America Securities LLC, J.P. Morgan Securities Inc., Credit Suisse First Boston LLC, ABN AMRO Rothschild LLC,
Fleet Securities, Inc., Scotia Capital (USA) Inc., SunTrust Capital Markets, Inc., The Royal Bank of Scotland plc and HSBC Securities (USA) Inc. (collectively, the “Initial Purchasers”). 
  
 Pursuant to the Purchase Agreement, dated December 12, 2003, among the
Issuer, the Guarantors and the Initial Purchasers (the “Purchase Agreement”), the Initial Purchasers have agreed to purchase from the Issuer $300,000,000 aggregate principal amount of Floating Rate Senior Convertible Contingent Debt
Securities (the “CODES”) due 2033 together with the several guarantees forming a part thereof (the “Guarantees” and, together with the CODES, the “Securities”) (or up to $345,000,000 aggregate
principal amount of CODES to the extent the Initial Purchasers exercise their option to purchase additional Securities in full, as set forth in the Purchase Agreement). The CODES initially will be convertible into fully paid, nonassessable (subject
to Section 180.0622(2)(b) of the Wisconsin Business Corporation Law) common stock, par value $0.01 per share, of the Issuer (the “Common Stock”) on the terms, and subject to the conditions, set forth in the Indenture (as defined
herein). To induce the Initial Purchasers to purchase the Securities, the Issuer and the Guarantors have agreed, pursuant to the Purchase Agreement, to provide the registration rights set forth in this Agreement. 
  
 The parties hereby agree as follows: 
  
 1. Definitions. As used in this Agreement, the following
capitalized terms shall have the following meanings: 
  
 Additional Amounts: As defined in Section 3(a) hereof. 
  
 Additional Amounts Payment Date: Each Interest Payment Date. 
  
 Affiliate: As such term is defined in Rule 405 under the Securities Act. 
  
 Agreement: This Resale Registration Rights Agreement,
as amended, modified or otherwise supplemented from time to time in accordance with the terms hereof. 
  
 Blue Sky Application: As defined in Section 6(a) hereof. 
  
 Broker-Dealer: Any broker or dealer registered under the Exchange Act. 
  
 Business Day: A day other than a Saturday or Sunday
or any day on which banking institutions in The City of New York are authorized or obligated by law or executive order to close. 
  
 Closing Date: The date of this Agreement. 
  

Commission: Securities and Exchange Commission. 
  
 Common Stock: As defined in the preamble hereto. 

 Credit Agreement: The Credit Agreement dated as of July 29, 2003 among the Issuer,
the Guarantors and the several lenders from time to time parties thereto, as such Credit Agreement is amended, modified or supplemented from time to time in accordance with the terms thereof. 
  
 Effectiveness Period: As defined in Section 2(a)(iii)
hereof. 
  
 Effectiveness Target Date: As
defined in Section 2(a)(ii) hereof. 
  
 Exchange Act: Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and the rules and regulations of the Commission thereunder. 
  
 Guarantees: As defined in the preamble hereto. 
  
 Guarantors: As defined in the preamble hereto. 
  
 Holder: A Person who owns, beneficially or otherwise,
Transfer Restricted Securities. 
  
 Holder
Questionnaire: As defined in Section 2(b) hereof. 
  
 Indemnified Holder: As defined in Section 6(a) hereof. 
  
 Indenture: The Indenture, dated as of December 17, 2003, among the Issuer, the Guarantors and The Bank of New York, as trustee (the “Trustee”), pursuant to which the Securities are to be
issued, as such Indenture is amended, modified or supplemented from time to time in accordance with the terms thereof. 
  
 Initial Purchasers: As defined in the preamble hereto. 
  
 Initial Shelf Filing Deadline: As defined in Section 2(a)(i) hereof. 
  
 Initial Shelf Registration Statement: As defined in
Section 2(a)(i) hereof. 
  
 Interest Payment
Date: As defined in the Indenture. 
  
 Issuer: As defined in the preamble hereto. 
  
 Majority of Holders: Holders holding more than 50% of the aggregate principal amount of CODES outstanding; provided that, for purpose of this definition, a holder of shares of Common Stock which
constitute Transfer Restricted Securities when issued upon conversion of the CODES shall be deemed to hold an aggregate principal amount of CODES (in addition to the principal amount of CODES held by such holder) equal to the product of (x) the
number of such shares of Common Stock received upon conversion of the CODES and then held by such holder and (y) the prevailing conversion price, such prevailing conversion price as determined in accordance with the Indenture. 
  
 NASD: National Association of Securities Dealers,
Inc. 
  

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 Person: An individual, partnership, corporation, unincorporated organization,
limited liability company, trust, joint venture or a government or agency or political subdivision thereof. 
  
 Purchase Agreement: As defined in the preamble hereto. 
  
 Prospectus: The prospectus included in a Shelf Registration Statement, as amended or supplemented by
any prospectus supplement and by all other amendments thereto, including post-effective amendments, and all material incorporated by reference into such Prospectus. 
  
 Record Holder: With respect to any Additional Amounts Payment Date, each Person who is a Holder on
the Record Date with respect to the Interest Payment Date on which such Additional Amounts Payment Date shall occur. In the case of a Holder of shares of Common Stock issued upon conversion of the Securities, “Record Holder” shall mean
each Person who is a Holder of shares of Common Stock that constitute Transfer Restricted Securities on the Record Date preceding the relevant Additional Amounts Payment Date. 
  
 Registration Default: As defined in Section 3(a) hereof. 
  
 Record Date: As defined in the Indenture. 

 
 Roll-up Date: December 31, 2004 and the last day
of any calendar month in which the consolidated net sales or consolidated total assets of the companies which are then guarantors of the CODES becomes less than 90% of the consolidated net sales or consolidated total assets, as the case may be, of
the entities which then guarantee the Issuer’s obligations, or are subsidiary borrowers, under the Credit Agreement. 
  
 Sale Notice: As defined in Section 4(d) hereof. 
  
 Securities: As defined in the preamble hereto. 
  
 Securities Act: Securities Act of 1933, as amended,
and the rules and resolutions of the Commission thereunder. 
  
 Selling Holders: Any Holder who sells or otherwise disposes of its CODES pursuant to a Shelf Registration Statement or who has provided to the Issuer a completed Selling Securityholder Notice and Questionnaire
in the form of Exhibit A hereto. 
  
 Shelf
Filing Deadline: As defined in Section 2(a)(ii) hereof. 
  
 Shelf Registration Statement: As defined in Section 2(a)(ii) hereof. 
  
 Suspension Notice: As defined in Section 4(c) hereof. 
  
 Suspension Period: As defined in Section 4(b)(i) hereof. 
  
 TIA: Trust Indenture Act of 1939, as amended, and the
rules and regulations of the Commission thereunder, in each case, as in effect on the date the Indenture is qualified under the TIA. 
  

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 Transfer Restricted Securities: Each Security and each share of Common Stock
issued upon conversion of the CODES until the earlier of: 
  
 (i) the date on which such Security or such share of Common Stock issued upon conversion of the CODES has been effectively registered under the Securities Act and disposed of in accordance with the Shelf Registration
Statements; 
  
 (ii) the date on which such
Security or such share of Common Stock issued upon conversion of the CODES is transferred in compliance with Rule 144 under the Securities Act or may be sold or transferred by a person who is not an Affiliate of the Issuer pursuant to Rule 144 under
the Securities Act (or any other similar provision then in force) without any volume or manner of sale restrictions thereunder; or 
  
 (iii) the date on which such Security or such share of Common Stock issued upon conversion of the CODES ceases to be outstanding (whether
as a result of redemption, repurchase and cancellation, conversion or otherwise). 
  
 Underwriters: Any underwriter participating in any distribution pursuant to a Shelf Registration Statement. 
  
 Underwritten Registration or Underwritten
Offering: A transaction in which Securities registered with the Commission pursuant to this Agreement are to be sold to an Underwriter for reoffering to the public. 
  
 2. Shelf Registration. 
  
 (a) The Issuer and the Guarantors shall: 
  
 (i) not later than 90 days after the date hereof (the “Initial Shelf Filing
Deadline”), cause to be filed a registration statement pursuant to Rule 415 under the Securities Act (together with any amendments thereto, and including any documents incorporated by reference therein, the “Initial Shelf
Registration Statement”), which Initial Shelf Registration Statement shall provide for resales of all Transfer Restricted Securities held by Holders that have provided the information required pursuant to the terms of Section 2(b) hereof;

  
 (ii) not later than each Roll-up Date (each
such date, together with the Initial Shelf Filing Deadline, is herein referred to as a “Shelf Filing Deadline”), cause to be filed a registration statement pursuant to Rule 415 under the Securities Act (each such registration
statement, together with any amendments thereto, and including any documents incorporated by reference therein, is herein referred to as a “Shelf Registration Statement” and all such Shelf Registration Statements and the Initial
Shelf Registration Statement are herein collectively referred to as the “Shelf Registration Statements”), which Shelf Registration Statement shall (A) reflect the guarantees by the entities who became guarantors on the Roll-up Date
and (B) provide for resales of all Transfer Restricted Securities held by Holders that have provided the information required pursuant to the terms of Section 2(b) hereof; 
  

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 (iii) cause each Shelf Registration Statement to be declared effective by the Commission
as promptly as is practicable, but in no event later than 180 days after the date hereof or 45 days after the applicable Roll-up Date, as the case may be (the “Effectiveness Target Date”); and 
  
 (iv) keep each Shelf Registration Statement continuously
effective, supplemented and amended as required by the provisions of Section 4(b) hereof to the extent necessary to ensure that (A) it is available for resales by the Holders of Transfer Restricted Securities entitled to the benefit of this
Agreement and (B) conforms with the requirements of this Agreement and the Securities Act for a period (the “Effectiveness Period”) ending on the earliest of: 
  
 (1) two years following the last date of original issuance of the CODES; 
  
 (2) the date when all of the Holders of Transfer Restricted
Securities are able to sell all such Transfer Restricted Securities immediately without volume, manner of sale and filing limitations pursuant to Rule 144(k) under the Securities Act or any successor rule thereto; and 
  
 (3) the date when all of the Transfer Restricted Securities
are disposed of in accordance with the Shelf Registration Statements. 
  
 (b) To have its Transfer Restricted Securities included in the Shelf Registration Statement pursuant to this Agreement, each Holder shall complete the Selling Securityholder Notice and Questionnaire, the form of which is contained in
Exhibit A to this Agreement and in Annex A to the Offering Memorandum relating to the CODES, subject to such additional changes as may be necessary or appropriate in order to comply with applicable law (the “Questionnaire”). The
Issuer shall mail the Questionnaire not less than 20 Business Days prior to the time the Issuer intends in good faith to have the Shelf Registration Statement declared effective by the Commission. Upon receipt of a written request for additional
information from the Issuer, each Holder who intends to be named as a selling securityholder in the Shelf Registration Statement shall furnish to the Issuer in writing, within 20 Business Days after such Holder’s receipt of such request, such
additional information regarding such Holder and the proposed distribution by such Holder of its Transfer Restricted Securities, in connection with the Shelf Registration Statement or Prospectus or Preliminary Prospectus included therein and in any
application to be filed with or under state securities law, as the Issuer may reasonably request. In connection with all such requests for information from Holders of Transfer Restricted Securities, the Issuer shall notify such Holders of the
requirements set forth in this paragraph regarding their obligation to provide the information requested pursuant to this Section. Holders who have not delivered a Questionnaire prior to the effectiveness of the Shelf Registration Statement may
receive a Questionnaire from the Issuer upon request. Upon receipt of such a completed Questionnaire from a Holder following the effectiveness of the Shelf Registration Statement, the Issuer shall, within 30 days of receipt by the Company of such
Questionnaire, file such amendments to the Shelf Registration Statement or supplements to a related Prospectus as are necessary to permit such Holder to transfer its Transfer Restricted Securities pursuant to the Shelf Registration Statement and use
reasonable best efforts to cause any post-effective amendment so filed to be declared effective promptly, provided, however, that the Issuer shall not be obligated to file more than one such amendment or supplement for all Holders during any
one fiscal quarter. Each Holder as to which the Shelf Registration Statement is being effected agrees to furnish promptly to the Issuer all information required to be disclosed in order to make information previously furnished to the Issuer by such
Holder not materially misleading. 
  

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 3. Additional Amounts. 
  
 (a) If: 
  
 (i) any Shelf Registration Statement is not filed with the Commission prior to or on the applicable Shelf
Filing Deadline; 
  
 (ii) any Shelf Registration
Statement has not been declared effective by the Commission prior to or on the applicable Effectiveness Target Date; 
  
 (iii) except as provided in Section 4(b)(i) hereof, any Shelf Registration Statement is filed and declared effective but, during the
applicable Effectiveness Period, shall thereafter cease to be effective or fail to be usable for its intended purpose without being succeeded within five Business Days by a post-effective amendment to the Shelf Registration Statement, a supplement
to the Prospectus or a report filed with the Commission pursuant to Section 13(a), 13(c), 14 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act that cures such failure and, in the case of a post-effective amendment, is itself immediately declared effective; or

  
 (iv) (A) prior to or on the 45th or 60th day, as the case may be, of any Suspension Period, such suspension has not been terminated or (B) Suspension Periods exceed an aggregate of 90 days in any 360 day period, 
  
 (each such event referred to in foregoing clauses (i) through (iv), a “Registration Default”), the Issuer and the
Guarantors jointly and severally hereby agree to pay additional amounts (“Additional Amounts”) with respect to the Transfer Restricted Securities from and including the day following the Registration Default to but excluding the day
on which the Registration Default has been cured, accruing at a rate: 
  
 (A) in respect of the CODES, to each holder of CODES, (x) with respect to the first 90-day period during which a Registration Default shall have occurred and be continuing, equal to 0.25% per annum of the principal
amount of the CODES, and (y) with respect to the period commencing on the 91st day following the day the
Registration Default shall have occurred and be continuing, equal to 0.50% per annum of the principal amount of the CODES; provided that in no event shall Additional Amounts accrue at a rate per year exceeding 0.50% of the principal amount of
the CODES; and 
  
 (B) in respect of any shares
of Common Stock, to each holder of shares of Common Stock issued upon conversion of CODES, (x) with respect to the first 90-day period in which a Registration Default shall have occurred and be continuing, equal to 0.25% per annum of the principal
amount of the converted CODES, and (y) with respect to the period commencing on the 91st day following the day the
Registration Default shall have occurred and be continuing, equal to 0.50% per annum of the principal amount of the converted CODES; provided that in no event shall Additional Amounts accrue at a rate per year exceeding 0.50% of the principal
amount of the converted CODES. 
  

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 (b) All accrued Additional Amounts shall be paid in arrears to Record Holders by the Issuer or the
Guarantors on each Additional Amounts Payment Date by wire transfer of immediately available funds or by federal funds check. Following the cure of all Registration Defaults relating to any particular CODES or share of Common Stock issued upon
conversion of the CODES, the accrual of Additional Amounts with respect to such CODES or share of Common Stock will cease. The Issuer and the Guarantors agree to deliver all notices, certificates and other documents contemplated by the Indenture in
connection with the payment of Additional Amounts. 
  
 All
obligations of the Issuer and the Guarantors set forth in this Section 3 that are outstanding with respect to any Transfer Restricted Security at the time such Security ceases to be a Transfer Restricted Security shall survive until such time as all
such obligations with respect to such Transfer Restricted Security shall have been satisfied in full. 
  
 The Additional Amounts set forth above shall be the exclusive monetary remedy available to the Holders of Transfer Restricted Securities for such
Registration Default. 
  
 4. Registration
Procedures. 
  
 (a) In connection with the registration
of the Securities, the Issuer and the Guarantors shall comply with all the provisions of Section 4(b) hereof and shall effect such registration to permit the sale of the Transfer Restricted Securities being sold in accordance with the intended
method or methods of distribution thereof, and pursuant thereto, shall as expeditiously as possible prepare and file with the Commission a Shelf Registration Statement relating to the registration on any appropriate form under the Securities Act.

  
 (b) In connection with the Shelf Registration Statements and
any Prospectuses required by this Agreement to permit the sale or resale of Transfer Restricted Securities, the Issuer and the Guarantors shall: 
  
 (i) Subject to any notice by the Issuer and the Guarantors in accordance with Section 4(c) of the existence of any fact or event of the
kind described in Section 4(b)(iv), keep the Shelf Registration Statements continuously effective during the Effectiveness Period; upon the occurrence of any event that would cause any Shelf Registration Statement or the Prospectus contained therein
(A) to contain a material misstatement or omission or (B) not be effective and usable for resale of Transfer Restricted Securities during the Effectiveness Period, the Issuer shall file promptly an appropriate amendment to the Shelf Registration
Statement, a supplement to the Prospectus or a report filed with the Commission pursuant to Section 13(a), 13(c), 14 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act, in the case of clause (A), correcting any such misstatement or omission, and, in the case of either
clause (A) or (B), cause any such amendment to be declared effective and the Shelf Registration Statement and the related Prospectus to become usable for their intended purposes as soon as practicable thereafter. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the
Issuer or the Guarantors may suspend the effectiveness of any Shelf Registration Statement by written notice to the Holders for a period not to exceed an aggregate of 45 days in any 90-day period (each such period, a “Suspension
Period”) if: 
  
 (x) an event occurs
and is continuing as a result of which the Shelf Registration Statement would, in the Issuer’s judgment, contain an untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the
statements therein not misleading; and 
  

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 (y) the Issuer reasonably determines that the disclosure of such event at such time
would have a material adverse effect on the business of the Issuer and its subsidiaries taken as a whole; 
  
 provided that in the event the disclosure relates to a previously undisclosed proposed or pending material business transaction, the disclosure of
which would impede the Issuer’s ability to consummate such transaction, the Issuer may extend a Suspension Period from 45 days to 60 days; provided, however, that Suspension Periods shall not exceed an aggregate of 90 days in any 360-day
period. 
  
 (ii) Prepare and file with the
Commission such amendments and post-effective amendments to the Shelf Registration Statements as may be necessary to keep the Shelf Registration Statements effective during the Effectiveness Period; cause the Prospectuses to be supplemented by any
required Prospectus supplement, and as so supplemented to be filed pursuant to Rule 424 under the Securities Act, and to comply fully with the applicable provisions of Rules 424 and 430A under the Securities Act in a timely manner; and comply with
the provisions of the Securities Act with respect to the disposition of all securities covered by the Shelf Registration Statements during the applicable period in accordance with the intended method or methods of distribution by the sellers thereof
set forth in the Shelf Registration Statements or supplement to the Prospectuses. 
  
 (iii) Cause any entity that becomes a Guarantor after the date hereof to promptly execute and deliver an acknowledgement, the form of
which is attached hereto as Exhibit B, pursuant to Section 13.5 of the Indenture acknowledging that such entity shall become a party to this Agreement. 
  
 (iv) Advise the Underwriter(s), if any, and Selling Holders promptly (but in any event within five Business Days) and, if requested by
such Persons, to confirm such advice in writing: 
  
 (A) when any Prospectus or any Prospectus supplement or post-effective amendment has been filed, and, with respect to any Shelf Registration Statement or any post-effective amendment thereto, when the same has become effective, 

 
 (B) of any request by the Commission for amendments to
any Shelf Registration Statement or amendments or supplements to any Prospectus or for additional information relating thereto, 
  
 (C) of the issuance by the Commission of any stop order suspending the effectiveness of any Shelf Registration Statement under the
Securities Act or of the suspension by any state securities commission of the qualification of the Transfer Restricted Securities for offering or sale in any jurisdiction, or the initiation of any proceeding for any of the preceding purposes, or

  

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 (D) of the existence of any fact or the happening of any event, during the Effectiveness
Period, that makes any statement of a material fact made in any Shelf Registration Statement, the Prospectus contained therein, any amendment or supplement thereto, or any document incorporated by reference therein untrue, or that requires the
making of any additions to or changes in the Shelf Registration Statement or the Prospectus in order to make the statements therein not misleading. 
  
 If at any time the Commission shall issue any stop order suspending the effectiveness of any Shelf Registration Statement, or any state securities
commission or other regulatory authority shall issue an order suspending the qualification or exemption from qualification of the Transfer Restricted Securities under state securities or Blue Sky laws, the Issuer and the Guarantors shall obtain the
withdrawal or lifting of such order at the earliest possible time and will provide to the Initial Purchasers and each Holder who is named in the Shelf Registration Statement prompt notice of the withdrawal of any such order. 
  
 (v) Furnish to each of the Selling Holders and each of the
Underwriter(s), if any, before filing with the Commission, a copy of each Shelf Registration Statement and copies of any Prospectus included therein or any amendments or supplements to the Shelf Registration Statement or Prospectus (other than
documents incorporated by reference after the initial filing of the Shelf Registration Statement), which documents will be subject to the review of such Selling Holders and Underwriter(s), if any, for a period of at least ten Business Days (in the
case of the Shelf Registration Statement and Prospectus) and two Business Days (in the case of any amendment or supplement thereto), and neither the Issuer nor the Guarantors will file the Shelf Registration Statement or Prospectus or any amendment
or supplement to the Shelf Registration Statement or Prospectus (other than documents incorporated by reference) to which a Selling Holder of Transfer Restricted Securities covered by the Shelf Registration Statement or the Underwriter(s), if any,
shall reasonably object prior to the filing thereof. A Selling Holder or Underwriter, if any, shall be deemed to have reasonably objected to such filing if the Shelf Registration Statement, amendment, Prospectus or supplement, as applicable, as
proposed to be filed, contains a material misstatement or omission. 
  
 (vi) Make available at reasonable times for inspection by one or more representatives of the Selling Holders, designated in writing by a Majority of Holders whose Transfer Restricted Securities are included in any
Shelf Registration Statement, any Underwriter, and any attorney or accountant retained by such Selling Holders or any of the Underwriter(s), all financial and other records, pertinent corporate documents and properties of the Issuer and the
Guarantors as shall be reasonably necessary to enable them to conduct a reasonable investigation within the meaning of Section 11 of the Securities and exercise any applicable due diligence responsibilities, and cause the Issuer’s and the
Guarantors’ officers, directors, managers and employees to supply all information reasonably requested by any such representative or representatives of the Selling Holders, Underwriter, attorney or 

  

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accountant in connection with the Shelf Registration Statement after the filing thereof and before its effectiveness, provided, however, that any
information designated by the Issuer as confidential at the time of delivery of such information shall be kept confidential by the recipient thereof. 
  
 (vii) If requested by any Selling Holders, promptly incorporate in each Shelf Registration Statement or Prospectus, pursuant to a
supplement or post-effective amendment if necessary, such information as such Selling Holders and Underwriter(s), if any, may reasonably request to have included therein, including, without limitation: (1) information relating to the “Plan of
Distribution” of the Transfer Restricted Securities, (2) information with respect to the principal amount of Securities or number of shares of Common Stock being sold to such Underwriter(s), (3) the purchase price being paid therefor and (4)
any other terms of the offering of the Transfer Restricted Securities to be sold in such offering; and make all required filings of such Prospectus supplement or post-effective amendment as soon as reasonably practicable after the Issuer and the
Guarantors are notified of the matters to be incorporated in such Prospectus supplement or post-effective amendment. 
  
 (viii) Furnish to each Selling Holder and each of the Underwriter(s), if any, without charge, at least one copy of each Shelf Registration
Statement, as first filed with the Commission, and of each amendment thereto (and any documents incorporated by reference therein or exhibits thereto (or exhibits incorporated in such exhibits by reference) as such Person may request); provided,
however, that if such materials have been filed with the Commission by electronic transmission pursuant to EDGAR, this requirement shall be deemed satisfied unless such Selling Holder or Underwriter requests a paper copy thereof. 
  
 (ix) Deliver to each Selling Holder and each of the
Underwriter(s), if any, without charge, as many copies of each Prospectus (including each preliminary Prospectus) and any amendment or supplement thereto as such Persons reasonably may request; subject to any notice by the Issuer in accordance with
this Section 4(b) of the existence of any fact or event of the kind described in Section 4(b)(i) or Section 4(b)(iv) (D), the Issuer and the Guarantors hereby consent to the use of each Prospectus and any amendment or supplement thereto by each of
the Selling Holders and each of the Underwriter(s), if any, in connection with the offering and the sale of the Transfer Restricted Securities covered by the Prospectus or any amendment or supplement thereto. 
  
 (x) The Issuer and the Guarantors shall: 
  
 (A) upon request, furnish to each Selling Holder and each
Underwriter, if any, in such substance and scope as they may reasonably request and as are customarily made by issuers to Underwriters in primary Underwritten Offerings for Selling Holders, upon the date of closing of any sale of Transfer Restricted
Securities in an Underwritten Registration: 
  
 (1) a certificate, dated the date of such closing, signed by the Chief Financial Officer of the Issuer and of each of the Guarantors confirming, as of the date thereof, the matters set forth in Section 5(f) of the Purchase Agreement and
such other matters as such parties may reasonably request; 
  

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 (2) opinions, each dated the date of such closing, of counsel to the Issuer and the
Guarantors covering such of the matters as are customarily covered in legal opinions to Underwriters in connection with Underwritten Offerings of securities; and 
  
 (3) customary comfort letters, dated the date of such closing, from the Issuer’s and the
Guarantors’ independent accountants (and from any other accountants whose report is contained or incorporated by reference in the Shelf Registration Statements) in the customary form and covering matters of the type customarily covered in
comfort letters to Underwriters in connection with Underwritten Offerings of securities; 
  
 (B) set forth in full in the underwriting agreement, if any, indemnification provisions and procedures which provide rights no less
protective than those set forth in Section 6 hereof with respect to all parties to be indemnified; and 
  
 (C) deliver such other documents and certificates as may be reasonably requested by such parties to evidence compliance with clause (A)
above and with any customary conditions contained in the underwriting agreement or other agreement entered into by the Selling Holders pursuant to this clause (x). 
  
 (xi) Before any public offering of Transfer Restricted Securities, cooperate with the Selling Holders, the
Underwriter(s), if any, and their respective counsel in connection with the registration and qualification of the Transfer Restricted Securities under the securities or Blue Sky laws of such jurisdictions in the United States as the Selling Holders
or Underwriter(s), if any, may reasonably request and do any and all other acts or things necessary or advisable to enable the disposition in such jurisdictions of the Transfer Restricted Securities covered by the Shelf Registration Statements;
provided, however, that neither the Issuer nor any Guarantor shall be required (A) to register or qualify as a foreign corporation or a dealer of securities where it is not now so qualified or to take any action that would subject it to the
service of process in any jurisdiction where it is not now so subject or (B) to subject itself to taxation in any such jurisdiction if it is not now so subject. 
  
 (xii) Cooperate with the Selling Holders and the Underwriter(s), if any, to facilitate the timely
preparation and delivery of certificates representing Transfer Restricted Securities to be sold and not bearing any restrictive legends (unless required by applicable securities laws); and enable such Transfer Restricted Securities to be in such
denominations and registered in such names as the Holders or the Underwriter(s), if any, may request at least two Business Days before any sale of Transfer Restricted Securities made by such Underwriter(s); provided, that such Securities may
be evidenced by one or more global securities deposited with the Trustee as custodian for The Depository Trust Company, and registered in the name of its nominee. 
  

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 (xiii) Use their reasonable best efforts to cause the Transfer Restricted Securities
covered by the Shelf Registration Statements to be registered with or approved by such other U.S. governmental agencies or authorities as may be necessary to enable the seller or sellers thereof or the Underwriter(s), if any, to consummate the
disposition of such Transfer Restricted Securities. 
  
 (xiv) Subject to Section 4(b)(i) hereof, if any fact or event contemplated by Section 4(b)(iv)(D) hereof shall exist or have occurred, use their reasonable best efforts to prepare a supplement or post-effective amendment to each Shelf
Registration Statement or related Prospectus or any document incorporated therein by reference or file any other required document so that, as thereafter delivered to the purchasers of Transfer Restricted Securities, the Prospectus will not contain
an untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein, in light of the circumstances in which they were made, not misleading. 
  
 (xv) Provide CUSIP numbers for all Transfer Restricted
Securities not later than the effective date of the Initial Shelf Registration Statement and provide the Trustee under the Indenture with certificates for the Securities that are in a form eligible for deposit with The Depository Trust Company.

  
 (xvi) Cooperate and assist in any filings
required to be made with the NASD and in the performance of any due diligence investigation by any underwriter that is required to be retained in accordance with the rules and regulations of the NASD. 
  
 (xvii) Otherwise use their reasonable best efforts to comply
with all applicable rules and regulations of the Commission and all reporting requirements under the Exchange Act. 
  
 (xviii) Cause the Indenture to be qualified under the TIA not later than the effective date of the Initial Shelf Registration Statement
required by this Agreement, and, in connection therewith, cooperate with the Trustee and the holders of CODES to effect such changes to the Indenture as may be required for such Indenture to be so qualified in accordance with the terms of the TIA;
and execute and use their reasonable best efforts to cause the Trustee thereunder to execute all documents that may be required to effect such changes and all other forms and documents required to be filed with the Commission to enable such
Indenture to be so qualified in a timely manner. 
  
 (xix) Cause all Transfer Restricted Securities covered by the Shelf Registration Statements to be listed or quoted, as the case may be, on each securities exchange or automated quotation system on which similar securities issued by the
Issuer are then listed or quoted. 
  
 (xx)
Provide to each Holder upon written request each document filed with the Commission pursuant to the requirements of Section 13 and Section 15 of the Exchange Act after the effective date of the Initial Shelf Registration Statement. 
  

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 (xxi) If requested by the Underwriters, make appropriate officers of the Issuer and the
Guarantors available to the Underwriters for meetings with prospective purchasers of the Transfer Restricted Securities and prepare and present to potential investors customary “road show” or marketing materials in a manner consistent with
other new issuances of other securities similar to the Transfer Restricted Securities. 
  
 (c) Each Holder agrees by acquisition of a Transfer Restricted Security that, upon receipt of any notice (a “Suspension Notice”) from the Issuer of the existence of any fact of the kind described in
Section 4(b)(i) or Section 4(b)(iv)(D) hereof, such Holder will, and will use its reasonable best efforts to cause any Underwriter(s) in an Underwritten Offering to, forthwith discontinue disposition of Transfer Restricted Securities pursuant to any
Shelf Registration Statement until: 
  
 (i) such
Holder has received copies of the supplemented or amended Prospectus contemplated by Section 4(b)(xiv) hereof; or 
  
 (ii) such Holder is advised in writing by the Issuer that the use of the Prospectus may be resumed, and has received copies of any
additional or supplemental filings that are incorporated by reference in any Prospectus. 
  
 If so directed by the Issuer, each Holder will deliver to the Issuer (at the Issuer’s expense) all copies, other than permanent file copies then in such Holder’s possession, of the Prospectus covering such
Transfer Restricted Securities that was current at the time of receipt of such notice of suspension. 
  
 (d) Upon the effectiveness of the Initial Shelf Registration Statement, each Holder shall notify the Issuer at least three Business Days prior to any
intended distribution of Transfer Restricted Securities pursuant to the Shelf Registration Statements (a “Sale Notice”), which notice shall be effective for five Business Days. Each Holder of Transfer Restricted Securities, by
accepting the same, agrees to hold any communication by the Issuer in response to a Sale Notice in confidence. In any Sale Notice the Holder must (i) identify the sale as a transfer pursuant to the Shelf Registration Statements, (ii) certify that
the prospectus delivery requirements, if any, of the Securities Act have been complied with; and (iii) certify that the Selling Holder and the aggregate principal amount of CODES or number of shares of Common Stock, as the case may be, owned by such
Holder are identified in the related Prospectus in accordance with the applicable rules and regulations under the Securities Act. 
  
 5. Registration Expenses. (a) (a) All expenses incident to the Issuer’s and the Guarantors’ performance of or
compliance with this Agreement shall be borne by the Issuer regardless of whether any Shelf Registration Statement becomes effective, including, without limitation: 
  
 (i) all registration and filing fees and expenses (including filings made by any Initial Purchaser or Holder
with the NASD); 
  
 (ii) all fees and expenses of
compliance with federal securities and state Blue Sky or securities laws; 
  

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 (iii) all expenses of printing (including printing of Prospectuses and certificates for
the Common Stock to be issued upon conversion of the CODES) and the Issuer’s expenses for messenger and delivery services and telephone; 
  
 (iv) all fees and disbursements of counsel to the Issuer and the Guarantors and, subject to Section 5(b) below, the Holders of Transfer
Restricted Securities; 
  
 (v) all application
and filing fees in connection with listing (or authorizing for quotation) the Common Stock on a national securities exchange or automated quotation system pursuant to the requirements hereof; and 
  
 (vi) all fees and disbursements of independent certified
public accountants of the Issuer (including the expenses of any special audit and comfort letters required by or incident to such performance). 
  
 The Issuer and the Guarantors shall bear their internal expenses (including, without limitation, all salaries and expenses of their respective officers
and employees performing legal, accounting or other duties), the expenses of any annual audit and the fees and expenses of any Person, including special experts, retained by the Issuer and the Guarantors. 
  
 (b) In connection with the Shelf Registration Statements required by this
Agreement, including any amendment or supplement thereto, and any other documents delivered to any Holders, the Issuer shall reimburse the Initial Purchasers and the Holders of Transfer Restricted Securities being registered pursuant to any Shelf
Registration Statement, as applicable, for the reasonable fees and disbursements of not more than one counsel, which shall be chosen by a Majority of the Holders for whose benefit the Shelf Registration Statement is being prepared. 
  
 6. Indemnification and Contribution. (a) Each of the
Issuer and the Guarantors shall indemnify and hold harmless each Holder, such Holder’s officers, directors and employees and each person, if any, who controls such Holder within the meaning of the Securities Act (each, an “Indemnified
Holder”), from and against any loss, claim, damage or liability, joint or several, or any action in respect thereof (including, but not limited to, any loss, claim, damage, liability or action relating to resales of the Transfer Restricted
Securities), to which such Indemnified Holder may become subject, insofar as any such loss, claim, damage, liability or action arises out of, or is based upon: 
  

(i) any untrue statement or alleged untrue statement of a material fact contained in (A) any Shelf Registration Statement, Prospectus
or amendment or supplement thereto or (B) any blue sky application or other document or any amendment or supplement thereto prepared or executed by the Issuer (or based upon written information furnished by or on behalf of the Issuer expressly for
use in such blue sky application or other document or amendment on supplement) filed in any jurisdiction specifically for the purpose of qualifying any or all of the Transfer Restricted Securities under the securities law of any state or other
jurisdiction (such application or document being hereinafter called a “Blue Sky Application”); or 
  
 (ii) the omission or alleged omission to state therein any material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements
therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading, 

  

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and shall reimburse each Indemnified Holder promptly upon demand for any legal or other expenses reasonably incurred by such Indemnified Holder in connection
with investigating or defending or preparing to defend against any such loss, claim, damage, liability or action as such expenses are incurred; provided, however, that neither the Issuer nor any Guarantor shall be liable in any such case to
the extent that any such loss, claim, damage, liability or action arises out of, or is based upon, any untrue statement or alleged untrue statement or omission or alleged omission made in any Shelf Registration Statement, Prospectus or amendment or
supplement thereto or any Blue Sky Application in reliance upon and in conformity with written information furnished to the Issuer by or on behalf of such Holder (or its related Indemnified Holder) specifically for use therein. The foregoing
indemnity agreement is in addition to any liability which the Issuer and the Guarantors may otherwise have to any Indemnified Holder. 
  
 (b) Each Holder, severally and not jointly, shall indemnify and hold harmless the Issuer and the Guarantors, their respective officers, directors and
employees and each person, if any, who controls the Issuer or the Guarantors within the meaning of the Securities Act, from and against any loss, claim, damage or liability, joint or several, or any action in respect thereof, to which the Issuer,
the Guarantors or any such officer, director, employee or controlling person may become subject, insofar as any such loss, claim, damage or liability or action arises out of, or is based upon: 
  
 (i) any untrue statement or alleged untrue statement of any
material fact contained in any Shelf Registration Statement, Prospectus or amendment or supplement thereto or any Blue Sky Application; or 
  
 (ii) the omission or the alleged omission to state therein any material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the
statements therein, in light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading, 
  
 but in each case only to the extent that such untrue statement or alleged untrue statement or omission or alleged omission was made in reliance upon and in conformity with written information furnished to the Issuer
by or on behalf of such Holder (or its related Indemnified Holder) specifically for use therein, and shall reimburse the Issuer, the Guarantors and any such officer, director, employee or controlling person promptly upon demand for any legal or
other expenses reasonably incurred by the Issuer, the Guarantors or any such officer, employee or controlling person in connection with investigating or defending or preparing to defend against any such loss, claim, damage, liability or action as
such expenses are incurred. The foregoing indemnity agreement is in addition to any liability which any Holder may otherwise have to the Issuer, the Guarantors or any of their respective officers, directors, employees or controlling persons.

  
 (c) Promptly after receipt by an indemnified party under this
Section 6 of notice of any claim or the commencement of any action, the indemnified party shall, if a claim in respect thereof is to be made against the indemnifying party under this Section 6, notify the indemnifying party in writing of the claim
or the commencement of that action; provided, however, that the failure to notify the indemnifying party shall not relieve it from any liability which it may have under this Section 6 except to the extent it has been materially prejudiced by
such failure and, provided, further, that the failure to notify the indemnifying party shall not relieve it from any liability which it may have to an indemnified party otherwise than under this Section 6. If any such claim or action shall be
brought against an indemnified party, and it shall notify the indemnifying party thereof, the indemnifying party shall be entitled to participate therein and, to the extent that it wishes, jointly with any other similarly notified indemnifying
party, to assume the defense thereof with counsel 
  

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 satisfactory to the indemnified party. After notice from the indemnifying party to the indemnified party of its election
to assume the defense of such claim or action, the indemnifying party shall not be liable to the indemnified party under this Section 6 for any legal or other expenses subsequently incurred by the indemnified party in connection with the defense
thereof other than reasonable costs of investigation; provided, however, that Holders shall have the right to employ a single counsel to represent jointly the Holders and their respective officers, directors, employees and controlling persons
who may be subject to liability arising out of any claim in respect of which indemnity may be sought by the Holders against the Issuer, the Guarantors or any of their respective officers, directors, employees or controlling persons under this
Section 6, if the Holders seeking indemnification shall have been advised by legal counsel that there may be one or more legal defenses available to them and their respective officers, directors, employees and controlling persons that are different
from or additional to those available to the Issuer, the Guarantors and their respective officers, directors, employees and controlling persons, and the fees and expenses of a single separate counsel shall be paid by the Issuer and the Guarantors.
No indemnifying party shall: 
  
 (i) without the
prior written consent of the indemnified parties (which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld) settle or compromise or consent to the entry of any judgment with respect to any pending or threatened claim, action, suit or proceeding in respect
of which indemnification or contribution may be sought hereunder (whether or not the indemnified parties are actual or potential parties to such claim or action) unless such settlement, compromise or consent includes an unconditional release of each
indemnified party from all liability arising out of such claim, action, suit or proceeding, or 
  
 (ii) be liable for any settlement of any such action effected without its written consent (which consent shall not be unreasonably
withheld), but if settled with its written consent or if there be a final judgment for the plaintiff in any such action, the indemnifying party agrees to indemnify and hold harmless any indemnified party from and against any loss or liability by
reason of such settlement or judgment. 
  
 (d) If the
indemnification provided for in this Section 6 shall for any reason be unavailable or insufficient to hold harmless an indemnified party under Section 6(a) or 6(b) in respect of any loss, claim, damage or liability (or action in respect thereof)
referred to therein, each indemnifying party shall, in lieu of indemnifying such indemnified party, contribute to the amount paid or payable by such indemnified party as a result of such loss, claim, damage or liability (or action in respect
thereof): 
  
 (i) in such proportion as is
appropriate to reflect the relative benefits received by the Issuer from the offering and sale of the Transfer Restricted Securities on the one hand and a Holder with respect to the sale by such Holder of the Transfer Restricted Securities on the
other, or 
  
 (ii) if the allocation provided by
clause (6)(d)(i) is not permitted by applicable law, in such proportion as is appropriate to reflect not only the relative benefits referred to in clause 6(d)(i) but also the relative fault of the Issuer on the one hand and the Holders on the other
in connection with the statements or omissions or alleged statements or alleged omissions that resulted in such loss, claim, damage or liability (or action in respect thereof), as well as any other relevant equitable considerations. 
  

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 The relative benefits received by the Issuer on the one hand and a Holder on the other with respect to such offering and
such sale shall be deemed to be in the same proportion as the total net proceeds from the offering of the Securities purchased under the Purchase Agreement (before deducting expenses) received by the Issuer, on the one hand, bear to the total
proceeds received by such Holder with respect to its sale of Transfer Restricted Securities on the other. The relative fault of the parties shall be determined by reference to whether the untrue or alleged untrue statement of a material fact or the
omission or alleged omission to state a material fact relates to information supplied by the Issuer and the Guarantors on the one hand or the Holders on the other, the intent of the parties and their relative knowledge, access to information and
opportunity to correct or prevent such statement or omission. The Issuer, the Guarantors and each Holder agree that it would not be just and equitable if the amount of contribution pursuant to this Section 6(d) were determined by pro rata
allocation or by any other method of allocation that does not take into account the equitable considerations referred to in the first sentence of this paragraph (d). The amount paid or payable by an indemnified party as a result of the loss, claim,
damage or liability, or action in respect thereof, referred to above in this Section 6 shall be deemed to include, for purposes of this Section 6, any legal or other expenses reasonably incurred by such indemnified party in connection with
investigating or defending or preparing to defend any such action or claim. Notwithstanding the provisions of this Section 6, no Holder shall be required to contribute any amount in excess of the amount by which the total price at which the Transfer
Restricted Securities purchased by it were resold exceeds the amount of any damages which such Holder has otherwise been required to pay by reason of any untrue or alleged untrue statement or omission or alleged omission. No person guilty of
fraudulent misrepresentation (within the meaning of Section 11(f) of the Securities Act) shall be entitled to contribution from any person who was not guilty of such fraudulent misrepresentation. The Holders’ obligations to contribute as
provided in this Section 6(d) are several and not joint. 
  
 7. Rule 144A. In the event the Issuer is not subject to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act, the Issuer and each of the Guarantors hereby agree with each Holder, for so long as any Transfer Restricted Securities
remain outstanding, to make available to any Holder or beneficial owner of Transfer Restricted Securities in connection with any sale thereof and any prospective purchaser of such Transfer Restricted Securities from such Holder or beneficial owner,
the information required by Rule 144A(d)(4) under the Securities Act in order to permit resales of such Transfer Restricted Securities pursuant to Rule 144A. 
  
 8. Participation in Underwritten Registrations. No Holder may participate in any Underwritten Registration hereunder unless such
Holder: 
  
 (i) agrees to sell such Holder’s
Transfer Restricted Securities on the basis provided in any underwriting arrangements approved by the Persons entitled hereunder to approve such arrangements; and 
  
 (ii) completes and executes all reasonable questionnaires, powers of attorney, indemnities, underwriting
agreements, lock-up letters and other documents required under the terms of such underwriting arrangements. 
  
 9. Selection of Underwriters. The Holders of Transfer Restricted Securities covered by the Shelf Registration Statements who desire
to do so may sell such Transfer Restricted Securities in an Underwritten Offering if approved by the Issuer. In any such Underwritten Offering, the investment banker or investment bankers and manager or managers that will administer the offering
will be selected by a Majority of Holders whose Transfer Restricted Securities are included in such offering; provided, that such investment bankers and managers must be reasonably satisfactory to the Issuer. 
  

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 10. Miscellaneous. 
  
 (a) Remedies. The Issuer and the Guarantors acknowledge and agree that any failure by the Issuer or the
Guarantors to comply with their obligations under Section 2 hereof may result in material irreparable injury to the Initial Purchasers or the Holders for which there is no adequate remedy at law, that it will not be possible to measure damages for
such injuries precisely and that, in the event of any such failure, the Initial Purchasers or any Holder may obtain such relief as may be required to specifically enforce the Issuer’s and the Guarantors’ obligations under Section 2 hereof.
The Issuer and the Guarantors further agree to waive the defense in any action for specific performance that a remedy at law would be adequate. 
  
 (b) Adjustments Affecting Transfer Restricted Securities. The Issuer and the Guarantors shall not, directly or indirectly, take any action
with respect to the Transfer Restricted Securities as a class that would adversely affect the ability of the Holders of Transfer Restricted Securities to include such Transfer Restricted Securities in a registration undertaken pursuant to this
Agreement. 
  
 (c) No Inconsistent
Agreements. The Issuer and the Guarantors will not, on or after the date of this Agreement, enter into any agreement with respect to its securities that is inconsistent with the rights granted to the Holders in this Agreement or otherwise
conflicts with the provisions hereof. In addition, the Issuer shall not grant to any of its security holders (other than the Holders of Transfer Restricted Securities in such capacity) the right to include any of its securities in the Shelf
Registration Statement provided for in this Agreement other than the Transfer Restricted Securities. The Issuer has not previously entered into any agreement (which has not expired or been terminated) granting any registration rights with respect to
its securities to any Person which rights conflict with the provisions hereof. 
  
 (d) Amendments and Waivers. This Agreement may not be amended, modified or supplemented, and waivers or consents to or departures from the provisions hereof may not be given, unless the Issuer has
obtained the written consent of a Majority of Holders or such greater percentage of the Holders as required by the Indenture. 
  
 (e) Notices. All notices and other communications provided for or permitted hereunder shall be made in writing by hand-delivery, first-class
mail (registered or certified, return receipt requested), telex, facsimile transmission, or air courier guaranteeing overnight delivery: 
  
 (i) if to a Holder, at the address set forth on the records of the registrar under the Indenture or the transfer agent of the Common
Stock, as the case may be; and 
  
 (ii) if to the
Issuer or any of the Guarantors: 
  
 Apogent
Technologies Inc. 
 30 Penhallow Street 
 Suite 300 
 Portsmouth, New Hampshire 03801 
  

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 Attention: Michael K. Bresson, Esq. 
 Fax: 603-436-3719 
 Telephone: 603-433-6131, ext. 700 
  
 With a copy to: 
  
 Quarles
& Brady LLP 
 411 East Wisconsin Avenue 
 Suite 2040 
 Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53202-4497 
 Fax: (414) 271-3552 
 Telephone: (414) 277-5169 
 Attention: Joseph Masterson, Esq. 
  
 All such notices and communications shall be deemed to have been duly given: at the time delivered by hand, if personally delivered; five Business Days after being deposited in the mail, postage prepaid, if mailed; when answered back, if
telexed; when receipt acknowledged, if transmitted by facsimile; and on the next Business Day, if timely delivered to an air courier guaranteeing overnight delivery. 
  
 (f) Successors and Assigns. This Agreement shall inure to the benefit of and be binding upon the successors
and assigns of each of the parties and any entity that became a Guarantor after the date hereof, including without limitation and without the need for an express assignment, subsequent Holders of Transfer Restricted Securities; provided,
however, that (i) this Agreement shall not inure to the benefit of or be binding upon a successor or assign of a Holder unless and to the extent such successor or assign acquired Transfer Restricted Securities from such Holder and (ii) nothing
contained herein shall be deemed to permit any assignment, transfer or other disposition of Transfer Restricted Securities in violation of the terms of the Purchase Agreement or the Indenture. If any transferee of any Holder shall acquire Transfer
Restricted Securities, in any manner, whether by operation of law or otherwise, such Transfer Restricted Securities shall be held subject to all of the terms of this Agreement, and by taking and holding such Transfer Restricted Securities such
person shall be conclusively deemed to have agreed to be bound by and to perform all of the terms and provisions of this Agreement. 
  
 (g) Counterparts. This Agreement may be executed in any number of counterparts and by the parties hereto in separate counterparts, each of
which when so executed shall be deemed to be an original and all of which taken together shall constitute one and the same agreement. 
  
 (h) Securities Held by the Issuer or Its Affiliates. Whenever the consent or approval of Holders of a specified percentage of Transfer
Restricted Securities is required hereunder, Transfer Restricted Securities held by the Issuer or its “affiliates” (as such term is defined in Rule 405 under the Securities Act) shall not be counted in determining whether such consent or
approval was given by the Holders of such required percentage. 
  
 (i) Headings. The headings in this Agreement are for convenience of reference only and shall not limit or otherwise affect the meaning hereof. 
  
 (j) Governing Law. This Agreement shall be governed by, and construed in accordance with, the law of the
State of New York. 
  

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 (k) Severability. If any one or more of the provisions contained herein, or the application
thereof in any circumstance, is held invalid, illegal or unenforceable, the validity, legality and enforceability of any such provision in every other respect and of the remaining provisions contained herein shall not be affected or impaired
thereby. 
  
 (l) Entire Agreement. This Agreement is
intended by the parties as a final expression of their agreement and intended to be a complete and exclusive statement of the agreement and understanding of the parties hereto in respect of the subject matter contained herein. There are no
restrictions, promises, warranties or undertakings, other than those set forth or referred to herein with respect to the registration rights granted by the Issuer and the Guarantors with respect to the Transfer Restricted Securities. This Agreement
supersedes all prior agreements and understandings between the parties with respect to such subject matter. 
  

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 IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties have executed this Agreement
as of the date first written above. 
  

			
	APOGENT TECHNOLOGIES INC.
		
	 By
	 	 /s/ Dennis Brown

	 	 	 Dennis Brown

	 	 	 Chief Financial Officer

	
	 ABGENE INC.

	 APOGENT FINANCE COMPANY

	 APOGENT HOLDING COMPANY

	 APOGENT SERVICE CORPORATION

	 APOGENT TRANSITION CORP.

	 BARNSTEAD THERMOLYNE CORPORATION

	 BT CANADA HOLDINGS INC.

	 CAPITOL VIAL, INC.

	 CHASE SCIENTIFIC GLASS, INC.

	 CONSOLIDATED TECHNOLOGIES, INC.

	 ERIE SCIENTIFIC COMPANY

	 ERIE SCIENTIFIC COMPANY OF PUERTO RICO

	 ERIE UK HOLDING COMPANY

	 EVER READY THERMOMETER CO., INC.

	 GENEVAC INC.

	 G&P LABWARE HOLDINGS INC.

	 LAB-LINE INSTRUMENTS, INC.

	 LAB VISION CORPORATION

	 MATRIX TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION

	 MICROGENICS CORPORATION

	 MOLECULAR BIOPRODUCTS, INC.

	 NALGE NUNC INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION

	 NATIONAL SCIENTIFIC COMPANY

	 THE NAUGATUCK GLASS COMPANY

	 NEOMARKERS, INC.

	 NERL DIAGNOSTICS CORPORATION

	 OWL SEPARATION SYSTEMS, INC.

	 QUALITY SCIENTIFIC PLASTICS, INC.

	 REMEL INC.

	 RICHARD-ALLAN SCIENTIFIC COMPANY

	 ROBBINS SCIENTIFIC CORPORATION

	 SAMCO SCIENTIFIC CORPORATION

	 SEPARATION TECHNOLOGY, INC.

	 SERADYN INC.

  

			
	By	 	 /s/ Dennis Brown

	 	 	 Dennis Brown

	 	 	 Vice President

					
	METAVAC LLC
		
	 By:
	 	 The Naugatuck Glass Company

	 	 	 Sole Member and Manager

			
	 	 	 By
	 	 /s/ Dennis Brown

	 	 	 	 	 Dennis Brown

	 	 	 	 	 Vice President

			
	LEHMAN BROTHERS INC.
	
	 FOR ITSELF AND ON BEHALF OF
THE

	 SEVERAL INITIAL PURCHASERS

	
	 BY LEHMAN BROTHERS INC.

		
	 By
	 	 /s/    BRIAN A. MCCARTHY 

	 	 	 Authorized Representative

 EXHIBIT A 
  

APOGENT TECHNOLOGIES INC. 
  
 FORM OF SELLING SECURITYHOLDER NOTICE AND QUESTIONNAIRE 
  
 The undersigned beneficial holder of Floating Rate Senior Convertible Contingent Debt Securities (the “CODES”) due 2033 of Apogent
Technologies Inc. (the “Issuer”), or common stock, par value $0.01 per share (the “Shares” and together with the CODES, the “Transfer Restricted Securities”) of the Issuer understands that the
Issuer and the subsidiary guarantors of the CODES (the “Guarantors”) have filed, or intend to file, with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”) one or more registration statements (collectively,
the “Shelf Registration Statement”), for the registration and resale under Rule 415 of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), of the Transfer Restricted Securities in accordance with the
terms of the Resale Registration Rights Agreement, dated as of December 17, 2003 (the “Registration Rights Agreement”) between the Issuer, the Guarantors (as defined therein) and Lehman Brothers Inc., Banc of America Securities LLC,
J.P. Morgan Securities Inc., Credit Suisse First Boston LLC, ABN AMRO Rothschild LLC, Fleet Securities, Inc., Scotia Capital (USA) Inc., SunTrust Capital Markets, Inc., The Royal Bank of Scotland plc and HSBC Securities (USA) Inc. (collectively, the
“Initial Purchasers”). A copy of the Registration Rights Agreement is available from the Issuer upon request at the address set forth below. All capitalized terms not otherwise defined herein have the meaning ascribed thereto in the
Registration Rights Agreement. 
  
 Each beneficial owner of
Transfer Restricted Securities is entitled to the benefits of the Registration Rights Agreement. In order to sell or otherwise dispose of any Transfer Restricted Securities pursuant to the Shelf Registration Statement, a beneficial owner of Transfer
Restricted Securities generally will be required to be named as a selling securityholder in the related Prospectus, deliver a Prospectus to purchasers of Transfer Restricted Securities and be bound by those provisions of the Registration Rights
Agreement applicable to such beneficial owner (including certain indemnification provisions, as described below). 
  
 Certain legal consequences arise from being named as a selling securityholder in the Shelf Registration Statement and the related Prospectus. Accordingly,
holders and beneficial owners of Transfer Restricted Securities are advised to consult their own securities law counsel regarding the consequences of being named or not being named as a selling securityholder in the Shelf Registration Statement and
the related Prospectus. 
  
 NOTICE 
  
 The undersigned beneficial owner (the “Selling
Securityholder”) of Transfer Restricted Securities hereby gives notice to the Issuer of its intention to sell or otherwise dispose of Transfer Restricted Securities beneficially owned by it and listed below in Item 3 (unless otherwise
specified under Item 3) pursuant to the Shelf Registration Statement. The undersigned, by signing and returning this Notice and Questionnaire, understands that it will be bound by the terms and conditions of this Notice and Questionnaire and the
Registration Rights Agreement. 
  
 Pursuant to the Registration
Rights Agreement, the undersigned has agreed to indemnify and hold harmless the Issuer, the Guarantors, the Issuer’s and the Guarantors’ respective directors, the Issuer’s officers who sign the Shelf Registration Statement and each
person, if any, who controls the Issuer or the Guarantors within the meaning of either Section 15 of the Securities Act or Section 20 
  

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of the Exchange Act, from and against certain losses arising in connection with statements concerning the undersigned made in the Shelf Registration
Statement or the related Prospectus in reliance upon the information provided in this Notice and Questionnaire. 
  
 The undersigned hereby provides the following information to the Issuer and represents and warrants that such information is accurate and complete:

  
 QUESTIONNAIRE 
  
 1. Information Regarding Selling Securityholder 
  

	 	(a)	Full legal name of Selling Securityholder:
                                        
                                        
                                     

  

	 	(b)	Full legal name of registered holder (if not the same as (a) above) through which Transfer Restricted Securities listed in Item (3) below are held: 

  
                                       
                                        
                                        
                                        
                                        

  

	 	(c)	Is the Selling Securityholder an SEC-reporting company? If so, list below the individual or individuals who exercise dispositive powers with respect to the CODES, and the voting
and/or dispositive powers with respect to the common stock underlying the CODES. 

  
                                       
                                        
                                        
                                        
                                        

  

	 	(d)	Are you a broker-dealer registered pursuant Section 15 of the Exchange Act? 

  

	 	 ̈	Yes. 

  

	 	 ̈	No. 

  

	 	(e)	If your response to Item 1(d) above is no, are you an “affiliate” of a broker-dealer registered pursuant to Section 15 of the Exchange Act? 

  

	 	 ̈	Yes. 

  

	 	 ̈	No. 

  
 For the purposes of this Item 1(e), an “affiliate” of a registered broker-dealer shall include any company that directly, or indirectly through one or more intermediaries, controls, or is controlled by, or
is under common control with, such broker-dealer, and does not include any individuals employed by such broker-dealer or its affiliates. 
  

	 	(f)	Full legal name of person through which you hold the Transfer Restricted Securities — (i.e. name of your broker or the DTC participant, if applicable, through which your
Transfer Restricted Securities are held): 

  
 Name of broker:
                                        
                                        
                           
                                        
         
 DTC No.:
                                        
                                        
                                        
                                        
         
 Contact person:
                                        
                                        
                            
                                        
         
 Telephone No.:
                                        
                                        
                             
                                        
         
  

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 2. Address for Notices to Selling Securityholders 
  
 Telephone:
                                        
                                        
                       
                                        
                     
  
 Fax:
                                        
                                        
                                    
                                        
                     
  
 Contact Person:
                                        
                                        
              
                                        
                     
  
 3. Beneficial Ownership of Transfer Restricted Securities 
  

	 	(a)	Type of Transfer Restricted Securities beneficially owned, and principal amount of Securities or number of shares of Common Stock, as the case may be, beneficially owned:
                                  
             

  

	 	(b)	CUSIP No(s). of such Transfer Restricted Securities beneficially owned:
                                        
                 

  
 4. Beneficial Ownership of the Issuer’s Securities Owned by the Selling Securityholder 
  
 Except as set forth below in this Item (4), the undersigned is not the beneficial or registered owner of any securities of the Issuer other than the
Transfer Restricted Securities listed above in Item (3) (“Other Securities”). 
  

	 	(a)	Type and amount of Other Securities beneficially owned by the Selling Securityholder:
                               

  

	 	(b)	CUSIP No(s). of such Other Securities beneficially owned:
                                        
                                        
     

  
 5. Relationship with the
Issuer 
  

	 	(a)	Except as set forth below, neither the undersigned nor any of its affiliates, officers, directors or principal equity holders (5% or more) has held any position or office or has had
any other material relationship with the Issuer (or its predecessors or affiliates) during the past three years. 

  
 State any exceptions here:
                                        
                                        
                                        
                            
  

	 	(b)	If the Selling Securityholder is a registered broker-dealer, except as set forth below, (i) neither the undersigned nor any of its affiliates has purchased the Transfer Restricted
Securities other than in the ordinary course of business, and (ii) at the time of the purchase of the Transfer Restricted Securities to be registered, there was no agreement or understanding, written or otherwise, with any person to distribute any
such Transfer Restricted Securities. 

  
 State any exceptions here:
                                        
                                        
                                        
                            
  

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 6. Plan of Distribution 
  
 Except as set forth below, the undersigned (including its donees or pledgees) intends to distribute the Transfer Restricted
Securities listed above in Item (3) pursuant to the Shelf Registration Statement only as follows (if at all). Such Transfer Restricted Securities may be sold from time to time directly by the undersigned or, alternatively, through underwriters,
broker-dealers or agents. If the Transfer Restricted Securities are sold through underwriters or broker-dealers, the Selling Securityholder will be responsible for underwriting discounts or commissions or agent’s commissions. Such Transfer
Restricted Securities may be sold in one or more transactions at fixed prices, at prevailing market prices at the time of sale, at varying prices determined at the time of sale, or at negotiated prices. Such sales may be effected in transactions
(which may involve crosses or block transactions): 
  

	 	(i)	on any national securities exchange or quotation service on which the Transfer Restricted Securities may be listed or quoted at the time of sale; 

  

	 	(ii)	in the over-the-counter market; 

  

	 	(iii)	in transactions otherwise than on such exchanges or services or in the over-the-counter market; or 

  

	 	(iv)	through the writing of options. 

  
 In connection with sales of the Transfer Restricted Securities or otherwise, the undersigned may enter into hedging transactions with broker-dealers,
which may in turn engage in short sales of the Transfer Restricted Securities and deliver Transfer Restricted Securities to close out such short positions, or loan or pledge Transfer Restricted Securities to broker-dealers that in turn may sell such
securities. 
  
 State any exceptions here:
                                        
                                        
                                        
                                     
  
                                       
                                        
                                        
                                        
                                        
           
  
 Note: In no event will such method(s) of distribution take the form of an underwritten offering of the Transfer Restricted Securities without the prior agreement of the Issuer. 
  
 7. Instructions for Delivery of Questionnaire 
  
 Please return the completed and executed Questionnaire to Apogent
Technologies Inc. at: 
  
 Apogent Technologies
Inc. 
 30 Penhallow Street 
 Suite 300 
 Portsmouth, New Hampshire 03801 
 Attention: General Counsel 
  

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 Acknowledgments 
  
 The undersigned acknowledges that it understands its obligation to comply
with the provisions of the Exchange Act and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder relating to stock manipulation, particularly Regulation M thereunder (or any successor rules or regulations), in connection with any offering of Transfer
Restricted Securities pursuant to the Shelf Registration Statement. The undersigned agrees that neither it nor any person acting on its behalf will engage in any transaction in violation of such provisions. 
  
 The Selling Securityholder hereby acknowledges its obligations under the
Registration Rights Agreement to indemnify and hold harmless certain persons as set forth therein. Pursuant to the Registration Rights Agreement, the Issuer has agreed under certain circumstances to indemnify the Selling Securityholders against
certain liabilities. 
  
 In accordance with the undersigned’s
obligation under the Registration Rights Agreement to provide such information as may be required by law for inclusion in the Shelf Registration Statement, the undersigned agrees to promptly notify the Issuer of any inaccuracies or changes in the
information provided herein that may occur subsequent to the date hereof at any time while the Shelf Registration Statement remains effective. All notices hereunder and pursuant to the Registration Rights Agreement shall be made in writing at the
address set forth above. 
  
 By signing below, the undersigned
consents to the disclosure of the information contained herein in its answers to items (1) through (6) above and the inclusion of such information in the Shelf Registration Statement and the related Prospectus. The undersigned understands that such
information will be relied upon by the Issuer in connection with the preparation or amendment of the Shelf Registration Statement and the related Prospectus. 
  
 Once this Notice and Questionnaire is executed by the undersigned and received by the Issuer, the terms of this Notice and Questionnaire, and the
representations and warranties contained herein, shall be binding on, shall inure to the benefit of and shall be enforceable by the respective successors, heirs, personal representatives and assigns of the Issuer and the undersigned with respect to
the Transfer Restricted Securities beneficially owned by the undersigned and listed in Item (3) above. This Notice and Questionnaire shall be governed in all respects by the laws of the State of New York. 
  
 IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned, by authority duly given, has caused this
Questionnaire to be executed and delivered either in person or by its duly authorized agent. 
  
 Date:                         
  

			
	Beneficial Owner
		
	 By:
	 	  

	 	 	 Name:

	 	 	 Title:

	 	 	 Date:

  

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 EXHIBIT B 
  

Form of Acknowledgement to Add Guarantors 
  
 Reference is hereby made to the Resale Registration Rights Agreement, dated as of December 17, 2003 among Apogent Technologies Inc., a
Wisconsin corporation, the Guarantors parties thereto and Lehman Brothers Inc., Banc of America Securities LLC, J.P. Morgan Securities Inc., Credit Suisse First Boston LLC, ABN AMRO Rothschild LLC, Fleet Securities, Inc., Scotia Capital (USA) Inc.,
SunTrust Capital Markets, Inc., The Royal Bank of Scotland plc and HSBC Securities (USA) Inc., as Initial Purchasers (the “Agreement”; all capitalized terms used and not otherwise defined herein shall have the meanings ascribed thereto in
the Agreement). 
  
 From and after the date of
this acknowledgement, the undersigned acknowledges and agrees that it shall become a party to the Agreement, shall have the rights and obligations of a Guarantor thereunder and shall be bound by the terms thereof insofar as such terms are applicable
to it. 
  
 The undersigned further agrees that it
will perform in accordance with the terms of the Agreement all obligations that are required to be performed by it as a Guarantor thereunder. 
  

			
	[New Guarantor]
		
	 By:
	 	  

	 Name:
	 	 
	 Title:
	 	 

  
  
 Dated this      day of             , 20    .

  

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