Document:

Exhibit 10.140

 

 

 

First Amended and Restated Pledge Agreement

 

 

THIS FIRST AMENDED AND RESTATED PLEDGE AGREEMENT, dated as of this 28th day of October, 2011 (the “Pledge Agreement”), is made by ERIE INDEMNITY COMPANY AS ATTORNEY IN FACT FOR ERIE INSURANCE EXCHANGE (the “Pledgor”), with an address at 100 Erie Insurance Place, Erie, Pennsylvania 16530, in favor of PNC BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION (“PNC”), as administrative agent for itself and certain other Lenders (as hereinafter defined) (in such capacity, the “Secured Party”), with an address at 901 State Street, P.O. Box 8480, Erie, Pennsylvania 16553 (“Pledge Agreement”).

 

1.                                    Pledge.  In order to induce the Secured Party and the other Lenders to enter into the Credit Agreement (as defined below), the Pledgor hereby grants a security interest in and pledges to the Secured Party (as administrative agent for itself and the other Lenders) all of the Pledgor’s right, title and interest in and to the investment property and other assets of the Pledgor in the following investment account and all security entitlements of the Pledgor with respect thereto, whether now owned or hereafter acquired, together with all additions, substitutions, replacements and proceeds thereof and all income, interest, dividends and other distributions thereon (collectively, the “Collateral”):  Account No.:  EIRF 1221052; Name:  Erie Insurance Exchange Collateral Account; Custodian:  The Bank of New York Mellon; Custodian’s Address:  One Mellon Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15258, which investment account contains as of the Closing Date the investment property and other assets set forth in Exhibit A attached hereto and made a part hereof.  If the Collateral includes certificated securities, documents or instruments, such certificates are herewith delivered to the Secured Party accompanied by duly executed blank stock or bond powers or assignments as applicable.  The Pledgor hereby authorizes the transfer of possession of all certificates, instruments, documents and other evidence of the Collateral to the Secured Party.

 

2.                                    Obligations Secured.  Reference is hereby made to that certain First Amended and Restated Credit Agreement, dated as of even date herewith, by and among the Pledgor, PNC and various other financial institutions from time to time party thereto (PNC and such other financial institutions are each, a “Lender” and collectively, the “Lenders”), and the Secured Party (as further amended, restated, modified or supplemented from time to time, the “Credit Agreement”; unless otherwise defined herein, terms defined in the Credit Agreement shall have such defined meaning when used herein).  The Collateral secures payment of the Obligations in accordance with the terms of the Obligations and of the Credit Agreement and the full and timely payment and performance of the obligations of the Pledgor under this Pledge Agreement, and the Loan Parties under the Credit Agreement and the other Loan Documents (hereinafter referred to collectively as the “Obligations”).

 

3.                                    Representations and Warranties.  The Pledgor represents and warrants to the Secured Party as follows:

 

 

3.1                            This Pledge Agreement and the Control Agreement (as hereinafter defined) have been duly executed and delivered by the Pledgor, constitute valid and legally binding obligations and are enforceable in accordance with their respective terms against the Pledgor.

 

3.2                            The execution, delivery and performance of this Pledge Agreement, the grant of the security interest in the Collateral hereunder and the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby will not, with or without the giving of notice or the lapse of time, (i) violate any law applicable to the Pledgor; (ii) violate any judgment, writ, injunction or order of any court or Official Body applicable to the Pledgor; (iii) violate or result in the breach of any agreement to which the Pledgor is a party or by which any of its properties, including the Collateral, is bound; nor (iv) violate any restriction on the transfer of any of the Collateral.

 

3.3                            There are no restrictions on the pledge or transfer of any of the Collateral.

 

3.4                            The Pledgor is the legal owner of the Collateral, which is registered in the name of the Pledgor, the Custodian (as hereinafter defined) or a nominee.

 

3.5                            The Collateral is free and clear of any security interests, pledges, liens, encumbrances, charges, agreements, claims or other arrangements or restrictions of any kind, except as referenced in Section 3.3 above; and the Pledgor will not incur, create, assume or permit to exist any pledge, security interest, lien, charge or other encumbrance of any nature whatsoever on any of the Collateral or assign, pledge or otherwise encumber any right to receive income from the Collateral, other than in favor of the Secured Party.

 

3.6                            The Pledgor has the right to transfer the Collateral free of any encumbrances and the Pledgor will defend the Pledgor’s title to the Collateral against the claims of all Persons, and any registration with, or consent or approval of, or other action by, any federal, state or other governmental authority or regulatory body which was or is necessary for the validity of the pledge of and grant of the security interest in the Collateral has been obtained.

 

3.7                            The pledge of and grant of the security interest in the Collateral is effective to vest in the Secured Party a valid and perfected first priority security interest, superior to the rights of any other person, in and to the Collateral as set forth herein.

 

3.8                            None of the information, documents, or financial statements that have been furnished by the Pledgor to the Secured Party in connection with the transactions contemplated by this Pledge Agreement or the other Loan Documents contains, as of the date furnished, any untrue statement of material fact or omits any material fact required to be stated hereby or thereby to make such statements not misleading.

 

3.9                            The Collateral described in Exhibit A is a complete and accurate list of the securities and other investment property and assets maintained in the Collateral Account as of the Closing Date.

 

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4.                                    Covenants.

 

4.1                            The Pledgor agrees to maintain Collateral Value in accordance with Section 7.1.10 of the Credit Agreement.

 

4.2                            The Pledgor agrees that Eligible Collateral maintained in the Collateral Account shall consist of investment property and other assets in accordance with Section 7.1.12 of the Credit Agreement.

 

4.3                            The Pledgor agrees that trading and withdrawals with respect to the assets maintained in the Collateral Account are permitted provided that no Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, and further provided that (i) the Pledgor shall maintain Collateral Value in accordance with Section 7.1.10 of the Credit Agreement, (ii) the Pledgor shall maintain in the Collateral Account investment property and other assets in accordance with Section 7.1.12 of the Credit Agreement, (iii) not later than 12:00 noon, eastern time, on the day in which the Pledgor intends to make any trade or withdrawal, the Pledgor shall deliver to the Secured Party an executed Notification of Change in Collateral, substantially in the form attached to and made a part of this Pledge Agreement as Exhibit B, together with Exhibit A attached thereto, and (iv) unless the Pledgor is solely trading Collateral in the Collateral Account and the Custodian will retain the proceeds from the trade of such Collateral in the Collateral Account, prior to making any trade or withdrawal, the Pledgor shall have received the Notification of Change in Collateral executed by the Secured Party indicating its agreement to the terms thereof.  The Secured Party will use its commercially reasonable efforts to execute and deliver to the Custodian and Pledgor each approved Notification of Change in Collateral within one (1) Business Day after receipt from the Pledgor.

 

4.4                            If all or part of the Collateral constitutes “margin stock” within the meaning of Regulation U of the Federal Reserve Board, the Pledgor agrees to execute and deliver Form U-1 to the Secured Party and, unless otherwise agreed in writing between the Pledgor and the Secured Party, no part of the proceeds of the Obligations may be used to purchase or carry margin stock.

 

4.5                            Pledgor agrees not to invoke, and hereby waives its rights under, any statute under any state or federal law which permits the recharacterization of any portion of the Collateral to be interest or income.

 

5.                                    Default.

 

5.1                            If any of the following occur and are continuing (each an “Event of Default”):  (i) any Event of Default (as defined in the Credit Agreement), (ii) the failure of the Secured Party to have a perfected first priority security interest in the Collateral, (iii) any restriction is imposed on the pledge or transfer of any of the Collateral after the date of this Pledge Agreement without the Secured Party’s prior written consent, or (iv) the breach of the Control Agreement (referred to in Section 8 below), or receipt of notice of termination of the Control Agreement if no successor custodian acceptable to the Secured Party has executed a Control Agreement in form and substance acceptable to the Secured Party on or before ten (10) days prior to the effective date of the termination, then the Secured Party is authorized in its

 

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discretion to declare any or all of the Obligations to be immediately due and payable without demand or notice, which are expressly waived, and may exercise any one or more of the rights and remedies granted pursuant to this Pledge Agreement or given to a secured party under the Uniform Commercial Code of the applicable state, as it may be amended from time to time, or otherwise at law or in equity, including without limitation the right to issue a Notice of Exclusive Control (as defined in the Control Agreement) to the Custodian, and/or to sell or otherwise dispose of any or all of the Collateral at public or private sale, with or without advertisement thereof upon such terms and conditions as it may deem advisable and at such prices as it may deem best.

 

5.2                            (a)   At any bona fide public sale, and to the extent permitted by law, at any private sale, the Secured Party shall be free to purchase all or any part of the Collateral, free of any right or equity of redemption in the Pledgor, which right or equity is hereby waived and released.  Any such sale may be on cash or credit.  The Secured Party shall be authorized at any such sale (if it deems it advisable to do so) to restrict the prospective bidders or purchasers to persons who will represent and agree that they are purchasing the Collateral for their own account in compliance with Regulation D of the Securities Act of 1933 (the “Act”) or any other applicable exemption available under such Act.  The Secured Party will not be obligated to make any sale if it determines not to do so, regardless of the fact that notice of the sale may have been given.  The Secured Party may adjourn any sale and sell at the time and place to which the sale is adjourned.  If the Collateral is customarily sold on a recognized market or threatens to decline speedily in value, the Secured Party may sell such Collateral at any time without giving prior notice to the Pledgor.  Whenever notice is otherwise required by law to be sent by the Secured Party to the Pledgor of any sale or other disposition of the Collateral, ten (10) days written notice sent to the Pledgor at its address specified above will be reasonable.

 

(b)                              The Pledgor recognizes that the Secured Party may be unable to effect or cause to be effected a public sale of the Collateral by reason of certain prohibitions contained in the Act, so that the Secured Party may be compelled to resort to one or more private sales to a restricted group of purchasers who will be obligated to agree, among other things, to acquire the Collateral for their own account, for investment and without a view to the distribution or resale thereof.  The Pledgor understands that private sales so made may be at prices and on other terms less favorable to the seller than if the Collateral were sold at public sales, and agrees that the Secured Party has no obligation to delay or agree to delay the sale of any of the Collateral for the period of time necessary to permit the issuer of the securities which are part of the Collateral (even if the issuer would agree), to register such securities for sale under the Act.  The Pledgor agrees that private sales made under the foregoing circumstances shall be deemed to have been made in a commercially reasonable manner.

 

5.3                            The net proceeds arising from the disposition of the Collateral after deducting expenses incurred by the Secured Party will be applied to the Obligations in the order determined by the Secured Party.  If any excess remains after the discharge of all of the Obligations, the same will be paid to the Pledgor.  If after exhausting all of the Collateral there is a deficiency, the Pledgor will be liable therefor to the Secured Party; provided, however, that nothing contained herein will obligate the Secured Party to proceed against the Pledgor or any other party obligated under the Obligations or against any other collateral for the Obligations prior to proceeding against the Collateral.

 

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5.4                            If any demand is made at any time upon the Secured Party for the repayment or recovery of any amount received by it in payment or on account of any of the Obligations and if the Secured Party repays all or any part of such amount by reason of any judgment, decree or order of any court or administrative body or by reason of any settlement or compromise of any such demand, the Pledgor will be and remain liable for the amounts so repaid or recovered to the same extent as if such amount had never been originally received by the Secured Party.  The provisions of this section will be and remain effective notwithstanding the release of any of the Collateral by the Secured Party in reliance upon such payment (in which case the Pledgor’s liability will be limited to an amount equal to the fair market value of the Collateral determined as of the date such Collateral was released) and any such release will be without prejudice to the Secured Party’s rights hereunder and will be deemed to have been conditioned upon such payment having become final and irrevocable.  This Section shall survive the termination of this Pledge Agreement.

 

6.                                    Voting Rights and Transfer.  Prior to the occurrence of an Event of Default which is continuing, the Pledgor will have the right to exercise all voting rights with respect to the Collateral.  At any time after the occurrence of an Event of Default which is continuing, the Secured Party may transfer any or all of the Collateral into its name or that of its nominee and may exercise all voting rights with respect to the Collateral to the exclusion of the Pledgor, but no such transfer shall constitute a taking of such Collateral in satisfaction of any or all of the Obligations unless the Secured Party expressly so indicates by written notice to the Pledgor.

 

7.                                    Dividends, Interest and Premiums.  The Pledgor will have the right to receive all cash dividends, interest and premiums declared and paid on the Collateral prior to the occurrence of any Event of Default which is continuing.  In the event any additional shares are issued to the Pledgor as a stock dividend or in lieu of interest on any of the Collateral, as a result of any split of any of the Collateral, by reclassification or otherwise, any certificates evidencing any such additional shares will be immediately delivered to the Secured Party and such shares will be subject to this Pledge Agreement and a part of the Collateral to the same extent as the original Collateral.  At any time after the occurrence of an Event of Default which is continuing, the Secured Party shall be entitled to receive all cash or stock dividends, interest and premiums declared or paid on the Collateral, all of which shall be subject to the Secured Party’s rights under Section 5 above.

 

8.                                    Securities Account.  The Pledgor and the securities intermediary on whose books and records the ownership interest of the Pledgor in the Collateral appears (the “Custodian”) have entered into that certain Notification and Control Agreement, dated September 30, 2009 (as amended, modified or supplemented from time to time, the “Control Agreement”), in order to perfect and protect the Secured Party’s security interest in the Collateral.

 

9.                                    Further Assurances.  By its signature hereon, the Pledgor hereby irrevocably authorizes the Secured Party, at any time and from time to time, to execute (on behalf of the Pledgor), file and record against the Pledgor any notice, financing statement, continuation statement, amendment statement, instrument, document or agreement under the UCC that the Secured Party may consider necessary or advisable to create, preserve, continue, perfect or validate any security interest granted hereunder or to enable the Secured Party to exercise or enforce its rights hereunder with respect to such security interest.  Without limiting the generality

 

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of the foregoing, the Pledgor hereby irrevocably appoints the Secured Party as the Pledgor’s attorney-in-fact to do all acts and things in the Pledgor’s name that the Secured Party may deem necessary or advisable to create, preserve, continue, perfect or validate any security interest granted hereunder or to enable the Secured Party to exercise or enforce its rights hereunder with respect to such security interest.  This power of attorney is coupled with an interest with full power of substitution and is irrevocable.  The Pledgor hereby ratifies all that said attorney shall lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.

 

10.                            Release of Collateral.                                              Subject to any sale or other disposition by the Secured Party of the Collateral in accordance with the terms hereof, upon payment in full and the satisfaction of all of the Obligations and the termination of the Credit Agreement, this Pledge Agreement shall terminate, the Pledgor and its assigns are authorized to file or the Secured Party, upon request from the Pledgor, shall file, if applicable, UCC-3 financing statements to evidence the release of the Liens granted hereunder and the Collateral shall within thirty (30) days following payment in full and the satisfaction of all of the Obligations and the termination of the Credit Agreement be returned to the Pledgor.

 

11.                            Notices.  All notices, demands, requests, consents, approvals and other communications required or permitted hereunder (“Notices”) must be in writing and will be effective upon receipt.  Notices may be given in any manner to which the parties may separately agree, including electronic mail.  Without limiting the foregoing, first-class mail, facsimile transmission and commercial courier service are hereby agreed to as acceptable methods for giving Notices.  Regardless of the manner in which provided, Notices may be sent to a party’s address as set forth above or to such other address as either the Pledgor or the Secured Party may give to the other for such purpose in accordance with this section.

 

12.                            Preservation of Rights.  (a)   No delay or omission on the Secured Party’s part to exercise any right or power arising hereunder will impair any such right or power or be considered a waiver of any such right or power, nor will the Secured Party’s action or inaction impair any such right or power.  The Secured Party’s rights and remedies hereunder are cumulative and not exclusive of any other rights or remedies which the Secured Party may have under other agreements, at law or in equity.

 

(b)                              The Secured Party may, at any time and from time to time, without notice to or the consent of the Pledgor unless otherwise expressly required pursuant to the terms of the Obligations, and without impairing or releasing, discharging or modifying the Pledgor’s liabilities hereunder, (i) change the manner, place, time or terms of payment or performance of or interest rates on, or other terms relating to, any of the Obligations; (ii) renew, substitute, modify, amend or alter, or grant consents or waivers relating to any of the Obligations, any other pledge or security agreements, or any security for any Obligations; (iii) apply any and all payments by whomever paid or however realized including any proceeds of any collateral, to any Obligations of the Pledgor in such order, manner and amount as the Secured Party may determine in its sole discretion; (iv) deal with any other Person with respect to any Obligations in such manner as the Secured Party deems appropriate in its sole discretion; (v) substitute, exchange or release any security or guaranty; or (vi) take such actions and exercise such remedies hereunder as provided herein.  The Pledgor hereby waives (a) presentment, demand, protest, notice of dishonor and

 

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notice of non-payment and all other notices to which the Pledgor might otherwise be entitled, and (b) all defenses based on suretyship or impairment of collateral.

 

13.                            Illegality.  In case any one or more of the provisions contained in this Pledge Agreement should be invalid, illegal or unenforceable in any respect, it shall not affect or impair the validity, legality and enforceability of the remaining provisions in this Pledge Agreement.

 

14.                            Changes in Writing.  No modification, amendment or waiver of or consent to any departure by the Pledgor from, any provision of this Pledge Agreement will be effective unless made in a writing signed by the Secured Party, and then such waiver or consent shall be effective only in the specific instance and for the purpose for which given.  No notice to or demand on the Pledgor in any case will entitle the Pledgor to any other or further notice or demand in the same, similar or other circumstance.

 

15.                            Entire Agreement.  This Pledge Agreement (including the documents and instruments referred to herein) constitutes the entire agreement and supersedes all other prior agreements and understandings, both written and oral, between the Pledgor and the Secured Party with respect to the subject matter hereof.

 

16.                            Successors and Assigns.  This Pledge Agreement will be binding upon and inure to the benefit of the Pledgor and the Secured Party and their respective heirs, executors, administrators, successors and assigns; provided, however, that the Pledgor may not assign this Pledge Agreement in whole or in part without the Secured Party’s prior written consent and the Secured Party at any time may assign this Pledge Agreement in whole or in part.

 

17.                            Interpretation.  In this Pledge Agreement, unless the Secured Party and the Pledgor otherwise agree in writing, the singular includes the plural and the plural the singular; references to statutes are to be construed as including all statutory provisions consolidating, amending or replacing the statute referred to; the word “or” shall be deemed to include “and/or”, the words “including”, “includes” and “include” shall be deemed to be followed by the words “without limitation”; and references to agreements and other contractual instruments shall be deemed to include all subsequent amendments and other modifications to such instruments, but only to the extent such amendments and other modifications are not prohibited by the terms of this Pledge Agreement.  Section headings in this Pledge Agreement are included for convenience of reference only and shall not constitute a part of this Pledge Agreement for any other purpose.  If this Pledge Agreement is executed by more than one party as Pledgor, the obligations of such persons or entities will be joint and several.

 

18.                            Indemnity.  The Pledgor agrees to indemnify each of the Secured Party, each legal entity, if any, who controls, is controlled by or is under common control with the Secured Party, and each of their respective directors, officers and employees (the “Indemnified Parties”), and to hold each Indemnified Party harmless from and against, any and all claims, damages, losses, liabilities and expenses (including all reasonable fees and charges of internal or external counsel with whom any Indemnified Party may consult and all expenses of litigation or preparation therefor) which any Indemnified Party may incur, or which may be asserted against any Indemnified Party by any person, entity or governmental authority (including any person or entity claiming derivatively on behalf of the Pledgor), in connection with or arising out of or

 

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relating to the matters referred to in this Pledge Agreement or under any Control Agreement, whether (a) arising from or incurred in connection with any breach of a representation, warranty or covenant by the Pledgor, or (b) arising out of or resulting from any suit, action, claim, proceeding or governmental investigation, pending or threatened, whether based on statute, regulation or order, or tort, or contract or otherwise, before any court or governmental authority; provided, however, that the foregoing indemnity agreement shall not apply to claims, damages, losses, liabilities and expenses solely attributable to an Indemnified Party’s gross negligence or willful misconduct.  The indemnity agreement contained in this Section shall survive the termination of this Pledge Agreement.  The Pledgor may participate at its expense in the defense of any such action or claim.

 

19.                            Governing Law and Jurisdiction.  This Pledge Agreement has been delivered to and accepted by the Secured Party and will be deemed to be made in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.  THIS PLEDGE AGREEMENT WILL BE INTERPRETED AND THE RIGHTS AND LIABILITIES OF THE PLEDGOR AND THE SECURED PARTY DETERMINED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAWS OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA, EXCLUDING ITS CONFLICT OF LAWS RULES.  The Pledgor hereby irrevocably consents to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania sitting in Allegheny County and of the United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania, and any appellate court from any thereof; provided that nothing contained in this Pledge Agreement will prevent the Secured Party from bringing any action, enforcing any award or judgment or exercising any rights against the Pledgor individually, against any security or against any property of the Pledgor within any other county, state or other foreign or domestic jurisdiction.  The Pledgor acknowledges and agrees that the venue provided above is the most convenient forum for both the Secured Party and the Pledgor.  The Pledgor waives any objection to venue and any objection based on a more convenient forum in any action instituted under this Pledge Agreement.

 

20.                            Amendment and Restatement.  This Pledge Agreement amends and restates that certain Pledge Agreement, dated September 30, 2009, made by the Pledgor for the benefit of the Secured Party (the “Existing Pledge Agreement”).  This Pledge Agreement is issued in substitution for the Existing Pledge Agreement and is not a novation thereof.

 

21.                            WAIVER OF JURY TRIAL.  THE PLEDGOR IRREVOCABLY WAIVES ANY AND ALL RIGHT THE PLEDGOR MAY HAVE TO A TRIAL BY JURY IN ANY ACTION, PROCEEDING OR CLAIM OF ANY NATURE RELATING TO THIS PLEDGE AGREEMENT, ANY DOCUMENTS EXECUTED IN CONNECTION WITH THIS PLEDGE AGREEMENT OR ANY TRANSACTION CONTEMPLATED IN ANY OF SUCH DOCUMENTS.  THE PLEDGOR ACKNOWLEDGES THAT THE FOREGOING WAIVER IS KNOWING AND VOLUNTARY.

 

The Pledgor acknowledges that it has read and understood all the provisions of this Pledge Agreement, including the waiver of jury trial, and has been advised by counsel as necessary or appropriate.

 

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WITNESS the due execution hereof as a document under seal, as of the date first written above, with the intent to be legally bound hereby.

 

	
WITNESS:
    	
 
    	
Erie Insurance Exchange
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
By: Erie Indemnity Company, a   Pennsylvania corporation, its Attorney-in-Fact
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    
	
/s/ Robert W. McNutt
    	
 
    	
By:
    	
/s/ Douglas F. Ziegler
    	
 (SEAL)
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
Print Name:
    	
Douglas F. Ziegler
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
Title:
    	
Senior Vice President,   Treasurer and
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    	
Chief  Investment OfficerExhibit 4.1

 

EXECUTION VERSION

 

RITE AID CORPORATION

 

9.25% Senior Notes due 2020

 

 

INDENTURE

 

Dated as of February 27, 2012

 

 

The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company, N.A.,

 

as Trustee

 

 

TABLE OF CONTENTS

 

	
ARTICLE I
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
 
    
	
Definitions and Incorporation by Reference
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
 
    
	
SECTION   1.01. 
    	
Definitions
    	
1
    
	
SECTION   1.02. 
    	
Other   Definitions
    	
31
    
	
SECTION   1.03. 
    	
Incorporation   by Reference of Trust Indenture Act
    	
31
    
	
SECTION   1.04. 
    	
Rules   of Construction
    	
32
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    
	
ARTICLE II
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
 
    
	
The Securities
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
 
    
	
SECTION   2.01. 
    	
Amount   of Securities; Issuable in Series
    	
32
    
	
SECTION   2.02. 
    	
Form   and Dating
    	
34
    
	
SECTION   2.03. 
    	
Execution   and Authentication
    	
34
    
	
SECTION   2.04. 
    	
Registrar   and Paying Agent
    	
34
    
	
SECTION   2.05. 
    	
Paying   Agent To Hold Money in Trust
    	
35
    
	
SECTION   2.06. 
    	
Holder   Lists
    	
35
    
	
SECTION   2.07. 
    	
Replacement   Securities
    	
35
    
	
SECTION   2.08. 
    	
Outstanding   Securities
    	
35
    
	
SECTION   2.09. 
    	
Temporary   Securities
    	
36
    
	
SECTION   2.10. 
    	
Cancellation
    	
36
    
	
SECTION   2.11. 
    	
Defaulted   Interest
    	
36
    
	
SECTION   2.12. 
    	
CUSIP   Numbers
    	
36
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    
	
ARTICLE III
    
	
 
    
	
Redemption
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    
	
SECTION   3.01. 
    	
Notices   to Trustee
    	
37
    
	
SECTION   3.02. 
    	
Selection   of Securities To Be Redeemed
    	
37
    
	
SECTION   3.03. 
    	
Notice   of Redemption
    	
37
    
	
SECTION   3.04. 
    	
Effect   of Notice of Redemption
    	
38
    
	
SECTION   3.05. 
    	
Deposit   of Redemption Price
    	
38
    
	
SECTION   3.06. 
    	
Securities   Redeemed in Part
    	
38
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    
	
ARTICLE IV
    
	
 
    
	
Covenants
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    
	
SECTION   4.01. 
    	
Payment   of Securities
    	
38
    
	
SECTION   4.02.
    	
SEC   Reports
    	
39
    
	
SECTION   4.03. 
    	
Limitation   on Debt
    	
39
    

 

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SECTION   4.04. 
    	
Limitation   on Restricted Payments
    	
43
    
	
SECTION   4.05. 
    	
Limitation   on Liens
    	
46
    
	
SECTION   4.06. 
    	
Limitation   on Asset Sales
    	
47
    
	
SECTION   4.07. 
    	
Limitation   on Restrictions on Distributions from Restricted Subsidiaries
    	
50
    
	
SECTION   4.08. 
    	
Limitation   on Transactions with Affiliates
    	
51
    
	
SECTION   4.09. 
    	
Guarantees   by Subsidiaries
    	
54
    
	
SECTION   4.10. 
    	
Limitation   on Sale and Leaseback Transactions
    	
55
    
	
SECTION   4.11. 
    	
Designation   of Restricted and Unrestricted Subsidiaries
    	
55
    
	
SECTION   4.12. 
    	
[Intentionally   omitted]
    	
56
    
	
SECTION   4.13. 
    	
Change   of Control
    	
56
    
	
SECTION   4.14. 
    	
Further   Instruments and Acts
    	
58
    
	
SECTION   4.15. 
    	
Covenant   Suspension
    	
58
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    
	
ARTICLE V
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
 
    
	
Successor Company
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    
	
SECTION   5.01. 
    	
When   Company May Merge or Transfer Assets
    	
59
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    
	
ARTICLE VI
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
 
    
	
Defaults and Remedies
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    
	
SECTION   6.01. 
    	
Events   of Default
    	
61
    
	
SECTION   6.02. 
    	
Acceleration
    	
63
    
	
SECTION   6.03. 
    	
Other   Remedies
    	
64
    
	
SECTION   6.04. 
    	
Waiver   of Past Defaults
    	
64
    
	
SECTION   6.05. 
    	
Control   by Majority
    	
64
    
	
SECTION   6.06.
    	
Limitation   on Suits
    	
64
    
	
SECTION   6.07. 
    	
Rights   of Holders to Receive Payment
    	
65
    
	
SECTION   6.08. 
    	
Collection   Suit by Trustee
    	
65
    
	
SECTION   6.09. 
    	
Trustee   May File Proofs of Claim
    	
65
    
	
SECTION   6.10. 
    	
Priorities
    	
65
    
	
SECTION   6.11. 
    	
Undertaking   for Costs
    	
66
    
	
SECTION   6.12. 
    	
Waiver   of Stay or Extension Laws
    	
66
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    
	
ARTICLE VII
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
 
    
	
Trustee
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    
	
SECTION   7.01. 
    	
Duties   of Trustee
    	
66
    
	
SECTION   7.02.
    	
Rights   of Trustee
    	
67
    
	
SECTION   7.03. 
    	
Individual   Rights of Trustee
    	
68
    
	
SECTION   7.04. 
    	
Trustee’s   Disclaimer
    	
69
    
	
SECTION   7.05.
    	
Notice   of Defaults
    	
69
    
	
SECTION   7.06. 
    	
Reports   by Trustee to Holders
    	
69
    

 

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SECTION   7.07. 
    	
Compensation   and Indemnity
    	
69
    
	
SECTION   7.08. 
    	
Replacement   of Trustee
    	
70
    
	
SECTION   7.09. 
    	
Successor   Trustee by Merger
    	
71
    
	
SECTION   7.10. 
    	
Eligibility;   Disqualification
    	
71
    
	
SECTION   7.11.
    	
Preferential   Collection of Claims Against Company
    	
71
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    
	
ARTICLE VIII
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
 
    
	
Discharge of Indenture;   Defeasance
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    
	
SECTION   8.01. 
    	
Discharge   of Liability on Securities; Defeasance
    	
72
    
	
SECTION   8.02. 
    	
Conditions   to Defeasance
    	
73
    
	
SECTION   8.03. 
    	
Application   of Trust Money
    	
74
    
	
SECTION   8.04. 
    	
Repayment   to Company
    	
74
    
	
SECTION   8.05. 
    	
Indemnity   for Government Obligations
    	
74
    
	
SECTION   8.06. 
    	
Reinstatement
    	
74
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    
	
ARTICLE IX
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
 
    
	
Amendments
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
 
    
	
SECTION   9.01. 
    	
Without   Consent of Holders
    	
75
    
	
SECTION   9.02. 
    	
With   Consent of Holders
    	
76
    
	
SECTION   9.03. 
    	
Compliance   with Trust Indenture Act
    	
77
    
	
SECTION   9.04. 
    	
Revocation   and Effect of Consents and Waivers
    	
77
    
	
SECTION   9.05. 
    	
Notation   on or Exchange of Securities
    	
77
    
	
SECTION   9.06. 
    	
Trustee   To Sign Amendments
    	
78
    
	
SECTION   9.07. 
    	
Payment   for Consent
    	
78
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    
	
ARTICLE X
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
 
    
	
Subsidiary Guarantees
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    
	
SECTION   10.01. 
    	
Subsidiary   Guarantees
    	
78
    
	
SECTION   10.02. 
    	
Contribution
    	
80
    
	
SECTION   10.03. 
    	
Successors   and Assigns
    	
80
    
	
SECTION   10.04. 
    	
No   Waiver
    	
80
    
	
SECTION   10.05. 
    	
Modification
    	
80
    
	
SECTION   10.06. 
    	
Release   of Subsidiary Guarantor
    	
81
    
	
SECTION   10.07. 
    	
Execution   of Supplemental Indenture for Future Subsidiary Guarantors
    	
81
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    
	
ARTICLE XI
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
 
    
	
Miscellaneous
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    
	
SECTION   11.01. 
    	
Trust   Indenture Act Controls
    	
82
    
	
SECTION   11.02. 
    	
Notices
    	
82
    

 

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SECTION   11.03. 
    	
Communication   by Holders with Other Holders
    	
83
    
	
SECTION   11.04. 
    	
Certificate   and Opinion as to Conditions Precedent
    	
83
    
	
SECTION   11.05. 
    	
Statements   Required in Certificate or Opinion
    	
83
    
	
SECTION   11.06. 
    	
When   Securities Disregarded
    	
84
    
	
SECTION   11.07. 
    	
Rules   by Trustee, Paying Agent and Registrar
    	
84
    
	
SECTION   11.08. 
    	
Legal   Holidays
    	
84
    
	
SECTION   11.09. 
    	
Governing   Law
    	
84
    
	
SECTION   11.10. 
    	
No   Recourse Against Others
    	
84
    
	
SECTION   11.11. 
    	
Successors
    	
84
    
	
SECTION   11.12. 
    	
Multiple   Originals
    	
85
    
	
SECTION   11.13. 
    	
Table   of Contents; Headings
    	
85
    
	
SECTION   11.14. 
    	
Waiver   of Jury Trial
    	
85
    
	
SECTION   11.15. 
    	
Force   Majeure
    	
85
    

 

Appendix A - Provisions Relating to Initial Securities and Exchange Securities

 

Exhibit 1 to Appendix A - Form of Initial Security

 

Exhibit A - Form of Exchange Security

 

Exhibit B - Form of Supplemental Indenture

 

Exhibit C - Form of Transferee Letter of Representation

 

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CROSS-REFERENCE TABLE

 

	
TIA
   Section
    	
 
    	
 
    	
Indenture
   Section
    
	
310
    	
 
    	
(a)(1)
    	
7.10
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
(a)(2)
    	
7.10
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
(a)(3)
    	
N.A.
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
(a)(4)
    	
N.A.
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
(b)
    	
7.08;   
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    	
7.10
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
(c)
    	
N.A.
    
	
311   
    	
 
    	
(a)
    	
7.11
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
(b)
    	
7.11
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
(c)
    	
N.A.
    
	
312
    	
 
    	
(a)
    	
2.06
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
(b)
    	
10.03
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
(c)
    	
10.03
    
	
313
    	
 
    	
(a)
    	
7.06
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
(b)(1)
    	
7.06;
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    	
10.02
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
(b)(2)
    	
7.06
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
(c)
    	
7.06;   
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    	
10.02
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
(d)
    	
7.06
    
	
314
    	
 
    	
(a)
    	
4.02;
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    	
4.09;   
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    	
7.06;   
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    	
10.02
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
(b)
    	
4.09;   
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    	
7.02;   
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    	
10.02
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
(c)(1)
    	
7.02
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
(c)(2)
    	
7.02
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
(c)(3)
    	
N.A.
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
(d)
    	
1.03;   
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    	
7.02
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
(e)
    	
10.05
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
(f)
    	
4.14
    
	
315
    	
 
    	
(a)
    	
7.01
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
(b)
    	
7.05;   
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    	
10.02
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
(c)
    	
7.01
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
(d)
    	
7.01
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
(e)
    	
6.11
    
	
316
    	
 
    	
(a)
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
(last   sentence)
    	
10.06
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
(a)(1)(A)
    	
6.05
    

 

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TIA
   Section
    	
 
    	
 
    	
Indenture
   Section
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
(a)(1)(B)
    	
6.04
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
(a)(2)
    	
N.A.
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
(b)
    	
6.07
    
	
317
    	
 
    	
(a)(1)
    	
6.08
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
(a)(2)
    	
6.09
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
(b)
    	
2.05
    
	
318
    	
 
    	
(a)
    	
10.01
    

 

N.A. Means Not Applicable.

 

Note:  This Cross-Reference Table shall not, for any purposes, be deemed to be part of this Indenture.

 

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INDENTURE dated as of February 27, 2012, among RITE AID CORPORATION, a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), each of the SUBSIDIARY GUARANTORS named in Schedule A hereto and THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON TRUST COMPANY, N.A., a national banking association, as Trustee (the “Trustee”).

 

Each party agrees as follows for the benefit of the other party and for the equal and ratable benefit of the Holders of the Company’s 9.25% Senior Notes due 2020 to be issued, from time to time, in one or more series as provided in this Indenture (the “Initial Securities”) and, if and when issued pursuant to a registered or private exchange for the Initial Securities, the Company’s 9.25% Senior Notes due 2020 (the “Exchange Securities” and, together with the Initial Securities, the “Securities”):

 

ARTICLE I

 

Definitions and Incorporation by Reference

 

SECTION 1.01.  Definitions.

 

“Additional Assets” means:

 

(a) any Property (other than cash, cash equivalents and securities) to be owned by the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary and used in a Related Business; or

 

(b) Capital Stock of a Person that becomes a Restricted Subsidiary as a result of the acquisition of such Capital Stock by the Company or another Restricted Subsidiary from any Person other than the Company or an Affiliate of the Company; provided, however, that, in the case of this clause (b), such Restricted Subsidiary is primarily engaged in a Related Business.

 

“Affiliate” of any specified Person means:

 

(c) any other Person directly or indirectly controlling or controlled by or under direct or indirect common control with such specified Person; or

 

(d) any other Person who is a director or executive officer of:

 

(1) such specified Person;

 

(2) any Subsidiary of such specified Person; or

 

(3) any Person described in clause (a) above.

 

For the purposes of this definition, “control” when used with respect to any 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.

 

 

For purposes of this definition, The Jean Coutu Group (PJC), Inc. and its Affiliates shall be “Affiliates” of the Company so long as The Jean Coutu Group (PJC), Inc. beneficially owns more than 10% of the Voting Stock of the Company.

 

“Asset Sale” means any sale, lease, transfer, issuance or other disposition (or series of related sales, leases, transfers, issuances or dispositions) by the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary, including any disposition by means of a merger, consolidation or similar transaction (each referred to for the purposes of this definition as a “disposition”), of:

 

(a) any shares of Capital Stock of a Restricted Subsidiary (other than directors’ qualifying shares); or

 

(b) any other assets of the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary outside of the ordinary course of business of the Company or such Restricted Subsidiary,

 

in the case of either clause (a) or clause (b) above, whether in a single transaction or a series of related transactions, (i) that have a Fair Market Value in excess of $15.0 million or (ii) for aggregate consideration in excess of $15.0 million, other than, in the case of clause (a) or (b) above:

 

(1) any disposition by a Restricted Subsidiary to the Company or by the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary to a Wholly Owned Restricted Subsidiary;

 

(2) any disposition that constitutes a Permitted Investment or Restricted Payment permitted by Section 4.04;

 

(3) any disposition effected in compliance with Section 5.01(a);

 

(4) a sale of accounts receivable and related assets of the type specified in the definition of “Qualified Receivables Transaction” to a Receivables Entity;

 

(5) a transfer of accounts receivable and related assets of the type specified in the definition of “Qualified Receivables Transaction” (or a fractional undivided interest therein) by a Receivables Entity in connection with a Qualified Receivables Transaction;

 

(6) a sale by the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary of Property by way of a Sale and Leaseback Transaction but only if (A) such Property was owned by the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary on or after the Issue Date, (B) the requirements of clause (a) of Section 4.10 are satisfied with respect to such Sale and Leaseback Transaction, (C) the requirements of clauses (a), (b) and (c) of the first paragraph of Section 4.06 are satisfied as though such Sale and Leaseback Transaction constituted an Asset Sale and (D) the aggregate Fair Market Value of such Property, when added to the Fair Market Value of all other sales of Property pursuant to this clause (6) since the Issue Date, does not exceed $250.0 million;

 

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(7) a disposition of cash, cash equivalents or investment grade securities or surplus, damaged, obsolete, unmerchantable, idle or worn out property or assets or any sale or disposition of property or assets in connection with scheduled turnarounds, maintenance and equipment and facility updates or any disposition of inventory or goods held for sale in the ordinary course of business;

 

(8) to the extent allowable on a tax-deferred basis under Section 1031 of the Code, any exchange of like property (excluding any boot thereon) for use in a related business;

 

(9) the lease, assignment, license, sublicense or sublease of any real or personal property in the ordinary course of business;

 

(10) foreclosures or governmental condemnations on assets;

 

(11) the licensing or sub-licensing of intellectual property;

 

(12) any sale or other disposition deemed to occur with creating, granting or perfecting a Lien not otherwise prohibited by this Indenture;

 

(13) dispositions of receivables pursuant to factoring arrangements, so long as such receivables are sold at no less than the Fair Market Value thereof (which may include a discount customary for transactions of this type); or

 

(14) the surrender or waiver of contract rights or settlement, release or surrender of a contract, tort or other litigation claim in the ordinary course of business.

 

“Attributable Debt” in respect of a Sale and Leaseback Transaction means, at any date of determination:

 

(a) if such Sale and Leaseback Transaction is a Capital Lease Obligation, the amount of Debt represented thereby according to the definition of “Capital Lease Obligation”, and

 

(b) in all other instances, the greater of:

 

(1) the Fair Market Value of the Property subject to such Sale and Leaseback Transaction; and

 

(2) the present value (discounted at the interest rate borne by the Securities, compounded annually) of the total obligations of the lessee for rental payments during the remaining term of the lease included in such Sale and Leaseback Transaction (in each case including any period for which such lease has been extended).

 

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“Average Life” means, as of any date of determination, with respect to any Debt or Preferred Stock, the quotient obtained by dividing:

 

(a) the sum of the product of the numbers of years (rounded to the nearest one-twelfth of one year) from the date of determination to the dates of each successive scheduled principal payment of such Debt or redemption or similar payment with respect to such Preferred Stock multiplied by the amount of such payment by

 

(b) the sum of all such payments.

 

“Bankruptcy Code” means Title 11 of the United States Code, as amended.

 

“Bankruptcy Law” means the Bankruptcy Code and any similar Federal, state or foreign law for the relief of debtors.

 

“Board of Directors” means the board of directors of the Company or any duly authorized and constituted committee thereof.

 

“Board Resolution” means a copy of a resolution certified by the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary of the Company to have been duly adopted by the Board of Directors and to be in full force and effect on the date of such certification, and delivered to the Trustee.

 

“Business Day” means any day other than a Saturday, a Sunday or a day on which banking institutions in The City of New York, New York are authorized or obligated by law, regulation, executive order or governmental decree to close.

 

“Capital Lease Obligations” means any obligation under a lease that is required to be capitalized for financial reporting purposes in accordance with GAAP; and the amount of Debt represented by such obligation shall be the capitalized amount of such obligations determined in accordance with GAAP; and the Stated Maturity thereof shall be the date of the last payment of rent or any other amount due under such lease prior to the first date upon which such lease may be terminated by the lessee without payment of a penalty. For purposes of Section 4.05, a Capital Lease Obligation shall be deemed secured by a Lien on the Property being leased.

 

“Capital Stock” means, with respect to any Person, any shares or other equivalents (however designated) of any class of corporate stock or partnership interests or any other participations, rights, warrants, options or other interests in the nature of an equity interest in such Person, including Preferred Stock, but excluding any debt security convertible or exchangeable into such equity interest.

 

“Capital Stock Sale Proceeds” means the aggregate cash proceeds received by the Company from the issuance or sale (other than to a Subsidiary of the Company or an employee stock ownership plan or trust established by the Company or any such Subsidiary for the benefit of their employees) by the Company of its Capital Stock (other than Disqualified Stock) after the beginning of the fiscal quarter immediately following the Issue 

 

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Date, net of attorneys’ fees, accountants’ fees, underwriters’ or placement agents’ fees, discounts or commissions and brokerage, consultant and other fees actually incurred in connection with such issuance or sale and net of taxes paid or payable as a result thereof.

 

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

 

(a) if any “person” or “group” (as such terms are used in Sections 13(d) and 14(d) of the Exchange Act or any successor provisions to either of the foregoing), including any group acting for the purpose of acquiring, holding, voting or disposing of securities within the meaning of Rule 13d-5(b)(1) under the Exchange Act (other than one or more Permitted Holders), becomes the “beneficial owner” (as defined in Rule 13d-3 under the Exchange Act), directly or indirectly, of 40% or more of the total voting power of the Voting Stock of the Company (for purposes of this clause (a), such person or group shall be deemed to beneficially own any Voting Stock of a corporation held by any other corporation (the “parent corporation”) so long as such person or group beneficially owns, directly or indirectly, in the aggregate a majority of the total voting power of the Voting Stock of such parent corporation); or

 

(b) the sale, transfer, assignment, lease, conveyance or other disposition, directly or indirectly, of all or substantially all the assets of the Company and the Restricted Subsidiaries, considered as a whole (other than a disposition of such assets as an entirety or virtually as an entirety to a Wholly Owned Restricted Subsidiary) shall have occurred, or the Company merges, consolidates or amalgamates with or into any other Person or any other Person merges, consolidates or amalgamates with or into the Company, in any such event pursuant to a transaction in which the outstanding Voting Stock of the Company is reclassified into or exchanged for cash, securities or other Property, other than any such transaction where:

 

(1) the outstanding Voting Stock of the Company is reclassified into or exchanged for other Voting Stock of the Company or for Voting Stock of the surviving corporation; and

 

(2) the holders of the Voting Stock of the Company immediately prior to such transaction own, directly or indirectly, not less than a majority of the Voting Stock of the Company or the surviving corporation immediately after such transaction and in substantially the same proportion as before the transaction; or

 

(c) during any period of two consecutive years commencing after the Issue Date, individuals who at the beginning of such period constituted the Board of Directors (together with any new directors whose election or appointment by such Board of Directors or whose nomination for election by the shareholders of the Company was approved by a vote of not less than three-fourths of the directors then still in office who were either directors at the beginning of such period or whose election or nomination for election was previously so approved) cease for any reason to constitute a majority of the Board of Directors then in office; or

 

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(d) the shareholders of the Company shall have approved any plan of liquidation or dissolution of the Company.

 

“Code” means the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended.

 

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

 

“Commodity Price Protection Agreement” means, in respect of a Person, any forward contract, commodity swap agreement, commodity option agreement or other similar agreement or arrangement designed to protect such Person against fluctuations in commodity prices.

 

“Company” means the Person named as the “Company” in the first paragraph of this Indenture until a successor Person shall have become such pursuant to the applicable provisions of this Indenture, and thereafter “Company” shall mean such successor Person and, for purposes of any provision contained herein and expressly required by the TIA, each other obligor on the indenture securities.

 

“Consolidated Interest Coverage Ratio” means, as of any date of determination, the ratio of:

 

(a) the aggregate amount of EBITDA for the most recent four consecutive fiscal quarters for which internal financial statements are available prior to such determination date to

 

(b) Consolidated Interest Expense for such four fiscal quarters; provided, however, that:

 

(1) if

 

(A) since the beginning of such period the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary has Incurred any Debt that remains outstanding or Repaid any Debt; or

 

(B) the transaction giving rise to the need to calculate the Consolidated Interest Coverage Ratio is an Incurrence or Repayment of Debt,

 

Consolidated Interest Expense for such period shall be calculated after giving effect on a pro forma basis to such Incurrence or Repayment as if such Debt was Incurred or Repaid on the first day of such period, provided that, in the event of any such Repayment of Debt, EBITDA for such period shall be calculated as if the Company or such Restricted Subsidiary had not earned any 

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interest income actually earned during such period in respect of the funds used to Repay such Debt, and

 

(2) if

 

(A) since the beginning of such period the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary shall have made any Asset Sale or an Investment (by merger or otherwise) in any Restricted Subsidiary (or any Person which becomes a Restricted Subsidiary) or an acquisition of Property which constitutes all or substantially all of an operating unit of a business;

 

(B) the transaction giving rise to the need to calculate the Consolidated Interest Coverage Ratio is such an Asset Sale, Investment or acquisition; or

 

(C) since the beginning of such period any Person (that subsequently became a Restricted Subsidiary or was merged with or into the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary since the beginning of such period) shall have made such an Asset Sale, Investment or acquisition, EBITDA for such period shall be calculated after giving pro forma effect to such Asset Sale, Investment or acquisition as if such Asset Sale, Investment or acquisition occurred on the first day of such period.

 

If any Debt bears a floating rate of interest and is being given pro forma effect, the interest expense payable with respect to such Debt shall be calculated as if the base interest rate in effect for such floating rate of interest on the date of determination had been the applicable base interest rate for the entire period (taking into account any Interest Rate Agreement applicable to such Debt if such Interest Rate Agreement has a remaining term in excess of 12 months). In the event the Capital Stock of any Restricted Subsidiary is sold during the period, the Company shall be deemed, for purposes of clause (1) above, to have Repaid during such period the Debt of such Restricted Subsidiary to the extent the Company and its continuing Restricted Subsidiaries are no longer liable for such Debt after such sale.

 

“Consolidated Interest Expense” means, for any period, the total interest expense of the Company and its consolidated Restricted Subsidiaries (excluding the non-cash interest expense related to (w) accretion of severance reserves, (x) litigation reserves, (y) closed store liability reserves and (z) self-insurance reserves), plus, to the extent not included in such total interest expense, and to the extent Incurred by the Company or its Restricted Subsidiaries, and without duplication:

 

(a) interest expense attributable to Capital Lease Obligations;

 

(b) amortization of debt discount and debt issuance cost, including commitment fees;

 

(c) capitalized interest;

 

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(d) non-cash interest expense other than expenses under clauses (w), (x), (y) and (z) above;

 

(e) commissions, discounts and other fees and charges owed with respect to letters of credit and bankers acceptance financing;

 

(f) net costs associated with Hedging Obligations (including amortization of fees but excluding costs associated with forward contracts for inventory in the ordinary course of business);

 

(g) Disqualified Stock Dividends;

 

(h) Preferred Stock Dividends;

 

(i) interest Incurred in connection with Investments in discontinued operations;

 

(j) interest accruing on any Debt of any other Person to the extent such Debt is Guaranteed by the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary; and

 

(k) the cash contributions to any employee stock ownership plan or similar trust to the extent such contributions are used by such plan or trust to pay interest or fees to any Person (other than the Company) in connection with Debt Incurred by such plan or trust.

 

Any program fees or liquidity fees on unused amounts related to any Qualified Receivables Transaction shall not be included in Consolidated Interest Expense, unless otherwise required by GAAP.

 

“Consolidated Net Income” means, for any period, the net income (loss) of the Company and its consolidated Subsidiaries; provided, however, that there shall not be included in such Consolidated Net Income:

 

(a) any net income (loss) of any Person (other than the Company) if such Person is not a Restricted Subsidiary, except that:

 

(1) subject to the exclusion contained in clause (c) below, the Company’s equity in the net income of any such Person for such period shall be included in such Consolidated Net Income up to the aggregate amount of cash distributed by such Person during such period to the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary as a dividend or other distribution (subject, in the case of a dividend or other distribution to a Restricted Subsidiary, to the limitations contained in clause (b) below); and

 

(2) the Company’s equity in a net loss of any such Person other than an Unrestricted Subsidiary for such period shall be included in determining such Consolidated Net Income;

 

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(b) any net income (loss) of any Restricted Subsidiary if such Restricted Subsidiary is subject to restrictions, directly or indirectly, on the payment of dividends or the making of distributions, directly or indirectly, to the Company, except that:

 

(1) subject to the exclusion contained in clause (c) below, the Company’s equity in the net income of any such Restricted Subsidiary for such period shall be included in such Consolidated Net Income up to the aggregate amount of cash distributed by such Restricted Subsidiary during such period to the Company or another Restricted Subsidiary as a dividend or other distribution (subject, in the case of a dividend or other distribution to another Restricted Subsidiary, to the limitation contained in this clause); and

 

(2) the Company’s equity in a net loss of any such Restricted Subsidiary for such period shall be included in determining such Consolidated Net Income;

 

(c) any gain or loss realized upon the sale or other disposition of any Property of the Company or any of its consolidated Subsidiaries (including pursuant to any Sale and Leaseback Transaction) that is not sold or otherwise disposed of in the ordinary course of business;

 

(d) any extraordinary gain or loss;

 

(e) the cumulative effect of a change in accounting principles;

 

(f) any non-cash compensation expense realized for grants of performance shares, stock options or other rights to officers, directors and employees of the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary; provided that such shares, options or other rights can be redeemed at the option of the holder only for Capital Stock of the Company (other than Disqualified Stock);

 

(g) store closing costs;

 

(h) non-cash charges or credits that relate to use of the last-in-first-out method of accounting for inventory; and

 

(i) loss on debt modifications.

 

Notwithstanding the foregoing, for purposes of Section 4.04 only, there shall be excluded from Consolidated Net Income any dividends, repayments of loans or advances or other transfers of assets from Unrestricted Subsidiaries to the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary to the extent such dividends, repayments or transfers increase the amount of Restricted Payments permitted by Section 4.04 pursuant to clause (c)(4) thereof.

 

“Corporate Trust Office” means the principal office of the Trustee at which at any time its corporate trust business shall be administered, which office at the date hereof is located at 2 N. LaSalle Street, Suite 1020, Chicago, Illinois 60602, Attention: Corporate 

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Trust Administration, or such other address as the Trustee may designate from time to time by notice to the Holders and the Company, or the principal corporate trust office of any successor Trustee (or such other address as such successor Trustee may designate from time to time by notice to the Holders and the Company).

 

“corporation” means a corporation, association, company, limited liability company, joint-stock company, partnership or business trust.

 

“Credit Facilities” means, with respect to the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary, one or more debt or commercial paper facilities with banks or other institutional lenders (including the Senior Credit Facilities), providing for revolving credit loans, term loans, receivables or inventory financing (including through the sale of receivables or inventory to such lenders or to special purpose, bankruptcy remote entities formed to borrow from such lenders against such receivables or inventory), or trade letters of credit, in each case together with Refinancings thereof on any basis so long as such Refinancing constitutes Debt.

 

“Currency Exchange Protection Agreement” means, in respect of a Person, any foreign exchange contract, currency swap agreement, currency option or other similar agreement or arrangement designed to protect such Person against fluctuations in currency exchange rates.

 

“Debt” means, with respect to any Person on any date of determination (without duplication):

 

(a) the principal of and premium (if any) in respect of:

 

(1) debt of such Person for money borrowed; and

 

(2) debt evidenced by notes, debentures, bonds or other similar instruments for the payment of which such Person is responsible or liable;

 

(b) all Capital Lease Obligations of such Person and all Attributable Debt in respect of Sale and Leaseback Transactions entered into by such Person;

 

(c) all obligations of such Person issued or assumed as the deferred purchase price of Property, all conditional sale obligations of such Person and all obligations of such Person under any title retention agreement (but excluding trade accounts payable arising in the ordinary course of business);

 

(d) all obligations of such Person for the reimbursement of any obligor on any letter of credit, banker’s acceptance or similar credit transaction (other than obligations with respect to letters of credit securing obligations (other than obligations described in (a) through (c) above) entered into in the ordinary course of business of such Person to the extent such letters of credit are not drawn upon or, if and to the extent drawn upon, such drawing is reimbursed no later than the third Business Day following receipt by such Person of a demand for reimbursement following payment on the letter of credit);

 

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(e) the amount of all obligations of such Person with respect to the Repayment of any Disqualified Stock or, with respect to any Subsidiary of such Person, any Preferred Stock (but excluding, in each case, any accrued dividends);

 

(f) all obligations of the type referred to in clauses (a) through (e) of other Persons and all dividends of other Persons for the payment of which, in either case, such Person is responsible or liable, directly or indirectly, as obligor, guarantor or otherwise, including by means of any Guarantee;

 

(g) all obligations of the type referred to in clauses (a) through (f) of other Persons secured by any Lien on any Property of such Person (whether or not such obligation is assumed by such Person), the amount of such obligation being deemed to be the lesser of the value of such Property or the amount of the obligation so secured; and

 

(h) to the extent not otherwise included in this definition, Hedging Obligations of such Person.

 

The amount of Debt of any Person at any date shall be the outstanding balance at such date of all unconditional obligations as described above and the maximum liability, upon the occurrence of the contingency giving rise to the obligation, of any contingent obligations at such date. The amount of Debt represented by a Hedging Obligation shall be equal to:

 

(1) zero if such Hedging Obligation has been Incurred pursuant to clause (g) or (h) of the second paragraph of Section 4.03; or

 

(2) the notional amount of such Hedging Obligation if not Incurred pursuant to such clauses.

 

“Debt Issuances” means, with respect to the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary, one or more issuances of Debt evidenced by notes, debentures, bonds or other similar securities or instruments.

 

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

 

“Depositary” means, with respect to any Securities, a clearing agency that is registered as such under the Exchange Act and is designated by the Company to act as Depositary for such Securities (or any successor securities clearing agency so registered).

 

“Disqualified Stock” means, with respect to any Person, any Capital Stock that by its terms (or by the terms of any security into which it is convertible or for which it is exchangeable, in either case at the option of the holder thereof) or otherwise:

 

(a) matures or is mandatorily redeemable pursuant to a sinking fund obligation or otherwise;

 

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(b) is or may become redeemable or repurchaseable at the option of the holder thereof, in whole or in part; or

 

(c) is convertible or exchangeable at the option of the holder thereof for Debt or Disqualified Stock;

 

on or prior to, in the case of clause (a), (b) or (c), the first anniversary of the Stated Maturity of the Securities.

 

“Disqualified Stock Dividends” means all dividends with respect to Disqualified Stock of the Company held by Persons other than a Wholly Owned Restricted Subsidiary. The amount of any such dividend shall be equal to the quotient of such dividend divided by the difference between one and the maximum statutory federal income tax rate (expressed as a decimal number between 1 and 0) then applicable to the Company.

 

“DTC” means the Depository Trust Company.

 

“EBITDA” means, for any period, an amount equal to, for the Company and its consolidated Restricted Subsidiaries:

 

(a) the sum of Consolidated Net Income for such period, plus the following to the extent reducing Consolidated Net Income for such period:

 

(1) the provision for taxes based on income or profits or utilized in computing net loss;

 

(2) Consolidated Interest Expense and non-cash interest expense related to accretion of severance reserves, litigation reserves, closed store liability reserves and self-insurance reserves, to the extent excluded from Consolidated Interest Expense;

 

(3) depreciation;

 

(4) amortization of intangibles;

 

(5) non-cash impairment charges;

 

(6) any expenses or charges (other than depreciation or amortization expense) related to any Equity Offering, Permitted Investment, acquisition, disposition, recapitalization or the Incurrence of Debt permitted to be Incurred by this Indenture (including a refinancing thereof) (whether or not successful), including (i) such fees, expenses or charges related to the offering of Credit Facilities, Qualified Receivables Transactions or Debt Issuances and other Debt and (ii) any amendment or other modification of Credit Facilities, Qualified Receivables Transactions or Debt Issuances and, in each case, deducted (and not added back) in computing Consolidated Net Income;

 

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(7) the amount of any restructuring charges, integration costs or other business optimization expenses or reserves deducted (and not added back) in such period in computing Consolidated Net Income, including any one-time costs (including costs related to the closure and/or consolidation of stores) incurred in connection with acquisitions on or after the Issue Date;

 

(8) the amount of net cost savings projected by the Company in good faith to be realized as a result of specified actions taken or initiated during or prior to such period (calculated on a pro forma basis as though such cost savings had been realized on the first day of such period), net of the amount of actual benefits realized during such period from such actions; provided that (x) such cost savings are reasonably identifiable and factually supportable, such actions are reasonably expected to be taken no later than 12 months following the end of the period in respect of which EBITDA is being calculated and (z) the aggregate amount of cost savings added pursuant to this clause (8) shall not exceed $150.0 million for any four consecutive quarter period (which adjustments may be incremental to pro forma cost savings adjustments made pursuant to the definition of “Consolidated Interest Coverage Ratio”);

 

(9) the amount of revenue deferred in respect of the Company’s customer loyalty card program; and

 

(10) any other non-cash items (other than any such non-cash item to the extent that it represents an accrual of or reserve for cash expenditures in any future period), minus

 

(b) all non-cash items increasing Consolidated Net Income for such period (other than any such non-cash item to the extent that it will result in the receipt of cash payments in any future period), including, without limitation, the release of deferred revenue in respect of the Company’s customer loyalty card program.

 

Notwithstanding the foregoing clause (a), the provision for taxes and the depreciation, amortization and non-cash items of a Restricted Subsidiary shall be added to Consolidated Net Income to compute EBITDA only to the extent (and in the same proportion) that the net income of such Restricted Subsidiary was included in calculating Consolidated Net Income and only if a corresponding amount would be permitted at the date of determination to be dividended to the Company by such Restricted Subsidiary without prior approval (that has not been obtained), pursuant to the terms of its charter and all agreements, instruments, judgments, decrees, orders, statutes, rules and governmental regulations applicable to such Restricted Subsidiary or its shareholders.

 

“8.00% Notes due 2020” means the Company’s 8.00% Senior Secured Notes due 2020 issued under the indenture dated as of August 16, 2010, among the Company, the Subsidiary Guarantors and The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company, N.A., as trustee, and outstanding on the Issue Date.

 

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“Equipment Financing Transaction” means any arrangement (together with any Refinancing thereof) with any Person pursuant to which the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary Incurs Debt secured by a Lien on equipment or equipment related property of the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary.

 

“Equity Offering” means (a) an underwritten offering of common stock of the Company by the Company pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act or (b) so long as the Company’s common stock is, at the time, listed or quoted on a national securities exchange (as such term is defined in the Exchange Act), an offering of common stock by the Company in a transaction exempt from or not subject to the registration requirements of the Securities Act.

 

“Event of Default” has the meaning set forth under Section 6.01.

 

“Exchange Act” means the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.

 

“Expansion Capital Expenditure” means any capital expenditure incurred by the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary in developing, relocating, integrating, remodeling and refurbishing a warehouse, distribution center, store or other facility (other than ordinary course maintenance) for carrying on the business of the Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries that an Officer determines in good faith will enhance the income generating ability of the warehouse, distribution center, store or other facility.

 

“Fair Market Value” means, with respect to any Property, the price that could be negotiated in an arm’s-length free market transaction, for cash, between a willing seller and a willing buyer, neither of whom is under undue pressure or compulsion to complete the transaction. Pressure or compulsion shall not include sales of Property conducted in compliance with the requirements of a regulatory authority in connection with an acquisition or merger permitted by this Indenture. Fair Market Value shall be determined, except as otherwise provided:

 

(a) if such Property has a Fair Market Value equal to or less than $25.0 million, by any Officer of the Company; or

 

(b) if such Property has a Fair Market Value in excess of $25.0 million, by a majority of the Board of Directors and evidenced by a Board Resolution, dated within 30 days of the relevant transaction, delivered to the Trustee.

 

“GAAP” means United States generally accepted accounting principles as in effect on the Issue Date, including those set forth:

 

(a) in the opinions and pronouncements of the Accounting Principles Board of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants;

 

(b) in the statements and pronouncements of the Financial Accounting Standards Board;

 

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(c) in such other statements by such other entity as approved by a significant segment of the accounting profession; and

 

(d) the rules and regulations of the Commission governing the inclusion of financial statements (including pro forma financial statements) in periodic reports required to be filed pursuant to Section 13 of the Exchange Act, including opinions and pronouncements in staff accounting bulletins and similar written statements from the accounting staff of the Commission.

 

“Guarantee” means any obligation, contingent or otherwise, of any Person directly or indirectly guaranteeing any Debt of any other Person and any obligation, direct or indirect, contingent or otherwise, of such Person:

 

(a) to purchase or pay (or advance or supply funds for the purchase or payment of) such Debt of such other Person (whether arising by virtue of partnership arrangements, or by agreements to keep-well, to purchase assets, goods, securities or services, to take-or-pay or to maintain financial statement conditions or otherwise); or

 

(b) entered into for the purpose of assuring in any other manner the obligee against loss in respect thereof (in whole or in part);

 

provided, however, that the term “Guarantee” shall not include:

 

(1) endorsements for collection or deposit in the ordinary course of business; or

 

(2) a contractual commitment by one Person to invest in another Person for so long as such Investment is reasonably expected to constitute a Permitted Investment under clause (b) of the definition of “Permitted Investment”.

 

The term “Guarantee” used as a verb has a corresponding meaning. The term “Guarantor” shall mean any Person Guaranteeing any obligation.

 

“Hedging Obligation” of any Person means any obligation of such Person pursuant to any Interest Rate Agreement, Currency Exchange Protection Agreement, Commodity Price Protection Agreement or any other similar agreement or arrangement.

 

“Holder” means a Person in whose name a Security is registered in the Security Register.

 

“Incur” means, with respect to any Debt or other obligation of any Person, to create, issue, incur (by merger, conversion, exchange or otherwise), extend, assume, Guarantee or become liable in respect of such Debt or other obligation or the recording, as required pursuant to GAAP or otherwise, of any such Debt or obligation on the balance sheet of such Person (and “Incurrence” and “Incurred” shall have meanings correlative to the foregoing); provided, however, that a change in GAAP that results in an obligation of such Person that exists at such time, and is not theretofore classified as Debt, becoming Debt shall not be deemed an Incurrence of such Debt; provided  further, however, that any Debt or other 

 

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obligations of a Person existing at the time such Person becomes a Subsidiary (whether by merger, consolidation, acquisition or otherwise) shall be deemed to be Incurred by such Subsidiary at the time it becomes a Subsidiary; and provided  further, however, that solely for purposes of determining compliance with Section 4.03, amortization of debt discount shall not be deemed to be the Incurrence of Debt, provided that in the case of Debt sold at a discount, the amount of such Debt Incurred shall at all times be the aggregate principal amount at Stated Maturity.

 

“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 including, for all purposes of this instrument and any such supplemental indenture, the provisions of the Trust Indenture Act that are deemed to be a part of and govern this instrument and any such supplemental indenture, respectively.

 

“Independent Financial Advisor” means a third-party accounting, appraisal or investment banking firm or consultant, in each case, of national standing, that is, in the good faith determination of the Company, qualified to perform the task for which it has been engaged; provided that such firm or appraiser is not an Affiliate of the Company.

 

“Interest Payment Date” means the scheduled date of an installment of interest on the Securities.

 

“Interest Rate Agreement” means, for any Person, any interest rate swap agreement, interest rate cap agreement, interest rate collar agreement or other similar agreement designed to protect against fluctuations in interest rates.

 

“Investment” by any Person means any direct or indirect loan (other than advances to customers in the ordinary course of business that are recorded as accounts receivable on the balance sheet of such Person), advance or other extension of credit or capital contribution (by means of transfers of cash or other Property to others or payments for Property or services for the account or use of others, or otherwise) to, or Incurrence of a Guarantee of any obligation of, or purchase or acquisition of Capital Stock, bonds, notes, debentures or other securities or evidence of Debt issued by, any other Person. For purposes of Sections 4.04 and 4.11, and the definition of “Restricted Payment”, “Investment” shall include the portion (proportionate to the Company’s equity interest in such Subsidiary) of the Fair Market Value of the net assets of any Subsidiary of the Company at the time that such Subsidiary is designated an Unrestricted Subsidiary; provided, however, that upon a redesignation of such Subsidiary as a Restricted Subsidiary, the Company shall be deemed to continue to have a permanent “Investment” in an Unrestricted Subsidiary of an amount (if positive) equal to:

 

(a) the Company’s “Investment” in such Subsidiary at the time of such redesignation; less

 

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(b) the portion (proportionate to the Company’s equity interest in such Subsidiary) of the Fair Market Value of the net assets of such Subsidiary at the time of such redesignation.

 

In determining the amount of any Investment made by transfer of any Property other than cash, such Property shall be valued at its Fair Market Value at the time of such Investment.

 

“Investment Grade Rating” means a rating equal to or higher than Baa3 (or the equivalent) by Moody’s and BBB- (or the equivalent) by S&P, without regard to outlook.

 

“Issue Date” means the date on which the Original Securities are initially issued.

 

“Lien” means, with respect to any Property of any Person, any mortgage or deed of trust, pledge, hypothecation, assignment, deposit arrangement, security interest, lien, charge, easement (other than any easement not materially impairing usefulness or marketability), encumbrance, preference, priority or other security agreement or preferential arrangement of any kind or nature whatsoever on or with respect to such Property (including any Capital Lease Obligation, conditional sale or other title retention agreement having substantially the same economic effect as any of the foregoing or any Sale and Leaseback Transaction).

 

“Moody’s” means Moody’s Investors Service, Inc. or any successor to the rating agency business thereof.

 

“Net Available Cash” from any Asset Sale means cash payments received therefrom (including any cash payments received by way of deferred payment of principal pursuant to a note or installment receivable or otherwise, but only as and when received, but excluding any other consideration received in the form of assumption by the acquiring Person of Debt or other obligations relating to the Property that is the subject of such Asset Sale or received in any other non-cash form), in each case net of:

 

(a) all legal, title and recording tax expenses, commissions and other fees and expenses incurred, and all Federal, state, provincial, foreign and local taxes required to be accrued as a liability under GAAP, as a consequence of such Asset Sale;

 

(b) all payments made on (i) any Debt that is secured by any Property subject to such Asset Sale, in accordance with the terms of any Lien upon or other security agreement of any kind with respect to such Property, or Debt which must by its terms, or in order to obtain a necessary consent to such Asset Sale, or by applicable law, be repaid out of the proceeds from such Asset Sale and (ii) any Debt under a Qualified Receivables Transaction required to be repaid or necessary to obtain a consent needed to consummate such Asset Sale;

 

(c) all distributions and other payments required to be made to minority interest holders in Subsidiaries or joint ventures as a result of such Asset Sale; and

 

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(d) the deduction of appropriate amounts provided by the seller as a reserve, in accordance with GAAP, against any liabilities associated with the Property disposed in such Asset Sale and retained by the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary after such Asset Sale.

 

“9.750% Notes due 2016” means the Company’s 9.750% Senior Secured Notes due 2016 issued under the indenture dated as of June 12, 2009, among the Company, the Subsidiary Guarantors and The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company, N.A., as trustee, and outstanding on the Issue Date.

 

“Offering Memorandum” means the final offering memorandum dated February 14, 2012 relating to the offering and sale of the Securities.

 

“Officer” means the Chief Executive Officer, President, Chief Financial Officer, Chief Accounting Officer, Treasurer or any Executive Vice President, Senior Vice President, Vice President or Secretary of the Company.

 

“Officers’ Certificate” means a certificate signed by two Officers of the Company, at least one of whom shall be the principal executive officer, principal financial officer, treasurer or principal accounting officer of the Company, and delivered to the Trustee.

 

“Opinion of Counsel” means a written opinion from legal counsel. The counsel may be an employee of or counsel to the Company.

 

“Permitted Holder” means (a) Leonard Green & Partners L.P. or any of its Affiliates and (b) The Jean Coutu Group (PJC) Inc. or any of its Affiliates.

 

“Permitted Investment” means any Investment by the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary in:

 

(a) (i) the Company, (ii) any Restricted Subsidiary or (iii) any Person that will, upon the making of such Investment, become a Restricted Subsidiary;

 

(b) any Person if as a result of such Investment such Person is merged or consolidated with or into, or transfers or conveys all or substantially all its Property to, the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary;

 

(c) cash and Temporary Cash Investments;

 

(d) receivables owing to the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary, if created or acquired in the ordinary course of business and payable or dischargeable in accordance with customary trade terms; provided, however, that such trade terms may include such concessionary trade terms as the Company or such Restricted Subsidiary deems reasonable under the circumstances;

 

(e) payroll, travel, moving, tax and similar advances that are made in the ordinary course of business;

 

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(f) loans and advances to employees made in the ordinary course of business in accordance with applicable law consistent with past practices of the Company or such Restricted Subsidiary, as the case may be, provided that such loans and advances do not exceed $25.0 million at any one time outstanding;

 

(g) stock, obligations or other securities received in settlement of debts created in the ordinary course of business and owing to the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary or in satisfaction of judgments;

 

(h) any Person to the extent such Investment represents the non-cash portion of the consideration received in connection with (i) an Asset Sale consummated in compliance with Section 4.06 or (ii) a disposition of assets that does not constitute an Asset Sale;

 

(i) Hedging Obligations permitted under clause (g), (h) or (i) of the second paragraph of Section 4.03;

 

(j) any Person if the Investments are outstanding on the Issue Date and not otherwise described in clauses (a) through (i) above;

 

(k) Investments in Unrestricted Subsidiaries that are joint ventures with one or more non-Affiliates formed to create a group purchasing organization for the purpose of purchasing pharmaceuticals or merchandise for resale by the Company or its Restricted Subsidiaries; provided, however, that such Investments (1) do not exceed an amount determined in good faith by the principal financial officer of the Company to be reasonably necessary to finance the working capital and other start-up or operating expenses of any such Unrestricted Subsidiary and (2) do not exceed the Company’s pro rata ownership interest in the Capital Stock of any such Unrestricted Subsidiary;

 

(l) other Investments that do not exceed $50.0 million outstanding at any one time in the aggregate;

 

(m) Investments in any entity, formed by the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary, organized under Section 501(c)(3) of the Code, that do not exceed an aggregate amount of $10.0 million in any fiscal year; and

 

(n) any assets, Capital Stock or other securities to the extent acquired in exchange for shares of Capital Stock of the Company (other than Disqualified Stock).

 

“Permitted Liens” means:

 

(a) Liens to secure Debt permitted to be Incurred under clause (b), (d), (l) or (s) (with respect to clause d) of the second paragraph of Section 4.03;

 

(b) Liens to secure Debt permitted to be Incurred under clause (e), (q) or (r) of the second paragraph of Section 4.03; provided that any such Lien may not extend to any Property of the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary, other than the Property 

 

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acquired, developed, constructed or leased with the proceeds of such Debt and any improvements or additions to such Property;

 

(c) Liens for taxes, assessments or governmental charges or levies on the Property of the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary if the same shall not at the time be more than 30 days past due or thereafter can be paid without penalty, or are being contested in good faith and by appropriate proceedings promptly instituted and diligently concluded, provided that any reserve or other appropriate provision that shall be required in conformity with GAAP shall have been made therefor;

 

(d) Liens imposed by law, such as carriers’, warehousemen’s and mechanics’ Liens and other similar Liens, on the Property of the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary arising in the ordinary course of business and securing payment of obligations that are not more than 60 days past due or are being contested in good faith and by appropriate proceedings;

 

(e) Liens on the Property of the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary Incurred in the ordinary course of business to secure performance of obligations with respect to statutory or regulatory requirements, performance or return-of-money bonds, surety bonds or other obligations of a like nature and Incurred in a manner consistent with industry practice, in each case which are not Incurred in connection with the borrowing of money, the obtaining of advances or credit or the payment of the deferred purchase price of Property and which do not in the aggregate impair in any material respect the use of Property in the operation of the business of the Company and the Restricted Subsidiaries taken as a whole;

 

(f) Liens on Property at the time the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary acquired such Property, including any acquisition by means of a merger or consolidation with or into the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary; provided, however, that any such Lien may not extend to any other Property of the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary; provided  further, however, that such Liens shall not have been Incurred in anticipation of or in connection with the transaction or series of transactions pursuant to which such Property was acquired by the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary;

 

(g) Liens on the Property of a Person at the time such Person becomes a Restricted Subsidiary; provided, however, that any such Lien may not extend to any other Property of the Company or any other Restricted Subsidiary that is not a direct Subsidiary of such Person; provided further, however, that any such Lien was not Incurred in anticipation of or in connection with the transaction or series of transactions pursuant to which such Person became a Restricted Subsidiary;

 

(h) pledges or deposits by the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary under workmen’s compensation laws, unemployment insurance laws or similar legislation, or good faith deposits in connection with bids, tenders, contracts (other than for the payment of Debt) or leases to which the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary is party, or deposits to secure public or statutory obligations of the Company or any 

 

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Restricted Subsidiary, or deposits for the payment of rent, in each case Incurred in the ordinary course of business;

 

(i) utility easements, building restrictions and such other encumbrances or charges against real Property as are of a nature generally existing with respect to properties of a similar character;

 

(j) Liens arising out of judgments or awards against the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary with respect to which the Company or the Restricted Subsidiary shall then be proceeding with an appeal or other proceeding for review and which do not give rise to an Event of Default;

 

(k) leases, subleases, licenses or sublicenses of Property (including, without limitation, real property and intellectual property rights) granted by the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary to any other Person in the ordinary course of business and not materially impairing the use of such Property in the operation of the business of the Company or the Restricted Subsidiary in the ordinary course of business;

 

(l) [intentionally omitted];

 

(m) Liens existing on the Issue Date not otherwise described in clauses (a) through (l) above;

 

(n) Liens on the Property of the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary to secure any Refinancing, in whole or in part, of any Debt secured by Liens referred to in clause (a) (but only to the extent it relates to clause (d) referred to therein), (b) (other than Liens securing Debt Incurred pursuant to clause (r) referred to therein), (f), (g), or (m) above; provided, however, that (1) in the case of clause (b) above, the proviso to such clause remains satisfied and (2) any such Lien shall be limited to all or part of the same Property that secured the original Lien (together with improvements and accessions to such Property) and the aggregate principal amount of Debt that is secured by such Lien shall not be increased to an amount greater than the sum of:

 

(A) the outstanding principal amount, or, if greater, the committed amount, of the Debt secured by Liens described under clause (b) (except as referred to above), (f), (g), or (m) above, as the case may be, at the time the original Lien became a Permitted Lien under this Indenture; and

 

(B) an amount necessary to pay any fees and expenses, including premiums and defeasance costs, incurred by the Company or such Restricted Subsidiary in connection with such Refinancing;

 

(o) Liens not otherwise permitted by clauses (a) through (n) above encumbering assets that have an aggregate Fair Market Value not in excess of $15.0 million;

 

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(p) Liens securing indebtedness or other obligations of a Restricted Subsidiary owing to the Company or a Subsidiary Guarantor permitted to be Incurred under Section 4.03;

 

(q) Liens on specific items of inventory or other goods and proceeds of any person securing such Person’s obligations to vendors or in respect of bankers’ acceptances issued or created for the account of such person to facilitate the purchase, shipment or storage of such inventory or other goods;

 

(r) Liens arising from financing statement filings under the Uniform Commercial Code or similar state laws regarding (i) operating leases entered into by the Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries in the ordinary course of business and (ii) goods consigned or entrusted to or bailed with a person in connection with the processing, reprocessing, recycling or tolling of such goods;

 

(s) deposits in the ordinary course of business to secure liability to insurance carriers; and

 

(t) customary options, put and call arrangements, rights of first refusal and similar rights relating to capital stock in a joint venture pursuant to the related joint venture agreement.

 

“Permitted Refinancing Debt” means any Debt that Refinances any other Debt, including any successive Refinancings, so long as:

 

(a) such Debt is in an aggregate principal amount (or if Incurred with original issue discount, an aggregate issue price) not in excess of the sum of:

 

(1) the aggregate principal amount (or if Incurred with original issue discount, the aggregate accreted value) then outstanding of the Debt being Refinanced; and

 

(2) an amount necessary to pay any fees and expenses, including premiums and defeasance costs, related to such Refinancing;

 

(b) the Average Life of such Debt is equal to or greater than the Average Life of the Debt being Refinanced;

 

(c) the Stated Maturity of such Debt is no earlier than the Stated Maturity of the Debt being Refinanced;

 

(d) the new Debt shall not be senior in right of payment to the Debt that is being Refinanced; and

 

(e) the proceeds of such Debt are used to Refinance the Debt being Refinanced no later than 60 days following its issuance.

 

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provided, however, that Permitted Refinancing Debt shall not include: (x) Debt of a Subsidiary that is not a Subsidiary Guarantor that Refinances Debt of the Company or a Subsidiary Guarantor, or (y) Debt of the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary that Refinances Debt of an Unrestricted Subsidiary.

 

“Person” means any individual, corporation, company (including any limited liability company), association, partnership, joint venture, trust, unincorporated organization, government or any agency or political subdivision thereof or any other entity.

 

“Preferred Stock” means any Capital Stock of a Person, however designated, which entitles the holder thereof to a preference with respect to the payment of dividends, or as to the distribution of assets upon any voluntary or involuntary liquidation or dissolution of such Person, over shares of any other class of Capital Stock issued by such Person.

 

“Preferred Stock Dividends” means all dividends with respect to Preferred Stock of Restricted Subsidiaries held by Persons other than the Company or a Wholly Owned Restricted Subsidiary. The amount of any such dividend shall be equal to the quotient of such dividend divided by the difference between one and the maximum statutory federal income rate (expressed as a decimal number between 1 and 0) then applicable to the issuer of such Preferred Stock.

 

“pro forma” means, unless the context otherwise requires, with respect to any calculation made or required to be made pursuant to the terms hereof, a calculation performed in accordance with Article 11 of Regulation S-X promulgated under the Securities Act, as interpreted in good faith by the Board of Directors after consultation with the independent certified public accountants of the Company, or otherwise a calculation made in good faith by the Board of Directors after consultation with the independent certified public accountants of the Company, as the case may be.

 

“Property” means, with respect to any Person, any interest of such Person in any kind of property or asset, whether real, personal or mixed, or tangible or intangible, including Capital Stock in, and other securities of, any other Person. For purposes of any calculation required pursuant to this Indenture, the value of any Property shall be its Fair Market Value.

 

“Purchase Money Debt” means Debt Incurred to finance the acquisition, development, construction or lease by the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary of Property, including additions and improvements thereto, where the maturity of such Debt does not exceed the anticipated useful life of the Property being financed; provided, however, that such Debt is Incurred within 24 months after the completion of the acquisition, development, construction or lease of such Property by the Company or such Restricted Subsidiary.

 

“Qualified Consideration” means, with respect to any Asset Sale (or any other transaction or series of related transactions required to comply with clause (b) of the first paragraph of Section 4.06), any one or more of (a) cash or cash equivalents, (b) notes or obligations that are converted into cash (to the extent of the cash received) within 180 days of such Asset Sale, (c) equity securities listed on a national securities exchange (as such term is

 

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defined in the Exchange Act) and converted into cash (to the extent of the cash received) within 180 days of such Asset Sale, (d) the assumption or discharge by the purchaser of liabilities of the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary (other than liabilities that are by their terms subordinated to the Securities) as a result of which the Company and the Restricted Subsidiaries are no longer obligated with respect to such liabilities, (e) Additional Assets or (f) other Property; provided that the aggregate Fair Market Value of all Property received since the Issue Date by the Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries pursuant to Asset Sales (or such other transactions) that is used to determine Qualified Consideration pursuant to this clause (f) does not exceed the greater of $100.0 million and 5% of Total Assets.

 

“Qualified Receivables Transaction” means any transaction or series of transactions that may be entered into by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries pursuant to which the Company or any of its Subsidiaries may sell, convey or otherwise transfer to:

 

(a) a Receivables Entity (in the case of a transfer by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries); and

 

(b) any other Person (in the case of a transfer by a Receivables Entity), or may grant a security interest in, any accounts receivable (whether now existing or arising in the future) of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, and any assets related thereto including, without limitation, all collateral securing those accounts receivable, all contracts and all Guarantees or other obligations in respect of those accounts receivable, proceeds of those accounts receivable and other assets which are customarily transferred or in respect of which security interests are customarily granted in connection with asset securitization transactions involving accounts receivable; provided that:

 

(1) if the transaction involves a transfer of accounts receivable with Fair Market Value equal to or greater than $25.0 million, the Board of Directors shall have determined in good faith that the Qualified Receivables Transaction is economically fair and reasonable to the Company and the Receivables Entity;

 

(2) all sales of accounts receivable and related assets to or by the Receivables Entity are made at Fair Market Value; and

 

(3) the financing terms, covenants, termination events and other provisions thereof shall be market terms (as determined in good faith by the Board of Directors).

 

“Rating Agencies” means Moody’s and S&P.

 

“Real Estate Financing Transaction” means any arrangement with any Person pursuant to which the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary Incurs Debt secured by a Lien on real property of the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary and related personal property together with any Refinancings thereof.

 

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“Receivables Entity” means a Wholly Owned Subsidiary of the Company (or another Person formed for the purposes of engaging in a Qualified Receivables Transaction with the Company in which the Company or any Subsidiary of the Company makes an Investment and to which the Company or any Subsidiary of the Company transfers accounts receivable and related assets) which engages in no activities other than in connection with the financing of accounts receivable of the Company and its Subsidiaries, all proceeds thereof and all rights (contractual or other), collateral and other assets relating thereto, and any business or activities incidental or related to that business, and (with respect to any Receivables Entity formed after the Issue Date) which is designated by the Board of Directors (as provided below) as a Receivables Entity and:

 

(a) no portion of the Debt or any other obligations (contingent or otherwise) of which:

 

(1) is Guaranteed by the Company or any Subsidiary of the Company (excluding Guarantees of obligations (other than the principal of, and interest on, Debt) pursuant to Standard Securitization Undertakings);

 

(2) is recourse to or obligates the Company or any Subsidiary of the Company in any way other than pursuant to Standard Securitization Undertakings; or

 

(3) subjects any property or asset of the Company or any Subsidiary of the Company, directly or indirectly, contingently or otherwise, to the satisfaction thereof, other than pursuant to Standard Securitization Undertakings;

 

(b) with which neither the Company nor any Subsidiary of the Company has any material contract, agreement, arrangement or understanding other than on terms which the Company reasonably believes to be no less favorable to the Company or the Subsidiary than those that might be obtained at the time from Persons that are not Affiliates of the Company; and

 

(c) to which neither the Company nor any Subsidiary of the Company has any obligation to maintain or preserve the entity’s financial condition or cause the entity to achieve certain levels of operating results other than pursuant to Standard Securitization Undertakings.

 

Any designation of this kind by the Board of Directors shall be evidenced to the Trustee by filing with the Trustee a certified copy of the Board Resolution giving effect to the designation and an Officers’ Certificate certifying that the designation complied with the foregoing conditions.  For the avoidance of doubt, Rite Aid Funding I and Rite Aid Funding II are designated Receivables Entities without any further action on the part of the Company.

 

“Redemption Date” means, when used with respect to any Security to be redeemed, the date fixed for such redemption by or pursuant to this Indenture.

 

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“Redemption Price” means, when used with respect to any Security to be redeemed, the price at which it is to be redeemed pursuant to this Indenture.

 

“Refinance” means, in respect of any Debt, to refinance, extend, renew, refund, repay, prepay, repurchase, redeem, defease or retire, or to issue other Debt, in exchange or replacement for, such Debt. “Refinanced” and “Refinancing” shall have correlative meanings.

 

“Related Business” means any business that is related, ancillary or complementary to the businesses of the Company and the Restricted Subsidiaries on the Issue Date.

 

“Repay” means, in respect of any Debt, to repay, prepay, repurchase, redeem, legally defease or otherwise retire such Debt. “Repayment” and “Repaid” shall have correlative meanings. For purposes of Section 4.06 and the definition of “Consolidated Interest Coverage Ratio”, Debt shall be considered to have been Repaid only to the extent the related loan commitment, if any, shall have been permanently reduced in connection therewith.

 

“Restricted Payment” means:

 

(a) any dividend or distribution (whether made in cash, securities or other Property) declared or paid on or with respect to any shares of Capital Stock of the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary (including any payment in connection with any merger or consolidation with or into the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary), except for any dividend or distribution that is made solely to the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary (and, if such Restricted Subsidiary is not a Wholly Owned Restricted Subsidiary, to the other shareholders of such Restricted Subsidiary on a pro rata basis or on a basis that results in the receipt by the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary of dividends or distributions of greater value than it would receive on a pro rata basis) or any dividend or distribution payable solely in shares of Capital Stock (other than Disqualified Stock) of the Company;

 

(b) the purchase, repurchase, redemption, acquisition or retirement for value of any Capital Stock of the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary (other than from the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary);

 

(c) the purchase, repurchase, redemption, acquisition or retirement for value, prior to the date for any scheduled maturity, sinking fund or amortization or other installment payment, of any Subordinated Obligation (other than the purchase, repurchase or other acquisition of any Subordinated Obligation purchased in anticipation of satisfying a scheduled maturity, sinking fund or amortization or other installment obligation, in each case due within one year of the date of acquisition);

 

(d) any Investment (other than Permitted Investments) in any Person; or

 

(e) the issuance, sale or other disposition of Capital Stock of any Restricted Subsidiary to a Person other than the Company or another Restricted Subsidiary if the 

 

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result thereof is that such Restricted Subsidiary shall cease to be a Restricted Subsidiary, in which event the amount of such “Restricted Payment” shall be the Fair Market Value of the remaining interest, if any, in such former Restricted Subsidiary held by the Company and the other Restricted Subsidiaries.

 

Notwithstanding the foregoing, no payment or other transaction permitted by clause (c) or (f) of the second paragraph of Section 4.08 will be considered a Restricted Payment.

 

“Restricted Subsidiary” means any Subsidiary of the Company other than an Unrestricted Subsidiary.

 

“S&P” means Standard & Poor’s Ratings Service or any successor to the rating agency business thereof.

 

“Sale and Leaseback Transaction” means any direct or indirect arrangement relating to Property now owned or hereafter acquired whereby the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary transfers such Property to another Person and the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary leases it from such Person.

 

“Secured Debt” means indebtedness for money borrowed which is secured by a mortgage, pledge, lien, security interest or encumbrance on property of the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary, but shall not include guarantees arising in connection with the sale, discount, guarantee or pledge of notes, chattel mortgages, leases, accounts receivable, trade acceptances and other paper arising, in the ordinary course of business, out of installment or conditional sales to or by, or transactions involving title retention with, distributors, dealers or other customers, of merchandise, equipment or services.

 

“Securities Act” means the Securities Act of 1933, as it may be amended and any successor act thereto.

 

“Senior Credit Facility” means the Senior Credit Agreement, as amended and restated as of June 5, 2009 (as may be further amended, modified, supplemented or Refinanced from time to time), among the Company, the Lenders (as defined therein), Citicorp North America, Inc., as administrative agent and collateral agent, Bank of America, N.A., as syndication agent, and General Electric Capital Corporation, Wells Fargo Retail Finance, LLC and GMAC Commercial Finance LLC, as co-documentation agents.

 

“7.5% Notes due 2017” means the Company’s 7.5% Senior Secured Notes due 2017 issued under the indenture dated as of February 21, 2007, as amended, among the Company, the Subsidiary Guarantors and The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company, N.A., as trustee, and outstanding on the Issue Date.

 

“Significant Subsidiary” means any Subsidiary that would be a “Significant Subsidiary” of the Company within the meaning of Rule 1-02 under Regulation S-X promulgated by the Commission.

 

“Standard Securitization Undertakings” means representations, warranties, covenants and indemnities entered into by the Company or any Subsidiary of the Company 

 

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which are customary in an accounts receivable securitization transaction involving a comparable company.

 

“Stated Maturity” means, with respect to any security, the date specified in such security as the fixed date on which the payment of principal of such security is due and payable, including pursuant to any mandatory redemption provision (but excluding any provision providing for the repurchase of such security at the option of the holder thereof upon the happening of any contingency beyond the control of the issuer unless such contingency has occurred).

 

“Subordinated Obligation” means any Debt of the Company or any Subsidiary Guarantor (whether outstanding on the Issue Date or thereafter Incurred) that is subordinate or junior in right of payment to the Securities or the applicable Subsidiary Guarantee pursuant to a written agreement to that effect.

 

“Subsidiary” means, in respect of any Person, any corporation, company (including any limited liability company), association, partnership, joint venture or other business entity of which a majority of the total voting power of the Voting Stock is at the time owned or controlled, directly or indirectly, by:

 

(a) such Person;

 

(b) such Person and one or more Subsidiaries of such Person; or

 

(c) one or more Subsidiaries of such Person.

 

“Subsidiary Guarantee” means a Guarantee by a Subsidiary Guarantor of the Company’s obligations with respect to the Securities on the terms set forth in this Indenture.

 

“Subsidiary Guarantor” means each Subsidiary that is a party to the Indenture as of the Issue Date and any other Person that Guarantees the Securities pursuant to Section 4.09.

 

“Temporary Cash Investments” means any of the following:

 

(a) Investments in U.S. Government Obligations maturing within 365 days of the date of acquisition thereof;

 

(b) Investments in time deposit accounts, certificates of deposit, money market deposits maturing within 90 days of the date of acquisition thereof issued by a bank or trust company organized under the laws of the United States of America or any state thereof having capital, surplus and undivided profits aggregating in excess of $500.0 million and whose long-term debt is rated “A-3” or “A-” or higher according to Moody’s or S&P (or such similar equivalent rating by at least one “nationally recognized statistical rating organization” (as defined in Section 3(a)(62) of the Exchange Act));

 

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(c) repurchase obligations with a term of not more than 30 days for underlying securities of the types described in clause (a) entered into with:

 

(1) a bank meeting the qualifications described in clause (b) above; or

 

(2) any primary government securities dealer reporting to the Market Reports Division of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York;

 

(d) Investments in commercial paper, maturing not more than 90 days after the date of acquisition, issued by a corporation (other than an Affiliate of the Company) organized and in existence under the laws of the United States of America with a rating at the time as of which any Investment therein is made of “P-1” (or higher) according to Moody’s or “A-1” (or higher) according to S&P (or such similar equivalent rating by at least one “nationally recognized statistical rating organization” (as defined in Section 3(a)(62) of the Exchange Act));

 

(e) direct obligations (or certificates representing an ownership interest in such obligations) of any state of the United States of America (including any agency or instrumentality thereof) for the payment of which the full faith and credit of such state is pledged and which are not callable or redeemable at the issuer’s option, provided that:

 

(1) the long-term debt of such state is rated “A-3” or “A-” or higher according to Moody’s or S&P (or such similar equivalent rating by at least one “nationally recognized statistical rating organization” (as defined in Section 3(a)(62) of the Exchange Act)); and

 

(2) such obligations mature within 180 days of the date of acquisition thereof; and

 

(f) money market funds at least 95% of the assets of which constitute Temporary Cash Equivalents of the kinds described in clauses (a) through (e) of this definition.

 

“10.250% Notes due 2019” means the Company’s 10.250% Senior Secured Notes due 2019 issued under the indenture dated as of October 26, 2009, among the Company, the Subsidiary Guarantors and The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company, N.A., as trustee, and outstanding on the Issue Date.

 

“10.375% Notes due 2016” means the Company’s 10.375% Senior Secured Notes due 2016 issued under the indenture dated as of July 9, 2008, among the Company, the Subsidiary Guarantors and The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company, N.A., as trustee, and outstanding on the Issue Date.

 

“Total Assets” means the total assets of the Company and the Restricted Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis determined in accordance with GAAP as shown on the most recent consolidated balance sheet of the Company.

 

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“Trust Indenture Act” or “TIA” means the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 as in force at the date as of which this Indenture was executed, except as provided in Section 9.03; provided, however, that in the event the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 is amended after such date, “Trust Indenture Act” means, to the extent required by any such amendment, the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 as so amended.

 

“Trustee” means the Person named as the “Trustee” in the first paragraph of this Indenture until a successor Trustee shall have become such pursuant to the applicable provisions of this Indenture, and thereafter “Trustee” shall mean such successor Trustee.

 

“Trust Officer” means any officer within the corporate trust department of the Trustee (or any successor group of the Trustee) with direct responsibility for the administration of this Indenture and also means, with respect to a particular corporate trust matter, any other officer to whom such matter is referred because of his knowledge of and familiarity with the particular subject.

 

“Uniform Commercial Code” means the New York Uniform Commercial Code as in effect from time to time.

 

“Unrestricted Subsidiary” means:

 

(a) any Subsidiary of the Company that is designated after the Issue Date as an Unrestricted Subsidiary as permitted or required pursuant to Section 4.11 and is not thereafter redesignated as a Restricted Subsidiary as permitted pursuant thereto; and

 

(b) any Subsidiary of an Unrestricted Subsidiary.

 

“U.S. Government Obligations” means direct obligations (or certificates representing an ownership interest in such obligations) of the United States of America (including any agency or instrumentality thereof) for the payment of which the full faith and credit of the United States of America is pledged and which are not callable or redeemable at the issuer’s option.

 

“Voting Stock” of any Person means all classes of Capital Stock or other interests (including partnership interests) of such Person then outstanding and normally entitled (without regard to the occurrence of any contingency) to vote in the election of directors, managers or trustees thereof.

 

“Wholly Owned Restricted Subsidiary” means, at any time, a Restricted Subsidiary all the Voting Stock of which (except directors’ qualifying shares) is at such time owned, directly or indirectly, by the Company and its other Wholly Owned Subsidiaries.

 

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SECTION 1.02.  Other Definitions.

 

	
Term
    	
 
    	
Defined in
   Section
    
	
“Affiliate   Transaction” 
    	
 
    	
4.08 
    
	
“Asset   Sales Prepayment Offer”
    	
 
    	
4.06
    
	
“Bankruptcy   Law”
    	
 
    	
6.01
    
	
“Change   of Control Offer”
    	
 
    	
4.13
    
	
“Change   of Control Payment Date”
    	
 
    	
4.13
    
	
“Change   of Control Purchase Price”
    	
 
    	
4.13
    
	
“covenant   defeasance option”
    	
 
    	
8.01
    
	
“Custodian”
    	
 
    	
6.01
    
	
“Global   Security”
    	
 
    	
Appendix A
    
	
“legal   defeasance option”
    	
 
    	
8.01
    
	
“Legal   Holiday”
    	
 
    	
10.08
    
	
“Obligations”
    	
 
    	
11.01
    
	
“Offer   Amount”
    	
 
    	
4.06
    
	
“Offer   Period”
    	
 
    	
4.06
    
	
“OID”
    	
 
    	
2.01
    
	
“Original   Securities
    	
 
    	
2.01
    
	
“Paying   Agent”
    	
 
    	
2.04
    
	
“Registered   Exchange Offer
    	
 
    	
Appendix A
    
	
“Registrar”
    	
 
    	
2.04
    
	
“Registration   Agreement”
    	
 
    	
Appendix A
    
	
“Reversion   Date”
    	
 
    	
4.15(b)
    
	
“Securities   Custodian”
    	
 
    	
Appendix A
    
	
“Shelf   Registration Statement
    	
 
    	
Appendix A
    
	
“Surviving   Person”
    	
 
    	
5.01
    
	
“Suspension   Period”
    	
 
    	
4.15(b)
    

 

SECTION 1.03.  Incorporation by Reference of Trust Indenture Act.  This Indenture is subject to the mandatory provisions of the TIA, which are incorporated by reference in and made a part of this Indenture.  The following TIA terms have the following meanings:

 

“Commission” means the SEC.

 

“indenture securities” means the Securities.

 

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“indenture security holder” means a Holder.

 

“indenture to be qualified” means this Indenture.

 

“indenture trustee” or “institutional trustee” means the Trustee.

 

“obligor” on the indenture 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 SEC rule have the meanings assigned to them by such definitions.

 

SECTION 1.04.  Rules of Construction.  Unless the context otherwise requires:

 

(1) a term has the meaning assigned to it;

 

(2) an accounting term not otherwise defined has the meaning assigned to it in accordance with GAAP;

 

(3) “or” is not exclusive;

 

(4) “including” means including without limitation;

 

(5) words in the singular include the plural and words in the plural include the singular;

 

(6) unsecured Debt shall not be deemed to be subordinate or junior to secured Debt merely by virtue of its nature as unsecured Debt;

 

(7) the principal amount of any noninterest bearing or other discount security at any date shall be the principal amount thereof that would be shown on a balance sheet of the issuer dated such date prepared in accordance with GAAP;

 

(8) the principal amount of any Preferred Stock shall be the greater of (i) the maximum liquidation value of such Preferred Stock or (ii) the maximum mandatory redemption or mandatory repurchase price with respect to such Preferred Stock; and

 

(9) all references to any amount of interest or any other amount payable on or with respect to any of the Securities shall be deemed to include payment of any Additional Interest pursuant to the Registration Rights Agreement, if applicable.

 

ARTICLE II

 

The Securities

 

SECTION 2.01.  Amount of Securities; Issuable in Series.  The aggregate principal amount of Securities which may be authenticated and delivered under this Indenture 

 

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is unlimited.  All Securities shall be identical in all respects other than issue prices and issuance dates.  The Securities may be issued in one or more series; provided, however, that any Securities issued with original issue discount (“OID”) for Federal income tax purposes shall not be issued as part of the same series as any Securities that are issued with a different amount of OID or are not issued with OID.  All Securities of any one series shall be substantially identical except as to denomination.

 

Subject to Section 2.03, the Trustee shall authenticate Securities for original issue on the Issue Date in the aggregate principal amount of $481,000,000 (the “Original Securities”).  With respect to any Securities issued after the Issue Date (except for Securities authenticated and delivered upon registration of transfer of, or in exchange for, or in lieu of, Original Securities pursuant to Section 2.07, 2.08, 2.09 or 3.06 or Appendix A, including the Exchange Securities), there shall be established in or pursuant to a Board Resolution, and subject to Section 2.03, set forth, or determined in the manner provided in an Officers’ Certificate, or established in one or more indentures supplemental hereto, prior to the issuance of such Securities:

 

(1) whether such Securities shall be issued as part of a new or existing series of Securities and, if issued as part of a new series, the title of such Securities (which shall distinguish the Securities of the series from Securities of any other series);

 

(2) the aggregate principal amount of such Securities to be authenticated and delivered under this Indenture, which may be issued for an unlimited aggregate principal amount (except for Securities authenticated and delivered upon registration of transfer of, or in exchange for, or in lieu of, other Securities of the same series pursuant to Section 2.07, 2.08, 2.09 or 3.06 or Appendix A and except for Securities which, pursuant to Section 2.03, are deemed never to have been authenticated and delivered hereunder);

 

(3) the issue price and issuance date of such Securities, including the date from which interest payable with respect to such Securities shall accrue;

 

(4) if applicable, that such Securities shall be issuable in whole or in part in the form of one or more Global Securities and, in such case, the respective depositories for such Global Securities; the form of any legend or legends that shall be borne by any such Global Security in addition to or in lieu of that set forth in Exhibit 1 to Appendix A and any circumstances in addition to or in lieu of those set forth in Section 2.3 of Appendix A in which any such Global Security may be exchanged in whole or in part for Securities registered; and any transfer of such Global Security in whole or in part may be registered in the name or names of Persons other than the depository for such Global Security or a nominee thereof; and

 

(5) if applicable, that such Securities shall not be issued in the form of Initial Securities subject to Appendix A, but shall be issued in the form of Exchange Securities as set forth in Exhibit A.

 

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SECTION 2.02.  Form and Dating.  Provisions relating to the Initial Securities of each series and the Exchange Securities are set forth in Appendix A, which is hereby incorporated in and expressly made part of this Indenture.  The Initial Securities of each series and the Trustee’s certificate of authentication shall be substantially in the form of Exhibit 1 to Appendix A which is hereby incorporated in and expressly made a part of this Indenture.  The Exchange Securities and the Trustee’s certificate of authentication shall be substantially in the form of Exhibit A, which is hereby incorporated in and expressly made a part of this Indenture.  The Securities of each series may have notations, legends or endorsements required by law, stock exchange rule, agreements to which the Company is subject, if any, or usage, provided that any such notation, legend or endorsement is in a form reasonably acceptable to the Company.  Each Security shall be dated the date of its authentication.  The terms of the Securities of each series set forth in Exhibit 1 to Appendix A and Exhibit A are part of the terms of this Indenture.

 

SECTION 2.03.  Execution and Authentication.  An Officer shall sign the Securities for the Company by manual, facsimile or electronic image scan (e.g., Adobe PDF) signature.

 

If an Officer whose signature is on a Security no longer holds that office at the time the Trustee authenticates the Security, the Security shall be valid nevertheless.

 

At any time and from time to time after the execution and delivery of this Indenture, the Company may deliver Securities of any series executed by the Company to the Trustee for authentication, together with a written order of the Company in the form of an Officers’ Certificate for the authentication and delivery of such Securities, and the Trustee in accordance with such written order of the Company shall authenticate and deliver such Securities.

 

A Security shall not be valid until an authorized signatory of the Trustee manually signs the certificate of authentication on the Security.  The signature shall be conclusive evidence that the Security has been authenticated under this Indenture.

 

The Trustee may appoint an authenticating agent reasonably acceptable to the Company to authenticate 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.  An authenticating agent has the same rights as any Registrar, Paying Agent or agent for service of notices and demands.

 

SECTION 2.04.  Registrar and Paying Agent.  The Company shall maintain an office or agency in the City of New York where Securities may be presented for registration of transfer or for exchange (the “Registrar”) and an office or agency in the City of New York where Securities may be presented for payment (the “Paying Agent”).  The Registrar shall keep a register of the Securities and of their transfer and exchange.  The Company may have one or more co-registrars and one or more additional paying agents.  The term “Paying Agent” includes any additional paying agent.

 

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The Company shall enter into an appropriate agency agreement with any Registrar, Paying Agent or co-registrar not a party to this Indenture, which shall incorporate the terms of the TIA.  The agreement shall implement the provisions of this Indenture that relate to such agent.  The Company shall notify the Trustee of the name and address of any such agent.  If the Company fails to maintain a Registrar or Paying Agent, the Trustee shall act as such and shall be entitled to appropriate compensation therefor pursuant to Section 7.07.  The Company or any of its domestically incorporated Wholly Owned Subsidiaries may act as Paying Agent, Registrar, co-registrar or transfer agent.

 

The Company initially appoints the Trustee as Registrar and Paying Agent in connection with the Securities.

 

SECTION 2.05.  Paying Agent To Hold Money in Trust.  Prior to each due date of the principal and interest on any Security, the Company shall deposit with the Paying Agent a sum sufficient to pay such principal and interest when so becoming due.  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 payment of principal of or interest on the Securities and shall notify the Trustee of any default by the Company in making any such payment.  If the Company or a Wholly Owned Subsidiary acts as Paying Agent, it shall segregate the money held by it as Paying Agent and hold it as a separate trust fund.  The Company at any time may require a Paying Agent to pay all money held by it to the Trustee and to account for any funds disbursed by the Paying Agent.  Upon complying with this Section 2.05, the Paying Agent shall have no further liability for the money delivered to the Trustee.

 

SECTION 2.06.  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.  If the Trustee is not the Registrar, the Company shall furnish to the Trustee, in writing at least five Business Days before 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.

 

SECTION 2.07.  Replacement Securities.  If a mutilated Security is surrendered to the Registrar or if the Holder of a Security claims that such Security has been lost, destroyed or wrongfully taken, the Company shall issue and the Trustee shall authenticate a replacement Security if the requirements of Section 8-405 of the Uniform Commercial Code are met and the Holder satisfies any other reasonable requirements of the Trustee.  If required by the Trustee or the Company, such Holder shall furnish an indemnity bond sufficient in the judgment of the Company and the Trustee to protect the Company, the Trustee, the Paying Agent, the Registrar and any co-registrar from any loss which any of them may suffer if a Security is replaced.  The Company and the Trustee may charge the Holder for their expenses in replacing a Security.

 

Every replacement Security is an additional obligation of the Company.

 

SECTION 2.08.  Outstanding Securities.  Securities outstanding at any time are all Securities authenticated by the Trustee except for those canceled by it, those delivered 

 

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to it for cancellation and those described in this Section 2.08 as not outstanding.  A Security does not cease to be outstanding because the Company or an Affiliate of the Company holds the Security.

 

If a Security is replaced pursuant to Section 2.07, it ceases to be outstanding unless the Trustee and the Company receive proof satisfactory to them that the replaced Security is held by a bona fide purchaser.

 

If the Paying Agent segregates and holds in trust, in accordance with this Indenture, on a redemption date or maturity date money sufficient to pay all principal and interest payable on that date with respect to the Securities (or portions thereof) to be redeemed or maturing, as the case may be, then on and after that date such Securities (or portions thereof) cease to be outstanding and interest on them ceases to accrue.

 

SECTION 2.09.  Temporary Securities.  Until definitive Securities are ready for delivery, the Company may prepare and the Trustee shall authenticate temporary Securities.  Temporary Securities shall be substantially in the form of definitive Securities but may have variations that the Company considers appropriate for temporary Securities.  Without unreasonable delay, the Company shall prepare and the Trustee shall authenticate definitive Securities and deliver them in exchange for temporary Securities.

 

SECTION 2.10.  Cancellation.  The Company at any time may deliver Securities to the Trustee for cancellation.  The Registrar and the Paying Agent shall forward to the Trustee any Securities surrendered to them for registration of transfer, exchange or payment.  The Trustee and no one else shall cancel and dispose of (subject to the record retention requirements of the Exchange Act) all Securities surrendered for registration of transfer, exchange, payment or cancellation and deliver a certificate of such disposal to the Company upon its request therefor unless the Company directs the Trustee to deliver canceled Securities to the Company.  The Company may not issue new Securities to replace Securities it has redeemed, paid or delivered to the Trustee for cancellation.

 

SECTION 2.11.  Defaulted Interest.  If the Company defaults in a payment of interest on the Securities, the Company shall pay the defaulted interest (plus interest with respect to such defaulted interest to the extent lawful) in any lawful manner.  The Company may pay the defaulted interest to the persons who are Holders on a subsequent special record date.  The Company shall fix or cause to be fixed any such special record date and payment date to the reasonable satisfaction of the Trustee and shall promptly mail to each Holder a notice that states the special record date, the payment date and the amount of defaulted interest to be paid.

 

SECTION 2.12.  CUSIP Numbers.  The Company in issuing the Securities may use “CUSIP” numbers (if then generally in use) and, if so, the Trustee shall use “CUSIP” numbers in notices of redemption as a convenience to Holders; provided, however, that neither the Company nor the Trustee shall have any responsibility for any defect in the “CUSIP” number that appears on any Security, check, advice of payment or redemption notice, and any such notice may state that no representation is made as to the correctness of such numbers either as printed on the Securities or as contained in any notice of a redemption 

 

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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.

 

ARTICLE III

 

Redemption

 

SECTION 3.01.  Notices to Trustee.  If the Company elects to redeem Securities pursuant to paragraph 5 of the Securities, it shall notify the Trustee in writing of the redemption date, the principal amount of Securities to be redeemed and that such redemption is being made pursuant to such paragraph 5 of the Securities.

 

The Company shall give each notice to the Trustee provided for in this Section 3.01 at least 45 days before the redemption date unless the Trustee consents to a shorter period.  Such notice shall be accompanied by an Officers’ Certificate from the Company to the effect that such redemption will comply with the conditions herein.

 

SECTION 3.02.  Selection of Securities To Be Redeemed.  If fewer than all the Securities are to be redeemed pursuant to paragraph 5 of the Securities, the Trustee shall select the Securities to be redeemed pro rata or by lot or by a method that complies with applicable legal and securities exchange requirements, if any, and that the Trustee considers fair and appropriate and in accordance with methods generally used at the time of selection by fiduciaries in similar circumstances.  The Trustee shall make the selection from outstanding Securities not previously called for redemption.  The Trustee may select for redemption portions of the principal of Securities that have denominations larger than $2,000.  Securities and portions of them the Trustee selects shall be in amounts of $2,000 or a whole multiple in excess of $1,000.  Provisions of this Indenture that apply to Securities called for redemption also apply to portions of Securities called for redemption.  The Trustee shall notify the Company promptly of the Securities or portions of Securities to be redeemed.

 

SECTION 3.03.  Notice of Redemption.  At least 30 days but not more than 60 days before a date for redemption of Securities (or, in the event of a redemption upon a Change of Control as described in Section 5 of the Securities, during the time period with respect thereto pursuant to Section 5 of the Securities), the Company shall cause to be delivered a notice of redemption to each Holder of Securities to be redeemed at such Holder’s registered address.

 

The notice shall identify the Securities to be redeemed and shall state:

 

(1) the redemption date;

 

(2) the redemption price;

 

(3) the name and address of the Paying Agent;

 

(4) that Securities called for redemption must be surrendered to the Paying Agent to collect the redemption price;

 

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(5) if fewer than all the outstanding Securities are to be redeemed, the identification and principal amounts of the particular Securities to be redeemed;

 

(6) that, unless the Company defaults in making such redemption payment, interest on Securities (or portion thereof) called for redemption ceases to accrue on and after the redemption date, and the only remaining right of the Holders is to receive payment of the redemption price upon surrender to the Paying Agent; and

 

(7) that no representation is made as to the correctness or accuracy of the CUSIP number, if any, listed in such notice or printed on the Securities.

 

At the Company’s request, the Trustee shall give the notice of redemption in the Company’s name and at the Company’s expense.  In such event, the Company shall provide the Trustee with the information required by this Section 3.03 at least 40 days before the redemption date and at least five days prior to the Trustee giving the notice of redemption.

 

SECTION 3.04.  Effect of Notice of Redemption.  Once notice of redemption is mailed, Securities called for redemption become due and payable on the redemption date and at the redemption price stated in the notice.  Upon surrender to the Paying Agent, such Securities shall be paid at the redemption price stated in the notice, plus accrued interest, if any, to the redemption date (subject to the right of Holders of record on the relevant record date to receive interest due on the related interest payment date that is on or prior to the date of redemption).  Failure to give notice or any defect in the notice to any Holder shall not affect the validity of the notice to any other Holder.

 

SECTION 3.05.  Deposit of Redemption Price.  Prior to or on the redemption date, the Company shall deposit with the Paying Agent (or, if the Company or a Wholly Owned Subsidiary is the Paying Agent, shall segregate and hold in trust) money sufficient to pay the redemption price of and accrued interest, if any (subject to the right of Holders of record on the relevant record date to receive interest due on the related interest payment date that is on or prior to the date of redemption), on all Securities to be redeemed on that date other than Securities or portions of Securities called for redemption that have been delivered by the Company to the Trustee for cancellation.

 

SECTION 3.06.  Securities Redeemed in Part.  Upon surrender of a Security that is redeemed in part, the Company shall execute and the Trustee shall authenticate for the Holder (at the Company’s expense) a new Security equal in principal amount to the unredeemed portion of the Security surrendered.

 

ARTICLE IV

 

Covenants

 

SECTION 4.01.  Payment of Securities.  The Company shall promptly pay the principal of and interest on the Securities on the dates and in the manner provided in the Securities and in this Indenture.  Principal and interest shall be considered paid on the date 

 

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due if on such date the Trustee or the Paying Agent holds in accordance with this Indenture money sufficient to pay all principal and interest then due.

 

The Company shall pay interest on overdue principal at the rate per annum specified therefor in the Securities, and it shall pay interest on overdue installments of interest at the rate borne by the Securities, to the extent lawful.

 

SECTION 4.02.  SEC Reports.  Notwithstanding that the Company may not be subject to the reporting requirements of Section 13 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act, the Company shall file with the Commission and provide the Trustee with such annual and quarterly reports and such information, documents and other reports as are specified in Sections 13 and 15(d) of the Exchange Act and applicable to a U.S. corporation subject to such Sections, such information, documents and reports to be so filed and provided at the times specified for the filing of such information, documents and reports under such Sections; provided, however, that the Company shall not be so obligated to file such information, documents and reports with the Commission if the Commission does not permit such filings; provided  further, however, that the Company shall be required also to provide to Holders any such information, documents or reports that are not so filed; provided  further, however, that the filing of such reports and such other information and documents with the Commission through EDGAR (or any successor electronic reporting system of the Commission accessible to the public without charge) constitutes delivery to the Trustee for purposes of this sentence.  At any time that the Company is not subject to the reporting requirements of Section 13 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act, the Company shall furnish to any holder (including any beneficial owner) of the Notes or to any prospective purchaser of the Securities, the information required to be provided pursuant to Rule 144A(d)(4) under the Securities Act.  Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, the Company will not be deemed to have failed to comply with any of its obligations under this Section 4.02 for purposes of clause (d) of Section 6.01 until 120 days after the date any report hereunder is due.  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 therein, including the Company’s compliance with any of its covenants hereunder (as to which the Trustee is entitled to rely exclusively on Officers’ Certificates).  The Company shall also comply with the other provisions of TIA § 314(a).

 

SECTION 4.03.  Limitation on Debt.  The Company shall not, and shall not permit any Restricted Subsidiary to, Incur, directly or indirectly, any Debt unless, after giving effect to the application of the proceeds thereof, no Default or Event of Default would occur as a consequence of such Incurrence and no Default or Event of Default would be continuing following such Incurrence and application of proceeds and either:

 

(1) such Debt is Debt of the Company or a Subsidiary Guarantor and after giving effect to the Incurrence of such Debt and the application of the proceeds thereof, the Consolidated Interest Coverage Ratio would be greater than 2.00 to 1.00; or

 

(2) such Debt is Permitted Debt.

 

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The term “Permitted Debt” is defined to include the following:

 

(a) Debt of the Company evidenced by the Securities and of Restricted Subsidiaries, including any future Restricted Subsidiaries, evidenced by Guarantees relating to the Securities;

 

(b) Debt of the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary (including Guarantees thereof) (1) under any Credit Facilities, (2) Incurred pursuant to a Real Estate Financing Transaction, a Sale and Leaseback Transaction or an Equipment Financing Transaction, (3) Incurred in respect of Capital Lease Obligations, (4) Incurred pursuant to Debt Issuances or (5) Incurred by a Receivables Entity, whether or not a Subsidiary Guarantor, in a Qualified Receivables Transaction that is not recourse to the Company or any other Restricted Subsidiary (except for Standard Securitization Undertakings); provided that the aggregate principal amount of all such Debt in clauses (1) through (5) hereof at any one time outstanding shall not, after giving pro forma effect to the Incurrence of such Debt and the application of the proceeds thereof, exceed the greater of:

 

(1) $3,700.0 million, which amount shall be permanently reduced by the amount of Net Available Cash used to Repay Debt under the Credit Facilities, and not subsequently reinvested in Additional Assets or used to purchase Securities or Repay other Debt, pursuant to Section 4.06; and

 

(2) the sum of the amount equal to (a) 60% of the book value of the inventory (determined using the first-in-first-out method of accounting) of the Company and the Restricted Subsidiaries and (b) 85% of the book value of the accounts receivables of the Company and the Restricted Subsidiaries, including any Receivables Entity that is a Restricted Subsidiary, with the amounts of such inventory and receivables calculated on a pro forma basis to give effect to, without duplication, all Investments, acquisitions, dispositions, mergers and consolidations made by the Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries on or prior to the date of such calculation;

 

(c) [Intentionally omitted];

 

(d) Debt of the Company outstanding on the Issue Date and evidenced by the 7.5% Notes due 2017 and of Subsidiary Guarantors, including any future Guarantor, evidenced by guarantees relating to the 7.5% Notes due 2017;

 

(e) Debt Incurred after the Issue Date in respect of Purchase Money Debt, provided that the aggregate principal amount of such Debt does not exceed 80% of the Fair Market Value (on the date of the Incurrence thereof) of the Property acquired, constructed, developed or leased, including additions and improvements thereto;

 

(f) Debt of the Company owing to and held by any consolidated Restricted Subsidiary and Debt of a Restricted Subsidiary owing to and held by the Company or any consolidated Restricted Subsidiary; provided, however, that any subsequent issue 

 

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or transfer of Capital Stock or other event that results in any such consolidated Restricted Subsidiary ceasing to be a consolidated Restricted Subsidiary or any subsequent transfer of any such Debt (except to the Company or a consolidated Restricted Subsidiary) shall be deemed, in each case, to constitute the Incurrence of such Debt by the issuer thereof;

 

(g) Debt under Interest Rate Agreements entered into by the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary for the purpose of limiting interest rate risk of the financial management of the Company or such Restricted Subsidiary and not for speculative purposes, provided that the obligations under such agreements are directly related to payment obligations on Debt otherwise permitted by the terms of this Section 4.03;

 

(h) Debt under Currency Exchange Protection Agreements entered into by the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary for the purpose of limiting currency exchange rate risks and not for speculative purposes;

 

(i) Debt under Commodity Price Protection Agreements entered into by the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary in the financial management of the Company or that Restricted Subsidiary and not for speculative purposes;

 

(j) Debt in connection with one or more standby letters of credit, banker’s acceptance, performance or surety bonds or completion guarantees issued by the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary or pursuant to self-insurance obligations and not in connection with the borrowing of money or the obtaining of advances or credit;

 

(k) Debt outstanding on the Issue Date not otherwise described in clauses (a) through (j) above or clause (q) below;

 

(l) other Debt of the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary (including Guarantees thereof) in an aggregate principal amount outstanding at any one time not to exceed $600.0 million;

 

(m) Debt of a Restricted Subsidiary outstanding on the date on which that Restricted Subsidiary was acquired by the Company or otherwise became a Restricted Subsidiary (other than Debt Incurred as consideration in, or to provide all or any portion of the funds or credit support utilized to consummate, the transaction or series of transactions pursuant to which that Restricted Subsidiary became a Subsidiary of the Company or was otherwise acquired by the Company), provided that at the time that Restricted Subsidiary was acquired by the Company or otherwise became a Restricted Subsidiary and after giving effect to the Incurrence of that Debt, the Company would have been able to Incur $1.00 of additional Debt pursuant to clause (1) of the first paragraph of this Section 4.03;

 

(n) Debt arising from the honoring by a bank or other financial institution of a check or draft or other similar instrument inadvertently drawn against insufficient funds, provided that such Debt is extinguished within five Business Days of its Incurrence;

 

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(o) endorsements of negotiable instruments for deposit or collection or similar transactions in the ordinary course of business;

 

(p) [Intentionally omitted];

 

(q) Debt in respect of Sale and Leaseback Transactions or Real Estate Financing Transactions involving only real property (and the related personal property) owned by the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary on or after the Issue Date in an aggregate principal amount outstanding at any one time not to exceed $250.0 million; provided that such Sale and Leaseback Transactions or Real Estate Financing Transactions may involve Property other than real property (and the related personal property) owned on or after the Issue Date to the extent the portion of the Debt related to such Property is permitted by another provision of this Section 4.03 at the time of Incurrence;

 

(r) Debt in respect of Sale and Leaseback Transactions that are not Capital Lease Obligations Incurred to finance the acquisition, construction and development of Property after the Issue Date, including additions and improvements thereto, provided that any reclassification of such Debt as a Capital Lease Obligation shall be deemed an Incurrence of such Debt;

 

(s) Permitted Refinancing Debt Incurred in respect of Debt Incurred pursuant to clause (1) of the first paragraph of this Section 4.03 and clauses (a), (d), (e), (k), (m) and (q) above; and

 

(t) Debt arising from agreements of the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary providing for indemnification, adjustment of purchase price or similar obligations, in each case, Incurred or assumed in connection with the disposition of any business, assets or a Subsidiary, other than Guarantees of Debt incurred by any Person acquiring all or any portion of such business, assets or Restricted Subsidiary for the purpose of financing such acquisition; provided that (i) such Debt is not reflected on the balance sheet of the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary (contingent obligations referred to in a footnote or footnotes to financial statements and not otherwise reflected on the balance sheet will not be deemed to be reflected on such balance sheet for purposes of this clause (i)) and (ii) the maximum assumable liability in respect of such Debt will at no time exceed the gross proceeds including non-cash proceeds (the fair market value of such non-cash proceeds being measured at the time received and without giving effect to any subsequent changes in value) actually received by the Company or such Restricted Subsidiary in connection with such disposition.

 

Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Section 4.03, the Company shall not permit any Restricted Subsidiary that is not a Subsidiary Guarantor to Incur any Debt pursuant to this Section 4.03 if the proceeds thereof are used, directly or indirectly, to Refinance any Debt of the Company or any Subsidiary Guarantor.

 

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For purposes of determining compliance with this Section 4.03, (1) in the event that an item of Debt meets the criteria of more than one of the types of Debt described herein, the Company, in its sole discretion, will classify such item of Debt at the time of Incurrence and only be required to include the amount and type of such Debt in one of the above clauses, (2) the Company will be entitled at the time of such Incurrence to divide and classify an item of Debt in more than one of the types of Debt described herein and (3) with respect to Debt permitted under clause (k) of this Section 4.03 in respect of Sale and Leaseback Transactions that are not Capital Lease Obligations on the Issue Date, any reclassification of such Debt as a Capital Lease Obligation shall not be deemed an Incurrence of such Debt; provided, however, that (A) all outstanding Debt evidenced by the 8.00% Notes due 2020 will be deemed to have been Incurred pursuant to clause (b) of the second paragraph of this Section 4.03, (B) all outstanding Debt evidenced by the 9.750% Notes due 2016 will be deemed to have been Incurred pursuant to clause (b) of the second paragraph of this Section 4.03, (C) all outstanding Debt evidenced by the 10.250% Notes due 2019 will be deemed to have been Incurred pursuant to clause (b) of the second paragraph of this Section 4.03, (D) $250.0 million of the 10.375% Notes due 2016 will be deemed to have been Incurred pursuant to clause (b) of the second paragraph of this Section 4.03, (E) all outstanding Debt under the Senior Credit Facility immediately following the Issue Date will be deemed to have been Incurred pursuant to clause (b) of the second paragraph of this Section 4.03, (F) any Permitted Debt that is not Secured Debt may later be reclassified as having been Incurred pursuant to clause (1) of the first paragraph of this Section 4.03 to the extent such Debt could be Incurred pursuant to such clause at the time of such reclassification and (G) any Permitted Debt may later be reclassified as having been Incurred pursuant to any other clause of this second paragraph of this Section 4.03 to the extent such Debt could be Incurred pursuant to such clause at the time of such reclassification.

 

SECTION 4.04.  Limitation on Restricted Payments.  The Company shall not make, and shall not permit any Restricted Subsidiary to make, directly or indirectly, any Restricted Payment if at the time of, and after giving effect to, such proposed Restricted Payment:

 

(a) a Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing;

 

(b) the Company could not Incur at least $1.00 of additional Debt pursuant to clause (1) of the first paragraph of Section 4.03; or

 

(c) the aggregate amount of such Restricted Payment and all other Restricted Payments declared or made since the beginning of the fiscal quarter immediately following the Issue Date (the amount of any Restricted Payment, if made other than in cash, to be based upon Fair Market Value) would exceed an amount equal to the sum of:

 

(1) 50% of the aggregate amount of Consolidated Net Income accrued during the period (treated as one accounting period) from the beginning of the first fiscal quarter that commenced after the beginning of the fiscal quarter immediately following the Issue Date to the end of the most recent fiscal quarter for which financial statements have been filed with the Commission

 

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(or, if the aggregate amount of Consolidated Net Income for such period shall be a deficit, minus 100% of such deficit); plus

 

(2) 100% of Capital Stock Sale Proceeds; plus

 

(3) the sum of:

 

(A)  the aggregate net cash proceeds received by the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary from the issuance or sale after the beginning of the fiscal quarter immediately following the Issue Date of convertible or exchangeable Debt that has been converted into or exchanged for Capital Stock (other than Disqualified Stock) of the Company; and

 

(B) the aggregate amount by which Debt (other than Subordinated Obligations) of the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary is reduced on the Company’s consolidated balance sheet after the beginning of the fiscal quarter immediately following the Issue Date upon the conversion or exchange of any Debt (other than convertible or exchangeable debt issued or sold after the beginning of the fiscal quarter immediately following the Issue Date) for Capital Stock (other than Disqualified Stock) of the Company;

 

excluding, in the case of clause (A) or (B):

 

(x) any such Debt issued or sold to the Company or a Subsidiary of the Company or an employee stock ownership plan or trust established by the Company or any such Subsidiary for the benefit of their employees; and

 

(y) the aggregate amount of any cash or other Property distributed by the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary upon any such conversion or exchange;

 

plus

 

(4) an amount equal to the sum of:

 

(A) the net reduction in Investments in any Person other than the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary resulting from dividends, repayments of loans or advances, payments of interest on Debt, distributions, liquidations or other transfers of Property made after the beginning of the fiscal quarter immediately following the Issue Date, in each case to the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary from such Person less the cost of the disposition of such Investments; and

 

(B) the portion (proportionate to the Company’s equity interest in such Unrestricted Subsidiary) of the Fair Market Value of the net assets of an Unrestricted Subsidiary at the time such Unrestricted Subsidiary is 

 

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designated a Restricted Subsidiary (provided that such designation occurs after the beginning of the fiscal quarter immediately following the Issue Date);

 

provided, however, that the foregoing sum shall not exceed, in the case of any Person, the amount of Investments previously made (and treated as a Restricted Payment) by the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary in such Person.

 

Notwithstanding the foregoing limitation, the Company may:

 

(a) pay dividends on its Capital Stock within 60 days of the declaration thereof if, on said declaration date, such dividends could have been paid in compliance with this Indenture; provided, however, that at the time of such payment of such dividend, no other Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing (or result therefrom); provided further, however, that, any such dividend shall be included in the calculation of the amount of Restricted Payments;

 

(b) purchase, repurchase, redeem, legally defease, acquire or retire for value Capital Stock of the Company or Subordinated Obligations on or after the Issue Date in exchange for, or out of the proceeds of the substantially concurrent sale of, Capital Stock of the Company (other than Disqualified Stock and other than Capital Stock issued or sold to a Subsidiary of the Company or an employee stock ownership plan or trust established by the Company or any such Subsidiary for the benefit of their employees); provided, however, that:

 

(1) such purchase, repurchase, redemption, legal defeasance, acquisition or retirement shall be excluded in the calculation of the amount of Restricted Payments; and

 

(2) the Capital Stock Sale Proceeds from such exchange or sale shall be excluded from the calculation pursuant to clause (c)(2) above;

 

(c) purchase, repurchase, redeem, legally defease, acquire or retire for value any Subordinated Obligations on or after the Issue Date in exchange for, or out of the proceeds of the substantially concurrent sale of, Permitted Refinancing Debt; provided, however, that such purchase, repurchase, redemption, legal defeasance, acquisition or retirement shall be excluded in the calculation of the amount of Restricted Payments;

 

(d) [intentionally omitted];

 

(e) so long as no Default or Event of Default has occurred and is continuing the repurchase or other acquisition on or after the Issue Date of shares of, or options to purchase shares of, Capital Stock of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries from employees, former employees, directors or former directors of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries (or permitted transferees of such employees, former employees, directors or former directors), pursuant to the terms of agreements (including employment agreements) or plans (or amendments thereto) approved by the Board of 

 

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Directors under which such individuals purchase or sell or are granted the option to purchase or sell, shares of such Capital Stock; provided, however, that the aggregate amount of such repurchases and other acquisitions shall not exceed the sum of (x) $15 million and (y) any cash proceeds from the sale of Capital Stock (other than Disqualified Stock) of the Company to employees, directors or consultants of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries that occur after the Issue Date and any cash proceeds from key man life insurance policies received after the Issue Date; provided further, however, that the Capital Stock Sale Proceeds from sales shall be excluded from the calculation pursuant to clause (c)(2) above and that such repurchases and other acquisitions shall be included in the calculation of the amount of Restricted Payments;

 

(f) make payments to holders of its Capital Stock in lieu of the issuance of fractional shares of its Capital Stock on or after the Issue Date; provided, however, that such payments shall be excluded in the calculation of the amount of Restricted Payments;

 

(g) make any purchase, repurchase, redemption, defeasance or other acquisition or retirement for value of any Subordinated Obligation in the event of a Change of Control or an Asset Sale in accordance with provisions similar to those in Section 4.06 or 4.13; provided  that, prior to or simultaneously with such purchase, repurchase, redemption, defeasance or other acquisition or retirement, the Company has made the Change of Control Offer or Asset Sales Prepayment Offer, as applicable, as required with respect to the Securities and has completed the repurchase of all Securities validly tendered for payment in connection with such Change of Control Offer or Asset Sales Prepayment Offer; provided, however,  that such purchase, repurchase, redemption, defeasance or other acquisition or retirement shall be included in the calculation of the amount of Restricted Payments;

 

(h) repurchase Capital Stock of the Company deemed to be issued upon the exercise of stock options or warrants (i) if such Capital Stock represent a portion of the exercise price of such options or warrants and (ii) for purposes of tax withholding by the Company in connection with such exercise; provided, however, that such repurchase shall be excluded in the calculation of the amount of Restricted Payments;

 

(i) pay dividends on Rite Aid Lease Management Company preferred stock outstanding on the Issue Date pursuant to the terms of such preferred stock as in effect on the Issue Date; provided  that such payments shall be excluded in the calculation of the amount of Restricted Payments; and

 

(j) make any other Restricted Payments on or after the Issue Date not to exceed an aggregate amount of $50.0 million; provided, however, that such payments shall be included in the calculation of the amount of Restricted Payments.

 

SECTION 4.05.  Limitation on Liens.  The Company shall not, and shall not permit any Restricted Subsidiary to, directly or indirectly, Incur or suffer to exist, any Lien (other than Permitted Liens) upon any of its Property (including Capital Stock of a Restricted 

 

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Subsidiary), whether owned on the Issue Date or thereafter acquired, or any interest therein or any income or profits therefrom, unless it has made or will make effective provision whereby the Securities or the applicable Subsidiary Guarantee will be secured equally and ratably with (or prior to) all other Debt of the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary secured by such Lien.

 

SECTION 4.06.  Limitation on Asset Sales.  The Company shall not, and shall not permit any Restricted Subsidiary to, directly or indirectly, consummate any Asset Sale unless:

 

(a) the Company or such Restricted Subsidiary receives consideration at the time of such Asset Sale at least equal to the Fair Market Value of the Property subject to such Asset Sale;

 

(b) at least 75% of the consideration paid to the Company or such Restricted Subsidiary in connection with such Asset Sale is in the form of Qualified Consideration; and

 

(c) the Company delivers an Officers’ Certificate to the Trustee certifying that such Asset Sale complies with the foregoing clauses (a) and (b).

 

The Net Available Cash (or any portion thereof) from Asset Sales may be applied by the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary, to the extent the Company or such Restricted Subsidiary elects (or is required by the terms of any Debt):

 

(a) to Repay the Credit Facilities, the 7.5% Notes due 2017, the 9.75% Notes due 2016, the 10.375% Notes due 2016, the 10.25% Notes due 2019, the 8.00% Notes due 2020 or any other Debt of the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary secured by a Lien on Property of the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary of the Company (excluding, in any such case, any Debt owed to the Company or an Affiliate of the Company) (the “Senior Obligations”); or

 

(b) to reinvest in Additional Assets or Expansion Capital Expenditures (including by means of an Investment in Additional Assets or Expansion Capital Expenditures by a Restricted Subsidiary with Net Available Cash received by the Company or another Restricted Subsidiary); provided, however, that the Net Available Cash (or any portion thereof) from Asset Sales from the Company to any Subsidiary must be reinvested in Additional Assets or Expansion Capital Expenditures of the Company.

 

Pending application of Net Available Cash pursuant to this Section 4.06, which shall not be required in respect of an Asset Sale if the Net Available Cash from such Asset Sale is less than $1.0 million, such Net Available Cash shall, to the extent not inconsistent with the terms of the Senior Obligations, be invested in Temporary Cash Investments or applied to temporarily reduce revolving credit indebtedness.  If the Net Available Cash from an Asset Sale equals or exceeds $1.0 million, any Net Available Cash from such Asset Sale not applied in accordance with the preceding paragraph within 365 days from the date of the receipt of such Net Available Cash or that is not segregated from 

 

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the general funds of the Company for investment in identified Additional Assets in respect of a project that shall have been commenced, and for which binding contractual commitments have been entered into, prior to the end of such 365-day period and that shall not have been completed or abandoned shall constitute “Excess Proceeds”; provided, however, that the amount of any Net Available Cash that ceases to be so segregated as contemplated above and any Net Available Cash that is segregated in respect of a project that is abandoned or completed shall also constitute “Excess Proceeds” at the time any such Net Available Cash ceases to be so segregated or at the time the relevant project is so abandoned or completed, as applicable; provided further, however, that the amount of any Net Available Cash that continues to be segregated for investment and that is not actually reinvested within 24 months from the date of the receipt of such Net Available Cash shall also constitute “Excess Proceeds”.

 

When the aggregate amount of Excess Proceeds exceeds $50.0 million (taking into account income earned on such Excess Proceeds, if any), the Company will be required to make an offer to purchase (the “Asset Sales Prepayment Offer”) the Securities which offer shall be in the amount of the Allocable Excess Proceeds, on a pro rata basis according to principal amount at maturity, at a purchase price equal to 100% of the principal amount thereof, plus accrued and unpaid interest, if any, to the purchase date (subject to the right of Holders of record on the relevant record date to receive interest due on the relevant interest payment date), in accordance with the procedures (including prorating in the event of oversubscription) set forth herein.  To the extent that any portion of the amount of Net Available Cash remains after compliance with the preceding sentence and provided that all Holders have been given the opportunity to tender their Securities for purchase in accordance with this Indenture, the Company or such Restricted Subsidiary may use such remaining amount for any purpose permitted by this Indenture and the amount of Excess Proceeds will be reset to zero.

 

The term “Allocable Excess Proceeds” will mean the product of:

 

(a) the Excess Proceeds; and

 

(b) a fraction,

 

(1) the numerator of which is the aggregate principal amount of the Securities outstanding on the date of the Asset Sales Prepayment Offer; and

 

(2) the denominator of which is the sum of the aggregate principal amount of the Securities outstanding on the date of the Asset Sales Prepayment Offer and the aggregate principal amount of other Debt of the Company outstanding on the date of the Asset Sales Prepayment Offer that is pari  passu in right of payment with the Securities and subject to terms and conditions in respect of Asset Sales similar in all material respects to this covenant and requiring the Company to make an offer to purchase such Debt or otherwise repay such Debt at substantially the same time as the Asset Sales Prepayment Offer.

 

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Within five Business Days after the Company is obligated to make an Asset Sales Prepayment Offer as described in the preceding paragraph, the Company shall send a written notice, by first-class mail or electronically, to the Holders, accompanied by such information regarding the Company and its Subsidiaries as the Company in good faith believes will enable such Holders to make an informed decision with respect to such Asset Sales Prepayment Offer.  Such notice shall state, among other things, the purchase price and the purchase date (the “Purchase Date”), which shall be, subject to any contrary requirements of applicable law, a Business Day no earlier than 30 days nor later than 60 days from the date such notice is mailed.  Nothing shall prevent the Company from conducting an Asset Sales Prepayment Offer earlier than as set forth in this paragraph.

 

Not later than the date upon which written notice of an Asset Sales Prepayment Offer is delivered to the Trustee as provided above, the Company shall deliver to the Trustee an Officers’ Certificate as to (a) the amount of the Asset Sales Prepayment Offer (the “Offer Amount”), (b) the allocation of the Net Available Cash from the Asset Sales pursuant to which such Asset Sales Prepayment Offer is being made and (c) the compliance of such allocation with the provisions of clause (b) of the second paragraph of this Section 4.06.  On or before the Purchase Date, the Company shall also irrevocably deposit with the Trustee or with the Paying Agent (or, if the Company or a Wholly Owned Subsidiary is the Paying Agent, shall segregate and hold in trust) in Temporary Cash Investments (other than in those enumerated in such clause (b) of the definition of Temporary Cash Investments), maturing on the last day prior to the Purchase Date or on the Purchase Date if funds are immediately available by open of business, an amount equal to the Offer Amount to be held for payment in accordance with the provisions of this Section 4.06.  Upon the expiration of the period for which the Asset Sales Prepayment Offer remains open (the “Offer Period”), the Company shall deliver to the Trustee for cancellation the Securities or portions thereof that have been properly tendered to and are to be accepted by the Company.  The Trustee or the Paying Agent shall, on the Purchase Date, mail or deliver payment to each tendering Holder in the amount of the purchase price.  In the event that the aggregate purchase price of the Securities delivered by the Company to the Trustee is less than the Offer Amount, the Trustee or the Paying Agent shall deliver the excess to the Company immediately after the expiration of the Offer Period for application in accordance with this Section 4.06.

 

Holders electing to have a Security purchased shall be required to surrender the Security, with an appropriate form duly completed, to the Company or its agent at the address specified in the notice at least three Business Days prior to the Purchase Date.  Holders shall be entitled to withdraw their election if the Trustee or the Company receives not later than one Business Day prior to the Purchase Date, a telegram, telex, facsimile transmission or letter setting forth the name of the Holder, the principal amount of the Security that was delivered for purchase by the Holder and a statement that such Holder is withdrawing its election to have such Security purchased.  If at the expiration of the Offer Period the aggregate principal amount of Securities surrendered by Holders exceeds the Offer Amount, the Company shall select the Securities to be purchased on a pro rata basis for all Securities (with such adjustments as may be deemed appropriate by the Company so that only Securities in denominations of $2,000, or integral multiples of $1,000 in excess thereof, 

 

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shall be purchased).  Holders whose Securities are purchased only in part shall be issued new Securities equal in principal amount to the unpurchased portion of the Securities surrendered.

 

At the time the Company delivers Securities to the Trustee that are to be accepted for purchase, the Company shall also deliver an Officers’ Certificate stating that such Securities are to be accepted by the Company pursuant to and in accordance with the terms of this Section 4.06.  A Security shall be deemed to have been accepted for purchase at the time the Trustee or the Paying Agent mails or delivers payment therefor to the surrendering Holder.

 

The Company will comply, to the extent applicable, with the requirements of Section 14(e) of the Exchange Act and any other securities laws or regulations in connection with the repurchase of Securities pursuant to this Section 4.06.  To the extent that the provisions of any securities laws or regulations conflict with provisions of this Section 4.06, the Company will comply with the applicable securities laws and regulations and will not be deemed to have breached its obligations under this Section 4.06 by virtue thereof.

 

SECTION 4.07.  Limitation on Restrictions on Distributions from Restricted Subsidiaries.  The Company shall not, and shall not permit any Restricted Subsidiary to, directly or indirectly, create or otherwise cause or suffer to exist any consensual restriction on the right of any Restricted Subsidiary to:

 

(a) pay dividends, in cash or otherwise, or make any other distributions on or in respect of its Capital Stock, or pay any Debt or other obligation owed, to the Company or any other Restricted Subsidiary;

 

(b) make any loans or advances to the Company or any other Restricted Subsidiary; or

 

(c) transfer any of its Property to the Company or any other Restricted Subsidiary.

 

The foregoing limitations will not apply:

 

(1) with respect to clauses (a), (b) and (c), to restrictions:

 

(A) in effect on the Issue Date;

 

(B) relating to Debt of a Restricted Subsidiary and existing at the time it became a Restricted Subsidiary if such restriction was not created in connection with or in anticipation of the transaction or series of transactions pursuant to which such Restricted Subsidiary became a Restricted Subsidiary or was acquired by the Company;

 

(C) that result from the Refinancing of Debt Incurred pursuant to an agreement referred to in clause (1)(A) or (B) above or in clause (2)(A) or (B) below; provided such restriction is no less favorable to the Holders in any material respect, as reasonably determined by the Board of 

 

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Directors, than those under the agreement evidencing the Debt so Refinanced;

 

(D) resulting from the Incurrence of any Debt permitted pursuant to Section 4.03; provided that (i) the restriction is no less favorable to the Holders in any material respect, as reasonably determined by the Board of Directors, than the restrictions of the same type contained in this Indenture and (ii) the Board of Directors determines in good faith that such restrictions will not impair the ability of the Company to make payments of principal and interest on the Securities when due;

 

(E) existing by reason of applicable law; or

 

(F) any contractual requirements incurred with respect to Qualified Receivables Transactions relating exclusively to a Receivables Entity that, in the good faith determination of the principal financial officer of the Company, are customary for Qualified Receivables Transactions; and

 

(2) with respect to clause (c) only, to restrictions:

 

(A) relating to Debt that is permitted to be Incurred and secured without also securing the Securities or a Subsidiary Guarantee pursuant to Sections 4.03 and 4.05 that limit the right of the debtor to dispose of the Property securing such Debt;

 

(B) encumbering Property at the time such Property was acquired by the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary, so long as such restriction relates solely to the Property so acquired and was not created in connection with or in anticipation of such acquisition;

 

(C) resulting from customary provisions restricting subletting or assignment of leases or customary provisions in other agreements that restrict assignment of such agreements or rights thereunder;

 

(D) customary restrictions contained in agreements relating to the sale or other disposition of Property limiting the transfer of such Property pending the closing of such sale;

 

(E) resulting from purchase money obligations for Property acquired in the ordinary course of business or Capital Lease Obligations that impose restrictions on the Property so acquired; or

 

(F) resulting from restrictions on cash or other deposits or net worth imposed by customers under contracts entered into in the ordinary course of business.

 

SECTION 4.08.  Limitation on Transactions with Affiliates.  The Company shall not, and shall not permit any Restricted Subsidiary to, directly or indirectly, conduct 

 

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any business or enter into or suffer to exist any transaction or series of transactions (including the purchase, sale, transfer, assignment, lease, conveyance or exchange of any Property or the rendering of any service) with, or for the benefit of, any Affiliate of the Company (an “Affiliate Transaction”), unless:

 

(a) the terms of such Affiliate Transaction are:

 

(1) set forth in writing;

 

(2) in the best interest of the Company or such Restricted Subsidiary, as the case may be; and

 

(3) no less favorable to the Company or such Restricted Subsidiary, as the case may be, than those that could be obtained in a comparable arm’s-length transaction with a Person that is not an Affiliate of the Company;

 

(b) if such Affiliate Transaction involves aggregate payments or value to the Affiliate in excess of $25.0 million in any 12-month period, the Board of Directors (including a majority of the disinterested members of the Board of Directors) approves such Affiliate Transaction and, in its good faith judgment, believes that such Affiliate Transaction complies with clauses (a)(2) and (3) of this Section 4.08 as evidenced by a Board Resolution promptly delivered to the Trustee; and

 

(c) if such Affiliate Transaction involves aggregate payments or value to the Affiliate in excess of $75.0 million in any 12-month period, the Company obtains a written opinion from an Independent Financial Advisor to the effect that the consideration to be paid or received in connection with such Affiliate Transaction is fair, from a financial point of view, to the Company and the Restricted Subsidiaries, taken as a whole.

 

Notwithstanding the foregoing limitation, the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary may enter into or suffer to exist the following:

 

(a) any transaction or series of transactions between the Company and one or more Restricted Subsidiaries or between two or more Restricted Subsidiaries, provided that no more than 5% of the total voting power of the Voting Stock (on a fully diluted basis) of any such Restricted Subsidiary is owned by an Affiliate of the Company (other than a Restricted Subsidiary);

 

(b) any Restricted Payment permitted to be made pursuant to Section 4.04 or any Permitted Investment (other than pursuant to clauses (a)(3), (b) or (h) of the definition of “Permitted Investment”);

 

(c) the payment of reasonable and customary compensation (including amounts paid pursuant to employee benefit plans) for the personal services of and related indemnities provided to officers, directors, consultants and employees of the Company or any of the Restricted Subsidiaries;

 

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(d) loans and advances to employees made in the ordinary course of business in accordance with applicable law and consistent with the past practices of the Company or such Restricted Subsidiary, as the case may be, provided that such loans and advances do not exceed $25.0 million in the aggregate at any one time outstanding;

 

(e) any transaction effected as part of a Qualified Receivables Transaction or any transaction involving the transfer of accounts receivable of the type specified in the definition of “Credit Facilities” and permitted under clause (b) of Section 4.03;

 

(f) payments of customary fees by the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to Leonard Green & Partners L.P. or any of its Affiliates made for any corporate advisory services or financial advisory, financing, underwriting or placement services or in respect of other investment banking activities including in connection with acquisitions or divestitures, which are approved by a majority of the Board of Directors in good faith;

 

(g) any Affiliate Transaction, if such Affiliate Transaction is with any Person solely in its capacity as a holder of Debt or Capital Stock of the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries, where such Person is treated no more favorably than any other holder of such Debt or Capital Stock of the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries;

 

(h) any agreement as in effect on the Issue Date or any amendment thereto (so long as such amendment is not disadvantageous to the Holders in any material respect) or any transaction contemplated thereby;

 

(i) any Affiliate Transaction that involves aggregate payments or value to the Affiliate not in excess of $5.0 million;

 

(j) payments of indemnification obligations to officers, managers and directors of the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary to the extent required by the organizational documents of such entity or applicable law;

 

(k) any Affiliate Transaction in which the only consideration paid by the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary consists of Capital Stock (other than Disqualified Stock) of the Company;

 

(l) any Affiliate Transaction with any joint venture or special purpose entity engaged in a related business; provided  that all the outstanding ownership interests of such joint venture or special purpose entity are owned only by the Company, its Restricted Subsidiaries and Persons that are not Affiliates of the Company; and

 

(m) any Affiliate Transaction between the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary and any Person that is an Affiliate of the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary solely because a director of such Person is also a director of the Company; provided  that such director abstains from voting as a director of the Company on any matter involving such other Person.

 

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SECTION 4.09.  Guarantees by Subsidiaries.  (a) The Company shall not permit any Restricted Subsidiary that is not a Subsidiary Guarantor to Guarantee the payment of any Debt or Capital Stock of the Company (other than Guarantees of Debt incurred under clause (b), (d), (e) or (l) of the second paragraph of Section 4.03 or Guarantees permitted pursuant to clause (j) of the second paragraph of Section 4.03 or Guarantees permitted by clause (s) of the second paragraph of Section 4.03 as it relates to clause (d) of the second paragraph of Section 4.03), except that a Restricted Subsidiary that is not a Subsidiary Guarantor may Guarantee Debt of the Company; provided that:

 

(1) such Debt and the Debt represented by such Guarantee is permitted by Section 4.03;

 

(2) such Restricted Subsidiary simultaneously executes and delivers a supplemental indenture to this Indenture in the form of Exhibit B hereto providing for a Guarantee of payment of the Securities by such Restricted Subsidiary; and

 

(3) such Guarantee of Debt of the Company:

 

(A) unless such Debt is a Subordinated Obligation, shall be pari  passu (or subordinate) in right of payment to and on substantially the same terms as (or less favorable to such Debt than) such Restricted Subsidiary’s Guarantee with respect to the Securities; and

 

(B) if such Debt is a Subordinated Obligation, shall be subordinated in right of payment to such Restricted Subsidiary’s Guarantee with respect to the Securities to at least the same extent as such Debt is subordinated to the Securities.

 

(b) Upon any Subsidiary becoming a Subsidiary Guarantor as described above, such Subsidiary shall deliver to the Trustee an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that:

 

(1)     such Guarantee of the Notes has been duly executed and authorized; and

 

(2)     such Guarantee of the Notes constitutes a valid, binding and enforceable obligation of such Subsidiary, except insofar as enforcement thereof may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency or similar laws (including, without limitation, all laws relating to fraudulent transfers) and except insofar as enforcement thereof is subject to general principles of equity.

 

The failure of any Restricted Subsidiary to provide a Guarantee if then prohibited to do so by any Debt of the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary shall not constitute a violation of the covenant described above; provided, however, that at the time such prohibition no longer exists if a Guarantee would then be required to comply with such clauses, such Restricted Subsidiary provides such Guarantee.

 

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SECTION 4.10.  Limitation on Sale and Leaseback Transactions.  The Company shall not, and shall not permit any Restricted Subsidiary to, enter into any Sale and Leaseback Transaction with respect to any Property unless:

 

(a) the Company or such Restricted Subsidiary would be entitled to:

 

(1) Incur Debt in an amount equal to the Attributable Debt with respect to such Sale and Leaseback Transaction pursuant to Section 4.03; and

 

(2) create a Lien on such Property securing such Attributable Debt without also securing the Securities or the applicable Subsidiary Guarantee pursuant to Section 4.05; and

 

(b) such Sale and Leaseback Transaction is effected in compliance with Section 4.06; provided that such Sale and Leaseback Transaction constitutes an Asset Sale.

 

SECTION 4.11.  Designation of Restricted and Unrestricted Subsidiaries.  The Board of Directors may designate any Subsidiary of the Company to be an Unrestricted Subsidiary if:

 

(a) the Subsidiary to be so designated does not own any Capital Stock or Debt of, or own or hold any Lien on any Property of, the Company or any other Restricted Subsidiary and is not required to be a Subsidiary Guarantor pursuant to this Indenture; and

 

(b) either:

 

(1) the Subsidiary to be so designated has total assets of $1,000 or less; or

 

(2) such designation is effective immediately upon such entity becoming a Subsidiary of the Company.

 

Unless so designated as an Unrestricted Subsidiary, any Person that becomes a Subsidiary of the Company will be classified as a Restricted Subsidiary; provided, however, that such Subsidiary shall not be designated a Restricted Subsidiary and shall be automatically classified as an Unrestricted Subsidiary if either of the requirements set forth in clauses (x) and (y) of the second immediately following paragraph will not be satisfied after giving pro forma effect to such classification as a Restricted Subsidiary or if such Person is a Subsidiary of an Unrestricted Subsidiary.

 

Except as provided in the first sentence of this Section 4.11, no Restricted Subsidiary may be redesignated as an Unrestricted Subsidiary.  In addition, neither the Company nor any Restricted Subsidiary shall at any time be directly or indirectly liable for any Debt that provides that the holder thereof may (with the passage of time or notice or both) declare a default thereon or cause the payment thereof to be accelerated or payable prior to its Stated Maturity upon the occurrence of a default with respect to any Debt, Lien or

 

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other obligation of any Unrestricted Subsidiary (including any right to take enforcement action against such Unrestricted Subsidiary).

 

The Board of Directors may designate any Unrestricted Subsidiary to be a Restricted Subsidiary if, immediately after giving pro forma effect to such designation, (x) the Company could Incur at least $1.00 of additional Debt pursuant to clause (1) of the first paragraph of Section 4.03 and (y) no Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing or would result therefrom.

 

Any such designation or redesignation by the Board of Directors will be evidenced to the Trustee by filing with the Trustee a Board Resolution giving effect to such designation or redesignation and an Officers’ Certificate that:

 

(a) certifies that such designation or redesignation complies with the foregoing provisions; and

 

(b) gives the effective date of such designation or redesignation,

 

such filing with the Trustee to occur within 45 days after the end of the fiscal quarter of the Company in which such designation or redesignation is made (or, in the case of a designation or redesignation made during the last fiscal quarter of the Company’s fiscal year, within 90 days after the end of such fiscal year).

 

SECTION 4.12.  [Intentionally omitted].

 

SECTION 4.13.  Change of Control.  (a)  Upon the occurrence of a Change of Control, each Holder shall have the right to require the Company to repurchase all or any part of such Holder’s Securities pursuant to the offer described below (the “Change of Control Offer”) at a purchase price (the “Change of Control Purchase Price”) equal to 101.0% of the principal amount thereof, plus accrued and unpaid interest, if any, to, but not including, the purchase date (subject to the right of holders of record on the relevant record date to receive interest due on the relevant interest payment date).  If the purchase date is on or after a record date and on or before the relevant interest payment date, the accrued and unpaid interest, if any, will be paid to the person or entity in whose name the Security is registered at the close of business on that record date, and no additional interest will be payable to Holders whose Securities shall be subject to purchase.

 

(b) Within 30 days following any Change of Control, the Company shall (1) either (x) cause a notice of the Change of Control Offer to be sent at least once to the Dow Jones News Service or similar business news service in the United States or (y) file or furnish such notice on a Current Report on Form 8-K with the Commission through EDGAR (or any successor electronic reporting system of the Commission accessible to the public without charge) and (2) send, by first-class mail, with a copy to the Trustee, to each Holder, at such Holder’s address appearing in the Security Register, a notice stating:  (A) that a Change of Control Offer is being made pursuant to this Section 4.13 and that all Securities timely tendered will be accepted for payment; (B) the Change of Control Purchase Price and the purchase date, which shall be, subject to any contrary requirements of applicable law, a Business Day no

 

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earlier than 30 days nor later than 60 days from the date such notice is mailed (the “Change of Control Payment Date”); (C) the circumstances and relevant facts regarding the Change of Control (including, to the extent reasonably practicable, information with respect to pro forma historical income, cash flow and capitalization after giving effect to the Change of Control); and (D) the procedures that Holders must follow in order to tender their Securities (or portions thereof) for payment and the procedures that Holders must follow in order to withdraw an election to tender Securities (or portions thereof) for payment.

 

(c) Holders electing to have a Security purchased shall be required to surrender the Security, with an appropriate form duly completed, to the Company or its agent at the address specified in the notice at least three Business Days prior to the Change of Control Payment Date.  Holders shall be entitled to withdraw their election if the Trustee or the Company receives not later than one Business Day prior to the Change of Control Payment Date, a telegram, telex, facsimile transmission or letter setting forth the name of the Holder, the principal amount of the Security that was delivered for purchase by the Holder and a statement that such Holder is withdrawing its election to have such Security purchased.

 

(d) On or prior to the Change of Control Payment Date, the Company shall irrevocably deposit with the Trustee or with the Paying Agent (or, if the Company or any of its Wholly Owned Subsidiaries is acting as the Paying Agent, segregate and hold in trust) in cash an amount equal to the Change of Control Purchase Price payable to the Holders entitled thereto, to be held for payment in accordance with the provisions of this Section 4.13.  On the Change of Control Payment Date, the Company shall deliver to the Trustee the Securities or portions thereof that have been properly tendered to and are to be accepted by the Company for payment.  The Trustee or the Paying Agent shall, on the Change of Control Payment Date, mail or deliver payment to each tendering Holder of the Change of Control Purchase Price.  In the event that the aggregate Change of Control Purchase Price is less than the amount delivered by the Company to the Trustee or the Paying Agent, the Trustee or the Paying Agent, as the case may be, shall deliver the excess to the Company immediately after the Change of Control Payment Date.

 

(e) The Company shall not be required to make a Change of Control Offer upon a Change of Control if a third party makes the Change of Control Offer in the manner, at or prior to the times and otherwise in compliance with the requirements set forth in this Indenture applicable to a Change of Control Offer made by the Company and purchases all Securities properly tendered and not withdrawn under the Change of Control Offer (it being understood that such third-party may make a Change of Control Offer that is conditioned on and prior to the occurrence of a Change of Control pursuant to this Section 4.13).

 

(f) The Company will comply, to the extent applicable, with the requirements of Section 14(e) of the Exchange Act and any other securities laws or regulations in connection with the repurchase of Securities pursuant to a Change of Control Offer.  To the extent that the provisions of any securities laws or regulations conflict with the

 

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provisions of this Section 4.13, the Company will comply with the applicable securities laws and regulations and will not be deemed to have breached its obligations under this Section 4.13 by virtue thereof.

 

SECTION 4.14.  Further Instruments and Acts.  Upon request of the Trustee or as necessary, the Company shall execute and deliver such further instruments and do such further acts as may be reasonably necessary or proper to carry out more effectively the purpose of this Indenture.

 

SECTION 4.15.  Covenant Suspension.  (a)  During any period of time that:

 

(1) the Securities have Investment Grade Ratings from both Rating Agencies and

 

(2) no Default or Event of Default has occurred and is continuing,

 

the Company and the Restricted Subsidiaries will not be subject to the following Sections of this Indenture: Section 4.03, Section 4.04, Section 4.06, Section 4.07, Section 4.08, clauses (a)(1) and (b) of Section 4.10, clause (x) of the fourth paragraph (and such clause (x) as referred to in the second paragraph) of Section 4.11, and clause (a)(5) of Section 5.01 (collectively, the “Suspended Covenants”).

 

(b)           Solely for the purpose of determining the amount of Permitted Liens under Section 4.05 during any Suspension Period (as defined below) and without limiting the Company’s or any Restricted Subsidiary’s ability to Incur Indebtedness during any Suspension Period, to the extent that calculations in Section 4.05 refer to Section 4.03, such calculations shall be made as though Section 4.03 remains in effect during the Suspension Period.  In the event that the Company and the Restricted Subsidiaries are not subject to the Suspended Covenants for any period of time as a result of paragraph (a) of this Section 4.15 and, on any subsequent date (the ‘‘Reversion Date’’), one or both of the Rating Agencies withdraws its ratings or downgrades the ratings assigned to the Securities below the required Investment Grade Ratings or a Default or Event of Default occurs and is continuing, then the Company and the Restricted Subsidiaries will thereafter again be subject to the Suspended Covenants. The period of time between the Suspension Date and the Reversion Date is referred to as the ‘‘Suspension Period.’’ Notwithstanding that the Suspended Covenants may be reinstated, no Default will be deemed to have occurred as a result of a failure to comply with the Suspended Covenants during the Suspension Period. On the Reversion Date, all Debt Incurred during the Suspension Period will be classified to have been Incurred pursuant to clause (1) of the first paragraph or one of the clauses set forth in the second paragraph of Section 4.03 (to the extent such Debt would be permitted to be Incurred thereunder as of the Reversion Date and after giving effect to Debt Incurred prior to the Suspension Period and outstanding on the Reversion Date).  To the extent such Debt would not be permitted to be Incurred pursuant to clause (1) of the first paragraph or one of the clauses set forth in the second paragraph of Section 4.03, such Debt will be deemed to have been outstanding on the Issue Date, so that it is classified as permitted under

 

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clause (k) of the second paragraph of Section 4.03.  Calculations made after the Reversion Date of the amount available to be made as Restricted Payments under Section 4.04 will be made as though Section 4.04 had been in effect during the entire period of time from the Issue Date.  Accordingly, Restricted Payments made during the Suspension Period will reduce the amount available to be made as Restricted Payments under the first paragraph of Section 4.04 following any Reversion Date, and the items specified in clauses (c)(1) through (c)(4) of the first paragraph of Section 4.04 will increase the amount available to be made under the first paragraph thereof following any Reversion Date. For purposes of determining compliance with the first five paragraphs of Section 4.06, on the Reversion Date, the Net Available Cash from all Asset Sales not applied in accordance with the covenant will be deemed to be reset to zero.

 

ARTICLE V

 

Successor Company

 

SECTION 5.01.  When Company May Merge or Transfer Assets.  (a)  The Company shall not merge, consolidate or amalgamate with or into any other Person (other than a merger of a Wholly Owned Restricted Subsidiary into the Company) or sell, transfer, assign, lease, convey or otherwise dispose of all or substantially all its Property in any one transaction or series of transactions unless:

 

(1) the Company will be the surviving Person (the “Surviving Person”) or the Surviving Person (if other than the Company) formed by such merger, consolidation or amalgamation or to which such sale, transfer, assignment, lease, conveyance or disposition is made will be a corporation organized and existing under the laws of the United States of America, any State thereof or the District of Columbia;

 

(2) the Surviving Person (if other than the Company) expressly assumes, by supplemental indenture in form reasonably satisfactory to the Trustee, executed and delivered to the Trustee by such Surviving Person, the due and punctual payment of the principal of, and premium, if any, and interest on, all the Securities, according to their tenor, and the due and punctual performance and observance of all the covenants and conditions of this Indenture to be performed by the Company;

 

(3) in the case of a sale, transfer, assignment, lease, conveyance or other disposition of all or substantially all the Property of the Company, such Property shall have been transferred as an entirety or virtually as an entirety to one Person;

 

(4) immediately before and after giving effect to such transaction or series of transactions on a pro forma basis (and treating, for purposes of this clause (4) and clause (5) below, any Debt that becomes, or is anticipated to become, an obligation of the Surviving Person or any Restricted Subsidiary as

 

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a result of such transaction or series of transactions as having been Incurred by the Surviving Person or such Restricted Subsidiary at the time of such transaction or series of transactions), no Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing;

 

(5) immediately after giving effect to such transaction or series of transactions on a pro forma basis, either (A) the Company or the Surviving Person, as the case may be, would be able to Incur at least $1.00 of additional Debt under clause (1) of the first paragraph of Section 4.03 or (B) the Surviving Person would have a Consolidated Interest Coverage Ratio which is not less than the Consolidated Interest Coverage Ratio of the Company immediately prior to such transaction or series of transactions; and

 

(6) the Company shall deliver, or cause to be delivered, to the Trustee, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Trustee, an Officers’ Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel, each stating that such transaction and the supplemental indenture, if any, in respect thereto comply with this covenant and that all conditions precedent herein provided for relating to such transaction have been satisfied.

 

(b) The Company shall not permit any Subsidiary Guarantor to merge, consolidate or amalgamate with or into any other Person (other than a merger of a Wholly Owned Restricted Subsidiary into such Subsidiary Guarantor, or a merger of a Subsidiary Guarantor into the Company or another Subsidiary Guarantor) or sell, transfer, assign, lease, convey or otherwise dispose of all or substantially all its Property in any one transaction or series of transactions unless:

 

(1) such Subsidiary Guarantor will be the Surviving Person or the Surviving Person (if other than such Subsidiary Guarantor) formed by such merger, consolidation or amalgamation or to which such sale, transfer, assignment, lease, conveyance or disposition is made will be a corporation organized and existing under the laws of the United States of America, any State thereof or the District of Columbia;

 

(2) the Surviving Person (if other than such Subsidiary Guarantor) expressly assumes, by a supplemental indenture in form reasonably satisfactory to the Trustee, executed and delivered to the Trustee by such Surviving Person, the due and punctual performance and observance of all the obligations of such Subsidiary Guarantor under its Subsidiary Guarantee;

 

(3) immediately before and after giving effect to such transaction or series of transactions on a pro forma basis (and treating, for purposes of this clause (3), any Debt that becomes, or is anticipated to become, an obligation of the Surviving Person, the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary as a result of such transaction or series of transactions as having been Incurred by the Surviving Person, the Company or such Restricted Subsidiary at the time of

 

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such transaction or series of transactions), no Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing; and

 

(4) the Company shall deliver, or cause to be delivered, to the Trustee, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Trustee, an Officers’ Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel, each stating that such transaction and such Subsidiary Guarantee, if any, in respect thereto comply with this covenant and that all conditions precedent herein provided for relating to such transaction have been satisfied.

 

The foregoing provisions (other than clause (3)) shall not apply to (A) any transactions which do not constitute an Asset Sale if the Subsidiary Guarantor is otherwise being released from its Subsidiary Guarantee at the time of such transaction in accordance with this Indenture or (B) any transactions which constitute an Asset Sale if the Company has complied with Section 4.06 and the Subsidiary Guarantor is released from its Subsidiary Guarantee at the time of such transaction in accordance with this Indenture.

 

The Surviving Person shall succeed to, and be substituted for, and may exercise every right and power of the entity under this Indenture (or of the Subsidiary Guarantor under the Subsidiary Guarantee, as the case may be) and the Company or the applicable Subsidiary Guarantor shall be released from its obligations under this Indenture other than in the case of a lease (in which case the predecessor Company shall not be released from its obligation to pay the principal of, premium, if any, and interest on the Securities).  Subject to the foregoing, following the merger, consolidation or amalgamation of the Company or any Subsidiary Guarantor or the sale, transfer, assignment, conveyance or other disposition of all or substantially all the Company’s or a Subsidiary Guarantor’s Property in any one transaction or series of transactions, all references to “the Company” in this Indenture (or to the “Subsidiary Guarantor” under the Subsidiary Guarantee) shall be deemed to refer to the Surviving Person.

 

ARTICLE VI

 

Defaults and Remedies

 

SECTION 6.01.  Events of Default.  The following events shall be “Events of Default”:

 

(a) the Company fails to make the payment of any interest on any of the Securities when the same becomes due and payable, and such failure continues for a period of 30 days;

 

(b) the Company fails to make the payment of any principal of, or premium, if any, on any of the Securities when the same becomes due and payable at its Stated Maturity, upon acceleration, redemption, optional redemption, required repurchase or otherwise;

 

(c) the Company fails to comply with Article V;

 

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(d) the Company fails to comply with any covenant or agreement in the Securities or in this Indenture (other than a failure that is the subject of the foregoing clauses (a), (b) or (c)) and such failure continues for 30 days after written notice is given to the Company as provided below;

 

(e) a default under any Debt by the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary that results in acceleration of the final maturity of such Debt, or failure to pay any such Debt at final maturity (giving effect to applicable grace periods), in an aggregate amount greater than (i) $75.0 million or its foreign currency equivalent at the time or (ii) such lesser amount as may be applicable to the corresponding event of default in any other capital markets Debt Incurred pursuant to clause (1) of the first paragraph of Section 4.03 or clause (b), (l) or (s) (with respect to such clause (1) of the first paragraph of Section 4.03) of the definition of “Permitted Debt” and then outstanding of the Company;

 

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

 

(1) commences a voluntary case;

 

(2) consents to the entry of an order for relief against it in an involuntary case;

 

(3) consents to the appointment of a Custodian of it or for any substantial part of its property; or

 

(4) makes a general assignment for the benefit of its creditors;

 

or takes any comparable action under any foreign laws relating to insolvency;

 

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

 

(1) is for relief against the Company or any Significant Subsidiary in an involuntary case;

 

(2) appoints a Custodian of the Company or any Significant Subsidiary or for any substantial part of its property; or

 

(3) orders the winding up or liquidation of the Company or any Significant Subsidiary;

 

and in each such case the order or decree remains unstayed and in effect for 45 days; or

 

(h) any judgment or judgments for the payment of money in an aggregate amount in excess of (i) $75.0 million or its foreign currency equivalent at the time or (ii) such lesser amount as may be applicable to the corresponding event of default in

 

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any other capital markets Debt Incurred pursuant to clause (1) of the first paragraph of Section 4.03 or clause (b), (l) or (s) (with respect to such clause (1) of the first paragraph of Section 4.03) of the definition of “Permitted Debt” and then outstanding of the Company that shall be rendered against the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary and that shall not be waived, satisfied, bonded, insured or discharged for any period of 30 consecutive days during which a stay of enforcement shall not be in effect; and

 

(i) any Subsidiary Guarantee of a Significant Subsidiary ceases to be in full force and effect (other than in accordance with the terms of such Subsidiary Guarantee and this Indenture) and such default continues for 20 days after notice or any Subsidiary Guarantor that is a Significant Subsidiary denies or disaffirms its obligations under its Subsidiary Guarantee (the “guarantee provisions”).

 

The foregoing will constitute Events of Default whatever the reason for any such Event of Default and whether it is voluntary or involuntary or is 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.

 

The term “Custodian” means any receiver, trustee, assignee, liquidator, custodian or similar official under any Bankruptcy Law.

 

A Default under clause (d) or (i) is not an Event of Default until the Trustee or the Holders of not less than 25% in aggregate principal amount of the Securities then outstanding notify the Company (and in the case of such notice by Holders, the Trustee) of the Default and the Company does not cure such Default within the time specified after receipt of such notice.  Such notice must specify the Default, demand that it be remedied and state that such notice is a “Notice of Default”.

 

The Company shall deliver to the Trustee, within 30 days after the occurrence thereof, written notice in the form of an Officers’ Certificate of any event that with the giving of notice or the lapse of time would become an Event of Default, its status and what action the Company is taking or proposes to take with respect thereto.

 

SECTION 6.02.  Acceleration.  If an Event of Default with respect to the Securities (other than an Event of Default specified in Section 6.01(f) or 6.01(g) with respect to the Company) shall have occurred and be continuing, the Trustee by notice to the Company, or the Holders of not less than 25% in aggregate principal amount of the Securities then outstanding by notice to the Company and the Trustee, may declare to be immediately due and payable the principal amount at maturity of all the Securities then outstanding, plus accrued but unpaid interest to the date of acceleration on all the Securities to be due and payable.  Upon such a declaration, such principal and interest shall be due and payable immediately.  If an Event of Default specified in Section 6.01(f) or 6.01(g) with respect to the Company occurs, the principal of and accrued and unpaid interest on all the Securities shall, automatically and without any action by the Trustee or any Holder, become and be immediately due and payable.  The Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the outstanding Securities by notice to the Trustee and the Company may rescind and annul

 

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such declaration of acceleration if the rescission would not conflict with any judgment or decree and if all existing Events of Default have been cured or waived except nonpayment of principal, premium or interest that has become due solely because of the acceleration.  No such rescission shall affect any subsequent Default or impair any right consequent thereto.

 

SECTION 6.03.  Other Remedies.  If an Event of Default occurs and is continuing, the Trustee may pursue any available remedy to collect the payment of principal of or interest on the Securities or to enforce the performance of any provision of the Securities or this Indenture.

 

The Trustee may maintain a proceeding even if it does not possess any of the Securities or does not produce any of them in the proceeding.  A delay or omission by the Trustee or any Holder in exercising any right or remedy accruing upon an Event of Default shall not impair the right or remedy or constitute a waiver of or acquiescence in the Event of Default.  No remedy is exclusive of any other remedy.  All available remedies are cumulative.

 

SECTION 6.04.  Waiver of Past Defaults.  The Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Securities then outstanding by notice to the Trustee may waive an existing Default and its consequences except (i) a Default in the payment of the principal of, premium, if any, or interest on a Security or (ii) a Default in respect of a provision that under Section 9.02 cannot be amended without the consent of each Holder affected.  When a Default is waived, it is deemed cured, but no such waiver shall extend to any subsequent or other Default or impair any consequent right.

 

SECTION 6.05.  Control by Majority.  The Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Securities then outstanding may direct the time, method and place of conducting any proceeding for any remedy available to the Trustee or of exercising any trust or power conferred on the Trustee with respect to the Securities.  However, the Trustee may refuse to follow any direction that conflicts with law or this Indenture or, subject to Section 7.01, that the Trustee determines is unduly prejudicial to the rights of other Holders or would involve the Trustee in personal liability; provided, however, that the Trustee may take any other action deemed proper by the Trustee that is not inconsistent with such direction.  Prior to taking any action or following any direction hereunder, the Trustee shall be entitled to indemnification reasonably satisfactory to it against all losses and expenses caused by taking or not taking such action.

 

SECTION 6.06.  Limitation on Suits.  A Holder may not pursue any remedy with respect to this Indenture or the Securities unless:

 

(1) such Holder shall have previously given to the Trustee written notice of a continuing Event of Default;

 

(2) the Holders of at least 25% in aggregate principal amount of the Securities then outstanding shall have made a written request, and such Holder or Holders shall have offered indemnity reasonably satisfactory to the Trustee to pursue a remedy; and

 

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(3) the Trustee has failed to institute such proceeding and has not received from the Holders of at least a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Securities outstanding a direction inconsistent with such request, within 60 days after such notice, request and offer.

 

The foregoing limitations on the pursuit of remedies by a Holder shall not apply to a suit instituted by a Holder for the enforcement of payment of the principal of and premium, if any, or interest payable with respect to such Security on or after the applicable due date specified in such Security.

 

SECTION 6.07.  Rights of Holders to Receive Payment.  Notwithstanding any other provision of this Indenture, the right of any Holder to receive payment of principal of and interest on the Securities held by such Holder, on or after the respective due dates expressed in the Securities, or to bring suit for the enforcement of any such payment on or after such respective dates, shall not be impaired or affected without the consent of such Holder.

 

SECTION 6.08.  Collection Suit by Trustee.  If an Event of Default specified in Section 6.01(a) or (b) occurs and is continuing, the Trustee may recover judgment in its own name and as trustee of an express trust against the Company for the whole amount then due and owing (together with interest on any unpaid interest to the extent lawful) and the amounts provided for in Section 7.07.

 

SECTION 6.09.  Trustee May File Proofs of Claim.  The Trustee may file such proofs of claim and other papers or documents as may be necessary or advisable in order to have the claims of the Trustee and the Holders allowed in any judicial proceedings relative to the Company, its creditors or its property and, unless prohibited by law or applicable regulations, may vote on behalf of the Holders in any election of a trustee in bankruptcy or other Person performing similar functions, and any Custodian in any such judicial proceeding is hereby authorized by each Holder to make payments to the Trustee and, in the event that the Trustee shall consent to the making of such payments directly to the Holders (it being understood it shall be under no obligation to do so), to pay to the Trustee any amount due it for the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the Trustee, its agents and its counsel, and any other amounts due the Trustee under Section 7.07.

 

SECTION 6.10.  Priorities.  If the Trustee collects any money or property pursuant to this Article VI, it shall pay out the money or property in the following order:

 

FIRST:  to the Trustee for amounts due under Section 7.07;

 

SECOND:  to Holders for amounts due and unpaid on the Securities for principal and interest, ratably, without preference or priority of any kind, according to the amounts due and payable on the Securities for principal and interest, respectively; and

 

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The Trustee may fix a record date and payment date for any payment to Holders pursuant to this Section 6.10.  At least 15 days before such record date, the Company shall mail to each Holder and the Trustee a notice that states the record date, the payment date and amount to be paid.

 

SECTION 6.11.  Undertaking for Costs.  In any suit for the enforcement of any right or remedy under this Indenture or in any suit against the Trustee for any action taken or omitted by it as Trustee, a court in its discretion may require the filing by any party litigant in the suit of an undertaking to pay the costs of the suit, and the court in its discretion may assess reasonable costs, including reasonable attorneys’ fees and expenses, against any party litigant in the suit, having due regard to the merits and good faith of the claims or defenses made by the party litigant.  This Section 6.11 does not apply to a suit by the Trustee, a suit by a Holder pursuant to Section 6.07 or a suit by Holders of more than 10% in aggregate principal amount of the Securities.

 

SECTION 6.12.  Waiver of Stay or Extension Laws.  The Company (to the extent it may lawfully do so) shall not at any time insist upon, or plead, or in any manner whatsoever claim or take the benefit or advantage of, any stay or extension law wherever enacted, now or at any time hereafter in force, that 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 shall not hinder, delay or impede the execution of any power herein granted to the Trustee, but shall suffer and permit the execution of every such power as though no such law had been enacted.

 

ARTICLE VII

 

Trustee

 

SECTION 7.01.  Duties of Trustee.  (a)  If an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, the Trustee shall exercise 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.

 

(b) 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, 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.  However, in the case of certificates or opinions specifically required by any provision hereof to be furnished to it, the Trustee shall examine the certificates and opinions to determine whether or not they conform to the requirements of this Indenture (but need not confirm or investigate the accuracy of mathematical calculations stated therein).

 

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(c) The Trustee may not be relieved from liability for its own negligent action, its own negligent failure to act or its own willful misconduct, except that:

 

(1) this paragraph does not limit the effect of paragraph (b) of this Section 7.01;

 

(2) the Trustee shall not be liable for any error of judgment made in good faith by a Trust Officer unless it is proved that the Trustee was negligent in ascertaining the pertinent facts; and

 

(3) the Trustee shall not be liable with respect to any action it takes or omits to take in good faith in accordance with a direction received by it pursuant to Section 6.05.

 

(d) Every provision of this Indenture that in any way relates to the Trustee is subject to paragraphs (a), (b) and (c) of this Section 7.01.

 

(e) The Trustee shall not be liable for interest on any money received by it except as the Trustee may agree in writing with the Company.

 

(f) Money held in trust by the Trustee need not be segregated from other funds except to the extent required by law.

 

(g) No provision of this Indenture shall require the Trustee to expend or risk its own funds or otherwise incur financial liability in the performance of any of its duties hereunder or in the exercise of any of its rights or powers.

 

(h) 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 and to the provisions of the TIA, and the provisions of this Article VII shall apply to the Trustee in its role as Registrar, Paying Agent and Security Custodian.

 

(i) The Trustee shall not be deemed to have notice of a Default or an Event of Default unless (a) the Trustee has received written notice thereof from the Company or any Holder or such notice references the Securities and this Indenture or (b) a Trust Officer shall have actual knowledge thereof.

 

SECTION 7.02.  Rights of Trustee.  (a)  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.  The Trustee may, however, in its discretion 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.

 

(b) Before the Trustee acts or refrains from acting, it may require an Officers’ Certificate or an Opinion of Counsel.  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.

 

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(c) The Trustee may act through agents and shall not be responsible for the misconduct or negligence of any agent appointed with due care and with the consent of the Company.

 

(d) The Trustee shall not be liable for any action it takes or omits to take in good faith that it believes to be authorized or within its rights or powers; provided, however, that, subject to paragraph (b) of Section 7.01, the Trustee’s conduct does not constitute willful misconduct or negligence.

 

(e) The Trustee may consult with counsel of its selection, and the advice or opinion of counsel with respect to legal matters relating to this Indenture and the Securities shall be full and complete authorization and protection from liability in respect to any action taken, omitted or suffered by it hereunder in good faith and in accordance with the advice or opinion of such counsel.

 

(f) The permissive rights of the Trustee to do things enumerated in this Indenture shall not be construed as a duty unless so specified herein.

 

(g) The Trustee shall be under no obligation to exercise any of the rights or powers vested in it by this Indenture at the request or direction of any of the Holders pursuant to this Indenture, unless such Holders shall have offered to the Trustee security or indemnity reasonably satisfactory to the Trustee against the costs, expenses and liabilities which might be incurred by it in compliance with such request or direction.

 

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

 

(i) The rights, privileges, protections, immunities and benefits given to the Trustee, 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 agent, custodian and other Person employed to act hereunder.

 

(j) In no event shall the Trustee be responsible or liable for special, indirect, or consequential loss or damage of any kind whatsoever (including, but not limited to, loss of profit) irrespective of whether the Trustee has been advised of the likelihood of such loss or damage and regardless of the form of action.

 

(k) The Trustee may request that the Company deliver a certificate setting forth the names of individuals and/or titles of officers authorized at such time to take specified actions pursuant to this Indenture.

 

SECTION 7.03.  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 its Affiliates with the same rights it would have if it were not Trustee.  Any Paying Agent, Registrar or co-registrar may do the same with like rights.  However, the Trustee must comply with Sections 7.10 and 7.11.

 

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SECTION 7.04.  Trustee’s Disclaimer.  The Trustee shall not be responsible for and makes no representation as to the validity, priority or adequacy of this Indenture or the Securities, it shall not be accountable for the Company’s use of the proceeds from the Securities, and it shall not be responsible for any statement of the Company in this Indenture or in any document issued in connection with the sale of the Securities or in the Securities other than the Trustee’s certificate of authentication.

 

SECTION 7.05.  Notice of Defaults.  If a Default or Event of Default occurs and is continuing and if it is known to the Trustee, the Trustee shall mail to each Holder notice of the Default or Event of Default within 30 days after it is known to a Trust Officer or written notice of it is received by the Trustee.  Except in the case of a Default or Event of Default in payment of principal of or interest on any Security, the Trustee may withhold the notice if and so long as a committee of its Trust Officers in good faith determines that withholding the notice is in the interests of Holders.

 

SECTION 7.06.  Reports by Trustee to Holders.  Within 60 days after February 1 each year beginning with February 1, 2013, the Trustee shall mail to each Holder a brief report dated as of such February 1 that complies with TIA § 313(a), if and to the extent required by such subsection.  The Trustee shall also comply with TIA § 313(b).

 

A copy of each report at the time of its mailing to Holders shall be filed with the Commission and each stock exchange (if any) on which the Securities are listed.  The Company agrees to notify promptly the Trustee whenever the Securities become listed on any stock exchange and of any delisting thereof.

 

SECTION 7.07.  Compensation and Indemnity.  The Company and the Subsidiary Guarantors, jointly and severally, shall pay to the Trustee from time to time reasonable compensation for its services.  The Trustee’s compensation shall not be limited by any law on compensation of a trustee of an express trust.  The Company and the Subsidiary Guarantors, jointly and severally, shall reimburse the Trustee upon request for all reasonable out-of-pocket expenses incurred or made by it, including costs of collection, in addition to the compensation for its services.  Such expenses shall include the reasonable compensation and expenses, disbursements and advances of the Trustee’s agents, counsel, accountants and experts.  The Company and the Subsidiary Guarantors, jointly and severally, shall indemnify the Trustee against any and all loss, liability, claim, damage or expense (including reasonable attorneys’ fees and expenses) incurred by it in connection with the acceptance and administration of this trust and the performance of its duties hereunder.  The Trustee shall notify the Company promptly of any claim of which a Trust Officer has received notice for which it may seek indemnity. Failure by the Trustee to so notify the Company shall not relieve the Company of its obligations hereunder unless the Company has been prejudiced thereby.  The Company shall defend the claim, and the Trustee may have separate counsel and the Company shall pay the reasonable fees and expenses of such counsel.  The Company need not reimburse any expense or indemnify against any loss, liability or expense incurred by the Trustee through the Trustee’s own willful misconduct, negligence or bad faith.  The Company need not pay for any settlement made by the Trustee without the Company’s consent, such consent not to be unreasonably withheld.  All indemnifications and releases

 

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from liability granted hereunder to the Trustee shall extend to its officers, directors, employees, agents, successors and assigns.

 

To secure the Company’s payment obligations in this Section 7.07, the Trustee shall have a lien prior to the Securities on all money or property held or collected by the Trustee other than money or property held in trust to pay principal of and interest on particular Securities.

 

The Company’s payment obligations pursuant to this Section 7.07 shall survive the resignation or removal of the Trustee and the discharge or termination of this Indenture.  When the Trustee incurs expenses after the occurrence of a Default specified in Section 6.01(f) or (g) with respect to the Company, the expenses are intended to constitute expenses of administration under the Bankruptcy Law.

 

SECTION 7.08.  Replacement of Trustee.  The Trustee may resign at any time by so notifying the Company.  The Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Securities the outstanding may remove the Trustee by so notifying the Trustee and may appoint a successor Trustee; provided that so long as no Default or Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, the Company shall have the right to consent to the successor Trustee, such consent not to be unreasonably withheld.  The Company shall remove the Trustee if:

 

(1) the Trustee fails to comply with Section 7.10;

 

(2) the Trustee is adjudged bankrupt or insolvent;

 

(3) a receiver or other public officer takes charge of the Trustee or its property; or

 

(4) the Trustee otherwise becomes incapable of acting.

 

If the Trustee resigns or is removed by the Company or by the Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Securities then outstanding, and such Holders do not reasonably promptly appoint a successor Trustee, or if a vacancy exists in the office of Trustee for any reason (the Trustee in such event being referred to herein as the retiring Trustee), the Company shall promptly appoint 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 successor Trustee shall cause to be delivered a notice of its succession to Holders.  The retiring Trustee shall upon payment of its charges hereunder promptly transfer all property held by it as Trustee to the successor Trustee, subject to the lien provided for in Section 7.07.

 

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principal amount of the Securities then outstanding may petition at the expense of the Company any court of competent jurisdiction for the appointment of a successor Trustee.

 

If the Trustee fails to comply with Section 7.10, any Holder who has been a bona fide Holder of a Security for at least six months may petition at the expense of the Company any court of competent jurisdiction for the removal of the Trustee and the appointment of a successor Trustee.

 

Notwithstanding the replacement of the Trustee pursuant to this Section 7.08, the Company’s obligations under Section 7.07 shall continue for the benefit of the retiring Trustee.

 

SECTION 7.09.  Successor Trustee by Merger.  If the Trustee consolidates with, merges or converts into, or transfers all or substantially all its corporate trust business or assets to, another corporation or banking association, the resulting, surviving or transferee corporation or banking association without any further act shall be the successor Trustee.

 

In case at the time such successor or successors by merger, conversion or consolidation to the Trustee shall succeed to the trusts created by this Indenture any of the Securities shall have been authenticated but not delivered, any such successor to the Trustee may adopt the certificate of authentication of any predecessor trustee, and deliver such Securities so authenticated; and in case at that time any of the Securities shall not have been authenticated, any such successor to the Trustee may authenticate such Securities either in the name of any predecessor hereunder or in the name of the successor to the Trustee; and in all such cases such certificates shall have the full force which it is anywhere in the Securities or in this Indenture provided that the certificate of the Trustee shall have.

 

SECTION 7.10.  Eligibility; Disqualification.  The Trustee shall at all times satisfy the requirements of TIA § 310(a).  The Trustee shall have (or, in the case of a corporation included in a bank holding company system, the related bank holding company shall have) a combined capital and surplus of at least $50,000,000 as set forth in its (or its related bank holding company’s) most recent published annual report of condition.  The Trustee shall comply with TIA § 310(b), subject to the penultimate paragraph thereof; provided, however, that there shall be excluded from the operation of TIA § 310(b)(1) any indenture or indentures under which other securities or certificates of interest or participation in other securities of the Company are outstanding if the requirements for such exclusion set forth in TIA § 310(b)(1) are met.

 

SECTION 7.11.  Preferential Collection of Claims Against Company.  The Trustee shall comply with TIA § 311(a), excluding any creditor relationship listed in TIA § 311(b).  A Trustee who has resigned or been removed shall be subject to TIA § 311(a) to the extent indicated.

 

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ARTICLE VIII

 

Discharge of Indenture; Defeasance

 

SECTION 8.01.  Discharge of Liability on Securities; Defeasance.  (a)  When (i) the Company delivers to the Trustee all outstanding Securities (other than Securities replaced pursuant to Section 2.07) for cancelation or (ii) all outstanding Securities have become due and payable, whether at maturity or as a result of the mailing of a notice of redemption pursuant to Article III, or will become due and payable within one year or are to be called for redemption within one year under arrangements satisfactory to the Trustee, and the Company irrevocably deposits with the Trustee funds (comprised of cash to be held uninvested and/or U.S. Government Obligations) sufficient to pay at maturity or upon redemption all outstanding Securities, including interest thereon to maturity or such redemption date (other than Securities replaced pursuant to Section 2.07), and if in either case the Company pays all other sums payable hereunder by the Company, then this Indenture shall, subject to Section 8.01(c), cease to be of further effect.  The Trustee shall acknowledge satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture on demand of the Company accompanied by an Officers’ Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel and at the cost and expense of the Company.

 

(b)  Subject to Sections 8.01(c) and 8.02, the Company at any time may terminate (i) all of its obligations under the Securities and this Indenture (“legal defeasance option”) or (ii) its obligations under Sections 4.02, 4.03, 4.04, 4.05, 4.06, 4.07, 4.08, 4.09, 4.10, 4.11, 4.13 and 4.14 and the operation of Sections 6.01(e), 6.01(f), 6.01(g), 6.01(h), or 6.01(i) (but, in the case of Sections 6.01(f) and (g), with respect only to Significant Subsidiaries) and the limitations contained in Section 5.01(a)(5) (“covenant defeasance option”).  The Company may exercise its legal defeasance option notwithstanding its prior exercise of its covenant defeasance option.

 

If the Company exercises its legal defeasance option, payment of the Securities may not be accelerated because of an Event of Default.  If the Company exercises its covenant defeasance option, payment of the Securities may not be accelerated because of an Event of Default specified in Sections 6.01(d) (with respect to the covenants of Article IV identified in the immediately preceding paragraph), 6.01(e), 6.01(f), 6.01(g), 6.01(h) or 6.01(i) (with respect only to Significant Subsidiaries in the case of Sections 6.01(f) and 6.01(g)) or because of the failure of the Company to comply with the limitations contained in Section 5.01(a)(5).  If the Company exercises its legal defeasance option or its covenant defeasance option, each Subsidiary Guarantor will be released from all its obligations under its Subsidiary Guarantee, as it pertains to the Securities.

 

Upon satisfaction of the conditions set forth herein and upon request of the Company, the Trustee shall acknowledge in writing the discharge of those obligations that the Company terminates.

 

(c)  Notwithstanding clauses (a) and (b) above, the Company’s obligations in Sections 2.04, 2.05, 2.06, 2.07, 7.07, 7.08, 8.05 and 8.06 shall survive until the Securities

 

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have been paid in full.  Thereafter, the Company’s obligations in Sections 7.07 and 8.05 shall survive such satisfaction and discharge.

 

SECTION 8.02.  Conditions to Defeasance.  The Company may exercise its legal defeasance option or its covenant defeasance option only if:

 

(a) the Company irrevocably deposits in trust with the Trustee money or U.S. Government Obligations for the payment of principal of, and interest on, the Securities to maturity or redemption, as the case may be;

 

(b) the Company delivers to the Trustee a certificate from a nationally recognized firm of independent certified public accountants expressing their opinion that the payments of principal and interest when due and without reinvestment on the deposited U.S. Government Obligations plus any deposited money without investment will provide cash at such times and in such amounts as will be sufficient to pay principal and interest when due on all the Securities to maturity or redemption, as the case may be;

 

(c) the Company shall have delivered to the Trustee an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that, as of the date of such opinion and subject to customary assumptions and exclusions following the deposit, the trust funds will not be subject to the effect of Section 547 of Title 11 of the United States Code;

 

(d) the Company shall have delivered to the Trustee an Officer’s Certificate stating that the deposit was not made by the Company with the intent of defeating, hindering, delaying or defrauding any creditors of the Company or any Subsidiary Guarantor;

 

(e) no Default or Event of Default has occurred and is continuing on the date of such deposit and after giving effect thereto (other than any Default or Event of Default resulting from the borrowing of funds (and granting of related Liens) to fund the deposit);

 

(f) such deposit does not constitute a default under any other agreement or instrument binding on the Company;

 

(g) in the case of the legal defeasance option, the Company shall have delivered to the Trustee an Opinion of Counsel stating that

 

(1) the Company has received from the Internal Revenue Service a ruling; or

 

(2) since the date of this Indenture there has been a change in the applicable Federal income tax law, to the effect, in either case, that, and based thereon such Opinion of Counsel shall confirm that, the Holders will not recognize income, gain or loss for Federal income tax purposes as a result of such defeasance and will be subject to Federal income tax on the same

 

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amounts, in the same manner and at the same times as would have been the case if such defeasance had not occurred;

 

(h) in the case of the covenant defeasance option, the Company shall have delivered to the Trustee an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that the Holders will not recognize income, gain or loss for Federal income tax purposes as a result of such covenant defeasance and will be subject to Federal income tax on the same amounts, in the same manner and at the same times as would have been the case if such covenant defeasance had not occurred; and

 

(i) the Company delivers to the Trustee an Officers’ Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel, each stating that all conditions precedent to the defeasance and discharge of the Securities as contemplated by this Article VIII have been complied with.

 

Before or after a deposit, the Company may make arrangements satisfactory to the Trustee for the redemption of Securities at a future date in accordance with Article III.

 

SECTION 8.03.  Application of Trust Money.  The Trustee shall hold in trust money or U.S. Government Obligations deposited with it pursuant to this Article VIII.  It shall apply the deposited money and the money from U.S. Government Obligations through the Paying Agent and in accordance with this Indenture to the payment of principal of and interest on the Securities.

 

SECTION 8.04.  Repayment to Company.  The Trustee and the Paying Agent shall promptly turn over to the Company upon request any excess money or securities held by them at any time.

 

Subject to any applicable abandoned property law, the Trustee and the Paying Agent shall pay to the Company upon request any money held by them for the payment of principal or interest that remains unclaimed for two years, and, thereafter, Holders entitled to the money must look to the Company for payment as general creditors.

 

SECTION 8.05.  Indemnity for Government Obligations.  The Company shall pay and shall indemnify the Trustee against any tax, fee or other charge imposed on or assessed against deposited U.S. Government Obligations or the principal and interest received on such U.S. Government Obligations.

 

SECTION 8.06.  Reinstatement.  If the Trustee or Paying Agent is unable to apply any money or U.S. Government Obligations in accordance with this Article VIII by reason of any legal proceeding or by reason of any order or judgment of any court or governmental authority enjoining, restraining or otherwise prohibiting such application, the Company’s obligations under this Indenture and the Securities shall be revived and reinstated as though no deposit had occurred pursuant to this Article VIII until such time as the Trustee or Paying Agent is permitted to apply all such money or U.S. Government Obligations in accordance with this Article VIII; provided, however, that, if the Company has made any payment of interest on or principal of any Securities because of the reinstatement of its obligations, the Company shall be subrogated to the rights of the Holders of such Securities

 

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to receive such payment from the money or U.S. Government Obligations held by the Trustee or Paying Agent.

 

ARTICLE IX

 

Amendments

 

SECTION 9.01.  Without Consent of Holders.  Without the consent of any Holders, the Company, the Subsidiary Guarantors and the Trustee may amend this Indenture or the Securities, in each case without notice to:

 

(a) cure any ambiguity, omission, defect or inconsistency;

 

(b) provide for the assumption by a successor corporation of the obligations of the Company or any Subsidiary Guarantor under this Indenture;

 

(c) provide for uncertificated Securities in addition to or in place of certificated Securities; provided, however, that the uncertificated Securities are issued in registered form for purposes of Section 163(f) of the Code, or in a manner such that the uncertificated Securities are described in Section 163(f)(2)(B) of the Code;

 

(d) add additional Guarantees with respect to the Securities or release Subsidiary Guarantors from Subsidiary Guarantees as provided by the terms of this Indenture or the Subsidiary Guarantees;

 

(e) secure the Securities, add to the covenants of the Company or the Subsidiary Guarantors for the benefit of the Holders or surrender any right or power herein conferred upon the Company;

 

(f) make any change to this Indenture, the Securities or the Subsidiary Guarantees that does not adversely affect the rights of any Holder;

 

(g) make any change to comply with any requirements of the Commission in connection with the qualification of this Indenture under the Trust Indenture Act;

 

(h) evidence and provide for the acceptance and appointment under this Indenture of a successor Trustee;

 

(i) conform the text of this Indenture, the Subsidiary Guarantees or the Securities to any provision under the caption “Description of Notes” in the Offering Memorandum to the extent that such provision in this Indenture, the Subsidiary Guarantees or the Securities was intended to be a substantially verbatim recitation of a provision under the caption “Description of Notes” in the Offering Memorandum, as evidenced by an Officers’ Certificate delivered by the Company to the Trustee;

 

(j) comply with the rules of any applicable securities depositary; provided, however, that such amendment does not materially and adversely affect the rights of holders to transfer the Securities; or

 

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(k) make any amendment to the provisions of this Indenture relating to the transfer and legending or de-legending of the Securities; provided, however, that (i) compliance with this Indenture as so amended would not result in the Securities being transferred in violation of the Securities Act or any applicable securities law and (ii) such amendment does not materially and adversely affect the rights of holders to transfer the Securities.

 

After an amendment under this Section 9.01 becomes effective, the Company shall mail to Holders a notice briefly describing such amendment.  The failure to give such notice to all Holders, or any defect therein, shall not impair or affect the validity of an amendment under this Section 9.01.

 

SECTION 9.02.  With Consent of Holders.  (a)  The Company, when authorized by a Board Resolution, the Subsidiary Guarantors and the Trustee may amend this Indenture or the Securities and waive any past default or compliance with any provisions (except as provided in Section 6.04), with the consent of the Holders of at least a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Securities then outstanding (including consents obtained in connection with a tender offer or exchange offer for the Securities).  However, without the consent of each Holder affected thereby, an amendment may not:

 

(1) amend this Indenture to reduce the amount of Securities whose Holders are required to consent to an amendment or waiver;

 

(2) amend this Indenture to reduce the rate of or extend the time for payment of interest on any Security;

 

(3) amend this Indenture to reduce the principal of or extend the Stated Maturity of any Security;

 

(4) amend this Indenture to make any Security payable in money other than that stated in the Security;

 

(5) amend this Indenture or any Subsidiary Guarantee to impair the right of any Holder to receive payment of principal of and interest on such Holder’s Securities on or after the due dates therefor or to institute suit for the enforcement of any payment on or with respect to such Holder’s Securities or any Subsidiary Guarantee;

 

(6) amend this Indenture or any Subsidiary Guarantee to subordinate the Securities or any Subsidiary Guarantee to any other obligation of the Company or the applicable Subsidiary Guarantor;

 

(7) amend this Indenture to reduce the premium payable upon the redemption of any Security or change the time (other than amendments related to notice provisions) at which any Security may be redeemed in accordance with Article III;

 

(8) amend this Indenture, at any time after a Change of Control has occurred, to reduce the premium payable upon a Change of Control, amend the definition of “Change of Control” or change the time at which any Change of Control Offer

 

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relating thereto must be made or at which the Securities must be repurchased pursuant to such Change of Control Offer; or

 

(9) at any time after the Company is obligated to make an Asset Sales Prepayment Offer with the Excess Proceeds from Asset Sales, amend this Indenture to change the time at which such Asset Sales Prepayment Offer must be made or at which the Securities must be repurchased pursuant thereto.

 

(b) It shall not be necessary for the consent of the Holders under this Section 9.02 to approve the particular form of any proposed amendment, but it shall be sufficient if such consent approves the substance thereof.

 

After an amendment under this Section 9.02 becomes effective, the Company shall mail to each Holder at such Holder’s address appearing in the Security Register a notice briefly describing such amendment.  The failure to give such notice to all Holders, or any defect therein, shall not impair or affect the validity of an amendment under this Section.

 

SECTION 9.03.  Compliance with Trust Indenture Act.  Every amendment to this Indenture or the Securities shall comply with the TIA as then in effect.

 

SECTION 9.04.  Revocation and Effect of Consents and Waivers.  A consent to an amendment or a waiver by a Holder of a Security shall bind the Holder and every subsequent Holder of that Security or portion of the Security that evidences the same debt as the consenting Holder’s Security, even if notation of the consent or waiver is not made on the Security.  However, any such Holder or subsequent Holder may revoke the consent or waiver as to such Holder’s Security or portion of the Security if the Trustee receives the notice of revocation before the date the amendment or waiver becomes effective.  After an amendment or waiver becomes effective, it shall bind every Holder.  An amendment or waiver becomes effective upon the execution of such amendment or waiver by the Trustee.

 

The Company may, but shall not be obligated to, fix a record date for the purpose of determining the Holders entitled to give their consent or take any other action described above or required or permitted to be taken pursuant to this Indenture.  If a record date is fixed, then notwithstanding the immediately preceding paragraph, those Persons who were Holders at such record date (or their duly designated proxies), and only those Persons, shall be entitled to give such consent or to revoke any consent previously given or to take any such action, whether or not such Persons continue to be Holders after such record date.  No such consent shall be valid or effective for more than 120 days after such record date.

 

SECTION 9.05.  Notation on or Exchange of Securities.  If an amendment changes the terms of a Security, the Trustee may require the Holder of the Security to deliver such Security to the Trustee.  The Trustee may place an appropriate notation on the Security regarding the changed terms and return such Security to the Holder.  Alternatively, if the Company or the Trustee so determines, the Company in exchange for the Security shall issue and the Trustee shall authenticate a new Security that reflects the changed terms.  Failure to make the appropriate notation or to issue a new Security shall not affect the validity of such amendment.

 

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SECTION 9.06.  Trustee To Sign Amendments.  The Trustee shall sign any amendment or release authorized pursuant to this Article IX and Article XI if the amendment or release does not adversely affect the rights, duties, liabilities or immunities of the Trustee.  If such amendment or release does adversely affect the rights, duties, liabilities or immunities of the Trustee, the Trustee may but need not sign it.  In signing such amendment or release the Trustee shall be entitled to receive indemnity reasonably satisfactory to it and shall be provided with, and (subject to Section 7.01) shall be fully protected in relying upon, an Officers’ Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel stating that such amendment or release is authorized or permitted by this Indenture.

 

SECTION 9.07.  Payment for Consent.  Neither the Company nor any Affiliate of the Company shall, directly or indirectly, pay or cause to be paid any consideration, whether by way of interest, fee or otherwise, to any Holder for or as an inducement to any consent, waiver or amendment of any of the terms or provisions of this Indenture or the Securities unless such consideration is offered to be paid to all Holders that so consent, waive or agree to amend in the time frame set forth in solicitation documents relating to such consent, waiver or agreement.

 

ARTICLE X

 

Subsidiary Guarantees

 

SECTION 10.01.  Subsidiary Guarantees.  Each Subsidiary Guarantor hereby unconditionally guarantees, jointly and severally, to each Holder and to the Trustee and its successors and assigns (a) the full and punctual payment of principal of and interest on the Securities when due, whether at maturity, by acceleration, by redemption or otherwise, and all other monetary obligations of the Company under this Indenture and the Securities and (b) the full and punctual performance within applicable grace periods of all other obligations of the Company under this Indenture and the Securities (all the foregoing being hereinafter collectively called the “Obligations”).  Each Subsidiary Guarantor further agrees that the Obligations may be extended or renewed, in whole or in part, without notice or further assent from such Subsidiary Guarantor, and that such Subsidiary Guarantor will remain bound under this Article X notwithstanding any extension or renewal of any Obligation.

 

Any term or provision of this Indenture to the contrary notwithstanding, the maximum aggregate amount of the obligations guaranteed hereunder by any Subsidiary Guarantor shall not exceed the maximum amount that can be hereby guaranteed without rendering this Indenture, as it relates to such Subsidiary Guarantor, voidable under applicable law relating to fraudulent conveyance or fraudulent transfer or similar laws affecting the rights of creditors generally.

 

Each Subsidiary Guarantor waives presentation to, demand of, payment from and protest to the Company of any of the Obligations and also waives notice of protest for nonpayment.  Each Subsidiary Guarantor waives notice of any default under the Securities or the Obligations.  The obligations of each Subsidiary Guarantor hereunder shall not be affected by (a) the failure of any Holder or the Trustee to assert any claim or demand or to enforce any right or remedy against the Company or any other Person under this Indenture,

 

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the Securities or any other agreement or otherwise; (b) any extension or renewal of any thereof; (c) any rescission, waiver, amendment or modification of any of the terms or provisions of this Indenture, the Securities or any other agreement; (d) the release of any security held by any Holder or the Trustee for the Obligations or any of them; or (e) the failure of any Holder or the Trustee to exercise any right or remedy against any other guarantor of the Obligations.

 

Each Subsidiary Guarantor further agrees that its Subsidiary Guarantee herein constitutes a guarantee of payment, performance and compliance when due (and not a guarantee of collection) and waives any right to require that any resort be had by any Holder or the Trustee to any security held for payment of the Obligations.

 

Except as expressly set forth in Sections 5.01(b), 8.01(b) and 10.06, the obligations of each Subsidiary Guarantor hereunder shall not be subject to any reduction, limitation, impairment or termination for any reason, including any claim of waiver, release, surrender, alteration or compromise, and shall not be subject to any defense of setoff, counterclaim, recoupment or termination whatsoever or by reason of the invalidity, illegality or unenforceability of the Obligations or otherwise.  Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the obligations of each Subsidiary Guarantor herein shall not be discharged or impaired or otherwise affected by the failure of any Holder or the Trustee to assert any claim or demand or to enforce any remedy under this Indenture, the Securities or any other agreement, by any waiver or modification of any thereof, by any default, failure or delay, willful or otherwise, in the performance of the obligations, or by any other act or thing or omission or delay to do any other act or thing which may or might in any manner or to any extent vary the risk of such Subsidiary Guarantor or would otherwise operate as a discharge of such Subsidiary Guarantor as a matter of law or equity.

 

Each Subsidiary Guarantor further agrees that its Subsidiary Guarantee herein shall continue to be effective or be reinstated, as the case may be, if at any time payment, or any part thereof, of principal of or interest on any Obligation is rescinded or must otherwise be restored by any Holder or the Trustee upon the bankruptcy or reorganization of the Company or otherwise.

 

In furtherance of the foregoing and not in limitation of any other right which any Holder or the Trustee has at law or in equity against any Subsidiary Guarantor by virtue hereof, upon the failure of the Company to pay the principal of or interest on any Obligation when and as the same shall become due, whether at maturity, by acceleration, by redemption or otherwise, or to perform or comply with any other Obligation, each Subsidiary Guarantor hereby promises to and will, upon receipt of written demand by the Trustee, forthwith pay, or cause to be paid, in cash, to the Holders or the Trustee an amount equal to the sum of (i) the unpaid amount of such Obligations, (ii) accrued and unpaid interest on such Obligations (but only to the extent not prohibited by law) and (iii) all other monetary Obligations of the Company to the Holders and the Trustee.

 

Each Subsidiary Guarantor agrees that it shall not be entitled to any right of subrogation in respect of any Obligations guaranteed hereby until payment in full in cash of all Obligations.  Each Subsidiary Guarantor further agrees that, as between it, on the one

 

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hand, and the Holders and the Trustee, on the other hand, (x) the maturity of the Obligations guaranteed hereby may be accelerated as provided in Article VI for the purposes of such Subsidiary Guarantor’s Subsidiary Guarantee herein, notwithstanding any stay, injunction or other prohibition preventing such acceleration in respect of the Obligations guaranteed hereby, and (y) in the event of any declaration of acceleration of such Obligations as provided in Article VI, such Obligations (whether or not due and payable) shall forthwith become due and payable by such Subsidiary Guarantor for the purposes of this Section.

 

Each Subsidiary Guarantor also agrees to pay any and all costs and expenses (including reasonable attorneys’ fees) incurred by the Trustee or any Holder in enforcing any rights under this Section 10.01.

 

SECTION 10.02.  Contribution.  Each of the Company and any Subsidiary Guarantor (a “Contributing Party”) agrees that, in the event a payment shall be made by any other Subsidiary Guarantor under any Subsidiary Guarantee (the “Claiming Guarantor”), the Contributing Party shall indemnify the Claiming Guarantor in an amount equal to the amount of such payment multiplied by a fraction, the numerator of which shall be the net worth of the Contributing Party on the date hereof and the denominator of which shall be the aggregate net worth of the Company and all the Subsidiary Guarantors on the date hereof (or, in the case of any Subsidiary Guarantor becoming a party hereto after the Issue Date, the date of the supplemental indenture executed and delivered by such Subsidiary Guarantor).

 

SECTION 10.03.  Successors and Assigns.  This Article X shall be binding upon each Subsidiary Guarantor and its successors and assigns and shall inure to the benefit of the successors and assigns of the Trustee and the Holders and, in the event of any transfer or assignment of rights by any Holder or the Trustee, the rights and privileges conferred upon that party in this Indenture and in the Securities shall automatically extend to and be vested in such transferee or assignee, all subject to the terms and conditions of this Indenture.

 

SECTION 10.04.  No Waiver.  Neither a failure nor a delay on the part of either the Trustee or the Holders in exercising any right, power or privilege under this Article X shall operate as a waiver thereof, nor shall a single or partial exercise thereof preclude any other or further exercise of any right, power or privilege.  The rights, remedies and benefits of the Trustee and the Holders herein expressly specified are cumulative and not exclusive of any other rights, remedies or benefits which either may have under this Article X at law, in equity, by statute or otherwise.

 

SECTION 10.05.  Modification.  No modification, amendment or waiver of any provision of this Article X, nor the consent to any departure by any Subsidiary Guarantor therefrom, shall in any event be effective unless the same shall be in writing and signed by the Trustee, and then such waiver or consent shall be effective only in the specific instance and for the purpose for which given.  No notice to or demand on any Subsidiary Guarantor in any case shall entitle such Subsidiary Guarantor to any other or further notice or demand in the same, similar or other circumstances.

 

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SECTION 10.06.  Release of Subsidiary Guarantor.  A Subsidiary Guarantor will be released from its obligations under this Article X (other than any obligation that may have arisen under Section 10.02):

 

(1) upon the sale (including any sale pursuant to any exercise of remedies by a holder of Indebtedness of the Company or of such Subsidiary Guarantor), transfer or other disposition (including by way of consolidation or merger) of all the Capital Stock of such Subsidiary Guarantor; or

 

(2) upon request of the Company without consent of any Holder unless, within 20 Business Days after written notice of the proposed release of such Subsidiary Guarantor is mailed to the Trustee and the Holders, Holders of 25% of the outstanding principal amount of Securities deliver to the Company a written objection to such release; or

 

(3) with the written consent of the Holders of at least a majority of the aggregate principal amount of the Securities then outstanding; or

 

(4) upon defeasance of the Securities pursuant to Article VIII, or

 

(5) upon the full satisfaction of the Company’s obligations under this Indenture pursuant to Section 8.01(a) or otherwise in accordance with the terms of this Indenture;

 

provided, however, that in the case of clause (1) above, (i) such sale or other disposition is made to a Person other than the Company or a Subsidiary of the Company, (ii) such sale, transfer or other disposition is otherwise permitted by this Indenture and (iii) the Company provides an Officers’ Certificate to the Trustee to the effect that the Company will comply with its obligations under Section 4.06.

 

At the request of the Company, the Trustee shall execute and deliver any documents, instructions, or instruments evidencing the consent of the Holders of the Securities to any such release.

 

SECTION 10.07.  Execution of Supplemental Indenture for Future Subsidiary Guarantors.  Each Subsidiary which is required to become a Subsidiary Guarantor pursuant to Section 4.09 shall promptly execute and deliver to the Trustee a supplemental indenture in the form of Exhibit B hereto pursuant to which such Subsidiary shall become a Subsidiary Guarantor under this Article X and shall guarantee the Obligations.  Concurrently with the execution and delivery of such supplemental indenture, the Company shall deliver to the Trustee an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that:

 

(1) such supplemental indenture has been duly executed and authorized; and

 

(2) the Guarantee of such Subsidiary Guarantor constitutes a valid, binding and enforceable obligation of such Subsidiary, except insofar as enforcement thereof may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency or similar laws (including all laws relating

 

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to fraudulent transfers) and except insofar as enforcement thereof is subject to general principles of equity.

 

ARTICLE XI

 

Miscellaneous

 

SECTION 11.01.  Trust Indenture Act Controls.  If any provision of this Indenture limits, qualifies or conflicts with another provision that is required to be included in this Indenture by the TIA, the required provision shall control.

 

SECTION 11.02.  Notices.  Any notice or communication shall be in writing and delivered in person or mailed by first-class mail or sent by facsimile (with a hard copy delivered in person or by mail promptly thereafter) (or, if to a Holder for whom DTC is the record owner, electronically through DTC) and addressed as follows:

 

if to the Company:

 

Rite Aid Corporation

30 Hunter Lane

Camp Hill, Pennsylvania 17011

facsimile: 717-760-7867

 

Attention of:  Marc A. Strassler, Esq.

 

if to the Trustee:

 

The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company, N.A.

2 North LaSalle Street, Suite 1020

Chicago, IL 60602

facsimile: 312-827-8542

 

Attention of:  Corporate Trust Administration

 

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

 

The Trustee agrees to accept and act upon instructions or directions pursuant to this Indenture sent by unsecured e-mail, pdf, facsimile transmission or other similar unsecured electronic methods, provided, however, that the Trustee shall have received an incumbency certificate listing persons designated to give such instructions or directions and containing specimen signatures of such designated persons, which such incumbency certificate shall be amended and replaced whenever a person is to be added or deleted from the listing.  If the Company elects to give the Trustee e-mail or facsimile instructions (or instructions by a similar electronic method) and the Trustee in its discretion elects to act upon such instructions, the Trustee’s understanding of such instructions shall be deemed controlling. The Trustee shall not be liable for any losses, costs or expenses arising directly

 

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or indirectly from the Trustee’s reliance upon and compliance with such instructions. The Company agrees to assume all risks arising out of the use of such electronic methods to submit instructions and directions to the Trustee, including without limitation the risk of the Trustee acting on unauthorized instructions, and the risk or interception and misuse by third parties.

 

Any notice or communication mailed to a Holder shall be mailed to the Holder at the Holder’s address as it appears on the registration books of the Registrar and shall be sufficiently given if so mailed within the time prescribed.

 

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

 

SECTION 11.03.  Communication by Holders with Other Holders.  Holders may communicate pursuant to TIA § 312(b) with other Holders with respect to their rights under this Indenture or the Securities.  The Company, the Trustee, the Registrar and anyone else shall have the protection of TIA § 312(c).

 

SECTION 11.04.  Certificate and Opinion as to Conditions Precedent.  Upon any request or application by the Company to the Trustee to take or refrain from taking any action under this Indenture, the Company shall furnish to the Trustee:

 

(1) an Officers’ Certificate in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Trustee stating that, in the opinion of the signers, all conditions precedent, if any, provided for in this Indenture relating to the proposed action have been complied with; and

 

(2) except in the case of Section 3.01 under which an opinion will not be required, an Opinion of Counsel in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Trustee stating that, in the opinion of such counsel, all such conditions precedent have been complied with; provided, however, that with respect to matters of fact an Opinion of Counsel may rely on an Officers’ Certificate or certificates of public officials.

 

SECTION 11.05.  Statements Required in Certificate or Opinion.  Each certificate with respect to compliance with a covenant or condition provided for in this Indenture shall include:

 

(1) a statement that the individual making such certificate has read such covenant or condition;

 

(2) a brief statement as to the nature and scope of the examination or investigation upon which the statements contained in such certificate are based;

 

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(3) a statement that, in the opinion of 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 or not, in the opinion of such individual, such covenant or condition has been complied with,

 

Each opinion with respect to compliance with a covenant or condition provided for in this Indenture shall be in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the party requesting such opinion and the party giving such opinion.

 

SECTION 11.06.  When Securities Disregarded.  In determining whether the Holders of the required principal amount of Securities have concurred in any direction, waiver or consent, Securities owned by the Company or by any Person directly or indirectly controlling or controlled by or under direct or indirect common control with the Company shall be disregarded and deemed not to be outstanding, except that, for the purpose of determining whether the Trustee shall be protected in relying on any such direction, waiver or consent, only Securities that the Trustee knows are so owned shall be so disregarded.  Also, subject to the foregoing, only Securities outstanding at the time shall be considered in any such determination.

 

SECTION 11.07.  Rules by Trustee, Paying Agent and Registrar.  The Trustee may make reasonable rules for action by or a meeting of Holders.  The Registrar and the Paying Agent or co-registrar may make reasonable rules for their functions.

 

SECTION 11.08.  Legal Holidays.  A “Legal Holiday” is a Saturday, a Sunday or a day on which banking institutions are not required to be open in the State of New York.  If a payment date is a Legal Holiday, payment shall be made on the next succeeding day that is not a Legal Holiday, and no interest shall accrue for the intervening period.  If a regular record date is a Legal Holiday, the record date shall not be affected.

 

SECTION 11.09.  Governing Law.  THIS INDENTURE AND THE SECURITIES SHALL BE GOVERNED BY, AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH, THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK BUT WITHOUT REFERENCE TO APPLICABLE PRINCIPLES OF CONFLICTS OF LAW.

 

SECTION 11.10.  No Recourse Against Others.  A director, officer, employee or stockholder, as such, of the Company shall not have any liability for any obligations of the Company under the Securities or this Indenture or for any claim based on, in respect of or by reason of such obligations or their creation.  By accepting a Security, each Holder shall waive and release all such liability.  The waiver and release shall be part of the consideration for the issue of the Securities.

 

SECTION 11.11.  Successors.  All agreements of the Company in this Indenture and the Securities shall bind its successors.  All agreements of the Trustee in this Indenture shall bind its successors.

 

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SECTION 11.12.  Multiple Originals.  The parties may sign any number of copies of this Indenture.  Each signed copy shall be an original, but all of them together represent the same agreement.  One signed copy is enough to prove this Indenture.

 

SECTION 11.13.  Table of Contents; Headings.  The table of contents, cross-reference sheet and headings of the Articles and Sections of this Indenture have been inserted for convenience of reference only, are not intended to be considered a part hereof and shall not modify or restrict any of the terms or provisions hereof.

 

SECTION 11.14.  Waiver of Jury Trial.   EACH OF THE COMPANY AND THE TRUSTEE HEREBY IRREVOCABLY WAIVES, TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, ANY AND ALL RIGHT TO TRIAL BY JURY IN ANY LEGAL PROCEEDING ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THIS INDENTURE, THE SECURITIES OR THE TRANSACTION CONTEMPLATED HEREBY.

 

SECTION 11.15.  Force Majeure.  In no event shall the Trustee be responsible or liable for any failure or delay in the performance of its obligations hereunder arising out of or caused by, directly or indirectly, forces beyond its control, including, without limitation, accidents, acts of war or terrorism, civil or military disturbances, nuclear or natural catastrophes or acts of God, and interruptions, loss or malfunctions of utilities, communications or computer (software and hardware) services; it being understood that the Trustee shall use reasonable efforts which are consistent with accepted practices in the banking industry to resume performance as soon as practicable under the circumstances.

 

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

 

	
 
    	
RITE   AID CORPORATION,
    
	
 
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
By
    	
/s/   Marc A. Strassler
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
Name:   Marc A. Strassler
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
Title: Executive Vice President, General Counsel   and 
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
Secretary
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
EACH   OF THE SUBSIDIARY GUARANTORS LISTED ON SCHEDULE A HERETO,
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
By
    	
/s/   Marc A. Strassler
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
Name:   Marc A. Strassler
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
Title:   Authorized Person
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    

 

 

	
 
    	
THE   BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON TRUST COMPANY, N.A.,
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
By
    	
/s/   Linda Garcia
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
Name:   Linda Garcia
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
Title:   Vice President
    

 

 

SCHEDULE A

 

SUBSIDIARY GUARANTORS

 

A.  Rite Aid Subsidiary Guarantors

 

112 Burleigh Avenue Norfolk, LLC

1515 West State Street Boise, Idaho, LLC

1740 Associates, LLC

3581 Carter Hill Road—Montgomery Corp.

4042 Warrensville Center Road—Warrensville Ohio, Inc.

5277 Associates, Inc.

5600 Superior Properties, Inc.

657-659 Broad St. Corp.

764 South Broadway—Geneva, Ohio, LLC

Ann & Government Streets—Mobile, Alabama, LLC

Apex Drug Stores, Inc.

Broadview and Wallings—Broadview Heights Ohio, Inc.

Central Avenue & Main Street Petal-MS, LLC

Eagle Managed Care Corp.

Eckerd Corporation

EDC Drug Stores, Inc.

Eighth and Water Streets—Urichsville, Ohio, LLC

England Street—Asheland Corporation

Fairground, LLC

GDF, Inc.

Genovese Drug Stores, Inc.

Gettysburg and Hoover—Dayton, Ohio, LLC

Harco, Inc.

JCG (PJC) USA, LLC

JCG Holdings (USA), Inc.

K&B Alabama Corporation

K&B Louisiana Corporation

K&B Mississippi Corporation

K&B Services, Incorporated

K&B Tennessee Corporation

K&B Texas Corporation

K&B, Incorporated

Keystone Centers, Inc.

Lakehurst and Broadway Corporation

Maxi Drug North, Inc.

Maxi Drug South, L.P.

Maxi Drug, Inc.

Maxi Green, Inc.

Mayfield & Chillicothe Roads—Chesterland, LLC

Munson & Andrews, LLC

Name Rite, LLC

 

 

Northline & Dix—Toledo—Southgate, LLC

P.J.C. Distribution, Inc.

P.J.C. Realty Co., Inc.

Patton Drive and Navy Boulevard Property Corporation

Paw Paw Lake Road & Paw Paw Avenue-Coloma, Michigan, LLC

PDS-1 Michigan, Inc.

Perry Distributors, Inc.

Perry Drug Stores, Inc.

PJC Dorchester Realty LLC

PJC East Lyme Realty LLC

PJC Haverhill Realty LLC

PJC Hermitage Realty LLC

PJC Hyde Park Realty LLC

PJC Lease Holdings, Inc.

PJC Manchester Realty LLC

PJC Mansfield Realty LLC

PJC New London Realty LLC

PJC of Massachusetts, Inc.

PJC of Rhode Island, Inc.

PJC of Vermont, Inc.

PJC Peterborough Realty LLC

PJC Providence Realty LLC

PJC Realty MA, Inc.

PJC Realty N.E. LLC

PJC Revere Realty LLC

PJC Special Realty Holdings, Inc.

Ram—Utica, Inc.

RDS Detroit, Inc.

READ’s Inc.

Rite Aid Drug Palace, Inc.

Rite Aid Hdqtrs. Corp.

Rite Aid Hdqtrs. Funding, Inc.

Rite Aid of Alabama, Inc.

Rite Aid of Connecticut, Inc.

Rite Aid of Delaware, Inc.

Rite Aid of Florida, Inc.

Rite Aid of Georgia, Inc.

Rite Aid of Illinois, Inc.

Rite Aid of Indiana, Inc.

Rite Aid of Kentucky, Inc.

Rite Aid of Maine, Inc.

Rite Aid of Maryland, Inc.

Rite Aid of Massachusetts, Inc.

Rite Aid of Michigan, Inc.

Rite Aid of New Hampshire, Inc.

Rite Aid of New Jersey, Inc.

 

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Rite Aid of New York, Inc.

Rite Aid of North Carolina, Inc.

Rite Aid of Ohio, Inc.

Rite Aid of Pennsylvania, Inc.

Rite Aid of South Carolina, Inc.

Rite Aid of Tennessee, Inc.

Rite Aid of Vermont, Inc.

Rite Aid of Virginia, Inc.

Rite Aid of Washington, D.C., Inc.

Rite Aid of West Virginia, Inc.

Rite Aid Online Store, Inc.

Rite Aid Payroll Management, Inc.

Rite Aid Realty Corp.

Rite Aid Rome Distribution Center, Inc.

Rite Aid Services, LLC

Rite Aid Specialty Pharmacy LLC

Rite Aid Transport, Inc.

Rite Fund, Inc.

Rite Investments Corp.

Rx Choice, Inc.

Seven Mile and Evergreen—Detroit, LLC

Silver Springs Road—Baltimore, Maryland/One, LLC

Silver Springs Road—Baltimore, Maryland/Two, LLC

State & Fortification Streets—Jackson, Mississippi, LLC

State Street and Hill Road—Gerard, Ohio, LLC

The Jean Coutu Group (PJC) USA, Inc.

The Lane Drug Company

Thrift Drug, Inc.

Thrifty Corporation

Thrifty PayLess, Inc.

Tyler and Sanders Roads—Birmingham, Alabama, LLC

 

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APPENDIX A

 

FOR OFFERINGS TO QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYERS PURSUANT TO RULE 144A, TO CERTAIN PERSONS IN OFFSHORE TRANSACTIONS IN RELIANCE ON REGULATION S AND, SUBJECT TO THE APPLICABLE PURCHASE AGREEMENT, TO INSTITUTIONAL ACCREDITED INVESTORS.

 

PROVISIONS RELATING TO INITIAL SECURITIES
 AND EXCHANGE SECURITIES

 

1. Definitions

 

1.1  Definitions

 

For the purposes of this Appendix A the following terms shall have the meanings indicated below:

 

“Additional Interest” has the meaning specified in Section 3 of the Registration Agreement.

 

“Definitive Security” means a certificated Initial Security or Exchange Security or Private Exchange Security bearing, if required, the restricted securities legend set forth in Section 2.3(d).

 

“Depository” means The Depository Trust Company, its nominees and their respective successors.

 

“Exchange Securities” means the 9.25% Senior Notes due 2020 to be issued pursuant to this Indenture in connection with a Registered Exchange Offer pursuant to a Registration Agreement.

 

“IAI” means an institutional “accredited investor” as described in Rule 501(a)(1), (2), (3) or (7) under the Securities Act.

 

“Initial Purchasers” means Citigroup Global Markets Inc., Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated, Wells Fargo Securities, LLC and Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC.

 

“Initial Securities” means the  9.25% Senior Notes due 2020, to be issued from time to time, in one or more series as provided for in this Indenture.

 

“Original Securities” means Initial Securities in the aggregate principal amount of $481,000,000 issued on February 27, 2012.

 

“Private Exchange” means the offer by the Company, pursuant to Section 1 of the Registration Agreement, or pursuant to any similar provision of any other Registration Agreement, to issue and deliver to certain purchasers, in exchange for the Initial Securities held by such purchasers as part of their initial distribution, a like aggregate principal amount of Private Exchange Securities.

 

 

“Private Exchange Securities” means the 9.25% Senior Notes due 2020 to be issued pursuant to this Indenture in connection with a Private Exchange pursuant to a Registration Agreement.

 

“Purchase Agreement” means the Purchase Agreement dated February 14, 2012, among the Company, the Subsidiary Guarantors named therein and the Initial Purchasers relating to the Original Securities, or any similar agreement relating to any future sale of Initial Securities by the Company.

 

“QIB” means a “qualified institutional buyer” as defined in Rule 144A.

 

“Registered Exchange Offer” means the offer by the Company, pursuant to a Registration Agreement, to certain Holders of Initial Securities, to issue and deliver to such Holders, in exchange for the Initial Securities, a like aggregate principal amount of Exchange Securities registered under the Securities Act.

 

“Registration Agreement” means the Exchange and Registration Rights Agreement dated February 27, 2012, among the Company, the Subsidiary Guarantors named therein and the Initial Purchasers relating to the Original Securities, or any similar agreement relating to any additional Initial Securities.

 

“Rule 144A Securities” means all Initial Securities offered and sold to QIBs in reliance on Rule 144A.

 

“Securities” means the Initial Securities and the Exchange Securities, treated as a single class.

 

“Securities Act” means the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.

 

“Securities Custodian” means the custodian with respect to a Global Security (as appointed by the Depository) or any successor person thereto, who shall initially be the Trustee.

 

“Shelf Registration Statement” means a registration statement issued by the Company in connection with the offer and sale of Initial Securities or Private Exchange Securities pursuant to the Registration Agreement.

 

“Transfer Restricted Securities” means Definitive Securities and any other Securities that bear or are required to bear the legend set forth in Section 2.3(c) hereto.

 

1.2  Other Definitions

 

	
 
    	
 
    	
Defined in
    
	
Term
    	
 
    	
Section:
    
	
“Agent   Members”
    	
 
    	
2.1(b)
    
	
“Global   Security”
    	
 
    	
2.1(a)
    
	
“IAI   Global Security”
    	
 
    	
2.1(a)
    

 

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“Regulation   S”
    	
 
    	
2.1
    
	
“Regulation   S Global Security”
    	
 
    	
2.1(a)
    
	
“Rule 144A”
    	
 
    	
2.1
    
	
“Rule 144A   Global Security”
    	
 
    	
2.1(a)
    

 

2.   The Securities

 

2.1  Form and Dating

 

The Initial Securities will be offered and sold by the Company, from time to time, pursuant to one or more Purchase Agreements.  The Initial Securities will be resold initially only to QIBs in reliance on Rule 144A under the Securities Act (“Rule 144A”) and in reliance on Regulation S under the Securities Act (“Regulation S”).  Initial Securities may thereafter be transferred to, among others, QIBs, purchasers in reliance on Regulation S and IAIs under Rule 501(a)(1), (2), (3) or (7) under the Securities Act, subject to the restrictions on transfer set forth herein.

 

(a)  Global Securities.  Initial Securities initially resold pursuant to Rule 144A shall be issued initially in the form of one or more permanent global Securities in definitive, fully registered form (collectively, the “Rule 144A Global Security”), Initial Securities initially resold pursuant to Regulation S shall be issued initially in the form of one or more global securities (collectively, the “Regulation S Global Security”) and, subject to Section 2.4 hereof, Initial Securities transferred subsequent to the initial resale thereof to IAIs shall be issued initially in the form of one or more permanent global securities in definitive, fully registered form (collectively, the “IAI Global Security”), in each case without interest coupons and with the global securities legend and restricted securities legend set forth in Exhibit 1 hereto, which shall be deposited on behalf of the purchasers of the Initial Securities represented thereby with the Securities Custodian, and registered in the name of the Depository or a nominee of the Depository, duly executed by the Company and authenticated by the Trustee as provided in this Indenture.  The Rule 144A Global Security, IAI Global Security, and Regulation S Global Security are collectively referred to herein as “Global Securities.”  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 and the Depository or its nominee as hereinafter provided.

 

(b)  Book-Entry Provisions.  This Section 2.1(b) shall apply only to a Global Security deposited with or on behalf of the Depository.

 

The Company shall execute and the Trustee shall, in accordance with this Section 2.1(b) and pursuant to an order of the Company, authenticate and deliver initially one or more Global Securities that (a) shall be registered in the name of the Depository for such Global Security or Global Securities or the nominee of such Depository and (b) shall be delivered by the Trustee to such Depository or pursuant to such Depository’s instructions or held by the Trustee as Securities Custodian.

 

Members of, or participants in, the Depository (“Agent Members”) shall have no rights under this Indenture with respect to any Global Security held on their behalf by the

 

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Depository or by the Trustee as Securities Custodian or under such Global Security, and the Depository 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 herein shall prevent the Company, the Trustee or any agent of the Company or the Trustee from giving effect to any written certification, proxy or other authorization furnished by the Depository or impair, as between the Depository and its Agent Members, the operation of customary practices of such Depository governing the exercise of the rights of a holder of a beneficial interest in any Global Security.

 

(c)  Definitive Securities.  Except as provided in Section 2.3 or 2.4, owners of beneficial interests in Global Securities will not be entitled to receive physical delivery of Definitive Securities.

 

2.2  Authentication.  The Trustee shall authenticate and deliver:  (1) Original Securities for original issue in an aggregate principal amount of $481,000,000, (2) additional Initial Securities, if and when issued, in an unlimited aggregate principal amount, and (3) the Exchange Securities or Private Exchange Securities for issue only in a Registered Exchange Offer or a Private Exchange, respectively, pursuant to a Registration Agreement, for a like principal amount of Initial Securities or Private Exchange Securities, as applicable, upon a written order of the Company signed by two Officers (at least one of whom shall be the principal executive officer or principal financial officer of the Company) or by an Officer and either an Assistant Treasurer or an Assistant Secretary of the Company.  Such order shall specify the amount of the Securities to be authenticated and the date on which the original issue of Securities is to be authenticated and whether the Securities are to be Initial Securities or Exchange Securities.

 

2.3  Transfer and Exchange.  (a)  Transfer and Exchange of Definitive Securities.  When Definitive Securities are presented to the Registrar or a co-registrar with a request:

 

(x)  to register the transfer of such Definitive Securities; or

 

(y)  to exchange such Definitive Securities for an equal principal amount of Definitive Securities of other authorized denominations,

 

the Registrar or co-registrar shall register the transfer or make the exchange as requested if its reasonable requirements for such transaction are met; provided, however, that the Definitive Securities surrendered for transfer or exchange:

 

(i)  shall be duly endorsed or accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form reasonably satisfactory to the Company and the Registrar or co-registrar, duly executed by the Holder thereof or his attorney duly authorized in writing; and

 

(ii)  if such Definitive Securities bear a restricted securities legend, they are being transferred or exchanged pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act or pursuant to clause (A), (B) or (C) below, and are accompanied by the following additional information and documents, as applicable:

 

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(A)  if such Definitive Securities are being delivered to the Registrar by a Holder for registration in the name of such Holder, without transfer, a certification from such Holder to that effect; or

 

(B)  if such Definitive Securities are being transferred to the Company, a certification to that effect; or

 

(C)  if such Definitive Securities are being transferred pursuant to an exemption from registration in accordance with Rule 144 under the Securities Act or in reliance upon another exemption from the registration requirements of the Securities Act, (i) a certification to that effect (in the form set forth on the reverse of the Initial Security) and (ii) if the Company so requests as provided in the form set forth on the reverse of the Initial Security, an opinion of counsel or other evidence reasonably satisfactory to it as to the compliance with the restrictions set forth in the legend set forth in Section 2.3(c)(i).

 

(b)  Transfer and Exchange of Global Securities.  (i)  The transfer and exchange of Global Securities or beneficial interests therein shall be effected through the Depository, in accordance with this Indenture (including applicable restrictions on transfer set forth herein, if any) and the procedures of the Depository therefor.  A transferor of a beneficial interest in a Global Security shall deliver a written order given in accordance with the Depository’s procedures containing information regarding the participant account of the Depository to be credited with a beneficial interest in the Global Security, and such account shall be credited in accordance with such instructions with a beneficial interest in the Global Security, and the account of the Person making the transfer shall be debited by an amount equal to the beneficial interest in the Global Security being transferred.  In the case of a transfer of a beneficial interest in a Global Security to an IAI, the transferee must furnish a signed letter to the Trustee containing certain representations and agreements in the form of Exhibit C hereto.

 

(ii)  If the proposed transfer is a transfer of a beneficial interest in one Global Security to a beneficial interest in another Global Security, the Registrar shall reflect on its books and records the date and an increase in the principal amount of the Global Security to which such interest is being transferred in an amount equal to the principal amount of the interest to be so transferred, and the Registrar shall reflect on its books and records the date and a corresponding decrease in the principal amount of the Global Security from which such interest is being transferred.

 

(iii)  Notwithstanding any other provisions of this Appendix A (other than the provisions set forth in Section 2.4), a Global Security may not be transferred as a whole except by the Depository to a nominee of the Depository or by a nominee of the Depository to the Depository or another nominee of the Depository or by the Depository or any such nominee to a successor Depository or a nominee of such successor Depository.

 

(iv)  In the event that a Global Security is exchanged for Definitive Securities pursuant to Section 2.4 prior to the consummation of a Registered Exchange Offer or

 

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the effectiveness of a Shelf Registration Statement with respect to such Securities, such Securities may be exchanged only in accordance with such procedures as are substantially consistent with the provisions of this Section 2.3 (including the certification requirements set forth on the reverse of the Initial Securities intended to ensure that such transfers comply with Rule 144A, Regulation S or such other applicable exemption from registration under the Securities Act, as the case may be) and such other procedures as may from time to time be adopted by the Company.

 

(c)  Legend.

 

(i)  Except as permitted by the following paragraphs (ii), (iii) and (iv), each certificate evidencing the Global Securities and the Definitive Securities (and all Securities issued in exchange therefor or in substitution thereof) shall bear a legend in substantially the following form:

 

“THIS SECURITY HAS NOT BEEN REGISTERED UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED (THE “SECURITIES ACT”). THE HOLDER HEREOF, BY PURCHASING THIS SECURITY, AGREES FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE COMPANY THAT THIS SECURITY MAY NOT BE RESOLD, PLEDGED OR OTHERWISE TRANSFERRED (X) PRIOR TO ONE YEAR AFTER THE ISSUANCE HEREOF (OR ANY PREDECESSOR SECURITY HERETO) OR (Y) BY ANY HOLDER THAT WAS AN “AFFILIATE” (WITHIN THE MEANING OF RULE 144 OF THE SECURITIES ACT) OF THE COMPANY AT ANY TIME DURING THE THREE MONTHS PRECEDING THE DATE OF SUCH TRANSFER, IN EITHER CASE OTHER THAN (1) TO THE COMPANY, (2) SO LONG AS THIS SECURITY IS ELIGIBLE FOR RESALE PURSUANT TO RULE 144A UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT (“RULE 144A”), TO A PERSON WHOM THE SELLER REASONABLY BELIEVES IS A QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER WITHIN THE MEANING OF RULE 144A, PURCHASING FOR ITS OWN ACCOUNT OR FOR THE ACCOUNT OF A QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER TO WHOM NOTICE IS GIVEN THAT THE RESALE, PLEDGE OR OTHER TRANSFER IS BEING MADE IN RELIANCE ON RULE 144A (AS INDICATED BY THE BOX CHECKED BY THE TRANSFEROR ON THE CERTIFICATE OF TRANSFER ON THE REVERSE OF THIS SECURITY), (3) IN AN OFFSHORE TRANSACTION (AS DEFINED UNDER REGULATION S UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT) IN ACCORDANCE WITH REGULATION S UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT (AS INDICATED BY THE BOX CHECKED BY THE TRANSFEROR ON THE CERTIFICATE OF TRANSFER ON THE REVERSE OF THIS SECURITY), (4) TO AN INSTITUTION THAT IS AN “ACCREDITED INVESTOR” AS DEFINED IN RULE 501(a)(1), (2), (3) OR (7) UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT (AS INDICATED BY THE BOX CHECKED BY THE TRANSFEROR ON THE CERTIFICATE OF TRANSFER ON THE REVERSE OF THIS SECURITY) THAT IS ACQUIRING THIS SECURITY FOR INVESTMENT PURPOSES AND NOT FOR DISTRIBUTION, AND A CERTIFICATE WHICH MAY BE OBTAINED FROM THE COMPANY OR THE TRUSTEE IS DELIVERED BY THE TRANSFEREE TO THE COMPANY AND TRUSTEE, (5) PURSUANT TO AN 

 

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EXEMPTION FROM REGISTRATION UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT PROVIDED BY RULE 144 (IF APPLICABLE) UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT, OR (6) PURSUANT TO AN EFFECTIVE REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT, IN EACH CASE IN ACCORDANCE WITH ANY APPLICABLE SECURITIES LAWS OF ANY STATE OF THE UNITED STATES.  AN INSTITUTIONAL ACCREDITED INVESTOR HOLDING THIS SECURITY AGREES THAT IT WILL FURNISH TO THE COMPANY AND THE TRUSTEE SUCH CERTIFICATES AND OTHER INFORMATION AS THEY MAY REASONABLY REQUIRE TO CONFIRM THAT TRANSFER BY IT OF THIS SECURITY COMPLIES WITH THE FOREGOING RESTRICTIONS.  THE HOLDER HEREOF, BY PURCHASING THIS SECURITY, REPRESENTS AND AGREES FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE COMPANY THAT IT IS (1) A QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER WITHIN THE MEANING OF RULE 144A OR (2) PURCHASING FROM A PERSON NOT PARTICIPATING IN THE INITIAL DISTRIBUTION OF THIS SECURITY (OR ANY PREDECESSOR SECURITY), THAT IT IS AN INSTITUTION THAT IS AN “ACCREDITED INVESTOR” AS DEFINED IN RULE 501(a)(1), (2), (3) OR (7) UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT AND THAT IT IS HOLDING THIS SECURITY FOR INVESTMENT PURPOSES AND NOT FOR DISTRIBUTION OR (3) A NON-U.S. PERSON OUTSIDE THE UNITED STATES WITHIN THE MEANING OF (OR AN ACCOUNT SATISFYING THE REQUIREMENTS OF PARAGRAPH (k)(2)(i) OF RULE 902 UNDER) REGULATION S UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT.”

 

Each Definitive Security will also bear the following additional legend:

 

“IN CONNECTION WITH ANY TRANSFER, THE HOLDER WILL DELIVER TO THE REGISTRAR AND TRANSFER AGENT SUCH CERTIFICATES AND OTHER INFORMATION AS SUCH TRANSFER AGENT MAY REASONABLY REQUIRE TO CONFIRM THAT THE TRANSFER COMPLIES WITH THE FOREGOING RESTRICTIONS.”

 

(ii)  Upon any sale or transfer of a Transfer Restricted Security (including any Transfer Restricted Security represented by a Global Security) pursuant to Rule 144 under the Securities Act:

 

(A)  in the case of any Transfer Restricted Security that is a Definitive Security, the Registrar shall permit the Holder thereof to exchange such Transfer Restricted Security for a Security that does not bear the legends set forth above and rescind any restriction on the transfer of such Transfer Restricted Security; and

 

(B)  in the case of any Transfer Restricted Security that is represented by a Global Security, the Registrar shall permit the Holder thereof to exchange such Transfer Restricted Security for a Security that does not bear the legends set forth above and rescind any restriction on the transfer of such Transfer Restricted Security,

 

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in either case, if the Holder certifies in writing to the Registrar that its request for such exchange was made in reliance on Rule 144 (such certification to be in the form set forth on the reverse of the Initial Security).

 

(iii)  After a transfer of any Initial Securities or Private Exchange Securities, as the case may be, during the period of the effectiveness of a Shelf Registration Statement with respect to such Initial Securities or Private Exchange Securities, all requirements pertaining to restricted securities legends on such Initial Security or such Private Exchange Security will cease to apply, and an Initial Security or Private Exchange Security, as the case may be, in global form without restricted security legends will be available to the transferee of the beneficial interests of such Initial Securities or Private Exchange Securities.  Upon the occurrence of any of the circumstances described in this paragraph, the Company will deliver an Officers’ Certificate to the Trustee instructing the Trustee to issue Securities without restricted security legends.

 

(iv)  Upon the consummation of a Registered Exchange Offer with respect to the Initial Securities pursuant to which certain Holders of such Initial Securities are offered Exchange Securities in exchange for their Initial Securities, Exchange Securities in global form without the restricted security legends will be available to Holders or beneficial owners that exchange such Initial Securities (or beneficial interests therein) in such Registered Exchange Offer.  Upon the occurrence of any of the circumstances described in this paragraph, the Company will deliver an Officers’ Certificate to the Trustee instructing the Trustee to issue Securities without restricted security legends.

 

(d)  Cancellation or Adjustment of Global Security.  At such time as all beneficial interests in a Global Security have either been exchanged for Definitive Securities, redeemed, repurchased or canceled, such Global Security shall be returned by the Depository to the Trustee for cancellation or retained and canceled by the Trustee.  At any time prior to such cancellation, if any beneficial interest in a Global Security is exchanged for Definitive Securities, redeemed, repurchased or canceled, the principal amount of Securities represented by such Global Security shall be reduced, and an adjustment shall be made on the books and records of the Trustee (if it is then the Securities Custodian for such Global Security) with respect to such Global Security, by the Trustee or the Securities Custodian, to reflect such reduction.

 

(e)  Obligations with Respect to Transfers and Exchanges of Securities.

 

(i)  To permit registrations of transfers and exchanges, the Company shall execute and the Trustee shall authenticate Definitive Securities and Global Securities at the Registrar’s or co-registrar’s request.

 

(ii) No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange, but the Company or the Trustee may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any transfer tax, assessments, or similar governmental charge payable in connection therewith (other than any such transfer taxes, assessments or similar

 

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governmental charge payable upon exchange or transfer pursuant to Sections 3.06, 4.06, 4.13 and 9.05 of this Indenture).

 

(iii)  The Registrar or co-registrar shall not be required to register the transfer of or exchange of any Security for a period beginning 15 days before the mailing of a notice of redemption or an offer to repurchase Securities or 15 days before an interest payment date.

 

(iv)  Prior to the due presentation for registration of transfer of any Security, the Company, the Trustee, the Paying Agent, the Registrar or any co-registrar may deem and treat the person in whose name a Security is registered as the absolute owner of such Security for the purpose of receiving payment of principal of and interest on such Security and for all other purposes whatsoever, whether or not such Security is overdue, and none of the Company, the Trustee, the Paying Agent, the Registrar or any co-registrar shall be affected by notice to the contrary.

 

(v)  All Securities issued upon any transfer or exchange pursuant to the terms of this Indenture shall evidence the same debt and shall be entitled to the same benefits under this Indenture as the Securities surrendered upon such transfer or exchange.

 

(f)  No Obligation of the Trustee.

 

(i)  The Trustee shall have no responsibility or obligation to any beneficial owner of a Global Security, a member of, or a participant in the Depository or any other Person with respect to the accuracy of the records of the Depository or its nominee or of any participant or member thereof, with respect to any ownership interest in the Securities or with respect to the delivery to any participant, member, beneficial owner or other Person (other than the Depository) of any notice (including any notice of redemption or repurchase) or the payment of any amount, under or with respect to such Securities.  All notices and communications to be given to the Holders and all payments to be made to Holders under the Securities shall be given or made only to the registered Holders (which shall be the Depository or its nominee in the case of a Global Security).  The rights of beneficial owners in any Global Security shall be exercised only through the Depository subject to the applicable rules and procedures of the Depository.  The Trustee may rely and shall be fully protected in relying upon information furnished by the Depository with respect to its members, participants and any beneficial owners.

 

(ii)  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 Depository participants, members or beneficial owners 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

 

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the same to determine substantial compliance as to form with the express requirements hereof.

 

2.4  Definitive Securities

 

(a)           A Global Security deposited with the Depository or with the Trustee as Securities Custodian pursuant to Section 2.1 shall be transferred to the beneficial owners thereof in the form of Definitive Securities in an aggregate principal amount equal to all or part of the principal amount of such Global Security, in exchange for such Global Security, only if such transfer complies with Section 2.3 and (i) the Depository notifies the Company that it is unwilling or unable to continue as a Depository for such Global Security or if at any time the Depository ceases to be a “clearing agency” registered under the Exchange Act, and a successor Depository is not appointed by the Company within 90 days of such notice, or (ii) a Default or an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing or (iii) the Company, in its sole discretion, notifies the Trustee in writing that it elects to cause the issuance of Definitive Securities under this Indenture.

 

(b)  Any Global Security that is transferable to the beneficial owners thereof pursuant to this Section 2.4 shall be surrendered by the Depository to the Trustee, to be so transferred, in whole or from time to time in part, without charge, and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, upon such transfer of each portion of such Global Security, an equal aggregate principal amount of Definitive Securities of authorized denominations.  Definitive Securities issued in exchange for any portion of a Global Security transferred pursuant to this Section shall be executed, authenticated and delivered only in denominations of $2,000 and any integral multiple of $1,000 in excess thereof and registered in such names as the Depository shall direct.  Any Definitive Security delivered in exchange for an interest in the Global Security shall, except as otherwise provided by Section 2.3(c), bear the restricted securities legend set forth in Exhibit 1 hereto.

 

(c)  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 that a Holder is entitled to take under this Indenture or the Securities.

 

(d)  In the event of the occurrence of any of the events specified in Section 2.4(a)(i), (ii) or (iii), the Company will promptly make available to the Trustee a reasonable supply of Definitive Securities in definitive, fully registered form without interest coupons.

 

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EXHIBIT 1

To APPENDIX A

 

[FORM OF FACE OF INITIAL SECURITY]

 

[Global Securities Legend]

 

UNLESS THIS CERTIFICATE IS PRESENTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF THE DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY, A NEW YORK CORPORATION (“DTC”), NEW YORK, NEW YORK, TO THE COMPANY OR ITS AGENT FOR REGISTRATION OF TRANSFER, EXCHANGE OR PAYMENT, AND ANY CERTIFICATE ISSUED IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF CEDE & CO. OR SUCH OTHER NAME AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC (AND ANY PAYMENT IS MADE TO CEDE & CO., OR TO SUCH OTHER ENTITY AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC), ANY TRANSFER, PLEDGE OR OTHER USE HEREOF FOR VALUE OR OTHERWISE BY OR TO ANY PERSON IS WRONGFUL INASMUCH AS THE REGISTERED OWNER HEREOF, CEDE & CO., HAS AN INTEREST HEREIN.

 

TRANSFERS OF THIS GLOBAL SECURITY SHALL BE LIMITED TO TRANSFERS IN WHOLE, BUT NOT IN PART, TO NOMINEES OF DTC 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 THE INDENTURE REFERRED TO ON THE REVERSE HEREOF.

 

[Restricted Securities Legend]

 

THIS SECURITY HAS NOT BEEN REGISTERED UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED (THE “SECURITIES ACT”). THE HOLDER HEREOF, BY PURCHASING THIS SECURITY, AGREES FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE COMPANY THAT THIS SECURITY MAY NOT BE RESOLD, PLEDGED OR OTHERWISE TRANSFERRED (X) PRIOR TO ONE YEAR AFTER THE ISSUANCE HEREOF (OR ANY PREDECESSOR SECURITY HERETO) OR (Y) BY ANY HOLDER THAT WAS AN “AFFILIATE” (WITHIN THE MEANING OF RULE 144 OF THE SECURITIES ACT) OF THE COMPANY AT ANY TIME DURING THE THREE MONTHS PRECEDING THE DATE OF SUCH TRANSFER, IN EITHER CASE OTHER THAN (1) TO THE COMPANY, (2) SO LONG AS THIS SECURITY IS ELIGIBLE FOR RESALE PURSUANT TO RULE 144A UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT (“RULE 144A”), TO A PERSON WHOM THE SELLER REASONABLY BELIEVES IS A QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER WITHIN THE MEANING OF RULE 144A, PURCHASING FOR ITS OWN ACCOUNT OR FOR THE ACCOUNT OF A QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER TO WHOM NOTICE IS GIVEN THAT THE RESALE, PLEDGE OR OTHER TRANSFER IS BEING MADE IN RELIANCE ON RULE 144A (AS INDICATED BY THE BOX CHECKED BY THE TRANSFEROR ON THE CERTIFICATE OF TRANSFER ON THE REVERSE OF THIS SECURITY), (3) IN AN OFFSHORE TRANSACTION (AS DEFINED UNDER REGULATION S UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT) IN ACCORDANCE WITH REGULATION S UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT (AS INDICATED BY THE BOX CHECKED BY THE TRANSFEROR ON THE CERTIFICATE OF TRANSFER ON THE REVERSE OF THIS SECURITY), (4)

 

 

TO AN INSTITUTION THAT IS AN “ACCREDITED INVESTOR” AS DEFINED IN RULE 501(a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“ACCREDITED INVESTOR” AS DEFINED IN RULE 501(a)(1), (2), (3) OR (7) UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT AND THAT IT IS HOLDING THIS SECURITY FOR INVESTMENT PURPOSES AND NOT FOR DISTRIBUTION OR (3) A NON-U.S. PERSON OUTSIDE THE UNITED STATES WITHIN THE MEANING OF (OR AN ACCOUNT SATISFYING THE REQUIREMENTS OF PARAGRAPH (k)(2)(i) OF RULE 902 UNDER) REGULATION S UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT.

 

[Definitive Securities Legend]

 

IN CONNECTION WITH ANY TRANSFER, THE HOLDER WILL DELIVER TO THE REGISTRAR AND TRANSFER AGENT SUCH CERTIFICATES AND OTHER INFORMATION AS SUCH TRANSFER AGENT MAY REASONABLY REQUIRE TO CONFIRM THAT THE TRANSFER COMPLIES WITH THE FOREGOING RESTRICTIONS.

 

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[FORM OF FACE OF INITIAL SECURITY]

 

	
No.:               
    	
[up to]**$                
    
	
 
    
	
 
    	
9.25%   Senior Note due 2020
    
	
 
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
CUSIP No.767754 CC6(1)/U76659 AS7(2)
    
	
 
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
ISIN No. US767754CC63(3)/USU76659AS70(4)
    
				

 

RITE AID CORPORATION, a Delaware corporation, promises to pay to [Cede & Co.]**, or registered assigns, the principal sum [of [    ] Dollars]* [as set forth on the Schedule of Increases or Decreases annexed hereto]** on March 15, 2020.

 

Interest Payment Dates: March 15 and September 15, commencing on September 15, 2012.

 

Record Dates:  March 1 and September 1.

 

*  Insert for Definitive Securities.

** Insert for Global Securities.  If the Security is to be issued in global form, add the Global Securities Legend from Exhibit 1 to Appendix A and the attachment from such Exhibit 1 captioned “TO BE ATTACHED TO GLOBAL SECURITIES - SCHEDULE OF INCREASES OR DECREASES IN GLOBAL SECURITY”.

 

(1)  Insert for Rule 144A Note

(2)  Insert for Reg. S Note

(3)  Insert for Rule 144A Note

(4)  Insert for Reg. S Note

 

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Additional provisions of this Security are set forth on the other side of this Security.

 

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties have caused this instrument to be duly executed.

 

	
 
    	
RITE   AID CORPORATION,
    
	
 
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
By
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
Name:
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
Title:
    

 

TRUSTEE’S CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION

 

Dated:

 

THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON TRUST COMPANY, N.A.,

 

as Trustee, certifies

that this is one of

the Securities referred

to in the Indenture.

 

	
By:
    	
 
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
Authorized   Signatory
    	
 
    

 

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[FORM OF REVERSE SIDE OF INITIAL SECURITY]

 

9.25% Senior Note due 2020

 

1.  Interest

 

(a) RITE AID CORPORATION, a Delaware corporation (such corporation, and its successors and assigns under the Indenture hereinafter referred to, being herein called the “Company”), promises to pay interest on the principal amount of this Security at the rate per annum shown above.  The Company will pay interest semiannually on March 15 and September 15 of each year, commencing September 15, 2012.  Interest on the Securities will accrue from the most recent date to which interest has been paid or, if no interest has been paid, from                         , 20      .  Interest shall be computed on the basis of a 360-day year of twelve 30-day months.  The Company shall pay interest on overdue principal at the rate per annum borne by the Securities plus 1% per annum, and it shall pay interest on overdue installments of interest at the rate per annum borne by the Securities to the extent lawful.

 

(b) Special Interest.  The holder of this Security is entitled to the benefits of a Exchange and Registration Rights Agreement, dated as of February 27, 2012, among the Company, the Subsidiary Guarantors named therein and the Initial Purchasers named therein (the “Registration Agreement”).  Capitalized terms used in this paragraph (b) but not defined herein have the meanings assigned to them in the Registration Agreement.  In the event that (i) neither the Exchange Offer Registration Statement nor the Shelf Registration Statement, as the case may be, is filed with the Commission on or prior to the date which is 150 days following the date of the original issuance of the Securities, (ii) the Exchange Offer Registration Statement or the Shelf Registration Statement, as the case may be, is not declared effective within 210 days after the original issuance of the Securities, (iii) if the Exchange Offer Registration Statement is declared effective, the Registered Exchange Offer is not consummated on or prior to 270 days after the date of the original issuance of Securities, (iv) if the Company and the Subsidiary Guarantors are required to file the Shelf Registration Statement, or designate an existing Automatic Shelf Registration Statement for the offer and sale of Restricted Securities in accordance with Section 2 of the Registration Agreement, the Company or any Subsidiary Guarantor does not so file the Shelf Registration Statement on or prior to the 30th day after the Company’s obligation to file such Shelf Registration Statement arises, (v) the applicable Registration Statement is filed and declared effective but shall thereafter cease to be effective (at any time that the Company is obligated to maintain the effectiveness thereof) without being again effective within 30 days or being succeeded within 30 days by an additional Registration Statement filed and declared effective, provided that such 30-day period shall toll during a Suspension Period or during any Shelf Suspension Period, or (vi) any Suspension Periods exceed, in the aggregate, 75 days during any 365-day period (each such event referred to in clauses (i) through (vi), a “Registration Default”), the Company shall be obligated to pay Additional Interest from and including the date on which the first such Registration Default shall occur to but excluding the date on which all Registration Defaults have been cured, at a rate of 0.25% per annum on the applicable principal amount of Securities held by such Holder for the first 90-day period immediately following the occurrence of a Registration Default, and such rate will increase by an additional 0.25% with respect to each subsequent 90-day period until all Registration

 

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Defaults have been cured, provided that the maximum additional rate may in no event exceed 0.50% per annum.

 

2.  Method of Payment

 

The Company will pay interest on the Securities (except defaulted interest) to the Persons who are registered Holders at the close of business on the March 1 or September 1 next preceding the interest payment date even if Securities are canceled after the record date and on or before the interest payment date.  Holders must surrender Securities to a Paying Agent to collect principal payments.  The Company will pay principal and interest in money of the United States of America that at the time of payment is legal tender for payment of public and private debts.  Payments in respect of the Securities represented by a Global Security (including principal and interest) will be made by wire transfer of immediately available funds to the accounts specified by the Depository.  The Company will make all payments in respect of a Definitive Security (including principal and interest), by mailing a check to the registered address of each Holder thereof; provided, however, that payments on the Securities may also be made, in the case of a Holder of at least $1,000,000 aggregate principal amount of Securities, by wire transfer to a U.S. dollar account maintained by the payee with a bank in the United States if such Holder elects payment by wire transfer by giving written notice to the Trustee or the Paying Agent to such effect designating such account no later than 30 days immediately preceding the relevant due date for payment (or such other date as the Trustee may accept in its discretion).

 

3.  Paying Agent and Registrar

 

Initially, The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company, N.A., a banking association organized and existing under the laws of the United States of America (the “Trustee”), will act as Paying Agent and Registrar.  The Company may appoint and change any Paying Agent, Registrar or co-registrar without notice.  The Company or any of its domestically incorporated Wholly Owned Subsidiaries may act as Paying Agent, Registrar or co-registrar.

 

4.  Indenture

 

The Company issued the Securities under an Indenture dated as of February 27, 2012 (the “Indenture”), among the Company, the Subsidiary Guarantors named therein and the Trustee.  The terms of the Securities include those stated in the Indenture and those made part of the Indenture by reference to the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 (15 U.S.C. §§ 77aaa-77bbbb) as in effect on the date of the Indenture (the “TIA”).  Terms defined in the Indenture and not defined in the Securities have the meanings ascribed thereto in the Indenture.  The Securities are subject to all such terms, and Holders are referred to the Indenture and the TIA for a statement of those terms.

 

The Securities are unsecured, unsubordinated obligations of the Company.  The Company’s obligations under the Securities are Guaranteed, subject to certain limitations, by the Subsidiary Guarantors pursuant to Subsidiary Guarantees, subject to release of the Subsidiary Guarantees as provided in the Indenture or such Subsidiary

 

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Guarantee.  This Security is one of the Original Securities referred to in the Indenture issued in an aggregate principal amount of $481,000,000.  The Securities include the Original Securities, an unlimited aggregate principal amount of additional Initial Securities that may be issued under the Indenture, and any Exchange Securities issued in exchange for Initial Securities.  The Original Securities, such additional Initial Securities and the Exchange Securities are treated as a single class of securities under the Indenture.  The Indenture imposes certain limitations on the ability of the Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries to, among other things, make certain Investments and other Restricted Payments, pay dividends and other distributions, incur Debt, enter into consensual restrictions upon the payment of certain dividends and distributions by such Restricted Subsidiaries, enter into or permit certain transactions with Affiliates, create or incur Liens and make Asset Sales.  The Indenture also imposes limitations on the ability of the Company and each Subsidiary Guarantor to consolidate or merge with or into any other Person or sell, transfer, assign, lease, convey or otherwise dispose of all or substantially all of the Property of the Company or such Subsidiary Guarantor.

 

5.  Optional Redemption

 

The Company may choose to redeem the Securities at any time.  If it does so, it may redeem all or any portion of the Securities, at once or over time, after giving the required notice under the Indenture.

 

To redeem the Securities prior to March 15, 2016, the Company must pay a redemption price equal to 100% of the principal amount of the Securities to be redeemed plus the Applicable Premium as of, and accrued and unpaid interest, if any, to but not including, the Redemption Date (subject to the right of Holders of record on the relevant record date to receive interest due on the relevant Interest Payment Date that is on or prior to the Redemption Date).  Any notice to Holders of such a redemption shall include the appropriate calculation of the Redemption Price, but need not include the Redemption Price itself.  The actual redemption price must be set forth in an Officers’ Certificate delivered to the Trustee no later than two Business Days prior to the Redemption Date.

 

“Applicable Premium” means, with respect to any Security on any Redemption Date, the greater of (i) 1.0% of the principal amount of such Security and (ii) the excess of (A) the present value at such Redemption Date of (1) the Redemption Price of such Security at March 15, 2016 (such Redemption Price being set forth in the table below) plus (2) all required interest payments due on such Security through March 15, 2016 (excluding accrued but unpaid interest), computed using a discount rate equal to the Treasury Rate on such Redemption Date plus 75 basis points over (B) the principal amount of such Security.

 

“Treasury Rate” means, as of any Redemption Date, the yield to maturity as of such Redemption Date of United States Treasury securities with a constant maturity (as compiled and published in the most recent Federal Reserve Statistical Release H.15 (519) that has become publicly available at least two Business Days prior to the Redemption Date (or, if such statistical release is no longer published, any publicly available source of similar market data)) most nearly equal to the period from the Redemption Date to March 15, 2016; provided, however, that if the period from the Redemption Date to March 15, 2016 is less

 

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than one year, the weekly average yield on actually traded United States Treasury securities adjusted to a constant maturity of one year shall be used.

 

Beginning on March 15, 2016, the Company may redeem the Securities in whole at any time or in part from time to time at the following Redemption Prices (expressed in percentages of principal amount), plus accrued and unpaid interest, if any, to but not including, the Redemption Date (subject to the right of Holders of record on the relevant record date to receive interest due on the relevant Interest Payment Date that is on or prior to the Redemption Date), if redeemed during the 12-month period beginning on March 15 of the years set forth below:

 

	
Redemption Period
    	
 
    	
Price
    	
 
    
	
2016 
    	
 
    	
104.625
    	
%
    
	
2017 
    	
 
    	
102.313
    	
%
    
	
2018 and thereafter 
    	
 
    	
100.000
    	
%
    

 

Notwithstanding the foregoing, at any time and from time to time prior to March 15, 2015, the Company may redeem up to 35% of the original aggregate principal amount of the Securities (including Securities issued after February 27, 2012, if any) with the proceeds from one or more Equity Offerings by the Company, at a Redemption Price equal to 109.25% of the principal amount thereof, plus accrued and unpaid interest thereon, if any, to but not including, the Redemption Date (subject to the right of Holders of record on the relevant record date to receive interest due on the relevant Interest Payment Date that is on or prior to the Redemption Date); provided, however, that after giving effect to any such redemption, at least 65% of the original aggregate principal amount of the Securities (including Securities issued after February 27, 2012, if any) remains outstanding.  Any such redemption shall be made within 75 days of such Equity Offering upon not less than 30 nor more than 60 days’ prior notice.

 

Notwithstanding the foregoing, if prior to the first anniversary of the Issue Date, either:

 

(1)           a Change of Control occurs, or

 

(2)           the Company enters into a binding agreement with respect to a transaction that would constitute a Change of Control and such Change of Control is consummated within 180 days after the first anniversary of the Issue Date:

 

the Company may, at its option, redeem all, but not less than all, of the Securities at a redemption price equal to 110.0% of the principal amount of the Securities redeemed, plus accrued and unpaid interest, if any, to, but not including, the redemption date (subject to the rights of holders of record on relevant record dates to receive interest due on the relevant interest payment date).  If the Company elects to exercise this redemption right, it must send the redemption notice within 30 days following the consummation of the Change of Control (or, at the Company’s option, prior to consummation of such Change of Control but after the transaction giving rise to such Change of Control is publicly announced), but in any such case no later than the first anniversary of the Issue Date.  Any

 

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such redemption may be conditioned upon the consummation of the Change of Control if the notice is mailed prior to the consummation of the Change of Control.  If the Company exercises the Change of Control redemption right described in this paragraph, and redeems all of the Notes on the applicable redemption date in accordance with the Indenture, the Company shall not be required to make the Change of Control Offer pursuant to Section 4.13 of the Indenture. In the case of a redemption notice issued following a Change of Control, the redemption shall occur upon not less than 30 nor more than 60 days’ prior notice, and in the case of a redemption notice issued prior to consummation of a Change of Control, the redemption shall occur upon not less than 30 days’ prior notice and no later than 180 days following the first anniversary of the Issue Date.

 

If an optional Redemption Date is on or after a record date and on or before the relevant Interest Payment Date, the accrued and unpaid interest, if any, will be paid to the person or entity in whose name the Security is registered at the close of business on that record date, and no additional interest will be payable to Holders whose Securities shall be subject to repurchase.

 

6.  Sinking Fund

 

The Securities are not subject to any sinking fund.

 

7.  Notice of Redemption

 

Except as otherwise set forth in Section 5 above with respect to a Change of Control, notice of redemption will be mailed by first-class mail at least 30 days but not more than 60 days before the redemption date to each Holder of Securities to be redeemed at his or her registered address.  Securities in denominations larger than $2,000 may be redeemed in part but only in whole multiples of $1,000.  If money sufficient to pay the redemption price of and accrued interest on all Securities (or portions thereof) to be redeemed on the redemption date is deposited with the Paying Agent on or before the redemption date and certain other conditions are satisfied, on and after such date interest ceases to accrue on such Securities (or such portions thereof) called for redemption.

 

8. (a)                    Repurchase of Securities at the Option of Holders upon Change of Control

 

Upon a Change of Control, any Holder will have the right, subject to certain conditions specified in the Indenture, to cause the Company to repurchase all or any part of the Securities of such Holder at a purchase price equal to 101% of the principal amount of the Securities to be repurchased plus accrued and unpaid interest, if any, to the date of purchase (subject to the right of Holders of record on the relevant record date to receive interest due on the relevant interest payment date that is on or prior to the date of purchase) as provided in, and subject to the terms of, the Indenture.

 

8. (b)       Prepayment Offer Upon Asset Sale

 

When the aggregate amount of Excess Proceeds exceeds $50.0 million (taking into account income earned on such Excess Proceeds, if any), the Company will be required to make an offer to purchase (the “Asset Sales Prepayment Offer”) the Securities, which

 

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offer shall be in the amount of the Allocable Excess Proceeds, on a pro rata basis according to principal amount at maturity, at a purchase price equal to 100% of the principal amount thereof, plus accrued and unpaid interest, if any, to the purchase date (subject to the right of Holders of record on the relevant record date to receive interest due on the relevant Interest Payment Date), in accordance with the procedures (including prorating in the event of oversubscription) set forth in the Indenture.  To the extent that any portion of the amount of Net Available Cash remains after compliance with the preceding sentence and provided that all Holders have been given the opportunity to tender their Securities for purchase in accordance with the Indenture, the Company or such Restricted Subsidiary may use such remaining amount for any purpose permitted by the Indenture and the amount of Excess Proceeds will be reset to zero.

 

9.  Guarantees; Security

 

The Indenture provides that, under certain circumstances, the Securities will be guaranteed pursuant to Subsidiary Guarantees.  Subsidiary Guarantees may be released in various circumstances, including in certain circumstances without the consent of Holders.

 

The Indenture provides that, under certain circumstances, the Securities or Subsidiary Guarantees must be secured by Liens on certain Property of the Company or Subsidiary Guarantors.  Liens securing the Securities or Subsidiary Guarantees may be released in various circumstances, including in certain circumstances without the consent of Holders.

 

10.  Denominations; Transfer; Exchange

 

The Securities are in registered form without coupons in denominations of $2,000 and whole multiples in excess thereof of $1,000.  A Holder may transfer or exchange Securities in accordance with the Indenture.  Upon any transfer or exchange, the Registrar and the Trustee may require a Holder, among other things, to furnish appropriate endorsements or transfer documents and to pay any taxes required by law or permitted by the Indenture.  The Registrar need not register the transfer of or exchange any Securities selected for redemption (except, in the case of a Security to be redeemed in part, the portion of the Security not to be redeemed) or to transfer or exchange any Securities for a period of 15 days prior to a selection of Securities to be redeemed or 15 days before an interest payment date.

 

11.  Persons Deemed Owners

 

The registered Holder of this Security may be treated as the owner of it for all purposes.

 

12.  Unclaimed Money

 

If money for the payment of principal or interest remains unclaimed for two years, the Trustee or Paying Agent shall pay the money back to the Company at its written request unless an abandoned property law designates another Person.  After any such payment, Holders entitled to the money must look only to the Company and not to the Trustee for payment.

 

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13.  Discharge and Defeasance

 

Subject to certain conditions, the Company at any time may terminate some of or all its obligations under the Securities and the Indenture if the Company deposits with the Trustee money or U.S. Government Obligations for the payment of principal and interest on the Securities to redemption or maturity, as the case may be.

 

14.  Amendment, Waiver, Deemed Consents, Releases

 

Subject to certain exceptions set forth in the Indenture, (i) the Indenture or the Securities may be amended without prior notice to any Holder but with the written consent of the Holders of at least a majority in aggregate principal amount of the outstanding Securities and (ii) any default or noncompliance with any provision may be waived with the written consent of the Holders of at least a majority in principal amount of the outstanding Securities.  Subject to certain exceptions set forth in the Indenture, without the consent of any Holders, the Company, when authorized by a Board Resolution, the Subsidiary Guarantors and the Trustee may amend the Indenture or the Securities to: (i) cure any ambiguity, omission, defect or inconsistency; (ii) provide for the assumption by a successor corporation of the obligations of the Company or any Subsidiary Guarantor under the Indenture; (iii) provide for uncertificated Securities in addition to or in place of certificated Securities; provided, however, that the uncertificated Securities are issued in registered form for purposes of Section 163(f) of the Code, or in a manner such that the uncertificated Securities are described in Section 163(f)(2)(B) of the Code; (iv) add additional Guarantees with respect to the Securities or release Subsidiary Guarantors from Subsidiary Guarantees as provided by the terms of the Indenture or the Subsidiary Guarantees; (v) secure the Securities, add to the covenants of the Company or the Subsidiary Guarantors for the benefit of the Holders or surrender any right or power conferred upon the Company under the Indenture; (vi) in the case of the Indenture, make any change that does not adversely affect the rights of any Holder; (vii) make any change to comply with any requirements of the Commission in connection with the qualification of the Indenture under the Trust Indenture Act; (viii) evidence and provide for the acceptance and appointment under the Indenture of a successor Trustee; (ix) conform the text of the Indenture, the Subsidiary Guarantees or the Securities to any provision under the caption “Description of Notes” in the Offering Memorandum to the extent that such provision in the Indenture, the Subsidiary Guarantees or the Securities was intended to be a substantially verbatim recitation of a provision under the caption “Description of Notes” in the Offering Memorandum, as evidenced by an Officers’ Certificate delivered by the Company to the Trustee; (x) comply with the rules of any applicable securities depositary; provided, however, that such amendment does not materially and adversely affect the rights of holders to transfer the Securities; or (xi) make any amendment to the provisions of the Indenture relating to the transfer and legending or de-legending of the Securities; provided, however, that (a) compliance with the Indenture as so amended would not result in the Securities being transferred in violation of the Securities Act or any applicable securities law and (b) such amendment does not materially and adversely affect the rights of holders to transfer the Securities.

 

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The consent of the Holders is not necessary to approve the particular form of any proposed amendment.  It shall be sufficient if such consent approves the substance of the proposed amendment.

 

15.  Defaults and Remedies

 

If an Event of Default occurs and is continuing, the Trustee or the Holders of at least 25% in aggregate principal amount of the Securities then outstanding, subject to certain limitations, may declare all the Securities to be immediately due and payable.  Certain events of bankruptcy or insolvency are Events of Default and shall result in the Securities being immediately due and payable upon the occurrence of such Events of Default without any further act of the Trustee or any Holder.

 

Holders of Securities may not enforce the Indenture or the Securities except as provided in the Indenture.  The Trustee may refuse to enforce the Indenture or the Securities unless it receives reasonable indemnity or security.  Subject to certain limitations, Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Securities then outstanding may direct the Trustee in its exercise of any trust or power under the Indenture.  The Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Securities then outstanding, by written notice to the Company and the Trustee, may rescind any declaration of acceleration and its consequences if the rescission would not conflict with any judgment or decree, and if all existing Events of Default have been cured or waived except nonpayment of principal, premium or interest that has become due solely because of the acceleration.

 

16.  Trustee Dealings with the Company

 

Subject to certain limitations imposed by the TIA, the Trustee under the Indenture, in its individual or any other capacity, may become the owner or pledgee of Securities and may otherwise deal with and collect obligations owed to it by the Company or its Affiliates and may otherwise deal with the Company or its Affiliates with the same rights it would have if it were not Trustee.

 

17.  No Recourse Against Others

 

A director, officer, employee or stockholder, as such, of the Company shall not have any liability for any obligations of the Company under the Securities or the Indenture or for any claim based on, in respect of or by reason of such obligations or their creation.  By accepting a Security, each Securityholder waives and releases all such liability.  The waiver and release are part of the consideration for the issue of the Securities.

 

18.  Successors

 

Subject to certain exceptions set forth in the Indenture, when a successor assumes all the obligations of its predecessor under the Securities and the Indenture in accordance with the terms of the Indenture, the predecessor will be released from those obligations.

 

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19.  Authentication

 

This Security shall not be valid until an authorized signatory of the Trustee (or an authenticating agent) manually signs the certificate of authentication on the other side of this Security.

 

20.  Abbreviations

 

Customary abbreviations may be used in the name of a Securityholder or an assignee, such as TEN COM (=tenants in common), TEN ENT (=tenants by the entireties), JT TEN (=joint tenants with rights of survivorship and not as tenants in common), CUST (=custodian), and U/G/M/A (=Uniform Gift to Minors Act).

 

21.  Governing Law

 

THIS SECURITY SHALL BE GOVERNED BY, AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH, THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK BUT WITHOUT REFERENCE TO APPLICABLE PRINCIPLES OF CONFLICTS OF LAW.

 

22.  CUSIP Numbers

 

Pursuant to a recommendation promulgated by the Committee on Uniform Security Identification Procedures, the Company has caused CUSIP numbers to be printed on the Securities and has directed the Trustee to use CUSIP numbers in notices of redemption as a convenience to Securityholders.  No representation is made as to the accuracy of such numbers either as printed on the Securities or as contained in any notice of redemption and reliance may be placed only on the other identification numbers placed thereon.

 

The Company will furnish to any Holder upon written request and without charge to the Holder a copy of the Indenture which has in it the text of this Security.

 

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ASSIGNMENT FORM

 

To assign this Security, fill in the form below:

 

I or we assign and transfer this Security to

 

(Print or type assignee’s name, address and zip code)

 

(Insert assignee’s soc. sec. or tax I.D. No.)

 

and irrevocably appoint                          as agent to transfer this Security on the books of the Company.  The agent may substitute another to act for him.

 

	
 
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    
	
Date:
    	
                                    
    	
 
    	
Your   Signature:
    	
 
    
	
 
    
	
 
    	
 
    
	
Sign exactly as your name appears on the other   side of this Security.
    	
 
    
						

 

In connection with any transfer of any of the Securities evidenced by this certificate occurring prior to the expiration of the period referred to in Rule 144 under the Securities Act after which the Securities may be transferred without limitation thereunder, the undersigned confirms that such Securities are being transferred in accordance with its terms.

 

CHECK ONE BOX BELOW

 

(1)                                              G                                        to the Company; or

 

(2)                                              G                                        pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act of 1933; or

 

(3)                                              G                                        inside the United States to a “qualified institutional buyer” (as defined in Rule 144A under the Securities Act of 1933) that purchases for its own account or for the account of a qualified institutional buyer to whom notice is given that such transfer is being made in reliance on Rule 144A, in each case pursuant to and in compliance with Rule 144A under the Securities Act of 1933; or

 

(4)                                              G                                        outside the United States in an offshore transaction within the meaning of Regulation S under the Securities Act in compliance with Rule 904 under the Securities Act of 1933; or

 

(5)                                              G                                        to an institutional “accredited investor” (as defined in Rule 501(a)(1), (2), (3) or (7) under the Securities Act of 1933) that has furnished to the Trustee a signed letter containing certain representations and 

 

 

agreements (the form of which letter can be obtained from the Trustee or the Company); or

 

(6)                                              G                                        pursuant to another available exemption from registration provided by Rule 144 under the Securities Act of 1933.

 

Unless one of the boxes is checked, the Trustee will refuse to register any of the Securities evidenced by this certificate in the name of any person other than the registered holder thereof; provided, however, that if box (5) or (6) is checked, the Trustee may require, prior to registering any such transfer of the Securities, such legal opinions, certifications and other information as the Company has reasonably requested 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 of 1933.

 

	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
Your   Signature
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    
	
Signature   Guarantee:
    	
 
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    
	
Date:
    	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    
	
Signature   must be guaranteed by a participant in a recognized signature guaranty medallion   program or other signature guarantor acceptable to the Trustee
    	
 
    	
Signature   of Signature Guarantee
    
				

 

TO BE COMPLETED BY PURCHASER IF (3) 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 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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[TO BE ATTACHED TO GLOBAL SECURITIES]

 

SCHEDULE OF INCREASES OR DECREASES IN GLOBAL SECURITY

 

The initial principal amount of this Global Security is $[        ].  The following increases or decreases in this Global Security have been made:

 

	
Date of
   Exchange
    	
 
    	
Amount of decrease in
   Principal Amount of this
   Global Security
    	
 
    	
Amount of increase in
   Principal Amount of this
   Global Security
    	
 
    	
Principal amount of this
   Global Security following
   such decrease or increase
    	
 
    	
Signature of authorized
   signatory of Trustee or
   Securities Custodian
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    

 

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OPTION OF HOLDER TO ELECT PURCHASE

 

If you want to elect to have this Security purchased by the Company pursuant to Section 4.06 (Asset Sale) or 4.13 (Change of Control) of the Indenture, check the box:

 

o

 

If you want to elect to have only part of this Security purchased by the Company pursuant to Section 4.06 or 4.13 of the Indenture, state the amount:

 

$

 

	
Date:
    	
                                        
    	
 
    	
Your   Signature:
    	
 
    
	
 
    
	
(Sign   exactly as your name appears on the other side of the Security)
    
	
 
    
	
Signature   Guarantee:
    	
 
    	
 
    
							

 

Signature must be guaranteed by a participant in a recognized signature guaranty medallion program or other signature guarantor acceptable to the Trustee.

 

 

[FORM OF FACE OF EXCHANGE SECURITY]

 

	
No.
    	
 
    	
 
    	
[Up to]** $
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    
	
9.25% Senior Note due 2020
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    	
CUSIP   No.
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    	
ISIN   No.
    

 

RITE AID CORPORATION, a Delaware corporation, promises to pay to [Cede & Co.]**, or registered assigns, the principal sum [of [     ] Dollars]* [as set forth on the Schedule of Increases or Decreases annexed hereto]** on March 15, 2020.

 

Interest Payment Dates: March 15 and September 15, commencing on September 15, 2012.

 

Record Dates:  March 1 and September 1.

 

*   Insert for Definitive Securities.

**  Insert for Global Securities.  If the Security is to be issued in global form, add the Global Securities Legend from Exhibit 1 to Appendix A and the attachment from such Exhibit 1 captioned “TO BE ATTACHED TO GLOBAL SECURITIES - SCHEDULE OF INCREASES OR DECREASES IN GLOBAL SECURITY.”

 

 

Additional provisions of this Security are set forth on the other side of this Security.

 

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties have caused this instrument to be duly executed.

 

	
 
    	
RITE   AID CORPORATION,
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
By
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
Name:
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
Title:
    

 

 

	
TRUSTEE’S   CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
 
    
	
Dated:
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
 
    
	
THE   BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON TRUST COMPANY, N.A.,
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
as   Trustee, certifies
   that this is one of
   the Securities referred
   to in the Indenture.
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
 
    
	
By:
    	
 
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
Authorized   Signatory
    	
 
    

 

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[FORM OF REVERSE SIDE OF EXCHANGE SECURITY]

 

9.25% Senior Note due 2020

 

1.  Interest

 

RITE AID CORPORATION, a Delaware corporation (such corporation, and its successors and assigns under the Indenture hereinafter referred to, being herein called the “Company”), promises to pay interest on the principal amount of this Security at the rate per annum shown above.  The Company will pay interest semiannually on March 15 and September 15 of each year, commencing September 15, 2012.  Interest on the Securities will accrue from the most recent date to which interest has been paid or, if no interest has been paid, from                         , 20      .  Interest shall be computed on the basis of a 360-day year of twelve 30-day months.  The Company shall pay interest on overdue principal at the rate per annum borne by the Securities plus 1% per annum, and it shall pay interest on overdue installments of interest at the rate per annum borne by the Securities to the extent lawful.

 

2.  Method of Payment

 

The Company will pay interest on the Securities (except defaulted interest) to the Persons who are registered Holders at the close of business on the March 1 or September 1 next preceding the interest payment date even if Securities are canceled after the record date and on or before the interest payment date.  Holders must surrender Securities to a Paying Agent to collect principal payments.  The Company will pay principal and interest in money of the United States of America that at the time of payment is legal tender for payment of public and private debts.  Payments in respect of the Securities represented by a Global Security (including principal and interest) will be made by wire transfer of immediately available funds to the accounts specified by the Depository.  The Company will make all payments in respect of a Definitive Security (including principal and interest), by mailing a check to the registered address of each Holder thereof; provided, however, that payments on the Securities may also be made, in the case of a Holder of at least $1,000,000 aggregate principal amount of Securities, by wire transfer to a U.S. dollar account maintained by the payee with a bank in the United States if such Holder elects payment by wire transfer by giving written notice to the Trustee or the Paying Agent to such effect designating such account no later than 30 days immediately preceding the relevant due date for payment (or such other date as the Trustee may accept in its discretion).

 

3.  Paying Agent and Registrar

 

Initially, The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company, N.A., a banking association organized and existing under the laws of the United States of America (the “Trustee”), will act as Paying Agent and Registrar.  The Company may appoint and change any Paying Agent, Registrar or co-registrar without notice.  The Company or any of its domestically incorporated Wholly Owned Subsidiaries may act as Paying Agent, Registrar or co-registrar.

 

 

4.  Indenture

 

The Company issued the Securities under an Indenture dated as of February 27, 2012 (the “Indenture”), among the Company, the Subsidiary Guarantors named therein and the Trustee.  The terms of the Securities include those stated in the Indenture and those made part of the Indenture by reference to the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 (15 U.S.C. §§ 77aaa-77bbbb) as in effect on the date of the Indenture (the “TIA”).  Terms defined in the Indenture and not defined in the Securities have the meanings ascribed thereto in the Indenture.  The Securities are subject to all such terms, and Holders are referred to the Indenture and the TIA for a statement of those terms.

 

The Securities are unsecured, unsubordinated obligations of the Company.  The Company’s obligations under the Securities are Guaranteed, subject to certain limitations, by the Subsidiary Guarantors pursuant to Subsidiary Guarantees, subject to release of the Subsidiary Guarantees as provided in the Indenture or such Subsidiary Guarantee.  This Security is one of the Original Securities referred to in the Indenture issued in an aggregate principal amount of $481,000,000.  The Securities include the Original Securities, an unlimited aggregate principal amount of additional Initial Securities that may be issued under the Indenture, and any Exchange Securities issued in exchange for Initial Securities.  The Original Securities, such additional Initial Securities and the Exchange Securities are treated as a single class of securities under the Indenture.  The Indenture imposes certain limitations on the ability of the Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries to, among other things, make certain Investments and other Restricted Payments, pay dividends and other distributions, incur Debt, enter into consensual restrictions upon the payment of certain dividends and distributions by such Restricted Subsidiaries, enter into or permit certain transactions with Affiliates, create or incur Liens and make Asset Sales.  The Indenture also imposes limitations on the ability of the Company and each Subsidiary Guarantor to consolidate or merge with or into any other Person or sell, transfer, assign, lease, convey or otherwise dispose of all or substantially all of the Property of the Company or such Subsidiary Guarantor.

 

5.  Optional Redemption

 

The Company may choose to redeem the Securities at any time.  If it does so, it may redeem all or any portion of the Securities, at once or over time, after giving the required notice under the Indenture.

 

To redeem the Securities prior to March 15, 2016, the Company must pay a redemption price equal to 100% of the principal amount of the Securities to be redeemed plus the Applicable Premium as of, and accrued and unpaid interest, if any, to but not including, the Redemption Date (subject to the right of Holders of record on the relevant record date to receive interest due on the relevant Interest Payment Date that is on or prior to the Redemption Date).  Any notice to Holders of such a redemption shall include the appropriate calculation of the Redemption Price, but need not include the Redemption Price itself.  The actual redemption price must be set forth in an Officers’ Certificate delivered to the Trustee no later than two Business Days prior to the Redemption Date.

 

“Applicable Premium” means, with respect to any Security on any Redemption Date, the greater of (i) 1.0% of the principal amount of such Security and (ii) the

 

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excess of (A) the present value at such Redemption Date of (1) the Redemption Price of such Security at March 15, 2016 (such Redemption Price being set forth in the table below) plus (2) all required interest payments due on such Security through March 15, 2016 (excluding accrued but unpaid interest), computed using a discount rate equal to the Treasury Rate on such Redemption Date plus 75 basis points over (B) the principal amount of such Security.

 

“Treasury Rate” means, as of any Redemption Date, the yield to maturity as of such Redemption Date of United States Treasury securities with a constant maturity (as compiled and published in the most recent Federal Reserve Statistical Release H.15 (519) that has become publicly available at least two Business Days prior to the Redemption Date (or, if such statistical release is no longer published, any publicly available source of similar market data)) most nearly equal to the period from the Redemption Date to March 15, 2016; provided, however, that if the period from the Redemption Date to March 15, 2016 is less than one year, the weekly average yield on actually traded United States Treasury securities adjusted to a constant maturity of one year shall be used.

 

Beginning on March 15, 2016, the Company may redeem the Securities in whole at any time or in part from time to time at the following Redemption Prices (expressed in percentages of principal amount), plus accrued and unpaid interest, if any, to but not including, the Redemption Date (subject to the right of Holders of record on the relevant record date to receive interest due on the relevant Interest Payment Date that is on or prior to the Redemption Date), if redeemed during the 12-month period beginning on March 15 of the years set forth below:

 

	
Redemption Period
    	
 
    	
Price
    	
 
    
	
2016 
    	
 
    	
104.625
    	
%
    
	
2017 
    	
 
    	
102.313
    	
%
    
	
2018 and thereafter 
    	
 
    	
100.000
    	
%
    

 

Notwithstanding the foregoing, at any time and from time to time prior to March 15, 2015, the Company may redeem up to 35% of the original aggregate principal amount of the Securities (including Securities issued after February 27, 2012, if any) with the proceeds from one or more Equity Offerings by the Company, at a Redemption Price equal to 109.25% of the principal amount thereof, plus accrued and unpaid interest thereon, if any, to but not including, the Redemption Date (subject to the right of Holders of record on the relevant record date to receive interest due on the relevant Interest Payment Date that is on or prior to the Redemption Date); provided, however, that after giving effect to any such redemption, at least 65% of the original aggregate principal amount of the Securities (including Securities issued after February 27, 2012, if any) remains outstanding.  Any such redemption shall be made within 75 days of such Equity Offering upon not less than 30 nor more than 60 days’ prior notice.

 

Notwithstanding the foregoing, if prior to the first anniversary of the Issue Date, either:

 

(1)           a Change of Control occurs, or

 

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(2)           the Company enters into a binding agreement with respect to a transaction that would constitute a Change of Control and such Change of Control is consummated within 180 days after the first anniversary of the Issue Date:

 

the Company may, at its option, redeem all, but not less than all, of the Securities at a redemption price equal to 110.0% of the principal amount of the Securities redeemed, plus accrued and unpaid interest, if any, to, but not including, the redemption date (subject to the rights of holders of record on relevant record dates to receive interest due on the relevant interest payment date).  If the Company elects to exercise this redemption right, it must send the redemption notice within 30 days following the consummation of the Change of Control (or, at the Company’s option, prior to consummation of such Change of Control but after the transaction giving rise to such Change of Control is publicly announced), but in any such case no later than the first anniversary of the Issue Date.  Any such redemption may be conditioned upon the consummation of the Change of Control if the notice is mailed prior to the consummation of the Change of Control.  If the Company exercises the Change of Control redemption right described in this paragraph, and redeems all of the Notes on the applicable redemption date in accordance with the Indenture, the Company shall not be required to make the Change of Control Offer pursuant to Section 4.13 of the Indenture. In the case of a redemption notice issued following a Change of Control, the redemption shall occur upon not less than 30 nor more than 60 days’ prior notice, and in the case of a redemption notice issued prior to consummation of a Change of Control, the redemption shall occur upon not less than 30 days’ prior notice and no later than 180 days following the first anniversary of the Issue Date.

 

If an optional Redemption Date is on or after a record date and on or before the relevant Interest Payment Date, the accrued and unpaid interest, if any, will be paid to the person or entity in whose name the Security is registered at the close of business on that record date, and no additional interest will be payable to Holders whose Securities shall be subject to repurchase.

 

6.  Sinking Fund

 

The Securities are not subject to any sinking fund.

 

7.  Notice of Redemption

 

Except as otherwise set forth in Section 5 above with respect to a Change of Control, notice of redemption will be mailed by first-class mail at least 30 days but not more than 60 days before the redemption date to each Holder of Securities to be redeemed at his or her registered address.  Securities in denominations larger than $2,000 may be redeemed in part but only in whole multiples of $1,000.  If money sufficient to pay the redemption price of and accrued interest on all Securities (or portions thereof) to be redeemed on the redemption date is deposited with the Paying Agent on or before the redemption date and certain other conditions are satisfied, on and after such date interest ceases to accrue on such Securities (or such portions thereof) called for redemption.

 

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8. (a)                      Repurchase of Securities at the Option of Holders upon Change of Control

 

Upon a Change of Control, any Holder will have the right, subject to certain conditions specified in the Indenture, to cause the Company to repurchase all or any part of the Securities of such Holder at a purchase price equal to 101% of the principal amount of the Securities to be repurchased plus accrued and unpaid interest, if any, to the date of purchase (subject to the right of Holders of record on the relevant record date to receive interest due on the relevant interest payment date that is on or prior to the date of purchase) as provided in, and subject to the terms of, the Indenture.

 

8. (b)       Prepayment Offer Upon Asset Sale

 

When the aggregate amount of Excess Proceeds exceeds $50.0 million (taking into account income earned on such Excess Proceeds, if any), the Company will be required to make an offer to purchase (the “Asset Sales Prepayment Offer”) the Securities, which offer shall be in the amount of the Allocable Excess Proceeds, on a pro rata basis according to principal amount at maturity, at a purchase price equal to 100% of the principal amount thereof, plus accrued and unpaid interest, if any, to the purchase date (subject to the right of Holders of record on the relevant record date to receive interest due on the relevant Interest Payment Date), in accordance with the procedures (including prorating in the event of oversubscription) set forth in the Indenture.  To the extent that any portion of the amount of Net Available Cash remains after compliance with the preceding sentence and provided that all Holders have been given the opportunity to tender their Securities for purchase in accordance with the Indenture, the Company or such Restricted Subsidiary may use such remaining amount for any purpose permitted by the Indenture and the amount of Excess Proceeds will be reset to zero.

 

9.  Guarantees; Security

 

The Indenture provides that, under certain circumstances, the Securities will be guaranteed pursuant to Subsidiary Guarantees.  Subsidiary Guarantees may be released in various circumstances, including in certain circumstances without the consent of Holders.

 

The Indenture provides that, under certain circumstances, the Securities or Subsidiary Guarantees must be secured by Liens on certain Property of the Company or Subsidiary Guarantors.  Liens securing the Securities or Subsidiary Guarantees may be released in various circumstances, including in certain circumstances without the consent of Holders.

 

10.  Denominations; Transfer; Exchange

 

The Securities are in registered form without coupons in denominations of $2,000 and whole multiples in excess thereof of $1,000.  A Holder may transfer or exchange Securities in accordance with the Indenture.  Upon any transfer or exchange, the Registrar and the Trustee may require a Holder, among other things, to furnish appropriate endorsements or transfer documents and to pay any taxes required by law or permitted by the Indenture.  The Registrar need not register the transfer of or exchange any Securities selected for redemption (except, in the case of a Security to be redeemed in part, the portion of the

 

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Security not to be redeemed) or to transfer or exchange any Securities for a period of 15 days prior to a selection of Securities to be redeemed or 15 days before an interest payment date.

 

11.  Persons Deemed Owners

 

The registered Holder of this Security may be treated as the owner of it for all purposes.

 

12.  Unclaimed Money

 

If money for the payment of principal or interest remains unclaimed for two years, the Trustee or Paying Agent shall pay the money back to the Company at its written request unless an abandoned property law designates another Person.  After any such payment, Holders entitled to the money must look only to the Company and not to the Trustee for payment.

 

13.  Discharge and Defeasance

 

Subject to certain conditions, the Company at any time may terminate some of or all its obligations under the Securities and the Indenture if the Company deposits with the Trustee money or U.S. Government Obligations for the payment of principal and interest on the Securities to redemption or maturity, as the case may be.

 

14.  Amendment, Waiver, Deemed Consents, Releases

 

Subject to certain exceptions set forth in the Indenture, (i) the Indenture or the Securities may be amended without prior notice to any Holder but with the written consent of the Holders of at least a majority in aggregate principal amount of the outstanding Securities and (ii) any default or noncompliance with any provision may be waived with the written consent of the Holders of at least a majority in principal amount of the outstanding Securities.  Subject to certain exceptions set forth in the Indenture, without the consent of any Holders, the Company, when authorized by a Board Resolution, the Subsidiary Guarantors and the Trustee may amend the Indenture or the Securities to: (i) cure any ambiguity, omission, defect or inconsistency; (ii) provide for the assumption by a successor corporation of the obligations of the Company or any Subsidiary Guarantor under the Indenture; (iii) provide for uncertificated Securities in addition to or in place of certificated Securities; provided, however, that the uncertificated Securities are issued in registered form for purposes of Section 163(f) of the Code, or in a manner such that the uncertificated Securities are described in Section 163(f)(2)(B) of the Code; (iv) add additional Guarantees with respect to the Securities or release Subsidiary Guarantors from Subsidiary Guarantees as provided by the terms of the Indenture or the Subsidiary Guarantees; (v) secure the Securities, add to the covenants of the Company or the Subsidiary Guarantors for the benefit of the Holders or surrender any right or power conferred upon the Company under the Indenture; (vi) in the case of the Indenture, make any change that does not adversely affect the rights of any Holder; (vii) make any change to comply with any requirements of the Commission in connection with the qualification of the Indenture under the Trust Indenture Act; (viii) evidence and provide for the acceptance and appointment under the Indenture of a successor Trustee; (ix) conform the text of the Indenture, the Subsidiary Guarantees or the Securities to

 

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any provision under the caption “Description of Notes” in the Offering Memorandum to the extent that such provision in the Indenture, the Subsidiary Guarantees or the Securities was intended to be a substantially verbatim recitation of a provision under the caption “Description of Notes” in the Offering Memorandum, as evidenced by an Officers’ Certificate delivered by the Company to the Trustee; (x) comply with the rules of any applicable securities depositary; provided, however, that such amendment does not materially and adversely affect the rights of holders to transfer the Securities; or (xi) make any amendment to the provisions of the Indenture relating to the transfer and legending or de-legending of the Securities; provided, however, that (a) compliance with the Indenture as so amended would not result in the Securities being transferred in violation of the Securities Act or any applicable securities law and (b) such amendment does not materially and adversely affect the rights of holders to transfer the Securities.

 

The consent of the Holders is not necessary to approve the particular form of any proposed amendment.  It shall be sufficient if such consent approves the substance of the proposed amendment.

 

15.  Defaults and Remedies

 

If an Event of Default occurs and is continuing, the Trustee or the Holders of at least 25% in aggregate principal amount of the Securities then outstanding, subject to certain limitations, may declare all the Securities to be immediately due and payable.  Certain events of bankruptcy or insolvency are Events of Default and shall result in the Securities being immediately due and payable upon the occurrence of such Events of Default without any further act of the Trustee or any Holder.

 

Holders of Securities may not enforce the Indenture or the Securities except as provided in the Indenture.  The Trustee may refuse to enforce the Indenture or the Securities unless it receives reasonable indemnity or security.  Subject to certain limitations, Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Securities then outstanding may direct the Trustee in its exercise of any trust or power under the Indenture.  The Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Securities then outstanding, by written notice to the Company and the Trustee, may rescind any declaration of acceleration and its consequences if the rescission would not conflict with any judgment or decree, and if all existing Events of Default have been cured or waived except nonpayment of principal, premium or interest that has become due solely because of the acceleration.

 

16.  Trustee Dealings with the Company

 

Subject to certain limitations imposed by the TIA, the Trustee under the Indenture, in its individual or any other capacity, may become the owner or pledgee of Securities and may otherwise deal with and collect obligations owed to it by the Company or its Affiliates and may otherwise deal with the Company or its Affiliates with the same rights it would have if it were not Trustee.

 

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17.  No Recourse Against Others

 

A director, officer, employee or stockholder, as such, of the Company shall not have any liability for any obligations of the Company under the Securities or the Indenture or for any claim based on, in respect of or by reason of such obligations or their creation.  By accepting a Security, each Securityholder waives and releases all such liability.  The waiver and release are part of the consideration for the issue of the Securities.

 

18.  Successors

 

Subject to certain exceptions set forth in the Indenture, when a successor assumes all the obligations of its predecessor under the Securities and the Indenture in accordance with the terms of the Indenture, the predecessor will be released from those obligations.

 

19.  Authentication

 

This Security shall not be valid until an authorized signatory of the Trustee (or an authenticating agent) manually signs the certificate of authentication on the other side of this Security.

 

20.  Abbreviations

 

Customary abbreviations may be used in the name of a Securityholder or an assignee, such as TEN COM (=tenants in common), TEN ENT (=tenants by the entireties), JT TEN (=joint tenants with rights of survivorship and not as tenants in common), CUST (=custodian), and U/G/M/A (=Uniform Gift to Minors Act).

 

21.  Governing Law

 

THIS SECURITY SHALL BE GOVERNED BY, AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH, THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK BUT WITHOUT REFERENCE TO APPLICABLE PRINCIPLES OF CONFLICTS OF LAW.

 

22.  CUSIP Numbers

 

Pursuant to a recommendation promulgated by the Committee on Uniform Security Identification Procedures, the Company has caused CUSIP numbers to be printed on the Securities and has directed the Trustee to use CUSIP numbers in notices of redemption as a convenience to Securityholders.  No representation is made as to the accuracy of such numbers either as printed on the Securities or as contained in any notice of redemption and reliance may be placed only on the other identification numbers placed thereon.

 

The Company will furnish to any Holder upon written request and without charge to the Holder a copy of the Indenture which has in it the text of this Security.

 

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ASSIGNMENT FORM

 

To assign this Security, fill in the form below:

 

I or we assign and transfer this Security to

 

(Print or type assignee’s name, address and zip code)

 

(Insert assignee’s soc. sec. or tax I.D. No.)

 

and irrevocably appoint                          as agent to transfer this Security on the books of the Company.  The agent may substitute another to act for him.

 

	
 
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    
	
Date:
    	
                                    
    	
 
    	
Your   Signature:
    	
 
    
	
 
    
	
 
    
	
Sign exactly as your name appears on the other   side of this Security.
    
					

 

	
Signature   Guarantee:
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
 
    
	
Date:
    	
                                                  
    	
 
    	
 
    
	
Signature   must be guaranteed by a participant in a recognized signature guaranty   medallion program or other signature guarantor acceptable to the Trustee
    	
Signature of Signature Guarantee
    
				

 

 

[TO BE ATTACHED TO GLOBAL SECURITIES]

 

SCHEDULE OF INCREASES OR DECREASES IN GLOBAL SECURITY

 

The initial principal amount of this Global Security is $[        ].  The following increases or decreases in this Global Security have been made:

 

	
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EXHIBIT B

 

FORM OF SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE

 

SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE (this “Supplemental Indenture”) dated as of                       , among [GUARANTOR] (the “New Subsidiary Guarantor”), a subsidiary of Rite Aid Corporation (or its successor), a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), on behalf of itself and the Subsidiary Guarantors (the “Existing Subsidiary Guarantors”) under the indenture referred to below, and The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company, N.A., a banking association organized under the laws of the United States of America, as trustee under the indenture referred to below (the “Trustee”).

 

W I T N E S S E T H :

 

WHEREAS the Company and the Existing Subsidiary Guarantors has heretofore executed and delivered to the Trustee an Indenture (the “Indenture”) dated as of February 27, 2012, providing for the issuance of an unlimited aggregate principal amount of 9.25% Senior Notes due 2020 (the “Securities”);

 

WHEREAS Section 4.09 of the Indenture provides that under certain circumstances the Company is required to cause the New Subsidiary Guarantor to execute and deliver to the Trustee a supplemental indenture pursuant to which the New Subsidiary Guarantor shall unconditionally guarantee all the Company’s obligations under the Securities pursuant to a Subsidiary Guarantee on the terms and conditions set forth herein; and

 

WHEREAS pursuant to Section 9.01 of the Indenture, the Trustee, the Company and the Existing Subsidiary Guarantors are authorized to execute and deliver this Supplemental Indenture;

 

NOW THEREFORE, in consideration of the foregoing and for other good and valuable consideration, the receipt of which is hereby acknowledged, the New Subsidiary Guarantor, the Company, the Existing Subsidiary Guarantors and the Trustee mutually covenant and agree for the equal and ratable benefit of the holders of the Securities as follows:

 

1.  Agreement to Guarantee.  The New Subsidiary Guarantor hereby agrees, jointly and severally with all other Subsidiary Guarantors, to unconditionally guarantee the Company’s obligations under the Securities on the terms and subject to the conditions set forth in Article X of the Indenture and to be bound by all other applicable provisions of the Indenture.

 

2.  Ratification of Indenture; Supplemental Indentures Part of Indenture.  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.

 

 

3.  Governing Law.  THIS SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE SHALL BE GOVERNED BY, AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH, THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK BUT WITHOUT GIVING EFFECT TO APPLICABLE PRINCIPLES OF CONFLICTS OF LAW TO THE EXTENT THAT THE APPLICATION OF THE LAWS OF ANOTHER JURISDICTION WOULD BE REQUIRED THEREBY.

 

4.  Trustee Makes No Representation.  The Trustee makes no representation as to the validity or sufficiency of this Supplemental Indenture.

 

5.  Counterparts.  The parties may sign any number of copies of this Supplemental Indenture.  Each signed copy shall be an original, but all of them together represent the same agreement.

 

6.  Effect of Headings.  The Section headings herein are for convenience only and shall not effect the construction thereof.

 

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

 

	
 
    	
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RITE   AID CORPORATION, on behalf of itself and the existing subsidiary guarantors,
    
	
 
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
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THE   BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON TRUST COMPANY, N.A., as trustee,
    
	
 
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
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Title:  
    
				

 

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EXHIBIT C

 

Form of

Transferee Letter of Representation

 

[Company]

In care of

[          ]

[          ]

[          ]

 

Ladies and Gentlemen:

 

This certificate is delivered to request a transfer of $[     ] principal amount of the 9.25% Senior Notes due 2020 (the “Securities”) of Rite Aid Corporation (the “Company”).

 

Upon transfer, the Securities would be registered in the name of the new beneficial owner as follows:

 

	
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The undersigned represents and warrants to you that:

 

1. We are an institutional “accredited investor” (as defined in Rule 501(a)(1), (2), (3) or (7) under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”)), purchasing for our own account or for the account of such an institutional “accredited investor” at least $250,000 principal amount of the Securities, and we are acquiring the Securities not with a view to, or for offer or sale in connection with, any distribution in violation of the Securities Act.  We 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 invest in or purchase securities similar to the Securities in the normal course of our business.  We, and any accounts for which we are acting, are each able to bear the economic risk of our or its investment.

 

2.  We understand that the Securities have not been registered under the Securities Act and, unless so registered, may not be sold except as permitted in the following sentence.  We agree on our own behalf and on behalf of any investor account for which we are purchasing Securities to offer, sell or otherwise transfer such Securities prior to the date that is one year after the later of the date of original issue and the last date on which the Company or any affiliate of the Company was the owner of such Securities (or any predecessor thereto) (the “Resale Restriction Termination Date”) only (a) to the Company, (b) pursuant to a registration statement that has been declared effective under the Securities Act, (c) in a transaction complying with the requirements of Rule 144A under the Securities Act (“Rule 144A”), to a person we reasonably believe is a qualified institutional buyer under

 

 

Rule 144A (a “QIB”) that is purchasing for its own account or for the account of a QIB and to whom notice is given that the transfer is being made in reliance on Rule 144A, (d) pursuant to offers and sales that occur outside the United States within the meaning of Regulation S under the Securities Act, (e) to an institutional “accredited investor” within the meaning of Rule 501(a)(1), (2), (3) or (7) under the Securities Act that is purchasing for its own account or for the account of such an institutional “accredited investor,” in each case in a minimum principal amount of Securities of $100,000, or (f) pursuant to any other available exemption from the registration requirements of the Securities Act, subject in each of the foregoing cases to any requirement of law that the disposition of our property or the property of such investor account or accounts be at all times within our or their control and in compliance with any applicable state securities laws.  The foregoing restrictions on resale will not apply subsequent to the Resale Restriction Termination Date.  If any resale or other transfer of the Securities is proposed to be made pursuant to clause (e) above prior to the Resale Restriction Termination Date, the transferor shall deliver a letter from the transferee substantially in the form of this letter to the Company and the Trustee, which shall provide, among other things, that the transferee is an institutional “accredited investor” within the meaning of Rule 501(a)(1), (2), (3) or (7) under the Securities Act and that it is acquiring such Securities for investment purposes and not for distribution in violation of the Securities Act.  Each purchaser acknowledges that the Company and the Trustee reserve the right prior to the offer, sale or other transfer prior to the Resale Restriction Termination Date of the Securities pursuant to clause (e) or (f) above to require the delivery of an opinion of counsel, certifications or other information satisfactory to the Company and the Trustee.

 

	
 
    	
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