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 Exhibit 4.1 

EXECUTION VERSION 
  

 
 DISCOVER CARD EXECUTION NOTE TRUST

 Issuer 
 and 

U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION 

Indenture Trustee 
 CLASS
A(2015-A) TERMS DOCUMENT 
 Dated as of June 19, 2015 

to 
 AMENDED AND RESTATED
INDENTURE SUPPLEMENT 
 Dated as of June 4, 2010 

for the DiscoverSeries Notes 
 to

 INDENTURE 
 Dated as of
July 26, 2007 
  
  

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	 ARTICLE I
	  	 Definitions and Other Provisions of General Application
	  	 	1	  
			
	 Section 1.01.
	  	 Definitions
	  	 	1	  
	 Section 1.02.
	  	 Representations and Warranties of Issuer
	  	 	7	  
	 Section 1.03.
	  	 Representations and Warranties of Indenture Trustee
	  	 	8	  
	 Section 1.04.
	  	 Limitations on Liability
	  	 	8	  
	 Section 1.05.
	  	 Governing Law
	  	 	9	  
	 Section 1.06.
	  	 Counterparts
	  	 	9	  
	 Section 1.07.
	  	 Ratification of Indenture and Indenture Supplement
	  	 	9	  
			
	 ARTICLE II
	  	 The Class A(2015-A) Notes
	  	 	9	  
			
	 Section 2.01.
	  	 Creation and Designation
	  	 	9	  
	 Section 2.02.
	  	 Adjustments to Required Subordinated Percentages and Amount
	  	 	9	  
	 Section 2.03.
	  	 Interest Payment
	  	 	10	  
	 Section 2.04.
	  	 Payments of Interest and Principal; Payments of Increased Costs Amount
	  	 	11	  
	 Section 2.05.
	  	 [Reserved]
	  	 	11	  
	 Section 2.06.
	  	 Form of Class A(2015-A) Notes; Legend; Transfer Restriction
	  	 	11	  
	 Section 2.07.
	  	 Delivery and Payment for the Class A(2015-A) Notes
	  	 	12	  
	 Section 2.08.
	  	 Additional Early Redemption Events
	  	 	12	  
	 Section 2.09.
	  	 Increases in the Outstanding Dollar Principal Amount
	  	 	13	  
	 Section 2.10.
	  	 Designation of Additional Amounts to be included in the Excess Spread Amount for the DiscoverSeries Notes
	  	 	14	  

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		  	Exhibit A	  	Form of Class A(2015-A) Note

  
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 THIS CLASS A(2015-A) TERMS DOCUMENT (this “Terms Document”), by and between
DISCOVER CARD EXECUTION NOTE TRUST, a statutory trust created under the laws of the State of Delaware (the “Issuer”), and U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, a national banking association organized and existing under the laws of the
United States of America, as Indenture Trustee (the “Indenture Trustee”), is made and entered into as of June 19, 2015. 

Pursuant to this Terms Document, the Issuer shall create a new Tranche of Class A Notes of the DiscoverSeries and shall specify the
principal terms thereof. 
 ARTICLE I 

Definitions and Other Provisions of General Application 

Section 1.01. Definitions. For all purposes of this Terms Document, except as otherwise expressly provided or unless the context
otherwise requires: 
 (1) the terms defined in this Article have the meanings assigned to them in this Article, and include the
plural as well as the singular; 
 (2) all other terms used herein which are defined in the Note Purchase Agreement dated as of
June 19, 2015, by and among Discover Card Execution Note Trust, Discover Bank, the Purchaser (as defined therein), the Committed Purchaser (as defined therein) and the Agent (as defined therein) (as may be amended, supplemented, restated,
amended and restated or otherwise modified from time to time, the “Note Purchase Agreement”), the Indenture Supplement or the Indenture, either directly or by reference therein, have the meanings assigned to them therein; 

(3) all accounting terms not otherwise defined herein have the meanings assigned to them in accordance with generally accepted accounting
principles and, except as otherwise herein expressly provided, the term “generally accepted accounting principles” with respect to any computation required or permitted hereunder means such accounting principles as are generally accepted
in the United States of America at the date of such computation; 
 (4) all references in this Terms Document to designated
“Articles,” “Sections” and other subdivisions are to the designated Articles, Sections and other subdivisions of this Terms Document; the words “herein,” “hereof” and “hereunder” and other words of
similar import refer to this Terms Document as a whole and not to any particular Article, Section or other subdivision; 
 (5) in the event
that any term or provision contained herein shall conflict with or be inconsistent with any term or provision contained in the Indenture Supplement or the Indenture, the terms and provisions of this Terms Document shall be controlling, but solely
with respect to the Class A(2015-A) Notes; 
 (6) each capitalized term defined herein shall relate only to the Class A(2015-A) Notes and no
other Tranche of Notes issued by the Issuer; 

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 (7) “including” and words of similar import will be deemed to be followed by
“without limitation”; and 
 (8) for purposes of determining any amount or making any calculation hereunder, such amount or
calculation, (x) if specified to be as of the first day of any Due Period, shall (a) include any Notes issued during such Due Period as if such Notes had been outstanding on the first day of such Due Period and (b) give effect to any
payments, deposits or other allocations made on the Distribution Date related to the prior Due Period and (y) if specified to be as of the close of business on the last day of any Due Period shall give effect to any payments, deposits or other
allocations made on the related Distribution Date. 
 “Agent” has the meaning set forth in the Note Purchase Agreement.

 “Class A(2015-A) Adverse Event” means the occurrence of any of the following: (a) an Early Redemption Event with
respect to the Class A(2015-A) Notes or (b) an Event of Default and acceleration of the Class A(2015-A) Notes; provided, however, that if the only such event to have occurred is an Excess Spread Early Redemption Event for which an
Excess Spread Early Redemption Cure has occurred, a Class A(2015-A) Adverse Event shall not be treated as continuing from and after the date of such cure. 

“Class A(2015-A) Note” means any Note, in the form set forth in Exhibit A hereto, designated therein as a Class A(2015-A)
Note and duly executed and authenticated in accordance with the Indenture. 
 “Class A(2015-A) Noteholder” means a Person
in whose name a Class A(2015-A) Note is registered in the Note Register. 
 “Class A(2015-A) Termination Date” means the
earliest to occur of (a) the Principal Payment Date on which the Outstanding Dollar Principal Amount of the Class A(2015-A) Notes is paid in full and the Note Purchase Commitment has been permanently reduced to zero, (b) the Legal Maturity
Date and (c) the date on which the Indenture is discharged and satisfied pursuant to Article VI thereof. 
 “Class A(2015-A)
Tranche Interest Allocation” for the Class A(2015-A) Notes for any Distribution Date means the Note Interest for the Class A(2015-A) Notes. 

“Existing Expected Maturity Date” has the meaning set forth in the Note Purchase Agreement. 

“Existing Legal Maturity Date” has the meaning set forth in the Note Purchase Agreement. 

“Existing Liquidation Commencement Date” has the meaning set forth in the Note Purchase Agreement. 

  
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 “Expected Maturity Date” means April 16, 2018 or, if such date is extended
pursuant to the Note Purchase Agreement, the Existing Expected Maturity Date. 
 “Expected Principal Payment Date” means
each Distribution Date for which the Targeted Principal Payment Amount is greater than zero, including (i) the Expected Maturity Date and (ii) any Interim Expected Maturity Date. 

“Increase Amount” means the amount of any increase in the Outstanding Dollar Principal Amount as specified in any Notice of
Increase delivered under Section 2.09. 
 “Increased Costs Amount” has the meaning set forth in the Note Purchase
Agreement. 
 “Indenture” means the Indenture dated as of July 26, 2007, as amended by the First Amendment to the
Indenture dated as of June 4, 2010, for the DiscoverSeries Notes, as supplemented by the Indenture Supplement, between the Issuer and the Indenture Trustee, as the same may be further amended, supplemented, restated, amended and restated,
replaced or otherwise modified from time to time. 
 “Indenture Supplement” means the Amended and Restated Indenture
Supplement dated as of June 4, 2010, by and between the Issuer and the Indenture Trustee, as the same may be amended, supplemented, restated, amended and restated, replaced or otherwise modified from time to time. 

“Initial Dollar Principal Amount” means (a) $0 plus (b) the sum of all Increase Amounts specified in all Notices of
Increase delivered under Section 2.09. 
 “Interest Accrual Period” means, with respect to any Interest Payment Date,
the period from and including the previous Interest Payment Date (or, in the case of the first Interest Payment Date for any Class A(2015-A) Note, from and including the applicable Issuance Date) to but excluding such Interest Payment Date;
provided, that, for purposes of calculating Note Interest with respect to the first Interest Payment Date in the month immediately following the calendar month in which an increase in the Outstanding Dollar Principal Amount occurs, Interest Accrual
Period means, with respect to the related Increase Amount, the period from and including the date of such increase to but excluding such Interest Payment Date. 

“Interest Payment Date” means the fifteenth day of each month commencing in July, 2015, or if such fifteenth day is not a
Business Day, the next succeeding Business Day. 
 “Interim Expected Maturity Date” for any Increase Amount has the meaning
specified in the applicable Notice of Increase delivered under Section 2.09; provided, that, in no event shall any Interim Expected Maturity Date be later than the Expected Maturity Date. 

“Interim Liquidation Commencement Date” means for any Increase Amount, the Interim Liquidation Commencement Date specified as
such in the applicable Notice of Increase delivered under Section 2.09. 

  
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 “Interim Liquidation Period” for any Increase Amount and the related Interim
Expected Maturity Date means, unless an Early Redemption Event or an Event of Default for the Class A(2015-A) Notes shall have occurred prior thereto, the period commencing on the related Interim Liquidation Commencement Date and ending on the
earlier to occur of (x) the payment in full of such Increase Amount or (y) the occurrence of an Early Redemption Event or an Event of Default for the Class A(2015-A) Notes; provided, however, that (i) if an Excess Spread
Early Redemption Cure has occurred with respect to any Excess Spread Early Redemption Event for the Class A(2015-A) Notes prior to the commencement of the Interim Liquidation Period for such Increase Amount (and no other Early Redemption Event or
Event of Default for the Class A(2015-A) Notes has occurred), the Interim Liquidation Period for such Increase Amount shall be determined as if such Excess Spread Early Redemption Event had not occurred, and (ii) if the Interim Liquidation
Period has terminated in accordance with clause (y) above, due solely to the occurrence of an Excess Spread Early Redemption Event for which there has been a subsequent Excess Spread Early Redemption Cure (and no other Early Redemption Event or
Event of Default has occurred), the Interim Liquidation Period for such Increase Amount shall resume and shall continue until the earlier to occur of (x) the payment in full of such Increase Amount or (y) the occurrence of a subsequent
Early Redemption Event or Event of Default. 
 “Issuance Date” means June 19, 2015, with respect to all Class
A(2015-A) Notes issued on the date hereof and, with respect to any increase in the Outstanding Dollar Principal Amount pursuant to Section 2.09, any Issuance Date specified in the Notice of Increase delivered thereunder. 

“Legal Maturity Date” means October 15, 2020 or, if such date is extended pursuant to the Note Purchase Agreement, the
Existing Legal Maturity Date. 
 “Liquidation Commencement Date” means the Existing Liquidation Commencement Date. 

“Liquidation Period” for the Class A(2015-A) Notes that are scheduled to mature on the Expected Maturity Date means, unless
an Early Redemption Event or an Event of Default for the Class A(2015-A) Notes shall have occurred prior thereto, the period commencing on the Liquidation Commencement Date and ending on the earlier to occur of (x) the payment in full of the
Outstanding Dollar Principal Amount of the Class A(2015-A) Notes or (y) the occurrence of an Early Redemption Event or an Event of Default for the Class A(2015-A) Notes; provided, however, that (i) if an Excess Spread Early
Redemption Cure has occurred with respect to any Excess Spread Early Redemption Event for the Class A(2015-A) Notes prior to the commencement of the Liquidation Period (and no other Early Redemption Event or Event of Default for the Class A(2015-A)
Notes has occurred), the Liquidation Period shall be determined as if such Excess Spread Early Redemption Event had not occurred, and (ii) if the Liquidation Period has terminated in accordance with clause (y) above, due solely to the
occurrence of an Excess Spread Early Redemption Event for which there has been a subsequent Excess Spread Early Redemption Cure (and no other Early Redemption Event or Event of Default has occurred), the Liquidation Period shall resume and shall
continue until the earlier to occur of (x) the payment in full of the Outstanding Dollar Principal Amount of the Class A(2015-A) Notes or (y) the occurrence of a subsequent Early Redemption Event or Event of Default. 

  
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 “Note Interest” for these Class A(2015-A) Notes has the meaning set forth in the
Note Purchase Agreement. 
 “Note Interest Rate” for these Class A(2015-A) Notes has the meaning set forth in the Note
Purchase Agreement; for the avoidance of doubt, the Note Interest Rate shall be calculated in accordance with the calculation basis set forth in the Note Purchase Agreement. 

“Notice of Increase” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.09. 

“Principal Payment Date” means, for the Class A(2015-A) Notes, each Expected Principal Payment Date, or upon the acceleration
of such Notes following an Event of Default or upon the occurrence and during the continuance of an Early Redemption Event (unless all such events have been cured), each Distribution Date and the Legal Maturity Date, or in the event of a cleanup
call, the date of redemption in accordance with Section 1202 of the Indenture. 
 “Required Daily Deposit Target Finance Charge
Amount” means, for any day in a Due Period, an amount equal to the Class A(2015-A) Tranche Interest Allocation for the related Distribution Date; provided, however, that for purposes of determining the Required Daily Deposit
Target Finance Charge Amount on any day on which the Class A(2015-A) Tranche Interest Allocation cannot be determined because the Note Interest Rate for the applicable Interest Accrual Period has not yet been notified to the Calculation Agent and
the Indenture Trustee in accordance with the Note Purchase Agreement, the Required Daily Deposit Target Finance Charge Amount shall be the Class A(2015-A) Tranche Interest Allocation determined based on a pro forma calculation made on the assumption
that the Note Interest Rate will be equal to the sum of (i) the Note Interest Rate, excluding any applicable margin, for the prior Interest Accrual Period and applicable to the Interest Payment Date occurring in such Due Period, multiplied
by 1.25 and (ii) any applicable margin; provided, further, that for purposes of determining the Required Daily Deposit Target Finance Charge Amount for any day in the Due Period preceding the first Interest Payment Date on
which the Outstanding Dollar Principal Amount of the Class A(2015-A) Notes is greater than zero, if the Class A(2015-A) Tranche Interest Allocation cannot be determined because the Note Interest Rate for such first Interest Accrual Period has not
yet been notified to the Calculation Agent and the Indenture Trustee in accordance with the Note Purchase Agreement, a rate equal to the rate provided by the Agent, based on the Agent’s good faith estimate of the anticipated Note Interest Rate
for such first Interest Accrual Period, to the Indenture Trustee and Calculation Agent on the date of effectiveness of such first increase in the Outstanding Dollar Principal Amount of the Class A(2015-A) Notes shall be used in lieu of the Note
Interest Rate. 
 “Required Daily Deposit Target Principal Amount” means, for any day in a Due Period, (i) if such Due
Period is in the Liquidation Period or any Interim Liquidation Period, the Targeted Principal Payment Amount for the related Distribution Date, (ii) if such day is on or after the occurrence and during the continuance of a Class A(2015-A)
Adverse Event, the Nominal Liquidation Amount of the Class A(2015-A) Notes, and (iii) in all other circumstances, zero. 

  
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 “Required Subordinated Amount of Class B Notes” means, for the Class A(2015-A)
Notes for any date of determination, an amount equal to the product of 
 (a) the Required Subordinated Percentage of Class B Notes for such
Class A(2015-A) Notes on such date of determination and 
 (b) the Nominal Liquidation Amount of such Class A(2015-A) Notes on such date of
determination; 
 provided, however, that for any date of determination on or after the occurrence and during the continuation of a Class
A(2015-A) Adverse Event, the Required Subordinated Amount of Class B Notes for Class A(2015-A) Notes will be the greater of 
 (x) the
amount determined above for such date of determination and 
 (y) the amount determined above for the date immediately prior to the date on
which such Class A(2015-A) Adverse Event shall have occurred. 
 “Required Subordinated Amount of Class C Notes” means, for
the Class A(2015-A) Notes for any date of determination, an amount equal to the product of 
 (a) the Required Subordinated Percentage of
Class C Notes for such Class A(2015-A) Notes on such date of determination and 
 (b) the Nominal Liquidation Amount of such Class A(2015-A)
Notes on such date of determination; 
 provided, however, that for any date of determination on or after the occurrence and during the
continuation of a Class A(2015-A) Adverse Event, the Required Subordinated Amount of Class C Notes for the Class A(2015-A) Notes will be the greater of 

(x) the amount determined above for such date of determination and 

(y) the amount determined above for the date immediately prior to the date on which such Class A(2015-A) Adverse Event shall have occurred.

 “Required Subordinated Amount of Class D Notes” means, for the Class A(2015-A) Notes for any date of determination, an
amount equal to the product of 
 (a) the Required Subordinated Percentage of Class D Notes for such Class A(2015-A) Notes on such date of
determination and 
 (b) the Nominal Liquidation Amount of such Class A(2015-A) Notes on such date of determination; 

  
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 provided, however, that for any date of determination on or after the occurrence and during the
continuation of a Class A(2015-A) Adverse Event, the Required Subordinated Amount of Class D Notes for the Class A(2015-A) Notes will be the greater of 

(x) the amount determined above for such date of determination and 

(y) the amount determined above for the date immediately prior to the date on which the Class A(2015-A) Adverse Event shall have occurred.

 “Required Subordinated Percentage of Class B Notes” means, for the Class A(2015-A) Notes, 7.284768%, subject to
adjustment in accordance with Section 2.02. 
 “Required Subordinated Percentage of Class C Notes” means, for the
Class A(2015-A) Notes, 9.271523%, subject to adjustment in accordance with Section 2.02. 
 “Required Subordinated Percentage
of Class D Notes” means, for the Class A(2015-A) Notes, 15.894040%, subject to adjustment in accordance with Section 2.02. 

“Stated Principal Amount” means (a) $0 plus (b) the sum of all Increase Amounts specified in all Notices of
Increase delivered under Section 2.09, minus (c) the aggregate amount of principal paid to the Class A(2015-A) Noteholders pursuant to Section 2.04. 

“Targeted Principal Payment Amount” means, for any Distribution Date, the sum of: 

(i) if such Distribution Date is in the Liquidation Period, any Increase Amount that is scheduled to mature on the Expected Maturity Date; and

 (ii) if such Distribution Date is in any Interim Liquidation Period, the applicable Increase Amount maturing on such Distribution Date.

 Section 1.02. Representations and Warranties of Issuer. The Issuer represents and warrants that: 

(a) the Issuer has been duly formed and is validly existing as a statutory trust in good standing under the laws of the State of Delaware, and
has full power and authority to execute and deliver this Terms Document and to perform the terms and provisions hereof; 
 (b) the
execution, delivery and performance of this Terms Document by the Issuer have been duly authorized by all necessary corporate and statutory trust proceedings of any Beneficiary and the Owner Trustee, do not require any approval or consent of any
governmental agency or authority, and do not and will not conflict with any material provision of the Certificate of Trust or the Trust Agreement of the Issuer; 

(c) this Terms Document is the valid, binding and enforceable obligation of the Issuer, except as the same may be limited by receivership,
insolvency, reorganization, moratorium or other laws relating to the enforcement of creditors’ rights generally or by general equity principles; 

  
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 (d) to the best of the Issuer’s knowledge, this Terms Document will not conflict with any
law or governmental regulation or court decree applicable to it; 
 (e) the Issuer is not required to be registered under the Investment
Company Act; 
 (f) all information heretofore furnished by the Issuer in writing to the Indenture Trustee for purposes of or in connection
with this Terms Document or any transaction contemplated hereby is, and all such information hereafter furnished by the Issuer in writing to the Indenture Trustee will be, true and accurate in every material respect or based on reasonable estimates
on the date as of which such information is stated or certified; and 
 (g) to the best knowledge of the Issuer, there are no proceedings or
investigations pending against the Issuer before any court, regulatory body, administrative agency, or other tribunal or governmental instrumentality having jurisdiction over the Issuer (A) asserting the invalidity of this Terms Document,
(B) seeking to prevent the consummation of any of the transactions contemplated by this Terms Document or (C) seeking any determination or ruling which in the Issuer’s judgment would materially and adversely affect the performance by
the Issuer of its obligations under this Terms Document or the validity or enforceability of this Terms Document. 
 Section 1.03.
Representations and Warranties of Indenture Trustee. The Indenture Trustee represents and warrants and any successor trustee shall represent and warrant that: 

(a) The Indenture Trustee is organized, existing and in good standing under the laws of the United States of America; 

(b) The Indenture Trustee has full power, authority and right to execute, deliver and perform the Indenture and this Terms Document, and has
taken all necessary action to authorize the execution, delivery and performance by it of this Terms Document; and 
 (c) This Terms Document
has been duly executed and delivered by the Indenture Trustee. 
 Section 1.04. Limitations on Liability. 

(a) It is expressly understood and agreed by the parties hereto that (i) this Terms Document is executed and delivered by the Owner
Trustee not individually or personally but solely as Owner Trustee under the Trust Agreement, in the exercise of the powers and authority conferred and vested in it, (ii) each of the representations, undertakings and agreements herein made on
the part of the Issuer is made and intended not as a personal representation, undertaking or agreement by the Owner Trustee but is made and intended for the purpose of binding only the Issuer, (iii) nothing herein contained will be construed as
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implied herein, all such liability, if any, being expressly waived by the parties to this Terms Document and by any Person claiming by, through or under them and (iv) under no circumstances
will the Owner Trustee be personally liable for the payment of any indebtedness or expenses of the Issuer or be liable for the breach or failure of any obligation, representation, warranty or covenant made or undertaken by the Issuer under this
Terms Document or any related documents. 
 (b) None of the Indenture Trustee, the Owner Trustee, the Calculation Agent, any Beneficiary,
the Depositor, any Master Servicer or any Servicer or any of their respective officers, directors, employees, incorporators or agents will have any liability with respect to this Terms Document, and recourse may be had solely to the Collateral
pledged to secure these Class A(2015-A) Notes under the Indenture, the Indenture Supplement and this Terms Document (except as expressly provided in Sections 9.01 and 9.02 of the Note Purchase Agreement). 

Section 1.05. Governing Law. THIS TERMS DOCUMENT WILL BE CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH AND GOVERNED BY THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW
YORK, INCLUDING SECTION 5-1401 OF THE GENERAL OBLIGATION LAW, WITHOUT REFERENCE TO ANY CONFLICT OF LAW PROVISIONS THAT WOULD RESULT IN THE APPLICATION OF THE LAWS OF ANY OTHER STATE. 

Section 1.06. Counterparts. This Terms Document may be executed in any number of counterparts, each of which when so executed will
be deemed to be an original, but all such counterparts will together constitute but one and the same instrument. 

Section 1.07. Ratification of Indenture and Indenture Supplement. As supplemented by this Terms Document, each of the Indenture
and the Indenture Supplement is in all respects ratified and confirmed and the Indenture as supplemented by the Indenture Supplement and this Terms Document shall be read, taken and construed as one and the same instrument. 

ARTICLE II 
 The Class A(2015-A)
Notes 
 Section 2.01. Creation and Designation. There is hereby created a Tranche of Class A Notes to be issued pursuant
to the Indenture, the Indenture Supplement, this Terms Document and the Note Purchase Agreement to be known as the “DiscoverSeries Class A(2015-A) Notes.” 

Section 2.02. Adjustments to Required Subordinated Percentages and Amount. 

(a) On any date, the Issuer may, at the direction of the Beneficiary, change the Required Subordinated Percentage of Class B Notes, the
Required Subordinated Percentage of Class C Notes or the Required Subordinated Percentage of Class D Notes, in each case for the Class A(2015-A) Notes; provided, that the Issuer has received written confirmation from each applicable Note
Rating Agency that the change in such percentage will not result in a Ratings Effect for any Tranche of Outstanding DiscoverSeries Notes; and provided, further, that (i) if there is no Tranche of Class A Notes that is
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Rating Agency, then none of the Required Subordinated Percentage of Class B Notes, the Required Subordinated Percentage of Class C Notes and the Required Subordinated Percentage of Class D Notes,
in each case for the Class A(2015-A) Notes, shall be reduced without the written consent of the Agent and (ii) if there is an increase in the Required Subordinated Percentage of Class B Notes, the Required Subordinated Percentage of Class C
Notes or the Required Subordinated Percentage of Class D Notes, in each case for any Tranche of Class A Notes that is rated “AAA” or the equivalent by a Note Rating Agency, then there shall be a commensurate increase in the Required
Subordinated Percentage of Class B Notes, the Required Subordinated Percentage of Class C Notes and the Required Subordinated Percentage of Class D Notes, as applicable, in each case for the Class A(2015-A) Notes. 

(b) On any date, the Issuer may, at the direction of the Beneficiary, replace all or a portion of the Required Subordinated Amount of Class B
Notes, the Required Subordinated Amount of Class C Notes or the Required Subordinated Amount of Class D Notes, in each case for the Class A(2015-A) Notes with a different form of credit enhancement (including, without limitation, a cash collateral
account, a letter of credit, a reserve account, a surety bond, an insurance policy or a collateral interest, or any combination thereof) and may add such definitions and other terms and make such additional amendments to this Terms Document as shall
be necessary for such replacement; provided, that the Issuer has received written confirmation from each applicable Note Rating Agency that such replacement, such addition and such other amendments will not result in a Ratings Effect for any
Tranche of Outstanding DiscoverSeries Notes; and provided, further, that (i) if there is no Tranche of Class A Notes that is currently rated “AAA” or the equivalent by a Note Rating Agency, then none of the Required
Subordinated Amount of Class B Notes, the Required Subordinated Amount of Class C Notes or the Required Subordinated Amount of Class D Notes, in each case for the Class A(2015-A) Notes, shall be replaced with a different form of credit enhancement
without the written consent of the Agent and (ii) if any Tranche of Class A Notes that is rated “AAA” or the equivalent by a Note Rating Agency is outstanding and there is a replacement of all or a portion of the Required
Subordinated Amount of Class B Notes, the Required Subordinated Amount of Class C Notes or the Required Subordinated Amount of Class D Notes with a different form of credit enhancement, in each case for any such Tranche of Class A Notes, then
there shall be a commensurate replacement of all or a portion of the Required Subordinated Amount of Class B Notes, the Required Subordinated Amount of Class C Notes or the Required Subordinated Amount of Class D Notes, in each case for the Class
A(2015-A) Notes. 
 Section 2.03. Interest Payment. For each Interest Payment Date, the amount of interest due with respect to
the Class A(2015-A) Notes shall be the Note Interest for the Class A(2015-A) Notes, or such other amount based on any alternative rate then in effect under the Note Purchase Agreement, in each case as determined pursuant to the Note Purchase
Agreement; plus, without duplication, any Class A Tranche Interest Allocation Shortfall for such Class A(2015-A) Notes for the immediately preceding Distribution Date, together with interest thereon at the Note Interest Rate in effect
with respect to the Interest Accrual Period related to the current Interest Payment Date, calculated on the basis of the actual number of days in the Interest Accrual Period related to the current Interest Payment Date and a 360-day year. 

  
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 Section 2.04. Payments of Interest and Principal; Payments of Increased Costs Amount.

 (a) The Issuer will cause interest to be paid on each Interest Payment Date and principal to be paid on each Principal Payment Date on
which the Targeted Principal Payment Amount is greater than zero, with the last such principal payment to be made on or prior to the Expected Maturity Date; provided, however, that it shall not be an Event of Default if scheduled
principal is not paid in full on or prior to any Interim Expected Maturity Date or the Expected Maturity Date unless funds for such payment have been allocated in accordance with Section 3.01 of the Indenture Supplement; and provided,
further, that if a Class A(2015-A) Adverse Event has occurred and is continuing, principal will instead be payable in monthly installments on each Principal Payment Date for the Class A(2015-A) Notes in an amount equal to the lesser of the
Nominal Liquidation Amount of the Class A(2015-A) Notes and the amount allocated for such payment in accordance with Section 3.01 of the Indenture Supplement, with such payment to be made in accordance with Section 3.05 of the Indenture
Supplement. All payments of interest and principal on the Class A(2015-A) Notes shall be made as set forth in Section 1102 of the Indenture. 

(b) The right of the Class A(2015-A) Noteholders to receive payments from the Issuer will terminate on the Class A(2015-A) Termination Date.

 (c) All payments of principal, interest or other amounts to the Class A(2015-A) Noteholders will be made pro rata based on the
Outstanding Dollar Principal Amount of their Class A(2015-A) Notes. 
 (d) For the avoidance of doubt, the “Targeted Principal Payment
Amount” shall be the amount scheduled to be paid on each Principal Payment Date as specified in this Terms Document for the Class A(2015-A) Notes for purposes of clause (a)(x)(i) of the definition of “Targeted Principal Deposit” in
the Indenture Supplement. 
 (e) The Increased Costs Amount, if applicable, shall be paid in accordance with the Note Purchase Agreement
from the Series Finance Charge Amounts remaining after step (54) (Targeted Deposit to Class D Reserve Subaccounts from Series Finance Charge Amounts) of Section 3.01 of the Indenture Supplement, in accordance with step (55) (Other
Deposits and Payments from Series Finance Charge Amounts) of Section 3.01 of the Indenture Supplement. 
 (f) The date referenced in
clause (iv) of the definition of “Principal Allocation Amount” in the Indenture shall be the Liquidation Commencement Date. 

Section 2.05. [Reserved] 

Section 2.06. Form of Class A(2015-A) Notes; Legend; Transfer Restriction. 

(a) The Class A(2015-A) Notes shall be Registered Notes delivered in definitive form and shall be initially registered in the name of the
Agent on behalf of the Owners. The Class A(2015-A) Notes will be issued in minimum denominations of $250,000 and integral multiples of $1,000 in excess of that amount. 

  
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 (b) Each Class A(2015-A) Note issued pursuant to this Terms Document and the Note Purchase
Agreement shall, until such time as the laws of any jurisdiction in which they are offered or sold no longer restrict the transfer or sale thereof, bear a legend in substantially the following form: 

THIS NOTE (OR ITS PREDECESSOR) WAS ORIGINALLY ISSUED IN A TRANSACTION EXEMPT FROM REGISTRATION UNDER SECTION 5 OF THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933,
AS AMENDED (THE “SECURITIES ACT”), AND THIS NOTE MAY NOT BE OFFERED, SOLD OR OTHERWISE TRANSFERRED IN THE ABSENCE OF SUCH REGISTRATION OR AN APPLICABLE EXEMPTION THEREFROM. EACH PURCHASER OF THIS NOTE IS HEREBY NOTIFIED THAT THE SELLER OF
THIS NOTE MAY BE RELYING ON THE EXEMPTION FROM THE PROVISIONS OF SECTION 5 OF THE SECURITIES ACT PROVIDED BY RULE 144A. THE HOLDER OF THIS NOTE AGREES FOR THE BENEFIT OF DISCOVER CARD EXECUTION NOTE TRUST AND DISCOVER BANK THAT (A) THIS NOTE
MAY BE RESOLD, PLEDGED OR OTHERWISE TRANSFERRED ONLY (1) TO A PERSON WHO THE SELLER REASONABLY BELIEVES IS A “QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER” (AS DEFINED IN RULE 144A UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT) IN COMPLIANCE WITH RULE 144A UNDER THE
SECURITIES ACT, OR (2) TO DISCOVER BANK OR ITS AFFILIATES, IN EACH CASE, IN ACCORDANCE WITH ANY APPLICABLE SECURITIES LAW OF ANY STATE OF THE UNITED STATES OR ANY OTHER APPLICABLE JURISDICTION AND (B) THE HOLDER WILL, AND EACH SUBSEQUENT
HOLDER IS REQUIRED TO, NOTIFY ANY SUBSEQUENT PURCHASER FROM IT OF THE RESALE RESTRICTIONS SET FORTH IN (A) ABOVE. 
 (c) No Note issued
under this Terms Document or beneficial interest therein shall be transferred except in accordance with the transfer restrictions described in the legend set forth in clause (b) above. 

Section 2.07. Delivery and Payment for the Class A(2015-A) Notes. The Issuer shall execute and deliver the Class A(2015-A) Notes
to the Indenture Trustee for authentication, and the Indenture Trustee shall deliver the Class A(2015-A) Notes when authenticated, each in accordance with Sections 203 and 303 of the Indenture and the Note Purchase Agreement. 

Section 2.08. Additional Early Redemption Events. To the extent set forth in Section 4.01(b) of the Indenture Supplement and
pursuant thereto, the following shall be additional Early Redemption Events relating to the Class A(2015-A) Notes: (a) failure on the part of the Issuer to make any interest payment with respect to the Class A(2015-A) Notes required by the
terms of the Note Purchase Agreement, the Indenture, the Indenture Supplement or this Terms Document on or before the date occurring thirty-five (35) days after the date such payment is required to be made herein or therein; and (b) a
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breach for a period of sixty (60) days after there has been given, by written notice, to the Issuer by the Indenture Trustee or to the Issuer and the Indenture Trustee by the Agent, a
written notice specifying such default or breach and requesting it to be remedied, and if as a result of such default or breach, the interests of the Class A(2015-A) Noteholders are materially and adversely affected and continue to be materially and
adversely affected during the sixty (60) day period. 
 Section 2.09. Increases in the Outstanding Dollar Principal Amount.
Subject to clauses (ii), (iii), (iv) and (v) of Section 2.02 and Section 2.03 of the Indenture Supplement (which, for the avoidance of doubt, apply to any increase pursuant to this Section 2.09), and subject to
Section 4.02 of the Note Purchase Agreement, the Issuer may increase the Outstanding Dollar Principal Amount of the Class A(2015-A) Notes, so long as the following conditions precedent are satisfied: 

(a) the Issuer shall have given the Agent and the Indenture Trustee written notice of such increase in the Outstanding Dollar Principal Amount
of the Class A(2015-A) Notes (the “Notice of Increase”) at least two (2) Business Days in advance of the Issuance Date thereof, which notice shall include: 

 

	 	(i)	the Issuance Date of such increase in the Outstanding Dollar Principal Amount of the Class A(2015-A) Notes; 

  

	 	(ii)	the amount of such increase in the Outstanding Dollar Principal Amount of the Class A(2015-A) Notes and the resulting Stated Principal Amount of the Class A(2015-A) Notes; 

 

	 	(iii)	the first Interest Payment Date on which interest will be paid on such increase in the Outstanding Dollar Principal Amount of the Class A(2015-A) Notes; 

 

	 	(iv)	the Interim Expected Maturity Date (which date shall be a Distribution Date) and the Interim Liquidation Commencement Date (or otherwise confirm that such Increase Amount is scheduled to mature on the Expected Maturity
Date) with respect to the Increase Amount of the Outstanding Dollar Principal Amount of the Class A(2015-A) Notes; and 

  

	 	(v)	any other terms that the Issuer may set forth in such notice of increase to clarify the rights of Holders of the Class A(2015-A) Notes or the effect of such increase on any calculations to be made with respect to the
Class A(2015-A) Notes, Class A, or the Issuer; 

 (b) no Class A(2015-A) Adverse Event has occurred and is continuing;

 (c) such increase will not cause the Outstanding Dollar Principal Amount of the Class A(2015-A) Notes to exceed the Note Purchase
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 (d) (i) no Note Interest or other amount due and payable to any Class A(2015-A) Noteholder prior
to the Issuance Date for such increase remains outstanding and (ii) as of the most recent Distribution Date preceding such Issuance Date, there is no un-reimbursed Nominal Liquidation Amount Deficit with respect to the Class A(2015-A) Notes;
and 
 (e) all of the representations and warranties of the Issuer, the Seller, the Master Servicer and the Servicer, as applicable, set
forth in the Indenture, Indenture Supplement, the Pooling and Servicing Agreement, the Series 2007-CC Supplement and the Note Purchase Agreement that do not expressly speak to an earlier date shall be true and correct in all material respects as
though made on and as of such Issuance Date after giving effect thereto. 
 All such terms set forth in the Notice of Increase shall be incorporated into
and form a part of this Terms Document on and after the effective date of such increase in the Outstanding Dollar Principal Amount of the Class A(2015-A) Notes. The Expected Maturity Date, Expected Principal Payment Date, Liquidation Commencement
Date, Liquidation Period and Legal Maturity Date, in each case as in effect as of the Issuance Date of such increase in the Outstanding Dollar Principal Amount of the Class A(2015-A) Notes, shall be applicable to such increased amounts unless
otherwise provided in the applicable Notice of Increase. The Issuer shall not have to satisfy the conditions set forth in Section 310 of the Indenture in connection with an increase in the Outstanding Dollar Principal Amount of the Class
A(2015-A) Notes so long as such conditions were satisfied or waived in connection with the initial issuance of Class A(2015-A) Notes. Any such increase shall be deemed to have occurred under Section 310 of the Indenture and this
Section 2.09 for purposes of the Indenture, the Indenture Supplement and this Terms Document. 
 Section 2.10. Designation of
Additional Amounts to be included in the Excess Spread Amount for the DiscoverSeries Notes. At any time that any outstanding Series of certificates issued by the Master Trust provides that the Series Principal Collections allocated to such
Series will be deposited into the Group Finance Charge Collections Reallocation Account for the Master Trust to the extent necessary for application to cover shortfalls for other Series issued by the Master Trust, an amount equal to (x) all
Series Principal Collections allocated to such Series, multiplied by (y) a fraction, the numerator of which is the sum of the Nominal Liquidation Amounts for each outstanding Tranche of the DiscoverSeries Notes (including the Class
A(2015-A) Notes) and the denominator of which is (i) the Aggregate Investor Interest for the Master Trust minus (ii) the sum of the Series Investor Interests for all such Series that provide that the Series Principal Collections
allocated to such Series will be so deposited, is hereby designated to be included in the Excess Spread Amount and shall be treated as Series Finance Charge Amounts for the DiscoverSeries. 

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

					
	DISCOVER CARD EXECUTION NOTE TRUST,
	as Issuer
		
	By:		Wilmington Trust Company,
			not in its individual capacity but solely
			as Owner Trustee
		
	By: 		 /s/ Jennifer A. Luce

			Name:		Jennifer A. Luce
			Title:		Vice President

  
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	U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION,
	as Indenture Trustee
		
	By: 		 /s/ Edwin J. Janis

			Name:		Edwin J. Janis
			Title:		Vice President

  
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 EXHIBIT A 

FORM OF CLASS A(2015-A) NOTE 

  
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 DISCOVERSERIES CLASS A(2015-A) NOTE 

THIS NOTE (OR ITS PREDECESSOR) WAS ORIGINALLY ISSUED IN A TRANSACTION EXEMPT FROM REGISTRATION UNDER SECTION 5 OF THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933,
AS AMENDED (THE “SECURITIES ACT”), AND THIS NOTE MAY NOT BE OFFERED, SOLD OR OTHERWISE TRANSFERRED IN THE ABSENCE OF SUCH REGISTRATION OR AN APPLICABLE EXEMPTION THEREFROM. EACH PURCHASER OF THIS NOTE IS HEREBY NOTIFIED THAT THE SELLER OF
THIS NOTE MAY BE RELYING ON THE EXEMPTION FROM THE PROVISIONS OF SECTION 5 OF THE SECURITIES ACT PROVIDED BY RULE 144A. THE HOLDER OF THIS NOTE AGREES FOR THE BENEFIT OF DISCOVER CARD EXECUTION NOTE TRUST AND DISCOVER BANK THAT (A) THIS NOTE
MAY BE RESOLD, PLEDGED OR OTHERWISE TRANSFERRED ONLY (1) TO A PERSON WHO THE SELLER REASONABLY BELIEVES IS A “QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER” (AS DEFINED IN RULE 144A UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT) IN COMPLIANCE WITH RULE 144A UNDER THE
SECURITIES ACT, OR (2) TO DISCOVER BANK OR ITS AFFILIATES, IN EACH CASE, IN ACCORDANCE WITH ANY APPLICABLE SECURITIES LAW OF ANY STATE OF THE UNITED STATES OR ANY OTHER APPLICABLE JURISDICTION AND (B) THE HOLDER WILL, AND EACH SUBSEQUENT
HOLDER IS REQUIRED TO, NOTIFY ANY SUBSEQUENT PURCHASER FROM IT OF THE RESALE RESTRICTIONS SET FORTH IN (A) ABOVE. 
 THE HOLDER OF THIS
NOTE, BY ITS ACCEPTANCE HEREOF, AGREES THAT IT WILL NOT, PRIOR TO THE DATE THAT IS ONE YEAR AND ONE DAY AFTER THE LATER OF (I) THE TERMINATION OF THE POOLING AND SERVICING AGREEMENT WITH RESPECT TO THE MASTER TRUST, (II) TERMINATION OF THE
TRUST AGREEMENT WITH RESPECT TO THE ISSUER OR (III) THE DATE ON WHICH NO NOTES OF ANY TRANCHE, CLASS OR SERIES OF NOTES ISSUED BY THE ISSUER REMAIN OUTSTANDING, ACQUIESCE, PETITION OR OTHERWISE INVOKE OR CAUSE THE MASTER TRUST OR THE ISSUER TO
INVOKE THE PROCESS OF ANY GOVERNMENTAL AUTHORITY FOR THE PURPOSE OF COMMENCING OR SUSTAINING A CASE AGAINST THE MASTER TRUST OR THE ISSUER UNDER ANY FEDERAL OR STATE BANKRUPTCY, INSOLVENCY OR SIMILAR LAW OR APPOINTING A RECEIVER, LIQUIDATOR,
ASSIGNEE, TRUSTEE, CUSTODIAN, SEQUESTRATOR OR OTHER SIMILAR OFFICIAL OF THE MASTER TRUST OR THE ISSUER OR ANY SUBSTANTIAL PART OF ITS PROPERTY OR ORDERING THE WINDING-UP OR LIQUIDATION OF THE AFFAIRS OF THE MASTER TRUST OR THE ISSUER. 

THE HOLDER OF THIS NOTE, BY ACCEPTANCE OF THIS NOTE, AND EACH HOLDER OF A BENEFICIAL INTEREST IN THIS NOTE, BY THE ACQUISITION OF A BENEFICIAL
INTEREST THEREIN, AGREE TO TREAT THE NOTES AS INDEBTEDNESS FOR APPLICABLE FEDERAL, STATE AND LOCAL INCOME AND FRANCHISE TAX LAW AND FOR PURPOSES OF ANY OTHER TAX IMPOSED ON OR MEASURED BY INCOME. 

THIS NOTE MAY NOT BE ACQUIRED BY OR FOR THE ACCOUNT OF ANY EMPLOYEE BENEFIT PLAN (AS DESCRIBED BELOW). 

  
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	 REGISTERED
 No. [●]
		 $[●]*

(Maximum Outstanding Dollar Principal Amount)

 DISCOVER CARD EXECUTION NOTE TRUST 

Floating Rate 

DISCOVERSERIES CLASS A(2015-A) NOTE 

DISCOVER CARD EXECUTION NOTE TRUST, a statutory trust created under the laws of the State of Delaware (herein referred to as the
“Issuer” or the “Note Issuance Trust”), for value received, hereby promises to pay to [●], or registered assigns, subject to the following provisions, a principal sum of up to $[●] ([●] dollars)
payable on the April 16, 2018 Payment Date (the “Expected Maturity Date”), or, if such date is extended pursuant to the Note Purchase Agreement, dated as of June 19, 2015 (such Note Purchase Agreement, as further amended,
restated, amended and restated, supplemented, replaced or otherwise modified from time to time, is herein called the “Note Purchase Agreement”), by and among the Note Issuance Trust, as Issuer, Discover Bank, as Depositor,
Beneficiary and Calculation Agent for the Issuer, and Royal Bank of Canada, as the Purchaser, as the Committed Purchaser and as the Agent, the Existing Expected Maturity Date (as defined in the Note Purchase Agreement), except as otherwise provided
below or in the Indenture, the Indenture Supplement or the Terms Document (as defined on the reverse hereof); provided, however, that the entire unpaid principal amount of this Note shall be due and payable on the October 15, 2020
Payment Date (the “Legal Maturity Date”), or if such date is extended pursuant to the Note Purchase Agreement, the Existing Legal Maturity Date (as defined in the Note Purchase Agreement). Interest will accrue on this Note at the
Note Interest Rate, as set forth in the Note Purchase Agreement, and shall be due and payable on each Interest Payment Date from and including the previous Interest Payment Date to but excluding such Interest Payment Date (or, in the case of the
first Interest Payment Date, from and including the Issuance Date to but excluding the first Interest Payment Date); provided; however, that the first payment of interest for any Increase Amount shall be due and payable on the Interest
Payment Date in the calendar month following the Issuance Date for such Increase Amount, for a period from and including such Issuance Date to but excluding such Interest Payment Date. Interest will be computed on the basis of the actual number of
days elapsed and a 360-day year, except as otherwise provided in the Note Purchase Agreement. Such principal of and interest on this Note shall be paid in the manner specified on the reverse hereof. 

The principal and interest may be payable monthly, and may be payable earlier or later than the Expected Maturity Date, following an Event of
Default or while an Early Redemption Event has occurred and is continuing. No principal or interest will be distributed on the Note following the distribution of proceeds of a Receivables Sale. 

The principal of and interest on this Note are payable in such coin or currency of the United States of America as at the time of payment is
legal tender for payment of public and private debts. 
  

	*	Denominations of $250,000 and in integral multiples of $1,000 in excess thereof. 

  
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 The Initial Dollar Principal Amount of this Note is $[●] on the date hereof. All increases
or decreases in the Initial Dollar Principal Amount and the Outstanding Dollar Principal Amount made pursuant to the Terms Document (as defined on the reverse hereof) shall be maintained on the records of U.S. Bank National Association, as Indenture
Trustee (the “Indenture Trustee”, which term includes any successor Indenture Trustee under the Indenture); provided, however, that the failure of the Indenture Trustee to make any such recordation, or any error
thereon, shall not affect the obligations of the Issuer hereunder or under the Terms Document (as defined on the reverse hereof). 

Reference is made to the further provisions of this Note set forth on the reverse hereof, which shall have the same effect as though fully set
forth on the face of this Note. 
 Unless the certificate of authentication hereon has been executed by the Indenture Trustee whose name
appears below by manual signature, this Note shall not be entitled to any benefit under the Indenture, Indenture Supplement or the Terms Document referred to on the reverse hereof, or be valid or obligatory for any purpose. 

  
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 IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Issuer has caused this instrument to be signed, manually or in facsimile,
by its Authorized Officer. 
  

					
	DISCOVER CARD EXECUTION NOTE TRUST, as Issuer
		
	By:		WILMINGTON TRUST COMPANY, not in its individual capacity, but solely as Owner Trustee
			
			By:		  

			Name:		
			Title:		
			
			Date:		            , 2015

  
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 INDENTURE TRUSTEE’S CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION 

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

 

					
	US BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, not in its individual capacity, but solely as Indenture Trustee
			
			By:		  

			Name:		
			Title:		
			
			Date:		            , 2015

  
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 REVERSE OF NOTE 

This Note is one of the Notes of a duly authorized issue of Notes of the Issuer, designated as its Class A(2015-A) DiscoverSeries Notes
(herein called the “Class A(2015-A) Notes”), all issued under an Indenture dated as of July 26, 2007, as amended by that certain First Amendment to Indenture, dated as of June 4, 2010 (such Indenture, as so amended, and as
further amended, restated, amended and restated, supplemented, replaced or otherwise modified from time to time, is herein called the “Indenture”), as supplemented by an Amended and Restated Indenture Supplement for the
DiscoverSeries Notes, dated as of June 4, 2010 (such Indenture Supplement, as so amended, and as further amended, restated, amended and restated, supplemented, replaced or otherwise modified from time to time, is herein called the
“Indenture Supplement”), between the Issuer and Indenture Trustee, to which Indenture and Indenture Supplement reference is hereby made for a statement of the respective rights and obligations thereunder of the Issuer, the Indenture
Trustee and the Holders of the Notes. The Class A(2015-A) Notes are subject to all terms of the Indenture, the Indenture Supplement, the Terms Document for the Class A(2015-A) Notes, dated as of June 19, 2015 (such Terms Document, as amended,
restated amended and restated, supplemented, replaced or otherwise modified from time to time, is herein called the “Terms Document”), between the Issuer and Indenture Trustee, the Note Purchase Agreement and the Fee Letter, dated
as of June 19, 2015, among Royal Bank of Canada, the Note Issuance Trust and Discover Bank (such Fee Letter, as amended, restated, amended and restated, supplemented, replaced or otherwise modified from time to time, is herein called the
“Fee Letter”). All terms used in this Class A(2015-A) Note that are defined in the Indenture, the Indenture Supplement and the Terms Document shall have the meanings assigned to them in or pursuant to the Indenture, the Indenture
Supplement and the Terms Document. 
 The Class B Notes, the Class C Notes and the Class D Notes of the DiscoverSeries and other tranches of
Class A Notes of the DiscoverSeries will also be issued under the Indenture and the Indenture Supplement. 
 The Class A(2015-A) Notes
are and will be equally and ratably secured by the collateral pledged as security therefor as provided in the Indenture and the Indenture Supplement. 

Principal of the Class A(2015-A) Notes will be payable on or prior to the Expected Maturity Date, or, if such date is extended pursuant to the
Note Purchase Agreement, the Existing Expected Maturity Date (as defined in the Note Purchase Agreement), in an amount described on the face hereof except as otherwise provided in the Indenture, the Indenture Supplement or the Terms Document. During
the Liquidation Period, if any, principal will be distributed monthly on each Distribution Date, commencing on the month following the commencement of such period. 

Principal of any Increase Amount for which an Interim Expected Maturity Date is designated will be payable on or prior to such Interim
Expected Maturity Date, except as otherwise provided in the Indenture, the Indenture Supplement or the Terms Document. During the Interim Liquidation Period, if any, principal will be distributed monthly on each Distribution Date, commencing on the
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 As described above, the entire unpaid principal amount of this Class A(2015-A) Note shall be due
and payable on the Legal Maturity Date, or, if such date is extended pursuant to the Note Purchase Agreement, the Existing Legal Maturity Date (as defined in the Note Purchase Agreement). Notwithstanding the foregoing, the entire unpaid principal
amount of the Class A(2015-A) Notes shall be due and payable on the date on which an Event of Default relating to the Class A(2015-A) Notes shall have occurred and be continuing and, except in the event of an insolvency related default, the
Indenture Trustee or the Majority Holders of the applicable Series, Class or Tranche of Outstanding Dollar Principal Amount of the Outstanding Notes have declared the Class A(2015-A) Notes to be immediately due and payable in the manner provided in
Section 702 of the Indenture; provided, however, that such acceleration of the entire unpaid principal amount of the Notes may be rescinded by the Majority Holders of such applicable Series, Class or Tranche of Notes. 

On any day occurring on or after the date on which the aggregate Nominal Liquidation Amount of any Tranche of Notes is reduced to less than 5%
of its highest Outstanding Dollar Principal Amount, the Depositor or any Affiliate thereof has the right, but not the obligation, to redeem such Tranche of Notes in whole but not in part, pursuant to Section 1202 of the Indenture. The
redemption price will be an amount equal to the Outstanding Dollar Principal Amount of such Tranche, plus accrued, unpaid and additional interest or principal accreted and unpaid on such Tranche to but excluding the date of redemption. 

Subject to the terms and conditions of the Indenture, the Beneficiary, on behalf of the Note Issuance Trust, may from time to time issue, or
direct the Owner Trustee, on behalf of the Note Issuance Trust, to issue, one or more Series, Classes or Tranches of Notes. 
 On each
Payment Date, the Paying Agent shall distribute to each Holder of Class A(2015-A) Notes of record on the related Record Date (except for the final distribution with respect to this Class A(2015-A) Note) such Holder’s pro rata share of the
amounts held by the Paying Agent that are allocated and available on such Payment Date to pay interest and principal on the Class A Notes. 

Payments of interest on this Class A(2015-A) Note due and payable on each Payment Date, together with any installment of principal, if any, to
the extent not in full payment of this Class A(2015-A) Note, shall be made by check mailed to or by wire transfer to the Person whose name appears as the Registered Holder of this Class A(2015-A) Note on the Note Register as of the close of business
on each Record Date. Any such checks shall be mailed to the Person entitled thereto at the address of such Person as it appears on the Note Register as of the applicable Record Date without requiring that this Class A(2015-A) Note be submitted for
notation of payment. Any reduction in the principal amount of this Class A(2015-A) Note (or any one or more Predecessor Notes) effected by any payments made on any Payment Date shall be binding upon all future Holders of this Class A(2015-A) Note
and of any Class A(2015-A) Note issued upon the registration of transfer hereof or in exchange hereof or in lieu hereof, whether or not noted hereon. If funds are expected to be available, as provided in the Indenture, for payment in full of the
then remaining unpaid principal amount of this Class A(2015-A) Note on a Payment Date occurring after the Purchase Commitment Termination Date (as defined in the Note Purchase Agreement), then the Indenture Trustee, in the name of and on behalf of
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preceding such Payment Date by notice mailed within five days of such Payment Date and the amount then due and payable shall be payable only upon presentation and surrender of this Class
A(2015-A) Note at the Indenture Trustee’s principal Corporate Trust Office or at the office of the Indenture Trustee’s agent appointed for such purposes located in the City of New York. On any payment of interest or principal being made,
details of such payment shall be entered by the Indenture Trustee on behalf of the Issuer in Schedule A hereto. 
 As provided in the
Indenture and subject to certain limitations set forth therein and as set forth in the first legend on the face hereof, the transfer of this Class A(2015-A) Note may be registered on the Note Register upon surrender of this Class A(2015-A) Note for
registration of transfer at the office or agency designated by the Issuer pursuant to the Indenture, duly endorsed by, or accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Indenture Trustee duly executed by, the Holder
hereof or his attorney duly authorized in writing, with such signature guaranteed by a commercial bank or trust company located, or having a correspondent located, in the City of New York or the city in which the Corporate Trust Office is located,
or a member firm of a national securities exchange, and such other documents as the Indenture Trustee may require, and thereupon one or more new Class A(2015-A) Notes of authorized denominations and in the same aggregate principal amount will be
issued to the designated transferee or transferees. No service charge will be charged for any registration of transfer or exchange of this Class A(2015-A) Note, but the transferor may be required to pay a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other
governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any such registration of transfer or exchange. 
 To the fullest extent permitted
by applicable law, each Noteholder or Note Owner, by acceptance of a Class A(2015-A) Note or, in the case of a Note Owner, a beneficial interest in a Class A(2015-A) Note, covenants and agrees that by accepting the benefits of the Indenture that it
will not, prior to the date that is one year and one day after the later of (i) the termination of the Amended and Restated Pooling and Servicing Agreement dated as of November 3, 2004, by and between Discover Bank, as Master Servicer,
Servicer and Seller, and U.S. Bank National Association, as Trustee, as amended, restated, amended and restated, supplemented, replaced or otherwise modified from time to time (the “Pooling and Servicing Agreement”), with respect to
Discover Card Master Trust I (the “Master Trust”), (ii) termination of the Trust Agreement dated as of July 2, 2007 between Discover Bank, as Beneficiary, and Wilmington Trust Company, as Owner Trustee, as amended,
restated, amended and restated, supplemented, replaced or otherwise modified from time to time (the “Trust Agreement”), with respect to the Issuer or (iii) the date on which no notes of any tranche, class or series of notes
issued by the Issuer remain outstanding, acquiesce, petition or otherwise invoke or cause the Master Trust or the Issuer to invoke the process of any Governmental Authority for the purpose of commencing or sustaining a case against the Master Trust
or the Issuer under any Federal or state bankruptcy, insolvency or similar law or appointing a receiver, liquidator, assignee, trustee, custodian, sequestrator or other similar official of the Master Trust or the Issuer or any substantial part of
its property or ordering the winding-up or liquidation of the affairs of the Master Trust or the Issuer. 
 Prior to the due presentment for
registration of transfer of this Class A(2015-A) Note, the Issuer, the Indenture Trustee and any agent of the Issuer or the Indenture Trustee may treat the Person in whose name this Class A(2015-A) Note (as of the day of determination or as of such
other date as may be specified in the Indenture) is registered as the owner hereof for all purposes, whether or not this Class A(2015-A) Note be overdue, and neither the Issuer, the Indenture Trustee nor any such agent shall be affected by notice to
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 The Indenture permits, with certain exceptions as therein provided, the amendment thereof and the
modification of the rights and obligations of the Issuer and the rights of the Holders of the Notes under the Indenture at any time by the Issuer with the consent of the Holders of Notes representing not less than 66 2/3% of the Outstanding Dollar
Principal Amount of each adversely affected Series, Class or Tranche of Notes. The Indenture also contains provisions permitting the Holders of Notes representing specified percentages of the Outstanding Dollar Principal Amount of the Notes, on
behalf of the Holders of all the Notes, to waive compliance by the Issuer with certain provisions of the Indenture and certain past defaults under the Indenture and their consequences. Any such consent or waiver by the Holder of this Class A(2015-A)
Note shall be conclusive and binding upon such Holder and upon all future Holders of this Class A(2015-A) Note and of any Note issued upon the registration of transfer hereof or in exchange hereof or in lieu hereof whether or not notation of such
consent or waiver is made upon this Class A(2015-A) Note. The Indenture also permits the Indenture Trustee to amend or waive certain terms and conditions set forth in the Indenture without the consent of Holders of the Notes issued thereunder. 

The term “Issuer” as used in this Class A(2015-A) Note includes any successor to the Issuer under the Indenture. 

The Issuer is permitted by the Indenture, under certain circumstances, to merge or consolidate, subject to the rights of the Indenture Trustee
and the Holders of Notes under the Indenture. 
 The transfer of this Note is subject to certain restrictions set forth in the Note Purchase
Agreement. In no event shall this Note, or any interest therein, be transferred to an employee benefit plan, trust or account subject to the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended
(“ERISA”), or described in Section 4975(e)(1) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the “Code”), and not excepted under Section 4975(g). Any
Holder of this Note or, in the case of a Note Owner, a beneficial interest in a Class A(2015-A) Note, by its acceptance hereof, shall be deemed to represent and warrant that it is not (i) an employee benefit plan (as defined in
Section 3(3) of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended, or a plan described in Section 4975(e)(1) of the Code, (ii) purchasing any Note or any interest therein on behalf of any such plan as investment manager,
named fiduciary or trustee of any such plan, or (iii) purchasing any Note or interest therein with any assets of any plan within the meaning of 29 CFR Section 2510.3-101. 

The Class A(2015-A) Notes are issuable only in registered form in denominations as provided in the Indenture, subject to certain limitations
therein set forth. 
 THIS CLASS A(2015-A) NOTE AND THE INDENTURE WILL BE CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH AND GOVERNED BY THE LAWS OF THE STATE
OF NEW YORK, INCLUDING SECTION 5-1401 OF THE GENERAL OBLIGATION LAW, WITHOUT REFERENCE TO ANY CONFLICT OF LAW PROVISIONS THAT WOULD RESULT IN THE APPLICATION OF THE LAWS OF ANY OTHER STATE. 

  
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 No reference herein to the Indenture and no provision of this Class A(2015-A) Note or of the
Indenture shall alter or impair the obligation of the Issuer, which is absolute and unconditional, to pay the principal of and interest on this Class A(2015-A) Note at the times, place, and rate, and in the coin or currency herein prescribed. 

No recourse may be taken, directly or indirectly, with respect to the obligations of the Issuer on the Notes or under the Indenture or any
certificate or other writing delivered in connection therewith, against (i) the Owner Trustee in its individual capacity, (ii) any owner of a beneficial interest in the Issuer or (iii) any partner, owner, beneficiary, agent, officer,
director or employee of the Owner Trustee in its individual capacity, any holder of a beneficial interest in the Issuer or any successor or assign of the Owner Trustee in its individual capacity, except as any such Person may have expressly agreed
(it being understood that the Owner Trustee has no such obligations in its individual capacity). The Holder of this Class A(2015-A) Note by the acceptance hereof agrees that, except as expressly provided in the Indenture and the Indenture Supplement
in the case of an Event of Default under the Indenture, the Holder shall have no claim against any of the foregoing for any deficiency, loss or claim therefrom; provided, however, that nothing contained herein shall be taken to prevent
recourse to, and enforcement against, the assets of the Issuer for any and all liabilities, obligations and undertakings contained in the Indenture or in this Class A(2015-A) Note. 

  
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 ASSIGNMENT 

Social Security or taxpayer I.D. or other identifying number of assignee 
  

	
	  

 FOR VALUE RECEIVED, the undersigned hereby sells, assigns and transfers unto 

(name and address of assignee) 
 the within Note and all rights
thereunder, and hereby irrevocably constitutes and appoints attorney, to transfer said Note on the books kept for registration thereof, with full power of substitution in the premises. 

 

									
	Dated:		  
				  
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	*	NOTE: The signature to this assignment must correspond with the name of the registered owner as it appears on the face of the within Note in every particular, without alteration, enlargement or any change whatsoever.

  
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 SCHEDULE A 

PART I 
 INTEREST PAYMENTS

  

									
	 Interest Payment Date
	  	Date of Payment	  	Total Amount of
Interest Payable	  	Amount of
Interest Paid	  	Confirmation of
payment by or
on behalf of the
Note Issuance
Trust
					
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 PART II 

PRINCIPAL PAYMENTS 
  

									
	Principal Payment Date	  	Date of Payment	  	Total Amount of
Principal
Payable	  	Total Amount
Paid	  	Confirmation of
payment by or
on behalf of the
Note Issuance
Trust
					
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 PART III 

INCREASES IN OUTSTANDING DOLLAR PRINCIPAL AMOUNT 
  

									
	Issuance Date of Increase	  	Amount of
Increase in
Outstanding
Dollar Principal
Amount	  	Resulting Initial
Dollar Principal
Amount	  	Stated Principal
Amount	  	Confirmation of
increase by or
on behalf of the
Note Issuance
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 A-15Exhibit 10.1

 

Seventeenth Amendment to the
 First Amended and Restated Agreement
 of Limited Partnership
 of SL Green Operating Partnership, L.P.

 

This Amendment is made as of June 19, 2015 by SL Green Realty Corp., a Maryland corporation, as managing general partner (the “Company” or the “Managing General Partner”) of SL Green Operating Partnership, L.P., a Delaware limited partnership (the “Partnership”), and as attorney-in-fact for the Persons named on Exhibit A to the First Amended and Restated Agreement of Limited Partnership of SL Green Operating Partnership, L.P., dated as of August 20, 1997, as amended from time to time (the “Partnership Agreement”), for the purpose of amending the Partnership Agreement.  Capitalized terms used herein and not defined shall have the meanings given to them in the Partnership Agreement.

 

WHEREAS, pursuant to that certain Purchase, Sale and Contribution Agreement (the “Sale Agreement”), dated as of April 3, 2015, by and between Walsam East 72nd LLC, a New York limited liability company (the “Seller”), and 260E72 Owner LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (the “Purchaser”), the Purchaser has agreed to acquire the Premises (as defined in the Sale Agreement) from the Seller in exchange for, among other things, convertible preferred partnership units of the Partnership.

 

WHEREAS, the Partnership owns a direct or indirect interest in the Purchaser.

 

WHEREAS, Section 4.02A of the Partnership Agreement grants the Managing General Partner authority to cause the Partnership to issue interests in the Partnership to Persons other than the Managing General Partner in one or more classes or series, with such designations, preferences and relative, participating optional or other special rights, powers and duties as may be determined by the Managing General Partner in its sole and absolute discretion, subject to applicable Delaware law.

 

WHEREAS, the Managing General Partner has determined that, in connection with the issuance of the convertible preferred partnership units contemplated by the Sale Agreement, it is necessary and desirable to amend the Partnership Agreement to create and set forth the terms of the convertible preferred partnership units having the designations, rights and preferences set forth herein.

 

WHEREAS, solely to the extent necessary to effect the establishment of the Series N Preferred Units (as defined herein) with the terms and conditions described herein, the following shall be deemed to amend Articles V and VI and Section 8.06 of the Partnership Agreement.

 

NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the premises and for other good and valuable consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which is hereby acknowledged, the Managing General Partner hereby amends the Partnership Agreement as follows:

 

1.                                      Article I of the Partnership Agreement is hereby amended by adding the following definition:

 

 

“Series N Preferred Units” means the series of Partnership Units established pursuant to the Seventeenth Amendment to this Partnership Agreement, representing units of Limited Partnership Interest designated as the Series N Preferred Units, with the preferences, rights, voting powers, restrictions, limitations as to distributions, qualifications and terms and conditions of repurchase and conversion as described herein.

 

2.                                      Section 8.06A(i) of the Partnership Agreement is hereby amended by adding the following sentence to the end of such section:

 

“Notwithstanding any provision of this section 8.06A(i) to the contrary, holders of Class B Units (or the Class A Units into which such Class B Units automatically convert following the expiration of the applicable Distribution Period within which the conversion occurs) issued as a result of a Conversion Notice delivered in respect of Series N Preferred Units pursuant to section 3.F.(ii) of the Seventeenth Amendment to the Partnership Agreement may exercise their Redemption Right at any time and from time to time following the delivery of such Class B Units (or the Class A Units into which such Class B Units automatically convert following the expiration of the applicable Distribution Period within which the conversion occurs) regardless of whether the two-year period described in this section 8.06A(i) has expired.”

 

3.                                      In accordance with Section 4.02A of the Partnership Agreement, set forth below are the terms and conditions of the Series N Preferred Units hereby established:

 

A.                                    Designation and Number.  A series of Partnership Units, designated as Series N Preferred Units, is hereby established.  The maximum number of Series N Preferred Units shall be 552,303 Series N Preferred Units.

 

B.                                    Rank.  The Series N Preferred Units, with respect to rights to the payment of dividends and the distribution of assets upon the liquidation, dissolution or winding up of the Partnership, rank (a) senior to the Class A Units, the Class B Units (collectively, the “Common Units”) and all Partnership Interests outstanding or issued in the future by the Partnership, the terms of which do not expressly provide that such Partnership Interests ranks senior to or on a parity with the Series N Preferred Units, (b) on a parity with the Series F Preferred Units, the Series G Preferred Units, the Series I Preferred Units, the Series J Preferred Units, the Series K Preferred Units, the Series L Preferred Units, the Series M Preferred Units and all Partnership Interests outstanding or issued in the future by the Partnership, the terms of which expressly provide that such Partnership Interests rank on a parity with the Series N Preferred Units and (c) junior to all Partnership Interests issued in the future by the Partnership, the terms of which expressly provide that such Partnership Interests rank senior to the Series N Preferred Units.

 

C.                                    Distributions.

 

(i)                                     Pursuant to Section 5.01 of the Partnership Agreement but subject to the rights of holders of any Partnership Interests ranking senior to the Series N Preferred Units as to the payment of distributions, the holders of the then outstanding Series N Preferred Units shall be entitled to receive, when, as and if authorized by the Managing General Partner, out of Available Cash, cumulative quarterly preferential cash distributions in an amount per unit equal to 3.00% of the $25.00 liquidation preference per annum (equivalent to a fixed annual amount of $0.75 per

 

 

unit).  Distributions on the Series N Preferred Units shall accrue and be fully cumulative from the date of original issuance and shall be payable quarterly when, as and if authorized by the Managing General Partner, in equal amounts in arrears on the fifteenth day of each January, April, July and October or, if not a business day, the next succeeding business day (each, a “Series N Preferred Unit Distribution Payment Date”). Any distribution (including the initial distribution) payable on the Series N Preferred Units for any partial distribution period shall be prorated and computed on the basis of a 360-day year consisting of twelve 30-day months.  “Distribution Period” shall mean the period from and including the date of original issuance and ending on but excluding the next Series N Preferred Unit Distribution Payment Date, and each subsequent period from and including such Series N Preferred Unit Distribution Payment Date and ending on but excluding the next following Series N Preferred Unit Distribution Payment Date.

 

(ii)                                  No distribution on the Series N Preferred Units shall be authorized by the Managing General Partner or declared or paid or set apart for payment by the Partnership at such time as the terms and provisions of any agreement of the Managing General Partner or the Partnership, including any agreement relating to its indebtedness, prohibits such authorization, declaration, payment or setting apart for payment or provides that such authorization, declaration, payment or setting apart for payment would constitute a breach thereof, or a default thereunder, or if such authorization, declaration, payment or setting apart for payment shall be restricted or prohibited by law.  No interest, or sum of money in lieu of interest, shall be payable in respect of any distribution payment or payments on the Series N Preferred Units which may be in arrears.

 

(iii)                               Notwithstanding the foregoing, distributions with respect to the Series N Preferred Units shall accumulate whether or not any of the foregoing restrictions exist, whether or not there is sufficient Available Cash for the payment thereof and whether or not such distributions are authorized. Accumulated but unpaid distributions on Series N Preferred Units shall not bear interest and holders of the Series N Preferred Units shall not be entitled to any distributions in excess of full cumulative distributions.  Any distribution payment made on the Series N Preferred Units shall first be credited against the earliest accumulated but unpaid distribution due with respect to such units which remains payable.

 

(iv)                              Except as provided in section 3.C.(v), unless full cumulative distributions have been or contemporaneously are declared and paid or authorized, declared and a sum sufficient for the payment thereof set apart for such payment on the Series N Preferred Units for all past distribution periods and the then current distribution period, no distributions (other than in Partnership Interests ranking junior to the Series N Preferred Units as to the payment of dividends and the distribution of assets upon any liquidation, dissolution or winding up of the Partnership) shall be authorized, declared or paid or set apart for payment nor shall any other distribution be authorized, declared or made upon any other Partnership Interests ranking, as to the payment of distributions or the distribution of assets upon any liquidation, dissolution or winding up of the Partnership, junior to or on a parity with the Series N Preferred Units for any period, nor shall any other Partnership Interests ranking junior to or on a parity with the Series N Preferred Units as to the payment of distributions or the distribution of assets upon any liquidation, dissolution or winding up of the Partnership, be redeemed, purchased or otherwise acquired for any consideration (or any moneys be paid to or made available for a sinking fund

 

 

for the redemption of any such Partnership Interests) by the Partnership (except by conversion into or exchange for Partnership Interests ranking junior to the Series N Preferred Units as to the payment of distributions and the distribution of assets upon any liquidation, dissolution or winding up of the affairs of the Partnership).

 

(v)                                 When distributions are not paid in full (or a sum sufficient for such full payment is not so set apart) upon the Series N Preferred Units and any other Partnership Interests ranking on a parity as to the payment of distributions with the Series N Preferred Units, all distributions authorized and declared upon the Series N Preferred Units and any other Partnership Interests ranking on a parity as to the payment of distributions with the Series N Preferred Units shall be declared pro rata so that the amount of distributions authorized and declared per Series N Preferred Unit and such other Partnership Interests shall in all cases bear to each other the same ratio that accumulated distributions per each Series N Preferred Unit and such other Partnership Interests (which shall not include any accumulation in respect of unpaid distributions for prior distribution periods if such other Partnership Interests do not have a cumulative distribution) bear to each other.

 

(vi)                              Holders of Series N Preferred Units shall not be entitled to any distribution, whether payable in cash, property or Partnership Interests, in excess of full cumulative distributions on the Series N Preferred Units as described above.  Accrued but unpaid distributions on the Series N Preferred Units will accumulate as of the Series N Preferred Units Distribution Payment Date on which they first become payable.

 

D.                                    Allocations.  Allocations of the Partnership’s items of income, gain, loss and deduction shall be allocated among holders of Series N Preferred Units in accordance with Article VI of the Partnership Agreement.

 

E.                                     Liquidation Preference.

 

(i)                                     In the event of any voluntary or involuntary liquidation, dissolution or winding up of the Partnership, the holders of the Series N Preferred Units shall be entitled to receive out of the assets of the Partnership available for distribution to the Partners pursuant to Section 13.02.A of the Partnership Agreement a liquidation preference of $25.00 per Series N Preferred Unit, plus an amount equal to any accumulated and unpaid distributions (whether or not earned or authorized) to the date of payment (the “Series N Liquidation Value”), before any distribution of assets is made to holders of any other Partnership Interests that rank junior to the Series N Preferred Units as to the distribution of assets upon the liquidation, dissolution or winding up of the Partnership, but subject to the preferential rights of the holders of Partnership Interests ranking senior to the Series N Preferred Units as to the distribution of assets upon the liquidation, dissolution or winding up of the Partnership.

 

(ii)                                  If upon any such voluntary or involuntary liquidation, dissolution or winding up of the Partnership, the assets of the Partnership legally available for distribution to its Partners are insufficient to make such full payment to the holders of the Series N Preferred Units, and the corresponding amounts payable on all other Partnership Interests ranking on a parity with the Series N Preferred Units as to the distribution of assets upon the liquidation, dissolution or winding up of the Partnership, then the holders of the Series N Preferred Units, and all other

 

 

holders of such Partnership Interests on a parity with the Series N Preferred Units shall share ratably in any such distribution of assets in proportion to the full liquidating distributions (including, if applicable, accumulated and unpaid distributions) to which they would otherwise be respectively entitled.

 

(iii)                               After payment of the full amount of the Series N Liquidation Value, the holders of the Series N Preferred Units, shall have no right or claim to any of the remaining assets of the Partnership.

 

(iv)                              None of a consolidation or merger of the Partnership with or into another entity, a merger of another entity with or into the Partnership, a statutory unit exchange by the Partnership or a sale, lease or conveyance of all or substantially all of the Partnership’s property or business shall be considered a liquidation, dissolution or winding up of the affairs of the Partnership.

 

F.                                      Repurchase and Conversion Rights.

 

(i)                                     Notwithstanding any other provision of the Partnership Agreement to the contrary, holders of the Series N Preferred Units shall have the right to require the Partnership to repurchase for cash all or a portion of the Series N Preferred Units at any time after the date hereof (the “Cash Repurchase Right”), subject to paragraph 1 of section 3.F.(iii).  The repurchase price per Series N Preferred Unit upon such repurchase shall be paid by the Partnership in cash and shall be in an amount equal to the Series N Liquidation Value of such Series N Preferred Units to the date of such repurchase (the “Cash Repurchase Consideration”).  From and after the applicable repurchase date, the Series N Preferred Units so repurchased shall no longer be outstanding and all rights hereunder, to distributions or otherwise, with respect to such Series N Preferred Units shall cease.

 

(ii)                                  In addition to the holders’ Cash Repurchase Right, holders of the Series N Preferred Units shall, subject to paragraph 2 of section 3.F.(iii), have the right to convert all or a portion of such Series N Preferred Units at any time and from time to time into the number of Class B Units (which Class B Units shall automatically be converted into Class A Units following the expiration of the applicable Distribution Period within which the conversion occurs) determined in accordance with the following formula (the “Preferred Conversion Factor”) with respect to each Series N Preferred Unit: the Series N Liquidation Value of such Series N Preferred Unit to the date of such conversion divided by $166.63 (the “Conversion Price”) (as appropriately adjusted for any stock splits, stock dividends or similar transactions after the date hereof).

 

(iii)                               (1)                                 Each holder of Series N Preferred Units who desires to require the Partnership to repurchase all or a portion of the Series N Preferred Units shall provide notice to the Partnership (with a copy to the Managing General Partner) in the form of the Notice of Repurchase Demand attached as Exhibit A hereto (a “Repurchase Demand Notice”) via facsimile, hand delivery or other mail or messenger service.  The date upon which the Partnership initially receives a Repurchase Demand Notice shall be a “Notice Date.”  The Partnership shall pay to such holder of Series N Preferred Units the Cash Repurchase Consideration within ten (10) Business Days after the Notice Date.  A holder of Series N

 

 

Preferred Units may not request repurchase of less than 10,000 Series N Preferred Units or, if such holder of Series N Preferred Units holds less than 10,000 Series N Preferred Units, for less than all of the Series N Preferred Units held by such holder of Series N Preferred Units.

 

(2)                                 Each holder of Series N Preferred Units who desires to convert the same into Class B Units shall provide notice to the Partnership (with a copy to the Managing General Partner) in the form of the Notice of Conversion attached as Exhibit B hereto (a “Conversion Notice”) via facsimile, hand delivery or other mail or messenger service. The date upon which the Partnership initially receives a Conversion Notice shall be a “Notice Date.”  The Partnership shall issue and deliver within ten (10) Business Days after the Notice Date, to such holder of Series N Preferred Units at the address of the holder on the books of the Partnership, the number of Class B Units, or Class A Units, as the case may be, as calculated pursuant to the Preferred Conversion Factor.  A holder of Series N Preferred Units may not request conversion of less than 10,000 Series N Preferred Units or, if such holder of Series N Preferred Units holds less than 10,000 Series N Preferred Units, for less than all of the Series N Preferred Units held by such holder of Series N Preferred Units.

 

(iv)                              The Preferred Conversion Factor (and the Conversion Price) shall be subject to adjustment from time to time hereafter solely for purposes of applying section 3.F.(ii), as follows; it being intended that such adjustments to the Preferred Conversion Factor (and the Conversion Price) are to be made in order to avoid unintended dilution or anti-dilution as a result of transactions in which Common Units are issued, redeemed or exchanged without a corresponding issuance, redemption or exchange of Series N Preferred Units:

 

(1)                                 In case the Partnership shall, at any time or from time to time prior to conversion of all Series N Preferred Units, (A) pay a dividend or make a distribution on the outstanding Common Units, in Common Units, (B) split or subdivide the outstanding Common Units into a larger number of Common Units, (C) effect a reverse unit split or otherwise combine the outstanding Common Units into a smaller number of Common Units or (D) issue by reclassification of the Common Units any units of Partnership Interest, then, and in each such case, the Preferred Conversion Factor (and the Conversion Price) in effect immediately prior to such event or the record date therefor, whichever is earlier, shall be adjusted so that the holder of any Series N Preferred Units thereafter surrendered for conversion shall be entitled to receive the Class B Units that such holder would have been entitled to receive after the happening of any of the events described above, had such Series N Preferred Units been converted immediately prior to the happening of such event or the record date therefor, whichever is earlier. An adjustment made pursuant to this sub-paragraph (iv)(1) shall become effective (x) in the case of any such dividend or distribution, immediately after the close of business on the record date for the determination of holders of Common Units entitled to receive such dividend or distribution, or (y) in the case of any such subdivision, reclassification, reverse unit split or combination, at the close of business on the day upon which such action becomes effective.

 

 

(2)                                 In case the Partnership shall, at any time or from time to time prior to conversion of all Series N Preferred Units, declare, order, pay or make a dividend or other distribution (including, without limitation, any distribution of units or other securities or property or rights or warrants to subscribe for securities of the Partnership entitling holders thereof to subscribe for or purchase such securities at a price per share less than the fair market value of such securities, by way of dividend or spin-off), on its Common Units, other than (A) regular and customary quarterly distributions by the Partnership of Available Cash, or (B) dividends or distributions of Common Units which are referred to in section 3.F.(iv)(1) above, then, and in each such case, the Preferred Conversion Factor (and the Conversion Price) shall be adjusted so that the holder of each Series N Preferred Unit shall be entitled to receive, upon the conversion thereof, the number of Class B Units determined by multiplying (1) the applicable Preferred Conversion Factor on the day immediately prior to the record date fixed for the determination of Common Unit holders entitled to receive such dividend or distribution by (2) a fraction, the numerator of which shall be the Deemed Value of the Partnership Interest per Common Unit on such record date, and the denominator of which shall be such Deemed Value of the Partnership Interest per Common Unit less the fair market value (as determined in good faith by resolution of the board of directors of the Managing General Partner) of such dividend or distribution allocable to one Common Unit. An adjustment made pursuant to this section 3.F.(iv)(2) shall be made upon the opening of business on the next Business Day following the date on which any such dividend or distribution is made and shall be effective retroactively immediately after the close of business on the record date fixed for the determination of Common Unit holders entitled to receive such dividend or distribution.

 

(3)                                 In case the Partnership shall, at any time or from time to time prior to conversion of all Series N Preferred Units, issue Common Units to each of the then existing holders of Common Units (or securities convertible into or exchangeable for Common Units, whether or not the rights to convert or exchange such securities are then exercisable) at a price per Common Unit (or having a conversion price per Common Unit, as applicable) less than the Deemed Value of the Partnership Interest per Common Unit as of the date of issuance of such Common Units or of such convertible securities, as the case may be, then, and in each such case, the Preferred Conversion Factor (and the Conversion Price) shall be adjusted so that the holder of each Series N Preferred Unit shall be entitled to receive, upon conversion thereof, the number of Class B Units determined by multiplying (A) the Preferred Conversion Factor on the day immediately prior to such date by (B) a fraction, the numerator of which shall be the sum of (1) the number of Common Units outstanding on such date and (2) the number of additional Common Units issued (or into which the convertible securities may convert), and the denominator of which shall be the sum of (x) the number of Common Units outstanding on such date and (y) the number of Common Units which the aggregate consideration receivable by the Partnership for the total number of Common Units so issued (or into which the convertible securities may convert) would purchase at the Deemed Value of the Partnership Interest per Common Unit as of such date.  Any adjustment made pursuant to this section 3.F.(iv)(3) shall be made and become

 

 

effective on the next Business Day following the date on which any such issuance is made and shall be effective retroactively immediately after the close of business on such date.  For purposes of this section 3.F.(iv)(3):

 

(a)                                 if the Partnership shall issue Common Units for consideration other than cash, the price per Common Unit at which such Common Units are issued shall be deemed to be the fair market value (as determined in good faith by the board of directors of the Managing General Partner) of the portion of such non-cash consideration allocable to one Common Unit; and

 

(b)                                 the aggregate consideration receivable by the Partnership in connection with the issuance of Common Units or of securities convertible into Common Units shall be deemed to be equal to the sum of the aggregate offering price (before deduction of underwriting discounts or commissions and expenses payable to third parties) of all such securities plus the minimum aggregate amount, if any, payable upon conversion of any such convertible securities into Common Units.

 

(4)                                 In case the Partnership shall, at any time or from time to time prior to conversion of all Series N Preferred Units, make a tender offer or exchange offer for Common Units at a price per Common Unit greater than the Deemed Value of the Partnership Interest per Common Unit as of the date of such repurchase (the number of Common Units so repurchased, multiplied by the amount by which such price per Common Unit exceeds the Deemed Value of the Partnership Interest per Common Unit as of such date, being referred to in this section 3.F.(iv)(4) as the “Excess Amount”), then, and in each such case, the Preferred Conversion Factor (and the Conversion Price) shall be adjusted, in accordance with the applicable provisions of sections 3.F.(iv)(1) and 3.F.(iv)(2) above, as if, in lieu of such repurchase, the Partnership had (x) made a distribution of property having a fair market value (as determined in good faith by resolution of the board of directors of the Managing General Partner) equal to the Excess Amount, with such distribution made to holders of Common Units (including holders of Common Units so repurchased) on the date of such repurchase, and (y) effected a reverse split of the Common Units in the proportion required to reduce the number of Common Units outstanding by the number of Common Units repurchased by the Partnership in such repurchase.

 

(5)                                 For purposes of this paragraph (iv), the number of Common Units at any time outstanding shall not include any Common Units then owned or held by or for the account of the Partnership.

 

(6)                                 In the event the number of Class B Units to which a holder is entitled upon conversion of its Series N Preferred Units is not equal to a whole number, the holder shall be paid (i) that number of Class B Units, or Class A Units, as the case may be, which equals the nearest whole number less than such amount plus (ii) an amount of cash which the Managing General Partner determines, in its reasonable discretion, to represent the fair value of the remaining fractional Class B

 

 

Unit, or Class A Units, as the case may be, which would otherwise be payable to such holder.

 

(7)                                 The Managing General Partner shall provide notice to holders of the Series N Preferred Units following the occurrence of any transaction or event described in this paragraph (iv) that results in an adjustment to the Preferred Conversion Factor (and the Conversion Price) as soon as reasonably practicable following such transaction or event.

 

G.                                    Voting Rights.  Except as required by applicable law, the Series N Preferred Units shall have no voting rights, except that no amendment of the Partnership Agreement shall be made that materially adversely affects the rights of the holders of Series N Preferred Units without the consent of a majority of such holders (unless all holders of Partnership Interests are materially adversely affected to the same degree).    For the avoidance of doubt, any amendment to create, establish or amend the rights and designations of a series of Partnership Units shall not require the consent of the holders of the Series N Preferred Units.

 

H.                                   Transfer.  In addition to the restrictions set forth in Section 11.03 of the Partnership Agreement, except as set forth in section 3.F above, a holder of the Series N Preferred Units may not Transfer any of the Series N Preferred Units without the consent of the Managing General Partner, which consent may be withheld in the Managing General Partner’s sole discretion; provided, however, that nothing in this Amendment or in the Partnership Agreement shall inhibit a holder’s ability to exercise the redemption right set forth in Section 8.06 of the Partnership Agreement with respect to Class A Units into which the Series N Preferred Units may be exchanged pursuant to section 3.F of this Amendment (or the Class A Units into which such Class B Units automatically convert following the expiration of the Distribution Period within which the conversion occurs). Any attempt to effect a Transfer of the Series N Preferred Units without the Managing General Partner’s consent shall be void ab initio.

 

For purposes of this section 3.H, “Transfer” shall have the meaning of “transfer” as defined in 11.1(A) in the Partnership Agreement.  The term “Transfer” as used in this section 3.H or Article XI of the Partnership Agreement shall not include any repurchase of the Series N Preferred Units by the Partnership or the conversion of Series N Preferred Units into Class B Units.

 

I.                                        Restrictions on Ownership.  No person that is not a legal resident of the United States of America shall be permitted to beneficially own, directly or indirectly for U.S. federal income tax purposes, any Series N Preferred Units.  The acquisition of any Series N Preferred Units by any person that is not a legal resident of the United States of America, whether or not in accordance with section 3.H above, shall be void ab initio.

 

4.                                      Except as modified herein, all terms and conditions of the Partnership Agreement shall remain in full force and effect, which terms and conditions the Managing General Partner hereby ratifies and confirms.

 

5.                                      This Amendment shall be construed and enforced in accordance with and governed by the laws of the State of Delaware, without regard to conflicts of law.

 

 

6.                                      If any provision of this Amendment is or becomes invalid, illegal or unenforceable in any respect, the validity, legality and enforceability of the remaining provisions contained herein shall not be affected thereby.

 

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has executed this Amendment as of the date first set forth above.

 

 

	
 
    	
SL GREEN REALTY CORP., a Maryland corporation,
    
	
 
    	
as Managing General Partner of SL Green Operating   Partnership, L.P.
    
	
 
    	
and on behalf of existing Limited Partners
    
	
 
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
By:
    	
/s/ Andrew Levine
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
Name: Andrew Levine
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
Title: Executive Vice President
    

 

 

Exhibit A

 

Notice of Repurchase Demand

 

The undersigned holder of Series N Preferred Units hereby irrevocably requests SL Green Operating Partnership, L.P., a Delaware limited partnership (the “Partnership”), to repurchase the number of Series N Preferred Units stated herein in accordance with the terms of the First Amended and Restated Agreement of Limited Partnership of SL Green Operating Partnership, L.P., as amended from time to time in accordance with its terms, and the Cash Repurchase Right referred to therein; and the undersigned irrevocably (i) surrenders such Series N Preferred Units and all right, title and interest therein and (ii) directs that the Cash Repurchase Consideration deliverable in accordance with this Notice be delivered in the name(s) and at the address(es) specified below.

 

The undersigned hereby represents, warrants, and certifies that the undersigned (a) has good and unencumbered title to the Series N Preferred Units that are the subject of this Notice, free and clear of the rights or interests of any other person or entity, (b) has the full right, power, and authority to demand repurchase and surrender the Series N Preferred Units that are the subject of this Notice and (c) has obtained the consent or approval of all persons or entities, if any, having the right to consent or approve such repurchase and surrender.

 

	
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Exhibit B

 

Notice of Conversion

 

The undersigned holder of Series N Preferred Units hereby irrevocably requests SL Green Operating Partnership, L.P., a Delaware limited partnership (the “Partnership”), to convert the number of Series N Preferred Units stated herein into the right to receive Class B Units (as defined in the Partnership’s First Amended and Restated Agreement of Limited Partnership, as amended from time to time (the “Partnership Agreement”)) in accordance with the terms of the Partnership Agreement, as amended from time to time in accordance with its terms; and the undersigned irrevocably (i) surrenders such Series N Preferred Units and all right, title and interest therein and (ii) directs that the Class B Units deliverable in accordance with this Notice be delivered in the name(s) and at the address(es) specified below.

 

The undersigned hereby represents, warrants, and certifies that the undersigned (a) has good and unencumbered title to the Series N Preferred Units that are the subject of this Notice, free and clear of the rights or interests of any other person or entity, (b) has the full right, power, and authority to request the conversion requested herein and (c) has obtained the consent or approval of all persons or entities, if any, having the right to consent or approve such conversion and surrender.

 

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