Document:

Exhibit 10(d)

 

EMPLOYMENT AGREEMENT

 

THIS EMPLOYMENT AGREEMENT dated as of June [      ], 2014 (“Agreement”) is by and between Protective Life Corporation, a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), and [                                ] (“Executive”).

 

W  I  T  N  E  S  S  E  T  H:

 

WHEREAS, the Company and Executive have previously entered into an Employment Continuation Agreement, dated as of [                                ] (the “Prior Agreement”) which provided the Company and Executive with certain rights and obligations upon the occurrence of a Change of Control (as defined in the Prior Agreement), including certain payments and benefits to be provided to Executive under Section 7(c)(i)(B) of the Prior Agreement in the event that Executive’s employment terminates in connection with a Change of Control (the “CIC Severance Benefits”); and

 

WHEREAS, Executive will have access to highly confidential information of the Company and its affiliates as a result of Executive’s continued employment with the Company;

 

WHEREAS, in connection with the transactions contemplated by the Agreement and Plan of Merger (the “Merger Agreement”) among The Dai-ichi Life Insurance Company, Limited, a kabushiki kaisha organized under the laws of Japan (“DL”), DL Investment (Delaware), Inc., a Delaware corporation and wholly-owned subsidiary of DL, and the Company, the Company and Executive desire that subject to and effective as of the Effective Date (as defined in Section 1 below), and except as provided in this Agreement, the Prior Agreement will terminate and be superseded by this Agreement and will be of no further force or effect, and in exchange for the payments and benefits provided hereunder, Executive agrees to be subject to the restrictive covenants set forth in Section 9 hereof during and following Executive’s employment with the Company;

 

WHEREAS, the Company and Executive desire to enter into this Agreement to set forth the terms and conditions of Executive’s employment as of the Effective Date, including the benefits to be provided to Executive in the event that Executive’s employment terminates under the circumstances described herein; and

 

WHEREAS, in the event that the transactions contemplated by the Merger Agreement are not consummated, this Agreement shall be of no further force and effect and shall be deemed to be null and void ab initio and the parties shall have no further obligations hereunder.

 

NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the foregoing, the parties agree as follows:

 

1.                                      Effective Date.  The effective date of this Agreement (the “Effective Date”) shall be as of and only upon the date of consummation of the transactions contemplated by the Merger Agreement.  For the avoidance of doubt, the Company and Executive agree and recognize that (i) the Company has certain rights to solicit or respond to acquisition proposals under Section 6.05 of the Merger Agreement, (ii) Executive will assist the Company in the review, evaluation, negotiation and pursuit of such acquisition proposals, and (iii) Executive will discuss and may

 

 

enter into agreements regarding the Executive’s potential employment by parties making such proposals.

 

2.                                      Employment Period.  Subject to Section 5, the Company agrees to continue Executive in its employ, and Executive agrees to remain in the employ of the Company, for the period (the “Employment Period”) commencing on the Effective Date and ending on the second anniversary of the Effective Date.  Following the expiration of the Employment Period, Executive’s employment will continue on an “at will” basis.

 

3.                                      Position.  (a) Title, Duties and Authorities.  The Executive’s initial title shall be [                                 ], with duties and authorities commensurate therewith.  Executive acknowledges that from and after the Effective Date, such duties and authorities (i) may differ from those prior to the Effective Date reflecting the fact that the Company is no longer an independent public company and (ii) may include additional duties and authorities as may reasonably be assigned by the Company for purposes of reporting to DL for purposes of complying with the laws (including any rules of any applicable securities exchange) applicable to DL, compliance with DL’s internal consolidated accounting reporting requirement and other internal policies, or for purposes of dealing with the applicable governmental authorities in Japan.  Executive’s services shall be performed at the location where Executive was employed immediately before the Effective Date.

 

(b)                                 Business Time.  From and after the Effective Date, Executive agrees to devote Executive’s full attention during normal business hours to the business and affairs of the Company and to perform faithfully and efficiently the responsibilities assigned to Executive to the extent necessary to discharge such responsibilities, except for periods of vacation, sick leave and other leave to which Executive is entitled.  Executive’s continuing to serve on any boards and committees on which Executive is serving or with which Executive is otherwise associated immediately before the Effective Date shall not be deemed to interfere with the performance of Executive’s services for the Company.

 

4.                                      Compensation.

 

(a)                                 Base Salary.  During the Employment Period, Executive shall receive an annual base salary of $[               ], which amount is no less than Executive’s annual base salary in effect immediately prior to the Effective Date.  The base salary shall be reviewed at least once each year, beginning in the first quarter of 2015, and consistent with past practice may be increased (but not decreased) at any time and from time to time by action of the Board of Directors of the Company (the “Board”) or any committee thereof or any individual having authority to take such action in accordance with the Company’s regular practices.  Executive’s base salary, as it may be increased from time to time, shall hereafter be referred to as “Base Salary”.  Neither the Base Salary nor any increase in Base Salary after the Effective Date shall limit or reduce any other obligation of the Company hereunder.

 

(b)                                 Annual Bonus and Incentive Compensation.

 

(i)                                           Annual Bonus.  During the Employment Period, in addition to the Base Salary, for each fiscal year of the Company ending during the Employment Period,

 

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Executive shall be eligible to participate in an Annual Incentive Plan (“AIP”) or applicable Sales Incentive Plan (“SIP”) and receive an annual bonus (“Annual Bonus”) based on achievement of performance metrics mutually agreed upon by the Board or any committee thereof, DL and the Chief Executive Officer of the Company or sales bonus based on achievement of results per the terms of the applicable SIP.

 

(A)                               For the fiscal year (i) which includes the Effective Date and (ii) the fiscal year immediately following such fiscal year, Executive shall receive an Annual Bonus which is at least equal to $[             ], which is equal to the greater of (A) the highest annual bonus, including any bonus provided under the Company’s AIP that had been payable to Executive in respect of either of the two fiscal years ended immediately before the Effective Date or (B) the amount that would have been payable to Executive as a target bonus under any bonus program in which Executive participated (including Company’s AIP) for the year in which the Effective Date occurs.

 

(B)                               Any amount payable hereunder as an Annual Bonus shall be paid not later than March 15 of the year following the year for which the amount is payable, unless electively deferred by Executive pursuant to any deferral programs or arrangements that the Company may make available to Executive.

 

(ii)                                        Long Term Incentive Compensation.  During the Employment Period, Executive shall be entitled to receive long-term incentive compensation opportunities on terms and conditions (including but not limited to normal retirement and early retirement provisions) no less favorable to Executive than those applicable to Executive before the Effective Date.  Beginning with fiscal year 2015 and each subsequent fiscal year of the Company ending during the Employment Period, provided that the Executive remains employed by the Company, the Executive shall receive an annual grant under the Company’s long-term incentive plan as in effect immediately following the Effective Date, (such long-term incentive plan, as it may be amended from time to time, the “LTI Plan”), as follows:

 

(A)                               The Executive’s initial target award under the Company’s LTI Plan shall be $[                 ], subject to annual review for increase (but not decrease) consistent with past practice (such award, the “LTI Award”).  The performance metrics and weighting under the LTI Plan will be mutually agreed between the Board or a committee thereof, DL and the Company’s Chief Executive Officer.

 

(B)                               70% of the LTI Award shall be granted in the form of performance-based, cash-settled Phantom Shares (as defined in the LTI Plan, and such performance-based Phantom Shares (the “Performance Share Units”)), where the actual payment will range from 50% (threshold) to 200% (maximum) of the target number of Performance Share Units, depending on achievement of financial goals over a three-year performance cycle, and subject to the

 

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Executive’s continued employment with the Company through the three-year period.

 

(C)                               30% of the LTI Award will be granted in the form of time-based Phantom Shares (the “Restricted Share Units”) that become vested and settled in cash, as follows: one-half (1/2) on the third anniversary of the date of grant and, one-half (1/2) on the fourth anniversary of the date of grant, in each case subject to the Executive’s continued employment on the applicable vesting date.

 

(D)                               Eligibility terms and treatment of LTI Award on Executive’s termination of employment by reason of Executive’s death, “disability” (as defined in the LTI Plan), normal retirement and early retirement shall remain the same as in effect immediately prior to the Effective Date.

 

(c)                                  Benefit Plans.  During the Employment Period, Executive (and, to the extent applicable, Executive’s dependents) shall be entitled to participate in or be covered under all pension, retirement, deferred compensation, savings, medical, dental, health, disability, group life, accidental death and travel accident insurance plans at a level that is commensurate with Executive’s participation in such plans immediately before the Effective Date or, if more favorable to Executive, at the level made available to Executive or other similarly situated employees at any time thereafter.  Executive shall also be entitled to receive such perquisites as were generally provided to Executive in accordance with the Company’s policies and practices immediately before the Effective Date.  The Company may not amend or terminate the Protective Life Corporation Excess Benefit Plan (the “SERP”) in a manner that will adversely affect Executive until the third anniversary of the Effective Date; provided however, that the foregoing clause shall not preclude the Company from amending the SERP to exclude from eligible compensation thereunder the Retention Bonus payable under this Agreement. The Company shall maintain liquidity from time to time (through a combination of cash and other liquid assets on hand, or available from unrestricted dividend capacity from owned subsidiaries and access to unrestricted borrowing capacity) in an amount which is not less than the aggregate liabilities under the deferred compensation plan and the SERP.

 

(d)                                 Expenses.  During the Employment Period, Executive shall be entitled to receive prompt reimbursement for all reasonable expenses incurred by Executive in accordance with the policies and procedures of the Company as in effect immediately before the Effective Date.  Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Company may apply the policies and procedures in effect after the Effective Date to Executive, if such policies and procedures are more favorable to Executive than those in effect immediately before the Effective Date.

 

(e)                                  Indemnification.  During and after the Employment Period, the Company shall indemnify Executive and hold Executive harmless from and against any claim, loss or cause of action arising from or out of or related in any way to Executive’s performance as an officer, director or employee of the Company or any of its subsidiaries or in any other capacity, including any fiduciary capacity, in which Executive serves at the request of the Company to the maximum extent permitted by applicable law and the Company’s Certificate of Incorporation and By-Laws (the “Governing Documents”) and the Merger Agreement; provided that in no

 

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event shall the protection afforded to Executive hereunder be less than that afforded under the Governing Documents as in effect immediately before the Effective Date.

 

(f)                                   Retention Bonus.

 

(i)                                     Subject to clause (ii) below, Executive shall be paid a retention bonus of $[                   ], payable in cash in two annual installments, with the first installment representing one-third (1/3) of the Retention Bonus paid on the first anniversary of the Effective Date, and the second installment representing two-thirds (2/3) of the Retention Bonus paid on the second anniversary of the Effective Date, provided Executive is employed by the Company on each such payment date.

 

(ii)                                        Termination provisions:

 

(A)                               If Executive is terminated by the Company without Cause, or due to death or Disability (as defined below), or if Executive terminates Executive’s employment for Good Reason, in each case prior to the second anniversary of the Effective Date, the unpaid portion of the Retention Bonus will be paid on or within thirty (30) days of the Termination Date.

 

(B)                               In the event that Executive’s employment is terminated prior to the second anniversary of the Effective Date for any other reason, the unpaid portion of the Retention Bonus will be forfeited for no consideration.

 

5.                                      Termination of Employment.

 

(a)                                 Death or Disability.  Executive’s employment shall automatically terminate upon Executive’s death or termination of employment due to Disability (as defined below) during the Employment Period.  For purposes of this Agreement, “Disability” shall mean Executive’s inability to perform the duties of Executive’s position, as determined in accordance with the policies and procedures applicable with respect to the Company’s long-term disability plan as in effect immediately before the Effective Date.

 

(b)                                 Voluntary Termination.  Anything in this Agreement to the contrary notwithstanding, Executive may, upon not less than 10 days’ written notice to the Company, voluntarily terminate employment for any reason (including early retirement under the terms of any of the Company’s retirement plans as in effect from time to time) during the Employment Period; provided that any termination of employment by Executive pursuant to Section 5(d) on account of Good Reason (as defined therein) shall not be treated as a voluntary termination under this Section 5(b).

 

(c)                                  Cause.  The Company may terminate Executive’s employment for Cause.  For purposes of this Agreement, “Cause” shall mean (i) Executive’s conviction or plea of nolo contendere to a felony; (ii) an act or acts of extreme dishonesty or gross misconduct on Executive’s part which result or are intended to result in material damage to the Company’s business or reputation; (iii) a material violation of the restrictive covenant provisions under Section 9; or (iv) repeated material violations by Executive of Executive’s obligations under

 

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Section 3, which violations are demonstrably willful and deliberate on Executive’s part and which result in material damage to the Company’s business or reputation.

 

(d)                                 Good Reason.  Executive may terminate employment for Good Reason.  For purposes of this Agreement, “Good Reason” shall mean the occurrence of any of the following, without the express written consent of Executive, after the Effective Date:

 

(i)                                           a material reduction in Executive’s then current Base Salary, target Annual Bonus opportunity or target LTI Award;

 

(ii)                                        any failure by the Company to comply with any of the provisions of this Agreement, other than an insubstantial or inadvertent failure remedied by the Company promptly after receipt of notice thereof given by Executive; or

 

(iii)                                     the Company’s requiring Executive to be based at any office or location more than 20 miles from that location at which Executive performed services specified under the provisions of Section 3 immediately before the Effective Date, except for travel reasonably required in the performance of Executive’s responsibilities.

 

(e)                                  Notice of Termination.  Any termination of Executive’s employment by the Company for Cause or by Executive for Good Reason shall be communicated by Notice of Termination to the other party hereto given in accordance with Section 12(e).  For purposes of this Agreement, a “Notice of Termination” shall mean a written notice given, in the case of a termination for Cause, within 10 business days of the Company’s having actual knowledge of the events giving rise to such termination, and in the case of a termination for Good Reason, within 90 days of Executive’s having actual knowledge of the events giving rise to such termination, and which (i) indicates the specific termination provision in this Agreement relied upon, (ii) sets forth in reasonable detail the facts and circumstances claimed to provide a basis for termination of Executive’s employment under the provision so indicated, and (iii) if the termination date is other than the date of receipt of such notice, specifies the termination date of this Agreement (which date shall be not more than 45 days after the giving of such notice).  The Company shall have thirty (30) days to cure the circumstances giving rise to such Notice of Termination, and if such circumstances are not cured to the satisfaction of the Executive, the Executive must terminate employment within 10 days of the end of such cure period.

 

(f)                                   Date of Termination.  For purposes of this Agreement, the term “Date of Termination” shall mean (i) in the case of a termination of employment for which a Notice of Termination is required, the date of receipt of such Notice of Termination or, if later, the date specified therein, and (ii) in all other cases, the actual date on which Executive’s employment terminates during the Employment Period.

 

6.                                      Obligations of the Company upon Termination.

 

(a)                                 Death or Disability.  If Executive’s employment is terminated during the Employment Period by reason of Executive’s death or Disability, this Agreement shall terminate without further obligations to Executive or Executive’s legal representatives under this Agreement other than those obligations accrued hereunder at the Date of Termination, and the Company shall pay to Executive (or Executive’s beneficiary or estate) (i) Executive’s full Base

 

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Salary through the Date of Termination (the “Earned Salary”), (ii) any vested amounts or benefits owing to Executive under the Company’s otherwise applicable employee benefit plans and programs, including any compensation previously deferred by Executive (together with any accrued earnings thereon) and not yet paid by the Company and any accrued vacation pay not yet paid by the Company (the “Accrued Obligations”), and (iii) any other benefits payable due to Executive’s death or Disability under the Company’s plans, policies, programs or arrangements (the “Additional Benefits”).

 

Any Earned Salary shall be paid in cash in a single lump sum as soon as practicable, but in no event more than 10 business days (or at such earlier date required by law), following the Date of Termination.  Accrued Obligations and Additional Benefits shall be paid in accordance with the terms of the applicable plan, policy, program or arrangement.

 

(b)                                 Cause and Voluntary Termination.  If, during the Employment Period, Executive’s employment is terminated for Cause or voluntarily terminated by Executive (other than on account of Good Reason) in accordance with Section 5(b), the Company shall pay Executive (i) the Earned Salary in cash in a single lump sum as soon as practicable, but in no event more than 10 business days (or such earlier date required by law), following the Date of Termination, and (ii) the Accrued Obligations in accordance with the terms of the applicable plan, policy, program or arrangement.

 

(c)                                  Termination by the Company other than for Cause and Good Reason Termination by Executive during the Protection Period.

 

(i)                                           Lump Sum Payments.  If either (a) the Company terminates Executive’s employment other than for Cause on or prior to the second anniversary of the Effective Date (the “Protection Period”) or (b) Executive terminates employment for Good Reason at any time during the Protection Period, then the Company shall pay to Executive the following amounts:

 

(A)                               Executive’s Earned Salary;

 

(B)                               a cash amount (the “Severance Amount”) equal to two (2) times the sum of

 

(1)                                 Executive’s annual Base Salary as in effect immediately following the Effective Date; and

 

(2)                                 the greater of (i) the average of the bonus amount payable (including any amounts payable under the AIP)to Executive (including any amounts the receipt of which Executive elected to defer) with respect to the three fiscal years of the Company, as applicable (or, if fewer, the number of such fiscal years in which Executive was an employee of the Company or its affiliates) immediately before the Effective Date (including, for this purpose, any AIP Payout (as defined in Section 6(c)(i)(C)) or (ii) the average of the bonus amount payable (including any amounts payable under the AIP) to Executive (including any amounts the receipt of which Executive elected to defer) with respect

 

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to the three fiscal years of the Company (or, if fewer, the number of such fiscal years in which Executive was an employee of the Company or its affiliates) immediately before the Effective Date (including, for this purpose, any AIP Payout); less

 

(3)                                 the amount of any portion of the Retention Bonus paid to Executive prior to the Date of Termination or payable to the Executive under Section 4(f)(ii)(A).

 

(C)                               if Executive has an annual cash bonus opportunity (including a cash bonus opportunity under the AIP) outstanding and unpaid as of the Date of Termination, a cash payment (the “AIP Payout”) equal to (1) if the Date of Termination is before December 31 of the fiscal year of the Company to which such bonus opportunity relates, an amount equal to Executive’s target bonus opportunity under such bonus plan for such fiscal year, and (2) if the Date of Termination is on or after December 31 of the fiscal year of the Company to which such bonus opportunity relates, an amount equal to the amount Executive would have received under such bonus plan for such fiscal year based on actual achievement of the performance goals with respect thereto (assuming, for this purpose, that all subjective performance measures are achieved at a level equal to the greater of the level determined by the Company pursuant to the terms of such bonus plan and 100%).  Payment of the AIP Payout shall be in lieu of payment of any annual cash bonus opportunity otherwise due and payable with respect to the fiscal year of the Company referred to in this Section 6(c)(i)(C).

 

(D)                               the Accrued Obligations.

 

Subject to Section 6(g), the Earned Salary and Severance Amount shall be paid in cash in a single lump sum as soon as practicable, but in no event more than 10 business days (or such earlier date required by law), following the Date of Termination.  Subject to Section 6(g), the AIP Payout shall be paid in cash in a single lump sum (a) if payable under Section 6(c)(i)(C)(1), as soon as practicable, but in no event more than 10 business days (or such earlier date required by law), following the Date of Termination, and (b) if payable under Section 6(c)(i)(C)(2), as soon as practicable, but in no event later than the earlier of (i) 30 business days (or such earlier date required by law) following the Date of Termination and (ii) March 15 of the year following the calendar year for which the AIP Payout is payable.  Accrued Obligations shall be paid in accordance with the terms of the applicable plan, policy, program or arrangement.

 

(ii)                                        Supplemental Retirement Payment.  If Executive is entitled to receive the Severance Amount described in Section 6(c)(i), Executive shall be entitled to receive a supplemental retirement payment, payable in a cash lump sum, equal in value to the actuarial equivalent (as defined below) of (A) the monthly benefit payable to Executive (expressed as a life annuity payable commencing at the later of the Date of Termination and age 65) determined by adding three years to Executive’s credited service as determined at Executive’s Date of Termination under the terms of Company’s qualified defined benefit pension plan and supplemental or excess pension plan

 

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(collectively, the “Pension Plans”) as in effect immediately before the Effective Date (subject to any maximum on credited service set forth in the Pension Plans), minus (B) the monthly benefit payable to Executive (expressed as a life annuity payable commencing at the later of the Date of Termination and age 65) determined pursuant to the terms of all defined benefit pension plans (including the Pension Plans), active or frozen, in which Executive is a participant at Executive’s Date of Termination if such plans are sponsored by the Company or its successors or affiliates.

 

For purposes of this Agreement, “actuarial equivalent” shall mean a benefit actuarially equal in value to the value of a given benefit in a given form or schedule, based upon (1) the mortality table or tables (including any set backs of ages) used to calculate actuarial equivalents under the Pension Plans as of the date on which an actuarial equivalent is being determined under this Agreement and (2) an interest rate equal to the sum of (A) the yield on U.S. 10-year Treasury Notes at constant maturity as most recently published by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York before Executive’s Date of Termination; provided, however, that if such yield has not been so published within 90 days before Executive’s Date of Termination, the interest rate shall be the yield on substantially similar securities on the business day before Executive’s Date of Termination as determined by Regions Bank N.A. upon the request of either the Company or Executive, plus (B) .75%.

 

For purposes of making the foregoing determinations, at the request of Executive in writing within 5 days of Executive’s receipt of Notice of Termination or Executive’s Date of Termination, but in either event at the Company’s expense, the independent pension consultants most recently used by the Company in connection with its qualified pension plan before the Date of Termination shall be engaged and shall certify the benefits due to Executive under this Section 6(c)(ii) in writing within 30 days after the Date of Termination.  In any event, the supplemental retirement payment shall be paid to Executive (subject to Section 6(g)) no later than 45 days after the Date of Termination.  If the amount to be offset under clause (B) of the first paragraph of this Section 6(c)(ii) has not been determined within 30 days after the Date of Termination, no such offset shall be permitted.

 

(iii)                                     Continuation of Benefits.  If Executive is entitled to receive the Severance Amount described in Section 6(c)(i), Executive (and, to the extent applicable, Executive’s dependents) shall be entitled, after the Date of Termination and until the earlier of (A) the second anniversary of the Date of Termination (the “End Date”) or (B) the date Executive becomes eligible for comparable benefits under a similar plan, policy or program of a subsequent employer, to continue participation in all of the Company’s employee welfare benefit plans including the Company’s hospital, medical, accident, disability, and life insurance plans (the “Welfare Benefit Plans”) as were generally provided to Executive in accordance with the Company’s policies and practices immediately before the Effective Date.  To the extent any such benefits cannot be provided under the terms of the applicable plan, policy or program, the Company shall pay Executive an amount equal to the cost to the Company of providing such coverage at the same time as the Severance Amount is payable to Executive.  Executive’s participation in the Welfare Benefit Plans will be on the same terms and

 

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conditions that would have applied had Executive continued to be employed by the Company through the End Date.  To the extent any Welfare Benefit Plan is a self-insured group health or dental benefit plan, then in addition to any other limitation provided hereunder, the period of coverage provided by this Section 6(c)(iii) under such self-insured group health or dental benefit plan shall not exceed the period of time during which Executive would be entitled to receive continuation coverage under Code Section 4980B (“COBRA”) if Executive had elected such coverage and paid the premiums required by COBRA.  To the extent that immediately preceding sentence applies, the Company shall pay Executive an amount equal to the cost of such COBRA continuation coverage for a period equal to the excess of (i) 24 months minus (ii) the number of months of COBRA coverage initially available to Executive, as determined in good faith by the Company, at the same time as the Severance Amount is payable to Executive.

 

(d)                                 Termination by the Company other than for Cause and Good Reason Termination by Executive after the Protection Period.  If either (a) the Company terminates Executive’s employment other than for Cause or (b) Executive terminates employment for Good Reason, in each case, at any time after the Protection Period, then the Company shall pay the Executive (i) the Earned Salary in cash in a single lump sum as soon as practicable, but in no event more than 10 business days (or such earlier date required by law), following the Date of Termination, and (ii) the Accrued Obligations in accordance with the terms of the applicable plan, policy, program or arrangement.  In addition, Executive shall be eligible to receive any other benefits payable due to Executive’s termination by the Company other than for Cause or Executive’s termination for Good Reason under any plan, policy, program or arrangement of the Company, in accordance with the terms of each applicable plan, policy, program or arrangement.

 

(e)                                  Discharge of the Company’s Obligations.  Except as expressly provided in the last sentence of this Section 6(e), the amounts payable to Executive pursuant to this Section 6 (whether or not reduced pursuant to Section 6(f)) following termination of Executive’s employment shall be in full and complete satisfaction of Executive’s rights under this Agreement and any other claims Executive may have in respect of employment by the Company or any of its subsidiaries.  Such amounts shall constitute liquidated damages with respect to any and all such rights and claims and, upon Executive’s receipt of such amounts, the Company shall be released and discharged from any and all liability to Executive in connection with this Agreement or otherwise in connection with Executive’s employment with the Company and its subsidiaries.  Nothing in this Section 6(e) shall be construed to release the Company from its commitment to indemnify Executive and hold Executive harmless as provided in Section 4(e).

 

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(f)                                   Section 280G.  If any amount or benefit paid or distributed to Executive pursuant to this Agreement, taken together with any amounts or benefits otherwise paid or distributed to Executive by the Company or any affiliated company (including any distribution or payment made pursuant to the terms of the Company’s compensation plans or arrangements) (collectively, the “Covered Payments”) are or become subject to the tax (the “Excise Tax”) imposed under Code Section 4999 or any similar tax that may hereafter be imposed, the Excise Tax gross-up provisions of Section 7(e) of the Prior Agreement shall continue to apply to such Covered Payments.

 

(g)                                  Delay of Payments.  Any provision of this Agreement to the contrary notwithstanding and subject to Code Section 409A, if Executive is a Specified Employee (as defined for purposes of Code Section 409A), any payments due under this Agreement to Executive that are treated as deferred compensation for purposes of Code Section 409A (such as the Severance Amount) and that are payable on account of a termination of employment shall be made on the later to occur of the time otherwise specified in this Section 6 and the first business day after the date that is six months after Executive’s Date of Termination (or, if earlier, within 15 business days after the date of death of Executive).

 

7.                                      Non-exclusivity of Rights.  Except as expressly provided herein, nothing in this Agreement shall prevent or limit Executive’s continuing or future participation in any benefit, bonus, incentive or other plan or program provided by the Company or any of its affiliated companies and for which Executive may qualify, or limit or otherwise prejudice such rights as Executive may have under any other agreements with the Company or any of its affiliated companies.  Amounts which are vested benefits or which Executive is otherwise entitled to receive under any plan or program of the Company or any of its affiliated companies at or subsequent to the Date of Termination shall be payable in accordance with such plan or program.

 

8.                                      Full Settlement.  The Company’s obligation to make the payments provided for in this Agreement and otherwise to perform its obligations hereunder shall not be affected by any circumstances, including any set-off, counterclaim, recoupment, defense or other right which the Company may have against Executive or others whether by reason of the subsequent employment of Executive or otherwise.

 

9.                                      Restrictive Covenants.

 

(a)                                 Confidential Information.  Executive acknowledges that he or she will have access to highly confidential information of the Company and its affiliates and agrees that it is imperative to permanently maintain the confidentiality of the Company’s “Trade Secrets.”  Trade Secrets shall include any trade secrets as defined by law, and shall specifically include information regarding distributors, customers and agents or prospective distributors, customers and agents; marketing and sales techniques, materials and information; records, documents and data; business practices, policies, procedures and strategies; product and pricing information; compensation arrangements; financial information; attorney-client communications; and any other confidential or proprietary information relating to the Company that is not available to the public.  (Information is not a Trade Secret, however, if it is available in the public domain other than by an act of Executive in violation of this provision, has been obtained from a source other than the Company which source is under no obligation of confidentiality, or has been

 

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lawfully obtained through means other than Executive’s employment relationship with the Company.)  Executive agrees that he or she will not at any time — whether on Executive’s behalf or on behalf of or in conjunction with any person or entity — use the Company’s Trade Secrets to solicit any business of the type conducted by the Company during Executive’s employment or as of Executive’s Date of Termination from any person or entity that was either (1) a distributor, customer or agent of the Company as of that date or (2) a prospective distributor, customer or agent contacted, called upon, or serviced by the Company during the 12-month period prior to the Date of Termination, or induce, promote, facilitate, or otherwise contribute to the solicitation of such distributors, customers or agents or prospective distributors, customers or agents through the use of Trade Secrets.

 

(b)                                 Non-Solicitation of Company Employees.  The Company’s success depends on its ability to hire and retain a productive and efficient workforce.  In recognition of this fact, Executive agrees that for the one-year period beginning on the earlier of (i) the Date of Termination (regardless of the reason for the employment termination) and (ii) the date the Retention Bonus is paid in full to Executive (the “Restricted Period”), Executive will not (directly or indirectly) hire, solicit for hire, or assist others in hiring or soliciting for hire, any employee of the Company or its subsidiaries, or any former employee of the Company or its subsidiaries whose employment terminated within three months of the beginning of the Restricted Period (“Company employees”).  This provision shall not apply if Executive worked in, or was a resident of, the state of California when Executive’s employment terminated.  This provision shall not prohibit Executive or a future employer of Executive from hiring, soliciting for hire, or assisting others in hiring or soliciting for hire, any Company employee who responds to a general solicitation or advertisement that is not specifically directed to Company employees.

 

(c)                                  Non-Competition.  Executive agrees that during Executive’s employment by the Company and during the Restricted Period, Executive will not:

 

(i)                                     directly or indirectly, individually engage in nor be competitively employed or retained by, or render any competing services for, or be financially interested in, any insurance company that markets “Competitive Products” in the United States, or any entity that competes with the Company’s Acquisition Division business of acquiring, converting, and servicing policies from other insurance companies.  For purposes of the foregoing, “Competitive Products” means life insurance, annuity, asset protection, extended service contracts and stable value products marketed by the Company or its subsidiaries.  Notwithstanding the foregoing, this restriction shall not apply to:

 

(A)                               the purchase by Executive of stock not to exceed 1% of the outstanding shares of capital stock or any corporation whose securities are listed on any national securities exchange; or

 

(B)                               the employment of Executive by a non-competitive subsidiary or non-competitive affiliated entity of a competitor of the Company upon the Company’s written consent, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld.

 

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(ii)                                  solicit business from, nor directly or indirectly cause others to solicit business that competes with the Competitive Products from, any entities which have been distributors, agents or customers of the Company during Executive’s employment.

 

(d)                                 Remedies.  Executive recognizes and agrees:

 

(i)                                     that the covenants and restrictions in paragraphs (a), (b) and (c) of this Section 9 are reasonable and valid and all defenses to the strict enforcement of such sections by the Company are waived by Executive to the full extent permitted by law.  In the event, however, that a court of competent jurisdiction should determine in any case that the enforcement of any provision contained in such paragraphs would not be reasonable, it is intended that enforcement of a provision which is determined by such court to be reasonable shall be given effect; and

 

(ii)                                  that a breach of the covenants and restrictions in paragraphs (a), (b) and (c) of this Section 9 would result in irreparable harm to the Company which could not be compensated by money damages alone.  Accordingly, Executive agrees that should there be a breach of any or all of these provisions, the Company shall be entitled to cease paying amounts under Section 4(f) and Section 6 and, in addition to its other remedies, to injunctive relief without any bond.  In addition, Executive agrees that, in the event he or she breaches any of the covenants or restrictions of paragraphs (a), (b) or (c) of this Section 9, Executive will promptly repay to the Company upon demand any portion of the Retention Bonus paid to Executive.

 

10.                               Legal Fees and Expenses.  If Executive asserts any claim in any contest (whether initiated by Executive or by the Company) as to the validity, enforceability or interpretation of any provision of this Agreement, the Company shall pay Executive’s legal expenses (or cause such expenses to be paid) in accordance with Section 12(k)(i) of this Agreement, including Executive’s reasonable attorney’s fees, on a quarterly basis, upon presentation of proof of such expenses; provided that Executive shall reimburse the Company for such amounts, plus simple interest thereon at the 90-day United States Treasury Bill rate as in effect from time to time, compounded annually, if Executive shall not prevail, in whole or in part, as to any material issue as to the validity, enforceability or interpretation of any provision of this Agreement.  This Section 10 shall not apply to claims relating to the restrictive covenants under Section 9 (whether asserted by the Executive or the Company); provided that the Company shall pay the Executive’s legal expenses if the Executive prevails in any material respect on such claims.

 

11.                               Successors.  (a) This Agreement is personal to Executive and, without the prior written consent of the Company, shall not be assignable by Executive otherwise than by will or the laws of descent and distribution.  This Agreement shall inure to the benefit of and be enforceable by Executive’s legal representatives.

 

(b)                                 This Agreement shall inure to the benefit of and be binding upon the Company and its successors.  The Company shall require any successor to all or substantially all of the business and/or assets of the Company, whether direct or indirect, by purchase, merger, consolidation, acquisition of stock, or otherwise, by an agreement in form and substance

 

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satisfactory to Executive, expressly to assume and agree to perform this Agreement in the same manner and to the same extent as the Company would be required to perform if no such succession had taken place.

 

12.                               Miscellaneous.  (a) Applicable Law; Interpretation.  This Agreement shall be governed by and construed and conferred in accordance with the laws of the State of Delaware applied without reference to principles of conflict of laws.  If any provision of this Agreement is invalid or unenforceable, the validity and enforceability of the remaining provisions hereof shall not be affected.  The masculine shall include the feminine (and vice versa), the single shall include the plural (and vice versa), and the words “include” and “including” shall be deemed to be followed by the phrase “without limitation” unless the context clearly requires otherwise.  This Agreement may be executed by manual or facsimile signature.  The headings in this Agreement are solely for convenience and shall not affect the meaning or interpretation of this Agreement.

 

(b)                                 Arbitration.  Any dispute or controversy arising under or in connection with this Agreement shall be resolved by binding arbitration.  The arbitration shall be held at a site selected by the arbitrators and except to the extent inconsistent with this Agreement, shall be conducted in accordance with the Expedited Employment Arbitration Rules of the American Arbitration Association then in effect at the time of the arbitration, and otherwise in accordance with principles which would be applied by a court of law or equity.  The arbitrator shall be acceptable to both the Company and Executive.  If the parties cannot agree on an acceptable arbitrator, the dispute shall be heard by a panel of three arbitrators, one appointed by each of the parties and the third appointed by the other two arbitrators.

 

(c)                                  Agreement Term, Termination and Amendment.  The initial term of this Agreement shall begin on the date hereof and shall terminate on the second anniversary of the Effective Date.  This Agreement may be amended or modified only by a written agreement signed by the parties hereto or by their respective successors and legal representatives.

 

(d)                                 Entire Agreement.  This Agreement shall constitute the entire agreement between the parties hereto with respect to the matters referred to herein and, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the Prior Agreement executed between the Company and Executive before the date of this Agreement is hereby terminated.  There are no promises, representations, inducements or statements between the parties other than those that are expressly contained herein.  Executive is entering into this Agreement of Executive’s own free will and accord, and with no duress, has read this Agreement, and understands it and its legal consequences.

 

(e)                                  Notices.  All notices and other communications hereunder shall be in writing and shall be given by hand-delivery to the other party or by registered or certified mail, return receipt requested, postage prepaid, or by electronic mail in PDF form (with a confirmation copy sent by one of the other delivery methods authorized in this Section 12(e)), addressed as follows:

 

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If   to Executive:
    	
at   the home address of Executive as set forth in the records of the Company
    
	
 
    	
 
    
	
If   to the Company:
    	
Protective   Life Corporation
    
	
 
    	
2801   Highway 280 South
    
	
 
    	
Birmingham,   AL 35223
    
	
 
    	
Attn:   General Counsel
    
	
 
    	
 
    
	
With   a copy to:
    	
Dai-ichi   Life International (U.S.A.), Inc.
    
	
 
    	
1133   Avenue of the Americas, 28th Floor
    
	
 
    	
New   York, NY 10036
    
	
 
    	
Attn:   President
    

 

or to such other address as either party shall have furnished to the other in writing in accordance herewith.  Notices and communications shall be effective when actually received by the addressee.

 

(f)                                   Confidentiality.  Executive agrees to keep the terms of this Agreement confidential and agrees not to voluntarily disclose any information concerning this Agreement to anyone except Executive’s spouse, parents, legal counsel or accountant and provided that they (each and all) agree at Executive’s risk to keep such information confidential and not disclose it to others; provided that this nondisclosure provision does not prohibit disclosure (1) at the direction or with the consent of the President or an Executive Vice President of the Company, (2) to tax agencies, (3) as required by law or court order, or (4) as may be necessary to enforce Executive’s rights under this Agreement.

 

(g)                                  Tax Withholding.  The Company may withhold from any amounts payable under this Agreement such Federal, state, local, or foreign taxes as shall be required to be withheld pursuant to any applicable law or regulation.

 

(h)                                 Waivers.  The failure of Executive or the Company to insist upon strict compliance with any provision of this Agreement or the failure to assert any right Executive or the Company may have hereunder, including the right of Executive to terminate employment for Good Reason, shall not be deemed to be a waiver of such provision or right or of any other provision or right of this Agreement.

 

(i)                                     Employment at Will.  Executive and the Company acknowledge that, except as may otherwise be provided under any other written agreement between Executive and the Company, the employment of Executive by the Company is “at will” and Executive’s employment may be terminated by either Executive or the Company at any time prior to the Effective Date, in which case Executive shall have no further rights or obligations under this Agreement.

 

(j)                                    Counterparts; Electronic Signatures.  This Agreement may be signed in counterparts, each of which shall be an original, with the same effect as if the signatures thereto and hereto were upon the same instrument.  One or more counterparts of this Agreement may be

 

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delivered by facsimile or PDF electronic file with the intention that delivery by such means shall have the same effect as delivery of an original counterpart thereof.

 

(k)                                 Survival of Obligations.  Section 4(f) and Sections 5 through 12 shall survive the termination of the employment of Executive hereunder.

 

(l)                                     Code Section 409A.  It is intended that any amounts payable under this Agreement and the Company’s and Executive’s exercise of authority or discretion hereunder shall be exempt from or comply with Code Section 409A so as not to subject Executive to the payment of any interest or additional tax imposed under Code Section 409A.  This Agreement shall be interpreted on a basis consistent with such intent.  Notwithstanding the foregoing, neither the Company nor its affiliates, directors, officers, employees or advisers shall be liable to Executive for any interest or additional tax imposed under Code Section 409A.  If any payments or benefits provided to Executive by the Company, either per this Agreement or otherwise, are non-qualified deferred compensation subject to, and not exempt from, Code Section 409A, the following provisions shall apply to such payments and/or benefits:

 

(i)                                     Reimbursement of Expenses.  Except as permitted by Code Section 409A, (A) the right to reimbursement of expenses under this Agreement shall not be subject to liquidation or exchange for another benefit, (B) the amount of expenses eligible for reimbursement under this Agreement provided during any taxable year shall not affect the expenses eligible for reimbursement to be provided in any other taxable year, provided that the foregoing clause (B) shall not be violated without regard to expenses reimbursed under any arrangement covered by Code Section 105(b) solely because such expenses are subject to a limit related to the period the arrangement is in effect and (C) such payments shall be made on or before the last day of Executive’s taxable year following the taxable year in which the expense was incurred.

 

(ii)                                  Termination of Employment.  For all purposes of this Agreement, Executive shall not have “termination of employment” (and corollary terms) from the Company unless and until Executive has a “separation from service” (as determined under Code Section 409A as uniformly applied in accordance with such rules as shall be established from time to time by the Company).

 

(iii)                               Lump Sum and Installment Payments.  Unless otherwise specified, lump-sum severance payments shall be made, and installment severance payments initiated, within thirty (30) days following Executive’s “separation from service.”  Executive’s right to receive installment payments pursuant to this Agreement shall be treated as a right to receive a series of separate and distinct payments.  Whenever a payment under this Agreement specifies a payment period with reference to a number of days, the actual date of payment within the specified period shall be within the sole discretion of the Company.  In the event a payment period straddles two consecutive years, the payment shall be made in the later of such calendar years.

 

(iv)                              No Offsets.  Notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement to the contrary, in no event shall any payment subject to Code Section 409A be subject to offset by any other amount unless otherwise permitted by Code Section

 

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409A; provided that it is understood that the offset of severance under Section 6 by the Retention Bonus under Section 4(f) is not an offset prohibited by this Section 12(l)(iv).

 

(v)                                 If an amendment of this Agreement is necessary in order for it to comply with Code Section 409A, Executive and the Company agree to negotiate in good faith to amend this Agreement in a manner that preserves the original intent of the parties to the extent reasonably possible.

 

[This Agreement is continued and signed on the following page.]

 

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Company and Executive have duly executed this Agreement as of the day and year first above written.

 

	
 
    	
PROTECTIVE LIFE CORPORATION
    
	
 
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
By:
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
Name: John D. Johns
    
	
 
    	
Title:   Chairman of the Board, President and Chief Executive Officer
    
	
 
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
[NAME OF EMPLOYEE]
    
	
 
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
Signature:Exhibit-4.1

Exhibit 4.1

EXECUTION VERSION 

INDENTURE
by and between
Northwest Florida Timber Finance, LLC, 
as the Issuer
and
WILMINGTON TRUST, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION,  
not in its individual capacity but solely in its capacity 
as the Indenture Trustee
Dated as of April 10, 2014
$180,000,000 4.750% Senior Secured Notes due 2029
______________________________________________________________________

Table of Contents
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	ARTICLE I DEFINITIONS

	Section 1.01
	Definitions.
	2
	

	Section 1.02
	Rules of Construction.
	14
	

	ARTICLE II THE NOTES

	Section 2.01
	Form.
	15
	

	Section 2.02
	Execution, Authentication and Delivery.
	15
	

	ARTICLE III COVENANTS

	Section 3.01
	Collection of Payments on Indenture Collateral; Issuer Accounts
	16
	

	Section 3.02
	Maintenance of Office or Agency.
	17
	

	Section 3.03
	Money for Payments To Be Held in Trust; Paying Agent.
	18
	

	Section 3.04
	Existence; Separate Legal Existence.
	20
	

	Section 3.05
	Payment of Expenses, Principal and Interest.
	20
	

	Section 3.06
	Protection of Indenture Collateral.
	21
	

	Section 3.07
	Opinions as to Indenture Collateral.
	22
	

	Section 3.08
	Furnishing of Rule 144A Information.
	23
	

	Section 3.09
	Performance of Obligations.
	23
	

	Section 3.10
	Additional Negative Covenants.
	24
	

	Section 3.11
	Annual Statement as to Compliance.
	26
	

	Section 3.12
	Investment Company Act.
	26
	

	Section 3.13
	No Consolidation or Merger.
	27
	

	Section 3.14
	No Other Business.
	27
	

	Section 3.15
	No Borrowing.
	27
	

	Section 3.16
	Use of Initial Proceeds.
	27
	

	Section 3.17
	Investments, Guarantees, Loans, Advances and Other Liabilities.
	28
	

	Section 3.18
	Capital Expenditures.
	28
	

	Section 3.19
	Representations and Warranties of the Issuer.
	28
	

	Section 3.20
	Restricted Payments.
	32
	

	Section 3.21
	Notice of Events of Default; Other Notices.
	32
	

	Section 3.22
	Further Instruments and Acts.
	33
	

	ARTICLE IV THE NOTES

	Section 4.01
	The Notes.
	34
	

	Section 4.02
	Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Notes.
	34
	

	Section 4.03
	Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost or Stolen Notes.
	43
	

	Section 4.04
	Payment of Principal and Interest; Mandatory Prepayment.
	44
	

	Section 4.05
	Tax Treatment.
	45
	

	Section 4.06
	[Reserved].
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	Section 4.07
	Substitute Collateral.
	46
	

	Section 4.08
	[Reserved].
	47
	

	Section 4.09
	Repayment of Moneys Held by Paying Agent.
	47
	

	ARTICLE V REMEDIES

	Section 5.01
	Events of Default.
	47
	

	Section 5.02
	Acceleration of Maturity; Rescission and Annulment.
	49
	

	Section 5.03
	Collection of Indebtedness and Suits for Enforcement by Indenture Trustee.
	50
	

	Section 5.04
	Remedies; Priorities.
	53
	

	Section 5.05
	Optional Preservation of the Indenture Collateral.
	54
	

	Section 5.06
	Limitation of Suits.
	55
	

	Section 5.07
	Unconditional Rights of Holders To Receive Principal and Interest.
	56
	

	Section 5.08
	Restoration of Rights and Remedies.
	56
	

	Section 5.09
	Rights and Remedies Cumulative.
	56
	

	Section 5.10
	Delay or Omission Not a Waiver.
	56
	

	Section 5.11
	Control by Holders.
	57
	

	Section 5.12
	Waiver of Past Defaults.
	58
	

	Section 5.13
	Undertaking for Costs.
	58
	

	Section 5.14
	Waiver of Stay or Extension Laws.
	59
	

	Section 5.15
	Sale of Indenture Collateral.
	59
	

	Section 5.16
	Action on Notes.
	61
	

	Section 5.17
	Performance and Enforcement of Certain Obligations.
	61
	

	ARTICLE VI THE INDENTURE TRUSTEE

	Section 6.01
	Duties of Indenture Trustee.
	61
	

	Section 6.02
	Rights of Indenture Trustee.
	63
	

	Section 6.03
	Individual Rights of Indenture Trustee.
	65
	

	Section 6.04
	Indenture Trustee’s Disclaimer.
	65
	

	Section 6.05
	Notice of Event of Default.
	65
	

	Section 6.06
	Rating Agency Requests.
	66
	

	Section 6.07
	Compensation and Indemnity.
	66
	

	Section 6.08
	Replacement of Indenture Trustee.
	67
	

	Section 6.09
	Successor Indenture Trustee by Merger.
	68
	

	Section 6.10
	Appointment of Co‐Indenture Trustee or Separate Indenture Trustee.
	69
	

	Section 6.11
	Eligibility; Disqualification.
	71
	

	Section 6.12
	Representations, Warranties and Covenants of Indenture Trustee.
	71
	

	Section 6.13
	Directions to Indenture Trustee.
	73
	

	Section 6.14
	Conflicts.
	73
	

 

	
				
	ARTICLE VII HOLDERS’ LISTS AND REPORTS

	Section 7.01
	Issuer To Furnish Indenture Trustee Names and Addresses of Holders.
	74
	

	Section 7.02
	Preservation of Information; Communications to Holders.
	74
	

	Section 7.03
	Fiscal Year.
	74
	

	ARTICLE VIII ISSUER ACCOUNTS, DISBURSEMENTS AND RELEASES

	Section 8.01
	Collection of Money.
	75
	

	Section 8.02
	Issuer Accounts; Disbursements.
	75
	

	ARTICLE IX SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES

	Section 9.01
	Supplemental Indentures Without Consent of Holders.
	78
	

	Section 9.02
	Supplemental Indentures With Consent of Holders.
	80
	

	Section 9.03
	Execution of Supplemental Indentures.
	82
	

	Section 9.04
	Effect of Supplemental Indenture.
	82
	

	Section 9.05
	Reference in Notes to Supplemental Indentures.
	82
	

	Section 9.06
	Amendment of this Indenture Generally.
	82
	

	ARTICLE X MISCELLANEOUS

	Section 10.01
	Compliance Certificates and Opinions, etc.
	83
	

	Section 10.02
	Form of Documents Delivered to Indenture Trustee.
	84
	

	Section 10.03
	Acts of Holders.
	85
	

	Section 10.04
	Notices, etc., to Indenture Trustee and Others.
	85
	

	Section 10.05
	Notices to Holders; Waiver.
	86
	

	Section 10.06
	Effect of Headings; TIA.
	87
	

	Section 10.07
	Successors and Assigns.
	87
	

	Section 10.08
	Severability.
	87
	

	Section 10.09
	Benefits of Indenture.
	87
	

	Section 10.10
	Legal Holidays.
	88
	

	Section 10.11
	GOVERNING LAW.
	88
	

	Section 10.12
	Counterparts.
	88
	

	Section 10.13
	Issuer Obligation.
	89
	

	Section 10.14
	No Petition.
	89
	

	Section 10.15
	Inspection; Confidentiality.
	90
	

	Section 10.16
	Force Majeure; USA PATRIOT Act.
	90
	

	Section 10.17
	Survival of Representations and Warranties; No Waiver.
	90
	

 

EXHIBITS
Exhibit A     — Form of Senior Secured Note
Exhibit B     — Form of Wiring Instructions
Exhibit C    — Form of Rule 144A Certification 
Exhibit D    — Form of Expense Reserve Instruction 

SCHEDULES 

Schedule 1     — Supplemental Interest STRIPS
Schedule 2     — Expense Reserve STRIPS

 

THIS INDENTURE, dated as of April 10, 2014 (as amended, modified, restated, supplemented or waived from time to time, the “Indenture”), is by and between Northwest Florida Timber Finance, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company, as the issuer (together with its successors and assigns in such capacity, the “Issuer”), and Wilmington Trust, National Association, as the indenture trustee (together with its successors and assigns, in such capacity, the “Indenture Trustee”).
Each party agrees as follows for the benefit of the other party and for the equal and ratable benefit of the Holders of the Issuer’s Notes.
GRANTING CLAUSE
The Issuer Grants to the Indenture Trustee, on behalf of and for the benefit of the Secured Parties, subject to the terms of this Indenture and the other Transaction Documents, a continuing security interest in and lien on all of its right, title and interest in and to all of the property of the Issuer consisting of, arising out of, or related to (i) the Installment Note, (ii) the Letter of Credit, (iii) any and all cash, securities and other property now or hereafter deposited in or credited to the Issuer Accounts, (iv) the rights of the Issuer under the Contribution Agreement, and (v) all present and future claims, demands and causes of action in respect of any or all of the foregoing and all payments on or under and all proceeds of every kind and nature whatsoever in respect of any or all of the foregoing, including all proceeds of the conversion, voluntary or involuntary, into cash or other liquid property, rights to payment of any and every kind and other forms of obligations and receivables, instruments and other property which at any time constitute all or part of or are included in the proceeds of any of the foregoing (collectively, the “Indenture Collateral”).
The foregoing Grant is made in trust to secure (x) the payment of principal of and interest on, and any other amounts owing in respect of, the Notes and all other sums owing by the Issuer hereunder or under any other Transaction Document, and (y) to secure compliance with the covenants and agreement in this Indenture and the other Transaction Documents.
The Indenture Trustee, on behalf of the Secured Parties (1) acknowledges such Grant, and (2) accepts the trusts under this Indenture in accordance with this Indenture and agrees to perform its duties required in this Indenture. 

The Installment Note is an “instrument” within the meaning of Section 9-102(a)(47) of the UCC.  The Payment Account is a “deposit account” within the meaning of Section 9-102(a)(29) of the UCC.  Each of the Expense Reserve Account and the Supplemental Interest Account is a “securities account” within the meaning of Section 8-501(a) of the UCC.  The right of a beneficiary to payment under the Letter of Credit constitutes a “letter-of-credit right” within the meaning of Section 9-102(a)(51) of the UCC.   
ARTICLE I 
 
DEFINITIONS
Section 1.01    Definitions.  Certain defined terms used throughout the Indenture are defined above or in this Section 1.01.
 “Affiliate” of any specified Person means any other Person controlling or controlled by, or under common control with, such specified Person.  For the purposes of this definition, “control” (including the terms “controlling”, “controlled by” and “under common control with”) when used with respect to any specified Person means the possession, directly or indirectly, of the power to direct or cause the direction of the management and policies of such Person whether through the ownership of voting securities, by contract or otherwise.
“Aggregate Outstanding Principal Balance” means, as of any date of determination, the sum of the Outstanding Principal Balances of all Outstanding Notes on such date.
“Applicable Procedures” has the meaning given to such term in Section 4.02(l).
“Authorized Officer” means, (i) with respect to any Person, any person who is authorized to act for such Person in matters relating to the Transaction Documents and whose action is binding upon such Person, (ii) with respect to the Issuer, any member, manager, officer or other authorized person who is authorized to act for the Issuer, and (iii) with respect to the Indenture Trustee, any officer of the Indenture Trustee within its corporate trust department, including any trust officer or any other officer of the Indenture Trustee who customarily performs functions similar to those performed by any of the above officers in each case who shall have direct responsibility for the administration of this Indenture and also, with respect to a particular matter, any other officer to whom such matter is referred because of such officer’s knowledge of and familiarity with particular subject.

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“Beneficial Owner” means, with respect to a Note, the Person who is the beneficial owner of such Note, as reflected on the books of the Depository or on the books of a Person maintaining an account with such Depository (directly or as an indirect participant, in accordance with the rules of such Depository), as the case may be.
“Business Day” means any day other than (a) a Saturday or Sunday, or (b) a day on which banking institutions in the city of New York, New York or Tampa, Florida are authorized or obligated, by law or executive order, to be closed, or in the case of a payment, at the place of payment.
“Closing Date” means April 10, 2014.
“Code” means the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, or any successor legislation thereto.
“Collateral Substitution” has the meaning given to such term in Section 4.07(a).  
“Contribution Agreement” means the Contribution Agreement, dated as of April 10, 2014, between the Member and the Issuer.
“Corporate Trust Office” means in the case of the Indenture Trustee:  Wilmington Trust, National Association, 246 Goose Lane, Suite 105, Guilford, Connecticut 06437, Attention:  Corporate Trust Department (telephone: (203) 453-4130; telecopier:  (203) 453-1183), or at such other address as the Indenture Trustee may designate from time to time by notice to the Issuer, or the principal corporate trust office of any successor Indenture Trustee at the address designated by such successor by notice to the Issuer.
“Default” means any occurrence that is, or with notice or the lapse of time or both would become, an Event of Default. 
“Depository” means The Depository Trust Company or its successors or assigns.

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“Depository Participant” means a Person for whom, from time to time, the Depository effects book‐entry transfers and pledges of securities deposited with the Depository.
“Direct Participant” means any broker‐dealer, bank or other financial institution for whom the nominee of the Depository holds an interest in any Note.
“DTC” means The Depository Trust Company, and its successors. 
“DTC Custodian” means the Indenture Trustee as a custodian for DTC.
“Eligible Deposit Account” means an account with a Qualified Institution.
“ERISA” means the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 or any successor legislation thereto and the regulations promulgated and the rulings issued thereunder.
“Event of Default” has the meaning given to such term in Section 5.01.
“Exchange Act” means the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.
“Expense Reserve Account” has the meaning given to such term in Section 3.01(c).
“Expense Reserve Deposit Amount” means $406,589.70 (consisting of the Expense Reserve STRIPS and cash in the amount of $51,600.00).
“Expense Reserve Instruction” has the meaning given to such term in Section 8.02(h).  
“Expense Reserve STRIPS” means the U.S. Treasury STRIPS identified on Schedule 2.
“FDIC” shall mean the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation and any successor thereto.

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“Global Notes” means the Notes sold within the United States to U.S. Persons, initially issued to Qualified Institutional Buyers in the form of beneficial interests in one or more Global Notes, deposited with the Indenture Trustee as custodian for the Depository and registered in the name of the Depository or its nominee, beneficial interests of which are reflected on the books of the Depository or on the books of a Person maintaining any account with such Depository (directly or as an indirect participant in accordance with the rules of such Depository).
“Governmental Authority” means, with respect to any Person, any nation or government, any state or other political subdivision thereof, any central bank (or similar monetary or regulatory authority) thereof, any entity exercising executive, legislative, judicial, regulatory or administrative functions of or pertaining to government and any court or arbitrator having jurisdiction over such Person.
“Grant” means to mortgage, pledge, sell, bargain, warrant, alienate, remise, release, convey, assign, transfer, create, and grant a lien upon and a security interest in and right of set off against, deposit, set over and confirm pursuant to the Indenture.  A Grant of Indenture Collateral or of any other agreement or instrument shall include all rights, powers and options (but none of the obligations) of the granting party thereunder, including the immediate and continuing right to claim for, collect, receive and give receipt for principal and interest payments in respect of such collateral or other agreement or instrument and all other moneys payable thereunder, to give and receive notices and other communications, to make waivers or other agreements, to exercise all rights and options, to bring proceedings in the name of the granting party or otherwise, and generally to do and receive anything that the granting party is or may be entitled to do or receive thereunder or with respect thereto.
“Holder” means, with respect to a Note, the Person in whose name such Note is registered in the Note Register.
“Indenture Collateral” has the meaning given to such term in the Granting Clause. 
“Indenture Trustee” has the meaning given to such term in the Preamble.

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“Indirect Participant” means any financial institution for whom any Direct Participant holds an interest in any Note.
“Individual Note” means any Note in permanent certificated form registered in the name of a Holder other than the Depository or its nominee.
“Indenture Trustee Fees” shall have the meaning given to such term in Section 6.07.
“Independent” means, when used with respect to any specified Person, the Person (a) is in fact independent of the Issuer, any other obligor on the Notes, the Indenture Trustee and any Affiliate of any of the foregoing Persons, (b) does not have any direct financial interest or any material indirect financial interest in the Issuer, any such other obligor, the Indenture Trustee or any Affiliate of any of the foregoing Persons and (c) is not connected with the Issuer, any such other obligor, the Indenture Trustee or any Affiliate of any of the foregoing Persons as an officer, employee, trustee, partner, director or person performing similar functions.
“Initial Principal Balance” means $180,000,000. 
“Installment Note” means the Purchase Note in the principal amount of $200,000,000, dated as of March 5, 2014, issued by the Installment Note Issuer to The St. Joe Company and transferred prior to the date hereof to the Issuer.
“Installment Note Issuer” means Panama City Timber Finance Company, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company.
“Installment Note Trigger Event” means an  “Event of Default”) arising under clause (i) (with respect to principal only), (ii), (iii), (iv) or (vi) of the definition of such term in the Installment Note as in effect as of the date hereof.
 “Issuer Accounts” means the Payment Account, the Expense Reserve Account and the Supplemental Interest Account.
“Issuer Order” means a written order or request signed in the name of the Issuer by any one of its Authorized Officers and delivered to the Indenture Trustee.

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“Interest Accrual Period” means the period commencing on a Payment Date and ending on the day immediately preceding the next Payment Date (or, with respect to the first Payment Date, the period commencing on the Closing Date and ending on the day before the first Payment Date).
“Interest Rate” means the rate of interest payable with respect to the Notes, which shall be equal to 4.750% per annum.
“Investment Company Act” means the Investment Company Act of 1940.
“Investment Property” means all “investment property” as such term is defined in Article 9 of the UCC.
“LC Bank” means JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., a national banking association organized and existing under the laws of the United States of America, as issuer of the Letter of Credit.
“Letter of Credit” means the Irrevocable Standby Letter of Credit No. TFTS-859403 of LC Bank, dated as of March 5, 2014, in favor of Issuer, as successor-in-interest to Member.
“Letter of Representations” means the Letter of Representations, dated as of the date of this Indenture, by and among the Issuer and the Depository.
“Lien” means, with respect to any asset, any mortgage, deed of trust, pledge, hypothecation, assignment, deposit arrangement, encumbrance, lien (statutory or other), preference, priority or other security agreement or preferential arrangement of any kind or nature whatsoever including, without limitation, any conditional sale or other title retention agreement (other than a precautionary filing in respect of an operating lease).
“Limited Liability Company Agreement” means the Amended and Restated Limited Liability Company Agreement of the Issuer, dated as of April 10, 2014 between the Member and managers of the Issuer.
“Mandatory Prepayment Date” has the meaning given to such term in Section 4.04(c).

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“Majority Holders” means the Holders evidencing more than 50% of the Aggregate Outstanding Principal Balance of all of the Notes.
“Maturity Date” means March 4, 2029.
“Member” means The St. Joe Company, a Florida corporation.
“Moody’s” means Moody’s Investors Service or any successor thereto.
“Notes” means collectively, the Senior Secured Notes due 2029 issued pursuant to this Indenture. 
“Note Register” has the meaning given to such term in Section 4.02(a).
“Note Registrar” has the meaning given to such term in Section 4.02(a).
“Officer’s Certificate” means a certificate delivered to the Indenture Trustee signed by an Authorized Officer of the Issuer, as required by this Agreement or any other Transaction Document.
“Opinion of Counsel” means a written opinion of counsel to the Issuer reasonably acceptable to the Indenture Trustee (it being understood that Sullivan & Cromwell LLP and Edwards Wildman Palmer LLP are hereby designated as reasonably acceptable to the Indenture Trustee).
“Outstanding” means as of the date of determination, all Notes theretofore executed, authenticated and delivered under the Indenture except:
(i)    Notes in exchange for or in lieu of which other Notes have been executed, authenticated and delivered pursuant to the Indenture unless proof satisfactory to the Indenture Trustee is presented that any such Notes are held by a holder in due course; and
(ii)    Notes theretofore canceled by the Note Registrar or delivered to the Indenture Trustee for cancellation. 

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“Outstanding Principal Balance” means, as of any date of determination, the outstanding principal balance of an Outstanding Note on such date.
“Owner” means each Holder of a Note.
“Participant” means a Person that has an account with DTC.
“Payment Account” has the meaning given to such term in Section 3.01.
“Payment Date” means each March 11 and September 11 beginning September 11, 2014, through and including the Maturity Date.
“Paying Agent” means, with respect to the Notes, any paying agent or co‐paying agent appointed pursuant to Section 3.03 of the Indenture, which initially shall be the Indenture Trustee.
“Permitted Liens” means Liens (i)  arising by operation of law in the ordinary course of business for sums not due or sums that are being contested in good faith and (ii) for state, municipal and other local taxes if such taxes shall not at the time be due and payable or if the Issuer shall currently be contesting the validity thereof in good faith by appropriate proceedings, and (iii) in favor of the Indenture Trustee and the Holders created pursuant to this Indenture.
“Person” means any individual, corporation, estate, partnership, business or statutory trust, limited liability company, sole proprietorship, joint venture, association, joint stock company, trust (including any beneficiary thereof), unincorporated organization or government or any agency or political subdivision thereof or other entity.
“Proceeding” means any suit in equity, action at law or other judicial or administrative proceeding.
“Qualified Institutional Buyer” has the meaning given to such term in Rule 144A under the Securities Act.

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“Qualified Institution” means a depository institution organized under the laws of the United States or any one of the states thereof or the District of Columbia (or any domestic branch of a foreign bank), that has a long-term unsecured debt rating of “A-” or better.
“Qualified Purchaser” means a “qualified purchaser” within the meaning of Section 2(a)(51) of the Investment Company Act.
“Rating Agency” means S&P, so long as such Persons maintain a rating on the Notes; and if S&P no longer maintains a rating on the Notes, such other nationally recognized statistical rating organization selected by the Issuer.
“Rating Agency Condition” means, with respect to any action or series of related actions or proposed transaction or series of related proposed transactions, a condition that is satisfied upon notification from the Rating Agency to the Issuer and the Indenture Trustee in writing that such action or series of related actions or the consummation of such proposed transaction or series of related transactions will not result in a reduction or withdrawal of the then current rating issued by the Rating Agency with respect to any Notes as a result of such action or series of related actions or the consummation of such proposed transaction or series of related transactions; provided that at any time the Notes are not rated by the Rating Agency, the Rating Agency Condition shall be satisfied by the written consent of the Majority Holders confirming such satisfaction, which will be irrevocable once given.
“Record Date” means, with respect to any Payment Date, the last Business Day of the immediately preceding calendar month.
“Requirements of Law” for any Person means the certificate of incorporation or articles of association and by‐laws or other organizational or governing documents of such Person, and any law, treaty, rule or regulation, or order or determination of an arbitrator or Governmental Authority, in each case applicable to or binding upon such Person or to which such Person is subject, whether Federal, state or local (including, without limitation, usury laws).
“Reserve Accounts” means the Expense Reserve Account and the Supplemental Interest Account.

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“Rule 144A Certification” means a letter substantially in the form attached as Exhibit C.
“Satisfaction Date” means the date which is ninety‐one (91) days after the date on which all obligations of the Issuer under this Indenture and the Notes have been paid and/or satisfied in full (other than any ongoing indemnities contained in this Indenture which by their terms survive the satisfaction of all other monetary obligations under such Indenture and Notes).
“S&P” means Standard and Poor’s Ratings Services, a division of The McGraw‐Hill Companies, Inc. or any successor thereto.
“Sale” has the meaning given to such term in Section 5.15. 
“Secured Parties” means, collectively, the Indenture Trustee and the Holders. 
“Securities Legend” means the legend on each Note stating: “THIS NOTE HAS NOT BEEN AND WILL NOT BE REGISTERED UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED (THE “SECURITIES ACT”), OR UNDER THE SECURITIES OR BLUE SKY LAWS OF ANY STATE.  THE HOLDER HEREOF, BY PURCHASING THIS NOTE, AGREES THAT THIS NOTE MAY BE REOFFERED, RESOLD, PLEDGED OR OTHERWISE TRANSFERRED ONLY IN COMPLIANCE WITH THE SECURITIES ACT AND OTHER REQUIREMENTS OF LAWS AND ONLY (1) PURSUANT TO RULE 144A UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT (“RULE 144A”) TO A U.S. PERSON THAT THE HOLDER REASONABLY BELIEVES IS A QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER WITHIN THE MEANING OF RULE 144A (A “QIB”) AND WHO IS ALSO A QUALIFIED PURCHASER WITHIN THE MEANING OF SECTION 3(C)(7) UNDER THE INVESTMENT COMPANY ACT OF 1940, AS AMENDED (A “QUALIFIED PURCHASER”), PURCHASING FOR ITS OWN ACCOUNT OR A QIB PURCHASING FOR THE ACCOUNT OF A QIB WHO IS ALSO A QUALIFIED PURCHASER, WHOM THE HOLDER HAS INFORMED THAT THE REOFFER, RESALE, PLEDGE OR OTHER TRANSFER IS BEING MADE IN RELIANCE ON RULE 144A, OR (2) TO A U.S. PERSON WHO IS A QUALIFIED PURCHASER, PURCHASING FOR INVESTMENT AND NOT FOR DISTRIBUTION IN VIOLATION OF THE SECURITIES ACT, PURSUANT TO ANOTHER 

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EXEMPTION AVAILABLE UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT AND IN ACCORDANCE WITH ANY APPLICABLE STATE SECURITIES LAWS, SUBJECT, (A) IN THE CASE OF (1), TO THE RECEIPT BY THE INDENTURE TRUSTEE OF A CERTIFICATE SUBSTANTIALLY IN THE FORM PROVIDED IN THE INDENTURE, AND (B) IN EACH CASE, THE RECEIPT BY THE ISSUER OF SUCH OTHER EVIDENCE ACCEPTABLE TO THE ISSUER THAT SUCH REOFFER, RESALE, PLEDGE OR TRANSFER IS IN COMPLIANCE WITH ALL APPLICABLE SECURITIES LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES AND THE SECURITIES AND BLUE SKY LAWS OF ANY STATE OF THE UNITED STATES AND ANY OTHER APPLICABLE JURISDICTION.  THE HOLDER HEREOF ALSO ACKNOWLEDGES AND AGREES THAT THE ISSUER IS ENTITLED TO REFUSE TO HONOR ANY TRANSFER OF THIS NOTE TO A PERSON THAT IS NOT A QIB AND A QUALIFIED PURCHASER AND MAY REDEEM THIS NOTE FROM THE HOLDER HEREOF OR REQUIRE SUCH HOLDER TO TRANSFER SUCH NOTE IF THE HOLDER IS DETERMINED TO NOT BE A QIB AND A QUALIFIED PURCHASER. THE PURCHASE OF THIS NOTE WILL BE DEEMED A REPRESENTATION BY THE ACQUIRER THAT EITHER:  (A) IT IS NOT, AND IS NOT ACQUIRING OR HOLDING THIS NOTE, DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY, ON BEHALF OF OR WITH ANY ASSETS OF, AN “EMPLOYEE BENEFIT PLAN” WITHIN THE MEANING OF SECTION 3(3) OF THE EMPLOYEE RETIREMENT INCOME SECURITY ACT OF 1974, AS AMENDED (“ERISA”), THAT IS SUBJECT TO TITLE I OF ERISA, A “PLAN” WITHIN THE MEANING OF AND SUBJECT TO SECTION 4975 OF THE INTERNAL REVENUE CODE OF 1986, AS AMENDED (THE “CODE”); AN ENTITY THE UNDERLYING ASSETS OF WHICH ARE DEEMED TO INCLUDE ASSETS OF ANY SUCH PLAN, OR A PLAN THAT IS SUBJECT TO ANY FEDERAL, STATE, LOCAL OR NON‐U.S. LAW (“SIMILAR LAW”) THAT IS SUBSTANTIVELY SIMILAR TO THE PROVISIONS OF SECTION 406 OF ERISA OR SECTION 4975 OF THE CODE, OR (B) ITS ACQUISITION AND HOLDING OF THIS NOTE WILL NOT CONSTITUTE OR RESULT IN A NON‐EXEMPT PROHIBITED TRANSACTION UNDER SECTION 406 OF ERISA OR SECTION 4975 OF THE CODE OR A VIOLATION OF SIMILAR LAW.”

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“Substitute Collateral” has the meaning given to such term in Section 4.07.
“Supplemental Interest Account” has the meaning given to such term in Section 3.01(b).
“Supplemental Interest Amount” means (a) with respect to the first Payment Date after the Closing Date, $215,994.45, (b) with respect to each Payment Date thereafter prior to the Maturity Date, $269,000.00, and (c) with respect to the Maturity Date, $102,750.00.
“Supplemental Interest Deposit Amount” means $6,514,235.77 (consisting of the Supplemental Interest STRIPS).
“Supplemental Interest STRIPS” means the U.S. Treasury STRIPS identified on Schedule 1.
“Transaction Documents” means this Indenture, the Notes, the Contribution Agreement, the Limited Liability Company Agreement, the Installment Note, the Letter of Credit and any documents or agreements executed in connection with the forgoing.
“Trust Indenture Act” or “TIA” means the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 as in effect on any relevant date.
“UCC” means the Uniform Commercial Code, as amended from time to time, as in effect in any specified jurisdiction.
“U.S. Person” means a Person who is both (i) a “U.S. person” as defined in Regulation S under the Securities Act and (ii) a “United States person” under Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code.
“USA PATRIOT Act” means the United States Uniting and Strengthening America By Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001, signed into law on and effective as of October 26, 2001, which, among other things, requires that financial institutions, a term that includes banks, broker‐dealers and investment companies, establish and maintain compliance programs to guard against money laundering activities.

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“U.S. Treasury STRIPS” means zero-coupon bonds that are direct obligations of the United States Treasury.
Section 1.02    Rules of Construction.  Unless the context otherwise requires:
(i)    a term has the meaning given to it;
(ii)    an accounting term not otherwise defined has the meaning given to it in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles;
(iii)    “or” is not exclusive;
(iv)    “including” means including without limitation;
(v)    words in the singular include the plural and words in the plural include the singular;
(vi)    any pronouns shall be deemed to cover all genders; and
(vii)    any agreement, instrument or statute defined or referred to herein or in any instrument or certificate delivered in connection herewith means such agreement, instrument or statute as from time to time amended, modified, waived or supplemented and includes (in the case of agreements or instruments) references to all attachments thereto and instruments incorporated therein; references to a Person are also to its permitted successors and assigns.

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ARTICLE II     
 
THE NOTES
Section 2.01    Form.  The Notes, together with the Indenture Trustee’s certificate of authentication, shall be in substantially the form set forth as Exhibit A to this Indenture with such appropriate insertions, omissions, substitutions and other variations as are required or permitted by this Indenture and may have such letters, numbers or other marks of identification and such legends or endorsements placed thereon as may, consistently herewith, be determined by the appropriate Authorized Officers of the Issuer executing such Notes, as evidenced by their execution of the Notes.  Any portion of the text of any Note may be set forth on the reverse thereof, with an appropriate reference thereto on the face of the Note.
The Notes shall be typewritten, printed, lithographed or engraved or produced by any combination of these methods (with or without steel engraved borders), all as determined by the Authorized Officers of the Issuer executing such Notes, as evidenced by their execution of such Notes.
The terms of the Notes set forth in Exhibit A are part of the terms of this Indenture.
Section 2.02    Execution, Authentication and Delivery.  The Notes shall be executed on behalf of the Issuer by any of its Authorized Officers.  The signature of any such Authorized Officer on the Notes may be manual or facsimile.
A Note bearing the manual or facsimile signature of an individual who was at any time an Authorized Officer of the Issuer shall bind the Issuer, notwithstanding that such individual has ceased to hold such office prior to the authentication and delivery of such Note or did not hold such office at the date of such Note.
The Indenture Trustee shall upon receipt of an Issuer Order authenticate and deliver the Notes for original issue in an aggregate amount equal to the Initial Principal Balance.
Each Note shall be dated the date of its authentication.  The Notes shall be issuable as registered Notes in the minimum initial denominations of $100,000 and in integral multiples of $1,000 in excess thereof.

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No Note shall be entitled to any benefit under this Indenture or be valid or obligatory for any purpose, unless there appears on such Note a certificate of authentication substantially in the form provided for herein executed by the Indenture Trustee by the manual signature of one of its authorized signatories, and such certificate upon any Note shall be conclusive evidence, and the only evidence, that such Note has been duly authenticated and delivered hereunder.
ARTICLE III     
 
COVENANTS
Section 3.01    Collection of Payments on Indenture Collateral; Issuer Accounts.  
(a)    On or prior to the Closing Date, the Indenture Trustee shall have established, and shall cause to be maintained, an account of the Issuer for the benefit of the Secured Parties at the Indenture Trustee for the collection of payments from the Indenture Collateral and the making of payments from time to time pursuant to Section 8.02 (the “Payment Account”).  Any amounts on deposit in the Payment Account shall remain uninvested.  On the Maturity Date, all amounts in such Payment Account shall be distributed by the Indenture Trustee as set forth in Section 8.02(g).  
(b)    On or before the Closing Date, the Indenture Trustee shall have established, and shall cause to be maintained, an account of the Issuer for the benefit of the Secured Parties at the Indenture Trustee for the deposit on the Closing Date of the Supplemental Interest Deposit Amount and the making of payments from time to time pursuant to Section 8.02 (the “Supplemental Interest Account”).  The amounts initially deposited in the Supplemental Interest Account shall consist of the Supplemental Interest STRIPS and, following the maturity of such Supplemental Interest STRIPS, shall remain uninvested.  On the Maturity Date, all amounts in such Supplemental Interest Account shall be transferred into the Payment Account as set forth in Section 8.02(g).

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(c)    On or before the Closing Date, the Indenture Trustee shall have established, and shall cause to be maintained, an account of the Issuer for the benefit of the Secured Parties at the Indenture Trustee for the deposit on the Closing Date of the Expense Reserve Deposit Amount and the making of payments from time to time pursuant to Section 8.02 (the “Expense Reserve Account”).  The amounts initially deposited in the Expense Reserve Account shall consist of cash and the Expense Reserve STRIPS and, following the maturity of such Expense Reserve STRIPS, shall remain uninvested.  On the Maturity Date, all amounts in such Expense Reserve Account shall be transferred into the Payment Account as set forth in Section 8.02(g).
(d)    The Issuer shall ensure that each of the Issuer Accounts is established and maintained as an Eligible Deposit Account.  If any institution with which any of the Issuer Accounts established pursuant to this Indenture is established ceases to be a Qualified Institution, the Issuer shall notify the Indenture Trustee and within thirty (30) Business Days establish a replacement account at a Qualified Institution after notice of such event.  
Section 3.02    Maintenance of Office or Agency.  The Issuer will maintain with the Indenture Trustee an office or agency where, subject to satisfaction of conditions set forth herein, Notes may be surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange, and where notices and demands to or upon the Issuer in respect of the Notes and this Indenture may be served.  The Issuer hereby initially appoints the Indenture Trustee to serve as its agent for the foregoing purposes.  The Issuer will give prompt written notice to the Indenture Trustee of the location, and of any change in the location, of any such office or agency.  If at any time the Issuer shall fail to maintain any such office or agency or shall fail to furnish the Indenture Trustee with the address thereof, such surrenders, notices and demands may be made or served at the Corporate Trust Office of the Indenture Trustee, and the Issuer hereby appoints the Indenture Trustee as its agent to receive all such surrenders, notices and demands.  Notwithstanding the foregoing, no service of legal process on the Issuer may be made at any office of the Indenture Trustee.

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Section 3.03    Money for Payments To Be Held in Trust; Paying Agent.  The Issuer appoints the Indenture Trustee as Paying Agent for the payment of principal and interest on the Notes.  As provided in Section 8.02, all payments of amounts due and payable with respect to any Notes that are to be made from amounts withdrawn from the Payment Account shall be made on behalf of the Issuer by the Indenture Trustee as Paying Agent.
The Issuer may at any time and from time to time vary or terminate the appointment of any such agent or appoint any additional paying agents for any or all of such purposes; provided, that, no Paying Agent shall be appointed in a jurisdiction that subjects payments on the Notes to withholding tax.  The Issuer shall give prompt written notice to the Indenture Trustee, the Rating Agency and the Holders of the appointment or termination of any such agent and of the location and any change in the location of any such office or agency.
The Issuer will cause each Paying Agent other than the Indenture Trustee to execute and deliver to the Indenture Trustee an instrument in which such Paying Agent shall agree with the Indenture Trustee (and if the Indenture Trustee acts as Paying Agent, it so agrees), subject to the provisions of this Section 3.03, that such Paying Agent will:
(i)    hold all sums held by it for the payment of amounts due with respect to the Notes in trust for the benefit of the Persons entitled thereto until such sums shall be paid to such Persons or otherwise disposed of as herein provided and pay such sums to such Persons as herein provided;
(ii)    give the Indenture Trustee notice of any default by the Issuer in the making of any payment required to be made with respect to the Notes;
(iii)    at any time during the continuance of any such default, upon the written request of the Indenture Trustee, forthwith pay to the Indenture Trustee all sums so held in trust by such Paying Agent;

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(iv)    immediately resign as Paying Agent and forthwith pay to the Indenture Trustee all sums held by it in trust for the payment of Notes if at any time it ceases to meet the standards required to be met by a Paying Agent at the time of its appointment; and
(v)    comply with all requirements of the Code with respect to the withholding from any payments made by it on any Notes of any applicable withholding taxes imposed thereon and with respect to any applicable reporting requirements in connection therewith.
Subject to applicable laws with respect to escheat of funds, any money held by the Indenture Trustee or any Paying Agent in trust for the payment of any amount due with respect to any Note and remaining unclaimed for two (2) years after such amount has become due and payable shall be discharged from such trust and be paid to the Issuer on an Issuer Order; and the Holder of such Note shall thereafter, as an unsecured general creditor, look only to the Issuer for payment thereof (but only to the extent of the amounts so paid to the Issuer), and all liability of the Indenture Trustee or such Paying Agent with respect to such trust money shall thereupon cease; provided, however, that the Indenture Trustee shall adopt and employ, at the expense and direction of the Issuer, any reasonable means of notification of such repayment (including, but not limited to, mailing notice of such repayment to Holders whose Notes have been called but have not been surrendered for repurchase or whose right to or interest in moneys due and payable but not claimed is determinable from the records of the Indenture Trustee or of any Paying Agent, at the last address of record for each such Holder).

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Section 3.04    Existence; Separate Legal Existence.  Prior to the Satisfaction Date:
(a)    The Issuer shall keep in full effect its existence, rights and franchises as a limited liability company under the laws of the State of Delaware and shall obtain and preserve its qualification to do business in each jurisdiction in which such qualification is or shall be necessary to protect the validity and enforceability of this Indenture, the Notes, the other Transaction Documents, the Indenture Collateral and each other instrument or agreement included in the Indenture Collateral.
(b)    The Member and Issuer shall take or cause to be taken such actions as are necessary in order for the Issuer to be at all times treated as a disregarded entity or a partnership, and not as an association taxable as a corporation or a publicly-traded partnership, for federal and any applicable state income tax purposes and shall take no actions inconsistent with such treatment.
(c)    The Issuer shall ensure that it is at all times in compliance with all provisions, including, without limitation, Sections 10 and 14, of its Limited Liability Company Agreement.
(d)    The Issuer shall conduct its affairs strictly in accordance with its organizational documents and observe all necessary, appropriate and customary statutory limited liability company formalities.
Section 3.05    Payment of Expenses, Principal and Interest.  
(a)    On the Closing Date, the Issuer shall deposit the Expense Reserve Deposit Amount into the Expense Reserve Account to pay amounts owed to the Indenture Trustee under Section 6.07 and other expenses.

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(b)    The Issuer will duly and punctually pay the principal of and interest on the Notes in accordance with the terms of such Notes and this Indenture.  On the Closing Date, the Issuer shall direct the Installment Note Issuer to make all payments under the Installment Note directly to the Payment Account. On each Payment Date in accordance with Section 8.02, the Paying Agent shall distribute amounts on deposit in the Payment Account to pay all principal of and interest on the Notes then due and payable.  Amounts properly withheld under the Code or any applicable state law by any Person from a payment to any Holder of interest and/or principal shall be considered as having been paid by the Issuer to such Holder for all purposes of this Indenture.
Section 3.06    Protection of Indenture Collateral.  The security interest Granted by the Issuer pursuant to this Indenture in favor of the Indenture Trustee on behalf of the Secured Parties is intended to be prior to all other liens in respect of the Indenture Collateral, and the Issuer shall take all actions necessary to obtain and maintain, for the benefit of the Indenture Trustee on behalf of the Secured Parties, a first lien on and a first priority, perfected security interest in the Indenture Collateral in connection therewith, the Issuer shall cause to be delivered into the possession of the Indenture Trustee as pledgee hereunder, indorsed in blank, any “instruments” (within the meaning of the UCC), not constituting part of chattel paper, evidencing any part of the Indenture Collateral.  The Issuer has, on or prior to the date hereof, delivered to the Indenture Trustee (a) the Installment Note, along with an executed and undated note power, and (b) the Letter of Credit, along with an executed and undated beneficiary transfer form and a consent by the LC Bank to the assignment to the Indenture Trustee of the proceeds of any drawings thereunder.  The Indenture Trustee acknowledges and agrees that it holds the Indenture Collateral delivered to it pursuant to this Indenture for the benefit of the Secured Parties.  The Indenture Trustee agrees to maintain continuous possession of such Indenture Collateral delivered to the Indenture Trustee as pledgee hereunder until this Indenture shall have terminated in accordance with its terms or until the Indenture Trustee is otherwise authorized to release such instrument from the Indenture Collateral.  The Issuer will from time to time prepare (or shall cause to be prepared), execute and deliver all such supplements and amendments hereto and all such financing statements, continuation statements, instruments of further assurance and other instruments, and will take all further actions, as may be necessary desirable, or that the Indenture Trustee may reasonably request, in order to:

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(i)    maintain or preserve the lien and security interest Granted under this Indenture (and the priority thereof) or carry out more effectively the purposes hereof;
(ii)    perfect, publish notice of or protect the validity of any Grant made by this Indenture;
(iii)    enforce any rights of the Issuer under the Indenture Collateral to the extent commercially reasonable; or
(iv)    preserve and defend title to the Indenture Collateral and the rights of the Indenture Trustee and the Holders in such Indenture Collateral against the claims of all other Persons and parties.
Except as otherwise provided in or permitted by this Indenture, the Indenture Trustee shall not remove any portion of the Indenture Collateral that is evidenced by an instrument, certificate or other writing from the jurisdiction in which it was held at the date of the most recent Opinion of Counsel delivered pursuant to Section 3.07 unless the Indenture Trustee shall have first received an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that the lien and security interest created by this Indenture with respect to such property will continue to be maintained after giving effect to such action or actions.
The Issuer designates the Indenture Trustee its agent and attorney‐in‐fact to execute any financing statement, continuation statement or other instrument required to be executed pursuant to this Section 3.06.
Section 3.07    Opinions as to Indenture Collateral.  On or before the Closing Date, the Issuer shall furnish to the Indenture Trustee an Opinion of Counsel either stating that, in the opinion of such counsel, such action has been taken with respect to the delivery of Indenture and any other requisite documents, and with respect to the execution and filing of any financing statements and continuation statements, as are necessary to perfect and make effective the lien and security interest Granted under this Indenture (but not the priority thereof) and reciting the details of such action, or stating that, in the opinion of such counsel, no such action is necessary to make such lien and security interest effective.

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Section 3.08    Furnishing of Rule 144A Information.   The Issuer will, upon the written request of any Holder or of any owner of a beneficial interest in the Notes, furnish such information as is specified in paragraph (d)(4) of Rule 144A under the Securities Act (i) to such Holder or beneficial owner who is a Qualified Institutional Buyer (and who is also a Qualified Purchaser), (ii) to a prospective purchaser of such Note or interest therein who is a Qualified Institutional Buyer (and who is also a Qualified Purchaser) designated by such Holder or beneficial owner, or (iii) to such Holder, beneficial owner or prospective purchaser, in order to permit compliance by such Holder or beneficial owner with Rule 144A under the Securities Act in connection with the resale of such Note or beneficial interest therein by such Holder or beneficial owner in reliance on Rule 144A under the Securities Act unless, at the time of such request, the Issuer is subject to the reporting requirements of Section 13 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act, or exempt from reporting pursuant to Rule 12g3 2(b) under the Exchange Act.
Section 3.09    Performance of Obligations.
(a)    The Issuer will punctually perform and observe all of its obligations and agreements contained in this Indenture, the Transaction Documents and in the instruments and agreements included in the Indenture Collateral.
(b)    The Issuer may contract with other Persons to assist it in performing its duties under this Indenture, the Transaction Documents and in the instruments and agreements included in the Indenture Collateral, and any performance of such duties by a Person identified to the Indenture Trustee in an Officer’s Certificate of the Issuer shall be deemed to be action taken by the Issuer.

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(c)    The Issuer will not take any action or permit any action to be taken by others which would release any Person from any of such Person’s covenants or obligations under any of the documents included in the Indenture Collateral, or which would result in the amendment, hypothecation, subordination, termination or discharge of, or impair the validity or effectiveness of, any of the documents included in the Indenture Collateral, except for any amendment, waiver or modification of the Installment Note or the Letter of Credit consented to in writing by the Majority Holders or as otherwise permitted under Section 4.07.
(d)    Upon an Installment Note Trigger Event, the Issuer shall promptly, and in any event within five (5) Business Days of the occurrence thereof, present a conforming demand for payment on the Letter of Credit to the issuer thereof.
Section 3.10    Additional Negative Covenants.  So long as any Notes are Outstanding, the Issuer shall not:
(i)    except as expressly permitted by this Indenture or any other Transaction Document, sell, transfer, exchange or otherwise dispose of the Indenture Collateral;
(ii)    claim any credit on, or make any deduction from the principal or interest payable in respect of, the Notes (other than amounts properly withheld from such payments under the Code or applicable state law) or assert any claim against any present or former Holder by reason of the payment of the taxes levied or assessed upon any part of the Indenture Collateral;

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(iii)    permit the validity or effectiveness of this Indenture to be impaired, or permit the lien Granted by this Indenture to be amended, hypothecated, subordinated, terminated or discharged except as expressly permitted by this Indenture, or permit any Person to be released from any covenants or obligations with respect to the Notes under this Indenture except as may be expressly permitted by this Indenture, permit any lien, charge, excise, claim, security interest, mortgage or other encumbrance (other than the lien of this Indenture or any other Transaction Document or any other Permitted Lien) to be created on or extend to or otherwise arise upon or burden the Indenture Collateral or any part thereof or any interest therein or the proceeds thereof or permit the lien of this Indenture not to constitute a valid first priority security interest in the Indenture Collateral (subject only to Permitted Liens);
(iv)    to the fullest extent permitted by the Delaware Limited Liability Company Act (6 Del. C. Section 18‐101, et seq.), dissolve or liquidate in whole or in part;
(v)    enter into any agreement which does not contain non‐petition and limited recourse provisions substantially to the effect of Section 10.14, nor consent to any adverse amendment or waiver of such provisions;
(vi)    create any subsidiaries;
(vii)    modify or amend any of Sections 5(e), 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 19, 21, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 33 or Schedule A of the Limited Liability Company Agreement (without the consent of the Majority Holders);
(viii)    sell, lease or otherwise transfer any property or assets to, or purchase, lease or otherwise acquire any property or assets from, or otherwise engage in any other transactions with, any of its Affiliates, except (i) transactions in the ordinary course of business at prices and on terms and conditions not less favorable to the Issuer than could be obtained on an arm’s-length basis from unrelated third parties, (ii) distributions expressly permitted by this Indenture and (iii) other transactions expressly contemplated by the Transaction Documents;

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(ix)    institute proceedings to have the Issuer be adjudicated bankrupt or insolvent, or consent to the institution of bankruptcy or insolvency proceedings against the Issuer or file a petition seeking, or consent to, reorganization or relief with respect to the Issuer under any applicable federal or state law relating to bankruptcy, or consent to the appointment of a receiver, liquidator, assignee, trustee, sequestrator (or other similar official) of the Issuer or a substantial part of its property, or make any assignment for the benefit of creditors of the Issuer, or admit in writing the Issuer’s inability to pay its debts generally as they become due, or take action in furtherance of any such action, or to dissolve or liquidate the Issuer, or to take any action or expressly consent to any omission which action or omission would reasonably be expected to result in the acceleration or early maturity of any indebtedness of the Issuer; and 
(x)    accelerate the maturity of the Installment Note by reason of the occurrence of an “Event of Default” (as defined in the Installment Note) specified in paragraph (v) of the definition thereof, without the consent of the Majority Holders.    
Section 3.11    Annual Statement as to Compliance.  The Issuer will deliver to the Indenture Trustee and the Rating Agency, within ninety (90) days after the end of each calendar year (commencing with the calendar year ending December 31, 2014), an Officer’s Certificate stating that a review of the activities of the Issuer has been made under the supervision of the signing Authorized Officer, in such person’s capacity as an Authorized Officer and not in their individual capacity, with a view to determining whether the Issuer has kept, observed, performed and fulfilled its obligations under this Indenture and further stating that to the best of such Authorized Officer’s knowledge, the Issuer during such preceding calendar year has kept, observed, performed and fulfilled each and every such covenant and no Default occurred during such year and at the date of such certificate there is no Default that has occurred and is continuing or, if such signers do know of such Default, the certificate shall describe its status with particularity.  
Section 3.12    Investment Company Act.  The Issuer shall not take any action that would cause the Issuer to be required to register as an “investment company” under the Investment Company Act.

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Section 3.13    No Consolidation or Merger.
(a)    The Issuer shall not consolidate or merge with or into any other Person.
(b)    Except as otherwise permitted under this Indenture or under the Transaction Documents, the Issuer shall not convey or transfer all or substantially all of its properties or assets, including those included in the Indenture Collateral, to any Person.
Section 3.14    No Other Business.  Prior to the Satisfaction Date, the Issuer shall not engage in any business other than financing, purchasing, owning, selling, managing and enforcing the Indenture Collateral in the manner contemplated by this Indenture and the Transaction Documents and issuing the Notes, and any activities incidental thereto.
Section 3.15    No Borrowing.  Until such time as the Notes have been fully redeemed and all other amounts due and payable under this Indenture have been indefeasibly paid and satisfied in full (other than any ongoing indemnities contained in this Indenture which by their terms survive the satisfaction of all other monetary obligations under such Indenture and the Notes), the Issuer shall not issue, incur, assume, guarantee or otherwise become liable, directly or indirectly, for any indebtedness (including by issuing preferred securities with a liquidation preference) except for the Notes. 
Section 3.16    Use of Initial Proceeds.  The proceeds from the initial sale of the Notes shall be used exclusively to (i) pay the transaction expenses of the Issuer, (ii) fund the Supplemental Interest Deposit Amount into the Supplemental Interest Account, (iii) fund the Expense Reserve Deposit Amount into the Expense Reserve Account, and (iv) after paying such amounts pursuant to clauses (i), (ii) and (iii), distributing the balance to the Member as a cash distribution.

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Section 3.17    Investments, Guarantees, Loans, Advances and Other Liabilities.  Except as contemplated by this Indenture or the other Transaction Documents, the Issuer shall not make any loan or advance or credit to, or guarantee (directly or indirectly or by an instrument having the effect of assuring another’s payment or performance on any obligation or capability of so doing or otherwise), endorse or otherwise become contingently liable, directly or indirectly, in connection with the obligations, stocks or dividends of, or own, purchase, repurchase or acquire (or agree contingently to do so) any stock, obligations, assets or securities of, or any other interest in, or make any capital contribution to, any other Person.
Section 3.18    Capital Expenditures.  The Issuer shall not make any expenditure for capital assets.
Section 3.19    Representations and Warranties of the Issuer.  The Issuer represents and warrants as follows:
(a)    Power and Authority.  It has full power, authority and legal right to execute, deliver and perform its obligations as Issuer under this Indenture and the Notes and under each of the other Transaction Documents to which the Issuer is a party.
(b)    Due Authorization and Binding Obligation.  The execution and delivery of the Transaction Documents to which the Issuer is a party, and the consummation of the transactions provided for therein have been duly authorized by all necessary action on its part.  Each of the Transaction Documents to which the Issuer is a party constitutes the legal, valid and binding obligation of the Issuer and is enforceable in accordance with its terms, except as enforcement of such terms may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency or similar laws affecting the enforcement of creditors’ rights generally and by the availability of equitable remedies.

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(c)    No Conflict.  The execution and delivery of the Transaction Documents to which the Issuer is a party, the performance of the transactions contemplated thereby and the fulfillment of the terms thereof will not conflict with, result in any breach of any of the materials terms and provisions of, or constitute (with or without notice or lapse of time or both) a default under, any indenture, contract, agreement, mortgage, deed of trust, or other instrument to which the Issuer is a party or by which it or any of its property is bound.
(d)    No Violation.  The execution and delivery of the Transaction Documents to which the Issuer is a party, the performance of the transactions contemplated thereby and the fulfillment of the terms thereof will not conflict with or violate, in any material respect, any Requirements of Law applicable to the Issuer.
(e)    All Consents Required.  All approvals, authorizations, consents, orders or other actions of any Person or any Governmental Authority required in connection with the execution and delivery of the Transaction Documents to which the Issuer is a party, the performance of the transactions contemplated thereby (including the pledging to the Indenture Trustee of the Indenture Collateral) and the fulfillment of the terms thereof have been obtained.
(f)    No Proceedings.  No litigation or administrative proceeding of or before any court, tribunal or governmental body is currently pending, or to the knowledge of the Issuer, threatened, against the Issuer or any of its properties or with respect to any Transaction Document to which the Issuer is a party that, if adversely determined, would have a material adverse effect on the business, properties, assets or condition (financial or otherwise) of the Issuer or the transactions contemplated by the Transaction Documents to which the Issuer is a party.
(g)    Organization and Good Standing.  The Issuer is a limited liability company duly organized, validly existing and in good standing under the laws of the State of Delaware and has the requisite power to own its assets and to transact the business in which it is currently engaged, and had at all relevant times, and now has, all necessary power, authority and legal right to acquire, own and pledge the Indenture Collateral.

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(h)    Investment Company Act.  The Issuer is not an “investment company” within the meaning of the Investment Company Act.
(i)    Location.  The Issuer is located (within the meaning of Article 9 of the UCC) in the State of Delaware.  The Issuer agrees that it will not change its location (within the meaning of Article 9 of the UCC) unless it has given at least thirty (30) days’ prior written notice to the Indenture Trustee and the Rating Agency and taken any and all actions necessary to maintain the perfection of the security interest on the Indenture Collateral.
(j)    Security Interest in Collateral.
(i)    This Indenture creates a valid, continuing and enforceable security interest (as defined in the applicable UCC) in the Indenture Collateral in favor of the Indenture Trustee, which security interest is prior to all other Liens (except for Permitted Liens), and is enforceable as such against creditors of and purchasers from the Issuer;
(ii)    the Issuer owns and has good and marketable title to such Indenture Collateral free and clear of any Lien, claim or encumbrance of any Person (other than Permitted Liens);
(iii)    the Issuer has caused the filing of all appropriate financing statements in the proper filing office in the appropriate jurisdictions under Requirements of Law in order to perfect the security interest in such Indenture Collateral granted to the Indenture Trustee under this Indenture, to the extent the filing of such financing statement can perfect a security interest in such Indenture Collateral;

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(iv)    (A) other than the security interest granted by the Issuer pursuant to this Indenture, the Issuer has not pledged, assigned, sold, granted a security interest in or otherwise conveyed any of such Indenture Collateral; (B) the Issuer has not authorized the filing of, and is not aware of, any financing statements against the Issuer that include a description of collateral covering such Indenture Collateral other than any financing statement relating to the security interest granted by the Issuer under this Indenture; and (C) the Issuer is not aware of the filing of any judgment or tax Lien filings against the Issuer;
(v)    all original executed copies of each underlying document that constitutes or evidences the Indenture Collateral in which a security interest may be perfected by possession has been delivered to, and, to the knowledge of the Issuer, is in the possession of, the Indenture Trustee; and
(vi)    none of the underlying documents that constitutes or evidences the Indenture Collateral in which a security interest may be perfected by possession has any marks or notations indicating that it has been pledged, assigned or otherwise conveyed to any Person other than the Issuer and the Indenture Trustee.
(k)    Accounts.
(i)    All of the Supplemental Interest STRIPS have been (or will on the Closing Date be) credited to the Supplemental Interest Account, and all of the Expense Reserve STRIPS have been (or will on the Closing Date be) credited to the Expense Reserve Account.  The Supplemental Interest Account and the Expense Reserve Account are not in the name of any person other than the Issuer or the Indenture Trustee.  The Issuer has not consented to the securities intermediary for the Supplemental Interest Account or the Expense Reserve Account complying with entitlement orders of any person other than the Issuer and the Indenture Trustee.  The Issuer has delivered to the Indenture Trustee a fully-executed agreement pursuant to which the securities intermediary for each of the Supplemental Interest Account and the Expense Reserve Account has agreed that following an Event of Default it will comply with all instructions originated by the Indenture Trustee relating to the Supplemental Interest Account and the Expense Reserve Account without further consent by the Issuer and has agreed to treat all assets credited to such accounts as “financial assets” within the meaning of the UCC.

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(ii)    The Payment Account is not in the name of any person other than the Issuer or the Indenture Trustee.  The Issuer has not consented to the bank maintaining the Payment Account complying with instructions of any person other than the Issuer and the Indenture Trustee.  The Issuer has delivered to the Indenture Trustee a fully-executed agreement pursuant to which the bank maintaining the Payment Account has agreed that following an Event of Default it will comply with all instructions originated by the Indenture Trustee directing disposition of the funds in the Payment Account without further consent by the Issuer.
Section 3.20    Restricted Payments.  Except as permitted by Section 3.16, Section 4.07 and Section 8.02, the Issuer shall not, directly or indirectly, (i) pay any dividend or make any distribution (by reduction of capital or otherwise), whether in cash, property, securities or a combination thereof, to any owner of a beneficial interest in the Issuer or otherwise with respect to any ownership or equity interest or security in or of the Issuer, (ii) redeem, purchase, retire or otherwise acquire for value any such ownership or equity interest or security in or of the Issuer or (iii) set aside or otherwise segregate any amounts for any such purposes.  The Issuer will not, directly or indirectly, make payments to or distributions from the Issuer Accounts except in accordance with this Indenture and the Transaction Documents.
Section 3.21    Notice of Events of Default; Other Notices.  
(a)    The Issuer shall give the Indenture Trustee and the Rating Agency prompt written notice of:
(i)    any Default or Event of Default hereunder or any event of default under any other Transaction Document (including the Installment Note); 
(ii)    the receipt by the Issuer of a written notice sent by LC Bank to the Issuer in the form of Exhibit 4 to the Letter of Credit; and 
(iii)    any amendment or waiver of this Indenture, any other Transaction Document or any document included in the Indenture Collateral, such notice to be given in accordance with Section 10.04.  

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(b)    Upon the occurrence of an Event of Default hereunder, the Issuer shall deliver to the Indenture Trustee as soon as possible, and in any event within two (2) Business Days after the Issuer becomes aware of the occurrence of such Event of Default, an Officer’s Certificate specifying the Event of Default and describing its status with particularity and the action the Issuer is taking or proposes to take with respect thereto.
(c)    The Issuer shall deliver promptly to the Rating Agency (i) any requests, demands, certificates, financial statements, notices and other instruments furnished to the Issuer, to the extent not already delivered to the Rating Agency pursuant to Section 3.21(a), under the Installment Note, the Paying Agency Agreement dated as of March 5, 2015 (the “Paying Agency Agreement”) by and among Installment Note Issuer, LC Bank and The Bank of New York Mellon, as the same may be amended, supplemented, restated or otherwise modified from time to time in accordance with the terms thereof, or the Reimbursement Agreement, Pledge and Security Agreement or Time Deposit Agreement (each as defined in the Paying Agency Agreement) and (ii) upon an Authorized Officer of the Issuer obtaining knowledge thereof, notice of any litigation, investigation or proceeding by or before any court or Governmental Authority against the Issuer or relating to the Indenture Collateral or the Transaction Documents.
Section 3.22    Further Instruments and Acts.  Upon request of the Indenture Trustee, the Issuer will execute and deliver such further instruments and do such further acts as may be reasonably necessary or proper to carry out more effectively the purpose of this Indenture.

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ARTICLE IV     
 
THE NOTES
Section 4.01    The Notes.
(a)    The Notes shall be registered initially in the name of Cede & Co. Beneficial Owners will hold interests in such Notes through the book‐entry facilities of the Depository in minimum denominations of $100,000 and integral multiples of $1,000 in excess thereof.  Subject to Sections 4.02(b), (p), (q) and (r), the Notes shall be issued in such names and denominations as may be set forth on an Issuer Order delivered to the Indenture Trustee.
(b)    The Notes shall, on original issue, be executed on behalf of the Issuer by an Authorized Officer of the Issuer, authenticated by the Indenture Trustee and delivered by the Indenture Trustee to or upon the order of the Issuer.
(c)    The Notes may be held only by U.S. Persons.
(d)    The Issuer will not and will not permit any Affiliate to purchase, redeem, prepay or otherwise acquire, directly or indirectly, any of the Outstanding Notes except upon the redemption or repayment of the Notes in accordance with this Indenture.  The Issuer will promptly cancel all Notes acquired by it or any Affiliate pursuant to any redemption or repayment of Notes pursuant to this Indenture and no Notes may be issued in substitution or exchange for any such Notes. 
Section 4.02    Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Notes.
(b)    The Indenture Trustee shall cause to be kept a Note Register (the “Note Register”) in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, the Issuer shall provide for the registration of Notes and the registration of transfers and exchanges of Notes as herein provided.  The Indenture Trustee shall be “Note Registrar” for the purpose of registering Notes and transfers of Notes as herein provided.  The Note Register shall contain the name, remittance instructions, the series and the number in the series.

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(c)    The Notes shall be issued in minimum denominations of $100,000 initial principal amount and integral multiples of $1,000 in excess thereof.  On the Closing Date, the Indenture Trustee will execute and authenticate one or more Global Notes in an aggregate principal amount that shall equal the Initial Principal Balance.
(d)    The Global Notes shall be delivered by the Issuer to the Depository or, pursuant to the Depository’s instructions, shall be delivered by the Issuer on behalf of the Depository to and deposited with the DTC Custodian, and in each case shall be registered in the name of Cede & Co. and shall bear a legend substantially to the following effect:
“Unless this Note is presented by an authorized representative of The Depository Trust Company, a New York corporation (“DTC”), to the Issuer or its agent for registration of transfer, exchange or payment, and any Note issued is registered in the name of Cede & Co. or in such other name as is requested by an authorized representative of DTC (and any payment is made to Cede & Co. or to such other entity as is requested by an authorized representative of DTC), ANY TRANSFER, PLEDGE OR OTHER USE HEREOF FOR VALUE OR OTHERWISE BY OR TO ANY PERSON IS WRONGFUL inasmuch as the registered owner hereof, Cede & Co., has an interest herein.”
The Global Notes may be deposited with such other Depository as the Issuer may from time to time designate, and shall bear such legend as may be appropriate; provided, that, such successor Depository maintains a book‐entry system that qualifies to be treated as “registered form” under Section 163(f)(3) of the Code.
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(e)    With respect to Notes registered in the Note Register in the name of Cede & Co., as nominee of the Depository, the Issuer and the Indenture Trustee shall have no responsibility or obligation to Direct or Indirect Participants or Beneficial Owners for which the Depository holds Notes from time to time as a Depository.  Without limiting the immediately preceding sentence, the Issuer and the Indenture Trustee shall have no responsibility or obligation with respect to (a) the accuracy of the records of the Depository, Cede & Co., or any Direct or Indirect Participant with respect to the ownership interest in the Notes, (b) the delivery to any Direct or Indirect Participant or any other Person, other than a registered Holder of a Note as shown in the Note Registrar, (c) the payment to any Direct or Indirect Participant or any other Person, other than a registered Holder of a Note as shown in the Note Register, of any amount with respect to any distribution of principal or interest on the Notes or (d) the making of book‐entry transfers among Participants of the Depository with respect to Notes registered in the Note Register in the name of the nominee of the Depository.  No Person other than a registered Holder of a Note as shown in the Note Register shall receive a Note evidencing such Note.
(f)    Upon delivery by the Depository to the Indenture Trustee of written notice to the effect that the Depository has determined to substitute a new nominee in place of Cede & Co., and subject to the provisions hereof with respect to the payment of distributions by the mailing of checks or drafts to the registered Holders of Notes appearing as registered Owners in the Note Register on a Record Date, the name “Cede & Co.” in this Indenture shall refer to such new nominee of the Depository.

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(g)    In the event that the Depository advises the Issuer in writing that the Depository is no longer willing or able to discharge properly its responsibilities as depository with respect to the Global Notes and the Issuer is unable to locate a qualified successor, the Global Notes shall no longer be restricted to being registered in the Note Register in the name of Cede & Co. (or a successor nominee) as nominee of the Depository.  At that time, the Issuer may determine that the Global Notes shall be registered in the name of and deposited with a successor depository operating a global book‐entry system, as may be acceptable to the Issuer, or such depository’s agent or designee but, if the Issuer does not select such alternative global book‐entry system, then upon surrender to the Note Registrar of the Global Notes by the Depository, accompanied by the registration instructions from the Depository for registration, the Issuer shall issue and the Indenture Trustee shall authenticate Individual Notes, upon receipt of an Issuer Order.  The Indenture Trustee shall not be liable for any delay in delivery of such instructions and may conclusively rely on, and shall be protected in relying on, such instructions.  Upon the issuance of Individual Notes, the Indenture Trustee, the Note Registrar, any Paying Agent and the Issuer shall recognize the Holders of the Individual Notes as Holders hereunder.
(h)    Notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement to the contrary, so long as any Global Notes are registered in the name of Cede & Co., as nominee of the Depository, all distributions of principal and interest on such Global Notes and all notices with respect to such Global Notes shall be made and given, respectively, in the manner provided in the Applicable Procedures.
(i)    Subject to the preceding paragraphs, upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Note at the office of the Note Registrar and, upon satisfaction of the conditions set forth below, the Issuer shall execute in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, a new Note or Notes of the same Outstanding Principal Balance and dated the date of authentication by the Indenture Trustee.  The Note Registrar shall notify the Indenture Trustee of any such transfer.

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(j)    At the option of a Holder, the Notes held by such Holder may be exchanged for other Notes in authorized denominations, upon surrender of the Notes to be exchanged at such office.  Whenever any Notes are so surrendered for exchange, the Issuer shall execute the Notes which such Holder making the exchange is entitled to receive.  Every Note presented or surrendered for transfer or exchange shall be accompanied by wiring instructions, if applicable, in the form of Exhibit B.  The preceding provisions of this section notwithstanding, the Issuer shall not be required to make, and the Note Registrar shall not register, transfers or exchanges of Notes called for repurchase.
(k)    No service charge shall be made for any transfer or exchange of Notes, but prior to transfer the Note Registrar may require payment by the transferor of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any transfer or exchange of Notes.
All Notes surrendered for payment, transfer and exchange or repurchase shall be marked canceled by the Note Registrar and retained and destroyed in accordance with the Indenture Trustee’s records retention policies.
(l)    By acceptance of an Individual Note, whether upon original issuance or subsequent transfer, each Holder of such a Note acknowledges the restrictions on the transfer of such Note set forth in the Securities Legend and agrees that it will transfer such a Note only as provided herein.  In addition to the provisions of Sections 4.02(m) and (n), the following restrictions shall apply with respect to the transfer and registration of transfer of an Individual Note to a transferee that takes delivery in the form of an Individual Note:
(i)    The Note Registrar shall register the transfer of an Individual Note if the requested transfer is being made to a transferee who has provided the Note Registrar with a Rule 144A Certification; or

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(ii)    The Note Registrar shall register the transfer of any Individual Note if (x) the transferor has advised the Note Registrar in writing that the Note is being transferred to a U.S. Person that is a Qualified Purchaser and (y) prior to the transfer, the transferee furnishes to the Note Registrar and Issuer a written opinion of counsel acceptable to and in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Issuer that such transfer may be made pursuant to an exemption, describing the applicable exemption and the basis therefor, from the Securities Act and applicable law or is being made pursuant to said Act and other applicable law.
(m)    Subject to Section 4.02(n), so long as a Global Note remains Outstanding and is held by or on behalf of the Depository, transfers of beneficial interests in the Global Note, or transfers by Holders of Individual Notes to transferees that take delivery in the form of beneficial interests in the Global Note, may be made only in accordance with the rules of the Depository (the “Applicable Procedures”).
(n)    Transfers of Interests in Global Notes to Individual Notes.  Any and all transfers from a Global Note to a transferee wishing to take delivery in the form of an Individual Note will require the transferee to take delivery subject to the restrictions on the transfer of such Individual Note described on the face of such Note, and such transferee agrees that it will transfer such Individual Note only as provided therein and herein.  No such transfer shall be made, and the Note Registrar shall not register any such transfer, unless such transfer is made in accordance with this Section 4.02(m). Transfers of a beneficial interest in the Global Note to a U.S. Person who is both a Qualified Institutional Buyer and a Qualified Purchaser wishing to take delivery in the form of an Individual Note will be registered by the Note Registrar only if the Note Registrar is provided with a Rule 144A Certification.

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(o)    Transfers of Individual Notes to a Global Note.  If a Holder of an Individual Note wishes at any time to transfer such Note to a Person who wishes to take delivery thereof in the form of a beneficial interest in a Global Note, such transfer may be effected only in accordance with the Applicable Procedures, and this Section 4.02(n).  Upon receipt by the Note Registrar at the Corporate Trust Office of (1) the Individual Note to be transferred with an assignment and transfer, (2) written instructions given in accordance with the Applicable Procedures from a Depository Participant directing the Note Registrar to credit or cause to be credited to another specified Depository Participant’s account a beneficial interest in such Global Note in an amount equal to the denomination of the Individual Note to be so transferred, (3) a written order given in accordance with the Applicable Procedures containing information regarding the account of the Depository Participant to be credited with such beneficial interest, and (4) a Rule 144A Certification from the transferee of such interest to the effect that such transferee is a U.S. Person who is both a Qualified Institutional Buyer and a Qualified Purchaser, the Note Registrar shall cancel such Individual Note, execute and deliver a new Individual Note for the denomination of the Individual Note not so transferred, registered in the name of the Holder, and the Note Registrar shall instruct the Depository to increase the denomination of the Global Note by the denomination of the Individual Note to be so transferred, and to credit or cause to be credited to the account of the Person specified in such instructions a corresponding denomination of the Global Note.
(p)    An exchange of a beneficial interest in a Global Note for an Individual Note or Notes, an exchange of an Individual Note or Notes for a beneficial interest in a Global Note and an exchange of an Individual Note or Notes for another Individual Note or Notes (in each case, whether or not such exchange is made in anticipation of subsequent transfer) may be made only in accordance with this Section 4.02 and in accordance with the rules of the Depository and Applicable Procedures.

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(q)    
(i)    Upon acceptance for exchange or transfer of an Individual Note for a beneficial interest in the Global Note as provided herein, the Note Registrar shall cancel such Individual Note and shall (or shall request the Depository to) endorse on the schedule affixed to the applicable Global Note (or on a continuation of such schedule affixed to the Global Note and made a part thereof) an appropriate notation evidencing the date of such exchange or transfer and an increase in the Note balance of the Global Note equal to the Note balance of such Individual Note exchanged or transferred therefor.
(ii)    Upon acceptance for exchange or transfer of a beneficial interest in the Global Note for an Individual Note as provided herein, the Note Registrar shall (or shall request the Depository to) endorse on the schedule affixed to the Global Note (or on a continuation of such schedule affixed to the Global Note and made a part thereof) an appropriate notation evidencing the date of such exchange or transfer and a decrease in the Note balance of the Global Note equal to the Note balance of such Individual Note issued in exchange therefor or upon transfer thereof.
(r)    The Securities Legend shall be placed on any Individual Note issued in exchange for or upon transfer of another Individual Note or of a beneficial interest in the Global Note.

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(s)    Subject to the restrictions on transfer and exchange set forth in this Section 4.02, the Holder of any Individual Note may transfer or exchange the same in whole or in part (in an initial Note balance equal to the minimum authorized denomination of $100,000 or any integral multiple of $1,000 in excess thereof) by surrendering such Note at the Corporate Trust Office, or at the office of any transfer agent, together with an executed instrument of assignment and transfer satisfactory in form to the Note Registrar in the case of transfer and a written request for exchange in the case of exchange.  The Holder of a beneficial interest in a Global Note may, subject to the rules and procedures of the Depository, cause the Depository (or its nominee) to notify the Note Registrar in writing of a request for transfer or exchange of such beneficial interest for an Individual Note or Notes.  Following a proper request for transfer or exchange, the Note Registrar shall, within five (5) Business Days of such request made at such Corporate Trust Office, cause the Indenture Trustee to authenticate and the Note Registrar to deliver at such Corporate Trust Office, to the transferee (in the case of transfer) or Holder (in the case of exchange) or send by first class mail at the risk of the transferee (in the case of transfer) or Holder (in the case of exchange) to such address as the transferee or Holder, as applicable, may request, an Individual Note or Notes, as the case may require, for an equal aggregate Outstanding Principal Balance and in such authorized denomination or denominations as may be requested.  The presentation for transfer or exchange of any Individual Note shall not be valid unless made at the Corporate Trust Office by the registered Holder in person, or by a duly authorized attorney‐in‐fact.
(t)    No transfer of any Note shall be made unless such transfer is exempt from the registration requirements of the Securities Act and any applicable state securities laws or is made in accordance with the Securities Act and laws.  No transfer of any Note shall be made if such transfer would require the Issuer to register as an “investment company” under the Investment Company Act.  In the event of any such transfer, unless such transfer is made in reliance upon Rule 144A under the Securities Act, the Note Registrar shall require a written opinion of counsel acceptable to and in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Issuer that such transfer may be made pursuant to an exemption, describing the applicable exemption and the basis therefor, from the Securities Act and other applicable law or is being made pursuant to said Act and other applicable law, which opinion of counsel shall not be an expense of the Note Registrar or the Issuer.  The Holder of a Note desiring to effect such transfer shall, and by accepting a Note and the benefits of this Indenture does hereby agree to, indemnify the Indenture Trustee, the Issuer and the Initial Purchasers against any liability that may result if the transfer is not so exempt or is not made in accordance with such federal and state laws.  Neither the Issuer nor the Note Registrar intends or is obligated to register or qualify any Note under the Securities Act or any state securities laws.

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(u)    Neither the Indenture Trustee nor the Note Registrar shall have any obligation or duty to monitor, determine or inquire as to compliance with any restrictions on transfer imposed under this Indenture or under applicable law with respect to any transfer of any interest in any Note (including any transfers between or among Depository participants, members or beneficial owners in any Global Note) other than to require delivery of such certificates and other documentation or evidence as are expressly required by, and to do so if and when expressly required by, the terms of this Indenture, and to examine the same to determine substantial compliance as to form with the express requirements hereof.
Section 4.03    Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost or Stolen Notes.  Subject to UCC Section 8‐405, if (i) any mutilated Note is surrendered to the Indenture Trustee, or the Indenture Trustee receives evidence to its satisfaction of the destruction, loss or theft of any Note, and (ii) there is delivered to the Indenture Trustee and the Issuer such security or indemnity as may be required by (a) the Indenture Trustee to hold the Indenture Trustee harmless and (b) the Issuer to hold the Issuer harmless, then, in the absence of notice to the Issuer, the Note Registrar or the Indenture Trustee that such Note has been acquired by a protected purchaser, the Issuer shall execute, and upon its request the Indenture Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, in exchange for or in lieu of any such mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Note, a replacement Note; provided, however, that if any such destroyed, lost or stolen Note, but not a mutilated Note, shall have become or within seven (7) days shall be due and payable, or shall have been called for repurchase, instead of issuing a replacement Note, the Issuer may pay such destroyed, lost or stolen Note when so due or payable without surrender thereof.  If, after the delivery of such replacement Note or payment of a destroyed, lost or stolen Note pursuant to the proviso to the preceding sentence, a protected purchaser of the original Note in lieu of which such replacement Note was issued presents for payment such original Note, the Issuer and the Indenture Trustee shall be entitled to recover such replacement Note (or such payment) from the Person to whom it was delivered or any Person taking such replacement Note from such Person to whom such replacement Note was delivered or any assignee of such Person, except a protected purchaser, and shall be entitled to recover upon the security or indemnity provided therefor to the extent of any loss, damage, cost or expense incurred by the Issuer or the Indenture Trustee in connection therewith.

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Upon the issuance of any replacement Note under this Section 4.03, the Issuer may require the payment by the Holder of such Note of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental charge that may be imposed in relation thereto and any other reasonable expenses (including the fees and expenses of the Indenture Trustee) connected therewith.
Every replacement Note issued pursuant to this Section 4.03 in replacement of any mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Note shall constitute an original additional contractual obligation of the Issuer, whether or not the mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Note shall be at any time enforceable by anyone, and shall be entitled to all the benefits of this Indenture equally and proportionately with any and all other Notes duly issued hereunder.
The provisions of this Section 4.03 are exclusive and shall preclude (to the extent lawful) all other rights and remedies with respect to the replacement or payment of mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Notes.
Section 4.04    Payment of Principal and Interest; Mandatory Prepayment.
(c)    The Notes shall accrue interest during each Interest Accrual Period on the basis of twelve 30‐day months in a 360‐day year.  Any interest or principal, if any, payable on any Note which is paid or duly provided for by the Issuer on the applicable Payment Date shall be paid to the Person in whose name such Note is registered on the Record Date, by wire transfer or, if no account information is provided, by check mailed first‐class, postage prepaid, to such Person’s address as it appears on the Note Register on such Record Date, except that, unless Global Notes have been issued pursuant to Section 4.02, with respect to Notes registered on the Record Date in the name of the nominee of the Depository (initially, such nominee to be Cede & Co.), payment will be made by wire transfer in immediately available funds to the account designated by such Person and except for the payment of principal payable with respect to such Note on the Maturity Date.  The funds represented by any such checks returned undelivered shall be held in accordance with Section 3.03.
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(e)    Notwithstanding the foregoing, the entire unpaid principal balance of the Notes shall be due and payable, if not previously paid, together with all accrued and unpaid interest thereon, on the date which is no later than the earlier of (x) 33 days after the occurrence of any Installment Note Trigger Event or (y) two (2) Business Days after the date of the receipt by the Issuer of the proceeds of a drawing under the Letter of Credit following an Installment Note Trigger Event (the “Mandatory Prepayment Date”).  Promptly upon the occurrence of an Installment Note Trigger Event or the Issuer’s receipt of proceeds of a drawing under the Letter of Credit, the Issuer shall provide written notice to the Indenture Trustee and the Rating Agency of such event.  The Issuer shall deliver notice of a mandatory prepayment to each Holder of Notes at such Holder’s registered address (or otherwise in accordance with the procedures of the Depository) (with  a copy to the Indenture Trustee) by no later than 5 Business Days after the occurrence of an Installment Note Trigger Event. Such notice shall state: (i) that a mandatory prepayment of all Notes is being made pursuant to this Section 4.04(c); (ii) the prepayment price and the Mandatory Prepayment Date; (iii) that unless the Issuer defaults in the payment of the prepayment amount on the Mandatory Prepayment Date, all Notes will cease to accrue interest on the Mandatory Prepayment Date; and (iv) the other instructions, as determined by the Issuer, consistent with this Section 4.04 and the Indenture that a Holder must follow.
(f)    All principal payments on the Notes shall be made pro rata to the Holders.
Section 4.05    Tax Treatment.  The Issuer has entered into this Indenture, and the Notes will be issued, with the intention that, for federal, state and local income, business and franchise tax purposes, (i) the Notes will qualify as indebtedness secured by the Indenture Collateral and (ii) the Issuer shall not be treated as an association, taxable mortgage pool or publicly traded partnership taxable as a corporation.  The Issuer, by entering into this Indenture, and each Holder, by the acceptance of any such Note (and each Beneficial Owner of a Note, by its acceptance of an interest in the applicable Note), agree to treat such Notes for federal, state and local income, business and franchise tax purposes as indebtedness.  Each Holder of such Note agrees that it will cause any beneficial owner of such Note acquiring an interest in a Note through it to comply with this Indenture as to treatment of indebtedness under applicable tax law, as described in this Section 4.05.  The parties hereto agree that they shall not cause or permit the making, as applicable, of any election under Treasury Regulation Section 301.7701‐3 or any corresponding provision of applicable state law, whereby the Issuer or any portion thereof would be treated as a corporation for federal income tax purposes.  The provisions of this Indenture shall be construed in furtherance of the foregoing intended tax treatment.

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Section 4.06    [Reserved].
Section 4.07    Substitute Collateral.  So long as no Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, the Issuer may, at its option and at any time, upon notice to the Indenture Trustee and the Rating Agency, elect to substitute cash or U.S. Treasury STRIPS for the Installment Note and the Letter of Credit as Indenture Collateral (a “Collateral Substitution”), provided that (x) such Collateral Substitution shall satisfy the Rating Agency Condition and (y) the Issuer shall: 
(i)    irrevocably deposit with the Trustee cash or U.S. Treasury STRIPS (the “Substitute Collateral”), or a combination thereof, in such amounts sufficient without consideration of any reinvestment or interest, in the written opinion of a nationally recognized firm of independent public accountants, to pay and discharge the principal of and interest on the Outstanding Notes to the Maturity Date;
(ii)    Grant a security interest on the Substitute Collateral pursuant to a supplement to this Indenture in favor of the Indenture Trustee on behalf of the Holders and take all actions necessary to obtain and maintain, for the benefit of the Indenture Trustee on behalf of the Holders, a first priority, perfected security interest in the Indenture Collateral including the Substitute Collateral;
(iii)    make the representations and warranties set forth in Section 3.19(j) (except for those set forth in clause (ii) thereof) with respect to the Substitute Collateral as of the date of such substitution; and
(iv)    deliver to the Indenture Trustee an Officer’s Certificate and Opinion of Counsel stating that such substitution is authorized and permitted under the Indenture.
    

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Such Substitute Collateral shall thereafter be deemed Indenture Collateral for all purposes under this Indenture and subject to all of the terms and conditions hereof, including, without limitation, Section 3.06.  Upon receipt of the Substitute Collateral and satisfaction of the conditions set forth in this Section 4.07, the Indenture Trustee shall promptly release its security interest in the Installment Note and the Letter of Credit and, at the expense of the Issuer, promptly return such Installment Note and Letter of Credit and execute such other documentation reasonably required by the Issuer to evidence such termination of the Indenture Trustee’s security interest therein.  The Issuer shall thereafter be permitted to distribute, dividend or transfer the Installment Note and the Letter of Credit to the Member or otherwise dispose of the Installment Note and the Letter of Credit as the Issuer determines in its sole discretion.  No costs or expenses incurred in connection with a Collateral Substitution pursuant to this Section 4.07 shall be paid from the Issuer Accounts or any other Indenture Collateral.  
Section 4.08    [Reserved].  
Section 4.09    Repayment of Moneys Held by Paying Agent.  On the Maturity Date or Mandatory Prepayment Date, all moneys then held by any Paying Agent other than the Indenture Trustee under the provisions of this Indenture with respect to such Notes shall, upon demand of the Issuer, be paid to the Indenture Trustee to be held and applied according to Section 3.05 and Section 8.02 and thereupon such Paying Agent shall be released from all further liability with respect to such moneys.
ARTICLE V     
 
REMEDIES
Section 5.01    Events of Default.  Any one of the following events (whatever the reason for such Event of Default and whether it shall be voluntary or involuntary or be effected by operation of law or pursuant to any judgment, decree or order of any court or any order, rule or regulation of any administrative or governmental body) shall constitute an “Event of Default”:

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(i)    a default in the payment of any interest on any Note when the same becomes due and payable and such default shall continue for a period of three (3) Business Days;
(ii)    the failure to pay the Aggregate Outstanding Principal Balance of the Notes on the Maturity Date or any Mandatory Prepayment Date;
(iii)    the failure by the Issuer to present a conforming demand for payment on the Letter of Credit within five (5) Business Days of the occurrence of an Installment Note Trigger Event;
(iv)    there occurs a default in the observance or performance of any other covenant or agreement of the Issuer made in this Indenture, or any representation or warranty of the Issuer made in this Indenture or the other Transaction Documents proving to have been incorrect in any material respect as of the time when the same shall have been made, and such default shall continue or not be cured, or the circumstance or condition in respect of which such representation or warranty was incorrect shall not have been eliminated or otherwise cured, for a period of thirty (30) days (if such failure can be remedied) after there shall have been given to the Issuer by the Indenture Trustee or to the Issuer and the Indenture Trustee, by any Holder, a written notice specifying such default or incorrect representation or warranty and requiring it to be remedied and stating that such notice is a notice of default hereunder;
(v)    there occurs the filing of a decree or order for relief by a court having jurisdiction over the Issuer or any substantial part of the Indenture Collateral in an involuntary case under any applicable federal or state bankruptcy, insolvency or other similar law now or hereafter in effect, or the appointment of a receiver, liquidator, assignee, custodian, trustee, sequestrator or similar official of the Issuer or for any substantial part of the Indenture Collateral, or the ordering of the winding-up or liquidation of the Issuer’s affairs, and such decree or order shall remain unstayed and in effect for a period of thirty (30) consecutive days;

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(vi)    there occurs the commencement by the Issuer of a voluntary case under any applicable federal or state bankruptcy, insolvency or other similar law now or hereafter in effect, or the consent by the Issuer to the entry of an order for relief in an involuntary case under any such law, or the consent by the Issuer to the appointment or taking possession by a receiver, liquidator, assignee, custodian, trustee, sequestrator or similar official of the Issuer or for any substantial part of the assets of the Indenture Collateral, or the making by the Issuer of any general assignment for the benefit of creditors, or the failure by the Issuer generally to pay its debts as such debts become due, or the taking of any action by the Issuer in furtherance of any of the foregoing;
(vii)    the Indenture Trustee, on behalf of the Holders, shall fail to have a valid and perfected first priority security interest in the Indenture Collateral (other than for Permitted Liens), and such failure to have a perfected first priority security interest shall have a material adverse effect on the Holders;
(viii)    the Issuer is required to be registered as an “investment company” under the Investment Company Act; or
(ix)    the failure by the LC Bank to timely honor a conforming demand for payment by the Issuer or the Indenture Trustee under the Letter of Credit.
Section 5.02    Acceleration of Maturity; Rescission and Annulment.  If an Event of Default shall occur and be continuing (other than an Event of Default specified in Section 5.01(v) or 5.01(vi)), then and in every such case the Majority Holders may declare the Notes to be immediately due and payable, by a notice in writing to the Issuer, the Rating Agency and to the Indenture Trustee, and upon any such declaration the unpaid principal balance of such Notes, together with accrued and unpaid interest thereon through the date of acceleration, shall become immediately due and payable.  If an Event of Default specified in Section 5.01(v) or Section 5.01(vi) occurs, the unpaid principal balance of the Notes, together with accrued and unpaid interest thereon through the date of acceleration, shall become immediately due and payable.

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At any time after such declaration of acceleration of maturity has been made and before a judgment or decree for payment of the money due has been obtained by the Indenture Trustee as hereinafter in this Article V provided, the Majority Holders, by written notice to the Issuer and the Indenture Trustee, may rescind and annul such declaration and its consequences if:
(A)    the Issuer has paid or deposited with the Indenture Trustee a sum sufficient to pay:
(i)    all payments of principal of and accrued and unpaid interest on the Notes and all other amounts that would then be due hereunder and upon the Notes if the Event of Default giving rise to such acceleration had not occurred; and
(ii)    all sums paid or advanced by the Indenture Trustee hereunder and the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the Indenture Trustee and its agents and counsel; and
(B)    all Events of Default, other than the nonpayment of the principal of the Notes that has become due solely by such acceleration, have been cured or waived as provided in Section 5.12.
No such rescission or annulment shall affect any subsequent default or impair any right consequent thereto.
Section 5.03    Collection of Indebtedness and Suits for Enforcement by Indenture Trustee.
(g)    The Issuer covenants that if (i) default is made in the payment of any interest on any Note when the same becomes due and payable, and such default continues for a period of three (3) Business Days, or (ii) default is made in the payment of the principal of any Note when the same becomes due and payable, the Issuer will pay to the Indenture Trustee for the benefit of the Holders, the whole amount then due and payable on the Notes for principal and interest, with interest upon the overdue principal, and in addition thereto such further amount as shall be sufficient to cover the costs and expenses of collection, including the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the Indenture Trustee and its agents and counsel.

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(h)    In case the Issuer shall fail forthwith to pay such amounts, the Indenture Trustee, in its own name and as trustee of an express trust, with the consent of the Majority Holders and subject to the provisions of Section 5.04 and Section 10.14, may institute a Proceeding for the collection of the sums so due and unpaid, and may prosecute such Proceeding to judgment or final decree, and may enforce the same against the Issuer or other obligor upon the Notes, wherever situated, the moneys adjudged or decreed to be payable.
(i)    If an Event of Default occurs and is continuing, the Indenture Trustee may, subject to Section 5.04, in its discretion, proceed to protect and enforce its rights and the rights of the Holders and by such appropriate Proceedings as the Indenture Trustee shall deem necessary to protect and enforce any such rights, whether for the specific enforcement of any covenant or agreement in this Indenture or in aid of the exercise of any power granted herein, or to enforce any other proper remedy or legal or equitable right vested in the Indenture Trustee by this Indenture or by law.
(j)    In case there shall be pending, relative to the Issuer, the Installment Note Issuer, the LC Bank or any Person having or claiming an ownership interest in the Indenture Collateral, Proceedings under Title 11 of the United States Code or any other applicable federal or state bankruptcy, insolvency or other similar law, or in case a receiver, assignee or trustee in bankruptcy or reorganization, liquidator, sequestrator or similar official shall have been appointed for or taken possession of the Issuer, the Installment Note Issuer or the LC Bank or their respective property or such other obligor or Person, or in case of any other comparable judicial Proceedings relative to the Issuer, the Installment Note Issuer, the LC Bank or to the creditors or property of the Issuer or such other obligor (but not merely in the case of the ownership or acquisition of any equity interest in any such Person or any direct or indirect parent company thereof by a Governmental Authority, so long as such ownership interest does not result in or provide such Person with immunity from the jurisdiction of courts within the United States or from the enforcement of judgments or writs of attachment on its assets or permit such Person (or such Governmental Authority) to reject, repudiate, disavow or disaffirm any contracts or agreements made with such Person), irrespective of whether the principal of any Notes shall then be due and payable as therein expressed or by declaration or otherwise, the Indenture Trustee shall be entitled and empowered, by intervention in such Proceedings or otherwise:

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(iii)    to file and prove a claim or claims for the whole amount of principal and interest owing and unpaid in respect of the Notes, the Installment Note or the Letter of Credit, as applicable, and to file such other papers or documents as may be necessary or advisable in order to have the claims of the Indenture Trustee (including any claim for reasonable compensation to the Indenture Trustee and each predecessor Indenture Trustee, and their respective agents, attorneys and counsel, and for reimbursement of all reasonable expenses and liabilities incurred, and all advances made, by the Indenture Trustee and each predecessor Indenture Trustee, except as a result of negligence or bad faith) and of the Holders allowed in such Proceedings;
(iv)    unless prohibited by applicable law and regulations, to vote on behalf of the Holders of Notes in any election of a trustee, a standby trustee or Person performing similar functions in any such Proceedings;
(v)    to collect and receive any moneys or other property payable or deliverable on any such claims and to distribute all amounts received with respect to the claims of the Holders and of the Indenture Trustee on their behalf;
(vi)    to file such proofs of claim and other papers or documents as may be necessary or advisable in order to have the claims of the Indenture Trustee or the Holders allowed in any judicial proceedings relative to the Issuer, its creditors and its property; and
(vii)    to participate as a member, voting or otherwise, of any official committee of creditors appointed in such matter; 
and any trustee, receiver, liquidator, custodian or other similar official in any such Proceeding is hereby authorized by each of such Holders to make payments to the Indenture Trustee, and, in the event that the Indenture Trustee shall consent to the making of payments directly to such Holders, to pay to the Indenture Trustee such amounts as shall be sufficient to cover reasonable compensation to the Indenture Trustee, each predecessor Indenture Trustee and their respective agents, attorneys and counsel, and all other expenses and liabilities incurred, and all advances made, by the Indenture Trustee and each predecessor Indenture Trustee except as a result of negligence or bad faith.

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(k)    Nothing herein contained shall be deemed to authorize the Indenture Trustee to authorize or consent to or vote for or accept or adopt on behalf of any Holder any plan of reorganization, arrangement, adjustment or composition affecting the Notes or the rights of any Holder thereof or to authorize the Indenture Trustee to vote in respect of the claim of any Holder in any such proceeding except, as aforesaid, to vote for the election of a trustee in bankruptcy or similar Person.
(l)    All rights of action and of asserting claims under this Indenture, or under any of the Notes, may be enforced by the Indenture Trustee without the possession of any of the Notes or the production thereof in any trial or other Proceedings relative thereto, and any such action or proceedings instituted by the Indenture Trustee shall be brought in its own name as trustee of an express trust, and any recovery of judgment, subject to the payment of the expenses, disbursements and compensation of the Indenture Trustee, each predecessor Indenture Trustee and their respective agents and attorneys, shall be for the ratable benefit of the Holders of the Notes.
(m)    In any Proceedings brought by the Indenture Trustee (and also any Proceedings involving the interpretation of any provision of this Indenture to which the Indenture Trustee shall be a party), the Indenture Trustee shall be held to represent all the Holders of the Notes, and it shall not be necessary to make any Holder a party to any such Proceedings.
Section 5.04    Remedies; Priorities.
(a)    If an Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, the Indenture Trustee may do one or more of the following (subject to Section 5.05 and Section 5.15):
(v)    institute Proceedings in its own name and as trustee of an express trust for the collection of all amounts then payable on the Notes or under this Indenture with respect thereto, whether by declaration or otherwise, and all amounts payable under the Indenture Collateral, enforce any judgment obtained, and collect from the Issuer and any other obligor upon such Notes, from the Installment Note Issuer upon the Installment Note, and from the LC Bank upon the Letter of Credit (subject to the terms thereof) moneys adjudged due;

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(vi)    institute Proceedings from time to time for the complete or partial foreclosure of this Indenture with respect to the Indenture Collateral or for enforcement of its rights in the Indenture Collateral;
(vii)    exercise any remedies of a secured party under the UCC and take any other appropriate action to protect and enforce the rights and remedies of the Indenture Trustee and the Holders of the Notes; and
(viii)    sell the Indenture Collateral or any portion thereof or rights or interest therein;
provided, however, that the Indenture Trustee may not sell or otherwise liquidate any portion of the Indenture Collateral following an Event of Default, other than a default in the payment of any principal of or interest on the Notes that has continued for thirty (30) days or more, unless the Holders representing 100% of the Aggregate Outstanding Principal Balance consent thereto (it being understood that this proviso shall not restrict a demand for payment under the Letter of Credit).  The Indenture Trustee shall accelerate the Installment Note and draw on the Letter of Credit in the circumstances described in Section 6.13(e).
(b)    If the Indenture Trustee collects any money or property pursuant to this Article V, it shall pay out the money or property as set forth in Section 8.02(g).
The Indenture Trustee may fix a record date and Payment Date for any payment to Holders pursuant to this Section 5.04.  At least five (5) days before such record date, the Issuer shall mail to each Holder and the Indenture Trustee a notice that states the record date, the Payment Date and the amount to be paid.
Section 5.05    Optional Preservation of the Indenture Collateral.  If the Notes have been declared to be due and payable under Section 5.02 following an Event of Default and such declaration and its consequences have not been rescinded and annulled, the Indenture Trustee may, but need not, elect to maintain possession of the Indenture Collateral.  

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Section 5.06    Limitation of Suits.  No Holder of any Note shall have any right to institute any Proceeding, judicial or otherwise, with respect to this Indenture, or for the appointment of a receiver or trustee, or for any other remedy hereunder, unless and subject to the provisions of Section 10.14 hereof:
(v)    the Indenture Trustee has received from the Issuer or from such Holder a written notice that an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing;
(vi)    the Holders evidencing 25% of the Aggregate Outstanding Principal Balance have made written request to the Indenture Trustee to institute such Proceeding in respect of such Event of Default in its own name as Indenture Trustee hereunder;
(vii)    such Holder or Holders have offered to the Indenture Trustee reasonable indemnity against the costs, expenses and liabilities to be incurred in complying with such request;
(viii)    the Indenture Trustee for sixty (60) days after its receipt of such notice, request and offer of indemnity has failed to institute such Proceedings; and
(ix)    no written direction inconsistent with such written request has been given to the Indenture Trustee during such sixty (60) day period by the Majority Holders.
It is understood and intended that no one or more Holders of Notes shall have any right in any manner whatever by virtue of, or by availing of, any provision of this Indenture to affect, disturb or prejudice the rights of any other Holders of Notes or to obtain or to seek to obtain priority or preference over any other Holders or to enforce any right under this Indenture, except in the manner herein provided.
In the event the Indenture Trustee shall receive conflicting or inconsistent requests and indemnity from two or more groups of Holders of Notes, each representing less than a majority of the Aggregate Outstanding Principal Balance, the Indenture Trustee in its sole discretion may determine what action, if any, shall be taken, notwithstanding any other provisions of this Indenture.

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Section 5.07    Unconditional Rights of Holders To Receive Principal and Interest.  Notwithstanding any other provisions in this Indenture, the Holder of any Note shall have the right, which is absolute and unconditional, to receive payment of the principal of and interest, if any, on such Note on or after the respective due dates thereof expressed in such Note or in this Indenture and such right shall not be impaired without the consent of such Holder.
Section 5.08    Restoration of Rights and Remedies.  If the Indenture Trustee or any Holder has instituted any Proceeding to enforce any right or remedy under this Indenture and such Proceeding has been discontinued or abandoned for any reason or has been determined adversely to the Indenture Trustee or to such Holder, then and in every such case the Issuer, the Indenture Trustee and the Holders shall, subject to any determination in such Proceeding, be restored severally and respectively to their former positions hereunder, and thereafter all rights and remedies of the Indenture Trustee and the Holders shall continue as though no such Proceeding had been instituted.
Section 5.09    Rights and Remedies Cumulative.  No right or remedy herein conferred upon or reserved to the Indenture Trustee or to the Holders is intended to be exclusive of any other right or remedy, and every right and remedy shall, to the extent permitted by law, be cumulative and in addition to every other right and remedy given hereunder or now or hereafter existing at law or in equity or otherwise.  The assertion or employment of any right or remedy hereunder, or otherwise, shall not prevent the concurrent assertion or employment of any other appropriate right or remedy.
Section 5.10    Delay or Omission Not a Waiver.  No delay or omission of the Indenture Trustee or any Holder of any Note to exercise any right or remedy accruing upon any Event of Default shall impair any such right or remedy or constitute a waiver of any such Event of Default or an acquiescence therein.  Every right and remedy given by this Article V or by law to the Indenture Trustee or to the Holders may be exercised from time to time, and as often as may be deemed expedient, by the Indenture Trustee or by the Holders, as the case may be.

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Section 5.11    Control by Holders.  Subject to Section 6.01(g), the Majority Holders shall have the right to direct the time, method and place of conducting any Proceeding for any remedy available to the Indenture Trustee with respect to the Notes or exercising any trust or power conferred on the Indenture Trustee; provided, that:
(viii)    such direction shall not be in conflict with any rule of law or with this Indenture;
(ix)    subject to the express terms of Section 5.04 and Section 5.15, any direction to the Indenture Trustee to sell or liquidate all or any portion of the Indenture Collateral shall be by Holders of the Notes representing 100% of the Aggregate Outstanding Principal Balance;
(x)    subject to the express terms of Section 5.04, any direction to the Indenture Trustee to consent to the termination of, or release, the Letter of Credit shall be by Holders of the Notes representing 100% of the Aggregate Outstanding Principal Balance; and
(xi)    the Indenture Trustee may take any other action deemed proper by the Indenture Trustee that is not inconsistent with such direction.
Notwithstanding the rights of Holders set forth in this Section 5.11, subject to Section 6.01, the Indenture Trustee need not take any action that it determines might involve it in liability or might materially adversely affect the rights of any Holders not consenting to such action.

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Section 5.12    Waiver of Past Defaults.  Prior to the declaration of the acceleration of the maturity of the Notes as provided in Section 5.02, the Majority Holders may waive any past Event of Default and its consequences except an Event of Default with respect to payment of principal of or interest on any of the Notes or in respect of any covenant or provision hereof which cannot be modified or amended without the consent of the Holder of each Note; provided that no Event of Default may be waived hereunder if a conforming demand for payment on the Letter of Credit has been made prior to the date thereof, unless the LC Bank has agreed to reinstate the Letter of Credit pursuant to arrangements satisfactory to the Majority Holders.  Upon any such waiver, any Event of Default arising therefrom shall be deemed to have been cured and not to have occurred, for every purpose of this Indenture and the Issuer, the Indenture Trustee and the Holders shall be restored to their former positions and rights hereunder, respectively; but no such waiver shall extend to any subsequent or other Event of Default or impair any right consequent thereto.
Section 5.13    Undertaking for Costs.  All parties to this Indenture agree, and each Holder of any Note by such Holder’s acceptance thereof shall be deemed to have agreed, that any court may in its discretion require, in any suit for the enforcement of any right or remedy under this Indenture, or in any suit against the Indenture Trustee for any action taken, suffered or omitted by it as Indenture Trustee, the filing by any party litigant in such suit of an undertaking to pay the costs of such suit, and that such court may in its discretion assess reasonable costs, including reasonable attorneys’ fees, against any party litigant in such suit, having due regard to the merits and good faith of the claims or defenses made by such party litigant; but the provisions of this Section 5.13 shall not apply to (a) any suit instituted by the Indenture Trustee, (b) any suit instituted by any Holder, or group of Holders, in each case holding in the aggregate more than 25% of the Aggregate Outstanding Principal Balance or (c) any suit instituted by any Holder for the enforcement of the payment of principal of or interest on any Note on or after the respective due dates therefor expressed in such Note and in this Indenture.

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Section 5.14    Waiver of Stay or Extension Laws.  The Issuer covenants (to the extent that it may lawfully do so) that it will not at any time insist upon, or plead or in any manner whatsoever, claim or take the benefit or advantage of, any stay or extension law wherever enacted, now or at any time hereafter in force, that may affect the covenants or the performance of this Indenture; and the Issuer (to the extent that it may lawfully do so) hereby expressly waives all benefit or advantage of any such law, and covenants that it will not hinder, delay or impede the execution of any power herein granted to the Indenture Trustee, but will suffer and permit the execution of every such power as though no such law had been enacted.
Section 5.15    Sale of Indenture Collateral.
(a)    The power to effect any sale or other disposition (a “Sale”) of any portion of the Indenture Collateral pursuant to Section 5.04 is expressly subject to the provisions of Section 5.05 and this Section 5.15.  The power to effect any such Sale shall not be exhausted by any one or more Sales as to any portion of the Indenture Collateral remaining unsold, but shall continue unimpaired until all of the Indenture Collateral shall have been sold or all amounts payable on the Notes and under this Indenture shall have been paid. 
(b)    [Reserved].
(c)    In connection with a Sale of all or any portion of the Indenture Collateral:
(iii)    any Holder or Holders of Notes may bid for and purchase the property offered for Sale, and upon compliance with the terms of Sale may hold, retain and possess and dispose of such property, without further accountability, and may, in paying the purchase money therefor, deliver any Notes or claims for interest thereon in lieu of cash up to the amount which shall, upon distribution of the net proceeds of such Sale, be payable thereon, and such Notes, in case the amounts so payable thereon shall be less than the amount due thereon, shall be returned to the Holders thereof after being appropriately stamped to show such partial payment;

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(iv)    the Indenture Trustee at the direction of the Majority Holders may bid for and acquire the property offered for Sale in connection with any Sale thereof, and, subject to any requirements of, and to the extent permitted by, Requirements of Law in connection therewith, may purchase all or any portion of the Indenture Collateral in a private sale, and, in lieu of paying cash therefor, may make settlement for the purchase price by crediting the gross Sale price against the sum of (A) the amount which would be distributable to the Holders of the Notes as a result of such Sale in accordance with Section 5.04(b) on the Payment Date next succeeding the date of such Sale and (B) the expenses of the Sale and of any Proceedings in connection therewith which are reimbursable to it, without being required to produce the Notes in order to complete any such Sale or in order for the net Sale price to be credited against such Notes, and any property so acquired by the Indenture Trustee shall be held and dealt with by it in accordance with the provisions of this Indenture;
(v)    the Indenture Trustee shall execute and deliver an appropriate instrument of conveyance transferring its interest in any portion of the Indenture Collateral in connection with a Sale thereof;
(vi)    the Indenture Trustee is hereby irrevocably appointed the agent and attorney‐in‐fact of the Issuer to transfer and convey its interest in any portion of the Indenture Collateral in connection with a Sale thereof, and to take all action necessary to effect such Sale; and
(vii)    no purchaser or transferee at such a Sale shall be bound to ascertain the Indenture Trustee’s authority, inquire into the satisfaction of any conditions precedent or see to the application of any moneys.

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Section 5.16    Action on Notes.  The Indenture Trustee’s right to seek and recover judgment on the Notes or under this Indenture shall not be affected by the seeking, obtaining or application of any other relief under or with respect to this Indenture.  Neither the lien of this Indenture nor any rights or remedies of the Indenture Trustee or the Holders shall be impaired by the recovery of any judgment by the Indenture Trustee against the Issuer or by the levy of any execution under such judgment upon any portion of the Indenture Collateral or upon any of the assets of the Issuer.  Any money or property collected by the Indenture Trustee shall be applied in accordance with Section 5.04(b).
Section 5.17    Performance and Enforcement of Certain Obligations.  Promptly following a request from the Indenture Trustee to do so, the Issuer shall take all such lawful action as the Indenture Trustee may request to compel or secure the performance and observance by the Issuer, the maker of the Installment Note or the LC Bank of each of their obligations to the Issuer under or in connection with the Installment Note, the Letter of Credit and the other Transaction Documents, and to exercise any and all rights, remedies, powers and privileges lawfully available to the Issuer under or in connection with the Installment Note, the Letter of Credit and the other Transaction Documents to the extent and in the manner directed by the Indenture Trustee, including institution of legal or administrative actions or proceedings to compel or secure performance of obligations under the Transaction Documents.
ARTICLE VI     
 
THE INDENTURE TRUSTEE
Section 6.01    Duties of Indenture Trustee. 
(e)    If an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, the Indenture Trustee shall exercise the rights and powers vested in it by this Indenture and use the same degree of care and skill in their exercise as a prudent person would exercise or use under the circumstances in the conduct of such person’s own affairs; provided, that, with respect to the Indenture Collateral, the Indenture Trustee’s actions are subject to the limitations set forth in Article V.

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(f)    Except during the continuance of an Event of Default:
(i)    the Indenture Trustee undertakes to perform such duties and only such duties as are specifically set forth in this Indenture and no implied covenants or obligations shall be read into this Indenture against the Indenture Trustee; and
(ii)    in the absence of bad faith on its part, the Indenture Trustee may conclusively rely, as to the truth of the statements and the correctness of the opinions expressed therein, upon certificates or opinions furnished to the Indenture Trustee and conforming to the requirements of this Indenture; however, the Indenture Trustee shall examine the certificates and opinions to determine whether or not they conform to the requirements of this Indenture (but need not verify the contents thereof).
(g)    The Indenture Trustee may not be relieved from liability for its own negligent action, its own negligent failure to act, its own willful misconduct or actions taken in bad faith, except that:
(xi)    this paragraph does not limit the effect of paragraph (b) of this Section 6.01;
(xii)    the Indenture Trustee shall not be liable for any error of judgment made in good faith by its Authorized Officer unless it is proved that the Indenture Trustee was negligent in ascertaining the pertinent facts; and
(xiii)    the Indenture Trustee shall not be liable with respect to any action it takes or omits to take in good faith in accordance with a direction received by it pursuant to Section 5.11.
(h)    Every provision of this Indenture that in any way relates to the Indenture Trustee is subject to paragraphs (a), (b), (c) and (g) of this Section 6.01.

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(i)    The Indenture Trustee shall not be liable for interest on any money received by it except as the Indenture Trustee may agree in writing with the Issuer.
(j)    Money held in trust by the Indenture Trustee need not be segregated from other funds except to the extent required by law or the terms of this Indenture.
(k)    The Indenture Trustee shall be under no obligation to exercise any of the rights or powers vested in it by this Indenture, to expend or risk its own funds or otherwise incur financial liability or to honor the request or direction of any of the Holders pursuant to this Indenture, unless the Holders shall have offered to the Indenture Trustee security or indemnity reasonably satisfactory to the Indenture Trustee against the costs, expenses, losses and liabilities that might be incurred by it in compliance with such request or direction.
(l)    Every provision of this Indenture relating to the conduct or affecting the liability of or affording protection to the Indenture Trustee shall be subject to the provisions of this Section 6.01 and Section 6.02.
(m)    The Indenture Trustee shall not be deemed to have notice of any Event of Default unless an Authorized Officer of the Indenture Trustee assigned to and working on the administration of this Indenture in the Indenture Trustee’s Corporate Trust Office has actual knowledge thereof or if such notice has been delivered in accordance with Section 10.04.
Section 6.02    Rights of Indenture Trustee.
(n)    The Indenture Trustee may rely and shall be protected in acting or refraining from acting upon any document believed by it to be genuine and to have been signed or presented by the proper party or parties.  The Indenture Trustee need not investigate any fact or matter stated in the document.

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(o)    Before the Indenture Trustee acts or refrains from acting, it may require an Officer’s Certificate, or, with respect to legal matters, an Opinion of Counsel or both.  The Indenture Trustee shall not be liable for any action it takes or omits to take in good faith in reliance on an Officer’s Certificate or Opinion of Counsel.
(p)    The Indenture Trustee may execute any of the trusts or powers hereunder or perform any duties hereunder either directly or by or through agents or attorneys or a custodian or nominee, and the Indenture Trustee shall not be responsible for any misconduct or negligence on the part of, or for the supervision of, any such agent, attorney, custodian or nominee appointed with due care by it hereunder.
(q)    The Indenture Trustee shall not be liable for any action it takes or omits to take in good faith which it believes to be authorized or within its rights or powers; provided, however, that the Indenture Trustee’s conduct does not constitute willful misconduct, negligence or bad faith.
(r)    The Indenture Trustee may consult with counsel, and the advice or opinion of counsel with respect to legal matters relating to this Indenture and the Notes shall be full and complete authorization and protection from liability in respect to any action taken, omitted or suffered by the Indenture Trustee hereunder in good faith and in accordance with the advice or opinion of such counsel.
(s)    The Indenture Trustee shall not be bound to make any investigation into the performance of the Issuer under this Indenture or any other Transaction Document or into the matters stated in any resolution, certificate, statement, instrument, opinion, report, notice, request, direction, consent, order, bond, note or other document, but the Indenture Trustee, in its discretion, may make any further inquiry or investigation into those matters that it deems appropriate, and if the Indenture Trustee determines to inquire further, it shall be entitled to examine the books, records and premises of the Issuer, personally or by agent or attorney.

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(t)    If the Indenture Trustee is also acting as Paying Agent or as Note Registrar, the rights and protections afforded to the Indenture Trustee pursuant to this Article shall also be afforded to it in such additional capacities.
(u)    In no event shall the Indenture Trustee be responsible or liable for special, indirect, or consequential loss or damage of any kind whatsoever (including, but not limited to, loss of profit) irrespective of whether the Trustee has been advised of the likelihood of such loss or damage and regardless of the form of action.
(v)    The permissive rights of the Indenture Trustee to do things enumerated in this Indenture shall not be construed as a duty unless so specified herein.
Section 6.03    Individual Rights of Indenture Trustee.  The Indenture Trustee in its individual or any other capacity may become the owner or pledgee of Notes and may otherwise deal with the Issuer or its Affiliates with the same rights it would have if it were not Indenture Trustee.  Any Note Registrar, co‐registrar, Paying Agent or co‐paying agent may do the same with like rights.  However, the Indenture Trustee must comply with Section 6.11.
Section 6.04    Indenture Trustee’s Disclaimer.  The Indenture Trustee (a) shall not be responsible for and makes no representation as to the validity or adequacy of this Indenture or any other Transaction Document, the validity or sufficiency of any security interest intended to be created, or the characterization of the Notes for tax purposes; (b) shall not be accountable for the Issuer’s use of the proceeds from the Notes; and (c) shall not be responsible for any statement of the Issuer in the Indenture or in any document issued in connection with the sale of the Notes or in the Notes other than the Indenture Trustee’s certificate of authentication.
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(b)    notice of any Event of Default described in clause (iii) of Section 5.01 within 5 Business Days after the Indenture Trustee has actual knowledge thereof, in accordance with Section 6.01; 
(c)     notice of any other Event of Default within 30 days after the Indenture Trustee has actual knowledge thereof, in accordance with Section 6.01; and 
(d)    duplicates or copies of any notices sent by the LC Bank to the Issuer in the form of Exhibit 4 to the Letter of Credit, within 5 Business Days after receipt thereof by the Trustee.  
Section 6.06     Rating Agency Requests.  The Indenture Trustee shall deliver to the Rating Agency, upon a reasonable request in writing from the Rating Agency, any documents previously furnished to the Indenture Trustee in its capacity as such.  
Section 6.07    Compensation and Indemnity.  The Issuer shall pay to the Indenture Trustee the amounts set forth in the letter agreement dated on or prior to April 10, 2014, by and between the Issuer and the Indenture Trustee (such amounts, the “Indenture Trustee Fees”).  The Indenture Trustee’s compensation shall not be limited by any law on compensation of a trustee of an express trust.  The Issuer shall reimburse the Indenture Trustee for all reasonable and duly documented fees and out‐of‐pocket expenses incurred or made by it, including costs of collection, in addition to the compensation for its services.  Such expenses shall include the reasonable and duly documented out‐of‐pocket expenses of the Indenture Trustee’s agents, counsel (limited to the fees of one outside counsel and reasonably necessary outside special counsel), accountants and experts.  The Issuer shall indemnify the Indenture Trustee against any and all loss, liability or expense (including the fees of one outside counsel and reasonably necessary outside special counsel) incurred by it in connection with the administration of this trust and the performance of its duties hereunder, including the reasonable and duly documented out‐of‐pocket expenses of defending itself against any claim or liability in connection with the performance of its duties hereunder.  The Indenture Trustee shall notify the Issuer promptly of any claim for which it may seek indemnity.  Failure by the Indenture Trustee to so notify the Issuer shall not relieve the Issuer of its obligations hereunder.  Notwithstanding anything to the contrary, the Issuer need not reimburse any expense or indemnify against any loss, liability or expense incurred by the Indenture Trustee through the Indenture Trustee’s own willful misconduct, negligence or bad faith, as determined by a court of competent jurisdiction in a final non-appealable decision.

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Subject to Section 6.08, the Indenture Trustee shall continue to serve as Indenture Trustee under this Indenture notwithstanding the fact that the Indenture Trustee shall not have received amounts due to it hereunder and hereby agrees not to cause the filing of a petition in bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium, receivership, conservatorship or other similar laws now or hereafter in effect against the Issuer for the non‐payment to the Indenture Trustee of any amounts provided by this Section 6.07 until at least one year and one day, or, if longer, the applicable preference period then in effect, after the payment in full of all Notes issued under this Indenture.
Section 6.08    Replacement of Indenture Trustee.  No resignation or removal of the Indenture Trustee and no appointment of a successor Indenture Trustee shall become effective until the acceptance of appointment by the successor Indenture Trustee pursuant to this Section 6.08.  The Indenture Trustee may resign at any time by so notifying in writing the Issuer.  The Majority Holders or the Issuer, with the written consent of the Majority Holders, may remove the Indenture Trustee by so notifying the Indenture Trustee and the Rating Agency in writing and may appoint a successor Indenture Trustee.  The Issuer shall remove the Indenture Trustee if:
(i)    the Indenture Trustee fails to comply with Section 6.11;
(ii)    the Indenture Trustee is adjudged a bankrupt or insolvent;
(iii)    a receiver or other public officer takes charge of the Indenture Trustee or its property;
(iv)    the Indenture Trustee otherwise becomes incapable of acting; or
(v)    the Indenture Trustee defaults in any of its obligations under the Transaction Documents and such default is not cured within thirty (30) days after an Authorized Officer of the Indenture Trustee receives written notice of such default.
If the Indenture Trustee resigns or is removed or if a vacancy exists in the office of Indenture Trustee for any reason (the Indenture Trustee in such event being referred to herein as the retiring Indenture Trustee), the Issuer shall promptly appoint a successor Indenture Trustee.

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A successor Indenture Trustee shall deliver a written acceptance of its appointment to the retiring Indenture Trustee and to the Issuer.  Thereupon the resignation or removal of the retiring Indenture Trustee shall become effective, and the successor Indenture Trustee shall have all the rights, powers and duties of the Indenture Trustee under this Indenture.  No successor Indenture Trustee shall accept appointment as provided in this Section 6.08 unless at the time of such acceptance such Person shall be eligible under the provisions of Section 6.11.  The successor Indenture Trustee shall mail a notice of its succession to Holders.  The retiring Indenture Trustee shall promptly transfer all property (including all Indenture Collateral) held by it as Indenture Trustee to the successor Indenture Trustee and shall execute and deliver such instruments and such other documents as may reasonably be required to more fully and certainly vest and confirm in the successor Indenture Trustee all such rights, powers, duties and obligations.
If a successor Indenture Trustee does not take office within sixty (60) days after the retiring Indenture Trustee resigns or is removed, the retiring Indenture Trustee, the Issuer or the Majority Holders may petition any court of competent jurisdiction for the appointment of a successor Indenture Trustee.
If the Indenture Trustee fails to comply with Section 6.11, any Holder may petition any court of competent jurisdiction for the removal of the Indenture Trustee and the appointment of a successor Indenture Trustee.
Notwithstanding the replacement of the Indenture Trustee pursuant to this Section 6.08, the Issuer’s obligations under Section 6.07 shall continue for the benefit of the retiring Indenture Trustee.
Section 6.09    Successor Indenture Trustee by Merger.  If the Indenture Trustee consolidates with, merges or converts into, or transfers all or substantially all its corporate trust business or assets to, another corporation or banking association, the resulting, surviving or transferee corporation without any further act shall be the successor Indenture Trustee; provided, that, such corporation or banking association shall be otherwise qualified and eligible under Section 6.11.

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In case at the time such successor or successors by merger, conversion or consolidation to the Indenture Trustee shall succeed to the trusts created by this Indenture any of the Notes shall have been authenticated but not delivered, any such successor to the Indenture Trustee may adopt the certificate of authentication of any predecessor trustee, and deliver such Notes so authenticated; and in case at that time any of the Notes shall not have been authenticated, any successor to the Indenture Trustee may authenticate such Notes either in the name of any predecessor hereunder or in the name of the successor to the Indenture Trustee; and in all such cases such certificates shall have the full force which it is anywhere in the Notes or in this Indenture provided that the certificate of the Indenture Trustee shall have.
Section 6.10    Appointment of Co‐Indenture Trustee or Separate Indenture Trustee.‐
(c)    Notwithstanding any other provisions of this Indenture, at any time, for the purpose of meeting any legal requirement of any jurisdiction in which any part of the Indenture Collateral may at the time be located, the Indenture Trustee shall have the power and may execute and deliver all instruments to appoint one or more Persons, to act as a co‐trustee or co‐trustees, or separate trustee or separate trustees, of all or any part of the Indenture Collateral, and to vest in such Person or Persons, in such capacity and for the benefit of the Holders, such interest to the Indenture Collateral, or any part hereof, and, subject to the other provisions of this Section 6.10, such powers, duties, obligations, rights and trusts as the Indenture Trustee may consider necessary or desirable.  No co‐trustee or separate trustee hereunder shall be required to meet the terms of eligibility as a successor Indenture Trustee under Section 6.11 and no notice to the Holders of the appointment of any co‐trustee or separate trustee shall be required under Section 6.08 hereof.  No appointment of a co‐trustee or a separate trustee shall relieve the Indenture Trustee of its duties and obligations hereunder.
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(i)    all rights, powers, duties and obligations conferred or imposed upon the Indenture Trustee shall be conferred or imposed upon and exercised or performed by the Indenture Trustee and such separate trustee or co‐trustee jointly (it being understood that such separate trustee or co‐trustee is not authorized to act separately without the Indenture Trustee joining in such act), except to the extent that under any law of any jurisdiction in which any particular act or acts are to be performed the Indenture Trustee shall be incompetent or unqualified to perform such act or acts, in which event such rights, powers, duties and obligations (including the holding of title to the Indenture Collateral or any portion thereof in any such jurisdiction) shall be exercised and performed singly by such separate trustee or co‐trustee, but solely at the direction of the Indenture Trustee;
(ii)    no trustee hereunder shall be personally liable by reason of any act or omission of any other trustee hereunder; and
(iii)    the Indenture Trustee may at any time accept the resignation of or remove any separate trustee or co‐trustee.
(e)    Any notice, request or other writing given to the Indenture Trustee shall be deemed to have been given to each of the then separate trustees and co‐trustees, as effectively as if given to each of them.  Every instrument appointing any separate trustee or co‐trustee shall refer to this Indenture and the conditions of this Article VI.  Each separate trustee and co‐trustee, upon its acceptance of the trusts conferred, shall be vested with the estates or property specified in its instrument of appointment, either jointly with the Indenture Trustee or separately, as may be provided therein, subject to all the provisions of this Indenture, specifically including every provision of this Indenture relating to the conduct of affecting the liability of, or affording protection to, the Indenture Trustee.  Every such instrument shall be filed with the Indenture Trustee.
(f)    Any separate trustee or co‐trustee may at any time constitute the Indenture Trustee, its agent or attorney‐in‐fact with full power and authority, to the extent not prohibited by law, to do any lawful act under or in respect of this Indenture on its behalf and in its name.  If any separate trustee or co‐trustee shall die, become incapable of acting, resign or be removed, all of its estates, properties, rights, remedies and trusts shall vest in and be exercised by the Indenture Trustee, to the extent permitted by law, without the appointment of a new or successor trustee.

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Section 6.11    Eligibility; Disqualification.  The Indenture Trustee hereunder shall at all times (i) be a national banking association or banking corporation or trust company organized and doing business under the laws of the United States or any state thereof, (ii) be authorized under such laws to exercise corporate trust powers, (iii) have a combined capital and surplus of at least $100,000,000, and (iv) be subject to supervision or examination by federal or state authority.  If such banking association publishes reports of condition at least annually, pursuant to law or to the requirements of the aforesaid supervising or examining authority, then for the purposes of this Section 6.11 its combined capital and surplus shall be deemed to be as set forth in its most recent report of condition so published.  In case at any time the Indenture Trustee shall cease to be eligible in accordance with the provisions of this Section 6.11, the Indenture Trustee shall (a) give prompt notice to the Issuer and the Holders that it has so ceased to be eligible to be the Indenture Trustee and (b) resign, upon the request of the Majority Holders in the manner and with the effect specified in Section 6.08.
Section 6.12    Representations, Warranties and Covenants of Indenture Trustee.  The Indenture Trustee hereby makes the following representations, warranties and covenants on which the Issuer and the Holders shall rely:
(a)    The Indenture Trustee is a national banking association, banking corporation or trust company duly organized, validly existing and in good standing under the laws of the United States.
(b)    It satisfies the criteria specified in Section 6.11.
(c)    The Indenture Trustee has full power, authority and legal right to execute, deliver and perform this Indenture and the other Transaction Documents to which it is a party and shall have taken all necessary action to authorize the execution, deliver and performance by it of this Indenture and the other Transaction Documents to which it is a party.

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(d)    The execution, delivery and performance by the Indenture Trustee of this Indenture and the other Transaction Documents to which it is a party shall not (i) violate any provision of any law or any order, writ, judgment or decree of any court, arbitrator or governmental authority applicable to the Indenture Trustee or any of its assets, (ii) violate any provision of, the corporate charter or by‐laws of the Indenture Trustee or (iii) violate any provision of or constitute, with or without notice or lapse of time, a default under, or result in the creation or imposition of any lien on any, properties included in the Indenture Collateral pursuant to the provisions of, any mortgage, indenture, contract, agreement or other undertaking to which it is a party, which violation, default or lien could reasonably be expected to materially and adversely affect the Indenture Trustee’s performance or ability to perform its duties under this Indenture and the other Transaction Documents to which it is a party or the transactions contemplated in this Indenture and the other Transaction Documents to which it is a party.
(e)    The execution, delivery and performance by the Indenture Trustee of this Indenture and the other Transaction Documents to which it is a party shall not require the authorization, consent or approval of, the giving of notice to, the filing or registration with or the taking of any other action in respect of any governmental authority or agency regulating the banking and corporate trust activities of the Indenture Trustee.
(f)    This Indenture and the other Transaction Documents to which it is a party have been duly executed and delivered by the Indenture Trustee and constitute the legal, valid and binding agreements of the Indenture Trustee, enforceable in accordance with their respective terms, subject to the effect of bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium and other similar laws relating to or affecting creditors’ rights generally or the application of equitable principles in any proceeding, whether at law or in equity.  The Indenture Trustee agrees and covenants that it will not at any time in the future, deny that this Indenture and the other Transaction Documents to which it is a party constitute the legal, valid and binding agreement of the Indenture Trustee.
(g)    The Indenture Trustee shall not take any action, or fail to take any action, if such action or failure to take action will materially interfere with the enforcement of any rights of the Holders under this Indenture or the other Transaction Documents.

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Section 6.13    Directions to Indenture Trustee.  The Indenture Trustee is hereby directed by the Holders:
(a)    to accept a collateral assignment of and to hold the Indenture Collateral as security for the Holders and to open the Issuer Accounts in accordance with Section 3.01 and Section 8.02;
(b)    to authenticate and deliver the Notes substantially in the form prescribed by Exhibit A in accordance with the terms of this Indenture;
(c)    to execute and deliver the Transaction Documents to which it is a party;
(d)    to take all other actions as shall be required to be taken by the terms of this Indenture;
(e)    (i) upon the occurrence of an Event of Default (as defined in the Installment Note) during the continuance of an Event of Default hereunder or (ii) upon the occurrence of an Event of Default hereunder during the continuance of an Event of Default (as defined in the Installment Note), to effect the transfer of the Installment Note and the Letter of Credit, to declare the Installment Note immediately due and payable and to make a demand for payment under the Letter of Credit. 
Section 6.14    Conflicts.  If a Default occurs and is continuing and the Indenture Trustee is deemed to have a “conflicting interest” (as defined in the TIA) as a result of acting as trustee for the Notes, the Issuer shall appoint a successor Indenture Trustee pursuant to the terms of this Indenture.  No such event shall alter the voting rights of the Holders under this Indenture or under any of the other Transaction Documents.

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ARTICLE VII     
 
HOLDERS’ LISTS AND REPORTS
Section 7.01    Issuer To Furnish Indenture Trustee Names and Addresses of Holders.  The Issuer will furnish or cause to be furnished to the Indenture Trustee (a) within one day after each Record Date, a list, in such form as the Indenture Trustee may reasonably require, of the names and addresses of the Holders of Notes as of such Record Date and (b) at such other times as the Indenture Trustee may reasonably request in writing, within thirty (30) days after receipt by the Issuer of any such request, a list of similar form and content as of a date not more than ten (10) days prior to the time such list is furnished; provided, however, that so long as the Indenture Trustee is the Note Registrar, no such list shall be required to be furnished.
Section 7.02    Preservation of Information; Communications to Holders.
(c)    The Indenture Trustee shall preserve, in as current a form as is reasonably practicable, the names and addresses of the Holders of Notes contained in the most recent list furnished to the Indenture Trustee as provided in Section 7.01 and the names and addresses of Holders of Notes received by the Indenture Trustee in its capacity as Note Registrar.  The Indenture Trustee may destroy any list furnished to it as provided in such Section 7.01 upon receipt of a new list so furnished.
(d)    Holders may communicate pursuant to TIA Section 312(b) with other Holders with respect to their rights under this Indenture or under the Notes.
(e)    The Issuer, the Indenture Trustee and the Note Registrar shall have the protection of TIA Section 312(c).
Section 7.03    Fiscal Year.  Unless the Issuer otherwise determines and notifies the Indenture Trustee in writing, the fiscal year of the Issuer shall end on December 31 of each year.

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ARTICLE VIII     
 
ISSUER ACCOUNTS, DISBURSEMENTS AND RELEASES
Section 8.01    Collection of Money.  Except as otherwise expressly provided herein, the Indenture Trustee may demand payment or delivery of, and shall receive and collect, directly and without intervention or assistance of any fiscal agent or other intermediary, all money and other property payable to or receivable by the Indenture Trustee pursuant to this Indenture.  The Indenture Trustee shall apply all such money received by it as provided in this Indenture.  Except as otherwise expressly provided in this Indenture, if any Event of Default occurs in the making of any payment or performance under any agreement or instrument that is part of the Indenture Collateral, the Indenture Trustee may take such action as may be appropriate to enforce such payment or performance, including the institution and prosecution of appropriate Proceedings.  Any such action shall be without prejudice to any right to claim a Default or Event of Default under this Indenture and any right to proceed thereafter as provided in Article V.
Section 8.02    Issuer Accounts; Disbursements.
(a)    The Indenture Trustee shall establish and maintain the Issuer Accounts, and the funds and investments therein, in accordance with Section 3.01.
(b)    On the Closing Date, the Indenture Trustee shall receive from the Issuer the Supplemental Interest Deposit Amount for deposit into the Supplemental Interest Account and receive from the Issuer the Expense Reserve Deposit Amount for deposit into the Expense Reserve Account.
(c)    On and following the Closing Date, Indenture Trustee shall deposit in the Payment Account, promptly when received by the Indenture Trustee: (i) payments of principal of and interest on the Installment Note and (ii) the proceeds of any drawing on the Letter of Credit.  Proceeds from investments in the Supplemental Interest Account and the Expense Reserve Account shall be deposited in the account to which such investments are credited.  The Issuer shall cause all other amounts received in respect of the Indenture Collateral to be paid to the Payment Account.  Upon receipt of any other funds that are accompanied by directions of the Issuer and/or the Member, as applicable, the Indenture Trustee shall deposit such funds into the Supplemental Interest Account, the Expense Reserve or the Payment Account, as applicable, in accordance with such directions.

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(d)    On the Business Day immediately preceding each Payment Date, the Indenture Trustee shall make a transfer from the Supplemental Interest Account (to the extent funds are available therein) into the Payment Account in an amount equal to the Supplemental Interest Amount for such Payment Date.
(e)    On the Business Day immediately preceding each Payment Date, following (and giving effect to) the transfers described in Section 8.01(d) above, the Indenture Trustee shall determine whether the amount on deposit in the Payment Account is sufficient to make the payments set forth in the first clause of Section 8.01(f) below on the related Payment Date.  If the Indenture Trustee determines that the aggregate amount of such required payments exceeds the amount on deposit in the Payment Account, the Indenture Trustee shall notify the Issuer and the Rating Agency of such shortfall and the amount thereof.  
(f)    On each Payment Date (other than the Maturity Date, a Mandatory Prepayment Date, and any other date on which the Outstanding principal amount of the Notes is payable), the Indenture Trustee shall disburse funds from the Payment Account in the following priority (and to the extent any funds are available to make such disbursements):
(i)    FIRST, to pay to the Holders to pay all interest due and payable in respect of the Notes on such date; and 
(ii)    SECOND, any remaining funds shall be transferred to the Supplemental Interest Account.
(g)    On the Mandatory Prepayment Date, the Maturity Date and any other date on which the Outstanding principal amount of the Notes is due and payable, the Indenture Trustee shall transfer to the Payment Account all amounts on deposit in the Supplemental Interest Account and the Expense Reserve Account, and, following such transfers, the Indenture Trustee shall disburse funds from the Payment Account in the following priority (and to the extent any funds are available to make such disbursements):

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(i)    FIRST, to the Indenture Trustee, to pay any Indenture Trustee Fees payable on such date and any other amounts owed to the Indenture Trustee hereunder;
(ii)    SECOND, to each Holder, to pay an amount equal to the Outstanding principal balance of the Notes held by such Holder, together with all accrued and unpaid interest thereon; and 
(iii)    THIRD, any remaining funds shall be disbursed at the direction of the Issuer.
(h)    On each Payment Date (other than the Maturity Date, a Mandatory Prepayment Date, and any other date on which the Outstanding principal amount of the Notes is payable), the Indenture Trustee shall disburse funds from the Expense Reserve Account in the following priority (and to the extent any funds are available to make such disbursements):
(xii)    FIRST, to the Indenture Trustee, to pay the Indenture Trustee Fee payable on such date and any other amounts owed to the Indenture Trustee hereunder; and
(xiii)    SECOND, to pay any other expenses of the Issuer payable on such date (which amounts shall not exceed $37,500 in the aggregate in any single year), as directed by the Issuer in writing pursuant to an Issuer Order substantially in the form of Exhibit D hereto (an “Expense Reserve Instruction”) at least 3 Business Days prior to such Payment Date.
(i)    From time to time, the Indenture Trustee shall disburse funds from the Expense Reserve Account to pay (i) expenses of the Issuer due and payable prior to the next succeeding Payment Date, as directed by the Issuer pursuant to an Expense Reserve Instruction at least 5 Business Days prior to the applicable date of payment, which amounts shall not exceed $37,500 in the aggregate in any single period between two successive Payment Dates, and (ii) any amounts owed to the Indenture Trustee, which are due and payable prior to the next succeeding Payment Date (which, for the avoidance of doubt, shall exclude the Indenture Trustee Fee), as set forth in a notice delivered by the Indenture Trustee to the Issuer at least 5 Business Days prior to the applicable date of payment.  

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(j)    All moneys deposited from time to time in the Issuer Accounts pursuant to this Indenture are held for the benefit of the Issuer and are pledged to the Indenture Trustee for the benefit of the Secured Parties.
ARTICLE IX     
 
SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES
Section 9.01    Supplemental Indentures Without Consent of Holders.
(k)    Without the consent of the Holders of any Notes but with the prior notice to the Rating Agency, the Issuer and the Indenture Trustee, when authorized by an Issuer Order, at any time and from time to time, may enter into one or more indentures supplemental hereto, for any of the following purposes; provided, however, that the Issuer shall only enter into an indenture supplemental hereunder in compliance with the provisions of the Limited Liability Company Agreement:
(i)    to correct or amplify the description of any assets at any time subject to the lien of this Indenture, or better to assure, convey and confirm unto the Indenture Trustee any property subject or required to be subjected to the lien of this Indenture, or to subject to the lien of this Indenture additional property;
(ii)    to evidence the succession, in compliance with the applicable provisions hereof, of another person to the Issuer, and the assumption by any such successor of the covenants of the Issuer herein and in the Notes contained;
(iii)    to add to the covenants of the Issuer, for the benefit of the Holders of the Notes, or to surrender any right or power herein conferred upon the Issuer;
(iv)    to convey, transfer, assign, mortgage or pledge any property to or with the Indenture Trustee;

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(v)    to substitute the Installment Note and Letter of Credit as Indenture Collateral in accordance with Section 4.07;
(vi)    to cure any ambiguity or fix any mistake, to correct or supplement any provision herein or in any supplemental indenture that may be inconsistent with any other provision herein or in any supplemental indenture;
(vii)    to evidence and provide for the acceptance of the appointment hereunder by a successor trustee with respect to the Notes and to add to or change any of the provisions of this Indenture as shall be necessary to facilitate the administration of the trusts hereunder by more than one trustee, pursuant to the requirements of Article VI;
(viii)    to add to the conditions, limitations and restrictions on the authorized amount, terms and purposes of the issuance, authentication and delivery of any of the Notes, as herein set forth, additional conditions, limitations and restrictions thereafter to be observed;
(ix)    to modify the restrictions on and procedures for resales and other transfers of the Notes to reflect any changes in Applicable Law or regulations (or the interpretation thereof) or to enable the Issuer or the Indenture Trustee to rely upon the exemption from registration under the Securities Act or the Investment Company Act or to remove restrictions on resale or transfer to the extent required hereunder; and
(x)    to evidence or implement any change to this Indenture required by regulations or guidelines enacted to comply with the USA PATRIOT Act.
The Indenture Trustee is hereby authorized to join in the execution of any such supplemental indenture and to make any further appropriate agreements and stipulations that may be therein contained.

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(b)    Notwithstanding any provision contained herein to the contrary, prior to entering into any supplemental indenture pursuant to this Section 9.01, the Issuer shall obtain written confirmation from the Rating Agency that entry by the Issuer and Indenture Trustee into such supplemental indenture satisfies the Rating Agency Condition and shall provide a copy of such written confirmation to the Indenture Trustee.
Section 9.02    Supplemental Indentures With Consent of Holders.  The Issuer and the Indenture Trustee, when authorized by an Issuer Order, also may, with the consent of the Majority Holders by Act of such Holders and upon the receipt of written confirmation from the Rating Agency that such Act of the Holders will satisfy the Rating Agency Condition, enter into an indenture or indentures supplemental hereto for the purpose of adding any provisions to, or changing in any manner or eliminating any of the provisions of, this Indenture or of modifying in any manner the rights of the Holders of the Notes under this Indenture; provided, however, that (x) that the Issuer shall only enter into an indenture supplemental hereunder in compliance with the terms of the Limited Liability Company Agreement, and (y) no such supplemental indenture shall, without the consent of the Holder of each Note affected thereby:
(vi)    change the date of payment of principal of or interest on any Note, or reduce the principal balance thereof or the interest rate thereon with respect thereto, change the provisions of this Indenture relating to the application of collections on, or the proceeds of the sale of the Indenture Collateral to payment of principal of or interest on the Notes, or change any place of payment where, or the coin or currency in which, any Note or the interest thereon is payable, or impair the right to institute suit for the enforcement of the provisions of this Indenture requiring the application of funds available therefor, as provided in Article V, to the payment of any such amount due on the Notes on or after the respective due dates thereof;
(vii)    reduce the percentage of the Aggregate Outstanding Principal Balance, the consent of the Holders of which is required for any such supplemental indenture, or the consent of the Holders of which is required for any waiver of compliance with any provision of this Indenture or defaults hereunder and their consequences provided for in this Indenture;

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(viii)    modify or alter the provisions of the proviso to the definition of the term “Outstanding” or modify or alter the exception in the definition of the term “Holder”;
(ix)    reduce the percentage of the Aggregate Outstanding Principal Balance required to direct the Indenture Trustee to direct the Issuer to sell or liquidate the Indenture Collateral pursuant to Section 5.04;
(x)    modify any provision of this Section 9.02 except to increase any percentage specified herein or to provide that certain additional provisions of this Indenture or the Transaction Documents cannot be modified or waived without the consent of the Holder of each Note affected thereby; or
(xi)    permit the creation of any lien ranking prior to or on a parity with the lien of this Indenture with respect to any part of the Indenture Collateral or, except as otherwise permitted or contemplated herein, terminate the lien of this Indenture on any property at any time subject hereto or deprive any Holder of the security provided by the lien of this Indenture.
The Indenture Trustee may in its discretion determine whether or not any Notes would be affected by any supplemental indenture and any such determination shall be conclusive upon the Holders of all Notes, whether theretofore or thereafter authenticated and delivered hereunder.  The Indenture Trustee shall not be liable for any such determination made in good faith.
It shall not be necessary for any Act of Holders under this Section 9.02 to approve the particular form of any proposed supplemental indenture, but it shall be sufficient if such Act shall approve the substance thereof.
Promptly after the execution by the Issuer and the Indenture Trustee of any supplemental indenture pursuant to this Section 9.02, the Issuer shall deliver to the Holders of the Notes to which such amendment or supplemental indenture relates a copy of such supplemental Indenture or a notice setting forth in general terms the substance of such supplemental indenture.  Any failure of the Issuer to deliver such notice, or any defect therein, shall not, however, in any way impair or affect the validity of any such supplemental indenture.

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Notwithstanding any provision contained herein to the contrary, prior to entering into any supplemental indenture pursuant to Section 9.02, the Issuer shall obtain written confirmation from the Rating Agency that entry by the Issuer and Indenture Trustee into such supplemental indenture satisfies the Rating Agency Condition and shall provide a copy of such written confirmation to the Indenture Trustee.
Section 9.03    Execution of Supplemental Indentures.  In executing, or permitting the additional trusts created by, any supplemental indenture permitted by this Article IX or the modification thereby of the trusts created by this Indenture, the Indenture Trustee shall be entitled to receive, and subject to Sections 6.01 and 6.02, shall be fully protected in relying upon, an Officer’s Certificate and Opinion of Counsel stating that the execution of such supplemental indenture is authorized or permitted by this Indenture.  The Indenture Trustee may, but shall not be obligated to, enter into any such supplemental indenture that affects the Indenture Trustee’s own rights, duties, liabilities or immunities under this Indenture or otherwise.  The Issuer shall provide copies of each supplemental indenture to the Rating Agency.
Section 9.04    Effect of Supplemental Indenture.  Upon the execution of any supplemental indenture pursuant to the provisions hereof, this Indenture shall be and shall be deemed to be modified and amended in accordance therewith with respect to the Notes affected thereby, and the respective rights, limitations of rights, obligations, duties, liabilities and immunities under this Indenture of the Indenture Trustee, the Issuer and the Holders shall thereafter be determined, exercised and enforced hereunder subject in all respects to such modifications and amendments, and all the terms and conditions of any such supplemental indenture shall be and be deemed to be part of the terms and conditions of this Indenture for any and all purposes.
Section 9.05    Reference in Notes to Supplemental Indentures.  Notes authenticated and delivered after the execution of any supplemental indenture pursuant to this Article IX may, and if required by the Issuer shall, bear a notation in form approved by the Issuer as to any matter provided for in such supplemental indenture.  If the Issuer shall so determine, new Notes so modified as to conform, in the opinion of the Issuer, to any such supplemental indenture may be prepared and executed by the Issuer and authenticated and delivered by the Indenture Trustee in exchange for Outstanding Notes.
Section 9.06    Amendment of this Indenture Generally.  The parties acknowledge and agree that this Indenture may only be amended, modified or restated through the execution of a Supplemental Indenture pursuant to the terms of this Article IX.

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ARTICLE X     
 
MISCELLANEOUS
Section 10.01    Compliance Certificates and Opinions, etc.  Upon any application or request by the Issuer to the Indenture Trustee to take any action under any provision of this Indenture, the Issuer shall furnish to the Indenture Trustee an Officer’s Certificate stating that all conditions precedent, if any, provided for in this Indenture relating to the proposed action have been complied with, and, if required, an Opinion of Counsel stating that in the opinion of such counsel all such conditions precedent, if any, have been complied with, except that, in the case of any such application or request as to which the furnishing of such documents is specifically required by any provision of this Indenture, no additional certificate or opinion need be furnished.
Every certificate or opinion with respect to compliance with a condition or covenant provided for in this Indenture shall include:
(a)    a statement that each signatory of such certificate or opinion has read or has caused to be read such covenant or condition and the definitions herein relating thereto;
(b)    a brief statement as to the nature and scope of the examination or investigation upon which the statements or opinions contained in such certificate or opinion are based;
(c)    a statement that, in the opinion of each such signatory, such signatory has made such examination or investigation as is necessary to enable such signatory to express an informed opinion as to whether or not such covenant or condition has been complied with;
(d)    a statement as to whether, in the opinion of each such signatory, such condition or covenant has been complied with; and
(e)    if the signer of document is required to be Independent, the Statement required by the definition of the term “Independent”.

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Section 10.02    Form of Documents Delivered to Indenture Trustee.  In any case where several matters are required to be certified by, or covered by an opinion of, any specified Person, it is not necessary that all such matters be certified by, or covered by the opinion of, only one such Person, or that they be so certified or covered by only one document, but one such Person may certify or give an opinion with respect to some matters and one or more other such Persons as to other matters, and any such Person may certify or give an opinion as to such matters in one or several documents.
Any certificate or opinion of an Authorized Officer of the Issuer may be based, insofar as it relates to legal matters, upon a certificate or opinion of, or representations by, counsel, unless such officer knows that the certificate or opinion or representations with respect to the matters upon which the certificate or opinion is based are erroneous.  Any such certificate of an Authorized Officer or Opinion of Counsel may be based, insofar as it relates to factual matters, upon a certificate or opinion of, or representations by, an officer or officers of an appropriate Person stating that the information with respect to such factual matters is in the possession of the such Person, unless such counsel knows that the certificate or opinion or representations with respect to such matters are erroneous.
Where any Person is required to make, give or execute two or more applications, requests, consents, certificates, statements, opinions or other instruments under this Indenture, they may, but need not, be consolidated and form one instrument.
Whenever in this Indenture, in connection with any application or certificate or report to the Indenture Trustee, it is provided that the Issuer shall deliver any document as a condition of the granting of such application, or as evidence of the Issuer’s compliance with any term hereof, it is intended that the truth and accuracy in all material respects, at the time of the granting of such application or at the effective date of such certificate or report (as the case may be), of the facts and opinions stated in such document shall in such case be conditions precedent to the right of the Issuer to have such application granted or to the sufficiency of such certificate or report.  The foregoing shall not, however, be construed to affect the Indenture Trustee’s right to rely upon the truth and accuracy of any statement or opinion contained in any such document as provided in Article VI.

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Section 10.03    Acts of Holders.
(b)    Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other action provided by this Indenture to be given or taken by Holders may be embodied in and evidenced by one or more instruments of substantially similar tenor signed by such Holders in person or by agents duly appointed in writing; and except as herein otherwise expressly provided such action shall become effective when such instrument or instruments are delivered to the Indenture Trustee, and, where it is hereby expressly required, to the Issuer.  Such instrument or instruments (and the action embodied therein and evidenced thereby) are herein sometimes referred to as the “Act” of the Holders signing such instrument or instruments.  Proof of execution of any such instrument or of a writing appointing any such agent shall be sufficient for any purpose of this Indenture and (subject to Section 6.01) conclusive in favor of the Indenture Trustee and the Issuer, if made in the manner provided in this Section 10.03.
(c)    The fact and date of the execution by any person of any such instrument or writing may be proved in any manner that the Indenture Trustee deems sufficient.
(d)    The ownership of Notes shall be proved by the Note Register.
(e)    Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other action by the Holder of any Notes shall bind the Holder of every Note issued upon the registration thereof or in exchange therefor or in lieu thereof, in respect of anything done, omitted or suffered to be done by the Indenture Trustee or the Issuer in reliance thereon, whether or not notation of such action is made upon such Note.
Section 10.04    Notices, etc., to Indenture Trustee and Others.  Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or Act of Holders or other documents provided or permitted by this Indenture shall be in writing and if such request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or act of Holders is to be made upon, given or furnished to or filed with:

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(xii)    the Indenture Trustee by any Holder or by the Issuer shall be sufficient for every purpose hereunder if made, given, furnished or filed in writing to or with the Indenture Trustee and received at the Corporate Trust Office, or
(xiii)    the Issuer by the Indenture Trustee or by any Holder shall be sufficient for every purpose hereunder if in writing and mailed first‐class, postage prepaid to the Issuer addressed to:  Northwest Florida Timber Finance, LLC, 133 WaterSound Parkway, WaterSound, FL 32413, Attention:  General Counsel and Chief Financial Officer, or at any other address previously furnished in writing to the Indenture Trustee by the Issuer.  The Issuer shall promptly transmit any notice received by it from the Holders to the Indenture Trustee.
Notices required to be given to the Rating Agency by the Issuer or the Indenture Trustee shall be in writing, personally delivered or mailed by certified mail, return receipt requested, to the following address:  Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services, 55 Water Street, 41st Fl., New York, NY 10041-0003, Attn:  RRS/Synthetics Surveillance Group, surv_syntheticsexpos@standardandpoors.com, or at such other address as shall be designated by written notice to the other parties; provided, however, that no notice shall be required to be given to the Rating Agency until the Notes has been rated by the Rating Agency.
Section 10.05    Notices to Holders; Waiver.  Where this Indenture provides for notice to Holders of any event, such notice shall be sufficiently given (unless otherwise herein expressly provided) if in writing and mailed, by nationally recognized overnight courier or by first‐class, postage prepaid to each Holder affected by such event, at his address as it appears on the Note Register, not later than the latest date, and not earlier than the earliest date, prescribed for the giving of such notice.  In any case where notice to Holders is given by mail, neither the failure to mail such notice nor any defect in any notice so mailed to any particular Holder shall affect the sufficiency of such notice with respect to other Holders, and any notice that is mailed in the manner herein provided shall conclusively be presumed to have been duly given.
Where this Indenture provides for notice in any manner, such notice may be waived in writing by any Person entitled to receive such notice, either before or after the event, and such waiver shall be the equivalent of such notice.  Waivers of notice by Holders shall be filed with the Indenture Trustee but such filing shall not be a condition precedent to the validity of any action taken in reliance upon such a waiver.

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In case, by reason of the suspension of regular mail service as a result of a strike, work stoppage or similar activity, it shall be impractical to mail notice of any event to Holders when such notice is required to be given pursuant to any provision of this Indenture, then any manner of giving such notice as shall be satisfactory to the Indenture Trustee shall be deemed to be a sufficient giving of such notice.
Where this Indenture provides for notice to the Rating Agency, failure to give such notice shall not affect any other rights or obligations created hereunder, and shall not under any circumstance constitute an Event of Default.
Where this Indenture provides for notice of any event (including any notice of redemption) or delivery of any document to any Holder of a Global Note (whether by mail or otherwise), such notice or document shall be sufficiently delivered if delivered to the Depository for such Note (or its designee), according to the applicable procedures of such Depository, if any, prescribed for the delivery of such notice or document.
Section 10.06    Effect of Headings; TIA.  The Article and Section headings herein are for convenience only and shall not affect the construction hereof.  Notwithstanding any provision of this Indenture, no provision of the TIA shall apply or be incorporated by reference into this Indenture or the Notes except as specifically set forth in this Indenture.
Section 10.07    Successors and Assigns.  All covenants and agreements in this Indenture and the Notes by the Issuer shall bind its successors and assigns, whether so expressed or not.  All agreements of the Indenture Trustee in this Indenture shall bind its successors, co‐trustees and agents.
Section 10.08    Severability.  In case any provision in this Indenture or in the Notes shall be invalid, illegal or unenforceable, the validity, legality, and enforceability of the remaining provisions shall not in any way be affected or impaired thereby.
Section 10.09    Benefits of Indenture.  Nothing in this Indenture or in the Notes, express or implied, shall give to any Person, other than the parties hereto and their successors hereunder, and the Holders, and any other party secured hereunder, and any other Person with an ownership interest in any part of the Indenture Collateral, any benefit or any legal or equitable right, remedy or claim under this Indenture.

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Section 10.10    Legal Holidays.  In any case where the date on which any payment is due shall not be a Business Day, then (notwithstanding any other provision of the Notes or this Indenture) payment need not be made on such date, but may be made on the next succeeding Business Day with the same force and effect as if made on the date on which nominally due, and no interest shall accrue for the period from and after any such nominal date.
Section 10.11    GOVERNING LAW.
(a)    THIS INDENTURE, EACH SUPPLEMENT AND THE NOTES SHALL BE GOVERNED BY AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK WITHOUT REGARD TO CONFLICT OF LAW PRINCIPLES THAT WOULD RESULT IN THE APPLICATION OF ANY LAW OTHER THAN THE LAW OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK.
(b)    EACH PARTY HERETO HEREBY WAIVES, TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, ANY RIGHT IT MAY HAVE TO A TRIAL BY JURY IN RESPECT OF ANY LITIGATION DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY ARISING OUT OF, UNDER OR IN CONNECTION WITH THIS INDENTURE.  Each party hereto (i) certifies that no representative, agent or attorney of any other party has represented, expressly or otherwise, that such other party would not, in the event of litigation, seek to enforce the foregoing waiver and (ii) acknowledges that it and the other parties hereto have been induced to enter into this Indenture by, among other things, the mutual waivers and certifications in this Section 10.11(b).
(c)    Each party hereto agrees that it shall bring any action or proceeding in respect of any claim arising out of or related to this Indenture or the transactions contained in or contemplated by this Indenture (other than foreclosure matters related to the Indenture Collateral), exclusively in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York or any New York State court, in each case sitting in the Borough of Manhattan in New York City.
Section 10.12    Counterparts.  This Indenture may be executed in any number of counterparts (including by facsimile), each of which so executed shall be deemed to be an original, but all such counterparts shall together constitute but one and the same instrument.

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Section 10.13    Issuer Obligation.  No recourse may be taken, directly or indirectly, with respect to the obligations of the Issuer or the Indenture Trustee on the Notes or under this Indenture or any certificate or other writing delivered in connection herewith or therewith, against (i) the Indenture Trustee in its individual capacity, (ii) any owner of a beneficial interest in the Issuer or (iii) any partner, owner, beneficiary, agent, officer, director, employee or agent of the Indenture Trustee in its individual capacity, any holder of a beneficial interest in the Issuer or the Indenture Trustee or of any successor or assign of the Indenture Trustee in its individual capacity, except as any such Person may have expressly agreed (it being understood that the Indenture Trustee has no such obligations in their individual capacity) and except that any such partner, owner or beneficiary shall be fully liable, to the extent provided by applicable law, for any unpaid consideration for stock, unpaid capital contribution or failure to pay any installment or call owing to such entity.  For all purposes of this Indenture, the performance of any duties or obligations of the Issuer hereunder shall be subject to, and entitled to the benefits of, the terms and provisions of the Limited Liability Company Agreement.
Section 10.14    No Petition.
(d)    The Indenture Trustee, by entering into this Indenture, and each Holder, by accepting a Note, hereby covenant and agree that they will not prior to the date which is one year and one day or, if longer, the preference period then in effect after payment in full of the Notes rated by the Rating Agency, institute against the Issuer, or join in any institution against the Issuer of, any bankruptcy, reorganization, arrangement, insolvency or liquidation proceedings, or other proceedings under any United States federal or state bankruptcy or similar law in connection with any obligations relating to the Notes, this Indenture or any of the Transaction Documents.  The provisions of this paragraph shall survive the termination of this Indenture and the payment in full of the Notes.  
(e)    Notwithstanding any other provisions of the Notes, this Indenture or any other Transaction Document, no recourse shall be had against any officer, administrator, member, director, employee, security holder or incorporator of the Issuer or their respective successors or assigns for the payment of any amounts payable under the Notes, this Indenture or any other Transaction Document.

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Section 10.15    Inspection; Confidentiality.  The Issuer agrees that, on reasonable prior notice, it will permit any representative or agent of the Indenture Trustee, during the Issuer’s normal business hours, and in a manner that does not unreasonably interfere with the Issuer’s normal operations, to examine all the books of account, records, reports and other papers of the Issuer, to make copies and extracts therefrom, to cause such books to be audited by Independent certified public accountants, and to discuss the Issuer’s affairs, finances and accounts with the Issuer’s officers, employees, and Independent certified public accountants, all at such reasonable times, in such reasonable manner, and as often as may be reasonably requested.  The Indenture Trustee shall and shall cause its representatives, its legal counsel and its auditors to hold in confidence all such information except to the extent disclosure may be required by law (and all reasonable applications for confidential treatment are unavailing) and except to the extent that the Indenture Trustee may reasonably determine that such disclosure is consistent with its obligations hereunder and under applicable law.  Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, all parties to which this Indenture relates may disclose to any and all persons, without limitation of any kind, the tax treatment and tax structure of the transaction and all materials of any kind (including opinions or other tax analyses) that are provided to such investors relating to such tax treatment and tax structure.  For purposes of this paragraph, the terms “tax treatment” and “tax structure” have the meaning given to such terms under Treasury Regulation section 1.6011‐4(c).
Section 10.16    Force Majeure; USA PATRIOT Act.   In no event shall the Indenture Trustee be responsible or liable for any failure or delay in the performance of its obligations under this Indenture arising out of or caused by, directly or indirectly, forces beyond its reasonable control, including without limitation strikes, work stoppages, accidents, acts of war or terrorism, civil or military disturbances, nuclear or natural catastrophes or acts of God, and interruptions, loss or malfunctions of utilities, communications or computer (software or hardware) services.
The parties hereto acknowledge that in accordance with the USA PATRIOT Act, the Indenture Trustee, like all financial institutions and in order to help fight the funding of terrorism and money laundering, is required to obtain, verify, and record information that identifies each person or legal entity that establishes a relationship or opens an account with the Indenture Trustee. The parties hereto agree that they will provide the Indenture Trustee with such information as the Indenture Trustee may reasonably request in order to satisfy the requirements of the USA PATRIOT Act.
Section 10.17    Survival of Representations and Warranties; No Waiver.  All representations and warranties made hereunder shall survive the execution and delivery of this Indenture and the issuance of the Notes hereunder (it being understood that such representations and warranties are made only as of the date hereof); provided that if any representation or warranty set forth in Section 3.19(j) or (k) was not true as of the date hereof, the Indenture Trustee shall not be permitted to waive any such breach of such representations and warranties.

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Issuer and the Indenture Trustee have caused their names to be signed hereto by their respective officers thereunto duly authorized, all as of the day and year first above written.

	
				
	 
	NORTHWEST FLORIDA TIMBER FINANCE, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company

	 
	 
	 

	 
	By:
	/s/ Marek Bakun

	 
	 
	Name:
	Marek Bakun

	 
	 
	Title:
	Authorized Person

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	WILMINGTON TRUST, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, not in its individual capacity but solely as the Indenture Trustee

	 
	 
	 

	 
	By:
	/s/ Timothy P. Mowdy

	 
	 
	Name:
	Timothy P. Mowdy

	 
	 
	Title:
	Administrative Vice President

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EXHIBIT A
[FORM OF NOTE]
NOTE
THIS NOTE HAS NOT BEEN AND WILL NOT BE REGISTERED UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED (THE “SECURITIES ACT”), OR UNDER THE SECURITIES OR BLUE SKY LAWS OF ANY STATE.  THE HOLDER HEREOF, BY PURCHASING THIS NOTE, AGREES THAT THIS NOTE MAY BE REOFFERED, RESOLD, PLEDGED OR OTHERWISE TRANSFERRED ONLY IN COMPLIANCE WITH THE SECURITIES ACT AND OTHER REQUIREMENTS OF LAWS AND ONLY (1) PURSUANT TO RULE 144A UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT (“RULE 144A”) TO A U.S. PERSON THAT THE HOLDER REASONABLY BELIEVES IS A QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER WITHIN THE MEANING OF RULE 144A (A “QIB”) AND WHO IS ALSO A QUALIFIED PURCHASER WITHIN THE MEANING OF SECTION 3(C)(7) UNDER THE INVESTMENT COMPANY ACT OF 1940, AS AMENDED (A “QUALIFIED PURCHASER”), PURCHASING FOR ITS OWN ACCOUNT OR A QIB PURCHASING FOR THE ACCOUNT OF A QIB WHO IS ALSO A QUALIFIED PURCHASER, WHOM THE HOLDER HAS INFORMED THAT THE REOFFER, RESALE, PLEDGE OR OTHER TRANSFER IS BEING MADE IN RELIANCE ON RULE 144A, OR (2) TO A U.S. PERSON WHO IS A QUALIFIED PURCHASER, PURCHASING FOR INVESTMENT AND NOT FOR DISTRIBUTION IN VIOLATION OF THE SECURITIES ACT, PURSUANT TO ANOTHER EXEMPTION AVAILABLE UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT AND IN ACCORDANCE WITH ANY APPLICABLE STATE SECURITIES LAWS, SUBJECT, (A) IN THE CASE OF (1), TO THE RECEIPT BY THE INDENTURE TRUSTEE OF A CERTIFICATE SUBSTANTIALLY IN THE FORM PROVIDED IN THE INDENTURE, AND (B) IN EACH CASE, THE RECEIPT BY THE ISSUER OF SUCH OTHER EVIDENCE ACCEPTABLE TO THE ISSUER THAT SUCH REOFFER, RESALE, PLEDGE OR TRANSFER IS IN COMPLIANCE WITH ALL APPLICABLE SECURITIES LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES AND THE SECURITIES AND BLUE SKY LAWS OF ANY STATE OF THE UNITED STATES AND ANY OTHER APPLICABLE JURISDICTION.  THE HOLDER HEREOF ALSO ACKNOWLEDGES AND AGREES THAT THE ISSUER IS ENTITLED TO REFUSE TO HONOR ANY TRANSFER OF THIS NOTE TO A PERSON THAT IS NOT A QIB AND A QUALIFIED PURCHASER AND MAY REDEEM THIS NOTE FROM THE HOLDER HEREOF OR REQUIRE SUCH HOLDER TO TRANSFER SUCH NOTE IF THE HOLDER IS DETERMINED TO NOT BE A QIB AND A QUALIFIED PURCHASER. THE PURCHASE OF THIS NOTE WILL BE DEEMED A REPRESENTATION BY THE ACQUIRER THAT EITHER:  (A) IT IS NOT, AND IS NOT ACQUIRING OR HOLDING THIS NOTE, DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY, ON 

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BEHALF OF OR WITH ANY ASSETS OF, AN “EMPLOYEE BENEFIT PLAN” WITHIN THE MEANING OF SECTION 3(3) OF THE EMPLOYEE RETIREMENT INCOME SECURITY ACT OF 1974, AS AMENDED (“ERISA”), THAT IS SUBJECT TO TITLE I OF ERISA, A “PLAN” WITHIN THE MEANING OF AND SUBJECT TO SECTION 4975 OF THE INTERNAL REVENUE CODE OF 1986, AS AMENDED (THE “CODE”); AN ENTITY THE UNDERLYING ASSETS OF WHICH ARE DEEMED TO INCLUDE ASSETS OF ANY SUCH PLAN, OR A PLAN THAT IS SUBJECT TO ANY FEDERAL, STATE, LOCAL OR NON‐U.S. LAW (“SIMILAR LAW”) THAT IS SUBSTANTIVELY SIMILAR TO THE PROVISIONS OF SECTION 406 OF ERISA OR SECTION 4975 OF THE CODE, OR (B) ITS ACQUISITION AND HOLDING OF THIS NOTE WILL NOT CONSTITUTE OR RESULT IN A NON‐EXEMPT PROHIBITED TRANSACTION UNDER SECTION 406 OF ERISA OR SECTION 4975 OF THE CODE OR A VIOLATION OF SIMILAR LAW.

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	REGISTERED
	 
	 
	 
	$

	No. A‐1‐
	 
	 
	 
	[  ], 2014

SEE REVERSE FOR CERTAIN DEFINITIONS
[144A CUSIP NO.                   ]
NORTHWEST FLORIDA TIMBER FINANCE, LLC, a limited liability company organized and existing under the laws of the State of Delaware (herein referred to as the “Issuer”), for value received, hereby promises to pay to               , or registered assigns, the principal sum of                DOLLARS payable on March 4, 2029 (such date, the “Maturity Date”).  The unpaid principal balance of this Note shall bear interest at a rate of 4.750% per annum (the “Note Interest Rate”), calculated based on twelve 30‐day months in a 360‐day year.  Interest on the unpaid principal balance shall be due and payable on each March 11 and September 11, beginning September 11, 2014, through and until the Maturity Date (each, a “Payment Date”).  This Note is not subject to prepayment at the Issuer’s option prior to the Maturity Date.
The principal of and interest on this Note are payable in such coin or currency of the United States as at the time of payment is legal tender for payment of public and private debts.  All payments made by the Issuer with respect to this Note shall be applied in accordance with Section 8.02 of the Indenture.
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 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 as of the date set forth above.

	
				
	 
	NORTHWEST FLORIDA TIMBER FINANCE, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company

	 
	 
	 

	 
	By:
	 

	 
	 
	Name:
	 

	 
	 
	Title:
	 

INDENTURE TRUSTEE’S CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION
This is one of the Notes of NORTHWEST FLORIDA TIMBER FINANCE, LLC designated above and referred to in the within-mentioned Indenture.
	
				
	 
	WILMINGTON TRUST, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, not in its individual capacity but solely as the Indenture Trustee

	 
	 
	 

	 
	By:
	 

	 
	 
	Authorized Signatory

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[REVERSE OF NOTE]
This Note is one of a duly authorized issue of Notes of the Issuer, designated as its Northwest Florida Timber Finance, LLC Notes due 2029 (herein called the “Notes”), all issued under an Indenture, dated as of April 10, 2014 (such indenture, as supplemented or amended, is herein called the “Indenture”), between the Issuer and Wilmington Trust, National Association, as indenture trustee (the “Indenture Trustee”, which term includes any successor Indenture Trustee under the Indenture), to which Indenture and all indentures supplemental thereto 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 Notes are subject to all terms of the Indenture.  All terms used in this Note that are defined in the Indenture, as supplemented or amended, shall have the meanings assigned to them in or pursuant to the Indenture, as so supplemented or amended.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, the entire unpaid principal balance of the Notes shall be due and payable on the date on which an Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing and the Indenture Trustee or the Majority Holders have declared the Notes to be immediately due and payable in the manner provided in Section 5.02 of the Indenture.  All principal payments on the Notes shall be made pro rata to the Holders entitled thereto.
Each Holder by acceptance of a Note covenants and agrees that no recourse may be taken, directly or indirectly, with respect to the obligations of the Issuer under the Indenture on the Notes or under any certificate or other writing delivered in connection therewith, against the Indenture Trustee in its individual capacity.
On each Payment Date, commencing September 11, 2014, the Indenture Trustee or Paying Agent shall distribute to the Person in whose name this Note is registered at the close of business on the Record Date the interest and principal due on this Note.
During each Interest Accrual Period, this Note will bear interest at the Note Interest Rate.

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Distributions on this Note will be made by the Indenture Trustee or Paying Agent by wire transfer or, if no account information is provided, by check mailed to the address of the Person entitled thereto as such name and address shall appear on the Note Register or, upon written request to the Indenture Trustee, by wire transfer of immediately available funds to the account of the Person entitled thereto as shall appear on the Note Register without the presentation or surrender of this Note or the making of any notation thereon, at a bank or other entity having appropriate facilities therefor, and, in the case of wire transfers, at the expense of such Person unless such Person shall own of record Notes which have principal balances aggregating at least $100,000.
Notwithstanding the above, the final distribution on this Note on the Maturity Date will be made only upon presentation and surrender of this Note at the office or agency maintained for that purpose by the Note Registrar.
As provided in the Indenture, deposits and withdrawals from the Payment Account may be made by the Indenture Trustee from time to time for purposes other than distributions to the Holders pursuant to the terms of Section 8.02 of the Indenture.
As provided in the Indenture and subject to certain limitations therein set forth, the transfer of this Note is registrable in the Note Register upon surrender of this Note for registration of transfer at the offices or agencies maintained by the Note Registrar, duly endorsed by, or accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to, the Issuer, duly executed by the holder hereof or such holder’s attorney duly authorized in writing, and thereupon one or more new Notes in authorized denominations evidencing the same aggregate principal balance will be issued to the designated transferee or transferees.
The Note is issuable only as a registered Note.  As provided in the Indenture and subject to certain limitations therein set forth, the Note is exchangeable for a new Note evidencing the same undivided ownership interest, as requested by the holder surrendering the same.

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No service charge will be made for any such registration of transfer or exchange, but the Note Registrar may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental charge payable in connection therewith.
The Indenture Trustee and any agent of the Indenture Trustee may treat the person in whose name this Note is registered as the owner hereof for all purposes, and none of the foregoing shall be affected by notice to the contrary.
The obligations and responsibilities created by the Indenture shall terminate upon the payment to Holders of all amounts required to be paid to them pursuant to the Indenture and the other Transaction Documents and the disposition of all of the Indenture Collateral pursuant to the terms of the Indenture.

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SCHEDULE OF EXCHANGES OF INTERESTS IN THE GLOBAL NOTE(1)
The following exchanges of a part of this Global Note for an interest in another Global Note or for an Individual Note, or exchanges of a part of another Global Note or Individual Note for an interest in this Global Note, have been made:
	
									
	Date of Exchange
	 
	Amount of 
decrease in 
Principal Amount 
of this Global 
Note
	 
	Amount of 
increase in 
Principal Amount 
of this Global 
Note
	 
	Principal Amount of this Global Note following such decrease (or 
increase)
	 
	Signature of 
Responsible 
Officer of Note 
Registrar

	 
	 
	 
	 
	 
	 
	 
	 
	 

	 
	 
	 
	 
	 
	 
	 
	 
	 

	 
	 
	 
	 
	 
	 
	 
	 
	 

		
	(1)
	This should be included only if the Note is issued in global form.

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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:
	 
	 
	 
	(2
	)

	 
	 

	 
	Signature Guaranteed:

	 
	 
	 
	 
	 

		
	(2)
	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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EXHIBIT B
WIRING INSTRUCTIONS FORM
, 2014
Wilmington Trust, National Association, 
as the Indenture Trustee and Paying Agent 
[Address] 
Attention:  []
		
	Re:
	Northwest Florida Timber Finance, LLC Senior Secured Notes due 2029

Dear Sir:
In connection with the sale of the above‐captioned Note by              to             , (“Transferee”) you, as Paying Agent, are instructed to make all remittances to Transferee as Holder as of             ,              by wire transfer.  For such wire transfer, the wiring instructions are as follows:
	
		
	 
	 

	Transferee

	
	
	Holder’s mailing address:

	Name:

	Address:

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EXHIBIT C
FORM OF RULE 144A CERTIFICATION
[Issuer]
[Trustee]
                   , 20
Re:    St. Joe Notes due 2029
Ladies and Gentlemen:
In connection with our acquisition any of the above Notes we certify that (a) we understand that the Notes are not being registered under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Act”), or any state securities laws and are being transferred to us in a transaction that is exempt from the registration requirements of the Act and any such laws, (b) we have had the opportunity to ask questions of and receive answers from the Issuer concerning the purchase of the Notes and all matters relating thereto or any additional information deemed necessary to our decision to purchase the Notes, (c) we have not, nor has anyone acting on our behalf offered, transferred, pledged, sold or otherwise disposed of the Notes, any interest in the Notes or any other similar security to, or solicited any offer to buy or accept a transfer, pledge or other disposition of the Notes, any interest in the Notes or any other similar security from, or otherwise approached or negotiated with respect to the Notes, any interest in the Notes or any other similar security with, any person in any manner, or made any general solicitation by means of general advertising or in any other manner, or taken any other action, that would constitute a distribution of the Notes under the Act or that would render the disposition of the Notes a violation of Section 5 of the Act or require registration pursuant thereto, nor will act, nor has authorized or will authorize any person to act, in such manner with respect to the Notes, (d) we are a U.S. person, as defined in Regulation S under the Act, (e) we are a “qualified institutional buyer” as that term is defined in Rule 144A under the Act and a “qualified purchaser” within the meaning of Section 3(c)(7) of the Investment 

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Company Act of 1940, as amended, and have completed the form of certification to that effect attached hereto as Annex 1, and (f) we are not, and are not acquiring or holding the Notes, directly or indirectly on behalf of or with any assets of an “employee benefit plan” within the meaning of Section 3(3) of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended (“ERISA”) that is subject to Title I of ERISA, a “plan” within the meaning of and subject to Section 4975 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the “Code”), an entity the underlying assets of which are deemed to include assets of any such plan, or a plan that is subject to any federal, state, local or non‐U.S. law (“Similar Law”) that is substantively similar to the provisions of Section 406 of ERISA or
Section 4975 of the Code; or the purchaser’s acquisition and holding of such Note will not constitute or result in a non‐exempt prohibited transaction under Section 406 of ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code or a violation of Similar Law.  We are acquiring the Notes for our own account or for resale pursuant to Rule 144A and further, understand that such Notes may be resold, pledged or transferred only (i) to a person reasonably believed to be a qualified institutional buyer and who is also a qualified purchaser that purchasers for its own account or the account of another qualified institutional buyer who is also a qualified purchaser to whom notice is given that the resale, pledge or transfer is being made in reliance on Rule 144A, or (ii) to a person reasonably believed to be a qualified purchaser pursuant to another exemption from registration under the Act.

	
				
	 
	Very truly yours,

	 
	 

	 
	Print Name of Transferee

	 
	 
	 
	 

	 
	By:
	 

	 
	 
	Authorized Officer

cc:    The St. Joe Company 
    133 WaterSound Parkway 
    WaterSound, Florida 32413 
    Attention:  General Counsel and Chief Financial Officer

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ANNEX 1 TO EXHIBIT C
[FORM OF CERTIFICATION]
[Date]
[Issuer]
[Trustee]
                   , 20
Re:    St. Joe Notes due 2029
Ladies and Gentlemen:
In connection with our purchase of the Notes, the undersigned certifies to each of the parties to whom this letter is addressed that it is a qualified institutional buyer (as defined in Rule 144A under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Act”)) as follows:
		
	1.
	It owns and/or invests on a discretionary basis eligible securities (excluding affiliate’s securities, bank deposit notes and CD’s, loan participations, repurchase agreements, securities owned but subject to a repurchase agreement and currency, interest rate and commodity swaps), as described below:

Amount:  $           ; and
		
	2.
	The dollar amount set forth above is:

		
	a.
	greater than $100 million and the undersigned is one of the following entities:

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	(1) o
	an insurance company as defined in Section 2(13) of the Act*; or

		
	(2)o 
	an investment company registered under the Investment Company Act or any business development company as defined in Section 2(a)(48) of the Investment Company Act of 1940 or as defined in Section 202(a)(22) of the Investment Advisers Act of 1940; or

		
	(3)o 
	a Small Business Investment Company licensed by the U.S. Small Business Administration under Section 301(c) or (d) of the Small Business Investment Act of 1958; or

		
	(4)o 
	a plan (i) established and maintained by a state, its political subdivisions, or any agency or instrumentality of a state or its political subdivisions, the laws of which permit the purchase of securities of this type, for the benefit of its employees and (ii) the governing investment guidelines of which permit the purchase of securities of this type; or

		
	(5)o 
	a corporation (other than a U.S. bank, savings and loan association or equivalent foreign institution), partnership, Massachusetts or similar statutory or business trust, or an organization described in Section 501 (c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code; or

	
			
	 
	 
	 

	*
	A purchase by an insurance company for one or more of its separate accounts, as defined by section 2(a)(37) of the Investment COmpany Act of 1940, which are neither registered nor required to be registered thereunder, shall be deemed to be a purchase for the account of such insurance company.

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	(6)o 
	a U.S. bank, savings and loan association or equivalent foreign institution, which has an audited net worth of at least $25 million as demonstrated in its latest annual financial statements as of a date not more than 16 months preceding the date of sale in the case of a U.S. institution or 18 months in the case of a foreign institution; or

		
	(7)o
	an investment adviser registered under the Investment Advisers Act of 1940; or

		
	b.o
	greater than $10 million, and the undersigned is a broker‐dealer registered with the SEC; or

		
	c.o 
	less than $10 million, and the undersigned is a broker‐dealer registered with the SEC and will only purchase Rule 144A securities in riskless principal transactions (as defined in Rule 144A); or

		
	d.o 
	less than $100 million, and the undersigned is an investment company registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940, which, together with one or more registered investment companies having the same or an affiliated investment adviser, owns at least $100 million of eligible securities; or

		
	e.o
	less than $100 million, and the undersigned is an entity, all the equity owners of which are qualified institutional buyers.

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The undersigned further certifies that it is purchasing Notes for its own account or for the account of others that independently qualify as “Qualified Institutional Buyers” as defined in Rule 144A.  It is aware that the sale of the Notes is being made in reliance on its continued compliance with Rule 144A.  It is aware that the transferor may rely on the exemption from the provisions of Section 5 of the Act provided by Rule 144A.  The undersigned understands that the Notes may be resold, pledged or transferred pursuant to Rule 144A only to a person reasonably believed to be a Qualified Institutional Buyer and who is also a “Qualified Purchaser” within the meaning of Section 3(c)(7) of the Investment Company Act of 1940 that purchases for its own account or for the account of a Qualified Institutional Buyer who is also a Qualified Purchaser to whom notice is given that the resale, pledge or transfer is being made in reliance in Rule 144A.
The undersigned agrees that if at some time before the expiration of the holding period described in Rule 144 it wishes to dispose of or exchange any of the Notes, it will not transfer or exchange any of the Notes to a Qualified Institutional Buyer without first obtaining a letter in the form hereof from the transferee and delivering such certificate to the addressees hereof.
The undersigned further certifies that it is (x) a “U.S. person” as defined in Regulation S of under the Securities Act and (y) a Qualified Purchaser.

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, this document has been executed by the undersigned who is duly authorized to do so on behalf of the undersigned Qualified Institutional Buyer on the          day of             ,      .
Name of Institution 
Signature 
Name 
Title
		
	cc:
	The St. Joe Company 
    133 WaterSound Parkway 
    WaterSound, Florida 32413 
    Attention:  General Counsel and Chief Financial Officer 

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EXHIBIT D
EXPENSE RESERVE INSTRUCTION 
[Date]1 
Wilmington Trust, National Association, 
as the Indenture Trustee and Paying Agent 
246 Goose Lane, Suite 105, Guilford, Connecticut 06437, 
Attention:  Corporate Trust Department 

		
	Re:
	Payment of Issuer Expenses

Dear Sir/Madam:
Reference is made to the Indenture, dated as of April 10, 2014 (as amended, supplemented, modified, waived or otherwise modified from time to time, the “Indenture”) among Northwest Florida Timber Finance, LLC, as the Issuer and Wilmington Trust, National Association, as Indenture Trustee and Paying Agent.  Capitalized terms used herein and not otherwise defined shall have the meanings assigned to such terms in the Indenture.  This notice is delivered pursuant to Section 8.02 of the Indenture.  
We hereby instruct you to make the following payments on [insert date][, which is a Payment Date]2[, which is not a Payment Date]3: 
	
			
	Payment Recipient
	Wire Information of Payment Recipient
	Amount

	 
	 
	 

	 
	 
	 

	Aggregate Amount
	 
	$

The aggregate amount of such payments [together with any other such payments directed by the Issuer made during the current year]3 [together with any other such payments directed by the Issuer to be made since the last Payment Date] does not exceed $37,500.  
	
				
	 
	 
	 
	 

	1
	 
	Expense Reserve Instruction is required to be sent at least (i) 3 Business Days prior to a Payment Date if delivered for a payment to be made on a Payment Date or (ii) 5 Business Days prior to the applicable date of payment if delivered for a payment to be made between two successive Payment Dates.

	 
	 
	 
	 

	2
	 
	Insert for Expense Reserve Instructions delivered for a payment to be made on a Payment Date.

	 
	 
	 
	 

	3
	 
	Insert for Expense Reserve Instructions delivered for a payment to be made between two successive Payment Dates.

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	NORTHWEST FLORIDA TIMBER FINANCE, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company

	 
	By:
	 

	 
	 
	Name:
	 

	 
	 
	Title:
	 

	 
	 
	 
	 

	 
	 
	 
	 

	 
	 
	 
	 

	 
	 
	 
	 

 
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