Document:

Indenture, dated as of December 14, 2004

 Exhibit 4(a)(vii) 
  

MERRILL LYNCH & CO., INC. 
  
 (a Delaware corporation) 
  
 Exchange Liquid Yield OptionTM Notes due 2032 
 (Zero Coupon -
Floating Rate - Senior) 
  

  
 INDENTURE 
  
 Dated as of December 14, 2004 
  

  
 JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A., 
 Trustee 

 TM Trademark of Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc. 
  

  
 Table of Contents 

 

					
	 	  	 	  	Page

	Article I	  	 
		
	DEFINITIONS AND INCORPORATION BY REFERENCE	  	 
			
	 Section 1.01.
	  	Definitions	  	1
	 Section 1.02.
	  	Other Definitions	  	7
	 Section 1.03.
	  	Rules of Construction	  	9
	 Section 1.04.
	  	Acts of Holders	  	9
		
	Article II	  	 
		
	THE SECURITIES	  	 
			
	 Section 2.01.
	  	Form and Dating	  	10
	 Section 2.02.
	  	Execution and Authentication	  	11
	 Section 2.03.
	  	Registrar, Paying Agent, Conversion Agent and Depositary	  	11
	 Section 2.04.
	  	Paying Agent To Hold Money and Securities in Trust	  	12
	 Section 2.05.
	  	Securityholder Lists	  	12
	 Section 2.06.
	  	Transfer and Exchange	  	12
	 Section 2.07.
	  	Replacement Securities	  	13
	 Section 2.08.
	  	Outstanding Securities; Determinations of Holders’ Action	  	14
	 Section 2.09.
	  	Temporary Securities	  	15
	 Section 2.10.
	  	Cancellation	  	15
	 Section 2.11.
	  	Global Securities	  	15
	 Section 2.12.
	  	CUSIP Numbers	  	17
		
	Article III	  	 
		
	REDEMPTION AND PURCHASES	  	 
			
	 Section 3.01.
	  	Right to Redeem; Notices to Trustee	  	17
	 Section 3.02.
	  	Selection of Securities to Be Redeemed	  	17
	 Section 3.03.
	  	Notice of Redemption	  	18
	 Section 3.04.
	  	Effect of Notice of Redemption	  	19
	 Section 3.05.
	  	Deposit of Redemption Price	  	19
	 Section 3.06.
	  	Securities Redeemed in Part	  	19
	 Section 3.07.
	  	[Reserved]	  	19
	 Section 3.08.
	  	Purchase of Securities at the Option of the Holder	  	19
	 Section 3.09.
	  	Purchase of Securities at Option of the Holder upon Change in Control	  	22
	 Section 3.10.
	  	Effect of Purchase Notice or Change in Control Purchase Notice	  	25

  

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	 Section 3.11.
	  	Deposit of Purchase Price or Change in Control Purchase Price	  	26
	 Section 3.12.
	  	Securities Purchased in Part	  	26
	 Section 3.13.
	  	Covenant to Comply With Securities Laws Upon Purchase of Securities	  	27
	 Section 3.14.
	  	Repayment to the Company	  	27
		
	Article IV	  	 
		
	COVENANTS	  	 
			
	 Section 4.01.
	  	Payment of Securities	  	27
	 Section 4.02.
	  	SEC Reports	  	28
	 Section 4.03.
	  	Compliance Certificate; Notice of Defaults	  	28
	 Section 4.04.
	  	Further Instruments and Acts	  	28
	 Section 4.05.
	  	Maintenance of Office or Agency	  	28
	 Section 4.06.
	  	Calculation of Certain Amounts	  	29
	 Section 4.07.
	  	Limitation Upon Creation of Liens on Voting Stock of Certain Subsidiaries	  	29
	 Section 4.08.
	  	Limitation on Disposition of Voting Stock of, and Merger and Sale of Assets by, MLPF&S	  	30
	 Section 4.09.
	  	Waiver of Certain Covenants	  	30
		
	Article V	  	 
		
	SUCCESSOR CORPORATION	  	 
			
	 Section 5.01.
	  	When Company May Merge or Transfer Assets	  	30
		
	Article VI	  	 
		
	DEFAULTS AND REMEDIES	  	 
			
	 Section 6.01.
	  	Events of Default	  	31
	 Section 6.02.
	  	Acceleration	  	33
	 Section 6.03.
	  	Other Remedies	  	33
	 Section 6.04.
	  	Waiver of Past Defaults	  	34
	 Section 6.05.
	  	Control by Majority	  	34
	 Section 6.06.
	  	Limitation on Suits	  	34
	 Section 6.07.
	  	Rights of Holders to Receive Payment	  	34
	 Section 6.08.
	  	Collection Suit by Trustee	  	35
	 Section 6.09.
	  	Trustee May File Proofs of Claim	  	35
	 Section 6.10.
	  	Priorities	  	36
	 Section 6.11.
	  	Undertaking for Costs	  	36
	 Section 6.12.
	  	Waiver of Stay, Extension or Usury Laws	  	36

  

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	Article VII	  	 
		
	TRUSTEE	  	 
			
	 Section 7.01.
	  	Rights of Trustee	  	37
	 Section 7.02.
	  	Individual Rights of Trustee	  	37
	 Section 7.03.
	  	Trustee’s Disclaimer	  	37
	 Section 7.04.
	  	Notice of Defaults	  	38
	 Section 7.05.
	  	Reports by Trustee to Holders	  	38
	 Section 7.06.
	  	Compensation and Indemnity	  	38
	 Section 7.07.
	  	Replacement of Trustee	  	39
	 Section 7.08.
	  	Successor Trustee by Merger	  	40
	 Section 7.09.
	  	Eligibility; Disqualification	  	40
	 Section 7.10.
	  	Preferential Collection of Claims Against Company	  	40
		
	Article VIII	  	 
		
	DISCHARGE OF INDENTURE	  	 
			
	 Section 8.01.
	  	Discharge of Liability on Securities	  	40
	 Section 8.02.
	  	Repayment to the Company	  	40
		
	Article IX	  	 
		
	AMENDMENTS	  	 
			
	 Section 9.01.
	  	Without Consent of Holders	  	41
	 Section 9.02.
	  	With Consent of Holders	  	41
	 Section 9.03.
	  	Compliance with Trust Indenture Act	  	42
	 Section 9.04.
	  	Revocation and Effect of Consents, Waivers and Actions	  	42
	 Section 9.05.
	  	Notation on or Exchange of Securities	  	42
	 Section 9.06.
	  	Trustee to Sign Supplemental Indentures	  	43
	 Section 9.07.
	  	Effect of Supplemental Indentures	  	43
		
	Article X	  	 
		
	CONTINGENT INTEREST	  	 
			
	 Section 10.01.
	  	Contingent Interest	  	43
	 Section 10.02.
	  	Payment of Contingent Interest; Contingent Interest Rights Preserved	  	44
	 Section 10.03.
	  	Bid Solicitation Agent	  	44

  

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	Article XI	  	 
		
	CONVERSION	  	 
			
	 Section 11.01.
	  	Conversion Privilege	  	45
	 Section 11.02.
	  	Conversion Procedure	  	45
	 Section 11.03.
	  	Fractional Shares	  	47
	 Section 11.04.
	  	Taxes on Conversion	  	47
	 Section 11.05.
	  	Company to Provide Stock	  	47
	 Section 11.06.
	  	Adjustment for Change in Capital Stock	  	48
	 Section 11.07.
	  	Adjustment for Rights Issue	  	48
	 Section 11.08.
	  	Adjustment for Other Distributions	  	49
	 Section 11.09.
	  	Adjustment for Certain Cash Distributions	  	53
	 Section 11.10.
	  	When Adjustment May Be Deferred	  	54
	 Section 11.11.
	  	When No Adjustment Required	  	54
	 Section 11.12.
	  	Notice of Adjustment	  	55
	 Section 11.13.
	  	Voluntary Increase	  	55
	 Section 11.14.
	  	Notice of Certain Transactions	  	55
	 Section 11.15.
	  	Reorganization of Company; Special Distributions	  	56
	 Section 11.16.
	  	Company Determination Final	  	56
	 Section 11.17.
	  	Limit on Conversion Rate	  	57
	 Section 11.18.
	  	Trustee’s Adjustment Disclaimer	  	57
	 Section 11.19.
	  	Simultaneous Adjustments	  	57
	 Section 11.20.
	  	Successive Adjustments	  	57
	 Section 11.21.
	  	Rights Issued in Respect of Common Stock Issued Upon Conversion	  	57
		
	Article XII	  	 
		
	PAYMENT OF CONTINGENT INTEREST	  	 
			
	 Section 12.01.
	  	Contingent Interest Payments	  	58
	 Section 12.02.
	  	Defaulted Interest	  	58
	 Section 12.03.
	  	Interest Rights Preserved	  	59
		
	Article XIII	  	 
		
	MISCELLANEOUS	  	 
			
	 Section 13.01.
	  	Trust Indenture Act Controls	  	59
	 Section 13.02.
	  	Notices	  	59
	 Section 13.03.
	  	Communication by Holders with Other Holders	  	60
	 Section 13.04.
	  	Certificate and Opinion as to Conditions Precedent	  	60
	 Section 13.05.
	  	Statements Required in Certificate or Opinion	  	60
	 Section 13.06.
	  	Separability Clause	  	61

  

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	 Section 13.07.
	  	Rules By Trustee, Paying Agent, Conversion Agent and Registrar	  	61
	 Section 13.08.
	  	[Reserved]	  	61
	 Section 13.09.
	  	Governing Law	  	61
	 Section 13.10.
	  	No Recourse Against Others	  	61
	 Section 13.11.
	  	Successors	  	61
	 Section 13.12.
	  	Multiple Originals	  	61
	 Section 13.13.
	  	References	  	61
	 Section 13.14.
	  	Calculations	  	62
	 Section 13.15.
	  	Tax Matters	  	62
			
	 SIGNATURES
	  	 	  	 
	 ANNEX A
	  	 	  	 
	 EXHIBIT A
	  	 	  	 

  

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	 CROSS-REFERENCE TABLE*
	  	 
		
	 TIA
 Section

	  	Indenture
Section

	 310(a)(1)
	  	7.09
	 (a)(2)
	  	N.A.
	 (a)(3)
	  	N.A.
	 (a)(4)
	  	N.A.
	 (b)(1)
	  	7.09
	 (c)
	  	N.A.
	 311(a)
	  	7.10
	 (b)
	  	7.10
	 (c)
	  	N.A.
	 312(a)
	  	2.05
	 (b)
	  	13.03
	 (c)
	  	13.03
	 313(a)
	  	7.05
	 (b)
	  	7.05
	 (c)
	  	N.A.
	 (d)
	  	N.A.
	 314(a)
	  	4.02
	 (b)
	  	N.A.
	 (c)(1)
	  	N.A.
	 (c)(2)
	  	N.A.
	 (c)(3)
	  	N.A.
	 (d)
	  	N.A.
	 (e)
	  	N.A.
	 (f)
	  	4.04
	 315(a)
	  	7.01
	 (b)
	  	7.04
	 (e)
	  	6.11
	 316(a)(last sentence)
	  	2.08
	 (a)(1)(A)
	  	6.05
	 (a)(1)(B)
	  	6.04
	 (a)(2)
	  	N.A.
	 (b)
	  	N.A.
	 317(a)(1)
	  	N.A.
	 (a)(2)
	  	N.A.
	 (b)
	  	2.04
	 318(a)
	  	N.A.

  
 N.A. means Not
Applicable.                                  
  

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

  

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 INDENTURE, dated as of December 14, 2004, between Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc., a Delaware corporation
(the “Company”), and JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., a national banking association, as trustee (the “Trustee”). 
  
 W I T N E S S E T H: 
  
 WHEREAS, the Company issued Liquid Yield OptionTM Notes due 2032 (Zero Coupon—Floating Rate—Senior) (the “Old LYONs”) on March 13, 2002; and

  
 WHEREAS, the Company desires to issue and deliver the Exchange
Liquid Yield OptionTM Notes due 2032 (Zero Coupon -
Floating Rate - Senior) (the “Securities”) to the Holders of the Old LYONs in exchange for the Old LYONs; 
  
 NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the mutual promises and for other good and valuable consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which are hereby
acknowledged, each party agrees for the benefit of the other party and for the equal and ratable benefit of the Holders of the Securities: 
  
 ARTICLE I 
  
 DEFINITIONS AND INCORPORATION BY REFERENCE 
  
 Section 1.01. Definitions. 
  
 “Affiliate” of any specified person means any other person directly or indirectly controlling or controlled by or under direct or
indirect common control with such specified person. For the purposes of this definition, “control”, when used with respect to any specified person, means the power to direct or cause the direction of the management and policies of
such person, directly or indirectly, whether through the ownership of voting securities, by contract or otherwise; and the terms “controlling” and “controlled” have meanings correlative to the foregoing. 

 
 “Average Sale Price” means the average of the Sale
Prices of the Common Stock or other security for which the Average Sale Price is to be determined for the shorter of (1) 30 consecutive Trading Days ending on the last full Trading Day prior to the Time of Determination with respect to the rights,
warrants or options or distribution in respect of which the Average Sale Price is being calculated, or (2) the period (x) commencing on the date next succeeding the first public announcement of (a) the issuance of rights, warrants or options or (b)
the distribution, in each case, in respect of which the Average Sale Price is being calculated and (y) proceeding through the last full Trading Day prior to the Time of Determination with respect to the rights, warrants or options or distribution in
respect of which the Average Sale Price is being calculated (excluding days within such period, if any, which are not Trading Days), or (3) the period, if any, (x) commencing on the date next succeeding the Ex-Dividend Time with respect to the next
preceding (a) issuance of rights, warrants or options or (b) distribution, in each case, for which an adjustment is required by the provisions of Section 11.06(d) or 11.07 and (y) proceeding 

  

 
through the last full Trading Day prior to the Time of Determination with respect to the rights, warrants or options or distribution in respect of which the
Average Sale Price is being calculated (excluding days within such period, if any, which are not Trading Days). 
  
 In the event that the Ex-Dividend Time (or in the case of a subdivision, combination or reclassification, the effective date with respect thereto) with
respect to a dividend, subdivision, combination or reclassification to which Section 11.06(a), (b), (c) or (d) applies occurs during the period applicable for calculating “Average Sale Price” pursuant to the definition in the preceding
sentence, “Average Sale Price” shall be calculated for such period in a manner determined by the Board of Directors of the Company to reflect the impact of such dividend, subdivision, combination or reclassification on the Sale Price of
the Common Stock or such other security during such period. 
  
 “Bankruptcy Law” means Title 11, United States Code, or any similar Federal or state law for the relief of debtors. 
  
 “Board of Directors” or “Board” means, with respect to any matter, either the board of directors of the
Company or any committee of such board duly authorized, with respect to such matter, to exercise the powers of such board. 
  
 “Business Day” means any day, other than a Saturday or Sunday, that is neither a legal holiday nor a day on which commercial banks
are authorized or required by law, regulation or executive order to close in The City of New York. 
  
 “Cash” or “cash” means such coin or currency of The United States of America as at any time of payment is
legal tender for the payment of public and private debts. 
  
 “Common Stock” means the Common Stock, par value $1.33 1/3 per share, including the Rights attached thereto of the Company, as it exists on the date of this Indenture or any other shares of capital stock of the
Company into which such common stock shall be reclassified or changed. 
  
 “Company” means the party named as the “Company” in the first paragraph of this Indenture until a successor replaces it pursuant to the applicable provisions of this Indenture and, thereafter, shall mean
such successor. The foregoing sentence shall likewise apply to any subsequent such successor or successors. 
  
 “Company Request” or “Company Order” means a written request or order signed in the name of the Company by
either of its Chairman or Vice Chairman of the Board, its President, any Vice President, its Treasurer, any Assistant Treasurer and by its Secretary or an Assistant Secretary, and delivered to the Trustee. 
  
 “Contingent Principal Amount” of a Security means the
Original Principal Amount increased daily by the applicable Yield. The Contingent Principal Amount will accrue daily at the applicable Yield applied to the Contingent Principal Amount of the Security as of the day immediately preceding the most
recent Yield Reset Date. 
  

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 “Controlled Subsidiary” means any corporation more than 80% of the outstanding
Voting Stock, except for qualifying shares, of which shall at the time be owned directly or indirectly by the Company. 
  
 “corporation” includes corporations, associations, companies and business trusts. 
  
 “Custodian” means any receiver, trustee, assignee,
liquidator, custodian or similar official under any Bankruptcy Law. 
  
 “Default” means any event that is, or after notice or passage of time or both would be, an Event of Default. 
  
 “Depositary” means, with respect to the Securities issuable or issued in whole or in part in global form, the person specified in
Section 2.03 as the Depositary with respect to the Securities, until a successor shall have been appointed and become such pursuant to the applicable provision of this Indenture, and, thereafter, “Depositary” shall mean or include such
successor. The foregoing sentence shall likewise apply to any subsequent such successor or successors. 
  
 “Global Securities” means Securities that are in the form of the Securities attached hereto as Exhibit A. 
  
 “Holder” or “Securityholder”
means a person in whose name a Security is registered on the Registrar’s books. 
  
 “Indenture” means this Indenture as amended or supplemented from time to time in accordance with the terms hereof, including the provisions of the TIA that are deemed to be a part hereof.

  
 “Issue Date” of any Security means the
date on which the Security was originally issued or deemed issued as set forth on the face of the Security. 
  
 “Issue Price” of each Security means, in connection with the original issuance of such Security, the initial issue price at which
the Security is sold as set forth on the face of the Security. 
  
 “London Banking Day” means a day on which commercial banks are open for business, including dealings in United States dollars, in London. 
  
 “Market Price” means the average of the Sale Prices of the Common Stock or other security for which
the Market Price is to be determined for the five Trading Day period ending on (if the third Business Day prior to the applicable Purchase Date is a Trading Day, or if not, then on the last Trading Day prior to) the third Business Day immediately
prior to, but not including, the applicable Purchase Date, appropriately adjusted to take into account the actual occurrence, during the period commencing on the first of such Trading Days during such five Trading Day period and ending on such
Purchase Date, of any event described in Section 11.06, 

  

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11.07, 11.08 or 11.09 that would result in an adjustment to the Conversion Rate; subject, however, to the conditions set forth in Sections 11.10 and 11.11.

  
 “Maximum Conversion Rate” means
18.3823 shares of Common Stock; provided, that if the Conversion Rate is adjusted pursuant to Article 11, the Maximum Conversion Rate shall be adjusted by the same proportion as the Conversion Rate except that the Maximum Conversion Rate shall not
be adjusted as a result of any adjustments to the Conversion Rate made solely for cash dividends pursuant to Section 11.08(b) or Section 11.09. 
  
 “MLPF&S” means Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated, a Delaware corporation. 
  
 “Moneyline Telerate Page 3750” means the display on
Moneyline Telerate (or any successor service) on such page (or any other page as may replace such page on such service) for the purpose of displaying the London interbank rates of major banks for United States dollars. 
  
 “Officer” means Chairman of the Board, the President,
any Vice President, the Treasurer, the Secretary, any Assistant Treasurer or Assistant Secretary of the Company. 
  
 “Officers’ Certificate” means a written certificate containing the information specified in Sections 13.04 and 13.05, if
applicable, signed in the name of the Company by Chairman of the Board, the President, a Vice President, the Treasurer or an Assistant Treasurer and by the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary, and delivered to the Trustee. 
  
 “Opinion of Counsel” means a written opinion
containing the information specified in Sections 13.04 and 13.05, if applicable, rendered by legal counsel who may be (i) an employee of, or counsel to, the Company or (ii) other counsel designated by the Company and acceptable in the reasonable
judgment of the Trustee. 
  
 “Original Principal
Amount” of each Security means the original principal amount as set forth on the face of the Security. 
  
 “Person” means any individual, corporation, partnership, joint venture, association, joint-stock company, trust, unincorporated
organization or government or any agency or political subdivision thereof or any other entity. 
  
 “Principal”, “Principal Amount” or “principal amount” of a Security on any date means the Contingent Principal Amount of such Security on such
date. 
  
 “Purchase Date” shall mean each
of March 13, 2005, March 13, 2006, March 13, 2007, March 13, 2008, March 13, 2012, March 13, 2017, March 13, 2022 and March 13, 2027. 
  
 “Purchase Price” of a Security means the Contingent Principal Amount of the Security on the applicable Purchase Date. 

 
 “Redemption” or
“redemption” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 3.01. 
  

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 “Redemption Date” or “redemption date” shall mean the
date specified for redemption of any of the Securities in accordance with the terms of the Securities and this Indenture. 
  
 “Redemption Price” or “redemption price” shall have the meaning set forth in paragraph 6 of the
Securities. 
  
 “Regular cash dividends”
means quarterly or other periodic cash dividends on the Common Stock as declared by the Board as part of its cash dividend payment practices and that are not designated by the Board as extraordinary or special or other nonrecurring dividends.

  
 “Rights” means the preferred stock
purchase rights issued pursuant to the Amended and Restated Rights Agreement of the Company adopted on December 2, 1997, as amended or restated from time to time. 
  
 “Sale Price” of a single share of Common Stock or unit of any other security for which the Sale
Price is to be determined on any Trading Day means the closing per share sale price for the Common Stock or such other security (or if no closing sale price is reported, the average of the bid and ask prices or, if more than one in either case, the
average of the average bid and the average ask prices) on such Trading Day as reported on The New York Stock Exchange or other principal United States securities exchange on which the Common Stock or such other security is traded or, if the Common
Stock or such other security is not listed on a United States national or regional stock exchange, as reported by the National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotation System or by the National Quotation Bureau Incorporated. In the
absence of a quotation, the Company will determine the Sale Price on the basis of such quotations as it considers appropriate. 
  
 “SEC” means the Securities and Exchange Commission. 
  
 “Securities” means any of the Company’s Exchange Liquid Yield OptionTM Notes due 2032 (Zero Coupon—Floating
Rate—Senior), as amended or supplemented from time to time in accordance with the terms hereof, issued under this Indenture. 
  
 “Securityholder” or “Holder” means a person in whose name a Security is registered on the Registrar’s
books. 
  
 “Stated Maturity”, when used
with respect to any Security, means the date specified in such Security as the final fixed date on which the Contingent Principal Amount of such Security is due and payable. 
  
 “Subsidiary” means any corporation of which at the time of determination the Company and/or one or
more Subsidiaries owns or controls directly or indirectly more than 50% of the shares of Voting Stock. “Wholly-owned”, when used with reference to a Subsidiary, means a Subsidiary of which all of the outstanding capital stock (except for
qualifying shares) is owned by the Company or by one or more wholly-owned Subsidiaries. 
  

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 “Tax Original Issue Discount” means the amount of ordinary interest income on a
Security that must be accrued as original issue discount for United States Federal income tax purposes. 
  
 “3-month LIBOR” means the rate determined on the Yield Determination Date next preceding the related Yield Reset Date as:

  
 (a) the rate for 3-month deposits in United
States dollars commencing on the related Yield Reset Date, that appears on the Moneyline Telerate Page 3750 as of 11:00 A.M., London time, on the Yield Determination Date, or 
  
 (b) if fewer than two offered rates appear, or no rate appears, as the case may be, on the particular Yield
Determination Date on the Moneyline Telerate Page 3750, the rate calculated by the Company of at least two offered quotations obtained by the Company after requesting the principal London offices of each of four major reference banks (which shall
not include Affiliates of the Company) in the London interbank market to provide the Company with its offered quotation for deposits in United States dollars for the period of three months, commencing on the related Yield Reset Date, to prime banks
in the London interbank market at approximately 11.00 A.M., London time, on that Yield Determination Date and in a principal amount that is representative for a single transaction in United States dollars in that market at that time, or 

 
 (c) if fewer than two offered quotations referred to in
clause (b) are provided as requested, the rate calculated by the Company as the arithmetic mean of the rates quoted at approximately 11:00 A.M., New York time, on the particular Yield Determination Date by three major banks (which shall not include
Affiliates of the Company) in The City of New York selected by the Company for loans in United States dollars to leading European banks for a period of three months and in a principal amount that is representative for a single transaction in United
States dollars in that market at that time, or 
  
 (d) if the banks so selected by the Company are not quoting as mentioned in clause (c), LIBOR in effect on the particular Yield Determination Date. 
  
 “TIA” means the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, as amended by the Trust Indenture Reform Act of 1990, and as in effect on the date of
this Indenture. 
  
 “Time of
Determination” means the time and date of the determination of stockholders entitled to receive rights, warrants, options or a distribution, in each case, to which Sections 11.07 or 11.08 apply. 
  
 “Trading Day” means a day during which trading in
securities generally occurs on The New York Stock Exchange or, if the Common Stock is not listed on The New York Stock Exchange, on the principal other national or regional securities exchange on which the Common Stock is then listed or, if the
Common Stock is not listed on a national or regional securities exchange, on the National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotation system or, if 

  

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the Common Stock is not quoted on the National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotation System, on the principal other market on which the
Common Stock is then traded. 
  
 “Trust
Officer” means any officer of the Trustee assigned by the Trustee to administer its corporate trust matters. 
  
 “Trustee” means the party named as the “Trustee” in the first paragraph of this Indenture until a successor replaces it
pursuant to the applicable provisions of this Indenture and, thereafter, shall mean such successor. 
  
 “Voting Stock” means stock of the class or classes having general voting power under ordinary circumstances to elect at least a
majority of the board of directors, managers or trustees of such corporation provided that, for the purposes hereof, stock which carries only the right to vote conditionally on the happening of an event shall not be considered voting stock whether
or not such event shall have happened. 
  
 “Yield”
from the Issue Date through and including December 14, 2004 will equal 0.47% per annum and will be reset quarterly effective on each Yield Reset Date to 3-month LIBOR minus 2.0% per annum. Regardless of the level of 3-month LIBOR, the
Yield shall never be less than zero and, after March 13, 2008, the Yield shall not exceed 5.5% per annum. The Yield shall be calculated using the actual number of days elapsed between the Yield Reset Dates divided by 360. 
  
 “Yield Determination Date” means the second London
Banking Day preceding the related Yield Reset Date. 
  
 “Yield Reset Date” means each March 13, June 13, September 13 and December 13 of each year, commencing on March 13, 2005; provided, however, that if any Yield Reset Date would otherwise be a day that is not a
Business Day, that Yield Reset Date will be postponed to the next succeeding Business Day, except if that Business Day falls in the next succeeding calendar month, that Yield Reset Date will be the immediately preceding Business Day. 
  
 Section 1.02. Other Definitions. 
  

				
	 Term

	  	Defined in
Section

	 
	 “Agent Members”
	  	2.11	 
	 “Applicable Stock Price”
	  	11.01	 
	 “Associate”
	  	3.09	(a)
	 “Bankruptcy Law”
	  	6.01	 
	 “Bid Solicitation Agent”
	  	2.03	 
	 “Change in Control”
	  	3.09	(a)
	 “Change in Control Purchase Date”
	  	3.09	(a)
	 “Change in Control Purchase Notice”
	  	3.09	(c)
	 “Change in Control Purchase Price”
	  	3.09	(a)
	 “Company Notice”
	  	3.08	(e)
	 “Company Notice Date”
	  	3.08	(c)

  

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	 Term

	  	Defined in
Section

	 
	 “Common Stock Record Date”
	  	10.01	 
	 “Contingent Interest Payment Date”
	  	10.02	 
	 “Conversion Agent”
	  	2.03	 
	 “Conversion Consideration”
	  	11.01	 
	 “Conversion Date”
	  	11.02	 
	 “Conversion Rate”
	  	11.01	 
	 “Defaulted Interest”
	  	12.02	 
	 “Dividend Amount”
	  	11.09	 
	 “DTC”
	  	2.03	 
	 “Event of Default”
	  	6.01	 
	 “Exchange Act”
	  	2.11	(a)
	 “Ex-Dividend Measurement Period”
	  	11.08	(b)
	 “Ex-Dividend Time”
	  	11.01	 
	 “Extraordinary Cash Dividend”
	  	11.08	(b)
	 “LYONs Market Price”
	  	10.01	 
	 “Measurement Period”
	  	10.01	 
	 “Notice of Default”
	  	6.01	 
	 “Paying Agent”
	  	2.03	 
	 “Purchase Notice”
	  	3.08	(a)
	 “Registrar”
	  	2.03	 
	 “Regular Record Date”
	  	12.01	 
	 “Relevant Cash Dividends”
	  	11.08	(b)
	 “Relevant Value”
	  	10.01	 
	 “Required Cash Amount”
	  	11.01	 
	 “Securities Act”
	  	7.03	 
	 “Semiannual Period”
	  	10.01	 
	 “Time of Determination”
	  	11.01	 

  
 Whenever this
Indenture refers to a provision of the TIA, such provision is incorporated by reference in and made a part of this Indenture. The following TIA terms used in this Indenture have the following meanings: 
  
 “Commission” means the SEC. 
  
 “indenture securities” means the Securities. 
  
 “indenture security holder” means a Securityholder.

  
 “indenture to be qualified” means this
Indenture. 
  
 “indenture trustee” or
“institutional trustee” means the Trustee. 
  
 “obligor” on the indenture securities means the Company. 
  

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 All other TIA terms used in this Indenture that are defined by the TIA or defined by TIA reference to
another statute or regulation have the meanings assigned to them by such definitions. 
  
 Section 1.03. Rules of Construction. Unless the context otherwise requires: 
  
 (a) a term has the meaning assigned to it; 
  
 (b) an accounting term not otherwise defined has the meaning assigned to it in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles as
in effect from time to time in The United States of America; 
  
 (c) “or” is not exclusive; 
  
 (d) “including” means including, without limitation; and 
  
 (e) words in the singular include the plural, and words in the plural include the singular. 
  
 Section 1.04. Acts of Holders. 
  
 (a) 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 their agent 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 Trustee and, where it is hereby expressly required, to the Company. Such instrument or
instruments (and the action embodied therein and evidenced thereby) are herein sometimes referred to as the “Act” of 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 conclusive in favor of the Trustee and the Company, if made in the manner provided in this Section. 
  
 (b) The fact and date of the execution by any Person of any such instrument or writing may be proved by the
affidavit of a witness of such execution or by a certificate of a notary public or other officer authorized by law to take acknowledgements of deeds, certifying that the individual signing such instrument or writing acknowledged to such officer the
execution thereof. Where such execution is by a signer acting in a capacity other than such signer’s individual capacity, such certificate or affidavit shall also constitute sufficient proof of such signer’s authority. The fact and date of
the execution of any such instrument or writing, or the authority of the Person executing the same, may also be proved in any other manner which the Trustee deems sufficient. 
  
 (c) The ownership of Securities shall be proved by the register for the Securities or by a certificate of
the Registrar (as defined below). 
  

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 (d) Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other Act
of the Holder of any Security shall bind every future Holder of the same Security and the Holder of every Security issued upon the registration of transfer thereof or in exchange therefor or in lieu thereof in respect of anything done, omitted or
suffered to be done by the Trustee or the Company in reliance thereon, whether or not notation of such action is made upon such Security. 
  
 (e) If the Company shall solicit from the Holders any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other Act, the
Company may, at its option, by or pursuant to a resolution of the Board of Directors, fix in advance a record date for the determination of Holders entitled to give such request, demand, authorization, direction, notices, consent, waiver or other
Act, but the Company shall have no obligation to do so. If such a record date is fixed, such request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other Act may be given before or after such record date, but only the Holders of
record at the close of business on such record date shall be deemed to be Holders for purposes of determining whether Holders of the requisite proportion of outstanding Securities have authorized or agreed or consented to such request, demand,
authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other Act, and for that purpose the outstanding Securities shall be computed as of such record date; provided that no such authorization, agreement or consent by the Holders on such record
date shall be deemed effective unless it shall become effective pursuant to the provisions of this Indenture not later than six months after the record date. 
  
 ARTICLE II 
  
 THE SECURITIES 
  
 Section 2.01. Form and Dating. The Securities and the Trustee’s certificate of authentication shall be substantially in the form of Exhibit A, which is a part of this Indenture. The Securities may have
notations, legends or endorsements required by law, stock exchange rule or usage (provided that any such notation, legend or endorsement required by usage is in a form acceptable to the Company and the Trustee). Each Security shall be dated the date
of its authentication. 
  
 The Securities shall be issued,
initially in the form of one or more global Securities, which shall be deposited with DTC or the nominee thereof, duly executed by the Company and authenticated by the Trustee as hereinafter provided. 
  
 Each global Security shall represent such of the outstanding Securities as
shall be specified therein and each shall provide that it shall represent the aggregate amount of outstanding Securities from time to time endorsed thereon and that the aggregate amount of outstanding Securities represented thereby may from time to
time be reduced to reflect conversions, repurchases and redemptions. Any endorsement of a global Security to reflect the amount of any decrease in the amount of outstanding Securities represented thereby shall be 

  

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made by the Trustee in accordance with instructions given by the Holder thereof as required by Section 2.11. 
  
 Section 2.02. Execution and Authentication. The Securities shall be
executed by the Company by either of its Chairman or Vice Chairman of the Board, its President, its Treasurer, its Assistant Treasurer or one of its Vice Presidents. The signature of any of these officers on the Securities may be manual or
facsimile. 
  
 Securities bearing the manual or facsimile
signatures of individuals who were at any time the proper officers of the Company shall bind the Company, notwithstanding that such individuals or any of them have ceased to hold such offices prior to the authentication and delivery of such
Securities or did not hold such offices at the Issue Date of such Securities. 
  
 No Security shall be entitled to any benefit under this Indenture or be valid or obligatory for any purpose unless there appears on such Security a certificate of authentication substantially in the form provided for
herein duly executed by the Trustee by manual signature of an authorized officer, and such certificate upon any Security shall be conclusive evidence, and the only evidence, that such Security has been duly authenticated and delivered hereunder.

  
 The Trustee shall authenticate and deliver Securities for
original issue in an aggregate Original Principal Amount not to exceed $2,232,108,000 upon a Company Order without any further action by the Company. The aggregate Original Principal Amount of Securities outstanding at any time may not exceed the
amount set forth in the foregoing sentence, subject to the proviso set forth therein, except as provided in Section 2.07. 
  
 Section 2.03. Registrar, Paying Agent, Conversion Agent and Depositary. The Company shall maintain an office or agency where Securities may be
presented for registration of transfer or for exchange (“Registrar”), an office or agency where Securities may be presented for purchase or payment (“Paying Agent”) and an office or agency where Securities may be
presented for conversion (“Conversion Agent”). The Company shall also appoint a bid solicitation agent (the “Bid Solicitation Agent”) to act pursuant to paragraph 5 of the Security. None of the Company or any
Subsidiary or Affiliate of either may act as Bid Solicitation Agent. The Registrar shall keep a register of the Securities and of their transfer and exchange. The Company may have one or more co-registrars, one or more additional paying agents and
one or more additional conversion agents. The term Paying Agent includes any additional paying agent. The term Conversion Agent includes any additional conversion agent. 
  
 The Company shall enter into an appropriate agency agreement with any Registrar, Paying Agent, Conversion Agent or
co-registrar other than the Trustee. The agreement shall implement the provisions of this Indenture that relate to such agent. The Company shall notify the Trustee and the Holders of the name and address of any such agent and of any change in the
office or agency referred to in Section 4.05. If the Company fails to maintain a Registrar, Paying Agent or Conversion Agent, the Trustee shall act as such and shall be entitled to appropriate compensation therefor pursuant to Section 7.06. The
Company or any Subsidiary or an Affiliate of either of them may act as Paying Agent, Registrar, Conversion Agent or co-registrar. 
  

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 The Company initially appoints the Trustee as Registrar, Conversion Agent and Paying Agent in connection
with the Securities. 
  
 The Company initially appoints The
Depositary Trust Company (“DTC”) to act as Depositary with respect to the global Securities. 
  
 Section 2.04. Paying Agent To Hold Money and Securities in Trust. In accordance with Section 4.05 and except as otherwise provided herein, prior to
or on each due date of payments in respect of any Security, the Company shall deposit with the Paying Agent a sum of money or, if permitted by the terms hereof, securities sufficient to make such payments when so becoming due. The Company shall
require each Paying Agent (other than the Trustee) to agree in writing that the Paying Agent shall hold in trust for the benefit of Securityholders or the Trustee all money and securities held by the Paying Agent for the making of payments in
respect of the Securities and shall notify the Trustee of any default by the Company in making any such payment. At any time during the continuance of any default by the Company in making any payments in respect of the Securities, the Paying Agent
shall, upon the written request of the Trustee, forthwith pay to the Trustee all money and securities so held in trust. If the Company, a Subsidiary or an Affiliate of either of them acts as Paying Agent, it shall segregate the money and securities
held by it as Paying Agent and hold it as a separate trust fund. The Company at any time may require a Paying Agent to pay all money and securities held by it to the Trustee and to account for any money and securities disbursed by it. Upon doing so,
the Paying Agent shall have no further liability for the money and securities. 
  
 Section 2.05. Securityholder Lists. The Trustee shall preserve in as current a form as is reasonably practicable the most recent list available to it of the names and addresses of Securityholders. If the
Trustee is not the Registrar, the Company shall furnish or cause to be furnished to the Trustee (i) at least semiannually on May 15 and November 15 a list of the names and addresses of Securityholders dated within 15 days of the date on which the
list is furnished and (ii) at such other times as the Trustee may request in writing a list, in such form and as of such date as the Trustee may reasonably require, of the names and addresses of Securityholders. 
  
 Section 2.06. Transfer and Exchange. Upon surrender for registration
of transfer of any Security, together with a written instrument of transfer reasonably satisfactory to the Trustee duly executed by the Securityholder or such Securityholder’s attorney duly authorized in writing, at the office or agency of the
Company designated as Registrar or co-registrar pursuant to Section 2.03 or at the office or agency referred to in Section 4.05, the Company shall execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, in the name of the designated transferee or
transferees, one or more new Securities of any authorized denomination or denominations, of a like aggregate Contingent Principal Amount. The Company shall not charge a service charge for any registration of transfer or exchange, but the Company may
require payment of a sum sufficient to pay all taxes, assessments or other governmental charges that may be imposed in connection with the transfer or exchange of the Securities from the Securityholder requesting such transfer or exchange (other
than any exchange of a temporary Security for a definitive Security not involving any change in ownership). 
  

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 At the option of the Holder, Securities may be exchanged for other Securities of any authorized
denomination or denominations, of a like aggregate Contingent Principal Amount, upon surrender of the Securities to be exchanged, together with a written instrument of transfer reasonably satisfactory to the Registrar duly executed by the
Securityholder or such Securityholder’s attorney duly authorized in writing, at such office or agency. Whenever any Securities are so surrendered for exchange, the Company shall execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, the
Securities which the Holder making the exchange is entitled to receive. 
  
 The Company shall not be required to make, and the Registrar need not register, transfers or exchanges of (a) Securities selected for redemption (except, in the case of Securities to be redeemed in part, the portion thereof not to be
redeemed), (b) any Securities in respect of which a Purchase Notice or a Change in Control Purchase Notice has been given and not withdrawn by the Holder thereof in accordance with the terms of this Indenture (except, in the case of Securities to be
purchased in part, the portion thereof not to be purchased) or (c) any Securities for a period of 15 days before the mailing of a notice of redemption. 
  
 Notwithstanding any provision to the contrary herein, so long as a global Security remains outstanding and is held by or on behalf of the Depositary,
transfers of a global Security, in whole or in part, shall be made only in accordance with Section 2.11 and this Section 2.06. Transfers of a global Security shall be limited to transfers of such global Security in whole, or in part, to nominees of
the Depositary or to a successor of the Depositary or such successor’s nominee. 
  
 Section 2.07. Replacement Securities. If (a) any mutilated Security is surrendered to the Company or the Trustee, or (b) the Company and the Trustee receive evidence to their satisfaction of the destruction,
loss or theft of any Security, and there is delivered to the Company and the Trustee such security or indemnity as may be required by them to save each of them harmless, then, in the absence of notice to the Company or the Trustee that such Security
has been acquired by a bona fide purchaser, the Company shall execute, and upon its written request the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, in exchange for any such mutilated Security or in lieu of any such destroyed, lost or
stolen Security, a new Security of like tenor and Contingent Principal Amount, bearing a number not contemporaneously outstanding. 
  
 In case any such mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Security has become or is about to become due and payable, or is about to be purchased by the
Company pursuant to Article 3 hereof, the Company in its discretion may, instead of issuing a new Security, pay or purchase such Security, as the case may be. 
  

Upon the issuance of any new Securities under this Section, the Company may require the payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other
governmental charge that may be imposed in relation thereto and any other expenses (including the fees and expenses of the Trustee) in connection therewith. 
  

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 Every new Security issued pursuant to this Section in lieu of any mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen
Security shall constitute an original additional contractual obligation of the Company, whether or not the destroyed, lost or stolen Security shall be at any time enforceable by anyone, and shall be entitled to all benefits of this Indenture equally
and proportionately with any and all other Securities duly issued hereunder. 
  
 The provisions of this Section are exclusive and shall preclude (to the extent lawful) all other rights and remedies with respect to the replacement or payment of mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Securities.

  
 Section 2.08. Outstanding Securities; Determinations of
Holders’ Action. Securities outstanding at any time are all the Securities authenticated by the Trustee except for those cancelled by it, those delivered to it for cancellation, mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Securities for which the
Trustee has authenticated and delivered a new Security in lieu therefor pursuant to Section 2.07, those paid pursuant to Section 2.07, and those described in this Section 2.08 as not outstanding. A Security does not cease to be outstanding because
the Company or an Affiliate thereof holds the Security; provided, however, that in determining whether the Holders of the requisite Principal Amount of Securities have given or concurred in any request, demand, authorization,
direction, notice, consent or waiver hereunder, Securities beneficially owned by the Company or any other obligor upon the Securities or any Affiliate of the Company or such other obligor, other than Securities purchased in connection with the
distribution or trading thereof, shall be disregarded and deemed not to be outstanding, except that, in determining whether the Trustee shall be protected in relying upon any such request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent or waiver,
only Securities which the Trustee knows to be so owned shall be so disregarded. Subject to the foregoing, only Securities outstanding at the time of such determination shall be considered in any such determination (including, without limitation,
determinations pursuant to Articles 6 and 9). 
  
 If a Security is
replaced pursuant to Section 2.07, it ceases to be outstanding unless the Trustee receives proof reasonably satisfactory to it that the replaced Security is held by a bona fide purchaser. 
  
 If the Paying Agent holds, in accordance with this Indenture, on a Redemption Date, or on the Business Day following a
Purchase Date, or on the Business Day following a Change in Control Purchase Date, or at Stated Maturity, money or, if permitted by the terms hereof, securities sufficient to pay the Securities payable on that date, then on and after that date such
Securities shall cease to be outstanding and the Contingent Principal Amount of the Securities, will cease to increase, and contingent interest (if any) on such Securities shall cease to accrue and all other rights of the Holder shall terminate
(other than the right to receive the applicable Redemption Price, Purchase Price or Change in Control Purchase Price, as the case may be, upon delivery of the Security in accordance with the terms of this Indenture); provided, that if such
Securities are to be redeemed, notice of such redemption has been duly given pursuant to this Indenture or provision therefor satisfactory to the Trustee has been made. 
  

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 If a Security is converted in accordance with Article 11, then from and after the Conversion Date such
Security shall cease to be outstanding and the Contingent Principal Amount of the Securities, will cease to increase, and contingent interest (if any) shall cease to accrue on such Security. 
  
 Section 2.09. Temporary Securities. Pending the preparation of
definitive Securities, the Company may execute, and upon Company Order the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, temporary Securities which are printed, lithographed, typewritten, mimeographed or otherwise produced, in any authorized denomination,
substantially of the tenor of the definitive Securities in lieu of which they are issued and with such appropriate insertions, omissions, substitutions and other variations as the Officers executing such Securities may determine, as conclusively
evidenced by their execution of such Securities. 
  
 If temporary
Securities are issued, the Company will cause definitive Securities to be prepared without unreasonable delay. After the preparation of definitive Securities, the temporary Securities shall be exchangeable for definitive Securities upon surrender of
the temporary Securities at the office or agency of the Company designated for such purpose pursuant to Section 2.03 or 4.05, without charge to the Holder. Upon surrender for cancellation of any one or more temporary Securities the Company shall
execute and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver in exchange therefor a like Contingent Principal Amount of definitive Securities of authorized denominations. Until so exchanged the temporary Securities shall in all respects be entitled to the
same benefits under this Indenture as definitive Securities. 
  
 Section 2.10. Cancellation. All Securities surrendered for payment, redemption or purchase by the Company pursuant to Article 3, conversion pursuant to Article 11, registration of transfer or exchange shall, if surrendered to any
person other than the Trustee, be delivered to the Trustee and shall be promptly cancelled by it. The Company may at any time deliver to the Trustee for cancellation any Securities previously authenticated and delivered hereunder which the Company
may have acquired in any manner whatsoever, and all Securities so delivered shall be promptly cancelled by the Trustee. No Securities shall be authenticated in lieu of or in exchange for any Securities cancelled as provided in this Section, except
as expressly permitted by this Indenture. All cancelled Securities held by the Trustee shall be disposed of by the Trustee in accordance with its standard procedures unless the Company directs by Company Order that the Trustee deliver cancelled
Securities to the Company. 
  
 Section 2.11. Global
Securities. 
  
 (a) Transfer and Exchange
of Global Securities. A Global Security deposited with the Depositary pursuant to Section 2.01 shall be transferred to the beneficial owners thereof only if such transfer complies with Section 2.06 and (i) the Depositary notifies the Company
that it is unwilling or unable to continue as depositary for such Global Security or if at any time ceases to be a “clearing agency” registered under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), and a
successor depositary is not appointed by the Company within 60 days after such notice, or (ii) an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing with respect to the Securities or (iii) the Company 

  

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executes and delivers to the Trustee a Company Order to the effect that the global Securities shall be exchangeable. In any case, the Company will promptly
make available to the Trustee a reasonable supply of Securities in definitive, fully registered form without interest coupons in accordance with the provisions of this Article 2. 
  
 Any Global Security that is transferable to the beneficial owners thereof pursuant to this Section 2.11
shall be surrendered by the Depositary to the Trustee located in the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York, to be so transferred, in definitive form, in whole or from time to time in part, in denominations of $1,000 Original Principal Amount
and integral multiples of $1,000 Original Principal Amount, without charge, and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, upon such transfer of each portion of such Global Security, an equal aggregate Original Principal Amount of Securities of
authorized denominations. Any portion of a Global Security transferred pursuant to this Section 2.11 shall be executed, authenticated and delivered only in the denominations specified in the form of Security attached as Exhibit A hereto and
registered in such names as the Depositary shall direct. 
  
 Members of, or participants in, the Depositary (“Agent Members”) shall have no rights under this Indenture with respect to any Global Security held on their behalf by the Depositary or under the
Global Security, and the Depositary may be treated by the Company, the Trustee and any agent of the Company or the Trustee as the absolute owner of such Global Security for all purposes whatsoever. Notwithstanding the foregoing, nothing herein shall
(A) prevent the Company, the Trustee or any agent of the Company or the Trustee from giving effect to any written certification, proxy or other authorization furnished by the Depositary or (B) impair, as between the Depositary and its Agent Members,
the operation of customary practices governing the exercise of the rights of a holder of any Security. 
  
 Subject to the provisions of this Section 2.11(a), the Holder may grant proxies and otherwise authorize any Person, including Agent
Members and Persons that may hold interests through Agent Members, to take any action which a Holder is entitled to take under this Indenture or the Securities. 
  
 (b) Transfer and Exchange of Securities. Subject to the provisions of Section 2.11(a), when
Securities are presented by a Holder to the Registrar with a request: 
  
 (1) to register the transfer of the Securities; or 
  
 (2) to exchange such Securities for an equal Original Principal Amount of Securities of other authorized denominations, 
  
 the Registrar shall register the transfer or make the exchange as requested; provided,
however, that the Securities presented or surrendered for register of transfer or exchange shall be duly endorsed or accompanied by a written instruction of transfer in form satisfactory to the Registrar duly executed by such Holder or by
such Holder’s attorney, duly authorized in writing. 
  

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 Section 2.12. CUSIP Numbers. The Company in issuing the Securities may use “CUSIP”
numbers (if then generally in use), and, if so, the Trustee shall use “CUSIP” numbers in notices of redemption as a convenience to Holders; provided that any such notice may state that no representation is made as to the correctness
of such numbers either as printed on the Securities or as contained in any notice of a redemption and that reliance may be placed only on the other identification numbers printed on the Securities, and any such redemption shall not be affected by
any defect in or omission of such numbers. The Company will promptly notify the Trustee of any change in the CUSIP numbers. 
  
 ARTICLE III 
  
 REDEMPTION AND PURCHASES 
  
 Section 3.01. Right to Redeem; Notices to Trustee. 
  
 The Company, at its option, may redeem the Securities in accordance with the provisions of paragraphs 6 and 8 of the Securities. If the Company elects to redeem Securities pursuant to paragraph 6 of the Securities, it
shall notify the Trustee in writing of the Redemption Date, the Original Principal Amount of Securities to be redeemed and the Redemption Price. 
  
 The Company shall give the notice to the Trustee provided for in this Section 3.01 by a Company Order at least 60 days before the Redemption Date (unless
a shorter notice shall be satisfactory to the Trustee). If fewer than all the Securities are to be redeemed, the record date relating to such redemption shall be selected by the Company and given to the Trustee, which record date shall not be less
than ten days after the date of notice to the Trustee. 
  
 Section
3.02. Selection of Securities to Be Redeemed. 
  
 If less
than all the Securities are to be redeemed, the Trustee shall select the Securities to be redeemed pro rata based on ownership thereof or by lot or by any other method the Trustee considers fair and appropriate (so long as such method is not
prohibited by the rules of any stock exchange on which the Securities are then listed). The Trustee shall make the selection at least 30 days but not more than 60 days before the Redemption Date from outstanding Securities not previously called for
redemption. The Trustee may select for redemption portions of the Original Principal Amount of Securities that have denominations larger than $1,000. 
  
 Securities and any portions thereof that the Trustee selects shall be in Original Principal Amounts of $1,000 or an integral multiple of $1,000.
Provisions of this Indenture that apply to Securities called for redemption also apply to portions of Securities called for redemption. The Trustee shall notify the Company promptly of the Securities or portions of Securities to be redeemed.

  
 If any Security selected for partial redemption is converted
in part before termination of the conversion right with respect to the portion of the Security so selected, the converted portion of such Security shall be deemed (so far as may be) to be the portion selected for redemption. 

  

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Securities which have been converted during a selection of Securities to be redeemed may be treated by the Trustee as outstanding for the purpose of such
selection. 
  
 Nothing in this Section 3.02 shall affect the right
of any Holder to convert any Security pursuant to Article 11 before the termination of the conversion right with respect thereto. 
  
 Section 3.03. Notice of Redemption. 
  
 At least 30 days but not more than 60 days before a Redemption Date, the Company shall give notice of redemption to each Holder of Securities to be
redeemed in the manner provided in Section 13.02. 
  
 The notice
shall identify the Securities to be redeemed and shall state: 
  
 (a) the Redemption Date; 
  
 (b) the Redemption Price; 
  
 (c) the Conversion Rate; 
  
 (d) the name and address of the Paying Agent and Conversion Agent and of the office or agency referred to in Section 4.05; 
  
 (e) that Securities called for redemption may be converted at any time before the close of business on the second Business Day immediately
preceding the Redemption Date, even if not otherwise convertible at such time; 
  
 (f) that Holders who want to convert Securities must satisfy the requirements set forth in paragraph 9 of the Securities; 
  
 (g) that Securities called for redemption must be
surrendered to the Paying Agent or at the office or agency referred to in Section 4.05 to collect the Redemption Price; 
  
 (h) if fewer than all the outstanding Securities are to be redeemed, the certificate numbers and Original Principal Amounts of the
particular Securities to be redeemed; 
  
 (i)
that, unless the Company defaults in making payment of such Redemption Price on Securities called for redemption, the Contingent Principal Amount will cease to increase and contingent interest (if any) will cease to accrue on and after the
Redemption Date; and 
  
 (j) the CUSIP number of
the Securities. 
  

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 At the Company’s request, the Trustee shall give the notice of redemption in the Company’s name
and at the Company’s expense, provided that the Company makes such request at least 15 days (unless a shorter period shall be acceptable to the Trustee) prior to the date such notice of redemption must be mailed. 
  
 Section 3.04. Effect of Notice of Redemption. Once notice of
redemption is given, Securities called for redemption become due and payable on the Redemption Date and at the Redemption Price stated in the notice except for Securities which are converted in accordance with the terms of this Indenture. Upon
surrender to the Paying Agent, such Securities shall be paid at the Redemption Price stated in the notice. 
  
 Section 3.05. Deposit of Redemption Price. Prior to 10:00 a.m. (New York City time), on the Redemption Date, the Company shall deposit with the
Paying Agent (or if the Company or a Subsidiary of the Company or an Affiliate of any of them is the Paying Agent, shall segregate and hold in trust) money sufficient to pay the Redemption Price of all Securities to be redeemed on that date other
than Securities or portions of Securities called for redemption which on or prior thereto have been delivered by the Company to the Trustee for cancellation or have been converted. The Paying Agent shall as promptly as practicable return to the
Company any money not required for that purpose because of conversion of Securities pursuant to Article 11. If such money is then held by the Company or a Subsidiary or an Affiliate of the Company in trust and is not required for such purpose it
shall be discharged from such trust. 
  
 Section 3.06.
Securities Redeemed in Part. Upon surrender of a Security that is redeemed in part, the Company shall execute and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver to the Holder a new Security in an authorized denomination equal in Original
Principal Amount to the unredeemed portion of the Security surrendered. 
  
 Section 3.07. [Reserved]. 
  
 Section 3.08.
Purchase of Securities at the Option of the Holder. (a) General. If a Holder exercises its right to require the Company to repurchase the Securities, the Securities shall be purchased by the Company on the applicable Purchase Date, at
a purchase price equal to the Contingent Principal Amount of the Securities on the applicable Purchase Date, at the option of the Holder thereof, upon: 
  
 (1) delivery to the Paying Agent, by the Holder, of a written notice of purchase (a “Purchase Notice”) at any time from the
opening of business on the date that is at least 20 Business Days prior to a Purchase Date until the close of business on the Business Day immediately preceding such Purchase Date stating: 
  
 (A) the certificate number of the Security which the Holder
will deliver to be purchased, 
  

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 (B) the portion of the Original Principal Amount of the Security which the Holder will
deliver to be purchased, which portion must be in an Original Principal Amount of $1,000 or an integral multiple thereof, and 
  
 (C) that such Security shall be purchased as of the Purchase Date pursuant to the terms and conditions specified in the Securities; and

  
 (2) delivery of such Security to the Paying
Agent prior to, on or after the Purchase Date (together with all necessary endorsements) at the offices of the Paying Agent, such delivery being a condition to receipt by the Holder of the Purchase Price therefor; provided, however,
that such Purchase Price shall be so paid pursuant to this Section 3.08 only if the Security so delivered to the Paying Agent shall conform in all respects to the description thereof in the related Purchase Notice, as determined by the Company.

  
 The Company shall purchase from the Holder thereof, pursuant
to this Section 3.08, a portion of a Security if the Original Principal Amount of such portion is $1,000 or an integral multiple of $1,000. Provisions of this Indenture that apply to the purchase of all of a Security also apply to the purchase of
such portion of such Security. 
  
 Any purchase by the Company
contemplated pursuant to the provisions of this Section 3.08 shall be consummated by the delivery of the consideration to be received by the Holder as promptly as practicable following the later of the Purchase Date and the time of delivery of the
Security. 
  
 Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, any
Holder delivering to the Paying Agent or the office or agency referred to in Section 4.05 the Purchase Notice contemplated by this Section 3.08(a) shall have the right to withdraw such Purchase Notice at any time prior to the close of business on
the Purchase Date by delivery of a written notice of withdrawal to the Paying Agent in accordance with Section 3.10. 
  
 The Paying Agent shall promptly notify the Company of the receipt by it of any Purchase Notice or written notice of withdrawal thereof. 
  
 (b) Purchase with Cash. On each Purchase Date the
Purchase Price of Securities in respect of which a Purchase Notice pursuant to Section 3.08(a) has been given, or a specified percentage thereof, will be paid by the Company with cash equal to the aggregate Purchase Price of such Securities.

  
 (c) Company Notice. The Company shall
send a notice (the “Company Notice”) to the Holders (and to beneficial owners as required by applicable law), in the manner provided in Section 13.02, not less than 20 Business Days prior to the applicable Purchase Date (the
“Company Notice Date”) which shall include a form of Purchase Notice to be completed by a Securityholder that wishes to exercise its option to have the Company repurchase the Securities and shall state: 
  
 (i) the Purchase Price, the Conversion Rate and, to the
extent known at the time of such notice, the amount of contingent interest, if any, that will be accrued and payable with respect to the Securities as of the Purchase Date; 
  

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 (ii) the name and address of the Paying Agent and the Conversion Agent and of the office
or agency referred to in Section 4.05; 
  
 (iii)
that Securities as to which a Purchase Notice has been given may be converted pursuant to Article 11 hereof only if any applicable Purchase Notice has been withdrawn in accordance with the terms of this Indenture; 
  
 (iv) that Securities must be surrendered to the Paying Agent
or to the office or agency referred to in Section 4.05 to collect payment of the Purchase Price; 
  
 (v) that the Purchase Price for any Security as to which a Purchase Notice has been given and not withdrawn will be paid as promptly as
practicable following the later of the Purchase Date and the time of surrender of such Security as described in (iv); 
  
 (vi) the procedures the Holder must follow to exercise rights under Section 3.08 and a brief description of those rights; 
  
 (vii) briefly, the conversion rights of the Securities and
that Holders who want to convert Securities must satisfy the requirements set forth in paragraph 9 of the Securities; 
  
 (viii) the procedures for withdrawing a Purchase Notice (including, without limitation, for a conditional withdrawal pursuant to the terms
of Section 3.08(a)(1)(D) or Section 3.10); 
  
 (ix) that, unless the Company defaults in making payment of such Purchase Price on Securities surrendered for purchase, the Contingent Principal Amount will cease to increase and contingent interest, if any, will cease to accrue on and
after the Purchase Date; and 
  
 (x) the CUSIP
number of the Securities. 
  
 At the Company’s request and
upon being provided with a copy of such Company Notice, the Trustee shall give such Company Notice in the Company’s name and at the Company’s expense, provided that the Company makes such request at least 15 days (unless a shorter period
shall be acceptable to the Trustee) prior to the date such Company Notice must be mailed; and provided, further, that, in all cases, the text of such Company Notice shall be prepared by the Company. 
  

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 (d) Procedure upon Purchase. On or before the Purchase Date, the Company shall
deposit cash, at the time and in the manner as provided in Section 3.11, sufficient to pay the aggregate Purchase Price of all Securities to be purchased pursuant to this Section 3.08. 
  
 (e) Taxes. Nothing herein shall preclude the Company from withholding or directing the withholding of
any tax required by law or regulations. 
  
 Section 3.09.
Purchase of Securities at Option of the Holder upon Change in Control. 
  
 (a) If on or prior to March 13, 2007 there shall have occurred a Change in Control, Securities shall be purchased by the Company, at the option of the Holder thereof, at a purchase price specified in paragraph 7 of
the Securities (the “Change in Control Purchase Price”), as of the date that is no later than 35 Business Days after the occurrence of the Change in Control (the “Change in Control Purchase Date”), subject to satisfaction by or
on behalf of the Holder of the requirements set forth in Section 3.09(c). 
  
 A “Change in Control” shall be deemed to have occurred at such time as either of the following events shall occur: 
  
 (1) any person, including any Affiliate or Associate of the Company, other than the Company, its Subsidiaries, or their employee benefit
plans, files a Schedule 13D or Schedule TO (or any successor schedule, form or report under the Exchange Act) disclosing that such person has become the beneficial owner of 50% or more of the aggregate voting power of the Common Stock and other
capital stock with equivalent voting rights, or other capital stock into which the Common Stock is reclassified or changed, provided, however, that a person shall not be deemed a beneficial owner of, or to own beneficially, (A) any
securities tendered pursuant to a tender or exchange offer made by or on behalf of such person or any of such person’s Affiliates or Associates until such tendered securities are accepted for purchase or exchange thereunder, or (B) any
securities if such beneficial ownership (1) arises solely as a result of a revocable proxy delivered in response to a proxy or consent solicitation made pursuant to the applicable rules and regulations under the Exchange Act, and (2) is not also
then reportable on Schedule 13D (or any successor schedule) under the Exchange Act; or 
  
 (2) there shall be consummated any share exchange, consolidation or merger of the Company pursuant to which the Common Stock would be
converted into cash, securities or other property in which the holders of the Common Stock and other capital stock with equivalent voting rights immediately prior to such share exchange, consolidation or merger, have, directly or indirectly, less
than a majority of the total voting power in the aggregate of all classes of capital stock of the continuing and surviving corporation immediately after such share exchange, consolidation or merger of the Company. 
  

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 Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this Section 3.09, a Change in Control shall not be deemed to have occurred
by virtue of the Company, any Subsidiary, any employee stock ownership plan or any other employee benefit plan of the Company or any Subsidiary, or any person holding Common Stock for or pursuant to the terms of any such employee benefit plan,
filing or becoming obligated to file a report under or in response to Schedule 13D or Schedule TO (or any successor schedule, form or report) under the Exchange Act disclosing beneficial ownership by it of shares of Common Stock, whether in excess
of 50% or otherwise. 
  
 “Associate” shall have the
meaning ascribed to such term in Rule 12b-2 of the General Rules and Regulations under the Exchange Act, as in effect on the date hereof. 
  
 (b) Within 15 Business Days after the occurrence of a Change in Control, the Company shall mail a written notice of Change in Control by
first-class mail to the Trustee and to each Holder (and to beneficial owners as required by applicable law). The notice shall include a form of Change in Control Purchase Notice to be completed by the Securityholder and shall state: 
  
 (1) briefly, the events causing a Change in Control and the
date of such Change in Control; 
  
 (2) the date
by which the Change in Control Purchase Notice pursuant to this Section 3.09 must be given; 
  
 (3) the Change in Control Purchase Date; 
  
 (4) the Change in Control Purchase Price; 
  
 (5) the name and address of the Paying Agent and the Conversion Agent and of the office or agency referred to in Section 4.05; 

 
 (6) the Conversion Rate and any adjustments thereto;

  
 (7) that Securities as to which a Change in
Control Purchase Notice is given by the Holder may be converted, if otherwise convertible, only if the Change in Control Purchase Notice has been withdrawn in accordance with the terms of this Indenture; 
  
 (8) that Securities must be surrendered to the Paying Agent
or the office or agency referred to in Section 4.05 to collect payment of the Change in Control Purchase Price; 
  
 (9) that the Change in Control Purchase Price for any Security as to which a Change in Control Purchase Notice has been duly given and not
withdrawn will be paid as promptly as practicable following the later of the Change in Control Purchase Date and the time of surrender of such Security as described in clause (8), above; 
  

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 (10) the procedures the Holder must follow to exercise rights under this Section 3.09 and
a brief description of those rights; 
  
 (11)
briefly, the conversion rights of the Securities (including whether the Securities are then currently convertible); 
  
 (12) the procedures for withdrawing a Change in Control Purchase Notice; 
  
 (13) that, unless the Company defaults in making payment of such Change in Control Purchase Price on
Securities surrendered for purchase, the Contingent Principal Amount will cease to increase and contingent interest, if any, will cease to accrue on and after the Change in Control Purchase Date; and 
  
 (14) the CUSIP number of the Securities. 
  
 (c) A Holder may exercise its rights specified in Section
3.09(a) upon delivery of a written notice of purchase (a “Change in Control Purchase Notice”) to the Paying Agent or to the office or agency referred to in Section 4.05 at any time prior to the close of business on the Change in Control
Purchase Date, stating: 
  
 (1) the certificate
number of the Security which the Holder will deliver to be purchased; 
  
 (2) the portion of the Original Principal Amount of the Securities which the Holder will deliver to be purchased, which portion must be $1,000 or an integral multiple thereof; and 
  
 (3) that such Security shall be purchased pursuant to the
terms and conditions specified in the Securities. 
  
 The delivery
of such Security to the Paying Agent prior to, on or after the Change in Control Purchase Date (together with all necessary endorsements) at the offices of the Paying Agent or to the office or agency referred to in Section 4.05 shall be a condition
to the receipt by the Holder of the Change in Control Purchase Price therefor; provided, however, that such Change in Control Purchase Price shall be so paid pursuant to this Section 3.09 only if the Security so delivered to the Paying
Agent or such office or agency shall conform in all respects to the description thereof set forth in the related Change in Control Purchase Notice and such Change in Control Purchase Notice shall not be validly withdrawn by the Holder. 

 
 The Company shall purchase from the Holder thereof, pursuant to this
Section 3.09, a portion of a Security if the Original Principal Amount of such portion is $1,000 or an integral multiple thereof. Provisions of this Indenture that apply to the purchase of all of a Security also apply to the purchase of such portion
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 Any purchase by the Company contemplated pursuant to the provisions of this Section 3.09 shall be
consummated by the delivery of the consideration to be received by the Holder as promptly as practicable following the later of the Change in Control Purchase Date and the time of delivery of the Security to the Paying Agent or to the office or
agency referred to in Section 4.05 in accordance with this Section 3.09. 
  
 Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, any Holder delivering to the Paying Agent or to the office or agency referred to in Section 4.05 the Change in Control Purchase Notice contemplated by this Section
3.09(c) shall have the right to withdraw such Change in Control Purchase Notice at any time prior to the close of business on the Change in Control Purchase Date by delivery of a written notice of withdrawal to the Paying Agent or to the office or
agency referred to in Section 4.05 in accordance with Section 3.10. 
  
 The Paying Agent shall promptly notify the Company of the receipt by it of any Change in Control Purchase Notice or written withdrawal thereof. 
  
 Section 3.10. Effect of Purchase Notice or Change in Control Purchase Notice. Upon receipt by the Paying Agent of the Purchase Notice or Change in
Control Purchase Notice specified in Section 3.08(a) or Section 3.09(c), as applicable, the Holder of the Security in respect of which such Purchase Notice or Change in Control Purchase Notice, as the case may be, was given shall (unless such
Purchase Notice or Change in Control Purchase Notice is withdrawn as specified in the following two paragraphs) thereafter be entitled to receive solely the Purchase Price or Change in Control Purchase Price, as the case may be, with respect to such
Security to the Purchase Date or Change in Control Purchase Date, as the case may be. Such Purchase Price or Change in Control Purchase Price shall be paid to such Holder, subject to receipts of funds by the Paying Agent, as promptly as practicable
following the later of (x) the Purchase Date or the Change in Control Purchase Date, as the case may be, with respect to such Security (provided the conditions in Section 3.08(a) or Section 3.09(c), as applicable, have been satisfied) and (y) the
time of delivery of such Security to the Paying Agent by the Holder thereof in the manner required by Section 3.08(a) or Section 3.09(c), as applicable. Securities in respect of which a Purchase Notice or Change in Control Purchase Notice, as the
case may be, has been given by the Holder thereof may not be converted pursuant to Article 11 hereof on or after the date of the delivery of such Purchase Notice or Change in Control Purchase Notice, as the case may be, unless such Purchase Notice
or Change in Control Purchase Notice, as the case may be, has first been validly withdrawn as specified in the following two paragraphs. 
  
 A Purchase Notice or Change in Control Purchase Notice, as the case may be, may be withdrawn by means of a written notice of withdrawal delivered to the
office of the Paying Agent or to the office or agency referred to in Section 4.05 in accordance with the Purchase Notice or Change in Control Purchase Notice, as the case may be, at any time prior to the close of business on the Purchase Date or the
Change in Control Purchase Date, as the case may be, specifying: 
  
 (1) the Original Principal Amount of the Securities with respect to which such notice of withdrawal is being submitted, 
  

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 (2) the certificate number of the Securities in respect of which such notice of
withdrawal is being submitted, and 
  
 (3) the
Original Principal Amount, if any, of any such Securities which remain subject to the original Purchase Notice or Change in Control Purchase Notice, as the case may be, and which has been or will be delivered for purchase by the Company. 

 
 There shall be no purchase of any Securities pursuant to Section 3.08 or
3.09 if there has occurred (prior to, on or after, as the case may be, the giving, by the Holders of such Securities, of the required Purchase Notice or Change in Control Purchase Notice, as the case may be) and is continuing an Event of Default
(other than a default in the payment of the Purchase Price or Change in Control Purchase Price, as the case may be, with respect to such Securities). The Paying Agent will promptly return to the respective Holders thereof any Securities (x) with
respect to which a Purchase Notice or Change in Control Purchase Notice, as the case may be, has been withdrawn in compliance with this Indenture, or (y) held by it during the continuance of an Event of Default (other than a default in the payment
of the Purchase Price or Change in Control Purchase Price, as the case may be, with respect to such Securities) in which case, upon such return, the Purchase Notice or Change in Control Purchase Notice with respect thereto shall be deemed to have
been withdrawn. 
  
 Section 3.11. Deposit of Purchase Price or
Change in Control Purchase Price. Prior to 10:00 a.m. New York City time on the Business Day following the Purchase Date or the Change in Control Purchase Date, as the case may be, the Company shall deposit with the Trustee or with the Paying
Agent (or, if the Company or a Subsidiary or an Affiliate of either of them is acting as the Paying Agent, shall segregate and hold in trust as provided in Section 2.04) an amount of money (in immediately available funds if deposited on such
Business Day) sufficient to pay the aggregate Purchase Price or Change in Control Purchase Price, as the case may be, of all the Securities or portions thereof which are to be purchased as of the Purchase Date or Change in Control Purchase Date, as
the case may be. After the Purchase Date or the Change in Control Purchase Date, the Contingent Principal Amount shall cease to increase, Tax Original Issue Discount, and contingent interest, if any, shall cease to accrue on such Security, whether
or not such Security is delivered to the Paying Agent. 
  
 Section
3.12. Securities Purchased in Part. Any Security which is to be purchased only in part shall be surrendered at the office of the Paying Agent or to the office or agency referred to in Section 4.05 (with, if the Company or the Trustee so
requires, due endorsement by, or a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Company and the Trustee duly executed by, the Holder thereof or such Holder’s attorney duly authorized in writing) and the Company shall execute and
the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver to the Holder of such Security, without service charge, a new Security or Securities, of any authorized denomination as requested by such Holder in aggregate Original Principal Amount equal to, and in
exchange for, the portion of the Original Principal Amount of the Security so surrendered which is not purchased. 
  

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 Section 3.13. Covenant to Comply With Securities Laws Upon Purchase of Securities. In connection
with any offer to purchase or purchase of Securities under Section 3.08 or 3.09 hereof (provided that such offer or purchase constitutes an “issuer tender offer” for purposes of Rule 13e-4 (which term, as used herein, includes any
successor provision thereto) under the Exchange Act at the time of such offer or purchase), the Company shall (i) comply with Rule 13e-4 and Rule 14e-1 under the Exchange Act and any other then applicable tender offer rules, (ii) file the related
Schedule TO (or any successor schedule, form or report) under the Exchange Act, and (iii) otherwise comply with all Federal and state securities laws so as to permit the rights and obligations under Sections 3.08 and 3.09 to be exercised in the time
and in the manner specified in Sections 3.08 and 3.09. 
  
 Section
3.14. Repayment to the Company. The Trustee and the Paying Agent shall return to the Company any cash that remains unclaimed as provided in paragraph 14 of the Securities, together with interest or dividends, if any, thereon (subject to the
provisions of Section 7.01(f)), held by them for the payment of the Purchase Price or Change in Control Purchase Price, as the case may be; provided, however, that to the extent that the aggregate amount of cash deposited by the
Company pursuant to Section 3.11 exceeds the aggregate Purchase Price or Change in Control Purchase Price, as the case may be, of the Securities or portions thereof which the Company is obligated to purchase as of the Purchase Date or Change in
Control Purchase Date, as the case may be, then as promptly as practicable after the Business Day following the Purchase Date or Change in Control Purchase Date, as the case may be, the Trustee shall return any such excess to the Company together
with interest or dividends, if any, thereon (subject to the provisions of Section 7.01(f)). 
  
 Notwithstanding anything in this Indenture to the contrary, all moneys delivered to the Trustee (in any capacity) for payment to Holders shall remain uninvested unless otherwise agreed to in writing between the
Company and the Trustee.” 
  
 ARTICLE IV 
  
 COVENANTS 
  
 Section 4.01. Payment of Securities. The Company shall promptly make all payments in respect of the Securities on the
dates and in the manner provided in the Securities or pursuant to this Indenture. Original Principal Amount, Contingent Principal Amount, Tax Original Issue Discount, Redemption Price, Purchase Price, Change in Control Purchase Price and contingent
interest, if any, shall be considered paid on the applicable date due if on such date the Trustee or the Paying Agent holds, in accordance with this Indenture, cash or securities, if expressly permitted hereunder, sufficient to pay all such amounts
then due. 
  
 The Company shall, to the extent permitted by law,
pay interest on overdue amounts at the per annum rate of interest set forth in paragraph 1 of the Securities, compounded semi-annually, which interest on overdue amounts (to the extent payment of such interest shall be legally enforceable) shall
accrue from the date such overdue amounts were originally due and payable. 
  

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 Section 4.02. SEC Reports. The Company shall file with the Trustee, within 15 days after it files
such annual and quarterly reports, information, documents and other reports with the SEC, copies of its annual and quarterly reports and of the information, documents and other reports (or copies of such portions of any of the foregoing as the SEC
may by rules and regulations prescribe) which the Company is required to file with the SEC pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act (or any such successor provisions thereto). The Company also shall comply with the other provisions of TIA
Section 314(a), to the extent such provisions are applicable. 
  
 Section 4.03. Compliance Certificate; Notice of Defaults. 
  
 (a) The Company shall deliver to the Trustee within 120 days after the end of each fiscal year of the Company (beginning with the fiscal year ending on December 31, 2001) a certificate of the principal executive
officer, the principal financial officer or the principal accounting officer of the Company stating whether or not, to the knowledge of the signer, the Company has complied with all conditions and covenants on its part contained in this Indenture
and, if the signer has obtained knowledge of any default by the Company in the performance, observance or fulfillment of any such condition or covenant, specifying each such default and the nature thereof. For the purpose of this Section 4.03,
compliance shall be determined without regard to any grace period or requirement of notice provided pursuant to the terms of this Indenture. 
  
 (b) The Company shall file with the Trustee written notice of the occurrence of any Default or Event of Default within five Business Days
of its becoming aware of such Default or Event of Default. 
  
 Section 4.04. Further Instruments and Acts. Upon request of the Trustee, the Company 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 purposes of this Indenture. 
  
 Section 4.05. Maintenance
of Office or Agency. The Company will maintain in the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York, in such location as may be required by the rules of any securities exchange or quotation system on which the Securities may from time to time be
listed, an office or agency where Securities may be presented or surrendered for payment, where Securities may be surrendered for registration of transfer, exchange, purchase, redemption or conversion and where notices and demands to or upon the
Company in respect of the Securities and this Indenture may be served. The office of the Trustee in The City of New York, which office on the date hereof is located at 4 New York Plaza, 15th Floor, New York, New York 10004, shall be such office or
agency for all of the aforesaid purposes unless the Company shall maintain some other office or agency for such purposes and shall give prompt written notice to the Trustee of the location, and any change of location, of such other office or agency.
If at any time the Company shall fail to maintain any such required office or agency or shall fail to furnish the Trustee with the address thereof, such presentations, surrenders, notices and demands may be made or served at the address of the
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 The Company may also from time to time designate one or more other offices or agencies where the
Securities may be presented or surrendered for any or all such purposes and may from time to time rescind such designations; provided, however, that no such designation or rescission shall in any manner relieve the Company of its
obligation to maintain an office or agency in The City of New York, for such purposes. 
  
 Section 4.06. Calculation of Certain Amounts. (a) The Company shall file with the Trustee, within 30 days following the end of each calendar year, a written notice specifying (i) the amount of Tax Original
Issue Discount (including the daily rates and accrual periods) accrued on outstanding Securities as of the end of such year and (ii) such other specific information relating to such Tax Original Issue Discount as may then be relevant under the
Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended from time to time and (b) the Company, promptly after each Yield Determination Date, shall file with the Trustee a written notice specifying the Yield that will be applicable on the next succeeding Yield
Reset Date. 
  
 Section 4.07. Limitation Upon Creation of Liens
on Voting Stock of Certain Subsidiaries. 
  
 The Company will
not, and it will not permit any subsidiary at any time directly or indirectly to, create, assume, incur or permit to exist any indebtedness for borrowed money secured by a pledge, lien or other encumbrance (any pledge, lien or other encumbrance
being hereinafter in this Section referred to as a “lien”) on the Voting Stock of any Subsidiary (other than a Subsidiary which, at the time of incurrence of such secured indebtedness, has a net worth, as determined in accordance with
generally accepted accounting principles, of less than $3,000,000) without making effective provision whereby the outstanding securities (and, if the Company so elects, any other indebtedness ranking on a parity with the Securities), shall be
secured equally and ratably with such secured indebtedness so long as such other indebtedness shall be so secured; provided, however, that the foregoing covenant shall not be applicable to liens for taxes or assessments or
governmental charges or levies not then due and delinquent or the validity of which is being contested in good faith or which are less than $1,000,000 in amount, liens created by or resulting from any litigation or legal proceeding which is
currently being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings or which involve claims of less than $1,000,000, or deposits to secure (or in lieu of) surety, stay, appeal or customs bonds. 
  
 If the Company shall hereafter be required to secure the Securities equally
and ratably with any other indebtedness pursuant to this Section, (i) the Company will promptly deliver to the Trustee an Officers’ Certificate stating that the foregoing covenant has been complied with, and an Opinion of Counsel stating that
in the opinion of such counsel the foregoing covenant has been complied with and that any instruments executed by the Company or any Subsidiary in the performance of the foregoing covenant comply with the requirements of the foregoing covenant and
(ii) the Trustee is hereby authorized to enter into an indenture of agreement supplemental hereto and to take such action, if any, as it may deem advisable to enable it to enforce the rights of the holders of the Securities so secured. 

 

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 Section 4.08. Limitation on Disposition of Voting Stock of, and Merger and Sale of Assets by,
MLPF&S. 
  
 The Company will not: 
  
 (a) sell, transfer or otherwise dispose of any shares of
Voting Stock of MLPF&S or permit MLPF&S to issue, sell, or otherwise dispose of any shares of its Voting Stock, unless, after giving effect to any such transaction, MLPF&S remains a Controlled Subsidiary; or 
  
 (b) permit MLPF&S to 
  
 (1) merge or consolidate, unless the surviving company is a
Controlled Subsidiary; or 
  
 (2) convey or
transfer its properties and assets substantially as an entirety to any Person, except to one or more Controlled Subsidiaries. 
  
 Section 4.09. Waiver of Certain Covenants. 
  
 The Company may omit in any particular instance to comply with any term, provision or condition set forth in Sections 4.07 or 4.08 with respect to the
Securities if before the time for such compliance the Holders of at least a majority in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities shall by Act of such Holders either waive such compliance in such instance or generally waive compliance with such
term, provision or condition, but no such waiver shall extend to or affect such term, provision or condition except to the extent so expressly waived, and, until such waiver shall become effective, the obligations of the Company and the duties of
the Trustee in respect of any such term, provision or condition shall remain in full force and effect. 
  
 ARTICLE V 
  
 SUCCESSOR CORPORATION 
  
 Section 5.01. When
Company May Merge or Transfer Assets. The Company may consolidate with, or sell, lease or convey all or substantially all of its properties and assets to, or merge with or into any other Person, provided that in any such case: 

 
 (a) either the Company shall be the continuing
corporation or the successor Person shall be a Person organized and existing under the laws of the United States or any State thereof and such successor Person shall expressly assume, by an indenture supplemental hereto, executed and delivered to
the Trustee, in form satisfactory to the Trustee, the due and punctual payment of all amounts payable with respect to all the Securities, according to their terms, and the due and punctual performance and observance of all of the covenants,
conditions and obligations to be performed by the Company under the Securities and this Indenture; and 
  

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 (b) immediately after giving effect to such merger or consolidation or such sale, lease
or conveyance, and the assumption contemplated above, the Company or such successor Person shall not be in default in the performance of any such covenant, condition or obligation. 
  
 In the case of any such consolidation, merger, sale, lease or conveyance and upon any such assumption by the successor
Person, such successor Person shall succeed to, and be substituted for, and may exercise every right and power of, the Company under this Indenture with the same effect as if such successor had been named as the Company herein; and thereafter,
except in the case of a lease of its properties and assets substantially as an entirety, the Company shall be relieved of any further obligation under this Indenture and the Securities. Such successor Person thereupon may cause to be signed, and may
issue either in its own name or in the name of the Company, any or all of the Securities issuable hereunder which theretofore shall not have been signed by the Company and delivered to the Trustee; and, upon the order of such successor Person,
instead of the Company, and subject to all the terms, conditions and limitations in this Indenture prescribed, the Trustee shall authenticate and shall deliver any Securities which previously shall have been signed and delivered by the officers of
the Company to the Trustee for authentication, and any Securities which such successor Person thereafter shall cause to be signed and delivered to the Trustee for that purpose. All the Securities so issued shall in all respects have the same legal
rank and benefit under this Indenture as the Securities theretofore or thereafter issued in accordance with the terms of this Indenture as though all of such Securities had been issued at the date of the execution hereof. 
  
 In case of any such consolidation, merger, sale, lease or conveyance, such
changes in phraseology and form (but not in substance) may be made in the Securities thereafter to be issued as may be appropriate. 
  
 The Trustee, subject to Section 7.01, may receive an Officers’ Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel as conclusive evidence that any such
consolidation, merger, sale, lease or conveyance, and any such assumption, complies with the provisions of this Article. 
  
 ARTICLE VI 
  
 DEFAULTS AND REMEDIES 
  
 Section 6.01. Events of Default. An “Event of Default” means any one of the following events: 
  
 (a) a default in the payment of the Contingent Principal Amount, Redemption Price, Purchase Price or Change in Control Purchase Price on
any Security when the same becomes due and payable pursuant to the terms hereof; 
  
 (b) failure of the Company to make any payment of contingent interest when the same becomes due and payable pursuant to the terms of
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 (c) the Company fails to comply with any of its agreements in the Securities or this
Indenture (other than those referred to in clauses (a) or (b) above) upon the receipt of notice of such default from the Trustee or from Holders of not less than 25% in aggregate Original Principal Amount of the Securities then outstanding and such
failure (or the failure to obtain a waiver thereof) continues for 60 days after receipt by the Company of a Notice of Default; 
  
 (d) the Company pursuant to or under or within the meaning of any Bankruptcy Law: 
  
 (1) commences a voluntary case or proceeding; 
  
 (2) consents to the entry of an order for relief against it
in an involuntary case or proceeding or the commencement of any case against it; 
  
 (3) consents to the appointment of a Custodian of it or for any substantial part of its property; 
  
 (4) makes a general assignment for the benefit of its
creditors; 
  
 (5) files a petition in bankruptcy
or answer or consent seeking reorganization or relief; or 
  
 (6) consents to the filing of such petition or the appointment of or taking possession by a Custodian; or 
  
 (e) a court of competent jurisdiction enters an order or decree under any Bankruptcy Law that: 
  
 (1) is for relief against the Company in an involuntary case
or proceeding, or adjudicates the Company insolvent or bankrupt; 
  
 (2) appoints a Custodian of the Company or for any substantial part of its property; or 
  
 (3) orders the winding up or liquidation of the Company and the order or decree remains unstayed and in effect for 60 days. 
  
 “Bankruptcy Law” means Title 11, United States Code, or any similar
Federal or state law for the relief of debtors. 
  
 “Custodian” means any receiver, trustee, assignee, liquidator, custodian or similar official under any Bankruptcy Law. 
  
 Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, a Default is not an Event of Default until the Trustee notifies the Company or the Holders of at least
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Principal Amount of the Securities at the time outstanding notify the Company and the Trustee, of the Default and the Company does not cure such Default (and
such Default is not waived) within the time specified in clause (b) or clause (c) above after actual receipt of such notice. Any such notice must specify the Default, demand that it be remedied and state that such notice is a “Notice of
Default”. 
  
 The Company shall deliver to the Trustee,
within five (5) days after it becomes aware of the occurrence thereof, written notice of any event which with the giving of notice or the lapse of time, or both, would become an Event of Default under clause (b) or clause (c) above, its status and
what action the Company is taking or proposes to take with respect thereto. 
  
 Section 6.02. Acceleration. If an Event of Default (other than an Event of Default specified in Section 6.01(d) or (e)) occurs and is continuing, the Trustee by Notice to the Company or the Holders of at least
25% in aggregate Original Principal Amount of the Securities at the time outstanding by notice to the Company and the Trustee, may declare the Contingent Principal Amount through the date of such declaration, and any accrued and unpaid contingent
interest through the date of such declaration, on all the Securities to be immediately due and payable. Upon such a declaration, such Contingent Principal Amount, and such accrued and unpaid contingent interest, if any, shall be due and payable
immediately. If an Event of Default specified in Section 6.01(d) or (e) occurs and is continuing, the Contingent Principal Amount, and any accrued and unpaid contingent interest, on all the Securities to the date of the occurrence of such Event of
Default shall become and be immediately due and payable without any declaration or other act on the part of the Trustee or any Securityholders. The Holders of a majority in aggregate Original Principal Amount of the Securities at the time
outstanding, by notice to the Trustee (and without notice to any other Securityholder) may rescind an acceleration and its consequences if the rescission would not conflict with any judgment or decree and if all existing Events of Default have been
cured or waived except nonpayment of the Contingent Principal Amount and any accrued and unpaid contingent interest that have become due solely as a result of acceleration and if all amounts due to the Trustee under Section 7.06 have been paid. No
such rescission shall affect any subsequent Default or impair any right consequent thereto. 
  
 Section 6.03. Other Remedies. If an Event of Default occurs and is continuing, the Trustee may pursue any available remedy to collect the payment of the Contingent Principal Amount on the Securities or to
enforce the performance of any provision of the Securities or this Indenture. 
  
 The Trustee may maintain a proceeding even if the Trustee does not possess any of the Securities or does not produce any of the Securities in the proceeding. A delay or omission by the Trustee or any Securityholder in
exercising any right or remedy accruing upon an Event of Default shall not impair the right or remedy or constitute a waiver of, or acquiescence in, the Event of Default. No remedy is exclusive of any other remedy. All available remedies are
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 Section 6.04. Waiver of Past Defaults. The Holders of a majority in aggregate Original Principal
Amount of the Securities at the time outstanding, by notice to the Trustee (and without notice to any other Securityholder), may waive an existing Default and its consequences except (1) an Event of Default described in Section 6.01(a), (2) a
Default in respect of a provision that under Section 9.02 cannot be amended without the consent of each Securityholder affected or (3) a Default which constitutes a failure to convert any Security in accordance with the terms of Article 11. When a
Default is waived, it is deemed cured, but no such waiver shall extend to any subsequent or other Default or impair any consequent right. This Section 6.04 shall be in lieu of Section 316(a)1(B) of the TIA and such Section 316(a)1(B) is hereby
expressly excluded from this Indenture, as permitted by the TIA. 
  
 Section 6.05. Control by Majority. The Holders of a majority in aggregate Original Principal Amount of the Securities at the time outstanding may direct the time, method and place of conducting any proceeding for any remedy available
to the Trustee or of exercising any trust or power conferred on the Trustee. However, the Trustee may refuse to follow any direction that conflicts with law or this Indenture or that the Trustee determines in good faith is unduly prejudicial to the
rights of other Securityholders or would involve the Trustee in personal liability unless the Trustee is offered indemnity satisfactory to it. This Section 6.05 shall be in lieu of Section 316(a)1(A) of the TIA and such Section 316(a)1(A) is hereby
expressly excluded from this Indenture, as permitted by the TIA. 
  
 Section 6.06. Limitation on Suits. A Securityholder may not pursue any remedy with respect to this Indenture or the Securities unless: 
  
 (a) the Holder gives to the Trustee written notice stating that an Event of Default is continuing; 
  
 (b) the Holders of at least 25% in aggregate Original
Principal Amount of the Securities at the time outstanding make a written request to the Trustee to pursue the remedy; 
  
 (c) such Holder or Holders offer to the Trustee security or indemnity satisfactory to the Trustee against any loss, liability or expense;

  
 (d) the Trustee does not comply with the
request within 60 days after receipt of such notice, request and offer of security or indemnity; and 
  
 (e) the Holders of a majority in aggregate Original Principal Amount of the Securities at the time outstanding do not give the Trustee a
direction inconsistent with the request during such 60-day period. 
  
 A Securityholder may not use this Indenture to prejudice the rights of any other Securityholder or to obtain a preference or priority over any other Securityholder. 
  
 Section 6.07. Rights of Holders to Receive Payment. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Indenture, the right
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Principal Amount, Redemption Price, Purchase Price, Change in Control Purchase Price or contingent interest, if any, in respect of the Securities held by
such Holder, on or after the respective due dates expressed in the Securities or any Redemption Date, and to convert the Securities in accordance with Article 11, or to bring suit for the enforcement of any such payment on or after such respective
dates or the right to convert, shall not be impaired or affected adversely without the consent of such Holder. 
  
 Section 6.08. Collection Suit by Trustee. If an Event of Default described in Section 6.01(a) or (b) occurs and is continuing, the Trustee may
recover judgment in its own name and as trustee of an express trust against the Company for the whole amount owing with respect to the Securities and the amounts provided for in Section 7.06. 
  
 Section 6.09. Trustee May File Proofs of Claim. In case of the
pendency of any receivership, insolvency, liquidation, bankruptcy, reorganization, arrangement, adjustment, composition or other judicial proceeding relative to the Company or any other obligor upon the Securities or the property of the Company or
of such other obligor or its creditors, the Trustee (irrespective of whether the Contingent Principal Amount, Redemption Price, Purchase Price, Change in Control Purchase Price or contingent interest, if any, in respect of the Securities shall then
be due and payable as therein expressed or by declaration or otherwise and irrespective of whether the Trustee shall have made any demand on the Company for the payment of any such amount) shall be entitled and empowered, by intervention in such
proceeding or otherwise, 
  
 (a) to file and
prove a claim for the whole amount of the Contingent Principal Amount, Redemption Price, Purchase Price, Change in Control Purchase Price or contingent interest, if any, and to file such other papers or documents as may be necessary or advisable in
order to have the claims of the Trustee (including any claim for the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the Trustee, its agents and counsel or any other amounts due the Trustee under Section 7.06) and of the Holders
allowed in such judicial proceeding, and 
  
 (b)
to collect and receive any moneys or other property payable or deliverable on any such claims and to distribute the same; 
  
 and any custodian, receiver, assignee, trustee, liquidator, sequestrator or similar official in any such judicial proceeding is hereby authorized by each Holder to make
such payments to the Trustee and, in the event that the Trustee shall consent to the making of such payments directly to the Holders, to pay the Trustee any amount due it for the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the
Trustee, its agents and counsel, and any other amounts due the Trustee under Section 7.06. 
  
 Nothing herein contained shall be deemed to authorize the Trustee to authorize or consent to or accept or adopt on behalf of any Holder any plan of reorganization, arrangement, adjustment or composition affecting the
Securities or the rights of any Holder thereof, or to authorize the Trustee to vote in respect of the claim of any Holder in any such proceeding. 
  

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 Section 6.10. Priorities. If the Trustee collects any money pursuant to this Article 6, it shall
pay out the money in the following order: 
  
 FIRST: to the
Trustee for amounts due under Section 7.06; 
  
 SECOND: to
Securityholders for amounts due and unpaid on the Securities for the Contingent Principal Amount, Redemption Price, Purchase Price, Change in Control Purchase Price or contingent interest, if any, as the case may be, ratably, without preference or
priority of any kind, according to such amounts due and payable on the Securities; and 
  
 THIRD: the balance, if any, to the Company. 
  
 The Trustee may fix a record date and payment date for any payment to Securityholders pursuant to this Section 6.10. At least 15 days before such record date, the Trustee shall mail to each Securityholder and the
Company a notice that states the record date, the payment date and the amount to be paid. 
  
 Section 6.11. Undertaking for Costs. In any suit for the enforcement of any right or remedy under this Indenture or in any suit against the Trustee for any action taken or omitted by it as Trustee, a court in
its discretion may require the filing by any party litigant (other than the Trustee) in the suit of an undertaking to pay the costs of the suit, and the court in its discretion may assess reasonable costs, including reasonable attorneys’ fees
and expenses, against any party litigant in the suit, having due regard to the merits and good faith of the claims or defenses made by the party litigant. This Section 6.11 does not apply to a suit by the Trustee, a suit by a Holder pursuant to
Section 6.07 or a suit by Holders of more than 10% in aggregate Original Principal Amount of the Securities at the time outstanding. This Section 6.11 shall be in lieu of Section 315(e) of the TIA and such Section 315(e) is hereby expressly excluded
from this Indenture, as permitted by the TIA. 
  
 Section 6.12.
Waiver of Stay, Extension or Usury Laws. The Company covenants (to the extent that it may lawfully do so) that it will not at any time insist upon, or plead, or in any manner whatsoever claim or take the benefit or advantage of, any stay or
extension law or any usury or other law wherever enacted, now or at any time hereafter in force, which would prohibit or forgive the Company from paying all or any portion of the Contingent Principal Amount, Redemption Price, Purchase Price, Change
in Control Purchase Price or contingent interest, if any, delivering Common Stock upon a conversion pursuant to Article 11 or paying the cash equivalent thereof, in respect of Securities, or any interest on such amounts, as contemplated herein, or
which may affect the covenants or the performance of this Indenture; and the Company (to the extent that it may lawfully do so) hereby expressly waives all benefit or advantage of any such law, and covenants that it will not hinder, delay or impede
the execution of any power herein granted to the Trustee, but will suffer and permit the execution of every such power as though no such law had been enacted. 
  

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 ARTICLE VII

  
 TRUSTEE 
  
 Section 7.01. Rights of Trustee. 
  
 (a) The Trustee may rely on any document believed by it to
be genuine and to have been signed or presented by the proper person and shall incur no liability in its reliance thereon. The Trustee need not investigate any fact or matter stated in the document. 
  
 (b) Before the Trustee acts or refrains from acting, it may
require an Officers’ Certificate or an Opinion of Counsel. The Trustee shall not be liable for any action it takes or omits to take in good faith in reliance on such Officers’ Certificate or Opinion of Counsel. 
  
 (c) The Trustee may act through agents and shall not be
responsible for the misconduct or negligence of any agent appointed with due care. 
  
 (d) The 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. 
  
 (e) The Trustee may
refuse to perform any duty or exercise any right or power or extend or risk its own funds or otherwise incur any financial liability unless it receives indemnity satisfactory to it against any loss, liability or expense. 
  
 (f) Money held by the Trustee in trust hereunder need not be
segregated from other funds except to the extent required by law. The Trustee (acting in any capacity hereunder) shall be under no liability for interest on any money received by it hereunder. 
  
 All rights and immunities granted to the Trustee under this Indenture shall
include the Trustee acting in any capacity under this Indenture. 
  
 Section 7.02. Individual Rights of Trustee. The Trustee in its individual or any other capacity may become the owner or pledgee of Securities and may otherwise deal with the Company or its Affiliates with the same rights it would
have if it were not Trustee. Any Paying Agent, Registrar, Conversion Agent or co-registrar may do the same with like rights. However, the Trustee must comply with Sections 7.09 and 7.10. 
  
 Section 7.03. Trustee’s Disclaimer. The Trustee makes no representation as to the validity or adequacy of this
Indenture or the Securities, it shall not be accountable for the Company’s use of the proceeds from the Securities, it shall not be responsible for any statement in the registration statement for the Securities under the Securities Act of 1933,
as amended (the “Securities Act”), or in the Indenture or the Securities (other than its certificate of authentication), or the determination as to which beneficial owners are entitled to receive any notices hereunder. 
  

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 Section 7.04. Notice of Defaults. The Trustee shall, within 90 days after the occurrence of any
Default, mail to all Holders of Securities, as the names and addresses of such Holders appear on the books of registry of the Company, notice of all Defaults of which the Trustee shall be aware, unless such Defaults shall have been cured or waived
before the giving of such notice; provided that, except in the case of a Default described in Section 6.01(a) or 6.01(b), the Trustee shall be protected in withholding such notice if and so long as the board of directors, the executive
committee, or a trust committee of directors or Trust Officers of the Trustee in good faith determines that the withholding of such notice is in the interests of the Holders of Securities. 
  
 Section 7.05. Reports by Trustee to Holders. Within 60 days after each
May 15 beginning with the May 15 following the date of this Indenture, the Trustee shall mail to each Securityholder a brief report dated as of such May 15 that complies with TIA Section 313(a), if required by said Section. The Trustee also shall
comply with TIA Section 313(b). 
  
 A copy of each report at the
time of its mailing to Securityholders shall be provided to the Company and shall be submitted to the SEC and each stock exchange on which the Securities are listed. The Company agrees promptly to notify the Trustee whenever the Securities become
listed on any stock exchange and of any delisting thereof. 
  
 Section 7.06. Compensation and Indemnity. The Company agrees: 
  
 (a) to pay to the Trustee from time to time such reasonable compensation for all services rendered by it hereunder (which compensation shall not (to the extent permitted by law) be limited by any provision of law in
regard to the compensation of a trustee of an express trust); 
  
 (b) to reimburse the Trustee upon its request and, if required by the Company, submission of reasonable documentation for all reasonable expenses, disbursements and advances incurred or made by the Trustee in
accordance with any provision of this Indenture (including the reasonable compensation and the expenses, advances and disbursements of its agents and counsel), except any such expense, disbursement or advance as may be attributable to its negligence
or bad faith; and 
  
 (c) to indemnify each of
the Trustee, its officers, directors, employees and agents, or any predecessor Trustee for, and to hold it harmless against, any and all loss, liability, damage, claim or expense, including taxes (other than taxes based upon, measured or determined
by the income of the Trustee), incurred without negligence or bad faith on its part, arising out of or in connection with the acceptance or administration of this trust, including the reasonable costs and expenses of defending itself against any
claim or liability in connection with the exercise or performance of any of its powers or duties hereunder. 
  
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reasonable amount of time after a Trust Officer of the Trustee becomes aware of such claim or liability. To secure the Company’s payment obligations in
this Section 7.06, the Trustee shall have a lien prior to the Securities on all money or property held or collected by the Trustee. 
  
 The Company’s payment obligations pursuant to this Section 7.06 shall survive the discharge of this Indenture. When the Trustee incurs expenses after
the occurrence of a Default specified in Section 6.01(d) or (e), the expenses are intended to constitute expenses of administration under the Bankruptcy Law. The provisions of this Section shall survive the termination of this Indenture. 

 
 Section 7.07. Replacement of Trustee. The Trustee may resign by so
notifying the Company; provided, however, no such resignation shall be effective until a successor Trustee has accepted its appointment pursuant to this Section 7.07. The Holders of a majority in aggregate Original Principal Amount of
the Securities at the time outstanding may remove the Trustee by so notifying the Trustee and may appoint a successor Trustee (subject to the consent of the Company, such consent not to be unreasonably withheld). The Company shall remove the Trustee
if: 
  
 (a) the Trustee fails to comply with
Section 7.09; 
  
 (b) the Trustee is adjudged
bankrupt or insolvent; 
  
 (c) a receiver or
other public officer takes charge of the Trustee or its property; or 
  
 (d) the Trustee otherwise becomes incapable of acting. 
  
 If the Trustee resigns or is removed or if a vacancy exists in the office of Trustee for any reason, the Company shall promptly appoint, by resolution of its Board of Directors, a successor Trustee that meets the
requirements of Section 7.09. 
  
 A successor Trustee shall
deliver a written acceptance of its appointment to the retiring Trustee and to the Company. Thereupon the resignation or removal of the retiring Trustee shall become effective, and the successor Trustee shall have all the rights, powers and duties
of the Trustee under this Indenture. The successor Trustee shall mail a notice of its succession to Securityholders. The retiring Trustee shall promptly transfer all property held by it as Trustee to the successor Trustee, subject to the lien
provided for in Section 7.06. 
  
 If a successor Trustee does not
take office within 30 days after the retiring Trustee resigns or is removed, the retiring Trustee, the Company or the Holders of a majority in aggregate Original Principal Amount of the Securities at the time outstanding may petition any court of
competent jurisdiction for the appointment of a successor Trustee. 
  
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 Section 7.08. Successor Trustee by Merger. If the Trustee consolidates with, merges or converts
into, or transfers all or substantially all its corporate trust business or assets to, another Person, the resulting, surviving or transferee Person without any further act shall be the successor Trustee. 
  
 Section 7.09. Eligibility; Disqualification. The Trustee shall at all
times satisfy the requirements of TIA Sections 310(a)(1) and 310(b). The Trustee shall have a combined capital and surplus of at least $100,000,000 as set forth in its most recent published annual report of condition. In determining whether the
Trustee has conflicting interests as defined in TIA Section 310(b)(1), the provisions contained in the proviso to TIA Section 310(b)(1) shall be deemed incorporated herein. 
  
 Section 7.10. Preferential Collection of Claims Against Company. The Trustee shall comply with TIA Section 311(a),
excluding any creditor relationship listed in TIA Section 311(b). A Trustee who has resigned or been removed shall be subject to TIA Section 311(a) to the extent indicated therein. 
  
 ARTICLE VIII 
  
 DISCHARGE OF INDENTURE 
  
 Section 8.01. Discharge of Liability on Securities. When (i) the Company delivers to the Trustee all outstanding Securities (other than Securities
replaced pursuant to Section 2.07) for cancellation or (ii) all outstanding Securities have become due and payable and the Company deposits with the Trustee cash sufficient to pay at the Stated Maturity, the Purchase Date, the Change in Control
Purchase or the Redemption Date, the Contingent Principal Amount, the Purchase Price or contingent interest (if any shall be due and unpaid), the Change in Control Purchase Price or the Redemption Price, as the case may be, of all outstanding
Securities (other than Securities replaced pursuant to Section 2.07), and if, in either case, the Company has paid all other sums payable hereunder by the Company, then this Indenture shall, subject to Section 7.06, cease to be of further effect.
The Trustee shall join in the execution of a document prepared by the Company acknowledging satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture on demand of the Company accompanied by an Officers’ Certificate and Opinion of Counsel and at the cost and
expense of the Company. 
  
 Section 8.02. Repayment to the
Company. The Trustee and the Paying Agent shall return to the Company any money or securities held by them for the payment of any amount with respect to the Securities that remains unclaimed for two years; provided, however, that
the Trustee or such Paying Agent, before being required to make any such return, may, at the expense of the Company, cause to be published once in The Wall Street Journal or another daily newspaper of national circulation or mail to each such
Holder notice that such money or securities remains unclaimed and that, after a date specified therein, which shall not be less than 30 days from the date of such mailing, any unclaimed money or securities then remaining will be returned to the
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securities must look to the Company for payment as general creditors unless an applicable abandoned property law designates another person, and the Trustee
and the Paying Agent shall have no further liability with respect to such money or securities for that period commencing after the return thereof. 
  
 ARTICLE IX 
  
 AMENDMENTS 
  
 Section 9.01. Without Consent of Holders. The Company and the Trustee may amend this Indenture or the Securities without the consent of any Securityholder: 
  
 (a) to cure any ambiguity, omission, defect or inconsistency; provided, however, that such
amendment does not materially adversely affect the rights of any Securityholder; 
  
 (b) to comply with Article 5 or Section 11.15; 
  

(c) to provide for uncertificated Securities in addition to or in place of certificated Securities so long as such action shall not
adversely affect the interests of the Holders of the Securities in any material respect; 
  
 (d) to make any change that does not materially adversely affect the rights of any Securityholder; 
  
 (e) to add to the covenants or obligations of the Company
hereunder or to surrender any right, power or option herein conferred upon the Company; 
  
 (f) to secure the Company’s obligations under the Securities and this Indenture; or 
  
 (g) increase the contingent interest to be paid to Holders;
or 
  
 (h) make any change to the Original
Principal Amount of Securities whose Holders must consent to an amendment or supplement to this Indenture. 
  
 (i) to make any change to comply with the TIA, or any amendment thereafter, or any requirement of the SEC in connection with the
qualification of this Indenture under the TIA or any amendment thereof. 
  
 Section 9.02. With Consent of Holders. With the written consent of the Holders of at least a majority in aggregate Original Principal Amount of the Securities at the time outstanding, the Company and the Trustee may amend this
Indenture or the Securities. However, without the consent of each Securityholder affected, an amendment or supplement to this Indenture or the Securities may not: 
  
 (a) alter the manner or rate of accrual or payment of the Contingent Principal Amount or contingent interest
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 (b) make any Security payable in money or securities other than that stated in the
Security; 
  
 (c) make any reduction in the
Original Principal Amount, Contingent Principal Amount, Redemption Price, Purchase Price or Change in Control Purchase Price with respect to any Security; 
  
 (d) make any change that adversely affects the right to convert any Security (including the right to receive cash in lieu of Common Stock
except as set forth in Section 9.01(e)); 
  
 (e)
make any change that adversely affects the right to require the Company to purchase the Securities pursuant to Sections 3.08 and 3.09 hereof; 
  
 (f) impair the right of a Holder to institute a suit for the enforcement of any payment with respect to, or conversion of, the Securities;

  
 It shall not be necessary for the consent of the Holders under
this Section 9.02 to approve the particular form of any proposed amendment, but it shall be sufficient if such consent approves the substance thereof. 
  
 After an amendment under this Section 9.02 becomes effective, the Company shall mail to each Holder a notice briefly describing the amendment. 

 
 Section 9.03. Compliance with Trust Indenture Act. Every
supplemental indenture executed pursuant to this Article shall comply with the TIA as then in effect. 
  
 Section 9.04. Revocation and Effect of Consents, Waivers and Actions. Until an amendment or waiver becomes effective, a consent to it or any other
action by a Holder of a Security hereunder is a continuing consent by the Holder and every subsequent Holder of that Security or portion of the Security that evidences the same obligation as the consenting Holder’s Security, even if notation of
the consent, waiver or action is not made on the Security. However, any such Holder or subsequent Holder may revoke the consent, waiver or action as to such Holder’s Security or portion of the Security if the Trustee receives the notice of
revocation before the date the amendment, waiver or action becomes effective. After an amendment, waiver or action becomes effective, it shall bind every Securityholder, except as provided in Section 9.02. 
  
 Section 9.05. Notation on or Exchange of Securities. Securities
authenticated and delivered after the execution of any supplemental indenture pursuant to this Article may, and shall if required by the Trustee, bear a notation in form approved by the Trustee as to any matter provided for in such supplemental
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supplemental indenture may be prepared and executed by the Company and authenticated and delivered by the Trustee in exchange for outstanding Securities.

  
 Section 9.06. Trustee to Sign Supplemental Indentures.
The Trustee shall sign any supplemental indenture authorized pursuant to this Article 9 if the amendment does not adversely affect the rights, duties, liabilities or immunities of the Trustee. If it does, the Trustee may, but need not, sign it. In
signing such amendment the Trustee shall be entitled to receive, and (subject to the provisions of Section 7.01) shall be fully protected in relying upon, an Officers’ Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel stating that such amendment is
authorized or permitted by this Indenture. 
  
 Section 9.07.
Effect of Supplemental Indentures. Upon the execution of any supplemental indenture under this Article, this Indenture shall be modified in accordance therewith, and such supplemental indenture shall form a part of this Indenture for all
purposes; and every Holder of Securities theretofore or thereafter authenticated and delivered hereunder shall be bound thereby. 
  
 ARTICLE X 
  
 CONTINGENT INTEREST 
  
 Section 10.01. Contingent Interest. Commencing on June 1, 2008, the Company shall make contingent interest payments to the holders of Securities, as set forth in Section 10.02 below, during any six month period
from June 1 to November 30 and from December 1 to May 31 (each a “Semiannual Period”) if, but only if, the LYONs Market Price of one Security during the relevant Measurement Period equals or exceeds 120% of the Contingent
Principal Amount of such Security as of the May 31st or November 30th preceding the relevant Semiannual Period. During any Semiannual Period when contingent interest is payable pursuant to this section, each contingent interest
payment due and payable on each $1,000 Original Principal Amount of Security shall be calculated for each of the first three months and the second three months of the applicable Semiannual Period, and in each instance shall equal an annualized rate
of $0.88 of the Contingent Principal Amount of a Security on the immediately preceding quarterly Yield Reset Date. 
  
 As used in this Article 10 “Measurement Period” means the five Trading Days ending on the third scheduled Trading Day immediately
preceding the start of the relevant Semiannual Period. Notwithstanding the above, if the Company should declare a dividend for which the record date for such dividend (the “Common Stock Record Date”) falls prior to the first day of
a Semiannual Period, but the payment date for such dividend falls within such Semiannual Period, then the “Measurement Period” shall mean the five Trading Days ending on the third Trading Day immediately preceding such Common Stock
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Original Principal Amount of Securities obtained by the Bid Solicitation Agent for $10 million Original Principal Amount of Securities at approximately 4:00
p.m., New York City time, on such determination date from three independent nationally recognized securities dealers (none of which shall be an Affiliate of the Company) selected by the Company; provided, however, if (a) at least three
such bids are not obtained by the Bid Solicitation Agent or (b) in the Company’s reasonable judgment, the bid quotations are not indicative of the secondary market value of the Securities as of such determination date, then the LYON Market
Price for such determination date shall equal the product of (i) the Conversion Rate in effect as of such determination date multiplied by (ii) the Average Sale Price of the Common Stock for the five trading days ending on such determination date,
appropriately adjusted to take into account the occurrence, during the period commencing on the first of such trading days during such five trading day period and ending on such determination date, of any event described in Section 11.06, 11.07,
11.08 or 11.09 (subject to the conditions set forth in Sections 11.10 and 11.11) hereof. 
  
 The Contingent Principal Amount of the Securities will continue to accrue at the applicable Yield whether or not contingent interest payments are made. 
  
 Section 10.02. Payment of Contingent Interest; Contingent Interest Rights Preserved. 
  
 If payable, contingent interest shall be paid on the payment date for the
related Common Stock dividend or, if the Company does not pay a regular cash dividend on its Common Stock during a Semiannual Period, on the last day of such Semiannual Period (in each case, a “Contingent Interest Payment Date”).
Contingent Interest payments on any Security that are payable, and are punctually paid or duly provided for, on any Contingent Interest Payment Date shall be paid to the person who is the holder of that Security at the close of business on the
relevant Common Stock Record Date or, if the Company does not pay a regular cash dividend on its Common Stock during a Semiannual Period, to the person who is the holder of that Security on the 15th day preceding the last day of such Semiannual Period (each, a “Contingent Interest Record Date”). Each payment of contingent interest on any
Security shall be paid in same-day funds by transfer to an account maintained by the payee located inside the United States. In the case of a global Security, interest payable on any Contingent Interest Payment Date will be paid to the Depositary
for the purpose of permitting DTC to credit the interest received by it in respect of such global Security to the accounts of the beneficial owners thereof. 
  
 Upon determination that Holders of Securities will be entitled to receive contingent interest during a Semiannual Period, on or prior to the start of such
Semiannual Period, the Company will issue a press release and publish such information on its website for a period of not less than 120 days or, at the Company’s option, otherwise publicly disclose such information. 
  
 Section 10.03. Bid Solicitation Agent. 
  
 The Bid Solicitation Agent shall solicit bids from securities dealers which
the Company indicates are willing to bid for the Securities. The Company initially appoints the Trustee to act as the Bid Solicitation Agent. The Company may change the Bid Solicitation Agent at its 

  

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discretion, provided, however, the Bid Solicitation Agent may not be an Affiliate of the Company. 
  
 ARTICLE XI 
  
 CONVERSION 
  
 Section 11.01. Conversion Privilege. A Holder of a Security may
convert such Security into cash and Common Stock at any time during the period stated in paragraph 9 of the Securities, subject to the provisions of this Article 11. The initial Conversion Rate is 13.8213 shares of Common Stock per $1,000 Original
Principal Amount (payable in cash and Common Stock, if any), subject to adjustment upon the occurrence of certain events described in this Article 11; provided that in no event shall the Conversion Rate exceed the Maximum Conversion Rate. Except as
otherwise described in paragraph 9 of the Securities, upon conversion, the Company will deliver consideration (“Conversion Consideration”) having a value equal to the product of the Conversion Rate multiplied by the average of the
Sale Price of the Common Stock on each of the 5 consecutive Trading Days beginning on the third Business Day following the Conversion Date (the “Applicable Stock Price”). This Conversion Consideration will be paid in cash (the
“Required Cash Amount”) in an amount equal to the Contingent Principal Amount of each Security on the Conversion Date and the remainder, at the election of the Company, in cash, Common Stock or a combination of cash and Common
Stock. If a portion of the Conversion Consideration is to be paid in shares of Common Stock, the number of shares to be delivered will equal (x)(i) the product of the Conversion Rate multiplied by the Applicable Stock Price minus (ii) the Required
Cash Amount and any additional cash paid as consideration, divided by (y) the Applicable Stock Price. The Company will notify the Holders in the manner provided in Section 13.02 not later than two Business Days after the Conversion Date of the
amount of the Conversion Consideration that will be paid in cash. 
  
 A Holder may convert a portion of a Security if the portion is $1,000 Original Principal Amount or an integral multiple thereof. Provisions of this Indenture that apply to conversion of all of a Security also apply to conversion of a
portion of a Security. 
  
 “Time of
Determination” means the time and date of the earlier of (i) the determination of stockholders entitled to receive rights, warrants or options or a distribution, in each case, to which Section 11.07 or 11.08 applies and (ii) the time
(“Ex-Dividend Time”) immediately prior to the commencement of “ex-dividend” trading for such rights, warrants or options or distribution on the New York Stock Exchange or such other national or regional exchange or market
on which the Common Stock is then listed or quoted. 
  
 Notwithstanding any other provision of this Indenture, in no event shall the Conversion Rate exceed the Maximum Conversion Rate. 
  
 Section 11.02. Conversion Procedure. To convert a Security, a Holder must satisfy the requirements in paragraph 9 of the Securities. The date on
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Conversion Date, the Company shall deliver to the Holder, through the Conversion Agent, cash and a certificate for the number of full shares of Common Stock,
if any, issuable upon the conversion and cash in lieu of any fractional share determined pursuant to Section 11.03. The Company shall determine such full number of shares and the amounts of the required cash with respect to any fractional share, and
shall set forth such information in a certificate delivered to the Conversion Agent. The Conversion Agent shall have no duties under this paragraph unless and until it has received such certificate. 
  
 The person in whose name the certificate is registered shall be treated as a
stockholder of record on and after the Conversion Date; provided, however, that no surrender of a Security on any date when the stock transfer books of the Company shall be closed shall be effective to constitute the person or persons
entitled to receive the shares of Common Stock upon such conversion as the record holder or holders of such shares of Common Stock on such date, but such surrender shall be effective to constitute the person or persons entitled to receive such
shares of Common Stock as the record holder or holders thereof for all purposes at the close of business on the next succeeding day on which such stock transfer books are open; such conversion shall be for the Conversion Consideration valued at the
Conversion Rate in effect on the date that such Security shall have been surrendered for conversion, as if the stock transfer books of the Company had not been closed. Upon conversion of a Security, such person shall no longer be a Holder of such
Security. 
  
 Holders may surrender a Security for conversion by
means of book-entry delivery in accordance with paragraph 9 of the Securities and the regulations of the applicable book entry facility. 
  
 No payment or adjustment will be made for dividends on, or other distributions with respect to, any Common Stock except as provided in this Article 11. On
conversion of a Security, that portion of accrued Tax Original Issue Discount and increases in the Contingent Principal Amount attributable to the period from March 13, 2002 through the Conversion Date and (except as provided below) accrued
contingent interest, if any, with respect to the converted Security shall not be cancelled, extinguished or forfeited, but rather shall be deemed to be paid in full to the Holder thereof through delivery of the Conversion Consideration in exchange
for the Security being converted pursuant to the provisions hereof; and such Conversion Consideration shall be treated as paid, to the extent thereof, first in exchange for accrued Tax Original Issue Discount and the increase in Contingent Principal
Amount from March 13, 2002 through the Conversion Date and accrued contingent interest, and the balance, if any, of such Conversion Consideration shall be treated as paid in respect of the remaining principal payments due on the Security being
converted pursuant to the provisions hereof. 
  
 If the Holder
converts more than one Security at the same time, the Conversion Consideration payable upon the conversion shall be based on all Securities converted. 
  
 A Security surrendered for conversion based on (a) the Common Stock price may be surrendered for conversion until the close of business on the Business
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close of business on any Business Day during the period of the credit downgrade as more fully described in paragraph 9 of the Security, (c) the Security
being called for redemption may be surrendered for conversion at any time prior to the close of business on the second Business Day immediately preceding the Redemption Date, and (d) upon the occurrence of certain corporate transactions more fully
described in paragraph 9 of the Security may be surrendered for conversion at any time from and after the date which is 15 days prior to the anticipated effective date of such transaction until 15 days after the actual date of such transaction, and
if such day is not a Business Day, the next occurring Business Day following such day. 
  
 Upon surrender of a Security that is converted in part, the Company shall execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver to the Holder, a new Security in an authorized denomination equal in Principal Amount
to the unconverted portion of the Security surrendered. 
  
 Section 11.03. Fractional Shares. The Company will not issue a fractional share of Common Stock upon conversion of a Security. Instead, the Company will deliver cash for the current market value of the fractional share. The current
market value of a fractional share shall be determined, to the nearest 1/1,000th of a share, by multiplying the Sale Price of the Common Stock, on the last Trading Day prior to the Conversion Date, of a full share by the fractional amount and
rounding the product to the nearest whole cent. 
  
 Section 11.04.
Taxes on Conversion. If a Holder converts a Security, the Company shall pay any documentary, stamp or similar issue or transfer tax due on the issue of any shares of Common Stock upon the conversion. However, the Holder shall pay any such tax
which is due because the Holder requests the shares to be issued in a name other than the Holder’s name. The Conversion Agent may refuse to deliver the certificates representing the Common Stock being issued in a name other than the
Holder’s name until the Conversion Agent receives a sum sufficient to pay any tax which will be due because the shares are to be issued in a name other than the Holder’s name. Nothing herein shall preclude the Company from any tax
withholding or directing the withholding of any tax required by law or regulations. 
  
 Section 11.05. Company to Provide Stock. The Company shall, prior to issuance of any Securities under this Article 11, and from time to time as may be necessary, reserve out of its authorized but unissued
Common Stock a sufficient number of shares of Common Stock to permit the conversion of the Securities. 
  
 All shares of Common Stock delivered upon conversion of the Securities shall be newly issued shares or treasury shares, shall be duly and validly issued
and fully paid and nonassessable and shall be free from preemptive rights and free of any lien or adverse claim. 
  
 The Company will endeavor promptly to comply with all Federal and state securities laws regulating the offer and delivery of shares of Common Stock upon
conversion of Securities, if any, and will list or cause to have quoted such shares of Common Stock on each national securities exchange or in the over-the-counter market or such other market on which the Common Stock is then listed or quoted.

  

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 Section 11.06. Adjustment for Change in Capital Stock. If, after the Issue Date of the Securities,
the Company: 
  
 (a) pays a dividend or makes a
distribution on its Common Stock in shares of its Common Stock or shares of other capital stock of the Company; 
  
 (b) subdivides its outstanding shares of Common Stock into a greater number of shares; 
  
 (c) combines its outstanding shares of Common Stock into a
smaller number of shares; or 
  
 (d) issues by
reclassification of its Common Stock any shares of its capital stock (other than rights, warrants or options for its capital stock); 
  
 then the conversion privilege and the Conversion Rate in effect immediately prior to such action shall be adjusted so that the Holder of a Security thereafter converted
may receive the number of shares or other units of capital stock of the Company which such Holder would have owned immediately following such action if such Holder had converted the Security immediately prior to such action. 
  
 The adjustment shall become effective immediately after the record date in
the case of a dividend or distribution and immediately after the effective date in the case of a subdivision, combination or reclassification. 
  
 If after an adjustment a Holder of a Security upon conversion of such Security may receive shares or other units of two or more classes of capital stock
of the Company, the Conversion Rate shall thereafter be subject to adjustment upon the occurrence of an action taken with respect to any such class or series of capital stock as is contemplated by this Article 11 with respect to the Common Stock, on
terms comparable to those applicable to Common Stock in this Article 11. 
  
 Section 11.07. Adjustment for Rights Issue. 
  
 If after the Issue Date, the Company distributes any rights, warrants or options to all holders of its Common Stock entitling them, for a period expiring within 60 days after the record date for such distribution, to purchase shares of
Common Stock at a price per share less than the Sale Price of the Common Stock as of the Time of Determination, the Conversion Rate shall be adjusted in accordance with the formula: 
  

			
	 R’ = R x
	  	        (O + N)        
	 	  	(O + [(N x P)/M)]

  
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 R = the current Conversion Rate. 
  
 O = the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding on the record date for the distribution to which this Section 11.07 is
being applied. 
  
 N = the number of additional shares of Common
Stock offered pursuant to the distribution. 
  
 P = the offering
price per share of the additional shares. 
  
 M = the Average Sale
Price, minus, in the case of (i) a distribution to which Section 11.06(d) applies or (ii) a distribution to which Section 11.08 applies, for which, in each case, (x) the record date shall occur on or before the record date for the distribution to
which this Section 11.07 applies and (y) the Ex-Dividend Time shall occur on or after the date of the Time of Determination for the distribution to which this Section 11.07 applies, the fair market value (on the record date for the distribution to
which this Section 11.07 applies) of: 
  
 (1) the
capital stock of the Company distributed in respect of each share of Common Stock in such Section 11.06(d) distribution; and 
  
 (2) the assets of the Company or debt securities or any rights, warrants or options to purchase securities of the Company distributed in
respect of each share of Common Stock in such Section 11.08 distribution. 
  
 The
Board of Directors shall determine fair market values for the purposes of this Section 11.07. 
  
 The adjustment shall become effective immediately after the record date for the determination of shareholders entitled to receive the rights, warrants or options to which this Section 11.07 applies. If all of the
shares of Common Stock subject to such rights, warrants or options have not been issued when such rights, warrants or options expire, then the Conversion Rate shall promptly be readjusted to the Conversion Rate which would then be in effect had the
adjustment upon the issuance of such rights, warrants or options been made on the basis of the actual number of shares of Common Stock issued upon the exercise of such rights, warrants or options. 
  
 No adjustment shall be made under this Section 11.07 if the application of
the formula stated above in this Section 11.07 would result in a value of R’ that is equal to or less than the value of R. 
  
 Section 11.08. Adjustment for Other Distributions. (a) For all distributions with a record date prior to March 13, 2008, the terms of this Section
11.08(a) will apply. Subject to 11.08(a)(ii), if, after the Issue Date of the Securities, the Company distributes to all holders of its Common Stock any of its assets excluding distributions of capital stock or debt securities or any rights,
warrants or options to purchase securities of the Company (including securities or cash, but excluding (x) distributions of capital stock referred to in Section 11.06 and distributions of rights, warrants or options referred to in Section 11.07 and
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distributions referred to in Section 11.09) the Conversion Rate shall be adjusted, subject to the provisions of Section 11.08(a)(ii), in accordance with the
formula: 
  

			
	 R’ =
	  	  R x M  
	 	  	  M - F

  
 where: 
  
 R’ = the adjusted Conversion Rate. 
  
 R = the current Conversion Rate. 
  
 M = the Average Sale Price, minus, in the case of a distribution to which
Section 11.06(d) applies, for which (i) the record date shall occur on or before the record date for the distribution to which this Section 11.08(a) applies and (ii) the Ex-Dividend Time shall occur on or after the date of the Time of Determination
for the distribution to which this Section 11.08(a) applies, the fair market value (on the record date for the distribution to which this Section 11.08(a) applies) of any capital stock of the Company distributed in respect of each share of Common
Stock in such Section 11.06(d) distribution. 
  
 F = the fair
market value (on the record date for the distribution to which this Section 11.08(a) applies) of the assets, securities, rights, warrants or options to be distributed in respect of each share of Common Stock in the distribution to which this Section
11.08(a) is being applied (including, in the case of cash dividends or other cash distributions giving rise to an adjustment, all such cash distributed concurrently). 
  
 The Board of Directors shall determine fair market values for the purposes of this Section 11.08(a). 
  
 The adjustment shall become effective immediately after the record date for
the determination of shareholders entitled to receive the distribution to which this Section 11.08(a) applies. 
  
 (i) If, after the Issue Date, the Company pays a dividend or makes a distribution to all holders of its Common Stock consisting of capital
stock of any class or series, or similar equity interests, of or relating to a Subsidiary or other business unit of the Company, the Conversion Rate shall be adjusted in accordance with the formula: 
  
 R’ = R x (1 + F/M) 
  
 where: 
  
 R’ = the adjusted Conversion Rate. 
  
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 M = the average of the Sale Prices of the Common Stock for the ten (10) Trading Days commencing on and
including the fifth Trading Day after the date on which “ex-dividend trading” commences for such dividend or distribution on The New York Stock Exchange or such other national or regional exchange or market which such securities are then
listed or quoted (the “Ex-Dividend Date”). 
  
 F = the
fair market value of the securities distributed in respect of each share of Common Stock for which this Section 11.08(a)(i) applies shall mean the number of securities distributed in respect of each share of Common Stock multiplied by the average of
the Sale Prices of those securities distributed for the ten (10) Trading Days commencing on and including the fifth Trading Day after the effectiveness of the Ex-Dividend Date. 
  
 (ii) In the event that, with respect to any distribution to which Section 11.08(a)(i) would otherwise apply,
the difference between “M-F” is less than $1.00 or “F” is equal to or greater than “M”, then the adjustment provided by Section 11.08(a)(i) shall not be made and in lieu thereof the provisions of Section 11.14 shall
apply to such distribution. 
  
 (b) For all distributions with a
record date following March 13, 2008, the terms of this Section 11.08(b) will apply. Subject to 11.08(b)(ii), if, after the Issue Date of the Securities, the Company distributes to all holders of its Common Stock any of its assets excluding
distributions of capital stock or debt securities or any rights, warrants or options to purchase securities of the Company (including securities or cash, but excluding (x) distributions of capital stock referred to in Section 11.06 and distributions
of rights, warrants or options referred to in Section 11.07 and (y) cash dividends or other cash distributions that are paid out of consolidated current net earnings or earnings retained in the business as shown on the books of the Company unless
such cash dividends or other cash distributions are Extraordinary Cash Dividends) the Conversion Rate shall be adjusted, subject to the provisions of Section 11.08(b)(ii), in accordance with the formula: 
  

			
	 R’ =
	  	  R x M  
	 	  	  M - F

  
 where: 
  
 R’ = the adjusted Conversion Rate. 
  
 R = the current Conversion Rate. 
  
 M = the Average Sale Price, minus, in the case of a distribution to which
Section 11.06(d) applies, for which (i) the record date shall occur on or before the record date for the distribution to which this Section 11.08(b) applies and (ii) the Ex-Dividend Time shall occur on or after the date of the Time of Determination
for the distribution to which this Section 11.08(b) applies, the fair market value (on the record date for the distribution to which this Section 

  

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11.08(b) applies) of any capital stock of the Company distributed in respect of each share of Common Stock in such Section 11.06(d) distribution. 

 
 F = the fair market value (on the record date for the distribution to
which this Section 11.08(b) applies) of the assets, securities, rights, warrants or options to be distributed in respect of each share of Common Stock in the distribution to which this Section 11.08(b) is being applied (including, in the case of
cash dividends or other cash distributions giving rise to an adjustment, all such cash distributed concurrently). 
  
 The Board of Directors shall determine fair market values for the purposes of this Section 11.08(b). 
  
 The adjustment shall become effective immediately after the record date for
the determination of shareholders entitled to receive the distribution to which this Section 11.08(b) applies. 
  
 For purposes of this Section 11.08(b), the term “Extraordinary Cash Dividend” shall mean the amount of any cash dividend or distribution with
respect to the Common Stock that, together with the aggregate amount of other cash dividends on the Common Stock to be aggregated with such cash dividend in accordance with the provisions of this paragraph, equals or exceeds the threshold percentage
set forth in item (I) below. For purposes of item (I) below, the “Ex-Dividend Measurement Period” with respect to a cash dividend on the Common Stock shall mean the 365 consecutive day period ending on the date prior to the Ex-Dividend
Time with respect to such cash dividend, and the “Relevant Cash Dividends” with respect to a cash dividend on the Common Stock shall mean the cash dividends on the Common Stock with Ex-Dividend Times occurring in the Measurement Period.

  
 (I) If, upon the date prior to the Ex-Dividend Time with
respect to a cash dividend on the Common Stock, the aggregate amount of such cash dividend together with the amounts of all Relevant Cash Dividends equals or exceeds on a per share basis the sum of (a) 5% of the Sale Price of the Common Stock on the
last Trading Day preceding the date of declaration by the Board of Directors of the cash dividend or distribution with respect to which this provision is being applied, and (b) the quotient of the amount of any contingent interest paid on a Security
during the Ex-Dividend Measurement Period and divided by the conversion rate in effect on the payment date of such relevant Contingent Interest Payment Date, then such cash dividend together with all Relevant Cash Dividends, shall be deemed to be an
Extraordinary Cash Dividend and for purposes of applying the formula set forth above in this Section 11.08(b), the value of “F” shall be equal to (y) the aggregate amount of such cash dividend together with the amount of all Relevant Cash
Dividends, minus (z) the aggregate amount of all Relevant Cash Dividends for which a prior adjustment in the Conversion Rate was previously made under this Section 11.08(b). 
  

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 In making the determinations required by item (I) above, the amount of cash dividends paid on a per share
basis and the amount of any Relevant Cash Dividends specified in item (I) above, shall be appropriately adjusted to reflect the occurrence during such period of any event described in Section 11.06. 
  
 (i) If, after the Issue Date, the Company pays a dividend or
makes a distribution to all holders of its Common Stock consisting of capital stock of any class or series, or similar equity interests, of or relating to a Subsidiary or other business unit of the Company, the Conversion Rate shall be adjusted in
accordance with the formula: 
  
 R’ = R x (1
+ F/M) 
  
 where: 
  
 R’ = the adjusted Conversion Rate. 
  
 R = the current Conversion Rate. 
  
 M = the average of the Sale Prices of the Common Stock for the ten (10) Trading Days commencing on and including the fifth Trading Day after the
Ex-Dividend Date. 
  
 F = the fair market value of the securities
distributed in respect of each share of Common Stock for which this Section 11.08(b)(i) applies shall mean the number of securities distributed in respect of each share of Common Stock multiplied by the average of the Sale Prices of those securities
distributed for the ten (10) Trading Days commencing on and including the fifth Trading Day after the effectiveness of the Ex-Dividend Date. 
  
 (ii) In the event that, with respect to any distribution to which Section 11.08(b)(i) would otherwise apply, the difference between
“M-F” is less than $1.00 or “F” is equal to or greater than “M”, then the adjustment provided by Section 11.08(b)(i) shall not be made and in lieu thereof the provisions of Section 11.15 shall apply to such
distribution. 
  
 Section 11.09. Adjustment for Certain Cash
Distributions. If, after the Issue Date of the Securities and prior to March 13, 2008, the Company distributes to all holders of its Common Stock dividends or other distributions consisting exclusively of cash (excluding (x) any cash that is
distributed as part of a distribution referred to in Section 11.08 and (y) any quarterly cash dividend on the Common Stock of the Company to the extent that such quarterly cash dividend does not exceed, per share of Common Stock of the Company, the
Dividend Amount), the Conversion Rate shall be adjusted, in accordance with the formula: 
  

			
	 R’ =
	  	  R x     M    
	 	  	          M - D

  

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 where: 
  
 R’ = the adjusted Conversion Rate. 
  
 R = the current Conversion Rate. 
  
 M = the average of the Sale Prices of the Common Stock for the 10 trading days ending on the earlier of the date of calculation of such average or the day
before the Ex-Dividend Date for the distribution to which this Section 11.09 applies. 
  
 D = the cash distributed in respect of each share of Common Stock for which this Section 11.09 applies, which per share amount, in the case of a quarterly dividend subject to this Section 11.09, shall be based on the
amount of cash distributed in excess of the Dividend Amount. 
  
 The adjustment shall become effective immediately after the record date for the determination of shareholders entitled to receive the distribution to which this Section 11.09 applies. 
  
 The “Dividend Amount” means $0.16 per share. The Dividend Amount
shall be adjusted whenever the Conversion Rate is adjusted by multiplying the Dividend Amount by a fraction, the numerator of which is the Conversion Rate in effect immediately prior to the adjustment thereof and the denominator of which is the
Conversion Rate as so adjusted, provided that no adjustment will be made to the Dividend Amount for any adjustment made to the Conversion Rate pursuant to this Section 11.09. 
  
 Section 11.10. When Adjustment May Be Deferred. No adjustment in the Conversion Rate need be made unless the
adjustment would require an increase or decrease of at least 1% in the Conversion Rate. Any adjustments that would require an increase or decrease of less than 1% of the Conversion Rate shall be carried forward and taken into account in any
subsequent adjustment regardless of whether the aggregate adjustment is less than 1%, on the March 13th following
the occurrence of the event causing the adjustment. 
  
 All
calculations under this Article 11 shall be made to the nearest cent or to the nearest 1/1,000th of a share, as the case may be. 
  
 Section 11.11. When No Adjustment Required. No adjustment need be made for a transaction referred to in Section 11.06, 11.07, 11.08, 11.09 or 11.15
if Securityholders are to participate in the transaction on a basis and with notice that the Board of Directors determines to be fair and appropriate in light of the basis and notice on which holders of Common Stock participate in the transaction.
Such participation by Securityholders may include participation upon conversion provided that an adjustment shall be made at such time as the Securityholders are no longer entitled to participate. 
  
 No adjustment need be made for rights to purchase Common Stock pursuant to a
Company plan for reinvestment of dividends or interest. 
  
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 To the extent the Securities become convertible pursuant to this Article 11 into cash, no adjustment need
be made thereafter as to the cash. Interest will not accrue on the cash. 
  
 Notwithstanding any provision to the contrary in this Indenture, no adjustment shall be made in the Conversion Rate to the extent, but only to the extent, such adjustment results in the following quotient being less
than the par value of the Common Stock: (i) the Contingent Principal Amount as of the date such adjustment would otherwise be effective divided by (ii) the Conversion Rate as so adjusted. 
  
 No adjustment will be made pursuant to this Section 11 which would result, through the application of two or more provisions
hereof, in the duplication of any adjustment. 
  
 Section 11.12.
Notice of Adjustment. Whenever the Conversion Rate is adjusted, the Company shall promptly mail to Securityholders a notice of the adjustment. The Company shall file with the Trustee and the Conversion Agent such notice and a certificate from
the Company’s independent public accountants briefly stating the facts requiring the adjustment and the manner of computing it. Upon receipt by it of such notice, the Conversion Agent will promptly mail such notice to Securityholders at the
Company’s expense. The certificate shall be conclusive evidence that the adjustment is correct. Neither the Trustee nor any Conversion Agent shall be under any duty or responsibility with respect to any such certificate except to exhibit the
same to any Holder desiring inspection thereof. 
  
 Section 11.13.
Voluntary Increase. The Company from time to time may increase the Conversion Rate by any amount for any period of time. Whenever the Conversion Rate is increased, the Company shall mail to Securityholders and file with the Trustee and the
Conversion Agent a notice of the increase. The Company shall mail the notice at least 15 days before the date the increased Conversion Rate takes effect. The notice shall state the increased Conversion Rate and the period it will be in effect.

  
 A voluntary increase of the Conversion Rate does not change or
adjust the Conversion Rate otherwise in effect for purposes of Section 11.06, 11.07, 11.08 or 11.09. 
  
 Section 11.14. Notice of Certain Transactions. If: 
  
 (a) the Company takes any action that would require an adjustment in the Conversion Rate pursuant to Section 11.06, 11.07, 11.08 or 11.09
(unless no adjustment is to occur pursuant to Section 11.11); or 
  
 (b) the Company takes any action that would require a supplemental indenture pursuant to Section 11.15; or 
  
 (c) there is a liquidation or dissolution of the Company; 
  
 then the Company shall mail to Securityholders and file with the Trustee and the Conversion Agent a notice stating the proposed record date
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share exchange, transfer, liquidation or dissolution. The Company shall file and mail the notice at least 15 days before such date. Failure to file or mail
the notice or any defect in it shall not affect the validity of the transaction. 
  
 Section 11.15. Reorganization of Company; Special Distributions. If the Company is a party to a transaction subject to Section 5.01 (other than a sale of all or substantially all of the assets of the Company in
a transaction in which the holders of Common Stock immediately prior to such transaction do not receive securities, cash, property or other assets of the Company or any other person) or a merger or binding share exchange which reclassifies or
changes its outstanding Common Stock, the person obligated to deliver securities, cash or other assets upon conversion of Securities shall enter into a supplemental indenture. If the issuer of securities deliverable upon conversion of Securities is
an Affiliate of the successor Company, that issuer shall join in the supplemental indenture. 
  
 The supplemental indenture shall provide that the Holder of a Security may convert it into the kind and amount of securities, cash or other assets which such Holder would have received immediately after the
consolidation, merger, binding share exchange or transfer if such Holder had converted the Security immediately before the effective date of the transaction, assuming (to the extent applicable) that such Holder (i) was not a constituent person or an
Affiliate of a constituent person to such transaction; (ii) made no election with respect thereto; and (iii) was treated alike with the plurality of non-electing Holders. The supplemental indenture shall provide for adjustments which shall be as
nearly equivalent as may be practical to the adjustments provided for in this Article 11. The successor Company shall mail to Securityholders a notice briefly describing the supplemental indenture. 
  
 If this Section applies, neither Section 11.06 nor 11.07 applies. 

 
 If the Company makes a distribution to all holders of its Common Stock of
any of its assets, or debt securities or any rights, warrants or options to purchase securities of the Company that, but for the provisions of Section 11.08(c), would otherwise result in an adjustment in the Conversion Rate pursuant to the
provisions of Section 11.08, then, from and after the record date for determining the holders of Common Stock entitled to receive the distribution, a Holder of a Security that converts such Security in accordance with the provisions of this
Indenture shall upon such conversion be entitled to receive, in addition to the shares of Common Stock into which the Security is convertible, the kind and amount of securities, cash or other assets comprising the distribution that such Holder would
have received if such Holder had converted the Security immediately prior to the record date for determining the holders of Common Stock entitled to receive the distribution. 
  
 Section 11.16. Company Determination Final. Any determination that the Company or the Board of Directors must make
pursuant to Section 11.03, 11.06, 11.07, 11.08, 11.09, 11.10, 11.11, 11.15 or 11.19 is conclusive. 
  

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 Section 11.17. Limit on Conversion Rate. Notwithstanding any other provision in this Indenture and
paragraph 9 of the Security, in no event will the Conversion Rate exceed [ ]% (as adjusted pursuant to Sections 11.06, 11.07, 11.08 and 11.09). 
  
 Section 11.18. Trustee’s Adjustment Disclaimer. The Trustee has no duty to determine when an adjustment under this Article 11 should be made,
how it should be made or what it should be. The Trustee has no duty to determine whether a supplemental indenture under Section 11.15 need be entered into or whether any provisions of any supplemental indenture are correct. The Trustee shall not be
accountable for and makes no representation as to the validity or value of any securities or assets issued upon conversion of Securities. The Trustee shall not be responsible for the Company’s failure to comply with this Article 11. Each
Conversion Agent (other than the Company or an Affiliate of the Company) shall have the same protection under this Section 11.18 as the Trustee. 
  
 Section 11.19. Simultaneous Adjustments. In the event that this Article 11 requires adjustments to the Conversion Rate under more than one of
Sections 11.06(d), 11.07, 11.08 or 11.09, and the record dates for the distributions giving rise to such adjustments shall occur on the same date, then such adjustments shall be made by applying, first, the provisions of Section 11.06, second, the
provisions of Section 11.08, third, the provisions of Section 11.09 and, fourth, the provisions of Section 11.07. 
  
 Section 11.20. Successive Adjustments. After an adjustment to the Conversion Rate under this Article 11, any subsequent event requiring an
adjustment under this Article 11 shall cause an adjustment to the Conversion Rate as so adjusted. 
  
 Section 11.21. Rights Issued in Respect of Common Stock Issued Upon Conversion. Each share of Common Stock issued upon conversion of Securities
pursuant to this Article 11 shall be entitled to receive the appropriate number of Rights, if any, and the certificates representing the Common Stock issued upon such conversion shall bear such legends, if any, in each case as may be provided by the
Rights or by the terms of any other shareholder rights agreement adopted by the Company, as the same may be amended from time to time (in each case, a “Rights Agreement”). Provided that such Rights Agreement requires that each share of
Common Stock issued upon conversion of Securities at any time prior to the distribution of separate certificates representing the Rights be entitled to receive such Rights, then, notwithstanding anything else to the contrary in this Article 11,
there shall not be any adjustment to the conversion privilege or Conversion Rate as a result of the issuance of Rights, the distribution of separate certificates representing the Rights, the exercise or redemption of such Rights in accordance with
any such Rights Agreement, or the termination or invalidation of such Rights. 
  

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 ARTICLE XII

 PAYMENT OF CONTINGENT INTEREST 
  
 Section 12.01. Contingent Interest Payments. If applicable, contingent interest on any Security that is payable, and is punctually paid or duly
provided for, on any Contingent Interest Payment Date shall be paid to the person in whose name that Security is registered at the close of business on the record date specified in Section 10.02 (“Regular Record Date”) at the office
or agency of the Company maintained for such purpose. Each installment of contingent interest on any Security shall be paid in same-day funds by transfer to an account maintained by the payee located inside the United States. In the case of a Global
Security, contingent interest payable on any applicable payment date will be paid to the Depositary, with respect to that portion of such Global Security held for its account by Cede & Co. for the purpose of permitting such party to credit the
interest received by it in respect of such Global Security to the accounts of the beneficial owners thereof. 
  
 Section 12.02. Defaulted Interest. Any contingent interest on any Security that is payable, but is not punctually paid or duly provided for, within
30 days following any Contingent Interest Payment Date (herein called “Defaulted Interest”, which term shall include any accrued and unpaid interest that has accrued on such defaulted amount in accordance with paragraph 1 of the
Securities), shall forthwith cease to be payable to the registered Holder thereof on the relevant Regular Record Date by virtue of having been such Holder, and such Defaulted Interest may be paid by the Company at its election in each case, as
provided in clause (a) or (b) below: 
  
 (a) The
Company may elect to make payment of any Defaulted Interest to the persons in whose names the Securities are registered at the close of business on a special record date for the payment of such Defaulted Interest, which shall be fixed in the
following manner. The Company shall notify the Trustee in writing of the amount of Defaulted Interest proposed to be paid on each Security and the date of the proposed payment (which shall not be less than 20 days after such notice is received by
the Trustee), and at the same time the Company shall deposit with the Trustee an amount of money equal to the aggregate amount proposed to be paid in respect of such Defaulted Interest or shall make arrangements satisfactory to the Trustee for such
deposit on or prior to the date of the proposed payment, such money when deposited to be held in trust for the benefit of the persons entitled to such Defaulted Interest as in this clause provided. Thereupon the Trustee shall fix a special record
date (the “Special Record Date”) for the payment of such Defaulted Interest which shall be not more than 15 days and not less than ten (10) days prior to the date of the proposed payment and not less than 10 days after the receipt by the
Trustee of the notice of the proposed payment. The Trustee shall promptly notify the Company of such Special Record Date and, in the name and at the expense of the Company, shall cause notice of the proposed payment of such Defaulted Interest and
the Special Record Date therefor to be mailed, first-class postage prepaid, to each Holder of Securities at his address as it appears on the list of Securityholders maintained pursuant to Section 2.05 not less than 10 days prior to such Special
Record Date. The Trustee may, in its discretion, in the name and at the expense of the Company, cause a similar notice to be published at least once in The Wall Street Journal, but such publications shall not be a condition precedent to the
establishment of such Special Record Date. Notice of the proposed payment of such Defaulted Interest and the Special 

  

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Record Date therefor having been mailed as aforesaid, such Defaulted Interest shall be paid to the persons in whose names the Securities are registered at
the close of business on such Special Record Date and shall no longer be payable pursuant to the following clause (b). 
  
 (b) The Company may make payment of any Defaulted Interest on the Securities in any other lawful manner not inconsistent with the
requirements of any securities exchange on which such Securities may be listed, and upon such notice as may be required by such exchange, if, after notice given by the Company to the Trustee of the proposed payment pursuant to this clause, such
manner of payment shall be deemed practicable by the Trustee. 
  
 Section 12.03. Interest Rights Preserved. Subject to the foregoing provisions of this Article 12 and Section 2.06, each Security delivered under this Indenture upon registration of transfer of or in exchange for or in lieu of any
other Security shall carry the rights to contingent interest accrued and unpaid, which were carried by such other Security. 
  
 ARTICLE XIII 
  
 MISCELLANEOUS 
  
 Section 13.01. Trust Indenture Act Controls. If any provision of this Indenture limits, qualifies or conflicts with another provision which is required or deemed to be included in this Indenture by the TIA, the
required or deemed provision shall control. 
  
 Section 13.02.
Notices. Any notice or communication shall be in writing and delivered in person or mailed by first-class mail, postage prepaid, addressed as follows: 
  

if to the Company: 
  
 Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc. 
 222 Broadway, 17th Floor 
 New York, New York 10038 
 Attention: Secretary 
  
 with a copy to: 
  
 Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc. 
 4 World Financial Center, 18th Floor 
 New York, New York 10080 
 Attention: Treasurer 
  

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 if to the Trustee: 
  
 JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. 
 4 New York Plaza, 15th Floor 
 New York, New York 10004 
 Attention:
Institutional Trust Services 
  
 The Company or the Trustee by
notice to the other may designate additional or different addresses for subsequent notices or communications. 
  
 Any notice or communication given to a Securityholder shall be mailed by first-class mail to the Securityholder at the Securityholder’s address as it
appears on the registration books of the Registrar and shall be sufficiently given if so mailed within the time prescribed. 
  
 Failure to mail a notice or communication to a Securityholder or any defect in it shall not affect its sufficiency with respect to other Securityholders.
If a notice or communication is mailed in the manner provided above, it is duly given, whether or not received by the addressee. 
  
 If the Company mails a notice or communication to the Securityholders, it shall mail a copy to the Trustee and each Registrar, Paying Agent, Conversion
Agent or co-registrar. 
  
 Section 13.03. Communication by
Holders with Other Holders. Securityholders may communicate pursuant to TIA Section 312(b) with other Securityholders with respect to their rights under this Indenture or the Securities. The Company, the Trustee, the Registrar, the Paying Agent,
the Conversion Agent and anyone else shall have the protection of TIA Section 312(c). 
  
 Section 13.04. Certificate and Opinion as to Conditions Precedent. Upon any request or application by the Company to the Trustee to take any action under this Indenture, the Company shall furnish to the
Trustee: 
  
 (a) an Officers’ Certificate
stating that, in the opinion of the signers, all conditions precedent, if any, provided for in this Indenture relating to the proposed action have been complied with; and 
  
 (b) an Opinion of Counsel stating that, in the opinion of such counsel, all such conditions precedent have
been complied with. 
  
 Section 13.05. Statements Required in
Certificate or Opinion. Each Officers’ Certificate or Opinion of Counsel with respect to compliance with a covenant or condition provided for in this Indenture shall include: 
  
 (a) a statement that each person making such Officers’ Certificate or Opinion of Counsel has read such
covenant or condition; 
  

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 (b) a brief statement as to the nature and scope of the examination or investigation upon
which the statements or opinions contained in such Officers’ Certificate or Opinion of Counsel are based; 
  
 (c) a statement that, in the opinion of each such person, he has made such examination or investigation as is necessary to enable such
person to express an informed opinion as to whether or not such covenant or condition has been complied with; and 
  
 (d) a statement that, in the opinion of such person, such covenant or condition has been complied with. 
  
 Section 13.06. Separability Clause. In case any provision in this
Indenture or in the Securities shall be invalid, illegal or unenforceable, the validity, legality and enforceability of the remaining provisions shall not in any way be affected or impaired thereby. 
  
 Section 13.07. Rules By Trustee, Paying Agent, Conversion Agent and
Registrar. The Trustee may make reasonable rules for action by or a meeting of the Securityholders. The Registrar, Conversion Agent and the Paying Agent may make reasonable rules for their functions. 
  
 Section 13.08. [Reserved]. 
  
 Section 13.09. Governing Law. THIS INDENTURE AND THE SECURITIES SHALL
BE GOVERNED BY AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, AS APPLIED TO CONTRACTS MADE AND PERFORMED WITHIN THE STATE OF NEW YORK, WITHOUT REGARD TO PRINCIPLES OF CONFLICT OF LAWS. 
  
 Section 13.10. No Recourse Against Others. A director, Officer,
employee or stockholder, as such, of the Company shall not have any liability for any obligations of the Company under the Securities or this Indenture or for any claim based on, in respect of or by reason of such obligations or their creation. By
accepting a Security, each Securityholder shall waive and release all such liability. The waiver and release shall be part of the consideration for the issue of the Securities. 
  
 Section 13.11. Successors. All agreements of the Company in this Indenture and the Securities shall bind its
successor. All agreements of the Trustee in this Indenture shall bind its successor. 
  
 Section 13.12. Multiple Originals. The parties may sign any number of copies of this Indenture. Each signed copy shall be an original, but all of them together represent the same agreement. One signed copy is
enough to prove this Indenture. 
  
 Section 13.13.
References. All section references are to sections of this Indenture unless specified otherwise. 
  

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 Section 13.14. Calculations. The Company shall be solely responsible for making all calculations
called for under the Securities and this Indenture. Such calculations include, but are not limited to, the calculations under Articles 3, 4, 6,10, 11 and 12 hereof. The Company covenants to make all such calculations in good faith. Absent manifest
error, such calculations shall be final and binding on Holders. The Company shall promptly provide a schedule of all its calculations to the Trustee. The Trustee shall always be entitled to assume that the Company has acted in good faith, and may
rely on and shall be fully protected and shall incur no liability in relying on any calculation performed by the Company under or pursuant to the Indenture. 
  
 Section 13.15. Tax Matters. 
  
 (a) Tax Treatment. The parties hereto hereby agree, and each Holder by its purchase of a Security hereby agrees: 
  
 (1) to treat the Securities for U.S. federal income tax
purposes as the same debt instrument as, and a continuation of, the Old LYONs and, accordingly, to treat the Securities as having been issued for U.S. federal income tax purposes on the same issue date, for the same issue price and with the same
comparable yield and projected payment schedule as the Old LYONs. 
  
 (2) to treat the Securities as indebtedness of the Company for all tax purposes; 
  
 (3) to treat the Securities as indebtedness that are subject to the special regulations governing contingent payment debt instruments that
are contained in U.S. Treasury Regulation section 1.1275-4; and 
  
 (4) to treat any payment to and receipt by a Holder of the Conversion Consideration upon conversion of a Security, as a contingent payment under Treasury Regulation section 1.1275-4(b) that will result in an
adjustment under Treasury Regulation section 1.1275-4(b)(3)(iv) and Treasury Regulation section 1.1275-4(b)(6). 
  
 (b) Comparable Yield and Projected Payment Schedule. Solely for purposes of applying Treasury Regulation section 1.1275-4 to the
Securities: 
  
 (1) for United States Federal
income tax purposes, the Company shall accrue interest with respect to outstanding Securities as original issue discount according to the “noncontingent bond method,” as set forth in Treasury Regulation Section 1.1275-4(b); 
  
 (2) the Company has determined that the comparable yield, as
defined in Treasury Regulation section 1.1275-4(b)(4)(i), for the Securities is 5.714%, compounded semiannually; 
  

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 (3) the Company has determined that the projected payment schedule, as defined in
Treasury Regulation section 1.1275-4(b)(4)(ii), for the Securities consists of the projected payment schedule referred to in (5) below; 
  
 (4) the Company acknowledges and agrees, and each Holder and any beneficial holder of a Security, by its purchase of a Security shall be
deemed to acknowledge and agree, that (i) the comparable yield and the projected payment schedule are determined on the basis of an assumption of linear growth of stock price and a constant dividend yield, (ii) the comparable yield and the projected
payment schedule are not determined for any purpose other than for the purpose of applying Treasury Regulation section 1.1275-4(b)(4) to the Securities and (iii) the comparable yield and the projected payment schedule do not constitute a projection
or representation regarding the actual amounts payable on the Securities; and 
  
 (5) the projected payment schedule, as defined in Treasury Regulation section 1.1275-4(b)(4)(ii) for the Securities is set forth in Annex 1 hereto. 
  

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 SIGNATURES 

 
 IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned, being duly authorized, have executed
this Indenture on behalf of the respective parties hereto as of the date first above written. 
  

					
	MERRILL LYNCH & CO., INC.
		
	By	 	 /s/ John Laws

	 	 	 Name:
	 	 John Laws

	 	 	 Title:
	 	 Assistant Treasurer

  

					
	JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A.
		
	By:	 	 /s/ Tai Bill Lee

	 	 	 Name:
	 	 Tai Bill Lee

	 	 	 Title:
	 	Vice President

  

  
 ANNEX 1 
  
 Projected Payment Schedule* 
  

			
	 Quarterly Period Ending

	 	 Projected Payment per LYON

	 June 1, 2002
	 	—  
	 September 1, 2002
	 	—  
	 December 1, 2002
	 	—  
	 March 1, 2003
	 	—  
	 June 1, 2003
	 	—  
	 September 1, 2003
	 	—  
	 December 1, 2003
	 	—  
	 March 1, 2004
	 	—  
	 June 1, 2004
	 	—  
	 September 1, 2004
	 	—  
	 December 1, 2004
	 	—  
	 March 1, 2005
	 	—  
	 June 1, 2005
	 	—  
	 September 1, 2005
	 	—  
	 December 1, 2005
	 	—  
	 March 1, 2006
	 	—  
	 June 1, 2006
	 	—  
	 September 1, 2006
	 	—  
	 December 1, 2006
	 	—  
	 March 1, 2007
	 	—  
	 June 1, 2007
	 	—  
	 September 1, 2007
	 	—  
	 December 1, 2007
	 	—  
	 March 1, 2008
	 	—  
	 June 1, 2008
	 	—  
	 September 1, 2008
	 	—  
	 December 1, 2008
	 	—  
	 March 1, 2009
	 	—  
	 June 1, 2009
	 	—  
	 September 1, 2009
	 	—  
	 December 1, 2009
	 	—  
	 March 1, 2010
	 	—  
	 June 1, 2010
	 	—  

	*	The comparable yield and the schedule of projected payments are determined on the basis of an assumption of constant growth rate of the stock price and a constant dividend growth
rate and are not determined for any purpose other than for the determination of interest accruals and adjustments thereof in respect of the Securities for United States federal income tax purposes. The comparable yield and the schedule of projected
payments do not constitute a projection or representation regarding the amounts payable on Securities. 

  

			
	 Quarterly Period Ending

	 	 Projected Payment per LYON

	 September 1, 2010
	 	—  
	 December 1, 2010
	 	—  
	 March 1, 2011
	 	—  
	 June 1, 2011
	 	—  
	 September 1, 2011
	 	—  
	 December 1, 2011
	 	—  
	 March 1, 2012
	 	—  
	 June 1, 2012
	 	—  
	 September 1, 2012
	 	—  
	 December 1, 2012
	 	—  
	 March 1, 2013
	 	—  
	 June 1, 2013
	 	—  
	 September 1, 2013
	 	—  
	 December 1, 2013
	 	—  
	 March 1, 2014
	 	—  
	 June 1, 2014
	 	—  
	 September 1, 2014
	 	—  
	 December 1, 2014
	 	—  
	 March 1, 2015
	 	—  
	 June 1, 2015
	 	—  
	 September 1, 2015
	 	—  
	 December 1, 2015
	 	—  
	 March 1, 2016
	 	5.13
	 June 1, 2016
	 	5.45
	 September 1, 2016
	 	5.45
	 December 1, 2016
	 	5.45
	 March 1, 2017
	 	5.45
	 June 1, 2017
	 	5.78
	 September 1, 2017
	 	5.78
	 December 1, 2017
	 	5.78
	 March 1, 2018
	 	5.78
	 June 1, 2018
	 	6.14
	 September 1, 2018
	 	6.14
	 December 1, 2018
	 	6.14
	 March 1, 2019
	 	6.14
	 June 1, 2019
	 	6.52
	 September 1, 2019
	 	6.52
	 December 1, 2019
	 	6.52
	 March 1, 2020
	 	6.52
	 June 1, 2020
	 	6.92
	 September 1, 2020
	 	6.92
	 December 1, 2020
	 	6.92
	 March 1, 2021
	 	6.92

  

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	 Quarterly Period Ending

	 	 Projected Payment per LYON

	 June 1, 2021
	 	7.35
	 September 1, 2021
	 	7.35
	 December 1, 2021
	 	7.35
	 March 1, 2022
	 	7.35
	 June 1, 2022
	 	7.81
	 September 1, 2022
	 	7.81
	 December 1, 2022
	 	7.81
	 March 1, 2023
	 	7.81
	 June 1, 2023
	 	8.29
	 September 1, 2023
	 	8.29
	 December 1, 2023
	 	8.29
	 March 1, 2024
	 	8.29
	 June 1, 2024
	 	8.81
	 September 1, 2024
	 	8.81
	 December 1, 2024
	 	8.81
	 March 1, 2025
	 	8.81
	 June 1, 2025
	 	9.35
	 September 1, 2025
	 	9.35
	 December 1, 2025
	 	9.35
	 March 1, 2026
	 	9.35
	 June 1, 2026
	 	9.93
	 September 1, 2026
	 	9.93
	 December 1, 2026
	 	9.93
	 March 1, 2027
	 	9.93
	 June 1, 2027
	 	10.55
	 September 1, 2027
	 	10.55
	 December 1, 2027
	 	10.55
	 March 1, 2028
	 	10.55
	 June 1, 2028
	 	11.20
	 September 1, 2028
	 	11.20
	 December 1, 2028
	 	11.20
	 March 1, 2029
	 	11.20
	 June 1, 2029
	 	11.89
	 September 1, 2029
	 	11.89
	 December 1, 2029
	 	11.89
	 March 1, 2030
	 	11.89
	 June 1, 2030
	 	12.63
	 September 1, 2030
	 	12.63
	 December 1, 2030
	 	12.63
	 March 1, 2031
	 	12.63
	 June 1, 2031
	 	13.41
	 September 1, 2031
	 	13.41
	 December 1, 2031
	 	13.41

  

 3 

			
	 Quarterly Period Ending

	 	 Projected Payment per LYON

	 March 1, 2032
	 	13.41
	 March 13, 2032
	 	4,559.34

  

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 EXHIBIT A 
  
 [FORM OF FACE OF GLOBAL SECURITY] 
  
 FOR PURPOSES OF SECTIONS 1272, 1273 AND 1275 OF THE INTERNAL REVENUE CODE OF
1986, AS AMENDED, THIS SECURITY IS ISSUED WITH AN INDETERMINATE AMOUNT OF ORIGINAL ISSUE DISCOUNT FOR UNITED STATES FEDERAL INCOME TAX PURPOSES. THE ISSUE DATE IS MARCH 13, 2002, AND THE YIELD TO MATURITY FOR PURPOSES OF ACCRUING ORIGINAL ISSUE
DISCOUNT IS 5.714% PER ANNUM. THE HOLDER OF THIS SECURITY MAY OBTAIN THE PROJECTED PAYMENT SCHEDULE BY SUBMITTING A WRITTEN REQUEST FOR SUCH INFORMATION TO: MERRILL LYNCH & CO., INC., CORPORATE SECRETARY’S OFFICE, 222 BROADWAY,
17TH FLOOR, NEW YORK, NEW YORK 10038. 
  
 THIS SECURITY IS A GLOBAL SECURITY WITHIN THE MEANING OF THE INDENTURE HEREINAFTER REFERRED TO AND IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME
OF A DEPOSITARY OR A NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITARY. UNLESS AND UNTIL IT IS EXCHANGED IN WHOLE OR IN PART FOR THE INDIVIDUAL DEBT SECURITIES REPRESENTED HEREBY, THIS GLOBAL SECURITY MAY NOT BE TRANSFERRED EXCEPT AS A WHOLE BY THE DEPOSITARY TO A NOMINEE
OF THE DEPOSITARY OR BY A NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITARY TO THE DEPOSITARY OR ANOTHER NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITARY OR BY THE DEPOSITARY OR ANY SUCH NOMINEE TO A SUCCESSOR DEPOSITARY OR A NOMINEE OF SUCH SUCCESSOR DEPOSITARY. 
  
 UNLESS THIS CERTIFICATE IS PRESENTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF THE
DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY, A NEW YORK CORPORATION (“DTC”), MERRILL LYNCH & CO., INC. OR ITS AGENT FOR REGISTRATION OF TRANSFER, EXCHANGE OR PAYMENT, AND ANY CERTIFICATE ISSUED IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF CEDE & CO. OR IN
SUCH OTHER NAME AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF 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. 
  

  
 MERRILL LYNCH & CO., INC.

 Exchange Liquid Yield OptionTM Note due 2032 
 (Zero Coupon-Floating
Rate-Senior) 
  

			
	No. R-	  	CUSIP: 590188 W4 6
	Issue Date: December 14, 2004	  	 
	Original Principal Amount: $	  	 

  
 MERRILL LYNCH &
CO., INC., a Delaware corporation, promises to pay to Cede & Co. or registered assigns, on March 13, 2032 the Contingent Principal Amount of this Security on such date. This Security is issued with an Original Principal Amount of MILLION DOLLARS
($        .            ). 
  
 This Security shall not bear interest except as specified on the reverse side of this Security. The Contingent Principal Amount of this Security, will
accrue as specified on the reverse side of this Security. This Security is convertible as specified on the reverse side of this Security. 
  
  

 A-2 

 Additional provisions of this Security are set forth on the reverse side of this Security. 
  

									
	 Dated:
	 	 	 	 MERRILL LYNCH & CO., INC.

					
	 	 	 	 	 	 	By:	 	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 Title:

  

			
	 TRUSTEE’S CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION

	
	 JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A.,
 as Trustee, certifies that this
 is one of the Securities referred
 to in the within-mentioned Indenture.

		
	By:	 	 
	 	 	Authorized Signature

  
 Dated: December 14, 2004 

 

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 [FORM OF REVERSE OF SECURITY]

  
 Liquid Yield OptionTM Note due 2032 
 (Zero Coupon-Floating Rate-Senior) 
  
 1. Interest. 
  
 This Security shall not bear
interest, except as specified in paragraph 5 hereof. At Stated Maturity, the Holder of this Security will receive the Contingent Principal Amount of this Security on such date, which for each $1,000 Original Principal Amount will be equal to such
Original Principal Amount of $1,000 per Security increased daily by the applicable Yield as provided in the Indenture. If the Contingent Principal Amount hereof or any portion of such Contingent Principal Amount is not paid when due (whether upon
acceleration pursuant to Section 6.02 of the Indenture, upon the date set for payment of the Redemption Price pursuant to paragraph 6 hereof, upon the date set for payment of the Purchase Price or Change in Control Purchase Price pursuant to
paragraph 7 hereof or upon the Stated Maturity of this Security) or if contingent interest, if any, due hereon or any portion of such contingent interest is not paid when due in accordance with paragraph 5 hereof, then in each such case the overdue
amount shall, to the extent permitted by law, bear interest at the then applicable Yield, compounded semi-annually, which interest shall accrue from the date such overdue amount was originally due to the date payment of such amount, including
interest thereon, has been made or duly provided for. All such interest shall be payable on demand. The accrual of such interest on overdue amounts shall be in lieu of, and not in addition to any subsequent increase in the Contingent Principal
Amount. 
  
 The Contingent Principal Amount of each Security will
accrue daily at the applicable Yield applied to the Contingent Principal Amount as of the day preceding the most recent Yield Reset Date, commencing on December 14, 2004. Regardless of the level of 3-month LIBOR, the Yield will never be less than
zero and, after March 13, 2008, the Yield will not exceed 5.5% per annum. The Yield will be calculated using the actual number of days elapsed between the Yield Reset Dates divided by 360. 
  
 2. Method of Payment. 
  
 Subject to the terms and conditions of the Indenture, the Company will make payments in respect of Contingent Principal
Amount, Redemption Prices, Purchase Price, Change in Control Purchase Prices and at Stated Maturity to Holders who surrender Securities to a Paying Agent to collect such payments in respect of the Securities. In addition, the Company will pay
contingent interest, if any. The Company will pay cash amounts in money of the United States that at the time of payment is legal tender for payment of public and private debts. However, the Company may make such cash payments by check payable in
such money. 
  

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 3. Paying Agent, Conversion Agent,
Registrar and Bid Solicitation Agent. 
  
 Initially, JPMorgan
Chase Bank, N.A., a banking corporation organized and existing under the laws of the State of New York, (the “Trustee”), will act as Paying Agent, Conversion Agent, Registrar and Bid Solicitation Agent. The Company may appoint and change
any Paying Agent, Conversion Agent, Registrar or co-registrar or Bid Solicitation Agent without notice, other than notice to the Trustee, except that the Company will maintain at least one Paying Agent in the State of New York, City of New York,
Borough of Manhattan, which shall initially be an office or agency of the Trustee. The Company or any of its Subsidiaries or any of their Affiliates may act as Paying Agent, Conversion Agent, Registrar or co-registrar. None of the Company, any of
its Subsidiaries or any of their Affiliates shall act as Bid Solicitation Agent. 
  
 4. Indenture. 
  
 The Company has issued the
Securities under an Indenture dated as of December 14, 2004, as amended (the “Indenture”), between the Company and the Trustee. The terms of the Securities include those stated in the Indenture and those made part of the Indenture by
reference to the Securities themselves and the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, as in effect from time to time (the “TIA”). Capitalized terms used herein and not defined herein have the meanings ascribed thereto in the Indenture. The
Securities are subject to all such terms, and Securityholders are referred to the Indenture and the TIA for a statement of those terms. 
  
 The Securities are unsecured and unsubordinated obligations of the Company limited to $2,232,108,000 aggregate Original Principal Amount (subject to
Section 2.07 of the Indenture) and will rank equally in right of payment to all the Company’s present and future unsecured and unsubordinated indebtedness. The Indenture does not limit other indebtedness of the Company, secured or unsecured.

  
 5. Contingent Interest. 
  
 Subject to the conditions of the Indenture and the accrual and record date
provisions specified in this paragraph 5, the Company shall pay contingent interest to the Holders during any six-month period (a “Contingent Interest Period”) from June 1 to November 30 and from December 1 to May 31, with the initial
six-month period commencing after June 1, 2008, if the average LYON Market Price for the Measurement Period with respect to such Contingent Interest Period equals 120% or more of the Contingent Principal Amount of a Security accrued thereon to the
day immediately preceding the first day of the relevant Contingent Interest Period. 
  
 Contingent interest, if any, will accrue and be payable on such days and to holders of this Security as of such record dates as provided in Section 10.02 of the Indenture. The Contingent Principal Amount will continue
to increase at the applicable Yield whether or not contingent interest is paid. 
  
 The amount of contingent interest payable per $1,000 Original Principal Amount hereof in respect of either the first three-month period or the second three-month period any Contingent Interest Period shall equal an
annualized rate of $0.88 of the Contingent Principal Amount of a Security on the immediately preceding quarterly Yield Reset Date. 
  

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 Upon determination that Holders will be entitled to receive contingent interest during a Contingent
Interest Period the Company shall issue a press release and publish such information on its web site on the World Wide Web for a period of not less than 120 days or, at the Company’s option, otherwise publicly disclose such information.

  
 6. Redemption at the Option of the Company. 
  
 No sinking fund is provided for the Securities. The Securities are
redeemable as a whole, or from time to time in part, at any time at the option of the Company at a Redemption Price equal to the Contingent Principal Amount of the Securities on the Redemption Date, provided that the Securities are not redeemable
prior to March 13, 2008. 
  
 7. Purchase by the Company at the Option of the
Holder. 
  
 Subject to the terms and conditions of the
Indenture, the Company shall become obligated to purchase, at the option of the Holder, the Securities held by such Holder on March 13, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2012, 2017, 2022 and 2027 at a price equal to the Contingent Principal Amount of the
Securities on the Purchase Date, upon delivery of a Purchase Notice containing the information set forth in the Indenture, at any time from the opening of business on the date that is at least 20 Business Days prior to such Purchase Date until the
close of business on the Business Day immediately preceding such Purchase Date and upon delivery of the Securities to the Paying Agent by the Holder as set forth in the Indenture. The Purchase Price shall be paid in cash. 
  
 At the option of the Holder and subject to the terms and conditions of the
Indenture, the Company shall become obligated to purchase all or a portion of the Securities in integral multiples of $1,000 Original Principal Amount held by such Holder no later than 35 Business Days after the occurrence of a Change in Control of
the Company occurring on or prior to March 13, 2007 for a Change in Control Purchase Price for each $1,000 Original Principal Amount of such Securities equal to the Contingent Principal Amount on the Change in Control Purchase Date, which Change in
Control Purchase Price shall be paid in cash. 
  
 Holders have the
right to withdraw any Purchase Notice or Change in Control Purchase Notice, as the case may be, by delivering to the Paying Agent a written notice of withdrawal within the times and otherwise in accordance with the provisions of the Indenture.

  
 If cash sufficient to pay the Purchase Price or Change in
Control Purchase Price, as the case may be, of all Securities or portions thereof to be purchased as of the Purchase Date or the Change in Control Purchase Date, as the case may be, is deposited with the Paying Agent on the Purchase Date or the
Change in Control Purchase Date, as the case may be, the Contingent Principal Amount shall cease to increase, and contingent interest, if any, shall cease to accrue on such Securities (or portions thereof) immediately after such Purchase Date or
Change in Control Purchase Date, as the case may be, and the Holder thereof shall have no other rights as such (other than the right to receive the Purchase Price or Change in Control Purchase Price, as the case may be, if any, upon surrender of
such Security). 
  

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 8. Notice of Redemption. 

 
 Notice of redemption will be mailed at least 30 days but not more than 60
days before the Redemption Date to each Holder of Securities to be redeemed at the Holder’s registered address. If money sufficient to pay the Redemption Price of all Securities (or portions thereof) to be redeemed on the Redemption Date is
deposited with the Paying Agent prior to or on the Redemption Date, immediately after such Redemption Date, the Contingent Principal Amount shall cease to increase, and contingent interest, if any, shall cease to accrue on such Securities or
portions thereof. Securities in denominations larger than $1,000 of Original Principal Amount may be redeemed in part but only in integral multiples of $1,000 of Original Principal Amount. 
  
 9. Conversion. 
  
 Subject to the provisions of this paragraph 9 and the terms of the Indenture and notwithstanding the fact that any other
condition to conversion has not been satisfied, Holders may surrender this Security for conversion into the Conversion Consideration at any time at their option until the close of business on the Business Day immediately preceding March 13, 2032 if,
as of the last day of any calendar quarter beginning with the quarter ending on March 30, 2005, the Sale Price of the Common Stock for at least 20 Trading Days in a period of 30 consecutive Trading Days ending on the last Trading Day of such quarter
is more than 120% of the accreted conversion price per share of Common Stock on the last day of such quarter. Securities subject to conversion pursuant to the condition to conversion contained in this paragraph will remain convertible
notwithstanding changes to the Sale Price of the Common Stock after such Securities are deemed convertible. 
  
 The “accreted conversion price” per share of Common Stock as of any day equals the quotient of: 
  

	 	•	 	the Contingent Principal Amount of $1,000 Original Principal Amount of Securities on that day, divided by 

  

	 	•	 	the number of shares of Common Stock issuable upon conversion of $1,000 Original Principal Amount of Securities on that day. 

  
 Subject to the provisions of this paragraph 9 and the Indenture and
notwithstanding the fact any other condition to conversion has not been satisfied, Holders may convert the Securities into the Conversion Consideration on a Conversion Date during any period in which the credit rating assigned to the Securities by a
Rating Agency is reduced to or below the Applicable Rating. “Rating Agency” means (1) Moody’s Investors Service, Inc. and its successors (“Moody’s”), (2) Standard & Poor’s Credit Market Services, a
division of The McGraw-Hill Companies Inc., and its successors (“Standard & Poor’s”) and (3) Fitch, Inc. (“Fitch”) and its successors. “Applicable Rating” means (1) Baa1, in the case of
Moody’s (or its equivalent under any successor ratings categories of Moody’s), (2) BBB+, in the case of Standard & Poor’s (or its equivalent under any successor ratings categories of Standard & Poor’s), (3) BBB+ in the
case of Fitch (or its equivalent under any successor ratings categories of Fitch) or (4) the equivalent in 

  

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respect of ratings categories of any Rating Agencies which are successors to Moody’s, Standard & Poor’s or Fitch. 
  
 Subject to the provisions of this paragraph 9 and the Indenture and
notwithstanding the fact that any other condition to conversion has not been satisfied, a Holder may convert into the Conversion Consideration a Security or portion of a Security which has been called for redemption pursuant to paragraph 6 hereof,
even if the Security, or any portion thereof, is not subject to conversion by the Holder, provided such Securities are surrendered for conversion prior to the close of business on the second Business Day immediately preceding the Redemption Date.

  
 Subject to the provisions of this paragraph 9 and the
Indenture and notwithstanding the fact that any other condition to conversion has not been satisfied, in the event that the Company declares a dividend or distribution described in Section 11.07 or Section 11.09 of the Indenture, or a dividend or a
distribution described in Section 11.08 of the Indenture where the fair market value of such dividend or distribution per share of Common Stock, as determined in the Indenture, exceeds 15% of the Sale Price of the Common Stock on the Trading Day
immediately preceding the date of declaration for such dividend or distribution, the Securities may be surrendered for conversion beginning on the date the Company gives notice to the Holders of such right, which shall not be less than 20 days prior
to the Ex-Dividend Time for such dividend or distribution, and Securities may be surrendered for conversion at any time thereafter until the close of business on the Business Day prior to the Ex-Dividend Time or until the Company announces that such
dividend or distribution will not take place. No adjustment to the Conversion Rate or the ability of the Holders to convert this Security will be made if the Company provides, as permitted in the Indenture, for Holders to participate in the
transaction without conversion or in other cases specified in the Indenture. 
  
 Subject to the provisions of this paragraph 9 and the Indenture and notwithstanding the fact that any other condition to conversion has not been satisfied, in the event the Company is a party to a consolidation,
merger or binding share exchange pursuant to which the Common Stock would be converted into cash, securities or other property as set forth in Section 11.15 of the Indenture, the Securities may be surrendered for conversion at any time from and
after the date which is 15 days prior to the date of the anticipated effective time of such transaction announced by the Company until 15 days after the actual effective date of such transaction, and at the effective time of such transaction the
right to convert a Security into Common Stock will be deemed to have changed into a right to convert it into the kind and amount of cash, securities or other property which the holder would have received if the holder had converted its Security
immediately prior to the transaction. 
  
 A Security in respect of
which a Holder has delivered a Purchase Notice or Change in Control Purchase Notice exercising the option of such Holder to require the Company to purchase such Security may be converted only if such notice of exercise is withdrawn in accordance
with the terms of the Indenture. 
  
 The initial Conversion Rate
is 13.8213 shares of Common Stock per $1,000 Original Principal Amount (payable in cash and Common Stock, if any), subject to adjustment upon the 

  

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occurrence of certain events described in the Indenture or this paragraph 9; provided that in no event shall the Conversion Rate exceed the Maximum
Conversion Rate. Except as otherwise described in this paragraph 9, upon conversion, the Company will deliver consideration (“Conversion Consideration”) having a value equal to the product of the Conversion Rate multiplied by the
average of the Sale Price of the Common Stock on each of the 5 consecutive Trading Days beginning on the third Business Day following the Conversion Date (the “Applicable Stock Price”). This Conversion Consideration will be paid in
cash (the “Required Cash Amount”) in an amount equal to the Contingent Principal Amount of each Security on the Conversion Date and the remainder, at the election of the Company, in cash, Common Stock or a combination of cash and
Common Stock. If a portion of the Conversion Consideration is to be paid in shares of Common Stock, the number of shares to be delivered will equal (x)(i) the product of the Conversion Rate multiplied by the Applicable Stock Price minus (ii) the
Required Cash Amount and any additional cash paid as consideration, divided by (y) the Applicable Stock Price. The Company will deliver cash or a check in lieu of any fractional share of Common Stock due to a Holder, taking into account all
Securities converted by a Holder at the same time. 
  
 “Maximum Conversion Rate” means 18.3823 shares of Common Stock of the Company, subject to adjustment. 
  
 Contingent interest, if any, will not be paid on Securities that are converted; provided, however that Securities surrendered for conversion
during the period from the close of business on the applicable record date to the opening of business on the date on which such contingent interest is payable shall be entitled to receive such contingent interest payable on such Securities on the
date on which such contingent interest is payable and (except Securities with respect to which the Company has mailed a notice of redemption) Securities surrendered for conversion during such periods must be accompanied by payment of an amount equal
to the contingent interest with respect thereto that the registered Holder is to receive. 
  
 To convert a Security, a Holder must (1) complete and manually sign the conversion notice below (or complete and manually sign a facsimile of such notice) and deliver such notice to the Conversion Agent, (2) surrender
the Security to the Conversion Agent, (3) furnish appropriate endorsements and transfer documents if required by the Conversion Agent, the Company or the Trustee and (4) pay any transfer or similar tax, if required. 
  
 A Holder may only convert a portion of a Security pursuant to the terms of
this paragraph 9 and in accordance with the Indenture if the Original Principal Amount of such portion is $1,000 or an integral multiple thereof. No payment or adjustment will be made for dividends on the Common Stock except as provided herein and
in the Indenture. On conversion of a Security, increases in the Contingent Principal Amount attributable to the period from March 13, 2002 through the Conversion Date, accrued Tax Original Issue Discount and (except as provided above) accrued
contingent interest with respect to the converted Security shall not be cancelled, extinguished or forfeited, but rather shall be deemed to be paid in full to the Holder thereof through the delivery of the Conversion Consideration in exchange for
the Security being converted pursuant to the terms hereof; and the fair market value of such Conversion Consideration shall be treated as paid, to the extent thereof, first in exchange for the increases in 

  

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the Contingent Principal Amount accrued through the Conversion Date, accrued Tax Original Issue Discount and accrued contingent interest, and the balance, if
any, of such fair market value of such Conversion Consideration shall be treated as paid in respect of the remaining principal payments due on the Security being converted pursuant to the provisions hereof. 
  
 Pursuant to the terms and conditions of the Indenture, the Conversion Rate
will be adjusted for dividends or distributions on Common Stock payable in Common Stock or other capital stock of the Company; subdivisions, combinations or certain reclassifications of Common Stock; distributions to all holders of Common Stock of
certain rights to purchase Common Stock for a period expiring within 60 days at less than the Sale Price of the Common Stock at the Time of Determination; distributions to such holders of assets or debt securities of the Company or certain rights to
purchase securities of the Company; and certain cash dividends or distributions. However, no adjustment need be made if Securityholders may participate in the transaction or in certain other cases. The Company from time to time may voluntarily
increase the Conversion Rate. 
  
 If the Conversion Rate is
adjusted pursuant to Article 11 of the Indenture, then the Maximum Conversion Rate shall be adjusted by the same proportion as the Conversion Rate except that the Maximum Conversion Rate shall not be adjusted as a result of any adjustments to the
Conversion Rate made solely for cash dividends pursuant to Section 11.08(b) or Section 11.09 of the Indenture. 
  
 If the Company is a party to a consolidation, merger or binding share exchange or a transfer of all or substantially all of its assets, or upon certain
distributions described in the Indenture, the right to convert a Security into Common Stock may be changed into a right to convert it into securities, cash or other assets of the Company or another person. 
  
 The Conversion Rate will not be adjusted for increases in the Contingent
Principal Amount or any contingent interest. 
  
 10. [Reserved.]

  
 11. Defaulted Interest. 
  
 Except as otherwise specified with respect to the Securities, any contingent
interest on any Security shall forthwith cease to be payable to the registered Holder thereof on the relevant Regular Record Date or accrual date for contingent interest, as the case may be, by virtue of having been such Holder, and such Defaulted
Interest may be paid by the Company as provided for in Section 12.02 of the Indenture. 
  
 12. Denominations; Transfer; Exchange. 
  
 The
Securities are in fully registered form, without coupons, in denominations of $1,000 of the Original Principal Amount and integral multiples thereof. A Holder may transfer or exchange Securities in accordance with the Indenture. The Registrar may
require a Holder, among other things, to furnish appropriate endorsements and transfer documents and to pay any 

  

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taxes and fees required by law or permitted by the Indenture. The Registrar need not transfer or exchange any Securities selected for redemption (except, in
the case of a Security to be redeemed in part, the portion of the Security not to be redeemed) or any Securities in respect of which a Purchase Notice or Change in Control Purchase Notice has been given and not withdrawn (except, in the case of a
Security to be purchased in part, the portion of the Security not to be purchased) or any Securities for a period of 15 days before the mailing of a notice of redemption of Securities to be redeemed. 
  
 13. Persons Deemed Owners. 
  
 The registered Holder of this Security may be treated as the owner of this
Security for all purposes. 
  
 14. Unclaimed Money or Securities.

  
 The Trustee and the Paying Agent shall return to the Company
upon written request any money or securities held by them for the payment of any amount with respect to the Securities that remains unclaimed for two years, subject to applicable unclaimed property laws. After return to the Company, Holders entitled
to the money or securities must look to the Company for payment as general creditors unless an applicable abandoned property law designates another person. 
  
 15. Amendment; Waiver. 
  
 Subject to certain exceptions set forth in the Indenture, (i) the Indenture or the Securities may be amended with the written consent of the Holders of at
least a majority in aggregate Original Principal Amount of the Securities at the time outstanding and (ii) certain Defaults may be waived with the written consent of the Holders of a majority in aggregate Original Principal Amount of the Securities
at the time outstanding. Subject to certain exceptions set forth in the Indenture, without the consent of any Securityholder, the Company and the Trustee may amend the Indenture or the Securities to cure any ambiguity, omission, defect or
inconsistency, or to comply with Article 5 or Section 11.15 of the Indenture, to secure the Company’s obligations under this Security or to add to the Company’s covenants for the benefit of the Securityholders or to surrender any right or
power conferred, or to comply with any requirement of the SEC in connection with the qualification of the Indenture under the TIA, or as necessary in connection with the registration of the Securities under the Securities Act. 
  
 16. Defaults and Remedies. 
  
 If an Event of Default occurs and is continuing, the Trustee, or the Holders
of at least 25% in aggregate Original Principal Amount of the Securities at the time outstanding, may declare all the Securities to be due and payable immediately. Certain events of bankruptcy or insolvency are Events of Default which will result in
the Securities becoming due and payable immediately upon the occurrence of such Events of Default. 
  

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 Securityholders may not enforce the Indenture or the Securities except as provided in the Indenture. The
Trustee may refuse to enforce the Indenture or the Securities unless it receives indemnity or security reasonably satisfactory to it. Subject to certain limitations, Holders of a majority in aggregate Original Principal Amount of the Securities at
the time outstanding may direct the Trustee in its exercise of any trust or power. The Trustee may withhold from Securityholders notice of any continuing Default (except a Default in payment of amounts specified in clause (i) or (ii) above) if it
determines that withholding notice is in their interests. 
  
 17. Trustee
Dealings with the Company. 
  
 Subject to certain limitations
imposed by the TIA, the Trustee under the Indenture, in its individual or any other capacity, may become the owner or pledgee of Securities and may otherwise deal with and collect obligations owed to it by the Company or its respective Affiliates
and may otherwise deal with the Company or its respective Affiliates with the same rights it would have if it were not Trustee. 
  
 18. No Recourse Against Others. 
  
 A director, officer, employee or stockholder, as such, of the Company shall not have any liability for any obligations of the Company under the Securities
or the Indenture or for any claim based on, in respect of or by reason of such obligations or their creation. By accepting a Security, each Securityholder waives and releases all such liability. The waiver and release are part of the consideration
for the issue of the Securities. 
  
 19. Authentication. 
  
 This Security shall not be valid until an authorized signatory of the
Trustee manually signs the Trustee’s Certificate of Authentication on the other side of this Security. 
  
 20. Abbreviations. 
  
 Customary abbreviations may be used in the name of a Securityholder or an assignee, such as TEN COM (=tenants in common), TEN ENT (=tenants by the entireties), JT TEN (=joint tenants with right of survivorship and not as tenants in common),
CUST (=custodian), and U/G/M/A (=Uniform Gift to Minors Act). 
  
 21. GOVERNING
LAW. 
  
 THE LAW OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK SHALL GOVERN THE
INDENTURE AND THIS SECURITY. 
  
 The Company will furnish to any
Securityholder upon written request and without charge a copy of the Indenture. 
  
 Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc. 
 222 Broadway, 17th Floor 
  

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 New York, New York 10038 
 Attention: Secretary 
  
 with a
copy to: 
  
 Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc. 
 4 World Financial Center 18th Floor 
 New York, New York 10080 
 Attention: Treasurer 
  

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	 ASSIGNMENT FORM

	 	 CONVERSION NOTICE

	To assign this Security, fill in the form below:	 	To convert this Security into Common Stock of the Company, check the box:  ̈
	 I or we assign and transfer this Security to ___________________________________
  
 ___________________________________
 (Insert
assignee’s Soc. Sec. or tax ID no.)
	 	To convert only part of this Security, state the Original Principal Amount to be converted (which must be $1,000 Original Principal Amount or an integral multiple thereof): $
___________________________
		
	 ___________________________________
  
 ___________________________________
 (Print or type assignee’s name,
address and zip code)
	 	 If you want the stock certificate made out in another person’s name, fill in the form below:
 ___________________________________
  
 ___________________________________
  
 (Insert other person’s Soc. Sec. or tax ID no.)

	and irrevocably appoint _________________ agent to transfer this Security on the books of the Company. The agent may substitute another to act for him.	 	 ___________________________________
  
 ___________________________________
 (Print or type other person’s name,
address and zip code)

		
	Date: ___________________________	 	 Your
 Signature:
____________________________*

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

  

	*	Your signature must be guaranteed by an “eligible guarantor institution” meeting the requirements of the Trustee, which requirements include membership or participation in
the Security Transfer Agent Medallion Program (“STAMP”) or such other “signature guarantee program” as may be determined by the Trustee in addition to, or in substitution for, STAMP, all in accordance with the Securities
Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. 

  

 A-14Sixteenth Supplemental Indenture

 Exhibit 4(b)(xii) 
  

MERRILL LYNCH & CO., INC. 
  
 TO 
  
 JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, 
 as Trustee 
  

  
 SIXTEENTH SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE 
  
 Dated as of June 4, 2004 
  

  
 Amending a series of Securities designated 
 Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc. 
 9% Callable STock Return Income DEbt Securities  
 due May 22, 2006

 Payable at maturity with JetBlue Airways Corporation common stock 
  
 Supplement to Indenture 
 Dated as of April 1, 1983, 
 as Amended and Restated 

 Sixteenth Supplemental Indenture, dated as of June 4, 2004 (the “Supplemental Indenture”), by
and between Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc., a corporation organized and existing under the laws of the State of Delaware, having its principal office at 4 World Financial Center, New York, New York 10080 (the “Company”), and JPMorgan Chase
Bank, formerly known as The Chase Manhattan Bank and Chemical Bank (successor by merger to Manufacturers Hanover Trust Company), a corporation duly organized and existing under the laws of the State of New York and having its Corporate Trust Office
at 4 New York Plaza, 15th Floor, New York, New York 10004, as trustee (the “Trustee”). 
  
 WHEREAS, the Company has heretofore executed and delivered its Indenture,
dated as of April 1, 1983 and restated as of April 1, 1987 (as amended and supplemented to the date hereof, the “Principal Indenture”), to the Trustee to provide for the issuance from time to time of its unsecured and unsubordinated
debentures, notes or other evidences of senior indebtedness (the “Securities”), unlimited as to principal amount; and 
  
 WHEREAS, the Principal Indenture, as amended by the Trust Indenture Reform Act of 1990, and this Supplemental Indenture are hereinafter collectively
referred to as the “Indenture”; and 
  
 WHEREAS, the
Company proposes to amend a series of securities issued pursuant to the Principal Indenture designated Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc. 9% Callable STock Return Income DEbt Securities due May 22, 2006 Payable at maturity with JetBlue Airways
Corporation common stock (the “Callable STRIDES”); and 
  
 WHEREAS, Section 901 of the Principal Indenture provides that, without the consent of any Holders, the Company, when authorized by a Board Resolution, and the Trustee, at any time and from time to time, may enter into one or more indentures
supplemental to the Principal Indenture, in form satisfactory to the Trustee, to correct or supplement any provision which may be defective or to make any other provisions with respect to matters or questions arising under the Principal Indenture
which shall not be inconsistent with the provisions of the Principal Indenture and which shall not adversely affect the interests of the Holders of Securities of any series or any related coupons in any material respect; and 
  
 WHEREAS, the Company has duly authorized the execution and delivery of this
Supplemental Indenture, and all things necessary to make this Supplemental Indenture a valid agreement of the Company, in accordance with its terms, have been done; 
  
 NOW, THEREFORE, the Company and the Trustee, in consideration of the premises and for other good and valuable consideration,
the receipt and sufficiency of which are hereby acknowledged, hereby covenant and agree, for the equal and proportionate benefit of all Holders of the Callable STRIDES, as follows: 
  

 Article I 
  
 AMENDMENT OF CERTAIN PROVISIONS OF THE CALLABLE STRIDES 
  
 Section 101. Amendment to Callable STRIDES. The Callable STRIDES shall hereinafter be designated as “Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc. 10%
Callable STock Return Income DEbt Securities due May 22, 2006 Payable at maturity with JetBlue Airways Corporation common stock,” and all references to interest on such Callable STRIDES accruing at a rate of 9% per year shall be replaced by
references to interest (whether set forth in the note representing such Callable STRIDES or otherwise) on such Callable STRIDES accruing at a rate of 10% per year. All other terms of such Callable STRIDES shall remain the same. 
  
 Section 102. Application of Supplemental Indenture. This Supplemental
Indenture applies to the series defined herein as Callable STRIDES, is only for the benefit of the Holders of the Callable STRIDES and does not affect any other series issued pursuant to the Principal Indenture. 
  
 Article II 
  
 MISCELLANEOUS 
  
 Section 201. Effect of Supplemental Indenture. The Principal Indenture, as supplemented and amended by this Supplemental Indenture and all other
indentures supplemental thereto, is in all respects ratified and confirmed, and the Principal Indenture, this Supplemental Indenture and all indentures supplemental thereto shall be read, taken and construed as one and the same instrument.

  
 Section 202. Conflict with Trust Indenture Act. If any
provision hereof limits, qualifies or conflicts with another provision hereof which is required or deemed to be included in this Supplemental Indenture by any of the provisions of the Trust Indenture Act, such required or deemed included provision
shall control. 
  
 Section 203. Definitions. Capitalized
terms used in the Note dated May 21, 2004, relating to the Callable STRIDES (the “Note”) and this Supplemental Indenture but not defined herein are used as they are defined in the Note. Capitalized terms used in the Principal Indenture and
this Supplemental Indenture, but not used in the Note and not defined herein, are used as they are defined in the Principal Indenture. 
  
 Section 204. Successors and Assigns. All covenants and agreements in this Supplemental Indenture by the Company shall bind its successors and
assigns, whether so expressed or not. 
  
 Section 205.
Separability Clause. In case any provision in this Supplemental Indenture or in the Callable STRIDES shall be invalid, illegal or unenforceable, the validity, legality and enforceability of the remaining provisions (or of the other series of
Securities) shall not in any way be affected or impaired thereby. 
  

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 Section 206. Benefits of Supplemental Indenture. Nothing in this Supplemental Indenture, express
or implied, shall give to any Person, other than the parties hereto and their successors hereunder and the Holders of the Callable STRIDES, any benefit or any legal or equitable right, remedy or claim under this Supplemental Indenture. 

 
 Section 207. Governing Law. THIS SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE SHALL BE
DEEMED TO BE A CONTRACT MADE UNDER THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK AND THIS SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE SHALL BE GOVERNED BY AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK. 
  
 Section 208. Execution in Counterparts. This Supplemental Indenture
may be executed in any number of counterparts, each of which shall be an original; but such counterparts shall together constitute but one and the same instrument. 
  
 Section 209. Responsibility for Recitals. The recitals contained herein shall be taken as statements of the Company,
and the Trustee assumes no responsibility for their correctness. The Trustee makes no representations as to the validity or sufficiency of the Principal Indenture or this Supplemental Indenture. 
  

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

			
	MERRILL LYNCH & CO., INC.
		
	By:	 	 /s/    RUSSELL L.
STEIN        

	 	 	Name: Russell L. Stein
	 	 	Title: Treasurer
	
	 JPMORGAN CHASE BANK,
 as
Trustee

		
	By:	 	 /s/    ALBERT P. MARI,
JR.        

	 	 	Name: Albert P. Mari, Jr.
	 	 	Title: Vice President

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